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Poteno The Stroudsburgs, Po. Aug. 1, 1977 Edward Brooke Virginia Arntii Abncr Milcva Who's news Brooke criticizes Carter policy WASHINGTON (UPI) Sen. Edward Brooke, the Senate's only black, Sunday joined Ihe criticism of President Carter's efforts to help Ihe poor and minorities. "If the President really believes that his administration is really doing something for the poor, then he does not know what his administration is doing," Brooke said in a Post-Newsweek stations' interview.

Last week, National Urban League head Vernon Jordan assailed Carter for not living up to campaign promises to poor. Carter responded that such criticisms were "erroneous" and "demagogic." "The administration would deny abortions to the poor, to the indigent and to minorities who just can't afford to pay for an abortion," said Brooke. He also criticized Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano's suggestion of taxing public housing tenants as "taking from the poor to give to the poor." Mikva urges gun control CHICAGO (UPI) Rep. Abner J. Mikva, Sunday urged President Carter lo make tougher federal handgun control laws a cornerstone of his crime control package.

In a letter to the President, co-signed by 35 congressmen, Mikva said more effective handgun control legislation would reduce this country's soaring crime rate and alleviate fear caused by their abundance. Carter is expected to send his comprehensive crime control package lo Congress soon. Mikva said Congress has not acted on any type of gun control proposal since 1968 and that the current Onibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act has been ineffective in drying up Ihe supply of handguns and reducing Ihe number of street crimes. "Since the number of handguns in circulation has increased by nearly 70 per cent from an estimated 28 million to 50 million," he said. "Since 168, there have been more than 70,000 murders committed with handguns, which represent more than half of all murders committed." Actor's ex-wife overdoses MALIBU, Calif.

Virginia Arness, former wife of actor James Arness, died Friday of an accidental dose of sleeping pills at her Malibu home, a coroner's report disclosed Sunday. They had been divorced since 1968. Arness played Matt Dillon in "Gunsinoke," one of the longest running series on television. What's news Carter ranked high for PR WASHINGTON (UPI) A survey of Congress released Sunday showed President Carter ranks higher on Capitol Hill as a public relations man than as a political leader. Overall, the 212 legislators or 40 per cent of Congress responding lo a U.S.

News and World Report magazine survey rated.Carter an "average or better than average" president. A'lmosl half, 49 per cenl, rated Carter a "strong" chief executive; 40 per cent rated him "average" and 11 per cent "below average." About 60 per cent of those responding said public relations was Carter's greatest strenglh. Four of 10 respondents including many Democrats said Carter's weakest performance is in political leadership. Some said they were discontenl with patronage appointments, and others said Uie President fashions individual coalitions for individual issues which hurts the Democratic party. Bugs suspected at 10 Downing St.

LONDON (UPI) Former Prime Minister Sir Harold Wilson has called for an inquiry into allegations of electronic bugging at the government's 10 Downing St. residence. The London Daily Express reported Friday and Saturday that British security aulhorities bugged Ihe former Prime Minister "on several occasions" during the eight years he held Ihe office. "Clearly allegations such as these in Friday's and Saturday's paper must be investigated," Wilson said Saturday. "Mr.

Chapman Pincher author of the articles has long heen known lo have had close contact with certain of the officers of the security service, and I have known him long enough lo be sure that whatever his sources right or wrong he would not print such a story if he did not believe it." Sailors relax fighting fires CAPRI, Italy (UPI) More than 150 U.S. Navy men from the U.S.S. Independence gave up that- shore leave Sunday to help firemen extinguish a major brush fire on this Mediterranean resort island. "We heard from the mayor of Maples lhat they needed help and (hose guys volunteered lo go on over," said a duly officer at Sixth Fleet headquarters. The American sailors joined hundreds of foreign tourists who left their hotel swimming pools to dig ditches and clear a buffer zone along Ml.

