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U.S. to Fund Probes MM Libyan Oil Price Increase to Over $26 a Barrel Told of Police Shootings Exporting Countries, Industry sources said Monday. Iran also increased the price of its light crude, pushing it to the ceiling Libya has raised Its crude oil price 12 to more than $26 a barrel, breaking the ceiling set by the Organization of Petroleum BT BILL ThnM ttff FARR Writer Dist. Atty. John Van de Kamp announced Monday the award of a $255,000 federal grant to help his Operation Roll-Out provide "independent and more objective" investigation of shootings by policemen.

Zimbabwe Talks to Go On Without Rebels, Briton Says lf Co Anflcles 5 Ttl Oct 1S, W79-Plf1 1 price of $23.50. The twin actions prompted analysts to warn of another round of oil price hikes, though probably much more modest boosts than the massive increases experienced earlier this year. Libya, which exports about 800,000 barrels of oil daily to the United States 11 of U.S. imports-increased its prices on all grades of crude oil by $2.77 a barrel, according to the Petroleum Intelligence Weekly in New York, an authoritative source on oil prices. The price increase was confirmed by a trader for a major European oil company, who said his firm had received a message Monday announcing the increase.

The move brought the new price range of Libyan crude-highly prized because it is particularly suitable for refining into gasoline-to between $25.57 and $26.27 a barrel, with most of the oil priced above $26. On July 1, OPEC established a minimum price of $18 a barrel for Saudi Arabia 8 benchmark crude and allowed its members to charge as much as $23.50 a barrel for the cartel's best Please Turn to Page 16, Col. 1 BY WILLIAM TUOIIY Timet Itiff Wrtttr In Washington, State Department spokesman Hodding Carter III said the United States backed the British approach to a settlement and called on all parties to negotiate "in a spirit of compromise." The British-proposed constitution was accepted 10 days ago by Muzore-wa-although Ian Smith, the white former prime minister, opposed it, Please Turn to Page 16, Col, 1 Agree to End Shooting Dispute BT CLAIRE SPIEGEL Tlnwt IliN WrHtr Mayor Bradley, anxious to put the controversial Eulia Love shooting "behind us," brought Police Chief Daryl Gates and Police Commission President Stephen Reinhardt together in his private office Monday, seated them on the same couch and passed the peace pipe. Bradley emerged from the 80-min-ute meeting with the two men, who have clashed publicly over the shooting, and declared, "The debate and discussion about the case and the facts involved is over." He expressed support for both the commission and Chief Gates. "I am pleased and proud of the work of this Police Commission," Bradley said.

"They are my appointees." He said, too, that he has told Chief Gates "that he is loved." Asked about the meeting at a press conference attended by all three men, Reinhardt said, "I guess that we've agreed not to discuss our opinions any further with respect to the facts in that particular case, largely because we have both expressed them already." Chief Gates agreed, but emphasized that he would continue to speak out on other cases and issues. "We've simply said all that needs to be said about this particular situation," Gates said. "We've got to put this behind us it's unhealthy for the city." Asked whether the rank-and-file officers will go along, Gates conceded, "That's the most difficult part of all of this it's not going to be an easy task." Please Turn to Page 18, Col. 3 El Salvador Leader Ousted LONDON-Lord Carrington, the British foreign secretary, said Monday he would wait no longer for a response from the Patriotic Front guerrillas and would move ahead today on talks with Prime Minister Abel Mu-zorewa on a new constitution for Zimbabwe Rhodesia. Carrington is chairman of the London conference seeking a political solution to the civil war in the former British colony.

His statement came after a morning meeting with Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, leaders of the Patriotic Front, who, a British spokesman said, "did not give a positive reply" on a British-proposed constitution for the African country. Nkomo protested that the guerrilla leaders were being "thrown out" of the conference. He said they had come to London "in the spirit of negotiation." Muzorewa and others in his delegation are eager to accept the constitution so that a new government, presumably under his control, can be set up on a basis acceptable to Britain, the other Commonwealth nations and the United Nations. At that time, many observers here believe, the British will lift the U.N.-mandated economic sanctions against the Salisbury regime. For the Patriotic Front, the options seem to be rejoining the talks or walkout and continuation of the civil war.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador-Rebel army troops ousted President Carlos Humberto Romero in a coup Monday and Romero fled the country, a presidential palace spokesman said. The spokesman said Romero's right-wing government, which has ruled Central America's smallest nation for two years, would be replaced by a moderate three-man junta with at least one civilian member. But local radio stations gave the names of a five-man junta Lt. Col. Abdul Gutierrez, Col.

Eugenio Vides Casanova, Col. Jose Guillermo Garcia, Col. Antonio Gonzales Elizondo and a civilian, Dr. Antonio Rodriguez. The spokesman did not say where Romero was headed.

