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Tuesday, March 23, 197 In North Carolina Reagan and Wallace face survival test Actor George Segal plunks a banjo and puffs on a cigar as he sits beside a showgirl at a party celebrating the premiere of his new film "The Duchess and the Dirtwater Fox in New York Monday night. The movie was filmed last year in Central City west of Denver. AP wirephoto Premiere celebration Man charged in death of six persons TREVOSE.Pa, (AP) A young bachelor who an official said was apparently carrying out a "personal vendetta" has been charged with the execution-style slayings of six persons, Including five of his neighbors. George Geschwendt, 24, was taken into custody late Monday at the Bensalem Township police station, Police Chief Lawrence Michaels said. The victims Included five members of the John Abt family and the boyfriend of one of the Abt girls who was visiting at the time of the killings.

Geschwendt, a bachelor who lived with his mother and a brother diagonally across the street from the Abt family, was charged with six counts of murder, Michaels said. He was held without bail pending a preliminary hearing March 26. When news of the arrest reached the Abt home, a fistfight erupted between the family's two surviving members, Michael Abt, 20, and his brother, Clifford, 23. The exact cause of the fight could not be immediately determined. It started when a reporter tried to question the two men about Geschwendt.

By the time police arrived, the brothers had battled through a doorway and continued the fight on the front lawn. Police confiscated a shotgun and a rifle, but made no arrests. When the fight ended, Michael Abt told reporters, in an apparent reference to Geschwendt: "I haven't talked to him in eight years. It was senseless. He said he and Clifford had gone to school with Geschwendt.

He always stayed at home, Michael Abt said. "He's strange a very strange dude. Very quiet and withdrawn. He never left the house, never dated girls. Police Chief Michaels said Geschwendt had done landscaping work and held several other jobs in the past two years, but was unemployed at the time of his arrest.

Neither Michaels nor Kenneth Biehn, Bucks County district attorney, would elaborate on the circumstances of the arrest or a possible motive for the slayings. Both emphasized that the killings were not drug-related, as had been suspected earlier. It appeared to be a personal vendetta, Biehn said. The bodies of Abt and his wife Margaret, both about 50; three of their children, Margaret, 19, Cathy, 15, and John, 13; and Margaret's boyfriend, Garson Engel, 20, were found March 12 in the basement of the Abt home about 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia. At the time of the killings, the police chief said each victim had been shot in the front of the head.

He said the killer apparently broke a window on a back door to enter the house, but there were no signs of a struggle or of a robbery. By WALTER R. MEARS AP special correspondent RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) For Ronald Reagan and George C. Wallace, todays political strategy is simple: survive.

Republican Reagan and Democrat Wallace find themselves in the same campaign quandary. They are in Southern, normally conservative, territory that once seemed politically hospitable and yet they are braced for defeat. In measuring the impact of the North Carolina presidential primary election, the lot of the losers will be the key. Ford expects to win President Ford said in advance that he expected to win today's election, which would be his sixth in a row. Anything less would be a serious setback for the Ford campaign and a major lift that would give new life to Reagans Republican challenge.

Reagan now is forced to deal almost hourly with the suggestion that he may be quitting the race. He denies it. I will simply declare now that regardless of the outcome of this primary, I am in this race to stay all the way to the convention in Kansas City, he said in Raleigh on Monday as he wound up his North Carolina campaign. Carter favorite In the Democratic primary, former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter was the favorite to win his third in a row over Wallace.

Momentum is a key to the Carter campaign, particularly as he heads into New York, where Sen. Henry M. Jack-son of Washington is rated the likely leader in a primary two weeks from today. So Carter needs the win. A Wallace upset would stall him at a crucial point, as the primary competition shifts to big, Northern industrial states.

Wallace insisted that he would not be dispirited or panic stricken" by a North Carolina defeat. Despite his claim, it would be the most devastating blow yet to his campaign. The Alabama governor won the North Carolina primary in 1972 and ran second here in the presidential election of 1968, the year of his third-party White House race. Wallace said whatever the outcome he will be involved in the later primaries. But if Wallace cant win in North Carolina, it is difficult to see where he can, except in Alabama and the immediate neighborhood.

Difficult to explain Loser to Carter in Florida two weeks ago, Wallace said that wasnt really a Southern state. Beaten by Carter in Illinois last Tuesday, Wallace said he was satisfied to have run second in that Midwestern test. But he would have dif- Kissinger refutes detente criticVv. The Daily SVntinel -Page 1 Ana lysis ficulty explaining away North Carolina on the basis of philosophy or geography. Next up for him would be Wisconsin, also on April 6.

Without winning or coming very close in North Carolina, Wallace will have only the trappings of a campaign left. He can't even send them a message any more if the message is going to be that most voters arent interested in providing the ballots to get it to Washington. Ford requests extension of election law WASHINGTON (AP) President Ford todpy urged a simple extension of the election law with a provision restructuring the Federal Election Commission to comply with the Supreme Court's requirements, the Senate minority leader said. Compromise sooght Sen. Hugh Scott, reported the President's request after he and ether GOP leaders met with Ford to discuss efforts to reach a comprsmioe with Democrats over changes at the commission, stripped by the court of ha power to disburse money.

