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Ireland mieeairi civsl weair BELFAST (AP) Britain rushed additional troops to embattled Northern Ireland on Monday night as gunfire blazed across Belfast and politicians warned openly of possible civil war. Britain's action followed a rupture of Ulster's fragile 13-day cease-fire and failure by British negotiators to reach an agreement with the Roman Catholic-based Irish Republican Army. Six hundred British royal marines flew to Northern Ireland on Monday night. The army said another 1,200 men were preparing to leave early Tues nighttime violence. The gun battles resumed at noon Monday.

More than 60 violent exchanges terrorized Belfast during the afternoon. Most of the incidents were attacks on British army posts and patrols by gunmen identified as IRA guerrillas. The army claimed at least eight rebel marksmen were hit. Some of the incidents, however, did not involve troops at all. It was believed they were straight shootouts between IRA men and gunmen of Protestant paramilitary organizations.

In the evening, rioting youths in Belfast's Lenadoon housing day, bringing total British military strength in Ulster to 16,800 men. "The soldiers are being brought in because of the IRA's express intention of resuming hostilities with the utmost ferocity," an army spokesman said. The IRA's militant Provisional wing, which has been responsible for most of the guerrilla activity in Northern Ireland during the last three years, called a sudden end to the brief cease-fire Sunday. In an immediate outbreak of violence, six civilians died and scores of troops, gunmen and civilians were injured in nine hours of estate attacked army posts for the second night in a row. It was a dispute in this area Sunday night over allocations for houses for Catholics and Protestantsthat the IRA said sparked its decision to end the cease-fire.

But William Whitelaw, Britain's secretary of state for Ulster, indicated in the House of Commons in London that the problem was deeper than that one incident. He disclosed that he had had a secret meeting with IRA leaders last Friday. He said the IRA men complained they had gained nothing in return for ceasing hostilities, "then made demands that I could not accept." Whitelaw rejected suggestions that the problem be turned over to the United Nations, saying he didn't believe anyone else could solve it better than Britain. In Northern Ireland, extremists of the IRA and of Protestant organizations expressed belief the next two or three days are crucial. A spokesman for the militant Ulster Vanguard said: "The final crunch is coming.

It could be civil war in a matter of hours, not even days." (if tv V. flfe WW vv "4 A lit fcfgp mmmntt MMWMMMWMPMMMMMIMWIMH Mf TTHfeta ITini iMlinHIHII Til 1 ll II I1HM1 tM W15C Billings, Montana, Tuesday Morning, July 11, 1972 87th Year-No. 70 ssirs Photofax Two-handed start Csa Lawrence F. O'Brien, temporary prepares to start the convention's chairman of the Democratic Na- opening session in Miami Beach, tional Convention, takes a two- Monday night, handed grip on his gavel as he phrey forces to from McGovern biggest victory snatch away perhaps the yet in the midnight in an atmosphere of rancor and dissent, the South Dakota senator won an initial fight to recapture 151 disputed California delegates under temporary ground rules set by will give him a first ballot Democratic presidential nomination. As the opening session of the "new look" Democratic National Convention dragged well past MIAMI BEACH (UPI) -George S.

McGovern scored a tentative convention floor victory early Tuesday in his claim to California's full 271 delegate votes and the margin he says presidential campaign he began Meeks success still Fischer getting his way up Din obit party leaders. But the ground rules themselves were subject to appeal by stop-McGovern forces led by Hubert H. Humphrey. The results of any such appeal could make or break McGovern's bid for all of the California delegates and in turn an early nomination Wednesday night. The Florida delegation, in behalf of the stop-McGovern forces, appealed the outcome of the California challenge on two counts permitting McGovern's 120 California delegates to vote and not requiring an absolute majority of 1,509 votes to decide the challenge.

But McGovern won the battle to seat the full 271-member delegation by a vote of 1,618 to to an' unofficial tally. Thus the margin of his victory was so great that the Humphrey appeal appeared to have virtually no chance of success. The convention then began another roll call on the last-ditch, do-or-die bid by Hum- By GEORGANNE LOUIS Gazette Staff Writer Within 24 hours after the death of Sheriff James A. Meeks His long-time friend and undersheriff, Thomas Dabner, made a public bid for the job; Courthouse pundits believed the county commissioners clusion to play Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union for the world championship of chess. The match, in 24 games, ought to last about two months, and in it two men will be matching their wits in the kind of intense commitment and concentration that few other endeavors require.

At stake for Fischer, a 29-year-old American, is a chance to be rich, and to gain the allegiance of the American public for the game which has totally absorbed his intelligence. For Spassky, 35 years old, and the men behind him, Soviet national prestige is involved. Since 1948, Russians have dominated the game so completely that no foreigner, until Fischer, has ever made it to the finals. Paul Marshal, Fischer's lawyer, has said the money is not important to the American. He explains that a desire for "respect on his own terms" was behind Bobby's holdout and late arrival to the match which was to have begun July 2.

1 The final revisions, ending weeks of controversy, appeared well on their way to completion Monday, to the relief of the Icelandic Chess Federation, which is committed to pay out more money than the nation allocates to its defense. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer didn't like the site, the money or living with the Chinese. He objected to the lighting, and the playing table. He wanted police protection and fresh orange juice. He demanded a German sports car with an automatic transmission.

