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2-A THE MIAMI HERALD Fri July 14 1972 Copters Get Anti-Hitchhiker Gas 3 Men Hurl In Hijacking Of NAL Jet been used by helicopter crew It said the problem of refugees and soldiers trying to scramble aboard US helicopters had diminished sharply with a general improvement in the battlefield situation ONE OF THE helicopters that crashed was piloted by the late John Paul Vann senior US adviser in the Cen- SAIGON (AP) Some American helicopters In Vietnam now are carrying tear gas canisters- to prevent panic-stricken soldiers or civilian refugees from dragging them down in efforts to scramble aboard Military officials disclosing this Thursday said the spray-type canisters of CS tear gas were authorized because of several incidents tral Highlands who was trying to rescue American field advisers during the abandonment of the South Vietnamese base camp at Tan Canh Vann was later killed in another helicopter crash The other helicopter was lost at Fire Base Bastogne southwest of Hue An Army spokesman said he did not know how many helicopters had been supplied during the current enemy offensive IN AT LEAST two cases helicopters crashed after being overturned or overloaded by desperate civilians and soldiers trying to climb aboard or grab the skids Several helicopters narrowly missed crashing for the same reason guard against this very hazardous situat'on selected helicopter crews engaged in evacuat'on operations were issued aerosol CS an Army statement said "The safety of lives and the safe operation of the aircraft were the main consideration in the decision" The statement in response to inquiries said that no instance to date has the gas with the gas but the initial issue in late May or early June was 100 canisters distributed to combat aviation units in all part of South Vietnam CS gas is a riot-control agent that has been used commonly in Vietnam for years It is described as nontoxic but it causes temporary irritation of the skin eyes and mucous membranes Viet Marines Claim 118 Enemy Killed in Clashes 401 vs IV Vfl Republican Army is deeply entrenched He was the fourth soldier to die in nearly 200 shooting incidents which also have killed six civilians The violence surrounding mass parades Wednesday by Protestants celebrating a 1690 military victory over Roman Catholics made it one of the bloodiest days in the three years of strife Waiting for Rescue Three youths stranded amid the rubble of destroyed houses wave to a hovering helicopter as they await rescue from flood-torn Hokizawa In western Japan The village was nearly washed away by the devastating waters of the Nakagawa River which is seen in the background to give themselves up They asked to be allowed to give up only to the FBI and with a guarantee for their Jordan said the steward-esses were in danger throughout the ordeal He said at one point a stewardess was allowed to talk from a doorway but one of the hijackers held a gun at her head He said the stewardesses were exhausted THE JET LANDED at the Lake Jackson Airport south of Houston at 9:10 am and blew four tires on touching down Two crewmen jumped out the cabin windows and the hijackers were stranded in the plane with their hostages They demanded that a pilot dressed in a swimsuit fly them away in a small plane and agreed in turn to leave behind $600000 in ransom money they had extorted from the airline FBI agents with high-powered rifles guarded the plane at the airport 1450 miles from New York City One stewardess was allowed to leave the disabled Boeing 727 to present the demands to authorities They said they wanted a pilot dressed only in a bathing suit so he could not carry concealed weapons and a light plane they obviously hoped would fly them across the border to Mexico THE HIJACKING started Wednesday night as a National Airlines 727 Flight 496 from Miami made its final planned approach to New John Kennedy International Airport The two men forced the plane to Philadelphia International Airport where the passengers were released hours later in exchange for another 727 the ransom and three parachutes The pilot was credited with forcing the hijackers to free the passengers by smashing the cockpit window on the first jet He was slightly injured when he jumped through the window to make good his escape The hijackers left the passengers in the first jet and transferred to the second plane he saved life because if we had taken off we would not have gotten said passenger Allen Sommers 22 of Claymont Del SHORTLY before dawn 10 hours after the hijacking began the men flew to Texas with six crew members as hostages The copilot flew the second 727 on its erratic course from Pennsylvania to the Texas coast The copilot Norman Reagan 34 of Miami suffered broken bones and when he jumped from the