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to IMlsy Woman Brutally beaten by rapist in Hyde Park, 1-B. Dwindling Funds force WEDU-TV to cut back, 1-B. THE TAMPA TMBUN Warm Data on Page 2-A Final City 7 Days Home Delivery 85 Cents PRICE TEN CENTS 78th YEAR No. 162 FOUR SECTIONS 68 PAGES TAMPA, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1972 S. Viets Hold LoKer Coml Rulinss Stayed To 9 In 6Le Southern Tip ft- at MH1BO Of Quang 111.

VI JINI Li Chinese, Soviet intervention doubted, 10-A. SAIGON (UPD South Vietnamese paratroopers seized Quang Tri City's shell-battered airfield and main power station yesterday in the government drive to end the two-month Communist occupation of its northernmost province. -pHHB 1IWIIIMIH MMjj -5 f--X 1 7 4-1 ojlC ill it I J'? tff i 1 Ml 111 1 iiSw i High Court May Decide Case Today McGovern seen dropping welfare plan, 13-A. From Tribune Wires WASHINGTON With their national convention fast approaching, Democrats were left in a legal limbo yesterday as they waited for Supreme Court action on an issue that could win or lose a presidential nomination. Chief Justice Warren E.

Burger issued an order blocking a lower-court decision that returned to Sen. George McGovern 151 California delegates to the party convention. Burger ordered the delay as he attempted to contact the other eight vacationing justices. The question is whether the court will agree to a special term to consider two challenges to the lower court ruling. A decision on that was expected this morning.

ALSO SUSPENDED by the Chief Justice's action was the second portion the District of Columbia Appeals Court decision which upheld the Credentials Committee's 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 yesterday. Burger's one sentence order, issued shortly before that hour, extended the existing stay till further action by the high court.

THE APPEALS court on Wednesday overturned the vote of the Democratic Credentials Committee last week to take 153 California delegates from McGovern and displease See Page 15, Col. 5 Five miles east of the city, Communist troops used captured American-built tanks to slow down about 13,000 South Vietnamese reinforcements moving toward the provincial capital. The force in Quang Tri City encountered little opposition in its sweep through, southern areas of town, but South Vietnamese officers said they would not consider the city theirs until they took its 19th century citadel, a walled fortress near the center of the city believed occupied by Communist snipers. IN AN APPARENT attempt to slow down' the South Viet-namesedrive to retake Quang Tri Province, the Communist hit the old imperial capital of Hue, 32 miles to the south, with the heaviest shelling attack there since the 1968 Tet offensive. In the air war, the U.S.

Command said American fighter-bombers flew a record-tying 340 missions over North Vietnam, bombing a MIG airfield and knocking out a railroad bridge near the capital of Hanoi. Quang Tri City and its surrounding province were captured by about 48,000 Communist troops May 1. South Vietnamese commandos dropped into the city from helicopters Tuesday and were quickly followed by reinforcements who began a house-to-house search for North Vietnamese holdouts. SAIGON paratroopers occupied the power station, about 500 yards from the center of the city, and radioed back that it was badly damaged, but not destroyed by Communist and allied bombardment in the past three months. Troops who took the airfield, Vi miles to the northwest, reported its aluminum matted runways and steel helicopter pads were torn apart by shelling.

UPI reporter Chad Huntley said the paratroopers in Quang Tri City spotted two platoons of North Vietnamese Please See Page 10, CoL 4 axes Warren Burger in his lap Inside Return to strict Gaullisnt seen In France, 3-A. Castro apparently found Russians unhappy, 8-A. Cold weather still remains In Midwest, 2-A. Race for Democrats' No. 2 spot adds spice to Democratic convention, 12-A.

Nixon aide criticizes "cynical" Congress, 15-A. Belfast Protestants remain on alert, 7-A. Astrology 10-IV Erma Bombeck 4-IV Business 5-B Canada Newsletter 24-A Classified 8-23-C Comics 3, 4-B Crossword 2-IV Deaths 9-IV Editorials 20-A Financial 5-9-B Fishing 6-C, Goren on Bridge 2-IV Graham 6-IV Landers 3-IV Morning After 1-C Sylvia Porter 24-A Sports 1-7-C Theaters 6-7-IV Television 8-IV: Van Dellen 4-IV Wishing Well 2-IV: Women 3-IV, Diego after demanding the ransom, the airline said. PSA officials quoted the hijacker as saying by radio, "If I don't get the $450,000, my friends in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and San Francisco are going to do some drastic things." On board the PSA flight from Burbank to Oakland and Sacramento were 52 hostage passengers and six ere members three men and three women, the airline said. The airline had reported earlier that 99 persons were on board the plane.

