The Miami Herald du lieu suivant : Miami, Florida • 119

111110 01 r7 71601010MMONNONM001 Alit EXPUESS I t4J The Newspaper 01 The Americas -'40P Member of The Inter American Press Association EDITION 62nd 230 Sunday July 16 1972 0 112 The Miami Here Id Pub Debbi Co Two Stories Tohl On NO-I Deals own-Payntent 7Ies Legal? a $5000 or two years' imprisonment upon conviction According to normal practice a federal source old The Herald homeowners are offered immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony against "flagrant" violators of the misrepresentation law weed out financially unsound buyers By requiring owners to invest some money the FHA believes it will cut down costly foreclosures In addition to promising to repair their houses Priestes told the three South Miami Heights homeowners that they might be prosecuted if they told authorities that they had not paid any down payment for their houses because they said he had refused to repair construction defects in their houses Priestes who is currently under an FHA suspension order in connection with an earlier Herald investigation was informed of the complaints Thursday to permit him to respond in this story Within a few hours of receiving The Herald's written questions which included the names of the four homeowners Priestes paid a hurried visit to three of the four (The fourth homeowner is currently out of town on By JAMES SAVAGE And MIKE BAXTER Harald Stiff Writer Four South Dade homeowners have told The Herald that a leading home-builder sold them houses without requiring a down payment a violation of Federal Housing Administration rules and federal law Two of the four recanted their stories Friday morning after the builder John Priestes paid late-night visits Their their homes The homeowners had told The Herald of their no-downpayment deals with Priestes In a late-night meeting with Mr and Mrs Marcus Norman Mr and Mrs Harold Johnson and Mr and Mrs Mike Conroy Priestes promised to repair their houses if they 'recanted their earlier accusations that they bad paid no down payment for their houses and if they called The Herald to ask that their names be deleted from any story about him Misrepresentation on FHA records involving down pay ments can lead to prosecution under federal law which carries with it 'a penalty of THE FHA requires down payments of about MO in sales of houses under its 221- D2 program under which Priests sold the four homes The FHA's reason for requiring down payments is to ON FRIDAY morning two of the housewives who had originally talked to Herald riguuttly tattitu to neraiu John Priestes Turn to Page SAW Cot 1 latenight visits 1' st A T- nem ATto 0551 ire vy by hi "I 1 "IF 4 i Bunkers Artillery Destfoyed US Limits Cattle Hide e5 ow Exportincr 410 Staff Photo by JIM IRMINGHAM George McGovern: He's Come a Long Way inhibited as a child he now runs for president 14114'oe1010 SAIGON (AP) US B52 Stratofortresses shattered bunkers and inflicted heavy casualties on North Vietnamese around the provincial capital of Quang Trip the US Command said To Parson's Solt The World Was A Dakota ARaithea 'To Ate' prek ct kr Press WireohotO Viet Army Medic and Refugee Family Flee Enemy Rocket Barrage area four miles south of embattled Quang Tri It estimated the bombers killed about 300 enemy in two massive raids A US Command communique said South Vietnamese paratroopers searching one B52 strike area about eight miles south of Quang Tri "found 60 destroyed enemy bunkers containing approximately 250 enemy dead and their equipment" Three anti-aircraft artillery pieces and two trucks were destroyed in the same area the command said If accurate the number killed would indicate that a North Vietnamese battalion was knocked out by the strike THE COMMUNIQUE s4id government marines found six graves containing 48 enemy bodies about two miles northeast of Quang Tri in an area hit by B52 strikes Tuesday The B52s flew more than 100 strikes across South Vietnam from noon Friday to noon Saturday dropping 1500 tons of bombs in the Quang Tri area and about 1600 tons on suspected enemy concentrations in seven other South Vietnamese provinces The North Vietnamese claimed a B52 bomber was shot down over North Vietnam Thursday but there was no confirmation in Saigon No B52s have been reported lost to enemy fire although at least one has been damaged A dispatch from Hanoi by Tass the Soviet news agency asserted US planes raid ed dikes and dams in the North Thursday killing or wounding many peasants WASHINGTON (AP) The 'administration imposed a ceiling on US cattle hide exports Saturday with the aim of holding down prices for shoes and other leather goods Secretary of Commerce Peter Peterson announced he was setting the hide export levels at last year's rate of 16 million hides a rate he termed "very high by any standard" He said the curb on shipments on US hides abroad would be carried out through an export ticket