Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - June 4, 1972, Winona, Minnesota Winona Sunday News of Publication WINONA MINNESOTA 55987 SUNDAY JUNE 4 1972 Thirty Cents Per Copy No immediate signs of pirate Hijacker ransom flown to Algiers PASSENGERS DEPLANE ers deplane from a hijacked Boeing 720 jet at New York's Kennedy Airport early Saturday Later the hijacker who claimed to have a bomb took off for Algiers with aboard the Western Airlines jel he had forced to fly him from the West Coast Police said all 41 passengers were released AP Planes attack North Vietnam supply lines SAIGON AP Scores of American ranged from Hanoi southward to the big coastal cily of Vinh Friday smashing at North Vietnam's supply and trans- system and shooting down the MIG interceptor this year the U.S Command announced Saturday The Command said Air Force Navy and Marine attack planes flew more than 250 strikes across North Vietnam destroying or damaging nine bridges 41 trucks 36 surface craft 43 supply buildings and 21 storage areas A night of Air Force Phantoms escorting the ers on raids intercepted two about 40 miles east of Hanoi and 50 miles south of the Chinese border the Command said It said one of the MIGs was downed The Command reported no American air losses in Friday's raids but North Vietnam claimed three U.S planes were shot down Overcast skies and showers continued Saturday to cut into the number of air strikes flown by U.S bombers over South Vietnam marginal weather also was reported over the North In South Vietnam the Saigon command claimed 450 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops were killed by ment ground forces and air and artillery strikes in fighting along the northern central anc southern fronts as the enemy's offensive went into its day The Navy said strike planes from the 7th Fleet carriers Cor- al Saratoga and Kitty Hawk attacked dozens of gels ranging from Hano area 160 miles southward to Vinh Navy pilots reported knock ing out at least eight bridges in a continuing campaign to strangle North Vietnam's trans network and cut the flow of war materials into South Vietnam On the ground North Viet troops continued to maintain heavy pressure on Phu My district town in centra coastal Binh Dinh province where three northern fell to the enemy earlier in offensive ALGIERS A Western Airlines jetliner part of a 000 hijack plot that ranged from Seattle Wash across the United States and the Atlantic landed here Saturday night The touched down In early evening at Maison Blanche Airport and taxied to a far corner of runway about mile from the main terminal Two automobiles two trucks and a hook and a ladder accompanied it There was no immediate sign of the air pitate a young black man dressed in a military uni- form who seized a Western Airlines 727 in Seattle Wash Friday night and ordered it to San Francisco where he de- manded the range and in ransom The hijacker who claimed to be carrying a bomb let about half the 93 passengers get off during a plane change in San Francisco and the rest during a refueling stop here The had begun in Friday An airline spokesman at Airport said at least five crewmen including a navigator who boarded here were on the transatlantic flight An Algerian government spokesman said the plane had been authorized to land late his afternoon at Algiers son Blanche Airport The Boeing 720 jel with mile range landed at Kennedy al daybreak for refueling after the nonstop flight from the West Coast II was the second Western Airlines plane the jacker had commandeered He look over first plane lot Jerome he had a short-range 727 near Seattle on Friday and ordered it to San Francisco There he had the hostage passengers and seven crewmen switched to the plane following delivery of money In a mall sack from jetliner Man quizzed in hijacking One early report said the air pirate demanded he freedom of Angela Davis but this was later discounted The hijacker was described by passengers as black about to tall wearing sunglasses and an Army dress uniform with cap- bars and carrying a briefcase The flight had originated in San Diego wilh a stop in Angeles before going to Seattle The hijacker first told the pi- three accomplices and genes believed him After the jel look off for New York ever federal authorities said believed the hijacker was alone The woman was reported going along only after plane left New York About minutes after ing al San Francisco Inter- national Airport the hijacker ordered the plane up again It circled or two hours while the money was being prepared away One of the passengers Ron Bellinger 37 of Chula Vista Calif said that while in San Francisco the pilot at the direction told body on right side to vacate the plane Those were the people put aboard the 720 to New York The plane left San Francisco at p.m CDT landed in a remote A sack containing the arca southeast corner of was transferred lo the plane by a truck when the craft touched down a second time afternoon and evening deal while the jet was flown to San Francisco from Las Vegas 580 miles