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A Mm 4' TPM eFdDUMWAIL Michigan's Complete Newspaper PMCE-15 CENTS 1 sffei MONDAY, JULY 3, 1972 9 Arrested in Plot To ToBole Cuba of plastic explosives were seized in a DC4 transport plane at Shreveport, federal agents said. U.S. ATTY. Gerald Galling-house said Sunday federal officials "have no reason to believe that the munitions were destined for any country other than Cuba." The complaint charging two of the men, Murray Kessler of NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) A plot U.S.

officials say was aimed at overthrowing a foreign country apparently Communist Cuba has been revealed in the arrest of nine persons in a $465,000 munitions smuggling scheme. Allegedly stretching from New York to Louisiana, Texas and Mexico, the plot came to light with the arrests Saturday. In addition, nearly seven tons ftHi r4- rJF UPI Phot cGovern Fans File 'host Delegates9 Suit The End of an Unsuccessful Hijacking FEDERAL OFFICIALS said that Kessler was held Sunday in the federal prison annex in New Orleans in lieu of $100,000 bond and that Seal was held under $50,000 bond. They were arrested near the New Orleans International Airport Saturday. The nine were charged with conspiring to smuggle the explosives from the United States to Mexico for future shipment to a third country.

AMONG THOSE arrested were Richmond Harper, a prominent South Texas rancher-banker, and Marion Hegler, a former inspector with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. They were taken into custody at Eagle Pass, where they reside, then released on $25,000 bond each. The federal complaint alleges dealings by a man known as "Carlos Diaz" to purchase as much as $1.2 million in munitions and "weapons, ranging from submachine guns to M16s. No guns, however, were aboard the plane raided by federal agents at Shreveport on Saturday.

Gallinghouse said that Diaz, identified only as a main claiming to be a Mexican citizen, was being sought along with another man. THE FEDERAL complaint alleges Kessler agreed last Wednesday to sell to Diaz 13,500 pounds of C-4 plastic explosives, 7,000 feet of prima-cord, 2,600 electrical blasting caps and 25 electrical detonators for $430,000. Delayed The Russians reluctantly ac-c Euwe's decision to delay the match. Asked what he thought of the situation, Spassky replied: "I came to play." An Icelandic chess player and longtime friend of Fischer, Freystrinn Thorberbergsson, flew to New York and said he would try to persuade Fischer to meet the Tuesday deadline. A man lies dead next he attempted to hijack the cratic national committeeman from California who announced the suit, accused the Credentials Committee of acting "solely from political considerations" in taking the delegates from McGovern.

McGovern, still the easy front-runner with 1,276.9 committed votes with 1,509 needed for nomination, indicated Sunday he would be willing to compromise on the challenges to the California delegation, which he lost, and to the Illinois delegation, which his forces won. Asiatic Hi acker Killed In Struggle Aboard 747 Jet Brooklyn, N.Y., and Adler B. Seal of Baton Rouge, alleged they "knew and believed that this material would be used in an attempted overthrow of a foreign nation." Gallinghouse refused to say precisely that the overthrow plot involved Cuba, but he said the complaint and his statement Sunday were "self-explanatory." "IF I thought it would serve the interests of. a party and heal some of these wounds and not do any violence to the rules of the party, I would support a compromise," he said on ABC's "Issues and Answers" program. McGovern again expressed confidence the convention would overturn the committee's recommendation on the California delegation.

"The convention is going to be fair," McGovern said. "It is going to be the most-open, the least-bossed, convention in American history." champion was to have begun Sunday, and the president of the world federation, Dr. Max Euwe, announced if the American challenger failed to show up by noon Tuesday he would risk forfeiting his chance at the title. EUWE SAID opinion was that no play at all." his personal 'there will be HE WON only 14614 votes at the Democratic convention. So much for what's important in politics.

Today, four years and a lot of flash and show business later, George McGovern is clearly not going back to the farm. Gone is the iridescent suit been donated to the Smithsonian," says a staffer), his hair curls over his ears, and he never takes a step without executive-length hose. Lights. Camera. Bring on the makeup man.

