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Biggest in two years Powerful nuclear test slated for Wednesday DAILY FACTS, Redlands, Calif. EB and FLO Tuesday, June 2 by Paul Sellers Retires with a warning PAHUTE MESA, Nev. (UP1) The United States will set off the ninth nuclear test explosion of the year Wednesday, giving warnings that indicate it may be the most powerful such explosion in two years. A "weapons related" device a nuclear bomb or warhead be detonated deep under the earth at 7 a.m. Wednesday at the Nevada Test Site in the desert 120 miles north of Las Vegas.

The Energy Research and Development Administration, successor to the defunct Atomic Energy Commission, said the blast will pack a punch of 200 kilotons to one megaton. The minimum yield given is 10 times the power of the A-bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The maximum is equal to detonation of a million tons of TNT, or 50 times the power of those early bombs. Th explosion, code named "Mast," is only the second in the megaton range since June of 1973, out of scores of tests. "Tybo," set off May 14, was called the most powerful explosion since June of 1973 but indications were that Wednesday's blast, although officially in the same deliberately vague power class, will be greater.

The "Tybo" bomb was buried 2,500 feet under the desert. "Mast" will be set off 3,000 feet down. Officials ordered the Exchange Club, an aged adobe bar and hotel that is one of the few buildings near the test site, evacuated when "Mast" goes off, a precaution that was not required for the test last month. It will be the 273rd underground nuclear test at the site since the United States and Russia agreed in 1963 to ban tests in the atmosphere. Three Congressmen lobby for VA cemetery WASHINGTON (UPI) house subcommittee Monday heard arguments from three California congressmen on the best location for a 570-acre veterans cemetery proposed by the Veterans Administration.

Not surprisingly, each legislator lobbied for a site located in his own district. Rep. B. F. Sisk, D-Fresno, spoke in favor of a site near Los Banos, Rep.

William Ketchum, R-Bakersfield, argued in favor of a site in the White Wolf Valley east of Bakersfield and Rep. Clair Burgener, R-Rancho Santa Fe, confidently spoke in favor of a site at March Air Force Base near Riverside. The VA has already said it favors the Riverside site but would consider congressional opinion on the matter. Sisk said the Los Banos site in the hills of the western San Joaquin Valley would insure a tranquil, quiet setting. "At Riverside, on the other hand, you will be next to the noise, congestion and pollution of a major freeway," Sisk told the subcommittee members.

"After looking at these sites, ask yourselves where a bereaved widow and her children would rather see their loved one's resting place: peace and tranquility or confusion and pollution." Ketchum criticized the VA selection process and complained the VA "doesn't really care what the Congress may desire." Burgener noted Riverside is within a two-hour drive of 10 million people and meets the prime VA requirement of being within 50 miles of a large veterans population. The subcommittee plans to visit the three sites during the next two weeks and hold a public hearing in Los Angeles July 2. Marianas vote to accept U.S. commonwealth status SAIPAN, Mariana islands (UPI) The people of the northern Mariana Islands voted today to accept commonwealth status with the United States. It is the first time in half a century that the United States has acquired new territory.

More than half of the 13 precincts counted showed that about 80 per cent of the population of about 16,000 voted to accept the commonwealth covenant signed last February by their political leaders and representees of the United States. The covenant provided that at least 55 per cent must vote in favor or the covenant is void. The islanders have been asking for admittance to the American family for 20 years, but it was not until three years ago that the United States agreed to enter into negotiations separate from the other five districts of Micronesia. The new commonwealth will be composed of all the Mariana islands north of the American island of Guam and will include such prominent names of World War II as Saipan and Tinian. New Hampshire vote decision nearing WASHINGTON (UPI) Two giant replicas of paper ballots were moved onto the Senate floor Monday to help lawmakers better understand the issues involved in the New Hampshire Senate race, the closest in history.

As Democrat John A. Durkin and Republican Louis C. Wyman looked on. several senators used the giant ballots to make points during debate. One of the ballots was six feet square and designed so it could be written on and then erased; the other was in the form of a chart.

