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u 3d two tin- hiraofl x holes ClassK Friday, April 25, 1986/The Battalion/Page 11 Edwards' debts won't be used second trial NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Evi- jence that Gov. Edwin Edwards jambled away about $2 million md paid off his debts with cash ituffed in suitcases won’t be used n Edwards’ second racketeering rial, U.S. Attorney John Volz aid Thursday. It was the second surprise an- rouncement from the prosecutor Iris week. On Wednesday, he tunned observers by saying he rould not call to the stand state mplovee John Landry, a major vitness in Edwards’ first trial hich ended in December with a nmgjury. Edwards, his brother Marion, nd their business associates, Gus dijlais, Ron Falgout and James Vyllie Jr., are accused of racke- eering and fraud in connection ,ith a $10 million hospital invest ment venture. In the first trial, Las Vegas ca- inoexecutives and an FBI agent estilied that Edwards’ ran up $2 million in debts at casinos during he early 1980s. Most of the debts were paid off licash, they said. I Defense lawyers said through- iiit the first trial that the gam- lling evidence had nothing to do with the alleged scam. Death toll rises in Soviet raids on Afghanistan ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Afghan rebel commanders said Thursday that Soviet and Afghan warplanes were killing and maiming hundreds of their men in nonstop i aids on rebel positions in southeast ern Afghanistan. A senior commander called it the heaviest aerial bombardment in the Moslem insurgency against the com munist Afghan government and said it was the first use of large-scale night raids in that area. Rahim Wardak said about 10,000 troops were advancing behind the air cover, with tank and artillery sup port, against rebel positions in Paktia province near the Pakistani border. Insurgent leaders acknowledged Wednesday that Soviet commandos had captured and destroyed the main rebel base at Zhawar. “This is the worst fighting we’ve ever seen. The air attacks are terri- ble,” Wardak, a top commander of the National Islamic Front of Af ghanistan, told The Associated Press. Wardak, who returned from Pak tia on Thursday, said Soviet and Afghan Su-22 jet bombers and MiG- 21 and MiG-23 fighter-bombers were dropping 500-pound bombs on rebels who had no air defenses. Fighting was fiercest Thursday around the government-held town of Khost, Wardak reported. He said jets were hitting rebel positions in the surrounding hills and his men anticipated new ground attacks. Wardak estimated insurgent losses at 150 dead and 300 wounded in the past few days, but the guerril las generally understate their casual ties. Other commanders indicated the figures were higher. Afghanistan’s official Kabul radio claimed more than 1,000 rebels had been killed. It predicted that the in surgents would be cut off from their supply and reinforcement bases in side Pakistan, where about three mil lion Afghans live in refugee camps, alyng the border. The rebel leaders said Soviet and Afghan forces also suffered heavily, but they gave no total figures. Wardak claimed the Afghan army’s 37th Commando Brigade of about 600 men had been wiped out since the offensive began this month. AT&T says long-distance rates will drop WASHINGTON (AP) — American Telephone & legraph Co. on Thursday announced a $1.5 billion rtg-distance rate reduction, which the company said uld amount to an average 8.9 percent decrease in g-distance bills for its residential customers. The plan, the largest single rate reduction proposed Bthe company’s history, would take effect June 1 bar- ■ig the Federal Communications Commission objec- IwlSOIl B) ns . ■Under the AT&T proposal, the cost of daytime calls kl drop by 11.4 percent. The price of weeknight m said Ills before 1 1 p.m. (local time) would drop by the same 1 thatl»rcentage rate. Smaller reductions — 2.7 percent — ■eplanned for calls after 1 1 p.m. and on weekends un- MasteiiBjp.ni. Sunday. AT&T’s chief competitor, MCI Communications, Inc., responded by saying, “We’ll have a change by June 1 to remain competitive.” MCI spokesman John Houser said specific details of any MCI price changes would have to await a thorough study of the AT&T proposal. A spokesman tor GT E-Sprint, another long-distance company, said, “Although we need to wait and see what develops at the commission, we expect to continue pro viding service at less than AT&T’s price of service.” Under the new AT&T plan, WATS lines, used by businesses which do a lot of long-distance calling, would cost 12.8 percent less, in day and evening hours and 5 percent less late night and on weekends. Carbon dioxide rise may threaten crops WASHINGTON (AP) — The in- Jeasing amount of carbon dioxide (nheair — which many fear threat- pi a greenhouse-type overheating [the Earth — may also endanger Taps by drying out the soil in major |ricultural areas, a new study says. [Mathematical models suggest that /g|lconditions could begin to resem- U He the dust bowl of the 1930s, when JKat and drought ruined millions of Icies of farms and drove Americans pm the land. As cat bon dioxide and other gases tease in the atmosphere, the cli mate can slowly get warmer. ISyukuro Manabe, co-author of the report published in Friday’s edi- ion of Science magazine, said, “If hat happens, then the possibility of IrazoJ' ket 31*1 edSt srotii erpil lent, if atenf i pi such a summer drought can become very large.” The study indicates that rising carbon dioxide levels could trigger a significant reduction in soil moisture in the grain belts of the United States and Canada, as well as in Sibe ria and Western Europe. The report was written by Ma- J nabe and Richard T. Wetherald of the National Oceanic and Atmo spheric Administration’s Geophysi cal Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University. Carbon dioxide is a normal part of the air, and is a by-product of combustion. 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