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Co Anaelee Simes The E9ews in Brief Compiled tiom Los Angeles Times. Hie Los AtKjeles Times Washington Posl news seivir.e and major wne and supplement' news agencies In Part One Radiation ha Veen detected in seven more wells near the former Stringfellow toxic waste dump in Riverside County. Page 3. A medical expert told a physicians' meeting in L.A. that it is a "myth" that efficiency can curb rising health care costs.

Page 3. As financial prone continue, the L.A. Express football team owner has agreed to sell his Utah savings and loan association. Page 3. Ex-Sea.

S.L Hayakawa returned to Capitol Hill to push his proposed amendment to make English the official U.S. language. Page 5. In Metro The Eavlroameatal Protection Agency has signed a agreement to clean up the McColl toxic dump in Pullerton. Page 1.

Loe Angeles County faces another lawsuit on the way it provides shelter for homeless indigents. (Pagel.) Proposition 24 could have a broad effect in the California Legislature and set wider precedent elsewhere. (Editorial Pages.) What are the chances of terrorism occurring at the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles? (Editorial Pages.) In Sports The Boston Ccltici defeated the Lakers. 111-102, in the decisive seventh game to win their 15th NBA title. (Page 1.) The VS.

Opea used to be a who's who of golf, according to Jim Murray, but now it's a who is who? (Pagel.) Freach Opea champlea Ivan Lend! was upset in the first round of a London tournament by American Leif Shiras. (Page 2.) Deeplte aa investigation of the Express owner's business dealings, Steve Young's lucrative contract appears to be safe. Page 3. In Buainoaa Southern Califernlani will get their first chance today to use cellular telephone technology in their automobiles. (Page 1.) Sleeks fell broadly.

The Dow Jones average of 30 industrials, down 15.64 points Monday, slipped 5.08 to close at 1.1 10.53. Page 2. In View James Regan, head of USC's Master of Professional Writing program, says the school's writers will rival its running backs. Page 1. Anther Aaa Rule is an expert on serial murders; she worked alongside a multiple murderer on suicide prevention project.

(Page 1.) House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill Jr. promised an investigation of Jesse Jackson's complaints about delegate selection. Page 6. Fellah government authorities have set a July 13 trial date for four prominent advisers to the Solidarity labor movement (Page 12.) Lebanon's Parliament gave the national unity Cabinet of Premier Rashid Karami a 53-15 vote of confidence.

(Page 16.) U. N. thief Javier Perez de Cue liar heard Israel denounce the United Nations for allegedly encouraging terrorists. (Page 17.) In Calendar The Stay-Puft Marahmallow Man was the surprise winner in the summer box-office battle last weekend. And Columbia Pictures is overjoyed.

(Pagel.) Esther Williams, who made her big splash in the movies many years ago, is getting her feet wet again. And the water is just right, she reports. (Page 1.) 2 Part 1 Wednesday. June 13. 1984 The World Communist Summit Opens vl- 2fs guerrilla attack in Tripoli on May 8, and U.S.

officials have accused him of dispatching squads to kill Libyan dissidents abroad. Aheat 63,000 schoolteachers joined other Israeli public workers in strikes to press demands for higher pay to offset rises in the cost of living. A day earlier. Foreign Ministry workers began a three-day strike for higher pay, the first ever by Israeli diplomats. In addition, broadcast technicians, national electric company employees and social workers staged work stoppages, with postal and atomic energy workers expected to join next.

The Israeli trade union federation is demanding raises averaging 22. with the government offering 8. A Rome court convicted and sentenced fugitive Marxist professor Toni Negri in absentia to 30 years in prison for complicity in two terrorist murders and for other crimes. Negri, 50, who was elected to the Italian Parliament last June but fled the country after his parliamentary immunity was lifted, is believed to be in France. He was considered one of the masterminds of the Red Brigades and other Italian terrorist groups of the 1970s.

At the end of a 16-month trial of suspected terrorists, the court convicted 59 other defendants on a variety of charges and acquitted 11. The wife of an American missionary and three of their four children were among seven members of a religious sect who drowned while attempting to cross a rain-swollen river in the Dominican Republic in a pickup truck, the U.S. Consulate in Santo Domingo reported. The victims were Mary Jane Rohrer and her children, Priscilla Kay, 3, Maria Joy, 2. and Justin, 5 months, all of Dover, Pa.

