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Exhibit Tries To Explain U.S. Life to Russians TBILISI. U.S.S.R. (AP) Twenty-three young i Americans, all of whom speak Russian, have begun a six-month visit to the Soviet Union to try to show how people live in the United States. They are guides at a U.S.

exhibit called "Research and Development U.S.A.". a display of American gadgetry ranging from computers to coffeemakers which opened in this capital of Soviet Georgia Jan. 24. The guides are assigned to the exhibit to explain how the equipment works and what it's used for. But they have had to field questions on such varied topics as the Vietnam war.

current American rock groups and the planned world championship chess match between American Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. person who walks through here' will win the Lincoln Continental'?" The guides said that besides cars the Georgians seem most interested in housing, clothing, health services, freedom to travel abroad. food, comparative prices and entertainment. "I was demonstrating an electric wafflemaker at my stand." said Cathy McCallick. 26.

of Santa Monica. Calif. "A little Jewish man asked me if I could make rnatzoth on it and if we have rnatzoth in America. "I told him there are a lot of Jewish restaurants and delicatessens where you can get rnatzoth. bagels, lox.

all sorts of things." She said the man told her matzoth-making is viewed as a religious rite in the Soviet Union and requires a license. "The most common question concerns the purchasing power of the American worker." said Al Estrin. 35, an industrial engineer from Washington and one of the older guides. "They want to know how much everything costs." Most of the guides are in the early or mid-20s. Many of them studied the Russian language and Soviet affairs in college and view their visit to the Soviet Union as a learning experience.

Other guides have Russian parents and learned the language at home. Frank Shakespeare, director of the U.S. Information Agency who officially opened the exhibit, praised the guides as the exhibit's "human element" and an ideal way to establish people-to-people contact with the Soviets. This group of guides will stay with the exhibit for six months while it tours three Soviet cities Tbilisi. Moscow and Volgograd.

Another group will relieve them for the second six-month period and the final three cities Kazan. Dometsk and Leningrad. The exhibit came to the Soviet Union under a mutual agreement on cultural exchanges. An exhibit of Russian folk art opened in Washington Jan. 12 and will go to five other cities.

One of the most popular items at the exhibit has been a 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III. Every day Georgians have swarmed around the car. peering under its hood and feeling the red leather upholstery. Somebody must have been spreading a rumor." said Grigorovich Barsky. "because the question has come up several times: it true vou're going to raffle off the Lincoln Continental? Is it true that the millionth tun irrpp riH A GANNETT NEWSPAPER 1 1 Molt nCzMiot ol AiC Movioia U.

loi Yoaa! liith Ypnr nrvinn Vormnnl OA 1 70c No. 26 Monday, Jan. 31, 1972 -7 0 11 -a-, Horn. D.liv.r.d "omi art! Civilians attle North Die in relan ful slaughter in Derry this afternoon." "An impartial and independent public inquiry is immediately called for and I have telegraphed the British prime minister to this effect." Cardinal Conwav said in a statement. But Miss Devlin charged that an official inquiry would only come up with a whitewash.

"Ths is mass murder bv the British army." she added. Catholics charged that a priest was arrested by paratroops as he gave the last rites to a dying man. The rallv was called by a Catholic-based civil rights association to protest internment of some 600 suspected guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army, which is battling to merge this mainly-Protestant province with the neighboring Irish Republic. Londonderry, Northern Ireland's second city, has been a flashpoint for the province's three years of turmoil. British troops were first called out to put down rioting here in August 1969.

Before Sunday's shootings. 218 people had died in riot or gunbattles. This month's total for the province stood at 12. seven of them police and soldiers shot down bv Irish Republican Army snipers. FTP? ''rriic ft All A vs.

ri I (' d.r 4 i-j I a 'i I LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland (AP) Thirteen civilians were shot and killed Sunday in gunfire that erupted when British paratroopers stormed a Roman Catholic protest rally in order to grab rock-throwing youths, authorities reported. The deaths touched off outraged protest from some Northern Irish leaders, who called the shootings an "awful slaughter." and "mass murder." The death toll was Londonderry's worst in more than three years of communal strife pitting Roman Catholic militants against Protestants and the British soldiers sent to restore order. The British said they knew of at least five dead, described as three snipers and two throwers of gasoline bombs. But hospital authorities reported 13 civilians killed and 16 others including two women treated for gunshot wounds. "We'll never forget it." vowed Bernadette Devlin, the 24-year-old civil rights leader and member of the British Parliament.

