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The Weather ALRUQUERQUE Gener-ally fair through Tuesday. Cooler today. High 70. Lows 28 Valley, 36 Airport. (Details Page A-6.) AIM Snal Good Morning San Diego Is A Great Town For Water Sports.

And Nixon Seems To Be In Hot Water. 92nd Year Volume 371 Number 80 Monday Morning, March 20, 1972 30 Pages in Two Sections Price 10c pin 0 aid to ninistration trace lampenn Adi San Diego Four-Hour Brush Fire Problems Plague Program Guaranteed Income Experiment Studied Activities Revealed Controlled By BERNIE VELASQUEZ NEW YORK (UPI) A brush fire along the Rio The Nixon administration has "seriously tampered with justice" in San Diego Grande, aided by wind gusts of up to 25 mph Sun to protect highly placed friends of President Nixon day, burned for about four hours before it was brought there from criminal prosecution, Life Magazine charged Sunday. under control by city and county firemen. It was the second investigative report in recent weeks concerning the administration and San Diego, which Nixon The fire which started about half a mile south of Central along the east Rio Grande bank, was finally contained in the calls "my lucky city" and personally chose as the site for vicinity of Tingley Drive and the Republican National Marquez Lane SW after burning Convention this summer. almost a mile and a half.

Columnist Jack Anderson all 0im eged earlier that an antitrust suit against International District I Fire Chief Jack Major, said he did not know for sure how the fire was started but Telephone and Telegraph Corp. was settled out of court in return added "I have a hunch it might have been started by children." for a $400,000 pledge toward convention expenses. In asking for action before the experimental data are available, the administration told the Senate Finance Committee that its program "is the appropriate answer to the current welfare crisis" while the experiments will provide guidelines for later changes. But Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, a former secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, demanded a test run of aid to the working poor.

"This plan would add millions and millions of persons to the welfare rolls," he said. "If it does not work out, it could discredit welfare reform for all time." TO HOLD RIBICOFF'S support, the administration agreed but that agreement may yet founder over what the pilot project will attempt to learn. At the Dept. of Health, Education and Welfare, officials describe the pilot program as primarily a test of administrative procedures: adequacy of forms, regulations, training of personnel, and documentation of applications, plus an idea of administrative costs. "The federal government has no administrative experience in this sort of program," said Joseph Corbett, chief of HEW's Division of Income Maintenance Research.

"It will be affecting so many people that what might seem like small problems could turn out to have serious consequences." Ribicoff agrees with the need for such information, but has said he came away from meetings with HEW officials believing the pilot program would provide information also about the reaction of recipients. Would many families stop working? Would the divorce and desertion rates drop? What percentages of eligible families would apply for benefits? What services do they need? HEW officials Continued on A-5 The federal government is launching a new pilot project to test the plan for a guaranteed annual income while it awaits data from six others already under way at a cost of $50 million. Here is a report on the situation from the AP Special Assignment Team. By DONALD M. ROTHBERG WASHINGTON W) Poor families in six states are getting a guaranteed annual income from the federal government for participating in experiments designed to help shape an overhaul of the nation's welfare system.

But the results will be available far too late to guide Congress in considering reform legislation, including President Nixon's proposed Family Assistance Plan with its $2400 guaranteed annual income for a family of four. The only income-maintenance experiment in operation long enough to have produced any data was so plagued with problems at its start that some experts doubt much use can be made of its findings. SOCIAL SCIENTISTS HOPE the experiments, supported by $50 million from the federal government, will resolve questions of how people would react to a guaranteed annual income. Would they take the money and not bother trying to work? Or would a guaranty combined with social services such as job counseling enable people to boost themselves off the welfare rolls? It will take five years for the income-maintenance experiments to supply information that might answer those questions, especially those that pertain to the work requirement written into the Family Assistance Plan. Meanwhile, the administration is urging Congress to act this session on a welfare-reform bill that provides both a guaranteed income and aid to the working poor.

'The Nixon administration has seriously tampered with Major added that children frequently play in the area and sometimes build campfires. The first units were dispatched by the fire justice in the city of San Diego. In an effort to protect certain of its most important friends there from criminal prosecution, the administration has in several department at 12:13 p.m., a spokesman said. instances taken steps to neutralize and frustrate its own law enforcement officials," Life associate editors Denny Walsh and Tom Flaherty wrote. FIREMEN AT THE scene said the blaze was confined to the immediate area at first but spread rapidly after easterly winds shifted toward the south.

