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THE HERALD Wednesday, March 17, 1976 Section I Bomb derails 2nd London subway train LONDON (UH) A bomb exploded on a subway train Tuesday shortly after the passengers had left it at north Wood Green statiim, Scotland Yard reported. A Scotland Yard spokesman said one man was injured by flying glass. The bomb exploded just as the train was pulling away from the station into the tunnel. The blast derailed the train. The explosion came about 36hoUrs after another bomb ripped through a subway train outside east West Ham station.

That blast, lieved to have been a premature explosion, injured seven persons. Police searched east London for an IRA bomb factory Tuesday and warned commuters they are frontline targets of the renewed bomb war in Britain. Antiterrorist squad detectives guarded the hospital bed of a suspected IRA gunman who shot and killed one man and wounded another after a bomb he was canring exploded prematurely in a subway train Monday. Scotland Yard said they had fied the critically injured gunman as Vincont Kelly, 36, a native of Castle- fin, County Donegal in the Irish republic but who has lived in Britain since 1971. The explosion itself, injured seven passengers and the gunman in a coach of the metropolitan line subway train as it pulled out of a West Ham station in east London.

Kelly started shooting at pursuers, killing the West Indian motorman, as he fled the train with blood streaming from wounds of his face caused by the blast. Shouting Englislj. he turned the gun on himself and fired as police closed in. The police hunt for the bomb factory centered on east London Tuesday. It was the 13th bomb attempt in Britain since the death of IRA hunger striker Frank Stagg in a British jail last month.

The IRA swore to revenge his death and last weekend in Dublin issued a warning to the British people it was going to attack indiscriminately. Bombings blamed on the campaign to force British troops out of Northern Ireland have taken more than 60 lives and injured some 700 since the attacks spread to England in 1972. Commander Roy Habershon, head of Scotland antiterrorist squad, warned the public that the IRA now considered them a legitimate, front-line target. traveling public have got to act as their own security he said. must learn to iMxitect themselves and watch out for anything Britain stunned as Wilson announces his resignation LONDON (UPI) Prime Minister Harold Wilson announced his resignation to a stunned Britain Tuesday and his ruling Labor Party said it will move swiftly to choose a successor.

Cledwyn chairman of the 315 Labmr Party members of Parliament, said they will start voting for a new leader Monday and the result of the first ballot will be announced Thursday oi next week. Under Labor Party rules each Laborite member of casts one vote in a secret ballot for the party leader. To win election a candidate must win more than 50 per cent of votes. Conservative politicians called immediately for a general election, saying the resignation showed the Labor Party was unable to run the country. Wilson, 60, who has been Prime Minister eight of the past 12 years and run the natiim Icmger than anycme in this century, said it was a sad moment but he had had enough.

Wilson first told his decision to Queen Elizabeth, then to his cabinet and then, in a five-page statement listing his career and achievements, to a shocked British public. In the statement Wilson said he had vowed two years ago to quit in two years and had informed the Queen of the exact date on Dec. 9. not happy to he told a news conference. is a sad moment but there is certain relief that the burden is off shoulders, a seven- day-a-week 31 years in his statement said, have been on one or other front bench for nearly 30 years.

Almost years of that were in the cabinet. No one should ask for period as Prime Ministor has been longer than that of any of my peacetime predecessors in Uds the statement said. cabinet accepted it with Wilson said he would remain in office until the 317 Labor Members (tf Parliament elect a new party leader to replace him and called a meeting to begin the process of nominating and electing a successor. An aide said it could take two weeks. The process will not require a general election because it was the party and not Wilson that was elected to power in October, 1974.

Wilson refused to endorse a candidate, but said he would support whomever is chosen. Foreign Secretary James Callaghan, a moderate like Wilson, became the immediate betting favorite at 5 4, Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey has the next choice at 7 4, followed by Home Secretary Roy Jenkins and Energy Secretary Tony Wedgwood Benn. Wilson said he would have resigned last September had it not been for his The The nation Sandra Good, Susan Murphy found guiify Manson cultists Sandra Good and Susan Murphy were found guilty Tuesday of to mail 171 death threat letters to business executives ttey accused of polluting the environment. The seven- woman, five-man jury returned the verdict after deliberating for only hours. Earlier Miss Good told the court that thousands will die to preserve the environment.

She said: be murder it will be torture. It will be so bad it will make your hair stand mi Economic indicators point to recovery Figures released Tuesday on three major economic indicators housing starts, business inventories and industrial production indicated recovery from the worst recession since World War II was moving at a healthy pace. A large surge in new construction of single family dwellings pushed total housing starts in February up a recwd 27 per cent over the previmis month. At the same time, the Commerce Department aimounced inventories rose by $1.2 biUicm in January, the largest gain in four months. The Federal Reserve Board said the total output of the mines, factories and utilities rose 0.6 per cent in February.

