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HOLLYWOOD William Bud Abbot,
75, th3 skinny straight man to Lou Costello
in one of the most famous comedy teams of
the 1940s, died Wednesday.
Death was attributed to cancer, a family
spokesman said. Abbott's widow Betty was
with him when he died at 7 a.m. PDT.
Abbott had been in poor health for more
than a decade after a series of strokes.
He finished his life living on Social
Security after his savings from the huge sums
he earned as a star were stripped from him by
the government in a tax action in 1959, the
year Costello died.
Abbott and Costello made more than 50
movies and were together for 21 years.
Abbott once said he made $400,000 a year at
the height of his career in the 1940s.
Aboott was born into show business in
Atlantic City, N.J., on Oct. 2, 1898. His
mother was a circus bareback rider and his
father was an advance man for the show.
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JOHANNESBURG South Africa's
white voters chose a new parliament
Wednesday in a national election called by
Prime Minister John Vorster to seek a
ate for continuation of his racial
apartheid policy. Results are expected
Thursday.
Vorster, head of the ruling National Party,
said the policies of the opposition United
Party could eventually bring the 16 million
blacks to power in the racially-divided
country.
"I will never allow the sharing of our white
sovereignty," Vorster said during the
campaign.
The United party, which traditionally has
drawn its support from the English-speaking
section of South Africa's white population,
plans to share power in a federal structure
with the country's 16 million blacks, who do
net have the right to vote.
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ROCKFORD, 111. The Fox is back!
That courageous crusader against air and
water pollution, that mysterious scourge of
environment-soiling industries has surfaced
again after an absence of more than two
years.
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TEL AVIV Israeli and Syrian fightsr-bombers Wednesday flaw raids along tha
Golan Heights where tanks and artillery dueled for the 44th consecutive day. An
official Syrian newspaper warned the fighting could escalate into the fifth C'.lddle
East War.
Israeli security forces on the front lines were reported on heightened alerts on the
eve of Israel's Independence Day cel ebrations Thursday, es a precaution against the
possibility of another surprise attack by Arab armies similar to that which triggered
the fourth Middle East war last Oct 6, Yom Kippur.
43 bodies recovered from jet crash
TING A TING A, Bali Indonesian army rangers scaled a sheer mountainside
Wednesday and located 43 bodies of the 107 persons killed when a Pan American
Jetliner crashed and burst into flames Monday.
Out commanders at this base camp at the bottom of the 3,CC0-foot mountain said
the grim task of removing the dead would be delayed.
Col. Umar Said, head of the ranger unit, said the remains of the other 64 persons
lay In deep gullies and ravines accessible only by rope climbers. He estimated it
would be four to five days before the remains could be recovered and brought down
the mountain for identification.
Student strike broken up in Beirut
BEIRUT Lebanese security forces occupied the American University of Beirut at
dawn Wednesday and ejected students who had occupied the administration
building in a ttrika sgsins! higher tuition.
Interior Minister Bahij Takleddin said police arrested 61 students on the campus
and others in various parts of Beirut when they tried to block roads by setting fire to
old automobile tires to protest the police action at the university.
Police said none of those arrested were Americans.
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mature Fox who turned up in Rockford
Tuesday night, about 90 miles north of his
usual haunts closer to Chicago. This time, he
offered only advice.
A man who said he was the Fox called The
Rockjord Morning Star and talked about
hydraulic cement, "one of the best friends a
conservationist ever had. He also touched
on House members opposing a scenic rivers
bill.
Doubts spread quickly through the city
room that this was the real Fox. Belief grew
that it must have been some lily-livered
imposter.
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scrawled insulting signs across walls of
industrial plants, plugged up sewer pipes and
once dumped a load of dead fish and muck in
the tastefully furnished offices of United
States Steel Corp.
Tuesday night's return of the Fox may
have carried a threat.
Its amazing," the Fox said, "how many
people can be brought into compliance with
the law. You don't have to take them into
court. They stop polluting immediately."
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WASHINGTON William E. Simon,
apparently assured of Senate confirmation
as Treasury secretary, said Wednesday a tax
cut would only add to the country's rate of
inflation.
Simon told the Senate Finance
Committee, considering his nomination,
that he would give top priority as head of the
Treasury Department to "getting the
inflation dragon back in the cage."
"We just feel a tax cut at this time would be
highly inflationary," said Simon, the former
head of the Federal Energy Office whom
President Nixon chose to take over the
Treasury when Secretary George P. Shultz
resignation becomes effective next month.
Sens. Walter F. Mondale, D-Minn.,
Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., and other
Senate Democrats are pushing for an across-the-board
tax cut for individuals through an
increased personal exemption or optional
tax credits for taxpayers in the lower
brackets.
