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Akron Beacon Journal A3 Ford refuses to run added tests on cars Kni9ht-Ridder News Service DETROIT Ford Motor Co. has refused a request by the government that it run more tests on fuel system changes planned for 1.5 million Pintos and Bobcats which are alleged to have serious fire hazards As a result, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which made the request, will run its own crash tests. If the agency isn't satisfied with the results, it could rule that the cars even after a recall campaign that Ford says will cost more than $30 million are still unsafe, and that more extensive changes are needed. THE AGENCY'S tests are designed to determine whether the changes will reduce what the agency has ruled is a serious fire hazard in the 1971-1976 subcompact models. "The tests will be made sometime within the next two weeks," agency spokesman Irvin Chor said Tuesday.

"We're satisfied that the modifications we've come up with are adequate," said a Ford spokesman, who confirmed that the company had refused the NHTSA request for more tests. Joan Claybrook, NHTSA administrator, announced July 21 that the agency was going to conduct further tests but said it was asking Ford -to conduct them. She said if the tests indicate more changes are needed, it would delay Ford's proposed recall for several months while hearings are conducted. In the spring, NHTSA announced that its tests showed that fuel tanks and filler pipes of 1971-1976 Pintos and Bobcats, with the exception of station wagon mod els, consistently ruptured when hit from behind by full-sized cars traveling at speeds of 30 to 35 miles per hour. THE COMPANY said in June that it will recall and modify the cars but has consistently denied that they were unsafe.

Ford plans to install a plastic shield between the gas tank and the rear axle, along with a new gas cap and a longer fuel filler pipe. Those modifications, a company spokesman said, "will substantially improve the vehicle's ability to withstand rear-end impact." But NHTSA told Ford two weeks ago that the agency considers Ford's tests inadequate. The Ford test consisted of hitting the modified cars in the rear with a flat-faced barrier traveling at 25 miles per hour. In the first of two such tests, a company spokesman said, the car's gas cap popped off. When a different type of cap was substituted in the second test, he said, there was no leakage.

Victory margin narrow House acts to lift Turkey arms ban Wednesday, August 2, 1978 cates of repeal managed to eke out the additional three votes that gave them the victory. The closeness of the vote reflected the bitter opposition in the Greek-American community to Turkey's continued occupation of 38 percent of Cyprus, which has an 80 percent Greek population. In the vote, the President actually lost the majority of his own party in the House, with Democratic members voting against the administration's position, 141-to-130. What gave Carter his margin of victory was the support of the Republican members who voted, 178 to 64, for lifting the embargo. compromise language adopted by the House.

Final House action on the military aid bill was scheduled for today. The bill will then go to a House-Senate conference committee to reconcile differences with a Senate-approved version. UNLIKE the vote in the Senate, the administration won by a lopsided 57-42 margin, Tuesday's showdown in the House was a cliffhanger right down to the last second of vote counting. In fact, the outcome at first appeared to be a 205-205 tie. Amidst the pandemonium that then broke out on the House floor, the advo From Beacon Journal Wire Services WASHINGTON The House handed President Carter a narrow foreign policy victory Tuesday night, voting 208 to 205 to lift the three-and-one-half year-old embargo on U.S.

arms sales to Turkey. The President, who called the removal of the arms embargo the most important foreign policy issue remaining in Congress this year, refused to endorse compromise proposals making the action conditional on progress in resolving the Greek-Turkish dispute ovr Cyprus. But he was expected to sign the $999 million foreign military aid authorization bill containing the THE MAIN factor in turning the tide for the administration was a last-minute compromise worked out by House Majority Leader Jim Wright In place of the administration's original request for total repeal of the embargo, Wright succeeded in substituting compromise language paralleling that adopted by the Senate last week. The compromise, in the form of an amendment to the fiscal 1979 military aid bill, eliminates the language in existing U.S. law mandating the embargo.

That language, adopted in 1975, subsequently was modified to allow Turkish purchases of U.S. arms and equipment of up to $175 million a year. The Wright amendment adopted Tuesday will permit Carter to end the embargo as soon as he reports to Congress that Turkey "is acting in good faith to achieve a just and peaceful settlement of the Cyprus problem." The amendment also contains guideline language stressing there should be no "lessening of the U.S. commitment" to a Cyprus solution. CYPRUS' president, Spyros Kyp-rianou said today the lifting of the embargo brought "bitterness, resentment and deep disappointment" to the Greek Cypriots.

Rauf Denktash, the Turkish Cyp-riot leader, said the end of the embargo "will not affect our attitude at the negotiating table. The imposition of the embargo was a mistake from the beginning. This has now been rectified." Chilean government arrests 3 indicted in Letelier plot iff Op 'i'' lj tionals, it said their arrest did not signify guilt and was taken "exclusively under provisions of the existing extradition treaty between both countries." That 1902 treaty provides that each country will extradite people charged with crimes in the other country but that neither country is bound to hand over its own citizens. Informed sources said if Chile's supreme court finds validity in the U.S. charges against the Chileans, they must either be extradited for trial in the United States or brought to trial in Chile.

