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u- LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE WEST, 1,024,4 DAILY, 1,210,556 SUNDAY, VOL XCI 2f SEVEN PARTS PART ONE CC TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 4, 1972 88 PAGES Copyright 172 lot AngelM ImM DAILY 10c EPIC ERA ENDS Another Viet Pullout Now, the Hard Hats by M'6overn Slate mi Refuses to Block Party Action on California, Daley Delegates BY DON IRWIN Timet Staff Writer READY FOR THE CHALLENGER Boris Spassky, world's chess champion, has a gesture of confi dence outside his hotel room in Reykjavik, Iceland, while awaiting arrival of Bobby Fischer. Wl Wirephoto to South and North Korea Reach Accord as Step to Reunification Agree to Refrain From Undertaking Armed Provocations and to Install Direct Hot Line Between Both Capitals WASHINGTON A federal judge Monday refused to block the Democratic credentials committee's action stripping Sen. George Sf McGovern of 153 of his 271 California delegates to the party's national convention. U.S. Dist.

Judge George L. Hart Jr. also refused to upset the committee's decision unseating Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and 58 other Illinois delegates to the convention. Hart's dual ruling comes up for immediate review today by the U.S.

Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Efforts will be made to press the cases all the way to the Supreme Court before the Democratic ronvention opens Monday in Miami Beach. The Supreme Court is in summer recess, so if a Circuit Court of Appeals decision is appealed, it would be heard by a single justice of the high court. Cases' Indirect Link Although the two cases are separate and have opposing impacts on McGovern's first-ballot strength at the convention, they are indirectly linked by arguments that the challenged delegates were not chosen in ronformity with the Democratic Party's new reform guidelines. In the California case, the committee last Thursday accepted arguments that the winner-take-all state law, under which the June 6 primary was held, violated "the spirit of reform" implicit in the guidelines.

Deciding ta allot the 271 delegate votes in proportion to the primary results, the committee reassigned 153 to Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minn.) and eight other challengers. Hart ruled on a motion by McGovern supporters to bar the seating of delegates not elected in the primary. He held that the question of whether the credentials committee's action was "fair and equitable" was a matter to be decided by the convention, not the courts.

Describing the Democratic National Committee as a self-governing organization, Hart said that the courts should step into a party dispute "only when it rises to the dignity of a clear constitutional issue." He rejected arguments by the plaintiffs that the case had raised such a constitutional question. Hart found there was such an issue in the Chicago case but that it was on the side of the credential committee. Picked in Closed Caucuses The challenged Illinois delegates were picked in closed district caucuses dominated by the organization headed by Mayor Daley. The procedure gave little chance for persons outside the organization to participate. A report to the credentials committee by Cecil F.

Poole, former U.S. attorney in San Francisco, who acted as a party hearing examiner, said the result was gross under-rep-resentation of youths, women and blacks. Hart rejected the argument of Jerome Torschen, counsel for the Chicago organization, that application of the revised delegate-selection process was unconstitutional in the Chicago case. Instead, Hart upheld the constitutionality of the partv guideline forbidding secret slate-making. Hart made it clear that he had no intention of entering the thicket of partisan politics without a firm constitutional mandate.

He took his stand early when counsel for a group of McGovern's California supporters urged him to grant an injunction against the committee's action. "It might not be cricket, it might, even be dirty pool but it is uncon-stitional?" Hart said as he indicated Please Turn to Pag 12, Col. 1 BY GEORGE McARTHUR Tlmtt Staff writer SAIGON In the beginning the Pentagon figured $15 million would handle the job and the auditors were so tightfisted they questioned the import of saltshakers for the work camps. That was 10 years, $2 billion and no one knows how many saltshakers ago. You can ask where the $2 billion went and you will get an official answer but nobody really knows.

The construction workers who were here will tell you one thing for sure: If you needed something built in a hurry there was never another outfit like RMK-BRJ. Monday, at the $50 million port facility built by the company, the dignitaries of Saigon gathered to mark the official end of construction in Vietnam by RMK-BRJ. The hard hat executives squeezed into uncomfortable ties and baked in the monsoon heat while U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker (whose new embassy was built by the company) noted the roads, bridges, airfields, schools, hospitals, and what-not that will be left behind. It Was a Gigantic Task "It has been a gigantic task," Bunker said.

"One that, is worthy of taking its place with the great epics of American engineering, logistics and consti action genius." They called the gathering a ceremony "in recognition of the completion of the RMK-BRJ construction program." No matter what they call-fid it, it was a wake and even among the hard hats there must have been a few moist eyes. It commemorated the passing of a unique document bureaucratically known as NBY-44105. That document, negotiated in 1062, was intended to cover some airfield work at Saigon, Pleiku, Da Nang and Bien Hoa. The contract was given to a combination of Raymond International Inc. of New York and Morrison-Knudsen International Co.

of Boise, Ida. The Saigon government agreed to cooperate to the extent of installing two telephone lines in the company's Saigon office. The company had trouble convincing the U.S. Navy auditors who supervised the contract that $100 was needed for a petty cash fund. Complicated Contract It was a cost-plus contract, with a complicated formula giving the company between a 1 and 2 profit, with occasional sweeteners thrown in if a good "report card" was received for priority projects brought in under deadline.

