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Circulation: 1 ,036,522 Daily 1 .290.194 Sunday Tuesday, December 1, 1981 CCt1 18 pages Copyright 1981, Los Angeles TimesDaily 25c 't in pi HUM iiiiiljimli 1 Jt r. i II mi Classics With Class Free-Form Radio Wakes Up Chicago Justices Ease Test of Proof on Obscene Films Remove Standard of 'Beyond Doubt' Israel Seeks Changes in Sinai Plan Endorses European Participation if U.S. Alters Compromise y-JS I 5 tt; (KMi 't ri)k 4i CI pr S-vi l.r.....rT-,. in-iniiimiiiiiiiiiiiirrwiT) Associated Press side the Soviet start of talks Paul H. Nitze, left, chief U.S.

negotiator, and his Soviet counterpart, Yuli A. Kvitsinsky, meet out Natalie Wood's Death Accidental Drowning Coroner Says Actress Apparently Slipped While Leaving Yacht as Her Husband, Co-Star Argued By JACK JONES and JERRY BELCHER, Times Staff Writers By LARRY GREEN, Times Staff Writer CHICAGO-When clock radios around town clicked on one morning, sleepy -eyed Chicagoans tuned to WFMT heard the announcer say: "There is no news of sufficient importancehere is the weather." That report came as no surprise to listeners of this city's most unconventional radio station. After all, it could just as easily have been the reverse, with a 20-minute newscast stretched to 40 minutes to accommodate important happenings, including the latest in world bridge and chess competition. WFMT's mainstay is culture. The FM station is an unpretentious fine arts institution in Chicago that has been commercially successful by being uncompromising, classy and mostly classical over the last 30 years.

Carried by Satellite Odd as it may seem to those accustomed to formula news, talk, rock, pop, and country programming, this unusual station, which mixes humor, poetry, drama and folk music with large doses of Mozart, Mahler, Beethoven, Wagner and lesser-known artists, is America's only radio super -station, carried by satellite to hundreds of cities in 34 states. But unlike listener-supported stations, whose programming is sometimes similar to its own, WFMT earns its income from commercials. Broadcasting critics have hailed it as the best commercial classical radio station in the country, and it has picked up more awards in the last three decades than any other American commercial station. "It is an oasis in a desert," Richard Seid, a Chicago businessman, said. Seid, like hundreds of thousands of Chicago's high-income professionals, is a loyal fan.

A 1979 study of WFMT listeners showed almost 50 had incomes over more than 75 had college degrees and most lived along the north shore of Lake Michigan from the condominiums of Chicago's Gold Coast to the affluent suburbs, farther north. 'Listeners Are Friends' "Our attitude has always been that our listeners are our peers, our friends," said Raymond Nordstrand, the station's president, general manager and an occasional announcer. Nordstrand is a former Northwestern University economics instructor and has been at the station almost since it was founded. "It was formed by people who wanted a radio station that they themselves wanted to listen to," said Norman Pellegrini, once an aspiring actor and now WFMT vice president and program director. With Nordstrand, Pellegrini is credited for WFMT's innovation and success.

"We share with listeners things that we mutually enjoy," he said. "We like the idea of mix, we do not want to be a classical jukebox." "We have dragged people somewhat subtly into areas of musical discovery," Pellegrini said, "not with an educational approach but with variety in programming." "Most classical stations are just classical," Nordstrand said. "We're a fine arts station. We can justify Please see WFMT, Page 10 U.N. mission in Geneva before on nuclear arms control.

Secrecy Vowed as U.S., Soviets Begin Talks By DON COOK, Times Staff Writer GENEVA-The United States and the Soviet Union began negotiations here Monday aimed at limiting intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe with "a cordial and businesslike" 90-minute meeting between the two top negotiators, Paul H. Nitze and Yuli A. Kvitsinsky. The session, held at the Soviet mission, was an informal get-acquainted discussion mainly covering arrangements and procedures for the talks, which may well continue in Geneva for the next two or three years. The first working session of the full delegations, at which opening negotiating positions will be outlined, begins this morning.

