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The Miami Heraldi
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ii ii g) r' 2-A THE MIAMI HERALD Wed July 5 1972 Claims of Bias Are denied US Still Sends Few Blacks to Iceland i'i-i PJEIUS SUMMARY been progressively modified and the government which includes two Communist Cabinet members told Rogers the base dispute was no longer a Issue Officials close to Zumwalt insisted race was not involved in the base discussions American officials consider the Ireland bases to be of increasing importance as the Soviet Navy stations more nuclear submarines in the Atlantic US planes based on Iceland keep a constant watch over the exits from the Norwegian Sea through which Soviet ships must pass to reach the Atlantic being assigned there But during 1961 it agreed to accept a token number A 1969 memo signed by Navy Capt Stafford said subject of assignment of Negro personnel only exacerbates problems associated with the agreement in Iceland" In April Secretary of State William Rogers and Adm Elmo Zumwalt Jr the chief of naval operations visited Ireland Whose newly elected government last year threatened to order the United States off the island THAT determination has of our policy and shall be ended In a press conference that day Laird let drop one reason why he thought the number of blacks on Iceland might not increase He said don't believe there have been many requests for assignments to Iceland by black He added that w'hen it came to assignments going to give requests the first priority not going to assign on a quota basis because just the reverse sort of BLACKS are obviously not welcomed on the island so barely 1 per cent of the US forces on the island THE SECRET agreement with Iceland dating back at least to the 1950s was disclosed in documents released by the Congressional Black Caucus Nov 16 The following day at the Pentagon Laird issued a formal statement saying such orders were rescinded His statement said am directing all Department of Defense components that any practices which result in denying equal opportunity or limiting equal opportunity In assignment are in violation there in no reason to believe they would be lining up to volunteer for assignment there However with its climatic reputation as an iceberg whites exactly volunteering in droves either one official said Therefore normal rotational assignments should result In a force on Iceland that is about 8 per cent black because 8 per cent of the Navy and Air Force are black The documents revealed by the Black Caucus composed of all 13 Negro House members showed that until 1961 the government of Iceland had objected to any Negroes THE WORL II THE SOUTHEASTERN city limits of Quang Tri were penetrated by South Vietnamese paratroopers who killed an estimated 20 North Vietnamese defenders and recaptured artillery pieces lost to the enemy two months ago Page 1A THAT ON-AGAIN OFF-AGAIN championship chess match is off again This time the Russian title-holder walked out of a meeting to draw for the white pieces and thus the first move with a blast at Bobby Fischer There is a chance the match will start Thursday Page 1 A LN A MOVE TOWARD RECONCILIATION North and South Korea established a hot line their capitals The telephone link between Seoul in the south and Pyongang was the result of recent high-level secret talks Page 10 A PROTESTS TO THE SOVIET government were planned by Western scientists after the disappearance of outspoken Russian biologist Zhores Medvedev who apparently was forbidden to appear at an international gerontology conference in Kiev Page 23A Indignant Spassky Makes Protest Delays Chess Play THE NATION THE WORLD WAS LNVTTED by President Nixon to attend the United 200th birthday celebration in 1976 Nixon speaking over nationwide radio from San Clemente Calif said in his Independence Day address that perhaps 28 million foreigners would accept the invitation Page 1 A THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE faced with a growing list of minority reports said it would schedule a special convention session for next Tuesday The session and maybe another one on Wednesday will be for discussions on the platform Page 1A NO INCREASE IN THE NUMBER of black US servicemen assigned to Iceland has come about since Defense Secretary Melvin Laird denounced secret agreements to limit the number eight months ago Page 2A THE LEADER OF THE largest public union endorsed Sen George McGovern for the