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rriirn inn TEE SACRAMENTO JUJU-J FINAL EDITION Vol No -37269 35c Founded 1857 SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA Sunday January 31 1971 242 Pages 12 Sections US Backs Off On Instant Death For Legal Aid Grant Extends Life Of CRLA Reagan: Poor Are Winners 1 hi iniiiiani iiiitiiii i -i By Bruce Keppel Gov Ronald Reagan greeted as "a clear-cut victory for the rural poor" the Nixon administration's decision to uphold his veto of the California Rural Legal Assistance program grant The acting director of the US Office of Economic Opportunity Frank Carlucci notified Reagan's staff yesterday afternoon that "it is in the best interest of all concerned to let the governor's veto stand and instead issue a new grant" Reagan meeting with the Capitol press corps last night emphasized the phrase "new grant" in explaining Car-lucci's action He said the $600000 six-month grant would contain provisions aimed at meeting "some of the more obvious faults" his administration described in a report to Washington backing up the governor's veto of last month RETAINS VETO Though the federal government provides CRLA funds a state Office of Economic Opportunity supervises the program and the governor retains the right to veto appropriations subject to review in Washington Reagan praised his state OEO direc-See Back Page A16 Col 1 By Michael Green WASHINGTON A political compromise by the Nixon administration last night extended the life of Califor-nia Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) another six months but cast doubt over the long-range future of the controversial legal services program Acting director of the Office of Economic Opportunity Frank Carlucci announced he will not override Gov Ronald Reagan's veto of $18 milion in federal funds for CRLA for this year but will issue a new six-month grant for $600000 instead The extension will expire July 31 In the meantime Carlucci said he will appoint "a high level commision to study further charges made by Reagan against CRLA in a 283-page report the governor submitted to OEO in support of his veto He is asking the Justice Department and Civil Service Commission to review the report prepared under the direction of Reagan's state anti-poverty director Lewis Uhler for possible violations of federal law by CRLA lawyers in running the legal aid to the indigent program Ultimately Carlucci said it will be up to Congress to decide the fate of CRLA and federal legal services pro-See Back Page A16 Coll and others are being cared for at Fleishhacker Zoo in San Francisco A picture page showing some of the water fowl that survived the oil spill is on page A12 Bee Photo by Ward Sharrer Just a short time ago this seabird and many others like it were soaring over San Francisco Bay That was before the collision of two tankers resulted in an oil spill which endangered the birds This ailing bird Victim Of Oil Spill Only 200 Of 1600 Treated Seabirds MC Uobcucidor Survive In Wake Of SF Bay Oil Spill $ee effectively and very quickly becomes By Lee Fremstad Over Fishing Blastoff For Moon Is Only Hours Away There is the western grebe who looks at his human would-be rescuers with accusing red-rimmed eyes the murre who looks like a tiny imitation of a penguin as he wraddles over with "stuffy dignity to inspect and then eat a minnow thrown him by a volunteer the common loon whose weakened muscles can no longer support his ab- The oil has been washed from their feathers a necessary further indignity which gives them one more handicap by removing nature's waterproofing Reuther is not optimistic about their future: "The initial problem is caused by contact with the oil Immediately that causes irritation of the skin and irritation of the intestinal tract and enteritis bleeding of the intestinal tract "Those conditions cause toxins to develop in the tissues and that very a poison to the birds STOP EATING "Once the bird has contacted oil then he ceases eating He suffers from exposure then he's beaten about by the surf and finally washed up on a beach somewhere All of that Is 'working igainst tijnir "Then he's brought in and given another treatment by human hands that is also shocking and stressful Then he's held in a totally unnatural environment and not getting the proper food "He soon becomes subject to all sorts of secondary things particularly in the respiratory tract The concluding thing is pneumonia" Those that survive face six to eight months more in captivity until their feathers molt giving them renewed natural protection as they wing home to the sea McClatchv newspapers staft writer SAN FRANCISCO They shiver they flap their soggy wings in a pathetic prelude to a flight they can no longer make they walk about in drunken wobbles and some can only lie stretched out on the straw awaiting death They are seabirds' -survivors only temporarily in most eases of the oily invasion of their bay and ocean which began in the foggy early morning of Jan 18 when two Standard Oil Co tankers collided Most of them now are at the Fleishhacker Zoo where they will be cared for until they recover or die with death being the odds-on favorite ONLY 200 LIVE At week's end zoo director Ronald Reuther reported only about 200 birds were still alive of the approximately 1600 brought in CAPE KENNEDY Fla (AP) The Apollo 14 countdown interrupted momentarily by a report of possible trouble moved smoothly ahead Saturday night toward today's blastoff of one of the most crucial space missions in US annals About 4:30 pm PST the space agency signaled potential trouble with an announcement that the rollback of the Saturn 5 service tower would be dealyed for several hours for an investigation of a possible problem with an insulation panel protecting supercold fuels in the scond stage of the Saturn 5 rocket The problem turned out to be a superficial scratch on the panel the launch team said The tower was moved back two hours late and the nearly flawless countdown continued The Apollo 14 astronauts have much at stake on their voyages If they succeed the three-man crew commanded by the oldest of the spacemen 47-year-old Alan Shep-ard Jr could bring back fascinating clues to