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THE SACRAMENTO BEE Sunday July 2 1972 Page A'22 South Viet Offensive i Is Blunted 'll I '1 't l': 1 :::7 1:1 17': iit: 'J-i''- Ale' 1 1 i I 0 lor 4i: of zr-- 71': kil 1:::: 1 4 t'': '2': i 4 4'' 4 I-: i i''? at 'N A 1 1 v1" 1 ri A-It- 411k 't'''''''- 14 4 -2x 4 It ikk l' 'L' 4 4 0: 1 7t it -) 14 1 It At I Jr) (0 I I t-tk 4 1l'1 1 i ss 1 kwk 4k' a tiN ci 1 anommo 0 op John and Mitchell back together AP Wirephoto Mitchell Quits Nixon Post To Give Time To Martha SAIGON (AP) Enemy shell fire and bad weather broke the momentum of the South Vietnamese counteroffensive on the northern front Saturday field reports said North Vietnamese gunners also attacked below the front at Hue for the first time in the current enemy offensive As South Vietnamese troops held ground within three miles of enemy occupied Quang Tri city a general said shelling to the east was the worst obstacle the counteroffensive had met To the south more than 30 rounds of heavy shells or rockets landed within Hue just after dawn today There was no immediate report on casualties The shelling was the first against the former imperial capital since the North Vietnamese offensive began three months ago Hue has been considered by allied officers a primary target of the offensive The South Vietnamese paratroops three miles from Quang Tri city were part of the drive to retake the occupied province of Quang Tn A major battle was expected against North Vietnamese forces dug in on the southern outskirts of the city Associated Press correspondent IIolger Jensen reported from the front that the advance by 20000 South Vietnamese troops was slowed by heavy rains that flooded river fords and held up supply and ammunition vehicles There was one attack in the rear of the northern advance but it was an enemy shelling southwest of Hue and 30 miles south of the front The South Vietnamese 1st division is on guard on the western approaches to Hue while the marines paratroopers and armored units are pushing northward toward Quang Tn The Saigon command claimed 450 enemy troops have been killed in the first three days of the four-day counter-offensive and put its own losses as 36 killed and 148 wounded Elsewhere the US Command reported that two American spotter planes and a helicopter crashed in eastern Cambodia last week from unknown causes and that one of the pilots was missing The other crewmen were rescued a communique said lands National Theater in Reykjavik At left is Russian Ambassador Sergei Astayin Boris Spassky center world champion of chess receives a toast from American Charge d'affalres Theodore Tremblay at the opening ceremony of Ice Chess Champ AP Wirephoto the move This discontent was climaxed in her statements of last weekend Neither of the Mitchel Is was available for comment Saturday Mrs Mitchell was quoted in an interview with a New York Daily News reporter last Sunday night that she had been manhandled by security guards provided by the Nixon reelection campaign committee and she would leave her husband unless he quit the committee She reportedly said in Rye that she had fled Newport Beach Calif after a guard ripped a telephone from her villa bedroom wall and several guards threw her on a bed and "stuck a needle in my behind" A committee spokesman said later that she never had more than one guard assigned to her Mrs Mitchell had telephoned a wire service reporter in Washington DC after those reported incidents and this call was the basis for the first publication of reports of her Chess Stalemate Fischer Shuns Last Pre-Tilt Plane To Iceland Continued from page Al iarly true of the Mitchell family Francis Dale chairman of the Committee for the Re-election of the President announced that Mitchell will be succeeded as campaign director by Clark MacGregor a former congressman from Minnesota and currently Nixon's chief of congressional liaison Mitchell lunched with Nixon Friday to inform the President of his decision at that time a White House spokesman said MacGregor's spot in handling congressional relations for the White House will be taken over by his present assistant William Timmons press secretary Ronald Ziegler said Mrs Mitchell was perhaps the best known of the Nixon Cabinet wives because of her frequent phone calls to newsmen to present her often controversial views on issues and personalities When Mitchell left the attorney generalship on March 1 his wife made clear her dissatisfaction with Nixon Reluctantly Signs Social Security Boost Viet Police Kill Two Skyjackers world champion Spassky and win the title In Reykjavik Schmidt said the