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The Morning Call from Allentown, Pennsylvania • 2

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mMMmi mmmJ 1 To Tri Quang ecapture jl MptaMHWlp til s-v I fra A plllilSilllfc IlliP w- 3 i av if-' iiii- iii appears to be pulling back, but we're encountering resistance from nearly every treeline, every village "If they decide to put all their people in Quang Tri and stand and fight, it's going to be rough," he said. North Vietnamese troops to the rear of the advancing forces kept up pressure on the western defenses of Hue, 30 miles southeast, and shelled the former imperial capital for the third day in a row. Four 122mm artillery rounds crashed into the city and military spokesmen in Saigon said three civilians were killed and seven wounded. About 1,000 more shells blasted government positions on Hue's western front and two outposts were reported attacked by North Vietnamese ground troops. Officials claimed 46 enemy killed and put South Viet IT GOES LIKE panzee, after a York's Bryant THIS Zippy, a 4-year-old chim-bike and skate exhibition in New Park for big city residents who didn't go elsewhere for the holiday weekend, takes time out to explain some of his techniques to 14-month-old Mindy.Perilla.

(AP) Nation Wishes Itself Well With 196th Birthday Spree Foreign Minister Vasily'V. Kuz-netsov. For the past two years, the highest-ranking Soviet guest at the reception was the secretary of the Supreme Soviet. The official attendance, however, remained below the level of that in the Khrushchev era when the premier and Commu nist party chief himself attended. In New York City, the country's first official capital, July .4 events included a performance of a play called "The Roots of the Revolution." At least 25 persons died in holiday accidents in Pennsylvania, including 15 in traffic, mishaps.

Road deaths totaled more than 700 across the nation. namese casualties at seven killed and 17 wounded. Far, to the south, a major battle was reported at Kompong Rau in the Parrot's Beak area of Cambodia. South Vietnamese spokesmen reported 123 enemy killed at a cost of 18 government troops killed and 56 wounded. Saigon also claimed 59 enemy were killed along Highway 13 north of the capital and 100 more by air strikes in a new battle area around Phuoc Binh, a district town 75 miles to the northeast.

Field reports said five South Vietnamese air force helicopters were hit by enemy fire near Phuoc Binh. In the air war over North Vietnam, the U.Si 1 Command reported, more than 270 fighter-J Domoer striKes were nown above the demilitarized zone. Hanoi claimed two American F4 jets were shot down Monday and tne pilot ot one 01 me for a 24-hour assignment. All three, operations require customers to sign behavior agreements, and all three contend they have firm rules against prostitution-type activities by employes. "We've fought to overcome the gigolo image," said divorcee Betty Scharl, who is co-owner of Rent-A-Birdr Inc.

"Birds are allowed in public places only. No heavy drinking is permitted." Supergirl, asks the steepest fee, $60 for four hours. Dana March, head of mm' n. -V flipplllllll pll 1111111111 prak M'S' PlllP'Jlfc Hill By the Associated Press America wished itself a happy 196th birthday on Tuesday with celebrations rooted in the traditions of the past. President Nixon looked ahead a bit four years to 1976 and the nation's bicentennial.

He invited the world to "come and share our dreams of a brighter future." FIRST CALL What a pity there isn't an election every Parley Protesters Stage Mock Rites for Hijacker SAIGON (AP) Government paratroopers penetrated the city limits of Quang Tri City on Tuesday, but the success of their northern counterof fensive was marred by an accidental U.S. air attack that killed 11 South Vietnamese marines and wounded 30. Allied sources said several hundred airborne troops staged a lightning assault against enemy defensive strongholds and set up their own defensive dis positions at nightfall, a half-mile from the city center. The government announced two towns in the area were reoc-cupied. The government flag was raised during the afternoon at Mai Linh, a district head quarters 1.2 miles southeast of Quang Tri, but considered within the city limits.

