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TEN THE BRIDGEPORT POST, MONDAY, OCTOBER 6, BURGER OPENS COURT SESSION 1TPACANCY (Continued from Page One) asserting their opposition in growing numbers. Whatever happens, it is undoubted that the court will have to operate with a vacancy for at least several weeks. Burger, 62, is the 15th man to occupy the center chair in the Court's 179 year history. He takes over for Earl Warren, who was chief justice for 16 years. Two of the holdover justices, Hugo L.

Black and William 0. Douglas, are veterans of more than 30 years on the Court. Black, at 83, has served 32 years. Douglas, 71 on Oct. 16, is in his 31st year.

The Holdovers The holdovers are John Marchall Harlan, 70; William J. Brennan 63; Potter Stewart, 54; Byron R. White, 52; and Thurgood Marshall, 61. This venerable gioup, averaging years old, has before it a docket that invites an expansion of rights for the poor and the discontent. On the civil rights front, Negro homeowners are seeking an to use community swimming pools and other recreation facilities regularly open to white families that live in the neighborhood.

The poor are clamoring among other things, for a guaranteed formal hearing before welfare can be reduced or cut off. Vietnam dissenters, meanwhile, are challenging the priority induction of "delinquents" who turn in or burn their draft cards. And religious, civil rights and civil liberties groups have united in attacking capital punishment in instances where the victim's life was not taken. Takes the Charges Lightly THIEU IS FIRM ON TROOP CUT (Continued from Page One) Ing this part of the world, I think that under whatever form, the Free should remain on this land." His Longest Speech Thieu spoke for an hour and 18 minutes, the longest public speech he has made since he came to power. He emphasized that he remains willing 'to negotiate an "acceptable" peace while determined to avoid-a coalition government or surrender to' Uie Communists.

He asked for increased American military and financial assistance to enable his government to shouioer more of the burdens of the war. He outlined a series oNJpmes- tic programs to the army, such services as education and reform government administration. Draws Applause He drew applause from the largely conservative legislators several times, notably when he Said: "We are determined to continue to fight to safeguard freedom and democracy." Although he referred several times to American public opinion and aligned himself with President Nixon's policy of troop withdrawal, he made clear that he thinks complete U.S. withdrawal is a long way off. He said that with enough American economic assistance and the strengthening of South Vietnam's armed forces, now numbering more than one million men, troop, replacement could continue.

"However," he added, we also want to make it clear that we, the Vietnamese people, have not yet the capability to do what we 'have not yet the time to carry out. We still request the people and the government of the U.S. to continue to help us in order to repel the aggression and to safeguard freedom in the South." Will Respond He said he is certain that the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese "will certainly respond if the Free World once and for all shows its unity." "Only then can we hope for an early end of the war and an early restoration of peace on this land," Thieu said. The president said it was not true that the current lull in the fighting results from a desire of the enemy to lower the level of violence. "The truth is that the communists are unable to do anything more," he s'aid.

"Even if they want to, they cannot maintain the level of military activity as in the past." However, he added that the enemy is hoarding his military potential to "give the illusion of de-escalation" and plans to start a new offensive. "In 1970," Thieu said, "they will devote all their strength to raising the level of violence in order to win concessions at the peace talks." AP Wlrephoto from Jcrusolcm Australian Michael Denis Rohan, 28, smiles today in a Jerusalem courtroom as he is accused of setting lire to the Al Aksah Mosque last August in Old Jerusalem. He is guarded by two Israeli policemen and stands in a bulletproof enclosure. If convicted, Rohan could be sentenced to 44 years in prison. COURT HEARS OF CONFESSION (Continued from Page One) or some of the alleged facts, or he can refuse to reply at all.

If convicted tin all the charges, Rohan could be sen tenced to 44 years in prison. The police superintendent said Rohan in his confession gave this account of setting fire to the mosque: After describing in detail the purchase of inflammables, he arrived at the mosque at 7 a.m oh Aug. 21. He paid the lone Arab guard. 10 Israeli lira to entrance.

