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Forecast Cold Map Page 12 Voters to settle two races tomorrow in runoff election ■ &• Knadk -’ v A ■ BBHH ‘ TUNlS—British Airways Capt. James Futcher (R), commander of the hijacked VC-10 which was ordered to Tunis by Pallstinian guerrillas, makes a joke with newsmen at the hotel here after his release, with his crewmembers. From left, the crewmen are First Officer Michael Wood and Engineer Frank Sharpies. They are unshaven and had only just arrived from the plane in which they had been held by guerrillas. (UPI) PLO wants them By WILBORN HAMPTON TUNIS (UPI) -The Palestine Liberation Organization asked the Tunisian government today for custody of the four guerrillas who hijacked a British Airways VCIO airliner to Tunis, the Palestine News Agency said. Tunisia announced earlier today it was giving temporary asylum to the four men because no other Arab government appeared to want them. The men had expressed fear they would fall into PLO hands. All four were taken into custody with seven other guerrillas whose release they had won from jails in Egypt and Holland under threats to kill the 43 passengers and crew aboard the VCIO. They did kill a German man. The four hijackers had threatened to blow up the VCIO today with themselves, their guerrilla comrades and the three remaining British crew members but relented at the last monent and freed the three Britons. The Palestine News Agency said the PLO leadership has decided to form a special group which will fly to Tunis soon to Coal negotiators reach new record By CHARLES FLINNER WASHINGTON (UPI) - Coal negotiators agreed on an improved contract Sunday night. The agreement came after informal talks among negotia tors for the Bituminous Coal Operators Association and the United Mine Workers of Ameri ca. Some 120,000 miners have been out on strike since Nov. 12. The settlement was an nounced by Treasury Secretary William E. Simon, who con ferred with industry officials for more than three hours; The tentative pact supersedes what both sides had called “probably the best agreement in any industry that has been made in modem times.” The earlier arrangement, reached Nov. 13, was scuttled by the union’s militant 39- member bargaining council, which is expected to begin its review of the new offer by Tuesday. The council was not satisfied talk with the hijackers and investigate circumstances of the incident they said damaged the Arab cause. The guerrillas, trying to avoid being turned over to angry comrades in the Pales tine Liberation Organization, laid down their pistols, subma chine guns and grenades this morning to end a four-day air and ground drama. The commandos then stepped out of an emergency exit of a hijacked British Airways jet and marched down an escape ladder with with their last remaining hostages —three British crewmen. Airport sources said the Palestinians argued among themselves at the last minute whether they should become martyrs for the Palestinian cause by blowing up the VCIO jet and committing suicide. Tunisian negotiators finally convinced them not to take any more lives. They had killed a passenger, 43-year-old West German banker Werner Kehl, father of three children, on Friday. The sources said the negotia tors talked the guerrillas into accepting Tunisia’s offer of a with the original tentative contract and voted “almost unanimously” to send UMW President Arnold Miller back to the bargaining table. Neither Miller nor chief industry negotiator Guy Farm er would answer questions about the contract. Simon said, “I’ll make no comment on the package until it is ratified by the miners.” The union handed out a joint statement which read: “The UMWA and BCOA have tonight agreed in principle on improve ments in the tentative contract package. “We intend to devote Monday to the task of finalizing contract language so that a complete and final document can be presented for the ratification process without delay.” Miller had to face a reluctant management group which was disappointed that their first agreement had not made the grade. However, he got some help from William J. Usery Jr., DAILY Vol. 102 NO. 277 temporary haven to negotiate a permanent sanctuary with another Arab government. British airline officials said they had informed Tunisian authorities the safety of the crew came first but they didn’t care if the Tunisians attacked the plane and blew it up after the crew had been freed. The crew and guerrillas left the plane in alternating waves apparently to make sure the Tunisians would not open fire. First came a pilot, then two Palestinians stepping gingerly down a police ladder, then the second pilot, four more com mandos, the plane’s navigator and the last five guerrillas. Before ending the four-day drama, the hijackers won a promise from Tunisia that they would not be turned over to the PLO, which vowed to punish them. As the guerrillas were piling into waiting automobiles with their baggage for transporta tion to an undisclosed location, airport sources speculated they would be later flown to Algeria. Both Iraq and Libya refused them