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The Second sf Page The Associated Press United Press International New Yori Times News Reuters Copley News Christian Science Monitor and oir own correspondents Terrorists bomb New York Hilton NEW YORK (AP) The Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN has claimed responsibility for a bomb thar exploded in a stairwell of tlie New York Hilton, 21 floors above a banquet where Puerto Rican Gov. Rafael Hernandei Colon was bring honored. No one was injured in the blast. A woman who identified herself as an FALN member called the New York Post after the explosion Tuesday night to report the bombing In protest of Hernandez Colon's visit. Police said they later found an FALN communique taped to a telephone in a benth one block from the hotet.

Police Commissioner Michael Codd said ronlenls of the nule would be made public today. FALN i. the acronym for a Spanish phrase meaning Armed Forces of" National Liberation of Puerto fiico. The organizalion has been linked to about a dozen bombings in the last two years in the New VDrt Citv area, including Ihe unsolved 1975 homb ing of historic Fraunces Tavern in the Wall Street area. Four persons were killed in that bombing.

Banks and government buildings have also been targets of Ihe group. The woman caller to the Post warned lint another bomb would go off shortly afterward at the Slatler Hilton hotel, also in midlown, but. police said Ihey found no device there. A ticking noise coming from an elevalur bank was traced to a transformer. Kathleen Sullivan to marry Alioto? BOSTON (AP! Boston School Commit teewoman Kathleen Sullivan and former San Francisco Mayor Joseph L.

Alioto plan to marry when his divorce becomes final, it was reported today. A Boston newspaper reporting the marriage plans, said Miss Sullivan would not confirm them Tuesday. "My private life is private," the newspaper reported her saying. It said Miss Sullivan, 31, and Alioto, 59, met last April when she attended the annual meeting of the National Association of School Boards in San Fran ciscD. She is the daughter of William Sullivan, presi dent and majority stockholder of the New England Patriots of the National Football League.

Alioto is a wealthy antilrusl lawyer. Miss Sullivan was a special education teacher in Boston before she was elected to the School Committee. She is serving her second term on the committee Alioto's wife, Angelina, dropped oul of sight in February, 1974, returning to say she had visited California missions In a "desperate attempt ta secure some measure of personal privacy." She filed for a divorce, for a second time, in California last January. She is reported fo be oul at the eounlry. but the newspaper reported her lawyer's office said no dates for conferences in court had been set.

Successor to Mao under discussion? PEKING (Reuters) There was speculation heTe today that Chinese leaders were' meeting to discuss the succession to Chairman Mao Tse tung. In the (our days since mourning for Mao ended, the New China News Agency has said nothing about the LG member Politburo's activities. Though some members of the larger Central con niltee are believed to have returned to provincial posls analysts said It would be surprising if a debate were jidI under way. Flaws seen in Kissinger plan LUSAKA (Reuters) Rhodesian nationalist leader Joshua Nkomo said today there were "very serious flaws" in Tir. Henry Kissinger's Rhodesian settlement proposal.

He declined to specify what these were but said they would have to be discussed by himself and other black African leaders before efforts to reach a peaceful settlement in the hreafcaway British colony proceeded. The daily number BRAINTREE, Mass. (AP) The" winning number drawn Tuesday night in the Massachusetts daily lottery was B185. Payoffs based on a dollar bet: EXACT ORDER Four digils $3,245. Three digits J454.

Two digits Any digit $4. ANY ORDER All four digits 5270, First three digits $152. Last three digits $76. THE SUN, LOWELL, WEDNESDAY, SECT, 2Z, 1BV6 3 Ballot questions focus of campaign By GEORGE B. MERRY Christian Sclencf Monitor BOSTON Ballot questions rather than candidates may dominate this fall's election campaign in Massachusetts.

Those lor or against several on Nov. 2 have major support wooing advertising effots well under way or planned. Yet there i i ncreasing concern that a large segment of the electorate, either uninformed on me otten compiex issues involved or confused will pass over Ihe questions. Tsvo years ago. when there were six questions on the slate ballot, 2S percent of the citizens who went to the polls left one quesliun blank, 25 percent failed to vote on two others, and the remaioiog three were passed over by Ho percent of the valors.

i lo all hut one Instance the "blanks" could have affected the outcome. DETERMINED TO reduce sharply, if not eliminate, the blanks in this November's election, Secretary of State Paul H. Guzri is pushing hard a three way drive to focus public attention on the statewide referenda. A "Massachusetts Information for Voters" booklet, required by law to be distributed to the electorate, has been designed this year in an attractive, easy to reari format. Secretary Guzzi has been moving around the slate moderation a series of issue oriented forums featuring supporters and foes of various ballot micsfinns.

Through the Ad ver Using Club of Boston and (he Massachusetts Broadcasters Association, a series of balanced radio, television, and newspaper announcements have been prepared and distributed. The goal is not only to alert voters to what questions are on the ballot, but also to provide them with the impartial information they need to vote intelligently. And, of course, to encourage peDplc to vote, THE FIRST three questions, listed in the booklet in the order they will appear on the ballot, involve pending amendments to the state constitution. They would: Guarantee "equal rights" under the law to every resident of Massachusetts and would prohibit the denial or abridgment of such right on the basis of sen, race, color, creed, or national origin. Authorize the Legislature to substitute for the present flat rate or uniform personal income tax rates a system of graduated rates keyed to the total amount of income received.

