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Cob Angeles Simes 2 Part I Tuesday, April 14, 1981 inside The Times Fifty million Frenchmen may not be wrong, but columnist Jack Smith is focusing on only one. (Part Pagel.) In CALENDAR Roger Moore has just finished his fifth James Bond film, "For Your Eyes Only," and has high hopes for it. (Part VI, Pagel.) Joan Hackett hosted a solar celebration to help introduce solar power to Hollywood celebrities. (Part VI, Pagel.) Billy and the Beaters is Billy Ve-ra's answer to new wave. The group's new album has attracted industry attention.

(Part VI, Page 1.) Lord Byron is the subject of Romulus Linney's "Childe Byron," opening tonight at South Coast Repertory. (Part VI, Page 1.) Retail sales leveled off in March, and would have declined if not for the stimulus of auto rebates. (Part IV. Page 1.) General Motors said it does not plan additional price increases on its 1981 model automobiles. (Part IV, Pagel.) Chrysler Corp.

denied putting pressure on Ford Motor Co. in an attempt to resurrect a merger. (Part IV, Pagel.) In VIEW New equipment and services at the Abilities Unlimited Exposition help the handicapped to further independence. (Part Page 1.) Two weekends a year the White House opens its grounds to the public. As usual, the tour drew torrents of tourists.

Part Page 1. through the Middle East. (Part II, Editorial Section.) In SPORTS A San Diego mental program may lead to the day when an athlete's shrink is as important as his coach and agent. (Part III, Page 1.) The Dodgers used four pitchers to beat the San Francisco Giants, 4-3, at Candlestick Park. (Part III, Page 1.) Cable TV is keeping a lot of owners of sports franchises in business these days.

(Part III, Page 1.) In BUSINESS Interest rate fears sent stock prices lower with the Dow Jones Industrial average off 7.11 to 993.16. (Part IV, Page 1.) A Marine badly wounded in World War I will collect his Purple Heart in San Diego 62 years late. (Part II, Page 1.) Two San Diego home builders who conspired to aid a supervisor's reelection campaign have cleaned up their act. (Part II, Page 1.) Johnny Carson walked out on the taping of his "Tonight Show" in support of a strike by writers. (Part II, Page 1.) The tenant-landlord fight at a Carlsbad mobile home park will test that city's new rent-hike arbitration procedure.

(Part II, Page 1.) The big Republlcrat debate is coming; Joseph Kraft writes about it. (Part II, Editorial Section.) The "European initiative" dogs the heels of Secretary of State Haig Quebec Premier Rene Levesque, a major turnabout of political fortunes, was elected to a second term. (Part Page 12) The FBI believes that three or four of Atlanta's youth killings have been solved, its director said. (Part Page 14.) President Reagan's Asia policy will avoid "threats and demands," Ambassador Mike Mansfield said in Tokyo. (Part Page 16.) British Home Secretary William Whitelaw ordered an investigation into the rioting in London's Brixton district.

(Part Page 24). if II. If "4 if li i Hfif' iMfl i II I The space shuttle Columbia is only the beginning, according to a thinker at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Part Page 3. Many of the shuttle's landing controls are similar to those in conventional aircraft.

(Part Page 3.) Europeans hailed Columbia's flight, and China disputed Soviet criticism of the space shuttle. (Part Page 4.) The loss of speaking and writing fees cut President Reagan's income by 56, his tax returns show. (Part Page 11.) News in Compiled from the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles Times Service and major wire and supplementary news agencies The World Syrians Tighten Syrian troops carried out mop-up operations against Christian militia units around the Lebanese city of Zahlah, which has been under siege since hostilities broke out April 1 between Syrian and Christian Falangist forces. The Syrians have seized all strategic hilltops around Zahlah, cutting access to the Christian stronghold, the Falangist Party reported. The Syrian government, meanwhile, rejected suggestions by France, the former colonial power in Lebanon, to set up a new international peace force in northern Lebanon.

