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Show Monday, August 9, 1976, THE HERALD, Provo, "- L -A "X V f ' V" wrnfc Reagan - - . .1 Utah-P- S age $ . . Avoid Issues CITY. Mo. (UPI) The forces of President Ford and Ronald Reagan, g seeking to avert a fight, are trying to write a "unity" Republican KANSAS 1 'V; . e " I party-splittin- sc. , . platform and already have agreed on the economic and foreign policy planks. But Reagan's staunchest supporters, led by Sen. Jesse Helms, charge the'; man is selling out to Ford. They pledged to fight today for a strong statement of conservative ideals in the platform, including such issues as the Panama Canal, Cuba, detente, national defense, bus- '.s ing and gun control. Reagan sent a mailgram to all 106 members of the platform committee Sunday, calling for support of platform planks on a strong national utTii iMiHi irfnirfi'nr FORD plays with the family dog, Liberty, retriever, at Aspen Lodge in the Camp David mountain retreat of the President Sunday. Mr. Ford told PRESIDENT a golden 1" f- reporters he probably will announce his choice for a vice presidential running mate on Aug.18. others Ford to Select Running Mate From Field of 12 CAMP DAVID, Md. (UPI) President Ford says he will runpick a ning mate, then win in November because voters will favor the performances of Ford over the promises of middle-w-the-ro- Jimmy Carter. a weekend interview, Ford said he has "more than 12 persons" under consideration as a running mate. All are "dead even" so far. The possibilities include his rival for the Republican nomination, Ronald Reagan, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, former Texas Gov. John Sen. Howard Baker of Tennessee, Anne Armstrong, ambassador to Britain, and Sen. Edward Brooke of MassaIn Con-nall- chusetts. Ford told UPI and Associated Press reporters in the Aspen Lodge of this Catoctin Mountain presidential retreat Saturday that he probably will announce his running mate Aug. 18, the day the GOP convention picks its presidential candidate and the day before the vice presidential candidate is nominated. d "I consider myself middle-of-the-roa- within the Republican spectrum and I would want somebody close enough right or left of that center so that I would feel compatible ideologically," Ford said. Asked about Reagan's choice of liberal Pennsylvania Sen. Richard Schweiker as a running mate, Ford said. "I do not believe I would go that far to that edge of the spectrum." Ford all but took it for granted he will defeat Reagan Defense Wants Mistrial ANGELES (LTI) -Jwho said Sunday they were exhausted, carried deliberations in the Harris trial into a 9th day today with the LOS urors, defense arguing the very length of the discussions should be grounds for a mistrial. A hearing on r possibly prejudicial incident during jury selection was scheduled for today, and defense attorney Leonard Weinglass said he would move for a mistrial if llie jurors failed to reach a verdict by noon. no deliberations," "They have been disappointed in many cases by the performance after the promises were made. So any candidate who seeks offices on the basis of promises, I think, is fun- damentally vulnerable." Ford said, "When they get down to the final analysis, I think a majority of Americans will support the performance rather than the promise." Among the Carter promises he indicated he would cam vis-a-v- g one-hol- No Oil Price Increases 3 Critics WASHINGTON (UPI) -Texan John Connally, saying it is "highly questionable" he would accept Saudi Arabian Oil Sheik Zaki Yamani today ruled out any new hike in oil prices this year as well as (L'PI) anv "fantastic" increase in Republican critics as 1977. Yamani said Saudi Arabia is resisting pressure within the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries for a ministerial meeting to decide on a price increase before the end of this year. He said the next OPEC Ministerial conference will open Dec. 15 in Qatar at which time an increase for 1977 will be discussed, with the size of the increase depending on the rate of economic recovery in Reps. Thomas F. Railsback, Paul Findley.R-IlL.and William Cohen, urged Ford last week to look at the record of Connally's bribery trial and the House Judiciary Committee's Nixon impeachment evidence before making his decision. Connally combined the initials of their last names, R. F. C. and said it stood for "Republicans For there last Can- nibalism." Nervy Burglar Hits statements made by Austrian conference can- nibals. The three have questioned whether his involvement in the he was milk fund scandal acquitted of bribery in that case shouldn't disqualify him as a running mate for President Ford. froze from Vienna decision because of political Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. "The whole matter is now pending," Yamani said The decision to leave Vienna followed the terrorist attack on the OPEC ministerial the vice presidential nomination even if asked, is attacking three This Year Says Yamani but later GENEVA, Switzerland that Minister considerations" and longer progress at the talks in Pans. Manned Police Station Calif. SACRAMENTO, (UPI) Investigators - looking burglar fourth-floo- r are for a "nervy" cat who broke into a office of police December. headquarters. Yamani said that "there is pressure to hold an extraordinary (OPEC) meeting before December" to discuss a hike in oil prices this year. "I don't think we will ever be in a position to accept that," he said. Officers said the burglar apparently climbed a fire escape, scrambled along a narrow ledge and broke a window to enter an administrative office early Saturday. "He sure must have been nervy," ore investigator said. "It's a war of attrition Which side can grind down the other?" north-sout- 3 headquarters Japanese Indicted In Scandal - TOKYO (LTI) Former Prime Minister Kakuei Tana-k- a s secretary and two business , The jury has spent 47 hours. 