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making the news From AMOdatod Pros Reports NORTH BEND — An oil slick about 10 miles off the Oregon coastline has killed about 150 sea birds and left another 150 badly harmed, the Coast Guard reported. Lt. Buzz Johnson of the Coast Guard station in North Bend said the slick covered about 17 square miles this morning and was being rapidly dissipated by an ocean storm. The birds were found Monday along the coastline from Yachats to Lincoln City, Johnson said. There’s probably slim to no possibility we could ever nail whoever dumped the stuff,” Johnson said. WASHINGTON — Egypt and Israel open another round of secret peace negotiations Wednesday at snow-covered Camp David, with prospects for completing a Mideast peace treaty complicated by recent events in Iran. On the eve of the talks, Egypt warned Israel that the “situa tion in the region is dangerously tense” and urged the Israelis to realize that a comprehensive peace settlement is vital. “There is no place left for maneuvering and procrastination,” the government-run Cairo radio said in a news commentary enti tled "peace at the Camp David table again.” TAIPEI — A taxi driver who set fire to himself to protest the U.S. decision to break diplomatic relations with Taiwan has recovered from his burns, been honored as a patriot and given a new job. A businessman donated $5,600 to the driver, Chiao Shao yin, to help him buy a taxi to replace the one burned in his Dec. 28 protest. But Chiao instead gave the money to a new private fund established to help pay for Taiwan’s defense needs. The Taipei Drivers’ Association honored Chiao for his “heroic and patriotic” deeds in ceremony Monday. And govern ment officials said arrangements were made for him to work as a mechanic at a farm. COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Three Americans are being held in the Maidive Islands because of a shooting fray aboard their ship in which an atoll chief was slightly wounded, the U.S. Embassy here said Tuesday. It repudiated earlier reports from amateur radio operators in contact with the vessel, the Alysse Maru, that said 300 pirates boarded the U.S.-owned ship Saturday, stole valuable elec tronics equipment and kidnapped the medical officer. “There are no pirates in the Maldives and contrary to some radio accounts the vessel is in no danger,” an embassy spokes man said. The embassy here also handles affairs for the Mal dives, an independent republic of 1,087 small islands hundreds of miles southwest of the southern tip of India. Khomeini regime vows to kidnap shah for trial TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The re volutionary government settled more scores with its enemies Tuesday by executing four more generals of the old regime, but it faced a fresh challenge from Marx ist guerrillas who have called a protest march to demand more say in how to run Iran. Iran's foreign ministry officials issued a statement Tuesday vow ing to hound exiled Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi until he can be brought back to Iran for trial. The Tehran newspaper Et telaat reported a committee had been formed to kidnap the exiled monarch. Khomeini aides brought out three men they said were the shah’s ex-bodyguards, who told reporters they were willing to help in the abduction. The shah has been in Morocco since shortly after leaving Iran Jan. 16. The four generals were exe cuted by firing squad at 2 a.m. on the roof of Khomeini’s headquar ters, five days after four other generals were shot. The latest vic tims of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's revolutionary tribunal included Gen. Parvis Amin Af shar, the former commander of the shah's elite Imperial Guard. Cultural Forum arid Double Tee. present JESSE COLIN YOUNG with special guest Taj Mahal Thursday, February 22 McArthur Court ~ Concert begins at 9 p.m All Seats Reserved Tickets: U of 0 Students S5 and S6 (with ID) General Public S6 and S7 Available at: EltfVI Main Desk. U of O Bookstore. Odyssey Records. & Everybody s Records (Eugene and Corvallis) Listen to KZEL-FM for details China pursues advantage BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Striking behind a heavy artillery barrage, Chinese troops Tuesday captured the big Vietnamese bor der town of Lao Cai. but Viet namese defenders routed some Chinese units elsewhere in the mountainous border country, ac cording to reports in Bangkok and Hanoi. The Soviet news agency Tass, in a dispatch from Hanoi, reported the fall of Lao Cai, 175 miles northwest of the Vietnamese capi tal. Thai intelligence sources in Bangkok said the Chinese had thrust as far as 10 miles beyond their deepest penetration reported Monday. Vietnam’s U.N. ambas sador said in New York the invad ers had advanced 12 miles into Vietnam. Hanoi claimed Peking’s troops were resorting to chemical war fare, firing shells filled with “toxic substances.” Vietnamese U.N. Ambassador Ha Van Lau said in New York that Hanoi’s forces had killed 5,000 Chinese soldiers in the first three days of the four-day-old invasion, including 1,500 killed in heavy fighting Monday. Vietnam has not reported its own casualties, but the Thai sources said Vietnam has suf fered more casualties than the Chinese. Both casualty figures and battle reports have been dif ficult to verify independently. As battles raged along the 450-mile Chinese-Vietnamese frontier, there was a flurry of re ports that the Chinese were with r drawing or about to withdraw. Most reports centered on what the dean of the diplomatic corps in Peking, Ambassador Elie Bous tany of Lebanon, was told in a meeting with a Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Ho Ying. But Boustany told The As sociated Press in New York by telephone that Ho did not discuss “military information" with him, but merely reaffirmed that the inva sion was a limited operation to "teach a lesson" to Hanoi and that China would not hold on to any Vietnamese territory. The Chinese have not said when they will pull their troops back across the border. The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, quoting Chinese sources in Peking, said the Chinese plan a withdrawal with no pre-conditions. China will not link its withdrawal with a pullout of Vietnamese troops from Cambodia, the sources reportedly said. The Soviet Union, Vietnam’s ally, has warned the Chinese to get out of Vietnam "before it is too late.” Pres. Carter, in a major foreign-policy address in Atlanta said Tuesday the United States had "consulted directly with lead ers around the world’’ about the Vietnam situation. He was be lieved to be referring to contacts with Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and China’s Vice Pre mier Teng Hsiao-ping, apparently made in an effort to head off a confrontation between the two communist powers. MEXICAN FOOD Probably the best in the state! Call... 485-6595 Just off West 11th on City View (next to Dnve-n-Save) THERE’S MORE TO BEING A PAN AM FLIGHT SERVICE FLIGHT ATTENDANT Than Serving Meals And Showing Movies Pan Am promises our passengers to be completely involved from the moment they decide on a vacation until the minute they arrive home. As a resuii, our Flight Service Right Attendants have to work doubly hard to keep these promises. But the rewards are tremendous. You'll be meeting and flying with people to and from places all over the world. 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