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-u Spokane Daily Chronicle Friday July 1972 Vos ECey uJ PERFECTION'S Iliway-cr-Srsv youa choice 1 'WRAPAROUND' HIWAY RETREAD TOP QUALITY ONE PRICE gets in North Vietnam Thursday lending three coastal de-feiise sites and nearly a dozen military buildings in the Hanoi-Haiphong region The planes also destroyed three warehouses and a railroad budge outside Haiphong and sank three barges 19 miles northeast of the port a communique said Hijacks Hailed by Panthers ALGIERS (AP) The American Black Panther International Section said today that airplanes should be hijacked encourage people to fight directly against the exploitative American An article in the information bulletin published here said: our comrades in Vietnam all the blacks and other oppressed peoples of the United States are undertaking a just war of liberation against the same capitalistic killers It is a correct and just tactic to expropriate all that we can from the big capitalistic companies and corporations who extort billions from the Incident Cited The article was written in connection with the hijacking June 3 of a Western Airlines Boeing 720 William Holder accompanied by Katherine Ker-kow ordered the plane flown here It was later returned along with $500000 ransom paid by the company Holder and Miss Kerkow asked for political asylum but as far as is known the status has not been granted The two have taken refuge with the Black Panthers nOUHTCD FREE Plus 60 FtT rocappablo casing wsw 95 tuboloi GOODQBGC Smouldering Tank Claimed A South Vietnamese soldier grins broadly as other troops climb over a still-smoking tank The T-54 North Vietnamese tank was knocked out recently during a battle south of Quang Tri (AP wirephoto) SAIGON (AP) Severe fighting raged around Quang Tri today and South Vietnamese troops advancing from the northeast were reported within 5X) yards of the pro facial capital Military sources said North Vietnamese gunners shot down a helicopter killing Col Ngu-yan Trong Bas chief of staff of the airborne division making the advance from the northeast Eight South Vietnamese also were wounded when the helicopter crashed outside Quang Tri The Saigon command said its troops still had not entered Quang Tri but paratroopers closing on the northeastern sector of city reported they engaged the enemy only 500 yards from the city limits Writes Report Associated Press Correspondent Richard Blystone reported from the task force headquarters that government marines fought a series of engagements less than three miles from the city Authoritative sources say the South Vietnamese strategy in the counter offensive is to engage the enemy wherever pos-sibe outside the city while laying siege to Quang Tri itself with artillery and air strikes In this manner the sources say the government forces hope to wear down the city's defenders without becoming bogged down or trapped in bloody high-casualty street fighting against well-entrenched enemy troops Bomb Effective In the air war the US Navy announced it had introduced a new television-guided 2 000-pound bomb that scored direct hits against its first six targets in North Vietnam The bomb called by Navy aviators was called an improved version of the a 1000-pounder guided to its target by a television camera in its nose primary advantages of the new over the earlier Walleye the Navy said increased explosive impact better reliability and greater stand-off or the ability to hit targets from higher altitudes the most popular feature for combat air crews exposed to enemy ground The new bomb knocked out four bridges and two military supply buildings in its first six missions a spokesman said Pilots Busy The US Command announced that American pilots flew 270 air strikes against tar- 0 Amogsdl Corospiroey the indictments was events allegedly planned for 21-28 in Miami Four other antiwar vets were arrested Thursday night on charges of direct contempt of court levelled by US Dist Judge David Middlebrooks The indictments accuse the six of plotting to organize numerous armed with automatic weapons firearms and incendiary devices The teams allegedly would then police stations police cars and stores in Miami Beach on various said the indictments The indictments also accused the