n047  1353  26 Jul 76
 
BC-BECK COLUMN 2tales 1000
    (Editor's Note: The following Special Features material
is for use by subscribers to Marilyn Beck's column, or by
special arrangement.)
MARILYN BECK'S HOLYWOOD
FOR RELEASE: JULY 27
Show Business in the News
 
TELEVISION DOESN'T LOOK
SO BAD TO DAVID CARRADINE
 
SPECIAL EVEREST EXPEDITION
COVERAGE PLANNED BY CBS
 
By MARILYN BECK
    HOLLYWOOD - David Carradine is changing his mind about TV.
    Last year, when his 'Kung Fu'' series was dropped after
a three-year run, he looked back on that period as a time
of almost constant anger and vowed, ''I'd never do a weekly
television show again. It's too confining, too frustrating
to be a victim of decisions made largely by people who don't
know why they're making them in the first place.''
    Now, examining the industry from a less emotional vatage
point, the rebel star has decided, ''TV can change, just
like I can change. 'Kung Fu' changed TV a lot, it made certain
demands on the medium. Because of the production quality
of the show, and the truth of Kung Fu, television changed
for the better.''
    Sounding like a page out of an old ''Kung Fu'' script, he
adds, ''TV remains a panacea, and my series seemed to breach
that a little. But, like the Red Sea parts, it must come
back together again.''
    Though some of his statements might seem obscure, one thing
perfectly clear is that David doesn't need the small-screen
scene for professional survival nowadays.
    The fellow who shared his life with actress Barbara Hershey
Seagull for seven years, and who's currently sharing a Malibu
pad with Linda McGuinn (estranged wife of former Byrds singer
Roger McGuinn), starts Roger Corman's ''Death Rally'' film
in the fall.
    Then in December he leaves for France to star in the film
''King of the World.'' He's also scheduled to costar with
Charlton Heston in Universal's ''Grey Lady Down'' - unless
the Navy disapproves.
    ''I'm supposed to play a rebel sailor who goes against the
military's way of doing things,'' he says. ''But the studio
wants the Navy Department's cooperation, and has sent them
a script for approval. And the outcome of that will decide
whether my part remains. The Navy could turn the script into
pablum.''
    Even if that project turns to mush for Carradine, he seems
bound for glory - particularly once ''Bound For Glory'' is
released at year's end. Not everyone in this industry may
approve of his mode of living or his ideas,but - among those
who've gotten advance peeks at the United Artists film -
there seems unanimous agreement that his portrayal of folk
singer Woody Guthrie is so brilliant it will heist him to
the status of Super Star.
(MORE)
    
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BC-BECK COLUMN 1stadd
HOLLYWOOD: star.
    A New Love
    BEHIND THE SCENES: Jack Jones hasn't attached himself to
any one gal since he and attachee Susan George dissolved
their lengthy liaison - but he does have two new loves in
his life: catamaran sailing and CB radio. The singing star
rented a 16-foot Hobie Cat during his recent concert stand
at Orlando's Disney World, and became so enamoured of the
sport, he's now ordered a Cat to use in the Pacific waters.
That's where he'll be spending most of his time - when he
isn't cruising around in his car with its personalized ''OCTAVE''
license plate. Which happens to spell out his CB call letters.
    THE REEL WORLD: Swiss beauty Marthe Keller decided she looked
too healthy for her role as a chronically ill jetsetter in
''Bobby Deerfield'' - and has gone to great pains to do something
about the matter. She started arising at six in the morning,
playinor an hour, hiking mountain trails at top
speed, submitting to underwater massages, swimming in thermal
baths, limiting her intake to lettuce leaves and carrot juice.
And within a week had melted off 10 pounds - and succeeded
in looking as wan and weak as other inmates of the sanitarium
in which she appears in the Al Pacino starrer. Says Marthe,
when audiences see the film and hear her ordered by doctors
to rest, she hopes they'll be thinking, ''God, yes - and
give her something to eat!''
    THE REAL WORLD: CBS' coverage of the American Bicentennial
Everest expedition should be something special to see - because
the team's assault on the world's tallest mountain is being
planned as something special, indeed. The mountain-climbing
group includes several doctors, and part of their mission
will be compiling data on the psychological effects such
an ordeal has on those who attempt it.
    Ed Goren, coproducer of the coverage which CBS will bring
to viewers in three 10-minutes preliminary reports (the first
to air August 14), plus an hour-long special, points out
that as the 11-member team sets off for Nepal on Saturday
(7-24), they were a happy, close-knit group. Yet, when the
climb mountain actually gets under way,
adverse conditions can bring personality clashes and a breakdown
of the happy team concept.
    Effects of such stress is one of the things Dr. Dee Crouch
intends to study during the three-month adventure - and he
will supply his findings to NASA. He tells me that other
explorers of Everest - with its extraordinary winds, subzero
temperatures, and lack of oxygen - have experienced the same
psychological problems that many of our astronauts have suffered.
Thus far, no one's sure exactly why.
    ''They come home, and there's great depression, and a high
incidence of diorce,'' says Crouch. ''We do know that extended
exposure to extremely high altitudes does affect the brain
- and we're hoping to come back with findings about the whys
and wherefores of such effects.
    THE STREET SCENE: Producer Robert Radnitz, best known for
such family films as ''Sounder,'' starts filming next month
of ''A Hero Ain't Nothing But a Sandwich,'' in the Watts
section of L.A. The production, which will relate a graphic
picture of ghetto life, will include such graphic language
that Radnitz is expecting the film to get slapped with an
''R.''
    c.1976 Marilyn Beck
Special Features
    
(To purchase the above material call John Osenenko or Peter
Willett in New York (212) 556-1721 or 556-1114. In Europe
or Middle East contact Paul Gendelman in Paris, 073-9513
(Telex 230650). In the Far East contact Ray Falk in Tokyo
at Telex 2226717.)
    
