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Part 1, Pag 2 Inside The Times president, of the5 Los Angeles school board. (Part 2, Page 1.) Los Angeles is losing a fine out- door mural because a developer decided to build an apartment in front of It. (Part 2, Editorial Section.) Los Angeles County supervisors ordered an Inquiry into the firing of a purchasing agent. (Part 2, Page 1.) The Soviet press is closely watching the U.S.. presidential campaign.

(Part 1-A, Page 6.) We Eke Americans," in Icelander saidj but 'their liking has been chilled by chess player Bobby Fischer's acts. (Part 1, Page 22,) A knif e-wirtding man who held his baby girl as hoctage failed in an attempt to hijack a plane at Buffalo, N.Y. (Part 1, Page 25.) The state Assembly reversed itself and moved to regain control over the $1 billion highway construction budget. (Part 1, Page 26.) I rt Finihcial Harry Saltzman, leader of successful proxy fight at Technicolor has sold the bulk of his holdings. (Part 3, Page 12.) Glamor issues led the stock market to some respectable gains.

The Dow Jones industrials closed up 4.81 at 933.47. (Part 3, Page 12.) The British pound rose to $2.4474. The dollar also firmed somewhat. (Part 3, Page 12.) A judge has permanently enjoined a photographer from harassing Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her children. (Part 1, Page 5.) The Miami Beach City Council reversed itself and voted, to allow protesters to camp near the Democratic convention.

(Part 1, Page 7.) A Pentagon order threatened to divert thousands of travelers from airports that charge passenger taxes, (Part 1, Page 11.) Dissident sources reported a suicide and a suicide attempt to protest Soviet occupation of Lithuania. (Part 1, Page 15.) Russia pledged support for Cuba as Premier Fidel Castro ended his visit. (Part 1, Page 16.) President Nixon conferred with a military aide at the Western White House on the Southeast Asia situation. (Part 1, Page 21.) A jury award of $551,000 to two land purchasers who sued the Boise Cascade Corp. was set aside by a judge.

(Part 1, Page 3.) A fire below Lake Pirn in Ventura County was controlled but another broke out in Inyo National Forest. (Patf 1, Page 3.) Legislation which would have provided an early retirement bonanza for 152 California judges has been scuttled. (Part 1, Page 3.) A U.S. plan to ban any discrimination in the Los Angeles Fire Department was given to the council. (Part 1, Page 3.) rj Sports Willie Davis hit a 3-run double as Claude Osteen hurled the Dodgers to a 7-3 win over Montreal.

(See Part 3, Page 1.) Australian Evonne Goolagong beat American Chris Evert and will meet Billie Jean King in the Wimbledon tennis final. (Part 3, Page 1.) Pinch-hitter Winston Uenas delivered a 9th inning single that gave Angels 1-0 win over Milwaukee. (Part 3, Page 1). THE SOUTHLAND Former Public Defender Slain News in Brief i zL lL, i i I NTV hi 4 Hermosa Beach and Huntington Beach are planning ways to prevent recurrences next year of Fourth of July melees. (Part 1, Page 3.) French President Georges Pompidou dropped Premier Jacques Cha-ban-Delmas in a surprise reshuffle of his regime.

(Part 1, Page 4.) Newly elected Japanese leader Kakuel Tanaka said he would maintain strong relations with the United States. (Part 1, Page 4.) treasury Secretary Shultz met with supermarket executives and, afterward, predicted an early drop in meat prices. (Part 1, Page 5.) Comolled from th Le Annies Times, the Lei Angtles Times-Washington Post News Servict and maior wire and supplementary news agencies. Kill 53 Christians having radio trouble. It entered the lagoon of the Mururoa Atoll, where repairs were begun, free of charge, after an appeal to the commander of the French nuclear test group.

Reps. Hale Boggs and Gerald Ford, the Democratic and Republican leaders of the House, arrived in Hong Kong after a 10-day visit to China. They said they would not reveal the substance of their talks with Premier Chou En-lai and other Chinese until they report to President Nixon. Boggs said Chou told them Chairman Mao Tse-tung is in very good health. West Germany and the Soviet Union signed a trade and economic agreement, marking the end of a nine-year period of trade between the countries that was carried on without a formal commerce agreement.

