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42 BALTIMORE, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1972 40 Pases 10 Cents SUN $3,413 stolen here on hijacked bus a 5 McGovern barely holds R.L votes Compromise keeps pledge of 22 on first call By JOHN S. CARROLL Washington Bureau of The Sun Washington Senator George S. McGovern barely held on to Rhode Island's 22 first-ballot convention votes yesterday in a challenge almost identical to the controversial one that cost 711 1 it mm'- AP Welcome to An Loc i Sunpapers pbcto Carl D. Harris The bus that was hijacked is parked safely on the Baltimore Motor Coach Company lot. South Vietnamese Army defenders at An Loc stand on a North Vietnamese tank and cheer as airlifted reinforcements arrive.

The troops ignited a flare on the battered tank to celebrate. (See dispatch, page A2). $130,000 entices Fischer to play Sunpapers photo Carl D. Harri Korean foes talk on reunification Two hijackers, one with a sawed-off shotgun and the other with a chrome-plated derringer, waylaid a chartered bus bound for Delaware Park Race Track yesterday, grabbing $3,413 from the driver and 43 of the 46 passengers. After a 30-mile drive around Baltimore, the robbers finally left the bus and climbed an embankment below Interstate 95 in Lansdowne.

The spot is about 10 miles south of the Civic Center, where the harrowing ride started for the racing fans. No one hurt No one was hurt in the daring robbery, which may be the first bus hijacking in the United States, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The robbery itself began at 11.40 A.M., when a passenger walked to the front of the bus and asked the driver, George M. Dotson, "Is this the best you can do with the air conditioning?" As Mr. Dotson said, "Yeah, pal, that's the best I can do," the man unwrapped the newspaper from a package he held and pulled out a sawed-off shot gun, according to the driver.

Announced intentions The robber told the driver, "This is a holdup" and then made the same announcement to passengers, adding, "If you do as you're, told, nobody'll get hurt," police said. His accomplice, seated behind the driver, pulled out the derringer and held it to Mr. Dotson's head. "Any monkey business and you're the first to get it," he told the bus driver. Mr.

Dotson was ordered to drive south. Then heading north on 1-95 near Moravia road in the Rosedale section of the county, the driver told the men he could not turn around imme diately. North on the Beltway He drove 10 more miles north before he arrived at the Beltway, which he took north to Towson and around the city to Lansdowne, where the men or dered him to stop below the 1-95 overpass. During the ride, the man with the shotgun enlisted the help of an older passenger who was given what looked to many like a pillowcase. The two men stopped at each seat, taking money from all except three passengers, two of whom hesitated and were hur riedly passed by.

The third man pleaded with the robber. "I've only got $18," he said, and the hijacker let him keep it. Another man, Benjamin Titel-man, 76, of Philadelphia, tried to hide $219 in his trousers under his belt. But the gunman slapped him, and the money fell to the floor. Meanwhile, the man sitting in the front seat took the driver's See HIJACK, A7, Col.

1 Osto Valdivia tells how he fooled the bus hijackers and lost only $4 of his $74 bankroll to them. Fearing only for his cash, bus rider dupes hijackers 'Seoul Ufr-North and South Ko rea have held top-level meetings to discuss improved relations and reunification of the peninsula split by World War II and ravaged by the Korean conflict five years' lately both Koreans announced today. 1 Among agreements reached at, operate a South-North coordinating committee" to be co-chaired by Mr. Lee and North Korea's Kim Young-joo, younger brother of Premier Kim Il-sung. The joint statement stressed the homogeneity of the Korean whose recorded history goes back to the Twelfth Century B.C.

Through a checkered political history, Korea was occupied by Japan, a vassal state of China and in 1910, as a result of the Russo-Japanese War annexed by Japan. The Allies promised Korea in-See KOREA, A4, Col. 1 I in Seoul and Pyong yang were those to mutually re frain from undertaking armed jjiuvuuauuns aim iu liisvciu a inn. tion to the prize money previously agreed on. Mr.

