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I POST-GAZETTE i FRIDAY," JULY 19" Kncinv Still Con! mis City S. Viets, Foe Exchange Blows at Qiiang Tri hostile causes. Five were added to the list of missing. The figures were down sharply from the previous week, when 14 were killed and 23 wounded. The South Vietnamese command reported 661 government soldiers killed and 2,585 wounded last week and claimed 3,320 enemy killed.

The figures were up from the 'j-, A All UrJP-Zr I 1 i 1 If u-t if I Error 'Death Gun Ovvner 1 Sentenced 1 One of six youths indicted in the "mistake'! shotgun slaying of a 'Brentwood teenager a year ago was sentenced Criminal Court yesterday to an indeterminate term In pris- on. Judge Samuel Strauss im- it posed the sentence on Gary." Stock, 18, who police said owned the gun used to kill David Rhoads, 17, of 430 Gar- den Road East, May 22, 1971. RHOADS WAS SHOT from a passing car on Brownsville Road while walking with the intended victim, Jeffrey Kraus, of Heathmore Street, Brentwood. Kraus, who was not harmed, was a mem- ber of a neighborhood group feuding with the defendants, police said. A jury in December, 1971, convicted Stock of voluntary manslaughter.

He was refused a new trial. Defense Atty. Edgar Snyder petitioned the court for a stay of sentence pending appeal to the State Supreme Court. Judge Strauss agreed and continued Stock's $5,000 bond over objection by Assistant Dist. Atty.

Michael Fisher. Stock was the first of the six defendants to be sentenced. TWO OTHERS HAVE pleaded guilty to counts in their indictments: Gary Kowalewski, 18, of Cal- vert Avenue, Brentwood, Who police said fired the fatal shot, 1" is charged with second degree' 1,1 murder and Keith Pippi, 19. of Wallace Drive, Baldwin Bor- ough, is charged with involun- tary manslaughter. Still to be tried are Paul Pippi, 19, Keith's cousin, of Brentwood Avenue; Kenneth Carlins, 17, of Calvert Avenue, and John ramer, 18, of Agnew Road, Baldwin.

llllllllltllllll ItllllltlMIIIIIlIIIMIf IlllllltlltllllllllllltfllltlUll lllttll Around the World 3 British Battalions Strike IRA Bastion in Belfast BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) Three battalions of British troops, supported by armored vehicles, swept into a Roman Catholic stronghold in Belfast late last night after a raging gun battle with guerrillas of the Irish Republican Army. Army headquarters reported about 1,800 troops quickly established control of a four- -Associated Prtss Wlrphoto Granada, Spain. Unlike Oscar, who had one victory, seven draws and two defeats, chess master Bobby Fischer forfeited the second game of the world chess championship to Boris Spassky yesterday because of his objections to movie cameras in the playing hall. No Objections Oscar de la Fuente, 5, right doesn't seem to have any qualms about being center of attention during chess matches with 10 opponents In Nomination Is Bitter-Sweet McGovern Wins, Loses At Miami Convention SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese marines battled enemy infantrymen yesterday In a third day of heavy fighting north and northeast of the city of Quang Tri, field reports said. Ranking military sources on the northern front said the government drive into Quang Tri Province has made some progress during the past week but conceded the enemy remains in control of the city.

"Indications are that the North Vietnamese are going to defend Quang Tri right down to the wire," one source said, ''lie who controls the Citadel controls the city, and the North Vietnamese still control the Citadel." He was referring to a 19th century walled fortress in the hoart 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 Soviet-made antiaircraft artillery. Field reports said an American jet accidentally bombed government lines south of the city and U. S. air strikes were temporarily suspended to coordinate the scores of planes striking the area.

The U. S. Command confirmed that one soldier was killed and one wounded in the incident, but a spokesman said he couldn't confirm the report of a suspension -of the bombing. North Vietnamese gunners fired about 50 122mm artillery shells into the old imperial capital of Hue, 32 miles southwest of Quang Tri. First casualty reports indicated at least two civilians were killed and seven wounded.

The big Da Nang air base also was shelled, the allied commands reported. One Vietnamese was killed, and four Americans and one Vietnamese were wounded. The U. S. Command said two more Americans were wounded in the helling of a government position 20 miles northwest of Saigon.

In the air war, American fighter-bombers and B52 Stra-tofortresses pounded North Vietnam Wednesday in their heaviest raids in more than a week, leaving fuel depots, pipelines and warehouses in flames. The U. S. Command reported four Americans were killed In action last week, 18 were wounded and five died of non- week before, reflecting the fighting around Quang Tri. The allied commands now have reported these total casualties for the war: Americans 45,810 killed in action, 303,208 wounded, 10,234 dead from nonhostile causes, 1,639 missing or a d.

