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rains thaFTputThoi-. lapsed and died from a heart lifeboat by a fishing vessel heavy sands of acres of lands under from Esbjerg. a life at tossing In the storm-lashed seas, but it was feared the other five crewmen were lost. when its cargo shifted, ing the ship to roll over to a 35-degree list, but it managed to ride out the worst of Jhej storm. water before the eigM-inc snowfall began.

v. COPENHAGEN (UP I) -An Icy "autumn storm with -hurricane-force winds, slashing xain and heavy now sank a Lebanese freighterand "a fishing boat today as it swept but of. the North Sea and "slammed Into Denmark. attack. The freighter was the Na-gusena, a cargo ship.

It sankHshbrtlybefowTdawn off DenmarkVwestroast. It was en route from East Germany to Esbjerg, Dem mark, with a cargo of coal. Traffic on many of Swe den's major- highways and other roads was heavily. land, Germany, Denmark and most of southern Sweden. A heavy, wet snowfall dumped as much as eight inches onto areas where wind "7 damage already ran into the -millions of dollars.

At least one other storm- blamed An elderly fisheiman helping carry a driver out of the wreckage of his truck col The fishing boat from West Germany sank in the Baltic at The height of the storm, but the crew was quickly were reports of sever-al small boats sunk, and officials said that at least three. persons were missing. Another vessel, a British freighter, was endangered snarled. The storm took tne country by Surprise. Much of The fishing boat's four-man crew was rescued.

Danish officials said the storm was the worst in more than 50 years. It tore down power lines, sent trees toppling, triggered widespread flooding over Hol- One of the hardest hit areas was around the southern Swedish town of Malmo. There was widespread wind damage from .90 miles per hour winds that hammered the countryside. Then came At least 19 of the frei crew of 25 were killed Their" The one. survivor from the ship, Emanuel Abdelas of Greece, was rescued from the bodies were recovered.

One man was rescued from 1 xt RESPONSIBLE METROPOLITAN NEWSIf APER WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 1 8 1 967 1 Ot DAILY, $2.75 A MONTH 94th YEAR, NO. 291 4: Draft Protest nation's olowins had not vet been right-hand driving whichSV last mAnfh wictw J'" Russ Craft Flow of Data MOSCOW (UPI) A Rus-" sian space capsule that inade history's first soft landing Venus reported today that the earth's nearest stotfer planet was too sizzling botiod lacked enough oxygen toask tain normal human life. Theoffici a 1 Soviet Mfc agency Tass said 4hc.yenne;:4 mstrument pack a Mm temperatures ranging from 1 to S3t degrees Fahrenheit 1 bife iolenee A ES -j-e Inla Plaudits, Criticism For Police The Oakland Police Department drew sharp criticism from some newsmen, but received praise from state offi cials for the tactics used during the anti-draft demonstration at the Oakland Induction Center yesterday. Twenty-six persons, including two Highway Patrol offi-" cers, required hospital treatment as a result of the con-rfrontation "hetweentr officers and 4,000 protesters. In addition, a dozen, news men, reported they wereT ei-, ther shoved, struck, kicked or tear-gassed by officers.

Formal complaints aDejing that newsmen were unneoes sarily roughed up by officers have been sent to Oakland Police Chief Charles R. Gala He defended his men and the use of force as "necessary to re store peace." -r tiign praise tor tne "except I 1 the malt for went foT fl II I a rvv loweq Dyvwnner Arj DIGHTON vehicle had been sterilized "to prevent any terrestial microorganism from being carried to the "Venus surface." The American entry, the 540-pound U.S. Mariners, Aniiinnnfl iirilt am imkiwlln and vVnetian-blinds to sWeld' it arainst intens solar hMt: will fly past Venus at a dis-. tance of 2,500 miles tomorrow morning. The -S ovie t-craft was-launched June 12, Mariner 5 on June 14.