Marshall quoted Mr. Fischer as saying of Mr. Slater's proposal: "I gotta accept it. It's a stupendous offer." He said Mr. Fischer considered the gesture "incredible and generous and brave." Slater said in London he received confirmation of Mr.

Fischer's acceptance by tele phone and had been told the challenger planned to fly to Reykjavik. Mr. Fischer only had 10 hours to go for the noon deadline (8 A.M., EDT) for the postponed start of the match in Reykjavik, The 29-year-old Mr. Fischer. whose dislike of press coverage and photographs in particular is well known, was sneaked aboard a 9.30 P.M., EDT Icelandic Air lines plane a half-hour before flight time.

Eludes newsmen While about 50 newspaper, ra dio and television newsmen waited for him at the airport, airline personnel drove Mr. Fischer and a party of four oth ers to the plane in a station wagon. He was unsmiling. Among those in the party was Freystrinn Thorbergsson, Icelandic chess player and old friend of Mr. Fischer who flew here Sunday night to persuade Mr.

Fischer to meet the deadline See CHESS, A2, Col. 3 Laos military position believed ebbing toward critical situation by November him 153 California delegates. Supporters of Senator Hubert H. Humphery (Minn.) and oth er anti-Mcuovern members ot the Democratic party's Credentials Committee were defeated in an attempt to divide the 22 seats the South Dakotan had won on a winner-take-all basis in the Rhode Island primary May 23. If successful, the challengers would have parceled out the votes to candidates in proportion to their showings in the primary.

This would have given 5 votes to Senator Humphrey, 5 to Senator Edmund S. Muskie (Maine), and 3 to Gov. George C. Wallace, with the remaining 9 going to Senator McGovern. The decision was significant for at least two reasons: First, it conserved Mr.

McGovern's first-ballot strength in a contest for the presidential nomination that may be decided by a handful of votes, and, second, the committee's inconsistency with its own earlier ruling may be useful to the McGovernites in urging the convention to re verse the California decision. "Crazies at work" The Rhode Island debate showed that the committee remains bitterly and closely divided in the wake of the Cali fornia ruling. Some delegates pleaded for civility in the committee, but others responded with expressions of outrage at the efforts of. the stop-Mc-Govern forces. Hodding Carter 3d, a Mississippi delegate who supports former Gov.

Terry Sanford of North Carolina, said he was shocked at the bitterness in the See VOTES, A4, Col. 1 BURMA CAttBOPtA the government's eroding military position. The deterioration in the government's military position, particularly in the south, has undermined Prince Souvanna's political position, which has been challenged by southern rightists. More power to rightists The prime minister is expected to reshuffle his Cabinet shortly to give more power to the rightists a move that will in turn make his government less neutralist and less acceptable to the Communists as even a framework for a peace settlement. Military expenditures have skyrocketed, seriously upsetting V1 Prabang i) IS THAILAND .1 Revolution in your living; room II Reykjavik, Iceland IB Bobby Fischer was reported ready last night to meet the Soviet title-holder, Boris Spassky, for the world chess championship and a prize pot sweetened by from a London banker.

Paul Marshall, a lawyer in New York for Mr'. Fischer, said the 29-year-old American challenger had accepted the offer of the banker, James D. Slater, of the extra prize money and would be in Reykjavik by the noon deadline today. Earlier yesterday, the sponsors of the championship match turned down Mr. Fischer bid for a cut of the gate receipts in addi- CHINA utiles the Laotian economy.

The resulting inflation is beginning to produce some popular rumblings of discontent. Although the figures vary, most-observers here say the Vientiane government now con trols less than 20 per cent of the country, down from an esti mated 35 per cent two years ago, and perhaps 50 to 55 per cent of its 3 million people, down from an estimated 65 per cent two years ago. Two important provinces, Sayaboury and Champasak, have slipped from government control into regions where Communist forces now move at will and gov-See LAOS, A2, Col. 4 To A HOCHt MINH I -r ilTwv I ((( TV zeroes in on the cities "I wasn't afraid I was just afraid of losing my money, said Osto S. Valdivia, 75, one of the passengers aboard the racetrack bus hijacked and robbed yesterday.

