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SUNRISE TT viay jtiimge mwm. i On High Court Rmlin 0 IWM 111 Burger Special Mulls, Term S. Viets Hold Southern Tip Of Quang Tri TAMPA, FLORIDA, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1972 FOUR SECTIONS 63 PAGES 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. PRICE TEN CENTS 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 i wnnwrriirntirwi'rir-irniwi nn'i fi iiiiiiiirtf.iiiiYi.,iii"tir.iiriMiitf winii 1 i i I i i 4 If 4 TSxj- ft MVCP" 5 if rf Xvj HXl I i 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 Vietnamese drive 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, Vh 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 Crash Injuries Kill Actor LAKEWOOD, Colo. Actor Brandon De-Wilde, 30, died last night as a result of injuries suffered several hours earlier in a traffic accident in this Denver suburb, police said. DeWilde was in the Denver area for performances of "Butterflies Are Free" at an amusement park theatre. He was reportedly driving alone in a rainstorm when his van truck struck a guard rail along a freeway and slammed into a flatbed truck parked along the side of the road, according to Agent Robert E. Moore III of the Lakewood Depart-ment of Public Safety.

Hughes Sued For $51 Million LOS ANGELES (UPI) Howard Hughes was sued for $51 million yesterday by his former chief lieutenant, Noah Dietrich, who charged that he was slandered by Hughes during the recluse's telephone news conference last January. The suit said that Hughes called another former associate a "no good S.O.B." and then likened Dietrich to that individual. Dietrich, 83, who headed Hughes' business interests from the 1920s until the two had a falling out in 1957, sought at least $51 million damages or "in a greater amount according to proof of his wealth." A decision on that was expected this morning. ALSO SUSPENDED by the Chief, Justice's action was the second portion of the District of Columbia Appeals Court decision which upheld, hi Credentials Committee's ex-1 pulsion 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 issued shortly before tha hour, extended the existing stay till further actiop 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 dis-, Please See Page 15, Col. 5 Features Goren on Bridge 2-IV; Graham 6-IV Landers 3-IV Morning After 1-C Sylvia Porter 24-A Sports 1-7-Ci Theaters 6-7-IV; Television 8-IV Van Dellen 4-IV Wishing Well 2-IV; Women 3-IV v.

the air pirate did not know Turner was a law enforcement oficer. The air pirate, described as a white male," took over the plane as it approached Sacramento on "a short flight from Oakland, He ordered it to fly to San Diego, 500 miles across the heart of Balifornia. AN AIRLINE spokesman said the money and parachute were ready when the plane, landed here at 8:20 p.m.... The plane, was parked' about 500 yards from the Lindbergh Field terminal and three FBI agents armed with rifles with tlescopic sights waited nearby. A SPSA spokesman said the man had Please See Page 2, Col.

7 78th YEAR No. 162 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 Eut 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 Tribune 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 Strauss, a Dallas lawyer, inherited the debt 2Vz 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 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 million from the campaign and once-burned creditors aren't forward baring their cuffs. Pacific Airline Hijacked Again Apology Aside, Fischer Ready Most Students Tagged Addicts Lad's Finding Of 'Funny Bug Saves Sister MIAMI wi 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 SAN DIEGO, Calif. A young gunman hijacked a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner to San Diego last night and ordered it back into the air after being paid $455,000 in ransom and releasing all but two passengers, the airline said. The hostages were identified by the Federal Aviation Administration as Jim Williams and Lloyd G. Turner, a California Highway Patrol officer in plainclothes and armed with a revolver.

The FAA said both men were volunteers and Today's Chuckle Soon after purchasing a used car, a man finds out how hard it is to drive a bargain. REYKJAVIK, Iceland W) -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 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 Uohby Fischer "my petty dispute".