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1 Dr. Renee Richards for the US. Open championships. (Part 3, Page 1.) Ekk Rhoden shut out the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2-0, on five hits en route to his 10th victory in 11 decisions for the Dodgers. (Part 3, Page 1.) Frank Tanana pitched a two-hitter and struck out 10 as the Angels escaped the AL West cellar with a 6-0 victory over Boston.

(Part 3, Page 1.) In Financial Stock prices declined as an early rally fizzled. The Dow Jones industrial index finished the session down 6.64 at 986.79. (Part 3, Page 15.) The Defenie Department announced plans to sell Iran nearly $315 million in artillery ammunition and support items. (Part 3, Page 15.) Bergen Brunswig- ended an agreement under which it operated North Carolina's Medicaid program in return for a flat fee. (Part 3, Page 15.) Federal pension funds which offer some of the best retirement benefits in the nation are nearly $500 billion in debt (Part 3, Page 15.) In View American hosts are giving European visitors a whole new view of life in this country and it's one that's well liked.

(Parti Page!) Jack Smith revisited Marineland recently and was delighted to learn his 16-year-old killer whale pal Orky was still there. (Part 4, Page 1.) Almost a million California women live alone, but a growing number not I os 3ngrlrs Cimrs The plan to carve a 50-acre county park out of an abandoned Nike missile base in Garden Grove died. (Part 2, Page I) Orange County supervisors pledged $200,000 to finance a health systems agency, provided they win the designation. (Part 2, Page L) America misses the boat on the sea law talks, a former negotiator says. (Part 2.

Editorial Section.) A political paradox may have occurred in the South as a result of the Reagan-Schweiker linkup. (Part 2, Editorial Section.) In Sports The VS. Tennis Ann. will rule Aug. 20 on the entry of transsexual only cope but also enjoy the single life.

(Part 4. Page 1.) In Food The patio party can be an instant success when golden California evenings meet a do-ahead cold buffet. Rose Dosti reports. (Part 6, Page 1.) The critics have been right regarding the shortage of "real veal" on the West Coast, but Nagle Packing co. is going to change that (Part 6, Page 1.) All those requests for New York-style cheesecake are answered in one fell swoop in the Culinary SOS column.

(Part 6, Page 22.) Pate fois gras with or without toast, before or after the meal is the prince of pates, Waverly Root writes. (Part 6, Page 28.) Page 2. Part 1 Inside The Times The Assembly Ways and Means committee approved a major coastal protection bill. (Part 1. Page 3.) The toughest verdict to reach In the Emily and William Harris trial was described by one of the jurors.

(Part 1. Page 3.) The leader of Mexico's most notorious guerrilla band was killed in the attempted kidnaping of the president-elect's sister. (Part 1, Page 4.) An agreement for a general evacuation to end the siege of Beirut's Tal Zaatar refugee camp was reported. (Part 1. Page 9.) President Ford will break with tradition and go to Kansas City early to continue courting uncommitted delegates.

(Part 1, Page 19.) Jimmy Carter, addressing the American Bar called for rigid adherence to moral standards in government. (Part 1, Page 21.) THE SOUTHLAND Guards Save 6 Children in Fire News in Brief Six sleeping children were carried to safety from a burning Riverside THURSDAY, AUGUST 12, 1976 Campiittf lrm Nw Loi nm Tinwt. Ww Lot AnftMl Timn-WUlHi)0fi Poll Nras Swict nd Ml, win ww) luppltmtnlorv nM 9CiKilt. wiiiifii "irum ganyrajajanjaMnaaiiaiMM yjF' I THE WORLD Firm to Pay in Italy Gassing when a pickup truck driven by Aubrey Weaver, 52, of Big Bear crossed the center line on California 18. A third Iverson child, Jeff, 12, was reported in serious condition at Loma Linda University Hospital Weaver's nephew, Jim Looney, 13, who was in the pickup truck, was also reported in serious condition at the same hospital.

Weaver was treated for an ankle injury and released. Two Marines killed when their car crossed over the dividing line on Santiago Canyon Road and collided with another car were identified as Vernon O. Banks, the driver, and Philip Taylor, 32, both stationed at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, according to the High PatroL The driver of the other car and his passenger were hospitalized in satisfactory condition. apartment by two security guards who broke in after smelling smoke. Beatrice Brown, mother of the children who were aged 5 to 12, was at work when the fire broke out after midnight.

