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Mechanical Stool Pigeon Fischer Gets Ultimatum: Play Parted As War li Refugees, Lies in Wait For Birtl-nappers Chess or Forfeit Title Bid She Finds Her Mother at Las Page 77 Page 8 Page 2 WEATHER INDEX TV Pagf Pa2 Amusements ft Obituaries J9 Classified 29-37 Radm-TV 19 Comics IS Scram-Lcts 12 Crossword Sports 21-28 Editorials 6, 7 Women's 20-23 Horoscope 18 ft'ord Game 14 i Details on Page 19 VOL. 67 No. 66 Second Class Po5'9 10 CENTS 33 PAGES NASHVILLE, MONDAY. JULY 3. 1972 muln itnM Would-Be Plane Skyjacker Slain 1 1 i By MICHAEL PUTZEL SAIGON (AP) A young Asian tried to hijack a Pan American Airways 747 jumbo jet to Hanoi yesterday, but the aircraft landed instead in Saigon where the pilot and two passengers clasped him don't know if the good Lord would approve, but then I just took him by the back of his neck and his legs and I bodily threw him out of the airplane.

I just couldn't stand to have that person in any part of my airplane." Pilot Gene Vaughn (,5 4 if, 4 -I 4 with the gun to "kill the son of a bitch." The passenger, identified as a former Richmond, policeman traveling to a job with a U.S. firm in Saigon, fired five shots into the hijacker from a 357 magnum pistol. His name was not given out in Saigon. All passengers and crew, numbering about 150, slid down inflated plastic emergency chutes to safety. Some received minor bruises and scratches and one passenger, U.S.

Air Force Lt. Col. Louis Seig, Colorado Springs, broke his leg leaving the plane. THE CREW said in Saigon that the plane carried 136 passengers and 17 crewmen. Vaughn gave this account: About 45 minutes after Pan Am Flight 841 from San Francisco, Honolulu and Guam took off from Manila for Saigon, the young man passed notes to the crew cabin threa- tening to detonate a bomb unless the plane was diverted to Hanoi, the capital of North Vietnam.

The hijacker had taken a stewardess, May Yuen, 23, a Hong Kong Chinese, as his hostage. USING A crew telephone in the rear cabin, the hijacker negotiated in fluent English with Vaughn over the plane's intercom while the first officer proceeded to Saigon. Vaughn told the young man he would divert to Hanoi but first the plane would have to be refueled and contact would have to be made with North Viet--n a authorities before (Turn to Page 2, Column 3) 1 Wirepnolo Asian Buys One-Way Ticket fo Death in a strangle hold and an armed passenger pumped five bullets into his chest. The pilot then heaved the dead hijacker to the concrete taxieway at Tan Son Nhut Airport. The hijacker had claimed he was North Vietnamese.

A PAN American spokesman in Hong Kong said, "As far as we can tell now, the hijacker's name is believed to be Nguyen Thai Binh, but no passport or ticket for him has yet been found. It is believed he boarded the plane at Honolulu." The man carried a package he claimed was a bomb in one hand and a long knife in the other. He said he intended to blow up the aircraft after it reached Hanoi in a "revenge act" for the U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, the pilot said. After landing at Saigon on a pretext of refueling, the pilot, Capt.

Gene Vaughn, 53, and two passengers got the air pirate off guard, knocked the "bomb" from his hand and wrestled him to the floor. DURING THE struggle, Vaughn ordered the passenger Pan American Airways 747 jumbo jet to Hanoi. One of the passengers shot him to death during the struggle. SAICON A ptair.clcthcs policcrnan writes a report as he kneels beside the body of a young man who attempted to hijack a Troubles Not Over Yet, Martha Wails "sure, that's what I wanted." When Mitchell resigned he cited responsibility to his wife and family as the season. Mrs.

Mitchell said she was calling from her home in Washington's exclusive Watergate Apartments. She also said she wondered why no one had asked a question prisoner," she said in a telephone call to this reporter. "I can't talk long. I am calling surreptitiously." WHEN PRESSED as to whether Mitchell's resignation Saturday as President Nixon's re-election campaign director had made her happy she said By HELEN THOMAS WASHINGTON (LTD -Mrs. Martha Mitchell said yesterday she is happy her husband got out of politic? as she had demanded but she made it clear she doesn't believe her troubles arc over.

"I'm still a political Public Aid Lack Cited In Report Holiday CelebrationsN Tomorrow Storm. Provides Some Pre-Fourth Fireworks By TOM INGRAM Effective citizen participation in the administrative affairs of government, vital but often difficult to achieve, has been lacking in Nashville, researchers have concluded after more than a year's study. Over 10,000 man-hours went into the search for the causes and effects of some of Nashville's most intense citizen participation efforts, beginning with the anti-I-40 through North Nashville committee. OTHER CRISIS-oriented groups viewed were the Metro Mormon Church Leader Dies SALT LAKE CITY (AP) President Joseph Fielding Smith, leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, died late last night here. Details on Page 4.

Martha Mitchell On phone again dent, reporters sought her views. A secretary assigned to her by the committee told one reporter she would have "no comment." Action Commission (MAC), the Model Cities Citizens Coordinating Committee (CCC), the Edgehill Project Area Committee (PAC) and Nashville Tenants Organization (NTO). Blue-ribbon groups con-s i "establishment," hich the researchers studied, included the Nashville Phis group, the board of health, and the airport authority. The 308-page study, entitled "Beyond the Ballot," also considered the Committee on Metropolitan Zoning (COM-ZO), a selectively appointed group which faced considerable conflict during its four-year existence. A study by which took more than a year by Charles Zuzak, Kenneth McNeil and: Frederick Bergerson was released recently under the' cosponsorship of the Urban-Observatory and the! University of Tennessee Bureau of Public Administration.

