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3.8gfiDDDfi'lSlll See story below 3 Damty Gfaiye still tales your S.F. Big (Gams comniiite3oiifn A look at both coaches SportsPage F1 dream team ft IT: ScenePage E1 SportsPage F1 Stocks in I. 5.14 MM Final edition Complete' stocks PageCI 117th Year No. 136 Tuesday, November 17, 1981 a rates ci to Europe 1GD Si KleF ipmBsIhiinfii'inift Leontyne Price to sub as Aida Soprano Leontyne Price will replace ailing Margaret Price in the title role for tomorrow's performance of "Aida'' at the San Francisco Opera. Margaret Price, who sang the role for the first time in this country on Thursday and who participated in Sunday's historic simultaneous broadcast of the opera to the Civic Auditorium and German, Austrian and Spanish television, has been fighting a cold since the opera went into rehearsal three weeks ago.

Leontyne Price, considered by many to be the world's greatest Aida, has agreed to sing the role so her colleague may rest and be able to sing later performances. Leontyne Price is in San Francisco for rehearsals of "II Trovatore," which will open at the Opera House. Today CityState Reagan to talk about slashing missile arsenal By Helen Thomas I'nited Press International WASHINGTON President Reagan is ready to propose slashing to near zero the number of U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons in Europe, top White House aide say. Reagan will unveil the "zero option" recommendation in an address tomorrow morning at the National Press Club in Washington.

Reagan will explain the position the United Suites will take when talks open Nov. 30 in Geneva on reducing the U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range nuclear missile arsenals in Europe, aides said. Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev's best public offer so far has been to freeze nuclear arms in Europe at their present levels. SS-20-deployment more than 250 of the three-warhead missiles are in place would be stopped.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization would not deploy any new weapons. U.S. officials regard the offer as rank propaganda and unacceptable. So do the other NATO governments that matter most, including that of Chancellor Helmut Sc hmidt of West Germany. The speech will be made only days before Brezhnev is in Europe.

He is to arrive in West Germany Friday. In Bonn, a West German political spokesman said today that Reagan ill renounce the concept of "theater nuclear forces," as the middle-range atomic weapons the Soviet Union has aimed at Europe and NATO wants to put in Europe aimed at the Sov iets are called. Schmidt believes the speech will be "especially important" in spelling out a unified Western position in the arms talks with Moscow, a government spokesman said. Reagan's speech is aimed, in part, at countering the heavy fallout over his recent comments on the possibility of a limited nuclear war on European soil between the superpowers. The remarks caused an uproar in Europe.

Reagan also has iMHjn accused of failing to enunciate a coherent foreign policy that will be understood and appreciated abroad. Aides said the United States has two goals in the arms negotiations with the Soviets; to offset booming anti-nuclear sentiment in Europe and to get See back page, col. 5 i 7 1 hi hi i ii i in i i'rnt'-f'-" i tiiniij iWimnMt AS INVESTIGATORS in Marin County scramble to solve the mystery of the sinking of the Freedom II and the fate of its missing female crew members, their efforts have been hampered by intriguing rumors, few leads and far more questions than answers. Page Al. THOSE WHO SUPPORT the policy of equal pay 'or comparable work In San Francisco's municipal workforce were heartened by the Board of Supervisors' stance last night.

Page Bl. THE MUNI says it is on schedule for getting its fleet of diesel buses back to full strength by the first of next year, though it has received only 14 of the 60 buses it has ordered from Los Angeles. Page Bl. JOEL HILDEBRAND, beloved professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, was given a party honoring his 100th birthday. Page Bl.

Nation NASA OFFICIALS EXPECT no problems with the space shuttle's next mission or its ability to function as a freight-hauler. Page At AFL-CIO CONVENTION delegates heard House Speaker Thomas O'Neill say that President Reagan "is no friend of working men and women" and place the blame fer trie current recession on Reagan's administration. Page A5. unnea Press iniernanonai A woman sits amid the rubble of her punishment when her son confessed to five homes in a crackdown on violence home on the Israeli-occupied West throwing a Molotov cocktail at a bus. that has flared since an administrator Bank.

Israeli troops blew it up as The military government has destroyed was named for the region Nov. 2 Reagan pushes satellite deal with Arabs Aerospace and Communications Corp. of Palo Alto, was two weeks ago. The State Department conceded that it wasn't prepared to answer congressional concerns about potential military' application. But later today, congressional and administration sourcessaid, the same plan was to be taken by department officials to Capitol Hill for presentation during a closed meeting with staff members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Criticism first arose there. Ford Aerospace representatives were expected to attend, One argument in the Saudi AWACS fight was that the radar planes, the world's most advanced, and other high technology might fall into unfriendly hands. Congressional sources said the same questions are likely to be raised in trying to block the satellite sale to 21 Arab countries and the PLO. There also is concern that the Libyan government of Col. Moammar Khadafy and the PLO might make military use of Arabsat, as the system is commonly called, and there are questions about.

