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Journal and Courier from Lafayette, Indiana • 1

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"jJSS' I'5' WARMER See Page A 2 SMBJETOQW Read the Happy Ads in Classified Vol 53 No 161 52 Pages 15 Cents Journal and Courier 4 Lafayette West Lafayette Ind Thursday July 6 1972 Cold Day in July 4 High Court Session Asked on Delegates 4S' 4 ischer Writes Apology irst Chess Game Sunday Passenger Hijackers Killed Aboard Plane Mood Wrong In Primaries Muskie Says Photo on Page 5 Other Preconvention Stories On A 7 A 12 9 7 10 7363742 4011 742 8102 took off circled the city and landed again The gunmen killed Wednesday were identified from cards in their pockets as Dimitr Alexieff 28 of Hayward Calif and Michael Azmanoff 28 of San ran cisco The passenger dead on arrival at Pen insula Hospital in nearby Burlingame was Stanley Carter 66 identified The National Weather Service said a warm ing trend would start riday after another chilly he believe the champion desires such an advantage in order to play know you to be a sportsman and a gentleman and I am looking forward to some exciting chess games with ischer concluded Earlier Euwe had met other demands the Russians made on him and suggested that the start of the match be delayed further Euwe president of the International Chess ederation said he penalize ischer for his late arrival in Iceland be cause the American challenger is in another Euwe also admitted he had violated the rules in allowing two previous post ponements in the start of the match He promised strict rule enforcement in the future The 24 game series between ischer and Spassky had been scheduled to start Sunday ischer stayed in New York holding out for more money and Euwe postponed the start of the match until Tuesday ischer arrived that day but the Russians objected to his conduct and Euwe put the start off until today Later Yefim Geller the Soviet grand master acting as second told a news conference the Russians wanted Euwe to condemn the con duct and accept blame himself for viola ting the rules He said Spassky would go home if the demands were not met Euwe came forward and condemned ischer conceded he himself had broken the rules and added: Asked if the Russians were satisfied Geller said they wanted it all in writing The winner is to get $231250 and the loser $168750 the highest amounts ever paid in chess The original purse was $125000 with the winner taking five eights and the loser the remainder But holdout brought a $125000 con tribution from London banker and chess enthusiast James Slater to double the purse Each player also gets $75000 from the television and film rights Circulation News Ads Business Ombudsman WASHINGTON (AP) Opposing Democratic forces today asked Chief Jus tice Warren Burger to convene a rare special session of the Supreme Court in a political legal tangle that carries with it Sen George renewed hopes for a first ballot presidential nomination The Democratic party hierarchy and forces of Chicago Mayor Richard Da ley are both fighting a US appeals court ruling but for different reasons The party hierarchy asked Burger to suspend the effect of the appeals court ruling which overrode the party Creden tials Committee to allow McGovern to re cover 151 California convention dele gates The party brief claimed that the ap peals court has the country into a constitutional by dabbling in the selection of delegates to the political con vention Party lawyer John Kester told news men after the filing with the high court that the appeals bench went further than any other court has ever gone in the po litical arena The Supreme Court Kester said is being asked restore the judiciary to its proper Kester pledged that the party hier archy would obey the final decisions of the court whatever they might be The Daley forces are seeking just the opposite effect contending that federal courts should intervene in order to seat Daley and 58 other Illinois delegates ousted by the Credentials Committee There was no indication when the chief Ordinance Gives City Employes 55 Pct Raises A3 City Council Votes irst OK on Housing Code A3 rankfort Man Dies in Lake County Truck Car Crash Bl that the convention itself would be the ultimate judge Humphrey conceded that it would be a if the convention ignores the court but said he felt it has the right to do so The appeals court based its inter vention on the conclusion that the party had ignored its own rules to the point where constitutional guarantees of due process were violated California law awarded all the delegates to the winner Democratic party did not merely interpret one of its rules in essence it acted in defiance of its own rules as in terpreted in the call for the 1972 con vention by establishing retroactively an entirely new and unannounced standard of said the 'majority opinion SAN RANCISCO (AP) wanted to stop the hijacking and stop it we said the BI special agent in charge de scribing how authorities stormed a pi rated aircraft and killed two hijackers in a gun battle while passengers were still aboard Officials said shots fired by one of the hijackers killed 1 a passenger and wounded two others after federal agents charged aboard an interstate Pacific Southwest Airline Boeing 737 taken over by two hijackers for six hours Wednes day not pleased that three passengers were said Robert Gebhardt