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The Los Angeles Times from Los Angeles, California • 15

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J. 1UI 132,000 1966 MODELS tor made by Rochester Products Division of GM and installed on some early 1966 GM cars. The publication said Oldsmobile Division issued a technical bulletin last I erl ih 4 Feb. 18, reporting the defect on early 1966 Cutlass. Starf ire, Ninety-eight and.

Toranado cars. a tin i9 III 0 4 Iliit Four Members of Stiff Have Received Awards fcr Outstanding Work Elsewhs'-s. i I 1 1 Yoy only live once and white you ars living-live. Clothes of extrems tmnrtnt tiAA In th tavt of Hfa. The IOCS Pulitzer Prize awarded Monday to The Times for its coverage of I the south L03 Angeles riot troit and Los Angeles, he said.

(A spokesman for. the Los Angeles plant at 5800 S. Eastern Ave. had no comment on the Chrysler announcement.) The spokesman said mechanical inspections were ordered late last month on all of the cars. About 45 of the autos have been brought to dealers for inspection.

The trade paper Automotive News said defects were found in a carbure i-- 5' DETROIT Chrysler Corp. said Monday it has called in 182,000 Plymouth and Dodge automobiles for possible repairs because 20 of the 1968 cars were found, to have loose nuta on a front suspension component. Meanwhile, an auto Industry trade paper reported that Oldsmobile Division of' General Motors Corp. has called for repairs on a four-barrel carburetor which, in some cases, allowed gasoline to spew over the engine and Affected Chrysler products were Dodge Coronets and Chargers and Plymouth Belvederes and Satellites produced in De 1ml i i new! tn stork, must have had tnese cicars in his i was Uie Illlrt wuu uy i ue Times or members of its, staff since 142, I Four present members I of The Times editorial staff also are Pulitzer Prize winners for out-standing work done else-I where, before joining this newspaper. The J966 award, for "ge-f neral local reporting" of the Negro rioting' that ra vaged the, Watts district and the state and nation last August, was made to the staff at ft nest!" out what residents there thought about the rioting and about the rest of the community.

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T1.5 Times' coverage of the riot drew upon the entire resources of its metropolitan staff of reporters, writers, editors and photographers under the immediate direction of metropolitan editor William Nick Williams, Times iitor, and Frank Haven, lanaging editor, com- tended the metropolitan staff for its achievement, i "I'm happy to see this recognition for what I think is the finest metropo-' jitan staff in the nation," Williams said. I I "We are pleased and roud." said Haven, "be- ause this award confirms ur belief that The Times as the best metropolitan taff in the country, head ed bv the best metropoli $29.8, $WA tan editor, Bill Thomas, in the country." Negroes Arrested -The prize-winning coverage began in the home editions of Thursday, Aug. 12, reporting a the arrest of three Negroes at 116th St. and Avalon Blvd. Wednesday night.

This incident ignited the violence that raged for the next five days, bringing 1 more than 30 deaths and millions in property loss. In its citation, the prize committee noted that The Times "covered the several days' ordeal of bloodshed and destruction In stores from every During this turbulent period the central, continuing story of the rioting was written daily by staff writers Art Berman and" Jackson from a mass of information fed in by reporters on the riot scene land at other key posts. 1 From the start, reporters were assigned' to inquire into the background, the causes and the reactions of rioters and victims, as well as to report the facts of violence. A Times crew reporter 'Philip Fradkin and photographer Joe Kennedy first newsmen in the riot area, covered the arrest that unleashed the pent-up fury Wednesday night. Fradkin was struck by stones and glass from shattered auto window wing.

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interviewed vacationing Gov. Brown as he pre-f pared to fly home. As the riot raged on, the political implications, the I in-fighting and recrimina--? tions between various pub-: lie officials and popular leaders became as vital to the whole story, a3 the violence itself, demanding specific and detailed' porting. When the rioting subsi--ded, numerous reporters were sent into the devas-l tated area to seek the causes, to interview hun-'; dreds of those involved women, children, policemen, teachers, merchants, ministers and to total up i the tragedy. The findings of these re- porters became the factual basis for a series of seven stories written by staff writer Jack Jones under i the title "The View from Watts." The Pulitzer committee took special notice of this post-riot investigation in its citation, commenting that "after order was restored, reporters went to Watts again to find mmmz Lj-d yuuu mzii I Li OVJL ClOCKER-CtTinsS NATIONAL BANK California's Oldest Notional Bank More than 259 Offices Statewide Member Federal Depot it lmirace Corporation.

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