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251 3 pipe bombs dismantled at UN Fertility improver Ronald J. Ericsson of Sausalito cheeks results of experiment he says improves fertility, and chances ot a son. Wanna boy? Sausalito scientist finds a way but girls are out By Ernest Murphy Couples wanting a son may find their chances much improved as a result of a Sausalito scientist's research on a method of increasing human fertility. But researcher Ronald J. Ericsson cautions that his method isn't 100 per cent certain, and it help those who want a baby daughter As the 40-year-old physiologist and inventor explained, it works like this: The father's semen is collected through masturbation.

being diluted. it is placed in tall glass tubes containing albumin, the clear viscous Burton-backed rules bill makes way to the floor Members of the House of Represent- itives for the first time would see what hey vote on before they vote, as a esult of a rules change pushed by Rep. John Burton. D-Fifth District couldn't believe he said of his iiscovery of the practice. Conceding hat most citizens also would be sur- Drised that members commonly vote in the floor without anything before hem in writing, Burton said members nstead depend on party leaders to tell them what is before them for votes.

Wryly terming his proposed rules change Burton said le introduced it last February Such changes previously had been iced by the rules committee, but Burton said he succeeded in getting the committee to endrose it unanimously after four hearings. The report will be on the floor for a vote when Congress reconvenes next Monday, and Burton predicted it will be adopted within two to three weeks. resolution requires that members have copies of bills and commitee reports at least two hours before they can come to votes. He had tried for a four-hour minimum, but ran into stiff opposition Present rules require that piembers get bills and reports seven days before voting on them, but this requirement is waived whenever the flow of business gets heavy on the floor of the house, the congressman said Discussing the rules change and other issues with the Independent- Journal, Burton termed all of the Democratic candidates for president as "dark A past chairman ot the party in California. Burton said he could support any of the entries so far except Alabama Gov.

George Wallace. He argued it was unlikely that Wallace would get on the national ticket, but said that if Wallace did then he could support former Sen. Eugene McCarthy's independent bid for the presidency. a Teddy (Kennedy) Burton said, he is not running." Presidential politics will play havoc with the Congress, he predicted, especially in the Senate, which has 11 members running for the Democratic nomination. Burton also said that President Ford to dump iSecreatary of State Henryi Kissinger." The congressman charged that the secretary of state understand the Democratic process in By trying to run everything by himself.

Kissinger has become institutionalized like (Herbert) He sharply criticized Kissinger for pushing the U.S. into Angola, arguing this nation has no moral right to be involved there and. in any event, needs the money here On other issues. Burton predicted proposals for national health insurance will not be passed this year since the program was as well thought through as it should have His own bill to reserve two-thirds of Point Reyes National Seashore as a wilderness area should pass this year, he said. Almanac page 18 Bridge 18 Business 8 Calendar 71 Classified 19 18 18 10 Fire .12 3-15 News 2 Sports .......2 9-32 Theaters 16 32 27 12 .12 UNITED NATIONS Three pipe bombs timed to go off at 3 p.m.

EST were found today on a ramp outside the N. library a few hours before the Security Council was scheduled to start its formal debate on the Middle East. Police said the three bombs were enclosed in a single package near a work ramp of a subway line at First Avenue and 42nd Street. The ramp is located beneath the Dag Hammarask- jold Memorial Library. The Security Council was scheduled to start its formal debate on the Middle East at 3:30 p.m., a half-hour after the devices were set to explode.

Police said the bomb squad dismantled the package and the bomb truck was summoned to transport the bombs to the police firing range in The Bronx. The bombs were discovered at 11:30 a.m. by security guards, who wrapped the package in a bomb blanket and ordered the Dag Memorial Library evacuated. No group or person immediately claimed responsibility for planting the bombs. Israeli Ambassador to the U.N Chaim Herzog said today his government was ready to negotiate with its Arab neighbors but not with the Palestine liberation Organization which he said was out to destroy Israel will negotiate only on the basis of a recognition of Israel sovereign he stated.

will not negotiate our own suicide." are not ready to be dictated to and we will not accept a dictate," he declared emphatically. Herzog explained position in a statement at a meeting oranized by the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. He spoke as the U.N. Security Council assembled lor an historic Middle East debate that brought the PEG to the conference table tor the first time to join the Arab assault against Israel. Israel has announced that it would boycott the meeting because the PLO was invited.