The commission, created toadminia-ter and enforce the 1974 campaign finance law that arose from the depths of the Watergate scandals, lost most of its powers at midnight Monday as Can-' gress failed to meet the courts deadline for restructuring its membership. Key among the powers the com-misson lost was authority to disburse millions of taxpayer dollars to presidential candidates and their parties. The sooner the better' The President urged a simple extension of the act itself to comply with the Supreme Court and felt the sooner that could be done the better, Scott said. If agreement can be reached to resolve misgivings over a provision requiring disclosure of corporate and union political funding, the measure could reach a vote in two or three days, the senator said. "Despite postal assertions that most damage results from insufficiently wrapped packages using tissue paper and thread, the clear evidence was that most of the damage was done to well packaged items, the report said.

Wasteful technology One machine the investigatorsiconsid-ered to be in the nonsense category was a device that shakes packages out of mail sacks. The report said the machine was responsible for considerable damage and called it the epitome of needless and wasteful technology. It said, Although Mr. Blount in 1971 specifically promised that no package would drop more than nine inches, there are many points in bulk mail. centers with drops of significantly mare than that figure.

The bulk mail system handles parcels and some second and third class mail through' 21 highly automated facilities. The system, announced five years ago and completed this month, was to tie the first significant leap forward Initiated by the Post Service since it was fornied from the old Post Office Depart- ment, the report said. 1 After Blount left the Postal Service, his construction firm won the contracts to build four of the bulk mail facilities. 'Nonsense machines' part of Postal Service's plan Castro quote led to hassle in JFK probe WASHINGTON (AP) The Warren Commission was wracked hj a sharp internal dispute when it decided to omit from its final report any mention of a newspaper article that quoted Fidel Castro as threatening the lives of U.S. leaders.

"We got into a serious hassle with it, Wesley J. Liebeler, a former commission staff member, said of the news article. A recent CIA memo cited the article as a promising lead that "must be considered of great significance in examining the possibility that the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was the work of a foreign conspiracy. No evidence According to Liebeler, the news story was not mentioned in the commission's final report because there was no evidence that Lee Harvey Oswald had read it.

Liebeler, now a law professor at UCLA, added that he personally was convinced that Oswald had read the story, since it appeared in a New Orleans newspaper at a time when Oswald, who was known as an avid newspaper reader, was living there. In a Sept. 16, 1964, memo to J. Lee Rankin, chief counsel of the Warren Commission, Liebeler argued that it would be improper to delete the news story from the section of the report dealing with Oswalds possible motivation while at the same time including a discussion of the possible influence of anti-Kennedy literature circulated by right-wing political groups in Dallas shortly before the Nov. 22, 1963, assination.

The final report by the commission includes a section on the possible influence of anti-Kennedy sentiment in Dallas. It concludes that, although Oswald was aware of "general political ferment present in the city, there was no evidence he was influenced by it. Without comment The news story about Castros threat, an Associated Press dispatch from Havana that appeared in the New Orleans Times-Picayune on Sept. 9, 1963, subsequently was published without comment as one of the thousands of exhibits contained in 26 volumes of supporting evidence released by the committee. The story attracted no public attention until last summer, when Sen.

Rich- ard S. Schweiker, commented on its significance in light of the revelation that the CIA had been plotting to kill Castro. Liebeler said the story, which quoted Castro as saying, U.S. leaders would be in danger if they helped in any attempt to do away with leaders of Cuba," did not prompt the Warren Commission to ask the CIA if it had made any attempts to kill Castro. According to a May 1975 CIA memo, CIA field agents reported the story to agency headquarters "very shortly after the Dallas killing, but there is no evidence.

this Castro interview was considered in following up leads or in dealing with the Warren Commission and its staff. clearly at Reagan and Democrats Henry Jackson and Jimmy Carter, all of whom have criticized Kissingers conduct of foreign policy under President Ford. Book accuses Kissinger of "bad faith7 WASHINGTON (AP) -Anewbookby an Israeli diplomatic correspondent accuses Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger of bad faith in his Middle East negotiations. Aurthor Matti Golan accuses Kissinger of slowing down vital U.S.

arms replacements to Israel during the 1973 war and of reneging last year on a promise to commit the United States to Israels assistance should the Russians intervene militarily in the area. Before last summers Sinai settlement with Egypt, Golan claims, Kissinger agreed in a meeting with Israeli Ambassador Simcha Dinitz in the Virgin Islands that in case the Russians involved themselves in the Middle East there would be active counter-involvement by the United States. Explained later But, in the settlement itself, the commitment was worded so that the United States agreed only to consult with Israel. Kissinger later explained that he had not given enough thought to the likelihood of congressional objections to a broader pledge, Golan writes in "The Secret Conversations of Henry Kissinger. Golan is a correspondent for the newspaper Haaretz.