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By JIM ADAMS
Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) - The House of Representatives, which hasn't
punished one of its members since the days of the late Adam Clayton
Powell, is preparing to vote on a proposal to reprimand Rep. Robert
L.F. Sikes of Florida.
    The House ethics committee recommended earlier this week that the
full House take action against Sikes today, urging that he be
reprimanded on two counts of financial misconduct.
    The last time a member was punished was in 1969 when the flamboyant
Powell, a Harlem Democrat, was stripped of his seniority and fined
for misuse of funds.
    In a 498-page report, the ethics committee called for Sikes, D-Fla.,
chairman of the House military construction appropriations
subcommittee, to be reprimanded for:
    -Buying 2,500 shares of stock in the First Navy Bank after he used
his office to help establish the bank at the Pensacola, Fla., Naval
Air Station.
    -Failing to report in financial statements to the House both the
bank stock and 1,000
shares of stock Sikes owned in Fairchild
Industries, Inc., a major defense contractor.
    A reprimand is the mildest form of punishment the ethics panel could
have recommended short of exoneration. At the other end of the scale,
it could have recommended that Sikes be expelled from the House.
    The committee also said Sikes created ''an obvious and significant
conflict of interest'' by sponsoring a bill in 1961 to clear
commercial development of Florida land owned by a company he
controlled.
    But the panel recommended no punishment for the land deal, saying it
happened 15 years ago and that Sikes' constituents continued to
re-elect him, even though they knew about the deal to some extent.
    Sikes, replying to the charges, said he acted as a congressman to
benefit his contituents and not himself.
    As for failing to report the stock, he said he didn't know he was
required to do so. He said he immediately filed reports on the stock
when he found out he was supposed to do so.
    The committee cleared Sikes of an additional charge of violating
House rules by voting on a bill in 1974 that would have benefited his
Fairchild stock by appropriating $73 million for Navy planes built by
the firm.
    In doing so, the panel agreed with Sikes' contention that House
rules prohibit members from voting on bills that financially benefit
them directly, but do not prohibit votes on bills that benefit a
congressman only as one of many shareholders.
    The committee said Sikes los,173.19 on the Fairchild stock
because the price declined during the five years he held it.
    The ethics committee recommended the reprimand after a three-mont
investigation of charges filed by 44 House members and by Common
Cause, a public affairs lobby organization.
    
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WASH: to provide further details of the committee report, insert
after 6th graf: defense contractor.
    The committee said he made a $14,000 profit on the land company and
$8,200 profit on his bank stock.
    A reprimand, 7th graf
    
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BULLETIN
    WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted overwhelmingly today to reprimand
a subcommittee chairman, Rep. Robert L. F. Sikes, on two counts of
financial misconduct.
    
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URGENT
WASHN: financial misconduct.
 
    It was the House's first punishment of a member since 1969 when it
fined Harlem Democrat Adam Clayton Powell and stripped him of
seniority.
    There were only three speakers in the debate before the reprimand
against Sikes, a Florida Democrat.
    One of the speakers, Rep. Andrew McGuire, D-N.J., said the House
ethics committee should have recommended a stiffer punishment than
censure. He said members should consider whether to take away Sikes'
chairmanship of the House military construction appropriations
subcommittee next year.
    More
    
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URGENT
WASHINGTON: next year.
 
    ''The committee has found conduct that cannot and should not be
tolerated by this House, or anybody or the American people,'' McGuire
said.
    The House approved the reprimand by a 381 to 3 vote, with five
members voting present. Voting against the reprimand were Reps. F.
Edward Hebert, D-La., Tom Steed, D-Okla., and Olin Teague, D-Tex.
    Sikes made no statement to the House in his own defense but received
permission to insert a statement later into the Congressional Record.
    In a 498-page report issued earlier this week, the ethics committee
called for Sikes to be reprimanded for:
    -Buying 2,500: 5th graf.
    ---    
By JIM ADAMS
Associated Press Writer
    
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URGENT
By JIM ADAMS
Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted overwhelmingly today to reprimand
a subcommittee chairman, Rep. Robert L. F. Sikes, on two counts of
financial misconduct.
    It was the House's first punishment of a member since 1969 when it
fined Harlem Democrat Adam Clayton Powell and stripped him of
seniority.
    Sikes, a Florida Democrat, sat before a microphone in the chamber
during the 20-minute debate but spoke only once, to request permission
to insert a statement later into the Congressional Record. His
request was granted.
    One speaker, Rep. Andrew McGuire, D-N.J., said the House ethics
committee should have recommended a stiffer punishment of censure. He
said members should consider whether to take away Sikes' chairmanship
of the House military construction appropriations subcommittee next
year.
    ''The committee has found conduct that cannot and should not be
tolerated by this House, or anybody or the American people,'' McGuire
said.
    House Speaker Carl Albert, asked by reporters later if he thought a
reprimand was sufficient punishment, said: ''That's a pretty severe
thing to have in your record as a member of Congress.''
    The House approved the reprimand by a 381-to-3 vote, with five
members voting present. Voting against the reprimand were Reps. F.
Edward Hebert, D-La., Tom Steed, D-Okla., and Olin Teague, D-Tex.
    Ethics committee Chairman John Flynt, D-Ga., and the panel's ranking
Republican, Rep. Floyd Spence of South Carolina, presented the
committee's recommendations to the House floor and were the only other
speakers during the debate.
    After the proceedings, Flynt said he saw no real difference between
reprimand or censure and said committee members decided to use the
word reprimand.
    Asked if Sikes had gotten off easy, Flynt replied: ''As I told
another House member who asked that, if it happened to you, you
wouldn't think it was easy.''
    Flynt said the ethics committee did not consider whether Sikes
should be stripped of his subcommittee chairmanship because it is the
House Democratic Caucus that selects committee members and chairmen.
 
