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Heart Attack Victim Has Been There and Back MAMARONECK (AP) "I've been there. and I've back." Victor Solow was speaking of death. For 23 minutes after suffering a heart attack. Solow was dead. The 56-year-old producer of documentary films liked to boast that he never had been sick a day in his life.

Then at 10:52 a.m. on Saturday March 23, he collapsed of a heart attack while driving his car. For the next 23 minutes, until 11:15 a.m. when his body was jolted by electric shocks at United Hospital, Solow had no measurable pulse, no heart activity and no vital signs. In a tape-recorded story he calls his "Death and Resurrection." Solow has related his strange experience.

The story was published in a four-part series by the 10-member Westchester Rockland Newspapers group. "I knew instantly he could neither hear nor see -Victor Solow's wife. "I was driving and had just stopped for a red light." he recalls. calmly but with great surprise." says his wife. Lucky, "he turned to me and said.

'Oh. Lucky. As swiftly as the expiration of a breath, he seemed to settle down in his seat with all his weight." she said. "Even his head remained almost erect but his eyes opened wide like one utterly astonished about an unexpected. strange transcendence.

But I knew instantly he could neither hear nor see me. "I pulled on the emergency brake and turned off the ignition. incoherently talking and pleading with him to hang on. that he was going to be fine. He uttered not a Mrs.

Solow sought help and Frank Colangelo telephoned police from a nearby gasoline station. An officer arrived quickly and began massaging Solow's heart, and this was continued after the arrival of an ambulance manned by five trained volunteers. It took Solow to United, where the staff had been alerted by radio to the emergency. patient was dead by available standards." Dr. Harold Roth recounted.

"In other words. there was no measurable pulse, no heart activity, he was not breathing and he appeared to have no vital signs whatever. A cardiac monitor was put into action. Intravenous medication was begun. Pure oxygen was supplied through a tube.

Electric shock was begun, the first at 11:13 a.m. "It was powerful enough to lift my entire body inches off the operating table, an electrocution in reverse." Solow said doctors told him later. "But there was no result. The still showed no activity, "The patient was dead by available -Solow's doctor. (Continued on Page 8A) Partly cloudy and cooler tonight Another person who doesn't Cooler THE EVENING PRESS Let's Chuckle with the low in the mid 40s.

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N.Y., May 24, 1974 Volume 98-37 3 Sections 100 Pages 15 Cents Binghamton, Friday, Oil Imports Spurt; Trade Still Ahead WASHINGTON (AP) increase in petroleum had a trade surplus of $92.8 government reported today. The April surplus followed a trade deficit in March of $171 million. the first deficit in nine months. Both the quantity and cost of petroleum imports were up sharply during April, reflecting the end to the Arab oil embargo and the much higher prices that oil-producing nations are demanding. The Commerce Department said the nation paid a record of $2.4 billion in April for imports of mineral fuels, almost all of it petroleum, compared with $1.7 billion in March.

Imports by quantity totaled 192.5 million barrels, up from 161.1 million barrels in March. The change from deficit to Rabin Says He's Picked Cabinet JERUSALEM (AP) Premier-designate Yitzhak Rabin announced today that he had formed a government, replacing Golda Meir's, and hoped to name his cabinet by Saturday night. Rabin. a former chief of staff and ambassador to Washington, said his cabinet would then be presented to parliament next week. Rabin, 52, told President Ephraim Katzir he had taken longer than the- 21 days authorized to form a cabinet because he had been busy with the Israeli team negotiating with Secretary of State Henry A.

Kissinger to end the war with Syria. In a brief statement to newsmen after his meeting with Katzir, Rabin made no hint as to the makeup of his cabinet. But political insiders said Deputy Premier Yigal Allon of the outgoing government was expected to get the foreign minister post while the Defense Ministry job would go to Shimon Peres. a close friend of outgoing Defense Minister Moshe Dayan. Rabin is considered a representative of the more dovish left wing of the Labor party.

which advocates greater territorial concessions to the Arabs than Mrs. Meir has been willing to offer. Dayan, who has been severely criticized for his handling of the October Middle East war, was expected to be excluded from the cabinet. The political future of caretaker Foreign Minister Abba Eban also seemed in doubt after he informed Rabin he "does not wish to join the new government about to be formed." Life Sentence BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) A Northern Ireland farmer was sentenced to life imprisonment Thursday for the murder of three Brit-. ish soldiers and the attempted murder of four others.

Malachy Bernard O' Kane. 26, of Dungiven in County Londonderry, told the court he would kill more soldiers if given the chance. Transcript ot Said Unreliable Despite a 43 per cent imports, the United States million during April, the surplus in April was due largely to a big 7.3 per cent increase on the export side, especially in the machinery and transport equipment category. which rose to $3 billion in value. The category includes aircraft and auto exports.