35 minutes in deliberalions since it got the casr 10 days ago. They did net deliberate Sunday Wiliiam and Emily Harris, r.icmberj of the Symbionese five-ma- Four Teenagers Killed Trying to Help Others - organization's executives were indicted today In connection with the $12 million Lockheed bnhory scandal, prosecutors reported. The Tokyo district prosecutor's office said the three men were indicted on charges of violating Japan's foreign exLiberation Army, were change control law providing charged wi!h 11 counts of kid- for a maximum penalty of nap, robbery and assault for an three years imprisonment. Toshio Enomoto, 50, secrealleged SLA crime spec in May, 1974 with Patricia tary of Tanaka who has been Hearst, who is scheduled to go jailed for questioning in on trial Jan. 10 on the same connection with the scandal, was accrused of receiving charges. Superior Court Judge Mark tl,6fC,()68 from the two exBrandler told the jury It had ecutives on behalf of Tanaka in the choice of deliberating or violation of the law The two businessmen are resting on Sundays The weary Jurors, who had worked eight Toshiharu Okubo, 62, and days straight, at first planned Hiroshl Itoh. 49, both of to continue Sunday, then Marubeni Corp., a giant decided to lake a day off, saytrading firm and former Lockheed agent in Japan. ing they were tired. Rockefeller, Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz and Budget Director James Lynn. The Helms forces flexed their muscle during the first meeting of the platform committee Sunday afternoon, winning a move to have each subcommittee elect its chairman and cochairman rather than have them appointed by the platform chairman. Iowa Gov. Robert Rav. The vote likely will have little effect on the outcome either of the platform or of the makeup of the subcommittees. But it demonstrated both the strength of the grassroots Reagan supporters and their basic suspicion of the "establishment" forces. Some hours after the Helms forces made their charge, Ray confirmed proposed platform language dealing with several 42-3- 9 issues including foreign had policy and the economy been presented to each side "and they said this was an approach they approved of." "They don't seem to be in disagreement in what has been presented to them," Ray said. "They have not objected." Spokesmen for both Ford and Reagan said there had been contacts between the two sides, using intermediaries. They said a platform could be drawn to satisfy both men. "We would like a platform that unites the party rather than divides it." said Martin Anderson, a Reagan lieutenant. William Seidman, a chief Ford aide, said, "The feeling I get is that neither side wants to do anything to hurt the party " Police officer Willy Robinsdi said a crowd of teenagers, leaving a back to school dance at the Corpus Christi Boys' Club at 1 30 a.m. ran out into the street in front of the club to help the victims of a accident. As they were trying to help, another car plowed into them, throwing four of the children two-ca-r several hundred feet through the air. Robinson said Three died at the scene of the accident, and a fourth at a citv WE NEED A hospital later. Police identified the dead as Robert Lee Valdez, 16; Gilbert Aliman, 15; Lucy Martinez, 14, and Liz Martinez, 13. The driver of the car, Ismael Arredondo, was charged with driving while intoxicated, Robinson said. Juan Vela, 50. the passenger s the were trying to help, was in serious condition teen-ager- at a city hospital. Found Floating In Oil Drum - MIAMI (L'PI i Police say the gangland-stylkilling of John Roselli, who told the Senate Intelligence Committee the CIA had recruited him to assassinate Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, may be tied to the death of fellow mobster Sam Giancana. Roselli, who disappeared from his sister's home in Plantation, Fla., July 28. was found Saturday inside a floating oil drum in Dumbfoundling Bay, CAMPAIGNER YOUR AREA 1 ;- I Republican National Convention. Former California Gov. Ronald Reagan said he had picked up more delegates than he can publicly reveal and called it a "productive (UPI Telephoto) trip." Reagna ' STKATTON, Neb. (L'PI) -Northern frieght train Sunday rammed into a Church of Christ bus picking up children for Sunday School, killing the minister, his wife "The engineer was blowing the whistle for a half mile before tho crash," he said. "Another six feet and he would have missed it (the bus). It's real tragic in a little town like that, especially-The bus was just beginning a rural run. heading south, to pick up more children for Sunday school classes at the Stratton Church of Christ. quirements that are imposed on school bus drivers. However, Sgt. M. D. Grant of the state patrol said Nerren "was licensed to drive a school bus" as a substitute driver for and son, and six other a Stratton school. children. "The bus was ripped right The eight surviving children, off the frame," said the train's ranging in age from 3 to 10, conductor, Paul Carlson, 56, were injured and listed in fair who was riding in the caboose to serious condition. The five of the freight. families involved were all from Stratton, a town of 480 A Burlington persons. Six victims died at the scene at the south edge of Stratton in Hurricane Belle Warnings Extend Along East