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The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 1

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TIE DAILY OKLAHOM AN Partly Cloudy, Warmer; HighGC, Low 33 Map on Page 12 Jloroing- and Evening October Average Daily. Paid Circulation 10c COPYRIGHT, 1971, OKIHOMA PUBLISHING 500 BROADWAY, OKLAHOMA CITY FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1971 Meet and Ours Loses, 35-31 30,000 Greet Huskers Neb. (AP) Nebraska's top-ranked football team was greeted by a crowd estimated by Lincoln police to be 30,000 as the Cornhuskers returned home after their 35-31 triumph over Oklahoma. Fans began gathering at the airport 3 hours before the plane landed. By Frank Boggs Staff Writer NORMAN They talk about how distasteful some of those four-letter words are, but of all the' bad "words in Webster's book, the worst is defeat.

It has no niceties. about it. It's a word that slaps then' sneers and' lingers arouhd'to watch the victim Some folks can take it and 1 It' will not be registered' irt any football polls, Oklahoma's football team displayed class in defeat here Thursday. rTha't is the most difficult time to show" off that stuff. Chuck' Fairbanks showed some.

This' will the major defeat of his lifetime, sad, glad, mad, wonderful, awful all those feelings wrapped themselves repeatedly around each in the record throng of 63,385. For all the buildup this materpiece had received, realization quickly romped into a decisive lead over anticipation. It all had been so long in coming, yet no hour ever lasted longer than that final one ahead of the kickoff. You'd look at your watch at 1:20, and then a half-hour or so later, you would look again and it would be 1:21. It was much colder than '19 degrees.

Wind swirled out of the south, and it seemed much stronger than the reported 16 miles an hour. But even in the cold, palms of hands Continued on Page 4, Col. I and closer to a touchdown that would be registered as the last on this gray, cold afternoon. "We had to stop 'em," said Shelley. "We jus't didn't do it.

That's what was going through my mind. The whole season hung on this drive right here, and we just couldn't do it." It was an afternoon that ripped at your innards, whether you wore the red of Oklahoma or the red of Nebraska. Not often do battles billed as classics in advance turn out to be such. This one met every qualification as one of the truly brilliant displays of college football. There were countless thoughts that crowded into your mind while watching.

Happy, perhaps. Certainly it is until now. "Obviously, I am extremely disappointed in said the coach. "I am not at all disappointed in our football team. played their-hearts out today and came up short.1 There is no reason to drag our heels Crowd story and pictures, Pago I 9 or beashamed or anything of that nature." Only the brave were at the finish when Nebraska, truly.

the nation's No. 1 football team, was hammering and clawing and battling for its life en route to the touchdown which resulted in the.Huskers' escaping with that dramatic. 35-31 conquest. John Shelley.iwas there; He's the Sooners' safety, and he was playing on a swollen left knee he had injured in the first half. Nebraska kept pushing closer and closer Prison Hostages Freed by Rebels Keep Missiles' Hm 500 Relumed Out of Israel, Stabbed Guard To Their Ceils Nixon Warned Egypt Claims 13 Arab Nations OK Sadat War Plan In New Jersey Stabbed Warden, Two of Guards Enter Hospital Felt Helpless RAHWAY, N.J.

(AP) "If any of us had been armed with a gun there would have been no riot today," said injured Rahway Prison guard Edward O'Beirne. The guard made his comments at Rahway Hospital where he had been admitted with a stab wound suffered during the prison rioting Wednesday night. "But we had nothing, not even a club with which to defend ourselves, and there were over 400 of them, some of them armed with knives," he explained. O'Beirne, 42, whose condition was listed as fair, was one of at least six guards injured since the rioting broke out in the prison auditorium Wednesday night. He was stabbed in the back, and struck on the right wrisl.

"If one of us had a gun they would have known that at least one of them would have got" shot;" he continued. "That would have held them back. As it. stood, they bad Nothing, to leap from. The prison guards are not armed, to prevent the prisoners from seizing the weapons, officials say.

O'Beirne, a father of three, said the riot started when an inmate whom he know only as "Thomas" entered the auditorium where other inmates were Continued on Page 2, Col. 5 Chest Pains Send Meany to Hospital WASHINGTON (AP) Several hours, later Mrsi'David Hall serves Mrsi James Exon as Gov. Hall, right, and Gov. Exon look on. (Staff Photo by Robert Taylor) HELICOPTER HAS FIRE IFs Exciting Before-Game; Too For Hall and Nebraska Gov.

