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A-2 THE SUN Thursday, July 6, 1972 Nixon Aide: GOP Too Confident By ROBERT B. SEMPLE JR. New York Times Newi Service WASHINGTON Clark MacGregor, President Nixon's new campaign manager, said yesterday that he has detected some overconfidence in the Nixon camp, which he intends to dispel in the weeks ahead. At his first news conference since assuming direction of the Committee to Re-Elect the President last Saturday, when John Mitchell formally announced his decision to resign to devote more time to his wife and family, the former Minnesota congressman said he has noticed a "lack of urgency" among Republicans. lie attributed this in part to the large lead Nixon presently enjoys in the polls over his prospective Democratic opponents.

MacGregor warns that on the basis of history, however, this lead is strong leadership at the top before his arrival in March. The re-election committee now has 225 employes divided into more than half a dozen operating divisions at its central headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue. MacGregor said he plans no "major changes" in strategy, but stresses his desire to "energize the committee" to bring the President's record to the attention of more voters at the precinct level. Apart from making clear i willingness to correct weaknesses where he finds them, MacGregor tried in other ways to convey the impression that he is comfortable with, and in command of, his new task. He answered questions in a confident and businesslike manner and made a point of saying he would confer with the President in San Cle-mente today.

likely to shrink substantially by November. MacGregor is described by aides as having concluded that the Nixon organization has grown a bit overweight in recent months. He said yesterday morning that he hopes to streamline the Washington staff and strengthen the organization around the country by sending some staffers who are now working here to help state and local organizations begin "precinct by precinct" efforts to identify and register prospective Nixon voters. MacGregor made the following additional points in response to nearly 30 minutes of questioning at the National Press Club: He said he has looked carefully into the bugging incident at the Democratic National Committee and has satisfied himself that the episode which he describes as "bizarre" was not known to or authorized by the President, Mitchell, or anyone in a senior status" at the re-election committee or the White House. He said he has personally asked Charles Colson, special counsel to the President, whether Colson has had any connection with the bugging incident.

He said Colson has responded in the negative, and that he is satisfied with that answer. He said he expects that the President will not engage in heavy personal campaigning until Congress adjourns in October, adding that "the best politics for the President is continued performance at the very high level of competence he has demonstrated in office." He specifically declines, however, to repudiate or soften Vice President Agnew's recent charge that candidacy of Sen. George McGovern, is a "fraud." He said that some of the charges leveled at McGovern by his own competitors in the Democratic party are not "dissimilar" to Agnew's comments. MacGregor's associates said later that his comments about overconfidence in the Nixon camp are not intended to imply criticism of his predecessor, Mitchell. Yet even Mitchell's friends have conceded that the former attorney general distracted over the last few months by the controversies over the International Telephone and Telegraph the bugging incident, and the public pleas of his wife to leave the political arena has not had time to streamline a campaign staff that had been without I jf' jKawil Nutritionist Cautions Against Sweet Snacks, Alcohol, Fats jk" K-Wk wisAwf milliaimmsfimaamasiimm tniii mSf IV WASHINGTON (AP) Sweet snacks are bad for children, excess alcohol is bad for adults and fatty foods are bad for everybody, a nutrition professor said yesterday.

Dr. Michael C. Latham, Cornell University Professor of Nutrition, told the Federal Trade Commission that sugar and alcohol contain "empty" calories and excessive use may cause nutrition deficiency troubles. And the use of coconut oil and lard, cheap sources of cooking oil in the manufacture of snack foods may lead to coronary heart attacks by plugging arteries with cholesterol, Latham said. A Hijacker Carries 4 (Mi mi VI- If i Fischer Apologizes to Russian for Delay He testified at an examiner's hearing on an FTC complaint that ITT Continental Baking Co.

and Ted Bates sponsored misleading advertisements overrating the vitamins in Hostess snack cake products and Wonder Bread. Latham, a physician who has acted as a nutrition consultant for several foreign countries, said the Hostess snack products he studied failed to meet the test of balancing undesirable calories with desirable nutrients. To be nutritionally desirable, he said, a food's vitamin content should equal or exceed its calories and its fat and Dutchman and former world chess champion. He made his way to the speaker's table, and sat down at Geller's right. Taking a microphone from the table in front of him, Euwe said he condemned Fischer, conceded he had broken the rules and added: "I apologize." Asked by a newsman if the Russians were satisfied, Geller said they wanted it all in writing.

