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The Ottawa Citizen from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • 62

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The Ottawa Citizen Page 62 July 11, 1972 I Israeli general tricked terrorist into confessing role in shootings i pwv I ly if I 1 I I Li W.J Iwoui sswsl LOD, Israel (AP) An Is six or seven hours in which he refused to talk," Zeevi said. "When I made the proposal, his mouth opened in a smile and he talked." The chief defence lawyer, Max Kritzman, brought raeli general testified today that he tricked Japanese terrorist Kozo Okamoto into confessing his part In the Tel Aviv airport massacre si 4 Zeevi into the case to prove his contention that the confession had been made under duress. Zeevi testified he believed at the time that another Japanese killer was still at "It was an operational plan to save lives, and anything serving this purpose as permissible," he said. The general said he and the 24-year-old Japanese signed a written contract in hich Okamoto promised to give all information "honestly and in full," and Zeevi promised when the interrogation was ended, he would give Okamoto a gun "for his own use." The agreement was witnessed by a Japanese interpreter, he said. Zeevi said he hoped to get intelligence information from the Japanese, but Okamoto held back details he wanted.

Chess play on barring snags REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) American challenger Bobby Fischer and Russian defender Boris Spassky finally begin play today in the richest and most publicized world chess championship of all time unless some new snag develops. Last-minute adjustments were being made on the stage of Reykjavik's sports hall. The playing table was shortened, the green-and-white marble by promising him "my revolver and one bullet" to commit suicide. Rehevam Zeevi, chief of Israel's central army command, was asked if he meant to keep his agreement with Okamoto. "God forbid, it was only bait," he replied.

Zeevi testified on the second day of Okamoto's military trial for the attack by himself and two other Japanese working for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, "I made my offer after f0 i I i i i 1 I Quang Tri I i HI I chessboard constructed for the fourth time, and the overhead lighting changed. I But these were small details compared with the I tangled negotiations and war of nerves that preceded I the encounter, originally set to start July 2. I Spassky, 35, drew the white chessmen and with them the first move. Fischer, 29, of Brooklyn, N.Y., had the black pieces. One game will be played each I Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.

National prestige was at stake for the defending Russian. The Soviet Union subsidizes chess and has domi-I nated the game for decades. Fischer is the first for-f eigner to make it to the finals since 1948. For Fischer, it is a question of money and person- al prestige, of proving his claim that he is the best in the world. 1 London oddsmakers rated the lanky American the I 6-to-4 favorite to win the 24-game, two-month competi- tion and capture more than $180,000 of the estimated I $300,000 at stake.

Ellsberg defence fails in bid to dump jurors Graeme Tait All Jor naught DRESSES, LEISURE WEAR, AND SWIMtVEAR Vi PRICE! Our Regular Prices 25.00 to 75.00 each NOW 12.50 tO 32.50 each Includes many of our new exclusive imports from England, Ireland, France and Italy. 8 to 16 in the group. SPORTSWEAR SEPARATES Vz OFF! Our Regular Prices 10.00 to 70.00 ea. NOW 6.66 fO 46.66 each Includes skirts, pants, jackets, shirts, tops and sweaters. Sizes 8 to 16 in the group.

Town and Country, on Fashion II, Downtown Only. Sale Starts Tuesday, 9.30 a.m. AS Sales Final. No Layaways or Phone Orders, Please! 7 -K forces beefed up SAIGON (AP) U.S. marine helicopters flying from offshore carriers landed hundreds of South Vietnamese marines north of Quang Tri City today, putting government forces on three sides of the Communist-held provincial capital First reports said there was no major contact.

The marines were landed 2l2 miles north-northwest of the city, on the eastern side of the Thach Han River opposite the Quang Tri combat base. For the fifth successive day, entrenched North Vietnamese forces managed to stall the South Vietnamese drive to recapture the city. Tank-led North Vietnamese infantry and South Vietnamese paratroops and marines battled at four different points on the northeastern and southeastern outskirts of Quang Tri City. SUITOR SAILOR JILTED FALMOUTH, England (AP) A lone sailor who crossed oceans in i GOUGING BANDIT BLINDS 2 ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) Police searched for a bandit who they said gouged out the eyes of two of his holdup victims after robbing them of small amounts.

Investigators said they are "quite sure" that grocer Samuel C. Schafer, 72, and gasoline station attendant Robert Paro were victims of the same bandit, although a second man was with him during the attack on Paro. Schafer was choked, robbed of $21 and blinded early Sunday at his grocery store. Before dawn Monday Paro was accosted at a service station, choked, robbed and also blinded. A Rochester detective theorized the bandit blinded his victims so that they could not identify him later.

