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Kissinger, Gromyko discuss Mid-East

GENEVA, Switzerland (AP) Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko turned to a discussion of Middle East peace proposals today after a 3^-hour meeting Sunday night on other aspects of SovietrAmerican relations. U.S. sources said there were sharp disagreements on several points during the initial meeting. But Kissinger told newsmen the atmosphere was “generally constructive.” Although details were not

Demos-GOP set to spar on primaries; ♦ General Assembly moves into 2nd half

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - Senate Democrats prepared to square off again today with majority Republicans on which statewide races should be covered by a proposed direct primary bill. The 99th Indiana General Assembly, now moving into the second half of this year’s session, cleared through com-

AFL-CIO for minimum wage hike

MIAMI BEACH, FIa.(AP)The AFL-CIO plans to Use its legislative muscle to pressure Congress for a new increase in the minimum wage to help the lowest-paid workers cope with inflation.

Pension formula to cost taxpayers millions

WASHINGTON (AP) - While government budget deficits mount, a pension formula is starting to cost taxpayers billions of dollars in excess federal employe retirement checks. Pensions for nearly two million retired civilian and military personnel are supposed to keep pace with the rising cost of living. But an ingredient added to the adjustment formula five years ago is pushing pensions increasingly ahead of the cost of living in an escalating pattern that could easily cost the government SIOO billion by 1990. The effect of the formula has received virtually no public notice until now and was never projected by the House subcommittee which spearheaded the change in late 1969. But extensive calculations by The Associated Press show the degree to which federal retirees

Edelin manslaughter conviction raises fears among physicians

BOSTON (AP) The manslaughter conviction of Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin for the death of an aborted fetus has raised fears among some physicians of new restrictions on abortions. “The verdict will send shock waves into the medical community,” said William J. Curran, professor of legal medicine at Harvard. “Within the next week it’s just going to have shocking impact on physicians and others that are doing any procedures of this kind. It will have an effect all over the country,” Curran said. Edelin, 36, was convicted over the weekend for the death of a fetus during a legal abortion performed in October 1973 at Boston City Hospital. In Boston, Edelin’s conviction clears the way for prosecution of four physicians under an 1814 grave-robbing

Will cost 12-13 cents to mail a letter says Postmaster Benjamin Bailan

WASHINGTON (AP) - Postal rates will go up by the end of the year and it will cost 12 or 13 cents to mail a first-class letter that now carries a 10-cent stamp, says Postmaster Gen. Benjamin F. Bailar. “We are experiencing some very substantial cost increases. We are presently operating at a

made public, it was understood that the subjects discussed included the negotiations for agreements to limit nuclear arms, curtail underground nuclear tests and increase Sovietr American trade. U.S. officials said Kissinger expects another four to six weeks of “sparring” at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks that resumed here Jan. 31. This new round of SALT negotiations is trying to produce a treaty incorporating the arms

mittees last week a number of important bills which are now ready for floor action. However, one of the more controversial pieces of legislation the Equal Rights Amendment died in a Senate committee Thursday while House Democrats’ were readying the rest of their tax relief proposals.

Although it is less than a year since Congress raised the pay floor, organized labor will argue that a bigger increase is needed to help workers make up last year’s 5.4 per cent loss of purchasing power to in-

will have their pensions increased more than the inflation rate in years ahead. The higher the rate of inflation, the farther ahead retirement checks will go. Even if inflation slackns to a low rate such as 3 per cent a year, pensions will climb faster than living costs. For an employe who retired in January 1973 at the average retirement age of 57 and lives an expectable 18 years, the intended bonus would be more than $27,500 if inflation proceeded at a moderate rate of about 6 per cent a year. The law was altered in 1969 because of complaints that pensioners were losing money due to the time lag between increases in the cost of living and the time those increases brought adjustment in monthly retirement checks. Congress voted that instead of making each adjustment

statute for experiments on aborted fetuses. Asst. Dist. Atty. Newman A. Flanagan said after the verdict that he would turn to the fetal experimentation case, in which indictments were returned last April. Some doctors fear this case could interfere with research in fetal development and birth defects. Edelin’s trial, which involved complicated medical testimony about when life actually begins, aroused interest because of its implications in the battle over legalization of abortion. On Sunday, a conference of conservatives in Washington passed a resolution urging a constitutional amendement to protect the life of unborn children from the moment of conception. And John Cardinal Krol, Roman Catholic archbishop of Philadelphia, said of the case:

deficit,” Bailar said Sunday on ABC’s “Issues and Answers.” “We are continuing to have experience with the same inflation that is plaguing the rest of the country and we have labor negotiations coming up this summer,” he said. Another postal service spokesman later Said the deficit

limits agreed on by President Ford and Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev at their Vladivostok meeting. The goal is to have the treaty ready for signing when Brezhnev visits the United States. This visit has been expected in late June or early July. However, a senior official in Kissinger’s party said the treaty may not be ready by then, and the summit may be delayed until September. Kissinger during a weekend