Solaro, where Ihe blaze began Friday night. Firemen said Ihe flames were extinguished despite strong winds which contributed to the destruction of several hundred acres of wild brush and some nearby vineyards. There were no injuries. Possible Hughes heir arrested OGDEN. Utah (UPI) Melvin Dummar, who could get millions from his one-sixteenth share in the disputed Hughes' "Mormon Will," has been arrested on a charge of stealing 10 cents worth of nails.

Dummar, 32, a former gas station attendant, was freed on his own recognizance from the Weber County Jail following his arrest Friday night on a pelly theft complaint charging him wilh shoplifting. He had 58.10 in his pocket at the time. Employes at a local store said they saw Dummar remove about 10 cents worth of nails from a plastic package and place them in his pocket. Soviets display Navy LENINGRAD, U.S.S.R. I The Soviet Union celebrated Navy Day Sunday with gala floats and sailors sailing past warships anchored in the Neva River.

Hundreds of thousands of spectators watched the river parade, which was dedicated to Ihe 60th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. Among the participants in the parade were 400 swimmers in bright red, yellow, green and blue caps who swam past Ihe llagship, the cruiser Komsomolets, shouting "glory, glory, glory," while waving red and blue flags. Aboard Ihe flagship were high-ranking officers of the soviet Baltic Fleet which is based in Leningrad. Gregori Romanov, first secretary of the Leningrad regional Communist Party and a member of the ruling Politburo, was on vacation and did not attend Ihe festivities. More lhan eight warships were docked in Ihe Neva in the area of the Winter Palace, including a guided missile destroyer and one of the Soviet Union's first diescl-powercd guided missile submarines.

Clean air chokes Defense auto shipments DETROIT (UPI) The first 1978-model U.S. car will roll off an assembly line today and into a parking lot, because of (he impasse over clean air standards. The Ford Motor Co. planned lo build the first of its new economy cars the Ford Fairmonl and Mercury Zephyr at mid-morning Monday in its Kansas City, assembly plant. But the 26-mites-per-gallon compact models are built to 1977-model clean air standards and not the tougher 1978-model tailpipe standards still on the books.

Until Congress relaxes those laws, automakers cannot ship their new models and have warned of industry-wide plant shutdowns. "We can store a a week's worth about 2,000 cars in the plant yard," a a a i "Beyond that we'll have to start looking outside the plant for storage space. "We haven't set a i when we'd stop building cars at Kansas City and close the plant," he said. Under federal law, cars that do not meet clean air stan- dards'cannot be shipped across state lines lo dealers, The Environmental Protection Agency could waive that rule if Congress does not complete work on a new clean air bill, carrying current standards through 197fi, by the time of its scheduled recess. However, Sen.

Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, chairman of the conference committee trying to work out compromise clean air legislation, says "excellent progress" has been made. The conference committee was to meet again tonight and Muskie said it could wind up its negotiations by Tuesday or Wednesday, leaving lime for a bill to be passed by the end of the week. The first of the 1978 models from General Motors and Chrysler are not due (o start rolling off assembly lines until Aug. 8.

GM has warned that a delay in setting a new clean air law could mean a complete shutdown of its North American operations by mid-September. "When you build cars with the idea of just storing them, there is some point at which you can't store anymore, 1 the Ford spokesman said. Fires pose threat to Alaskan villages FAIRBANKS, Alaska Fires sparked by record a a a threatened eight Alaskan villages and residents planned lo flee, Bureau of Land Management officials reported. Officials said 39 fires covering 829,000 acres were sweeping through the state, one near the new Alaska pipeline. Temperatures near 90 degrees in some areas and unpredictable winds hampered firefighting efforts.

The largest blaze covered California brush tire contained CORONA, Calif. I A fire in heavy brush was contained about dawn Sunday after more than three days of touch-and-go battling by a force of about 1,500 firefighters. It was the second major blaze in Southern California during the week. Tuesday a brush fire destroyed 200 homes in the wealthy suburb of Montecito north of Santa Barbara, causing $20 million damage. The Corona fire, started Thursday by an illegal campfire in Ihe Cleveland National Forest, doubled in acreage every hour for the first few hours before firefighters and air tankers made any significant inroads.

