t t itgan Ia4 ANN ARBOR. MICHIGAN Saturday, July 29, 1972 News Phone: 764-0552 Page Three AP Photo Embattled Democratic vice-presidential nominee Thomas Eagle- ton tells a news conference yesterday in San Francisco "you're not going to get me out of this race-never." Eagleton's statement was his strongest yet of the possibility he might quit the Democratic ticket. ore British troops arrive in N.Ireland BELFAST, Northern Ireland (P) - Britain moved 4,000 elite combat troops into Northern Ireland yesterday in an air- lift underlining the, army's de- termination to wipe out guerril- la gunmen. The troops deployed around -Belfast as the capital was hit by a day-long rash of bomb scares disrupting commercial life. Terrorist gunmen made an assassination attempt on Sen. Ritchie McGladdery, a former junior Cabinet minister in the provincial government s u s- pended when Britain assumed direct rule. An armed gang tried to burn down his Belfast home and fired a shot at Mc- Gladdery. He and his wife were reported shaken but unharmed. The British Defense Ministry said the troops, ferried to Nor- thern Ireland in one of Britain's biggest peacetime airlifts, will beef up the army's week-old of- fensive against the Irish Re- publican Army. Most of the soldiers are veterans of Bel- fast's street battles and 'their arrival signaled what could be an intensified push againt guer- rilla strongholds in the capital and Londonderry, the'i pro- vince's second largest city. The army launched a crack- down on the IRA after a bomb blitz a week ago in the Belfast city center that left nine per- sons dead and 130 others wounded. The reinforcements brought the army's strength in the pro- vince to 21,000, the biggest force in Ulster since the army was ordered here in 1969 - to quell sectarian rioting. The. ar- my now has a total of 27 bat- talions in the province, more than the 22 normally based on the British mainland. Backing them up is the 8,000-man Ulster Defense Regiment, the pro- vince's militia. The airlift included two bat- talions of paratroopers and one battalion of the famed Cold- stream Guards, who changed their ceremonial scarlet tunics and bearskin hats for battle gear and flak jackets. Three other battalions were brought in from British army forces in Germany. One of the army's prime tar- gets could be the barricaded "Free Derry" regions in Lon- donderry, long a symbol of guerrilla defiance to British rule. Three of the new batta- lions - about 1,500 men-were expected to reinforce the five battalions already in the city and boost the military's strength there to about 1000 men. Armored car convoys have moved in to Londonderry dur- ing the last few nights but there is no clear indication the army plans to invade the guer- rilla strongholds. Pressur re move From wire Service Reports Sets. George McGovern yes- terday continued to express support for his running mate Thomas Eagleton despite a vir- tual avalanche of relevations and accusations which have made the Missouri senator front page news across the country for three days running. McGovern said charges by Jack Anderson that Eagleton has a drunk driving record are "scurilous and untruthful" and continued to deny that he is considering dropping his run- ning-mate from the ticket. However, P e t e r Lisagor, Washiggo bureau chief of the Chicago Daily News re- ported yesterday "unconfirm- ed reports" that McGovern would replaee Eagletott. Accordige to lisagor, the Democratic nominee is consid- ering both former Peace Corps h'ad R. Sargent Shriver and Sen. Ed Muskie as possible re- placements. New York city councilman Matthew Troy, a key McGovern man in the state, told radio sta- tion WINS that he had infor- mation that Eagleton would be off the ticket "within 24 hours." Yet, in California yesterday, Eagleton said "I'm about as de- termined as one human being can be determined that I'm go- ing to stay in this race." Despite this outward confi- dence, pressure continued to mount over his belated acknowl- edgement that he had received electric shock therapy for men- tal depression. Editorials in the Washington Post, the Baltimore Sun, the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times have all urged his withdrawal from the ticket. Citing concern over his abil- ity to withstand the "fearful pressures" of the Presidency, the New York Times said "it would be a helpful contribution not only to the McGovern