The Senate will vote late TACOS today on the first major motion relating to the dispute effort by Sen. Lowell Weicker, to declare the seat vacant and return the issue to New Hampshire for voters to settle in a special election. A similar motion failed on a near party line vote in January and Republicans were not expected to have gained enough Democratic support for passage. Sen. Howard Cannon, D- chairman of the Rules Committee, which spent five months reviewing contested ballots from last November's election, said he feared New Hampshire law setting up machinery for a special Wyman-Durkin election was unconstitutional because it specifically named the candidates who could run.

This improperly excludes other qualified candidates from running if they so desired, he said, adding: "The state of New Hampshire would be very ill advised to proceed under this statute." Now You Know By United Press International There are 22 million pet cats in the United States, an increase of 13 per cent in the last 10 years. Senators favor expanding base in Indian Ocean WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate Armed Services Committee voted today to proceed with expansion of a U.S. Naval base on the tiny Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia. At the end of a closed session, the committee voted 10-6 to authorize $13.8 million to expand the base, lengthen the runway and build fuel storage tanks. The opponents plan to file dissenting views and the full Senate must vote by July 31.

"The vote was in favor of Diego Garcia," said the chairman, Sen, John C. Stennis, D- Miss. "We based our decision on the testimony last week, including the secretary of defense, and some classified matters, which we will try to get unclassified as soon as possible," he said. Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger said last week the presence of Soviet antiship missiles at Berbera, Somalia at the mouth of the Red Sea made it more necessary to have a base that could supply a carrier task force for 30 days.

Both Somalia and the Soviet Union denied there were missiles at Berbera. Kennedy blasts Rockefeller for innuendos BOSTON (UPI) Sen. Edward Kennedy said it was "utterly irresponsible" for Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to hint the Kennedy brothers might have been involved in CIA assassination plots. "Such comments come with especially bad grace from the vice president, whose own CIA commission avoided the question of assassination and passed the buck to Congress," Kennedy said Monday. Rockefeller, whose commission report on the CIA was released last week, hinted Sunday the commission may have obtained information President Kennedy and his brother, former Attorney General Robert Kennedy, were involved in the alleged plots.

But he emphasized none of the secret information could support conclusions of guilt. "For him now to indulge in these innuendos is utterly irresponsible. Given his own failure to fulfill his duty on the issue, I hope he'll have the decency to maintain his silence now while the Senate investigating committee and others do the job that he should have done," Kennedy said. First child for Hartmans LOS ANGELES (UPI) The wife of actor David Hartman, star of the television series "Lucas Tanner," gave birth to the couple's first child, an 8 pound 8 ounce boy, a spokesman for the actor said Monday. The infant, to be named Sean, was born Sunday night at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital to Maureen Hartman, 29.

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Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson, whose resignation in the "Saturday Night Massacre" helped lead to President Richard Nixon's downfall, says President Ford's decision to run for a full term has ruled out a Richardson presidential candidacy in 1976. Instead, he says, he will offer Ford any help he can give. "In the circumstances I see no realistic prospect that I would be playing any active role on my own behalf in 1976," he said in a UPI interview in the U.S. Embassy office he occupies as American ambassador to the Court of St.

James's. Does that mean he is putting off for four years any plans he himself may have had to run? "Well, I hadn't really made any plans," he said. "But what this means is that I see no chance that I would be making them." Richardson was Nixon's attorney general at the time of the "Saturday Night Massacre" Oct. 20, 1973. He quit rather than obey the President's orders to fire special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox.

Black Muslims worth $46 million or more CHICAGO (UPI) The new leader of the Black Muslims, breaking almost a half century of secrecy about his sect's financial worth, says the group has assets of at least $46 million. The Hon. Wallace D. Muhammad gave the estimate Sunday during a five-hour rally. He said about $14.5 million of the assets are in Chicago real estate.

