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TIDEWATER WEATHER Partly Cloudy, Mild High In The Mid 70s Low Tonight Near 60 (Weather Map, Details, Page 2) Lj HAMPTON ROADS MORNING NEWSPAPER NEWPORT vikgwia A i-u 77'h YEAR No. 189 FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 7, 1972 IY CARRIER 73c 10c Vl mlmg Bemo Delegate Appeal Orlliodox Patriarch Dies At 86 TWW'r vm-smi. t.vf Pondered By Burger WASHINGTON (LTD Burger's order delayed im- representing the Credentials 'The courts have ne 'The courts have 01 4 4 A I f. never in Committee, and for Daley's group asked Burger to bring the Supreme Court back to review the 2-1 appellate decision in the California dispute and the unanimous action in the Illinois case. They argued the disputes were best to be settled by the party itself at its ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -Patriarch Athcnagoras who led his Orthodox Church into a dialogue with Roman Catholicism after centuries of estrangement, died Friday of kidney failure.

He was 86. The ecumenical patriarch, leader of the world's 250 mil-1 i Orthodox Christians, broke his hip in a fall a week ago. Doctors said his death at the Balikli Greek Orthodox hospital In Istanbul followed a massive loss of blood pressure. Athcnagoras was to have been flown to Vienna on Friday or Saturday for orthopedic surgery. Until Thursday, doctors had expressed optimism about his health, aside from the fracture.

A spokesman at the patriarchate on the Golden Horn here said the Holy Synod, the governing body of, world Orthodoxy, would meet Friday morning to decide on details of the patriarch's funeral. The body will be taken from the hospital, which is outside the city walls of Istanbul, to the patriarchal Church of St. George for lying in state. Athenagoras' successor will be chosen by the Holy Synod, which comprises 12 metropolitan archbishops of the ecumenical patriarchate. Non-delegates sit around Miami campsite while a local citizen relaxes on a HOPEFUL HUMPHREY SIMMERS cGovern Seeks Running Mate plementation of the appellate court's rulings to award 153 California delegates to McGovern and to uphold the Democratic Credential Committee's ruling which Chicago Mayor Richard J.

Daley's 59-member delegation. The delay gave Burger time to consider an urgent appeal from the Democratic National Committee that he reassemble the Supreme Court from its summer recess to consider overturning the California decision. Daley's group asked, too, that the Chicago decision be reversed. McGovern stood to gain 41 delegates from the Chicago area if Daley's bid fails. Those delegates, along with the 153 from California, would assure him a first-ballot presidential nomination when the roll is called in Miami Beach Wednesday night, McGovern's aides said.

It was presumed here although no announcement was made that Burger was in contact with his colleagues on the Supreme Court in pondering the requests for an extraordinary session. The appeals court on Wednesday overturned the vote of the Democratic Credentials Committee last week to take 153 California delegates from McGovern and distribute them among his rivals in the June 6 winner-take-all primary. The court also upheld the Credentials Committee decision to replace Daley's uncommitted delegation with one more favorable to McGovern. Shortly after the Supreme Court building opened Thursday, attorneys for the Democratic National Committee, Chief Justice Warren K. Burger temporarily delayed execution Thursday of lower court decisions which awarded Sen.

George S. McGovern 194 disputed Democratic convention delegates. But he announced no decision on whether to summon the vacationing Supreme Court back to consider appeals by the losers in those decisions. Banning F. Whitlingion, the court's press officer, said before the court offices closed for the nicjit that some action was expected this morning.

candidate during the Wednesday night session. With favorable credentials rulings from the U. S. Court of Appeals in Washington giving a new lift to his campaign, McGovern let it be known that he already was thinking seriously about who he would tap as a running mate next week, and that his list was growing. This prompted a flurry of new volunteers for the post, including Sen.

Mike Gravel of Alaska and Patrick J. Lucey, the liberal, pro-McGovern governor of Wisconsin, who said that "I can't conceive of circumstances umter which I would refuse" a vice presidential offer. Gravel announced his candidacy at a Washington news conference, and said the See Demos, Page 27, Col. 3 MIAMI BEAC H(UPI) George S. McGovern confidently reviewed a list of possible vice presidential running mates Thursday as Hubert H.