He put containers of kerosene and benzine behind the mosque staircase while an elderly Arab woman looked on. "I pretended to take photo- raphs," Rohan said. When the woman left the Rohan took a kerosene-soaked scarf, put it behind the staircase and lit the end of it with a match. The entire procedure took only five or ten minutes. He offered 10 Israeli pounds, to both a guard and a priest when ie the mosque, but they refused the money.

Rohan said he walked about 100 yards and then started running. He hid his knapsack in a cactus plant, took a bus to Tel Aviv, and went on to a nearby kibbutz. "At the kibbutz," the statement continued, "I met a friend of mine, an American Christian, and he told me, 'Did you hear the Al Aksah Mosque was half burned said, 'Is that "Later on in the evening, I told him that 1 burned the mosque. I asked him if he be- 'ieved me and he said he be- ieved." Arab Charges The Israeli government in its of Rohan is seeking to refute Arab charges that its occupation of the Arab quarter of Jerusalem was responsible for the "ire "on Aug. 21 at the mosque, located on Islam's third holiest site.

Some Arabs charged that the tire, which burned an 800-year- old pulpit and part of the roof of the east wing, was the result of an Israeli plot. Others contended that the Israelis had not given sufficient protection to the Moslem holy Arab nations brought charges against Israel in the U.N. Security Council, and Moslem governments from Indonesia to Morocco held a summit conference to condemn the Israeli occupation. Rohan, who underwent psychiatric examination while awaiting trial, is a member of a -hristian sect which believes the Messiah cannot come to he Holy Land until Solomon's Temple is rebuilt on the site where the Al Aksah Mosque now stands. A sheep shearer by the young man came to Israel in Courtroom security was in- as police and special guards checked everyone enter- ng the austere, honey-colored building.

More than 200 news correspondents, photographers and TV cameramen were packed into the courtroom, which normally is a convention and concert hall. Wearing a black suit and i Rohan smiled shyly as entered the glass booth. He listened by Carphone to an English translation of the proceedings. Judge Baker announced the prosecution would call 43 witnesses. The body of one Indian Ocean mollusk is so transparent it is a perfect replica of a cleanly picked fish skeleton.

This is an excellent camouflage as the fish lives on the ocean bed. RETIREMENT ADVISED IN 1937; I FIT UNIONTOWN, The doctor who told Joseph A. Fee back in 1937 that it was time fo. him to retire, may have given him a bit of premature advice. At 100, Fee still, he says, has "plenty of steam left." Fee, 68 at the time of his retirement as a car repairman for the Pennsylvania Railroad, had undergone major surgery short ly before.

Now, 32 years later, he's still cashing pension checks. Fee came to this country from Salerno, Italy, in 1889 after serving in the Italian army. His wife whom he married in 1886, died in 1960. 1 KILLED, 23 HURT IN ISRAELI BLAST (Continued from Page One) Arab farmers from surrounding towns. Arab guerrilla attacks also were reported along the Jordan River and in the northern Sinai Desert, which Israeli seized from Egypt in the war.

Guerrillas opened fire twice on Israeli border patrols along the river, but there were no Israeli casualties or damage, informed sources said. The Israelis fired a 30-minute mortar barrage in retaliation. In the Sinai Desert, Arab saboteurs fired four bazooka at an Israeli settlement west of El Arish, on the northern coast, but thsre were no casualties or damage, sources said. BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Roman Catholics decided today to dismantle 100 barricades in Belfast. A spokesman for "the Catholic Citizens Defense Committee said the decision was taken because Catholics were 'impressed by British army security operations over the weekend.

The British'troops used tear gas to break up a march organized by Protestant supporters of the Rev. Ian Paisley Sunday in defiance of a government ban. The marchers had swept aside a police cordon and broke down a barbed wire roadblock chanting "Out, out! Army out!" Then the army moved in and dispersed them. It was the biggest clash yet between Protestants and British troops and the firm way the troopers dealt with the matter drew widespread praise from the Catholics. Jim Sullivan, chairman of the Defense Committee said that more than 100 Catholic barricades would be taken down starting Tuesday.

