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March 6. 1981 Soviet defector: KGB faked story i il4 JT "Vr" "In t. after the article appeared, but not to get depressed time passes and people forget," he said. Almost immediately after the article appeared. Stepanov said, he decided to try to refute it by making contact with Western correspodents in Moscow and telling his own story.

In July he wrote a letter to the U.S. Embassy asking for help in reaching American correspondents. A few days later Stepanov remembers it as the second day of the summer Olympic games his chief KGB contact appeared as his door, holding the letter he had sent to the embassy. The KGB man wasn't happy. He wanted to know why Stepanov wanted to meet with American correspodents.

Stepanov said he thought he could get some help in finding relatives in the United States. The KGB man didn't believe him: "We'll break your legs, put you in the drunk tank, or throw you in an insane asylum," Still, Stepanov kept up his efforts. The Olympics passed, but he didn't bump into any correspodents on the street, as he had hoped. The effort has taken almost 10 months, he said, during which time the authorities apparently discovered what he was up to. y-BMi-iMw i.

i mm iA 4 tm'' ii driving Canada In New York City, the average price of unleaded gasoline, with full service, costs $1.52. The pump price in Salt Lake City is $1.32. Marketing specialists say the disparity in state and local taxes is the main reason hy the same brand and grade of gas costs more in New York than in Texas. While the federal gasoline tax has stayed at 4 cents since 1959, states and cities have raised their taxes on gas by varying amounts. Gasoline taxes in New York City, highest in the country, total 22.8 cents a gallon, compared with 9 cents a gallon in Texas.

"Manhattan is a physically tight market, and dealers there are able to enjoy higher profit margins than dealers elsewhere," said Eugene F. McCabe, national manager of pricing and allocation at Mobil Oil Co. Another reason motorists pay more for gasoline in New York and elsewhere in the Northeast, McCabe explained, is that the crude oil used to produce the gasoline comes by pipeline and tanker from the Gulf of Mexico, thereby pushing up transportation costs. The cost of transporting gasoline is also a factor in pump prices at stations in the West Gas prices in Denver are running 10 cents higher than in Los Angeles, in large part due to higher transportation costs. Drivers in most rural areas of the country tend to pay more for gas because it must be trucked in.

Perhaps most importantly, prices at pumps throughout the country are being affected by the upheaval in marketing that has come in the wake of price deregulation. "Totally new marketing arrangements for gasoline are in the process of being born," said one industry analyst. "Market forces kept in abeyance for the past eight years under federal controls are coming home." Oil companies are allocating their operating and transportation costs differently. Some charge higher prices 'V, 4,,, -r IF- Associated Prsss EVEN WITH 35-CENT TOLLS EACH WAY, CANADA'S GAS SAVES Cars Jam the Peace Bridge from Buffalo, N.Y., to Fort Erie, Ont. From Page 1 with which the Soviet authorities view the emigration or defection of some of their artists and the efforts they make to counter the effects such departures have on the Soviet population.

Stepanov said the Izvestia interview was arranged by the KGB team that questioned him immediately after his return to the Soviet Union. "When a correspondent calls, it will be ours," Stepanov quoted one of the KGB men as telling him. Later, Stepanov said, that same KGB man came to his house about a half-hour before the interview and told him what to say. The interview appeared April 10. eight days after Stepanov returned.

It was titled "Return" and began by quoting Stepanov as saying that in the United States, "reality seemed like a nightmare." It quoted him as implying that while in the United States he was under the care of a church group that was a front for American intelligence services and that unsuccessfully tried to recruit him as a spy. The story had Stepanov describing other Soviet artists ho emigrated as living lives of poverty and despair, alcoholism and degradation. It. quoted him as saying that his decision to defect was a "thoughtless act" the result of a decision made under the influence of alcohol. In his two months in the United States, the story said, he was constantly unhappy.

"Today," it reported him as saying, "I am boundlessly happy. I am at home in my native land." Stepanov now says he said none of these things, and that some of the other details in the article that were attributed to him came not from the interview with Izvestia's -orrespon-dents but from his interrogation sessions with the Soviet authorities. A few days after the interview, Stepanov said he was phoned by his chief KGB contact who told him the article was about to appear. "They told me I wouldn't feel good Measured by the coal of goods ready to be sold to retailers, otherwise known as producer prices, monthly percent change, seasonally adjusted 18 1.6- 1.4- 1.2- 1.0- 08H 0.6-1 04- 0.2-1 A A 1980 -0 2- Source Bureau of Labor Statistics Examiner graphics Fourth-quarter figures showed median wage and salary earnings for families increased only 65 percent over the year, from $.388 to $415 weekly, compared to an increase in the Consumer Price Index of 12.6 percent The department attributed the smallness of the increase in earnings to workers' losing their jobs or being reduced to part-time employment S.F. EXAMINER Gas pains people to From Page 1 threaten a Peace Bridge boycott "We've lost 35 percent of our stations here in the last 15 said Norman Grapes, executive director of the United Gasoline Retailers of Western New York.