system which will avoid the windfall profits for exporters or foreign buyers PETERSON' said inflationary pressure had developed on cattle hide prices because demand was exceeding supply He said hides which used to 'average 14 cents a pound last week reached a new high of 2979 cents a pound "These higher prices come out of the American consumer's hide" he said The new action was called temporary until the market pressure on hides eases but Peterson declined to predict when the control might be lifted THE PROGRAM announced Saturday he noted involves hide export tickets at least until November The Commerce secretary also avoided any hard-and-fast forecast about the future effect- on shoes and rneat prices "We believe it will result in a reduction in the price of American-made shoes" he said But he also said "There isn't any possible way" he could predict just what the price results would be on shoes and meat Other officials told newsmen that shoe prices would be going up less than they would without the export limitation on hides THEY SAID shoe prices had gone up one per cent since January and that a further price hike of three to ten per cent had been forecast by this fall in the absence of a cost curb action We'll Talk Secretly Has New Proposal Hanoi: US Match To Ban Cameras? 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 Robert Sam Anson formerly a correspondent for Time Magazine was held prisoner for three weeks by North Vietnamese and Combo-din guerrillas in 1970 It was then that the idea for writing a biography of George McGovern came to him Later McGovern himself asked Anson to write the biog raphy Anson said he would if the senator agreed that there would be no censorship McGovern agreed unconditionally This is the first of seven articles from the biography 111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111 place where the grass is as well attended as the churches It was to this place that Joseph McGovern then nearing 60 brought his bride and brood They settled in a rambling white house on tbe south side of town a few blocks from where his church was slowly rising Ever practical McGovern selected the house not for only its location but for its size a far bigger space he figured than his family would ever need and perfect once a little work was done for two rental apartments George played as hard as anyone Already though the dark good -looking boy seemed serious and quiet beyond his years In many ways he was his father's son: "There is nothing for me to say" he said 1 1 By ROBERT SAM ANSON They came for the simplest I of reasons: There was nowhere else to go In the late 1800s the preacher made the long rail journey to the Da- kotas from New York where he had recently been or: dained a minister of Wesley an Methodism His name was Joseph McGovern He was a strong powerfully built man his body reflecting the boy hood in the rough and tumble coalfield communities of Pennsylvania Illinois and later Iowa In twenty years' time he found enough believers to warrant the building of half a dozen churches He also took a wife But within the year she was to die leaving him childless He lived alone for two years then in 1919 he married again this time to a slender strawberry blonde a med Frances McLean They met in Aberdeen where Joseph was building yet an: other of his churches and Frances had recently arrived from her home in Canada to find work as a secretary At the time of their marriage Joesph was 48 and Frances as serene and quiet as her husband was forceful and strong twenty years his junior At the time of George's birth the Rev Mr McGovern was serving as minister for a tiny church he had built in Avon a rural hamlet of a few hundred souls tucked away in the southeastern corner of the state a hundred miles or so from Sioux Falls There in the parsonage on July 19 1922 a first son was born At his father's direction he was christened George Stanley The infant was barely be: ginning to walk when the family was on the move again heading north to Cal: gary in Alberta Canada so that Frances could be close to her aging mother Shortly before Mrs McLean died they returned to South Dakota and settled in Mitchell a railhead 70 miles west of Sioux Falls where on a plot of new ground in the center of town Joseph McGovern was destined to erect his last church At the time his old: est boy had just turned six Mitchell SD during the 120s and '30s was much like Mitchell is today a town of straight-lined streets and straight-thinking people a REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) In a final attempt to get Bobby Fischer to return to the chess board the World Chess Championship match committee proposed Saturday that his game today with Russia's Boris Spassky be played with only the players and judges present That way Fischer would escape the television cameras in the chess hall He refused to play the second game Thursday because the organizers would not