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Show INDEX WEATHER I Amosanenti Classified Comici PROVO SALT LAKE OGDEN Ooudy tonight and Saturday with aa occasional shower. Cooler, highs Saturday near 71, low tonight mid 40s. Probability 17-- E IS Editorial 14 4 Obituaries Society U Sporti of 5-- 7 precipitation 10 tonight and Saturday. 99TH YEAR, NO. 210 PROVO, UTAH, FRIDAYjMAY 19. 1972 $2.50 Reds Dimvsn V PER MONTH - PRICE Bcoc! 10 per cent CENTS 51 '(onfum Cify Aftadt SAIGON (UPI waves of North Vietnamese backed by tanks attacked Kontum today but were beaten back in an eight-hobattle that involved d fighting on the Five hand-to-han- city's defense perimeter and point blank use of howitzers rrC l n radical Weathermen organization claimed responsibility for the biast and said it was done to celebrate Ho Chi Minn's UH Jtkphote birthday. Grain Pact May Result From Visit WASHINGTON (UPI)-Pres-i- dent Nixon's summit meeting with Soviet leaders next week to is likely produce an agreement under which the Russians will buy $200 million worth of U.S. grain each year for perhaps the next decade. Last year America sold the Soviet Union $135 million worth of its corn, barley and oats-f- eed grains Moscow wanted to meet growing consumer demands for more meat. U.S. - Russian trade talks County Coordination Council meeting hosted by county commissioners. Home Mr. Afterwards, displayed two newsletters, both of which noted that DDT has been considered much more beneficial to mankind and the unproven harmful effects attributed to it. Newsletters The two newsletters are "Outreach," distributed by Utah State University, and the NAC Newsletter, distributed by the National Agricultural Chemicals Association. They noted the hearings were conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency by Hearing Examiner Edmund Sweeney. In his ruling, Mr. Sweeney said, "the evidence in this proceeding supports the conclusion that there is a present need for ... DDT, that efforts are being made to provide a satisfactory replacement ... and Hobble Creek Study Slated; No Dredging A rumored report mat the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is scheduled to dredge Hobble Creek today was labeled as false by the Corps of Engineers office in Salt Lake City. Lee McQuivey, Orem, who is Thursday laid the groundwork for that aspect of the summit and left the impression that the firmest trade announcement to emerge from next week's meetings would most likely be that the Russians have decided to buy a little more grain this year. which concluded in Washington Ban Lifted On DDT Use By DARRELL BERKHEIMER After nearly a year of hearings and more than 9,000 pages of sworn testimony, the national ban on the pesticide DDT has been lifted, according to a report by Utah Canty Extension Agent Ralph H. Korne. Mr. Home made the brief report during the monthly Utah ( After Hospital Visit 2 Demos To Debate A BOMB uXPLODED in a women's restroom in the Pentagon early today. There were no Injuries when the explosion blew out 40 feet of the wall into adjoining corridors. The U.S.-Sovi- et against the onslaught A near record total of 20 waves of B52 bombers which dropped 1,800 to 2,000 tons of bombs helped break up the assault that military sources in Saigon fad could mark the That announcement, however, is expected to be coupled with a statement of agreement under which the two sides will work toward a long-terpact of five to 10 years calling for the sale of about $200 million in U.S. feed grains each year. m that a cooperative program of surveillance and review can result in a oontinued lessening in the risks involved." Broad Benefits Mr. Sweeney noted, "there seems to be little question of the far ranging public health and welfare benefits from DDT ... Those that would ban all use of DDT because of the possibility of some damage to man, the evidence of which is said to consist of results cf a few experiments with animals, would do well to compare such skimpy evidence of risk with the proof of the benefits which DDT has bestowed on mankind." Mr. Home noted that DDT is only one of many types of pesticides and that other chlorinated hydrocarbons used as pesticides should be considered more dangerous than ed DDT. The NAC Newsletter adds that Jesse Steinfeld, surgeon general of the U.S., was among those who testified that DDT has shown no evidence of any health hazard to man. Total U.S. exports to Russia last year amounted to about a relatively small $375 million part of the overall American trade picture. Before trade could increase, Russia would have to pay off her World War II lend lease debt and Congress would have to approve a change in Soviet trading status to make Moscow eligible. . Nixon continued preparations for his trip today by scheduling a briefing for congressional leaders of both parties in the afternoon. At Camp David, Md., Thursday, he met secretly for about one hour with Soviet Ambassa- Pentagon Damaged an division engineering representative in the Salt Lake office, reported the Corps is scheduled only to make a flood plain information study which was started recently when a few men from the Sacramento office visited the creek. Mr. McQuivey pointed out the Okinawa. On his return he joined the Los flood plain study is performed Sheriff's Angeles County to areas those identify mainly which are susceptible to flood Department, for a year and a then served a mission for damage over various periods of half, Church in Uruguay and IDS the time. He said the study had been on Paraguay. Following his mission, he the Corps of Engineers schedule for about three years and that it married, then entered Brigham will taite about eight months to a Ycung University, obtaining his degree in languages and year to complete. On Issues Spirits, Reports Nixon By United Press International Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey has won from Sen. George S. off the ". j n urn I M --1, M I - area. In a terse statement, the