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Show Will Stay Our Phone Numbers Fair- - News Tips 5244400 Home Delivery 0 Information 5 Sports Scores Classified Ads Only 5 Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South Fair tonight ant. Saturday. Daytime highs night near 50. map on Page B-l- VOL. 3 524-284- to 85. Lows toDetails, weather 80 524-444- 524-444- 8 - 521-353- l. SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 72 NO. 9 7 10c PAGES 7 2 WEST'S MOUNTAIN THE FIRST NEWSPAPER FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1969 n r o s; j o n"' o W & 1 V 3. 0 II: '' ' 1 1:'4-- ;V f it:!. WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon said today the obwe to have is end the Vietnam war before the end of 1970. jective He said he believes his Vietnam policy is the right course to follow and appealed to Americans to give greater support as the best means of getting the war over as quickly as possible. - 4V : u K. si i istf A ft '1 hp'-- f;.v Nixon said when the come to ' Communists ' wa"LcihCeannZt enemy will negotiate." "I think we are on the right 8fcL tl course in Vietnam, he said toward the conclusion of his first news conference siijce June 19. "We are on a course that is going to end this war. At another point, he said we have a lot of support but said even more support in the nation for this steady course is needed. ...www - .5'' r - s 4- - 4 -- ? &Hfm '' WAITING US OUT 4 v mm UPI Smoke billows from 4 - alarm blaze which destroyed an abandoned WATERFRONT SPECTACULAR "Once the enemy recognizes that it is not going to win its objective of waiting ug out, he said, "then the enemy will negotiate and we will end this war before the end of 1970. That is the objective we have." For that reason, he said, he opposed and regretted "well-- i teiepnoto pier on San Francisco's waterfront late Thursday night. V G Is Uncover Bases Of Terrorists : t SAN FRANCISCO (LTD San Franciscos famed water-- ' front was lit up Thursday night by a spectacular fire that' roared along d a pier, ;4?4 four-alar- tained about 40 minutes after the first alarm sounded. The buildings on Pier have vacant for the past five years except for a few offices and the pier Itself had : been condemned recently.', flame-covere- V A young ? . , , , who gathered to watch. They also saw the end come for the San Lean- dfo, last of the citys ferry fleet to go out of service in 1958.1 The craft first sailed In 1920. Owner Leonard Martin had spent ; thousands refurbishing the old ferry and had been negotiating recently, with buyers in Tiburon who. wanted to dock it on their side of the bay for a trade fair. . h. Order , KJCDF , t in the attorneys, Green Six Berets are charged with murder and con- spiracy to murder a Vietnamese man who defense attorneys have said was a double agent. The defense has said the murder, was, carried out under CIA orders. ,( , ; Sources close to the defense said one of the defendants, Marasco of Capt. Robert Rutherford, N.J., would not be charged with, the murder itself. So far the prosecution ' Military Regime Takes Over Bolivia LA PAZ, BOLIVIA (AP) -Btoday the fifth South American government to come under military rule. A movement headed by Gen. Alfredo Ovando Candia, commander in chief of the armed forces, overthrew the civilian government of President Luis Siles Salinas. The new regime seems than most more The military governments. cabinet is made up of young dissident leftist politicians from the Christian Democratic Party and the Nationalist Revolutionary Party, plus independents and young military men. This trend opens a new chapter in this nation, which has been independent for 144 years and has undergone 185 coups or quick changes of government in that time. In a message directed to the peasants, Gen. Ovando de olivia became g congressional U.S. forces. Nixon said that to set an arbitrary deadline of or the end tf 1971 would per petuate the war until such a date and would destroy any chance of ending It before inevitjhen. He said it would U.S. efforts tably undercut in the Paris negotiations. The President also said that . clared the new government will "defend the rights of the peasants, bringing into realization action that will make more profound the Bolivia of 1953. agrarian reform Through its history the Bolivian economy has depended almost entirely on tin. The revolutionary govern. ment is on your side, Ovando told the peasants. A message given out at Government Palace said the will fulfill the government mandate which the people in its great majorities have been Among other demanding. things, Ovando promised to carry out a plai. of "heavy industrialization." The decree named a new cabinet. In one post there was nQ change. Foreign Minister Gustavo Medeiros was retained. He now is in New York attending the UJ4. General Assembly. 