The direct primary bill (5837), which now places only U.S. Senate races under its jurisdiction, stood ready on second reading (the amendment stage) in the Senate. At least three amendments were prepared for the measure, ranging from the addition of all candidates running on a statewide basis to just the gover-

flation. Under new amendments signed into law last May, the minimum wage went to $2.10 for most workers on Jan. 1 1975, and will increase further in steps to $2.30 by Jan. 1, 1977.

equal to the rise in living costs since the last adjustment, an extra 1 per cent of the previous month’s pension would be tacked on to compensate for the time-lag loss. Pension adjustments over the past couple of years have been made about twice a year. The General Accounting Office had warned of a possible spiral effect, but no one worked out detailed projections of the 1 per cent bonus. Ralph J. Devlin, top staff assistant on the House Civil Service subcommittee which initiated the legislation, said “the assumption was that it would be a catchup and nothing more.” Transcripts of hearings held at the time bear this out. But by introducing the 1 per cent factor, Congress cranked into the retirement formula a permanent increase to make up for a one-time loss of money.

“Some have expressed concern that the decision may inhibit abortion. We pray to God that it will.” Edelin’s attorney has said the case will be appealed, to the Supreme Court if necessary. Edelin appeared on the Black News television program in Boston and said the fact that he is black was a factor in the trial. He noted one alternate juror had been quoted as saying the jurors made racial slurs in the jury room. In a separate interview in the Boston Globe, Edelin called the trial “a witch hunt.” “A lot came together for them in my case. They got a black physician, they got a woman more than 20 weeks pregnant, and they got a fetus in a mortuary.”

is “in excess of SBOO million this year.” He said that the total government subsidy for the postal service for fiscal 1974 was $1.7 billion. “Relatively speaking, we are becoming less dependent on public subsidies,” said the spokesman.

visit to Bonn told a West German television interviewer that “the United States recognizes that a final settlement in the Middle East cannot be achieved without the participation, cooperation and possible guarantee of the Soviet Union.” Brezhnev in a weekend speech criticized Kissinger’s step-by-step strategy of limited, separate agreements between Israel and each of its Arab adversaries. The Soviet leader called once again for a

nor’s race. Sen. Marie T. Lauck, D-In-dianapolis, borrowed a House bill on direct primaries from Rep. Stephen C. Moberly, RShelbyville, and entered it as a proposed amendment to the Senate proposal. Sen. Lauck’s amendment would place all candidates run-

Consumer prices rose an average of 11 per cent last year and, according to the Ford administration, are expected to increase by about the Same rate this year. A push for a new hike in the minimum wage is expected to become a key part of labor’s broad economic program for which the AFL-CIO is seeking Congressional support. This week’s meeting of the 35man AFL-CIO executive council, beginning today, will

Imprisoned Irish end fast AFL-V

DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) Twelve imprisoned Irish Re- . publican Army men have ended a. 6V 2 -week hunger strike after the Dublin government reportedly agreed to segregate them from common criminals. An IRA statement said the men ended their salt-and-water fast Sunday after a “satisfac-

Kennedys spend ‘fun, family time’in Massachusetts weekend

STOCKBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) Wherever they go, there are those gentle reminders ... During a family ski weekend in the Massachusetts Berkshires, John F. Kennedy Jr. climbed the steps of a ski lodge and as he looked over the door at a framed portrait of his father, President John F. Kennedy, his face broke into a smile. “Hey, look at that,” he said, nudging a friend and pointing to the words, ‘Ask not what your country can do for you ...’. That’s his most famous quote.” The friend smiled and paused, as if expecting John to say more. But no more was said. Betty Gargan, a cousin and close friend of the Kennedy family, said that when the children get together, they rarely talk about their family’s his-