six of planning to lead weights marbles ball bearings cherry bombs and smoke in the city and to use rockets sling shots and cross The indictments made use of the same anticonspiracy law which resulted against indictments following the 19G8 Democratic convention in Chicago and the celebrated case Thursday night the Democratic National Convention con demned the Nixon Administration for attempting to "intimidate and the antiwar group Carrouth said those under indictment who are all among the original 23 antiwar vets called here this week will be brought before a committing magistrate sometime today for the purpose of setting bonds He said the conspiracy charges each carry maximum penalties of five years imprisonment Jury Recessed Meanwhile the grand jury recessed until Aug 8 A Legal Defense Fund spokesman Judy Peterson of Gainesville said earlier that the alleged conspiracy charges also involved plans for the just-concluded Democrat convention but the only mention in DADDAL 7IQEG MICUILm RADIAL Steel cord 40000 mile treadwear Up to 10 more gas mileage -B American radial "LIFESAVER" -SEfAPmiT- lll-SPEED RADIAL 165 tnner 165 SR-14 3069 SR13 $3385 Xm $3661 TALLAHASSEE Fla (AP) federal grand jury indicted six antiwar veterans today on charges of conspiring to disrupt next Republican National Convention in Miami Beach with guns bombs and other forms of violence The grand jury completed a week long probe by accusing the six members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (WAW) of plotting to damage and destroy by means of explosive devises buildings and at the Aug 21-24 convention Indicted were Don Purdue Fort Lauderdale Fla Peter Mahoney New York City John Kniffer Texas William Patter son Texas Alton Foss Miami and Scott Camil Gainesville Fla Camil Florida coordinator for the organization also was indicted on additional charges of instructing in the use and application of incendiary devices and possession of a chemical bomb Assistant US Atty Jack 155 SR-12 FtT 13S 174 Exch (or $1) Tub typo Ilk emrfor Claims Taxpayer Used 20 SIZES 1 PRICE! MOUHTED FREE trad plus fLT moppobli toting 95 SI wtw I II I 31 SIZES 1 PRICE! (' S3 I RlfatlMHi LCriGMILCn 4-Ply Nylon Cord 90 Free Replacement BLACKWALL POPULAR SIZES 825x14 415 17 FiJ 199-247 Exch (or $1) FREE REPLACEMENT FJ1 192-319 Exch (or $1 ALL TIRES MOUNTED FREE (exc splitmags) ail bank cards ALL MAJOR OIL CO CREDIT CARDS (on our charge plon) OPEN DAILY TIL 6:30 pm SAT 'TIL 5 pm VI i it DATSUN TOYOTA OPEL 90 FREE REPLACEMENT BRIDGESTONE TUBELESS WHITE HIGH SPEED SPORT CAR TIRES 520-10 (BLK) 1282 725-13 2154 600-12 1749 560-14 1996 560-13 1828 560-154 2062 600-13 1933 560-15 (BLK) 1792 650-13 1889 600-15 2134 FET 106 223 Exch (or $1) DELTA 4-Ply Dynacor-OUR FINEST N0N-RADIAL DUAL STRIPE WHITEWALL WASHINGTON (AP) Sen William Proxmire D-Wis accused the Defense Department today of letting the taxpayer be for a by allowing Sperry Rand Corp to reap a 34000 per cent return on a $50000 investment The contract involves the production of 155 mm artillery shell the brass-colored at its Louisiana Army Ammunition Plant Shreveport La The $71-million plant was built with taxpayer money but Sperry Rand invested only $50-000 said Proxmire chairman of the Joint Economic Committee Big Profit Claimed In the 20-year span from 1951 to 1971 Sperry Rand made $17 million profit maintained Prox mire According to a General Accounting Office investigation Froxmire said Sperry Rand produced each casing at a claimed cost of $2936 under a cost-plus contract When the contract was put up for competitive bidding in 1971 Sperry Rand bid $649 below original claimed cost a reduction of 22 per cent to win the contract again the Army has made some attempts to clean up this Proxmire said in a statement has not gone far In the past Proxmire continued Sperry Rand made profits by misrepresenting its costs Now it can continue to make large profits by using free government facilities materials and operating capital under a new Sperry Rand said in a statement that conclusions not supported by Amnesty Talk Is Opposed WENATCHEE Wash (API-Gubernatorial hopeful Martin Durkao voiced opposition today to consideration of amnesty until all prisoners of war and missing in action are home from Vietnam The state senator from 