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'4 -'V 5- irtrCf Monday, October 4. 1976 Section 1 18 Metropolitan 1 The week ahead 1 People Today's briefing Is a digest of news from The Tribune's local, national, and foreign staffs, the Associated Press, United Press International, Reuters, New York Times. Knight News Wire, New York News, and Washington Star. It is edited by Robert McVea and Jeff Jarvis. Nation I i r- face, that' smile Democratic Dresidential nominee Jimmv Carter runs into a likeness of himself and matches the clay Imaaa's broad arin durina a weekend stoDOver at the airoort in Howlett gets rough, tough DEMOCRATIC gubernatorial candl-, date Michael Howlett says his Republi-' can opponent's conviction rate as United States attorney hit a "a 10-ycar.

low" for the Chicago area. James Thompson challenged Howlett to a debate on these latest accusations. a Page 3 A FORMER secretary at one of Eugene Ziperstein's clinics- told authorities she witnessed the systematic ric- off of Medicaid through overcharging for unnecessary services and prescrip tions. Ziperstera and 12 associates have been indicted in connection with Medi-" caid fraud. pgj OAK PARK ELEMENTARY school teachers voted Sunday to ratify a tentative two-year contract, ending threat of a strike there.

But tension was building in Elmwood Park, where teachers have been doing "informational picketing" hi their quest for a pay raise of per cent. Sec. 3, p. 7 THE 70-BED. Bethany Brethren Hospital reportedly will close all its facilities Monday except the emergency room and outpatient clinics.

Six weeks ago the West Side facility moved to get state permission to close and began laying off employes. SecStP.8; i TESTS CONDUCTED for three years by two Chicago psychologists for the nation's a Catholic bishops showed that prelates have trouble expressing their feelings, and ordering others to perform duties. THE FEISTY South Side woman who charged that a fellow Illinois delegate at the Republican National Convention offered her $2,500 to switch her loyalty from President Ford to Ronald Reagan has dropped from sight. Republican organizers call her disappearance Sec. 3, p.

PRO-ABORTION iorces took their campaign against an antiabortion Con- LET CHOOSE I Bilst SI Demonstrators favoring free, choice on abortion march at Holy Name. stitutional amendment to the church's doorstep Sunday in a quiet demonstra tion outside Holy Name Cathedral. i Page 3 i FIRE KILLED two men in a room- ling house described as. a haven for illegal aliens. Police said one of the men had not been identified because all the residents fled when the fire broke out.

Weather CHICAGO AND VICINITY: Mostly sunny Monday, high in mid 80s. Chance of rain Tuesday and Wednesday, highs in the 70s. Turning cooler with lows in the 40s Thursday. W-M" iff 1 1 Earl Butz no plans to quit in furor over racial slurs. Calls for Bute I II ouster grow WASHINGTON William' Scranton.

United States 'Ambassador to the United Nations, and a growing number of others in government circles including many Republicans called for the firing or resignation of Earl Butz from his Cabinet post Butz, who has become a campaign issue be-. cause of a crude remark about blacks' lack of political ambition, slept on the matter and decided he IsnTyet ready to resign as secretary of agriculture. Page 1 WASHINGTON Pauline Frederick. United Nations correspondent for Na- tional Public Radio, will moderate the second debate between President Ford and Jimmy Carter. Questioners for the Wednesday night debate on foreign and -military policy will be Max Frankel of the New York Times, Henry L.

Trew-' hitt of the Baltimore Sun, and Richard Valeriani of NBC News. Page 8 BY 43 TO 38 per cent, voters reject Jimmy Carter's proposal to cut de-. fense spending by $5 billion to $7 billion, the Harris Survey shows. At the same time, a 73-to-16 per cent majority favors detente and thinks the United States should find more ways to cooperate, with China and Russia. Perspective WASHINGTON The American Medical Association has been accused by Common Cause of violating limits on contributions to political candidates.

Page 8j DETROIT-Negotiators of the United Auto Workers and the Ford Motor Co. held a marathon session in Detroit Sunday night amid speculation that a settlement in the 20-day-old nationwide auto strike was near. Page 1 TONOPAH, civUlan pilot In an F-104 Starfighter claimed a record Sunday for low-altitude air speed in the craft, averaging 1,010 m.p.h. in flights producing sonic booms that shattered the windows of nearby, trucks. Darryl Greenamyer, 40, of Idaho Falls, flew a course about a mile and a half long four times.

