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9TT ail THI WORLD'S At HT NIWIMPIR Thursday, Anjuxt 1 1972 HSU-YMf-fia 230 imCMagoTrlbuM 4 Stdtai- 10 n7b. On ri i- Loyal Troops 'eize Airfield iili RABAT, Morocco, Aug. 16 ReuterslLoyalist troops took over control of an air force base tonight without firing a shot after Royal Moroccan Air Force jets today made apparent assasinatkm attempts on King Hassan IL The Jets strafed the king's Boeing 727 as it returned from France and later pumped machine gun and rocket fire into the Royal Palace. 0 Loyal troops in battle gear surrounded the air force base at Kenitra, 25 mites north of Rabat, where the fighter'planes had been based. A military source said the troops took the base without firing a shot The assault on the base had been delayed because many women and children, and 700 Americans, were among the 3,000 persons on the base Returning from France The base was a former Unit ed States naval air station.

It is used for flight training by Moroccan pilots. The Americans are part of a U. S. training contingent. The king was returning from a three-week private visit to France in bis 727 when the three planes, which at first appeared to be escorting him, opened fire.

Bullets ripped thru the, fuselage, killing some of the passengers, according to first reports. Sea, George HcGovern sXtawr. His last -fetter BdfdhCCr Zlx'M field during visit to a farm outside Springfield. Margaret, tad dssghter, Charistte C. tttca- hfrr psmtid ft pkz cl Ism ftcdstti.

The Skhlrat attack failed when loyal troops Tallied to the king. In Paris the brother of Hassan, Prince Moulay Abdallah, said in a radio Interview tonight that the king wu safe after today's attack on him by Jet fighters. The prince told the French state radio ORTF that the king wu in good health and thai order had been restored. Hassan ascended the throne of his North African country years ago. The 17th sovereign of the At oulte Dynasty, founded three centuries ago, the monarch hu tried to bring the country toward a form of parliamentary rule combined with extensive royal power.

His moves have not pleased all of the nation's is million people. The main opposition parties and labor unions boycotted a referendum on a new constitution he introduced la 1970. During July 10 celebrations to mark the king's 42d birthday, soldiers burst into the palace on the outskirts of Rabat, with machine guns biasing. Nearly 100 people died, in-eluding Belgian Ambassador Carcel Dupret. Some 400 soldiers also died, including several generals.

Other plotters hi i in i iilMi i i iwmmmmmmmmk i n. 1, 1111 i gill McGovsm 0f Inside Toe Jets attacked the royal plane as it was about to land, with one plane strafing the airfield itself and killing sever-al Ninety minatai later, the planes pumped rockets and machine gsn bullets Into Hassan's Royal Palace, sending a column of smoke and debris rising as dusk was falling. Whereabouts Unknown Xing Hassan's whereabouts during the second attack were not immediately known. He survived the first, stepping un-raffled from his plane shortly after three U. F-5 fighters fired on the royal plane as it wu about to land.

One plane peeled off from the attackers and strafed the crowd of dignitaries waiting at the airport, accounting for the casualties. Among the wounded victims wu the minister of tourism, Abderrahman Kouh- bar Yetssd forYotes at Fair BY ALDO BSCC3A9T and his running mate for governor, Neil F. Harti- II gan, headed a list of state can President Nixon today vetoed 130.8 billion appropriations bJH didates on hand. -Howlett, candidate for secre providing funds lor the Labor Department and Health, Edu tary of state, introduced Mc en, officials said. cation, and Welfare Depart Govern.

Rep. Roman Pucinski, sena ment. Nixon said that speflsf torial candidate, sent word thru his daughter, Aurelia, that he was tied up in Washington were executed later. of that magnitude would result in higher taxes or more inflation. i Medical sources said several persons at the airport killed.

The attacks were the second major attempt on the 43-year-old king's life In Just over a year. On July 10, 1971, nearly a hundred people were killed when a rebel army force launched an attack on the monarch's seaside resort at A -it--. A XEIwODi.SvuBCSiK lvlVI I3CDDIf taxes, 'Snd inTraasiiSg pssaoaal purchasing powers IUsiCesreai What Coi-ress has dona is to tsta cy aca and eare- propose! tMn twem to fitf tuf-isjjmf Nixon said. Hs said that by fa! to use balance and laatraiat, Cctyeas had turned the labor-E3W appropriations pa kto "a big speasg measure that impairs the nation's exwwomic health. sus propossa arnipnauoos had mcluded an kirrisrs of (3.1 bfCkm for EZW pnsrams, Nixon noted, Cffmtsodisg that increases of the aptitude approved by Congress "are dearly excasBive and must be IIVJWU.

