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The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 145

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The Miami Heraldi
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Miami, Florida
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145
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I i Mtt Em Thursday July 6 1972 The Newspaper Of The Americas Member of The Inter American Press Association 9 62nd No 220 1 Dele How fict A Goal I etumed to I I i JL When a Fellow treed Confrontation Press Wirepnoto to keep them away from his cycle The youths attending the festival had banded together to retaliate after claiming that some members of the gang had extorted money from them The gun was not fired and the outnumbered motorcycle-gang members were driven off A member of a Chicago motorcycle gang points a revolver at a group of fans gathered at a rock-music festival north of Streator III in an attempt Surprise Move rench Premier ired Another Gaullist In Viets Control QuangTri North Pounded By 320 Raids SAIGON (UPI) South Vietnamese paratroopers and tank crews recaptured most of Quang Tri city Wednesday They carried with them a neatly folded flag and a warm bottle of champagne for use when Communist troops are forced from the rest of the bombed-out provincial capital Military sources said the 1200 soldiers set up a command post at Quang railroad station then fanned out into adjacent residential and business areas where they met light resistance from Communists who had controlled the city and its surrounding province since May 1 Most of the strike force stayed clear of the 19th-Century citadel in the center of the city where they believed that North Vietnamese snipers might be dug in Military sources said Quang Tri city would not be declared recaptured until the citadel was in government hands IN THE air war the US Command said American bombers made 320 raids over North Vietnam Tuesday the most strikes in a single day since June 27 The North Vietnamese said one US F4 Phantom jet was downed in the raids near Hanoi but the US Command refused comment on the report UPI reporter Chad Hunt-ley accompanying the para-troop and tank force at Quang Tri said a bottle of champagne was strapped to one rucksack and another carried a red i and gold South Vietnamese flag to run up over the citadel when it is captured The North Vietnamese capture of Quang Tri province and its capital was the biggest victory of the three-month-old offensive that began March 30 South Vietnam launched its drive to recapture its northernmost province June 28 when 20000 paratroopers marines militiamen infantrymen and tank crews moved across the My Chanh Turn to Page 2A Col 3 Ordered Airports The agency said each individual traveling on a regularly scheduled service whether singly or in a group would be personally responsible for payment of any head tax It instructed traffic officers to route military passengers whenever possible Turn to Page 2A Col 7 A- Bloc Vote OKd In California McGovern First 44 By Herald Wire Servlets WASHINGTON A three -judge Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday ordered that the 151 California delegates taken from Sen George McGovern by the Democratic Credentials Committee be seated at the Democratic National Convention The court enjoined the Democratic Party "from unseating these duly qualified and elected declaring that the winner-take-all California primary was constitutional The appeals panel overruled US District Judge George Hart Jr who had held that he had no jurisdiction over suit challenging the Credentials Committee action stripping him of 151 of the 271 California delegates BUT THE COURT upheld the Credentials Committee ruling unseating an Illinois bloc of 59 delegates headed by Chicago Mayor Richard Daley As a matter of legal formality the appeals court sent both cases back to Hart for official closing of the cases In a third finding the appeals court halted action in a state court in Illinois aimed at blocking the seating of the 59 challengers to the Daley delegation "in order to pro- tect our judgment the Credential Committee action THE CALIFORNIA decision was by a 2-1 vote the majority declaring that to void the primary would in effect be retroactively an entirely new and unannounced standard of The lengthy opinion declared that the expulsion of -the 151 California delegates inconsistent with fun- damental principles of due The losers were expected to ask Chief Justice Warren Burger to call the Supreme Court which adjourned last week into a special summer session to hear appeals A copy of the appeals opinion was dispatched to office He will have to contact the vacationing Turn to Page 3A Col 4 6I Can't Believe I Ate the BALTIMORE (AP) Garbage cans not dogs are bothering rural mail carriers these days according to US Postal Service officials Warren Bloomberg Baltimore district manager has complained to the Harford County government that rural carriers northeastern Maryland were developing "hernias and back because they had to reach past empty garbage cans left near mailboxes new government were not due to be announced until today or Friday presidential palace sources said But two top members of the outgoing Cabinet appeared likely to remain on They are Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann and Defense Minister Michel Debre Chaban-Delmas noted in a letter to Pompidou that the president had told him of his intention to change the government Pompidou said in his letter to Chaban-Delmas that he had the which led to his decision but he did not spell them out replace- Turn to Page 2A Col 1 4 Needs a Friend by a beast on a zoo ledge nal Service (MTMTS) applied to the head taxes that went into effect July 1 at five airports but was the only one through which large volumes of military traffic are funneled regularly The Philadelphia tax was also the most severe $2 a person levied not only on departing passengers but on arriving passengers as well Taxes of $1 on each departing passenger went into effect also Saturday at Richmond Va Huntsville Ala Sarasota-Bradenton and Saginaw Mich Four states and more than a dozen cities arre considering similar taxes THOUSANDS of passengers refused to pay the charges and instead filled out refusal forms that presumably would result in subsequent civil action to collect