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hewed more than he bit off Pac-Man wizard has French part-owner of and Auto Parts In Redlands said that the Guinness Book of World Records has stopped listing record scores for video games because there are too many games and the scores are too hard to monitor "Several months ago however I did see an item In the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner that listed the Pac-Man record at 3100000" he said I could have scored even more than I did but after five hours half the screen burned up and it became Impossible to see the outlines of the maze I'm just lucky I got to my high score before that prize-winning score co6t him only one quarter Please see PAC-MAN WIZARD Paps AS which he went on to win March 13 on the basis of that qualifying score played nonstop for five hours to get my high score By that time my eyes were blurry my arms were twitching and my legs were falling French said The tremendously popular video game features a little yellow Pac-Man who tries to chew up 240 dots around a maze before four colorful yet evil-minded monsters can devour him There are four larger dots on the board and for a short time after eating one of them the Pac-Man can chase and eat the ghost-like monsters to gain extra points Each time the hero successfully completes the maze the board Is cleared and he begins again During French's marathon session he cleared the board 264 times By PENNY SCHWARTZ Special to the Redlands Dally Facts At first glance Ken French looks like any ordinary guy maybe a little taller than average with sandier hair odor and a bit brighter smile than most But let him slip a quarter Into a Pac-Man machine and he becomes small round and yellow with an enormous mouth and an Insatiable desire to eat monsters play this game so much I feel Just like one of them" he said French SI of Redlands recently set an unofficial world-record Pac-Man score of 3270850 at Roaring 20s Pizza Parlor French set his record March 8 during the qualifying round for a Pac-Man tournament 92nd Year No 71 Astronauts given easier work schedule CAPE CANAVERAL Fla (UPI) space shuttle pilots won the praise of mission scientists today and got an easier work schedule so they could rest up for the remainder of the ambitious seven-day orbital flight Jack Loustna 46 and Gordon Fullerton 45 were in good spirits as they began the Columbia's third day in orbit despite a series of nagging troubles that continued today when their solid waste processor stopped "Our with quipped astronaut David Griggs in mission control An important test of the 50-foot robot arm was postponed until Thursday because failure id a television camera on the end of the boom was expected to complicate efforts to grasp and pick up a scientific instrument for the first time The astronauts have been assured they will be able to come home safely Monday despite the loss id three dozen Insulation tiles bom the nose land tail ThaKdiacovery and other problems Tuesday prompted flight directors to -give the pilots an extra hour of sleep to- day because it was obvious the astronauts were fatigued But there were indications that they were up and about the spacecraft before they got a wake up call this morning from mission control There was no mention of the Irritating headphone static that had kept the astronauts awake on their first night In space When told their flight plan for today had been revised to give them more rest Lousma expressed concern He did not want the 115-orbit mission third and toughest test yet for the shuttle to omit any test objectives eager to get on with he said want to leave anything UMTatafMs An armored car and helicopter watch the presidential palace during a coup that overthrew Presi- dent Romeo Lucas Garcia in Guatemala City yesterday Five military officers formed the junta led by General Efraln Rios Montt ex-presidential candidate in 1978 of the Christian Democratic Party Bangladesh coup successful $425 per month assumes GUATEMALA CITY (UPI) new military junta today suspended the constitution dissolved Congress and banned political parties In a move to consolidate its power and wipe away electoral Gen Efraln Rios Montt the new strongman said he has no plans for the moment to bring any civilians into his government Backed by hundreds of soldiers tanks warplanes and artillery Rios Montt staged a bold daylight coup Tuesday against President Romeo Lucas Garda also an army general Rios Montt 56 quickly was named bead of a new ruling junta of fellow military officers Lucas fete' remained a mystery today with unconfirmed reports that he had been flown to Bolivia or had been taken under arrest to a remote northern farm in Sebol AltaVerapaz The public relations office of the ar- my issued a three-page communique detailing the decrees constitution's power ta suspended for the time that uttiutuation of the country demands It" the statement -said human rights win be fully respected and guaranteed military Junta assumes an the legislative and governing powers and will rule by decree Therefore the Congress of the Republic is The Junta also said it banned all political parties and would respect