BI special agent in charge July another 42 posted July 10 1963 Although temperatures as cold as La records were tied or set at South Bend (45) ort Wayne (46) and Indianapolis (50) among other points The Weather Service said it was a degree warmer at 43 at the Purdue Airport weather sta The wounded passengers reported fair condition at the hospital were identi fied asLeo A Gormley 46 of Van Nuys Calif and Victor Sen Yung 56 a Univer sal City Calif actor who plays the Chi nese cook in the TV series In San Diego PSA President loyd Andrews said: BI took this out of our hands and directed the action They stormed the aircraft and in the ensuing melee the hijackers were shot and the passengers At the time An drews did not know that Carter had died After landing and then taking off and circling San rancisco for an hour the Gravel Seeking Nod or Vice Presidency WASHINGTON (AP) Sen Mike Gravel announced today he would seek the Democratic vice presidential nomi nation at the national convention in Miami Beach next week The Alaskan told reporters he would give delegates an opportunity to selectthe vice presidential nominee in an open contest instead of the presidential choice formal announcement at a news conference confirmed what he had been informally telling reporters and Democratic party officials around the country that he was actively seeking the vice presidential nomination Gravel won attention soon after he en tered the Senate when he tried unsuc cessfully to get the courts to stop an un derground nuclear test on Amchitka Is land in the Alaska Aleutian chain Last year he made public some por tions of the formerly top secret Pentagon papers by reading them into the Congres sional Record in a surprise action plane sat for five hours at the end of the runway while negotiations by radio con tinued and the money and materials were collected Under orders from the hijackers who sought an a agent dressed as one approached the plane carrying the money Gebhardt and Dave Gardella PSA security director said After stripping to his underwear on or ders from a hijacker the agent dressed again and went up the stair ramp with his hands on his head In the meantime the other three agents had landed from a power boat in San rancisco Bay and approached the plane from its rear where they could not be seen from inside At the last moment they rushed up the stairway behind the negotiator the BI said One hijacker stood in the open door The two hijackers were described as recent immigrants from Bulgaria Alexieff married and a resident of Hay ward was described by neighbors and acquaintances as content with his life as a cab driver Azmanoff was listed as a resident of San rancisco His occupation was not immediately learned Neighbors said he recently had married a divorcee with three children Today's Chuckle if there is anything you the president of the company told his new REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) Bobby petty dispute over money with the Icelan ischer made a full and penitent apology die chess he wrote to Boris Spassky today and organizers of the world chess championship match said the two would meet for their first game Sunday night The organizers said it had been agreed in principle to hold the drawing tonight to determine which player would have the white pieces and with them the first move The young American in a letter deliv ered by hand this morning to the world chess champion from the Soviet Union apologized for his behav ischer whose delayed arrival doubled the prize money for both him and Spassky but also started an avalanche of confusion asked the Russian to my sincerest simply became carried away by my The written apology from the Ameri can challenger was one of the chief con ditions posed by the Russians before Spassky would sit down at the chess board with ischer ischer told Spassky: have offended you and your country the Soviet Union where chess has a prestigious The temperamental American also apologized to Dr Max Euwe president of the International Chess ederation the Icelanders thousands of fans around the world and especially to the millions of fans and the many friends I have in the United However ischer brushed aside a de mand from the Soviet Chess ederation that he forfeit the first match because of his tardy arrival He said this place me at a tremendous and If been waiting for a cold day in July for something impossible to happen better look out had it The mercury at Purdue Agron omy arm dipped to an unbelievable 42 degrees this morning shattering all kinds of records That was the lowest reading in the state from tion a summer cold blast that set records all over The 42 degree reading here was an all time record for July 6 and tied the all time record for night tonight Horoscope D13 Markets BI2 Metro Report A3 5 11 Money Matters B12 Regional Report 2 4 5 Sports Report Dl 4 Weather A2 Happening A4 Journal and Courier Telephones: justice might act Jerome Torshen attorney for the Da ley forces said their pleadings before the court hinged on what he called the ous question of the right of a state to hold an this case the courts have deprived the people of the Torshen main tained The ousted delegates had been elected in a party primary election and were re as a retired Canadian National Railway conductor from Longueuil Que and re ported to be en route to San Diego with He made the comment