Muhammad, 42, also denied rumors of a power struggle within the Nation of Islam since the death of his father, Elijah Muhammad, last February. He said he would keep some details of the sect's financial worth secret, but he said one major asset is a multi-million- dollar seafood import agreement with several foreign countries. The $6.3 million investment has returned more than $22 million in retail sales, he said. Muhammad said $7 million of the total sales was sent to national Muslim headquarters here and the other $15 million Bolshoi gets welcome plus a protest LOS ANGELES (UPI) In a double-edged motion, the City Council Monday extended a welcome to Russia's Bolshoi Ballet, then protested "cultural oppression of Jewish citizens" in the Soviet Union. Councilman Joel Wachs' motion said the council welcomes and invites cultural exchange between the United States and the Soviet Union.

But then it noted that "repression threatens to erase the cultural continuity of the heritage of Jews" in the Soviet Union. The ballet opens an engagement today at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium. was distributed to 176 temples across the country. Other assets, he said, include about $6.2 million in farmland in several states. The amount represents cash value at purchase and does not reflect property value increases.

The Nation of Islam's corporate headquarters, which paid about 1,000 persons in Chicago a payroll of $1.3 million, also paid about $1.5 million in taxes last year, Muhammad said. He said construction is beginning on a nursing home and preschool center and plans have been completed for a complex for treatment of the mentally ill. LIVERMORE, Calif. (UPI) Dr. Edward Teller is the so- called "Father of the H-Bomb" label he hates.

But from the pedestal of that fame, he has over the years involved himself in controversy over the pace and direction science in the United States vs. Russia. Monday, the 67-year-old bushy-browed researcher retired, and made it clear nothing has changed. He said Russia "will control the future" if America's youth abandons its interest in science. Teller stepped down from the University of California and the Lawrence research facility, a leader in world nuclear research.

But he left no doubt he will continue his controversial and outspoken opinions. This time, he said the quality of young scientists "has declined to a catastrophic degree. "What young man wants to go today into a field that is considered irrelevant by so many people?" he continued. "The turning away of public sentiment against scientists, particularly among the young, cannot help to have an effect on the ultimate product." Teller also attacked politicians who fail to support programs to increase the nation's energy supply. "The Russians have not been stopped by the cutting of appropriations," he said.

He added that "if Russia continues to go ahead while we are involved in philisophical discussions, they will control the future." Teller received congratulatory messages from President Ford, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. Ford's letter praised Teller's "unshakable belief in individualism, progress and technical advancement." The Hungarian-born Teller, who fled Hitler's Germany in 1934, said the country is approaching a period worse than the 1930s in its potential threat of war and problems in the areas of energy and food. He grumbled that "too many A.A. gaining OAKLAND (UPI) Membership in Alcoholics Anonymous is increasing at better than 10 per cent a year and includes growing numbers of women and young people, according to an officer of the organization. young people, and many of the rest of us, have been spoiled." Teller is no stranger to controversy.

He opposed the 1963 nuclear test ban treaty with Russia, saying it was not a "step toward peace but a step away from safety and possibly a step toward war." He said he would claim credit for the H-bomb only in that he always believed it could be developed despite the doubts of colleagues. 'I find myself unhappily in a situation of being given certainly too much credit and perhaps too much blame," he said. He once said that if the nation did not have a mass bomb shelter program, "it will be the end of the United States." And of Russia, he once commented, "They speak the truth only among themselves. When they speak to the capitalists, it is like the Turks speaking to the infidels." Senate passes bill to keep killer bees out WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate has passed a bill aimed at keeping killer African bees out of the United States. The bill, passed unanimously Monday, would prohibit import of honeybees in all their life stages.

Current law prohibits only the importing of adult honey bees. The African honeybee, known for unprovoked stinging and frequent swarming, was accidentally introduced in Brazil in 1956 and began dominating Brazil's more docile European honeybees. The bees now are moving northward at a rate estimated at up to 200 miles a year. The African bee represents a threat to people, animals and the U.S. beekeeping industry, according to a 1972 report of the National Academy of Sciences.

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