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191 7 114 3 11 CO PAGES if i Timet Wirt Servicti LONDONDERRY, Northern Ireland British troops and gunmen battled each other Sunday killing or wounding more than two dozen persons during a Roman Catholic and civil rights demonstration. A police spokesman said 13 persons were killed and at least 13 more were injured. A spokesman at Londonderry's Altnagelvin Hospital earlier said 12 of the dead men were killed by gunfire and 13 other A GUNMAN opened fire on the troops, who fired back, Ihe police Youths in the demonstration threw bottles and iron bars at the soldiers but the march continued onto the square. In the square, ho police spokesman said, gun ni suddenly opened fire at troops in the adjacent Derry Street. The army fired back.

Lt. Col. Derek Wilford. commander of a para troop battalion involved in the shooting said, "About half-a-dozen shots wore fired at troops anil we returned about the same." A spokesman the Provisional wing of the illegal Irish Republican Army (IRA) issued a statement after the shooting saying "At no time did any of our units fire on the British Army prior lo the army opening fire." Till: STATEMENT said, "The Derrv Provisional Com A Britsh Army spokesman said the gunmen opened fire first from behind the crowd of demonstrators. Civil rights leaders said the Army fired first.

A Londonderry police spokesman said trouble began when the marchers paraded past the old walls of the city where British troops were stationed, behind the 16th and 17th century cannons on top of the wall. persons, including two women, had been wounded. BRITISH rilOTOGRA PIIEB Willy Carson reported seeing six of the civilians killed, including two suspected snipers who fired on British troops attempting to disperse the 15,000 demonstrators. The shootings occurred at the William Street Guild Hall Square, where the demonstrators had gathered for a rally. mand ordered all weapons out of the total route march area this morning." "The British Army murdered innocent civilians in Derry today," the spokesman added.

"We leave the world to judge who are the real terrorists." The extremist Provisional wing of the IRA swore to avenge the deaths. Ivart Cooper, a member of Northern Ireland's parliament and a civil rights leader, said "I am absolutely certain the (British) army opened fire first." ANOTHER civil rights leader, William O'Connell said "paratroopers jumped out and started to fire at the people, including people lying on the ground. After a while they shouted 'Move and you're The rally and march broke up immediately after the shooting incident. "We'll never forget it." vowed Bernadette Devlin, the 24-year-old civil rights leader and member of the British Parliament. "We'll just have to continue the struggle to end this savagery." Miss Devlin called for a general strike in Northern Ireland to protest the shootings.

IT WAS QUIET in the Roman Catholic Bogside area of Londonderry at nightfall. A civil rights leader said residents in the Creggan Estates area, a Roman Catholic stronghold, were meeting and called for workers in both British IIUEY NEWTON community organizing. Newton: Panthers hiftina v- tf'iffi'Q Av 1 1 actics Ry JAMES O. CLIFFORD OAKLAND, Calif. (L'PI) -The Black Panther Party has put down its guns and is working within the system, party co-founder Huey Newton said Sunday.

Reds Ready Naval Base In Egypt, 3-A 1 i W'JfJ i 'Empire' Loses Pakistan New York Timet Service (c) RAWALPINDI, Pakistan Pakistan withdrew from the British Commonwealth Sunday after having been advised that Britain, Australia and New Zealand would recognize Bangladesh, the former province of East Pakistan lost during a two-week war with India last month. President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto said, however, that Pakistan would maintain and expand bilateral relations with Britain and other members of the Commonwealth. IN LONDON, the British government refused to comment on the Pakistani move except to express regret. The British announcement recognizing the Bangladesh government is expected this week in coordination with similar announcements by the Common Market countries. The withdrawal from the Commonwealth was considered here to be a mild, symbolic rebuff to member nations set to recognize Bangla- (See PAKISTAN, lll-A) mi fi I ft In an exclusive two-hour interview in his apartment in Oakland High-rise, the 29-year-old Panther-minister of defense said the party still believes revolution is probably inevitable in the United States and may be violent.

BUT FOR THE present, he said, the Panthers will "organize the community" by such possible means as picketing merchants to force them to contribute money or merchandise, and a new national voter registration drive which New-tdh said would extend to the Deep South. He said the Panthers have rejected the "pick-up-the-gun-now" philosophy of a rival faction headed by El-driclge Cleaver, whom Newton (See IIUEY NEWTON, 12-A) Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic to "lay down tools until the last of those murdered today is buried." The demonstrators had defied a government ban on marches for the second successive day. During the demonstration they hurled nausea gas, as well as the rocks and bottles at the troops. Soldiers staggered by the gas fell back briefly but surged forward later to blast the vanguard of the marchers into retreat with high-pressure water cannon, vol- (See ULSTER, 10-A) ...4. StflH Photo by Ron Tinner A Tradition Is Nourished On The Suncoasf At a Manatee Fruit Co.

farm on Cortez Road, Bradenton, mum's the word. John Smarsh, 14, admires some of the thousands of pompons now being rut for wholesale distribution. From November fie plants first were cultivated. Florists think they're welt rained chrysanthemum means "flower of gold." Today, more than varieties nil over the world. through May, pink, gold and white chrysanthemums flow info cold country from the Snncoast to brighten drab inter.

