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. Israeli shells fall on town
By United Press International
Israeli artillery rained shells today on the southern
Lebanese town of Nabatieh, wounding 10 persons and
destroying 15 houses in a two-hour barrage, residents of
the area said.
Lebanese antiaircraft units opened up on Israeli
warplanes nearby, but the jets did not attack and
appeared to be on a reconnaissance mission to inspect
damage of the barrage, newsmen in the area said.
The Israeli predawn groundfire tore into three Nabatieh
residential quarters and their markets, witnesses said.
Rescue crews dug in the wreckage seeking possible fur
ther victims while sonic booms of the Israeli jets echoed
across the town.
Nabatieh has a large Palestinian population. A nearby
refugee camp was destroyed in an air raid last May.
On Thursday Israeli warplanes strafed Palestinian re
fugee camps on the outskirts of Beirut in their closest
attack yet to the Lebanese capital.
Lebanese Premier Rashid Solh said one person, a
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Undercover witness
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COLUMBIA, S.C. (UPI) —
Defense attorneys are expected
to try again today to break a
government witness’ testimony
in the federal court trial of nine
men charged with smuggling
marijuana from South America
to Chester, S.C.
One of several defense
attorneys in the case spent
most of Thursday afternoon
questioning the government
witness, an unidentified inform
er who was on the plane which
flew into Chester last June with
15,000 pounds of marijuana. He
indicated the cross-examination
would continue today.
The informer, who had tol the
court Wednesday that he and
the plane’s pilot, an unindicted
coconspirator named Bernardo
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South America where they
received the marijuana from
Indians, repeated his story
during Thursday’s testimony.
Defense attorneys asked him
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One defense attorney, Daniel
Burton of Tampa, Fla., implied
that the witness had a grudge
against one of the defendents
and was testifying against him
to “get even,” but the witness
denied that.
On trial for smuggling and
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woman, was killed and ten others were wounded in the
raid.
It followed a guerrilla grenade attack in a crowded Tel
Aviv movie theater a day earlier in which three persons
died and 53 were injured.
Israeli Information Minister Aharon Yariv said
Thursday, “We have a long war with our neighbors and
the Palestinians.”
In Beirut, the Palestine Liberation Organization news
agency WAFA said the Israeli air attack “shows that the
enemy has lost its nerve.”
It said two of the warplanes were shot down, but Israel
said all returned safely after setting a guerrilla training
base on fire.
The Israeli national radio said guerrillas fired 15 Soviet
made Katysha rockets at midnight at targets near the
northern Israeli town of Safad but there were no damages
or casualties. Israeli artillery returned the fire, the radio
said.
Careful:
it’s 13th
By WEBER F. TROUT
United Press International
Today is another of those spooky days for the supersti
tious —Friday the 13th with all its awful portents.
The scoffers say “Hah! Why knock on wood? What’s
wrong with black cats? The whole thing is silly.”
The legends of superstition say the wood-knocking thing
goes all the way back to the Druids in ancient England.
The Druids believed trees were inhabited by gods.
You might figure that knocking on a tree might be
construed as rapping the gods, but that is not how it
works.
Knocking on wood, tree wood, of course, is the same as
asking those gods for protection against some misfortune
the bad gods may be conjuring up for you.
You don’t have to believe it, but why take a chance?
Knocking on wood can’t hurt, unless you knock too hard.
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What about the black cats? People have been afraid of
those sinister-looking creatures ever since the middle
ages.
They believed black cats actually are devils and witches
and that they prowl around the earth looking for some
hapless soul’s path to cross.
The belief persists to this day that something awful is
going to happen to those whose path is crossed by one of
those black devils with the yellow slanted eyes.
Especially on a day such as this —Friday the 13th —
when believers crossed by a black cat may be found
cowering in some hideout surrounded by good luck
charms and expecting the double whammy any minute.
* Parking sentence 7 months
CARTERSVILLE, Ga. (UPI)
— Superior Court Judge Jeffer
n son L. Davis has sentenced two
Cobb County teen-agers to
seven months in prison for
parking violations.
One of the youths will not
begin serving his sentence until
he graduates from high school
but the other defendant is now
serving time in the Cherokee
County Public Works Camp in
Canton.
The two youths were charged
with illegal parkirig by Bartow
County deputies who answered
a call during a party on Sept.
21 in Cartersville.
The deputies said they were
threatened by persons at the
party but only issued citations
against the two youths for
illegal parking.
The deputies wrote on the
traffic citations: “received call
on subjects causing a disturb
ance on Apatchee Drive and
found subject parking between
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The two youths, Grant Allen
111, 19, and Lenoris Buffington,
17, pleaded guilty to the
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Davis’ court Nov. 4 and
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tence.
Judge Davis admittted the
two youths were charged only
with illegal parking but he said
“the evidence in the case
showed there was more in
volved in it than that. There
were about 200 people at this
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their cars in the middle of the
street and were blocking
tarffic.
Davis said the youths were
asked to move their cars but
they refused and told the
officers to “move them yoursel
ves.”
Davis said when wreckers
were called to move the cars
people at the party “surround
ed them and we almost had a
riot out there.”
An attorney for Allen said he
is preparing a motion to have
his client released which he will
file next week.
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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin denied in an
interview broadcast Thursday in London that Israel had
become a nuclear power.
“Israel is not a nuclear power, a nuclear country,” he
said in an interview on Independent Television News. “It
has been the first to say that it won’t introduce nuclear
weapons in the Middle East.”
Rabin added, however, that his country faces a nuclear
dilemma because “we can’t afford to be the second, but
we can’t afford tb be the first either.”
In Beirut, Solh said Lebanon would lodge an official
complaint before the United Nations denouncing the air
raid.
“Israel, who is now facing a crisis in the occupied ter
ritories, committed this aggression to distract public
opinion from the crisis she is now facing,” he said.
The Israeli command said its warplanes attacked a
guerrilla installation that is “isolated from any civilian
population and serves as a training base for Al Fatah and
the PLO.”
15-year-old draws
Florida death sentence
FORT PIERCE, Fla. (UPI)
— A 15-year-old Fort Pierce
youth has been sentenced to
death in the electric chair for
the suffociation of a 12-year-old
girl in an attempted rape last
September.
Circuit Judge Wallace Sample
sentenced George Thomas Vasil
Thursday. Vasil is believed to
be the youngest person ever to
face the death penalty in
Florida.
“It is the sentence of the
court that you be committed to
the custody of the Division of
Corrections and put to death
according to law. May God
have mercy on your soul,” the
judge said.
The youth took the verdict
without emotion, but his mo
ther, Mrs. Angie Vasil,
screamed and collapsed into
the arms of her husband, Gus.
The boy was led away by his
two public defense attorneys
and two sheriff’s deputies.
A Circuit Court jury of seven
men and five women found the
youth guilty Wednesday of the
murder of Pamela Vassar Sept.
19.
Thursday, it took the jurors
20 minutes to arrive at a
majority recommendation for
the death penalty. It was then
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ATLANTA (UPI) — Georgia
Power Co. said it would not cut
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