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Florence Morning News from Florence, South Carolina • 1

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GOOD MORNING! It's riday July 7 1972 DAILY 10e SUNDAY 15' Democrats Await Protests Slated war on will the rrancisco airpori ana azma noff was a truck driver and machinist Immigration offi cials said both were permanent legal residents of the United manded it be turned into a poor club providing day care centers free breakfasts and full social activities for poor people blacks and Jews A communique from Moscow suggests that the Kremlin Ji too happy with idel Castro WARREN BURGER Chief Justice Acts After failing iri six hours of negotiations to win release of 81 passengers and a crew of five BI agents stormed the plane Wednesday ana opened hre with North Vietnam Spokesman Charles Bray made the comment after Lon don reports circulated that the Soviet Union and The Peoples Republic of China were trying to persuade North Vietnam to negotiate seriously at the July turn from his latest trip to China that some kind of policy review was taking place in Hanoi he assumed This was based on the return home of chief Paris ne gotiator Xuan Thuy for con sultations and new instructions Politburo member Le Due Tho also returned to Hanoi after steps in Moscow and Peking Some Communist sources here have affirmed that Mos cow was offering ad to hanoi to negotiate se riously with the United States However neither the Soviet Union nor Peking were in a po sition to cut back aid to the North Vietnamese it is be lieved here without losing in fluence in Hanoi Some US officials have en couraged the idea that peace negotiations could take place on the basis of President Paris Bray also gave the same re ply when asked about reports that South foreign minister Tran Van Lam ex 5 pected some kind of a break soon at the peace talks OUR 46TH NO189 WEATHER Partly cloudy and cool today cool tonight mild Saturday Highs in upper 70s low near 60 Details Page 3A gates before the convention re mained peaceful and low key There" were these develop ments: up for next week a group of young people pick eted an exclusive country club chanting golf course gotta SCLC and two other black groups reiterated their threat to crash the nominating convention if they are not pro vided 750 delegate" seats for poor people commander of the Na tional Socialist White Peoples party offered the city of Miami Beach 100 to ing a gun at the head in the cockpit The hijacker in the rear of the plane began firing wildly wounding two passengers and killing another before he was shot dead by agents the BI said The hijackers were identified Thursday as two Bulgarian na tives They had demanded $800000 ransom and wanted to be taken to Siberia The hijackers were identified as Dimitr Alexiev and Mi chael Azmanoff Both were 28 and had bleached their dark hair blond Immigration author ities in San rancisco said both escaped across the Iron Curtain from Communist Bulgaria on different dates in 1968 and had been living at a Hayward Ca lif house with wife Alexiev worked as an inde INDEX Comics Deaths Doctor Editorials Markets Sports StateArea Women nation in the world But 1 do not believe in wasting the tax dollar on needless cost overruns and careless planning It seems strange to me that the result of Mr arms agreement is a request for a more costly military budget litical parties further than ever before McGovern forces opposed the party bid saying is particu larly important that the process in which the nominees of the two major political parties are selected conform to the dictates of due process equal protection of the The appeals court ruled that changing the terms of the Cali fornia election violated the fun damental principles of due process John Kester attorney repre senting the Democrats at the filing procedures said the par ty hierarchy woijld follow the dictates of the court The petition from the Daley forces claimed the appeals court totally ignored the Illinois election code and has superimposed requirements which disenfranchise the elec torate and violate the rights of Committee rejected recently both hawkish and dovish de fense planks swings of speculation" on ru Earlier the SCLC head met mors that the Paris peace talks with Yippie Jerry Rubin and would bring some break in the leaders of other protest groups long impasse in negotiations They agreed to set up a "sort of people's at the camp area "We have decided that no hard drugs will be brought into the park and there will be no Rubin reported will be working to gether because we are working 13 resumption of the talks in for the same causes such as an end to the Vietnam During the morning about 50 persons picketed for about 45 minutes at La Goree Country Club claiming it was antiblack and anti Jewish Thev de ger had been killed and two other passengers wounded BI had a well thought out plan and it is obvious to me that it would have succeeded except for the one hijacker go ing said loyd An drews president of Pacific Southwest Airlines Henry Kissinger the Presi prospect North Vietnam national security ad make a serious move at viser told newsmen on his re negotiating table until it is Known who won the American presidential election next No vember At the Western White House press secretary Ronald Zieg ler refused to comment on the reports that Peking and Mos cow had urged Hanoi to be more flexible on peace terms' "We have said all along that we expect the settlement of the Vietnam conflictto be a result of discussions with Hanoi and that it would not be settled in either Moscow" or Ziegler said in response to questions A Northern Ireland