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82nd Year No. 167 Phone 793-3221 REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JULY 13,1972 $2.00 Per Month 12 Pages 10 Cents For vice presidency SWEET IS VICTORY Mrs. George McGovern watches the balloting as Illinois vote puts her husband over the majority mark to win the Democratic party nomination for the presidency. She saw the proceedings at Convention Hall from her seat in the VIP section. Sen.

McGovern wears a broad smile on the big night of his life when the long trail to the nomination ended in success. (UPI Telephotos.) Will not compromise Frasier, Laguna Communists reject Nixon HOH, dies Vietnam peace plan PARIS Vietnamese Communists today rejected President Nixon's latest peace plan as an "unreasonable and absurd" ultimatum and said they will settle for nothing except acceptance of their own plan. North Vietnamese negotiator Xuan Thuy and Madame Nguyen Thi Binh, the Viet Cong foreign minister, turned down Nixon's plan and pushed their own, long-rejected peace package, when the Vietnam Conference resumed after a 10 week suspension. The meeting lasted three hours and 45 minutes. Negotiators said they had agreed to meet again next week.

The Communist delegations' stand, coupled with a violent condemnation of U.S. air strikes in Vietnam, failed to move the conference off dead center as had been hoped in Washington. Taking an unusually harsh tone, Madame Binh charged that President Nixon's eight- point plan proposed Jan.23 and calling for new presidential elections in South Vietnam, was aimed merely at maintaining U.S. control of the country. "The demand for an immediate ceasefire Communists shell Hue to come before an accord on military and political questions on conditions put forward by Mr.

Nixon on May 8 and June 29 is in fact nothing but an unreasonable and absurd ultimatum," she said. She said the ceasefire called for again today by U. S. negotiator William J. Porter and Saigon's Pham Dang Lam "does not aim at ending the war, but simply at legalizing the Nguyen Van Thieu administration and the American military presence, while depriving the South Vietnamese people of the legitimate right to self-defense," Madame Binh said.

Earlier, the Saigon delegation bluntly told the Communists it will never accept their plans for South Vietnam's political future. Today's 150th session was the first since May 4 when Nixon broke off the talks because the Communists showed no willingness to negotiate in public or in private. The United States agreed to return to the conference table today, the President announced June 29, because there were indications the Communists would adopt a more flexible attitude. Recapture of Quang Tri may take five more days SAIGON (UPD-Hundreds of South Vietnamese paratroopers pushed into the southern part of Communist- held Quang Tri city today, but on the opposite side of town an 800-man government marine force was surrounded by North Vietnamese and cut off from aid. The paratroopers, who were driven out of the city twice by the Communists, reportedly met no resistance in the new advance.

However, an American adviser cautioned that the recapture of the city was "at least four to five days away." Farther to the south. Communist gunners shelled the old imperial capital of Hue, killing two civilians and wounding seven. One Vietnamese was killed and four Americans were wounded in a Communist rocket attack on an airbase at Seven killed, Belfast violence continues BELFAST (UPD-Seven persons, including a retarded 15-year-old Catholic boy shot in his bed, died in continuing violence Wednesday and today in one of the bloodiest 24-hour periods since a two-week cease- fire ended Sunday. The deaths boosted the fatality toll in almost three years of violence in Northern Ireland to 428. British officials studied a new truce offer from the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

Seamus Twomey, chief of the IRA's Provisional wing in Belfast, said Wednesday the Provisionals would be willing to negotiate a new cease-fire with William Whitelaw, secretary of state for Northern Ireland, providing British forces promise to honor the truce. "He would have to give us strong guarantees, witnessed by neutral observers, that he would be prepared to honor his word," Twomey told a news conference in the Catholic Andersonstown district. "The British Government would have to give their word of honor." Twomey said Whitelaw was a "blatant liar" in saying the Provisionals broke the truce in an outbreak of shooting between them and British forces Sunday in a Belfast housing estate. Twomey said the troops fired first. British officials said Whitelaw was studying the truce offer "with caution." In the capital's Catholic Old Park Road district, four gunmen burst into the home of Sally McLenaghan, a Catholic widow, shot her in the leg and arm, then shot her son David as he lay in bed sleeping.

