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HERALD i'1 EE AT Vol. 96-No. 1 1 8 DECATUR, ILLINOIS, MONDAY, MAY 19, 1975 1 5 CENTS fl yuuu 2 Sections I da j4U 1 6 Reported Missing In Mayaguez Incident News Briefs Leftists Hit U.S. Embassy In Portugal Lisbon, Portugal (AP) An angry crowd of leftist demonstrators surrounded the U.S. Embassy for several hours Sunday, plastering it with red paint and roughing up a U.S.

civilian employe. Some of the demonstrators pushed and shoved regional security officer Wayne Coombs before some of the 50 combat troops at the scene hustled him away in a jeep. The demonstrators, about 200 rmmbers of an outlawed Maoist party, painted swastikas and wrote "Death To The CIA" on the building. U.S. Ambassador Frank Carlucci has repeatedly been accused of membership or links with the American intelligence organization, a charge both he and the Portuguese government have categorically denied.

At the end of the demonstration, the Maoists formed behind -vh Vi Villi ttJK 1 11 -T-Mi'iTirrin -fwiim. Associated Press Wlrephoto throng of 17,000. Outside the Philadelphia Civic Center, Ford's motorcade passed about 100 demonstrators, most shouting "Jobs, not times" and dedicate itself to a new national purpose. "On our 200th birthday shall we occupy ourselves questioning our limitations or exploring our possibilities?" the President told an enthusiastic holding signs such as this one, which says in part: "Hands Off Cambodia." During his speech, Ford said it is time for the United States to get back on track to overcome recent "rough Grenade Thrower-Dies released," Schlesinger said on ABC's "Issues and Answers." Defense Department officials had reported one killed, 13 missing and 22 wounded. The captain of the Mayaguez had reported he was told there were seven dead Marines already "on ice" on the USS Wilson when he and his crew were taken aboard it.

But Schlesinger said he thought the captain was in error, or was referring to wounded men. Crewmen from the Mayaguez also have reported they were strafed and gassed by American planes while being taken to the Cambodian mainland as prisoners. Schlesinger said pilots spotted Caucasians aboard one Cambodian boat and fired ahead of that vessel and used "riot control agents" in an attempt to make it turn back. Asked about an air strike on mainland targets after the Mayaguez crewmen had been surrendered, Schlesinger said the motivation was to protect the Marines still engaged on Koh Tang. He added that a fourth wave of that air attack had been called off.

Mayaguez Analysis, Page 10 Wrong Island Attacked Singapore (AP) U.S. Marines invaded the wrong Cambodian island trying to rescue the crew of the captured freighter Mayaguez, crew members and the Pentagon said Sunday. "They hit the wrong island," said Bill Bellinger, 52, a mess attendant from Washington, D.C. "We were 25 miles away from the island the Marines landed on (Koh Tang). They went where they thought we were." "They probably were unaware we had left the island," Capt.

Charles T. Miller, 62, of Fountain Valley, Calif. "I guess the Marines from the destroyer escorts were not informed. They were coming from Subic in the Philippines, and the surveillance planes were from some place else." The captain said the men were on an island his charts identified as Rong San Lem, about 25 miles from Koh Tang. Meanwhile, Vietnam's Liberation radio claimed that the Mayaguez was one of several American spy ships that have recently sailed into Cambodian waters.

It said most of the spies were CIA-trained Thais and added that seven Thais were arrested on May 11 and admitted to spying for the United States. B52 Strikes Considered Vienna, Austria (AP) The United States seriously considered B52 bombing raids on Cambodia last week in order to recapture the American merchant ship Mayaguez and its crew. Speaking aboard Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's plane, a senior American official said Sunday no one in the Ford administration wanted to use the big bombers. But he added such raids were a real possibility once it was decided that some kind of military action was necessary to carry off the rescue.

