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The Herald-Palladium du lieu suivant : Benton Harbor, Michigan • 1

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 1972 64 PAGES Iff ill iac -i i i is cLj -1 41 1 ji In hn rnCEl 1 in if fvA! Wi 1 7r 1 i i Msm --i ww if mm I si 10,000 Marines Move On 10 -Mile Front In Attempt To Retake Guang Tri U.S. B52 bombers dropped some 1,350 tons of explosives to open the way for the push. Tanks, artillery, U.S. gunfire from ships offshore and American fighter-bombers supported the advancing troops. There were no immediate reports on the extent of North Vietnamese resistance or of casualties.

Since the North Vietnamese completed their conquest of Quang Tri, South Vietnam's northernmost province, on May 1, the South Vietnamese have made a number of in-and-out sweeps into the Communist-held territory along the coast. But the drive today was the SAIGON (AP) The South Vietnamese government today launched its first attempt to recapture Quang Tri Province. More than 10,000 marines and paratroopers crossed the My Chanh river along a 10-mile front stretching from the South China Sea to the, jungled foothills west of Highway 1. .1 SIGN MUST GO: Workmen ready the podium and quote from Psalm 25:5 and is-a leftover from Church of camera stands Tuesday for the Democratic National the Nazarene convention which closed in the hall last Convention which opens July 10 at Miami Beach's week. The sign has since been removed.

(AP Convention Hall. "Lead Me in Thy Truth" sign is a Wirephoto) One Hurdle Remains McGoverai ath Ml 1' thorize a minority report by the Wallace forces on such issues as taxes, the economy, welfare, busing of school children, prayer in schools, and crime. McGovern continued his tour of the South where he found a friendly reception and indications of possible later ballot support from Arkansas delegates. In a significant gesture to party regulars, he indicated that, if he wins the nomination, he will keep Lawrence F. O'Brien as national party chairman.

first large-scale attempt to carry out President Nguyen Van Thieu's orders on June 19 to retake aU territory captured by Hanoi's forces in the offensive that began March 30. The Vietnamese have elements of four divisions in Quang Tri, supported by tanks and long-range 130mm guns that were a decisive factor in the capture of the province. They have repeatedly shelled the South Vietnamese defense line along the My Chanh river and have made a number of stabs at the line with tanks and infantrymen, but the South Vietnamese and their American air support have driven the Communists back and claimed to have inflicted heavy losses on them. The North Vietnamese forces kept up their attacks almost up to the hour of the Saigon offensive. North Vietnamese troops and tanks struck before dawn at a paratrooper position three miles southwest of My Chanh.

The Saigon command said four tanks were destroyed, and in' two skirmishes mat followed, 120 of the enemy and five South Vietnamese were killed and 29 government troops were wounded. On the battlefront north of Saigon, the South Vietnamese command said 265 enemy troops and 11 South Vietnamese were killed in three actions Tuesday south of An Loc. American pilots reported hitting an enemy ammunition storage area nearby and setting off more than 400 secondary explosions. In the air war1 against North Vietnam, U.S: jets hit Tuesday two miles from the center of Hanoi for the second successive day, striking at an airfield and a vehicle repair facility, the U.S. Command reported.

It said one Air Force plane was shot down and its two crewmen were missing. Hanoi Radio claimed five American planes were downed over Hanoi Tuesday and said among the pilots captured was Air Force Capt. Richard Logan Francais. It said he was injured. The U.S.

Command said clouds limited assessment of bomb damage, but at least one hangar was destroyed. The Command said U.S. planes flew 290 strikes against the North Tuesday and also destroyed or damaged three bridges, eight storage areas, three antiaircraft sites and a petroleum facility. Meanwhile, President Thieu fired a province chief American officials consider one of the best in the country. Vietnam Press, the government news agency, confirmed the ouster of Col.

Nguyen Van Chuc as the top official in Binh Dinh, the coastal province at the foot of the central highlands, and said he would be replaced by Col. Hoang Dinh Tho, who has been (See back page, sec. 1, col. 7) 't With the proposed platform ready to be mailed to delegates, attention in Washington turned to the Credentials Committee which, in its first decisions Tuesday, tossed out challenges to the Alabama, South Carolina and Florida delegations. A half-dozen key McGovern advisers met Tuesday night with the senator's supporters on the committee to map plans for the showdown Thursday on the California challenge led by (See back page, sec.

1, col. 6) McGovern forces succeeded on another front Tuesday when Democratic party platform-writers produced a document echoing the senator's key positions, but in terms that his two main rivals also could embrace. The platform draft will be offered for a vote at the Miami Beach convention where debate seems certain on a number of planks opposed by Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace and his supporters.

The Platform Committee voted overwhelmingly to au nil iifnw FLOOD VICTIMS: Three young girls, completely covered with mud, sit on their sofa-outside their flood-damaged home in Harrisburg, Tuesday, taking a rest while clearing their home. Flood waters receded in the city and home owners returned to clean up. Girls are, left to right, Cindy King, her sister Tracy and cousin Cindy Pen-stermacher who arrived to help in the cleanup. AP Wirephoto) si? important as they are in any big league Chess matches are not usually world happenings. But with the keen interest sparked by American Bobby Fischer chal- Moved Ghe Has WASHINGTON (AP) Sen.

