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16C Minneapolis Tribune July 8,1972 South Vietnamese soldiers hattle to reaain Ouana Tri togne was seen as indicative of a North Vietnamese plan to open an attack on the gateway of Hue. Moreover, there are indications of a sizable Communist buildup in the A Shau Valley staging area 30 miles to the southwest. And the North Vietnamese 304th and 308th Divisions are reported to have moved west of Quang Tri, rather than fight for it. jungle-covered mountains. It has been bombarded daily since then.

The South Vietnamese retook Checkmate Tuesday. More fighting in the area was reported yesterday as the shelling of Hue continued for a sixth straight day. Determination to control the strategic outpost on a promontory overlooking Fire Base Bas- has been to make the units in the field seek out and destroy the Communists rather than race for Quang Tri, leaving Communist 'strongholds behind them. A week ago, the North Viet a took Checkmate, an outpost overlooking the most likely access route to Hue. Two days later they began shelling the city with long-range artillery concealed in the wjrah WtM'-- Hanoi aide says stand unchanged Staff Photo by Mike Zerby Members of the Minnesota Experimental City Authority clustered around Howard Peterson of the Westminn or- State group tours ganization Friday as he held inspecting near Glenwood.

sites for a map of the area they were new city China says U.S. must end all aid to Thieu New York Times Service From A France Presse Peking, China Chinese Foreign Minister Chi Peng Fei said Friday that, there could be no possible solution to the Vietnam War without a total withdrawal of U.S. troops and a complete end to sunport for the regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu. The foreign minister said China will continue to support right to the end the resistance ofthelndo-chinese peoples. It was the first official Chinese comment on Vietnam since President Nixon's special envoy, Henry Kissinger, visited Peking late last month.

The Chinese foreign minister spoke at a banquet in honor of visiting French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann. ment phase which ended in 1969. Private funds have been contributed for the second phase, in which various plans will be developed for making the city a reality. One member of the authority, Todd Lefko, said the purpose of the visit, was to get the feeling for the lay of the land and to examine the sites' potential for recreation, accessibility, water resources and other factors. One stop on the morning tour near Alexandria was on a piece of high ground called Inspiration Point.

The panoramic view of farms, lakes and sky prompted O'Brien to compared the sight with a similar view in Yosemite gies. The authority, established bv the 1971 Minnesota Legislature, toured two of i candidate locations yesterday. By November the authority hopes to select one and then approach the Legislature for funds to begin acquiring up to 50,000 acres. Yesterday's five-hour tour included one site northwest of Alexandria and another southeast of Glenwood, both in west-central Minnesota, about 130 miles north west of the Twin Cities. The Experimental City was proposed in 1966 and has been under study at the University of Minnesota since 1967.

Government and private funds supported the first phase the concept-develop News In the Twin Cities Margaret Morris Associated South Vietnamese troops battled for Quang Tri on Friday but fears rose that they might be outflanked by Communist attacks toward I lue, the old imperial capital 32 miles to the southeast. The North Vietnamese seized Checkmate, an outpost 12 miles southwest of Hue, and pounded nearby Fire Base Rastogne with 400 artillery shells. One informant said this could be construed "as the beginning of a major offensive against Hue." In other action, the U.S. Command announced Saturday that two American soldiers and six South Vietnamese were killed and eight Americans and six Vietnamese were wounded in two unrelated mistaken bombardments Friday. Both incidents are under investigation.

The two Americans killed and eight wounded were on a security patrol about nine miles west of Da Nang when a U.S. artillery battery accidentally fired into their position while providing defensive fire support, the command said. The victims were from the lone remaining battalion of the 196th Brigade, which was left here for security duty after the brigade was deactivated. Soncerning possible attacks on Hue, the Saigon command announced that its forces had seized most of the wrecked city of Quang Tri, but field reports and knowledgable military informants in the North denied this. Lt.

Col. Do Viet, a top spoksman for the South Vietnamese command, claimed at a press briefing in Saigon that a paratrooper task force spearheaded by tanks had forged into the heart of Quang Tri and seized con-t I of two-thirds of the norther nmost provincial capital. A correspondent reported from the front, however, that the paratroopers and supporting armor were still battling entrenched Communist forces on the southern edge of the city. A senior military informant said after Viet's announcement that no government units of significant size were inside the city. He left open the possibility that reconnaissance teams might be there scouting the area or calling in air strikes on Communist, positions.

Reporting the activities of such teams is not permitted. "We hope Quang Tri will fall almost momentarily," the informant, said. But he added that lead elements of the airborne and marine task force closing on the city were advancing slowly and meeting tough resistance. "We have not yet captured Quang Tri," he continued. "Rut.

it is inevitable that it will fall. We are mopping up, moving with caution, and wc are aware of the threat of the western flank." One of the biggest problems, the informant, said, "fftrwhT.llfl rinJh-iltiirf TWifTlTH Staff Photo by Donald Black I I i St. Paul to oppose power-pool agreement The St. Paul City Council voted unanimoiish' to oppose an electrical power-pooling agreement in which the Council claims Northern States Power Co. (NSP) could gain excessive control.

