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PHILADELPHIA .P) - Registration
began in Philadelphia yesterday for a
Black Panther convention of "revolu-
tionary, oppressed people."
Registrants said they represented a§-
sorted militant and radical organiza-
tions from around the country, includ-
ing the Gay Liberation Front, Women's
Strike for Peace, The Resistance and
the Young Lords.
Others identified themselves as draft
resisters, ex-soldiers, teachers, Women's
Liberation. advocates and high school
and college students.
Huey Newton, the Panther national
minister of defense who is currently
free on $50,000 bail and awaiting a new
trial on a manslaughter charge grow-
ing out of the shooting of a policeman,
is scheduled to make today's keynote
address. Nevton is a cofounder of the
Black Panthers.
Explaining the purpose of the con-
ventio;4 one woman said, "We're getting
ready to do a lot of serious rapping."
She and others registered in an audi-
torium of the Episcopal Church of the
Advocate, on the edge of Temple Uni-
versity campus in the heart of North
Philadelphia's black slum.
"This is no foolin' time," said another
registering participant.
The three-day convention is sched-
uled to open today in the 4,500-seat
Temple gymnasium. Panther leaders
want to use the gym tomorrow also,
and Temple officials are considering the
request.
There were no police in sight in the
registration area.
Panthers stood guard at the church
entrances, searching some of those who
sought entrance and demanding identi-
fication.
f "We are just not going to take any
chances," said one guard who declined
to be identified. "Who comes in here
is our business."
Police Commissioner Frank Rizzo had
sought to keep the Panthers from meet-
ing here, suggesting that it might lead to
violence. He has not pressed the issue
since Gov. Raymond Shafer, backed by
prominent city leaders, said that t h e
Constitution guaranteed the right of,
peaceful assembly to everyone.
Last Monday Rizzo sent his men on
raids at three Panther centers where
14 guns and a quantity of ammunition
was seized and 14 men and women ar-
rested.
The police commissioner said he acted
following the killing of a Philadelphia
park guard Saturday and the wounding
of another, blaming that violence on the
Panthers.
Bail for the 14 Panthers, none of
whom were charged with the police
shootings, was set at $100,000 each. But
after a 'hearing before Common Pleas
Court Judge Thomas Reed, the bail for
Philadelphia Panther Reggie Schell was
reduced to $2,500.
It is expected that similar bail cut-
ting efforts will be made for the others.
Panther spokesmen have charged
that Rizzo's raids were made only to
"squash" the convention
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THE NATION'S jobless rate climbed close to a six-year high
this past August, government reports showed. ,r
During the same period total employment, the factory work week,
overtime and workers' purchasing power all declined.-
The Labor Department said that the unemployment rate of 5.1
per cent of the work force, up from 5 per cent in July, equalled the
highest since October 1964.
The last tim~e it was higher was in June 1964, when it was 5. 2
per cent.
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THE MASSACHUSETTES ATTORNEY GENERAL filed suit
against 10 airlines yesterday charging them with maintaining a?
public nuisance,
Robert H. Quinn asked that they be ordered to install equipment
to stop their jet engines from causing air pollution at Logan Inter- neinl
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VOTING WAS HEAVY yesterday in a crucial Chilean elec- work force-the highest since
tion that could give Latin America its first freely elected Marx- employment rate at a news
ist president. Commissioner Harold Goldste
The voters were choosing from among Marxist Salvador Allende, (standing) and Howard Staml
Christian Democrat Radomiro Tomic and conservative Jorge Ales-
sandri for a successor to President Eduardo Frei, barred by law from FLAn BOA NT '-
seeking a new six-year term.L-A
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Foods, Inc., announced yesterday that it is rescinding its labor
contract with the Teamsters and will negotiate a new contract
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It became the second grower in the nation's "salad bowl" area to (, e,
recognize Chavez' AFL-CIO United Farm Workers Organizing Com-
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aent inches up
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e October 1964. Discussing the un-
conference yesterday are Assistant
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Israel said yesterday that it was prepared to take
military action if Egyptian missiles }were not pulled back.
Meanwhile, the United States called on Egypt and the Soviet
Union for "rectification" of cease fire violations along the
Suez Canal.
