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Monday l'jly 10. 1972 13 -Day Cease-Fire Ends In Belfast TREATED A soldier is treated by a corporal after being struck by a missile during a confrontation between Catholics and the army in Belfast. Violence returned today with an end to the cease-fire pledge. i pi Tekphoto. WORLD NEWS IN BRIEF Commerce Round Set SAN CLEMENTE (UPD President Nixon will send his secretary of commerce to Moscow this month to work on comprehensive new to U.S.-Soviet trade, following up the un- precedentej $750 million grain deal.

He will bring up the old Russian World War II debt. Plans for the trip by Secretary Peter Peterson were disclosed this weekend by Henry Kissinger. chief foreign policy adviser The President wants "a comprehensive new approach to the issue of U.S.-Soviet economic Kissinger told newsmen. Population To Double UNITED NATIONS (UPI) The world's population will double by the year 2000 if its annual 2 per cent rate of increase is maintained, according to the United Nations Statistical Yearbook The yearbook said that on the basis of its current growth rate, the world's population increased by about 72 million last year and will grow another 73 million this year. That would put the population by the end of this year at 3.7 billion.

By the year 2000. the yearbook said, the population will be about 7.4 billion at the current rate of growth. Rioting Over Language KARACHI (UPI) Urdu-speaking Pakistanis rioted for the third consecutive day yesterday to protest a legislative measure making Sindhi the only official language of Sind Province. The official death toll since the disturbances began Friday stood at four but a newspaper today said 12 people, including a 10-year-old boy, have been killed. Official Radio Pakistan said three were killed and 10 injured in outbreak The latest clash pitted truckloads of helmeted police against hundreds of protesters who stoned vehicles and broke windows of Sindhi firms in middle and upper class residential sections of the city.

Police fired tear gas to disperse the mobs. Rogers, Italians Confer ROME (UPI) Secretary of Stae William Rogers today opened the first high-level U.S. talks with the new middle- of-the-road government of Premier Giuiio Andreotti. Rogers had been due to end a round- the-world trip yesterday in Yugoslavia. But one day after the chamber of deputies gave a vote of confidence to Andreo- ti's new government.

Rogers announced he would continue on to Italy and the Vatican before returning home. Youths Stage Riot LONG BEACH. N.J. (UPI) Police clashed early today with more than 200 disorderly youths who hurled missiles and firebombs at cruising patrol cars after officers broke up a fight between rival gangs in this beach community. Police said at least two persons received minor injuries during the disturbance.

Some youths were reported arrested. One was treated for stab wounds and another suffered minor injuries after he was hit in the groin with a brick. Frenchman Begins Talks WASHINGTON (UPI) Defense Minister Michel Debre of France starts a two- day visit to Washington today that could lead to a reciprocal arms purchase agreement and move France toward renewing its ties with NATO. Debre planned to spend today in consultations with Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird Tomorrow he will meet with Dr.

John S. Foster, the Pentagon research chief, and with State Department officials. Paris Talks Thursday PARIS (UPI) The United States will return to the Vietnam peace conference Thursday after a 10-week suspension guardedly hopeful the way is finally clear for negotiations on the central issue the political future of South Vietnam President Nixon broke off the 3-1-2- year-old talks after the May 4 session on the grounds North Vietnam and the Viet Cong showed no signs of willingness to negotiate in public or in private on the peace issues. BELFAST (UPD-Irish Republican Army (IRA1 gunmen returned to the attack today, their 13-day cease-fire abandoned Gunbattles spread across Belfast and Londonderry and 10 persons died in the fighting or through In the first hours after the IRA Provisional wing called off its truce Sunday night, six civilians died in Belfast, including a 14-year-old girl and a Roman Catholic priest who was shot as he administered the last rites to another victim. Sixteen soldiers and 10 civilians were wounded Earlier Sundav while the ceasefire was still in effect, police found the bodies of four men who apparently had been executed The deaths raised the toll for Northern Ireland's three years of bloodshed to 410.

