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showers weather details on A-2 city final Wednesday, February 21, 1979 A Cannett Newspaper Serving the Inland Empire, San Bernardino, California 20 Cents' U.S. seemritv bill. takes shape IL JfV i 'j fx- w-. I v- "-X 4 l- -X 1 IV xx (I x--" ri IX tV- 1 I ii 1 By BERNARD GWERTZMAN any danger to the United States New YorK Times News Service interests arising from any threat WASHINGTON The Carter to the security of Taiwan." administration was reported Tues- "The president and the Congress day close to an agreement with shall determine in accordance key congressional leaders on legis- with constitutional processes ap-lation that will describe any attack propriate action by the United on Taiwan as a matter "of grave States in response to any such concern" to the United States and danger," it said, lead to "appropriate action" by This security language is less of-this country in response to an attack. (Continued on A-4, column 1) Faced with mounting pressure on Capitol Hill to enact legislation to insure Taiwan's security once New series staff photo by Tom Kamr the mutual defense treaty is termi- Crash victim Norman Ollestad holds up bandaged hand as he talks to newsmen while his mother, Doris, looks on.

SorrctSiylM- cepted compromise security lan guage to secure passage of a bill oy tells of crash nightmare Rescue details on Metro terview, Norman was released from San Antonio Community Hospital. He had been treated there for fractures of his right wrist and hand, torn flesh on all his fingers, facial cuts and a bruised tail bone. Yet a physician said the boy had (Continued on A4, column 3) clutch at the ice and dig the heels of his tennis shoes into the slope. Finally, he reached a road and the ranch house. Norman said his ordeal hasn't soured him on cold weather and rough terrain.

He said he hopes to be skiing again in about a month. But, asked if he ever wanted to fly again, he replied "no." Immediately after Tuesday's in continued down the ice-encrusted slope. It was difficult, he said, to keep from building up too much speed. "The skin on my hands kept coming off," he recalled. But he said he had no choice, other than 4 We are in troubled Chicano leader warns of Mideast talks open WASHINGTON (AP) Egypt and Israel open another round of secret peace negotiations today at snow-covered Camp David, with prospects for completing a Mideast peace treaty complicated by recent events in Iran.

The shift of Iran from a somewhat neutral observer to an ardent supporter of the Palestinians and opponent of Israel is likely to make Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance's job even more difficult. Vance will join Egyptian Prime Minister Mustafa Khalil and Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan at the presidential retreat today after they stay overnight in the isolated setting that President Carter believes may facilitate an agreement. Vance greeted both Dayan and Khalil upon their arrivals, about one hour apart, at Andrews Air Force Base outside of Washington. Neither negotiator made any statement before being flown to Camp David.

State Department spokesman Hodding Carter said earlier that the administration would not attempt to set terms of an agreement, maintaining, "We are not going to specify approaches to take." The Palestinian issue is the chief stumbling block to completing the treaty sketched out at Camp David last September by Carter in a summit meeting with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Egypt wants the treaty linked in clear terms to self-rule for the 1.1 million Palestinians living on the Israeli-held West Bank of the Jordan River and in the Gaza Strip. On the eve of the start of the new talks, Egypt said the "situation in the region is dangerously tense" (Continued on A4, column 1) allowing the new China policy with Peking and Taiwan to take effect, administration and congressional officials said. Originally, President Carter had said that no specific security pledges were needed, but that the Chinese invasion of Vietnam and general concern about Taiwan's fate have forced a significant change in the administration's policy, officials and members of Congress said. The first sign of the emerging compromise came when Rep.

Clement J. Zablocki, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, circulated to other committee members a 10-page draft American-Taiwan bill that members of the committee said had been worked out behind-the-scenes with the administration. State Department officials said that the whole matter was very sensitive, but that they thought the Zablocki language would not unduly upset the Peking government, or cause it to rupture diplomatic relations. Sens. Frank Church and Jacob K.

Javits, the ranking majority and minority members of the Foreign Relations Committee, were also said by aides to be drafting similar language Tuesday, in preparation for a committee vote that was postponed to today because of the snow. The key security provisions of the Zablocki bill, assert: "Any armed attack against Taiwan, or use of force to prevent Taiwan from engaging in trade with other nations, would be a threat to the peace and stability of the Western Pacific area and of grave concern to the United States." The bill said that, "the United States will make available to Taiwan defense articles and defense services for its defense against armed attack." It said that, "the president shall promptly inform the Congress of By RICHARD BROOKS Sun Staff Writer UPLAND Norman Ollestad an 11-year-old plane crash survivor who slid down an icy mountainside to safety said he owes his life to his dead father. "My dad taught me never to give up," the youngster said during a hospital interview here Tuesday. So, he staved off desperation and challenged the steep, treacherous slope two miles east of Mt. Baldy Village.

Two hours later, as. searchers were preparing to go home for the night, the boy reached a ranch house. He had left behind his father and a pilot who died in the Monday morning crash, and a woman who survived the accident but was knocked unconscious during the trek. She died before rescuers reached her late Monday. Young Norman told it this way: He, his father, a pilot and the woman were flying from Santa Monica to Big Bear so Norman could race with his team in a slalom ski event.

The clouds closed in and, without warning, the Cessna 172 smashed into a mountainside. "Suddenly, there were all these trees. went just went right, straight into them." Killed were Norman Ollestad 43, a Malibu attorney, and Bob Arnold, a 27-year-old Santa Monica flight instructor. "I tried to wake my dad up and the pilot," the boy recalled, but neither man responded. For the next seven hours, Norman and the woman Sandra Cressman, 30 huddled under a wing.