Permit the Legislature to provide Probe blast which killed Chilean envoy WASHINGTON (UPll A high explosive device placed under the floorboard of a car was responsible for the blast that killed a top of (Lcial of the former government of Chile's late President Salvador Allerde, the FBI said Tuesday. Orlando I.elclicr, 44, Chile's ambassador to Ihe United States before he became foreign minister and then minister of defense in Al lende's socialist regime, was killed Tuesday by on explosion in the oar he was driving in the street outside the residence of the current Chilean envoy. Ronnie Harper Moffitt, 25, of Potomac, a stall member of the Transnational Institute of Policy Studies that Letelier headed, was also killed. Her husband, Michael, also a staff member, was released after treatment at a hospital. The FBI said it would take at least two days to determine Ihe type of explosive planted in Ihe ear.

absentee voting for persons whose religious beliefs prevent them from going to the polls on an election day. The next four ballot questions are proposed laws, place on the ballot through voter signed initiative petitions alter having been rejected by the Legislature. Listed in their order, Ihey would Provide for Hie creation of a public power authority run by the commonwealth which woutd generate electricity to be sold to private utility companies. Prohibit the private possession, ownership, and sale of any weapon, with a barrel length of less than 1G inches, from which a shot or bullet can be fired. Ban the sale of beer, other malt beverages, and soft drinks in no deposit bottles or cans.

Compel electric companies lo charge a Panelists Edwin top left, an NBC newsman and author of "Strictly will moderate the first debate between President Ford and Jimmy Carter tomorrow night. The Veteran reporters to query candidates WASHINGTON (API During their Thursday night debate, the candidates for the presidency will be questioned hy a pane! of reporters which includes a newspaper reporter, two television newsmen and a journalist who is bulb a writer and a television commentator. Following arc sketches of the panelists: EDWIN NEWMAN The moderator of Ihe panel is Edwin Newman, a veteran broadcast journalist. Newman joined NBC news in 1952 and has news events in at least 25 countries. Based in New York since 19111, he offen serves as anchor man on news specials and documentaries, lie has recently published a beslselling book, "Strictly Speaking," on the use of' language.

No hint of progress in UAW, Ford talks DETROIT (API The nationwide walkout against Ford Motor Co. began its second week today, with no hi nt of a mij Dr breakthrough on Ihe key issue more paid time ore the job despite a scheduled third straight day nf bargaining. The strike has idled 170,000 United Auto Workers members in the United States and already has forced layofrs of at least 2,000 workers in related industries. ford President Lee A. lacocca said Tuesday that the talks were getting "heavy," but a union source said the two sides remained far apart on virtually every issue.

"There should be some major movement on disputed issues within the next couple of days, hut we're still far from a settlement," the source said. "It will lake many, many days for the pieces to I all into place." tacneca painted a brighter picture, saying "I think we re on track" in Ihe current talks. He could give no estimate of how long the strike might continue. Formal talks resumed Monday afler five days of "exploratory" sessions which each side described as helpful in learning where the other side stood. But there is reportedly no movement on basic issues, which include a priority umon demand for more paid days off create more jobs.

Olher issues are wages, health care and worker layoff benefits, pensions, and job security The walkout, the (JAW'S first against the na tion's No. 1 auto maker since 1967, has shut down 102 plants and depots in 22 states and has broufhl Ford's truck and auto production to a halt. The strike already has had a rippling effect, causing layoffs at Ford of Canada Lid. and U.S. companies that do business with Ford.

Some 1.600 Ford workers at the Windsor, engine planthave been laid off because of parts shortages caused by the U.S. strike. A Ford of Canada spokesman said all of its' 14,000 hourly workers will have to be laid off wilhin matter of days." Ford does about (7 billion worth of business each year with thousands of auto supply, service and transport firms. Financial analysts estimate lhat up lo 170,000 employes at these firms could be laid off in the event of a long Ford strike. Economists have said the strike will begin lo have an effect on the nation's economic recovery if it lasts longer than a month.

INFORMATION WANTED Soroh Hooley, BA years of orje, formerly of Lowell, died Soptember 19, 1974 in Jamaica Plain, Mass. Interested persons ploose coll Anne H. Lewis, MD, at Tounton, Man. 324 FACTORY BLEMISH STEEL RADIAL TIRE BARGAINS Size Type Non Blem Blem Price Price, DR7814 3(Hl Rid MOWS DH7014 Slid Rid 501 WL 561.95 $45.45 ERI814 Still Hid SCO WS M4.15 ERT014 Stall Rid 500 WS $59.00 $44.15 FRT814 TfC Slill Rid WS W1.I5 JM.5S FR7814 Still Rid WS 5(0 SH 5 UMITID SHIS LIMITID QUANTITIES FRIf MOUNTING FIRESTONE OF LOWELL 1 20 CHURCH IT. LOWIL1 TEL: 43B.253S Fed.

