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Dolphs Skim By Broims, 20-14 The Miami Dolphins took a 'giant step' forward yesterday with a harrowing 20-14 last quarter victory over the Cleveland Browns in the Orange Bowl. They meet the Pittsburgh Steelers next Sunday for the AFC title. For the heroics, see Page IE. itt Holiday Edition Death Claims Charles Atlas Charles Atlas, a pioneer in the body-building fad after he developed himself from a weakling into a strongman, is dead at 79. See story on Page 3C.

Weather Generally fair through tomorrow with mild days and cool at Bight High today mid 70s, low tonight near 50. Details, Pg. 2A. ADDERMLE-1 Vol. 62, No.

73 1972 Core New spapcrs Company FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, MONDAY, DEC. 23, 1972 11 Sections 172 lWs Ten Cents (I) Fort I Medical Relief Help Pours In For Victims Th Associated Press MIAMI A planeload of American doctors, nurses and medical technicians have volunteered to give up Christmas with their families and fly today to earthquake-torn Managua, Nicargua. Sixty doctors and 20 nurses and technicians signed up for the flight, the second in what was hoped would be a series of medical relief expeditions sponsored by Lanica Airlines of Nicaragua. Twenty other doctors and six nurses flew from Miami to Managua yesterday to give emergency medical care to the thousands who were injured when earthquakes rolled through the Central American capital Saturday. Dr.

Herman Selinsky of Miami, medical officer for Lanica and coordinator of the volunteer medical relief flights, said hundreds of other doctors from all across Florida had volunteered to give up their holiday to spend up to a week in. Managua. "The response to radio appeals for help from the medical profession has been amazing," Selinsky said. "It's been a very gratifying response especially since it is Christmas and they will have to leave their families." Meanwhile, Miami citizens responded to radio appeals for supplies with box after box of food, clothing, medicine and cash. "People have been bringing boxes of clothes, shoes, blankets, food and everything," a spokesman for Lanica Airlines said.

"We really didn't know what we are getting. Whatever the people bring we are putting on a plane." Three Lanica cargo planes filled with supplies left Miami yesterday and other flights were planned for today. has been so great that he has been able to pick and choose specialists in the fields of orthopedics, blood and pollution-related illnesses who are especially needed in disaster work. The immediate problem, Selinsky said, was getting medical teams into the Managua airport. "Everything is so jammed up there," he said.

"We wanted to send anothe rgroup of doctors in last night, but we couldn't." In addition to the volunteer medical effort, the U.S. Air Force flew a complete 100-bed hospital from Ft. Hood, to Managua and a 24-bed unit was flown out of MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa. Officials said those wanting to help could send checks to the American Red Cross, Nicaraguan Relief Fund, 5020 Bis-cayne Miami. Supplies can be mailed to Lanica Airlines, Cargo Terminal, Building DC6, Miami International Airport.

Much of the supplies came from listeners to radio station WFAB, a Spanish language station. A spokesman said WFAB's calls for help had resulted in $31,000 in cash and four truckloads of clothing by late yesterday. "It's been a terrific response," the spokesman said. "There have been so many people coming by the station that we've had to call for a traffic officer." Officials said blood plasma, water purification equipment, food and clothing were the most needed items. "Since most people cannot practically donate the first two, we are concentrating on the others," Phil Donahue, spokesman for the Hialeah Sister City Committee, said Hialeah, a suburb of Miami, is Managua's sister city.

Selinsky said the response from Florida doctors for help uravors iriee -tor ftisf make ceee I i I i Ji 11 Lady it Let ylitc Arriving In Washington From Nicaragua U.S. Bombing Slowdown Hinted For Yule Holiday bombing raids except to say targets in both the North and South, as well as in Laos and Cambodia, were hit during the 24 hours ending at 9 p.m. EST today. BOMBER DOWN A spokesman said a Navy A7 Corsair attack bomber was shot down yesterday near the North Vietnam port of Haiphong. Its pilot was listed as missing, bringing to 57 the AP Wlrephoto of fighter-bombers raided the outskirts of Hanoi on Christmas Eve, but the U.S.

command refused to comment on the report. 58 VIOLATIONS At the same time, the Saigon high command said Communists violated their own Christmas cease-fire at least 58 times in ground action that killed at least 105 persons. (Continued on Page 2A, Col. 3) on, Kissinger said on Dec. 16 that Nixon thought a "just and fair" settlement had not been reached.

Kissinger said Hanoi had reneged on matters supposedly already nailed down. In turn, Hanoi said Kissinger had sought changes because of objections raised by South Vietnam's President Nguyen Van Thieu. Thuy said Washington had raised the question of North Vietnamese forces in South Vietnam during the November (Continued on Page 2A, Col. 3) Amidst tyeatli, Havoc United Press International i MANAGUA, Nicaragua Government officials said today 300,000 inhabitants of Managua have fled their earthquake-shattered city, leaving behind the ruins of their homes and the bodies of many of their kinsmen. A international rescue operation swung into action to aid persons still huddled in tht wreckage of the city.

Gen. Anastasio Somoza, former president and still the major political force in the country, said 80 per cent of the city was destroyed by the earthquake which struck early Saturday, but it still was impossible to say how many persons perished. "We have officially buried more than 800 persons," Somoza said yesterday, "but we have no figures on the total number of dead." Lt. Col. Jose Alagret, the commander of the army's corps of engineers, said as many as 12,000 may have died, with more than 20,000 injured and perhaps 200,000 homeless.