Mantes a homes several times, but the only structures burned were a barn and a shack. There were seven injuries reported, none serious. High temperatures, low humidity and erratic winds hampered efforts to contain the blaze until fire teams "back- burned" a line a the blaze which was moving northward to the outskirts of the city. Firemen burned off brush the fire would have used as fuel to spread. The fire several times endangered homes on the souih- ern edge of the city and air tankers made chemical re tar- dan I drops near Ihe houses lo protect them.

"The fire is looking good," a U.S. Forest Service spokesman said. "We expect to have it controlled about midnight today." 300,000 acres of tundra about 100 miles north of Nome. Ninety planes and 600 men fought the fires. As firefighters focused on protecting (he threatened villages, the town of Shungnak, with a population of 155, was in the most danger and evacu- a i was a spokesman Kerry Cartier said.

He said the vShungnak fire was 20 miies wide and covered 80,000 acres. The fire was about seven miles south of town and would have to jump the Kobuk River to reach Shungnak. But 15-mile-an-hour winds were moving the blaze northward and Cartier said, "It looks like it will reach the village in two to four days if it keeps moving at its present rate." Plans have been drawn up to evacuate the other threatened villages also it necessary, he said. Those villages are Ambler, Nobuk, Kiana, Noatak, lluslia, Buckland, Taylor and the old mining community of Haycock. Kiana is the largest of the towns with a population of 300.

Noatak is next with 293 residents. Mandate wants poor in politics NASHVILLE, Tenn. (UPI) Vice President Walter Mon- date says poor people have as much a right to seek public office as the rich and he wants Congress lo approve a bill for public financing of congressional elections. The former Minnesota senator appeared at two fundraising functions and erased a $200,000 debt owed by the Tennessee Democratic Party Saturday. He also dropped in briefly on the Grand Ole Opry before returning to Washing- Ion.

"It ought to be the birthright of everyone in this country that the poorest person has as good a chance as the richest person," Mondale told a cheering a i of Tennessee Democrats. The public financing bill is now stalled in the Senate and facing opposition by Senate Republican Leader Howard Baker. R-Tenn. Hundreds pay honor to dead hobo king BRITT, Iowa I A king was buried beneath a pine tree this weekend, not far from where he could have boarded his royal coach. Bui no trumpets sounded or heads of state bowed, for the king was a commoner known to his friends as Ihe Hardrock Kid, a king of (he hoboes, whose coach was a railroad boxcar.

The Kid, born 72 years ago "somewhere in the East" as John Mislcn, died July 24 in a city park in Ogden, Iowa, much as he had lived --asleep under a tree. A search for relatives turned up none, so friends in Ogden and in Brill provided a funeral, a burial plot and some flowers. Those friends were plentiful Saturday as hundreds crowded a funeral home in Ogden and a cemetery in Brill to say farewell to Ihe Ihin man with Ihe scraggly beard who some say got his name mining lead in Colorado and had spent 20 summers (raveling Iowa. contracts added up WASHINGTON (UPI) The nation's top 100 defense Industries received billion worth of contracts in fiscal 1976, with McDonnell-Douglas replacing Lockheed as the Pentagon's No. 1 contractor, a private research organization reported Sunday.

The Council on Economic Priorities (CEP) said McDonnell-Douglas, a St. Louis based aerospace firm, received $2.5 billion worth of Pentagon contracts in fiscal 1876, nearly double the dollar amount it received the previous year. Lockheed was second with 41.5 billion in Pentagon business, a decline of more than $500 million from the previous year, the report said. The council, a nonprofit organization, said the $42 billion awarded to top defense industries is "a Jl.l billion, or 2.7 per cent increase over fiscal year 1975 in current dollars." Besides McDonnell-Douglas and Lockheed, the top 10 Pentagon contractors and the value of contracts received in 1976 are Northrop, $1.48 billion; General Electric, $1.3 billion; United Technologies, $1.23 billion; Boeing, $1.17 billion; Genera! Dynamics, $1 billion; Grumman, million; Litton Industries, $978.2 million, and Rockwell International, $966 million. The report said membership in the top 100 defense contractors has remained relatively stable for the past five years.