leader says ijhis paramilitary commandos are ready for civil war Page 10A Off to Hanoi PARIS (AP) American film star Jane onda left Paris decision threatens to cause a for Moscow Thursday en route fundamental change in the to a 10 day visit in Hanoi American political system by She said she carried with her expanding the role of the May 8 call for an international several hundred letters from judiciary into the affairs of po ly supervised cease tire families ot prisoners oi Other officials see little or no held in North Vietnam rines in the 20000 man task namese paratroopers advanced force were moving on the city slowly on Quang Tri City from the southeast and east but Thursday I and US fighter were still 18 to 22 miles from bombers pounded entrenched the citadel North Vietnamese troops guarding the access routes to the northern provincial capital Associated Press correspond ent Dennis Neeld with the lead elements of the airborne task force reported that Navy dive bombers dropped hundreds of 'small antipersonnel bombs on a row of tree shaded homes along Highway 1 on the southeastern edge of the city The paratroopers were taking fire from bunkers hidden among the houses and the planes were attempting to clear the North Vietnamese May 1 In the afternoon lead ele ments of the task force were still slightly more than a mile south of the city center a moated citadel and moving cautiously forward Other airborne units and ma Viets Advancing On Qudng Tri City SEEKS VICE PRESIDENCY Sen Mike Gravel of Alaska announces Thurs day at a Washington news conference that he will seek the Democratic Vice Presidential nomination at the convention next week in Miami Beach He said delegates should be given the opportunity to select the Vice Presidential nominee In an open contest instead of the Presidentialv choice (AP) The Only Daily Paper Published in Eastern South Carolina LORENCE SAIGON HAP) South Viet Burger Blocks Ruling On Delegates Dispute The enemy forces holed up in the bunkers among the houses were estimated at two com panies possibly 200 or more men One prisoner said they had called for reinforcements urrow expressed doubt that the reinforcements ever could reach the bunkers because of air and artillery blows The Saigon spokesman Lt Cnl Do Viet? said two com panies of paratroopers con and requested a campsite for cautioned Thursday against trolled the southern edges of up to 5000 "white power" dem what he called Quang Tri south of Highway 1 onstrators including the railroad station Most of Quang Tri lies north of the highway Viet reported no government troops had yet moved into the northern sector The US Command reported 14 Americans were killed in ac tion last week 23 were wounded and four were miss ing The number of dead be lieved to be mostly from air ac tion exceeded the weekly aver age of 95 for the first 13 weeks of the North Vietnamese offen sive Seven Americans died of nonhostile causes The South Vietnamese com mand said 2765 enemy troops were killed last week irst Title Chess Match Set Tuesday REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) Bobby ischer apologized in writings Thursday to Boris Spassky for "disrespectful be that threatened their world championship chess match and Tass news agency said "all demands of the Soviet delegation have been satisfied" It was an nounced that the first game would be played Tuesday ischer the American chal lenger and Spassky the Soviet world champion met Thursday night to draw for the first movein the $300000 serie? of 24 games ischer drew the black pawn giving Spassky the first move with white and a slight advantage The draw was done the same way park bench chess players would do it Spassky took two pawns one white one black juggled them behind his back then extended his closed hands to ischer Without hesitation ischer hunched forward and pointed a finger to right hand With a smile Spaissky opened it JCarly story Page 9A) 2A 4a 1B? armn uniiNnrn Victor Sen Yung the Pendent driver aLthe San rronnicnn mmwt 3nd alma on show was among those wounded in the San ran cisco hijacking He is shown in a hospital (AP) states High Court Move WASHINGTON (AP) With their national convention fast approaching Democrats wereleft in a legal limbo Thursday as they waited for Supreme Court action on an issue that could win or lose a presidential nomination i Chief Justice Warren Bur court will agree to a special ger issued an order blocking a court decision that re to Sen George McGovern 151 California dele gates to the party convention Burger ordered the delay as he attempted to contact the other eight vacationing justices The question is whether the term to consider two challenges to the lower court ruling Also suspended by the Chief action was portion of the Anpeals Court decision which upheld the Credentials ex pulsion of Chicago Mayor Rich ard Daley and 58 other Illi nois delegates i The Appeals Court earlier is sued a stay of its own decision that was scheduled to expire at 2 pm (EDT) Thursday Bur one sentence order issued shortly before that hour ex tended the existing stay till fur ther action by the high court The Democratic Party asked the high court to convene a rare special term to hear its appeal The party contends that low er court intervention in dele gate selection will place the federal judiciary in the role of convention king maker At the same time Daley forces have asked vacationing justices to sit in special temi to gain judicial action reinstating them as delegates The court may sit with as few as six of the nine justices present The appeals court Wednesday overturned the Creden tials Committee and ordered 151 California delegates re turned