Humphrey placed his still distant hopes for the Democratic nomination in the hands of the U. S. Supreme Court. While workmen rushed to complete construction before the weekend onslaught of about 5,600 delegates and alternates at this sundrenched ocean resort, convention managers were considering tearing up their original timetable fashioned primarily for evening television to allow enough time for prolonged BOMBERS BLAST RED SCC Strikes Down New Pricing Insurance Statute RICHMOND (AP)-The State Corporation Commission in a 2-to-l decision Thursday struck down Virginia's controversial new competitive pricing insurance law. Virginia's attorney general had said earlier that some forms of insurance could not be written under the new law.

"The act is unconstitutional on its face and it is the duty of the commission to refrain from enforcing an unconstitutional statute," said SCC Chairman Ralph T. Catterall in an opinion in which Commissioner Junie L. Bradshaw concurred. In a dissenting opinion, Commissioner Preston C. Shannon disagreed the majority that "the new law is so vague that it is impossible to administer." Shannon conceded the statute, which became effective July 1, contained a number of flaws and omissions but said he felt the omissions did not affect the constitutionality of the law.

The decision by the commission means the old laws the new statute was designed to supplant will remain in effect subject to a review of the ruling by the Virginia Supreme Court. Catterall and Shannon both suggested in separate opinions, however, that the 1973 General Assembly meets in January and can make what legislative repairs to the bill it deems necessary presumably before the Supeme Court acts on any appeal in the case, The new insurance bill, designed to bring competitive pricing to rates on many types of insurance, was passed in the final hour of the 1972 General Assembly after the addition of a number of amendments. The SCC and Atty. Gen. Andrew P.

Miller cited flaws, omissions and apparent contradict'ons in the bill and urged Gov. Linwood Holton to veto it. With some reluctance, Holton signed the measure shortly before the bill-signing deaadline. Miller later suggested the governor should give serious consideration to calling a special legislative session to correct the new law before it became effective. Holton turned down the suggestion, indicating he felt the bill would work if those who administered it wanted to make it work.

The chief critics of the measure argued that some forms of insurance homeowners package policies among them could not be written under the new law. In addition, the regulation of fidelity and surety bonds was omitted and there was conflict of language in the sections leaiinj with automobile casualty insurance. Maneuvering Over, Chess Meet Is Set Viet Troopers Close On Quang Tri (AP wirepholo) nearby park bench. vention is to begin at 7 p.m. EDT Monday.

But Cubberly held out the possibility of two convention sessions daily, some starting as early as 10 a.m. EDT, rather than the usual evenings-only schedule, to hold the convention to its goal of nominating its presidential In Cambodia, the high command reported the enemy slammed more than 600 shells into the besieged district town of Angtassom, 40 miles south of Phnom Penh, in the heaviest bombardment in more than two years of war. The town has been cut off and transport planes are dropping supplies. Farther east, fighting was reported on Highway 1, the route connecting Phnom Penh and Saigon, on the east bank of the Mekong River 45 miles southeast of the Cambodian capital. Cambodian forces are believed to be trying to clear the enemy from the highway, cut in mid-April.

fied as Dimitr K. Alexiev and Michael D. Azmanoff. Both were 28 and had bleached their dark hair blond. Immigration authorities in San Francisco said both escaped across the Iron Curtain from Communist Bulgaria on different dates in 1968 and had been living at a Hayward, house with Alcxiev's wife.

A mr 9u il Illinium the enemy farces around Quang Tri and "then naturally Quang Tri will be taken." The enemy forces holed up in the bunkers among the houses were estimated at two companies, possibly 200 or more men. One prisoner said they had called for reinforcements. Furrow expressed doubt that the reinforcements ever could reach the bunkers because of air and artillery blows. The Saigon spokesman, Lt. Col.