WHILE numerous successes about her at Nixon's news conference last week, adding "I've been a prisoner for so long." THEN MRS. Mitchell hung up the telephone abruptly, ending another chapter perhaps the last one in one of the longest running stories of the Nixon administration. Martha Mitchell, 53, was the "darling" of the Republican party. In her three years in Washington her rise to superstar was meteoric. She was a new phenomenon on a scene here discretion, protocol, and fear of social ostracism played their natural role of censorship on freedom of speech.

Much of that may have ended now. Mitchell will continue to work as an adviser to Nixon's campaign but it appears doubtful that he or his wife will be making the same kind of waves any timp soon. AN administration spokesman said the Mitchells would be moving back to New York, although it was not certain how soon. In the meantime Mitchell's law firm has an office in the same building where Nixon's re-election committee is located. The spokesman also denied that Mitchell was under any pressure from Nixon to resign.

Until Mrs. Mitchell looked out the window of her Watergate Apartment one day and saw antiwar demonstrators, she was just another Cabinet wife. That day she told a television interviewer the demonstrators looked like "Russian revolutionaries" and quoted her husband to back up her views. THOSE REMARKS, and a 2 a.m. phone call to the Arkansas Gazette to blast Sen.

J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, gave her instant fame and many headlines. When her husband finally resigned from the Cabinet to become chairman of the Committee to Re-Elect the Presi- roads and nightspots. Many of the patrol's administrative personnel, including driver's license examiners, will be on special duty to help hold down the highway death toll, it was announced. SPECIAL Independence Day festivities, including performances by Hoy Acuff and Ernest Tubb, are scheduled at Opryland USA.

Acuff is scheduled to perform at 6:30, 7:30 and 9:15 p.m. today, and Tubb will perform at those hours tomorrow and at 1, 4 and 7 p.m. Wednesday. Also, a special fireworks display is scheduled at Opryland at 9 p.m. tomorrow.

A patriotic program will begin at 10 a.m. tomorrow at David Lipscomb College. Following a brief devotional, Dr. Lewis S. Maiden, professor of history, will speak on "The Hermitage and Significance of the Fourth of July." Marion Wood, instructor in music, will sing "America the Beautiful." EI) WALKER, forecaster for the National Weather Service at Berry Field, said showers are expected today in the Nashville area, along with temperatures ranging from about 70 degrees to the upper 80s.

But for the Fourth, he said, the high temperature is expected to be in the low 80s and "only a slight chance" of showers is forecast. By KEEL HUNT Rain and high winds downed more than 200 electric power lines and about 50 trees here last night, but the weatherman predicted Fourth of July picnickers will see clearer skies tomorrow. No serious injuries were reported last nht, but there were a few close calls, including a Madison woman who saw a tree crash down across her driveway only seconds before she parked her car. METRO POLICE Sgt. James A.

Byrd said possibly 250 power lines had been dislodged by the storm. The Nashville Electric Service said blackouts were being serviced in most areas of the city. Nevertheless, in Nashville and across the nation, picnics and speeches and other traditional ceremonies will mark the passage of another July 4 tomorrow. Throughout the U.S. its citizens will observe the nation's 196th birthday with fanfare, fireworks and flag-waving.

Keeord crowds are expected to swarm by automobile to Midstate camping and lake facilities tomorrow. And in an attempt to keep those holiday travelers as cheerful as possible, the Tennessee Highway Patrol will maintain a becfed-up force of troopers to monitor the ts "i 1 Jv I IF1 I I Ws. 1 xxxv xxNss 1 (Turn to Page 9, Column 1) Truman Enters Hospilal Again KANSAS CITY (AP) Former President Harry S. Truman was admitted to Research Hospital in Kansas City yesterday with what his doctor described as a "lower gastrointestinal problem." Dr. Wallace H.

Graham, personal physician to the 83-year-old former chief executive described Truman's condition as "satisfactory." A HOSPITAL spokesman said routine examinations were planned, including X-ray studies of Truman's gastrointestinal tract. The spokesman, John Drc-ves, said Truman was in good spirits as he arrived in nearby Independence, Mo. Dreves said Truman chatted hospital employes as he was taken to his room in a wheelchair. Dr. Graham said the ailment was related to the intestinal problem which sent Truman to the same hospital for 12 days in early 1J-71.

Dreves said there was no definite indication how Ion1' Truman would be hospitalized. 1, Reed Receives B'nai B'rith Award a The Tennessean honored for editorials. x- X- -N BILOXI, Miss. The Ten-nessean and W. A.

Reed, its religion news editor, were honored by B'nai B'rith here last night for "journalistic fairness and enterprise in interpreting the people and purpose of Israel." Each received the second annual Billy B. Goldberg Awards, established by B'nai IN MAKING the presentations, Goldberg, a Houston attorney and banker, lauded the Tennessean's editorial policy as "reflecting America's national interest in that a strong Israel is the best counterac picnts and a $250 cash award to Reed. Reed, a member of the 'fen ncssean news staff for 11 years and its religion news editor since 1965, was cited for "the integrity of his reporting" and "sympathetic understanding of Israel's aspirations" in a scries of articles he wrote last year following a visit to Israel. B'rith District 7 in honor of the international vice president of the organization. DISTRICT 7 includes B'nai B'rith local units in seven Southern states, including Tennessee.

The presentation, made at the opening banquet of the district's annual convention, included plaques to both reci- Staff photo by Dale Emsberncr 'Criminal's Worst Enemy' Jim Sawyers, president of K-9 Patrol and his Doberman Pinschcr guard dog begin their rounds at a Nashville recreation club as dusk falls and burglars begin to prowl. Story on Page 12. (Turn to Page Column 1).