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2 The Lincoln Star Monday, July 3, 1972 do And Pakistan Staini Fad Kemounciini Ind wee New York Times News Summary (C) 171 NtW Simla, India two countries to against each other York Tlmt Newt Servict An agreement pledging their renounce the use of force was signed Sunday by Prime Minister Gandhi of India and President Bhutto agreement also provides troops all along the in- of Pakistan. The disengagement of ternational frontier. Martha 'Still Prisoner' New York Mrs. Martha Mitchell, whose husband, John, yielded to her demand that he choose between her and politics by resigning as President Nixon's campaign manager, told a reporter in a telephone call from hot-Washington apartment that she was "still a political prisoner." When asked whether her husband's resignation had made her happv. Mrs.

Mitchell replied, "Sure that's what'i wanted." (More on Page 1.) Puerto Ricans Unhappy New York The number of Puerto Rican who have left Manhattan for other boroughs of New York City has greatly increased recently. The departures are often involuntary according to Hector I. Vazquez, executive director of the Puerto Rican Forum, who said that Puerto Ricans have been driven out more than any other group by urban renewal. Evasion Case Change Seen Los Angeles A gradual but dramatic reversal of its policies regarding draft evasion cases has been made recently by the federal judiciary. A growing number of judges are, in effect, defying draft boards and federal prosecutors by granting amnesty to draft resistors on the condition that they perform some kind of public service required of conscientious objectors.

Hunt Reported In Europe Washington E. Howard Hunt the former senior Central Intelligence Agency official being sought by federal agents in connection with last month's raid on the Democratic National Committee's offices in Washington, is believed to have fled to Europe, and may be in Spain. Roman Catholics and Protestants in Belfast despite the cease-fire between the provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army and British forces that began at midnight last Monday. Three men whose faction was unknown, were killed by assassination squads, bringing the number of political murders in the city over the weekend to five. Protestants placed permanent barricades in three areas of Belfast.

(More on Page 1.) Fischer Granted Postponement Reykjavik, Iceland Bobby Fischer has been granted a two-day postponement of his world championship match with Boris Spassky, which was supposed to have begun in Reykjavik. Sunday. But he was warned by Dr. Max Eawe, head of the International Chess Federation, that if he doesn't show up by noon Tuesday he would forfeit the match. on Page 2.

McGovern Arouses Wall Street New York Sen. George McGovern's economic policies have aroused great controversy in Wall Street, and he apparently will have trouble getting campaign funds from sources that have traditionally been helpful to liberal candidates. Wall Street lenders who have directed fund-raising efforts for Democratic office seekers in the past are virtually unanimous in turning thumbs down on McGovern. (More on Page 1.) Action Under Attack Washington Action, the conglomerate agency embracing the Peace Corps and other federal volunteer efforts is under heavy attack by critics who say its underlying concept of selfless, nonpartisan service has been corrupted by politics. The critics have been strongly rebutted by Joseph H.

Blatchford, director of the agency since it was established by President Nixon a year ago. U.S. Controlling Rainfall Washington The United States has been secretly seeding clouds over North Vietnam, Laos and South Vietnam to increase and control the rainfall for military purposes, according to government and military sources in Washington. They disclosed, in a series of interviews, that the Air Force cloud-seeding has been used most recently to hinder the movement of North Vietnamese troops and equipment and suppress enemy aircraft missile fire. Tension Is Increasing Belfast Tension has increased between Young Asian Hijacker fisher Given Deadline for Chess Championship By assenger the hijacker, said the first he knew something was wrong was when a stewardess' voice came over the intercom.

"She said something like "to the party aboard who has certain wishes' please' be advised that we are doing everything possible to satisfy your wishes, but there may be a problem with "We were flying very low-when we crossed the ccast," Bradbury said, ''and I thought, oh no, were going to Hanoi and flying low to avoid the radar." Bradbury said after the captain had grabbed the hijacker he and another passenger held the man. 'V POLICEMAN writes report beside body of i'acker. Reykjavik. Iceland l.T Bobby Fischer was given a Tuesday noon deadline on Sunday to appear for the world chess championship or forfeit his chance for the title. ultimatum, announced by Dr.

Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, meant a two-day postponement of Fischer's encounter with world champion Boris Spassky of Russia. The match was to have started at 5 p.m. Sunday 12 p.m. CDT. Euwe said a friend of the American challenger was leaving for New York "to talk with him." "He will try to convince him to appear.

I can't say who it is," he added. Fischer refused to play the match after officials of the Icelandic Chess Federation balked at his 1 a i demands for more money, in addition to a record purse already contracted for. Fischer and Spassky were to have a guaranteed share of $125,000 the winner taking five-eighths plus 30 per cent each of income from the sale of film and television rights. This alone was 10 times greater than any prize money ever paid to a chess player. Fischer wants an additional 30 per cent of the gat receipts.

