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Final147TH YEAR VOL. 147, NO. 120 SYRACUSE, N.Y., FRIDAY, JANUARY 16, 1976

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Opening night at the new Civic Center Thursday ishighlighted by elegant Ella Fitzgerald, the famous jazzsinger who, along with the Syracuse Symphony Orches-

tra and more than two thousand patrons of the artshelped christen the new cultural center. (Staff photo byCarl J. Single)

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Soviet-backed forces led by Cubantroops have scored major military victo-ries against Western-backed foes innorthern Angola and sent them fleeing tothe Zaire border, according to reportsThursday in South Africa and Washing-ton.

There were fears the successes bv the»-

Popular Movement (MPLA) would touchoff direct intervention in the north byneighboring Zaire. Secretary of StateHenry Kissinger in Washington cabled the

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gases spewing from an industrial fireforced the evacuation of homes and aschool Thursday and sent dozens of fire-men, policemen and onlookers to the hos-pital.

At least 74 persons — 35 of them fire-men — were admitted to local hospitalsfor treatment and observation afterbreathing what was believed to be chlo-rine and phosgene gases. No deaths werereported.

Three firemen whose tests showedtraces of gas in their blood, lung damageor both were placed in an intensive careunit ; their conditions ranged from fair toserious. Most of the other victims werereported to be in satisfactory or fair con-dition.

Jesus Mut. 29. said he was at homewhen the fire started in a building atChatsworth in the San Fernando Vallev.• <

The building housed the Lago-Calc Ink Co.and the Pacific Coast Lithograph Co. Heran to the burning building where heworked to retrieve some personal effects.

He said later at West Park Hospitalthat he dashed inside the structure andwas overcome by fumes and collapsed.

"I just passed out. I felt a tight chestand then I just couldn't breathe. When Iwoke up. four guys were holding me downbecause I was in convulsions," Mut said.

Investigators said the chlorine gas maycome from hydrochloric acid whichspilled from a plating vat used by thelithograph company.

Fire information officer Dave Fullersaid burning polyvinyl plastics could haveproduced the phosgene gas. once used inchemical warfare.

He said firemen and a chemist wearingprotective suits would use chemicals toextinguish the smoldering remains of thebuilding.

report on the situation along the northernfront to the North Atlantic Council inBrussels on Wednesday night. Sourcestold The Associated Press on Thursdaythat Kissinger informed the allies theMarxist faction was advancing rapidlytoward the border writh Zaire.

Kissinger told diplomats from 37 Afri-can countries late Thursday he hoped thecivil war in Angola could be settledthrough negotiations within a month. Hesaid he planned to take up the possibilityof such a settlement in Moscow nextweek when he sees Soviet leader LeonidBrezhnev on a new nuclear weapons trea-tv.•

Kissinger also reported problems ineastern Angola, where he said elementsof the pro-Western National Front< FNLA » backed by South African soldiershad failed to secure a kcv railroad facil-i

ity and "virtually all" Ihe troops andtheir Zairian allies were fleeing the bat-tlefield.

The FNLA and its ally, the NationalUnion for the Total Liberation of Angolal U N I T A ) . both backed by the UnitedStates and South Africa, are fighting theMPLA for control of the former Por-tuguese colony, which gained its inde-pendence last November.

About 7.000 Cubans are known to be

leading the MPLA fight.Cuba's news agency. Prensa Latina, re-

ported Prime Minister Fidel Castro saidthe MPLA "is winning the war againstthe imperialist invaders of Angola, whoare suffering catastrophic losses."

The Soviet news agency Tass reportedfrom Ihe Angolan capital of Luanda thatMFI.A troops were close to Santo Antoniodo Zaire, last stronghold of the FNLA innortheast Angola.

Angola's richest oil fields are locatedoff Santo Antonio, south of the oil-rich Ca-binda enclave, which the MPLA controls.Cabinda is separated from Angola by athin sliver of Zaire.

