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South Vietnamese task force forges into heart of Quang Tri City By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) --The Saigon command claimed today that elements of a South Vietnamese paratrooper task force spearheaded by tanks had forged into the heart of Quang Tri City, and seized control of two- thirds of the northern provincial capital. But field reports and senior U.S. military source sharply disputed the announcement made in Saigon. Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported from the front he had no information to indicate a thrust into the northern half of the city. A senior military source said there were no South Vietnamese units of any significant size in the city.

He left open the possibility that reconnaissance teams might be operating there. Field sources said South Vietnamese paratrooper and marine units were closing in on the city but were meeting tough resistance. A huge American air and naval armada covered the advancing South Vietnamese. South Vietnamese marines were closing in on the city from the east. One task force was reported to have advanced half a mile to the eastern outskirts and was a little more than a mile east of the Citadel, at the center of the city.

A second marine task force made a helicopter landing 2 miles southeast of the city. Lt. Col. Do Viet, a spokesman for the Saigon command, said that elements of a South Vietnamese paratroop battalion backed by tanks had pushed into the northern part of Quang Tri a few hours before dawn. "They are right next to the Citadel," he said.

Viet reported that resistance appeared to be light; although the forwardmost troops of the battalion were shelled by 107mm rockets and long-range 130mm guns. "We control at least two- thirds of the city," Viet told newsmen. Heavier fighting was reported on the southern and eastern fringes of the city. Viet reported 58 North Vietnamese killed and eight tanks destroyed on the outskirts. Paratroopers on the southern side battled heavy counterattacks Thursday night from North Vietnamese forces mak- ing a stand in a line of old French villas.

Scores of U.S. Navy jets from 7th Fleet carriers off the coast scrambled into the night skies to attack the North Vietnamese, theur tanks, artillery and automatic It was the first stiff resistance the South Vietnamese paratroopers have encountered since they began tightening their grip on the southern edges of the city three days ago. Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported that South Vietnamese tanks knocked out two Soviet-built PT76 light amphibious tanks used by the North Vietnamese and a paratrooper knocked out a third with a hand-fired antitank missile. The other tanks fled into heavy thickets. Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported that South Vietnamese paratroopers captured three prisoners, one of them seriously wounded, and overran a North Vietnamese field hospital stocked with medical supplies.

By midmorning, mortars were still exploding on the South Vietnamese front lines. "Just keep pumping it in there, just keep them coming into that area," Capt. Gail Furrow, 32, of Urbana, Ohio, shouted into his radio as he directed U.S. fighter-bombers to the North Vietnamese mortar positions. Furrow is an adviser with one of the South Vietnamese airborne battalions.

"We're still taking 82mm mortar from that location," Furrow radioed as he stood on the clapboard wall of what was once an American barracks. He stood in a banana grove splashed with blood from wounded North Vietnamese soldiers who had retreated during the night. More than a score of B52 bombers streaked across the demilitarized zone to attack rear North Vietnamese bases that U.S. officers say are supporting the Communist forces in Quang Tri. The Saigon command said in a communique that South Vietnamese marines rescued 800 refugees two miles east of Quang Tri City and moved them south to My Chanh.

Elsewhere, sharp fighting was reported on the southern front in the Saigon region at points 50 miles west and 50 miles north of the capital. The Saigon command claimed 102 North Vietnamese troops were killed in a fifth consecutive day of fighting in the Parrot's Beak section of Cambodia near the town of Kompong Rau, 50 miles west of Saigon. Eight South Vietnamese troops were reported killed and 24 wounded. Two clashes were reported along Highway 13 north of Saigon at points three and 10 miles south of the provincial capital of An Loc. Forty North Vietnamese troops were killed, while South Vietnamese losses were seven men killed and 10 wounded, the Saigon command said.

Military sources in Phnom Penh said a Cambodian general was killed during the night while attempting to lead rein- forcements into the besieged Jf Mc(jQVem Wi district town of Angtassom. These sources said the Takeo province subsector commander Brig. Gen. Kong Chhat, died aboard a helicopter after he was wounded some six miles north of Angtassom, which is about 35 miles south of Phnom Penh. DEMOCRATS DREAM TEAM? Despite repeated disclaimers of interest in running this year, Sen, Edward Kennedy remains the name most mentioned as a possible running mate with Sen.

