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FINAL Vol. 270 No. 74- BALTIMORE, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1972 34 Pages 10 Cents Railroad The "Weather Increasing cloudiness High 42 Cloudy, chance of rain or snow Low 32-35. Yesterday's high, 40; low, 26. (Details.

and Map Page B12) TI sir Saigon 1 backs quits outpost Allied planes keep hitting foe in South stadium hints it might share financing By FREDERIC B. HILL Annapolis Bureau of The Sun Annapolis The chief execu l'' 1 Vfei "4- I 44 'fmmAk A Sim 4m Mm wmmMMmB i fii mMMW WJZT0'M4 tive officer of the B. 0. Railroad said yesterday that he is "quite enthusiastic" about the prospects for construction of a sports-commercial complex on 25 acres of the railroad's land in downtown Baltimore. He suggested that the railroad By the Associated Press Communist forces pressed attacks across South Vietnam yesterday and forced the South Vietnamese to abandon an outpost on the central Trying to check the attacks, United States planes launched up to 400 strikes against suspected enemy positions, while South Vietnamese warplanes also were out in Survivors flown out South Vietnamese helicopters flew out casualties and survivors from the outpost in coastal Binh Dinh province and government infantrymen sought out the enemy force that had besieged the post for 24 hours.

Initial reports indicated the might join in financing it. After a meeting here with Mayor Schaefer and members of a special committee appoint ed to study the project, Hays watkins, the railroad's president, said his company "is will ing to work out whatever ar rangements are necessary. AP "We have indicated that we Troopers of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry division guide a helicopter as it lifts off from a field 30 miles northeast of Saigon. would entertain a possible fi 30-man regional forces platoon guarding the outpost near An nancial arrangement, including Bao hamlet had nearly 50 per a joint venture," Mr.

Watkins cent casualties. Informants said said. He added that he foresees the helicopters brought back 2 dead, 12 wounded and 16 men Sunpspers ohoto Joseph A. PIPaol Senator Hubert H. Humphrey speaks to the AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education at the Lord Baltimore Hotel.

no serious problems as far as the railroad is concerned in who were not hurt. realization of the project. Chilean Navy rescues passengers from grounded ship in Antarctic The outpost was surrounded Mayor Schaefer, members of the committee and spokesmen by an estimated 500 enemy troops Thursday morning. Most of the civilian residents of An Humphrey opens for Governor Mandel, who was unable to attend the meeting due his mother's death Thursday, shared Mr. Watkin's optimism, although all conceded that no specific details have campaign ATLANTIC OCEAN Bao fled when a 50-round mortar barrage pounded the' camp.

The hamlet was deserted by the time Communist infantrymen launched a ground attack against the outpost Thursday lliillf7 SOUTH AMERICA been worked out. By CHARLES WHITEFORD PACIFIC OCEAN "I was most encouraged by afternoon. the; railroad! president's atti tude toward the city, and we 1V.V are going to the next step of NJNTA ARENAS VUSHUAIA Santiago, Chile UP-The Norwegian cruise ship Lindblad Explorer, whipped by high, icy winds, ran aground in heaving Antarctic seas yesterday. All her passengers, mostly Americans, were rescued by the Chilean Navy, The New York travel agency handling the cruise said 92 passengers and 64 crewmen were aboard. The Chilean Navy reported a total of 163 persons aboard.

Most of the crew also were reported taken from the vessel. The, 2, 481-ton ship, chartered by Lindblad Travel, of New York, for an annual Antarctic tourist trip, began taking water before daybreak as 70- for "the presidency' four years ago entitles him to a rematch against Richard Nixon. Within the next several days, he said, a statewide Hum-phrey-for-President headquarters will be opened in Baltimore. At that time, he indicated," he will announce his selection of a Maryland campaign manager from amons "several KINOOIOWI I. finding if it is economically feasible to do what we want to do in the downtown area," the Mayor said.

State officials said they now feel they have "a green light" to go ahead with a consultant's study and other work on the project brought tup originally to keep the Colts football team Senator Hubert H. Humphrey opened his campaign for Maryland's 53 Democratic National Convention votes yesterday in meetings here with tried and true friends who helped him carry the state in 1968 friends from-the camps of organized laBorTand the political He was greeted like a long-lost cousin when he spoke at the Lord Baltimore Hotel to a meeting of the Maryland AFL-CIO's Committee on Political Education, labor's political arm, and later exchanged 1 1. -1 -1 I UNMIAD now under consideration.1', ANTARCTICA ft AP Promises state campaign LARS-ERIC LINDBLAD in Baltimore, nut tne project now appears, to be expanding And he promised a vigorous Some of the Communist-led forces tried to breach the base perimeter. Others prevented more than 200 South Vietnamese reinforcements from reaching the besieged camp by road, field reports said. 40 reported killed The government troops wer.