Israeli allegations that the Egyptians have been con-
structing sites for Soviet missiles inside the truce zone after
the 90-day cease-fire began Aug. 7 have blocked peace talks
at the United Nations.
A State Department spokesman in Wa hington said the
United States had sent notes to Cairo and Moscow "seeking
rectification of the situation arisen out of our 'confirmed
evidence of the violation of the standstill" by the Egyptians.
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ber of the Senate Republican
leadership says the President's
Commission on Campus Unrest
has been "flamboyant, inflamma-
tory, prejudiced and irresponsible"
during public hearings over the
past months.
And, said Sen. Gordon Alott of
Colorado, chairman of the Senate
GOP Policy Committee, he is
afraid the commission's forth-
coming report will be a "flaccid
whitewash" of campus radicalism
that will do far more harm than
good.
Allott commented in a speech
prepared for delivery this morn-
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ing to a milk producers conven-
tion in Chicago. The text was re-
leased for publication last night.
"First," Allott said, "some of
the commissioners are hardly ob-
jective investigators. It will be re-
called that o n e young commis-
sioner - who his been the *darl-
in'g of the media - almost im-
mediately after being appointed
announcedwthatthe thought the
President was to, blame for, the
problems at Kent State."
Allott said the commission has
given too much time at its hear-
ings to speeches by radicals and
members of the commission hav
been "rude, arrogant and high-
handed in dealing with persons
who are not radicals."
"The fourth failing of this com-
mission is that its member's have
not demonstrated proper sensitiv-
ity to the civil rights of witness-
es,"Allott concluded.
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in Washington said the United
States had sent notes to Cairo
and Moscow "seeking rectification
of the situation arisen out of our
confirmed evidence of the viola-
tion of the standstill" by the
Egyptian~s.
He did not define "rectifica-
tion." Israel has insisted that
Egypt must not only stop violat-
ing the cease-fire but. also must
withdraw .the missiles installed
since Aug. 7.
Israeli Foreign Minister Abba
Eban, in a Jerusalem television
interview, said Israel is entitled
"to take action on the political
level and any other level it deems
necessary" against Egypt for vio-
lations of the military standdown.
"We are now pursuing political
methods," he said., V
He added that Israel's ambassa-
dor to the United Nations, Yosef
Tekoah, would not be returning
immediately to New York to con-
tinue the indirect peace talks
opened last week by U.N. special
envoy Gunnar larring with Israel,
Egypt, and Jordan..
U.S. diplomats acknowledged
the notes did not meet Israeli de-
mands that Egypt roll back its
missiles, but they said it would be
unrealistic to expect Egypt and
the Soviet Union to admit to vio-
lations and to agree to dismantle
the missiles in question.
, There were these other develop-
ments in the Middle East:
-Diplomatic sources in Paris
said King Hussein of Jordan ap-
pealed to 'the United ,States, the
Soviet Union, Britain and France
for support against threatened
Iraq military action. Jordan's
foreign minister, Antoun Atallah,
denied the reports, Radio Amman
said.
-Iraq, with some 12,000 troops
in Jordan, warned Hussein sev-
eral days ago that it would take
military action if Jordan tried to
"eliminate" Palestinian guerrillas
based in Jordan.
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The federal government's flurry
of, action against pesticides h a s
failed to reduce significantlythe
amount of chemicals polluting the
environment, and the bans it has
ordered aren't likely to be effective
for at least a year.
The Agriculture Department,
over the past 10 months, has an-
nounced cancelation' or suspension
of a number of the registered uses
for DDT and two of its close
chemical relatives - pesticides
containing one form of the poison-
ous metal mercury, and the herbi-
cide 2,4,5-T, which has b e e n
shown to cause birth, defects in
animals.
SThe actions, however, left intact
registered uses that account for
75 per cent of domestic applica-
tions of DDT and 2,4,5-T. And
government officials concede that
because of legal loopholes ,and
possibly lengthy appeals by manu-
facturers' some retail sales of the
pesticides for uses officially ban-
ned will continue until at least
next year and perhaps for two td
three years.
'Nevertheless, government health
officials say the Agriculture De-
partment has demonstrated a new
and unaccustomed willingness to
act against pesticides that! appear
to threaten the environment. By
contrast, the House Government
Operations Committee; accused the
department only last year of "al-
most incredible failure to regulate
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