    In a: 8th graf.
    
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URGENT
By JIM ADAMS
Associated Press Writer
    WASHINGTON (AP) - The House voted overwhelmingly today to reprimand
a subcommittee chairman, Rep. Robert L. F. Sikes, on two counts of
financial misconduct.
    It was the House's first punishment of a member since 1969 when it
fined Harlem Democrat Adam Clayton Powell and stripped him of
seniority.
    Sikes, a Florida Democrat, sat before a microphone in the chamber
during the 20-minute debate but spoke only once, to request permission
to insert a statement later into the Congressional Record. His
request was granted.
    Afterward, Sikes told reporters, ''Of course I am disappointed. It
was not unanticipated because of the atmosphere regarding public
officials at this time.''
    He said he declined to address his colleagues on the House floor
because, ''I know a stacked deck when I see one.''
    Sikes said he expects the reprimand will help his reelection
chances. Speaking of his constituents, Sikes said, ''They're mad and
not mad with me. The prediction is that I'll get the biggest vote of
my life.''
 
    One speaker: 4th graf.
    
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AM-EVEREST, BJT, SUB, a215, 50
KATMANDU TO HOME TOWN, SUB for 4th graf: in 1953.
    The U.S. bicentennial expedition came about by chance. Phillip
Trimble, a 38-year-old State Department lawyer from Springfield, Ohio,
and leader of the team, had been thinking of scaling a 24,000-foot
peak in the Himalayas when he learned last December from a friend in
Nepal that the French had canceled their 1976 option to climb Mt.
Everest.
    At first, 5th graf.
    
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a202  0931  29 Jul 76
AM-News Digest,
                      AP NEWS DIGEST
                        Friday AMs
 
    Here are the top stories in sight for AMs at this hour. The General
Desk night supervisor is G.G. LaBelle. He can be reached at 212
262-6093 if you have an urgent question about the spot news report.
 
                      POLITICS
 
    WASHINGTON - President Ford and Sen. Richard S. Schweiker try in
person to nail down votes among the 103 Pennsylvania Republican
convention delegates who were a principal target of Ronald Reagan when
he selected Schweiker as a running mate.
    New, political roundup, developing. Tops expectable in late
afternoon after delegation meets with Schweiker and in early evening
after delegation visits Ford. Wirephoto covering.
 
               HOUSE VOTES TO REPRIMAND
 
    WASHINGTON - The House votes to punish one of its members for the
first time since 1969. It reprimands Rep. Robert L.F. Sikes, D-Fla.,
on two counts of financial misconduct. New material, may stand.
Wirephoto NY20.
 
    With reaction from Florida.
 
                       EARTHQUAKE
 
    TOKYO - Survivors of China's great quakes tell of vast destruction
in Tangshan, a city of one million people, and of fears that coal
miners were trapped underground. A tent city springs up in Peking. New
material. Wirephoto TOK8.
 
                         CRIME
 
    CHOWCHILLA, Calif. - James Schoenfeld, subject of a nationwide
manhunt in the kidnaping of 26 school children and their bus driver,
is captured within 150 miles of the crime scene. His brother faces
arraignment in the crime; a third suspect remains at large.
Developing. Wirephotos NY21, FX2,3.
 
    LOS ANGELES - Lawyers and defendant Bill Harris deliver closing
arguments in the trial of Harris and his wife Emily on kidnaping and
robbery charges involving Patty Hearst. Developing. Wirephoto
covering.
 
    DETROIT - James R. Hoffa disappeared a year ago Friday and a federal
grand jury is still unable to unravel the circumstances of his
disappearance. Will stand. Wirephoto NY22.
 
                     INTERNATIONAL
 
    ROME - Premier designate Giulio Andreotti announces he is forming a
new all-Christian Democrat government. But it will depend on
Comm7nist support, giving the Communists unprecedented control over
the running of this NATO-member country. New material.
 
    KATMANDU, Nepal - An American expedition arrives in the mountain
kingdom of Nepal to attempt a second U.S. conquest of Everest, the
world's tallest peak.
 
    ATHENS - The U.S. Navy transport Coronado arrives with 155 Americans
and about 145 other evacuees from war-torn Lebanon. New material.
Wirephoto ATH1,2,4,6.
 
    With Beirut fighting separate.
 
                      NATIONAL
 
    LOS ANGELES - An artificial pancreas has been developed that
counteracts diabetes in dogs, and doctors say a similar device for
humans may be only 2 1/2 years away. New, will stand.
 
    WAYNESBURG, Pa. - As an annual event, Rain Day doesn't have quite
the reputation of Groundhog Day or the return of the swallows to
Capistrano. But it's the only festival local folks have and - even
with just a few drops - it'll have to do. New, will stand.
 
    With Labor Roundup.
 