Before every WASHINGTON (AP) Cali-f i a supporters of Sen. George McGovern are seeking to win back in the courts the 151 California delegates they lost in the Democratic Credentials Committee. A suit was filed with the U.S. District Court in Washington asking a restraining order to prevent the revised California delegation from being seated at the Democratic convention, which opens July 10 at Miami Beach. A hearing was scheduled this morning before Dist.

Court Judge George L. Hart Jr. The suit alleges that the Credentials Committee acted unconstitutionally when it overruled California's winner-take-all primary, won by McGovern. The committee apportioned 151 of the state's 271 votes among presidential contenders Hubert H. Humphrey, George C.

Wallace and others. MCGOVERN WOULD retain 120 votes, but the loss of the 151 delegates posed a major setback in his hopes to win the Democratic presidential nomination on the first ballot. Stephen Reinhardt, Demo dued and fatally shot after the Vietnamese while keeping the a 1 on him and shouted to an unidentified armed passenger, "Kill the son of a bitch." Five shots were fired, four hitting Binh in the chest. Vaughn said a few minutes later he couldn't stand the sight of the! dead hijacker in his plane and he pitched the bloodied body 'just like a football" to the concrete taxiway the jumbo jet landed in Saigon. below.

Authorities withheld the name of the passenger who shot Binh, but another traveler said he was a former policeman from Richmond, coming to Saigon to work for an- American firm. The pilot said the man had checked his .357 Magnum pistol with him when he boarded the plane and that before confronting the hijacker he returned it and asked the man to help. World Chess Match Early Supporters Hope He's Same Man The New McGovern Finds Public REYKJAVIC, Iceland (AP) The International Chess Federation postponed the start of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world championship series until Tuesday after Fischer failed to arrive in Iceland over the weekend. The American champion was believed still in New York. Fischer's 24-game match with the Russian world's server swore "dragged the ground." And he had this very difficult problem with his socks they kept dropping under his high-flying trouser cuffs.

"People think I come across like a Sunday school teacher," said at the time, bravely, "that I'm not an effective communicator. Well, I think the American people are tired of flash and charisma and show-business spectacles." He bent pick up his socks. "I think truthfulness and trustworthiness are more important." appearance, the new McGovern, 49, who used to be in the sainthood business but now is just a politician, checks his sun lamp tan, fluffs the bulky knot in his silk tie, winks at sidekicks like Shirley Mac-Laine (who just "loves" him) or her brother, Warren Beatty (who jjist "digs" him), and figures out exactly how truthful and trustworthy he can be for the particular audience. George Stanley McGovern, the junior senator from South Dakota, is hardly ever mis- to a Pan American 747 after flight to Hanoi. He was sub- where he Jhad studied fishery science on a U.S.

government scholarship and graduated with honors last month. THE YOUNG man, carrying a South Vietnamese passport in the name Nguyen Thai Binh, met violent death after the pilot tricked him and landed at Saigon, the flight's scheduled destination, in defiance of his demand to fly to North Vietnam. The 135 other passengers were 'safely evacuated by sliding down emergency chutes, used to empty the plane quickly in case of explosion. Several persons suffered minor scratches or bruises and one passenger, a U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, broke his leg.

To back up his threats, the hijacker carried a long knife and a package which he said contained a bomb. Vietnamese police sources said two homemade grenades were in the package and there was no indication whether they could have exploded. But the airline described them as harmless "egg-shaped objects" wrapped in aluminum foil. The hijacking attempt began after the jumbo jet, flight 841, left Manila on the last leg of its San Francisco-to-Saigon flight. Binh, who had boarded in Honolulu, grabbed stewardess May Yuen, 23, a Hong Kong Chinese, as a hostage and sent two notes to the control cabin demanding that the plane be diverted to Hanoi.

