Ulster Militants Plan Disruption
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Average Daily Net Press Run For The Week Ended The Weather Clear and cold tonight; lows FehruMji Br lPTO in single numbers. Tomorrow sunny and cold; high about 25. Outlook for Wednesday . 15,630 fair, remaining cold. Manchester— A City o f Village Charm VOL. XCI, NO. 108 (TWENTY PAGES) MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1972 (Classified Advertising on Page 17) PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Shades of Orson Welles LOS ANGELES (A P )— Phones rang crazily in po lice and Sheriff’s offices, anxious callers saying they Ulster Militants heard the western United States and Canada had sunk into the sea. A s mystified law enforcement officers listened, about 50 callers described how a great earthquake triggered by the recent Amchitka atomic test had Plan Disruption dev^tated Alaska, Tokyo and the western coast of North America. Everything from Alaska to Santa Barbara, Calif., By COUN FROST Prime Minister Edward meaninfgul part” in the deci was under water, the callers said Sunday. Heath’s ConservaUve govern sions which shape their future. Most of the file r s said they had heard about the BELFAST, Northern ment was reported to have pre There was speculation that disaster on radio. One finally gave the station’s call Ireland (AP) — After a pared a new plan for northern the government would propose letters. , huge but peaceful march Ireland. Both the Conservative inclusion of more Catholic rep A check showed that KPPC3-FM in suburban Pasa Sunday in which both Daily Express and the Liberal resentatives in the provincial dena had just aired a two-hour simulated newscast marchers and British Guardian suggested the plan government, which has been might be launched socm. run almost exclusively by Pro depicting a disaster caused by the Amchitka test. troops avoided a confronta No details were disclosed, testants ever since the partition caillers had missed an announcement at tion, Northern Ireland’s but Heath in a speech Sunday of Ireland. But Catholic politi 1 ® finish which told listeners it was all f»c- militant Catholics made premised leaders of the Catho cal leaders have refused to par-. uon. The announcement has been required by the plans today for another lic minority that if they Joined ticipate in talks with the BriUsh Federal Communications Commission since 1938 demonstration this week in setUement talks, they would until the internment policy is Oraon Welles’ famed radio recreation of H. G. Wells’ which they claim will para be assured of "a real and ended. ‘W a r of the Worlds” alarmed the nation. lyze the province. Hie CtvU Rights Assoclatlcm pioclalmed D-Day—D for dis ruption—on Wednesday, six months to the day since the Prctestant g;ovemment beg;an interning suspected members of Nixon May Ask Partial Ban the Irish Republican Army without trial. "We are staying tight-lipped about the actual organization,” Tight Gun Law said Rory McShane, a spokes man for the association, "but it By H. L. SCHWARTZ HI "Saturday Night Specials" Voted For will be ntmviolent, it wiU be WASHINGTON (AP) — The successful and it wUl be mas came from abroad. The Gun Nixon administration is ex Control Act, passed after an as siv e .” pected shortly to unveil a pro sassin killed Sen. Robert P. More than 20,000 CathoUcs posal to curb cheap handguns, Kennedy with a .22-caliber pis- paraded Sunday in the border plugging a gaping loophole in tcl sought to eliminate hand- Dock Strike town of Newry, but restraint on the 1968 Gun Control Act but guns by outlawing mail-order both sides prevented any repe- risking the election-year wrath sales and the import of any UUon the "bloody Sunday” in of the gun lobby. w ef^n which could not qualify By HARRISON HUMPHRIES Londonderry the week before. Treasury and Justice Depart- as a "sporting arm " when British paratroopers ment officials say legislation WASHINGTON (AP House Labor Subcommit-) Instead it spawned a new do )^—A broke up another Catholic aimed at eliminating the cheap mestic industry which in the tee voted today to authorize a partial 60-day injunction march and 13 civilians were pistcCs called "Saturday Night past three years has churned against the W est Coast dock strike. *'***®^- Specials" may he sent to Capi- out hundreds of thousands of Hie Bubcommlttee voted 6 to —— ........ ........... The Newry marchers defied tol Hill within two weeks, cheap pistols made from im a major M the products to and the government ban on parades h this timetable is met, sub- ported parts. strike to continue but to allow a fromfmm Hawaii would Jeopardize by both Catholics and Protest- mission of the bill would come Justice and Treasury cfflclals court, upon petition from the the natlcmal health and safety. ants but made no attempt to three months later than prom- say the administration will pro attomey general, to halt strikes Thompe<m told the subcom- reach the center of the town pose that both imported and do Harry Bridges, the where 3,000 British troops wait mestic handguns be required to tary and agricultural cargoes > longdioremen’s ed. And the treops made no at meet safety and quality stand and shipments to and from leader, was unepthusiastic about \ tempt to break up the march as An Attempt ards, to be drawn up by the Bu H awaii. the substitute, 'wishing to con long as it stayed away from reau of Standards, and en The subcommittee rejected tinue ne'otlattons. them . To Plug forced by the Alcohol, Tobacco cti a 6 to 8 party line vote the There were no shots fired, Thompson said that Bridges and Firearms Division of the emergency strike legislation re- ren m ted^vlw o nmiorisOTes no stones thrown and no barri Loopholes Treasury Department. cades stormed. The marchers w «»». s Such standards, officials be- walked in silence, changed The President’s pnq^osal activity date for pay increase 1 1 Ueve, will protect the legltl- would haver compelled the, and provision for critical care, thelr rwte at the minute Ued by administraUon spokes- ^ate consumer from uns^e and retreated to hold a mass men at congressional hearings weapons whUe putting the price workers to return to their Jobs Thompson said Bridges said __■ (Herald photo by Buceivlclus) whl^ entire dilute, result- pg w ^ d continue negotiations mating near their starting last fall. of a^dgun ^ t^ reach of ^ .in a strike now in its 122nd at San Francisco through So What If Therms Ice? point protesting the govern- But It will climax an exten- these most likely to misuse It. is submitted to menfs mternm^t poUcy give White House effort to pri- j„gt exacUy how many of the day, Is submitted com- Wednesday and then propose Manchester High School diving fans AU n Schreiber (on ice) and Mike Peretto pulaory arbitratlco. Bern^e^ l^vUn, t^ 24- vately assure the nation’s 40 go n,iu,c„ to 60 mllUon pistols that all unresolved Issues as weren’t discouraged by Crystal Lake’s i;y waters yesterday. It took them some All the Democrats on the sub identi^d by the union and the member mlUion legitimate gun owners the United States are Satur- time to cut the ice, though, before tak ng the 28-degree plunge. the British Parliament from Ul- that it seeks cnly to prevent Nip+it qnopinia imrinn. committee, headed by Rep. employers, be submitted to the oter, was one ^ the leaders of crime, and not to infringe on law Frank Hiompson, D-N.J., vot^ industry medlatcr, Sam Kagel, for the substitute, which was for voluntary binding arbi- the march and spoke at the the constituUonal right to bear ^jg^t officials estimate that 2 ....... ............. tration. meeting. Actr^ses VMi^a anns. million specials were i>ut on the Redgrave and Joan Plowright, The term "Saturday Might market last year alone ’Thompson said the subcom Sir Laurence Oliver’s wife, also Special" was coined in the mid- ^n Associated Press survey Nixon Plan mittee was up against a dead South Viets Batter North walked In the parade. i»30s by Detroit poUce who, showed that In nearly every line imposed by ihe House Pcdlce said about 30 leaders______ found that„ violent crimes, more Rules Committee which pro- SAIGON (AP) — South Viet- north and east cf Saigon, seek- wounded. And In Quang Ngai gf thg march would be brought fj^uent cm'^Jurday"riVht"thM major city homicide by fire arms, especially pistols, has In Rejected posed to bring the President’s nameso forces battled the ing to ward off attacks during province south of Da Nang tg gg„rt for participating, but any other Ume were often creased since 1967, in som e bill to the House floor In a North Vietnamese and Ifiet the Tiet celebration of the lunar three enemy w«re slain In a ^hgy disclcsed no names. cemmitted with cheaply made, cases dramatically. meeting scheduled for tomorrow Oong teday and Sunday at a new year berinning Feb. 15. raid, the South Vietnamese The peaceful outcome raised small-caliber handguns whose “ At least nine out o f 10 guns ottered by Thompson. Rep. unless the subcommittee acted dozen points from the northern One Americen patrol was fired Command said. speculation In the British press $io-to-$20 price made them eas- we confiscate in crimes are the John D. Dellenback, R-Ore., hefore then. end of the cruntry to the sruth- on from what appeared to be ’Two small fights were report- that the time may have come ir.y accessible. voted against it and two other Thompson said the adminis- em tip.