candid- acy but to the health of, the American political process" if Eagleton stepped down. "It is our opinion," the Wash- ington Post' said "that the bur- den imposed by Senator Eagle- ton on the ticket can only be removed by his withdrawal as a candidate." See EAGLETON, Page 8 'e mounting to Sen. Eagleton AP' Photo Wooing the farmers President Nixon is applauded yesterday by midwestern young- sters as he signs a bill enabling 18 year old farmers to obtata coverage under the Federal Crop Insurance Act. CHINA POWER RIFT: Secret story of Lin Piao now unravels Wigley's-an all-night affai By JIM KENTCH Ann Arbor can be a pretty lonely place at n times. Especially during the long stretch from midnight to the first class at eight. The few all night restaurants have long beenY the mecca to those who are out in the night. ..;' Some gas stations also provide company 24 hours a day. But now there is a new place to go at 2:30x in the morning. The local supermarket.v The Wrigley's store located at Washtenaw and x; Stadium is now open 24 hours a day, seven days - a week.- The lights are just as glaring and obnoxious, the vividly colored signs still scream just as loudly to "Buy!", but it's a welcome pleasure'.' to be able to buy your groceries without hav- ing to compete with housewives and their screaming kids for the best tomatoes. The cashier on the night shift at Wrigley's4 says he'd just as soon work at night because "There's too much garbage during the day," Not surprisingly, few customers come in from midnight to seven. "Once in a while someone 9k See ALL, Page 8 Daily Photo by GARY VILLANI By The Associated Press Lin Piao, who was to have been Mao Tse-tung's political heir, is officially dead. This seems to represent a victory for Premier Chou En-lai, mak- ing him China's most powerful man. The Chinese Embassy in Al- geria confirmed yesterday what was leaked out bit by bit in Pe- king. Its announcement indi- cates that moderation is in command in China and that the military is willing to subor- dinate itself to Communist par- ty politicians. The Peking disclosures leave little doubt that a big factor in Lin's downfall was his op- position to a policy seeking bet- ter relations with Washington. But the bizarre case of the spindly little man who was de- fense minister also suggests that Peking is more wary than ever of the Russians and more will- ing than ever to keep open a door to the United States. The Chinese haven't yet told the whole story, which has drib- bled out for 10 months. They as- sert that the 65-year-old Lin died Sept. 13 in an air crash in Mongolia, that he plotted Mao's death and that he was trying to flee "toward the Soviet Union." They fail to say who was with Lin in the crash and why the plane fell. Westerners have postulated that the Chinese shot down that plane, and thus exe- cuted Lin and his supporters as surely as if by firing squad. Getting Lin's story on the record now indicates confidence in Peking that matters are in hapd - probably what remain- P ^f +, -.- s I c~ There seems to be nobody in Peking these days with the au- thority of Chou. Mao, 78, is still the dominant father-figure, but Chou is in charge of every day operations of the party and government and of Peking policy. As a marshal and defense minister, Lin eliminated all ranks in the armed forces. He elaborated the Mao doctrine of "people's war," and concocted the idea of the little red book of "Thoughts of Mao Tse-tung," that potent weapon of the 1966- 69 cultural revolution. The military in 1969 had en- trenched itself deeply in the country's administration at the expense of established party cadres. The ninth party con- gress resulted in a heavy influx of military men into ruling bodies. That should have pro- vided a strong power base for Lin to resist reconstruction of the party after the cultural revolution violence and damage to it. Lin lost. The policy of an opening to the United States won. And where did' Lin try to flee? By Chinese account he was headed toward the Soviet Union, where he. could hope for support for a comeback. That will heavily in the Peking judgment of future policy, es- pecially with reard to Moscow overtures for conciliation. It was time to accustom the outside world and the Chinese public to the notion that the man named as Mao's heir was in fact a traitor to him. The Al- giers statement c i t e s Lin's I Pfd A thn n o- e trann IA .-t< ~.- -