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PARTLY CLOUDY Fair to partly cloudy through Wednesday with a chance of showers this afternoon and evening. High temperature will be in the mid 90s, lows in the lower 70s. 67th Year, No. 1 8632 Pages Tuesday Afternoon Tuesday, July 4, 1972 10 Cents Florida's Capital Newspaper Nixon Invites the World To Visit U.S. During 76 1 1 Declare! I pf Malcolm Johnson iff 1 1 SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.

(AP) President Nixon issued a broadcast invitation to the world today to visit the United States on its 200th birthday in 1976. "Let America be known throughout the world as the 'land of the open Nixon said in a live, 10-minute July 4th holiday radio broadcast from the Western White House. He spoke from a prepared text. Nixon expressed hope that "millions upon millions of visitors" would help celebrate the U. S.

bicentennial. He said one of the best ways to enhance the quality of peace "is through people-to-people contacts contacts aimed at reducing the fear and the ignorance which have divided mankind down through the ages, and at fostering habits of trust and patterns of cooperation." i he said, was a major aim of his trips earlier this year to China and the Soviet Union. Nixon said he would send formal invitations to foreign governments "extending a welcome to the people of those nations to visit the United States, as laws and circumstances permit, during the bicentennial era and especially during the year 1976." He termed the action unprecedented. Noting that America has been peopled by immigrants from many lands, the President said it is time to say to the world's nations: "You helped to make us what we are. Come and see what wonders your countrymen have worked in this new country of (ContinuedonPagel2) Richard Nixon 'open door' Viet diers ioteir Guana Declaration Was to World We tend to think of the Declaration of Independence, venerated this day, as a cornerstone of our American form of government; but it wasn't, essentially.

It dealt not at all with governance of the 13 colonies and their people, though it became their inspiration in rebellion and in one ringing sentence it set a philosophical goal for them. But it was pointed mostly outward to the world as a new nation's first statement of foreign policy, an appeal for understanding of the revolutionary cause, a hope that it would bring help in the war which already was engaged. And it was firm final notice to kinsmen in England that we "hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind. Enemies in War, in Peace Friends." (How well that policy has stood in international dealings all these 196 years'.) The Declaration was not an impulsive essay. Though Thomas Jefferson put the words together in a short time, the sentiments had been growing for months among the leaders of the colonies and even some of his phrases were from other statements.

The Continental Congress started debate on a declaration of independence June 10; and, Jefferson recalled later, most of the argument was about timing and reaction around the world. True, some delegates hesitated because they thought the American people should push them to severance of British ties, while others took the position the people were waiting on them to exercise leadership. But there was no question of whether the break should be made only indecision on when and how. The issue was postponed until July 1, and Jefferson's committee was named to draw up a proper statement. It is a classic of unpretentious, almost humble, supplication to all men for sympathy and understanding in a bad situation.

Where most revolutionaries have waved a defiant firebrand, our patriots calmly observed that "a decent respect to the of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation" from the mother country. It is a recitation of all the grievances against tie British crown which fills most of the long page on which the declaration was written. it appeals "to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our then (Continued on Page 12) Demo Delegate Battles Move to Appeals Court 11 Fighting By Foe Is Light SAIGON (UPI)-The government drive to retake Quang Tri City, held for more than two months by invading Com-m i troops, appeared headed for success today when a small South Vietnamese force landed by helicopter in the center of the city and met only light initial resistance. Military sources said the first unit to enter the city, captured with the rest of Quang Tri Province a month after the Communist offensive in South Vietman was launched March 30, was a reconnaissance platoon of about 30 men. It landed near the city's 19th Century citadel and in the adjoining central business district.

SPOKESMEN IN Saigon expressed bewilderment at the initial reports of light resistance. What had happened to the reported four North Viet-n a divisions totalling about 48,000 men that took the city in a May 1 Blitzkrieg was not known, although in the ensuing two months U.S. aircraft and naval gunships in fire power unseen since the Korean War have relentlessly pounded suspected Communist (Continued on Page 12) nual fireworks display set for 9 p.m. today at Lake Ella. The barrage of brightly colored lights is sponsored by the Tallahassee Jaycees.

SCREAMS OF SILVER Beneath arching streaks of silver, blue, red and green, thousands of Tallahas-seeans are expected to watch the an WASHINGTON (AP)'-Parallel efforts to upset the California and Illinois decisions of the Democratic Credentials Committee moved toward a federal appeals court today. Attorneys fighting the com-m i 1 1 decisions said they would appeal U.S. Dist. Court Judge George L. Hart's ruling Monday that the judiciary should not get involved in the debate.