to Sen George McGovern the committee had stripped them from the South Dakota senator when it decided to reverse the winner take all state primary and parcel out delegates to candidates accord I ing to the percentage of the pri mary vote they received At the same time the court 1 upheld the rights to unseat Daley and 58 other Il linois delegates after finding they violated party rules on delegate selection In asking the high court to consider the case the Demo cratic Party claimed the lower court decisioh provoked a fundamental constitutional crisis which can be settled only by this The seating of the California delegates the party brief said "and very likely the presiden tial nomination will be determined not by the political process operative at the con vention but by the mandate of a lower federal The Democrats contended the By 'Poor People' MIAMI BEACH' la (AP) Rev Ralph David Abernathy pitched a one man pup tent in Resurrection City II Thursday and vowed to carry to the Democratic National Conven tion his demand that the party act to improve the lot of poor people Abernathy head of the South em Christian Leadership Con ference said he would sleep in the tiny tent the first of many the SCLC is erecting to handle an 'estimated 500 followers tn orrivo QiinHau thn day before the convention GOVERNOR A TTENDS HOSPITAL MASS opens Abernathy sprawled on the Wallace McGovern Huddle rne Democratic party put an end to racism and disease that inflict poor people" Police estimated the number of protesters in Miami Beach at fewer than 600 about 80 of them camped out in lamingo Park where Abernathy pitched his tent' and named the site after a shanty town built during a massive protest in Washing ton DC in May 1970 SILVER SPRING Md (AP) Alabama It was not the first time that Mrs Wallace Gov George Wallace visited with i had prayed here She was here the night of presidential rival Sen George McGovern May 15 as Wallace was undergoing major and attended a special Catholic Mass in the surgery to remove a bullet from his body hospital Thursday on the eve of his The governor was shot in a political rally in departure to the Democratic National aurel Md Wallace was seated facing the altar for most of the low Mass but a security agent wheeled the chair around to the middle of the aisle so the governor could face the con gregation while he read his part of the ceremony 1 After the service Wallace and various friends and hospital staffers assembled for a farewell party for the Alabama governor About 55 people attended the party which was hosted bv the hosnital administration McGovern half hour visit to Holy Cross Hospital was described by an aide to the South Dakota Democrat as a "courtesy call" which the senator felt he should make Capt Gail urrow 32 said the airborne task force he is advising could have pushed into the enemy held city Wednes day but it had to secure the road to prevent the enemy from cutting the troops' supply line Some paratroopers did enter Quang Tri on Tuesday then took up positions on the south? eastern edge A spokesman for the South Vietnamese command said the objective first was to destroy the enemy forces around Quang a path into the city that fell Tri and naturally Quang tho Mnrth Vietnamese Mav 1 Tri will be taken Kremlin Unhappy With Castro? and attended a special Catholic Mass in the hospital Thursday on the eve of his Convention in Miami Beach Aides to Wallace and McGovern said the half hour visit was a social call and "nothing of political significance was discussed" WniiniA nortipinf pH in thpflfi Other activity: by nondele minute Mass of Thanksgiving by reciting the 23rd Psalm His voice was weak and raspy The governor sat in his wheelchair in front of the pew near the altar He wore brown slacks and a scarf was tied around his neck and tucked in his white shirt Behind him in the first pew was his wife Cornelia and his two daughters Peggy Sue and Lee Maryland Gov Marvin Mandel who talked with the governor shortly before? uie ceremonies Derail sai uneiiy' Laird Rips McGovern's Arms Plan WASHINGTON (AP) Sec retary of Defense Melvin Laird said Thursday that Sen 7" George proposed $30 billion slash in military spending would pose "a dan gerous and calamitous for US security and world peace so called white flag budget substitutes a philosophy hijackers and a passenger said a phdosophy of stth wlbngness to negotiate Laird 1Kan4futaljackers The president sup After Laird made his com ported the action but said ments McGovern issued a he was upset that the passen statement saying "there will De no white flag flying if 1 become President of the United States I will never permit the United States to become a second rate power proposed military budg et will make certain that the United States is the strongest Meanwhile one passenger iL Di Art complained of lack of security measures at the airport where the flight began although the airline said security measures were taken 1 BI agent in charge Robert Gebhardt who is described by RT in Son ranrisrn next McGovern said as laying ma(je the decision to The Democratic Platform rush the plane said: hope this will be a lesson We intended to stop this hijack andrstop it we did" US Aide Cautions Against Rumors of Paris Peace Break WASHINGTON (AP) A help maintain convention order State Department spokesman A new satellite may help farm and foresters scientists re ported Page 12B Hijack killings Defended SAN RANCISCO The After failing iri six hours of a hijacker who had been liold BI agent who ordered the rush of a captive jetliner that ended in shooting deaths of two 1 4 A A 1 IJUj i 1 40 Bl JIB.

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