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Bobert A. Mailed testified in Lee-Angeles that be had feared billionaire Howard Hughes would try to destroy him. (Part 2, Page 14.) Lawrence O'Brien says the 'loyal opposition" must have access to TV. (Part 2, Editorial Section.) America needs wage, price and profit 'control, Cyrus Vance says. (Part 2, Editorial Section.) The midterm election gives President Ford the chance to dean house and start fresh.

(Part 2, Editorial Section.) iff Sports The Atlanta' Falcons fired Norm Van Brocklln as head coach and promoted his assistant, Marion Camp bell. (Page 3, Part 1.) The Kings, only once-beaten team in the NHL, beat the St. Louis Blues, 4-3. (Part 3, Page 1.) Who says racing drivers- aren't athletes? Racing drivers dispute it. (Part 3, Page 1.) In Financial Stock prices made their best gains in two months.

The Dow Jones industrial index closed the day up 17.52 at 674.75. (Part 3, Page 13.) UJS. automobile sales fell sharply during October with total sales for the month reaching the lowest point in 10 years. (Part 3, Page 13.) UAL Inc. has raised its ante in its second bid for control of Avis a unit of International Telephone Telegraph.

(Part 3, Page 13.) In View Costa Mesa's Center Clinic, which offers free VD treatment, needs help to handle the rising number of patients. (Part 4, Page 1.) Cecil Gates couldn't join the Navy, so he just built his own battleship. Only the size was changed. (Part 4, Page 1.) The FDA "meditates" while the Health Research Group bums over a prescription drug linked to cancer in rodents. (Part 4, Page 1.) Qoinn Martin's trademark may be gutsy melodrama, but that doesn't mean he's not interested in other kinds of shows.

(Part 4, Page 1.) lojjanstlflj'Efmrtf Pofle 2, Part 1 Inside The Times brael signaled it was willing to bade farther in the Sinai if Cairo was still interested in negotiating. (Part 1, Page 4.) Henry E. Petersen, who headed the early Watergate investigation, resigned from the Justice Depart-ment (Part 1, Page 5.) Prosecutors won a preliminary victory in a battle over use of White House tapes in the Watergate cover-up trial. (Part 1, Page 5.) The 'United Mine Workers resumed contract negotiations but warned that a strike was unavoidable. (Part 1, Page 6.) VS.

troops in Germany will be' equipped for shorter wars instead of longer ones, according to the defense secretary. (Part 1, Page 8.) It took four years but Lithuanian sailor Sim as Kudirka completed his parently collapsed last week, his doctor said. (Part 2, Page L) The faculty of TJSCs largest academic division will be canvassed to determine whether they want collective bargaining. (Part 2, Page 1.) leap from a Soviet ship to U.S. soil' (Part l.

Page 9.) Nearly $300 million was pledged to the CN. Development Program by 109 nations, $100 million of it by the United States. (Part 10.) The father of a boy who died after eating Halloween candy laced with cyanide has been charged with murder. (Part 1, Page 12.) The Teamsters Union has dropped plans for a massive organizing campaign among California farm workers. (Part 2, Page 1.) A portion of former President Richard M.

right luntr ap THE SOUTHLAND News in Brief 3 Held in Wrecking of 21 Vehicles CamoilM from tt LM Anoala Tlmo. 1M Ldj RMlor trm and wDBtaRMntirv mm MUnilM WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1974 THE WORLD Britain Crippled by Labor Disputes it with beer kegs in a bomb hoax that tied up rail traffic for hours and forced evacuation of nearby houses. Firth set sentencing of Albert V. Barber, 45, for Dec. 2.

Asst. U.S. Atty. Vincent Marella, who is handling the case for the government, said Barber faces a maximum penalty of 30 years in prison and a $40,000 fine. Barber, of Rowland Heights, was indicted in July by a federal grand jury investigating corruption in the Los Angeles area meat packing industry.

A pound of heroin with an estimated street value of $500,000 was confiscated by U.S. Customs agents at San Ysidro on the Mexican border. A U.S. Treasury spokesman said the heroin was found in the glove compartment of a 1964 Chevrolet driven by a Tijuana couple, Louis B. Bastida, 38, and his wife, Florencia, 31.

