European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 the stars and stripes wednesday August 23, 1978 reds to form government in Iceland Reykjavik. Iceland up the communists have reached agreement with two other parties to form a majority government in this strategic nato country political sources said tuesday. The sources said the communists the social democrats and the Middle of the Road progressive party have agreed on economic policies and the communists have agreed not to disturb Iceland s stand ing in nato or ask the removal of 3.000 american servicemen from the Kef Lavik air base. Ludvik Josefsson Leader of the communist people s Alliance will become pre Mier the sources said and the foreign ministry portfolio would go to the social democrats. Although the communists have always insisted in their party program that ice land should leave nato and that the americans should vacate Kef Lavik Josefs son said last week he was dropping the de Mand since his coalition partners would not go along with it. The country has been in the hands of a caretaker government since june 25, when general elections showed a swing to the kit Iceland s most pressing problems Are if economic and the communists who were t against a Large devaluation have agreed to a 15 percent devaluation of the Krona the sources said. Also As part of the economic program to f tattle the country s 40 percent annual rate 1 of inflation the coalition has agreed on a Price freeze until january 1979, increased food subsidies and higher income taxes for Well paid workers and higher property taxes the sources said. Chess masters end 7 5fh game in a draw Baguio City Philippines a the i Isth game of the world chess Champion ship Between defending Champion Anatoly. Karpov and challenger Viktor Korchnoy ended in a draw tuesday. Korchnoy still recovering from two humiliating setbacks sunday that gave Kar Pov a 3-1 Lead in the tournament played White and offered a draw through chief arbiter Lothar Schmid of West Germany after making his 25th move. Two incomplete games were played out sunday and the 27-year-old soviet Champi on Defeated Korchnoy 47, a soviet defector in both. The first person to win six games wins 1390,000 and the world title. The loser gets 200,000. Eleven of the is games have ended in draws which do not count in tournament scoring. Most observers expected Korchnoy to ask for a postponement of tuesday s game following Karpov s Blitz sunday. Others thought Korchnoy would play believing it would give him a psychological Edge Over Karpov who May have been expecting timeout. Korchnoy used a catalan system for the first time in the tournament. Harry Golombek British International master and chess author said the main characteristic of Korchnoy s opening was to intensify the attack of the his objective was to control the White Diagonal squares but Karpov thwarted the attempt when he pushed his Knight to Queen s Bishop 3 in the seventh move Karpov surprised Korchnoy when he sacrificed his Pawn in the 13th move which according to filipino grandmaster Eugene Torre was designed to allow the Champion fast development of his pieces and to give him More Mubi Lic. " poisonous biographies cardinals shrug off dirty trick Vatican City up roman Catho Lic cardinals shrugged off reports of dirty tricks sabotage campaigns against Lead ing papal candidates and went ahead tuesday with preparations for the week end conclave that will elect a successor to Pope Paul i. Vatican officials and aides to some of the Iii cardinals expected to take part in the secret conclave said they were not aware of attempts by any group to discredit some of the leading candidates As re ported by italian news Media. Milan s corriere Della Sera Italy s larg est circulation newspaper said Poison Ous biographies of papa Iii possible Popes Are circulating under the counter like the Clandestine literature of soviet it said one such tract reiterated the of ten denied allegation that italian Cardinal Sebastiano Baggio is a Freemason and an other described Cardinal Sergio Pignedoli As a pomp Loving old Church Laws forbidding any roman Catholic from joining the freemasons under pain of excommunication have been virtually scrapped but the european grand Orient Lodge form of masonry is still considered anti Catholic and atheistic. The Rome newspaper 11 Messaggiero also said dossiers meat to Given papa Lle have beat m used to cardinals. It said the them aimed at the Feaste have been circulating in Recti Baggio and signed of pm toned for some time As Tkv to succeed Pope Paul i heart attack aug. 6 at age fellow italians Paolo T Poma and Albino Ludhani a named As possibilities. The secret conclave open 81 langelo frescoes sistine Chood of a globally televised pro with voting to begin the nest a r a 0"� o Sif a Tiger fighter bought by Switzerland is loaded aboard fitting in the f-5s a plane at me Clellan fab in Sacramento Calif. The h is was to deliver the by area of hour non Stop flight Costa Rica panel oks no to be contributing $200.000 to president no on s re election Campaign. He came to Costa Rica from Mas in 1972 and then president Jose Ca s leading politician. San Jose Costa Rica a Robert Vesco s last Chance to get Costa rican citizenship so he could not be extradited to face . Embezzlement charges has ended. The three members of Costa Rica s supreme tribunal of elections the court of. Ran theater toll rises to a Useve financier left Costa Ritamay 3 and was last reported in the Baha a Tate on Heo an Ose and has invested Mil Lions in the country the civil registry recommended july 17 that his apply on denied because it said he failed to prove he had sufficient economic resources if d? look office a 8 after an ,-i,.,r Campaign in hich he \ Oci a kit k out T.z?5?i Lra a workmen Dis co ered 45 More bodies in the debris of the burned out Cinema Rex theatre in Aba Dan raising the death count in the Satur Day night bombing and arson to 422 per a Tehran newspaper said Abadan. Meanwhile quoted the Froude chief of the Southwest iranian cite big Gen. Rezi Razmin. As saying five is Mic marxists confessed to setting off bombs thai ignited the deadly inferno they were among 0 suspects arrested so a government spokesman m Tehran de Ehnerd comment in the Rei it of r into the i Rit if other sources said our a left the movie during a Brem the explosion occurred they left. Razme told the govern Pujji television service the fire to theater began w Multa Neoushy at the ing previous report poured gasoline around to movie House and then set to spite the newspaper i the discovery of More count bund reported by Hitri re ined at 377
