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The San Francisco Examiner from San Francisco, California • 15

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ap 1 IXExamitipr-Page 15 Lill. liUSe April 14, 1972 Million Expected A I Apollo Launch For Space ShuUlc Skyjacker Took Jet to 'Tell Story' UAW Leader To Visil Huss DETROIT (AP) -President Leonard Woodcock of the United Auto Workers says he has accepted a long-standing Invitation from the Russian metal workers union and plans to visit the Soviet Union in July. Woodcock also said he plans to make stops in Poland and West Germany, but that dates for the trip have not been firmed up. K-X A a I tl In moekups of their spacecraft and Mattingly the command craft pilot who will be alone in lunar orbit while his companions explore a hilly area of the moon was given another briefing by geologists on what to look for and photograph as he circles the moon. Ground crewmen at Launch Complex 39 spent most of the day loading liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen aboard the spacecraft to activate the fuel cells that provide power in space.

Young, 41, and Duke, 36, are scheduled to land on the moon next Thursday afternoon and will make three excursions across its surface In a battery powered Moon Rover during their record 73-hour stay. CAPE KENNEDY -(UPI) The weather outlook was good today for Sunday's scheduled launch (at 9:54 PST) of Apollo 16. Astronauts John W. Young, Charles M. Duke and Thomas K.

Mattingly held final rehearsals today for their mission to the moon. Associate Director of Launch Operations Paul C. Donnelly said technicians monitoring every step of the week-long countdown had found "nothing suspect." Crowds were beginning to fill motels, hotels and campsites around the spaceport. Living facilities have been booked solid for months in advance. Official predict the crowd will reach a million by Sunday.

The three astronauts held final practice sessions today From Page 1 merit requires north south polar orbits, the paths followed by most military satellites now launched from Vandcnberg. By launching south from the California base, the boosters also can be dumped into the sea. Polar orbits can't be flown from the Cape because the boosters would overfly land areas. Recover Boosters The boosters will be recovered and refurbished for later launches. The orbital section, which can carry as many as 12 persons, will return to earth and land like a conventional aircraft.

After refurbishment it will be ready to fly again in two weeks. The shuttle facilities will cost $150 million at Cape Kennedy and $500 million at Vandenberg. The entire product is budgeted at $5.5 billion. The shuttle will be capable of delivering communications, weather, military and other satellites into orbit, and returning to earth pay-loads which need repair. The shuttle also could be used as an interim space station, supporting its crew and as many as eight scientists, engineers and doctors, who could conduct experiments.

Later, the shuttle could be used to ferry men and supplies between earth and permanent orbiting space laboratories. Such a laboratory is envi- sioned in the and MEXICAN SKYJACKER RICARDO CHAVEZ-ORTIZ He holds unloaded pistol used in crime AP Photo "tell my story" on radio and TV and to see a specific Los Angeles police artist. After Chavez-Ortiz let the 27 passengers on the flight, which had originated at Ml not, N.D., disembark, keeping four crew members aboard, a radio newsman and TV newsman and cameraman went aboard and interviewed him for more than two hours. Hundreds of FBI agents and other lawmen assembled at the airport made no move to capture the skyjacker before his surrender. Chavez-Ortiz told authorities he came to the United States from Mexico illegally 15 years ago.

At times during the broadcast, Chavez-Ortiz was despondent, at others cheerful, as he recited a long list of grievances, from unfair landlords to inadequate educational opportunities for his children. At the end, he ceremoniously turned his gun over to pilot Willie Hunt, saying: "Sir. I surrender to you. This is my gun, It is LOS ANGELES -(AP)-A Mexican father of eight who skyjacked a jetliner, then gave a rambling interview to newsmen us he waved a handgun later found to be empty was described by authorities today as being motivated mostly be personal troubles. Ricardo Chavez-Ortiz, 37, stressed social injustices suffered by minorities in a long speech broadcast on radio and TV yesterday from a Frontier Airline 737 he skyjacked over New Mexico.

But the FBI and other officials said they believed Chavez-Ortiz, who has a history of psychiatric problems, was upset by having been fired from his job as a cook in Los Angeles and by other personal serbacks and was not a racial militant. Brandishing a pistol, Chavez-Ortiz took over the jetliner shortly after 8 a.m. west of Socorro, N.M., and commanded it for hours, including more than five hours at an isolated area of Los Angeles International Airport where he had directed it to land His only demands were to Stalemate in Fischer-Spassky World Chess Tourney Doubled to the match because the American federation refused to put up a $35,000 guarantee that Fischer would appear. The American challenger has demanded a percentage of the proceeds. half of the keenly anticipated match scheduled in June at 1 a Yugoslavia, had been canceled.

The WCF canceled the play after Belgrade organizers decided not to play host world championship chess match between Boris Spas-sky and Bobby Fischer from being stalemated. The World Chess Federation announced in Amsterdam yesterday that the first NEWBURGH (N.Y.) -(AP) -Col. E.B.Edmond-son, executive director of the American Chess Federation, says he has been assured that every effort will be made to prevent tlie me snuiue woum ue useu to carry sections of the station into orbit, where they would be assembled by astronauts. ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT up Di? nnnn i III vii si rJL r-T" I 2iZFJ 1 ,5 if-Titn in fii'rtnfirt pi1! I I I 't' m-f I 4 If I i in retail selling, the usual practice is to advertise an item at the lowest possible price as a leader (to bring: you into the store) planning to have you purchase a similar but more expensive item when you get into the store this is called 'uping Well, Levy's does the unusual again We advertise our highest prices we cannot 'up' you you can only pay less at Levy's, never more ond floor of the building on the corner of First Mission (entrance on First St.) there are no stairs to Levy's has a private one-stop elevator that takes you directly to Levy's People go up at Levy's, never prices Come and see for yourself the great values Levy's offer, knowing that the most you can pay for a fine quality hand-tailored suit at Levy's is $56.00 Levy's has the entire sec of, yv ufe -v. I i mm 'v-5 -V i i.

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