028
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    LONDON (AP) - Thick, freezing fog shrouded most of England for the
third straight day today.
    In some areas, visibility was down to five yards, and London's two
main airports remained closed. Incoming planes were diverted to
Bristol, Manchester and Birmingham.
    
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    Eds: Wirephoto plans transmission of following before 7:30 a.m.
EST: Nixon with coach of Washington Redskins at White House, horz;
Cotton Bowl action, horz; Orange Bowl action, horz; Rose Bowl
football; two men from Bloomington, Ind., with Christmas cards sent
each other, horz; visitors at Truman grave.
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Wirephotos NY2, 3
    NEW YORK (AP) - Retired Brig. Gen. Teleford Taylor, who was in
Hanoi with three other Americans recently during intensive U.S.
bombing attacks, says: ''You can drive for miles through Hanoi and
not see any damage and then suddenly come upon a virtual desert.''
    ''The bombing is quite heavier than anything I was under in
London'' during World War II, Taylor said. He added that the total
destruction was not so great because incindiary bombs were not used
on Hanoi.
    ''What you see in Hanoi is nowhere near what you saw in London
or Germany right after the war,'' said Taylor, who was chief U.S.
prosecutor at the Nuernberg war-crimes trials. 
    He said the recent Hanoi raids caused ''extensive but
concentrated'' destruction of many nonmilitary facilities.
    ''We saw a hospital, housing developments, residential areas as
well as airports shattered and virtually erased,'' Taylor told a
news conference Monday after their two-week stay in the North
Vietnamese capital.
    Taylor, now a professor of law at Columbia University, returned
Sunday night with folksinger Joan Baez; the Rev. Michael Allen,
associate dean of the Yale University Divinity School, and Barry
Romo, national coordinator of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.
    The group carried Christmas mail to American prisoners of war and
returned with 600 letters from the POWs in North Vietnam plus 30
from men said to be held by the Viet Cong in South Vietnam. Their
trip was sponsored by the Committee of Liaison with Families of
Servicemen Detained in North Vietnam.
    The group visited 13 prisoners of war in a camp in Hanoi after one
of the raids and found the men repairing a roof that had been
damaged by shrapnel. Miss Baez said prisoners told her that fellow
inmates had been injured in the raids.
    ''One of the detained pilots had been there for about four months,
and he kept saying, 'What's happening? I thought the war was going
to end on Oct. 30,' '' said Mr. Romo.
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    Allen said he was convinced that the bombing was aimed at civilian
as well as military targets. ''There's no question that the bombing
is extremely accurate,'' he said.
    ''The most horrible scene I've ever seen in my life was when we
visited the residential area of Kam Thien and, as far as I could
see, everything was destroyed,'' Allen said.
    ''Smoke was coming up from the rubble, and then I saw an old woman
digging with her hands, and she was chanting out loud, 'My son, my
son, where are you?' ''
    Miss Baez later went on to San Francisco, where she told another
news conference that the people of Hanoi ''go on functioning day
after day'' despite the blitz. ''The biggest mistake is to think
the bombing is going to stop anybody's will. They just go on.''
    North Vietnam had reported more than 2,000 civilians killed in the
raids over the Hanoi and Haiphong areas when President Nixon halted
the attacks Sunday after 12 days. Pentagon and administration
officials denied the North Vietnamese charge that nonmilitary
facilities were targeted.
    Taylor was asked about comments that the North Vietnamese had
manipulated the four Americans during their visit by escorting them
and showing them only certain sights.
    ''That may be true,'' he replied. ''It may mean that we might not
have seen some things that we would have liked to have seen; but,
nonetheless, we did see the things we saw.''
    
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    INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) - Attendance at the Harry S. Truman Library
set a record on New Year's Day.
    Dr. Ben K. Zobrist, library director, said 3,598 persons toured the
library's museum exhibits Monday. The previous daily high since the
facility opened in 1957 was 2,000, he said.
    At the former president's grave in the library courtyard, officials
said, there were at least 8,350 visitors Monday.
    Truman, who died in a Kansas City hospital a week ago, was buried
last Thursday. Thousands have come to the graveside daily since
Friday.
    ''Mr. Truman always wanted a low profile during retirement,''
Zobrist observed. ''Now he is before the world once again, and
people are taking a renewed interest in his life.''
    