Total exports during the month were valued at more than $8.2 billion, while imports were about $8.1 billion an increase of 3.8 per cent over March. The United States had an over-all trade surplus during the first four months of 1974 of $778 million, compared with a deficit of $667 million during the same period last year. The nation had its first trade surplus in three years of $870 million last year, but gov-. ernment economists fear the higher cost of foreign oil will return the trade picture to a deficit in 1974. Although the cost of petroleum imports continued to soar upward last month.

other categories of imports dropped sharply, including food and an-. imals, beverages and tobacco, and manufactured goods. -PRESS PHOTO BY DON BLACK HOSE -No, that is not a giant anaconda that Binghamton fireman Edward J. Race is wrestling but a fire bureau hose used to bring water into the pool in the new government plaza in Binghamton from an outside hydrant. The pool is filled once each spring and the water is then recirculated through a fountain until it must be drained in the fall.

Israelis Intercept Terrorists Kissinger Hoping Plan Ends Snag JERUSALEM (AP) Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said today he plans to offer his own compromise proposal aimed at breaking the Syrian-Israeli deadlock over troop limitations on the Golan front. As he spoke, tank and artillery fire boomed along the entire 40-mile front and Israeli and Syrian planes attacked each other's positions on the rocky plateau. The Syrians claimed knocking down three Israeli jets, but the Tel Aviv command said all its planes returned safely. "We are considering whether approaching the issue of thinning out forces with an American proposal might help matters." Kissinger told newsmen.

Information Minister Shimon Peres said Kissinger was contemplating a "middle of the road" proposal. which he declined to spell out. But he said the secretary's idea was "a bridging proposition which would take into consideration the particular sharp sensibilities of both sides." Kissinger introduced an American initiative last week and won both side's approval of a truce line. A senior U.S. official said Kissinger would return to the Syrian capital later in the day or on Saturday, hoping to wrap up an agreement.

With or without an agreement. the official said, the American diplomat will go home on Sunday. WASHINGTON (AP) The House Judiciary Committee has been advised by its two top lawyers that it can't rely on White House-edited transcripts in its impeachment inquiry. Errors, omissions and deletions in the 46 conversations released April 30 by President Nixon make them unsatisfactory as evidence, say chief counsel John Doar and 'Albert Jenner, the chief minority counsel. They told the committee Thursday there was "an absolute need" to get the tapes of the conversations if the impeachment verdict is to be based on the best evidence.

Nixon spurned a committee subpoena for 11 Watergate tapes Wednesday and said he would not respond to any other subpoenas it may issue for Watergate material. He turned over the transcripts in response to an earlier subpoena for tapes. White House lawyer James D. St. Clair termed the criti- Police Lead Unsuccessful SLA Raid LOS ANGELES (AP) Police searching for Patricia Hearst conducted a predawn raid on a Hollywood home, startling two women who were said to match descriptions of Miss Hearst and Symbionese Liberation Army fugitive Emily Harris.

Two women in pajamas emerged as a force of 50 to 60 police leveled shotguns and tear gas rifles at the house, but police Sgt. Gene Ingram said the women had no connection with the terrorist SLA. He said police had acted on an anonymous tip, and that one of the women matched a rough description of Mrs. Harris, who is being sought along with her husband, William, and the newspaper heiress. Meanwhile in San Francisco.

the parents of Miss Hearst are said to be outraged by the comments of law officers who in the past week have said she is an armed and dangerous fugitive. Cecil Poole, a former U.S. attorney who met with Randolph and Catherine Hearst Thursday, said the parents of 20-year-old Patricia were furious about "the excessive statements of law enforcement personnel, particularly statements by the Los Angeles district attorney." Poole said he agreed with the Hearsts that the flood of (Continued on Page 8A) cism "gratuitous in the St. Clair noted that President Nixon had offered to let the chairman and ranking Republican on the committee listen to the tapes to verify their accuracy, a procedure that has been rejected by Committee Chairman Peter W. Rodino, In another Watergate arena, Federal Judge Gerhard Gesell today refused to end, move or postpone the trial of defendants in the Ellsberg break-in.

The defense had claimed massive publicity about the break-in at the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist would prevent them from receiving a fair trial. But in a pretrial hearing. Gesell said: "There is no reason to believe that a jury cannot perform its traditional function and represent the community and be unbiased And in still another tapes development, the Senate Watergate committee was told it had not shown sufficient need for five White House tape recordings it had been seeking. The U.S. Court of Appeals came to that decision Thursday in ruling against the committee's 10-month legal battle for the tapes.

In other Watergate developments: -Atty. Gen. William B. Saxbe told the Senate Judiciary Committee that special prosecutor Leon Jaworski will not be fired. Saxbe told committee Chairman James O.

