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COOL See Page A 4 Irbiirnal and PniiriAr WjwBr WWB iPwl Kil Reaj je Happy Ads in Classified Lafayette West Lafayette Ind Tuesday July 4 1972 Vol 53 No 1 59 34 15 Cents UHUTCMy 2 4 Jt 4X 'gM MWTLj kSIS8B wwi4MgralOdpMMMHMMMBWMMBI Independence Day 1972 Millions of Americans enjoyed a holiday today in observance of the 196th an niversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence Journal and Courier Chief Photographer Pat McIntyre symbolizes the observance in this eye catching bit of artistry He accomplished it by writing a message and hoisting a few flags with decals cm a pane of glass then setting off sparklers behind it and hurrying back to snap the shutter before they burned out Nixon Invites Whole World To Visit This Country in SAN CLEMENTE Calif Presi dent Nixon issued a broadcast invitation to the world today to visit the United States on its 200th birthday in 1976 America be known throughout the world as the of the open Nixon said in a live 10 minute ourth of July holiday radio broadcast from the Western White House He spoke from a prepared text Nixon expressed hope that "millions upon millions of would help cele brate the US bicentennial He said one of the best ways to enhance the quality of peace "is through people to people contacts aimed at re ducing the fear and the ignorance which have divided mankind down through the ages and at fostering habits of trust and patterns of This he said was a major aim of his trips earlier this year to China and the Soviet Union Nixon said he would send formal invi tations to foreign governments ing a welcome to the people of those na tions to visit the United States as laws and circumstances permit during the bicentennial and especially during the year He termed the action unprecedented Noting that America has been peopled by immigrants from many lands the President said it is i to say to the nations: helped to make us what we are Come and see what wonders your coun trymen have worked in this new country of ours Come and let us say thank you Come and i iri our celebration of a proud past Come and share our dreams of a brighter Nixon said that as the bicentennial ap proaches Americans a feeling of healthy impatience for change a de termination to make this good land even Two Koreas Agree Unity Their Goal SEOUL South and North Korea announced to their surprised citizens to day they have agreed in high level secret meetings to set up machinery to work for unification of the long divided penin sula Simultaneous announcements in Seoul the South Korean capital and Pyong yang capital of Communist North Korea said a new accord provides for a tele phone hotline between the two cities to prevent accidental war and for a joint political committee to open exchanges in many fields and to promote unifica tion 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 inci dents The agreements were reached at meet ings in Pyongyang May 2 5 and Seoul May 29 June 1 The top leaders South Korean Presi dent Chung Hee Park and North Korean Premier and Communist party chief Kim Il Sung participated in the talks in their respective capitals the announcement said It was the first such contact reported between North and South Korea since before the 1950 53 Korean War that took 2 million lives including 54246 Ameri cans fighting for the South The three year conflict ended in an armistice July 28 1953 and the two Koreas are still of ficially at war with even mail exchange cut off Korea a Japanese colony from 1910 through World War II was divided into US and Soviet occupation zones after the defeat of Japan The zones became separate republics in 1948 The South Korean negotiator in the talks was Lee Hu rak director of the central intelligence agency The United States and Japan issued statements saying Seoul had informed them of the developments and they ap proved of them State Department press officer Charles Bray said in Wash ington the agreement was en The Japanese foreign ministry spokes man praised courage and leader ship of the two Korean and expressed hope they will settle their differences Koreans accustomed to hearing their governments denounce each other were surprised Some said they were shocked now at a loss how to deal with communism and a young secretary said have been told to hate irst friendly contact between the two began last September when Red Cross officials of South and North Korea opened talks to arrange communications between divided families involving an estimated 10 million persons The gov ernments agreed to cooperate in bring ing these talks to an early and success ful conclusion Lee told newsmen South Korea will have to amend its laws harshly punish ing collaborating with sympathizing with praising or benefiting the Commu nists in any way Government officials told editors to stop referring to the North Koreans as a common practice for dec ades Although North