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SUNRISE Soviets Say Work In Egypt Finished and teaching its personnel how to use Soviet weapons. The "Tass statement" carries complete Kremlin santion and ranks only below an official Soviet government pronouncement. It was the first reaction in Moscow to President Anwar Sadat's request Tuesday that the Russians remove their military advisers. TASS SAID a "number of Soviet miiitary personnel" have been stationed in Egypt "over a number of years" at the request of the Egyptian government. By Associated Press The Soviet Union broke its silence on the Egyptian situation last night to say that Russian military personnel were being withdrawn from Egypt because they have finished teaching the Egyptians how to "master Soviet military equipment.

The statement, reported by the government news agency Tass, was the first time the Soviets have officially admitted that Russian armed forces advisers were working in Egypt The agency omitted any reference to specific numbers of Russians in Egypt or to how long they have been training the Egyptians. The statement indicated Moscow had been aware of the situation in advance of the Egyptian president's announcement. "Now the Soviet military personnel in the Arab Republic of Egypt have completed their functions," Tass said. "With the awareness of this, after an exchange of opinions, the aides deemed it expedient to bring back to the Soviet Union the military personnel that had been sent to the Arab Republic of Egypt for a limited period. "These personnel will shortly return to the U.S.S.R." TASS STRESSED that the military advisers had been on temporary assignments "in accordance with the requests of the leadership of the Arab Republic of Egypt for help in en-Please See Page 13, Col.

7 Ki Jobs ft yy TTannnTiDai TTffnlb Mime TAMPA, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JULY SIX SECTIONS 102 PAGES PRICE TEN CENTS 78th YEAR No. 173 i Talks Reveal Hanoi Uo S. JFrong-JFay Pelicans Two pelicans take refuge at a golf course water hazard in Tucson, Ariz. They are among at least nine found wandering in the southern Arizona desert this week. Wildlife specialists speculate that the birds were blown inland by a storm in the Gulf of California and now can't find their way back.

See story on Page 13-D. (AP) 20, 1972 PARIS (UPD Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger conferred privately with North Vietnam's two top peace negotiators yesterday, seeking an end to the war. The meeting was announced in an unprecedented joint announcement from Washington and Hanoi. Later in the day, the White House announced the session lasted more than six hours, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Paris Kissinger returned to Washington last night after meet U.S. (Late 4 0 WASHINGTON un The House killed a $5-billion emergency job-making public-works bill yesterday after crippling it with an amendment barring use of the money this year. The vote was 206 to 189. The amendment that lined up the bill for the death blow was heavily backed by Republicans and opposed by most Democrats. It said the money couldn't be committed for contracts in any year in which the projected federal deficit exceeds $20 billion.

That figure probably will be exceeded by $10 billion for the fiscal year that started Julyl. THE AMENDMENT was adopted by vote of 205 to 192. The House action was a victory for Republicans and a major setback for the Democratic leadership. Please See Page 7, Col. Features Astrology 6-IV Erma Bombeck 5-IV Business 7-B Classified 11-23-C Comics Crossword 2-IV Deaths 13-IV Editorials 20-A Financial 7-12-B Food Section Goren on Bridge 2-IV Graham 7-IV Landers 4-IV Morning After 1-C Sports 1-10-C Television 12-1 Theaters 11-IV Van Dellen 9-IV Wishing Well 6-IV Women 3-IV Palori Sees Prevatt Gain jn By CHARLES HENDRICK Tribune Staff Writer Tampa businessman Pete Palori, indicted by a federal grand jury which also cited County Commissioner Clarence Prevatt as a coconspirator, said yesterday he paid Prevatt $13,311 in early 1967, not as a bribe, but as Prevatt's share in a highly controversial land deal near Lake Carroll.

Prevatt "owned a piece of the land" Palori said, and the check, actually isued to Prevatt by Palori's mother, Mrs. Minnie D. Lopez, was to cover his earnings in the deal for a site for a Publix market. Palori was aware, he said, that Prevatt, as commission chairman, engaged in the zoning furor and later called for a final vote on the issue, but "I "saw nothing wrong with it then. Maybe now but no, I Please See Page 14, Col.

1 Blue Angels Jet Overturns KEENE, N.H. (UPI) A Blue Angels jet, part of the U.S. Navy's precision flying team, overturned yesterday while landing at Dillant-Hopkins Airport. The two pilots received only minor injuries. Officials said the jet skidded on the rain-slick runway and overturned when a main drag 'chute failed to open.

The plane was extensively damaged. The accident occurred about 4:45 p.m. Police identified the two pilots as Lt. Gary Smith and Chief Petty Officer Keith Chambers, both stationed with the Blue Angels team at Pen-sacola. The Blue Angels are scheduled to perform in Keene this weekend.

