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70th Year No. 98 Reagan continues to champion Iranian rights anise at snmniit Israel JERUSALEM (AP) Israeli troops shot and wounded nine Palestinians in clashes in the oc cupied lands as 70,000 Arab teen agers returned to school for the first time in four months to the dismay of militant Jewish set tiers. Israel radio quoted Arab sources as saying a Palestinian woman died in Sunday violence First lady 'grilled' by Soviet children The army denied the report. Car bomb tflj IimW i fjptm 1 fxT rv 1 III I I I QtL BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) A powerful car bomb exploded in a residential area of Christian east Beirut today. Police said the blast tore off the front of eight apart ment buildings, killed 15 people and wounded 68.

No group claimed reponsibility tor the car bomb, which exploded 500 yards from a branch office of President Amin Gemayel's right wing Phalance Partv. Police said the explosion may indicate that Moslem and Chris tian extremists have launched a new round of retaliatory car Leaders meet in 2nd round MOSCOW (AP) President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev held a second round of talks at the Kremlin today, followed by a dramatic effort by Reagan to champion the cause of human and religious rights during meetings at a monastery and with dissidents and refuseniks. Imploring Gorbachev to permit a new era of religious freedom, Reagan quoted Russia's re-revolutionary writer, Alexander Pushkin, and said: "It's time, my friend, it's time." To the several dozen dissidents and refuseniks and members of their families arrayed before him at the U.S. Embassy guesthouse, the president said: "I came here hoping to do what I could to give you strength." "But I already know it is you who have strengthened me.

You have given me a message to carry back: While we press for human rights through diplomatic channels, you press with your very lives, day in, day out, year after year, risking your jobs, your homes, your all." He said the United States "views human rights as fundamental, absolutely fundamental, to our relations with the Soviet Union and all nations." The president was applauded warmly. Reagan also expressed hopes for religious freedom in the Soviet Union, pointing out that thousands of homes of worship "are now closed, boarded up or used for secular purposes." The second day of summitry also was marked by a new air of optimism that agreement could be reached on two secondary arms-control pacts that had been stalled. Reagan attended a morning meeting with Soviet Communist Party General Secretary Gorbachev. He then paid a visit to to Moscow's oldest monastery, where he was greeted by bearded monks and the pealing of church bells. (See Reagan appeals, page 2) Dombings in Lebanon civil war.

Clemson fire CLEMSON (AP) State arson investigators have been called in to examine separate early morning fires that damaged the John 1 1 President Reagan, Mikhail Gorbachev discuss issues Refusenik family waited in vain for Reagan visit MOSCOW (AP) Nancy Reagan defended American students and their study habits today when she got a grilling during a mini-press conference with Soviet children at a prestigious middle school. "Do American children learn Russian?" queried one child in Russian as Mrs. Reagan fielded questions during an hour-long visit to School No. 29. All children at the school, which caters primarily to the children of high officials and Soviet intelligentsia, begin to study English at the age of 8.

Mrs. Reagan, clearly aware most Russian language studies in the U.S. are on the high school and college level, and that she was among the children of many privileged people, responded, "No, they don't." But then she parried, "Do all the Soviet children in every school here study English?" The children immediately broke out in loud argument, many insisting that, indeed, all Soviet children do learn English. Mrs. Reagan, who holds no press conferences and prefers to deal more informally with the press, was seated at the head of (See Mrs.

Reagan, page 2) uainuun mansion ana ae stroyed 12 apartments. Clemson University Fire Chief Jack Abraham said firemen were called to the Calhoun mansion round 2 a.m. Monday, where a flammable liquid had been used to start a fire. Abraham said the outside of the building was burned and scorched in two different locations, but the aware things had changed, the Zeimans prepared for a presidential visit. Vera and her mother, Tanya, put on their best dresses, baked a honey cake and tidied their tiny, three-room apartment.

Outside, about 300 local residents gaped at a swarm of Soviet police presence, the fresh paint on the Zeimans' apartment house and newly raked flower beds nearby. They waited around, since something unusual certainly seemed in the offing. (See Reagan, page 2) MOSCOW (AP) Twelve-year-old Vera Zeiman, an Orphan Annie look-alike with cherubic cheeks and frizzy curls, has been waiting nearly all her life to leave the Soviet Union. On Sunday, she waited in vain for President Reagan. Reagan had considered a private visit to Vera and her Jewish refusenik parents, but U.S.

sources said the drop-in was scrubbed after word filtered to White House planners it could hurt the Zeimans' chance to emigrate. Knowing they had no guarantee but un building sprinkler system ext inguished the blaze inside. No damage estimates were available, and salvage operations were underway as school officials tried to dry out the furnishings Seal epidemic SYLT, West Germany (AP) West German officials say they Nation pauses to honor soldiers Buses only block for budget panel do not think a remedy will quickly be found for a viral infection that has killed more than 300 North Sea seals this month. The seals have been infected by what some scientists think is a herpes virus. Since the beginning of May, 306 seals were found dead on the Danish coast and another 30 on this North Sea island.

