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WASHINGTON, Jan. 4--President Carter's speech tonight was meant to signal the Soviet Union that it would have to pay a fairly substantial price in relations with the United States for its armed inter- vention into Afghanistan and that the cost for Moscow would be higher if the Afghan affair was repeated in other countries.

CHAPRI, Pakistan, Jan. 4 Alip Jon, a tall, tough shepherd who thinks he is about 40 years old, walked across the mountains out of Afghanistan yesterday, leading a camel packed with everything he owns.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4--President Carter, in a shift in policy on foreign arms sales, has agreed to support efforts to build a new American jet fighter plane that is likely to be sold in the hundreds to third world countries in the coming decades.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 President Carter, denouncing the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan as an "extremely serious threat to peace," tonight announced a series of punitive moves against the Soviet Union, including a sharp curtailment of grain shipments.

NAIROBI, Kenya, Jan. 4 Joy Adamson, the Austrian author of "Born Free," the story of the lioness she raised from a cub, was killed last night. Investigators said she was killed by an animal, probably a lion.

DETROIT, Jan. 4 Sales by the nation's Big Three auto makers fell 8.1 percent in the final days of 1979, closing out the worst December and the worst sales year for Detroit since the slump in 1975.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4--President Carter's curtailment of further grain shipments to the Soviet Union is not expected to have an immediate impact on the Soviet Union's food supply or on its ability to supply wheat to its satellites, including Afghanistan.

NEW DELHI, Jan. 4 Because of violence and intimidation at the polls, India's elections commissioner has ordered new balloting for Parliament in parts of three constituencies, including the one where Prime Minister Charan Singh is seeking election.

BREMERHAVEN, West Germany, Jan. 4 (Reuters) Forty-three crew members of a burning Argentine ship and an Italian freighter were rescued after a collision off West Germany, but two sailors are missing, the harbor police said today. The collision, involving the 10,076ton Argentine ship Buenos Aires II and the 3,987-ton Dora Riparia, occurred in a fog five miles northwest of the Weser Light Vessel in the Weser estuary.

PEKING, Jan. 4 China appears to have concluded that the best strategy in dealing with the major Vietnamese offensive against the remnants of the guerrillas supporting Pol Pot in Cambodia and the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan is to continue to mobilize international pressure and let long-term attrition take its toll in Hanoi and Moscow.

SAN SALVADOR, Jan. 4 (AP) Leftist guerrillas armed with shotguns and automatic weapons attacked the National Guard headquarters here today, a spokesman reported, killing two civilians and wounding two guard members.