admission. director of the Federal Media tion and Conciliation Service, whom Miller praised for “even handed treatment of both parties (that) bridged the difficult gap between us at the crucial time.” Usery said, “It’s been tough bargaining” when he emerged from the Hay Adams Hotel with Simon after the agreement was announced. The strike already has caused perhaps 20,000 layoffs in the rail, coke and steel industries. Although most steel layoffs are blamed on slow automobile sales, widespread layoffs could occur if a coal strike goes for more than four weeks. Even if the union’s bargain ing council accepts the new terms, the ratification proce dure will take about 10 days while rank-and-file miners are informed of contract terms and vote on it. Miners do not work without a contract so there will be no going back to work until the pact is ratified. GRIFFIN Griffin, Ga., 30223, Monday, November 25, 1974 Griffin and Spalding County voters will decide two races for the board of education in a runover election tomorrow. Dan Boyd and Yvonne Lang ford are the candidates for Post Seven. Virginia Allison and Bill Westmoreland are the can didates for Post Ten. The runover was necessary because none of the candidates for the two posts received a majority in the original voting. The polls will open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. All regular voting places will be open in the city and county. Some 16,000 people in the city and county are eligible to cast ballots. Every registered voter is eligible, regardless of the zone or militia district in which he lives. They are eligible to vote in both races. Griffinite accused in robbery LOUISVILLE, Ky. (UPI) — A hearing is set here today for three men, including two Ft. Knox soldiers, charged in the $5,746 robbery of a Bank of Louisville branch office last month. Charged with the armed robbery were Pfc. Michael L. Cauthen, 20, of Griffin, Ga.; Pvt. Jeffrey L. Scott, 20, Caseyville, Indiana, and Roland A. Bergeron, Jr., 21, of Elyria, Ohio, who was discharged this fall from Ft. Knox. A fourth suspect, Frank M. Hutchinson, 21, of Lansing, Mich., died Oct. 19 of bullet wounds suffered during a police chase on 1-65. The cases were continued Oct. 20 by Police Court Judge Benjamin Shobe. Wc. “Almost every bad thing you hear about your neighbors should quickly be forgotten.” Henry, wife visit Chou By RICHARD H. GROWALD PEKING (UPI) — Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger took his wife Nancy and his children to see China’s ailing Premier Chou En-lai today. At a formal dinner tonight in the Peking People’s Palace, Kissinger and China’s new Foreign Minister Chiao Kuan hua exchanged toasts and hailed the beginning three years ago under the Nixon administration of friendlier relations between China and America. Kissinger called it “one of the most significant initiatives in American foreign policy” and said it “has not been a matter of expediency, but of fixed principle of American foreign policy.” Referring to President Rich ard M. Nixon’s resignation, Referring to President Rich ard M. Nixon’s resignation, NEWS Book people accused of antitrust market By ED ROGERS WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Justice Department today charged 21 major American publishing houses with violating antitrust laws by conspiring to divide world book markets among themselves since 1947. Assistant Attorney General Thomas E. Kauper said a civil suit filed in U.S. District Court £8 » •" ~ Empty I stocking I time Applications for Empty Stocking toys will be taken Friday from 4 to 8 p.m. and Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Griffin-Spalding County Jaycees and Jaycettes, who will take the applications, asked those applying to come to the rear door of the Chamber of Commerce building on State street. Only applications which are made in person will be accept ed. Weighted body pulled from river MACON, Ga. (UPI) - The weighted body of a shooting victim was pulled from the Ocmulgee River Sunday night, police said today. Bibb County Sheriff Jimmy Bloodworth identified the vic tim as Lyell E. Soler, 23. He said Soler had been shot and his body weighted down with an automobile tire rim and a tire. Soler’s body was found in about 12 feet of water shortly before midnight, the sheriff said. Bloodworth said police had also recovered a car linked to Soler’s death and added that he had some suspects in mind in connection with the shooting. He did not disclose the names of the suspects. Kissinger told the Chinese, “Since I was here there have been some changes in the. United States ...It was no accident the new President saw your ambassador on his first afternoon in office...President Ford has sent me here to continue fruitful exchanges of views...” Chiao, a six-footer with bushy gray hair, and an old diplomat ic friend of Kissinger’s, hailed the Sino-American friendlier relations and said, “We ought to mention the pioneering role which Mr. Richard Nixon played in this regard. “And we also note with appreciation President Ford’s statement that he would contin ue to implement” the friendlier policy. Kissinger