A CITY THAT WAS "This is a city that was," Alagret said, "but is no more." Entire blocks lay in ruins, looking like the result of an air raid. A civil defense official, Rafael Martinez, told Somoza he estimated that 6,000 persons died in one middle-class neighborhood called El Cal-vario. Among the known dead were two Americans, identified as Rose Marie Orlich, 36, of Philadelphia, a secretary at the U. S. Embassy, and Kathy Slaughter of Los Angeles, a tourist who died when part of a hotel collapsed.

More earth tremors shook the city last night, causing some signs of panic among remaining inhabitants, but no more damage. (Continued on Page 2A, Col. 8) Dolfarts Carl T. Burlette, a 51-year-old man who tried to fly a television antenna attached to a helium-filled balloon so he could watch the Dolphins play yesterday, was reported in fair condition and recovering today from nearly being eleo tOllllf after the wire bed a power line. Bomb Halt Key To Peace Negotiations, N.

Viet Says UPI T.lephoto A Cathedral Sl'dl Stands Intact In Managua Ruins Truman Remains In Coma; Heart Erratic, Weakening number of American airmen missing in one week of the full-scale resumption of the air war in and around Hanoi and Haiphong. Earlier, informed sources said the American air war over both North and South Vietnm was limited today to "defensive patrols" during a 24-hour cease-fire announced by Communist and government forces. Hanoi radio said one flight ried out under the bombing, under bombs and shells." His comments were made through a translator on the ABC-TV "Issues and Answers" program which was filmed Saturday in Paris and broadcast yesterday. Thuy said the North Vietnamese government was prepared to sign a peace pact on the basis of the October draft agreement worked out by its representative, Le Due Tho, and Henry A. Kissinger, President Richard Nixon's national security adviser.

He again accused Washington of seeking to change the substance of the October draft. BOMBING HALT On Dec. 18, the United States resumed bombing north of the 20th parallel, including Hanoi and Haiphong. The bombings were halted for 24 hours for Christmas. Kissinger had said on Oct.

26 that "peace is at hand." Only details remained to be ironed out, he added. But after the talks dragged Unltid Prtsi Inltrnationtl SAIGON U.S. military authorities said American war-planes carried out bombing raids oh targets in North and South Vietnam today and also reported the loss of another U.S. warplane near Haiphong. But authorities did not say the targets today included the Hanoi and Haiphong areas.

The U.S. command refused to give any details of the Castro To Return Ransom Tin Associated Prut ATLANTA -The Cuban government has assured a Southern Airways official that the $2 million ransom which the airline paid to three hijackers last November will be returned. The -return of the money will enable Southern to turn a profit this year for the first time since 1966, according to Graydon Hall, executive vice president and general manager of the Atlanta-based airline. There was no indication when the money would be paid, hut Hall said the "transaction is in progress now." He said he plans to discuss the affair with State Department officials tomorrow. A State Department spokesman said yesterday that pri-v a negotiations between Cuba and Southern Airways had been approved some time time ago, after State Depart- (Continued on Page 2A, CoL 1) For the precious little girl in your life, start a pearl necKiact bv adding a nearl for each spe cial occasion at PribbKs Jewel ter Margaret Daniel was in New York with her husband and children.

At bedtime yesterday, Research Hospital spokesman John Dreves said, "He's about the same. Butt he longer he stays without improving, there is a weakening effect." Dreves said Truman's vital signs had "not changed appreciatively." "The longer the blood pressure fluctuates and heart rate continues to be abnormal, there will be a debilitating effect on his heart," Dreves said. United Press International KANSAS CITY, President Harry Truman, 88, was in a coma Christmas day. Doctors said if his condition did not improve soon, there would be further weakening of his already erratic heart. Truman has been hospitalized 21 days the longest hospitalization of his life.

He was listed in critical condition for the third day in a row. Truman's wife Bess, 87, spent Christmas eve by her husband's bedside. Their daugh Th. Associated Press NEW YORK Peace negotiations cannot be resumed until the United States halts its bombing of North Vietnam above the 20th parallel, says Xuan Thuy. Thuy, Hanoi's chief negotiator at the Paris talks, said, "Negotiations cannot be car- XUAN THUY on television WE WILL BUY your DIAMONDS and old jewelry and pay the highest spot cash price Enthusiasm Nearly Tragic Business, Stocks 14G Classified 3-15F Comics 6, 7H Crossword Puzzle 7H Editorials 14, ISA Entertainment 21-24D Horoscope (H Living USD Local News 1-3B Movie Time Clock 22D Obituaries 3C Sports 1-7E Television 12G Weather Report 2A He was given first aid by police officers then treated and admitted to Holy Cross hospital.

The Dolphin-Cleveland Browns football game yesterday was blacked out here, but could be picked up from Southwest Florida television stations by using ft high antenna. wire to a helium-filled balloon and was tinkering with it when the wire aloft touched the high-voltage line, reports said. The charge of electricity burned through the thin wire almost instantly, police said, saving Burlette's life when the charge was cut oft. Fort Lauderdale police said Burlette was hurled against the wall of his home at 1900 NW 15th Ave. by the jolt of electricity from power lines.

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