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By CARL HARTMAN
Associated Press Writer
    BRUSSELS (AP) - Nine flags flew outside the headquarters of the
European Common Market today after Britain, Ireland and Denmark
joined the world's richest trading club.
    There was little fanfare to mark the enlargement of the European
Economic Community on New Year's Day.
    Prime Minister Edward Heath called Britain's entry into the EEC a
''tremendous opportunity'' and predicted that enthusiasm over
membership would increase as the advantages became clearer.
    Queen Margrethe told her Danes of great expectations but warned
that membership would make great demands on them. The conservative
Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten cautioned: ''What we will see is a
gradual process of change and adaptation which many will feel
murderously slow.''
    The Irish government issued a special stamp, and Prime Minister
Jack Lynch declared:
    ''It is my belief that many of the economic and social differences
which exist between North and South Ireland will rapidly disappear
when we have fully adapted to Community membership.''
    In the immediate future, Danish and Irish farmers stand to gain
from high food prices. Britain, with only a small farm population,
is seeking new opportunities for its industry that could increase
production and jobs.
    All the Common Market countries, including the original
six - France, West Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium and
Luxembourg - have given up some of their independence.
    The basic arrangement is that of a customs union. All members let
in each other's goods without duty and charge the same import taxes
on goods from outside the trading bloc.
    On Monday, Ewen Fergusson, a senior official of the British Mission
to the EEC, delivered two letters dealing with routine protocol to
the Executive Commission. They were Britain's first official acts as
a Common Market member.
    The first significant event of Britain's membership will be next
weekend's meetings of the new 13-member Executive  Commission. It
will include two British members: Sir Christopher Soames, former
ambassador to Paris, and George Thomson, who negotiated
unsuccessfully for British membership in the EEC during the last
Labor government.
    The latest public-opinion poll in Britain showed the country almost
evenly divided on the wisdom of surrendering economic independence
for a role in a united Europe.
    Many Britons fear higher food prices and a loss of sovereignty. One
British tourist in Brussels said beef cost 52 cents more per pound
in Belgium than in his native Doncaster.
    ''The competition will be fierce and perhaps not very pleasant at
first, but it's bound to be good for this country in the end,'' said
one businessman in North London, George Dowling.
    
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PEOPLE IN THE NEWS 340
    PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - Pat Nixon has this bit of advice for the
nation's football widows:
    ''Get in there and join your husband; that's what I do.''
    Mrs. Nixon took part in the Tournament of Roses parade here Monday
before attending the Rose Bowl game in which the University of
Southern California beat Ohio State University 42-17.
    She told newsmen that, when the President, who is an avid football
fan, is prevented by his busy schedule from seeing a game, ''I make
it a practice to try to keep up with what is happening so I may fill
him in.''
---
    NEW YORK (AP) - Comedian Imogene Coca has undergone surgery for
partial face reconstruction and an injured right eye following a
Florida auto accident.
    Miss Coca, onetime television comedy partner of Sid Caesar, was
flown here from Florida for the operation at the Manhattan Eye,
Ear and Throat Hospital.
    Doctors termed the operation Monday a ''success.'' They said
''results were excellent and the prognosis is good.''
---
    MILAN, Italy (AP) - Countess Wally Toscanini, daughter of the late
conductor Arturo Toscanini, has told police that burglars have
stolen memorablia left by her father. She said that jewelry and
furs, paintings, art objects and $85,000 in cash also were taken.
    Police said Monday that the countess was in Venice at the time
of the robbery.
---
    HOLLYWOOD (AP) - Actor Edward G. Robinson, 79, is reported in
satisfactory condition Monday at Mt. Sinai Hospital, where he was
admitted Saturday night for a series of tests.
    Robinson, famed for his movie tough-guy roles, had not been feeling
well for some time, according to a hospital spokesman. But the
nature of his illness has not been determined, the spokesman said
Monday.
    
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    BELFAST (AP) - Ireland's gunmen began 1973 with the murder of a
young Roman Catholic couple in the Irish Republic, an ambush in
Northern Ireland in which one Catholic was killed and two were
wounded and a rocket attack on a Belfast police station.
    A farmer in the republic two miles from the frontier with Northern
Ireland reported he heard 15 shots and a girl's scream about 2 a.m.
Monday. Police found the body of dark-haired Brigid Porter, 24,
lying across the corpse of her fiance, Oliver Boyce, 25, in a field.
A few hours earlier, they had been dancing at a village festival.
    Sources said both had been expelled recently from the Irish
Republican Army, and there was speculation the guerrilla army had
killed them as traitors. But the IRA denied this, and local opinion
was that they were the victims of Protestants from Northern Ireland.
    Their deaths raised to seven the number killed by terrorist gunmen
or bombs in the republic in three months.
    New Year's Day was almost over when 1973's first death by violence
in Northern Ireland was recorded.
    A burst of automatic fire sent 15 to 20 bullets into a car in which
four men were driving to work at a Rolls Royce plant near Belfast.
One man died in a hospital, and two of the others were wounded. All
four were Catholics ''and that's the only reason we can think of for
the attack,'' a police spokesman said.
    It was the 681st confirmed death in more than three years of
religious warfare in Northern Ireland.
    Earlier in the night, a Russian antitank rocket was fired into a
Belfast police station and narrowly missed a girl stenographer
working late. The IRA was blamed.
    The government ordered the detention without trial of Elizabeth
McKee, 25, who the army said was a high-ranking IRA officer. She is
the first woman to be interned as an IRA member.
    
