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Cops Have Lead ia $500,000 Skyjat(Continued From Page 1) “We can't find a parachute ... nothing,” said Utah County Sheriff Ralph Chappell, “andwe’ve been searching miles outside the city.”Rumors circulated that the hijacker was picked up by a waiting helicopter, but the FBI would not confirm or deny the report.The hijacker, cool and methodical as he passed his commands on hand-written notes carried by stewardesses to the pilot, seized the plane on a flight from Newark, N.J., to Los Angeles. The 13-hour drama began over the Rockies when the hijacker diverted the jet to San Francisco. There, he allowed 85 passengers, a stewardess and four United officials to leave after receiving $500,000 and four parachutes.After the jet left San Francisco International Airport, it headed east over Nevada and into southern Utah. It turned north, then east and zigzagged north again.On the approach to Salt Lake City, the hijacker bailed out near Provo with the ransom, pilot Capt. Gerry Hearn said.He said the hijacker boasted of having two handguns, plastic explosives and grenades, butsaid he only saw one handgun.Hearn said he believes the hijacker may be a pilot.“I would say . he had an excellent knowledge of parachutes and airplanes,” he said. “He probably was a pilot.”Hearn told a news conference the man sent specific instructions to the cockpit and “the flight plan was similar to what we ourselves prepared.”At San Francisco, the ransom was placed in two suitcases on a ramp about 100 feet from the plane and picked up shortly after 7 p.m. local time.The money reportedly was carried aboard by a prisoner being taken by air to San Quentin Prison in California. A spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Salt Lake City said the prisoner was ordered by the hijacker to bring the ransom aboard.“The FBI thought it was part of a plan at first,” the spokesman said. “They later dissolved that.”In San Francisco, a United spokesman said all four parachutes given the hijacker contained “some type of electronic device.” The FBI, however, refused to comment on whetherthe chutes contained “beeper” devices that would enable authorities to track the hijacker.The U.S. Air Forqg said during the night that F106 Delta Daggers at Hamilton AFB, Calif,, had been alerted but refusedto confirm that they had been sent to follow the airliner.It was learned in Salt Lake City that a pair of Coast Guard C130 planes followed the United jet from San Francisco. One returned to the West Coast early Saturday after refueling.After leaving San Francisco, Hearn was ordered to fly over southern Nevada. There was an erroneous report by the FBI that the hijacker had bailed out over Wilson Creek, Nev.“He keeps giving the crew new headings,” said an airline spokesman in Denver. “I think it sounds like he’s reading a map, just like I am.”The pilot radioed that the hijacker bailed out at 11:25 p.m. It was the seventh time in under five months that parachutes and ransom figured in airline piracy. Only one of the other hijackers who used or planned to use chutes was successful — a man known only as D. B, Cooper, who bailed out of a Northwest Airlines plane over eastern Oregon or Washington last November with *200,000. He has not been found.* RenoQ Ca.rson CityNEV.♦♦4lONOPAMLas VegatTop map illustrates original route of hi the point at which it was diverted to San Fra shows flight from San Francisco to the point bailed out.Viets Sent to Lift An Loc SiegeJohi(Continued From Page 1)R. Laird stopped just short of calling it that when he told a Washington news conference that American air attacks will continue against North Vietnam until Hanoi pulls its troops back across the Demilitarized Zone and shows a willingness to negotiate peace.Official sources here said the raids over the north would become more intense in the future.These sources said preliminary analysis shows the raids over the north are inflictingheavy damage on highways, bridges, surface-to-air missile sites and antiaircraft artillery batteries.“It looks good,” said one source. “We are experiencing a great deal of success,”The U.S. command so far has not publicly assessed the bombing damage and has released only scant details on the strikes.Meanwhile, the U.S. 7th Fleet sent its flagship, the guided missile cruiser Oklahoma City, to join the Chicago in bombardment of the coastline. Five7th Fleet destroyers also are on line off the coast bombarding Communist positions on both sides of the DMZ.A fifth aircraft carrier, possibly the Midway, was reported preparing to join the 7th Fleet, which is launching planes from four aircraft carriers—the Kitty Hawk, Constellation, Coral Sea and Hancock.One squadron of F105 jet attack planes has been ordered to Indochina from McConnell Air Force Base in Kansas, and anumber of other air units fromforced back a U.S. helicopter trying to evacuate wounded American advisers and killed one crewman. The three wounded advisers were successfully lifted out 15 hours later.Fighting was reported on all sides of An Loc and the defenders were being heavily shellesCivilians who fled from L Ninh to An Loc told government troops that the North Vietnamese were trying to capture An Loc to establish a provisional revolutionary government, under the banner of the Viet Cong,rVU I ah Aimrl f La Cni nAn(Continuand again i Mr. and visiting th daughter, I husband, C ond-year li university.In desci president’s Hurst said most part with sorm pains. His is some coi but not eno “We feeabout hiirr.
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