The two delegation heads reached at least one agreement quickly in their first talk and announced it immediately: The discussions are to be conducted in total secrecy. Brief Statement Read Nitze appeared before a crowd of reporters and television camera crews at the U.S. mission here to read a brief statement four hours after the meeting. After characterizing the session as "cordial and businesslike," he said: "In following the instructions of both our governments to engage in serious negotiations, we have concurred that the details of the negotiations must be kept inside the negotiating rooms. It is only by mutual respect for the confidentiality of these proceedings that we can hope to look at the hard issues which divide us and to search for solutions that will assure security and reduce tensions.

"Therefore, we will not discuss Please see TALKS, Page 13 By JIM MANN, Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 3 Monday that local officials do not have to prove "beyond a reasonable doubt" that movies are obscene when they go to court to stop a theater from showing pornographic movies. The justices, acting in a case from Santa Ana, decided that state judges are free to impose some less strict legal standard of proof in obscenity cases. For example, a state court could decide that authorities need to show that movies are obscene merely by a "preponderance of the evidence." The effect of the decision is to make it somewhat easier for city officials or local prosecutors to show that films are obscene. Under "public nuisance" laws in California and some other states, authorities may ask a court to prevent a theater from showing obscene movies. Three Decry Speed The high court ruled on the Santa Ana dispute without hearing legal arguments or asking for detailed legal briefs.

The three dissenters, Justices John Paul Stevens, William J. Brennan Jr. and Thurgood Marshall, complained that the court should not have ruled on the case so quickly. Stevens called the legal issue in the case "substantial" and said: "It is distressing to find that the court considers novel questions of this character so easy as not even to merit argument." The case involved the Mitchell Brothers' Santa Ana Theater, which is located next to a church and across the street from Santa Ana College. Santa Ana officials have been trying to obtain legal restrictions on the theater's showing of X-rated movies since shortly after the theater opened in 1975.

At a 1975 trial, a jury found "beyond a reasonable doubt" that 11 of the movies shown by the theater were obscene. It decided four other films were not obscene and failed to reach a verdict on two movies. Please see OBSCENITY, Page 18 N.J. Governor Race Decided GOP Wins By DOYLE McMANUS, Times Staff Writer NEW YORK It took almost four weeks from election day, but the citizens of New Jersey finally learned Monday who won their Nov. 3 vote for governor moderate Republican Thomas H.

Kean. Democratic candidate James J. Florio, who earlier had said he might ask the courts to order a new election, conceded defeat after a laborious ballot-by-ballot recount and charges that white Republican vigilantes had intimidated black Democratic voters failed to shake his opponent's lead. Kean, a former Speaker of the state Assembly, won by 1,677 votes out of 2.29 million cast, a margin of less than 0.1. Please see NEW JERSEY: Page 13 Writer film was to end.

Director Douglas Trumball and John Foreman, the film's producer, discussed with top-level MGM executives the possibility of salvaging the film and the considerable investment behind it without Miss Wood. A source at the studio said it was "very unlikely" that the film would be scrapped. "We have an invest- The Weather National Weather Service forecast: Fair through Wednesday. Highs today in the mid-70s and Wednesday in the upper 70s; lows in the low 50s. High Monday, 65; low, 48.

High Nov. 30 last year, 68; low 51. Record high Nov. 30, 88 in 1964; record low, 37 in 1906. Complete weather details and smog forecast In Part IV, Page 23.

