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Good Morning! Today Is Sunday August 19,1972 HERALD A Florida Freedom Newspaper "I have lived a long time and the longer 1 live the more convincing proofs I see that God governs in the affairs of men." Benjamin Franklin Vol.4 No.lll The Worlds Most Beautiful Beaches Panama City, Florida Telephone 763-7621 10 Sections 108 Pages Price25 Cents THIRD THIS YEAR rance Explodes Nuclear Device WELLINGTON, New Zealand (UPI) exploded the third nuclear blast in its controversial 1973 atmospheric testing series over the South Pacific, New Zealand said today. Government sources said the explosion came Sunday, New Zealand time, at Mururoa Atoll, 720 miles southeast of Papeete, Tahiti, the site last month of France's first two blasts in its current series. The size of the explosion and the source of the information was not given. France's tests have drawn protests over fears of fallout from at least half a dozen nations, including New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Sweden and Japan, and resulted in a severing of relations by Peru. "All New Zealanders will deeply regret this news," Prime Minister Norman Kirk said in reporting the blast.

Kirk said he had "reason to believe that France had carried out a third atmospheric nuclear test at Mururoa." In Paris, a spokesman for the French SMILING FINALISTS A smiling group of finalists Miss Maryland, Vivian Rey; Miss Illinois, Janet in the Miss American Teen-Ager contest in New Ewing; Miss Kentucky, Patricia Ann O'Grady; and York during opening competition of final evening's Miss Maine, Barbara Davis. (UPI) events. (L to are): Miss Virginia, Patricia Leffler; CAMBODIA Military Chief As ks For Bomb Res umption Black "Dream Now Nightmare back again and ask for American bombine to resume," the 49-year-old general told UPI in an interview. Fernandez, pointing out a lull in fighting around capital Phnom Penh since the bombing ended three days ago, said, "The military situation is much better" and "the enemy has suffered a defeat at our hands." Field reports said government troops have run into little opposition in pushing the capital's defense perimeter out to PHNOM PENH (UPI) Cambodia's top military man said Saturday he intends to ask the United States to resume air strikes if the Communists ignore the Indochina peace agreement. Maj.

Gen. Sosthene Fernandez, chairman of the Cambodian Joint Chiefs of Staff, said, however, he'd keep on fighting even if the Americans turn him down. "I must fight," he said. "I must do my duty." "If the Communists don't respect the Paris and Geneva agreements I shall go Israel Attacks Egyptian Planes By United Press International The Israeli command said the two Israeli antiaircraft guns Saturday Egyptian planes streaked over the fired at two Egyptian Sukhoi 7 warplanes cease-fire line at the Suez canal and into that crossed the cease-fire line and flew Israeli airspace about noon Saturday and over the northwestern sector of the the antiaircraft fire lasted less than a Israeli-held Sinai peninsula, the Israeli minute. military command said.

Earlier, Libya's Tripoli Radio An Israeli military spokesman said it confirmed that the man who hijacked a was not known if either of the planes was Lebanese airliner to Israel Thursday is a hit. Libyan and has a history of mental The incident marked the second trouble, reported military engagement between The broadcast, heard in Cairo, backed Israeli and Egyptian forces in less than a up the Israeli description of hijacker Mo- week, the earlier one occurring Monday in hammed Hassan Al-Touni, 37, and a fight on the Gulf of Suez between two undercut Arab press speculation that he patrol boats of each side. The Israelis said was a "hireling" carrying out an Egyptian vessel was damaged. Elderly Woman Held By Gunmen BREST, France (UPI) 71-year-old woman held hostage by two bank robbers for nearly 40 hours walked out of her home unharmed Saturday night after one of her captors surrendered and the other critically wounded himself, police said. The woman, Mrs.

Daniele Le Moigne, emerged shortly after 11 p.m., walking behind the surviving gunman. Looking tired, she smiled and went straight to. her husband, kissed him, and said, "All is in order now, don't worry." Police said one of the bank robbers, Paul Ciamitaro, shot himself moments before Mrs. Le Moigne was released. A police spokesman who contacted Ciamitaro by telephone said, "I told him he and his accomplice had no Ciamitaro was taken to a hospital, where his condition was reported as "desperate." The French television network earlier said the man had died, but police said this was not so.

