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1 3 new Kopp refuses a seat on finance panel CityPage B6 Night of nostalgia at Hall of Fame Bucky WalterF2 films open Weekend TV i ScenePage E1 attlrcmtfeco Ik emitter Stocks unchanged Page C1 Final edition Complete stocks 116th Year No. 232 Friday, March 6, 1981 wadr Today Fuel causes Freedom: KIow sweet GIs won't fight; no coups; no subversion Topic A REJECTING COMPARISONS between El Salvador and Vietnam. President Reagan said that none of the American advisers sent to Salvador will be going into combat, but he acknowledged that "we can't, I'm sorry to say, make it risk free." Page AI. CityState s'-J w' vv ft i Mv6 i X. i if AARON OWENS was released from prison after serving eight years for two murders he did not commit Page A3.

AGITATED OBJECTIONS by Sen. Alan Robbins delaying Senate action on a bill amending state penal code sections under hich he faces trial on charges of sexual misconduct with minor girls. Page A6. THERE WAS JOY and there was sadness in the San Francisco lottery distribution of 100 low-priced condominiums at Inchon Village. Page Bl.

A CONTROVERSIAL BUILDING proposed for Union Street has been rejected by the Planning Commission following a heated argument over the radically designed structure's architectural merits. Page Bl. BOARD OF SUPERVISORS chief John Molinari, in what was called a masterful move, named old foe Quentin Kopp to the Finance Commmitee. Kopp refused, and Molinari said he won't try to force him to accept Page B6. wholesale price rise Unemployment drops a bit in February Examiner News Services WASHINGTON Rapidly rising energy costs pushed overall wholesale prices 0.8 percent higher in February, although food costs were falling, the government reported today.

Unemployment dropped slightly to 7.3 percent, the lowest rate since last April. The rise in the Labor Department's seasonally adjusted Producer Price Index for finished goods slightly smaller that January's 0.9 percent translates into about a 10 percent annual inflation rate. The 7.3 percent unemployment rate for February followed two months of 7.4 percent reports and ended a nine-month stretch in which the rate had hovered between 74 percent and 7.6 percent. California's jobless rate rose 0.1 percent last month to 7.6 percent. However, the rise or decline of one-tenth of a percentage point is considered statistically insignificant by the Labor Department, which released both reports today.

By far the biggest jump in producer prices, which usually precede cost-of-living increases at the consumer level, was in energy costs. The 3.6 percent energy-cost rise, the fourth straight big monthly increase, included a 6.5 percent jump in fuel oil prices and a 4.7 percent increase in gasoline costs at the wholesale level. HowevA-, prices for natural gas remained even after rising steadily for 10 months. The trend toward higher energy See Back Page, Col. 4 Nation HOLESALE PRICES went up another 0.8 percent last month, largely because of a 36 percent increase in energy costs.

At the same time, the nation's unemployment rate dropped slightly and California's went up a bit. Page At. FLORIDA'S 10-YEAR hunt for its most-wanted rapist, accused in hundreds of sexual assualts, ended when an ex-cop found his, picture and the story of his exploits as "Superthief" in Cosmopolitan magazine. Page Al TISSUE CLONED from cancer cells can turn out cancer-free, indicating that the growth of cancer may not be caused by irreversible factors, scientists say. Page A7.

U.S. to study entering fight against violent crime Page A4 By E. Barnes Examiner Political Writer WASHINGTON President Reagan today ruled out the use of American troops in El Salvador, and warned that the United States would look "very seriously" at a right wing coup in that troubled Central American nation. Reagan broke little new ground as he answered a ide range of questions about El Salvador, his budget package and his upcoming trip to Canada during his second televised press conference since taking office. Asked what his response would be to a coup in El Salvador, he replied, "We're there at the request of the government.