Workers seal entrances to Kentucky mine Somber Kentucky, miners moved huge concrete blocks into place Tuesday to seal eight entrances of the Scotia Coal mine and entomb 11 of 26 miners killed in two explosions last week. Ben A. Taylor, a federal mine inspector, said the purpose of the sealing is to put out fires which fnay exist innthe underground corridors. Panel urges public service jobs The Senate Labor Committee is urging Congress to provide a million public service jobs for the unemployed at an initial cost of $7.3 billion. The proposal is contained in the request to the Senate Budget Committee, dated Monday.

The federal government already is financing 300,000 public service jobs in state and local governments. President Ford wants to phase these out during 1977. The world Peres: Israeli army poised for violence Defense Minister Shimon Peres summoned West Bank leaders to his offices in Tel Aviv Tuesday and warned them the army act vigorously to put down violent Arab protests in the occupied territory. Police in Jerusalem used tear gas and clubs to scatter crowds rock-throwing young Arabs demonstrating against a court ruling allowing Jews to at the Temple Mount, a site holy to Islam and Judaism. A full curfew was imposed Monday on the town of Ramallah, eight north of Jerusalem, after a week of similar protests.

UPI Correspondent Allen Alter reported from Ramallah that the streets were deserted and soldiers fired in the air to remind residents to stay indoors. Syrians urge Franjieh to resign Syrian peacemakers tried to convince President Suleiman Franjieh to resign Tuesday. Moslem rebels poised to attack the presidential palace awaited the outcome with on the Warring militiamen battled around the ruins of the hotel seafront area and in Moslem and Christian suburbs, killing 43 persons and wounding 100. Dozens of persons were reported and gunmen prowled the streets of the capital at will. To add to the anarchy, gunmen stormed A1 Ramel Jail in a Moslem area and rdeased 700 prisoners, including determination to wrest Britain out of its economic crisis.

he said, economy is beginning to There was no menticMi of the left- wing revolt within the Labor Party that last week helped defeat plan to slash public spending as part of his anti-inflation program. The defeat led to a parliamoitary vote oi confidence in the Wilson leadership, wcm by an 18-vote margin, but it was a clear indication that the Prime ability to hold the party together was in question. The Ckmservativq Party predicts a parliamentary general election within six mcmths to enable successor whomever he may be to seek a national mandate. For Great Britain, the main issue is whether a new Labor prime minister will carry on the tough counter-inflation policies needed to pull it out of its worst economic crisis since the great depression. HAROLD WILSON waves to a crowd in Downing Street Tuesday as news of his resignation became known.

His ruling Labor party said it would move swiftly to choose a successor. Patty called by dad SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Randolph Hearst went to the witness stand at his bank robbery trial Tuesday and testified that he knew her as a bright, pretty and strong willed girl. Hearst, president of the San Francisco Examiner newspaper, was called as a defense rebuttal witness by attorneys for his daughter, Patricia, who is charged with the robbery of a bank after being kidnaped by the terrorist Symbionese Liberation Army. Asked by attorney F. Lee Bailey what kind of girl his was, Hearst relied: was a very bright girl, pretty, strong willed, fun to be He said he had seen no signs in her behavior that would lead him to agree with a previous witness, psychiatrist Harry Kozol, who had said Miss Hearst was a sister of the long before her kidnaping.

The father testified that he had met in January with Dr. Joel Fort, one of two government psychiatric witnesses, and Fort had brought up the point that a public trial would be a bad idea because Miss Hearst was run down and depressed. Hearst said Fort suggested he familiarize himself with what he took to mean On cross examination U.S. Attorney James L. Browning asked Hearst if Fort had said anything about trying to the trial.

say he was trying to fix Hearst replied. Earlier Miss best chum from childhood testified the defendant told her the SLA tapes on vdiich her voice was heard were staged, it Patricia Tobin, who has known the bank robbwy defendant since the fourth grade, was called as one of the closing defense witness in Miss bank robbery trial and the two young women exchanged broad smiles across the courtroom. Miss Tobin, also 22, is the daughter of Michael Tobin, president of the Hibernia Bank, one of whose branches was held up by Miss Hearst and the SLA. Miss Tobin visited Miss Hearst in the San Mateo Cfounty jail three days after her arrest last Sept. 15 and their conversation was recorded by jail authorities as they spoke by telephone with a glass panel bkwera them.