Firemen said one of the children had fallen asleep while melting butler on the stove. Guards Vincent Scarpino and Kim O'Lear got no answer when they knocked, so they smashed the door and carried the children out. A Whittier man was killed when he lost control of his motorcycle during a midnight drag race with an automobile, police reported. Officers said Stephen A. Memmillo, 33, of 10108 Loch Avon was racing on Whittier Blvd.

near Greenleaf Ave. when he lost control and was thrown to the street at high speed. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The driver of the car racing with Memmillo, Robert J. Rafay, 18, also of Whittier, was booked on suspicion of manslaughter.

Two Bell Gardens newlyweds were being held as suspects in the killing of a service station attendant at a Halloran Summit service station near Baker, 75 miles from Las Vegas on Interstate 15. The couple, identified as Robert Portune, 31, and Christina Arlene Grant Portune, 29, obtained a Clark County marriage license in Las Vegas several hours after the attendant was shot to death. A Baptist minister from La Cres-centa, his wife and two of their children were killed in a head-on collison near Big Bear. The California Highway Patrol said the Rev. Gerald Douglas Iverson, 39, pastor of the First Baptist Church in La Crescenta; his wife, Helen, 36; son, Nathan, 2, and daughter, Krista, 10, were killed The president of a Swiss drug-making firm at whose Seveso, Italy, plant an explosion released a cloud of poison gas last month said his firm will pay for all damages.

The costs may include those resulting from destruction of all contaminated buildings and vegetation in the area, which has been recommended by an Italian government commission investigating the disaster. Thirty persons were hospitalized and hundreds of birds and animals were killed by the gas. About 800 people were evacuated from the area-Italy's Chamber of Deputies gave a vote of confidence to Premier Guilio Andreotti's government, completing parliamentary approval of Italy's new Christian Democrat administration. The government passed the tests in the chamber, and in the Senate last week, after the Communist Party decided to abstain and not to vote against a Christian Democrat-led government for the first time in 29 years. The vote in the chamber was 258 in favor, 44 against and 303 abstentions.

One man was killed in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, in a shooting incident on the eve of an annual march by Protestants. The British army said the incident involved a clash between troops and a sniper. The man killed was identified as a Catholic in his 20s. The death increased tension among Catholics already angry over the refusal of British authorities to cancel today's march in commemoration of the 1689 defense of Londonderry by Protestants against a Catholic siege. South Korean police have seized eight Presbyterian ministers and one other person in Kwagju, 200 miles south of Seoul, for questioning about a statement critical of the govern- ment, sources reported.

The sources said the nine were detained after issuing the statement during a prayer meeting at Yanglim church in the provincial capital. The statement called for abolition of South Korea's controversial constitution. The State Department said it has protested to the Argentine government because U.S. Embassy officials were denied permission to talk to a jailed American Roman Catholic priest. The military government said the Rev.

James Martin Weeks, of Hartford, is being held incommunicado. He and five Latin American seminarians were arrested a week ago and accused of subversive activity after soldiers said they found "extensive Marxist-Leninist literature and a phonograph record with subversive chants" at a seminary in Cordoba. The Sri Lanka government has prepared a draft of a final resolution for the nonaligned summit conference that is expected to come under attack because of its moderate tone and mild treatment of Western nations. Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) is host nation for the conference of about 83 Third World countries. Its draft declaration contains little in the way of denunciations of the United States and makes only a brief attack on Israel.

Heads of state, including Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba and President Tito of Yugoslavia, will arrive Monday to discuss the policy statement. Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin, 72, is too ill to meet with visiting Japanese businessmen, Japanese sources reported in Moscow. Soviet authorities gave no indication of the nature of the illness or how serious it was, the Japanese said. Kosygin was reportedly being treated in a Moscow hospital.

A bench warrant was issued in Los Angeles for the arrest of singer Marvin Gaye, who was held in contempt for the third time and sentenced to 10 days in jail for failing to pay monthly support to his wife and child. Superior Judge Ronald A. Swearinger issued the sentence and warrant when Gaye, 37, thought to be in Chicago, failed to pay $5,500 monthly to his wife, Anna, 52, and $500 for support of their son, Marvin Jr. Mrs. Gaye's attorney, Dan Barba-kow, said Gaye purged two previous contempt sentences by paying the money he owed.