Do Viet, said two companies of paratroopers controlled the southern edges of Quang Tri south of Highway 1, including the railroad sta 1 Is truded in this way into the quarrels of political candidates anil now that the Court of Apiwals in the District of Columbia has done so, we have no recourse but to ask the Supreme Court to restore the judiciary to its proper place in the constitutional See Burger, Page 27, Col. I Fischer earlier sent Spassky a "Dear Boris" letter apologizing for my "petty dispute over money'1 -hich had delayed and threatened to cancel the 24 match championships. A few ho' rs later Spassky sent word that he was satisfied with the apology, and the two met for the drawing and to inspect the hall and playing facilities. Harry Golonibesk, a member of the Central committee of the International Chess Federation FIDM announced that "the two players have now agreed to start, tha match on next Tuesday" in Reykjavik's seat Sports Hail. Efraim Geller, Spassky's second, read a statement saying the champion was satisfied with conditions for the matches which originally had been scheduled to start last, Sunday but had 'encountered one delay a' another.

Most of ihe delays were over Fischer's haggling for more money. This obstacle was cleared when a British banker doubled the purse, Fischer canie out of seclusion in New York and (lew to this island nation in the North Atlantic where Spassky, Ins on irritation growing, had been waiting patiently for the challenger. "Fischer has aMiliigid writing ai.d the president of HDK has declare'' that the rules of FIDt; will be strictly followed in the futute," Oiler said. floor fights over seating contests and the party platform. "This is shaping up as a grueling convention for all of us," said Ed Cubberly, a Democratic National Committee spokesman.

Barring a last minute change in the schedule Democratic National Con DEFENDERS over Haiphong during the raids. The two crewmen steered the plane out to sea, bailed out and were rescued. The plane was the 54th reported lost since the United States resumed fullscale bombing of the North two months ago. The Command said laser bombs knocked out the 96-foot Vu Chua railroad bridge 55 miles south of the border with China. The bridge is on the northeast rail line.

The command also reported that U.S. planes destroyed or damaged 45 supply trucks, 23 warehouses, 4 fuel depots, 2 bridges, 17 barges ami other surface craft, 9 antiaircraft guns, 3 radar sites and 6 radar vans. 81 passengers and a crew of five, FBI agents stormed the plane Wednesday and opened fire on a hijacker who had been holding a gun at the pilot's head in the cockpit. The hijacker in the rear of the plane began firing wildly, wounding two passengers and killing another before he was shot dead by agents, the FBI said. The hijackers were identified Thursday as two Bulgarian natives.

They had demanded ransom and wanted to be taken to Siberia. The hijackers were identi i SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese paratroopers a-vanced slowly on Quang Tri City Thursday and U.S. fight-erbombers pounded entrenched North Vietnamese troops guarding the access routes to the northern provincial capital. Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld, with the lead elements of the airborne task force, reported that Navy dive bombers dropped hundreds of small anti-personnel bombs on a row of e-shaded homes along Highway 1 on the southeastern ecPgc of the city. The paratroopers were taking fire from bunkers hidden among the houses, and the planes were attempting to clear a path into the city that fell to the North Vietnamese May 1.

In the afternoon, lead elements of the task force were still slightly more than a mile south of the city center, a moated citadel, and moving cautiously forward. Other airborne units and marines in the task force were moving on the city from the southeast and east but were still 1.8 to 2.2 miles from the citadel. Capt. Gail Furrow, 32, said the airborne task force he is advising could have pushed into the enemy-hclcf city Wednesday, but it had to secure the road to prevent the enemy from cutting the troops' supply line. Some paratroopers did enter Quang Tri on Tuesday, then took up positions on the southeastern edge.

A spokesman for the South Vietnamese command said the objective first was to de- tion. Most of Quang Tri lies north of the highway. Viet reported no government troops had yet moved into the northern sector. U.S. B52 heavy bombers ringed the city with hundreds of tons of explosives and flanking elements of the task force claimed to have killed 130 enemy soldiers in several battles near Quang Tri.

Government casualties were put at 10 killed and 90 wounded. The U.S. Command reported that American warplanes flew 360 strikes against North Vietnam on Wednesday in their heaviest raids since the 1968 bombing halt. An Air Force Phantom was hit by a surface to air missile hijacker going berserk," said J. Floyd Andrews, president of Pacific Southwest Airlines.

