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Page 2, Pqrt 1 The Newsmakers SOUTHLAND 3rd Educational TV Channel OK'd evs or tne Compiled from tti Los Angeles Times, tht Los Answles Times-Washington Post News Servic and major wire and supplementary news agencies. FRIDAY, 1971 4- 4 THE WORLD Pullback of 12,000 Reds Reported Court, El Monte, was booked on suspicion of arson and attempted murder. Deputies said the elder Ramirez said he had quarreled with Sandoval earlier. The FBI narrowed its hunt for fugitives in the "boy in the box" case down to one with the arrest of former Los Angeles schoolteacher Richard M. Brayton, 60, and his wife, Georgina Rose, 50.

they were arrested on federal warrants charging them with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution for child abuse, they were among five persons being sought by the FBI in connection with the reported abuse of Anthony Saul Gibbons, a youth ered chained inside a wooden box at a commune near Blyth two years ago. The FBI said Robert Duerr-stein, a former USC dental student, remains at large. The mutilated hody of a woman found in the desert near Las Vegas was identified as that of Annette King Turner, 31, of Los Angeles. The Clark County sheriff's office said she had been partially disemboweled and nearly decapitated. Deputies found the body near a remote road early Saturday after a resident reported hearing screams.

Roger Rogahn donated one of his kidneys to save the life of his twin brother, Ronald, in a transplant operation at St. Vincent's Hospital. The operation on the 32-year-olds was called a success by the two surgeons on the case, Dr. Rafael Men-dez and his twin brother, Dr. Robert Mendez.

The 10-week-old West Coast dock strike could cause more problems after it has ended than it has up to this time. (Part 1, Page 1.) 16 AMERICANS DIED IN WAR LAST WEEK SAIGON (UPI) There were 16 American combat deaths in South Vietnam last week, compared with 19 for the previous week, the U.S. command reported Thursday. Spokesmen said 84 Americans were wounded, 13 fewer than the week ended Aug. 28, and 15 soldiers died from accidents and disease, the highest "nonhostile" death toll since the beginning of August when the number reached 21.

Allied commands said 230 South Vietnamese soldiers were killed and 579 wounded, the lowest toll since the beginning of August when 170 South. Vietnamese were killed and 464 wounded. terpreter at previous court proceedings. The five, sentenced to prison for up to 10 years, are John Moore, 50; Kenneth Connell, 28, and Philip Irwin Amos, 30, all of Sacramento; David Lee Mantell, 30. of San Francisco, and Robert Black, 29, of Forest Knolls, Calif.

They landed on Crete Aug. 29, 1970, after an air chase from Lebanon in a private plane owned by Moore, a retired Air Force A "secret weapon" has been devised by the Israelis to counter Arab ventures in airplane destruction, a Tel Aviv newspaper said in a tongue-in-check article. (Part Page 4.) South Africa has successfully tested a locally developed and manufactured air-to-air missile, the Defense Ministry said. The self-homing missile, driven by a solid propellant motor, was fired from a Mirage fighter and intercepted a target missile flying at twice the speed of sound. South Africa had announced earlier it was capable of producing all armaments it needed, for external Los Angeles was assigned its third educational TV channel.

The Federal Communications Commission announced in Washington, D.C. that the new UHF channel was assigned in response to a petition from Viewer Sponsored Television Foundation, which is competing with the Los Angeles Unified School District for the second educational channel, 58. Assignment of the third channel, an FCC spokesman said, may speed resolution of the dispute, since either VSTV or the school district could amend its application to ask for the new channel. Only one educational channel, 28, is on the air at present. A Navy jet fighter from Miramar Naval Air Station was overdue and presumed down in the Pacific Ocean, a Navy spokesman announced.

A Coast Guard helicopter aiding in the search for the craft was also reported down off Santa Catali-na Island after one of its engines malfunctioned. The search by Navy ships and Coast Guard aircraaft was being concentrated off San Cle-mente Island. Two men were aboard the F-4 Phantom jet fighter when it left on a training flight. The Navy withheld the names of men aboard the downed aircraft. A Riverside City College professor was arrested in connection with a false bomb report and obscene and threatening telephone calls, police said.

Cecil Johnson, 44, who ran unsuccessfully for sheriff of Riverside County in 1962, was arrested for investigation of phone calls received last week at the home of Arthur A. Culver, general manager and co-publisher of the Riverside Press-Enterprise. Police said the caller claimed bombs had been placed at the newspaper building and Culver's home. An 18-year-old volunteer fireman was arrested on suspicion of setting nine brush fires during the six weeks he had been on the Loma Linda force. State forestry investigators said they became suspicious of Merlin Johnson when he started showing up at the fire department a few minutes before the alarms were received.

