The Beaufort Gazette from Beaufort, South Carolina • 1

Battery Creek Drops Game On Controversial Call Page 7 Inside today Hecate Boat Searches or A New Life Chance Of Thundershowers Tonight And Tomorrow or Details See Weather Map Page 12 She Beaufort Sazette ft 15 Cents Per Copy Monday May 23 1977 Beaufort South Carolina In the Netherlands Extremists hold 1 30 children as hostages Watergate cover up convictions upheld i llK'4'w vvUll IvUdy upuciu iw naiugavv up convictions of former Atty Gen John rt 1 11 a TITVi it a Uai cn Haldeman likely will be imprisoned soon jCarter cans Army general I '5 5 i mm mm 1 mending nets painting for the opening of the its private conference April 15 to turn down the appeals but that Chief Justice Warren Burger held up announcing review of such cases Lawyers for the cover up defendants asked the court for permission to argue that the justices should reverse the con victions because of the news leak The attorneys said the report had tainted the deliberations adversely affecting In the past two weeks supplemental one day surveys by commercial trawlers with state observers on board found only a handful of white shrimp between Georgetown and Hilton Head the agency said oath in what prosecutors said was an attempt to conceal governmental misconduct in the Watergate scandal Ehrlichman also convicted of conspiracy in connection with the 1971 burglary of the office of Daniel psychiatrist last Octo The Marine Resources Division surveyed the coastal waters and found no white shrimp ber chose to begin serving his prison terms pending appeals of both convictions 7 i 1 BEAUORT RIVER TIDES High: 1:43 am ft Low: 7:22 pm ft ft SunsetToday: 818 pm Sunrise Tomorrow: 6:22 am By RICHARD CARELLI Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The Supreme Court today upheld the Watergate cover MARINE ORECAST Moderate chop on inland waters seas 2 to 4 feet East to nor theasterly winds 10 to 15 knots Winds and seas locally higher near scattered thundershowersVisibilities lowering to somewhat less than 3 miles in haze and showers Water temperature 74 degrees Rehnquist noted that he took no part in deciding the case Normally it takes about 10 days for a Supreme Court refusal to review a KV CHARLESTON SC (AP) The size and to give a status report on white quantity and market price will determine shrimp the opening date for the commercial shrimp trawling season this year the state Wildlife and Marine Resources Department says The shrimp fleet floats dly in Thunderbolt Harbor outside of Cnmnnah shrimn boats the area have mostly been sitting idle because of a poor shrimp cr6'i) caused mainly by severe winter weather killing the shrimp Most a 1 Mitchell and onetime White House aides HR Haldeman and John 4 Ennicnman I GRONINGEN The Netherlands (AP) I Two groups of heavily armed South Moluccan extremists striking two days before the Dutch general election seized an elementary I school and hijacked a train in the northern I Netherlands today a government official I said An estimated 130 children and teachers 1 were being held captive in the school and 100 I passengers were aboard the train authorities said It Was the second double terrorist action in 1 less than 18 months by the Asian immigrant I group in The Netherlands South Moluccan activists demand that their homeland a I former Dutch colony be separated from I Indonesia The Dutch have called the demand unrealistic I There was no report of casualties in I twin strike and the attackers made no im mediate demands i Police said they did not know how many i gunmen were involved in the two attacks which came at about the same time and about I 10 miles apart S' ft Hans Uffing a spokesman for the Dutch railway system said the engineer and conductor of the commandeered train re ported that about 50 passengers escaped after the gunmen seized the train 90 miles north All three men were convicted in the enough votes to grant review The votes prison for conspiracy obstruction of court of US District Judge John of four justices are needed to grant justice and giving false testimony under Sirica who will set the imprisonment date for Mitchell and Haldeman John Wilson attorney for Haldeman said he will ask the high court again to hear the case On April 21 National Public Radio reported that the court had voted 5 3 at 1 rf I 'I White shrimp normally make up most of die commercial crop during May and June But this year they were reduced by abnormally cold weather and the The agency says it will hold meetings department has indefinitely postponed in Mt Pleasant and Beaufort to explain the opening of the trawling season that the opening of the brown shrimp season normally opens in May Brown and the State top political officer Philip Habib were to fly to the Korean capital today to begin intensive consultations There are 33000 ground troops in South Korea about the same as the number of Americans who died in the Korean war a quarter century ago plan is to withdraw ground troops over four to five years But it is understood Habib and Brown will inform the Koreans about the withdrawal strategy for only the first two or three years Some Americans share Korean concern about the with drawal The most conspicuous example is Maj Gen John Singlaub who was fired by Carter on Saturday from his post as US chief of staff in South Korea Singlaub angered Carter by saying publicly that the with drawal plan is an invitation to a renewed attack bn the south by North Korea But the feeling here is that the strategy of gradual with drawal will be more politically acceptable to South Korea than a specific withdrawal timetable covering all US ground troops plan represents the most fundamental change in the US security commitment since the Korean armistice was signed 24 years ago Meanwhile the Korean National Council of Churches no friend to the regime of President Park Chung hee held a prayer rally in Seoul on Sunday to protest the proposed pull out Speakers urged Carter to keep the US troops in Korea to protect the religious freedom of 37 