Meanwhile one passenger complained of lack of security measures at the airport where the flight began, although the airline said security measures were taken. FBI agent-in-charge Robert Gebhardt, who is described by the the FBI in San Francisco as having made the decision to rush the plane, said: "I hope this will be a lesson. We intended to stop this hijack, and stop it we did." After failing in six hours of negotiations to win release of FBI Agent Justifies Rush Of Hijackers, Shooting REYKJWIK, Iceland (UPI) After more than a week of psychological warfare, chess geniuses Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky met face to face Thursday night with the Soviet champion drawing the white pieces which will give him the first move in their world championship showdown. Spassky, 35, the Soviet title-holder, and Fischer, the temperamental 29-year-old American challenger, play the first game in the $250,000 contest Tuesday. 1 0 i (AP wirfpnoioi Defense Secretary Laird attacks McGovern.

McGovern-Proposed Defense Cuts Hit SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The FBI agent who ordered the rush of a captive jetliner that ended in shooting deaths of two hijackers and a passenger said Thursday he hopes "it will be a lesson" to future hijackers. The airline's president supported the FBI's action but said he was upset that the passenger had been killed and two other passengers wounded. "The FBI had a well thought out plan and it is obvious to me that it would have succeeded except for the one ...17 33-39 30 4 5 31-32 6 21-25 14 IN TODAY'S DA1LYPKKSS On The Peninsula Zumwalt says 'Nuts' to Soviet-Cuban demand U.S. leave (iuantanaino. Page 3 IS ci fih boring Com un itics Director of Instruction named for Middlesex school system.

Page 31 World (tf Sports Deccroft, Mattson slay alive in State Amateur golf. Page 21 "His proposals would lead the United States to a weaker nuclear posture that could leave a future American president with no alternative but a spasmodic first-strike, 'launch-on-warning' attack on enemy civilians and cities. "They would lead to a weaker conventional po.sti.re which would lower the nuclear threshhold, and to an inadequate moileniiation and procurement program which would cause severe erosion of U.S. capabilities in Imth areas." Laird contended the McGovern defense budget "even proposes giving away things agreed to" in tin- first stage pact between the United States and Russia limiting anti-missile defenses and numbers of strategic missile launchers on both sides. Laird also charged the McGovern position "disposes unilaterally, of tilings to tie negotiated" in the next round of U.S.

-Soviet arms limitation talks. The defense chief, who has said he could not support the arms limitation agreements already achieved if Congress rejected his recommendations for improved offensive weapons, reported that since the U.S. -Soviet agreement was signed in Moscow the Russians have conducted seven tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles and eight of submarine-launched missiles. Acknowledging these tests ate "certainly within the range" of the agreements, Laird said nonetheless they demonstrate that "Soviet momentum is going forward with a test every three or four days." WASHINGTON' (AP) Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said Thursday that Sen.

George McGovern's proposed billion slash in military spending would pose "a dangerous and calamitous risk" for U.S. security and world peace. "The so-called white flag budget substitutes a philosophy of give -away-now, bog-later for a philosophy of strength and willingness to negotiate," Laird said. A gloves-off campaigner in his past career as a Republican Congressman, Laird said with obvious relish that the Democratic platform committee had "repudiated" the McGovern proK)sals to curb defense outlays to $54.8 billion by fiscal 1973. The Democratic Platform Committee rejected recently both hawkish and dovish defense planks.

It said "the military budget can be reduced substantially with no weakening of our national security." But the committee used no dollar figures. Laird's reference to a "lx-g later" philosophy was an obvious slap at McGovern's statements that "begging is better than Immhing" and that "I wouid go to Hanoi and beg if I thought that would release the Iwys (POWs) one day earlier." Laird released more than 70 pages of analyses of McGovern defense proposals sent to Sen. William Proxmirc. and Hep. John J.

Rhodes, Ariz. Summing up his objections to the McGovern plan, Laird's report said: PSA Jetliner Hijacked SAN DIEGO, Calif. VP) A Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner with r8 persons aboard landed here Thursday, three hours after it was hijacked by a gunman who demanded a ransom of t.10.000, the airline said. The hijacker, who also asked for one parachute, consented to release women and; children, a PSA spokesman said. The ISoeing 727 was taken over as it approached Oakland Airport.

II was the second hijacking of a PSA aircraft in as many days. The air pirate, described as a white male, ordered Hie plane to fly to San Diego after demanding the ransom. Hie airline said. On board the PSA flight from Iturhank to Oak-laud and Sacramento were 51 hostage passengers and six crew members three men and three women, the airline said. The airliner had reported earlier that persons were on board Ihe plane.

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