    
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AM-Everest, Bjt - 2 Takes, 460-640
By JURATE KAZICKAS
Associated Press Writer
    KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - An American Bicentennial expedition has
arrived in this mountain kingdom to attempt the ond American
conquest of Mt. Everest, the world's highest peak. If successful, the
climbers could put the first American women and the first
husband-and-wife team on the peak.
    The climbers are now in their final days of organizing and packing
14 tons of food, clothing and equipment before setting out on the
175-mile trek to the base camp at 29,028-foot Everest, known in Nepal
as Chomolungama, goddess mother of the earth.
    The 11 climbers will be the first Americans to tackle the mountain
since the successful 1963 United States expedition. Five members of
that group reached the peak first scaled by Sir Edmund Hillary of New
Zealand and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
    The U.S. Bicentennial expedition came about by chance. Phillip
Trimble, a 38-year-old State Department lawyer and leader of the team,
had been thinking of scaling a 24,000-foot peak in the Himalayas when
he lerned last December from a friend in Nepal that the French had
canceled their 1976 option to climb ,t. Everest.
    At first, Trimble said, he just chuckled at the thought, but then,
discussing it with his climbing friends, the idea of taking over the
French option proved irresistible.
    Normally two or three years are needed to organize an expedition for
Everest. This one was pulled together in less than seven months.
    Another unusual aspect of the expedition is its relatively small
size. The 1963 team had 20 members.
    Almost all members of the Bicentennial team are close friends.
Three, including Trimble, are Harvard Law School classmates.
    The team includes two women. Arlene Blum, a 31-year-old biochemist 
on the faculty of Stanford University, and Barbara Roach, 31, a
modern dance teacher from Boulder, Colo., hope to become the first
American women to climb Everest.
    And if Gerald Roach, Barbara's husband, reaches the summit too, the
couple will be the first husband-and-wife team at the top.
    The climbers will attempt the popular South Col route pioneered by
Hillary and Tenzing. But they will be battling their way up the
mountain during the difficult postmonsoon season with its shorter days
and bitter winds. The summit attempts are scheduled for the first
days of October when a ''window'' of generally clear weather is
expected.
    A Japanese team in on season.
    Altogether 54 climbers have reached the top of Mt. Everest,
identified in 1852 as the world's highest peak and named for the first
surveyor-general of India, Sir George Everest.
    Among successful climbers were two women, Junko Tabei of Japan who
made it in May 1975 and a Tibetan woman member of a Chinese expedition
that reached the top a few days after the Japanese.
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KATMANDU, to correct that these are first Americans on Everest since
1963, sub for 3rd graf: The 11 . . . in 1953.
 
    The 11 climbers will be the first Americans to tackle the mountain
since the unsuccessful 1971 International Everest Expedition headed by
Austrian Norman Deryenfurth. However, five members of a 1963 United
States expedition reached the peak first scaled by Sir Edmund Hillary
of New Zealand and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay in 1953.k
    The U.S. bicentennial, 4th graf
    
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AM-Everest, Bjt, 1st add, 180
KATMANDU add: Japanese.
    Trimble dreams of putting all 11 members of his team on the summit,
which would be yet another first in Everest's history.
    But for the moment, recalling these last frantic months filled with
20-hour days of planning and work, he's just happy the group has made
it at least as far as Katmandu.
    ''No one can ever appreciate the tremendous problems in organizing
an Everest expedition,'' Trimble said.
    The final permit for the climb was received only in March. Within
weeks, tons of food and equipment had to be assembled, along with 200
tanks of oxygen, vital to any Everest assault.
    The supplies had to be sent by air freight to Nepal, adding enormous
expense to an already costly proposition.
    Expenses are now well into six figures, and team members have had to
take out loans and invest their own money since wealthy benefactors
with a sense of adventure are in short supply. Mt. Everest has been
climbed already, hasn't it?
    ''People who say that have absolutely no understanding of
mountaineering, the motivation, the worth of such an experience'' said
Trimble. ''How can you say 'no' to Everest?''
    
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By JURATE KAZICKAS
Associated Press Writer
    KATMANDU, Nepal (AP) - The American Bicentennial Everest Expedition
set out today on its journey to the top of the world.
    Eleven climbers with backpacks, umbrellas and box lunches piled into
Land Rovers, vans and buses. They were accompanied by half a dozen
wives and friends, four Sherpa guides, and U.S. Ambassador Marquita
Maytag in shorts, white knee-socks and an expedition tee-shirt.
    Their first stop was Lamosangu, 52 miles away. There they were to
shift to the standard means of mountain transport - their feet - to
complete the 140 miles to their base camp on 29,028-foot Mt. Everest,
the highest mountain in the world.
    ''I am here because I love to hike and I wish the group well,'' said
the ambassador, who planned to trek with the group for a few miles.
''I do worry about them. I just hope they have thought of everything.
But I am very proud, too.''
    ''Let us get away from civilization. Let us go to the mountain,''
said Dan Emmett, 36, of Los Angeles, one of the chief organizers of
the expedition, who insisted on going on despite the pain of a recent
slipped 3sk.
    The climbers and 150 porters will march through river valleys,
terraced hillside ridges and pine forests toward the massive peaks of
the Himalayas.
    Camping under the trees, in pastures where yaks graze, in mountain
villages and on monastery grounds, the expedition hopes to reach the
base camp at 17,500 feet in about three weeks.
    The last few days in Katmandu were spent in repacking, getting
trekking permits and customs clearance for equipment and shopping for
such forgotten items as maps of Mt. Everest, sheets for sleeping bags
and umbrellas to guard against the monsoon rains.
    It is the first visit to Nepal for all but two of the American
members of the expedition so sightseeing tours were arranged.
    At the temples of Pashupatinath, where marching bands filled the
square, the climbers watched Buddhist monks in saffron-colored robes
throw bits of grain and flowers into a fire in a ceremony ''to avert a
national disaster.''
    Phillip Trimble, the expedition's 38-year-old leader from
Springfield, Ohio, ate a traditional farewell dinner with a group of
Sherpas, the mountain men essential to the success of any Everest
expedition.
    Everest was first conquered in 1953 by a British expedition which
put Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and the Sherpa guide Tenzing
Norgay on the summit. There was a successful American expedition in
1963.
    
