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3 em Mu C'hanra tin DrUiU on Metro MOTH YEAR Published by Gannalt In RochtiUr. N. Saturday Morning, My IS, 1972 15 CENTS The Mystery Over O'Brien's Exit Annapolis Entry Leads Sea Race NEW YORK (AP) Jubilee III, clas A schooner from Ihe U.S. Naval Academy, was re-ported leading a pack of five yaehta bearing down yesterday in the final stage in the Dermuda-to-Hayona ocean race. Skippered by Cmdr.

Howard Randall, the Navy craft was moving along smoothly in excel-lent sailing condition with winds of 15-20 knots, According to radio reports received by Syd Rodgers of Boating Magazine in New York. Analysis By DICK BARNES Astociuted Prttt Writer MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Lawrence F. O'Brien told Sen. George McGovcrn at one point yesterday that be might stay on as Democratic national chairman, only to have the presidential nominee say he would discuss the matter with his own aides.

McGovern's version was that he repeatedly had asked O'Brien to remain. But other sources said the chairman and the presidential candidate met privately twice during the day, and that O'Brien had at one point said he would reconsider his decision to leave the post. McGovern, these sources said, replied he would have to further consider that. O'Brien then said ho would revert to his original position and leave the chairmanship. McGovern attributed O'Brien's departure to per- It was the third publicly announced personnel decision by McGovern in his two days as nominee to leave a curious residue of puzzlement among or about the Job candidates.

TJ inside account of yesterday's maneuvermgs went this way: The nominee called O'Brien to his 17th floor hotel suite for a 55-minute meeting O'Brien at first refused the Job aain, believing that the chairmanship and role of the national committee would be diminished under McGoverns plans. After McGovern Insisted that they would not be diminished, O'Brien agreed to stay, McGovern then talked to his staff privately before getting back with O'Brien for a second meeting. At that session, he told O'Brien he couldn't sell his staff on the I'lftise turn to 4A. sonal reasons. Other sources said the reasons didn't exist.

And so O'Brien left the Job he had held for 2'4 years and McGovern picked as party chairman Jean West wood of West Jordan, Utah, a principal adviser to the South Dakota senator. McGovern told the Demo cratic National Committee yesterday he had tried four times, the last yeaterday, to get O'Brien to stay. McGovern did not say the final negotiations broke down over terms of the job. He attributed O'Brien's decision to personal reasons. O'Brien would not comment.

Your News At A Glance McGove rn People Fischer chums chess officials him deliberately. Full details Hobby provoked (1C). The Rev. Lester Kinsolving devotes his rhau of the Kins Midas of Cayuga column to Falls (2C). Summertime is a good time for outdoor art classes at the Haiti gallery (1C).

World tarts Party Rumors of coup in Libya circulating through Middle East find no factual support in Beirut (2A). IRA using bazooka-type rockets against British in Belfast l3A). Vi? IlVi mmmwwnvmitiMki Lmmm .11. null wniim in innr'WiniiMmfc. ltlli i iimtii Other convention stories and pictures.

(4) A look at the local parties and change. (6A) McGovern won nomination in O'Brien suite. (6A) National D4C Wire Services was a former White House press secretary, and briefly a senator from California. McGovern said O'Brien had Please turn to 4A. man was perfectly acceptable to him, and Salinger withdrew his name.

"I think I sense the feeling of this committee," he said, according to the AP. Salinger, a campaign aide, Car crashes into Greyhound bus near Memphis, killing 3 and injuring 19 (7A). Six antiwar activists are indicted by federal grand jury on charges of conspiring to disrupt next month's GOP National Convention (3A). The Federal Aviation Administration asks the nation's airlines to find ways to prevent weapons from being brought on planes (8A). Atomic Energy Commission director "placed on leave without pay" pending investigation of allegations he borrowed and has yet to pay back $100,000 from fellow employes (3A).

Spiro Agnew urges Congress to speed flood aid (2A). MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Demo-cratic presidential nominee Sen. George S. McGovern yesterday reshaped the machinery of the Democratic party, and avoided his first post-convention skirmish.

