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ORLANDO EVENING STAR world 4 4-Jst If', Page 3 A Saturday, Jan. 20, 1973 ft iff a i I ram I 1 I 4- II" "I i I m- 1 I 1 v. v. I mi ii ii in ffl 1 1 mmmMHMSa i''ii 'A 'l 1 (AP) Supercelebrity if Yf x- -W i If 4 minutes to get from Inaugural concert to party backstage for cast. He also was target of a Bob Hope joke about the Miami Dolphins: "Seventeen wins and no losses; sounds like Kissinger's record at the YWCA." Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger is surrounded by autograph seekers at conclusion of festivities Friday night in the John F.

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington. It took Kissinger 20 Bay Pollution Suspect Held In Killing Of Banker, Kin GRAND1N, Mo. (UP!) Authorities said today they have a suspect, arrested Friday night, in connection with the murders of bank president Robert Kitterman, his wife and 17-year-old daughter. Residents of this Ozark community gathered today for funeral services for the Kittermans. The funeral cortege proceeded past the jail where two other suspects are being held.

DALLAS RAY Belay, 33, was picked up in Poplar Bluff on a bench warrant for failing to make a court appearance on a felony charge in Jefferson County, just south of St. Louis, the highway patrol said. The patrol said Belay is from rural Van Bureen, the county seat of Carter County where Grandin is located. Troopers refused to say whether there was any evidence linking him to the Grandin slayings. The funeral procession after the service in the grade school gymnasium was to pass the 12-by-12-foot concrete bunker which serves as a jail and the Ripley County sheriff's office.

Inside, two young men-described as suspects in the murders by Sheriff Lewis Dawes await the outcome of FBI tests for fingerprints and other clues that could link them to the murders. DAWES SAID William Michael Dooley, 19, and Marion E. Puckett, 23, both from Maryville at the opposite corner of the state, were "still suspects" in the killing of Kitterman, 43, his wife Bertha, 38, and their daughter Roberta. They were seized for questioning because they were strangers and had been reported asking questions about the town and its residents. Police said marijuana was found in their car and they were being held on the felony charge of possession of narijuana.

Kitterman, appearing frightened, wallked into the Bank of Grandin Wednesday, told bookkeeper Ralph Stanley there was dynamite wired to his chest, scooped up about $11,000 in cash and walked out. THE BANK president drove out of town after telling a friend, "my wife and daughter are being held hostage by some extortionists. Call the highway patrol." Their bodies were found about an hour later, tied to trees and each shot through the head. Moslem Feud Suspected In Officials have blamed vandals for this oil slick that has killed birds and smeared small boats in a San Francisco Bay estuary. Vandals opened valves on five Port Petroleum Co.

tanks, allowing 10,000 gallons of oil to escape. Aerial view looks towards Oakland's inner harbor. Battle Rages Near Saigon, Fiercest Since Spring f' Vv7'' i si linin Oi-iiwta anHiiiiiiaiiiwm WnifniKKMnrii -iintnurn-i Presidential Wave President Nixon waves from Presidential box in the Eisenhower Theater in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Friday night prior to viewing a youth concert. With him is First Lady.

SAIGON (UPI) North Vietnamese troops battled South Vietnamese forces today in close quarters fighting 40 miles northwest of Saigon. It was the fiercest ground battle in Vietnam since the Communists' offensive last spring. The battle still raged at sundown today on the overgrown Michelin rubber plantation. But a South Vietnamese military source said "We have them stopped." SOUTH VIETNAMESE military sources said that in the 24 hours ending at 4 p.m. today Saigon's 5th Infantry Division infantrymen with air and artillery support killed 324 North Vietnamese but lost 46 killed and 116 wounded of their own.

The Saigon command said it was the highest death toll for any battle since the height of the North Vietnamese offensive last spring. "The fighting is close very close" so close that there were no high-altitude B52 strikes on the plantation once the battle broke out. THE UNDER-STRENGTH 209th and 141st regiments of the North Vietnamese 7th Infantry Division, about 1,600 men in all, were locked in combat with two South Vietnamese battalions, or about 1,000 men. But the South Vietnamese were backed by artillery and allied tactical jet fighter-bombers. A blocking force of three additional infantry and two armored battalions were sent in as reinforcement, military sources said.

The North Vietnamese troops were moving from Cambodian border region staging areas toward Saigon under orders to avoid contact with government forces, the sources said. But as they filtered through the Busy President Going 4 I underbrush of the Michelin plantation, South Vietnamese 5th Infantry Division troops attacked. ALLIED AIRCRAFT have been pounding the six mile square Michelin plantation for a week in an effort to stop a Communist buildup there. Military sources said 120 of the 325 nva dead were killed by aircraft and In the air war, U.S. aircraft flew nearly 450 one-plane strikes against suspected Communist targets in South Vietnam in the 24 hours ending at sunrise today, U.S.

command said. This included about 90 strikes by U.S. B52s and 353 by smaller jet fighter-bombers. The 353 was the most since the fighter-bombers flew 355 strikes Nov. 6.

