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Page 2, Part I 2 ogf angriest Zims bonds, the utility's largest sale of debt securities. (Part 3, Page 15.) i Connecticut won membership on the B-P-W Stock Exchange, the first state to receive a seat on. a U.S; stock exchange. (Part 3, Page 15.) Ins ide The Times points as the Lakers routed the 75ers, 128-90. (Part 3, Page 1.) Mike Corrigan scored 2 goals as the Kings beat the Chicago Black Hawks, 3-1, to take third place in the NHL West.

(Part 3, Page 1.) The FBI stepped in after Laker Wilt Chamberlain made a remark about a gun at the airport in Chicago but he was cleared. (Pari 3, Page 1.) Mexican-American contractors assailed Los Angeles1 administrative officer on the awarding of city contracts. (Part 2, Page 1.) Long Beach, which fought hard to defeat the coastline initiative, is pushing two of: its councilmen for commission seats. (Part 2, Page 1.) A newly found difference between normal cells and cancer cells may lead to development of a diagnostic test. (Part 2, Page 1.) Ronald E.

Evans, the loneliest astronaut, plays an important role in lunar mission. (Part 1, Page 6.) Scientists in Houston expressed excitement over the results of Apollo 17's exploration of the lunar surface. (Part 1, Page 8.) An author referred to as sexist by a leader of a stewardess organization canceled a promotion tour. (Part 1, Page 10.) The U.S. reportedly has cut back on the use of surveillance sensors on Ho Chi Minh Trail.

(Part 1, Page 18.) President Nguyen Van Thieu has reportedly told government members that a Vietnam cease-fire has been settled. (Part 1, Page 19.) Four men were indicted on contempt or perjury charges by a Manhattan grand jury looking into gangland warfare. (Part 1, Page 30.) The stampede for building permits during the on the filing of ecology reports in California has hit a roadblock. (Part 1, Page 3.) Juan D. Peron, leaving Argentina today for Spain, will make a sentimental journey to Paraguay, his refuge in 1955.

(Part 1, Page 4.) Harry Truman's condition deteriorated slightly, and his daughter was less optimistic. (Part 1, Page 5.) Ten inmates are said to control a Massachusetts prison in which a series of killings has been linked to the mob. (Part 1, Page 5.) In Financial The stock market suffered a mild decline for the second straight day. The Dow Jones industrials ended off 2.71 at 1,030.48.. (Part 3, Page 15.) The deficit in the nation's "basic" balance of payments, a measure of long-term dollar drain, widened in the third quarter.

(Part 3, Page 15.) The Los Angeles Department of Water Power sold $116 million in THE SOUTHLAND County Welfare Worker Arrested in Brief I ASTRONAUT AT WORK His face showing clearly through his helmet shield a first for ony photo from the moQn-Harrison H. Schmitt goes about his duties during third and last exploration. Story III Part 1, Paw 1. wireohoto Compiled from th Lo Angeles Times, flit Le Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service and maior wire and supplementary news agencies. Loses Citizenship The truck escaped a pursuing motorist but its registration number was obtained.

Police said the couple were hit as they stood on the white line in the middle of a busy road attempting to return to their car from a restaurant. They were flung into the air and struck the side of another passing car. President Park Chung Hee announced that he is lifting martial law at midnight today. Press censorship ended with his announcement. Park declared martial law Oct.

17, dissolved the national assembly, banned all political activity and wrote a new constitution enlarging the president's power and allowing him to remain in office indefinitely. The constitution was approved in a referendum Nov. 21. Presidential elections are expected shortly before Christmas, with Park almost certain to be reelected. Philippine military authorities said that in two raids this month they had captured hundreds of high-powered weapons, including rocket launchers and grenades intended for Communist urban guerrilla operations.

The cache was believed to be the biggest seized by the government since martial law was proclaimed Sept. 23. The arms were taken in separate raids in towns on the outskirts of Manila. A service hus of a Philippines timber company fell off a cliff and crashed into a river in northern Sa-mar province, killing 24 persons and injuring 31. a spokesman for the firm Two planes of the San Jose Timber Corp.

airlifted seven seriously injured persons to a nearby hospital, about 300 miles southwest of Manila, the spokesman said. The Brazilian "death squad" was held responsible for execution of three petty criminals whose bullet-riddled bodies were found bound to tracks of a railroad in a Rio de Janeiro suburb. Activities of the illegal organization, said to be made up of off-duty policemen, had slowed down considerably since last year when federal authorities ordered a full-scale investigation that resulted in the arrests of several suspects. A county welfare investigator was arrested by U.S. Secret Service agents in Los Angeles on a charge of conspiring with another man to forge and negotiate checks, including some welfare checks.

