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Merrill Jf.xamhicr-Paeie 17 KirCcCrtr 16, ixeoi Unlikely Zodiac Killer Writes Again--He Claims 17 The embattled president said he was nearly beaten during the takeover. Donald Dye assistant dean of business services, was beaten when he refused to turn over his office to the students, according to officials. TR.AI first killing tiocf in to Zodiac, By Don Martinez The likelihood of opening troubled Merritt College in Oakland tomorrow remains dim, college president Dr. Norvel Smith said today. Smith said he cannot guarantee the protection of life and property at the Grove Street campus and he is currently deciding whether or not to call in Oakland police to restore order.

lie said he was delaying a decision in hope that student activists will voluntarily leave the administrative offices they, took over yesterday. Douglas Miranda, black student lea.de interrupted Smith to declare, "We are prepared to stay there until CABLE CAR CLOTHIERS Son Finm isro't Great Sulural Slumtdrr Store Since The Zodiac killer, in a let- ter mailed Saturday from Pleasanton, now boasts he has murdered more than 17 persons. The letter was sent airmail to the Los Angeles Times mmna our non-negotiable demands are met! "You'll have to rip us out of there," he said. Nearly 150 students took over administrative offices and classrooms yesterday protesting a planned move from the old Grove Street campus to the new $15 million hilltop college next month. Classes were cancelled and violence erupted as students ran through the offices ushering officials out.

Dr. Smith told the Peralta Junior College District trustees last night that the student protests amounted to "an out-and-out takeover and not a strike." IN YOUR OFFICE 534-4142 1212 47th Avenue OAKLAND, CALIF. 94603 i 4 4 jf SALE! COTTONDACRON SPORTCOATS Reg. $50 DELICIOUS! 1 1 FREE l7( TRIAL SGT. DON GOAD CARRIES BOMB IN BOX Peeking at lethal device is Officer Fred Neville Examiner Photo Bomb in Hall of justice with the a ti "please rush to editor" on the envelope.

It was the first time in almost five months that the psychotic killer has taken up his letter-writing to newspapers here and in Southern California. As in his previous messages, he began his handprinted letter with the greeting This is the Zodiac speaking No Specifics He taunted police and hinted at more killings without being specific. Handwriting experts in Los Angeles said there was no question that the letter was written by the same man who had sent the previous letters, which definitely linked him with six killings in San Francisco and others elsewhere. In the letter received by the Times yesterday, the writer said he had to give police "credit for stumbling across my Riverside activity, but they are only finding the easy ones." Coed This was an apparent reference to the unsolved stabbing death In Oct. 30, 1966, of Riverside City College coed Cheri Jo Bates.

Zodiac's last previous letter was last Oct. 28 when he sent a Halloween death threat card to Chronicle re- porter Paul Avery. Like all the others until now, it was postmarked San Francisco. The murder of the 18 year old Riverside girl. was the to determine whether other explosives might have been brought In.

NOWj CABLE CAR WAREHOUSE. peuirullnat Elbe rfusainiiJGEsgjes a All the other subsequent murders linked to him were in Northern California, including victims here, Val-lejo and at Lake Bcrryessa in Napa County. Earlier Boast The boastful killer's last previous score claimed 14 murders. Text of the letter to the Times (written without paragraphs and ungrammatical in places) reads: "This is the Zodiac speaking. "Like I have always said I am crack proof.

If the Blue Meannies (reference to police) are evere going to catch me, they had best get off their fat (deleted) do something. Because the longer they fiddle (deleted) around, the more slaves I will collect for my after life. Easy Ones "I do have to give them credit for stumbling, across my Riverside activity, but they are only finding the easy ones, there are a hell of a lot more down there. "The reason that I'm writing to the Times is this, They don't bury me in the back pages like some of the others." Beneath the text, there was a notation of SFPD-O, apparently meaning San Francisco police have chalked up a in attempting to find him. It was signed, as in previous letters, with a circle partially enclosing a cross, followed by a dash and "17" followed by a plus sign.

Santa Rita Jail Riot Quelled Alameda authorities sought to determine to day the cause, of an hour-long riot, in a medium security barracks at the Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center near Pleasanton. The outbreak came without warning "when about 50 prisoners began smashing windows and bunks at 8:30 p.m., according to Sergeant Leonard Leavitt. It was quelled with the use of "tear smoke" described as similar to tear gas in its effects and by summoning some 25 deputies who live nearby, he said. After the disturbance was quieted, the 50 1 1 i prisoners were transferred to the maximum security Grey-stone barracks, originally built for Navy use. The 300 prisoners who were already in that facility, recently described by U.S.

District Judge Alfonso J. Zirpoli as "barbaric," did not take part in the outbreak. Leavitt said there was no immediate indication as to whether the riot began with a fight between inmates, or whether it was a general, spontaneous uprising. The prisoners had made no demands, he said. in the Gremlin, what we And more than 8 inches shorter give you in gas mileage is than the phenomenal.

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