first game could be postponed if the official match physician found medical reasons for Fischer to ask for a delay But officials said Fischer had to show up by game time or be disqualified 10 Hours Rest The Icelandic flight would have left Fischer 10 hours to rest before the start of the match today "I'm sure he'll be well rested for the match" Lombardy said Another Fischer attorney Andrew Davis remained on a flight to Reykjavik when Fischer bolted Friday and was negotiating with the president of the Icelandic Chess Federation Gudmundur Thorarinsson for 30 per cent of the gate receipts which Fischer was demanding Original plans called for the winner to receive five-eighths of a $125000 purse put up by the Icelandic organizers and the loser the remainder Thorarinsson said at a news conference later the talks had produced "some results" but "we still have difficulties" He said that "from a principle point of view it is unlikely" that the federation would agree to Fischer's demands which also included 60 per cent of the net profit from the sale of television rights Illness Rules Asked by newsmen as he left his hotel to play tennis whether he expected the match to begin Sunday Spassky said: "I don't think so but I don't know for sure and at this point I don't want to think about it" Thorarinsson said each player had the right to ask for postponement of a game three times during the match by pleading illness "Theoretically these could be the first three games" he said but it is up to the official match doctor to decide "and that would be difficult if the player is not in Iceland" In New York Marshall refused to discuss the negotiations Lombardy said he believed that it was the differences over money that caused Fischer to cancel plans to fly to Reykjavik earlier Tass in a dispatch from Reykjavik said "The American grandmaster Larry Evans who has repeatedly been Fischer's second announced on arrival in Reykjavik that Fischer was waging a war of nerves against Spassky Tass Report "But it is Fischer himself who seems to be unnerved" Tass said "Spassky went out for a walk early in the morning Saturday (and) played tennis against the international master Ivo Ney of Estonia" As an example of Fischer's alleged nervousness the Tass dispatch cited Icelandic newspaper reports that said Fischer had canceled his New York Reykjavik flight at the last minute Friday and "was seen running away from Kennedy Airport in a fit of temper" after his Thursday night cancellation The report headlined "Match or No Match?" on Tass wires said "it is just 24 hours before the match is due to start but will it get going at all?" NEW YORK (UPI) American chess champion Bobby Fischer failed last night to board the last regularly scheduled flight from the United States to Iceland which would get him there in time for the start of the world championship matches with Russia's Boris Spassky It was learned late last night that Fischer's lawyer has asked to postpone the start of Sunday's world championship chess match until Tuesday but neither the match referee nor the organizers appeared willing to grant the request Iothar Schmidt of Germany the chief referee said early today he did not recognize the legitimacy of the request made by Andrew Davis one of Fischer's lawyers The matches were scheduled to start at 5 pm (10 am PDT) Sunday in Iceland In the Soviet Union meanwhile the Soviet news agency Tass claimed Fischer was losing his own "war of nerves" against world chess champion Boris Spassky who was calmly waiting in Iceland playing tennis and going for long walks Fischer was in hiding Saturday and another of his attorneys Paul Mar shall would say only "I expect Bobby Fischer to do the proper thing for Bobby Fischer" But a long-time friend and fellow international grand master the Rev William I Lombardy who talked to Fischer Friday had predicted he would arrive in Reykjavik Iceland's principal city in time for the match settle his differences with the promoters over money play Russian wanted to cut the increase to 10 per cent and accused Democrats of playing politics But it passed by 82-4 in the Senate and 302-35 in the House Nixon said that the measure was not fully funded and imposes considerable additional tax burdens on all wage-earners But he said he had given his approval because of "my deep concern for the well-being of our older Americans They both need and deserve a significant increase in Social Security benefits" He said the bill's failure to fully finance the increase would add $37 billion to more than $3 billion by which Congress has thrown his fiscal 1973 budget into deficit