The couple's divorce is pending. A nun with a tattoo around his navel robbed the Security Savings and Loan Assn. office in Oxnard of $3,500. A teller told police she spotted the tattoo when the man pulled a long-barreled pistol from his waistband and aimed it at her. He was being sought RECOVERED LEOONNARE-Charles Linn, 43, one of those stricken by a mystery ailment during the Philadelphia convention, shares a moment with his granddaughter, Autumn Ward, just before he was discharged from Polyclinic Hospital in Harrisburg, Pa.

AP Wlrtphoto THE NATION Traces of Poison Found in 'Fever' Victims Evidence of a poison often used in antifreeze was found in the bodies of two victims of the "Legion fever," the Pittsburgh coroner's office said. Concentrations of crystals found in the kidneys of the two Pittsburgh area residents imdicated they could have unwittingly drunk ethylene glycol or diethylene glycol, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette quoted the coroner's office as saying. However, a spokesman for the Philadelphia medical examiner, to whom the findings were reported, said the crystals could have been the result of heredity or normal environmental factors THE STATE Grower Loses Decision in Eviction Case Newsmakers The California Supreme Court ruled that a corporate agricultural employer cannot evict farm workers from company-owned housing in retaliation for their filing a suit against the company under the federal Farm Labor Contractor Registration Act The unanimous decision said a Municipal Court was in error in excluding evidence of retaliation from a dispute between S.P. Growers' Assn. and a lemon-pickers' organization.

The workers walked off their jobs last February in a labor dispute. The company then served the workers with eviction notices and, when this did not work, filed unlawful detainer actions in Ventura County. 'Bomb' Was Only Manna From Heaven Madera and Alameda county authorities have agreed that Madera County should be in charge of the prosecution of the three suspects in the kidnaping of 26 Chowchilla schoolchildren and their school bus driver on July 15. Both counties have jurisdiction in the case since the kidnaping occurred in Madera County but the victims were held captive in Livermore, which is in Alameda County. Authorities decided that the Alameda County district attorney's office will assist in the prosecution.

The bodies of four Morgan Hill residents were recovered from the wreckage of a light plane in Kings Canyon National Park. The plane had been missing since July 30. The victims were identified as Rufus Banks, 39, his wife Joyce, and Mr. and Mrs. Ken Snavely.

The burned wreckage was spotted at the elevation just inside the park's eastern boundary. Legislation to prohibit cities from imposing rent controls passed the state Senate Judiciary Committee by a 6-3 vote and must now pass the Senate Finance Committee. The bill, authored by Assemblyman Bill Campbell (R-Hacienda Heights), already has passed the Assembly. and not a result of any sudden ingestion of glycol. Of nearly 130,600 Indochinese refugees resettled in the United States since the fall of Saigon to the Communists, about 30 were receiving cash assistance from welfare agencies as of June 30.

The Senate refugee subcommittee, in releasing a report from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, said the figure represented an increase of nearly 12 since September. "A considerable percentage" receiving cash assistance was fully or partially employed, although not earning as much as the welfare standard, the report said. Tests on humans of a new drug that could eliminate a major side effect of chemical cancer therapy have begun at Georgetown University's Lombardi Cancer Research Center in Washington. Drugs in current usage often damage delicate bone marrow as well as cancerous cells, a spokesman said. Bone marrow produces white blood cells necessary to the body's defense against disease.

"We hope that the new drug, chlorozoto-cin, will prove a most effective cancer treatment without major toxic effects on bone marrow," the spokesman said. House Speaker Carl Albert and 172 other congressmen asked Secretary of the Army Martin R. Hoffman, to intervene in West Point's cheating scandal. "The academy has failed to handle the current honor code problems properly," they wrote in a letter to Hoffman. They advocated punishment other than mandatory expulsion for cadets convicted of cheating on a take-home examination.

Members of a small United Mine Workers local, whose walkout over a local grievance ballooned into a bitter work stoppage that idled up to 100,000 coal miners in nine states, voted to return to work. A short while later, the presidents of 102 other locals in UMW District 17 in West Virginia voted unanimously to follow local 1759. Translating the votes into a back-to-work movement will depend on whether the locals' members agree with the action of their A new eight-story office buildinq in San Rafael has had its water services shut off for illegally using lawn sprinklers, authorities said. The use of sprinklers to water gardens and lawns is prohibited by water rationing rules adopted by drought-stricken Marin County. Only watering by hand is permitted.

