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Weatl ier The Austin mer CENTRAL TEXAS: Clear to partly cloudy and warmer Thursday through Friday. Wind to southeasterly Thursday 4 to 10 miles per hour. High Thursday and Friday: near 90. Low Thursday Read by the Decision-Makers of Texas 92 Pages -2 Ports Austin, Texas, Thursday, July 6, 1972 10 Cents Vol. 59 -No.

26 HOME EDITION i night: low 7fl's. Wednesday's temperature range: 70-80. See weather data, Page A-20. SUNRISE: 6:34 a.m. SUNSET: 8:36 p.m.

Court Restores McGovern Delegates Today WASHINGTON (AP) A Some delegates officially the effect of its ruling. They jing any further action against federal appeals court Wednes over "was inconsistent with fundamental principles of due process." classified as uncommitted, however, have said they are lean day ordered 151 California delegates restored to Sen. George S. McGovern, prompting his The majority opinion in the 2- Rick Stearns, McGovern's chief delegate marshal, said McGovern now has 1,541.5 dele-gale votes, enough to assure a first-ballot nomination. If the circuit court ruling stands, The Associated Press delegate count would place 1 California decision declared forces to claim first-ballot-vic tory strength at the Democratic Convention in Miami Beach.

that the "Democratic Party did not merely interpret one of its rules in essence, it acted In defiance of its own rules as interpreted in the call for 1972 ing to McGovern. The Credentials Committee stripped McGovern of the California delegates by deciding to apportion them among all candidates by the amount of votes each received in a presidential primary. The circuit court held that while the apportionment might delegate action, the court upheld a party Credentials Committee ruling which ousted Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley and 58 other Illinois convention delegates and blocked any state court action that would interfere with the federal decision. This was another plus for the South Dakota senator since the Daley slate was uncommitted but a majority of the replacements favors McGovern.

An appeal to the Supreme Court still is possible for the Democratic National Committee pro-Daley forces. However, the U.S. Court of McGovern's strength at 1,436.65, less than 100 short of are expected also to ask Chief Justice Warren E. Burger to call the Supreme Court, which adjourned last week, into session to hear appeals. Before the court could hear the cases, Burger would have to summon vacationing justices for a special session of which there have been only three in history.

The circuit court directed the U.S. District Court which originally heard the cases to write an order declaring the Credentials Committee action on California null and void and enjoin- the McGovern delegates based on the winncr-take-all issue. In the Illinois portion of the decision, a unanimous court held that the party does have the right to impose requirements on delegate selection. The Credentials Committee had ousted the 59 Illinois delegates for violation of those requirements. In order to protect the judgment, the court wrote, "It is necessary to enjoin (Daley forces) from taking any action (See SEATS, Page A6) Appeals for the District of Co convention by establishing ret lumbia, lale Wednesday suspended the effect of that ruling and another involving Illinois be more fair than the winner- the 1,509 delegate notes needed for nomination.

Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota has 392.55 by the count, Alabama Gov. George Wallace has 381 and Maine's Sen. Edmund S. Muskie has 225.55.

delegates until 2 p.m. Thursday roactively an entirely new and unannounced standard of conduct." The losers in both cases followed usual legal practice and asked the circuit court to stay to give the parties a chance to appeal to the Supreme Court. take-all manner in which the primary was set up, changing the rules after the game was AP Wlrephoto JOSEPH CALIFANO JR. Plans to appeal ruling In addition to the California Air ii eel ii ate In Try for loeria SAN FRANCISCO (AP) of the plane, three otMerlthrce handguns, took over the. The plane sat on a runway Two armed hijackers were shot FBI agents who had been in aoeing 737 Wednesday morning more than a mile from the Kan i I to death by FBI agents boat on the bay rushedjon a flight from Sacramento tojFrancisco International airport i i I A-, M.

