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The Gazette from Cedar Rapids, Iowa • 23

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The Gazettei
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Cedar Rapids, Iowa
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23
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Tfo Cedar Rapids Thnra Jane 29. 1972 23 U.S. Joins in Protest Against French y-tesfs at the Murnroa atoll in the alliance, unlike some of Wonder If Show Fischer Will For Chess Match first advocated a total U.S. pullout from Vietnam. The Republican punlication also said McGovern voted for war appropriations-while speaking against the war, and consistently refused to put his money votes where his mouth was.

SEA-TOs eight, are on the Pacific. The trhee allies, echoing the rebuff the SEATO Council on Wednesday gave critics who called for a transformation of that anti-Communist alliance. Republicans Hit MdGovern On War Stand WASHINGTON (AP) The Republican national committee mblication Monday has accused the national news media of giving Sen. George dcGovem a free ride on his record of protest against the Vietnam war. -Contrary to the impression McGovern and his sympathizers some of the media are seeking to leave with the American electorate, the weekly newsletter said, the South.

Dakota Democrat was not born flashing the peace sip, nor were his first words as a child, Get out of Vietnam. Rather than being Right rom the start on Vietnam, as his ads claim, it was not until a Republican took over th4 White House in 1969 that McGovern By Ann Hencken NEW YOJIK (AP) Bobby Fischers flight reservation to Reykjavik, Iceland, has been canceled The American "chess Star is scheduled to play Russias Boris Spassky there for the world championship in chess. There are just a- few more flights to before the chess match is scheduled to start next Sunday. Will Fischer show up for thd match? He said he was going, Grandmaster Larry Evans said Wednesday evening before boarding a plane for Iceland. Evans has known Fischer for years.

Not Definite However, 1 Chester Fox, who has exclusive visual rights to the match, and his lawyer, Richard Stein, were not so definite. And Fischer couldnt be reached for comment A reporter asked Fox and Stein after they met with Fischer here Wednesday evening whether the chess champ was definitely going to show up. I think so, said Fox, be- CANBERRA (AP) Secretary of State Rogers joined the foreip secretaries of Australia and New Zealand in expressing opposition Thursday to French All State Music Camp Sg te3 ta Pa-To Close with Concert IOWA CITY The 400 high school musicians attending the All State Music Camp at the University of Iowa the last two weeks will close the camp with a concert Friday at 7:30 p.m. in the Mam lounge of the Iowa Memorial Union. The concert, which will be open to the public without tickets, will include performances by the Black band, consisting of eighth through tenth grade students, the orchestra, chorus and the1 Gold band, comprised of tenth through twelfth padc students.

Without specifically naming France, the three members of the ANZUS Council affirmed their hope of universal adher-rence to the treaty banning nuclear tests in the atmosphere. They noted that 'notwithstanding mounting opposition amongst countries of the Pacific, nuclear tests are. still being conducted in the atmosphere. The French government has never signed the nuclear test ban and it rejected protests from Australia, New Zealand, Japan and other countries against the series of tests it is holding this summer south central Pacific. Unconfirmed reports in Papeete said the first explosion was last Sunday.

Sir Keith Holyoake of New Zealand and Nigel Bowen hpd tried to get the foreign ministers of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization to protest the French tests at their meeting in Canberra Tuesday and Wednesday. France is an inactive member of that alliance, but Rogers supported British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Homes contention that SEATO was not an appropriate forum for the request The ANZUS Council met Thursday, and informed sources said Rogers gave in to the argument by Holyoake and Bowen that all three members of their Mike tyansfield Back in Senate WASHINGTON (AP) Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield returned to the senate Thursday after a weeks absence because of illness. He said he was still being treated with antibiotics for a urinary tract infection. A good salesman has to cover his territory. Want ads do this daily.

fore taking off for Reykjavik. You said too much, Stein told Fox. Why did Fox say too much? Stein answered that unless you have firm commitments there should be no comments. Stein added that although this is a big moment for Fischer, he has walked out -on matches before. News Protests Meanwhile, news agencies and television services were protesting restrictions on move--by-move coverage and in-play photographs of the contenders announced in Reykjavik on Wednesday by the organizers of the match.

