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24 PmghVptte Journal Saturday, November 22, 1975 Spaniards Bid Farewell To Franco A Spaniard filing past Francisco Franco's (82) bier kneels and expresses his last respects at Royal Palace In Madrid. Franco's body was placed on public view for the first time since his death on Thursday. dpi T.i.photo Pollutant Kills Effort To Restock Great Lakes Fish By JULIE FLINT Associated Press Writer MADRID. Spain (AP) With Fascist salutes, flowers, tears and prayers, hundreds of thousands of Spaniards, including crippled war veterans, paid a wildly emotional farewell to Gen. Francisco Franco on Friday.

Mourners paralyzed the streets of Madrid in the biggest outpouring in the capital In more than a quarter century. An elderly woman said she walked for four hours to see Franco's body "and I would have walked for four more." But as Spaniards paid homage to their fallen leader, who died Thursday at the age of 82, Franco's hand picked heir, Prince Juan Carlos de Borbon, 'faced growing opposition from the left, the right and dissident army officers who called his succession to power "another dictatorial act." Franco lay in state In an open coffin, his face ravaged by a five week fight against death. As night fell, the streets of Madrid were jammed with lines of mourners moving slowly and silently toward the National Palace, traditional residence of Spanish kings, to pay their last homage to the man who ruled them with an iron fist for 36 years. There were scenes of wild emotion in the palace's ornate Hall of Columns as old and young bade farewell to the gcneralisimo with red roses, salutes and prayers. A crippled veteran of the Spanish civil war, Franco's ladder to power in 1939, knelt before the coffin, tilted to show Franco's face, and cried: "Adios, my general.

At your orders always, my general." A middle aged woman became hysterical and was carried out of the hall after calling out in tears: "God bless you, great Spaniard, and goodby." Spain's last homage to its authoritarian ruler, dressed in a captain general's uniform, began quietly at dawn as a group of no more than 50 persons waited outside the 18th century palace for the gates to open. Within hours, however, mourners were massing in thousands in a five mile procession through the streets of the capital Government leaders and top political and military figures' mounted a 24 hour vigil by the general's coffin, five on each side in 20 minute shifts. Representatives of the three forces, the armed police and the paramilitary Guardia Civil kept watch behind. Overhead, a strong light shone down on Franco's wasted features. Religious music boomed over loudspeakers to the crowds outside, waiting In the square where Franco made his last public address Oct.

1, four days after the execution of five antigovernment militants set Europe's face against Spain. Four bouquets of flowers lay in front of the coffin, With inscriptions from "your wife, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren," brought with Franco's body from his own Pardo Palace shortly before dawn. Many mourners carried bunches of five red roses, symbol of the Fascist style Falange party that helped the general to power almost four decades ago. Franco will be buried Sunday in the grandiose monument to Spain's Civil War dead built on his orders in the bleak Valley of the Fallen, 35 miles north of Madrid. But as 37 year old Juan Carlos prepared to take over rule in Spain, the Democratic Military Union UDM an underground organization of an estimated 1,000 officers, said it could not accept him unless he was approved first by a vote of the Spanish people.

A clandestine statement issued in Barcelona termed the prince's succession as king and head of state to succeed Franco "another dictatorial act." The prince is due to be Installed Saturday Deiore parliament ana political sources said his future could hahg on his inaugural speech. Government and military officials' denounced the UDM statement as propaganda and said the organization had no real following within the armed forces. The UDM, nearly a dozen of whose members are awaiting prosecution for sedition, said it had nothing' personally against the prince and it indicated it would not take up arms to demand democratic reforms. "Today it is not necessary to provoke a war between brothers. But today as yesterday it Is desirable and just to want more justice and liberty in our country," the statement said.

The UDM position paralleled that of two big opposition fronts. One of the leaders, Antonio Garcia Lopez, told newsmen his Social Democratic party, coming out in the open, after Franco's death, would give the prince only two weeks to begin liberalizing. The dissident officers statement followed similar declarations by the illegal Communist and Socialist parties, the nation's two biggest. The prince is believed to have broad support within the army, especially following a trip to the Spanish Sahara, two weeks ago during a crisis with Morocco over the disputed territory. ft Vietnamese Move Toward Unification By JOSEPH R.