-b it Hi 'VSAtV '6 s( Hl oA -'v-JI )' if if Li if I irmS I Austin Wesley Pearson, a veteran of grand jury service and a former grand jury foreman, was picked Wednesday to head the July term of the Travis County Grand Jury. Page A15 House Speaker Rayford Price was honored by his fans and colleagues in traditional ceremonies. Page A16 'The Fifth Battalion, Texas Defense Guard, will hold a 'reunion at 5:30 p.m. Friday at the polo grounds at Zilker Park. The unit was formed by the legislature after the 36th Division of the Texas National Guard was called into service in'wnrld War II.

Page A21 Texas Tax court records Wednesday showed John Peace of San Antonio, chairman of the University of Texas Board of Regents, Is fighting the Internal Revenue Service over a tax liability of 20,288. Page A21 Round Rock is completing plans for its annual Frontier Days celebration which opens Friday and continues through Saturday. Page A2J Nation The Pentagon Wednesday Issued a directive for all military air traffic to avoid airports imposing passenger taxes. Page A33 Worl.l a i Tanaka said Wednesday as Japan's next prime minister he plans no drastic departure from the policies of his predecessor F.isaku Sato. Page A15 Militant Protestants pledged nesday and a passenger plane from a front en- San Francisco.

PSA spokesmen terminal for more than four slain in the exchange after the trance, Gcbhardt said. isaid. the gunmen commandeered a He said when the gunman inj They demanded the cash Pacific Southwest Airlines jet-j the rear began firing, agents along with passage to Siberia hours while one of the hijackers sent demands through the pilot, Capt. Dennis Waller of San Diego. Waller said the men demanded flight to Siberia via liner and demanded opened fire with shotguns, kill--.

via Canada and Alaska and re- cash and passage to Siberia, authorities said. ing both hijackers. l0 release passengers be- "Certainly we're not pleased. fore their demands were met that three passengers were'lSaid PSA spokesman Gary Kis-1 Canada and Alaska, Kissel caul. Three passengers were hit by wounded, but somebody Pad losei.

The himself requested gunfire from one of the air pirates, the FBI said, and one make a decision. We wanted to Three ambulances rushed to stop the hijacking, and stop it; (he plane, along with two large was fatally wounded. Their names and the conditions of the we did," Gebhardt said. i buses, to take passengers to weather maps and flight maps for Siberia. Kissel said PSA was flying a larger Boeing 727 from San Diego in case the gunmen The hijackers, armed with the terminal, Kissel said.

two wounded passengers were not immediately known. The hijackers were identified Stofl Photo Chessmen Still Stuck on Board as Dimitr Alexlev, 28, of Hay-ward, and Michael Az-manoff, 28, no address, said FBI Agent Robert Gebhardt. Seventy-nine passengers and NOIMHKAST AUSTIMTES JAM CITY HALL TO PIIOTLST APAKTMENT PLANS Overflow crowd spills out into hallways around chambers wanted a plane with a rear exit for a parachute jump escape. He explained the 7.17 has side I exits which would most likely suck a jumper into the section and kill him. PSA president J.

Floyd Andrews said the airline asked the hijackers "if they would the women and children off and five crew members had been REYKJAVIK, ICKLAND held captive for almost six Related Photo, Page A45 (AP) Bobby Fischer axdo- hours as the commandeered jetliner sat a mile from the ter gied Wednesday for delaying French Premier Is Fired Quang Tri Perimeter Captured SAIGON (AP) South Viet- Apartment Plan Given Approval fiy LARRY BeSAW (spokesman for the Concerned Staff Writer Residents of the University Hills Angry Northeast Austin Subdivision, told the commit'ee minal at San Francisco International Airport. the start of the $100,000 world: jfe's living in another world." replied that none will be championship chess match, sajd he realized to leave until the the Russians demanded apo- holder Boris Snassk-v was! demands are met." PSA spokesman Dave Gar- and would like to week before the "very upset" give him a dclla said agents who approached the plane shot the hi logies in writing. With the confrontation threatening never to reach the checkered board, President Mux F.uwe of the International Pilot Waller said one hijacker was doing all the talking and that he appeared "very calm, very deliberate," Kissel said. There was onlv water and jackers after one hijacker fired his gun first. namese forces held the mice of the land on which the first game.