The PresMant ucad k-s veto messa-s to renew his call for a fUfl billion ceCifig on federal in the current Cecal year. Such action, be said, "would fat us away from this cocjres atonal cndSt-card approach to govtrnment finances, an approach that wil add up to bad news tor evwynooy wnen tae evetcal and iasviUble bias must be Ke warned the usual coiressional practice of re-enactic the ha vetoed with a st rtducton "wouU obviously not satisfy the obpee-tkma to this measure I have act forth." In UL, Sen. George S. McGovern assailed Nixon for vetoing the EEW bin. Ee said that Mxon called the HJ billion Increase inflationary while Just two weeks ago the administration asked for $4 bfilioB more for the Department of Defense.

isttla.Tat'flnarytosdd a few doHara fee hesitb and welfare when it knt inflationary to ask for twice that much for weapons of destruction and KcCkrrsrn asked. Three hours after the veto, the House failed to muster the necessary two-thirds to override the veto. The vote was 203 to 171. The House then sent the measure back to the Ap Libya Halls Plot BEIRUT, Lebanon, Aug. UPI-Libya tonight supported the attempted assassination of King Hassan of Morocco and said similar attempts win continue until the "throne falls." Official libya Radio, csd tared in Beirut, broadcast a on House business, and Sen.

Stevenson sent a message of support along with regrets that he was detained by Senate business; 1 McGovern and the Democratic Day program drew a relatively small crowd to the fairgrounds picnic area around Sox Win One, But So For; a few hours after the White Sox beat the Brewers 8 to 6 yesterday the Chica-goans were a half-game out of first place. Then the Oak land Athletics beat Baltimore 4 to 3 last night and the South Siders found them selves a full game behind. Iforts When Kids Must Be Hospitalized They need Mom and Dad more than ever. But hospital policies on parental visitation vary widely in the Chicago area, write? Donna Gill has discovered. Features Chet HuntteiH-the TV Ad Man The ex-newscaster is In a new business, but he has carried many of Us strong opinions with him.

Lynn Taylor Interviewed Chet and got the story first-hand. Financial Skhlrat. propriations committee for fur An informed source here ther conslaeraaon. The measure appropriated said a Moroccan major believed to have led the aerial a bandstand where the speeches commentary 'on the assassina attacks on the king's aircraft $1.73 billion more than Nixon bad requested. He labeled it tion attempt several hours after it happened and called Hassan the "head of traitors, lackeys and feudalists." and palace had been captured after parachuting from bis Jet when it ran out of fuel were given.

Only a few hundred Chicago Democrats attended, as opposed to the' several thousand who used to make the 200 mile trip for the BY RICHARD ORR eMail TriMM Pirn tmm SPRINGFIELD, Aug. 16 Sen. George McGovern, the Democritic Presidential nomi-. nee, wooed 'Ae noiflinally Republican Midwest rural vote here today with promises of substantially higher government guaranteed farm prices and ta relief for the farmer. Atoio McGovern emphasized Srkulture in a 20-minute speech at the Illinois State Fair and in an hour long visit to a nearby farm, he drew the biggest and most prolonged applause when be reiterated his call to "bring America home again' and to end the Viet Nam War immediately.

Daley Is Absent Here In Abraham Lincoln's borne McGovern also reiterated his challenge to President Nixon to face him in Lmcoln-Douglas type of Chicago's Mayor Daley was cocspicuous: by his absence among a roster of his party's loading state candidates and oiSdals who turned out to ptst McGovern and participate an hour long Democratic Dt program at the fair, Dafcy had first said a few jays ago that he would meet CfiGovern at tiw fair, but then Vssterday postponed the meet-fcj until a week from today in, Walker Heads List Daisy's name wu men-tiooed only once during today's S-ram-at the very end, when Auditor Michael J. Itft said oat the Democratic in Cllnois is united be- Sect Later In his veto message. Nixon wu particularly critical of tot rmocratlc-corcd Cccjrsa for not farmffrt a Bmffasa Democratic Day. G. 0.