'another act of Israeli air piracy. In Jerusalem Saturday cabinet minislo -s said Israel will seek balanced action providing sanctions air piracy, at next week's meeting of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Shortly after Touni forced the pilot of the Middle East Airlines (MEA) Boeing 707 to land at Tel Aviv's Lod airport Thursday, Israeli Premier Mrs. Golda Meir described the hijacker as a "drunken and deranged" person. The Israelis also said he carried a Libyan passport.

But Saleh Al Senoussi, Libyan ambassador to Iraq who was among the 119 passengers and crew aboard the hijacked plane, told newsmen in Beirut he was convinced the hijacker was not a Libyan. "The hijacker did not speak with a Libyan accent," Senoussi said. But Tripoli radio, citing a report by (See ATTACKS, Page 2A) Detectives Seek Child Killer NEW YORK (UPI) Detectives in the East Village took a composite photo of a suspected killer from door-to-door Saturday in hopes of finding a clue to the murder of a young boy found on a tenement roof with a large carved on his chest. The slaying Friday of Steven Cropper, 7, was similar to the unsolved murders of around nine miles from Phnom Penh. The Communists had driven to about three miles of the city as recently as two weeks ago.

Some diplomatic observers, however, attributed the drop in battle action to guerrilla regrouping for a full-scale attack against the capital, now shorn of its American air defenses. UPI correspondent Kenneth F. Englade said refugees who had fled to Phnom Penh from the embattled countryside were drifting back Saturday tovtheir'ruirie'dvor deserted villages along Highways 3.and 4 southwest of the capital. Field reports told of a sharp skirmish'at dawn Saturday near Chambak Meas, 10 miles north of the capital. Newsmen returning from the scene said the government troops ran into stiff guerrilla opposition when they tried to link up on Highway 6.

Two government soldiers were (Sec CAMBODIA, Page 2A) Court Refuses Meat Exemption WASHINGTON (UPI) -The U. S. Court of Appeals refused Saturday to exempt 100 West Coast meat wholesalers from the beef price freeze, calling it an "entirely reasonable" way to keep prices from soaring higher. An emergency three-judge panel upheld a decision by the U. S.

District Court in San Fra-cisco denying the exemption requested by the Pacific Coast Meat Jobbers Association. The two associations had accused the Cost of Living Council (CLC) of "arbitrary and capricious action" and of exceeding its legal authority in imposing ceilings on beef prices until Sept. 12. The appeals panel rejected both claims and said "the public interest would be impaired" if the request for a preliminary injunction were granted. It said the meat wholesalers had complained of financial losses, but "it is not clear that the harm will be irreparable." INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.

(UPI) -Ten years after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. told a crowd of 200,000 "I have a dream," many black leaders say the dream has become a nightmare. During a huge civil rights march in Washington Aug. 28, 1963, King said he dreamed of blacks and whites equally welcome at public accommodations, blacks using full voting rights, and of an end to racist employment practices.

Jobs remain the major unfulfilled part of the dream, leaders attending the 16th annual convention of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), agreed this week. "In the area of jobs for blacks, the dream has become a nightmare," said SCLC Secretary the Rev. Andrew J. Brown. "Most blacks are worse off U.S.

Spirals Upward BRUSSELS (UPI) American tourists began to smile again last week at the currency exchange counters of Europe. The U.S. dollar was going up in value, and the money they had saved for their European vacations was buying more local currency in the countries they were visiting. In the foreign currency trading room of a leading London bank, the dealers took down a tattered dollar bill that they had pinned on a bulletin board several weeks ago to symbolize the decline of the dollar. An increase in the dollar's value in the past two reaching 8 per cent on some European markets reversed its steady decline that began after the U.S.

government devalued the American currency by 10 percent for the second time in February. American monetary officials had hoped the February devaluation would take pressure off the dollar on foreign exchange markets, where dealers were unloading dollars for what they considered to be more stable currencies. The officials' hopes were unfounded. The dollar lost 28.2 per cent of its value against the German mark in the first five months after devaluation, dropping from its pre-devaluation level of 3.15 marks to the dollar to a low July 6 of 2.26 marks. The same day, it dropped below four French francs for the first time in 16 years.