THE FOUR Cubans indicted for participation in the alleged murder plot were Guillermo Novo, Alvin Ross, Virgilio Paz and Jose Dioni-sio Suarez, all of Union City, N.J. Paz and Suarez are fugitives while Novo and Ross are in jail in New York City. A fifth Cuban exile, Guillermo Novo's brother Ignacio, was indicted on the lesser charges of lying under oath and concealing knowledge of a felony. He is in jail in the District of Columbia. Roll call House votes 208 to 205 to repeal the embargo on U.S.

military aid to Turkey. SANTIAGO, Chile UP) The Chilean government says it has ordered house arrest for its former security police chief and two of his men charged in the United States with plotting the assassination of Orlando Letelier. But their extradition is not expected. Retired Brig. Gen.

Juan Manuel Contreras, Col. Pedro Espinosa and Capt. Armando Fernandez have been placed under preventive military arrest for a maximum period of two months pending the outcome of legal proceedings, the Interior Ministry said Tuesday night. Contreras and Espinosa are at their homes and Fernandez is in a military hospital, "all under military custody and guard," an army communique said. It did not say why Fernandez was hospitalized.

The request for their detention was made by the United States, which said it would send formal extradition requests "in a matter of weeks." Observers said chances are slight the men will be extradited but a local trial is possible. THE THREE Chileans and four anti-Castro Cuban exiles in the United States were indicted by a federal grand jury in Washington Tuesday for the bomb-assassination of Letelier as his car moved through Washington's Embassy Row on Sept. 21, 1976. A young woman associate in the car, Ronni Moffitt, also was killed, and her husband, Michael, was wounded. Letelier was ambassador to the United States, foreign minister and interior minister under the late Democrats No Douglas Applegate-18th Yes Donald Pease-13th No John Seiberling-14th No 1 Charles Vani-23nd Republicans Yes Ralph Regula-16th Yes J.

William Stanton-1 1th Grandma's grief Mary Post watches as firemen fight a blaze in the Providence, R.I., tenement, where her two-year-old grandson Ernest Northrop is trapped. The Northrop boy died. Mrs. Post holds her son, Richard, 4. Gen.

Juan Contreras President Salvador Allende, the Marxist overthrown by the military in 1973. He was arrested and exiled after the coup and became an outspoken foe of President Augusto Pinochet's military government. Contreras headed the Chilean junta's security police, the DINA, from its organization in early 1974 until its dissolution a year ago. The Washington indictment said he "initiated the action which began the conspiracy and ordered the assassination of Orlando Letelier." Espinosa, director of operations for DINA, was accused of conveying the assassination order to Capt. Fernandez and an American DINA agent, Michael Townley.

The indictment said Fernandez then went to the United States and shadowed Letelier to determine his habits. ALTHOUGH Chile acted swiftly in detaining its three indicted na our. ultimate A UNIT OF AUIE0 STORES 9 a Lebanon may ask UN to intervene in clashes Pillow Savings For Your Bed ering U.S. and UN intervention to pressure Israel into withholding support for Christian militiamen. Gunmen strike Iraqi mission KARACHI, Pakistan (JP) Two Arab youths opened fire on officials entering the Iraqi consulate-general in Karachi today, wounding one official and a police guard.

Police killed one of the attackers and arrested the other one. It was the third attack on Iraqi officials or an Iraqi government office abroad in less than a week. Police said the two Arab youths arrived at the main gate of the Iraqi mission about 9:30 a.m. and fired at Consul-General Amer Naji Zain al-Din as he entered the building. He was not hurt.

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Clashes occurred between Syrian peacekeepers and Christian milita-men in Beirut; Palestinian guerrillas were battling Iraqi-backed guerrillas near Tripoli; and Christian militiamen were blocking a Lebanese army advance in the south. Guerrilla sources said at least six Palestinians were killed and 24 wounded at camps near Tripoli, 60 miles north of Beirut. THE SOURCES said the clashes were part of the terror war between Yasser Arafat's main guerrilla group Al Fatah and the Iraqi regime of President Ahmed Hassan Al Bakr, which opposes Arafat's attempt to reach a settlement with Israel. The prime concern of the Sarkis government was the south, where Israeli-backed Christian militiamen were preventing a regular Lebanese army contingent from moving into UN-controlled regions bordering Israel for the third straight day. Premier Salim El Hoss accused Israel of blocking the advance and said attempts by Prime Minister Menachem Begin's government to "hide behind certain local elements is a flimsy excuse." Sources said Lebanon was consid- resumes talks ROANOKE, Va.

UP) Reporting that a few striking clerks have returned to work here, the Norfolk Western Railway says it will resume negotiations with the Brotherhood of Railroad and Airline hammad Ghaib, drove up soon after and was wounded seriously, the police said. The rash of attacks on Iraqi for eign missions is blamed on the split among Palestinian guerrillas be tween radicals championed by Iraq's radical socialist government and more moderate factions led by Yasser Arafat. Akron Beacon Journal Na. 107. 140 Va Published daily and Sunday by the Beacon journal HuDbsnmo Co.

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