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Pc; 2, Pert 1 "The mi old days were not really good," says the man who runs the roller coaster at Coney Island. (Part 2, Editorial Section.) BIcGovern's California leaders bft-. gan laying th-3 for an- intensive voter registration, campaign. (Part lfcPc mellimes nsi American military authorities report North Vietnam is again funnel- ing new troop units to the batth in Quang Tri. (Part Page 9.) The' White House has seen "noth-ing dramatically new" come out of the first session of resumed.

Paris peace talks. (Part 1, Page 11.) 1 The Vatican banned group absolution of sins except in extraordinary cases. (Part 1, Page; 13.) Subpoenas are out for a federal hearing into possible tax violations at Hollywood Park pari-mutuel pay- off windows. (Part 1, JL'fc3 21.) million and an efld to California retail land sales. (Part 3, Page 17.) The New York Stock Exchange named James J.

Needham' as" it! new chief. (Part 3, Page 17.) i 1 Shareholder! Capital Corp. plans $1.15 million settlement of five suita by shareholders' of mutual funds run by it. (Part 3, Page 17.) In View The Garden Grove Artisans Guild has turned an old supermarket into a medieval, marketplace, for. its own wares.

(Part 4, Page I A lot of people think Ila Pennington is really Eleanor McGovem, and that's quite natural. (Part 4, Page 1.) Paddle tennis is on the upswing in Los Angeles as a social sport. (Part 4, Page 2.) The American Film' Institute is helping the Library of Congress save old movies. (Part 4, Page 19.) i In Sport's Carroll Eosenbloom, former owner the Baltimore Colts, is the new owner of the Rams. (Part 3, Page 1.) Duane Thomas, Dallas C6wboy "running back, was' missing from training camp.

(Part 3, Page 1.) Lee Trevino and Tony Jacklin lead the British Open by one shot. (Part' 3, Page 1. In Financial Stock prices took a pounding in the fifth day of declines. The Dow Jones industrial index fell 6.70 to 916.99. (Part 3, Page 17.) Boise Cascade Corp.

said it is considering writedowns of about $200 Loj Angeles County's first smog alert since Sept. 13, 1971, was called in San; iGabriel Valley as the heat spell continued. (Part 1, Page 3.) A Los Angeles County property tax on mobile homes was ruled invalid in a court suit (Part 1, Page 3.) The state Senate approved a bill that would grant a tax break to owners of smogless cars. (Part 1, Page 3.) A bill to create a seven-member state council to control garbage and solid waste disposal was signed into law. Part 1, Page 3.) Bather than fight the old regulars again, Sen.

McGovern chose to delay, his plans for further party reforms. (Part 1, Page 22.) Mayor, Sam Yorty. didn't win his presidential bid, but a radio station offered him a job as a disc jockey. -(Part 1, Page 22.) THE SOUTHLAND Dentist's, Patient Guilty of Assault News in Pacific Telephone Telegraph Co. asked the U.S.

Supreme Court to de-' lay a $150 million refund order and rata rollback. (Part 1, Page 3.) Sen. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) says the U.S. jobless rate i3 about 8 Instead the 5.5 reported by the government. (Part Page 4.) The Israeli court trying a Japanese in the Lod Airport massacre adjourned to consider its verdict.

(Part 1, Page 5.) V- South Vietnamese marines battled enemy infantrymen in a third day of heavy, fighting outside Quang Tri city. (Part 1, Page 8.) Cometlad from th Le Anwtat TImM, th Let Anwltt Tlm.Wtshlntnn Port Newt Strvtea ntf fntior wlrt and tuppltmtntiry newt asencie. IRA Stronghold Premier Choii En-lai and other moderate civilians. The report called the purge, conducted last September, the most important domestic development in China since the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution of the mid-1960's. French free-lance photographer Michel Dumond, missing behind Communist lines for more than three months, walked into a South Vietnamese army post northwest of Saigon.

Dumond, who often worked for United Press International, apparently was in good condition. He has been missing since North Vietnamese troops overran Loc Ninh, a district capital 75 miles north of Saigon, on April 5. Twenty-one seamen were trapped aboard a freighter being battered by high seas and 70-mile-an-hour winds against rocky Pratas Reef 200 miles southeast of Hong Kong. Rescue ships radioed that the storm was so bad they could not get close enough to Oriental Falcon to take off the rest of her crew. Lebanon released Richard Hunt, American Middle East correspondent for the National Broadcasting Co, after police held him overnight for questioning.

