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PETE 4899 34th St. No. TtUphon 527-3768 A4. Florida's Best Newspaper ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1972 7 DAYS HOWS DELIVERY 15c 10 CENTS A COPY Vol.88-No.349 76 PAGES 7 4 14 1)1 Wimm nuu ml Is Slowed To Walk 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 toward the city from the south. They met dogged resistance 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 Vietnamese warplanes and artillery. This has been the pattern of the drive. The South Vietnam- (See CTIE WAR, 1S-A) V- AP Photo Mural Of Robert F. Kennedy Is Framed By Chairs At Miami Courts Treading On New Ground By ROBERTS. BOYD Tlmts-Mltml HariM Strvlct MIAMI BEACH A Wly 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 motion 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 a national convention who it shall or (See BOYD, 17-A) Editorial, 20-A Niw Ytrtt Timts Itrvic (e) 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 (Ms to the Democratic National Convention. Burger acted as he ed 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 Humble YankDiraws No.

2 Beach Convention Hall 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 till 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.

AT THE same time, Daley forces have asked vacationing justices to sit in special term to gain judicial action reinstating them as delegates. The high court may sit with as few as six of the nine justices present. The appeals court Wednesday overturned the credentials committee and ordered the 151 California delegates returned to the South Dakota sector. 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. At the same time, the court upheld the committee's rights to unseat Daley and 58 other Illinois delegates after finding the Daley faction had violated party rules on delegate selection.

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, "and very likely the presidential nomination itself, will be determined, not by the political process operative at the convention but by the (See CREDENTIALS, 17-A) ALSO SUSPENDED by the chief justice's action was the second portion of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals decision upholding the Democratic credentials committee's expulsion of Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and 58 other Illinois Tlmii Wire StrvkH REYKJAVIK, Iceland -Bobby Fischer apologized in writing Thursday to Boris Spassky for "disrespectful behavior" 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 Tuesday. 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' right hand. With a smile Spassky opened it TnE MATCH was originally scheduled to start last Sunday but was postponed until Tuesday 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) 1 4 1 i 1 Thursday night confirmed a total of 59 persons lulled, 81 injured and 73 others missing.

ONE THOUSAND members of the Japanese self-defense force and volunteers dug almost continuously since Wednesday at the major landslide site just outside the pro- vincial capital of Kochi, on Shikoku Island. But the torrential rains continued throughout the rescue operations, causing fears of additional landslides. "Heavy rains are really bothering the rescue operation," a- police officer said. "For a while it rained so heavily that the workers were forced to stop digging." THE THREE-DAY rainfall total for the area was 32 inches. Police said all the 51 persons buried were local residents mobilized to repair a road destroyed by an earlier landslide.

I more than two feet of rain in two days caused a landslide on Shikoku Island, burying 51 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 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 I mm unit Half nil Mi Kii ml iiwi.iil i rfbMtert.Jf UPI BOBBY FISCHER 'I have offended Railway Station At Kochi Lies Crushed Beneath Mud That Buried 51 More politics, U-A, 15-A; Marquis Childs, 20-A WASHINGTON (B-- 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, accept my sin-cerest 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) THE SATELLITE will carry sensors and photographic equipment so sensitive that it can distinguish between live and dead vegetation and differing plant species. An improved ERTS-B satellite, to be launched next year, will probe the far infrared region of the color spectrum through the use of photographs. The NASA estimates the two-spacecraft will cost $176-million. Dr.

Arch Park, chief of NASA's Earth Resources Survey Program, said the satellite's most important ments will be in the area of land use. PARK SAID teams plan statewide analyses of land use in Alaska, Alabama, Arizona, California, Maryland, Ohio, Oregon and Washington, and a similar study Is planned for Brevard County. For the first time, he said, planners will have an opportunity to study zoning, deter-. mine where highways should be built, and make recommendations for future land use on a data basis that could Super Satellite Heralded As World's Handmaiden 51 Buried By Mudslide; Toll May Go Over 200 BORIS SPASSKY 'sportsman and be used nationwide. And the experiment calls for the biological control of agricultural pests in California, Park said.

"THEY WILL be using an old-fashioned practice, involving when to plow the land to (See SATELLITE, 17-A) Li SEN. MIKE GRAVEL Gravel Announces Bid For V.P., 15-A TOKYO (UPI) Three days and nights of torrential rains in western Japan have left more than 200 persons dead, injured, or missing, police said Thursday. Thousands more were homeless. In the worst single incident, MELVTN LAIRD Laird Raps Policies Of McGovern, 15-A GREENBELT, Md. (D A new satellite soon to be launched promises to help farmers control insects without the use of pesticides, improve mine safety and pinpoint pollution sources.

It also may enable timber cutters to make more judicious harvests of forests. The jack-of-all trades spacecraft is scheduled to be sent aloft July 21, marking the first-step toward combining space technology with remote sensing methods in order to improve management of the Earth's resources. "ITS A very major mile-Stone," said Donald Harth, deputy, director of the God-dard Space Flight Center. The satellite is known as the Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTA) and will be launched from the Western Test Range at Vandenberg AFB in California. A two-stage Delta booster will send the spacecraft into a near-polar, circular orbit 564 miles above the Earth.

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