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Thursday. June 29, 1972 Philadelphia Inquirer S. Vietnam People and Places Weyand Will Head U. S. Forces! In Vietnam, Succeeding Abrams Susan Agnew to Wed Sister's Best Man it: 1 Pearl Harbor.

During World War II "he worked in intelligence, serving in Burma and India, and was serving in China as', a lieutenant colonel at the end of the war. 4ft at WEYAND was a member of the task force that conducted atomic tests at Eniwetok, During the Korean war "-he' served in the 3d Division as a battalion commander. His career also took him-to. Berlin as assistant to the commander in that. hot spot from 1958 to 1960, and later to Washington, where he was the chief Army liaison officer to Congress.

-1 When the fighting in Vietnam was approaching its peak" in 1966, Weyland led then a major general led the 25th Division from Hawaii to the Vietnam battlefield. GEN. WEYAND in Abrams' shoes John Lavelle who was relieved of command April 11. Lavelle later admitted he had conducted unauthorized air raids against North Vietnam. A saxophone and guitar player who speaks German and French, Weyand was born in Arbuckle, Calif.

He was graduated from the University of California in 1939 in the Reserve Officer Training Corp. program and was called to active duty 12 months before From Our Wire Service WASHINGTON. Gen. Frederick Weyand was named Wednesday to succeed Gen. Creighton W.

Abrams as chief of all U. S. forces in Vietnam. Announcement by the White House also said Gen. John W.

Vogt would become Wey-and's deputy while remaining commander of the 7th Air Force. Weyand, 55, who was deputy to Abrams since September 1970, takes command Thursday. Abrams has been nominated by President Nixon to be Army chief of staff. IN MAKING the announcement, press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said the operations o'' the 7th Air Force would be consolidated with the U.

S. Military Assistance Command in Vietnam in the light of the "changing realities" of the war. The 7th Air Force previously operated as a separate military entity. The White House also disclosed that President Nixon is dispatching Maj. Gen.

Alexander M. Haig, No. 2 man to Henry Kissinger on the National Security Council, to South Vietnam and Cambodia today for a six-day fact-finding mission. VOGT, 52, succeeded Gen. Advances at Quang Tri SAIGON (AP).

more than 20,000 South Vietnamese marines, paratroopers and armored cavalrymen plunged into Quang Tri Province on Wednesday in their first counteroffen-sive against enemy occupation forces there. In Washington, President Nixon elevated Gen. Frederick C. Weyand to commander of U. S.

forces in Vietnam. He will succeed Gen. Creighton Abrams: Th jumpoff point was the My Chanh River defense line. The river front is 25 miles northwest of Hue and about 27 miles southeast of the Demilitarized Zone. U.

S. B-52 bombers softened up the areas by dropping about 1,350 tons of explosives. Tanks, artillery U. S. gunfire from ships offshore and American fighter-bombers supported the advancing troops.

Field, reports said the government paratroopers and accompanying armor got off to a good start along Highway 1 at dawn but ran into heavy enemy resistance in the afternoon. The marines and their supporting cavalry regiment, moving along the coastal route, reported only sporadic contact. They said they were nearing their first day's objective east of Quang Tri City by midafternoon. MARINE OFFICERS and their U. S.

advisers predicted tough fighting ahead. I 1 I a8 jt-i Ar- Weyand and his wife, two line, have a son and daughters. Truman Hospitalized Briefly Our Wire Service Another bird has flown from the Agnew nest. The Vice President and his wife on Wednesday announced the engagement of their daughter, Susan Scott Agnew, 24, to Carroll William Stein, 30. Stein, an investigator for the Maryland Department of Employment of Social Services, was best man at the marriage of Susan's elder sister, Pamela, in 1969.

Miss Agnew is corrdinator of volunteer services at Eastern Shore State Hospital in Cambridge, Md. She and Stein have known each other for eight years, a family spokesman said. Beatty Steals Show in Little Rock Presidential hcpeful Sen. George McGovern, is a crowd-pleaser of note, but he was outclassed easily at a Little Rock, political rally by movie star Warren Beatty. Beatty, with shoulder-length hair, a form-fitting, open-neck shirt, drew squeals and screams from young admirers who waited in the steaming noonday sun to hear the senator.

"The hell with McGovern," said one female reporter, "let's have a look at Warren." Another Record Established in Texas The state of Texas has always prided itself on "bigness." Now it can add big talking to its list. Mike McKool, a lame duck state senator who is known to Wednesday morning whenh started complaining about he pain. A spokesman for Research Hospital said X-Ray results were negative, and Truman returned home lated in the morn-ing. He has been hospitalized seven times since he left the White House in 1953. KANSAS CITY, Mo.

