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High about 65. THE CATl Neiv Jersey's Only All Day Newspaper PRICE 15o 30 PAGES 87TH YER VOL. 113 Publlihtd daily txcept Sunday at Nwt loo, PaUrion, N.J. Scond Qan Pattagt Paid aVPatorion. N.J.

07509 PATERSON; MAY 2, 1977 Cempltta Wir lUportt. Slats, National and WorM AA I Bay 37 Die in May ttto nn urKey jp igniting in ji Windows were smashed at the neaf by- Intercontinental Hotel, owned by Pan American airlines, Guest rooms looked out over a battlefield of dead or injured, trampled placards an banners and scattered leaflets. Istanbul Mayor Ahmet Isvan. who attended the rally, By UPI About two million flag-wVing marchers paraded before the elite of the Soviet leadership Sunday in a May Day celebration on Red Square, but in Turkey and El Salvador May Day clashes killed dozens of persons. In Madrid, Spanish police used truncheons and teargas cannisters to fight leftists defying a ban on May Day demonstrations.

Thousands also turned out for rallies in France, Italy and Japan. In May Day Ethiouia strongman Mengistu Haiie Mariam told cheering crowds in Addis Ababa five U.S. agencies shuf down last week had been "fountains. 6f espionage," and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat said in Alexandria that "Within minutes the whole square erupted into a pitched gun battle," one witness said. Rival groups of leftists armed with sticks ran toward the scene of the shootings.

Others dived to the ground for cover or scrambled out of the square. 'Many were' bruised or crushed in the panic. Police used tear gas and water cannons to try to put down the rioting and later moved in with armored cars and fired at the demonstrators win automatic pistols. They arrested more-than 100 persons. Witnesses said they saw women crushed to death beneath the wheels of a blue, "armored car; One officer was also killed.

At least 66 persons were reported injured. Egyptian pilots would take over Zaire's air force to help crush a rebel invasion. In Istanbul, fighting between rival hftist groups in a downtown square Wiled at least 37 persons, including a officer. In Sa Salvador, army troops fired on demonstrators at an illegal rally, and un i reports said at least eight persons died. Turkish policemen opened' fire with automatic weapons to break up the fighting.

Witnesses said an estimated MO.OOO demonstrators carrying large portraits of Marx and Lenin and shouting anti-government slogans had been marching through the city's Taksim Square all afternoon when the shooting broke out in the early evening near a group of Maoists. Mob -7 -1 it, I A On Rise VPI Telepholo ONE of the many moods of former President Nixon when he was interviewed, by David Frost for a series of historic television specials, the first of which will be shown Wednesday. said "it was proceeding quite peacefully when the snooting began. I don't know who xired first." He'taid he was punched in the back by a police officer and escorted from the square when he attempted to intervene. The rally, only the second of its kind in traditionally conservative Turkey, was organized by the nation's second-largest labor movement, the Confederation of Progressive Labor Unions.

Turkey is only one month away from general elections in a campaign already marked, by scattered fighting. Student riots and clashes between rival student groups have become common in recent months. The country's two biggest political parties, Premier Suleiman Demirel's Justice party and opposition leader Bulent Ecevifs leftrof-center Republican People's party, 1 agreed recently to hold early elections in June in an effort to halt the fighting. Demirel's coalition partner, Deputy Premier Necmeddin Erbakan, and members of his National Salvation party have -protested tha decision by boycotting the National Assembly. The witnesses in San Salvador said about 1,000 persons gathered in the park early in the morning and the soldiers then apparently opened fire.

"I was nearby and heard the shots," one resident said. "I didn't stop to seetwhat was (Continued Page 2, Col. 4) Nixom Was Mistake 'Gate To Use CIA on WASHINGTON (UPI)-Rich-ard Nixon, in a forthcoming television interview, admits he sought to "politically contain" the Wa a scandal and says he made a mistake by trying to use the CIA to block investigations into it. Dribs and drabs of the interview and of previously undisclosed While House participated in many of the new conversations With Nixon, dismissed the transcripts as "old hash" and said they contained distortions and inaccuracies. The transcripts included: A Nixon-Coson conversa-, tion three Says, after the Watergate burglary, in which Nixon talks about being involved ki "a dangerous Vand uses the Watergate catchword "stonewall" for the first time.

This is the same that investigators found an 18-minute gap on a tape in which Nixon and top aide H.R. Haldeman djscussed the X. ri: UPI Televholos May Day demonstrations. Meanwhile, the bullets were real in Turkey (below). Bodies of slain demonstrators and torn banners were on the ground as other leftists came under fire from police at Taksim Square during a May Day rally.

A YOUNG WOMAN (above) held a cloth to her face Sunday as she fled tear gas during a May Day demonstration in the industrial suburb of Vallecas, near Madrid. Hundreds of riot yvpolice fircd rubber bullefs as they attempted to stop massive break-in. A Nixon Colsoh conversation on Jan. 8, 1973, In N.J TRENTON (UPI)' -Organized crime, attracted partly by casino gambling in Atlantic City, is making a strong comeback in New Jersey, the man who is to head the State Commision of Investigation warns-. Michael Siavage said this weekend that organized crime was dealt a.

hard blow in the 1960s when the State Police cracked "down on mobsters'" with an extensive use of wiretaps and the SCI imprisoned a number of top repute mobsters for refusing to answer questions. Bookmaking 'Cracked' "Wiretapping really put a crimp in bookmaking activities, to the point where bookmaking is no longer the backbone of or a i crime," said Siavage, who is to assume his post June 3. The mobs have 1teen regaining their strength since 1974, however, he added. Siavage said New Jersey's crime families are choosing new leaders to replace bosses and are moving into new ventures. "It's an unfortunatetime for the public to be lulled to sleep about organized crime because I see a real strong comeback on the he said.

v. Public's -Deluded "It's, been public perception that because many top mob guys left New Jer organized crime is on the run," lieded. "But I don't think if-is- really on the run. When one man leaves, there's always another to take his place." The crucial factor in the comeback is casino gambling, according Siavage. "Casino gambling will certainly mo, re organized crime capital to the state he said.