Kennedy's huge airfield at On landing hijacker gers drank champagne during dered the plane turned around so it would face the Kennedy terminals rather than a blast fence some 15 feet away at tho eastern end of the runway RENO Nov AP A blond-haired man in his 20s was being questioned by Saturday after a massive manhunt for a hijacker who parachuted from a United Air Lines jetliner with in ransom the FBI said Sheriff's deputies at the Washoe County jail where the man was brought after a five-hour search in remote hills about 20 miles south of Reno said the man fit the description of the hijacker who jumped from the plane minutes after taking off from Reno International Airport early Saturday In Las Vegas FBI agent Vern Loetterle identified the man taken into custody as Robb D Heady 22 of Reno The youth's father Howard H Heady said his son had just returned from a one-year hitch in Vietnam and was working part-time as a parking lot attendant for a Reno casino Heady said his son had taken paratroop training in the wmy and was a sport chutist Loetterle said Heady would be taken before a U.S trate later Saturday and formally charged with air piracy Another FBI spokesman said the hijacker left some of the on the plane before he jumped but we really don't know how much yet said Reno police officers nabbed Heady when he walked into ati area near Washoe Lake where the officers had staked out a suspect car He said further search of the area turned up a parachute a gun and clothing similar to that described by witnesses as being worn by the hijacker The hijacking began Friday night when the man wearing a hood wilh eye slits charged aboard a flight from New York to San Francisco after ils passengers deplaned here He demanded in bills and parachutes authorities said Reno Police Chief James Parker said the hijacker held as hostage three stewardesses the pilot and copilot and armed law enforcement officers surrounded the plane ing ransom negotiations that Parker described as a can standoff Another plane was readied for flight after the hijacker was told the plane he commandeered was low on fuel and had an engine out A city police spokesman said the money was delivered to the airport by squad car but authorities would not say when the transfer took place TWO FOR THE MONEY Map locales Reno Nev where a hooded hijacker forced a United Air Lines 727 to take off from Reno International Airport early Saturday and parachuted out minutes later carrying 000 ransom Lines show route of an earlier hijacking which originated on the West Coast That hijacker after being flown to New York took off for Algiers with in ransom money police said AP HHH hits at poll McGovern courts party regulars By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Three days before day's crucial California presidential primary Sen George McGovern has be- gun party regulars in anticipation of victory And Sen Hubert H is trying to dispel the image left by 2 poll showing him far behind McGovern has received two key endorsements from powerful New York City Democrats Meade Esposito of Brooklyn and Patrick Cunningham of the Bronx and he met privately with Rep Wilbur Mills of Ar- kasas Humphrey struggled through a long tough day during which he said he would not withdraw from the Democratic race for the White House even if he is defeated in the contest for votes at the nominating convention Meanwhile Rep Shirley Chisholm won a court order Friday telling the Federal Communications sion to direct CBS and ABC television networks to give her prime time matching joint appearances of Govern and Humphrey Mrs Chisholm of New York and Los Angeles May- or Sam Yorty both cratic presidential ants also campaigning in California had demanded equal time to counter joint interviews of Humphrey and McGovern But re- quest for equal television time was turned down by the U.S Circuit Court of Appeals in San co Friday and he ed that he be included in the order issued in favor of Mrs Chisholm by a federal appeals court in ton Throughout Saturday Humphrey iold audiences he didn't believe the re- sults of the Mervin Field organization poll published Friday which showed Govern holding a ing per cent lead among California crats McGovern privately dis- cussed his income ment welfare proposal with Mills chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee COVER AND CONCEALMENT A South Vietnamese Ranger crouches behind a palm tree during fighting for the district own of Dal Do 45 miles southeast of Saigon Smoke in background is from air strikes enemy positions Fighting for the town has received little notice because of heavier action elsewhere but much of Dat Do has been destroyed by air and artillery strikes AP i WELCOME NIXON President Nixon signs a child's sign other children watch in the background with their sign welcoming the President Nixon some 30 minutes under showering skys shaking hands with crowd after his arrival in Florida from Washington Friday AP fax Nixon content with performance By FRANK CORMIER WASHINGTON AP ident Nixon once a fan of theatricals