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The Lincoln Star from Lincoln, Nebraska • 2

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The Lincoln Star Thursday, July 13, 1972 York Times News Summary Vice Ptresi ssiDiimes i (O lfI Nw York Times Niwi Ssrvlte Miami Beach In recent days at least two possible vice presidential choices have been approached by McGovern political strategists, who told them in effect to "stay loose" because they were still In the running. The prospects who apparently are under consideration are Gov. Reubin Askew of Florida, and Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton of Missouri.

However, Askew has said he would not take the job. (More on Page 1.) CBS Elects Taylor New York The Columbia Broadcasting System Inc. announced the election of Arthur R. Taylor as president and a member of the board of directors. Railroad permission to reduce the railroad's freight train crews from four men to three, Penn Central will begin operating freight trains with an engineer and two trainmen at 12; 01 a.m.

July 26, and has begun notifying employes in 16 states, the District of Columbia and Forces Clash At Quang Tri Saigon There was a clash between South Vietnamese marines and airborne troops and North Vietnamese forces on three sides of the communist-occupied town of Quang Tri. (More on Page 2.) Pentagon Refutes Dike Bombing Washington The Pentagon has sharply challenged the report of a French Journalist, said to be an eyewitness account, that United States planes had repeatedly and deliberately bombed a North Vietnamese dike system in the area of Namsach. about 35 miles southeast of Hanoi. A Pentagon spokesman said American planes had bombed the area, but denied the dikes were a target. Fischer Loses First Gamo Reykjavik, Iceland Bobby Fischer lost the first game of championship chess match with Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union.

In a hopeless situation at the 56th move, Fischer stood up and offered his hand. Spassky took it, and the game disappeared into history. A beginner's blunder cost Fischer the game, an observer said. (More on Page 23.) Protestants March In Ulster Belfast Nearly 100,000 men marched throughout Northern Ireland in a vivid display of Protestant power on the annual July 12 "Orange" marches, and the day was marked by violence. (More on Page 12.) Flood Aid Proposed San Clemente, Calif.

Under Legislation proposed by President Nixon, homeowners and businessmen in a six-state area hard hit by Hurricane Agnes would receive up to $5,000 each In an outright federal grant for property repairs and to replace damaged belongings. (More on Page 9.) Perm To Reduce Crews New York A federal judge in Philadelphia granted trustees of the bankrupt Penn Central Canada. (More on Page 25.) Washington Paper Sells Washington The 50-year-old Washington Daily News, one of the capital's two afternoon newspapers, announced that it was stopping publication and was selling Its name and some other assets to its principal competitor, The Evening Star. (More on Page 6.) dential 2 Arrested In Doral Hotel Hijackers Demand Money, Chutes Both were frisked, handcuffed and taken away. The arrests occurred Just after a meeting broke up between McGovern and six governors in the senator's 17th-floor suite.

Two of the governors, Patrick J. Lucey of Wisconsin and Marvin Mandel of Maryland, were holding a news conference in the lobby at the time of the incident. Car attendants at the hotel said a man had been sitting in the parked! Capri sports car for 20 to 30 minutes. The vehicle had Michigan license plates. Detroit, radio station WJR said law enforcement officials had traced the car's registration's to a Republic of New Africa member who once lived in Detroit.

However, the man was not one of the two arrested. On the dashboard of the car was a tabloid newspaper with a headline reading, "We Accuse the U.S. Govt, of Genocide." Scattered about the car was a satchel, pieces of cardboard and handwritten notes on Democratic Party platform proposals advanced by minority groups Miami Beach, Fla. -Federal agents rushed to the Doral Beach Hotel on Wednesday and seized two men on concealed weapons charges shortly after Sen. George McGovern wound up a meeting in his penthouse suite.

The Secret Service said later it had no evidence the men intended to harm the South Dakota senator or any other Democratic presidential candidate, The Secret Service said the two black men identified themselves as Maiek Sonebeyatta, 32, and Ahmed Obatemi, 33, both of Jackson, but said that positive identification had not been made. Both carried multiple i 1 1 fication, authorities said. The arrested men were taken to the Dade County Jail and bond was set at $100,000 a piece on identical charges of carrying concealed weapons, police said. "We have no information at this time to connect the activities of these men with any intended harm to the pro-tec tees of the Secret Service," agents said in a news release. One police source said the two belonged to a black separatist organization called the Republic of New Africa.

Shortly after the 11:45 a.m. arrests, McGovern canceled a 6cheduled 12:15 p.m. trip to attend a Democratic National Convention caucus of 151 Latin delegates at the Deauville Hotel. McGovern's press secretary, Kirby Jones, said the visit was canceled so that the senator couid work on a nomination acceptance speech. Jones said, however, that aides had urged McGovern not to go because of the incident.

Secret Service, FBI and Florida Law Enforcement Department agents arrested one man es he sat in a mustard-colored sports ca parked on the ramp of the hotel. The Secret Service said two pistols were found under the car's front seat. The second man was taken into custody in the hotel's interior lobby minutes later. with officers, several carrying high-powered rifles. A busload of city police was at the airport, but apparently no police cars were any closer than 100 yards to the plane.

