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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.
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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.
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