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Liverpool riots,
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From AP and UPi
LONDON - Street violence spread
from Liverpool to the neighboring in-
dustrial center of Manchester yester-
day and in a London suburb at least,
four people were reported injured when
hundreds of screaming youths attacked
police.
Authorities reported Liverpool was
quiet after three nights of England's
worst rioting in 200 years. They said a
crowd of about 150 whites and blacks
was dispersed without violence, but
there were 26 arrests.
FIVE DAYS OF rioting born of
frustration over the nation's highest
unemployment since the 1930's and the
alienation of youths born to West In-
dian, Pakistani or Indian parents have
left hundreds injured and caused
millions of dollars worth of damage.
"They were going mad - shouting,
breaking up everything they could,"
said Soul Liasi, manager of a plundered
hamburger shop, ii London. "It was not
racial, just pure hooliganism. They
want excitement and they want to
destroy things. They are not short of
money."
"CHILDREN ARE great copiers,"
England
Liverpool police chief Kenneth Oxford
said when he criticized parents for
allowing children as young as eight to
take part in rioting and looting.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
was expected to address the problem in
a nationally televised address
scheduled for last night. Opposition
members of Parliament have claimed
her government helped cause the riots
by cutting jobs and aid to cities.
The worst of the latest violence was in
Wood Green, a North London suburb
not considered a blighted area but one
with a large immigrant population.
Scotland Yard said four people were in-
jured, including one man whose throat
was slashed, as hundreds of black
youths, joined by some whites, hurled
rocks, bricks, bottles and gasoline
bombs at police. Police reported 50
arrests.
In Manchester, 280 miles northwest of
London, about 200 young blacks looted
and burned buildings in the rundown
Moss Side district yesterday. There
were seven arrests but no reported in-
juries. Manchester Chief Constable
James Anderton stressed that the ram-
page "was not a race riot."
In Brief
Compiled from Associated Press and
United Press International reports
Carter breaks silence to
criticize Reagan policies
ATLANTA-Former President Carter has broken 5 months of silence on
his successor, saying some of President Reagan's budget cuts are ill-advised
and his "unwillingness " to negotiate arms control could be dangerous.
The former president told his former Cabinet officers and senior White
House aides that some of Reagan's proposed budget cuts "are compatible
with our own policies."
Others, said the letter, "are an abrupt departure from the commitment of
our nation to a better and more productive life for Americans not strong
enough or able enough to wi these opportunities for themselves."
The reductions in federal spending will lead to an "inevitable increase in
state and local taxes," Carter said. "... Someone will have to pay the bill for
that portion of the programs which will survive because of public demand."
Toxic shock can strike men
LOS ANGELES-A Southern California public health expert says toxic
shock syndrome-linked to the deaths of 87 women who used tampons-is
turning up in men with common infections and is far more widespread than
first believed.
"Toxic shock is not just a vaginal disease and not just a female disease,"
said Dr. Shirley Fannin, chief of communicable diseases for the state Depar-
tment of Health Services.
Dr. Fannin said people of any age with such diverse conditions as an infec-
ted toe or sore throat are now seen as possibly having different versions of
toxic shock syndrome.
The tampon connection is an accurate one, she said, but, it is not an ex-
clusive requisite for toxic shock.
Polish dockworkers protest
and airline strike planned
WARSAW, Poland-Thousands of dockworkers closed Baltic ports for an
hour yesterday ina warning strike and Solidarity unionists at Polish airlines
went ahead with plans to strike today.
The dockworker strike-to protest working conditions-prompted some
government officials to warn of a hard-line backlash at the crucial Com-
munist Party Congress due to open next week. Following the protest, dock-
workers threatened a "proper strike" would be set if the government did not
meet their demands by next Wednesday.
The new labor unrest is the first major worker protest here since March
when millions of workers staged a four-hour, nationwide warning strike over
the beating of three union members in Bydgoszcz, northwest Poland.
Iran's border sealed to
prevent Bani-Sadr's escape
BEIRUT, Lebanon-Iran reinforced patrols along its closed western bor-
der with Turkey yesterday to prevent the escape of former President
Abolhassan Bani-Sadr, who officials said is being sheltered by separatist
Kurds.
A spokesman for Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's revolutionary police
command, known as the Kommiteh, told The Associated Press in Beirut by
telephone that authorities were now certain Bani-Sadr is hiding in the nor-
thwestern Iranian province of Kurdistan.
The area is largely inhabitied by non-Persian Kurds, who are members of
the minority Sunni Moslem sect and who are seeking autonomy for the
region.
The spokesman, who declined to be named, said Bani-Sadr had close
relations with Abdul-Rahman Ghassemlou, head of the outlawed Kurdish
Democratic Party, and Abd Massoud Rajavi, leader of the Islamic-Marxist
underground Mujahedeen Khalq.
The Mujahedeen group has 'engaged in an urban guerrilla war against
Iran's ruling fundamentalist Moslem clergy since Parliament impeached
Bani-Sadr June 21. He was removed from office the next by Khomeini.
Calif. Gov. Brown's staff
faces criminal investigation
SACRAMENTO, Calif.-A state commission formally called for a
criminal investigation of Gov. Edmund Brown Jr.'s staff yesterday, ac-
cusing his top aides of destroying and altering evidence in a political corrup-
tion probe.
The Democratic governor was not personally named as a target of the
requested investigations by the Sacramento and Los Angeles county district
attorneys, but at least a half-dozen top state and campaign aides were.
Brown's press secretary, Cari Beauchamp, refused comment on the
allegations. Neither Brown nor any other top aide was available to reporters
or returning telephone calls.
The commission's seven-month investigation stemmed from allegations in
a Los Angeles Times story that Brown's top aides had used a computer paid
for withstte fpnds to compile and maintain oiticalailing list .
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