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Th Index-Journal, Or nwood, 8.C., Tu January 3, 1M9-13 Film director marries Leatherman. of former lover (Continued from page 9) paces the national rate by 10 percentage points. "This is one of the great tragedies in South Carolina, that we're losing almost one out of three of our young folks. What we're doing is dooming those people to a life of poverty, and in many cases, crime," Leatherman said. "A dropout can become a permanent economic burden to the state's economy." The senator said keeping teenagers in school also could help keep down the state's crime rate.

"Studies show that people without diplomas are more likely to commit crimes and delinquent acts," sister SEATTLE (AP) Film Director Peter Bogdanovich has married the younger sister of murdered Play- Doy magazine model Dorothv Stratten. a lawver representing I Bogdanovich said Monday. Stratten. a 198(1 i ear wno aciea in fX, a fUm directed by JL I Bogdanovich, was shot and killed by BOGDANOVICH her husband. Snider, in August 1980 in California.

The killing reportedly occurred after Snider learned his wife was having an affair with Bogdanovich. Bogdanovich, 49, married Louise Hoogstratten, 20, also known as L.B. Stratten, last Friday morning at a hotel in the Vancouver, British Columbia, area, said Joel R. Junker, a Seattle attorney who described himself as the director's immigration lawyer. The couple had planned a church wedding in Los Angeles later this spring, but married earlier in Canada on their advice of their lawyers, Junker said.

3 innocent charm of Ms. Stratten, whom he directed in her best-known film, "They All Laughed," a comedy with John Ritter, Audrey Hepburn and Ben Gazzara. In the mid-1980s, stories surfaced of a relationship between Bogdanovich and Ms. Stratten's younger sister. Louise Stratten filed a slander lawsuit against Hefner and Burl Eldridge, who was married to her mother from May 1980 to January 1981.

The suit contended Hefner and Eldridge falsely told reporters Bogdanovich had seduced Louise Stratten when she was 13 and also had sexual relations with her mother after the older sister was killed. The lawsuit also said Hefner and Eldridge claimed Bogdanovich had paid for Louise Suratten to have plastic surgery to make her look more like her late sister. Hefner also said Bogdanovich's published criticism contributed to a stroke he suffered. Louise Stratten dropped the lawsuit in August 1985 and Bogdanovich said at the time he hoped that resolution would end his feud with Hefner. Both men publicly made peace.

African student sentenced to prison without benefit of trial "That's so Mrs. Bogdanovich, who is a Canadian citizen, would be able to be with her husband in Los Angeles," Junker said in a telephone interview from his Seattle home. Bogdanovich, who directed "The Last Picture Show," "Paper Moon" and "Mask," has filed a petition to obtain permanent residence status for his wife in the United States, Junker said. Ms. Hoogstratten had been in the United States on a visitor's visa, the lawyer said.

He declined to provide any other details on the couple or the ceremony and said no statement was available from either Bogdanovich or his bride. Nelly Hoogstratten, Louise's mother, said on Vancouver television that she was not informed about the wedding. "I've cried before, and I cry now because I've lost another daughter," she said when interviewed on the doorstep of her home. Bogdanovich, in a book titled "The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten, 1960-1980," criticized Hugh Hefner's Playboy empire for its alleged role in events he said ended in Miss Stratten's death. In the book, Bogdanovich wrote of how he was captivated by the Gordon had1 taken out a $50,000 "key man" life insurance policy on McClary, designed to protect Carolina Alcohol from the death of an essential employee.

Officials told The State that Gordon was the only one required to have Absences (Continued from page 9) like any others. In nearby Spartanburg County, absentee rates were only slightly higher than normal, officials said. About 91 percent of the students attended, compared with an average attendance of 93 percent. Meanwhile in Horry County, schools reported results similar to Greenville County's. At Socastee, Loris, Conway and North Myrtle Beach high schools absences were up about 40 percent.

Other high schools in the area had higher than normal rates. "They probably took an extra day," said Thelma Sanders, a Tillman bust Leatherman said. He presented 1987 figures from a report on crime in South Carolina which showed 19,667 people between ages 15 and 18 committed some form of crime. He said about 60 percent of those were high school dropouts. The bill does provide some leeway in hardship cases, such as a student who isn't in school but who needs to be able to drive for employment or medical purposes.

"This is tough some will say harsh legislation designed to combat a tough problem," Leatherman said. "But the initial harships that this may cause are few compared to the problems dronouts create for our state." Bloody holiday brawl guest house on Dec. 26. The students had wanted to flee the east-central city for Beijing, but were stopped by police at Nanking's railway station. African students said about 400 Chinese police attacked them Saturday in the guest house and removed about half of them, returning some to their universities and sending others to another hotel.

