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Explosion rips
PLO heaquarters
BEIRUT, Labanon
A car-bomb explosion ripped
through the nerve center of the
Palestine Liberation Organiza
tion Thursday, killing at least 60
people and wounding about
300, a PLO spokesman said
The PLO said no ranking guer
rilla was hurt, but another group
reported a PLO Central Com
mittee member was killed
Witnesses said the blast set
off fires, reduced 60 cars to
scorched metal, splintered tele
phone poles and hurled bodies
through the air as the explo
sives-packed auto blew up in
front of PLO offices in Moslem
West Beirut Explosives experts
estimated 220 pounds of TNT
went off
Lebanon's state-run televi
sion said an anonymous caller
purporting to represent a right
wing organization claimed his
group was responsible for the
blast
The group, the Front for the
Liberation of Lebanon from Fo
reigners, has claimed respon
sibility for a series of bombings
in the past two weeks Fifty-four
people died in the previous
attacks, including 25 people
killed Sept 17 at the PLO's
south Lebanon regional head
quarters in Sidon
Diablo runs
into problems
LOS ANGELES
Fuel won't be loaded at the
Diablo Canyon nuclear power
plant until its owner shows that
a design mistake affecting
earthquake resistance is the
only one it made, a federal of
ficial said Thursday
"The question you have to
ask is," said Darrell Eisenhut of
the Nuclear Regulatory Com
mission, "Is that the only
mistake they made?
"The utility is going to have to
convince us (that) this is the
only mistake We re going to
have to get a handle on that
r
before they go back to loading
fuel."
Eisenhut is head of the
licensing division of the NRC,
which approved an interim
license for the $2.3 billion
Pacific Gas and Electric plant
less than two weeks ago.
Eisenhut said in an interview
that It’s too early to gauge the
impact of the mistake and what
will be needed to resolve it. The
earthquake resistance of about
a dozen systems is being re
examined to figure out how to
correct the mistake, engineers
said.
PG&E officials are to meet
with the NRC Monday to review
the problem
Americans support
Reagan cuts
NEW YORK
Despite growing pessimism
toward the economy, the latest
Associated Press-NBC News
poll says Americans support
Pres Reagan's proposal tor $13
billion in additional budget cuts
The poll, a scientific random
sampling of 1,601 adults
contacted by telephone Monday
and Tuesday, said a majority of
those who have heard or read of
the president's latest proposed
budget cuts approve of them
Yet a majority also believes
that their family finances will not
improve in the next year and
that the federal budget will not
be balanced by 1984
Reagan's overall job per
formance rating dipped to 53
percent good or excellent,
down 10 percent from the AP
NBC News poll in August and
the lowest during his pre
sidency The latest poll said 27
percent believe Reagan is doing
an only fair job overall, while 16
percent said poor and 4 percent
were not sure
Standard Oil
returns $1 million
SALEM
Oregon will receive over $1
million from Standard Oil Co. of
California as the result of the
firm allegedly overcharging for
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gasoline from 1973 to 1981, the
state said Thursday.
Denny Miles, press aide to
Gov. Vic Atiyeh, said the
governor wrote Standard, which
is marketed as Chevron in
Oregon, that the state would
accept the money.
He said the $1.06 million is
part of $25 million the company
will pay to a number of states as
a result of an agreement
reached with the U S. Depart
ment of Energy.
The payments are the result
of a consent agreement
between the oil company and
the federal government and
does not amount to an admis
sion of guilt.
World’s heaviest
man hospitalized
SEATTLE
A man listed in the Guinness
Book of Records as one of the
heaviest humans in recorded
history was reported in serious
condition Thursday after he was
hospitalized for edema — reten
tion of body fluids — and su
spected heart failure.
Jon B. Minnoch, 40, who lost
900 pounds after weighing more
than 1,400 pounds in 1978, was
admitted to University Hospital
on Wednesday and may be los
ing his battle against obesity.
A spokesman for the Seattle
Fire Department said Wed
nesday that Minnoch reportedly
gained 200 pounds within the
last week, but hospital officials
could not confirm that or es
timate the Seattle man’s current
weight.
It took 10 men to carry Min
noch from his Seattle house to a
waiting ambulance Wednesday.
To extricate Minnoch, several
doors had to be removed from
the home.
Iran holds
national vote
BEIRUT, Lebanon
Nearly 1 million Iranians
chanting anti-American slogans
mourned the victims of a military
plane crash at a mass funeral
rally Thursday. The clergy-led
government meanwhile took
extra precautions against ren
ewed street violence during
Friday's presidential elections.
Hojatoleslam Ali Khamenei,
42, secretary-general of the
ruling Islamic Republican Party,
was expected to sweep the
contest against three token op
ponents to become the first
clergyman head of state. He
would succeed President
Mohammad Ali Rajai, who was
assassinated along with Prime
Minister Mohammad Javad
Bahonar in an Aug. 30 fire
bombing.
The election is a day after
state funerals were held for four
of Iran’s top military
commanders, who died along
with 37 others Tuesday when an
American-built C-130 transport
plane crashed south of Tehran.
Cancer therapy
doubles survival
WASHINGTON
A quick-spreading cancer
that frequently leads to limb
amputation can be treated with
a new approach that doubles
the survival rate while sparing
many arms and legs, govern
ment scientists said Thursday.
Researchers at the National
Cancer Institute said the greatly
improved results against soft
tissue sarcoma are due to
aggressive therapy combining
surgery to remove the tumor
with radiation and chemoth
erapy.
Dorothy’s slippers
sell for $15,000
NEW YORK
An anonymous West Coast
family paid $12,000 Thursday
for a pair of shoes that will
probably never be worn.
The family bid via telephone
during a spirited auction at
Christie's East for the red
sequined shoes worn by Judy
Garland in the 1939 MGM
classic.
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