Nanaimo Daily News from Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada • 1

TODAY'S NEWS TODAY Weather Forecast Sunny. Winds Light Low 55 High 72 Yesterday'i Temperatures Low 50 High 61 For details, te page 2. J. 'V'. Serving Nanaimo and Central Vancouver Island Tor 98 Years Nanaimo, British Columbia, Friday, July 14, 1972 Pages Prlc 12c By Carrier, 60c Per Week ARMY SWITCHES TACTICS i Like Wm the district would be stormed lo protect civilian life and "estab-' lish a security forces presence No.

76 15 20 Nanaimo Parks and Recreation day campers were among the MV Kulleet's first passen-, gers from Gabriola Island to It 'I 1 DAY r' 'y 111 ''y -lti V2T 1 A'-) 'i a t. I ft A I I i CAMPERS MAKE IT army posts in Roman Catholic; areas of the city all mornms. Among them the notorious Falls Road, Ardoyne and Divis Street areas. Although the Lenadoon eun- fight was prolonged, the army described it as a limited operation. No tanks or heavy equipment was moved into the area.

Foot soldiers advanced as best they could to cut down the area open to snipers and drive the terrorists out. The army said the action was necessary to protect the lives of residents there after risk fflr days from steady sniper fire. During the battle between the army and the IRA, most resi dents were thought to be prone on the floors of their homes. DEFENDS DECISION In London, William Whitelaw. Britain's chief administrator for Northern Ireland, defended in the House of Commons his decision to meet the force of IRA terrorists with more force Thursday night and today.

He accused the IRA of using rocket launchers and mounting considerable military opera tions of a clearly offensive char acter against the army, endan gering civilian lives as well. "Rocket launchers have been used in the area by the terrorists, for the first time," White- law said. "These greatly multiply the risks ef damage and casualties." "The army therefore, with my authority, responded by action to control the areas from which the attacks were being launched and to protect themselves and the civil population, whitelaw added. Since the ceasefire was bro- i 'I tee an election V. TRIP sengers and dignitaries who attended the inaugural sailing.

(Free Press Staff Photo) CONVENTION CONCLUDES Committee Ruling Means Fischer, Goes Two Down By COLIN FROST (AP) British soldiers and Irish terrorists fought all-night gun battles here that left at least six persons dead today, dozens injured and the shooting still going on at lunch time. The gunfire centred on the bullet-scarred Lenadoon Avenue area of Andersonstown where terrorists from the Irish Republican Army broke two-week ceasefire last Sunday. The British army, in a major switch of tactics, launched an offensive in this area Thursday night to flush out the snipers and literally brought war to the suburbs, of Belfast. More than 700 British troops, some with their faces blackened In commando style, advanced under cover of rose bushes and garden fences in this middle-class neighborhood drawing fire from snipers in homes there. The army claimed to have hit more than 30 gunmen in these skirmishes, but recovered no bodies.

Wounded IRA men are often dragged away by comrades to receive medical treatment outside hospitals. One soldier died in the Lenadoon skirmishes and two other troopers and three civilians died elsewhere during the night of violence. The army reported four soldiers wounded in the gun battles, none of them seriously. Heavy gunfire -was heard near Sports Palace where nie games i are played bothered him. He stayed in his hotel room.

A second part of his protest objected to conditions of play. Fischer wanted the cameras re moved. They are used to make movies and television. Arnlaugsson said the committee reserved a decision on that and had invited both players to inspect the hall this afternoon so the problern could be dis cussed. Fischer is demanding that the game "he forfeited Thursday night, when he failed to turn up within an hour of the start, be replayed on Sunday when the third game is scheduled.

Fis chers failure to appear set precedent in world champion ship history and left him trailing 0-2 in the 24-game series. In his protest, handed over to Schmid, Fiscner is renewing his demand for removal of the cam eras which he says distract him. Even though the organizers of the contest have become cyni cally accustomed to Fischer's almost daily threats, there is considerable pessimism here about the prospects of the "match of the century" continuing- In The Hague, Dr. Max Euwe, president of the World Chess Federation, expressed i- mism that the match would be completed and remarked: "I am very sad about Mr. Fischer's constant Lee Trevino birdied the last McGoyern Promises Inspire Democrats ken Sunday, the IRA also has been using new heavy machine-guns.

ACCUSE IRA The British press has charged the IRA used the brief ceasefire to regroup and collect new Since-the- truce was broken Sunday there have been almost 1,000 shooting incidents in the province, where the death toll from three years of violence stands at 432. One particularly brutal death was reported today. Police disclosed that a young Catholic found dead Thursday had been tortured by his assassins. They said he had been burned on many parts of his body, stabbed several times, severely beaten and then shot through the head. "It was a brutal ghastly mur der," a police spokesman No other words could possibly describe it." Three" battalions of troops went into the IRA "no-go" district of Andersonstown to quell gunmen who had pumped inten sive' fire at an army command post for four days.

