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KU.MM.C I VI. Aimed at Cuban overthrow? NEWS BRIEFS Arms smuggling plot uncovered CHURCH LEADER DIES President Joseph Fielding Smith left, leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, died Sunday in a Lake City. His likely successor is Harold B. Lee, right, first to Smith and president of the Mormon church's Council of Twelve. Wiikins hits Democrats DETROIT Roy Wiikins, executive director of the NAACP, says Democratic National Covention delegate fights mean President Nixon will be "handed re-election on a platter by a bunch of fumblers." "All you have to do is read headlines in the last three weeks to know there's some fast footwork going on around second base," Wiikins told a news conference Sunday night on tiie eve of the NAACP's annual covention.

The week-long NAACP convention will focus on the problems of employment, housing, the community. 1972 politics and education. Inspection team sent HARRISBURG, Pa. The secretaries of the U.S. Libor arid Commerce Departments were to be part of a federal fact-finding team sent by President Nixon today to begin inspecting flood damaged areas in Pennsylvania.

The team was to meet with business and labor leaders in Harrisburg and Wilkes-Barre, according to a spokesman for the federal Office of Emergency Preparedness. The team was not scheduled to meet with Gov. Milton J. Shapp or any governmental leaders in the cities. -The purpose of the trip is to determine the best way for the federal government to help the state recover from the flood on a long-term basis," the spokesman said.

Nixon away from capital SAN CLEMENTE. Calif. Halfway through this election year. President Nixon has spent about two-thirds of his time awav from the White House. During the first six months of 1972, Nixon spent all or part of 121 of 182 days away from Washington.

The chief executive, who flew here Saturday for a stay of about two weeks, has adopted Aspen Lodge at the Camp David, Navy-Marine base as his favorite retreat. Nixon spent all or part of 53 days there during the six months. Fighters hit Quang Tri SAIGON South Vietnamese marines, supported by U.S. fighter-bombers dropping cluster bombs on fleeing North Vietnamese troops, moved forward today toward Quant Tri City. Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported from the northern front that the North Vietnamese were fleeing in small groups before the steady movement of the marines, apparently hoping to escape the U.S.

air strikes and the shelling of American Navy ships offshore. U.S. B52 bombers flew 13 missions around Quang Tri City, striking ahead of the marines to within three miles of the" town's southeastern edge. Mrs. Nixon in Chicago CHICAGO AP The 4th Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival got underway here with First Lady Pat Nixon urging an audience of some 13.000 to keep their culture alive "so others could enjoy it." The festival, held at the International Amphitheatre, attracted 2,000 dancers from Canada, the United States, South America and Europe.

It opened Sunday. Nader in Australia SYDNEY. Australia-Consumer advocate Ralph Nader arrived today to study some species of kangaroos in danger of extinction. Nader told reporters the U.S. Interior Department wanted to have some kangaroo species put on the endangered list to restrict the import of kangaroo products.

(AP Wireotioto) WEATHER FORECAST A broad band of showers is forecast todoy from the Plains across the South to the mid- nnd north- Atlantic states. Rain is forecast for the central and lower Great Lakes. Cool weather is expected for most of the nation except the Southeast. Today's forecast Tomorrow's tides today with showers and a few thundershowers this afternoon. Highs in the 80s.

Cloudy with chance of showers or thundershowers tonight. Ix)ws in the 60s. Sun rises 5:36 a.m. Sun sets 8:32 p.m. Moon rises None Moon sets 12:57 p.m.

Annapolis F.dgewater Fair Haven Sandy PL Shady Side 12:01 11:18 None 10:49 9:55 11:44 12:12 11:29 None 10:52 Hieh am 5: am 5: am 5: arn 5: am 4: pm 4: am 6: am 5: am 5: am 5: I 56 36 25 05 36 16 12 52 49 29 am pm pm pm am pm am pm am pm NEW ORLEANS. a A A plot U.S. officials say was aimed at overthrowing a foreign country--apparently Communist Cuba--has been revealed in the arrest of nine persons in a munitions smuggling scheme. Allegedly stretching from New York to Louisiana, Texas and Mexico, the plot came to light with the arrests Saturday. In addition, nearly seven tons of plastic explosives were seized in a DC4 transport plane at Shreveport, federal agents said.

U.S. Attv. Gerald Gallinu- house said Sunday federal officials "have no reason to believe that the munitions were destined for any country other than Cuba." The complaint charging two of the men, Murray Kessler of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Adler 13. Seal of Baton Rouge, alleged they "knew and believed that this material would be used in an attempted overthrow of a foreign nation." The two men were arrested near the New Orleans International Airport. Gallinghouse refused to say precisely that the overthrow tamtam (lanital fr A and National Report involved Cuba.

The nine were charged with conspiring to smuggle the explosives from the United States to Mexico for future shipment to a third countrv. Among those arrested were Richmond Harper, a prominent South Texas rancher-banker, and Marion Hegler, a former inspector with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service. They were taken into custody at Eagle Pass, where thry reside, then released on $25,000 bond each. The federal complaint alleges dealings by a man known as "Carlos Diaz" to purchase as much as $1.2 million in munitions and weapons, ranging from submachine guns to Mllis.

