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Page 2, Part Energy-saving curbs went Into effect in Italy, jolting a' country of late diners and fast drivers. (Part 1, Page Inside The Times General Motors in Argentina an-' hounced that it agreed a month ago to sell vehicles to Cuba. (Part 1, Page South Korea went on full alert after North Korea claimed waters around five islands and warned ships away. (Part 1, Page 4.) President Nixon's proposed speed limits for the nation's highways were called a threat to safety. (Part 1, Page 6.) i President and Mrs.

Nixon reportedly will announce they will donate their San Clemente estate to the nation. (Part 1, Page 15.) Georgia visits his former Home and finds hope. 8, Page 1'.) In Outlook Controversy over smog devices on used cars which was supposedly resolved has been revived in the "fuel crisis. (Part 7, Page 1.) The oil crisis may force Japan to l. abandon its traditional policy of making all of its important decisions by consensus.

(Part 7, Page 1.) Earthquakes, bomb threats and a griping stewardess can all beset a duty officer on Continental's weekend shift. (Part 7, Page 1.) The energy shortage Is causing money i managers to shift out of 6tock and into short-term cash Investments. (Part 7, Page 1.) 63-64 decision ovix! Maryland! at Pauley Pavilion. (Part3, Page 1.) Gus Williams scored 29f points' as USC opened its basketball season with a 100-76 victory over Arizona at Sports Arena. (Part 3, Pagei.) Australia won tjif doubles easily to take a 3-0 lead and end the five-year hold of the U.S.

on the Davis Cup. (Part 3, Page 1.) The Trail Blazers snapped a five-game losing streak by defeating the Lakers, 134-115, iii Portland. (Part 3, Page 1.) i In Opinion A black professor from Long Beach once a civil rights leader In The Netherlands refused Arab de- mands for an anti-Israeli gesture as the price for ending the oil embargo. (Part 1, Page 23.) Talks continued into the night as negotiators sought agreement on a contract for Southland food industry workers. (Part 1, Page 3.) A general lockup was ordered at four California prisons to counter what was called a widespread plot to kill guards.

(Part 1, Page 3.) A "cluster program" at the University of California, Berkeley, helps freshmen escape the anonymity of a huge campus. (Part 1, Page 3.) News SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1973 JWMPPWIWWWWIWWWMIWWWiiiMlMWIIIIWIMIIII 7J THE WORLD Air Hijacker Surrenders in Geneva ft r4 'I SHERIFF WHO? At a party that had something for everyone, Mayflower Hotel manager William Huletr, left, presents model of Mayflower ship to Chinese Ambassador Han Hsu during "wild West" for Chinese delegation in Washington. have been using hotel as embassy soon for new quarters. Guests were hats, bandannas, sheriff badges. IB WlwhotB A Gallup Poll survey found that a career in law had gained considerably in appeal In the past decade.

(Part 1-A, Page 1.) Atlanta's new black mayor faces problems of first, magnitude. (Part 1-A, Page 2.) Three Orange County residents tell how their lives have been affected since they became dependent on dialysis machines. (Part II, Page 1.) In SpOrtS UCLA had to go to the last seconds to seal Its 77th victory in a row a of Price-Fixing Charge! Army spy "utterly incredible," said he believed government "witnesses who disputed that testimony and concluded that any surveillance of the defendants had not violated their civil rights. A three-judge federal panel ruled in Washington that a new law limiting spending for political campaign advertising Was an unconstitutional prior restraint on free speech. 'The judges suggested that the statute's other provisions requiring public disclosure campaign i contributions also might be of questionable constitutionality.

The suit had been brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. The New York Criminal Civil Courts Bar Assn. wrote to President Nixon complaining that regional divisions of the Veterans Administration and the Internal Revenue Service were illegally wiretapping and monitoring office phone calls made by employes of the two agencies. Stuart E. Levison, president of the association, told a news conference that the bugging had been going on it least since last spring and possibly since last year.

A high-ranking government drug investigator said he had no evidence indicating that financier Robert L. Vesco had planned to back a $300,000 scheme to smuggle 100 kilograms of heroin into the United States, as claimed by an informant once employed by the U.S. Customs Bureau. In addition, George Brosan, acting chief inspector of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, denied emphatically that the White House had been responsible for calling off an inquiry into the supposed Vesco drug connection.

