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in that nation's retail business. (Sec- tion Part 1.) Page A Insioe As Tritia Cox watched- a summing meet, a man nearly with rifles parts in his possession was arrested. (Section Page 3.) A crackdown on unsanitary conditions in food processing plants is being planned by HEW. (Section Page 3.) Astronomers are baffled by a pul- eating star discovered last year by a satellite. (Section Page 4.) Icelanders are tired of Bo'uby Fischer but love his Russian chess rival, world champion Boris Spassky.

(Section Page 5.) Queen Eliiabeth II will visit Yugoslavia in October, the first Iron Curtain trip by a reigning British monarch. (Section Page Stalled cars are one of the signs of a Moscow heat wave. (Section Page 8.) A tricf of Libyan leader Kadafi led lo rumors that h2 had Lcen jailed. tion Page B-52. omhers shattered bunkers around Quang Tri, killing an estimated 300 enemy in two massive raids.

(Section Page 12.) An adventure novelist named Howard Hunt may be able to solve the mystery of the bugging of Demo-. cratic headquarters. (Section Pagel.) Ilifh prices caused by flood losses may by themsleves lead New York consumers to boycott lettuce, state officials said. (Section Page. 3).

Calm precision Is the order of the day as Air Force One lands at the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station. (Section Page 1.) In Opinion Republican prospects for November's election look, rosy, but there are some clouds on 'the horizon. (Section Page 1.) Divided nations that dot the globe today are a product of political, religious and cultural differences, (Section Page 4, 5.) In Sports Quack, ridden by Don Pierce, won the $175,000 Hollywood Gold Cup in world record time of 1:58 15 for 1 miles. (Section Page 1.) Lee Trevino, sinking a 30-foot miracle shot' on the 17th hole, won the British Open by one Bhot over Jack Nicklaus. (Section Page 1).

John Stephenson's pinch home run, his first this year, with one on in ninth gave the Angels a 4-3 win over Brewers. (Section Page 1.) In Outlook The new Japanese prime minister favors "all-out" foreign investment Typical July yeathfr prevailed in the Southland but Northern California baked under a scorching heat wave. (Section Page E) 1 rre-'orit Nixon atter.de a funeral service in Riverside for his aunt, Edith Milhous Timberlake. (Section A "hot line" for reporting vandalism without becoming involved with police was announced in Comp-ton. (Section Page The trial of accused hijacker Ri-cardo Chavez-Ortiz, with its expected stress on social ills, will open Tuesday.

(Section Page B) SUNDAY, JULY 16, 1972 News SOUTHLAND-ORANGE COUNTY in THE WORLD U.S. Halts 4 Japan Fishing Craft le nines DVVP employes are in an uproar over a new rule that makes their cars subject to search at the Main St. parking lot. (Section Page Frasier the Sensuous Lion buried on a sun-scorched hill overlooking his domain to the skirled dirge of bagpipes. (Section Page B) A deal was reported between Chicago Mayor Richard J.

Daley and GOP officials over federal aid. (Section Page 2.) Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton (D-Mo.) began his vice presidential campaign with a promise to help restore trust in government. (Section Page 3.) Compiled from fh Los Anodes Times, the los Angeles Tlmts-Washlnoton Post News Service and maior wire and supplementary news agencies.

President Zulfikar All Bhutto told parliament that he had taken Pakistan out of the Southeast Aid Treaty Organization (SEATO), but that membership had been reactivated in the Central Treaty Organization (Cento). A leader of the pro-Moscow National Awami Party had demanded that Pakistan withdraw from both. France, by not taking an active role, leaves SEATO with only six active members: the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand and the Philippines. Cento has four active members: Pakistan, Britain, Turkey and Iran. The Fakistan National Assembly ratified a summit agreement signed by President Zulfikar All Bhutto and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi calling for withdrawal of forces to positions before they fought in December over Bangladesh, and peaceful settlement of differences.

The ratification opens the way for further talks between the two leaders. Withdrawal of forces will begin after the two countries have exchanged instruments of ratification. President Michel Micombero of Burundi has appointed a 14-man cabinet to and his two and one half months of personal rule in the tiny East African In a broadcast monitored in Kampala, Uganda, Radio said five ministers had been retained from the former government which Micombero dismissed April 29 on the eve of" a coup attempt which cost between 50,000 and 100,000 lives. Under the new arrangement, Micombera remains head of state and minister of defense. Typhoon Phyliis swept Japan's Aichi and Shizuoka prefectures then blew out to sea and was downgraded to a tropical storm, But Japan, hit by devastating rains the past two weeks, still was threatened by possi-, ble heavy 'rainfall from Typhoon Rita, on an uncertain path in the Pa-' cific, weathermen said.

