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The Daily Times-News from Burlington, North Carolina • Page 2

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2A Burlington (N.C.) Times-News, Wednesday, July 5,1972 HIJACKER (Continued From Page 1-A) and threatened to harm the girt. He then dragged the girl along as he climbed the jet. Police said Smith was bleeding and they believed he had suffered some type of injury. It was not known immediate- FISCHER Continued From Page 1A money and getting it, the American challenger came to Iceland for the postponed opening match Tuesday. But Spassky walked out of the noon drawing to decide who would move first because Fischer was not present.

He had sent his ly whether the girl was injured, isecond, a Roman Catholic Police said Smith had left a I priest. note at his mother's home. They said it read: "I love you. I love myself. I I love everybody.

I love God, but if I have to do away with my! self, I will. In New York City, an airline spokesman said the FBI was talking to the man and had essentially taken over handling the incident for the present. The spokesman said the air- 'me had not been told where 'the man wanted to go and was word from the FBI on I whether it wanted the airline to urnish a three-man orew as the man had demanded. Irisli Protestants Explain Barricading Members of the Protestant paramilitary Ulster Defense Association (UDA) told newsmen csterday men would fire back at British in the beleaguered city of Belfast it the British try to prevent them from er-jch'ic; barricades around predominantly Protestant areas of the city. The statement came less than 24 hours after a narrowly-averted showndown between 1,500 British troops and 8,000 UDA men a Belfast street.

tUPI Telephoto). FRENCH MAN Continued From Page 1A Continued From 1A under fire recently for taking None was believed serious advantage of income tax loop-1 condition. holes. Criticism for a series of Witnesses said the skyrocket real estate scandals and for al-i started upward but appeared to leged mismanagement of the' off" and exploded in the state-rurt radio and I networks had also appeared to, The firew0rks dlsplay S1 thousands of spectators. No cloud his future.

nore, went off all at once A nationwide referendum in hen a soark from a skyrocket April on enlarging the Eu- touched off $3.900 worth of star ropean Common Market--which failed to get the massive ma- jonty Pompidou had also tended to reflect on ban-Delmas' government. bursts, fire balls, aerial bombs and rockets. The pyrotechnics were loaded aboard a barge Lake Elsi- 1 nore, "ich was ringed by Storew spectator was hurt and the five technicians conducting the display dove overboard and escaped with minor powder burns. London, England, was the first city to have a subway. Cape Cod, is the only area of New England to be designated national seashore park.

JAPANESE Continued From 1A between the United States and Japan, having served both as Minister of Finance and as Minister of International Trade and Industry. Short, dynamic and outspoken, Tanaka was the son of a horse trader-farmer turned carpenter. He did not go beyond high school, served in the army during the war as a cavalryman, got out because of illness and started a small construction business in Tokyo. As his business prospered, he studied law at night and made his debut in politics at the age of 28, winning a Diet seat in Officials announced a new 48- hour postponement of the opener, originally scheduled for last Sunday. They hoped both players would be ready to meet on Thursday.

Fischer arrived in Reykjavik early Tuesday. The Icelandic Chess Federation had rejected his demand for 30 per cent of the gate receipts, but he agreed to come after a London investment banker doubled the $125,000 purse which he and Spassky will divide. The 29-year-old American grandmaster was resting from the overnight flight in a guarded villa at the edge of town when Spassky counterattacked in the holdout department. The 35-year-old Soviet champion read a prepared statement calling the American's conduct insulting and intolerable. It said Fischer, by refusing to ap- DEMOS v.y "a high and lonely office." 4.

The weight of decision (Continued From Page 1-A) support from to 0 McGovern. But United Autd Worksrs President Leonard Woodcock said praise for McGovern Monday night was "misconstrued" as being an endorsement. He added he could support either McGovern or Humphrey but that "it looks as if McGovern is going to get -t." regardless of wisdom of what the party panel was doing. "If it (the party) wants to push the self-destruct button on these issues, that's its First Amendment right," he aigued. The California -case, heading for a convention showdown on Monday night, is the most crucial because the 351 the Advancement of Colored taken from McGovern by the i People adopted a resolution al committee decision to require its 63rd annual convention in 'No one can make the decisions for him," said Harry S.

Truman. "No one can know ail the processes and stages of his thinking in making important decisions. Even those closest to him, even members of his immediate family, never know all the reasons why he cornes to --The National Association certain conclusions." proportional representation of the 271 delegates may leave him short of a first-ballot nomination. I i the decisions reached by the Credentials Committee, the latest Associ- a Press count gives McGovern 1,281.9 first-ballot votes 237.1 short of the 1.509 needed for the nomination. Restoration of the 151 California votes could leave him less than 100 away.

Far behind the South Dakota senator are Humphrey with 498.55; Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace, 381; and Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine 225.55 A total of 454.4 are uncommitted.

In other developments: Detroit condemning President Nixon for his antibusing views and saying he had aroused 'passions of hate and bitiei- near at he openin- ceremony' -President Jerry Wurf of the pear at me openm ceremony American pv-rt. last weekend, had insulted Spassky personally and the Soviet Chess Federation and had jeopardized his right to play for the title. The statement demanded that Fischer be punished. However, Max Euwe, president of the international federation, said the Soviets had not formally requested punishment. "What should I do?" he asked.

"Put him in the corner?" Fischer was staying away American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes switched from newsmen and did not comment on the Soviet statement. With the contribution from the London banker, James D. Slater, the winner is to get $156,250 and the loser $93,750. In addition, each player will get another $75,000 from the television and film rights. ness" among Americans.

PRESIDENCY Continued From Page 1A people are talking. Wilson. Calvm Coolidge said, "The president gets the best advice he can, uses the best judgment at his command, and leaves the event in the hands of providence." Warren G. Harding said: ''In this job, I'm not worried about my enemies. I can take care of them.

It's my friends who are giving me trouble." "The presidency," said John F. Kennedy, ''is not a very good place to make new friends." a i Grover Cleveland: ''Gentlemen, I will not go into the White House pledged to you or anyone else. I will make no secret promises. I'll be damned if I will." 3. Presidential loneliness.

"This is the loneliest place in the world," said Taft. a i battlefield, when the soldier is all alone in the smoke and clamor and terror of war, is comparable to the lineliness at times of the president," said Dwight D. Eisenhower. Kennedy was deeply interested in the decision-making process. One of his many observations was, ''It is much easier to make the speeches than it is finally to mak the judgments, said'because, unfortunately, your Jvisers are frequently divided.

If you take the wrong course-and on occasion, I have--the president bears the responsibility, quite rightly. The advisers may move on to new advice." 5. Feeling of inadequacy. "Five more weeks will relieve me of a drudgery to which I am no longer equal," said Thomas Jefferson. Also, "I'm tired of an office wher I can do no more good than many others ho would be glad to be employed in jet, for all advantages of the the office had the dis- presidency its compensations for some of its occupants.

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