South Vietnamese 149,526 killed, 384,398 wounded. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong 861,420 killed. Israel Airport Killer Confesses LOD, Israel (AP) Kozo Okamoto admitted full responsibility yesterday in the Lod Airport massacre and told his judges he has no regrets about the people he killed. The three members of the court then retired to consider his fate and their ruling is expected Monday. The, defense called no witnesses and the defense and prosecution summations took only 10 minutes.

"My profession is a soldier of the Red Army," a leftist radical group in Japan dedicated to world revolution, he said. The war of the Red Army, he added, is declared unilaterally against the bourgeoise. Then he solemnly warned: "I would like to warn the entire world the Red Army will slay anyone who stands on the side of the bourgeoise." Britain Envoys Red nee to Libya LONDON (AP) Britain yielded yesterday to a Libyan demand to cut back its diplomatic mission in that Arab republic and then immediately ordered the Libyans to pull some of their diplomats out of London. The development announced by the Foreign Office followed Libya's recent demand that Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union reduce the size of their embassies on grounds that the staffs involved too much work for Libyan officials. Britain had until July 31 to reduce its diplomatic representation from 31 persons to 15.

The British mission in Libya is divided between the main embassy in Tripoli and a branch office in Benghazi. Britain to Seek Curb on Iceland LONDON (AP) The Foreign Office said yesterday Britain will make an "immediate application" to the International Court, requesting a temporary order restraining Iceland from extending its fishing limits from 12 to 50 miles. Joseph Godber, the Foreign Office minister, told the House of Commons that Britain remains open, however, to any broke down Wednesday. Area Trial Lawyers Elec Robert Cohen Robert A. Cohen has been elected president of the Western Pennsylvania Chapter of the American Trial Lawyers Association.

Also elected to one-year terms were vice-president, William F. Caruthers; secretary, Edwin Beachler; treasurer, Daniel M. Berger, and parliamentarian Louis Vaira. the Doral's lobby of protestors with a minimum of fuss. The crowd merely went around the police and re-entered the hotel.

For McGovern, the afternoon when he wanted to write his acceptance speech was also one of siege. He could not leave his penthouse suite without stepping on the angry young people who swarmed all over the hotel. Oddly, because the McGovern staff is made up largely of the under 30, who wear long hair, jeans, -o shirts and the other costume required by the young, it was difficult to distinguish between staffers and besiegers. Later, shortly before McGovern made the decision to walk downstairs to talk with the crowd, the long-haired staff aides mingled quietly with the dissenters in an effort to cool the outburst. McGOVERN IN his long uphill drive to the nomination had faced only one other "serious situation." That was in Brooklyn, N.Y., during the New York primary campaign when for five minutes the atmosphere was tense during a confrontation by the Jewish Defense League.

But in Miami Beach, McGovern faced the loss of credibility if the kids got out of hand. He has already criticized President Nixon for not talking directly to the protestors who periodically descend on Washington with grievances. For the onetime professor of history and government at Dakota Wesleyan University, it was a bad afternoon and McGovern apparently won his point. Within 30 minutes of his appearance, the kids drifted off into the evening. The hotel quickly picked up its normal routine.

The coffee shop opened. The bar poured drinks freely. The elevators operated. The Secret Service called it a "high risk situation." McGovern agreed, but he had to play it his way. Chess Game Is Forfeited By Fischer REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Bobby Fischer forfeited yesterday's chess game with world champion Boris Spas-sky.

He stayed in his hotel room, sulking because of movie cameras in the playing hall. When the American failed to show up, the chief referee awarded the game to Spassky by default. Fischer drew up a formal protest against the decision and handed it to the referee shortly before midnight. By falling to show up, Fischer gave Boris Spassky a 2-0 lead in the scheduled 24-game series. Lothar Sehmid, the chief referee, told reporters: "The match is not finished.

We will now have the third game on Sunday." According to the rules Spassky must have 12 points to win. Fischer, the challenger, needs 12'-2. This means 10 more unplayed games may be required if Fischer continues his boycott. Schmid left open the possibility that the International Chess Federation FIDE -could intervene and decide on Fischer's disqualification i the situation persists. Ten minutes before the scheduled start of the second game, Fischer informed the organizers of the championship through a U.S.

chess official that he was boycotting further play unless three hidden movie cameras were removed from the sports palace. Spassky entered the hall on time and took his place at the table. At game time Schmid started Fischer's clock as the rules required. Spassky looked perplexed. AT THE END OF AN HOUR, Schmid announced to an angry crowd: "Ladies and gentlemen, Fischer did not appear in the playing hall.

