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-K jacker subdued, killed by pilotpassenger because if you do I'll blow right there while I was rancisco-Guairf-Mahila-'-' Saigon flight: He sent a note to the pilot, Capt. Gene Vaughn, demanding to be flown to Hanoi. 7' the plane into Saigon airport and went back to negotiate with Binh. At a press conference later he told what happened: Binh had a knife with a 10-' inch blade and two lemons wrapped in tinfoil which he said were bombs. Vaughn said that Binh told him he 1 I when I threw him out." The passenger who shot Binh at close range with highpowered magnum pistol was not identified, but he was believed to be a former San Francisco area policeman en route to Vietnam to work as a security guard" with an American firm.

Vaughn said the passenger had. holding him by the Vaughn said. "I want to tell you something," Vaughn added. 'I took that fellow by the back of his neck and legs and threw him right out of that aircraft. He was already dead.

We knew that. "I just felt was offensive to have him anywhere ne'ar that plane. I must have had the strength I felt he had the weight of a Ping-Pong ball this airplane "I told him, 'We have a language problem. I can't understand you too well. Let me come I moved about two feet closer and saw my opportunity to jump him." a 200-pounder, and several grabbed Binh other passengers rushed to his help.

"I shouted 'Kill the son of a and the passenger put five bullets injLo him "when we landed at Saigon airport I told the i I i a circumstances to allow the aircraft to depart. Vd already made my decision. ''The man was standing in' the rearmost part of the airplane holding one of the stewardesses hostage. He said, 'Don't come any closer wnen vaugnn, oi "scoi- tsdale, did not immediately comply he sent another note written -in his own blood saying "you have faile to comply with my first demand.The indicates how serious I am about being taken to Hanoi." Instead, Vaughn brought checked his pistol when, boarding the plane but was given it back when the hijacking started Leg i si ature to work th rough i laws are unconstitutional because they discriminate against poorer school districts. The Assembly plans to recess during the Democratic convention, but the Senate may work during the convention week because only, a few Senators have been named as Both chambers are scheduled to recess July 28 until after the November elections when they will return to tackle the- deadlocked issue of reapportionment.

There also is a slim chance that the legislature might pass legislation on1 no-fault insurance and a coastline protection act, which Is virtually, identical to an initiative that has Qualified for the Nov. 7 ballot. SACRAMENTO UPI) Legislators resumed their feverish pace today with plans of working through the July 4 holiday to wrap up.the bulk of legislative business before the Democratic National Convention begins next Monday. The two major issues still before the lawmakers are a massive tax shift-school finance proposal and Gov. Ronald Reagan and Assembly Speaker Bob Moretti, D-Van Nuys, have reached agreement on a $1.2 billion package to resolve the school financing But Senate Democrats have withheld their endorsement.

Meanwhile, the Assembly Ways and Means Committee is expected to act this week On an alternate school finance proposal by Assemblyman Dixon Arnett, R-Redwood City, that would cost the state $654 million. Both plans are designed to meet the state Supreme Court's landmark decision that the present' property tax SAIGON (UPII-A month ago Nguyen Thai Binh graduated the University of Washington with honors. Sunday he died attempting to hijack a Pan 747 to- North Vietnam with "bombs made out of lemons. The 24-year-old Vietnamese, a vehement antiwar protester while in took a stewardess hostage while the plant with 149 persons aboard was on the last leg of its San Gangland type executions in Belfast BELFAST (UPI)-A weekend of Protestant: Roman Catholic gun battles and gangland-style executions that claimed six lives pushed Northern' Ireland's week-old cease-. fire to the brink of collapse today.

The latest deaths raised the known fatality toll since violence erupted In Northern Ireland three years ago to 399. In the sixth known killing of the weekend, the bullet-riddled and hooded body of a man was found in a car abruptly abandoned near Belfast Crumlin Road jail early Security officials said the victim might be Augustus "Gusty" Spence, a -39-year-old Protestant who was serving a life sentence for murdering a Catholic bartender. Gunmen had kidnaped Spence a few hours earlier as he was returning to the jail from a two-day parole granted so he could attend' his daughter's wedding. Both the. IRA and the British army emphasized they considered the ceasefire still in force despite the heavy gun battle Sunday, The legislature has already completed its most important task creation of a state budget.