The invasion of the Suffolk area of Andersonstown was car ried out on Whitelaw's orders, army headquarters said. It marked a significant rever- a 1 a least temporarily of Whitelaw policy of reducing military activity in an effort to wean grassroots Catholic sup port from the IRA. WILL RETALIATE Whitelaw told a Conservative party meeting in London Thursday night he would "soldier on' with conciliation, but added if gunmen were ferocious "we will retaliate with the same ferocity." That retaliation came at 11:15 p.m. Thursday. A sandbagged army fortifica tion in Lenadoon Avenue, An dersontown the flashpoint which brought the end Sunday night of the IRA 13-day cease fire and scene of continual viol ence since had been under heavy IRA attack with guns and bombs for five hours.

At one stage, a rocket launcher was fired at the post, but the missile missed and hit a neighboring house. About 30 soldiers inside held out grimly until columns of reinforcements moved up in armored personnel carriers, weaving through late-evening traffic on the fringe of the city centre. Army headquarters said three battalions were called in some 1.B0O men. Then it announced i damage to the highways project. The washed-oul sections of road were re-opened to traffic Thurs- day nigni.

Meanwhile, the cabinet minister who heads B.C.'s $25 million major disaster fund says West Vancouver doesn't look like a major disaster area. Two Freed On Rustling Charges QUALICUM BEACH (CP) Two leaders of a religious com mune were acquitted Thursday on cattle rustling charges laid after 40 head of cattle were slaughtered on Lasquctl Island in the Strait of' Georgia: Judge T. G. Bowen-Colthurst found Ted Sideras, 50, and George Orton, 37, not guilty on four counts involving theft of cattle and the unlawful killing of cattle. The verdict followed a 13-day trial before the provincial court judge in this Vancouver Island community.

Judge Bowen-Colthurst said the Crown's case against Sid eras amounted to no evidence, whereas Orton was entitled to the benefit of the doubt; The judge recalled that the Crown alleged that the two men were the leaders of a group that established a religious com mune on Lasqiieti Island in 1967 that flourished until last year, when the cattle were slaugh tered. Crown witness Karl Darwin, a former, commune member, testified that Sideras and Orton invoked "the Will, of God" before- he and Orton went out to shoot cattle ranging the island. in areas from which the attacks had been launched." SOLDIER KILLED A soldier was shot dead and another wounded as the troops occupied the district, but generally the force met little resist ance: The army believed the IRA was taken by surprise. An Andersonstown resident said the area was "flooded with soldiers," and added some had occupied houses. Andersonstown slumped into quiet after takeover, but violence immediately erupted in the Ardoyne, Falls Road, Bally-murphy, New Lodge and Divis Catholic precincts, and in the city centre.

People cau.aht out lale in downtown Belfast hid in doorways as shots whined from gun battles. Flares fired by troops to illuminate snipers' positions lit up rooftops. The army claimed to have hit 22 gunmen. Their condition was not known as the guerrillas traditionally spirit away their casualties for burial or treatment. One of the two civilian dead had been shot through the hrad.

The other was hit in the chest. TROOPS FIRE 400 SHOTS than 400 shots were fired by soldiers around th towering apartment blocks of -Divis in reply to "many more'' from the- IRA. The crash Of the troops' NATO-issue rifles could be heard clearly punctuating the thunder of guerrilla sub-machine-guns. The second soldier was killed in the Ardoyne, the second to die in less. than 24 hours.

A battalion there came under heavy fire. The gun battles were among the worst to hit the capital in months. They would appear to demolish any hopes of renewed talks between the British government and the IRA, rumored frequently since the ceasefire collapsed but denied by The invasion of Andersonstown though a serious breach of British policy since direct rule four months ago will find approval among Northern Ireland's majority Protestant community. Hardliners have been calling for weeks for an assault on IRA bastions. It also will help counter criticism from restive backbenchers in Britain's ruling Conservative' party.

They have been anxious over the army's Iqw profile since the IRA onslaught resumed. Interior IWfl Members Plan To Strike Officials of the IWA said today the union wjl, laund) an q(M strike at 2 p.m. PDT Monday unless" forest workers in British Columbia Interior reach agreement on a new contract with the Interior Forest Labor Relations Association. About 5,000 IWA members in the interior have been -without a contract since June 30. Thursday, about 2.000 workers took part in a walkout to show support for union negotiators.