The inclusion of West Berlin in the pact was seen as a triumph in Chancellor Willy Brandt's campaign to improve relations with Soviet-bloc countries. The opposition demanded the resignation of West German Chancellor Willy Brandt in the wake of the tendered resignation of his economics and finance minister, Karl Schiller, whose action protested the cabinet's passing of rigid controls on the movement of capital. A government spokesman said that Brandt had no intention of resigning adding that Brandt would explain his decision on Schiller Friday. Algeria celebrated its 10th birthday as an independent nation with a massive military and civilian parade. Squadrons of tanks, artillery pieces and ground-to-air rockets mostly from the Soviet Union rolled past President Houari Boume-dienne, who was joined by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, exiled Cambodian leader, and Mauritanian President Moktar Ould Daddah.

Boume-dienne said Algeria could join the ranks of developed nations at the end of this decade. ENDING THE CONVENTION Japan's retiring Prime Minister Eisaku Soto, left, and his successor, Kakuei Tanaka, in center, join other Liberal Democratic Party leaders in a "banzai" (long live) cheer at closing of the convention in Tokyo. The party earlier elected Tanaka its leader, in effect giving him the premiership. Story in Part 1, Pagt 4 iff) WirephoO THE NATION 900 Arrested in Crackdown on Drug Pushers The 'Assembly approved a to lower the margin for school bonds approval. (Part 1, Page 30.) A new developer was named for a prize parcel in the $1 billion Los Angeles Bunker Hill urban renewal project.

(Part 2, Page 1.) The Los Angeles Police Commission rejected a proposal to adopt "dum-dum" bullets. (Part 2, Page 1.) J. C. Chambers, a conservative and long a foe of integration, was elected with what his personal physician, Dr. Wallace II.

Graham, termed "a lower gastrointestinal problem." The latest report also said Mr. Truman had indicated soreness in his lower back, which has since improved. The bulletin said the former President's condition remained satisfactory and that he had had "an excellent night." A federal judge in Biloxi squelched a move by the regular faction of the Mississippi Democratic Party to unseat the rival loyalist faction. Gov. William Waller, head of the regulars, had no comment on the loss of the battle to represent the state at the Democratic convention next week.

The regulars' attorney said he would appeal. The party's national credentials committee has rejected the regulars and approved the loyalist delegation. Dr. Jesse L. Steinfeld, the U.S.

surgeon general, said he felt vindicated by a new government study warning that some nonphosphate detergents can blind if they come in contact with the eyes. The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences has reported that tests with rabbits indicate serious damage by the nonphosphates. The Food and Drug Administration said it disagreed with the testing procedures but nevertheless would require new or stronger cautionary labeling. Steinfeld said, however, "The problem is a young child who can't read." The National Assn. for the Advancement of Colored People plans to challenge the busing section of the recently passed higher education bill in the Supreme Court, according to the civil rights organization's general counsel, Nathaniel Jones.

The law postpones the effective date of all court-ordered busing to achieve racial balance until appeals have been ruled on, or until Jan. 1, 1974, if appeals take that long. It also restricts the use of federal money for busing. Philadelphia Dist Atty. Arlen Specter asked the state Legislature to approve the death penalty in eight types of murder.

Included would be killings committed during kidnaping3 and hijackings, as well as killing a law officer and murder done for hire. The U.S. Supreme Court last Thursday ruled that the death penalty as presently imposed is illegal. But the court indicated that states could retain the capital punishment in some cases. In View In Los Angeles, the late, late show is live at the "Open All Nite" Toluca Mart.

(Part 4, Page 1.) A weekend guide lists family events in the Southland. (Part 4, Page4.) A women's activist has tips for the woman who wants to move up in management. (Part 4, Page 7.) Television actor' Edd (Kooky) Byrnes, 38, was found In contempt of court for failing to make two $150 monthly child support payments for his son, Logan, 6. Superior Court Commissioner John Leslie Goddard suspended a one-day County Jail sentence providing Byrnes make the back payments. A divorce suit filed Feb.

25, 1971, by Byrnes' wife, actress Asa Maynor, 29, is pending. An Upland man was critically injured when his single-engine airplane crashed into trees while flying over a campgrour4 ia the Sierra Nevada foothills 25 miles south of Bishop. The victim was identified as Payton Farley, 43, the pilot. Farley was erroneously reported as killed in earlier editions of The Times. Two passengers, identified as Jess Richards and Wayne Maxwell, both of Ontario, suffered minor injuries but did not require hospital treatment.