"We'll just have to continue the struggle to end this savagery." The gunfire erupted as about 3.000 marchers from Roman Catholic districts gathered to hear an address by Miss Devlin at a protest rally held in defiance of a government ban. The army said paratroopers moved into the crowd to snatch youngsters who were hurling rocks and bottles. The soldiers came under guerrilla sniper fire from a high apartment block, officers reported, and the exchanges bepn "At no time did any of our units open fire on the British army prior to the army's opening fire." countered a leader of the Irish Republican Army, the illegal guerrilla group. "The British army murdered innocent civilians in Derry today." he added. "We leave the world to judge who are the real terrorists." The extremist Provisional wing of the IRA swore to avenge the deaths.

Witnesses said most victims were shot during gunfire near the scene of the rally, in Londonderry's Roman Catholic Bogside district long a hotbed of Catholic activism. William Cardinal Conway. Roman Catholic primate of all Ireland, said he was "deeply shocked at the news of the aw- Pakistan Quits Commonwealth BRITISH TROOPS seek shelter behind their sandbagged armored cars in Londonderry. Northern Ireland, Sunday as they come under sniper fire. (UPI Telephoto) 14 Guerrillas Pull Argentine's Biggest Robbery BUENOS AIRES.

Argentina (AP) Fourteen leftist guerrillas pulled the biggest bank robbery in Argentina's history early Sunday, escaping with at least $450,000 worth of pesos. They held a dozen employes of the state-owned National Development Bank hostage for eight hours as they took their time boring a hole into the vault, munching sandwiches and drinking wine. Clandestine communiques from the Trotskyte People's Revolutionary army ERP said its guerrillas had obtained 4.5 million new pesos in the job. The ERP is one of half a dozen guerrilla bands operating in Argentina. Its communique said the money had been stolen from the Development Bank RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto withdrew his country from the British Commonwealth Sunday, vowing that the world "will no longer use Pakistan as a football," A government statement said Pakistan quit the organization of former British colonies after learning that two members.

New Zealand and Australia, planned to announce recognition of Bangladesh on Monday and that British recognition would follow soon. In separate announcements early Monday. Australia and New Zealand announced their recognition of Bangladesh. Pakistan lost Bangladesh, the former province of East Pakistan, in a two-week war with India last month. Bhutto spoke to newsmen on the eve of his planned visit to Peking at the invitation of the Chinese government.

He said he would not automatically break diplomatic relations with Commonwealth countries recognizing Bangladesh, but would consider each case on its merits. "We are prepared to have excellent bilateral relations with Britain and other Commonwealth countries." he said. Pakistan has broken off relations with Communist bloc countries recognizing Bangladesh but has not severed her relations with the Soviet Union, which also recognized the new nation. On his Commonwealth decision. Bhutto said: "National honor is more important than pounds, shillings and pences." He said Pakistan has no rancor for the British people and he urged the Pakistani press not to attack Britain.

He said he did not like "the parting of the ways" with the Commonwealth but maintained that Pakistan would be failing in its duty as a self-respecting nation if it did not take the decision. Pakistan has been a member of the Commonwealth since it became independent in August 1947 along with India. if. ii Vietnam Bombers Hit Enemy Tanks SAIGON (AP) The South Vietnamese military command announced Monday its bombers had destroyed three enemy tanks in South Vietnam's central highlands. The command said the North Vietnamese tanks, of an undetermined type, were spotted by South Vietnamese observation planes in the region where the frontiers of South Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos converge, about 300 miles north of Saigon.

The action was Sunday. A large North Vietnamese buildup is reported in the region, and U.S. officials anticipate an offensive there within the next month. By official count, the South Vietnamese command now claims a total of five enemy tanks and five trucks destroyed in the region in the last week. A second successive day of fighting was reported along the demilitarized zone and Viet Cong forces kept up rocket and mortar attacks across South Vietnam.