Mai Linh and Hai Lang, six miles southeast of Quang Tri, were the fu'st of 14 towns that fell during the three-month-old enemy offensive to be recaptured by government forces. Associated Press corre spondent Dennis Neeld reported that South Vietnamese marines on the eastern flank of the government drive were within four miles of the city. Their officers predicted they could be in Quang Tri in a day if ordered. Elements of the airborne troops moving up Highway 1 to ward Quang Tri encountered the first bunkers in what was believed to be a heavy line of fortifications around the city. One U.S.

airborne adviser, Capt. Gail Furrow, 32, of Ur-bana, Ohio, said: "The enemy McGovern of South Dakota, who has forged to the front of the Democratic presidential race with little help from the normally influential leaders of organized labor, picked up the support of a union chieftain who formerly backed Sen. Edmund S. Muskie. Jerry Wurf, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes, said in Washington he would urge delegates, including 25 who are members of his union, to back McGovern.

A second union leader, United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock, said in Detroit Tuesday he could "gladly endorse" either McGovern or Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey if nominated, but he said this did not amount to an endorsement. McGovern spent the Independence Day holiday at his farm on Maryland's Eastern shore. Sen.

Humphrey of Minnesota, one of his chief rivals for the nomination, was at his lakeside home in Waverly, Minn. The candidates and most of the delegates to next week's convention won't reach this sweltering beach resort until later this week, but Democratic party officials are already on Continued on Page 2, Column 5 Despite the evidence, Watson are not seeking planes was captured in Ha Tinh Province. The U.S. Command did not announce any losses but report-ed B52 bombers dropped about 450 tons of explosives on supply depots in the buffer zone and up to 94 miles northwest. Fifty-one of the Stratofortresses pounded targets in Quang Tri Province and west of Hue.

In a delayed report, three U.S. Navy destroyers operating off North Vietnam said they sighted some barges transporting supplies from freighters' that unloaded offshore Friday night. The naval ships opened fire and reported fhey destroyed or damaged five barges. The North Vietnamese have been reported using barges to circumvent the U.S. mining of their harbors that has prevented ships bearing supplies from entering port.

the firm, said, "We cater only to top executives. All our girls speak a second language. We can offer anything from Yiddish to Gypsy." Mrs. Scharl and ex-optician Alan Budd have operated Rent-A-Bird for four years. Their promotion literature claims thorough client checkouts and rules-following.

Accardi has the names of 300 women in his Sunshine Girl files. They use false last names. Supergirls use their real names and Rent-A-Birds use fictitious names entirely. Rent-A-Bird refuses to divulge its salaries, but a slim, attractive brunette named Gail manages to wheel around in a black and white Cadillac Eldorado. Gail said some assignments have been as innocent as guiding a busload of senior citizens to Miami tourist attractions.

Rent-A-Bird and Supergirl also offer male escorts. They're called Rent-A-Gent and Superguy, but business is much slower for the boys, who are usually hired as drivers or bodyguards. Supergirl says 90 per cent of its clients are executives in the 35-45 age range. About 30 per cent are from Latin America. Cindy Caswell, 23, is an ex-ski instructor from Bradford, N.H., who says: "Up in the woods, you don't hear about things like this." Kasey Allen, 22, a blonde from Houston who "got restless in Texas" and got into touch with Supergirl through a newspaper ad.

said, "It's a great way to see the world, to dine in luxury and meet some interesting men and get paid for it." Youngest Postwar Premier Supergirls Cindy Caswell and Kasey Allen pose with client. AP) Lonely at (CmivemitIEi? Call Inc. Maverick Picked to Lead Japan In a nationally broadcast, live radio address from the Western White House at San Clemente, Nixon said Americans should use the occasion of the Related Story on Page Editorial on Page li bicentennial to 'prove once again that the spirit of '76 is a spirit of openness, of brotherhood and of peace." The President, chatting briefly with newsmen later, also indicated he'd been relaxing just like millions of his countrymen. Dressed in red or at least maroon white and blue, Nixon sported a slight sunburn and said he'd been swimming every day. The Soviet 'government, apparently reflecting improved relations after Nixon's visit, sent more and higher-ranking officials to the Fourth of July reception at the U.S.

Embassy in Moscow. The highest-ranking Soviet guest at Ambassador Jacob Beam's garden party was Deputy Premier Vladimir A. Kirillin. He was accompanied by two Cabinet ministers and Deputy TOKYO The ruling Libera 1-Democratic party Wednesday elected Kakuei Tan- aKa, 54, its president and new prime minister of Japan in a break with' past policies of dependence on the United States and aloofness toward China. Tanaka, who made his way in politics as a maverick in the establishment, defeated a protege of retiring Prime Minister Eis-aku Sato, Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda, 67, on the second ballot of the party convention by 282-190 votes.

