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THE ASHEVILLE CITIZEN WEATHER Variable cloudiness, chance of showers. Map, data, Page II. sara Dedicated to the Upbuilding of Western North Carolina Asheville, N. C. 28802, Monday, July 3, 1972 103rd Year No.

185 10c Daily AP, AP Wirephoto 26 Pages "tt Passenger Shoots, HAffiNws is 1 '72 Harvest? Nixon's Still Cultivating Seeds Of New Federalism iATCHES, Kills Young Asian In Hijack Attempt 11 p. rolled away and ordered the passenger with the gun to "kill the son of a bitch." The passenger, identified as a former Richmond, policeman traveling to a job with a U.S. firm in Saigon, fired five shots into the hijacker from a .357 magnum pistol. His name was not given out in Saigon. All passengers and crow, numbering about 150, slid down inflated plastic emergency chutes to safety.

Some received minor bruises and scratches and one passenger, U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Louis Scig, Colorado Springs, broke his leg leaving Hie plane. The crew said in Saigon that the plane carried 136 passengers and 17 crewmen.

Vaughn gave this account: About 45 minutes after Pan Am Flight 841 from San Francisco, Honolulu and Guam took off from Manila for Saigon, the young parsed nolca to the crew cabin threatening to detonate a bomb unless the plane was diverted to Hanoi, the capi- Turn To Page 12 0 0-TV II C3 i- Ct 1 la 0 rj many approached his concept with applause for the design. The House displayed the most interest in Nixon's ideas. But trouble developed in the Senate. For instance, over conservative opposition, the House in April 1970 passed welfare revisions in a family assistance bill. The measure died in the Senate adjournment pile-up.

Then H. R. officially the first House bill introduced when tlje new Congress met in 1971, contained essentially the same welfare reform concepts with some revised details. The House passed it in June 1971. A year later, the Senate Finance Committee, with its own version, scrapped key features of the House-passed bill and agreed on a sharply different approach.

The arguments not so much about the need for refom, since most agreed the system isn't working. The controversy centered o-n how the system should be reformed. Nixon's plugs in early days of New Federalism formation were for abolishing what he called "the discredited aid to families with dependent children program" and for launching "in its place a new system that for the first time would insure a minimum income for every family with dependent children." Nixon said it would "provide a coordinated structure of work requirements, work incentives, and training designed to move people off the Turn To Page 12 SAIGON (AP) A young Asian tried to hijack a Pan American Airways 747 jumbo-jet to Hanoi on Sunday, but the aircraft landed instead in Saigon where the pilot and two passengers clasped him in a strangle hold and an armed passenger pumped five bullets into his chest. The pilot then heaved I lie dead hijacker to the concrete taxiway at Tan Son Nhut Airport. The hijacker had claimed he was North Vietnamese.

A Pan American spokesman in Hong Kong said, "As far as we can tell now, the hijacker's name is believed to be Nguyen Thai Binh, but no passport or ticket for him has yet been found. It is believed he boarded the plane at Honolulu." The man carried a package he claimed was a bomb in one hand and a long knife in the other. He said he intended to blow up the aircraft after it reached Hanoi in a "revenge act" for the U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, the pilot said. After landing at Saigon on a pretext of refueling, the pilot, Capt.

Gene Vaughn, 53, and two passengers got the air pirate off guard, knocked the "bomb" from his hand and wrestled him to the floor. During the struggle, Vaughn McGovern Seeks Widened Support I ti va Best Of Summer Summer is baseball, the beach, This man, obviously wise to the bet-cookouts, a vacation, painting the ter things in life, found an unusual house, mowing the grass, a cold beer spot for his nap, under the train stop on a hot afternoon. if you're in Wilson, N. C. The best things in not missing the best of.

it all, a short life do seem quite simple. (AP Wire-snooze in the drowsy evening shade, photo) Outskirts Of Quang 1 ri By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS George McGovern acted Sunday to widen his support among Democratic regulars by confirming his choice of Lawrence O'Brien to remain as head of the Democratic National Committee. And he announced he'll seek a fence-mending session this week with AFL-CIO president George Meany. But the South Dakota senator and leading contender for the Close to 70 artillery rounds and rockets, all believed to be 122mm, struck the city sporadically from early morning until after dark, most of these within the Citadel, the 1 'i mile-square walled city that once was the seat of Vietnam's emperors and now serves as I he command center for government forces in the northern region. Associated Press correspondent Dennis Necld reported that many of the shells hit residential areas for military dependents and said civilians were moving elsewhere in Hue for Turn To Page 13 The Inside Viets SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese paratroopers battled enemy troops near the outskirts of Quang Tri on Sunday and other clashes broke out along the western flank of the northern counteroffensive.