Reports have said much of the FNLAwar material came from Zaire across theCongo River into Santo Antonio.

The MPLA northern offensive was re-portedly led by about 7.000 Cuban combattroops and used tanks, helicoptergunships and concentrated rocket attacksto seize the cities.

The London Financial Times and theYugoslav news agency Tanjug both re-ported that the MPLA had seized the keyAngolan port of Ambriz. its airfield andthe nearbv city of Ambrizette. Ambriz• •'

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Yesterday's high was 23. 42 below therecord high set in 1932. The low was 10, 35above the low mark made in 1957. Themean was 17. six below last year's meanand six below normal.

The sun will set today at 4:56 p.m. andrise tomorrow at 7:33 a.m.

By NEVART APIKIAN

It was a night to remember — Thurs-day. Jan. 15. 1976 — the opening of theCivic Center.

More than 2,000 persons, paying $35 and$25. attended the gala premiere of the2.117-seat Concert Theater of the new cul-tural center off Columbus Circle.

It took 10 years from dream to realityfor the S24 million cultural-office complexnear the County Courthouse.

Classical music, musical comedy andcountry-folk in a new work, and! Jazz took

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As soon as the rust-orange velvet cur-tain was raised, the audience started toapplaud the the Syracuse SymphonyOrchestra.

The gowns of the women, glitteringwith beading or worn with jewels addedglamour to the simple but elegant archi-tecture of the building which is in warmtones of woods, set oil' with greys of thecement structure, and brightened withthe orange of the seats and the rust tonesin the curtains.

The ushers wore vests colored orange,prey and purple and bearing the CRCinsignia.

Christopher Keene, conductor of theSyracuse Symphony gave the downbeat toa rousing arrangement of the "StarSpangled Banner." and many joined insinging.

Dr. Joseph Golden, executive directorof the Cultural Resources Council, gave awelcoming address, after a brief bit offirst-night jitters on the mike.

"Welcome to the premiere of the Con-cert Theater." he said. "You don't knowhow beautiful you look out there, or howlong it took to get you here."

The Rev. Robert E. Grimm, who had"stood outside" on that April day in 1974when ground was broken, offered a pray-er, though, as he pointed out, "this get-ting together itself is a prayer." "Let usgive thanks for al! hands who worked onthe project, the technical ingenuity whichmade it possible.

"Be with us in our joy and in ourthanksgiving." he said.

Speaking of the "exquisite place we arein tonight." Sheilah Y. Gibson, presidentof the Cultural Resources Council, com-mended Dr. Golden for his vision and pre-sented him with a watch.

Dr. (iolden then introduced County Ex-ecu t ive John 11. Mulroy. the "dairyfarmer from Marcellus." who keeps se-cret his interest in culture. "The truth isthat this place wouldn't be here withouthim," he stated.

"We all have dates in our lives weremember." said Mulroy. "I'd like to saythat Jan. 15, 1976. is a most significantdate in our lifetime."

He thanked all the people who orga-nized it. He especially thanked the newsmedia for supporting the project, andgave special commendation to the lateHarold Steiner, representing DeWitt onthe County Legislature, and EphraimShapero. who worked to get legislaturebacking in the building of the Civic Cen-ter.

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Corn CropFor 1975Sets Record

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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Former FBIinformer Sara Jane Moore was sentencedto life in prison Thursday by a judge whoblamed a permissive society and lack ofcapital punishment for her attempt to as-sassinate President Ford.

U.S. District Court Judge Samuel Contisaid Miss Moore had "no remorse" andthat he hoped the stiff sentence would bea deterrent to others. She was the secondwoman in a month to be sentenced for at-tempting to assassinate the President.

"The only reason the President was notkilled was not through any fault of yourown. Your aim was straight." Conti said."It was a faulty gunsight that made theattempt on the President's life unsuccess-ful ."

He said Miss Moore and people like her"are misguided, and you are blaming so-ciety for your own faults." He accusedher of taking it on herself to "be thejudge, jury and the executioner" whenshe shot at Ford as he left a San Fran-cisco hotel Sept. 22.

