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ZfyOOOrfaulty cars Uh News Service owners id 1975 model Chrysler Cordoba; and Dodge Charger S. E. passenger cars equipped with' automatic' speed1 control and 360 cu. in. two-barrel engines that the speed control throttle' linkage on these cars may have been-Improperly assembled.

A defect in thlsissembly could eause the throttle to remain wide open' after it has been opened to its fullest, even when the: accelerator pedal released. The throttle could stick whenever it. is opened full, regardless of whether the-' DETROIT General Chryslei' Corp. announced recalls Monday of over 20,000 vehicles with potentially dangerous defects in steer ing, throttle control or transmission mechanisms. GM said it Is recalling about 3,000 current-model Buick Regal; Century, JLeSahFe and Electra models as well as some (Hdsmobile Cutlass models because of the possibility of an improperly installed stop on the transmission linkage.

A driver thinking the car has been Motors and LOAN OCbntiinedftflticyESin The guaranteed loans outstanding last September totaled $195 The GAO said -it bad Undertaken Its report to keep the Congress abreast of the companys ability to repay its government-: guaranteed borrowings. forecast," the report said, projects operating profits for the 1975-79 period sufficient to maintain the companys -stability, but insufficient to liquidate its guaranteed bank loans by the end of 1978 the maximum time provided by law. The GAO warned that even so, Lockheed's forecast might be based on optimistic-assumptions. The forecast assumes that a plan for bank financing not yet concluded will be implemented. More Importantly, the forecast indudes revenues from for- shifted into neutral may actually be automatic speed control is being used, a At At A.

rtivuwlm MiAVMfnait ial1 ratal. this should drivers are advised by the. manufacturer to shut off the engine completely and stop the vehi-r de. Chrysler has received 12 reports of throttle sticking on 1975 Cordobas amf Chargers. There have been two.

scci-1 debts, but no injuries, the company Necessary repairs to all of the vehi- cles involved will -be -made -by companies at no cost to vehicle owners: the drive position, causing the' car to lurch unexpectedly, a GM spokesman 1. GM also is recalling 575 GMC motor homes because a retaining nut may be missing from the intermediate steering shaft This could cause the steering shaft to separate resulting in a loss of steering control, according to GM. There have been no reputed accidents or related to either defect, GM said. Chrysler, Corp. is notifying 19,009,.

SMALL BOY in Guatemalan village of Tecpan unwraps food from comhusk after supplies arrived from neighboring town of Salca-ja. Supplies are. now beginning to reach outlying villages as roads blocked bylandsides are deAred. eign sales. Di ut, the KrlS.

I 1 the Mine point In the sea-sonlastyear. TTotter said the season rainfall total for Los Angles to date was 4.10 inches, compared with 7.64 inches on the same date last year and normal total of 8.57 inches. He added Hiat the six-day deluge provided most of the season total, having dumped 3.55 inches at the Los Angeles Civic Center. Lake Arrowhead received more than nine inches of ratal during the storm, which began moisture on the Southland last Wedi The heavy rains early Monday caused flooding at several Canon area inter sections. The rains also caught the blame for snarled traffic, a rash id fender-benders and dead batteries a motorists parked and left lights on in the early.

morning gloom. A Southern- California Rapid District driver escaped serious injury when bis bus skidded out of control on a rain-slickened street and slammed into a high-tension pole, in El Sereno. POLICE SAID driver T. G. Matthews received only minor injuries to his leg in the 9:40 a.m.

accident. There Were only two passengers on the bus, and neither. was injured. Police said the bus' impact broke the power pole, but the power line was supported by the bus until-crews arrived to repair the damage. Power was not interrupted by the incident, officials said.

The rain, however, was blamed for shorting out several burglary alarms in the Carson and Norwalk areas. Sheriff's deputies reported an unusually busy morning answering GAO points out-government agencies if rv ir Quake doctors for serum as toll force the disclosure of who got the company's over: seas bribes, the potential results may inhibit Lockheed yt-g success in foreign markets invalidate its current forecasts. sSS'2 arrested Nuclear plant after, bank tern The San Onofre nuclear generating station cloud down Monday for four hours, a Southern fornia Edison Qo. spokesman. said.

A monitoring device received a signal indicating a variation in the water at 9:31 a.m. and an automatic shutdown resulted. 000 meals three times a day in tlte capital. More than 200,000 homeless were sleeping in the open or under makeshift tents when rain fell on Guatemala City and the temperature before dawn dipped into the 50s cold for this tropical country. The death toll began jumping repeatedly late Sunday as me relief committee got information from areas cutoff until i reached them, i more roads repair broken bridges.