Sixteen civilians and one soldier died during the truce period. The Rev Martin Smith, one of the leaders of the militant Protestant Ulster Vanguard Movement, said today. are in a state of civil war. Irishman is ghting Irishman What else can it be He spoke two days before the traditional Orange Day celebration commemorating the 1690 battle of the Boyne. Some 50,000 Protestants are expected to march through the province and the British government today announced another 850 soldiers were en route to Northern Ireland, bringing total troop strength on the province to 15,850.

Secretary of State William Whitelaw flew to Northern Ireland today from England to confer with security advisers on the latest crisis. Protestants, Roman Catholics and the British Army, meanwhile, mobilized men today in the wake of the ceasefire's sudden end. Sources in the IRA and the militant Protestant Ulster Defense ciation (UDA) said contingency plans were being put into effect by both groups to bring them to peak readiness for more hostilities. Sharp gunbattles raged in several parts of Belfast until the early morning hours. Most were between troops and Catholic snipers, although Protestant gunmen were drawn into the gun duels as well Some of the bitterest fighting raged in the Catholic Bally murphy section.

An army observation post in a lumber yard was heavily attacked, and it was near that Father Noel Fitzpatrick was shot in the neck as he knelt over a dying man to administer the last rites. Chess Match South Vietnam Force Doctor Has Can Start; Chair Arrives REYKJAVIK. Iceland 4 PI) -The Boris Bobby Fischer world chess match can favorite chair has arrived The swivel chair in metal and black leather was flown from New York to Iceland and put on the stage in the Reykjavik chess hall Sunday. Russian advisers arrived shortly after the much talked about chair and studied it suspiciously Then they left without comment. Now the Icelandic organizers face a new problem: Where to find a similar chair in Iceland0 would look better if Spassky and Fischer had the same said Gudmundur Thorarinsson, president of the Icelandic Chess Federation.

Fischer took one look at the dozen different chairs the Icelanders had as-, sembled from Reykjavik's furniture stores the other day, sat down in some of them and then gave his verdict: in my own chair Spassky, the 35-year-old world champion. did not seem to worry much about details of the $250,000 match. Before leaving for a salmon fishing tour of northern Iceland the defending champion said. am not going to argue about chairs, chess boards and sets. I will leave that to Bobby.

It makes no difference to After lengthy and dramatic preludes, both Fischer and Spassky appeared ready to start the first of their 24 games Tuesday. is relaxed and ready. We will play Tuesday unless Spassky is said Fred Cramer, vice president of the U.S. Chess Federation. But the players still have to inspect and approve the facilities in the hall, where the organizers expect 3,000 fans paying $5 each to be on hand Tuesday.

Gudmundur Arnlaugsson. deputy referee of the match, spent all day Sunday polishing off the fine details. He tested several chess boards and finally settled for one made in Iceland specially for the match. It has been put together from Icelandic stones. Arniaugsson, who had to take over when the chief referee Lothar Schmid of Germany flew home Saturday, also has a choice of five or six different chess sets of various sizes.

Schmid said he would return Thursday after visiting his son, who was injured in a traffic accident. Joan Kennedy Says Ted's Presidential Decision Is Final MIAMI BEACH (UPIi-Joan Kennedy said Sunday that the decision is her husband is not a presidential candidate. why I'm here and he's she said. Sen Edward Kennedy, was on a cruise off his summer home at Hvannis Port, with their three children giggled Mrs. Kennedy.

love it, a real Mrs Kennedy was interviewed after she appeared several times on the Democratic 20 hour fund-raising telethon She said it was of to be on the show with so many celebrities. a Entered in San Rafael Post Office as second class matter under Act of March 6. 1897. Published Daily Except Sundays and Certain Holidays at 1028-40 Street San Rafael, Calif. 94902 by California Newspapers, Inc Wishard A Brown President and Publisher Jack Craemer Editor and Co-Publisher Combining the San Rafael Independent, Marin Journal, Marin Herald, San Anselmo Herald, Fairfax Gazette, Lark spur-Corte Madera News 15 cents per copy $2.50 a month by carrier $10.50 for 3 months by mail $21.00 for six months by mail $42 00 for year by mail Cl RCULATION IN FOR ATION Phone 454-3020 Mill Valley, Sausalito and Geneva exchanges, Phone 3882351.