James Exon, the' excitement (arte Jerry crew chief: -on "the said as 'the craft was preparing to" land near the University of. Oklahoma golf course -an seal blew out. wearing a while blazer with a red emblem which read "University of Oklahoma, National Champions 1971." After the game he may have given the jacket to Gov. Exon, Albert and his wife joined the Halls and Exons for the holiday dinner and the Following the game, a 'Continued on Page 2, Col. 2 Mrs: Bob guests of (he Exons.

and' Mrs. Exon were in-' Oklahoma" to have thanksgiving dinner and watch the game with Gov. and Mrs, Hall. They all celebrated Thanksgiving early, while they all had something to be thankful for. Gov.

Hall appeared at Thanksgiving dinner in the governor's mansion Thursday even- before got 'to-, the OU-Nebraska. A minor fire 'broke on the helicopter carrying the governors, their wives and guests to Norman. There were a few tense but the craft landed safely, and no one was injured, Sparks flew and smoke billowed out of the helicopter, but there were no flames. The other passengers on the helicopter were David Albert, son of U. S.

House Speaker Carl Albert of Oklahoma, and Mr. and By Associated Press Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was reported Friday to have warned President Nixon against carrying out alleged U.S. intentions to supply Israel with long-range Lance ground-to-ground missiles. The warning was reporl-cd as Egypt's chief of staff said 13 Arab nations at a militarv meel-, Sag; Israel. In Tel Aviv, Prime Minister Golda Moir told Israelis "lo live with ihe possibility of re- newed war" and again rebuked the United States for not delivering moro warplanos.

Nixon Messaged Sadat senl a message tn Nixon, according to Ihe semiofficial newspaper Al Ahram, warning him that supplying Israel with the missiles "would constitute a grave escalation In the Middle East situation," Al Ahram said the issue was the main topic of discussion in two meetings Thursday between Hafez Ismail, Sadat's top national security affairs adviser, and Donald C. Bergus, chief U.S. diplomatic representative in Cairo. Ismail later met with the Soviet charge d'affaires. Lance Considered The paper said the Pentagon has been considering for some time supplying Lance missiles to Israel as a substitute for shipments of Phantom jets, currently suspended by the United Slates.

Ii said that the Lance, while not matching the Phantoms as an offensive weapon, was viewed by some military experts as Continued on Page 2, Col. Veteran labor leader Fuchs, said a cardiogram showed Moany's condition Nixon Seeking Court Order Call by Nixon Tr Fnrj Dock Strike Caps Big Day RAHWAY, N. .1. (AP) -Some 500 rebellious prisoners ended a 24-hour takeover of two wings of the maximum security Rahway State Prison Thursday night, releasing their remaining five hostages in line with an agreement struck with state officials. Gov.

William CahiU announced that Warden- V. a I and three 'guards 'were freed Thursday night by the rebel inmates after a meeting with a group of newsmen and state officials to air grievances about prison conditions. A fourth guard was released at the "start of the meeting, Two other-hostages had been released earlier. Normalcy Sought "I'm hopeful now the complete order will be restored and we'll get back to normalcy at Rahway Prison," CahiU told a news conference in a school near the prison where he had' followed the crisis that began with rioting Wednesday night. Vukcevich, 43, was taken to Rahway Hospital, where officials said he was being treated for lacerations of the back apparently from stab wounds and injuries of the pelvis and spine.

Dr. Richard Newman, acting prison physician, said the warden had suffered a stab wound but appeared to be in good condition. Warden Knifed? Some of the freed guards also were said lo have been injured and at least two were hospitalized with injuries including a "possible fractured arm and back injuries. Inmates told newsmen inside the prison that the warden had been injured by a prison guard who pulled a switchblade knife during the Wednesday night fighting. The prisoners released a statement they said was signed by the warden saying he was not harmed by the Inmates' and that they had sought medical aid for him.

The hostages were freed nearly 24-hours after being seized by an estimated 500 Inmates In the auditorium of the maximum security prison in a residential and industrial center 12 miles south of Newark. Attorneys to Enter warden and six guards originally were taken hostage, One guard was released earlier Thursday to relay the message to state officials that the inmates wanted to 'negotiate. A second was freed from a locked' room Continued on Pago 2, Col. .2 George Meany was admitted to a hospital early Thursday less than a day-after his return from aa AFL-CIO convention that was marked by charges and countercharges of rudeness to. President Nixon.

A preliminary diagnosis indicated "a possible spasm in the coronary arteries," his physician, Dr. Marvin Fuchs said. Meany, 77--year-old president of the AFL-CIO, has been "under considerable stress," Fuchs said. Dr. Fuchs said Meany suffered severe chest pains, but they had disappeared by the time Meany was taken from his home to the emergency coronary unit of the George Wash-, ington University Hospital about 5 a.m.

