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ing interests,

napped on Feb. 4, 1974, a few Hearst, the harrier

days short of a year before Mr. Yoshimura, a woman fleeing

Scott went to the Harrisburgi

puice.

Continued on Page 20, Column 3

tha.

has been close to

Oswald Calls to Embassies

Reported Taped by C.I.A.

the years, although

Ily there has beer?

tween him and pre

Air. Khaddam is p

in Syria's effort

Ithe civil strife in

By NICHOLAS M.

HORROCK

Suedal to The tol Yor's Times

The Egyptian a

two men thus

WASHINGTON,

Sept.

20- his pro-Castro

actisities.

ever

¡weight beyoid

The Central Inteiligence Agen- followed up on the information.

issue.

cy secretly tape-recorded two!

The call to the Cuban Emras-

telephone

conversations

he-lsy, the sources

Today, more:

said, was

not

tween Lee Harrey Oswald andiassociated with

Oswaid until

time a iair sir:

the Cuban and Soviet Embas-jafter the death of Mr. Kennedy.

mated at ::: 1)

sies in Mexico City some eight A Federal commission headed:

the streets in &

weeks hefcr: President Kenne-by Chief Justice Earl Warren

strate against

dy was shot to death

They inached i

on Nov.lfound

that

Oswald, acting

22, 1953, in Dallas, Government alone, had slain the Presiden.

office

shoutir.

sources

familiar.

with

thei

To Avoid Publicity

Associated Press

Yasir!" Demo

kind are Ust:

events said today.

The call to the Soviet Embas-

The

calls were

reportedly

Secretary i State Kissinger with Shimon Peres, Israeli

sy, according to,

the sources, placed. by Oswald on a trip,

Deiense Minister, alter their meeting in Washington.

Continued on

ito Mexico City in late Septem-

alerted

the C.I.A.

to the pres-

ence of Oswald in Mexico City, ber and early October,

1963

and on

Oct.

10

the agency The events of this trip

have

warned the Federai Bureau of never been fully made public-

Chilean Junta Resisting

Investigation. There is no indi. and have been the subject of

cation

that the F.B.I.,

which speculation for more than a

BY JONATHAN KANDELL

¡lations of human rights.

ports. of to!

was investigating Oswald for

decade.

Spacial id die die sork Times

Unemployment is at its high-lin recent

The reporis of the cails

are:

SANTIAGO, Chile. Sept. 16- est in at least four decades and because of

the latest developments in the Two yoars after the bloody coup industrial

production

has fidence tha

Today's Sections

increasing speculation

about that toppied the Marxist coali- dropped sharply this year.

version ha:

Section

1 (2 Parts)

News the Warren Commission's con-

tio! government of President!

But the junta has vowed to|hand, suci

Section

Arts and Leisure clusions.

Business and Finance!

Evidence

that

the

Salvador Allende Gossens; the continue an austerity program tually.

be

Section

Section

The Week in Review!

iC.I.A, and the F.B.l. may have

military

junt

that

governs aimed

almost exclusively;

at and the st

Section

Sports been less than candid with the Chile hes developed a siege dampening the perennial rise in/remains

Section

Magazine commission has

added to the

mentality against critics of its inflation

and diminishing the still

abor

(Part 2)

Report on

Men's

Wear questions surreunding the as-

Çarion

Book Review!

harsh economic recovery pro- state's fole in the economy.

oners, ac

Section

*Real Estate Continued on Page 49, Column 1 gram and of its continuing vio-l

Arbitrary arrests and

іте-

ment.

Sect:on

*Employment

The

Advertising

Section 10

Travel and Resorts

no at Che ud the

distributed

the suburbon area.

June Graduates Find More Jobs Than Expected

knowled

than 1,

rained

Index to Subjects

Section

Paze

By SETH S. KING

they had noi even considered sought jobs have now found

Lawyer

Amusement News

52-53

Art

31-32

Special to the dis frick Times

living in before.

them,"' said Victor R. Lindquist,

pect it

Bridge

4'2

EVANSTON, lli..

sept. 20-

But mary have been delighted

director of placement at this'sing p

Chess

43

graduating

in the in find

inflation has large private university's Evan- tention

Dance

Editorial/Op-Ed

16. 17 class of '75, who in June were pushed starting salaries, espe-ston campus.

ters.