Coast southwest Nebraska and three others died while being flown to St. Joseph's Hospital in CAPE HATTERAS, N.C. Denver. Hurricane Belle's The converted (UPI) winds swept school bus was being driven by the Rev. Thomas B. Nerren, toward the Outer Banks vaca44, a licensed substitute school tion strip off North Carolina bus driver. He and his wife, today and hurricane warnings Shirene, 31, and one spn, were ordered for the Eastern Thomas David, 8, were killed. Seaboard, including New York A second son, Steven, 3, surCity. The National Hurricane Cenvived the crash. Under Nebraska law, ter in Miami predicted the drivers of church buses need first hurricane of the year in not meet special licensing re- - the Atlantic would pass near Cape Hatteras by noon today. - Reports Say Amin Waging War of Terror NAIROBI. Kenya (UPI) -Ugandan President Idi Amin is reportedly waging a campaign of terror against businessmen and students, and Kenyan officials expressed skepticism an agreement to normalize ties between the two countries will take hold. The Nairobi newspaper Nation reported in an unsourced story today that Ugandan officials had rounded up and killed businessmen with trade links to Kenya, Britain and West Germany. (In London, British newspapers reported Sunday that Ugandan troops massacred demonstrating students last week at Makerere University near Kampala. Estimates of the death toll ranged from 20 to more than 100. (The reports said Amin's son. Taban, had led about 200 Ugandan troops in one confrontation said. "Although rains that have been falling over New England and the coastal sections of the Middle Atlantic states have not been associated with the rainfall in those hurricane, areas will increase as the hurricane approaches, posing a threat of serious flooding." South African Police Kill At 6 a.m. EDT, Bell s center was estimated near latitude Blacks 34.0 north, longitude 75.2 west or 85 miles south of Cape HatSouth JOHANNESBURG, teras, moving towards the Africa (UPI) South African north at 20 m.p.h. It was expolice opened fire on several pected to gradually increase in rampaging black crowds toforward speed and turn to the day, killing at least three north northeast by tonight. rioters and wounding several "Warnings are in effect more in a renewed outburst of from the Merrimack River in nationwide antigovernment Massachusetts to north of protests, police said. The new fatalities increased Cape Henlopen, Del., including Long Island Sound and New to 12 the death toll since the York City and are extended new outburst of black riots along the Outer Banks from broke out last Wednesday. At Kitty Hawk to Virginia least 36 persons were hospitalBeach," the latest advisory ized with gunshot wounds. Rampaging - with the students.) ....;SSI4allS::i We Are Open For Business DURING SIDEWALK REPAIR Uiiurt Horn partial th growing party plan In Amtrica ntdi counitlort and monogtri from your orta. No invoitmonl it rtqulrtd. Call Collect for " """ ' Freight Train Rams Church Bus, Kills Minister 6 Others MANAGER FROM Nancy catches "40 winks" on her husband's lap during a flight returning them to California Sunday from a trip to the South and East in quest of delegates to the that Ford himself probably could support the positions even if some of Reagan's supporters could not. The platform committee and its subcommittees scheduled public hearings today through Wednesday and will draft the platform Thursday and Friday. Among those testifying were Vice President Nelson Slain Mobster "Some people want a fantastic increase next year and we will resist that." Yamani told the Geneva Foreign Press Association at a luncheon in his CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. honor. At the same time, A car early today (LTI Yamani said the OPEC miniplowed into a crowd of teensters at their meeting in agers who were trying to help Geneva in April this year victims of anoihcr accident, decided to transfer the killing four and injuring 8 Weinglass said. seven-woman- "vulnerable" Carter. "Anybody that seeks to get a public office by promises, without any experience, I think is basically vulnerable," he said. "The public has listened to a good many promises in political campaigns over the years. paign against was a pledge to cut military spending. "If the next adminstration were to cut $7 billion to $9 billion out of our defense budget, our allies ought to apprehensive, and our adversaries should feel that the position, us, is better from their point of view." The interview was fixed to coincide with today as the second anniversary of Ford ascending to the presidency. He sipped iced tea during the hour-lontalk, and wore a dark green sportshirt, a tan cashmere sweater and gray slacks. Outside lay Camp David's e golf course. To the right was the swimming pool where his dog Liberty swam to fetch apples tossed by Ford's daughter, Susan. The President held but did not smoke a pipe. He laughed often. Connolly Attacks the western world and For Harrises "It's for the GOP nomination. He also said he was "very optimistic" he will defeat a TIRED - LTI Telephoto J j f r government spending, an end to forced busing and opposition to aboition except when a mother's life is threatened. But the Reagan list avoided specific issues which have such divided him and Ford and as the Panama Canal was sufficiently vague on -' XT tight control of defense, F -- TEMPWION POPS UP EVERYWHERE. ways to strcr clear of it fxr up at a V,:ght Watchers' rr.irt-r:,- ; well As as a sa!i:w"r,a eatX'j plan. ar.d more than 5.0Q0.P0G hours of ri'roerr. 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