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itrltttafrm JIot GANNITT NIWSPAPI 144th Year Serving Vermont 26 Page, 1 Sc 70c a WhIi No. 272 Monday, Nov. 1 3, 1 972 U.S., Saigon Narrow Dispute SAIGON (AP) U.S. officials if Thieu has emphasized, however, that any bilateral agreement concerning the political shape of South Vietnam would be invalid without his signature, and this issue must be resolved between Saigon and the Viet Cong. Nixon was reported to have made several points in a letter to Thieu, urging him to accept a cease-fire as soon as possible.

Nixon also reaffirmed that the United States would not attempt to impose a coalition government or a political solution on South Vietnam. statement on Haig's departure saying the talks were "cordial and constructive" but did not elaborate. The statement was interpreted by some here to mean that progress was made toward resolving differences. A feeling is growing among some U.S. officials that a cease-fire is nearing, perhaps by the end of this month.

These officials disclosed for the first time that the United States had completed its contingency plans for the recovery of all American prisoners of war and for the withdrawal of all American troops within 60 days after the agreement is signed. There was no official comment on reports that Thieu had agreed to a separate accord between the United States and North Vietnam. But South Vietnamese officials have said several times in the past that this is always a possibility. Thieu himself has declared that any such bilateral agreement covering the release of American prisoners of war and a halt in U.S. military activity against North Vietnam would be of no concern to his government.

indicated Sunday that Washington and Saigon have narrowed their differences on a disputed draft agreement that would halt the Vietnam war and send American forces home. Two days of talks between Gen. Alexander M. Haig one of President Nixon's special peace envoys, and President Nguyen Van Thieu appeared to have cleared the way for a resumption of private negotiations with North Vietnam in Paris. The U.S.

Embassy issued a Long Ordeal Over For Hijack Victims If I if i I I U.S. Intensifies Bomb Attacks SAIGON (AP) American warplanes mounted their heaviest attacks against North Vietnam since the air war was restricted to targets below the 20th parallel, the U.S. Command announced Sunday. Air Force and carrier-based planes launched more than 240 tactical strikes Saturday in a bid to disrupt a flood of fresh war materiel to the battlefronts of South Vietnam. B52 Stratofortresses made 36 sorties north of the demilitarized zone to drop more than 1,000 tons of bombs on enemy supply caches around the ports of Vinh and Dong Hoi.

The 20th-parallel bombing restriction, in effect since Oct. 22, exempts the Hanoi-Haiphong region. About 60 B52s flew missions against enemy troop concentrations and staging areas in South Vietnam, many of them just below the demarcation line. Presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger announced on Oct.

26 that Hanoi had been informed four days before that bombing north of the 20th parallel would be halted, apparently as a goodwill gesture during the current Indochina peace talks. Since his announcement, tactical air strikes against the North averaged 110 a day until last Friday, when they were hiked to 180. Saturday's attacks were the heaviest since Oct. 17. i MIAMI (AP) Thirty-one weary captives who spent 28 hours "in hell" under the guns of three hijackers returned from Cuba on Sunday with praise for the pilot who landed their crippled plane on a foam-covered Havana runway after his copilot had been shot.

Four of those returning, all men and one of them elderly, were on stretchers and were placed in ambulances and ed to hospitals. The twin-engine DC9 carried 26 passengers, four crew members and the three hijackers when it landed in Havana shortly after midnight Saturday. It was not determined immediately if the copilot wounded by a gunshot and other ill passengers returned to Miami in the relief jet. Two stewardesses flanked by FBI agents walked off the plane with locked arms, and one of the young women was ATLANTIC -S -IIXIMOTON OCCAM UNITED STATES lru' Ul IKMIMOHAM' MONTOOI1Y I HUACKID I ft HIM I NADrOtCUAl ULF OP MCXICO Panthers Have Undefeated Season It was all worth it for mud-caked Middlebury College senior halfback Phil Pope. Pope, who capped a record-smashing collegiate career with a two-touchdown, 165-yard rushing performance against Union College, helped the Panthers to their first undefeated season since 1936 with a victory Saturday.

(Free Press Photo by Walter Johnson) (Story, Page 16) No Appointments Made By Salmon, Says Aide THE PATH of the Southern Airways hijacking. (UPI The landing in Havana climaxed an ordeal Troubled Queen Calls at Boston BOSTON (AP) The Cunard liner Queen Elizabeth II made a trouble-beset call on Boston Saturday, but finally sailed more than three hours late, for a nine-day cruise in the Caribbean. The big ship came directly to Boston from England, skipping her scheduled stop in New York because she was several days late in starting the crossing. New York was passed up so the ship could keep to a schedule she has for a number of cruises out of Boston in the next couple of months. She brought 1,400 passengers to Boston, many of them unhappy over the delay and because they bad to go by train, bus or plane to New York.

