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The Miami Heraldi
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THE MIAMI HERALD 2-A Wed July 12 1972 NEWS SUMMARY Waves of B52s Join the Battle For Quang Tri THE WOULD the southern panhandle region and directed against the Mu Gia Pass through the mountains into Laos In that area about 75 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Vietnams the command said pilots reported 81 secondary explosions and 19 fuel-fed fires from their raids on gasoline and oilstorage areas and pipelines THE COMMAND said a US Navy A7 Corsair was downed near Thanh Hoa 63 miles south of the North Vietnamese capital of Hanoi The pilot was listed as missing Radio Hanoi claimed that seven American planes were shot down during raids Tuesday over the northern section but the US Command declined comment forced down three of the huge choppers Witnesses said three of the Marine helicopters one of them a huge CH53 super Jolly Green Giant were shot down by intense North Vietnamese fire A Navy spokesman said the fate of American crewmen and others aboard the CH53 was unknown The two other smaller CH46 Sea Knight aircraft returned to allied lines before crashing Their crewmen were rescued uninjured THE HELICOPTERS flew from US Navy Seventh fleet aircraft carriers off the Vietnamese coast The US Command said marginal weather reduced the number of raids over North Vietnam Monday to 188 most of them flown in CAPITALIZING ON AN ERROR by Bobby Fischer World Champion Boris Spassky gave the challenger only a chance for a draw when the opening game of the world championship chess match was adjourned after 4 hours of play in Reykjavik Iceland Page 8A AN ISRAELI GENERAL testified that he had tricked the Japanese charged in connection with the Tel Aviv airport massacre into confessing by promising him the use of a revolver with which to commit suicide Page 12 A RETURNING FROM A GLOBAL diplomatic mission former Treasury Secretary John Connally called Sen George McGovern the most attractive Democratic presidential nominee in the light of some of his On his arrival at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington Connally hinted that he would campaign for President Nixon's reelection Page 14 A SUPPORTING SOUTH VIETNAMESE forces poised for attack on Quang Tri city US bombers blasted suspected enemy positions with nearly 700 tons of explosives Page 2A THE VATICAN HAS TRIED without success to obtain the release of US prisoners of war in North Vietnam Secretary of State William Rogers said from Rome Rogers making the final stop of his nine-nation tour was hopeful that the reopening of the peace talks may bring some movement toward a settlement of the war Page ISA THE NATION Aaaecfatad Prate WIrapMN Belfast Girl Brings Tea to Koval Scots Guardsman he look rover amid renetved violence in the mrem Three More Killed in Ulster As Protestant Parades Near IRWIN NASA Disciplines Apollo 15 Crew keep peace during the parades and deal with snipers who have stepped up their attacks since the provisional wing of the Irish Republican Army called off its ceasefire Sunday When all 1200 British reinforcements arrive there will be 17000 soldiers in the provinces the most since troops first were sent in August 1969 to put down sectarian strife THERE WAS a threat of more trouble from militant Protestants who said they would move against IRA gunmen if British troops did not take the offensive The Protestant Ulster Defense Association enraged by reports that- William Whitelaw British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland Pope Negotiated 184 Queng Tri Fort ret 184 Guarded Optimum 184 SAIGON (UPI) Nine waves of US B52 bombers Tuesday night backed a 3500-man South Vietnamese force poised for an attack on Communist-held Quang Tri city by dropping nearly 700 tons of explosives on suspected North Vietnamese troop positions in the northernmost province the US Command said today Enemy troops Tuesday at- -tacked South Vietnamese forces carried to the north of Quang Tri city by US helicopters earlier in the day and 28 government soldiers were killed a military spokesman said The South Vietnamese supported by Allied air strikes killed 126 North Vietnamese and took six prisoners in the fighting one m)e north of the city the government spokesman said IN TWO other battles Tuesday one four miles northeast of the city and the second three miles southeast 57 of the' enemy were killed the spokesman said Government losses