Da Nang, 50 miles south of Hue. Two other Americans were wounded in a rocket attack on the provincial capital of Bao Trai, 20 miles northwest of Saigon. A South Vietnamese force moved into Quang Tri 16 days ago to try to recapture the only province ever taken by the Communists. It fell on May 1, one month after the start of the current offensive. Despite the paratrooper advance into Quang Tri city, some military sources said the recapture of the city was not imminent.

"We are at least four "to five days away from control of Quang Tri city and possibly that is too optimistic," one American adviser said. On the northern edge of the city an 800-man South Vietnamese marine force that was helicoptered to its position Tuesday was surrounded by North Vietnamese soldiers. American helicopter pilots said they have been trying to fly supplies, and evacuate wounded marines for 24 hours but each time they are driven back by heavy Communist fire. Three American helicopters were snot down in the original landing operation. The paratroopers first entered Quang Tri city early this month and were driven out.

They pushed back into the town again Tuesday and again were driven back. They made their third attempt after a day-long bombardment. LAGUNA HILLS. Calif. the sensuous lion, died early today at Lion Country Safari after a long and full life.

"Frasier died in the early hours of the morning," an official announcement said. "It was a peaceful and painless death." Frasier had gained nationwide attention in the past year by taking over a pride of young lionesses and siring 33 cubs in a 16 month period although he himself was between 17 and 20 years old the equivalent of 85-100 in a human being. Veterinarians had disclosed earlier this week that Frasier was ill and diagnosed it as a kidney malfunction. They had been giving him five vitamin shots a day to keep up his strength. The old lion had been brought from the strains imposed by his harem of adoring but insatiable lionesses had been under constant observation, a Lion Country Safari spokesman said Weather Temperatures today to 1 p.m.

Redlands: High 100. low62 Yucaipa: High 98. low68 Year ago today Redlands: High Yucaipa: High 99, low 68 Wednesday Redlands: High 103, low 60 Yucaipa: High 100, low64 Smog: Moderate to heavy Friday. Smog Phone: 792-5656. Wednesday Ox CO N02 Redlands .24 10 .12 Over .10, 10 Peak 2:30 p.m.

San Bernardino .29 12 .16 Riverside 9 .07 Sun: Rises 5:47, sets 8:02 San Bernardino Valley: Hazy sunshine Friday. Continued quite warm. Southern California: Low clouds and fog along coastal plain night and morning hours. Some afternoon clouds and chance of isolated thundershowers around mountains south portion. Otherwise fair with little temperature change.

NATIONAL WEATHER Temperatures precipitation lor the 14 hour period ending at 4 a.m. High Low Pep 94 71 89 49 .33 Boston Chicago Cincinnati Dallas Denver DesMoines Fairbanks Helena Honolulu Las Vegas Los Angeles Milwaukee Minneapolis New York Oklahoma City Omaha Palm Springs Salt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington 91 94 88 84 84 85 88 110 88 87 80 90 87 84 117 94 74 43 79 .15 .43 .53 .44 1.30 .54 1.94 Sen. Eagleton, McGovern's choice MIAMI BEACH (UPI) George S-. McGovern today picked Sen. Thomas F.

Eagleton of Missouri. 42, as his running mate to carry the Democratic party's fight against President Nixon in the November election. The border state liberal, in his first term in the Senate backed Sen. Edmund S. Muskie for the presidency.

He is a former lieutenant governor of Missouri and a Harvard law graduate. Eagleton's selection set the stage for a ctamatic finale to the convention, with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy flying to Miami Beach to personally raise McGovern's hand in victory. The last surviving Kennedy brother a few hours earlier told McGovem he could not accept the No.

