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LOWELL, MASS. Friday evening February If, 1972 32 pages 15 cents 75 cents per week home delivered Index Amusements 12 Puople 111 The Sun Business 13 15 Sports 17 2Q City 9 10 Suburban Classified 82 28 Comics 29 30 Hnm.1 j.i Crossword Pnzzle 31 Deaths 21 TV 31 Editorial Weather 81 Fcus 7 Women's News 5 Brezhnev backs Red supported Peace Congress (UP!) Soviet Communist leader Soviets blame U.S. and FIDE in chess site stalemate MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Chess Federation charged today that the U.S. and International Chess Federations were responsible for the impasse in the choice of the site for the Spassky Fischer world championship maleh. Dmilry V.

Postnikov, the Soviet federation's president, told a news conference thai, the Russians had made an official protest, charging "Jiononservantfe of the international Chess Fed eration regulations and procedures. states, tfie challenger, were unable to agree on According to the international federation's rules, Ilwg wil the match site, The Soviet protest, sent Thursday to FIDE the oonerasa, which a U.S. suokesman ralirf a Irving never met Hughes By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS said to be in Hughes handwriting reiterated the statements, The Los Angeles Times said today that ta Zakbt Mrs. Irvlng ha5 been accused oJ or umord Irving and his research aide have using a false passport to open the bank account, admitted to federal authorities that they never Two federal investigators Hew. to Zurich met industrialist Howard Hughes, the subject Wednesday night to discuss the case with Swiss Irving's purported "autobiography." authorities.

The Times reported that sources close The Ne4w Yfk said 01,0 a federal probeof Irving, sole of the "autobiog 'ZZ raphy" said Thursday that Irving and Richard the Irvings. Lnuif TTt Rmmet The instigators left Zurich Thursday ha earto eMnTd 12 hours of conferences in which a district had earlier elauned Dr pe(er Irving has said he recordtd material for the exchanged "confidential inf; book In face to face wterviews with Hughes in irving anu susitnw reportettly refused to living anu suBiuno reporceOiy retused to ft Hughes for his "autobiography." The checks were made out to "H.K. Hughes." The Times said tile admissions by Irving and Suskind were said to have been made during a closed door session in New York Wednesday with U.S. Atty; Whitney North Seymour Jr. and tap members of Seymour's staff.

Attorneys meeting of a "lot of Communist agitators." m.aAe; ne cloEE to the case," said thr.t under the still ten Uelegales from 7o countries, including actress "UKC sida LU B've melr aeal Suskind would testify under i Jane Fonda and Ronald L. Rirlenhour, one of those ty from prosecution and Irving "would plead who disclosed the My Lai massacre, were on hand said Spassky had agreed but guilty to predetermined charges." for the congress, along with delegations from the cner informed them Thursday he would not Neither Irving nor Seymour was available Viet Cong, the Cambodian Khmer Rouge move wept me Icelandic site. for immediate comment on Uie rewrts. merit, the Pathet Lao in Laos and delegates from William J. Porter, U.S.

ambassador to the Vietnam talks, on Thursday postponed indefinitely the next session of the talks on grounds the three day congress being held in suburban Versailles violated the atmosphere of neutrality needed for the talks. Tass said the North Vietnamese delegation leader "pointed to the absolutely groundless nature of the position taken by the American delegation that is again trying to torpedo the work of the conference that is called uiwn to exnlore the Prosecutor in Hughes book probe goes to Madrid hnmp 6 Auf PstaI inspector, Augusto Vasquez of New York, arrived in Madrid from Ibiza a few hours before Tigue but refused to comment Tigue flew to Madrid from Zurich after talks with the Swiss prosecutor in the case, Dr Peter Vcleff. U.S. prosecutor Robert G. Morvillo flew urth.

iu iitw oi irom Zurich. Keykjavik waa passky's first choice for the A combined federa.sta(e investigatiott has teh sue, while Fischer's was Belgrade, Yugo bccn probing possible perjury, forgery and mail Common Market and U.S. plan world trade talks ways of a peaceful settlement of. the Vietnam prob BRUSSELS (UPl) The United States and lem'" the European Common Market caJied todav for spokesman Stephen Ledogar said the international talks in 1973 aimed at liberalizing ju uciuming uit: tiLuiuspiiere or tne nuu uaut: aim improving xraamg rules. fraud violations in the case.