The U.S. craft is a modification of Marine i Continued Page 3, Col. realistic program to hasten the advent of If there is a poweristrugfije among them, if tby are divided, into Hi 1 'Stowaway' Girl Weds Man SYDNEY, Australia (AP) Saucy Aussie Sandra Hilder, who once tried to stow away under an admiral's bed so she could sail to America and see her boyfriend, was married yesterday to another man. The groom was Richard Ar-mijo, a former Mr. America.

Last April Sandra tried unsuccessfully to hide on the U.S. cruiser Long Beach so she could visit Bernard "Bud" Brewer, 23, a seaman, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Ambush Chops Up U.S. 7 U'M. hf'- ik -j jinm ii -j iisi wl A dasslc Viet Cc iibbiaft near -Saigon ltt inany officers in a battalion that its combat effectiveness has been detoyed.

UJS. spokesmen re-Dorted today mat 58 Ameri- X-- himi nH another 61 were "AI the Americans killed 103 Communists in the bloody' 75-minute clash the U.S. losses were the heaviest in mouths. U.S. casualties in the battle fought through an old rubber planalion 41 miles northwest of Saigon included battalion commander, two com a Continued Page 3, Col.

6 CabinetJChiefs Unit Tariffs' ing its 15-mue descent mrougn -r the doad-shrouded a ot-i pnere of Krplanet mlfen niiles from earth, i' Tass reported the probe found the planet's atmosphere more than 98 per cent dioxide a non-poisonous gas ftp erf ect for growing green but incapable of sus- taming human existence. found little inert nitrogen, ARTIST'S VIEW OF RACE TOWARD VENUS tional abnityandneatjded in the battle yester- Protest Goal Termed Race Incitement Tribune Capital Bureau SACRAMENTO -Lt. Gov. Robert Finch said today that Oakland was selected as a site of anti draft demonstrations because organizers to incite disturbances among large numbers of Negroes in the Bay Area. in the absence of Gov.

Ronald Reagan, said he based his opinion on the orts of undercover agents in the anti draft ove-ment Finch said that Dr. Martin Luther King, the civil rights leader, had been asked to go to Oakland and "demagogue" Bay Area Negroes. King refused to do so "to Continued Page 1, CoH PlaifSeeks Shakeup In Schools BERKELEY The School Master Plan Committee has recommended that tracking the grouping of students according to ability be discontinued in Berkeley schools, "since it inhibits the educational goals sought for all students." The- recommendation for a "heterogeneous grouping" of 110 presented by the 138-member lay-staff mittee iri a far-ranging report which was IVi years in the making. President Arnold Grossberg of the Board of Education, in accepting the report last night, discharged the committee with the assurance that its recommendations would be studied and acted upon. The committee was made up of two-thirds lay persons with broad occupational backgrounds.

It was broken down into studv committees on 65 More Sit-ins Arrested Fresh waves of sit-in denv onstrators were arrested at the Oakland Induction Center today as non-violent protesters more than. 1,000 strong carried the demonstration into the afternoon. The protest officially ended for the day at 9:30 a.m. but many declined their leaders suggestions to leave. By noon, 65 had been arrested, includ- ing David.

Harris, 21, former Stanford student body president and leader of The Resis-. tance, one.of the anti-draft ganizations directing the protest. There was no violence. Police cleared the doorways, and arrested demonstrators whenever necessary to admit inductees to the center. Each time, more demonstrators rushed, to the doorways and -sat-in alter police left.

Shortly after 7 a.m., a Camp Parks Job Corps bus brought a dozen or. more inductees to the center and they were un lo a without interference. Picket monitors assisted the police in escorting the i through circling pickets. But 40 minutes later, sit-in demonstrators blocked both doors to the center and when a bus containing federal employes a i the police movedJnJo clear the. doorways.