Fischer's holdout for more money brought the takings for PARIS (AP) President Georges Pompidou fired Jacques Chaban-Dclmas, his pre- jnoiueowiiers iosi ine nrsi ruunu Ouane Tri city Wednesday and'r. 4v-; are to be built is The FBI said an agent, I WCUllL-Midy IllIH 111 llitli UdlUC A 1 -e T. In i it 1. I ill. Irtl- u.t- t.

beat off enemy attacks on their flr -lUiesseu in a puoi unnurm, winner ana loser 10 uiiiiks uui no ioixi for three years, against developer Walter Carrington's plans to build an inrnar-lmH iha oli-Hnm. Knmr of the blame and sug the plane, Kissel said. He said highest amount ever in world now park land and area residents want it to remain that way. She asked the committee to zone the land as a park. The IU series of scandals roi apartment complex in the; (containing tne ransom money land parachutes demanded bv unity of the Gaullist party With legislative elections due gested a further postponement until next week for the dust to settle.

Fuwe said he had allowed Fischer's tardy arrival he got committee did not act on her request. Mrs. Bartz, who lives at 6713 before next March, Pompidou the hijackers. He said a hijacker ordered the agent to strip to his under one of the hijackers was in the cockpit monitoring news reports of his own actions on a local radio station. This was the third time this year a PSA jet has been hijacked.

University Hills subdivision. But they vowed to continue the fight up to the city council and into the courts if they have to. championship chess. The winner will get $231,230 and the loser $188,750. The 24-game series between Spassky of the Soviet Union and the 29-yeur-old American (See CIIKSS, Page AC) eastern flank.

In the air war over North Vietnam, the U.S. Command announced the heaviest raids In weeks against three major depots within four miles of the center of Hanoi, the North Vietnamese capital. Reliable sources said Lt. Gen. Ngo Quang Truong, commander of the then on Wednesday appointed Tulsa Cove, said salesmen fori because "Fis- wear to show he was unarmed.

hcre Tuesday hard-line Gaullist Pierre Mes- told prospective When the agent entered the'eher is quite 56, to form a new gov- inecuy riarimng commission-nome buye jn J9P)0sismcr. the land "would always be a jernmcnt likely to include many 'of the leading figures of the cr zoning committee approved Carrington's request for a special permit to build a 40 unit She said she has signatures lr, administration. Its counteroffensive into Quang Trijapartmcnl complex at 2739-2819 persons who are rcafiy composition is expected to be Province, believes he can re-; Loyola. The permit will be Hijacker's Plot FaiJs In Buffalo i announced Thursday or Friday, capture South Vietnam's north-jforwarded to the full Planning ernmost city without a bloody Messmer, minister for over Commission next Tuesday night and ultimately to the council for final action. to sign sworn statements that such assurances by Carrington salesmen "were the determining factor in inducing them to buy their homes." She called the promises to keep the land as a park "gross battle.

He is in no hurry to dash into seas territories under Chaban-Dclmas, served for nine years as defense minister for Presi-i the city and engage in unneces sary street fighting and de- BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) A Wednesday night to construct more barricades this weekend in Northern Ireland. Page A2I Sports Defending champion Evonne Goolagong halted the Cinderella story of Chris Evert at Wimbledon Wednesday, downing the teen-age American, 4-6, 6-4 in the semifinal. Miss Goolagong will meet Rillie Jean King in the final. Page A47 Lre Trevinn returns with hopes of defending his title in (lie Canadian Open which hegins Thursday.

But South African Gary Player is expected to contend. Jack Nicklaus is skipping the tournament to prepare for the British Open, Page A47 Index Amusements A3H-57 Ann Landers Armchair Aviator A9 Ask BBB A29 Bridge A18 Business Report A41 Classified A68-79 Comics B6 Crossword Puzzle B6 Deaths A20 Dollars and Sense A40 Editorials A4-5 llnlnlvA AID dent Charles de Gaulle under; truction, the sources reported. misrepresentation on the part of i More than 200 homeowners jammed City Hall council chambers and spilled out into the hallways to voice their objections to Carrington's plans. Mrs. Harold Pompidou's premiership.

