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I .1 1 People In the News Swim is over Cindy Cleveland is embraced by her mother, Marian, after Cindy's successful round-trip swim of the Santa Channel. (UPI Photo) Barbara Swim went swimmingly SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (UPI) It took 12 hours, 47 minutes and 51 seconds for Cindy Cleveland to swim the treacherous Santa Barbara Channel round trip, but she still had the energy to jog out of the water to greet her backers. The 23-year-old California State University student is believed to be the first person ever to make the two-way crossing. She went into the 68-degree water at Port Hueneme Beach at 10:08 a.m.

Tuesday, swam to Anacapa Island, then turned around and emerged triumphant Wednesday. Geographically, the distance was 22 miles, but tides and currents made it longer. Three weeks earlier, a young San Fernando Valley man tried but failed to make the same swim. Nyad sets off for Cuba KEY WEST, Fla. (UPI) Marathon swimmer Diana Nyad was to leave Thursday for Havana and her 130-mile Cuba-to-Florida swim.

Marcie Rudell, who is handling public relations for Miss Nyad, said the two-hour flight from Fort Lauderdale to Havana was to depart at 2 p.m. Mrs. Rudell said the precise day Miss Nyad will begin her swim had not been set and would depend on the weather and tides. Another aide said Tropical Storm Cora could delay the start of the swim for up to five days. Cora was located Wednesday night about 900 miles east of San Juan P.R.

"She will sit and wait in Havana for as long as is necessary," Mrs. Rudell said, "but we're not assuming there will be a long wait." Miss Nyad, 28, who has been preparing for the endurance test since July of last year, will swim in the middle of a shark cage which travels at IVz to 2 knots. The swim has been postponed a number of times because of delays by the Cuban government in granting visas to Miss Nyad and her party. Carter connection a liability PLAINS, Ga. (UPI) President Carter's cousin says having kinfolk in the White House can be downright dangerous to a politician.

Hugh Carter just won re-election to his state senate seat in Plains, but this time it was a squeaker. Says Cousin Hugh in the doghouse with the Carter clan because of his book about the first family "I've got a lot of anti-Jimmy feelings against me. It's an anti-Carter thing and I've got the name." Carter pulled 7,570 votes to 5,901 for challenger Malcolm "Chicken" Wishard who had the backing of the president's brother, Billy, and Mother, Miss Lillian. Hugh Carter Quote of the day Billy Carter, asked at the Douglas County Fair in Roseburg, if his well-publicized public appearances cause any conflict with his brother, the president: "Oh, no. We've always been in conflict." Israeli 'Santa 1 frustrated BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) Israeli peace crusader Abie Nathan won't get to play Santa Claus to the war-weary citizens of Beirut after all, but he says he won't stop trying.

Nathan a 40-year-old former Air Force pilot runs a floating "Voice of Peace" radio station a mile offshore from Beirut. His converted tramp steamer is loaded with medical supplies, toys and lollipops that he'd hoped to deliver to the city this week. The effort was thwarted by a Lebanese patrol boat that forced him back to sea when he tried to dock. Says Nathan, "I'm optimistic still. I've got enough supplies to stay here a year." Picks up where he left off STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) Film director Ingmar Bergman is going home, ending the self- exile that followed his run-in with Swedish tax collectors who publicly arrested him on tax-evasion charges two years ago.

A tax court acquitted Bergman and reprimanded the prosecutor who hounded him out of the country. But by that time, Bergman already was established in West Germany. He'll return to Stockholm Monday to continue rehearsals of the play "Dance of Death" the same production he had under way when the taxman grabbed him at the Royal Dramatic Theater in 1976. i Ingmar Bergman Personality glimpses Mario Cuomo, Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor of New York, made his debut Wednesday with a symphony orchestra, reading the narration in Aaron Copland's "Lincoln Portrait" Blues guitarist B.B. King Wednesday received the key to the city from Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, a longtime fan of the At upcoming perform- ances in Philadelphia and New York, singer Teddy Pendergrass, who has become something of a sex symbol, will add special midnight shows for women only and present them with chocolate-covered lollypops Don Knotts and Georgia Engle have signed for guest appearances on the new TV show House eyes tax cut proposals WASHINGTON (UPI) The House, having sent the Senate the largest money bill in history, met Thursday to take up a number of tax cut proposals cleared for debate and votes.

The tax proposals cleared for floor action by the Rules Committee Wednesday include an administration-backed $18.1 billion plan intended to shift more benefits to lower-income individuals, the $16.2 billion Ways and Means Committee bill and several alternatives. Among the alternatives is a Republican proposal by Sen. William Roth, R- and Rep. Jack Kemp. to slash income taxes 33 percent across WHAT MAKES A MAW A GOOD LOVER WOMEN K'SS AND TELL ST YOU" 7 BUSINESS Love triangle Melanie Cain is pictured in New York police station as Howard Jacobsen is brought in for booking in the apparent love-triangle murder of John Topper, his next-door neighbor.

