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NORTH AMERICAN NEWSPAPER ALLIANCE BURLINGTON, N. FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1972 WOMEN'S NEWS SERVICE DPI STOCK SERVICE ASSOCIATED APTERNOON DAILIES AP AND KING FEATURE SERVICE 26 PAGES 2 SECTIONS Hanoi Said In Ferment Over War Plans As Presidential Campaign Opens A News Analysis By WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Special Correspondent Call it educated guessing, hunch or plain gut feeling, but veteran. Communist- watchers detect new ferment in the Indochina situation generated by the yeasty possibilities of the U.S. presidential campaign.

American politics presents mystifying problems to Hanoi. If U.S. campaign politics can create confusion among Americans themselves, how incredibly mixed up it must all seem to a clutch of Communist leaders who cannot hope to begin understanding the rudiments of American democracy. Imagine yourself a member of the Hanoi Politburo. You know the Democratic candidate for the U.S.

presiden-j cy has pledged that all U.S.: 'orces and prisoners will be out; of Indochina 90 days after his inauguration. Should you sit until November to see if wins? Trying to figure out the Americans, you look to the record. Perhaps you see little difference on Indochina between Democratic and Republican presidents. Antiaircraft Missile Causing U.S. Concern By RICHARD PYLE SAIGON (AP) Hanoi's introduction of a heat-seeking Soviet antiaircraft missile into the Vietnam war is generating considerable concern among U.S.

and South Vietnamese commanders and has brought about some drastic changes in their fliers' tactics. The weapon is the SA7. or "Strela" a Soviet missile which the North Vietnamese fire from the shoulder like a bazooka. It is much like the U.S. Redeye missile.

The Strela is equipped with an infrared homing device thai is attracted to the heat given off by an aircraft engine and carries a high-explosive warhead. It has proved very effective, especially against the comparatively slow helicopters and propeller planes, officers say. Some officers consider it the most effective of the several weapons used for the first time by the North Vietnamese in the current offensive the others include long-range artillery, medium tanks and wire-guided missiles. Military that more sources estimate than a dozen U.S. aircraft and at least that many South Vietnamese helicopters and planes have been downed by Strela missiles since they appeared on the battlefield early May.

The only Americans known to have survived being hit by one of the missiles were two Army pilots whose helicopter gunship crash landed in some trees after a missile blew off its tail boom near An Loc. The Strela has been used most often around An Loc and along Highway 13. It was so effective there that midway through the siege of the provincial capital, U.S. helicopters quit flying in the area, anft spotter were forced to On the other hand, suppose the incumbent is re-elected. Would he be much more difficult to deal with after November? You get advice from the Soviet Union and China, but your giant allies make you jumpy.

Peking received President Nixon. Then Moscow received him, even while he was increasing the bombing of your country and mining its ports. Both the Chinese and Russians assure you their hearts are with you, but you can't help wonder: What's going on? Clearly your allies have big- power interests. Clearly those interests clash in Southeast Asia. Neither wants a situation to develop that will overly enhance the other's influence.

Each has an interest in an opening to the United States. Is the Southeast Asia war becoming an embarrasment to both? The experience of history has been that every war must end when there no longer is any purpose in continuing the fighting, when costs outrun the value of objectives. Is that time near? Your country has lost erormous numbers of young men and its problems are immense. Floods break weakened dikes and there's not enough labor to keep them in proper repair. Keeping agriculture sufficiently productive to feed those at home and the troops will be an increasingly difficult problem.

There can hardly be a family in the land that has not suffered the loss of at least one man. The prospect of an Indochina wholly free of Americans is enticing. Perhaps one might accomplish politically what force of arms failed to accomplish. You are bound to weigh the odds. What do you dp? Do you consider the possibility of a bird in the hand or sit tight and wait in the chance that there may be a more attractive one in the bush? McGovern Appeals For Party Unity operate at 10,000 feet, above the estimated range of the missile.

Among the tactics devised by pilots is low-level flying which often enables a helicopter to fly through a danger zone before the enemy can bring the weapon to bear. Another, used with middling success, is cutting power and allowing the helicopter to "autorotate" toward the ground; the sudden drop causes the missile to zoom past harmlessly. Connally To Counsel With Nixon By FRANK CORMIER SAN OLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Former Treasury Secretary John B. Connally has arrived Southern California for a conference today with President Nixon.

Connally, until recently the only Democrat in Nixon's Cabinet, just completed a 35-day. 15-nation trip around the world for the President, who has promised the mission would be followed by an important new assignment for the silver-haired Texan. Asked if the new assignment would be announced today, press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said, "It has not been decided." There has been speculation for more than a year that, should Nixon decide to replace Vice President Spiro T. Agnew as his 1972 running mate, he might turn to Connally.

