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The Gazette from Cedar Rapids, Iowa • 1

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ht Weather- Clear, cool tonight. Low about 50. Sunny, pleasant Wednesday. CITY FINAL 10 com ftttptd Mgb in upper 70s. ASSOCIATED PRESS, UPI, NEW YORK TIMES CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, TUESDAY, JULY 4, 1972 VOLUME 90 NUMBER 177 QUANG TRI SOUTH YIETS IN Court Will Russian Puts SCQUt Unit Record Set Monday at nessiyiaTcn In Jeopardy Landed by Hear Appeals On Delegates By Margaret Gentry WASHINGTON (AP) Paral By Stephens Broening REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -Hours after Bobby Fischer Helicopter The Fair lel efforts to upset the California ended his holdout and gave the and Illinois decisions of the Democratic credentials commit world chess championship new By Artuur Higbee Tonight and 9 D.m.

El-Don and life, Russian Boris Spassky put tee moved toward a federal appeals court Tuesday. the match in doubt again Attorneys fighting the com Spassky lodged a formal pro SAIGON (UPI) The government-drive to retake Quang Tri City, held for more than two months by invading Communist troops, appeared headed for success Tuesday when a small South Vietnamese force landed by-helicopter in the center of test objecting that Fischer, the Country Crusaders. Fun Time Square. 7:30 p.m. Final Performance of Mark Wilson's "Magic Land of First marine division band.

Amphitheater. 8 pan. Showboat marionettes. Fun Time Square. 10 p.m.

All-Iowa fair mittee decisions said they would appeal, U.S. Dist. Court Judge George L. Hart's ruling Monday that die judiciary should not get involved in the debate. American challenger, "has vio lated the rules of the match" by failing to appear for its sche duled start on Sunday.

Anticipating the appeals, Hart told the lawyers that the U.S. the city and met only light initial resistance. Wednesday court of appeals for the District hoppi Am iir A I Amu urn A um mm Am LbBBBBY Am Am Am I 1 Am mm Am Am mr Am HHb Am mt Am Am Am I mr Am mm AW I mmmU WW mWW AmW mm AmM mW Am LLm Lf Ami AmW WW mW WW Ammm Ww AtmW WW WW I Am AmW 1 1 HHHIIb of Columbia had agreed to hear Military sources said the first A Tass dispatch said Spassky had refused to play Fischer until the American "is punished by the International Chess Federation" 4r FIDE. Personal Insult arguments Tuesday, despite the holiday. unit to enter the city, captured with the rest of Quang Tri prov Hart's decision came in these Cedar Rapids Merchants Day 6 a.m.

Barns open for arrival of beef, swine, 4-H. and FFA livestock show entries. Noon "Early Iowa" exhibit premieres. Open free through end of fair. Linn County Historical Museum Society.

Fun Time Square. 1:30. 3:30. 5:30 and 8 D.m. ince a month after the Commu cases: nist offensive in South Vietnam The move by Sen.

George Mc- Govern's camp to overturn the credentials committee vote was launched March 30, was a reconnaissance platoon of about 30 men. It landed near the city's "Spassky is of the opinion that Fischer insulted him personally and the Chess Federation of the U.S.S.R. by failing to appear at the ceremony opening the match on July 1," the official Soviet news agency said. stripping him of more than 150 Free Showboat Marionettes. 19th century citadel and in the California delegates.

Fun Time Square. 2 n.m. Quality nork con adjoining central business dis Attempts by Chicago Mayor test webrh-in. Farm Youth Richard J. Daley and 58 of his "Fischer jeopardized his moral building.

All aftomnnn. evening allies to upset a committee vote depriving them of seats as con trict. Spokesmen in Saigon expressed bewilderment at the initial reports of light resistance. What had happened to the re right to play in the.match Demonstrations: Sandcasting, wool weaving and spinning. vention delegates.

"Spassky will return to the question of the possibility of holding the match after FIDE The Illinois vote gave Mc- Fine Arts building. 2:30 and 4:30 D.m. Ma- Govern at least 41 supporters ported four North Vietnamese divisions totalling about 48,000 men that took the city in a May crame demonstration. Cedar among the challengers seated bv the committee in place of the Rapids Recreation Commission. Fun Time Square.

3 and 7:30 n.m. Danny sanctions are applied to Fischer," the dispatch said. It was filed to Moscow from Reykjavik and distributed in the agency's international service. Daley contingent. McGovern 1 blitzkrieg was not known, although in the ensuing two months U.S.

aircraft and naval forces first sought a compro Davis and Nashville Brass, with Chieftones and Zacchini cannon mise in the Illinois dispute, but after the California upset; they guns-hips have relentlessly pounded suspected Communist act Amphitheater. 7 p.m. Quality pork con test. Farm Youth building. stood firmly against Daley.

positions throughout the prov 0 in 12 D.m. Sauare Danc- ince. The world champion told Max Euwe, president of the World Chess Federation, that his decision to allow a postponement in Fischer's favor was unacceptable. inr. Buss Penn, caller.