The first group arrested included 17 men and six women. Ten of the group went limp and had to be carried to the police van. federal employes were escorted into the center; Once they were inside police pulled back and more demonstrators sat down in'the doorway. Min utes later, however, another group employes walked unescorted around the build- Continued Page 5, Col. 5 Take Cheer The Heat Is Off -The heat is off, says the weatherman, and temperatures are plummeting some 10 degrees today and tomorrow.

This means highs in the 70s, after yesterday's 86 degrees, in Oakland and 87 in San Francisco. However, the is only for those living west of the Oakland-Berkeley hills. On the Contra Costa side the forecast through tomorrow is "continued warm, 85 to 95 degrees." Pope Paul Ignored on Birth Curb VATICAN CITY (UPI) -Ignoring a warning by Pope Paul VI not to intrude on his Roman Catholic laymen today approved a res-olution containing an attack on the church's ban on. artificial means of birth control. After a bitter debate in the World Congress of Catholic Laymen, delegation heads voted 67 to 21 to approve a resolution on world development that i 1 an explosive clause urging that birth control be left (to the conscience of The Pope, who has been wrestling with this problem for the past four years, Sunday warned agamstjCamolics "who boldly turn away from tradition This was Interpret- -ed as, caution against liber als in the lay congress and In fte concurrent synod of bish.

ops wno are seeKing -m oange in the church's contraception baa. Catholic teaching allows only use of the rhythm method and then under limited circumstances. Calling for a "clear statement" by the church on "re- sponsible parentnood'Vr e- resolution noted that the -world-faces-an "anguishing proDiem of demographic expansion." It said even Pope Paul had admitted the population explosion threatens the harmonious development of peoples. The resolution urged the church to leave "the choice of family planning methods to the conscience of parents in' conformity with their- chris-- tian faith and in consultation with trained medical and scientific advisers." The delegation-heads were continuing their discussions today withla-yet more exnlo- sive resolution before them this one dealing with the entire spectrum of family plan-" ning problems. If approved, it would state quite bluntly that "the choice rof the means to prevent a new conception should be left to the conscience of the married couple with due consideration of medical, psychological, eco- nomlc and sociological in- sights." f-'- By HENRY SHAPIRO UPI Correspondent MOSCOW The present leaders in the Kremlin are as different from the men around Lenin as the Russian people are dissimilar from the Muzhiks who manned the barricades of the revolution 50 yearsago.

Gone are the doctrinaire intellectuals, the Bukharins, the Trotskys and even thcStalins who had spent much of their lives in the Czarist underground and jails and foreign exile plotting revolution. All but two of the present 11-man ruling Politburo are engineers by training and con- siderable experience. The ex- ceptions are Mikhail Suslov, a professional Ideologist, and, Alexander Shelepln, who, was 5 Loses One' Day professional sfaH" exhibited by the pouceAla eda County Sheriff i deputies and Highway Patrolmen came from Gov. Ronald Reagan and Acting Gov. Robert H.

Finch. The officers'-actions also were defended by U.S. Sen. Thomas Kuchel, who termed the demonstrators "contemptible" adding: "I have, no doubt breaches Continned Page 5, CoL 1 Rusk to Senate: Don Up which makes up most of the earth's atmosphere, and insu- iicient oxygenjto leepa man alive, according to the Soviet rftport 7 77'; The official Soviet report said the Venus probe shaped like a sawed off egg built on the principle a child's roly-poly toy which' always remains upright" This meant its aerial would always be directed against Russian receiving devices, sensitive enough to register the energy of a match at a distance as far as the moon. The Soviet space feaf hailed as a "new sten' tofflfrd the stars" by Soviet Tcosm naut Paval Popovich, ilh6 "said it meant that ''maiv-cSI explore space around tbe.4un t31 lca At Cape space observers said thecffli-.

toric Venus landing Soviet Union at ieast States in tion. 4, wwi-ws launched June 12, rwwhedifce 'J Continued of Soviet on; Itoe meaning of it all, its. achievements, failures, staggwjkg human costs and with hindsight one: naturally wodff: Pl vrThei, question may -he imMMat vr mohiUon seemed historicailv inevitable though not necessarily In the form and direction took. J. For centuries Russla'id been suffering under the Ok of a corrupt 'semlleidal autocracy.