EST. cooling off period, Mitchell was expected to "seek the court orders in the 56-day strike on Fri-' day. Nixon said -he was; informed that "there is little chance of a prompt settlement" and had decided; to SAN CLEMENTE, (AP) President' Nixon moved Thursday to end the East and Gulf coasts dock strike, ordering Atty. Gen. John Mitchell to seek, court injunctions to get ther 45,000 idled longshoremen back to work for an 80-day; to be normal, with his pulse, heart bent and blood pressure all normal.

Because of the stress which he said the union leader has been under, Fuchs ordered Meany to remain in the hospital for several days. In midafternoon, Dr. Fuchs reported from the hospital that Meany's condition was "very satisfactory," The physician said all lests continued to be quite normal and that the patient was resting comfortably. Fuchs said Meany was told Detroit had defeated Kansas City 32 to 21 in their Thanksgiving Day National Football League game and he expressed himself as "delighted," NORMAN Afler holding at the phone for 30 minutes, President Nixon finally got through to Coach Bob Devaney in the Neb a a locker room Thursday following the Cornhuskers' 35-31 victory over Oklahoma. The phone rang in the press box seconds after' the game ended and the operator announced that the Western White House was calling.

Attempts to make connections between the press box phone and Continued on Page 2, Col. 3 FBI SEARCHING IN 4 STATES Air Pirate, $200 000 Vanish seek the injunctions halting, the walkout for 80 days under provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act. The President said the strike threatened to "imperil national health and safety" if- permitted to Nixon acted after receiving a report from a special board' of inquiry. The. two, issues on which the board said the parties hung-up" were minimum guarantees on pension and welfare contributions.

They concluded 1hat there has been a breakdown-in negotiations aver these "very sticky issues." In Washington, a spokesman for the Justice Department said the. department's civil division had already begun work on the injunction petitions. Warm-Up Expected Over City Today It was a bleak day for Oklahoma City Thursday, but the outlook for Friday is belter with a high around 60, wind southerly at eight to 18 miles an hour and an overnight low in the low 30's. The city had the state's coolest high Thursday with a 49, Guymon, afler reporting the state low of 30 Thursday morning, was warmest by afternoon at 64. Local SOONER.

CRUSADER pushes huge nature trail a national park across country." Page id, ROBINSON AVENUE will have" some periodic detours for a. while. -Page 9. State HOLIDAY TRAFFIC takes lives of two young men, one woman as Thanksgiving period begins. Page PROTESTORS call off sit-in at Education Center Building, -Page 5.

Nation FIRST SNOWSTORM of the season stalls traffic, parades and other holiday activities. Page 20. CONSUMER CRUSADER Ralph Nader accuses federal agency of 'callous disregard' for safety, Page 5. world SOUTH VIETNAMESE troops maneuver without opposition In eastern -Page 5. PAKISTAN claims India's offensive turned 'back; India still denies it's fighting, Page 28.

Inside Features Amusements 32, 33 TV Closcup 27 DIasslfied Ads 3i-43 Today 29 jomics 44 Wbmoii's News MltorWB on Ddivcry Service 239-7171 Iporfs 21-27' Calls 232,131 1 SEATTLE, Wash. (AP) FBI agents in four states searched Thursday for a rniddle-agcd man who commandeered a jetliner carrying 36 persons, was paid 5200,000 ransom 'and then apparently made an unprecedented escape by parachute. Officials said they believed the pirate, who they said used the name D. B. Cooper, bailed out of The plane as it flew from Seattle to Reno, Nov.

The search for him extended across Washington, Ore two stewardesses were allowed to leave the plane at Seattle. Four crew members remained on board. When the jet was searched at the Reno airport, the man, the money, the briefcase and two parachutes were missing, the FBI said. "There's no way he could have gotten off In Reno," said Harold E. Campbell special agent in charge of the FBI there.

"'We had-the airport covered. We know he didn't get off that plane." The plane landed in Reno about seven hours Continued on Page 2, Col. 6 5200,000 ransom money paid the man was believed to be the largest such sum ever delivered to a pirate, an FBI spokesman said. The FBI in Reno said the pirate, dressed In a business suit, wore dark glasses throughout the flight and told the crew he had dynamite in a briefcase he was carrying. He demanded the money and four parachutes while the plane refueled in Seal-tie, then ordered the jet to fly below 10,000 feet altitude and with its rent-stairwell lowered en route to Reno.

'The 36 passengers and believed the man was using an alias, An FBI agent in Portland said Cooper was "the name he used when he bought his ticket, but he's probably no more B. Cooper than lam." The Northwest Airlines Boeing 727 jot was commandeered, between Portland, and Seattle Wednesday. It landed in Reno Wednesday night with no trace of the pirate aboard. If the pirate successfully parachuted from the plane It would bo the first such Instance in the history of piraled airliner s. The into gon, Nevada and northern California.

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