"But," the retired machinist added with a smile, "you lose that at the racetrack anyway, don't you?" A wily passenger Mr. Valdivia, who lives with his wife and 51-year-old only son in the 1800 block North Freedomway, was one of 43 passengers along with the driver, were robbed aboard the Baltimore Motor Coach Company Bus on its way to Delaware Park Race Track in Stanton, Del. Mr. Valdivia was one of the more wily passengers. After the robbery, he related how he had outwitted the two armed bandits: "My left pocket was closest to the aisle, and I put $4 in that one.

I kept my wallet with $70 in it in my right pocket and laid a newspaper on my right leg, covering the pocket. "The man with the sawed-off shotgun didn't order everybody to empty his pock service that the FCC and other governmental agencies obviously consider to be its most important function. But the FCC rules, fashioned under heavy pressure from the broadcast industry, still concede the bare minimum to cable entrepreneurs. "Minimum amount" The rules say a cable compa ny use of out-of-town broadcasts should be minumum amount of new service needed to attract large amounts of investment capital for the construction of new systems and to open the way for the full development of cable's potential." In addition, the established broadcasters are protected by strict provisions that bar cable companies in the top 50 markets from using any first-run programs for a year. Cable companies also are prevented from using any other programs under exclusive contract to a local broadcaster.

As one FCC commissioner, Nicholas Johnson, says, these provisions would prohibit the cable system in Charlotte, N.C. (the 42d biggest market), from using over 16 hours of program ming each day from WTCG-TV in Atlanta. Further, a television broadcast station can apply for "special relief" from the FCC if it can show that severe economic strain is resulting from compe ets they were too busy for that," said Mr. Valdivia, a thin man with a full head of gray hair and steel-rimmed glasses. Mr.

Valdivia said he happened to be behind the two hijackers in the ticket line at the Civic Center. 'They each bought a one-way ticket for $4.54, including admission to the he said The retired machinist added he thought it strange the men bought one-way tickets. Most were retired "It's 1 hour and 20 minutes to the track," he said, "and most people buy the round trip for $6, including admission." Most of the men and women on the chartered bus were retired, Mr. Valdivia explained, and most went to the track often. Mr.

Valdivia goes about three times a week to different tracks, he said. Throughout the trip around the city, Mr. Valdivia sat in the fourth seat from the front on the side opposite the driver. The first time he knew See PASSENGER, A7, Col. 1 tition with a cable system.

And cable systems must, if requested, put most local broadcasts on some of their channels, according to a quota based on the size of the city. The FCC's original set of new rules, placed no such restrictions on cable TV. And the broadcast industry reacted strongly by threatening to lobby against them in Congress. It was into this situation that the White House, through its See CABLE, A6, Col. 1 Orioles blast Ticers, 15-3 4.

Everything worked for the Orioles last night in Detroit as they humbled the Tigers, 15-to-3, to tie for first in the American League East. Powell, Grich and Oates homered and Palmer went the distance for his 11th victory before 50,835 spectators. Details on Page CI i. jHi.nli Ut- line between the two capitals "in order to prevent the outbreak of an announcement said. Each side has accused the other recently of preparations for war, raising the specter of renewed hostilities.

The three-year conflict that began in 1950 cost two million lives. Of the dead, 54,246 were Americans. Announcement of the meetings was issued simultaneously in Seoul and Pyongyang, the Communist capital. Lee Hu-rak, director of the South Korean central intelligence agency, represented South Korea at the talks. He made tne announcement for the Seoul gov ernment at a news conference.

The announcement said both parties agreed "to establish and British avert Cliisii Him Ulstermen By DANIEL BERGER London Bureau of The Sun Belfast. Northern Ireland W) Thousands of club-wielding Uls ter Defense Association men faced down hundreds of heavily armed and armored British soldiers in a tense showdown last night over extending the Wood- vale no-go area. It was resolved by a complicated join-patrolling arrange ment reached in three hours of tortuous talks while the two forces stood within a few feet of each other, and intermingled. 'Very near the precipice' Mai. Gen.

