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80th Year Phone 793-3221 REDLANDS, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1970 $2.00 Per Month 16 Pages 10 Cents $50-million a year Mansfield urges U. S. stop financing Thai's HIJACKERS A group of young men and women, who hijacked an llyushin-14 airliner of the state-run Czech airlines, is escorted to police headquarters at airport after the plane landed at Nuernberg, Germany, today. The plane was en route from the spa city of Karlsbad to Prague and was the second time within three days that a commercial airliner was diverted from Communist Eastern Europe to the West The group requested political asylum, authorities said. (UP1 Cablephoto) Czech airliner Agnew's speeches damaging hijacked to Germany NUERNBERG, Germany tVPD Eight hijackers, includ tag two married couples, used guns to force the pilot of a Czechoslovak State Airlines plane to land at Nuernberg today, Bavarian border police said.

Police said the Hyushin 14 airliner of Czechoslovakia's CSA airline was flying a domestic route from Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) to Prague when the hijackers forced the pilot to alter course. The hijackers, who also had a two-year-old child with them, were armed with five nistols. a knife and brass knuckles, police said. The crew did not resist the hijackers' demands and there were no incidents on board the aircraft, they said. Twenty-five police surrounded the plane as it came to rest on the airport apron, they said.

The hijackers left the plane and surrendered without resistance. Nixon sets Sunday as Flag Day WASHINGTON (UPI) Nixon today designated next Sunday as Flag Day and die start of National Flag Week. In a special proclamation, he urged Americans to fly the flag throughout the week at then- homes and other suitable places. "We honor the flag for what it is and for what it demands of us," Nixon said, adding that it "symbolizes the dignity of man as it did when those Americans created it." Campus survey finds Nixon losing support of youth WASHINGTON (UPI) young White House aides have concluded after a tour of college campuses that President Nixon is losing support of sons and daughters of "the 1 silent majority" because of Vice Spiro T. Agnew's speeches and other administration policies, the Washington Evening Star reported today.

The aides were reporting to the President later today on their visits to about 30 campuses last month to deter- 1 mine how young people are reacting to the Nixon administration. The Star said the findings of the eight "were quite different from the views that have been expressed publicly by the President, the vice president and such top White House aides as John Ehrlichman." In their sessions with students at a wide range of colleges, the newspaper said, the aides "found that nonpolitical, middle- class students were just as suspicious of the Nixon administration as the antiwar radicals. "In fact, they found that there are very few students left who could be described as nonpolitical." "The vice president's role in the administration was only the most obvious part of the problem that the aides discov-, ered," the Star said. "The students' near unanimous criticism Of Agnew was Fresno ballots finally counted FRESNO 96,000 voters who cast ballots in last Tuesday's primary election have finally learned the results of their efforts. A jinxed computer, which caused a 29-hour delay in 1968, got around to tabulating Tuesday's vote last Saturday night.

It only took three. hours of! the figures were 100 hours late. The error was human. The machine worked perfectly, but its program was not completed early by county employes in time for the election. Israeli, Syrian forces in ground, air combat By United Press International' Israeli and Syrian forces battled in ground and air Combat today for the second consecutive day in the occupied Golan Heights.

There was speculation that Syria was reactivating the long dormant front to relieve Israeli pressures on Egypt. New strife was reported between Arab guerrillas in Jordan and the Jordanian army. The Palestine Liberation Organization said. ,104, persons were killed or wounded in a guerrilla-army battle Sunday in the town ofZerqa 20 miles northeast of Amman. Some fighting was reported in Amman itself.

Meanwhile'Israel' pressed its air war against Egyptian targets along- the Suez Canal and an Arab leader warned that American economic interests in the Middle East would suffer if the United States continues military support of Israel. A Syrian communique from Damascus said a gun battle started at 11:30 a.m. today in the southern sector of the Golan Heights, an area of high ground which the Israelis seized in the June, 1967 war. The combat spread later to the central sector with the Israelis using artillery and tank cannon The Syrian report said Israeli commanders threw jet fighter- bombers into the battle at 12:30 p.m. and that the planes were met by heavy antiaircraft fire.

Damascus communiques said Syrian gunners opened fire and inflicted heavy damage on Nabal Gesher, a settlement which the Israelis established after the 1967 war. In fighting in the- Golan Heights on: Syria reported six Syrian civilians were wounded in artillery duels with Israeli gunners. Weather Redlands today: High 65, low 57 (To 1:30 p.m.) Year.ago today: High 76, low 57 Saturday: High 88, low 55 Sunday: High 84, low 54 Smog: Light Tuesday. Smog Friday .18 at 3:30 p.m., duration over .15 2Vi hours; Saturday .24 at 3:15 p.m., duration over .15 5 hours; Sunday .18 at 4 p.m., duration over .15 4 hours. Max.