Jacobson, a thoroughbred racing trainer, had shared his lavish apartment with Ms. Cain, a top fashion model, for five years until she moved in with Topper about a week ago. She is pictured (bottom) on the cover of the July, 1977, Red- book magazine. (UPI Photos) Four shots fired at President Kennedy? WASHINGTON (UPI) The House Assassinations Committee has preliminary expert evidence suggesting four shots, riot three, were fired at John F. Kennedy in Dallas and a second assassin may have been involved, it was reported Thursday.

A report by The New York Times News Service, quoting congressional sources, said the evidence a fourth shot may have been fired at Kennedy emerged from accoustical tests of tape recordings conducted by the Cambridge, firm of Bolt, Beranek and Newman. Jackson, Ray meet PETROS, Tenn. (UPI) The Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

when he was killed by a sniper's bullet in Memphis, met behind prison walls Thursday with James Earl Ray, the man convicted of pulling the trigger. Ray first confessed to the crime, but now denies he is the killer. He has asked Jackson's help in winning a new trial. Korchnoi wins one BAGUIO, Philippines (UPI) Soviet defector Viktor Korchnoi Thursday defeated World Chess Champion Anatoly Karpov in a five-hour match to even the score in their title series at 1-1. Korchnoi, with the slight advantage of playing white, shocked his fellow Russian with a rarely used opening that kept him pondering for five minutes and went on to win the llth match in five hours and 50 moves.

The 27-year old champion resigned in the face of a rook-queen attack by Kor- chnoi, who now lives in Switzerland. The Korchnoi win gave one victory to each player in the $550,000 world championship series. Karpov won the 8th match and every other game was a draw, which do not count. The first player to win six games gets the title and the first prize. The usually stony Karpov apparently was unsettled by Korchnoi's political tirades against him, and just before Thursday's match lashed out at the defector for using the world chess championship as a "cold war" battlefront.

the board over a 3-year period. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, D- has said he does not want the Roth-Kemp measure to be considered by the House. The rules panel barred any effort on the floor to either reduce higher Social Security tax rates taking effect in January, or to offset them with income tax breaks. Elsewhere, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long, said any cut in capital gains taxes should go into effect Oct.

1, rather than next Jan. 1, because the investment it would promote is needed now. Sen. Lowell Weicker, R-Conn, says he will introduce an amendment to the $23.4 billion Agriculture Department appropriations bill that would bar $56 million in Food for Peace aid to South Korea. Weicker's amendment would place the Senate behind a House move to delete the funds to try to force former South Korean envoy Kim Dong-jo to cooperate with the House Ethics Committee's investigation of Kim's alleged cash payments to congressmen.

The House Government Operations Committee Wednesday killed a proposal to remove hundreds of overseas American schools from Defense Department jurisdiction and put them under the proposed new Department of Education. The committee voted against an amendment which would have retained Pentagon control of the foreign schoojs used by children of military and diplomatic personnel. The committee today hopes to approve the legislation that would create a new Cabinet level Education Department. The House voted 236-164 Wednesday to approve the consumer cooperative bank and support it with $377 million in federal money. House approval sent the bill to the White House.

The Senate had passed the measure July 27. House panel doubts story Vietnamese refugee claims 46 POW's still alive as of '77 WASHINGTON (UPI) A Vietnamese refugee says he personally saw 49 American prisoners of war after the fall of Saigon in 1975 and at least 46 were still alive in April 1977. But Ngo Phi Hung, 48, told a skeptical House international relations subcommittee on Asian and Pacific affairs Wednesday he could not remember the name of one American, although he said he once had a list of all of them. Subcommittee Chairman Rep. Lester Wolff, told reporters after the hearing, "It is hard to believe the story." Hung, who arrived in this country early this year, said he first saw the prisoners in Saigon on June 12, 1975, less than two months after the city fell to the Communists.

Armed with special documents, he testified he was able to follow the Ngo Phi Hung POWs to four other detention centers. Forty-six were still alive last year after one suicide and two deaths "by natural causes," he said. Learning Communist authorities were on his trail, Hung said he fled with his family by boat to Thailand last February and then came to the United States. He now lives in San Diego. A senior administration official at the hearing said Hung's story "is not credible." "It contradicts everything we know about the handling and accounting for POWs," he said.

"He can't recall one name, claiming the list he had was stolen by pirates, yet he has given the ranks of all 49 men." Hung testified he painstakingly copied the Americans' names from a roster at a Saigon detention center. He said the list was taken by ethnic Chinese pirates off Thailand. The small committee room, packed with MIA wives ans families who still desperately hope some may still be alive, was brittle with emotion. Earl Hopper, an official of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing, told reporters he personally will offer a $10,000 reward if Hung's list can be found. Mourners weep at Paul's bier; conclave set to open Aug.

