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Times, The (Newspaper) - February 17, 1975, San Mateo, CaliforniaMoteo the times Mondoy feb. 17, 1975 a we photo tale of the tape mrs. Mary to Berding looks Over the 13-foot Cash Register tape after her latest visit to the food store. Mrs. Berding netted 54 bags of groceries and a Bill of More than on the Market run last week. When the Cincinnati family arrives at the Market the clerks cringe because the Berding get a three month Supply of groceries each time they visit the store. The reason for the quarterly trip is simple mrs. Berding does t like to shop and wants to do it As rarely As possible. Fire destroys Nairobi school sheriffs and Menlo Park fire District investigators Are probing two arson fires which destroyed the Nairobi High school and damaged the nearby Nairobi Day school in East Palo Alto sunday night and Early today. Battalion chief Ronald Taylor estimated the loss to the High school building 896 Runnymede st., at he said flames swept through the two Story build ing which had been converted from a residence for use As a school. The loss to the Day school 805 Runnymede which was fire bombed As firemen were cleaning up from the High school Blaze was estimated by Taylor at the schools operated As a private non profit Educa Dean gets threats Oneonta . A former White House lawyer John w. Dean Iii delivered his scheduled speech before a College audience Here in spite of two threats against his life. The threats were made in separate Telephone Calls to the Oneonta Star newspaper. Each caller told the newspaper that Dean was to be shot the newspaper reported. Dean s speech sunday eve Ning at the state University College at Oneonta was marked by some booing and hissing from the audience but no incidents were reported. No arrests were made police said. When asked what special precautions the pol ice took because of the threats an officer said we made sure he got out of town tonal alternative for Blacks were formed by Gertrude Wilks a member of the East Palo Alto municipal Council. Firemen were summoned to the first fire at . They reported that the build ing was engulfed in flame As they reached the scene. Deputy sheriff Darrell Butler said firemen informed him that the front and Side doors of the building were open and that two Large plate Glass windows were broken when they arrived. Taylor reported that the fire started in the front off ice and swept up to the Sec Ond floor and through the ceiling to the roof of the building which once was a four bedroom Home. The battalion chief said firemen were in the pro Cess of rolling up Hose about . After putting out the fire when the second Blaze erupted i the Day school located about 100 Yards from the High school. He reported that fire bombs fashioned from two soft drink bottles which had been filled with a flammable substance then stuffed with a rag to form a Wick were tossed inside the Day school and on the porch of the build ing. Portions of the bottles were found at the scene and turned Over to investigators. Taylor said that the bomb which hit the porch started a tire which spread up the Wall of the building and onto the roof. The fire starting from the bomb thrown inside the building did comparatively Little damage igniting a car pet in several places As the flammable liquid splattered when the bottle hit and broke. The fires Are the latest in recently mounting difficulties for the schools. Mrs. Wilks reported Only last week that unless a fund drive was successful in. Raising by March 8, the schools would have to close. The staff of nine teachers in the two schools have not been paid for the past two months because of financial difficulties. Sheriff s detective sets. Ron Radetich and leg Blum have been assigned to the arson Case. Cambodian troops suffer setback eritreans flee from Addis Ababa ., soviet talks held Ford continued from Page 1 Ter on France s preparations for an International Confer ence of Oil producers and Consumers. Gromyko and Kissinger met for hours sunday night on other aspects of soviet american relations. . Sources said there were Sharp disagreements on several Points during the initial meeting. But Kissin Ger told newsmen the Atmos phere was generally _ although details were not made Public it was under stood that the subjects Dis cussed included the negotiations for agreements to limit nuclear arms cur Tail underground nuclear tests and increase soviet american Trade. . Officials said Kissin Ger 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 limits agreed on by president Ford and 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 Kissin Ger s party said the treaty May not be ready by then and the Summit May be delayed until september. Kissinger during a week end visit to Bonn told a West German television inter viewer 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 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 Geneva Confer ence 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 Tian political concessions to Israel. On the basis of his exploratory talks in Jerusa Lem and Cairo last week he plans to return to the Middle East about March 10 to undertake shuttle negotiations Between the two Capi tals. Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin said in Tel Aviv Sun Day that there was a real Chance for an interim settlement. But he said Israel would not pay any Price for an Accord. The israeli newspaper Haartz reported that Kis Singer proposed that Israel return the Abu Rudeis Oil Fields in the Southern Sinai in Exchange for a two year peace pledge from Egypt. Egypt has also demanded return of the strategic Mitra and Gidi passes in the Cen trial Sinai. Continued from Page 1 also flying into London from Moscow where they Dis cussed the Helsinki Summit with soviet leaders. The Bri Tish like the americans seem fairly confident that the Helsinki meeting will be organized for about july. Kissinger is flying in from Geneva where he discussed results of his Mideast peace making efforts with soviet foreign minister Andrei a. Gromyko. He intends giving Wilson and Callaghan an account of his Mission and expects to hear from them what they