A 19-month-old hoy was rescued by Los Angeles firemen 10 minutes after he fell into a 20-foot hole in the steep front yard of his Hollywood Hills home. Fire officials said Fabian Martinez tumbled into the hole which had been left uncovered by workmen installing a patio addition at his home at 3201 Bonnie Hill Drive, His mother, Mrs. Maria Martinez, phoned for help and Fire Capt. Lyle, Marvin descended into the hole on a rope to take the child to safety. The boy was reported suffering from a possible skull fracture.

He was transferred to Childrens Hospital. Sheriffs deputies said they spotted Gilbert Raphael Sandoval, 22, walking from a burning house carrying a gasoline can so they arrested him. Then Deps. Robert Pettit, 24, and Robert Westphal, 26, awakened Jose Ramirez, 52, and his son, Arthur, 22, who were asleep in the house at 13653 Kalnor Norwalk. Westphal put out the fire with a hand extinguisher.

It all took five minutes, the deputies said. Sandoval, of 10643 Eleanor The War in Indochina Allied intelligence reports indicated that up to 12,000 North Vietnamese had -pulled back into Laos and North Vietnam in the face of incessant U.S. aerial rounmn? and allied artinerv bombardments near the demilita-' rized zone. Hanoi's forces, estimated at up to 18,000 in the northwestern sector two weeks ago, were now believed number between 6,000 and 10,000 men. The pullback was reported continuing.

In the fourth day of their hew drive below the DMZ, South 'Viet-s namese infantrvmen to within two miles of the Laotian border without In advance of the sweep, American helicopters ferried 1,000 fresh troops jungle-cleared landing zones on the frontier. Before the copter as- -sauit, ts-ozs mounted tneir neaviesi 'raids in three weeks immediately below and inside the DMZ. U.S. and Communist negotiators again advance rival 2-year-old i i. a i- the Vietnam-Paris peace talks deadlock, but both sides predictably vetoed the other's proposals.

(Part 1, 16.) Aim. John S. McCain, commander of American forces in the Pacific, ar- rived in Phnom Penh for a 46-hour i visit to Cambodia to confer with U.S. and Phnom Penh government offi-cials on military needs. McCain arrived in the tightest security in the Cambodian capital since the ouster of Prince Norodom Sihanouk March M- TT .1 ia, iay.

rie comerrea ior an nour Premier Lon Nol. Tfi RriticTi irnvprnmpnf twallpd "i 22-23 to debate the deepening crisis Northern Ireland. (Part 1, Page 1.) British Ambassador Geoffrey H.S. Jackson was released in Montevideo apparent good health by the Uru-'guayan guerrilla group that.kid-.naped him eight months ago. (Part l.Page 1.) Six Soviet MIG jet fighters flew low over a British military airfield in West Berlin on Aug.

28, informed sources said. They reported that a "protest was lodged with the Russians in the four-power Air Safety Center in West Berlin. The Russians denied the incident took Inter German negotiations to on Berlin were broken off abruptly in a new dispute over wording of the German text. (Part 1, Page 24.) Five Americans convicted of.pos-r sessing and trafficking 1,425 pounds hashish have won a retrial in Khania. Crete, on the basis of poor by a priest acting as in- "Bolivia announced its ranger sol- diers killed seven Communist guerrillas, including two Peruvians and a Cuban, during-a jungle fight near TU A I Santa Cruz.

Official sources said the IVM Reagan and brightening his day. (ft Wlrtehoto publican, collected 612 votes for governor last year. "A laboring man should be in the governor's chair," he said. i The worst thing about being First Lady is lack of privacy, Pat Nixon believes. "You don't have enough of what I call blessed aloneness," Mrs.

Nixon says of her life in the White House in a television documentary, "A Visit With the First Lady," to be shown by ABC Sunday. At one point in the film, Mrs. Nixon is shown wearing slacks for the first time in public view as she sits on a secluded patio at the Nixons' villa at San Cle-mente. "It is the only place in the world where we can sit unguarded," she says. Alf M.

Landott, the Republican presidential nominee in 1936, quietly celebrated his 84th birthday in Topeka, at a party with friends and relatives. Land-on keeps trim with a daily horseback ride, and stays busy looking after his 40 oil wells and three radio stations. Bias in Mobile Police later is blasted away so the chutes can deploy. "Tests show it did not strike the spacecraft or the chutes or their lines," a spokesman at the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston said. Space officials still do not know what caused the chute to fail.

