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Pag 2A Tha Star-Democrat Monday, October 12, 1881 attacked Egyptian official UU.1UUUIV WorldNews and told reporters to leave. Reporters who drove by his house Sunday night saw no evidence ot damage but. security men prevented reporters from getting a close look. The police sources had said the at-1 tack occurred late Saturday or early Sunday and that some of Ismail's security men were killed. The attackers escaped, according to the report.

They also said there were armed attacks on at least two police stations in Cairo, and a shootout between police and Moslem fundamentalists barricaded Inside a Cairo mosque. Security sources, meanwhile, said they were seeking at least two other suspects in the assassination of Sadat last Tuesday. Ismail called a news conference minutes after the report of the Military f.A Sh- 17M CAIRO. Egypt (AP) Egyptian police sources said Sunday that gunmen in two cars sprayed machine gun fire at the home of Interior Minister Nabawy Ismail, killing an undetermined number of his bodyguards Ismail told a news conference the report was "completely a lie." The police sources said the attack occurred hours after the funeral on Saturday of President Anwar Sadat. Egyptians mourn Sadat's slaying CAIRO, Egypt (AP) Barred from the funeral of Anwar Sadat to ensure the security of foreign dignitaries, Egyptians were allowed for the first time Sunday to visit the place where their president died and was laid to rest Children poked curious fingers into the bullet holes and their fathers shook their heads and asked how it could have happened.

A few women wore black and someone had a tape of the fatal gunfire. It was the first time authorities allowed the everyday citizens to inspect the bullet-scarred reviewing stand where Sadat was cut down last Tuesday by assassins identified by the government as a renegade army officer and three men masquerading as soldiers in the annual military parade. Authorities say the killers are linked to a cell of Islamic extremists and security sources told The Associated Press on Sunday that at least two more suspects were being sought Fathers lifted toddlers into their arms and allowed them to push their fingers Into the holes the bullets left in the marble face of the parade stand. Visitors paced off the 35 yards to the place where the truck had stopped. Slaim al Labad, had a recording of the gunfire.

Home again. White House Press Secretary Jim Brady, who was shot In the bead during the attempt on the life of President Reagan last March, holds his son Scott, age 24 while paying a visit to his home in Arlington, Va. Saturday. hospital since the shooting and has undergone Braay nas oeen in we nos several operations. i 82 Iranian leftists executed Junkyard nun gets help BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Ira nian firing squads executed 82 leftists, including key leaders of the guerrilla opposition to Ayatollah KUholiah Khomeini, Tehran Radio said Sunday.

It also reported Iranians at the ho ly city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, clashed with Saudi police who were trying to break up a rally showing loyalty to the 81-year-old Iranian patriarch. The state-run radio said 73 members of the Mujahedeen Khalq and other leftist groups were ex ecuted Saturday night in Tehran on charges of holding demonstrations, against the Islamic republic, bank robbery and possession of arms and explosives. It said nine more members of the Islamic-Marxist guerrilla group were put to death in four other cities on similar charges. attack on his house, but later refused to field questions. took reporters on a tour of his offices and, In the process, said there was no at-.

tack on his house. He characterized the report, from sources whose reports in the past have been accurate, as "completely a lie, don't believe it." Then he said there would be no news conference, ii APUMrphoto of late an President Anwar Unknown Warrior In Nassar City in for the funeral of the assassinated WINONA, Minn. AP) The story of a former Franciscan nun living in a car in a downtown Winona junkyard has triggered telephone calls, letters, hundreds of dollars in Contributions and offers to make her life the subject of a movie. One week after the story of Lillian Krai, 53, the former Sister Elzear, made national headlines. 50 telephone calls and 100 letters have arrived in this southeastern Minnesota city, along with about 25 'Checks totaling several hundred "dollars One letter containing a $25 check was addressed to "The Junkyard Nun," in Winona.

The money, and fears that it would attract robbers, prompted the former nun to open a bank account, although she says she'll give most of it away. "I'm not one for a lot of she said. "I'll give it to the pope." The former Sister Elzear has been living in a Plymouth Duster by makeshift plywood and aluminum walls since March 1980, when she was evicted from the convent here on grounds of insubordination. She spends her days rummaging through garbage cans and gutters in search of table scraps. She collects cans and other scrap metal that can be turned in to a recycler for cash.