million South Koreans And the Korea Times in a comment on pledge to stand by Korea after ground forces have been pulled out said: North Korean communist group is well aware of the fact that the US administration's defense commitment on paper to now defunct South Vietnam resulted in The Seoul government has declined comment on the Sing laub matter however saying it is an internal US problem (See CARTER Page 12) east of Amsterdam during the morning rush hour The two crewmen either were forced to leave the train or escaped when it was stopped Uffing told a reporter in a telephone interview A government official said the terrorists forced their way into the village school at Bo ven Smilde at the start of morning lessons and covered the windows from the inside with paper Several South Moluccan children were soon allowed to leave the school the official said Armed police surrounded the train halted on a rural stretch of track and the school But there had been no communication with either group of gunmen by midday Some of the hijackers boarded the train at Assen 20 miles south of Groningen and just north of Boven Smilde rail officials said They pulled the emergency cord and brought the train to a halt near the village of Omen where masked men armed with machine guns climbed on board have the impression this whole action was very carefully a railway official said Meanwhile a security net thrown up arpund Schiphol Airport and (See HOSTAGES Page 12) 1 Shrimp Boats Sit Idle At Savannah Docks shrimpers have spent their dock time hnats and readvlnn eauinment I commercial scrimp season'" 7 Volume LXXXI Number 16 12 Pages SC patrolman shot LEESVILLE SC (AP) A South Carolina highway patrolman was reported in stable condition this morning after being shot by an assailant on Interstate 20 in Lexington County Tlje patrolman identified as MM Adams in his 30s was shot about 4:30 am near the Leesville exit about 40 miles southwest of Columbia An all points bulletin has been issued in the Carolinas and Georgia for a man driving a 1975 Chevrolet Impala Adams fired an undetermined number of shots at his assailant who is believed to have been struck at least sonce Highway Patrol Sgt Sam Ezell at Lexington County Hospital this morning described the incident as related to him by Adams Adams said he was sitting in his patrol car along the interstate about 4:30 am checking his summons book when a man came up to the window and asked him if he was Patrolman Adams The man then struck the officer (See PATROLMAN Page 12) Shrimp new opening date to be explained in area meetings the rights of their clients The court denied that request on May 2 Mitchell and Haldeman were the decisionin an attempt to muster sentenced to 30 months to eight years in He also was sentenced to 30 months to eight years for his role in the Watergate cover up and drew a 20 month to five year prison term for the burglary conspiracy case the sentences to be served concurrently Ehrlichman is now a prisoner at the Swift Trail ederal Prison camp at Safford Ariz On eb 22 the Supreme Court turned (See WATERGATE Page 12) wage new battle By JERRY BAULCH Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) The of World Wars I and are launching a new battle in Congress in an effort to gain veteraiis benefits the government has refused to give them The biggest campaign is being conducted by former Womens Army Service Pilots or WASPs women who flew military planes over 60 million miles during World War II A smaller group is made up of women who enlisted in the Army Signal Corps in World War I and often served just be hind the front lines Witnesses supporting veterans benefits for the women will testify Wednesday before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Rep Ray Roberts Tex chairman of the House Veter ans Affairs Committee also plans hearings later for those (See BATTLE Page 12) By GEORGE GEDDA Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) After sacking an Army major 1'7 general for publicly questioning his Korea policy President Carter is sending two top aides to Seoul for talks on his con troversial troop withdrawal plan The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen George WSIB loses appeal The ederal Communications Commission (CC) has denied an appeal by Sea Island Broadcasting Corporation to reconsider a June 1976 decision to revoke the license of Beaufort Radio station WSIB According to Sea Island President Charles Bell Sr the CC ruling will be appealed to the US Court of Appeals in Washington DC CC hearings on the charges were held between Jan 11 1974 and Jan 10 1975 The agency's final decision revoking operating license was handed down June 24 1976 ordering the station to cease operations on Oct 4 1976 WSIB however was allowed to continue operations pending final appeals In latest effort to retain license and or sell WSIB three basic arguments were presented to the Commission: CC should allow Bell to sell the station June 1976 decision was predetermined leaks prejudiced the decision All three points were rejected by the commission The WSIB case now advances to the US Court of Appeals Said Bell optimistic because this is the first time in what we believe is an unbiased The case could now possibly go as far as the Supreme Court or back to the CC for review Sea Island's appeal Bell explained would be based on "several possible judicial but refused to elaborate The justices rejected the claims by the conviction to go back down to district three powerful officials of former court which then tells a defendant the President Richard adminis date when he must begin serving his tration that the three month trial that sentence ended in their convictions Jan 1 1975 was unfair The justices made no comment in refusing to review the case There were Mitchell and Haldeman have remained no recorded dissents but Justice William free Pending the outcome appeal Ehrlichman already is in prison The action today means Mitchell and Haldeman likely will be 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