By NORMAN KEMPSTER, Times Staff Writer JERUSALEM-The Israeli Cabinet on Monday endorsed a proposed compromise to allow four European nations to participate in the Sinai peacekeeping force, provided that the United States agrees to some "cosmetic changes." The action apparently removes at least for the time being an Israeli threat to veto Britain, France, Italy and the Netherlands as members of the U.S. -led multinational force being organized to patrol the Sinai Peninsula after Israel with-, draws from the region next April and returns it to Egyptian control. However, the Israeli decision to propose changes in the draft statement, put together Friday during a 7Vi-hour meeting in Washington between Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and Israeli Foreign-Minister Yitzhak Shamir, indicates that the diplomatic maneuvering is not yet over.

Unanimous Endorsement Cabinet Secretary Arye Naor said the proposed changes which he refused to make public were decided upon Sunday night by Shamir and hospitalized Prime Minister Menachem Begin, who is recovering from a broken thighbone. Naor said the Cabinet, meeting Monday without Begin present, unanimously endorsed the proposal, including the changes. In April, 1980, the European Economic Community, meeting in Venice, issued a declaration calling for participation by the Palestine Liberation Organization in the Mideast peace process and for recognition of Palestinian rights. The four European nations proposed for the Sinai force all are Common Market members. After weeks of pressure from the United States, the four nations agreed last month to join the force.

However, to minimize the objections of Arab governments that oppose the Israel-Egypt peace treaty, the Europeans coupled their agreement to participate with a reassertion of the Venice Declaration. Preferred by Saudis Saudi Arabia and other oil-producing Arab nations, all important trading partners of the four European countries, prefer the Venice Declaration to the Camp David process, of which the peace treaty is a part. Israel objects to the Venice Declaration and had threatened to veto the four nations' participation for this reason. The Haig-Shamir compromise reportedly includes the issuing of a joint statement by the United States and Israel declaring that the Sinai force is part of the Camp David process and has nothing to do with any other peace proposal. The Israeli revisions will be submitted to Washington through normal diplomatic channels, Naor said.

If the Americans agree, the Cabinet will meet again to give its formal approval to the compromise plan. (United Press International re-Please see SINAI, Page 12 cover certain kinds of vehicular homicide. Bird said the ruling "makes it a virtual certainty that any individual who knowingly drives to a social outing, takes a few drinks, and while driving home is involved in an accident in which a death occurs, may be charged with murder in the second degree." The court's ruling drew praise from Deputy Atty. Gen. Thomas R.

Yanger, who had argued the case before the justices. He said the decision is likely to help discourage drunk driving. "I think an individual on the street will be deterred somewhat from drinking and driving," Yangor said. The court's ruling came in the case of Robert Lee Watson, charged in a high-speed, early morning crash In Redding in January, 1979, Please see COURT, Page 16 able to respond to the emergency." Her body was found at 7:45 a.m., floating just beneath the surface off Blue Cavern Point, about a mile away from the anchored 55 -foot yacht Splendour. The motorized inflatable boat was found beached nearby.

Interviews with those present, Noguchi said, produced the infor-Please see WOOD, page 3 Allen Inquiries Being Widened Actions Raise New Doubt About His Return to Job By JACK NELSON, Times Washington Bureau Chief WASHINGTON-Separate investigations of national security adviser Richard V. Allen by the Justice Department and the White House have been expanded beyond his acceptance of $1,000 in connection with an interview of First Lady Nancy Reagan, Administration officials said Monday. The scope of the Justice Department's investigation was not disclosed, but presidential counselor Edwin Meese III indicated that an investigation by the White House covers general standards of conduct for high government officials, including whether Allen used his public office for private gain. Political Embarrassment The expanded investigations raise additional doubts that Allen ever will return to his post as President Reagan's national security assistant. Allen took a leave of absence from the post Sunday, vowing to fight the allegations and to return to office vindicated.