According to Fule No. 5, if a player is more than one hour late he loses the game by forfeit." Richard Stein, lawyer for American promoter Chester Fox, said "we did everything we could" to appease Fischer. Fox, who bought exclusive film Tights for the match, reported that Fischer admitted he could not see or hear the cameras but "said they bothered him because he knew they were there." Languages iV.Y. Park Signs AW 'For AW NEW YORK (AP) Central Park, at times as colorful and action-filled as a movie, is getting its own subtitles in German, Japanese, Spanish and French. City Parks Administrator August Heckscher said yesterday that multi-lingual signs wiil be placed at strategic points in the big Manhattan park to help non-E 1 i speakers get around and learn about the park's offerings.

The signs were made possible by a gift from Benjamin Graham of La Jolla, Calif. The advice appears ir German, Japanese, Spanish and French, the languages spoken by most tourists who can't understand the English wordings. City Youth, 19, Sickens, Dies A Mt. Washington youth was dead on arrival at South Side Hospital last night after he became sick and unconscious while in a car with two friends, police reported. The friends took David Nickles, 19, to his home at 339 Kambach St.

where they tried to revive him for 40 minutes before calling An autopsy will be performed today. -Associoted Press Wlrcphoto By MILTON JAQUES PostGazflt Washington Correspondent MIAMI BEACH This convention city turned into a bitter-sweet experience for Democratic, presidential candidate George McGovern, almost as he won the nomination. First the good news. He was nominated handily, despite an array of solid candidates against him. Convention hall rocked with cheers from hard-core McGovern backers, who stood firm against blandishments from rival candidates during crucial maneuvers Monday and Tuesday.

After that it was all over for the others. Now the bad news. McGOVERN LOST heavily with organized labor, never had a chance to win the anti-busing group and confronted his first angry mob in his 18-month candidacy. He also failed to win Sen. Edward M.

Kennedy as his running mate. Kennedy as vice president was seen by many supporters of Hubert Humphrey and Edmund Musk-ie as a gesture of conciliation. Die-hard backers of Henry (Scoop) Jackson of Washington didn't care anway as they made plans to walk out on McGovern's campaign. But the angry mob of 300 assorted Hippies, Zippies, Yip-pies and Students for a Democratic Society who called him names Wednesday night probably hurt the former college professor as much as anything in an otherwise good week. Both the young people and the party are now four years wiser than at the 1968 Chicago convention.

The violence there is blamed by some for the Democratic loss that year to Richard Nixon. McGOVERN himself boosted his campaign since 1971 a appeal to the protestors, dissatisfied sections of American society and the young who change, and end to this war in Vietnam. By 1972, both sides knew more about what makes a crowd tick, and what it takes to control a mob. The McGovern approach was based on a reversal of the time-tested use of police batons and tear-gas attackes. The presence of the protestors at Flamingo Park was well acknowledged throughout the first days of the convention.

A few ro testers strolled 10-Wn-k Break Ends Peace Talks Start, Stands Stay Same PARIS (AP) The Vietnam peace conference reopened yesterday after a 10-week break, with both the Communists and allies clinging to old positions. But the U.S. delegation spokesman termed the session businesslike. And the negotiators agreed to hold a new meeting mile-square area of the Ander- sonstown Catholic "no-go" zone. One soldier was believed killed in the assault.

A spokesman said that as the troops moved in, a fierce battle broke out between soldiers and IRA gunmen in the Catholic Lower Falls region of Belfast. Heavy shooting also was reported in other areas of Belfast. Military headquarters said the invasion of Andersontown a long-time IRA bastion-was carried out on express orders from William White-law, the British administrator of Northern Ireland. The post had been under almost continuous attack since the IRA renounced its 13-day cease-fire on Sunday. Southeast Asia Summit Planned MANILA (AP) Senior ministers from five Southeast Asian nations met here yesterday to pick a date and site for an Asian summit meeting.

The ministers meeting here came from the five nations of the Association of Southeast Asia Nations, or ASEAN Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines. The Philippines is very keen about the summit because of the new power alignments in Asia following the change in American foreign policy toward Communist China and the Soviet Union. 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 here 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. KISSINGER has held at least 13 secret sessions with the North Vietnamese in the past several years. Thuy and Mrs. Binh used much of the time at the meeting to assail the United States for bombing North Vietnam and mining its ports. kharl Mauley 1 I through the luxury hotel lobbies where the delegates are staying.

A few marched on convention hall for ritualized "demonstrations." For non-participants, the youthful routine of protest looked like borderline action. Then came Wednesday afternoon, the day after the McGovern forces had won their platform fight, two days after they had won the delegate-seating battle, and all of a sudden trouble erupted. TWO THINGS may have triggered the protestors' decision to sit down in the Doral Hotel, McGovern's headquarters hotel. One was a reference to the retention of U.S. residual force in Southeast Asia pending release of American prisoners by North Vietnam.