2 spot for personal reasons, and would stay away from the convention until McGovern made his choice. Sen. Abraham A. Ribicoff of Connecticut, whose stirring words put McGovern's name in nomination Wednesday night, also disclaimed interest in the vice presidency this morning. He has no ambitions beyond the Senate, Ribicoff said, and "I don't want to be No.

2 man to anyone." Rep. Wilbur D. Mills of Arkansas, often described as the top power broker in Congress, waited for a telephone call from McGovern that never came. His aides were expectant, believing McGovern wanted a running mate with Mills' ties to party regulars and the South. While advisers haggled over who they thought the No.

2 man should be, McGovem worked on a plan to take his appeal for campaign funds to the American people. He plans a direct mail effort designed to raise $25 million outside regular perhaps foreclosed channels. Some of the men McGovern bested for the nomination, including Sen. Henry M. Jackson of Washington and Gov.

George C. Wallace of Alabama, remained unreconciled. But Wallace at least reported backing away from the third party effort his aides had earlier called a growing possibility. While the McGovern camp tried to consolidate its victory. President Nixon's operatives were already in Miami Beach attempting to cash in on anti-McGovern discontent.

Interior Secretary Rogers C. E. Morton member of the Nixon re-election committee said there was a "fertile field" of dissatisfaction which the GOP could work. SEN. THOMAS F.

EAGLETON A prime tactic Nixon will use against McGovern in the election, Morton said, was to try to disprove McGovern "has a (Continued on page 2) Fischer Plane stranded at tiny airport forfeits Air pirates hold three stewardesses hostage chess game REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) Fischer forfeited the second game of his world championship chess match with Russian Boris Spassky today. Fischer failed to show up for the game and an aide said he was asleep. The forfeit give Spassky a 2-0 lead in the match. He needs only 12 points to retain his title while Fischer needs 12 1-2 to win. The next scheduled game is Sunday.

Spassky arrived about two minutes before the scheduled starting time and walked slowly around the stage with referee Lothar Schmid, waiting for Fischer. The audience sat silently in the hall watching the empty stage and Fischer's black swivel chair which he had flown in from New York for the match. Fischer boycotted today's game in protest against the use of closed circuit television to give spectators a better view of the play. Organizers said earlier they would remove one of the cameras if Fischer would play. Fischer held up the first game for 35 minutes Wednesday because he objected to its being filmed on closed circuit television.

McGovern to be briefed by Kissinger SAN CLEMENTE (UPI) President Nixon today instructed his national security adviser, Henry A. Kissinger, to arrange complete intelligence briefings for Democratic presidential nominee George S. McGovern. White House press spokesman Ronald Ziegler said Kissinger would meet with McGovern after the presidential party returns to Washington next week to "bring him abreast of the negotiations we have underway and arrange for a process of continuing intelligence briefings." He indicated that after the initial meeting with Kissinger, CIA Director Richard Helms probably would take over the briefing responsibility. Ziegler said the President had ordered that his rival for the presidency "be kept fully abreast" of all foreign policy and defense developments.

By United Press International Two black hijackers armed with guns and believed carrying a bomb held three stewardesses hostage today aboard a National Airlines jet trapped in a tiny Texas airport. FBI snipers and sheriffs deputies with high-powered rifles surrounded the aircraft but the men refused to surrender. In another hijacking, a grayhaired Oklahoma man calmly surrendered early Thursday to a stewardess aboard an American Airlines jet over Oklahoma City after holduig seven crew members hostage and collecting a $200,000 ransom. In Freeport, authorities said the National jet could not possibly take off because of four flat tires sustained on landing and because of the size of the commuter airport 50 miles south of Houston. The hijackers, who referred to each other as "Number One" and "Number Two," ignored pleas to surrender but said they would leave behind the $600,000 ransom paid earlier by National if authorities met their new demands for another, smaller plane and a pilot dressed only in a bathing suit so he could not conceal a weapon.

