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1,200 S. Viets Occupy Sections Of Quang Tri Sea Brings Supplies, Reds Say SAIGON (UPI)-A 1 2 0 0 a rt South Vietnamese force moved into Quang Trl city today, set up a command post and fanned out through the ruined city's business and residential districts. However government spokesmen said they would not list the city as recaptured until government troops controlled the walled citadel in the center of the town. Military sources said the troops met only light resistance but no attempt was made to storm the TUESDAY, U. S.

warplanes flying path clearing missions for today's paratroop advance accidentally bombed a government position, killing 10 soldiers and wounding The U. S. command said the incident, the first of Its kind since the government thrust Into the province began, occurred five miles southeast of the city. The command had few other details. The accident marred a massive air power mission involving 38 U.S.

B52 bombers that dumped about 900 tons A ORLANDO EVENING STAR world HONG, KONG Vietnam claimed today that It was getting war supplies by sea through 12 "coastal points" which the United States had not been able to blockade' by mines or naval ships. It also claimed that U.S. bombing was not stopping rail shipments of supplies because rail lines were being repaired within hours after bombing attacks. "If the U.S. wanted to destroy railroads and stop rail operations," Radio Hanoi said in a broadcast monitored in Hong Kong, "U.S.

planes would have to bombard more than 6,000 times a month, and even then Communist workers would be able to make enough repairs to keep supplies moving." THE BROADCAST, which admitted that Haiphong, North Vietnam's chief port, was effectively closed, did not name or locate any of the 12 coastal points through which it said supplies were moving. However, the coastline is studded with hundreds of small, rocky inlets and bays where cargo could be unloaded from river-type boats, small landing-craft; and shallow-draft, Chinese-type junks. This is particularly true along the 150 miles of coastline from Haiphong harbor to the China border, an area where Chinese shipping sources in Hong Kong and Canton have, speculated that supplies are being landed. Haiphong Is the only North namese port known to be capable of handling ocean going freighters. But since it was mined by U.S.

planes there have been unconfirmed reports that hundreds of small craft are landing supplies along the northern coast. THESE REPORTS claim that China is loading supplies aboard shallow-draft junks, sending them down China's southern Kwangtung coast, and landing them along the rugged North Vietnamese coast north of Haiphong. Some of these supplies, according to shipping sources in Hong Kong, come from East European freighters that have carried Vietnam-bound supplies to China ports since Haiphong was blockaded. Russian ships are reportedly still barred from entering Chinese ports. At least five Polish and East German freighters have, gone through Hong Kong en route to China ports, and it is believed at least a dozen more have sailed directly to China with sup Page 3 A of explosives late Tuesday and early today on suspected Communist troop emplacements.

THE HUGE Stratofortresses were clearing a path for a paratroop attack force waiting on the outskirts of the city to follow a 30-man commando team that helicoptered into the provincial capital on a reconnaissance mission French Prime Minister Quits PARIS (UPI) French Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas and his 40-man cabinet resigned today to allow President Georges Pompidou to build a new cabinet to meet expected strong opposition in next March's National Assembly elections. Pierre Messmer was named new premier. Chaban-Delmas' resignation has long been rumored and officially denied. The action was announced in a communique from Pompidou's office following today's weekly cabinet session, Pompidou's Gaullist a 1 1-tion, which has been in power for 13 years, faces stiff opposition from a newly formed Communist-Socialist coalition, even though the GaulHsts' now control 380 out of the 487 seats in the National Assembly. Chaban-Delmas has been criti- itCkA ffnm tin fit in hie Atim nortir frtt Wednesday, July 5, 1972 citadel, the possible Communist headquarters.

A South Vietnamese task force moved north into Quang Tri province more than one week ago. So far, fighting has been relatively light and allied officers said they do not know where the estimated 48,000 Communists who took the province May I are hiding. The provincial capital, Quang Tri city, has been levelled by bombing attacks since the Communists captured the province. TWO MILES southeast of Quang Tri City at sundown Tuesday, a battalion of about 500 Communists attacked government troops in an assault led by 18 tanks and at about the same time, another battalion attacked seven miles east of the city. No casualty reports were available on either skirmish.