The lawmakers approved a $7.9 billion budget and Reagan, used his blue-pencil vetoes to whittle the sum down to $7.7 billion. Bobby Fischer given deadline to play chess Fischer has. canceled bookings on flights to Iceland. The Icelandic federation; which stands to much money if the match does not -come pleaded for Fischer Sunday and convinced Euwe to postpone the start of the match. 48 hours to give Fischer a last chance.

ATTRACTING STARES, a battery-powered wheelchair that can go up and down steps it demonstrated at the 29th hospital exhibition in Essen, West Germany. LDS Church president dead at the age of 95 Democratic party-situation may get worse than '68 Nixon mapping strategy SAN CLEMENTE. Calif UPI) President Nixon, buoved bv Dolls showing hi leading all likely oponents, plans to leave the spotlight to the squaDDiing Democrats and spend the next two weeks tjuietjy mapping his own re-election strategy. White House aides saia today he still would rely heavily for political advice on former Attorney General John N. Mitchell, who I stepped down over, the weekend as his chief.

Mitchell, who engineered Nixon's successful 1968 effort and left the Justice Department several months ago to manage the -campaign, resigned under pressure from his wife after she threatened to leave him if he didn't He planned to return to his New York City law practice but will be available as a consultant. The President Sunday conferred by telephone with both Mitchell and his Clark MacGregor, a five-term congressman from Minnesota who lost a bid for the Senate in 1960 to Hubert Humphrey and has served on the White House staff since then as chief liason with Nixon was reported pleased by results of the latest Gallup and Harris Polls which show him substantially ahead of all Democratic contenders. Aides said he planned to keep a low profile during the next two weeks in order not to detract public attention in anyway from the intra-party fighting among the Democrats. The President arrived here Saturday for a week stay at the Western White House. He was joined by two close personal friends, C.G.

"Bebe" Rebozo of Key Biscayne, and Robert H. Abplanalp of Bronxville, N.Y. The three flew to Los 'Angeles by helicopter Sunday night for dinner at a restaurant there. Mrs. Nixon, who attended a folk dance festival in Chicago Sunday, joined her husband at his ocean-side villa Sunday night.

Federal workers "WASHINGTON (UPD A.congressional committee report showed today there were 2.85 million federal civilian workers in May, down 19,457 from the previous month. The Congressional Joint Committee on Reduction of Federal Expenditures said the federal exilian payroll in April was (2.58 billion, down (240.77 million from March. Pay figures available lagged one month behind those showing the size of the work force. Entered as second class mail in the Post Office at Lompoc, California. 93436.

under Act of Congress. Adjudicated legal newspaper Hinder Court Decree No 47085 The Lompoc Record is published by Lompoc Record Publications, a California Corporation Mrs. Kenneth L. Adam. President Harry Crompe.

Editor and Vice President Lawrence Grossman, Vice President i Donald Adam. Board Member Rennie L. Adam. Board Member Gaylen Jackson. Business Manager' and Secretary-Treasurer Tim Conner, Mechanical Superintendent Clete Lunny, Advertising Manager Wesley A Huffman.

Circulation Manager Ray Mct'uen, News Edilof Betty Laurent. Society Editor Scott Ostler. Sports Editor Sieve LaRue1, Staff Writer Vaughn Staff Writer Dan Duffy, Photographer v. Members: California Newt-paper Publishers Association, United Press International, International Press Institute, Inter-American Press Association and California Press Association. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations Subscription Rate 12 23 per month Home Delivery or Mail.

I By Mail, in advance i Published daily, eicept Sundays and Christmas Day was taking the plane to Hanoi as an act of revenge because "your bombers have wrought havoc on our people." -r. The stewardess, held by Binh, May Huen, said later, "the hijacker was very nice to I felt sorry to see him ended in such a disastrous way." tio I iday "But am not very hopeful," said Euwe, the last non-Russian to hold the world title from 1935 to 1937. He is The decision came after several rounds of closed negotiations involving Spaasky, the Icelandic organizers and Americans representing Fischer but not authorized by him to negotiate. served in that position until he was called to the presidency. He wrote more than 20 books on Mormon church history and doctrines.

Smith was known as a theological conservative and noted for- his fundamentalist views. He appeared in public often up to the time of his CUSTOM KEYING ANTIQUE DOMESTIC FOREIGN HUGH DAVIES Lompoc BE.t-mi (805)922-1931 ANTHONY SCHOOLS 203 E. MAIN ST. SANTA MARIA, CAL 93454 PfopltWtMNMd Paoplt CALL SOMEONE WHCf CARES HOTLINE Ph. RE.

