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WIMBLEDON, England, July 4-- Evonne Goolagong Cawley won the Wimbledon women's tennis championship today, nine years after her first title.

MIAMI BEACH, July 9--President Carter, returning to some of the tough language he used earlier this year to describe the Iran crisis, told a "town meeting" in California today that the existence of "fanatics" and "terrorists" in the Iranian Government continued to hamper the release of the American hostages.

Officials of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority say they believe that the new tax on oil companies' profits and increases in the transit fare will not hold subway, bus and rail fares in New York at present levels for very long.

KINGSTON, Jamaica, July 4--The home of a member of the United States Embassy staff was fired on early today, two days after he was publicly described as the chief of station of the United States Central Intelligence Agency. No one was injured by the gunmen, who used automatic weapons.

WASHINGTON, July 4--An earlymorning haze enveloped the Capitol dome today as young people, carrying beach blankets, plastic picnic coolers, knapsacks and radios, trooped along the Mall, past the turrets of the Smithsonian Institution's castle-like structure to stake out positions for concerts and for fireworks.

ALBANY, July 3--New York State officials, who closed the Hudson River to fishing five years ago because of pollution by polychlorinated biphenyls, say it will be at least two more years before they can dredge the first load of the suspected carcinogen from the river.

OTTAWA, July 4--Ontario, Canada's most important industrial province, is being hit hard by job layoffs as the recession in the United States spreads north of the border. Most of the layoffs have occurred in American-owned plants, and for Ed Broadbent, leader of the New Democratic Party, the Socialist third force in Canada, there is a lesson in all the bad economic news.

BOGOTA, Colombia, July 4 (Reuters) --The secret police seized $22 million in counterfeit currencies and a printing press in a raid on a house in Bogota today. A spokesman said seven people were arrested.

ANKARA, Turkey, July 4--Military reinforcements were sent today to Corum, 135 miles northeast of here, to quell political-sectarian violence that has killed at least 12 people in the last three days.

NEW DELHI, July 9 (AP)--Policemen charged into a crowd of 2,000 demonstrators today to clear roads to the main airport in the northeastern state of Assam, according to an Indian news agency report.

LONDON, July 4 (AP)--Anthony Blunt, the British art historian who was unmasked as a Soviet spy last year, has kept his seat at the Royal Academy.

BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 1--President Saddam Hussein, wearing a red-checked Arab scarf knotted around his head, an open-necked bush jacket and a pistol belt, arrives at a remote rural village. His guards, along with a crew from the state television and photographers from the state newspapers, shove through the cheering crowd as he inspects the vegetable market and kisses a baby.