Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - March 19, 1971, Oakland, California L v 98th NO. 78 A METROPOLITAN NEWSPAPER MARCH A MONTH Hundreds Die In Peru Quake Peru An avalanche of mud and rocks touched off by an quake thundered down on an isolated ing camp high in the Andes and killed 400 to 600 federal police said Police said the avalanche struck the mining camp of about 55 miles north of shortly after a light quake rocked the area The an journey by foot from the nearest was inhabited by an estimated Initial reports from rescue crews that reached the camp today said between 400 and 600 persons had been killed and at least 50 others Police said the avalanche apparently was caused when the quake caused a tion of a nearby mountain peak to topple into Lake Water spilling over the banks of the lake caused an avalanche that roared down onto the mining camp Report Says Few Know Role An independent ordered by the State of will soon show that few of Oakland's poor have even heard of the city's Federally financed antipoverty Mayor John H. ing said Reading disclosed existence of the report during a council meeting with the executive committee Economic Development Inc. During the the Rev. Robert C. dent of the and other officials protested the council's recent resolution backing Governor Reagan's veto of federal funding to the independent antipoverty The governor's veto was based on a state study which charged the Oakland erty agency with ment and political activity by some staff Reading and councilmen refused to back down on their with the mayor saving a state report will show the has had little impact on the city's He did not go into detail at tbe but when questioned later said he had seen a rough draft of the report prepared by a research will show coat the im- pact of the poverty program is surprisingly Reading 2 per cent of those questioned even heard of the he By MARTIN Tribune Stiff Writer He said a higher percentage of the poor credited the tional Association for the Ad- vancement of Colored People and the welfare program for giving them more than the Reading said the report probably will be released next During the m e e t i n the Rev. Mr. Thomas repeatedly cited an opinion from the re- gional Office of Economic Op- Roger that the executive director was not violating eral guidelines or laws against political The executive Percy recently threatened political warfare against incumbent city for backing the The Rev. Mr. Thomas also cited a written opinion of Betts that the city could ways take over the a n t i- poverty program if it were dissatisfied with the way it was He said he wondered what the executive tee had to do to satisfy the city council and win its port to get the veto over- Reading said it would be premature for the council to take any action now pending a decision by the federal Office of Economic 1 He said state charges of mismanagement and Lawyer Shot Walk Fatally During political activity were and now it was up to the federal agency to make a if the Federal Government upholds the he will have to do something to see that See Back Merritt May Open Soon Merritt College President Norvel Smith said day he hopes to reopen the campus Monday without police He that three leaders of which kept the campus closed all this week will have to be kept off the Smith said he recommended the expulsion of Douglas James Evans and Andre Navy Hails New X-Ray Discovery Wrecked U.S. soldiers inspect truck at Khe Sanh blasted by shells from North Vietnamese Senators Keep The SST Alive who he identified as ers of the week long and of two previous campus overs within tiie last six can't operate with these three men on Smith He added that the campus will not open people are still throwing rocks as of Sunday 22, of 2227 Bonar 22, of 345 62nd 23. of 1620A East 14th and John of 426 Arch San all have been charged with assault on Smith when he was ejected from his office last Miranda was released from jail last night on The others had not been ar- rested on this charge by mid- If he does open the campus Smith he will be prepared to call police back on the campus at any time Peralta Colleges District of- announced today they will begin searching ately for an interim president to take over the Grove Street campus by April 7 when Smith moves to the new site near Redwood Road in the Oakland Chancellor John Dunn also announced studies will com- mence immediately to find a suitable campus location in the Berkeley Albany North Oakland The he will include the ty of permanently using the present Grove Street He did not mention the lem of financing a new pus or maintaining the Grove Street of the student con- cern stems from a lack of faith and confidence that the board will actually cany out its commitment for a fourth See Back CtL 4 By FRANK CAREY WASHINGTON Dis- covery of a new and ly powerful source of X-rays in deep space trillions of miles beyond the Milky Way was announced today by the which termed it major Detected by in- the X-rays were described as coming from the bailiwick of a constellation some million million million miles from the earth and packing the combined energy of 10 trillion stars the size of the sun. This energy output makes this X-ray source the second most powerful of all known scientists Rocket astronomers of the U.S. Naval Research tory said the origin of the ray emission is believed to be the so-called galaxy NGC 1275" which is also with a emitting constellation called Both NGC 1275 and Perseus A have previously been fied as sources of in deep But the new discovery marks the first time X-rays have been detected coming from that NGC 1275 is the fourth ex- object from which X-rays have been the laboratory is exceeded in its energy output only by the quasar See Back Col. 7 Saigon Of 6-Week Laos Campaign SAIGON South Vietnamese C o m m a n d an- today that it has withdrawn between and of its troops from Laos in the past two leaving about over the Evidence mounted that the Saigon government is ning to close out its campaign in Laos after nearly six South Vietnamese units which were heavily en- of Living Climbs Less WASHINGTON The government reported today what the White House called for con- a of one per cent increase in the cost of living last For two the of one per cent rise was tbe smallest since February and March of 1967. The February rise lows January's increase of of one per and remains betow UK monthly in- creases of from to of one per cent that for all but one month of last Last August the increase also was two- tenths of one per cent is good tary of Labor Junes D. son said at the White is encouraging White House press secretary Ronald L. Ziegfer still think we've got the economy headed in the right Hodgson pre- dicting further improvements later in the The Labor