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MSLnttUiWmtt 5 UNITED NATIONS Peking Delegates in New York I lie oaue Representation time) and asked the cashier how much they should tip. Later, the main elements of the delegation led by Dep. Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan-hua, who had served as an adviser on the Communist Chinese group which visited the United Nations 21 years (Another familiar face was that of Kao Liang, who was identified by U.S. officials as a leading Chinese intelligence agent who was expelled from India in 1960 and from Mauritius in 1964 for spying activities.) Chiao, facing a chilling wind in a double-breasted dark topcoat, a red scarf and a Mao hat, answered reporters' questions at Kennedy Airport with smiles, but no words. 'Profound Friendship In a short statement, he spoke of the "profound friendship between the peoples of China and the United States" and declared that the Chinese delegation would "work jointly" to promote "international peace and human progress." Chiao, who is expected to make his first U.N.

speech Monday, reportedly told General Assembly President Adam Malik of Indonesia that Peking's role in the current session will be restricted because of its unfamili-arity with the issues and the small size of its delegation. For temporary accommodations, the Chinese have chosen the Roosevelt Hotel, a longtime bastion of Republicans (it was the New York City headquarters of the late Gov. Thomas E. Dewey and now houses offices of the New York County Republican Committee). The Chinese rented 35 rooms on the 14th floor at a cost of $1,200 a day for an anticipated stay of five or six weeks while they search for permanent accommodations.

Roosevelt manager Tom J. Kane said he anticipated no problems, but did make one admission. "We haven't checked their credit," he said. Twenty-one years ago, they hadn't even been able to agree upon a hotel. On their only previous visit to the United Nations, the Communist Chinese arrived at Idlcwild (now Kennedy) Airport on Nov.

24, 1950, to air Peking's charge that the United States had invaded Taiwan. U.N. officials offered the seven-man, two-woman delegation the Waldorf. The Chinese- several of whom had studied at American universities, refused. They called the Waldorf a "tradesman's hotel," and insisted on staying at the Carlyle on Madison Avenue, a hotel used by President Harry Truman.

After protracted negotiations, they accepted the Waldorf. But the dispute was a portent of things to come. Twenty-six days later, the visitors from Peking checked out of the Waldorf and went home, having reached agreement on little else. Soon afterward, U.N. (mostly U.S.) and Chinese troops were fighting each other in Korea.

New U.N. Representative Last week, the Chinese returned under more relaxed circumstances this time as the new U.N. representatives of China. Fifty-two members of Peking's team arrived to begin a new epoch in the history of the United Nations. For.

the first time, the nation containing of the world's people would be represented. The closest thing to a crisis occurred when the six-man advance party which was traveling tourist class requested earphones to listen to recorded music on the flight to New York. Informed that the charge would be $2.50 each, the Chinese produced a $100 bill. The stewardess was unable 'to change it. After a brief huddle, it was agreed that they would listen for free.

The Chinese also paid for breakfast at the Roosevelt Hotel with a $100 bill (change was available this Chiao Kuan-hua China's chief U.N. delegate, upon U.S. arrival. VH Wlrephots NORTHERN IRELAND SACRAMENTO More Chicano In recent years, riots and near-riots have swept the barrios of East Los Angeles, sometimes overflowing into downtown Los Angeles with disastrous One of the underlying causes was a demand for fuller representation of a Spanish-speaking population that is second in the Western Hemisphere only to Mexico City's. Last week in Sacramento, this Chicano dream moved one great step closer to reality when the State Senate, climaxing a month of highly partisan and sometimes bitter negotiations, passed a reapportionment bill that would create a Mexican-American legislative district in' East Los Angeles.

Long in the Democratic leadership's hopper, the bill had been fought by Republicans because it would eliminate a Northern California GOP district and pit two Republicans against each other in a sudden-death election. But the bill finally moved out to the Assembly on a vote of 33 to 2 and Sen. John L. Harmer of Glen-dale, the GOP caucus chairman, even said that he would recommend to Gov. Reagan that it be signed into law.

Marks, Behr Approve Even the two Republican senators involved Milton Marks of San Francisco and Peter H. Behr of San Rafael voted for the bill, which Senate Elections and Reapportionment Committee Chairman Mervyn M. Dymally (D-Los Angeles) said would give them each a 50-50 chance of political survival. Dymally said he was pleased to reach final agreement on a plan that "satisfied most Senate members and which takes care of the most pressing political business in California increased representation for the Mexican-American community." The measure, expected to win swift approval in the Assembly, would move boundaries of all the state's 40 Senate districts to some extent. After creation of the Chicano district in Los Angeles, its most important features would: ENVIRONMENT Symbol of Hatred in Tar i S)' 4vi Call for Natural Gas Autos WELCOME Chileans reach out for visiting Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro as Chilean President Salvador Allende watches.