Washington (AP) Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger said Sunday 5 Americans were killed, 16 are missing and 70 to 80 were wounded in- the Mayaguez incident off the coast of Cambodia. The dead included three Marines and two airmen. "The numbers are a little bit higher than was initially Note to Thais Stops Short Of Apology Bangkok, Thailand (AP) The U.S. government sent a note Monday to the Thai government expressing regret for the unauthorized use of Thai bases as a takeoff-point for the armed rescue of the freighter Mayaguez.

But the note stopped short of the apology demanded by the Bangkok government. The note did say "the unique circumstances that have led to the recent turn of events are not going to be repeated." Deserters Finish Terms Washington (AP) The first of the Vietnam-era deserters and draft evaders to participate in alternative work programs are beginning to complete their terms of service. John Barber of the President's Clemency Board said 14 have completed their work. The clemency and amnesty programs were set up in three sections and more than 23,000 of the about 100,000 eligible applied for consideration. The men completing the service receive clemency discharges, Barber explained.

But he added that some 1,200 participants in the program have been terminated, either because they indicated they no longer wanted to take part or because they showed a lack of interest. Miss USA Begins Reign Niagara Falls, N.Y. (AP) Summer Bartholomew began her reign as Miss USA on Sunday and said those critical of beauty pageants "don't know what it really means to a woman." Miss Bartholomew of Merced, will represent the United States in the Miss Universe contest in July at San Salvador in the Central American nation of El Salvador. She believes in equal rights for women, but said she is not a women's liberation advocate. Money draw which would have beaten Roberts' pair of jacks, explained Jack Binion, owner of the Horseshoe Club, which sponsored the tournament.

The odds of getting another club on the "flop" were about one in three, estimated Jack "Tree Top" Strauss of Houston, who was kibitzing after being eliminated earlier. Hooks bet heavily. Roberts raised Hooks raised Roberts again. In the "flop" came a nine and a ten, neither a club. Hooks lost.

Sniper Sought By The Associated Press Sherman, Tex. Police searched Surtday for a sniper who fired on at least seven vehicles including four chartered buses loaded with junior high school students. Seven persons were injured, none seriously, in two separate shooting incidents late Satur day and early Sunday. New Lives Nearly 200 Vietnamese refugees were flown from two U.S. relocation centers Sunday to new lives in Canada.

Thirty-five refugees were picked up by an Air Canada jetliner at Florida's Eglin AFB and another- 161 from a Ft. Chaffee, center joined Jiem during a stopover of the Montreal-bound flight at Little -ock, Ark. 'Funday' Mallory Park, England Hysterical fans mobbed a Scottish rock music group Sunday at a British Broadcasting Corp. "Funday" and at least 44 persons "were injured, police said. Four required hospitalization.

Double Tax Washington Serious concern over whether U.S. industry will have the money it needs for future investment may prompt the Ford administration to ask Congress 1 to remove what it feels is double taxation of corporate dividends. The change would result in one of two things elimination of taxes on dividends received by taxpayers, Or permission for corporations to deduct part or all of their dividends payments before computing the taxes they owe the government. Grim Picture Washington Wage and price controls are still necessary and will probably have to be implemented, Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said Sunday. The economic picture is grim, said Mansfield, appearing on CBS' "Face the Nation." Moves to ABC New York Fred Silverman, CBS vice president in charge of programing for the past five years, will move to ABC next month as president of ABC Entertainment.

Silverman, 37, replaces Martin Starger, 43, who is leaving June 15 to form a production company to turn out series, specials and made-for-TV movies exclusively for ABC. Left Behind Saigon The abrupt U.S. evacuation from Saigon left behind about two dozen Americans, 150 South Koreans and 200 Filipinos who wanted to flee on the airlift, according to figures of an international relief official. Most arrived at the American embassy too late to be taken out aboard U.S. Marine helicopters on April 29 and the morning of April 30.