The federal government's suit against the Boston Globe involving publication of the Pentagon papers was dismissed in U.S. District Court in Boston. Judge Anthony Julian took the action, noting that the government had let elapse the period for filing opposition to the Globe's motion for dismissal. A federal judge ruled in Columbus, Ohio, that a county judge could be sued for "acting wholly without jurisdiction" in ordering the sterilization of a mentally retarded 17-year-old girl in 1966. U.S.

Dist. judge Joseph Kinneary refused to dismiss a $3 million suit filed by the young woman, now 23, against Muskingum County Probate Judge Holland M. Gary. Gary, who ordered the operation after hearing evidence that the girl had been sexually promiscuous, contended that he wa3 not liable for prosecution because his judicial action was within the scope Of his jurisdiction. The mayor of Lubbock, proclaimed a state of emergency to stem racial unrest that grew out of the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old Negro boy at a high school, the proclamation was prompted by a march on City Hall by 250 blacks.

State officers assisted local police in restoring order. Police charged Jeff Earl Carver, a 15-year-old white boy, with murder with malice in the death of William Ray Collier. A judge will decide whether Carver will be tried as an adult. Young Collier was shot in the last period of the day at the school, which was integrated without incident in 1970. Miss California, Carolyn Jean Stoner, won the swimsuit competition in the second day of the-Miss America Pageant preliminaries wearing a bright orange, low-cut bathing suit she said her mother picked out, Strong evidence that Hodgkin's disease is caused by an infectious virus was reported in New York by scientists at the Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research; they said they had found evidence that two different kinds of virus-like particles existed in malignant cells taken from 10 patients with Hodgkin's disease.

Jimmy Lewis visiting with Gov, Jimmy the Governor Airs Pollution Views A 9-year-old boy with congenital lung disease pretended for a few minutes that he was governor of California, and decided the first thing he should do was rid the world of air pollution. "I'm going to make sure everything's cleaned up in this world," said Jimmy Le? wis as he sat in Gov. Reagan's chair in Sacramento. "Anybody who doesn't (help) is in trouble." Jimmy, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Bernard Lewis of San Diego, is California state poster boy for the National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation. Elmer T. Bussey of Salem, N.H., seems to have racing in his blood. A racetrack maintenance worker, Bussey, 69, announced that he would be a candidate in the governor's race again next year, just as he has been in every gubernatorial election except one in the past 25 years. Bussey, a Re Court Orders End to A federal court has placed the Mobile, police department under "a comprehensive plan for the removal of all practices of racial discrimination." The decree came in answer to a suit filed in May byt a group of black Mobile police officers who claimed that they were discriminated against because of their race.

The court's order places the police department and the Mobile County Personnel System under the watchful eye of the district court. Of 2S2 policemen on Mobile's police force, 35 are black. Only one of the 35 holds the rank of sergeant. President Nixon said the 90-day freeze on wages and prices would end 13 but pledged "all steps needed" to fight inflation. (Part 1, Page 1.) Many Democrats criticized President Nixon's talk to Congress on his economic program, saying they will seek more help for "the little people." (Part 1, Page 1.) The nation's teachers may still hope for some relief from the wage freeze, said President David Selden of the AFL-CIO American Federation of Teachers.

After meeting in Washington with top staff members of the Cost of Living Council, which sets final policy on how the freeze is applied, Selden said the council had agreed to consider allowing teachers to get their regularly scheduled yearly salary stepups in spite of the freeze. A former leader of the Ku Klux Klan in Michigan was one of six men the FBI arrested in connection with the bombing of school buses in Pon-tiac. (Part 1, Page 1.) More than 1,000 convicts rioted at Attica state prison in New York state, took over a portion of the prison and held 31 guards as hostages. (Part 1, Page 1.) A Los Angeles Times reporter, Marlene Cimons, tells of being robbed in the elevator Of her Washington, D.C.,' apartment building after returning from the opening of the John F. Kennedy Center.