Scientists from Denmark, West Germany and the Netherlands plan to meet this week in Kiel, West Germany, to attempt to determine what is killing the seals. Crime Industry talks continue By JIM JOYCE Managing editor Peter Arnoti, economic development director of the Greenwood Chamber of Commerce, recently returned from a trip to Japan, where he visited following an invitation from two Japanese companies that had visited Greenwood earlier. Arnoti also visited a third company that has shown some interest in the Greenwood area. "Greenwood has what they are looking for but in one case there is a concern about transportation," said Arnoti in respect to the lack of an interstate and the distance from a commercial airport. "We anticipate additional visits by these companies in the near (See Industry, page 2) today planned to wend its way through a pioneer cemetery to salute a 19th century madam called "the hooker with a heart of gold." And on Attu Island, Alaska, Americans and Japanese erected a monument that was to be dedicated to the thousands of soldiers from both sides of the Pacific who died there the site of the only World War II battle fought on North American soil.

A snowstorm in the Southwest stranded some campers in Cedar Breaks National Monument in Utah and whipped up waves that sank an unoccupied 60-foot houseboat on Lake Powell, authorities said. Temperatures in the 80s lured hundreds of thousands of sun-bathers to beaches from Massa- See War dead, page 2) By The Associated Press The mournful sound of buglers playing taps and the cadence of marchers in Memorial Day parades helped Americans remember those who died fighting for their country, while beaches and parks were packed with holiday revelers. A sea of fluttering American flags marked the 72,000 graves at Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, Ore. Officials planned ceremonies of remembrance today at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia and at the Vietnam Memorial in Washington. In Gettysburg, Gen.

William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. troops in Vietnam during the war, planned to speak after a parade honoring soldiers who died in the Civil War battle 125 years ago this summer. In Omaha, a brass band COLUMBIA (AP) The question of whether to lease or buy school buses was the only roadblock remaining today as the House and Senate negotiators attempted to reconcile their state spending proposals. The six members of the joint conference committee endorsed financing for the Charleston aquarium and for beach restoration as they worked nearly five hours on the 1988-89 state budget bill Sunday. The conference committee met again this morning and tried to finish drafting a compromise state budget to present to the House and Senate when they convene in a rare Memorial Day session.

However, the panel had not resolved the school bus issue after meeting for several hours this morning. The Senate earlier this month voted to maintain a $21 million lease-purchase agreement providing the state with 1,000 school buses. The House had voted to buy out the agreement and pay for the buses outright thereby saving the state approximately $4.1 million over the remaining four years of the contract. The House conferees came up with nearly $9 million for the buyout Sunday cutting spending in other areas of the budget ana asked the Senate conferees to come up with the remaining $12 million. "I don't know where to get any more money," responded Sen.

John Lindsay, Marlboro. The conferees agreed to ask the state treasurer's office, which (See Panel, page 2) I V', rsj'-''eJ WASHINGTON (AP) Theft or violent crime struck one out of every four American homes in 1987, about the same rate recorded in the previous two years, the Justice Department reported Sunday. The Bureau of Justice Statistics said 23.9 percent of white homes, 27.8 percent of black homes and 30.1 percent of Hispanic homes were hit last year by some sort of crime. The national average was 24 percent. Homes in the Northeast were the least affected, 19 percent, while those in the West were the most vulnerable, at 29 percent.

The rates were 25 percent in the Midwest and 24 percent in the South. Since the bureau began collecting crime data on a household basis in 1975, when crime struck one in three homes, the rates have never shown a year-to-year increase and dropped substantially over the longer term. Sports Several Greenwood players won singles or doubles titles Sunday in the Camp Happy Days junior tennis tournament. 12 Today's Living Three different crime novels will set readers on edge with their chilling, suspensful plots page 9. Investigators 'still checking9 Investigators continued to check out leads today in the May 15 disappearance of Malakia Zali Logan from the Georgetown Apartment Complex.

Chief Deputy Harold White said his department has nothing new to report. "We're still checking out leads," said White. Anyone who may have information regarding the case is urged to call search headquaters at 223-4389 or the sheriff's office' at 223-1288. From out of the past Memories of the past are revived by three photographs taken by W.W. Buckheister in the early 1940s.

The Voiselle Band gives a concert at the depot, top left, while a large crowd listens during a political rally, top right. At the left is the Amoco Service Station that occupied the site where the fountain is today..