Herzog denounced the PLO as group of extremists who have sworn publicly to arrest the process of peacemaking in the Middle The PLO. he said, had openly declared that it was out to destroy the State of Israel. now see in the Security Council the development ot a sinister plan evoked by Syria and the PLO with the support of the Soviet Union." Herzog said. foreign minister of Syria declared openly that their purpose was to destroy the existing mechanism tor and to annul the existing agreement achieved between Israel and Egypt in the The meeting was held at the Carnegie Endowment Center opposite the N. The United States has indicated it was prepared to block any Security Council move expanding the Palestinian role in future peace efforts Aviation at Hamilton proponent calls new use study 'worthless' A long-time proponent of commercial aviation at Hamilton Air Force Base today branded as a consultant's study of potential new uses for the ahandoned base.

Benjamin R. Ostlind of San Rafael leveled his criticism because the consultant's report, yet to bo released to the public, apparently failed to consider jet passenger service for the base. As tar as using it to decide whether or not to keep Hamilton as an airport, it is not worth the match it would take to burn Ostlind said of the document Ostlind also registered his criticism at a meeting Friday when the consultant. Richard Keilin of the Irvine- based firm of VTN. publicly outlined the contents of his report Keilin acknowledged that commercial aviation, such as jet passenger service to Southern California, was not considered as a potential use.

Ostlind. who has been urging such use of the base tor more than 12 years, and others maintain limited commercial aviation will provide needed revenue to keep a county airport at Hamilton in the black. As reported Saturday, the consultant indicated that use of Hamilton for a Gnoss Field kind ot airport appears feasible Detailed tost estimates were not made public. Copies of the document were given to a five-member citizens committee and to the five city council men. 'The committee is made up ot Joseph Wright, Harry J.

Moore. John A Trumbull. Ben Young and Susan Stompe.) The consultant in August submitted an outline of what the firm would study. That outline detailed at length the steps would take to evaluate commercial aviation use of Hamilton. City Manager Phillip J.

Brown, in a letter to Ostlind released Friday, said the "city indicated to VTN that commercial aviation would not be studied as an alternative land use option San Francisco supervisors get protection after candy bombs liquid which is a main ingredient ot blood plasma and egg whites. The bottom of the tube contains thick albumin Stacked above it, like the ingredients of a parfait. are layers of thinner albumin. Given an hour and a half or so, the most active sperm, those which are the best swimmers, wiggle their wav- down through the increasingly dense solutions of albumin Soon the strongest sperm are pooled together at ftie bottom the tube, whence they are removed with a pipette. Because sperm containing the chromosome which produces male babies are more active and stronger than those carrying the female chromosome.

Ericsson said, 80 to 90 per cent of the sperm which swim to the bottom of the tube are male-producing, and artificial insemination using these must therefore result in more male infants than would normally be born Several scientific and popular peri odicals in the United States and abroad have featured Ericsson's research, and readers often respond angrily. After People Magazine did a story on Ericsson recently a woman wrote suggesting he abandon his mumbo and return to livestock ranching in Wyoming, where he operates two cattle companies. Ericsson, though, believes there's a future for his discovery because it is proving useful to parents who want children but seem unable to have them. Ericsson's albumin tubes don't merely filter out female-producing sperm. They also separate dead aqd dying sperm, malformed sperm bearing defective chromosomes and nearly Continued on page 5 Where to find it SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Police protection has been assigned to all 11 San Francisco supervisors and Mayor George Moscone after killer bombs planted in candy boxes were mailed to two supervisors.