Florida mum-farming keeps alive a tradition of the Orient, where MS Enemy 11 MN northern frontier since last fall. In three ground clashes, 47 North Vietnamese troops and six South Vietnamese defenders were killed, the Saigon command said. SCORES OF U.S. B52 heavy bombers, smaller tactical fighter-bombers and gunships were trying tj slow the movement of North Vietnamese troops and supplies southward. The bombers dropped between 700 and 900 tons of explosives along South Vietnam's border with Laos and inside the southern half of the DMZ.

Many senior U.S. officials say the Communists' main target may be Kontum, a provincial capital of 30,000 in South Vietnam's Central Highlands. U.S. military sources said one regiment of the North Vietnamese 324B Division had moved south across the DMZ in recent weeks, while units of another division, not identified, were reported to have moved into the A Shau valley and Khe Sanh region in the northwestern quadrant of South Vietnam adjacent to the Laotian border. Ihe Central Highlands.

U.S. soldiers drove them back wilh gunfire from the ground and air. Perimeter guards at Camp IloUoway, base f.ir the U.S. 52nd Aviation Battalion on the outskirts of Pleiku. reported "several sappers" less than 39 yards from the base's barhitP wire defense before dawn Sunday.

AMERICAN" SOLDIERS laid down a blanket of fire and detonated 41-gallon drums of napalm-like (See INDOCHINA, 10-A) Anderson Column, 15-A. Timet Wir Service! SAIGON Thousands of Hanoi troops, including a reserve division normally held in North Vietnam, are moving across the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and through southern Laos toward South Vietnam's northern and western frontiers, U.S. military sources said Sunday. North Vietnamese forces bombarded South Vietnamese bases guarding the DMZ with more than 200 rockets and mortars Saturday in the heaviest shelling attack along the THE SOURCES disclosed that the. North Vietnamese 308th Division, normally held in reserve, has been on the move through the southern panhandle of Laos, apparently headed for the triborder region, where the frontiers of Laos and Cambodia join South Vietnam's Central Highlands, about 300 miles north of Saigon.

Meanwhile, Communist sappers carrying explosives strapped to their almost naked bodies tried unsuccessfully Sunday to blow up a American helicopter base in Americans. I 'v T' ri: i i T''" 33 -33 V' 3 i Eclipse Sequence Photos, J-B mem akk jf A US. -i A l'' AA Union on the IJRr-31 iiilliUi today 3-D 12- 6-B 7-1 13- 1) 12- 1-13-D 14- A 10-13-D 13- 10- 1) 9-B 6- 7- A 2-B 12-D 6-B 11- 1) 1-6-C 2-A By ja.mks it. I TBILISI, U.S.S.R. -Tweuty-thrcp young Americans, all of whom speak Rnr-snn, have begun a visit to the Soviet Union to 10 show how live in Ihe United States.

They are guides at a exhibit called "Research nml Development U.S.A.." a display of American gadgr-try ranging front computers 'o coffeemakers that weni on display in this capital of Soviet Georgi i Jan. 24. THE (il'IDUS ae a-sipned the exhibit to explain how equipment works and hat it's used for. But they have had to field questions on yueh. vnried topics as the Vietnam War.

current American rri; grotrps inti the planned world championship Chess match between A i a Pobly Fischer and Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union. "The guides have been not lo initiate disc listens." said exhibit director Jolin "But th.ey are no' going to walk (See 11-A) Ann Landers Bridge Business Classified Comics Crosswords DAY Section Editorial Entertainment I loroseope Jumble Obituaries Outdoors People People's Voice Personalities Sylvia Porter Radio-TV Sports Weather AP Piece Of Bread Small Solace To Abandoned Girl Melvin Robert Laird Contemplating Striking a most profound pose, Defense Secretary Mclvin Laird prepares to meet questioners on a television interview Sunday. Laird rejected the idea of reversing the flow of American troop strength out of South Vietnam. Details, A young Cnmbodiiin girl munch'' on a piec of bread after her soldier father and family fled Krek in eastern Cambodia following Hip withdrawal of South Vietnamese troops. The Cambodian troops were charged ith caring for the area, but the pressure of three North Vietnamese divisions quickly forced them out..