They; reportedly questioned him about a part-time Lebanese employe of NBC in connection with the' assassination of Ghassan Kanafani, who was killed with his niece when a bomb exploded in his car. Hunt said that no charges were being brought against him or his company but that lie had been told not to leave the country until inquiries were completed. The editor of the Lima newspaper La Prensa and one of the paper's reporters have been sentenced to six-month suspended jail terms and fined on a charge of violating Peru's freedom of the press statute. It was the second sentence for Editor Pedro Beltran Ballen; still pending are military charges that published in-' formation damaged Peru's relations with Chile. The current sentence involved a story alleging that an editor of a small Lima paper had been deported to Argentina.

Brief A Pacoima man who allegedly fired four shots at his dentist was found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon. Tommie Watts 28, claimed Novocaine injections caused him to act irrationally, but the jury rejected this defense after deliberating only 25 minutes. The defendant still has pending a plea of innocent due to insanity. It will be heard at a hearing Monday by Superior Judge Harry Petris. A federal grand jury in San Diego Indicted six men on charges of smuggling $250,000 worth of marijuana from Mexico on two flights in private airplanes In February and Marchl Named in the Indictment are Buddy Joe Barnard, 29, his brother, Jerry, 26, both of Fresno, and Roger Leslie Mason, 28, of Kerman, all of whom are in custody.

Bench warrants were issued for Douglas Wayne Low, 26, of Laguna Beach, and George Remley, 46, and Richard Clinton Dillon 31, both of Fresno. Jurors In the trial of former Los Angeles County Public Administrator Baldo M. Kristovich for alleged mishandling of estates asked for a lengthy reading of testimony in their fourth day of deliberations on the; case. The requested testimony pertains to several charges of perju- ry in preparing false evidence. They involve the private sale of property from estates that was recorded as haying been sold at private auction.

r' Murder charges against William H. Lowrey, 24, part-time actor and motion picture stuntman, were dismissed when the Ventura County district attorney's office ruled that he had fired in self defense when he shot Joe N. Bonham, 29, and Jerry M. Goins, 26, to death in the hallway of his Oxnard Beach apartment' house. Dist.

Atty. Woodruff Deem said one of the victims had a knife in his hand and the other a revolver when the bodies were examined by THE STATE FORFEIT VICTORY World chess champion Boris Spassky, standing behind vacant chair of Bobby Fischer in Reykjavik, Iceland, was named winner of second game in championship match when Fischer, failed to show up. Fischer boycotted game to protest the presence of film cameras in the hall. Spassky won the first game. ttory Part 1, Pih 1 THE NATION Clark MacCregbr, director of the -Nixon reelection committee, invited dissatisfied Democrats to join me Nixon cause.

(Part 1, Page 28.) Frasier, the lion who sired 35 cubs -at the equivalent human age of 80, died. (Part 2, Page 1.) Compliance with new state regulations on treated sewage discharge -into the ocean may triple cost3 to Or- ange County. (Fart 2, Page UC regents.cav.miU.ee approved plans for less ambitious growth than once envisaged. (Part 2, Page 1.) One hundred acres of Malibu land was rezonad for dwellings by Los Angeles County supervisors despite protests. (Part 2, Page 1,) I The city would be a fine educational laboratory if it were hot for its "invi-: sibility." (Part 2, Editorial Section.) lapsed and trading was suspended in' February, 1970.

Dioguardi, 58, allegedly a member of the Carmine Tra-munti Mafia family, is still serving a five-year prison term for a bankruptcy fraud conviction. An FBI graphics specialist described at the Chicago trial of State's Atty. Edward V. Hanrahan and 13 others a scale model of the apartment in which two Black Panthers were killed during a 1969 police raid. The model even included bullet holes.

one of his assistants and .12 policemen are charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice after the raid by concealing or altering evidence. Earlier, a Hanrahan aide told the court that the originals of certain documents requested could not be found. Severe thunderstorms drenched southern New Jersey and flash flood warnings were posted for extreme northern Delaware and southeastern Pennsylvania. Scattered showers and thunderstorms activity were reported from Illinois and Texas to Florida and New England. Isolated showers also dampened portions of the Rockies.

Elsewhere, the nation enjoyed sunny skies and temperatures ranging from warm to hot. Six prisoners escaped from the Tennessee State Prison Farm but five were quickly recaptured and one apparently drowned while trying to swim to freedom across the Cumberland River. Warden Jim Rose said they were part of a 40-man crew, in a bus. When the bus stopped, everyone got out but the six and a guard, whom they overpowered. "They didn't have any keys," Rose said, "so they let the bus roll down a steep hill.