George McGovern. McGovern sources have reported that Kennedy will still be the first choice for the second spot on the ticket should the South Dakota senator win his party's nomination next week in Miami Beach. Kennedy to get first shot at vice presidential slot 92nd Year--No. 251-- Two Sections Pontiac, 111. 61764, Friday, July 7, 1972 10 cents a Copy prices up; Spassky wins draw for first move By NEIL GILBRIDE Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A renewed in livestock and meat prices led an over-all rise of five-tenths of one per cent in whplesale'prices of food and industrial products, in June, the government said "The unemployment rate during the month.

It was the second straight substantial monthly price increase, following a three-fifths of one per cent hike in May for the largest two-month increase since last January and February. The Labor Department also reported that the nation's unemployment rate dropped from 5.9 to 5.5 per cent of the work force last month for the lowest figure in more than a year and a half. The improvement was entirely due to seasonal factors. But the actual total of jobless Americans climbed 1.1 million to 5.4 million in the annual summer flood of school youngsters seeking work. Because the rise in the work force was not as large as expected, the department's Bureau of Labor Statistics figured it as a decline in the jobless rate on a seasonal basis.

Livestock prices climbed 4.7 per cent, poultry rose 6.9 per cent and processed meats, poultry and fish rose 3.6 per cent, the report on wholesale prices said. Industrial raw materials rose three-tenths of one per cent and consumer-finished goods--those ready for retail markets--increased fivetenths of one per cent. The increases pushed the "government's Wholesale Price Index up to 118.8 of its 1967 base, meaning that it cost wholesalers $118.80 in June for every $100 worth of goods five years ago. The index was 3.9 per cent above a year ago. The report said wholesale prices had climbed at an annual rate of 5.3 per cent in the seven months so far of President Nixon's Phase 2 wage- price controls, a larger increase than the 5.2 per cent rate of increase in the eight months prior to the Phase 1 wage-price freeze imposed by Nixon last August.

The report listed increases for gasoline, electric power and some other fuels; wood products; motor vehicle parts; machinery; textiles, clothing and shoes; paper products; rubber and plastics; drugs and paint. There were price declines for natural gas; major household appliances; television sets; chemicals, and glass. The price of fruits and vegetables increased nine-tenths of one per cent; eggs were up 1.4 per cent and sugar rose four- tenths. There were declines of seven- tenths of one per cent for milk; 1.8 per cent for over-all dairy products and seven-tenths of one per cent for vegetable oils. The report on unemployment said the jobless rate for men declined from 4.3 to 4 per cent with a total of 1.9 million.

The rate for women dropped from 5.9 to 5.5 per cent with a total of 1.6 million and the rate for teen-agers declined from 15.7 to 14.5 per cent with a total of 1.9 million. It said the total number of employed Americans declined about 170,000 to 88.7 million, but seasonal factors changed this to a rise of more than 2 million because the total usually drops much more in June. The report also said that wages of some 50 million rank- and-file workers increased one- cent per hour to $3.62 and average weekly earnings increased $2.18 to $135.39. This was up $7.82 or 6.1 per cent in the past year. After deduction for the 3.2 per cent rise in consumer prices over the year, the average worker was still about $3.50 per week ahead.

By STEPHENS BROENING Associated Press Writer REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer lost the draw Thursday night, giving Boris Spassky the first move, and the world championship chess match will finally start next Tuesday. Unless the American, challenger or the Soviet champion pleads illness and gets another postponement. The confusion of the past week was summarized by the old woman selling cigarettes who asked in the beginning: "Fischer come?" Near the end it was: "Spassky go?" Tm very pessimistic," Dr. Max Euwe said at 10 a.m. At noon: "It's a very delicate situation." At 7 p.m., the president of the International Chess Federation sighed: "There's hope." That was Tuesday.

It could have been any day in the garbled prelude to what chess lovers say is the match of the century Spassky of the U.S.S.R. vs. Fischer of the U.S.A. Spassky arrived early to wait for Bobby. Saying "I came to play," he philosophically accepted the first postponement when Fischer didn't show.

