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1st Bmoa Tta Hw Journal, Wilmington, 01., Saturday, June 17, 1978 Carter ItaaPMtOM Ralston says he sought veto in action foreign briefs gliggjf llfiiiifi' Ci- I (i ft) blocking action. But both Ralston and Edward Spear, a vice-president and member of the chamber's board of directors, denied Keller's assertion. "Believe me, we had nothing to do with that," Spear said yesterday. "We don't work that way in or in the chamber. I want to assure people that the company and the chamber aren't behind this either directly or indirectly." Battle Robinson of Georgetown, du Pont's legal counsel on consumer issues, said she doubted whether Ralston's action would influence the governor's decision on whether to sign the intervenor aid bill.

"If they Keller's group are a legal intervenor and can be identified as such and the bill applies to them, then that is the group that would get the financial assistance," she said. Some observers believe that because du Pont strongly supports a bill to establish a public advocate's office to represent consumers, he will veto the intervenor bill. McDowell noted, "The public advocate could not intervene in this case because the docket is already closed. This the intervenor bill is the only mechanism we have to fight the rate increase." Mrs. Robinson said, however, that du Pont's support for the public advocate legislation doesn't mean he will veto McDowell's bill.

"He has 10 days to decide on it and it just reached his desk yesterday," she said. "I'm sure he hasn't made up his mind yet." participate in the determination of their destiny," Carter said. The treaty ceremony at the Panama City coliseum was the symbolic end to a decade-long struggle by Panama to gain control of the canal and the surrounding Canal Zone, which have been under U.S. jurisdiction since the original treaty was signed in 1903. Under the terms of the new treaties, the agreements take effect next April 1.

with the actual transfer of control over the canal beginning six months later on Oct 1,1979. The transfer of control over the canal will continue gradually until the year 2000, when Panama will assume full responsibility for the operations. A second so-called "neutrality treaty" guarantees the canal's neutrality and gives the United States an unlimited right to defend it As Carter began to sign the first of the documents involved, the crowd in the coliseum stood and applauded. When the ceremony ended, Torrijos reached out to embrace the president as the crowd cheered. The ceremony was witnessed by the presidents of Venezuela, Costa Rico, Mexico and Colombia and the Prime Minister of Jamaica, all of whom supported the new accord.

Carter met last night with all of the visiting Latin American leaders and is scheduled to have a second session with them today. The president arrived here in the tropical heat of mid-afternoon. He was accompanied by a large U.S. delegation that included four members of the House and 12 senators, headed by Foreign Relations Chairman John Sparkman, and Sens. Frank Church, D-Idaho, and Paul Sarbanes the floor managers of the treaties during the Senate debate.

In the documents exchanged by Torrijos and Carter, the Panamanian government explicitly act cepted all of the amendments, reservations and understandings attached to the treaties by the Senate during its 38-day debate over the agreements. ConpM Gunttt Nwt Servkt Peruvian fugitive outwits guards LIMA, Peru The most wanted political fugitive in Peru walked into Lima's heavily guarded Presidential Palace, asked for an appointment with the president, waited 20 minutes, signed the guest book and left on a motorcycle all without arousing the suspicions of guards. Gen. Leonidas Rodriguez, once an official in the military government and now a radical politician accused of fomenting last month's riots on food prices, has been in hiding for three weeks to avoid a deportation order. Belgian premier asked to remain BRUSSELS, Belgium King Baudouin asked Premier Leo Tindemans to stay in office yesterday and make another effort to solve Belgium's worsening economic crisis.

He handed in his resignation Thursday in apparent exasperation over failure to win approval for emergency powers to deal with the budget crisis. Leone's resignation sparks turmoil ROME Italian leaders struggled yesterday to try to keep President Giovanni Leone's sudden resignation from turning into a full-scale crisis that many feel would upset the political balance between Christian Democrats and Communists. Investigations are under way, meanwhile, to determine whether there are grounds for criminal charges against the 69-year-old Leone, who stepped down Thursday in response to allegations of tax evasion and connection with the Lockheed scandal. Pope forbids church marriage LONDON Pope Paul VI has refused to allow a cousin of Queen Elizabeth to marry a divorced Roman Catholic in a Catholic church, a church announcement said yesterday. Prince Michael of Kent, who was 16th in line to the British throne, gave up his right to succession after announcing he planned to marry Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz, an Austrian Catholic.