No nuns, however, were aboard the "plane raided by federal agents at Shreveport on Saturday. The federal complaint alleges Kessler agreed last Wednesday to sell to Diaz 13,500 pounds of C-4 plastic explosives, 7,000 feet of primacorcl, 2,600 electrical blasting caps and 25 electrical detonators for $430,000. The complaint said that last Friday "Kessler told Carlos i a that he had no Mil! rifles, but he had the C-4 as per their agreement." A rental aircraft was flown that afternoon from Hammond, to Shreveport, the complaint said. "A rental van then went to the South Western Pipe Co. in Shreveport and then picked up 13,500 pounds of a plastic explosive commonly known as C-4," the complaint said.

India, Pakistan reach agreement More talks planned SIMLA, India i A Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto reached their first peace agreement early today and promised future negotiations on the other issues between their two nations, including Kashmir and the Pakistani POWs in India. The agreement, which came after five days of talks in this Himalayan resort, said Indian and Pakistani forces will withdraw from the territories they seized last December along India's western border except in Kashmir. There they will maintain the cease-fire line established by the two-week war in December. The pact also contained a pledge ti 1 settle all disputes bilaterally and peacefully, and said steps should be taken tu restore and normalize relations, which Pakistan severed Dec. 6 when India recognized Bangladesh, the former East Pakistan.

The agreement gave no timetable, but called for measures to resume communications and air links, promote travel between their countries, reopen trade, and carry out scientific and cultural exchanges. Excluding Kashmir, India during the December war seized a total of 5.139 square miles of territory in West Pakistan, while Pakistan took 69 square miles of Indian territory In Kashmir, where the troops i remain in position, India took 480 square miles and Pakistan occupied 53 square miles. The agreement said the troops withdrawals would take place within 30 days after ratification by both governments. Radio Pakistan announced that the Pakistani National Assembly would meet July 10 to ratify the agreement. Under the Indian constitution, parliamentary ratification is not necessary.

India and Pakistan have accused each other of frequent violations of the cease-fire in Kashmir and along the demarcation line in the Indian states ol Rajasthan, Gujaiat and Punjab. In many places the troops are bivouacked within sight of each other. Agreeing to renounce force apparently was a victory tor India, because a few hours before he signed the agreement Bhutto told newsmen he dis- liked tiie term "no-war pact" which India had called for. Mrs. Gandhi abandoned a basic stand she had made for months.

She had contended that India must have an over-all settlement, starting with Kashmir, before going on to less emotional issues. Bhutto, who said at a news conference Sunday that Kashmir remained the basic difference between the two, had preferred a piecemeal approach, leaving Kashmir for settlement after relations improve a bit. Apparently Bhutto doesn't think Pakistani public opinion is ready for the concessions he will have to make. Sources close tu the negotiations said India had planned to use the prisoners of war as bargaining levers. (AP Wirophnto) President Ali Bhuvto and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi Hanrahan trial opens Wednesday CHICAGO A The long delayed trial of State's Atty.

Edward V. Hanrahan of Cook County, accused with 13 others of conspiracy to obstruct justice, is si.heduled to open Wednesday i i Judge Phillip J. Romiti. Hawaiian, one of Ins assistants and 12 policemen are accused of attempting to block the prosecution of policemen who participated in a Dec. 4, 1969, weapons raid on a Black Panther party apartment.

Two Panther leaders, Mark Clark, 21, Peona, 111., and Fred Hampton, 20, Chicago, were fa- of tally shot in a fusillade gunfire during the raid. The police raid was reviewed by a coroner's jury, a regular county grand jury and a federal grand jury, but there were no indictments. A special grand jury convened in December 1970, however, indicted Hanrahan and the others in June 1971. The Illinois Supreme Court subsequently rejected arguments by Hanrahan and his codefendants that the indictments were invalid because of publicity. Hanrahan also contended that the special prosecutor, Fisher gets delay in chess tournament EDWARD V.

A A A Barnabas F. Sears, unduly influenced the grand jurors. Hanrahan, meanwhile, was nominated in the March 21 primary election for another four- vear term. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) The International Chess Federation postponed the start of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassky world championship series i Tuesday after Fischer failed to arrive in Iceland over the weekend. The American champion was believed still in New York.

Fischer's 24-game match with the Russian world's champion was to have begun Sunday, and the president of the world federation, Dr. Max Euvve, announced if the American challenger failed to show up by noon Tuesday he would risk forfeiting his chance at the title. Fischer's representatives in Iceland requested the postponement on the grounds that he was unable to play because of fatigue. But it was generally assumed that the request was part of Fischer's campaign to get more money out of the Icelanders. Fischer and Spassky have agreed to split a $125,000 plrse, with the winner taking five- eights.