Anticipating the appeals. Hart told the lawyers that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia had agreed to hear arguments today, despite the holiday. Hart's decision came in these cases: The move by Sen. George McGovern's camp to overturn the Credentials Committee Mayor Richard J.

Daley and 58 of his allies to upset a committee vote depriving them of seats as convention delegates. The Illinois vote gave McGovern at least 41 supporters among the challengers seated by the committee in place of the Daley contingent. McGovern forces first sought a compromise in the Illinois dispute, but after the California upset, they stood firmly against Daley. Supporters of Sen. Hubert H.

Humphrey initiated the challenge to the winner-take-all aspect of California's primary, and Humphrey picked up most of the delegates taken from McGovern and apportioned (Continued on Page 12) North, South Korea Agree To Talk About Unification George McGovern ruling appealed vote stripping him of more than 150 California delegates. Attempts by Chicago SEOUL (AP) South and North Korea announced to their surprised citbens today they have agreed in high-level secret meetings to set up machinery to work for unification of the long-divided peninsula. Simultaneous announcements in Seoul, the South Korean capital, and Pyongyang, capital of Communist North Korea, said a new accord provides for a telephone hotline between the two cities to prevent accidental war and for a joint political committee to 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 and from slandering or defaming each other and to avoid accidental military incidents. THE AGREEMENTS were reached at meetings in Pyon-(Continuedon Page 12) x5 1 3 Arrested in 'Joy Killing' 1 4 SS-J A Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy who arrived on the scene called it "a joy killing," with no apparent motive other than the thrill of it.

The sheriffs department threw a force of 50 detectives into the hunt for the killers. Early today, deputies arrested Donald Paul "Cochise" Antel, 21, Mike Ramirez, 18, and Oscar hot and "Hernandez, 22, all of Norwalk. All three were booked on suspicion of murder. LAKEWOOD, Calif. (UPI) Sheriffs deputies arrested three young men today in the "joy killing" of a 4-year-old girl who was blasted by a shotgun from a passing car as she played in the yard of her home.

Joyce Ann Huff was hit by 42 shotgun pellets, two of them entering her brain. The shot was fired from a car that slowed as it passed her home in the Hawaiian Gardens area Sunday. Someone in the back seat poked a shotgun out the window, took aim, and cut the child down, according to witnesses. 1 A 14 te Joyce Ann Huff murder victim Truman Urges Haircut, Shave For Reporter KANSAS CITY (AP) -Harry S. Truman ventured out of his hospital room and told a nurse accompanying him on a stroll along the corridors that a newsman needed a shave and a haircut The walk along the 7th floor hallways Monday night of Research Medical Center capped Truman's first full day at the hospital, where he was admitted Sunday for tests described by his personal physican as routine.

Robert W. Butler, a Kansas City Times reporter, was at the nurses' station and heard a voice say something relating to "a shave and a haircut" Butler, the only man in the hallway sporting mutton-chop whiskers and a mustache, turned to see the former president moving along with a nurse and three chuckling Secret Service agents. 1 1 -1 1 1 1 'J Chess Match Begins Today Fischer Flies to Iceland Bridge 15 Comics 14-15 Crossword 15 Editorial Columns 4-5 Obituaries 12 Sports 16-17 Theaters 9 Wand Ads 20-23 Weather 12 Women's News 10-11 REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Ending his holdout which threatened to wreck the world chess championship series, American grandmaster Bobby Fischer arrived in Iceland today about 10 hours before he was scheduled to meet Soviet titleholder Boris Spassky for their first game. The 29-year-old American challenger flew from New York after accepting London banker James D. Slater's offer to match the $125,000 purse put up by the Icelandic Chess Federation.

Now the winner of the 2 4-game match will get $156,250 and the loser $93,750. Each will also get 30 per cent of the $250,000 paid for the TV and movie rights to the match, or $75,000 each. The match, which could last two months, had been scheduled to start Sunday afternoon, but Fischer stayed in New York, demanding a 30 per cent cut of the gate receipts. The International Chess Federation postponed the first game 48 hours and told Fischer he had to be in Reykjavik by noon today or forfeit the match. He arrived about five hours before the deadline.

A stewardess on the plane (Continued on Page 12) f-t Li xy 11 Chuckle ac noti utlr It's wonderful to belong to a family with a teen-ager in it. How else would you get to know your faults? Bobby Fischer 'stupendous' Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace Is Getting Around These Days he returns to Silver Spring hospital after 4-hour outing Turn to Page.

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