THE HIJACKER, in the rear passenger compartment, also talked with the pilot, Capt. Gene Vaughn, 53, of Scotts-dale, over the intercom. "I am doing this for revenge," Vaughn said he told him. "Your bombers are maiming and killing our people of the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam. You are going to fly me to Hanoi and this airplane will be destroyed when we get Vaughn kept up the conversation, telling the hijacker the jet would have to be refueled and contact made with North Vietnam in order to cross the demilitarized zone.

Meanwhile the first officer landed the jet at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airport where it was ringed by troops and ambulances. VAUGHN WENT to the rear compartment where the hijacker told him to halt and added, "You have deceived me." Vaughn said he asked to come closer because the language problem made it difficult to understand the Vietnamese. "This seemed to disarm him mentally and I saw my chance," the pilot said. "I jumped him. I grabbed the arm that was holding the bomb and it flew onto the floor.

I spun him around and got an arm lock on him. He was flailing with a knife in his other hand but all it got was a bit of my laundry. I had incredible strength. I could feel his neck collapsing under my arm. Two passengers made flying tackles and we all went down on the floor." VAUGHN SAID he managed to move his body away from By RICHARD BLYSTONE SAIGON AP) A young Vietnamese man who tried to hijack a Pan American jumbo jet with 153 persons aboard to Hanoi in revenge for U.S.

bombing of North Vietnam was overpowered by the pilot and shot to death by an armed passenger Sunday. The hijacker was tentatively identified today as a speaker at antiwar rallies at the University of Washington in Seattle, taken for a Sunday schooler any more. He comes on instead like the fellow who would be Pope. The soft flat voice is still there, he is not yet able to conceal all his nervousness, he still lacks the confidence to deliver a good, gutty joke but the time when Americans dismissed him as "that governor whatsisname" has ended. Says Lester Spielman, a McGovern aide: "I remember the day he talked to 3,000 Chicanos out in California.

Well, none of them could speak English or understand what he was saying. But, by God, they nodded and smiled and cheered all the way through the speech. Now that's proof. He's got something now and all those people knew it." WHAT McGOVERN has now is easily defined. He has the ear of the troubled public.

And he got it, at least in part, by doing exactly what he once denounced going slick. Once the most earthy, the most specific and the most antipolitical of all major candidates, he was also the most repetitive, uncharismatic and ignored. He entered the 1972 campaign (in January of 1971) announcing that he felt the country was "tired of the old rhetoric, the unmet promises, the image makers" and everybody yawned. So he shifted gears. He invented a new old rhetoric, spread unmeetable promises of his own annually to every man, woman and child in the and hired a whole staff of image makers.

His TV schedule bloated. His interviews multiplied. His contributed income climbed from zero to, at last count, over. $5 million. Today, his campaign is indistinguishable from that of the other runners chartered planes, furious tours of blue-collar districts, every hair in place, every word carefully chosen.

And it has worked. Says a McGovern staff coordinator, Amanda Smith: "I talk now about when we win the nomination, rather than if." BUT THE success has had a price. Nobody knows how high. If George McGovern's stock is rising, and his socks are stay-See NEW-Page A-8, Col. 1 Tells About Struggle Capt.

Gene Vaughn uses his hands to describe how he subdued would-be hijacker aboard a Pan American jumbo jet in Saigon. The hijacker, identified as Nguyen Thai Binh, was shot five times by a passenger on the airliner as he struggled with Capt. Vaughn, the aircraft's pilot. By TOM TIEDE WASHINGTON (N A) When George McGovern first ran for president in 196S, he looked like he was on leave from a South Dakota dairy Last of Two Articles farm. He was short on hair, confidence and cool.

He wore a green iridescent suit that cleverly turned colors in the sun. He hauled around a pair of enormous cuff links that an ob George McGovern ttffiP' iffy I in KYiX If Ml he to W' Hj3u) 3flA r4' rtj' hi -y p. U-k -1 'y- 'tfrrry I 1 t'-'4 A' A -i ty -T' I f'AV Vi yyL COOLER Clearing and cool tonight, low 52, Tuesday sunny and cool, high 70. TAKES ISSUE Jack Anderson reports that, contrary to denials, Jackie Robinson's name does appear in Secret Service files. Pg.

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