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Minneapolis 6RJ Volume CVI Number 42 rflflvtlqhl 19? MmnMpmn Slur nd Tnbuna Company 15c cpy 1A 3 Sections Wednesday Julv 1972 Saigon troops press into city Associated Press XX Ik vxip jUOv, tri -Ha Associated Press Bobby Fischer, American in Iceland 10 hours before chess grandmaster, arrived the deadline that would have eliminated him from competition in the world championship match. World chess match postponed again as Spassky forces own two-day delay Staff Photo by Kent Kobersteen Saigon, South Vietnam South Vietnamese paratroopers Tuesday penetrated the southeastern city limits of Quang Tri, killed at least 20 North Vietnamese defenders and recaptured a dozen artillery pieces lost when the country's northernmost province fell to the Communists more than two months ago. Allied sources said several hundred airborne troops assaulted Communist defensive strongholds and set up their own defensive dispositions at nightfall, a half mile from the city center. The government announced two towns in the area were reoccupied. The government flag was raised at Mai Linh, a dis-trict headquarters 1.2 miles southeast of Quang Tri, but considered within the city limits.

Mai Linh and Hai Lang, six miles southeast of Quang Tri, were the first of 14 towns that fell during the three-month-old Communist offensive to be recaptured by government forces. South Vietnamese marines on the eastern flank of the a government drive were within four miles of the city. Their officers predicted they could be in Quang Tri in a day if ordered. U.S. aircraft accidentally bombed South Vietnamese marines on the northern front counteroffensive yesterday and first reports said 11 marines were killed and 25 were wounded.

The mistaken bombing was disclosed today by the U.S. Command. Officials said the accident occurred northeast of Quang Tri City. North Vietnamese troops to the rear of the advancing forces kept up pressure on the western defenses of Hue, 30 miles southeast, and shelled the former imperial capital for the third successive day. Four 122mm artillery rounds hit the city.

Military spokesmen in Saigon said three civilians were killed and seven wounded. About 1,000 more shells struck government positions on Hue's western Vietnam Continued on page 4A Flying high Tammy Thorson, left, 12, 4346 Cedar Av. Eagan Township, and Monica Meyers, 12, 4321 Diamond Eagan, celebrated the Fourth of July at a carnival in Cedar Grove Park in Eagan. Summing up the day, Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, said: "When Spassky is here Fischer doesn't come. As soon as Fischer comes, Spassky runs away." The Russians showed up in force at noon for what was to be a drawing of lots to decide who would play white, and have the first move, in the opener.

The latest delay was caused when they refused to draw with Fischer's second, a Roman Catholic priest, the Rev. William Lombardy and read a statement calling Fischer's delaying holdout intolerable. They also protested Euwe's decision to tolerate it. When Fischer failed to appear Sunday as he should have, Euwe allowed him until noon yesterday to show Tribune Wire Services Reykjavik, Iceland The world chess championships were at a stalemate Tuesday after Russian champion Boris Spassky countered moves by American challenger Bobby Fischer and forced a two-day delay. Earlier, Fischer had failed to arrive, forcing his own postponement of 48 hours.

Fischer slept through the Russian maneuvers. lie had arrived in the morning from New York and went straight to bed to rest up for the first game, set for 5 p.m. When Fischer woke up he found the title series delayed until Thursday at the earliest. It was to have begun Labor may take no stand in 72 Chess continued on page 4A New York Times Service Washington, D.C. Some officials of the AFL-CIO are warning that the labor federation may remain neutral in a presidential race between Sen.

George McGovern and President Nixon. The report of the warning came from a highly placed official at AFL-CIO headquarters here and was confirmed by other union leaders. The official said that no decision on whether to endorse McGovern has yet been made and that none is likely before Aug. 30, when a meeting of union presidents is scheduled. There was some question posed by labor officials outside AFL-CIO headquarters on whether the threat of possible neutrality is a short-term maneuver designed to prevent McGovern's nomination by next week's Democratic convention.

Another possibility raised by union leaders was that the threat is meant as a lever to win concessions from McGovern if he wins the nomination. The official at AFL-CIO headquarters said that the federation is "seriously weighing" sitting out a McGovern-Nixon race and concentrating all the money and influ- Labor continued on page 5A chess champion, held a car the Russian delegation after Federation meeting. Almanac Index Analysis Economy booms as election approaches By H. Erich lleinemaniv New York Times Service New York, N.Y. At the midpoint of the election year of 1972, a broad-based economic boom is well under way in the United States.

With few significant exceptions business investment in inventories and net exports to foreigners are the principal laggards the major indices of productive activity are pointing toward rapid and sustained economic expansion. Everyone seems agree that the performance of the economy will bt one of the most important domestic issues in the coming presidential campaign. So, with business improving rapidly, it is fair to ask how much progress President Nixon has made toward achieving his twin, and to some degree contradictory, goals of reducing unemployment and inflation. In essence, the questions economists are asking are these: Is Mr. Nixon's management of the economy "ineffective," "unfair" and "incompetent," as George Meanv, president of the AFL-CIO, has Is the nation's economic climate improving "as the favorable impact of the President's new economic program becomes more widely recognized," as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Edgar R.