FOUR U.S. naval ships drew 15 rounds of artillery fire from North Vietnamese shore batteries Thursday while shelling near the mouth of the Cua Viet River, 415 miles north of Saigon, the U.S. command said. It said none of the ships was hit. On the political front, Gen.

Alexander Haig, the White House deputy peace emissary, left Saigon today at the end of a five-day visit to South Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Thailand. South Vietnamese government forces say President Nguyen Van Thieu has agreed "in principle" to the a i ngton-Hanoi cease-fire draft but has requested about a dozen changes. HAIG IS returning to Washington via Seoul, Korea. The U.S. ambassador there is Phlip Habib, former acting head of the U.S.

delegation at the Paris peace talks and an expert on Vietnamese affairs. to obey a lawful order and face possible courts-martial. Both pilots are now assigned to administrative duties at their bases in Thailand while their cases are investigated. In acknowledging the charges against Evans, the Air Force also acknowledged two previous cases of B52 crewmen in the United States who were discharged as conscientious objectors. But the Air Force stood by its assertion that no other B52 pilots in Southeast Asia refused orders and denied reports that other bomber crewmen were quietly sent home after refusing to fly missions over Hanoi.

THE AIR Force also said its records show that two other pilots had been discharged after refusing to fly combat missions during the Vietnam war. An Air Force spokesman said the two other pilots "refused to fly types of missions rather than a specific mission" and their offenses were not as serious as those of Evans and Heck. On Town Again Tonight Nixon (Continued From Page 1) AS DEMONSTRATORS gathered here to protest against the Vietnam war, Nixon appeared to have a message for them, too. He said: "As America's longest and most difficult war comes to an end, let us again learn to debate our differences with civility and decency. And let each of us reach out for that one precious quality government cannot provide a new level of respect for the rights and feelings of one another and for the individual human dignity which is the cherished birthright of every American.

"Above all else, the time has come for all Americans to renew our faith in ourselves." WHILE ASSERTING that American youngsters "have been taught to be ashamed of their country, ashamed of their parents, ashamed of America's record at home and of its role in the world," Nixon proposed an upbeat approach: "From this day forward, let each of us make a commitment in his own heart: to bear his responsibility, to do his part, to live his ideals so that together, we can see the dawn of a new age of progress for America, and together, as we celebrate (in 1976) our 200th anniversary as a nation, we can do so proud in the fulfillment of our promise to ourselves and to the world." Nixon said he would "offer no promise of a purely government solution for every problem." Declaring that too much already has been asked of government, that false hopes have been raised, that disappointment has eroded confidence, he said: "YOUR NATIONAL government has a great and vital role to play. I pledge to you that where government should act, we will act boldly and lead boldly." But he added still another exhortation to individual self-reliance. THE PRESIDENT, engaged in an effort to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and prune away ineffective or unneeded programs, said that "building a new era of progress at home requires turning away from old policies that have failed." He described this as "a better way to progress" not a retreat from responsibility. Without hinting at any domestic legislation he may propose in the weeks ahead, Nixon did mention some specific areas in which to seek improvement. He said: "We have the chance today to do more than ever before to make life better in America to ensure better education, better health, better housing, better transportation, a cleaner environment to restore respect for law, to make our communities more livable to ensure the God-given right of every American to full and equal opportunity." BUT BEFORE turning to domestic concerns, Nixon dealt at the outset with his foreign-policy moves.

"This past year," he said, "saw far-reaching results from our new policies for peace. By continuing to revitalize our traditional friendships, and by our missions to Peking and Moscow, we were able to establish the base for a new and more durable pattern of relationships among the nations of the world." Nixon said that because of bold initiatives by his administration, "1972 will be long remembered as the year of the greatest progress since World War toward a lasting peace in the world." ASSERTING THAT America must work to preserve peace and freedom or there shall be none, he said: "We shall respect our treaty commitments. "We shall support vigorously the principle that no country has the right to impose its will or its rule on another by force." Another Pilot Accused Of Shunning Bomb Run Slaying Of 7 WASHINGTON (UPI) A survivor of Thursday's execution-style murder of seven persons at a Moslem headquarters battled for her life today, as theories about the slayings continued to center on a possible feud between rival Moslem groups. Bibi Khaalis, 26, mother of three of the five children who were drowned or shot to death was reported in "extremely critical" condition at Freedmen's Hospital. Her father, Dr.