9 National, Foreign Re.g?nal Rages 412,13 13 Theyre Your Schools 13 Our Man Jones 1 13 Music tvrlo speIndi- vidual defendants. Marasco obtained F, Lee Bailey as his laywer earlier SECTION B this week. Bailey said in Boston Thursday he would ask City, Regional 10, 11 the prosecution to produce a Sports 7 body to prove that a murder ? Financial 8, 9 has occurred. The body has :'Obituaries 41,12 never been found. Weather Map In addition, the sources Action Ads said, Col. Robert B. Rheault, SECTION C ; the former commander of all L.l-5 -Womens Pages Green Berets in Vietnam, TV 6 Highlights would be charged with conRegional City, obto spiring with Marasco 8,9 tain a sack and chains needed Comics i.;. to dispose of the body. SECTION n . The body was reported to Young Americans have ..beet and City, Regional weighted 6, 7, 10 q dumped into the South China Thwier . Sea. off Nha Hang, Green ... . SECTION H Beret headquarters in VietHunting section nam; ; ; ...11 ll-2- 2 3 . . 4 The defense motion today was filed with the judge advocates office in Long Binh. The motion requested that if Nixon would not order the charges dismissed, that, he order the trials shifted to a civilian court. It was signed by four attorneys for the defense. If said the - U.S. Military Commander in Vietn; mr Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, "personally ordered and has conthe tinuously supervised investigation of this case. The motion said further that Gen. G. L.. Mabry, a Medal of Honor winner during World War II, who made the final decision to try the Green Berets, was prejudiced. Typhoon Elsie Hits TOKYO - (UPI) Typhoon lashed Okinawa with winds today and the Japan meteorological agency said the storm may turn toward China and miss the islands of Japan. Elsie than ? mid-197- 0 15 winter-sprin- g campaigh campuses. - Ellis $e U.S. Command. expects, to start, in November. v ., that Armstrong was a likely for the Reclamation post. , WASHINGTON -P(AP) Nixon has proposed $4.25 billion hikes in Social Security reforms and benefits plus a new, automatic locking of the system to g increases. The President outlined his unexpectedly broad proposals for Social Security change Thursday to a Congress apparently eager to go him one better on liberalization. Beneficiaries have seen inflation whittle almost 8 per cent from their Social Security checks since the last increase in March 1968. Accordingly, the chief executive 10 per cent, asked a catch-up- , benefit hike effective for payments in Apii, 1970. across-the-boar- d ' ' ' . .c, It was disclosed that the chief Republican congression- al leader on Interior Department affairs, ' Rep. ' John P. told Armstrong, Saylor, that if he got the job he was going to be expected to work .. more closely with the House Interior Committee. k R-P- ? ( ' 54, was born Armstrong, and reared in Cedar City. He is a graduate of Utah State, . See UTAHN on Page A-- 5 ' - , d ' We cannot enjoy the luxury-o- f sitting on our hands, , ecuri resident Armstrong choice J J L. . . . Eisenhower aide BACKS HA YNSWORTH The President also said; : . He stands strongly behind Troops of the 82nd Airborne his nomination of Judge ClemDivision Brigade found' the ent F. Haynsworth and befirst saPPer camp late' Thurs- - lieves the South Carolinian day afternoon 12 miles north- - will be a great credit to the west of Saigon. Its store of Supreme Court. k The United States expects munitions included 30 pounds a answer shortly positive of Pstic explosive, 550 blast- - from Russia setting a date for straing caps and 30 feet of deto- - the start of limitation t?iks. ; ' arms tegic wire. nating He had favored the 27 The base was hidden in the per cent, oil depletion allowelephant grass of a ance throughout his 22 years swamp and consisted of about of politics but described him25 huts.? It self as "a political realist camouflaged whose primary concern was apparently was abandoned to get a tax reform bill from before the Americans, just and indicated he Congress ' acting on intelligence ,inforwould sign a till to reduce the mation, swept into the area. allowance. Food found in pots was still He hopes to steer a warm. on school "middle course Another patrolling para- - desegregation between the trooper unit found the second extremes "that want instant jungle base this afternoon integration and those that eight miles west of Lhe captiaL want segregation forever. which ; SECTION A l8Sg v . ? .4-7- , has not made public the cific charges against the basM VPI p WirlC lit N W J Asks PresJ Nixon Henry Rothblatt, one of the said Abrams pushed the case against the men on the basis of an erroneous account of the murder from