Box office receipts from one day at the Million Dollar Theater in downtown Los Angeles which specializes in Spanish-language entertainment were donated to the Committee for the Defense of Ricardo Chavez-Ortiz, accused airplane hijacker. Various Chicano groups picketed the theater for about six weeks, charging that the management was "unresponsive" to th needs of the local Spanish-speaking community. A spokesman for the theater said the donation, which may reach $2,000, was made because Chavez-Ortiz appears to have "broad support from the Mexican-American community." A 3 'a -year-old Banning child, Douglas Troy Rogers, who had been missing for more than 27 hours in the San Jacinto Mountains near Idyllwild, was found safe by rescuers. The child, barefoot and wearing only shorts, walked away from the Lia Hona Lodge late Tuesday morning. His condition was listed as satisfactory.

Year Old Drinking Bill length of water pipe to lodge in hij skull, officials said. A tentative agreement aimed at raising the salaries of prison guards by 15 was reached by representatives of the governor, the state Personnel Board and the California State Employes Assn. The increase would double the pay raise of 7Va given to the correctional officers effective July 1 under the new budget. Sen. H.L.

Richardson (R-Arcadia) said he would seek a quick legislative approval of the pay boost after receiving formal approval of ths move by Gov. Reagan, who is on a goodwill tour of Europe for President Nixon. He said he was "pretty sure" the governor would approva the proposal via telephone in the next day or two. Accused mass murderer Juan Corona was transferred from Sutter County jail to a prison ward in tha California Medical Facility in Officials said Corona, 38, who has suffered two heart attacks within the last year, will be held thera throughout his trial, scheduled to begin Sept. 5, in the Solano County town of Fairfield.

more restrictive than a plan adopted last year, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's advisory planning commission was told. Anthony Orme, a UCLA geography professor and TRPA consultant, said in a progress report that the new plan would call for stronger controls on development in a buffer zona around the lake to be at least 350 feet wide. The plan also will limit tha number of piers. The body of a former public defender his throat slashed was found by his mother in the living room of his West Hollywood apartment. Sheriff's homicide investigators said Ronald S.

May, 39, 868 W. Knoll had been dead for at least 24 hours. The suspected murder weapon, a knife, was found nearby. The body was discovered by Mrs. Edith May, 71, when she went to the apartment after her son failed to report for work at the May Finance 500 W.

Washington where he was an executive. Authorities said May quit his job as a county public defender after the recent death of his father. A Chicano activist was in serious condition at County-USC Medical Center with a concussion after an explosion in his Highland Park home. A companion of Ray Andrade, 28, told investigators that a wire had been connected from a light bulb socket to an explosive device planted near the front door. When Andrade entered his home and flipped the light switch, the device went off, said Peter Rodriguez, 53, who was not injured.

Both men are leaders of Justicia, a group opposed to "demeaning portrayals" of Mexicans in motion pictures and television films. James F. Healy, former vice president of the Southern California First National Bank, pleaded guilty in federal court in San Diego to embezzlement, telling the judge he stole "somewhere around $40,000" over the last five years. Healy, 58, of El Cajon. rose from messenger to head of the bank's holding account for trusts and dividends.

Sentencing was set for Aug. 2, at which time Healy could receive a maximum of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Edwin W. Wade was unanimously elected to his fifth three-year term as mayor of Long Beach by the nine-man City Council. Wade, 68, has served as mayor since first being elected to the council in 1960.

THE STATE Committee OKs 18 A proposed constitutional amendment that would lower California's drinking age from 21 to 18 has cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee and is ready now for a final test on the upper house floor. If approved there, the measure, by Assemblyman John T. Knox (D-Rich-mond), will go before voters in November. A legislative impasse over no-fault auto insurance continues with another vote delay in the Senate Judiciary Committee, this time until today. The committee was to have balloted on an Assembly-approved measure, but supporters indicated they lacked the votes.

