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REPUBLIC MAIL, Today's chuckle Advice to the bridegroom: matter how she treats vou, always try to look a little hurt." 10 cents Phoenix weather Hot and sunny. High 109-115. low 73-77. Yesterday's high 110, low 75. Humidity: high 27, low 5.

Details, Page 15. 83rd Year, No. 48 The Arizona Republic Phoenix, Arizona, July 3, 1972 Telephone: 271-8000 (Two Sections. 52 Pages) India-Pakistan troop pact OKd JV, Viets repulsed at Quang Tri Associated Press Associated Press SAIGON South Vietnamese forces yesterday beat back attacking North Vietnamese troops and armored vehicles along the eastern Quang Tri front, the Saigon command reported. Spokesmen said the South Vietnamese killed 100 enemy troops with the aid of artillery and tactical air strikes, and destroyed four tanks and captured one.

Government losses were put at five killed and 17 wounded. The enemy sent scores of heavy rocket and artillery rounds crashing into Hue and defensive posts on its southern and western edges 130 miles to the south. The shellings were not followed Officials said the agreement would lead to a "durable peace" between the two hostile neighbors, who have fought four wars since 1947. when Pakistan was carved out of British India and granted independence. A Pakistani olhcial said the troop withdrawals would occur "along the line." Military sources in Pakistan say India and Pakistan have been building up their lorces along the cease lire line, particularly in the northern areas where the indians seized hmh points controlled by Pakistan before the December 1971 war.

new state of Bangladesh out of the former East Pakistan. The two leaders talked for two hours and went for a walk alone together in the chill air of the Himalayan foothills. Simla is where the partition of India and Pakistan was planned in 1947. Six hours earlier. Bhutto had told newsmen: "There is an unfortunate The accord appeared to be a step back from the Indian position, seeking a package solution to the dispute between the two countries, including of the Kashmir problem.

Both countries control parts of what was once an autonomous, princelv state population. Kashmir was ruled by a Hindu maharajah in 1947 when Pakistan was formed. Because of its strategic location between the two countries, as well as its borders with the Soviet L'nion and China. Kashmir was wooed by both sides. Bhutto had been seeking a step-by-step approach toward a peace settlement.

According to Pakistani sources, the agreement did not restore diplomatic relations broken after India recognized independent Bangladesh. However, the sources said Pakistan was awaiting Indian agreement to the choice of S. Shah Nawaz as Pakistani ambassador to India. Until yesterday, Continued on Page 2 Associated Press SIMLA, India The leaders of India and Pakistan signed an agreement early today calling for partial troop withdrawals along their 800-mile common border. Pakistani spokesmen also said the two sides agreed to "reduce tension" in disputed Kashmir, including troop pull-backs from the explosive cease-fire line there, and that the pact did not include handing over territory taken in the India-Pakistan war last December.

Indian sources maintained, however, that the agreement did not call for withdrawals in Kashmir. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India and President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan signed the agreement at a hastily arranged ceremony nine hours be fore Bhutto was scheduled to return to Pakistan, culminating five days of tough summit bargaining at this Himalayan hill station resort. Indian sources said other points of the agreement were renunciation of force to settle disputes and the settling of mutual problems bilaterally without calling in third parties. An official of the Pakistan Foreign Office said the agreement also will lead to separate talks on the return of Pakistani prisoners of war sometime between this summit and the next meeting of the two leaders. No date was mentioned for the next summit, which probably would take place in Pakistan.

That war resulted in creation of the inhabited by a predominantly Moslem by any attempt to take the old imperial capital. Paratroopers spearheading the five -day old counteroffensive were reported in contact with Communist forces all day within three miles of enemy held Quang Tri, capital of the province. Along the lengthening western flank of the counteroffensive. 150 enemy soldiers were reported killed in several battles near the foothills west of Highway 1. South Vietnamese losses were put at nine killed and 25 wounded.

Vietnamese marines on the eastern sector of the front reported killing 37 North Vietnamese while losing one man killed and 6 wounded in a fight six miles east of Quang Tri and the "Street Without Joy." The marines also said they uncovered a lti-to-20-ton ammunition cache on the eastern wing of the front Saturday. The latest reports brought claimed casualties in the South Vietnamese drive to nearly 700 enemy killed and 59 Saigon troops killed and 130 wounded. A spokesman in Saigon said 4fi enemy were slain in clashes around the front Saturday. Only one South Vietnamese soldier was wounded. The latest action left South Vietnamese troops in command of a 12-mile-wide front running southwest from the South China Sea to the former defense line at the My Chanh River.

