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Daily News from New York, New York • 53

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S3 SHE UPROAR OVER THE supposed videotaped sex orgies of Reagan administration aides and model Vicki charged with living off the proceeds of his ladies had actors, politicians and others in high places looking for a bolt hole Profumo made a personal statement to the House of Commons saying he hadn't 50 -Uf fix Stt xf jih' seen Keeier since 1961 and, in any event, there had been "no impropriety" between them. A few weeks later, implicated further, he admitted he had lied about Keeier and resigned. Macmillan, who had staked bis personal prestige on Profumo, also stepped down. Profumo, with a considerable fortune from an insurance Morgan recalls the scandal that toppled the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan 20 years ago. There's a time-honored tradition in Britain about the upper classes and their peccadilloes Charles II, Fanny Hill, Tom Jones but 1 Affair Profumo was something special.

It rocked the Establishment to its very roots. The story began in 1962 when -British Intelligence agents learned that teenaged call girl Christine Keeier and Capt Yevgeni Ivanov, an attache at the Russian Embassy in London, had been lovers. Keeier had also had a Jamaican lover, Aloysius (Lucky) Gordon. THERE WAS ALSO TALK but no proof that War Minister John Profumo, an upwardly mobile member of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservative cabinet and perhaps a future PM, had been seen visiting Keeler's apartment from time to time. They allegedly had met, something over a year before, at Lord Astor's Cliveden TOM McGOVERN John Profumo 4t company founded by his father, retired to private life in disgrace.

He found a new life working with the underprivileged in London's East End. His wife, actress Valerie Hobson, shared his exile and they slowly achieved a new acceptance in society, culminating in his being made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in December 1975, for services to the poor. KEELER SERVED A seven-month term for perjury on an unrelated matter, married and divorced twice, tried acting and adually faded into obscurity. Mandy, Whose lurid revelations into the bizarre parties thrown by Ward had upset the applecart, married an Israeli, later divorced him and returned to England. Like Keeier, she too sought obscurity with her child.

Ward committed suicide before a verdict was reached in his trial. In high society, the aftershocks were felt for many years. estate. Dr. Stephen Ward, a society osteopath and alleged procurer, had introduced them.

The willowy Keeier, a beautiful brunette, had an equally attractive blonde teenaged girlfriend, Mandy Rice-Davies, who also dispensed her favors for pay. The fear that they might disclose names and dates at the upcoming trial of Ward who had been Miwflvwfttt f.wi'" -rtVi inrrfiiinft iriflattig CI insiine Keeier Mandy Rice-Davies rssa REPORT FROM PUERTO RICO Rosado's face when he photographed the body. Rosado was shot in the chest Th hearings are being televised live over a commercial station at the Senate's expense. The opposition Popular Democratic Party, which controls the Senate, hopes the revelations will dam-, age the image of the Romero administration enough to cause the governor's defeat in 1984. The Watergate-like telecasts have an interest around the island rivaling the most popular soap operas and have thrust into the spotlight Hector Rivera Cruz, the young and energetic Senate counsel.

The short, wiry 32-year-old law professor has become a media star. He is known throughout Puerto Rico as El Investigador (The Investigator). Rivera has made such an impression that if the Popular Democratic Party wins in 1984, "he could practically name his job in the next administra Justice Secretary Hector Reichard has named a citizen panel to look into the controversy. Although the governor has called the hearings "absurd" and politically motivated, he supported Reichard's decision to reopen the case. Reichard took over as justice secretary after the first two investigations were completed.

From the beginning, doubts were raised about police claims that Soto and Rosado were slain after they opened fire when police ordered them to give up. Many points remain unclear, including the role played by a police undercover agent who allegedly led the two into an ambush, Romero's political opponents have charged that the two were murdered in a plan aimed at eliminating radicals. They have accused the governor of complicity. Romero has asserted that there is no evidence "of anything improper" in the police action. The two Commonwealth probes and a United States Justice Department "preliminary" investigation found no By ROBERT FRIEDMAN Special Correspondent o) The Newi San Juan, P.R.

After nearly five years, the Cerro Maravilla case continues to haunt the administration of Gov. Carlos Romero Barcelo. The police slaying of two young independence advocates allegedly planning to blow up a TV tower at the Cerro Maravilla mountain site is an issue that won't go away. It almost cost the governor reelection in 1980. The case has been revived by a Puerto Rican Senate investigation now going on.

Hearings have produced testimony suggesting that Carlos Soto Arrivi, 18, and Arnaldo Dario Rosado, 24, were shot dead after they surrendered and were beaten by police before they were killed. Witnesses also indicated that two Commonwealth Justice Department investigations into the incidents were, at best, botched or, at worst, coverups. AS A RESULT of the testimony, police wrongdoing in the two deaths. The federal probe reportedly was based principally on the local findings. THE SENATE testimony of van driver Julio Ortiz Molina and former Police Officer Jesus Quinones appeared to show that Soto and Rosado were killed after they surrendered.

Ortiz was abducted at gunpoint by the two, who commandeered his vehicle on July 25, 1978, to take them to the mountaintop 40 miles south of San Juan. Both men testified they heard two volleys of shots. Police say that only one volley was fired and that Soto and Rosado were killed after they started shooting. Ortiz also testified that after the first volley, he saw police beating Soto and Rosado. A police photographer told the Senate he saw fresh bruises on tion," said a high party source.

B. HAVE YOU SEEN 1i? 3 to By RUBEN ROSARIO 'J white sneakers. Anyone with any information on the whereabouts of Flora Butler or Sharaun Cole is asked to call detectives at (212) 374913. In last week's column, it was incorrectly reported that police were still, looking for an 11-year-old Brooklyn boy who was reported missing about a year ago. It was later learned that the youth had been found several months ago.

We regret the error. silver watch and was carrying sunglasses. Sharaun Cole, 12, has been missing since Feb. 25 when she left her home at 631 Edgecombe in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. Her mother, Loresia Washington, told investigators there had been no prob-.

lems at home. The girl is 5-feet-7 and 115 pounds, with black hair' and. browtieyes. She was last seen wearing a beige jacket, blue jeans, gold sweater and blue and On July 10, Flora Butler decided to spend the day at the Bronx Zoo. No one has seen or heard from her since.

Butler, 60, of Co-op City, Bronx, is senile and may not repond to ques-. tions, according to police. She is 5-feet-5 and 160 pounds, with braided black hair. She was wearing a white blouse with-yellow and green stripes, green green jacket, black shoes and a Flora Butfer Sharaun Cole THESE PEOPLE?.

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