A district official said a flow restrictor, which make it impossible to operate sprinklers properly and cut down the overall water usage, will be installed before the water is turned on. The building owners must also pay a $35 fee. oiA'-ft The envelope delivered to Arlington Hills Presbyterian Church in St Paul, was suspected at first of containing a bomb, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. The Rev. Glenn Poliine was in the church office when a youth entered, handed him a thick envelope and said, "I was paid to deliver this envelope to you," then immediately walked away.

"That was all he said," the minister said. "It was almost like he had memorized the line." The pastor "immediately thought of all the bad things that have happened around the country" and called the police. The bomb squad chief took the envelope outside the manse and carefully cut into one corner with a knife. He looked in and saw nothing but long green 111 hundred-dollar bills and a note: "This gift is given to Arlington Hills Presbyterian in honor of my mother. Anonymous." The pastor said, "We are just really overwhelmed and speechless," he said.

"One can only hope and pray for the best for the giver of this gift." Canadian actor Len Cariou has been named to replace British actor Robert Stephens in the movie version of "A Little Night Music," being filmed in Vienna. It is the role Cariou originated on Broadway and for which he won a Tony. Star of the film is Elizabeth Taylor. Stephens said he was eased out of the cast because Miss Taylor had said the chemistry between them was not right. "Chemistry? We're actors, not bloody pharmacists," Stephens was quoted in London as saying.

British Home Secretary Roy Jenkins has refused to ban Danish film director Jens Joergen Thorsen from Britain, where he wants to make a film supposedly telling about the sex life of Jesus Christ. Denmark and Sweden have turned down Thorsen's request for a filming permit. Antipornography campaigner Mary Whitehouse said in London that the making of the film could lead to public disorder. She attacked Jenkins' "general weak attitude to permissiveness" and said she would take up the matter with Prime Minister James Callaghan. The sensation in Norwegian show business this year will be the debut of Crown Princess Sonja as a vocalist.

The 39-year-old wife of Prince Harald will sing at a Red Cross fair in Oslo Aug. 29. The pay is good she'll get kroner, or $10,000, but it will go to Princess Martha Louise's Fund for Handicapped People, set up in honor of Sonja's 5-year-old daughter. Alexandros Andreadis, 32, husband of Greek heiress Christina Onassls, is recuperating in an Athens hospital ENERGY. ENVIRONMENT Daylight Time Saves Oil in France THREESOME-British actress Hayley Mills and Leigh Lawson with son Jason, raising voice outside London hospital where he was born July 30.

AP Wlr.photo after a motorcycle accident on the island of Scorpios. A family spokesman said Andreadis received leg and spine injuries when his bike went out of control. His wife, who often rides with him on the back of the motorcycle, was not with him at the time. Comedian Bill Cosby, 39, who was a teacher in Philadelphia before he became a comedian, has completed work for a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts, where he earned a master's degree in 1972. Cosby took his oral examinations over the weekend on his dissertation entitled "The Integration of the Visual Media via Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids into the Elementary Schools Culminating as a Teacher Aid to Achieve Increased Learning." By Jo Ann Dlckerson million ducks die each year in the U.S.

from lead poisoning. The poisoning occurs, he said, when birds swallow spent shotgun pellets while feed-inq. A high-elevation campground at Yosemite National Park is being shut down for the season because of the critically low water level of the creek serving it. The National Park Service said White Wolf Campground at the elevation does not have enough water for drinking or toilet use. The area has 86 campsites and two tent cabins.

It marks the first time a campground at Yosemite has been closed for lack of water. The shortage is due to the current drought France will save 330,000 tons of oil this summer through the introduction of daylight savings time, Industry Minister Michel d'Ornano said. In reply to a parliamentary question, he said that the extra hour of daylight in the evening had saved about 1 on electricity consumption since March 28. He added that next year Belgium, Luxembourg and Holland will join France in summer daylight savings time. To save the ducks, hunters should use steel rather than lead shotgun pellets, an expert recommended.

Lynn A. Greenwalt, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, told the House merchant marine and fisheries subcommittee in Washington that 2 Draft evasion charges against Fritz Efaw, who returned from a seven-year exile to plead at the Democratic National Convention for universal amnesty for draft resisters, were dismissed in Oklahoma City. U.S. Dist. Judge Fred Daugherty said the case could not be prosecuted successfully because Efaw's draft board had not given reasons for refusing to grant him conscientious objector status..

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