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mm. WEDNESDAY PP2I Sim LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE WEST, MORE THAN MO.000 DAILY; MORE THAN 1,250,000 SUNDAY, FIVE PARTS-PART ONE Critically Wounded in Head at Victory Fete BY DARYL E. LEMBKE Times Staff Writer Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot in the right ear early this morning in a kitchen of the Ambassador only a few moments after he had made a victory statement after capturing the California Democratic presi-' dential primary.

fkij Sj 1 t-i 'MOMENTS AFTER SHOOTING oor of the Amtassado m0 Af COUNTY RETURNS FIRED AT POINT-BLANK RANGE' Witness Describes Shooting, Says, 'He Didn't Have Chance' The New York senator's condition was listed as critical at Good Samaritan Hospital, where he was in the intensive care unit. A suspect in the hooting was arrested minutes after the shots were fired and was taken to the police administration building downtown under heavy guard. The suspect was not identified. Inspector Robert Rock of the Los Angeles police said that only one suspect was involved. Rock said there was no reason to believe more than one person was involved.

The police also have the gun that fired the shots, Rock said. Witnesses nearby said Kennedy's head was covered with blood and a Additional photos on Pages 2 and 3. of Kennedy woman standing nearby was also splattered with blood. Also shot was Paul Schrade, UAW official. The extent of his injuries was not known.

The shooting occurred at 12:20 a.m. Shouts and screams filled the packed hall as the call went out over the public address system for a doctor. Three came to Kennedy's aid as his campaign assistants pleaded for his supporters to be calm and clear the hall. The senator appeared to be in great pain, but conscious. As he was lifted into the police ambulance, Kennedy was heard to say: "Oh, no! No! Don't Mrs.

Kennedy whispered to him, apparently trying to comfort and reassure her husband. Then she entered the ambulance, doors were closed behind them and the vehicle sped away. Kennedy was taken first to Central Receiving Hospital, then was transferred to Good Samaritan, his head wrapped in bandages. Silence and Shock Back in the hotel, shocked and silent members of the Kennedy party gathered in small groups television sets, attempting to clarify their own memories of the event. Others left in tears.

Kennedy was leaving the Ambassador to attend a party at the Factory in the aftermath of his victory in the Democratic primary. His path through the kitchen was taken on the spur of the moment. The assailant fired at the senator at close range and began spraying bullets around the kitchen, witnesses said. William Barry, a former FBI agent, who is Kennedy's bodyguard, grabbed the gun from the man and wrestled him to the floor. Roosevelt Grier, the football player, then sat on the assailant until police officers arrived Please Turn to Page 23, Col.

8 THE WEATHER Light smog today. Heavy night and morning low cloudiness with partial afternoon clearing today and Thursday. High today and Thursday near 73. Low Thursday near 59. High Tuesday, 70; low, 63.

Complete weather information a Pago 8, Part 2. Kennedy Wins Race; Rafferty Apparent Victor Over Kuchel BY RICHARD BERGHOLZ Timj Politic! Writer A late surge of votes from Mexican-American and Negro precincts particularly in Los Angeles County made Sen. Robert F. Kennedy the winner in California's Democratic Presidential primary battle Tuesday. Sen.

Eugene McCarthy of Minnesota, Kennedy's major rival in the key primary contest, said he was "reconciled" to a Kennedy triumph. But he said he intended to keep fighting for the party nomination at the Chicago convention Aug. 26. On the Republican ballot, Dr. Max Rafferty, state superintendent of public instruction, appeared to have ended the political reign of Sen.

Thomas H. Kuchel of Anaheim. The Senate GOP whip and a veteran of 15 years on Capitol Hill ran up leads in Northern and Central California. Rafferty Vote Projection But the late surge of votes from Southern California wiped out the Kuchel margin and, on the basis of vote projections, appeared to have swept the conservative Rafferty to an impressive victory. NBC analysts said their projection of the vote showed Rafferty would get 52 of the Republican vote, and Kuchel would get 45 with the balance going to lesser-known candidates.

The Democratic race for the U.S. Senate nomination was never in doubt. Former State Controller Alan Cranston easily outdistanced four lesser-known opponents from the very start of the vote-count. For Cranston, it was a political comeback after his defeat two years ago by the current state controller, Republican Houston I. Flournoy.

