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Sr. Petersburg Times, Tuesday, July 4, 1972 15a Love Labours Are Rewarded 4th JULY HOLIDAY STORE HOURS 10 AM 'TIL 7 PM nULIPtTUMUUtL a. 5 STYL NG r2r. uuUSH 5 LEENIE exuberantly waved to Steve as the Ho nd a screeched to a halt. But then she spotted all of the onlookers and a photographer and slammed the brakes on her emotions.

Asians don't advertise their feelings. Steve and Leenie strolled off to the enclosed handball court for a private heart-to-heart. They emerged beaming 20 minutes later. Menta did the talking. Leenie, appearing more reassured, managed a smile and an occasional nod.

"I told her I'm not going back to the States unless she comes with me. She agreed to go to Saigon with me after she sees her brother." STEVE SAID Leenie told him she, too, had fled Cam Lo as the Communists approached but that her father was still trapped In enemy-occupied Quang Tri province. Leenie Is close to her father; her mother passed, away last year. But Menta told her that staying on in Da Nang wouldn't help him and that she could come back to see her father once the Communists were ousted from Quang Tri. Convincing Leenie to abandon the vigil for her captive father was no easy task.

"I told 'My mother is waiting for you, My father is waiting for you; all of New York City is waiting for. Menta said. That last bit seemed to do the trick. i refugee camp at what used to be the U.S. Marines' Camp Brooks, just outside Da Nang.

there Menta found a child whose face he remembered from Cam Lo. The child led him to the Cam Lo section of the camp where he was told Leenie was staying In Da Nang with friends of her brother. A youth with a motorcycle was dispatched to find her and two hours later he reappeared. On the back' seat was Leenie, clad in black pants, a dark purple blouse and topped off with a conical straw hat On her wrist was the watch Steve had given her before his unit was pulled out of Vietnam. while serving in Vietnam, They were informally engaged before he went home a year ago.

Then three months ago her hometown of Cam Lo, Just below the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Vletnams, was overrun by Communist troops. Leenie whose real name is Thai Thi Thiet became one of more than 500,000 refugees, another number in a South Vietnamese government book. MENTA WORRIED about her, decided he wanted to marry and came back to Vietnam last week to find her. A cousin of Leenie's in Saigon told Menta she might be at a TlmM Wlrs tirvlctl DA NANG, South Vietnam Ex-Marine Steve Menta 'successful in his quest to find Lhls Vietnamese fiancee he left behind and almost lost for good, set out Monday to marry her and take her home to New York. Steve found his Leenie shortly after noon Monday in a crowded war refugee camp on the outskirts of Da Nang, a bustling seaport city.

Leenie bouncing down a dusty road perched on the back seat "of a Honda, waving to the elated Steve. SHE SUD OFF the seat and the two young lovers just Hooked at one another. A long, long look. Leenie finally managed to break the trance with a bashful "hello." "Hollo," Steve replied softly. Only minutes before, Menta was unconvinced that his union with the girl whom he first met when he was a GI out here was Imminent.

"I don't believe this," Menta murmured. "I won't believe it 'till I see her. But I do know these people." TODAY THEY will head for Saigon to begin what could be weeks, possibly months, of fighting red tape to win per-mission for Leenie to leave her country. Menta, 24, had met the shy and pretty Vietnamese girl Centeurei smooth brlstlts. Clitlct tf Iff REG.

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A communique said American troop strength in Vietnam dropped to 48,000 last week, 1,000 below President Nixon's July 1 target figure. That total does not include about 100,000 American servicemen participating in the war from ships off the Vietnamese coast or from bases in Thailand. Pentagon Is Mum On Cloud Seeding WASHINGTON If! The Pentagon Monday refused again to say if the United States has tampered with the Weather In Indochina in an effort to -hamper North Vietnamese military operations. Pentagon spokesman Jerry W. Freidheim said the U.S.

has never tried to cause rain pver. North Vietnam. But when asked if rain-making activities have been attempted in South Vietnam, Laos or Cambodia, he "I can't enlarge on that." For the past year, there have been reports of the rain-. Jnaking. The latest appeared Monday in The New York Times, which quoted unnamed government sources as saying the Air Force has seeded elouds to increase and control rainfall throughout Southeast Asia.

Lon Nol Takes Tht Oath rPHNOM PENH (UPI) -Marshall Lon Nol took. the oath as Cambodia's first popularly elected President Monday in a ceremony in which the sounds of artillery and exploding bombs were clearly audible from fighting 15 miles away. Military command spokesmen said the battle sounds came from Tmar Don, an. area south of the capital, where a government force-was surrounded by Communists. Air support was sent to assist the government troops, trapped on a wooden knoll for the past four days, as the -TV piiSiiifeiK It WMMfev, From I -A which stands at $125,000.

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He was reversed temporarily by the appeals 1 court however grounds no injury was suffered until the convention seats were actually denied. THEY RETURNED to the legal battleground after the committee Voted 71 to 61 to seat the Daley challengers. The California controversy was argued first in Hart's courtroom. Joseph Rauh, attorney for the McGovern forces, argued in his suit seeking a temporary injunction that all parties involved in the California primary had agreed to abide by the winner-take-all provision. "Now suddenly what was clear is to be changed," he said.

"All of a sudden, after it was over, a challenge was" filed." THE ACTION was tantamount to losing the game and then asking that it be played over, he said. It was essential that the court settle the matter before the convention convenes Monday, he said, because the 153 votes could "determine the outcome of the convention." Joseph A. Calif ano, representing the Democratic Na-', tional Committee, argued that the court would be treading on dangerous grounds if it intervened in the matter. "IT WOULD be a tragedy for courts to get into this arena," he said. He added that the party itself had ultimate responsibility to decide its own operations.

Credentials will be Fischer's official sec ond for the match, said Marshall. ALL ALONG, the issue hasn't been the money, Marshall said. "It was the principle. He felt Iceland wasn't treating this match or his countrymen with the dignity that it and they deserved. And he was furious about the press censorship.

He was flying around the room," said Marshall. Marshall was referring to the three-releases-per-game limitation that the Icelandic Chess Federation made for reporters covering the match. "They're trying to stop America from reading about it! That's what they've done all along," Marshall quoted Fischer as saying. FISCHER HIMSELF has shunned newsmen because he feels the press often misrepresents him, Marshall said. "He's not a trained Interview subject, and he's very frank and outspoken Plus he's in training," said Marshall.

He added that Fischer has been in good spirits. "Last night, he was jocular and relaxed," he said. Fischer fled from the airport last Thursday to avoid newsmen who were waiting for him, Marshall said. It was not a ploy to make Spassky nervous, said the lawyer. if MEANWHILE, the Soviet Chess Federation lodged a formal protest Monday against the 48-hour postponement of the start of the world championship and said Fischer deserved "unconditional disqualification." A statement by the Soviet chess group charged that Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, had acted without an official request from Fischer for a delay.

Izvestia, the government daily, said Monday night that Fischer's behavior was "without precedent in the history of world chess" and was arousing growing irritation even in the' United States. From I -A Hart asked at one point: "How far are the courts going to get into violations of party rules? "The courts may get their fingers burned if they don't stay out of it," Hart, a said. "It may not be cricket to change the rules. It may even be dirty pool, but is it unconstitutional?" he asked Rauh. Demo Panel Approves Seating N.C.

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