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Morocco Jet Crash Kills 188 U.S. Consul, Three Employes Held Hostage In Malaysia ty I SPAIN Vocation VV "CooblonoV AtlonUt MOROCCO Often Agodif Seventeen of the victims were members of the Mexican-Spanish Folklore Ballet, all residents of Mexico, who were being flown from Guatemala to Managua, Nicaragua, at the Invitation of the Nicaraguan government to give a charity performance for a new Managua children's hospital. The other three victims were Nicaraguan crew members. The Moroccan plane, a four-engine Boeing 707, crashed into the peak of a mountain at an altitude of about 3,000 feet and then plummeted 1,800 feet into a valley amid rocks, sand and trees, rescue workers said. Abadi Laoucine, a school principal who went to the scene with ground rescue parties after helicopters had sighted the wreckage, said, "Everything was completely torn apart.

There wasn't a recognizable part of the plane among the thousands of bits. The bodies were torn to pieces by the crash." The plane, chartered by Royal Air Morocco from the Jordanian company Alia, had left Le Bourget Airport in Paris shortly after midnight bound for Agadir. It crashed into the mountainside about 45 miles northeast of Agadir, apparently within three minutes after it was In contact with the control tower to report that it was descending for a landing. The plane was not In the normal north-south axis for planes approaching Agadir, officials said. Most of the planes come in from Casablanca to the north, but the chartered plane was flying nonstop from Paris and came from the northeast over the Atlas Mountains.

More than 225,000 Moroccans work in France and get their vacations in August when most French factories close for the month. The worst disaster in civil aviation history occurred in March 1974, when a Turkish DC 10 crashed outside Paris, killing 346 persons. The ing was surrounded by more than 150 policemen. The press spokesman said one of the intruders was demanding that seven Red Army people in Japan and the "operative unit" be set free. Officials on the scene said they did not know the meaning of "operative unit." In Washington, State Dept.

spokesman Robert Funseth said Stebbins, 43, is married and previously had been assigned to Mexico and Indonesia. He is a graduate of the University of New Mexico. The Japanese Red Army gained worldwide notoriety in May 1972 when three members professing support for the Palestinian cause slaughtered 26 people at Tel Aviv's Lod Airport. The army, formed in the late 1960s and believed to consist of 300 hard-core members, is considered the most fanatical of Japan's radical terror groups. MILES second worst disaster was a crash last December in Sri Lanka that killed 191 persons.

Until yesterday's crash, the third worst disasters were a crash in Nigeria in January 1973 that killed 176 persons and one in Krasnaya Polyana, in the Soviet Union, in October 1972, that also killed 176 persons. FBI Dn 11. JVJ TUCSON, ARIZONA, MONDAY, AUGUST 4, 1975 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) Four to six Japanese Red Army terrorists seized U.S. Consul Robert Stebbins in his office this morning and shot and wounded a guard and a policeman, police said. The gunmen took three Malaysian women employes hostage along with Stebbins and demanded the release of Red Army radicals facing trial in Japan, U.S.

Press Officer Reuben Monson said. The men then opened fire from windows, hitting the policeman and guard on the street, police said. Their condition was not immediately known. The hostages were seized on the ninth floor of the 12-story American International Assurance building in the heart of the capital. Malaysia's highest ranking police officer, Inspector General Haniff Oman, was trying to talk the gunmen into giving up after the build Hoffa Detroit, on Wednesday to iron out differences between him and Provenzano.

Provenzano reportedly has been feuding with Hoffa since they served time together in a federal prison at Lewisburgh, Pa. Provenzano, 58, was a Hoffa protege and was appointed by him as a vice president of the Teamsters Union. He was also president (Profile On Page 4A.) of Local 560 until 1966, when he started a four-year term for extortion at Lewisburg. He was released in November 1970. A high Teamster source said Provenzano and Hoffa had had a falling out because Hoffa had turned down a request by him to amend the bylaws of the Teamster pension fund.

Provenzano, the source said, made the re xtortion Demande I J)' i AGADIR, Morocco (AP) 'A chartered jetliner carrying Moroccan workers from Europe (or summer vacations crashed Into the fog-shrouded Atlas Mountains early yesterday, killing all 188 persons aboard, officials said. It was the third worst disaster in civil aviation history. Authorities said the dead Included 181 passengers and seven crew members, most of whom were Jordanians. They added that the passenger list carried four non-Arabic names Mr. and Mrs.

Demgloff, Mr. Masson and Miss Sperling. Their first names and nationalities were not immediately available. In another development a Nicaraguan Air Force C47 plane plunged into the Pacific Ocean off the Coast of El Salvador Saturday night, killing all 20 persons aboard, a Salvado-rian Air Force spokesman said here yesterday. FINAL Edition VOL.

