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PUBLIC MAIL Phoenix weather Cloudy, warm and humid with possible thunderstorms and blowing dust. High 90-99, low 75-79. Yesterday's high 102, low 83. Humidity: high 46, low 29. Details, Page 15.

83rd Year, No. 62 Today's chuckle One woman to another at a party: "That's lovely material in the dress you're wearing. I wonder if the style will ever come back." ig Telephone: Phoenix, Arizona, Monday, July 17, 1972 (Two Sections, 52 Pages) or 10 cents B52s hit Red units eads Belfast refit REPUBLIC CITY Arizona Republ THE Irriest gees tli in nor Associated Press BELFAST A Roman Catholic priest led 2,000 persons from their homes in west Belfast in protest against British troop concentrations yesterday as five more persons lost their lives in Northern Ireland. The Rev. Jack Fitzsimmons led his flock from the Lenadoon Avenue district, where the Irish Republican Army and British troops have been locked in a suburban battle since Thursday.

The procession, mainly of women and children, headed by an accordion band and carrying blankets and pushing baby carriages, streamed from the district and set up camp on a football ground about a mile away. Most of the menfolk remained to guard their homes. Father Fitzsimmons said the British army had refused pressing requests to evacuate the area. Their presence, he said, was endangering the lives of the inhabitants. "Our people have endured enough hardship already.

The army must leave." Earlier, two British soldiers were killed and one was seriously injured by a land mine at Crossmaglen near the Irish border. An 18-year-old youth was killed in a riot at Strabane, another border town. In Belfast, a young policeman was shot dead and a 43-year-old civilian shot in the head Saturday died in hospital. Their deaths brought the known total since August 19(i9 to 444. The total so far this year is 236.

Lenadoon Avenue is in the Suffolk area of the provincial capital's western outskirts. The army moved heavy concentrations of armored cars into the district, where nights of heavy shooting have brought a confrontation crisis that threatens to erupt into full-scale battle. It was not clear whether the walkout of the Roman Catholic population was a token protest against the army or an IRA preparation to clear the area for battle. There was a holiday atmosphere about the procession. According to the IRA, seven out of 10 Catholic families had left.

Some of the children carried pla cards: "Give us back our houses." Reaching the football ground, mothers spread out blankets and picnic suppers began. A number of tents had been set up. Yesterday's exodus follows the pattern of a steady walkout of Roman Catholic families as the violence intensifies. A steady stream of families left all last week by train and car for the Republic of Ireland to the south. More than 5.000 persons, mainly women and children, had departed by Saturday night.

George Crean, assistant secretary of the Irish (Republic) Defense Department, said in Dublin that 20,000 volunteers are taking part in a national refugee operation. "We do not know how many people are coming but we are confident we can deal with them adequately," he told newsmen. The area affected is a modern housing development where the IRA's 13-day cease-fire broke down a week ago in a row over housing allocations. The IRA wanted to move Catholic families into 16 houses vacated by Protestants who had left after nights of repeated sniping. On Thursday the army moved troops onto roofs and balconies of Catholic apartments which had been used, the army said, to mount sniping attacks on a British army post.

A citizens' deputation led by Father Continued on Page 2 Fischer holds edge as chess foes adjourn Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland The third game of the world chess championship adjourned last night after 5 hours and 18 minutes of play with challenger Bobby Fischer apparently holding the edge. The Rev. William Lombard Fischer's second and an American grandmaster, said Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky was "in a bad position. He's a pawn down." Spassky had five pawns at adjournment, Fischer six. "Each retained a queen and a bishop in addition to his king.

The game will be resumed today. The American challenger never has beaten Spassky. Before this match he had lost three games to the Russian playing black and drawn two when he played white and had the first move. He lost the opening game of the championship playing black, as he is in the third game. Fischer forfeited the second game by failing to appear, and Spassky leads the match 2-0.

Chief referee Lothar Schmid of West Germany stopped play after Spassky had made his 41st move and Fischer had handed in his reply move in a sealed envelope. The game was played in an upstairs room. No spectators were present. Fischer had threatened to fly back to the United States unless he and Spassky" had privacy for the contest. The adjournment prompted a burst of noise from the hundreds watching the game on television in the public auditorium and halls.

"It's great. It's fantastic," gasped an American student. "1 love it. It can't end." In ending the day one pawn up, matching Spassky 's bishop and queen, Fischer was in a strong position for mate. The game opened with a typical Fischer defense, the Nimzo-Indian merging into the Benoni counter-Continued on Page 16 Inmates at Maryland prison, many wearing towels over their heads to avoid identification, mil 1 around yard Associated Press SAIGON More than a score of U.S.

