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Guide to features Too much MONDAY PARTLY CLOUDY. NEAR TUESDAY LITTLE CHANGE BRIDGE 38 CLASSIFIED 30-37 COMICSXWRD 33 39 DEATHS 29 EDITORIALS RNANCLAL 15-17 LIVNG 12.13 CBiTUARtB 2SM SENIOR SET 30 SPORTS 21.26 TV-RADIO 39 THEATERS 18.19 HIGH TIDES 4:41 A.M, iM P.M1 FULL REFORT PAGE 39 Vol. 202, No. 17 1972, Globe Newspaper Co, MONDAY MORNING, JULY 17, 1972 Telephone 288-8000 40 Pages 15 1 Criminal charges may be dropped Court many without trial, judge says lin took the unprecedented step of suspending all civil litigation and scheduling only criminal sessions to accommodate demands for criminal trials. The extraordinary sessions duced backlogs in criminal cases, but district attorneys predict gluts of nearly equal proportion in the fall.

By Joseph Rosenbloom Globe Staff The Massachusetts; Superior Court may have to dismiss criminal charges against numerous defendants next winter because of an inability to provide speedy trials, as state and Federal constitutions demand, according to Chief Justice Walter H. McLaughlin of the Superior Court. This forecast follows the release ills: 8c I MX-! 1w jr 4 rrT.r-' 1 Laughlin assumed that voters in November will approve, as most observers expect, an amendment to the state Constitution requiring judges to retire af 70. In his appeals for more judgeships for the court, McLaughlin has warned that it faced a dire future, but in the past he has been less specific as to time and consequence. During May and June, McLaugh- SLt VIA i 4.j i7T ifflC 3 Civil litigants typically wait three four years for trial.

McLaughlin to jp I V1 6- 5TW Vgy 1 rv 1 0 CHIEF JUSTICE McLAUGHLIN sad commentary air waits turn in Boston began "a second week of hot, sticky weather yesterday, as temperatures throughout New England hovered around 90 degrees for the sixth day in a row. The high temperature at Logan Airport was 93, only one degree shy of last Wednesday's 1972 high temperature. A frontal system which had been expected to provide some relief has stalled along the Canadian border, and the forecast is for more of the same through tomorrow. Seeking relief, Boston residents headed for the beaches, clogging expressways and intersections along the way. And when they finally got there, things were not much better.

Either the parking lot required stickers, available only to local residents, or the lots were already full, offering no haven even to the sticker-holders. The only winners seemed to be the parking lot operators, who collected from 50 cents to $3 per car, sometimes without guaranteeing a parking space. "Some people, tell us it's illegal," said one, "so let 'em use the other Two reporters spent a day at the beach yesterday to see what it was like. Stories, Page 27. IN THIS CORNER Sloop Fever: It's incurable By Emmett Meara Special to The Globe John Kippin of Ipswich caught a classic case of "Friendship Sloop Fever" and his life hasn't been the same since.

You won't find this fever listed in a medical dictionary but it has consumed a good chunk of Kippin's life and wallet. In the past decade, "Friendship Sloop Fever" has grown to epidemic proportions along the New England coast. It involves the obsession with owning and sailing a Friendship sloop. Virtually extinct as a breed of sailboat in 1960, they are enjoying such a comeback that-now they're being produced in fiberglass as a remedy for those afflicted with the "fever" who can't find one of the old wooden hull originals built as far back as 1875. Like salmon returning to their spawning grounds, each year now the Friendship sloops, their owners and crews head back to Friendship, Maine, where Wilbur Morse designed and built the first sloop in 1875 when he was 19 years old.

Thia year the gathering and racing of more than 50 of the sloops will held between July 27 and 29. John Kippin still has the" fever, which comes in three stages. The first symptoms come after seeing or hearing about the craft's legendary accommodation with the sea, especially when mother nature is a bit angry-' FRIENDSHIP, Page 5 INTERE6T.irijtefd i yrrt or lonfir. iff Horn Owners Federal raw Cooler Canada Friendship MOVING OUT troops in foreground take up firing positions as residents of Lenadoon Estate in Belfast, Northern Ireland, pack their furniture in preparation for moving out to protest the army's occupation of a school and some apartment buildings in the Catholic area. (AP) ay free of 1971 statistics indicating that the backlog of cases, both civil and criminal, has reached, critical proportions.

