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The Billings Gazette from Billings, Montana • 9

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Blood pours in Ulster I ftftrS SCCTJOH TWO Monday, July 3, 1972-9 cyjcaeker shif death returning to jail from a two-day parole granted to allow him to attend his daughter's wedding and visit his ailing mother. Both the IRA and the British army emphasized they considered the cease-fire still in force despite the heavy gun battle Sunday morning in Belfast's Old Park area and fresh outbursts early Monday between Protestants, Catholics and troops across the Ml superhighway leading to Dublin. Children playing soccer found the bodies of two Protestants Sunday night on a cricket ground in Belfast's Old Park district, near the scene of an early morning fight between Protestants, Catholics and British troops. They were identified as truckdriver Hugh Clawson and busdriver David Fisher, both 30. Like an unidentified body of a man dumped from a car soon afterward in the Forth River area of west Belfast, they had been shot through the head, the hallmark of extremist To back up his threats, the hijacker carried a long knife and a package which he said contained a bomb.

Vietnamese police sources said two homemade grenades were in the. package and there was no indication whether they could have exploded. But the airline described them as harmless "egg-shaped objects" wrapped in aluminum foil. The hijacking attempt began after the jumbo jet, flight 841, left Manila on the last leg of its' San Francisco-to-Saigon flight. Binh, who had boarded in Honolulu, grabbed a stewardess as a hostage and sent two notes to the control cabin demanding that the plane be diverted to Hanoi.

The hijacker, in the rear passenger compartment, also talked with the "pilot, Capt. Gene Vaughn, 53, of Scottsdale, over the intercom. "I am doing this for revenge," Vaughn said he told him. "Your bombers are maim scholarship and graduated with honors last month. The young man, carrying a South Vietnamese passport in the name Nguyen Thai Binh, met violent death after the pilot tricked him and landed at Saigon, the flight's scheduled destination, in defiance of his demand to fly to North Vietnam.

The 135 other passengers were safely evacuated by sliding down emergency chutes, used to empty the plane quickly in case of explosion. i i WW, pilots talk aaain BELFAST (UPI)-One of the bloodiest weekends of Ulster violence pushed the death toll Monday to 400 for the three years of Northern Ireland terror and threatened to smash the weekold cease-fire. Police said two bullet-riddled' and hooded bodies were discovered in Belfast Monday, bringing to seven the number of persons killed in gunbattles or executed by militants this weekend. The body of a man was found" in a car abandoned near Belfast's Crumlin Road jail before dawn, and a passerby on his way to work in the same area found the body of a young man dumped in Twickenham Street. Police said they also were on the lookout for a man who may be still another execution victim Agustus "Gusty" Spence, a 39-year-old Protestant who had been serving a life sentence for murdering a Roman Catholic bartender in 1966.

Gunmen kidnapped Spence Sunday night as he was Hue hit hard by enemy SAIGON (UPI)-Communist gunners fired 675 rocket, mortar and artillery rounds into Hue and its outer defenses Monday and two large, equally-matched units slugged it out with tanks and artillery north of the old imperial capital in a South Vietnamese attempt to recapture Quang Tri province. A government force is driving north from Hue to try to take back Quang Tri the only South Vietnamese province ever captured by the Communists. With most of Hue's defenders sent north to try to recapture Quang Tri, Communists increased the pressure on the old imperial capital and threatened a long-expected, major attack on the city. A South Vietnamese paratroop unit, backed by air power, artillery and tanks, fought a savage battle with a North Vietnamese force of the same size only two miles south of Quang Tri City, the provincial capital. While the battle was underway, Communist gunners slipped into the Hue area from the west and bombarded the city and a half-dozen outposts on its inland flanks.

Field reports said 31 artillery rounds hit Hue and 644 other shells landed at the outlying bases. In the air war over North Vietnam, the U.S. command said U.S. jet fighter-bomber pilots destroyed a coal treatment building near the country's major port city of Haiphong, dropped a span on a bridge near Vinh and bombed an oil storage area south of the Chinese border. The command in a delayed report said a U.S.