before learning his wife that one of the passengers had died he said in response to a report question had to make a Three BI men who had sneaked up under the fuselage of the plane rushed aboard after the hijackers refused to re lease 81 passengers Gebbardt said The slain hijackers had demanded two? parachutes $800000 and passage to Si beria shortly after taking the plane over the air officials said Gebhardt said the BI men moved in on the plane only after the hijackers re fused to release the passengers until the ransom was handed over saw two BI men enter the said Dr Manuel Alvarez 58 of Sacra mento Calif a passenger first came through with his hands on his head and the second came up shooting blasting away with a The hijacker to the said Alvarez The BI said the gunman had an automatic in each hand but did not open fire In the rear of the plane the other hi jacker had another automatic and fired at least three shots the BI said The second hijacker went down almost immediately from BI gunfire Gebhardt said arid like the other was dead on arriv al at the hospital The hijackers also held the five crew members In previous US hijackings no attempt has been made to board a hijacked air liner while the passengers were still aboard 4 hijacking occurred at 10:10 am shortly after the plane left the airport in Sacramento on a ingni iolos office manager just let me know Angeles via San rancisco It landed at And tell you how to do without San rancisco International Airport then versing the vote to take more than half the number from him and apportion them to other primary candi dates chiefly Sen Hubert Humphrey McGovern forces announced Wednes day afternoon that the appealsrcourt ac tion gave their candidate more than the 1509 delegate votes needed for nomi nation The Associated Press delegate count which does not list officially uncom mitted delegates who are leaning toward a candidate showed McGovern with 143665 votes But Humphrey was in no mood to con cede He noted that the Supreme Court placed by successful challengers picked had not yet spoken and argued further at caucuses The Illinois brief maintained that the party credential Committee violated the rights of duly elected convention dele gates and the rights of Illinois voters "The election process was the brief read losers declared themselves winners and the Credentials Committee confirmed the action of the Whatever the outcome said Democrat ic National Committee counsel Joseph A Califano Jr party leaders will the law of the But commenting that controls a Democratic he seemed to hint that the convention might flout a rul ing it disliked The Court of Appeals restored to McGovern the full 271 vote California re By JACK GERMOND Washington Bureau Chief Gannett News Service WASHINGTON Sen Edmund Muskie says he believes the mopd of the electorate was wrong for him in the presidential primaries but that he still would be the strongest Democratic candidate to oppose President Nixon in November i suspect maybe I the man for this season he said it was a season of protest and not by nature a protester I like to resolve problems not content with simply complaining In an interview with Gannett News Service (see Page A 7 for partial transcript) the Maine Democrat conceded that his appeal be somewhat by his showing in the primaries but added that I have a bridge to more segments of the party than anyone President Nixon I have a greater potential for reaching out to more segments of the American electorate than any other Demo cratic Muskie said Sen George chances of winning in the fall depend what efforts prepared to make to establish a broad base among Democratic voters and voters McGovern has undertaken to demonstrate a voice for change and a very strong mood for change in this he said the other hand if that voice for change becomes too abrasive they cart resist change This is a very difficult balance to achieve Amer ican public opinion does not move in quantum Muskie said he could foresee no circumstances under which he would quit his Candidacy before the nomination process begins in Miami Beach next week On the contrary he said he had found universal of his decision to continue his candidacy to the end Muskie avoided a direct answer on whether he would? accept the vice presidential nomination again but he also avoided ruling out the PMusKe said he expected intangible the desire on the part probably of all groups of Americans for to have more effect on the outcome of the election than such specifics as the war in Vietnam and economy policy But he made it clear he believes McGovern may be vulnerable on some specifics such as welfare reform and defense spending On welfare proposals Muskie sLid there is in the about what they would mean terns of burden on the treasury sacrifice on the part of taxpayers wta will carry greater burdens than the benefits they Jv On proposal for a $32 billion defense spending cut by 1975 Muskie suggested that a three year program anight be impossible because it does not anticipate the response of adversaries have proposed a reduction of $115 to $12 billion in the 1973 he said you do in the following year depends on the response of the Soviet Ju Ann Landers C3 Bridge D13 Classifed D6 12 Comics D13 Crossword D13 Deaths A4 Editorials A10 Entertainment D5 Home and amily Cl 6 Baby Buffalo Say hello to 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