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MM 1 Super Miid Tartly cloudy through Friday. A 81) per cent chance of thundershow ers, mainly during p.m. Low in mld-TOs, high near 90 today and FrU day. Mostly winds 5-13 m.p.h. Data, AMERICAN MOTORS i INTRODUCES -THE GUARANTEED CAR If anything wrong with one of our and it's our fault, we'll fix it Anything NICHOLS INC 424 tthST.

S. ST. PETERSBURG Ato. Florida's Best Newspaper PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1972 1 DAYS HOMK DELIVERY 134 10 CENTS A COPY VoI.88No.348 94 PAGES 4 14 I I 1 i(2llfl Chairwoman Praised, 4-A; Campsites Okayed, 20-A; Evans And Novak, 22-A; Nixon And TV, 1-D WASHINGTON ffl A federal appeals court Wednesday ordered 151 California delegates restored to George McGovern, prompting his forces to enter a claim on a first-ballot victory at the Democratic Convention in Miami next week. 1 In the same opinion, the U.S Circuit Court of Appeals here upheld another party credentials committee decision ousting Mayor Rich-' ard Daley and 58 others as Illinois delegates to the presidential nominating session.

In the same order the federal court blocked any state-court action that, might affect its decision. THIS WAS another plus for the South Dakota senator since the Daley slate was uncommitted but a majority of the replacements fa-vors McGovern. An appeal to the Supreme Court still is 'possible for the Democratic National Committee and pro-Daley forces but the high court is now in summer recess? 'r Joseph A. Califano, counsel for the Democratic National Committee, said in Miami Beach he will ask the Supreme Court to overturn the lower court decision. He said the committee was standing by its position that "the courts' should not get involved In political thickets." by establishing retroactively an entirely new and unannounced standard of conduct." THE LOSERS in both cases followed usual legal practice and asked the circuit court to stay the effect of its ruling.

They are expected also to ask Chief Justice Warren E. Burger to call the Supreme Court, which adjourned last week, into special session to hear appeals. Before the court could hear the cases, Burger would have to summon vacationing justices for a special session of which there havejbeen only three in history. The circuit court directed the U.S. District Court that originally heard the cases to write an order declaring the credentials committee action on California null and void and enjoin-ing any further action against the McGovern delegates based on the winner-take-all Issue.

IN THE Illinois portion of the decision, a unanimous court held that the party does have the right to impose requirements on delegate selection. The credentials committee had ousted the 53 Illinois delegates for violation of those requirements. In order to protect the judgment, the court wrote, "It is necessary to enjoin Daley forces (See CREDENTIALS, 13-A) Rick Stearns, McGovern's chief delegate marshal, said McGovern now has 1,541.5 delegate votes, enough to assure a first-ballot nomination. IF THE circuit court ruling stands, The Associated Press delegate count would place McGovern's strength at 1,436.65, less than 100 short of the 1,509 delegate votes needed for nomination. Sen.

Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota has 302.55 by the count, Alabama Gov. George Wallace has 365 and Maine's Sen. Edmund S. Muskie has 219.55. Some delegates officially classified as uncommitted, however, have said they are leaning to Humphrey, whose presidential quest suffered a severe setback with the court ruling, said In Waverly, that the convention might attempt to overrule the courts If the ruling stands.

Asked whether he meant the convention would have the right to act in defiance of the court decision, Humphrey replied "That's my judgment." THE CREDENTIALS committee stripped McGovern of the California delegates by deciding to apportion them among all candidates by the amount of votes each received in the presidential primary. The circuit court held that whilethe apportionment might be more fair than the winner-take-all manner in which" the primary was set up, changing the rules after the game was over "was inconsistent with fundamental principles of due process." The majority opinion in the 2-1 California decision declared that the "Democratic Party did not merely interpret one of its rules in essence, it acted in defiance of its own rules as interpreted in the call for the 1972 convention AP Tight-Lipped Califano Vows To Appeal Ruling itidls South ieh Ready Pop, Euipek 'r -t Dim yirw; iiang Aire ICi Ibd I 1 it, Military sources said the 1,200 soldiers set up a com mand post at Quang Tri's railroad station, then fanned out into adjacent residential and business areas, where they met light resistance from Communists who had controlled the city and the pro-. vince since May 1. MOST OF the strike force stayed clear of the 19th century citadel in the center of the city where they believed there might be North Vietnamese snipers in dug-in positions. Sources said the enemy's strength inside Quang Tri is not known, but the defenders are believed to be chiefly militia.

The North Vietnamese main force 304th and 308th divisions are believed to be dispersed generally to the west of Quang Tri. Military sources said Quang Tri City would not be declared recaptured until the citadel is in government hands Quang Tri was the only; (See THE WAR, 16-A) Timti Wire Itrvlcu South Vietnamese paratroopers and tank rews je captured most of Quang Tri City Wednesday. They carried with them a neatly folded flag and a warm bottle of champagne for use when enemy troops are forced from the rest of the bombed out provincial capital. 1 French 'A Move Over, Timti Wirt StrvicM i SAN FRANCISCO FBI agents rushed a hijacked air- liner carrying 86 persons at San Francisco Airport Wednesday, killing both hijackers in a blazing gun battle that also killed one passenger and wounded two others. FBI agents, carrying automatic weapons and shotguns, stormed the plane when the hijackers attempted to obtain 5800,000 two parachutes and maps for a flight to One hijacker was killed in the cockpit of the Pacific'South-west Airlines (PSA) jetliner while the other died in a rear section An FBI agent, dressed as a pilot, was made to strip to his shorts before boarding the plane to make sure he was not carrying a weapon.

