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Wl-t- 0 1-L 1 1 T1 'IT 1 ovnmuiL utusisi numer ma rniuies tose -Page id mnrnx Vol. 302, No. 177 Wednesday, June 25, 1980 '1980. Tlx PMkWpNi Inquirer IS CENTS Inconsistencies found in 12 policemen's test results By William K. Marimow inquirer Stall Writer Twelve Philadelphia police lieutenants, whose scores on a controversial 1979 promotional exam were suspiciously high, performed far worse than other top-scoring candidates on the 10 test questions that were prepared without any help from police commanders, according to a recent study.

All 12 lieutenants had either close professional or personal ties to the top command of the Police Department during the administration of former Mayor Frank L. Rizzo, including two of the senior officials who helped prepare the exam. Most of the lieutenants in the group of 12 had a history of poor performance in previous civil service examinations, leading city officials to suspect that the test had been compromised. The analysis of the lieutenants' scores is contained in a two-month study of the June 1979 exam. The study, commissioned by the city Personnel Department, was prepared by Bert F.

Green, a psychology professor and statistician at Johns Hopkins University, and Linda Robinson, a staff psychologist in the Personnel Department. City officials who have been investigating the exam said the study proved that the test results of the 12 lieutenants were in the words of one investigator "highly improbable." Moreover, official sources said, the analysis strongly suggests that many top-scoring candidates had advance knowledge of the 80 questions prepared jointly by the Personnel Department and four senior Police Department officials. The study, according to one investigator, "comes damn close to proving that there was collusion" in disseminating the exam answers. "If it doesn't prove that," he said, "then it proves that everyone got their information from the same source." For the last three months, the lieutenants exam along with 1979 tests for prospective captains and sergeants has been the subject of a criminal investigation by the district attorney's office, the Green administration and the Personnel Department. The study has been transmit ted to District Attorney Edward G.

Rendell, who plans to request the empaneling of a grand jury. In addition to pinpointing the group's poor performance on the 10 questions prepared solely by the Personnel Department, the analysis also revealed that: The 12 lieutenants had strikingly similar responses to all 90 questions on the exam and incorrectly answered many of the same questions. The 12 had fared poorly on many previous civil service promotional examinations. One man, officer Edmund Jurgelewicz, 54, ranked in the lowest 1 percent of all candidates in his only previous lieutenants test in 1971. He ranked nth in the 1979 test in the top 2 percent.

Jurgelewicz was a personal aide to Chief Inspector Edwin S. Parker, the Police Department's top liaison with the Personnel Department in preparing the test. Two other aides to Parker among the 12 Joseph J. Cetrone, 49, and Owen J. O'Donnell, 51 ranked (See TESTS on 2-A) Cambodian holocaust Fourth in a series Prices up 0.9 in May Annual rate 11.4, well off 1979 pace 'If we have no civilians, we have no movement!" The Mad Prince, Cambodian guerrilla kjnfc 1- 1 -v.

I PhiiartainniM mmiM ftrVi unoni lun American Gary Ferguson, who ruled briefly at Non Mak Moon refugee camp, reviews guerrilla troops Guerrillas play tug of war with refugees By Douglas A. Campbell Inquirer Business Writer The cost of consumer goods rose 0.9 percent for the second consecutive month in May, at an annual rate of 11.4 percent, an increase dramatically lower than the 18.2 percent annual inflation rate that prevailed from January through March, the U.S. Labor Department reported yesterday. Gasoline prices declined in May for the first time in three years, and food prices rose only modestly, helping to hold down the nation's level of inflation. Lower gasoline prices also helped keep the increase in Philadelphia area consumer prices to 0.8 percent in May.

Experts warned, however, that the -nation's current 11.4 percent annual inflation rate reflects only a pause. The recession has cut consumer spending, temporarily helping to ease the demand for goods and services that had contributed to the upward movement of prices, they explained. But that pressure will return when the recession passes, the experts cautioned. "I think we'll have about an 8 percent inflation rate in the second half of the year, and perhaps slightly below 8 percent in the first half of 1981," Lacy H. Hunt, economist for Fidelity Bank, said.

But by the end of (See PRICES on 7-A) gees who have made up the great exodus from Cambodia at least have had a choice about whose guerrilla camp to settle in. Far to the north and far to the south of here are the camps of the Khmer Rouge (Red Khmer) the followers of Pol Pot, whose communist regime in Cambodia wreaked genocide on its own people. Just to the south is a camp of royalists, who seek to restore to the throne Prince Norodom Sihanouk, the former monarch and later figurehead chief of state By Rod Nordland Inquirer SlatfWrller NON MAK MOON, On the Thai-Cambodian Border This entire border is a battle zone, where rice shipments are the prize and refugees are the biggest victims. The combatants are a strange assortment of guerrilla groups who claim to be trying to destroy the Vietnamese-backed Cambodian government of Heng Samrin, but so far have been doing a better job of destroying one another. There are so many different groups of guerrillas that the refu under the communist Khmer Rouge.

