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ss LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE WEST, fiUA99 OAIIY, 1,210,536 SUNDAY. VOLXCl 2t EIGHT PARTS-PART ONE CC THURSDAY MORNING JULY 6, 1972 138 PAGES ffgftS DAILY TOi Court 0 (s Seatiffi 1 hi; Two Hijackers, Passenger Slain at S.F. Airport FBI Agents Rush Plane; Two of 83 Others Aboard Wounded in Shootout of Mc(5ovem Slate v. FBI agents at the San Francisco FELLED IN HIJACKING A man identified by a Coast Guard flight surgeon as one of two hijackers Gives Him Entire California Vote; New Appeal Due BY DON IRWIN Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON A federal appeals court panel Wednesday sustained Sen. George S.

McGovern's claim to all of California's 271 delegate votes at the Democratic National Convention. At the same time, the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the Democratic credentials committee's decision ousting Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and 58 other Illinois delegates. It also enjoined a move in Chicago courts to reinstate the Daley delegates.

However, the Supreme Court will be asked today to hear an appeal from the lower court rulings. Votes Depend on Decision If the decision survives the Supreme Court review, it would give McGovern about 200 votes, greatly enhancing his chances of a first-ballot victory for the presidential nomination. But before that there probably will be a bitter battle when the convention opens Monday. The South Dakotan's campaign strategists, however, claimed enough votes Wednesday afternoon for a first-ballot victory. They said the court decisions gave McGovern 1,541.5 votes, with 1,509 needed for nomination.

The Times' tabulation of delegate votes now puts McGovern within a tenth of a vote of the nomination, with 1,508.9. Minnesota Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey is second, with 397.7 votes. Humphrey, whose presidential hopes were jolted by the appeals BY PHILIP HAGER and RICHARD WEST Tim Staff Writers SAN FRANCISCO-Two hijackers were shot and killed by FBI agents Wednesday as they attempted to flee to Siberia with $800,000 and parachutes in a small Pacific Southwest Airlines jet carrying 84 other persons.

One passenger, a Canadian railway conductor, also was killed and two others were wounded when the FBI men shot it out with the armed hijackers in the packed cabin of the Boeing 737 airliner parked on a runway more than a mile from the terminal at San Francisco International Airport. In order to get into a position to rush the plane, one EBI agent approached wearing a pilot's uniform and carrying the parachutes and ransom while three other agents used a small Coast Guard boat to make their way to a point under a wing of the plane. Hijackers Identified The FBI identified the dead hijackers as Dimitr Alexiev. 28, of Hayward, and Michael Dimitrov Az-manoff, also 28. Alexiev was identified through a California driver's license he carried and Azmanoff through an Immigration and Naturalization card.

Both were identified as immigrants from Bulgaria who married U.S. citizens. Alexiev was said to have worked as an independent taxicab driver who specialized in trips to and from San Francisco International Airport. Azmanoff, thought to be from San Francisco, shared an apartment with Alexiev reportedly at some time in the past. The dead and wounded were taken to Peninsula Hospital in Burlingame in two Coast Guard helicopters.

The plane was hijacked at 10:10 a.m. after leaving Sacramento Airport at 9:51 a.m. on a flight to Hollywood -Burbank Airport via San Francisco. It landed at San Francisco International at 10:24 a.m., then took off again 20 minutes later and circled the San Francisco area until 11:45 a.m., when it landed once again. Ask for $800,000, Parachutes Alexiev, armed with two automatic pistols, stationed himself in the cockpit of the plane and told the pilot, Capt.

Dennis Waller of San Diego, that he and his companion wanted $800,000, two parachutes and charts of Siberia, the FBI said. Alexiev said he wanted to fly to Siberia via Canada and Alaska. PSA assembled the ransom money and obtained four parachutes but it informed the hijacker that no maps of Siberia were available. At 2:25 p.m., the Coast Guard boat containing three FBI agents pulled up along the San Francisco Bay side of the runway. The agents made their way through grass and hid near the plane.

Alexiev appeared indecisive as to how he wanted the money and para-Please Turn to Page 24, Col. 1 Saigon Sources Say Most Red Forces Have Left Quang Tri CUPS AND SEEDS African Chess: It's Centuries Old and Still on the Boards BY STANLEY MEISLER Timet Start Writer NAIROBI, Kenya The game is known as mweso in Uganda and bao in Tanzania and ayo in southern Nigeria and mongola in the Congo and African chess in the toy shops of New York and Beverly Hills. It is the most popular game in Africa and has been so for centuries. A visitor to the ancient Zimbabwe ruins of Rhodesia can find the remnants of cups for the game that were chiseled into the rock outside the north wall hundreds of years ago. The game is usually played by men in the markets and villages who move seeds or heads or pebbles from cup to cup carved on a wooden board.