UPI CORRESPONDENT Barney Seibert reported the troops entering Quang Tri City today radioed back that it had been leveled by bombardment. Heavy naval shelling and aerial bombing preceded the North Vietnamese capture of the province, South Vietnam's northernmost, May 1 and during the government drive to retake the city over the past eight days. The province fell to the Com- munists a month after they launched their offensive in South Vietnam March 30. It is the only province still in North Vietnamese hands. Seibert said that, behind today's lead element entering Quang Tri City was the main body of a paratroop vanguard, 1,000 men strong and backed by tanks, that pushed forward from positions half a mile and a mile south of the city.

(UPO KAKUEI TANAKA 'Computerized bulldozer' Pro-American Elected Japan's Prime Minister Spassky Gets Apology From Challenger REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) 1 -American chess challenger Bobby Fischer apologized today for delay-Ing the start or the world champion ship match with Russian, Boris, Spassky, but a demand from the Soviet chess federation threatened to cancel the 24-game series. The Russian chess group cabled Dr. Max Euwe, president of the Interna tional Chess Federation -(FIDE), demanding that Fischer be ordered to forfeit the first game because he did not abide by an agreement which said both players must show up within one hour of the scheduled game time, "If the Russians insist on this penalty I believe the whole match is off," said Euwe. "WE ARE sorry that the world championships were delayed. Th problems causing the delays were 1 not with world champion Spassky who I respect as a player and a man," Fischer said.

"If grandmaster Spassky or the Soviet people were inconvenienced or discomforted I am Indeed unhap py for I had not the slightest intention of this occurring," Fis. said. Officials hoped the twice-postponed tournament could get underway Thursday but earlier representatives of both Fischer and Spassky broke off talks, casting doubts on the possibility the match would be held. THE START was postponed from last Sunday while Fischer stayed In New York, bargaining for more money. It was postponed a second time Tuesday after Spassky said Fischer insulted him by refusing to show up to draw lots to see who got to make the first move.

He demanded Fischer apologize and said FIDE must censor Fischer. Fischer, who has remained in seclusion since arriving in Reykjavik early Tuesday, apologized in a statement read by his second, the Rev. William Lombardi. THE SOVIET demand came in a telegram to Euwe and cited one paragraph of the agreement to play signed by both Fischer and Spassky in which they agreed that a player who does not turn up within one hour of the game time forfeits the game. Euwe said the telegram arrived shortly after Fischer apologized for being late.

Fischer has kept in seclusion since he arrived in Reykjavik early Tuesday. The Russian decision to break off the talks earlier in the day threw' serious doubts on the possibility the match would be played. "THIS IS a very bad development and I am now very pessimistic about the match," Euwe said. The reason for the breakup was not Immediately disclosed but representatives of Spassky, the reigning world chess champion, said they -would explain later at a news conference. Man Gives Up Young Child, Skyjack Try BUFFALO, N.

Y. (fl A man who held a young girl at knife point in an apparent attempt to hijack an American Airlines 707, at Buffalo International Airport surrendered to an FBI agent early today. "He apparently decided heivas not going to get out" of the airport, said Richard Ash, special agent in charge of the FBI office here. "If there's no shooting, I'll come out," Ash quoted the man "as saying moments before he emerged from the aircraft carrying his hostage, who appeared to be 2 or 3 years old. ASH SAID an FBI agent had sneaked aboard the plane and confronted the man.

After the agent assured the man there would be no shooting, the man threw down his knife and carried the girl in his arms down the ramp to a waiting police car. The child was not harmed, Ash said, but was taken by ambulance to a Buffalo hospital for examination. Blood on the child's clothing, Ash, said, was from a slight wound the man had suffered. Police identified the man as Charles Smith, 23, of Buffalo. The youngster was not identified immediately.

i POLICE SAID Smith had allegedly stabbed the girl's mother and a man earlier in Buffalo. The woman was reported in critical condition, the man in fair condition, at Deaconess Hospitlal in Buffalo. Attacker Executed By Firing Squad BANGKOK, Thailand (Reuter) A man who killed and raped an 11-year-old girl was executed today, the 15th person to face firing squad since the National Executive Council seized power last Novem ber. The execution was carried out in public in the central province of Lopburi. asviw iivui TTiviiiu aihj vnu put XVL not being tough enough In dealing with several financial scandals in which Gaullists were allegedly involved.

