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I Author Declines Comment On News Story U.S. Report Questions Some Beliefs About Marijuana Report Dirviinig ik A Umi Richard Suskind, his research The federal probe continued the Times said. In a story from New York by Meanwhile, the New York Times reported that Irving was seeking to exchange his coopre-ation in the federal fraud inves- in Madrid, where U.S. prosecutor John J. Tigue arrived today after spending fewer than John J.

Goldman and Robert er, told authorities the book wasn't written under the circumstances they had earlier claimed. Jackson, the Los Angeles Times said it was understood that no tigaton for legal protection for his wife against prosecution in two days with another investigator looking into secret bank accounts in Zurich, promises were made by U.S. officials. the tangled case in the United States and Switzerland. Mrs.

Irving is the acknowl Tigue would say only that he edged "Helga R. Hughes" who deposited and then withdrew Asked for comment, Irving's attorney, Maurice Nessen, said, "I deny the accuracy of both expected an exchange of infor dations to a presidential commission that is scheduled to report next month. The authors digressed at one point, however, to suggest that "simple availability of marijuana may not be the most significant factor in its use and abuse." "In the attempt to prevent abuse," they said, "social customs and controls, guided by informal knowledge, are far more potent than legal sanctions alone." Reversing itself since last year, the NIMH said marijuana use appears to be widespread and on the increase, with no signs of tapering off. The report estimates that between 15 and 20 million Americans, mostly in the 18-to-29 age group, have tried (Continued on Page 3) By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Author Clifford Irving declined comment today on a Los Angeles Times report that he and his research assistant told federal authorities they never met with Howard Hughes, subject of Irving's purported "autobiography." At the same time Irving termed "a vicious lie" a report in The New York Times that he and a Los Angeles Times book reviewer were going to collaborate years ago on a Hughes biography. "People are looking for fall-guys," Irving told nesmen at his hotel in New York.

"It astonishes me that so much space has been devoted to this." WASHINGTON (AP) A new government report today questioned some widely held beliefs about marijuana and suggested that pot may hold medical value for glaucoma patients. The second annual report to Congress by National Institute of Mental Health emphasizes that more research is needed, however, on marijuana's effect on driving ability, chromosomes of women of childbear-ing age, and possible damage to the brain and kidneys. The researchers have strongly recommended against pot smoking by young women until the birth defects question is answered and against intravenous injection of the weed. The 270-page document, basically a scientific report, leaves recommen mation with Spanish authorities from a Swiss bank account Irving, has said he recorded material for the book in face-to-face interviews with Hughes in motels, and parked cars throughout the western hemisphere, but that Hughes insisted on keeping the tapes after the interviews were trans-scribed. Irving and Suskind reportedly refused to spell out details of how they created the $650,000 McGraw-Hill Publish ins Co.

cave Irving for pay stories, and I am much concerned that such stories should be given headlines." ment to Howard R. Hughes for! about the case and refused to acknowledge whether he would pick up tapes and documents taken from the Irvings' home on Ibiza off the coast. The Los Angeles Times said sources close to the federal He added, "I feel there his "autobiography." The shouldn't be any further com checks were made out to "H.R. Hughes." ments." U.S. Atty.

Whitney North Sey The Times said the admis word manuscript until they get assurances that Irvings wife, sions by Irving and Suskind mow Jr. refused in New York to comment on the LA Times grand jury probe of Irving's sale of the "autobiography" were said to have been made Edith, won't be prosecuted by either U.S. or Swiss authorities, article. said Thursday that Irving and (Continued on Page 3) Weather Santa Craz MONTEREY BAY AREA Fair Hirouqh Saturday xcep ptchy niijht and morolnq fog or low eloudins. Lit-tl temperature ctianqe.

Hiqhs Saturday A to 70. Low tonight In the 4Cs. Light wind. Temparatures (or 7 houri ending at I i.m. today: High 71, low 39.

II 7th Year No. 36 15c FRIDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY ll, 1972 30 Pages Nixon Says No New Concessions Blackouts Forcing British Factories Me Jit tep Up To ioennf WASHINGTON (AP) Pres enemy's failing to negotiate Sril 'Ay I' i ident Nixon has drawn the line 41 in 1 vnv may have to be borne by those To Stop All Work LONDON (AP) The gov-l The grim economic outlook, have insisted the United States abandon support of the regime of South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. Thieu has expressed unhappi-ness over a statement by Secre start next Thursday. The President said his visit and talks with Chinese leaders "will mark a watershed in the relations between the two governments" which have been at odds for more than 20 years. against further concessions to the North Vietnamese until they negotiate on his eight-point peace proposal.