BRITISH SOLDIER hustles a demonstrator into custody during violent demonstration in Londonderry. (UPI Telephoto) "to continue developing our revolutionary war." None of the bank employes was injured during the operation, police said, but the bank manager suffered a heart attack when he and his wife were seized by the guerrillas at the couple's apartment in the bank building. One of the robbers, who said he was a doctor, gave emergency aid to the manager. Good Morning! Today will be sunny with temperatures in the mid-20s. (See details, page 13) Hughes Case Developments Keep Popping Hav A Happy Wkl MC SWINGS FUEL OILS 7I-SI11 Shall Products-Burnr Car words and thoughts of Howard Hughes.

"The document, supposedly available to a few current or former members of the Hughes organization, contains virtually everything that has ever been published about Hughes, as well as thousands of memoranda dictated for and by Hughes material enough for a dozen 'authentic' books. "The likeliest scenario is that Irving somehow obtained some or all of the material in the printout. It has been rumored, for example, that an angry former employe from the Hughes operation brought the material to Irving. "If this story happens to be true. Irving would probably not have needed many accomplices except for an excellent forger and his wife, who opened the bank account," Time said.

Neither Irving nor his attorney could be reached immediately for comment. The book was completed four years ago. Hannah said, and turned over to Robert Maheu, then a close Hughes associate who was later fired and who has engaged in a long legal fight with the Hughes interests. Maheu has denied being the source of any of the material used in the Irving book. Irving is scheduled to appear Monday before a Manhattan grand jury and also reportedly has been asked to appear before a federal grand jury in New York.

One version of the computer printout theory is contained in the current issue of Newsweek, which says that both Maheu and a onetime Hughes protege, John Meier, had access to the computer copy. Meier, now running in New Mexico for the Democratic senatorial nomination, was quoted by Newsweek as denying any contact with Irving, saying: "That's ridiculous. I never met the man." Time, saying those who have seen the Irving manuscript "agree it contains the where it remained intact. However, CBS and Time magazine said Sunday that Mrs. Irving had deposited only $450,000 in the second bank.

The network said on its "60 Minutes" program that Irving had spent $50,000 of the remainder and the other $150,000 "is somewhere on the sunny Mediterranean isle of Ibiza," the Spanish island where the Irvings live. Time's version was that "Irving is now frantically trying to raise $200,000" in case he has to pay it back to McGraw-Hill. CBS also reported that at the second bank Mrs. Irving usd the name "Hannah Rozencrantz" to open the account, with a West German I D. card in that name.

The real Hannah Rozencrantz, CBS said, is married to Mrs. Irving's former husband. Meanwhile, various news reports indicated a possible source of Irving's material was a printout of a computerized collection of news stories and memoranda about Hughes compiled NEW YORK (AP) Two new reports arose Sunday in the Clifford Irving-Howard Hughes autobiography case: that Irving sent some of the $650,000 intended for Hughes and that he also obtained material for his book from a computerized summary of the billionaire's press clippings. Meanwhile, federal authorities in Florida confirmed they were checking subpoenaed hotel records in connection with Irving's reported rendezvous with Hughes. Irving, who claimed the material for the book came from a series of interviews with the billionaire recluse, admitted through his attorney last week that $650,000 in checks paid by the McGraw-Hill Publishing and intended for Hughes, was deposited in a Swiss bank by Irving's wife, Edith, posing as "Helga R.

Hughes." Irving's attorney, Maurice Nessen, said Mrs. Irving later withdrew the money and redeposited it in another Swiss bank, 1 with the aid of a computer expert, Dr. John Pettit. Although the information was reportedly compiled for the use of the Hughes organization, there was speculation that all or part of it was supplied to Irving by a disgruntled former or present Hughes employe. Richard Hannah, the Hughes public relations man who arranged the Jan.

7 telephone conference call in which a man identified as Hughes talked to newsmen, said Sunday there was a "book" of biographical data on Hughes but it wouldn't have been enough material for Irving's 999 pages of text. Hannah also said the book contained no "secret or confidential memos." and that it was compiled by computer in a project directed by a senior vice president of the Hughes organization, Frank W. "Bill" Gay, with the help of Dr. Pettit, computer expert in charge of statistical matters for the organization. Here's Today's Index.

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