supported by jets and helicopter gunships. Saigon headquarters reported that 40 enemy soldiers were killed in the fighting, while 10 of the South Vietnamese were killed and 13 wounded. Informants reported the South Vietnamese reinforcements were still in the area around An Bao, but fighting tapered off and the enemy soldiers were believed to have withdrawn to a nearby sanctuary known as Base Area 226. Seven miles south of An Bao and only a mile from the district town of Phu My, enemy gunners fired 50 mortar shells and rockets into a regimental See STADIUM, AS, Col. 3 mile-an-hour-winds whipped DPI aboard grounded ship a transport, to Admiralty Bay to effect the rescue.

across Admirality Bay as it Stubborn Fischer vexes Russians personal effort in Maryland, despite the fact that this state's May 16 perference primary will be one of nine to be held in a two-week period. Asked how he can set himself apart from the dozen other The Navy said the passengers and most crewmen were transferred to the Piloto Pardo, which carries two light helicop cruised near tiny King George Island. 600 miles from Cape Horn The island, named after an English king, is about 600 miles south of Cape Horn at the tip of South America. Chile has sever Spassky of Russia. His choices were Reykjavik, Iceland Am town," the director of the Central Chess Club said, "can be explained, we assume, by climatic conditions.

July and Au ters on ner an deck and is Democrats who would like to sterdam; Paris, or Dortmund, West Germany. get the nomination, Mr. Humphrey, who takes pride in declaring that "I level with the gust are hot months there." al research stations near the uacK-siaps wan seieciea icaaeis during a close get-together. But it was too early for him to tell if his solid support in 1968 can stand up in 1972. "I hope you make it" There were similar reactions at his meeting with about 25 selected Democrats at a reception in the same hotel.

It was like old times. But again, it was too early for him to hear anything more than, "I hope you make it." 1 Ai a news conference preceding his six-hour round of discussions, the senator from Minne- people," said "I don't fuzz it They argued that the American challenger, Bobby Fischer, had lost his right to a say in the matter by failing to submit his list of choices until four specially equipped for Antarctic work. Boats were used to transfer the passengers in the rough seas. Anchors nearby The Piloto Pardo managed to anchor near the grounded vessel while the Yelcho tied lines By DEAN MILLS Moscow Bureau of The Sun Moscow The Soviet-American battle for the chess championship of the world is months away, but the Russians began fighting yesterday, charging both the Americans and the International Chess Federation with foul play in the selection of a site for the match. Soviet chess officials demanded that the international body choose the location from among the four choices submitted by the world champion, Boris area.

The engine room was reported flooded and the ship began wallowing helplessly in the rolling waters and the captain ra In diplomatic but unmistakable terms, the Russians also showed their impatience for the flamboyant Fischer style and his blunt statements that he will go to whichever city offers days after the January 27 deadline agreed upon by both sides. headquarters of the South Viet dioed for help. up, or fail to meet the issues squarely, as he intimated some of the opposition is doing, But he.defended Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, one of his opponents, and others who have come under the lash of President Nixon's aides for See HUMPHREY, A7, Col. 1 the most money.

Capt. Ladislao d'Hainud, to the Lindblad Explorer to pull But it apparently was another action by Mr. Fischer that particularly angered the Russians and prompted them to reveal commander of the Chilean Belgrade has proposed the largest purse, $152,000, com namese 22d Division. Field reports said one government soldier was wounded. The Saigon command listed 23 enemy attacks nationwide, See WAR, A2, Col.

8 her off. The Navy agreed to try and free the ship only after her See SHIP, A2, Col. 5 offered by pared to the $125,0 Navy's Antarctic flotilla, dispatched the Yelcho, an oceangoing tug, and the Piloto Pardo, sota 'argued that his near miss the details of the hitherto secret negotiations yesterday. Reykjavik. The Russians disclosed at a press conference that they had reached a "preliminary agree 'Life' brands Hughes book a 4hoaxV expert says signatures were forged ment" February 7 with Edmund B.

Edmondson, the head of the American Chess Federation, to hold the match In Reykjavik beginning June 25. But the announcement was to it clearly is not," said the Time statement. be held until both players ap The statement said Time magazine would publish in next week's issue "full details" of how "Irving put together the manuscript and carried out his By the AssociateA Preu Life magazine called Clifford Irving's purported autobiography of Howard Hughes a ''hoax" yesterday and said it was canceling its $250,000 agreement with McGraw-Hill, to publish excerpts from the book. The announcement by Time, publisher of Life, followed by hours the grand jury testi hoax." per i Jill? A' Jj tiff TV -wdffM '4 IlilfiS Life's contract with McGraw- Hill "provided that the maga zine would publish only if the manuscript was authenticated," proved the decision. Since Mr.

