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nma nv Wide smiles Roltita, of Pothtown, matchi this pet frog which he snared in a pond with his hoi which now is his constant companion. Joi s'ayj much larger than most frogs, in tha area. Indictments sought in insurance case BOSTON OJPI) The state sought indict i merits today from the Suffolk County Grand Jury based on evidence gathered during an investlga "tioii into an insurance company's dealings with administration of Gov, Francis W. Sargent. Assistant Attorneys Genem! John Irwin and HHrvey Rowe presented the evidence to the Grand Jury, beginning at 9:30 a.m.

i It was not known when the Grand Jury would I relurn its findings. Young trio held in I Hurolc office bombing NEW YORK (AP) Three youths, described 1'. by police as members of the mililHnt Jewish Dc fense were seized today in connection with an explosion and fire last Jan. 26 that killed a secretary in the offices of impresario Sol Hurok. One of those taken into custody was identi fieri as Stuart Cohen, 19, described at the JDL's school coordinator.

The midmorning flash fires last winter dam the Manhattan offices of Sol Hurok Enter and Columbia Management Artists, both booking agencies that arrange United States for Soviet performers. Thirteen persons were injured in the fires, including Hurok himself. The dead secretary was Iris Kones, 26. She died of smoke inhalation. The JDL has been involved In numerous pro tests against the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Uriion.

Police said the fires were caused by three incendiary devices' brought clandestinely into the booking agencies by three youth seeking tickets. Cohen and one of the other youth were to be turned over to federal authorities. The third was held on state charges, Hong Kong battered by thunder squalls HONG KONG. (UPI) Heavy thunder squalls tfirupte'd Hong Kong's air and surface traffic lo jitUled thre persons. ft': Ai! threr "including a' 5 year old boy, were1 crushed in landslides.

A of 38 incoming' and outgoing flights jwere affected by the rainstorm, authorities at Kai Tik International Airport said. Clifford Irvings sentenced today THE LOWELL SUN NEW YORK' (UPI) Author Clifford frying was sentenced to two and a half years in prison and lined (10,000 in federal cowl today for his part the bogus Howard Hughes autobiography. Irving's wife, Edith, who admitted she forged She name "H.R. Hughes" to withdraw The couple also faces sentencing on fim3ar charges in slate supreme court later today. A third parly involved in Ihe coiispiracy, researcher Richard Suskind, was not indicted by federal authorities but faces sentencing irflUl the Irvings in the slate court proceedings.

our own HtjRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRB correspondent at jRSS Irvings arriving for sentencing Author Clifford Irving and hii wlf. arrlv. SAIGON (AP) U.S. warplanes hammered North Vietnam with a record J5 strikes Thurs; day, including attacks on thret MIG air bases, a naval base and an army barracks, but stayed miles' away from Hanoi because Soviet President Nikolai Podgorriy is there. "Almost all (he raids were in the saulh ern part of North Vietnam, and none was very close to Hanoi," a U.S.

spokesman said. "The combination of good weather and lucrative targets was the reason for the high number of siriKes. 'ri'XifiZ'' A commuhique reported the' northernmost strike was against the Ninh Binh railroad and i hl(Wv hriHoe ihftiit SO milra nf the Worth Vietnamese capital. U.S. informants termed Ihe suspension of bombing in the HanolHaiphong area' a show ot good will toward the Soviet Union and a pre faulionary measure to avoid any incidents Podgorhy's meetings wilh North Vicl 'nam'ese Icadcra'on'the'S'ietiiam war.

The informants said they knew of no plans to extend the suspension beyond Podgorny's visit unless there are political developments during his slay. It is not known how long he will, remain in Hanoi. the strikes on the MIG bases, Air Force Fi Phantom pilots reported cutting run By SEYMOUR () New York Times WASHINGTON Three former members of a photo intelligence team assigned 10 Pacific Air Force headquarters in Hawaii jaid in interviews that at least 20 to 26 planned bombing raids later described as "protective reaction" strikes were flown each month by Air Force planes over North Vietnam throughout 1970 and Bombing revelations might hurt Abram's chief of staff bid WASHINGTON (UPI) A number of well placed Army officials are concerned that recent disclosures of unauthorized U.S. fximbing raids into North Viclriam might dclay or perhaps thrwart the appointment of Gen. Creighton W.

