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world news Four-year sentence BALTIMORE (UPI) Maryland Gov. Marvin Mandel, who owes $197,000 in fees for his corruption trials, was spared a fine but given a four-year prison term for mail fraud and racketeering conviction. When the judge pronounced sentence Friday, Mandel also lost his place as one of the most powerful governors in history. spent over half my life in public Mandel told the court before he was sentenced, a fact that I am insolvent from the point of physical assets. But I am not insolvent because I have my Mandel, who refused to discuss his personal finances after his sentencing, said he would eventually look for a job.

Conference in December UNITED NATIONS (UPI) A high American official says Arabs and Israelis have agreed to try to resume the Geneva Middle East conference in December, although there remains lot of hard work to get from here to The official told reporters Friday that the big breakthrough came in the past two weeks as Secretary of State Cyrus Vance held intensive contacts with Arab and Israeli officials in New York. Both sides agreed on a basic format for the talks. It involves a single pan-Arab delegation encompassing the Palestinians, though the question of exactly how Palestinians will be represented is still being hammered out. Treaty conflict WASHINGTON (UPI) Conflict between the U.S. and Panamanian interpretation of the future U.S.

defense role in the Panama Canal apparently has begun to take its toll. President Carter conceded Friday that Senate ratification in and personally appealed for Democratic support for the treaties. The Democratic National Committee promptly praised the President, but did not endorse the agreements. Minimum wage WASHINGTON (UPI) Legislation packing a four-year, 48 per cent boost in the federal minimum wage for 4.7 million Americans has the Senate but awaits compromise with a more modest measure approved by the House. Senate passage of the minimum wage package Friday capped a victorious week for organized labor, which suffered several setbacks earlier in the The Senate rejected four separate plans to pay teenagers less than the minimum wage to encourage employment, then voted, 63-25, for legislation to boost the minimum wage to $3.40 an hour in 1981.

The current minimum wage is $2.30. Streets to rivers TURIN, Italy (UPI) New downpours hit flood-ravaged areas of northern Italy today, turning Genoa streets into rivers, cutting off the Alpine city of Aosta and swelling tributaries of the mighty river Po. The drowning death of a farmer near Asti raised the known death toll in three days of flooding to 10, with many more reported missing. Gentle but firm BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (UPD The West will be gentle but firm in demanding concrete commitments to improve human rights in the final report of the Belgrade conference, according to western diplomats. The coming 11 weeks of the conference on implementation of the 1975 Helsinki accords will see the participants engage in horse-trading on the contents of its final report, the diplomats said Friday.

Concorde barred WASHINGTON (UPI) The supersonic Concorde airliner has again been barred from making test landings at New Kennedy Airport, now that Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall has blocked a lower court ruling that would have permitted the tests On Friday Marshall accepted a request from the Port Authority of New York and Jersey, which operates the airport, and temporarily barred a decision in favor of the tests The situation will not change, Marshall said, until British Airways and Air France have a chance to respond Oct. 11. V. STEAK HOUSE The Herald, Saturday, October 8,1977 Chlorine gas covers area Thousands are evacuated Page 3 MIDLAND, Mich. (UPI) A liquid chlorine spill at a chemical plant Friday sent poisonous gas billowing over a five-by-three-mile area, forcing evacuation of schools and thousands of homes and injuring several persons, some seriously.

Bernard Lapp, a detective with the Midland County department, said authorities used buses, vans, police cars and we could get our hands to move the people to safety. Police evacuated more than 4,000 homes and four schools in an area spanning several miles and populated by an estimated people. Seven plant workers and a plumber working at the building Official gunned down in Spain Bv ARTHUR HERMAN MADRID, Spain (UPI) Attackers firing submachine guns killed the president of the Vizcaya Provincial Council and at least two of his bodyguards today in the Basque town of Guernica, police said. The official, Augusto Unceta- Barrenechea. was cut down as he left the local jai alai court after his weekly game of paddle hall, the national news agency Cifra said.

The agency first reported that the submachine-gun blasts killed three bodyguards, hut later said only two had died, while the third was gravely wounded The gunmen, believtnl by some witnesses to number three, fled on foot, according to some reports. They fired from a car. according to others The attack was carried out in the style of the Basque separatist band ETA, but no group immediately took responsibility The killing resembled the ETA assassination one year ago of the president of the assembly of the neighboring province of Juan Maria de Araluce. last official appearance in public came last Tuesday when he attended rites marking the anniversary of death in the city of San Sebastian. ETA considers such men as Araluce and Unceta, who worked within the authoritarian regime of late strongman Francisco Franco, to be enemies of the Basques where the leak occurred were hospitalized with chlorine inhalation.

All eight first were reported in serious condition, but by evening five had improved and were listed in fair condition. Twelve other persons, including a policeman, were treated and released and six school children were given oxygen but did not require hospital treatment About 30 gallons of liquid chlorine spilled from a pipeline at the huge Dow Chemical Co complex. A company spokesman said the spill was caused by broken bolts on an outdoor pipeline valve at theChlorAkali prwessing plant Although the spill was slopped within five minutes by shutting down other valves, the spilled chrlorine quickly formed a huge cloud that grew five miles long and three miles wide. Chlorine is used in a wide variety of industrial processes The green gas is poisonous. It irritates the eyes and respiratory system and can cause death Volunteer teams conducted a house-to-house search of four Midland County townships to determine if others could not escape the fumes About 350 youngsters were trapped in their school when the cloud took an unexjiected turn and enveloptKl the building Beverly Krenzke, at Bullotk Creek Middle Schm)l, south of Midland, said the children were hurried to a windowless gym and the four doors leading to the gym were sealed with tajx' There was no panic, she said, and the children quietly waited about an hour until the danger had passed The spill (K'curred shoftly before 10 a CDT Police and civil defense officials issued an all at about 2 p.m., when the fumes dissipated.

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