The complaint alleges that Freeman J. Arnold, 43, supplied approximately worth of U.S. treasurer's and other checks to Francisco Montez, 50, to forge and cash during March, 1972. The two men are accused of splitting the funds 50-50, according to Secret Service special agent Robert E. Powis.

Arnold, a supervising welfare investigator for the county Department of Public Social Services, was free on $1,000 bail and Montez on $1,500 bail. A federal grand jury charged five Los Angeles County men with conspiracy and sale of counterfeit money. Named in the 18-count indictment returned fn Los Angeles were Joseph A. 47, of Santa' Fe Springs; James W. Brangham, 39, Reseda; Herbert T.

Brooks, 40, Ca-noga Park, and Thomas F. Norris, 26, and James E. Norris, 31, both of Van Nuys. The indictment charges that Zago, former director of printing at a local trade school, started supplying Brangham the counter- feit bills last month and that Brangham gave them to the other three men to be passed in retail establishments or sold to other in phony money. All five were arrested Nov.

22 by Secret Service agents. The agents said they confiscated large quantities of "high quality" counterfeit $20 bills. A San Diego-based tuna boat, the Mlue Meridian, was freed by Peruvian authorities after its skipper paid THE STATE Soda Springs Skiing The skiing is great in the. Soda Springs area, but some residents of the Sierra Nevada resort community complain that underneath the snowpack three times the normal depth the ground is beginning to smell. The problem is that a new $3.8 million sewage treatment plant is still standing idle because of contract disputes while the septic tanks it was built to replace are starting to overflow.

Officials of the Donner Summit Public Utilities District said they hope to have the matter resolved within a week, solving the problem for 10 big lodges that accommodate as many as 10,000 persons on a weekend. Cartoonist Charles U. Schulz, creator of the comic strip Peanuts," was sued for divorce by his wife of .23 years. In a petition for dissolution of marriage filed in Sonoma County Superior Court, Joyce Schulz, 42, A Regional Planning Commission plan that would vastly reduce open-space areas in Los Angeles County was unveiled. (Part 1, Page 3.) An honor student was attacked and stabbed to death by a group of six youths at John Glenn High School in Norwalk.

(Part 1, Page 3.) A shotgun and two pistols were found in student lockers at Los Angeles' Mt. Vernon Junior High School. (Part 1, Page 3.) "An Army error on a Fresno man's hardship discharge papers caused him two years of hardships. (Part 1, Page 3.) News THURSDAY, MCEMBER 14, 1972 THE WORLD Russian in U.S. Valery Chalidze, lecturing in New York on human rights, was informed his Soviet citizenship had been revoked by Moscow and that he could not return.

The physicist, 34, said he would appeal the decision but added that he preferred exile to imprisonment. He called on the Kremlin to release jailed dissidents and to allow Jews to go to Israel. For Chalidze, who was accompanied by his wife, the action was not unexpected. He was allowed to leave Russia only after resigning from an unofficial "human rights committee" of Soviet intellectuals. His case is similar to that of Soviet geneticist Zhores A.

Medvedev, who received recent permission to leave Russia for a year at a British university but who is not expected to be allowed to return. The 34 nations consulting in Helsinki on a forthcoming European security conference accepted the first part of a Yugoslavian proposal for a working program. They agreed that the first decision will be on the organization of the conference a point wanted by Western and neutral countries. Still remaining to be discussed in the Yugoslav proposal are such items as participation, location, timing and finance. Hundreds of college students marched through downtown Belfast 'demanding an end to Northern Ireland violence after a night of seven machine-gun attacks that left one policeman dead and five persons wounded.

The constable, due to re-, tire next year, was killed as he left a hotel. Four of the wounded were shot outside a Belfast bar. Other attacks were in Lurgan, Lisburn and "Armagh. Belfast prison guards foiled an attempt to break out of Crumlin Road Jail, capturing hacksaws and dummy weapons in a search of cells. The search came after a reported tip on a planned escape.