The other was his rejection of support for the SDS position paper on calling for life-imprisonment for policemen who shoot blacks, Chica-nos and other minority group members. McGovern told the milling crowd he hadn't changed his plans to end the war, but he wasn't going to support the SDS demands for punishment for those who become involved in confrontations with minority citizens in the line of duty. Said McGovern: "It calls for more severe punishment than it does for attacking other Americans." He called that "racism, too." In half an hour of harass-m McGovern convinced the youths he would talk to them. He apparently also convinced a number of the middle-aged who hung by the fringes that his approach to crowd control was persuasive. "He's a brave man," said a woman who stood outside her shop on the Doral's expensive lower lobby.

THROUGHOUT THE tense time, 14 Secret Service agents formed a human shield between the candidate and the crowd. The Secret Service, charged with looking out for the candidate's safety, argued strongly against his meeting with them. But under the McGovern plan there was virtually no way out. The crowd had held the. hotel under siege since 2 p.m.

By 7:30 o'clock the situation was sticky. The Secret Service were ready to declare an emergency. McGovern 's people had called off Florida highway patrolmen who earlier cleared pilot, Elliott Adams, abandoned his aircraft by diving to Ireedom through a cockpit window while the plane was on the ground at Philadelphia. He said the aircraft was virtually out of gas, and he feared subjecting the passengers to a crash if forced by the hijackers to take it aloft again. A copilot, Norman Regan, captained a substitute 727 jetliner which carried the skyjackers on a meandering route that eventually brought them down at a small airport in Lake Jackson, about 50 miles south of Houston.

They found themselves trapped their jetliner out of gas, two tires blown, on a runway too short for a 727 to takeoff. Regan, was badly beaten by his captors before being released, and his flight engineer, Gerald Beaver, was shot and wounded. The American Airlines hijacker, Melvin M. Fisher, 49, a Norman, painter and the father of six, brought his empty pistol aboard at Oakla-homa City, apparently in holster. Fight Death Holds Man A Manchester man was ar-' raigned yesterday on murder 4'.

charges i a street fight on the Northside in which he--. allegedly shot to death one man and wounded e- -victim's brother. Robert Jen- -kins, 21, of Jenkins the 1400 block of Sheffield was arraigned before Deputy Coroner James Bentz and remanded to the county jail without bond pend-'. ing a hearing Tuesday. Police said William Jones, 26, of the 1400 block of Northside, was shot be-tween the eyes during the argument last Tuesday at intersection of Manhattan and Sheffield Streets He died in Allegheny General Hospital.

Jones reportedly was when he pulled a knife in an. attempt to break up a fight between. Jenkins and his own brother, Tyrone, 20, who was K't shot in the hand. Wrong jo. in P-C The $50,000 winning number in Pennsylvania's lottery drawing Wednesday in Beaver' Falls, Beaver County, was 842339.

It was incorrectly reported as 842239 in yesterday's editions of the Post-Gazette. CANADIAN WHISKY 9 OF CANADA (, pFmnr imported ir jamii i. H.I. jjf Mr. 9X: Tm 2 Skyjackers Free Hostages, Surrender 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 has held a series of secret meetings in the past with Henry A. Kissinger, left Peking yesterday en route to Paris. NORTH VIETNAMESE Ambassador Xuan Thuy laid new stress on a linkup of a military and political solution to the war slightly 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 cease-fire.

The U. S. delegate. William J- Porter, reiterated the allied position that a cease-fire should be put into effect first and that, then "political issues can be discussed by the Vietnamese among themselves." "I am sure, I hope, we will be discussing this matter more," he added. Porter would make no further comment on the meeting, telling reporters without elaboration: "We will have to have another look at the record." The 1.505th session of the Patient Finds Male Skeleton The skeleton of a male, believed to have been a patient at Woodville State Hospital was found yesterday morning in a woods near the institution, the coroner's office said.

Deputy coroners said the man, dressed in hospital clothing, was dead tor at least a month. The discovery was made by another Woodville patient. The skeleton will be examined today in an attempt to determine identification. McGILL FROM CANADA NEW LOW PRICE (Continued from Page 1) in $100,000 bail after a tearful court appearance in Oklahoma City. Between thera, the hijackers demanded $1 millioin in ransomalthough they settled for less than that.

Both planes involved were Boeing 727s, with a rear exit from which it is possible to parachute in relative safety. Before their release, 164 passengers in the two planes were at the mercy of the three gunmen. In both cases, passengers complained of lax security that enabled the skyjackers to walk aboard with their weapons. One reportedly concealed a sawed-off shotgun in a cast and sling on his arm. Another apparently Wore a gun holster.

Deputy Marshal Sarge Glenn of Philadelphia, where the skyjackers boarded the National flight before forcing its return, said the airline had no metal detector there. Some National passengers "also complained because the PI 1 FIFTH Neatest Canadian south of their border Z.4'- V- I i. cmoi IN WHISKY A Htm IHPOSt 3t, arijf Lutscyd if7i FBagenfi:.

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