The first shelling of Hue since the ene-mv offensive began March 30 was reported to have killed at least 11 persons and wounded 38. Although the South Vietnamese command had no breakdown, sources in Hue said at least seven of the dead and 15 of the wounded were civilians. Close to 70 artillery rounds and rock- Continncd on Page 4 300 floaters risk blisters in tuber race By CONNIE KOENENN YUMA It appeared to be the same perversity that compels men to chop holes in ice so they can sw im that brought hundreds of people to the Colorado River Saturday to float down eight miles of muddy water in blistering July heat. The unofficial count was 1.300 entrants in the fith annual World Championship Innertube Race. It started with a 7 a.m.

cannon boom and ended hours later at a finish line overlooked by the crumbling Yuma Territorial Prison and a mob of sweating spectators. There a winning time of 3 hours and 9 minutes (Stacy Cannon, II. of Yuma) was recorded and hundreds of sunburn cases were observed. As contestant Larry Briggs of Yuma, wearing print pajamas and a red knit cap. put it: "It's the only way to spend a Saturday morning." The sponsors, straight-faced, hint that it's the thrill of competition that brings out tubers in their motley apparel, wagging enough styrofoam ice chests to float a building.

"This race started six years ago as a friendly bet, and now it's turned into competition." said Dan Wright of the Yuma Chamber of Commerce. Wright, like many others, was hard Republic phclo by Sue Levy lima fire department resrue and aid piad fuels up at the Ooors fioal during innertiihe float race tacked up on the starting stand and a number of Mayberry's pink portable toilets were being wrestled into place. But the competition of the race is hardly a matter of man's battle against the swirling rapids. The lower Colorado is a friendly stream, admitted Wright, so shallow in spots that extra water has to be released from said. ''It's just something that kind of appeals to peoples' sense of fun.

Should lie a wonderful day tomorrow, it's supposed to cool down to 111 degrees." The temperature was 100 and rising at HO a.m. on the morning of the Continued on Page 16 at work Friday evening preparing the launch area on the California side of the river, just down the road from Ihe Ross store. The activity indicated the extent of the race's growth from its first handful of contestants in 19t7. Parking areas were being roped off, rosettes Imperial Dam just to keep the floaters off the bottom. Jim Bjornstad, manager of the chamber of commerce, bounded up.

neat in white ducks. "Isn't this the craziest thing!" he said happily. "1 get almost emotional about "We don't have any he 5 (Jeslures lounrd ()Trin. Mranv McGovern moves io mend his fences If tomorrow or never for chess contest LDS leader Joseph Smilh is dead at 95 3 EXECUTED Bodies of three men found snot in the head in Belfast may have been the victims of Irish Republican Army justice. Page 2.

HIJACKER KILLEU-A 747 jumbo jet piloted by a Scottsdale man. Gene Vaughn, was hijacked yesterday over Vietnam. A passenger shot and killed the hijacker. Page II. INDIAN POW WOW Up to 100.000 spectators jam the sidewalks in Flag-stalf for the opening of the 44th annual South est Indian Pow Wow.

Associated Press SALT LAKK CITY President Joseph Fielding Smith of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints died late last night. He was 95. Church press secretary Henry Smith said the elderly leader of 3.000.000 Mormons died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Bruce R. Mct'onkie, in Salt Lake City.

The cause of death was not immediately availabe. The church was Smith's heritage and life, and under such circumstances it was natural that he be chosen president of the church even at the age of 93 after the death of its nineth leader. David C. McKay. third parts 1 lever have." he said, but he would not rule out his own walkout or third-party move if the Credentials Committee were upheld by the lull convention and he were to lose the nomination as a result.

"That's too iffy a question." he said at one point. ''He's been a good chairman." McGovern said of O'Brien. "I think he's a ta.r man. 1 think he's one of the ablest men in our parly. He's generally accepted by all elements in our party." McGovern said later that he had not had a chance to lalk to O'Brien for several cays, "so 1 thought 1 might as well tell him on television.

This'll be a little surprise to formalize it." Later O'Brien issued a statement saying he could not "make any commitments to any candidate" priur to the selection of a nominee next week and said he would remain neutral until that time. However, he added he Continued on Page 8 Later yesterday. Stephen Reinhardt, Democratic national committeeman from California, announced that several members of that state's convention delegation are filing suit in Washington against the Credentials Committee in an attempt to win back for McGovern the 131 delegates. Reinhardt said a hearing before U.S. District Court Judge George L.

Hart is sc' for this morning McGovern had formed the committee's action "an incredible, cynical, rotten political steal" He said at the time that he 'couldn't possibly support a cenveniion that would sustain this kind of shabby, back room dealing. 1 wouldn't have any part of any convention nominee who wouid support this." But yesterday McGovern refused to use language quite so threatening, v.ou '1 be inclined to support the nominee if he is supported by an honorable leual process according to the rules of our party." "I don't think there's going to be any Associated Press George McGovern acted yesterday to widen his support among Democratic regulars by confirming his choice of Lawrence O'Brien to remain as head of the Democratic Naitonal Committee. And he announced he'll seek a fence-mending session this week with AFL-CIO President George Mcany. But the South Dakota senator and leading contender for the Democratic, presidential nomination would not close the door on the possibility he will refuse to support the nominee if it is someone other than himself. What McGovern did do in an interview on ABC's "Issues and Answers" and an impromptu news conference afterwards was predict repeatedly that the convention in Miami Beach next week will be run according to the party's reform rules.