Police, re-. ported three persons were killed and 20 injured as Phyllis passed through the two prefectures, and put the to-; tal death toll in floods and landslides since July 4 at 354. IN NORTH VIETNAM Actress Brief PATRIOTIC Wendy Fisher, 25, strips 'down to bikini outside No. 10 Downing where she delivered her offer to marry British Prime Minister Edward Heath because it would enable him to run the country better. The prime minister Was not home ot time.

"7 Wlrephoto THE NATION jl-i. Airline Seals Off Hijacker Escape Hatch Executives of PSA remember when their chief chore was flying bait to Colorado River fishermen. (Section Page 1.) A Peace Corps graduate turned his Guatemalan experience into a business in Westwood's boutique (Section Page 1.) Popularity of commission -free mutual funds is gaining, persuading managers- of many conventional funds to switch. (Section Page In View Eleanor McGovern may be fragile i looking but the appearance is deceptive. She is also tough in a femin- ine way.

(Section Page 1.) A radical new birth-control tech- I nique is finding acceptance in the United States and other countries. (Section Page 1.) $40,000 School Blaze known which officer was flying the Cherokee 140 when it crashed, the spokesman said. All three are pilots. Actress Natalie Wood and actor Robert Wagner will be remarried aboard a yacht off the Southern California coast today, a spokesman for the actor announced. The couple were divorced in 1962.

Marriages by Miss Wood, 33, and Wagner, 42, to others ended in divorce last The body of a 52-year-old Fuller-ton woman was found floating in the swimming pool at her home about noon, police said. Mrs. Jean J. Ashman, of 801 Ride Out Way, was dead on arrival at St. Jude Hospital a short time after her gardener, John Olver, of 2812 W.

Carol Drive, Fullerton, discovered her in the pool. Police said Mrs. Ashman, who was clad in a swim suit, apparently drowned while her husband, George, was away. An autopsy has been scheduled to determine the exact cause of death. A random shot, apparently fired from a passing vehicle, struck and killed a 20-year-old youth as he sat in the living room of a National City house he shared with seven other members of a motorcycle The victim, Randall Ken Johnson, arrived in the San Diego suburb just a week ago from Hopkins, Minn.

Police investigators described the club as a "respectable" one and expressed doubt the slaying had been intentional. The victim, it was pointed out, was sitting behind drawn Venetian blinds and could not have been seen by the killer. After seven days of searching, authorities abandoned a hunt for a 21-year-old epileptic who vanished in the San Jacinto Mountains near Idyllwild. Riverside County Sheriff Lt. Ray Campbell said the epileptic, Mark Sells, 1210 W.

25 Los Angeles, was believed hiding from the search party. He was spotted by a group of Girl Scouts. After Wheel Falls Off ommended no prison sentence because of the woman's 28 years with the Welfare Department. An Earlimart man drowned while swimming in Lake Woollomes, 10 miles southeast of Delano, with his fiancee, Maria Ortiz, 20, Delano. No one saw the victim, Oscar Holguln, 23, go under but he disappeared about 50 feet from shore in water 5 to 8 feet deep.

Youngsters wading in the lake stepped on his body about 20 minutes later. He was brought ashore but efforts to revive him failed. With the operation of two new high-speed mail trains, delivery of bulk mail and packages will be cut by one to three days in several Western and Midwestern states, the U.S. Postal Service announced. The trains run between- Oakland and Chicago with intermediate stops at Rosewell, Ogden, Utah; North Platte, Cheyenne, Wyo, and Council Bluffs, Iowa.

would neither confirm nor deny reports that an underground nuclear test planned at the Nevada test site Tuesday. Eill Warren, president cf Independent Gfda Assn. of Nevada Local 1, tail the AEC was planning the test and warred it might be hazardous for residents In southern Nevada because cf poorly trained security guards ca duly. About 2o0 regular gardi walked out at the Nevada tite July 1 and were replaced by about 100 guards Ixca ether areas. Arson Suspected in Arson is suspected in a Santa Ana school fire which caused an estimated $40,000 damage and injured two fire fighters.

