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A Civil Aeronautics Board examiner said airline, fare" hikes in in 1969-70 weren't fflegajr (Part Part 1, Page 2 Inside Tte Tiies In Sports The Angels dropped a 4-2 decision to Milwaukee before a crowd of (Part 3, Page 1.) Tommy John was blasted for five runs in four inning3 as ths Montreal Expos handed the Dodgers their fifth loss in a row, 7-3 (Part 3, Page 1.) Stan Smith of Pasadena became the only American to reach the Wimbledon men's singles semifinals. (Part 3, Page 1.) In Financial Recapture of Quang Trl still appears to be days off in the minds of those advancing along: Highway 1. (Parti, Page The identity of the passenger who killed a young Vietnamese, hijacker at the Saigon airport is still a mystery. (Part 1, Page, 27.) Leaders of France and West Germany reaffirmed their desire for a Common Market summit and mone-. tary unity.

(Part 1, Page 31.) A conservationist coalition sought to force a wild rivers bill out of a state Legislature committee. (Part 1, Page 32.) The lives of thousands of sick old people in California may be endangered by massive Medi-Cal cuts. (Part 2, Page 1.) The United States is guilty of "strategic overstretch," in Vietnam, according to a noted Harvard historian. (Part 2, Editorial Section.) Three Miami area escort services offering girls for hire report good business as the Democratic convention hearse (Part 1, Page 10.) A three-judge U.S. court delayed ruling on appeals to reinstate ousted McGovern and' Daley delegations.

(Part 1, Page 10.) Sen. George S. McGovern's 271 member California delegation' will meet tonight to trim itself to 120 delegates. (Part 1, Page 11.) A veteran jet pilot was killed when his craft, a replica of a 1930s plane, crashed. (Part 1, Page 16.) Guerrillas and Viet Cong units have dealt major setbacks to the South Vietnamese in Quang Ngai province.

(Part 1, Page 22.) About 27 persons were injured in Manila as some 2,000 youths protested "Philippines-American Friendship Day." (Part 1, Page 23.) Amputee Fy Turner installs phone booths for a living and complains only when he has nothing to- no. iran 1, rage 3.j Damages were estimated at $2 million after three Southland fires at a church, a shopping center? and a factory. (Par 1, Page 3.) 3 A spark set off the entire load of fireworks $3,900 worth at Lake Elsinore as tens of thousands watched. (Part 1, Page 3.) I A man was jailed after he alleged ly tried to kill himself, his wife and two step-children by crashing his car. (Part 1, Page 3.) A selling wave drove the British pounu in a new iuw aim uaucu we i i i i dollar to tne iioor in European currency markets.

(Part 3, Page 13.) Insurance firms will suffer less damage from Hurricane Agnes, which hit Eastern states, than many investors expect. (Part 3, Page 13.) THE SOUTHLAND L.A. Jewish Pickets Carry Rifles Nevs in Brief i t- Vv -V Fss. 1 t- i Rifles carried by seven members of the anti-Soviet Jewish Defense League who picketed a performance of the Ukrainian Dance Company at the Greek Theatre in Griffith Park were found to be unloaded by police. The officers were summoned by theater patrons.

The JDL members, protesting treatment of Jewish people in Russia, carried signs saying that patrons of the performance were attending "at your own risk." They were permitted to continue picketing. A man armed with a pistol tied up a woman night clerk at the Holiday Inn, 3737 W. Chapman Orange, and escaped with more than $1,000 from the cash box. Police said the clerk freed herself from the telephone cord which the man had brought with him. She was not injured.

She described the bandit as about 35, dressed in a dark suit with a pink necktie. The student newspaper at UC Santa Barbara was taken over for one edition by the administration to print a retraction of an article accusing public officials of involvement in real estate fraud. The officials had requested the retraction, but the editor of the publication refused to print it. A Riverside youth was electrocuted when he attempted to disconnect an electric cord shortly after he and his younger brother had finished washing the family automobile. Police said John David Johnson, 15, had evidently been standing in the middle of a puddle of water from the THE STATE More than 300 firemen from Los Angeles and Ventura counties battled a major brush fire in the LaLa Piru areb.