He said again he expects to in back the 151 California delegates that he lost in a Credentials Committee action last week and go on to win the nomination. Pase 27. Pae Page Astrology 25 Financial 33 Bridge 23 Movies 19 las died 34-51 Obituaries 34 Comics 25 Radio Log 21 Crossword 28 Sports 29-32 Dean 27 TV Log 21 Dear Abhy 23 Weather 15 Editorials 6 Women 22-23 Todays prayer Lord, adorn our lives with unselfish and forgiving virtues, that we may do Thy will in every act of our day's responsibility. Amen. Associated Press REYKJAVIK, Iceland-Bobby Fischer was given a deadline of tomorrow noon yesterday to appear for the world chess championship or forfeit his chance for the title.

The ultimatum, announced by Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, meant a two-day postponement of Fischer's encounter with world champion Boris Spassky of Russia. The match was to have started at 5 p.m. yesterday 10 a.m. Arizona time).

Euwe said a friend of the American challenger was leaving for New York "to talk with him." "He will try to convince him to appear. I can't say who it is," he added. Fischer refused to play the match after officials of the Icelandic Chess Federation balked at his last-minute demands for more money, in addition to a record purse already contracted for. Fischer and Spassky were to have a guaranteed share of $125,000 the winner taking five-eighths plus 30 per cent each of income from the sale of film and television rights. This alone was 10 times greater than any prize money ever paid to a chess player.

Fischer wants an additional 30 per cent of the gate receipts. Faced with a decision of disqualifying Fischer immediately or granting reprieve. Euwe chose the path he said would best protect the host organization. Fischer's representatives here had asked for a postponement on the basis of illness. They said the American was suffering fatigue.

Stabbed inmate is under intensive care after state prison riot As president. Smith was viewed by Mormons as man's earthly link to God. Mormonism teaches that God continually makes his will known through the church president. Smith's Mormon lineage went back to his grandfather. Hyrum Smith, brother of Joseph Smith, who founded the church.

His father was Joseph F. Smith the sixth president of the church. As a youth he served as a missionary in Great Britain from 1899 to 1901. He became assistant historian of the church in 1906 and historian in 1921. In 1910.

he was named to the Church Council of the Twelve Apostles. Smith was the author of 23 books on Mormon history and theology. Observers felt that the most pressing problem facing the Mormon Church under a new administration was its policy concerning Negroes. The church permits Negroes to become members but banns them from the Mormon priesthood, which all white males were xpected to attain. "Young man.

Joseph Smith did not deride that the Ncgo should not have the priesthood. Brigham Young did not decide it. David O. McKay did not decide it. Idid not decide it.

God decided it." Central Arizona Bureau FLORENCE An Arizona State Prison inmate was in the intensive care unit of a Phoenix hospital yesterday with stab wounds following an hour-long disturbance Saturday in a maximum security cellblock reserved for troublemakers. Three guards, held hostage for a lime by rebellious inmates, were released unharmed after 40 heavily armed Pinal County and state authorities closed in on the prison. "Nobody's been arrested yet," assistant warden Dale Brandfas said. "But everybody is locked in their cells in that whole section of the building about 80 men altogether." Melvin Eugene Jackson. 28.

sentenced from Phoenix to a three-to-four-year term for aggravated assault and currently charged with killing another inmate, underwent surgery in Good deputies and state highway patrolmen to bolster prison security guards. Brandfas at that time said he warned the adjustment center inmates "if they didn't release the men and return to their cells we would have to organize and come in." "I'd sav some of the cooler heads prevailed, and the men were finally released," said Brandfas. The disturbance was confined to the first floor of the adjustment center which houses 80 prisoners. Approximately 80 additional inmates quartered in the upper story were not involved. It was not known how many inmates participated in the disturbance.

Prison officials said not all inmates left their cells when the doors were opened during the brief One inmate, however, was transferred to the county jail "for safe keeping," Brandfas said. He did not identify the inmate. "Nobody was injured other than Jackson," the assistant warden, who is in charge of security, said. Jackson is charged with murder in the stabbing death last July of Melvin Railback, 18, at the prison. Railback also had been sentenced from Phoenix for a two to three year term for theft.

About 1.200 inmates staged a sit -down strike at the prison two months ago to demand minimum wages for work, improved visiting facilities, uncen-sored mail and other reforms. The strike ended after prisoners were locked inside their cells for 16 days and fed sandwiches and milk on weekdays and TV dinners on Sundays. maritan Hospital for chest and abdominal wounds, inflicted, said Brandtas. by "persons unknown." Hospital officials said his condition was "stable." Brandfas said the disturbance in Cellblock 3. the prison's adjustment center for troublesome inmates and those who need protection from other inmates, began about 10 a.m.

when two prisoners were released from their cells to shower. Guards M. O. Ramirez and Robert Barnes were overpowered and their keys taken, Brandfas said. "One of the inmates then managed to get into the control room and force the guard, officer D.

Duer. inside the cell-block and open all the cell doors by pulling a lever. They 'later released Duer, instructing him to notify the shift commander," Brandfas said. The alarm brought 40 Pinal County 7 The rules require that a postponement for illness must be certified by a doctor that the host organization chooses. Typical of confusion surrounding preparations for the match, the federation doctor.

Ulfdr Thordarson, left for his country house early yesterday morning. The Russian side reluctantly accepted Continued on Page 2.

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