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Proxmire, chairman of the Joint Economic Committee, refused comment. Staff members said no one had yet had the courage to ask the senator what happened and he wasn't volunteering any information. He later wore the sunglasses as he gave speeches on the Senate floor. Dibble, State Water Official of Private from the private consulting business, Ford said. Dibble had informed the Reagan administration of his private practice after public disclosure of charges against Mulligan in Hawaii allegedly involving a bribe to a Honolulu city official, and Gov, Reagan's demand for the chairman's resignation for allegedly being employed by a private consulting firm linked to the scandal.

In an interview, Dibble said his consulting was done in his own name through his home in Redlands. 1 It involved mostly consulting regarding ground water wells and water basins and never involved work for the Steps Out SACRAMENTO (AP) The vice chairman of the California Water Resources Control Board said yesterday he is voluntarily ending his private water consulting practice to avoid any hint of conflict of interest. Edward F. Dibble made the announcement less than two weeks after board chairman Kerry W. Mulligan resigned under fire for alleged conflict of interest.

Ford Ford, assistant secretary of the State Resources Agency which oversees the water board, said, "We're convinced there is no conflict of interest." However, "to eliminate any public Dibble is removing himself By JAMES II. PHILLIPS WASHINGTON (AP) Presidential assistant H. R. Haldeman accused critics of the administration's peace negotiations yesterday of "consciously aiding and abetting the enemy of the United States." The White House described the statement as the personal opinion of Haldeman and not of President Nixon. "Haldeman was expressing his own personal point of view and was not speaking for the President," presidential press secretary Ronald L.

Ziegler said in response to questions. "Bob is not a spokesman for the President and he is the first to say that." Asked whether Nixon shares Hal-deman's views, Ziegler said, "The President has always felt there is room for honest criticism and everyone has the right to express their own views." Halcteman's statement on the NBC "Today" program marked the strongest criticism by an administration figure of opponents of the President's latest peace offer. Haldeman said before Nixon announced and explained his eight-point peace proposal, "his critics people who were opposing what he was doing were unconsciously echoing the line that the enemy wanted. "Now, after this explanation," Haldeman said, "the only conclusion you can draw is that the critics now are consciously aiding, and abetting the enemy of the United States that the President's critics are in favor of putting a Communist government in South Vietnam The interviewer interjected: "Quite a few of these critics are in the Senate. They are not consciously aiding and abetting the enemy; they have suggested some alternatives in the way the government of South Vietnam could be handled." Haldeman responded: "In this particular posture, I think they are consciously aiding and abetting the enemy." Asked specifically whether the White held by a relatively few individuals," he said.

Meanwhile, Sen. David Robcrli, D-Los Angeles, proposed a legislative package aimed at cutting off immediately a while two bands serenaded them with music. Willing women prowled the train looking for willing men. It was a philanderer's dream come true, for there were mrny more willing women than willing men. The Las Vegas special is another in the experiments of Amtrak, the national railroad passenger corporation, to reintroduce America to the joys of train riding.

The gambling specials will run from I)S Angeles to Las Vegas every weekend through May. Similar trains travel each Friday from San Francisco through Oakland and Sacramento to Reno. In two months of operation, the Reno specials have attracted 35,000 passengers, Amtrak officials said. The Los Angeles to Las Vegas specials for the next few weeks are pretty well Demo Proposes 'Share the Wealth' Legislation whole' idea of democracy and is not ton said, but he menlioned no specific healthy for the economy," Burton said, project. Money skimmed out of multimillion- "I'm willing to leave the redistribution aires' bank accounts would be used for for consideration after we've passed the a variety of anti-poverty programs, Bur- laws to collect the excessive wealth now A Philanderer's Dream Come True That Las Vegas Special Swings Way Out, Man Practice board, he said.

His clients were districts and cities, he said. Dibble was named to the board by Gov. Reagan when it was formed in 1967 and his present term expires Jan. 15, 1973. He said he intends to continue serving on the board.

It pays $25,000 a year. He said he was "very careful" to avoid representing any client who might have business coming before the state board. Dibble said he is arranging to turn his consulting practice over to someone else. Mulligan resigned Jan. 29 effective Feb.

26 but denied any wrongdoing or any conflict of interest. The travelers, passengers on the first of the "Las Vegas fun trains," had drunk, slept, eaten, gambled and danced their way through a seven-hour train trip from California to Nevada. In railroad cars festooned with balloons and paper streamers they bickered, fought, kissed and courted AP Wlrepnoto AP Wlrphrt II. R. HALDEMAN criticizes Nixon's critic House was disavowing Haldeman comments, Ziegler reiterated that the presidential assistant was expressing "his personal view" and that Nixon "expects honest criticism and he expects there will be debate on the overriding issues." Sen.