Rohrer's husband, Marvin, and a fourth child. Rosanne, 5, both initially reported drowned, were saved, a consular official said. Leona Mast, an American not further identified, and two Dominicans also drowned. The State Earthquake Insurance has become so popular in California that a major temblor in either the Los Angeles or San Francisco area could leave insurers unable to meet their obligations when claims start pouring in, a stale agency warned. A report by the California Department of Insurance said the probable maximum losses covered by insurance in the stale jumped from $2.9 billion in 1980 to $12.9 billion in 1983.

The report also states that premiums in California went from $4.6 million in 1971, the year of the San Fernan-do-Sylmar quake, to $70.5 million last year. "The (insurance) companies now realize they are being exposed to far greater earthquake losses than is prudent considering their capital and surplus," the report states. "Sooner or later, the problem must be faced as to what can be done when demand for earthquake protection exceeds the insurance industry's ability to insure." The Powell-Hyde cable car line in San Francisco was running again after being shut down for a day by mechanical problems. The line's operations were suspended Monday, two days after the system was restarted for limited service following two years of renovation. It was discovered that the Mason line, which leaves the cable car powerhouse through the same tunnel as the Powell-Hyde line, had electrical problems that endangered the Powell-Hyde line.

So the latter was shut down temporarily. The system will be formally reopened June 21. Oae of three escapee from a state prison camp near Bishop was captured minutes after local TV an-chorwoman Marilyn Fisher spotted him on the road, thought he was acting suspiciously and alerted authorities. Patrick Merrell, 22. a Riverside convict who had escaped from the Owens Valley Conservation Center only hours before, was taken into custody without a fight according to the Inyo County Sheriffs Department Still at large are William Hale, 19, and Gregory Helton, 24.

Fisher, 29, anchorwoman for Cable TV Channel 12, said she was on her way to the prison camp to pick up photos of the escapees when she saw Merrell. She made no attempt to capture the inmate. Two utility employees were badly burned in a boiler room explosion in a non-nuclear area of the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant. Jeff Marx, a spokesman for the Sacramento Municipal Utility District said the injured were burned by the explosion of non-nuclear steam that contained caustic material. Hospitalized in critical condition with second-degree burns over 90 of their bodies were Anthony Farrace, 41, and Gary Sherreth, 28.

The 913-megawatt facility, 25 miles southeast of Sacramento, was operating at 90 of capacity when the accident occurred. On March 19, Rancho Seco was shut down for 38 days when an explosion and fire occurred in the non-nuclear turbine generator area. Untted Fnm International forms. John Paul, speaking in the heartland of Calvinist Protestantism, espoused Christian unity while reasserting the often-divisive Catholic doctrine of papal supremacy. (Story, Page 12) Pontiff in Switzerland Pope John Paul II, arriving in Lugano at the outset of six-day Swiss visit, reviews contingent of Swiss Guards, the papal security force, in their traditional uni- The Region Search Started for Plane Crash Survivors Soviet President Konstantin U.

Chemenko opened a summit meeting with the Kremlin's closest allies aimed at greater integration of the Soviet Bloc economies. With Cuba's President Fidel Castro inexplicably absent, leaders from nine of the 10 Comecon trade alliance nations began their three-day meeting amid tight security and a news blackout. Because of differences among members, leaders of Comecon consisting of East European nations plus Mongolia. Cuba and Vietnam have not convened since 1969. Afghan rea lata nee fighters have renewed attacks in the strategic Panjshir Valley and shot down four Soviet aircraft in heavy fighting near Kabul.

Western diplomatic sources said in New Delhi. Guerrilla attacks increased through much of the country last week as unusually heavy Soviet reinforcements were flown into Kabul, according to Afghan sources quoted by the diplomats. One diplomat said that despite Soviet claims to have crushed the Panjshir insurgents, the guerrillas escaped "relatively unscathed" from a major Soviet spring offensive in the strategic valley. A limited cease-fire in the Persian Gulf War halting attacks on cities in Iran and Iraq remained in force for the second day, despite border skirmishes and vows by both sides to launch new attacks in their 3V-year-old war. The U.N.-medi-ated accord calls for both countries to cease shelling each other's cities but does not apply to attacks on shipping in the Persian Gulf.

