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The Orlando Sentinel from Orlando, Florida • 55

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Mixta, Flwal 2 A Friday, June 8, 1973 I FBI Looks For Better Days With New Director Franco Ready To Step Down, Source Says MADRID (in Gen. Francisco Franco will give up his job as head of Spain's government but will remain the over-all leader as chief of state, The Associated Press learned today. A qualified Informant said the post of government leader, or president, would go to Adm. Luis Carrero Blanco this weekend. Gray Adams i.

FRANCO IS 80 and has said the post of chief of state would go on his retirement or death to Prince Juan Carlos, then would become king. Carrero Blanco, 70, is now Spain's deputy government leader, or vice president. The transfer of power would be the first by Franco since the end of the Spanish civil war in 1939. The source said Carlos has been informed of the move. It came following a meeting on Wednesday of the Secret Council of the Realm, Franco's consultive body.

Franco is planning a drastic shakeup of his cabinet, the infor-mant told The Associated Pressc, but it will not be announced until after the visit next week of Argen-tine President Hector J. Campora. ALEJANDRO RODRIGUEZ de Valcarcel, president of the Spanish Cortes, or parliament, will be named vice president in the same decree, the source said. Valcarcel, 55, also will be named secretary general of the (AP) CLARENCE M. KELLEY 'He's an excellent choke' Bithlo Tower Crashes being In ah inferior position" compared to the Hoover era, he said.

KELLEY, WHO will be 62 In October, will go before the Senate Judiciary Committee June 18 or 19. He Is expected to face friendly but intensive interrogation. The committee Is expected to question Kelley thoroughly about his FBI duties and the agency's independence from political influence. Sen. Robert C.

Byrd, D-W. a Judiciary member who led the fight against Gray's nomination, told a reporter he met Kelley two days ago and was impressed. SEN. JOHN V. Tunney, another Judiciary Committee member, said "he impressed me as a tough cop and clean." The hearings on Gray's nomination dealt largely with the FBI investigation of the Watergate bugging.

In Kelley's they are expected to provide more of a forum for questioning about the agency's methods and operations. Byrd, who has introduced legislation to give the FBI an independent status and its director a fixed term, said he wants to get Kelley's views on these proposals. BUT HE said he doesn't want to delay action on Kelley's nomination by an in-depth investigation of the FBI. "The FBI has been without a director far too long," he said. Meanwhile, FBI agents were cautiously optimistic about a report in the Washington Star-News Thursday that Kelley plans to appoint two other FBI veterans as assistant directors.

They are expected to be Roy K. Moore, special agent in charge of the Jackson, field office, to run the FBI's operating division such as general investigative, special investigative and intelligence, and James B. Adams, special agent in charge of the FBI field office in San Antonio, to head the housekeeping divisions such as training, files and administrative. WASHINGTON W) The nomination of Kansas City Police Chief Clarence M. Kelley to be FBI director should bolster the agency's sagging morale and public image, FBI sources say.

Kelley's first obstacle, however, Is winning Senate confirmation to succeed J. Edgar Hoover, who headed the FBI for 47 years before his death 13 months ago. "HE'S AN excellent choice," one long-time agent said of Kelley. "I've heard no objections to him from anyone up and down the line." Senior agents are said to be pleased with the choice of Kelley, who spent 21 years in the FBI before taking over the Kansas City police in 1961. "Kelley Is an excellent compromise," said one agent.

"It satisfied all parties. It was obvious the adminis-tratlon didn't want to appoint someone from within. On the other hand, they went out and got a guy with deep roots In the FBI. "I DON'T know anybody who dislikes him and he's highly regarded in the field of law enforcement," he said. A former agent said Kelley's FBI and police experience will be major factor in boosting staff morale, which, sources said, reached its lowest ebb when acting director L.

Patrick Gray III resigned under fire April 27. Gray admitted burning papers recovered from the White House safe of convicted Watergate conspirator E. Howard Hunt Sen. Lowell P. Weicker, has said.

WILLIAM D. Ruckelshaus, who replaced Gray on a temporary basis, said recently that the FBI was undergoing a crisis of confidence. He said the bureau's problems of morale and public image would evaporate "once a good strong man is in place." Last month, Charles W. Bates, special agent in charge of the San Francisco office and a former assistant director, said FBI morale was "at an all-time low." 'The lack of stability about where the FBI is going Is causing younger agents for the first time to ask questions about whether the bureau offers them the career they want," Bates said. OTHER AGENTS said disclosures of FBI activity in the' Watergate scandal hurt the FBI's image.

"The FBI has no business in politics," one said. "How can we get anyone to believe we will keep information strictly to ourselves when Gray has been releasing all the information in our supposedly secret files?" During hearings on his confirmation before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gray said he had turned over FBI files in the Watergate investigation to John W. Dean III, White House counsel who since has been fired. In Kansas City, Kelley told a news conference Thursday that he wants to restore the FBI's prestige to the level it reached under Hoover. "I've heard some things about the FBI Two Nations Sign Hijack Agreement MIAMI Cuba and Mexico have signed an antihijack agreement covering both aircraft and ships, Radio Havana says.

The broadcast, monitored in Miami Thursday, said the extradition agreement also covered "other crimes" but did not give any further details. Road 50, is shared by three TV stations, WDBO (Channel 6), WFTV (Channel 9) and WMFE, (Channel 24) and two radio stations, WDIZ-FM and WDBO-FM. The mammoth, $500,000 tower was built to withstand 150 m.p.h. gusts, and each of the 14-ton guidewires to take 1 million pounds of pull. Owned by TV Tower the 10-foot wide, three-sided tower had an elevator that ran within 11 feet of the top.

IT WAS fabricated by Kline Iron and Steel Co. of Columbia, S. and erected by Seago Construction Co. of Dallas, Tex. The crewmen were from different parts of the country and were staying at the Ramada Inn East.

From Page 1 of 204 Chippewal Trail, Maitland. The extent of their injures was unknown early this afternoon but they weren't believed to be serious. Names of the dead men were not available immediately. ONE OF the victims was pinned under the mass of twisted steel that looked like pretzels. A crane and torches were brought in to clear the wreckage and remove the victim.

Two cars were demolished by falling guidewires and two other cars were damaged by falling steel fragments. Three buildings on the site weren't damaged. THE TOWER, about 15 miles east of Orlando just north of State Movement, the country's only political organization. Franco thus retains two of his powers chief of state and head of the armed forces. But it would be the first sign by Franco of retiring.

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