Fun Take Suburb Time Square. Monday night, an elite By Roger Green man South Vietnamese task Supporters of Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey initiated the challenge to the winner-take-all aspect of California's primary, and Humphrey picked upmost of the delegates taken from McGovern and apportioned among all who ran in that state. Then Spassky and his aides, force drove unopposed into Mai who were expected to draw lots Attendance was in the news again Monday for the All-Iowa fair, but this time it was good for tonight's match staged a Linh, a suburb half a mile from the city center, and became the first government troops to enter glum-faced walkout.

Spassky was asked if there news. the provincial capital since the In ruline on the California was a chance for a game today. Communists overran it. He said, "It is not known. challenge, Judge Hart com mented.

"It might not be crick The push into Quang Tri by Monday's fair attendance was 24,477, a record for a Monday and more than any single day in Speaking to newsmen after 20,000 South Vietnamese troops 15 it might even be dirty pool, the Russian walkout, Euwe was is a week old Tuesday and but is it unconstitutional?" His much more forthright. Asked either 1970 or 1971. fH spokesmen said more than 1,100 answer was that there was no whether he considered the Rus Fair Manager Billy Greiner North Vietnamese troops have clear constitutional principle in was saving "I told you so sian move threatened to wreck the whole match, he replied been killed with government Tiiosrfav morning about the losses placed at 50 dead and 235 volved. But it was McGovern who "Certainly." record attendance. The firs wounded.

Quang Tri, the Euwe said the Russians gave three days of the fair had been country's northernmost prov no indication what action, if any, would satisfy them. "If ince, was the only one entirely occupied by the Communists in their three-month-old offensive. was about to get the endorsement of labor leader Jerry Wurf, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes. they had it would be simpler," he said. "We don't know what they want.

Perhaps they want The drive followed President Nguyen Van Thieu's vow June an apology." 19 to retake all Communist-held The candidates went their bent to tind out were various ways for a pre-conven Fischer's second, the Rev. Wil territory in South Vietnam within three liam Lombardy, and his lawyer, tion respite. Humphrey was a his lakeside retreat in Waverly Paul Marshal. They went to and Mcuovern was ai nis Spassky's hotel to get clarification from the Russian champi farm nn the Eastern Shore less-than-desired. People are seeing that the entire fair is here, despite the gambling publicity, Greiner said.

He said he still hopes to break the 200,000 mark in total attendance, which would be a first for the All-Iowa fair. 8,000 at Night More than 8,000 people crowdr ed into the grandstand Monday night to view the special holiday stock car races and the fireworks program afterward. Greiner said several thousand dollars have been spent on the fireworks displays, which will be repeated tonight. Merchants' day will be Wednesday, when an entire carload can enter the fair for $2, on. Maryland.

In other developments: Expect Fight Despite the ease of Tuesday's advance, UPI correspondent Barney Seibert, accompanying the government force, said U.S. advisers expect stiff fighting before Quang Tri is fully in South Vietnamese hands. The 29-year-old American Nixon Invites World To Visit U.S. on 200th Birthday in 76 challenger flew from New York The credentials committee voted 76 to 40 Monday night to seat the Texas convention dele after accepting London banker James D. Slater's offer to gation, rejecting 16 challenges Seibert said government com asserting that women ana mm nrities were underrepresented.

manders brought dozens oi In a winner-take-all challenge tanks and armored personnel carriers carrying fresh paratroopers up Highway 1 into the like the California one, the committee accented a McGovern- match the $125,000 purse put up by the Icelandic Chess Federation. Now the winner of the 24-game match will get $156,250 and the loser $93,750. Each will also get 30 percent of the $250,000 paid for the TV and movie rights to the match, or $75,000 each. The match, which could last province Tuesday from the My including parking. Ticket prices inspired compromise expanding "Great trials and greater triumphs still lie ahead for us as a people.

There are still wrongs to be righted, and new goals of peace, prosperity, justice and a better environment to be met." The President spent much of Monday at his office, near our dreams of a brighter future." Nixon said that as the bicentennial approaches, Americans "have a feeling of healthy impatience for change a determination to make this good land even better." He struck much the same theme in a formal holiday message that said in part: from many lands, he said it is time to say to the world's nations: "You helped make us what we are. Come and see what wonders your countrymen have worked in this new country of ours. Come and let us say thank you. Come and join in our celebration of a proud past. Come and share the size of the Rhode isiana aei- eaatinn The agreement allows McGovern delegates to keep Chanh river defense line 12 miles south of Quang Tri City.

Seibert said the paratroopers were advancing slowly and cautiously toward the city, letting allied fighter-bombers and B-52s their seats but restricts them to two months, had been scheduled on the carnival rides win De reduced when coupons obtained from local merchants are used. Magician Mark Wilson was to present his final grandstand performances at 3 and 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Wilson has appeared on several television shows and is-22nds of a vote apiece. Rhode to start Sunday afternoon, but his oceanside home here.