Meanwhile, officials of six conservative gulf Arab nations continued to seek ways to protect their oil shipments. Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi. warning that he will "deal with America," said in a speech to servicemen that he has the capability to stage assassinations and other attacks within the United States, the official Libyan news agency ana reported. Kadafi has accused the United States of supporting a The Nation Killer Tied to A grand jury la Lawrenceville, indicted Joseph P. Franklin in the 1978 shootings of Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt and his attorney.

Franklin, serving two life terms at a maximum -security prison in Marion, 111., for the sniper slayings of two black joggers in Utah, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault Flynt and his attorney. Gene Reeves, were shot on a Lawrenceville street March 6, 1978, during Flynt's trial on obscenity charges stemming from the sale of his magazine. Reeves recovered, but Flynt was left paralyzed from the waist down. Flynt is at a federal prison in Butner, N.C., for defying a court order to turn over videotapes in the John DeLorean case. The Administration said it has begun revising contracts with the nation's 80 nuclear power plants to begin taking highly radioactive wastes off their hands in 1998 even if government burial or storage facilities are not completed by then.

"The department is obligated to begin receiving spent fuel in 1998 whether or not a repository is in place," an Energy Department spokesman told reporters. The wastes are being stored under water (rimming pools" at each reactor site while utilities are paying the government $300 million a year in fees to build a $20-billion permanent underground repository. The Inspector general of the Interior Department turned in "incomplete and unreliable" reports of an investigation into leaks of coal lease bidding data, possibly because then-Secretary James G. Watt wanted a finding before he had to testify about the sale, according to a General Accounting Office report. Rep.

Edward J. Markey chairman of an oversight subcommittee, and Rep. James Weaver chairman of a mining subcommittee, told a news conference that the inspector general and his assistant should resign or be fired. was unconscious before she was struck and killed by the train. A former Irwiadale city councilman has been charged with molesting a 13-year-old girl three times this year.

Henry Barbosa 60, will be arraigned June 20 in Pomona Municipal Court on three counts of committing a lewd act with a child under 14, Irwindale Police Lt. Charles Crawford said. Barbosa, who turned himself in to police after the district attorney's office filed charges against him, is free on $5,000 bail. Barbosa had served on the Irwindale City Council intermittently since 1957. A 84-year-old South-Central Los Angeles resident shot and killed a young man who tried to rob him as he watered his lawn, Southeast Division police reported.

The older man, who asked not to be identified, told officers the would-be robber came up from behind him at 102nd Street and Grand Avenue and wrapped an arm around his neck, demanding money. He said he has a heart condition and arthritic A crashed plane has been found in the Mojave Desert and a search was under way for its pilot and passengers. Kern County sheriffs deputies said. A student pilot flying to Ridge-crest spotted the wreckage of a small plane in the Koen Dry Lake bed, 22 miles north of Mojave. A sheriffs helicopter crew found footprints of two adults and two children, indicating those aboard had survived and set out for help.

Deputies said there are several populated areas nearby, including the old mining town of Garlock. The plane was registered to a book company in Portland, Ore. A 15-year-old girl who died when she was run over by a Santa Fe Railway train in Victorville probably tripped and fell unconscious onto the railroad tracks as she was running after her brother, authorities said. The victim was identified as Diana Jean Taylor of Adelanto. San Bernardino County Deputy Coroner Greg Randolph said that an autopsy revealed a concussion that indicated the teen-ager Newsmakers knee and that he always carries a handgun when stepping outside at night He told police he struggled with his assailant managed to draw his pistol and fire.

He was questioned but not held. A West Covlna man was killed when he slipped and fell into a heavy-duty meat grinder in the City of Industry. Samuel Vasquez, 22, died instantly in the whirling blades of the machine he and another man were hosing out at Golden State Food according to the Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department Louis F. Moret, a Board of Public Works commissioner, has filed preliminary papers to run as a candidate to replace Councilman Arthur K. Snyder in the Aug.