Government paratroopers penetrated the city limits Tues Carrington Built Homes." Mrs, Bartz said construction (See ZONING, Page A6) knife-wielding father threatened to kill his Infant daughter Wednesday as he held her hostage in an abortive airplane hijack that began after he allegedly stabbed his estranged wife day, then took up defensive po Like Chaban-Dclmas, one of the first to rally to De Gaulle's Free France movement in 1940, sitions on the southeastern edge, awaiting an order to press on after their week-long, Messmer was a founder of a pressure group designed to iand another man at her apart 10-mile drive up Highway 1. Sale of Jetliners To China Okayed Sources said the enemy's 4 Si i It V- ft 'I i PI I I i 1 i ''4 t'''- 'J I a g.r-y-?-:-:-,fc.l.rwi i fHl i I'll. 'J 5-, i ,1 1 i i. "i strength inside Quang Tri is not ment, police said. The FBI said Charles Smith, 23, of Buffalo, surrendered nearly three hours after boarding the unoccupied American press its view of Gaullist orthodoxy after the general resigned in 1969.

Chaban-Delmas, whose dy- known, but the defenders arc believed to be chiefly militia. The North Vietnamese main namic war effort made him 707 jetliner at Buflalo force 304lh and 308th divisions WASHINGTON (AP) The Commerce Department has granted an export license clear brigadier-general at the age apparently convinced are believed to be dispersed to China, the only other major break in decades of a freeze on U.S.-Chinese trade was the purchase by the Peking government of about $2.5 million in ground communications equip 29, became premier when Pom his demand to be flown overseas would not be met. generally to the west of Quang ing the way for the Mainland pidou succeeded De Gaulle asi Tri, which fell to the enemy Chinese government to buy $150 Smith was charged with at May 1. president. His more liberal in ment for satellites.

Government marines on the terpretation of Gaullism and The Boeing spokesman saidj calls for a "new society" led to tempted aircraft piracy. His 17-month-old daughter, who went through the ordeal with a knife pointed at her throat and chest at times, had only a small cut on her nose when it was over. eastern flank of the drive into Quang Tri fought two engagements with North Vietnamese troops about three miles out company officials attended the International Trade Fair in Canton two months ago when the Chinese first expressed an early clashes with the orthodox wing of the party. But the real pressure on his post came in the last few months. A series of financial side the city.

million worth of Boeing 707 jets and parts, a company spokesman said Wednesday. Negotiations on the proposed sale between representatives of the People's Republic and the Boeing Company continue in Peking, but release of the export license clears any barrier within the U.S. government A company spokesman said from Boeing headquarters in Seattle he was optimistic the interest in buying the long- Associated Press correspond Buffalo police said Smith had left what they described as a ent Dennis Necld reported ma involving' Ulciue no'e at tus mother scandals exploded rines claimed 105 enemy killed with the aid of allied air strikes. The Marines lost nine killed and 17 wounded. range commercial aircraft.

He said talks have continued ever since while Boeing made a simultaneous application to the Commerce Department for the export license. The Boeing official said he Horoscope A 25 Joyce Haber A63 M. Boyd B6 Markets A60-A62 Public Records A 38, A58 Jennie Lynd Reed A24 Salute A18 Sports A47-A54 Ted's Tip A30 Town Country A17 TV-Radio A 25 Weather A2fl Your Good Health A31 Gaullist deputies or close associates. Chaban-Delmas, 57, went on television nationwide to explain how perfectly legal tax home. Richard H.

Ash, special agent in charge of the Buffalo FBI office, said Smith, carrying the child, Jetuan, in his arms, boarded the empty jet at dawn The South Vietnamese com deal would go through. mand claimed two enemy tanks were destroyed in the fighting. If it does, he said it would be a significant order for Boeing. Since President Nixon's trip had no way of predicting how: loopholes enabled him to pay long it might take for the deal only minimal Income tax for to be completed. several years.

AP Wlrtphots HIJACK PLOT FOILED, MAN LKAVKS PLANE WITH DAUGHTER Infant was held hostage in abortive attempt at Buffalo airport (See WAR, Page A6) (See FAILURE, Page A6) I.

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