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Bryan-College Station Eagle from Bryan, Texas • 1

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1 Vol 95 No 61 Since 1876 II Cento 7 Guerrillas Hold 55 News Briefs One Killed i Un by cable Wirephoto Representatives from 11 other University System were 1 Bloody Battle Erupts in Mideast be said Partly Cloudy 1 (AP Wirertoto) and marine related programs were offered and wnat is has said there By BOB ROBINSON Eagle Staff Writer i Soldiers of the regular Jordanian Army walk from the still smouldering wreckage of three airliners blown up by Palestinian guerril las Saturday after picking up souvenirs Desert Bedouin tribesmens and Palestinian refugees fl tween the guerrillas and the Jordanian army appeared im minent as Radio Baghdad re ported Iraq had handed over to the Palestinians a 3000 man bri gade of commandos who had been serving unHer the Iraqi command since the 1967 Middle East war Another Palestinian force 5000 regulars is stationed in Syria The Palestinian' Central no rurally in con PORT ARTHUR (AP) A gasoline loaded barge rammed a drawbridge the Intracoastal Canal Sunday night killing one unidentified man and seriously burning five others The barge and the bridge burst into flames The Coast Guard looked today for two missing crewmen The captain of the tug towing the four barges Buddy Howell 38 of Panama City la and Crewman loyd Eubanks of Columbia La were in intensive care at a hospital Three other crewmen were injured They are Harold Gifford of Brigham Ala Jim Millican of Pulaski leui and Joe Shaver of Pasadena Agnew Resumes Political Trek mandos were from Al atah largest of the Palestinian groups The government radio said the guerrillas were elements of the Palestine Liberation Army Iraq claimed there was in i' creased Israeli military activity Costs of schools overlannine in oceanographic research areas and coordination of their efforts Monday Sept 14 1970 a two fold first is a need i 1 hijack cri Swiss or announced Democrats But Agnew there may be a Republican or' two among the members of Con gress he calls radical liberals He has made politicians in that category a special target of scorn nui retusea io name any Agnew has denounced "professional pessimists nattering nabobs of negativism pusillanimous pussyfoot He refused to say whether he or his traveling speechwrit two have been assigned by swarmed over the wrecks shortly after guer rillas and Jordanian soldiers left the airstrip at Al Khana Jordan to salvage what they could from the wreckage (AP from Amman) with the four nation sis committee The eign Ministry then that the organization had a mandate to work for release of all the hostages With the absence from Am man of the Red Cross team Vatican emissary Msgr Jeam Rhodaiin met for 30 minutes with top Popular ront leaders and said the talks were governments He said another meeting was scheduled today guerrillas and two soldiers dead according to Palestinian sources Sources in the guerrilla Rep Ray Lemmon of Houston committee chairman said information obtained from these institutions will help the committee make recbm mendatlons for future oceanographic programs? Sky Marshals NEW YORK (AP) Installing ar med government sky marshals on in ternational flights as an antihijack measure will cost about $80 million a year according to the head of the ederal Aviation Administration John Shaffer AA administrator saidSunday current plans call for a total of 4000 guards each costing about $2000 to be in the air by the end of the year These include BI and Secret Service agents in addition to several hundred soldiers and Treasury men already flying he said By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ifty five British Swiss West German Israeli and US citi zens remained hostages of Arao guerrillas today and their cap tors said nothing short of their to ransom demands will gain their release The other 257 hostages held for as long as a week by the Popular ront for the Libera tion of Palestine reached Nico sia Sunday Many then left Zurich and London while others trol of the many guerrilla has ca on Syria and Iraq to put all Palestinian troops under its command The appeal was made last week during heavy fighting that caused ah estimated 500 casual ties in Jordan The clash Sun day was the first reported since a cease fire between the army and the guerrillas went into ef feet Thursday University Del Mar College the University of Texas System and schools including the Texas san Jacinto college told com mitteemen what oceanography expected to make presentations to the committee today aid Tuesday Rep Robert Byree of Houston said rhe committee was charged with this task last December by the legislatuie The nanel has held sessions with concerned industries ecologist and commercial businesses statement Sunday night 'did not spell out terms for the release of the remaining hostages It said the demands have been communicated to the govern ments involved Negotiations between the Palestinians and a committee of the International Red Cross were suspended Sunday and the Red Cross negotiators flew back to Geneva Officials of the Red Cross and the Swiss government met for more than three hours today Earl Bramblett top ne gotiator said UAW