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THE LOWELL, MASS. Wednesday evening July 5. 1972 64 pages I 5 cents 75 cents per week home delivered Index Amusements 55 Business Clashed Comics SI 6' Crossword Puzzle C3 Deaths 56 Editorial Focus Metro People lo Tile Suo Sports TV Weather Women's News 16 49 52 I'J. 63 ...56 33 38 Credentials fight back to lower court fAPl The U.S. Circuit Court here today reversed a District Courts decision to uphold the controversial Democratic Credentials Committee decisions on California and Illinois delegations to the party convention and ordered the lower court to conduct further proceedings.

The brief orders to the Appeals Court carried no reasons for the action, The judges were expected to file opinions later in the day. This District Court on Monday ruled that the federal judiciary had no place in the debate over delegates from the two states. The Credentials Committee had stripped Sen. George S. McGovern of 151 California delegates and told Mayor Richard J.

Daley and 58 other uncommitted Chicago delegates to stay home. Two more slain in Ulster ceasefire BELFAST (UPD An army patrol found the bullet riddled bodies of two young men today, raising the death toll to 10 since Friday. Earlier gunmen shot and wounded an IS year old Protestant and a 22 year old Roman Catholic in separate incidents in Belfast. The two deaths raised Hie loll in almost three years of Ulster strife to '103. Commanders of (lie 13 Belfast areas of the militant Ulster Defense Association (UDA) met to discuss a new confrontation with British troops tiiis weekend, UDA sources said.

Washington style Fireworks explode over three of Ihe moil famous Washington landmarks the Lincoln Memorial, left, the Washington Monument, cenler, and fhe Capitol Tuesday night the nation's capita! celebrates fhe birth of our nation. U.S. jets wreck depots in heavy By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Writer SAIGON (AP) American jets wrecked Ihrce major depots on (lie edges of Hanoi Tuesday in the heaviest raids on North Vietnam in weeks, and a 7th Fleet task force sank or damaged supply barges off (he North Vietnamese coast, the U.S. Command announced today. In South Vietnam there was heavy fighting on the northern front and Hue was shelled lor the fourth day.

But no progress was reported from Ihc paratroopers who reached the outskirts of Quang Tri City on Tuesday. North Vietnam claimed thai U.S. planes bombed and strafed residential areas of Hanoi, "killing or injuring many persons, and destroying or damaging hundreds of dwelling houses." The U.S. Command denied ordering any it lacks on civilian targets and said it had no information "indicating other than military targets were hit." Cut spokesmen acknowledged there may have been people working in the three supply and vehicle depots that were at tsckd during mure than 320 strikes in North Vietnam Tuesday. Norlh Vietnam also claimed that Iwo F4 Phantoms were shot down during (he raids.

The U.S. Command said it had no plane losses Tuesday to report yet. But it did announce that S1IGJ1 interceptors shot down a pair of Phan loms southwest of Hanoi on June 27 and a surface to air missile brought down a third Phantom 41) miles northeast of Hanoi July 1. Two of the fliers were rescued, and four are missing, Ihe command said. During the last two weeks, ihc U.S.

Command has rcporled nine planes lost over North Vietnam and 15 fliers missing, raising the toll since the resumption of full scale bombing on April 6 to at aircraft downed and 61 airmen missing. Radio Hanoi has said that many of the pilots have been captured and last week broadcast messages from 14 Ihem. The U.S. Command said the raiders Tuesday destroyed or damaged numerous trucks, trailers and large stacks or supplies at the Quinh Loi depot three miles southeast of the center Hanoi. At the Hanoi military vehicle depot, four miles south of the center of the city, laser bombs destroyed a maintenance building, five slorage buildings and six (rucks, the command reported, il said 12 more storage buildings were damaged.

A third flight of F4 fighterbombers destroyed a large repair shop and damaged an olher repair shop and a vehicle storage building at the Hanoi vehicle repair facility three miles southeast of the center of the city, the command said. In a delayed report which apparently had to be cleared by the Pentagon because of its political sensitivity, Ihe command said that a naval task farce last Saturday caught a flotilla of barges transporting supplies from olfshore freighters presumed to be from the Communist bloc Radar picked up the flotilla in the vicinity of Cape Mui Ron, 35 miles above fhede militarized zone and about a mile off the coast. Navy spokesmen said the destroyers Berkeley, Everett F. Larson and tnirke waited until the barges were clear of the freighters, then lasted ttiem win the it tive inch guns. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (APl Bubbv Fischer apologized today for delaying the start of his S40O.CCO chess match with world champion Boris Spassky of Russia.