A church spokesman said the pope refused to allow the couple to marry in a Catholic Church since any children of the marriage are to be raised as Anglicans, not Catholics. Soweto honors 2nd anniversary SOWETO, South Africa Thousands of blacks shouting "power," raising clenched-fist salutes and singing hymns of freedom packed churches in this sprawling township yesterday to mark the anniversary of the bloody street riots of 1976. Nervous police in camouflage fatigues checked passing cars, frisking some passengers and haranguing others. But no serious incidents were reported through the day in sharp contrast to the weeks of riots two years earlier which left more than 600 blacks dead. Since the rioting ignited in Soweto in 1976 and swept through black communities elsewhere thousands of Soweto's most politicized students have fled to neighboring states, many to undergo guerrilla training.

Soldier's a star Barbara Thai was one of many autograph-seekers who came yesterday to pay tribute to America's only living five-star general, Omar Bradley, during a session at the Broadway department store in Los Angeles. Gen. Bradley's new book is "Bradley: A Soldier's Story." (UPI) 65-foot goal ices Seaford bridge win Prison Seaford Contlnusd front PM Out news, Merrill said. Merrill said the FCC will consider the request for additional commercial and cable television expansion in lower Delaware July 27 at a Washington hearing. The citizens, committee has scheduled two buses to travel to Washington for the FCC hearings.

4 people are killed in Mexican plane crash MEXICO CITY (AP) A light, plane with one of its two engines afire narrowly missed a school yesterday and crashed and exploded in a garden beside a church near downtown Mexico City, killing four of the five people aboard, police said. VIENNA, Md. (AP) The U.S. Coast Guard, concerned about access for its icebreakers, has stepped into a 5-year-old dispute between Maryland and Delaware over the height of a proposed bridge across the Nanticoke River here. The Coast Guard sided with businessmen from Seaford, who have wanted a 65-foot clearance since the bridge was proposed in 1973.

Maryland officials, who have suggested clearances ranging from 38 to 45 feet, have agreed to go along. Studying the severe winter of 1976-77, the Coast Guard found that a low bridge would block not only commercial traffic on the frozen river, but its own icebreakers as well. "The Coast Guard recommended a height of 65 feet and the administrator decided to abide by their recommendation," said Charles Karas, assistant project manager for the Maryland State Highway Administration. "From what I gather, the possibility of icebreakers, and looking into the future that was one of the factors that led SHA Administrator M.S Caltrider to reach his decision for 65 feet," Karas said. Paul Whaley, Seaford Chamber of Commerce president, said the city has been stubborn about getting the 65-foot clearance because icebreakers have been needed on the river the last two winters.

"River traffic is the up-and-coming mode of transportation and we're trying to upgrade the port this is our only outlet to the sea from Sussex County or lower Delaware and it's impor- a I 4 corrections 1 in run ill i clown. Julius Bourn ann, who also graduated from Brandywine in 1968 has been a clown for the past two years with Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros, circus. CmMimn4 tram Patt Out three months to turn the state's prison system around to where the management and staff control the prisons. When he took over as bureau chief, Mulvena said, "The chief would sit in his oaken office and ask for information about a prisoner. No information.

The chief wanted to know why So and So was out on furlough. The answer was 'I don't Mulvena said, "We had this notorious inmate out on furlough. It is possible to trace how he shucked and jived, conned and moved, switched and moved with a little razzle-dazzle. There's a bird who was out on the street and ripped and tore with evil and bad. The system was not in control of him." It apparently was in reference to Aubrey McKay, convicted of rapes he committed on furlough.