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    BLOOMINGTON, Minn. (AP) - Clyde E. Allen Jr. and Clyde E. Allen Jr.
aren't comparing notes on New Year's resolutions.
    They might wind up with the same ones, as they inadvertently did
with some of the Christmas cards they sent last month.
    The card coincidence is just one of the confusing similarities
between these two Bloomington men of the same name. Here are some
others:
    -Both live in a 107 block, about half a mile from each other.
    -Both hold positions in computer-programming work.
    -Both are members of the same church, St. Luke's Lutheran.
    -Both are councilmen, one at church and one for the city.
    -One is 37, the other 38. Each has two children.
    For clarification, one Allen lives at 10736 James Circle; the
other, at 10750 Penn Ave. South.
    They didn't discover their families had sent out identical
Christmas cards until a mutual friend at church told them.
    The Allens, unrelated, moved to their Bloomington addresses about
five years ago. One is a native of Minneapolis, the other is from
the Boston area.
    Their paths crossed in Los Angeles a few months ago while they
were on business trips. They were checking in rented cars at an
airport and found they were taking the same plane back to
Minneapolis.
    
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
    Southern California, bolstered by Sam Cunningham's four touchdown
dives, clinched the national college football championship with a
42-17 victory over Ohio State in the Rose Bowl Monday.
    Cunningham plunged over Ohio State's defenses from inside the two
yard line all four times as the Trojans snapped a 7-7 halftime tie
and went on for the convincing triumph.
    Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers scored four touchdowns and
passed for another as Nebraska crushed Notre Dame 40-6 in the Orange
Bowl.
    Quarterback Alan Lowry bootlegged the ball 34 yards down the
sideline in the fourth quarter and lifted Texas to a 17-14 Cotton
Bowl victory over Alabama.
    
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Business Mirror 390, Two Takes 610
By JOHN CUNNIFF
AP Business Analyst
    NEW YORK (AP) - What are the pocketbook issues you'll be reading
about in 1973? The same, dear weary consumer, as in 1972: wages and
prices and taxes and jobs. But, while the issues are the same,
you'll be seeing a different facet.
    To begin with, some of the nicest news this spring will be tax
rebates, not tax demands, to workers who failed to lower their
withholdings to adjust for lower taxes. At least $7 billion is
expected to be refunded.
    In 1972, the real news about prices was that their growth rate
slowed. But, in 1973, there's a chance that prices might rise more
swiftly. As 1972 ended, momentum was being built; food prices
especially were headed higher.
    The sad fact is that the country failed in its goal of 3 per cent
inflation by the end of 1972. In the past six months, wholesale
prices have risen 5.7 per cent; consumer prices, 3.6 per cent.
    An aspect of food problems that bears watching is what the big
chain stores are going to protect their interests. Last year,
difficult as it is to believe, they got into a price-cutting war,
with The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. leading the way.
    As one supermarket executive put it: ''A&P is like an airplane in a
power dive. They're losing millions of dollars, but they're still
cutting prices in order to capture more of the market. They can't
keep it up.''
    You'll be reading all year long about wages. It's going to be a
very active year for major labor contracts - in construction,
electrical equipment, railroads, trucking, autos and rubber and
plastics.
    Much pressure will be put on labor to keep its demands
noninflationary. Last year, they rose about 6 per cent. This year,
the same is expected. But, if food prices keep rising, there could
develop some dramatic confrontations.
    With the wage versus cost-of-living conflict reheating, it seems
highly unlikely that wage-price controls will be lifted. Statements
pro and con will be issued all spring, but the consequences are too
great to drop them altogether.
    In an address last week, Dr. Arthur Burns, Federal Reserve Board
chairman, warned that, if inflation increases in 1973, ''the
nation's economic future may be adversely affected for a long time
to come.'' Watch federal spending, he said.
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    What seems to be understood more in recent months is that the
federal government is playing a huge role in inflation: no, not
simply in restraining upward pressures with controls, but in
creating the pressure.
    Over-spending, as expressed in budget deficits of $71 billion over
the past five years, is producing the pressure. The Chamber of
Commerce of the United States claims that federal spending controls
will be ''the top issue on which the business community will fight
in the 93rd Congress.''
    The stock market will produce its usual quota of news, it being the
nature of that institution to promote discussion even when there is
nothing to talk about. Two possibilities are worth watching:
    -Will the small investor return? And, if he does, will that mean
the return also of a speculative mood in which everyone jumps aboard
just before the wagon collapses?
    -Will mutual funds return to favor? They took a bigger licking in
1972 from investors than from the market. Unforgiving investors
traded in their shares for cash in record numbers.
    Where did the money go? Much of it went into savings institutions,
houses, cars - all of which had superb years. All are looking for a
good year again in 1973, which suggests that mutual funds as an
investment medium might see only slow growth.
    