"It is en area that bears close watching." In fact, he added, the entire picture of organized crime in the state has changed and requires new and" intensified surveillance, (Continued Page 4, Col. 8) which the President purportedly discusses hush money for the burglars several1 months before the subject was brought up in other tapes. But Colson sajd this tape is already public, and the term, "hush money" is not in the pl-osecutor's transcript. Several statements showing Nixon wa preoccupied the possibility of being impeached in April of 1973 more than a year before the House Judiciary Commitee began its hearings. "We Sept One jump Vahead 6t theS (expletive) -shstljfvhe complains to Haldemanat one point On April 26, he asks Haldeman: God, what the hell have we done to be impeached?" Vepial Water cat apes implicating Ni further in the Watergate scandal appeared in major newspapers and news magazines Sunday, amid suggestions the Ieisks were orchestrated to get maximum publicity for the television show.

"My motive in eVerything I was saying or cgrtainly thinking at the time was not to try to cover up a criminal action, tut to be sure that as far as any slip-over or should I say slop-over, I think, would be a better word (to prevent) any slop-over in a way that would damage innocent people," Nixon says. Containment Admitted weren't going to allow people in the White House, people in the committee, at the highest levels who wee not involved to be smeared: by the whole thing," Nixon says in. the television interview; "In other words, we were trying to politically contain Excerpts of the prerecorded interview with David Frost, to be televised Wednesday night, were published by Tune Magazine Sunday. Frost asked about Nixon's efforts to use the Central Intelligence Agency and warnings against interfering with national security matters to get the" FBI off the Watergate "Kor the first time, Nixon', his taut face betraying his discomfort publicly that his repeated claim that he was only trying to keep the FBI out of national security matters is 'untrue'," the Time account said. t.

"He concedes: Vlt was -grievous mistake! to have gotten the CIA involved in this thing. Another ac ou in Newsweek, Quotes Nixon as conceding his actions were motivated by politics not national security but as njaintaining his personal knowledge of-W'STe a events is very limitfed." Three days before airing of the interview, in which Nncon breaks 32 months of silence 6n Watergate since his resignation Aug. 9, 1974r transcripts of I )fy White House tapes 'were published in the Washington Post and New 1 York along with the two news magazines. There was no answer at Nixon's 1 home to telephone calls inquiring about the new Watergate coyerup, reports. -fjrost also could not be reached for comment.

Prosecutor Charles Ruff said neither he. nor his" staff leaked the transcripts. Attorneys for various Watergate defendants "(Continued Page 2 CoJ. 4) Inside The News Racing Pages 19,21 Amusements Page1'! GOP Organization Hits Back at Insurgents Classified Page 22 to 2S Comics Paget 28 2t Editorial rages Family Focus Page Financial News Page 30 Pate IS Letters Page 2 Page Pages 25, if Lottery Next Door Obituaries Radio-TV. ho served as police commissioner in Kramer's' first administration, said that Kramer must have known that the insurgent designa tion was put jot after the petitions were signed and that candidates weren't asked if they wished to run against the Republican organization.

"That kind- of dirty, politics," Englehardt a i "doesn't help anyone.5 For good of the Republican party we must make sure that every county committee is given the right to PATERSON The chairman, of the Passaic County RepubHcan Committee lashed out at an insurgent group for filing its list of 126 county committee candidates Thursday in support of Assemblyman Thomas Kean. William Dewey labeled the -Insurgents' actions deceitful, since Paterson Mayor Lawrence Kramer, a leader of the group, had said that the petitions represented an outpouring of support for the insurgents. The insurgents filed some five 1 minutes before the 4' p.m. deadline, in opposition to the regular RepubUcan organization choice of Sen. William Bateman.

Dewey will meet with the Paterson county committee tonight at 8 at the Brown-stone House. He said the ob-' ject of the meeting wilh be to "correct the petitions," which he maintains were -tampered with. Dewey is charging that who is seeking to replace Dewey as chairman, knew that the designation "did not indicate support. "He knows that what happened is after the pe-' tition? had been signed, Others joined in Dewey's indignation, among them former county Republican chairman Sen. Frank Dav, enport, who said, "It is dif- -ficult for me to understand" why Mayor Kramer, who has; exhibited any interest" in the county Republican or ganization, should begin his involvement on such, a sour note' He'urgedloyal Republican county committee candidates to come to the meeting to -place their names on the Passaic County Republican Organization line.

1 -Sheriff Edwin Englehardt, someone filled in the Kean designation on the petitions," -Dewey Dewey said he had been, contacted by countless, county committeemen who have toRMiunjthat it 'was done without their knowledge and. without their permission. "Anyoncwho wanted to be on the same line as the insurgents should be permitted to do it." he said, "but loyal Republicans who want to be on the Passaic Republican Organization line should not have their' wishes frustrated by the slight hand tactics of one or two people." page io Page 28 Pages 18 to 21, 25 listings Page 15 Sheinwold Sports' Suburban Page 28 Word Game TODAY'S CVVCKLB The only, safe thing to do behind a 'person's back is to a A. 7 Former -White, House Counsel Charts Colson, (ContTnued Page 4, Col. 8) it A A.

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