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Independent from Long Beach, California • 2

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Independenti
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i wt 'v V. A-2-INDEPCNbENT (AM) PRESS-TELEGRAM (PM)' Mar, in i-. People in the news jiv rnr myites Combined News The mainland Chinese hav invited House Democratic and Republican lead-ty thus smoo ers to vlslt their country th mnwtfifag what some skid were ruffled feelings an eariier invitation to Senate, but not House, (loaders. The invitation to Reps. Halo Boggs and (Jerald R.Ford, came from tea Chinese Peoples Institute of Foreign Affairs and was layed through, tee embassy contact in Paris.

An aide to Boggs laid be would accept Ford could not immediately be reached and. aides said they did not know whether hrwoiildfo. Ear ache Maanwfifle, Senate Republican leader Hugh Scott -sidd Tuesday he and Senate Democratic leader Hike Mansfield expect to leave in late April with their wives on a visit to China at the invitation of Premier Chen En-laL Nixon lias busy day as host Sen. Vance. Hartke, who just withdrew Irom the race for the Democratic presidential nomi- i nation, will undergo minor $ur- gery at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston Tuesday to Correct what his office called a minor, hearing loss.

Frightened Poppy Girl Hiss atBerrigan rally King HuuelB of Jordan received assurances of continued American military and economic assist- ance Tuesday during more than four hours of discussions with President Nixon and top administration officials. Authoritative administration sources said the Jordanian monarch neither sought nor received an explicit American endorsement of his recently revealed plan to create a semi-autonomous Palestinian state on the occupied West Bank of the Jordan. However, the sources Said the President had made it clear that the United States would welcome any initiative that would meet the legitimate aspirations' of the Palestinian people. The White House meeting preceded a stag dinner given by Nixon in the King's honor (see photo above of Nixon greeting Even hugs and kisses from First Lady Pat Nixon couldnt overcome the scared to death feeling, of orphan Pamela Jean Pashto, who went to the White House Tuesday as the 1972 Poppy GlrL Pamela represented the Veterans of Foreign Wars fund-raising poppy campaign. But she could barely manage a wend for the cause she was so cxdted and frightened on her first trip to Washington.

Pamela and three brothers and a sister, all orphans, live at the VFW Na--' tional Home tn Eaten Rapids, 23 miles south of Lansing. Alger Hfctf, the former State Department official who was jailed for alleged Cummunist activities, spoke Tuesday night at a Harrisburg, rally supporting antiwar priest Philip Beriigai and six co-defendants In a federal conspiracy case. Many ot the peace movement aspirations are familiar to me from our day, about 90 inviledguesta. HusriW iMh Washington on 36-yeaold monarch is scheduled to eiiter VuterW 36-yeaold the 97-yeardd Hiss told an estimated 800 listeners at the antiwar seminar. Hiss can happen in this country until thewar is over.

Fischer rejects site The Robinsons9 affair Reed Army Hospital Thursday for a cjieckup. Earlier. Nixon greeted the National Association for Retarded Children's 1972 Poster Child and played an impromptu game of pass the football with the six-year-old Iowa lad. Nixon and the Dallas Cowboys running back, Calvin Hill, who also caught a two-yard pass from football fan then added their autographs (see picture right) to. the pigskin, and gave it to Kevin Held, the poster child.

Nixon plso praised Hills work against drug addiction, Actor Edward G. Robinson Jr. Tuesday erswffl. tea right to contest Us mothers American chesa wizard Bobby Fischer rejected Belgrade Tuesday as one of the two sites in Which he is willing to meet the Soviet. Untoui.

Berts for the world chess championship. The Yugoslav capital and Reykjavik, Iceland were selected by the International Chess Federation as locations for tea two-city match after months of Negotiations. won which left him only a tea set, a baby chair and a painting from her $758,000 estate. Gladys Uoyd June. 6.