all international treaties It said the decision was taken after the situation that the country has found itself in after the fraudulent electoral referring to the March 7 balloting for Lucas successor Asked by the Guatemalan newspaper El Grafico if be has plans to bring any civilians into Ms government Rios Montt answered: the moment want politicians in the government There can arise one situation or other that can make civilians necessary but for the moment there any In the he said In Mexico City a spokesman for estimated 4000 to 8000 leftist guerrillas labeled Rios Montt of Washington comparing him to Salvadoran junta President Jose Napoleon Duarte a staunch US ally The coup could be difficult for the Reagan administration eager to bolster Guatemala with US military aid Other members of newly Installed Junta are Col Manuel Argueca LL CoL Mario Enriques Capt Carlos Rodolfo Munoz and Maj Arturo Sandies a spokesman for the new regime said Vj i 22 Pages 25 Cents EFRAIN RIOS MONTT Rios Montt was once regarded as a moderate but other members of the junta were relatively unknown and the tendencies of the regime remained obscure people were defrauded eight years ago again four years ago and now In 1982 with the last Rios Montt said In a statement broadcast after the coup over national television and radio army has firm control of the entire announced Jaime Rabanales who retained his Job of army spokesman The officers staged the coup reintroduce an guarantees to the Guatemalan people and guarantee the free exercise of human he said But Rios Montt warned during his victory broadcast leftist guerrillas stop subversion Only the army rtnuld have he said they give up their weapons take them Though it was not clear how many members of the army took part the scale of the uprising seizing the national palace the congress the election registry radio stations and other foriiitiei indicated the dissidents represent a sizable faction of the 18000-man army A Central American nation of 11 million Guatemala has been rated mostly by rightist military regimes since the CIA ousted a democratically elected civilian government In 1954 and crippled the democratic pro- UR mourns Please see Page A3 Lot line approved Please see Page A3 Terriers lose again Please see Page B2 I In Washington the State Department issued a statement regretting the overthrow i a the elected president hope there can be a return to constitutional government at the earliest the statement said The coup came less than a year after the assassination of President Zla-ur Rahman and just two days short id the nth birthday It wu a new crisis In the troubled history first president Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was murdered in an army coup in August 1875 Than were no immediate reports of bloodshed in the takeover The fate of Sattar who returned to power with a landslide majority in elections last November was not immediately known criticism Jews the well-coordinated demonstration outride the hotel swelled In numbers to become the largest single protest of a Reagan appearance since he became president There was massive police protection around the midtown Manhattan hotel Including a dozen forces of the mounted patrol standing ride by side across the Avenue of the Americas to wall off the demonstrators However guests arriving In tuxedos and evening gowns saw the spotlighted banners and heard the -bullhorn-amplified chants Reagan departed from his prepared text to take note of the demonstration and plead for a dialogue to settle differing opinions a tone of vW 4- -i Reagan bristles at NEW DELHI India (UPI) A disgruntled army-general overthrew the elected president of Bangladesh in a pre-dawn coup today and Installed himself as martial-law administrator id the Impoverished nation News reports said LL Gen HM Er- shad the army chief rf staff led the armed forces takeover from President Abdus Sattar in the capital of Dacca Dacca Radio monitored In Calcutta capital of West Bengal state bordering Bangladesh said Gen Er-sfaad dissolved Ok parliament and declared martial law throughout the nation of 90 million people In an appeal read over Dacca Radio Ershad asked the people to remain calm and urged the armed forces to support him The radio said he planned to address the nation later today this bother Reagan asked then answered immediately and emphatically Reagan compared himself to Franklin Roosevelt who had to answer criticism he was trying to destroy the tree-enterprise system FDR may I say I am not trying to destroy what Is best in our system of humane free government I am doing everything I can to save it: to slow down the destructive rate of growth in taxes and spending to prune non-essential programs so that enough resources will be left to meet the requirements of the truly he said While he was receiving the coveted Charles Evans Hughes Award from the National Conference of Christians and -MNU 4 V4VH' Candidates on TV tomorrow The forum for the seven City Council candidates will be televised Thursday at 7 pm on Field Redlands station Channel 8 announced officials 6f the League of Women Voters Redlands The LWV Redlands is sponsoring the forum