Abrams as the next U.S. Army Chief of Staff. Abrams, now commander in chief of U.S. forces in Vietnam, is considered die leading candidate to succeed Gen. William C.

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York'i Manhattan ways am) laxiways at the Bai Thuhg, Khe Phal and Quart Lang bases. "We have effectively stopped MIG activity at these three baseSj" one Air Force officer declared. NAVY pileis flying ot! the carrier Midway attacked the.Hai Yen naval base six miles northeast Vinh and reported damaging one pier and destroying two supply boat's. The "Eadong army barracks, 20 miles northwest of Dong Iloi, also was reported damaged. Other strikes destroyed or.

damaged bridges, seven supply barges, tlirec storage depots, 50 trucks, 18 warehouses and three rail road cars, the U.S. Command said. 352 bombers hit the Dong Hoi area, 45 miles north of the demilitarized zone, for the ninth successive day, keeping up. a campaign to destroy war materials and installations that could support an aUaeic on Hue. .90 miles to the southeast.

B52s made 10 strikes today," U.S. Command said. From north of Saigon, Associated Press correspondenl Peter Arne re ported' from Highway 13 that the attempt' to clear the road to An. Loc and lift the 71 day old siege of the city was delayed Thursday by a. lOO man Worth Vietnamese attack on government force clearing the road.

1971. This number would be more than three times the total of "protective reaction" raids' officially announced by the Pentagon. One of the former airmen, James W. Walk ley of Honolulu, said that briefings on planned "protective reaction" bombing missions were routinely provided lo Adm. John S.

McCain, commander of the United States Pacific Command and the officer in charge of command between Saigon and Washington. The controversy over protective reaction has spread since it was revealed Sunday that Gen. John D. Lavelle was dismissed as commander oT all Air Force unils in Southeast Asia and demoted after ordering unauthorized bombing raids into North Vietnam. Those raids were publicly described as "protective reaction" strikes that is, responses fo direct threats lo American planes.

The three airmen interviewed today, however, were discussing a period largely before Lavelle took over his command in July, 1971. ROOF SHINGLES 240 lb. ODD LOTS OF 1 KUKRCHD WINDS! A I. SHINGLES REG. S13.S0 $C99 HARVEY (Hiding Supplies Inc.

203 totto Rtt, CMnwford Rtt. 4 256 2431 256 6781 from a Swiss ban cnecus intended lor we Billionaire recluse, was sentenced to serve two months of a two year term and also fined (10,000, Irvings are to surrender August 28 to begin the prison terms. Meat growth hormone attack opened by FDA WASHINGTON (AP) The Food and Drug Administration said today it will propose a ban on the widely used livestock gro. th hormone DES, which causes as a means of opening the question Id a public hearing. The announcement was coupled with an Agriculture' Department disclosure that it has found 15 more cases of illegal dis'thylstilbestrol in calllc, raising the rate to nearly four times that of last year despite tighter restrictions.

"It is apparent that additional action must be taken," FDA Commissioner Charles C. Edwards said. "It is equally apparent that any acllon with such major consumer impact must be taken," FDA Commissioner diaries Ed lion ot all scientific information and regulatory alternatives." U.S. in record 350 strikes against North Viets, but gives Hanoi wide berth The attack was made about four miles south ot An Loc, and American advisers they didn't think there were that many North Vietnamese left in the area. South Vietnamese casualties were reported light, but two armored personnel carriers were destroyed before the North Vietnamese pulled back after two hours of fighting, Amelt said.