Democratic presidential nomination Page 16A A Court of Appeals panel of three judges deliberated the fate of 151 delegates from California that were taken away from McGovern and 59 delegates stripped from Chicago Mayor Richard Daley The panel will rule today Fage 18 A THE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN AMERICA said it is reaSy to admit ex-convicts to its corps of clergy and urged an end to imprisonment of most law violaters Page 26A Ufa ffiftrf 1 some harsh words for him as well a bad the 71-year-old Dutchman said with a smile Spassky read his statement from what looked like an official document in Russian It created the impression that he was acting on orders A dispatch by Tass the official Soviet news agency said Spassky had demanded that the International Chess Federation known as FIDE take some punishing measures against Fischer on the grounds that he had violated the rules for the match It did not specify what sort of measures should be taken Asked about the Tass report Euwe said no formal request for punishing measures had been received Besides he said should I do? Put him in the DURING TIIE DAYS of dispute and bad temper that preceded Fischer's arrival Spassky had been the picture of courtesy and understanding When approached by newsmen he had no bad words for Fischer a man he respects as a chess player AH he would say was that came to There was another indication that moves were being plotted in Moscow After an attempt to come to terms with people at a private meeting Tuesday afternoon Spassky and his second Yefim Geller drove grimly to the Soviet Embassy presumably for consultations Asked what opinion of the new dispute was Euwe told newsmen Fischer is asleep and is not aware of He was in a new two-story villa on the edge of town sound asleep in the back bedroom Fred Cramer a US Chess Federation official said want to upset metabolism by waking him IN NEW YORK meanwhile Col Edmondson director of the US Chess Federation said if Fischer or Spassky fails to show up for match the title should go to the other by default He said that if neither showed up title should Undaunted Press International Telephoto three skin-graft operations after he tried to talk a group of speeders into slowing down As he was talking at the side of the car guy in the rear grabbed my right arm and said (hit the gas) Away up the street they went at 50 miles an hour Lapp who was not wearing shoes was dragged a full two blocks WASHINGTON (UPI) Although it has been eight months since Defense Secretary Melvin Laird denounced secret agreements with Iceland that limited the number of black servicemen assigned to the island there has been no increase in the miniscule number of Negroes sent there Last November when the secret agreement surfaced defense officials said there were blacks among the 3000 sailors and airmen in Iceland Now defense officials say there are only 42 blacks there or EAL Pilot Killed In Crash 3 he never would have touched said Eastern Airlines spokesman Jim Ashlock was a totally experienced Ashlock said has an exemplary record and was very very well He had flown for Eastern since 1939 when he began flying a DC2 the predecessor of aging DC3s Later he was assigned to the jumbo Boeing 747 IIE HAD made the trip to Washington while awaiting reassignment by Eastern after completing a stint flying the Lockheed 1011 the tri-engine Whisperjets The trip from Washington would have taken half a day on that plane But Morrison wanted the kind of plane that he made his first solo flight in when he was 19 years old He always wanted that ancient said Ashlock all in the flying business we just gpt attached to things like he said IT WAS going to be a welcome for Ashlock said the kind of welcoming parties he always attended for pilots making their last trips a tradition among pilots "Whenever a retiring captain came in on his last flight JD was always on the he said The Curtiss-Wright Pusher wreckage was spotted by another small-plane pilot who notified the Missouri Highway Patrol Federal Aviation Authority spokesman aid the cause of the crash was being investigated Funeral arrangements being handled by the Joseph Cofer Funeral Homes of Miami Shores have not been completed Survivors include his wife Lil Kirk Morrison a daughter Martha Morrison Wallace two sons Junius Davis (David) Morrison Jr and Robert Morrison all of Miami and his mother Mrs Graham Morrison of Charlotte NC Also surviving are two brothers John of Miami