134 NO. 216 top of the news i I COOLER BY MIDWEEK. A change in wind direction may produce some moisture by midweek and along with it, cooler temperatures, according to the National Weather Service. Today's high is expected to reach 102. The low should be near 73.

Yesterday's high was 105. The low was 72. Details on Page global TITO IS BLUNT. Yugoslavia's President Tito surprises U.S. diplomats at a dinner for President Ford by bluntly declaring that Israel must give up occupied Arab lands and recognize Palestinian independence to avoid a dangerous Mideast crisis.

Page 2A. NO CABINET YET. Portugal's leftist military junta meets in emergency session, still apparently failing to agree on a new cabinet. Meantime, powerless moderates take to the streets to protest. Page 11A.

RETROACTIVE CLEARANCE. The Indian government introduces an election law revision, certain of passage by Parliament, that would retroactively absolve Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of her conviction for illegal campaign practices. Page 3A. national RHEE OUSTER PLAN. Newly declassified documents reveal that the United States gave high-level consideration during the Korean War to staging a coup against President Syngman Rhee of South Korea.

Page 2A. "SALAD BOWL" WAR. A behind-the-scenes union power struggle is raging in California's Salinas Valley, called "The Salad Bowl of the Nation," over who will represent the farm workers the Teamsters or Cesar Chavez' United Farm Workers. A new California law will permit farm workers to cast secret ballots to choose which union, if any, should represent them. Page 12A.

CIA INVESTIGATION. Justice Dept. officials say that lawyers looking into possible wrongdoing by the CIA have concluded that agency employes acted illegally in opening and photographing mail in transit between the U.S. and Communist countries. Page 7 A.

anzona U.S. FUND USE. Four Arizona counties are planning a series of meetings to decide how they will spend $800,000, their share of federal money that has been awarded to Arizona for social services. Page IB. POLLUTION DEADLINE.

Two of Arizona's seven copper smelters have already met clean air requirements, but at least one state official doubts that all of the other five will meet the Dec. 31 deadline. Page IB. Actualidades SB Lifestyle -10 A Bridge 8A Movies 8A Comics 14-I5B Public Records (B Crossword 14B Sports MB Editorial KB Tucson Today 5B Good Health IA TV-Radio 15B Horoscope 14B Want Ads 7-13B Southside Sniper Hits Four Cars A sniper with a small caliber gun shot at four cars last night on the city's southside, causing no Injuries, but putting bullet holes in the passi-ngiT door of each car. Deputies said all four cars were northbound on Palo Verde Blvd.

just past the intersection of Hughes Access Road at 9:30 p.m. whfn the slots were fired. Deputies were still Investigating late last niitht. jI index -v Child Drowns In Pool; Chief Cites Slow Call By JOHN YOUNG Star Staff Writer Civ ft I one morning last spring and struck her on the head. Her husband had been hit on the shoulder while gardening the year before.

Neither injury was serious. Mrs. O'Quinn reported that six of her windows and four, screens have been broken. Both of the O'Quinns' young children have also been golf-ball targets, and their dog's leg was fractured by a line drive off the tee. About 100 houses, most of them in the $45,000 range, lie along the fairways.

Marilynne Barnacle, whose house is adjacent to the fifth fairway, said a third of the homes are regularly under fire. Protection Sought Gilbert Murray, 4, Arvada, looks disdainfully over a basketful of golf balls the family has gathered off their lawn the last 18 months. Gilbert went to a hospital in the spring after a duffed shot from the golf course beside the family's house struck him in the head. His family and others are trying to rectify the problem. (AP Wirephoto) 'Fore' Not Funny Word To Colorado Residents FINAL Edition 15 CENTS 28 PAGES Case 9 quest so that he could still get a pension although his prison term would prevent him from holding union office.

The source said Hoffa had told Provenzano that he could not make an exception for a "single" individual. The high Teamster source said that Provenzano has held ill feelings toward Hoffa for the last two to three years." A source also said Teamsters president Frank Fitzsimmons offered Provenzano a job beginning in October, but Fitzsimmons said, "There has never been any discussion about hiring Provenzano." Hoffa and Fitzsimmons have been bitter enemies for several years. Hoffa had announced his intention to seek Fitzsimmons' job if he can overturn a clemency restriction barring him from participating in union activities until 1980. Mrs. Compton called the Tucson Police Dept.

at 11:13 a.m. The police immediately notified the Tucson Fire which sent out a rescue unit, notified the Sheriff's Dept. and called the Medical Emergency Dispatching System all within a minute's time. The Sheriffs Dept. dispatched a deputy a minute later, but waited four minutes before notifying the Flowing Wells Fire Dept.

rescue unit. The Flowing Wells rescue unit and the Tucson Fire Dept. rescue unit arrived at the same time, 11:20 a.m. Cooper said his unit could have been at the scene four minutes before the other unit, which had to travel farther, if it had been notified at the same time. In that four minutes, the girl might have been saved, he said.