They didn't go off. say is that inside the boxes were sufficient explosives to kill whoever opened the boxes and whoever was nearby," said police Capt Jeremiah Taylor. The FBI and U.S. Postal investigators also are in the case. The bombs were delivered Saturday to newly elected board president Quentin Kopp and supervisor John Barhage- lata.

The latter lost last month's mayoral runoff election by a slim margin. The two are considered to be among the most conservative and influential of the board members who administer the city-eounty ot San Francisco. The bombs were discovered alter a Kopp aide took the wrapping off a one- pound candy box at Kopp's City Hall office and grew suspicious because aluminum foil lined the edges of the box. It had been mailed to Kopp's home, but he took it to his office to open. Bomb squad officers found the device jammed among pieces of candy.

Two ot children had played with the other booby trap before Kopp called the Barbagelata home and warned of possible peril from a bomb Kopp telephoned the homes of all the supervisors. Police said they had no suspects in the ease and no one had claimed responsibility for the bombs. But investigators were examining a nique mailed Friday to local radio and television stations purportedly from the terrorist New World Liberation Front Entitled an Letter To The Board of Supervisors," the nique reiterated demands for increased health care for poor and county jail prisoners, threatening: "Your health ill be in extreme until the demands are met Political candidate regulation is struck down by Supreme Court WASHINGTON (UPI) The Supreme Court, with new justice John Paul Stevens on the bench for the first time, today struck down one of the toughest state laws in the country regulating what a political candidate can say about his opponent In a brief order, the court affirmed a three-judge federal court ruling that left the door open for states to narrowly regulate malicious campaign rhetoric. but said the New- York law was too broad and could infringe on speech protected by the First Amendment. The justices have heard arguments in a challenge to the new federal law- limiting campaign spending and contributions.

A decision on that issue is expected soon. The court also agreed to rule in an appeal challenging an Oklahoma law which allows women to buy beer when they turn 18 but requires men to reach age 21. Stevens participated in his first day of public sessions today. He took his seat to the far right of the bench without fanfare and the court proceeded to hear arguments in a case involving the government's right to obtain microfilm bank records of criminal suspects. Stevens asked several questions.

Stevens was sworn in last month to succeed William O. Douglas, who retired in November due to the aftereffects of a stroke. The New York campaign law and a code applying it -provided fines if a candidate for state office made deliberate misstatements about his opponent or used racial invective. At least 19 states have laws regulating some forms of political speech, such as forbidding anonymous pamphleteering, but New law was the broadest. A three-judge panel agreed that states could probibjj malicious speech in ii campaign, hut said the language in the New York law was too broad, and could he used to punish candidates for speech protected by the First Amendment.

The Oklahoma beer case was brought by Curtis Craig, an Oklahoma State University student, and a Stillwa ter retail establishment, the "Honk and that sold beer. A lower court upheld the law, citing data which indicates more beer is consumed by males than females in Continued on page 12 Agatha Christie, queen of mystery writers, dies at 85 LONDON (AP) Agatha Christie, queen of British mystery writers, died today, her publishers announced. She was 85. Miss Christie, who wrote the longest running play in British theater history, and 85 novels that sold more than 350 million copies, died at her home in Wallingford. .55 miles west of London.

The cause of death was not immediately announced. She is survived by her second husband, Sir Max Mallowan, and one daughter. Born Sept. 15, 1890 and twice married. she was the creator of the tachioed, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, whose most famous case was "Murder On the Orient Express," which was remade into a hit film last year She was made a dame of the British Empire, the equivalent of a knighthood, in 1971.

Despite the bloodshed and death she wrote about, Miss Christie always did so with the taste and refined gentility that befitted the daughter of a middle class family who grew up in an age of social elegance and graceful leisure. The modem thriller format of brutality. sex and violence was not for her. "I like to keep to what I call a family she once said dislike thrillers with nothing to recommend them but violence, just as I like to see people hurting others. I much time for those people who go around slugging everybody just for the sake of it." Her books had been translated into at least 103 languages, 16 more than works.

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