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Today's News Today Vol. 56, No. Osano faces 'no dice' in Las Vegas Kenji Osano, who made: a conditional purchase of the Flamingo Hotel and casino last month, may not realize his ambition of owning a he is not: an American citizen. The county Gaming and Liquor License Board in Las Vegas said at a hearing yesterday that the County ordinance prohibits issuance of licenses to foreign interests, according to the Associated Press. Osano, who owns the Moana-SurfRider and the Princess Kaiulani hotels in Waikiki, bought the Flamingo on January 11, and said Sheraton Corporation would manage it as it does his Waikiki hotels.

But a spokesman for Osano and Morris Lansburgh, president of the Flamingo, emphasized at the time of the sale that purchase was contingent upon transfer of gaming license to Osano. Osano organized the Fujiya Nevada Corporation in Las Vegas to operate the hotel and named Ukio Kubota, formerly an administrative assistant in Honolulu, to be president. Kubota was before the board yesterday when Dis- Copter saves swimmer in distress A Marine helicopter on a fast rescue call saved a 20-year-old sailor from possible drowning off Sunset Beach yesterday. Dennis E. Malik, of the U.S.S.

Monticello, and an unidentified swimming panion were spotted in distress at 5:20 p.m. by a resident near Ke Nui Road. While he put in the call for help, the unidentified man got ashore by himself. Fire Department rescuers were heading for Malik, about a. quarter mile off shore, when they were joined in the rescue by Captain.

J. C. Henderson, helicopter pilot from Kaneohe Marine Corps Air Station. Henderson and his crew lifted Malik ashore safely and without injury. trict Attorney George Franklin proposed that noncitizens be allowed to obtain County licenses.

But Commissioner James Ryan said, "I don't necessarily agree licenses should be opened to foreign interests. I want time to study the proposal." Until the citizenship requirement is deleted from the County the Japanese company and its officers cannot get a County license. The board will reconsider the proposal at its next meeting next month. Brandt asks share in atomic technology CHICAGO (UPI) Disclaiming an ambition for nuclear weapons, West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt last night asked for a share in technology leading to peaceful uses of atomic energy. At the same time the former mayor of West Berlin joined in a call for "a treaty concerning the nonproliferation of nuclear which he said he hoped would be concluded soon.

"The idea behind this proposed treaty was to reduce the dangers of mankind," Brandt said. "Anybody who is aware or has even a faint idea of the dangers involved, cannot but basically welcome such a project." Germany, he said, "is in no way ambitious of nuclear weapons." But his country, for its own interest as well as for a possible solution "of the great tasks which face all of us" would like to participate in the peaceful use of nuclear energy, Brandt said. "It is vital to the progress of my country that we should not fall any farther behind in research and the utilization of its results for economic purposes, but as far as possible narrow the gap between ourselves and the great powers." to the LETTER READER THE Machine has not conquered. Not yet. A key I operation in our complicated production line depends on a lowly potato.

It happens as we remelt our stereo metal over and over for reuse. Used press plates are dumped into a 12-ton remelt pot where ink and dirt form bottom sludge. A potato, introduced into the $10,000 molten mix of leadtin-antimony, turns gently to bubbling steam and agitates impurities to the top where they are skimmed off. Thomas Leedham, press-stereo boss for Hawaii Newspaper Agency, our production facility, says apples and pears work, too; but a Leedham half-eaten ice cream bar, carelessly dumped into the remelt pot, can explode and spatter 600-degree liquid lead, causing severe burns. Leedham, whose domain is the high-decibel pressroom which can spew out 70,000 papers an hour, has heard of even more careless men who salvage the charred potato to eat its unburned center, nicely sauteed with lead poisoning.

Incidentally, in case you are a produce salesman, don't rush down to solicit our potato business. Leedham only uses five a week. -The Editors 42 HONOLULU, HAWAII, Saturday, BLOOMING IN WAHIAWA-Cherry blossoms at the home of Kiyomi Yamamoto, 258 California Avenue, are admired by his granddaughter Vickey Tanji, 11. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Teruo Tanji of 48 California by Al Yamauchi. Peking is placed under military control TOKYO (UPI) Communist China has alerted army units on the border with Russia and placed the capital city of Peking under military control, Japanese correspondents reported from Peking Sunday. The correspondents said chairman Mao Tse-tung had alerted army units on the Russian frontier because of "brisk Soviet military action in that area." The Tokyo newspaper Mainichi said the decision to place Peking under military control was taken under a three-point proclamation issued by the central committee of the Chinese Communist Party and the State Council (cabinet). Kyodo, the Japanese news agency, said Mao's order moving troops to the border was specifically directed at units in Sinkiang Province, where Red China's nuclear testing grounds are situated. Kyodo quoted Red Guard leaflets distributed in Peking Saturday.

Disclosure of the border alert followed speeches Saturday by Premier Chou Enlai and Foreign Minister Chen Yi. charging that the United States and Soviet Union were two of a kind and should be destroyed. They spoke at a rally in Peking attended by 100,000 persons. According to Kyodo, Mao's directive said "front armies" should be ready for action in such military districts as Tsinan, Nanking, Foochow, Kwangchow and Kunming. Foochow is situated opposite Taiwan.