A couple of times, the boy ran into the open to wave his arms at search helicopters. "It looked like they saw me, but I guess they didn't," he told newsmen. Finally, at 3 p.m., the two survivors decided to hike to a ranch house they could see in a meadow below them. "Sandra wanted to stay, and I sort of wanted to go because I thought we might freeze to death," Norman said. "At the top (of the slope), it was really icy.

So I just got on my butt and slid all the way down. "And Sandra was trying to too. And she had a broken arm and she slipped. And I tried to stop her, but she went right over me." When he reached her, "her eyes were open, but she couldn't talk." After piling branches on her to protect her from the cold, the boy Related story on Metro By KATHY REBELLO-REES Sun Staff Writer SAN BERNARDINO Small, soft-spoken Vilma Martinez arrived here Tuesday to deliver a tough, urgent message: On the eve of the decade-of-the-Chicano, she said, "We are in trouble." Martinez is president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), the only national Chicano civil rights organization. "At a time when our Latino population is about to become the largest minority in this country, we are not regarded as a serious political force by our leaders in Washington, D.C.," she said in a press conference.

"True, we are beginning to be recognized, beginning to be counted, beginning to spread our wings, but much, much more needs to be done in order for our needs to be met. "There is a great challenge before us and we must be prepared to meet that challenge for our children, ourselves and our people." Martinez pinpointed a number of strategies the Hispanic community can take to end "the second (Continued on A-4, column 1) 7 V- 1 I -V'Xi i ST' Vilma Martinez Sounding alarm Viet troops said massing for showdown Sun News Services left was between 12,000 and 13,000 Analysis on Page A-9 etrated about 10 miles into Vietnam in two major salients along the railroad lines that run from China's border provinces, Yunnan and Kwangsi, to Hanoi. A dispatch from Hanoi by Tass, the Soviet press agency, said the border town of Lao Cai, 175 miles northwest of Hanoi, on the railroad from Yunnan, had fallen to the Chinese troops. But it appeared that the Chinese advance from a normal population of 46,000. The New York Times reported earlier Tuesday that fighting had been renewed between Chinese and Vietnamese troops, after earlier indications that the Chinese advance might have halted about six miles inside Vietnam.

Analysts in Hong Kong said they believed that the Chinese had pen said only military personnel, security men, government officials and a few civilians were seen in Lang Son, with other residents already having been evacuated. He reported that Vietnamese officials said the number of people Computer fraud suspect may again have halted. Some military sources suggested that the Chinese might have paused to resupply and consolidate their positions and might renew their attack later. The Chinese Army, they said, has difficulties keeping itself supplied in the field, and Chinese tactics since the Korean War have been to move in short bursts. Other analysts suggested, however, that the apparent halt could reflect a deliberate decision to limit the campaign, said to have been aimed at punishing Vietnam for its invasion of Cambodia and the ouster of the Chinese-supported government of Premier Pol Pot by Vietnamese-backed insurgents.

Other factors behind the Chinese drive may have been the de-, portation of 200,000 ethnic Chinese from Vietnam and a long series of incidents along the border. Another possible reason suggested for the apparent halt was what Hanoi called stiffened Vietnamese resistance. So little information was available that it was impossible to draw an accurate assessment of the conflict, which began with the Chi- (Continued on A-4, column 1) BANGKOK, Thailand Chinese troops captured the big town of Lao Cai on the northwestern end of the Vietnamese border Tuesday, but the Vietnamese struck back and thousands of Hanoi troops were reported advancing for a showdown battle at Lang Son, 12 miles from the Chinese border at the eastern end of the frontier. The Associated Press attributes the report to Kazuhisa Ikawa, a reporter for the major Japanese newspaper Asahi Shimbun. "Several thousand men of regular and regional units with heavy arms are advancing toward Chinese positions," Ikawa reported.

"Trucks are hauling 105-millimeter guns from Dong Mo, 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the border." The account said the main road to the frontier was jammed with vehicles carrying troops, weapons, ammunition and fuel, while refugees moved in the opposite direction. "Vietnamese 130-millimeter artillery, positioned south of here (Lang Son) is firing toward China," Ikawa's report said. "Antiaircraft batteries also have been set up." The Japanese correspondent Rifkin plea 'deal' claimed indieix Talcott, said Tuesday. Talcott had won a major pretrial victory in the case, succeeding in having key prosecution evidence declared inadmissable by U.S. District Judge Matt Byrne because it was obtained illegally by FBI agents when they arrested Rifkin.

Rif kin's first arrest last November stemmed from a wire-fraud theft that involved the transfer of $10.2 million from Security Pacific Bank into a Swiss acount. Rifkin was rearrested last week along with Patricia Ferguson, 38. They are accused of plotting to steal from 1 million to $50 million from Union Bank in order to flee the country. LOS ANGELES (AP) Stanley Mark Rifkin, a computer expert accused of plotting to fleece a second bank through wire fraud while free on bond from a similar case, will plead guilty to two counts of a four-part grand jury indictment in exchange for having the rest of the counts dropped, his attorneys said Tuesday. There were no indications from government prosecutors on what sentence they might recommend when the case goes to court Thursday, but the 32-year-old Rifkin could receive a maximum of 10 years in a federal prison if convicted.

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