Trust Lost Sweet Briar, Va. Sen. Henry Jackson, said Sunday that public trust in foreign policy has evaporated in the wake of obsessively secret and personal diplomacy. Jackson's remarks, which never mentioned Secretary of State Henry Kissinger by name, were prepared for commencement exercises at Sweet Briar College. FACES HECKLERS President Ford, delivering a commencement address Sunday at the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, faces one of several groups of students who stood in protest Composer Anderson Dies at 66 Woodbury, Conn.

(AP) Leroy Anderson, composer of dozens of popular tunes, in cluding "Blue Tango," "Sleigh Ride" and "Syncopated Clock" died of lung cancer at his home Sunday. He was 66. A conductor as well as a composer of light classical music, Anderson made his last guest appearance leading the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Jan. 18, 1975. "Blue Tango" is considered the first purely instrumental song to reach No.

1 on the Hit Parade. It sold more than two million records in 1952 "It was actually issued first as part of a classical album," Anderson told an interviewer then. "But disc jockeys all over the country pulled out the tango and played it. Apparently, it caught the public's fancy." One of those songs, "Sleigh Ride," was composed during an August heat wave. It has been one of the most played songs during Christmas seasons.

Anderson had worked closely with Boston Pops conductor Arthur Fiedler since 1936, providing special arrangements and original compositions for the orchestra. 'COMPLETE SUCCESS' Helsinki, Finland (AP) The first American naval visit to the Soviet Union since -World War II was "a great and complete success," Rear Adm. Justin E. Langille said red flags and marched off, chanting slogans accusing both America and the Soviet Union of imperialism. They tossed out pamphlets praising the 1st Light Artillery Regiment and saying it was holding some 50 "fascist" prisoners in the regimental barracks.

Arms Demand May Be Eased Vienna, Austria (AP) Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger arrived Sunday for talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, and a senior U.S. official said Washington is willing to consider relaxing a key demand for a new treaty limiting nuclear arms. During the flight from Washington, the official said the U.S. side may ease its position on how to police an agreement limiting the number of multitargeted warheads MIRVs for use on offensive missiles.

Progress has been greater on the MIRV-verification issue than is apparent, the official added, and a new SALT treaty should be ready for the planned visit of Soviet party leader Leonid Brezhnev to the United States next autumn. He said the United States has proposed rules for verifying that the two sides stay within the limit of 1,320 MIRV-carry-ing missiles as agreed to at the Vladivostok summit conference last year. However, the American position is not fixed and the official said there might be some give on how to classify 300 existing Soviet missile silos, providing the Soviets can give some guarantee that the silos have only a sing It warhead. Good Morning TODAY'S WEATHER for Central Illinois: Sunny and warm, hiehs in UDDer 80s. Tonight fair and mild, lows in low or mid 60s.

Tuesday partly sunny and continued warm, highs in upper 80s or lower 90s. explosion, bringing the casualty toll to nine dead and three wounded in the border village of Aiteroun. In Jerusalem, Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin said Israel is going ahead with plans to build apartments at Sharm el-Sheikh by 1977, at the southern tip of the occupied Sinai peninsula, but that it did not mean Israel was annexing the area. Israel maintains a large military base at the strategic point, which it occupied during the 1967 war. In the latest Israeli explosion, at an agricultural college in the Mediterranean port of Acre, teachers discovered the body of a man on the school roof with the remains of a grenade in his hand.

Police identified the dead man as 25-year-old Yasif Faras Aisa. They said he entered Uie school posing as a workman. In Jerusalem, Israeli officials revised the number of wounded from 10 to 20 in a bomb blast Saturday at a resort oasis near the Dead Sea in occupied Jordan. A Palestinian group claimed responsibility for the explosion and Israeli police arrested five Israeli Arabs on suspicion of planting the charge: LOST RANK, PENSION Moscow (AP) A retired Red Army colonel active in the Jewish emigration movement has been stripped of his rank and deprived of his officer's pension, Jewish sources reported Sunday. Yefim Davidovich of Minsk holds several decorations for distinguished service in World War II.