Authorities negotiated with the men via bullhorns as the federal snipers stood on both sides of the small runway as a steady rain fell. After the plane landed, three other crew members held hostage made it to freedom, two of them injured. A stewardess was released to relay the air pirates' latest demands to the FBI. The flight engineer, shot and wounded during an escape attempt, was allowed to be taken away on a stretcher, and the copilot leaped out a door after being pistol whipped by the hijackers. He suffered a fractured pelvis and other injuries in the fall.

About the same time, a gray-haired man surrendered after he succeeded in obtaining a $200,000 ransom from American Airlines in Oklahoma City following the hijacking of an American 727. In the National hijacking, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said the pilot of the first National craft the two black 'men hijacked while during a flight over New York jumped through a window to escape while the craft was on the ground in Phildelphia. The two men then transferred to another plane with six crew members as hostages. The 113 passengers of the original craft were set free. Two armed men, demanding three parachutes and $600,000, some of it in Mexican pesos, diverted the plane to Philadelphia where it landed while officials, scurried about in an attempt to procure the money.

Less than two hours later, a man identified as Melvin Marvin Fisher, 49, of Norman, commandeered an American Airlines 727 shortly after takeoff from Oklahoma City enroute to Dallas, federal agents said. The man, who demanded $550,000 and parachutes, ordered the plane with its 50 passengers and crew of seven, to circle the Dallas-Forth Worth area but eventually permitted it to land at Oklahoma City. The passengers on the plane in Oklahoma City were released by the lone hijacker. For reasons not immediately known, however, he surrendered in midair. The pistol he was carrying was found to be empty.

In Philadelphia FBI agents refused to turn the money over to the air pirates until the passengers were released. The National Airlines flight with a crew of six was on its way from Miami to New York City when the hijackers ordered it back to Philadelphia from where it had taken off less than an hour earlier. "Bring a car with parachutes and the money in it to within 50 yards of the plane on the right side and then wait until we call again," the hijackers said in a message to the Philadelphia control tower. After the plane landed within 100 yards of the main terminal the air pirates transmitted a warning "Get us another 727 immediately or something will happen." National Airlines sent two 727s from Miami one of them carrying the $600,000 in ransom. Soviet ambassador visits Nixon SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.

Nixon engaged in a bit of psychological warfare with Hanoi Wednesday by holding a warm and friendly chat with the Soviet ambassador on the eve of the renewal of the Paris peace talks. Presidential spokesman Ronald Ziegler said it was "only coincidental" that the meeting was held the day before the Vietnam talks resume. But he did confirm that Vietnam was among the subjects discussed in Nixon's hour-and-a-half session with Anatoly Dobrynin and the White House took the unusual step of inviting photographers in to record the event. Highest, lowest 4( states Palm Springs. 117; Salt Lake City 52.

CUMBATKEE, This focus on the warm relations between the United States and Hanoi's chief military supplier appeared to be an effort to add some pressure on the North Vietnamese delegation to take a more flexible stand in the negotiations. Ziegler said Ambassador and Mrs. Dobrynin had come west to inspect a recently opened Soviet consulate in San Francisco and had been invited to visit the Western White House by presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger. He said the talks involved "a general review of U.S.-U.S.S.R.

relations" following Nixon's Moscow summit in May and that Vietnam had come up "in the course of overall discussion of world affairs." He said the ambassador's visit was not for the purpose of "talking about any one thing." Kissinger met Dobrynin in Los Angeles and gave him a taste of the Hollywood life by hosting a party in his honor at a Beverly Hills restaurant and leading him on a tour of movie and television studios, including a wisecracking encounter with a comedy writers conference. The President and Mrs. Nixon gave the ambassador and his wife a personal tour of the grounds of their residence before the talks began..