892-9020 All unsolicited articles, man usenpts, letters, and pictures sent to the Independent-Journal are sent at the owner's risk, and the Independent- Journal expressly repudiates any liability or responsibility for their safe custody or re turn U.S. Envoy To NATO Reports Big Troop Cuts 'Unthinkable' BRUSSELS Kennedy, the new' U.S. ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), said today that drastic American troop cuts in Europe are Such to 170,000 of the 300,000 U.S. servicemen stationed in been advocated by Sen. George S.

McGovern. But Kennedy, in an interview with United Press International, said that would be very badly taken by our European allies and very widely appreciated by the Russians. MI think a few troops either way would make a great deal of difference, but we must keep strong in this period as we move into the (European security) conference with Russia. Very large changes would lie unthinkable and would have a very serious effect on the alliance We cannot permit it to happen. time to move downward is when we get some sort of Kennedy predicted exploratory talks on mutual East-West troop cuts would begin later this year and must move forward with the security conference two must be he said, you have one without the other Kennedy, 88.

arrived March 21, but has spent most of his time visiting allies in Europe. He is often referred to as former treasury secretary who is the only U.S. ambassador abroad in this century to remain a member of the President's cabinet. to by Halted In Quang Tri SAIGON South Vietnamese task force that moved into battered Quang Tri city last week withdrew to the edge of town today. Allied officers said they expect a major fight before recapturing the provincial capital from the Communists.

The South Vietnamese said last Friday that governnment troops had occupied two-thirds of the city and the only major obstacle was the capture of the walled, 19th century citadel near the center of the city. However, allied oficers said today the North Vietnamese defenders have received reinforcements and are prepared to fight for the city. Far to the south, U. S. Brig.

Gen Richard J. Tallman and three other Americans were killed by a North Vietnamese artillery shell near An Loc, a provincial capital 80 miles north of Saigon Tallman was deputy commander of the 3rd Regional Assistance Command operating in the An Loc area. He was the father of seven childrren and had been stationed in Vietnam for one year. At least nine U. S.

generals, one admmiral and five South Vietnamese generals have been killed in the Vietnam w-ar. Navy officials said an American destroyer sank three barges Sunday that were unloading a Chinese freighter off the coast of North Vietnam. Elsewhere over the North. U. S.

fighter bombers knocked out 28 water supply craft. American planes flew more than 100 sorties over the North in the period ending at 5 p.m. Sunday. Onlv light resistance was reported early in the drive. Some officers feared the major North Vietnamese force outflanked the advancing government troops and was preparing for an attack on Hue, the former imperial capital south of Quang Tri.

American advisers, however, said the Communists are well dug in in Quang Tri and are expected to put up a fight. South Vietnamese reconnaissance patrols were still inside the city but most buildinngs had been leveled. Admission To Massacre At Lod International Airport ZRIFIN. Israel Kozo Okamoto admitted today that he participated in the massacre at Tel Lod International Airport. fired not only at tourists and visitors but at policemen as Okamoto, 24, told a military tribunal at the opening of his trial.

I know how many people I Standing in a waist-high steel plated dock and flanked by two military policemen who were manacled to his wrists, the young Japanese pleaded guilty to all four charges against him in the attack that killed 26 people and 79 others at Lod May 30. Defense attorney Max Kritzman called on the three-man court to establish a Woman Fisherman Has Surgery After Shipboard Abortion NEWPORT, Ore. woman crewmember of a Russian fishing trawler underwent emergency surgery here Sunday for severe anemia caused by a shipboard abortion. A Coast Guard lifeboat transported the woman from the 277-foot fish factory ship Pechenga after the Soviet vessel radioed for assistance. Lila Hudyakovana, 34, was reported in at Pacific Communities Hospital commission of experts to determine whether Okamoto carried out the submachine gun attack while under the influence of drugs or on emotional impulse.

