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MORNING HERALD VOL. 99, NO. 157 HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1972 PRICE SEVEN CENTS Unification sought Hot line connects capitals of North and South Korea SEOUL (AP)--South and North Korea opened a hot line between their capitals Tuesday in a move for reconciliation between two governments that have been sworn enemies for the past quarter-century. The direct phone link between Seoul, South Korea's capital, and Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, was the outcome of a recent round of secret high-level negotiations. Simultaneous announcements in both cities said the accord provides for a joint political open exchanges in many fields and to promote unification of North and South through peaceful means without outside interference.

The two governments also agreed to refrain from armed provocations. The two sides agreed to install the hot line "in order to prevent the outbreak of unexpected military Incidents and to deal directly, promptly and accurately with problems" arising between them, the announcement said. The agreements were reached at meetings in Pyongyang May 2-5 and Seoul May 29-June 1. The governments' top leaders, President Chung Hee Park of South Korea and North Korean Premier and Communist party chief Kim Il-sung, look part. U.N.

Secretary General Kurt Waldheim announced in Geneva that he acted as a go-between, Waldheim said he contact wih North Korean representatives during a visit to Vienna last March. The top-rung negotiations were the first such contact reported between the two governments sines the 1950-53 Korean war that took two million lives, Including 54,248 Americans fighting for the South. The conflict ended in an armistice July 28, 1953 and the two Koreas still are officially at war. A Japanese colony from 1910 through World War Korea was divided into U.S. and Soviet occupation after the defeat of Japan.

The zones became separate republics in 1948. In reaching the accord, Ihc two Koreas may have decided to back away from military confrontation for military reasons or to join the movement toward East-West detente that followed President Nixon's visits to Peking and Moscow. Both Seoul and Pyongyang have been maintaining large armies for two expensive decades and an easing of military Allies inside Quang Tri SAIGON (UPI)--South Vietnamese commandos climaxed the first week of a giant government drive to recapture the northernmost province of Quang Tri Tuesday by jumping from hovering helicopters into Quang- Tri City and a nearby former American combat base. As small troop units moved almost unopposed i strategic positions of the city and its suburbs, American advisers predicted "a hell a fight" to come from an estimated 48,000 Communist troops believed in the area. A dozen waves of U.S.

B52 bombers battered North Vietnamese positions surrounding the provincial capital i nearly 4,000 bombs during the night, clearing a path to the city center for the remaining South Vietnamese force. The capital has been under Communist control for 65 days. A U.S. command spokesman in Saigon said the huge B52s dropped about 900 tons of explosives during 12 raids late Tuesday and early Wednesday on suspected North Vietnamese troop concentrations three to 14 miles from the city. In addition, the command said, three B52 flights of three planes each were flown inside North Vietnam in the 18-hour period that ended at dawn Wednesday.

Two raids were against supply caches just above the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and the third seven miles northwest of Dong Hoi, a port city 35 miles north of the DMZ. Military sources said army commandos landing in the center of Quang Tri City met only light resistance. The troops jumped from hovering helicopters to scout 'the crumbling provincial capital for a paratroop attack force waiting on the outskirts. To the south, one South Vietnamese soldier a wounded Tuesday night during the third consecutive day of Communist shellings on the ancient imperial capital of Hue, 32 miles south of Quang Tri and 400 miles north of Saigon. It was not immediately known how many rounds hit the city during the night.

Allied officers were also worried about a possible Communist attack against Hue, 32 miles south of Quang Tri city. The former imperial capital, long expected to be the target of a major Communist drive, has been shelled for three consecutive days. More than 20,000 of Hue's 30,000 defenders were thrown into the week-old South Vietnamese drive into Quang Tri Province, which has been held by the Communists for more than two months. South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu promised last month to drive the Communists out of Quang Tri and back into North Vietnam. The current Communist offensive began March 30 wfteti North Vietnamese troops a Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) into Quang Tri.

The Communists routed government forces in Quang Tri city on May 1 and took control of the province--the first ever captured from, the South Vietnamese. A South Vietnamese paratroops unit moved Tuesday into Mai Linn, a suburb only one-half mile from downtown Quang Tri. Soon afterwards, a 30-nian reconnaissance patrol was flown into the walled 19lh century citadel in the center of the city and a nearby a a Another government i i without opposition the Quang Tri combat base two miles of the city. The base is the former home of the U.S. 1st Brigade, 5th Mechanized I a Division.