Asked about the four-minute delay. Abbate said the communications dispatcher was flooded with calls at the time. Capt. Ellis Franklin, Tucson Fire Dept. information officer, said it isn't the responsibility of his department to call the Flowing Wells Fire Dept.

Abbate said the accident occurred about 11 a.m., when Mrs. Compton placed Katherine in a styrofoam "floater" and placed her in the pool while she worked in the house. When she glanced out a window, Abbate said, she saw the child floating face down and tried to revive her before calling for help. Cost Curbs Because Blue Cross and Blue Shield pay for services provided by doctors and hospitals, the question arises each time there's a rate increase as to whether these directors have done all they can to compel doctors and hospitals to hold down costs. In the states where Blue Cross and Blue Shield must secure government approval (not including Arizona), rate increases often have been routinely granted.

But a few states now are asking questions, among them New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Vermont and Michigan. "The system is out of control. The little guy is going to be priced out of Blue Cross and Blue Shield coverage," said Dam Dem-low, Michgan's insurance commissioner. Michigan Blue Cross sought a 39 per cent rate increase earlier this year and Blue Shield a 26 per cent boost. Demlow cut the $316 million request in half, citing specific areas where he said the two organizations hadn't moved to control doctors and hospitals.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield are challenging his authority in court. One of Demlow's objections was to the (Continued on Page JA, Col. 1) Compiled From Wire Services LAKE ORION, Mich. The FBI moved into the investigation of ex-Teamster president Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance yesterday, revealing that several extortion demands had been received. The announcement of the new development in the four-day-old mystery came from Washington, where a terse statement issued in the name of FBI Director Clarence Kelley said "extortionate communications" have been received.

There was no elaboration and FBI spokesmen refused to go beyond the statement. Police said there still is no indication that Hoffa was kidnaped, as his family believes, and Hoffa's daughter said the family has not received a ransom demand. Meanwhile, New Jersey State Police questioned former Teamsters vice president Anthony "Tony Pro" Provenzano, reportedly one of three men Hoffa said he was going to meet before he disappeared Wednesday. It was not known what Provenzano told police. He told the Newark Star-Ledger he hadn't been in Michigan for a decade, but the Detroit Free Press quoted police sources as.

saying he was in Detroit the day Hoffa disappeared. It was learned that two threats have been made in the case. Hoffa's daughter, Barbara Crancer, told the Associated Press that one was directed against "a close family friend." Sources said another was against a member of the Hoffa family either Mrs. Crancer or her brother, James P. Hoffa.

But Mrs. Crancer said the threats "did not involve members of the family," and declined to elaborate. Local police said they received an anonymous call from someone who said he "had" Hoffa and asked $500 in ransom. Another caller demanded $50,000. "We're getting a lot of calls from screwballs," one officer said.

Mrs. Crancer said her family is "very grateful" for FBI intervention. "They have resources the local people couldn't possibly have. We certainly appreciate everything the local police have done, but now you need the federal government." Sources said the family learned whom Hoffa was planning to meet Wednesday from a man who recalled under hypnosis the names Hoffa told him in a casual conversation. He said Hoffa told him he planned to meet Mafia kingpin Anthony "Tony Jack" Giacalone and Provenzano.

It was reported a third man to be involved in the meeting was A. Leonard Schultz, a Detroit labor figure. Schultz said in an interview yesterday outside his house in Detroit that he did not have any meeting scheduled with Hoffa on Wednesday. The police are looking into the possibility that Hoffa was lured to a parking lot outside a restaurant in Bloomfield Township, north of All of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, for example, agree to pay the hospital and doctor the costs of elective surgery without requiring a second opinion on the need for that surgery. One New York City union in 1972 instituted in its health insurance plan a requirement for a second opinion.

Elective surgery has been reduced by 17.5 per cent among the 11,000 union members since then, at a saving of $7 a member. A doctor at a congressional hearing projected such saving nationwide at $5 billion. More than 50 of the 73 Blue Cross plans will pay for tests done outside a hospital and needed in preparation for hospitalization. This testing can shorten some hospitalizations one or two days. But none of the 50 plans requires this preadmission testing.