Tanaka needed a 20-23 57 14 49 51-56 14 Sulzberger Television Theaters TRB TV Keynotes Wilson 14 48 47 14 48 46 Allentown, Pa. I i MIAMI BEACH (AP) -Three Miami area escort services, offering shapely girls-for-hire in 14 languages, report a bustling business as thousands of visitors hit town for next week's Democratic National Convention. "We're extensively tied up with some high officials," said former lifeguard Steve Ac-cardi, who operates Sunshine Girls, Inc. "We'll provide some special girls for some major people." Fees for escorts range from $45 for a six-hour date to $185 MIAMI BEACH (AP) Youthful protesters conducted a mock funeral for a slain Viet namese hijacker outside the site of next week's Democratic convention here Tuesday while the court battle over the bitter California and Illinois credentials cases moved to the U.S. Appeals Court in Washington.

About 40 demonstrators, rep- resenting several protest majority of 239 of the 476 party delegates voting. Four ballots were declared invalid. Tanaka currently is minister of international trade and indus try. Former Foreign Ministers Takeo Miki and Masayoshi Oh-ira were eliminated on the first ballot and threw their support to Tanaka. The voting on the first round was Tanaka, 156: Fukuda, 150; Ohira, 101; Miki, 69.

The. Diet, Japan's parliament, will confirm Tanaka Thursday for a three-year term as prime minister. He will be Japan's youngest prime minister since the war. Tanaka overcame the handicaps of poverty, a scanty education and lack of social position to fight his way to the top of the Japanese political heap. Ebullient and ruggedly handsome, he is a sharp contrast to his opponent, Fukuda, a longtime bureaucrat born into wealth.

Though the general electorate had no hand in the voting, popular opinion favored Tanaka as the man most likely to carry out I an independent foreign policy, lease relations with the United States and seek closer ties possibly ending in diplomatic recognition with Peking. Though. Fukuda said he would give priority to Chinese and U.S. relations, his close ties to Sato and his generally cautious policies worked against him. Also, in view of bitter Chinese attacks QVLJ groups, left quietly after police refused to let them place a 3 by 5-foot piece of plywood strewn with hibiscus flowers in a canal Related Stories on Page 8 as part of the funeral for Nguyen Thai Binh.

He -was slain in Saigon Sunday while trying to hijack an American jetliner. Meanwhile, Sen. George on Sato and his government, Tanaka is considered more acceptable to Peking. How well he succeeds will determine the fortunes of the conservatives who have governed Japan since the end of the war. Tanaka faces a lower house election either late this year or early next year that will determine whether the people support continued LDP rule.

The one-day party convention has as its ostensible primary business the election of a new party president; in fact, the president automatically becomes the prime minister. OLYMPICS TRYOUTS? Rosabelle Brown and Ann 1111 jllSBiRii mm) XmSS0 1111 4:: KAKUEI TANAKA Inside The Call Fischer's Ready to Play, So Spassky Stages Tantrum to Delay Chess Match 2 Special Edition News Today Pages 5, 18, 19 Model Minnesota Demo Delegation a Mix of Old and New Politics Page 8 NAACP Adopts Resolution Condemning President Nixon for Antibusing Views 8 Finance Minister Resigns From Shaky Bonn Coalition Government Page 19 North and South Korea Open Direct Phone Link Between Capitals 11 The Weather Fair This Morning, Rain Likely in Afternoon; For Details, See Page 5 rv" fT 1 "i mwmm-mm. BKiiy IWfp: 4 liftmtifriiMi mi in i ii ir iiifiini Bridge 46 57-65 48, 49 24, 58 14 Family Financial Kilpatrick Porter Sports Storch Classified Comics Deaths 6, Editorial Second CI is Postagt Paid Worth Repeating He who loves not his country, can love nothing. tord George Byron Olympic team broad-jumping berths. Their efforts are aimed at clearing a Rochester puddle..

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