The disembarkation was slowed because of an unusually high tide which raised the ship so high that some baggage doors along her port side were too far above the pier to be used. MONTPELIEIR Thomas Salmon press aide said Sunday Salmon made no administrative appointments during a strategy session in Hyannis, over the weekend. (Related story, page 12) "His main emphasis was on his legislative package, headed by the property tax proposals" Salmon will make to the legislature when it convenes Jan. 3, according to Norman James, newly named press aide. James accompanied Salmon and his wife, Madeleine, on the trip, with a host of well-known Democrats who have been mentioned as possible appointees in the Salmon administration.

But, James said, Salmon "is in no great hurry at all about making appointments" until he gets well into preparing his budget. Salmon will attend all budget hearings, the first of which are scheduled this afternoon on the fifth floor of the Pavilion. James said all the hearings will be open to the public for the first time. The hearings will begin at 1:15 with the Governor's Commission on Crime and Control and Prevention, followed at 2 by Treasurer Frank Davis's budget and at 2:45 by Secretary of State Richard Thomas's budget hearing. James said Salmon will pay particular attention to Davis's presentation, considering a recent switch of teacher retirement and fund bonds, announced by Davis.

The hearings will continue for about two weeks. Salmon returned home from Hyannis Sunday evening by way of Boston and Chicopee to pick up his four children, left with relatives for the weekend. Among those attending the meeting on Cape Cod Saturday and Sunday with Salmon and James was Robert M. Wilson of Burlington, whom Salmon has offered the cabinet post of secretary of administration. crying.

As the passengers filed off the plane into a customs area, Mrs. Alex Halverstadt of Key Biscayne, waved at her husband, who was on the hijacked craft. "I feel very relieved like the weight of the world has been taken off my shoulders," said Mrs. Halverstadt. She said she had not slept since the hijack was first reported.

"When we get home," she said, "I'm going to fix him the biggest dinner he's ever had and a tall martini." FBI agents were waiting at the airport to question the passengers and crew of the plane, which remained in Cuba while Southern technicians repaired damage caused after FBI marksmen shot out four of the craft's tires as it left Orlando, Saturday night. In a broadcast monitored in Miami, Radio Havana said the three hijackers identified as two fugitives from Detroit and a prison escapee from Tennessee were "rapidly apprehended" and that three persons aboard the Southern flight were hospitalized. One was copilot Billy Harloyd "Harold" Johnson, 37, of College City, wounded in the left shoulder by a revolver shot, according to the Cuban radio station. In College City, Johnson's wife said she had been told by airline officials her husband was in good condition. The other two were an 83-year-old man who suffered nervous shock and a passenger with a fractured foot.

which began Friday night over Alabama when the three heavily-armed hijackers took control of the plane and started it on an odyssey to eight cities ranging from Toronto to Havana. The hijackers demanded a $10 million ransom and threatened to crash the aircraft into the Oak Ridge, Nuclear Research Laboratories if they didn't get it. An undetermined amount of money was taken aboard the aircraft at a Chattanooga, stop. The hijackers also attempted to talk with President Nixon, but failed. The 12:32 a.m.

EST landing in Havana came under "strict emergency conditions," said Radio Havana. The landing was the plane's second visit to the Cuban capital. "The FBI attempt against the aircraft made necessary an extraordinary display of measures in order to guarantee the lives of the passengers and crewmen," said the government broadcast. "After burning off the fuel, the aircraft finally made a safe landing, in spite of the odds motivated by the contact of the asphalt with the steel of the wheels." The hijackers were identified as Henry D. Jackson, 25, and Lewis D.

Moore, 27, both of Detroit and both facing charges of assault with attempt to commit rape, and Melvin Cale, 21, of Oak Ridge, who police said escaped Oct. 29 from a Nashville, work-release program while serving a fiveyear term for grand larceny. Hunting Claims 5 Lives Police Locate Body LEBANON, N.H. (AP) Police searchers Sunday found the body of Katherine Robb, 57, Lebanon music teacher, who had been missing since Sept. 21.

A group of New Hampshire and Vermont police found the body of Mrs. Robb, wrapped in a blanket and foam rubber, buried in a shallow grave near White River Junction, which is just across the Connecticut River from Lebanon. The search was ordered by Grafton County Atty. George Papademas after the woman's son, Harlan, 29, was arrested in Reno, and was questioned there Saturday by Lebanon police and New Hampshire state detectives. Robb is being held in Nevada as a fugitive from justice.