Faced with a decision of disqualifying Fischer immediately or granting reprieve, Euwe chose the path Paratroopers Battle Near Quang Tri he said would best protect the host organization. i cher's representatives here had asked for a postponement on the basis of illness. They said the American was suffering fatigue. The rules require that a postponement for illness must be certified by a doctor that the host organization chooses. Typical of confusion surrounding preparations for the match, the federation doctor.

L'lfar Thordarson, left for his country house early Sunday morning. The Russian side reluctantly accepted Euwe's decision. Spassky was asked what he thought of the situation and the 35-year-old champion replied: "I came to play." At a late afternoon news conference where he announced the decision on the postponement. Euwe said: "I think there will be no play at all. That is my personal officers had claimed crushing three North Vietnamese divisions in staving off the siege of An Loc in June.

About 25 miles to the northeast, the enemy appeared to be building up to cripple another province capital. a ported troops attacked Phuoc Binh district headquarters Saturday night and long-range artillery pieces fired five rounds into Phouc Binh on Sunday morning. Saturday- night was second consecutive night of attacks on Phouc Binh. In the air war over North Vietnam, U.S. B52 bombers Saigon South Vietnamese paratroopers battled enemy troops near the outskirts of Quang Tri on Sunday and other clashes broke out along the western flank cf the northern counteroffensive.

Thirty miles to the south, the enemy sent scores of heavy rocket and artillery rounds crashing into Hue and defense posts on its southern and western perimeter. However the shellings were not followed by any attempt to take the old imperial capital. The latest reports brought claimed casualties in the South Vietnamese drive to nearly 700 enemy killed and 50 Saigon troops killed and 180 wounded. Vietnamese marines reported uncovering a 16-to-20-ton ammuniton cache on the eastern wing of the front on Saturday. The "latest action left government troops in command of a 12-mile broad front running southwest from the South China Sea at a point about eight miles above the former defense line at the My Chanh River.

Hue Shelled Thirty miles to the south, the first shelling of Hue in the more than three months of the enemy offensive was reported to have killed at least 11 persons and wcunded 38. The Saigon command had no breakdown, but sources at Hue said at least seven of the dead and 15 of the wounded were civilians. Hue is believed to be a prime objective of the North Vietnamese offensive, allied officers said they believed the shelling was intended solely to try to force the South Vietnamese to divert troops from the north for the defense of the city. They termed enemy potential for a serious attack as "modest." In Saigon, the U.S. Command announced the loss of three more U.S.

Air Force Phantom jets over North Vietnam, with all six crewmen missing. A MIG21 shot down one of the jets last Tuesday about 60 miles northwest of Hanoi, the command said. The other two were reported lost to unknown causes June 24. about 30 miles northwest and 130 miles north-northwest of the Communist capital. U.S.

Command figures show 50 U.S. aircraft lost in North Vietnam and 99 in South Vietnam and Cambodia since the enemy offensive began March 20. Cambodian Border Fighting On the southern front, fighting persisted near the Cambodian border 60 miles north of Saigon where allied Is Shot Saigon ifl A young Asian tried to hijack a Pan American Airways 747 jumbo jet to Hanoi on Sunday, but the aircraft landed instead in Saigcn where the pilot and two passengers clasped him in a strangle hold and an 'armed pas pumped five bullets into his chest. The pilot then heaved the dead hijacker to the concrete taxiway at Tan Son Nhut Airport. The hijacker had claimed he was North Vietnamese.

A Pan American spokesman in Hong Kong said, "As far as we can tell now, tha hijacker's name is believed to be Nguyen Thai Binh, but no passport or ticket for him has yet been found. It is believed he boarded the plane at Honolulu." The man carried a package he claimed was a bomb in one hand and a long knife in the ether. He said he intended to blow up the aircraft after it reached Hanoi in a "revenge act" for the U.S. bombing of North Vietnam, the pilot said. After landing at Saigon on a pretext of refueling, the pilot, Capt.

Gene Vaughn, 53, and two passengers got the air pirate off guard, knocked the "bomb" from his hand and wrestled him to the floor. During the struggle, Vaughn rolled away and ordered the passenger with the gun to "kill the son of a bitch." The passenger, identified as a former Richmond, policeman traveling to a job with a U.S. firm in Saigon, fired five shots into the hijacker frcm a .357 Magnum pistol. His name was not given out in Saigon. All passengers and crew, numbering about 150, slid down inflated plastic emergency chutes to safety.

Some received minor bruises and scratches and one passenger. U.S. Air Force Lt. Cel. Louis Seig, Colorado Springs, broke his leg leaving the plane.

The crew said in Saigon that the plane carried 135 passengers and 17 crewmen. THE LINCOLN STAR Vol. 70, No. T36 July 3, 1972 Published each weekday by the JOUK-NAL-STAR PRINTING 24 SU Lincoln, moi. Phone 432-1234 Second c.oss pos.age paid at Lincoln, Neb.

I CARRIER SUBSCRIPTION RATES In Lincoln, or to vacation address: Daily, 45c week; Sunday, 35c week; Daily and Sunday, 80c week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES Nebraska, Northern Kansas outside cf Lancaster Co. or to Lancaster Co. outsidt si the carrier boy area. Daily Sunday Bofti 1 Yr.