Kwangchow includes the Turn to Page A-2, Col. 6 Anti- army controls Tibet HONG KONG (UPI) Army factions opposed to Mao Tse-tung have seized the Communist Party administration in Tibet and placed the autonomous western China mountain state under military control. Nationalist China's official Central News Agency reported today. The agency said in Taipei its information was obtained from intelligence sources quoting an intercepted document from pro-Mao leaders in Tibet to Red China Defense Minister Lin Piao in Peking. Lin is Mao's heir apparent and a key figure in China's continuing purge.

It said the message asked Lin to send urgent military assistance to Tibet and told him 13 pro-Lin cadres had been arrested, all communications with the outside world had been severed and Tibet was under total military control. The agency said the message reported anti-Maoists on February 8 sacked and destroyed the "joint revolution and rebellion headquarters" in the Himalayan state and injured scores of the pro-Mao "revolutionary crowd." In Vienna, the official Czech news agency CTK said Turn to Page A-2, Col. 5 Scots give Kosygin a rousing welcome Bus company to stand trial Windward Transit Company entered pleas of innocent in Traffic Court yesterday to two citations issued by Honolulu police last November for having out-of-date safety stickers on two of its buses. The date of trial was set for February 23. One of the citations -issued November 22, 1966-involved the bus that went out of control and crashed off the Pali Highway's hairpin curve Monday.

A statement that the Windward Transit bus was still operating with an expired safety sticker on the day of the accident was made by the driver, Telisporo Paul Avelino, in an interview with a Star-Bulletin reporter at St. Francis Hospital on Wednesday. Avelino was one of 37 persons injured in the accident: Interviewed by a reporter for the Honolulu Advertiser Thursday, Avelino denied that he had told Star-Bulletin reporter Tomi Knaefler that his bus still lacked a current sticker on the day of the crash. Mrs. Knaefler said today that her story accurately reported what Avelino had told her in the bedside interview.

She said that she carefully went over notes with Avelino before she wrote her story. She said he agreed that she had accurately recorded his comments. The Star-Bulletin has tried without success since Monday to reach James M. Keanu, Windward Transit Company president, in order to question him about the safety sticker citations and to obtain his comments on Avelino's statements. Reporters have visited Keanu's home and his office each day since the accident and have sought to reach him through his attorney, the police and the Public Utilities Commission.

Legislator to probe runaway bus incident Democratic Senator Duke Kawasaki yesterday promised a full investigation of circumstances surrounding Monday's runaway bus accident on Pali Highway. "The investigation will go into. the effectiveness of the Public Utilities Commission's safety. standards and the degree to which such standards are properly enforced," Kawasaki said. "Perhaps when a public Ho invites Johnson Home Edition GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) This Scottish industrial city gave Soviet Premier Alexei N.

Kosygin a rousing welcome today despite police fears of a student demonstration. A few pacifists carried ban-the-bomb posters, but a crowd of 5,000 cheered the Soviet leader as he walked across George Square to greet members of the city government. Students from Glasgow's two universities turned out in costume for their annual transportation vehicle such as the one involved is cited for lack of a safety sticker, such vehicle should be impounded immediately until the proper safety checks are made," he said. Kawasaki said that "if the Public Utilities Commission needs additional legislative authority and additional staffing to properly protect our people, then we will fight for this in the current to Hanoi peace talks "rag" week, when they compete in pranks to collect money for charity. Seven were arrested last night.

Authorities warned the students that any incidents during Kosygin's visit would be severely punished. One official said police 17 Americans killed in truce period SAIGON (AP) U.S. military authorities announced today that 17 Americans have been killed and 126 wounded in the battlescarred lunar new year truce. During the same period from the beginning of the truce at 8 a.m. Wednesday to 4 p.m.

today U.S. and allied forces reported killing 92 of the enemy and detaining 53, authorities said. There seemed to be little doubt that the allies would resume full-scale operations when the four-day truce declared by the Saigon government ends at 7 a.m. Sunday, Vietnam time, despite the Viet Cong's proclaimed truce that would continue until Wednesday morning. A U.S.

military spokesman, asked repeatedly if the allies planned to resume offensive operations Sunday, said only that he could' not comment on future operations. A Vietnamese army spokesman said, however, that as soon as the truce ends a government troops will resume all operations under way when the cease-fire started and may launch some new ones. They will receive air support, he said. Truce extension urged by Thant. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.

(AP) Secretary General 1 Thant has made an appeal for "an indefinite and unconditional extension" of the lunar new year ceasefire in Vietnam. On the inside Review is the word The State Legislature plans to make some major policy decisions in the new Scores soared last night as ILH basketball powers crushed seconddivision opponents. A-10 Big Islanders proud of their adopted son, Ralph Kiyosaki, Hawaii's new "La Boheme" hits a high note and send shivers up the spine of our Jim Becker. Read his review on page. Hawaii's churches are being urged to take an active role in the making of Kiyosaki Book review Comics Society Bridge Church Editorials Crossword Sports Theatre Classified Obituaries TV-radio Honolulu weather Intermittent rain today with occasional isolated heavy showers.

Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday. Southeast winds 12 to 18 miles an hour. High today 78 low tonight 69. Total rainfall at Honolulu Airport between 2 a.m. yesterday and 2 a.m.

today, .67 inch. Yesterday's high temperature 76. Overnight low temperature 68. Sunset tonight 6:28. Sunrise tomorrow Legal Aid Society's helping hand is strong-and and growing 5 feared the students might try to kidnap the premier and hold him for ransom, as they did a Danish soccer player, Kaj Johansse, earlier this week.

Pacifists of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament waved their banners, some TOKYO (UPI) Radio Hanoi today said President Ho Chi Minh had invited President Johnson to visit North Vietnam and discuss peace without "a gun on his hip." It said Ho made the offer last month through three clergymen visiting Hanoi. In Washington, the White House remained silent on the Communist broadcast. There were no indications Hanoi was ready to talk peace as the four-day lunar new year truce ended today. Allied officials in Saigon said North Vietnam ruined chances for a cease-fire extension by staging supply" buildup to Communist forces in South Vietnam. Military spokesmen said the Communists had violated the truce 230 times by early today.

In New York, U.N. Secretary General Thant appealed yesterday for an "indefinite and unconditional" truce extension. In Vatican City, Pope Paul VI was said to be "hoping and praying" for the extension similar to Thant's he urged in an appeal Wednesday. Today's Radio Hanoi broadcast, monitored in Tokyo, referred to cables sent to Ho by representatives of Newsweek Magazine and the Columbia Broadcasting Sys- Good weather for tomorrow The Honolulu weatherman forecasts "a nice day" for Islanders tomorrow. Heavy rains last night and early today were expected to diminish as the responsible disturbance moved west, away from Hawaii.

He met recently with estate trustees and said they were "very concerned" over the tenants' plight and indicated they would try to help in finding suitable replacements. Burgess said a tenants' union may be organized by Halawa Housing residents who will be evicted by conin Russian, but otherwise caused no disturbance. Some banners appeared as much aimed at the United States as at the Soviet Union. Kosygin hardly glanced at them, apparently more intent on shaking as many hands as possible before en- tem asking if reports Johnson had been invited to Hanoi were true. First reports of the invitation came from two ministers and a rabbi who visited North Vietnam and spoke with Ho in January.

One of the ministers, 82-year-old A. J. Muste of New York, said in Paris January 24 that Johnson had been invited by Ho. The Radio Hanoi broadcast said Muste's statement "broadly reflects the president's (Ho's) idea." struction of a proposed stadium. He also is handling another case in which an East Indian student at the University of Hawaii is fighting deportation.

Immigration authorities want Thurithicattu Devan Krishana Kartha to go home by Wednesday, although his doctor has certified that the tering the city hall to sign the visitors' book. The Scots gave the welcome a nationalist flavor. There were no Soviet flags or British Union Jacks flying around George Square only Scotland's blue and white cross of St. Andrew. The rabbi, 67-year-old Abraham Feinberg of Toronto, told newsmen in London one day earlier that Ho told him: "Let Mr.

Johnson come with his wife and daughters, his secretary, his doctor, his cook, but let him not come with a gun on his hip." Feinberg said Ho told him he would meet Johnson "sitting just where you are, here in the palace of the former French governor general of Indochina." By HARRIET GEE Court Writer Exciting things have been happening at the Legal Aid Society since June, when a generous Federal grant enabled the organization to expand its services to Hawaii's low-income families. The Office of Economic Opportunity, which made the expanded services possible with a $166,445 grant, has praised the society as "one of the under 0.E.0. support. A Washington, D.C., attorney, recently here as a consultant, wrote Associate Justice Tom Clark of the U.S. Supreme Court that the society "is unusually good one of the very best in the country." More than half of the 1,716 cases handled by the society between June and October involved family problems such as divorces and adoptions.

There are some cases which have more than the usual share of human interest, and which would have gone unnoticed had there been no Legal Aid Society. The people involved would not have bothered to seek legal assistance because of their inability to pay. This is what they have told Ronald Y. C. Yee, chief counsel of the society.

One of the cases has resulted in the formation of the first Tenants', Union in Hawaii. The main purpose of the union is to delay the eviction date of tenants living on Koko Head land which is about to be developed by Kaiser Hawaii-Kai Development Company. Legal Aid Attorney John M. A. Burgess is attempting to achieve this through joint negotiations with the Bishop Estate, owner of the land, and the company.

Hansen's Disease he contracted here a year ago has been arrested. Burgess plans to file a motion to stay the deportation in Federal Court. Kartha was fortunate in that he was left unmarked on his face and hands by the disease. He left his wife and family Turn to Page A-2, Col. 1.