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The Honolulu Advertiser also in Global Report More news: C2-10 Classified ads: C12-23 Friday, October 4, 1974 Guerrilla 's' drop ransom the world demand submitted his resignation and Leone urged him to remain. Rumor's cabinet, based on the same coalition of ''Christian Democrats, Social Democrats and Socialists that has run Italy since 1962, also has been laboring under inefficiency, divisions and scandals. Chased off NICOSIA (UPI) Police surprised a carload of gunmen along the route President Glafkos Clerides was scheduled to take home from his of SANTO DOMINGO (UPI) Guerrilla leader Rad-names Mendez Vargas, shouting from a window that it time to end this business," yesterday dropped his demand for a $1 million ransom for seven hostages and offered to trim the list of political prisoners he wanted exchanged. "As revolutionaries we respect the human being, and there is no threat at present against the physical integrity of the hostages," he said. The ransom concessions were the first by the pro-Castro Jan.

12 National Liberation Movement since it occupied the consulate last Friday and called for the re ease of three dozen political prisoners and for $1 million. THE GROUP SET four different deadlines for executing the hostages, including American diplomat Barbara Hutchison, at two-hour intervals but let each pass. The government maintained silence on the concessions. President Joaquin Balaguer has offered the guerrillas, believed to number only six, nothing more than safe conduct out of Santo Domingo in return for releasing the captives unharmed. Musical requirement KAMPALA, Uganda (UPI) President Idi Amin wants two six-foot-tall Scotsmen who can play the bagpipes as his bodyguards, a Foreign Affairs ministry spokesman said yesterday.

He said Uganda's acting high commissioner in London had been instructed to recruit two such Scots, each with a military background, good service records, at least 6 feet tall and "experience in playing the Scottish bagpipes." IK 4 I fice last night and chased them off after an exchange of gunfire. A police spokesman said a patrol car was making a final check of Clerides' route five minutes before the president was due when it spotted a car "moving suspiciously along Grivas Dighenis Avenue," near the president's office. Security around Clerides has been increased in recent days after unconfirmed reports of plans to assassinate him. A Jj4 Clerides Heath plan Clerides had earlier been conferring in his office with his ministers and other close aides and had just made up his mind not to resign the presidency after a statement of support from deposed President Archbishop Makarios in New York. UPI Photo Dutch treat ed "to apply the sovereignty of law amd make it supreme." The task of the 69-year-old Salam was to replace the government of former premier Takieddin Solh, 65, who resigned Sept.

25. Solh's 15-month-old goverment had come under heavy criticism from Salam and other faction leaders for its failure to curb public violence. LONDON (UPI) Conservative opposition leader Ldward Heath, battling to climb back from underdog ratings in opinion polls, yesterday promised "open government" by television to seek ways out of Britain's economic crisis if his party wins the Oct. 10 general election. He said he would establish some kind of "forum for open discussion" on the nation's economic problems and how they can be solved.

Queen Juliana of the Netherlands enjoys a Dutch herring. Rebels killed Rumor resigns Nobel winners MANILA (UPI) Moslem rebels killed 12 persons in downtown Jolo Wednesday in the first major incident reported since the southern Philippines provincial capital was razed in fighting in February, military authorities said yesterday. ROME (UPI) Premier Mariano Rumor yesterday handed in his resignation to President Giovanni Leone, but Leone asked him to continue in office to help the the nation War games STOCKHOLM (UPI) Swedish authors Eyvind Johnson and Harry Martinson, relatively unknown outside their country, were named yesterday to share the 1974 Nobel prize for literature and the $123,000 it carries. Some of Sweden's younger literary figures immedi-. ately attacked the choice on grounds the prize winners had won little international acclaim.

United Press International country get itself out of its current economic and political difficulties. Rumor went directly to Leone after a 10-minute cabinet meeting at which he and his seven-month-old Christian Democrat-Socialist coalition decided to resign. A communique issued after the cabinet meeting said Premier Mariano Rumor "felt it necessary to hand in the resignation of the cabinet to President Giovanni Leone and the Syrian troops, armor and air force yesterday woundup large-scale joint excercises with modern equipment, using fighting tactics learned in the October war. Israel kept its forces on special alert along the Golan Heights cease-fire line during the maneuvers. New government BEIRUT (UPI) President Suleiman Franjieh asked former primier Saeb Salam to form a new Lebanese government yesterday and Salam announced he intend-' Goncalves move LISBON (UPI) Premier Vasco Goncalves took over Portugal's defense ministry yesterday and made the information ministry directly responsible to his office while the army relaxed its six-day full alert after an abortive right-wing coup.

