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rtMOCRAT ALT Thursday. July t. 97 SOUTH VIETNAMESE f- Around The World Nixon received a first hand assessment of the military situation In Indochina as be leadlisl S. strategy for the, Vietnam peace talks which resume. net week III Paris.

Ma Gen. Aleiander M. llalg, deputy Id Henry A. Kissinger on the national secu-illy staff, reported to Nixon i stayed clear of the 19th century citadel In the center of tlie city where they tirlieved there nilKht 1 North Vietnamese snipers In dug in positions. Military sources said Quang Trl city would not be declared recaptured until the citadel was in government bands.

In the air war, the U.S. command said Ann lean fight-crbombers made 320 raids over North Vietnam Tuesday, the most strikes In a single day since June 27. Tlw North Vietnamese said one S. Fl Phantom jet was downed In (lie raids near the capital city of Hanoi, but the S. command refused comment on the rcjHirt.

The North Vietnamese capture of Quang Til Province and its capital was the. biggest victory of tlielr three-month old of (ensue which began March 30. Meanwhile, at San Clemente, yesterday President Quang Trl, the only Smith Vietnamese province capital to fall to Communist tru. Military sources said the 1.200 soldiers set up a command rost at Quang Til's railroad station, then fanned out Into adjacent residential and business areas where they met light resistance from Communists who had coiitrolled.the city and Its sur-rounding province since May 1. Most of the strike force period that ended at du yesterday.

The IVCt also flew 15 missions in upport of the South Vietnamese counter-of-fensive against the North Vietnamese in Quang Tri ami iM-ighlKiring Thua Thien prov-inces. Military sources said 1.200 soldier earning a neatly folded flag and a bottle of warm champagne, took three liours yesterday afternoon to move the last half mile from the suburb of Mai Llnh to FISCHER From 1A Seibert laid It was not known how many casualties resulted from the latest shelling of Hue. It was the fifth consecutive day that Communist guas bad hit the city. Seibert said most of the IS) rounds hit the city north of the Perfume River near the walled citadel in a residential area pocked by military installations. The rounds yesterday were 13 more than the total of rounds th.it bit this undent city during the previous four days, killing and wounding -H S.

military sources in Hue said many of the latest rounds were duds. From l. Rogers Reaches Romania on Trip Romania UTI Secretary of Stale William P. Rogers flew Jiere to Romania yeMerday for talks uith government leaders and said the United States support Romania's Mruficle for indejvndcnce within the Soviet Moc. "We believe that nations must govern their actions by the principles of respect for national sovereignty, of equal rights states, and of non-interference in the affairs of others," Rogers said in an arrival statement.

Fire Kills 30 Mental Patients SHERBl'RNE, England UTI) A flash fire swept a iewly renovated ward in a mental hospital early yesterday, killing 30 of the 36 male patients who were too severely ic-tartied to flee through an unlocked door. One of the patients in the ward was 16 and the rest were middle-aged, but their average mental age was "about five or six," a hospital official said. Cause of the fire has not been determined. on a four-day Information gathering trip Saigon and I'hnoin Penh. Kissinger also attended the meeting at the Western White House.

The President plana lo turn bis attention from the war to the domestic matter of rising food prices and politics today. Press Secretary Ronald Zicglcr suld be will meet with Clark MacGregor, newly named chairman of Nixon's re-election committee, and with MacGregor'a successor as congressional lalsnn man, illiam Timmona. Ziegler said Haig conferred In Southeast Asia with South Vietnamese Iresldent Nguyen Van Thieu, Cambodian President Ion Nol, Cambodian President Lon Nol, U.S. ambassador to Vietnam Ellsworth Bunker and Gen. Frederick Weyand, newly named com.tiander of U.S.

forces in Vietnam. rowed Ford to a car dealer because the right front wheel, he said, "makes a funny noise." He waited around the showroom, kicking tires Lke a prospective customer, while mechanics repaired the whirl. Afterward ho drove buck to bis hotel. The Russian would not talk about chess or the dispute delaying the match he says he wants to play. Like duellists before they meet, Fischer and Spasskv were let.ing their aides settle the details.

Though Fischer went for a ride around town In a police car Tuesday night, he has spent most of his time holed up in a villa quarantined by a permanent police guard. mean that in the end they would accept a decision by Euwe not to penalize the American. Fischer'i apology said, "We are sorry the world championship was delayed. The problems causing the delays were not with world champion Spassky whom I respect as a man and admire as a player. "If Grandmaster Spassky or the Soviet people were inconvenienced or I am i-deed unhappy, for I had not the slightest Intention of this occurring." Though officials were clearly worried at one point that the Russians might pull put, Spassky was not behaving like a man who was on the verge of leaving.

Early in the afternoon he took his bor Far to the south in Cam-Inxlia, about 53 miles west of Saigon, South Vietnamese forces supported by artillery and air strikes reported taking 208 prisoners. Four South Vietnamese were killed and 31 wounded in the fighting yesterday in sev-veral areas around Kam-pong Rau on the Cambodia-South Vietnamese border. The U.S. command in Saigon said huge U.S. B52 bombers flew four missions Inside North Vietnam in the 18 hour match it was a disadvantage that Fischer could probably overcome.

The match could last as long as two months. From the frequent trips by Spassky and his second, Yefim Geller, to the gray three-story Soviet Embassy here, it was apparent the Soviet game was being played on directives from Moscow. The maximum aim of the Soviet officials could be to obtain an initial scoring advantage they hope will permit the title to s'ay in Russia, where it has been since 1948. Or they might be playing more modestly to regain the psychological advantage for their champion. This would Cool print without a care, for sizes HV-t to 26't Lithuanian Burns Self in Protest (AP) An elderly Lithuanian worker has burned himself to death in frotest of Soviet occupation of Lithuania the third politically motivated self-immolation in the republic in the past seven weeks according to reports that reached Moscow yesterday.

A fourth man, about 62 years' old, attempted a similar political suicide in the streets of the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, but was arrested before he could ignite the acetone he bad poured over himself, sources said. The dead worker was identified only as Andrushuka-vichus, born in 1912. Easily one of the most agreeable dresses you can own! Forman's short sleeved, zip front sfep-in of machine washable, very pa'ckable Arnel triacetate that doesn't show wrinkles, never needs ironing. All-over print on blue or lavender. Daytime Dresses on 3 at Midtown; Culver-Ridge, Pittsford, Long Ridge.

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