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SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1972 PAGE 2 THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR NBW Ulster Power Struggle Seen South Viets Retreating Under Heavy Shellfire Turks Claim Guerrilla Leader Alive thn Unionist niirtv mnrhinn PROM AND UPI Sana in 1967 and 1968 have SENIOR United States offi- though not all of its member the North Vietnamese Saigon (Saturday) (UPI) cers, including Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, the commander of American forces in Viet launched such heavy attacks. Government troops retreated ship. The party is the Protestants' major political Ankara (UPI) The Turkish Indochina from a sixth base along Belfast (AP), Northern Ireland's Protestants, expected to be united in bitter opposition to Britain's rule, showed signs yesterday of a split.

Three Protestant leaders, ex-Prime Minister Brian Most of the ground fighting raged around two bases along government reported it found guerrilla leader Ertugrul Kurkcu alive and well yester the crumbling demilitarized zone (DMZ) defense line under nam, are known to believe the Communist command's much-heralded offensive will THE WAR South Vietnamese troops retreat from a sixth the eastern sector. North Viet along the crumbing demilitarized zone defense nameso and government day in the house where 13 heavy North Vietnamese artil occur in phases, hitting at a troops with armor support persons died during a siege line under heavy North Vietnamese artillery fire and U.S. B-52s are ordered into action in the escalating battle lery fire last night and United States B-52 bombers were variety of targets over a peri Faulkner, William Craig ana and commando attack Thurs battled near Dong 11a, 12 miles south of the DMZ, and od of several weeks or Page 2 the Rev. Ian Paisley were ordered into action in the months. This has been a fa day.

The interior ministry said Involved In a struggle for con farther west near Camp Car escalating battle. miliar pattern in the last 2i International trol of the one million Protes roll. Dong Ha is 14 miles North Vietnamese gunners Kurkcu told security officials years. from the coast and Camp shelled the length of the crum tants In Northern Ireland. The split emerged when RELIGION Thousands follow the final steps of Christ in Good Carroll is 12 miles to the bling South Vietnamese de they were responsible for the deaths of three foreign hostages being held in the home Craig, 49-year-old former provincial cabinet minister, commands Vanguard, which has demonstrated it can muster at least 50,000 men.

The movement, which staged a crippling two-day strike this week protesting British rule, talks menacingly of arming its people. Paisley, whose Democratic Unionist party may be losing some grass roots support, has the advantage of membership in the British Parliament, which now runs Northern Ireland. The once fiery leader Sources said yesterday the heightened enemy activity Friday ceremonies in Jerusalem Page 1 fense line for the second con secutive night yesterday and IRISH Northern Ireland's Protestants show signs of a split Craig's militant Ulster Vanguard Movement publicly criticized Faulkner and Paisley and announced plans for a of the headman of Kizildere, a remote village in northeast hammered the battered head along the DMZ probably is one of these phases, and is especially intensive because of the ease with which the North in their ranks age ern Turkey. quarters base at Quang Tri South Vietnamese forces What kurkcu. a founder of large-scale civil disobedience campaign to disrupt British National BOMBER CRASH A B-52 bomber crashes in a residential throughout the country were southwest.

The U.S. Command said one of two Air Force F-4 Phantom fighters on an escort mission Thursday night intercepted and shot down a Russian-built MIG-21 on the North Vietnamese side of the border with Laos. The Phantoms were escorting bombers on raids against the Ho Chi Minn Trail in Laos. the Turkish Peoples' Liberation Army, meant was not im ordered on the alert to pre rule. As the struggle brewed, the area of Orlando, killing seven crewmen and injuring mediately made clear.

pare for a predicted Easter Vietnamese can keep themselves rcsupplied along the DMZ. Field reports said the South Vietnamese abandoned bases at Khe Gio and Fuller and an outpost at Ba Ho East, all in outlawed Irish Republican weekend "high point" of Com THE government said Armv apparently eased off its munist shellings, military guerrilla campaign after spokesmen said today. Thursday night the three hostages, a lawyer and nine accused terrorists were found Thursday's widespread vio ONE U. S. officer near the lence that left two persons the western and central section of Quang Tri Province dead after a commando at The MIG, the fifth reported DMZ that separates the war dead.

tack on the house following a ring Vietnams said, "It looks downed by American pilots this year, exploded after south of the DMZ. Fire Base Pedro, the west i-nour siege. like the start of a pretty big being hit with plane missiles It first identified Kurkcu as ernmost government position offensive up there. I expect them to keep it up for quite about 35 miles north of the one of the dead. The interior along the DMZ, also may DMZ, the American pilots re ministry said yesterday it had awhile." have been abandoned under ported.

assumed Kurkcu was one of Another American who flew three bodies so bullet-riddled IN LAOS, military sources heavy enemy artillery, rocket and mortar attack, according to field reports. The latest over the area in a U.S. helicopter said there were "bat they could not be identified. said a North Vietnamese at has a growing reputation for moderation that has cost him some backing among angry Protestants. He and Faulkner have demanded full integration of the province into the United Kingdom if the powers of the suspended Northern Ireland Parliament are not restored.