Battalion Chief Murl Cox said the blaze, which started in the music building at Santa Ana Valley High School, 1801 S. Greenville was apparently started by vandals who forced entry. Engineer G. J. Wood, 45, was treated at Santa Ana Community Hospital for smoke inhalation and Fireman John Carey, 30, suffered a back injury.

Atmospheric conditions held the dense smoke close to the ground, forcing several of the 21 fire fighters to use oxygen for breathing. Arson investigator Joe Lamphear said the blaze, which destroyed valuable musical instruments, is the third school blaze linked to arson in as many months, brief A new outbreak of Newcastle disease will require the destruction of 40,000 laying hens on a ranch in Cherry Valley, inspectors said. The disease, which is fatal to birds but harmless to man, already has caused the death of 2 million chickens in. six Southern California counties. Last April, Gov.

Reagan proclaimed a state of emergency in the counties affected by the epidemic. A Newcastle task force' inspector said over 1 million other chickens in Cherry Valley, a mountain community near Beaumont, will be1'; inspected for the disease. Three marine officers, missing overnight on a flight from Yuma, to the El Toro Marine Air Station, were returned safely after they managed to walk away from the wreckage of their light plane, which crashed near Borrego Springs. A base spokesman said the three officers, who had been on temporary duty in Yuma, were picked up by helicopter and flown to the El Toro dispensary for treatment of minor injuries. The officers were identified as Lts.

Russ, Dudley, of 13882 Tustin Drive East, Tustin, Alex Whitten, and Jack Methot, both of whom live in base quarters. It was not immediately THE STATE Plane Lands Safely A crippled commuter airlines plane made a safe landing at Fresno Air Terminal after circling the airport for 90 minutes, unable to land because a wheel had fallen off. The Valley Airlines plane, its left wheel missing, landed on a runway covered with fire retardant foam while fire crews stood by. The pilot of the twin-engine Beechcraft said he noticed the landing gear was not working properly after he took off. on a flight from San Jose to BakersfieldV He landed at Fresno, unloaded the passengers, then took off for a test flight As the plane took off, he said.

the left wheel dropped off. Former Inyo Connty Welfare Director Marie Lane was fined $3,000 and placed on five years probation by -Inyo County Superior Judge Verne Summers after she pleaded guilty to embezzling $2,017 intended for Northern Inyo 'Hospital The convened in Independence, also required her to pay back the embezzled funds in installments. The county probation office had rec 1 1 1i.tr iJn.iimn fttmVil 'Iff' A cabdriver was murdered and a doorman critically wounded on Manhattan's west side, 15 minutes and three blocks apart. Police theorized the pair might have been shot by the same gunman. The cabdriver, David Levine, 68, of Brooklyn, was the first regular New York taxi driver killed on the job since 1970, when protective shields were installed in most cabs.

Michael Dwight, 21, of Wilmington, was arrested a3 a suspect in the shootings. Mrs. Junius T. Morrison, in Iran on a world tour, learned that her husband had died 11 days earlier when his antique plane crashed in a Missouri field on a cross-country flight. Family members had been unable to contact her earlier.

Morrison, a 59-year-old Eastern Air Lines pilot, had attempted to fly the open-cockpit Curtiss Wright pusher -prop plane from Moses Lake, to Miami. Mrs. Morrison planned to return Immediately to Miami, where his body lies in a funeral home. Strong winds built up heavy seas off the Oregon coast, sinking three fishing vessels ranging in length' from 36 to 65 feet. All crew members were rescued by other fishing boats.

Coast Guard aircraft and a cutter also rendered The civilian lawyer for 1st Lt William L. Calley George W. Latimer of Salt Lake City, said he would seek a new trial for Calley because of the discovery of a witness to the My Lai massacre the Army claimed was missing at the time of the original court-martial. Latimer said the witness, Charles Dean (Butch)" Gruver, 27, had been located and i3 the only person who could testify that orders to destroy My Lai and kill all it3 inhabitants came to Capt Ernest L. Medina, Calley's company, commander, from higher headquarters.

The Navy's new F-ll Jet fighters will cost $20.8 million apiece, not $165 million as the Nary now claims, according to Sen. William Proxtaire Proxmire contended that proof of the cost rise la contained In a Pentagon report he asked Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird to make public May 3. Building the Grumman Corp. jet, the senator declared, would be "gold-plated unilateral dis-arroent" because it would cost 12 times the estimated price cf a Soviet MIG-21.