4-4535 Dally: 7 p.m. 12 p.m. NOW! WOW! DP At ITALIAN STYLE SPAGHETTI' 1 MEAT BALLS or MEAT SAUCE IVIRY TUESDAY NITE Mht ROYAL A 7TH4 OCEAN AVE. RI.t-1491 Intddlttontoour usual lop quality tttaki I Muter, prime rltv halibut, ihrlmp, barbequed beef, ham, etc. between 1968, a Democratic disaster year in California, and 1972.

In 1968, California delegates returned from the Chicago convention so embittered at what they considered "heavy handedness" and "the old politics" that few put out much effort for nominee Humphrey. Some did not even endorse him: Their antagonism permeated down into the grassroots and Humphrey lost the state, which is 3-2 Democratic in registra-' tion, by just 3 percentage points to native son Richard Nixon. McGovern -won 43.5 per cent of thfs year's winner-take-all primary vote and everyone thought the state's entire bloc of 271 delegates. But the credentials committee, acting on a challenge from Humphrey supporters, took away 153 delegates last week and awarded them to other candidates in proportion to their vote. Humphrey got 104.

Irate McGovern supporters are pushing a -court suit and have pledged a massive floor fight to overturn the credentials committee. SACRMENTO (UPI) One party leader says the consequences range from, simple apathy to insurrection and violence if Sen. George McGovern is denied the presidential nomination because, the Democratic convention took away 153 of his California Another disconnected her telephone after receiving angry calls from citizens bitter at Sen. Hubert Humphrey and the Democratic credentials committee for, in effect, invalidating California's June 6 primary. Some Califomians are hinting at joining McGovern or another liberal in a third party movement.

"It will be worse than '68," says former state party chairman Charles Warren, who is neutral in the nomination race. He expressed the growing fear of many Erominent Democrats in the state with the iggest bloc of electoral votes 45, about 17 per cent of those needed to elect a president. They see a potential correlation SALT LAKE CITY (UPI)- Joseph Fielding Smith, 95-yearold patriarch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter'-Day Saints, died Sunday of a heart attack at his daughter's home. Smith, spiritual leader for the world's 3 million Mormons would have been 96 July 19. "I guess it was just old age," said a church spokesman.

The spokesman said the church's council of the 12 apostles would meet at 10:00 a.m. Monday to make funeral arrangements. Smith the 10th leader since the' church organized in 1830, succeeded the late David O. McKay on Jan. 23, 1970, at the age of 93.

He was born in Salt Lake on July 19, 1876, a son of Joseph F. Smith, sixth president of the church, and Julina Lambson Smith. His grandfather was Hyrum Smith, patriarch to the church and brother of founder Joseph Smith. Prior to becominl leader of the Mormons, Smith was a member- of President McKay's first presidency. He had become a member of the Council Twelve Apostles April 7, 1910, and was president of that body' until April 12, 1951.

1 Smith, named assistant' church historian in 1906, became historian and general recorder in 1921 and Nation's weather- United Press International Warm, humid' air today brought showers and thunderstorm from'-the. Great Lakes region to the Texas Panhandle and Georgia. The National Weather Service issued thunderstorm warnings for portions of Kansas, Oklaho- ma, Missouri, Tennessee and A tornado struck near Laurie, Sunday night killing two persons and injuring another. Another tornado was reported near Idalou, about eight miles southeast of Lubbock. Cool weather was the rule for the area from the Northern Rockies to the Central Plains as a Canadian high pressure system pushed southward.

The far west remained hot. Early morning temperatures- around the country ranged from 41 at Hancock, "Mich. Lewistown, and Rock Springs, to 97 at Needles, Calif Pilots warning "LOS ANGELES (UPD-The president of the Air Line Pilots Association has warned that pilots may boycott airports with unacceptable protection systems to detect skyjackers. Testifying before a state senate subcommittee during the weekend, Capt. Don McBain said security-guards should certify flight as safe from the -threat of skyjacking before fit is allowed to take off.

He said the pilots are considering a boycott against airports which don't have adequate detection systems. 0 Big popsicle BAKERSFIELD '(UPI) -A- 310-pound cherry popsicle made of 33 gallons of water and seven gallons of syrup was devoured by 500 children Sunday. The children made quick work of the summer-time treat that required 27 hours to freezei A refrigerated truck hauled the popsicle' to a grassy site near the sponsoring Church of the Nazarene and kids were turned loose. Within minutes all that remained was a giant stick, about six feet long, two feet wide and six inches thick. Movie Timetable LOMPOC THEATRE "LKtkBlf "MaaCallHtWac" VALLEY DRIVE-IN akfFrwa IV Crypt" Calif.) Monday, July 3, REYKJAVIK, Iceland (UPI) -Bobby Fischer's time runs out at 8 a.m.