The unit, nicknamed the "Red Devils," turned the base over to the South Vietnamese one year ago. Despite Communist artillery attacks on the government columns moving up Highway 1 to Quang Tri City, there was no organized resistance '(, around the city itself Allied officers were puzzled by the lack of opposition and said they did not know what happened lo the 48,000 North Vietnamese troops that cap- tured the province. Some American advisers said they still thought the Communists would fight, "We expect to have a hell of a fight there. We expect to have to fight our way all sly the way in," one American adviser lold UPI correspond-1' ent Barney Seibert, who is accompanying Uie drive. activities would allow both governmenls to devote more money to civilian needs.

It also would lessen the burden of the big powers supporting the principals in the conflict: the United States behind the South, and China and the Soviet Union backing the North. The United States slilt maintains 43,000 troops in South Korea. "The U.S. imperialists must no longer meddle in the domestic affairs of our country. They must withdraw at once," North Korean Deputy Premier Park Sung-chul told a Pyongyang news conference.

"The Japanese militarists had better not creep into South Korea in an attempt to keep our country divided for good," he added. Road toll not as high as predicted By United Press International The nation's traffic death toll climbed Tuesday, the final day of the four-day July 4 holiday period, but it appeared the final count might fall a a estimates. The National Safely Council had forecast that between 800 and 900 Americans would be killed in roadway accidents during the 102-hour period that extended from 6 p.m. local time Friday through midnight Tuesday. The death toll over last year's 78-hour Fourth of July period was 635.

A United Press International count late Tuesday showed 051 persons killed in traffic accidents. A breakdown of accidental deaths: Traffic 651 Crownings 160 Planes 13 Other 69 Total 893 Court mulls Dems' delegate fights WASHINGTON (UPI) --With the Democratic convention only six days a three- judge U.S. Court of Appeals held a rare holiday session Tuesday tt consider the fate of 153 California delegates pledged to George McGovern and a 59 member Illinois slate neaded by Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley. For nearly four hours, opposing lawyers sought to persuade the judges to uphold or reverse last week's Credentials Committee decisions awarding more than half of McGovern's California bloc to rival candidates and giving the Illinois seats to Daley challengers.

Although the judges acknowledged the urgency of the situation, they also advised the attorneys in frequent exchanges that they saw the issues as extremely complex and, a short time after retiring to their chambers, they announced they would not rule before today. On Monday, three floors below, U.S. District Judge George L. Hart Jr. refused to interfere in any way with the Credentials Committee actions.

He said they did not raise constitutional questions and were matters to be decided by the full convention opening Monday in Miami Beach. Chief Judge David L. Bazelon of the Appeals Court and his two colleagues, George E. MacKinnon and Charles Fahy, questioned all the lawyers frequently about Hart's finding and appeared to share some of his doubts about federal i i a jurisdiction over the delegate selection cases. At issue in the California case was whether the slate's June 6 winner-lake-all presidential primary was in violation of a parly reform commission's guidelines aimed at affording proportional representation for all candidates running in the election.

McGovern won the race and had the entire 271 member California delegation until last Thursday's Credentials Committee ruling. The battle over the Illinois delegation focused on how it was chosen. The Credentials Committee sided with a group of challengers claiming that only individuals acceptable to the Daley political organization were fully informed of the selection process and that the result "discriminatcly maliciously against blacks, Latins, women and youth." Attorneys for McGovern asked the Appeals Court to void the Credentials Committee decision on California and to restore the 153 delegates taken from the South Dakota senator, front-runner for the presidential nomination. The general counsel for the Democratic National Committee, defending the California action, urged the court to stay out of the political arena and to let the full con- vention make the final decision. He took the same tack in the Daley case, contending that the Credentials Committee had responsibility for enforcing the party's reforms.

