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Jim Kean Heard demands for freedom of Soledad Brothers SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) A photographer and three law enforcement officers testified at the Angela Davis murder-kidnap- conspiracy trial that they heard shouted demands at the Marin County Civic Center Shootout to free the Soledad Brothers. But in testimony Monday the four men, who were in the same courthouse corridor, all remembered different phrases called out during the minutes when three black convicts and an accomplice took Superior Court Judge Harold J. Haley and four others hostage. Four were slain, including the judge.

The state claims that Miss Davis furnished guns and helped engineer the Aug. 7, 1970, violence because she was driven by passion to free George Jackson, one of the Soledad Brothers. The trial will resume Wednesday. Photographer James Kean of the San Rafael Independent-Journal testified that the kidnapers invited him to photograph the abortive escape try. He said convict William Christmas told him: "We are the revolutionaries." Kean said that as the hostages were being led to a courthouse elevator convict James McClain said: "Tell them we want the Soledad Brothers released by 12 o'clock." Probe disputes popular drug abuse beliefs (C) New York Times NEW YORK Scientists at the University of Michigan's Survey Research center have completed one of the first nationwide examinations of drug use among young people, and their findings challenge several popular notions about the drug abuse problem.

Among the findings are: The highest rates of drug usage are to be found among unemployed youths and in military camps, not on college campuses. College students were found to be using drugs at a rate about equal to that of the average for all people of the same age. The vast majority of young men disapprove of using all illegal drugs (70 to 85 percent depending on the drug) except marijuana even on an experimental basis. The attitude on marijuana is considerably more liberal though about half disapproved of marijuana experimentation. Despite the widely reported upsurge in the use of marijuana, the number of young people who have tried marijuana at least once is no larger than the number of people of the same age who are regular users of alcohol.

Although 70 percent of the young men surveyed said it would be easy to obtain marijuana and 66 percent said they had friends who used marijuana, more than half of the people in these groups said they would not try the drug themselves. Because marijuana is already available to many more people than use it, the researchers suggest, legalization would not necessarily lead to a large upsurge in usage. Blast in car kills a Tulsan TULSA, Okla. (AP) An explosion shattered a parked car in Tulsa's mid-business area late Monday night, killing one man and critically injuring another. Killed was Isco Totten 40.

Injured was Paul Williams, 29. Both of Tulsa. Officers swarmed to the scene across the street from Central High School, and began a detailed examination. Apparently the blast was centered in the back seat of the car on the passenger side where Totten was seated. Williams was behind the wheel.

Glass was shattered in buildings on both sides of Detroit Avenue where the car was parked. The area was quickly sealed off by police and a bomb squad began an investigation. Several hundred persons jammed the area causing a massive traffic jam in the downtown area. Williams was in surgery more than two hours after the blast. Police Chief Jack Purdie said Totten's right arm was blown off.

Asked if it was possible Totten could have been reaching into the back seat, Purdie said, "It's possible. This is still a preliminary investigation." Police discounted the possibility the explosives had been planted in the 1966 car. Eat! Long-holding FASTEETTK 8 Powdec tt takes the worry out of wearing dentures. mam Experimenting with death Surge youthful suicides spotlighted ApriU, IfTZ Page 17 (C) New York Times DETROIT "I've never known a generation as interested in death as an experience, something you can pass through," said Sam Heilig, executive director of the Los Angeles Suicide Prevention center. Heilig was describing the dramatic increase in suicide rates among the young, and particularly among women, at the annual convention of the American Association of Suicidology here.

By contrast, the rate among old white men, the typical suicides of the past, appears to be falling as sharply. About 25,000 Americans kill themselves each year by official count, or 11 for each 100,000 of population, although some conferees here believe the figure may be twice as high. The shifting pattern in the age of suicides was one of the trends noted at the 3-day convention. Others included the growing influence of telephone volunteers in the suicide study and prevention effort, and a general agreement that hospitals were among the worst places for the dying. In Los Angeles county, for example, Heilig said the suicide rate among those over 70 years of age dropped to 41 per 100,000 in 1970 from 60 five years before and 55 in 1960.

For men 60-69 years of age the rate dropped to 43 per 100,000 from 52 a decade before. "I associate that with Medicare," said Dr. Robert E. Litman of Los Angeles, who has been called one of the nation's leading suicide authorities. Harder to explain But the rising death rates among the young were harder to explain.

In Los Angeles, for example, the suicide rate for women under 20 went from 0.4 to 8 per 100,000 in the decade and from 6 to 26 for women 20-29. Among men the suicide rate for those under 20 went from 3 to 10 per 100,000 in the decade and for those 20-29 from 18 to 41. Other cities report similar gains in the suicide rates among the young. "Younger people are breaking away much earlier from their support the family," said Jerome Motto, the association's new president. "Some of them just are not ready for the sexual revolution." Some at the convention connected drug use to the youthful suicides.

One study called youthful drug users 15 times as suicidal as nonusers, but Heilig called the drug theory still "Kids seem more interested in death," a new phenomenon, he said, yet they consider themselves He added they don't appear to feel as responsible for friends as in the past, and don't want to interfere with someone's "own thing" even suicide. The number of attempted suicides by women has been much higher than the attempts by men, but more men actually kit! themselves. The fast growth in suicides among women was attributed by some here to growing conflict over definition of the woman's role in society. Crash kills cyclist BELVIDERE, Kan. A An 18-year- old Belvidere man, Douglas A.

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