(Part 1, Page 3.) 1 A State Senate committee approved a measure to make drivers responsible for meeting antismog standards. (Part 1, Page 3.) U.S. experts see the Korean moves as a major political change in the Far East. (Part 1, Page 4.) An NAACP resolution strongly criticized President Nixon's stand on busing. (Part 1, Page 5.) Comolled from the Let Angeles Time, the Los Angeles Times-Washington Post News Service and maior wire and supplementary news agencies.

to China Told ranean resort of Netariya, meantime, a bomb exploded in a bus station, injuring the 25-year-old Arab who planted it, Israeli police said. Several other suspects were arrested. A Pan American 707 jetliner carrying 54 passengers and nine crew members made an emergency landing at Osaka International Airport in Japan after six anonymous telephone calls to the Pan Am office in Osaka said a time bomb had been set aboard the plane. After putting down at Osaka from where it had taken off shortly before for Guam the plane was evacuated but a search failed to locate any explosive. Marion McMillan, the American sociologist who had served five months of a three-year jail sentence for smuggling 21 pounds of marijuana into Britain, was released by order of a London appeals court.

Lord Justice Edmund Davies substituted a two-year suspended sentence for the original penalty after the court was informed that Miss McMillan, formerly of San Diego, would fly with a cousin to Ontario, Canada, and live with an aunt. Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti pledged to stamp out extremist violence as the Christian Democrat presented the program of his centrist government to Parliament. He declared that fascism and communism threaten democratic freedom and said, "Every effort must be made to prevent and repress every form of violence, bringing about the dissolution of military-style groups whatever their camouflage." The Liberian freighter Grand Fair sank after colliding with the Dutch tanker Koratia in Ise Bay, about 170 miles southwest of Tokyo. The Japanese Maritime Safety Agency reported that the freighter's 37 crewmen survived the mishap and were taken to Yokkaichi port, about 18 miles southwest of Nagoya, aboard the tanker. The Dutch vessel suffered damage to its hull 1 PROTESTANT MILITANTS Members of the Ulster Defense Assn.

wear masks to conceal their identity as they meet newsmen in Belfast following previous day's confrontation with British troops. Protestants gave up efforts to seal off one of their areas. Story in Part 1, Pag Iff) Wlrephoto THE NATION Holiday Toll Falling Far Short of Prediction rage it.) In View Planning 13ft pvfpncinn m'ursps at UC Irvine requires that Alice Anderson keep her finger on tfje public's pulse. (Part 4, Page What did Lord Tennyson say to the wife and children in the Museum one day? rJa'ck: Smith knows. (Part 4, Page The aviation industry is always a winner in the Powder Puff Derby.

(Part 4, Page 2.) -y The big red barn of the Beverly Hills Thieves Market shelters, 61 merchants. (Part 4, Page 13.) 5 KCET, Los Angeles' public. TV, showed a 238 audience increase, Nielsen said. (Part'4, Page 26.) car he was washing when he yanked on the cord, attached to a plug overhead. His brother, Keith, 13, said he saw a spark and then his brother fell.

The youth was pronounced dead at the scene. Marijuana and heroin worth was found concealed in the frame of a truck that had recently been driven the Mexican border. Six persons were arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to smuggle the contraband. The truck had been under surveillance for more than six hours before it was stopped and Cruz Martinez, 27, of Cudahy and Ramon Valenzuela, 42, of Mexicali were taken into custody in Long Beach. Flora Baker, 30, of Ingle-wood, Johnny Bell, 30, of Oakland, Diane Harris, 31 and her husband Milburn Harris, 31, both of Oakland were all picked up later at a W.

Manchester Blvd. motel in Los Angeles with about $7,500 in cash, officials said. An Upland man was killed when his single engine light airplane struck a slight downdraft and crashed into trees while flying low over a campground in the Sierra Nevada foothills 25 miles south of Bishop. The victim was identified as Payton Farley, 43, the pilot. Two passengers, identified as Jess Richards and Wayne Maxwell, both of Ontario, suffered minor injuries, but did not require hospital treatment.

San Diego will get $153,000 in federal funds to help pay the costs of preparing for the Republican National Convention that later moved to Miami Beach. The city spent a total of $212,000 but the rest of the money will be paid from a city hotel and motel room tax revenue that i3 being held in reserve. Friday when high tides are anticipated. Operations to pump water out of the resort town have been resumed after temporary postponement when flood water began flowing back into the community last Saturday. A freak accident took the life of a 31-year-old man in Woodward Reservoir, about 12 miles north of Modesto.