Wind: 14 WNW, 4:45 p.m. Sun: Rises 5:38, sets 7:58 San Btrnardino Vallty: Night and morning low overcast with local early morning light drizzle and with partly sunny but hazy skies tomorrow afternoon. Little temperature change. Southern California: Night and morning low overcast and light drizzle inland to mountain slopes otherwise partly sunny Tuesday with considerable high cloudiness. Not much temperature change.

Five-day Forecast: Fair and warm weather in Southern California through the end of the week. National Weather (24 hours ending 4 a.m.) High Low Prtcip. Boston Chicago Cincinnati Denver Des Moines Fairbanks Fort Worth Helena Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Minneapolis' New York Oklahoma'City Omaha Palm: Springs Sacramento Ealt Lake City San Francisco Seattle Washington Highest, lowest 48 states Needles, 104; Alamosa, 39 WASHINGTON (UPI) Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield urged the administration today to stop "greenbaek- lng" Thailand troops, whether in South Vietnam or in Cambodia. Mansfield noted previously secret testimony that the United States has been financing troops in South Vietnam. "I understand also that if Thai troops go into Cambodia, we'll very likely be greenback- ing them just as we are in South Vietnam," Mansfield told reporters.

"I would like to see money for Thai troops in other countries cut out." He urged that Congress go into the matter "very thoroughly." Information on the transaction involving the Thais was contained in a heavily censored transcript of Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings. The top-secret military "contingency plan" apparently included use of American ground combat forces to protect the. Thai government if necessary against a Communist takeover. The bilateral agreement signed in 1965 was not subject to confirmation by the Senate and Congress was not told about it until last year. The newly released testimony of State Department officials also disclosed that the United States has paid Thailand $50 million a year since 1967 to finance a Thai military force in South Vietnam.

In addition, as part of that arrangement, the United States increased its military aid to Thailand by $15 million a year in 1968 and 1969. A further arrangement provided Thailand with a battery of Hawk antiaircraft missiles. According to the transcript of hearings held in November and released Sunday, administration officials and committee members differed sharply whether the joint contingency plan amounted to an official U.S. commitment to Thailand. Leonard Unger, U.S.

Ambassador to Thailand, steadfastly contended the plan did not constitute a new commitment to Thailand, though he edged that it was a "factor of assurance" to the Thais that the United States would stand by them under the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) pact. He also said the United States has an obligation to the "successful defense" of Thailand if it is threatened by external aggression. But committee chairman Sen. J. William Fulbright, Sen.

Stuart Symington, and other committee members argued that since the plan was bilateral, signed by the Thai Prime Minister and an American general, Richard Stillwell, it was certainly more than a routine, planning document. Subcommittee sources said, however, it was not clear what parts of the classified agreement are still applicable because of legislation enacted last White House the use of American ground troops in Thailand or Laos. The Senate now is considering a similar measure regarding Cambodia. "You can and you have done nearly everything outlined in the Thai contingency plan except provide ground troops," Fulbright told Unger during the hearings. The statement went unchallenged.

"So far as Thailand is concerned, Senator, we have," Unger' replied. The contingency plan was not extensively discussed in the hearings since the committee received a completely secret briefing on its details earlier. But the transcript did go into considerable detail on another U.S. Thai agreement, signed Nov. 9, 1967, by Unger and a representative of the Thai Prime Minister.

The United States, under that agreement, at a cost of $200 million has equipped fully and provided logistics support for Thai forces going to Vietnam. Fulbright and other members of the panel said this amounted to supporting a "mercenary" army, but Unger and other administration representatives argued Thailand's worsening economic situation did not allow that government to support the forces itself. considered the symptom of a bigger problem: growing.alien­ ation administration and from the political system as a whole." Those conducting the survey were John Campbell, 26, Chris DeMuth, 23, Jeff DonfeM, and Checker Finn, 25, all assistants on the White House domestic affairs' staff; Bill Casseiman, 28, a special assistant for congressional affairs; Lee Huebner, 29, an assistant speech writer; Don Murdock, 28, a special counsel in the Office of Economic Opportunity; and Hugh Sloan, 29, a staff assistant for appointments. 59 .55 .24 86 68 83 59 80 49 .02 87 62 71 88 43 68 78 46 .11 84 67 96 66 .18 73 63 92 .68 72 60 .01 86 64 90 65 103 73 79 54 78 56 .14 57 52 67 48 79 60 Election decision may 90 to state Supreme Court SACRAMENTO (UPI) chairman of the Senate Elections and Reapportionment Committee said today last Tuesday's primary election results may ultimately be decided by the state Supreme Court. Sen.

