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The Billings Gazette from Billings, Montana • 5

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Saturday, July 15, 1972 Morning Edition dfje Silling Qiazrtlr Woman chosen to head Demos S. Viets push into Quang Tri I mmm0imt SJ ft- ss V- Farther to the south, enemy gunners shelled a South Vietnamese fuel depot at the former American port of Cam Ranh Bay, destroying an undisclosed quantity of gasoline, the Saigon command reported. In the air war, the U.S. Navy announced it had introduced a new television-guided, bomb that scored direct hits against its first six targets in North Vietnam. The bomb, called "Fat Albert" by Navy aviators, was called an improved version of the "Walleye," a guided to its target by a television camera in its nose.

(T7U i i I 3 JL. SAIGON (AP) Severe fighting raged around Quang Tri on Friday, and South Vietnamese troops advancing from the northeast were reported within 500 yards of the provincial capital. Military sources said North Vietnamese gunners shot down a helicopter, killing Col. Ngu-yan Trong Bas, chief of staff of the airborne division making the advance from the northeast. Paratroopers within a mile of the southern and southeastern edges of the city were shelled and engaged by enemy troops but claimed they killed 19 enemy while losing four killed and four wounded, a spokesman said.

Far to the rear, North Vietnamese gunners fired between five and 10 rounds of 122mm artillery into Hue, hitting south of the Perfume River for the first time in nearly two weeks of almost daily shellings. Two of the shells landed near an American advisers' compound, but no U. S. casualties were reported. A government military spokesman in Hue said one Vietnamese was killed and 13 were wounded.

VI. JEANWESTWOOD MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -Breaking with tradition, Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern chose a woman on Friday to become national chairman of the party he now commands. Jean Westwood of West Jordan, Utah, who helped manage r.H The Grocery Question McGovern's campaign, was the nominee's choice for Democratic national chairman. She succeeded Lawrence F.

O'Brien, twice the party's chairman. A black, Basil Paterson of New York, was chosen for the committee's No. 2 post although he was not McGovern's original choice. McGovern said O'Brien had declined his requests to remain as chairman, citing personal reasons. The South Dakota senator spent 2'2 hours conferring with O'Brien in what he said was a final attempt to persuade him to stay.

"I respect his wishes," McGovern said. "I regret it, but I respect it." The national committee unanimously ratified McGovern's selection of Mrs. Westwood, a co-chairman of his campaign for the nomination. She played a leading role in managing the credentials contest that restored to McGovern his sweep of California delegates at the national convention, and foretold his nomination. Mrs.

Westwood, 48, became the first woman to assume the top post in either national party. Traditionally, in both parties, the vice chairman has been a woman. McGovern reversed that. Paterson, a former New York state senator who ran for lieutenant governor in 1970, was elected vice chairman of the committee. McGovern had chosen Pierre Salinger, a campaign aide, former White House press secretary, and briefly a senator from California, to assume that' post.

But Paterson was nominated from the floor by committeemen who said a black should have a role in the party's high command. 1 UuW 1 n(fd bothfr )u Ittuat wmflhinfj in and intrrniinf aa always be frtfirti Irim ifmi rarti mii. 1216 16la SL West -252-6780 Airline security asked Model A's are back in vogue More than 300 Model A Fords were assembled light of the annual National Convention and Thursday at Seattle for a parade through the Auto Show of the Model A Ford Club of downtown streets. The parade was the high- America. Violence grows in Ulster CROW KILLER OUTFITTERS Red Lodge, Montana ARE NOW ACCEPTING RESERVATIONS William Whitelaw, Britain's administrator for the province, told the House of Commons that 3,000 rounds were fired at troops from the Divis Street complex.

"Rocket -launchers have also been used in the area by terrorists for the first time," he said. Declaring this increased the risk of damage and casualties, Whitelaw announced he had ordered the army to "control the areas from which the attacks were launched." arms and gunmen of the Irish Republican Army. Troops stayed posted on the development's roofs and balconies to flush out snipers. More than 700 troops on the western outskirts of the city fought a night-long battle with gunmen operating from the Roman Catholic area of a modern housing development. The army claimed 35 gunmen were hit in battles throughout Belfast.

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Bombs blasted bars and factories in Belfast and damaged the war-torn center of Londonderry, the province's second largest city. The British army, abandoning its low profile policy of the past three months, stormed the Divis Street housing development, half a mile from Belfast's city center, searching for BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Violence mounted Friday in Northern Ireland as British troops and guerrillas firing rockets battled across wide areas of Belfast, capital of the troubled province. Six men died in a night of the heaviest shooting the city has seen and two more perished in gun battles that persisted through the afternoon. The casualties, including four soldiers, raised the death toll for three years of communal warfare to at least 434. In London, Defense Secretary Lord Carrington told Parliament the situation was one of the utmost gravity.