SAVEB; ADRIFT IN SOUND (Continued from Page One) sighted Borona's boat and guided the rescue-craft to him. In another boating incident, a Trumbull man, John Muzzio of 18 Fairview avenue, was rescued Saturday at 5:40 p.m. by a fisherman, after his sailboat capsized off Southport beach, Fairfleld police reported, The sailboat was carried put into the Sound by the strong: winds and is still missing, police! said. I TWO SHIPS COLLIDE AND BURN; ALL SAFE ROTTERDAM, the Netherlands (AP) The West German cargo vessel Ruhrstein collided fog with the Greek ship Martha off the Netherlands Sunday and both caught fire. Crews abandoned both ships but those who were aboard the Martha returned later and brought the fire under control.

The blaze aboard the Ruhrstein raged on and was left abandoned. Her 36 crew members were rescued by three other ships. The Ruhrstein, torn open along one side and partly submerged, was being attended by the tug Holland, the Dutch frigate Vos and the Bodenstein, a sister ship of the Ruhrstein. The Ruhrstein is owned by Norddeutschcr Lloyd of Bremen. The Martha is owned by International Development Corp.

of Piraeus, Greece. The first Masonic lodge in America was founded in Philadelphia in 1730, of which Benjamin Franklin was a member. Thirteen United States presidents have been Masons, including George Washington. CATHOLICS DROP 100 BARRICADES VANDALS SET 2 FIRES IN CAR Vandals ignited two fires in an abandoned -'auto across from 321 Sylvan avenue within a one-hour time span yesterday, fire officials reported. Firefighters were called to douse an incendiary blaze in the front seat of the auto at 6:12 a.m.

They reported back on duty at 7:39. a.m!' Fire officials said 00 minutes later at 7:24 a.m. there was a report that vandals ignited a second fire in the auto. The blaze was again in the front seat. Firefighters responded to the call and reported back on duty at 7:30 a.m.

Fire officials asked police to investigate. 8 NABBED ON LOITERING COUNT Eight youths were arrested last light at 9:30 o'clock on loitering charges in front of the BowI-0- Rama at the Brookside Shopping "enter, Main street. Arrested were Thomas K. Kassery, 16, of 4510 Main street; Richard B. Terrico, 18, of 43 Derman circle; Donald M.

Tesche, 20, of 248 Palmetto road; Bary VI. Gorfain, pf 185 TarinelH circle; James Tozzi, 20, of 95 Marcelle street; William A. Godwin, 19, of 162 Dobson street; Leonard T. Buster, 19, of 42 Columbus place; and a juvenile. A 6 4 SPORTS WRITER, DIES DANBURY (AP) Roger Treat, well-known sports authority, newspaperman and writer, died Sunday night at Danbury hospital of lung cancer.

He was 64. For the past three years, Treat, a Newtown resident, had been wire editor at the Waterbury Republican. Treat was creator and editor of the Official Encyclopedia of Football and worked on revisions of the encyclopedias of baseball and hockey. Among his books were "The Endless Road," a novel about alcoholism, and "Man o' War." NORWEGIAN FIRE DAMAGE OSLO (UP1) Fire destroyed property worth 200 million kroner ($30 million) in Norway in 1968. $6,472 IS A I WIFE OF SUSPECT Payment, to Widow of ported i A Called 'Missing Person Gratuity' SAIGON (AP) The U.S.

government has paid $6,472 to i of the reported -Viet namese double agent in the Green Beret murder case, bui the U.S. Command described the payment as a "missing person gratuity." A spokesman said the woman, Phan Kim accepted the payment Saturday. He added: "The amount of the settlemenl was mutually agreed upon represents what is determined to be adequate compensation." Asked the amount was arrived at, he said the number of children in the family'and other factors were taken into consideration. The spokesman said the woman's husband, Thai Khan Chuyen, "has been missing since June 20 while on duty with the U.S. Special Forces, Detachment B41, Moc Hoa, Republic of Vietnam." "There is no evidence that he is dead," the spokesman said.

