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PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1972 7 DAYS HOMB DELIVERY I5e 10 CENTS A COPY Vol.8S-No.349 76 PAGES I 4 I 1 A It Quang Tri Aifack Is Slowed Jo Walk Courts Tread On New Ground MM lvr A toward the city from the south. They met dogged resls-, tance from North Vietnamese troops dug into bunkers along Highway 1, which leads to, Quang Tri. South Vietnamese Marines are also battling toward the city from the east. The North Vietnamese -bunkers were pounded heavily by U. S.

and South Vietnam-' ese warplanes and artillery. This has been the pattern of the drive. The South Vietnam- (See THE WAR, 1G-A) said sizable numbers of troops were in the city and had recaptured much of it, seem to have been overstated, apparently by eager South Vietnamese sources on the northern front. RELIABLE MILITARY sources said Thursday that the main-force elements were still one to two miles from the center of the province capital, which fell on May 1. The sources said three battalions of paratroopers, 1,500 men, were fighting their way Photo Mural Of Robert F.

Kennedy Is Framed By Chairs At Miami Beach Convention Hall ituiirgor My Editorial, 20-A Niw York Tlmtl ttrvlct (c) SAIGON The South Vietnamese task force sought Thursday to clear enemy resistance for the final assault to retake Quang Tri City. The North Vietnamese, meanwhile, countered by raining their heaviest shelling attack to date on the tense city of Hue. Earlier reports of the South Vietnamese force's progress toward Quang Tri City, which ft-: i mans, By ROBERTS. BOYD Tlm-Miimi HrM Servic MIAMI BEACH A burly U.S. marshal elbows his way to the podium, looks out over the 5,600 delegates and alter nates to the Democratic National Convention and announces: "Ladies and gentlemen you're under arrest." Fantasy? Probably but theoretically It could happen Monday night.

THE WHEELS are in mo-tion for what could be an unprecedented clash between the federal courts and the National Democratic Party. For the first time in history, a federal court has sought to deal directly with the internal workings of. one of the two major national parties. Previously, the courts have intervened only in the operation of state political parties. They have banned all-white primaries in Texas and South Carolina as denying the constitutional rights of blacks.

They have rejected Georgia's unit-rule as discriminating against black city dwellers in Atlanta. But not until this week has a court ventured to claim the right to' dictate to a national (See BOYD, 17-A) BOBBY FISCnER 'I have offended XT I jt He issued no decision by the time the court's offices closed for the night. ALSO SUSPENDED by the chief justice's action was the second portion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals decision upholding the Demo-- cratic credentials committee's TintM Wire twvictt REYKJAVIK, Iceland -Bobby Fischer apologized In writing Thursday to Boris Spassky for "disrespectful be-: havior" that threatened their world championship chess match, and Moscow's Tass news agency said "all demands of the Soviet delegation have been satisfied." It was announced that the first game would be played Fischer, the American challenger, and Spassky, the Soviet world champion, met Thursday night to draw for the first move in the $250,000 series of 24 games. Fischer drew the black pawn, giving Spassky the first move with white and a slight advantage. The draw was done the same way park-bench chess players would do it.

Spassky -took two pawns, one white, one black, juggled them behind his back then extended his closed hands to Fischer. Without hesitation, Fischer hunched forward and pointed a finger to Spassky's right hand. With a smile Spassky opened it. THE MATCH was originally scheduled to start last Sunday but was postponed until Tues- day while Fischer bargained for more money. It was postponed a second time after Spassky protested Fischer's absence and demanded an apology.

The Soviet Chess Federation also demanded Fischer be ordered to forfeit (See CHESS, 17-A) s(1 5 1 3 this morning, confirmed total of 70 persons killed, 29 Injured and 106 others missing. ONE THOUSAND members the! Japanese self-defense force and volunteers dug al-; most continuously since at the major landslide site just outside the provincial capital of Kochi, on Shikoku Island. rr But the torrential rains continued throughout the rescue operations, causing fears of additional landslides. 1 "Heavy rains are really bothering the rescue operation," a police officer "For a while it rained so heavily that the workers were forced to stop digging." THE THREE-DAY rainfall total for the area was 39 inches. Police said all the 51 persons buried were local resi dents mobilized to repair a road destroyed by an earlier landslide.

1 expulsion of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and 58 other Illinois delegates. The appeals court earlier Issued a stay of its own decision that was scheduled to expire at 2 p.m. EDT Thursday. Burger's one-sentence order, issued shortly before that hour, extended the existing stay until further action by the high court The Democratic Party asked the high court to convene a rare special term to hear its appeal.