plane and the flight engineer Gerald Lee Beaver 37 of Houston was wounded the thigh Beaver was shot just before the plane landed As the plane hit the ground four tires blew out and it skidded to a stop at the end of the slick runway At that moment Reagan and Beaver dived out the windows Beaver hit the ground limped off the field jumped a fence and fled into the woods But pelvis was fractured and his wrist was broken and he collapsed beneath the plane He was later carried away on a stretcher 4th Soldier Dies in Ulster Violence British Deny Dealing With Terrorists Buildup 11 A SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese marines battled North Vietnamese troops Thursday in a third day of heavy fighting north and northeast of the city of Quang Tri field reports said Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported that the marines claimed they killed 118 enemy and knocked out five tanks Marine casualties were said to be six killed and 27 wounded Government paratroopers on the southern and eastern outskirts of the city claimed they killed 13 North Vietnamese One government soldier was reported killed and four wounded Military sources said the 20000-man government drive into Quang Tri province has made some progress but conceded the enemy remains in control of the city are that the North Vietnamese are going to defend Quang Tri right down to the one source said who controls the Citadel controls the 1 city and the North Vietnamese still control the Citadel" He was referring to a 19th century walled fortress in the heart of Quang Tri that served as a government military headquarters until the city fell last May 1 It has been heavily fortified by the North Vietnamese with captured howitzers and antiaircraft artillery Field reports said an American jet accidentally bombed government lines south of the city and US air strikes were temporarily suspended to coordinate the scores of planes striking the area THE US Command confirmed that one soldier was killed and one wounded in the incident but a spokesman said he confirm the report of a suspension of the bombing The command in a second revision of its report on a Marine combat assault north of Quang Tri Tuesday acknowledged that two Marines were missing and 10 were wounded when their helicopters put South Vietnamese marines on the ground under heavy enemy fire North Vietnamese gunners fired about 50 artillery shells into the old imperial capital of Hue 32 miles southwest of Quang Tri First casualty reports indicated at least two civilians were killed and seven wounded DESPITE the shelling military authorities said they believe the enemy threat to Hue has lessened in the past week In the air war American warplanes pounded North Vietnam Wednesday leaving -Jfe v- -swxr Press Wirephoto drums for their biggest day of the year Then gunmen burst into the Belfast home of a Catholic widow and killed her teenage son reported to have had a mental age of five as he slept in bed was completely without said a detective the hell are we RUMORS OF clandestine meetings between the British and leaders of the Irish Republican Army have been rife since the IRA chief in Belfast Seamus Twomey called for a new truce Wednesday Twomey said his forces might consider renewing the ceasefire they ended Sunday after 13 days if British troops would stick to truce terms barring them from arresting IRA men British government spokesmen here and in London said that there was no truth to reports of new secret contacts with the terrorists Conservative government has been criticized for sending representatives to meet secretly with IRA leaders last week But William Whitelaw administrator for the province defended the meeting as a chance for peace that had to be tried Showers Florida and New England Elsewhere sunny skies and warm or hot weather prevailed The national forecast: Partly cloudy JULY 14 of Cnmmrr revolver were recovered plong with $600000 ransom paid by the airlines Wednesday night in Philadelphia They then were driven to Houston 50 miles away for arraignment on air piracy and other charges really talked them out of the said Thomas Jordan special FBI agent in charge at Houston made them realize they were in an untenable position White told them the people who were injured were not injured seriously and the only thing to do was I s- WM Melvin Martin Filter under arrest Father of 5 Gives Up Hijack Try OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) A gray-haired father of five children handed an empty revolver to a stewardess early Thursday aboard a jetliner ending a half-mil-lion-dollar hijacking attempt The hijacker identified as Melvin Fisher 49 clad in a pink shirt and swigging from a bottle of white liquid gave up in the skies over Oklahoma seven hours after he commandeered American Airlines Flight 633 