Authorities said Daniel H. Wheeler, of Ripon, who was standing waist-deep in water alongside his boat, was electrocuted when he touched a gas pump that was short-circuited. He died at the scene. California state police will have the "whole responsibility" for state fair security at Cal Expo in Sacramento, T. E.

fairgrounds manager, announced. But state police Inspector R. S. McHale said that "in case of any serious trouble the burden will fall on the Sacramento tity police because we don't have the manpower." The 1971 fair was marred by several nights of disorder during which police used tear gas to disperse bands of rock-throwing youths. on 10 days and exceeded the standard on nine days.

Riverside County Air Pollution Control District reports indicated that Palm Springs was the county's third smoggiest city in 1971, based on ozone content of the air. California bighorn sheep appear to be repopulating their former range in the Lava Bed National Monument, state Department of Fish and Game officials said. The rare sheep disappeared from the location about CO years ago. Recently, two rams and" eight ewes were "taken there from British Columbia, and they have produced four lambs. There are alout 22 California bighorn sheep in the state, fish and game ficials said.

Arson Blamed for New Fire on Cannery Row WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1972 THE WORLD U.S. POW Shift American war prisoners are being transferred from North Vietnam to China, the Rev. Paul A. Lindstrom, national chairman of the Remember the Pueblo Committee, said in Copenhagen en route to Sweden. His "positive information," he said, is that the movement has been speeded up since April 20.

He said he is in Scandinavia to win support for a privately organized brigade of some 150 men that will attempt soon to liberate the war prisoners. Secretary of State William P. Rogers arrived in Athens for a one-day visit amid protests by opposition groups against the U.S. role in Greece. Rogers was met by ranking members of the army-backed regime led by Dep.

Premier Stylianos Pata-kos after a flight from Kuwait. He praised Greece as an "important security on NATO's southern He was to confer with Premier George Papadopoulos today. John B. Connally, President Nixon's special envoy, celebrated the Fourth of July with the American community in New Delhi. Arriving in India's capital at a time when U.S.-Indian relations are at an all-time low, the former Texas governor told picnicking Americans that "we want to be a force for good in the world and contribute to tranquillity and peace." Gov.

Reagan flew from Copenhagen to the Jutland town of Aalborg to take part in the annual July 4 Danish-American friendship celebration. Main speakers were Danish Foreign Minister K. B. Andersen and actor Danny Kaye. Reagan will leave Thursday for Belgium on a continuation of a seven-nation tour as President Nixon's special representative.

Israeli security forces patrolled Lod International Airport at Tel Aviv following an anonymous warning of open war against Israel's El Al airline if Japanese terrorist Kozo Okamoto is put on trial for the May 30 airport massacre. In the Mediter Newsmakers- Her 'Attitude' Was Too Much for Judge Sicily is more than just Mafia and Etna, sirocco and sardines. It is also a land where it is a crime for girls to cross their legs in public. Judge Carlo Scribano walked past a sidewalk cafe in Ragusa and saw more than just Ingrid Krause of West Germany eating ice cream. Scribano summoned police to arrest the young woman tourist, fined her the equivalent of $17 and, in his written charge, accused her of: "sitting in a public place in an attitude contrary to public decency by having the legs crossed so as to show the left thigh entirely nude." A similar case involving a Danish woman occurred last year in Palermo.

Gov Winfield Dunn, with a trooper-bodyguard at the wheel, was driving along when his car was passed by another traveling at high speed. At the urging of the Tennessea governor, who i3 obviously cutting no corners to cozen up to the young vote, his driver took off in pursuit and soon stopped the teen -aged scofflaw. The youth was cited to juvenile Arson was blamed for another in a series of fires on historic Cannery Row in Monterey. The old Oxnard Cannery, already damaged by a previous arson blaze, was set aflame a3 fire department officials noted a pattern of arson on major holiday weekends. Previous fires were set on the weekends of the U.S.

