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221 GREENWOOD, S.C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, OCTOBER 20, 1979 14 Pages 2 Sections 20 I Today El Salvador leader killed km SUH pkM by Cbattoe IMUdar Not a bomb park. A team of four divers brought the tank ashore. Police said the tank probably was dropped during the early 1940s when bombers had practice runs over Lake Greenwood. The lake level decreases this time of year. The tank was sported, one end resting on bottom and the other bobbing at the surface.

It was filled with water, but still in good condition. An object found in Lake Greenwood, which some thought might be a bomb, wai identified Friday as a drop tank, part of an airplane that carries extra fuel. Such a tank can be dropped whan a plane needs to get rid of extra weight. An explosive ordinance disposal detachment from the Naval Weapons Station in Charleston sent its bomb squad to assist local authorities in retrieving the object from the lake at Greenwood Shores near the state Frinks criticizes autopsy Most leftist leaders claim it is "nothing more than substituting new faces in the old regime." But in a surprise move Friday, two Marxist guerrilla groups the February 28 Popular Leagues and the People's Revolutionary Army announced support for the hew government. "The junta has shown goodwill and we are not going to fight it.

The burning of buses this morning and the bombing of three power plants were actions that could not be called off. But we are not going to repeat them." said a Popular Leagues spokesman, who asked not to be identified. "Political conditions are changing and there must be accomodation because insurrection can fail." the spokesman said. He said he also spoke for the People's Revolutionary Army, an affiliated organization. Execution set for Monday CARSON CITY.

Nev. (AP) Nevada death row inmate Jesse Bishop goes into isolation Sunday, the day before his scheduled execution, to give him time to decide once and for all whether he wants to appeal. Bishop, 46, convicted of killing a newlywed Baltimore, man in a Las Vegas casino holdup, has refused to appeal on his own. One last-minute legal maneuver by his unwanted defenders was rebuffed Friday by the U.S. Supreme Court.

However, a hearing was scheduled for today before Clark County District Court Judge Jim Brennan in Las Vegas on a petition filed by the American Civil Liberties Union seeking to delay the execution. The petition, part of a suit filed on behalf of 11 taxpayers, challenges the constitutionality of Nevada's death penalty statute. On Sunday, Bishop will be alone in his cell just 20 feet from the death chamber. There will be no family visits, no news interviews, and no outside phone calls with one exception. At any time during the day, he can ask one of the two guards constantly watching him to hand him the phone so that he can call a lawyer and ask that a stay be sought pending appeal.

Bob Lippold, superintendent of the maximum security prison where Bishop is being held and where the two-seat gas chamber is located, said the telephone access is being provided just in case the inmate changes his mind. Lippold said it's standard procedure to cut off the death row inmate from outsiders including family on his final day, so that "he has a chance to be alone, so he isn't reacting to other people, so he can genuinely have a chance to think this thing through. This is privacy he is entitled to." Bishop said in a final interview this week that he thinks the death penalty is unfair but he sees no point in filing a federal court appeal! because he would wind up in the death chamber eventually. And he said the stay would only make it harder on his family. The U.S.

Supreme Court voted 7-1 on Friday to reject an appeal on Bishop's behalf by a legal defense fund. SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) Guerrillas assassinated a top military commander and blew up two power plants as the nation's largest leftist group prepared to defy the new junta with a mass demonstration today in the capital city of San Salvador. Gunmen ambushed Col. Tadeo Martell, the armed forces inspector general, as he left his home Friday morning, an official source said. Martell died at a hospital several hours after the shooting.

The assassins scattered leaflets at the scene claiming guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti Popular Liberation Forces were responsible for the shooting. It is one of several leftist groups fighting to install a Marxist government in this Central American nation. Guerrillas also claimed responsibility for bombings Friday that destroyed the Mascota and Cucumacayan power plants on the outskirts of the capital as groups of masked youths torched 11 buses on city streets. Another power plant serving the capital was destroyed by a guerrilla bomb Thursday night. Today's demonstration was called by the Popular Revolutionary Bloc despite an official ban on public gatherings.

The bloc, an organization of peasants and workers that claims a membership of 30.000. has vowed to fight the new junta which seized power Monday in a bloodless coup, toppling the military-backed regime of President Carlos Humberto Romero. The junta, with two military officers and three civilians, has appealed for an end to political violence and promised economic and social reforms and eventual elections. U.S. checks Soviet offer in Europe WASHINGTON (AP) The United States is quietly pursuing a Soviet offer to reduce missiles aimed at Western Europe if no new American missiles are deployed there.

A senior American official disclosed a U.S. request for clarifications during a news briefing held Friday night on the condition that he not be identified by name. Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev unveiled the proposal on Oct. 6.

He said he was willing to reduce Soviet medium-range missiles if no new U.S. missiles are deployed in Western Europe. President Carter reacted coolly to Brezhnev's proposal at a news conference Oct. 9, calling it "an effort to disarm the willingness or eagerness of our allies adequately to defend themselves." Similarly, the senior official said Friday the Russians were trying to "trade a rabbit for a horse." But he then went on to disclose the U.S. request for clarifications thereby indicating the Carter administration is giving Brezhnev's proposal some consideration.