When the bus got to the bottom, the six jumped out and started running." Negotiators for Hawaii's longshoremen and the shipping industry reached agreement on a new contract after 15 months of talks and mounting fears of a strike. The agreement is subject to ratification by the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union. Terms, were not disclosed but earlier the two sides had agreed on a wage increase of 82 cents an hour. Research Medical Center In Kansas City, reported that former President Harry S. Truman showed slight improvement overnight and called his condition "good for the first time.

Mr. Truman, 8S, was admitted July 2 for treatment of a persistent irritation in his lower Congressman's Ex-Aide Guilty on 23 Counts FRIDAY, JULY 14,1972 THE WORLD Troops Invade Three battalions of British troops, supported by armored vehicles, swept Into a Roman Catholic stronghold in Belfast after a raging gun battle between Irish Republican Army gunmen and about 30 soldiers. Army headquarters reported about 1,800 troops quickly established control of a four-mile-square area of the Andersonstown Catholic "no-goM zone. One soldier was reported killed in the assault and two civilian bodies were delivered to a hbspitaL The penetration of Andersonstown was the first major military operation of its kind carried out since Britain imposed direct rule on Northern Ireland. Gerhard Schroeder, the first leading West German politician to be invited to Peking, left for the Chinese capital amid signs that China wants to start an unofficial dialog on improving relations with Bonn.

Schroeder, an opposition Christian Democratic legislator, plans to confer with leading Chinese, officials during his 15-day visit. Italian Premier Giulio Andreottl scored an important psychological victory both for himself and his 17-day-old coalition government by winning a vote of confidence in the Senate. Sources in Rome said the vote, which carried by only a four-member margin, probably assured political survival for Andreotti at least until autumn despite continue ing economic, political and social crises in the country. Experts began studying a Swiss alpine cable car disaster which re-suited in a final toll of 12 dead and two seriously hurt the worst such accident in memory. The car hurtled out of control 2,000 feet down a mountainside when the traction cable hauling it snapped on the trip from Betten to Bettendorf.

Nine victims were Swiss, one was West German and two were A State Department report says the purge of Defense Minister Lin Piao, Chairman Mao Tse-tung's designated heir, and top military chiefs was brought about by radical Chinese leaders joining forces with Newsmakers All That Ethyl Is Highly Irregular When Hugh Malo saw a Milwaukee service station selling gasoline for 22.9 cents a gallon, he drove in and said, as many drivers do, Fill it up." Eight hours later he drove away In his tank truck with 7,000 gallons. Malo, who has two stations of his own, said he had to pay 23.75 cents a gallon from his supplier. After the sale to Malo, the station raised Its price to 23.9 cents and Malo was selling his tanker full for 24.9 cents. Price wars may benefit the customer, but as Malo could point out, the last time he had his tank filled the bill was $1,603 and he didn't get a single trading stamp 'What pleasure lies in height? Tennyson asked of a lissome maid. Perhaps Miss Tall Universe of 1972 could give him the answer.

Tara Sheldon, a 6-foot-4 green-eyed brunette, received the tree-top-tall award in Washington, D.C, at the 26th annual convention of Tall Clubs International Runner-up was Miss Tall San Fernando Valley, Terry Woods, a 6-foot-1 brunette from Van Nuys. Contestants were judged on beau- police Wednesday; and that the double slaying "justifiable Machinists Union Local 685 warned it would call a strike against International Harvester's Solar Division in San Diego unless a contract dispute is! resolved within 15 The three-year contract between the. Union and the corapa-; ny expired Wednesday. Negotiators' are, deadlocked over wages, fringe benefits 'and seniority. t-.

A power failure blacked out a 5-square-block area in downtown Tus-; tin for about an hour during the late afternoon commuter Buildings affected included the Po-; lice Department, Larwin Shopping; Center businesses and the Post Of- fice. Probable cause was a malfunc-! tionihg Edison Co. power pole atf Main St. and Newport Ave. The Los Angeles City Council'i' Police, Fire and Civil Defense Com-' mittee joined other municipal1 governmental -units in prging council not to sign a proposed federal consent decree which would require the city to hire 50 of its new.

firemen from among Mexican-Amer-' leans and blacks. John A. Daly, exec-1 utive assistant to. City Atty. Roger Arnebergh, advised' the "committee" that the decree, which seeks to end, allpfTPfJ rfisprimlnntmn in tiirin would be "in disregard" of several, city Charter provisions.