We're opposed to terror-Ism of the right or left. I'm not sure hat we'd do, but it would be of the gravest concern to us, and we'd take it very seriously." Reagan said he had taken "every precaution" to protect the safety of the American advisers there, but added the disclaimer, "we can't make it risk free." He said Americans ill not be going on combat missions, and twice denied any intention to send American troops. "We don't forsee the need to send American troops that's not in our rec koning at all," he said. Reagan refused to acknowledge any parallels between El Salvador and Vietnam, saying the current situation is "in our front yard." He said the United States' purpose in El Salvador is to "halt infiltration into the Americas, the hole of Central America and eventually South America, of a destabilizing force of terrorists and revolutionaries." And as he has in the past, Reagan charged the Soviet Union and Cuba with backing terrorism in this hemisphere. He laughed at a question that recalled Democratic campaign charges he might risk war, saying "I've been here more than six weeks now and haven't fire a shot." The question was tied to the El Salvador aid program, but Reagan said he didn't start that, "I inherited it" He said the Carter administration, vociferous in suggesting that he would risk war, "did the same thing we're doing" in sending aid to El Salvador.

At the start of the half hour conference, the president announced he will replace the temporary freeze on hiring government employees with a plan for reducing the number of non-military personnel in government. The plan would institute new permanent ceilings on the number of federal government employees, saving the country an estimated $1.3 billion annually. Reagan said the new ceilings will hold down the number of non-defense personnel by nearly 33,000 this fiscal year and 63,000 the next fiscal year. "We've asked the American people to tighten their belts, now it's time to put Washington on a diet, too," Reagan said. Reagan also defended his proposed budget cuts, saying they don't "cut into See Back Page, Col.

1 World 11111111 tiL, i Examiner uoroon Stone SAUDI ARABIA will be sold equipment to extend the range and expand the military capability of its fleet of F-15 jet fighters, the Reagan administration announced, adding that Israel, which opposes the sale, will get an additional $700 million in aid. Page All. CUBA AND the coditor of a US. publication that published the names of CIA agents have been blamed by the State Department for the expulsion of American diplomats from Mozambique. Page All THE MOTHER of a 7-year-old girl murdered last May walked into a West German courtroom and shot dead the man on trial for the killing.

Page D2. jubilant wife, two daughters and a sister were among the many in the courtroom who congratulated him on his victory over injustice. Story Page A3. Gladys Owens tearfully hugs her son Aaron in Alameda Superior Court today after he was exonerated of two murders for which he spent eight years in prison. Owens' Defector: KGB faked story Sports Gas prices drive people into Canada Examiner News Sen ices With gasoline prices varying as much as 20 cents a gallon from one city to another, Americans by the thousands are filling up their tanks in Canada, where government controls have kept prices under $1 a gallon.

More than 21.000 Americans a day drive to Canada because they can fill their tanks for about $15. With the recent spate of price increases that followed VS. decontrol of oil prices, traffic on the Peace Bridge that connects Fort Erie, Canada, and Buffalo, N.Y., has risen more than 300 percent from the same'period of 1979. There is a 35-cent toll each way. Yesterday, the average price of a gallon of unleaded fuel was about $1.48 in Buffalo and 94 cents in Fort Erie.

It's a bonanza for Canadian gas station owners, some of whom reportedly sell as many as 30,000 gallons a day. Last summer. Fort Erie had 27 pumps; now there are 127. But in Buffalo, officials and businessmen bemoan the impact of cheap Canadian gas. Gas station owners See Back Page, Col.

1 SAN JOSE STATE won and University of the Pacific lost in the opening round of the Pacific Coast Athletic Association basketball tournament at Anaheim. Page Fl. JACK NICKLAUS shot a 65 to tie veteran Larry Ziegler for the first-round lead in the Inverrary Golf Classic at Lauderhill, Fla. Page F2. Business WHAT POTENTIALLY was the largest merger in VS.

history fizzled when Standard Oil of California was rebuffed in a second effort to acquire AMAX Inc. with an offer of cash and stock worth as much as $4.3 billion. Page CI. THE UNION PACIFIC wants direct access to the San Francisco Bay Area and Gulf Coast ports, the railroad's chairman said in explaining hy the UP is trying to acquire two other carriers. Page C2.