"What really concerns me most aboutAmerica is how calloused we have be-come to crime and to violence," saidJudge Conti. "If you thought at the

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grain, the crop is important for producingmeat, poultry and dairy products and asexports to other countries. The previousrecord was 5.65 billion bushels in 1973 be-fore tumbling to less than 4.7 billion in1974.

The new estimate was 37 million bush-els below the previous USDA estimate of5.8 billion bushels on Nov-. 10 as the cropwas being harvested.

Soybean production last year was 1.52billion bushels, up 25 per cent from 1974,but still short of the record of 1.55 billionbushels in 1973. Production dropped to1.23 billion bushels in 1974. Soybeans pro-vide vegetable oil and high-protein mealvaluable as livestock feed.

The department's Crop ReportingBoard said its "all-crops" production in-dex for 1975 averaged a record of 122 percent of a 1967 base used as a standard,unchanged from last. November. In 1974 itaveraged 110 per cent.

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Estimates for cotton and rice also wereunchanged from earlier reports. The 1975cotton crop is estimated at 8.3 millionbales, down 28 per cent from 1974, andrice at a record of 127.6 million hun-dredweight, up 14 per cent.

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curred in major growing areas."However, despite these interruptions,

growers in many areas were able to har-vest record crops," the report.

trigger and fire that shot that you wouldbe subjected to capital punishment, youwouldn't be pulling the trigger."

Before her sentencing. Miss Moore, 45,read a lengthy statement describing how

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she "came to understand that violencecan sometimes be constructive."

She said she regretted attempting toassassinate Ford because it "accom-plished little except to throw away therest of my life, although I realize thereare those who think that's the one goodthing resulting from this."

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Invasion by Rats Follows DrouDAKAR, Senegal i A F ) - Millions of

rats are moving through the three-nationborder area of Senegal. Mali and Mauri-lania, destroying crops in a region thathas barely begun to recover from the ef-fects of the disastrous drought at the edgeof the Sahara.

The infested area extends over 180,000acres along the Senegal River where thegovernment crop protection agency esti-mates there is one rat for every squareyard of land.

"The situation is serious," said Nor-man Schoonover. regional director of theI'.S. Agency for International Develop-ment, a participant in agricultural pro-grams in the sector.

Senegal River Development authority. which provided food on which the ratsRats are reported swimming the Sene- could feed.

gal River by the thousands. The river The decision now involves identifyingforms the border line between Senegal the rats, thought mainly to be of the Nor-and Mauritania to the north. Extensive way and wharf rat strains, and takingcrop development and irrigation projects steps to eradicate them,

pcrts from the World Health Organiza- are underway there through the mullina- About 150 tons of chemicals and an-

crop losses, and there's an obvious healthproblem, although there is no sign of anepidemic. There is extensive damage todikes in irrigated areas and large scalereseeding of crops will be necessary."

Schoonover was one of a group of ex-

tion, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Or- tion river development authority,ganization and the involved countries whoare flying to the sector Friday to evaluate

ticoagulants are on order, but there is

the situation. They are joining Prof. Jean difficulties have heightened in the last

"It started about a year ago," Schoono- some concern that this approach may bever said in a telephone interview. "The dangerous for humans and livestock. Rat

hunts bv entire villages, with bounties asBernard, a Belgian rodent specialist, whois trying to determine the varieties,

"To give you an idea of the size of theinvasion, 440 rats were killed recently(luring a hunt by children on a 400-squa re-yard area at Kaedi, Mali," said Robert

months. The government reacted veryquickly and put in budgetary resourcesnut there will he an international effort tohelp."

The explanation put forward by Sene-galese authorities for the invasion are the

an incentive, are seen as another effec-tive method for stopping the plague.