Eventually this would bring the "joint-venture," as the contract was worded, between $40 and $50 million profit on more than $1.9 billion of construction worki In later years, when the company had hundreds of jobs going at one time, it was hard to sort all this out. But in the unhurried beginning the government watchdogs were dutiful about everything, even requiring a full report on why the main office bathroom had to be enlarged. Those unhurried days disappeared In 1965 when the big U.S. buildup began. The logistical plans outlined Pleas Turn to Page 10, Col.

3, The joint statement stressed the homogeneity of the Korean people, whose recorded history goes back to the 12 century BC. 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 independence in World War II, and, at war's end, it was divided into two occupation zones Russian in the north and American in the south. The two republics were formed in 1948 when cooperation proved impossible. North Korea invaded the south in 1950 and was opposed by United Na-Please Turn to Page 6, Col.

3 Nixon Wants Another Increase in Social Security Benefits in 72 FLYING TO ICELAND Fischer Ends His Boycott as Prize Money Is Doubled BY JOE ALEX MORRIS JR. Time SUM Writer REYKJAVIK, Iceland American challenger Bobby Fischer decided Monday night to end his boycott of the world chess championship and fly here for the first match today against Russia's Boris Spassky, the Icelandic Chess Federation president said. Fischer boarded Icelandic Airways Flight 202A bound for Reykjavik Monday evening at New York's Kennedy International Airport. "It's the Englishman who did it," said Gudmundur Thorarinsson, the Icelandic chess official. By this he meant the dramatic offer by British banker Jim Slater to dduble the prize money if Fischer would end his holdout.

Thorarinsson was somewhat less than jubilant, however. "Fischer made it to the airport before," he pointed out. The 29-year-old American fled from hordes of waiting photographers at the airport when he originally was scheduled to fly to Iceland last week. Comments Confirm Reports Thorarinsson didn't name- the source of his information but he appeared to be confirming reports that Fischer's lawyer had said he would play. On the other hand, neither International Chess Federation President Dr.

Max Euwe nor Fred Cra-jner, one of Fischer's unofficial representatives here, could confirm the story. (Slater, the British chess buff-millionaire, said in London he had received confirmation of Fischer's acceptance, Associated Press reported. He had described his offer of of his own money as, in effect, "saying to Fischer 'Come out and (In New York, Fischer's lawyer, Paul Marshall, quoted the American challenger as saying: "I gotta accept it. It's a stupendous offer incredible and generous and Dr. Euwe expressed concern that all the troubles may not be over even if Fischer does arrive.

He said Please Tarn to Page 7, CoL 1 HIGHWAY HIJACKERS Fans Robbed BALTIMORE W) Two armed men commandeered a busload of racetrack fans Monday and forced the driver to circle the city while they robbed the passengers. The two men, armed with a shotgun, fled the bus with $3,413 an hour later at the Baltimore Beltway interchange with Route 95 In Hale-thorpe, a small suburban community 10 miles south of here, police said. No one was hurt. Thomas M. Manning, manager of the Baltimore Motor Coach said the bus carried 46 passengers and was en route to Delaware Park Race Course at Stanton, DeL Manning said the gunmen, who had boarded the bus in downtown Baltimore about 11 a.m., pulled guns on the driver as the bus neared the SEOUL Wl North and South Korea have held top-level meetings to discuss improved relations and reunification of the peninsula split by World War II and ravaged by the Korean war five years later, South Korea announced today.

Among agreements reached at meetings in Seoul and Pyongyang were those to refrain mutually from undertaking armed provocations and to install a hot line between the two capitals "in order to prevent the Text of North and South Korean joint communique. Part 1, Page 6. of unexpected military incidents," 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 2 million lives.

Of the dead, 54,246 were Americans. (In San Clemente the Western White House viewed the agreement as "an encouraging indication of lessening of tensions in the area." (In Washington, the State Department welcomed the accord and indicated that the United States played no role in the negotiations although the Nixon Administration was kept informed.) 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 the announcement for the Seoul government at a news conference. The announcement said both parties agreed "to establish and operate a South-North coordinating committee" to be cochaired by Lee and North Korea's Kim Young Joo, younger brother of Premier Kim II Sung. A.

JONES Writer price fixing and at one point asked one representative, "just how much does the county contract mean to you?" Affidavits from that meeting and evidence of "a number of irregularities in price changes and the calculation of discounts" for Eola Book Service have been forwarded to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office for possible criminal prosecution, according to county officials. The disputed contracts were awarded to Eola Book Service between May and June, 1971, as a result of that firm's low bid on a series of book supply contracts. The awards, all made through Sobel's desk, totaled of which S545.3S3 went for new books for the library system. Last April, nearly a year after the contract awards, Sobel reportedly Pieait Turn fa Para 15, CoL 1 BY VINCENT Timet Staff WASHINGTON-President Nixon wants Congress to approve this year a second increase in Social Security benefits for most persons on the rolls and to finance it with a $3.8 billion a year increase in payroll taxes, it was announced Monday. The announcement, made at the White House by Dr.