Cited In Court New Mayo Facility Slated CHICAGO UP) Mayo Clinic and Research By TERRY ROGERS Tribune Staff Writer A federal prosecuting attorney was held in contempt of court yesterday after an outburst during a flim-flam-stolen jewelry trial involving suspended Tampa police Major William R. Bland. District Court Judge Gerald B. Tjoflat cited both Assistant U. S.

Attorney Bernard Dempsey and defense attorney Arnold Levine, fining each $100, but he later dropped the citation against Levine. Tjoflat pounded his fist on the bench and yelled, "Stop it!" as the two attorneys began arguing over the testimony of a witness. LEVINE, on cross-examina- mi-bur, 4 mi: 1 4 Hearted Tiger Foundation of Rochester, has announced receipt of a $10-million gift for construction of a medical laboratory and human behavior research facility. It will be called the Conrad N. Hilton Medical Laboratory and Research Center in Human Behavior in honor of the donor of the $10 million.

Construction is expected to begin next month and to be completed in 1975. It will be an eight-story structure in the Mayo medical complex. The facilities are to be made available to any physician or hospital in the nation. Atherton Bean of Minneapolis, chairman of the Mayo Foundation board, said Hilton's gift is the largest amount received in the Mayo development program. ing with Le Due Tho, Communist Party politburo member from Hanoi, and Xuan Thuy, head of the North Vietnamese delegation at the Paris talks.

IT WAS THE 14th meeting between Kissinger and Tho since last summer. White House Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said Kissinger conferred with President Nixon on his return to Washington. Both sides agreed not to Please See Page 12, Col, 3 1 tion of police identification technician Richard Benitez, had asked whether he had ever been asked to lie about Please See Page 15, Col. 7 do Bernard Dempsey, a $100 fine Baach will serve until Rodriguez' term expires in January, 1974 or, if Rodriguez is acquitted of the criminal changes against him, until the Please See Page 15, Col.

1 Maurice BuiP Baach ne.w commissioner Attorney 1 I i i I ''it -ft Tl mm 1 4 3 Lion 17 AFL-CIO Spurns McGovern, Nixon Dies Baach Seated For Rodriguez cumbed to kidney problems and arthritis. The liger had been the key attraction at Hogle Zoo in Salt Lake City since her birth May 6, 1948. (AP) Shasta, said by Salt Lake City, Utah, zoo officials to be the only liger in existence, died yesterday at the age of 24. She was half lion, half tiger. Zoo attendants said the female feline suc Resentencing Process Begins For Raiford Death Row Con A SHORT TIME later, McGovern announced tie would intrrupt his post-convention vacation today to fly to Washington for a key vote on minimum wage legislation.

He said he would hold a press conference in Washington on a campaign appointment, and fly back to Custer tomorrow. Leaders of a number of AFL-CIO unions already have endorsed the South Dakota senator and others indicated they would do so. One small maritime union has endorsed Nixon and leaders of several of the more conservative construction unions reportedly lean to Nixon. The decision left the federation's 117 individual unions and their total of 13.6 million members free to endorse ei- Please See Page 13, Col. 4 WASHINGTON ffi AFL-CIO President George Meany led the big labor federation to the political fence yesterday to sit out this year's White House election race between President Nixon and Democratic nominee George McGovern.

"I will not vote for either one of them," said the 77-year-old labor patriarch, backed up by a vote of the AFL-CIO's executive council. "I'm disappointed," McGovern said when he returned from a horseback ride near Custer, S.D., to learn the news. "I frankly don't want to feud with President Meany. I'm confident the leaders of the rank-and-file of many individual unions will go ahead and endorse us." His vice presidential running mate, Sen. Thomas Eag-leton of Missouri, voiced similar hopes in Washington.

By JACK GREENE Tribune Staff Writer Gov. Reubin Askew yesterday named Maurice A. "Bud" Baach, a Tampa employment agency owner, to the Hillsborough County Commission to fill the seat of the suspended Rudy Rodriguez. The appointment of Baach, a newcomer to Florida Politics but a former mayor of Springfield, Ohio, is expected to be, effective Monday. ASKEW ALSO got a letter from Tampan Richard Hai-man, vice chairman of the County Civil Service Board, withdrawing his name from consideration for the commission post.

He was one of those who had been reported as top prospects for the tal Punishment in Florida. He also urged legislators to drop demands for an immediate special session on the topic in favor of the committee study. AS ALL THIS was going on, prison officials reported they are making headway toward clearing Death Row of its in-' mates and shifting the convicts into the general population of the prison. The U.S. Supreme Court's June 29 ruling upsetting capital punishment is expected to result in resentencing of all Death Row inmates and Florida judges expect to get the many such Please See Page 12, Col.

1 By AL LEE Tribune Staff Writer RAIFORD The first formal move to resentence a Death Row inmate was made at the State Prison here yesterday at almost the same time Florida Supreme Court Justice B. K. Roberts was saying the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against capital punishment might easily be reversed on re-hi-aring. Also among the developments in the death penalty situation yesterday was the appointment by Florida House Speaker Richard Pettigrew of a Select Committee on Use of Capi.

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