Officials put survivors to gui uuuiuiauuu uviu iieu cut 1 the first.supply helicopters reacbe Engineers worked to open mo blocked by landslides and to Since a ucond monitor was under routine inspec-i tion at the time the "coincident action" of the tors required the shutdown, although the company claimed there was no safety problem. GUATEMALA CITY (AP) The official death count in Guatemalas devastating earthquake surpassed 17,000 Monday night, and doctors pleaded for serum to fight an outbreak of typhoid and other diseases spread by contaminated food' and water. President jell. Eugenio Laugerud told diplomats that 17,032 persons had been killed, 54,826 injured and 221,994 left homeless by Wednesdays giant earthquake and hundreds id aftershocks. Unofficial sources other victims to be found or landslides and predicted the final death toll could exceed 20,000.

U.S. Embassy officials here said the quake was the greatest disaster in recorded history in Central America. More than 6,000 persons perished in a Nicaraguan earthquake in 1971 In South America, nearly 67,000 died wj 9 Kim caiur aftershocks. said they expected trod beneath debris robbery An 18-year-old woman and her 21-year-old companion were arrested -for armed robbery Monday 'afternoon, minutes after a Huntington Beach bank was held up. Police said Aurora Foxx and Anthony Raddiff, both of Los Angeles, were booked in connection with the 2:40.

p.m. robbery at the United California Bank, 7202 Edinger Ave. Investigators said Ms. Foxx was arrested in an alley adjacent to the bank by Officer Dennis Branch, who saw her duck down the alley as he drove up in answer to a silrot alarm. They said she had $587- and a revolver in her possession.

Raddiff was arrested a few minutes later afttfr officers spotted him jhe bank in a car. IF LOCKHEED failed to repay its loans on time, Congress could presumably extend the deadline. The report also disclosed that Lockheed had postponed its annual meeting three times so far because it could not agree with the Securities and Exchange Commission on how much detail it going to have to provide its shareholders about the foreign bribes. In addition, the GAO report mentioned a Department of Justice investigation into construction contracts between a Lockheed shipbuilding company and the Nayy. "At the end of October, the report Department of Justice was still investiating and had neither made public nor advised Lockheed id the specific details concerning the investigation." In operation since 1968,.

the plant has put out 41 million kilowatt hours of electricity since the begin- ning of the year. This is the equivalent of 640,800 barrels of oil, the spokesman said. Doctors jail term stayed 4 false alarms triggered by from quakes and landslides in northern the in 1970. Much of the rest of the for lnternational Devei SAN DIEGO (AP) A Superior Court judge Monday stayed indefinitely the pix-month jail- term of -a Covina physician convicted of offering laetrile as a cancer cure. -Judge Roy Fitzgerald ranted the stay to Dr.

ames Pnvitera, 33, pend ing appeal of his conviction last week for violating the California Health ahd, Safety Codo for bidding the, use of laetrile against cancer. Privitera, who had bepn. free-on his ownracognl-zance, was then released' on. $10,000 bail. MEXICO CITY UP) The University Mexico Seismologlcal Institute reported a strong earth tremor Monday afternoon fat the Pacific Ocean, centered about 40 mRes south of the Maria Islands group and 180 miles off the west coast of Mexico off Guadalajara.

It registered 5 to 6 osr the Richter scale and took a.m. E8T. There were no immediate reports of damage. o- work, promising extra food according to the hours they worked clearing roads or burying the dead. Spot checks by reporters In Several sections showed aid was getting, through, but in some places it was only a trickle.

That was welcome for people who had had nothing but bits of stale bread' ifcnd brackish water for five days. At Pitricia, survivors lined up alongside a pickup truck to get tamales cooked for them by people from a neighboring village. Gen. Fernando Romeo Lucas, the national defense minister, threatened to withhold food from the little town of San Martin Jilotepeque because survivors refused to continue burying the dead unless they were paid. Lucas said 2,904 of the town's 3,760 people were killed when the main earthquake last Wednesday forced the earth to sink 20 feet over a large area.

ItanroaMum. opment in Washington reported U.S. aid to Guatemala totals more than $1.5 million and it said. food stocks are now sufficient for short-term needs. Israel and eight Latin American countries also are pouring ataKnto this ravaged nation with a population of six million.

Disease, rain and chilly weather added to the miseries of homeless survivors. Some residents armed themselves to defend their homes against looters. Police said at least two looters were shot and killed over the weekend by home owners. Some business activity returned to the Guatemalan capital, but workers refused to enter the tailer buildings for fear of new earthquakes and continuing aftershocks. Two more mild aftershocks rocked the city Monday but apparently caused no new damage.

Some banks were open, newspapers published, buses were running, and bakeries and supermarkets reopened. Mexican relief workers were distributing Wi state and Nevada also were awash Monday as a result of the storm. OFFICIALS IN Kern County said it was hoped that rain in the San Joa-. quin Valley would return mountain ranges to 50 per cent of normal. And cattlemen said they hoped they would be able stop giving supplemental feed to their livestock within three weeks.