But significant shifts oc- in 1976 because of changes in Pentagon procurement patterns. For example, Northrop leapfrogged from 12th place last year to 3rd on the list this year because of a a a i increase in i i i i a a Chrysler, FMC, Harsco and Pacific Petroleum became significantly larger Pentagon contractors. Companies declining significantly included ATT, Gould, DuPont, Santa Ke Engineering, and the Titan group. Ethiopia, Somalia Carter may offer aliens status to remain in U.S. battle A I I President Carter will propose this week that millions of Illegal aliens be given status which would lei Diem remain in America lawfully, sources said Sunday.

Carter still is making final decisions on the legislation. But through sources bolh in the administration and on Capitol Hill, UPI learned that it probably will contain provisions on: Adjustment of status. This would permit illegal aliens who were in the United Stales prior to 1970 to remain here and apply for U.S. citizenship. It is believed that fewer than one million illegal aliens were in the Uniled States prior to 1970, Nondeportable status.

This would allow illegal aliens who entered the United Stales between 1970 and Jan. 1, 1977, to.remain hero with five-year work. The sources said although Carter is expected to send the message to Congress in midweek, Ihere is little chance the package will be enacted Ibis year. A other things, time-consuming hearings would have to be held. The message is aimed at cutting off the flow of Ihe hundi'cds ol thousands of aliens "braceros" who cross U.S.

borders each year to work at cut-rate wages. The sources said inducements in the program are designed to help the U.S. government get an accurate count on the number of working aliens. "Adjustment of status" legislation for aliens has been on the law books for many years, but the current cut-off date is 1948, which means it does not affect many persons. China demands Korean pullout Employer sanctions.

A firm could be fined Jl.OOO for each alien employed. There now are no penalties. Improved patrols along the border. Foreign aid. An undetermined amount of "laborinten- sive" aid would go to Mexico and other countries to help create jobs, thus easing the need for their citizens to cross the U.S.

border in search of I China's military attache in Norlh Korea has demanded the putloul of all U.S. military forces from South Korea "immediately," the New China News Agency said Sunday. It was the first Chinese comment on Korea since Defense Secretary Harold Brown visited Seoul last week to discuss President Carter's proposed withdrawal of ground troops over the next four or five years. In Peking, Defense Minister Yeh Chien-ying promised to "liberate" Taiwan and beef up a country against the Soviet Union. He also pledged devo- tion to the principles of the late Communist party chief Mao Tse-lung and loyally to Mao's successor, Hua Kuofeng.

The remarks by bolh officers cainc at rallies marking today's 50lh anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Celebrations have been underway in Peking for more than a week. The i i a attache in Pyongyang, Tieh Lei, told a large gathering of Korean generals that China firmly supports the "independent and peaceful reunification" of the peninsula. NAIROBI, Kenya (UPI) Somali i a Sunday claimed they killed thousands of Soviet-backed Ethiopian troops in continued fighting for control of Ihe Ogaden desert, then fed many of "their bodies to the vultures." Somalia's government news agency also accused the Elhio- pians of killing women and children in the disputed area, kidnaping thousands of civil- i a and i them to join the new "peasant army," then gunning them down in battle when the bewildered recruits tried to retreat. Diplomatic sources said at the end of two months of fighting in Ethiopia's southeast corner which erupted in early June, the guerrillas now appear to have effective control of around 60 per cent of the region, which comprises one- third of Ethiopia's total land area.

However, a a i i i thousands of militia and regular troops into the area recently, the Ethiopians appear to have consolidated their fallback positions and could be readying for some type of counteroffensive, the sources said. Ethiopia and the insurgents for the last week both have a i a victories. These included Ihe reported killing and capture of 10,000 soldiers probably a third of all forces in the area and the destruction of scores of tanks, war planes and trucks. At one point the guerrillas said they destroyed 23 Ethiopian warplanes two-thirds of the entire air force. Military observers said the claims of both sides probably were wildly exaggerated.

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