Just to the north, at Nong Samet, is the camp of the Khmer Serei (Free Khmer) followers of In Sakhorn anti-communist guerrillas who have been known to abduct women refugees and imprison them for purposes of rape. Perhaps the largest single con-centration of refugees was here, at Camp 204, a Khmer Serei encampment that has been variously led by an epileptic French student posing as a priest, a lumber smuggler using the pseudonym of a But they all have this in common: They want as many refugees as possible to settle in their camps, and they don't want those refugees to leave for safety on the Thai side of the border. Many of the refugees who have tried to do so have been shot and killed by the guerrillas who have styled themselves as their "protectors." To the guerrillas, the refugees mean rice from international relief agencies much of which the guerrillas siphon off for themselves, both to resell for profit and (See REFUGEES on 8-A) legitimate guerrilla fighter, a Thai citizen posing as a Cambodian and an American real estate operator and which, sources say, was overrun by Vietnamese troops during an incursion into Thailand on Monday. The guerrillas present a bewildering array of forces that have little in common with one anoth-er. They range from serious soldiers actually fighting Vietnamese troops inside Cambodia to bandit rulers whose war victims have most commonly been the civilian residents of their camps.

Tose testifies Bunting's loan recall was humiliating By Jan Schaffer Inquirer Stall Writer Philadelphia Eagles owner Leonard H. Tose testified yesterday that he was shocked and humiliated when former First Pennsylvania Bank chairman John Bunting demanded that a $5.5 million loan be repaid on 16 hours' notice. Speaking of their July 28, 1977, meeting, Tose said, "I perceived John Bunting sitting behind his desk as being pompous, hostile and arrogant. "He told me to sit down like a schoolboy," Tose recalled disdainful ly. "He said, 'I am calling this loan, and you're to pay it tomorrow morning at 9 "I guess 'shocked' is a mild word, because I really had not expected this," said the dapper Tose, 65.

He is seeking $12 million in damages from First Pennsylvania, two other banks and three individuals, including Bunting, for alleged antitrust violations. Tose, who testified on his own behalf in U.S. District Court here, alleges that there was a conspiracy and a banking boycott intended to oust him from the football club and to force him to sell out to his former partner, Herbert Barness. According to Tose, Bunting threatened to freeze $1.25 million from advance ticket sales that the Eagles had on deposit with the bank and to bounce the club's checks. Tose said Bunting warned him that before he would be able to take legal action, "I will bury you." Jabbing his finger in the air, Tose said Bunting told him at that meeting, make sure you don't get any financing in "I was stunned.

I guess he felt his power growing, because he said, 'I'll even do better than that. I'll make sure you don't get financing at any bank in the The lean, craggy-faced Tose recounted his rise from a grease boy in his father's trucking company to the purchaser of the Eagles in 1969. Tose, who underwent open-heart surgery last year, was allowed a five-minute break in his testimony every hour. Shod in delicate dove-gray kid shoes and a matching custom-made July 29, 1977, by calling his loan, declaring it to be in default. At one point during that takeover period, he said he was forced to pay $100 for his own tickets to an Eagles football game at the Meadowlands in New Jersey.

"I was totally humiliated. I was despondent. I was a physical wreck. I could not sleep," Tose said, adding that he considered selling the team to avoid further embarrassment for the club. He said he regained control of the (See TOSE on 2-A) Western-cut suit, a navy-blue silk handkerchief peeking from his breast pocket, the Notre Dame graduate described how he worked 16-hour days in the 1960s to transform his father's debt-ridden trucking company into a million-dollar operation.

By 1969, he said, he was able to bid $16.5 million to buy the Eagles, more than had ever been paid for any sporting franchise at that time. His good humor started to turn to anger as he described how First Pennsylvania ousted him from control of the club for 11 days, beginning Carter talks of Afghan 'transition' 34 35 PER LITER PER LITER EQUALS EQUALS $1,281 PER GALLON PER GALLON D. Burpee, 87, of seed firm, dies J.785 LITERS EQUALS 1 GALLON Biillf Tram Inquirer Wire Services BELGRADE, Yugoslavia President Carter said yesterday that the United States would cooperate in some sort of "transitional arrangement" for governing Afghanistan if the Soviet Union agreed to withdraw its troops there. Carter chose a state dinner in Yugoslavia, the Communist nation that was most critical of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, for his comments, which were an elaboration on remarks he made last February in which he agreed to help guarantee Afghanistan's neutrality. But his words took on new emphasis, coming just two days after the Soviets announced that they were withdrawing some of their forces from Afghanistan.