B52 bombers flew across the demilitarized zone yesterday to attack North Vietnamese military bases and reinforcements reported to be moving southward toward Quang Tri. U.S. military sources said the targets Included elements of two North Vietnamese divisions marching toward the provincial capital that South Vietnamese forces are trying to retake. Two dozen Stratofortresses dropped 6i)0 tons of explosives on North Vietnamese positions in raids ranging from seven miles northwest to 27 miles southwest of the port of Dong Hoi, which is 45 miles north of the DMZ that divides Vietnam. Nearly 50 more B52 bombers attacked on the southern side of the DMZ with 1,250 tons of explosives.

Intelligence reports indicated that elements of the North Vietnamese 312th Division, which was pulled back from Laos earlier this year, and of the 325th Div-sion were on the move southward, the sources said. They would reinforce the North Vietnamese 304th and 308th divisions in Quang Tri Province, reported severely battered from weeks of fighting and U.S. air and naval bombardment. Field reports indicated that fighting had slowed clown in the South Vietnamese drive launched June 28 in Quang Tri Province. Quang Tri fell to the North Vietnamese on May 1.

South Vietnamese paratroopers inched their way closer to the Citadel, the fortress occupied by North Vietnamese troops in the center of the city. Driving from the south and east they were within 500 yards of the Citadel. Forty six North Vietnamese troops were reported killed and one tank knocked out in three clashes on the southern and eastern edges of the city. South Vietnamese losses were reported light. The Saigon command said that South Vietnamese marines rescued 200 civilians from a district town three miles northeast of Quang Tri City.

The civilians were moved southward to My Chanh. North Vietnamese troops mined the north-south Highway 1 behind the South Continued on Page 2 Peking backs U.S. buildup, Russia says Associated Press MOSCOW-The Soviet Union accused Premier Chou En-lai yesterday of promoting a United States arms buildup and advocating the continued presence of American military forces in Asia. The charge, published by the Communist Party organ, Pravda, centered around a report made by two U.S. congressmen following their trip to Peking two weeks ago.

Reps. Hale Boggs of Louisiana, majority leader of the House of Representatives, and Gerald R. Ford, the Republican leader, reported June 8 that China's leadership is concerned about "the possibility of continued Soviet armament and American disarmament." The two, who spent nine days in Peking and met with the Chinese premier for five hours, said the Chinese were worried specifically about the Soviet Union replacing the United States in Asia if U.S. forces were withdrawn from the region. The Pravda article, signed by commentator I.

Alexandrov, said such statements are "a real Godsend" for the "Pentagon propaganda machine." Alexandrov, who writes with Kremlin sanction, concluded: "It is noteworthy that Peking has not found it necessary to deny the statements made by the American congressmen." TOKYO China's Communists classify "imperialists" into two kinds: imperialists and "social-imperialists." The latter, taken from the works of Lenin, refers to Soviet leaders. An article on imperialism, published in the June 30, issue of Peking Review, received in Tokyo yesterday, said: "The Soviet revisionists are- social-imperialists, pure and simple." The article quoted Lenin as saying that social-imperialists are "socialists in words and imperialists in deeds." ryland governor talks to inmates after jail riot rally controlled gates and individual cell locks were destroyed. Williams said there was nothing to indicate the riot had been planned. The latest disturbance came less than a week after a com iet was stabbed to death and a guard injured during an argument. Williams said last Monday a shakedown of the prison following th.it incident turned up 176 broken saw blades, 23 knives, 543 assorted pieces of flatware.

12 scissors and 1. WO feet of electric cord and rope. In addition to Mandel, the prisoners also demanded to see Rep. Parren Mitchell. a black congressman from Baltimore.

ESPIONAGE U.S. officials decline comment on magazine article reporting the breaking of all Soviet military codes by the United States. Page 4. POLITICAL POTPOURRI-While President Nixon and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern relax on opposite sides of the country, the political cudgels are taken up by their aides. Page 8.

POWER BLACKOUTS Chairman of Federal Power Commission predicts summer power blackouts in many areas of the country. Page 14. CANDIDATES Twelve candidates are unopposed among the 216 who filed for 90 seats in the 31st legislature. Page 16. inside Gangland slaying in Brooklyn Mobster Thomas Eboli taken for a ride Associated Press JESSl'P, Md.

Gov. Marvin Mandel and a black congressman met with rebellious inmates at the Maryland House of Correction early yesterday after a night-long riot that brought 150 state sweeping through the prison. "Were not going to have a repeat of what happened in New York," Mandel said following the meeting with some 20 inmates inside the prison. He referred to hist September's outbreak at Attica prison in which 43 persons died. The disturbance among 1.500 inmates, 75 per cent of whom are black, lasted 10 hours.

