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YOUR FREEDOM To know how to wait is the great secret of success." De Maistre alley orning tar newspaper I Your Freedom Newspaper 63rd Year No. 120 Copyright 1974 Freedom Newspapers Harlingen, Texas Tuesday, October 29, 1974 10' Daily-25c Sunday Dial 423-5511 16 Pages President Orders Jobs For Veterans WASHINGTON i APi President Ford spearheaded America's annual tribute to 29 million veterans Monday with a pledge that "the silent heroes" whoser ved in her last and longest war would not be forgotten Addressing a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery the President declared particular concern for Vietnam returnees who cannot find announced the government itself would hire 70.000of them by next July Ford drew hearty applause from 3.000 persons who jammed an amphitheater adjoining the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier when he said that the 6 5 million veterans of the Vietnam era "are the silent heroes of their generation They served while some avoided service They served without the full moral support that this nation has usually en its fighting he said But the chief executive drew only scattered handclapping when he noted in nonspecific terms, his support for a boost in benefits for Vietnam veterans because like all of us. they are feeling the pinch of inflation and eeling it badly Congress, in fact, already has passed a bill to raise most (11 education benefits by 23 per cent, a figure which Ford previously has asserted should be trimmed to 18 or 19 per cent The measure will not be sent to the President until Congress returns from the election recess, because of fears of a pocket veto that it would have no chance to override Ford appeared to blush when the program moderator. Cooper Holt of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, said "thoseof us here today have helped the President to make up his mind to sign" that bill Ford also vowed "to do everything 1 can" to improve healt care and other servicesof the Veterans Administration 1 am frank to admit that real problems exist, "he said Prior to his address, the President laid a wreath at the tomb, then stepped inside the sun-drenched amphitheater for a program that also included martial music, hymns and a recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance by Vietnam veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Gary Lee Littrel! a sergeant first classatFt Campbell.Ky In difficult times." said Ford, our veterans of all ages kept the faith with us They kept America free and enabled us to keep faith with the free world On this historic day let us resolve anew to keep the faith withthem Convicts Free Last Four Children Held THE HAGUE. Netherlands (AP Four armed convicts Monday released the last of four children they had held hos tage since seizing a prison chape! The convicts, including a estinian hijacker, still held two women and 14 men.

but a Justice Ministry spokesman described the release of the boy as a hopeful development The spokesman said Godfried Clercos had Sports Minister's Cor Is Bombed In England BIRMINGHAM England (UP! bomb exploded Mon day night under the automobile carrying the wife and 10 year-old son of Sports Minister Denis Howell, but both escaped unhurt Howell said The 51-year-old minister was not at home at the time Howell said his wife had using the car all day The explosion occured. he said, when she was backing out of the driveway of their suburban Moseley home to pick up his daughter who was visiting friends The blast smashed windows in the house, but two other sons inside were not injured either. Howell said He said his wife and David their youngest son were both badly shaken Police sealed off the suburb immediately after the blast and declined to give (-urther information Howell, government minister with responsibility for national sports was in London 110 miles away at the time of the attack He said he had no idea why he was singled out am like a lot of other innocent victims. It is beyond comprehension, he said More than 100 have gone off in England in the past 20 months, killing at least 25 per sons and injuring hundreds Most were attributed to the Irish Republican Army, but earlier this week Scotland Yard in London said it was investigating a purported leftwing group called Red Flag 74 which claimed responsibility for recent bombings in the lxmdon area Monday's blast was the third bomb attempt in five days in Birmingham, a major industrial city of 1 6 million A few hours before the blast armv experts defused a bomb found wired to the automobile of a city magistrate in a carbon copy of an incident last week Col John Grey. 63.

the magistrate, called police when he noticed something like a piece of tape hanging from his car A similar device was found attached to the car of a woman magistrate last Thursday Energy Experts Fear Coal Miners' Strike WASHINGTON i UPI i Government energy experts believe a coal mine strike this winter would trigger a worse fuel crisis than last year's oil embargo, according to a memo made public Monday by a public interest group The threat of a coal mine strike loomed as negotiators for the United Mine Workers Union and the Bituminious Coal 1974 me Operators Association bargained Monday on economic issues Their present contract, covering 70 per cent of the nation's coal, expires Nov. 12. The Center for Science in the Public Interest quoted from a memo written by the Federal Energy Administration's coal committee last Oct 11 saying "a coal strike would produce more severe conditions than the oil embargo of last winter there is no way in which all operations dependent on coal could be continued during a strike after existing stocks are exhausted It further quoted the memo as saying up to 80 per cent coal production could be halted by a strike; steel production would be cut by 25 per cent, and there could be "serious power shortages in some areas of the country within five weeks" as coal stockpiles are used up. The center charged the FEA has not properly alerted the public to the dire effects of a coal strike and has not taken adequate steps to let state and local governments, industry or individual consumers plan conservation alternatives. been allowed to leave the chapel Three girl hostages, a man and a woman were released earlier in the siege, which betian Saturday Dutch authorities have stipulated that all the women and children must be freed before they will start negotiations The ministry spokesman said contacts between the convicts and the authorities were being conducted in a reasonable and calm manner Earlier the authorities let the Palestinian in the chape! Ahmed Nuri.