Specifically, the official said the State Department is asking the Soviets how many nuclear-tipped rockets are now targeted on Western Europe, their locations in the Soviet Union and whether they would be pulled back beyond their range. Movie cancelation COLUMBIA (AP) Sen. Strom Thurmond, was instrumental in having showings of the controvesial film "Monty Python's Life of Brian" canceled at a Columbia theater, according to a minister. The film, regarded by some as a spoof on the life of Christ and by others as blasphemous, was canceled indefinitely Friday at the Columbia Mall Cinema. The Rev.

Bill Soloman, a Presbyterian minister in suburban Irmo, credited Thurmond with having the film stopped. "I called Mrs. Thurmond and informed her about the decadent nature of the film and she called the senator," Soloman said. "Sen. Thurmond then called General Cinemas, distributors of the film, and asked them to stop showing it in South Carolina," the minister adder! Murder conviction I WATERBURY, Conn.

(AP) An attorney for construction worker Lome J. Acquin says be will appeal his client's murder conviction in the bludgeoning deaths of a woman and eight children. On the third day of deliberations, a Superior Court jury Friday found Acquin guilty in the deaths of his foster brother's wife, Cheryl Beaudoin, 29, Beaudoin's seven children ad a visiting youngster. The children ranged in age from 4 to 11. The slayings the morning of July 22, 1977, was the worst mass murder in Connecticut history.

Defense attorney John Williams said Friday the appeal would be based on an alleged confession Acquin signed but later repudiated. Drug bust LEXINGTON. C. (AP) Acting on a tip, authorities seized a suitcase containing $50,000 worth of drugs and arrested three men at the Columbia Metropolitan Airport, Lexington County Sheriff James R. Metts said.

The suitcase, seized Thursday, had about 10,000 tablets of Quaalude, a controlled substance used as a depressant, Metts said. Charged with illegally possessing the tablets were Steven Masiello, 28, of South Palm Beach, and Harvey Eugene BAckham, 32, and Ronnie Thomas Carter, 31, both of Lancaster, S.C. Murder arrest CHARLESTON AP) Richard Allen Parchinski, 25, was charged Thursday with sexually assaulting and strangling a woman whose nude body was found beside a railroad track in April. Police said Parchinski was arrested at his home on multiple charges as a result of the death of 22 year-old Emily Rebecca Strider April 20. Wyeth collection GREENVILLE (AP) More than 230 water colors, sketches and other works by Andrew Wyeth have been acquired by Arthur and Holly Magill, in what the retired textile executive called "a mind-boggling coup." The Magills of Greenville, S.C, announced the acquisition Friday and said the collection would be indefinitely loaned to the Greenville County Museum of Art.

The works, many of them used by Wyeth in later paintings, chronicle his nearly 30-year relationship with the Olson family of Cushing, Maine. They date from 1938, when Betsy James, who later married Wyeth, introduced the artist to the Olsons. Police reinstatement AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) An Augusta police officer who was snt 13 fnr his involve ment in a fatal shooting, was reinstated Friday and will receive all back pay. Chief of Police A.L.

Scott said. Officer Louis Parrilla, 29, was suspended without pay after Sherman Dukes, 17, was shot to death. On Sept. 26, a Richmond County coroner's jury asked for a grand jury investigation of the shooting. Taiwan earthquake TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) An earthquake measuring 5.1 on the Richter scale jolted northern Taiwan today but there were no immediate reports of casualties or damage, the national weather bureau reported.

A spokesman said the quake was centered at sea about 25 miles off the northeast coast of Taiwan. The Richter scale is a measure of ground motion as recorded on seismographs. Every increase of one number means a tenfold increase in magnitude. CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) A civil rights official says preliminary autopsy findings that Mickey McClinton was not lynched won't end the investigation into the black teenager's death.

Golden Frinks, field secretary for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, called the findings of Friday's autopsy "double malarkey" and "lousy." Dr. Robert M. Brissie, a Medical University of South Carolina pathologist who performed the 6Vihour autopsy, said indications were that McClinton bled to death after being struck by a car last May 11. Concurring with Brissie's opinion was Korea jails SEOUL, South Korea (AP) Nearly 500 demonstrators were arrested as President Park Chung-hee's troops and police battled anti-government protesters in the fourth-straight night of violence in southern South Korea. Witnesses said nearly 2,000 demonstrators, including high school and college students and factory workers, roamed the coastal city of Masan on Friday night, attacking security forces and government buildings with a hail of stones.

Park's security forces countered with tear gas and mass arrests, the Frank N. Linsolata, vice president controls group of Midland-Ross, presents iSv McClinton "was alive and most probably standing at the time he was struck," said Brissie. "This does not eliminate the possibility that he was intentionally struck by an automobile." the pathologist added. Frinks said, "There was hedging on the part of the pathologists. The investigation is not over.

