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year there were about 680,000 abortions in Japan. The Yugoslav-born Roman Catholic nun arrived Wednesday for a weeklong visit at the invitation of the association and Japanese branch of the World Conference on Religion and Peace. Col. Charles Beckwith, who led the aborted mission to free the American hostages in Iran a year ago, is resigning from the Army because he has been transferred to a "boring desk job" since the attempt, according to a newspaper report. Beckwith told the New York Post in Washington, "I don't know what I'm going to do with my life.

I'm very confused." He said he has had nothing challenging to do since he was transferred from the Army's anti-terrorist Joint Special Operations Command to Fort Bragg, N.C. Beckwith said he may move with by her brother, Robert People Nobel peace laureate Mother Teresa criticized in the Japan "terrible Friday, number" abortions" that an a affluent nation permitting so many abortions "must be a poor country." Mother Teresa, known as Saint of the Gutters" for her work among India's spoke to Teresa poor, about 600 women attending a family planning conference. Takako Homma, president of the anti Family Life Association of Japan which sponsored the conference, said that last Fern Dalton is consoled Woman claims she gave birth in chains LOS ANGELES (AP) A former jail inmate is suing the Los Angeles County sheriff for $10 million, claiming she was forced to give birth while chained to a hospital bed. The lawsuit was filed two years to the day after Fern Dalton gave birth to a healthy baby girl, also named Fern. It alleges the former inmate of the Sybil Brand Institute went through labor and delivery manacled and handcuffed to a bed because the deputy who had the key to the chains could not be found.

Sheriff Peter J. Pitchess, the defendant in the lawsuit, had no comment immediately, according to Deputy Chet Ballew. Ballew said the department could not comment until reviewing the allegations. He said he did not know if or when such a review would take place. Dalton's attorney, Gloria Allred, said the sheriff reversed his policy of chaining women while in labor after a petition was filed in court last July challenging the practice.

AT THAT TIME, Pitchess denied any woman had given birth in chains, a statement that prompted Dalton to look for a lawyer. "I felt like I was being sacrificed, I'll never forget it," Dalton recalled. God brought me through it and I had accepted it. But when I saw in the paper that the sheriff denied that any woman had gone through the whole birth process in chains, when I saw that lie, I had to speak out." Dalton, 38, of Los Angeles, filed suit in Superior Court Thursday, her daughter's second birthday. She is unemployed.

She has two older sons by a marriage that ended in divorce, was unmarried when she gave birth two years ago and is now unmarried. "The doctor was so angry he had tears in his eyes he had told them to leave the key in the drawer," Dalton recalled Thursday. Allred said that because of heavy metal chains wrapped around her client's ankles and the bedposts, it was impossible for Dalton to move into the necessary delivery positions. The attorney said she has not yet spoken to the doctor and did not know whether officials considered trying to cut the chains. Dalton, who said she is the daughter of a Navajo chief, said she had been considered a high-risk maternity patient because she had a predisposition to uterine cancer.

No cancer has developed. She said her doctor had ordered her transferred to an operating room for a Caesarean section. Because the deputy could not be found, Dalton had to "undergo a painful vaginal birth" in her bed at the Los Angeles County Medical Center, Allred said. "That Fern Dalton was subjected to this gross deprivation of her civil rights is inexcusable," Allred said. "That the sheriff would chain her to her bed during childbirth was barbaric and a link to the Middle Ages that should not be tolerated in a civilized society.

SUFFERED LACERATIONS to her vagina, shock and trauma to her nervous system and is still suffering from the injuries and damage to her sex life," the attorney added. She said the suit seeks more than $10 million in damages, alleging Dalton was subjected to cruel and unusual punishment. Last July, the Women's Equal Rights Legal Defense and Education Fund sought an order preventing Pitchess from chaining inmates during labor. Allred said Pitchess agreed to stop the practice before the matter reached a full court hearing. The attorney said chains were especially unnecessary in Dalton's case because she was scheduled to be released within 100 days or after recovering from childbirth, and therefore had no reason to escape.

