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News Briefs From United Press International
S. Africans leave Angola
WINDHOKE, South West Africa—South African forces yesterday began withdrawing from the Angolan town of Kangango, 60 miles across the South West African border, after a six-day search and destroy mission that left 450 Angolan soldiers and black guerrillas dead.
"We have started a tactical withdrawal," a military spokesman said.
These things take time and we must be careful. We are very vulnerable to an attack.
The spokesman said remnants of the South Africa forces began the trek back to base, hauling with them tons of capture - manufactured weapons.
Despite the withdrawal, Angola claimed new South African strikes against civilian targets in Southern Angola; South Africa denied the claims.
During the six-day incursion, 10 South Africa soldiers died and 450 Angolan soldiers and SWA gupo warriors were killed in a series of artillery and ground attacks.
The withdrawals came as non-aligned nations in the United Nations urged the Governing Council to impose sanctions on South Africa and force it to pay Angola compensation for the loss.
South African military officials termed the incursion aimed at the black guerrillas of the South West African People's Organization a success.
During the fighting, South African fighter-bombers leveled key Angolan missiles and radar installations which Pretoria claimed were to anger gunners.
Brig. Rudi Badenhorst, who led the South African assault, said 60 percent of the casualties were suffered by Angolan troops who ignored warnings not to cross the border.
Sadat might not seek another term
CAIRO, EGYPT—President Anwar Sadat indicated yesterday he would not seek a third term next year and expressed the hope that his people would support the decision.
Sadat's hint came in the third part of his memoirs published in Mayo, the weekly organ of his ruling national Democratic Party, and was contained in a part reflecting on former president Carter's election defeat last November.
"And I thought a lot about Carter," Sadat said. "I thought of how his departure from the White House must have been extremely difficult on him, but I remember saying when I was in prison (in the 1940s) that a strong man would give you a chance to want him, but if his people do not want him then he must go immediately."
"I therefore always say that there are two who must not forget themselves . . . the politician and artist for they must not hold on too tightly on the stage, whether a political or artistic stage, they must know when they should stop and retreat from the lights willingly before setting forced to do so.
"Therefore, I wish that my people would understand this and back me up in my decision next year."
Although he did not elaborate further, it was believed Sadat was referring to his intention of retiring sometime after April. By then, Israel will have completed its military pullout from the entire Sinai Peninsula, prescribed by the Camp David agreements.
Arab terrorists kill 2, wound 19
VIENNA, Austria-Vienna police rounded up 10 Arabs yesterday in the wake of a bloody terrorist attack on a crowded synagogue that left two people dead and 19 wounded and claimed to have uncovered an Arab terrorist network in Austria.
The 10 were seized in a raid on the apartment of one of the terrorists arrested in Saturday's machine-gun and grenade attack on a downtown Vienna synagogue packed with Sabbath worshippers leaving after a Bar Mitzvah ceremony.
"We have apparently discovered a big Arab terrorist network in Austria, but we are still in the dark where their headquarters are and who gave them the information."
Israel, meanwhile, blamed the attack on Austria's allegedly lax policies toward the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
Syria to station troops in Libya
BEIRUT, LEBANON—Some 5.000 Syrian troops will soon be dispatched to Libya to strengthen existing military ties between the two countries, the pro-Libyan magazine Al Moukif Al Arabia said yesterday.
The troops will be grouped in a tank brigade, the magazine said, but it did not say whether Syria would also provide military hardware for its men.
The two countries, which last year announced plans for a political merger, last week agreed to further bolster military ties during talks in Damascus between Syrian president Hafez Assad and Libyan leader Col Moammar Khadafy.
The magazine said some 500 Syrian troops were already in Libya and 5,000 more would be dispatched soon. Syria and Libya, however, have not yet signed an official military agreement.
Syria maintains a fighting force of about 247,500 men and already has 30,000 stationed in Lebanon under the flair of the Arab peacekeeping forces.
Libya's armed forces total $3,000 men, according to the latest edition of the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Lightning cuts power in four states
The electric power industry worked yesterday to determine how two lightning strikes in Arizona cut off transmission lines 1,000 miles away in Oregon, disrupting service to 2 million customers in between for up to three hours.
