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PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1972 17 4 5 4 111 Vol.88-No.348 94 PAGES rv to' i 1 1 uuu Chairwoman Praised, 4-A; Campsites Okayed, 20-A) Evans And Novak, 22-A; Nixon And TV, 1-D Asked whether he meant tire convention Rick Stearns, McGovern's chief delegate marshal, said McGovern now has 1,541.5 gate votes, enough to assure a first-ballot nomination, I IF THE circuit court ruling stands. The As 1 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 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 have been 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 enjoining 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 59 Illinois delegates for violation of those requirements.

In order to protect the judgment, the court wrote, "It, is pecessary to enjoin Daley forces (See CREDENTIALS, 15-A) WASHINGTON, (fl A federal appeals, court Wednesday ordered 151 California gates restored to George McGovern, prompting his forces to enter a claim on a first-ballot victory at the Democratic Convention In Miami next week. In the same opinion, the U.S.' Circuit Court of Appeals here upheld another party credentials committee decision ousting Mayor Richard 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 deci- sion. WIS WAS another plus for the South ta senator since the Daley slate was uncqm- mitted but a majority of the replacements fa-, vors McGovern.

i An appeal to the Supreme Court still is possible for the Democratic National Committee and pro-Daley forces but the high court is now "1 in summer Recess, Joseph A. Califano' counsel for the Demo- era tic National Committee, said in Miami' Beach he will ask the Supreme Court to over- turn the lower court decision. He said the, committee was standing by its position that "the courts should not get involved in political thickets." i would have the right to act in defiance of the ''court decision, Humphrey replied "That's my THE CREDENTIALS Committee stripped McGovern of the California delegates by decid- ing to apportion them among all candidates by the amount of votes each received in a presidential primary. circuit court held that while the 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 sociated 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 392.55 by the count, Alabama Gov. George Wallace has 381 and Maine's Sen. Edmund S. Muskiehas 225.55. Some, delegates officially classified as uncommitted, however, have said they are leaning to McGovern.

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, i Tight-Lipped Califano Vows To Appeal Ruling South Ends Viefs Ready To Pop Cork nQuangM Victory In urrfire; 3 Are Killed Military sources said the 1,200 soldiers set up a mand post at Quang Tri's railroad station, then fanned out into adjacent residential and business areas, where they met light, resistance from who had con trolled the city and its sur-'. rounding province 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 mjght be North Vietnamese snipers in dug-in positions. i Sources said the enemy's strength inside Quang Tri is pot known, but the defenders are believed to be chiefly militia. Timet Win Servkei South Vietnamese and tank crews recaptured 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 front the rest of the bombed out provincial capital. The North Vietnamese main force and 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 Is in government hands. Quang Tri was the only (See THE WAR, 16-A) SAN FRANCISCO CUPn FBI aeenti rushed a hilacked airliner carrying 86 persons at San Francisco Airport Wednes-' day, killing both hijackers in a blazing gunbattle 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 1 1 fefjj 1 ri i M'-A V-w fctsJI i I A i 1 1, i p'MMi 1 4 1 Ut -i vM; I 4 t- tsOU.Ouu ransom, two parachutes and maps tor a flight to Rus- sia.i One hijacker was killed in the cockpit of the Pacific Southwest Airlines 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. A second agent sneaked onto the plane and killed the hijacker in the cockpit. The first agent then opened fire on the second hijacker who had rushed to the cockpit when he heard gunshots. It was not known how he got a gun aboard the craft.

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. The wounded passengers were taken to a hospital where they were reported in fair condition.

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 Siberia via Canada and Alaska, Kissel said. The pilot himself re- Franco-US. I.

I ijucaicu wccuiiei maya aim uigiii mays iur oiuena. PSA president J. Floyd Andrews said the airline asked the hijackers "if they would let the women and children off and they replied that none will be allowed to leave until the de- mands are met." This was the third time this year a PSA Jet has been UPI French Premier Fired Ul Aitgtlti Tlmei Strvict PARIS President Georges Pompidou abruptly fired Premier Jacques 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 earlier.

CHABAN-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 some- what 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 Somehow of 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, 15-A) Man Holds Daughter Hostage Charles Smith carries his 14-montfr-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 hours before surrendering. Story, page 10-A. New Yrk Tlmn $rvlct tc) 'y yy' France and the United States have agreed on a three-year plan for submarine exploration of cavernous mid-Atlantic rift valleys almost 1-milcs beneath the ocean surface. It is a venture that conjures up Images of Jules 1 During the project, which involves 17 vessels and has many parallels to the Apollo program for lunar exploration, three deep-submergence vehicles two French and one will make a minimum of 40 descents into the utter blackness of these canyons.

Their mission is to seek out explanation for the volcanic activity that appears to be pushing apart the two sides of the Atlantic. The plan provides for sampling of the hot water from boiling geysers, if any are found, emplacement of earthquake detectors on the canyon floor 300 fathoms beneath the sea (almost and extensive specimen collection. The crews, which on some of the dive9 will be international, will seek out lava flows, volcanic cones, bright-colored sulphur 'or metallic coatings on the sea floor and other evidence of eruptions such as hollow lava tubes and Evonne Stops Chris as Billie Jean triumphs; 1-C Fischer Apologizes; Further Delay Sought Ann Landers Bridge Business Classified i I Comics 'J. 1 Crosswords (See DEEP SEA, 16-A) REYKYAVIK (UPI) Bobby Fischer surprised even his own advisers Wednesday by formally apologizing to Russian Boris Spassky for delaying their world cham- pionship chess match. But the president of the International Chess Federation admitted he was in the wrong, too, and said he would ask for a one-week postponement Dr.

Max Euwe announced he would ask tor another postponement during a news in which he agreed to Soviet demand? to condemn Fischer's behavior and admitted that he violated chess federation rules in allowing two earlier postponements. "IT WOULD damage Spas-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) DAY Section Editorial i Entertainment Financial Horoscope Jumble Obituaries Outdoors People Pulse of Pinellas Radio-TV Sketches Sports Weather I i.

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