"The next step is up to the who encourage the enemy to wait until after the election," the President said Nixon called the joint U.S.-South Vietnamese proposal he made public Jan. 25 fair and forthcoming and said "it should ernment told a shocked House darkened further by news today of Commons today that millions of a $5.2 million deficit in Brit- Mp fvfl If The old chapter now comes to tary of State William P. Rogers that the United States remains of British workers may be laid ain January trade balance, enemy. Our proposal is on the an end, Nixon said, "from the off because of new massive flexible on details of a possible sent prices plunging on the London Stock Exchange. time that I set foot on the sou of mainland China, and a new political settlement of the war.

electric power cuts. Hundreds of factories were The power cuts also brought chapter begins. table and it is going to stand there until we get a reply from them," Nixon told a news conference in his White House office Thursday. At the same time, the Presi be negotiated on. Although Nixon said the other side has not yet responded, North Vietnamese leaders and But Nixon said he wanted to reassure the South Vietnamese disruption to millions of Britons expected to shut down because Once again, Nixon cautioned of the drastic blackouts, or president that "there will be no new proposals made unless it is that his groundbreaking visit, first by an American president in their day-to-day life.

Housewives prepared cold breakfasts by candlelight. Traf dered to save electricity from diplomats have been quoted as dent appeared to hit somewhat rejecting the U.S.-South Viet a joint proposal." to China, "should not be one a I-fueled power stations crippled by a five-week miners' fic was snarled for miles where harder at Democratic White Standing behind his desk, namese formula for peace, in which would create very great traffic lights went out. Hun House hopefuls who spurned his eluding a cease-fire, mutual Nixon opened his news confer optimism or very great pessim ism." dreds were stranded In Btuck earlier plea for caution in their ence by giving a general run John Davles, trade and In troop withdrawal, and release of war prisoners. criticism of his Vietnam policy. On other matters, brought out dustry minister, said "many down on plans for bis trip to Communist China, which will "The responsibility for the North Vietnamese spokesmen (Continued on Page 3) many people, perhaps millions" will be out of work at a time elevators and women were caught with half-finished hairdos under driers that went dead.

Buckingham Palace was when Britain already has more than a million unemployed be without electricity for three cause of economic woes. Under a state of emergency Tf. hcandIes flnd torches, thank after talks with the proclaimed 19 Prisoners Escape From Jail Cruise Vessel Aground, 120 Rescued SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) Reward May Go To Five In Frazier Case Supervisor Dan Forbus has miners broke down, electricity was cut off to one in every 10 That figure in the air, to the right of the television antenna atop the building, is 21-year-old Charles "Prairie" Prince. He amazes passersby in San Francisco as he soars into the air from the roof of the four-story apartment building where he lives. What the people at street level don't see is the trampoline that launches Prince into the air.

(AP Wircphoto) you, said a spokesman. Queen Elizabeth, Prince Philip and Princess Anne are in the Far East. Scotland Yard was busy answering questions about British homes, offices and factories on a rotating basis. Broadening this limited CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) The Norwegian cruise ship Lindblad Explorer ran aground blackout, which began Thurs Nineteen men sawed their way day Davies ordered the biggest factories to slash their electric failure of the traffic signals when its own lights went out. The House of Lords was blacked in heavy seas in the Antarctic concluded that any reward given for the arrest and conviction of John Linley Frazier, convicted of the mass murders of the Dr.

today. Chilean naval craft rescued her 120 passengers, most of them Americans. out as it debated the power crisis. The lights illuminatlnff consumption by 50 per cent-meaning shutdowns of machinery and lay-offs of workers. rapists, robbers or murderers out there." Kenneth Cooley, workhouse commissioner, said 16 of the prisoners were awaiting trial on felony charges and the other three were serving municipal court sentences.

The 62-year-old institution is located in suburban Warrensville Heights. out of the Warrensville Workhouse and escaped, prison officials said today. Mayor Ralph J. Perk immediately suspended Workhouse Supt. Kenneth H.