21 recall election in the 14th District Steve Rodriguez, who led the recall effort already has filed preliminary papers. Potential candidates have until June 22 to file final nominating petitions, signed by at least 500 registered voters, with the city clerk's office. Aandiwd Pros Lisker, Fred Frankel sit this one out. proceeds. The boy found a bag of jewelry along a railroad track near his home on March 17, 1983, while he was playing hooky.

No one claimed it He thought his treasure Bus-Bench Shuffle Trademark of Rabbinical Rockettes Flynt Attack A vaccine to protect against the disease AIDS will take "three to six years" to develop. Dr. Robert C. Gallo, the National Cancer Institute scientist who discovered the AIDS virus, said. "It will take a few years just to develop the tools to make (vaccine) tests on animals," he said.

Gallo, chief of tumor cell biology at the institute, discovered the first virus linked to a cancer in humans, a leukemia, and more recently found the AIDS virus. A panel set ap by Congress disclosed a plan for making the beleaguered Social Security Administration an independent federal agency instead of a component of the Health and Human Services Department Elmer B. Staats, the former comptroller general who chaired the Congressional Panel on Social Security Organization, said strong steps were needed to give Social Security "a coherent operational mission" and to strengthen its management Representatives of 6,000 striking registered nurses and 15 hospitals in the Minneapolis area held talks for the first time since the strike began June 1. Federal mediator Earl Larson said he did not know what to expect while entering negotiations as both sides appeared firm in their positions and had little hope for a quick settlement Talks are deadlocked primarily over the issue of how much job security senior nurses should be entitled to during layoffs and recalls. Officials ef the financially troubled World's Fair in New Orleans said they will begin massive payroll cutbacks to save $15 million in salaries, conforming to a request from Gov.

Edwin Edwards. In return, Edwards reportedly will ask the state to guarantee a 115-mlllion loan so the fair can pay contractors, who say they are owed $14 million, overdue since May 20. Edwards met with fair officials and creditors Monday in an attempt to arrange a payback schedule. trove was costume jewelry at first but soon learned differently. De-Wilde plans to buy his aunt who has been his guardian since his mother died when he was 7 a "dream house." Then he intends to buy himself a car and put the rest in a trust fund.

Actor Herve Vlllechaize has reached an out-of-court settlement with Hustler magazine in a -million defamation lawsuit he filed over a cartoon story depicting his "Fantasy Island" character as a sex-crazed deviant Hustler attorney Alaa Isaacmaa said. But Ville-chaize, who played Tattoo in the TV series from 1978 to 1983, will receive no money from the magazine. Isaacman said. Friends, politicians and business leaders gathered in New York to honor Slmoa Wlesenthal at a belated birthday party (he was 75 last New Year's Eve) for his decades-long search to bring Nazi war criminals to trial. Wlesenthal, who survived four years in three Nazi death camps, has brought more than 1,100 war criminals to justice, including the notorious Adolf Eich-mann.

-JENNINGS PARROTT Three rabbinical students just taking a cigarette break from their studies in Rochester, N.Y., have perfected a new form of break-dancing for the sedentary. It's no-sweat "break-sitting." For the last week, the yarmulke-clad Bus-Bench Breakers have been amusing spectators as they cross and uncross their legs in unison while sitting on a bus bench. They perform the "single," the "double" and the "fake," in which they uncross a leg, then Immediately recross it Their most complex move so far is the "domino," in which Fred Frankel, 18, Meshulam Llsker, 21, and Michael Chanales, 23, achieve a cascade effect reminiscent of Radio City Music Hall's Rockettes. Frankel occasionally enlivens the show by doing cartwheels and flips in the street "We're thinking of making a video and putting it on MTV," Llsker said with a smile. How about franchising? "We're thinking bumper stickers, buttons and jackets," Chanales said.

"The sky's the limit for this sort of thing." The owner watched quietly as a man's diamond ring went for $29,700. Two unmounted diamonds fetched $17,600 each. In all, 27 lots 1 IiimJu aWMsMwaul "'mm Mi nil i i Michael Chanales, Meshulam of 91 pieces were sold at auction at Christie's in New York for a total of $281,390, and 25 more pieces remain. The owner, Eric DeWllde, 16, of Hollywood, gets 90 of the 1.

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