Heart surgeon Christiaan Barnard and his pregnant wife, Barbara, were reported in satisfactory condition in Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital which his transplants made famousafter being struck by a light delivery truck which fled the scene. Newsmakers? Woman Flier, 81 Has Limitation Intimations if American aviator Marion Rice Hart has not learned anything else in her 81 years, she has at least learned some good Mrs. stopping in Katmandu, Nepal, onia solo air tour of the said she had crossed the Atlantic seven times since 1953 but did not plan to cross the. Paci- fic. She said she would fly her sin- gle-engirie plane' to New Colombo, 'Rangoon and Bangkok.

"Then," she said, wisely; "I'm not going to cross the Pacific, because it-is too long." -7-The German Automobile Club far afield Wednesday name two new honorary; mem-, bers. But it seemed somehow ap-. The club honored astro-' nauts Eugene A. Cernan and Harrison, Schmitt for repairing their moon vehicle "under the most, difficult conditions." They, replaced a fender after Cernan knocked it off on the moon. Will Slocum, of Millbrae, who ran for state assembly in November's general election on the Peace In View With 10 children, eight of them adopted, the Witherill family has decided to put a ceiling on its growth.

(Part 4, Page 16.) Disco-vision, a plastic disc that can be placed on a playback unit and fed into a standard TV set, makes its debut. (Part 4, Page 1). Charles Champlin takes a look at' the film "The Poseidon Adventure." (Part 4, Page 1). Piano virtuoso Artur Rubinsteins renders a vigorous and poetic recital at the Dorothy Chandler. Pavilion.

(Part 4, Page 1). a $10,000 fine for fishing, within Per ru's claimed 200-mile territorial limit. The fine included a $6,480 license to permit future fishing in Peruvian waters. The boat, captured by a Peruvian Coast Guard cutter only 35 miles off the coast, was the first arrested by Peru since March 30, 1971. The United States recognizes only a 12-mile limit.

Two San Diego men were recomv mended for nonrestricted gaming licenses as major owners of the Hacienda Hotel in Las Vegas and the El Rey Club in Searchlight. Eugene Fresch and Allen Glick, along with other officers of Casino Operations, of Las Vegas, won approval at a Nevada Gaming Control Board meeting. The two both attorneys, are the principal investors, paying more than $9 million for the clubs which were purchased from the estate of the late Judith Bayley. The control board action goes to the state Gaming Commission for final rulings next week. 1 5 Due to the "seriousness" of the charges against them, the Navy refused to release 19 black sailors from confinement while they await courts-martial on charges stemming from a riot aboard the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk last October.

Attor neys for the sailors argued that confinement, in the brig at San Diego Naval Station was not necessary to insure the men's presence at the. trk als or to protect the rest of the community. Two other sailors facing possible prosecution in connection with the riot are free while a Navy investigation of the incident continues. Great Except for Smel asked for alimony, child support and custody of two of the couple's five children. Three older children no longer live at home: Schulz, 50, and his wife were married in 1949 in Minneapolis.

After "Peanuts" made him a millionaire, the family moved to Sonoma County: tr Actor Bob Cummin gs and William Penn Patrick, once a Republican primary candidate 'for governor! were named in a state complaint filed in Marin County Superior Court charging Mind Dynamics, with, unlawfully practicing medicine and making false represenr tations. AUy. Gen. Evelle J. Younger said the San Rafael company, of which Cummings and Patrick are executives, falsely claims it can teach subscribers in a $200 course tp control their brain waves.

Younger asked for an injunction barring the alleged practices, plus $100,000 exr emplary damages and $12,500 for each misrepresentation. vironmental impact report. Petroleum engineers called by Occidental attorney Edward S. Ren-wick said there is "nopossibility'! of a blowout and land vibrations would be less than those recorded in the courthouse. Judge David N.

Eagle-son said he did not know when he will rule on the case. A federal appeals court in San Francisco told State Atty. Gen. Evelle J. Younger to submit, hia views on construction of the controversial New Melones Dam on the Stanislaus River.

The court held up awarding a contract for the dam until at least Jan. 3. The Environmental Defense Fund has filed a petition seeking to block construction of the dam on grounds that it is "unnecessary and would destroy a scenic and heavily used white water portion of the Stanislaus said Thomas J. Graff, EDF attorney. The memories of Harry Tru- man's exploits come welling back to Max Lerner.