News Roundup- McCord Seeks Lectures News Inside Some Florida businessmen apparently ready to push for easing of state's tough three young boys who were found sexually anti-oil spill law. See this and other state, mutilated in Harlem and the Upper West area and local stories on page 12a. Side of Manhattan within the past 16 months. George Blanda's three field goals Although the latest victim was not feature Oakland's 16-3 victory over Los sexually attacked, his age and the blade Angeles Rams. This and other sports used as the murder weapon bore similari- stories are on pages 1B-8B.

ties to other murders. TjvriirY Police who were awaiting autopsy results said the boy was slashed several ID times and a large carved on his chest. ID Several razor blades were found near the 9B-15B sprawled body. 9B "We're not saying that the suspect in the 2A Upper West Side cases is involved in this JA one," a homicide detective said, "but 1C-8C we're just circulating the picture to make 1B-8B sure it's not him." Abby Bridge Classified Crossword Deaths Editorial Society Sports BROOKLINE, Mass. A Chestnut Hill speaker's bureau is promoting lectures at colleges and universities by convicted Watergate burglar James McCord, it was reported Saturday.

According to promotional literature mailed to schools by the American Programs Bureau, McCord will appear for a $2,000 foe. Those who want to economize may instead choose to ask Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, or Sen. Joseph M. Montoya, both members of the Senate Watergate committee, to speak.

Their appearances on the lecture circuit are put at $1,500 each. Daniel Ellsberg, whose psychiatrist's office was burglarized by Watergate figures, is available to speak, according to the bureau, for $2,500. NANTUCKET, Mass. The man who will prosecute a negligent driving charge against Joseph P. Kennedy III as the result of last Monday's auto accidei 'd Saturday the case will be handled "just like any other accident.

Assistant Nantucekt District Attorney Robert Mooney said the case was "very one of about 40 or 50 such charges filed each year." The difference, he said, was in the notoriety of the defendant, the 21-year-old son of the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (UPI) -The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) Friday criticized Sen.

Edward Kennedy, for presenting an Americanism award to Alabama Gov. George Wallace, although Kennedy actually did not make the presentation. KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (UPI) Nixon Saturday signed a measure exempting the Delta Queen, a Mississippi riverboat plying the cruise trade, from fire safety standards through Nov. 1,1978.

It was the third reprieve given the 190-passenger boat to leave it free from standards which would require replacement of its wooden superstructure. MANILA (UPI) -The backbone of the insurgent movement in the southern part of the Philippines' main island of Luzon has been broken, military authorities said Saturday. They also said the legal secretary of the Philippines Communist party has been killed by Constabulary (national police) troopers. The official Philippine News Agency (PNA) quoted Brig. Gen.

Efigenio C. Navarro, commander of the second constabulary zone, as saying that since martial law was imposed last Sept. 23, "The apparatus of the dissident movement in the Becol region (in southern Luzon) has been dismantled and dissident activity has been reduced to a bare minimum." financially than they were 10 years ago." SCLC President, the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, and other leaders agreed equality in public accommodations and voting rights "are being realized, although are not totally fulfilled yet." The Rev. Hosea Williams, SCLC field director under and King head of the Atlanta chapter, said, "I think the dream turned into a nightmare.

The civil rights movement has been very peculiar in this manner: the gains that: we sought ended up a negative. "The main cause of that was that blacks were duped into seeking economic power and blacks were duped into seeking political power, and all powers are useless unless preceeded by the most gracious and powerful power of all that's the power of self respect. "Integration has failed. It didn 't work," Williams "Qne, of reasons integration has failed is that the 'black man does not respect himself. No man can respect you if you don't respect yourself.

We've got to back up and get our thing together. "The second reason that integration failed is that white men cannot shed 400 years of racism just like that. With the racism in the white man's mind, he cannot accept the black man as his equal, so the white man's goal was never to Integrate but to assimilate wanted the black man to be like him, with a while mind." Williams said school integration became the phase out of black teachers and black schools; urban renewal became removal of black housing and the "war on poverty" served to stymie black progress. Vernon Jordan, executive director of the Urban League, and Rep. Andrew J.

Young, both cited job opportunity as the part of King's dream that had not come to fruition. Both indicated they thought the problems would have been similar If King had not been assassinated April 4,1968. "What white America has experienced as a recession, black America has felt as a depression," Jordan said. "Black income is declining in relation to white income, and in the decade since we marched for jobs and freedom, the median (See DkKAM, Page 2A) Chemical Leak Forces Evacuation CARSON, Calif. (Ui'J) foul-smelling cloud of while vapor several miles long seeped over this city Saturday from a chemical plant, forcing the evacuation of a two-mile area of homes and hospitalizing two persons with breathing problems.