flew here from Vladivostok where he sat in on Daily Since 1872 in New York City charged that the publishers entered into agreements to allocate exclu sive marketing territories throughout the world. Only areas agreed upon by the publishers were “open territory” for book sales, Kauper said. He said the defendants monitored each other and attempted to suppress any actual or attempted violation of the allocation agreements. The suit said that as a result of these practices competition among publishers in the United States and Britain has been suppressed, international trade in English-language books has been restrained and bookbuyers have been deprived of the benefits of open competition. The Justice Department asked for a permanent court injunction to prevent the defendants and “co-con spirators” from conduct that limits competition between American and British publi shers. Most of the publishing firms named as defendants are based in New York City. The New York City compa nies named in the suit were Bantam Books, Inc.; Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc.; Dell Publishing Co., Inc.; Grosset & Dunlap, Inc.; Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.; Harper & Row Publishers, Inc.; Litton Educational Publishing, Inc.; MacMillan, Inc.; McGraw Hill, Inc.; Oxford University Press, Inc.; Random House, Inc.; Simon & Schuster, Inc.; The Viking Press, Inc., and John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Other publishers named as defendants included Addison- Wesley Publishing Co., Rea ding, Mass.; Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston; Intext, Inc., Scranton, Pa.; Penguin Books, Inc., Baltimore, Md.; Prentice Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N.J., and The Times Mirror Co., Los Angeles. Named as a co-conspirator but not a defendant was the Publishers Association, a Brit ish organization whose mem bership includes almost all major publishing houses in the United Kingdom. These member publishing houses themselves also were named as coconspirators but not defendants. the summit conference between Ford and Soviet Communist Party Secretary General Leonid I. Brezhnev. In Vladivostok there was no public mention of Nixon. Kissinger spent about 30 minutes with Chou at a hospital in the first event of his five-day Chinese visit and said he found him looking “very well.” The presence of Nancy Kissinger and Kissinger’s son and daughter underscored the personal aspects of the hospital call Kissinger made less than an hour after his arrival. Diplomats said Chiao’s men tion of the former President stems from their sincere appreciation of his changing American China policy. Chiao said the current world situation “is characterized by great disorder under heaven. -' K I *J A Rockefeller announces surgery. ‘Happy’ has more surgery NEW YORK (UPI) — Mar garetta “Happy” Rockefeller today underwent surgery for removal of her cancerous right breast just five weeks after doctors removed her left breast in a radical mastectomy. Mrs. Rockefeller went into surgery shortly before 8:30 a.m. at Sloan-Kettering Medical Center’s Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Rockefeller, 48, was not told she had a “pinhead” of cancer in her right breast until last week although her hus band, vice-president designate Nelson Rockefeller was aware of her condition. A spokesman at the hospital said Mrs. Rockefeller entered the operating room at 8:23 a.m. The former governor was expected after the surgery was completed. Pike votes tomorrow Pike County voters will go to the polls tomorrow to elect a sheriff to fill the term of Sheriff J. Astor Riggins, who recently resigned. There are seven candidates running for the office. The polls will open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. Polling places will be set up at the normal places in Pike County. The candidates are: Virgil Brown, William M. W TOKYO: U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger accompanied by his wife Nancy, arrives at Tokyo International Airport upon departure for Peking for talks with Chinese leaders. (UPI) tnu&llrl A Prize-Winning Newspaper 1974 Better Newspaper Contests _ The team of surgeons was led by Dr. Jerome A. Urban, who performed a radical mastecto my on Mrs. Rockefeller’s left breast on Oct. 17. The spokesman said today’s operation was expected to be a “simple mastectomy,” since Mrs. Rockefeller’s chest mus cles and adjacent glands were not expected to be removed. The spokesman added, howe ver, “the doctors will have to see whether more extensive removal is necessary once surgery is in progress.” Rockefeller held a news conference at the hospital Sunday to disclose that doctors had discovered the pinhead cancer at the time of Mrs. Rockefeller’s first operation. Pickup 3rd pgh 026a: The vice president “Billy” Riggins, Kenneth A. Killingsworth, Alton Shackel ford, Wilson R. “Junior” Ray, Benny F. Collier and D. H. “Soup” Connell. Weather ESTIMATED HIGH TdDAY 60, low today 48, high yesterday 71, low yesterday 37, high tomorrow in low 50s, low tonight near 30. Sunrise tomorrow 7:22, sunset tomorrow 5:35.