speak by radio with another Arab convict. Sami Houssin Tamimah. after Nuri threatened to kill some of the hostages Nuri and Tamimah. both 23. were jailed after hijacking a British Airways jetliner last March to Amsterdam, where they set it ablaze Tamimah is being treated for the after effects of a hunger strike The spokesman said mah who regards himself as the senior of the pair, told Nuri "he didn't know if the Palestinian cause would best be served by the short of action Nun had begun." Tamimah "told his friend he understood his wish to fight and if need be to die for the Palestinian cause1." the spokesman went on However, he added Tamimah "begged him i Nuri) not to go that far but to negotiate with the authorities on the basis that both Palestinians should serve their Dutch prison sentences together and afterwards help the Palest inian cause in a bet ter and more useful way." The spokesman indicated that Tamimah was caught in a conflict of loyalties between his friend and what he sees as his duty There was no indication of Nun response As they talked, the Rev An- tomus de Bot.

59, one of the hostages, calk'd security forces on field telephones installed Monday and said the hostages were up well to their ordeal. But he said his mother and another woman were under severe psychological strain Premier Joop den Uyl called his government ministers to a special cabinet session to discuss government tactics. The meeting lasted six hours, but a spokesman said only part of the time was spent discussing the situation at the prison The death threat was the first against the hostages since Nuri; Dutchmen Jan Brouwer. 27, and Daan de Nie. 26: and Algerian Mohammed bin Koudache, 23.

seized the suburban prison's chapel during a Mass. Dutch officials allowed De Nie's wife to talk with him They said she pleaded with him to surrender, but he refused and told her he had joined Nuri "as an act of revenge against the Dutch legal system Hunt Admits Dozen Lies To Grand Jury WASHINGTON Watergate conspirator Howard Hunt Jr admitted Monday he lied at least 12 times in appear ances before a grand jury But he said that after reading tran scripts of the White House tapes he decided to tel! all he knew about the break-in Testifying at the Watergate cover-up trial. Hunt said. In the spring of this year I began to read transcripts of the White House tapes I felt a sense of rude awakening 1 realized these men were not worthy of my continued loy alty The former CIA agent who was convicted of burglary conspiracy and wiretapping in the Watergate break-in trial said that when he was subpoenaed this past summer to testify again, he was faced with the hard decision of whether to continue to 1 le to protect others or to tel! all MONEY HAUL Robert Powis, chief agent of the Los Angeles Secret Service, holds some of the $8 million worth of counterfeit money seized in the largest confiscation of phoney money in the nation's history. The money, mostly one-hundred-dollar bills, was picked up in a van driven by one of the four arrested on the counterfeit JPI Telephoto) Rollback Of Excessive Oil Prices Forced By FEA Rule WASHINGTON The Federal Energy Administration Monday announced it has adopted rules that would force some oil companies to roll back excessive price increases charged during the past 13 months.

FEA also proposed an additional rule that would set ceilings on future prices of imported crude oil Agency spokesman Ed Vilade said the proposal would add a set of rules to adopt a ceiling price on the amount oil companies could charge each other They would limit the amount foreign affiliates can charge U.S. oil companies." He said the "transfer pricing" rule was first proposed in May and became final Friday night. It takes effect with publication Tuesday in the Federal Register The new proposal will be open tor public comment for three weeks If FEA decides no revision is it would take effect 60 days later There was no estimate of the extent of price gouging, nut FEA general counsel Robert Montgomery said. there are definitely some A preliminary FEA audit of severa! unnamed major companies indicated "significant differences in prices paid for crude oil when bought from affiliates and when bought on the open market. FEA Administrator John Sawhill said at a briefing Sawhil! said American oil companies were paying considerably more money for crude bought from their affiliates than from non-affiliated companies Asked whether there would be rollbacks of excessive prices eventually passed on to consumers.