He called this SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese police shot and killed two Vietnamese who tried to hijack a Pan American Airways 747 jumbo jet to Hanoi today reliable sources said One of the hijackers was killed on the runway at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut international airport Reports said the other hijacker apparently was killed aboard the plane No other casualties were reported The passengers were allowed to evacuate the plane which was cordoned off by South Vietnamese policemen and soldiers carry rifles The plane Flight 841 originating in San Francisco Friday night made stops in Honolulu Guam and Manila en route to Saigon Continued from page Al ters Nixon hailed both of these fatures Ile said the automatic cost-of-living increase "constitutes a major breakthrough for older Americans" by providing a hedge against inflation which he says he has long urged Signs 16 Bills Nixon signed a batch of more than 16 bills before his departure several of them directed to providing disaster relief and additional benefits for veterans He approved bills to: Provide up to 13 extra weeks of unemployment compensation for workers who have exhausted their benefits It particularly affects states where unemployment remains high The extension remains until Dec 31 1572 Provide an additional $200 million for disaster relief which will principally aid areas of five Eastern states hit by York Pennsylvania Maryland Virginia and Florida Funds will be available also to help in continuing recovery efforts from the San Fernando earthquake in California and flash floods in Rapid City SD and Buffalo Creek WVa A 10 per cent increase in monthly benefits for disabled veterans which will start Aug 1 Tried To Reduce It Nixon had sought to head off the 20 per cent Social Security rider attached under the sponsorship of Sen Frank Church D-Idaho Republicans Fireworks Are Suspect In Blaze Humphrey's State Delegates Organize River Fight Stirs Needles Mc Catchy Newspapers Service IONE Amador Co Firecrackers are believed to have started a fire which charred 241 acres of brush and grass about 10 miles northwest of here The blaze has been controlled but mopping up operations are continuing through the weekend said a spokesman for the California Division of Forestry Four air tankers one helicopter three bulldozers four hand crews and 14 trucks helped battle the blaze which occurred along State Highway 16 about 2 miles east of the IoneSacramento Road in an area known as Morlah Heights The committee overthrew California's winner-take-all primary system in which Sen George McGovern had claimed the state's entire 271-member delegate bloc by virtue of his primary victory The Humphrey forces Saturday elected veteran Rep Chet Holifield as chairman and picked three cochairmen State Sen Mervyn Dymally of Los Angeles a black Herman Si llas of Los Angeles and Martha Cuenco Ritzell of San Jose both LOS ANGELES (AP) Sen Hubert Humphrey's California delegation suddenly resurrected from a crushing June 6 election defeat organized itself Saturday for a battle to be permanently seated at the Democratic National Convention The delegation met for an hour and a half Saturday and pared itself down to 106 members the number tentatively allocated by the convention's credentials committee in a decision Thursday that startled even the Humphrey people Americans of Mexican descent Elected chairman of the delegation's executive committee was San Francisco Mayor Joseph who placed Humphreys name in nomination at the 1968 convention The delegation meticulously allocated seats in proportion to guidelines formulated by the McGovern party reform commission giving 53 seats to women 19 to blacks 10 to Americans of Mexican descent and 23 to those under 30 years old McGovern Aides Misjudged Fight For State's Votes Last Monday 72 hours before the committee decided to dismantle Calitornia's winner-take-all slate the McGovern camp still exuded nonchalant optimism "The California challenge is not all that important" said Frank Mankiew 1 Continued from page A3 take an extensive development that will provide for a marina on the river Mac Knew denies this "We have no future plans right now" And if they did he adds "what's wrong with that? Do you think it is better to have sludge there in an area where there are fish? It is an area where they cannot spawn there it is dark it is murky and it is causing a lot of vegetation to grow" It is not true now we have voiced (that there might be a planned development there ultimately) but there is no plan to do anything with that land now" Dollar Stakes