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Show Sunday, June 25, 1972 UinPound 1 I beLONDON (UPD-Brit- ons sieged the 12 offices of travel Soviet agent Thomas Cook famous MOSCOW (UPI)-T- he Communist party said Saturday for "Cook's tours" Saturday, that heads may roll when it scrambling to change their trims its ranks next year, but pounds for foreign currency not literally, as in Josef Stalin's before taking off on foreign ; ' f - I i I 1 V , Af ' V - 4 i. ; , ' , l . ' . : ... 1 . ' 1-- , m I ' " j r - 4- J fit"'" purges. Pravda, the party newspaper, said unworthy comrades would be expelled in 1973 and 1974 when the Soviet party collects old membership cards and issues ne ones. It will be the first uch renewal of party cards in 18 years. The Soviet party has roughly doubled its membership to about 14.5 million in that time. Statements Conflict On Wallace I I v- t'' - ' i J - . - . "vJ-- 1 , ";;;;,' i . ":i "Sinnr''- Stast..-- vacations. The government's decision Friday to break the pound away from its $2.6057-dollexchange rate and "float" the currency to find its own natural level created anxiety and confusion for vacationers. The Treasury advised travelers to take foreign currency with them where possible the best rates were available in London. To underline the government's "no panic" attitude in face of the new sterling upheaval. Prime Minister Edward Heath Saturday planned to be at the helm of his yacht Morning Cloud racing in the Solent near Southampton. In Paris Satiirday top Eubecause ropean bankers and officials were arguing the merits of Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber's action. Political sources said the was convinced its government tion next month despite his taken boldly, son's statement that his condi- speedy action, the right course ti avert was tion has weakened, an aide said the threat to the national gold Saturday. and hard currency reserves "I saw him this morning," the currency. It said Elvin Staunton, press which back was also determined to avoid spokesman for the candidate another international borrowing for the Democratic presidential SILVER SPRING, Md. (UPI) Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama is greatly improved and still intends to go to the Democratic National Conven- nomination. $00( SidelldhtS j Floating Policy Party Purge - 27 Utah-P- age 'No Panic' RuSsPlan Bloodless - THE HERALD, Provo, saga,- . RICHMOND, Va. (UPD-H- alf of this city was without tap water today after the historic James River, on its worst rampage on record, uooded Richmond's filtration plant and forced trucking of clean water from as far away as Pennsylva- nia. n The James crested in Richmond at 36.51 feet Friday 27.5 feet above flood stage putting water over the second floor of some businesses near the downtown area and knocking off power. rusty-brow- The James River began receding today at the rate of about six inches an hour. mainGuardsmen National tained a watch over the central business district which was still without power. In Prince William County, near Washington, 75,000 families were without water, also depending on trucks for potable water. A fleet of tanker trucks, many of them from the First Army in Pennsylvania, carried water for drinking after officials shut off half of Rich- mond's water taps at dawn today. Portable water purifiers were also shipped in from Atlanta and Fort Lee, an Army base at Petersburg, Va., and several dairies in the area coiiverted their trucks to water carriers. ATLANTA moves on the long road toward its restoration. "Everything is stable and no mend flu shots for the elderly new trouble spots have been and chronically ill but not .or reported," t h e Sacramento the general public. office reported. County The CDC said flu shots have scattered crews reOnly been generally ineffective in mained on duty in the vast certain cases, some persons flood area to keep an eye on have had adverse reactions and any possible new levee leaks the flu virus itself is subject to and protect the property of the town's 1.300 residents forced to , periodic change. However, the CDC said for evacuate in the face of rising the chronically ill or elderly the floodwaters. A state official estimated it protection helped to ward off more serious cases of influenza would be two to six months before people could return to and its complications. "Because some influenza their homes. The town was flooded Thursoccurs each year, annual of 'high risk' day night when an emergency immunization patients is indicated as a levee which had been hastily routine procedure regardless of built, collapsed. The crisis was the amount of influenza expect- touched off early Wednesday ed in any geographical area," when a main levee on the San said the CDC. Joaquin River collapsed, floodThe rnter said it approved, ing Andrus and Brannan but did not push, the idea of Islands. giving flu shots to emergency personnel such as policemen, He Hungry firemen and teachers. It recommended the shots for COIXXINE, Germany (UPI) A boy caught with persons suffering congenital and rheumatic heart disease, his loot after he and an older asthma, bronchitis, cystic fibro- companion broke into a snack sis, bronchiectasis, emphysema, bar showed little respect for advanced tuberculosis, diabetes the forces of law and order, a and mellitus. police spokesman said. The spokesman said the policeman left the boy alone in icns Calif. ISLETON, the charging room a moment were described as and the youngster stole the "stable" Saturday in this officer's sandwiches from a delta river town as pocket of his uniform and ate officials pondered their next them. (UPI)-T- Cen- he ter for Disease Control (CDC) said Friday it would recom- Was (UPI)-Condit- flood-ravag- "His complexion and color FIRES BURNED OUT OF CONTROL to Harrlsburg, Pa., this weekend as fioodwatem prevented firemen from reaching or fighting them. Above, a blaze rages along a row of homes In which eight were destroyed. Top of car barely out of the water in foreground gives an idea of the depth of the water. are good. He says he feels good. His pain has diminished. has His physical therapy increased." George Wallace Jr., the governor's son, said at a rally in Graceville, Fla., Friday night that his father's condition "is not as good as it has been the last few days." Wallace-for-Preside- Four Killed in Hours Preceding Promised N. Ireland Cease-Fir- e BELFAST (UPI)-F- our per- sons, three of them British soldiers, were killed in Northern Ireland violence Saturday, than less 72 before hours militants of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) were scheduled to begin a cease-firAnother British soldier was week's tour of the United States, said whether or not he was optimistic "all depends on how 'unconditional' this ceasefire really is." He would not amplify his remarks. Brian Faulkner, the former premier of Northern Ireland, dismissed the truce call Saturday, saying he had "no faith at all" in the IRA's statement. Faulkner, en route to a nt "He is very alert mentally, but his physical condition has weakened," the son said. This have than communities. 176 persons been killed three more the total for all of 1971. Security sources said three Army victims were It was the first time anyone to the governor had indicated Wallace might be unaole to attend the July 10 Miami Beach convention. m pi w 3KKS319 pilj 1 the in a Set X'" vehicle trapped between two mines, of about 60 pounds each, planted in a culvert on either side of a country road near Includes 65-i- drwr, n. JIII! TQ mirror' ful1 pa" headboard and the queen bed frame. V I P,a8 NSL' Dungiven, south of Londonderry. The mines were detonated by remote control, possibly by men who lay in wait, security sources said. Shots were fired at the vehicle and another army truck immediately after the blasts. Four other soldiers were injured in the explosion. A civilian was critically hurt. Security forces waited at his bedside to question him as soon as he could talk. In Belfast, Patrick McCul-loug17, was standing on a street corner with three girls when a gunman opened fire from a passing car. McCullough was killed and one of the girls, Vji authentic 'Styled J wounded by sniper shots in Belfast, and a girl was wounded by a bullet fired at an army post in the Ballymurphy area of the city. At Middletown on the Irish Republic border, six armed men blew up a customs post. Three British soldiers were killed in what security forces said was a deliberate attack. A youth was shot and killed from a passing car. The deaths brought to 337 the number killed since British troops moved into Northern Ireland in August, 1969, in an effort to bring peace between protestant and minority Roman Catholic j)wlg w MfflMMil Ar close e. year so far "Buena Park" J I L ! 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