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Recovery of Abscam funds proposed
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department may try to recover bribe money used by PEL undercover agents in the Abscense investigation, department
Irvin Nathan, the deputy assistant attorney general who coordinated prosecutions in the investigation, said the department's civil division is actively considering filing suits against John Jenrette, D.S.C., and former Reo. Michael Myers. D-Pa.
Nathan said none of those convicted on Abscam-related charges had returned the bribe money used in the investigation.
The attorney General Benjamin Civletti said at a news conference that the decision on whether to the law would partly depend on whether it would be sworn in.
Jenette and an associate were convicted Tuesday of bribery and conspiracy. Myers was found guilty last month on similar charges.
Abscam involved FBI agents posing as wealthy Arabs or their representatives offering bribes to politicians for political favors.
American author wins Nobel Prize
STOCKHOLM, Sweden — A Lithuanian-born guest lecturer at the University of Sweden became the ninth American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature yesterday.
The guest lecturer, Czeslaw Milos, 69, is a naturalized American and has been at Berkeley for 20 years. Milos writes poetry and prose and is the third of four students in his class.
"The world that Milosz depicts in his poetry and prose works and essays is the world in which man lives after having been driven out of paradise," the Swedish Academy said in announcing the $215,000 award. "People lived in a world that is different from this country. This country and this culture—and most of its people—no longer exist."
Milozz was born in the Lithuanian village of Vilna, which became a part of Milozz in 1923. Milozz's poetry has but not been published in Poland since 1891, when he wrote his first book. In 1924, he went to Rome.
Polish critic率评 Miloz' poems on the Warsaw uprising of 1944 among his
hisworks recently began to resurface in Poland because of eased ceasefire
Milosz' poetry recently was applauded by striking shipyard workers in Gdansk.
He served with the Polish diplomatic corps between 1946 and 1950 in Washington and Paris. He had joined the foreign service party to avoid capture.
Syndrome victim sues tampon maker
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—A Kansas City, Mo., woman has filed a $25.2 million negligence suit in federal court against the Proctor and Gamble Co., saying she contracted toxic shock syndrome because of the company's Rely tampons.
The complaint was filed in U.S. District Court by Athalee Kay Manley.
Similar lawsuits are pending in other courts across the country, including Kamar City, Kan., after reports of deaths and illness caused by toxic shock syndrome.
Proctor and Gamble has removed Rely tampons from the market and has urged women who still have the tammons not to use them.
Manley is seeking $750,000 in actual damages on each of three counts of negligence and wrongdoing and $3 million in punitive damages. In the suit, she said the company sold the tampons in conscious disregard for the safety of consumers and that the tampons would have adverse physiological effects on users.
Manley said she suffered an extremely high fever, which caused her to lose part of her hair and skin, nausea, headaches and weight loss.
Trucks resume toxic waste transfer
KANAS CITY, Kan--Dump trucks filled with toxic wastes resumed their hauling operations in the county officials said they were planning new legal efforts to stop the transfers.
The trucks are hauling a mixture of dirt and toxic metal dust from illegal dump sites near Kansas City, Kan., to the Defenbaugh Landfill near Shawnee. Bill Longston, a spokesman for the Environmental Protection Agency, said the trucks would roll 10 hours a day.
The Johnson County Board of Commissioners and officials of cities near the bankill are trying to stop the tractors from dumping the wastes because of pollution.
County officials obtained a continuance until Oct. 17, hours before a scheduled federal district court hearing on the county's preliminary in-
The officials asked for the delay while a private laboratory completes tests of samples taken from the dump sites. Test results were not expected from the laboratory.
If the findings are similar to those of EPA tests conducted earlier, county efforts to stop the waste transfers may prove futile.
Maritime union group backs Reagan
WASHINGTON—Republican presidential nominee Ronald Reagan received a major labor endorsement for the second straight day yesterday when National Maritime Union convention delegates reversed their leaders' previous endorsement of President Carter.
The endorsement by the 35,000-member union carne in St Louis one day after the executive board of the 2.3 million member Teams voted to ban them.
At Carter-Mondale campaign headquarters in Washington, Secretary of Labor Ray Marshall criticized Reagan's efforts to win blue-collar support and said workers could not trust Reagan.
He also noted a newspaper report that quoted Reagan labor aid male Balzano as saying Reagan's campaign strategy was to get union workers to stay away from the polls on election day instead of trying to convince them to vote for Reagan.
Marsail said Reagan had turned his back on every principle of the trade union movement since his term as president of the Screen Actors Guild.
Empty coal ships crowd U.S. ports
Soaring world demand for coal is forcing freighters to wait weeks before they can pick up coal cargos at crowded U.S. ports. Almost 100 Colliers are in the process of securing their supplies.
T. Parker Host, chairman of the Hampton Roads Martinez Administration's coal committee, said the backlog has last winter with a small increase in the number of cases.
The ports of Baltimore and Mobile, Ala., have had backlogs ranging from six to 35 freighters. Their titliriness costs ship owners $10,000-$15,000 a day for each ship. The threat of a longshoreman's strike has kept ships away from Philadelphia.
A port official said yesterday that 95 ships were waiting to load coal at Hampton Roads, which handles about 75 percent of all U.S. coal exports.
The situation was compounded by the Australian coal miners' strike, the Polish workers' strike and the Persian Gulf conflict between Iran and Iraq.
"It's like a candy store where everybody wants the same thing," said Edward Byner, director for the Maryland Port Administration. "Eventually a line forms. The supply is there, but it takes time to bring it from back to the front of the store."
Iraqi forces use surface-to-surface missiles
BAGHDAD, Iraq (UPI)—Iraq military forces concentrated attacks on the Iranian rail center of Dostul and reportedly used surface-to-surface missiles yesterday for the first time in the 19-day-old conflict.
Meanwhile, an Israeli radio monitor said Libya and Syria began round-the-clock airlifts of Soviet-made military equipment to Iran with Iranian planes flying through Greek, Bulgarian and Soviet airspace.
Four Iraqi surface-to-surface missiles hit Dezful, a key oil, rail and military center 50 miles inside Iran, Iran.
yesterday, the Iranian military command said.
Analysts said Defulh had a key air base and two pipelines that carry crude oil and refined products to Tehran from Iran, was refinery and the southern oil fields.
THE OFFICIAL PARS news agency
the officers were killed, and 300
others were wounded.
Military experts at the International Institute of Strategic Studies in London said the missiles probably were Soviet-made Frog 7 missiles.
Iran said the missiles that hit Dezel probably were launched from the
THE ISRAELI RADIO monitor said that the Libyan airlift to Iran had begun Wednesday and that the planes were approaching forth, each trip taking about five hours.
border 40 miles away and warned residents to expect more attacks.
It was not clear what equipment it was transported from Libya, he said.
He monitored radio traffic that showed Syria also was supplying Iran equipment, including SAM-7, DG-7 and Sagger missiles, all Soviet-made.
Iran's military, although mostly equipped with U.S.-built weapons, also
uses Soviet-made equipment. Iran, despite its claims, has not been able to buy replacement parts for its American weapons, according to reports, because of the U.S. arms boycott spurred by the hostage situation.
IRAQ'S ARMY IS almost totally reliant on Soviet weapons.
Iran said attacking Iraqi forces had been stopped at Dezful, but acknowledged explosions at Ahvaz in a statement broadcast by Tehran Radio.
Iraqi sources said earlier that Dezful had been besieged and that the Iraqis were "destroying all vital facilities, in the city," In the city, 130 miles north of Abadan.
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