from New York to Los Angeles Fisher from Norman Okla seized the plane near Dallas and threatened the crew with a 38-caliber revolver He also said a bomb was planted aboard the plane The gun had no bullets it was discovered later No bonb was found was really said passenger Mrs Ray Newman of Oklahoma City was a hell of a way to spend an said another passenger Frank Furrie an Air Force colonel from Fort Worth Tex LIGHTNING storms at Dallas thwarted demands for a second plane $550000 and parachutes The jetliner was forced to return to Oklahoma City where airline officials negotiated for the release of the other 50 passengers They were set free after $200000 was brought aboard in a mail pouch The plane took off again but Fisher soon surrendered Fisher was charged with air piracy and held on $100-000 bond He already faces trial next month in Dallas in connection with a $100000 fraud case FBI agents said they did not know why the hijacker gave up after he had successfully extorted the money An agent said the three-man cockpit crew and a stewardess had been talking with Fisher about surrendering He suddenly and quite meekly hahded the gun to the woman OKLAHOMA authorities said Fisher was once charged in the 1940s with bootlegging during the prohibition era He was also sentenced to 10 days in jail in 1959 for contributing to the delinquency of a minor and charged in 1961 with failure to provide for his children and in 1967 with distuibing the peace He faces trial in August on theft indictments in Dallas where he is charged with ob- taining $100000 by establishing a phony corooration and seeking fees for helping obtain loans while using the name of a defunct mortgage firrr Forfeits No 2 fuel depots pipelines and warehouses in flames The US Command reported that more than 340 strikes were flown against the North some of them within a mile of the port city of Haiphong US Reds Clinging to Old Stands Solution to the Vietnam THE COMMUNIST plan calls on the United States to set a date for total troop withdrawal the immediate resignation of Thieu establishment of a coalition government and release of prisoners Thuy and Mme Binh appeared to be exerting pressure on the United States to come up with some fresh proposals They said they would be prepared to examine any constructive from the United States The 1505th session of the talks appeared to be mainly a holding action pending the possibility of a new round of secret talks between Tho and Kissinger Tho is due in Paris within a few days The North Vietnamese insist that the semipublic plenary sessions are a requirement for any secret talks Thus the stage was set for new private discussions which the United States has always preferred because it feels they offer a better ground for fruitful exchanges without propaganda Roller Coaster Car Fall Fatal SANTA CRUZ CALIF (UPI) A teenage boy was killed when he fell out of a roller coaster car onto the tracks below and then was hit by the car on its return trip Police said a patrolman and a doctor rushed to the roller second level to try to remove the unidentified 13-year-old boy who they said seemed to be still alive But the car came whizzing down the tracks struck the teenager and threw him onto the roof of a lower-level building He was dead when the policeman and doctor reached him New Mexico to western New England and Florida The West Coast will experience cooler weather Free BA 1 Miami Beach Birmingham Brussels Cairo Casablanca Copenhagen Dublin Geneva Hong Kont Lisbon London Madrid Malta Manila Moscow New Delhi Nice Oslo Pans Peking Rome Sa gon So' a Stockholm Sydney Tri Aviy Tokyo Turns Vienna 44 44 89 79 44 61 64 81 86 70 81 73 II 19 81 73 73 64 88 73 79 82 77 52 It 77 79 55 61 PAN AMERICAN ELEVEN British soldiers were wounded in sniper attacks that continued until dawn Thursday At least 427 persons have lost their lives in the lengthy sectarian fighting The first person to die Wednesday was a Protestant 16-year-old gunned down as he through a park in the town of Portadown while the Protestants were preparing banners flutes and nalling that the American challenger had one hour to show up and make his first move When the hour was up Schmid examined the clock walked to the front of the stage and said: and gentlemen Mr Fischer did not appear in the playing hall According to rule No 5 if a player is more than one hour late he loses the game by In late editions of Herald the 15th move by Spassky (white) in the coding of the game was incorrect Instead of KR-QB1 the move should read: QR-BI Coast Gets nants of a tropical depression occurred along the Atlantic Coast Scattered thundershowers were also reported from Illinois to Thunderstorms BELFAST Northern Ireland (AP) A British soldier was killed by a sniper in Belfast Thursday as Britain denied making secret moves to