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The Democratic Party is fighting for survival at the Miami Beach convention. (Part 2, Editorial Pcge 2, Port 1 Ghassan Kanafani, Palestinian killed when a bomb wrecked his car had a premonition of his assassination. (Part 1, Page 21.) I The Miami Beach convention hall, lighted like Broadway and guarded like Ft. Knox, is nearly ready for the Democrats. (Part 1, Page 16.) Challengers of Chicago Mayor Richard J.

Daley said they would be seated at the convention despite a court order. (Part 1, Page 16.) Nine California delegations met to gear for tonight's battle for the state's 271 Democratic convention seats. (Part 1, Page 16.) Tlaia folks' have replaced party 'bigwigs' on Sen. George S. Mc-G h' California delegation.

(Part 1, Page 17.) Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace launched a one-man search for more delegates. (Part 1, Page 17.) Miami's elderly community watched dumbfounded as the wave of "vagabonds" arrived in town, (Part 1, Page 17.) gap is feared by a Japanese official. (Part 3, Page 9.) The VS.

is losing its corner on th European military aircraft market. (Part 3, Page 9.) A 5 increase in steel demand in the West this year i3 forecast. (Part 3, Page 9.) In Viaw Does Beulah Cadwell think Jack Smith is responsible for the worm in the apple? (Part 4, Page 1.) Julie Nixon Eisenhower is needlework of White House memorabilia available to the general public. (Part 4, Page 1.) Tohko asked an unanswerable question. You can see it in the paintings of Japanese-Americans on show in Los Angeles.

(Part 4, Page 2.) The ratio of women to men will ba at an all-time high at the Democratic convention 40. (Part 4, Page 3.) In SpQftS Nolan Ryan struck out 16, including 8 in a row, threw a one-hitter and retired 26 straight in a 3-0 win for Angels. (Part 3, Page 1.) Wayne Collett, formerly of UCLA, won the 400 -meters in 44.1 seconds in U.S. Olympic Trials at Eugene, Ore. (Part 3, Page 1.) Stan Smith of Pasadena defeated Hie Nastase of Romania, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3, 4-6, 7-5, for Wimbledon men's tennis title.

(Part 3, Page 1.) Lee Lacy scored one run and drove in the other a3 the Dodgers beat the Mets 2-0. (Part 3, Page 1.) In Financial A drastic" cut in the U.S. trade Numerous brush and grass fires flared in widely scattered areas of the state as high temperatures continued. (Part 1, Page 3.) Toronto has decreed an end to freeway development in an effort to save the city from the evils of too many cars. (Part 1, Page 3.) Carrier pigeons are used to keep tourists in the wilderness of two national parks in contact with the base-camp.

(Part 1, Page 3.) Secretary of State William P. Rogers conferred with Yugoslavian President Tito and then flew to Home. (Part 1, Page 4.) Nevs MONDAY, JULY 10, 1972 THE SOUTHLAND Skydiver Hits Power Line, Survives THE WORLD U.S. Deputy Chief in Saigon Killed he I lines Global population may double by the year 2,000, a U.N. study revealed.

(Part 1, Page 4.) Bobby Fischer's favorite chair arrived by air in Iceland to assure his comfort in chess championship play. (Part 1, Page 5.) President Ferdinand E. Marcos ordered air strikes against guerrillas battling soldiers in the northern Philippines. (Part 1, Page 8.) An upsurge in home prices characterizes the near-chaos in England's housing property "market. (Part 1, Page 10.) in Comolltd from th Let AnaelM Tlmn, ttit Lot AnetiH TlmM-Wiihlngton Port Now Sorvlet and malor wirt and aupDltmtntary now agendo.

man said Klaus Juenschke, 24, who was arrested along with Irmgard Moeller, 25, in Offenbach, apparently had been the gang's chief since the capture of Andreas Baader and Ulrike Meinhof, the original leaders of the so-called Red Army Group. At least six persons were killed in a third day of bloody rioting in Sind province of Pakistan over a bill making Sindhi the only official language, bringing the confirmed total for the three days to over 20. Urdu-speaking mobs many from refugee Moslem families who fled there during partition in 1947 poured into the more fashionable central parts of Karachi, sacking and burning wine shops and bars and damaging cinemas. Turkey has banned Archbishop Iakovos, primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in North and South America, from attending the funeral in Istanbul Tuesday of Athenagoras ecumenical patriarch, reportedly because the Turkish government finds him "undesirable and persona non grata." Archbishop Iakovos has been unable to get permission to visit Turkey since 1968. A longtime leader in the ecumenical and civil rights movements, he is an American citizen, but a native of Turkey, The prelate said he was bitterly disappointed because he thought "going to the funeral to kiss the hand of my spiritual father was an elemental human right." Explosions believed caused by mines or plastic charges ripped two holes in the British freighter London Statesman in Nha Trang harbor, 195 miles northeast of Saigon.

