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IT DAILY NEWS" NOVEMBER 9, 1968 "trtririt 16 Two tofaons MijacEf Jett By BERNARD VALERY Staff Correspondent of The News Paris. Nov. 8 Two Italian foes of the Greek military regime, armed with empty Distols and a dummy hand grenade, forced a Paris-to-Athens jet liner with 130 passen (mtjjirs, Bat gers aboard to turn back and land at Orly Airport today minutes after the plane took By ANN WOOD Washington, Nov. 8 (NEWS Bureau) When Rep. Adam Clayton Powell returns to town with the whole new ball game.

I The former powerful chairman Associated Press Wlrephoto Maurizio Panichi (left) and Umberto Giovine in a recent photo. PmdBekas in Metv 1MB Qrs Those shiny new subway cars with the big pink letters that have been put into service on the Independent line are both dangerous and impractical, the Public Em 91st Congress he will face a Nixon Hubie Meet and Ask United Nation (Continued from page 3) call.ng: upon him for advice and counsel, particularly in foreign policy matters. Humphrey, stepping to the microphone, responded in the same spirit that, while they had engaged in a hard-fought campaign, "We need to have our country stand together as never before. We need the cooperation of people of all walks of life, all races, all groups and creeds." Gone was any trace of the bitterness which had inspired name-calling between the two candidates during the campaign. Humphrey had jeered at Nixon as "Fearless Fosdick" and "Richard the Chicken-Hearted" and Nixon had called his opponent an "adult delinquent" who wielded the "fastest, loosest tongue in the nation." Nixon and his family arrived here at his hideaway, a small bay-front house rented from Florida's Democratic Sen.

George Smathers, late Wednesday. He has spent most of his time unwinding from the rigors of the campaign and meeting with aides to plot the transition of power and the course of his administration. ploye Press, a union newspaper declared yesterday. keeps the doors on the slanted ends locked. But the Press said this prevents policemen from walking patrol through a train and keeps passengers from moving from a crowded car to find seats in another car.

There are now 230 of the sleek new cars operating on line off from here. The hijacked plane belonged to Olympic Airways, which is owned by Aristotle Onassis. Witnesses said that two men walked to the pilots' compartment. One threatened the pilot with a gun. The other brandished a grenade.

They ordered the pilot to return to Orly. As the Boeing 707 headed back, one hijacker returned to the passenger cabin, summoned the stewardesses and gave them leaflets to be distributed among the passengers. The leaflets were signed by the "International Commandos for Greece" and said the hijacking was "part of the program to sabotage the fascist regime plaguing Greece." As soon as the plane landed, French air security inspectors with drawn guns entered and the men later identified as Umberto Gio-vine, 27, and MaurTzlo Panichi, 24, both of Florence were seized. tracks. Seventy others have been built but not yet put into service.

AH of them will have to be modified. The last 100 cars will be redesigned, with the hazards eliminated, before leaving the factory, a MTA spokesman said. The total cost of the 400 cars was $46 million. I iimiiiiff Bruce Reynolds Grabbed in teaaide villa from Wandsworth prison in London in July 1965, The Press said the Metropol itan Transportation Authority, aware of the cars' imperfections, has begun modifying them at a cost of $400,000. The MTA said the cost of modifying the 400 cars will be about half that.

70 Others Ready Each of the cars has one slanted end made of fiberglass, the newspaper reported, adding that "there is reason to believe" the material will crumple if the cars bump. In addition, the paper said, the open space between cars when they are joined at their slanted ends makes passing between them hazardous to passengers. The MTA has taken note of the pass-through problem and Last Heister Is Caught In Great Train Robbery By HENRY MAULE Staff Correspondent of The News Torquay, England, Nov. 8 Bruce Reynolds, the only member of the $7.3 million Great Train Robbery to escape arrest, was seized in a seaside vacation villa here today in of the House Education and Labor Committee will be a fresh man member, after losing his 23-year seniority. The House ex pelled him in March 1967 for misuse of committee funds and being in contempt of New York courts.

Rep. Carl D. Perkins (D-Ky.) suceeded him as chairman, and Rep. James Fulton (R-Pa.) moved into Powells plush office. But in January.

Powell is free to take his seat, unless another member objects to his being sworn in with the House. Powell would then stand aside and the House would vote on whether to admit him. But Powell has paid a penalty that many consider harsh enough. Excluded From 90th The House voted 307-116 to exclude him from the 90th Con gress after a select committee recommended only public een- sure, a $40,000 fine, loss of seniority and removal of Powell's constant companion, Corinne Huff, from the House payroll. Powell was reelected in April 1967.

but never returned to claim his seat. State Tax Bite: 269B Albany, Nov. 8 (AP) The state collected $2.69 billion in taxes during the first seven months of the present fiscal year, $333 million more than in the corresponding period a year ago. vws: yyyyy ttf tt jig Czechs Will Punish Demonstrators Prague, Nov. 8 (UPI) The Czech government denounced anti-Soviet demonstrations of the past two days as "illegal" today and said that the organizers would be tried for "criminal activities." It revealed that the demonstrations had been nationwide.

zk ft a dramatic dawn police swoop. Heading the raid was Scotland Yard Flying Squad Chief Detective Tommy Butler, "who by so doing finally realized his ambition to bring all the train robbers to justice. Also Arrested Ray Butler, who also arrested James Earl Ray, accused of the Memphis, assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, has one by one hunted down all 13 fugitives involved in the world's greatest train heist 01 Aug.

8, 1963. Butler, 56, should have retired last year, but he was permitted to extend his service to try to catch Reynolds. The hunt for the handsome, 6-foot-l Cockney, a car and antique dealer, has taken Butler abroad a number of times and touched off police raids in cities as far apart as Rio de Janeiro and Paris. Sentences for the others accused of the train job have ranged as high as 30 years. One of the 30-year men, Ronald Biggs, 33, 3till is at large after escaping iij '-N BfftfeU It had previously been thought that the demonstrations, which came as the Soviet Union celebrated its 51st anniversary, had been limited to Prague and Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

The protesters tore down, burned and ripped apart Soviet flags to show their defiance of the August invasion by the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies. The anti-Soviet outburst also brought a warning from a radio station in East Germany that Czech authorities must crush any further incidents. A report by the Czech Ministry of the Interior said that 167 people were arrested in Prague alone during the noisy turmoil which police finally broke up with clubs. Most of those arrested were later released, the report said. More Troops Leave Also arrested were five Western reporters and cameramen ho had covered the anti-Russian demonstrations.

They were questioned at length before being released. The Czech government meantime announced severe new rules for censorship of the country's radio and television stations. In another government announcement a spokesman said today that 86 of the Warsaw Pact troops scheduled to withdraw from Czechoslovakia under an agreement last month between Moscow and Prague have left the country ahead of schedule. Tony Curtis Pays 8G To Teenager With Twins Los Angeles, Nov. 8 (Reuters) A Superior Court judge approved today an $8,700 settlement between Tony Curtis and a teenage girl who claimed that the actor was the father of her twin boys.

Peggy Henter, 18, sued Curtis in August. In September, she gave birth to the twins. Superior Court Judge Marvin Freeman agreed to an out-of-court settlement and closed the case. He said that he believed the allegation of paternity against" Curtis was "questionable." i i UPI Cablephoto Czech youth burns a Soviet flag in Prague during Thursday's celebration of 51st anniversary of Russian Revolution. Workers and youths ripped, stomped, chewed, burned occupation flags in protest..

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