The Council voted to ask the Federal Power Commission (FPC) for permission to intervene in opposition to thp Mid-Continent Area Power Pool agreement. Agreement members include NSP and 30 other power firms in several midwestern states, including Minnesota. Under the agreement, member firms will provide for pooling, inter-connections and interchange of electrical service. The Council said the agreement, which is subject to FPC approval, would lead to curtailment of competition among local electrical utilities and would give NSP, the largest of the 30 firms, absolute voting control over two important committees within the power-pool agreement. 2 state men die in small-plane crash Two men from Thief River Falls, were killed when their small aircraft crashed about 5 miles south of Thief River Falls.

The victims were Gary Forsberg, a pilot for United Airlines in Chicago believed to be at the controls of the plane, and Harold J. Pluth. The plane was a World War II trainer purchased from the Air Force. Composer wins award Lee Hoiby, composer of "Summer and Smoke," the opera based on a Tennessee Williams play, won the $1,000 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) award. The opera is being presented on the summer schedule of the St.

Paul Opera Association at I. A. O'Shaughnessy Auditorium. break the impasse. "We proposed the meeting," Le said, "the 150th meeting of the Paris talks, because we are for a negotiated solution.

It is the best way. "But President Nixon hasn't changed his position. On the contrary, he increases acts of war. Since September 1971 he has not ceased to sabotage the conference and escalate the war. It shows his very bad faith." Lee conceded that Hanoi had abandoned its earlier condition that the bombing of the North end before talks could be held.

But he indicated that any progress in the talks depended entirely on the American side now. Cour1 exempts North Star Institute from building taxes Associated Press The Minnesota Supreme Court held in a 4 to 2 decision Friday that North Star Research and Development Institute does not have to pay real estate taxes on a building it leases from the Minneapolis Board of Education. North Star was formed in 1063 as a nonprofit corporation to provide research on a cost-plus basis to both governments and commercial firms. The rourt majority said North Star's status as a non-profit, firm makes it exempt from property taxes. The case involved $5,856 due in 1065.

The majority derision was written by Judge Fallon Kelly. In a strong dissent, Judge William P. Murphy said the rourt had granted "an unwarranted tax exemption to an agency engaged in a commercial enterprise." Judge Murphy, who has retired since the case was heard, was joined in the dissent by Chief Judge Oscar R. Knutson. Judge Murphy argued that only an agenry meeting the definition of a "purely public charity" can escape taxation.

are brought to the park New York Times Service Paris, Franc Nguyen Than Le, spokesman for North Vietnam's delegation to the peace talks, said Friday that President Nixon "still seeks a military victory" and is "not going to negotiate." In an interview, the spokesman made it clear that there has been no change in Hanoi's position since the unproductive secret meeting May 2 between Mr. Nixon's adviser, Henry A. Kissinger, and Le Due Tho, a North Vietnamese Politburo member and special emissary to the talks. That meeting, he said, was the only private session between the two sides this year. He gave no suggestion that the resumption of formal talks scheduled here next.

Thuisc-ay might in brief childron, aged to 16 yean, every morning lr recreation. National Park, In the afternoon, the delegation was told that a man-made lake with 58 islands will be formed near Glenwood by damming a creek. The authority was invited on yesterday's tour by officials of Westminn, a rural conservation association that would like to see the experimental city built at one of the two sites. The remaining four sites are in the north, central, southeast and southwest areas of Minnesota. Planners elsewhere in the country are apprently considering similar ventures, but Otto Silha, a member of the authority, said Min-n a is about three years ahead of those projects.

IRA frees 2 captains; tension rises again Associated Press Londonderry, Northern Ireland Two British army captains, held for 18 hours by Irish Republican Army (IRA) guerrillas in a Londonderry "no-go" enclave, were released Friday night with a warning that they had jeopardized the province's fragile cease-fire. The men, captured after threading a path into the a estate, walked unharmed into a city police precinct office as tension soared anew in Northern Ireland. A statement read to reporters by their captors, members of the IRA's mil-itant Provisional wing, said: "It. was pointed out to these members of the British army that by their actions, they were placing the bilateral cease-fire in jeopardy and after careful consideration of the facts, they were released." The army named the officers, both members of an infantry regiment, as Capts. R.

Millard and J. C. Cornwell. The IRA said they were picked up by a guerrilla foot patrol inside the Crcggan area a Republican enclave of Londonderry at 2:15 a.m. Roth men were in civilian clothes and were unarmed.