The booms "blew the windows out of trucks and everything," said Ed Browning, who owns the plane with Greenamyer. PORTLAND, Me. Republican Vice Presidential contender Sen. i Robert Dole's strategy is to paint Jimny Carter as the typical politician who changes his mind. But in so paliting Carter, Dole himself has fallen into the trap of playing the came game.

Page 6 LOS ANGELES As the crucial battle for California the nation's most populous state begins, both President Ford and Jimmy Carter are relying on tenuous support from political bases born of their former challengers Ron-, aid Reagan and Gov. Jerry Brown. Polls show the presidential contenders neck to neck as they head West to start their campaigns. i Page 10. Followup In the area Tba deadline to register to vote in the Nov.

3 general election is Tuesday. All Cook County precinct polling places will be open from I a.m. to p. m. Vice President Nelson Rockefeller and Sen.

Robert Dole, the Republican candidate to succeed Rockefeller, will Pimirient rtinnpr Thursday in the Con- rad Hilton. the nation i lie reuwi ui luiuici ward Gurnsy Fla.l on charges of influence peddling is scheduled to be gin Monday in Orlando, Fla. The U.S. Supreme Court opens its 1 fall session Monday in Washington. Barbara Walters makes her debut' Monday on the ABC network as television's first news anchorwoman.

The retrial, of former boxer Reu ben Carter and John Artis for the murders of three persons in a tavern starts Tuesday in New York. The second nationally televised de-hnfn between President Ford and Dem ocratic challenger Jimmy. Carter will be held Wednesday in ban rtancisco at 8:30 p.m. Chicago time. Friends of the Bellevue Ho- tel." a group of Philadelphia civic and business organizations, on Thursday sponsors a $100-a-couple charity ball in the hotel, which has been financially hard-hit since the mysterious "Legion-'' naire's disease" killed 29 persons who attended a convention there in July.

A Civil Aeronautics Board plan that eliminates most restrictions on charter flights goes into effect Thursday. 'v'V in the world Cuba next Sunday holds Its first public elections since the, 1959 revolution. To be voted on are 169 municipal assemblies. in sports Minnesota quarterback Fran Tarkenton may miss his first National Football. League game since entering the league in 1961 When the Vikings play the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1 NFL nationally televised Monday night game.

7 i The thoroughbreds move to Hawthorne Park Monday for a 30-day meeting. The Black Hawks open the National Hockey League regular season against the Blues Thursday night in St. Louis. 1 The major-league baseball playoffs begin Saturday, with New York-at Kansas City in the American League playoffs in the afternoon and Cine nati at Philadelphia in the first game of the National League showdown that evening. Sports Bears beat 'Skins 33-7 THE BEARS came out throwing, much to the delight of Sunday's Soldier Field crowd, and went on to thump the previosuly unbeaten Washington Reds kins 33-7.

Sec. 5, p. 1 BILL MADLOCK won his second straight National League batting title Sunday by going 4-for-4 in the Cubs' 8-2 victory over Montreal at Wrigley Field. The win. enabled the Cubs to equal last year's record of 75-C7.

Sec. 5, p. 1 THE CHICAGO Black Hawks defeated the Boston Bruins 6-3 Sunday night at the Chicago Stadium in their last exhibition game of the season. SeC. p.

2 STEVE GROGAN threw three touch- down passes and ran for two other scores as the New iMigiana patriots uoset Oakland 48-17 in Foxboro, Mass. Sec. 5, p. 1 Business TRANSCENDENTAL Meditation has Krnwnfrom a colleee-based fad to a way of life for at least half a million Americans. Many businessmen say it improves their work, but business firms can't be oersuaded to offer it to employes, except on an experimental basis.

Sec. 5, p. WHILE MOST industries have grown inpatient with government interfer ence, the river barge industry would welcome a uttie regulation, some 0111-cials are concerned about how. the baree rates fluctuate wildly from sea son to season and would prefer to have the rates reguiatea ana steaaiea. Sec.

5, p. I IF' PRESIDENT Ford loses, there will be a lot of Chicago leaving Washington with him. Th.3 Chicago school of economics has hacT a great impact on Washington in recent years, but may lose its role in shaping the direction of government under Jimmy Sec. 6, p. THE UNITED STATES, richest and most technologically advanced nation in the world, leads all major industrial- fire because as industry becomes more sophisticated, fire prevention methods more Inadequate, The cost of industrial and commercial fire losses has increased 5tt times since 1965 de- spite the fact that the number of fires has declined.