He also charges Kissinger with breaking a pledge after the war turned in Israels favor to give Israeli forces a few days time to secure their position on the west bank of the Suez Canal and misinforming Israel in 1974 that Egyptian President Anwar Sadat had agreed to reopen the canal to shipping, including Israeli cargo, before another round of negotiations. Asked for Kissingers comment, a State Department spokesman said: "The secretary has not seen the book and does not intend to read it. Every excerpt the secretary has seen from the book has been, in his view, either an egregious distortion, an outright lie, or so taken out of context that it amounts to a lie. Initially banned Golans book initially was banned by Israeli censors but was cleared for publication with some revisions after government seizure of the manuscript became known publicly. It is being published this week in the United States by the Quadrangle Press.

Beside Kissinger, it criticizes Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin for a persistent impulse to shoot off his mouth and faults Dinitz for trusting Kissinger too much. Israeli officials here said they would not comment because the book is sensational and completely speculative. Milium GL DupgvHB DALLAS (AP) Some tough talk from Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and the Senate's refusal to endorse detente indicate how sensitive the question of U.S. -Soviet relations is becoming this election year.

Kissinger, continuing his defense of the Ford administrations foreign policy, said here Monday that the United States and the Soviet Union are in a position of "rough equilibrium and the administration will never allow the balance to be tipped against the United States by a Russian build-up, or by a one-sided or violated agreement. Missile gap He also sought to refute domestic critics of U.S. defense policies and said that allegations of Soviet superiority sound remarkably like the missile gap claims which aroused anxieties in 1960 only to dissolve suddenly a few weeks after the election. As Kissinger was preparing to deliver his remarks here, the Senate declined to approve a resolution supporting detente as a process of easing tension with the Soviet Union. The resolution had been offered as a means of expressing the continuity of American foreign policy in the heated atmosphere of the current political campaign, but the Senate referred it to committee by a 54 to 31 vote.

Some senators later said the move 'showed there is growing doubt about how much detente is benefiting the United States. However, some senators said another factor was that the resolution had been quickly introduced without any committee consideration. And some GOP senators declined to support it because they said it was an attempt to support President Ford against Republican presidential hopeful Ronald Reagans attacks on U.S. foreign policy. In his speech, Kissinger also made these points: Only applause He repeated that the "United States will not accept further Cuban military interventions abroad," a statement that brought the only interruption for applause during his speech.

He did not indicate what the United States would do if Cuba attempts to end white minority rule in Rhodesia through military means. However, he said the United States will not be lured into support for Rhodesia by U.S. opposition to "massive Soviet and Cuban military intervention" on the African continent. He said the United States has "no stake in and will give no encouragement to illegal regimes in southern Africa, an apparent reference to Rhodesia. In defending the Ford administrations foreign and defense policies, Kissinger said, "We must take care not to become so obsessed with power alone that we become a fortress America and neglect our ultimate political and moral responsibilities.

Aimed at critics Many of his remarks were aimed Open tonight until 9 Eastgate Shopping Center 2436226 IIiFT yj iTEsT Custom Killing And Processing. WASHINGTON (AP) The Postal Serv vices grand plan for handling packages includes nonsense machines, some of which damage the mail, congressional investigators say. Examples of nonsense machinery are everywhere, investigators of the House postal facilities subcommittee said after visits to 12 bulk mail plants, part of the Postal Services $1. billion system designed to streamline the delivery of parcels and some other mail. Won contracts And after wondering why the Postal Service chose the elaborately mechanized concept for the bulk mail system, the investigators noted the construction company of former Postmaster Gen.

Winton M. Blount won contracts to build four of the facilities at a cost of $91 million. A copy of the subcommittee staff report, scheduled to be released Thursday when the panel opens hearings on the bulk mail centers, was obtained by The Associated Press. The report said the system was laden with superfluous gimmickry but under designed from the standpoint of damage prevention." It called parcel damage the most serious immediate problem." 1 Bundy questioned by Pitkin County investigators I SALT LAKE CITY (AP) 4 The first Colorado authorities to question Theodore R. Bundy about slayings in that state have interrogated the convicted kidnaper in the county jail here, officials The sentencing of Bundy, a 29-year- old former Tacoma, Wash, resident, was delayed for 90 days Monday so that he can undergo a 90-day psychological evaluation at Utah State Prison.

Found guilty Third District Court Judge Stewart M. Hanson who found Bundy guilty March 1 of aggravated kidnaping, ordered the evaluations. He said the regular presentence report did not provide enough information for sentencing. A Salt Lake County sheriffs office said Monday that two officials from Pitkin County, Colo, questioned Bundy a week ago in connection with the slaying of Caryn Campbell, 24, a Michigan nurse, near Aspen, Colo, early last year. She disappeared while on a skiing vacation.

Her body was found Feb. 18, 1975. The officer said Bundys lawyer, John D. O'Connell, was present during the jail questioning by Pitkin County Sheriffs Lt. William Baldridge and Michael Fisher, an investigator for that countys district attorney.

The session also was tape recorded. Wont say anything In Aspen, Baldridge confirmed that he and Fisher interviewed Bundy. I wont say anything about the context of what we got or didnt get, Baldridge said. Since Bundys arrest last Oct. 2 on kidnaping charges, Colorado authorities have tried to question him about several missing and slain women in that state.

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