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Eight killed A Member of the Gannett Croup IH WHIT 83rd Year, No. 143 2 Sections Pensacola, Thursday Afternoon, July 20, 1972 28 Pages 15 Cents Simultaneous settlements urged I1 i 'i Co-nig SAIGON (AP) Ameri-can casualties in the Vietnam war last week included eight killed in action, five dead from nonhostile causes, 14 missing or captured and 26 wounded, the U.S. Command announced in its weekly killed the previous week, five missing and 18 But officers said the increase was not necessarily significant because the totals included delayed reports from previous weeks and changes in status from missing to dead. Turn to EIGHT Page 11A oS PILGRIM STATUE OF FATIMA Liquid appears In eyes and at tip of nose of the statue of Madonna, the "Pilgrim Statue of Fatima," as photographed by the Rev. Elmo Romagosa, editor of.

"The Clarion Herald," a Catholic weekly in New Orleans. The statue was carved out of cedar under the guidance of Sister Lucy, the only survivor of the three children who claimed to witness the 1917 apparition of the Virgin Mary in Portugal. Statue was on display in New Orleans for ten days when Rev. Romagosa said he took the photo. (Story, Page 2A (Ptnuctl Ntwt AP Wlrtphoft) Good evening Tass statement says: MEETING: Board of Business Regulations will meet Friday at Pensacola City Hall Auditorium and this marks the first time the Askew appointed board has met in Pensacola Richard Pallot of Miami is chariman of the powerful board Jim Baroco of Pesnacola is a member of the board, which will discuss hotel, restaurants and para-mutual betting, at the Friday session Other members attending will be Nelson Italiano to Tampa, Jack Demetree of Jacksonville and Burney Simpkins of Cocoa.

Soviets 'finish work in Egypt' -wi Alt urn Hi SEVILLE SQUARE: Shipping company exec Mike Mer-ritt and Mrs. Wayne (Pat) Miller will share the Aug. 18-19 events chairmanship of An Evening in Old Seville, the '72 coordinator Wright Moulton announced yesterday at a press party at Rosie O'Grady's The seventh annual old-fashioned celebration will be a double header this year "There'll be a lot of new events and some old ones returned," Moulton promhed The event, to which everyone is invited, will have a political theme and League of Women Voters will sponsor a rally have invited all the candidates to speak Friday and Saturday nights At the information giving event, five American flags were given and three News-Journal guests, Pensacola News City Editor Morgan Little, Living Section Editor Gay Duncan and Fashion Editor Pat Lloyd were winners The only two League representatives, Mrs. Shirley Chaet and Mrs. Miriam Spencer, were the other flag winners.

Vietnamese forces are battling to retake the provincial capital from Communist forces who have held it since late April. (Vietnam stories on Pages 14A, 8B.) HIS PRESENCE STILL FELT- A South Vietnamese paratrooper holds up an embroidered picture of the late North Vietnamese President Ho Chi Minn which was found in a recaptured section of Quang Tri city. South CHAN.GE OF COMMAND: Capt. Glenn Lambert will turn over Saufley Naval Air Station command Friday to Capt. Donald Whitman.

PARIS (AP) The Viet Cong today assailed U.S. efforts to get a military settlement of the Vietnam war without settling the political conflict over control of the government in Saigon. Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, leader of the Viet Cong delegation, told the 151st session of the Vietnam peace talks that "the two aspects of the problem should be settled simultaneously." Addressing the meeting a day after U.S. presidential adviser Henry Kissinger resumed secret talks with Le Due Tho of the North Vietnamese Politburo, Mrs.

Binh said: "The U.S. side pretends to desire an end to its military 'participation' without dealing with the political aspect. This simply means that the United States still wants to maintain in South Vietnam the administration it has set up to implement the policy of 'Vietnam-ization' of the war. If so, the United States will never be able to put an end to its military Mrs. Binh again insisted on her year -old seven -point peace plan calling for an end to U.S.

support for President Nguyen Van Thieu and a coalition government in Saigon including the Communists. She told U.S. Ambassador William J. Porter: "You have often said that this constitutes only a demand that the U.S. should interfere in the internal political affairs of South Vietnam, abandon its 'ally and abolish the 'institutions set up by In fact, the so-called 'ally' and 'institutions' are but the instruments imposed upon the South Vietnamese people by Turn to VIET Page 11A Minor accident brings killings MIAMI (AP) Clyde Dixon was backing out of a tavern's parking lot Wednesday night when he struck a passing car.