Solidarity labor union leader Lech Walesa called on the Polish government to break down a wall of distrust by implementing reforms and solving problems without being pressured by the union. In a nationally televised interview, Walesa said his union so far had achieved reforms only through confrontation. British parliamentary leaders decided not to try to strip imprisoned Irish Republican Army guerrilla Bobby Sands of the seat he won in the House of Commons last week. Sands, on a hunger strike in a Northern Ireland prison, could not physically take the seat anyway because he is serving a 14 -year sentence imposed after a gun battle with police. The Reagan Administration has notified Congress that it intends to sell 15 F-4E Phantom jet fighter planes to Turkey for $58 million, a State Department official said.

Delivery of the jets would mark the first U.S. sale of fighter aircraft to Turkey since 1976. Chester A. Crocker, President Reagan's chief adviser on Africa, met in Salisbury, Zimbabwe, with Prime Minister Robert Mugabe, then flew to Maputo, Mozambique, on the fifth leg of his 10-nation African tour. Crocker, nominated as Newsmakers Hard-Boiled in Brief Washington Post News Hold on City assistant secretary of state for African affairs, told reporters in Maputo that the Reagan Administration favors constitutional talks on Namibia (South-West Africa) before the territory gains independence from South Africa.

He suggested negotiations similar to those held in London before Zimbabwe's independence. Majority Leader Howard H. Baker Jr. said the Senate wants more information before it votes on the proposed sale to Saudi Arabia of radar planes and offensive equipment for F-15 fighters. The Tennessee Republican arrived in Tel Aviv with eight other senators after four days of talks in Saudi Arabia.

Israel opposes the arms sale. "As of this moment, the Senate is undecided" on the sale, Baker said. After the first high-level official contacts between the United States and Iraq in nearly four years, an American diplomat said he sees no likelihood that the two countries will re-establish formal relations soon. But Morris Draper, deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, who conferred earlier with Iraqi Foreign Minister Saddun Hammadi in Baghdad, said "the stage is set for freer dialogue." The Palestine Liberation Organization condemned President Reagan's Mideast policies and called for closer ties with communist and Western European nations. In a keynote address in Damascus, Syria, to the Palestine National Council, PLO political director Farouk Kad-doumi denounced the recent tour of the region by Secretary of State Alexander M.

Haig Jr. and made it clear that his organization regards the new U.S. Administration as worse than the previous one. The council is a sort of Palestinian parliament in exile. ml Irn.iimiJi' mM Jwjl ident Bush, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger.

Reagan announced he will not compromise with Congress on economic plan. (Story, Page 1.) On the job The President in White House living quarters with, from left. Chief of Staff James A. Baker, Counselor Edwin Meese III, Vice Pres The Nation Windfall Profits Tax Payments Lag The Internal Revenue Service is having problems collecting and monitoring the windfall profits tax on crude oil enacted a year ago, the General Accounting Office said. Among those who have not settled up their tax bill: the U.S.

Geological Survey. A GAO official told a House subcommittee that the IRS has not developed "an effectively coordinated compliance strategy." The official added that the Geological Survey, which collects the tax on oil produced from federal lands, "also faces problems." An IRS official The Southland Following a trail of broken glass from 35 smashed car windows, authorities caught two vandals ready to break a liquor store window in East Los Angeles. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies arrested Chris Molina, 18, and Frank Castro, 19, for investigation of felony vandalism. Damage to cars parked along the 600 blocks of Eastern, McDonnell, Hughes and Sidney Avenues, was estimated at $8,000 by investigators. A saucer valued at $20,000, which vanished from a display case over the weekend during a Los Angeles commemoration of the sinking of the Titanic, has been returned.

The saucer from the ill-fated liner, which sank on its maiden voyage 69 years ago, was mailed to the Oceanic Navigation Research Society, which had sponsored the commemoration. Society President Charles Sachs said the saucer arrived in a cardboard box with no return address. Some enamel on the saucer was scratched but it was otherwise undamaged, Sachs said. Two Bellflower High School girls who survived a weekend auto-mobile accident in which one of their friends was killed were re-poHed in critical condition by hos- pitalNauthorities, another was reported in serious condition and a fourth had been released to go home. Regina Blampain, 16, a Bell-flower cheerleader, was killed when a racing car crashed into the one occupied by the girls.