Sec. p. 9 I World Arabs ransack Israel shrine TEL AVIV Honrs before Jews began celebration of Yom group of Arabs broke into a synagog at the Tomb of Abraham In occupied Hebron and tore apart furnishings, holy books; and scrolls, officials reported. As angry Jews massed outside the mosque that covers the tomb, tho government clamped a tight curfew on the West Bank Arab city. 1 Page 2 BEIRUT Syrian forces held up their mountain offensive in Lebanon while diplomats attempted to negotiate a cease-fire that would prevent a bloody showdown with Palestinian and leftist guerrillas.

Meanwhile, leftist leader Kamal Jumblatt called for Arab states to aid "nationalists and Palestinians." BELFAST. Northern Ireland After enduring seven years of urban guerrilla warfare, firemen in Northern Ireland are ready to let the nation's two main cities burn unless they get dan- ger pay. Firefighters in Londonderry Sunday joined 400 striking Belfast men in an unofficial boycott of fires where 1 human life is not at stake. TOKYO The Soviet Union seized two more Japanese fishing vessels Sunday, bringing to eight the number it has detained since a defecting Soviet pilot flew his MIG25 interceptor to Japan. Japanese officials have told the Soviet embassy in Tokyo that, the MIG will be available for return to the Soviet Union by ship Oct.

15. i BONN Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's left-liberal coalition managed to stay in power in Sunday's West German' West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt casts ballot Sunday. elections, but suffered heavy losses" to the opposition. 'Schmidt's conservative challenger, Helmut, and his Christian Democrats made substantial gains but fell short of a majority, according to computer projections. v.

Page 13 i SALISBURY, Rhodesia-A key Rho-desian nationalist leader, Bishop Abel Muzorewa, ended rore than a year of self-imposed exile and returned here to meet a rival of the African National Congress, Joshua Nkomo. The two are attempting to resolve differences before a crucial conference, on transition to black majority rule in ZAGREB, Yugoslavia Despite a wave of violence abroad in the name of their freedom, Croatians in Yugoslavia say they resent terrorist tactics. "People like those hijackers who seized an American plane do terrible harm," said one woman here. More important to them than national autonomy, it seems, is political liberalization of the whole of Yugoslavia. Page 12 5 Sacheen Littlefeather: Time for "an p.

i imai til I Ill I mil i If Carol Burnett's successful sec ond banana for the last decade, Harvey Korman, is getting ready to switch from CBS to ABC next season for his own comedy show. "I was verv hanDv with Carol." he said, "but I was getting a little offal 1ft vaoro and urantorl to deepen my life and my career. I was a contented siave, ana a iot of people should never try to be anything more, but I guess there waa a little more Snartacus in me than I realized." The losers in the deal are some of the crazy char- acters he Invented and played on the show. want to leave characters behind me," Korman said. "For the first time in my life, I want to do the character 1 have always avoided doing.

Harvey Korman." Twenty-five years ago, Dick Leech, a youngster in Pine Bluff traded away his toy soldiers for a handful ot baseball cards Today he has more than 65,000 of tnem. "aome 01 me piayers 1 ie- member in that first set of cards were Mickev Mantle, Stan musiai. Early Wynri, Milo Candini anl -stn Jok," he sighed. "Nowaday, most cards come in bubble gun. packs, and this is the way most people have seen them.

But baseball cards have also come' with dog food, cereal, bread, various soft drinks, marbles, and cookies." Leech, an. Air Force sergeant based in Italy, could only take 000 cards overseas with him. But, he added, "no matter where I am, 1 can take out my collection and think about when I was a kid play ing ball and tracing cards. I always feel like I'm in' the States. I've nsver regretted trading away my toy soldiers." Ronald Reagan, who took on President Ford in a hard-fought ratfe and lost, says he's supporting the Republican ticket "from top to bottom." But Reagan doesn't want any White House appointments in return for his support.

