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The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 186

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The Miami Heraldi
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'mm AlHL MIAMI HERALD Fri July 14 19J wl 9 PBX aiK III i 3 Men Hurt In Hijacking Of NAL Jet ww-v -5 9 and then issues can be discussed by the Vietnamese among am sure I hope we will be discussing this matter more" he added The talks Thursday featured the familiar polemics that have marked the conference during its 3 Va years THERE WAS no evidence to support a July 8 statement by Kissinger President foreign affairs adviser that he had some reason to believe Hanoi would take a when the talks resumed just logical and reasonable solution to the Vietnam prob- 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 5 hey said they would be prepared to examine any constructive I PARIS (AP) The Vietnam peace conference reopened Thursday after a 10-week break with both the Communists and Allies clinging to old positions But the US delegation spokesman said the negotiators agreed to hold a new meeting next Thursday This reinforced speculation that a new round of secret and possibly more fruitful talks may be pending Politburo member Le Due Tho of North Vietnam who held secret meetings in the past with Henry A Kissinger left Peking Thursday en route to Paris Viets Claim 118 Foe Slain At Quang Tri NORTH Vietnamese Ambassador Xuan Thuy laid new stress on a linkup of military and political solutions to the war slightly rephrasing the old Communist demands without fundamentally changing them He insisted that the United States end support for the South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu to permit establishment of a coalition government to be followed by a ceasefire The US delegate William Porter reiterated the Allied position that a ceasefire should be put into effect first eizes an IRA diversionary tactic he said Heavy shooting also was reported in other areas of the city THE PENETRATION of Anderonstown was the first major military operation of its kind carried out since Britain imposed direct rule on Northern Ireland more than three months ago Military headquarters said the invasion of Andersons-town a long-time IRA bastion was carried out on express orders from William Whitelaw the British administrator of the province A statement explaining the invasion cited four days and nights of IRA attacks on the 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 least two civilians were killed and seven wounded DESPITE the shelling military authorities said they lieve the enemy threat to Hue has lessened in the past week Meanwhile it was disclosed that some American helicopters in Vietnam now are carrying tear gas canisters to prevent pani-stricken sol- diers 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 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 grao the skids Several helicopters narrowly missed crashing for the same reason guard against this very hazardous situation selected helicopter crews engaged in evacuation operations were issued aerosol CS an Army statement said safety of lives and the safe operation of the aircraft were the main consideration in the 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 Sb Hiralb The Miami Herald is published every morning by The Miami Herald Publishing Co A Division of Knight Newspapers Inc One Herald Plaza Miami Florida 33101 Second class postage paid at Miami Florida SUBSCRIPTIONS Herald Carrier Othvary tiirhArfriiiitiiiri'Ariiisyfiitr-ijiTffiiii frorq New York City One stewardess was allowed to leave the disabled Boeing 727 to present the hijackers' 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 obvious'y 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 Capt Elliott Adams 52 of Miami 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 ieft the passengers 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 mem- bers 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 a fractured pelvis 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 tnes 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 ground1 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 Both men were reported in fair to good condition 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 Zone If there was a relatively new approach it came in the unusually mild tones of a speech by the frequently tough-talking Porter who invited the attention of the Communist delegates to May 8 proposals for an Indochina ceasefire return of all American prisoners and complete withdrawal from Vietnam within four months of an agreement on the package Xuan Thuy and the Viet Mme Nguyen Thi Binh scorned plan and reiterated that the peace plan constitutes basis for a correct Press Wirephoto post in the Ardoyne district another IRA stronghold in Belfast 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 