MTMTS sent out notices to its transportation officers around the world listing the cities where head taxes are going into effect Messmer Chaban there had been a link with the West German meeting However all immediate signs pointed to dismissal because of domestic issues OTHER MEMBERS of the 2 Grab Jet Want Maps Of Russia By Herald Wire Services SAN FRANCISCO Two men armed with shotguns hijacked a Pacific Southwest Airlines jet with 86 persons aboard Wednesday demanding $800000 ransom and maps for a flight to the Soviet Union The hijacked plane was a short-range two-engine Boeing 737 making a flight from Sacramento to Hollywood-Burbank Airport The hijackers commandeered the craft after 'takeoff from Sacramento and ordered it to San Francisco AFTER THE landing at San Francisco the airline made a longer-range 727 available in case the hijackers demanded it PSA which operates only within California agreed to the ransom demand after the hijackers made references to a flight to the USS and asked for maps and flight plans for Siberia Alaska Airlines which flies summer tourist flights to Leningrad in the Soviet northwest and to Khabarovsk in Siberia said the Soviet Union does not allow its planes to enter Soviet airspace without a Soviet navigator aboard The plane first touched down with the hijackers in charge at San Francisco Airport at 10 23 a The craft took off again 20 minutes later and circled the airport for about an hour while PSA officials sought to raise the ransom The craft landed a second time at San Francisco shortly before noon after PSA officials said the demands were being met Press International Telephotos Sometimes life can be a threatening experience for a six-year-old As when backed into a wall by a beast The fact that the adversary is just a friendly and inquisjtve goat in a Houston zoo seem to reassure Mark Trerck PARIS (AP) President Georges Pompidou fired Jacques Chaban-Delmas as premier Wednesday and named Pierre Mess-mer to succeed him The dismissal of Chaban-Delmas came as a surprise He has recently been under fire because of personal tax dealings Shortly after the announcement that Chaban-Delmas and his government had stepped down Pompidou summoned Messmer like Chaban-Delmas one of the earliest followers of Gen Charles de Gaulle An exchange of letters between the president and Chaban-Delmas noted that Pompidou had asked the premier to leave the post he had held for a little more than three years MESSMER 56 who had been De defense minister has a long record as a soldier and administrator of overseas possessions He fought in the French-Indochina war and was taken prisoner by the Viet Minh The dismissal of Chaban-Delmas came quickly on the heels of his return with Pompidou from a summit conference in West Germany Although there was no announcement as to the reasons for the firing there was no sign that the dismissal had anything to do with the meetings in Germany which involved monetary policy the Common Market and relations with the United States The reported resignation of West top financial official had led to some question as to whether 'yrTth 'fi tft 4 1' Military Air Traffic To Avoid Head-Tax FRIENDLY CONSOLATION comes from victorious Evonne Goolagong right after Christine Evert 17 of Fort Lauderdale lost a semi-final match in the singles at Wimbledon to the Australian despite a brilliant start in the first set (See story Page 2B) Fischer: Spassky: Forfeit Game WASHINGTON (AP) A Pentagon order directing military air traffic to avoid airports imposing passenger taxes threatened Wednesday to divert thousands of air travelers particularly from Philadelphia International Airport The instructions from the Army-administered Military Traffic Management Termi- Guns for Vigilantes KUCHING Malaysia (AP) More than 1800 members of the vigilante corps central Third Division area have been issued shotguns to fight Communist guerrillas a security forces spokesman reported Chuckle one thing to be said for children they never pull out pictures of their grandparents Fred Cramer of the Chess Federation -said "I cannot see Fischer But Fischer did The apology was read by the Rev William Lomhardyv a New York priest who is one of the 10 American chess grandmasters and is acting as second are sorry that the world championships were it said "The problems causing the delays were not with world champion Spassky who I respect as a player and a man "If grandmaster Spassky or the Soviet people were inconvenienced or discomforted I am indeed unhappy for I had not the slightest intention of this the -statement said REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) Bobby Fischer surprised even his own advisers by formally apologizing to Russian Boris Spassky Wednesday for delaying their world-championship chess match But the match was threatened anew by a demand from the Soviet Chess Federation that Fischer forfeit the first of the 24 games Spassky called a news conference however raising hopes that unexpected and uncharacteristic apology might have mollified the Russians and convinced them to soften their demand "If the Russians insist on their penalty I believe the whole mach is Dr Max Euwe president of the International Chess Federation said Euwe said the Russians made their demand in a cable citing Paragraph 5 of the so-called Amsterdam Agreement for the match in which both sides agreed that a player still missing after one hour of game time has expired forfeits the game and Point to his opponent Russians did not object Sunday when I postponed the game and now I cannot make such a Euwe said He had delayed the start of the match until Tuesday when Fischer holding out for more money failed to appear for the scneduled Sunday opening Fischer 29 finally arrived early Tuesday after a chess-playing English financier doubled the prize to $250000 With Fischer still resting up for the opening match Tuesday afternoon Spassky 35 arrived at a meeting called to draw lots for the right to make the first play threw down a statement saying that Fischer "must bear just for his behavior and walked out The match was delayed a second time until today associates talked for 2'i hours to associates without reaching an agreement and the Russians refused to meet again Wednesday the Americans said When chess sources reported Spassky had demoded an apology from Fischer.

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