Fashions/ Home

Fasbions

60-63 thought to have the poorest cially for engineers and particu-

"Of course, that's below the

Film

15 chances for employment since larly

for

women

engineers,

95 per cent or higher rate we've The

Food

Gardens/Home

Repairs

38,42

64ithe Great Depression,

are far-above last year's.

had for the past three years," has

Lelters to the

Editors

16 ing

better than the forecastors!

90% Find Jobs

he said. "But when you con- Chile

• Music/Recordings

17-18 had expected.

Placement directors

at uni-

sider how poor the

prospects Tarly

were

this spring, It's

not as has

New's Summary

& Index

63;

Few of them were courted versities and colleges in many bad as you'd expect."

tiat'

Obituaries

So by the employers

this time. parts of the cointry said this

The College Placement Coup-eig

Photography

Puzzles

76. Most of them had to try longer week that the majority of those!

63 and harder to find a joh

and seniors who made

the effoit cil of Bethlehem,

Pa.;

in

]

Ship Movements

Society

57-62 had

settle

for

sometlingiwere

now

employed in the Survey of 156 colleges and imi-

Re

Stamps/Coins

36-37

less than they had hoped for.

liltids they had trained for, or

versities, found that by August bil

Theater

TV / Radio

25

The

job

offers came

lacer in something related to them.

job offers to the class of 1975 co

TV (Late Listings)

63 in the summer than usual. And;

"We've found that more than

had dropped 27 per cent below vi

last year. Of the 6,984 seniors S

many of

1975's graduates are 90 per cent of Northwestern's

DiFOOT IS HilE: First Factual Recount.

in places

thail fune

graduates

who

really (Continued on Page 45, Column 2 /c

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lo the conversations

and

one.of trash then.

That happens a

sassination and has led to more

source called them

"benign." Int now. though."

cails for a recpening of the in-

Moreover, the sources

said.

Personnel Cuts

the C.I.A. had information that

Saniration personnel

there

quiry.

the Cubans were suspicious of have

been

cut

from

1.450

in

The Mexico City trip was

given scant treatment in the

and unsympathetic to Oswald. 935. They collect

abnut

2.900

One source said the Cubans tons a day, compared with the

Warren Commission report be-

regarded Oswald's behavior in

?4.000 tons generaied daily in

cause publication of informa-

New York City.

returning lo the United States

tion ahoui il mighi have ex-

Mayor Beame's ulumatum 10

posed "sources and methods"

rom the so each in arane clays expiris one with

of the C.I.A. and impaired na-

¡days expires tomorrow at

Asked if anvthing said might night.

Some progress has been

tional security. intelligence of-

commission

staif

ficers

and

have

"triggered"

Oswald.- a reported.

Castro supporter, to take "retal.

sources have said.

iation"

Sanitation Commissioner Rob-

against President Ken- ert T. Groh, who resigned the

• In response in inquiries about

пецу,

one

source

said

he day

amid

mounting

public

the matter from The New York

thought not but said

that he criticism

his department's

Times. the C.I.A. issued an unu-

the.

United Press International

Lee Harvey Oswald

thought Oswald had been "frus- porformarice,

attributed

the

trated" by the Cubans.

dirty

streets

and

sual public statement

unsightly

on

would not

confirm

Known by F.B.1.

oerflowing rubbish barrels in

photograpi di Lee Harvey Os.

that there were

any

tape-re-

wald.

manpower reductions. An aver-

Their decerminations, and

The F.B.l. ackrovedgey di

corded conversations but said:

the raw data upon

which they the

Warren CommissiOn

age

of 3.100

men

is on duty

daily now. compared with 4.000

"On Ociober 9. 1963 Central

hait'd.

along

the ings that i had "eceived inter.

Agency headquar- reports of his visit to the soviet mation from tie C.l.A. out in former years.

lers received information that Embary.

wore made

the Ogwaid's Moxian contact with

If more men are not hired.

person named

Warren and Rockefeiler Com- the Sorier Embass on Oct. 10, Mr. Groh said. "we'll just hare

as

were

all other 1963.