Rumor Council of Ministers agreed." It was the second time in four months that Rumor Washington Can testify, Nixon tells court kets persist in declining to testify about why meat prices aren't falling faster. Agriculture Department economist J. Dawson Ahalt told the congressmen there was some "circumstantial evidence" that supermarkets are increasing meat profits to offset profit declines in other sections of their stores. But Ahalt said supermarket profits as a whole aren't running unusually high. He said they've been averaging nine-tenths of 1 cent for every dollar of sales below their historical averages of 1.1 to 1.3 per cent of sales.

The Agriculture subcommittee on domestic marketing and consumer relations decided to use its subpoena power if necessary to question supermarket officials. It agreed first to summon executives of Giant, Safeway, and Kroger who had declined to appear. sj tKt I -v 4 .1 v. Santa Barbara beach oily again SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (UPI) Oil nodules the size of peas have washed ashore on beaches in the same area hit by a massive oil spill in 1969 but the coast guard said yesterday it was a natural seepage and not particularly unusual.

Reports of another major despoliation of the sands around Santa Barbara were discounted by a spokesman who said the condition has resulted from the oil floating ashore in calm sea instead of following the usual pattern of being blown out into the Pacific. Lt. Terrance O'Connell, in charge of the Coast Guard investigation of the oil, said the amount of oil on the beaches is little more than normally drifts in from the centuries-old seepage. THE DETERMINATION was made yesterday following a helicopter flight over the coastal area. The oil struck along a 12-mile stretch of beach in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties.

The Coast Guard said an ebb tide would wash away of the oil and since it was not sticking to sand or rocks, normal beach maintenance would take care of most of it. Charge dismissed LOS ANGELES (UPI) A perjury charge against Manson trial prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi was dismissed in Superior Court yesterday largely as a result of newsman William Farr's refusal to testify about sources of a story he wrote during the "family" murder trial. Bugliosi was charged with lying under oath when he said he did not furnish a transcript that was the basis of a story Farr wrote in 1970 about alleged plans of the Manson family to murder other celebrities after the Tate-LaBianea slayings. Farr had said before Superior Court Judge Charles Older who presided at the Manson trial, that the transcripts came from two of the attorneys in the case. When he refused to identify them further, Older sentenced him for contempt and he served 46 days in jail before he was released on the order of U.S.

Supreme Court Justice William 0. Douglas. Weapons searches BOSTON (UPI) School officials conducted weapons searches and police patroled corridors at racially tense South Boston High School yesterday after a cafeteria clash Wednesday in which 11 persons were injured. Students entering the school were forced to present identification cards or classroom schedules and about 15 who could not were turned away. Implant taken out PITTSBURGH (UPI) A nuclear pacemaker, described as the smallest in the world, was implanted yesterday in the chest of a 45-year-old Pittsburgh area man but was removed a short time later when the patient developed "a high degree of sensitivity to electrical A spokesman for the Allegheny General hospital, where the surgery was performed, said the patient "developed a pectoral muscle twitch which would have been a discomfort to him" if the nuclear pacemaker was not removed.

He said the patient was "very disappointed" that the device had to be removed. James P. Dugan, of suburban Upper St. Clair, a sales manager of Xerox was recipient of the new pacemaker, which would have replaced a conventional pacemaker he has used for sometime, the spokesman said. Lief day WASHINGTON (UPI) Without making it official policy on who discovered America, President Ford has proclaimed Lief Erickson Day on Oct.

9 three days before Christopher Columbus Day. Weyand OKd WASHINGTON (UPI) The Senate approved Gen. Frederick C. Weyand as Army chief of staff yesterday after the UPI photo President Ford visits his wife in the Bethesda Naval hospital. WASHINGTON (UPI) Former president Richard M.

Nixon formally asked yesterday to be excused from testifying in the Watergate cover-up trial, presumably because of his phlebitis attack. Former assistant attorney general Herbert J. Miller Nixon's lawyer, filed sealed motions to quash both prosecution and defense subpoenas for Nixon's testimony, presumably for reasons of health. The motions were delivered to the closely guarded chambers where Judge John J. Sirica was interviewing prospective jurors for the trial of five former Nixon aides.

SIRICA ANNOUNCED minutes later that the documents "will be filed under seal until the court has had an opportunity to review them thoroughly." He also announced that the process of questioning jurors in closed court would be speeded up. By the time the court session ended at 5:17 p.m., Sirica had accepted five prospective jurors and excused five others. Sirica will resume his interviews when court reconvenes this morning. Nixon will be released from the Long Beach Memorial hospital today, barring any last minute complications, according to Dr. John Lungren.