Jody Powell, the White House press secretary, told reporters that Carter's mention of a transition from Soviet occupation "most definitely is not a response" to the Soviet announcement Sunday of the withdrawal of some personnel from Afghanistan. In Washington yesterday, the State Department said that Soviet forces had indeed been seen withdrawing from Afghanistan but not in large enough numbers to signal any intent by Moscow to end its intervention. Secretary of State Edmund S. Muskie, in Ankara, Turkey, for a NATO foreign ministers' meeting, said there was no evidence of a net reduction of Soviet troops in the area and said the Soviets appeared to be moving just across the Soviet border, to positions from which they could easily re-enter Afghanistan. Mohammed Omar Babrakzai, a prominent Afghan exile in Pakistan, said in Rawalpindi yesterday that the Soviets were withdrawing those units that were not suited for guerrilla warfare.

Babrakzai, who was a (See CARTER on 4-A) BY 1982, it is predicted, more than half the service stations in the United States will be selling gasoline by the liter. Business, Page 8-D. Weather Index Divided Democrats end talks David W. Burpee By Steve Neal and Burr Van Atta Special to The Inquirer David W. Burpee, 87, the dean of American seedsmen, died yesterday at Doylestown Hospital.

He lived at Fordhook Farm near Doylestown. For 55 years until 1970, the tall, craggy-faced man ran the world's largest seed enterprise, the W. Atlee Burpee Co. During that time, he developed hundreds of varieties of flowers and vegetables, including giant marigolds, double petunias and hybrid tomatoes. The new varieties of corn, grains, fruits and vegetables that his firm introduced expanded the world's food supply and his flowers added to its beauty.

Together, they made his name a household word. Mr. Burpee began in the business as a boy. Vocation soon became avocation. "I was always interested in growing things, in plant breeding," Mr.

Burpee recalled in an interview. Both he and his wife, Lois, delightedly greeted visitors to their estate, taking them on guided tours through the masses of blooms that surround- WARM AND HUMID today with a chance of evening thunderstorms. High about 90. Chance of thunder-showers tomorrow, high in the mid-to upper 80s. Lows tonight in the mid-to upper 60s.

Full weather report, Page 15-E. STOCKS STARTED slowly yesterday but picked up as the session wore on and closed with a slight gain. The Dow Jones average was up another 3.49 points to close at 877.30. Full market report, Page 8-D. Dean of V.S.

seedsmen ed their 200-year-old manor house from first thaw to early winter. Mr. Burpee spelled out his philosophy by frequently quoting an old proverb: "If you want to be happy for an hour, get drunk. If you want to be happy for a weekend, get married. If you want to be happy for a whole week, kill your pig and eat it.

But if you want to be happy all your life, become a gardener." Mr. Burpee had indefatigable energy and was a tenacious businessman (See BURPEE on 7-A) By Saul Friedman Inquirer Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Bleary-eyed from the heat and tedium of argument, the Democratic platform committee wearily ended its struggle over issues yesterday with deep and often bitter differences remaining between President Carter and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy. The differences over social programs, economic policies, defense spending and the draft will be fought out when the proposed platform drafted here goes before the party's national convention Aug.

11-14 in New York. For the most part, the committee continued to reject Kennedy and support Carter's more conservative positions. After more than two weeks of relative quiet since the end of the primaries, the Kennedy camp, it was learned, intends to campaign hard among delegates and Democratic interest groups to publicize the President's positions and the divisions within the party. Kennedy is scheduled to begin the new phase of liis campaign today with a speech in New York before a union audience. His aides also have suggested the possibility of special mailings, hearings and other techniques to make the platform a major battleground for the hearts, the minds and, perhaps, the votes of delegates, Kennedy is trailing almost hopelessly behind the President in the number of delegates necessary for the nomination.

(With 1,666 needed, Carter has about 1,900 and Kennedy has 1,200.) He has pinned his faint hopes for the nomination on the possibility that one or more issues could touch off a rebellion against Carter. Other Democratic observers at the (See PLATFORM on 6-A) Action Line The Arts Business Classified Comics Crossword Editorials 11- A Food 5-B Horoscope 8-D Obituaries 1-E People 14- Puzzles 15- Sports 12- A TVRadio 1-C 14- 4-B 10-A 15- A ID 12-E 4.