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METRO Replacing U.S. car fleet ur The Courier-News April 14, 197S B-l WASHINGTON (AP) Congress is considering a bill to boost employment in the depressed auto industry by having the federal government buy 121,000 new cars and trucks to replace virtually all of its nationwide fleet. The proposal, characterized by one supporter as a "food stamp program for the automobile manufacturers," would cost $443 million. Its provisions are included in the emergency employment bill which has passed the House and is pending in the Senate. Instead of replacing its vehicles only after six years or 60,000 miles, the government would replace all but those bought after May 1974.

But President Ford feels the measure is uneconomical, says White House Press Secretary Ron Nessen. James T. Lynn, director of the Office of Management and Budget, says the provision is one reason he would recommend the President veto the bill in its current form. Because not all of the $443 million would be spent in the same fiscal year, administration officials are hard pressed to figure out exactly how much the measure would add to the budget deficit for fiscal 1976, which Ford has said should be limited to $G0 billion. Nessen has also complained that the bill would "take away 54,000 sales from new and used car dealers because the government, in effect, would be competing with the new and used car dealers." The number used by Nessen is the number of 2-year-old to 6-year-old cars which would be sold by GSA to make room for the new cars.

But specialists in the used car market don't share the White House concern. "My feeling is it would have little, if any, impact on the used-car market," said Harry Lawrence, the National Automobile Dealers Association official who compliles the authoritative "Blue Book" on used car prices. But complaints remain. Rep. Lawrence Coughlin, noted neither the House Appropriations Committee nor any of its subcommittees held hearings or provided estimates of the measure's impact on employment.

"I for one would like to see some hard figures and cost accounting," Coughlin said. Rep. George E. Danielson, defended the proposal by likening it to food stamps. Even industry experts find it impossible to estimate the impact of the propwal on unemployment, although they do expect some favorable impact.

Stanley Roe, a statistican for the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association, said the main reason the big purchase would be likely to have a quick impact on employment is because government cars are special orders. That means that instead of simply drawing down their sizeable inventories to fill the orders, manufacturers would have to crank up their assembly lines. Businats, financ Classified ads Comics Nation B-14 -B-8-12 B-l 3 B-3 Porter State Stocks World -B-14 -B-2 -B-14 B-3 Beirut rightists, guerrillas clash, 38 die a.J"- The fighting in Beirut began Sunday during the inauguration of a new Maronite Christian church which was attended by Pierre Gemayel, the leader of the right-wing Phalangist party, and many members of his party militia. They claimed they were fired on by Palestinian guerrillas. Palestinian leaders charged the Phalangists with ambushing a busload of 22 Palestinian civilians driving past the church on their way to a refugee camp.

Clashes spread to downtown Beirut and four suburbs. The Palestine Liberation Organization accused the Phalangists of a "well studied and prepared plan of ambushes, criminal attacks and roadblocks." By late Sunday night the Phalangists reported three militiamen killed while the Palestinians listed 26 dead and 19 wounded. Two Lebanese civilians were added to the death toll after they were caught in a crossfire at a roadblock. At dawn Monday, the Palestinians reported one more guerrilla killed and three wounded in clashes during the night. A Palestinian spokesman also said four members of a Lebanese folk dance troupe were wounded when Phalangists opened fire on their cars.

Initial reports in Beirut said a police armored car, a soft drink factory, a men's fashion shop and two offices of the Phalangist party were blown up by rocket grenades. The fighting underscored the Christian-Moslem tension which has come to tebanon as a result of the presence in the country of some 12,000 Palestinian guerrillas. There are some 65,000 Phalangists, and they maintain a well-armed militia of several thousand men. Mostly Maronite Christians, they have long opposed the Palestinian guerrillas and the "state within a state" they operate in the Palestine refugee camps in the country. The two factions have clashed in the past.