Reginald Hawkins, a veteran civil rights leader who once ran for the Democratic i a i for governor in North Carolina, decided to stay at his daughter's bedside all night because doctors felt she was weakening. POLICE SAID they were searching for eight black men who drowned four children in a bathtub, shot another child and two young men to death after ransacking the $78,000 house donated to the Hanafi Madh Hab Moslem sect by basketball star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. All of the children, aged 10 days, 15 months, 18 months, 22 months, and 10 years, had the last name Khaalis, as did one of the two dead men. Police said they were going on the assumption that the methodical murders resulted from a feud between rival Moslem groups, a theory that was bolstered by the remarks by one of the Hanafi sect's leaders. Hamas Abdul Khaalis, standing outside the house where he discovered the bodies and briefly chased four of the killers Thursday, said.

"This man shot my babies because I teach Islam is for everyone, not just blacks." TWO POLICE detectives working on the case went to Philadelphia Friday, but they returned the same evening and refused to say if they had any concrete leads. Leaders of other Moslem groups in Washington denied any reports of a feud among the faithful, although they indicated the Hanafis generally kept apart from the other groups. appreciative audience. Speaking of the President's 49 state landslide, Hope said: "Look what would have happened if he had campaigned." He also promised to give amnesty to Massachusetts the one state Nixon lost. In the capacity crowd of about 2,200 were Alabama Governor George C.

Wallace, seated in a wheelchair, and a sprinkling of Cabinet officials. HOPE QUIPPED he not only had donated heavily to Nixon's campaign, he also got the opportunity to give four performances free. There was a muted groan through the audience when he noted that Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir had called on Pope Paul VI. "You talk about the odd couples," he grinned. The President's apparent favorite among the concerts was performed by conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra with Van Cliburn at the grand piano.

NIXON HAD requested Tschai-kowsky's "1812 Overture" but drums were substitutes for booming cannons during the grand finale. Afterwards, Nixon kept the applause going and even made a sweeping gesture to the orchestra to stand up and take their bows. The Nixons skipped the candlelight dinners for $250 to $501) ticketholders before the concerts. But peace negotiator Henry A. Kissinger was holding forth at one table with his favorite companion, tall blonde socialite Nancy Mag-fcinis.

Asked about Vietnam peace, Kissinger smiled and said: "I have nothing to say of substance." ALSO GAINING considerable attention at her table was Martha Mitchell who was besieged by her fans. "It seems like a dream that I ever lived in Washington," she said. "I love my new apartr- mt." WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon will be out on the town again tonight when he escorts his family to five inaugural balls after a concert-hopping spree Friday night. Shedding White House worries, Nixon appeared happy and relaxed as he made appearances at three separate concerts from rock to classical at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

THEY WERE all staged in his honor and he returned the compliment by being the first on his feet after each performance to lead the applause. He was cheered when he entered the presidential box at the Eisenhower theater where a youth concert was about to begin. As the Mike Curb Congregation went into its rock and roll program, Nixon began clapping his hands, slightly off beat. By his side was his wife Pat, wearing a pale green satin gown. They were accompanied by their two daughters, Julie Eisenhower and Tricia Cox.

Also in the party were Tricia's husband, Edward Cox and Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower, widow of the 34th president. AN AMERICAN medley of songs, including "Dixie," "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "This Land is My Land" captivated Mrs. Nixon who stomped her feet and clapped her hands, going along with the youthful performers.

"Isn't it wonderful when young people arc not afraid to show their patriotism and their Americanism," she said. Nixon came in for some gentle ribbing at the "American Music" concert in the red plush opera house when his friend, comedian Bob Hope, said "isn't it marvelous in just one day Richard the first becomes Richard the Second." HOPE'S JOKES were mostly politically tinged and Nixon was an WASHINGTON lT A second pilot has been charged with refusing to fly a combat mission against North Vietnam during the heavy Christmas bombing campaign, the Air Force has disclosed. The officer was identified Friday as Capt. Dwight J. Evans 26, a pilot of an F4 Phantom fighter-bomber assigned to the 34th tactical fighter squadron in Thailand.

His home town was not released. THE AIR Force said Evans balked at bombing North Vietnam on Dec. 18, the day President Nixon launched the big air attacks against the Hanoi-Haiphong area. On Jan. 10, the Strategic Air Command described Capt.

Michael J. Heck, 30, of Chula Vista, a B52 pilot, as "the first and only" B52 crew member to refuse to fly combat missions in the Vietnam war. Heck, a veteran of 275 combat missions, said he refused on Dec. 27 to go on because the "goals do not justify the mass destruction and killing." BOTH MEN are accused of failing i.