JdaJut^Lap^ft Eveningin e ISiewsptNewspai^r. , I 71st year, 2nd issue TWIN FALLS,.IDAHO, WEDNfeSDAY-rAUGUSt-25t;a973—^ - 10- MEXICO C ITY (U P l) -T lie death toU In nomes stood in line outside the building waiting T u ^ a y 's earthquake mounted steadily today to report the losses. and by dawn the Mexican presidency was Waverly Person of th»! National Earthquake Te^rting "about 500 dead.” One Mexico City Infprwtion Center in Boulder, Colo'., said the newspaper put the toll as 924 dead. quak^'app«ared to be the worst In Mexico's The Mexico City dally JU Heraldo said 600 modem history in tertns of loss of life. died. The El Sol sa^d ,92< were dead. Other Interior Ministry spokesman Enrique counts r.an te^veen'400 and'600. At least 2,0^_ Mendoza said 393 people were killed but that persons were reported injured and terts“ 'of ipore could be added to the list of dea(l when thousands were left homeless. ____ rescuers finish ^ ^ g 'H I r o i ^ tJ>e..rubWe.__.^ As dawn broke survivors dug throug^l^^the ruins of their homes. The dead were laid out iri The_ea5Js; morning quake, centered in fault private homes, local hospitals and blankets lines deep un^er Mexico's' tnount^ous central under the streets. Some of them were still undeV spine, registered 7 on the Richter S(5ale—more the debris. powerful than the December, 1972 quake in The death tollt/ose as reports came in frorh Manarua, Nicaragua that killed 5,000 persons. outlying villages and crews continued to clear The Managua quake had a Richter intensity of the wreckage. 6.2. Rain ripped the area Tuesday night but Hardest hit in Tuesday’s quake was the town cleared by dawn. Residents took little notice of of Orizaba, whioti was raUghtin the epicenter of the giant temblor. A three-story- apartment ■ In the quake-stricken area surroundings the,. building in the community of 50,000 persons 1§(L 18,700-foot Orizaba volcano debris’ sHooa sIilT ifn ijs p east-s<wtheaat of Mexico Qty collapsed, scattered on the streey nl d4.oeral large towng ■ instaintly killing more than 100 tenants asleep - and a multitude of viUages. inside.. ■ ' GRIEVING mother.sUs In rylns of her home Aihbulance^ ran from tjje Orizaba Valley; ' ' “ Tfiousands were left without homes. Red Tuesday iafter three of her children died in a Ciuded Serdan and other h^vily-hit areas to C ro^ officials said about BOO persons were massive earthijdake at Orizaba, MexlPfl. ^spitals in nearly state capitals. Traffic in the Injured. They estlniated 100 persons died in Tranqnfl sorrow Surviving rhlld sits at left. One government area was ^ck ed with volunteer, cars carrying Quecholac in Puebla State; 80in Ciudad Cerdan, report said nearly 41)0 persoas wer killed and the Red Cross banner. 178 in Orizaba, two in Pyebla and two in e-OrizabtutiEficlals were .coordinatirlg, reports more (l^n 800 injured. (UPI| Cordoba in ■ Veracruz State. Others died_|D from QuUylng villages. Those who,lot>t thelF' scattered areas. \ixort defenders blast ~ in brief Watergate investigators Blnine roj^ident^i kill<‘d WASHINGTON (UPI) - John -J. Sirica on a suit by In their answer to the conducted for the purpose of Presiffe'nt ..Nixon's "lawyers Special Prosecutor Archibald committee's fot"' the determining whether or not .WILLMMS, Ariz. — Two Blaine County residents Wiled charged today that_the Senate Cox for acce.s.s to "the disputed tapes, the President’s lawyers criminal acts have been com­ in a one vehicle rollover accident Monday evening near Watergate Ojmmittee was con- tapes. —- . once again contended that the mitted and the guilt or Williams, Ariz. ' i ___ Ijnctirig "a criminaT investiga­ The White House brief was courts lacked the power to innocence of individuals ..."the TTiey w ere’ Marla Duffy, 19;- Bellevue, and lUchard M, tion and tri.H)'.'.,exceeding its filed only a few minutes before compel Nixon to turn over the White House brief said. Thompson, 22, Hailey. ' authority. the Senate committee formally tapes. Consequently, the Nixon law­ Also reportedly, in the vehicle, but not injured, was Xirby In - tljeir .latest legal brief asked Sirica to issue a de- yers said, the resolutlon'^authpr- liichey, Ketchufn. __ supixirtinL- Niitnn s refusal tn caralory Judgement ^ Fnrther, the lawyersMidJtha- ■ izing4he investlgal ion and the ^ tulTi over tapr recordings of his ordering' Nixon to produce committee had exceeded the investigation itself “ exceed the lioftihan jnilcd on dru^ Watergate-rel'ated conversa-- the tape.i for perusal powers given when it was legislative powers granted to created by the Senate to NEW YORK (U P I) Abbie . tions to either the committee or by the com m ittee to try the Ongress in Article 1 of