Open golf tournament and the Laguna Seca auto race. A 17-year-old Sacramento girl is the new governor of Girls State. Sandra Dorsey was elected at the annual event sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary. Other top officers elected were lieutenant governor: Debi Madison of Concord, secretary of state: Lani Lawrence of Needles, controller: Jan Albrecht of San Diego, treasurer: Holly Guiou of Temple City, attorney general: Laura Ewen of Saugus, chief justice: Pam Shiba of Buena Park and superintendent of public instruction: Judi Pregulman of Pacific Palisades. Flood-plagued Isleton in the Sacramento River delta is expecting more water damage Thursday or The nation's traffic death toll climbed to 676 in the' closing hours of the four-day July 4 holiday period, which was certain to fall far short of the forecast.

The National Safety Council had estimated that between 800 and 900 persons would die on highways and streets during the 102-hour period from 6 p.m. local time Friday through midnight Tuesday. The death toll in last year's 78-hour Fourth of July period was 635. An encounter in Miami Beach between 40 demonstrators and two water-borne policemen ended without incident when the officers plucked a small float of hibiscus flowers from a canal and cut short a mock funeral ceremony. The Vietnam Veterans Against the War said the protest was for Nguyen Thai Binh, a Viet- i A 7 v.

I Hendrix' mother really had been a dog, rather than a human, and gave him a resounding slap for his impertinence. Although some of his supporters thought he should have barked put orders for her arrest, the new mayor declined to press charges. By Jennings Farrott namese killed Sunday during an attempted hijacbdng of a jet airliner to Hanoi. Joining the Veterans were the Youth International Party and the Miami Convention's Coalition. Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Auto Workers, said he could support either George S.

McGovern or Hubert H. Humphrey for President. He said his statements made in a television interview in Detroit Monday were "misconstrued" and had been interpreted as an endorsement for McGovern. But, he added, "It looks as if McGovern is going to get it." When he spoke Monday he said he was "simply reacting to the immoral action of the credentials committee in taking away 153 California votes from McGovern." A 19-year-oId man allegedly threatened the life of President Nixon and then gave police his name. Authorities said the suspect, Audie Stephens, phoned New York City police headquarters and said: "I'm going to kill the President and I'll kill any cop who tries to stop me." He then identified himself, gave his Brooklyn address and hung up.

When police arrived, they said he was on the phone threatening to bomb a Pan American World Airways plane. Two rifles and a shotgun reportedly were found in the apartment. An alleged narcotics dealer was charged with murdering the leader of a Chicago gang the fourth person to die in 48 hours in an apparent war between rival black gangs bat-. tling for control of drug trafficking in the city's ghetto areas. Police charged Godfrey Poston, 23, with murder after finding the body of Raymond Smith, 18.

riddled with bullets. Police said Smith was the head of the Gangster Disciples, which was said to have been harassing and shaking down drug peddlers. The Coast Guard said one of it3 cutters seized a Mexican fishing boat In VS. territorial waters six miles off the Texas coast In the same area where three Mexican shrimp boats were sighted a day before. The cutter made the seizure without incident and escorted the boat to Port Isabel, Tex, officials said.

The boat's crewmen were charged with violating a 1967 fishing rights treaty between the United States and Mexico. The Coast Guard chased the three boats spotted on Monday but broke off pursuit when they reentered Mexican waters. THE ENVIRONMENT Amsterdam Airport to Curb Night Jet Noise CHALLENGER IN ICELAND Bobby Fischer crriving in Reykjavik for chess match he delayed. Then opponent refused to play. Storr to part I Pan 1 wirtMwta Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, one of Europe's largest, will be virtually closed at night for use by older jets starting Nov.

1 as a noise abatement measure. Among those certified for night operations will be the Boeing 747, Douglas DC-10, Lockheed 1011 and Fokker T-28. Jets built before 1969 will not be certified, officials said, for flights between 11:30 p.m. and 6 a.m. Palm Springs led the state in June, July and August of last year in carbon monoxide air pollution, according to state Air Resources Board figures released by Riverside County officials.

The state said Palm Springs reached the carbon monoxide standard of 10 parts per million, averaged over an eight-hour period, court on a charge of reckless driv- in; There was unscheduled swearing at the swearing-in of Allen Hendrix as mayor of Savannah Beach, Ga. Mrs. John Price, wife of the replaced police chief, allegedly asserted loudly that.

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