Agents said they became suspicious and ordered a second, more intensive, search of the Bastidas' car when the couple appeared unduly nervous during the first, more cursory inspection. The Bastidas were arrested and charged with Terms are available on the $1.75 million asking price for singer Frank Sinatra's 2 I 2-acre estate in Palm Springs, which is for sale, according to Ed Kelly, vice president of Mike Silverman and Associates, the firm that is handling the property. Sinatra plans to move to a higher altitude Idflywild, in the San Jacinto Mountains west of the desert spa. The estate, which backs up to the Tamarisk Country Club, "is pure luxury, Kelly said. It features a main house plus five guest houses, a tennis court, two swimming pools, whirpool and sauna baths and a heliport, among other things.

Los Angeles Police arrested three 14-year-old juveniles as suspects in the $50,000 "demolition derby" destruction of 21 vehicles belonging to the city Parks and Recreation Dept. The vehicles, parked in a service yard at 3900 Chevy Chase Drive, were found totally or partly wrecked Sunday after the yard was left untended for several hours. At that time police said it was evident that vandals had hot-wired some vehicles, used keys to start others, and then driven them around the yard, crashing into other vehicles, into the fence, into buildings, and into poles until each vehicle was either demolished or ran out of fuel. The three juveniles, who reportedly confessed the vandalism, were identified by residents in the neighborhood of the service yard. One man was arrested and two others were being sought in connection with the robbery Saturday of more than 30 guests at a birthday party at the Beverly Hilton.

Beverly HIUs police said Andrew Johnson, 21, of Los Angeles, was arrested Monday after he was identified by several victims through mug shots. He will be arraigned today in Beverly1 Hills Municipal Court on six counts of robbery, investigators said. The guests were bound and gagged and relieved of their valuables as they arrived at a hotel suite where the party was to be held. lice said the loot, earlier thought to be more than $50,000. was actually valued at between $7,000 and $8,000.

A former VS. Department of Agriculture meat grader pleaded gunty to two counts of accepting bribes from meat packers. Judge Robert THE STATE Britons got their first major taste of another prospective winter of discontent when thousands of commuters were stranded by a 24-hour suspension of many train runs and other labor disputes disrupted vital services around the country. Housewives crowded stores searching for sugar as supplies rapidly dried up under the impact of a labor dispute at Britain's biggest refinery. In the northeast, senior hospital staff members refused to work overtime and in Glasgow a prolonged garbage collectors' strike left the city a mess.

French left-wing trade unions staged new walkouts in public services to back wage demands and rejected official charges that their growing strike wave was a Communist scheme to weaken the government. The new strikes affected the state-run electric power and railroad operations, causing temporary blackouts in Paris: and provincial towns and crippling a number of railroad lines. Meanwhile, mail service throughout France remained paralyzed by a mailmen's strike now into its third week. The French wine industry, claiming a loss of prestige around the world, demanded more than 4 mfl-Hon francs (almost $1 million) in damages from lg industry leaders accused of mixing cheap wine with quality Bordeaux red to boost profits. At the fraud trial of the 18 in Bordeaux lawyers representing various sectors of the industry accused Police believed the gunmen planned to send the train on a runaway terror mission into Northern Ireland but the track incline frustrated them.

A Jordanian Caravelle airliner was hijacked while on a scheduled flight from Amman to Aqaba on the Red Sea, Beirut airport sources said. No details on the identity of the hijackers or their number were available. There was no word on the number of passangers or crew on the Royal Jordanian Airlines plane. About 30 young Korean residents of Japan held a rally in Tokyo, demanding cancellation of a South Korean tour by President Ford and resignation of South Korean President Park Chung Hee. Meanwhile, about 1,500 students demanding political refona hurled rocks at riot police during a two-hour confrontation at Hanyang University in SeouL No arrests or injuries were reported.

Demonstrations against Park's rule are now occurring almost daily. Opposition legislators accused the South Vietnamese government of trying to starve out a village where police allegedly fired on demonstrators protesting what they' called a government-sanctioned land grab. National Assembly Dep. Nguyen Van Binh said police still sealed off Chinh Tam three days after two Roman Catholic demonstrators were allegedly shot to death. The powerful An Quane faction of the Bud HUNGRY A boy with tears rolling down his face cries for food in the Rongpur district of Bangladesh.