And she continues her battle to be reinstated in the order of the Sisters of St. Francis. cubes. Each face of the large cube has nine small squares in six colors. The object is to rotate the little cubes until they make each face of the big cube the same color.

Ueno plans to compete at the world championships next year in Hungary. After working at realigning cubes for a full year, Oeno is confident about his prospects. "I average 26 seconds when I use my cube, and I think I'll be pretty competitive at the world championships since I "1 was told second time," Ten blind specially puzzles, in Sunday's Takenorl took top blind unscrambling 1 minute, "I picked for Mm half a year almost skill by my friends, More registered people who puzzle Thatcher condemns IRA bombing A horsedrawn caisson with the body Sadat passes by DC then huge Tomb of the tne outskirts leader here. the outskirts of Cairo Saturday heading i exerctses planned WASHINGTON (AP) -The United States will conduct a major military exercise with Egypt and other Arab forces within the next month as "sign of reassurance in the post-Sadat situation," Secretary of State Alexander M. Halg Jr.

said Sunday. Haig said the military exercise following Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's assassination last week will include "a highly increased U.S. presence" that may feature the use of American B-52 bombers. "U.S. force in the regions would be working in conjunction with the forces of the government of Egypt and other governments such as Oman," he said.

The exercise and the possibility of speeding delivery of U.S. arms already scheduled to go to Egypt were discussed last week by Defenese Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Egyptian Defense Minister Abdel Hadim Abu Ghazala, Haig said. "Now all of this is a sign of reassurance," he not an indication of concern about Egypt's stability after Sadat's assassination. Haig, interviewed in Cairo on NBC's "Meet the Press" program from Washington, said he does not anticipate warfare between Egypt and Libya. Social Security trouble predicted BALTIMORE (AP President Reagan has merely postponed tackling already well-understood pro blems With the Social Security pro1-1 gram, when he should instead be taking immediate action to ensure its' solvency, says a top Social Security Administration official who retired earlier this month.

"As I see it, the president simply proposed (his plan) to get himself out of a. difficult situation and to postpone getting down to brass tacks until after the next election," said Dwight Bartlett, former chief actuary for the Social Security program. Bartlett, who left a job with Monumental Life Insurance Co. three years ago to take the SSA job, said he was "totally flabbergasted" when the proposed setting up still another study group. "The problems are well understood.

We don't need another study group. It's time to fish or cut bait on this issue," he said in an interview published Sunday in the Baltimore Sun. in two minutes are on the rolls' of the Japan Cubist Club, said Eiji Sugita of Tukuda Original, which manufactures the puzzles in Japan. Young Kennedy to marry NEW YORK tAP) Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

plans to marry here next year and either join a prestigious Park Avenue law firm or ac cept an offer from one of several law enforce ment agencies, ac cording to the New York Dally News. The newspaper said Kennedy, 27, who will graduate from the University of Virginia Law School in May, plans to wed 'Emily Black, 24, a Phi Beta Kappa from the Univer- sity of Indiana, sometime around St. Patrick's Day, possibly in St. Patrick's Cathedral. "We haven't picked the church yet but we definitely will be married on a Sunday and I love St.

Patrick's Cathedral." said the son of the late Robert Kennedy. Kennedy will formally announce his wedding LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Margaret'Thatoheron Sunday looks flowers to the soldiers and civilians wounded by the IRA's bomb attack on a busload of Irish Guards and condemned the bombing as a "cold, callous, brutal and sub-human thing." "I shall never, never give them political status never," Mrs. Thatcher said of the outlawed Irish Kepuoucan Army, wnicn claimed responsibility for Saturday's deadly bombing. Scotland Yard said the attack, which came exactly one week after the collapse of the IRA's 7-month- long hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison, could signal the start of a new terror campaign in the British capital. Shoplifting operation uncovered APLatarnMo Former Franslscan nun Lillian Krai stands In front of her junkyard home in Winona, Minn.

Since a story about her living quarters de national headlines, she has recleved calls, letters and checks from across the country. Among those executed in Tehran was the main culprit in the May 8 assassination of Parliament deputy Hassan Ayat and several "important information experts" of the Mujahedeen Khalq, the radio said. This brings to 1,328 the number of Khomeini opponents executed in Iran since the June 22 ouster of secular-minded President Abolhassan Bani-Sadr. During that same period, the government has blamed the Mujahedeen for bombings and assassinations that have killed more than 300 top Khomeini loyalists. In France, Massoud Rajavi, the exiled leader of Mujahedeen Khalq, said nearly 100 supporters In Iran had been dragged, from their hospital beds and executed last week.