But reports in the capital said his destination was the United States, following the swift coup in which the army rebels seized agreed to cooperate with the roll-out program. They are Los Angeles Police De- Sartment, Los Angeles County Sher-fs Office, and the police departments of Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Pasadena, Long Beach, Vernon, Bald-Please Ton to Page 20, Col, 1 Court Lets Stand Law Denying Bail BY JIM MANN TlntM Stiff WrHtr WASHINGTON The Supreme Court decided Monday to leave in effect a new Nebraska law denying persons accused of rape or other sexual offenses the right to post bail and be freed from jail before their trials. By a vote of 6 to 3, the justices rejected pleas that they examine the Nebraska provision and decide whether criminal defendants have a fundamental constitutional right to bail in noncapital cases. The court action does not set a precedent But it lets the unusual Nebraska law remain in operation for the forseeable future and leaves other states free to follow Nebraska's example. The law had been challenged by Terry G.

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joining van ae Kamp to announce the first ever grant of this type by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) was Rep. Julian Dixon (D-Culver City). The congressman said he hoped it would assist in combating what he described as "an ever increasing erosion of public confidence in law enforcement and the resultant polarization in the community. "This erosion of public confidence," Dixon said, "is based on a growing perception in the community that police policy concerning the use of deadly force is often questionable and in some cases unwarranted, and a similar distrust in the integrity of police investigations of those police shooting incidents exists." The roll-out program is manned by 12 prosecutors and 13 investigators from Van de Kamp's special investigations division. "Roll-out teams are available under this funding on a 24-hour basis," Van de Kamp said, "and are immediately dispatched to the scene upon notification of an officer-involved shooting incident" Dixon said Van de Kamp had asked for his assistance in getting federal funding because "budget restrictions imposed by Proposition 13 caused the county Board of Supervisors, while sympathetic to the problem, to be unable to fund the project" The county actually is adding a $28,333 contribution to bring the one-year funding for the project to Van de Kamp said that since he instituted the special program early this year, his roll-out teams have responded to 52 incidents and the special investigations division is currently conducting probes of 45 officer-involved shootings.

The district attorney said 14 of the county's police departments, "including most of the large ones," have Morale Cited in Metro Division's 'Arrest Quota' BT KRIS LINDGREN TtfvM Steffi Writer Sagging morale and a push for an increase in arrests were behind the "arrest quota system" that permitted members in the elite Metropolitan Division of the Los Angeles Police Department to work short shifts, six officers testified Monday. Their testimony came during the first day of the departmental trial of Lt Arthur R. Melendres, the last of three Metro officers to go before trial boards in the largest disciplinary crackdown in the department's history. Twenty-seven Metro officers have been penalized by Police Chief Daryl Gates. In addition, one of two sergeants who went up before a departmental board of rights hearing was given a 43-day suspension.

The other sergeant was cleared of taking part in the quota system. Five of those who testified Monday said the practice of 'early outs' for "good arrests" was done with the knowledge of department supervision. However, only one specifically linked Melendres to approving the arrest quota system during a roll call March 15. Two other officers still at Metro told the board they had heard of the practice among other officers but denied knowledge of any Metro officers leaving before their eight-hour shift was completed Partners John Y. Ayala and Timothy C.

Cooper also denied that the "one or two" arrest quota system was ever approved by a supervising officer. According to the testimony Monday, the "one or two" system allowed an officer to go home as soon as he Please Turn to Page 21, Col. 1 COMMISSION'S TAPE RATED LOW BY POLICEMEN BT RICHARD E. METER the art of being first six of the country's key army bases. One unidentified army officer was reported killed.

An armed forces communique read over the state radio confirmed the coup. The junta of four colonels and a civilian dissolved Congress and the Supreme Court and called on left- and right-wing guerrillas to lay down their arms to end the fighting, radio reports said. Romero was the latest in a 47-year line of rightist military or military-backed rulers supported by the nation's wealthy, land-owning class. In San Jose, Costa Rica, former Salvadoran presidential candidate Ernesto Claramont said moderate military officers led the coup in the nation of 4.8 million people. Please Turn to Page 6, Col.

1 II Del Amo (370-8561). (957-151 1) JT N. I '-vfi 'lSSP I) xm I 1 if i I KV Some policemen laughed out loud. "A Mutt and Jeff show," one said. Another called it "a snow job." "I don't think the tape helped," said a policewoman.

A 15-year veteran of the police force dismissed it as "self-serving." One officer, eager to conceal his identity but certainly not his contempt declared flatly: "The whole thing really makes me want to puke." The police officers responded to videotaped speeches Monday by Stephen Reinhardt and James Fisk, president and vice president of the Los Angeles Police Commission, who told them the commission's criticism of the Eulia Love shooting "was in Please Turn to Page 18, CoL 1 1 pi until 6:00 in Beverly Hills (271-2134), 1531); until 9:30 in South Coast Plaza Open Tuesday until 5:30 in Los Angeles (387-41 11), Santa Barbara (962-0061), La Jolla (459-4081); Sherman Oaks (788-9600), Santa Ana (547-5911), Pasadena (793-7101), Palm Springs (325.