Korea has seemed re cently to want to end its self imposed isolation reunification undoubtedly will be a long and difficult process Premier Kim said in November 1970 that unification is so long as Park is president and US troops remain in South Korea With drawal of US forces from the South has always been main de mand A year ago US forces in South Korea were reduced by 20000 to the present 43000 over strenuous protests from government South Korean officials said at the time Pyongyang was switching its loyalties from the Soviet Union to Communist China and the danger was increasing of an invasion from the North South Korea has a population of more than 32 million and a 560000 man army North Korea with a larger area has a population of only 14 million and an army of 340000 ischer Ends A Paid and Celebration Aliens Tell July 4 Meaning By CHARLENE GIERKEY easy to guess what Americans think of Independence Day But what do foreigners think about July Several foreign students at Purdue University gave their opinions on Ameri ca winnings its independence from En gland and the way Americans are cele brating it 196 years later Seven students commented one de clined Vijar Dixit 26 is from India and has been here five years His own country in fact has an Independence Day Aug 15 1947 he said the British said The Declaration of Independence is a ideal he added I doubt how much it can be followed in rom what he can tell India has a lot more celebrations than" America was meant to bring people together both mentally and physi cally I think most people (Americans) will be watching TV And he said he thought he knew the reason why: celebration of freedom here is 200 years old in India it is still Rangachary Kannan 26 also from In dia has been in America two years He sees July 4 as a paid holiday two a are more conscious of the fact Demociatic Candidates Speak Out Readers of the Journal and Courier will be offered a pre convention series available ex clusively in Gannett Group news papers The four leading contenders for th Democratic presidential nomination will tell you in their' own words why they should get the nod Sen Hubert Humphrey is the first guest His question and answer GNS interview will appear in newspaper Others will appear in succeeding issues it is a holiday rather than an indepen dence he said that is true anywhere in the world People are people They would celebrate this day the same if it were meant for something else India (on its freedom day) the little kids go to school sing national songs and get candy The elderly eat a good lunch and go to sleep The middle aged group goes around the streets like celebrat ing But Salwa Ashur looks at it differently When she gets through working on her PhD degree in nutrition going back to the West Bank of Jordan Palestine where she will live in her country under Israeli occupation Day for every country is she said appreciate the meaning of independence Where I live there is no Nora from Colombia South America has been here two weeks She knows very little English and how Ameri cans celebrate but she was aware of July 4 she said are parties and people Colombia celebrates independence day Aug 7 freedom from Spanish rule she added Chi Won Lee 28 from South Korea has been here nearly two years is no threat of freedom here for he said in Korea we are al ways threatened Here you might tend to party more than celebrate the real sig nificance But a world trend Korea the Independence Day (Aug 15 1945 from Japan) is newer We have a more close feeling about it because ours was only 27 years ago Maybe right after 1776 or about 30 years later the people in the United States were more Wing Kwong Lau from Hong Kong has been in the United States two years He said just know the day somebody signed the document of independence I know the detailed history I have no other Montonodu Itoh 31 from Japan also in the United States two years said hard to understand the meaning of inde pendence I have no sympathy We have an independence day rom the be ginning of history our country has not been invaded by any foreign country I Today's Chuckle ootball coach: look so bad for the fall that I may have to use stu dents on the cannot understand the concept never thought about independence But he said one of the biggest holidays in Japan is Day: May 5 for the boys and March 3 for the girls set aside just to celebrate the growing up very he ex plainnd And one more thing Japan we have excellent fire Itoh said fireworks in the United States did not impress One student David Garrett has been here two years He said he would rather not comment on indepen dence He is from England State Taffic Toll 20 As US Deaths Hit 540 By Th Associated Press A Cambridge City man was killed this morning in a one car on US 40 in Henry County and two additional high way deaths were reported late Monday police said The toll for the state since the holiday weekend began riday evening was 