Committeemen approved two no-fault bills last month, but both were defeated later in the Senate Finance Committee. A 13-year-old Modesto boy died from head injuries suffered when a homemade rocket exploded in his face, fire officials said. Danny Ham-mons lit the fuse of a homemade rocket in the backyard of a friend's home and it exploded, causing a THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1972 THE WORLD Moslem Raiders Heavily armed Moslems sacked three coastal villages in Zamboanga del Sur province in the Philippines, hacking to death at least 53 Christians and wounding 100 others, authorities said. They believed the raids may have been in retaliation for Moslem killings in nearby villages in the past few days. On June 10 about 100 Christian gunmen killed 17 Moslems.

More than 800 persons have been killed in the religious feuding in the last two years. World famous Russian biologist Zhores A. Medvedev telephoned an American scientist to report that he had been arrested by Russian police outside the Kiev conference hall where the ninth International Congress of Gerontology was being held and forced to return home. Previously, the biologist, who has criticized the government for interfering with the work of scientists and artists, had been barred from attending the conference. Medvedev had traveled secretly to Kiev and his disappearance had caused concern among the delegates from 43 countries.

Militant Protestants in Belfast pledged to build more "no-go" barricades this weekend but tempered the threat with a promise of 14 days of "peace and grace" afterward if the British army would "deal with the deteriorating situation." At the same time, British administrator William Whitelaw ordered the establishment of a public protection agency to combat a wave of sectarian intimidation, that has forced residents to flee their homes. Meanwhile, the 10th and 11th men to die since a ceasefire began 10 days ago were found in a ditch, apparently victims of guerrilla execution squads. A Canadian ketch that sailed into the French nuclear testing area to protest atomic explosions was reported undergoing repairs courtesy of the French navy. The Greenpeace III was reported damaged in a collision with a French minesweeper and was also short of fuel and Newsmakers Let's Hope They Tell the Bosses at Home The U.N. Fund for Population Activities opened a seminar on the management of family planning.

You would think that would be of more than passing interest to women, but a check of the delegations from 23 nations, 21 international organizations as well as 15 miscellaneous observers, found that all were male. Asked why, organizers of the conference disclaimed all responsibility. "We take what they send us; we don't choose them," an official said. But Britain's Prince Philip had a more positive approach to the population problem. "Unless reproductive activities are con- -trolled, there can be no future for mankind, he wrote in the preface of a book by Dr.

John Loraine. a population expert. Prince Philip has suggested that couples should have no more than two children. Dr. Loraine, being a 43-year-old widower, is perhaps the more credible of the two.

Philip and Queen Elizabeth II have four children. Under a dump of trees at the "Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C, the Interaational La 4ies Garment Workers Union Atty. Gen. Richard G. Kleindienst announced that a special program aimed at drug pushers in 33 major cities had netted 900 arrests in the last two weeks.

He said it had disrupted heroin traffic in some cities and dried up sources in others. Myles J. Ambrose, chief of the Office for Drug Abuse Law Enforcement, cited specific successes in San Antonio and Buffalo where the number of those seeking methadone assistance was increasing and agents were have difficulty in buying heroin. He named Los Angele3 as one of the areas where the crackdown had driven up the price of hard drugs. Further rays have been ordered for former President Harry Truman as doctors continue examining him, a spokesman said at Research Hospital in Kansas City, Mo.

Mr. Truman, 88, was admitted Sunday George Reedy told a seminar in Keystone, S.D. Reedy, former President Lyndon B. Johnson's press secretary, said such an observation had led him to conclude that "with few exceptions, every politician suffers from a touch of paranoia." He did not name the exceptions. By Jennings Parrott i 3 I 4 V' xi I i t.

1 -7 S' -x i -V s- I 1 THE ENVIRONMENT N.J. Begins Pollution Testing of Autos A SETBACK Chicago's Mayor Richard J. Daley attending a City Council meeting after an appeals court in Washington upheld the unseating of the Illinois delegation to the Democratic convention. Star? to Part hn 1 Wlrsphots commemorated one of the first labor strikes in the nation with a rendition of its anthem: Hail the Waist-Makers of 1900." Gloria Steinem, where were you when we really needed you? Politicians are quick to on any shred of evidence that there is a plot against them, The nation's first standardized state's Department of Environment testing of cars for air pollution violations began in New Jersey, the tal Protection announced. The half-minute test is a trial run over the next 12 months for state exhaust emission standards that go into effect July 1, 1973.

Until then, violators will get only a warning. A saw Laka Take shoreline plan now being prepared probably will be.

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