September 3, 1974

Reynolds, Suzanne: Case of Charles W Yukl seen as prime example of problems of plea bargaining, prison sentences, rehabilitation and parole procedures; his arrest, trial and incarceration for '66 strangulation of Suzanne Reynolds detailed; Wallkill State Correctional Facility supt Harold N Butler says Yukl was model prisoner and appeared to be completely rehabilitated; Yukl was paroled despite memo against it from prosecutor John F Keenan because of favorable psychiatric rept, and has since been arrested in similar slaying of actress Karen Schlegel in Greenwich Village; illus (L)

sporadic violence continues in Newark, NJ, on Sept 3, following disorders that erupted during Labor Day festival at Branch Brook Pk; police rept looting incidents and number of fires in area; say that 47 persons have been injured, including 3 policemen; Newark Police Dir Hubert Williams says he has ordered emergency recall of all police officers from vacations and leaves; disturbance starts when about 1,000 demonstrators hurl rocks and bottles at City Hall shattering windows and doors as meeting between Puerto Rican leaders and Mayor Kenneth A Gibson is taking place; demonstrators are described as young Puerto Ricans and blacks supporting newly named People's Com Against Repression and Police Brutality; Rev Alfonso Roman, one of demonstrators' negotiators, comes out of meeting in attempt to calm crowd; Gibson is confronted with rival claimants as Puerto Rican spokesmen, so he holds meeting with reprs of antipoverty orgn called Oye (Spanish for 'listen'); Imamu Amiri Baraka is included in group; group demands that Gibson creates police-rev bd selected by community; bd would be responsible for deciding who is fit to be policeman; 2d outbreak of window-breaking occurs and demonstrators demand that Police Dir Williams be dismissed and that demonstrators' group be recognized as investigative com to look into police riots; attempts by Sigfredo Carrion, another member of negotiating team, are unsuccessful; other Puerto Rican groups also wait to hold meeting with Gibson; controversial repts over what caused new outbreak of violence exist; after repeated unsuccessful attempts by Mayor Gibson to calm crowd, he calls out 40-member tactical police force, accused by demonstrators of brutality; some demonstrators say police clubbed innocent bystanders; pregnant woman is also allegedly beaten by policemen; illus (L)

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Robert M Morgenthau charges Manhattan Dist Atty Kuh is greater burden on NYC Police Dept than anyone else in NY; says policies waste 8,000 days of police manpower a yr in line-ups, trial preparation and ct appearances; Kuh denies charge (S)

Turkish Cypriote leader Rauf Denktash charges that Greek Cypriote soldiers committed 'mass murder' of ethnic Turkish civilians on Aug 14; says because of alleged murders he is 'physically and mentally' unable to meet as scheduled with Pres Glafkos Clerides, int; says he will try to meet Clerides on Sept 6; says mass murder had been committed at Maratha and that Greeks are now blocking investigation of reptd killings in Limassol area; adds that mainland Turkey is 'very concerned'; holds Turkish Army on island might have to take precautionary measures if more evidence of slaughter of civilians is unearthed; there is speculation as to whether issue will seriously impede discussions between Denktash and Clerides and whether it will worsen hostility between Turkey and Greece; Clerides Govt refuses to concede that murders had been committed by Greek Cypriotes or that victims were Turkish Cypriotes; Govt condemns reptd crime regardless of which side is responsible; earlier in day, Turkish officials said that about 70 Turkish Cypriotes from Maratha had been killed by Greeks on Aug 14, same day that Denktash said that Greek soldiers apparently killed 90 Turkish civilians near Limassol; Clerides Govt has called for investigation by UN and Internatl Red Cross of charges involving Maratha; Turkish soldiers uncover bodies of at least 35 people near Maratha on Sept 2; Turkish officials say pit contains about 70 bodies, almost entire hamlet; map; illus (M)