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The San Bernardino County Sun from San Bernardino, California • Page 3

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Friday, July 14, 1972 THE SUNA-3 Surrenders End 2 Skyjacldngs result of a pistol whipping. His condition was listed as fair. In good condition with him at the hospital was flight engineer Beaver, shot in the right side. The two hijackers held their hands over their heads as they left the plane. They were taken into custody by FBI agents.

The pair was rushed in separate cars to Houston where they were to be taken before a U.S. magistrate. Thomas Jordan, special agent in charge of the Houston FBI, said agent Lou White of Baltimore "did a tremendous job in talking these people out." Jordan identified the two men as Michael Stanley Green, 34, of Washington. D.C.. and Luseged Tesfa, 22, a native of Ethiopia.

"They realized they were in an untenable position," Jordan said. "They realized they were going no further, and as a result they released the girls unharmed." of Secret Anticipated discussed by the Vietnamese among themselves." I am sure, I hope, we will be discussing this matter more," he added. Porter would make no further comment on the meeting, telling reporters without elaboration: "We will have to have another look at the record." Picking up after their longest suspension, the talks produced no visible movement toward peace. Instead there were the familiar polemics that have marked the conference during its 3Vz years. There was no evidence to support a July 8 statement, by Kissinger, President Nixon's security adviser, that he had some reason to believe Hanoi would take a "new approach" when the talks resumed.

If there was a relatively new approach, it came in the unusually mild tones of a speech by the frequently lough talking Porter. Porter invited the attention of the Communist delegates to Nixon's May 8 proposals tor an Indochina cease-fire, return of all American prisoners and complete withdrawal from Vietnam within four months of an agreement on the package deal. ailllllMliMIIIBIIIIB' torn New Round Peace Talks PARIS (AP) -The Vietnam peace conference reopened yesterday after a 10-weck break, with both the Communists and allies clinging to old positions. But the U.S. delegation spokesman termed the session businesslike.

And the negotiators agreed to hold a new meeting next Thursday. This reinforced speculation that a new round of secret and possibly more fruitful talks may be pending. Politburo member Le Duc Tho of North Vietnam, who has held a series of secret meetings in the past with Henry A. Kissinger, left Peking yesterday en route to Pans. North Vietnamese Ambassador Xuan Thuy laid new stress on a linkup of a military and political solution to the war slightly rephrasing the old Communist demands without fundamentally changing them.

He insisted that the. United States end support for the South Vietnamese president, Nguyen Van Thieu, to permit establishment of a coalition government to be followed by a cease-fire. The U.S. delegate, William .1. Porter, reiterated the "allied position that a cease-fire should be put into effect first and that then "political issues can be WE BUY BY THE CARLOAD.

THE SAVINGS ARE YOURS LOWEST Price Commission Sawbones Cut in Chrysler 573 Models AP VWrephotO 3IELY1N M. FISHER he wept after surrender sion to try to cut or hold back wage and price increases. Chrysler is still going ahead with its request for increases to pass along the cost of safety and antipollution equipment required by the government. The cost is about $110 per car. The chances are that this increase will be permitted.

Fisher wept as he told Jones about his personal problems a divorce, the six children, debts and a swindling charge pending against him in Texas. Several times he complained of nausea and was escorted to a restroom. National's hijacked Flight 496 left Miami at 11:10 a.m. Wednesday, bound for New York with stops at West Palm Beach. Orlando, Jacksonville, Savannah, Charleston, S.C., and Philadelphia.

Boarding at Philadelphia were the two hijackers, who later referred to each other as "Taffa" and "Green." Deputy Marshall Glenn said Taffa first had tried to buy a Delta Airlines ticket in Philadelphia, but had run away from the counter when asked for identification. He was overtaken, Glenn said, but subsequently released when a search of his person failed to reveal any weapons. The pair commandeered the plane about 7:30 p.m. EDT as it was approaching Kennedy Airport in New York and forced it back to Philadelphia where the plane landed almost out of gas, its electrical power out, its air-conditioning not working. For nine gruelling hours, the plane's 113 passengers were captive in searing heat while the hijackers dickered at a distance with FBI agents over their demands for parachutes and a $600,000 ransom.

"A couple of people fainted," said a passenger, Thomas Herring, of St. Louis. "I don't think it was necessary to go through all the shenanigans with the heat the way it was." Edward Miller, 22, an Air Force enlisted man from Columbus, Ohio, said one of the skyjackers had the sawed-off shotgun, while his companion had a pistol and a black box which he said contained a bomb. The man with the pistol grew increasingly edgy during the long wait on the ground, Miller said, adding: "Then we all heard that the pilot had jumped out of the cabin and this touched the guy off." Eventually, an undisclosed ransom sum was delivered to the hijackers. They released the passengers, then transferred lo a substitute 727 jet wilh four stewardesses, the copilot and the flight engineer.