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    MIAMI, Fla. (AP) - Federal officials say a sophisticated, new
flight-data recorder will help investigators determine why an
Eastern Air Lines TriStar jetliner plunged into the Everglades swamp
with 176 persons aboard.
    Ed Slattery, spokesman for the National Transportation Safety
Board, said the recorder was recovered Monday at the site of the
wrecked Lockheed 1011 aircraft that crashed Friday night on a New
York to Miami flight.
    ''This recorder has 64 value imputs, and it's the first time it has
been used,'' Slattery said. ''The previous ones gave only five,
principally speed, altitude and heading.''
    He said a ''myriad of details'' on the stresses and operation of
the plane's systems, broken into 10ths of a second development,
would be provided by the recorder.
    After being analyzed by Lockheed in Ontario, Calif., the
information will be correlated with the cockpit voice tapes and
those from the air-traffic-control tower.
    Another system, called Automatic Radar Terminal Service (ARTS),
will be used to check the other three.
    ''All these will give us a very good picture of what happened in
the dark space west of the airfield before the accident,'' Slattery
said. ''However, it's not necessarily going to give us the exact
cause.''
    Slattery said the tapes will be presented at a public hearing on
the crash to be held some time in March.
    Meanwhile, Eastern spokesmen said the death toll had mounted to 99
of the 176 persons aboard Flight 401.
    ''I expect we'll be sweating over the figures for two or three more
days,'' said one official.
    At latest count, there were 60 dead positively identified, 39
presumed killed and 77 survivors. But the fatality figures
fluctuated, and the Dade County medical examiner reported 103 dead.
    More than 200 relatives of passengers on the flight, those of both
the dead and injured, have been flown to Miami by the airline.
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    Searchers working Monday alongside crash investigators in the muddy
sawgrass flatlands retrieved the bodies of four more victims,
including those of stewardess Stephanie R. Stanich and 2-year-old
John Kaminer.
    Bodies of two unidentified men also were also brought to the Dade
County morgue. Another passenger, Barulio Corretjer, 44, of Jersey
City, N.J., died at Hialeah hospital.
    Two survivors remain in critical condition, 25 are listed as
serious, 20 as fair, 7 as satisfactory, 8 ''in good shape'' and
15 have been discharged.
    None of the crew members in the cockpit at the moment of impact
survived long enough to talk with investigators who hope to get an
eyewitness account of what happened in Flight 401's last minutes.
    
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    BURLEY, Idaho (AP) - One person was in critical condition and four
others hospitalized Monday night after a ski lift went out of
control while carrying about 200 skiers at Pomerelle Ski Area 18
miles southwest of here.
    Hospitals treated and released 12 others. Medical workers at the
scene estimated another 40 suffered minor injuries.
    Gerald Anderson, a spokesman for Cassia Memorial Hospital, said
Chris Stevens, 29, of Hagerman was in critical condition with chest
and internal injuries. The other three admitted at Cassia were in
satisfactory condition.
    Anderson said most of the injuries were broken bones and strains.
He said about 40 doctors and off-duty personnel responded to the
emergency call from as far away as 40 miles.
    Ambulance driver Roger Porter of the Western Ambulance Service in
Burley said one of the injured told him ''chairs were flying
everywhere and people were falling and jumping.''
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                        AP NEWS DIGEST
                            Tuesday PMs

                             INDOCHINA

    U.S. bombers attack enemy supply lines in Laos and Cambodia during
New Year's cease-fire.
    From Saigon; Indochina roundup; new material; may stand.

    The U.S. troops left in Vietnam need only consult the Saigon Post's
classified ads to banish the lonesome blues.
    From Saigon; new; by Hugh Mulligan; a078-079 Dec. 30; will stand.

                             WASHINGTON

    House Democrats gearing up for renewed battles with President Nixon
face divisive struggles of their own today as they meet to organize
for the 93rd Congress opening Wednesday.
    New material; may stand; with New Faces separate.

    President Nixon, a surprise visitor to the White House on New
Year's Day is said to have found himself locked out of his Oval
Office.
    New material; should stand.

                           INTERNATIONAL

    Gunmen kill a young couple in the Irish Republic and a man in a
car in Belfast as more violence ushers in 1973 in Ireland.
    From Belfast; new material; may stand.

    Nine flags fly outside the headquarters of the European Common
Market as Britain, Ireland and Denmark join.
    From Brussels; new material; may stand.

