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METRO: Tonight: Cloudy, cold Tomorrow: Sunny, cold Details on page 20 28 Pages FINAL Gannett Newspaper Plainfield, New Jersey, Friday, January 7, 1972 Phone 757-4000 H--ne Delivered 75c per week 15c iree citie ice i hubs sa aiaciei Pol hun bo in oa newspapers in Chicago. They gave the bank, addresses and in most cases a safety deposit box number where the bombs were said to be located in the three or writers called a plan to free political prisoners. "We are taking this thing very seriously. We are not regarding it as a hoax," said Howard Pier-son, a deputy superintendent of the Chicago police. Police in each city made plans to be at the banks when the time vaults opened this morning.

a long-range calendar clock timer with a cycle of seven months or 217 days. "Prototype timers were made of low quality cordless electric clocks," the letter said. "In future bombings they will be highly reliable, nearly silent electronic watches. "Similarly, the slow-burning powder placed in these safety deposit boxes would instead be contact plastic explosives," the letter said. Explaining the purpose of the By The Associated Press New York City detectives today deactivated a bomb found in a Marine Midland Trust Co.

bank safe-deposit box hours after media in Chicago and San Francisco received warnings that delayed-action bombs had been planted in nine banks in those two cities and New York. The warnings had come in the form of anonymous handprinted letters in an apparent attempt to demonstrate what the writer The letter suggested that in the future "the Movement in Amerika" might plant such bombs in buildings to "kidnap" Special delivery letters, with the property "and offer it in ex- Chicago postmarks, were re change for the freedom of our people." According to the letter, the unusual feature of the bombs is ceived last night at two newspapers and a radio station in the San Francisco area and at two Jet with 90 ftif if J4jr -V S- orpc intn plun sea off Spain i IBIZA, Balearic Islands (AP) A Spanish jetliner with 90 persons aboard plunged into the Mediterranean today en route from Madrid and Valencia to this Balearic Island, airport officials said. The officials reported the airliner fell into the sea as it was approaching Ibiza airport. There was no word on survivors. The plane, which left Madrid with a stopover in Valencia, crashed off the village of San Jose, southwest of Ibiza.

Witnesses said they saw nothing abnormal as the plane flew over the island. Cause of the crash was not immediately known, officials of Iberia Airlines, owner of the jet, reported. The airline said it had no information on the fate of the crew and passengers aboard-4he -twin-jet Caravelle. bombs, the letter noted: "Kidnaping people and demanding property or money in exchange for their lives exemplifies the anti-life property values of a sick and brutal society. The Movement in Amerika would do better to kidnap property and offer it in exchange for the freedom of our people." The letter postulated planting a seven-month bomb "in the structure of a building under construction, e.g.

the new FBI building in Washington or under the roadway of a highway not yet paved over." Later, the letter said, when construction had well hidden the device, public officials would be "told who is to be freed in exchange for the exact location of the device." "They would also be told how much time remained on the timer. In case the authorities should claim not to believe that the threat is real, then planting two devices and telling the media where one of them is located would cure that misconception," the letter said. IF THE authorities refused to meet the radical's demands, they would have to wait until the devices went off perhaps a matter of months, the letter said. "Who will want to vacation in that hotel, meet in that board room, or drive on that superhighway for the next few months? Free all political prisoners. Remember George Jackson and Sam Melville," the letter concluded.

Jackson, a black revolutionary convict, was shot to death last Aug. 21 during what California prison officials said was an attempted break at San Quentin Prison. Melville was killed when New York state troopers stormed Attica State Prison to put down the uprising at that institution last September. He was serving a 13-year sentence for his part in a series of bombings in New York City. LETTERS WERE reported received by the Chicago Daily News, the Chicago Sun-Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Berkeley, underground newspaper, the Berkeley Tribe, and radio station KSAN in San Francisco.

The letter said bombs were placed in the following banks: New York City: First National City Bank, 107 William Manufacturers Hanover Trust 40 W7all Marine Midland Grace Trust 140 Broadway. Chicago: Continental Illinois National Bank, 31 LaSalle First National Bank of Chicago, First National Plaza; the Northern Trust 50 South LaSalle St. San Francisco: Bank of America, Market and New Montgomery; Crocker Citizens National Bank, 1 Montgomery Wells Fargo Bank, Market and AP Wirephofo Diana Alexander, 20, a University of Texas coed, has been taking skiing instruction from Skip Merry of the Purgatory ski area near Durango, Colo. Miss Alexander, blind since birth, is quick to learn and had mastered the mountain in her fourth day of instruction with Merry. "I actually thought that learning to water ski was a bit harder," Diana said.

"You have to learn how to laugh at yourself when you fall because everyone is going to fall eventually," said the courageous miss. ixon seen Si-Sf-S asking new Issue for 1972: 2 Americas Four years ago, American citie's 'were being torn by burning and looting, and the Kerner Commission was forecasting "two societies, one black, one white separate and unequal." Today, despite four years of relative calm in the streets, the nation is indeed divided into two societies isolated from one another and in-' different to one another. In five articles, Jack W. Germond of The Gannett Newspapers' Washington Bureau reports on "An Issue for 1972: Two Americas." Still ttt debt ceiling REDS SCOLD FISCHER MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet Union's leading sports newspaper has accused U.S. chess master Bobby Fischer of a mercenary attitude toward his match against" Russia's Spas-sky for the world crown.

Hr vvirepnuiu Astronaut Thomas K. Mattingly II, describes at Cape Kenendy, for newsmen last night a new experiment which will be carried on the Apollo 16 moon mission in March. The box contains samples of glass, plastic and other materials which will be exposed to direct sunlight to determine how they react to cosmic rays. Mattingly, the Apollo 16 command module pilot, is to place the container outside the craft for 10 minutes during a space walk on the way back from the moon. Central CNJ, Penn quietly raise fares North Jersey shore can still get tickets at the lower rates if they buy them at Penn Station in Newark rather than at stations in Monmouth and Ocean Counties which are under the jurisdiction of the Jersey Central.