The American, whose dispute over nrize money forced organizers lo postpone the world championship round, said he had the greatest respect for Spassky as a man and as a player. The statement, prepared by Fischer's law us, v.vs read to newsmen by Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation FIDE. was not known whether this would be sufficient to overcome Russian objections lo starting the match. In. a statement Tuesday.

Spassky said he would consider slarlina play only if Fischer paid the penally for his behavior. Spassky told The Associated Press this afternoon lie siill did not know whether the match would begin on Thursday. He said there would he an announcement by the Russian delegation later. "We are sorry the world championship was Fischer's apology began. "My problems were not with Spassky whom I respect as a man and admire as a player." If Spassiy and Ihe Soviet people were distressed or discomforted Fischer continued.

Bv IAN WF5TERCREN REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI1 The official Soviet ileus agency Trss said today American chess challenger Bobby Fischer planned to use a computer to try to beat world champion Boris Spassky Ihe on againoiF again match ever gets underway. The match was postponed for the second time Tuesday after Spassky said Fischer insulted him by not showing up for the. pre match ceiemonies. Fischer, who won a two day postponement, did not attend because he was in South Vietnamese troops move up Rout. north of My Crunh into Quang Tri pro1 "I am indeed sorry." Moving up South Vietnimeie paratroopers were re What.

Spassky when he demanded "just punishment" for Fischer, lie would not say. There were unconfirmed reports the Russians wanted Fischer to be penalized with a loss of the first game. Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Democrats waited today to learn if the U.S. Circuit Court here would reverse parly Credentials Committee orders thai stripped Sen. George of 151 convention delegates and told Chicago Mayor Richard J.

Daley to stay home. The committee decisions were likened to a "self destruct button" by the party's lawyer Tuesday even as he fought to uphold tl.cm before ihc appeals court. Party counsel Joseph A. Calilano told the three judges that federal courts have no business in Ihc parly's business. His argument echoed Ihe decision of a U.S.

District Court Soviets say Fischer planned use of computer to win New York bargaining for more prize money. if a solulion is worked out, the 21ganie series could star! Thursday. "It ha; been learned in jouranlisl circles here that Fischer's palrons have worked oul rather original playing ladies for the match in which they were not guided by chess Tass said. The news agency said Fischer's followers had uoi'ked out an arrangement with a computer center to transmit each move and the computer would calculate a counter move. and encountered lillle resistance.

Five miles east of the city today, government troops in their eight day push to recapture Communist held Quang Tri Province staved off North Vietnamese counter attacks, Saigon spokesmen said. South Vietnamese marines backed by allied airpower, artillery a naval gunfire killed 57 Communist troops without any casualties of their own. Two miles southeast of Quang Tri City at sundown Tuesday, a battalion of about 500 Com Protesters' yacht and French warship in collision PAPEETE, Tahiti (UPI) A yacht manned by protesters against the French nuclear tests in Ihe Pacific collided with a French minesweeper in the test area last Saturday, a French military official said Tuesday. The spokesman sni the yacht Greenpeace HI was only slightly damaged and none of the crew was injured. Tile yacht sailed to Mururoa Atoll, Ihe hcad miaricrs for (he French nuclear testing program, for repairs and has apparently left for the island of ftarotonga, 6C0 miles west of Papeete.

The spokesman said the yacht swung in front of Ihc minesweeper and the two ships collided. The spokesman did not say where the accident occurred. Fischer apologizes for de Though some chess officials were pessimistic about the fate of the match this morning, optimism prevailed hy midafternoon. If Spassky was ready to walk out oi the championships lie was not acting like it. Right after lunch he dropped his second, which prompted Ihe Fourth of July appeal.

and Daley forces appealed in their Nghl to overturn committee decisions which ousted 59 Illinois delegates, including Daley, and ripped the winiier lakn al! prize of the California presidential primary from McGvern to award Ihe stale's 271 delegates proportionately among candidates, based on their percentage of (lie vote. Meanwhile. Ihe Credentials i 1 1 ec completed its pre convention agenda snd passed on to the conversion the job of settling 13 contests over Ihe sealing of hundreds of delegates. Tiie fights the committee could not rcicilvc including the politically explosive ones from California and Illinois will almost inevitably provoke al the convention the biuemess that marked committee debates between McGovern supporters and backers of his opponent Minority reports, from persons who disagreed with the committee majority, have been filed from South Carolina, Georgia, Hawaii. Michigan, Alabama, California.