Department's Bureau of Labor issuing at- February in- crease to higher food prices and increases in cost of parel and most consumer These were ed by declines in mortgage in- terest rates and prices of used cars and The February increase means it cost 1119.40 to buy what did in 1967. gaged by the enemy were pulled back to South There have been no Lt. Col. Tran Van An told newsmen at the Saigon command's daily Some of Saigon's troops at the Ham Nghi forward quarters were reported ing to return to rear More than 100 ty trucks were assembled at Ham and the troops were loading them with beds and other supplies and Bunkers were tents Some South Vietnamese troops withdrawn from the fighting said they refused to fight another day in had been fighting for six weeks in one dier told a reporter in Khe South would rather surrender than fight any Gen. Pham Van commander of the South 1st Infantry said his entire 1st been pulled out of Laos after being cut up and An attorney was shot to death last night in San cisco as he strolled alone two Nodes from his Police describe at as a dom attack with robbery as the The attorney's wallet was He was identified as Harold J. 33, of 155 Jackson San A resident of ibe area heard a shot shortly after 11 p.m. Siegel's body was found near the tion of Drumm and Ion He had been shot once in the back of his His right hand was in his trouser Patrolman Bruce Marovich said ibe taller apparently lay wait for anyone mho came The officer described the murder as ibe of street robbery the gay a If the tim is dead nobody can testify af ainst yoa in father is retired Rear Adm. Arthur of Sai a Potted Plant Was His Christmas Tree A. Fla. here wasn't thing real unusual about the a police detective be was standing there hitchhiking with a foot marijuana tree over his admitted ant Kerry A. but there a perfectly innocent He was jast taking the Dot plant home for a Christmas 21 said he plying his trifle as a exterminator it a SI burg house last Nov. 27 when he spotted this copse of shrubs in the back Being fresh home from tary service in where is plentiful and grows he recognized the shrubs for what they It was getting on toward Christmas Other folks were lugging home the tional Why not be Why an er- satz Christinas tree out of a properly trimmed pot So he uprooted a flung it over his shoulder and started thumbing a lift on a mam A car with two men hat's that 3011 got and his load into ger. it home for a Christmas Grateful for the he snapped off a piece of his shrub and offered A to one of the What happened next was enough to shake your faith in Santa The two men in the car were de- They placed ger under arrest Luchsinger pleaded pally yesterday to a charge of dis- Pending a presentence cuit Ben F. Overton lowed him to return lo his job the exterminating com- No charges brought ibe ihe house where the pot plants An unsuspecting middle aged police they had hired some lo do repair work some before Luchsinger plucked his and the con- was demoralized by weeks of heavy North Vietnamese at- Phu acknowledged to men at Ham Nghi that nearly 300 of the regiment had been killed or wounded in five days of fitting this week around Fire Base Lolo and Landing Zone on a ridgeline south of Highway 9 in Vietnamese sources in Saigon said another 200 troops are unaccounted Tbe general said his troops had completed three phases of the including a sweep of Highway 914, one of the key arteries of the Ho Chi Minn It runs southeast of Sepone back ward the South Vietnamese Vietnamese field officers said last week that tbe major portion of the drive into which began Feb. 8, would be concluded by the end of the month and the forces would be pulled back to the Gen. Phu also confirmed that his forces had pulled out of Landing Zone Brown under heavy attack but there are still some troops tbe ity of 14 miles east of the Vietnamese He said this is now the most ad- See Eack I Spring Makes Early Arrival Spring has nudged winter into limbo throughout even though the season doesn't arrive officially until p.m. The hour is known as the vernal when the sun crosses the celestial equator moving But for tbe past two the weather has been definitely and the is for more of the same ngM The a balmy SS degrees at Oakland tional Airport yesterday will possibly climb into the low 70s today and With the exception of the ex- treme where clouds were to the forecast of warm and sunny extends over the entire Crucial Vote Set for Next Week WASHINGTON The Senate Appropriations Committee voted 17 to 5 today to continue government ing on the supersonic trans- keeping alive tration hopes the House deci- sion to kill the program can be White House Press tary Ronald Ziegler told men hope and objective is that the Senate will restore the that doesn't he assume that a her of suggestions will be coming on how to deal with I don't want to say that the Administration is putting forth any other suggestions or considering any other We are hopeful the Senate will Senate floor debate on the appropriations committee tion will begin Tuesday showdown vote scheduled for late The House voted 215 to 204 yesterday against spending any more government money to develop two prototypes of the trans- port after March 30 when present authorization In Another development in. the the Senate passed 71 to 0 a aimed at flights of commercial planes over the continental United States at supersonic speeds except for research on the SST The measure would require SST contractors to strate that the prototype could comply with noise limitations which now apply to subsonic planes such as the 747 and At the White Ziegler said he was not prepared to discuss alternate ways of continued SST if the Senate fails restore tie funds knocked out by the would be prepared to listen to suggestions the President has stated his thinking regarding the Ziegler position is See Bick Moscow and China Reopen Word Battle By RAYMOND LAWRENCE Foreign Analyst The violent battle of words between Peking and Moscow has providing dence the Kremlin still hopes for overthrow of the Mao At the same time a group of top-ranking Soviet specialists on Communist China charged Peking with trying to provoke a war between the United Stales and Russia so China can control ibe The Russian Sinologists also said in a well-documented booklet Red in seeking to prevent U.S. preventive strikes at its nuclear has promised not lo in- directly in the Indo- china The written by nine Russian scholars and sponsored by the Far Eastern Institute of the Soviet my of and published of the cardinal tasks of Chinese foreign policy is lo a wedge between the ibe cd lo inspire and wrt a permanent stale of con- to crises and di- rect clashes between the two Since 1969 the ideological of words between ibe two pants has been comparatively Eat this