Mulvena said that Reddish has now prepared rule books for guards and prisoners so that every one will know what's expected. "The change is frightening," Mulvena said, "but we will not be backed off by community legal services, though well intentioned; we will not be backed off by people who want to perpetuate a system that allows the prisoners to remain in control." Mulvena also praised Prison Commissioner James T. Vaughn as "a law and order oriented person who has been a godsend to the Department of Correction and has the respect of the General Assembly." "After 10 years of starvation, the bureau's budget has been increased 20 percent," Mulvena added. "But at the moment, while our juvenile correction system is the best in the country, our adult prison system, for the time being, is the worse. It just can't get any worse." A story in yesterday's Evening Mid" Allen Malo, the manager of a Journal incorrectly stated that the Nigel Maidmont (left) and Brian Cooper, the two Britons who were flogged publicly in Saudi Arabia for running an illegal still in that dry nation, said yesterday they kept quiet during the ordeal to save face.

They arrived in London Thursday after spending six months in a Saudi prison. (UPI) China receives king of Spain TOKYO China's leaders have rolled out the welcome mat for King Juan Carlos of Spain, head of a government they believe stands for European unity against Moscow. The king, and Queen Sofia, arrived in Peking yesterday and were met by a number of top Chinese officials including Communist Party Chairman Hua Kuo-feng and Vice Chairman Teng Hsiao-ping. The People's Daily, the Communist Party organ, noted in an editorial thatSpain "stands for Western European unity and the strengthening of West European defense Other things it found appealing were Spain's application to join the European Economic Community and its desire to improve relations with the Third World. Seaford grain company that uses the river for shipping, said "a low bridge could have ruined Seaford." "It's not at all unusual for the Coast Guard to keep track of such projects and influence decisions on them," said Lt.

Thomas Morse, a Coast Guard spokesman. He said the 65-foot bridge would allow icebreakers to pass. Vehicle use of the strip of beach from Cape Henlopen to the point of the Cape will be restricted, starting today, to add-numbered days only. It was incorrectly reported in The Morning News yesterday that use would be restricted to even-numbered days only. This was a reporter's error.

George J. Fisher, Democratic New Castle County prothonotary who is seeking re-election to a second term as custodian of Superior Court records, served two terms as Register in Chancery from 1961 to 1969. It was incorrectly reported yesterday that he served one term in that post, from 1964 to 1966. This was a reporter's error. A story in the Evening Journal on May 31 incorrectly identified Richard Vanderbilt as the owner of Star Roses.

Mr. Vanderbilt is executive vice president of the company. A story in The Morning News yesterday said Joseph Meyer III was the only member of the Brandywine High School class of 1968 to become a professional city of Wilmington will pay an independent auditor $146,000 to review the city's books. The correct amount was $14,600. This was a typographical error.

State employees are eligible to begin receiving a reduced pension at age 55 if they have 15 years service, not five years' service, as reported Thursday. This was a reporter's error. you have a comment about accuracy, fairness or adequacy of news coverage, call the office of the public editor at 573-2142 between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Downstate readers may avoid a toll call by phoning the News-Journal offices in Dover or Georgetown and leaving their name and telephone number.

The numbers to call appear on Page 4. Carter visits Atlanta ATLANTA (AP) President Carter stopped briefly to visit with fellow Southern Baptists in convention here yesterday, calling them "brothers and sisters in Christ" and defending the need for religious belief among those who hold public office. British diplomat beaten in Iraq BAGHDAD A British diplomat was dragged from his car in a Baghdad street and beaten twice, apparently by Iraqi police, the British Foreign Office said yesterday. A spokesman said Britain has protested twice but has not yet received an explanation of the incident. No OPEC price hike likely GENEVA Ministers from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) meet here today to consider possible crude oil price increases, but indications are that no hike will occur because of a temporary world surplus.

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Vladimir Kovalenok, the pilot, (right) and flight engineer Alexander Ivanchenkov are shown aboard the space craft Soyuz 29 in the second day of its mission yesterday. Soyuz 29 will hook up with the orbital-scientific station Salyut 6. (AP).