Cooley for 29 days pending an investigation. Perk said Cooley would be Victor Ohta family and secretary Dorothy Cadwallader, Sewer Impact Study Means A Year's Delay The Chilean navy said the Big Ben, the giant clock atop Parliment, went out. In addition to these biggest users of power, a larger num should go to Jarvis McFarland, vessel was aground on Alma-rintazgo Beach in the Chilean ber of medium-sized plants- Roger Krone, Joseph Cole, Michael Madden and William more than 20,000 were banned Antarctic with some crew remaining on board. The Tubbs. probably will be early 1973 The escape was reported to from using electricity four days vessel had a crew of 68.

Forbus, who has been looking a week. before work can begin. into the question of a reward for be the largest in the 62-year history of the work-house, located in suburban Warrensville Harold Lever, industrial fired if it is determined that any neglect of duty was involved. The men cut through bars in a gymnasium, climbed onto a roof, dropped 24 feet to the The Lindblad Explorer's K. S.

A. Explorer, reported Soquel Drive InterirnZoning To Be Sought County supervisors Tuesday spokesman for the opposition Labor party in Parliament, in Oslo, Noway's capital, that Heights, southeast of Cleveland. Last November, more than 70 the skipper, Capt Bjarne Aas, of the 545 inmates then at War ground and made what author- and the radio officer remained county supervisors, says in a letter that District Attorney Peter Chang concurs in those thoughts. The board will consider the subject Tuesday. The board last month received a written request from Tubbs rensville tried to storm the warned that the bigger blackouts beginning Monday "will inflict very heavy damage upon industry." As coal stocks dwindled fur aboard.

The company said the'ities believe was the largest ship was taking water. TheSmass escape in the institution's gates of a compound but were driven back by guards firing shotguns in the ajr. Chilean navy reported her history. will consider placing an emergency interim zone along Soquel Drive, from State Park Workhouse security chief Jo awash that a $20,000 reward stemming ther, the government also banned the use of electricity By DON RIGHETTI Sentinel Staff Writer It will be 10 months to a year, local officials learned Thursday, before a contract can be let on construction of a consolidated Santa Cruz-mid-county sewer system. i ronmental Protection Agency officials who met here with local and state representatives said it will be six months before their agency files an environmental impact study on the proposed sewer project.

It will be another month before a decision is made on whether to go ahead with the work. That means, county public works engineers estimated, it seph Katona said it would have The workhouse presently Drive to Freedom Boulevard, to Kenneth Jones of the regional water quality control board called the meeting so EPA leaders could explain what they are doing on the enviornmental impact study and how long it will take to do it. EPA official Howard Harris said his agency does not develop new environmental information, but studies all the existing information it can gather from any source. the statement itself, he noted, is a "study of environmental pros and cons, considering this particular project and i alternates." Fred Leif, another EPA of-(Continued on Page 3) houses 297 city prisoners and Saturday for heating offices, from the conviction of Frazier go to the five. Supervisors at that time asked Forbus to look 126 Cuyahoga County prisoners.

shops, theaters and many other hold off what Aptos Supervisor Ralph Sanson says is an "increase in pressure for development" for that area. premises. It pleaded with ev deeper into the subject The ship, chartered by the Lindblat Travel Agency of New York, was on a cruise to the Antarctic. High seas caused by 50-knot winds washed over the vessel and knocked out her diesel engines, the navy reported. Capt.

Ladislao d'Hainud, eryone to voluntarily switch off as many home appliances as In a letter to the board. possible. Sanson explains that the planning department is currently studying the zoning along that "Except where there is sickness, only one room should be electrically heated," Davies commander of the navy's An- taken "anywhere between 45 minutes to an hour" to saw through the bars. He said officials have been "taking statements all night to determine whether there's been any negligence inside or outside." One inmate was captured soon after the break Thursday night and two others were seized early today following a high speed-chase. Officials sajd they had stolen a car and were pursued and caught in suburban Lakewood.

The break was discovered during a bed check. Lt. Jerome Smith said the es- stretch of Soquel Drive and adds said. "Lights should only be used where essential." "development prior to com tartic group, dispatched the Yelcho and Pardo to rescue the The Santa Cruz County Medical Society has pledged $15,000 reward. However, Forbus said, the question of the $5,000 reward form the county is a legal question for the county counsel's determination." Man And Woman Found Murdered REDWOOD CITY (AP) pletion of the zoning study Even before the drastic new Dassencers.