Christine Achen and Clarissa Graham, both 16, were in critical condition and Diane Yoshinaga, also 16, was in serious but stable condition. Kay Smith, 17, was released after treatment for a broken left arm. James R. Hander, 19, driver of the drag-racing car and another drag-racer, a juvenile, were booked on suspicion of felony drunk driving. A 29-year-old woman accused of manipulating a government computer so that she and a companion could collect Social Security benefits in the names of dead recipients pleaded guilty in federal court in Los Angeles to conspiracy, wire and mail fraud.

Assistant U.S. Atty. Henry H. Rossbacher said Alison Rae Smith, a service representative in the Social Security Administration's Torrance office, and Jerry Bernard Tyler, 34, of Sacramento conspired to have the federal government continue sending out checks in the names of recently deceased recipients. Since 1977, Rossbacher said, Smith and Tyler had shared $24,785 in Social Security checks.

An extremely rare aurora borealis the northern lights that was observed over much of the United States Sunday night, was the result of a huge solar flare that occurred on Friday morning, officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder, said. Bill Flowers, a NOAA forecaster, said red, white and green streaks were observed in the northern sky about 45 minutes starting about 8 p.m. PST. when he became chairman in February. He claimed that she overly favored the state in the regional board's running battles over smog-control authority, a charge Meade denied.

She complained that her exclusion from committees "muzzled" her. The board declined April 3 to override Heinsheimer, but strongly urged the two to try to reconcile their differences privately. As a result, Meade said, she now will serve on the board's technical and air-quality plan management committees. For the Record Glenn S. Buchanan, a last-minute major contributor to Paul Golden -er's Los Angeles City Council campaign, was incorrectly identified in The Times Saturday as a "Valley apartment and office building owner." Buchanan, a real estate investor, said he does not own apartments or office buildings in the The State Plumas County authorities searched for a 12-year-old girl who may have witnessed the slayings of her mother, her brother and his girlfriend in Keddie, near Quincy.

Tina Sharp, 36; her son, John, 16, and his friend, Dana Wingate, 17, were found bound and stabbed to death at the Sharp home, Sheriff Doug Thomas said. Two bloodstained knives and a hammer lay near the bodies. Workers at 11 San Francisco area cemeteries began the task of burying more than 400 bodies after ending a 26-day strike. Members of the Cemetery Workers and Greens Attendants Local 265 voted 84 to 22 to end their walkout at 10 Colma cemeteries and one in Palo Alto. Most of the dead from San Francisco are buried in Colma.

Ten Madera County jail inmates, including one awaiting sentencing for murder, escaped by cutting through two sets of bars, shinning down a utility pole, climbing a screened walkway and scaling an eight-foot fence to freedom. Authorities said the inmates used hacksaws to cut through the bars. A closed-circuit television system and a sound-activated monitoring operation were out of service during the early-morning escape because of $400,000 in electrical and fire safety construction work. Authorities said they were following several leads in the search for the escapees. Foes Get Crackin' Early out well, Ying-Ying will give birth to her second cub July 13 or 14.

The pandas were given to Mexico in 1975 by the late Chinese leader Mao Tse-tung. Five other cubs born in captivity were conceived by artificial insemination. Ying-Ying's first cub, born last Aug. 10, died eight days after birth, crushed under her body as she slept. -By JENNINGS PARROTT told the subcommittee the tax was projected to bring in $10.8 billion in 1980 but so far returns of about $6.8 billion have been processed.

The General Services Administration is resisting reforms that could save taxpayers millions of dollars and safeguard against fraud and organized crime infiltration, Howard Davia, an assistant inspector general, told a House subcommittee. "Very frankly, we're considerably frustrated." Davia said that since the GSA scandals became public two years ago, "I don't see any sign of improvement." Scientists flew over Washington's steaming Mt. St. Helens to get a first-hand look at the volcano's swelling lava dome and reported significant growth of "roughly 80 yards high," a spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Even though seismic activity has lessened, an eruption advisory remained in effect because "we just can't rule out that seismic activity may increase." A federal Judge in Alexandria, stayed the execution of Dalton Prejean, convicted of killing a state trooper, who was scheduled to die in the electric chair between midnight and 3 a.m. Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Nauman Scott gave lawyers 30 days to submit arguments on whether the defendant, now 21, had been too young to be sentenced to death four years ago. The acting mayor of Annapolis, tried to commit suicide because he could not cope with a financial morass left by the man he replaced, police said.

