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Chance Slim f or U.S. Action Against Hijackers SEE STORY BELOW Cloudy, Warmer Cloudy and warmer today. THEBMLY FINAL Mild, showers likely tonight. Red Bulk, Freehold Fair and cooler tomorrow. Long Branch (Bee DeUllj, F««a i] I 7 EDITION Monmouth County's Home Newspaper tor 92 years VOL. 93, NO. S3 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1970 34 PAGES TEN CENTS; iiiiitiffliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiBiaiiiiBBiiiiiiiiii! ii iiiBiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii uiiuiiiiKiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiM iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHii j :!I1LM-[;::M!IIILL i:i;j;iiiULJiii[!n LINJ :j^]!j!;rrTnTTi:;sJi! u:niiit:;i [ShtLrni tnniOJ Ic Captives Gain Time Arab guerrillas today ex- attitude is not in favor of the It added that the deadline The U.N. Security Council called on all nations to take 707 With 110 persons aboard, a tended until 10 p.m. EDT Sat-., safety of the passengers ot was extended to give more appealed unanimously last legal steps to avert future hi- Swissair DC8 with 87 aboard, urday their deadline for the the three aircraft," a commu- opportunity to the parties in- night for the release of the jackings. and a British Overseas Air- release of captive Palesti- nique from the Popular Front volved to take the necessary passengers and crew of.the The three planes are a ways Corp. VC10 with 113 nians in exchange for three said. steps. three captive airliners. It Trans World Airlines Boeing aboard. The American and hijacked airliners and more Swiss planes were hijacked than 300 hostages held by the Sunday, the British plane on guerrillas in the Jordanian Wednesday. Popular Front desert. guerrillas were holding them The hijackers had threat- on an airstrip in northern Jor- ened to blow up at least two dan. of the planes by 10 o'clock Rebels, Army Battle last night unless seven of' The TWA and Swissair planes were diverted on their comrades under arrest By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS mand of the army. Hussein relieved Ben Shaker to appease in Britain, West Germany and' flights from European cities Fighting between Palestinian guerrillas and Jordanian the guerrillas after fighting last June but recently named to New York, and the com- Switzerland were released. him deputy chief of staff. West Germany and Switzer- army forces continued today despite appeals for a cease-fire' mandos took control of the land agreed to free the six t- from the leaders of both sides. The guerrillas and the army have been battling in Jor- BOAC jetliner over the Per- commandos they are holding, Israelis along the Jordanian frontier south of the Sea of dan for months, the current fighting began after Hussein sian Gulf after it took off bu| the British government so Galilee reported mortar and light arms fire on Uie other accepted the Arab-Israeli cease-fire proposed by the United from Bahrain on a flight from ^ar has balked at freeing a side of the border in northwest Jordan for.the third day. States, a plan the guerrillas opposed even though the Jor- Bombay to London. danian government said it could not force them to comply SOMBRE MEETING — United' Nations Secretory woman' guerrilla it is holding. Gen. Mashour Haditha, the Jordanian army chief of with the triice. Bed Cross representative The,Popular.Front for the staff, ordered:his forces yesterday ,to "cease shooting at Andre Rochat, acting as in- General U Thant, right, and Gunnar Jarring, the U.N.'i Liberation of Palestine, the once or face the severest military penalty." Yasir Arafat, Meanwhile, tiie semiofficial Egyptian newspaper Al termediary between the Pa- special envoy to Middle East, exchange a few words the chief of the guerrilla command, issued a similar order Ahram said the Egyptian government had given the United organization of which the lestinian guerrillas and the yesterday shortly before the Security Council met to hijackers are members, said to his commandos and commended Haditha's "swift action States proof that it has not violated the cease-fire by mov- three countries, holding com- it extended the deadline in re- to bring Woodshed to an immediate end." But gunfire con- ing antiaircraft missiles nearer to the Suez Canal since the mandos In jail, said the guer- consider action aimed at the release of passengers sponse to an appeal from rep- tinued in Amman yesterday, and thousands huddled in cel- truce became effective Aug. 7. rillas have allowed a doctor and crewmen aboard 'hijacked airliners held by guer- resentatives of the Inter- lars and .other shelters. The newspaper said the "full and detailed proof" showed and a Red Cross team to at- rillas in Jordan. The meeting wasone of many at the national Red Cross. Guerrilla sources charge that officers in Jordan's 40th that Egypt "had not moved missile launching pads anywhere