Premier Rashid Solh held an emergency cabinet meeting Sunday night, and some ministers suggested that the army intervene. Solh refused to declare a state of emergency and ordered the police to restore law and order, but the only police action reported during the night was the armored car hit by a bazooka. President Anwar Sadat of Egypt appealed for a "cessation of bloodshed" in Iiebanon, and President Hafez Assad of Syria was reported in close contact with the Palestinian leadership. PLO leader Yasir Arafat sent telegrams to Arab leaders urging them to "stop this plot aimed at ruining the Palestinian-Ibanese fraternity." The Egyptian cabinet, headed by Premier Abdel Aziz Hegazy, submitted its resignation on the eve of a nationwide speech by Sadat in which he was expected to outline policies on inflation, housing and food shortages, and transportation problems. Official sources said the new cabinet would be named Wednesday and sworn in BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) Street battles between Palestinian guerrillas and Ibanese Christian rightists in Beirut tapered off to sporadic clashes today after 38 persons were reported killed and 60 wounded by machine-gun and bazooka fire.

Elsewhere in the Middle East, the Egyptian cabinet resigned and President Anwar Sadat prepared to form a new government to tackle domestic problems that have sparked two riots this year. Banks and shops in the heart of Beirut were shuttered, and few persons ventured out on the usually crowded downtown streets. Scattered clashes were reported continuing on the outskirts of the city, near several Palestine refugee camps. Clouds of smoke rose over several areas, The government said it had ordered security forces to "storm into the fighting areas and arrest those responsible." But the Interior Ministry reported only eight arrests by midday. General strikes closed Lebanon's two other major cities, Tripoli on the north coast and Sidon south of Beirut, as their inhabitants expressed support for the Palestinian guerrillas.

Armed men and burning tires blocked roads. According to casualty reports from government sources and the warring factions, 28 guerrillas, two militiamen of the right-wing Phalange party and eight Lebanese civilians had been killed since noon Sunday. Three Phalangists and 27 Palestinians were reported wounded. Thursday. It is expected to be headed by a close friend of Sadat, Mamdoun Salem, deputy premier and interior minister in the outgoing cabinet.

Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy and War Minister Lt. Gen. Abdel Ghany Gamasy were expected to retain their posts, indicating no major changes in foreign and military policy. Sources predicted that Sadat's new economy minister will be Sherif Lutfi, an economist who criticized Hegazy's policies as stopgap measures. Fahmy said in a copyrighted interview with U.S.

News and World Report that unless progress is made in Middle East peace negotiations war will eventually follow and "nobody can guarantee that it won't involve the whole world." "We are ready to live with Israel if she is willing to live with us," he said. "This means she must give up her ambition to dominate the Arab countries, whether by expansion or other means. We may sign a peace treaty with Israel provided and this is a big proviso that Israel is ready to live in peace with its neighbors as a Middle Eastern country, not a European country or an additional state of the U.S.A." Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon told newsmen in Jerusalem before flying to London and Washington that the United States is pressuring Israel to reach a settlement with Egypt over the occupied Sinai Desert. He declared that the Jewish state would resist compromises that endanger its security. Bessy Murphy reads to her husband, State Sen.

John Murphy, on the floor of the Nebraska Legislature in Lincoln. Murphy, 56, of South Sioux City, is gradually going blind. Senator, losing eyesight, doesn't want sympathy SBA charged with political appointments as bills are amended. "He has one of the quickest minds in the legislature," said Omaha Sen. Glenn Goodrich.

"Lord knows there isn't any sympathy factor involved where Murph is concerned, he doesn't need any." Murphy says he is conservative. Legislators in Nebraska are elected on a nonpartisan basis without party listing. He is against big government, especially when he feels government is involving itself too much in private business. "This country was built on a system that lets those that work for their own betterment get ahead," Murphy said. "Government can't make everyone who is poor rich, it can't make everyone who is blind sighted." Murphy has been successful in business ventures.

He doesn't deny that at 56, he could retire and take it easy. "If I went home and sat in a closet I'd feel sorry for myself," Murphy said. "And besides, Bess would never let me get away with it. LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) State Sen.

John Murphy lives with the knowledge that he will one day be totally blind. Nevertheless he is among the most active men in Nebraska's single-house legislature, using a brusk Irish humor and his wife's eyes to face his day-to-day challenge with failing eyesight. "And there are a lot worse things in this life to face than what I'm stuck with, so don't be making this a hearts and flowers case," he told a reporter. Murphy's blindness is being brought on by diabetes. "It just takes a bit more planning, that's all," said the South Sioux City legislator.