The student witnesses said Chinese police beat and detained seven or eight of their classmates. One witness said police charged the students as loudspeakers broadcast platitudes about China's great friendship with African nations. Another said he saw about seven police beating one student from the Congo. Chinese news reports said only that a student from Ghana, Alex Dzabaku Dosoo, had been arrested and three other students held for questioning. No mention was made of a student from Benin.

But Mamah said officials from the Public Security Department in Beijing told him Sunday that He said AVLIS could be built in modules and phased in as market conditions dictate, eventually tak-' ing the full burden for fuel production from gaseous diffusion. AVLIS works on a fairly simple premise, but the engineering is complex. Uranium first is converted to a vapor by shooting electron beams at it. The vapor rises between two negatively charged plates. A specially tuned laser beam is shot Fugit iva (Continued Employee death BEIJING (AP) An African student from Benin has been summarily sentenced to 15 days in prison following a bloody Christmas Eve brawl between Chinese and Africans in Nanking, an African diplomat said today.

It was the first report that a second African had been formally arrested in connection with the brawl that left 11 Chinese and two Africans injured. The diplomat, Benin's first secretary. Go bo Bio Mamah, also 3 uoted African students as saying lat Chinese police stripped and tortured two students from Benin when they attacked 140 mostly African students at a guest house outside Nanking on Saturday. "We have heard that they were made to walk almost naked in the cold as police poked them with electric cattle prods," Mamah said. "They were doing this to make them talk.

It appears to be torture." The brawl at Nanking's Hehai University sparked five days of anti-black protests and resulted in most of the city's African students being forced by police to the Uranium (Continued from page 9) "AVLIS has all the attributes of the kind of technology the country is looking for," Merriman said. "It uses about 10 percent of the electricity of gaseous diffusion. It's very compact. And it's a hightech endeavor." Merriman said the various components of AVLIS have demonstrated they would work on a commercial scale. "It's now a question of getting the engineering done to make it work cheaply, so we can compete and build a plant," he said.

"I don't have any doubt we'll get there." The goal is to operate an AVLIS plant to enrich uranium at half the cost of current technology. Merriman estimates a commercial AVLIS plant with an output equivalent to that of the Paducah gaseous diffusion plant would cost about $1.5 billion to $2 billion and take eight or nine years to build. Leatherman said if approved, the bill would be retroactive. "I expect that unless they (dropouts) get back in school, that their license would be suspended." "To get a license you've got to be in school, and to keep a license you've got to stay in school," he said. Leatherman said he has discussed the measure with members of the state Highway Department.

"They see no problem in enforcing this anymore than suspending any other driver's license for any cause. It's simply a notification process." State Highway Commissioner Joseph Rideoutte was out of town and could not be reached for comment. student Ludovic Dossoumou had been sentenced without trial to 15 days in prison as "punishment." Chinese authorities in Beijing refused to specify Dossoumon's alleged crimes, he said. "They told me the authorities in Nanking were the only ones who could say anything," Mamah said. "This action is unacceptable." Chinese authorities at the Ministry of Public Security said they were "not clear" about the arrests.

A Ghanian diplomat said China had broken an agreement to keep the students at the guest house until a delegation representing nine African countries returned to Nanking. The delegation came to Nanking last Tuesday for negotiations, returned to Beijing and was planning to go again to Nanking later this week. The weeklong incidents in Nanking and in Hangzhou are the latest in a series of incidents between Chinese and China's 1,500 African students, brought here to demonstrate China's solidarity with the Third World. through the vapor, ionizing U-235 without ionizing the more prevalent U-238. Once ionized, the U-235 has a positive charge and is drawn to the negatively charged plates on either side.

To prevent the U-235 from building up on the plates and narrowing the gap between them, AVLIS heats the plates to the melting point of uranium, which is more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. from page 9) 1 (Continued from page 9) cent interview with The State. Blunt refused to name the suspect or the basis of his suspicions. He said if the State Law Enforcement Division were to reopen the case, "I would do everything I could to help them. I would have no qualms about it.

None." SLED spokesman Hugh Munn said Monday that Chief Robert Stewart was out of town until Tuesday, and that the agency still had not had time to look at The State report. He said he could not yet say whether the case would be reopened. The State said its report was based on a a seven-month examination of more than 3,000 pages of state and federal records, including some which were obtained through use of the Freedom of Information Act. McClary worked as head chemist at the Carolina Alcohol, controlled and operated by Gordon, which was to produce ethanol for use in a gasoline-based fuel known as gasohol. Bakkers (Continued from page 9) tions beginning in February.

