Banner Graphic, Volume 10, Number 114, Greencastle, Putnam County, 17 January 1980 — Page 3

Mexico buys embargoed grain

WASHINGTON (AP) The United States, selling Mexico some of the millions of tons of grain embargoed for shipment to the Soviet Union, wants to expand sales to other countries, an administration official says. Dale E. Hathaway, undersecretary of agriculture, announced Wednesday an agreement under which Mexico will buy just over 1 million tons of the 17 million metric tons of corn and wheat embargoed to the Soviets. He said the United States was looking into the possibility of having other countries buy more of the grain that had been destined for the Soviet Union, but declined to name the countries or indicate how much grain might be involved. On Jan 4. President Carter canceled the Soviet grain orders in retaliation for the Kremlin’s military intervention in Afghanistan. The government bought up the grain ordered by Moscow but

In move similar to Iran's

U.S. journalists expelled from Afghanistan

By The Associated Press Afgahanistan’s pro-Soviet government today ordered the expulsion of all American journalists, accusing them of biased reporting and interference in Afghan internal affairs, said a Western diplomat in New Delhi. India. "The US. correspondents were detained by Afghan authorities at the Kabul Intercontinental Hotel and told this morning to leave on the first available flight,” said the source, who declined to be identified. The U.S. Embassy in the Indian capital said the American Embassy in Kabul was informed of the explusion order. Initial reports said only American citizens were to be deported. the source said. It was not clear if this included non-

Man disposes of wives in 'Henry the Bth' manner WILKESBORO, N.C. (AP) Before she died, Edward James Huggins’ sixth wife said she had been shot by her husband. Now the county sheriff is reopening his investigation of the unsolved shotgun slaying of the man’s fourth wife and the drug overdose death of the fifth. District Court Judge John Kilby on Wednesday ordered Huggins, 48, to stand trial for murder in the shooting death of his sixth wife, 38-year-old Rose Lynn Williams Huggins. Huggins was divorced from his first three wives, but his last three wives died and Wilkes County Sheriff Kyle Gentry says he is investigating. Rose Lynn Huggins was shot in the chest with a pistol at the couple’s mobile home last month. She died a short time later at Wilkes General Hospital after telling investigators that she had been shot by her husband, authorities said. Huggins was first married in 1955, when he was 21, to Arlene Lola Wilke of Taylorsville. She divorced him, remarried and moved to Ohio, according to relatives. Sylvia H. Adams, a divorcee with three children, eloped to South Carolina with Huggins in 1964. They lived together for two weeks before Huggins left, she said in her 1968 request fora divorce. In 1969, Huggins was married for six months to Pansy Elizabeth Bare of Ashe County. She asked that her divorce papers be served on Huggins in prison. Huggins was often in prison. He has served 13 alcohol-re-lated prison terms in the past two dozen years. Late in June 1978, a man walking along a Brushy Mountain path found the decomposing body of Blanche Huggins in the dense undergrowth. , Huggins told detectives he and Blanche had gone for a drive to a scenic overlook on the mountain near their mobile home where they drank for a while. He fell asleep, he said. When he awakened, his wife was gone. She had been shot in the head with a shotgun. No weapon was found, and no one was ever charged in the slaying. About five months after Blanche’s death, Huggins married Eva Marie Nichols Whittington and moved to the northern part of the county. On Jan. 2,1979, Marie Huggins died of a drug overdose after consuming between 20 and 30 Darvon capsules, according to the North Carolina state Chief Medical Examiner Page Hudson. The death was ruled suicide. “I don’t believe you could force an adult to take that many capusles involuntarily,” Hudspn said.

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has no desire to hold it if suitable markets can be found. Mexican Commerce Secretary Jorge de la Vega joined U.S. officials in announcing the deal, which he said was sparked in part by poor Mexican harvests caused by a drought and an early frost. The agreement calls for Mexico to buy 4.8 million metric tons of farm products "above and beyond” what it had already ordered this calendar year, bringing total sales to about 7 million metric tons, said Hathaway. That’s about twice as much as Mexico bought in each of the last three years, he said. Other administration officials said later that sales to Mexico for this year had been projected at about 6 million tons this year prior to the hastily arranged deal announced Wednesday. The officials, who asked not to be named, pegged Mexico’s total commodity orders at 7.15 million tons in 1980

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INDIRA GANDHI Sound retreat Americans working for U S. or ganizations. The Afghan order came three days after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s regime in neighboring Iran ordered all American

journalists out of that country. Diplomats in New Delhi estimated 50 to 60 Americans are in the Afghan capital. Much of their news reports and film have been handcarried to other countries since ommunications have not worked normally since the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan on Christmas Day. On Wednesday, Britain’s Foreign Secretary predicted that the Soviet Union will not advance beyond Afghanistan for the time being but warned the Western allies to give top priority to bolstering Pakistan’s defenses. “Anybody who does not take the Soviet threat to the region seriously is certainly deceiving himself,” said Lord Carrington after a visit to a refugee camp in northwest Pakistan 40 miles from the Afghan border and 180

Terrorist killed by own bomb LONDON (AP) A terrorist bomb being assembled by a man of “Arab origin” ripped through six rooms of a popular London hotel this morning, killing him, injuring a West German and sending terrified guests, many in nightclothes, fleeing into the chilly streets, police said. The bomb went off at 7:30 A.M. on the fifth floor of the 702room Mount Royal Hotel near Marble Arch and Hyde Park’s Speaker’s Corner, two noted London tourist attractions. Caesar Beaudowx, a Dutch businessman who was in a room 30 feet away from the blast, said most of the guests on the fifth floor seemed to be Turks and Iranians. “Smoke was pouring from the bombed room when I ran past it to a fire escape,” he said. ‘Tve never been as frightened before in my whole life.”