and Joseph of Wallace NC and two sisters Mrs Laymon Whiddon- of North Miami and Margaret Gillette of Charlotte Tide Tables in Sports Sec MIAMI AND VICINITY Generally fair high near 90 Low tonight 75-80 Winds east 10-20 miles per hour Shower probability 30 per cent SMALL BOATS EVpckmI Atlantic coastal waters from Cap Kennedy through the Florida Straits easterly winds 10-15 knots seas two feet Exposed Gulf coastal waters from Cedar Key to Florida Bay variable winds 10-15 knots seas two feet Winds and seas hiaher near thundershowers Inland waters from Lake Worth through FMsravne and Florida bavs winds easterly 10-15 knots waters locally cnooov in Florida Bay light chop elsewhere FLORIDA Partly cloudy widely scat-tered afternoon thundershowers mainly over west and north portions Winds gusty near thundershowers Highs 09 96 lows 70 85 FLORIDA EXTENDED OUTLOOK: Thursday through Saturday: Partly cloudy with widely scattered thundershowers A little cooler in the extreme North portion with highs in the under 8us to around 90 and lows In the urper Ahs Flsewhere highs 66 to 94 and tows the 70s Statistics July 41972 Barometer Relative humidity 7 7 00 pm 30 14 39 12 72 Highest lemoerat urt (past 12 hours) Lowest temperature (past 18 hours) Mean temperature Normal tr nrcrt ire fxc'-'s sine first of mAnth ugr er) Arrurnuii(j excers net Since Jan 1 (dearres) Hignmt and lowest this cute nrp 1919 5 and 48 Local ramfa I lor 34 hours ending at 7 In inrhej Rainfall this month 0 Opfirirncy this month 1 hi Rainfall s-nre Jan 34 40 Excess since Jan 9 72 Howard Lapp 38 looks past his bandaged feet and vows that he will continue to try to stop speeders to save the children in his neighborhood Lapp is in the Skokie Valley (111) Hospital and has undergone Weather Outlook Is Mostly Sunny And a Slight Possibility of Rain be declared vacant and they should start all He said he was expressing his opinion as a member of the five-man advisory board of FIDE has gone far Edmondson said cannot go on with this kind of Juan Corona To Be Moved For Heart SACRAMENTO Calif --(AP) Juan Corona accused of hacking 25 transient farm workers to death will be transferred from the Sutter County Jail to Vacaville State Prison sometime this week because his physical condition requires treatment a spokesman said Tuesday trial is scheduled for Sept 5 He has been in Sutter custody since his arrest May 26 1971 Since his arrest Corona has been hospitalized twice with a heart condition and needs the continuing medical attention available at hospital facilities Sheriffs SgL Thomas Loney said Last week Superior Court Judge Richard Patton of Sutter County ruled that Solano County where the state prison is situated about 15 miles southwest of Sacramento will be the site of murder trial El Hral4 The Herald it published every morning by The AAiemi Herald Pub-Inhma Co One Herald Plaza Mlam Florida 13101 Second clan pottage peid it Miami Florida SUftSCftiPTIONt Herald Carrier Oeiivery Daily Sunday 4 Only only Sunday Weekly to to Months 7 3 90 It 70 Month IS 60 7 10 33 40 Nearly 3120 isao 46 Delivery service payable by mail Send check or money order foPBM Circulation Department The Miami Herald One Herald Ptaia Miami Florida 33101 Mail Delivery Thl schedule Hilt mail delivary ratas to postal tone 4 which includes New York City Chicago and oihtr cities 1 000-t 400 miles Irom Miami Write or can The Herald tor mail delivary rates to other areas Daily Sunday Dally 4 Only Only Sunday 4 Weeks tSIO 10 fttt 3 Mantha tf 75 I 75 37 SO 4 Month 37 SO 17 SO 55 00 Yearly 75 00 15 00 1 10 00 Mail subscriptions are payable in advance Send check or money order to Mail Subscriptions Circulation Department Tha Miami Herald On Herald Plata Miami Florida 33101 Tf LCPHOMES Mama Dad very 37M31I Numbers ot Herald Circulation offices in most Florida cities are listed in the white pages ot the telephone directory Classified Want Ads 354-ntt From Florida titits outside Dada County 1 toil-tree -000-432 0541 All Other Departments SSt-Ittt Atlantic coast The West will be warmer and other temperature changes will be minor The Midwest and Northeast will be cool I Free 77 44 55 57 82 44 41 70 44 81 48 43 54 57 79 70 77 57 41 44 48 82 64 61 57 Miami Beacfi Casablanca Dublin Geneva Hone Kong Lisbon London Madrid Malta Manila Moscow Now Delhi Nice Oslo Paris Peking Rome Saigon Sofia Stockholm Sydney Tel Aviv Tokyo Turns Vienne Warsaw PAN AMERICAN Acapulco Barbados Bermuda Bogota Cnhacan ivana HfrmosiHo Los A ochts