BORIS SPASSKY Mrs. Gilly tells of Yablonski murders Confession brings comfortable life PITTSBURGH! APl-Annette Gilly's decision to confess her role in the murders of United Mine Workers insurgent Joseph A. "Jock" Yablonski and his wife and daughter brought her more than a relieved conscience. It also gave her the comfortable life of a country gentlewoman--at a cost to Pennsylvania's taxpayers of almost 000 a year." TheSl-year-bid Mrs. Gilly is awaiting her next appearance as a government witness in the trials that have grown out of the Yablonski case on a rolling farm in largely rural Fayette County, in southwestern Pennsylvania.

She is guarded around the clock by FBI agents and state police-- sometimes nearly a dozen of them--and she receives $10 a week in spending money and has regular visits from a hairdresser. "It was her price for cooperation," says a highly placed source close to the continuing investigation of the slayings. "She didn't want tiie death sentence, and she wanted out of jail. Under the circumstances, it was an offer we could not refuse." Mrs. Gilly was moved to the farm two weeks ago after a stay at one of Pennsylvania's most attractive resorts, Seven Springs in Somerset County.

A ski resort in winter, Seven springs in summer becomes a Mecca for nature lovers. It sports a main lodge plus numerous outlying chalets, a championship 18-hole golf course, indoor and outdoor swimming pools, private trout ponds, tennis courts and horseback riding. Mrs. Gilly spent 24 months in Seven Springs at a cost of about 550,000, staying in a heavily guarded wing of the main lodge while the state sought the farm where she now lives. She had few freedoms while there.

She sometimes sunned-always with guards--and usually ate in the dining room at the main lodge, but she was not allowed to make use of the resort's outdoor attractions. "She was very withdrawn," said a Seven Springs employe. "It was like she was in another world. She almost never talked to anyone. Usually, if she wanted something, one of the guards would ask for it." The rent for the farm where Mrs.

Gilly is being held now is said to be about 51,000 a month. That, plus the salaries of the guards, food, surveillance equipment and other mis- celaneous expenses pushes the total cost for Mrs. Gilly's keep to over a month--or nearly $200,000 a year. Mrs. Gilly's confession, given to the state earlier this year, resulted in the indictment of a low-level UMW official in LaFollette, and is said to have prompted her father, Silous Huddleston, another defendant in the murders, to confess also.

Huddleston's revelations resulted in still another indictment, this one involv'ng the secretary-treasurer of a UMW District embracing parts of Tennessee and Kentucky. Special prosecutor Richard A. Sprague has said the conspiracy which led to Yablonski's death goes higher still and more indictments are expected. In all, seven persons are in custody now, and five have either confessed or been convicted. The remaining two are awaiting trial.

"Sure, it was a key government investigator said when asked about the cost of Mrs. Gilly's confession. "But we wanted the people who paid for this thing, not just the people who did it, and her talking unstuck a lot of things. If that's what it takes, well, that's what it takes," Mrs. Gilly won't be sentenced for her role in the killings until she has finished testifying.

But sources say she has been told if she continues to cooperate, she can expect to spend no more than an additional three years in custody. Paul E. Gilly, Annette's husband and one of the defendants who chose to stand trial rather than talk, was convicted and sentenced to death. Over 1,000 soldiers in Miami Beach WASHINGTON (AP) The Army will station between 1,000 and 3,000 paratroopers near Miami by the time the Democratic National Convention opens a week from today. The Justice Department, acting for the federal government, will decide whether to send the troops into Miami Beach.

Pentagon officials say troops will be committed only if disturbances grow too big for police and Florida National Guards- men to handle. "What happens this week will dictate whether the task force will go down from Ft. Bragg early or not," one official said. Four years ago, the Army flew 6,000 soldiers from Texas, Oklahoma and Colorado to the Chicago area on the eve of the Democratic convention. But these troops were not used on the streets when fighting erupted between antiwar demonstrators and Chicago police.

Over California delegate votes McGovern goes to court WASHINGTON (AP)-California supporters of Sen. George McGcvcrr. are socking 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 Maimi Beach.

A hearing scheduler! this mornins 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 committed 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 par- ty and heal some of these wounds and not do any violence to the rules of the party, I wuuld support a compromise," he said on ABC's "Issues and Answers" program. Meanwhile, President Nixon Sunday telephoned former Atty.

Gen. John N. Mitchell to "express his understanding" over Mitchell's decision to resign as the President's campaign manager, Mitchejl, whose wife threatened to leave him unless he resigned from politics, told Nixon obligation which must come first: The happiness and welfare of my wife and daughter." Clark MacGregor, counsel to the President for congressional relations, was named to succeed Mitchell. Old-age aid hike signed Millions of Americans will see a 20 per cent rise in their monthly Social Security checks come Sept. 1 thanks to increased benefits signed into law by President Nixon The increase, boosting the average monthly check for one person from $133 to $161, will mean higher payroll taxes effective Jan.

1. Nixon, in signing the bill, said he foared it would be inflationary..

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