Americans have lost confidence in President Nixon because of the Watergate scandal, Sen. Hugh Scott the Senate Republican leader, said, "and it is his fault until he answers all these things in the same total and absolute manner that the charges are being brought." Three men were charged with murder, armed robbery and car theft in the slayings of country music guitarist James P. Widener and a woman companion in Nashville. Police identified the three as Maurice McKinney Taylor, 30, of St. Louis; Phillip Glen Mason, 23, of Los Angeles and Jerrold Mildred, 24, of Birmingham, Ala.

The bodies of Widener, 55, rhythm guitarist for singer Hank Snow, and Mrs. Mildred Hazelwood, 47, of Laguna Hills, Cal- were found Tuesday in an alley. Police acted on a tip that two men using one of Widener's credit cards had attempted to purchase a ticket to San Francisco at Memphis International Airport. party thrown Chinese but will depart given cowboys Virtually every candidate in recent San Diego city elections' vlolat-, ed a new election ordinance, officials said. (Part 1, Page 3.) U.S.

nuclear weapons, some always loaded, are stored in more than 100 sites in Western Europe. (Part 1, Page 4.) Papua-New Guinea quietly became self-governing after more than 100 years of rule as a colony of Australia, (Part 1, Page 4.) in Brief Comolled from the Los Angelet rimes, th Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service and ma lor wire and supplementary new agencies. ments by West Germany and arms sales receipts to other NATO allies were deducted, from a gross of $2.5 billion. A bill recently passed by Congress orders that beginning in October U.S. troop strength in Europe shall be cut the same percentage by which NATO allies fail to make up the military payments deficit.

A representative of the family of oil billionaire J. Paul Getty arrived in Rome to pay kidnapers a $3.4 million ransom demanded for the release of J. Paul Getty III. A lawyer for the missing 18-year-old's mother, Mrs. Gail Harris, said J.

Paul Getty tl, the youth's father, had agreed to pay the entire sum demanded. Young Getty's grandfather has refused to pay any ransom, contending it would endanger his other relatives. Gunmen ambushed a police patrol in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, killing one policeman. Two others escaped injury, A policeman in Londonderry was shot at from a speeding car Jbut hisi flak jacket saved him: Ten persons have died in the past week in the latest wave of violence and the army says the Irish Republican Army is largely responsible. Extra troops patrolled Belfast to prevent clashes between Protestant and Roman Catholic militants gathered in separate rallies.

Both factions are demanding the release of hundreds of gunmen being held without trial. Uruguay decreed the dissolution of its 50-year-old Communist Party, also outlawing several smaller leftist groups, and closed down the Communist newspapers El Popular and Cronica. The measures were in line with the anti-Marxist campaign by the regime of President Juan M. Bordaberry who took dictatorial power June 27. The Communist Party received more than 100,000 votes in the last election, in 1971, winning five seats in the congress.

The Socialist Party, also banned, had 39,900 votes and one representative. ULTIMATE DIET Shirley Turner of Carlton, England, who tips the scales at about 240 pounds, has found a way to lose weight: she had surgeons cement her jaws together. She is sipping tea and soup and vows to continue un-til she reaches 124 pounds. Wlreehota The London critics were less than kind. They called her voice "weak," "colorless" and even "squally" when she sang after eight years of retirement but once fiery tempered Maria Callas seemed to have learned restraint in retirement.

She told an interviewer calmly, "Nobody really expects me to be what I was 20 years lilllfi" Aliiliiifek, jU I ii LA IN Federal Aviation Administration and Defense Department experts have recommended that El Centro's naval air facility should become the future "airport for San Diego when Lindbergh Field runs out of room in about 15 years. The plan calls for shifting Lindbergh which covers 480 acres and handles five million passengers yearly 110 miles to the east in El Centro. The experts' said El Centro would solve noise and space problems much better than San Diego military fields. A U.S. District Court judge in Los Angejes ordered the Irvine Co.

to be-t gin a supplemental advertising campaign aimed primarily at minority groups. The decision grew out of a suit filed by the Orange County Fair Hpusing Council, which charged the land development firm with discri-m i a i in advertising. Under terms of the order, Irvine must use minority groups as models in a advertising campaign developed by an agency specializing in minority-oriented advertising. Rep. Jerry L.