were put at one killed and one wounded The US Command in Saigon said that the B52s flew nine missions of three planes each in the 18-hour period that ended at dawn today and bombed targets five to 13 miles southwest and north of the province capital The B52s also flew one mission inside North Vietnam striking at supply caches near the port city of Dong Hoi about 35 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone and seven miles west and southwest of Hue the command said American spokesmen said US Marine helicopters from offshore Seventh Fleet carriers shuttled about 1000 government marines to the northeast edge of Quang Tri city Tuesday Enemy gunners by a high pressure area Pel-issier said gives it a better circulation in its he said The central barometric pressure in the depression was holding at 3001 inches Small craft warnings were in effect along the coastline of the Carolines and will spread into southeast Virginia later today the hurricane center said Meanwhile the South Florida forecast calls for partly cloudy skies through Thursday A few thundershowers are possible Highs will be in the upper 80s and lows will be in the mid-70s Southeasterly winds will be 10 to 15 mph and shower probability 60 per cent from the upper Northwest to the Central Rockies The nation's midsection experienced a very warm and humid day with tem TWELVE MEAT-EXPORTING NATIONS will be told today that the United States in a move to bring down prices of beef and veal will all yoa can The 12 nations last year exported 1155 billion pounds of meat to the United States Page 12A THE THREE APOLLO 15 ASTRONAUTS were disciplined by NASA for carrying some 400 postal covers to the moon during their July mission NASA confiscated 300 of the unauthorized covers but the other 100 were apparently sold to stamp collectors for $1500 each Page 2 A OPPOSITION TO THE NOMINATION of Sen George McGovern as the Democratic presidential standard-bearer fell to the side as Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Muskie bowed out of the race Only fragmentary opposition remained Alabama Gov George Wallace hoping to affect the platform more than the chosing of a candidate asked the convention delegates to consider nine minority planks written by his followers Before Wallace -spoke to the convention from his wheelchair Florida Gov Reubin Askew asked Democrats in the keynote address to talking about the American dream and start listening to the dreams of He told delegates torn by fights over seating and the platform to unite and embrace not reject the new of protest" Page 1A STUDY OF AN ACCIDENT aboard a 747 jetliner that was caused by turbulence last winter has indicated that first-aid equipment on new wide-body planes is inadequate the National Transportation Safety Board reported Page 19A FLORIDA Tropical Depression Forms Off the Coast Heads North had met IRA leaders secretly during the truce threatened civil war unless he ordered the army to crush the IRA the security forces and Mr Whitelaw do not take and keep up offensive action against the terrorists the Ulster Defense Association will become the Ulster Offensive Association and will take steps to eliminate the 13-man ruling council said in a statement The organization claims it can mobilize more than 25000 men The British Army said there were three bombings and 233 shooting incidents in the 24-hour period ending at 8 am Tuesday and more than a dozen shooting incidents after that Troops claimed 15 gunmen were hit by reconnaissance aircraft and were expected to increase before hitting land forecasters said is little chance for the storm to develop to tropical storm or hurricane strength at this time since it is so close to said Hurricane Forecaster Joe Pellis-sier is unlikely that it would turn' out toward the sea now but later if it should further development would be he said Winds were reported to be 35 to 45 mph off the Carolina coast with heavy rains pelting the area Seas up to 6 feet have been reported forecasters said The storm is surrounded en by noon Some local flooding was also reported there Kansas was also hit hard as four to five inches of rain inundated the area Light rain fell WORDEN however they realized on their own that this was improper and declined to accept either the trust fund or the alternative offer of stamps in exchange for the 100 postal covers" NASA said The Apollo 15 crew like those on earlier moon missions had permission within established procedures to carry personal items