Euwe reached to his inside pocket for a pen and said, "I can write it now." He began drafting a letter as the news conference continued. When it appeared that the Soviets would be ready to start play today, assuming Fischer's written apologies were in hand, Euwe created a new tangle. After explaining why he allowed Fischer the delay, Euwe said: "I know Spassky is very upset by all this, and I would not like to make him play tomorrow," Euwe said. "I would like to give him a week. Then we'd have to split the match into 12-game halves.

The second part could come later in the year. Or we could I I I) if after surrendering to FBI In Buffalo, N.Y. Father Holds Daughter Hostage in Hijack Try AP Wirephoto CLARK MACGREGOR Nixon campaign director sugar content should be minimized. Studies indicate, he said, an alarming trend in the conversion of cereal-based foods into confections with high sugar content. Aside from the danger of obesity, he said, sugar-laden snack foods cause dental decay "which is a huge and expensive problem." Heavy drinkers risk dietary deficiencies because alcohol has no nutritional value, Latham said.

He said he had no objection to moderate drinking, provided necessary nutrients are obtained in food. have 18 games now and the rest afterward." Fulfillment of the Russian demand that Fischer forfeit the first game would give Spassky a 1-0 advantage in the score at the outset. The 24 games are scored one point for a win, a split point for a draw and nothing for a loss. Spassky needs 12 points to retain his title, Fischer 12.5 to defeat him. Chess experts said that in such a long match a lost point was a disadvantage Fischer probably could overcome at the Italian marble chess board on the stage of Reykjavik's Sports Palace.

From the frequent trips by Spassky and Geller to the gray three-story Soviet Embassy here, it was apparent the Soviet pre-match game was being played on directives from Moscow. The maximum aim of the Soviet officials could be to obtain an initial scoring advantage that hopefully would permit the title to stay in Russia. The title has been won by Soviet players since 1948 in competitions that paid well in prestige, but only a few thousand dollars in money. Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood, calling-on black people to consider themselves! at war with the administration.

The only resolution passed by the 2,300 delegates in their weeklong convention; accused Nixon of leading an "assault -upon the 14th Amendment's equal pro-' tection clause" by suggesting that constitutional ban on busing may be-necessary if legislative and legal; measures fail. Jones called Detroit "the testing' ground for urban school desegregation." The NAACP last fall won a ruling from' U.S. District Court Judge Stephen Roth that Michigan and Detroit were guilty of de jure (deliberate) segregation of Detroit public schools. Recently Roth ordered an 11-membcr panel to present a plan for integrating. Detroit's system by com bining it with 52 suburban schoo districts with a student population more than per cent of then white.

Linked as seizure, which it has done three times in the last two years, require poison-prevention packaging or ban interstate sales. "I don't think we've seen a home detergent product that we'd take off the market," he said, although some FDA testing has disclosed instances in which rabbit eyes "completely deteriorated." Nonphosphates now hold only about 6 per cent of the detergent business, with total industry sales of $1.2 billion in 1970, but could increase their share as scores of communities and states legislate against phosphates as an ecological hazard. The Soap and Detergent Association, representing 111 companies with more than 90 per cent of total sales, said bans have resulted in widespread detergent bootlegging. The NIH detergent study was requested by U.S. Surgeon General Jesse L.

Steinfeld, who last year urged housewives to return to phosphate detergents as less hazardous to human health than the alkaline substitutes. Hijacking (Continued From A 1) ensuing melee, the hijackers were shot and the passengers injured." "Certainly we're not pleased that three passengers were wounded, but somebody had to make a decision. We wanted to stop the hijacking, and stop it we did," Gephardt said. The hijackers, armed with three handguns, took over the Boeing 737 yesterday morning on a flight from Sacramento to San Francisco, PSA spokesmen said. They demanded the cash along with passage to Siberia via Canada and Alaska and refused to release passengers before their demands were met, said PSA spokesman Gary Kissel.

Three ambulances rushed to the plane, along with two large buses, to take passengers to the terminal, Kissel said. The plane sat on a runway more than a mile from the San Francisco International airport terminal for more than four hours while one of the hijackers sent demands through the pilot, Capt. Dennis Waller of San Diego. Waller said the men demanded flight to Siberia via Canada and Alaska, Kissel said. The pilot himself requested weather maps and flight maps for Siberia.