After he dressed, he walked up the ramp and then to the cockpit. Wire service reports conflict on what happened next. Ap-: parently, other FBI agents sneaked onto the plane after the masquerading agent. In the ensuing confrontation, both hijackers and a passenger were killed, and two passengers were wounded. FBI agent Robert Gebhardt.

said, "Certainly we're not pleased that three passengers were wounded, but somebody bad to make a decision. We wanted to stop the hijacking and stop it we The slain and wounded passengers were in the rear of the plane. The FBI said" the passengers were shot by the hijackers. The FBI identified the two hijackers as Dimitrov Alexev, Hayward, and Michael D. Azmanoff, both 28, who entered the United States in the 1950s, i The wounded passengers were taken to a hospital where they were reported in fair condition.

The plane sat on a runway more than a mile from the San Francisco International airport terminal for more than four hours while one of the hijackers sent demands through the pilot, Capt. Dennis Waller of San Diego. (Waller radioed the men were demanding to be flown to Si-. i berja via Canada and Alaska, Kissel said. The pilot himself requested weather maps and flight maps for Siberia.

'i I 4 UPI -Man Holds Daughter Hostage Charles Smith carries his lt-month-old daughter off a jet airliner he tried to hijack after allegedly stabbing his former wife and a man at her home. He held his daughter hostage on the plane for 3 hours before surrendering. Story, page 10-A. Premier Fired "Los AnjtlM Timti Itrvict PARIS President Georges Pompidou abruptly fired Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas Wednesday and named a strong Gaullist, Pierre Messmer, to succeed him. The move is generally interpreted as an effort by Pompidou to give his government a new look and increase its Gaullist image and appeal in preparation for parliamentary elections.

The elections must be held by next spring but now may come much OIABAX-DELMAS was never of the ultra inner-circle of those personally trusted by former president Charles de Gaulle. Moreover, he deliberately set out as prime minister to move the government somewhat, to the left in social policy, and this put him constantly at loggerheads with the Gaullist rightists. He then became increasingly expendable as a result of a tax muddle, under' which he used a perfectly legal loophole to escape almost all his income tax for several years. Somehow or other, a copy of his income tax return got into the hands of a small Paris weekly newspaper that delights In exposes. Although Chaban-Delmas bitterly defended himself In a television broadcast last March, it was clear from then on that his days as prime minister were numbered.

His dismissal came as a surprise, however, despite widespread speculation (See FRANCE, 13-A) Evonne Stops Chris Nf Ysrk Time Strvlct (c) GENEVA France and the fnitcd States have agreed on a three-year plan for submarine exploration of the cavernous mid-Allantic rift valleys almost l-rulles Itnealh the ocean surface. It Is a venture that conjures up images of Jules Verne. During Use project, which. Involves IT vessels and has niany parallels to the Apollo program for lunar exptorftjion, threw deep-submergence vehicles two Freneh and one American will make a niinimmn of 43 descents Ir.to the utter blackness of these canyons. Their mission is to seek out explanation for tbo vole-an-ic ac tivity uppears to be pushing apart tte two sUks of die Atlantic-.

The plan provides for sampling ef th hot water from boiSing geysers, If any are found, cmpbi'r mert of earthquake detectors on the canyon floor 300 fatkims le nealh the sea (almost l'i-miles) mi extensive fpccirnra collection. The crews, which on some of the dives will be international, will seek out lava flows, volcanic cones, lirlht-colored or metallic costings on the sea floor an! other Hence of eruptions such as hollow lava tubes at: I (See DEEP SEA, 15-A) Jean 1-C Billie triumphs; Fischer Apologizes; Further Delay Sought on tlie UitkUt today "i I I I 3-D 8- 6-C 12-24-C 9- 8- 1-10-D 22-A e. 7-d 7-10-C 9- 8- 9- 6-C 6-A 9-B 1-5-C 2-A Ann Landers Bridge Business Classified i Comics Crosswords DAY Section Editorial Entertainment Financial Horoscope Jumble Obituaries Outdoors People Pulse cf Pinellas Radio-TV Sketches Sports Weather REYKJAVIK (UPI) Bobby Fischer surprised even his own advisers Wednesday by formally apologizing to, Russian Boris Spassky for delaying their world championship chess match. But the president of the International Chess Federation admitted he was in the wrong, too, and said he would ask for a week postponement. Dr.

Max Euwe announced he would ask for another postponement during a news conference in which he agreed to Soviet demands to condemn Fischer's behavior and admitted that he violated chess federation rules in allowing two earlier postponements. "IT WOITD damage Spas-1 sky, who is very upset by what has happened in the last few days, if he were forced to play Thursday," Euwe said in announcing that he would seek another delay in the 24-game match. Euwe also said he might' even suggest an entirely new match schedule calling for between 12 and 18 games now (See CHESS, 15-A) I rv i f-C i ft I.

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