It ended early yesterday when some 200 inmates who were surrounded by state police in the recreation yard of the maximum security prison went in the area and heard a man say, "Let's get out of here." The truck, apparently stolen, was found abandoned with its engine running about a block from Eboli's body. Police said they also found a M-3 machine gun with a silencer in a car registered to a Newark, N.J., owner and parked near the murder scene. They said the weapon was of a type used by paratroopers during World War II. They were unable to determine immediately whether either the truck or machine gun was connected to the shooting. Police said Eboli might have been shot while riding in his own car, a blue, late-model Cadillac with New Jersey license plates.

They said they did not know what Eboli, who lived in Fort Lee, N.J., was doing in Crown Heights. They called it an "alien neighborhood" for Eboli, who usually frequented social clubs in Manhattan's Little Italy section. The murder of Eboli was the latest in a series of shootings involving reputed underworld figures which began over a year ago with the wounding of Joseph A. Colombo identified by authorities as back to their cells after Mandel agreed to the meeting. The governor said his active participation with the prisoners did "not necessarily" end with the hour-long meeting.

"There were no demands," he said. "The men had some grievances in the areas of medical service and the classification board. 'We are going to look into some of these," he said. State troopers patrolled the smoke-stained, a -s a halls of the sprawling facility, guarding an estimated 400 inmates who could not be locked up because of damaged cells. "It was the worst damage I've seen," Mandel said.

head of the Joseph Profaci Cosa Nostra family in Brooklyn. Six alleged underworld figures, including Joseph "Crazy Joe" Gallo, were slain within 12 days here last spring. Gallo was said to have been behind the shooting of Colombo at an Italian-American Unity Day rally in Columbus Circle in June 1971. Federal authorities have identified Eboli as an underboss in the Genovese family while the late Genovese, known as the "boss of bosses," was in prison for bankrolling a narcotics smuggling operation. State Investigation Commission sources said Eboli's poor health prevented him from gaining the top spot in the mob after Genovese's death in prison in 1969.

Eboli had been arrested in 1963 on a charge of assaulting a referee in Madison Square Garden after a boxer he managed lost a fight on a technical knockout decision. He also was taken into custody in a police raid four years later after the "little Apalachin" meeting of organized crime leaders. He was a subject of a 1969 New York Site Crime Commission probe of Warden Ralph Williams said the trouble began when about two dozen prisoners rushed a fence in the recreation yard, apparently bent on escape. Williams said guards fired on the convicts after warning shots were ignored. Four inmates and two guards were injured three of the prisoners and one of the guards by gunfire.

The prisoners then ran through the building. Williams said, setting several fires, hurling fire bombs and demolishing furniture and equipment. No hostages were seized by the convicts. Fire destroyed the central control office, knocking out communications to and from the institution, and electroni- Thomas Eboli sions by organized crime into legitimate businesses. He collapsed while preparing to appear before the commission and had to be rushed to a hospital.

Since then he also had contended he was too ill to appear before hearings of the New Jersey State Investigation Commission probing activities of organized crime in legitimate businesses, and before the Waterfront Commission here. His lawyer, Wilford Davis, told authorities that Eboli, who suffered from a heart ailment, was "a very sick man" and could not answer questions. timf Associated Press NEW YORK Shot five times in the face, Thomas "Tommy Ryan" Eboli, top Mafia figure and underboss for the late Vito Genovcse, was found dead early yesterday in what police indicated was a gangland slaying. Police said Eboli, 61, apparently had been taken "for a ride" by other mobsters and was cut down in a burst of gunfire as he struggled to get out of the car. His body, clad in a blue jumpsuit, was found sprawled on a sidewalk in the quiet Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, surrounded by broken, blood-stained glass from a car window.

Police said he had more than $2,000. mostly in HOI) bills, on him. They theorized that when Eboli realized what was about to happen, he tried to force his way from the car. They said at least two shots from a small-caliber gun hit him while he still was in the vehicle. They said the shooting occurred at about 1 a.m.

A witness told authorities that at about that time he saw lashes near a truck Page Page Astrology 25 Movies 22 Bridge 33 Obituaries 34 Classified 34-51 Opinion 7 Comics 25 Radio Log 23 Crossword 33 Sports 29-32 Dear Abby 20 TV Log 24 Dean 27 Weather 15. Editorials 6 Women 18-21 Financial 17 Today's prayer Lord, we thank You to live this day to reach out to touch the lives of others. it be for the building of Your kingdom and for Your glory. Amen. 4.

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