The party contends that lower-court intervention in delegate selection "very likely" will place the federal judiciary In the role of convention kingmaker. 1 AT THE same time, Daley i forces have asked vacationing justices to sit In special term to gain judicial action reinstating them as delegates. The high court may sit with just six of the nine Justices. The appeals court Wednesday overturned the credentials committee and ordered the 151 California delegates returned to the South Dakota senator. The committee had stripped them from McGovern when it decided to reverse the winner-take-all state primary and parcel out delegates to candidates according to the percentage of the primary vote they received.

IN ASKING the high court to consider the case, the Democratic Party claimed the appeals court decision "has provoked a fundamental constitutional crisis that can be settled only by this court." The seating of the California delegates, the party brief said, very likely the presidential nomination itself, will be determined, not by the political process operative at the convention but by the mandate of a lower federal court." The Democrats contended the decision threatens to cause a fundamental change. In the American political system by expanding the role of (See CREDENTIALS, 17-A) Garden 13-D Horoscope 15-D Jumble 4-D Obituaries 15-B Outdoors -C People 10-A Personalities 14-D Pulse of Pinellas 15-B Radio-TV 12-D Sketches 6-D Sports 1-6-C 3 to the Democratic National Convention. Burger acted as he attempted to contact the other eight vacationing U.S. Supreme Court justices to learn if there is sufficient support to call for a rare special session to decide the case. BORIS SPASSKY 'sportsman and gentleman.

THE TALL, imposing Athenagoras first met with Pope Paul VI of the Roman Catho- lie Church in 1967. It was the first meeting of a Pope and a patriarch since the 15th century, and it led to the revoca- tion of mutual excommunica- (See ATHENAGORAS, 17-A) ft; i ft! 4 i SEN. MIKE GRAVEL Gravel Announces Bid For V.P., 15-A '11 More politics, 11' 15-A; Marquis Childs, 20-A WASHINGTON (1PI Chief Justice Warren E. Burger Thursday blocked indefinitely a lower court decision that returned to Sen. George McGo-vern 151 California delegates Dear Boris REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) Here is the text of Bobby Fischer's letter to Boris Spassky: "Dear Boris, "Please accept my sheerest apology for my disrespectful behavior in not attending the opening ceremony.

I simply became carried away by my petty dispute over money with the Icelandic chess organizers. I have offended you and your country, the Soviet Union, where chess (See BORIS, 17-A) ras said the death followed a massive loss of blood pressure. Athenagoras was to have been flown to Vienna today or Saturday for orthopedic surgery. UNTIL THURSDAY, doctors had been optimistic about the state of his health, apart from the fracture. A spokesman at the' patriarchate on the Golden Horn here said the Holy Synod, the governing body of world Orthodoxy, would meet Friday morning to decide on details of the patriarch's funeral.

The body will be taken from the hospital, which is outside the city walls of Istanbul, to the patriarchal Church of St. George for lying in state. Athenagoras, who became patriarch in 1949, was a major force in the movement towards Christian unity. His meetings with Pope Paul VI were a vital landmark in Christian history. Athenagoras' successor will be chosen by the Holy Synod, which comprises 12 metropolitan archbishops of the ecumenical patriarchate.

Railway Station At Kochi Lies Crushed Beneath Mud That Buried 59 59 Buried By Mudside; Toll May Go Over 200 Patriarch Athenagoras I Of Orthodox Church Dies iv I 4T ill i in h-iiud more than two feet of rain in two days caused a landslide on Shikoku Island, burying 59 persons who were working on a washed-out road. Rescue crews continued to remove tons of mud and rock Thursday night In the slim hope there might be survivors among the victims buried for more than 24 hours. POLICE ESTIMATED that more than 5,000 persons have been left homeless on Shikoku and Kyushu Islands. Twenty, thousand other homes were flooded, they said. In central Kyushu, a landslide swept away 21 houses Thursday with four of the 60 residents reported missing.

On Amakusa Island, off Kyu-. shu, 10 workers were reported missing after a part of a chemical plant was washed away. Road and railroad links were damaged by the 725 reported landslides. Police in western japan ISTANBUL (fl Athenagoras the ecumenical patriarch and leader of the world's 250-million Orthodox Christians, died early Friday, the patriarchate announced. He was 86.

Athenagoras died of kidney failure at the Balikli Greek Orthodox hospital. He broke his right hip in a fall a week' ago. Doctors attending Athenago- TOKYO (UPI) Three days and nights of torrential rains In western Japan have left more than 200 persons dead, injured, or police said Thursday. Thousands more were homeless. In the worst single incident, N4 MELV1N LAIRD Laird Raps Policies Of McGovern, 15-A 'AX, Boy Finds Bug, Saves Girl's Life Story, 1-B i Army Men In Wimbledon Final Story, l-C i Bp; Ann Landers 3-D Best Bets 1-D Bridge 14-D Business 10-B Classified 7-21-C Comics 15-D Crosswords 14-D DAY Section 1-16-D Editorial 20-A Entertainment 9-11-D Financial 11-14-B ATIDSNACORAS had broken hip.

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