Dental-Minis

"I can’t get my child to go to the dentist without a knockdown, dragout light," parents often complain. If you have this difficulty, perhaps a few suggestions from the “drillhand” may be welcomed. First, I recommend that the parent does not keep the appointment date for dental work a secret, hoping that the shorter notice lessens the impact. Tell the youngster the day you make the appointment, so he may be getting psychologically prepared. Never postpone an appointment because the child is making too much fuss about keeping it! If you feel it necessary to offer a reward or treat for good behavior at the dentist’s office, do so, but avoid making ;t a bag of sweets. Offering something the child has wanted for a long time, or a special, unusual new privilege serves the purpose. Make him wait for such rewards until all appointments have been completed, instead of giving tidbits on each occasion. Too frequently parents treat their youngsters like babies, thinking that reasoning with them about the need for the dental work will be beyond their comprehension capabilities. in most all cases, the child who is old enough to read and write will definitely benefit by learning more about his teeth and their function. Open your encyclopedia and read with your child about teeth and the basic fundamentals of oral hygiene. (If there is no book applicable at home, plenty are available at the public library.) Gaining knowledge on the subject makes the brief discomforts of dental treatment easier to bear. Follow with an explanation of why *he dentist must drill before filling the teeth. 'f violent outbursts occur, on the way to or at the dentist's office, try to refrain from physical punishment: instead, fake away a privi■ege. :f the child suoconsciously connects dental visits with spankings, the probability of ever getting over his fears may be minimized. Children are simply smaller models of people, with considerably less experience and ability to cope with life's problems. Where there is a will to reason with them, and sufficient time is taken, they’ll often surprise their own parents with their innate abilities. Furnished As A Public Service By /WAD.SWOKTH-Wl L LIsJRFy'N F AAAILV^DE N?I SI RV PRACIiq

That would mean the net effect of the new deal would be to increase Mexico’s 1980 purchases by about 1.1 million tons from what had been expected. Included in the agreement would be 1.7 million metric tons of corn, 1 million tons of sorghum; 650,000 tons of wheat; and 500,000 tons of soybeans. Other commodities Mexico agreed to buy were: edible beans, 250,000 tons; sunflower seed, 300,000 tons; soybean meal, 200,000 tons; tallow, 80,-000 tons; rice, 50,000 tons; and soybean oil, 30,000 tons. In addition to suspending sales of corn and wheat to the Kremlin, the president hailed shipments of about 740,000 tons of soybeans, 400,000 tons of soybean meal and 30,000 lons of soybean oil. The agreement with Mexico involves commercial transactions, agriculture officials said. No U.S. government credits were involved, they said.

miles from Kabul, the Afghan capital. “There will be a period of comparative calm,” he continued “But it will be unwise for the West not to understand the urgent need for the defense of their interests, including Pakistan’s security.” “We are fully aware of the danger now and we are going to move fast now,” said Carrington when a reporter noted that the Western nations took no action to counter the expanding Soviet influence in Afghanistan after the first communist coup in May 1978. Lord Carrington went from Pakistan to New Delhi to meet with Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, who retreated from her previous much-criticized sup-

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Industries to challenge new OSHA regulation

WASHINGTON (AP) - American industry is lining up for a fight over a new government regulation designed to increase worker protection from hundreds of potential cancercausing chemicals found on the job. Several industry groups are going to court to challenge the regulation, which the govern ment hopes will speed up the lengthy process of identifying and regulating some 500 ehem icals that may threaten the health of hundreds of thousands of workers. The regulation, announced Wednesday by the Labor De-

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partment’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, would replace the current policy of regulating carcinogens on a slow case-by-case basis. OSHA’s administrator, Eula Bingham, estimated the new approach would enable the agency to establish worker exposure limits on about 10 chemicals a year, up from the current two per year. A 1977 survey by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health indicated that 1 million Americans may be exposed to known cancer-causing substances on the job The government also esti-

mates that between 20 |>ereent and 40 percent of the nearly 400,000 cancer deaths each year are attributable to job-related factors. The chemical industry, however, contends that only 1 percent to 5 percent of cancer cases are occupationally re lated. Representatives of the chemical. petroleum and plastics industries complained Wednesday that the now regulation's method of identifying carcinogens is scientifically flawed, and that compliance could cost business billions of dollars.

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