Portable pumps were used by firemen to pump water from the Tingley pond along water hoses to the river bank which is about 50 yards away. At Marquez Lane and Tingley, water was also pumped to the river bank in an effort to build a fire break by soaking brush and trees. Major said the fire was contained about 400 feet from the fire break after winds died THE LIFE REPORT said administration officials acted in behalf of civic leader C. Arnholt Smith, a self-made multimillionaire who has been a close friend and supporter of Nixon since Nixon's first campaign for congress; Smith's sometime associate John Alessio, who owns horse and dog tracks, speculates in real estate and runs a legal bookmaking operation in Mexico, and San Diego Mayor Frank Curran. At the personal suggestion of FBI Director J.

Edgar Hoover to the White House, Alessio was prosecuted for tax evasion and is serving a 3-year prison Demanding Reforms down at about 4:30 p.m. MOST OF THE trees in the fire's path were charred by the Protesters March In Catholic Area of Belfast flames which at times reached tree top levels. Great clouds of sentence but his indictment came only eight days before the smoke, visible for miles, were Photo Robert GaudelU Brush Fire Along Rio Grande Sends Smoke Skyward Blaze Burns Four Hours Before It Is Controlled statute of limitations would have emitted by the blaze which at times forced firemen to retreat because of its intense heat. run out on a major oart of the case, Life said. (In Washington, the Justice Major said six fire units were; utilized by the city including; l(enf Them From Review Dept.

issued this statement on the Life report: Article Says Justice Dept. Slapped Lid on ITT Files BELFAST, Northern Ireland (ffl About 10,000 demonstraters marched in a Roman Catholic district of Belfast Sunday at the end of a St. Patrick's weekend punctuated in scattered areas by gunfire. The march and rally was seen as an attempt by Catholic civil rights leaders to reoly to the show-of-strength rally by an estimated 50,000 Protestants in a Belfast park on Saturday. The Catholics demanded reforms that would give them more power.

The' purpose of the contain the fire. A tanker capable of holding between 150 and 200 gallons of water was dispatched by the county and placed on standby at the scene. County District 2 Fire Chief John Hoffman said about 10 volunteer firemen from that district were involved in the Continued on A-2 leaders of militant Catholic legislators boycotting Parliament. They are protesting ths interment without trial of suspected IRA members. A British soldier fought for his life in Londonderry, Northern Ireland's second main city, after snipers critically wounded him during riots Saturday night.

TROOPS FIRED at two guerrillas fleeing across the border into the Irish Republic after an ambush. The soldiers believed they hit one. The two men exploded a mine near a British border patrol but caused no damage. A bomb shattered windows in a closed tavern in the Protestant Sandy Row district "The Dept. of Justice states unequivocally that there has been no White House influence or attempted influence, direct or indirect, in the department's investigations and prosecutions.

"THE DEPARTMENT has proceeded properly and vigorously and without favoritism to anyone. For example, Mr. John Alessio is in federal prison, convicted of tax evasion in the very proceedings which Life has chosen to criticize. "The department will issue a further statement after it has received the full text of the Life Curran went to trial with other city officials for accepting a bribe but was acquitted after internal revenue commissioner Randolph Thrower blocked an IRS agent from offering his key testimony, Life said. Joumallndex Temperature Reaches 80 declined comment, saying that the committee would have to release any correspondence.

The Washington Post reported Saturday that Gray had decided to lake available most of the material requested by some committee members but to exclude the Antitrust Division's file on the ITT settlement and another file relating to a Decision not to press an employment-discrimination case against a California real estate firm. The committee has been reviewing circumstances surrounding the antitrust settlement at the request of Atty. Gen. designate Richard G. Kleindienst, whose nomination is pending before the senate.

Kleindienst asked for the review following columnist Jack Anderson's publication of a memorandum linking the antitrust settlement Continued on A-2 WASHINGTON on The Sunday Star of Washington says the Justice Dept. has refused to supply the Senate Judiciary Committee with its files on the International Telephone telegraph antitrust case. The newspaper reported Sunday that acting Deputy Atty. Gen. L.

Patrick Gray III, in a letter to Committee Chairman James O. Eastland, refused to turn over the-files because "they include confidential summaries, investigatives reports and intradepartmental communications." The Star quoted Gray as saying that releasing such material would "severly inhibit obtaining confidential information. to effectively carry out the law enforcement policy EASTLAND, REACHED by phone at his home in Ruleville, said he had not yet received such a letter. The Justice Dept. of Belfast.