Pentagon duty officer said: "An explosion of unknown origin damaged a women's restroom and an adjoining area in the Pentagon at approximately 1 a.m. this morning. The explosion may have been caused by a bomb. There were no injuries. The explosion took place in the vicinity of Room 4E10W in the Pentagon. An investigation is under way. We have no further details at this time." A few moments later, a Pentagon investigative source said the explosion on the fourth floor had been caused by "a bomb." About the very moment the explosion ripped through the room on the inside of the Pentagon's outermost corridor, a call was received by the New York Post from a man who claimed that the Weatherman organization had "bombed the office of the secretary of the Air Force in the Pentagon ... in honor of Ho Chi Minh's birthday." Brandt Wins Ratification Of Treaties (UPI) - Chancellor Brandt final BONN Willy won parli- amentary ratification today of his nonaggression treaties with Russia and Poland and immedi- ately challenged the opposition Christian Democrats to early parliamentary elections. The Christian Democrats have a slight majority in the upper house and ratification came only because they abdor Anatoly F. Dobrynin to stained. Brandt's Social Demomake final arrangements for crats and his opposition are the visit. Dobrynin later left for deadlocked 248-2in the lower Moscow to the complete house and approval of the gioundwork at the other end. treaties there also came when Before taking off Saturday on the opposition abstained. the first leg of the journey to Ratification of the treaties Salzburg, Austria, Nixon will fulfilled Brandt's hope of make brief remarks to Cabinet them through before rushing officers and other officials who President Nixon's visit to will assemble at Andrews Air Moscow May 22. Only the Force Base outside Washington formality of signing the ratifito view his departure. cation papers by President Gustav Heinemann next Tuesday remained. 3-Cou"The existing situation in nty parliament causes the government to desire strongly a return to a clear majority situation," Brandt said in a declaration read to the press at political science. While on degree in law enforcement a news conference. campus he worked as a security administration at San Jose State The political situation resultofficer and investigator. He then College. He is currently coming from defections in Brandt's was employed by the Oakland, pleting his thesis. coalition and the lower house Calif. Police Department while He joined the Utah LEPA last stalemate meant further legisworking towards a master's June, working as a planning lation could be achieved only specialist, and on May 1, became with the cooperation of opposilocal coordinator. Region Four tion deputies. LEPA has been in operation for Brandt called on the opposithree years, opening late in 1969 tion to meet with him and work with Pat McGuire as director. out an agreement on a date for Bob E. Hollar then served as new elections. He did not propose a date, director until February of this year, when he submitted his but his aides said he had in mind elections in resignation. 10 Three Counties months ahead of LEPA assists all criminal schedule. Political sources said they justice agencies in the three counties, conducting planning to doubted the opposition would strengthen and expand their accept the challenge at this programs. Agencies arc being time. Reflecting this probabiliurged to plan for their needs five ty, Brandt also offered the to 10 years in the future, Mr. oppos'iian close cooperation in Livingston reports. key matters of foreign policy. Brandt said he feared that if Currently two surveys are the early elections did not take concerning underway prosecutor system and the needs place, the opposition might of each police, correctional, and resort to "an irresponsible court agency with regard to policy of obstruction" which manpower, equipment, etc. With could delay important TED IJVINGSTON (Continued On Page 2) Director Named For Law Enforcement Planning Unit Ted Livingston has been named director of the Region Four LEPA (Law Jiforcement Planning Agency), and will maintain an office in the Provo Police Department. Region Four covers Utah, Wasatch, and Summit counties. The organization is responsible for helping with law enforcement planning in order to strength local law enforcement agencies. Military Policeman A native of Los Angeles, Mr. Livingston attended school there and served three years in the U.S. Army, where he was a military policeman. Two years of his service was spent in Wallace Alert, in Fine McGovern a commitment to debate the issues in California, but lost to his principal rival the endorsement of Martin Luther King's widow. Coretta Scott King announced her support of McGovern WASHINGTON (UPI) A Thursday at a black church in bomb exploded in a women's Los Angeles as McGovern restroom in the Pentagon early opened his campaign for the today, seven hours before key June 6 primary, which maximum security provisions offers 271 delegates to the were to be imposed on the winner. nerve center of America's Gov. George C. Wallace of defense establishment. The Alabama, the third major radical Weatherman claimed Democratic presidential candicredit and said it was done to date, was recovering in Marycelebrate Ho Chi Minh's birth- land from gunshot wounds which may leave him partially day. There were no injuries. The paralyzed. Lt. Gov. Lester Maddox of explosion blew about 40 feet of the wall into adjoining corriGeorgia offered to campaign dors, bursting water pipes and for Wallace Saturday at a rally exposing electrical wires inside (Continued On Page 2) the large washroom. The FBI immediately sealed By Bomb start of the "decisive stage" of Today is the 82nd anniversary and were firing explosive shells the battle for the Central of the birth of the late North into the North Vietnamese at Highlands 280 miles north of Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh point blank range. and both American and South Saigon. The North Vietnamese had launched Saigon newspapers said Pres- Vietnamese military commannumerous probing ident Nguyen Van Thieu had ders had expected some major attacks in recent days Including ordered court martials for Brig. Communist effort to mark the one Thursday that was beaten Gen. Vu Van Giai and 48 of his event. They thought Hue might back a mile or so from Kontum subordinates whose 3rd Division be the target, but it was with 41 Communists killed. The was decimated in the fight for Kontum, 280 miles north of big assault began at 10 o'clock Quang Tri. The newspaper Saigon. tonight The fighting was so intense reports said the officers who Reports from the area said fled the city would be tried for and at sach close quarter that an estimated regiment (about desertion in the face of the at one point the defenders 2,900 men at normal strength) lowered their artillery pieces enemy. (Continued On Page 2) SILVER SPRING, Md. (UPI) President Nixon visited the partially paralyzed George C. Wallace today at his hospital and described the Alabama governor as being "very alert and in good spirits." The President spent more than a half hour with Wallace at Holy Cross Hospital and told newsmen afterward, "I think the governor is going to come out of this. "I don't know what the physical damage is going to be, but the most important thing is that nothing has happened to his head and his heart," Nixon said. Nixon visited Wallace from about 9 a.m. until about 9:40 a.m. EDT on his way back to the White House by helicopter from his retreat at Camp David, Md. He also talked with Wallace's wife, Cornelia. Discusses Moscow Trip The President leaves for Moscow Saturday morning art told reporters he discussed the trip with Wallace. "He wished me well," the President said. "As far as the governor's HOSPITAL SPECTATOR grasps President Richard Nixon's hand as the President emerges from Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring, Md. after visiting Alabama Governor George Wallace. Nixon said Wallace was "very alert and in good spirits." unukphotoj A On Viet Blockade Humphrey Suspects Deal With Russians physical condition is concerned, I have nothing to add to the medical report," Nixon said. The latest report, issued by the hospital a few minutes before Nixon's arrival, said Wallace "had a good night" but said the condition of the bwer extremities is "unchanged." That meant that Wallace still has no feeling from the waist down as a result of wounds at the hands of a would-b- e assassin Monday afternoon at a in nearby plaza shopping Laurel, Md. LOS ANGELES (UPI)-S- en. details today. with Humphrey said Taping an interview to be broadcast Thursday he thinks President KCOP-TNixon made a secret "arrange- Sunday, Humphrey, asked his ment in advance" with the reaction to the mining of North Soviet Union in which the Vietnamese harbors, said: Russians agreed not to chal"It seems to me that lenge the U.S. blockade of President Nixon had made North Vietnam. some arrangements in advance Humphrey said Nixon should with the Soviet Union. I think tell the ration what conditions he owes it to the American to tell them what that he accepted in the "secret deal." arrangement is." Humphrey launched his camHumphrey said he believed paign Thursday in the crucial there must have been a "secret California primary election by deal" with the Soviet governsetting up a television debate ment or Nixon would not have with Sen. George McGovern, risked a confrontation. his chief rival for the DemocraHumphrey recalled that Hentic presidential nomination. ry Kissinger, the President's McGovern, saying he issued the chief foreign affairs adviser, challenge first, agreed to the conferred with Russian leaders debate and aides of the two in Moscow before the blockade candidates were to iron out was announced. Hubert In Good Spirits K. V Agnew Doubts Connolly To Be Veep Candidate WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Vice President Spiro T. Agnew said today he did nu know whether he would be President Nixon's running mate in November but that it was "totally unrealistic" to suppose Treasury Secretary John B. Connally would be acceptable. "I don't understand how anybody could seriously believe that a man who is registered as a Democrat in the middle of May can turn Republican and be nominated vice president," Agnew said. "He is very alert and in good spirits. He has not been depressed," the President said. He added: "My own view is that if a man has strong vital spirits and the will to live, that is the critical factor." Nixon said he renewed his offer of use of the presidential suite at Walter Reed Army Medical Center for Wallace. "However, he wants to get back to Alabama," the President said. A Secret Service agent who was one of three persons besides Wallace wounded allegedly by Arthur H. Bremer of Milwaukee on Monday is at Walter Reed and Mrs. Wallace visited him Thursday. Luxury Ship Threatened; Search Reveals No Bombs NEW YORK (UPI)- -A team British frogmen parachuted into the Thursday and searched the $71 million luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2, without success, for bombs that were an extortionist said aboard. Unruffled passengers photographed the drama, then "went back to playLig blackof mid-Atlant- ic jack." In New York, Cunard Line Ltd. for North America which received the call Wednesday from a man who said six bombs aboard the world's second largest hner would be detonated unless $350,000 in ransom were paid said today the man failed to call back with further instructions as promised. "No news is good news," Cunard's North American President President Richard Patton told Cunard's London director S. Norman by Thompson telephone. "Since we have had no further reports, we can assume there are no bombs on the ship." In London, Victory Matthews, the chairman of Cunard Lines, (Continued On Page 2) . |