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inter/national news IRA claims bomb attack LONDON Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on Sunday took (lowers to the soldiers and civilians wounded by the Irish Republican Army’s bomb attack on a busload of Irish Guards and condemned the bombing as a "cold, callous, brutal and sub-human thing Scotland Yard said the Saturday attack, which came exactly one week after the collapse of the IRA's 7-month-long hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison, could signal the start of a new terror campaign in the British capital Guerrillas using a command wire attached to a van set off the explosion as a bus carrying 23 Irish Guards back from duty at the Tower of London passed by, authorities said A 62-year-old widow passerby was killed and 38 other people, including 22 of the guardsmen and two children aged 2 and 5, were wounded in the shower of nails from the bomb and glass and debris flying from nearby buildings Witnesses said nails pierced some of the victims in the face, head and body U.S. schedules military exercise WASHINGTON The United States will con duct a major military exercise with Egypt and other Arab forces within the next month as "sign of reassurance . in the post-Sadat situation," Secretary of State Alexander Haig said Sunday Haig said the military exercise following Egyptian Pres Anwar Sadat’s assassination last week will include "a highly increased U.S. presence" that may feature the use of American B-52 bombers "U.S. force in the regions would be working in conjunc tion with the forces of the government of Egypt and other governments such as Oman," he said The exercise and the pos sibility of speeding delivery of U.S arms already scheduled to go to Egypt were discussed last week by Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger and Egyp tian Defense Minister Abdel Hadim Abu Ghazala, Haig said. Double transplant patient alive STANFORD, Calif. The fourth combined heart and lung transplant of 1981 — (he seventh such operation in history — was completed suc cessfully Sunday at Stanford University Medical Center, a spokesman reported Barry Davis, 40, of Redwood City, was in critical condition following surgery, according to spokesman Mike Goodkind, but his vital signs were stable. Davis, who was forced to quit his job in hotel management about two years ago, was born with a hole in his heart that necessitated the replacement of both lungs, Goodkind said The longest surviving heart lung patient is Mary Gohlke, 45, a newspaper executive from Mesa, Ariz., who went home from a hospital on June 2 Soviets accuse U.S. of pressure MOSCOW The Soviet government is sued an official statement early Monday accusing the United States of exerting "gross pres sure" on Egypt by alerting American military forces after the assassination of Pres Anwar Sadat In an unusual move, a dispatch by the official Tass news agency said, "The Soviet government resolutely con demns U S attempts at interfer ing in an any way in the internal affairs of the Arab Republic of Egypt "What is happening around Egypt cannot but affect the in terests of the Soviet Union’s security and it will attentively follow the development of events " The statement, apparently written by top Kremlin leaders, did not refer directly to the assassination Tuesday nor did it specify how developments in Egypt involved Soviet security. Student wins cubist title TOKYO More than 100 veteran cubists gathered Sunday to twist, turn and puzzle over a puzzle — and an 18-year-old student came out the winner. A cubist is an expert or would-be expert at solving Rubik's Cube, a multi-colored puzzle that has bewildered mil lions Kenichi Ueno, 18, a high school senior from northern Japan, won the Japanese title in the adult division by putting three cubes in order in 2 min utes, 8 1 seconds. The cube is composed of 27 smaller, movable cubes. Each face of the large cube has nine small squares in six colors. The object is to rotate the little cubes until they make each face of the big cube the same color. Ten blind cubists, using specially designed puzzles, also competed in Sunday’s contest Takenori Ikeda, 17, took top honors among blind con testants by unscrambling a cube in 1 minute. 27 3 seconds Guerilla war film abandoned SALISBURY, Zimbabwe A South African film company has abandoned plans to make a television movie about the Zimbabwe's 7-year guerrilla war because of objections from the new Socialist government, it was reported here Sunday Information Minister Nathan Shamuyarira was reported by the Sunday Mail newspaper as having told the company, Profile Productions, that such a film might harm the government's policy of reconciliation between the 7 2 million blacks and the 200,000 whites The war was fought between white-minority governments and black guerrillas who are now in control of the former British colony, formerly Rhode sia. Balloon journeys across country SAVANNAH, Ga. A helium balloon bearing the unlikely name of Super Chicken III breezed across the United States and landed off the Geor gia coast on Sunday in the first non-stop balloon flight from one end of the country to the other "The champagne is flowing, we're celebrating a World Se ries of our own," said Chris Van Elk, who monitored the flight of the two-man craft from the flight operations center in Scottsdale. Ariz. He said pilot John Shoecraft and co-pilot Fred Gorrell, both businessmen from Phoenix, Ariz., planned to "celebrate'a little and then get some rest." Iran executes 82 leftists BEIRUT, Lebanon Iranian firing squads executed 82 leftists, including key leaders of the guerrilla opposition to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Tehran Radio said Sunday. 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