the convulsive birth of the moon and the solar system nearly five billion years ago If they fail as the Apollo 13 crew did when an oxygen tank explosion forced them to limp home with the lunar module as a lifeboat the remainder of the Apollo program could be in jeopardy ASTRONAUTS RELAX On the eve of the flight Shepard and his fellow crewmen Edgar Mitchell and Stuart A Roosa relaxed and scheduled a visit with their families through a glass partition that has helped isolate them against disease germs since Jan 11 Forecasters said a line of thunder-See Page A16 Col 4 New York Times news service WASHINGTON The United States and Ecuador have resolved their dispute over American commercial fishing operations off the Ecuadorian coast The issue which has ranged the hemisphere nations almost solidly behind Ecuador was settled through a compromise worked out by a three-nation negotiating team comprised of Mexico Argentina and Guatemala The team won US and Ecuadorian agreement to a resolution recommending early resumption of four-power fishing talks between the US Ecuador Peru and Chile This compromise is expected in turn to lead the US to lift its recent ban on military sales to Ecuador and to Ecuador's withdrawal of charges of "coercion" against the United States Ecuador has claimed that the United States in suspending' military credit sales for a year following repeated Ecuadorean seizures of US tuna boats was coercing a fellow member of the Organization of American States in violation of its charter On Wednesday it won by a vote of 22 to 0 with the United States abstaining and opposing the move agreement by the OAS foreign ministers to hear Ecuador's complaint This was done yesterday The proposed settlement is still subject to last-minute changes diplomats reported Its essence however appears to be withdrawal of the Ecuadorean complaint and the substitution of a unanimously approved motion to reconvene the long-suspended quadripartite fishing talks The four negotiating parties include the United States Eucador Peru and Chile New GOP Senator Brock Backs Employment Priority In Deficit Budget of his mouth nearly 800 Republicans were on their feet applauding and cheering There was another deafening burst of applause when Brock asked a few moments later: "Isn't it great that we have a governor with the courage to do what is right?" Brock was asked at the news conference to comment on inflationary dangers in President Richard Nixon's proposed $2292 billion federal bud-See Back Page A16 Col 1 seated veteran Democratic Sen Albert Gore last fall addressed the Republican State Central Committee at a dinner in the hotel last night CLRA ANNOUNCEMENT The speaker was introduced by Gov Ronald Reagan Before the introduction the governor announced the Nixon's administration had sustained his veto of California Rural Legal Assistance funds Before he could get the words out By Richard Rodda Republican US Sen William Brock of Tennessee declared here the Nixon budget must risk inflation to attack unemployment "We cannot tolerate much longer a Central Committee will pick new leaders Story on page A3 6 per cent unemployment level" said Brock at a news conference yesterday afternoon in the Hotel Senator The freshman senator who un North State Water Jobs Lad Of Money In Budget Angers 4 Congressmen Top News Inside WORLD jy i'wmiiw I sl 1 4 i I xv giiWTS I short shift by the administrations Rep Robert Leggett D-Vallejo protested that he asked for $85 million for the Tehama-Colusa Canal but the administration providing only $13 million for the project Nor he says are any new funds provided for work on the Marysville reservoir Harold Johnson D-2nd By Mike Green McClatchv newspapers staff writer WASHINGTON Four Northern California congressmen have sharply criticized the lack of increased funds for water development projects in California in the budget submitted to Congress by President Nixon Friday Each of the lawmakers singled out projects in his own district given Mountain-Valley District warned of further costly delays because of the failure to provide an extra boost for Auburn Reservoir-Folsom South Canal and New Melonos Reservoir on the Stanislaus River He particularly criticized the absence of funds for Sacramento River studies Sisk D-Fresno and Merced Counties called the failure to provide any additional new funds for work on the Westlands water distribution system in his area "unforgivable" John McFall D-Manteca also expressing dismay that work at New Melones appears likely to be set See Page A2 Col 3 In The Bee Today Hundreds of US planes hit Indochina targets A6 Uganda' military claims invasion by Sudanese A10 Shifts of power are as shifts of sand on uneasy Sinai BS NATION Mod youths mob beach to see space launch A2 Proxmire moves to proteel those who 'blow' whistle'' A4 Nine gave $700000 to GOP in '6S A7 STATE AND LOCAL Legislature turns to agonv of budget A3 Riles lists school woes A15 Santa Barbara still struggles to stem pressures for more oil production B7 Today's Chuckle In a way the Russians arc quite helpful If we didn't have them how would we know whether we were ahead or Weath er Letters From The People F3 Light Side B2 Mankicwicz-Braden Column F6 Medical Column D16 Nancy Skelton Column AS Obituaries A 15 Personality In The News B4 Picture Page A12 Politics In Review F2 Radio Television C8 Superior Calif News A15 B5 They Had A Dream A9 Travel FS-10 TV Key Previews CS Vital Statistics A2 Weather A2 Weather Calendar C8 Adventure Bound F9 Amusements F12 Art Buchwald Column F3 Back Fence Gossip A4 Campus Viewpoint F5 Cartoon F2 Classified Advertising Dl-12 Classified Real Estate C9-14 Crossword Puzzle C8 Echoes From Capitol Hill F2 Editorials F2 Fact Finder Bl Financial Markets D13-15 Horoscope C8 Jack Anderson Column F3 Kathcrine Kitchen W9 10 12 Forecast: Cloudy light winds Sacramento Facts Yesterday's high: 45 degrees Today's expected high: 46 degrees Today's normals: 56 39 degrees Seasonal rainfall: 1322 inches Seasonal normal: 973 Detailed report on page A2 The Apollo 14 astronauts Alan 1 Shepard Jr top Edgar I) Mitchell and Stuart A Roosa but- torn ill ride a Saturn a rocket right away from their home planet today AP Wirephoto ti 7.