"I still want to be 'out," he said, "where I can fire a few salvos or arrows." A ragged-eared german shepherd is tugging at. heartstrings all across the Soviet Union. Two weeks ago, a nawspaper there told the story of a dog that has waited at a Moscow airport for two years for her master to return. After the story was published, one woman flew to Moscow from the Ukraine, bearing a package of meat and. telling; airport -officials "ye come for the Beata a third-grader, sent in Almanac UPI Telepholo a money order for three rubles $4.50 1 for dog food.

And a ninth-grader said the pooch once was a member of her family. She came to the airport and called out the name "Verna," but the dog turned away. She simply refuses to leave with anyone but her master. V. G.

Yanda, a man from Azov, sent in 50 rubles to build a monument to the dog's unflagging dedication. He suggested as en inscription: "For educating our feelings." "I have no yen to be a dramatis actor. I didn't looi at 'The Front' as my chance to play Hamlet," Woody Allen said on the New Woody Allen No yen for the dramatic. York owning of his nsw movie. "The Front" is a film about blacklisting in the 1950s, when Allen was just another teen ager.

"I seldom read newspapsrc, outside ot the he confessed. "I had a generd awarcnsss of Joseph McCarthyI remember the o'clock shadow and thrt kind of villainous look but I wasn't aware of the implications of McCarthyism at all. I recall that neighbors of mine in Flatbush went to a Paul Robeson concert and got stoned by a mob and had their car smashed. When I heard about that, I considered it for a minute and then turned on the ball gams." Woody Allen's costar, Andrea Marcoviccl, who turns him into a moral man in the movie "The. Front," did her homework for the part.

She read old Life magazines and Eric Bentley's bock, "Thirty Years of to bone up on blacklisting. Marcoviccl was play- tag Ophelia In New York before filming began, but she usually found time for study "between my drowning and my curtain call." Al Jolson portraying "The Jazz Singer" in 1927, I I OSCAR NIGHT, 1973, Marlon Brando won for "The Godfather." But it was Sacheen Littlefeather who approached the stage to refuse his gold statuette and tell a national audience that Brando was protesting the treatment of American Indians. The name Littlefeather given her because she always wore a teatner in ner oraias brief noteriety, she "distorted" her Oscar "I fasted and prayed for two days she said from 'her home in Marin County, Cal. "I went to mass, confession, communion, and then I went to the sweat lodge in native Ameri A can rites. "I thought I was can grow up with the On this date: In 1777, the British defeated Ameri- 1 can forces in the Revolutionary War Battle or Germantown" in Pennsylva- Ilia.

In 1824, the Republic of Mexico was proclaimed. i In 1890, Mormons in Utah renounced -polygamy, the practice of having more than one wife at a time. In 1910, Portugal's monarchy ended as King Emanuel fled to escape revo- lutionaries. --v-' In ''1927, Al' Jolson opened in the "The Jazz Singer," the first full length talking movie. In 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mus-; solinl conferred at Brenner Pass in the Alps.

In 1945, the Premier of the French Vichy government, Pierre. was put on trial in Paris. He later was executed as a traitor. In 1957, the space age began as the Soviet Union put the first man-made' satellite into orbit around the earth. In 1966, Hurricane Inez was heading for the Gulf of Mexico after hitting southeastern Florida.

1 In 1969, announced two nuclear weapons tests, including a hydrogen bomb explosion in the atmosphere. In 1971, the British labor party voted to oppose Britain's entry into the European Common Market under terms at that time. and raping white women on the screen. We need an American lett tne news as quickly as it That says today, only hurt her because neoDle appearance as the political 'move of an doing this for the children. No Indian child image of Indians whooping and hollering name and has played Indian roles in the and "Winterhawk" and "Firecloud." "I fight scenes." "Chinese, Latins, and blacks come first" in whole race has been ignored." Indian movie star So Littlefeather persuades her friends in the Red Earth Theater- Company, an Indian troupe, to try out for parts in movies.

She said she's costarring in a movie now being made though she won't release its "Billy Jack" movies choreograph my own 1 Littlefeather acts, tours with Red Earth staging Indian legends, goes on speaking tours, teaches Indian dancing and appeared at the Oscars in the name of expanding Indian culture and helping Sacheen Littlefeather remembers her childhood "I suffered a lot of prejudice "I was not allowed to go to cafes, restau-. her people get jobs. hiring, she said. "Our wirwnoto Indian movie star." rants because I -was In all she does, as a White Mountain growing she said. because I was an an Indian.

I've had people fieat me up Indian.".

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