Wlrphot LATIN AMERICA Relocate most of the district now represented by Sen. Lawrence E. Walsh (D-Commerce) from the Huntington Park-Downey area into East Los Angeles and portions of San Bernardino and Orange coun-ties. Extend the Los Angeles coastal district of Sen. Robert S.

Stevens (R-Los Angeles) into part of Ventura County. Chop off the Los Angeles County portion of the district of Sen. James E. Whetmore (R-Garden Grove) and move him entirely into Orange County. Extend the San Diego County district of Sen.

Clair W. Burgener (R-La Mesa) into Orange County. On other matters, the Legislature gave final passage to a measure that would raise unemployment insurance benefits $10 a week to a total of $75 and Reagan signed a bill making' it a misdemeanor for employers to knowingly hire illegal aliens when such employment will have an adverse effect on lawful resident workers. First in the Nation The off-the-jobpay Increase, finally voted out of the Assembly, 45 to 0, was supported by both management and organized labor. If written into law, it will mark the first increase in unemployment benefits since 1965.

Reagan said that the law cracking down on illegal aliens was the first of its kind in the nation. Violations by employers would be punishable by a fine up to $500. The problem of Mexican nationals slipping across the border and being given jobs in California was in the headlines recently when it was disclosed that Mrs. Romana Banuelos, President Nixon's choice for U.S. treasurer, employed illegal Mexican aliens at her food processing plant in Gardena.

In the past year, 117,000 illegal aliens were apprehended and sent back to Mexico. But it is estimated that there are presently nearly illegal aliens living in the Los Angeles area. it by using the state's Emergency Services Act." The law cited by Pearlson decrees that such an emergency can be declared if "conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state (are) caused by such conditions as-air pollution" or other conditions such as fire and flood. In Sacramento, Reagan took the resolution under advisement and offered ho immediate comment. Not so Dr.

A. J. Haagen-Smit, chairman of the state Air Resources Board and discoverer of the photochemical reaction that produces the brown-to-yellow smog. "I think these fellows should stick to their knitting," he said. Haagen-Smit said that fulfilling the ARB's existing program to limit pollutants from gasoline-powered vehicles would be far more effective than following the Pearlson committee's demands.

In Los Angeles, another committee appointed by the Board of Supervisors took up the cudgels and offered other stringent antismog recommendations. Among the suggestions of the Environmental Quality Control Committee were that all motor vehicles be inspected annually to keep emissions at a minimum, that industry be required to pay for county inspection of industrial polluters (factories and refineries), and that a continuing program of converting non-emergency county vehicles to natural gas be instituted. Committee Kills 3 Bills The Senate Governmental Organization Committee, meanwhile, killed three major bills sought by environmentalists at this session of the Legislature and Reagan simultaneously signed two others into law. Dead were: A bill that would have imposed a temporary zoning freeze on residential development of 200,000 acres in the Santa Monica Mountains. It died by a 5-5 tie vote with seven ayes needed for approval by the 13-man i committee.

A bill that would have banned future oil drilling in state-owned i waters of the Santa Barbara Channel. It was killed on a 5-2 vote. A measure that would have created a new superagency to fight pollution on all. fronts. The body would have had authority to veo proposed state or local projects that seemed harmful to the environment, but it too died on a 3-6 vote.

Signed into law by the governor were two measures that will crack down on some rural subdividers. 1 One of these will deny local appro-' val of subdivision maps if it is deter- mined that development would have a substantial adverse effect upon natural surroundings. The other will give lot buyers up to 14 days to change their minds and cancel purchase instead of only three days. Castro Journey to Chile Hatred of the British "peacekeeping" force in Northern Ireland was symbolized in a new way last week: the forlorn figure of a teenage girl tied to a lamppost, her body plastered with tar and her head shaved. Nineteen-year-old Marta Doherty's crime was dating 18-year-old Pvt.

John Larter of the Royal Anglican Regiment. Four days before they were to be married, she was found guilty and duly punished by a group of women in a kangaroo court in the Roman Catholic Bogside district of Londonderry. A sign saying "soldier's doll" was hung around her neck. Miss Doherty was the first victim of a drive aimed at discouraging Catholic -girls from fraternizing with the soldiers. Two more girls later received the same treatment.