The commandeered National aircraft flew over Dallas, then Houston, then swung south over the Gulf of Mexico. Reluming to land, it set down in heavy rain at Lake Jackson's runway, blowing the Iwo tires in the process. At this point, one of the four captive stewardesses managed to flee the plane. Copilot Regan was taken to a hospital with a fractured pelvis, broken wrist and facial bruises, apparently as the PRICES ANYWHERE! hrn yun it WASHINGTON (AP) -Chrysler Corp. became the first victim yesterday of a new Price Commission strategy aimed at trimming price increases sure to have a large adverse impact on the cost of living.

Chrysler announced in Detroit that it is withdrawing part of a request to raise the prices of 1973 models by about 5 per cent. The part withdrawn would have covered economic cost increases, and would have amounted to about $70 per vehicle. As part of the new strategy, a team of commission officials went to Detroit last week and talked to Chrysler executives, in effect telling them that not all of the increase would be allowed. "It was basically jawboning," said one commission spokesman, referring to the term meaning use of government persua DOG TRAINING GLASS July 22 10 A.M. 24004 Lke Crestline Train him under the pines JOE DE BECK, INSTRUCTOR (714) 338-1417 H0TP0INT REFRIGERATOR FREEZER ii Icemaker No Frost 2-DOOR R.

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10001 The LflrgrM Slocking TV A Appliance Outlet in the Inland Umpire TV APPLIANCES LJAJLAJJJ 37VO N. Sbrro Wqy 886-5194 (Continued From A 1) that eventually brought them down at a small airport in Lake Jackson, about 50 miles south of Houston. They found themselves trapped their jetliner out of gas, two tires blown, on a runway too short for a 727 to take off. Regan was badly beaten by his captors before being released, and his flight engineer, Gerald Beaver, was shot and wounded. The American Airlines hijacker, Mel-vin M.

Fisher, 49, a Norman, painter and the father of six, brought his empty pistol aboard at Oklahoma City, apparently in a holster. A passenger, John Clark of Dallas said: "I knew there was something wrong because he dropped his holster on the floor in front of me." Clark said passengers who had boarded the flight at its Chicago stop were checked for weapons with a metal detector, but that none was used at Oklahoma City. American's Flight 633 left LaGuardia Airport in New York for San Diego, with stops scheduled in Chicago, Oklahoma City, Dallas and Los Angeles. Fisher took over the plane about half an hour after it left Oklahoma City for Dallas. He had walkie-talkies in a briefcase and sent one forward to the pilot, thus establishing direct communication with the rockpit.

The plane was ordered back to Oklahoma City and the hijacker demanded $550,000 in $100 bills and a parachute. When the wait on the ground for the ransom became protracted, Fisher had the plane taken aloft until the money was flown in from Dallas. Then Flight 633 again landed at Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City, where the hijacker picked up a ransom package of $200,000 and a parachute, and where he released the plane's 51 passengers, and two of its stewardesses. Four other crew members remained aboard. Again the plane took off, but Fisher's nerve was rapidly evaporating.

He directed the plane along an erratic route for some two hours keeping the rear door open, apparently for a planned parachute jump. Then, inexplicably, he meekly turned his gun, found to be empty, over to a stewardess. "He told the crew he was scared and said he didn't want to die," said a spokesman for American Airlines. All the ransom money was recovered aboard the aircraft as Fisher was led away handcuffed after it landed once more at Oklahoma City. Four hours later, he went before U.S.

Magistrate Charles R. Jones on a federal charge of air piracy. He was unable to make the $100,000 bail. Typo Mars Chess Play EDITOR'S NOTE: A typographical error marred the move-by-move accounts of the first Spassky-Fischer match In yesterday's Sun. White move No.

14 was described as "14. B-K2" when it should have been "14. B-Kt2." Knight's second rank and not King's. To avoid repetition, the knight will he designated as in future movc-by-move accounts. Nixon Offers Briefings lo McGovern SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.

(AP) President Nixon arranged yesterday to offer Sen. George McGovern continuing intelligence briefings as the new Democratic presidential nominee campaigns to oust Nixon from the White House. The chief executive, assured of the Republican nomination for a second term, instructed foreign affairs adviser Henry Kissinger to set up a meeting with McGovern to discuss the briefings. If McGovern accepts the offer, the briefings probably would be conducted by Central Intelligence Agency Director Richard Helms or by members of Kissinger's National Security Council staff. Press secretary Ronald L.

Ziegler said the offer would be extended only to McGovern and not to his Democratic running mate. This, he said, has been th custom in past election years. The briefings, Ziegler said, would keep the South Dakota senator "fully appraised' of foreign developments. He would not give specifics on what would be covered, but said he was certain McGovern would he "kept fully abreast on the continuing negotiations" an apparent reference to the Vietnam peace talks which resumed yesterday in Paris. NO SERVICE 17 CHARGE EVER yC 1) Perianal Checking Account! opened before August 1, 1972 I I I 2) Personal Checking Account for 1 Senior Ciliint (60 yOrs 6nd COME GROW WITH US SPecuAi ffimvc A FULL SERVICE INDEPENDENT BANK 50 NORTH ST.

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