There were no estimates on the size ofthe crop loss, but preliminary projectionson the cost of the extermination programranged between $1.3 million and $3.1 mil-

"There have been very considerable Goudiard. an agronomist attached to the abundant harvests following Iho drought, lion.p

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LUBBOCK, Tex. <UPI) - Owl theowl has shamed himself. He has for-saken his wilderness spirit and to es-cape the harshness of winter hascrawled into the lair of man where hemust eat dog food and hamburger.

Another way of lookng at it, ofcourse, is that Owl was merely prov-ing the legendary wisdom of his kindby coming in out of the cold.

Whatever the reason. Owl's decisionhas won him a new home on the cam-pus of Texas Tech University where hehas been adopted by students of theTextire Reseach Center.

Owl is a common West Texasground owl who was first noticed bystudents in the. fall of 1974 glaringdown from various perches around theoutside of the center — nesting intrees and making a home in a buildingdrain pipe.

Last week, w i t h a Texas bluenorther hard upon him. Owl made hismove. Fie slipped inside the researchcenter building.

% > N o one is sure how he got inside,but now that he's here we plan to keephim." says Penny Young, public rela-tions director for the center. "We allknew he was around outside, and oftenwe would talk to him as we entered orleft the building. But we never did any-thing to make sure he stayed around.

"But now that he's moved inside hehas become everyone's pet," she said.

The owl was first noticed inside thecenter Friday morning.

"We looked to see how he got in —and we just don't know for sure," saidJ.K. Loughlin, head of the chemicalprocessing plant. "He just couldn'thandle all that cold weather outside —so he moved inside."

"We don't know the eating habits ofowls right now. but we plan to findout," Loughlin said. "Meanwhile, weare giving him dog food and ham-burger meat."

"He has the run of the place, perch-ing on warm pipes and machinery allover the building," Miss Young said.

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By FRANK MACOMBER

It was the gala night everyone hoped it might be. Itwas the public realization of a dream held by every-one connected with the arts in Onondaga County. Itwas, in short, a triumphal opening for the new CivicCenter.

The program was designed to offer the auditoriumof the Center as a forum for music, to show it off withfine imported talent and even more to show a cross-section of the talents available in Onondaga County.

The Syracuse Symphony opened the program with arousing rendition of the national anthem in a new ar-rangement by its resident conductor, Calvin Custer,The audience was ready to be pleased, was ready toapplaud everything and everyone in sight, and gavethe orchestra a standing ovation.

The Symphony chose for its main offering two "Es-says for Orchestra" by the American composer Sam-uel Barber. Since the new auditorium is to be thehome of our orchestra, we listened with special carefor the sound in the hall. The result of the work andplanning of acoustical consultant Russell Johnson is,on a first hearing, a major success.

It seemed to me that every instrument jumped outwith a clarity and sense of truth of sound. Never has

each memeber of the string section been so exposed,never has the sense of woodwind timbre seemed sopersonal an extension of each player. My seat in thirdrow center gave me only one vantage point, but oth-ers commented on the phenomenon from other placesin the auditorium.

Conductor Cristopher Keene gave the Barberpieces a reading of intensity and power, stressing theBrooding aspects of these strong compositions. To-'night the orchestra makes its 'solo' bow and therewill be opportunity to view a wider range of litera-ture.

The evening featured a premiere of CharlesStrouse's uWhat is There to Sing About?", an ex-tended scene for chorus and orchestra in the style ofa musical comedy. It was designed around the themeof the search of an artist for a reason to continue hisart. As a whole the conception was an adequate 'pieced'occasion', over-long for its.content and with severaltoo many climaxes.

Guest artists Richard Barrett and Gail Nelsonwere more than a match for their material. Barrettin the leading role, proved a strong-voiced singingactor. His role was a taxing one vocally, and therewere resources to spare. A fine young talent.

Miss Nelson showed both a beautiful voice and a

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Dr. Joseph Golden, right, executive direc-tor of the Cultural Resources Council, in-troduces the Rev. Robert E. Grimm, left.Grimm gave the invocation for tbe open-

ing night spectacular. A member of theSyracuse Symphony Orchestra sits in thebackground.