The former Treasury chief has expressed disinterest in the job See CONNALLY On 3A Eagletoii Tapped As Running Mate By CARL P. LEUBSDORF AP Political Writer MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) -Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern, vowing to lead a people's campaign, urged wildly cheering Democrats today to put behind "our fury and our frustrations" and unite to capture the White House from President Nixon. And the South Dakota senator appealed for help ''from every Democrat and every Republican and independent who wants America to be the great and good land it can be." It wag nearly 3 a.m. when the beaming McGovern.

introduced by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy and joined by vice presidential nominee Thomas F. Eagleton and defeated presidential rivals, stepped to the rostrum of a tumultuous, jammed Convention Hall to accept his par- grumbling about the ways ia which his operatives dominated the convention, McGovern forecast the battle against Richard Nixon would bring the party "together in common cause' 1 this fall. "He is the unwitting unifier and the fundamental issue of i national campaign," Hands Join In Hopes Of Party Unity ty's nomination.

The victorious nominee hac With the Democrats decided on their standard- bearers for November, defeated presidential candidates join the winners on the podium of the Democratic National Convention early this morning" in Miami Beach. Responding to the standing ovation of the delegates are. from left to right, vice presi- dential candidate Sen. Thomas Eagleton, Sen. Hubert Humphrey, Congress-woman Shirley Chisholm, presidential candidate Sen.

George McGovern, Sen. Henry Jackson, Sen. Edmund Muskie and former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford. (UPI Telephoto). Chessman's Appeal Rejected si REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) An appeals committee rejected today Bobby Fischer's Security Breakdown Unexplained Hijackings Baffling Officials TM c2 By VERN HAUGLAND AP Aviation Writer WASHINGTON (AP) Finding a way to halt airline hijackings has baffled officials of the nation's airlines and the Federal Aviation Administration.

Airport security has tightened noticeably since the beginning of the year. Carry-on luggage frequently has been searched. Passengers have been screened for weapons by electronic metal detectors. Ticket agents have kept an eye peeled for sue- picious persons who fit a secret hijacker profile. But the hijackings continue.

Srx jetliners have been hijacked in the past six weeks alone, including two that were commandeered by gun-toting sky pirates Wednesday night. "We don't know what the holes in our security are," said FAA spokesman Dennis Feldman. "We have to take each instance on a case-byncase basis to determine whether there has been proper screening," he said. FAA administrator John H. Shaffer has ordered an investigation of all hijackings to determine whether airlines are living up to security regulations put into effect in April.

Aftermath Of Hijacking Long skid marks marred the runway at Freeport, Tex. after a forced landing yesterday by a hijacked National Airways jet. The hijackers gave up to FBI agents after the plane landed on the small airstrip, but only after 22 hours of negotiations jiml iension following the take-over of (he plane over New York '22 hours earlier. (UPI Telephoto). Two airlines, United and Pacific Southwest, were fined $1,000 each after the FAA ruled that lax security contributed to the success of a pair of hijackings that occurred within days after the new regulations went into effect.

The regulations require airline personnel to observe all boarding passengers to see whether any of them match a behavioral profile of potential hijackers developed by the FAA. The airlines also have the option of using metal-detecting devices or searching passengers or their hand luggage, but are not required to do so. "There is no way to calculate what percentage of passengers pass through the magnetometers," said Air Transport Asso- a i spokesman James McCarthy. "At some boarding places all passengers go pasi the devices. At other times or places, only persons believed to match the profile are sent through the detectors." According to government statistics, 205 persons have been arrested during the past 18 months for trying to board an airliner with a weapon or for making hijack or sabotage threats while boarding a plane.

During the same period, ac cording to government figures more than 1,100 guns, knivej and other weapons have been seized. Last week the White House concerned by lax security On easy-boarding shuttle flights, ordered airlines with such flights to begin checking all carry-on luggage and require all passengers fo show two forms of identification. The order came after two Pacific Southwest shutt'e flights in protest against his loss of Thursday's world champio'-slrp chess game by forfeit. The four-man committee supported the decision of chief referee Lothar Schmid to award he game to Boris Spassky because Fischer failed to appear. The decision left Fischer two games down in a 24-game match where Fischer needs the equivalent of 12 victories and a draw to take Spassky's title.

Fischer stayed in his hotel room Thursday and refused to plav unless three cameras film- California were successive davs hijacked on only a few hours to rest up after his triumph appear ances before a unity breakfas for the party's House and Sen ate Campaign committees and Democratic fund-raising group were scheduled before he re turned to Washington later to day. McGovern also had to decide on a new chairman for the Democratic National Com mittee, which holds a morning organizational meeting. While he has pressed Chairman Law game on Wednesday, referee Lothar Schmid's forfeit ruling gave Spassky a 2-0 lead. Schmid said the third game of the 24-game match would be held on schedule Sunday, but the future of the match was very much in doubt. Schmid said it depends on whether Fischer continues his boycott.