Robert Ford, Brit ain's second-ranking general here, said when he left the negotiating house on Ainsworth avenue for the last time, ''We have pulled back from very near the precipice." The masked "vice Chairman" of the Ulster Defense Assoqia-. See ULSTER, A4, Col. 4' Index Bridge Comics Crossword Editorials Financial B2 B7 B7 A10 i C9 Movies Obituaries Rehert B6 A9 Bl Cll Shipping B4 Notice The Evening Sun will not be published today. The Business Office will remain open as usual from A.M. to 7 P.M.1 By MICHAEL PARKS Sun Staff Correspondent Vientiane, Laos Erosion of the Laos government's military position, never strong, is accelerating, according to military sources here, and less than a fifth of the country is now under Vientiane's control.

The government's seasonal effort to reverse the deterioration is failing as Communist forces thwart Vientiane's efforts to retake key areas. Critical by November "Unless the government makes some dramatic battlefield advances in the next month to six weeks, it is going to find itself in a critical military situation by November," one experienced diplomat predicted. "It is likely to find it only controls the Vientiane region and the royal capital up at Luang Prabang period. And that is. when the.

Communists will propose a cease-fire and take control of the government." Laos has lived on the brink of collapse for more than five years, but somehow survived. The pessimism here now, however, is unusual for the rainy season when the government's prospects generally are improving. The current dark assessments reflect the present military situation, the lack of significant peace talks and rising political and economic problems for Prince Souvanna Phouma, the prime minister. Lost 2 years ago They also stem from a growing consensus among diplomats, military observers and govern ment omciais mat, militarily, the Vientiane government lost the war to the Communist Pa-thet Lao not to the Vietnamese about two years ago, although few noticed at the time. It survives now only because of U.S.

bombing, American-re-cruited-and-paid Thai troops and international diplomatic considerations, but' analysts here feel that the continued effectiveness of this combination of factors is jeopardized by Cable By GORDON W. CHAPLIN Sun Staff Correspondent Washington Cable television for years banished to places like Grundy, Va. and Moscow, Idaho is now about to enter the big cities thanks to the White House. Until recently, active lobby ing by the powerful networks and smaller broadcasters Kept cable television from the nation's 100 largest market areas and from cutting into their $3.5 billion annual adver tising revenues. White House compromise But this spring, the Federal Communications Commission adopted a White House-engineered compromise that opens large urban areas to cable tele vision.

Many called the new. FCC rules the most important regulatory steps in cable television's history. They not only have opened the cities to caoie iv but also have made possible a new and radically different role for the cable industry. Cable television traditionally has served as a super aerial in rural sections where small home television antennas were unable to pick up distant broadcasts. A cable company's much larger aerial picked up distant stations and sent them through cables to the homes of rural subscribers.

Not only will cable TV perform this traditional role under the new FCC rules, but it also will provide channels that can be used by the public, local governments and educators. Cable TV could also provide two-way service, allowing city wiewer to communicate with the studio, or even to shop or bank from the comfort of his home. Since 1966 cable TV had been effectively barred from the 100 largest market areas because the established broadcasters obtained FCC rulings that prohibited a cable television company in an urban area to use broadcasts from out-of-town stations. Since, rightly or wrongly, these broadcasts have been con sidered the bread and butter of the cable TV industry, few sta tions have dared to enter the cities. The new FCC rules allow cable TV companies to use some programs broadcast from dis tant cities, particularly in a good many of, the smaller top markets.

Many believe the importance of the new rules lies in what they indicate for the future, rather than what they presently allow. "They are a break in the dike," said a Washington consultant. "And it can only get wider." According to the FCC's chairman, Dean Burch, the rules may easily be "superseded" to allow cable to develop more freely the capacity for public .1.