Fischer stayed New York, island's governor, four members of congress and two demanding a 30 percent cut of other Democrats will oe auaea tn the delegation. Council Votes Go-Ahead soften the way for them. Enemy Near Hue South Vietnamese military sources confirmed Tuesday the gate receipts. Start Postponed The International Chess Fed was the star of the "Magic Land United Auto Workers' President Ionard Woodcock said he of AUakazam" television show, for five years. For Iowa Cify Ramp will support McGovern for the what U.S.

sources have been saying since the shelling began: eration postponed the first game 48 hours and told Fischer he By Ford Clark Democratic nomination, rie sara the rules had been upset when Hue is being hit not only by rockets but by heavy artillery, had to be in Reykjavik by nnon Tuesday or forfeit the match. IOWA CITY Despite warn the party denied McGovern 153 Wilson said he has been doing magic since he was an 8-year-old. "I saw a magician on stage," he said, "and had to try it." His first show was at age 13 indicating the Communists are onmental Action, saying that to proceed with this ramp without filing a final impact statement through appropriate agencies is to violate the federal law." (Continued: Page 3, Col. 8.) California delegates. 'mm rho hnnrd chairman of the SAN CLEMENTE, Calif, (AP) President Nixon issued a broadcast invitation to the world Tuesday to visit the U.S.

on its 200lh birthday in 1976. "Let America be known throughout the world as the 'land of the open Nixon said in a live, 10-minute July 4 radio broadcast from the Western White House. He expressed hope that "millions upon millions of visitors" would help celebrate the U.S. bicentennial. Nixon said one of the best ways to enhance the quality of peace "is through people-to-people contacts contacts aimed at reducing the fear and the ignorance which have, divided mankind down through the ages, and at fostering habits of trust and patterns of cooperation." This, he said, was a major aim of his trips this year to China and the Soviet Union.

Nixon said he would send formal invitations to foreign governments "extending a welcome to the people of those nations to visit the U.S., as laws and circumstances permit, during the bicentennial era and especially during the year 1976." He termed" the action unprecedented. Noting that America has been peopled by immigrants (Continued: Page 3, Col. 6.) ings that it was acting illegally, the city council here voted 3 to 2 Monday to proceed with con-structon of its controversial $2 a aiv NAArp Bishoo Stephen Spottswood, accused Nixon, pnnoress and Wallace oi leam- Heintz, an Iowa City attorney, represents the CEA, which is op Castro, Soviets End Discussions MOSCOW (AP) Fidel Cas million parking ramp in the city's downtown urban renewal ino nn to thwart civil-rights "'b i. Among those he conferred with were Henry Kissinger, assistant for national security affairs, and John Ehrlichman, domestic police aide. Nixon signed a batch of minor private bills and declared parts of Arizona and West Virginia disaster areas eligible for federal relief funds.

Press Secretary Ronald i 1 discounted reports that former Treasury Secretary Connally might be named to head the U.S. negotiating team at the Vietnam peace talks in Paris. He said there were "no plans at all for Secretary Connally to be involved in the Paris negotiations or any other aspect of negotiations regarding the situation in Southeast Asia." Connally is expected here next week to report to Nixon on his "current globe-circling mission as a presidential representative travels that already have taken him to South Vietnam and Cambodia. posed to the ramp. progress and "do more man put area.

on nnH in the desegregation Voting for issuance of $2 mil before a Rotary club. He was paid $5. Wilson said he enjoys working fairs. "They're good because the people are nice," he said. "Staging conditions can be difficult," he said, but careful choice of tricks solves this.

Wilson said he occasionally (Continued: Page 3, Col. 5.) tro Tuesday ended a one-week The city contends that federal monies are not being used for America's Dublic schools." He lion in revenue bonds to finance the 570-car ramp were Mayor series of economic and political addressed the NAACP's annual ramp construction directly; discussions with the Soviet lead convention in Detroit. Tim Brandt and Councilmen therefore the project does not fall under federal guidelines concerning an environmental ership, Tass news agency re Loren Hickerson and Robert Connell. Voting against were Councilmen Pat White and Connalrv Moves ported. Today's Index Comics 31 Courthouse I.

Crossword 31 Daily Record 3 Deaths 3 Editorial Features Farm II Financial 32 Marlon 12 Movies 20,21 Society 26-29 Sports 23-25 State 4,1 Television 30 Want Ads 3447 (Havana radio said Castro impact study. "I'm asking my fellow coun On to NeW0 Delh would return home Thursday.) Cuban sources previously re cilmen to also consider recent developments which indicate nrw DELHI (AP) Former ported that Castro was to re its Treasury Secretary Jonn that a $10 million suburban main in the Soviet Union for two Edgar Czarnecki. Czarnecki, a long-standing opponent of the ramp, made what he termed "one last plea for common sense." He said that J. Eric Heintz "has expressed a legal opinion representing the Citizens for Envir shopping center is coming in Today's Chuckle Teacher: "How old would a person be who was born in 1920?" Smart Kid: "Man or woman?" Copyright weeks for detailed discussions B. Connally arrived Tuesday for two days of talks.

He was greeted by Foreign Minister Swaran here, if allowed, and the developer and two major department on his nation's economic relations with his Soviet benefac tors. Singh and U. S. AmDassaaor Kenneth Keating. (Continued: Page 3, Col.

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