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Everybody's Irish on St. Patrick's The-Pocono Record The StroucJsburgs, Pa. Monday morning, Mar. 17, 1969 10 Cents Venezuelan jef crashes info homes, killing 104 Work tools for forgers Police at Midfield, near Birmingham, look over equipment they said was used by three persons from Dallas, Tex. who have been charged with (UP1 Telephofo) Wave of Red Chinese troops flood disputed river island MOSCOW A A Russian general said Sunday Red China fielded up to a regiment of infantry in its latest clash with Soviet border troops which touched, off angry demonstrations in front of the Chinese Embassy in Moscow.

Maj. Vasily Lobqnov. who commands Pacific Oceaiu frontier district, said wave after nave of Chinese soldiers stormed a disputed island on the frozen Ussuri River for seven hours before Soviet reinforcements arrived to drive them off. The Soviet press and radio said there was an unspecified number of dead, including a Russian lieutenant in the battle over the island, called Daman- sky by the Soviets and Chenpao by the Chinese. Peking Hadio said the Russians used artillery and poured tanks, armored vehicles and troops into (he battle, which it said raged for 10 hours, and left Soviet forces "completely demolished." Moscow and Peking exchanged sharp protests over the latest battle, which began Friday and erupted again Saturday.

The two nations clashed over the island March 2 in a battle which the Russians claimed left 31 of their soldiers dead. Announcement of the latest heated up the running anli-Chinese campaign in Sunday's Soviet newspapers. Reports of factory meetings and workers' protests appeared under such headlines as "Hatred and Indignation" and "Oceans of Hatred." A short-lived and apparently spontaneous demonstration developed around midday in front of the Chinese Embassy. About 200 persons gathered, shouting insults and raising clenched fisls. One youth hurled a rock through a window of an embassy residence hall already scarred with broken windows and ink splotches from two or- ganized demonstrations about a week ago.

The earlier demonstrations were prompted by the March 2 border fighl. Muscovites attracted to the streets by clear and relatively mild weather were beginning (o swell the crowd when police moved in. They herded demonstrators down the street and blocked it off to pedestrians. House committee to probe riots CO 194? New York Times News Service WASHINGTON "I strongly support legislation to cul off aid from students who disrupt educational institutions," a Tokyo police evict students TOKYO (AP) Riot police moved into the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Sunday and evicted radical students who have blockaded the campus for five months. After the police aclion.

Yoshio Ogawa, president of the university, told 1 newsmen that the campus will remain closed but (hat efforls will he made to reopen classes April I. School authorities requested the police aclion so they could hold entrance examinations, scheduled to start today. Radical students have pledged to disrupt Ihe exams. Information Index please Ann Landers Bridge Classified Ads Comics Crossword Deaths Editorial Page Family Fare Horoscope O'Brian's Broadway Sports Pages Television Weather Pattern Wishing Well 5 6 13. 14, 15 6 6 8 4 7 13 5 10, 11 6 .13 Weather Local Forecast: Fair and cool with a high between 36 and 42 degrees, Sun rises at 6:09 a.m.; sets at 6:09 p.m.

Fire Index: Low. (Record Weather Pattern on page eight) Ma as youth killed in crash. Page 3. ESSC's growth rate lowesl among stale colleges. Page 9.

More than 700 students write wildlife essays. Page 9. Slroiid Twp, firemen honor 20-year men. Page 9. ESSC places three in NCAA wrestling tournament.

Page 10. Boston College, Louisville win in NIT. Page 10. Good Morning! The man who thinks he can cat and drink anything in any quantity and never suffer any consequences is the Internal Optimist. Cornell University professor wrote one of his senators.

"When are you going lo act courageously on this crucial issue?" In the same batch of Capitol Hill mail were comments like those: "I demand that you support legislation to end the disgraceful situation in which any small disruptive group of students can impose its will on our colleges, especially publicly supported institulions. Such students should be summarily expelled and denied any government aid." "Would you kindly advise if any legislation is on Ihe way in Washington to put a stop to these disorders on college campuses throughout the country? sceins to me that it smells of communism." A steady drumfire of this kind of angry correspondence, increasing in intensity wild each campus protest, is pressing both President Nixon and the congress into some form of aclion in an area lhat both would like to be able to avoid. The president announced last week that he had discussed student unrest wilh Allorney General John N. Mitchell and Robert 11. Finch, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and would have a statement on the subject today or Tuesday.