They were missed by the army after leaving their car at a military post on the fringe of the Creggan estate. The IRA statement stressed that the guerrillas, who 10 days ago agreed to a cease-fire with British troops, had stuck to the letter of their agreement. The statement added: "We have on humanitarian ground released these iwo men and we expect a reciprocal reply to our By Dan Vasco2 Jr. Staff Writer '1 The Minnesota i-mental City Authority drove through thousands of acres of rolling farmland Friday near Alexandria and Glenwood and tried to imagine how a new city of 250,000 residents might look there. Chairman Gene O'Brien said that while standing on one scenic overlook yesterday, he heard one member ask, "Why spoil this with people?" That spur of the moment remark, however, does not represent the intention of the authority.

The 10-member body hopes to build a new self-sufficient city that would test the latest application of communications, transportation and other tcchnolo- Bargain reportedly established chess start United Press International Reykjavik, Iceland In return for Bobby Fischer's agreement to postpone the start of the world championship chess match until Tuesday, Boris Spassky pave up'his demand that Fischer forfeit the first game, American informants reported Friday. The compromise was worked out in a backstage room of Reykjavik's main sports hall Thursday night a few minutes before Fischer, the American champion, and Spassky, the Soviet grandmaster and defending world champion, appeared on stage to draw lots for the first move, the informants said. The 24-game match originally was scheduled to begin last Sunday, but was delayed by Fischer's failure to show up and Spaas-ky's demands that Fischer be punished, by forfeiting the first game. Fred Cramer, a vice-president of the U.S. Chess Federation, said, "One of our conditions to play the match at all was that the Russians give up their demand for the first, match point." Cramer said minor obstacles might still crop up before the first game, "but nothing serious enough to endanger the start of the match." With Cramer's announcement, interest switched to the match itself, whic is hailed as potentially the greatest in the history of the game.

Spassky won the draw Thursday night and will play the white pieces, which means he will make the first 'move of the match. However, most experts consider Fischer the favorite. 'Slots' outlawed In Australia slot machines, are banned in all states except New Sotth Wales. 1 In the Upper Midwest Mr. and Mrs.

John Dietrich and the Patrick Reesesare the chairmen for the St. Martin-by-the-Lake Church Country Fair next Saturday at the Charles Sweatt Sr. home in Wayzata. They are planning some new events. The schedule, from 10:30 a.m.

to 6 p.m., will include a tour of Mrs. Sweatt's gardens, pony rides, booths and continuous entertainment by a country western group from Buffalo, a barbershop quartet, Rhys Evans at the piano, strolling minstrels and two jazz trios. Women of the church are baking cakes for an old-fashioned cake walk. The main bill of fare will feature steer roasted on an outdoor spit and corn on the cob. A midway of games will be set up near the parking area.

Happy Birthday Thomas L. Daniels was born on July 4th, but this year the St. Paul grain man celebrated his 80th birthday with 160 friends on July 2 at his home. Guests who wandered out to the patio heard a barbershop quartet, alternating with a guitarist. Daniels, a Yale man who sang with Cole Porter's Wiffenpoofs joined the quartet for a few bars.

Son David flew back from New York for the party. He was in St. Paul earlier this summer to direct the Chimera Theater in "Where's Charley," which has its last performance tonight. There were old friends such as Mrs. John Dalrymple, Mrs.

John Ordway the Charles Bells, Mr. and Mrs. De Walt Ankeny, Mrs. William Lang, Mrs. John S.

Pills-bury Sr. and son, George, and his wife, Sally. Also there were Stan Donnelly and wife, Mamie, Jule and Barbara Hannaford, Bruce Dayton, the Walter Robinsons and Charles Thomas. On Tuesday, Mrs. Daniels held a smaller birthday party with family members.

She decorated the birthday cake with plastic horses to go with their newest hobby. She gave her husband a race horse last Christmas. Boss of Year Dr. Byron H. Roberts, chief anesthesiologist for Fairview Hospitals, was chosen as "1972 Boss of the Year" by the Minneapolis charter chapter of the American Business Women's Association.

He was honored at the chapter's annual Boss Night dinner at Michael's. Dr. Roberts also is a member of the Zuhrah Shrine horse patrol. State couple convicted in death of son A St. Louis County District.

Court jury convicted a couple from International Falls, of manslaughter in the beating death of their 9-month-old son. The jury found Therese Proszek, 22, guilty of first-degree manslaughter. Her husband, Lawrence, 26, was convicted of second-degree manslaughter. Their son died Jan. I.

fill WO (N Jllfe 'f Co Vi wt i' love putting up a bird feeder in the garden. mm Enjoying a summer stroll Park officer Bob Larson took a stroll Thursday in Loring Park with a group of mentally retarded children. The.