George McGovern, said "it is complete nonsense for spokesmen for this administration to claim, as one of the President's aides claimed today, that recognition of the futility of Mr. Nixon's position constitutes 'putting partisanship above peace' and 'giving aid and comfort to the "The adminlstralion would do well to drop Red-baiting rhetoric of that kind and start giving aid and comfort to the American people by ending our involvement in this senseless war," the Demo- (Continued on A 2, Column 5) 60-year-old tax break enjoyed by some California insurance companies. Assemblyman Alan Sieroty, D-Beverly (Continued on A 2, Column 3) sold out, Amtrak officials said. Last Friday's train departed on time from Union Station in Los Angeles promptly at 4 p.m. By the time the train had reached the Mojave Desert, carousing, which had begun about an hour before the train left Union Station, was at a peak.

An accordionist, Al Dcpaulis, was giving a frenzied rendition of "This Train Don't Carry No Gamblers," an old spiritual, while his musical partner, Ken Deckow, supported himself by leaning on the leg of his bass fiddle. Las Vegas Mayor Oran Gragson, smiling throughout, was following the boat of the bass fiddle by banging his tambourine against the rumps of passing women. Occasionally, the mayor made it a double beat, right hand with (Continued on A 2, Column 1) this approach, describing it as unworkable and unacceptable. Williams said the Senate bill could be ready for action on the Senate floor this afternoon and that final action before a congressional Lincoln Day recess beginning Thursday is possible. There were Indications, meanwhile, that a negotiated settlement might be near.

"Our Information is that a settlement is imminent," Chairman Frank Thompson of the House subcommittee told the House after telephone talks with union leader Harry Bridges and President Edmund J. Flynn of the shippers' association. Today's Headlines Inside fthtSmt 3 World Bernadette Devlin promises a day of disruption in Northern Ireland. (A-3) Nixon signs campaign reform calls it realistic, enforceable. (A-2) United Auto Workers files first major lawsuit against federal Pay Board.

(A-2) Nixon mildly lectures business leaders for complaining about controls. (A-2) Scientist claims discovery of new infectious agent- a (A-5) Doctors warn FDA doubling iron in bread may cause illness, death. (A-7) Government slaps $490,000 tax liens against Hughes author Irving, wife. (A-2) 3 State Ban on comment by sheriff's department in Davis case is ordered. (A-7) Kaiser-Union negotiations to end strike start today in Fontana.

(Metro) Chino work furlough program ousts 20 convicts after escape. (Metro) Sports Chris Evert avenges loss to Billie Jean King with 6-1, 6-0 triumph. (B-6) Can San Bernardino High bounce back in Ivy League basketball race? (B-7) Specials Actor-director-drama critic Joe Callaway is of the old school. (A-8) San Bernardino Humane Society has no place to go. (A-8) 3 Index (Two Nwl Ann Landers A-9 Billy Graham A-16 Bridge A-16 Classified B-9 to 15 Comics A-14 County News B-2, 3 Crossword B-10 F.arl Rnie A-9 Scctiona) Good Health A-6 Metro Living A-8, 9 Obituaries B-5 Sports B-6 to 9 Star Gazer A-9 Television A-10 Theater A ll Vital Records B-9 Weather A-15 bill, Editorial B-lfi Financial A-12, 13 By MARTIN WALDRON New York Times Newt Srvlc LAS VEGAS, Nev.

Amtrak's gambling special from Los Angeles chugged to a stop here shortly before midnight Friday, and 365 passengers sodden with sleep or alcohol disembarked for a weekend in the gaming parlors of Las Vegas. SACRAMENTO (AP) Multimillionaires and insurance companies received unhappy news yesterday from three Democratic lawmakers. Assemblyman John Burton, chairman of the Assembly Rules Committee, introduced a bill that would forbid any Californian to possess more than $2.5 million in wealth. The San Francisco Democrat's "share the wealth" bill would make it illegal to inherit more than $1 million unless the heir was a widow or widower. Similar legislation by Burton last year, nicknamed the "Robin Hood bill," was killed in the Assembly Revenue and Tax Committee.

Burton claimed in a news release yesterday that 4,000 California multimillionaires control $10 billion of the state's wealth. "Such a concentration of wealth, in my opinion, is not compatible with the Snowy Idyll I 'Tiff At, ii ii. mwMmmmmmt0K: Dock Strike Bills Sent To Senate HouseDiffer '5 r- i WASHINGTON (AP) Senate and House committees yesterday approved differing versions of legislation to deal with the 122-day West Coast dock strike. The Senate Labor Committee voted basically for the bill requested by the President calling for compulsory arbitration of the dispute. Sen.

Harrison Williams, N.J., committee chairman, said the action was unanimous. The House Labor subcommittee earlier in the day voted legislation to authorize a 60-day partial injunction on the strike, requiring workers to handle military and agricultural cargoes and all shipments to and from Hawaii. The administration quickly criticized ly drab Central Park, cloaked In snow by yesterday's storm. View is south toward Fifth Avenue. As skyscraper windows blink in background, a lone figure picks his way through Manhattan's normal i i.