"One can only hope that the people of Northern Ireland themselves realize how near they are to disaster," he added. A civilian and a soldier died in an afternoon gun battle WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Aviation Administration has asked the airlines for new measures to prevent weapons from being brought aboard airplanes in carry-on luggage. And several airlines have taken some steps to do so. Citing the alarming number of hijackings carried out with arms or explosives concealed in hand-carried luggage, FAA Administrator John H. Shaffer asked the airlines to consider a "voluntary program to bring about a very significant reduction in such baggage." "If a passenger insists on carrying baggage into the cabin, it should be searched," Shaffer said in a letter to Stuart G.

Tipton, president of the Air Transport Association. "In order to insure the integrity of a search, the carry-on baggage should be sealed and the unbroken seal shown to the cabin attendant during the boarding process." Shaffer added that if the airlines feature baggage stowage in the passenger cabin, the stowage bins might be locked at the point of departure, and the keys to the bins left on the ground at that station. Thus the bins could be unlocked only by the ground service agent at the point of arrival. "We fully realize the inconvenience to the passenger, from facilitative and work-habit aspects, in carrying material into the cabin," Shaffer said. "However, we further realize that carry-on baggage has been a very prominent aid to the hijacker and criminal fln dlli a UHnmnlnnn UUiUUfiUllUWDlUUC Horsemen get warning WASHINGTON (UPI) -The Department Agriculture warned horse owners in the southwestern United States Friday to be on the alert for another invasion of Venezuelan equine encephalomyelitis (VEE) from Mexico.

In a statement, the department cited news reports as indicating hundreds of horses have died from VEE in Mexico. "Although the infection is still some 600 miles from our borders, it appears to be moving northward in a pattern similar to last year when the disease invaded Texas," the department said. It said Mexico "is trying to stop the disease through intensive vaccination efforts" but they warned VEE "characteristically jumps long distances." "We should be ready for it with a solid barrier of vaccinated horses," the department said. (pi) Wise investors are realizing the definite benefits both present and future, which are secured by the purchase of A I I T1! II 3 ii i in i i ii iir. MONTANA LAND the knowledge of this desire and need for recreational, vocational and future retirement property.

Fischer may win camera demands 1 AKH A REYKJAVIK (UPD-Orga-Dizers of the $250,000 world championship chess match between Bobby Fischer and Boris Spassky said Friday they might give in to Fischer's demand and remove all television eameras from the contest hall OF LAND ARE NOW BEING OFFERED FOR SALE. Discount Prices 14" HITACHI COLOR PORTABLE (tfl 1 All Transistor m3) CAfA COLOR PORTABLE VyvJ 85 Transistorized fm 18" ZENITH COLOR PORTABLE Deluxe Model JJ mM 19" SYLVANIA COLOR BLACK MATRIX 85 J)mi COLOR CONSOLE Twin Speaker 23" SYLVANIA C1AA COLOR CONSOLE lAIDvV 85 Transistorized TfV 23" ZENITH CrA'V COLOR CONSOLE Jf Em I 25" ZENITH -5J COLOR CONSOLE ft Chroma-Color mVjim EXCLUSIVE AT FRAN'S TV NEW 3 YEAR 100 Picture Tube Warranty on all 19" and 25" screen sizes. No extra charge. iciiiey AUf. 10 ACRES 435,000 SQ.

FT. AVERAGE 12,000 SQ. FT. HOME LOT COUNTRYMAN CREEK RANCH ETTE OFFERS YOU if that is the only way to save the match. But Gudmundur Thorarin-sson, president of the Icelandic Chess Federation, said his match committee had decided to reject a protest filed by Fischer against the award of the second game of the match to the Russian champion when the temperamental American failed to show up.

"If it all boils down to cameras or no cameras, I guess we'll try to remove them," Thorarinsson said. The third game is set for Sunday, but chess sources say it may not come off. Father William Lombardy, Fischer's second, discounted rumors that the American chessmaster was flying home. "I haven't heard anything about that and I hope it's not true," Lombardy said. "Everything is still up in the air.

We have settled nothing so far." The American challenger refused to play in the second game Thursday unless all the cameras were removed. He said they distracted him. When Fischer did not show up within the allotted one hour to make his first move, Judge Lothar Schmid announced that Fischer had forfeited the game and that Spassky was leading the match 2-0. Fischer filed a protest against the decision and against the the presence of cameras in the hall. The match committee met for two hours Friday before announcing the protest had been rejected.

The committee said its decision had no bearing on the presence of the cameras. father dies GAINESVILLE, Fla. (UPI)-William L. Calley whose Army lieutenant son is serving 20 years for murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, died Thursday night in the veterans hospital shortly after his son visited him. Calley, 57, died of complications from diabetes and a respiratory ailment just hours after his son, 'Lt.

William Calley flew here for a 30-minute visit. Lt. Calley, given special permission to leave his detention quarters at Ft. Benning, was accompanied by two MPs and had to return to his base Thursday afternoon. The elder Calley was unconscious during the visit.

Funeral arrangements were incomplete, but Lt. Calley was expected to be released again from Ft. Benning to attend the services. The elder Calley, a World War II veteran, was hospitalized here June 12. Calley, a carpenter, had moved here from Hialeah two years ago when he began suffering complications from a diabetic condition.

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