The ltt-hour event will be televised live from the Council Chambers at Safety Hall 212 Brookside Ave Questionnaires have been sent to the candidates and Kay Mason past president of the LWV Redlands will he the forum moderator The municipal election Is April 13 NEW YORK (UPI) President Reagan bristling against mounting criticism of his to Is pointing to his record in the White House as proof he is trying to assist the needy simply want to point out that we do care and the facts prove Reagan said Tuesday In receiving a gold medal for humanitarian work The president Ignored mine than 10000 demonstrators gathered around the New York Hilton Hotel to condemn his economic domestic and foreign policies and almost stridently defended his cause I am accused by some of trying to destroy commitment to compassion and to the needy By United Press International Reagan to hold news conference WASHINGTON President Reagan beating his press secretary to the punch Wednesday told reporters of plans to hold 3 news conference Monday Reagan tet slip theannouncement when his address to an East Room audience wu suddenly interrupted by a loud squawk from a news technician's belt radio wait a Reagan said press conference is No time hu been set yet But White House aides said that Reagan may hold the news the ninth of his presidency at night in prime time White House press spokesman Larry Speakes had Indicated Reagan would be holding a news conference before the end of the month The president hu yet to meet reporters at night in a time slot that commands a much bigger television and radio audience than his usual afternoon sessions There were Indications that Reagan whose standing hu been slipping hi the polls may want to use the news conference to make his case to the public on controversial domestic and International issues about 200 others laid off since the plant wu ordered shut down last month Plant manager BUI Harden said the facility would be kept ready to reopen but wu not optimistic that It would The South Gate plant wu shut down two years ago while GM retooled it to make the compact cars It reopened last March but about 2000 winkers were laidoff just before Christmu and notice of its closure 1 came last month Food slash to be sent to Tonga LOS ANGELES The Board of Supervisors hu decided to dip Into Its stash of 20-yearold to send to needy victims of the cyclone that struck the South Pacific island nation of Tonga earlier this month In addition to making the civil detenu crackers available to the government of Tonga Supervisor Kenneth Hahn Issued a call to residents Tuesday to donate food to the Samoan Service Center in Carson for distribution to the survivors Tonga a nation composed of about 90000 people living on 150 islands that lie 1200 mites east of Australia wu hit March 3 by Cyclone Isaac Tonga officials predict the nation will ran out of food by April 1 come to 36062 million beginning April 1 and another 3781 million starting In September Brown California PUC chairman John Bryson and members of the congressional delegation all made written requests to the commission to hold bearings before granting the increases The federal body denied the request for hearings on the first round of Increases The commission voted 34) to grant the increases Reagan appointees Charles Butler Gearglanna Shelton and Anthony Sousa voted David Hughes appointed by former President Carter wu absent A fifth seat on the commission is vacant GM workers say goodbye SOUTH GATE Workers bid an emotional farewell to a General Motors assembly line plant shaking hands and wondering where they will get their next paycheck The last car rolled off the South Gate GM plant assembly line Tuesday and the last of about 3000 workers laid off at the plant uid goodbye to their Jobs GM closed the plant because of poor sates of the series cars Cadillac Cimarrons and Chevrolet Cavaliers and put the plant In mothballs Indefinitely- The estimated 600 winkers put out of work join Natural gas rate hike granted WASHINGTON Consumers In parts of California Arizona and Nevada are in for a record 1987 million In natural gas rate Increases The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission granted permission for the increases Tuesday to the -El Paso Gas Company and the Transwestern Pipeline Company In California El Paso supplies natural gas to Pacific Gas and Electric Gompimy El Paso and Itanswestern both supply the Southern California Gas company The producers furnish natural gas to other distributors in Arizona and Nevada El Paso asked for another $150 million bid the commission postponed a reply for five months Transwestern which received $197 million of the Increases allowed wu denied a request for 398 million more It wishes to charge for gas to be piped through the as yet unbuilt Alaska natural gas pipeline PGAE already has applied to the state Public Utilities Commission to pass the Increases along to its California consumers The higher1 rates will start April I part of an overall 3842 million Increase by PGAE if the PUC approves TwmM to be passed along by Southern California Guu a result of higher prices paid by the utility Please see UP FRONT Page A2.