The Jersey Central has about 12,000 daily commuters and the Penn Central has 22,000 daily commuters, including those who ride the main line and will not be immediately affected by the higher fares. However, fares increases on the Penn Central main line between Trenton and Newark have been temporarily blocked. A spokesman for the State Commuter Operating Agency said the main line fare hikes were awaiting a ruling by a federal judge in Philadelphia as to whether the main line is under the jurisdiction of the Penn Central railroad or is part of Amtrak, the national passenger railroad corporation. All the fare increases were fares by 20 per cent on its main line, which links Newark with "Union, Somerset and Hunterdon counties, and 10 per cent of its shore line service. The Penn Central was granted a 10 per cent hike on its New York and Long Branch line.

The state approved a 10 per cent increase for the Penn Central's main line after the railroad asked for 20 per cent. Because the Penn Central increases will not take effect until Monday commuters from the TRENTON (A() The Jersey Central Railroad and the Penn Central railroad are quietly putting fare increases into effect for some of their commuter service. The Jersey Central put the increases into effect on Jan. 3 on both its main line and seashore service. The Penn Central will raise the fares on its New York and Long Branch line starting next Monday.

approved by the Commuter Operating Agency last August. But they were not implemented because of the wage-price freeze by the Nixon Administration. Spokesmen for the railroads said the increases are now taking effect because the Federal Price Commission has held that they are all within the national guidelines. Both railroads are putting the increases into effect without a formal announcement. The Jersey Central increased India raises Hanoi ties Shotgun wielding man hijacks jetliner; goal believed Cuba WASHINGTON (AP) Government officials say the Nixon administration will be forced in the next few weeks to ask Congress to again raise the national debt ceiling by a near-record amount.

Treasury aides said yesterday the current $430-billion ceiling is expected to be exceeded by March 1 unless Congress, as it usually does each year, agrees to raise it. LAST YEAR Congress boosted the debt limit by a record $35 billion, trimming only $5 billion from the government's request. Officials indicated the new request could come close to that increase. The 1972 fiscal year deficit currently is estimated at $28 billion, largest since World War II. The deficit that has to be financed through borrowing of the Treasury is even larger than that, since trust funds, which usually run a surplus, are not included.

Treasury officials said the increase requested will depend on the size of the deficit projected for fiscal 1973. That figure will be disclosed in a few weeks when the new budget goes to Congress. AS OF DEC. 30, the national debt subject to the limitation was at $426 billion and still climbing. A fall in government revenues, new expenditure programs and additional tax relief granted by Congress are contributing to the deficit, officials said.

Another sizable deficit is expected in fiscal 1973, but officials say it may not be as large as the current one. Normally, the government tries to raise the debt ceiling enough to pay for government operations through June 30 the end of the fiscal year and still have enough money left over for emergencies. But the big de-ficit for 1972 means the government has only $4 billion left on its debt limit and nearly six months of this fiscal year to finance. IN A RELATED MATTER, President Nixon's chief budget officer said yesterday the fiscal year 1973 budget will not have a request for a value-added tax. Angeles business executive, said she ordered: "Everybody look forward or someone's going to get shot." Passenger Lynn Thomas, 24, San Mateo, said he didn't notice the hijacker until "he came up the aisle with a shotgun jammed in the spine of a stewardess he was gripping by her ponytail." The man poking "at one passenger, swung his shotgun and threatened to "blow off heads" if anyone didn't follow orders, Heffernan said.

NEW DELHI (AP) India established full diplomatic relations with North Vietnam today, abandoning its official policy of treating Hanoi and Saigon as equals. This means that India will have an embassy in Hanoi and only a consulate general, whose chief is of lower rank than an embassy's ambassador, in Saigon. India has resisted this move in the past, despite demands from leftist political parties and Communist nations, saying it would jeopardize its status as chairman of the International Control Commission which is charged with supervising the 1954 cease-fire in Vietnam. LOS ANGELES (AP) A oung man holding a shotgun against the back of an airline stewardess and a woman with pistol and a baby hijacked a jet airliner today on a commuter flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The hijackers allowed 134 passengers and a steward to leave the Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 as the craft refueled in Los Angeles.

"I don't want these people, I want them off," the hijacker, about 25, told the pilot, according to one of the passengers. In Washington, the Federal Aviation Administration said the plane was headed for Tampa, for refueling. The agency said the plane's pilot estimated it would arrive in Tampa at 9:27 a.m. One passenger said the hijacking began when the man grabbed a stewardess by her pony-tail, pushed the shotgun into her back and started toward the cockpit. The woman, also about 25, carried the baby in a cradle and a pistol in her other hand.

Passenger John Heffernan, a Los pit! m-rM' SIP Inside THE COURIER-NEWS Bridge Classified Comics Editorials Family Money Obituaries 21-26 27 18 5-8 14, 15 20 9-11 12 Sports FARMERS WARNED WASHINGTON (AP) The Agriculture Department is stepping up warnings to livestock producers that tighter controls on the use of the growth hormone DES must be closely adhered to or crackdowns will be forthcoming. Television ak wirepnoio Blues Coach AI Arbour (left), Phil Roberto (right) and Floyd Thomson arrive at Philadelphia police headquarters in paddy wagon following hockey game at the Spectrum that was delayed 30 minutes due to a fight between Blues team members and fans. Coach Arbour, Roberto, Thomson and John Arbour (not shown) were charged with assault on a police officer. Details page 9. CASHWORDS: $750 See page 28.