McGovern broke with tradition to name a woman to replace Lawrence F. O'Brien as national chairman of the party he now commands. Mrs. Jean Westwood of West Jordan, Utah, was the nominee's choice for Democratic national chairman. She helped manage McGovern's successful primary campaign.

But McGovern's choice for the party's vice chairman, Pierre Salinger, was turned down in a meeting of the national committee. Basil A. Paterson of New York was chosen for the No. spot after he was nominated from the floor. Paterson is a former New York state senator who ran unsuccessfully for lieutenant governor in 1970.

Committeemen said that a black should have a role in the party's high command when the nomination was nade. McGovern said either President Nixon and John Connally laugh as they pose for pictures. (AP) Connally Will Enlist Democrats for Nixon Local Grand jury probing May 11 antiwar demonstration in Rochester asks "speedy" disclosure of its findings (IB). A block of downtown Rochester crumbles while it's isolated by traffic and parking problems (IB). Monroe County water bills arc finally being mailed, while some city water bills-are delayed (8B).

S. Viets Near Quang Jri Edge SAIGON (UPI) Eight-hundred South Vietnamese marines, helped by pinpoint American air strikes and naval bombardment, broke through a circle of North Vietnamese attackers yesterday and pushed to the edge of Communist-held Quang Tri city, military sources said. The breakthrough was tempered, however, by two setbacks behind the front lines of the 17-day old drive to retake South Vietnam's northernmost provincial capital, 432 mnes north of Saigon. COMMUNIST GUNNERS SHOT DOWN A JET HFU-ropfr carrying the commander of the government paratrrop division, Col. Nguyen Trong Bao, considered one of the most able South Vietnamese officers in the war.

Bao, his aides and the four-man helicopter crew all died in the crash, three miles southeast of Quang Tri, military sources said. Seven miles southwest of the city, about 30 government paratroopers rushed an American rescue helicopter and the overloaded craft crashed where the pilot tried to lift from the landing zone, U.S. officers said. THE CREW CHIEF OF A SECOND AMERICAN CHOPPER that flew in to pick up survivors of the crash was killed by a single gunshot. U.S.

officers told UPI reporter Ken Wagner they believed the crew chief was killed by a Saigon paratrooper angered because the American would allow only a few wounded soldiers on his helicopter. There were official reports of the incident in Saigon, according to military spokesmen. Thirty-two miles south of Quang Tri, Communist gunners fired 14 122mm artillery rounds into the former imperial capital of Hue, killing at least one person and injuring 12 others. In the air war, American warplanes flew their 100th day of heavy raids over North Vietnam yesterday, in a campaign called "Operation Linebacker," designed to cut off supplies to the Communist offensive in the South. The marine breakthrough two miles northeast of Quang Tri city's formidable stone walled citadel followed heavy American air strikes and U.S.

Navy gunfire, the U.S. command said. Hitting all around the beleagured marines, American bombs Please turn page nature, possibly involving some foreign travel. The assignments, Connally added, are "not anything earth shaking." He ruled out a role for himself in the Vietnam peace talks and in negotiations of a nuclear arms treaty with the Soviet Union. i'lcusc turn page Sports Judge Rules Out $190 Ceiling Defending champion Lee Trevino leads by one stroke over Tony Jacklin after third round of British Open Golf (ID).

Rochester Red Wings manage only three hits but defeat Syracuse Chiefs, 4-1 (ID). Floyd Tatterson registers sixth-round knockout over Pedro Agosta and gains match with Muhammad Ali in August (ID). The AFL-CIO, which was a party to the case, estimated that up to 9 million workers were covered by the $1.90 exemption. The International Union of Electrical Workers (IUEW), which brought the suit, and the AFL-CIO argued that the hourly wage ceiling should have been set at $3.35, a figure the Labor Department said would have affected 14 million additional workers. Jones did not say what the ceiling should be, but suggested that the $3.35 figure was reasonable.