Sawhill said "We do Kissinger Wins President Invitation To Visit India NEW DELHI iUPI) The United States and India officially ended three years of coolness Monday with word President Ford has accepted an invitation "in principle" to visit India at a date yet to be set Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi conferred twice during the day. Their meetings were described as friendly and upbeat Afterward U.S. Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan told reporters that Ford has agreed to visit India, though no date has been set. Moynihan said it would not be added to forthcoming trip to Japan, Korea and the Soviet Union The official announcement of Ford's acceptance of Mrs, Gandhi's invitation was expected to be included in the joint munique to be issued Tuesday Kissinger leaves for Bangladesh on his monthlong tour of nine countries. Kissinger's two meetings with Mrs.

Gandhi totalled one hour and 50 minutes. Between the two meetings, Kissinger conferred for two hours with with Indian Foreign Minister Chavan The two men signed an agreement to set up a joint Indo-American Commission to promote trade, scientific and educational exchanges The cordiality of the Gandhi- Kissinger meetings appeared to Gusty Winds Expected Gusty winds and a possibility of showers or thundershowers are forecast to make their mark on the weather today. Temperatures will remain about the same, however, with daytime highs in the low and middle 80s. The probability of rain tonight is 20 per cent. Prevailing winds will be out of the south and southeast at 15 to 25 miles per hour.

He said his attorneys advised him to tell everything he knew Under questioning by Assist ant Specia! Prosecutor Richard Ben-Veniste. Hunt admitted that he had lied at least 12 times since granted immunity from prosecution on the basis of his testimony before a federal grand jury He said he he'd about his con tacts with former White House special counsel Charles Colson and fellow break in defendant James McCord as well as about his knowledge of the involvement of others in the Wa tergate break-in Defense attorneys will begin their cross-examination of Hunt onTuesday When he leaves the stand the prosecution plans to call Jeb Stuart Magruder former deputy director of the Nixon re-election committee as its next wit ness. Magruder already has ed guilty to conspiring to obstruct justice and has been cooperating with the prosecutors Earlier. Hunt described how his ife was used as a conduit for payments to the break-in defendants But the payments proved disappointingly small. Hunt testified The arrears were steadily mounting, he said Prosecutors at the trial of five former Nixon administration and campaign aides entered into evidence an accounting Hunt wife.

Dorothy, gave to his attorney William Bittman of the distribution of $53 500 The accounting, dated Sept 1972 showed that nearly all the money went for attorneys fees and bail next to the White House and a cursory glance around- to satisfy myself that nothing had been disturb'd i See HI NT. Page VN Baytown, La Porte Are Hit By Tornado feel there are some companies where price reductions will be necessary Sawhill said the new regulation came after audits and other investigations of major oil companies and that information that would be divulged under the new rule had been secret Oil companies provide the government with statistics on prices they pay for oil from outside sources, but do not have to report transactions with affiliates Sawhil! said some oil companies paid high prices for oil from foreign affiliates in efforts to maximize profits during price controls Because the base price was high, it could be passed on to consumers in the form of increases The profits accrued indirectly to the American companies through their foreign affiliates have warmed up the cool relations between the United States and India which had persisted since the I "tilt towards Pakistan during the 1971 Indo-Pakistanwar. Mrs Gandhi told newsmen that "the talks were good Kissinger said they had gone "very well." said the meetings were "friendly and removed past misunderstandings. and set the course for better relations When Mrs Gandhi last met Kissinger at the White House in November 1971, immediately before the outbreak of war, the two were reported to have wound up shouting at each other. In a speech Monday to the Indian Council of World Affairs.

Kissinger indicated he hopes India will not export its newfound nuclear expertise to the Arab countries in exchange for oil. During Kissinger's speech, about 50 students demonstrated outside shouting "Kissinger Go Home1'' and dogs go home!" By United Press International A tornado hit the Houston suburbs of Baytown and LaPorte in mid-rush-hour Monday creating a vacuum inside a traffic-filled tunnel and killing one driver whose car was tossed over a it concrete wall Police said a rash of accidents also left four persons injured when their cars left the Baytown Tunnel under the Houston Ship Canal that links the two industrial suburbs The twister dipped down at the tunnel's south end and a vacuum scattered cars like toys as they emerged It was just like a big vacuum cleaner." a tunnel guard said "Cars started coming out of the tunne! and just bounced off the concrete walls along the side of the road Theo Jones. 62. apparently heading home toward Houston, as killed when his car came out of the tunnel and sucked against a concrete embankment. One witness said the twister picked up 12 cars "and threw them against each other and against the walls' at the end of the tunnel.