-5 plies for the North Vietnamese. PARK FREE SHOP JM TODAY 10 'TIL 9:30 Mm 0 ft JSW "VsS 3 iiiswrw If I IS It it i II ir i'i i Nixon administration officials. Presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger held a lengthy conference with Tanaka when he visited Tokyo last month. McGovern (Continued From Page 1) the United States," the court's opinion continued.

The court said that it may well be that the winner-take-all kind of election is not as fair as a proportional allocation of delegates. "But there can be no dispute that the very integrity of the process rests on the assumption that clear rules will be established and that, once established, they will be enforced fairly, consistently and without discrimination as long as they remain in force." The opinion said the decision to exclude the 151 California delegates "jeopardizes the integrity of the election process and therefore injures every' voter in the United States and -every individual and institution subject to the authority of the president." In a dissenting opinion, Judge Charles Fahy said the decision of the Credentials Committee in the California case should have been upheld. He said the comrriittee had acted to distribute the delegation accdrding to -the popular will. "Such a decision cannot in and of itself be described as a denial of due process 1 of law," Fahy said. "Moreover, it is quite consistent with the ongoing reform movement within the party." In the Illinois cases, the three judges were unanimous in upholding the Credentials Committee decision to oust Daley and 58 other delegates.

In addition, the court held that an Injunction blocking state court action that could affect its decision was "necessary to perfect and effectuate our judgment upholding the action of the credentials committee here." The court said that, if the Daley -forces were successful in their state court attacks on their successful challengers," one likely result would be that no delegates the challenged Illinois districts would be seated at the convention." "Such a result' would not just deprive the national party more fundamentally it would deprive all Democrats residing in those districts of any voice or representation 11 In Cleveland Die From Gunshot Wounds CLEVELAND (UPI)-Eleven per-sons were shot to death bi Cleveland during the Fourth of July weekend. The victims Include a 14-year-old girl hit by a stray bullet during an argument at a birthday party and an elderly man shot to death during a card game. POLICE SAID 158 homicides have been recorded so far this year. TOKYO (UPI) Kakuei Tanaka, 54, a pro-American politician who rose from farmboy to industrial magnate, was elected prime minis- ter of Japan today to climax a hectic campaign to select a successor to Eisaku Sato. Tanaka will officially take office Thursday following his certification by the Diet (parliament).

UNDER JAPAN'S parliamentary system, delegates of the ruling party elect a party chief who automatically assumes the post' of prime minister. Tanaka was elected on the second ballot of a nationally televised special election called by the ruling Liberal Democ ra i party. He polled a' majority of 282 votes with a total of 476 party delegates casting ballots. Tanaka beat former Foreign Minister Takeo Fukuda in a runoff made necessary, because none of the original four candidates got a majority on the first ballot. Fukuda had 190 votes.

1 TANAKA, MINISTER of trade and industry, was born a poor family in the northern prefecture (state) of Niigata and is the first modern Japanese premier without a college degree. He, left home for Tokyo at 16, went to night school and worked his way to leadership in the construction business and entered government at the age of 28 when he was elected to the Diet. Tanaka recently introduced a radical plan to revamp Japan's industrial organization. The plan would move heavy industry out of congested urban areas in an effort to reduce the nation's growing pollution. In foreign affairs, Tanaka' advocates continued close ties with the United States while trying to bring normal relations between Japan and China.

TANAKA, SOMETIMES called a "computerized bulldozer" because of his decisiveness and his adroitness in mathematics, was a loyal aide to Sato, who resigned June 17 after holding office, for a record seven years and eight months. But Tanaka broke away from the retiring premier when it became known that he was not Sato's choice as a successor. Sato supported Fukuda. Tanaka bowed and raised his right hand in response to a great burst of applause When he was declared the winner. He went to the rostrum and sat next to Sato.

"I ASSUME my responsibility for dealing with many outstanding problems confronting us," Tanaka said in a short speech of acceptance. Sato had tried to Improve Sino-Japanese relations but' Peking had refused to deal with him because of his pro-Nationalist China policy. China has surprisingly refrained from comment on Tanaka and this has led to speculation he might be able to open a dialogue for improved relations between Tokyo and Tanaka is well known among yt 11 KNIT TICKET TO TRAVEL 14.00 Machine washable, packable poly- ester that goes anywhere anytime. Summer fresh stripes of bluewhite, sizes 10 to 18. GULFSTREAM DRESSES, second floor, orlando; merritt Island Use one of JM's trio of credit plana custom tailored to your needs.

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