"He is considered to be missing." After the U.S. Command announced the murder charges against the Green Berets, Chuyen's wife filed a claim with the U.S. Embassy Aug. 23 accusing 3ie Green Berets of killing her husband and asking for full information about the case. When the.charges were dropped, she made a tearful visit to the embassy to protest.

Reports said her husband had been exposed as a double agent and was slain June 20 hear the Special Forces headquarters al Nha Trang. The body reportedly was put into a weighted bag and dumped into the South China Sea. So far as is iknown, the body has not been recovered. Paper Devote Space Saigon newspapers are still devoting considerable space tc the story. On Sunday, the papers, report, ed two more cases of missing men in which the families charged that American forces were involved, but U.S.

information officers said they knew nothing about either case. Today, the U.S. Command disclosed that the Army is processing another missing persons case which a Vietnamese accused the Special Forces of murdering his son early in 1967. A U.S. military spokesman said the allegation was made early this year "but no proof ol death could be established.

The-newest disclosure involving the Special Forces came to light Saturday when a Saigon resident, Ngo Huong, said' his son, an interpreter for the Special Forces camp.at Dak To in the central highlands, was killed Dy a Green Beret major and sergeant who pushed him out of a helicopter. GUNMAN GETS $150 AT MOTEL MILFORD--A lone gunman held up the Mayflower Motel on Old Jate'lane at an early, hour today, escaping a cash box and the night clerk's wallet. Police said the man entered the motel, which caters to truck drivers, after midnight and, after asking for a room, said to the "How about the money?" The night clerk responded, 'What do you mean?" The ban- lit pulled out a gun and demanded the money, which he ilaced in a bag. The man instructed the clerk iot to call police for five min- ites and ran out the door, head- ng north toward the Mayflower iner terminal adjacent to the notel. Police said the gunman was as a white male about 8 years old, 5-8 and 180 pounds, ressed in a blue shirt and hav- ng a slight Spanish acceht.

'OLICE ARREST MAN LUMBER BUILDING Sixto Nieves, 21, of 2150 Seaview avenue, was arrested last night at 11 o'clock after allegedly reaking into the City Lumber company's Charlotte street build- "g- Nieves was charged with making and entering and is held lieu of $2,500 bond, pending Circuit court arraignment. Patrolmen George Otzen and Charles Damato apprehended Sieves inside the building after 'he alarm system was set off. 1929 FORD TO FINANCE COLLEGE EDUCATION PENROSE, Colo--(AP) Vcr- non McBcth of Penrose has a iifferent kind of scholarship to iclp him complete his work at Southern Colorado State college at Pueblo. McBeth bought a 1929 Ford sedan two years ago for $400. A er thousands of hours of work on it, the car won second place a stock car show.

is worth from $2,500 to $4,000. McBeth plans to sell it to finance his education. The finished product contains 76 coats of lacquer. And Away She Goes AP Wlrcphoto Mrs. Jacqueline Onassis brushes aside New York Daily News photographer Anthony Casale as she leaves a West 57(h Street movie house in New York city yesterday.

In background is Mel Finklestein, also a photographer with the Daily News, who said he was knocked to the sidewalk by Mrs. Onassis as he attempted to take her picture. Reds From 100 Nations Gather LENSMAN SAYS For East German Anniversary By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS BERLIN (AP) Communist larty delegations from 100 are in East Germany today for two days of celebrations to mark the nation's 20th anniversary as a Communist state. The climax comes. Tuesday with a massive parade in East Berlin's "Little Red Marx-Ehgels Plaza.

Tens of thousands turned out Sunday to cheer motorcade brought top Communist leaders, including Soviet party Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev, "rom the airport to the city. Would Outdo Nixon The crowds appeared to be a conscious effort to match or outdo the tumultuous reception given President' Nixon across the wall in West Berlin last February. Brezhnev received a bear hug from East German Communis Darty leader Walter Ulbricht 76, when he arrived. Ulbrich also a warm welcome for aarty chiefs Gustav Husak ol "zechoslovakia, Wladyslaw Gomulka of Poland, Todor Zhivkov of Janos '-Radar ol Hungary arid North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong.