remove the cameras which he said distracted him PARIS (UPI) Hanol's ranking peace negotiator opened the way Saturday for renewed secret talks on Vietnam with White House Adviser Henry A Kissinger but warned that the United States would have to come up with new peace initiatives first Le Duc Tho a member of North Vietnam's ruling politburo returned after a month of talks in Hanoi and said he was willing to discuss "anything new" with Kissinger "If Mr Kissinger has anything new and manifests a desire to meet with me I am ready to meet with him to find a correct solution to the Vietnamese problem" Tho told newsmen at Le Bourget Airport THO KISSINGER THO'S return came two days after the tesumption of the semi-public weekly Vietnam peace talks following a 10-week suspension ordered by President Nixon The Thursday session saw no signs of progress toward a peace settlement In his brief comments Saturday no indicated he would be patient saying "I will stay (in Paris) a certain amount of time" "Wait a few days more to see if there is anything new" he told newsmen The Hanoi envoy's most recent undercover get-together with Kissinger was May 2 Kissinger later termed the session which was in Paris a failure and said Tho had been inflexible on's eight-point peace plan of May 8 proposing a ceasefire and a US troop withdrawal was still unacceptable to Hanoi Tho himself initially rejected the Nixon plan in early May no who already has held more than a dozen clandestine conferences in Paris with Kissinger added that he had no new North Vietnamese peace suggestions ON TIM NORTHERN front military sources said a South Vietnamese paratrooper battalion had moved to within 700 yards east of the Citadel in the heart of Quang Tri This was the closest government troops had come to the fallen provincial capital The sources reported the Operation by 20000 South THE OBSTACLE Tho posed to new talks with Kissinger was a major one It implied that President Nix Turn to Page HAW Col 1 In War Not in Peace' 'Draft Turn to Page 2A Col 4 Eaglet()n Pledge: We'll Do as We Say BUT THE ARBITER Lothar Schmid of West Germany and other chess officials said they were still pessimistic about the possibility of continuing the match Spas-sky leads 2-0 after beating Fischer in the first game and winning the second by default The officials said Fischer would presumably refuse to turn up today because the match committee rejected his protest of Schmid's decision to give the second game to Spassky At a closed-door meeting with the match committee Saturday Fischer's lawyers proposed that today's game be designated the second game The American Chess Federation is appealing the decision to give Thursday's game to Spassky to the International Chess Federation (FIDE) Congress in Skopje Yugoslavia r- Daley and Campaign 9AW )IcGorern and Issues :1 114W A KANSAS CITY Thomas Eagleton the Democratic vice presidential nominee opened his campaign Saturday with a promise to create a government the people can trust Goldwater: War Over in 60 Days SAN DIEGO Calif (AP) Sen Barry Goldwater a member of the Senate Armed Forces Committee says flatly he thinks the Vietnam war will end within 60 days "I predict that in the next month or 60 days the war will formally be over" the Arizona Republican told some 600 persons attending a 3100-a-p late Republican fund-raising dinner Goldwater refused to elaborate on his statement EAGLETON HELD a news conference before the speech and said he favors an all-volunteer Army in times of peace but not when the nation is at war The draft should remain in effect during wartime so that all classes of Americans can serve equally" he said He also said the current $83-billion defense budget could be reduced by $IO billion next year and to $548 billion by 1975 He said he does not believe in busing school students solely to achieve racially balanced schools But he added that of the 194 million childi en now being for educating our next generation" Eagleton spoke at the National Audio-Visual Association convention He was scheduled to address the group before Sen George McGovern selected him to be the No 2 man on the Democratic ticket "I threw away a perfectly good speech on the subject of the technological revolution in education" he said "My plans were changed at another convention this week "My responsibilites are different now for I speak not only as the junior senator from Missouri but as the spokesman of a great party and of a great movement" Today's Chuckle You don't need to worry about avoiding temptation after you pass 50 That's when it starts avoiding you "It cannot be done with empty promises to 'bring us together' lifted by the media masters from a school girls poster during the 1968 campaign" Eagleton said "For all Americans it means an end to the administration that spends dollars for bombs and pennies DEPENDING ON FIDEss Thomas Eagleton recalls Truman Turn to Page 2A Cot 5 Turn to Page 2A Col 4.