George McGovern's supporters are mounting a massive effort to beat back a California credentials challenge which could be the last major threat to his nomination. Munn Back In Hospital LANSING, Mich. (AP) -Clarence "Biggie" Munn, former Michigan State University athletic director felled by a stroke last Oct. 7, was in satisfactory condition today after suffering a "convulsive seizure" Tuesday evening. Dr.

James Feurig, Munn's physician, said the seizure apparently was caused by "a significant and acute rise in blood pressure and not by the rupture of any blood vessel to the brain." He said Munn probably would be out of intensive care today, but would spend several more days in the hospital. Munn, 63, has been recuperating at home for the past several weeks. He spent two months in the hospital after being stricken last fall and was moved to a nursing home in January. Earlier this spring, he went home. Pi'', Into 6Big Leagues' By ANN HENCKEN Associated Press Writer NEW YORK AP) Promotional aspects of the Fischer-Spassky world championship chess match are becoming as lenging Russian Boris Spassky for the world title, it's a different situation.

The Icelandic Chess Federation has put up close to for the 24-game match, to LUCKY FIND: Tom Anderson, a 10-year-old Bay City, youth, has a nickel that could be worth a few dollars. Tom, in receiving change from an ice cream parlor, turned up what he believes to be a Jefferson nickel that was struck from a penny blank. The coin (at left with a penny) is copper in color and is smaller than a normal nickel. (AP Wirephoto) Farmer Who Found $500,000 Will Get A Cash Reward Grand Haven Man Wins $500,000 In Irish Lottery DUBLIN (APT Ronald Radikopf of Grand Haven, won the superprize of a half -million dollars today in the Irish Sweepstakes. The superprize has been drawn seven times already, three times by Americans.

Canadians have won four times." i The huge drum from which today's winning tickets were drawn contained 4,425,988 tickets sold all over the world for the benefit of Irish hospitals. The sweepstake is run Saturday at Curragh, 30 miles outside Dublin. All winning tickets except Radikopf drew horses running in the Derby. Holders of tickets on the winner of the Derby will each receive $130,000. Second prize winners win get $52,000.

The third-placed horse wfll bring ticket holders $26,000. Fifteen tickets are drawn on each of 51 horses originally entered for the Derby. But only 15 are scheduled as still running fat the race over die lft-tnQe course. Everyone, drawing tickets for one of the SI borses are be held for two months in Reykjavik, Iceland, starting July 2. The games will be played in the, Reykjavik Sportshall, which seats about 3,000 people.

The match will be open to the public, and tickets will cost $5 a game or $75 for the 24 scheduled games. Of the $200,000 put up, some $125,000 win be paid in prizes to the players, according to the federation. Fischer, 29, and Spassky, 35, wiU also divide 60 per cent of the income from films and television. The federation has signed a 99-year contract with Chester Fox and Inc. for exclusive worldwide visual rights, in eluding rights to film the match and still photos of the match (See back page, sec 1, col.

1) Lake Temperature The temperature of Lake Michigan at the shoreline today Rum'ge 1802 Sherwood Stevens. Adv. Day Cook WantedApply tn person. Red Rooster SJ. Adv.

Golf at PawPawLk. G.C. Adv. PERU, Ind, (AP) LoweU Elliott didnt want a trip and his wife said she wouldn't fly. so American Airlines of- fidals try to decide today how much money to give the 61- INDEX SECTION ONE Editorials Twin Cities News Page 2 Pages Pages 4 A 6.7 Page 6 Page 12 Women's Section Ami Landers Obituaries SECTIONTWO News Rwndup 12 Pages SECTION THREE Area Highlights Page 25 SECTION FOUR Sports ages Comics, TV.

Radio Page 42 Markets Page 43 Weather Forecast Page 43. Classified Ads Pages 44, 45,46,47 SECTION FIVE, SIX Bea Fraaklia, Sears SvpplemeaU if Paget community for four days. Agents said a submachine gun used by the skyjacker was found in a cornfield about 21 miles from the money, but there has been no trace of the parachute. Fay offered Elliott, his wife and three daughters an all-expenses trip "anywhere" for turning the money over to the FBI. "He plainly said he couldn't take a trip and Elliott's wife said she wouldn't fly," Fay explaining be had suggested a trip to Hawaii.

The airlines executive said Elliott would be given "a monetary gift, there's no question about that." The exact amount hinged on a meeting of airline officials in New York, he said. 'I'd like to get die cash if I'm going to get something," Elliott said. year-old farmer for finding $500,000 paid to a skyjacker as ransom. S. P.

Fay, American Airlines manager in visited the Elliott farm southeast of here Tuesday afternoon. Elliott, a good-natured man who is recuperating from a near-fatal heart attack last fan, found the ransom money In a soybean field Monday. The skyjacker who either jumped or fell from the airline he ordered to fly from St Louis to Toronto early Saturday has not been found, the FBI said. Agents and Indiana state police have searched near this north central Indiana tweepstate winners some catagory. There aye cash prizes not dependent upontht race,.

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