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a201  0921  06 Aug 76
AM-News Digest,
                    AP NEWS DIGEST
                     Saturday AMs
 
    Here are the top stories in sight for AMs at this hour. The General
Desk night supervisor is G.G. LaBelle. He can be reached at 212
262-6093 if you have an urgent question about the spot news report
 
                 LEGIONNAIRE'S DISEASE
 
    PHILADELPHIA - Scientists say test results point to a toxic
substance as the likely cause of 25 deaths from the mysterious
''legionnaire's disease.'' They rule out influenza and any type of
fungus. New material, developing. Wirephotos AX2, HF1.
 
                    TAXES AND JOBS
 
    WASHINGTON - The Senate moves toward final action on a
multi-billion-dollar tax bill extending last year's tax cuts and
providing new benefits for individuals and businesses. New material,
developing. Mid-afternoon or evening vote expected.
 
    WASHINGTON - Unemployment rose from 7.5 to 7.8 per cent in July,
leaving more people out of work than at any time in the last seven
months, the government reports. New material, may stand. Wirephoto
Chart NY18.
 
                      POLITICS
 
    PHILADELPHIA - Republican challenger Ronald Reagan, with six new
Northeastern delegates in his hands, makes a bid for more in the home
state of his proposed running mate, Sen. Richard Schweiker of
Pennsyvania. New material, developing. Wirephoto covering.
 
    WASHINGTON - President Ford and Ronald Reagan will try to avoid
''fights for the sake of fights'' on platform issues at the Republican
National Convention, Ford aides say. New material, may stand.
                      AFRICA
 
    JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - Racial rioting engulfs the black
township of Soweto for a third straight day. Police open fire on
demonstrators and at least three blacks are reported injured. New
material. Wirephoto JOH1.
 
    JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - An angry new generation of blacks
appears to have emerged in white-ruled South Africa to plunge the
nation into its worst racial crisis. An AP News Analysis, by Larry
Heinzerling.
 
                    INTERNATIONAL
 
    BEIRUT, Lebanon - Palestinians desperate to leave a besieged refugee
camp mob a Red Cross convoy evacuating wounded, forcing abandonment
of the rescue mission and bringing the convoy under Christian fire.
Four persons are wounded, the Red Cross says. New material.
 
    TOKYO - Bicycles jam Peking streets and some people begin cooking in
their homes as fears of new quake diminish. New.
 
    PHEDI, Nepal - Leeches make life miserable for American climbers on
the first stage of a Bicentennial expedition to Mt. Everest. New, by
Jurate Kazickas.
 
                  CONSUMER SCORECARD
 
    UNDATED - Controversy over generic vs. brand-name drugs flares
again. One legislator claiming use of generic drugs could save
consumers $2 billion a year. Consumer Scorecard, by Louise Cook, new
material, will stand.
 
                    LITTON FUNERAL
 
    CHILLICOTHE, Mo. - Chillicothe mourns a hometown boy who went to
Congress and was on his way to the Senate when he died in a fiery
airplane crash. Funeral services are held for Rep. Jerry Litton, whose
death came on the night he won the Senate Democratic primary.
Developing. Wirephoto covering.
    