Hunger has driven more than a million of the district's five million inhabitants into government camps to be fed. In Rome, U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger called for an international grain reserve system, surr ton tost wnctaa THE NATION FBI Agent Testifies on Kent State Shooting Halloween Candy Poisons 2 S.F. Youngsters Two San FnnnM wmntrstorc 1970, flareup told how they were struck by bullets as they tried to get away. Eight former Ohio National Guardsmen are on trial in connection with confrontation that left four students dead and nine others wounded.

the defendants of cupidity, blindness and profiteering from the labor of France's small grape growers. Gunmen hijacked a freight train near Jonesboro Bridge, Irish Republic. 250 yards south of the border with Northern Ireland, and packed A defendant in the criminal trial stemming from the 1970 Kent State University shootings told of firing two shots at knee level but not knowing whether they struck anyone, an FBI agent testified in Cleveland. In other testimony, two of the students wounded during the May 4, dhist Church reaffirmed its demand for the resignation of President Nguyen Van Thieu and expressed support for the largely Catholic People's Anticorruption Movement. a Nevsmakers-- Historian Pans Ford and Ex-President, Too tourist of $100 in traveler's checks after he accepted their offer to show him the city.

Gregory Ezell, 25, a maintenance man from Portland, was eating in a restaurant when two men approached and offered to take him around the town, police said. They took Ezell to the Broadway area where they were met by two other men and a white German shepherd dog, police said. One man demanded that Ezell turn over his money and when he snapped his fingers, the dog began to growl and approach Ezell, the victim reported. "I'm only 5 feet 1, and that dog looked awfully big to me," Ezell told police. He signed five $20 checks and gave them to the thieves.

Sacramento's Metropolitan Airport would double its size and add both space and other facilities for the largest jumbo jet airliners if Sacramento County supervisors approve the $50 million expansion plan to be submitted to them today. The expansion would add a second main runway, 12,000 feet long and 200 feet wide, fo the present strip and would increase the airport's total area from 3,666 to 7,800 acres. Sacramento County aviation Director James K. Carr said the plan would provide enough room for the airport "for the next 50, maybe 100, years." were poisoned by heavy doses of tranquilizers in their Halloween candy, police said. Julio Lau, 14, suffered such a violent reaction that his eyes and face became rigid and he was hospitalized.

His sister, Julie, 8, had gone trick -or -treating last Thursday with a friend and returned with a large bag of candy. The friend, identified only as Cheryl, 8, suffered tremors and a high fever, police said. Julie ate only one piece of candy and was unaffected. Investigators said some of the candy contained the tranquilizer Phenotia-zine, but they had no idea where it came from. California housing construction starts in September dropped 30 below the level of the month before the fourth straight monthly decline, the Bank of America reported.

The bank said the starts dropped to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 89,000 units and, in a statement added: "No sustained upturn in residential construction in California appears likely fn the next few months." The bank said the September rate of 1,593 starts was about half that of September, 1973. Four bandits armed with a vicious dog robbed a San Francisco terpreters of the past also has a sharp eye and tongue for the present. Historian Henry Steele Commager, 72, professor emeritus at Amherst, College, had CBS correspondent Daniel Schorr said that former Supreme Court Associate Justice Arthur J. Goldberg told him the late Chief Justice Earl Warren was denied admission to Be-thesda Naval Hospital, possibly through inaction by former President Richard M. Nixon.

Schorr said, that according to Goldberg, Warren told him he sought admission to Be-thesda but "President Nixon had not made it possible." Not until he had entered Georgetown University Hospital did the White House physician offer to transfer him. As a retired justice. Warren needed White House approval to be admitted. Sen. J.

W. Fulbright (D-Ark.) underwent minor surgery at Bethesda Naval Medical Center Monday, his office said. Fulbright was hospitalized for some corrective surgery which had been postponed until the congressional recess. Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was reported in good condition. First Lady Betty Ford has started talcing L-phenylalanine mustard, an oral anticancer drug, the White House said.

The pills are to treat anv malienanrv that mm nnt hatm lecture at the Hill Preparatory School in Potts-town, Pa, for students and faculty. One eighth-grader asked how President Ford would "pan out" in domestic affairs. "That's like asking how an S-year-oW will pan out," he responded. "He has the mind of a child It's not probable that he will be a strong President" Another student question asked about the Historical implications of former President. TMofeavil ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT Dior Fashions Peril Wild Animals, Group Says Lady Caroline Townshend, and he "were lovers" for four months before their marriage.