The punishers were believed to be members of the Women's Intelligence Group, an auxiliary of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. The group earlier had warned that girls associating with soldiers would be tried and punished. IRA Denies Role But later, possibly because of adverse public reaction abroad, the IRA denied any hand in "the public shaming and humiliation of young girls" and expressed sympathy for them. The denial indicated that a change in policy might have been made. But one alleged spokesman for the women's group vowed that similar punishment would be meted out "until girls in the Bogside and Creg-gan areas have stopped going out with British troops." The spokesman said that the troops were trading liquor to the girls in exchange for information.

And a local IRA man told reporters that the action against the girls had the solid backing of people in the two predominantly Catholic areas. "I have two daughters," he said, "and if I found them going out with soldiers I would hand thenvover immediately to be tarred and feathered outside my door." As for Miss Doherty, she later met her fiance at a hideout in Londonderry to arrange their wedding plans. Meanwhile, the business of killing "No one is going to work very long at writing unless he is interested in the craft as more than just an art form," Walter Van Tilburg Clark said, explaining the "tautness" critics described as his style in his first and most famous novel, "The Ox-Bow "His concern has got to arise from specific matters in this world." Clark, once a schoolteacher, died of cancer in Reno, Thursday at age 62. He was also the au-. thor of another popular novel, "Track of the Cat," and numerous short stories.

The DDT controversy is still alive and well. Attacking "hysterical environmentalists" last week, 1970 Nobel Prize winner Dr. Norman E. Borlaug said these groups are wrongly trying to restrict the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides necessary to the world's food production. If such pesticides as DDT are banned, he said, crop losses would soar.

"Who then would provide the food needs of the low-income groups? Certainly not the environmentalists." Later, Dr. Charles Wurster of the Environmental Defense Fund, calling Borlaug "one or two decades out of date," said DDT can upset natural systems so badly that crop yields actually diminish. KPOT is kaput. Operators of the youth-oriented, three-day-old FM radio statiton had a close closet call Monday when the Federal Communications Commission shut them down, but did not bring charges against them. The 50-watt station was being operated without a license People continued.

When gunmen followed two policemen into a Belfast store and killed them, the death toll for two years of violence in Northern Ireland rose to 157. The killings were the latest terrorist acts of the IRA, which wishes to reunite Ireland by bringing predominantly Protestant Northern Ireland under the rule of the predominantly Catholic Irish Republic in the south. The IRA campaign has exerted heavy pressure on Prime Minister Jack Lynch of the republic. Lynch, who wants to bring about reunification of Ireland through peaceful means, nearly lost a test of confidence in Parliament last week. A censure motion was defeated by a vote of 72 to 69.

PAKISTAN U.S. Arms Cutoff When the Nixon Administration announced in March that it would no longer issue licenses for arms supplies to Pakistan, millions of dollars of shipments already lay in the "pipeline" (i.e. cleared for delivery). These shipments continued. And when the matter was brought to the attention of the White House, it was explained that they were not affected by the embargo.

That disclosure aroused widespread opposition in Congress and elsewhere since it came at a time when Pakistani forces were ruthlessly suppressing East Pakistani insurgents. Last week, Washington reversed itself. It announced that licenses for the remaining shipments to Pakistan in the "pipeline" about $3.6 million worth had been cancelled. State Department spokesman Charles Bray said that Pakistan had consented to the cancellation because of the protests the shipments had stirred. However, he added that $160,000 worth of spare parts already licensed and cleared by customs but held up by the dock strike in New York would be exempted from the ban.

from the closet of a West Los Angeles apartment by Brad and Jessie Sobel, a young married couple and it could be heard from Pacific Palisades to Los Angeles International Airport. Sobel, 19, said the station's call letters were chosen "just to get people to listen." An FCC spokesman said if the station goes back on the air without a government-assigned Sobel could be charged with operating without a license. British wit A.P. Herbert probably didn't like being referred to as ail that he was crusading reformer, versifier, conservationist, polemicist, novelist, barrister, writer of musical comedies, member of Parliament, thoroughgoing English character he hated long words. On one occasion during a debate over them, he wrote to the London Times" "Sir, it has been aquating hard.

I am now going to dehydrate my socks." The satirist with the silver hair and round spectacles died Thursday in London at age 81. Herbert gained early renown as a writer for the British humor magazine Punch. "No one can be a popular secretary of agriculture," President Nixon told Clifford M. Hardin in 196S before Hardin's selection for the post. Recently, Hardin came under fire from farmers, principally because corn prices were low at a time when crops were heavy.

