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The Post-Crescent A 2 Friday, July 14, 1972 Fischer Loses Preventing Hijackings Still a Baffling Problem Protest Appeal WASHINGTON (API Find-lin ing a av to halt airline hijack- the past six weeks alone, in- eluding two that were com-'put living up to security regulations into effect In April, mgs has baffled officials of thelmandecred by gun-toting sky Against Forfeit REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) that and had invited both play. An appeals committee re- ers to inspect the hall this jected today Bobby Fischer's afternoon so the problem could pirates Wednesday night, cific Southwest, wera fined $1, "We don't know what thejOOO each after the FAA rulea holes in our security arc," saidlthat lax security contributed to nation's airlines and the Feder- al Aviation Administration. Airport security has tightened; noticeably since tha beginning of the year. Carry-on luggage frequently has been searched. Passengers have been screened protest asainst his loss oflDe discussed.

for weapons by electronic met-'to al detectors. Ticket agents hav been proper screening," he kept an eye peelei for picious persons who fit a secret) FAA administrator Jojhn H. hijacker profile. iShaffer has ordered an investi- But the hijackings continue, gation of all hijackings to de- i ft hi i I i Ti' I I 1 Id -1 14 i 1 Six jetliners have been hijacked Two Hijackers Finally Surrender Five-Year-Old Oscar de la Fuente, right, doesn't seem to have any qualms about being the center of attention as he goes down the boards during chess matches with 10 opponents in Granada, Spain. Unlike young Oscar, who had one win, seven draws and two defeats, chess master Bobby Fischer forfeited the second game of the World chess championship, Thursday, because of his objections to movie cameras in the hall.

(AP Wirephoto) LAKE JACKSON, Tex. (APUng three stewardesses behind. Is Back From Junket Two airlines, United and Pa- the success of a pair of hijack ings tiiat occurred within days after the new regulations went into effect. The regulations require air- line personnel to unserve all boarding passengers to see whether any of them match a behavioral profile of potential hijackers developed -by the FAA. 'Have 'Option The airlines also have the" option of using metal-detecting devices or searching passen gers or their hand luggage, but are not required to do so.

The metal detecting devices are in use at many airports, but not all. An Air Transport Association spokesman said the airlines have spent about $2 million to date on the metal-ds-tecting devices and considerable sums on other security measures. "There is no way to calculate what percentage of passengers pass through the magnetome ters," said ATA spokesman James McCarthy. "At some boarding places all passengers go past the devices. At other times or places, only persons believed to match the profile are sent through the detec tors." Submit If the magnetometer triggers an alarm, the passcngei must submit to a search by law enforcement officers to gain admission to the plane.

According to government statistics, 205 persons have been arrested during the past 18 1 months for trying to board an airliner with a weapon or for making hijack or sabotage threats while boarding a plane. During the same period, according to government figures, more than 1,100 guns, knives and other weapons have been seized. I Use ally show a big sister's pique folding her hands in her lap and refusing to talk to Bill no matter how hard he tugs at her fingers. Fingers Talk But, as suddenly ard inexplicably as it starts, it stops. And, she reaches out and traces her finger across his for Two armed men who commandeered a jetliner and took it on a 21-hour journey I during which three crew mem bers escaped by jumping out of the windows surrendered quiet ly to an FBI agent after forcing the plane to land at a tiny private airfield, Held on $1 million bonds on air piracy charges in Houston were Michael Stanley Green, 34, of Washington, DC, and Luseged Tesfa, 22, a native of Etkiopia who was believed staying with The two walked down the rear ramp stairway of the jetliner at 4 p.m.

C.D.T., almost eight hours after it first touched down on the small airstrip owned by Dow Chemical Co. in this town 50 miles south of Houston. In a second hijacking case, a man identified as Melvin M. Fisher; 49, of Norman, surrendered Wednesday niht to a stewardess after a hijacker armed with a pistol commandeered an American Airlines 727 jet during a flight from Oklahoma City to Dallas. The hijacker had demanded and received $200,000.

Fisher, charged with air piracy, was held in lieu of $100,000 bond. Demanded Cash The first hijacking beean Wednesday night when a National Airlines Boeing 727 with 113 passengers aboard was taken over during a flight from 5-i a vm Th. Philadelphia to New York The, passengers were leave when the three-engine jet' returned to Philadelphia. The hijackers had demanded Connolly SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Former Treasury Secretary John Connally has arrived in Southern California for a conference today with President Nixon.

Connally, until recently the only Democrat in Nixon's Cabi net, just completpd a 35-day, 15-nation trip around the world for the President, who has promised the mission would be followed by an important new assignment for the silver-haired Texan. Asked if the new assignment would be announced today, press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said, "It has. not been decided." There has been speculation for more than a year that, should Nixon decide to replace arm, as if to apologize. Bill can communicate only through finger talk, and most of the staff and 20 other resi dents can get simple messages across to him.

