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McGovern Aides To File Delegate Suit neus. 4 From Poll Wire Service! Backers of Son George McGovern yesterday said they would ask a federal jude today to bar seating of the I5l national convention delegates from California that the senator lost in a Democratic Credentials Committee ruling A short time earlier, in two moves to improve his standing with party leaders. McGovern announced that he wanted Lawrence O'Brien to remain chairman of the Demcxratic National Com mittee after the convention and that he would seek to meet in a few days with AFL-CIO President George Meanv, who is believed to have played a key role in last Thursday's Credentials Committee action Expressing "regret'' over what he termed "the divisiveness that has taken place." McGovern said. "I don't want to compromise my position in issues, but when it comes to matters where I think reasonable people ought to get together and work out a settlement. I am going to do what I can to see that that is accomplished O'Brien, already in Miami Beach to prepare tor the start of the convention July 10.

issued a statement thanking McGovern for a "generous expression of confidence in me." But he said. "It would, of course, be premature for me to make any commitment to any candidate for the presidency" before the nominee is chosen and that "1 must maintain my neutral role" until that time McGovern. speaking in a television interview, also appeared to back still further away trom his threat last week to bolt the party it the lull convention turns down his request lor reversal of the Credentials Committee decision and one of his presidential rivals goes on to win the nomination with the California delegates. The South Dakota senator won the entire 271-member California delegation with his victory June ti in the slate's winner-take-all primary The Credentials Committee awarded lOti of those Turn to M('GO ERN, A4 CAMPAIGN 1 l.ryiMfi 7 Awards The Palm Beach Post WEATHER Partly cloudy throughout Tuesday with morning showers along the coast and afternoon thunder-showers inland. High 88-94; Low 74-78 Details.

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Jl'LY 3. 1972 i if fill India, Pakistan 4 iff V' I I each Accord days of tough summit bargaining in this Himalayan hill station resort. An official Pakistan spokesman said the document called for troop withdrawals along the 800-mile western Indian border with Pakistan and the ceasefire line in disputed Kashmir. 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. From Post Wire Service SIMLA.

India Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India and President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan signed an agreement early today calling for partial troop withdrawal all along their common border, including the explosive ceasefire line in Kashmir. The pact was signed at a hastily arranged ceremony nine hours before Bhutto was scheduled to return to Pakistan, culminating five 1 Ji 1 (v f- -1J A ii 1 4 spWf 1 sm0 'jt I 1 s. 4 I -sTv 4 -v I 4 "'w 5 Passenger Shoots, Kills Viet Hijacker From Post Wire Services NEW YORK A South Vietnamese student, apparently an anti-war dissident whose scholarship to study in the United States had recently been canceled, was shot and killed at Saigon airport, yesterday after he had attempted to divert a Pan American flight to Hanoi. The hijacker, identified as Nguyen Thai Binh. was shot five times by a passenger on the 747 jumbo jet as he struggled with the aircraft's pilot.

The student was quoted as saying his attempt was an "act of revenge" for American bombing of North Vietnam. An Indian official said the agreement would "turn the line of control in Jammu and Kashmir into a line of peace." Other 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. Military sources in Pakistan say India and Pakistan have been building up their forces along the cease lire line, particularly in the north-em areas where the Indians seized high points controlled by Pakistan before the December 1971 war. That war resulted in creation of the new state of Bangladesh out of the former East Pakistan.

Pakistan has long sought self-determination for Kashmir, which iike Pakistan is predominantly Moslem, while India has considered the region part of its territory since the two countries achieved independence from Britain in 1947. A 1965 border clash over Kashmir was settled in talks held in Tashkent in the Soviet Union under the auspices of Soviet leaders. Bhutto told newsmen the talks, which began last Wednesday, had so far not produced any agreement on the fate of 93,000 Pakistani war prisoners being held by India. A student named Nguyen Thai Binh at the University HELD TO RIDICULE Masked members of the Protestant ister Defense Association stand guard over a youth charged by the I DA with the crimes of "breaking and entering and attempt- APWirephoto ed indecent assault." The accused, a resident of the Protestant Shankhill Road district of Belfast, was beaten and tied to a lamp post with a sign displaying the alleged crimes. I later details.