520 80 $18.50 539 00 9 Mo 15.60 13.65 29.25 6 Mo. 10 40 9.10 19.50 3 Mo. .20 4.55 9.75 5WkS 2.00 1.75 3.75 To ether States: Daily 45c week) Sunday, 3ie week; both 80c week Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to republish all local news printed In this newspaper, and all other AP dispatches. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation opinion. Vaughn gave this account: About 45 minutes after Pan Am Flight 841 from San Francisco, Honolulu and Guam took off from Manila for the bwji passed notes to the crew cabin threatening to detonate a bomb unless the plane was diverted to Hanoi, the capital of Ncrth Vietnam.

The hijacker had taken a stewardess. May Yuen, 23. a Hong Kong Chinese, as his hostage. Using a crew telephone in the rear cabin, the hijacker negotiated in fluent English with Vaughn over the plane's intercom while the first officer proceeded to Saigon. Vaughn told the young man he would divert to Hanoi but first the plane would have to be refueled and contact would have to be made with North Vietnamese authorities before crossing demilitarized zone.

After the plane landed at Saigon. Vaughn entered the passenger compartment. The hijacker charged, "You have deceived me!" "Let's talk about it," Vaughn said, inching toward hijacker, who began to threaten the pilot with a small package he held in one hand. 'I stopped, but kept talking to him and managed to move a ccuple of feet forward without his noticing," Vaughn said. "Then I spun him around and got a half-Nelson on his throat I could feel his neck collapsing." Then the shots rang out.

"I don't know if the good Lord would approve," Vaughn said, ''but then I just took him by the back of his neck and his legs and I bodily threw him cut cf the airplane. I just couldn't stand to have that person in any part of my airplane." The body of the hijacker, wearing a blood-soaked white shirt and dark suit, lay on the concrete taxiway by the plane for more than an hour. When the stewardesses heard the shots, they thought a bomb had gone off and ejected emergency landing chutes to evacuate the passengers. The passengers, many of them American servicemen returning from leave, slid down the chutes and were taken by bus to an American military post on the sprawling base. South Vietnamese authorities corioned off the plane shortly after the incident and launched an investigation.

Seme passengers told crew members they believed they saw the man come aboard in Honolulu, the first stop on the flight that originates in San Francisco and also stops in Manila before turning around in Saigon. John Bradbury of Severna Park, one of the passengers who helped subdue ranged over the southern part of the country Saturday for tl the third consecutive day. ft IMP II" 'Jl. IWnthor and ti'll others. Thank You.

i. at Jt um iiiaiianu uases aim i n.a carriers concentrated on the area above the D.vlz,, hitting at supply communications and antiaircraft targets. Air Force Phantoms attacked Kep Airfield 30 miles northeast of Hanoi and aircrews reported damaging the runway in several places. It was the third time in four days that Kep had been hit. If you prefer our mortuary ask for US.

Have a biography booklet "To My Loved Ones." UMBERGER-SHEAFF MORTUARIES, INC 48th vino, Lincoln, Hallam Waverly The Mortuary with the while funeral fleet. What To Call North Korea An Issue regime, which it calls a puppet international Communist forces. The United States does not recognize North Korea! either. The Korea Times, in an; editorial Sunday, recalled that controlled northern half cf Korea. He added that there was no reason to attach any political significance to the simple usage of the official title of North Korea.

Korean sources reported, however, that South Korea took the matter very seriously and lodged a protest against using the official name when Foreign Minister Kim Yongshik called in U.S. Ambassador Philip C. Mabib Saturday. South Korea does recognize the North Korean Communist China invited a U.S. table tennis team after President Nixon called the Peking regime the Feople's Republic of China.

The paper said: "We do not wish to exaggerate the political significance implied to the use of the Pyongyang regime's formal title. Seoul The issue of what name to call North Korea has egain become a controversy, this time involving the United States and South Korea. It started when U.S. Secretary of State William P. Rogers, in a speech to the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization SEATO council meeting in Canberra last week, referred to North Korea as the "Democratic People's Republic of Korea." It was the first time a U.S.

government official had called North Korea by its official name. South Korea officials in Seoul and Washington promptly made presentations and reportedly received U.S. assurances that there had been no policy change concerning North Korea. State Department spokesman Charles Bray said in a press briefing Friday that American officials from now on will use either "DPPK" initials of Democratic People's Republic of Korea" or North Korea in referring to the Communist- An efficient positive crankcase ventilation system, re moves engine crankcase vapors, which result from normal engine combustion, it directs it into intake system for engine reburnng, one way to help stop atmosphere pollution: tannic t0 Stm0X imJ bai Vuvtul nn i if LJ mu ua -'a nri rs Ml 11 Hi ip.i. QUICK, All Chevrolets from 1963 have some form of positive crankcase ventilation as regular production equipment.

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