Thus, they appear to be linking up as allies to defeat Craig. VANGUARD got a boost when former members of the B-Specials, a parliamentary Protestant police force disbanded two years ago, announced they will "do whatever necessary to implement" the movement's plans. The Ulster Special Constabulary Association, a section of Vanguard and nearly all former B-Spe- Interio- Minister Ferit Ku- tles all over the place. There tack on the Long Cheng base evacuations came a day after bat, who rushed to Kizildere was smoke rising from the failed Thursday when enemy tanks hit a government mine the South Vietnamese aban ground wherever you looked to direct the siege, detailed the operation vesterdav to field. IN A full-page newspaper advertisement, Craig's group said Faulkner gate-crashed a big Vanguard rally at the provincial Parliament Tuesday after the assembly was suspended by Britain.

One of Craig's lieutenants, Capt. Austin Ardill, charged in a radio interview that Faulkner tried to upstage Craig at the rally in a bid for Protestant leadership. Vanguard said its aim remains "an independent British Ulster" if British reforms aimed at giving more power to the Catholic minority, endanger the Protestants' 51-year rule. Both Faulkner and Paisley oppose such a policy. The movement said it plans to hold rent and local tax South Vietnamese casualties doned Fire Base Holcomb in the central sector of the prov parliament.

I neighboring Cambodia, rose to 33 dead and 99 wound ince. There was no word whether ed in the artillery and rocket authopsies had bten ordered on barrages and six major bat Not since the a 1 1 1 1 government troops fought with enemy forces only 15 miles from Phnom Penh's northwestern outskirts, the Cambodian command said. the bodies of the hostages and guerrillas. sieges of the former U.S. base at Con Thlen and Khe tles, spokesmen said.

They said 170 North Vietnamese were killed, bringing to 285 the number of Communists killed in two days of action at the Newsmen on the scene said the first thing soldiers several civilians aSe TIME President Nixon signs the split-time Daylight Saving Time amendment to the Uniform Time Act Page 1 WEATHER The Easter weekend gets off to a stormy start with an unseasonable mixture of heavy snow, hail, tornado threats and torrential rains Page 1 BOYLE United Mine Workers president W. A. (Tony) Boyle is convicted of making illegal campaign contributions Pa8el RAILS President Nixon blocks for 60 days two railroad strikes that could have begun last midnight Page 3 ECONOMY AFL-CIO President George Meany asks Price Commission to require that employers pass along to con-" sumers in lower prices any "windfall profits" resulting from Pay Board cutbacks of negotiated wage increases Page 3 BERRIGAN-The jury deliberating the case against the Rev. Philip Berrigan and six codefendants is to start its third day of considering it today. At one point yesterday the group reviewed key testimony by FBI informer Boyd Douglas Pa8e3 DEFICIT Federal deficit for current fiscal year may prove to be Million to $8 billion less than officially estimated Page 26 SPRING RITE Thousands of college students gather in the warm spring sun to celebrate the annual rite of the season Page 54 NAVY CHAPLAIN Navy Chaplain Andrew F.

Jensen acquitted on charge of misconduct by adultery after six officer-jurors deliberate more than two hours Page 54 Indianapolis and Indiana HOLIDAY TRAFFIC JAM Easter vacation exodus to the South bogs down in bumper-to-bumper bottleneck yesterday over a 25-mile stretch of U.S. 31 South, between Interstate 465 and 1-65 at Taylorsville Page 1 IBOAT RACES Promoters of motorboat races planned this summer at Eagle Creek Reservoir are expected to an- nounce cancellation of the races here due to fears of en-I vironmental damage PaSe 1 "SUSPECT CAPTURED Two men, one a suspect in a Dayton (Ohio) holdup, are arrested after a stolen car strikes a fence in 3800 block of East Raymond Street Page 4 BANKING BATTLE Coalition of farm and labor groups wm tn nnnnsp lnhhv efforts of League for Economic De saw when they entered the house were the bodies of Gordon Banner, 35, Charles DMZ. Vietnam Reds Say France To Mediate Talks Impasse cials, meet today to plan For the first time since the Turner, 45, both British, and strategy. Catholics prepared to hold John Law, 21, a Canadian whose parents live in Brit- shellings began Thursday night, American B-52s were ordered into the battle and two waves of the high-altitude Paris (UPI) Mme. Nguyen strikes throughout Northern Ireland tactics the s-tants condemned when used by the Catholics.

