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The Napa Valley Register du lieu suivant : Napa, California • 5

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Capitol Greets Oldest Demonstrator They Played For Real Blood In Medieval Iceland Chess Games Hangman Urged For Hijackers IAS ANGELES (AT) To-lice Chief Fdward M. Davis proposes a traveling hangman as a means to curtail the growing number of air piracies. Davis told newsmen Friday lie recommended a portable courtroom in a big bus and a portable gallows." The chief hinged his plan on restoration of the death penally. 'Ihen, he added, we conduct a rapid trial for a hijacker out there and we hang him with due process of law out there at the airport. Mayor Sam Yorty, who praised Davis as the No.

1 police chief in the country, said the chief was only trying to "dramatize the situation. DOUG WILLIS Associated Tress Writer SACRAMKNTO (AT)- Robert II Simpson came to the California Capitol, where he has been arrested 67 times the past five years, to picket and denounce the governor. Hut Mr. Simpson -the only man in the Capitol addressed by everyone as Mister didnt receive the sort of greeting Friday that one might expect for a person with his arrest record. Lt.

Gov. Fd Reinecke was I here to wish him happy birthday, and a big sign above the shoeshine stand outside the Assembly chambers read Happy Birthday, Mr. Simpson, 92 years. 'Hie (teaming picketer was invited to hop up on the stand for a free shoeshine, and a secretary gave him a birthday kiss while about 50 legislative consultants, newsmen and office workers crowded around. Simpson asked for, and received, a second kiss from 20-year-old Donna Yocum, raised his hand in a peace symbol, and then defiantly waved a new picket sign he had made for the day: Celebrating 92nd birthday exposing Reagan as master swindler, was the new message.

Reinecke, who is acting governor during Gov. Reagans current Furopean tour, made his appearance at the shoeshine stand a few minutes later. "Happy birthday, Mr. Simpson. We all hope you have many more, Reinecke said.

The frail, grey-haired Simpson, who put down his anti Reagan sign briefly to shake hands with the lieutenant governor, replied: "I'll Ite here 'till hell freezes over to press the right lo complain." We all respect your right to complain. right to free speech," the lieutenant governor replied as Simpson raised the sign again. Fvery time Simpson lifted his sign he was in technical violation of a state statute-nick named the Simpson law passed four years ago to outlaw picketing inside the Capitol building. Hut there were no arrests Friday. The event was interrupted for four different television interviews.

Simpson -who calls himself California's oldest demonstrator-said to one interviewer that the jjolice refused to arrest him. In another interview he was asked about his family He said he has no relatives in the area, and added: "I've got two daughters and two sons, but they're all respectable people. Fven though thousands of dollars of prize money are on the line, todays championship prize is chicken feed. Rognvald played King l-ouis for his head. A woman was the prize in one knightly saga.

A king put up his horse, falcon and sword for a maiden and engaged in a game, winner take all. The king lost. He left the game on foot, unarmed and unloved. Little consolation do you derive from the game of chess for now I own your costly objects! said his competitor. smashed his opponent in the face with it, leaving him a bloody mess.

Take that! exclaimed the king. Rognvald rode off in a panic. Hut Ids brother stayed to split the kings skull open. These stories are sagas from Willard Fiskes Chess in Iceland and in Icelandic Literature," published in 1905. It is said that American chess champion Hobby Fischer has gotten the highest stakes in history of chess for his series beginning Tuesday in Reykjavik with Boris Spassky, the By ANN HKNCKKN Associated Tress Writer NEW YORK (AT) The insulted egos and white-knuckled tensions before the Fischer-Spassky chess match may seem to be a blazing battle, but pale beside the tales of bloodthirsty games in Medieval Iceland.

Chess boards in the 12th and 13th centuries were often the center of treachery, revenge, intrigue and murder, according to sagas of the time. When a certain King Ixtuis lost a chess game to Rognvald, he stood up in a fury, shoved his chessmen into a bag and world champion jNapa Hester Whats so special at Penneys? All our special buy prices to make Sunday shopping a lot more fun! OPEN EVERY SUNDAY 1 2 TO 5 P.M. IB Napa, Calif. Saturday, July 8, 1972 Last week to shape up and save. All bras and girdles 20 off! Starts Sunday! All quilted spreads arenow 15 off.

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BEIRUT, lebanon (AP) A Palestinian guerrilla leader was killed in Beirut today by a booby trap that wrecked his sportscar as he turned the ignition key, police reported. TTie victim, Ghassan Kana-fani, 36, was spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and a novelist well known in the Arab world. The explosion also killed his niece, Iamiss, 15, in the seat beside him, and blew in doors and shattered neighborhood windows. A high security official claimed Israel has sent unidentified persons from the occupied west bank of the Jordan River to carry out assassinations in retaliation for the May 30 massacre at Tel Aviv airport. Palestinian sources said it could not be ruled out that a dissident faction of the front, or Jordanian agents, were responsible for the blast.

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