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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.,
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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)
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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.
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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.