Good Morning! Today will be cloudy. (Details, page 2) By STUART PERRY Vermont's deer season opened this weekend and claimed the lives of five persons. Two persons were killed by gunshot, three others died of heart attacks, and two were wounded by accidental gunfire. The grim statistics began to amass as state police reported thousands of in- and out-of-state hunters converged on the woods in search of their bucks. Milton Stowell, 30, of Chester died at Springfield Hospital at 11:45 a.m.

Sunday three hours after he was mistaken for a deer and shot in the woods in Chester. Cpl. James Elrick said Stowell, an employe of the Continental Telephone was hunting alone in the Flamstead Hill area about 9 a.m. and had just shot his buck. Stowell stood up to pull a hunting tag from his pocket and was hit in the stomach by a bullet from a 30-30 rifle fired by an unnamed hunter.

The hunter ran to get help and the Chester Resque Squad took the fatally wounded Stowell to Springfield. State's Atty. Paul Hudson said the shooter's name would be withheld during a continuing investigation of the shooting. An "unloaded" pistol claimed the life of a 15-year-old Lincoln youth during a quick-draw session at his home Saturday night. John F.

Michaud died early Saturday evening during emergency surgery performed at Medical Center Hospital in Burlington. (Obituary, page 10) The youth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alphe Michaud, was struck in the abdomen by a .22 caliber slug fired from a pistol held by a 14-year-old cousin. Cpl.

Bernard Fitzsimons said the incident occurred about 6 p.m. during a quick-draw practice session in a back room of the Michaud home on Quaker Street. The mortally wounded boy was rushed Reynolds of Island Pond, was staying at a deer camp owned by Raymond Paquette of Gosstown, N.H. All three men had spent the night at the cabin and were awake at 5 a.m. in order to go hunting.

Reynolds said Wolf declined to go hunting. He said he was too tired and would go back to bed. The two men discovered Wolf dead when they returned at 10 a.m. Walter J. Rozenbajgier, 51, of Three Rivers, succumbed to a hearty attack while walking through woods with' companions Saturday morning in Townshend.

Rozenbajgier, who suffered from a severe heart condition and had undergone open heart surgery, was with an adult companion and a 14-year-old youth when the attack occurred at 6:50 a.m. Cpl. Cornelius Reed and Trooper Francis Ellwell said the attack occurred about 200 yards from a dirt road and that the adult drove four miles to call an ambulance. When attendants reached the scene at 7:21 a.m. the victim was dead.

His companions told investigators Rozenbajgier carried two bottles of heart pills with him and during the walk through the woods had taken two pills to counteract pain. Regional Medical Examiner Dr. Carlos Otis said death was due to a massive coronary seizure. William R. Gamby, 73, of Everett, a visitor to the Pleasant Valley area of Underhill, was discovered dead in bed at the Homer Bogue residence at 4:30 a.m.

Sunday. Cpl. Emest Strong said Gamby was in the Underhill area for the weekend with his son, Orville, and had spent Saturday tramping through the woods. Assis. Medical Examiner Dr.

Ronald Wright of Essex Junction pronounced Gamby dead and said death was caused by heart failure. to Burlington by the Bristol Rescue Squad. Authorities said the boy had no pulse upon arrival, but breathing was restored and he was taken to surgery, where he later died on the operating room table. John was a freshman at Mt. Abraham Union High School in Bristol.

Louis Barton, 13, of Woodbury was admitted to Central Vermont Medical Center in Berlin Saturday after he was accidentally shot by a juvenile hunting companion. State police said Louis was shot in the left foot at 1:45 p.m. while deer hunting with relatives and friends in Woodbury. A hospital spokesman listed the boy's Condition as good Sunday and said the .32 caliber slug damaged the left heel tissue and this was repaired in surgery. The case was under investigation Sunday.

Gary E. Kendrew, 22, of Milton was admitted to Fanny Allen Hospital in Colchester Saturday morning after his weapon discharged while he was hunting deer. State Police Cpl. Thomas Mailhot said Kendrew and two companions were in the woods at 9:10 a.m. when his .22 caliber pistol discharged while he was practicing a quick draw.

The bullet entered the upper calf of his right leg and lodged near the ankle. The slug was removed during surgery. A Manchester, N.H., hunter in Vermont for a weekend of deer hunting was discovered dead by companions at a deer camp in Brunswick Saturday morning. Oswald P. Wolf, 75, was pronounced dead by Regional Medical Examiner Dr.

Terrance Gage. Essex County State's Atty. Russell Holmes tentatively ruled the death due to heart failure. State Police Detective James E. Nolan and Fish and Game Warden Daniel Gregory were called to the camp shortly after 10 a.m.

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