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a242  1329  06 Aug 76
AM-ABEE, Bjt - 2 takes, 480-770
    Editor's Note: A group of mountain climbers is on its way to the
base of Mt. Everest, hopeful of becoming the second American party to
reach its summit. AP Writer Jurate Kazickas is accompanying them on
their trek through the Himalayas. This dispatch was carried back to
Katmandu by a friend.
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By JURATE KAZICKAS
Associated Press Writer
    PHEDI, Nepal (AP) - On their way to the world's highest peak, the
members of the American Bicentennial Everest Expedition suffer in
silence the rain, the stifling heat and the slippery rock paths. But
the loathsome leeches have them talking.
    As they settled down for their first two nights on the trail, the
climbers compared leech statistics and stories, sympathizing with
unofficial high-count winner Arlene Blum of Menlo Park, Calif., and
with Dan Emmett of Santa Monica, Calif., who dug one out of his
shorts.
    The repulsive creatures are up to three inches long, with suckers at
both ends of their stringy bodies. They attach themselves to human
flesh and sate themselves on blood, and they cannot be pried off
except with a powerful insect repellent or a burning match.
    They are not poisonous or dangerous. ''They're just so
unaesthetic,'' complained Frank Morgan, a lawyer who lives in Jakarta,
Indonesia.
    The climbers intend that their American Bicentennial Everest
Expedition - which they call simply ABEE - will become the second
group of Americans to conquer the mountain. The 140-mile trip to
Everest Base Camp, which will take about three weeks, started out by
bus in the Nepalese capital of Katmandu.
    The first day out on the trail was a test.
    The morning heat made hearts pound as climbers trudged up the rocky,
narrow steep paths. The monsoon rain in the afternoon slicked the
trails so that even the most nimble-footed hikers fell.
    ''I never felt so miserable in my life,'' said the expedition
le, Phil Trimble of Washington. ''I thought I was going to get
sunstroke. My legs hurt. I had stomach problems. I couldn't have been
worse.''
    By midafternoon the colorful group of 12 climbers, two wives, two
girlfriends, two friends, 20 Sherpas (the tribesmen who traditionally
guide Everest expeditions), seven members of a television crew and
194 porters slogged wearily into camp, a pinpoint on the map called
Pirke, where the mists rolled over tiny, moss-covered temples,
Buddhist shrines in the memory of the dead.
    By the end of the second day, 4,000 feet higher and about a dozen
miles farther along, and despite 24 hours of continuous rain, Trimble
agreed with Arlene Blum, who said, ''I wish we could walk longer.
It's rather nice to walk in the rain.''
    U.S. Ambassador Marquita Maytag of Driggs, Idaho, hiked along with
the expedition for a few hours in her powder blue ABEE T-shirt. She
proved to be as adept at scrambling up the rocky trail as standing in
a receiving line. She grabbed a place on a ledge and snapped pictures
of panting climbers coming up the hill.
    Most wore sturdy climbing boots, shorts and T-shirts, but Rick
Ridgeway of Malibu, Calif., mounted the hills in rubber thong sandals
and a Hawaiian-print bathing suit with a 30-pound red pack on his
back.
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PHEDI, Nepal: his back.
    The rain teased the climbers, stopping occasionally so that the big
black umbrellas almost everyone carried could be converted to walking
sticks to help steady the way over trickling streams and mossy
boulders.
    Terraced hillsides surrounded the winding trail but the beautiful
panoramas disappeared into low, gray clouds.
    Red and blue tents were set up in a clearing near a pond and
exhausted climbers feasted on their first dinner on the trail -
chicken noodle soup and rice with chunks of ham and pineapple.
    ''The rain doesn't bother me because I was psyched up for it,'' said
Gerry Roach of Boulder, Colo. ''I knew it was going to rain every day
of this march. I'm having a ball. This is like a three-ring circus.
Nothing to do but take pictures.''
    Nibbling on a mixture of candy, nuts and raisins and drinking
mountain water laced with lemon flavoring and iodine, the hikers
passed tiny villages of thatched-roof and stone houses and fields of
yellow and red dahlias, and climbed up narrow rock trails dotted with
lavender orchid-shaped flowers.
    Each sets his or her own pace so that the more energetic, like
Roach, reached camp in about 3 1/2 hours. Emmett stayed right up in
front, even though strapped in a back brace, the result of a recent
slipped disc. The last of the porters, carrying 60-pound loads,
trickled in after about eight hours.
    The rain stopped when camp was set up on the side of a hill, with
cows as neighbors. Clouds wisped over the lush hills, slashed by
waterfalls and terraced with bright green rice paddies and yellow
fields of corn.
    Some of the group went down to the rushing river to bathe as
Nepalese children in tattered clothes stared and giggled at this
strange collection of travelers heading for Everest.
    
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By JURATE KAZICKAS
Associated Press Writer
    KABRE, Nepal (AP) - The days on the trail to Everest are falling
into a routine for the members of the American Bicentennial Everest
Expedition.
    At 5:30 a.m., as the night's deluge tapers into a drizzle, there is
a banging of pans to waken the campers scattered about in nine tents.
    They must pack up and gulp down breakfast - any combination of such
items as oatmeal, eggs, sausage chunks, peanut butter and tea - and
be on the trail by 7 o'clock.
    Nearly 200 porters carrying at least 60 pounds each scramble for the
lead, looking from a distance like overburdened ants.
    Then the dozen American climbers and their friends toting lighter
loads join the caravan.
    The day's hike is always up and down and mostly wet, whether it
rains or not, for the trail crosses irrigation ditches, trickling
streams and rushing rivers.
    The hikers nibble lunch along the way and after four to seven hours
reach their next camp, where hot milky tea awaits them.
    Dinner, with rice a constant item on the menu, is served at 5:30. By
7, it is almost dark, and the climbers try to sleep.
    It is the monsoon season in Nepal, and daily rain is usual. But the
hour at which it falls varies. When it is sunny, the heat is almost
unbearable. Whenait rains, the trails, wide enough for only one to
pass, are treacherously slippery.
    But the American climbers are pleased.
    ''It's a lot easier than I thought it would be,'' said Phil Trimble
of Washington, the leader of the expedition. ''There's not too much
up and down; the walking days are short, and the countryside is very
beautiful.''
    In fact, there is considerable up and down on this 140-mile trip to
the expedition's base camp, which is expected to take three weeks. In
four days of trekking, the hikers have gone from 2,500 feet above sea
level up to 8,200 feet, then down to 2,950 feet, and back up to the
village of Kabre at 6,025 feet.
    The trail is often busy with Nepalese villagers coming the other
way. Except for the children, they seem generally disinterested in
this odd group, decked out in t-shirts emblazoned with the ABEE -
American Bicentennial Everest Expedition - insignia, an advertisement
for herbal teas or ''George McGovern for President.''
    The Nepalese women are usually bent over under loads of grass in
baskets with head straps. They wear a tiny gold hoop in the nose as
well as a small jewel above one nostril and gold earrings as large and
ornate as military decorations in the upper part of the ears. They
dress in print blouses and long, brightly-colored print skirts and
sometimes look aghast at the hiking shorts on the American women.
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KABRE: American women.
    Gerry Roach of Boulder, Colo., one of the strongest climbers in the
expedition, likes to race ahead of everyone and scramble up the rocks
with a rousing shout.
    Rick Ridgeway of Malibu, Calif., finally changed from his rubber
thong sandals into the sneakers that most of the other climbers were
wearing. Another hard charger, he is inclined to dive in to cool off
when a stream is reached.
    The TV film crew is an integral part of the expedition and is always
ahead, positioning itself to get the best angles on the trekkers
coming round the bend with their umbrellas or bobbing across the
wobbly suspension bridges.
    The joke among the climbers is just how high up the mountain chief
cameraman Mike Hoover of Kelly, Wyo., will dare to call out, ''Let's
do that again.''
    When Drs. Dee Crouch of Boulder and Chris Chandler of Seattle held
sick call in the village of Kirantichhap, dozens of ailing and curious
gathered, including some of the expedition's porters.
    ''This is medical school in 20 minutes,'' said Crouch, ''every
disease from A to Z. A lot of casual aches could be anything from
getting out of carrying our bags to cancer.''
    One tooth definitely had to be pulled. The cameras rolled. Crouch
tugged mightily, and the tooth was free.
    ''Now put it back in and pull it out again,'' directed Hoover as the
patient spat blood. Couch performed as directed, shaking his head.
    Dinner was served that night in the middle of the village under a
sacred pipal tree where marriages are performed. The climbers ate the
goat that was purchased on the trail after some difficult and
unsuccessful price bargaining by one of the chief Sherpa guides.
    Sometimes camp is pitched in a cow field where the dung looks like
shiny flat rocks, sometimes near a stream where the weary hikers scrub
up and feel almost civilized again.
    Barbara Roach, one of the two women who hope to reach the top of Mt.
Everest, does graceful dance exercises after coming into camp. Other
climbers retire to shady corners to write in their diaries, smoke, or
prattle with the children who gather around.
    When it is not raining, all the wet clothes are spread on bushes and
stones and around the fields to dry. But they never dry. It starts to
rain again.
    