This summer, when our customers go over to the (Fort Erie thoroughbred) racetrack and to their cabins on the other side of the bridge, could be catastrophic." Politicians suggest declaring the Buffalo area an economic disaster area, lifting gasoline taxes within 10 miles of the border and imposing a duty on gasoline bought in Canada. Few VS. drivers have access to the cheaper Canadian gas. They find that prices for the same grade of gas vary as much as 20 cents a gallon from one city to another. They also find that they have fewer name brands to choose, that they have to drive a lot farther for a fillup and that prices are rising everywhere despite increased conservation.

Most of these changes in the price and availability of gasoline stem from the removal of federal oil regulations. Since President Reagan lifted controls a month ago, oil companies have boosted gasoline prices an average of 7 cents a gallon. Some firms Atlantic Richfield, Phillips Petroleum and Texaco have cut off gasoline to several hundred dealers despite earlier assurances that they planned no immediate cuts. With plenty of gas available nationally, most of these dealers should have little trouble finding new suppliers right now. But given the unpredictable world oil market, it's unlikely that any of them will get long-term contracts.

Thus, in tight situations such as the one in 1979 after the upheaval in Iran, dealers could easily find themselves cut off, and the drivers they serve running on empty. Decontrol also is partly responsible for the sharp differences in gasoline prices from one part of the country to another. Reagan: No U.S. combat in Salvador From Page 1 the muscle of the programs the truly needy must have." Rather, he said, the cuts had been designed to reduce administrative overhead and also the tendency of social welfare programs to expand to include people who have no real need. At the same time, he cautioned Americans not to look to his economic package for an instant cure.

"The problems we have built up over several decades, and they won't go away overnight," Reagan said, predicting the most tangible results Americans could expect to see will be "a drastic reduction in the deficit by fiscal 1982." The president said he had yet to reach a decision on two vital areas of overseas trade whether to impose voluntary or mandatory quotas on Japanese automobile imports, and whether to expand or abandon the embargo on grain sales to the Soviet Union. Reagan said quotas were just one of several steps being considered by a special commission being chaired by Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis. Another is lifting federal regulations which make the manufacture of American cars more costly. Reagan said he sometimes thinks the grain embargo is "as harmful to our farmers as it is to the Soviet Union, and all of us would like to lift it." He added, however, that the changing international situation prevented immediate action. The press conference was the first Women's From Page 1 the effort, although there was a tremendous amount of moral and volunteer support Eventually, that empathy was not enough to keep the library overflowing her home afloat, and Laura tried to interest a Bay Area library in taking over the collection.

There were battles between librarians and their overseers, but the final verdict was always "no." Thus, the Bay Area lost the lovingly and painstakingly assembled collection of the Women's History Research Center. Laura differentiates between her library and the two oldest women's history libraries the Sophia Smith collection, named after the founder of Smith College in Northampton, and the Elizabeth and Arthur Schlesin-ger Library on the History of Women in America at Radclif fe, in Cambridge, Mass. While not knocking their collections, Laura said there is more personal involvement "when women here study their own history" than when scholars study women's history. That she said, "is more tike Simone de Beauvoir's other' concept There's a distance like studying tsetse flies." In 1974, when her home was crammed with boxes and papers and the constant goal of making whatever they had available increasingly impossible, the library was closed. Grants were obtained to microfilm the collection.

That microfilm is now available at 280 libraries in 13 countries. (The San Francisco Public Library has the "Herstory" collection, and the Bancroft A16 -r TT 7 i Ifa' places where they are already dominant" The result, he said, is that oil suppliers charge name-brand dealers more in certain parts of the country to take advantage of changing market conditions. Wholesale oil costs fueling inflation jump From Page 1 costs is expected to continue, particularly in light of President Reagan's recent decontrol of most VS. oil prices. The consumer foods index declined 0.6 percent in February after showing no change in January, but government and private economists expect food prices to rise substantially later this year.