Meanwhile there were these other developments: The Manhattan district attorney's office announced that a second large scale investigation of the case would begin today before a special New York County grand jury. Baroness Nina van Pallandt, the Danish Mksinger and sometime travel cornpanioi of Irving, flew to New York to testify before the federal grand jury. She. smiled prettily but had na comment for newsmen. Another reported traveling companion of Irving's, blonde scuba divinz instructor Ann The joint declaration, nnnminnaf Baxter, was subpoenaed in Miami, Fla.

to tes ously in Brussels and Washington, followed tly before the in New York closely the joint declaration made Wednesday Tn L03 Angeles, Robert A. Maheu, who by Ihe United Slates and Japan. once headed Hughes' Nevada operations, filed Market officials said the declaration called a 17. 5 miI1 lihei and slander suit claiming for a new "Kennedy Round" on tariff cuts simi billionaire to'ii newsmen Maheu was "a no Jar to the talks in 1067 that led to 35 per cent Ed' dishonest son of a blteh and he stole me cuts in trade barriers. blind." The joint U.S.

Common Market declaration 35 rtraian In nni.i IRVTNfi plflimc ho n(ii Kit MADRID, Spain (AP) U.S. federal prose Eberle, President Nixon's special trade npgotia irom malefial colkoled in 100 hours of meetings cutor John J. Tigue arrived in Madrid today to 'or, and the market's Executive Commission with the reclusive Hughes. McGraw Hill Pub continue the investigation into the Hoivard Hughes last week. lishing Co.

gave him three checks totaling tt ak disPute' "Tlle United States and the community un 107 transmittal to Hughes. ni; Say wPeher nR come to dertake to initiate and actively support multilat Subsequently irving acknowledged that his fvnJ, laPcand dcunlnts taken from eral and comprehensive negotiations in the wife Edith deposited and later withdrew the Snnfh hme dU1'lng the week framework of fhc General Agreement on Tariffs checks from a Swiss bank account in Zurich TWe InW nlmm, befiinnine in 1973" tlle an" tllat Pened me "Helga R. of rmtinn JJ? I exchange cement said. Hughes." But he claimed she did so on instruc cL ri authorities about the It said the aim was "the expansion and ever dons from Hughes. 1 extnange srudier nueraiizauon oi world trade and im In a telenhoi HOWARD HUGHES reviewer for the Los Angeles Times who'is'a close friend of the Irvings.

The frvWoi jvinren ma suic io nave una a cms ne ms spell out details of how they created the 23,000 neXen ttX ST5 teacWng SevEral 'eHrs that hc and tivh word raanuscrlDt until thev set assurances that HeLlen MrS" van Maheu and tended to collaborate on "biDeranhv" nB Irving's wife, Edith, won't be prosecuted by ectr 10 be nESfs the limes said. Kirsch was not avails eiliier U.S. or Swiss authorities, Ihe Times said. IN A story from New York hy John J. Gold man and Rohert L.

Jackson, the Los Angeles Times said it was understood that no promises were made by U.S. officials. Mrs. Irving is tile acknowledged "Heiga R. Hughes" who deposited and then withdrew from a tiwiss bank account $650,000 McGraw Hill Rub a ijcigjiuui ui Lilt livjugti on thB Spanish island of Ibiza, has said she accompanied Irving to Mexico' last year.

Irving has claimed he "met Hughes during uiiu wijj nut mis. van fananat disputed 1lie ble for comment, The New York' Times also reported that investigators were looking into the of Robert Kirsch, a Lds Angeles Tillies cook critic ana friend pt the irvings who wrote statement saying she and the author were apart last month that he was "strongly convinced" Maheu has nreviouslv sued MunhM fnr sn million in Nevada state court over his firing the "autobiography" was authentic. Kirsch wrote that he reached this viewDoint after reading the manuscript, documents in cansidkV ifh th3H ffinw 'de ay ve Irving for payment to Howard the S0.0W a year head of the industrialist's volved in Irving's purported MgofiatTons consider itself bound by a FfDE decision million Nevada holdings. not on the match site If, in their view, FIDE rules are further violated. FIDE stands for the International Cliess Federation, Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, the current champion, and Bobby Fischer of the United 10 deadline for Irving and Suskind also were present, the icfce Menliticd deced the Irving Angeles' Times quoted Kirsch as sayuig at Caus, anything established by FIDE president Dr.

Max Ewe. ilso asked why Maheu newspaper said. A federal grand jury It spond yZrS rZZSS on Indochina today, pledging all possible help and him." Three da. 1ater IrvlnE 1 fraud and "a tola! iflntaKf.in fiptinn In his suit Thursday in Los Angeles, Maheu did not name Hughes as a defendant but named the Hughes Tool a public relations firm and the firm's executive who handles 'the Hughes Tool account. During the news conference in which the fired.

was Hughes and interviewing Irving at Irving's home The New York: Times said Kirsch toil a class he was teaching several years ago that lie and Irving were going to collaborate on "a "biography" of Hughes. i never heard like it," the Los Switzerland, where he is vacatiunins. "It's absn lulely ridiculous. I never at time to now make final decision on gating possibl ffraud inking'! sale of the' a bSTtalte681 Uataratton wiUl ported "autobioeranhv bitch, and he iJole me blmd," the suit eon Irving on any book. any spoke ported "autobiography.