Fiedler put it last week? Is the economy responding to basic market fortes pretty ninth independ' nt of Washington's con'rol program, as some private rc onomists suspect? Economy Continued on pagr 5A Democratic credentials fight continues in appeals court Wednesday July 5 1972 187th day 179 to go this year Sunrise: 5:32 am Sunset: 9:02 pm City girl found dead in creek; man sought The body of a lG-year-old Minneapolis girl, who was last seen geltting into a late-model car near Thomas Beach at Lake Calhoun Monday night, and was assumed to be going to her grandmother's in St. Paul, was found Tuesday afternoon in 16 inches of water in Minnehaha Creek. The victim was identified by the Hennepin County medical examiner's office as Joli Tr el son, Hi, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ravmond Truelson, 4851 E.

Lake Harriet Blvd. Capt. Carl Johnson of the Minneapolis Police Homicide Division said the girl "was obviously killed by blows to the back of the head, causing a skull fracture." The coroner's office plans an autopsy today. Miss Truelson, dressed in a red and olive drab pants, was found at p.m. yesterday by children playing near the i reek at Av.

about three miles from her home. Authorities said blood was found on the ground near the body. Pole are searching for a white male, about years of age, with straight brown hair, who stopped and picked up the girl at about p.m. Monday near lake Calhoun Blvd. and Vincent Av.

S. Polite said Miss Huelsoii was hitchhiking with another git I to St. Paul. The other girl waiched MUn Jruelson fjet jri the tar. Tuesday's temperatures am 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 temp 51 50 47 48 47 44 50 55 60 62 64 pm 123456789 10 temp 66 65 66 67 68 71 68 67 64 61 I 6 Associated Press Boris Spassky, right, world door for other members of they walked out of a Chess Northwest, striking pilots continue negotiations Negotiators for striking pilots and Northwest Airlines (NWA) management continue discussions Tuesday on the fifth day of the strike.

Hairy Bickl'oid of the Na-t i a I Mediation Hoard said discussions will continue for "as long as it takes to do the job." But he said he was "more optimistic" after yesterday's meeting than he had been since negotiations began. According to the pilots, the issues center around non-wage areas such as length of work days and rest periods. The strike by more than pilots has shut down almost all NWA operations. The airline had one flight yesterday to Chicago using supervisory pilots and said it will have two flights to Chicago beginning today. Discussions will begin again at 10 a m.

today, Bickford said. Today's weather Warmer Details page 7B Noon 63 Sports Theaters TV, Radio 1-5C 6, 7A 9B 372 4141 News General 372 4242 Classified 372 4 3 43 Circulation By inlay Lewis Staff Correspondent Washington, D.C. The attorney for the national Democratic Party said Tuesday that the party has a right to "self-destruct" without com I interference in the California and Chicago credentials cases. Joseph Califano appeared before a three judge panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals here yesterday to argue that the Democratic Credentials Committee should be upheld in challenges involving 151 national convention delegates from California and delegates from Chicago.

Court appeals have been initiated as a result of committee resolutions reducing South Dakota Sen. Georp- McGovern's California delegate votes from 21 to 120 and unseating Chicago delegates, in-finding Mavor Richard Dairy. Fair to partly cloudy skies are forecast today for the Twin Cities. 'I he temperature will be slightly warmer. Today's high will be 74 with a low tonight of 50, and a high hursday of 78.

Other predicted highs: Minnesota, 70s; North Dakota, mid-70s; South Dakota, 70s, and Wisconsin, tills to the 70s. Cutting up platform's 'grass' plank? A New I'lm, mother was trying to figure out how to fix her lawnmower. As she was trying to find the lever onto which to hook the speed control wire, her 8-year-old daughter happened by and asked what she was looking for. "The governor," the woman said. After a ni7led pause, the daughter asked: "How do you think he got in.

there?" might think a shrewd political decision would be to seat the Daley 50 and the McGovern 151. "But if the Democratic Party in its misguided wisdom possibly misguided wants to push the self-destruct button on issues like that, that's the First Amendment right of the Democratic Party." The cases were brought before the panel on an appeal from a district judge's order Monday upholding the committee's action in both challenges. A ruling by the Circuit Court, expected today, is likely to be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Califano contended that political conventions historically have been the judges of their own membership without judicial interference.

Credentials challenges his Credent ialt Continued on page 4A til 1 illTH mr fit Joseph A. Califano During a rare holiday session of the court, Califano alluded to the distress felt by many leading party officials over the bitterness and factionalism that has been generated as a result California and i a challenges. Califano said, "Anyone Business Comics Editorial 13A 6B 12A Telephones i.