The measure is expected to pass the
Senate, possibly as early as next week, as an
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WASHINGTON President Nixon
Wednesday asked Congress to approve a
$5. 1 billion foreign aid package that includes
$457.5 million for Egypt and Jordan and
$350 million for Israel.
The President also asked Congress to
authorize an appropriation of $939.8 million
Lawyers battle
as trial closes
NEW YORK Government prosecutor
John R. Wing, striking back at the defense
contention that John N. Mitchell and
Maurice H. Stans were innocent of criminal
conspiracy and perjury, charged Wednesday
that the former Nixon cabinet officers felt
they were above the law.
Beginning a lengthy summation. Wing
told the Federal Court jury that former
Attorney General Mitchell "had no right to
lie under oath and if he gets away with it,
what man in this country will have any
respect for law?"
Earlier Wednesday in his half of the
defense summation, Mitchell's attorney,
Peter Fleming accused the government of a
shameful and immoral abuse of power and
said the case "is not even closed to proved."
In a reference to Watergate, Fleming told
the jury the criminal conspiracy case against
Mitchell and former Commerce Secretary
Maurice H. Stans was "a prosecutor's
vision, engendered in the heat of a terrible
national trauma."
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At a news briefing, John T. Dunlop,
director of the Cost of Living Council,
indicated he doubted there would be any
quick victory over inflation.
"The problem ain't going away," he said.
Dunlop said there would be another bulge
in prices after April 30, when the last of the
economic controls are lifted. He said farm
prices could decrease by late summer only if
Charges may
WASHINGTON The House Judiciary
Committee's lawyers have recommended
dropping as many of 30 of the 56 potential
impeachment charges against President
Nixon, including questionable financing of
his California and Florida homes, it was
learned Wednesday.
John M. Doar, the committee's chief
impeachment counsel, and Alfred Jenner,
his Republican counterpart, will make their
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for assistance to South Vietnam, Cambodia
and Laos.
Key Democrats said they would support
the program or judge it with an open mind.
The aid package for the fiscal year starting
July I would include $1.5 billion for
assistance to international development
institutions. The rest is for military and
economic aid.
Egypt's allotment of $250 million,
virtually the only American aid it will have
received since 1967, was earmarked for
clearing the Suez Canal, repairing war
damages to cities along the waterway and to
help restore Egyptian trade.
Egypt has made no request for military
assistance. White House deputy press
spokesman Gerald Warren said.
Nixon also proposed a total of $207.5
million for Jordan, broken down to $100
million in military assistance grants, $77.5
million in security support assistance and
$30 million in military credit sales.
Israel was allotted a total of $350 million
in the President's request, including $200
million in military credits and $50 million for
security support.
EPA halts pesticide sales
WASHINGTON The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Wednesday issued a
rare emergency order to halt the sale of thousands of cans of pesticide sprays containing vinyl
chloride a chemical linked to a rare form of liver cancer.
The order, which takes effect immediately, covers 28 aerosol products intended for use in
the home, hospitals, where food is handled or other enclosed areas. Outdoor sprays are not
affected but the EPA said manufacturers are recalling them anyway.
An estimated 19,000 cans covered by the ban are believed to be on the market, and an
unknown number of others are likely to be in the hands of consumers.
The industry was already in the process of recalling the sprays but EPA administrator
Russell E. Train said the process was not moving fast enough.
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weather conditions foster bumper harvests
worldwide, while inflation remained acute in
the steel, copper and health services
industries.
Simon generally followed the standard
administration economic line during a
morning of mostly friendly questioning. But
he emphasized repeatedly that the
government must halt huge budget deficits,
some of the largest of which have occurred
during Nixon's administration.
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recommendation Thursday morning when
the committee meets in public session to hear
the results of its legal staffs preliminary
investigation.
According to the lawyers' draft proposal,
which Jenner read to GOP committee
members Wednesday, he and Doar would
continue to investigate a large number of
other allegations against the President,
notably obstruction of justice in handling of
the Watergate cover-up.
The recommended narrowing of
impeachment charges would leave only
allegation of criminal action and drop all
non-criminal items, but one Republican
present at the caucus said this was a
coincidence that "just worked out that way."
One of the original controversies
surrounding impeachment concerned
whether a president could be impeached for
anything that did not violate a criminal
statute.
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SAN FRANCISCO The FBI today
announced that two cars used in a San
Francisco bank holdup in which Patricia
Hearst participated have been located in a
parking garage.
FBI special agent in charge Charles W.
Bates said the two automobiles used in the
April 15 robbery of a Hiberhia Bank branch
were found in the garage at the Japanese
Cultural Center near San Francisco's
downtown.
Federal bank robbery warrants have been
issued against the four who accompanied
Miss Hearst inside the bank, and Miss
Hearst is being sought as a material witness.
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