1s-saquah also told the American Legion state convention he op pojes the legalization of marijuana use for those who desert the military or refuse to serve their country is a serious enough question by the Democrat said to give such a move consideration while we still have prisoners of war and men missing in action is out of the Durkan told the convention American citizens should be concerned with bringing home the POWS-MLA instead of talking about amnesty for young men who have left the country to avoid the draft or who have been jailed for their belief Third Bishop Is Selected SEATTLE (AP) The Rev Wilbur Choy of Berkeley Calif was elected today as the first Asian-Ameriean bishop in system for iwo-mirds the United Methodist Thurrh inle of its estimated 4-County Bus Plan Approved TACOMA A regional transit plan to coordinate bus service in King Pierce Snohomish and Kitsap counties over the next decade was approved Thursday by the Puget Sound Governmental Conference The regional plan approved by resolution gives general sanction to gearing expansions and improvements in the bus services of Seattle Tacoma Ev erett and Bremerton along re gional guidelines through 1980 The conference also approved by resolution a proposal for op eration of buses in Seattle and King County by King County Metro The cocntywide scheme which anticipates a sales tax increase of 3 per cent to King County residents is to be submitted to voters Sept 19 The governmental approval of the plan qualifies the Metro system for two-thirds the United Methodist Church inLft crater to simulate the after-math of a 500-pound bomb similar to those dropped in Vietnam would guarantee the crater site would be maintained with flowers and shubbery as a memorial to those who have died in the petition said The park now has a memorial to those who died in the Civil War The council is expected to consider the petition Aug 8 Welfare Folk Ready Sit-In BOISE Idaho (AP) Expected cuts in welfare and inability to meet with Gov Cecil Andrus has raised the ire of about 30 Boise area welfare mothers Yesterday they made plans for a sit-in at the office Diane Pike of Boise chairman of the group said the women tried to see the governor but were told he could not see them until after Aug 1 She said starting next week the group plans to sit-in at the office until he meets with them 11 Per Cent Cut An expected 11 per cent cutback in aid for dependent children was announced last week by Dr John Marks director of the Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services The cut may go into effect Sept 1 we should march on the Statehouse and leave 11 per cent of our one of the welfare mothers proposed Marks said the cut was forecast because expenditure projections through the end of the current fiscal year indicate the appropriations for welfare were inadequate The cutbacks would roll payments back to what they were prior to Dec 1 Tvo Dead Added to State's Toll By The Associated Press Two persons have died on Washington highways bringing the traffic death toll to 412 compared to 429 at the same time last year The victims both died late last night in a two-car collision in Benton County about two miles north of Prosser on Route 12 the State Patrol said They are identified as Robert Shannon 27 Sunnyside the driver of one of the vehicles and 15-ycar-old Curtis Lewis of Prosser a passenger in the other vehicle Dcaffc Takes Galley's Rad GAINESVILLE Fla (AP) -William Calley Sr died in a Veterans Administration hospital Thursday night several hours after a 30-minule visit by his son a key figure in the My Lai massacre Malcolm Randall hospital administrator said the father of Lt William Callty died as a result of respiratory arrest which stemmed from diabetic coma jrvj ANNIVERSARY FLOWERS CHARGE IT! £lKE 5 2431 mem Crafcr Asked PITTSFIELD Mass (AP) A Berkshire peace group wants to build a bomb crater in square as a memorial to the devastation of the Vietnam war The Berkshire Peace Center has petitioned the City Council for permission to construct the 8 by 20 foot ride lots Trio Killed in Smashup MEMPHIS Tenn (AP) -Three persons were killed and 16 injured today when a car reported swaying with a flat tire plowed head on into a Greyhound bus the Tennessee Highway Patrol said Aid Given RAPID