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If composer Charles Strouse were at allnervous, the warm smile he and his wife,Barbara, exchanged backstage hardly be-trayed him. Strouse had plenty to beamabout in his dressing room yesterday. His

work, which involved chorus, the SyracuseSymphony Orchestra, Rock Ensemble andsoloists — entitled "What is There to SingAbout?" — was written especially for thegala opening.

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"Men shape buildings andfrom then on the buildingshape them," he continued."!hope it will shape a generationof people who will follow."

Dr Golden concluded thespeeches by saying that "thisis not a climax; this is thebeginning."

He then thanked FredLebensold, chief architect,who was in the audience alongwith Russell Johnson, archi-tectural acoustics consultant.

"Love it and come backoften," he urged.

After the playing,of theBarber works by the SyracuseSymphony. Charles Strouselook the podium for the musi-cal comedy portion with hisnew work, "What is There toSing About?"

And the concluding jazz seg-ment was safely in the handsof that remarkable First Ladyof Song, Ella Fitzgerald,graceful in flowing black chif-fon with a touch of white ather bodice. Cal Custer snappedthe beat.

The audience included manyof Syracuse's fine communityperformers as well as numer-ous guests from out of town in-cluding Dr. Golden's sister,brother-in-law and nieces fromBoston. Mrs. Joan Davidson ofthe New York State Council onthe Arts, Henry Steinway fromNew York City, RudolphNashan, regional directorofthe National Endowment forthe Arts, were spotted. Theambassador to Canada fromIran, Dr. Fazlollah Reza andMrs. Reza came from Ottowa.Arthur Storch. director ofSyracuse Stage, was there. Sowas state Sen. Tarky Lombar-di.

During the two intermis-sions, the crowd milled aboutin the lobbies where bars wereset up.

Following the concert, ta-bles were set for the galachampagne reception foreveryone. It was the happy endof a bubbly, happy evening.

Certified nurse-midwivesmake it possible for pregnantwomen to get good prenatalcare in some parts of the coun-try where it was not availablebefore, says the March ofDimes.

Patriotic Bank AidFirst Trust & Deposit Co.

has set up a special "mini-grant" fund of $7,500 to helplocal groups with their bicen-tennial plans.

The grants will range from$50 to $400, according to FirstTrust Chairman Joseph S.Spaid Sr. Applications will bereviewed by an independentfive-member advisory boardrepresenting Syracuse andOnondaga, Oswego, Cayugaand Madison counties.

Applications will be avail-able at First Trust offices.

Spaid called the gesture"We the People" grants andsaid he hoped they would aidsmall, not-for-profit groups get

their plans to celebrate thenation's 200th birthday off theground.

Some examples, he cited, in-clude an organization needingmoney to refurbish an existinghistorical landmark, costumesfor a performing arts group orthe cost of printing a bicenten-nial newsletter or brochure.

Many so-called "adultdiseases" may begin as birthdefects, says the NationalFoundation-March of Dimes.An inherited tendency to heartdisease, stroke, diabetes andemphysema may escape de-tection in childhood and youth,but surface later in life.

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sense of comedic talent which was most refreshing.Locally, the cast was led by Patti Thompson, whoseportrayal of a club-woman caricature was mar-velously acted. Miss Thompson was a joy and she wasin radiant voice. Bill Black did some of the finestsinging I have heard from this well-known baritone,and he handled himself on the stage with elan.

Christine Flasch's part (Young Love) was muchtoo small. Is there no end to the acting and singingtalents this young lady can project? Harry Weber asDeath did more with an unrewarding part than itdeserved, and the Syracuse area needs to hear thisman in public more often.

The singer-actors were ably backed by the Syra-cuse Symphony and the Syracuse BicentennialAmbassadors, an attractive chorus prepared by Don-ald Miller of Onondaga Community College.