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 one point then returned and studied the flower arrangements and other decorations The Russian appeared calm and relaxed Schmid then started the game clock bn schedule at 5 pm (1 pm Miami time) signalling 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 hail According to rule No 5 if a player is more than one hour late he loses the game by Shoivers Florida and New England Elsewhere sunny skies and warm or hot weather prevailed The national forecast: Partly cloudy JULY 14 Army BELFAST Northern Ireland (AP) Three battalions of British troops supported by aVmored vehicles swept into a Roman Catholic stronghold here late Thursday night after a raging gun battle with guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army Army headquarters reported about 1800 troops quickly established control of a four-mile-square area of the An-dersonstown Catholic zone One soldier was believed killed A spokesman said that as the troops moved in a fierce battle broke out between soldiers and IRA gunmen the Catholic Lower Falls region of Belfast This evidently was 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 1 Associated Press correspondent Dennis Neeld reported that the marines claimed they killed 118 enemy and knocked out five tanks Marine casualties were tovbe 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 city and the North Vietnamese still control the 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 td 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 Fischer Forfeits Game 2 A Correction on the loth Move In late editions of Herald the 15th move by Spassky (white) in the coding of the game was incorrect Instead of KR-QBI the move should have read: QR-B1 w41 '6 Mehin Martin Filter under arrest Father of 5 Gives Up Hijack Try OKLAHOMA CITY (UPI) A gray-haired father of five children handed an empty revolt er 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 pmk shirt and swigging jvfrom a bottle of white liquid 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-cahber 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 reallv 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 Fisher's 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 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 handed 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 disturbing the peace He faces trial in August on theft indictments Dallas where he is charged with obtaining $100000 by establishing a phony corooration and seeking fees for helping obtain loans while using the name of a defunct mortgage firm Arab Gels Lifev In Grenade Case 1 EL AVIV tAP) 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 No ember 1970 Nineteen persons were wounded The defendant Jabrin Mahmoud Arjub denied the charges army post at one end of An-dersonstown culminating in attempt to blow up the post The post had under almost continuous attack since the IRA renounced its 13-day ceasefire on Sunday A FULL-SCALE battle erupted Thursday night Thirty besieged soldiers held on until columns of reinforcements moved up The fighting broke out at the end of a 24-hour period of clashes that left 10 dead in the divided province including a British soldier killed by a sniper earlier Thursday He was hit in the chest by a single shot as he stepped from a military observation when he has said one US chess source 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 Coast Gets nants of a tropical depression occurred along the Atlantic Coast Scattered thundershowers were also reported from Illinois to WEATHER MAP FOR FRI AM July II July 24 Au 2 Auf 0 match took part in the negotiations They offered to compromise with demands by removing one of their closed-circuit television cam-eras 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 East Showers and thunderstorms continued over much of the eastern half of the nation Some flooding caused by the rem FORECAST Mi TT7c7 Thunderstorms and warm humid weather will dominate much of the country However scattered showers are anticipated from Wyoming and Weekly 3 Men nil 4 Menttit Yearly Oehvery service payable by mail Send check or money order loPBM Circulation Oeoariment The Miami Herald One Hereid Plata Miami Florida 33101 MeU Delivery This schedule lists mail delivery rates to oottal tone which includes New York City Chicago and ether one 1 000-1 400 miles from Miami Writ or can The Herald lor mail delivery rates (o other areas Daily Sunday Daily A Only 1)10 it 37 so 7S 00 Only I I 7S 17 SO 35 00 Sunday 140 37 SO S3 00 no oo 4 Weeks 3 Meftthf Months Yearly Mail subscriptions are payable ad vance Send check or money order to Mail Subscriptions Circulation Depert ment The Miami Herald One Hereid Plata Miami Florida 33101 TCLCPHON6S Name Delivery 374-47)1 Numbers ot Herald Circulation offices in most Florida cities are hsied in the hife pages