The twister, one of several that dipped from thick rain clouds over Texas during the day. hit the Baytown tunnel linking the two industrial suburbs as workers headed home It damaged homes as it roared along the man-made waterway from the Gulf of Mexico No injuries were reported on its destructive path, but police said several persons were injured in auto accidents in the tunnel Warring high and low pressure systems spawned the autumn tornadoes in northcen- tral Texas earlier in the day before they swooped toward Housion In Lindsey, a tornado picked up a trailer home with a family of four inside and threw it about 150 yards The trailer was overturned twice and destroyed, but Mr and Mrs Johnny Hoberer and their two children escaped injury The high winds also uprooted a storehouse, moving the building 100 yards before it came to rest on the patio of a residence Four miles away at the Gainesville airport, two light planes were destroyed A tornado dipped down on a two-block area in northern Beaumont, toppling trees and power lines and heavily damaging a service station several businesses and several homes A station attendant was injured by flying glass and a falling vending machine A tornado accompanied storms south of Beaumont and in the southeast part of the state. Golf-ball-size hail hit some areas The National Weather Service said weather systems across the nation proliferated and picked up speed, a sign of early winter In California, a major winter snow storm formed above the foot level The first snow of the season blanketed the Sierra Nevada peaks, and a foot of new snow fell at Creede. Colo posted for southern I tah and the mount ains of Arizona Record cold temperatures were recorded the morning in five northeastern states including an li-degm reading at -rd the colder Travelers advisories were the nation Belfast Bomb Blast Kills Two, Injures 35 BELFAST tUPI A bomb- Kariv Tuesday the outlawed packed stolen van exploded Irish Republican Army issued a Monday without warning and statement claiming respon- demolished a canteen crow ded sibility for the bombing and said with civilians and soldiers at was revengi for the army Bally kinler British army camp shooting to death an 18-year-old about 25 miles from Belfast, the IH member in two army said weeks earlier A military spokesman said at least 2 persons were killed and 'ile shatvred windows 35 others injured. 14 of them a pnmary school hun seriously.

when the van blew up away but none of the outside Sandes' Soldiers and were hun. the Airmen's club 200 yards from was the perimeter of the base closed for the rest the day He said both of the dead were Helicopters ano ambu.ances carried the injured to hospitals soldiers as were most of the wounded dvrrak'sawav and Belfast Armv bomb experts estimat- a i Northern Ireland police said ed that 700 pounds of explosives i i thev still had no to had been packed into the truck them to Protestant and Roman police said was hijacked Sunday if I atholic killers who have in Belfast Andersonstown assassinated persons in the past six weeks Men of the Duke of F.din- The latest was an I burgh Royal Regiment, were Roman Catholic whose body amonc troops at the camD Com- wus found Sunday in a field 24 manding officer Lt Col Bill miles southwest of Belfast He Taylor said, it was a vicious had been beaten and shot to attack on people enjoying a death and dumped in a quiet cupof tea predominantly Protestant area Typhoon Elaine Triggers Phillippine Landslides MAN I LA i UPI' yphoon ernm Elaine, the strongest storm to buildings and knocked down hit the Philippines this season, power and communication blevv down houses, uprooted Unes Floods were reported trees and triggered landslides wide areas Monday in a destructive sweep Relief agencies said the across the Northern Philippine destruction to crops and proper- farmlands ty could be worse than that Elaine, with winds up to 115 wrought by Typhoons Boss Car- miles an hour, later roared into men and I Vila earlier this mon- the South China Sea where it was th Those typhoons killed 54 located by typhoon trackers at people mid-evening Monday at about The storm did riot directly 250 miles northwest of Manila It affect metropolitan Manila area was traveling westnorthwest at except for intermittent heavy 13 miles an hour rains that closed schools There were no immediate reports of fatalities I II Police said a 12-year-old girl I ff 0 was injured in Manila when she 1 was hit by a falling high tension ITEM PAGE wire Bridge Reports filtering into relief agencies in Manila said Elaine triggered landslides in the Crossword mountain resort city of Baguio. 120 miles north of Manila The Hospital Records Red Cross said first reports A2 from the northern province of Jumbles Puzzle Uocos Sur said 25.000 people Local A2 were left homeless when their 5 houses were blown down The storm uprooted trees and gj 2 crops, washed away bridges. News.