Later he demanded an apology or he wouldn't play. At one news conference, one of Fischer's lawyers said he'd come to say he had nothing to say. Yefim Geller, Spassky's second, fielded questions with: "Kak Gavarit po Angliski," or as you say in English, "No comment:" Then there's the "Eavesdropper," a man approaching middle age with a shock of graying hair combed in careful disarray onto his forehead. He takes voluminous notes, for a magazine piece, he says. On scraps of paper he records conversations he's overheard.

He carries the scraps in red plastic shopping bag as he moves soundlessly about the hotel lobbies. One final quote, from Gudmundur Thorarinsson, president of the Icelandic Chess Federation, who was under pressure from Fischer to give up a share of the gate receipts: "I have worked for more than a year to get this match to Iceland. I would dp many things. But I will not bite into a sour apple." Thanks to a rich British chess fan who doubled the stakes, he didn't have to. By CARL P.

LEUBSDORF AP Political Writer MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will still have "first refusal" on the vice presidential nomination if Sen. George McGoveru captures the Democratic presidential nod, sources close to the South Dakota senator said today.

Despite Kennedy's repeated statements he won't be available, the offer will probably be made because polls show he would strengthen a McGovern- led ticket, the sources said. The sources discounted the value of polls ordered by McGovern on other possible running mates, declaring it is impossible to measure the value of possible candidates who are not so well known, such as Govs. Reubin Askew of Florida and Dale Bumpers of Arkansas. Both have been mentioned by McGovern as leading possibilities. Activity in this steaming Democratic National Con- 'vention city, which has been limited this week to advance logistical preparations by the candidates and a half-dozen protest groups, picks up today as the parley heads for an opening Monday.

Most of the major presidential candidates except McGovern fly here to start wooing arriving delegates in their bid to overtake the front- running South Dakota senator. Sens. Hubert H. Humphrey, Edmund S. Muskie and Henry Jackson; Alabama Gov.

George C. Wallace; and Rep. Wilbur D. Mills all scheduled afternoon arrivals. McGovern is due Saturday afternoon.

With the convention to start Monday night, two major credentials cases which involve 151 McGovern delegates from California and 59 Illinois delegates led by Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley remained in a legal limbo. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger extended indefinitely Thursday a delaying order in the case so he could consult with his eight Supreme Court colleagues on whether to call a special session to consider appeals in the two cases. The two cases are crucial, especially the California one, in McGovern's quest for victory on the first ballot.

Including the 151 California votes, The Associated Press count shows McGovern with 1,454.65 first ballot votes just 54.35 short of the 1,509 needed for the nomination. Failure to retain the 151 votes, either through court rulings or convention action, would leave McGovern more than 200 votes away from the nomination, a far more difficult hurdle to overcome. The AP count shows Humphrey a distant second with 398.55; Wallace with 367; Mus- kie with 219.55; and 425.65 uncommitted. The rest are scattered. McGovern crossed verbal swords with Secretary of Defense Melvin R.

Laird over the senator's proposals to cut U.S. defense spending sharply. Laird issued an analysis of McGovern's proposal for a $32 billion reduction by 1975 and called it "tantamount to a white flag of surrender." McGovern rejected that characterization and said, "My proposed military budget will make certain that the United States is the strongest nation in the world." In Miami Beach, meanwhile, heads of three largely black organizations threatened to crash the convention sessions unless 750 delegate seats are provided for poor people. The threats were made oy the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; George A Wiley, executive director of the National Welfare Rights Organization; and Jesse Gray, director of the National Tenants Organization.

Richard J. Murphy, the convention manager, said after meeting with the three Thurs- day he was unable to comply with their request "because the Mes don't pisrmit it." In other: developments: --A Terry Sanford for President Citizens- Committee to boost the candidacy of the North Carolina governor was formed by a group headed by Atty. Gen. Andrew Miller of Virginia. --Former Gov.

