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NEWS BRIEFS From United Press International
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — The United States will grant an entry visa to Nicaraguan Interior Minister Tomas Borge, who was refused permission to enter the country earlier this year, a U.S. official said yesterday.
U.S. will grant entry visa to official from Nicaragua
Borge, one of the nine commanders of the Marxist-dominated Sandinista ruling council, was informed earlier this week that he would receive a visa if he reapplied for one, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said.
Borge applied for a visa in March and April, when he was invited to speak at Harvard University, but was told on both occasions that his application "was under review," the spokesman said.
Father of ecology dies at age 100
HARBORSIDE, Maine — Scott Nearing, political radical and back-to-nature advocate often called the father of the modern ecology movement, died yesterday in his home overlooking Penosoc Bay. He was 100.
A prolific author, Nearing published his most popular book, "Living the Good Life." in 1954 about the home he and his wife built by hand in the backwoods of Vermont. It was republished in 1970, a second printing so popular it sparked a parade of thousands of people to the Nearings' home.
"I am an old, old man. I think there is great importance to life, but I don't want to live longer than my ability to serve." Nearing said earlier this month in a United Press International interview.
No service will be conducted for Nearing. His ashes will be spread around the grounds of his home.
LAGOS, Nigeria — President Shuhu Shagari's National Party of Nigeria scored a sweeping victory in Senate elections yesterday and anticipated another big win in House of Representatives races this weekend.
weekend.
Shagari's ruling party won 55 seats in the 96-member Senate, nearly doubling its strength since the last elections in 1979, federal election officials said.
Nigerian leader's party sweeps vote
officials said.
The strong showing in the Senate races followed two earlier election victories for the party, including Shagari's landslide re-election and his party's capture of 13 of the country's 19 state governorships.
MIAMI — Angry investors, who say sports-car manufacturer John DeLorean took their money and ran, filed a $400 million class action yesterday that accuses DeLorean of fraud.
with three rounds of victories behind the Shagari forces, observers said the party should succeed in the House races and predicted that it would take a majority of seats in the 449-member House.
Investors file suit against DeLorean
The suit says that 132 investors — including entertainers Sammy Davis Jr. and Roy Clark — invested $18.7 million in a limited partnership to fund research and development of DeLorean's DMC-12 sports car in 1978.
sports can. Attorney Murray Sams Jr., who filed the suit in Miami federal court, said the investors had been led to think that they would receive sizable research and development tax deductions, plus royalty payments.
The suit charges that instead they collected less than $1,100 each in royalties and that their federal income-tax returns were being audited because the money they had invested was not spent on research and development.
Singer's wife found dead at home
NESBIT, Miss. - Singer Jerry Lee Lewis' fifth wife was found dead in her bed at their country home yesterday and the flamboyant piano-pounder's manager said that she had died of an overdose of sleeping nills.
sleeping puts.
Mississippi Highway Patrol chief Donald Butler would say only that Shawn Michelle Lewis, who married the singer less than three months ago, "was found dead in her bed."
Neither Butler nor the DeSoto County sheriff's deputies and highway patrolmen investigating the case would discuss the cause of death. But a spokesman for Lansing mayor, Janet Tahmurin, told The Times in Naples that "she died of an overdose of sleeping pill prescribed by a doctor."
TORONTO — An Ontario Supreme Court judge ruled yesterday that lawyers for Cathy Evelyn Smith, charged with murder in the drug overdose death of comedian John Belushi, cannot cross-examine witnesses at her extradition hearing.
Smith, 35, of Toronto, is fighting extradition to California on the second-degree murder count and 13 charges of administering dangerous drugs.
dangerous drugs.
Defense lawyer Brian Greenspan had argued affidavits from California were incomplete, false and misleading and the authors should be cross-examined.
should be cross-examined Chief Justice Gregory Evans ruled Smith's rights under Canada's Charter of Rights were not infringed by her inability to test evidence through cross-examination.
Attempt to lift Monitor anchor fails
HATTERAS, N.C. — An attempt to raise the 1,300-pound anchor of the Civil War ironclad USS Monitor failed yesterday when an air bag ripped and divers temporarily lost the anchor.
Nancy Foster, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Marine Sanctuary program, said a "pinger" placed on the anchor to send signals to the research vessel, called the R.V. Johnson, on the surface fell off during the unsuccessful attempt to raise the anchor.
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Leader says civil rights threatened
Southern Conference has convention in Washington
Bv United Press International
WASHINGTON — The Southern Christian Leadership Conference opened its 26th annual convention yesterday proclaiming that the "dream" of its founder, Martin Luther King Jr., remains unfulfilled.
In fact, said SCLC President Joseph Lowery, many of the gains in civil rights obtained following King's 1963 pivotal march on Washington are now threatened by the Reagan administration.
"Two decades of hard fought progress are in danger of erosion on cruel and hard budget cuts," Lowery, a former King associate, told a news conference.
The three-day SCLC convention is being held in advance of Saturday's rally that will commemorate the 20th anniversary of King's march on Washington.
That march, which drew about 250,000 people and saw King give his "I have a dream speech," obtained
Walter Fauntoy, the national coordinator, said they expected a crowd of more than 250,000 and said that about 4,000 buses have been enlisted to bring participants — more than double the number used in 1963.
Organizers of the rally said they would need $72,000 for a sound system and portable toilets for a larger-than-expected crowd.
passage of such landmark legislation as the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
He told a news conference yesterday that organizers would contact the more than 400 groups and individuals who had attended the march and request contributions.
Fauntroy said, "We fully expect to raise the money."
Lowy recalled that King, in his Washington speech, made a "stinging indictment of America's commitment to the common and justice for its black citizens.
"Martin called the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution promissory notes. He declared we had presented a check to have it cashed
"Twenty years later, as we come back to the nation's capital . . . we are still being told that America cannot freedom and justice for all its citizens."
only to have it returned / marked insufficient funds."
Lowery specifically complained about black unemployment, which for the past 20 years has remained at double the rate for whites, and about recent cuts by the Reagan administration in social programs.
While the organizers of the original march consulted with then-President John Kennedy, there has been no direct call for a memorial destruction concerning Saturday's rally.
"We have not heard from the administration," said Lowy, who helped organize the march. "But I think they know we are coming."
Thursday, the SCLC is to hear from at least four Democratic presidential candidates: Sens. Alan Cranston of California, Gary Hart of Colorado, Ernest Hollins of South Carolina and former Florida Gov. Reuben Askew.
The SCLC has generally appeared cool to the potential candidacy of a former member, Jesse Jackson, who owns the Chicago-based Operation PUSH.
Former Vice President Walter Mondale said he would try to attend, but the sixth Democratic candidate. Sen. John Glenn of Ohio, said a scheduling conflict would prevent him from participating.
When asked about Jackson, Lowery said the SCLC "affirms the right of any American to seek any office to which he or she feels qualified, and if he or she feels they have a reasonable chance at such an office."
Lowery, however, refused to speculate on whether the conference or any SCLC members would endorse Jackson and declined to discuss Jackson's chances of being a factor in the 1984 presidential contest.
Asked why Jackson was not asked to join Thursday's "Presidential Forum." Lowery noted that Jackson has not yet announced his candidacy.
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