Faulkner Thi Binh, the Viet Cong "for am. All three were kidnaped last Sunday from a Black parades throughout the province Sunday to mark the anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rebellion in Dublin that eign ministers" and chief ne lanes dumped their bombs on gotiator at the Paris Vietnam talks, said yesterday after a Sea town where they worked as civilian technicians at a radar base under, a NATO also opposes this idea. The three-way fight for con suspected North Vietnamese positions at the southern edge brought on Ireland's partition. In most towns, the Catholics of the buffer strip. agreement.

trol of the Protestant majority followed a week of growing conference with Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann that France will try to get the talks action in suspending the talks. "Mr. Schumann has deplored the U.S. attitude of suspending the talks indefinitely and he has confirmed the French government's desire to make an effort to permit the conference to be resumed again," she said. Mme.

Binh said she would stay in Paris for the time being, waiting for the Americans to return to the negotiating table. say they will march in their Sources said more enemy When kidnapers seized the own areas. The expectation is bitterness against the British takeover in the province going again. three, they left behind a note activity could occur in other areas during the next several days, and an upgrading of Mme. Binh told newsmen she saying the hostages would die that, despite an army ban on marches, the authorities will where 293 persons have died in nearly three years of sec if three condemned terrorists received the promise during a 45-minute talks with Schu alert status for allied forces allow the parades to go ahead were executed.

All were in some areas indicated this mann. ihe said she sharply so long as the Catholics do members of the Turkish Peo tarian strife. FAULKNER, 51, controls was expected. complained over United States ple's Liberation Army. 1 not march military style.

OPEN DAILY 10-10; SUN. 11-6 NOW THRU SATURDAY A .1 Kr.i,. ilK In IS. Unil.4 (m4; Futrt. Avitulii ll velopment in 1973 General Assembly to permit state-wide bank holding companies Page 27 I PERSONALITIES IN THE NEWS, Page 4 Sports BASEBALL STRIKE The Major League Baseball Players Association votes 47-0 to strike baseball today in a disagreement over the players' pension fund Page 29 Editbrials "The Price Of Meat," contending that the root cause of high meat prices is the inflationary spiral, and "What Will 'Disenchanted' Do?" offering a suggestion to those Republicans who are thinking of switching parties in the coming primary election Page 24 Columns Jeffrey Hart says New York Governqr Nelson Rockefeller has shifted stance and Victor Lasky comments on the President's busing stand and Hubert Humphrey's switch on the Issue Page 24 AT EASTER DISCOUNTS EASTER LILY PLANTS 4fo6 Blooms The traditional Easter flower! Healthy plants in Jong-lasting buds and blooms.

When blooms fade, bulbs can then be planted outdoors to give lasting beauty. 6" Pots. Save atKmart! Chess Group Orders Fischer To Compete Our Reg. 2.66-Thru Sat. Do and Spassky.

The Belgrade or Amsterdam (UPI) The International Chess Federation ganizers offered $152,000 and (FIDE) said yesterday Bobby rejected Fischer's latest demand. IN BELGRADE, the organ! zers decided yesterday to give up further arrangements for the match after FIDE failed to guarantee that the match would be held there. Fischer of the United States must meet world chess champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union under the current financial agreement or else be disqualified as a challenger for the world title. statement Issued by the federation said it has given the U.S. Chess Union and Fischer until Tuesday to guarantee his appearance at the matches, the first scheduled to; begin in Belgrade June 22.

ILACKING an answer by tost deadline FIDE President Max Euwe will take it as a refusal to play for the title," the The decision in Belgrade by the Belgrade Export and Credit Bank and a Yugoslav chess magazine in agreement with the Yugoslav Chess Federation apparently prompted the state ment by FIDE in Amsterdam calling on Fischer to make a final decision. The Spassky-Fischer match was to take place in Belgrade June 22-JuIy 19, while the sec BLOOMING MUMS ond leg of the match would be played in Reykjavik, Iceland. This agreement was reached by the interested sides in Am-terdam March 20. THE Belgrade organizers sent a cable yesterday to FIDE in The Hague informing it that they cannot invest any further money in preparations for the match since Fischer's demands have made it uncertain. The first leg in Belgrade ORCHID CORSAGE Charge Itl Thru Sat.

Thru Sat. statement said. "A FIDE spokesman called the situation "critical" after Fischer rejected an agreement providing $138,500 in prize money for the match, 62.5 per cent of which would go to the winner. The FIDE statement came after organizers of the chess match in Belgrade decided to give up arrangements because they could not meet Fischer's financial demands. Fischer had demanded that all the money left after the organizers covered all expenses of the match in Belgrade should be shared between him 1 Reg.

2.66 Blooming plants in 6" pots. S.ivc! 2.257 Two cymbidium orchids, ribbon. could take place later this year on assumption that the organizers be given firm guarantees by FIDE and the players, Peter Basaraba, the general manager of the Belgrade Export and Credit Bank. said. CTSSGPQgro i.

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