Endicott Peabody of Massachusetts said he has a one in four chance of winning the vice presidential nomination next week. In Washington, Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska joined Peabody as an active contender for the No. 2 spot on the Democratic ticket George Meany determined to block McGovern drive Second PSA hijacking; AWOL soldier surrenders Nonprescription drugs often found lacking By JOE BIGHAM Associated Press Writer OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) A young AWOL soldier seized a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner for $450,000 ransom, which he said would be given to groups "involved in the Mideast crisis," and ordered the plane 1,000 miles up and down California before surrendering early today to his hostage, a law officer, authorities said.

The air pirate, who gave up after the jetliner landed at Oakland International Airport, was identified by the FBI as Francis Goodell, 21, of Manassas, AWOL two days from the Army. FBI agent-in- charge Robert Gebhardt said military cards were found on Goodell, including one from Ft. Riley, Kan. The entire $450,000 was recovered, the agent said. The hiacker gave a note to the pilot which said the ransom money, obtained from PSA along with one parachute, "would be given izationsinvolved theMideast crisis," a Federal Aviation Administration official said.

The note continued: "Recent actions by the Air Line Pilots Association and secretary of transportation haveMused con; stemation in our organization and we are forced to take prompt action." Some ALPA members last month took part in a one-day work stoppage to protest the recent wave of air piracy throughout the world and to demand better security measures. It was the second hijacking for PSA, an intrastate airline, in two days. On Wednesday FBI agents stormed aboard a PSA jetliner at San Francisco International Airport, killing two hijackers who had demanded $800,000 in ransom and escape to Siberia. A passenger was shot and killed Dy one of the hijackers, the FBI said, and two other passengers were wounded. The Oakland air pirate gave up his guns to California Highway Patrol Capt.

Lloyd T. Turner, who he held as a hostage on the flight. The hijacker had a pistol taken from the officer and a 7.65- caliber pistol of German make when arrested, the FBI said. "He (the hijacker) started to act rather nervous and pursuant to suggestions, with the captain and the pilot talking to him together and individually after 2Vfe hours he finally surrendered his weapons and surrendered to the FBI," Geb- hardtsaid. Turner, a passenger on the flight, had volunteered to stay aboard the three-engined jetliner as a hostage with three crewmen after the jet's 53 other passengers and crew were allowed off in San Diego.

Earlier reports that there were two passengers being held as hostage were erroneous, the FBI said. U.S. Atty. James Browning Jr. authorized a complaint for air piracy against Goodell and recommended $100,000 bail.

The Boeing 727-100, originally with with 58 persons aboard including the hijacker, was seized while on a short flight Thursday from Oakland to Sacramento. The plane was ordered 500 miles to San Diego where the hijacker got the money and parachute, then ordered it to Oakland. He asked for a helicopter he had demanded to be waiting for him there. Turner had volunteered to be a hostage while the jet was in San Diego. The hijacker allowed all but Turner, and three crewmen to get off there.

Witnesses said Capt. Jerry E. Blakely, pilot of the jetliner, and the 42-year-old highway patrol officer both were handcuffed before they walked off the plane. It was believed they had been handcuffed by the hijacker. WASHINGTON (AP) The National Academy of Sciences accepts less than 10 per cent of effectiveness claims made for a representative sampling of 27 nonprescriptioncold remedies.

Among popular over-the- counter (OTC) compounds rated ineffective in a report released today is Coricidin cold tablets, manufactured by Schering Corp. of Bloomfield, N.J. Contac sustained-release capsules, made by Menley James Laboratories of Philadelphia, were judged possibly effective, meaning there is no evidence that they work 12 hours against cold congestion. Among 45 effectiveness claims for the cold remedies evaluated, the academy's National Research Council judged four as effective, eight ineffective as fixed combinations, five effective with reservations, 15 possibly effective and 13 probably effective. Rated effective without reservation were Isophrin nose drops for nasal congestion; Fedrazil for hay fever; and Chlorephrine Nyscaps for hay-fever nasal congestion and as a time-release capsule.

At the request of the Food Go barefoot NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -Sign on door of shoe repair shop: "On vacation. Back in a Week. Go Barefoot." and Drug Administration, NAS studied 420 OTC drugs as part of an effectiveness review of about 3,000 prescription drugs. "The 27 products are broadly representative of cold preparations on the market since most are similar in composition to the drugs studied," the FDA said in releasing the data.