Forest operations were hit in Okanagait Falls, Princeton, Grand Forks, Midway, Cran-brook, Canal Flats, Slocan, Nelson and in the Trail and Kel-owna areas. The interior workers want parity with their 28.000 IWA counterparts on the coast, who re cently ratified a two-year agree ment that would raise the base rate to $4.45 an hour next June. However, "115 coast forest com panies bargaining through Forest industriaUrlelations have yet to approythat agreement and the coast strike continues. In the interior, Wyman Trineer, chairman of the union negotiating committee, said he was optimistic a settlement could be reached before the strike deadline expires. There was no comment from Duncan Local 1-80 of the IWA on the announcement that interior members would strike Monday if a contract is not reached.

The Duncan local, which rep resents about 4,300 members from the Malahat to Parksville and west to' Lake Cowichan and Port Renfrew, indicated that the dispute involving members in the interior was separate from the dispute on the west coast and that it niight not be fair to com- mcnt because of this. REYKJAVHvNcn An appeals committee rejected today Bobby Fischer's protest against his loss of Thursday's second world championship chess game by forfeit The four-man committee supported the decision of chief referee Lothar Schmid to award the game to Boris 'Spassky of Russia because Fischer failed to appear. Andrew Davis, Fischer's lawyer who arrived this morning from New York, was in the anti-room when assistant referee Gudmunder Arnlaugsson of Iceland announced the forfeit would be maintained. Asked if his client would play the next scheduled game on Sunday, Davis replied "I can't comment on that." Four chess officials considered Fischer's appeal. Arnlaugsson said: "We agreed' to support Schmid's decision.

Three of us felt that it could not be done otherwise. There: was one against." The I man who backed Fischer appeal was Fred an official of the U.S. Chess Federation and an associate1, of Fischer. The other members were Nikolai Krogius, a Spassky aide, and Baldur Moller, an official of the Icelandic Chess Federation which organized the match. Fischer refused to play Thursday because he said the presence of three cameras in the West Van.

Flood Check Ordered By Government ON FIRST RETURN visors Barb Shook and Rea Reynolds. The children mingled with off-loading adult pas and I want that war closed," McGovern said. He underscored his contention that the war could be ended and American prisoners released by setting a date for the complete withdrawal of troops from Viet nam. The United States, he said, should resolve that "never again will be shed the precious young blood of this nation to prop up a corrupt military die tatorship abroad." In a prepared text of his speech, McGovern had referred only to perpetuating an unre-. preventative client abroad.

But he promised the United States would keep its defences alert and fully sufficient to meet any danger. ace III Breaks Radio Silence AUCKLAND, N.Z. (Reuter) -The nuclear protest yacht Greenpeace III is expected to reach Rarotonga in the Cook Islands Saturday after sailing into the French Soulh Pacific nuclear test zone. Radio Rarotonga received message from the Canadian-owned ketch on Friday giving its position as 125 miles east ot the Cook Islands. The message was the first from the vessel for some time, It broke weeks of radio silence on Wednesday but the signal was Greenpeace III, owned by the Canadian Greenpeace Founda tion, is on its way back to New Zealand which it left in April in an effort to thwart the first blast in the French nuclear test series.

The French government said it sailed out of the danger zone four days before the first explosion on June 24. The vessel, crewed by a Cana dian, an Australian and a Briton carried out repairs at Mururoa Atoll, the French operations centre for the test zone, earlier this, month -after being damaged by a French minesweeper. CANADIAN DOLLAR NEW YORK (CP) Cana dian dollar unchanged at Sl.OBi in terms of U.S. Pound sterling down 23-32 at $2.45 13-64. CANADA'S HIGH-LOW Montreal Dease Lake 45 Nanaimo Thursday afternoon.

In photo, the youngsters with packs and playthings are being guided off the ferry by super President Nixon in November he will end the Vietnam war, open the doors of government and put the country back to work. The Democratic presidential candidate( was given a rapturous reception when he ap peared on the podium to make his televised acceptance speech but much, of the United States must have long been in bed. SPEECH IS LATE A stream of speakers who had earlier extolled the virtues of eight official vice-presidential candidates prevented McGovern from starting his speech unil 2.45 a.m. EDT today. But the approaching dawn did not dampen, the spirits of the delegates as McGovern said: "Within 90 days of my inaugu ration (as president) every American soldier and every American prisoner will.be out of the jungle and out of their cells and back home America where they belong." McGovern said that during four administrations involving both Republican and Democratic parties, a terrible war had been charted behind closed doors.