8 N. Irish hit sellout 'v. Combined News Services Dig-in order shunned BELFAST A half century of Prates tant home rule in Northern Ireland ended Tuesday when the provincial Parliament "bowed to British pressure and voted to 'adjourn tor at least a year. An angry ed out- of 100,000 Protestants massed i -I- SAIGON Officials in tee Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh directed residents Tuesday to dig bunkers and arm themselves in anticipation of a new big Communist attack, but the population paid little heed. In South Vietnam, government troops killed IS Communists near where two U.S.

helicopters were downed. About 10,000 South Vietnamese troops have been shifted from a three-week operation in' eastern Cambodia back to South Vietnam for a new phase of tee offensive. In the air war, American B52 bombers hammered suspected enemy targets in South Vietnam on Tuesday In a cam paign to break up any enemy attempt at starting an offensive. Stormont Castle, the seat of Parlia-' ment, and assailed the British measures as sellout to the terrorist campaign waged by the Irish Republican Army. Crowds feen stormed into Roman Catholic areas of the city and clashed with residents.

The capital virtually was. shut down in the second day of a general Protestant strike called to protest direct British rule, scheduled to go into effect Thursday for a year. Terrorists killed two mors persons with a bomb near Londonderry, and there was other scattered violence. Disarmament plan Deadline passes GENEVA The Soviet Union called Tuesday on -all nations to pledge to never in any circumstances to develop, produce, stockpile or otherwise acquire or retain means of chemical warfare. Moscow wrote the pledge into the draft of a 14-article convention that it presented to tee 25-nation Disarmament Conference in tee hope, Soviet delegate Aleksei A.

Roshchin said, of starting business-like and concrete negotiations. BUENOS AIRES The third deadline set by the kidnapers of Fiat executive Oberdan Sallustro toe his execution passed Tuesday night with no immediate indication of his fate. An hour before the deadline Fiat said it could not meet the abductors demands. Sallustros wife, Ida, made an tearful idea on television for the life of her husband 45 minutes before the midnight deadline. Fiat officials said the government informed them it had received a communique Jrom the kidnapers saying the execution would be carried out Makarios pressed Newest edition of classics from the Trevira9 Era Turks won't bargain NICOSIA Qualified Cypriot government sources said Tuesday that Greece was urgently pressing a demand on President Makarios to form a new cabinet made up of men of.

mutual confidence that would purge tee top level of the administration of those that Athens considers insufficiently "national," that' is, pro-Greek. UNYE, Turkey The Turkish government warned Tuesday it will refuse to bargain with leftist terrorists who kidnaped three British radar technicians from this Black Sea coastal town. I NATIONAL I Water cleanup date nixed Berrigan witness Timeless yet timely. Thats the whole idea these classic separates of Tlevim polyester Were planned around. A dapper combination of solids and houndstooth dxedcs to jigsaw together uncountable ways by Dalton for sizes 8 to 16.

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Tbwn ft Darrel Separates, La Pssada Level WASHINGTON The House rejected a move to set a rigid timetable for elimination of most Industrial water pollution Tuesday, one of a handful of defeated proposals environmentalists had argued were needed to put teeth in a proposed $24.6 billion water cleanup effort. Nearing completion of mi its own version of legislation already approved by the Senate, the House defeated 248 to 140 an amendment that would have required industry to use by 1981 the best available waste treatment technology, provided the cost would be reasonable. Backers of the amendment, which included consumer, environment and labor groups, enntimd it would go a long way toward achieving the bills stated aim of pollution-free wa- HARRISBURG, Pa. Closing arguments in the Harrisburg Seven trial Tuesday centered on the hdbesty of star government witness Boyd F. Douglas and tee FBIs motives to using him to spy on a group of antiwar priests and nuns.

The arguments, which will continue today, were a prelude to the charge to the jury by U.S. District Judge R. Dixon Herman. The jury of nine women arid three men Win get the case Thursday. Standing in doorway ter by 1985.

I Alioto bearing delay SEATTLE A pretrial conference prel WASHINGTON Civil rights lobbyist Clarence Mitchell said Wednesday that when President Nixon proposed a mar toriumt on forced -school- busing he placed himself on the side of ttose whq have stood In school domwayifTo tiar' black children. If Congress approves the Presidents prgram, Mitchell said the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People win challenge 11 to the courts before the ink ia dry. scheduled for Friday in the federal crim--inal case involving San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto has been canceled by Federal District Judge Ray McNichols, who Was. stricken with appendicitis Tuesday. date.wiU be set for tee ciosed-door hearing.

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