(UPI). Former President Harry Truman was hospitalized briefly complaining of a pain in his lower back, but released within an hour Wednesday, a hospital spokesman said. Truman, 88, fell at his home Tuesday afternoon, but was not taken to the hospital until AP Wirephoto NO THANKS, world chess champion Boris Spassky signals photographers at tennis court in Iceland. Russian will defend title next week against American Robert Fischer. i us mm mm -m mm i mm I his colleagues as "Little Hercules," spoke for 42 hours and 33 minutes and then sat down at his desk in the Texas Senate, ending the world's longest filibuster.

McKool, who kept up his strength by munching on oranges, lemons, energy tablets and cough drops, was seeking an amendment to add S17 million to mental health services in the fiscal 1973 budget. Former Sen. Ralph Gasque S.C.) held the previous filibuster record of 38 hours, 20 minutes. 4Mh) off My mho In Saigon, the commander of U. S.

Air Force F-4 Phantoms said that laser and television guided "smart" bombs were systematically destroying North Vietnam's war capability while holding civilian casualties to a minimum. Col. Carl Miller reported the MIG threat to the U. S. raiders was growing as North Vietnamese pilots gained battle experience but that the danger from SAM missiles was lessening north of th Demilitarized Zone.

Martha, John Talk Two Days, Mike McKool Sir Francis Chichester, 70, seems to be heading Also: back to England instead of America in the transatlantic yacht race that began 12 days ago. Chichester was in 5- fun ikki sighted by a Roysl Air Force Plane near the Azores, tie first time he has been seen since the race started 12 days ago Sep. Edward M. Kennedy in New York for a benefit tennis tournament, referred to the event as a "tounis tennis-ment." After the laughter had subsided the Senator said he had better hurry back to the capital to "rescue Martha Mitchell" Prince Charles of England will be posted to the frigate Minerva in November. He has been on service with the si Special prices at your Dutch Boy dealer from now to July 4.

Francis Chichester 6 Leave Together RYE, N. Y. (UPI). Martha and John Mitchell ducked out the back door of a posh country club Wednesday and sped away in a limousine after 48 hours of apparent conciliatory talks. Their destination was unknown.

Mrs. Mitchell, who threatened to leave her husband unless he quit his post as head of the Committee to Re-elect President Nixon, was joined at the club by the former attorney general Monday. Neither left their room until the abrupt backdoor exit Wednesday. Calling herself a "political prisoner," Mrs. Mitchell earlier had issued Mitchell an ultimatum to quit politics.

Shortly thereafter he traveled from Washington to the Westchester Country Club to discuss with her what aides said was "a personal matter." "I'm leaving him until he decides to leave the campaign," Mrs. Mitchell said Sunday. "I love my husband very much, but I'm not going to stand for all those dirty things that go on." The re-election committee had assigned a security agent to assist Mrs. Mitchell. She said Sunday the man had yanked a telephone out of her hand in her room at Newport Beach, Calif.

Thursday night when she was talking to UPI reporter Helen Thomas. She also said five guards threw her onto a bed "and stuck a needle in my behind." guided missile destroyer Norfolk. Washington Dateline 'Take the Guns Away Daley Urges Congress Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago urged Congress Wednesday to "take the guns away from every private person." Testifying at a House hearing on proposed strong handgun control legislation, Daley said lobbying efforts of the National Rifle Association were a major reason why there is not yet a "strong gun control" law. "As far as I'm concerned the only purpose of a hand gun in unauthorized hends is to kill, "Daley told a Judiciary subcommittee.

Representing the U. S. Conference of Mayors, Daley supported legislation "which would take the guns away from every private person, but in the absence of such legislation, there should be the severest penalty for the person commit-ing a crime with a gun or possessing an unregistered gun." Frozen Postal Rates Asked Sen. Gaylord Nelson Wis.) introduced legislation to freeze second-class postal rates for newspapers and magazines at their current level for the first 250,000 copies and require that additional charges for extra copies be phased in over a five-to 10-year period. He sharply criticized the U.

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John D. Lavelle before it acts on the norr.ination of Gen. Creighton W. Abrams as apply Circulation Depariment Army chief of staff, Sen. John C.

Stennis said Wednesday. Committee chairman Stennis said "very serious questions of command and control, including the supremacy of civilian authority, are raised by this case." Lavelle commanded the 7th Air Force in Vietnam. Secona Class Postage Paid at Pa Member of Ihe Associated Press. The Associated Press is entitled exclusively to the use for reproduction of all the local news printed in this newspaper as well as ap news dispatches..