    In 1972, the North Atlantic Alliance moved from confrontation to
negotiation with the Soviets, as advocated by President Nixon. In
1973, he may be looking for reorganization.
    From Brussels; new material; a059-060-061 Dec. 28; will stand.

                              CLEMENTE

    The U.S. sports world mourns outfielder Roberto Clemente, dead in a
plane crash off Puerto Rico. The island's governor-elect cancels the
festivities for his inauguration today.
    From San Juan; new material; may stand.

                              NATIONAL

    Federal officials say a sophisticated, new flight-data recorder
will help investigators determine why an Eastern Air Lines TriStar
jetliner plunged into the Everglades swamp with 176 persons aboard.
    From Miami, Fla.; new; may stand.
    
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    Briefs 210

    TOKYO (AP) - Waste heat from a chemical plant in northern
China is used to warm thousands of housing units, saving 60,000
tons of coal a year, Peking's official Hsinhua news agency
reported.

    AUCKLAND, New Zealand (AP) - The Rev. Morris Russell said
a member of his congregation saw someone sneaking into the
church office during a service. ''I was told, threw off
my robe and chased the man.'' But the man got away, and $90
was missing from the office.

    LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Gov. Musa Usman of Nigeria's Northeastern
state says the area is threatened by famine because of backward
farming methods.

    CAIRO (AP) - Sudanese sources said Egypt and Sudan signed
a $55-million trade agreement for 1973 after the Egyptians
agreed to pay a $5-million debt stemming from the purchase
of Sudanese camels.

    LONDON (AP) - The British Broadcasting Corp. announced plans
for a ''good news'' program that will not report deaths or
disasters. The 10-minute program will be called ''The Positive
World'' and will concentrate on such news as cures for diseases
and improved methods in industry, the BBC said.

    PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa (AP) - Natal Province has
banned the sale of rare or endangered wild flowers except
by special license from the provincial parks board.

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    BURLEY, Idaho (AP) - About 50 skiers were injured at the Pomerelle
Ski Resort on Monday when a ski tow malfunctioned, authorities said.
    No fatalities were reported. Details were not immediately
available.
    Authorities summoned at least nine ambulances and two helicopters
to the resort, 18 miles south of here in south-central Idaho.
    Helicopters were flown from Mountain Home Air Force Base, 120 miles
njured to a Burley hospital.
    
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    WASHINGTON Farm Protest a244, add: Agriculture.''
    Meanwhile, Sen. Herman Talmadge, D-Ga., said President Nixon
exceeded his authority when he froze low-interest loans and 
conservation funds that Congress approved for farmers.
    Talmadge said he would comment further when Congress meets. He said
his committee has been looking into the President's action.
    ''They'll report their findings to me when I get back to
Washington,'' Talmadge said. ''I don't think the President has the
authority to withhold funds that the Congress has appropriated.''
    
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    LEEDS, England (AP) - Leonard Dale said Monday he will pony
up $23.50 each, as promised, to 98 of his employes who signed
a pledge last New Year's eve to quit smoking and kept it.
    Dale renewed the offer for 1973 and said the reward would
be increased to $35.25.
    Forty-two other of the electric firm's employes signed the
pledge on the last day of 1971, but they backslid and got
nothing.
    
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    BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) - A girl's scream and the
crack of gunfire in the still countryside spread the violence
of Northern Ireland south into the Irish Republic Monday in
the first hours of 1973.
    Police discovered dark-haired Brigid Porter and her fiance,
both shot dead, in a lonely field after a farmer reported
hearing a scream and gunfire at 2 a.m. There was speculation
that they were killed as informers by Roman Catholic guerrillas
or for sectarian revenge by militant Protestants from the
North.
    Police in Belfast announced the arrest Monday of Elizabeth
McKee, 25, described by the British army as a high-ranking
officer in the outlawed Irish Republican Army.
    Miss McKee is thought to be the first woman IRA suspect
held without trial under Northern Ireland's antiterrorist
laws.
    A guerrilla rocket fired at the Belfast police station smashed
through a wire fence and into an office where a woman stenographer
worked. She collapsed with shock but was not injured physically.
    The army said the missile was a Soviet-made RPG7 rocket of
the type fired in early December at police stations and army
posts in Northern Ireland.
    The couple executed in Ireland had been dancing at a village
festival celebrating the new year.
    As they, 3rd graf A262 deleting 6th graf: Police discovered
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    BELFAST Irish 2nd NL a269 insert after 2nd graf: North.
    Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying four men to work Monday night
in Dundonald, near Belfast, killing one and wounding the others.
    Police, 3rd graf - changing total dead in 10th graf to 681.
    
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    MILAN, Italy (AP) - Burglars raided the home of countess
Wally Toscanini, daughter of the late conductor Arturo Toscanini,
and got away with memorabilia left by her father, police said
Monday.
    The countess, who was in Venice with friends at the time
of the burglary, told police she was missing paintings, art
objects, jewels, furs and about $85.000 in cash.
    