But, if it's complicated, Louise becomes the interpreter. Since coming to Country House she learned to read the Vice President Spiro T. Agnew as his 1972 running mate, he mignt turn to uonnaiiy. ine former Treasury chief has expressed disinterest in the job but has never said flatly he would not accept. Another globe-circling trav eler, Secretary of State William em White House on Saturday to report to Nixon, on a 19-day journey to 10 countries.

Ziegler reported that the President and Mrs. Nixon watched final Democratic con- ever, the press secretary kept mum about Nixon's reaction to the nomination of Sen. George McGovern as his November opponent. I Braille and communicate through a Braille typewriter a slow and tedious 1-e-t-t-e-r b-y letter method but a skill that opens a little bit bigger door to the world But, the only Braille books she ever asks for are Bible sto- nes, which she reads over and, over. World Chester Fox, the New York promoter who bought the film rights to the match, said he met with Fischer at the Yale Club in New York last June 28 to discuss arrangements.

Fox said he explained how the cameras would be used, and said Fischer raised no ob jections, adding: "He seemed perfectly reasonable." "We discussed now we would film. He wanted to know specif ically how much money he would get That's all he was Interested in," Fox added. Fischer stayed in his hotel room Thursday and refused to play unless three cameras filming the match for movie and television sales wera removed from the hall. Since the American challenger lost the first game on Wednesday, referee Lothar Schmid's forfeit ruling gave Spassky a 2-0 lead. Match in Doubt Schmid said the third game of the 24-game match would be held on schedule Sunday, but the future of the match was Schmid said it depends on whether Fischer continues his boycott.

He added that the World Chess Federation FIDE could step in at any time and disqualify him. But Dr. Max Euwe, president of the organization, said Schmid was still in charge of the match and must decide how to handle the American. A spokesman for promoter Chester Fox, who bought the movie and TV rights for the match from the Icelandic Chess Federation, said the cameras had to stay because 'the whole financial structure of the match depends on it." It was the prospect of movie and TV sales that allowed the Icelanders to offer a record $125,000 purse to the two players, and Fischer and Spassgy are also to divide a share of the movie-TV money estimated at a minimum of $55,000. Adjourn to firs t-ballot nomination Wednesday night.

The final rites took place far beyond the prime-television nighttime viewing hours the Democrats had sought even on the West Coast. When the convention's final gavel fell at 3:27 a.m., the Democrats had ended a historic convention, marked by three days of attentiveness and friendship within the vast, brightly lit hall and a week of protests outside that never came close to the violent street confrontations of the tumultuous 1968 Democratic Con vention in Chicago. With reform rules that produced massive increases in the numbers of women, black and young delegates, it ratified a transition in party power from the big-city chieftains and lead-1 ers of labor, dominant for 40 years, to the forces of what Kennedy termed "a new wind rising over he land." YOU'LL LIKE GEORGE WEBB'S FARM FRESH PREPARED IN BUTTER How long hat It been Ince you've itopped at GEORGE WEBB Open 24 Hours, 7 Days Every Week Egos y), ywwt aDout ana time with finBe flying in con can pesos-worth versation, FAA spokesman Dennis Feld- man. "We have to take each instance on a case-by-case basis determine whether Ciere has termine whether airlines are it Reagan suffered a broken pelvis, broken wrist, possible facial breaks, broken ribs and contusions when he jumped. Beaver had been shot once in the right side, apparently after the pilot's escape in Philadelphia.

Both men were listed in fair to good condition at a Houston hospital A fourth stewardesses, Sande Schmitt, 26, of Fort Lauderdale, escaped while acting as a go-between for the hijackers with the FBI. When the two men surrendered they released the three other stewardesses, all unhure. They were Catherine A. Nosse, 28, Miami Springs; Donna S. Thomas, 24, Miami; and Linda Joiner, 24, Miami.

Thomas Jordan, special agent in qharge of the FBI at Houston, credited the surrender of the hijackers, both black, to the effort of a Negro FBI agent, Lou White, who was flown in from Baltimore to talk to the men about 30 minutes before they gave up. Little BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) After almost 40 years of blindness and a lifetime of silence Louise Selby, 60, and her brother Bill, 53, no longer seem to care very much about foe world known only by touch. sU touchl .,,.1,: mmnniratinn- RnmPtimPa quietly holding hands, other But if one moves away without telling the other, there's visible panic in the searching hands that reach out in ever widening circles to regain contact with the other half of their world inaMa eo Staff members at the Country th vprv sbout th Records lndicate omv names, ages, brief diagnoses ot their condition and healtft records since they were placed there by their father six years ago. Both were born deaf mutes, and went blind about 40 years ago, officials said.

A World Apart Their father died last year and their mother in 1951 In the six year's they've been wards of the state, Louise and Bill have been oblivious to happenings outside their immediate surroundings. Wars, presidents, assassinations, even men on the moon are unknown to them part of a world in which they seemingly have no interest. Except for a brief schooling, the pair stayed at home and learned to take care of themselves. Bill became adept at craft work and Louise learned the needle skills of sewing, em- iroidery and hemstitching. But today they seldom use those skills.