James E. Whetmore told a news conference an investigator hired by. his committee found that voted incorrectly because of ballot foiilups in Los Angeles County. "We found of voters who had the wrong pages in the book" that listed candidates and ballot propositions, he said, but added there probably is no way of knowing how many persons cast incorrect votes. The lawmaker said a candidate who lost an election because of the Los Angeles mixup may challenge the entire election in the courts.

"I wouldn't be surprised," he said. Seven killed in explosion at Ft. Bragg FT. BRAGG, N.C. dynamite explosion on a crowded demolition training range killed seven Green Beret soldiers and injured five others, three seriously, today at Ft.

Bragg. Cause of the blast was not immediately- determined and officials said details of the incident would be withheld pending a military investigation. A spokesman said, however, that a quantity; of TNT used for instruction, purposes, exploded. There were about 100 troops on the range at "the time and the blast gouged out a hole three and one half feet in diameter. Cambodia drives enemy out of Siem Reap PHNOM PENH Cambodian troops have driven North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces out of the outskirts of the city of Siem Reap and its airport-near' the ruins; of-the ancient city of Angkor Wat, military spokesmen said today.

Military officials said government forces had also recaptured the town of Kompong Thorn, 65 miles north of Phnom Penh. An official spokesman said the Cambodian troops counterattacked Sunday and retook Siem Reap airport, which had been in bands since Friday night, then ousted Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops from barracks on the outskirts of Siem Reap. Cambodian commanders poured reinforcements into the Siam Reap Airport and the city itself to consolidate the government hold. Siem Reap, 150 miles northwest of Phnom Penh, is the gateway to the 9th Century ruins of Angkor Wat and Angkor Thorn, visited by thousands of tourists annually. In Saigon, South Vietnamese! spokesmen said a South Vietnamese task force had finished a drive to clear the east bank of the Mekong River but was remaining inside Cambodia to link up with government marines operating nearby.

The U. S. Command in Saigon reported today that a helicopter gunship of the 1st Air Cavalry Division Sunday accidentally opened fire into allied troops in the Cambodian Fish Hook region and killed two South Vietnamese soldiers and wounding 17, one of them an American adviser. Last Thursday, four Allied troops including two Americans, were killed when a 101st Airborne Division gunship straffed ground forces near the. Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).

The U. S. command said today U. S. troop strength in Vietnam was at its lowest level in more than three years with 425,450 U.

S. servicemen in the war zone, down 2,600 from the previous week and the lowest since the week ending March 31, 1967, when there were 420,900 men on duty there. Presidential task force concludes Vietnam trip SAIGON presidential task force concluded a four- day fact-finding trip to Southeast Asia today. They said they were prepared to report to President Nixon "new insights and" facts about the Cambodian situation." 13'member group, governors and White-House officials departed from Tan Son Nhut airport for Honolulu aboard a presidential jet. They planned to return to Washington later in the week with a written report for Nixon and Congress.

U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth C. Bunker and Gen. Creighton Abrams, commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, were at the airport to see them off.

Herbert G. Klein, White House communications director and leader of the highest-level! ST. delegation to visit Cambodia About and Cambodia, to talk with the troops and meet with American and Vietnamese officials, Klein said. "It has given us a new insight and a full opportunity to learn the facts about the situation in Cambodia." Argentine leaders oust Ongania from presidency BUENOS AIRES (UPI) The commanders of Argentina's armed forces today announced they have ousted President- Gen. Juan Carlos Ongania, the military man they put in power nearly Lfour years ago.

Shortly before they left, Klein Tnis junta comma and Gov. Raymond P. Shafer of; Pennsylvania made a quick flight to Phnom Penh to. confer with Cambodian Prime Minister Lon Nol and U.S. Charge d'Affaires Lloyd M.

Rives. Union groups parade in St. Louis in-chief (of the army, navy and air force) has resolved to resume immediately the political power in the Argentine Republic," a communique said. It added: "Consequently, "it (the junta) invites Lt. Gen.