Navy A7 fighter-bomber crashed "from unknown causes" June 18 on a night mission over North Vietnam about 107 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) separating the two Vietnams and listed the pilot as missing. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) Northwest Airlines and striking pilots resume negotiations Monday and a union spokesman said "things might start to move." Federal Mediator Harry Bickford said late Sunday that negotiations would resume at 2 p.m. EDT, the first bargaining session since the strike began Friday morning. Both the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA) and the company say they are in essential agreement on salary terms for pilots, a 26.7 per cent increase in pay and fringe benefits over three years.

Still to be resolved are policy matters such as crew rest and work days, the union said. Northwest is accepting flight reservations for July 10 and beyond, neither side has given as satisfy I Two more victims of the first weekend since the Irish Republican Army (IRA) declared a cease-fire last Monday were Daniel Hayes, 43, a Catholic, and Paul Jobling, a 19-year-old Jehovah's Witness from England who had been doing voluntary work at a Belfast camp for poor children. The wave of killings occured as the Protestant paramilitary Ulster Defense Association (UDA) created the first barricade Protestant "no go" areas in Northern Ireland in protest against the British army's failure to wipe out IRA-controlled Catholic "no-go" areas in Londonderry. Most of the hundreds of barricades of hijacked trucks and buses the UDA has erected in Belfast, Londonderry and 10 other towns were dismantled at midnight but the UDA said three in Belfast and one in Portadown, 25 miles southwest of the capital, would remain "no go" to security forces until the IRA's Londonderry strongholds were crushed. 'V If' "It was supposed to be a festival of light," said one youth who had packed up and was heading dut, "but they aren't teaching anyone anything.

"You don't have to go to the top of a mountain and kill your lungs with smoke to meet beautiful people," complained another on his way out. The smoke came from camp-fires and cooking fires, hundreds of them. It blanketed the forested area surrounding the meadow like a fog. Smoke, however, was just one irritation. Food and water were in short supply, sanitation mitted votes with 1,509 needed for nomination, indicated Sunday he would be willing to compromise on the challenges to the California delegation, which he lost, and to the Illinois delegation, which his forces won.

"If I thought it would serve the interests of a stronger party and heal some of these wounds and not do any violence to the rules of the party, I would support a compromise," he said on ABC's "Issues and Answers" program. birthday While the Dandy hopefuls declaim, President Nixon and his wife plan to spend a quiet holiday at the Western White House in San Clemente. The President said in his annual Fourth of July message that the spirit of the first Independence Day lives on that "no evil is too strong to be overcome by the American people. In Miami Beach, meanwhile, the Youth International Party sponsored a picnic Sunday and urged those attending to bring enough food to share with everyone young and old. as, "Astrologically a very spiritual time." 10,000 young people have gathered into a marshy Mountain meadow for the festival.

Moving in prayer, this young woman raises her arms skyward during one of several religious ceremonies at Strawberry Lake, 48 miles west of Denver, Colo. The gathering was described by a member of the Rainbow Family of Liv 1 SAIGON (APi A young Vietnamese man who tried to hijack a Pan American jumbo jet with 153 persons aboard to Hanoi in revenge for U.S. bombing of North Vietnam was overpowered by the pilot and shot to death by an armed passenger Sunday. The hijacker was tentatively identified Monday as a speaker at antiwar rallies at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he had studied fishery science on a U.S. government 'Halleluiah' facilities consisted of open trenches and many people were ill-prepared for nighttime lows near freezing, sleeping beneath plastic sheets and parachutes.

One young man with acute appendicitis was airlifted from the meadow by an Army helicopter Sunday after the chopper unloaded another supply of medical equipment. Dr. Val Wohlauer of the Colorado Department of Health said the medical situation was under control, but "we're getting into a real bind" for supplies. He said five doctors and four nurses were working at the festival. The Credentials Committee, still meeting in Washington, refused convention seats to Mississippi's regular Democrats late Saturday.

It voted unanimously to seat the 25-member Loyalist delegation, which also was seated in 1968. The main charge was that the regular party failed to adopt the party's reform rules in picking delegates. Other challenges settled over the weekend included: Michigan The committee ruled that supporters of Gov. Wallace could substitute three of their supporters for three delegates elected on a Wallace ticket but believed leaning toward Sen. McGovern.