Their losses were not known. ARNETT also reported that North Vietnamese rockets knocked out a South Vietnamese artillery crew early today, at Tan Khai, si miles south of An Loc, and that rockets and mortar rounds peppered a regimental command post at Chon Thanh, IS miles south of An Loc. Two mile long sections of Highway 13 are blocked by the North Vietnamese. One section is a few miles north of Chon Thanh, the other north ot Tan Khai. The going is slow because Lhe 'Norfh Vietnamese, are.

in bunkers. On the norttjern 57 North Vietnamese were reported killed, in a series of clashes oii the flanks of Hue. Another 46 died in" a dawn tc dusk baltle in Binh Dinh Province, on 1 the 'central1 coast, near the district of An; Nhon; the South Vietnamese command said. South Vietnamese losses in the two fighls were 21 'killed and eight wounded, the command'. said.

Proxmire: Rule breaking general should be tried; Defense Case closed WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. William Proxmire has called for court martial proceedings against Maj! Gen. John P. Lavelle, but the Defense Department says the case is now considered closed. Lavallc, former command Dr of the 7th U.S.

Air Force in Vietnam, has acknowledged he ordered at least 20 unauthorized air! strikes against North Vietnam from January to Mareh 10 of this year. Lavcllc, who has been removed from command and retired, told Congress this week he ordered an end to (he unauthorized strikes after he learned three false reports had been sent to higher headquarters. In a Senate speech Thursday, Proxmire said Lavelle ordered as many as 20 unauthorized raids on enemy targets "at a time when delicate negotiations to end the war were going' on. Say Viet bombings were planned, later called "protective reaction" "HE defied the orders of.Ws superiors," tt Wisconsin Democrat said. "He countermanded the rules laid down by the President.

He deliberately violated the principles of civilian control of the military." Defense Department spokesmen said Thursday that "as of today" the case is closed. Tbey said there is no plan to take further action against ljavelle. Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Friedheim said a retired officer could be recalled for court martialj but added this, step is not contemplated in the Lavelle case. Meanwhile, a check showed that the U.S.

command in Saigon reported 77 so called "protective reaction" strikesagainst North Vietnam in" Hie January March period. The Defense Department defines "proicctive reaction" as air strikes against missile launching positions, radar sites, antiaircraft guns and as socialed supplies in response.to actual or threatened atlackls by the North' Vietnamese against VS. reconnaissance planes. Sen, Clifford Case, N.J., released excerpts of a letter from a Navy pilot aboard Ihe aircraft carrier Hancock who said, he was sent over North Vietnam In a deliberate attempt to draw enemy fire, THE officer, whom Case woald not identify, said this was done so Navy fighterbombers would have an excuse to bomb targets that were otherwise off limits. Friedheim the Pentagon had Investigated the claims of the Navy pilot but said officials found "no violations of the rules of engagement" or irregularities in pilot reporting procetiures, SILVER DRAGON Chinese American Restaurant EXOUKITE Cocktail Lounge Mocse You Like Good Food YOU'LL LOVE HERE Tnfeo fiutc DIAL rti.

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9ack homi, sh says, the is known s.a tomboy. Fischer's fears unfounded, says Soviet chess king MOSCOW (UPI) World ch champion Boris Spassky said iDday his American challenger Bobby Fischer "appears to be suffering from a pcrseculkm mania and thinks that Soviet 'chess players are determined to harm him Spassky referred to repeated reports' that Fischer allegedly has been accusing the Russians of efforts to prevent him from taking Spassky's world championship and of contriving to hold the championship matches against his will at Reykjavik, Iceland. "There is nothing to if," the 35 year old champion said in answers to questions at a new3 conference, "and am sorry for Fischer, although every man has a right to say what he pleases." Unlike Fischer who is reported to have boasted he would bcal Spassky, the sandy brown haired, handsome world champion said "I do not know who will win but I am sure it will be an important and interesting event." The Russian and American champions last played against each other in West Germany in September, 1970, when Spassky won three games and drew two. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIJIIIIIIEIIIllllllllllllllllfllllllllifll An "old truck" GOTEBORG, Sweden (UPI) An artist who turned up at the focal customs, oflice with what be called an "ouf troek was charged Thursday with attempted jraujgllBg. Customs men said tbe truck was a 193 Rolls Royee bought i Eagland and camouflaged with paint and bardboard.

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