He added that the World Chess Federation -FIDE could step in at any time and disqualify him. But Dr. Max Euwe, president of the organization, said Schmid was ng the match for movie and still in charge of the match and sales were removed from the hall. Since the challenger lost the first ecurity Measures Announced CHICAGO (AP) Two major U.S. airlines have announced stepped-up security measures in an attempt to thwart hijackings, A i a Thursday that Airlines carry-on said baggage was being inspected at boarding gates as passengers walked onto planes at O'Hare International Airport United Air Lines, the nation's largest carrier, announced will employ personnel to inspect all hand luggage carriec by persons boarding its 727 flights.

It added that it will continue its policy of making spot; checks of passengers boarding' its other flights. An American Airlines spokesman said the luggage inspection would not be limited to passengers boarding the 727s. The increased security measures came in the aftermath of the Wednesday hijacking of an American jetliner between Oklahoma City and Dallas. Tne hi- jackerlater surrendered Edward Carlson, president and chief executive officer of United 1 said the increased security measures were being put i effect "immediately! throughout our svstetn." must decide how to handle the American. A spokesman for promoter Chester Fox, who bought the movie and TV rights for the match from the Icelandic Chess said the cameras had to stay because ''the whole financial structure of the match depends on it." It was the prospect of movie and TV sales that allowed the Icelanders to offer a record $125,000 purse to the two players, and Fischer and Spassky are also to divide a share of the movie-TV money estimated at a minimum of $55,000.

Fox said Fischer admitted he couldn't hear or see the three cameras, but "he said they bothered him because he knew For more coverage of the Democratic National Convention, see pages 2A, 3A and 5A. McGovern said, adding that 'all of us together are going to help him redeem a pledge he made 10 years ago: that next year you won't have Richard ixon to kick around Even who supported the absent Gov. George C. Wallace joined the ovation when McGovern vowed to wage a national campaign and said, "We are not conceding a single state to Richard Nixon." Earlier in the long evening, i ratified See McGOVERN On 3A the cameras and left the chess board in the sports palace for half an hour before conceding defeat in the' first match. Intense negotiations through the rest of the night and all day Thursday failed to coax him from his hotel room.

Spassky had arrived meanwhile at the sports palace and was seated behind the black figures before a crowd of about 1,000. The white pieces, and with them the first move, were Fischer's as the loser of the first game. At 5 p.m., the scheduled starting, Schmid started the playing clock. When the hour time limit for the first move by Fischer passed, the referee declared a forfeit. Spassky was given a standing ovation as he left the hall.

Jivo Nei, a Spassky assistant, called Fischer's refusal to appear "a grave insult not only to the Soviet people but to the whole ask Jean Westwood, the Utah national to iob O' OD declines uecimes. In the final moments of thej convention that his supporters dominated all week, the triumph belonged to the onetime college professor from South Dakota. Waves of applause rocked the hall as Hubert Humphrey Edmund S. Muskie, Henry Jackson, Shirley -Tiisholm and Terry Sanford lifted high the hand's of the 49-year-old nominee and his 42-year-o'd running mate from Missouri. Reviewing the way his campaign swept aside lished political the estab- leadership.

McGovern said he would dedicate his White House campaign to the people, declared that next January he would i estore government to their hands and added: "American politics will never be the same With some labor leaders still determined to sit out the campaign and other delegates Army Takes Offensive In Belfast By COLIN FROST (AP) Gun battles raged through the night in Roman Catholic districts of Belfast and continued today after the British army abandoned its "low profile" and took the offensive against guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army. Three soldiers and three civilians were reported killed, raising the confirmed death toll to 16 since Wednesday and to 432 in the three years of communal violence in Northern Ireland The army claimed to have hit more than 30 gunmen, but recovered no bodies because the guerrillas carry away their casualties for burial or treatment. Shooting erupted in all of Belfast's major Catholic strongholds after three battalions of troops invaded the IRA "no go" district of Andersonstown to quell gunmen who had poured intensive fire at an army command post for four days. It was the first time army had entered one of See ARMY On 3A the the they were there Fischer had objected first to Amusements L.M. Boyd Bridge Business Church News Classified Comics Doctor Horoscope Sports TV Weather Women's News 6-7A 5A 14B 5B -8-13B 613 14B 4A 7A 2-4B fi-7A 14R 8-10A Diversity, New Faces At Convention National conventions have always attracted a variety of people.

This year, however, much of the diversity was on the floor, with delegates Victor Rohlea, left, and former big league pitcher Jim Ron ton of the Yankees. right, among the many who sat through long sessions. For a look at the diversity which new party rules brought, to Miami Beach, see story on page rA. (UPI Telephoto). A I.