Louise confines her needle work to patching Bill's clothing, i and when she does, the staff I watches in amazement. "She can sew a patch on neater than anyone I know who "an see," said one staff member. Although Louise is normally even tempered and dis-positioned, she does occasion- Ji.7.'ADI0 DISPATCH 1 1 to you. feOcA. 14 HOUR I DRUG famU.

Dtuf SCoU. WAITII AVtNUE HOrrtNC CINtll 739-4414 DAY NIGHT 1 "We won't have a specific comment on the upcoming elec- tion and proceedings until after the Republican convention," Ziegler said. Same Place The GOP meeting begins Aug. 21 in the same Miami Beach convention center where Democrats have just met. Nixon did order Henry A.

Kissinger, his national security affairs adviser, to arrange meeting soon with McGovern to briefings for the Democratic nominee. Ziegler said McGovern would be kept "fully abreast" of Vietnam peace talks and, in re sponse to a question, hinted the briefings also would deal with any secret negotiations that may be arranged in the weeks ahead Nixon spent much of Thurs- day in his office, conferring with such key aides as Kissin ger and H.R. Haldeman, chief of the White House staff. The President and Kissinger received a steady flow of writ-; ten reports on resumed peace talks in Paris. Although these were still under study, Ziegler reported "we see nothing dra matically new" emerging from the initial session Thursday morning.

1 Today's Chuckle i All most men want from their wives are affection, admiration, encouragement the ability to live grandly on an inadequate income. (Copyright 1972)' rr 172 bkNt-ufht tyndwMt Inc. tHt law of ANY EITHER ELECTROLUX COHP. faehry-Authartnd SoUt and Service f. t.

PREIMESBERGER 1420 W. Grant, AppUton 733-0796 Thursday's world championship chess game by forfeit. The four-man committee supported the decision of chief referee Lothar Schmid to award the game to Boris Spassky because Fischer failed to appear. The decision left Fischer two games down in a 24-game match where Fischer needs the equivalent of 12 victories and a draw to take Spassky title. Andrew Davis, Fischer law yer who arrived this morning from New York, was in the anteroom when assistant referee Gudmunder Arnlaugsson of Ice land announced the forfeit would be maintained Asked if his client would play the next scheduled game on Sunday, Davis replied: "I can't comment on that.

Davis, who appeared upset at the ruling, said he had not Fischer since he got here. Four chess officials consid ered Fischer's appeal. Arn laugsson said, "We a.creed to support Schmids decision. llVb UV UVUV Ubllvi llluVi il.IV, was one against." The man who backed Fis cher's appeal was Fred Cram er, an official of the U.S. Chess Federation and an associate of Fischer.

The other members were "Nikolai Krogius, a Spassky aide, and Baldur Moller, an official of the Icelandic Chess Feder ation which organized the match. Fischer refused to play Thursday because he said the presence of three cameras in the Sports- Palace where the game's are played bothered him. He stayed in his. hotel room. A second part of his protest objected to conditions of play.

Fischer wanted the cameras removed. They are used to make movies and television. Arnlaugsson said the com' mittee reserved a decision on Democrats CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 cast for candidates ranging from television commentator Roger Mudd, to TV character Archie Bunker, to the senator's wife, Eleanor. Even Martha Mitchell, the wife of former COP campaign manager John N. Mitchell, got a vote.

When Wisconsin was called at 1 a.m. on the vice presidential roll call, Eagleton received 38 of the state's 67 votes. The women's caucus within the delega tion provided 17 votes for Frances Farenthold, recent candidate in the Texas gubernatorial primary. The other votes were: Alaska's Mike Gravel, former Massachussetts Gov. Endicott Peabody, Oklahoma Sen.

Fred Harris, Sen. Edward Kennedy, Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter, 1, and Roger Mudd, 2. McGovern chose the hand some, articulate, first-term Missouri senator, a border-state Catholic with strong ties to la bor, from a field of a half-dozen senators, governors and may ors. He was the senator sec ond choice: Kennedy rejected an offer of the vice presidency shortly after McGovern swept Meister-Brau Draft Beer 24-12 oz.

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Ave. Dial 733-5041 two parachutes. Authorities said the ransom demands were met in Philadelphia when the hijack ers swapped planes, but tney would not disclose the exact amount. While in Philadelphia, pilot Elliott Adams. 52, of Miami jumped ou the front nd0W After the plane landed at Lake jacKson, copuw Reagan, 34.

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54901 Madiion 523 Tnney Bldg. 110 East Main St. 53703 I Ik I ill t-J- l.H, III- I .1 members at the Country House for retarded but trainable adults, admit they know very little about the pair. They have been there for six years. (AP Wirephoto) After Almost 40 Years of blindness and a lifetime of silence Louise Selby, 60, and her brother Bill, 53, no longer seem to care very much about the world they know only by touch.

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