"I want those doors opened, cockpit window in a dramatic escape. But the hijackers, armed with shotguns, pistols, a grenade and a bomb, ordered the remaining crew the co-pilot, flight engineer and four stewardesses to take them to Texas. Four tires on the plane blew out because of the quick braking needed at the short field of the small commuter airport. The hijackers released one "of four stewardesses to carry to FBI agents a demand for a small plane td take them an undisclosed destination. They also released the flight engineer, who was shot in a scuffle, wWle the co-pilot escaped through a door after being struck -with a pistol.

He suffered a broken pelvis in the jump to the ground but was reported to be in good condition, as was the engineer. The hijackers, apparently realizing that escape was impossible, released the three "remaining stewardesses and then followed them out of the door tp surrender. They were taken to Houston far a preliminary hearing. WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF Hijackers By PETER BUCKLEY MIAMiVBEACH (CP) The Democratic party convention sent its candidates off into the pre-dawn darkness today to begin their election campaign with an unusual display of unity and a promise from presidential nominee Senator George Mc-Govem that "American politics will never be the same again." McGovern had his vice-presidential choice, Senator Thomas Eagleton of Missouri, at his side on the podium, as well as five of his former opponents while the delegates cheered and hollered their approval. Waves of applause rocked the hall as Hubert.

Edmund Muskie, Henry Jackson, Shirley Chisholm and. Terry Sanford lifted the hands of the 49-year-old nominee "and 'his 42-year-old running mate from Missouri. Only the crippled George Wallace of Alabama was absent and his supporters on the convention floor appeared, to be the only ones not to join in the endless ovations for McGovern's acceptance speech, a reminder of their -unbending hostility to the McGovern -told the convention delegates that after he beats HOUSTON, Tex. (Reuter) Two gunmen who collected a $600,000 ransom when thqy hijacked a National Airlines jetliner over New York and forced it to fly to Texas were held in jail today, on $1 million bail each. The hijackers, Michael Stanley Green, 34, of Washington, and' Lulseyd Tesfa, a 22-year-old Ethiopian studying at Howard University in were awaiting extradition to Philadelphia where they had picked up the ransom and where the formal charges of air piracy were lodged against them.

They took over the plane Wednesday night as it was about to land at New York's Kennedy" airport from Philadelphia with 113 a en gers aboard, aiJ finally surrendered nearly 12 jurs liter at a small airport 50 miles south of Houston. During the operation the hi-jhekers ordered the plane back to Philadelphia, where they, took orr the $600,000 ransom and parachutes. They then released the p'assengcrs, while nilot Elliott Adams crashed through the Two Lee Trevino In Lead WEST VANCOUVER, B.C. (CP) The provincial government Thursday retained a firm of insurance adjusters to evaluate damage done in flooding that hit a residential section of this municipality during heavy rains earlier this week. Municipal officials have estimated property damage at about $500,000 as a result of the flooding, which washed out sections of the main highway link between Vancouver and the Howe Sound communities of Horseshoe Bay and Squamish and forced the evacuation of some homes.

Municipal officials and many residents who had their proper ties littered with mud, boulders and debris from flooding creeks blamed provincial highways de partment construction on the Upper Levels Highway for the damage. They said temporary culverts nut in during the course of the wsrk were inadequate in the face of the record rainfall which deluged the Lower Main land Tuesday and Wednesday. Mayor Art Langley said that persons whose nomesj were damaced should contact the I MUIRFIELD, Scotland (AP) i fivd holes for a 66 and a the British open golf championship lead in the third round of Friday, "while Jack Nick-. laud drifted back six strokes off the pace. French Display Missile PARIS (Reuter) Fiance showed off for the first time today an intermediate-range ballistic missile of its second generation nuclear strike force.

The missile rolled by slowly in (oday's Bastille Day parade, followed by a capsule designed to contain the missile's 150-kiloton nuclear warhead. Overloading Crash Cause? jBRIG, Switzerland (Reuter) A six-man court set up to investigate the Alpine cable car disaster which killed 12 persons is examining the possibility that the car was overleaded with a cargo of gravel in addition to 14 passengers, it was officially staled today, i i I MacDonald Elected President LONDON' (CP) Donald MacDonald, the Cape Breton coal miner who rose' to head the-Canadian Labor Confess, has he-come the first non-European president of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. Stampede 73 To Salute RCMP OTTAWA (CP) 4- Solicitor-General Jean-Pierre Goyer said today that the theme of ncxT year's Calgary Stampede 'will be a salute' to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. nearest office of the provincial highways department. He said he did not know what form compensation would take or whether it would cover the full extent of damage, but said he had been assured by senior provincial officials that aid would be forthcoming, Tony Ciccozzi, president of United Contractors the major contractor on the highway section affected, said he believed his contract absolves the government from any damage action and that claims might be handled by the contractor's own insurance adjusters.

Meantime, engineers said there had been no structural j..