including some postal covers THE PERMISSION was granted with the condition that the articles be retained by the astronauts or be given to personal friends They were hot to be used for commercial or fund-raising pur-poses or personal gain NASA said On Apollo 15 the astronauts were authorized to carry 232 of the specially stamped envelopes with markings showing they had made the round trip to the moon The 400 unauthorized covers were carried in addition to the approved ones A NASA spokesman identified the acquaintance to whom he said the 100 unauthorized postal -covers were given as Horst Walter Eire-man a naturalized American living at Stuttgart Eireman met the astronauts when he was working for an aerospace contractor at Cocoa Beach Fla the spokesman said A NASA spokesman said a total of 358' covers have been impounded He said the legal department is trying to determine who has legal ownership of the impounded stamp covers Weather tered showers will fall from Kansas eastward to the Atlantic Coast The New Epgland area will be spared showers Miami Bay FrM Prk WASHINGTON (AP) NASA disciplined the three Apollo 15 astronauts Tuesday for carrying some 400 unauthorized postal covers to the moon and back last July and then turning 100 of them over to an acquaintance in West Germany The 100 moon-stamped envelopes apparently were sold later to stamp collectots for 81500 each NASA said The other unauthorized coverswere confiscated and are impounded at 1 Manned Spacecraft Center Houston NASA said after an investigation that astronauts David Scott Alfred Worden and James Irwin poor judgment in their they will be reprimanded and their actions will be given due consideration in their selection for future the agency said Dr George Low NASA deputy administrator commented: are under extreme stress in the months preceding a flight to the moon and -their poor judgment in carrying the unauthorized covers must be considered in this light NASA cannot condone these actions" NASA said it had learned that the Apollo 15 crew had agreed at one time to provide 100 covers from their forthcoming mission to the acquaintance in return for establishment of a fund" for their children the covers had been given to the acquaintance peratures 10 to 15 degrees above normal The national forecast: Thundershowers are again on tap for much of the nation Scat By KEVIN MOLLOY Herate Staff Writer A tropical depression developed off the Florida east coast Tuesday Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said the depression formed from a low pressure trough which has lingered in the Florida -Straits for several days and caused rain over South Florida for three days The depression was located late Tuesday about 75 miles southeast of Charleston South Carolina Forecasters predicted it would drift slowly to the north making a landfall on the border betweerf the Carolines Highest winds were clocked at 40 miles an hour THREE-JUDGE federal panel struck down a Florida law requiring candidates to pay a 5 per cent filing fee saying those too poor to pay won't have to Page 14A ATTORNEY GENERAL Robert Shevin Tuesday urged the State Supreme Court to change court rules to allow non-unanimous jury verdicts in criminal cases Page 5B WHILE SAYING a rosary for her ill husband Mrs Helen McCabe 63 was attacked in a Hollywood church She fought back and her assailant ran Page 2B GREATER MIAMI BELFAST Gunmen killed three persons in Northern Ireland Tuesday and another died of wounds suffered earlier in violence between British troops and Protestants and Roman Catholics The killings came one day before the Protestant Orange Order parades expected to trigger more fighting One of those killed was a British soldier hit by a sniper as his patrol cleared the rubble of a bombed flower shop in Londonderry A 17-year-old youth was killed in shooting between soldiers and gunmen in Belfast's Catholic Andersontown district The army said the youth was believed to be a sniper THE BODY of a man in his 20s bound and gagged was found earlier in the day in a field in the Protestant Carlisle Circus area of Belfast and another man died in the hospital from 'gunshot wounds suffered earlier Elsewhere in Northern Ireland police said gunmen stole more that S3 700 in three robberies in County Armagh and bombed a pub at Ballagy 40 miles north of Belfast No injuries were reported The killings brought the death toll in three years of violence in the province to 421 The province's British government meanwhile brought