If a high level of artistic performance had been setby this point, it was to be crowned by the rich group

of songs sung by tne incomparable Ella Fitzgeraldwhich closed the evening. What an incredible joy toexperience the beauty and warmth which radiatefrom this consummate artist.

Surely she represents the best our century has pro-duced in the field of popular music. From the satin-smooth "Our Love is Here to Stay" to the gloriousintricacies of "The Wave", from Gershwin to Elling-ton and just about everyone in between. Miss Fitzger-ald's is an art which reveals art. The Symphony underCalvin Custer proved further flexibility by accompa-nying her in a number of songs to the manner born:and her trio {The Tommy Flanagan Trio) were per-fect colleagues in exciting music making.

The evening was only the first of several 'openings'of the Civic Center, but it was most important be-cause it was the first. At intermissions, universalgood words were the order of the day, and the senseof participation and accomplishment on the part of theaudience was electric. We all realize that there is still-some work to be done on the hall, and that there is tobe a 'break-in' period before the hall is under controland doinBut we

g all that it can do, of being all that it can be.lave so much more than we have ever had,

than the general rejoicing seemed both right and.proper.

It was an evening that was both golden and Golden.The vision and work of Cultural Resources Council di-'rector Joseph Golden has from his first days on the-job oriented itself towards the conception of the Civic'Center as a service to and a reflection of the manyarts organizations in the county.

The opening night of the Center was a reflection of •this point of view. Mr. Golden chose to balance care-!fully popular and classical music, acting and singing!and dancing, and used our major performing organi-zation — the Symphony — in a most flexible and ef- *fective manner. •

He — and we — are to be congratulated. •It was an evening to be proud.

Arts BoosterHeard in D.

In a last-minute refresher before he takes his first bow,Music Director and Conductor Christopher Keene flipsthrough the score in his backstage dressing room. Sport-ing aviator shades, Resident Conductor Calvin Custerpeers over Keene's shoulder for a final glimpse at theevening's work ahead.

Mrs. Gretchen Ralph of128 Durston Ave. recentlymet with an aide of Presi-dent Ford to urge increasedappropriation of federalfunds for the arts.

Mrs. Ralph, executive di-rector of the National Com-mittee for Symphony Or-chestra Support, traveledto Washington, D.C., to per-suade Dr. Robert Goldwinthat federal money to artis-tic institutions should be in-

creased from the current$82 million to $225 million-aiyear.

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Ivic Centercomes alive

County Executive John H. Mulroy addressesCivic Center opening night audience asSheilah Gibson, president of the Cultural Re-sources Council; the Rev. Robert Grimm andDr. Joseph Golden, the center director, listenon Concert Theater stage, above.

Composer Charles Strouse, right, hugs hiswife, Barbara, in Civic Center dressing roomafter conducting premiere performance of hisnew work, "What Is There To Sing About?"at the gala opening of the center last night.

Private parties were heldaround town before and af-ter opening night . Thisgathering, above, at thehome of Gretchen Ralph, amember of the State Coun-cil on the Arts, included,from loft, retired CountyLegislature ChairmanEphraim Shapcro; his suc-cessor, Wi l l i s Sargent;John Fraley of MerchantsBank; Joan Davidson,chairman of the arts coun-cil; Mrs. Ralph; StephenRogers, publisher of theSyracuse Newspapers andKenneth Williams, Syra-cuse Symphony president.

Opening Nighlcrs for CivicCenter feast on buffet atHotel Syracuse before thebenefit performance.

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Throe soloists at lastn igh t ' s p remiere of"What Is There To SingAbout?" take bows,left, after their perfor-mances. They are Rich-ard Barret t , PattiThompson and BillBlack. ComposerCharles Strouse, rear,conducted his ownwork.

Part of the 2,1)1)11 peoplewho gathered for theopening of the CivicCenter theater wing, en-joy champagne recep-tion following the threehours of entertainment.This photo was takenfrom the orchestra lob-bv.

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