The vessel was partially submerged by the blasts, the British Embassy reported, but there were no serious injuries. The ship had just finished unloading a cargo of rice it had brought from Galveston, as part of the U.S. Food for Peace program. Brief BAGS ONE MORE U.S. Air Force Copt.

Steve Richie, 30, of Reidsville, N.C., paints star on fuselage of his F-4 fighter at a Thailand base after downing two North Vietnamese MIG-21's in Hanoi area. Richie now has shot down four MIG's in two months and needs but one more to make him Air Force's first ace of war, lttr Id Part 1, Paga 1 Wlrephot. THE NATION Bob Hope Telethon Will Aid Storm Victims A Manhattan water main i i i uuuuuig a iciepiiuiie cxuuange ment and causing global reverbera tions. (Part Page 24.) Between 10 and 13 of Americans have correctible but uncorrected eye defects, according to an ophthalmologist. (Part 2, Page 1) Yorba Linda, Brea and Placentia will join forces to fight a proposed jet airport in the Chino Hills.

(Part 2, Page 1.) Orange County ponders a Grant Corp. request for a mutual cancellation of an agricultural preserve agreement. (Part 2, Page 1.) A woman Has established herself in a job on the previously all-male world of the Lo3 Angeles waterfront. (Part 2, Page 1.) Ohio. The storm knocked out power to thousands of homes, felled trees and capsized boats on Lake Erie.

Mrs. Woodrow W. Duffton, 57, and her son, Gary, 12, were killed when they brushed against a downed power line in the Rocky River Reservation in Cleveland's metropolitan park. Fairport Harbor police reported that Royce L. Teets, 23, and James Kirby, 51, both of Painesville, were struck by lightning while standing under a tree on a bank of the Grand River.

President Nixon's budget chief said Sen. George S. McGovern's proposed military budget cuts displayed "an ignorance of the situation that I find frightening." Caspar W. Weinberger, director of the Office of Management and Budget, said trimming up to $35 billion from military requirements would mean "you're either going to have a great many empty military bases and rusting airplanes and tanks with nobody to man or maintain them, or you're going to have people standing around with no equipment to use." In an interview with U.S. News World Report, Weinberger said McGovern's cuts would destroy U.S.

ability "to negotiate or, indeed, even to be listened to by a potential enemy." A Russian woman evacuated from a Soviet fishing trawler underwent surgery for severe anemia caused by a shipboard abortion and was reported in stable condition. Lila Hu-dyakovana, 34, a storekeeper aboard the 277-foot factory ship Pechenga, was operated on at Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport, after being transported to shore by a Coast Guard cutter. New York Atty. Gen. Louis Lefko-wita said a Brooklyn bank had agreed to make restitution to persons who received gifts for opening savings accounts without being told they would have to return the presents and pay a service charge if they withdrew their money too soon.

Mayor John V. Lindsay announced he would submit emergency executive legislation to the New York City Council this week to ban the manufacture, assembly and distribution of cheap handguns in the city. The announcement said the legislation was necessary as a follow up to similar legislation passed in Suffolk County. The county reportedly ha3 been the source of 60 cf all cheap handgun in the state. A skydiver cheated death by inches, Riverside sheriffs deputies said, when both his main and re-serva parachutes failed to function' properly 'and dropped him onto a power line near Gregory Jones, 30, of Indio, said the reserve parachute opened late and only partially bloomed.