Storm batters West Germany HAMBURG, Germany (AP) Gale-force winds and snow battered the northern section of Germany Sunday, blocking highways and some sections of railroad. The weather forecast was for more of the same overnight. flardest hit was Schleswig- Holstein, (he narrow neck of land bordering on Denmark. About 50 villages were isolated by deep snowdrifts. Americans on board total 47 MARACAIBO, Venezuela (AP) A Venezuelan airliner en route to Miami crashed and exploded in a residential district Sunday, killing at least 104 persons --all 84 aboard and an estimated 20 on the ground, police said.

The U.S. Embassy in Caracas said "as many as 47 of the dead passengers were American but that their nationalises were being checked. The DC9 of Venezuela's VIA- SA airlines bad taken off two minutes earlier from Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport on the last leg of a flight from Caracas when it plummeted, setting many houses afire. Preliminary reports said that besides the U.S. citizens, 15 Venezuelans and one Colombian were among the 74 passengers and 10 crew members.

A U.S. Embassy spokesman said some of the passengers who boarded the plane in Caracas might have attended a convention there of the Clark Equipment Co. of Battle Creek. Mich. Daniel la Hoz.

who watched the crash from a nearby soccer field! said the airliner seemed to have trouble gaining altitude. Me said (lie plane clipped an electric utility pole as it came down and then seemed to disintegrate into hundreds of flying fragments. Pieces of fuselage and wing sliced into small homes in a 300square-yard area lhat forms part of La Trinidad, a middle- class housing development built by the government a few years ago. 1'olice and national guardsmen cordoned off the area and ambulances with doctors and nurses raced to the scene. In one of the wrecked houses, national guardsmen found the almost completely charred bodies of two children, clutching the fire-scorched remains of a dog.

In another house, a woman's body was found hunched over the remains of a son she apparently had tried to protect. Authorities at the airport control tower said the weather was good and visibility excellent at the time of the takeoff. Maracaibo, 325 miles west of Caracas, is Venezuela's second largest city and headquarters and export center of the country's oil industry. Venezuela's most recent commercial air disaster occurred last December when a Pan American Airways jet plunged into the sea about five minutes out of Caracas, killing 51 persons. Wedding really a 'blast' AVVELINO, Italy (AP) -Mario Capobianco and Anno Farisiello loft Sunday on their honeymoon after a shotgun wedding of another kind.

Capobianco still nursed a shot wound on his arm, while 13 others from the wedding party were suffering from light pellet injuries. "I did it for jubilation," explained farmer Annibale Toto, 66, who said he was merely observing a centuries- old southern Italian custom, by shooting up a storm as the wedding party procession came out of the church Saturday. a a i "shooting in an inhabited area and causipg light in furies." He was released pending trial, but the shotgun remained in police custody. Surviving seamen rescued The 24 survivors of the sunken Liberian freighter "Vainquer" struggle up on a ladder from their lifeboat Sunday to board the USS Hyman. The Guerrilla bases hit "Vainquer" exploded and sank Saturday.

(Navy photo via DPI Telephoto) Israeli jets invade Jordan TEL AVIV (AP) Israeli jet fighters slrafed and bombed three guerrilla bases deep inside Jordan Sunday and swooped over Amman in one strike just six miles south of the Arab capital. ft was the closest air attack on the Arab capital since the six-day war of June 1907. Sirens wailed throughout (he city as Israeli warplanes roared overhead and the thudding of bombs and antiaircraft fire were heard from its outskirts. King Hussein flew to Cairo for talks with Egyptian President Gamal Ahdel Nasser, his departure delayed 45 minutes because of (he raids. Jordan drafted an appeal to U.N.

Secretary General Thanl protesting the raids and calling for urgent action against what it called Israeli aggression. An Israeli army spokesman said the strikes lasted hours on three targets in north, central and southern Jordan--El- Yaduda, six miles south of Amman; Dibin, southwest of Jarash in the north, and Dabrat in the south. The army said all Israeli John Lindsay tells friends hell run (C) 19(9 Now News. Service NEW YORK Mayor John V. Lindsay informed his closest political associates Sunday that he will announce his candidacy for re-election this week, probably on Tuesday.