It later corrected the figure to 58. It was the second hijacking of a Pacific Southwest jetliner in two days. Two armed hi- Please See Page 2, Col. 7 1 i Gen. Truong presses South attack About Face Seen In Word On Askew Pay TALLAHASSEE (UPI) -The state said yesterday it has been told by the federal Pay Board that approval of pay hikes for state employes did not include raises for Gov.

Reubin Askew and other public officials. State Administration Secretary Ken Ireland said the board last week "clearly" stated approval of all raises, including those of Askew and other elected and appointed officials. "Now we have received a telegram from the Pay Board staff which raises questions concerning the adjustments for elected and appointed officials and proposes that this group be considered under a Please See Page 10, Col. 8 sighs "I occupying is being we For But rhe 1968 rushing Out Of The Past, A Sad Face Dominates Miami Beach Convention Hall Where Democrats Will Convene Monday huge mural photo of the late Robert F. Kennedy framed by rows of chairs as final preparations for convention are made (AP) Cash-Paying Demos Get Kickbacks Strauss, a Dallas lawyer, inherited the debt 2V4 years ago when he became treasurer, and hasn't made a dent in trimming it.

But his money-raising wizardry has kept the party running at a cost of $200,000 a month and it has survived the interval. Now it is time for the convention in Miami Beach an American playground as expensive as it is hot. Please See Page 15, Col. 7 MIAMI BEACH (J) The impoverished Democratic Party is getting a dollar-a-day kickback from 10,000 hotel rooms rented for its convention just one of the deals arranged by Treasurer Robert Strauss who is forced to pay cash for the extravaganza. Another angle has some of the 80 staff members dutifully packing their bags every couple of days and moving into another hotel to take advantage of free rooms negotiated by Strauss.

"Everything we get here, I pay in advance," Strauss. PAID in advance for the hotel rooms we're here. I pay in advance for printing that done. I've paid cash in advance for everything do." the Republicans that would be no problem. Democrats still owe $9.3 million from the campaign and once-burned creditors aren't forward baring their cuffs.

Same Airline Hijacked Again Apology Aside, Fischer Ready Most Students Tagged Addicts Lud's Finding Of 'Funny Bug Saves Sisler MIAMI UP) A small boy's discovery of "a funny bug" on the family dog and a mother's memory of a nine-year-old newspaper story probably saved 9-year-old Cynthia Frame's life. The red-haired girl tottered into her parent's bedroom Monday and told Mrs. David Frame that she couldn't walk properly. MRS. FRAME told Cynthia, "Your legs are probably still asleep," and sent her back to bed.

Hours later, Cynthia still could not walk properly, so Mrs. Frame took the child to a pediatrician. Mrs. Frame said the pediatrician referred them to a neurologist, and he sent them Please See Page 22, Col. 1 From Tribune Wires OAKLAND, Calif.

A Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner with 58 persons aboard was hijacked last night by a gunman demanding a ransom of $450,000, the airline said. The Boeing 727 was taken over as it approached Oakland Airport. It was the second hijacking of a PSA aircraft in as many days. THE AIR PIRATE, de-scrabed as a white male, ordered the plane to fly to San Today's Chuckle Soon after purchasing a used car, a wan finds out how hard it is to drive a bargain. By FRANK EIDGE MIAMI (UPI) Sally Pace, blonde, pretty and 16, told a congressional committee yesterday that 80 per cent of the students in one of south Florida's largest high schools are on drugs and steal to support their habits.

"The toughest kids are those who do the most dope," Sally told the U.S. House Select Crime Committee investigating drug abuse in public schools, "and they are the most popular kids." SALLY, a former student at Fort Lauderdale's Plantation High, told the committee headed by Florida Congressman Claude Pepper that most of her teachers would just let her sleep when she came to school stoned on drugs. "If you wanted to get stoned at school," she said, "you went to the bathroom or to the parking lot." Sally and three other teenagers who are now participating in "The Seed," a Fort Lauderdale drug rehabilitation program for school-age children, were the leadoff witnesses in the second of three days of hearings about local high schools Please See Page 10, Col. 1 move with white and a slight advantage. The draw was done the Please See Page 10, Col.

2 Bobby Fischer "my petty dispute" Li yj.JA REYKJAVIK, Iceland -Repentant Bobby Fischer offered his "sincerest apology" in writing to Boris Spassky yesterday for "disrespectful behavior" that threatened to torpedo their $300,000 match for the world chess championship. The American challenger's apology was delivered to the Russian champion during the morning in an unblocking move that opened the way for the start Tuesday of the 24-game series, plagued by delay, confusion and bad feeling. Fischer, the American challenger, and Spassky, the Soviet world champion, met last night to draw for the first move. Fischer drew the black pawn, giving Spassky the first.

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