Eastland, that he (Continued on Page 8A) Duke Ellington, 'Greatest U.S. Dies TIBERIAS, Israel (AP) A captured Palestinian terrorist whose suicide squad was intercepted by Israeli security forces in the Golan Heights says the band's mission was a Maalot-style raid and possible massacre at fishing villages on the Sea of Galilee. The terrorist. who spoke some English, and another member of the eight-man squad were seized Thursday by Israeli soldiers participating in a security screen thrown up to protect border areas from guerrilla attacks. They disclosed under interrogation the presence of the others, and the Israelis killed all six in a battle four miles inside of Israel.

The captives said they be longed to the Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, the same group that sent three terrorists to attack a school -in Maalot last week. Twenty-one youngsters, five adults and the gunmen were killed there. The English-speaking Palestinian captive told newsmen his band had been sent into Israel to seize hostages and mand the release of 30 guerrillas held in Israel. Then, if the demands were not met, they were to "blow up the houses we had captured with the hostages and ourselves as he said. would be a massacre." The guerrillas crossed from Syria armed with automatic rifles, 30 grenades, 22 pounds of high explosives and bullhorns to proclaim their demands, the Israeli command announced.

Their targets reportedly were the fishing settlements of Haon and EinGev. The squad carried messages for the ambassadors of Japan, France. Austria and Romania to negotiate the exchange of prisoners, the command said. Israel said the commandos were trained for a month in Syria before they were sent into Israel. The two captives said they were based in South Lebanon.

One of them said his name was Casbar Caspian, 27; and he lived in the Syrian desert city of Aleppo. Store Prints Own Pennies Pennies shortage is that hoarders are storing them away in the belief that the copper they're made of will become more valuable than the worth of the penny itself. The U.S. Mint says it is coining all the pennies it can, but the shortage persists. Some banks and department stores have begun to give customers $1.10 for every 100 pennies they turn in.

Gardiner said customers are cooperating in his printed penny venture and view the situation as "just one more shortage to put up with. Some Houston businesses are rounding off prices to meet the shortage. As a result, the customer sometimes gets short-changed. "My lunch today cost me two cents more because they don't have any pennies." noted a secretary who ate at a hamburger chain. NEW YORK (AP) Duke Ellington, who introduced a sizzling brand of jazz to Harlem in the 1920s and later became America's goodwill music ambassador the world over as bandleader: and composer, died today of cancer and pneumonia.

He was 75. Edward Kennedy Ellington, nicknamed "Duke" for his impeccable attire, died at 3:10 a.m. at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center. "Mr. Ellington suffered from cancer involving both lungs and pneumonia at the end." the hospital said in a statement on behalf of the family.

"He entered the hospital at the end of March and received intensive radio and chemotherapy treatments. He was heartened by the thousands of messages from his friends around the At his bedside at his death was his sister. Ruth, and his son. Mercer. The funeral will be Monday at St.

John the Divine Cathedral in New York. Ellington had been unable to attend celebrations for his 75th birthday in New York last month. The celebration brought together 35 jazz groups and soloists in a tribute to the jazz master. Ellington was known the world over and was the first jazz musician to receive the French Legion of Honor. an.

award he was presented in July 1973. Asked how many countries 2 U.S. Films Take Top Cannes Honors CANNES. France (AP) Two American films Conversation" and and American actor Jack Nicholson took top honors today at the Cannes Film Festival. Francis Ford Coppola's Conversation." a film about a snooper and his involvement with murder, received the Golden Palm award.

The American film centers on the sleazy private life of a private eye who 1S as- DUKE ELLINGTON had given him awards. he replied: "I never count awards. I only enjoy. I don't even count the bars when write. do Oh.

I guess I have President Nixon invited him (Continued on Page 8A) HOUSTON, Tex. (AP) A local grocery chain is battling the penny shortage by printing its own. The Eagle Grocery Stores are using paper pennies, printed at company expense and redeemable at all Eagle stores, to overcome a chronic shortage of the copper coins. "This was about the last thing that we wanted to store manager Dick Gardiner said Thursday. "But we really had little choice.

We didn't want to cheat our customers. but we still had to make change." Customers receive green slips of paper. printed with the company name, instead of pennies for change. Five of the paper slips, which are slightly larger than a business card, are worth a nickel. "What else could we asks Gardiner.

"We couldn't get pennies. And if we went through the store and rounded off all our prices the sales tax would still defeat us. We just can't do without pennies. Mint director Mary Brooks said last week the Mint is planning a nationwide get-outfort ease the penny shortpenny campaign in an efage. Some supermarket chains have asked for permission to use paper scrip in places of pennies in their stores.

The Mint has not yet responded to these requests. but it promises an opinion soon on whether use of scrip in such a way would be legal. The theory behind the penny Batavia Man Drowns WATERTOWN (AP) Levant Sprague. 58. of Batavia, drwoned Thursday in the St.

Lawrence River when his fishing boat capsized. authorities said Inside THE PRESS Charles W. is waging a new campaign, not for politicians but for souls. The former Nixon aide has turned evangelist. Page 9A.

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