Dalton was freed two days after the birth. Allred said Dalton was in jail for violating terms of her probation and for possession of a controlled drug. The lawyer said she did not know why Dalton was on probation. Local: CMR GEMS Free PARIS LAST NORTH GIBSON WEST Transfers with AUGUSTA Plus: BELT purchase of ANY BROWNING CASCADE CENTERVILLE CHOTLAU SWEATSHIRT DENTON Colors Include: Gold, PORT BENTON Kelly, Royal, Red, F- SHIRT SHACK VALER STANFORD in Color of Tuning Control finish on 1 to good things Saturday, April 25, 1981 source of the most intense threat to the ambient air quality of the House chamber," the resolution said. "He no longer can use the odor of burning, decayed vegetation to force the opponents of his bills to retire from the floor," it said, and "may have to rely on his Demosthenes-like powers of disputation and his inborn inclination to be contentious about everything, including the weather, to advance his bills." A 73-year-old retired British army major has received a bachelor of science degree from the University of Western Australia in Perth, making him the oldest graduate in Australia.

But William Sutherland, a widower with two adult sons, said after receiving his degree that were never any calls of "hello grandpa" when he attended lectures. "There were lots of things I still hadn't done," he said. "I'm fond of the university and the study atmosphere so I decided to enroll in physics and chemistry. This wasn't possible so I chose anthropology instead." Ever since 11 people were crushed to death at a rock concert in Cincinnati more than a year ago, crowd expert Paul Wertheimer has been studying other large gatherings and says large crowds are becoming more common. "With the economy and energy as it is, we're seeing a trend nationally of people closer to home and celebrating staying, especially at free events," he said.

Wertheimer, 31, Cincinnati's information director, was instrumental in writing up crowd control regulations for the city following the 11 deaths at a rock concert by "The Who" at Riverfront Coliseum on Dec. 3, 1979. Queen Margrethe 11 of Denmark and her husband, Prince Henrik, visited Hiroshima, Japan, Friday and placed a wreath before the Peace Park memorial, offering a silent prayer to the 140,000 people killed in the the first atom bomb attack. The BOB YOUNG'S NURSERY Come out and see our fine selection of hardy Shade Trees, Flowering Crabs, Shrubs, Junipers, also Cotoneaster Hedging, Apple Trees, and Raspberry Plants. Open 7 days a Week.

9 a.m. to 8 p.m., Residence Ph: 727-3959 miles south of 10th Ave. S. and 13th St. Great Falls Tribune 3-A his wife to Georgia, where he owns 28 acres of land, or even return to school.

Beckwith led the raid April 24, 1980, that had to be canceled when only five of eight helicopters made it to a staging area in the Iranian desert. When the men tried to leave, an accident involving a plane and a helicopter killed eight commandos. London Friday she never got a penny of the profits of either the movie or stage production of "The Sound of Music," inspired by her World War II experiences. "The only thing have ever got from 'The Sound of Music' is this trip to Europe," the 76-year-old baroness, who lives in Vermont, told the Press Association, Britain's domestic news agency. She arrived in London Thursday night to promote a new $1.65 million stage production of the show opening in London in midAugust.

The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was based on the baroness' book, "The Trapp Family Singers," about her family's flight to Switzerland after the Nazi invasion of Austria. "I gave the book away," the baroness said. "I received a small sum 1 for the book rights, but that was all." Baroness Maria von Trapp said in A cream pie struck William Buckley, editor of the National Review and host of the television show "Firing Line," during a reception at the University of Arizona in Tucson, university police said. Buckley was hit on the side of the head but did not appear inBuckley jured and did not file a complaint, police said. Buckley, known for his conservative views, was attending a reception sponsored by the College Republicans after a campus speech.