EDT Tuesday. Fischer, the 29-year-old Brooklyn chess genius, must turn up in Reykjavik by then or lose the right to challenge Soviet titlphnlHpr Rnris -Spassky for the world championship," a match that has generated. wider chess interest than any game in history. Fischer, apparently bargaining for more money, was hiding out in New York while- the great debate of "will he show up or won't he?" raged. The 24-game series was to have started Sunday.

But when Fischer didn't show the president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), Dr. Max Euwe, announced that he was postponing the deadline until noon Tuesday (8 a.m. EDT). If Fischer does not appear for the drawing of lots scheduled for that time, he will be disqualified and lose his right to challenge the 35-year-old Russian for the world chess title. An Icelandic friend of Fis cher, Freystrinn Thorberbergsson, flew to New York Sunday to try to persuade the American grand master to return with him.

He said he was acting as 'a friend of Bobby Fischer" and said only "I know where to find him." He refused to answer other questions. Fischer, who has kept the Icelandic organizers nervously rushing to Keflavik international airoort to meet everv flieht from New York for a week, simply did not show up Officially there was no explanation. He has not been in touch with the Icelandic Chess Federation or FIDE since he sent a cable through the U.S.-Chess Federation some time back saying he would show up for the match "under protest." Four, times since then. 1 IIINwih RE4-U17 Dally Hlldiyt: I DUSflNHOiTMAN "LITHE DIG frUN A Cwni Cnlw Final ftvnWion 2nd Hit Gt0 roifiitp eaehi3 tsUHJUJ A r.TH SunAir 3rd Hit Steve McQueen. irtThe Reivers MATINEE, TUESDAY 1972 I i India, Pakistan sign pact the two countries won independence from Britain 25 years ago, will remain frozen under the pact pending future Later talks, will also take up normalization of relations, repatriation of war prisoners, trade and scientific and cultural exchanges.

The two leaders declined of icial -comment on the nature of the agreement, although Bhutto told reporters: "It is more than an agreement. It is an understanding and I am satisfied." Six hours earlier he told newsmen the talks had reached an "unfortunate deadlock." But he and Mrs. Gandhi held further negotiations and signed two copies of the four-page agreement at 12:40 a.m. (2:10 p.m. Sunday, EDT).

SIMLA, India (UPD-The leaders of India and Pakistan, following five days of intense summit conference talks, signed an agreement early today returning to Pakistan all territory lost in the December war with India except the areas along the Kashmir cease-fire line. The agreement was signed in a five-minute ceremony at this Himalayan hill station 240 miles north of New Delhi by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India and President Zulfikar All Bhutto of Pakistan. It also calls for withdrawal of all troops 1 from their' mutual borders and renunciation of the use of force in settling future disputes. Present troop positions in the border state of Kashmir, bitterly disputed since 1 li- Reunion, after 27 years g9M -WllURD" Egn i a i begins. PLUS I SANTA CLARA, Calif.

(UPI) -It took 27 years for Mrs. Rosie Morita's reunion with her daughter who disappeared while an infant in war torn Germany. Mrs. Morita, wounded while foraging for food in 1945, was unable to find her, baby when she returned to a refugee camp near Passau. The daughter, Elizabeth, grew up in Hungary and began hunting for her mother in 1966 after being informed by foster parents that she was an orphan.

Their lives, lived on separate sides of the globe, came together during the weekend in California. "I thought she was dead." said Mrs Morita, who operates a nursery in this San Francisco peninsula community with her. husband Henry Morita, an ex-GI whom she married in Germany. Morita gave birth to her child in a Nazi child labor camp at Wiener Neustadt, Austria at about the same time her first husband died in a separate detention center. Elizabeth married Bela Bartfei the same time she began searching for her mother.

She finally tracked down an uncle in Yugoslavia who knew of Mrs." Morita's 7 marriage and from there traced her' mother to Santa Clara. Bartfei got a three week visa after a year's attempt and arrived at San Francisco International Airport Saturday on the 25th wedding anniversary of her mother's second marriage. rvtj iiiTu inr, 1 2- LOMPOC RECORD (Lompoc,.

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