Tax $2.42 $2.92 $2.49 $2.74 $2.93 $2.93 UFiniiF1 panel questioning the candidates will be mado up by Jama P. Gannon, top right, ol Ihe Wall Street Journal, Elizabeth Drew of IhB New Yorker and Frank Reynolds of ABC News. He also has been the substitute host of the Today Show." JAMES P. GANNON The only newspaper writer on the panel is James P. Gannon, for 15 years a member of Hie Wall Street Journal slaff.

Gannon has been covering the political campaign this year, on assignment he nlsohad in 172. He is a member of the Journal's bureau in Washington, where he has covered Ihe economic beat and the While House. daemon was formerly assigned to the new spapcr's Chicago and Pittsburgh bureaus. He is 37 years old, a native of Minneapolis and a graduate of Marquelle University. ELIZABETH DREW An experienced commentator on politics, Elizabeth Drew lias written for such mieazincs as The New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly.

She also is a Irequent guest on television discussion shows. She is the author of a Watergate book. "Washington Journal; The Events of 1973197V" Miss Drew also has been Washington editor of Atlantic Monthly and on Ihe slaff of Ihe Congressional Quarterly. At one time, she was a regular interviewer on a Public Broad casling Service program. Miss Drew graduated from Wellesley College.

FRANK REYNOLDS ABC correspondent Frank Reynolds has covered political conventions, campaigns and candidates since His assignments this year have included coverage of Ronald Reagan's campaign. fie was ABC's White House correspondent during part of the Johnson administration and has been ccanchorman of Ihe ABC evening news. In recent years, he has covered the Watergate scandal, the trial of former Texas Gov. B. Carnally, and then President Richard M.

Nixon's trip to China, Reynolds was born in East Chicago, and attended Indiana University and Wabash uniform rate per kilowatt hour of electricity ta all customers, regardless of the amount used. The last two statewide questions are socal led public policy milters. These "nonbinding" measures, which are purely advisory, would: Favor construction of an oil refinery and deep water port in Massachusetts. Support the repeal of portions of state's "Common Day of Rest" law to permit Sunday openings of certain retail establishments, including package liquor stores. files for recount LAWRENCE Democrat James Shannon, who was narruwly defeated hy William X.

Wall, the incumbent Second Essex MiddleEex District Senator, by 12 voles has filed for a recount of all precincts in Ihe race for that scat. Shannon said yesterday there could have been errors, very possibly in Lawrence which uses paper ballots. Morn than 13,000 ballots were cast in Lawrence, one of the four communities in the district. Wall picked up V.Sfis votes while Shannon rer.rived 5,551 in Lawrence. ALTHOUGH TEWKSBURV has good accuracy record, Shannon noted, he believes he may be able to pick up more votes there with a recount.

Shannon received vote to Wall's 547 in that town. In Billerlca. Shannon received to Wall's 1 ,484 and in And over Ihe vote was 911 to 481 in favor of hnnnon believe the voter has the rieht to know exactly what the outcome was." Shannon said when asked ahout requesting recounts in the towns where he had defeatrii Wall. The race between Wall, who has been In the legislature for 34 year, and Shannon was so close, according lo one political observer, because of the lack of campaigning by the incumbent, especially ill the towns, and the organization, energy and funds cT the challenger. State Senate 0Krs $104M budget lor capital outlay BOSTON" (UPlf The Massachusetts Senate lias approved a bnllonrii ng $104.

1 million capital outlay or building budget which is some 525 million higher lhan the version approved by ihe House. The construction package was pushed through two readings Tuesday despite objections and a flurry of charges from some Republicans. The building budget, as it nnw stands, Is some 525 million higher thun the House passed version and abuui 35 million hipher than the original request ol Gov. Michael 5. Dukakis.

Approval came on a 28 4 rolleall vote. The package will go lo a Houie Senate conference committee which will allempt to work out a compromise. Legislative leaders indicated they are hopeful a compromise package ran be approved quickly enough so the current legislative session will end within three weeks. Tacked onto the package during debate Tuesday were more than a dozen amendments which boosted the initial rccuriuriendation ol the Senate Ways and Means Committee from 584.4 million In 5101 1 Despite the lenglhy debate, Senate members rejected only two major amendments recommended by the leadership. Defeated was a.

proposal to have the stale purchase the campus of Ihe former Cardinal Cashing College in Prookline for JH.S million. The former college would have heen used as (he site for a mental health center. Also dropped was a $3 million request for a Metropolitan District Commission Parking lot. Major additions approved were 54 million for a parking lot at the University ol Lowell and 52.5 million in additional funding for a flood control project in Ihe Office ol Environmental Affairs. Senate memhers resisted a move hy Sen.

Arthur J. Lewis, Boston. to cut 518 million which would lie used as startup money for a new state community development finance agency designed to promote business in' depressed areas. ANOTHER GRAND OPENING Til Tnu HI I I I UI1, 11.11. FOR THIS CELEBRATION LEVIS DENIM 5 QCC Strict 4 Bill.

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