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    NEW YORK (AP) - A woman shot and killed a man and wounded
two other persons in an argument over a parking space on Manhattan's
upper West Side early Monday.
    Police said the encounter occurred when two cars headed for
the same space. A car with two New Jersey men and a woman
got there first, parked and the three riders got out of the
car.
    A man and woman from the second car, angered over losing
the spot, left their vehicle and began arguing. The woman
pulled a gun and shot all three from the first car. She and
her companion fled and were being sought, police said.
    Rafael Ortiz, 24, of Passaic, N.J., died of bullet wounds
of the face and body. Ruben Torres, 21, of Paterson, was treated
for a gunshot wound of the right leg. Myrna Carmona, 20, was
reported in satisfactory condition with a gunshot wound of
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    NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A 26-year-old woman police informant who
once said she would turn in her own mother has been found brutally
murdered.
    Linda Dianne Russ was an eighth-grade dropout, twice married
by the time she was 16, who began informing because she said she
hated to see people get away with things.
    During a three-year period, police said, she supplied information
or testimony that resulted in at least 60 people being convicted
on charges ranging from possession of marijuana to murder.
    She disappeared from her home Aug. 24 after arranging to meet a
man she said claimed to be a syndicate killer, police said. The
disappearance came shortly before she was to testify in the trials
of men accused of operating a burglary ring in the area.
    Last Thursday Mrs. Russ' skeleton was found in a ditch in
Chesapeake. Police said it was difficult to tell whether the blonde
informant was beaten to death or strangled.
    The following day, the body of a teen-age codefendant who turned
state witness in the burglary trials was found shot to death and
discarded on an old garbage dump not five miles from where Mrs.
Russ' skeleton was discovered. Frank E. Willey, 19, disappeared
Dec. 18, the day before he was to testify in the case.
    One detective said that Norfolk ''is a lot cleaner in the
Ocean View area because of Dianne's work.''
    Her second husband, Harry Russ, said Dianne became involved in
informing when she heard a man repeatedly boast about the number of
burglaries and robberies he had committed without being caught.
    ''It bothered her that some guy could do this,'' Russ said.
    Police warned her that too many people knew who she was. A story
about her appeared in a national magazine. But she wouldn't quit.
    One detective who was close to her said Dianne gave him a
sketch book of her drawings and a sheaf of poems. He said
she ''flirted with death'' in her poems.
    ''It was a game with her,'' he added. ''I believe she knew she was
going to get hurt.'' During the weeks before her disappearance she
started carrying a concealed weapon for the first time.
    Her husband said that the night before she disappeared they
went to a tavern where she was to meet a man police hoped
could be convinced to testify against confederates.
    Russ said that while Dianne and the man talked, another man
in a nearby booth told her he was a syndicate killer in Portsmouth
for a ''hit.'' The next night she got a telephone call from the
stranger, who asked her to meet him, Russ said.
    She left the house and was never again seen alive.
    A detective said she once told him, ''If it were my own mother I
caught in the wrong, she'd go too. I mean that. She'd go too.'' 
    
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    ROME (AP) - Thunderstorms lashed most of southern Italy Monday,
disrupting traffic, cutting off electricity and starting floods
and landslides.
    Nine persons were killed, six of them when tons of rocks and mud
slid down on a home in Sicily during a New Year's Eve party.
More than a dozen motorsts perished in road accidents blamed
on the weather.
    In Catania, Sicily, rain that has poured for the last two
weeks shut off the city's electric power. Some other parts
of Sicily also lost electricity.
    Thousands of workers were stranded in Messina, unable to cross
the strait to the mainland from Sicily. Raging seas prevented
ferries from leaving Messina.
    Sicilian streams, dry most of the year, swelled into rivers.
They washed out bridges and flooded highways and railroads
in the south of the island.
    Four youths were caught in a snowstorm during a Sunday outing
in the mountains of the Ciociaria region south of Rome. Two
found their way back, but the other two were listed as missing.
    In Calabria, at the tip of the Italian boot, landslides destroyed
hundreds of small houses. About two thousand persons were
left homeless, officials said.
    Damage to farms was estimated in the millions of dollars.
    
