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WHAT EIS5T3' on RiYffon recall ra. rvnrarvnri -Washington AP) Only 27,000 METRO room at the Palace Bradhurst Ave. near 144th and assaulted her repeatedly while Kuchera collected the ransom. Robert Crane 0i3 sought to fix Von So. subway Bids are being sought for the $1.2 million renovation of the Union Square subway station.

Charles F. Luce, board chairman of Con Edison and co-chairman of the 14th Square area project, announced last sight at the organization's annual meeting. Luce also said that a $70,000 grant from the New York State supplemental budget fund would make it possible for the organization to continue design and development work for renovating Union Square Park. NATION press conference Washington- (UPI President Carter will hold a press conference at 11 a.m. today, the White House announced The conference to be nationally' televiisieiid by all three networks will be Carter's 41st since he took, office.

Movement ticket while David Nieves Banchswas elected on the Socialist League ticket. Niehous. manager of Owens Illinois' glass manufacturing operations in Venezuela, was seized on Feb. 27, 1976. Puerto Rico's gov fres 2 top officials San Juan, Puerto Rico (AP) Gov.

Carlos Romero Barcelo fired Puerto Rico's police superintendent and the president of the Government Development Bank yesterday for alleged misconduct in office. Barcelo said PoMce Superintendent Roberto Torres Gonzalez was asked to leave because he knew that an auto confiscated during a drug case was improperly returned to its owner.1 Mariano Mier. the bank president, was ousted because he commented on a conflict-of-interest case before the government could finish its investigation involving a former bank board chairman. Guerrilla priest by troops Managua, Nicaragua (UPK A Spanish priest turned Sandinista guerrilla was killed yesterday in a clash with Nicaraguan troops near the Costa Rican border. He was identified as the Rev.

Gaspar Garcia, a Spanish-born priest who joined the Sandinistas one year ago, issuing a dramatic call to arms: "With a rifle in one hand, I will go and fight for a reign of justice," Garcia had been a parish priest in southern Nicaragua. Riviton toy. construction sets have" Been returned since a recall was announced on Dec. 2, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said yesterday. -Parker Brothers initiated a voluntary recall of about 900,000 of the toys after they were associated with two accidental deaths, the commission said.

They said action was taken after a 9- year-old boy choked on a rubber fastening rivet from the set. According to the commission, 125 000 of the toys are being held warehouses. The toys were distributed nationally in the last two years. WORLD 2 face court in theft of Chaplin's body Vevey. Switzerland (AP) Trial began yesterday for two Easterfir European refugees accused of stealing the body of Charlie Chaplin for ransom and with it came a twist: A judge said tape recordings of ransom calls reveal that a third man may be involved.

The defendants, Roman Wardas, 24, of Poland, and Gancho Ganev, 38, of Bulgaria, confessed they had dug up the coffin of the comedian at a cemetery near here last March 1, hoping to share "extreme" wealth he left to his family. Venezuela elects 2 kidnap suspects Caracas, Venezuela (AP) Two men on trial in a secret military hearing for the kidnaping of an American businessman, William Niehous, have been elected to Congress representing leftist partis, it was disclosed yesterday. Salom Mesa Espinoza, whose congressional immunity was lifted two years ago to permit trial, was reelected Sunday on the People's Electoral Convicted rapist threatens DA's aide Actins Manhattan Supreme Eve Preminger imposed a 10-to-" 20-year jail term yesterday on a rapist who threatened, in court, to make an assistant district attorney his next -victim. Richard Beckham, 22. of 12-70 Red fern Tar Rockaway, Queens, was convicted of one rape and -confessed four others, all of which occurred three months after his early parole from prison on a similar charge last year.

Prosecutor Paula Van Meter said that, as Beckham was being led from court, during an interruption in pre-sentencing proceedings, heN threatened Til get you next." Under terms oi the sentence, Beckham must serve two years remaining of his earlier term before beginning the new sentence. Robert Crae Convict teenager in rape of nurse A Manhattan teenager was convicted yesterday of repeatedly raping a nurse he held captive for 21 hours while her dot-tor-fiance obtained a $2,500 ransom for ber release. Ricky McNeil, 18. of 2648 Eighth faces 25 years to life in prison when he is sentenced Jan. 22 by Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Richard Denzer.

The jury found that McNeil kidnaped Dr. James Kuchera and the physician's 23-year-old fiance outside her residence at Columbia Presbyterian. Medical Center last Feb. 13. McNeil held the nurse captive in a plans satellite launches Washington (UPI) A 102 nation communications satellite organization has selected both America's space shuttle rocket plane and its European competitor, the Ariane rocket, to launch advanced communications satellites in 1981 and 1982.

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