tended the telephone voice answered. headquarters in Amsterdam, "demands strict telephone taESlh ar 'development, the New York I had not seen Clifford Irving for 10 years until mm, the man speaking was Hughes. THE. New York Times reported, meanwhile ihat Irving is seeking a deal in which he would ewperate in the. federal 'for legal protection for his wife, The New York Times, quoting With the exception of one.

dinner last June, Vows to tell truth Baroness Nina van Pallandt, reported friend of author Clifford Irving, breaks info wide smile as her manager John Marshall talks to newsmen following their arrival from 7" standard ot Jiving of the peo identified as Hughes' denied knowing irving and Londn Kennedy airport in New York pie of we denounced the book as a fake, and court papers Thursday. The baroness has vowed "to tell the truth about Clifford Irving, even rf ft means him going to jail." Marshall said' latar that he and Miss van Pallandt would "definitely not" see Irving while in New York where she is scheduled to appear oetore a grand rurv Mondav. Phone rate hikes raise complaints LOWELL Complaints about telephone expect a 15 per cent rise about fid mio u. j. j.

i law ou lhusj in nis rar. irM quests hundreds of nrivalelv owned elpr visit Thl7B MH T'ii5i the New England Teleohnne Comnanv's Msfi viM i 10 Irlc' Sas' Welm mmunicalion firms ti autobiography of the billion mil1 rat ouL The Price Commission said that about aire American industrialist. fidavit he never ml I a 30 day freeze nn private ulililv increases an! calk nla 3,. '32? cenf. of ihe it has received from Hughes swore in an af a nnimnnri w.j wbuull ludii iqr me public were about uti llv rate hikes authenlic.

Tieue also turned aside eommml nn Tnihiici, mission. iu um" VaJ ulrEU rue nsc a.so varies mar The decision, which nnr. afrt a a ca linE habiU and owned utilities, means that hundreds of reouesls reports that Irving's lawyers were seeking a deal A mpany spokesman said Thursday thai dista'nce'of the call, officials 'explained u. hnVH Twiner wnnlil rvirxnrwar. ri! NF.TSjT rpnniuprl Aynl unihaniu ri.im th '(.

if no legal action would bo taken against Mrs. commisslon's sfrff last week that "the Price Irving in New York or Switzerland. Commission chooses not to intercede" in the Swiss authorities have asked extradition of ra(e increase. Mrs. Irving and Warrants have bnnn Issnrvl fn, Wh Grealrir IwpH iwi nslnmnrt rwinri ilmi Irvings on suspicion of fraudand forging' doeu of certain medium distance calls to nearby feel.

iiil jiu, ju muiiuuiuii wilii inienaen lor wwns outsiac meir local caning area nave dou irr hnvf dnu. i iugncD Hum nui, irvings jfMew York Died In price. They claim that tills Is publisher, of the s.5 per cent celling imposed Is i 1 exception. That was the second half of a million rate increase for the New York Teliv phone Co. which is now suspended.

The commis sion.said "the large economic impact" of tllat" rate boost prompted it to mako the exception, The New York increase is reportedly small cr for the Individual customer than thu Massa cbusetls rate hike, Price Commission Chairman said todav that its rales wm.H leU March 10, unless Grayson said the panel would hold four days: he freeze The rccZ hSS. commission 'ovulates new guidelines under of Hearings later this month ill an attempt i Price ad ustmrat" on 1 iwi wluCl1 halldle 0,0 rucsts bcIore tllen crpate "mo explicit guidelines" for handling P.1 on 13JI. wWch upped Until now. decisions on i.lllltv rate Iner rut irtllltln mninH r.m r.Jt iOTu?" woman Nixon's Phase II controls. suppliers, comnanv snokesm.

iB i3 jui raic increases now beiore me commission have been left Inreelv to slate, local and fed eral regulatory commissions, with the Price "lu' rcguiaiory commissions, Wlin me rice The Irmrnatn i in violation JZ DPU FJFVT the Emission retaining the right of review, Some bv Pre LwnlV'rt rlZ 1Cf a raiSc iff crllls of (hc ulilily Industry have charged that by President lu Lowell Gas Company's cost ot gas from its regulatory agencies are mindful of the utility trols durlnc World War II and the Korean Vlak Earlier in the day, Grayson said in a speech, that It would be April before the first impact of President Nixon's economic controls becomes "even partially visible." ilj ji i a bank' 1Jle La' tclcphmiD officials said Ihat tile aver The edernl government ImnWd hn a i 11,0 Tlcrf1' nn maen, "be withdrew It and placed It In another Swiss bank. a8e customer in the Greater Lowell area coutd Ireeze FcZm 9 IZZ tclf already TK mi kn us shws how far jiLtiu jtoruary on penuing rale increase re were not affected by the new ruling with otio economic alitp has changed lis course." Interest, not the public Interest. "Ana it may he months." hc added, "be.