He landed about Vi mile from the drop zone and the cords wound around the power line which shorted out. The short circuit saved his life, but he was left hanging-helpless in the harness for nearly a half-hour. About 800 homes in the area were without electricity for several hours until repairs were made. Three Utah men are in custody as suspects in the robbery of the Pickwick Hotel in Anaheim, police said. After the 12:40 a.m.

robbery officers arrested the men at a nearby moteL They are Billy Joe Moyes, 20, of Salt Lake City, Robert Workman Kelsey, 18, of Centerville, and a 17-year-old juvenile. A Garden Grove man was killed when he was thrown from his motorcycle while participating in a mo-tocross race at Saddleback Motorcycle Park. He was Roderick N. Jo-kele, 19, of 10101 Dewey Drive, whose body was discovered on the course by other participants. There were no witnesses to the accident.

A 2-year-old Santa Ana boy, struck by a hit-and-run driver June 26, died in Santa Ana Community Hospital of hi3 injuries. The victim, Joseph Menchaca, was hit by a car at Flower and Bishop Sts. Dale Lee Mat-thewson, 23, of Santa Ana has been jailed as a suspect. Two girls feared kidnaped from their father's home in Taft have been found at the South Gate home of their mother, who had been involved in a custody dispute with the father, authorities reported. FBI agents located Judy Long, 4, and her sister, Linda, 3, at the residence of their, mother, Camellia, 27.

No charges were filed. The girls' father, Charles, had left the children in care of a babysitter in Taft when two THE STATE Kaiser Plan Clerks Clerical workers at the Kaiser Foundation hospitals and health plan offices in Oakland, Hayward and Richmond voted to' accept a new two-year contract, ending a nine-day strike by the Office and Professional Employes Union Local 29. The new contract provides for an increase of about 7 in wages and improved health and pension benefits. About 900 employes were affected. A Lindsay bartender was shot and killed by an unidentified gunman who escaped with an undetermined amount of cash.

According to police, the gunman walked into the bar and told James S. Comingore, 57, of Porterville, "Put 'em up. Give me what you got in there," and then shot him. The assailant escaped after rifling the bar's cash register. men apparently abducted the girls last Friday.

A burglary suspect was shot and killed by Bakersfield police when he and another man reportedly ignored orders to halt as they were fleeing from the scene of an alleged restaurant break-ini Jack William Hatcher, 48, was killed and' Merle Helton, 43, of Downey, was taken into custody and booked on suspicion of burglary. Officers said the two men had been seen inside the Coach Light Inn and failed to stop when ordered to do so. Officers fired two shots at the suspects, one of them fatally; wounding Hatcher. A Pico Rivera man was killed and his passenger injured when a motorcycle they were riding crossed the center divider and smashed head-on into a truck about 30 miles north of Fresno. The California Highway Patrol identified the victim as Allen Bridges, 43.

Hi3 passenger, Colleen Leafstone, 16, also of Pico Rivera, was taken to a Fresno hospital with, minor injuries. The truck driver was not hurt, The Golden Staters from Arcadia-were named America's No. 1 barber-' shop quartet in competition in Atlan ta, Ga. The group consists of Gary Harding, tenor; Milt Christensen, lead; Jack Harding, baritone, and Mike Senter, bass. Second place in the national competition went to the Pacificaires of Reseda.

The Far Westerners of Whittier and Riverside placed fourth. An 18-year-oId youth was shot to -death as he sat on a bus stop bench at 54th St. and Vermont asser-; tedly by a passerby who also fired at the victim's two male 17-year-old companions before fleeing. Dead is Melvin Williams, 1315 151st St. Police were summoned by his two uninjured friends.

They said the gunman, about 20, had falsely ac-' cused all three of belonging to the Crips Gang, a group of black youths 1 that roams the streets of Soutn-Cen-; tral Los Angeles. OK Pact, End Strike The skeleton of a middle-aged womanfound in an unclaimed suitcase at the Sacramento Greyhound bus depot remained unidentified. Officials theorize the woman was murdered. She was about 50 years old and could have been dead anywhere from six months to 10 years. The bones were discovered by a bus company employe last week on a routine check of unclaimed baggage.

A tag on the suitcase indicated the remains had been shipped from Fresno. However, Fresno authorities could shed no light on the mystery. Sacramento police said elaborate carhon tests would be conducted on the skeleton to determine exactly how long the victim had been dead and, perhaps, how 6he died. A major river diversion project to prevent a water shortage in Moscow la under way, the Soviet government announced. A report carried by the government news agency Tas3 said Moscow would consume 12 billion gallons of water daily by 1375 and current water supplies would not meet the demand of the city's 7 million inhabitants.