Edmondson had come to Moscow directly from Iceland, where Mr. Fischer was staying, the Russians indicated, they assumed this step would be only a formality. Then, Wednesday, they were informed by telephone that Mr. Fischer had rejected both the proposed time and place. In the statement released by the Soviet officials, they said they thought the time had come to make public the details of the negotiations "so the public could get a correct understanding of the situation which has HHRHHtt' in 1 i the statement said.

A spokesman for the maga mony of a handwriting expert zine said Life had already paid 5100,000 in the deal and expect ed a refund shortly. McGraw-Hill said it would be "reaching our own decision" for the New York police, wno said he believes signatures were forged in letters that Mr. Irving said Mr. Hughes had written. "We are not going to publish any of this as the autobiography of Howard Hughes which and added that a new handwrit UPI ing analysis from Osborne As been created." sociates, the firm that original CAPT.

JOSEPH McNALLY handwriting expert ly authenticated documents for the company "casts doubt on Declaring "an official protest against the breaking of regulations," the Russians demanded that the international federation "reject the attempts of the challenger to arrange condi the authenticity of these docu ments. Mills declares himself active presidential candidate The publishing company said tions pleasing only to him." Candles light up a London bakery during a blackout caused by Britain's 5-week-old coal miners strike. Britain orders drastic power cuts it had turned over to investigating authorities "additional information concerning a possible source of the material" used in The Russians revealea tnai Mr. Fischer named five cities on his list Belgrade and Sarajevo. Yugoslavia; Chicago; the book "I By joan graham dustry plunging into its biggest members accused ministers of i look, Mr.

Davies said, London Bureau of The sun CTlss 25 years, when a four- having deliberately forced an- not give an accurate Capt. Joseph McNally, the Buenos Aires, and Montreal. House. He has been the target of a draft movement by congressional colleagues, but until now he has insisted he is not a candidate and did not want to participate in primaries. However, he wrote to the London Britain yesterday or- dav electricity ban by most other disastrous battle with thejment, but it will be exceedingly handwriting expert, told reporters after his appearance before a New York grand jury that dered a three-day workweek muusinai piams goesinio: unions; ana me opposition ieaa- severe, many, many people effect crippling a huge propor er, Harold Wilson, accused the' perhaps millions, will be laid Cabinet of miscalculating the: off." tion of the nation's industry.

Only the Yugoslav locations satisfy the condition set by Mr. Spassky that the match be in a European country. And they do not meet the Russian's preference for a "moderate" climate. "The fact that the champion did not mention a Yugoslav Wisconsin and Nebraska secre there had been "a tremendous amount of effort on someone's part to perpetrate this fraud." At the same time the govern Washington Representative Wilbur D. Mills Ark.) said yesterday he intends to be an active candidate for the presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach in July.

Mr. Mills's statement, ending a long period in which he had said he was not a candidate but would not resist a convention draft, came after his name was entered in the Wrisconsin presidential primary set for April 4 and the Nebraska primary May Mills, the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, is one of the leaders in the ment is appealing to domestic Meanwhile, in Zurich, Swiss effects of the strike. Not affected by the four-day Mr. Davies told the Com-1 ban will be railways, water and mons: "Availability of electrici-J gas suppliers, docks, harbors, ty is deteriorating rapidly. It is airports, bakeries, flour mills.

users to heat one room only taries of state that he could not in good conscience sign the affidavits required by their laws to take names off the ballot because these would require him and use no more lights than and thousands of workers laid off in an effort to meet the acute national emergency caused by the current coal strike. Beginning today there is a ban on using electricity for heating offices, shops, public halls, restaurants, theaters and all places used for recreation and sport. Monday will see British in- authorities said it would not be possible to drop any proposed prosecution of Mr. Irving's German-born wife for bank fraud Index being nit not just by running fairies, siaugmernouses, coia into coal shortage but by denial storage plants and meat anc of supplies of coal and other specified food-processinj to say "he is not now and does not intend to be a candidate for absolutely necessary. John Davies, the secretary for trade and industry, announced the emergency measures, to a stunned House of and forgery.

Her husband re plants. essential products caused by Financial B9 Obituaries All Shipping Bll President." portedly said he would cooper A10 BIS BIS A12 Bridge Comics Crossword Editorials A third-person" statement ate in an investigation of the Meanwhile, hundreds of thou-See COAL, A2, Col. 3 picketing." About the unemployment out- TV-Radio B7 Commons yesterday. Labor See HUGHES, As, CoL 1 See MILLS, A7 Col. 1.