Both have been previously married and both have children. He told a New Tork City judge he gave Lady Caroline $1 million in cash, $115,000 in jewels and a mansion but her family had suggested that "was' a paltry sum and I should settle $5 million on her. I did not respond, Bronfman added. England's hallmark has always been intrepidity and eccentricity. The latest to inherit the traits is the Rev.

Geoffrey Howard of Manchester. "It is probably incredibly selfish to shoot off on an adventure like this but it is something I must do," the clergyman confessed. Mf. Howard plans to push a wheelbarrow across the Sahara Desert Visiting Japanese premier Kaknei Tanaka, Premier Sir Charles Court of the state of West Australia and other officials boarded the plane in Perth, but the Royal Australian Air Force pilot refused to take off. Not, he said, until the brown box brought aboard at the last minute by a Japanese Embassy official was checked.

Finally, a security officer took it to the terminal and returned soon after with a smile and a bundle magazines about the Australian northwest which an iron ore company had thought would be of interest to the Japanese. The Rev. John H. Jordan Jr. opened a meeting of the Qty Council in Virginia Beach, with a praver and left.

But he was-back almost immediately. The parking ticket: he had found on his car "was justice," he admitted; "but what I'm looking for now Is mercy." One councilman picked up a large ashtray and passed it around aa a collection plate. Entertainer Art' Carney sat in a Chicago hotel room during an interview, scrutinizing a small hearing aid. He replaced It and clicked his fingers. "Testing.

Testing," he said. "Goddamn batteries have failed on me." While an aide went for replacements, Carney mused. "I look at it this way. Better for batteries on your hearing, aid to go out than the ones on your pacemaker. Hah!" By Jennings Parrots foreign policy.

"To hang medals on Nixon for China, Commager mused, "is like pinning medals on someone who sets your house on fire for 20 years and finally puts it out" The historian also called for the breakup of the Central Intelligence Agency, suggested Congress should assert its leadership and urged the abolition of the Vice Presidency "the most useless office ever invented." Betty Ford's new press secretary, Sheila Babb Weidenfetd, 31, a former television producer, met at the White House with the reporters who cover the First Lady's activities. She will be accessible to them, she said, and she will have "total access" to her boss. As she spoke, Mrs. Ford stopped by and told Mrs. WeldenCeld, "Good luck, you'U need it" Suing for annulment of marriage because his bride of last December "had a hangup about sex and could not sleep with me" was Edgar Bronfman, 44r year-old Canadian-bom president of Distillers the world's largest distilling company.

Bronfman said he found this strange since his wife, showed no damage to water, air or wildlife, and "We are convinced that ocean burning is the best alternative- to land-based incineration available iat this time." Shell expects complete an' onshore, incinerator industrial wastes at its Deer Park, manufacturing complex in; 1976. The Jefferson County (Birmingham, Ala.) health department said it still intends, to take U.S. Steel Corp. to court 'for 'violating the state's clean air law. TLS.

Steel announced Monday it had shut down three open hearth furnaces fired up Oct 26 after one of its new furnaces malfunctioned. Health department officials said the firm was required lo have a permit before operating the open hearth furnaces. They asked a federal court to assess damages against the linn. The World Wildlife Fund, headquartered in Geneva, charged that the high fashion house of Christian Dior Is destroying wild animals for the sake of profits. In an open letter, the fund said Dior fashions "have stimulated the extermination of wild animals becoming extinct or threatened with extinction." In Paris, Frederic Caape, designer of the Dior fur collection, said that since 1973 Dior no longer uses furs from animals in danger of extinction.

He said he designed only from animals reared for furs such as mink, or un-endangered animals. Last month's experimental burning of 2,400 metric tons of industrial wastes in the Gulf of Mexico by the incinerator ship Vulcanus went better than expected, a Shell Oil Co. spokesman reported. He said tests been detected and removed during Mrs. Ford's radical breast surgery-six weeks ago.

the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church has rejected a $627 contribution to the church's world hunger campaign because the money was collected at a service led- by women priests whose ordination he considers invalid. Bishop John M. Ailln, who last month urged higher church priority for issues such as world hunger as distinct from internal matters such as the ordination controversy, said he felt, compelled to reject the hunger funds as a matter of conscience..