In a medical bulletin yesterday, Lungren was not able to pinpoint the cause of Nixon's blood clot, but already has ruled out cancer. Ban removed WASHINGTON (UPI) A House-Sen-s ate conference committee yesterday removed a ban on U.S. military aid to Turkey from legislation President Ford has threatened to veto. The conferees approved, 6 to 1, a compromise "continuing resolution" that contained milder language acceptable to Ford. It would allow arms aid to Turkey if the President reported to Congress that the Turks were making "good faith" efforts to settle the dispute with Greece over Cyprus.

In addition to killing the Turkish arms ban, conferees removed other Senate amendments that would have banned arms aid to Chile; curbed U.S. fertilizer shipments to South Vietnam; provided an additional $300 million for Israel; and gradually phased out all foreign aid as long as it was funded under a continuing resolution. The future of the foreign-aid program, for the moment anyway, rests with the continuing resolution since the Senate killed the $2.5 billion foreign aid author-N tain their mass-transit systems. The measure, while fulfilling President Ford's desire for a long-range assistance plan, carries about $800 million more in funding than he has said, would be acceptable. ft Sfe Armed services Committee questioned him at length about former White House chief of staff Gen.

Alexander M. Haig. Weyand, confirmed by voice vote, has been acting chief of staff since Gen. Tax bill Creighton Abrams' death last mnnth Caspar Weinberger said yesterday. The present so-called deductible of $84 goes to $92 because of "continuing increases in hospital costs," Weinberger said.

After the patient pays for one day of care, Medicare picks up the tab for the next 59, and the costs are shared from there. The patient pays the first $60 of doctor bills, which are not affected by the change. Doing well WASHINGTON (UPI) -First Lady Betty Ford is "two or three days ahead" of the recovery schedule set by her doctors and is doing "very, very well," a smiling President told White House visitors yesterday. Dr. William Fouty, the First Lady's surgeon, also said in a medical bulletin yesterday that Mrs.

Ford was in "excellent spirits" after "a most restful night." He said she slept late in the presidential suite at Bethesda Naval hospital. She "has not regained her full strength, but I would describe her postoperative course to date as uncomplicated and her present condition as excel- WASHINGTON (UPI) The House Ways and Means Committee unexpectedly dropped a major tax break for the wealthy from its tax revision biU yesterday then agreed to hold off final action on the bill until it gets President Ford's tax proposals. The tax-writing committee also began a separate move to exempt from taxation the first $500 of savings-account interest. The proposal, by Rep. Donald Brotzman, was rejected by the committee previously, but was given new life yesterday when Chairman Wilbur Mills gave it strong support.

Mills, in a surprise move, asked the committee to drop its previous decision to limit to 50 per cent the tax rate on a portion of unearned income, such as rents. Weyand's nomina- Weyand tion was approved shortly before the floor vote by the Armed Services Committee, which delved more into Haig's qualifications to serve as commander of NATO and U.S. military forces in Europe than Weyand's background. Many senators have voiced irritation that President Ford's appointment of the former White House chief of staff to. NATO did not require a Senate hearing into his qualifications.

Deadlock Two drown ization bill Wednesday. iem outy aaaea. Transit bill OKd Must Pay more Meat subpoenas' WASHINGTON (UPI) The nation's ifAcai OUUpUCHUS. WASHINGTON (UPI) House-Senate conferees deadlocked last night on a compromise Federal strip-mining law, bogged down over provisions protecting rights of surface owners. Rep.

Morris K. Udall, chairman of the conference committee, predicted the delay could hurt chances of passing such a law this year. JENNER, Calif. (UPI) Eight persons, including six children took to a four-man lifeboat in heavy seas off the Northern California coast last night when their motorboat sank. Apparently a woman and a child drowned.

The Coast Guard said the 16-foot motorboat sank eight to 10 miles north of this Sonoma County Coastal village at the mouth of the Russian River. WASHINGTON (UPI) House-Senate 23 million Medicare beneficiaries must WASHINGTON (UPI) A House subcommittee agreed yesterday to issue subpoenas if officials of four supermar- pay $18 more of their hospital bills beginning Jan. 1 because of skyrocketing health-care inflation, HEW Secretary conferees yesterday approved an $11.8 billion, six-year bill to help the nation's big population centers expand and main-.