Ongania to resign the post he has held until this date by mandate of this junta." The stem, mustached nia responded to the order to get out by bringing two truckloads of troops into the Pink House Presidential Palace LOUIS, Mo. (UPI) 45,000 union tradesmen a nd evacuating civilian person- entry there, made a and members of veterans ne i. it raised the question of brief statement in Saigon groups showed their whether the army would obey before taking off for Hawaii. jfor America Sunday in a four-jongania or the armed forces They were "very pleased to mile parade interrupted CO mmanders -trying to oust have the opportunity" to visit I brief clashes with young the field both in South Vietnam New study asked for Fort Irwin WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Defense Department, was told today to take another look at 1 its decision to mothball Fort Irwin, and use it only for training reserves. The House Appropriations Committee, in approving the $1.9 billion military construction bill for fiscal 1971, said it was 'not convinced the Pentagon had studied the decision thoroughly.

Cosmonauts exceed record of Russians MOSCOW (UPI) cosmonauts Andrian Nikolayev and Vitaly Sevastianov today flew farther and longer in space than any of their countrymen But they need another week to break the United States' space flight record. The cosmonauts' Soyuz 9 craft made its 100th orbit of.the earth early today with all systems normal and the men feeling well after 147 hours of flight. They had broken the Soviet space endurance record set by Valery F. Bykovsky in the 119-hour flight of Vostok 5 in 1963. Soviet sources said veteran cosmonaut Nikolayev and his rookie Sight engineer may remain aloft as long as 18 days.

They went up June 1. Frank Borman and James Lovell established the record five years ago with a flight of 13 days, 18 hours in their cramped Gemini 7. Soyuz 9 has a small orbital re-entry compartment close to the size of Gemini 7 and a larger command compartment about, the size of a railroad sleeping car section. The command compartment, crammed with scientific instruments, was a flying laboratory for what veteran cosmonaut Alexei Yeb'seyev told Tass news agency was the most extensive space research program ever mounted. He said Nikolayev and Sevastianov spent tip to five hours a day on scientific experiments, another two'hours exercising to test the effects of prolonged flight, eight hours asleep and the rest' of their time analyzing and recording their data.

antiwar protesters. At least a dozen persons were injured, including a policeman and a newspaper photographer. A small group of marchers wearing hard bats broke from the main parade and attacked several of whom carried a sign saying "Veteran against the war" watching from the lawn of a home. None of the injuries was believed serious. Police said only a few arrests were made him.

Word of the ousting of Ongania came shortly after the issuance of a toughly-worded challenge to his authority by the leaders of the armed forces, and a demand they be given direct participation in government. Ongania, 56, a former calvary lieutenant-general, replied by firing his army chief, Lt; Gen. Alejandro Lanusse, the man who acted as a spokesman for the armed forces, and taking for general peace disturbance, over the job himself. Indians resume fight for Northern California land BIG BEND Indian band which reoccupied private campground in hopes of provoking a legal battle over its ownership were assured today they'd get a court test. Pacific Gas Electric Co- owners of the camp on the Pit River at Big' Bend, asked the Shasta County sheriff's office to remove the 50 Pit River Indians and their allies who seized it Sunday night.

The utility firm also rescinded a decision not to press charges against 34 Indians arrested for trespassing at the campsite Saturday. The company said the "second provocation left us with no recourse but to press charges." The Indians, who are claiming 3.5 million acres of Northern California, indicated their new invasion was prompted by the firm's announcement it wouldn't seek convictions for the first takeover. "We're going to force the company's hand one way or the other," said Richard Oakes, a Mohawk who also led the invasion of Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay. The Indians want a court test of their claims to an area, the size of Connecticut which covers parts of four counties and extends from Shasta Lake to Lassen Volcanic National Park. The Pit River Tribe maintain the land was taken from them illegally in contention upheld by the Indian Claims Commission in 1959.

However, the government contends the tribe agreed to relinquish its rights in return for part of a still unpaid $29 million settlement offered to all California Indians for disputed land. Meanwhile, the superintendent of Lassen National Park where rifle-bearing U.S. marshals turned back Indians early Friday in their first effort to occupy part of their said the park would remain closed through at least Wednesday because of the threat of another raid. In still another development. Indians who have held Alcatraz since November, went into the tour'.

business today. They welcomed non-Indian visitors to a $5 tour to raise funds. The federal government, which announced plans to include the former prison island in a national recreation area, has cut off water and power to the famed "Rock," However, it has made no effort to remove the Indian occupying force. ft.