Kissel said PSA was flying a larger Boeing 727 from San Diego in case the gunmen wanted a plane with a rear exit for a parachute jump escape. He explained the 737 has side exits which would most likely suck a jumper up and the tail section would kill him. "We'll give them what they want to ensure the safety of the passengers and crew," Kissel said. PSA president J. Floyd Andrews said the airline asked the hijackers "if they would let the women and children off and they replied that none will be allowed to leave until the demands are met." Pilot Waller said one hijacker was doing all the talking and that he appeared "very calm, very deliberate," Kissel said.

There was only water and other drinks but no food aboard the plane, Kissel said. He said one of the hijackers was In the cockpit monitoring news reports of his own actions on a local radio station. Another PSA spokesman said it was difficult gathering maps for Siberia and he did not know how the airline would accomplish this. Kissel said the 737 was refueled and had a range between to 1,500 miles. It could make the flight to Siberia only by making refueling stops, he said.

This was the third time this year a PSA jet has been hijacked. After one last April, on a flight from Oakland to San Diego, PSA was fined $1,000 by the Federal Aviation Administration for failing to follow procedures to prevent hijackings. PSA denied the charge. Carrier Wasp Scrapped QUONSET POINT, R.I. (AP) The aircraft carrier USS Wasp, which helped cripple Japan's sea muscle during World War II, has been retired from service and sent on Us way to the scrap metal pile.

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The FBI said Charles Smith, 23, of Buffalo, surrendered nearly three hours after boarding the unoccupied American Airlines 707 jetliner at Buffalo airport, apparently convinced his demand to be flown overseas would not be met. Smith was charged with attempted aircraft piracy. His 17-month-old daughter, who went through the ordeal with a knife pointed at her throat and chest at times, had only a small cut on her nose when it was over. Buffalo police said Smith had left what they described as a suicide note at his mother's home. Richard H.

Ash, special agent in charge of the Buffalo FBI office, said Smith, carrying the child, Jctuan, in his arms, boarded the empty jet at dawn at its parking place near the passenger terminal. As FBI agents, police in suburban (Continued From A 1) with the Soviet chess federation in Moe-cow concerning the demand. One other point to be settled is Spassky's demand for an apology from Fischer with the American's signature on it. No such document has yet been presented to the Russian world champion, but Dr. Euwe said he was satisfied that it would be forthcoming.

Fischer presented an apology of sorts yesterday when he broke his silence with a statement regretting the delay of the match. Fischer said it was not Spassky's fault that the match had been delayed and said he ''respected grandmaster Spassky as a player and man." Russian officials said the statement was expected to satisfy Spassky if delivered to him with Fischer's signature attached. Dr. Euwe already fulfilled two other Soviet demands Wednesday night when he issued a condemnation of Fischer's behavior in failing to turn up in time and also admitted that he himself had violated the FIDE rules by granting a postponement of the first match. This happened at a news conference called by Yefim Geller, the Soviet grandmaster acting as Spassky's second.

Speaking for the absent world champion, Geller said Spassky would return home if the demands were not met. Geller spoke hours after Fischer had declared he was sorry. Out of the packed audience in a hotel bar stepped Euwe, a tall, 71-year-old FAA Cautions On Use of Radio WASHINGTON (AP) The Federal Aviation Administration cautioned news covering the California hijacking yesterday to refrain from illegal use of radio communications. "It is a violation of Federal Communications Commission regulations to intercept and divulge private radio communications without the permission of the owner or licensee," an F'AA spokesman said. The FAA representative said no instances of such violations had been reported in connection with the hijacking of the Pacific Southwest Airlines 737 jet.

mctasilicate detergents was more intense," the report said. Carbonates caused chronic opacities on 14 of 18 rabbits. Eleven animals suffered partial or total destruction of the cornea and a deterioration of tissue in the eyelids. "The metasilicate caused chronic opacities in all of the experimental rabbits. One of six rabbits developed necrosis of the cornea and surrounding tissues," the report said.