A jail authority told her the conversation had not recorded since the equipment had down. Mss Tobin said, and later whoi she heard it played she realized that considerable portions of it had hem One of the deletions in the recording of the jail conversafion. Miss Tobin said, refmed to the tapes in which Miss Hearst proclaimed she had joined the terrorist group and robbed the bank voluntarily. Miss said the recording of their conversation had left out words to file effect that Miss Hearst said the tapes were staged should disregard those tapes. Like, it Miss Hearst seemed dazed, her speech slow, not the same person she had known over the years.

Miss Tobin said. was no animation, no spontaneity. She looked The witness acknowledged that Miss Hearst told her that she wanted to make a statement about and that politics are real different from way back Defense lawyer Albert Johnson asked how the words were spoken. just droned them Mss Tobin said. She said the recording had also deleted Miss words that people are so crazy and Johnson asked her if she agreed with the of government psychiatrist Dr.

Harry L. Kozol that shortly before her kidnaping Mss Hearst was rebel in search of a is totally Miss Tobin said. Chief defense attorney Lee Bailey spent the better part of the morning session attempting to discredit Dr. Joel Fort, one of the two government psychiatric witnesses who gave the opinion that Miss Hearst joined the SLA and the bank robbery of her own free will. Ford winner; Carter tops Wallace (Continued from Page 1) will be the springboard to success Nov.

2 and going make Ogilvie told workers: gotten our marching orders and on to the convention. We did it in the primaries and do it in the fall. our President and him in the White BOTO OGILVIE and Sen. Charles Percy said Reagan was good for the Ford campaign because of the com- think the win is due to the support the people obviously have for the Percy said. recognize his strength as a leader in economic recovery and a basic belief that he is a decent, honest man.

I think that he is going to help the Republican Party put WatCTgate behind Percy also predicted a Ford-Rockefeller ticket in November. Things were quiet at Reagan headquarters at the Marriott where the crowd was smaH. U.S. Rep. Philip Crane, R-12th, Illinois campaign diairman, called the primary a victory foi Reagan.

He said support for Reagan in Illinois had picked up about 7 per cent in the last five days and that message was finally getting He said Reagan is looking to primaries in California and Texas where he expects to do well. hope is to deny Ford the first ballot at the convention and looking for defections if Ford win that first Crane said. siq)porters find it difficult to support Ronald CRANE SAID recent appearances in Illinois garnered support for the former governor but that more appearances might have gotten him a larger vote. He also said that while the campaign spent about $700,000 in Illinois, he wondered if it should have spent more. wish we would have had another Crane said.

we had we might have had a real horse Donald Tetzlaff, leader of the Independent Conservative Party in the 12th Congressional District, blamed the poor showing for Reagan in Wheeling Township on a by traditional Republicans to Deimocratic baUots. Carter was jubilant with his victory. am very he said. did not expect to win that Wallace, however, was not a gracious loser and called Carter a wamed-over He criticized Carter for allegedly campaigning on coattails while running for governor of Georgia but shunning him in the 1976 presidential race. Report Princess Margaret, Lord Snowdon to separate People Princess Margaret of England and her husband Lord Snowdon, are about to separate, the Express newspaper said Tuesday night.

Queen is believed to have given consent for Princess Margaret and the Earl of Snowdon to the newspaper said. An announcement from Buckingham Palace is said to be Songwriter Jidinny Mercer is home in Los Angeles recuperating from brain smgery after almost five months of hospitalization. doctors said he was ip Mercer won academy awards for 08 iiig of Wine and fiie Cool, Cool, Cool of the and Topeka and Santa EUeea Fulton, portrays Lisa Colman wiH help celebrate tiie 20th anniversary of the World on April 2. Eileen joined the serial, which is seen on CBS TV, in 1960. Dr.

Dixy Lee Ray, who resigned from the Atomic Energy Commissin and then had it aboHshed, is seeking the Democratic nomination for governor of the state of Washington. Dr. Ray, 61, said she made the decision to run after out public on her changes. Astronaut Eugene Cernan, last American to walk on the moon before the lunar were slopped, said he is and wiH leave the National Aeronautics and Space Administration July 11. Charles coison said his formor boss, Richard Nixon, is a national resource going to waste.

Ccdson told the San Diego Union he thinks of Nixon a kind of elder statesmen, private citizen and troubleshooter in foreign He said, should thank God we have someone lake him, despite CoHsm, one oi former top aides, spent seven in jail after pleading guilty to interfering with the defense oi Daniel EUsberg, who leaked the Poitagon papers. A San Aidonio, Tex. nightclub owner, fighting the ordir says watching exotic dancers is an educational experience that improves his minds and makes marriages happier. Joe said in his fniit against the ordinance that and sexuai maL ters are disfdayed in the philosophy that nudity mid sex is something of art and beauty, and not a sorial disgrace or.

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