the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). "They misled him, they lied t entioned" miles from Sai8on in the Past 24 hours, and the commander of the U.S. 2nd Field Force :. .said the enemy "is doing his damnder' - t0- - Infiltrate the,' demolition (and sabotage- ex, , "under no circumstances perl into the South Vietnam- - would he be affected by ! renewed antiwar demonstraese capital..,' tions on college campuses or Saigon , may be in for. a elsewhere. Asked for comment on "flurry of terror, 7 said Lt. Gen. Julian Ewell. ' He re- - plans by students and oJiers for a one-da- y moratorium Oct. ported that captured docii- 15 to protest the war, Nixon Viet meats indicate the Cong said: There is. very little we and North Vietnamese;-- . will can do in Washington about rely heavily on sapper attacks running university and college ' s to him; they presented a distorted picture to him, Roth-- ? blatt said. SAIGON (AP) U.S. para? two found Viet Cong troopers ,160-fo- . Because bf this, damage to the j)ier ; probably will only, rim in the hundreds of dollars instead of the thousands. "A full moon,' reddened by the glow of the flames, hung over the bay and added to the ' r : . ' - ' spectacle for the hundred 14 ; . caretaker couple Flames, fed by the .dry ' hired by the ferry owner Was wood of Her 14s abandoned pulled i to ; safety. by.; Coast ! superstructure, : leaped more Guardsmen battling the blaze. , than .200 feet? asx timbers Authorities blamed itinercrashed and the walls of the,., ants for the fire,' which was piers central warehouse. area fought by 200 men using 40' collapsed. pieces of land equipment and No one was injured in the seven fireboats. It was con BINH, VIETNAM The defense in the (UPI) Green Beret murder case filed a legal motion today asking President Nixon that the case be dropped because of alleged "command influence" by Gen. Creighton W. Abrams. n proposals for setting a fixed deadline, such as the end of of all 1970, for withdrawal - inferno that erupted in one of the piers small buildings. But the old San Leandro ferry was d engulfed alongside the ' pier. 300-yar- LONG RECLAMATION CHIEF - To meet ths cost, President recommended an increase In the maximum earnings subject to Social Security levies from $7,800 today to Nixon $9,000 beginning Jan. 1, 1972. But he also asked that legislated contributions for both employers and employes be pared between 1971 and 1976. Instead of a jump from 5.2. per cent to 5.7 per cent over that period, the President wants the range 5.1 per cent to 5.5 per cent. The current rate Ls 4.8 per cent for both worker and employer through worker making the wage maximum would pay $54 more a year under the Presi- dents proposal in 1972 $459 versus $405. In what will probably be his reform most controversial request, Nixon asked an end benefit to (he kind of catch-uincrease he proposed for next p f year. I propose that the Congress make certain once and for all that the retired,' disabled and the benefits by the same percentrise over age the a year. The escalator would also boost the maximum wage base every two years proportionate to the increase in avg erage earnings per worker. Automatic increases would remove the congressional politicking that surrounds benefit hikes, hikes usually in election House years, said White Counselor Arthur F. Burns. dependent Todays Thought 1970. never again bear the brunt of inflation," he said. The way to prevent future unfairness is to attach the benefit schedule Present law calls fo. maintenance of the $7,800 wage base. Therefore, despite the proposal for a levy rollback, a to the cost of living. The President wants an automatic escalator provision that increases Social Security Riches either seive or govern the possessor . Horace - said the director of Alabama's . Marshall Space Flight Center, here to open a space exhibit at the southeastern fair. Von Braun said there is no ' ; argument between the Nixon Administration and the Na- - j tional Aeronautics and Space over i Administation (NASA) the the space program ; question is the pace at which ' the program will run. NASA has presented the ad- - I ministration four space objec-.- " tives which must be studied . and evaluated. The cheapest, , Von Braun said, would cost $4 billion a year and the most ? : expensive about $8 billion. He listed the objectives as; 7 Development of an earth orbit shuttle. Development of a space station module capable of holding between 50 and 100 I ; astronauts. Development of a more powerful nuclear booster for yse, either in Mars or moon ' flights. Development of a space shuttle or space tug for ex- - .. . .? ploration of outer space. Von Braun said Nixon must -weigh the four proposals and decide which will best fit itt' with other national objectives, '? ; |