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    (AP correspondent Jurate Kazickas is trekking along with an American
team of men and women who will attempt to scale Mt. Everest. In this
dispatch, Ms. Kazickas sketches each of the climbers.)
    ---
By JURATE KAZICKAS
Associated Press Writer
    ON THE TRAIL TO EVEREST, Nepal (AP) - The 12 members of the American
Bicentennial Everest Expedition are as varied as the  different
shapes and sizes of the boots they hope will get them to the top of
the world's highest mountain.
    The 10 men and two women are experienced climbers with mountain
conquests ranging from North America's highest, Mt. McKinley, to
previously unclimbed ridges in the Peruvian Andes and perilous faces
of the Alps.
    The group now heading for the 29,028-foot peak of Mt. Everest
includes two doctors, three lawyers, a dancer, a computer scientist, a
pilot, a shipwright. There are Ph.Ds, summa cum laude graduates, a
carpenter, a sky diver. Their ages range from 27 to 38.
    ''The most important key to the success of this expedition,'' said
Phillip Trimble, the expedition leader and old man of the group, ''is
how everyone will get along. There has to be a level of tolerance.
There is no room for big egos. It is a total team effort.''
    The nucleus of the expedition, which was mostly organized in the
short space of only four months after permission to climb was received
in March, is a group of five climbing friends-Trimble, Dan Emmett,
Frank Morgan, Hans Bruyntjes and Arlene Blumb-which expanded to 11 to
include mountaineers with more technical experience. An American
living in Nepal was recently added to complete the team.
    ''The success or failure of this expedition is not defined by
whether or not we get to the top,'' said Trimble. ''What I want most
is for everyone to remember a happy experience. We want to give it the
maximum effort and make it a trip we are proud of.''
    Trimble heads the legal affairs section of the U.S. State Department
in Washington. A father of two, a Harvard Law School honors graduate
and a Fulbright scholar, Trimble, 38, can more easily be pictured in
his tent reading the paperback copy of ''War and Peace'' he brought
along than slogging his way up the mountain.
    But he said, ''Climbing is a chance to do something that's a total
contrast to my professional life.''
    -Dan Emmett, 36, a Beverly Hills, Calif., lawyer in the real estate
business, married with two children, remembered the first mention of
Everest.
    ''I told Trimble he was a fool to consider it, that it was not in
the realm of reason and that of course we should go. We're
mountaineers and it's the highest mountain, the ultimate challenge.
It's a great goal to strive for. Sure there are a lot more important
things to do in life, but what an opportunity!''
    Frank Morgan, a native of Sacramento, Calif., is another Harvard Law
School graduate like his two friends and now practices international
corporate law in Jakarta, Indonesia. He is a bachelor who turned 38
on Sept. 8.
    ''I like the iea of a shared adventure like this. It's an intense
experience. The totality of your existence is involved with these
people for such a long period of time,'' said Morgan.
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ON THE TRAIL TO EVEREST: said Morgan.
 