MOSCOW A Soviet ballet dancer who defected to the United States and then returned to the Soviet Union because he feared for his family's safety says he was used as part of an anti-American propaganda campaign orchestrated by the KGB security police. Yuri Stepanov, 33, defected in January 1980 and returned to the Soviet Union two months later. He denied quotations and sentiments attributed to him in the government newspaper Izvestia that he had grow disillusioned with the "nightmare" of life in the United States. lastead, Stepanov says that he returned because he feared reprisals against his family: "If I had not returned, it would have been very bad for my relatives. "I had an obligation to them.

Now that I have returned, I feel I have ullf illed that obligation." Stepanov's act was one in a series of highly publicized defections by dancers in late 1979 and early 1960 that shook the Soviet ballet world and dealt a heavy blow to the Soviet Union's image abroad. When he voluntarily returned to Moscow, the Soviets moved to counter the effect with a long article in Izvestia that charged in part that American intelligence agencies had attempted 'to turn a dancer into a spy." Tass distributed the article worldwide and other Soviet papers published it as an example of a sad lesson learned by a Soviet citizen who thought life would be better in the West. Stepanov now denies much of hat was in the original article including the spy allegations. And he says that some of the other material was given to the newspaper by the KGB agents who debriefed, him on his return. Western reporters couldn't find an official at Izvestia yesterday who could discuss Stepanov's charges.

A press spokesman at the Soviet Foreign Ministry also failed to reach an Izvestia official who could discuss the charges. In a series of meetings with three Western correspondents, the dancer said he is speaking out because he wants to set the record straight, "to refute the Izvestia article, explain myself, make clear what I did and why I did it" In doing so, he underscored the seriousness See Back Page, Col. 5 Opinion Another way Women's history: a labor of love for new searchers THE EXAMINER'S VIEW: Democrats would do well to heed the challenge of increased GOP numbers in Congress, -as forecast by Republican National Chairman Bill Brock. Editorials, Page B2. Weather BAY AREA FORECAST: Mostly fair through Saturday.

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Lower East Side of New York," she said. "The Socialists picked it up (the idea of women's rights marches) and in 1917, Russian women demonstrated on International Women's Day (one of the events) which led to the strike which toppled the Czar in four days." In July, it will be 13 years since Laura and her colleagues (some 3,000, she estimated, have worked directly in her home, and many thousands more have clipped and collected) began amassing one of the most comprehensive current women's history libraries in the world. There was never much money for See Bark Page, Col. 1 Johnson and television's crusty city editor Asner. Such observances actually began in 1908, according to Berkeley's Laura a pioneer in retrieving women's history from the obscure sources where it languished for decades as a conscious strategy of the' oppressor male class, she believes.

"I'm the one that rediscovered that International Women's Day was an American event," said Laura (who replaced her male-derived last name with an "In 1908, there was a demonstration for an end to child labor and sweatshops and for the right to vote on the NOW wants only women officers assigned to its march. Pago B9 By Nancy Day Tomorrow, Bella Abzug, Sonia Johnson and Ed Asner will lead a rally in Golden Gate Park for women's rights. The sixth annual event which falls on or about Internationa Women's Day each year is expected to bring together thousands of Bay Area men and women in addition to New York's former congresswoman Abzug, the Mormons' excommunicated (because of her equal rights advocacy) Inside Ann Lander E7 Arts Films E4-11 Art Spander 1 Bill Mandel a El Business Comics C5 Crosswords CS Deaths B11 Radio 1 1 Scene E1-3 Shipping C6 Sports F1-6 Scoreboard F6 Television E12 Weather B11 Editorials 62 Evening Muse F2 Family Circus 0 1 Horoscope E8 Letters B2 Mariyn Beck E4 Newsmakers A 15 Racing F5 Supermarket Want Ads D3-15.