Thirty miles to the south, the enemy sent scores of heavy rocket artillery rounds crashing into Hue and defense posts on its southern and western perimeter. However, the shellings were not followed up by any attempt to take the old imperial capital. Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported from the far north that para Push To troopers spearheading the five-day-old counteroffensive were in contact all day within three miles of the enemy-held Quang Tri, capital of the province of the same name. Along the lengthening west-em flank of the counter-offensive, 150 enemy soldiers were reported killed in several battles near the foothills three to five miles west of Highway One. South Vietnamese losses were put at 9 men killed and 25 wounded.

Vietnamese marines on the eastern sector of the front reported killing 37 North Vietnamese while losing one man WASHINGTON (AP) Nearly three years after President Nixon planted seeds of his New Federalism, he's still waiting for the harvest from Capitol Hill. Depending on willingness of Democratic hands, he may get revenue sharing and welfare reform two prize crops in an election year. But most uf his 16-month-old bid to reshape the executive branch is dying on the vine. "After a third of a century of power flowing from the people and the states to Washington," Nixon told the nation on Aug. 8, 1969, "it is time for a New Federalism in which power, funds and responsibility will flow from Washington to the states and to the people." With this first formal reference to his New concept of more power for the people, Nixon urged welfare reform! and a start on sharing federal tax revenues with the states.

Nixon expanded on his plans when he told the nation's governors on Sept. 1, 1969, his strategy involved reforming the government's structure by "pruning out those programs that have failed or that have outlived their time." In March 1971 came Nixon's plan to revamp the executive branch as "a natural complement to my proposals for revenue sharing." In Congress, meanwhile, SHP Trooper rv nil uies in rout During chase COLUMBUS A State Highway Patrolman giving chase to a speeding car was killed late Sunday night when his patrol car went out of control on' Old Highway 19, and struck a tree. Capt. L. J.

Lance, commanding officer of Troop with headquarters in Asheville, said Clyde Stephen Perry, 28, a five-year veteran of the Patrol, was pronounced dead on arrival at St. Luke's Hospital in Tryon shortly after the accident. Perry was originally from Zionville in Watauga County, Capt. Lance said, and had been transferred from Gaston County to Polk County about two months ago. Capt.

Lance said arrests have been made in the case, but the suspects were not immediately identified. The captain said Perry began chasing a car northeast on N. C. 108 shortly after 10 p. m.

just outside Columbus, and the cars turned up a rural road about two miles from Columbus. The trooper lost control of his patrol car just after the turn, and the auto went off the left side of the road, down a bank and hit a tree, Capt. Lance said. He was using both his seat belt and shoulder straps, the captain said. Further details were unavailable late Sunday night, as the investigation continued.

BORIS SPASSKY The latest action left government troops in command of a 12-mile broad front running southwest from the South China Sea at a point about eight miles above the former defense line at the My Chanh River. Thirty miles to the south, the first shelling of Hue in the more than three months of the enemy offensive was reported to have killed at least 11 persons and wounded 38. The Saigon command had no breakdown, but sources at Hue said at least seven of the dead and 15 of the wounded were killed and 6 wounded in a fight 6 miles east of Quang Tri on the "Street without Joy." The latest reports brought claimed casualties in the South Vietnamese drive to nearly 700 enemy killed and 50 Saigon troops killed and 180 wounded. Saigon spokesman said 46 enemy were slain in clashes around the front on Saturday at a cost of one South Vietnamese soldier wounded. Vietnamese marines also reported uncovering a 16-to-20-ton ammuniton cache on the eastern wing of the front on Killings Strain Cease Fire In Ireland On hi Tries sm.n Riifks Rpstaurant and Bucks Mo Democratic presidential nomination wouid not close the door on the possibility he will refuse to support the nominee if he is someone other than himself.

What McGovern did do in an interview on ABC's "Issues and Answers" and an impromptu news conference afterwards was repeatedly predict the convention in Miami Beach next week will be run according to the party's reform rules. He said again lie expects to win back the 151 California delegates that he lost in a Credentials Committee action last week and go on to win the nomination. Later Sunday, Stephen Reinhardt, Democratic national committeeman from California, announced that several members of that state's convention delegation are fifing suit in Washington against the Credentials Committee in an attempt to win back for McGovern the 151 delegates. Reinhardt said a hearing be- fore U.S. District Judge George L.