(Part 2, Editorial Section.) Federal Trade Commission staff members fear the President may, want to subdue the agency's innovative spirit (Part 1-A, Page 1.) In Sports Wilt Chamberlain blocked 15 shots, had 15 rebounds and scored 16 in Blast at Textile Mill by Caesarean section. The Catholic Presentation Sisters of Aberdeen, S.D., had argued that its religious beliefs did not allow the hospital's facilities to be used, for sterilization for the purpose of contraception. Miners for Democracy said that its candidate, Arnold Miller, was pulling ahead of United Mine Workers President W. A. (Tony) Boyle in the union's election.

The insurgent group said its observers in the closely guarded Labor Department counting room in Washington reported 21,305 votes for Miller to for Boyle, with about 30 of the ballots tallied. A district judge ordered the election after, finding widespread voting fraud in Boyle's 1969 reelection over Joseph A. Ya-blonski. Eleven cars of the 14-car "Silver Star" passenger train derailed near South Hill, injuring 13 persons. None of the derailed cars overturned.

The train, operated by Am-, trak, was bound for Miami from New York. Twelve of the 13 injured were treated at a South Hill hospital and then released. The 13th suffered a possible fracture and was trans--f erred to Richmond. The train carried 164 passengers. Cause of the derailment was not immediately known.

The Ford Bronco is an "inherently dangerous" vehicle, a federal jury ruled in Salt Lake City. In so doing, it ordered the Ford Motor Co. to pay $415,000 to a Utah family involved in the crash of a Bronco. Donald B. Julander of Marysvale and his children brought suit in 1970 after Mrs.

Julander was killed in a headon collision. Julander claimed that a Bronco went out of control, crossed into the oncoming traffic lane and ran into his car. He contended the Bronco's design defects were in part responsible for the accident. The National Center for Disease Control in Atlanta reported confirmation of isolated cases of an influenza virus called London flu. The CDC said the virus, a strain of Type A influenza, had been diag-, nosed in Memphis, Kansas City, Baltimore, Anchorage and Seattle.

Enrollment in the Reserve Officer Training Corps is at its lowest point in 25 years, the Pentagon said. The decline exists even though there is a decline in campus unrest and a cooling of the Vietnam war issue, it said. New figures show a total of 72,459 students are signed up for ROTC programs, compared to in 1966, when the decline began. THE NATION 2 Killed, 10 Injured Two persons were killed and 10 injured when an explosion and fire swept through a textile mill in Le-wiston, Me. Hundreds of firemen from a dozen communities fought the wind-whipped blaze at the W.

S. Libbey mill for four hours. (Officials did not immediately list the cause of the but: it was reported that a storage shed in the mill held about 10,000 gallons of naphtha, which is highly flammable. Lewis-ton Fire Chief Reginald A. Doucette Jr.

said everyone had been accounted for and he was certain there were no other victims in the debris. Holy Rosary Hospital, a Roman Catholic institution in Miles City, abided by a court order and allowed its facilities to be used for a sterilization operation. Claudia Ann Kransky, 22, was sterilized at the same time she gave birth to a daughter by Caesarean section. Mrs. Kransky has a 4-year-old son and gave birth to a second child who died after two days.

Both were delivered Shuard's rendition of Turandot, In the, Puccini opera' of. the. same name, brought the house down. Against her. "Leave Italy," "Throw her dut, "It's; a' scandal," shotted the 'audience 'at the San Carlo Opera'House in Naplesr The opera-goers got their way.

The curtain came down, Miss Shuard suddenly became indisposed, and the show closed. THE ENVIRONMENT Chicago Plans Waterfront Building Curb IN SHOWS GOOD FORM Softball pitcher-Tina Banitska, 22, im-proves her suntan in a bikini at Melbourne, Australia, then practices to improve her delivery; She has played several in wirephota Mayor Richard J. Daley announced a plan for, the Chicago waterfront that would halt further commercial development, include complete public ownership of the Lake Michigan shore and double the existing 2,000 acres of parkland. Under the plan, five miles of existing beaches would be expanded through construction of offshore islands, although no such moves would be made until extensive ecological studies were made. A superior judge took under submission a civil suit by No Oil Inc.

to prevent experimental drilling by Occidental Petroleum Co. in Pacific Palisades. Attorneys for the Center for Law in the Public Interest, repre-senting the antidrilling groups, argued the project could cause blowouts and landslides and cannot be undertaken without a formal en and Freedom Party's ticket, re- ported contributions of $44.44 and campaign spending of $34.40. He' took care of the remainder handi-, ly enough. On hia spending report-submitted Wednesday in Sacramento, Slocum wrote, "Surplus used for a few friendly jugs of muscatel." English soprano Amy.

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