It was only a minor accident, but before long police said Dixon was dead of gunshot wounds and his passenger was killed in another auto accident. Officer Robert Case of the Miami police gave this account: Dixon, 55, of Miami, became engaged in an argument with the driver of the other car after the minor accident. Sud- Tnrn to MINOR Page 11A Ed sirfl 'Dangerous at this time' NELLIE SAYS SO: Ex-Gov. John Connalley of Texas Turn to GOOD EVENING Page 14A Laird slams McGovem philosophy military qfie cWS on By FRED S. HOFFMAN AP Military Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of Defense Melvin R.

Laird today attacked Sen. George McGovern's military budget philosophy as "dangerous for our country at this time." Laird said it would be dangerous and jeopardize chances for success in a range of negotiations with the Soviet Union "if we take unilateral action to reduce our forces in Europe, if we take unilateral action to cut back further on our military establishment." While disavowing any wish to get involved in the political campaign, Laird spoke harshly during a TV interview (NBC Today Show) of MANILA U.S. military forces joined today in the fight to combat one of the worst floods in Philippine history. There was no letup in the heavy monsoon rains. Eight provinces were under water and many thousands were homeless and without food or medicine.

The official death toll after two weeks of storms and flooding rose to 155, but many regions still had not been heard from. Influenza and intestinal ailments threatened in many areas without safe drinking water. NEW YORK An acupuncture clinic that opened one week ago has closed down in the face of a state ruling that nonphysicians who administered the needle therapy were practicing medicine illegally. Dr. Arnold Benson said Wednesday that he was closing the Acupuncture Center of New York but planned to fight the ruling by the State Department of Education, which regulates the practice of medicine.

McGovern's proposals to slash the defense budget by about $30 billion a year and to withdraw immediately from the Vietnam war. As he has before, Laird described the Democratic presidential candidate's Vietnam stand as "giveaway now, beg later." Speaking of the American war prisoners in Hanoi's hands, Laird said, "I don't believe the way to solve that problem is to approach the North Vietnamese as a beggar." McGovern has said he "would go to Hanoi and beg if I thought that would release the boys one day earlier." He also said "begging is better than bombing." MOSCOW (AP) The Soviet government says the mili-. tary personnel it sent to Egypt have done their job and now they're coming home. The statement by the government news agency Tass Wednesday night was the first disclosure to the Soviet people of something President Anwar Sadat of Egypt announced 24 hours before. But whilo Sadat made clear that he had to'd Moscow to get the Soviet military advisers out of Egypt because the Kremlin hadn't given him more advanced offensive weapons to use against Israel, the Soviet statement gave no hint of this.

Tass said a "number of Soviet military personnel" had been in Egypt at the request Blue Angel aircraft is damaged KEENE, N.H. (AP) A Navy Blue Angels aerobatic plane has been damaged extensively on landing at the municipal airport. Officials said the craft's main drag chute failed to open and the jet skidded off the end of the rain-slicked runway and flipped over Wednesday afternoon. Gary Smith and Petty officer Keith Chambers of Pensacola, the pilots of the craft, were released after observation at a local hospital. Smith and Chambers had come to Keene to make preparations for an air show by the Blue Angels this weekend.

than any in recent memory and raised the possibility of a later, stronger challenge to Meany's dominance of the labor federation. "It is too early to tell," said one knowledgeable labor source when asked if Meany had hurt his leadership position. i "If McGovern turns out to be popular with workers, a is in trouble. If McGovern gets creamed in the November presidential Turn to MEANY Page 11A of the Cairo government, and they have finished teaching the Egyptians how to "master Soviet military equipment "Now the Soviet military personnel in the Arab Republic of Egypt have completed their, functions," the news agency said. "With the awareness of this, after an exchange of opinions, the sides deemed it expedient to bring back to the Soviet Union the military personnel that had been sent to the Arab Republic of Egypt for a limited period.