Learned in mos cow. The Secretary tuesday flies on to Paris to have parallel exchanges with the government of president Valery Giscard d Estwing. A presidential visit to the old world almost certainly would include a Stopover in Brussels Headquarters of both the North Atlantic Alli Ance and the european com Mon Market. A major purpose of presi Dent Ford s projected swing through Europe would be to Stop up transatlantic cooperation in Trade Energy and Money matters. The govern ments of Allied Europe and the United states Are pledged to work together in the face of their serious eco nomic difficulties. Addis Ababa. Ethiopia up thousands of eritreans fearing possible reprisals have fled Addis Ababa to return to their native province where government soldiers and mos Lem secessionists have been fighting since Jan. 31, Diplo Mats said today. The reports said As Many As eritreans living in the capital had. Quit their jobs As taxi Drivers shopkeepers and civil servants to return to Eritrea province. There were some eritreans in Addis Ababa Many of them in important government posts and Busi Ness jobs. The exodus represented perhaps one third of the City s eritrean Popula Tion. The military government has detained several Hundred other eritreans considered possible sympathizers to the rebel cause and purged both the air Force and Navy of possible eritrean the detained eritreans were interned in Camps in the South of the country. According to military sources the rebels have suffered heavy casualties in 18 Days of fighting. Although neither Side has issued any communique on the Battle these sources said the goer Bentsen continued from Page 1 times pet of the week Myia a Young female afghan at Peninsula humane society says if i had one wish it would be to have a Good Home. I m very docile and would be a great pet for children. I have much love to give and would be any Man s Best Friend. Please consider giving me a Chance in your Myia is about a year old and has her shots. The volunteers at have bathed and groomed her so she s All ready for her new Home. She will be available for adoption tues Day afternoon at Peninsula humane society s Coyote Point shelter 1225 Coyote Point drive san Mateo. Her adoption fee is plus for 1975 License. If More than one family is interested in her a drawing will be held. Few other news events were Likely to occur to announce his candidacy in the Senate caucus room a traditional launching pad for presiden tial 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 inter est in the presidency. He has raised More than million much of it from but has less visible political backing than two other democrats with com parable 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 Mem Ber of the House and a successful businessman. Irr becoming a formal candidate Bentsen joins Jack son rep. Morris k. Udall d-ariz., former gov. Jimmy Carter d-ga., and former sen. Fred r. Harris a of la. They could be joined soon by Wallace sen. Birch e. Bayh of Indiana former Rillas May have suffered 1.000 dead and wounded. The eritreans have a frontline fighting strength of some 6.000 men. And the sources said they could not continue to sustain casual ties on such a level. This was one reason they said Why the guerrillas had relaxed their stranglehold on the eritrean capital of Asmara and allowed the military to resupply the City at least partially with vital gasoline ammunition and food supplies. But other diplomatic sources said the. Eritreans also had deliberately with drawn from around Asmara to pursue a diplomatic Offen Sive from a position of strength and Force the Cen trial government into conces Sions at talks being arranged by neighbouring Sudan. A government spokesman said sunday Ethiopia Proba Bly would Send a delegation to Khartoum in the next few Days to continue talks with sudanese officials on a Possi ble cease fire with the guerrillas. But the government offi Cial cautioned that the ethiopian delegation was going f merely to listen and had not agreed in Advance to any proposals on a halt to the shooting or of any peace agreement. Phenom penh Cambodia a the cambodian government s drive to reopen the Mekong River Supply route from South Vietnam received a severe setback today when a government battalion was driven from positions on one Bank of the River military sources said. The battalion fled from the West Bank of the River where it landed last week at team Raing 40 Miles Southeast of phenom penh the sources said. Several Hundred govern ment troops were reported still holding the Northern end of an Island in the River near team Raing. The government sent about 900 troops Down the River last week in an Effort to break the Khmer Rouge blockade that has virtually choked off Supply traffic from South Vietnam to phenom penh. Because of the insurgents guns and rockets along the River and their mines in the water Only three Small convoys have gotten through since Christ Mas eve. The government Force came under continuous attack from the Khmer Rouge and suffered heavy casualties. Five Navy Landing Craft were reported dam aged. The cambodian air Force bombed insurgent positions with Cluster bombs but this did not diminish the Khmer Rouge attack. A big american Airlift to bring ammunition and other critically needed military supplies to phenom penh has been under Way since last week but there s no Money to pay for a Long an american official said. The cambodians simply have to get the River open or they will lose the War a few the government suffered other setbacks 12 Miles Northwest of phenom penh where heavy Khmer Rouge attacks drove the 7th Bri Gade from its Headquarters and in Northwest Cambodia where insurgents captured a District town and tons of Rice. Military sources said the shortage of Rice in cambodian territory still controlled by phenom penh has been aggravated by the loss of the Rice. Joyce bump Oak we must keep taxes Down homeowners Are Hurt the most when taxes go up. I pledge to do my utmost to keep City costs 0t a minimum. Vote for Joyce Mirk Dau for City Council March 4 gov. Terry Sanford of North Carolina and a number of others. 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