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World ABOUT 200 BLACKS and Indians, supported by throngs of singingprotesters, received treatment at two whites-only hospitals in SouthAfrica as anti-apartheid groups launched a sweeping new campaign ofcivil disobedience. The campaign was organized by the MassDemocratic Movement, a loose alliance of the main anti-apartheidgroups, and modeled on the 1952 defiance campaign led by Nelson R.Mandela. A spokesman said blacks would continue to seek admission towhites-only hospitals and other facilities before the Sept. 6parliamentary elections, in which blacks have no vote.

CZECHOSLOVAK DISSIDENT Vaclav Havel, an internationally known authorand playwright, was arrested while on his way to lunch at the WestGerman Embassy in Prague, and the Bonn government said it wouldprotest. Czechoslovakia released Havel from prison only last May,three months after a court sentenced him for hooliganism and fortaking part in an unauthorized march. His nine-month sentence wascut short after worldwide protests. Nation NATURAL GAS HEAT may contribute more to the "greenhouse effect"warming of the earth than oil heat, a study paid for by oil interestsconcluded Wednesday. The gas industry immediately attacked thereport as flawed and biased. The New England Fuel Institute, an oilindustry group based in Watertown, Mass., commissioned University ofMinnesota Professor Dean E. Abrahamson to compare the two fuels.Abrahamson, a physicist, said, "The Oil Task Force put absolutely noconstraints" on the study. He said methane causes 30 to 70 timesmore greenhouse heating than the equivalent amount of carbon dioxidefrom oil heat. THE TOP REPUBLICAN on the House Armed Services Committee introducedlegislation to restore the $23,000-a-year pension former White Houseaide Oliver L. North lost because of his felony convictions in theIran-contra affair. Rep. William L. Dickinson (Ala.) said North, a20-year Marine Corps veteran, should not be asked "to give up thesecurity of his own family on charges that may not have been hisdoing." The legislation would exempt North from a law that deniesretirement pay to any government officer convicted of destroyinggovernment documents. The U.S. comptroller general on Mondayrejected a Navy recommendation that North's pension be restored,leaving him no alternative but to sue. TWO DEMOCRATS in the Miami congressional district of the late ClaudePepper will meet in an Aug. 15 runoff to see who will face state Sen.Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the winner in the Republican primary Tuesday.Gerald Richman, a lawyer, and former Miami City Commissioner RosarioKennedy finished one-two in the seven-candidate Democratic primary.Pepper, a liberal Democrat who held the seat since 1962, died May 30at age 88. His successor will be picked in an Aug. 29 specialelection. Metro A 27-YEAR-OLD Commonwealth Edison worker was critically burnedWednesday while trying to repair an underground cable connected to atransformer in Joliet. Robert Reszel, of Crest Hill, sufferedsecond- and third-degree burns over 70 percent of his body and waslisted in critical condition at Loyola University Medical Center inMaywood, hospital officials said. The power apparently came on whilehe was working on the cable, company officials said. A 22-YEAR-OLD woman was indicted on murder charges Wednesday,accused of smothering her newborn baby in a hospital. SchevetterPhillips, of 614 N. Springfield, was given 3-day-old Sandra Phillipsto feed on July 24 at Bethany Hospital, but instead held the babytightly against her chest until the child died, a prosecutor charged.He said Phillips later told police she did not want to face ridiculefrom her family for having three other children and being on publicaid. A COMMUNITY GROUP picketed the regional office of the U.S. Housingand Urban Development Department Wednesday, asking thatgovernment-owned vacant homes be turned over to the poor. ACORNleaders also met with HUD administrator Gertrude W. Jordan, butemerged unsatisfied. Said protester Annie Robinson, "We have over1,600 (government-owned) abandoned houses around the city that arevacant and all we are asking for is 50. . . ." A HUD spokesman saidit has only about 525 properties in Chicago. PROBATION CHALLENGE, the much-praised first-offenders'rehabilitation and education program, will hold its 10th anniversaryPortrait of Achievers Awards dinner and benefit Aug. 18 at theMcCormick Center Hotel. Illinois Appellate Court Justice R. EugenePincham, who helped launch the program, will be the keynote speaker.Probation Challenge was the first court-mandated program of its kindin the country.