Authorities said the leaking chemical was believed to be a highly loxic substance that could cause illness if large portions of it are inhaled. Cause of the leak was unknown, hut Los Angeles County fire officials said it may have been caused by an explosion. Approximately people live in the area where the gas clouds were hovering. The site of the escaping fumes, the Stauffer Chemical Plant, is located in an industrial part of the city. Officers originally feared a 25-mile square area, encompassing Long Beach, which is nearby, would have to be cleared.

Hut, when the fumes were reported dissipating, only a housing tract near the plrnt was declared in immediate danger. Residents there were asked to close the windows and doors in their homes and evacuate to a school. Emergency vehicles were being used to take the people out of the area. The stricken were taken to the Memorial Hospital and Medical Center in Long Beach where they were reported to be in satisfactory condition. Fire units and sheriff's personnel were dispatched to try to plug the leak.

Authorities said the fumes were drifting and could spread to neighboring areas, but that the cloud was dissipating. The fumes were described as being several miles in the air, but drifting downward in the northern area of the city. defense ministry said, "I can not tell you anything." The government has promised a report at the end of the tests series, but has kept silent on the results so far. French government sources said they expect the tests to end in September. France has now carried out 32 atmospheric tests in the Pacific and exploded 17 nuclear devices in the Sahara, four in the atmosphere, since beginning testing in 1964.

The first 1973 test was estimated by New Zealand as having the force of about 5,000 tons of TNT. The second was said perhaps to have been smaller and there was speculation that the French ran into technical difficulties. New Zealand stationed its frigate Otago to observe the first test from the testing danger area and sent another frigate, the Canterbury, for the second explosion. Minister of Mines of Immigration Fraser Col man, who said the vessels were a "silent witness," was aboard them. The boats have been withdrawn, with New Zealand saying it has made it point.

An American yacht, the Fri, sailed to the danger area but was towed away by French naval authorities prior to the first test. Kirk said Sunday, "By drawing the attention of millions of people around the world to what is happening at Mururoa, I believe we have created a new international awareness that all nuclear weapons tests must be stopped. "The declaration on nuclear weapons tests which the Commonwealth heads of government adopted unanimously at Ottawa provides convincing evidence that there is a widespread international concern to see an end to atmospheric nuclear testing." Kirk noted that the declaration "appeals to all powers, and In particular the nuclear powers, to take up as an urgent task the negotiation of a new agreement to bring about the total cessation of nuclear weapons tests in all environments." Bill Ralston, a spokesman for Auckland Peace Media, an anlltestlng group, said thai the New Zealand-registered protest yachl Spirit of Peace left the edge of French territorial waters off Tahiti three days ago to sail into the test zone but that he did not expect thai it arrived there yet. Skylab Shoots Tropical Storm HOUSTON (UPI) Skylab's astronauts Saturday televised the birth of a tropical storm in the Gulf of Mexico as an example of the benefits of manned spaceflights. Alan L.

Bean, Owen K. Garriott and Jack R. Lousma interrupted their day off to photograph the tropical depression near Cuba and beam back television pictures of the swirling gale force winds. Ground controllers asked the pilots only to take still photos of the storm, but mission commander Bean insisted on television. "We'll get it wilh both because I think one of Ihe advantages of manned light is to give a quick look at something that's happening," said Bean.

"Whereas these photographs get back in another month and they won't do any good. By then the hurricane will have disappeared from the face of Ihe earth." Bean said the depression, moving at 30 miles per hour into the gulf, was quite large. "It looks like it's just being born out here in the gulf," Mean reported as the television showed the mass of clouds and air currents. "You can see Ihe circular si inclined pattern of an embryonic tropical storm. We'll try to keep an eye on il for you on a day by day basis, not only where il is but how it's developing as far as size and intensity is concerned." The astronauts spent a few hours of their 22ml day in space watching the through their powerful solar observatory, cleaning their eight-room space house and taking their once-a-week showers in the plastic, collapsible stall.

I Weather Partly cloudy, warm through Monday, chance of evening thundei'showers, light winds, high today in lowOO's, low tonight in mid 70's, rain probability 20 per cent tonight. Tides Panama City high 2:33 a.m., low 1:22 p.m.; Port St. Joe high 2:52 a.m., low 1:15 p.m.; Apalachicola high 7:11 a.m., low 3:04 p.m.; gulf water temperature 86 degrees. River Readings: Woodruff Dam 47.0; Blountstown 8.5. I.