Ex-Tarzan Pierce set to visit LU. campus

By DALE BURGESS Associated Press Writer Hugh Hazelrigg, one of Indiana University’s more articulate publicists, reports that James H. Pierce will visit the Bloomington campus Thursday to add some muscle to the Lilly Library “Science Fiction and Fantasy” exhibit through Saturday. Pierce, 74,Jives in retirement in Apple Valley, Calif., keeping fit with 10-handicap golf. He is remembered by elder citizens, not because he was a first rate center on the 19201. U. football team but as one of the more durable Tarzans. The first movie Tarzan, as anybody in Fulton County can tell you, was Elmo Lincoln, a weightier type from Roches-

Geneva conference between Israel and all the Arabs, a procedure that Kissinger believes would produce fruitless argument and propaganda. Despite the Soviet position, Kissinger is going ahead with his attempt to negotiate another Israeli-Egyptian agreement providing for another Israeli withdrawal in the Sinai desert and Egyptian political concessions to Israel.

ning statewide including U.S. senator, governor, lieutenat governor, secretary of state, state treasurer and attorney general under the primary system. All such candidates are now selected by their respective parties at nominating conventions.

serve as a follow-up session on proposals adopted last month by the labor federation’s general board in Washington. The council meets In the plush surroundings of Miami Beach every February, and this year is no different, despite the recession that has forced the layoffs of thousands of union members. The general board, composed of the presidents of all 110 AFLCIO unions, called for immediate Congressional action “to put America back to work”

tory settlement” was reached with authorities at Portlaoise penitentiary 50 miles from Dublin. The statement gave no details of the agreement. A government spokesman denied that it had given in to the strikers’ demands that jailed IRA members be given the status of political prisoners. A

tory. “They know each other so well, they enjoy a chance just to be together,” she said. “For instance, when Teddy Jr. had his leg amputated, my son Joey, who was 13, spent every weekend with him in the hospital. He slept in his room. Bandaged his leg. He was with him all the time. “Then we went to Florida over Christmas and someone found Teddy a large threewheeler. And they both rode bikes together, just like they always did. It was as if nothing had changed.” Teddy Jr., 13, who had his leg amputated 15 months ago to halt the spread of bone cancer,, spent the weekend skiing with his family and his cousin, Joey Gargan. Young Kennedy has outrigger, ski-tipped poles to

ter. The movie series ran through a long list of male leads, who ultimately became the longmuscled, streamlined variety—swinners, in brief—who looked more capable of swinging through trees. Pierce was working his way through law school in Los Angeles when he met Tarzan author Edgar Rice Burroughs at a party and was tagged as Tarzan No. 4. Moreover, he married Burroughs’ daughter Joah and they played Tarzan and Jane on 364 radio shows. Pierce was in another science fiction movie, “Flash Gordon,” in 1936. Buster Crabbe, who had become Tarzan in the meantime, was the Flash and Pierce was King Hun.

Ford launching campaign for economic proposals

\ WASHINGTON (AP) - President Ford, after a recent barnstorming stint around the country, is launching a face-to-face campaign for his energy and economic programs among members of the House and Senate. He has invited the Senate Republican steering committee to dinner at the White House tonight and is planning breakfasts, dinners and receptions every day through Thursday

Cambodia suffers from shortage of rice, 2,000 tons lost

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) The shortage of rice in Cambodian territory still controlled by the Phnom Penh government has been aggravated by the loss of 2,000 tons in a district town captured by the Khmer Rouge, according to military sources. Military personnel arriving from Battambang province, in northwest Cambodia, said insurgents Captured MVONG Russei, 150 miles northwest of Phnom Penh, during the weekend after a siege of several months. They said the fate of 100 defenders and 10,000 civilians in the town was unknown. Along with the town, the insurgents captured 125,000 sacks

government statement said: “Certain matters which were not matters of principle as far as the government was concerned were resolved satisfactorily.” If classified as political prisoners, the men would be entitled to special visiting and parole privileges and the right to

help him master the slopes. Teddy Jr. and Joey laughed, played charades, shot spit balls and threw whipped cream at each other and little was made of young Kennedy’s handicap. The tousled, blond eighth grader took even the steep, bumpy slopes gracefully with only an occasional fall and after only 15 days of practice. “I’m enormously proud,” said his father, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., who led the entourage. “If you can do this and keep up with your friends, it’s enormously self-building.” And Teddy Jr. keeps up with his friends. With his ski-tipped poles propped slightly In front of him, he glides down the slopes with an ease that makes regular skiers gasp.

