a040  0203  13 Oct 81
PM-Foreign Briefs,580
    MANILA, Phillipines (AP) - Authorities feared many bodies still were
pinned beneath rocks in a southern mine camp swamped by a flood and
avalanche that killed at least 194 people, injured 134 and left 99
missing.
    Rescuers said Monday that they could not move many of the rocks,
some described as ''bigger than a Volkswagen car,'' for lack of cranes
and bulldozers in the remote valley camp 600 miles southeast of
Manila.
    The government said a 10-minute flash flood Friday night caused
hundreds of rocks to tumble more than 1,000 feet onto camp bunkhouses,
trapping or killing workers and their families.
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    BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) - A stout woman stabbed by her husband 28
times with a kitchen knife was expected to recover in a hospital, the
newspaper Politika reported today.
    The paper said Terezija Vucetic, 52, would survive the wounds
''thanks to her corpulence, due to which none of the vital organs were
pierced by the stabs.''
    The paper quoted neighbors as saying the incident in the northern
Adriatic port of Rijeka took place following a family quarrel. The
husband, Daniel, was arrested, the paper said.
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    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - Seventeen people, mostly students, were
jailed on suspicion of spying for communist North Korea and inciting
anti-government demonstrations, authorities said today.
    The Defense Security Command said five were charged with violating
the National Security Act, one was under investigation and the others
would be released after given warnings. Details of the allegations
were not announced.
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    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - U.S. Agriculture Secretary John Block
announced today the United States has agreed to extend $590 million in
credit guarantees to South Korea for purchases of American farm
products next year.
    Block said the package will assure continued growth in U.S. produce
sales to South Korea, which exceed $2 billion a year.
    Terms include $300 million for cotton, $130 million for wheat, $100
million for feed grains, $30 million for soybeans, $4 million for
tallow and $26 million not yet allocated, Block said.
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    SINGAPORE (AP) - C.V. Devan Nair, member of Parliament and veteran
trade union leader, will become this island republic's next president.
    Nair was nominated Monday by Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. His
election by Parliament to the largely ceremonial post Oct. 23 is
considered a formality. Lee holds political power as the head of
government.
    The presidency has been vacant since the death of Benjamin Shears on
May 12. There had been much speculation that Nair, 59, would be his
successor. Nair, member of the ruling People's Action Party, helped
found the national trades union congress in 1961 and has served as a
troubleshooter for Lee.
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    CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) - Pope John Paul II pressed a button in
Italy and lit up the statue of Jesus overlooking Rio de Janeiro - 50
years after Italian radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi did the same
thing.
    The Monday ceremony marked the handing over by Brazilian President
Joao Figuereido of the $25,000 1981 Marconi International Fellowship
to Dr. Seymour A. Papert, professor of mathematics and education at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Papert won for work in
computer education and developing a computer language for children.
    The pope, sitting in the library of his retreat south of Rome, lit
up the 120-foot-high statue on the Corcovado Hill through a radio
transmitter, just as Marconi did in 1931 to prove that wireless
telegraphy could be sent over long distances. The ceremony was
broadcast on Italian and Brazilian television.
    
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