The riverfront land according to Lee Perry of the Needles Desert Star a small local paper sells for $200 to $300 a foot The Robinsons estimate their 15 acres to be worth $85000 and the Santa Fe lawyer estimates there are about 50 acres involved in their case The state Fish and Game De partment on the other hand wants to leave the land as it is for a fish and wildlife habitat So far the bill has moved easi ly through the Senate Government Organization and Finance Committnes It is expected to come the full Senate this week Analysis By Leo Rennert McClatctts Newspapers Staff Writer WASHINGTON By the McGovern camps own admission it was a whopper of a miscalculation For more than a week there had teen clear signs that Sen Hubert Humphrey and other anti-McGovern forces were working feverishly to build support for the challenge of the California delegation But until practically the eve of the Credentials Committee's decision to deny Sen George McGovern 151 of the 271 delegates he won in the June 6 primary his top strategists refused to believe that it could happen After all the courts and the committee's own neutral hearing examiner former Assistant Atty Gen Burke Marshall had ruled in their favor More importantly their bandwagon toward the nomination in Miami Beach was rolling at a good clip and they simply could not imagine that all other elements in the party would risk defeat in November by openly ganging up on them inlicaVons that bloodletting was not in the cards At the Statler-Hilton the Platform Committee was finishing its work in a burst of amity and mutual accommodation Why shouldn't this atmosphere also prevail at the Sheraton-Park in the disposition of credentials challenges? Later the basic flaw in this line of reasoning became quite apparent Platform planks are more easily susceptible to compromise than seating challenges which must be voted up or down More important the stop-McGovern coalition threw far more of its resources into credentials than into platform disputes The McGovern camp did not adjust its tactics accordingly until it was too late On Tuesday when Marshall issued his report that there was no basis for the California challenge Mankiewicz pronounced the issue "dead" With 48 hours to go the air of confidence in the McGovern camp how ever began to vanish Sacramento City Councilman Philip Isenberg a leading McGovernite on his word when he said after the California primary that he wouldn't join in the challenge" he added "That may have been a mistake" Because of their rude awakening McGovern strategists vow there will be no repetition of such mistakes as they seek to repair the damage and overturn the Credentials Committee's decision in Miami Beach a week from from tomorrow The knives now are unsheathed On both sides The first to feel the sharp edges of the new McGovern blades on Friday was Chicago Mayor Richard Daley whose delegates had joined in carving up the California delegation only 24 hours earlier As the stabbing continued Democrats beholding the carnage might well recall Marc Antony's words at Caesar's funeral 'CI! What a fall was there my countrymen "Then I and you and all of us fell down "Whilst bloody treason flourished over us" the Credentials Committee still predicted victory but would not exclude the possibility of an upset "by pure raw political power" on Wednesday with only 24 hours to go the McGovern side was conducting a massive nationwide lobbying effort to swing enough delegates on the cemmittee against the California challenge The alarm was sounded but the rescue party never came On Capitol Hill California Rep Jerome Wa Idle of Contra Costa County was asked to contact House members from Texas Hawaii and Wyoming to see if their delegates would support California the next day He struck out The other side already had nailed down firm commitments Other pro-McGovern intermediaries reported similarly dismal results On Thursday after the 72-66 vote upholding the California challenge Mankiewicz acknowledged that "perhaps we could have kept a tighter watch" on the Credentials Committee "We also took Sen Humphrey at icz ''By the time we get to Miami Beach we'll easily have that many votes to spare" Mankiewicz still was talking about a handful of "bitter-enders" who could not reconcile themselves to a McGovern nomination but who conirolled no mare than one-third of the votes on ttd 150-member Credentials Committee McGovern forces he predicted would not stand alone There were "signs" unfounded as it turned out that Sen Edmund Muskie would refuse to join in the California ambush There were other more tangible AZ 1 1 1 1 I.