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Show Former Manson girl faces new trial on murder charges LOS ANGELES (UP- D- In her neat skirt and pageboy bob, time had changed Leslie Van Houtens appearance drastically from the Manson Familys bloody Helter SkeLer days of the 1960s, and her attorney argued that it had changed her heart too. Miss Van Houten, 27, has been thoroughly rehabilitated and presents no danger to society, her attorney maintained Monday, Higher vet insurance arguing she should be released on bail pending a second trial for two ' of die murders that made the Manson Family infamous. The hair she shaved off with the other Manson girls has grown shoulder length and her smoothly coiffed bangs covered the faint scar of the X she carved, like the others, into her forehead. The girl who hissed at the judge in her first trial spoke softly at the hearing Monday. Because of her changed nature and exemplary record in prison she qualifies for bail, maintained attorney Maxwell Keith. an Prosecutor Stephen Kay assistant at the first multiple murder trial of Charles Manson counand three of his girls tered that it is one thing to do well in prison, but it is another to know that if you are again convicted of murder, you will spend much more time in prison I want to be sure shell show up for trial, he said, pushing for a high bail. Superior Court Judge Jack Goertzen went along, setting bail at $200,000, but agreed to consider a motion to lower it later. He tentatively scheduled Miss Van Houien s second trial ior the murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca to begin Jan. 28, but attorneys for both sides agreed that postponements will probably delay it until March. An appeals court ruled that Miss Van Houten was denied effective representation at the first trial in 1970 because her lawyer disappeared near the end of the proceedings. first-degr- ... DCSERET NEWS, TUESDAY, Unwed share life and cash dividends - WASHINGTON Veterans (AP) who kept their GI insurance will be paid higher dividends again in 1977, with the SAN FRANCISCO (AP) average World War II vet recei dividend of $104, the Veterans Administration says. The VA said today that veterans of World War I, World War II and the Korean conflict will receive a record million in insurance dividends next year. Vietnam era veterans receive no dividends. VA Administrator Richard L. Roudebush said the $403.4 million in payments will be an increase of $26.6 million over the dividend paid in 1976 and will mark the 10th year in a row that payments to World War I and World War II veterans have increased. Korean war veterans began receiving dividends in 1975 and also have received dividend increases each year Miss Marvins Martin Mitchelson, attorney, described his client as "deliriously since. happy." "This has opened the door Roudebush said $368. 1 million of the total dividend will go to 3.5 million World War II veterans who maintained their GI insurance policies. The payments will average $104 for those vets, an increase from the 1976 average payment of $95. The average payment for the 114,300 s surviving World War I will increase from $183 this year to $202 next year. Their payments will total $23.1 million. About 550,000 Korea veterans who kept their GI policies in force will receive $12.2 million in dividend payments, Roudebush said. There are no dividends for Vietnam era veterans because government-sponsore- d policies for those vets expired shortly after their discharges unless they were converted to regular civilian policies. Texan denies absconding - truck recognized V-- A police spokesman said the offense report would include the investigating officer's opinion that the crime never occurred. "The money that she says that I'm supposed to have taken, she did give it to me," he said. "I didnt take it. Community property is community property, right?" twviv'j" .. J&t v e 3 Cash in on the Boom in Rare Plates NORTHBROOK, HI. The director of a worldwide art exchange in this Chicago suburb has announced a new, easy way to start collecting rare porcelain plates with high potential. According to Roderick MacArthur, director of the Bradford Exchange, one exceptional plate priced at S25 in 1965 now brings $1,750, and another selling at S9.75 in 1969 now sells for $440. Mr. MacArthur says, Since many plates do not increase in value, amateurs often make serious misIc offers a free retakes. on what to look for, port when to buy, what to pay and much more. It even includes special offers on 1 collector plates at modest cost. To get your free report with no obligation, just snnij vmtr nmp ftHrir?, and zip code to the Brad- eagerly-soug- him from news stories and believed him to have a great deal of money. ceived a windfa'l in donations after providing a funeral for an infant they found in a garbage bin, today said reports he took the money and abandoned his family were untrue. Blit Walter Baldrec admitted he had not seen his family in weeks and said he left home with $900 in community property he used to pay bills. He also said he was robbed early today by a man who policy-holder- A 7 IIoiv to full-tim- e' A DALLAS (UPD driver, who with iiis wife re- 28, 1976 -- ADVERTISEMENT for unmarried people to get into said Mitchelson. "It court, means people can get in there on the basis of an implied contract of equitable relief. The court said, "The fact that a man and woman live together without marriage, and engage in a sexual relationship, does not in itself invalidate agreements between them relating to their earnings, property, or expenses. Miss Marvin, 36, said she and Marvin verbally agreed to share earnings while living together at Malibu from October 19(54 to May 1970. During that time, she legally changed her name from Michelle Triola and said the actor had promised to support her. She abandoned a singing career for homemaking, she said. 111 a decision involving actor Lee Marvin, the California Supreme Court has ruled that if .unmarried people agree to share property while living together, they have made a binding contract. Mondays ruling overturned a lower court decision rejecting Michelle Marvin's claim for half the property including motion picture rights worth acmore than $1 million quired by the actor during the six years they lived together. 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Estimates on loss of life by foreign diplomats and others in Peking ranged from a minimum of 10,000 to a million dead and injured. i u v ' ft f f C NT- ' - V - , U s- T m f r- London A man who claims to be a former Soviet secret police agent says Soviet troops were once ordered into a radioactive area after an atomic explosion and that 70 percent were seriously affected by radiation. In the book Inside the released today, KGB, Aleksei Myagkov claims Soviet soldiers are sul joct to "suffering en masse by the authorities. 'h! , rtf ? 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