(Part 1, Page 1.) Space experts who suspected that a forward heat shield in the Apollo 15 spaceship damaged one of its three parachutes during descent to earth, causing it not to open, said they were wrong. The forward heat shield- protects parachutes during the early stages of earth reentry, but ORANGE COUNTY Santa Ana Boy Drowns in Waist-Deep Surf 1 1 ON THE FREEZE President Nixon addressing Congress. In rear, Vice President Agnew. Stry In ttrt 1 tB Wirohoto Santa Ana officials expect to submit a plan next week to federal housing authorities to rehabilitate the city's slums and prevent future blighted areas. (Part 2, Page 1.) Mayor Robert Finnell of Placentia, a last-minute nominee, was overwhelmingly elected president of the Orange County chapter of the California League of Cities.

(Part 2, Pagel.) Run Oyer by Sheriff's Car President Nixon's political stock in California was "at a very low ebb" before he announced his new economic and monetary program Aug. 15 and any of four Democratic candidates could have defeated him for reelection at that time, the California Poll reported. (Part 1, Page 3.) Attendance at the California State Fair failed to reach the announced 1 million goal and officials blamed four nights of violence for the poor turnout. The 20-day fair closed Wednesday with total attendance lagging behind last year's turnout of 934,783 in the first 19 days. Officials blamed clashes between rork-throw-ing youths and police for failure of attendance to pass the 900,000 mark.

Organired crime Is moving into the West and is tunneling illicit money into legitimate' businesses, a regional government association reported in San Francisco. The Criminal Justice Advisory Board of the Assn. of Bay Area Governments said law enforcement officers are aware of the shift of hoodlum activities from the eastern United States. I 'if 1 1 i 3 a iV ill 1 witn guerrillas belonged to the Poor Peasants Union, a wing of the i Maoist Communist Party, and speculated that the Cuban's presence might mean a new intervention of Cuba in Bolivian affairs. Marxist President Salvador Al-lende plans a plebiscite soon to replace Chile's present House and Senate legislature with a one-house "Assembly of the People," the government announced.

No date has been mentioned. Allende lacks a majority in Congress, where the opposition has persistently blocked his major proposals. -i permitted to use toble with legs. Wlr9hoto SPORTS Tha Dodgers defeated the San Diego Padres, 3-2, for their fourth straight victory to 'pull within 4V4 games of the idle San Francisco Giants in their race for the National League West title. USC, a 42-21 winner over Alabama in Birmingham last year, is a two-touchdown favorite to beat the Crimson again tonight at the Coliseum before a crowd that may reach 80,000, Arthur Ashe, Tom Okker and Jan Kodes gained the semifinals of the U.S.

Open tennis championships at Forest Hills, N.Y. Stan Smith and Marty Riessen play today in a delayed quarter-final match. 1 MOVING PROTEST Dr. Caf! Mclhtire serves ball In table tennis game outside the White House in which the table is carried olong by Mclntire's followers: protesting the Presi A 12-year-old Santa Ana boy drowned in waist-deep surf about 25 feet from shore in Huntington Beach when he fell off a rubber raft. Brian David Logan, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Richard Logan, of 2302 Laird was dead on arrival at Pacifica Hospital at 1 p.m. Lifeguards said they were not sure whether the youngster slipped off the raft or was washed off by a wave. Guards plied artificial resuscitation on the beach but were unable to revive the boy. THE STATE Escape Fails-He's An inmate in the Santa Cruz jail escaped through a third-floor rear window, fell to the pavement below, and was.

run over by a sheriff's patrol Officials said Stanley Arthur Arnold, 22, serving time on a burglary sentence, used his status as a trusty to enter a storeroom, where he rigged an extension cord as a rope, and left through an unbarred window. But the cord broke and Ar-' nold fell. As Arnold lay dazed on the alley pavement, a deputy rounded the corner in hi3 patrol car and, not seeing the suspect, ran over him. The prisoner was listed in good dition in the Santa Cruz General Hospital. A campground slaying suspect was indicted on two murder counts by a grand jury in Nevada City.

Clarence Otis Smith, 43,, who Is being' extradited from Brownsville, was indicted earlier and charged with assault to commit murder, He is accused of slashing two persons to death and wounding two others last July with a sickle-like weapon in a campground on the Big River. dents Lhina policy, was not Sttry In Frt 1, Pm I BUSINESS Secretary of State William Rof gers and Japanese Foreign Minister Takeo' Fukuda exchanged heated words during a high-level meting in Washington on the international economic crisis. 1 Benewed profit-taking1 took its toll on the stock market when President Nixon's economic address t6 Congress failed to include any surprises. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 5.04 to close at 915.89. Th top brass of the nation's beleaguered securities Industry converged in New York t6 hammer out, an industry-wide position on various proposals to reform the securities business..

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