No current statistics are available. But as of June 30, 1971, 61,822 civil and 28,330 criminal cases awaited trial in Superior Court. The number of criminal cases increased 2k times in four years. In predicting the dismissals, Mc- McGovern to select the Missouri senator as his running mate. Moreover, the odds against upsetting President Nixon did not disturb Eagleton.

'Jimmy the Greek rates this ticket at 4-1," Eagleton said on CBS-TV's "Face the Nation." Referring to his fellow Missouri-an in 1948, Eagleton added, "Don't forget that Harry Truman went to the post at 12-1." "I never posed as Mandrake the Magician and I'm not an intimate of Mr. Meany," Eagleton said. EAGLETON, Page 14 facing the nation tt.i-.; 1 estimated that the backlog of civil cases is now ten percent higher than a year ago. According to McLaughlin, th amendment will increase the burden on the Superior Court. He said it would force the retirement of 12 of the 45 associated judges on the bench.

BACKLOG, Page 6 2000 protest 'occupation' Ulster Catholics abandon Manchester Guardian BELFAST The latest response to the violence in Northern Ireland abandonment of homes continued yesterday as between 2000 and 3000 Belfast Catholics. Drotestine what they call army occupation of their Lenadoon avenue area, refugee center. The well-organized exodus left the Lenadoon area of the Suffolk housing development deserted except the old, the sick and a number of utner resiaems marcnea mue io a elic tootbail ground wnere lood and bedding were provided. Over the weekend the British army had negotiated with the residents, who were led by a priest. The Catholics objected to army occupation of a school and some nearby apartments after a heavy IRA offensive against a permanent army post in Lenadoon avenue.

At an open-air meeting yesterday afternoon, Rev. Jack Fitzsimmons, told a crowd of 1000 that the time had come to move out of the area. He said the homes would be guarded while the residents were away. The crowd was not told how long they were supposed to stay away, nor the fact that the army had left several positions in a compromise effort. The exodus followed the steady walkout of Roman Catholic families as Ulster violence intensifies.

A stream of families left all last week by train and car for the Irish Republic. More than 5000 persons, mainly women and children, had departed by Saturday night. ULSTER, Page 7 Fischer holds slim advantage at adjournment United Press International REYKJAVIK, Iceland The third game of the Bobby -Fischer- Boris Spassky world chess chanrni- i onship match was adjourned yester- day with the temperamental Ameri- can challenger one pawn ahead after i 40 moves. Fischer and the world champion began the third game of their challenge match in a small room with only the judges present. The moves were relayed to an audience in an adjacent hall by closed-circuit television despite angry threats by Fischer to boycott the match.

Experts said Fischer's position after 30 moves was superior to Spassky's but that the two grand masters were materially equal. home Sharpening up for Eagleton to woo Meany, Daley Campaign Dole sees risk in Globe Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Sen. Robert J. Dole, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said yesterday that Republicans are running the risk of making "George McGovern the underdog" by attacks on the South Dakota senator's alleged radicalism. Dole, appearing on the NBC-TV program "Meet the Press," said that attacks by Vice President Spiro Agnew might thus create a feeling of sympathy for McGovern.

Dole was' quick to predict that Agnew would remain on the ticket with President Nixon. "I'll make a flat prediction that it will be a Nixon-Agnew ticket, but I don't make the decision," he said. I SEN. ROBERT DOLE mpcting 72 rapping McGovern As' for Agnew's assertions that McGovern is a "frog," Dole said, "Well, I serve in the Senate with both George McGovern and Tom Eagleton and I know that Vice President Agnew must make his own judgments on Dole said that McGovern's campaign theme reflected "an isolationist statement come home America. What does he mean? "I think President Nixon has been doing what Sen.

McGovern has suggested for three-and-a-half years, both in opening a dialogue with China, and in pulling troops back from Vietnam and all over the world. DOLE, Page 14 j. 1 tlir press i I By Martin F. Nolan Globe Washington Bureau WASHINGTON Sen. Thomas F.

Eagleton, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, yesterday said one of his first tasks will be to try to win over AFL-CIO president George Meany, Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, and other Democratic leaders dismayed over the presidential nomination of Sen. George McGovern. Flashing his i a 1 as a party regular, Eagleton showed confidence he would be successful in wooing both labor and the mayor. His strong pro-labor record was among the assets which persuaded SEN THOMAS EAGLETON iil 'V3Vi'' Vr If'.

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