Pettis announced his intention to run for his fifth two-year term in the newly created 37th Congressional District, which includes portions of his present 33rd District in Riverside County. It had been thought the Loma Linda Republican might seek election in the new 35th District, which encompasses parts of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties. A bank robbery suspect killed In a shootout with Burbank police ha3 been identified by the FBI as John Gregory Olkin, 25, wanted in New York as a suspect in a series of other bank robberies. He was shot to death after, a holdup of a Bank of America branch. Olkin had coman-deered a passing motorist's car near the bank and led six police cars on a 15-minute chase that ended in a four-car pileup in North Hollywood.

Olkin was shot at the scene. Police said $6,684 was recovered. A 42-year-old man who witnesses said refused to give a guest more wine after a Christmas tree decorating party was reportedly stabbed to death by, the guest, Fernando Delu-na, 35. Police said Deluna fled the Hollywood apartment of the victim, John J. Hassett, after stabbing his host once in the stomach.

Supervisor Kenneth Hahn has sent a letter to all 129 Municipal Court judges in Los Angeles County asking them to determine whether county Marshal Timothy Sperl must answer Hahn's questions about allegations that deputy marshals have been illegally involved in political activities. The allegations are being investigated by the Los Angeles County Grand Jury and the district attorney's office. Monrovia Municipal Judge John H. Saunders, head of the marshals' committee of the Los Angeles County Municipal Judges said he felt no reply could be made to Hahn until the grand jury investigation is completed. Twelve persons, Including two police officers, were overcome during a fire that started in the dressing room of a San Diego massage parlor and filled an upstairs hotel with thick clouds of.

smoke. The officers tvere overcome when they entered the building to rescue tenants of the residential Clark Hotel in downtown San Diego. A1112 were treated at the scene. Fire damage was confined to the massage parlor. California's Coastline Commission's staff recommended against expansion of the San Onofre nuclear power plant.

(Part 1, Page 3.) Gasoline is expected to be both scarce and expensive in the Southland today, according to a late auto club survey. (Part 1, Page 3.) Emergency energy plans should have been made long ago, said the ex-director of a commission that had warned of the crisis in June. (Part 1. Page 8.) The White House asked Congress to grant an exemption from antitrust laws for oil and other energy firms. (Part 1, Page 8.) An 18-year-old Swiss kitchen helper described as mentally unstable surrendered to police in Geneva after trying to hijack a Swissair airliner carrying 145 passengers.

Officials said the youth entered the cockpit with a small-caliber revolver as the plane approached Geneva from Zurich, demanded $50,000 for hungry Africans, a ticket to New York, and a safe-conduct guarantee. On landing, the pilot and two policemen talked him into surrendering. An airline spokesman said the youth would be examined by psychiatrists. The United States has launched a worldwide program of overseas military base closings, reductions and consolidations that will affect 59 installations in 12 countries and will save an estimated $34.7 million per year when completed. The program was outlined by Secretary, of Defense James R.

Schlesinger and other officials as part of the new look emerging in the U.S. defense establishment to meet reduced manpower levels, congressional pressure for budget reduction and new international kf i f- President Nixon signed a $2.77 billion military construction authoriza-? tion bill $283.5 million less than requested by the Pentagon. A spokesman said it reflected consolidation and realignment resulting from the shift to volunteer forces. Mr. Nixon also signed a $215.6 million authorization bill for the U.S.

Information Agency. He vetoed an earlier measure because it carried a section requiring a fund cutoff if the agency refused to comply with congressional requests for USIA documents. The provision was dropped from the new measure. The United States will have a net balance of payments deficit in its military commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the current fiscal year of between $600 million and $1.4 billion, a Senate report said. The deficit was estimated as the amount remaining after pay Newsmakers Threats Black Out Huge Yule Display Despite the energy crisis, Ir-vin Zink wanted to go ahead with his traditional -350-piece outdoor Christmas display, which he says has drawn 200,000 visitors over the years.