Four fishing vessels have been detained for violating the international North Pacific Fisheries Treaty, the Coast Guard announced in Juneau, Alaska. The vessels, sighted fishing about 50 miles southeast of Alaska's Trinity Islands, are being escorted to Kodiak and will be turned over to Japanese authorities. Under terms of the treaty, Japan agrees to abstain from all salmon fishing east of the treaty abstention line of 175 degrees west longitude. The United States and Canada are the two other members of the treaty. President Nixon reaffirmed the United States commitment to the state of Israel as the Zionist Organization of America marked its diamond jubilee In Jerusalem.

In a brief message that was to have been conveyed by New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, who canceled a trip to Jerusalem due to the death of his mother-in-law, Mr. Nixon said: "In my recent discussions with Soviet leaders I made clear the com- mitment of the American people to the survival of the state of Israel Floods in the Soviet republic of Georgia in early June left thousands of persons homeless and caused "very great" material loss, the government newspaper Izvestia said. The newspaper gave no death fig- i ures but said "there were also hu- man casualties." Thunderstorms which dumped 5.4 inches of rain in i one hour devastated the southeast region ot the republic which produc- es the nation's finest wine.

1 Soviet scientists in Kharkov re-: ported designing an instrument that can measure the temperature of a burning match more than 6,000 miles away. The news agency Tass said that to achieve the superconductivity of the sensitive elements necessary for such measurements, a temperature of minus 270 degrees centigrade was artificially created inside the' instrument. An example of prospective use was given in the measurement of heat of distant stars and planets. Newsmakers Aunt Bea Moves From RFD to City Aunt Bea has bought a home In Siler City, N.C., and plans to settle down to the life of a comfortable, small-town matron she portrayed on the Andy Griffith Show and Mayberry, RFD, on'televi- sion." Aunt Bea is Frances Bavier," who has retired after 50 years in show She should feel rights at home in Siler City, an agricultural and manufacturing town of 5,000 where she shopped many times in the television se- ries. Raleigh i3 50 minutes away by automobile, Mt.

Airy a skip and a jump and -Mt. Pilot just, down the road apiece. All hare been referred to in her television shows. The reclusive occupant of the top floor of Vancouver's Bayshore Inn has decided after a four-month stay that he likes Vancouver so much he doesnt want to leave. That's the word from Richard Hannah, public relations man for billionaire Howard Hushes.

"He is enjoying his stay very much," Hannah said. "He considers Vancouver tc be an extremely pretty city, with its Fpectacular vtew of the mountains." In a move to discourage potential hijackers, Braniff International will make it impossible to open the rear stairways of all its 727 jetliners. In Dallas, a spokesman said hijackers had "capitalized on the fact that these self-contained rear steps, which can be lowered beneath the aircraft, are the only methods of parachuting from a commercial airliner." The Rapid City flood area is not included in relief legislation that President Nixon plans to propose to Congress Monday, Mayor Donald Bar-nett reported after being told that the White House planned to review the $1.7 billion disaster relief program over the weekend. At least 237 persons died in the floods that ravaged Rapid City June 9 after torrential rains. The President's proposal features $5,000 grants and loans at 1 interest to victims of tropical storm Agnes.

Jane Fondo wears helmet os she whatever assistance you can give me in my campaign Surely we will not want to split the vote in this pivotal state." Pucinski said that when he told Percy about the message, "he just laughed and said, 'She's a pretty pood The senator's daughter is married to John D. Rockefeller IV, secretary of state of Wen Virginia, who is a Democratic candidate for governor. THE ENVIRONMENT DDT Substitute' to Be Available in 6 Months inspects on antiaircraft gun emplacement visit to Hanoi. 'After reading that Sharon Percy BockcfeUer Would participate in the Democrats' fund-raising telethon last weekend Rep. Roman racintkl (D-I1L) wrote asking that the join Ms campaign to unseat her father, Republican Sen.

Charles Percy. Puclnski's message to Mrs. Rockefeller read in part, "Since I. too, will be working for the Democratic nominee, I would be most grateful to you for An insecticide, Emtex said to be more efficient than DDT, will be available within six months for nationwide distribution, its developers said. The successor to the govern-' cent-banned DDT "kills tup but doesnt kill people," said Dr.

Alan Becker, president of Ecological Manufacturing Corp. In North Bergen, NJ. It is an improved formu'a cf rr.ethcxychJor, originally patented Li Switzerland in 102S. Tit Atomic Enercy Conxmissloa.

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