19 in Laos Alive, Well Vientiane, Laos (AP) A dozen Americans and seven other foreigners detained in the southern Laotian town of Savannakhet sent two radio messages to the U.S. Embassy in Vientiane on Sunday assuring officials that they are safe and well. The Americans, mostly staff of the U.S: Aid mission and their families, were confined to their houses following a student takeover of the town on Wednesday. Although they are unharmed, the U.S. Embassy had expressed concern for their welfare ater not hearing from them for more than -36 hours.

The students have refused to let them leave until the Vientiane coalition government, dominated by the. Communist-led Pathet Lao, agrees to a series of demands that include neutralization of three Mekong River provinces, complete disbanding of U.S. agencies and restrictions on the number of Americans in Laos, who now number 1,200. PATHET LAO MAKE CHARGE Tokyo (AP) The Communist Pathet Lao charged Sunday that U.S. reconnaissance planes have flown three missions over "liberated" areas of Laos.

In a report distributed here by Peking's Hsinhua news agency, the Pathet Lao said that the flights were made May 1, May 4 and May 10 over the Plain of Jars, Phonsavang and along Highway 7. In "Hold 'em" poker played at the championship, each player is dealt two cards face down. Three cards are dealt face up in the center of the table. As betting progresses, two more cards are dealt face up. Each such deal is called a "flop." In the final hand, Roberts got a pair of jacks face down.

Hooks got the nine and jacks of clubs. Face up came the six and two of clubs and the seven of hearts. All Hooks needed was another club to make a flush By The Associated Press An Arab blew himself up Sunday while apparently attempting to throw a hand grenade into a schoolyard in northern Israel where about 30 students were exercising, police said. A small bomb also went off in the Arab sector of Jerusalem, causing no casualties. In Lebanon, two more Arab children died from a mortar United Arab World: Sadat Damascus, Syria (AP) With guerrilla chief Yasir Arafat at his side, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat declared Sunday he will be speaking for an Arab world united against Israel in his upcoming talks with President Ford.

The Egyptian leader expressed his confidence of backing from Arab brethren at the end of a four-nation tour designed to squeeze his allies into a common stand going into the June 1-2 meeting with Ford in Salzburg, Austria. Arafat came to Damascus to see Sadat and get in on the pre-Salzburg contacts that included Kuwait, Iraq, Jordan and Syria. Sadat indicated he was ex pecting a clear definition of U.S. policy from Ford, the outcome of Washington's "reassessment" of Middle East views following the collapse of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger's personal mediation effort.

when the contest started Tues day. Hooks went away empty-handed, as did the other 19 players. Roberts survived the first day of play with only $1,300. But he came back slowly and steadily while former champions in the seven-year series went broke one after another. These included four-time winner Johnny Mess of Odessa, Walter Clude "Puggy Wuggy" Pearson of Tennessee, and Thomas Austin "Amarillo Slim" Preston, perhaps pro Poker Champion Played for One Simple Reason: Las Vegas, Nev.

(AP) The new "world champion of poker" says he would rather play bridge or chess. "Poker is not my favorite," said Brian "Sailor" Roberts after winning the title late Saturday night. But he admitted he played it for one simple reason: "Money." Roberts won a $115,000 hand from Bob Hooks of Dallas on a pair of jacks. He walked away with the $210,000 grand prize which represented the buy-ins of 21 entrants $10,000 each fessional poker's most colorful character. Roberts said "if the cards had broken even" the champion would have been Crandall Addington of San Antonio, who went broke only 22 minutes before Roberts' victory.

Said Roberts: "I was extraordinarily lucky. I happened to have the best hands at the right time. When I needed to draw out, I did. The others didn't." Hooks explained that he was getting so low on chips he had to do something brave. INDEX Central 111.

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