Hart is set for Monday morning. McGovern has termed the committee's action "an incredible, cynical, rotten political steal." He said at the time that Turn To Page 13 Cloudiness, Rain Likely The weather Monday and Tuesday is likely to be a repeat of Sunday's, according to the National Weather Service. The forecast is for variable cloudiness, with a chance of af ternoon or evening thunder-showers, with a high in the middle 80s and night lows near 60. The probability of precipitation Monday and Monday night is 60 per cent, according to the forecast. BOBBY FISCHER tel on Tunnel Road have been sold by J.

O. (Buck.i Buchanan to Fred M. Walker Inc. for a figure in excess of $900,000, according to deed transfers. Page 20.

SPORTS President Nixon has chosen Jackie Robinson as baseball's all-time greatest player on a personal all-star team selected for The Associated Press. Page 15. BELFAST (AP) The bodies of three men were found Sunday in West Belfast. Police said they had been executed by gun shots in the head. Security authorities were unable to determine the motives for the slayings, but the Irish Republican Army has executed men from its ranks in the past for breaking its rules.

Two of the men, aged between 35 and 40, were found by children playing on a cricket ground near the site of a predawn attack on British troops. leader of the Protestants in the Shankill Road district of Belfast when he was sentenced to prison. He was granted a two-day parole over the weekend to attend his daughter's wedding and to visit his sick mother. Police said Spence was being driven back to the Crumlin Road jail by his brother-in-law when the car was halted by another with three armed gunmen in it. The brother-in-law, Martin Corry, was beaten up and Spence was bundled into the other car and driven off at high speed.

The IRA denied its men were involved in the attack and said it was the work of a small group of "vigilantes" outside IRA control. The third victim was a 25-year-old man whose body was tossed out of a speeding car in the Forth River Road area. He had been badly beaten and shot in the head and twice in the back. Police identified none of the three, whose deaths brought to six the number killed since an IRA truce was declared last Monday. At first it was believed that the two men found in the Clif-tonville cricket grounds might have been killed in the shooting affray with British troops, who claimed to have scored two hits on the 14 snipers firing at them.

The army said the attack was not considered a truce violation. A prominent Protestant militant was kidnaped Sunday night while on his way back to jail, where he is serving a life sentence for slaying a Roman Catholic barman in 1966. Augustus Spencc, 39, was a Championship Chess Match Postponed Index It 22-25 18 18 19 18 4 Farm 21 Health 26 Movies 19 Society 5 7 Sports 15-17 TV Radio 26 Weather 10 The Russian side reluctantly accepted Euwe's decision. Spassky was asked what he thought of the situation and the 35-year-old champion replied: "I came to play." At a late afternoon news conference where he announced the decision on the postponement, Euwe said: "I think there will be no play at nil. That is my personal opinion." On his way into the meeting Spassky was asked about his reaction to the American grandmaster's latest gambit.

The world champion replied: "That's Fischer's business." Astrology Classified Comics Crossword Deaths Earl Wilson Editorials Faced with a decision of disqualifying Fischer immediately or granting reprieve, Euwe chose the path he said would best protect the host organization. Fischer's representatives here had asked for a postponement on the basis of illness. They said the American Was suffering fatigue. The rules require that a postponement for illness must be certified by a doctor that the host organization choses. Typical of confusion surrounding preparations for the match, the federation doctor, Ultar Thor-darson, left for his country house early Sunday morning.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) The International Chess Federation gave Bobby Fischer two days' grace Sunday to appear for the world, chess championship and a friend of the reluctant challenger flew to the United States in an attempt to coax him to Reykjavik. Fischer was believed in New York when Dr. Max Euwe, the international federation's president, announced the postponement. The first game in Fischer's match with world champion Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union was set back from 5 p.m. Sunday 1 p.m.

EDT to the same time Tuesday. Euwe said Fischer must show by noon Tuesday or risk forfeiting his chance at Spassky and the title. Freystrinn Thorberbergsson, an Icelandic chess player and longtime friend of Fischer, flew to New York on Sunday night to try to persuade him to show up. in time for the Tuesday match. Thorberbergsson, arriving at Kennedy Airport without luggage, was reluctant to talk about his trip.

He said only that he expected to remain in the United States two or three days and that he had come to sec Fischer "as a friend" in an ef fort to persuade him to meet the deadline. Fischer refused to play the match after officials of the Icelandic Chess Federation balked at his last-minute demands for more money, in addition to a record purse already contracted for. Fischer and Spassky were to have a guaranteed share of $125,000 the winner taking five-eighths plus 30 per cent each of income from the sale of film and television rights. This alone was 10 times greater than any prize money ever paid to a chess player. Fischer wants an additional 30 per cent of the gate receipts.

Bobby Fischer Given Tuesday Noon Deadline To Appear.