Indiana state Rep. Paul J. Hric's decision to give up smoking cigars was so welcome to his fellow lawmakers in the Indiana House that they passed a resolution to thank him. of the seap-mates of Rep. Paul John Hric have suffered untold moments of anxious concern for the condition of their own respiratory organs being in enforced juxtaposition to the Blacks turn down job in government WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan has offered the chairmanship of one of the government's leading civil rights agencies to six black women and each has turned him down, his personnel chief said Friday.

E. Pendleton James, Reagan's assistant for personnel, disclosed trouble in filling the top job in the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. He said the difficulty stems from the low number of blacks in the Republican Party and the fact that blacks, in general, opposed Reagan's election. James discussed the administration's personnel record in an interview with several reporters, seeking to promote Reagan's record in hiring blacks, Hispanics and, women in upper-level government positions compared with that of the Carter administration. "I anticipate we will be able to, within the first six months, if not the first four months, exceed Carter's levels at the end of four years," he said.

For 1,902 presidential-appointment jobs requiring 'Senate confirmation, James said Carter named 74 Hispanics, 266 women and 178 blacks. BUT FROM HIS NUMBERS, it became clear that the Reagan administration would be unlikely to place as many blacks, Hispanics and women in the highest levels of government 400 positions covering the sub-Cabinet jobs, top posts in the independent agencies and commissions, and the executive office of the presidency. According to James, Carter placed 11 Hispanics in those jobs, and Reagan has already placed seven in such positions, with another four about to be announced. Carter named 54 women to such Reagan has named 17, with another 10 in the works, James said. He also said Carter put 37 blacks in such jobs, and Reagan has given blacks five such top-level jobs, with another five being processed.

THUS, REAGAN WOULD HAVE to name 27 women and 27 blacks to the jobs just to match the Carter record. But there are only about 74 top-level jobs vacant, and to meet the Carter numbers, 73 percent of them would have to go to blacks or women. During the Carter administration, Eleanor Holmes Norton, a black woman, was chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission. She has since left. Discussing the difficulty in finding someone to fill the EE0C post, James said: "It's difficult enough to recruit qualified people to serve in the administration" due to conflicts of interest, laws requiring disclosure of personal assets, and "personal financial sacrifices" involved in government service.

"In the recruitment of minorities, it's compounded," he said, because there are few blacks in the Republican Party and blacks did not support Reagan's election. He said the Equal Employment Opportunities Commission should be directed by a black woman because half the work force is female and most discrimination cases involve blacks. "To put a WASP (white AngloSaxon Protestant)" in such a post would not be a good idea, he said. But he did say that the top enforcement job in the civil rights field, that of the assistant attorney general for civil rights, was going to a white male. That job was held by a black, Drew Davis, the Carter administration.

Snakes stolen NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas (AP) Burglars dodging two shotgun blasts sped off with 44 valuable reptiles and $225 in cash from the Snake Farm here, officials said. Sheriff's detective Ed Murphy said the fleeing thieves left cages open, allowing poisonous snakes to roam through the farm building, but farm workers soon put them back in their cages. He said none of the 44 snakes stolen Friday was poisonous. They included included albino corn snakes, Mexican milk snakes and Blair's king snakes and were valued at about $10,000. Murphy said the theives "had to be someone with a knowledge of snakes, but I'm still trying to figure out how they did it." He would not give details of the pre-dawn burglary because the case was under investigation.

Owners of the Snake Farm told the Comal County sheriff's department they fired two shotgun blasts at the fleeing burglars but did not know whether anyone was hit. "It was pretty dark. I don't think we hit them," said Betty Teska, who joined Snake Farm employee John Cherry in firing a shotgun. Teska, 49, said all the snakes were "very and added, "It had to be somebody who knew something about snakes. PFAFF FACTORY AUTHORIZED INFLATION FIGHTER SALE! Now enjoy a precision-built European sewing machine at a special low price.

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