always starts with fantastic and year the demands are more fantastic and vague than The 25 member UAW Interna tional Executive Board Sunday eliminated Chrysler as a strike target Woodcock said the action was MISS AMERICA BORN UNDER SIGN CRAB Phyllis George Displays Live Pet Crab ollowing Crowning By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Central Committe said the com Palestinian guerrillas and Jordanian army troops clashed again Sunday part of the Mid dle East confusion casting a long shadow over opening of the UN General As 5th session The bloody fight near the cease fire line with Israel left 12 along the Israel Jordan cease fire line but the military com mand in Tel Aviv denied this urther confrontation by government commanders as 20 dead left on the battleground i and an estimated 200 more dead and wounded carried away dur ing the night The government operation was aimed at reopening 50 miles of Route 6 from Skoun to the provincial capital of Kom pong Thom 80 miles north of Phnom Penh The 50 mile seg ment has been in enemy hands for three months Although an amphibious force broke the siege of Kompong Thom last Wednesday in a strike up a flood swollen river from huge lake of Tonle Sap success of the entire operation would be judged on the ability to re open route 6 and retake more than 1000 square miles Agnew nimseu was one oi me wno approves it and utters it on recruners Bryan College StaUon Area orecaat: Partly cloudy and warm with chance of ahowera or thunder abowera through Tuesday Tueaday: Sunrise 7:10 am Sunset 7:31 pm Temperature: To noon today low 73 decrees at 3:00 am high decrees at 11:00 nm Hich Sun day 90 low 74 Rainfall: or the past 24 hours endinc today 0 total this week 08 total this month 474 total this year 1134 Wind velocity: rom the at 12 mUes per hour Relative humidity 70 per cent Barometric pressure: 2973 and rlsinc idea he is to see if to put the whole program under one university system or to see if there is a need for a board to be formed to advise the governor and coordinate the' work done by the various Needless to say he added the University of Texas would not be very happy if the program was put under the Texas See COST Page 2 New Depression MIAMI la (AP) A new tropical depression moved westward ioday in the Gulf of Mexico and was about 200 miles west of Key West The National Hurricane Center said however do not favor rapid strengthening of the depression Such conditions often develop into il storms or hurricanes The depression passed just south of the lorida peninsula during the night It was ac companied by numerous heavy showers PHNOM PENH (AP) Ene my troops smashed the van guard of the Cambodian govern first major offensive of the war today forcing Cambo dian soldiers back after an abortive attempt to recapture an important position in the heartland "Enemy gunners fired more than 400 mortar shells into for ward positions of the govern ment soldiers in the village of Taing Kauk 55 miles north of Phnom Penh and followed the barrage with ground assaults and volleys of rocket grenades orty Cambodian soldiers were killed and nearly 50 wounded in the attack that last ed from just after midnight un til past dawn Communist losses were given Sources in Tripoli said the Libyan government had vohji teered to mediate between i he Palestinians and the Western govrnmenfs Libya also would try to con vince the Palestinians to refrain i from further terrorist activity in the three nations the sources said A proposed deal between the Popular ront and West Ger many for the release of two West Germans and the Ameri can husband of one of them was spent their first night of free ddm on Cyprus They were passengers in a Swissair DC8 and a Trans World Airlines Boeing 707 that the Popular ront hijacked Sept 6 and a i BOAC VC10 comman deered last Wednesday The commandos had demanded the release of seven Arab prisoners of Britain West German and Switzerland as the price of their freedom However the seven remained imprisoned and a Popular ront Woodcock said it was felt Chrysler was simply following the lead of GM in the talks Woodcock said he did not an ticipate any move by the Nixon administration to invoke provi sions of the Taft Hartley Act to 1 avert a strike He said there was no problem of grave nation al concern involved in the talks Chief issue in the stalled talks Woodcock said was the demands for a substan tial wage increase Dope Haul GRAND PRAIRIE (AP) dercover narcotics agents said they purchased 7000 LSD tablets for $36000 early Sunday largest such drug haul in history and immediately arrested 1 five persons including a 22 vear nld woman The state officers said th made the buy at a home here paving for the drugs with cash Officers said they also seized a small quantity of marijuana and barbiturates Heavy Rains TAMPICO Mexico (AP) The delivery of food and medicines to thousands of storm isolated Mexicans was postponed because of heavy rains which followed Hurricane Ella There were disputed reports that the hurricane claimed the life of a young unidentified girl at Abasolo Mexican helicopters and boats were delayed with their relief cargoes while vicious rains Sunday pounded a 65 mile wide area centered at Soto la Marina Land Transportation was halted by flooding (Jost Oivrlap Coiiceriis Oceanographic Group Commission Sets Hearing Brazos county commissioners during meeting set Sept 28 at 2 pm as the time for a public hearing on the 1971 budget Commissioners heard and agreed to a request by lawrence Parker to gravel or pave a parking lot on the west side of the Bryan Club They approved a request from the Department of Public Welfare for $3471 for the food stamp program Judge (Bill) Vance said he understood the state still received federal matching funds The foster care bill of $789 for August was paid The judge said it represented the care of nirtA nhtldron Commissioners accepted the second low bid on a 19 inch carriage typewriter for the office because the low bid was on an 18 incH carriage The 19 inch was necessary for report sheets the judge ex plained i PALM SPRINGS Calif (AP) Vice President Spiro Ag new resumes his political safari today stalking such quarry as troubadors of trouble" the of confused congress the of vacilla and above all the elu sive radical liberals After taninnr a tetetrietan pearance in San Diego today a maw me vim jMcoiuciu waned a paign stop in Las Vegas Nev primarily in behalf of William Raggio 43 the Reno district at the White coin such tomey challenging Democratic phrases Sen Howard Cannon 1 it uvcan i inane any umer ence who writes such a line Ag new said since he is the man Cambodia Units Suffer Setback Strike Looms 11110 Against GM i Sunday as its strike target if no agreement was reached The union and GM met for two hours Sunday and side termed the meeting They said there was'plen ty of time to reach a settlement today but each insisted the oth er should make the first conces sion The strike would idle some 344000 union members in 145 lo cals in the United States and Canada Members of 27 locals were exempted from strike ac tion bcause their facilities sup ply ord and Chrysler which were eliminated as national strike targets is quite certain a strike will begin in US and Canadian plants at midnight UAW President Leonard Wood cock said at the conclusion of the meeting with GM Sunday 14 Paget Youths On Straight Line Beauty Says ATLANTIC CITY (AP) new Miss America sees herself as a spokesman for the young of the United States and she thinks they are a wholesome lot a The brunette beauty queen 21 year old Phyllis George of Denton Tex says she believes 95 per cent of the youth are a straight tine and onlys5 per cent are with drugs and Asked what her message to youth would be she replied have learned that the way to get something done is not through violence" Miss George said riot is the most press ing problem Ashked about the war in Vietnam she said the public should support the men fighting there have many friend over in 5 she added just came back aud he lost a leg He told me the morale is great but that the men are affected by the demonstrations at Bryan College Station Texas I Comics 10 The urged Raggio to make that race and Deaths '4 fit Jmaw himcplf nnn nf fha IV Editorial 6 amily '4 Horoscope 9 Spot 11 Snorts' 78 IS Stocks 2 erative phrases describing the Television 3 politicians the vice president is Want Ads 12 13 challenging IRST BANK TRUST NUM Weather Elsewhere 2 Virtually all of course are BER ONE OR A REASON Hostages rejected Sunday by the Bonn government Two crewmen from the TWA jetliner met with newsmen' Sun day night and told them the hostages were being 'treated well' They were marched away at gunpoint before newsmen could ask questions The captain Carroll Wood Prairie Village Kan also was brought to the com mando headquarters but was kept under guard in an adjoin ing room Dalgleish BRISBANE Austrailia (AP) ourteen days after1 arriving from America with a kidney rancis Dalgleish the 27 year old Australian who allegedly hoaxed townsfolk of McCamey Tex into believing he was a doctor is still un dergoing medical tests in a public ward In the rnval Rrishanp TTnsnital I want to do is go home to Townsville Dalgleish told newsmen today the doctors have told me it will be at leasts were two of the' primary con planned a week before they can make a decision cerns airea oy tne lexas nouse on whether I can be Townsville is in North Queensland Committee on Oceanography this morning In the hearings which began at 8:30 am in the Ramada Innv representatives from Texas the campaign platform He does Two days of congressional lt without a hitch even though campaigning in three states some he phrases seem a bit have produced a stream of allit tongue twisting as in "hopeless noliticians the vice Dresident is challenging Ubiiin J1'! liLtotalUh WdiiiiiMMM Desert Souvenir Hunt DETROIT (AP) A strike against General Motors seemed a certainty today as negotiators for both the mammoth corpora tion and the United Auto Work claimed the other side was inflexible Negotiations at GM were scheduled to resume nt 10 am EST just 14 hours before the midnight strike deadline GM was chosen by the UAW taken because Chrysler had in dicated it was not a "tree in bargaining He said GM appeared to be holding the final for a pattern set ting pact 1 at ord and Chrysler would not be affected by a strike ord struck for spvpn wppkq in 19fi7 wa plimi I nated as a strike target on Sept 9 i HE IjAILY Xs.

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