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sL 1 Jan. 31, 1972 "7 I i prtngf irlii Mo Duily Xrtus 'They Stand There Like Sponges' Guides at U.S. Exhibit Field Russian Queries Business Push 10-Year-Plan Wins Approval Of Blacks By JAMES R. PEIPIERT This group of guides will stay TBILISI, USSR. (AP) These people are information-starved.

They hang on every word you say," added one of the guides, Nick Grigorovich with the exhibit for six months while it tours three Soviet i BALTIMORE. Md. (API some 400 delegates to the National Black Enterprise Confer- ft) ence nave unanimously ap i provea pians tor a nationwide Diacfc enterprise consortium. THIS AD GOOD THRU WEDNESDAY, FEB. 2 ai me close of the -Barsky, 26, of Washington.

"They stand there like sponges and take everything in." "The most common question concerns the purchasing power of the American worker," said Al Estrin, 35, an industrial engineer from Washington and one of the older guides. "They want to know how much everything costs." Most of the guides are in the early or mid-20s. Many of them studied the Russian language and Soviet affairs in college and view their visit to the Soviet Union as a learning experience. I 4 If, uiree-aay meeting at Morgan State College, the delegates, mostly black businessmen and rwenty-three young Americans, all of whom speak Russian, have begun a six-month visit to the Soviet Union to try to show how people live in the United States. They are guides at.

a U. S. exhibit called "Research and Development U. S. a display of American gadgetry ranging from computers to coffeema-kers which opened in this capital of Soviet Georgia Jan.

24. The guides are assigned to the exhibit to explain bow the equipment works and what it's used for. But they have had to field questions on such varied topics as the Vietnam war, current American rockj groups and the planned world championship chess match between American Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. "The guides have been instructed not to initiate political discussions," said exhibit direc 1 representatives of civil rights groups, established a task force to implement a "10 year plan" for the opening stages of the 1 consortium. 1 cities Tbilisi, Moscow and Volgograd.

Another group will relieve them for the second six-month period and the final three cities Kazan, Dometsk and Leningrad. The exhibit came to the Soviet Union under a mutual agreement on cultural exchanges. An exhibit of Russian folk art opened in Washington Jan. 12 and will go to five other cities. "The question has arisen about why we are sending to Russia consumer goods instead of an art show," Thomas said.

"But some Americans don't seem to realize that this show is a great revelation to people who don't have these things. "One of our guides had a difficult time explaining the other day that he had two cars at home one of him to Use to go to work and the other for his wife to shop. They found it incomprehensible. "They kept pushing him on it: 'do you really have two cars? You must be a very rich man'. Here one car is out of reach for the average person." One of the most popular items at the exhibit has been a 1971 Lincoln Continental Mark III.

Every day Georgians have swarmed around the car, peer HILL HILL KENTUCKY jk Other guides have Russian par "This national black conference will review, assess and lobby for and against those pieces of legislation relevant to black economic development." ex- ents and learned the language at home. Frank Shakespeare, director I STRAIGHT BOURBON of the U.S. Information Agency who officiaUy opened the exhibit, praised the guides as the ex hibit's "human element" and an tor John Thomas. "But they are not going to walk away if people ask questions." ideal way to establish people-to-people contact with the Soviets. Inm im i ml if imi i ii im dJ filth Associated PrMs WirepboU Garrett B.

Trapnell, 33, shot, wounded and captured by FBI agents Saturday in an attempted airline hijack, is shown here in a 1971 photo after his arrest in Syracuse, N. following his escape last January from a Montreal prison mental hospital. After Hijacking Jetliner plained Rep. Parren J. Mitchell who presided over the i conference sponsored by the congressional black caucus.

1 Recommendations drawn from the conference for the 10-year plan will form the basis of a report to be released to black businesses within a few weeks, said Wayman Wright, a conference spokesman. Mitchell described the pro-! posed consortium as "roughly I comparable" to a national black chamber of commerce free to i lobby and originate its own plans for black economic devel-I opment. Rep. Charles C. Diggs chairman of the con-; gressional black caucus, told the final conference session that their work "is a component in a series of conferences sponsored by the black caucus to develop 4 ing under its hood and feeling the red leather upholstery.

"Somebody must have been spreading a rumor," said Grigo- Former Mental Patient Recovers in Hospital VODKA SUPREME i h-Barsky, "because the questipn has come up several times: "Is it true you're going to raffle off the Lincoln Continen tal? Is it true that the millionth 88 Fifth person who walks through here will win the Lincoln The guides said that besides cars the Georgians seem most interested in housing, clothing, health services, freedom to the national black agenda." i Meetings on the military, black health needs and on electing black officials have already been held. Diggs said that a national black convention is planned for May or June where recommendations from each conference will be collected. travel abroad, food, comparative prices and entertain ment. I would say they're inter ested in almost every aspect of 86 PROOF 86 PROOF TWA also flew one of his former lawyers from Miami to Kennedy Airport at his request. Some of the radio talk was broadcast live over a New York station as the plane circled the city.