Marat an Mexico City Monterrey Nassau San Juan St Croix Vl St KiMt Vara Crut ft 88 88 100 0 7f 1 ff 8 84 17 88 tion generally is good Most water-storage levels are normal or above in the Central and Southern Florida Flood Control District the FCD said Tuesday These include the three Everglades Hungry Burglar SPOKANE Wash (UPI) A hungry burglar dropped into the Castle Restaurant through the ceiling and landed on a table Police said he held a startled janitor at bay and prepared a ham sandwich before leaving via the door conservation areas and Lake Okeechobee Far from worrying about building up the level as in drought times the FCD said running water is being run out of the big southeast Florida drinking-water reservoir to keep it at the desired 14 feet above sea level Conservation Areas 1 2 and 3 were undergoing some regulatory drainage Summer rains were expected to improve a two-foot deficit in the water level in the southern portion of the upper St Johns River said the FCD Duluth (40 degrees) and Minneapolis (43) Lansing Mich also was at 40 degrees record low was 49 degrees and Chicago charted 50 The nation North Celebrates a Frosty Fourth record lows Casper Wyo recorded 30 degrees the lowest July reading in that history Record lows in Minnesota were recorded at al forecast weather will be sunny over most of the nation but scattered thundershowers are likely from the southern half of the Rockies to the middle FLORIDA PERSPIRING CITY OFFICIALS and one city resident in Riviera Beach took part in the Independence Day Watermelon Eating Contest When the munching and seed-spitting was over the winner got a prize he might not have chosen himself Page 12E CARES FOR YOUR constitutional says Harry Fries of policemen He says it in song and a policeman himself He wrote and recorded the pro-policeman song to help create a good police image Page 12E A CLEARWATER YOUTH WAS KILLED during a scuffle between campers and police at a campground in North Carolina Some spectators have a different version of what happened than the official statement released by the sheriff Page 12E GREATER MIAMI COSTLIER FINANCING of a badly needed Jackson Memorial Hospital parking garage is being considered by Metro a critic charged Marvin Rauz-in said revenue bond financing would cost the taxpayers $15 million more than general obligation bond financing Page 1C THE OVERNIGHT HOST OF 35 LONG-HAIRED convention non-delegates Rabbi Mayer Abramow-itz said urge Miami Beach councilmen today to make camping space available for them He said his temple was cleaner than when they came and take them into my own Page 1C THE CRIME COMMITTEE that US Rep Claude Pepper heads will open Dade hearings today on area drug problems Page 2C SPORTS FANS WILL FLOCK TO WIMBLEDON in England today to witness the tennis match they have been talking about since the hallowed Wimbledon tournament opened Fort Lauderdale teenager Chris Evert vs Evonne Goolagong Page 1G DAVID PEARSON GUNNED his Mercury to victory in the Daytona Firecracker 400 as he won a tight three-way duel with Richard Petty and Bobby Allison Petty trailed Pearson by less than a car length and Allison was right on heels at the checkered flag Page 1G LIVING TODAY AN ANTI-SMOKING EXPERT BLAMES the liberation movement for encouraging cigaret smoking among women He says women are winning the to get the two major diseases of men lung cancer and heart disease Page IE YOUNG LIBERAL AND LONG-HAIRED a of letter carriers afraid to speak up to Uncle Sam about its gripes with post office careers Page IE Greater hot sunshine is likely to prevail through Thursday the National Weather Service said Tuesday Only a 30 per cent chance of showers was predicted for today with temperatures rising to about 90 degrees near shore and higher inland Winds were forecast at 10-15 miles an hour from the east and southeast No signs of a tropical storm were detected by the National Hurricane Service Rain was scanty in the state but the agency that husbands much of water reserves said the situa The A large portion of the northern United States was engulfed by a large northern air mass that forced temperatures down in some areas to Sunri-e Today 6:3 am Sun-cl Today 8:16 pm FORECAST P'Hn WEATHER MAP FOR WED AM JULY 5 protasis By Nottawct Srvr NOAA Ppqrttwerrt jf Local National World Temperatures GREATER MIAMI Dree 80 Miami Airport MoonrNo Tliurn 2:16 arn jf Moonset Thurs ptn July July 3 Auv July la.

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