The agency said the Vazuza River, 137 miles west cf Moscow, would be turned from its northward flow to the Volga and diverted to the Moikva River, which runs through the capital. The deputy American commander and adviser for the Saigon Military Region, Brig. Gen. Richard Tallman, and three other Americans were killed by a North Vietnamese artillery shell during an inspection trip to An Loc. Kozo Okamoto, lone survivor of the Japanese suicide squad accused of the Lod International Airport massacre in Tel Aviv, goes on trial today amid stringent security precautions against possible action by his extremist supporters.

Okamoto, charged with killing 25 persons and wounding more than 70 at the command of Arab guerrillas, faces a possible death penalty. Only one person has been executed in Israel's 24-year existence Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. A Romanian diplomat, who disappeared two weeks ago after serving three-and-a-half years in Israel, defected to the West because of a "romantic involvement," two Tel Aviv newspapers said. The envoy, Constants Dumitrachescu, 47, first secretary of the Romanian Embassy, was scheduled to return to Bucharest and had sent his wife and two daughters home. He left Israel on a forged passport and fled to an unidentified European country, the reports said.

The date tentatively set for general elections to break the current deadlock in the West German Parliament will be Dec. 3, a government spokesman said in Bonn. The exact date, however, can be determined only by a complicated parliamentary routine to be set in motion by West German President Gustav Heinemann. Eight members of the Baader-Meinhof anarchist gang are still at large despite the arrest of two suspects Saturday, the West German federal police reported. A spokes Newsmakers- Reagans Find Paris Tour a Bit Damp Gov.

and Mrs. Reagan spent a wet Sunday sightseeing in Paris while his staff set up meetings with French officials for today. He is expected to be the first American official to meet with Premier Pierre Messmer, who was named to form a cabinet by President Georges Pompidou only last Wednesday. The governor will he accompanied to the meeting by Ambassador Arthur K. Watson, which will be Watson's first formal contact with the new administration.

For years Louis Soldwedel of Miami watched squirrels and birds gorge on the macadamia nuts and mangoes on the trees in his backyard. All he ever got wjs leftovers. He tried about everything to scare them off, but nothing worked until this year, when he put out a rubber snake. "The first squirrel took one look at it, stepped suddenly and changed his mind about the nuts," sail Soldwedel So he bought more. So if you need macadamias, check with SoldwedeL "I got three gallons off my trees this year," he reported happily.

A small ceremony I planned at the family home in St. Martin, Hollywood personalities recruited by Bob Hope will appear with him in a six-hour telethon in Boston on July 22 to raise funds for persons in Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia who were victims of tropical storm Agnes. "This is the kind of thing I love most to do help people who need help," Hope said. On the list so far were Zsa Zsa Gabor, David Jan-ssen, Fess Parker, Giselle MacKen-zie, Jeannie C. Riley, Frankie Aval-on, Hank Williams, Brucine Smith (Miss World U.S.A.) and Mike Douglas.

Four persons were killed by lightning and a fallen high-tension power line as a brief but severe thunderstorm raked northeastern Joe Duiek, 31, bettered his on two-week-old speed mark of 22.4 k.pJi over a 1-kilometer course in Sydney, Australia, by reaching a speed of 62.8 k.p.h., thus setting a world record for a motorized bathtub. By Jennings Farrott THE ENVIRONMENT Temporary Pipeline Gives Yucca Valley Yater WAVERING David Wright, 8 months old, appears doubtful about the McGovern hat that the senator's supporters put on his head at Miami Beach. Perhaps, in the future, he can put own hat in the ring, uavid the son of Mrs. Doreen Wright cf Key Biscayne, Fla. A 7JS mile pipeline was installed between Yucca Valley and Joshua Tree to bring drinking water to residents cf Yucca Valley on a temporary basis.

Yucca Valley ha3 been without its only supply of water since last Monday, when a slight earthquake apparently silted in outlets for the desert community's three wells. Water has been trucked from Joshua Tree to a reservoir near Yucca Valley for distribution through the town's water system the last week. the French West Indies Island, for He ml Brooke, 23, for her marriage Aug. 5 to John Coyle, 25, of Waltham, Mass. It will be the second marriage for the daughter of Sen.

and Mrs. Edward W. Brooke who was divorced in February, 1971..

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