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    BELFAST Northern Ireland (AP) - A girl's scream and the crack
of gunfire in the still Irish air brought the violence of
Northern Ireland south into the Irish republic Monday in the
first hours of 1973.
    Only a short time earlier, dark hired Brigid Porter had heen
dancing with her finance at a village festival celebrating
the new year.
    As they left the dance in the Donegal village of Burnfoot
they were bundled into a car and driven to a lonely field by
armed men.
    Brigid's finance, 25-year-old carpenter Oliver Boyce, died
with a bullet in the brain. Another bullet slammed into Brigid's
head.
    Their bodies were sprawled together in the form of a cross
in a muddy ditch two miles from the Irish republic's border
with Northern Ireland, where sectarian violence has claimed
at least 680 lives since August 1969.
    Police discovered the pair after a farmer living nearby reported
hearing a burst of gunfire and a girl's scream at 2 a.m.
    Detectives who scoured the field where they lay said the
couple, both Roman Catholics, had been driven to a road 300
yards away, forced to walk to the ditch to be shot, just a
few miles from their home in the seaside village of Buncrana.
    Police theorized the couple could have been executed by the
Irish Republican Army's fantical Provisional wing for putting
the finger on Martin McGuinness, a 23-year-old IRA commander
in Londonderry, seven miles away across the border in Northern
Ireland.
    McGuinness and his top lieutenant, Joseph McCallion were ambushed
by Irish police and captured Sunday with a carload of gelignite
and ammunition near the frontier.
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    The provisional command in Londonderry denied any involvement
in what it termed the ''brutal double murder.''
    It declared: ''We do not make war on women.''
    Another theory was that the couple were the victims of Protestant
vigilantes from Northern Ireland seeking revenge for their
people killed by IRA raiders striking from bases inside the
republic.
    The killings raised to at least seven the toll of violent
deaths in the republic in the last three months. Another 160
have been wounded. This has deepened fears the bloodletting
in Northern Ireland was spilling over the border.
    McGuinness' capture brought swift reaction from the IRA.
The Londonderry Provisionals vowed to step up the war against
the British Army. Within hours guerrillas in Belfast had taken
up the war cry as the British province's bloodiest year in
a half-century of sectarian feuding drew to a violent close.
    Four terrorists sprayed a bus with bullets Sunday night,
wounding four passengers. Others fought two sharp gun battles
with troops.
    The violence dragged on Monday. Snipers opened up on two
army posts in the city's Catholic areas. Troops blasted back,
but there were no reports of casualties.
    In Dungannon, 30 miles west of Belfast, a bomb exploded outside
a tavern after an unidentified man dragged it clear with seconds
to spare. No one was reported hurt.
    
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    MOSCOW (AP) - Soviet Communist party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev
has conferred with Georges Marchais, general secretary of
the French Communist party, to discuss party relations and
elections strategy, Tass reported Monday.
    The upcoming elections in France and the French Communists'
alliance with the Socialist party apparently were the major
topics discussed by the two party chiefs in their meeting
last Friday.
    ''The two parties attach great importance to . . . a constructive
exchange of views and joint actions by all democratic parties
and forces, including Socialist parties,'' the news agency said.
    March was in Moscow for the 50th anniversary celebration
of the founding of the Soviet Union.
    
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    MOSCOW, Marchais a260, to correct spelling, read first word of
last graf: Marchais, not ''March'' as sent.
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    NEW YORK (AP) - Imogene Coca, onetime comedy partner of Sid
Caesar on television, was flown here Monday for treatment
of an eye injury suffered in an early-morning auto accident
in Florida.
    A spokesman for the Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital
said Miss Coca had suffered an injury to the right eye and
was scheduled to undergo surgery Monday night9
    The comedienne and her husband of 13 years, King Donovan,
had played a New Year's Eve performance in ''The Fourposter''
at the Showboat Dinner Theater in St. Petersburg and attended
a party at the theater after the performance.
    They were driving to their apartment in Clearwater about
3 a.m. when, according to the Florida Highway Patrol, Donovan
ran a red light and his car struck one driven by Cheryl Lynn
Rice, 19, of Seminole, Fla.
    Neither Donovan nor Miss Rice was injured.
    Miss Coa was taken to the Bayfront Medical Center in St.
Petersburg and later, with her head heavily bandaged, was
taken by ambulance to the airfield and put aboard a plane to New
York.
    
