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Center near the United Nations building earlier this moving up tanks and troops in an effort to end the In New Jersey, officials of the Dutch government week and left four pedestrians injured. Another blast stalemate in the Khurramshahr area of the southern are holding an investigation to determine the cause of occurred almost simultaneously in Los Angeles in a front. the fire. vacant building. Both acts of terrorism were claimed Col. Murammar el Qaddafi called it "Islamic duty" by an Armenian group calling themselves the in messages sent to King Khalid of Saudi Arabia and "Armenian Justice Committee." rulers of other Arab countries. He urged the countries The group is attempting to avenge the massacre of in the Persian Gulf area to join with him in support of more than one million Armenians by the Turks before Iran. Increased violence in the Philippines has and during World War 1. They also said they were Qaddafi also threatened to strike Saudi Arabia if prompted President Ferdinand E. Marcos to decree fighting to free a 300,000-square mile "homeland" they didn't expel the four electronic surveillance and stronger measures against the guerillas fighting his between the Turkish Tauras mountain range and the command planes that the U.S. has stationed there. He martial-law regime. The death penalty has been mountain country around Lake Van in eastern said the planes represent American "military instituted for crimes against public order and he is Turkey, Lake Sevan in the Soviet Union and Lake presence" in the Middle East and such presence offering rewards up to $6,600 for informants and witnesses aginst guerrillas. Urmia in Iran. cannot be tolerated. Donald F. McHenry, the United States A group calling itself the April 6 Liberation representative to the United Nations, condemned Movement is claiming responsibility for the four what he called "this savage and calculated terrorism Two Soviet cosmonauts, Leonid I. Popov and bombings that caused the death of an American directed at the Turkish Mission." Valery V. Ryumin, returned to earth after spending a resident and injured 42 others. record-setting 185 days in space. They had been Juan Ponce Enrile said the government had orbiting the space station Salyut 6. information that some two-dozen guerrillas were The Soviet news agency, TASS, reported the two Philippine-born U.S. citizens who had been trained in men landed safely, and on target. A television the United States. Enrile said, "The U.S. Government An earthquake rocked the Algerian city of Al interview showed the men sitting in reclining chairs cannot now ignore the fact some of its own nationals Asnan and its surrounding rural areas last week and and one official said, "They feel fine but are having are getting involved, using U.S.-made explosive the Algerian government reported "thousands of some trouble walking and talking." materials. The U.S. is morally and legally bound to see victims." It was the second major quake to devastate For their efforts, Ryumin was awarded the Order of that no harm comes to this country, which is a firm that city since the 1954 earthquake which killed 1,657 Lenin and Popov, the mission commander, was ally." people. awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union. The While no exact number of victims is available, it is previous record in space was 175 days set last year by feared the death toll will be higher than the quake of 26 Ryuman and Vladimir Lyakhov while orbiting the years ago; the death toll has been estimated to be same space station, Salvut 6. Cyeslaw Milosy, a Polish-born poet and between 5,000 and 20,000. The first tremor was far novelist who now is an American citizen, was awarded stronger than the 1957 quake and was followed by a the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature. In the citation second tremor three hours later that lasted more than A week after it caught fire, the Dutch luxury accompanying the prize, worth about $210,000, the one minute. liner Prinsendam sank in the Gulf of Alaska with no Swedish Academy said Mr. Milosy, "with Army, Air Force, police and civil defense units were one on board. The 400-foot vessel had been bound for uncompromising clearsightedness, voices man's mobilized for emergency relief operations to help the the Orient on a 27-day cruise when a fire broke out in exposed condition in a world of severe conflicts." injured and search for bodies. the engine room. Milosy, a professor at the University of California at The government reported whole apartment The $27-million ship was empty of passengers and Berkeley, was active in the Polish resistance buildings had collapsed. Both old and prefabricated crew as it went down. All 500 people were forced into movement in World War II. He was a diplomat in the buildings on the city's outskirts fell, according to lifeboats and moved to a tanker that raced to the area postwar Community Government until he broke with officials. The quake hit on Friday, a day of prayer and after receiving a distress signal from the Prinsendam. the party in 1951. After becoming an exile, he fled to rest in this Moslom country. All people were saved. Paris and then made his way to the U.S. Circle K — a Spirited or Lowenbrau Organization clues by Vicki Hurst Circle K, a UTC service organization, announces II. It's close to the building named after scholars the First Annual "Most Spirited Campus Organization" Contest. All campus organizations are 2. It's near where the water and iron are pumped. eligible to participate. 3. It's not in the standings. To vote for your organization, simply drop your L0WENBRA11 money into the jars that will be placed on the Circle K tables in the Student Center Lobby from 10:30-1:00 |4. It appreciates art now gone. p.m. One penny equals one vote for your organization. A dollar is worth double votes, i.e. a 5. It likes the gardens of higher math. dollar equals 200 votes, five dollars equals 1000 votes. To vote against an organization, place nickles, dimes, or quarters in that organization's jar. These coins will equal face value against that organization. the bottle is a note to Rick The Contest is an effort to raise money for the Sponsored by the Univer­ Sterchi and Bill Walker. To Hamilton County Detention Center, which is in sity Echo and Carter Distri­ cash in on the case of Lowen­ desperate need of funds. The center handles problem brau bring the note to the children and children abused by parents. All proceeds buting Company. Read the will go to the Detention Center. Echo each week for the clues Echo. Members of the Echo The "Most Spirited Organization" will be to the bottle of Lowenbrau and Carter Distributing warm announced after the street fair and will be awarded a ineligible. Regulation Football signed by the UTC coaches and hidden on campus. Inside football team. Students express varied opinions concerning Nov. elections by Geoff Johnson The presidential election is less than four weeks resources instead of just conservation. I'm for safe next four years. What this country needs is a strong away. The students here on campus, many of whom nuclear energy and so is Reagan. He also thinks we leader who isn't afraid of offending any special-interest will be going to the polls for the first time, expressed should put an end to the Russian grain embargo." groups and will stop being so wishy-washy on the their opinions about the candidates and told who they But the surprise candidate here on campus seems issues." would be voting for and why. to be Anderson. While independent candidate John While the political leanings on campus are more "I'm for reelecting President Carter," said Robin Anderson is not as popular as Ronald Reagan, conservative than liberal, some students criticized Wagoner. "He has kept many of his campaign Anderson is more appealing than Jimmy Carter. Reagan because they felt he had done an "about-face" promises and I think he'll work harder to keep them in Anderson is an alternative to many who do not like on his policy when they compared it with his record as his next term.

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