"Notwithstanding the inherent differences between the rabbit and human eye, doubtless the materials that erode a rabbit cornea will also erode a human cornea," the NIH report said. The researchers cautioned that detergent formulas may change frequently and vary regionally depending on hardness of water. The FDA disagrees with the institute's testing methods, particularly because the eyes were not washed after exposure, and in fact plans to revise its own procedures to provide a wash after five minutes not 24 hours and lengthen the AP Wirephoto His Daughter Cheektowaga site of the airport and Buffalo police surrounded the plane. Smith demanded to be flown "out of the country," Ash said. Ash used a bullhorn in an attempt to coax Smith from the plane.

At first he refused to give up. Seated at the door of the aircraft, Smith held his daughter aloft and shouted he would kill her if he did not get a pilot. Ash said. Ash asked Smith if he could board the plane. "No," he replied.

"If you do you'll both be dead. I'm not going to wait too much longer," Smith yelled after a half-hour in the plane. As Ash attempted to speak with him again, Smith shouted: "Shut up and get me a pilot." Pleas that he give up the baby and surrender also were made by Smith's mother, Lilly, and a clergyman. As they and other relatives talked with Smith, FBI agents sneaked onto the plane. The FBI would not say how.

Minutes later Smith threw out the knife, walked down the stairway ramp and handed his daughter to Ash. veterinarians Dr. Donald B. Feldman and John A. Moore, concentrated on nine synthetic-detergent products purchased near its Triangle Park, N.C., facilities.

Seven were laundry products, of which three contained phosphates (Tide, Ajax, and Dash); two contained carbonate (Sears, and Arm and Hammer); one had metasilicatc (Ecolo-G); and one was a soap powder (Ivory Snow). Two were dishwashing compounds, one containing metasilicatc (Electro-Sol), and one with phosphate (Cascade). Material was put into the left eyes of New Zealand white rabbits and reactions were recorded at one, two, three, seven and 14 days. The researchers said all the products tested irritated the eyes and caused an inflammation, known as conjunctivitis, and some clouding of the cornea. The soap-powder eyes began clearing by 72 hours and were healthy again at seven days.

The laundry-phosphate eyes cleared in all but one of 24 rabbits by 14 days. "The reaction to carbonate and Nonphosphate Soaps, Blindness DETROIT (UPI)-Delcgatcs to the NAACP national convention met in strategy sesions yesterday to map a campaign to help Democrats defeat President Nixon this November. The resolutions committee held closed-door sessions to discuss a proposed resolution calling for the defeat of the Republican President. Nathaniel Jones, general counsel for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and chief architect of the Detroit school integration case, accused Nixon and other school busing critics of "scurrilous, misleading and emotion-triggering statements" about busing. Jones said he had received word from Washington which indicated Nixon planned to send agents to the convention to blunt the group's strong criticism of his administration.

Nixon has come under constant attack at the convention, with the chairman of the NAACP's board of directors, observation period from 72 hours to a minimum of seven days. "In a household situation, when you get something in your eye you would immediately wash it out and not wait 24 hours," said Jerry Donovan, deputy director of the Division of Chemical Hazards. Dr. Rail said, however, that "whether you wash or don't wash is not very important. Most of the damage has been done in three to four minutes In terms of practicalities, it's going to be 'a good many minutes before a mother washes her baby's eyes." About 3,900 children are reported to eat detergents each year and many more cases go unreported, but the FDA has no idea how many may rub the products into their eyes.

The FDA has tested 77 detergents, ordered new or stronger cautionary labels on 50 and anticipates spending three more years getting through the remainder of the estimated 200 brands on the market. In addition to labeling, Donovan said the agency could take firmer action such By JOHN STOWELL WASHINGTON (AP) Some nonphosphate detergents on the market can cause irreversible blindness if accidentally rubbed into the eye, according to an unpublished government study. "The results of this study indicate the rather sharp demarcation between moderate ocular damage caused by soap in phosphate detergents and the intense causticity of carbonates and metasilic'ates," the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences concluded. The Food and Drug Administration, charged with protecting the public from hazardous substances, has reacted to the report with disdain. "They are treading outside the realm in which they should be operating," said an official in FDA's Bureau of Product Safety.

"We have the charter, we have the mandate." The official asked not to be named, because he said it would violate protocol to criticize a "sister agency." The institute's study, conducted by Dr. David P. Rail, the director, said NIH.