Several mu- nicipal officials testified that they were doing "everything possible" to' encourage minority recruiting fpr, firemen. 1 A cave-in trapped a mining super-: intendent for nearly two hours the 100-foot long tunnel of a clay mine operated by the Minnesota' Mining and Manufacturing Co. south of Corona. Rescuers used skip- loaders to clear away debris at entrance to. the mine 1 and free'4 George Belcher, 41, of Corona.

He was unhurt. Belcher said he was inspecting the shaft when a falling rock dislodged a beam at the en- trance and caused the cave-in. i Bail of $20,000 was set for Erwin. (Machine Gun) Walker, '55, has served more than 25 years in-i prison for the 1946 slaying of a high-, way patrolman in Los Walker, whose criminal career was', the basi3 for a motion picture, Walked By Night," was sentenced to death for the but the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. Solano County'; Superior Judge Raymond J.

Sher-win ordered a new trial in the case last August on grounds that Walker' had made Incriminating statements." against himself "involuntarily." Thr attorney general's office appealed1' the new trial order and the appellate court ordered Walker's release on bond, until the appeal is decided. i- The destruction of all posters with a photograph retouched to make two San Francisco ballet dancers appear i nude has been agreed to by the de fendants in a $2.5 million suit brought by the ballet company and the dancers. The defendants, Syner. gistic System, a poster manu-c' facturer, and Laurence Bartone, a photographer, promised to recall posters from retailers. Retcne operations have begun tcr'-fish trapped behind dikes by last" month's flood in the Sacramento County delta region, the State Department cf Fish and Game Strict fishing regulations have been" issued by the department to prohibiting any means of fishir other than conventional angling ana requiring permission cf land Probe of Transit District Purchasing Urged A former top aide to Rep.

James M. Collins (R-Texas) was found guilty of all 23 counts of mail fraud, falsifying payroll forms and inducing a fellow employe to lie in connection with a kickback scheme. George A. Haag, 33, former administrative assistant to the Dallas millionaire, kept his composure through the reading of the 23 guilty verdicts in Washington, D.C. He could get a maximum 15-year prison sentence, but was expected to get less than five.

Reputed labor racketeer John (Johnny Dio) Dioguardi and four other persons have been acquitted after a nine-week trial in a New York City federal court of stock fraud charges involving a Florida investment firm. The defendants had been charged with inflating the stock price of Imperial Investment Co. of Miami. The price later col- was two king vultures, fierce birds with six-foot wing spans and nasty beaks with the apt names of Rough and Tumble. Further, the buizardnapers can expect constant difficulty with their footgear.

While fighting off Tumble they will discover that Rough's specialty is untying shoelaces. By Jennings Farrott An immediate investigation into bidding and purchasing procedures by the Bay Area Rapid -Transit District was demanded at Sacramento by Assemblyman John Knox (D-Richmond). Knox charged that BART has repeatedly purchased items for its $1.4 billion transbay project in small amounts, thus avoiding bidding procedures mandated by state law. Knox asked Al Alan Post, legislative analyst, for further reports. Nonscheduled airline flights to Europe under the Educational Student Exchange Program of Redwood City will be resumed at once despite bankruptcy of a contracting airline which, temporarily stranded 360 students in Los Angeles and San Francisco this week, according to Eli Alcheck, director, of the pro-, gram.

Lloyd International, the non-scheduled airline which had booked the flights, went bankrupt several weeks ago and" other British non-( scheduled carriers had agreed to handle the low-price travel program, Alcheck said. British Civil Aeronautic Authority officials, however, refused to issue blanket licenses for the flights, creating the difficulty, he said. 1 SITTING DOWN ON JOS Denise Shepard, 17. labors ot her summer jot relaxing beside busy street in Phoenix, demonstrating spray device to cool the body. Besides drawing wolf whistles, the teen-oger is drawing $2.50 on hour end getting a sun tan, too.

THE ENVIRONMENT U.S., Canadian Officials Discuss Oil Spills ty, including a swimsuit appearance, and personality. The convention's hotel, by the way, seems to run to extremes. Last year it housed a convention of midgets. The thieves who raided London's Crystal Palace Park Zoo can expect double trouble. Their haul U.S.

and Canadian environment officials met to discuss ways of coping with oil spills from tanker operations off the East and West coasts. About a dozen technical experts from each nation conferred before the start of meetings between Canada's environment minister. Jack Davis, and the chairman of the U.S, Council on Environmental Quality, RusseU E. Train..

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