But prisoners in the courtyard of Ndola Prison play it on a concrete stand provided by Zambian authorities. And in the southern Sudan impoverished Africans play the game on a temporary surface made by scooping cups into the earth in the shade of a tree. Sumcria Origins Possible The history of the game is not very clear. Alan H. Jacobs, an American anthropologist with the University of Nairobi's Institute of African Studies, says it probably originated in ancient" Sumeria more than 3,000 years ago and was played by the Phoenicians as well.

Many centuries later, Moslems, traveling far to convert the infidels, carried the game with them. The game is not confined to Africa. It is found in the Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, Indonesia and the Philippines as well. In Africa, however, it has no traditional rival, like Parcheesi in India. Although scholars assume that Arabs brought the game to Africa, they are not sure when this first happened.

Different groups of Arabs may have introduced it at different times. Africans may then have carried it with them in their own migrations. Please Turn to Page 18, CoL 1 RULING AGAINST DALEY WORSENS STRATEGY PUZZLE BY RICHARD T. COOPER Time Staff Writer WASHINGTON In restoring his California delegates, the federal appeals court here Wednesday may have removed the biggest obstacle to Sen. George S.

McGovern's presidential nomination next week, but it added new weight to an iceberg that could sink his campaign next fall. The iceberg is Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, without whose help even the most optimistic McGovern strategist sees little hope of carrying the all but indispensable state of Illinois. Even before Wednesday's ruling against Daley, the results of several days' strategy sessions and missions by the McGovern camp indicated that the South Dakota senator's problem with the mayor was already critical. In terms of electoral arithmetic, Daley is considered vital because his Please Turn to Page 8, Col.

1 court ruling, said an attempt would be made on the floor to overturn the decision if it is allowed to stand. Asked by the Associated Press in Waverly, whether the convention had the power to act in defiance of the court order, Humphrey said: "It's my judgment that the convention is the judge of its own membership." McGovern hailed his court victory as a reaffirmation of "the choice of the California voters and the rules of the Democratic Party." He said he hoped the convention could now proceed "in a lawful, orderly and satisfactory manner." Please Turn to Page 6, Col. 1 Timet from Reuters are believed to be chiefly militia, the sources said. The North Vietnamese main force 304th and 308th divisions are believed to be dispersed generally to the west of Quang Tri. The sources said government paratroopers, moving on foot from forward positions to the southwest, filtered through the provincial capital Wednesday to take control of the former U.S.

military advisers compound, a hospital and the Thach Han bridge crossing the Han Giang River, which runs just north of the city. About 1,200 soldiers set up a command post at Quang Tri's railroad station, then fanned out into adjacent residential and business areas where they met light resistance, sources said. Most of the strike force stayed clear of the 19th century citadel in Please Turn to Page 20, CoL 1 Never Erase hair, a stocky build, but he didnt look like a fag." Hours later, the woman's intuitive suspicions were confirmed. A volley of shots erupted in the cabin and Mrs. Stone like others dove for the floor.

As she was falling to the floor, she heard a man across the aisle cry out, "I've been shot!" And Mrs. "Stone started to cry. Mrs. Elliott Henry of North Hollywood recalled the good things how well her two grandchildren, aged 8 and 2 12, behaved and how hopeful the passengers felt when, at one point, they were told a "deal" had been made and that they would be allowed off the airplane without incident Mrs. Henry and her husband had managed the youngsters well during the time that the hijackers made the passengers sit faces to the front, hands clasped behind their heads.

She remembered worrying about her grandchildren being hurt and trying to manage a reassuring smile. Then, at one point, (she think Please Torn to Fa je S3, CoL 1 shot fatally by airport is carried $150,000 SALE OF MOON ENVELOPES CHECKED BY NASA BY NICHOLAS C. CHRISS Timet Staff Writer HOUSTON The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is investigating the involvement of the Apollo 15 astronauts in the sale of $150,000 worth of autographed and stamped envelopes taken to the moon. A West German stamp dealer, Hermann E. Sieger, sold at least 100 of the envelopes for $1,500 apiece.

Officials at the Manned Spacecraft Center here have confiscated another 500 to 800 of the envelopes. Since the sale of the 100 envelopes in Europe fa one week in April, their value has gone up to at least $2,000 apiece. The confiscated covers are locked in a safe at MSC here and their total value could be worth Please Turn to Page 11, Col. 1 Jet Sale to China Approved by U.S. Boeing Gains License for Pending $150 Million Deal BY ROBERT A.

ROSENBLATT Timet Staff Writer The U.S. government Wednesday gave the Boeing Co. an export license to sell $150 million worth of jpt aircraft most likely the 707 and spare parts to the People's Republic of China. If the proposed sale takes place, it will be the biggest commercial transaction between the United States and China since the two nations became politically estranged in 1049. There had been no trade until President Nixon lifted the embargo in June, 1971.

The Commerce Department granted the export license, thus clearing the way for the U.S. aircraft industry to compete for a share of China'3 business. The three-engine jumbo jet airliner manufacturers Lockheed Air-Please Turn to Page 21, CoL 1 MORRIS JR. Writer Fischer made to satisfy Russian demands. The Russians want it in writing, and they want Fischer's signature on It, said arbiter Lothar Schmid.

Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, earlier had complied with Soviet demands he issue a sharp rebuke to the 29-year-old American challenger who arrived two days late for what has been billed as the chess match of the century. "He's living in another world." the elderly Dutch former world champion said of Fischer. Euwe described Spassky as 'very upset" and proposed postponing the match until Sunday or Tuesday. This would put it behind schedule and necessitate splitting Please Turn to Faxt 22, CoL into a hospital at Burhngame.

Wirephoto Assembly Votes to Reduce Marijuana Possession Penalty BY WILLIAM ENDICOTT Timet Staff Writer SACRAMENTO The Assembly narrowly approved legislation Wednesday that would reduce the penalty for possession of marijuana in California from a felony to a misdemeanor. The bill's author. Assemblyman Alan Sieroty (D-Los Angeles), emphasized that it does not affect existing penalties for selling marijuana. "We know use of marijuana is widespread among our youth today," said Sieroty. "An astonishing number of middle aged persons from all walks of life are also using or have used marijuana.

"These people know the penalty for possession does not fit the crime. As a result, these laws are alienating many of our citizens and causing a growing disrespect for the law much as prohibition did a generation ago." Precise Majority The Assembly vote was 41 to 35, the precise one-vote majority it needed to pass the 80-member house. But it now goes to the Senate, where its prospects for passage are remote and where a similar measure authored by Sen. Arlen F. Gregorio (D-San Mateo) was killed la't month.

The Assembly debate on what has become a highly emotional and hotly political issue consumed almost two hours. Several proponents argued that the bill did not go far enough, that there should be no penalty at all for the personal use of One of them, Assemblyman Henry A. Waxman (D-Los Angeles), also urged an affirmative vote on a marijuana initiative that will appear on the November general election ballot to, in Waxman's words, "put an end to pointless harassment of marijuana users." The initiative provides that no person 18 years of age or older shall be punished because of his or her personal use of marijuana. But opponents maintained generally that easing the penalties would only encourage more people to use marijuana and do little to help solve the Assemblyman Charles J. Conrad (R-Sherman Oaks) argued that it was hypocritical to reduce penalties for personal possession but maintain stiff penalties for sellers and pushers.

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Pajt 4. WOMEN'S. View. Paget Mi. JET PASSENGERS TELL OF ORDEAL Exclusive to The SAIGON Scores of South Vietnamese troops penetrated some sectors of Quang Tri city Wednesday and reported that most of North Vietnam's occupation forces had apparently withdrawn.

"We think only several hundred Communist troops are inside the town," high military sources said, referring to intelligence reports indicating that the North Vietnamese were ordered to pull back from the city they took in May. Reliable sources said Lt. Gen. Ngo Quang Truong, commander of the 20,000 -man counteroffensive into Quang Tri province, believes he can recapture all of South Vietnam's northernmost city without a bloody battle. He is in no hurry to engage in unnecessary street fighting and destruction, the sources reported.

His main forces are in position at the southeast edge of the city. The enemy defenders in Quang Tri a Lifetime Will Mrs. Arthur Stone, an attractive young blonde from Detroit who had been visiting her sister in Sacramento, had misgivings from the start of the flight. Hours later, she described those uneasy feelings: "I noticed one of them (hijacker) when I got on the plane. He was looking funny at the passengers.

It was a different way than just a man looking at a girl it gave me the creeps. He was a real weirdo." She described the man whose outward appearance had bothered her as having "really bleached white THE WEATHER National Weather Service forecast: Variable high clouds but mostly sunny today and Friday. High today, S3; high Friday, 84. High Wednesday, 88; low, 65. Complete weather information and imog report in Part 2, Pace 4.

Chess Match Could Start Next Week; Russ Seek Game Point 6 Hours That BY DARYL LEMBKE and ROBERT KISTLER Time Stiff Writers SAN FRANCISCO What they remembered after the six-hour hijacking ordeal was over were the things that they saw. The words that were said, the blood that they endured. Mrs. Mae Miller, an older woman from Applegate, noted the first clue the passengers had that something was wrong. "It was after we had taken off from San Francisco." she said.

The Pacific Southwest Airlines jet, at this time under the control of the two hijackers, was circling the Bay Area. "The captain came on the address system. There will be a delay in is what he said. Everyone knew right then what we had, but no one was Within minutes, Mrs. Miller noticed that a man was pointing a gun at the head of the airplane's pilot.

What was to run through her mind for the next several hours were thoughts she was unable to put Into words. BY JOE ALEX Timet Stiff REYKJAVIK, Iceland The president of the International Chess Federation sharply condemned American challenger Bobby Fischer Wednesday. But after a midnight conference he said that the controversial world championship match probably could start Sunday or Tuesday. Certain important problems still remained, not the least being a demand by the Russians that Soviet world champion Boris Spassky be awarded one point and the first game because thry say Fischer defaulted. The Russians reiterated thi3 demand in the late evening after appearing earlier to accept the view- Cint that it not be made a major ue.

Another problem wa3 an apology.