It also agreed to include 10 women with one-half vote each in the 27 delegates committed to Sen. Humphrey. Maryland Wallace lost three delegates on grounds they had not been apportioned according to party rules. Humphrey picked up two of the delegates and McGovern the third. The action was a compromise proposed by Lt.

Gov. Blair Lee III. Virginia Challengers in the 4th District, involving three of four delegate seats, agreed on a compromise to share the scab on a one-half-vote-per-delegate basis. ing Light More than Rocky Festival produces disenchantment ing and killing our people of the Democratic Republic of North Vietnam. You are going to fly me to Hanoi and this airplane will be destroyed when we get there." Authorities withheld the name of the passenger who shot Binh.

The pilot said the man had checked his .357 Magnum pistol with him when he boarded the plane and that before confronting the hijacker he returned it and asked the man to help. surances the strike will be over by then. Striking pilots ferried 28 stranded Northwest aircraft to home bases in Minneapolis, Seattle and New York. No passengers, mail or cargo were carried. The move was made under an agreement reached Saturday between Northwest and the 1,619 striking pilots.

An airline spokesman said Sunday Northwest has laid off "a very substantial majority" of its 8,500 nonstriking employes because of the strike, but said he did not know the exact number. Slightly more than half of Northwest's some 10,000 employes live in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. Most of the rest live in the Seattle area. Northwest pilots had been flying without a contract since June 30, 1971.

Special guests will include some 40 blind adults from the Montana Association for the Blind, a group of blind children from Wyoming and Wyoming education consultant for the visually handicapped, Ron Warpness. The blind guests will lead sighted persons wearing special masks along the length of the trail during the ceremonies. Park naturalist Bill Dunmire said the seeing visitors may learn how little they actually use their senses of touch, smell and hearing. The trail is off the Firehole Lake Loop road near the Fountain Paint Pot area of GRANBY, Colo. (AP) "Astrologically," a member of the Rainbow Family of Living Light said, "It's very spiritual time." Spirituality may haae been the keynote Saturday when or more young people jammed into a marshy Rocky Mountain meadow near here for a religious festival staged by the Family.

But disenchantment was the word for many by Sunday afternoon as hundreds, and possibly thousands, began the steep, rocky trip down from Strawberry Lake. Some "brothers" and "sisters," however, apparently were able to ignore the inconveniences and overcrowding. Small musical groups gathered for impromptu session with guitars, drums and flutes, usually sparking other festival goers into free-form dances. An old man in loin cloth and head band wandered about dispensing his philosophies free to those who would listen. Marijuana provided something to do for others.

A few people continued skin-, ny-dipping in small Strawberry White House contradicted on Demo raid (C) 1972, New York Times WASHINGTON E. Howard Hunt the former senior Central Intelligence Agency official now sought by federal agents in connection with last month's raid on the Democratic National Committee here, was reliably reported Sunday to have fled to Europe, possibly to Spain. This report came from persons close to Hunt as federal authorities disclosed that since early last week a large force of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents had been searching for Hunt throughout the United States. AT THE SAME TIME, Spanish embassy officials here said that Hunt's wife, Dorothy, once an employe of the embassy, had told them as late as the latter part of May that her husband was still working for the White House. This appeared to contradict a White House statement shortly after the raid on the Democratic headquarters at the Watergate Office Building here that Hunt, whose name had been linked with the June 17 breakin, had completed his consultant status in the presidential office on March 29.

MRS. HUNT has been a part-time employe of the Spanish embassy, whose officials said that she had told them in May that, "My husband works for the Wrhite House and he is away traveling so much that I hardly ever see him." Because of the publicity surrounding Hunt in what was rapidly becoming a major political affair here, the Spanish embassy decided to terminate her employment effective Saturday, with a month's severance pay. HUNT, HO PLAYED a key role in organizing the OA's abortive Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, was linked to the Watergate raid after the police found his name and home telephone number in the address books of two of the alleged raiders, both of them Cuban-born, when the group was arrested at the Democratic offices. Although Hunt spoke to FBI agents three days after the Watergate raid, he refused, according to federal officials, to answer any questions. Subsequently, he informed his friends that he was leaving Washington and for the last 10 days his whereabouts have been cGovern supporters Icelanders reject Fischer's demands file suit for lost votes Lake, but a strong breeze Sunday made the lake's cold waters even more biting.