All rode into the city in a 100-car motorcade. KILLED BY LSD, L1NKLETTER SAYS (Continued from Page One) jives them a way of avoiding 'acing up to problems. "You add'LSD to a girl who is somewhat emotional and dramatic and it can be She told nie about taking it about her bum trip. She felt she vas being driven out of her mind. "A parent can do little in a -ase like this," Linkletter said.

'No one can clo anything about except the young people Miss Linkietter, the youngest Linkletter's five children, vas pretty'and talked about a Hollywood Her father aid she had' some singing jobs ilanned. Durston, 27, told jinkletter had, asked him to to her apartment Friday vhere they spent the night talk- ng. She was emotional and de- pondcnt, concerned with her dentity and her career, police quoted Durston as saying. Drugs aspects of the case are itill being investigated, police Private funeral services are ilanned at Forest Lawn Mcmo- MONDAY: "Dad can tear a telephone book in two but things have to be just right, like a book from a very small city." DRIVE LAUNCHED BY UNITED FUND (Continued from Page One) United Fund campaign. We ex pect each day to 'count will dollars pledged by all of thosi who accept a share of responsi bility for these 1 35 agencies, the name of humanity." The campaign chairman sai( every day for 75 days, '-'-the Mes senger of Mercy" has told in The a true story, of people (whom United Fund agencies are serving.

This is "Kick-Off Week" foi the United Fund, and a series ol special events is being arrangec for nearly every day throughout the week. Later today, Raybestos-Man- hattan, which recently established its national corporate headquarters in Bridgeport, will give a "Salute to the United Fund," and President William S. Simpson has invited the officers and division chairmen of the campaign to 'a reception, from 5:30 to 6:30, in the Ray- bestos-Mahattan corporate offices, 181-225 Middle Series of Breakfasts Although the first scheduled general report meeting is set for Oct. 23 at the Stratfield Motor hotel, first returns in the campaign be received, starting next week, at a series of breakfast meetings by the various divisions. The industrial division, headed by Philip H.

Sagarin, president of the Valve Corporation of America, with Glenn B. Wagler of the General Electric company as associate chairman, will conduct its "kick off" meet- ng Wednesday afternoon at 3:15 the conference room at Jnited Fund offices. Thursday at 3:15 p.m., the Metropolitan division, headed by Bernard E. Tabor of National Cash Register with Henry Pe- rucelli of the Bassick company is associate chairman, will lave its "kick meeting in United Fund conference room. VANDALISM SEEN IN FIRE IN AUTO Fire officials said vandals ignited the rear seat of an auto in a garage in back of the Campus Gardens apartments, 50 Fremont street, at 2:26 p.m.

yesterday. Damage to the car, owned Margaret Feathcrstone, of the above address, is reported as moderate. Fire officials asked police to investigate. Recall was at Man Women MINISTER. DAUGHTER GRADUATE TOGETHER MEMPHIS, Tenn.

(AP) A ninisler from Marion, and iis daughter both received de- trees from Memphis State uni- 'ersity at the spring commencement. The Rev. Theodore Sfortunato was awarded a doctorate in education and his 22-year-old daughter, Joanna Sfortunato, was graduated cum laude with i bachelor's degree in educa- "Dad just started commuting .0 school with me and a i a 'ew courses in 1066, Miss Sfor- unato explained. "He would "Management-Labor Relations go to school than tne '70' will be the topic fish." by Frank V. Donovan, The final year, he had to take manager of public affairs of Gen- 12 hours each semester to i cral Electric, in a speech to he one-year residence require- members of the Bridgeport Ro- mcnt.

His i took over a club at a luncheon meeting; lastoral duties as visiting thejtoniorrow at 12:15 in sick and counseling. Holiday inn, Lafayette boulevard. I POPE DEFENDS HIS CHURCH RULE (Continued from Page One) can Ecumenical council four years ago. On Saturday the Pope con- his second world synod of bishops, which will run for about two weeks. Dissident priests from eight European countries will hold an unauthor- parallel meeting to discuss I cy issues including priestly celibacy.