World War II interrupted Pierce’s movie career. He served as a Marine Corps pilot and afterward became a propserous real estate dealer in the San Fernando Valley. Pierce still is a director of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., of Tarzana, Calif., and is being accompanied on his Indiana visit by Danton Burroughs, assistant vice presidept and the author’s grandson. Danton is in charge of the firm’s massive archives and some of it is on loan for the Lilly exhibit. One of the more titillating things about the Tarzan books was Burroughs’ complete innocence of knowledge about Africa’s great plains and rain forests.

for other legislators from both parties. The Senate this week may take final action on the Housebacked delay in Ford's oil tariff hike while the House Ways and Means Committee is taking final action on a Democrat-spon-sored tax cut plan that may reach the House floor next week. The President was on the

of unhusked rice, the equivalent of 2,000 tons of milled grain, the sources said. The loss does not affect riceshort Phnom Penh since road and river traffic between Battambang and the capital bas been cut for months by the Khmer Rouge. But the northwest province, which normally is the country’s rice bowl, is threatened with a shortage because of bad weather and poor security. Meanwhile, stiff fighting was reported continuing southeast of Phnom Penh where government troops are trying to reopen the Mekong river to supply convoys from South Vietnam. Only three small convoys

receive food parcels in addition to accomodations separate from the run-of-the-mill prisoners. Seven prisoners in Portlaoise began the strike Jan. 2. Other IRA men in the prison joined them later in January, and recently a number of them had been transferred to a military camp for hospital treatment. Last Thursday the government reduced the sentences of five .the men, including one of the original strikers, and released them. Patrick Ward, 29, another of

Bentsen plans formal announcement of presidential bid; sth Demo

WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr., a wealthy Texan with more money than tangible political support, is becoming the fifth formal entry in the wide-open 1976 Democratic presidential race. Bentsen planned his formal announcement today at a pair of press conferences and receptions here and in Houston, Tex. He chose a holiday, when few other news events were likely to occur, to announce his candidacy in the Senate Caucus Room, a traditional launching pad for presidential candidates. Under a Texas law passed in 1960 for the late Lyndon B. Johnson, Bentsen will be able to run for both the presidency and re-election to the Senate in 1976. In the past 18 months, Bentsen has taken advantage of his job as chairman of the 1974 Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee to travel widely while making little effort to hide his interest in the presidency. He has raised more than $1 million, much of it from Texas, but has less visible political

Investigation slated

PORTLAND, Ind. (AP) - Jay County Sheriff Gerald Kirby says he has called for an investigation into the bombing of an unoccupied patrol car. The car was parked behind the county jail here late Saturday when a bomb planted On the hood went off, causing an estimated S9OO in damage. Kirbv said the cruiser was

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road during the past two weeks, travelling to Georgia, Texas, Kansas and New York to make speeches, meet with some two dozen governors and hold news conferences as part of his effort to drum up public support for his programs. Ford’s programs were criticized anew Sunday by Senate Democratic Whip Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia and Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey, D-Minn.

have made it up the river to the city since Christmas Eve because of Khmer Rouge shore batteries and mines in the river. Military sources said about 500 government troops were landed at several points along the river Saturday but were meeting strong resistance from rebels dug in on both banks. The informants said the government force suffered heavy casualties, and five navy landing craft were damaged. The Cambodian air force bombed insurgent positions with cluster bombs, but this apparently did not diminish the Khmer Rouge attack.

the original strikers who had been reported near death in a Dublin hospital with a kidney disorder, broke his 45-day fast with a cup of tea and proclaimed the outcome “another victory.” The IRA prisoners are all serving terms for membership in the illegal guerrilla army plus variety of other offenses. Ward, for example, is serving a three-year sentence for possession of arms, attempted armed robbery and belonging to the IRA.

backing than two other Democrats with comparable financial resources, Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama and Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington. However, he hopes to appeal to Democrats as a moderate with a business background. As a political performer, he is smooth, articulate and bland. The 54-year-old freshman Democrat is a former member of the House and a successful businessman. In becoming a formal candidate, Bentsen joins Jackson, Rep. Morris K. Udall, D-Ariz., former Gov. Jimmy Carter, DGa., and former Sen. Fred R. Harris, D-Okla. They could be joined soon by Wallace, Sen. Birch E. Bayh of Indiana, former Gov. Terry Sanford of North Carolina and a number of others. A native of Mission in the Rio Grande Valley, Bentsen was elected to the House at the age of 27 but retired six years later and moved to Houston Where he entered business.

taken out of service about three weeks ago after it was involved in a traffic accident and had been parked behind the jail since then. No one was injured in the explosion, but Kirby said one of his reserve officers was standing about 20 yards from the car when the blast occurred.