25 VATICAN CITY (UPI) As mourners filed past the body of Pope Paul VI at the rate of 200 per minute, the College of Cardinals announced Thursday the conclave to elect his successor would open in the Sistine Chapel Aug. 25. Prayers and stifled sobs echoed through the marbled halls of the largest church in Christendom as pilgrims passed before the scarlet and gold clad body of the late pope, his hands holding a rosary and clasped as in prayer, on the first of two days of his lying in state in St. Peter's Basilica. Vatican officials announced the pope's funeral Saturday would be held outdoors in St.

Peter's Square to allow an estimated 250,000 pilgrims and faithful to attend. Police said more than 60,000 people had filed past the body of the pope by noon. Some 40,000 were waiting to enter St. Peter's when its doors opened two hours ahead of schedule and tens of thousands stood in sweltering 90-degree heat outside during the day waiting to pay homage to the late pontiff. A dozen cardinals, among them Washington, D.C., Archbishop' William Wakefield Baum and two reported frontrunners to succeed Paul Italy's Sebastiano Baggio and Argentina's Eduardo Pironio came to pray at a footstool to the left of the pope's body.

The decision to open the conclave Aug. 25 came at the daily meeting of cardinals, attended by 43 church princes. They included four Americans Baum, Terence J. Cooke of New York, Your tomatoes are tops? Prove it! By ALLEN HOLDER A professor at a nearby university once told a classful of agriculture students that he had a tomato heavy enough to use for a shotput. They believed him.

But The Salina Journal didn't. Without proof, we don't believe any of those rumors about cucumbers that can type or sunflowers that serve as telephone poles in their spare time. So, for the eighth year, The Journal's Heaviest-Tomato-and-Longest-Cucumber Contest has been scheduled for all those gardeners who think they have record-breaking tomatoes and cucumbers. Taller-than-tall sunflowers are eligible, too. But the contest isn't too far away.

It's scheduled for Saturday at the Journal, 333 S. 4th. Registration will begin at 2:30 p.m. and judging will begin promptly at 3:17. Skilled judges, if they can remember the combination, will then open the vault that contains the official contest scales and measuring tape.

The prizes are unbelievable. Winners in each of the four categories tomatoes, cukes, good ol' American cukes and tallest sunflower will receive $5. Other prizes also may be awarded as consolation for entries such as the most talented sunflower or fattest cucumber. Telephone calls don't count. Only official entries on Saturday do.

Until then, The Journal asks gardeners not to call or write. Without proof, we simply won't believe that such things come from a garden. A professor at a nearby university once told a classful of agriculture students that he knew of a cucumber that swam the English Channel. They believed him. We didn't.

Trains collide STOCKHOLM, Sweden (UPI) At least 12 people were killed and 38 injured Thursday in two separate train accidents in Sweden. In a morning accident at Ostersund, 290 miles northwest of Stockholm, nine persons died and 28 were injured when a freight train collided with a passenger train. In Lund, near the southern tip of Sweden, a three-car double decker pase- nger train derailed. At least 3 persons died and 10 were injured, and police said passengers were still pinned under the carriages. Weapons banned BEIRUT, Lebanon (UPI) Syrian peace-keeping troops and Christian rightists tried to live up to the terms of their latest cease-fire Thursday by banning weapons in public and weeding out snipers from strategic areas of the capital.

But diplomats warned the moves to restore peace to Lebanon would fizzle quickly unless an overall solution was found to the six-month feud between the Syrians and Israeli-backed militiamen. US promised not to interfere in invasion? VIENNA, Austria (UPI) A former Czechoslovak Communist leader said Thursday the Soviets boasted they had personal assurances from President Lyndon Johnson that the United States would not intervene in their 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. Humberto S. Medeiros of Boston and John J. Carberry of St.

Louis. Sources close to the college said there still was more than a 50 percent chance that the new pope would be an Italian, as has been the case for 455 years. But they said the possibility of a non-Italian being elected was greater than at any other time this century. The sources said the race was still wide open with at least 15 names being mentioned as possible successors to the shoes of the fisheman. The pope's body was carried to St.

Peter's Wednesday from the papal summer residence of Castel Gandolfo 15 miles south of Rome where he died of a heart attack Sunday at age 80. The mourners filed quickly past the bier, some kneeling in prayer, others stopping to follow the masses which were being officiated in almost every one of the basilica's side chapels. But the devout atmosphere was occasionally disrupted as tour groups arrived, their leaders waving numbered flags and calling out in an effort to keep them together. Tourists disregarded the ban on taking photographs and flashbulbs popped repeatedly. The tourist groups included Americans, French, Germans, Filipinos and Scandinavians.

Some of them said they asked their tour guides to cancel other tours and sightseeing programs to take them to the Vatican to pay respect to the pope. Kennedy to attend Among those expected for the funeral were Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D- Philippines First Lady Imelda Marcos and Belgium's Prince's Albert of Liege. First Lady Rosalynn Carter will represent the United States at the funeral and Spain's King Juan Carlos has announced he will attend.

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