His attitude turned his fellow citizens of Lancaster, off, and Zink has changed his mind. He said he had received threats from' persons who said they would throw stones through his windows and steal the lights and Christmas paraphernalia from his yard. "I didn't want to see anybody get hurt, so I have decided to keep the lights off," he said. Nothing but the Little Rock Zoo stood between exotic dancer Yolanda LaTash, 27, and a possible charge of Indecent exposure, but the zoo came handsomely to her rescue. After the boa constrictor that Miss LaTash used when she danced as a stripper died, no pet store could supply another.

Miss LaTash appealed to the zoo to lend her a snake to use temporarily in her act and the zoo. perhaps remembering Sir Walter Raleigh's bit of chivalry with his cloak, cast its best boa constrictor before Miss LaTash. THE STATE the lady her. money," declared Santa Clara County Superior Judge John T. Mclnery as he ordered San Jose'-'State University to cough up $800 in pay withheld from author-teacher Jessica Mitford while she refused to sign a loyalty oath.

Miss Mitford, who teaches a popular muckraking course at the university, signed a loyalty oath Oct. 1 but the university balked at paying her for September. The judge ordered the payment during a pretrial hearing on Miss Mitford's suit challenging the legality of fingerprinting faculty members. She claims it is an invasion of privacy. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Wilson.

Riles said in San Francisco that he will urge the state Board of Education to aopt an "affirmative action" program aimed at boosting female and minority employment in California schools. The Justice Department has ordered an investigation into the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old black youth by three Emeryville policemen. The youth, Tyrone Guyton, was shot Nov. 1 as he allegedly ran from police who cornered him in a stolen car. The officers and a witness claimed the youth fired first, but no gun was found near the body.

An Alameda County grand jury investigated the shooting and recently decided not to issue indictments against the officers. A 2'i-year reduction in the state's welfare caseload may have "bottomed out" and more people may be joining aid rolls because of the current energy crisis, Social Welfare Director; David Swoap in Sacramento. A report by the state Social Welfare Department showed the welfare load rose by 7,466 from to 1,916,370 between September and October. THE NATION Drug Firms Acquitted Three major drug concerns Charles Pfizer American Cyanamid Co. and Bristol Myers Co.

were acquitted in New York of federal charges that they had conspired to fix prices and monopolize the market in antibiotics derived from the drug tetracycline. The firms had been convicted of the charges in 1967, but their conviction was overturned on appeal and they were retried. Since 1967, the three firms and two others, Upjohn Co. and Squibb Beech-Nut, have refunded more than $132 million to tetracycline users who filed civil lawsuits charging overpricing. Defense motions to dismiss contempt of court charges against five Chicago conspiracy trial defendants and two of their attorneys were denied by U.S.

Dist. Judge Edward T. Gignoux, who set Monday for closing arguments. The defense has argued for dismissal on the ground the riot-conspiracy trial in 1969-70 had been tainted by government spying on the defendants. Gignoux termed the testimony of a professed ago I'll improve my voice a bit more with each concert.

In a year's time I'm sure I'll be better than I 'am now." Everyone knows that Santa Claus comes from the North Pole. Not everyone knows where the bell-ringers for the Salvation Army's kettles in Florida come from. Some of them come from Canada. The reason for that, says Salvation Army Brigadier Richard T. Bergren, is that "we no longer can get people to ring the bells for the kettle drives." So the Army has to reach all the way to Canada for its unpaid volunteers mainly retired Salvation Army officers.

Service clubs used to be the big manpower pool, but now they would rather give a $100 check, Bergren says ruefully. "Generally, people are just too busy to take the time." His name seems almost synonymous with spaceflights. He was the third man on the moon and the crewman who had helped to save the Skylab program by erecting a sunshade over the space station early in the first Skylab mission, but now Capt Charles (Pete) Conrad Jr. has announced that he is retiring from the space agency and the Navy. Conrad, 43, will leave on Feb.

1, 1974, to become a vice president of a Denver cable television company. His flight time: 49 days in space on four missions. ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT Beacon Sr. Permit Denial Challenged in Suit The Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles filed a Superior Court civil suit to overturn denial of a coastal permit exemption for its Beacon St. Redevelopment Project in the San Pedro Harbor area.

The exemption had been approved by the South Coast Regional Commission last July 26 but was reversed on appeal to the California Coastal Zone Conservation Commission. The' suit claims the Environmental Coalition of Orange County did not file the appeal within the 10 days required by law and had no right to appeal because it was not injured by the project..