It's optional. Why? Requiring preadmission testing means confronting doctors and hospitals, and that can be dynamite, Blue Cross officials say. Blue Shield gives doctors a major say in determining the amounts it will pay them. The formula encourages doctors to raise their fees, because the bills they submit help determine the reimbursements they'll get. Only' A 3-year-old girl drowned in a backyard swimming pool at her home yesterday.

The Flowing Wells Fire District chief charged that her death might have been averted if there had not been a four-minute delay in notifying the Flowing Wells rescue unit. C. E. Cooper, the district chief, said that although the accident occurred in his district, the Flowing Wells rescue unit was not notified until after the Tucson Police the Tucson Fire the Sheriff's Dept. and the Medical Emergency Dispatching System.

The girl, Katherine Compton, daughter of Mrs. Suzan Compton, 1071 W. Roller Coaster was pronounced dead at noon at Tucson General Hospital after doctors worked for 30 minutes in an attempt to save her. Cooper also charged that a sheriff's deputy who arrived first at the scene was inept in administering first aid. He said he was told by his men that the deputy was using coronary massage when he should have been using a mouth-to-mouth resuscitation method.

However, Dan Abbate, sheriff's information officer, said that the deputy administered mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and the massage method until the rescue units arrived, and then immediately handed the child over to rescue members. Cooper's complaint that his department wasn't notified quickly enough grew out of the fact that several governmental agencies had to notify each other. Officials described this sequence: To Impose five of the 71 Blue Shield organizations have put limits on this system. Blue Cross helps finance over 60,000 surplus beds in American hospitals. Only three Blue Cross plans require hospitals to verify the medical necessity of a hospital admission at the time it occurs and to police the length of stay.

(Arizona Blue Cross-Blue Shield has established a utilization review system, Foster said, with a full-time doctor and five registered nurses working with claims to insure that proper care was given.) Only a third of the plans negotiate in advance the hospital rates they'll reimburse. The rest either pay what a hospital charges, or audit bills after they're received both practices that can add to medical care costs. Eighty-two million persons have Blue Cross coverage and 72 million Blue Shield. But they have little say in running the 144 different and largely independent plans or in determining rate increases. Each plan has a' board and many of these boards are dominated by doctors and hospital officials, or by laymen chosen by medical societies and hospital officials.

Blue Shield Hesitate ARVADA, Colo. (AP) People living adjacent to the Lake Arbor Golf Links want protection from an unexpected meteorological condition a rain of golf balls. Area residents have been complaining that poorly hit drives often sail into their backyards, crash through their windows and sometimes bounce off their heads. Last spring, Gilbert Murray, 4, was hit on the forehead by an errant shot while playing in his back yard. He was rushed to a hospital but wasn't permanently injured.

Mrs. Edwin B. O'Quinn, who lives near the sixth fairway, said a ball smashed through her bedroom window Blue Cross, (This Is the first of a series of five articles on the problems and shortcomings of Blue Cross and Blue Shield.) By WILLIAM STOCKTON WASHINGTON (AP) The cost of medical care in America is rising more rapidly than the cost of living, partly because Blue Cross and Blue Shield hesitate to impose cost controls on doctors and hospitals. A three-month investigation by the Associ-ated Press indicates that Americans might save millions, and perhaps billions, of dollars annually if Blue Cross and Blue Shield changed some of their practices. Instead, the rates of the two nonprofit, public service health insurance organizations are climbing steeply across the country.

In Florida, Blue Cross asked the state insurance commission for a 26 per cent rate increase. Florida Blue Shield wants a 14 per cent raise. In North Carolina, one class of Blue Cross-Blue Shield coverage would increase 43 per cent, other classes 28 per cent. New Jersey Blue Cross sought approval of a 29 per cent boost, Blue Shield 34 per cent. Increases in Colorado range from 10 per cent to 40 per cent.

(The president of the two corporations in Arizona, John C. Foster, said premium increases have ranged from zero to 40 per cent in the last year. Blue Cross has averaged 18 to 20 per cent, he said, and Blue Shield 20 to 25 per cent.) Rates vary widely among the 144 Blue Cross hospital insurance and Blue Shield doctors' bills plans. Coverage for one family now often costs between $50 and $65 monthly. The price of a semiprivate hospital room has risen 197 per cent to $100 a day or more in many hospitals in the past 10 years, according to government statistics, while doclors fees have gone up 85 per cent.

The cost of living, meanwhile, has risen 68 per cent. The AP investigation indicates that Blue Cross and Blue Shield now involved in the payment of 30 per cent of the nation's $100 billion annual medical bill might put brakes on this inflation..