He didn't like the chess board, either, but Icelandic and Russian officials had beaten him to the punch with their own ojections on that point. Fischer has gotten most of what he wanted, and on Tuesday at 5 p.m. 1 p.m. EDT he will emerge from his moody se 18 months ago. The California showdown followed an inconclusive first round centered on a challenge to the South Carolina delegation the first credentials contest to come before the convention.

By account of both sides in the struggle, McGovern's forces maneuvered their delegate votes on the floor in the South Carolina test to force Humphrey to delay his procedural challenge until a more advantageous time. This turned out to be California. Dissidents tear down Miami fence MIAMI BEACH (UPI) -Roving bands of demonstrators tried to break through the fence surrounding the Democratic National Convention Monday but were driven back by police and state troopers using nightsticks and mace. An estimated 700 protesters took part in the running skirmishes that took place along a two-block stretch of the fence as the opening convention session got under way inside. About 80 feet of the six-foot high fence was torn down.

the implementation of the many programs Meeks created, and pledged full cooperation with "all persons, commissioners and elected or appointed officeholders and the law abiding citizens of Yellowstone County." He continued: "I have submitted a letter of my intentions to the Yellowstone County commissioners requesting that they exercise their responsibility to the people of this county and consider my appointment to fill Jim's unexpired term." Others believed the county commissioners had already made a choice and that would not be Dabner. COUNTY COMMISSIONER M. E. "Mike" McClintock said he had no idea when the appointment might be made. Commissioner E.

F. "Swede" Carlson told one reporter, "I'm not talking to anyone from the news media until after the funeral (Tuesday afternoon)." But the commissioners' silence to the press did not carry over to contenders for the job and by Monday afternoon it was an open secret that several hopefulsRepublicans like the commissioners had been in to talk to them. Among the names mentioned for the job were John Beven, former Billings police chief who (Continued on Page 6) Clouds Partly cloudy through Wednesday. Warmer Tuesday with high 80 to 85, low 50 to 55. Only 10 per cent chance of rain Tuesday.

More weather on page 6. Index Vitals, weather, obits 6 8-8 Sports 12-14 Comics 16 Classified 17-21 had reached a decision after private sessions with other hopefuls; And the county attorney's office hedged over exactly how long the appointee would serve before having to face the voters. DABNER, 36, ASSUMED the sheriff's post after the apparent heart attack death Sunday. During a press conference Monday morning, he told reporters: "I'm no politican and certainly don't want to become sheriff this way if they (county commissioners) chose a good professional law man, then I would be very happy to step aside." But by 3 p.m. Monday, Dabner told a reporter, "The political power plays have already started" and he started soliciting support from county officials.

He also issued a letter to the commissioners asking for the job, and a statement to the press which read: "A DIFFICULT transition period can be eliminated by my appointment as Sheriff. Because of my close personal and professional association with Jim starting in the Navy in 1956 and continuing until his death, I can and would be able to continue Jim's progressive law enforcement programs." Dabner stated his job included Nice skyjacker given 45 years geles route to San Francisco where 85 other passengers were let off and the money put aboard. McCoy was arrested by Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in his home two days after the hijacking as he was preparing to attend Utah National Guard drill. The money was recovered in a cardboard box on the back porch, along with a gun, parachute helmets and a fake hand grenade, which the FBI said were used in the hijacking. "We think he is a redeemable individual and feel this man has many good years left," McCoy's defense attorney, David Winder, said.

McCoy, who had remained silent during the four-day trial, said, "I realize the pressure on you, Judge (Ritter), for the type of crime I was charged with." He added thanks to his attorneys. "For what it's worth, I would recommend these men," he said. Winder said he found McCoy "cooperative, appreciative and intelligent" during the two months he had known him. McCoy was convicted after more than 30 prosecution witnesses appeared, including FBI agents and people who said they saw him aboard the plane or on the ground near the parachute site. Only four witnesses were called for the defense.

All said they knew him as president of a branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Germany four years ago. They said he had a reputation for honesty andWionviolence. SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -Vietnam veteran Richard Floyd McCoy was sentenced Monday to 45 years in prison for skyjacking a United Air Lines plane and bailing out over his hometown of Provo, Utah, with half a million dollars. "I hope you will take into consideration my past record," the 29-year-old former church congregation president and Green Beret told a pre-sentencing hearing. The charge of air piracy carried the death penalty, but U.S.

District Court Judge Willis W. Ritter told a jury that this would not apply because of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against it June 29, the same day McCoy was found guilty. McCoy was accused of commandeering a Boeing 727 over western Colorado April 7, ordering it off its Denver-Los An- Dock strike hits Hawaii HONOLULU (UPI)-Hawaii's 900 dock workers walked off the job in a series of stop-work meetings Monday, bringing to a halt nearly all vital shipping activity in the islands. Only military cargo was being unloaded.

The stop-work meetings were called in an apparent showdown with stevedoring companies over failure to reach agreement on a new docks contract. The previous pact expired more than a year ago, on June 30, 1971, but was extended several tiifces. m. i 'Km, lit vM I A Photofax He's kidding! Photofax Eclipse in the East Sen. Hubert Humphrey sure is kidding.

He went along with the gag as someone who's a supporter of Gov. George Wallace puts a Wallace hat on Humphrey's head in Miami Beach. It happened when Humphrey visited the Texas delegation to woo additional support for his presidential candidacy. is how the eclipse looked to the naked camera. The insert was made at the same time with a smoke filter.

This is an 80 per cent eclipse of the sun at 4:32 p.m. Monday in Trenton, N.J., silhouetted by the dome of the New Jersey State House, which is undergoing repairs. The uppejr view.