If anything, it is intensified." "I believe the young man was drugged, that they broke his jawbone, that they addled him and then stood him up in the road and they hit him with a car," the SCLC official said. A crowd of about 20 blacks, including Frinks. watched the hour-long exhumation of McClinton's body Friday morning. Frinks admitted Thursday that he promoted other civil rights causes in the Chester area by repeating a rumor in the community that McClinton had been castrated. He said he stopped spreading the rumor after he learned that it could not be substantiated.

"I used it two or three times as motivation," Frinks said. "I said that Mickey was castrated and we got to stop that. (But) I got away from that I had to very abruptly change course." The civil rights worker said he got the story from a small Chicago newspaper when he came to Chester in late August. Frinks said his goal was to learn how McClinton died. "We are just em and in-they find the killer," he added.

plant opening ceremonies Friday. 1," the plant manager said. The facility is now operating at about 5 percent of its expected total volume, producing small quantities of a large variety of items. Five to 10 percent of the projected total workforce is on the compny payroll now, Barthauer said, with plans to eventually hire "several hundred." The parts being produced at the Greenwood plant are being shipped to Urbana. Ohio, for assembly, but assembly operations will begin here sometime next year, he said.

Dr. Robert Reddick of Chapel Hill, N.C. The black pathologist from the University of North Carolina had been asked by the SCLC to observe the autopsy to allay fears of a coverup. McClinton, 18. of Chester, was killed in what Chester County authorities said was a hit-and-run accident.

But some blacks in Chester said the young man was lynched and sexually mutilated because he was dating a white girl. Brissie said preliminary results "did not confirm allegations that he was lynched with a rope, castrated and then his tongue was cut out." protesters witnesses said. Demonstrators began gathering on downtown streets several hours before the 10 p.m. to 4 a.m. curfew imposed on the city after rioting there Thursday night in which 200 persons were reported arrested and several government buildings were damaged.

Witnesses said the city was calm by the time the curfew began. Park poured troops into Masan, 175 miles south of Seoul, on Friday to reinforce local police. The government also shut down the city's two colleges and limited high school hours. Plant ceremonies of the mechanical the American flag to two employees at for aircraft of all varieties. "We sell fixtures to all aircraft manufacturers in the free world," said Plant Manager Thomas Barthauer.

All operators of airlines buy replacement parts from Grimes, he said. There is a good chance, he said, that the flashing red or white lights, visible at night, on any given aircraft passing overhead are made by the division. Though the plant was officially opened Friday, "we turned the machines on Oct. few wji mr A 11 Wl I Jimmy Carter dedicates John F. Kennedy library BOSTON AP) Evoking the spirit of John F.

Kennedy to meet the challenges of the 1980s, President Carter today dedicated the late president's library amidst ripe memories of Camelot. "The essence of President Kennedy's message the appeal for unselfish dedication to the common good is more urgent than ever," Carter said. "The spirit he evoked the spirit of sacrifice, of patriotism, of unstinting dedication is the same spirit that will bring us safely through the adversities we face," he said. The president, recalling the "time of darkness" that began with Kennedy's assassination, said: "We have undertaken a solemn commitment to heal those wounds, and at long last the darkness has begun to lift. I believe that America is now ready to meet the challenges of the 1980s with renewed confidence and a refreshed spirit." The speech, which Carter finished writing at 11 p.m.

Friday, according to press secretary Jody Powell, was one of the more eloquent of his administration. It made no reference open or veiled to the likely fight he faces against Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the slain president's younger brother, for the Democratic presidential nomination next year. Rather, it was filled with references to the ideals of the John F.

Kennedy ad ministration. "He summoned our -nation out of complacency and set it on a path cf excitement and hope," Carter said in remarks prepared for delivery at the modern building on the banks of the Boston Harbor. But, said Carter, times are different: "President Kennedy was right: change is the law of life. The world of 1980 is as different from that of 1980 as the world of 1960 was from that of 1940. Our efforts to improve that world must be different as well." Carter reminisced about that day in November 1963 when Kennedy was killed in Dallas.

"I remember that I climbed down from a tractor, unhooked a farm trailer, and walked into my warehouse to weigh a load of grain, and was told by a group of farmers that the president had been shot. "I went outside on the steps and began to pray. In a few minutes. I learned that be had not lived. It was grievous personal loss.

My president. I wept openly, for the first time in more than 10 years for the first time since the day my father died." Carter and Sen. Kennedy were among the dignitaries at the dedication of the $21 million, nine-story library. The former president's children. Caroline and John, youngsters when their father was snot in Dallas almost 16 years ago.

were also among speakers scheduled to address thousands of guests. Midland-Ross holds plant opening Ribbon-cutting ceremonies and the raising of a specially designed Midland-Ross flag were part of opening ceremonies Friday at the new Midland-Ross, Grimes Division manufacturing plant on Airport Road. Industry and government officials gathered at 10 a.m. Friday for a tour of the plant before the activities celebrating the official opening of the plant. Midland-Ross, Grimes Division manufactures external lighting equipment.