The downpour also was greeted with some glee by farmers who have been sweating out the drought and damage to crops in the Fresno and Bakersfield areas. The National Weather Service said the storm had raised the season rainfall total to 4.22 inches in Fresno. That figure is slightly off the normal seasonal total of 5.85 inches. THE RAIN, however, produced nothing but headaches. in the Las Vegas area, where streets were awash and drainage systems were burdened ''beyond capacity.

Wednesday should dawn sunny and mostly clear, with temperatures expected to reach the high 60s in coastal areas. Fair, mild weather is predicted through Friday. PRESIDENTS HEALTH r1 u- Yi I (Continued from Pg. A-l) Filled with medical terminology, as well as plain language about bowel and urinary habits, the health report almost certainly-is the most detailed ever made about an incumbent president Lukash reported that the President faced six problems in 1975 that could have affected his health, but surmounted all of them. One was the quick sequence of September at- ijwvttvv Vi wvjrisiMiMvi ran difficulty and added, His bowel movements are regular every morning." As was reported at the time, the President also suffered from a head cold in October, had some -swelling of the.

left-knee after skiing in Vail during the Christmas holidays and had a benign wart-like lesion removed from the upper lid of his left eye on Dec. 3. THE President has continued to maintain his tremendous physical ca- vviiivinivuq ruJ as vraa va tM day," said Lukash, and he will have an evening cocktail consisting of -no more than two to four ounces of alcohol in the evening. The President's teeth are inegood repair, the doctor reported, although there is dark tobacco staining." Lukash even included a brief item that read "Sexual function normal. And he related that the President normally gets up once a night to go to the bathroom, "but with no urgency, or discomfort." THE PHYSICIAN said Ford has no headaches or tendency towards depression or anxiety." The doctor said that osteoarthritis, a form id arthritis associated with bone or cartilage degeneration, was noted in the President's knees.

The condition stemmed from surgery on both knees and normally caused Ford discomfort, he said. Lukash ktso noted that degenerative osseous m. fam. 349 SALE PROD WED THURS. ONLY This richly carved French chair can be a gracious addition to your home.

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"The President suffered no ill effects either 'hash said after citing the six problems. "His cardiovascular functions remain excellent and he is ir v. rM able to tolerate more than exercise without difficulty." Ford, he said, exercises his knees daily to strengthen them both haVe been operated on and maintains his weight' it 194 pounds without difficulty. Each evening, Lukash said, the President swims in the heated outdoor pool at the White House and now swims 22 lengths for uarter.mile which he minutes." cally or emotionally," Lukash wrote. I was not aware that he had any undue preoccupation ceming these events.

The President was able to talk freely about these incidents and continued to sleep very well and I feel in no way did they affect his subsequent (Jay-to-day NOT DISPOSED before was a mude cramp problem thn affected Fords left calf and ened him on the night of Dec. 20. This responded to rest and treatment with hot packs and ultrasound and massage, Lukash report- ed. -There has been no recurrence." .) Lukash also wrote that I change" (the devetopmeht bony tissue) also is iresent in th ifth and sixth i bony tissue) present in the area bf the cervical i SAN DIEGO (AP)-Rough weather again hampered the search Monday for a single-engine plane from Santa Barbara with four persons aboard. A San Diego County Sheriff's spokesman said only one search plane was able to take off and circle the area near Escondido where the red and white Bellaiica 140 may have gone down.

Volunteers did manage to cover some of the area on foot, he said. The pilot and throe pis-sengers were reportedly on an unspecified piercy mission? to Guaymas, Mexico last week and failed to arrive there last Friday. A began the next day, The four were identified as Gregory Ramallo, Richard Vargas, Royce and Sally Ewuing. Vargps is Santa Barbaras postmaster. 1 -V 4 1250 E.

Pocifk Coast Highway' Long Beach Phone (2 13) 599-1357 Daily 10 to 5--20 Friday 10 to 900 Sunday 12 It is anticipated that the President will continue to have good health," Lukash nidi andfbe will be followed at intervals to insure that his knees remain stable and that his weight has not changed appreciably. In addition, he will be encouraged to1 play golf or tennis for short periods of time and also swim daily, as Ms schedule LUKASH SAID Ford has an annual flu shot. takes "ani occasional' sleeping tablet while traveling," and from time to time takes an oral decongestant, because of nasal congestion associat-Ford has had a recurrent i-ed with a slight deviation problem with rectal Meed- of the nasal septum" that ing, related to excessive is of long standing, activity a ndfatigue but He smokes six to seven said this poses no specia spipeloads of tobacco a Fine furniture for over 50 Years Profmtional interior design service Carpeting Draperies -e Wall coverings Decorative accessories Viait Carls New American Traditional Store featuring' PENNSYLVANIA HOUSE FURNITURE 1400 E. PACIFIC COAST 1IWY. Master ChargeBanfcAmericardReyolving Terms i i 'r' I.