Former F.B.l. agents in-to

get

accustomed to living

be Morea y October, 1963. In

maicrials relevant to the inves volved in the investigation said like

this:

our standards will

1963. lil treation of President Kennedys the

bureau knew that Oswald have to he lowered."

transmitting the information on death.

had been trying to return 1o the"

Solutions suggested in other

10 October

1963 Central Intel-

Three wait members of the soviet Union.

cities included

new laws

and

ligence

headquarters Warren

Under bureau docrating

pro- taxes governing packaging, use

said Lee Oswali was probably signed to investigate the Mexi. dures at that rime. ire F.B.l. of an

all-purpose returnable

identical lo

Henry (sic) co City trip and diher matters followed up on anv mesolained bottle

and

the

painting

Oswald, a former radar opera- involving

the C.I.A. -William visit by an american citizen to workers' names on sanitation

'tor in the United States Marine T.

of Communist embassies and con. trucks to enabie citizens to

Corps, born

19397:ansporiation; Howard P.

Wil- sulater. It would have been par. hold

them

responsible

for

in New Orleans, who defected lens, a

formerJustice Depart-licularly watchfut in the case of sloppy work

10.

Union in 1959 ment official

now in privaie Oswald. who had defacted once.!

But others believe a real

and, who, subsequently made law practice,

The bureau jagon for such solution rests only in changing

arrangements to return to tho Slawson,

a law profussor in unexplained visits was "bogies" people's behavior. City strects,

United States with a Russian California.

wife.

vir. Coleman said in a tele-land agents were sent to inter said

Chicago

columnist,

thai

he

view the person on why he or Mike Royko:

"are as clean

as

phone interview

was she had been in contact with people

in

that neighborhood

"disturbed" about the possibil-

"This biographical data was ity that United State security

the Communists. The only rea-want thent to be."

based upon Federal Bureau of

be harmed

Investigation reports provided disclosures of mB.l. an CleA

recent son this was

no: done in Os-

Mr. Powers of Keep America

wald's case, these sources said: Beautiful

professes

optimism.

Central Intelligence Agency activities. But he acknowledged may have been because he was The fiscal crises of the nation's

following Oswid's defection to that he and other staff mcm- already under an F.B.l. security cities, he said, are making more

investigation in connection with people aware that they can not

¿the Soviet Union.

bers had received information!

*"This information was

on Oswald's PrO-Castro activities.

(rely on government to solve all!

The bureau's formal response their problems.

i provided to

the

Immigration activitics in Mexico, and theyl

and Naturalization Service, the did

counter to the

to these questions was to referi

very siow!

Department of the Navy,

the commissien's

conclusion

that to the

Warren Commission re-process," he said.

"This „is a ver' I'm not sug-

United States Ambassador and Oswald,

alone.

killediport. In the report it was noted'

gesting there is a big move-

this staff in Mexico and to the President Kennedy and a Dallas that James P. Hosty Jr. special ment across

the country

and

f Representative of the F.B.I. in police officer, J. J. Tippitt.

agent of the Dalias field office, we

will

have the

situation

lattempted to interview Oswald cleaned up in five years. But

Mexico.

Sure Others Learned

about his Cuban activities on there is a new

attitude, and!

"Following the assassination

Coleman

said he

was Nov. 1.

'I am encouraged."

lof President Kennedy, Central sure

that J.

Lee Rankin, the!=

* Intelligence Agency records re-

vealed that a person believed Warren

Commission's

chief

counsel, had been informed of

to be.

Oswald

was in contact

C.I.A..

Mexico

Cil!

Iwith the.

Cuban

Embassy on

data

and that "at least two or three

*27 September 1963 for the pur-

commission

members"

knew.

puse of receiving a transit visa He could not remember if the

for use enroute to the U.S.S.R.

commission had ever discussed

"In addition

number

of the matter in executiva session.

photographs of individuals ber.

Willens and Mr. Slawson

Jieved to be in contact with declined

the Cuban and. Soviet Embas- ment.

to make public com-

sies

In

Mexico

City

were

Sources

familiar with

the

Soft, Subtle, and

Sophisticated

ceived from the Central Intelli- contents of the tapes said that:

gence Agency station in Mexico! Oswald

had

been

secking

,a

and were compared with

pic- transit

visa from Cuban offi-

tures of Lee

Harvey Oswald cials

and

that

he had been

by C.l.A.

officers

in

Mexico

"rebuffed." One source said thai

City

and C.J.A.

headquarters the call to the Soviet Embassy

and by United States authori-shad been an efiori to gei helpi

ties in Dallas, Texas.

in

furthering

his

application:

"Il was determined that none at the Cuban Embassy.

of these photographs was the

These sources said there had

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