It caused no casualties. Spring-like weather continued Action Line A-16 Classified Comics B-14 Crossword Puzzle B-14 Editorials A-4 For Youth A-8 Horoscope B-14 Movies B-5 Obituaries A-16 People's Column A-5 Political Scene B-3 Sports Today's Calendar A-15 TV Log, Previews A-15 Weather Table A-6 Border troops chased away about 200 persons who crossed over from the Irish Republic. They were answering a call by Sinn Fein, the IRA's political arm, to repair border roads created by British soldiers as a way of cutting down IRA infiltration. around the state Sunday as temperatures in Albuquerque broke records when the mercury reached 80 for the first time this year. Protestant rally was to warn the British government against weakening Protestant power in Northern Ireland or making reforms that would seem to be appearing the Catholic-oriented Irish Republic Army -IRA.

SOME PROTESTANTS fear that a peace plan drawn up in London may go to far in favor of the Catholic-based civil rights movement. One of the speakers at the Catholic rally was Bernadette Devlin, a civil rights leader and member of Britain's Parliament. She took note of a speech by William Craig, a former Ulster Cabinet minister, at Saturday's rally in which he said: "If the politicians fail it would be our duty to liquidate the enemy" and vowed to "do or die" in the fight against the IRA. "Let him do or die. He cannot get rid of all of us," Miss Devlin told the crowd.

PADDY KENNEDY. another Catholic opposition legislator, warned of a Catholic counter-backlash to any violent Protestant rising. He said Protestants are the minority in Ireland as a whole an implied threat of support from across the border in the Irish republic for Catholics attacked in the North by Protestants. Kennedy is currently free on bail under a charge of promoting the IRA cause. A gunman fired early Sunday into the Dungannon home of Austin Currie, Roman Catholic member of the Protestant-dom inated provincial Parliament.

Currie said he and his wife dived for the floor and were unhurt. THE INCIDENT came one day after Paddy Devlin, a fellow Catholic opposition lawmaker, said he escaped an assassination attempt blamed on "Protestant extremists." Currie and Devlin are U.S. Smith, who owns the Continued on A-6 The 80 in Albuquerque broke a record for the day, exceeding the old mark of 73. In addition, it was the highest temperature ever recorded in Albuquerque so early in the year. Claims Requirements Inequitable High record temperatures also Report Say Air Cleanup to Cost Car Buyer were recorded at Alamos, which had a 64, and Clayton where the mercury reached 79.

Most of. the state also experienced spring-like weather although SDrine won't arrive Motors, Chrysler by General and Ford. until Tuesday. There was a light shower along the southern border and there were some strong gusty winds and blowing WASHINGTON W) Three out of every 10 new-car buyers in 1976 will have to pay a major economic penalty for pollution controls required by the Clean Air Act, a study prepared for the White House said Sunday. Some 30 per cent of the total vehicle population is in areas that have no-air quality problems, it said, and these areas involved about half the states.

dust common to spring. The state's hich of 83 was Ralph Nader, head of research groups on consumer problems, called the report "another effort to intimidate the federal regulatory agencies responsible for regulating motor vehicle air pollution and safety." THE SUGGESTED two-car strategy has no sound base, he said, for the report does not consider that the vehicle population is sold or resold every three years and 20 per compliance with safety standards through 1976 would add $523. It suggested a "two-car strategy" might be adopted to provide low-emission cars where they are needed and lower-cost, higher-emission cars for areas where anto exhaust gases are not a major problem. Sen. Edmund S.

Muskie, D-Maine, author of the Clean Air Act, said the report goes along with the attack on the legislation purchasers of new automobiles of 1976 vintage will be paying a large extra initial cost and a higher operating expense for stringent emission control features which may be unnecessary in their areas," it said. THE REPORT, released by the Office of Science and Technology, estimated the controls required on 1976 car models would result in additional investment cost of $350 per vehicle. It estimated that "THESE COMPANIES, of course, are big contributors to the Republican Party," Muskie said in a statement. The administration should insist on a single and not a double standard for all automobiles, he said, and added: "The report serves big business. It puts the interests of the boardrooms ahead of those of Main Street." recorded at Tucumcari while it reached 82 at Hobbs and Socorro.

Chama had an' early morning low of 18 the lowest in the state. Albuquerque's lows were 40 at the Airport and 33 in the Valley. "Put three In other terms, about out of every ten Continued on A-S tmmmmmmmmmmmmmmim i i i I i 1 1.