At first, the four-state power outage was blamed on forest fires in Oregon. Then blame for the unusual chain-reaction switched to the Arizona lightning.
Whatever the cause, officials were pleased the outage wasn't worse. They said the episode suggested their automatic backup systems could prevent the kind of overloading that prolonged blackouts in New York in 1965 and 1977
Lightning apparently knocked out two 500,000-watt lines in Arizona Saturday and caused numerous lines in California, Nevada and Oregon as well as Arizona to shut down automatically to prevent an overload.
The Bonneville Water Administration in Portland, Ore., said the Pacific Northwest-Southwest link went out at 11:31 p.m. CDT, cutting off California from the big electricity-producing dams on the Columbia River.
Broadcaster Lowell Thomas dies
PAWLING, N.Y.-Lowell Thomas, the dean of the world's radio news broadcasters whose pioneer feats through more than five decades form one of the most extraordinary chapters in media history, died Saturday. He was 89.
His secretary, Electra Nix, said Thomas died of a heart attack in his sleep at his update New York home in Pawling.
He was the first man to broadcast from a ship, from an airplane, from a boat and from a submarine. His reporting work took him to both poles and almost all places.
As a noted columnist wrote in 1958, "The day will come when a compact man, with piercing blue eyes, wavy salt-and-piper hair, a thin mustache and a brow, will stride briskly toward the pearly gates. The guardian angel will recognize her face. Here comes Lowell Thomas, he will say, 'He's been everywhere else.'"
The longest continually operating voice in radio belonged to the indestructible Ohioan, who first went behind the microphone in 1925 and began broadcasting on Monday through Friday basis in 1380. His last daily broadcast for CBS Broadcasters in 1976, at the age of 64. He continued intermittent broadcasts zeroth time that day.
Armed robbers stole an undetermined amount of cash from the Farmer's Co-op association service station at 23rd and Haskell streets early yesterday morning, Lawrence police reported.
On the Record
Police said a small-caliber automatic weapon was believed to have been used in the robbery.
Police do not have any suspects in the case.
A KU STUDENT'S car was stolen from 1519 Kentucky St. Saturday morning and recovered yesterday, police said. The car, found in Wichita, had damage to the right side and the radio was missing.
man Friday night in connection with the traffic death of a 20-year-old Topeka man earlier this month, District Attorney Mike Malone said Saturday.
Howard Z. Smith, charged with involuntary manslaughter, was freed on a $1,500 recognition bond Friday, officials said.
POLICE ARRESTED a Lawrence
David P. O'Neil was killed Aug. 2, when his motorcycle struck Smith's stalled tractor head-on on U.S. 40, about five miles west of Lawrence.
Smith was traveling west without headlights, the Kansas Highway Patrol said, when the tractor apparently crossed the center line and stalled.
An 18-year old Topeka woman, Karen
E. Thomas, who was riding with O'Neil,
jumping.
If convicted of involuntary man-
whip, the defendant would face one to five years in prison.
suffered two broken ankles and a broken pelvis. She remains hospitalized at Stormont-Vall Hospital in Toneka
A preliminary hearing has been set
to court in 14 Douglas County District
Court.
POLICE ARRESTED a Lawrence man Friday night, charging him with the burglary and subsequent arson of a residence early Thursday morning.
Officer Jack Elder said police were assuring J. D. Austin, 40, had set fire to the house at 729 Connecticut St. in an effort to cover up the burglary.
"We recovered a large portion of the stolen items in Austin's home," said Elder. "So much, in fact, we didn't need it for all in the evidence room."
Police said Friday that $3,000 worth of furniture, including a sofa and several tables had been stolen sometime before the fire.
Fire officials estimated the damage, which was limited mostly to the front portion of the house, at $15,000.
Last Chance!
Austin remained in the Douglas
Country with a bond set at $10,500.
Eldredge.
Lawrence Fire Chief Jim McSwain called the fire "suspicious."
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