Prices for finished consumer goods other than food or energy rose 0.7 percent in February after rising 0.8 percent in January, the report said. Increases occurred for a broad range of items, including alcoholic beverages, cosmetics, drugs, tires and tubes, health products and newspapers. Overall, the producer price index rose 1 percent, before adjustment for seasonal variations, to 2fi2.4. That means that goods which cost $10 in 1967 would cost $26.24 today. The unemployment figures released today showed teen-age unemployment up 0.3 percent from last month's 19 percent figure.

Unemployment among black and other minority teen-agers, however, continued, a decline, dropping 1.1 percentage points to 35.4 percent At the end of 1980, the rate stood at 37.5 percent There were 7,754.000 unemployed, workers. The Labor Department reported yesterday that inflation sose faster during 1980 than did the earnings of American families. ing women's past, although there are valuable scattered resources, including an important collection of oral histories at Bancroft Library in Berkeley and papers of individuals and organizations at the California Historical Society in San Francisco. Estelle Friedman, a Stanford historian who was instrumental in shep-' herding through an interdisciplinary Program in Feminist Studies just approved two weeks ago, said she is of two minds about whether such a place is needed here: "We could build on the strength of Bancroft or Stanford, but the older libraries have such a long tradition of collecting that much has already been collected, and we would be competing with them. On the other hand, it could bring forth more material, particularly on the Western experiences of worn-, en." Stanford's Carl Degler is another historian long interested in the neglected history of women.

He was among those at the 1972 meeting of the Organization of American Historians pressing for a thorough survey of the literature. The result of that effort was Women's History Sources: A Guide to Archives and Manuscript Collections in the United States, edited by Andrea Hinding of the University of Minnesota, and available in the history reference section of the San Francisco Public Library. Published last year, the tome describes 18,026 collections in 1.586 repositories, arranged geographically. "It describes women who were arsonists, astronomers, attorneys, bota ixuw mat ne nas ioiu nis siory, ne believes the authorities "will do what they have promised to do." At 5 a.m. on Jan.

21, he slipped out of his hotel in Acquilla, near Rome, and caught a communler train to the Italian capital. He immediately went to the US. Embassy and asked to go to the United States. His defection came only a few months after the Bolshoi's tour of the United States, when three leading dancers left the company at stops in New York or Los Angeles. Arriving in the United States, Stepanov spent a few days in Maryland, then was picked up by Yuri Vzorov, a former Soviet ballet master ho had emigrated and was running a ballet school in Bethesda, Md.

Vzorov helped Stepanov find a Job as a dancer at the New Jersey state ballet In West Orange, where he was paid $500 a week and enjoying his work greatly. But he began to worry about possible reprisals against his wife, a ballerina at the BoLshoi, his parents and his brother, still in Moscow These worries increased when he was told that his wife had been bumped from the planned BoLshoi tour of Japan shortly after his defwtion in January. "I began to think that if I went back to face the punishment, ii wouldn't ne so bad for the people I left behind," he said. When he arrived home, the KGB twice interrogated him but so far he has gone unpunished. He was even told he could resume working at the Moscow Classical Ballet as long as he went before the company and made a public statement saying how bad conditions were in the United States.

He refused. Because of his refusal to make the statement and not the defection Stepanov says he was expelled from the Communist Party. Worse, for him, he hasn't danced publicly since he returned and doesn't expect to do so again in the Soviet Union. Then does he regret his decision to leave the United States? Yes and no. He liked the United States, here it is possible to work creatively," but is convinced that only his return to Moscow prevented reprisals against his family.

Baltimore Sun Big nugget sold MELBOURNE, Australia (UPD The 60-pound "Hand of Faith" gold nugget discovered in Australia last October has been sold to the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas for $1 million, the agent for the anonymous finders said today. materials of Marietta Stow who was a for governor of California in 1882 and in 1884 helped organize the Equal Rights Party, which nominated her for vice president One of the newest of the archives is; in Washington, DC, in a carriage'" house in back of the townhouse that was the last residence of Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of the National Council of Negro Women. Archivist Linda Henry came from the Schlesin- ger to establish the Council-sponsored National Archives for Black Women's History, the only collection of its kind. Sue Bailey Thurman of San Francis-' co, author of the book "Pioneers of Negro Origin in California." was among those serving on the Council's archives committee, which led to the' library's founding in 1978. Princeton University, the Ivy League school in New Jersey which did not admit women until 11 years ago, acquired an important women's 1 history resource in 1979 the comprehensive personal collection of Miriam Hoklen, reaching back into ancient civilizations as well as more modern American and European history.