in more troops and ordered Protestants to change the route of Orange Order parades originally planned to skirt Belfast's Catholic neighborhoods THE PARADES commemorating the 1690 battle of the Boyne which resulted in Protestant domination over Northern Ireland's Catholic minority have sparked sectarian violence in past years About 500 additional British troops arrived Tuesday to ipVeotHer moutldok-a Title Tablet in Sportt Sec MIAMI AND VICINITY: Partly cloudy through Thursday Scattered mainly afternoon or evening thundershowers High in the upper 80s Low in the mid 70s Southeasterly winds 10 to 15 mph Rain probability 50 per cent FLORIDA: Partly cloudy with scattered mainly altamaon thundershowers Niah In tha uaaar Ms tt lew tOa Lew in the mid Tea to areund III In tha Keys FLOSIDA SXTENOSO OUTLOOK I Tnursday throueh Saturday Partly cloudy with widely scattered thundershowers Hioh temoerature ranee: to 74 Law tamaarature rant: 71 la 10 Statistics July II 1fn yum Ml kit Rtiathm humidity if its to hast tamuaratum (past 11 hasrtl 17 Luwuil tamparatara (past ll haun) 71 Mum tcmpcntvru 17 annul ttmaaratura Accymulatad anew mica tint at mantti (datraas) 1 Ac cum uia tad ax cats Mica Jan I (daaraaa) Ul HMtaar aud lawaat IMa data ilaca ina ft aud 71 Lac al raHifaH tar haura aadiaf at 7 am hi kKM I Ja Paint aU this manth 171 Daflciuficy this manth 71 Rainfall amca Jan Breast When Jan 1 Ml SMALL SOATS: Exposed Atlantic coastal waters tram Caoa Kennedy tnrouah the Florida Straits South to southeast winds II to IS knots with seas two to tnrao foot Exposed Gulf coastal waters from Cadar Kef to Florida Bay Varlaole winds IS knots Sons two to Ihrae flat Inland waters from Lake worth throuah Biscavna Bay South to southaasf winds IS to IS knots with a I lent chap an waters Rain and Humidity Dominate POLICE AND PARADE MARSHALS defused a potentially explosive mixture of Cuban and poor coalition demonstrators at the Miami Beach Convention Center Tuesday Page 1C A $100 MILLION DEVELOPMENT project for a 430-acre tract of land drew the Hialeah City Council's unanimous approval after the developer added more park land to his proposal Page 1C CITIZEN CONCERN OVER HIGH-RISES prompted the North Miami City Council to approve a 90-dav moratorium on all high density construction in Dade County's fifth-largest city Page 1C SPORTS Local National World Temperatures GREATER MIAMI Free JP J1 Hit Coral GaMaa Miami Airport Miami FLORIDA Philadalahia The nation's Central Plains felt the affects of locally heayy reins and thunderstorms Southeast Nebraska reported up to six inches of rain had fall WEATHER IWAOCAgTsVs PSmUL HUBPW4FB cnrKR eonTMMua SAMocasr Mam itcjiKJ V't MLM KIM IKMMh eaaa warn tato iSwaaS: aw" JAMES DOW SR who parlayed a green thumb and plain horse sense into one of Florida's most beautiful and successful racing plants at Gulfstream died Tuesday night at the age of 85 Donn suffered a stroke May 8 and had been hospitalized since that time Page IF THE CINCINNATI REDS with catcher Johnny Bench hitting his 22nd home run of the season defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-0 in a battle of the two National League division leaders Page IF LI VI AG TODAY a SS MIDWEST CMcaw ft 7 Cincinnati fa ay If as IS 71 ft 4) It if a Kawaa CIty 17 71 Mthuauk aa ft MntS--M 17 7 WEST fa a 17 47 fl 74 fl Si fl 71 71 71 IM II fl 71 in 74 41 41 71 71 47 7 II FOREIGN llrminfham Irvaaila CuaManca 11 71 41 14 74 II 77 4 77 71 fl 41 DuMin Lisban 11 1J1 Madrid Malta NawDalM Nica Oils Parti Salma Salla 77 If 71 71 11 Tat Aviv Takva Tania Vienna Warsaw 71 PAN AMERICAN 99 S4 41 IS IM 91 71 91 lirMaa Hftvina NarmMilto Kfnvtfm Mtxlcn City St Croix St Kitts Vr Crw 91 17 SOUTH AihtvWt Atlanta ll iifmhwtiani it i ChartastM Ctwrtatta 79 4 I'san MlM 94 Lima Rack S9 44 LauMvilia 91 9 Mamatil 19 Wtw Ortaanii 19 41 tt tf it sa EAST Albany NY Pastas ft 47 attain aa as 1 NawYerti If 7S 114 Auckland arils THE ONLY female Democratic state party chairman in the United States Caroline Wilkins of Oregon took over the reins three years ago when the party was deeply in dept Last January she reached her goal: the books balanced Page 2D WHAT'S IN A WORD? Plenty say members of the Feminist Party who burned quotations and scriptures they consider to be sexist during a rally at Flamingo Park Page 4D Sunrine Tiulsy 6:37 im Moonrlse Today 8:25 am Sunr! Today 8:15 pmU JL JL ImJL Moonset Today 9:47 pm im li jcr Ant i jy it A A 4 I i I.

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