Police Chief John C. Schmitt said that one of four notes left by Gustav. J. Akerland commented on the "frustration and depression" in contending with an anticipated budget deficit. Akerland was in critical condition after shooting himself in the head while working in his office Saturday night.

Akerland was named acting mayor March 9 to succeed John Apostol, who resigned to take a job in Florida. Extra firemen were called in, days off were canceled and snowmobiles converted to hold 400 gallons of water were used to fight grass fires that have endangered the environmentally sensitive Florida Everglades for a week. More than 40,000 acres have been scorched, the worst loss in a decade, and 15 m.p.h. winds were fanning the flames. A Broward County forestry official blamed the fires on human carelessness.

Reports said hunters also were shooting the animals fleeing the flames. Energy and Environment 86 Rise in Natural Gas Price Seen In Louisiana's French-speaking Avoyelles Parish, you've got to plan ahead. Brent Seallan began picking eggs nine weeks ago. "I went through 50 dozen yesterday and found only two eggs that were any good," he said. Seallan tests for hardness by tapping the eggs against his teeth.

Wilbert (Butch) Bielklewlcz, who says his six-year winning streak was broken last year because he couldn't get enough eggs to choose from, took off from his trucking job to search for the right eggs. Adding coffee grounds to the boiling water makes them stronger, he said. Cholesterol contestants gather in town squares throughout the parish after Mass Easter morning to test the strength of their hard-boiled eggs in the annual point-to-point egg-knock. The ancient custom is "more fun than just hiding eggs," Seallan said. Usually, three rounds of 50 entrants each will knock-off until a winner is found in each group.

The three finalists then crack away for first, second and third. "Once you break an egg, you get to keep it," Seallan said. "You eat egg salad for three months. Egg salad, pickled eggs, deviled eggs. Ida Milgrom told Western reporters in Moscow that her imprisoned Jewish activist son, Anatoly Shcha-ransky, 32, has been placed in solitary confinement for six months and denied visiting rights for the rest of the year.

She said she did not know why the action was taken. Shcharansky was convicted in July, 1978, of spying for the United States and sentenced to terms running until 1990. Being pregnant is "very boring" and an "occupational hazard of being a wife," said Princess Anne, who is expecting her second child next month. "I am not particularly maternal," the 30-year-old daughter of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II remarked in a television interview. She and her commoner husband, Capt.

Mark Phillips, and their son, Peter, 3, have a farm in Gloucestershire where, she said, she was "the slave labor around the place and an extra tractor driver or whatever." Anne also observed dryly, "There is a limit to how interesting a 40-acre field can be, in my opinion." The old canard that "Latins are lousy lovers," (Chinese immigrants in this case), once again has been disproved. Passionate pandas Ying-Ying and Pe-Pe seven years old and the first pandas in history to conceive naturally and bear an offspring in captivity seem to be expecting for a second time. Officials at Mexico City's Chapultepec Zoo believe that if everything comes 'Art )J 'lll --lV jjTT" mL 4 wMP! Am fx Americans could be paying 86 more for natural gas next year if the Reagan Administration carries out its plan to speed up decontrol, a consumer group said. In a report released in Washington, D.C., the Energy Action Educational Foundation said a family could pay as much as $940 for home fuel in 1982. Fuel bills now are about $505 a year.

"If the federal Energy Regulation Commission, the government agency that regulates gas prices under the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978, is allowed by Congress to continue to administratively decontrol natural gas prices, consumers will face price increases that make OPEC increases look small," Edwin Rothschild, foundation director, said. A clash between the chairman and one member of the South Coast Air Quality Management District Board was resolved after Thomas Heinsheimer agreed to name Gladys Meade to two committees. Heinsheimer dropped Meade from the committees she had been serving on JV 1 Blu. AnocUted Preo Britain's Prince Charles watches an Indonesian dancer in Canberra. on a two-week Australia visit.

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