    -Hans Bruyntjes, a 28-year-old former carpenter from The
Netherlands, has the self-assurance of a man who's climbed some of the
most difficult peak faces on the Alps. He said he'd rather be
climbing sheer rock walls than the snow and ice of Everest and when he
first heard about the climb, he hesitated three weeks before
accepting.
    ''It's dangerous, that's why, he said. ''On Everest you know you're
going to risk a lot. It's a totally different mountain that involves
80 per cent endurance and 20 per cent experience. I think it'll be
the hardest thing I'll ever do.''
    -Arlene Blum, 31, is a chemistry professor from Menlo Park, Calif.,
who started climbing while a student in college in Oregon.
    ''It was like discovering religion,'' she said. ''Suddenly I knew
that I belonged on top of a mountain.'' She organized the first
all-women climb of Mt. McKinley in 1970 and has climbed peaks in Peru,
Ethiopia and Kashmir. She has climbed higher than anyone else in this
expedition-to a height of 23,700 feet in Afghanistan.
    For this climb, Ms. Blum, who prefers Ms. to Miss, is putting off
reporting to her teaching job at Wellesley College in Massachusetts
until January.
    -Mrs. Barbara Roach, who is making this trip with her husband,
Gerald, is 32 and the first woman to climb Mt. Foraker in Alaska and
the only woman to climb the south face of Chacraraju in Peru. In
regular life she is a dancer ans ays she is probably happier at that
than climbing mountains, which she starting doing 10 years ago with
her husband.
    But Mrs. Roach said: ''Actually the two interests go together
nicely. I use my dance exercises to train for rock climbing. Both
involve balance, strength and control, and stability.''
    -Gerard Roach, 32, a former peace Corps volunteer in India, now a
scientist with the National Center for atmospheric Research, living in
Boulder, Colo., has climbed eight of the 10 highest peaks in North
America and has been around the world twice on climbing trips with his
wife.
    ''Mountains are my life,'' said Roach. ''You have to have the fire,
that gut desire to get to the top. It's instinctive with me. And I'm
physically prepared for the toughest thing I've done in my life.''
    -Rick Ridgeway of Malibu Calif., who at 27 is the youngest and
smallest member of the team. He has three steel pins in his leg, which
he broke last October while climbing in Yosemite. A shipwright and
now a freelance writer who hopes to write a book about Nepal's Sherpas
guides, Ridgeway has day dreamed about Everest in the past but always
dismissed it as an unlikely possibility. ''It's a real ego trip to be
here now,'' he said.
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ON THE TRAIL TO EVEREST: he said.
    -Chris Chandler is 23, a divorced father of three, and a doctor with
West Seattle General Hospital in Washington. He has made numerous
first ascents and blazed new routes on peaks in Nroth America and
Peru.
    Everest for him is ''a neat adventure. In one way, it's just another
peak, but then there is that certain mystique about the place. And
like any other mountain, if I don't have to kill myself, I'd like to
get to the top. It would still be a good trip, an adventure, if I
don't make it.''
    -Dee crouch, an emergency medical doctor in Boulder, brought along
more than 400 pounds of medical supplies on the mountain to treat
everything from hemorrhoids to broken limbs. He also is conducting
some cognitive tests, to be followed up over the next few years, to
determine the possibility of brain damage from the effects of high
altitude.
    The summit is not that important to me,'' said Crouch, 33, father of
two sons. ''It has not been my life-long goal to climb mt. Everest.
Yes, I would like to get to the top but my first purpose is to care
for the people on the mountain.''
    -Robert Cormack, 30, is a pilot, the owner of a rooming house in
Boulder, and an occasional physics tutor when he is not scrambling up
mountains. When Gerry Roach proposed that he join the Abe, Cormack
said he wasn't sure he really wanted to go. ''I figured it would be
one big hassle....but then I decided yes-it was a once in a lifetime
opportunity.
    ''Getting to the summit is my goal but I'm not prepared to die or
lose my toes and fingers for it.''
    -Joe reinhard. 32, from New Lenox, Ill., is a cultural
anthropologist who has been living in Nepal for the last five years
and is fluent in Nepali. ''Everest has been on my mind ever since I
got here so I jumped at the opportunity to join the expedition But I
try not to think about being able to climb it,'' said REinhard. As
advance base camp manager, he figures his chances of getting an
opportunity to reach the summit are small. He is responsible for
working with the Sherpas and porters is getting clothing, food and
equipment to the higher camps.
    An expert sky diver and Scuba diver, whose first mountain conquest
was Europe's highest, Mt. Blanc, Reinhard sees Everest as another
learning experience. ''At the end, I want the team to say they're glad
that I came along.''
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    EDITOR'S NOTE - The writer of this dispatch is hiking along in the
Himalayan foothills with a U.S. mountain-climbing team which hopes to
scale Mt. Everest as an American Bicentennial venture.
    ---    
By JURATE KAZICKAS
Associated Press Writer
    BHAKANJE, Nepal (AP) - Moving slowly up the wooded trail, with a big
red pack and a black umbrella to ward off the rain and sometimes the
sun, Dr. Dee Crouch, a member of the American Bicentennial Everest
Expedition, is a walking experiment.
    He wants to find out if it is true mountain climbers suffer
emotional upsets and depression when they come down from the peaks.
    A small tape recorder is strapped to his body. Three protruding
wires are attached to three white discs taped to his chest.
    The Boulder, Colo., physician, and Dr. Chris Chandler of Seattle are
conducting a scientific study. Crouch makes tape recordings of his
own heartbeat and respiratory rate to compare later with tapes of
himself and other climbers high up on Mt. Everest.
    ''There really have not been any significant cardiovascular studies
made above 24,000 feet,'' said Crouch, explaining the reason for this
experiment. Mt. Everest is 29,028 feet.
    The tapes pick up irregular heart beats or breathing patterns.
Crouch is keeping a log book of his daily activities. There is also a
button he can activate to note on the tape when there has been
unusual stress activity.
    Besides this experiment, Crouch will be testing others in the
12-member team to determine the physiological and psychological
effects of high altitude. Two women are in the climbing group.
    ''There has been some speculation that there can be permanent brain
damage as a result of living at high altitudes for any extended
period of time,'' he said.
    ''Because of the loss of oxygen - hypoxia - general mental functions
are impaired, color vision goes, fine motor functions are affected
and the ability to do reasoning problems decreases.''
    Crouch has already tested four of the climbers from the Boulder area
for their skill in those various functions and plans to test them
again upon their return from Everest in November, and then again one
year and two years later.
    Crouch also gave the climbers a standard personality test.
    ''It has also been observed that climbers suffer a certain degree of
depression, emotional upsets, divorces, and job changes after a climb
like Everest,'' said Crouch. ''I'd like to collect some data to
verify that and compare the data with national averages concerning
such changes among a comparable group of people.''
    James T. Lester, a clinical psychologist who acompanied the 1963
American Everest expedition, and who now works with the Navy in
Boston, is still going over data he collected back then.
    In a recent interview, he recalled that several of his fellow
expedition members were divorced and experienced depression later.
    
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