Thursday, Mr. Nixon announced that Hardin would resign to become vice chairman of Ralston Purina Co. and designated and Events The Yellow Skies of Autumn No title of a romantic novel, this, but rather an apt description of Los Angeles in the fall, when the exhausted air hangs hot and heavy each smog season. Ever since the chemical elements of smog were isolated by scientists in the early 1940s, palliative measures have been taken. But as summer wanes each year, the problem seems only to intensify.

Last week, what could become the most drastic step in Southern California's battle against smog was taken when an investigative committee appointed by Gov. Reagan and the State Legislature demanded that all motor vehicles in the Los Angeles Basin an area stretching from Santa Barbara County to San Bernardino and Orange counties-be running on natural or propane gas within five years. "We have an emergency on our hands," said the committee chairman, Beverly Hills attorney Albert Pearlson, "and the governor can solve 4 Hardin leaves Cabinet post. Wi Wirephot as his successor Earl L. Butz who served in the Eisenhower administration.

The President also announced he had changed his mind about trying to abolish the Agriculture Department. Thomas G. Jolley of Tallahassee, calls his personal man-without-a-country story a candidate for the fantastic comics section. Jolley, a soft-spoken, short-haired newspaper reporter, moved to Canada in 1967 as his only legal alternative to being sent to fight in the Vietnam war. Unable to find a good job, he moved back seven months later, and found that the U.S.

government considered him an "illegal alien resident." Tuesday, the Supreme Court upheld an immigration service decision to ship Jolley off to any foreign country that will take him in. Jolley has 90 day3 in which to find a country. The combat boots were shined. The fatigues were neatly pressed. The olive drab bush jacket was zipped up to his neck, despite the heat.

And, of course, the beard was there. Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro was setting foot on foreign soil Chilean soil for the first time in seven years. The Maximum Leader of the Revolution, as he is known at home, was greeted with red banners, a 21-gun salute and an. embrace from Chilean President Salvador Allende. Thousands of Chileans a few of whom booed turned out to see Castro, including one young man who tried to throw a plastic container of Ink Into his open car.

Castro, unaware of the incident, appeared ebullient. "We should make a movie of today's reception and send it as a present to Nixon," he said at an informal new3 conference. In some ways, the scene was reminiscent of the jubilant reception accorded Castro in 1959 when he visited Venezuela soon after taking power in Cuba. Since then, there have been few such occasions. For six years, only Mexico among Latin American countries maintained ties with Cuba.

Established Relations Then, last year, Allende, a Marxist-Socialist and an old friend of Castro's, was elected. The two countries subsequently established diplomatic relations. in one sense, was paying back a personal debt to Allende, who visited him nine times before he was elected. But the Cuban leader was anxious to see the masses, too, despite the fact that he was bothered by a cold. NEWS 1.

The Chinese delegation to the United Nations is led by whom? 2. The parliament of what nation gave its prime minister a vote of confidence? 3. The Senate passed to bills authorizing $15 billion, $2.65 billion or $3.5 billion in foreign aid? 4. Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro visited what nation? 5. Wh.it Democrat withdrew from the 1972 presidential race? 6.

An investigative committee called for all motor vehicles in Accompanied by the shorter Allende, who had to run at times to keep up with him, the 44-year-old Castro waded into crowds outside the presidential palace and later during a wreath-laying ceremony at the statue of Bernardo O'Higgins, the hero of Chile's independence. He was mobbed. "Thank you, thank you, calm down, thank you," Castro kept repeating. Although he appeared calm, jack-booted Chilean guards and his own security agents had to push, pummel and sometimes kick people to keep the crowd from swallowing him. Make Other Trips Castro, who will spend 10 or 12 days in Chile, announced that he might visit Argentina and Uruguay, depending "on the time, the moment and the epoch." He stressed the limitations of his diplomatic initiative by repeating his vow never to rejoin the Organization of American States.

Cuba was suspended in 1962 following charges that Castro's regime was supplying money and advisers to revolutionary movements in Latin America. In recent years, several OAS members have begun to lobby for reconsideration of the suspension. But, said Castro, "we will not return in any manner." And he gave no hint of any desire to thaw out the U.S. -Cuban cold war. U.S.

influence, he said, "has suffered a complete deterioration in Latin America." Nathaniel Davis, the U.S. ambassador to Chile, was not present at the airport or for. the later ceremonies. "The ambassador didn't have any problem trying to decide whether he should go or not," said an embassy spokesman, "because he wasn't invited." QUIZ the Los Angeles Basin to run on what kind of fuel within five years? 7. California has how many State Senate districts? 8.

The price commission's goal is to limit price increases to what percentage a year? 9. President Nixon named whom to replace Clifford M. Hardin as secretary of agriculture? 10. Who Is president of the Phi-. lippines? Answers on Page 7.

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