Paro, meanwhile, was reported in critical condition in hospital. Schafer's condition was listed as good. search of love was lonelier still Monday. The pretty young typist he LOS ANGELES (AP) The Pentagon Papers trial got under way Monday with the defence unsuccessfully seeking dismissal of the first 110 jurors. Lawyers for Daniel Ellsberg and Anthony Russo said the prospective panelists all seemed to be over 30 and did not represent a cross-section of opinion.

(C U.S. District Court Judge William Byrne denied the request for the jurors' mass dismissal and began questioning the panel en masse. He had ruled earlier that he alone, and not the lawyers, would question the jurors on their qualifications. Ellsberg, 41, and Russo, 35, are charged in the release to news media of the top-secret papers detailing origins of the Vietnam war. sailed 19,000 miles to marry told him his voyage has been in vain.

Three months after they met in Melbourne, FREIMAN HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY Australia, tall, good- I looking carpenter Graeme Tait, 36, popped the question, For him it had been I love at first sight, but 25-year-old Barbara Hill, wasn't sure. When she flew home to England in the spring of 1970, she still had Hanoi position same, top negotiator stales not given him her answer, so Tait decided to follow her half way across the world in his homemade ketch. PARIS (Reuter) Chief North Vietnamese negotiator Xuan Thuy returned to Paris today for resumption of the Vietnam peace talks Melon-drama At each port of call ne caoiea jmss run nis love, but the voyage ended in heartbreak. Tn Falmouth on Mon just farce, Thursday amid American hopes that serious negotiations could lead to an end of the war. But Thuy, who had consultations with his government during the last two months, gave mo indication on his arrival to support such hopes, saying only "we will consider any new proposals the United States has to offer." Thuy insisted that the Viet Cong's seven-point peace plan, submitted a year ago, was "still the correct basis for a solution of the Vietnam conflict." "North Vietnam does not seek to impose a Communist government in South Vietnam," he added.

Thuy, however, said his government would "equally protest against any intention on the part of the Americans to oblige the Vietnamese population to accept a government spawned by the Americans under one form or another." day, two days after he stepped ashore, Miss I Hill gave Tait her an- I swer. It was No. As he returned to his boat, Tait said: "For two years I've i thought of nothing else but Barbara. That's what kept me on course for England. I was hop- Ing that she would say Yes.

Now it's all off." Would-be hijacker thwarted police say LOS ANGELES (AP) Police said Monday a report that a 29-year-old man was seriously injured Sunday after being struck by a watermelon dropped from a second-storey window was false, apparently the result of a fictitious police report filed by a prankster. "There isn't a seed of truth to it," police said. The story got started Saturday night when a patrol officer and his partner were joking about a w-atermelon they had purchased. An unidentified prankster made out a report saying the melon was being held as evidence, embellishing the report with the details of the imaginary argument. The report was released as legitimate news.

Copyright 1972 United Features Syndicate Ine. holiday with a good friend Bodies of 6 crash dead recovered CHETVVYND, B.C. (CP) The bodies of six men killed in a weekend plane crash near this northeastern British Columbia town were brought out by helicopter Monday. RCMP sent eight men into the area on horseback Sunday when poor weather prevented aircraft getting to the crash but the men were unable to locate the wreck in the rugged terrain. A Canadian Forces helicopter, unable to land at the scene, reported the plane was "smashed to pieces" at the level of Mount Wartembe.

The plane, owned by Western Construction Ltd. of Edmonton, went down on a 54-mile flight from Dawson Creek to Chetwynd MUNICH (AP) Police overpowered an Algerian-born Frenchman aboard a Lufthansa 727 jetliner Monday night after he threatened to blow up the plane unless he was given $400,000 and a parachute. Authorities said Arlanda Bachali, 26, sent an extortion note to the pilot of a Lufthansa airliner en route from Cologne to with 53 passengers aboard. Bachali, described as being intoxicated, claimed he carried a bag of bombs to blow up the plane unless he was given the money and a parachute with instructions in Italian and French. When the plane landed In Munich, the pilot talked Bachali into releasing half the passengers.

As they filed out, three plainclothes policemen slipped into the plane and grabbed Bachali, who offered no resistance. Peace pact approved by Pakistan ISLAMABAD (Reuter) the Pakistan National Assembly gave overwhelming approval Monday to the peace agreement signed last week by India and Pakistan. In the opening debate of a special session, only two of the eight speakers voiced disapproval of the pact, under which each country renounced the use of force against the other. The agreement also called for resumption of diplomatic relations as part of the process of establishing a durable peace. It's easy to arrange delivery, simply call 236-4545 and our circulation department will be pleased to take care of the details.

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