the Hoffman, a Chicago Seven federal prosecutors, the lYe.si- investigate campaign practices Constitution.” in general, including the - defendant and founder of the dent's lawyers said that to do Samuel Dash, the Watergate so would violate Nixon's conO- Watergate affair —the 1972 Youlh International Party 1 Yip- committee chief counsel, in­ brcaTi-in of the Democratic pies), was jailed Tuesday ni){ht dentiality wjth hin advi.sers dicated he expected Sirica to national headquarters at the on charges Of trying to sell The brief was made public at schedule arguments on t^ie Watergate office building. $500,000 worth of cocaine U S Distrut Court thi.s after­ cortmittee’s request for a noon, prior to a rulinfj by Jud^c " .. The investigation by ( the Poiicc said an undercoyer summary Judgment, as he did committee) has been, in fact, a agent posing as a buyer' before talting the Cox suit I'A III. OS I Y!\ cfiminal investigation and trial ^-arr.anct'rl t" purcha.se the illegal under advisement. isrrks ri--<*lrrlioii drug.'K-Uf'nviith'e of opium, in A rab 4'xlorlioii you con "I i4>JJ Fii-orrnckers- k ill a dov^town hotel Ivjin Falls council p j i i d h \ 2i i r l i i i « ‘s men wffhotjf o score JAKARTA. Indonesia (U P I) — An explosion ripped through cord an illegal firecracker plant near Jakarta Tuesday, killing 53 Jel <*rnNh k ills 2 1 RyDnlted Press International Ostyn will run; persons, most of them women, authorities said today. MADRID (U P I) — A U.S. Air Force CHI jet traasport plane The Jerusalem Post .said crashed and burst into flames Tuesday, night on a Igmling today four Kuropean airlines approach to the huge Torrejon airbase near Madrid The Air may have paid Arab guerrillas millions of dollars in protection Gray may resign Force said today 24 of the 25 persons aboard died in.stantly in the ■ fiery explosion. money to prevent hijackings on TWIN FAU.S — Twin Falls Q ty councilman Paul Ostyii sai(^ An Air Force spokesman said the sole survivor suffered « ' ttieir planes Mlao holds on Tuesday he would seek a second term on the city's ruling body. fractured leg and cuts, but had a good rhahce of livinn It "The airlines have made a HONG KONG (U P I) —The Commun^t Party of China, meeting In secret -* At tbe same time, Mike Gray, mid-way through his first term identified him as the plane's navigator, 1st I,t William H Kay. purely comnierrial calculation session In Peking, held Its 10th National Congress and unanimously reidflrmed on the council, acknowledged he was "thinking about" resigning 25, of McGuire Air Force Base. N.J. that it is cheaper to pay th-’ terrorists for immunity than to the leadership of Mao Tse-tung and Premier Chou E ^ l , according to a from the position he won in an election two years ago. He said he The news agency said the passengers were famille.s of U.S employ effective, expensive Communique issued today. would make a' final decision this weekn.. servicemen living abroad and that they were on their^vyay honip, .^cuFity.measures." the I.sraeli The congress, In effect, endorsed the Mao-Cbou progra.m aimed at Improving Ostyn’s announcement makes hini the first incumbent to s^ k relations with (be United States and took the unusuiarslep oi deoounclng the IXAiiihfh NUOM m nfjiiy.ino newspaper spid reelertlon. Mayor John Christoffersen has already said he wlH Elsewhere, diplomatic Soviet uiUon by name. retire at the end of his current term, and newly-appointd NEW YORK ( U P I) - Quar­ sources in Cairo said today The Congress, rumored for the past few weeks, was held from Aug. Z4-28. councilman Henry Woodall hasn't yet announced his future terback Joe Nam ath of the N«w.- King Fai.'fal of oil-rich Saudi . it was unusual for reasons; 11 was held in secret and It was much shorter political plans. - - York Jets, filed a $2.3 million Arabia has ple(|ged unlimited than party congresses of the past. Ostyn said he wanted, a second four-year term on the council suit against Sports Illustrated money to bolster Egypt in the The congress unanimously adopted a political report—a sort of state-of-the- because "Ire have begun certain proposals that J would like to and Time Inc.. for using HK confrontation with Israel And nation address—by Chou, adopted a new party constitution and elected a new see through to their completion" name without permission in ^U.N. Secretary General Kurt Central Committee, consisting of 195 full members and 124 alternates.' Speciflcaily, Ostyn placed’ 'highest priority" on construction' adverti^ments for the magazi­ al^eim , who arrived ifi A communique broadcast by Peking Radio and the; New China News Agency of a secondary sewage treatment plant and building a new fire ne.