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DAILY lOe Copyright 1972 Los Anflftlw Timet 90 PAGES WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23 1972 PART ONE 8 i X- fvl" i r'irrr MtMrifr''Tn''TNrTrlimffirNmp FIVE PARTS 18,000 Chinese Cheer President Sports Event PEKING President Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai held another long session today and more friendly-Chinese overtures lent hope that the leaders were charting ways for improving relations, After the meeting, Chou escorted the Nixons to a sports show at Capital Stadium and a1xut 18,000 waiting Chinese -applauded the presidential party entered; A't the Mr. -Nixon was seen by the largest-live audience since he arrived Monday, Another gesture 'regarded. as friendly was the fact that the day's meeting between Mr, Nixon and Chou was held at the guesthouse where the Nixons are staying. The two previous sessions had been held in the Great Hall of the People. Once again the opening was friendly.

Mr. Nixon and Chou laughed and joked. Greets Chou in Chinese Mr. Nixon greeted Chou on his arrival with a hello in Chinese. Chou replied with a smile, took off his overcoat and stood with the President for pictures.

"How are you all?" Chou asked the American correspondents. "They're better than they deserve," "the President interjected. No word of what is under discussion has come from behind the closed doors. But it seemed certain they were covering ideas for cultural and scientific exchanges, a Nixon goal, and perhaps had discussed Vietnam. Henry A.

Kissinger, the President's national security adviser, was again present as Mr. Nixon met Chou today. Chou was accompanied by Chiao Kuan-hua, vice minister of foreign affairs; Chang Wen-chin, director of the Foreign Ministry's department for Europe, America and Australasia, and Wang Hai-jung, the ministry's deputy director of protocol. For the second day, Secretary of State William P. Rogers met with Foreign Minister Chi Peng-fei.

The evening was turned over to relaxation at Capital Stadium. The presidential party was seated at the scorekeeper's table. With the Nixons were Rogers, Kissinger, White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler and two Chinese women officials, Chen Mu-hua, vice minister of economic relations, and Hsu Han-ping, wife of the foreign minister. Gymnasts Entertain Girls in red satin blouses and blue hotpants led off the 2V2-hour program with gymnastic feats on low bars, rings and rubber gym horses. They were followed by a women's collective horse-vaulting group and a succession of whirling male gymnasts.

A piano player kept the action going with barrelhouse music over the loudspeaker system. Mrs. Nixon led enthusiastic applause for the mixed men's and women's doubles demonstration on the horizontal and parallel bars. The bleachers were a solid wall of gray and blue Mao suits relieved here and there by women in colorful green, purple and blue sweaters. The main event of the evening was a men's singles table tennis match featuring the Chinese world champion, Chuang Tse-tung.

VOL XCI SOLDIER Hu Yi-Iing, 21 -a' member tha HELPING HAND President Nixon ossists Chinese: Premier Choir En-Ioi in taking off his coat People's Liberation Army, attends Peking Uni-before the start of today's session of their summit meeting, which is being conducted in Peking, where- she is majoring in Japanese. Wifephoto Wirephoto 4 Cement Veh icle Lost Brakes Police Say Eight persons were injured, two seriously, when a cement truck collided with an RTD bus today at Ford Blvd. and Hammel St. in East Los Angeles. The driver of the bus and a woman passenger were rushed to a nearby hospital, where they were reported in serious condition.

Six other passengers in the bus suffered cuts from flying glass. None of the injured was immediately Truck Lost Its Brakes The California Highway Patrol said the cement truck lost its brakes coming off the northbound Long Beach Freeway. It smashed into the right front side of the bus and partially overturned. Officers said the bus, southbound on Ford, crashed into a car that was northbound on Ford when it tried to avoid the collision. Members of a County Fire Department rescue squad removed the injured from the bus.

The driver of the truck escaped serious injury. Rep. Dowdy Gets Prison Term, Fine in Bribery Case BALTIMORE, Md. HP) Rep. John V.

Dowdy (D-Tex.) was sentenced today to 18 months imprisonment and a $25,000 fine in his bribery conspiracy conviction. Dowdy said he would appeal within 10 days. Dowdy was convicted of a bribery conspiracy scheme last Dec. 30 for blocking a Justice Department probe of a Maryland home improvements business. The maximum sentence on all eight counts which the congressman was convicted of could bring 40 years in prison and $40,000 in fines.

Dowdy was accused of two counts of bribery conspiracy, one count of causing interstate transportation of a bribe and five counts of lying to the grand jury in Baltimore. Light LA. Area Quake An earthquake that registered 2.0 on the Richter scale was felt at 6:43 a.m. today by residents of Hawthorne, Manhattan Beach and Torrance, according to a spokesman at Caltech's seismological laboratory. No damage was reported.

FEATURE INDEX BOOK REVIEW. View, Page 8. BRIDGE. View, Page 9. CLASSIFIED.

Part 5, Pages 1-18. COMICS. View, Page 19. CROSSWORD. Part 5, Page 18.

DAY IX SACRAMENTO. Part 2, Page 4. EDITORIALS, COLUMNS. Part 2, Pages 6, 7. FILMS.

View, Pages 11-16. FINANCIAL. Part 3, Pages 9-18. METROPOLITAN NEWS. Part 2.

MUSIC. View, Page 11. OBITUARIES. Part 2, Page 4. SPORTS.

Part 3, Pages 1-8. TV-RADIO. View. Pages 17, 18. VITALS, WEATHER.

Part 2, Page 4. WOMEN'S. View, Pages 1-10. I i ft fi Pr'! 1 4 4 I I I'-i i II rl 1 I I iff' 1 1 1 i- i 1 jf I -if 5. i I s- 5 --T" :4 -i 3 4 Air Guard Officers Indicted in Alabama Political Solicitation WASHINGTON- (UPI) A federal grand jury indicted the commander and three other top officers of Alabama's Air National Guard today on charges of conspiring illegally to so- licit political contributions, partly for Gov.

George C. Wallace. The Justice Department announced that the grand jury at Montgomery, indicted George Reid Doster, along with three of his subordinates Col. Henry Fillingim Col. James E.

Hard-wick and Lt. Col. Alfred B. Gurley. A single-count indictment against Doster charged that he illegally conspired to solicit $3,200 in political contributions from Air Guard officers for W7allace and other candidates in the 1070 Alabama election.

Others Named Named as co-conspirators, but not indicted, were Lawrence A. William P. Baker, Willie L. Whitman Jr. and Edward D.

Gilmer and Maj. Lonnie J. Slauson Jr. The indictment said $1,700 of the $3,200 collected was for the Wallace campaign; $1,000 was for the campaign of former governor Albert Brewer, a 1970 opponent of Wallace, $400 for the campaign of Hugh Morrow III, for lieutenant governor, and $100 for the reelection campaign of state Sen. Leland The indictment said as part of the alleged conspiracy, the officers used government facilities to solicit political contributions and threatened to downgrade certain Air Guard officers if they refused to contribute.

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