Lindsay, who will seek (he i a anil i a nominations as lie did in 1955, invited a small group of advisers to Graeie Mansion, the mayor's residence, Sunday night to discuss the liming of his announcement, the working of his statement and the selection of running-mates for city council president and controller. The decision to seek a second term was not easy, Lindsay told friends, and was opposed by his wife, Mary, and many old friends. Private polls show that he is entering the race as a decided underdog. Tokyo shaken TOKYO (A! 1 A mild earthquake shook Tokyo and northern Japan early Monday. The Central Meteorological Agency reported no damage or casualties.

Israeli's blitz of targets planes returned safely. It said Dibin and EI-Yaduda belonged lo Al Fatah, the largest of Ihe Arab commando organizations, and Dabrat was a base of both the Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). A Jordanian military commu- nique said one civilian was killed and three wounded in the three atlacks. It did not mention whether Jordanian air force planes were sent aloft lo intercept the Israelis. The Palestine Liberation Organization, which speaks for most of the guerrilla groups, issued a communique in Amman saying three guerrillas were killed and four wounded in the attack on Dibin.

The commando organization said Ihe dead included Maj. Fayez Jarad, 30, "one of the chief guerrilla commanders." The communique said: "Enemy aircraft raided the Jarash area with rockets, napalm and machine guns. They came in three waves in which 18 planes took part. Our losses were three killed and four wounded." The raids were the first strikes against Arab Guerrilla bases since Israeli warplanes penetrated Syria Feb. 24 to hit Al Fatah bases at El Hamme and Maisalun, only a few miles from the capital of Damascus.

Observers said Sunday's riads were part of an Israeli retaliation program against Arab Guerrilla groups in line with Foreign Minister Abba Eban's stated policy of "active self defense." Seven American killed in North Korea DMZ attack YOJU. Korea Seven war games, dubbed Focus Reli- Cited as proof thai the US Americans died as the result of na. They involve 2,500 American Strike Command can reach paratroopers of (he 82nd Airborne Division and 3,500 U.S. an enemy assault in the demilitarized zone over the weekend as thousands of other U.S. troops took part in war games in Korea.

40 miles awav. Vietnam war, page two) Eight Allied soldiers on a work detail inside the 2'2-milc- wide zone separating North and South Korea were jumped by enemy regulars Saturday, Ihe U.N. Command reported. One American was killed and tw'O others were wounded. A South Korean attached to U.S.

forces also was hurt. Six hours laler, a helicopter sent lo rescue Ihe wounded crashed in the darkness, killing them and the four Americans aboard the medical evacuation craft. II was the fourth hostile ac- lion in a week by North Koreans in the U.S. seclor--an 18-mile segment along Ihe 151-mile buffer zone, the rest of which is manned by Sonlh The other clashes occurred Tuesday and Thursday, but there were no casualties. The attacks (lie first since lasl November underscored Norlh Korea's anger over Ihe and Soulh Korean troops based 8,500 miles across the Pacific to meet an attack, the airlift was delayed 24 hours Sunday by a snow slorm.

Judge admits full truth unknown in King death MEMPHIS, Tenn. A Judge Preston Battle said Sunday he believes Ihe full (ruth still is nol known about James Earl Ray and Ihe assassination of Dr Martin Luther King Jr. The judge, in whose court Ray pleaded guilty lo the slaying of King and where the case would have been heard had it gone lo trial, said he. like many other Americans, remains puzzled about several unanswered questions. But lie said he is convinced that a trial would not have produced (he answers.

"Like others, would Imly like lo know how Ray actually found the spot from which to fire. How did Ray know where Rev. King would be? How did he determine the type of weapon to be used? Whal are the details of the actual purchase and selection of (he weapon? Was he alone in surveillance of the Lorraine Motel? "I'd like the full proof." he said. "And as 1 said in March 10 when the agreement was reached to permit Ray to change his plea lo guilly. (here is no end lo our mleresl or lo the law's responsibility and determination II any evidence would arise lhat would point to a coconspirator, lhat person will he pursued ami Irealed as (hough he also had his finger on Ihe (rigger.