Telegraphed re would act to defeat the purposes of the study." power cuts, some factories starved of coal started shutting He therefore requests the down. Five hundred workers at ports said all passengers were brought to the Chilean navy's Antarctic base on King George Island, about 500 miles south of Punta Arenas, Chile, the south emergency zone to be effective for 90 days. VALENTINE'S DAY STARTS FRIDAY NITE Index Page Amusements 14-15 Ann Landers 2 Auto Cruz 17 Bridge Column 4 Business News 18 Church News 12 Classified Ads 21-27 Comics 20 Crossword Puzzle 20 Editorial Features 29 Food'n Fun 13 Horoscope 20 Merry-Cro-Round 19 Mostly About People 5 Radio Programs 16 Sports 9-11 Stocks 18 Tides 28 Tree 'm' Sea Living 6 TV Programs 19 Vitals 28 Weather 28 The board will consider ernmost city in the world. Sanson's request Tuesday at The bodies of a man and wom Reports reaching Sanitago'capees could have gotten the 1:30 p.m. in supervisors' an, both shot in the head, were found today in a parked car chambers of the County Center, 701 Ocean St.

navy headquarters said thejtools in a number of ways, passengers probably would security force is low taken to Puerto Williams, aUhe men have open visits navy base at the southern tip of tools are always lying around," near the Farm Hill Boulevard AT 9 IN THE COMPASS two plants in Derby were thrown out of jobs, and 1,000 at a Derbyshire Iron Works were put on shorter shifts. As a court of inquiry prepared to investigate the strike and recommend a pay settlement, mine workers leader Joe Gormley estimated the power cuts would have to continue until April. He said this was because of delays in resuming coal production even if the strike is settled today. off -ramp of California 280, offi cers said. Chile near the Beagle Channelhe said.

ROOM Death Penalty CHARLESTON, W. Va. (AP) The Senate passed a bill to if the ship could not be readily Detective Rudy Siemssen iden day to reinstate the death Acting Cuyahoga County Sheriff, Col. Albert Brockhurst, said "We screen prisoners carefully before sending them to the workhouse. There are no pulled free by the two Chilean navy vessels.

The navy said all the passengers were well. tified the victims as William Maria, 34, of San Bruno, and Beverly Jo Scott, 38, of San Francisco. i penalty which West Virginia abolished seven years ago. eniocrats Set Mioi-Coraveotioiras State YOUR SIGHTS ON US AND LISTEN TO THE BEST GROUP IN TOWN ALBIE FRIENDS! Shell Just Love You Wilma Stevens, a housewife from Quincy, in the Sierra foothills, said, "I've never been to a national convention. I never thought it would be possible.

But with the reforms, I'm going to Chico Saturday to try to get myself a delegate's slot." That's a roundtrip drive of 160 miles. Candidates are holding their caucuses wherever they can find a handy, adequate place. Some are in homes, some In schools, many in restaurants and churches. Other sites Include the Capitol, a riproaring bar in Gold Rush boom town Jackson and the Praises of Zion Baptist Church in south-central Los Angeles. The names of those nominated will be sifted by screening committees for each candidate during the coming week and the bulk of the (Continued on Page 3) State party officials are calling 1972 "the year of citizen participation." The idea is to give everyone a potential chance to be a delegate to the convention.

Up to now, it's been possible for a candidate's handpicked committee of three to have total control over who is on the convention delegation. There have been few spots for blacks, Mexican-Americans, women or young people. SACRAM ENTO (AP) From pizza in Ixs Angeles to Willard-IIo Chi Minh Park in Berkeley, as many as 50,000 California Democrats will assemble at 387 mini conventions Saturday to boost their favorite presidential candidates. No one is quite sure how it will work out, or just what it will mean as a measure of candidate strength. But this is the ropon.se of state party leaders to the demands for reform that grew out of the 1868 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

Under a new law, each Democratic presidential candidate must hold a caucus in each of the state's 43 congressional districts Saturday to nominate potent iaj delegates to the Democratic National Convention. So far, nine Democrats say they plan to enter the June 6 primary and are holding caucuses Saturday. 426-4330 ON THE BEACH.