Sarge Glenn, a deputy U.S. marshal, identified one of the hijackers as an Ethiopian who used the name "Taffa" and the other as a man who used the name "Green." An operations spokesman at Kennedy International Airport in New York said the captain of the three-engine Boeing 727 radioed he had a man aboard with a sawed-off shotgun and a box which he said contained a bomb. Glenn said the man be identified as "Taffa" earlier had tried to buy a ticket on a Delta Airlines plane a Philadelphia. The man was reportedly asked for identification and ran from the ticket counter. Authorities caught up with him and he produced an Ethiopian passport, Glenn said.

I1' 1 Si TNf A rl fro? 1 A 'twi 7 -k vcr-. i fei' iw rtii-minB -r TIME OUT FOR FUN Miami Beach. Timmy, 2, is playing with the Stuffed donkey. Tim's brother Matthew, perched on McGoyern's knee, is distracted by something else. Sen.

George McGovern joins his grandsons in play before the Democratic National Convention nominated him the party's presidential candidate Wednesday night in 7l7 ll 1 tit II 1 Oklahoma City-Dallas Flight 633 Hijacked 'fil'l'-nZ nui lint '3 jr-'ff r- r- refueling Philadelphia Two men hijacked a National Airlines jet with 113 passengers aboard and diverted it to Philadelphia Wednesday night, demanding $600,000 in U.S. currency. $20,000 in Mexican pesos and parachutes, officials said. An hour and a half after the Boeing 727 landed, pilot Elliott Adams dove out of the cockpit and was picked uo off the runway by police. A doctor who treated him said Adams told him he jumped because he only had enough fuel for about five miles and he wouldn't subject his passengers to a crash.

Adams told the doctor that the hijackers had guns and a package they said was a bomb and that they were desperate. jThe plane lost its electrical power while sitting on the rtmway, the control tower said, and the hijackers asked for another plane. The jet, Flight 496, was on its way into Kennedy Airport in New York when the hijackers took over and directed the pilot back to Philadelphia. 'It landed at the south end ojf the Philadelphia airport just before 9 p.m. EDT.

The airport closed to all other flights. The passengers and crew remained aboard. "Patrick Henry, an agent for National, said that an Army pjane brought in the parachutes. There was no official word cm what arrangements were being made, if any, for the tansom money. --The airport was swarming Israelis Defeat Bill Restricting Jewish Members 'Jerusalem The Israeli parliament voted down a bill Wednesday under which only tfiose immigrants converted to Judaism under Orthodox strictures would have been considered Jews under Israeli law.

sThe parliament, or Knesset, defeated the proposed amendment to the Law of Return for Jewish Immigrants by a 57-19 vote. The bill had been proposed by the minority Audat Party. The National Religious Party partner in Premier Golda Meir's coalition government, made a last-minute about-face and abstained from the vote. The party, which tacitly supports such an amendment, was Warned by Mrs. Meir that a vote for the bill would violate coalition discipline and endanger the government.

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An American Airlines spokesman said the hijacker had demanded the money in circulated $100 bills. 'We are making every effort to accede to his demands," he said. The spokesman said the hijacker "has a pistol, but he has not used it in any threatening manner." The hijacker was described as approximately 45 years old, 6 feet tall and extremely nervous. At the hijacker's request, the spokesman said, the far runway of the airport was cleared and officials were attempting to comply with the hijacker's demands for the money, parachutes and be. "We are making arrangements to fuel him and meet any other demands," a spokesman said.

A representative of American Airlines was on his way to Oklahoma City to deliver the ransom. The representative was expected to arrive by jet in Tulsa, then come to Oklahoma City. Alligator Takes Museum Tour During Eclipse Springfield, Mass. (J) While a crowd of people in the Springfield Science Museum tried to watch Monday's cloud-obscured eclipse of the sun, a 2-foot alligator slipped out of his tank, down two flights of stairs and out the front door. After its recapture, Museum Director Frank D.

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The U.S. Command said a laser-guided bomb was used to breach the wall. In the air war over the North, the U.S. Command said 290 strikes were flown Tuesday by Air Force, Navy and Marine jet crews. Major targets included a highway bridge 40 miles northeast cf Hanoi, a fuel pipeline and pumping station, several warehouses, a supply barge and a number of antiaircraft artillery sites.

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Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported from the northern front that several hundred North Vietnamese troops packed by tanks attacked government paratroopers on the southwestern flank and fTHB LINCOLN STAR Vol. 70, No. 245 July 13, 1972 Published each weekday by the JOURNAL-STAR PRINTING 924 Lincoln, 48501. Phone 432-1234 Second Coss posiagt paid at Lincoln, Neb. CARRIER SUBSCRIPTION RATES la Lincoln, er to vacation address: Daily, week; Sunday, 3ic week; Daily and Sunday, 80c week.

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Flank Vital The southwestern flank of the operation is considered vital because allied officers have been concerned since the beginning of the drive that the North Vietnamese might attempt to circle around behind the task force and attack Hue, 32 miles to the southeast. Other battles raged on the northern, eastern and southern sides of Quang Tri City. Government forces claimed to have killed more than 40 enemy and knocked out nine tanks. South Vietnamese casualties were put at two killed and 24 wounded in early reports. Wall Breached Allied spokesmen said a U.S.

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