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By LYNN C. NEWLAND
Associated Press Writer
    SAIGON (AP) - American bombers turned the thrust of their
attacks from North Vietnam to Laos and Cambodia on monday
in an effort to cut the replenishment of enemy troops and
supplies.
    The shift came on the heels of an indication by U.S. officials
that strikes on North Vietnam below the 20th Parallel had been
halted to coincide with 24-hour cease-fires announced by the South
Vietnamese and the Viet Cong. The cease-fires ended at dusk
Monday.
    The U.S. Command refused to comment officially on American
air operations in Indochina. But U.S. officials indicated
privately that while American bombers would be free to resume
air strikes in South Vietnam after expiration of the South
Vietnamese cease-fire, air operations over the southern panhandle
of North Vietnam probably would remain cut off until Tuesday morning
or afternoon.
    Continuing the bombing halt from the 20th Parallel 200 miles
south to the demilitarized zone was a sign of good will, according
to U.S. onficials. The same routine was followed after the
Christmas cease-fire a week ago.
    The cessation of American bombing above the 20th Parallel,
including the principal cities of Hanoi and Haiphong, will
remain in effect indefinitely. The halt in that area is tied
to the resumption of the Paris peace talks scheduled for next
Monday.
    During the initial hours of the New Year's cease-fire, the
South Vietnamese reported at least 34 violations. The command
said seven South Vietnamese soldiers were killed, 53 were wounded
and five were missing.
    In addition, Saigon reported that three civilians were killed
and 10 wounded. The North Vietnamese, according to the command,
suffered 35 killed. Cease-fires in South Vietnam traditionally
have been marred by so many violations that they become almost
meaningless. They usually end with both sides accusing the
other of breaking the truce. 
    The U.S. Command reported that American fighter-bombers flew
199 tactical air strikes in South Vietnam before the Saigon
cease-fire began at 6 p.m. Sunday. Bomb damage assessment
from the strikes included reports that two North Vietnamese
tanks were destroyed 15 miles southwest of Quang Tri City,
and that several supply trucks were destroyed in the central
highlands 25 miles northwest of Kontum City.
    No attacks were reported against American troops during the
cease-fire.
    With the U.S. bombing of the North stopped, the Soviet news
agency Tass wgote from Hanoi that the city is ''quiet but
tense.''
    The dispatch added: ''There are many casualties among the
civilian population, but the enemy has not broken the will
of the heroic people. In spite of the barbarous bombings,
strict order was maintained in the city. There was no panic.''
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    In the South, the U.S. Command announced that American troop
strength in Vietnam dropped by 100 men during the last week
of December to 24,100 - the lowest level since Jan. 31, 1965.
The figure does not include the some 100,000 Americans stationed
elsewhere engaged in air and naval attacks.
    Former South Vietnam Foreign Minister Tran Van Do confirmed
reports that he and a former South Vietnamese ambassador to
the United States, Bhi Diem, will undertake a special mission
for President Nquyen Van Thieu solliciting support in Europe,
Asia and North and South America.
    The reports said Thieu was holding fast to his position that
South VVietnam must be regarded as sovereign and separate
from North Vietnam. This is believed a chief sticking point
in the impasse in negotiations between Hanoi and Washington.
    Thieu also was quoted as saying South Vietnam wants ''a real
and long-lasting peace and not just a temporary cease-fire
which will result in Communist abuse.''
    The president's statements were published by the daily newspaper
Tin Song, which is supported by the government. Thieu's reported
statements were made to a group of diplomats in Saigon Sunday.
    A temporary cease-fire, the president said, ''would only
result in Communist abuse to create more difficulties and
resume a new invation under conditions that will provide them
with a better advantage.''
    The president concluded: ''The people of Vietnam wholeheartedly
desire a reasonable and equitable peace with honor. Let us
all hope that a long-lasting peace will be restored in this
part of the world - a peace that will open the beginning of
a new century of cooperation and development of the common
interests of the people in the world.''
    Elsewhere, Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, foreign minister of the Viet
Cong's provisional revolutionary government of South Vietnam,
left Peking for home following a visit to China at the invitation
of the Chinese government, China's official Hsinhua news agency
reported.
    During her stay in China, the Viet Cong's chief negotiator
at the Paris peace talks had had meetings with Chinese leaders,
including Chairman Mao Tse-tung, Premier Chou En-lai and Foreign
Minister Chi Peng-fei.
    Another Peking visitor, Troung Chinh, a North Vietnam Communist
party Central Committee member and chairman of the standing
committee of the National Assembly, left Peking for home following
a one-day stopover, Hsinhua reported.
    
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    SAIGON Indochina Rndp Bjt NL a206-207, add: reported.
    A communique issued on Mrs. Binh's departure said China ''will
firmly support and assist the Vietnamese people in their just
war, not flinching from the greatest national sacrifice.''
    China and the Viet Cong are ''firmly opposed to the U.S.
government's delaying and sabotaging the signing of the 'agreement
on ending the war and restoring peace in Vietnam' and strongly
condemn its war escalation against the people of Vietnam,''
said the communique broadcast by Hsinhua and monotored in Tokyo.
    
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    SAIGON - Indochina Rdp Bjt NL A206 to update sub 6th and 7th
grafs: Monday.
    The Saigon command reported Tuesday morning there were 49
violations of the cease-fire. It listed eight South Vietnamese
soldiers killed, 69 wounded and five missing.
    In addition, the Saigon command said three civilians were
killed and 10 wounded. It reported North Vietnamese and Viet
Cong losses as 44 troops killed and one captured.
    Cease-fires in South Vietnam traditionally have been marred
by so many violations that they become almost meaningless.
They usually end with each side accusing the other of breaking
the truce.
The U.S., 8th graf
    
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