He is no longer able to read the hundreds of bills brought before the legislature, and the Banking, Insurance and Commerce Committee, of which he is chairman. "When we have new legislation my wife Bess reads it into a tape recorder, and I play it back as often as I need to," Murphy said. His wife sits next to him on the floor of the legislature each day, reading to him Fischer makes a move to play new champion basis of political affiliations. Each of the directors in the four cases cited would not have been selected unless the agency sincerely believed that he was fully qualified to administer and manage programs to assist small businessmen." He said all four district directors, who are not charged with anything, continue in their positions. Woods added: "All of the agency's district directors are selected on the basis of their administrative ability, past accomplishments in private industry and their ability to administer financial programs." However, the commission's report charges in regard to the district directorships, "with respect to these key jobs, SBA has permitted a management vacuum to exist in which political interests are allowed to influence appointments in a style that approximates a patronage system." The commission's report also describes three cases in SBA's San Francisco region in which job promotions "were predicated on political sponsorship in violation" of civil service regulations.

favoritism involving the appointment of SBA officials in Arizona, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Montana and California. It says the alleged patronage involved in naming of SBA district directors in the first four states were "not isolated violations." "On the contrary," the commission's report says, "they would appear the predictable results of the type of staffing process we found in operation" generally in the SBA. The Civil Service Commission has yet to set a hearing date for the three SBA officials accused last August of violating civil service regulations. While they haven't been identified, a commission spokesman said all three are above the GS-15 level. Two work in Washington and one elsewhere, he said.

The SBA, which has 4,000 employes, provides $1.5 billion in direct loans and loan guarantees for small businesses as well as making extensive management and technical advise available to them. Randal L. Woods, an assistant SBA administrator, said the agency's 65 district directors "are not picked on the A f' A wjm Gannett News Service Special By DOUGLAS WATSON The Washington Post WASHINGTON A Civil Service Commission investigation has found "flagrant violations" by the Small Business Administration in regard to "a patternund practice of preferential treatment in personnel actions." A confidential commission report charges that in the SBA there was "clear evidence that persons were appointed to Malpractice ruling facing By JOHN OMICINSKI Gannett News Service WASHINGTON Congress will be asked and probably soon whether the federal government should get involved in solving the medical malpractice insurance problems besetting an estimated half of the states. The positions of the doctors who need insurance, the insurers who sell it, and the lawyers who earn fees from malpractice cases appear to be unanimous: Let the states handle it. Last week, a Senate subcommittee opened the first hearings on the issue in the 94th Congress.

Its chairman, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, has a clear position: "Now is the time for the federal government to become actively involved in solving the medical malpractice crisis. "The private insurance industry has neither the authority nor the interest necessary to solve the underlying problems. Physicians have continued to allow incompetent physicians to practice medicine, and state legislatures have shown little interest in working toward an equitable solution to this complex issue, despite numerous warnings, studies, commissions and statements in recent years." Kennedy and Sen.

Daniel K. Inouye, D-Hawaii, are the principle sponsors of two bills offering different federal solutions to MANILA, Philippines (AP) Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer says he wants to talk with his successor, Anatoly Karpov of the Soviet Union, about a match between them, a Philippine chess official reported today. Florencio Campomanes, deputy president of FIDE, the International Chess Federation, told newrmen Fischer telephoned him from his home in Pasadena, early today and said he wanted "to talk the matter over seriously with Mr. Karpov." Campomanes said the 32-year-old American chess wizard was responding to a report that Karpov was challenging him to a match under rules to be decided district director positions, which are in the competitive civil service, because of their political affiliations or support," contrary to civil service regulations. The 34-page investigative report wasn't made public last summer when the commission brought charges against three unnamed SBA officials.

It was released last week by Rep. John E. Moss, who has been conducting a six-month probe of civil service practices. The commission's previously undisclosed report details alleged political insurance Congress the malpractice insurance problem. Kennedy and Inouye propose either: A national no-fault malpractice insurance program, similar to existing no-fault auto insurance programs operating in several states, to take malpractice actions out of the courts.

Or a set of federal guidelines for state arbitration programs. Sen. Gaylord Nelson, offers a third approach: Federal reinsurance of malpractice policies. Companies selling malpractice insurance would pay into a federal pool, from which settlements and awards of more than $25,000 would be paid out. The American Medical Association, which sees the "legal rights explosion" and "unrealistically high patient expectations" as key factors in the malpractice problem, is opposed to both Kennedy-Inouye bills.