Connecticut and Oklahoma, with mo dissents Rhode Island and three from Illinois. MANY of (he dissents concern issues raised by the mandate from the reform commission originally headed by McGovern: that women, young people and minorities be represented at the convention proportion to their population. In the court fight over Ihe Illinois and California challenges, Califano argued that the party may do as il wishes. To illustrate, he said some believe that sealing Daley and letting ft I oorted Tufiidav lo have Denetratad the PW, city limits ol Quang Tri City. i Viet troops spear into Quang Tri By ARTHUR HIGBEE SAIGON (UPI) Lead elements of South Vietnamese paratroopers and marines knifed into Communist held Quang Tri City today and French Premier Chaban Delmas resigns his post PARIS (Reuler) The three year old government of French Prime Minister Jacques Chaban Delmas resigned today following motnbs of rumors that President Georges Pompidou would drop liis 57 year cId premier.

But the move came as a total surprise, since it was not expected that Chaban Delmas would leave his post before France's legislative cleeiions scheduled for early next year. Informed sources said Pompidou wns likely to appoint a new premier during the day and that a new cabinet would be formed tomorrow. Chaban Delmas, prime minister since Pom pidou came to power in June 1969, has come under fire from both Ihe opposition and From within his own ruling Gaullist party since ai legalions of tax irregularities earlier this year. He was also attacked for maintaining in his government a junior minister who had been sentenced in a building scandal but who resigned since then. Just over a month ago, Chabaii Dctrnas hinted in a television broadcast that he might no longer hold his post following the lepislalive elections which are scheduled for early ncxl year, the eilv leveled by bombing.

Military sources said the troops entered Hie ciladel, the fortress in the middle ol (he city, mutu'sts a' tacked government troops in an assault led hy 13 tanks and at abou! the same lime, another battalion attacked seven miles east of the city. No casualty report? wore available on either skirmish. strengthens and LONDON AP) The embattled pound lcr ling slrenglhened on European money markets in early hading today after nosediving dangerously. The dollar inched upwards from the near bottom level it touched Tuesday. The pound opened in London at $2.4230, nearly a half cent up on Tuesday's closing figure of 53.4200, to continue a rallv it made Tuesday.

Within two hours, it had bounced up lo 52 1305. a full cent over last night's close. The came Tuusdav after the pound plunged to just above trie oase level predicted after it was floated II davs ago. That meant, in effect, the currency had 'devalued by about seven per cent from the $2.60 rale fixed last December. News that Britain's gold reserves had not been drained, shoring up tile pi float pound, reassured dealers and apparently gave sterling a limely boost.

Sterling improved in Paris lo open at 1211 francs, up from Tuesday's 12.0330. It later edged up lo 12.13. ft was the same story in Fraiiklurf 7.6350 deutschemarks, up from 7 6240. lav Yerfim Goiter, and two other aides Ihe Soviet Embassy apparently to consult with Moscow then drove his borrowed Fcrd to get its wheel alignment corrected. Spassky appeared calm and would lalk abou! evcrylhing except chess.

Democrats await Circuit Court ruling on Illinois and California By VERNON A. GUIDRY Jr. McGovern have tiie delegates he the shrewd political move. But, he said of fhe parly. push Hie self dcslrucl button on lhat'i its 1st Amendment right" il arils lo I icsc issues.

Arguing for McGovern forces in the California case, Altorncy Joseph L. Rain Jr. said 11:2 party reforms recently instituted spctilically do mil bar winner tckc alt primaries. He claimed the commiiice had acted arbitrarily and unconstitutionally in changing the rules an McGovern alter the primary. The issue.

Rauli maintained, was whether a presidential candidate would be nominated under ihe rule of law, r.ot ihc rule ol toe jungle." Successors to lire ousted Illinois delegates were selected in meetings in the stale's congressional districts. Original selection was by papular vote of Illinois Democrats. TIIE challengers are "ecu backroom bosses selected by losers" in the election, claimed Jerome Torshen. attorney ior Daley torecs Tiie Credentials Committee r.eld iha! Iho Daley slate undcrreprcscntet blacks, women and youth, and was compiled closed meetings. The ousted delegates go to coon in Illinois today in an attempt to prevent Hie snccessiul challengers from attending the convention.

Tiie result, Calilano observed, could be no Illinois delegates at all..