Guerrillas, using a command wire attached to a van set off the explosion as a bus carrying 23 Irish uuaros pack irom duty at tne lower of London passed by; authorities RAM A 62-year-old widow passerby was killed and 38 other people, Including 22 of the guardsmen and two children aged 2 and were wounded in the shower of nails from the bomb and glass and debris flying from nearby buildings. Witnesses said nails pierced some of the victims in the face, head and body. Thirteen people, including 10 soldiers and the wife of one of them. were still hospitalized Sunday. A Defense Ministry spokesman said tw9 of the soldiers were in serious condition.

Seven oeoDle have been charged, and more charges are expected, he said. Goods worth about $2,000 were recovered, he said. Investigators said the items usual1 ly were stolen by three people working together, with one, person going through a check-out line with a small item while another outside pushed open the "in" door to let the third member of the group exit with a loaded shopping cart. floats across US Chicken laid eggs In two previous attempts to float across the country. Last year.

New Mexico mining company executive Maxle Anderson and his son, Kris, made history by Dllotlns their helium-filled Kitty Hawk across North America. The Andersons, who started their night in San Francisco, had honed to land in Kitty Hawk, N.CU to mark the historic flight dfrthe Wright brothers, but were blown off course and landed in Canada. i The 10-storv-hlsh Super Chicken, so dubbed for its egg-shaped gondola, touched down at 11:07 a.m. EDT on Blackbeard Island, lust south of here, said Robert Nevins of the Federal Avlatlqn Administration's Jacksonville, Fla. Regional Control Center.

veteran George Jones, the flashy oak Kidge Boys and big-seiimg Kenny Rogers. Miss Mandrell's competition for female vocalist of the year' are newcomer Terri Gibbs, 1980 winner Emmvlou Harris, veteran Loretta Lynn and Anne Murray, whose style often crosses over to pop, audiences. Finalists for top male vocalist include four former winners Jones, Ronnie Mtisap, Rogers and Don wunams plus veteran wuue Nelson, i Up for 'single of the year are "Elvira" by the Oak Ridge Boyi, "I Believe In You" by Williams, "Old Flame" by Alabama, "Somebody's Knockln'" by Miss Gibbs, as well as I was country. RUBIK'S CUBE Teen completes three puzzles 13.8 -PLUS- NEW $-200 Rebate Through Nov. 11 OKEMAH, Okla.

(AP) In vestigators here say they may have uncovered a "shopping-by-shoplifting" operation in which people placed orders for goods they wanted stolen, down to sizes and colors. David Hardin, Okemah police chief, said Saturday that as much as $10,000 in merchandise has been stolen In eastern Oklahoma in an apparent organized effort over the past four months. Super chicken SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) A helium balloon bearing the unlikely name of Super Chicken III breezed across the United States and 4anded off the Georgia coast on Sunday in the first non-stop balloon flight from one end of the country to the other. "The champagne is flowing, we're celebrating a World Series of our own," said Chris Van Elk, who monitored the flight of the two-man craft from the flight operations center in Scottsdale, Ariz.

He said pilot John Shoecraft and co-pilot Fred Gorrell, both businessmen from Phoenix, Slanned to "celebrate a little and ten get some rest." "They were in the air 55 hours, 25 minutes and they traveled 2,515 miles," said Van Elk. Earlier versions of the Super CAR FINANCING that the 30-. mark is the cutting Ueno said. cubists, using designed competed contest. Ikeda, 17, honors among contestants by a cube in 27.3 seconds.

up the cube first time about ago, and I've mastered the playing it with said. than 20,000 cubists have solved -the at least once TOKYO (AP)-More than 100 veteran cubists gathered Sunday to twist, turn and puzzle over a puzzle and an 18-year-old student came out the winner. A cubist is an expert or would-be expert at solving Rubik's Cube, a multi-colored puzzle that has bewildered millions. Kenichi Ueno, 18, a high school senior from northern Japan, won the Japanese title in the adult division-by putting three cubes In order in 2 minutes, 8.1 seconds. The cube is composed of 27 smaller, movable Oh All unvt I Top country stars chosen today Available For Limited Time Only 1 no 1 I inni aoi anu iroi rroni nneei Pontiacs Including The Phoenix Starting From.

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