Hot- den and Elizabeth Schlesinger were contemporaries who sought to estab- llsh women's archives for years. The i Chicago Circle campus of the University of Illinois has the Jane Ad dams and Midwest Women's History collections. Most of these collections are open to the public. Many of the archives are seeking more contributions, both monetary and in the memorabilia once dismissed by historians as unimportant women's work. I ft Associatsd Press PRESIDENT REAGAN FIELDS QUESTIONS AT PRESS CONFERENCE He again rejected parallels between El Salvador and Vietnam for gasoline and others pass through their costs in higher prices for heating or diesel oil.

"Companies have different objectives," McCabe said. "Some firms are cutting back in areas where they have small and unprofitable shares of the (gasoline) market, concentrating on i 24 hours notice to prepare their questions. Reagan drews laughs when he welcomed the press to the "first experience in Reagan roulette." and suffrage focus," said. Director Patricia King. "We are still collecting 19th Century suffrage and anti-suffer-age material, but we're now very heavily on the women's movement We have Betty Friedan's papers and are the repository for the papers of the National Organization for Women "We are also collecting heavily on women's role in the family.

We have a lot of important 19th century letters, diaries and photographs, and are still collecting on women who might or might not be well known." "Then we are interested in women and the professions, in the various social reform movements, women in government and politics And we're interested in the whole culinary arts field. We have Julia Child's and M.F.K. Fisher's papers." It was at the Schlesinger that UC-Davis historian Ruth Rosen discovered, to her delight the turn-of-theentury journals of a one-time prostitute named Maimie. Rosen, a researcher on urban prostitution, spent several years editing "The Maimie Papers" and turning them into a book, published by The Feminist Press of Old Westbury, N.Y. Although more women's history books have been published recently than ever before (many based on research done at the few women's libraries in existence), the archives consist largely of primary sources, such as handwritten journals, household notes, letters, flyers, periodicals, photographs, oral histories and papers of organizations of or affecting women.

There is no central place in the Bay Area for those interested in rediscover to employ the new lottery system for selecting questions from reporters. Reporters wishing to question the president were selected by lot yesterday during a briefing in the White House press room, and therefore had history becomes labor of love for new activists nists, legislators, madams, physicians and stagecoach drivers, along with those whose contributions were made as wives, mothers, homemakers and leaders of or participants in local civic and cultural organizations," Hinding writes. "It describes women who were eccentric, those who promoted suffrage while opposing birth control and those who did the reverse (marking) the beginning of a new era of research into women's lives." The California Historical Society, for example, has the minutes, financial records and correspondence of the1 Babies Aid Society of San Francisco, "emphasizing medical care. The society claimed the world's lowest death rate in foundling homes." Also in the Society's collection are the papers of Charlotte Brown, a black woman who sued the Omnibus Rail Road Co. in 1865 "for ejecting her from one of their cars because of her color." The Bancroft has 60 boxes, 19 cartons and one portfolio from the late Phoebe Apperson Hearst wife of former Sen.

George Hearst and mother of newspaper chain founder William Randolph Hearst on such topics as kindergartens, orphanages, free libraries and feminism. The Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Library in. Berkeley has attorneys' working papers on more than 130 sex discrimination cases. Stanford Medical School's Library has the papers of Adelaide Brown, a San Francisco physician ho died in 1940, on prenatal care in California, child hygiene and the health of adolescent girls. The Oakland Public Library has the Library at the University of California at Berkeley as well as the Berkeley Public Libraries have all three categories, including "Women and Health Mental Health" and "Women and the Northwestern University has the original Herstory assemblage.

The University of Wyoming has the health and law collections. The Women's History Research Center library deals chiefly with today's women's movement from 1968-1974. The center is still open as a distribution and publicity agent for its former library, and to coordinate its current project, the National Clearinghouse on Marital Rape. Information is available by sending a stamped, self-addressed envelope to 2325 Oak Berkeley 94708. The Smith collection began in 1942.

It is the premiere repository for the history of the birth control movement, containing papers of pioneer Margaret Sanger and the Planned Parenthood League, as well as significant family records, such as those of the abolitionist Garrisons, who were involved in many of the social movements of their time Virginia Christenson, assistant to the director, said the Smith collection includes "thousands of pamphlets, broadsides, books, periodicals and mis-cellania documenting the intellectual and social history of women, past and present" The Schlesinger Library, started in 1943, is generally regarded as the most comprehensive collection of American women's history. "It started off with a women's rights.