About 25 per cent of the OTC- drug claims were judged, effective, compared with about 60 per cent of the prescription- drug claims rated effective or probably effective. By NEIL GILBRIDE AP Labor Writer WASHINGTON (AP) AFL- CIO President George Meany headed for the Democratic National Convention today, reportedly determined to block the presidential nomination of Sen. George McGovern. Driven by personal as well as political antipathy, the labor titan has launched a drive that commands the sympathies of most union presidents if not their wholehearted support. Some have voiced misgivings that an unrelenting anti- McGovern campaign could destroy a tenuous party unity and encourage the re-election of President Nixon, like McGovern the target of numerous Meany barbs.

If McGovern wins the nomination despite Meany, labor leaders would be confronted with limited options, none palatable to them. Wallace flies home on way to Miami Weather The temperature in Pontiac at 11:30 a.m. today was 72 degrees. The high yesterday was 77 degrees and the low last night was 58 degrees. There was a trace of precipitation.

The river level was 11 inches at the Mill Street dam. PARTLY CLOUDY: Tonight partly cloudy with chance of thunderstorms. Low 55 to 60. Saturday partly cloudy with chance of thunderstorms. Chance of rain: 30 per cent this afternoon, tonight and Saturday.

Extended Outlook: Partly cloudy Sunday through Tuesday with moderate temperatures. Chance of showers south on Sunday and over most of the state Tuesday. Highs in the 80s. Lows in the 60s. SILVER SPRING, Md.

(AP) George C. Wallace ended 54 days of hospitalization today with thanks to those who "saved my life" and sped toward resumption of his governorship in Alabama and his quest for the presidency in Miami Beach. "I feel good, I feel great, Wallace declared. The disabled governor was pushed in his wheelchair to a limousine amidst the applause of several score spectators for a motorcade to nearby Andrews Air Force Base and the flight south in an Air Force hospital plane. But Wallace, wounded May 15 at a political rally in Laurel, first paused briefly to thank government and hospital officials and staff members for the care they accorded him.

In an accompanying written statement at Holy Cross Hospital Wallace said "Sister Helen Marie, the doctors, sisters and staff of the hospital will always hold a very dear place in my heart. They saved my life, and I wish God's blessings to all of them." As he shook hands with hospital staffers and other well-wishers, and saluted toward news photographers, it almost seemed as if he were already back on the campaign trail for the Democratic presidential nomination. Those accompanying Wallace include his wife Cornelia and two daughters, Peggy Sue and Lee. Drs. Joseph Schanno and Herman Maganzini, who have treated Wallace at Holy Cross, and Dr.

George Traugh and Judy Cantry, rehabilitation specialists from the University of Alabama's Birmingham Medical Center, also are going. Billy Joe Camp, the governor's press secretary, said Wallace's Miami Beach hotel room has been furnished with physical-therapy equipment. Special ramps built to accommodate Wallace's wheelchair have been installed at the convention hall. He remains crippled from a spinal wound, but can walk with the aid of braces and a walking bar. Meany and his chief political strategist, Al Barkan, were.

counting on union presidents to sway convention delegates away from McGovern, the front-runner on the capturing the 1,509 delegates needed for nomination. "Barkan gave me the spiel- labor people are going to try to stop McGovern on the first and second ballots," said Jerry Wurf, a McGovern supporter and president of the AFL-CIO American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Edward Carlough, president of the Sheet Metal Workers, said if such a move were successful "it would make the nomination totally worthless to anybody else." Some union presidents have appealed to Meany to tone down the anti-McGovern drive. But, in a showdown, most union presidents still bow to Meany's wishes on major issues. "I'm going along with Meany, whatever he does," said the chief of one large construction union, who asked not to be quoted by name.

Another source said, "If McGovern gets the nomination, it becomes a competition between McGovern and Nixon, and labor simply couldn't be neutral or for Nixon." Others consider neutrality a- real possibility. The support of the 13.6-miI- lion-member federation of 128 unions and its money-raising Committee on Political Educs-: tion is considered crucial to the chances of any Democratic nominee to defeat Nixon, in November. COPE mailed out 50 million pieces of political literature in 1968 and was credited with almost swinging the presidential election to Sen. Hubert Humphrey..