But, even before the broadening of the investigations was disclosed, some White House officials had said privately that Allen had become such a political embarrassment that he probably would not return to his post. The Allen case and the national security assistant's financial affairs Please see ALLEN, Page 7 INDEX Actress Natalie Wood apparently slipped and drowned accidentally while trying to enter an inflatable boat to leave the yacht where her husband, actor Robert Wagner, and her film co-star were arguing, a coroner's autopsy indicated Monday. Coroner Thomas T. Noguchi said examination of the body found floating face down off Santa Catali-na Island on Sunday showed she had a blood alcohol level of .14 and that he assumed she was "slightly intoxicated." Under California law, a motorist can be arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol with a reading of .10. No Foul Play Suspected Noguchi said there was "no evidence of foul play" and that a scrape or bruises on her left cheek were consistent with her having fallen and struck the yacht as she went into the water.

"It was not a homicide. It was not a suicide. It was an accident," Noguchi told a news conference. Noguchi said investigation showed "there was much recreational drinking going on" Saturday evening as the Wagners went ashore on Santa Catalina Island for dinner with actor Christopher Walken and yacht skipper Dennis Davern, then returned. But the coroner suggested it would be unfair to conclude that drunkenness caused Miss Wood to fall into the cold, dark water of Isthmus Cove just before 1 a.m.

Sunday. Nevertheless, he said her intoxication was "one of the factors involved in the fact that she was not ment that has to be protected," the source said, "one way or the other." One of the matters discussed at MGM on Monday was Miss Wood's importance to the scenes that remained to be shot. According to one source, Miss Wood was scheduled for only three days' more work before the cameras. So, one option available to the producers is to complete the film, using a double for Miss Wood and employing camera tricks, such as longshots and over-the-shoulder shots, to disguise the substitution. "The trouble is," a source said, "they may need certain close-up shots and reaction shots.

He (Trumball) has a unique kind of style, and there may be a lot of close work to be done in her remaining three days. They'll have to look at that and determine what to do. "What they have is what exists on film, plus 'doubling' or whatever Please see DILEMMA, Page 3 Can Actress Last Film Be Completed? Studio Left With $12-Million Dilemma Filing of Murder Charge in Drunk Driving Case Upheld By PHILIP HAGER, Times Staff Writer By PETER J. BOYER, Times Staff Even as most of a stunned film community mourned Natalie Wood's death and speculated about its perplexing circumstances a series of urgent meetings was called at MGM studios on Monday. The subject was Natalie Wood, but the nature of the meetings was strictly business.

MGM's dilemmas What to do about "Brainstorm," a $12.5 million movie-in-progress that starred Miss Wood? Studio spokesman Al Newman Issued this statement late Monday: "The production of 'Brainstorm' has been suspended. It being a sensitive and complex situation, MGM can make no further statement at this time." Sources at MGM said studio' executives may not decide the film's fate until later this week. Mihs Wood's death forced a production shutdown just two weeks before principal photography on the SAN FRANCISCO Drunk drivers who cause fatal automobile crashes may be prosecuted for second-degree murder, a crime providing for a prison term of from 15 years to life, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday. The justices rejected 5-2 the contention that all vehicular homicides must be prosecuted as vehicular manslaughter an offense with lesser penalties of from one year in jail to five years in prison. The court, in a majority opinion by Justice Frank K.

Richardson, said there were circumstances where a drunk driver's gross negligence and conscious disregard for life implies legal prerequisite for a finding of murder. In dissent, Chiel Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird said the majority was "rewriting the law" in expanding the definition of implied malice to Astrology Part II METRO Page 5 Book Review VIEW 14 Bridge VIEW 13 CUmifitd VII CLASSIFIED 1-14 Comki VIEW IS Crowword VII CLASSIFIED 14 DeuAbby II METRO 3 Editorials II METRO 6,7 Films VI CALENDAR 1-6 Local News II METRO Markets IV BUSINESS 1-24 Musk VI CALENDAR 1,6 Sports III SPORTS 1-12 Stage VI CALENDAR Tangle Towns VIEW 14 Thing! to Do YOU TV-Radio VI CALENDAR 7,8 Weather, Deaths IV 23.