Libya's share of the financing, said to be about 17 percent, said the See back page, col. 4 WASHINGTON (AP) Risking a fight with Congress, the Reagan administration is going ahead with a plan to sell communications satellite equipment from a Palo Alto firm to an Arab consortium that includes Libya and the Palestine Liberation Organization, sources say. The proposal is certain to revive the kind of debate that accompanied the administration's $8.5 billion sale of Airborne Warning and Control System IAWACS) planes and jet weaponry to Saudi Arabia last month. The $134 million commercial telephone, telex and television system, produced by Ford World RISKING A FIGHT with Congress similar to the AW ACS debate, the White House will' try to sell communications satellite equipment to an Arab consortium that includes Libya and the Palestine Liberation Organization, sources say. Page Al.

Sports Marin sea-wreck mystery grows: Who is or was who? SPECULATION AS TO the futures of Cal coach Roger Theder and Stanford head man Paul Wiggin continues to garnish the start of Big Game Week. Page Fl. FRED DEAN, THE star defensive end of the 49ers, says he will play against the Rams on Sunday despite a badly bruised sternum. Page Fl. Business THE VALUE of the typical American home soared 177 percent in the 1970s and rents, jumped 122 percent, the Census Bureau reported.

Page CI. By Jennifer Foote Examiner staff writer STINSON BEACH The two mystery men who reported the wreck of the Freedom II and the apparent deaths of three women on board the ketch called the Marin County Sheriff's department today, but did little to clarify the tangled case. Capt. Robert Gaddini said an attorney contacted sheriff's investigators and put them in touch with Rol)ert Dozier and J. Paul Russell, who told officials they were at a location outside California they wanted kept secret.

Gaddini said Russell, also know as John O'Farrell and John Farrell, and Dozier said there were three women on luxury yacht when it sank in storm-tossed seas off the Marin Coast Thursday night. Gaddini said Dozier and Russell identified the trio as Susan Russell; vho Russell said was his ife, Sheri Ann Dozier, Bob Dozier's wife, and Kristen Tomlin. "They didn't do a lot of talking." Gaddini said. "We weren't prolific conversationalists on the phone." Coast Guard investigator Rick Hubbard said he, too, was also contacted by Dozier and Russell, who swore him to secrecy about their location. "I haven't got five or six victims.

"All we know for sure is that a 51 foot ketch, registered in Scottsdale. Arizona, to R.L. Dozier went down near Stinson Beach, but this case is so crazy I wouldn't even be surprised if it's not the Freedom II." said U.S. Coast Guard spoki-snian Kent Freie. Added a perplexed Gaddini.

"We don't know who was on the boat or if the people who were supposedly on the boat are who they say they are." The bizarre case began coming to light Friday morning when a man who identified See back page. col. 1 words out of them," he said. Hubbard and sheriff's investigators will meet with the two men tomorrow morning. The case continutKl to haffle authorities, offering a mosaic of Intrigue that reads more like the cover story of a detective magazine or a complex riddle than the routine high sea misadventure it started out to be.

The actual identities of the two survivors are at this point uncertain to authorities. And the Ixxties of the women ho perished after the Freedom II sank haven't been found. Investigators still don't know for sure whether there were two or three drowning Opinion A hard lOOkFoes of the high-rise gird again for hearing THE EXAMINER'S VIEW: President Reagan should start looking for a new national security adviser to replace Richard V. Allen, who has bumbled beyond toleration. Editorials, Page B2.

Weather BAY AREA FORECAST: Partly cloudy through this afternoon becoming mostly fair tonight and tomorrow, except for locally dense fog forming tonight clearing tomorrow morning. Small craft advisory for westerly winds 15 to 30 mph decreasing tonight. Highs in the 60s. Lows in the 40s to low 50s tonight. Details, Page B7.

citing an argument aiso used by pro-high-rise activists, that there are fewer architects, shoe repairmen, $2 lunch counters and low- and moderate-income workers in the business center. Thursday's hearing comes just as the Department of City Planning has added up the gross square footage of office projects proposed, approved and under construction and announced they total 23.747.0(10 square feet about half again as much as the 43.272.000 square feet of offices existing. (Not including the recently disclosed behemoth of all projects, Southern Pacific's Mission Bay housing-office complex that calls for another 7 By Gerald Adams Examiner staff writer Say you want more new skyscrapers in San Francisco? You don't? Whichever, your latest chance to say what you do or don't like about the still-growing boom in downtown towers comes up Thursday at a Planning Commission hearing. Rarely have pro- and anti-high-ri-e contingents had as much to argue about. The anti's are expected to point out that there's less sky visible over dow ntown; more crowding on buses.

BART and Muni Metro cars; that affordable housing is harder to come by, and, million feet of office space by Moreover, say planners. The City's annual average approval rate has now risen from 2 million square feet a year to million. Then there are new employment statistics: In the last two years. 3B.70O new jobs most of them in offices and services have lnen created in San Francisco, according to the Continuing Study fur the California Economy. iChamber of Commerce officials suggest that figure should be 6,000 less, to account for what they tall "out-migration" of jobs.) But the most eyebrow-raising new See back page, col.

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