Arthur S. Flem-ming, the President's chief adviser on the aging, underscored the political benefits both Republicans and Democrats hope to gain from increasing Social Security benefits this election year. Democrats pushed through Congress last Friday legislation granting a general benefit increase of 20 ft to all the 27 million persons on the rolls. The bill also raised payroll taxes sharply for high-paid workers. In signing the bill Saturday, Mr.

Nixon accused the Democratic Congress of fiscal irresponsibility. Specifically, he complained that the $8.5 billion a year benefit increase would boost the current fiscal year's feder GET $3,413 Saigon Troops Seize Quang Tri Suburb Force Advances in Drive to Retake Capital SAIGON (UPI) South Vietnamese paratroopers drove into suburban Quang Tri city late Monday, the first government soldiers to stand in the northernmost province capital of South Vietnam in 64 days, military spokesmen said. The spokesmen said a special task force of about 1,000 elite troops recaptured. Mai Linh, a southern suburb half a mile from the city's residential center. It reported encountering no organized North Vietnamese resistance.

To the south, North Vietnamese gunners, in an apparent attempt to divert 20,000 government troops from their drive to recapture Quang Tri, continued their artillery, barrage against Hue, the ancient imperial capital. One person was wounded when four 122-mm rockets slammed into a civilian area of the city in an attack at dusk. Earlier in the day, 679 rounds of artillery fire hit the city and six military outposts guarding its approaches in an arc from five to 18 miles from Hue. Field reports said, however, that the jolting two-day bombardment of Hue did little to slow the Quang Tri drive." Please Turn to Page 10, Col. 7 FEATURE INDEX ART.

View, Page 3. BOOK REVIEW. View, Page 9. BRIDGE. View, Page 6.

CLASSIFIED, part 5, Pages MS. COMICS View, Page 17. CROSSWORD. Part 5, Page 13. DAY IX SACRAMENTO.

Part 2, Page 4. EDITORIALS, COLUMNS. Part 2, Pages 6, 7. FILMS. View, Pages 11-15.

FIXAXOAL. Part 3, Pages 712. METROPOLITAN NEWS. Part 2. SPORTS.

Part 3, Pages 1-6. TV-RADIO. View, Pages. 16, IS. VITALS.

WEATHER. Part 2, Page 4. WOMEN-S. View, Pages M0. County Purchasing Aide Fired for Alleged Conflict of Interest J.

BURKE Writer al budget $3.7 billion above his recommendations. He also said Congress had not fully financed the benefit increase with sufficient payroll taxes. However, Flemming said Mondav that Mr. Nixon "did not sign the biil reluctantly." Moreover, Flemming made it clear that Mr. Nixon did not intend to jettison his own proposals for increasing benefits despite his complaint about the extra cost of the Democratic benefit boost.

Flemming said that Mr. Nixon believed the 20 benefit rise did not deal adequately with all the concerns of the aged and, therefore, he still wanted Congress to enact his own proposals. Flemming said Mr. Nixon wants Congress to: Liberalize cash benefits for 3.4 million widows on the rolls by making their cash benefit equal to th amount their husband was entitled Please Turn to Page 13, 1 Forty-three of the 46 passengers told police they had been robbed. George Dotson, the driver, said the bandits ordered him to stop the bu at the interchange and then both men fled on foot over an embankment and across the busy highway.

No getaway car was seen. The three passengers who wer not robbed said they merely told the gunmen they had no money. Manning said one passenger scriH-bled a note calling for help and dropped it from the moving bus a the robbery was in progress but it was lost in the 65 m.pJi. traffic Manning said eight of the buse leave the Baltimore area daily for the Delaware track between 10: a m. and noon.

Before Bus Gets to Track BY ROBERT Timet Stiff A Los Angeles County purchasing agent has been dismissed for allegedly supplying $600,000 in book contracts to a firm controlled by a woman who later became his wife, it was learned Monday. Stewart Sobel is charged with conflict of interest in his ties with Miss Lotus Eola, now Mrs. Stewart Sobel, president of Eola Book Service. Inc. The firm supplies most of the books for 94 branch libraries and 18 other county agencies.

The letter of dismissal, signed by H. E. Davis, chief purchasing agent for the county, charged that Sobel and his wife met with representatives of competing book supply firms in which a discussion took place concerning the contract bid for the library books for the County of Los Angeles. In addition, it was learned that several of the representatives attending the meeting have charged that Sobel and his wife suggested Baltimore Beltway on Pulaski Highway, north of the city. He said the driver was forced to enter the Beltway and drive completely around the city while the gunmen went from passenger to passenger, taking valuables.

THE WEATHER National Weather Service forecast: Night and early morning low clouds with hazy afternoon sunshine today and Wednesday. Highs both days about S3. High Monday, 81; low, 62. Complete weather information and mej report la Part 2, Past 4. -V.