Kritzman said the defense does not contend that Okamoto is you can see before your asked that a psychiatric panel be set up to determine whether Okamoto was insane during the time of the attack. He said he wanted such an examination because his client pleaded guilty against his advice. Three of the four charges against Okamoto carry the death penalty. The two other Japanese who launched the massacre at the airport were killed in the attack. Okamoto, in dark slacks and a striped colored sport shirt, said the attack was carried out with the Japanese military leftist organization known as The Red Army, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), an Arab guerrilla group.

did all this in cooperation with that organization and we did it in common." Okamoto said, his remarks being translated into Hebrew and English. had done that the Red Army together with the Popular Front as he said. that was the wording (of the charge), I want to plead The guilty pleas were expected to force the tribunal, headed by Lt. Col Avraham Frisch, to render a verdict almost immediately. thus precluding testimony by the 13 prosecution witnesses.

New Key To Skyjackers LOS ANGELES (UPD-The way to deal with a skyjacker is lo get him talking about his childhood, according to a medical hypnotist who says he would volunteer to go along as a hijacking hostage to fry his technique FBI the other day blasted the hell out of two guys (hijackers), but the answer is not in the gun, but in the said Dr William J. Bryan Jr. Sunday. Bryan, a surgeon and member of the American Institute of Hypnosis, described most skyjackers as attention-seeking He said, you convince them that you can do more for them than the hijacking, got the thing The hypnotist faulted the new first and ask questions manner in which they killed two men Wednesday attempting to force a California commuter jet to fly to Russia with 85 passengers. just see why you sit down and talk with them (hijackers) and use proven hypnotic the doctor said.

not saying I get shot, but worked with disturbed people before and I'm willing to bet my life on my Bryan, who says volunteer to be the next skyjacking hostage, said his first move aboard a hijacked jet would be to begin conversing calmly with the air pirate about his life and background, his childhood, even though he might be holding a pistol on a stewardess or pilot. question is not do you say to a said the medical hypnotist. really, what do you say to this Bryan felt that by focusing the mind, he might be persuaded to give up his crime. is the power of persuasion polished to a very glistening smoothness. a technique that should be taught by the FBI, the airlines and the said Bryan.

Asked what he would do if the hijacker refused all attempts at reason and persisted in his demands, Bryan paused a him where he wants to the hypnotist said. techniques, though, could probably take care of the vast majority of Dixie Trustees Will Eye Publication Budget A $4.7 million publication budget will be considered for adoption by the Dixie School District board at 8 p.m. Wednesday in the administration office, 35 Trellis Drive, San Rafael. In other business, the board will elect board officers for 1972-73, employ summer school personnel and discuss insurance fringe benefits for teachers with the Dixie Teachers Association. This has given him access President Nixon unrivalled other ambassadors.

Kennedy praised the unity of European nations in the currency crisis last month and said he doubted there would be another devaluation of the dollar (his vear Explosions Rock Freighter Near South Vietnam SAIGON British freighter was rocked by two explosions and partly sunk early today while anchored in Nha Trang harbor in South Vietnam. A British embassy spokesman said the London Statesman had holes in in engine room and one (in the hull) on the side under the water line. I suspect hostile action but only a suspicion. A said the explosive devices may have been placed inside the ship by Viet Cong agents posing as stevedores. No Injuries Reported In Forrestal Fire NORFOLK, Va.

(UPI) -Fire broke out early today on the U.S.S. Forrestal, the attack carrier that lost 48 crewmen in a 1967 blaze off Vietnam. Officials said there were no reports of any injuries. Tormenting Rectal Itch Of Hemorrhoidal Tissues Promptly Relieved In many cases Preparation gives prompt, temporary relief from such pain and itching and actually helps shrink swelling of hemorrhoidal tissues caused by inflammation. Tests by doctors on dreds of patients showed this to be true in many cases.

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