The of Czarism was barely 'avoided la 1905 alter the catutrophk St! Kussia S-Venus 4 yppj Jtoi n. a By RALPH PASADENA (AP) The Venus landing by a Soviet space probe today ended a four-month, 213-million-mile race with the United States to seek-clues to life on earth's mysterious "sister planet." The Soviet Venus 4 had been designed to make a landing whereas Mariner 5, the smaller U.S. was built to 'fly by Venus -and take- closeup measure-- menis or tne planet ana its at mosphere. The U.S. vehicle is expected to arrive 24 hours after Venus '4.

A Tass news agency article last month said the Russian This is the lost in a series of articles by the dean of Moscow correspondents marking the 50th anniversary of Russian Communism. educated in the Institute of Philosophy 'and Literature. There probably is no more technocratic ruling group anywhere in the world. The same men who quietly and masterfully ousted Nikita Khrushchev in 1964 without tears and, bloodsheds are still In They are running thelr shop without evident hysteria and without trying to force upon the country an un- Mariner Race by 7 -Protectionism Could Be Costly By RAYMOND LAWRENCE Foreign News Analyst The battle in Congress over free, flexible trade policies may well have the most far reaching effects ever to characterize the tortuous history of American tariff. stakes are momentous, ranging from the profits of-our giant industries to the price you pay for butter, buttons, baseballs, and booze.

In recognition' of -this the Administration today in the Senate Finance Committee opened a massive counterattack on the protectionists. The big guns were the Secretaries of State, Labor, Agriculture, Commerce, and the Interior; The appearance of five cabinet ministers before' one com-" mittee in one day is unprecedented, and reminiscent of the interminable, bitter wrangles in Congress over high tariffs in the Twenties the days of the Fordney McCumbef and Smoot Hawley tariff acts; but days when the l)nlted States' foreign trade was mln-iscule as compared with the present i -What makes the present Continued Page Cel. 1 -nawKsj- ana "doves," as has A -J'l-L. been suwested abroad, it reX0 wld. Hit Trade Bills WASUJNGTON (U I) SecretaryTtate Dean Rusk led a cabinet delegation today in warning that a Congressional drive to curb imports would undercut U.S.

foreign policy, trigger higher prices and threaten "a serious depression." Busk' and the secretaries of agriculture, commerce and inferior opposed import quotas in testimony before the Senate Finance Committee. Qucta bills being proposed for oil and other commodities would mean the United States must be willing to forego "the benefits -of competition and pay the costs of substitutes, -fewer choices, higher prices, lower profits and reduced employment," Rusk said. I'We would have a poorer life. Perhaps it would be endurable although we cannot lightly dismiss the danger of precipitating a serhuis 7 He also declared that quotas would "undermine our foreign policy by breeding hostility i and discontent when we need peace and cooperation." Turning to specific areas, Interior Secretary Stewart L. ContlnoH on Page Colj 4 the instructional program, special educational services, finance and business, community environment, school, buildings and facilities, and relationships between the school district and others.

Following the underlying theme of Integration, the committee also dealt with such contoversial topics as busing, neighborhood schools, taxes, religion and pupil-teacher re-latonships. The 110 recommendations were approved by a plenary session of the five study committees, with most passing by more than a 75 per cent The system of tracking which places students In fast or slow-moving classes ac- Continued Page 4, Col. 5 mains to be proved. The character of the i people, leasura- too, has changed immeasura bly in 50 years. An over- whelmingly ignorant and bu- persouous peasant popuiauon nas been transformed into a universally literate, technical-" ly sophisticated people who know something about the facts of economic and political life, even If they lack the universality and diversity of culture characteristic of the pre-revolutlonary Russian tn telhgentsia.

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