seems well content with his performance in the starring role of a latter day Tale of Two Cities Summit adventures in cow and Peking as recorded on video screens around the globe closely followed scripts written in advance by Nixon and his foreign-policy adviser Henry A Kissinger Publicly the President is holding out hope lhat this was the year when America helped to lead the world up out of the lowlands of constant war and onto the high plateau of lasting peace Privately chief executive is optimistic that his Peking summits will make it easier him to renew his White House lease in ber Nixon who seemed a bit weary as he neared Thursday's end of an unprecedented journey into the loftier realms of East-West diplomacy felt entitled to a long weekend rest at his Florida home By middle of next week however he will be back in While House lo lead the light for congressional anci public proval of arms limitation and pledges he and So viet chiefs fashioned in cow The Moscow and Peking trips three months apart were studies in marked just as the two Communist cap- ital are as dissimilar as ington and Key As Nixon has pointed out re- Moscow was a ing summit aimed at putting a highly visible stamp of al on a parcel of agreements worked out during months of painstaking negotiations Lon Nol heavy favorite for reelection PHNOM PENH Cambodia AP Marshall Lon Nol is a heavy favorite for election as president today despite his lack of personal campaigning The marshal now president by his own proclamation is partly paralyzed from a 1971 stroke He has restricted his campaign efforts to conferring with workers at his fortified la It looks as if his one serious rival former Vice Premier In Tam may be lucky to get more than 20 per cent of the vote The third candidate Keo An is dean of Phnom Penh law school and a politics unknown The government has been trying to eject him from the faculty apartment where his living room serves as his political command post Neither man car afford any thing like lavish show being put on for Lon Noi In Tan complains lhat the governor o Kampot Province banned fn Tam workers There have also been reports of In Tam sup porters roughed up by soldiers In Tam former general urges a crackdown on corruption among high arm officers Many are rich mei thanks lo army payrolls so pad dcd wilh names of dead or non existent soldiers thai Lon No himself has no clear idea how many troops he commands Kco An hopes to gain rura voles by offering lo Prince Norodom Sihanouk ousted chief of state to return from exile in Peking i North Vietnam criticizes Nixon handling of war HONG KONG AP Norl Vietnam's official said Saturday lhat Nixon can never end the Vie nam war by running all ovc the world to Wesl and t the East and knocking doors everywhere Nhan Dan made the slat ment in an editorial com thai accused the ident of mouthing nothing bi lies in his report lo Thursday on Moscow sum mil meeting As in past North attacks against Nixon's trips f both Peking and Nha Dan did not mention eithe Russia or China by name On the Television 5s Opinion page Daily record lla Whimsey 2b 3b d 3b and Music Teen Front Degrees More than 400 degrees were conferred Saturday as Winona State College observed its annual commencement Dr Robert A DuFresne college president presided story and pictures page Heavy schedule The Winona County Board of Commissioners this week is faced with one of its busiest meetings in recent months Complicating the schedule are several July 1 deadlines on long-range projects and much last-minute cleanup work that must be finished before the end of the page lOa Any All of us encounter a variety of problems problems we feel no one will be interested in hearing about j If that's case wilh you this might be the j lime lo call story and picture page Reflections and Recipes Memories of the late Gretchen time Winona Daily and Sunday News columnist and gourmet recipe expert are recalled in a story on page Ib The story notes that a new edition of the book Reflections and has appeared in response to continuing demand afler previous editions were sold out The longest game Winona Stale College made its first appearance in the World Series in 1961 One of those games was a tournament record marathon which four former Warriors remember story page Sb Gone to the dogs Weaver Minn has literally gone lo the dogs since Friday More than 100 of the nation's best retrievers and their handlers are competing in the 24th annual licensed trial sponsored by the Tri-State Hunting Dog Association story and pictures page lOb A school reviewed The year's operation of million dollar view Elementary School is reviewed in graphs and stories Innovative approaches to cation such as the program for individualized instruction are described sical of the school are spotlighted and reactions parents students teachers and ad- arc reported stories and pictures pages lib 12b and Race for First Lady In the race to be First Lady six challengers for Pat Nixon's title are examined in a candid and revealing profile in today's FAMILY WEEKLY mom