"Next month we're lined up to go on even more channels in more cities, the major cities of America," Bakker said. "We bought time," Mrs. Bakker said. "We had a certain amount of money and that's all the time we could buy, and it's not a lot of money, but it got us back on the air and we are so grateful." Plane crash- (Continued from page 9) Parilla said the twisted wreckage could hamper investigators' efforts to determine the cause of the crash. "The plane was so badly dam- (Continued from page 9) write a history of the school.

He said he thinks "it's really fine" Tillman's image is back. The bust did not romanticize the physical features of the founder, who was missing an eye. Hollis said Tillman, in an 1885 speech in Bennettsville that began his agrarian political movement, said the state should establish schools for the training of farmers' children. Johnson was superintendent of schools in Columbia and started a small teachers' school there with a Peabody Fund grant in 1886. The school moved to Rock Hill with Tillman's help and was named after Robert C.

Winthrop, chairman of the Peabody Fund. Johnson was the college's first president. Tillman laid the cornerstone in 1894 for the school's main building, later named Tillman Hall. He was on the board of trustees until his death in 1918, Webb said. Hollis said Tillman was instrumental in making sure Winthrop got appropriate state funding "and anything it could from Washington." such coverage under terms of the guaranteed loans backing the venture.

The fact Gordon had been paid for the man's death was unknown to his financial backers or to the man's family, The State said. secretary at Myrtle Beach High School. "Their parents had an off day and they wanted to be with them." She also noticed several students leaving school between fourth and fifth periods, about 20 minutes before the beginning of the Citrus Bowl. "They just skidded out," she said. Tom Lewis, Conway High School principal, said he was not sure that starting later would have improved absentee rates.

Absences are usually higher the first day back from a vacation, he said. an Authorities said Dolce is white with a dark complexion, and has hair that was originally brown, but has been dyed black. Authorities said Dolce is a heavy drug user and often dresses as a woman. A spokesman for the "America's Most Wanted" show said Dolce is accused of beating his mother to death on May 2, 1986, in Trinidad, and setting fire to her home. Dolce was last reported seen in Pueblo, in August 1987, the spokesman said.

JJ a Info withheld on nuclear accident, papers show z7 fc ss SS I uuu aged, we can't tell anything from looking at it. The plane just nosed into the ground," he said. A witness reported the plane "just came straight down out of the sky," Parilla said. produced on farms in the area." The paper quoted John Dunstan, a former director of the state-run National Radiological Protection Board, as saying full details of the amount of radioactivity released in the accident were not disclosed to the board until 1986. The release of the information came in connection with an inquiry into increased childhood leukemia near the plant, now known as Sellafield.

The newspaper did not report the cause of the accident and made no mention of any deaths attributed to it. Macmillan's documents were made public by the Public Records Office under rules permitting publication of selected confidential papers after 30 years. Government papers made public a year ago said Macmillan also suppressed a report on Britain's worst ever nuclear accident at Windscale on Oct. 10, 1957. The report said the accident was caused by a fire.

Sales of milk from an area measuring more than 200 square miles around the plant were banned after a release of radioactivity. The accident caused no immediate deaths. The problem-plagued plant on the Irish Sea is one of the West's oldest commercial atomic power stations and largest nuclear reprocessing plants. It reprocesses used nuclear fuels from Britain and other countries to extract uranium and plutonium for making nuclear bombs. CE LONDON (AP) The private papers of former British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan show his government kept secret the details of a 1957 accident at an atomic power plant that contaminated milk at about 800 farms, according to a published report.

The release Sunday of Mac-millan's papers marked the first time full details have been revealed about the spring 1957 accident at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, northwest England. The papers were cited in a report by The Observer, a London newspaper. The papers show that Macmillan kept the information secret because he feared shaking public confidence in the industry and jeopardizing collaboration with the United States. The Observer cited the documents as saying the accident contaminated milk with high levels of strontium 90, a deadly isotope found in radioactive fallout. The newspaper said the milk was sold to the public without any warning.

In a secret memo to Macmillan on Sept. 12, 1957, Agriculture Minister John Hare estimated "800 or more farms may be affected" by an escape of strontium 90 and that "the readings on some of these farms have been many times higher than the national average," the Observer said. It said Hare also wrote that, no action was being taken "to prevent milk being consumed or Where the buyers are waiting to find out what you have to sell. Classified the marketplace off millions. call 223" 1 41 1 for Information THE INDEX-JOURNAL Phoenix Street at Fair Street, Greenwood, S.C.

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