"These personnel will shortly return to the Tass said the advisers had been on temporary assignments "in accordance with the requests of the leadership of the Arab Republic of Egypt for help in ensuring its defense potential in the face of Israeli aggression." "Both sides have many times expressed their satisfaction with the effectiveness of such measures," Tass said, adding that Moscow "olans to continue developing and strengthening in every way its relations" with Egypt. It said these relations will be i based on the 15-year friendship treaty signed last year and the ''joint struggle for the liquidation of the consequences of the Israeli Tarn to SOVIETS Page HA Sergeant's exam sef for Tuesday By MIKE COULTER Htwt Staff Wrlttr At least. 18 Pensacola city policemen have submitted their applications to the Civil Service Board to take a pro motional examination for sergeant's position. Applications will be accepted by the board until Friday, July 28, John T. Harper, chairman of the board said.

The written examination will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 1 and at which time the applicant must score 50 per cent to go on to an oral examination which will be held on Wednesday, Aug. 2. Qualifications for the promotion are graduation from high school; 12 college semester hours and three years experience with the Pensacola Police Division.

Salary for the sergeant's rank is $328 to $399 bi-weekly. News Index Amusements 11 A Billy Graham 10A Bridge 1....... 5A Classified 8-13B Comics 10A Crossword 10A Deaths 8B Editorials 4A Horoscope 10A Hy Gardner 3A People 1M4A Sports 1-3B Television 5A To Your Health 9A 4V-UMN tioinuid) At the same time, the defense secretary said, when asked whether he was optimistic the war would be over before the presidential election in November, that "I am always hopeful that the nego-' tiating route will be successful." Discussing the McGovern defense budget positions, which call for stopping such projects as the F15 jet fighter and the Bl advanced bomber, Laird predicted McGovern will modify some of his stands during the campaign. He said the Democratic presidential candidate's positions seem to 'teeter-totter on all these particular issues." He did not elaborate. while reportedly disagreeing with McGovern's views on the Vietnam war.

Meany, who said McGovern was not good "good material" for a president, shrewdly avoided a direct vote on whether to endorse McGovern and made it clear the AFL-CIO's 117 affiliated unions and their 13.6 million members were free to do as they wished. This blunted opposition from several McGovern supporters on the labor council. Typical was President Floyd Smith of the 'He's invincible says opponent REYKJAVIK, Iceland The Icelandic Chess Federation rejected a list of 13 demands from Bobby Fischer (left) today, raising the possibility of a new hitch in the world chess championship Fischer and Boris Spassky, the Soviet world champion, were scheduled to play their fifth game today. The score is now IVi-Vi in Spassky's favor, the fourth match Tuesday having ended in a draw. 9 Xhx fy I) -3 ft AlJ off yiTDDuDS GLENDALE, Calif.

A bomb shattered two transformers at a utility substation early today, and sheriff's deputies dismantled another bomb which failed to detonate, police said. The explosion of the first bomb apparently extinguished the fuse on the second, said a spokesman for the Los Angeles County sheriff's department. The un-detonated bomb, a 30-inch pipe filled with black powder, was one of the largest pipe bombs ever dismantled by the sheriff's bomb squad, the spokesman said. MOSTLY FAIR and warm weather with a 40 per cent chance of rain is expected today through Friday. Iligh both days should reach near 90 with low tonight in mid 70s.

More weather on Page 2A. By NEIL GILBRIDGE AiiocKIt Pratt Wrlttr WASHINGTON (AP) -George Meany, steering the AFL-C10 to a fence-sitting position of neutrality in the presidential campaign, showed he is sti'l firmly in command of the nation's House of Labor and a power to be reckoned with in national politics. "He's invincible," grumbled one union opponent after the 77-year-old Meany led the 35-man AFL-CIO executive council to a 27-3 vote Wednesday against endorsing either member Machinists union, who endorsed McGovern but voted with Meany's position of neutrality for the AFL-CIO. "Let them do as they like," Meany told a news conference. AFL-CIO sources said that had the vote been directly on whether to endorse McGovern, the vote would have been virtually split down the middle.

Despite his victory in bending the labor council to his wishes, the issue produced more division in labor's ranks Democratic nominee George McGovern or President Nixon. "I will not vote for either one of them," Meany told a news conference. "Meany was clam, cool, responsible, effective and well-prepared," said another reluctant admirer on the labor council who had urged endorsement of McGovem as the AFL-CIO has done with every previous Democratic presidential nominee. Meany has sharply attacked Nixon on economic policies, IFOKir 4'.