P. Day Tomorrow Before the program started, Fair Manager Robert Park estimated the crowd at 2,500 but later doubled his estimate to 5.000. on federal matchirg payioai for loclal cervicea far tzzt assistanca reciaBtf. Cadar tts Hirnoi Fooled nnoram. the fedarai covei Republicans will have their msnt mess un 71 Bar cam 't f.1 tha east of such srcrrame as budget planning seminars and Clark: Ex-POW recipients.

Bscanse this Is rarrently an Index open-ded pro-yam, this con- BY STIPL1N CSSTS gressioflal marcon coca irran liter Kr-b3irxBl Action Express Astre-Gatde (N.U11 as ht ai tU tZX," Kim Bridge by Geres Former U.l Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark's pronuneameat Uutf Aawican friscsen of war are waS traatsd in North Vlst- Classifle! Ads Seetteal said. "Inherent this kind of -r-ttdlng is a cut in pur- Orssswerd penis Drama, mask, movies Sect nam was contradicted last snzht day at the fair tomorrow, gov. Ogilvie and his running mate for lieutenant governor, State Rep.

Jama Nolan; Sen. Percy, who la seeking reelection; Atty. Gen. William J. Scott, who la running for reelection; and Edmund J.

KucharsU, assistant secretary of state, who Is candidate for secretary of state, will be at the fair for the Governor's Day program. Would Tap "Working Farmer" During his speech, McGovern drew applause several times, including when he pledged, if elected President, to appoint a "work'nq farmer" as secretary of agriculture and Instruct him to use existing legal authority to raise prices of corn and other nwjor crops to 90 per cent of parity, He said that would provide a government guarantee to farmers of $1.00 a bushel "cr nrn, compared with cur- qr Kua tit a ptszst Editorials Page II Featcres lasiee See. 4 Following Food Glide tiad every candidate on the. tad mentioned Daley as great party leader. I n.iat.

Walker, the Demo- "I have to tsZt at fi-bCty," said Rraa 27, wta was nVrrd the Norii Victual tiVZitZx more Ctu tt tzn ectiv WfcZe stayittg in this buying, Eashl was visited by each asL'war leaders as David members of the Woman's Ctrl! fcr JPaaoa, aad foreign film craws. They always brag them to this ose bulling, and most guaa-M fa. fffaMaAflfi AKfAfB ftisuueis wen nwver sran said. CahlT who now works as an irsiructor to the Navy Survival School Bear, Sao Diego, wu one of mssy POWs tci relatives rirows fctsrviewed for tZr Mictions to reoest. stUaents about his vist to North Viet Nam.

'Drery dsliioa wu shown Plaaadal Seettea p. 7 Feed Guide Seettea 4 Harris Analysis Page 24 Horoscope Metre 4A perspective PageM craft gubernatorial candidate ity. "Ca ctfy teas ten tyrtaal 3ic4 tcr." a fumir Kavy sea ckisirj power for every American family," he said: "Ne program has a hiSher priority thai, continued expansion of the purchasing power of aS ttt DstlJtbcpsendsdspsnd. isd tor tia social services program Maousts to epsdsi up a trapdoor hi the teiaral tretury thru which bilHons arerflowirisidttruwtldj mora bilUons wCl pour rszlxt the Consresa enacts apaciSe umltatkm." T)MI sPWfiasiSSti ewMaaTstj tsjsssst "our moci eoonosio re-surgnce is at stsia and mean to preset tt," dtsd Ks record of cuisj ta rata of in- Tower Ticker 14 mas wzs wsj ctrtsred to TV and Radio See. p.

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P- Tmor-rim tvnJi bet mI humid; fcMfc as to IS. Map and other reytrtl page M. Pt, bar ef crr-s ta I7ts a a JJ I i Oil TO I TV pices of about 11.12 to a bushel, McGovern also pledged that a Democratic administration under his leadership would re Continued on page 12, col. 1 I the tame model prisoners and srci-j rrta tiat was rLj KTti by Karth Vsa tar vtfty KM- IS) UnM MlHtf 1 1 King Husan II steps down from plane during stop In Barcelona during flight to Rabat. His plane was attacked shortly after resuming trip.

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