Dr. Malcom C. Todd, AMA's president, told the Senate subcommittee that the bills contain provisions for federal government regulation of the practice of medicine." The no-fault approach advanced by Kennedy and Inouye, would, for instance, require doctors participating in the program to face medical reviews by their pee.s in Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSRO) set up by a 1972 federal law. mission which was climaxed on July 20, 1969, with the first landing by men on the moon. A view of the two astronauts setting up the American flag on the moon's surface while the lunar module passes overhead is framed on the top by a view of earth seen from the moon and on the bottom by the rocket blasting off from the Cape Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The newly painted oval is framed in turn by wreaths of flowers in Brumidi's mid-Victorian style. Cox worked from photographs of the moon landing and from the actual spacesuits now owned by the Smithsonian Institution. The painting's cost of $3,500 was paid by the Commission of Arts and Antiquities ofjhfi JIJ5Senate, quickies of interest Janitor rated a genius between them personally. The Filipino said Fischer told him: "It's a fine gesture. I want a serious discussion with him (but) I don't want to fall into a propaganda trap." The Russians and FIDE agreed to Fischer's demand that victory in the title match would go to the first player to win 10 games.

But when they rejected his demand that he keep the title if a 9-9 tie was reached, Fischer forfeited the crown to Karpov. The championship match was to have started in Manila in June, and the Philippine government was putting up $5 million to be divided between the two players. get used is by having a job that people consider worthless." Kirtley, 34, married with four children, took the job in 1971. It pays $4.63 an hour. "I'm like a child at Christmas time when I go into a library.

I'm an intellectual geek," he said, adding he devours books "alive and screaming." In light of this, how's life behind a broom? "I love it. It's the field of ambrosia. And I found it right here at city hall." industry since J. Paul Getty III was ransomed in 1973 for $2.7 million. Newspapers speculated that the jeweler's freedom cost his family $5 million to $15 million.

"They treated me well," he said. "During my captivity I was kept in a room without a window. I was blindfolded most of the time." beverages, began eating meat instead of remaining a vegetarian and had shown too much interest in sex. Police also barred Maharaj Ji's followers from addressing thousands of Indian devotees who had come to this northern city for his first visit to his hompland, in two years. PORTLAND, Ore.

(AP) John Kir-tley, a janitor at the Portland City Hall, says he considers his IQ of 173 just a statistic. The average IQ is 100 and that of genius is 140 or above. He has become a member of Mensa, an international organization for exceptionally intelligent people. To qualify for membership, a person must have a genius IQ. Kirtley says, "The only way you don't mmmmmmmmmmwmm Ill 4 jfi Space Age mural in Capitol Golden bachelor' freed IV key tl lit i m- 1 4, A 111 -5 ROME (AP) Gianni Bulgari, an international jeweler and Italy's "golden bachelor," was released early today a month after he was kidnaped in the heart of Rome.

The size of the ransom paid for the 40-year-old jet setter could not be learned immediately. But Bulgari was the best-known catch of Italy's booming kidnap WASHINGTON (AP) A painting of American astronauts blasting from earth and landing on the moon has tourists straining their necks in surprise as they file through an antique Capitol corridor. With no public fanfare, a muralist hired by a Senate commission has used the space-age theme to fill one of several large ovals that were left blank by artist Constantine Brumidi nearly 100 years ago for history to complete. Virtually every other inch of the walls and ceilings of the long corridor was decorated by Brumidi, an Italian immigrant, with a vast and intricate display of the plants, birds, animals, insects, scenery and history of his adopted country, v. The new painting, by muralist Allyn Cox shows the highlights of.

the moon Guru ducks confrontation with mother 'T TM LUCKNOW, India AP) Although his mother thinks he is a playboy in America, Guru Maharaj Ji says he is still a "perfect master." However, the 17-year-old guru backed off from a personal confrontation with his mother on Sunday after she had charged i thaUwt-son startei.ilrinkingalcoJioJiaL A new mural, painted by Allyn Cox, showing the highlights of the moon mission, which climaxed on July 20, 1969, with the first landing by men on the moon, now decorates one hallway of the Capitol in Washington..