the teiephonedirecfory Classified Went Ads W-7RI From Florida cities outside Dad Countv dial totMree 1-400-432 054! All Ottwr Departments 330-3) 1 1 New Mexico to western New England and Florida The West Coast will experience cooler weather Prec 85 77 03 89 72 01 86 78 44 46 48 75 44 43 46 84 86 7 4 75 82 69 01 77 77 73 B6 70 81 4 40 55 86 70 1 57 44 Miami Bay Frnt PrK North Miami Beach South Miami 02 1 90 Birmingham Brussels Casablanca Copenhagen Dublin Geneva Hong Kong Lisbon London Madrid Malta Manila Moscow New Delhi Nice Oslo Paris Peking Rome Saigon Sofia Stockholm Svdney Tel Aviv Tokyo Tunis Vieanna Warsaw PAN AMERICAN Acapulco Barbados Bermuda 69 67 69 64 66 69 67 68 70 33 63 128 50 75 57 73 75 76 78 65 70 04 63 76 67 58 -35 12 fi 86 84 44 0 100 88 75 3 88 88 01 87 81 Bogota Havana HrrmosiHa Kingston Mexico City Monterrey Nassau San Juan St Croix St Kitts Vera Crus rn rr -V) wtd i iWitiliiYiiiffliiiiii- never signed the Amsterdam regulations set up prior to the match to govern its play Fischer said after his defeat in the opening game Wednesday that he would not play unless all television cameras were removed from the hall Negotiations between the organizers and Fischer's representatives went on throughout the day Thursday in an effort to resolve the impasse Representatives of Chester Fox Inc the firm that bought exclusive television and picture rights to the 7 itle Tablet in Sportt See MIAMI AND VICINITY: Partly cloudy a few afternoon showers High the upper 80s Low in the mid 70s Mostly southeast winds 10 to 15 ph 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 AHO NAPLES AREAS: Partly cloudy through Saturday with a chance of afternoon showers High In the uooer 80s Low in the mid 70s Variable winds to 15 moh Rain probability 40 per cent MIDDLE WEST COAST AND BREVARD AREAS Partly cloudy through betur cav with a chance of maniy after noon snowers gh try the ucPfr 80s Low the mid 70s Varmb'e winds 1ft to 75 mph Ram probability 30 per cent BROWARD AND KEYS AREAS: Partly cloudy through Saturday with a chance of showers High in the upoer 80s Low in tne mid 70s East to southeast winds 10 to 15 mph Rain probability if) per cent FLORIOA' Parity cloudy widely seal tered afternoon and even ng showers Hgh in tte upper 8us to low Low in the mid to upper 70s FLORIOA EXTENDED OUTLOOK- Sat urdav tbrouvn Monday Partly cloud widely scattered Hgh tm per ature range 8A 1o 95 Low temperature range 70 to 80 Local National World Tempera lures GREATER MIAMI Rain Chance At 30 For Miami Area Sea breezes should prevent temperature fiom rising above the upper 80s through Saturday the National Weather Service says Overnight lows were predicted to he in the mid-70s A 30 per cent chance of ram was forecast mostly in the form of early morning showers although afternoon showers may develop over the Everglades Southeasterly winds are expected to blow 10 to 15 miles an hour slackening at night Coastal states from Virginia to New York have been warned that torrents of rain from a weakening tropical depression may cause local flooding No tropical storm development was expected anywhere today Korean Spy Is Handed SEOUL South Korea (AP) Former National Assemblyman Kim Kyu-Nain was hanged Thursday for involvement in a Communist spy ring working for North Korea the Justice Ministry announced Kim 43 was arrested in 196') with 17 other persons connected with the ring which was based in Europe and Japan He testified at his trial in Novemlier 1969 that he had visited Fast Berlin and Pyongyang North capital before his arrest Kim was elected to the National Assembly in 1967 as a member of the ruling Democratic Republican Party Prec 84 74 07 86 74 85 50 Toronto Washington Coral Gables Miami Airport Miami Beach FLORIDA 82 67 89 73 MIDWEST 1 75 90 72 72 Prec Apalachicola Bradenton Clewtston Daytona Belt 88 73 i Ft Myers Gainesville Jacksonville Key West Lakeland Naples Ocala Orlando Pensacola Sarasota Tallahassee Vero Beach Bch 03 75 02 70 86 75 01 79 88 81 02 77 03 72 00 71 03 75 00 70 00 72 04 67 01 67 00 74 18 SOUTH Miss Orleans 4 2 EAST Chicago Cincinnati Cleveland Columbus Des Moines Detroit Duluth Indianapolis Kansas City Milwaukee Mpls -St Omaha St Louis WEST Albuquerque Anchorage Bismarck Brownsville Denver Ft Worth Honolulu Houston Las Vegas Los Angeles Okla City Phoenn Salt City San Antomo San Dieno Francisco Seattle FOREIGN Aberdeen Amsterdam Ankara Athens Auckland Berlin 05 65 94 88 07 02 84 00 114 90 05 108 100 93 70 89 70 83 89 84 87 45 68 80 64 76 51 01 89 74 80 57 85 04 61 61 60 AshevdlO Atlanta Birmingham Charleston Charlotte J'son Little RocK Louisville Memphis New Raieioh Richmond Sunrise Today 6:38 am fhwsof theMoon tMmrie Todav 10:22 a in Sinmi Totlay 8:1 Mount Tinlay pm 68 05 71 5S 71 01 68 10 71 3 06 70 2 63 11 Albany Boston Buffalo Montreal New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh.

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