TYBOR Associated Press Writer CHICAGO (AP) A dangerous pollutant is killing a $175 million effort to restock the Great Lakes, rendering fish unsafe to eat and unable to reproduce, a government specialist said Friday. Samples of game fish show the restocking program is being wrecked because of potentially harmful levels of the chemical PCB, said Nathaniel P. Reed, assistant secretary of the interior. "Nothing short of immediate drastic action will enable us to raise anything better than lakes full of eunuchized fish," Reed told a conference. "With the present preponderance of PCBs, the lifespan of the Great Lakes fishery will be limited to a single generation." PCB is short for polychlorinated biphenyl, a hydrocarbon that had a number of industrial applications until the early 1970s when Monsanto the sole U.S.

producer, began "limiting its sales to the manufap turers of electrical transformers and capacitors. When ingested by the body in sufficient quantities, PCBs have been blamed for numerous problems from acne to miscarriage. The federal Food and Drug Administration bans the commercial sale of any fish with a PCB content of 5 parts per million and Canada earlier this week set a ppm limit. Reed said that in addition 'to the Great Lakes, PCB residues have been found in all of the fish samples from 100 stations in major river systems across the nation. "They are literally everywhere," he said.

"And I do not mean just the Hudson and the entire Great Lakes system, but the Merrimac amd Connecticut rivers of the Atlantic Coast, the Mississippi, Missouri and Ohio rivers of the Midwest, the Columbia River system in the Northwest, the Sacramento in the West, Rio Grande River and even the Yukon in Alaska. "Under present conditions, PCBs' may very well pull the rug out from beneath us by destroying marginal species in spite of our best efforts for preservation," Reed told a three day scientific and technical conference sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency, This year, federal and local governments will spend $18 million on the Great Lakes restocking program and have spent more than $175 million in the past 17 years to replenish the fisheries decimated by the sea lamprey, according to Reed's figures. More than 150 million lake trout, splake, and various salmon have been reintroduced as well as millions of rainbow, brook and brown trout. Sport fishermen alone contribute about $350 million annually to the economy of the Great Lakes states and Ontario, Reed said. "All our efforts are for naught if these fish cannot be harvested and now we face this stark possibility," said Reed.

The problem is most acute involving large lake trout and salmon from Lake Michigan but exists in varying degrees in other species as well as in lakes Superior, Huron and Ontario, Reed said. One paper presented earlier at the conference showed that all Lake Michigan coho salmon and lake trout tested for PCB content by the Fish and Wildlife Service last year exceeded the FDA accepted levels. Dangerous levels have also been found in the roe of Great Lakes fish. "We can't even get a lake trout to reproduce," said Reed. One test Reed cited involved rainbow trout eggs that contained as little as 2.7 parts per million of PCB and 90 parts per billion of DDT.

Seventy five per cent of the roe died and 60 to 70 per cent of the surviving fry were deformed. Reed said some species, such as chubs, are even disappearing from their native habitation in the deep waters of Lakes Superior, Michigan and Huron. "Although we have yet to pinpoint the interaction of dynamic ingredients, our scientists are certain that toxic substances such as PCBs are playing an important role," Reed said. Earlier this week, the EPA for the first time identified 10 Industrial dischargers of PCBs into the nation's waters and said that 24 other electric equipment makers discharge PCBs into sewage treatment plants. "The Great Lakes are a virtual 'sink' for PCBs," Reed explained.

"It takes more than 50 years for water to turn over in Lake Michigan. "Moreover, with more than one third of the U.S. population and an even greater proporotion of the Canadian population living near the lake shores, tons upon tons of PCB infested materials are daily deposited into the Great Lakes receptacle." Reed said the critical use of PCBs in transformers and capacitors because of their fire resistance and safety should be reviewed with the hope that replacement materials can be found and their use eliminated in three years. BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) North and South Vietnam announced Friday they will move soon to form a single government for the divided country a step widely expected since the Communist victory last April over the former American backed Saigon government. Radio broadcasts from Saigon and Hanoi monitored in Bangkok said a political conference of the two Viet nams decided to hold elections soon leading to.

a unified government "based on independence and socialism." Communist leaders of North Vietnam, whose forces plus the Viet Cong drove out the Unsupported regime in the South, were expected to dominate the unified state. The broadcasts said an election date had been agreed upon but did not say what it was. The Japanese Kyodo news service, in a dispatch from Peking, said the voting was likely to be on Jan. 6, the Vietnamese Independence Day, or April 30, celebrated as Liberation Day. A consultative conference between 25 member delegations from North and South Vietnam opened last Saturday in Saigon and agreed on "national reunification in all aspects," the broadcasts said.

