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Galesburg Register-Mail from Galesburg, Illinois • Page 12

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12 Golesburg Register-Mail, Galesburg, III. Saturday, July 8, 1972 Week's Headlines: Hijackers Killed; Democrat Delegate Battle Continues By H. J. HELLER United Press International When the shooting started "1 instinctively hit the floor," said Maurice Embley. "It's not like The Week In Review it is on not enough time lo be scared." Embley was describing his reactions to the shootout which took when FBI agents rushed a jetliner on the ground in San Francisco and killed two hijackers who had commandeered the plane while it was cnroule from Sacramento.

The hijackers were identified I by the FBI as Dmitrov Alexicv and Michael D. Azmanoff, both 28, who came to the United States from Bulgaria in 1908. Demanding $800,000, parachutes and flight plans for Siberia, the hijackers held 79 passengers and five crew members hostage in a remote runway of San Frrancisco International Airport. Agents Get Aboard An FBI agent posing as a pilot was allowed on board. Three other agents also managed to get on the plane and after a burst of gunfire the two hijackers were dead.

Embley was not hurt in the melee. Some others were not so lucky. E. H. Stanley Carter, 66, a retired railwayman from Cana da was killed, apparently hit by a hijacker's bullet.

Also injured were two other passengers, including Victor Yung, 56, who plays the cook in the television "Bonanza" series The action by the FBI provoked criticism by some of the passengers aboard the Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner. Yung said he was surprised at the shooting, and "it's very In The Armed Forces difficult to say if the FBI did the right Asked about-the advisability of the FBI's opening fire in quarters crowded with passes gers, FBI Special Agent Robert Gebhardt said: "Certainly we're not pleased that three were wounded, but somebody had to make a decision. We wanted to stop the hijacking, and stop it we did." He was backed by PSA President .1. Floyd Andrews who said "I think the FBI conducted themselves in the 1 best rfianncr possible and good Fischer sent a Jetler of apology decision in deciding to appro- to his opponent Boris Spassky hend the hijackers." WASHINGTON The Demo-; a i National Committee asked the Supreme Court to convene in special session and to overrule the appeals court decision awarding Sen. George S.

McGovern all 271 of California's national convention delegates. REYKJAVIK, Iceland Thei great chess crisis involving! American champion Fischer was resolved Thursday. of Russia for "my disrespectful Spassky, the cur rent champion, won the draw and will open the matches next Tuesday playing while. triggered by torrential rains left more than 100 persons dead or missing in southern and wes-j tern Japan. told a United Press International Correspondent that China and the Soviet Union independently advised North Vietnam to settle with the United States without much further dcloy.

SAIGON More than 1,200 South Vietnamese troops had pushed Into the southern part of Quang Tri City, the first provincial capital to fall to the North Vietnamese spring often sivc. In the air war, U.S. jets flew 340 air strikes into North Vietnam Wednesday to equal a record number of sorties north of the Demilitarized Zone. In Northern Ireland, bombings and shootings continued despite the June 26 truce declared by the Provision- 1 al wing of the Irlsih Republican Army (IRA). SEOUL North and South Korea agreed on July 4 to try to work for peaceful reunification of the peninsula after 27 years of confrontation.

SIMM-India and Pakistan reached agreement in to end 25 years of hostility between the New Delhi and Rawalpindi governments. The accord provides for return to India of all land lost in the two nations' December war except areas along the Kashmir cease-fire line. Plans for Rodeo, Fair Being Made At New Windsor NEW WINDSOR Plans for the New Windsor Fair, Rodeo and Horse Show Aug. 17-19 are being made, and fair books will soon be available, officials announced. Carl Bloom, parade chairman, said anyone is welcome to enter floats in the parade, which will be held at 4 p.m.

on the first day of the 3-day event. Parade categories are churches; senior and junior organizations; commercial; individual; marching groups and antique cars. A kiddie parade will be heldi Aug. 18 at 1 p.m. Floats in the kiddie parade are not to be larger than 4x6 feet; floats will not be allowed in both parades.

Seaman Ret. Jerry M. Barker, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.

J. Howcrton, 1248 Monroe was gradu a recently from recruit training at the Naval Training Center, Great Lakes. Barker Lt. Cmdr. L.

B. (Bart) Corgnati son of Mr. i.nd Mrs. L. B.

Corgnati, Monmouth, is serving aboard the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid as a deck officer in charge of ejecting pianos. He had served aboard the aircraft carrier Wasp in the same capacity before nav al authorities decided to decommission the ship. His wife and three children live at Quon- sct Point, R.I. Army Pvt. Doug E'.

Ortery, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Ortery Monmouth, recently completed eight weeks of basic training at the U.S. Army Training Center, Infantry, Ft. Polk, La.

His wife, Cindy, lives near Roseville. Army Pvt. John W. LcDuc, whose wife lives along Knoxville Road, recently completed eight weeks of basic training at the U.S. Army Training Center.

Infantry, Ft. Polk, La. At Dn Quoin Maximum weight of a regulation bowling ball is 16 pounds. WATCH! Brother, Sister Are Reunited After a 58-Year Separation DU QUOIN, 111. (UPI) i who retired last September as such a long time, Nick Gidakia mathematics, chemistry and and Ana Gidakovic are professor of a Belgrade a lot to talk about.

university, are two relatives Gidak, 72, a retired Du Quoin coal miner, and his sister, 58' of Belgrade, Yugoslavia, saw each other in person for the first time June 30 in a St. Louis bus station even though they had' corresponded and exchanged pictures. The meeting was a tearful Mr. and Mrs. George Vuletic of Novi Sad, Yugoslavia.

Their guide is Mrs. Eileen Tennant, Detroit, one of Gidak's daughters. Mrs. Tennant gave them a tour of New York then took them to Florida for a look at Cape Kennedy and Disney World before flying to St. Louis for the long-awaited meeting.

"I left my husband, Edward, in Detroit lo take care of the children." said Mrs. Tennant. SPECIALS ONLY Sunday 12-5 Monday 9-9 Tuesday 9-5 22' K-Mart "200" Lawnmower 3 H.P. Front Discharge Reg. $49.96 $43 Nested Iced Tea Mix 10 Per Pkg.

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Selection Reg. $1.44 Now, Ana is visiting and seeing America her brother came to as a boy of 14 before she was born. Accompanying Miss pressed with America and the of living here," said Mrs. Tennant, who has visited Yugoslavia with her husband. The visitors will leave Du Quoin next Wednesday for Tucson, and a visit with Mrs.

Tennant's brother, Donald Gidak. Thev will be joined there bv two of her sisters, Mrs. Mary Ann Burnett of Carlsbad. and Mrs. Helen Beidel of Carlsbad.

N.M. Another brother Edward Gidak, lives in Houston, Tex. They will see the Grand Canyon, visit Las Vegas and then stop in Detroit en route back to New York and their plane home July 28. Meanwhile in Du Quoin, the' visitors arc seeing some of! Southern Illinois, resting and doing a lot of talking. I "Every young man at home! in those days dreamed of com ing to America'" said Gidak, one of 15 children in the family, i Gidak retired two years ago' at the age of 70.

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