tend the hostages in the "The U.S. and England Armored Brigade had.xebelled and demanded that Maj. Gen. in the military standstill zone," a strip 30 miles wide on both planes parked- under the United Nations, which preceded the Security Council have to understand that their Zaid Ben Shaker, King Hussein's cousin, be returned to com- sides of the canal. desert sun. meeting. - (AP Wirephotol • Rule Out U. S. Military WASHINGTON (AP) - none, —hi an attempt to gain been dispatched to an allied nearer the Jordanian desert cern for. the welfare of In- with 113 aboard, was hijacked nization. There was no elabo- . Following the- latter, meet- High-level Nixon adminis- the release of the more than base in Turkey, near the Syr- airstrip. nocent people," State Depart- yesterday. ration. ing, Najeeb Halaby, chairman tration officials say privately 300 hostages, including sev- ian border, and about 70 min- The only U.S. forces In the ment press officer Robert J. Guerrillas are demanding Nixon met with key diplo- of Pan American Airways and there is almost no chance the eral Americans. : • : utes'flying time from the Jor- immediate area are 1,800 Ma- McCloskey told newsmen. the release of Arab terrorists matic, military and security a former FAA chief, told United States will use mili- Discuss Situation ' • danian desert where three hi- 1 ' Two of the planes held in held in Switzerland, Germany advisers to discuss all sides of newsmen one way to deter hi- rines with the 6th Fleet in the n tary force to free airline past President Nixon and Secre- jacked: jets and:the hostages Mediterranean* and a 1,500- the desert — a Swissair DC8 and England, and discussions th» hlja klngs, Zlegler said. ' jackings ' might be to use are:being held;; • •: ,, ;, sengers held hostage by Arab tary of State William P. Ro- 1 man. airborne brigade in Gerf and a Trans World Airlines are being carried on through, The Federal Aviation Ad- armed federal guards aboard guerrillas. :•.:'•• gers spent muc.h pf their time . • Zlegler .Comments • • many. Boeing 707 — were hijacked the International Red Cross. ministration, State Depart- international flights. But with new developments yesterday discussing the lat- • White House Press' Secret Sunday with a total of 323 The Red Cross announced ment, Department of Trans-, Since Sunday's hijackings, .almost hourly, officials, say est series of hijackings. tary Ronald L. Ziegler re- Face Situation aboard. TWA says 120 were the 10 p.m. EDT deadline yes- portatton and Civil Aeronaut- I -by added, strict security the.administration is consid- The White House announced fused to discuss whether the "We're facing a.situation released by the guerrillas. terday for freeing the cap- ics sent representatives to an- nii'-'vcs have tjeon deployed ering every line of approach six Air Force C1S0 transports United" States )s moving other brought about by' fanatics The third plane, a British tured guerrillas had been ex- other meeting with officials of. "not all of which, you do, will — and closing the door on carrying medical teams have military equipment or troops who have obviously no con- Overseas Airways Corp. VC10 tended by the terrorist orga- the airline industry. or should know." Battle Started to Suppress Pornography Study Report By JIM ADAMS said he filed the court action vote and two other members Chairman William B. Lock- WASHINGTON (AP) - on his own. did not believe there was suf- hart1 and executive director President Nixon's sole ap- "He Is keeping the White ficient evidence at this time ..."..•/ Wilson acted to "hin- pointee to the Commission on House advised on what he is to warrant the recommenda- der; hamper and make impos- ..Pornography has launched a doing," the lawyer added. tion. sible" his writing of an ade- court battle to knock out it* Twelve of the 18 commis- Interference Charged quate minority report. recommendation for repeal of sion members voted for the Keating, a Cincinnati law- He contends they denied all U.S. pornography laws for repeal recommendation and yer and Founder of Citizens him access to basic Informa- adults. three voted against It, Keat. for Decent Literature Inc., tion and limited him to a 150- The commissioner, Charles Ing said. He said he did not also charged commission page dissenting view. H. Keating Jr., is also suing for a court order to block pub- PANTHER IN HANOI — Eldridge Cleaver, Minister of Information for the Black Panthers, is shown in Hanoi, lication of the lOjOOO-word North Vietnam, shading, hands with General -Vo Nguyen Gijp, the North Vietnamese Defense Minister. Giap re- commission report until he ceived Cleaver along with a group of anti-war American youths. • • , • (AP Wirephoto) and other dissenters have Hudson's 'Boss Kenny', time to file minority reports. U.S. District Judge Oliver Gasch yesterday issued a 10- day restraining order against publication of the report until Decision Due This Month Sept.