CITY SD (UPI) -The western South Dakota disaster areas of Pennington County Rapid City and Sturgis have received checks totaling more than $2 million to help pay off bills Incurred following the June 9 flood the United States if96 COiA- Plan calls 'for development of freeway bus systems and outlying park-and- The Rev Mr Choy was elected the General Accounting Office report on which he bases his The corporation said that during the 20 years it has managed the plant its compensation totaled 26 per cent of the costs of performing the work It said the 26 per cent a gross figure did not include taxes and other expenses Assignment Rights Won SEATTLE (AP) The black-led United Construction Workers Association has been given temporary authority to monitor dispatch of apprentices by construction unions The authority was granted in a written opinion signed yesterday by US District Court Judge William Lindberg The opinion also directed the Justice Department to provide additional legal staff to keep tabs on minority hiring practices by construction firms Involvement of the UCWA in assignment of apprentices has been fought by area construction unions Lindberg gave the UCWA a trial period of 60 days to see how well it functions in its role of recruitment counseling and observation of dispatch UCWA head Tyree Scott said whether the new system works will depend on the contractors they cooperate fine If they haul them into court and demand we be given full dispatch powers over minor movie and television rights allowed the Icelandic Chess Federation to offer a record $125000 purse for the two players Gudmundur Thorarinsson president of the Icelandic federation said that if the match was stopped by disqualification the organizers would not pay the share This meant that Fischer could not only lose his chances at the As the loser he would be entitled to $46875 from the chess federation $15000 from a purse of about $120000 offered by British financier James Slater and $27500 from television and movie rights Hos Touched MOSCOW (AP) park bench chess players used C78-1 3 E78-14 F78-14 G78-14 H78-14 J78-14 F78-15 G78-15 H78-15 L78-15 2341 2490 2648 2771 2929 3059 2578 2705 2930 3322 JZB3 Ng Request Rejected Chess Challenger Victor Boris Spassky of the Soviet Union leaves Iaugardalsholl ball in Reykjavik Iceland after Bobby Fischer of the United Slates failed to show up for the second game of the world chess championship match The forfeit gave Spassky a 2-0 lead fa the 24-game match (AP wirephoto) Irked They used to respect and even privately root for the American who wants the world chess crown They don't anymore slightly touched in the muttered a chess enthusiast as his opponent pon dcred the next move on a board balanced across a bench About six million Russians take chess seriously and a growing feeling among them that Fischer has become downright insulting is chess not said one chess fan no There was only praise for Boris Spassky the Russian world champion who has waited patiently in Reykjavik as Fischer caused delay afier delay over his demands on a record 27th ballot at the Western Jurisdictional Conference in Seattle after two other contenders the Rev Harvey Pothoff of Denver and the Rev Richard Cain of Phoenix withdrew On Thursday the 150 delegates elected the Rev Jack Tuell of Vancouver Wash and the Rev Melvin Wheatly of Los Angeles to replace bishops in the 12-state Western RYKJAVIK Iceland (AP)-Bobby Fischer charged on today that tournament organizers seemed to and provoke me but an appeals commiuee rejected his request to replay the chess game he forfeited to Boris Spassky The world champion from the Soviet Union was awarded second game in the championship match when Fischer refused to appear staying in his hotel suite because he objected to three moving picture cameras in the hall Thus Spassky who won the first game was 2-0 in the 24-game series He needs 10 more points to retain the title A victory counts one point and a draw half a point Fischer agreed to go ahead with the match if the -cameras DOWNTOWN 604 2nd Ave 7-2971 HORTHTOIYVJ 6105 Division HU 9-4366 VALLEY -UNIVERSITY CITY YA 4-4244 If EMNCWIC1C-C0LUM8IA CENTER 703-2007 were removed although the to call him Now it'.

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