Tried for Senate in 1964 Cranston had tried for the Democratic nomination for U.S. senator in 1964 but was defeated by Pierre Salinger, who then lost to Republican George Murphy in the finals. Returns were badly delayed in Los Angeles County, where the old-style paper ballot' voting system was changed this year to the IBM-Votomatic puncncard system. Delays in transporting the punch-card from the precincts to the 93 collection centers and then to the computer counters were blamed for the breakdown in tabulations. And in Fresno County, a programming error in computers was blamed for a breakdown that made their returns lag far behind the rest of the state.

Even before the breakdowns in Los Angeles County, CBS projected Kennedy as the winner over McCarthy by a margin of 52 to Fleast Tom to Paga 23, Col. 3 BY DICK MAIN Timet Staff Writer Sen. Robert F. Kennedy lies on the I U.S. SENATE Democratic 1,805 out of 6,924 Precincts Cranston Beilenson 77,739 29 7 3 Buchanan 19,681 Bennett Crail 8,358 Republican 1,805 out of 6,924 Precincts Rafferty Kuchel 73,898 Ware 2,223 Jones .1,543 Cammack 1,473 CONGRESS 13th DISTRICT Democratic 58 39 1 1 1 6 out of 53 Precincts Horwitz 284 Scheinbaum 277 Cole 134 13th DISTRICT Republican 6 out of 53 Precincts Teague (Inc.) 720 41 40 19 100 17thDISTRICT Democratic 22 out of 394 Precincts Akderson 1,459 -'Ticker 1,167 Gibson 860 Hayward 425 Frantz 377 Griffin 167 Pipersky 70 VanPetten 67 25 ,19.

9 8 4 1 17th DISTRICT Republican 22 out of 394 Precincts Howard 443 34 Blatchford 419 32 Sciarrotta 255 20 Hooper 100 8" Berry 84 6 Please Turn to Page 22, Col. 1 PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION 1,805 out of 6,924 Precincts Kennedy 147,110 50 115,974 39 Lynch 31,332 11 5 Republican 1,805 out of 6,924 Precincts Reagan 123,501 100 I STATEWIDE I RETURNS PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION Democratic 7,486 out Precincts 426,917 45 McCarthy 400,323 42 Xynch 117,928 12 Republican 6,997 out of 21,301 Precincts Reagan 392,593 100 U.S. SENATE Democratic 7,226 out of 21,301 Precincts Cranston5 474,222 59 3eilenson 173,545 22 Bennett 69,25 9 'Buchanan 59,518 7 23,818 3 Republican 7,267 out of 2101 Precincts Kuchel Rafferty Ware Cammack, Jones 304,703 264,781 7,502 6,830 5,141 52 45 1 1 1 a minute after Sen. Kennedy stepped off the stage at the Embassy Room. He walked behind the stage through a foyer and into a hotel kitchen corridor, "He stopped to shake the hand of a bus boy or a waiter who was wearing a white coat.

Then he moved to shake someone else's hand when the shots rang i Karl Eucker, assistant maitre d' at the hotel, helped disarm the gunman: He also witnessed the "I heard six shots," he said. "They sounded like Chinese firecrackers. Please Turn to Page 23, Col. 6 FEATURE INDEX BOOK REVIEW. Page 9, Part 4.

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VITALS, WEATHER. Page 8, Part 2, Southland elections on Page .9, Part 2. "The gunman -started firing at point-blank range and Sen. Kennedy didn't have -a chance." Times photographer reporter Boris who Ayas standing only three feet away from the shooting in the kitchen corridor at the Ambassador, lought back tears as he gave this graphic description of the shooting: "I was getting ready to shoot a picture and I thought the shots we're firecrackers going off. "Kennedy backed up against' the kitchen freezers as the gunman fired at him at point-blank range.

"He cringed and threw his hands up over his face. I think five were fired. Moved Close to Kennedy "The gunman was" a short, dark-complexioned man. Ke moved closer Uoward the senator, holding a short-; barrel revolver. "Three or four people grabbed him hut by then' it was too.

late. "I around arid saw Sen. Kennedy lying on the floor. Blood seemed to be pouring out of a wound jn his head or ear. "It seemed as though he was trying to say something but.

you couldn't hear him." "The gunman was pinned against the freezer arid the gun was knocked from his hand. "People were shouting, shot! He's been. "Others screamed: Get a doctor. Bobby has been "The shooting took place less than i A.