A 1 2 Inside Toda MEAT EXPORTERS in Australia, who earlier this year sought larger quotas in the U.S. marketplace, now say the American housewife will get more meat from Down Under but enly if she is prepared to pay more for it Story, A3 Bridge Column B6 Classified Ads C2-11 Comics B6 Crossword Puzzle B6 Editorials Alt), 11 Horoscope B6 Letters to the Editor A10 Obituaries C12 People A5 Poster Bl-8 Sports Dl-5 Theaters B4 TV Column B7 of Washington at Seattle was one of seven South Vietnamese students whose Agency for International Development scholarships had been canceled on June 7. All were ordered to return to South Vietnam, and refused. All had been active in anti-war causes in the United States. Friends of the student said they believed he was the hijacker.

"I called him last week," said Nguyen Tang Huyen, another of the group. "He said he would take care of his problem himself. He said he wanted to go home." The attempted hijacking occurred on Pan American flight 841, which left San Francisco at midnight Friday bound for Saigon, with stops at Honolulu. Guam and Manila. Turn to ANGRY.

A7 Draft Violators Finding Liberal Courts across the street to a draft counseling center, and the man on duty advised him to resist induction. Later that afternoon, just before his physical examination was over. Kent handed his papers to another draftee and walked out of the induction center Eventually, he was convicted of violating the Selective Service Act. But instead of going to federal prison, he was placed on probation and ordered to do work of "national importance" for two years. Today, Kent, now 23 years old.

spends at least 20 hours a week as a volunteer at Bridge Over Troubled Waters, a drug rehabilitation program in Berkeley. The volunteer work fulfills the terms of his probation while he holds a steady job at a steel fabricating plant. His case is one example of how the federal judiciary in recent months has gradually but dramatically reversed its policies in the handling of draft cases Turn to JUDGES. 9 By STEV EN V. ROBERTS (c) New York Times LOS ANGELES Two years ago.

Alan Kent was drafted. Halfway through his physical examination at the Oakland Induction Center, he decided that he did not want to join the Army. During the lunch break, he went Pair of Problem Kids Become Hialeah Heroes 'ft A Fischer Granted 2-Day Extension () New York Times REYKJAVIK. Iceland Bobby Fischer, who still has not arrived here for his championship chess match with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union, has been granted a two-day extension, until noon Tuesday, to appear here. If he does not show up by then, he will be disqualified from the match, which had been scheduled to start yesterday at 5 p.m.

local time. The decision to grant Fischer an extension was made by Max Euwe of Amsterdam, president of the International Chess Federation. Euwe, the world's chess champion from 1935 to 1937, was pessimistic. "I think there will be no play at all," he said. The Russians were not available for direct comment, but Euwe said Spassky has neither agreed nor disagreed with the ruling.

Spassky, however, was quoted as saying that he had waited for over a week and that he could wait another two days. He was reportedly doing this out of deference to his Icelandic hosts. Fred Cramer, representing Fischer, said the Russians did not wish to retain the title on a technicality, and had acted in a sportsmanlike manner. Turn to CHESS. A.i while Johnny circled around to try to cut him off another way.

When Kenneth got within five feet of the armed boy. the boy again turned, aimed at Kenneth's head and pulled the trigger twice. Kenneth dropped to the ground. But the loaded gun misfired both times. After a resumed chase of several more blocks.

Kenneth finally felled his prey with a flying tackle in a churchyard. Police arrived immediately and arrested the armed 15-year-old and charged him with the robbery of a 52-year-old woman as she was depositing a money bag with receipts from an auto tag agency in the night deposit window at a local bank When police discovered that the bag was missing, officers fanned out searching for it Turn to 2 HOMELESS, AX HIALEAH lAP) A pair of homeless problem kids turned hero as they rounded up a gun-toting youngster and recovered $7,500 in stolen cash and checks, police reported yesterday. Kenneth Sprouse and Johnny Price were in their cottages Saturday night at Montanari Clinical School when they heard screams of "Stop him! Stop him!" outside the school grounds. Darting outside, they saw a teenager about their age running down the street being pursued by a crowd of shouting pedestrians. Kenneth, lfi.

and Johnny. 14. gave chase. Hialeah Police Detective James Doud gave this account of what happened next When the two youths started gaining ground on the fleeing boy several blwks later, he wheeled around and pointed a 22 caliber automatic pistol at them Startled, the two pursuing students stopped and the pistol waving youth ran on Ktfineth took off alter him again. APWirepholo IPPIE MELON An elderly Miamian reaches for another slice of free watermelon yesterday during a picnic given for the elderly by the Youth International Party (Yippies).

Young and old joined in for speeches, songs and the free feast and the sometimes animred discussions between ippies and Vlain.ians..

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