restore the broken ceasefire despite a 24-hour bloodbath which left 10 dead in the province A single shot hit the trooper in the chest as he stepped from a military observation post in the Ardoyne district of the city where the Irish Fischer Fox Inc the firm that bought exclusive television and picture rights to the match took part in the negotiations They offered to compromise with demands by removing one of their closed-circuit television cam-e a and relocating the others so they would not disturb the challenger THE PROPOSED compromise was not enough can talk to Fischer when he is winning but not when he has said one US chess source Tide Tables in Sports Sec MIAMI AND VICINITY: Partly cloudy a few afternoon showers High in the upper 80s Low in the mid 70s Mostly southeast winds 10 to 15 mph Shower probability 30 per cent FLORIDA: Partly cloudy through Saturday with a few afternoon and evening thundershowers High in the upper 80s to low 90s Low in the mid to upper 70s LAKE OKEECHOBEE AND NAPLES AREAS: Partly cloudy tbrouoh Satur clay with a chance of afternoon show ers Hrqh in the uoper 80s Low in the mid 70s Variable winds 10 to IS mph Rain probability 40 per cent MIDDLE WEST COAST AND BREVARD AREAS Partly cloudy throjoh Satjr day with a chance of mainly after noon showers High in the uoper 8O5 Low in the mid 70s Vanab'e wmcH 1C to IS mph Ram probability 30 per cent BROWPRD AND KEYS AREAS: PrtW cIculY throeg 1 SulmCoy wit a of showers High tn the upper Low md 70s Ea tc southeat winds 10 to 15 mph Ran probabi ity 30 per cent FLORIDA: Partly cloudy wfdelv rat tered afternoon and evening showers High in the upper 80s to low 90s Low in the mid to upper 70s FLORIDA EXTENDED OUTLOOK: Sat urday through Monday! Partly cloudy widely scattered showers High tem perature rang 86 to 95 Low temperature range 70 to 80 and warm humid weather will dominate much of the country However scattered showers are anticipated from Wyoming and Spassky 35 arrived about two minutes before the scheduled start of the second game He and Schmid walked slowly around the stage waiting for the challenger The audience sat silently in the hall watched the empty black swivel chair that Fischer had flown in from New York for the match Spassky went backstage at one point then returned and studied the flower arrangements and other decorations The Russian appeared calm and relaxed Schmid then started the game clock on schedule at 5 pm (1 pmMiami time) sig East Showers and thunderstorms continued over much of the eastern half of the nation Some flooding caused by the rem Sunrise Today 6:33 am Sunset Today 8:15 pm FORECAST Mep Polo awl WEATHER MAP FOR FRI AM fanroili By Halwiwl Walhtr Srvt NO A Drwtmnt Local National World Temperatures GREATER MIAMI Prec 7 74 Miami Airport FLORIDA Arab Gels Life In Grenade Case TEL AVIV (AP) A military court sentenced a 19-year-old Arab from Hebron to life imprisonment Thursday for throwing a hand grenade into a crowded Hebron market in November 1970 Nineteen persons were wounded I The defendant Jabrin Mahmoud Arjub denied the charges £1)' fHumi Htralb The Miami Herald is published every momma by The Miami Herald Publishing Co A Division of Knight Newspapers Inc One Herald Plaa Miami Florida 33101 Second class postage paid at Miami Florida SUOSCBIPTIONS MriK Carrier Othvery Daily Only I 10 710 15 40 II 20 Delivery service payable by mal Send enact or money order ioPSM Circulation Deoartmnt Tne Miami Horaid One Mera'tf Plata Miami Florida 13101 Man Delivery Th schedule hits met delivery res postal tone 4 wft ch mc-udei New City Chicago and other cities I 000 1 400 miles from emi Write or can Tne Hereid tor matt delivery rates to o'her areas Deity On if I 37 59 75 09 Matt Subscriptions ere payable vance Send check or monrv order to Moil Subscript on C'rcu at on Depart ment Tn Miami Herald One Heraitf Piaia Miami Florida 33101 TfwevHONs Memo Delivery 1704111 Numbers of Herald Circulation otticrs in most Florida cities ere listed in the bile pages the teiepheneoirectery Classified Meat Ado w-mt From Florid cdes outside Oedd County dai toll-free 1-900-4J2 05 All Otner Departments UMtlt lunacy Only I 30 J0 I0 Daily A Sunday I 0 II 70 79 40 410 Aoalachicoia Daytona Bch Ft Laud Ft Myers Gainesville Homestead Islamorada Jacksonville Key West Lakeland Ocala Orlando Pensacola St Pete Tallahassee Tampa Vnro Beach Bch 89 75 93 70 70 75 70 89 81 94 74 95 71 94 77 91 70 88 78 93 67 92 75 93 76 90 74 SOUTH Asheville A mta Birmingham Charlotte J'son Rock Ne Orleans Pa einh Richmond £AS1 Albany 91 Per muni 83 Boston 94 Buffalo 81 New Yerlr 90 Philadelphia 86 Pittsburgh 84 Washington 79 FOREIGN Pes of the Moon Moonrise Today 10:22 am fj fj Moonset Today 10:55 pm 48 77 71 71 71 7f 63 72 Aberdeen Amsterdam Ankara Athens Auckland Berlin 46 206 194 July 11 July Aui 2 Aui 4.