He demanded $306,800 ransom, the exact amount' he claimed a judpe had deprived him of in Miami last year when he tried to set possession of a 60-foot yacht wilh a hill of sale the court ruled invalid. He told a news-man at the time: "I'm throqh playin" it straight I'm going back to the 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' bit." He referred to a movie 'about two Western outlaws. Records at South Florida Mental Hospital in Pembroke Pines showed he had been a patient there twice, and that since the age of 17 had received NEW YORK (AP) A former mental patient who capped a bizarre career of crime and confinement by hijacking a jetliner was reported recovering at Bellevue hospital Sunday from bullet wounds in the shoulder and hand. His condition was described as "alert and stable." FBI agents stood guard over Garrett Brock Trapnell, 33, whose history was said to include psychiatric treatment in nine hospitals, three escapes, piloting a stolen plane from California to the Bahamas, and six bank robberies in Canada. At various times authorities have described him as "a James Bond type," "extremely dangerous," and "a real ladies' man." He was shot Saturday by an FBI agent who boarded the hijacked Trans World Airlines plane at Kennedy Airport disguised as a relief crew member.

The 93 other passengers and seven crew members were American life," said Shota Sagi-rashvili. "They know very little about it or have a very poor un YELLOWSTONE BOURBON derstanding of it." PRIZREN. Yugoslavia (AP) Two young brothers shot to death as they tended cattle by a mountain stream in the rural province of Kosovo were the latest victims of a blood fued among the region's Albanian minority, authorities said. At 42, Sagirashvili is the old Aisoclilrd Prew Wlrepboto est of the guides and the only one who speaks Georgian. He is Final Adjustments of Georgian extraction and a naturalized American citizen $140 i Fifth VS Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird adjusts his coat prior to appearing Sunday on ABC's "Issues and Answers." who works in Washington for the Voice of America radio Sigarashvili said some visitors 4W to the exhibit asked him the oth er day about his home in FUR SALE Uyattsville, Md.

'Hungry Children Need Help' Universal' Lunch Asked for Schools I told them had a house and some property around it a yard where I plant crab grass. They wanted to know why I psychiatric care in hospitals in Florida, Kentucky, Maryland, I Texas and Canada, i Police records say that last January he escaped from a mental institution in Montreal with a gun smuggled in hy a girl friend. He fled with her and a i guard as hostages, but was cap don't plant cucumbers or to 6 YEAR OLD matoes." v. Plots of private land are high The committee recommended ANCIENT AGE that the Agriculture Department "winter" launch a pilot program in sev WHISKEY CLEARANCE ly coveted in the Soviet Union and people who have access to them grow their own vegetables, often in short supply in the stores. eral sample areas to determine McDanid tured in Syracuse, N.Y., police said.

Trapnell was scheduled to be arraigned in a federal court Monday on air piracy charges. Upon conviction, the maximum penalty is death. The minimum is 20 years in prison. The shooting ended a 7-hour drama, which started when Trapnell pulled a gun from a fake plaster arm cast midway on a flight from Los Angeles to New York. With a fully loaded automatic pistol pointed at a stewardess, he made a series of wild demands and threats over the plane's radio.

He demanded freedom for AnRpla Davis and to speak with President Nixon. He wanted to be flown to Europe and to Texas. He made so many demands, a TWA vice president, J. Edward Frankum, said, that "we were unable to determine which one had priority." The airline hooked his radio I was demonstrating an elec 1 1 its tric wafflemaker at my stand," On Glenstone said Cathy McCallick, 26, of Santa Monica, Calif. "A little Jewish man asked me if I could make matzoth on it and if we have matzoth in America.

"I told him there are a lot of Jewish restaurants and delicatessens where you can get matzoth, bagels, lox, all sorts of By STEVE GERSTEL WASHINGTON (UPI) Charging that programs to feed the nation's hungry children offer "too little, too late," the Senate Nutrition Committee Sunday proposed testing a universal school lunch project. At the same time, the committee recommended that Congress immediately increase special assistance funds to enable all needy children to receive free or reduced-price lunches, setting the minimum number at 10 million. Chairman George S. McGovern, conceded progress has been made but added, "If we are to redeem our broken promises on this front of the hunger battle we must not talk of progress accomplished but rather look ahead at the work yet to be done. "We must attack this problem, simply because it is the just course for our nation to follow," McGovern added.

Hunger must be eliminated, most especially among our children, because it is wrong in and of up with a telephone circuit and things." the benefits and problems of providing free lunches to all school children. In addition, the committee also recommended pilot projects to develop innovative food delivery systems; creation of menus to reflect individual and ethnic tastes; to examine micro-nutrient and vitamin supplements; and the development of effective methods of employing lunchroom volunteers and salaried assistants. The committee report said the present structure of the national school lunch program has failed to safeguard the health and well-being of the nation's children. "Progress in reaching the hungry has generally been too little, too late," the committee added. "Assurance that all children receive at least one nutritional meal a day has not yet been attained." She said the man told her PORTABLE AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC DRYER PORTABLE WASHER BOOTH'S Trapnell talked with his former psychiatrist in Dallas and a friend whose release from the Dallas jail he demanded.

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