Central Issue A central issue in all three meetings will be the authority the Pope himself wields over the 1 world's half-billion Catholics. This authority has been challenged repeatedly since the pon- i who turned 72 last month, rejected a i i i a means of birth control in the controversial encyclical "Humanae a year. The Theologians' commission is an outgrowth of the first world bishops' synod in 19Si. That historic synod recommended a permanent body to advise Pope on matters of doctrine and theology in the light of new research. The theologians selected by the Pope last April as representatives of many schools of thought, will gather in a church building on the fringe of Rome for two days of secret discussions.

Leading Issues According to one published account, the leading issues in primary report, prepared by iberal German theologians Karl Rahner, will be papal authority and the freedom of theological research. Whatever comes out of the de- theater. He shot another picturelbate will be advisory only. The as she moved toward him. Pope will make his own decision about implementing any HE WAS FLIPPED (Continued from Page One) "I thought she was going to something," Finkelstein said.

"I never figured she would do anything physical." Finkelstein, 37, 'said he is 5- fdol-10 and weights 168 pounds. Onassis, wearing a short leather skirt, dark stockings, a ribbed sweater and a multicolored scarf with zodiac signs over her head, stalked off after the incident. An hour later, her husband emerged from the apparently unaware of the disturb ancc, and left with two men whom the theater manager described as bodyguards. doorman, Bernardo Roid, "No, she The jas, him. He tried to pass in front of her and he slipped." Finkelstein said he had taken Mrs.

Onassis' picture "hundreds of times before." mendations. The synod will assemble 146 prelates from 100 nations. It will pit liberals such as Belgian Cardinal Leo Suenens, who favors decentralizing power, and traditionalists who want this power maintained undiluted in Rome. Already one member of the synod has openly challenged Rome to move toward democracy. Bishop Alexander Carter, president of the Canadian Catholic Conference, drafted a statement along with 14 scholars in the United States saying: "The Catholic Church does not recognize the Pope to be its absolute monarch, nor the bishops as the mere delegates of the Pope." The unauthorized meeting of priests begins Friday and runs, until Oct.

16. The group, called the European Assembly of Priests, is expected, to talk, about celibacy, a. subject has been declared-out by Rome, the concept er-priests arid the authoritarianism of the central church. Some conservative Vatican prelates are known to be fuming )ver the meeting of the dissident priests. There is some talk REJEC BID FOR JACKIE (AP) Aristotle Onassis has rejected an offer 0 mobilizing conservative $100,000 for his wife to star an priests against the counter-syn- American television special Tour of Greece," a representa- live of producer Roger Gimbel said today.

Gimbel planned to film, the one-hour color program for re- caste in April 1970, coincident with the start of the tourist season. He estimated that thftV pro- Aiod. would have increased) MOON PIONEERS REST ON CANARY ISLANDS LAS PALMAS, Canary Islands (AP) The men who went to the moon rested in the sun here Sunday in a weekend reece's tourist revenue proximately $70 million. Gimbel has made similar'spe- cials with Princess Grace of Monaco and Sophia Loren, conducting a tour of Rome. Mrs.

Onassis, while she was the, wife of President Kennedy, s'tarred in a TV tour of the White House. Marietta a Greek-American TV and movie actress, came to Athens to ne- jOtiate with Onassis for his wife's appearance. She said the shipping magnate told her he vas not interested. a p. respite from their 38-day world tour.

The three Apollo 11 astronauts POLIO INCREASES ATLANTA Forty-eight cases if paralytic poliomyelitis were in the United States in 968. eight more than in 1967. Britain loses more than S2.4 lillion a year through lost of production and cost of medical reatment because of illness imong middle aged people, 15-64 years of age. irere so tired from endless motorcades and handshaking that they even canceled a shopping trip to the duty-free shops of this island capital. The three Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin Jr.

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