Gudmundur Thorarinsson, chairman of the Icelandic Chess Federation, said the restrictions were made because photographic and move-by-move coverage rights had been sold. He said journalists would be allowed, to transmit move-by-move reports. only three times during each game that newsmen would be required to sign a pledge to abide by the agreement to get accreditation. The Associated Press and United Press International said they were lodging protests against any curtailment of news coverage. TelePrompTer Manhattan Cable TV and Channel 13-WNDT New York, which have announced plans for telecasts based on move-by-move wire service reports, also protested.

PRE-HOLIDAY Baptists To Lift Chaplain Boycott VALLEY FORGE, Pa. (AP)-The American Baptist Convention announced Tuesday it will resume endorsement of chaplains for the U.S. navy following an acceptable resolution of the case of a chaplain who was acquitted of an adultery charge. The convention had withheld endorsement of navy chaplains since the March court-martial of Cmdr. Andrew F.

Jensen, at Cecil Field naval air station in Jacksonville, Fla. Jensen was acquitted of misconduct stemming from alleged adultery with wives of other officers. The Rev, Dr. Paul 0. Madsen, associate secretary of the convention, said the navy had given assurances that' Jensen would get due consideration for promotion, that his record will not carry reference to the court-martial and that the religious body involved will be consulted in such cases in the future.

Truman Gets X-Rays After; Fall at Home KANSAS CITY (AP) -Former President Harry Truman was taken to Research hospital here for routine X-rays after he slipped at his home, a spokesman at the hospital, spokesman, John Dreves, said Wednesday that the X-rays were negative and the 88-year-old former chief executive returned immediately to his home in nearby Independence, Mo. Dr. Wallace Graham, Trumans personal physician, declined comment on the matter and no details of the mishap were made public, except that it occurred late Tuesday. The trip to the hospital encompassed about 50 minutes, Dreves reported. Trumans last extended period of hospitalization was from Jan.

21 to Feb. 2, 1971, when he was suffering from an intestinal ailment. kONiib LADIES SHOES Special Groups from Our Regular Stock Reduced now thru Monday! OVER 1,000 PAIR NOW ON SALE Schulz Drawings, Champagne Ease School Plight PETALUMA, Calif. (AP) -Parents auctioned drawings by Peanuts creator, Charles Schulz and sponsored champagne tasting to raise money needed to keep their children off double sessions and prevent closure of one They succeeded and this week handed Petaluma elementary school district trustees $23,000 raised in the pist two months. The board then agreed to cancel decisions to balance the 1972-73 budget by closing Grant elementary and parts of other schools save maintenance and utility costs.

The drawings by Schulz, who lives in this area north of San Francisco, netted $1,000 each, said spokesmen for the parents group, called Save Our Schools. 20 YEARS AGO Two astronomers announced they had discovered the smallest star ever seen in the universe (called L-886-6), a star only one-third as big as the earth, yet heavier than the sun. Algeria Returns Hijack Ransom ALGIERS (AP) The $500,000 paid by two Americans who hijacked a Western Airlines jet to Algiers June 3 has been returned to the airline, its pres-ident announced Wednesday night. Robert 0. Kinsey said Ait Messaoudine, the president of Algerias national airline, handed the money over to him.

The action of the Algerian government in this case must effectively hijackers because they will know in the future that they cannot profit from their action, said Kinsey. 'Willie Roger Holder 28, and Catherine Kerkow, 20, hijacked the Boeing 727 on a flight from Los. Angeles to Seattle, transferred to a long-range Boeing 720 and asked for asylum after they landed in Algiers. there has been no word on their request IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE Cow Catchers on Cars Asked by Prince Philip LONDON (AP) -Prince Philip, the husband of Queen Elizabeth, Thursday proposed that cow catchers on automobiles would be a good way to cut road deaths. Philip explained to a congress of auto engineers.

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