An AFL-CIO spokesman said Jones' decision was "an absolute vindication of our WASHINGTON (UPI) -In a decision that could affect millions of people, a federal judge yesterday barred the government from using $1-90 an hour as the ceiling for exempting workers from wage controls. U.S. District Court Judge William B. Jones ruled against the Cost of Living Council (COLO in a blow to the administration's wage stabilization program. The decision was certain to be carried to the U.S.

Court of Appeals. "COLC's alarm at the prospect of an exemption from wage controls for 50 per cent of the nonsupervisory working force is less convincing in light of its recent ruling exempting small business from both price and wage regulations," Jones saitf In his decisions. Financial SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Former Treasury Secretary John Connally said yesterday he will not support Democratic presidential nominee GeorKe McGovern but rather will work to enlist Democrats in President. Nixon's re-election drive.

The man who until two months ago was the only Democrat in Nixon's cabinet accused McGovern of sabotaging the President's Vietnam peace efforts and sharply criticized other McGovern positions as "radical in character." As he emerged from a three-hour meeting with Nixon, Connally again left open the possibility he would accept any offer to be Nixon's vice presidential running mate. "I haven't closed any doors and I don't want 'Connally said, adding that "I don't think it will be offered." Talking with newsmen on the lawn at Nixon's ocean-front home, Connally said he would remain a Democrat but would "do everything In my power" in the weeks and months ahead to encourage Democrats to defect to Nixon in the general election. The silver-haired former Texas governor came to the Western White House to brief Nixon on a 35-day, 15-nation around-the-world tour he took at Nixon's request after resigning from his cabinet post. He said they discussed the "special assignment" Nixon said last month he had in mind for Connally. Actually, Connally said, "we talked about three different 'assignments." He wouldn't name them, saying Nixon would make an announcement in a week or so.

hut said they were "intermittent johs" net of a political No More Russian Cheers for Bobby U.S. Dollar runs into problems on for- eign exchanges as rumors persist of devaluation and Common Market float (10D). The publisher of Consumer Reports magazine resigns from safety council in protest of GM president named for award (10D). Dow-Jones averages move up more than five points as markets regain a little ground to close out week (10D). Bridge 15C Comics 15C Crossword 15C Deaths 4, 5C Editorials 6A Financial 8-10D lighting and, at last report, for the removal of film cameras from the match site.

It was Fischer's self-confidence, his individuality and his public claim to being the world's best chess player that captured the Russians' imagination. Perhap bored with the knowledge that the world crown has remained in Russian hands for 24 years, the man on the street was not overly distraught when Fischer crushed Russia's Tigran Petro-sian for the right to face Spassky. The prospect of a major Soviet-American confrontation over the chess board was exciting and appealing. But the admiration has turned to disgust. For the park bench players, Fischer is either "sumashedshy" crazy or scared.

MOSCOW (AP) Moscow's park bench chess players used to call him "Bobby." Now it's "Fischer." They used to respect and even privately root for the American who wants the world chess crown. They don't any more. "He's slightly touched in the head," muttered a chess enthusiast as his opponent pondered the next move on a board balanced across a bench. About six million Russians take chess seriously and thcres a growing feeling among them that Fischer has become down-right insulting. "This is chess, not baseball," said one chess fan.

"Fischer's no sportsman." There wa only praise for Boris Spas-sky, the Russian world champion who has waited patiently in Reykjavik as Fischer caused delay after delay over his demands for more money, for better Either way, the average Russian privately agrees with his government-controlled newspapers. For months the Soviet press has criticized the American challenger as "a money-grubbing businessman," a chess player who carries arouna with him "a disgusting spirit of gain." "Fischer's nothing more than a capitalist," one bearded player complained. "For him business come before The news media here haven't devoted much attention to the chess match, but the average Russian chess player knows Fischer is down two points and that Spassky hasn't even begun to fight. Confused at first, but willing to accept the American's desire for more money, most of the park players now attribute Fischer's latest demands to fear of defeat at the hands of the world champion. sc r-r- 3C JJ ff IB JJL 15C I I Ian-is Health HELP! Jumole Landers Sports Theaters TV HOBIJY FISCHER touched ri the Vid' Want Ads 5-14C 4 NEWS MXTIONS Mas rrrallnl for car theft..

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