20 killed Nationally the ourth of July traffic toll was 540 Viets Reach Quang Tri SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese paratroopers battled stubborn North Vietnamese on the outskirts of Quang Tri City today but did not thrust into the provincial capital Saigon lost May 1 ront line troops were within two miles of the city limits ield comman ders reported encountering the first bunkers of what was believed to be a heavy line of fortifications around Quang Tri enemy appears to be pulling back but encountering resistance from nearly every treeline every vil said an American adviser Capt Gail of Urbana Ohio far been relatively light I expected them to make a bigger stand but tough for them to fight out here in the open got air support they if they decided to put all their people in Quang Tri and stand and fight going to be The lead battalion of paratroopers fought its first sizable battle on Monday taking on an estimated North Vietna mese battalion in a bunker line at La Vang urrow said the South Vietna mese killed 23 enemy captured eight trucks and recaptured one 105mm how itzer and two 155mm howitzers the North Vietnamese had been using US jets knocked out two 130mm ar tillery pieces and five trucks on the west ern flank of the advance urrow said his troops had captured six North Vietnamese who reported their officers abandoned them after a large number of B52 strikes said their officers just ran away back up said urrow Behind the front lines officers said government troops had finished mopping up small groups of North Vietnamese soldiers who had been in the rapid South Vietnamese advance Hundreds of refugees from areas lib erated by the South Vietnamese made their way south on Highway 1 They gathered at Phong Bien 20 miles north of Hue where buses and trucks picked them up and brought them to Hue South Vietnamese marines were push ing toward Quang Tri from the east and were reported within four miles of the city Government spokesmen said Saigon forces also killed nearly 200 North Viet namese in fighting south of Quang Tri City and west of Hue Hue 30 miles south of the forces ad vancing on Quang Tri was hit by North Vietnamese artillery fife for the third day in a row our 122mm rounds crashed into the city about 7 am and destroyed two houses killing one civil ian and wounding four i' South Vietnamese officers and their US advisers are trying to locate the long range run firing on Hue from the mountains to the west Since Sunday it has pumped more than 100 shells into killing 13 persons and wounding nearly 60 Chess Holdout REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) Ending his holdout which threatened to wreck the world chess championship series American grandmaster Bobby ischer arrived in Iceland today about 10 hfturs 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 Lon don banker James offer to match the $125000 purse put up by the Icelandic Chess ederation Now the winner of the 24 game match will get $156250 and the loser $93750 Each will also get 30 per cent of the $250000 paid for the TV movie rights to the match or $75000 each The match which could last two months had been scheduled to start Sunday afternoon but ischer stayed in New York demanding a 30 per cent cut of the gate receipts The Intemaional Chess ederation postponed the first game 48 hours and told ischer he had to be in Reykjavik by noon today or forfeit the match He arrived about five hours before the dead line A stewardess on the plane said ischer appeared calm during the flight of 4 hours and 40 minutes from New York but slept for only a few minutes at a time Another passenger on the flight Ben jamin Rauschkolb of Long Beach NY angrily reported that his wife was told at the last minute she board the plane and he learned later she was bumped to make room for ischer causing an awful lot of trouble' said Rauschkolb The Icelandic Chess ederation after negotiating since last week with isch lawyer Andrew Davis rejected the demand for a cut of the gate receipts But almost simultaneously Slater came forward with his offer to put up 50000 money is the problem Well here it pounds saying has said that like chess and have played it for said Slater want to see this match and everything has been ar ranged If ischer does not go to Ice land many will be ischer said offer was pendous incredible and generous and according to a representative in New York This spokesman lawyer Paul Marshall claimed holdout had been a matter of principle: felt Iceland treating this match or his country men with the dignity that it and they de Marshall also said that ischer who abhors newsmen and runs at the sight of them furious about the press The Icelandic federation has restricted move by move and photo coverage of the match because of its sale of the TV and movie rights Accused Drug Kingpin Not Typical Prisoner B8 Where Jg Look Bl 2 Cl 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