Lawyers for the mayor, who ti have been fighting challengers in state federal court for two were scheduled to ask a circuit court in Illinois today for an injunction to "stop the challengers from going to Miami or taking their seats. Lawyers representing the challengers and the Democratic party asked the Appeals Court to issue an order forbidding the Daley group from further litigation in Illinois. AP Wlrephoto A veteran and a la Ex-Marine Lcroy C. Alex Jr. of Snn Antonio, Tex.

did his Fourth of July celebrating under an American flag at a Corpus Christ! beach. Alex, who lost a leg and two fingers in Vietnam combat, was awarded two Bronze Stars and a Purple Heart. Eight die in head-on car collision ABILENE, Tex. (UPI)-Eight persons died in a head- on collision between two cars on a barren road north of Abilene Tuesday afternoon. The crash was one of the worst in the nation during the long Independence a weekend.

Patrolman C. A. Cockreli Jr. said a car driven by Curtis Rcnfro, 18, of A i 1 passed another car on a wet Iiighway at a high rate of speed and crashed head-nn into the car driven by Linda Sherman, 18, also of Abilene. "The accident was the worst I've seen in at Abilene," Cockreli said.

Good morning! About the day Today is Wednesday, July 5, the 187lh day of 1972. There are 179 days left in the year. The sun rises at 5:37 this morning and sets at 8:32 this evening. About the weather Today: Cloudy with a 70 per cent chance of rain. Highs in the 60s.

Lows tonight in the 50s. Past 14 High, 80; low, 61; 6 p.m., 75; .03 inch rain. Thursday: Cloudy with a chance of rain, About the paper A Morgan County farmer wishes slate officials had listened when he told them a new bridge on Sleepy Creek wouldn't be adequate page 13 A broken hat single by San Diego's Lcron Lee ruins Tom. Seaver's bid for no-hitter page 18 Classified 21-23 Comics 20 Editorial 4 Family fl-9 Movies 12 Obituaries 24 Sports 18-19 Television 12 Trl-State 13-H It's Boris' turn Mad Russian delays chess championship REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP)--Now it's Boris Spassky's turn to say no and world chess championship is off again. The Russian tilleholdcr launched his counterattack Tuesday with a stern protest, some sharp criticism, a walkout and a demand for a two-day postponement of the start of the match with American Bobby Fischer.

Fischer slept through it all. He had arrived in the morning from New York and went straight to bed to rest up for the first game, set for 5 p.m. When Fischer woke up he found that the title scries was put off until Thursday at the earliest. It was to have begun last Sunday. Summing up the day, Max Euwe, presi- dent of the International Chess Federation, said: "When Spassky is here, Fischer doesn't come.

As soon as Fischer comes, Spassky runs away." The Russians turned up in force at noon for what was to be a drawing of lots to decide who would play white, and have the first move in the opener. They refused lo draw with Fischer's second, a Roman Catholic priest, the Rev. William Lombardy, and read a statement calling Fischer's delaying holdout intolerable. They protested Euwc's decision to tolerate it. When Fischer failed to appear Sunday as he should have, Euwe allowed him until noon Tuesday lo show up in Reykjavik or forfeit his shot at Spassky.

Fischer's refusal to come by Sunday was based on a dispute with the organizers over money. The argument was settled Monday when British financier James Slater offered to sweeten an already record pot with a donalion of 50,000 British pounds about $130,000. Fischer said he would play. The Russians said Tuesday that Fischer had violated the rules of the match. They wanted an apology.

Spassky rcat! his statement from what looked like an official document in Russian. It created the impression that he was acting on Moscow's orders. A dispatch by Tass, the official Soviet news agency, said Spassky had demanded that the International Chess Federa- tion--known as FIDE--fake some punishing measures against Fischer on the grounds that he had violated the rules for the match. It did not specify what sort of measures should be taken. During the days of dispute and bad temper which preceded Fischer's arrival, Spassky had been the picture of courtesy and understanding.

When approached by newsmen he had no bad words for Fischer, a man he respects as a chess player. All he would say was that "I came lo play." Asked what Fischer's opinion of the new dispute was, Euwe told newsmen, "Mr. Fischer is asleep and is not aware of this." He was in a new two-story villa on edge of town sound asleep in the back bedroom. Neck deep A carpenter can get pretty involved in his work, as this one pulling a roof on a new house in Hagerstown shows. But it's better than painting yourself into a corner.

The carpenter can still get out-if he hurries. aary.