Members of the Rainbow Family have told officials they plan to leave their camps about midnight Monday and move eight miles to the top of Table Mountain for a sunrise gathering July 4th. Then, they say, they will return to clean up the Strawberry Lake area and leave, returning to the communes, colleges and jobs they left around the country in order to gather with the Family. move to force the sponsors of the match to pay him more money for playing Spassky. If Fischer does not show up by noon Tuesday (8 a.m. EDT), he will be disqualified and lose his right to challenge the 35-year-old Russian.

Fischer, who has kept the Icelandic organizers nervously rushing to Keflavik international airport to meet every flight from New York for a week, simply did not show up Sunday. Officially there was no explanation. He has not been in touch with the Icelandic Chess Federation or FIDE since he sent a cable through the U.S. Chess Federation some time back saying he would show up for the match "under protest." Four times since then, Fischer has canceled bookings on flights to Iceland. The Icelandic federation, which stands to lose much money if the match does not come off, pleaded for Fischer Sunday and convinced Euwe to postpone the start of the match 48 hours to give Fischer a last chance.

"But I am not very hopeful," said Euwe. The decision came after several rounds of closed negotiations involving Spassky, Euwe, the Icelandic organizers and Americans representing Fischer but not authorized by him to negotiate. WASHINGTON (AP) California supporters of Sen. George McGovern are seeking to win back in the courts the 151 California delegates they lost in the Democratic Credentials Committee. A suit was filed with the U.S.

District Court in Washington asking a restraining order to prevent the revised California delegation from being seated at the Democratic convention, which opens July 10 at Maimi Beach. A hearing was sched Park blind trail to be dedicated REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) The Icelandic Chess Federation refused Monday to meet U.S. chess challenger Bobby Fischer's demands for more money to play the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky for the world championship. "A dangerous precedent would be created if we gave in to Fischer. He is threatening to kill the game of chess by insisting on his own conditions," said Gudmundur Einar-sson, a member of the Icelandic organization committee.

The 24-game Fischer-Spassky match was scheduled to start Sunday but was postponed until Tuesday by Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE). Fischer, 29, is hiding out in New York, apparently in a Lewistown is coldest CHICAGO (AP) Lewistown was tied for coldest spot in the nation Sunday morning when the thermometer dipped to 35-degrees. The National Weather Service reported Lewistown tied with Evanston, Wyo. for coldest spot in the 48 contiguous states.

ilie high Saturday of 125-de-grees was recorded at Death Valley. Calif. Nation notes 196th uled Monday morning before Dist. Court Judge George L. Hart Jr.

The suit alleges that the Credentials Committee acted unconstitutionally when it overruled California's winner-take-all primary, won by McGovern. The committee apportioned 151 of the state's 271 votes among presidential contenders Hubert H. Humphrey, George C. Wallace and others. McGovern, still the easy front-runner with 1,276.9 com holders had to come dressed in the colors of the flag.

NBC taped the show for broadcast at 9:30 p.m. EDT Tuesday. "The National Yankee Doodle Dandy" will be selected in Philadelphia from among 13 teen-agers who were born on the Fourth and who represent the 13 original colonies. The youngsters competed in an essay on "What My American Freedoms Mean To Me." Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray deliver the keynote address during Tuesday's festivities at Independence Hall.

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) A number of blind adults and children from Wyoming and Montana will participate in dedication ceremonies Friday for the Three Senses Nature Trail in Yellowstone National Park. The mile-long trail marked with both printed and Braille signs along a guide rope was opened earlier this season to allow blind persons to experience the natural beauty of the park. Supt. Floyd McDowell of the Montana School for the Deaf and Blind will be the featured speaker for the ceremonies which are part of the yearlong national parks centennial By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fireworks, patriotic pageants -and family picnics are among the traditional Fourth of July highlights as the nation celebrates its 196th birthday over a four-day weekend.

An audience dressed in red, white and blue was on hand Sunday in Oklahoma City for "The 1972 Stars and Stripes Show" featuring comedian Bob Hope, singers Anita Bryant and Nancy Wilson and baseball's Mickey Mantle. Tickets to the $300,000 extravaganza were free but the ticket.

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