Quoting Nguyen Huu Tho, chairman of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam, they reported "the conference has totally agreed on the implementation of a national election to set up the National Assembly. The National Assembly will nominate the governing body of the unified Vietnam. "The conference has also agreed unanimously upon the time of elec tion, number of representatives, nature of the National Assembly, and the first session of the National Assembly." The broadcast gave no details, but presumed' adopted were proposals for a secret ballot, a minimum voting age of 18 and a 25 year age requirement for candidates. Among issues reported left for the National Assembly to decide were the name of the unified state, the national flag and what city would be the national capital. Despite their standing policy of eventual reunification, both North and South Vietna'm applied last summer for separate United Nations membership.

Their applications were vetoed by the United States first in August and again in October in retaliation for exclusion of South Korea from the world organization. Both North and South Vietnam have recognized observer status at the United Nations. When asked why they sought separate membership while planning eventual reunification, their spokesmen regularly replied that the question of reunification would be settled by the Vietnamese people "in due time" and did not affect the pending membership applications. The rulers of a single Vietnam face many practical problems of merger, presumably the reason that M'Vv" hf tfaL4mHI wiassvawmBsr jfep 'Jv jfllrH lrHra jMfe Jsyssssssss Wm ''mfvf SB9at 'msWfMiuimLamwsmaaaaaaaaaaaaaasa mBMSMswsssMSMsu IBE'' $3smmBsmmtttassm Ronald DeFeo was found guilty Friday on six counts of murder in the killing of his family. He Is shown In this photo at the time of bis arrest Nov.

14, 1974. UPlTJ.pKolo DeFeo Found Guilty Of Killing Family RIVERHEAD, N.Y. (AP) Ronald DeFeo was convicted by a state supreme court jury Friday of wiping out his family of six last year with a rifle as they slept in their beds at their expensive Amityyille, N.Y., home. A jury of six men and six women reached their verdict of guilty on all six counts of murder after two days of deliberations, following a seven week trial. DeFeo, 24, faces a maximum 25, years to life on each count.

Justice Thomas Stark set sentencing for Dec. 4. The defense claimed DeFeo was insane on the night of Nov, 13 when he shot his father, a well to do auto sales manager, his mother, two sisters and two brothers. However, the state said DeFeo wiped out the family to get his hands on "hundreds of thousands of dollars that were kept in that house in a strongbox buried in the floor of the closet in the master bedroom." unification has been delayed so far. North Vietnam has had a Communist form of government for many years, while the South was ruled until April by a series of anti Communist regimes.

Saigon, a city swollen by refugees during years of conflict, is undergoing major changes instituted by the new rulers, as are lesser urban areas and rural districts in the South. Occasional clashes with die hard troops are still reported, though a stagnant economy, not armed warfare, has become a major problem for the new Communist regime. 2 Top HEW Aides Quit WASHINGTON (AP) Two more top welfare administrators in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare have submitted their resignations, it was learned Friday. The resignations of John A. Svahn and John C.

Young in HEW's Social and Rehabilitation Service represent almost the last of the Nixon administration carryovers in the department. Svahn, who had been acting administrator of SRS since last June when James S. Dwight Jr. resigned, is leaving in mid January. Young had been commissioner of SRS's Community Services Administration and acting commissioner of the Assistance Payments Administration.

His resignation is effective at the end of December. Earlier this fall, U.S. Welfare Commissioner Robert B. Carleson and his deputy also resigned from HEW. Svahn, Carleson and Dwight all had held high positions in the administration of former Gov.

Ronald Reagan of California. Young, who had been a businessman before joining the government in March 1974, said he is returning to private business in the energy field. The resignations leave only one top, administrator in HEW's welfare; program. That is held by M. Keith' Weikel, a former health economist with a drug manufacturer who became the government's top Medicaid administrator last year at.

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