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Show esmummeen HRET Daytime temperatures a litvle cooler today and Tuesday, with some cloudiness and chance of rain. See details, weather map on 42 PAGES 1 SAIGON Command - The U.S. (AP) launched a lull-sca- gun-shi- Viet-name- AP Wire photo Saigon Mayor Col. Van Van Cua, seriously wounded in rocket blast, talks to Premier Tran Van Huong. . A Trans World Airlines Boeing NEW VoRK (AP) 727 jet with 102 persons aboard struck a pier coming into La Guardia Airport today, took to the air again and made a skidding landing at Kennedy Airport Police said 14 persons were slightly injured. TWA said 95 passengers and seven crew members were aboard. Police said the injured were treated for minor injuries at an airport medical facility. The plane, Flight 406 from Cincinnati, apparently damaged its landing gear when it tried to land at La Guardia and struck a light per. extending Into Bowery Bay and leading to a runway. The plane struck several landing lights on its descent at La Guardia, according to an official there. The pilot, apparently aware of what happened, applied power and lifted the plane into flight again. Apparently deciding to try Kennedy Airport because runways are longer, the pilot took the plane there and radioed he had hydraulic trouble and his left landing gear would not lower fully. A Kennedy spokesman said when the plane came down there, about 15 minutes after the first attempt at La Guardia, the landing gear collapsed and the plane skidded about 5,000 feet on the runway before veering off and coming to a halt in the sand, about 300 feet from the runway. . The clue lies in a statement published two days ago in the newspaper Nhan Dan, mouthpiece of the North Vietnamese Communist party. Instead of saying the United States must . cial counselor to Thuy. While he was stopping over in Moscow Sunday, the Soviet Communist party newspaper Pravda enthe peace talks anew and restated its support for North Vietnams position. Pravda made this statement: It seems clear there are many concrete problems which must be dLscussed, but there is only one question: ending the U.S. attacks on the North which must be regulated at first in the present talks. The word regulated caught the attention of experts here. It seemed much softer than others which might have been used, such as decided or settled dorsed halt immediately all agree attacks on North Vietnamese territory, it says that the United States "must first of all clearly acknowledge its responsibility to put a definitive and unconditional end to the attacks. Members of the American delegation in the Paris conference are frankly not quite sure what this means but are slightly NEW YORK (AP) Negooptimistic. They hope for clarification in the next session or tiators for the AFLrCIO Unittwo with the North Vietnam del- ed Steelworkers of America, settleegation, Ambaadorf y. Aver-el- l after weekend contract Harrlman and Xuan Thuy ments with the major alumiand their advisers will meet num companies, today open contract talks covering about again Wednesday. to MONDAY, JUNE 3, 1968 ecu:; an communique stating that 1,019 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese were killed in and around the capital during the week ending last Saturday. South Vietnamese troops, who were said to have done most of the fighting, reported their own casualties as light. U.S. forces listed six Americans killed and 32 wounded for the period. The rocket explosion Sunday also wounded four other officials, including Saigons mayor. The Vietnamese were hit while observing operations against Viet Cong soldiers holding out in buildings in Cholon, the Chinese district in southwestern Saigon. The rocket decimated the - of the II Thuy, meanwhile, is expected to get the latest thoughts of the ruling group in Hanoi from one of its top members, Le Due Tho, who was dispatched to 480,000 Paris. r tween the 1.2 union and the Coordinating of Steel ComCommittee panies, representing the 11 steel producers. The negotiations starting today can set a pattern for members of the union not Involved in the present talks. Tho, a Communist theoretician, will serve here as a spe Today's Thought Those who dwell upon ivory fotoers have heads of the same materials. Leonard Bacon major steel producers in the most optimistic atmosphere in years. are beThe negotiations million-membe- For the first time, preliminary talks were held on local issues, and many were settled in six weeks of talks. The Steelworkers . UPI : Col. Nguyen Van Luan, the Saigon police chief. Col. Le Ngoc Tru, commander of Saigon's 5th Police Precinct, Maj. Nguyen Ngoc Xinh, chief of staff of joint operations for the national police, Maj. Nguyen Bao Thuy, brother-in-la- its Students Defiant FRANKFURT, Germany (UPI) Extremt3t students defied police orders Sunday and repainted the name Karl Marx University" in large green letters over the entrance to Frankfurt's Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University. AT ROME U. GATES Police Quash Student Clash Riot police campus since March when hundreds of students and police were Injured in fierce fighting there. The action today came after a battle that lasted almost an hour between 300 antileftist student groups. students attacking fiom the The police action was grimoutside and nearly 2,000 batly formal. First an official tling to hold their control over donned the tricolor sash that the campus. signified he acted in the name At least 10 students wore of the republic. Then a trumcarried away to hospitals. The peter tooted three shrill blasts attackers broke through part that meant This is official." of tlie gate and poured onto Then a huge pair of metal the campus, hurling rocks and clippers was used to cut the flaming bundles of rags. leftg The defenders, chain with which charging into the fray with cries of "Ho ist students and black-flaanarchists locked the gates Oil Minh," drove them back. At that point a handful of three days ago when they occupied the university. police who had tried in vain to It was the first time riot pokeep the rival factions apart, lice have moved onto the called for reinforcements. ROME (AP) cut through the barricaded gate of the errfbattled University of Rome today and moved into the campus to break up new fighting between rival leftist-occupi- red-fla- g chief of the Saigon mayor's cabinet and brother of the former minister of revolutionary development, and Lt. Col. Dao Ba Phuoc, commander of the 5th Ranger Group. The wounded were Saigon's mayor, Col. Van Van Cua; in Telhotoi Saigon. Col. Tran Van Phan, chief of staff of the national police director; Col. Nguyen Van Giam, deputy chief of the capital military district, and Maj. Le Ngoc To, commander .of the 5th Combat Police Battal- ion. SUPREME COURT California Death View Primary Hot Spot ' . and buddy take cover from Red sniper South Viet marine administration. Those killed were Col. Pho Quoc Chu, the director of the port of Saigon and Vice PresiCao dent Nguyen Kys No Bar For Jurors By CHARLOTTE G. MOULTON tionally be put to death at the The hands of a tribunal so selected, WASHINGTON (UPI Stewart declared. that Court ruled Supreme today In other actions, the Court: Person,8 voicing general objecthat a .Ruled unanimously the can penalty not, automatically be kept off teacher can speak out on issues of public Interest without fear of juries. if his statements are dismissal Five justices joined in the ma not knowingly or recklessly written Justice by jority opinion Potter Stewart Justices Hugo false. The decision was in favor L. Black, John M. Harlan and of Marvin L. Pickering, fired from his high school teaching Byron R. White filed a vigorous in Will County, Dl., after he job dissent. Justice William O. "But obviously, he said, "I Douglas disagreed with the ma- wrote a letter to a newspaper have to look at the results of jority opinion but did not label accusing school authorities of spending too much money on California very, very careful- his views an outright dissent. sports. ly. ON APPEAL GRANT HEARING ' SHOULD JOIN The ruling came on an appeal Granted a hearing next Kennedy said he and McCar- by William C. Witherspoon, 42, term to Dick Gregory, Negro thy should join in a common sentenced to death for the fatal cause against Johnson adminis- shooting of a Chicago police- comedian and civil rights activist, in his appeal against a tration policy after California man, Mitchell Stone, in 1959. conduct conviction after and indicated his decision on Justice Stewart said the state a 1965 protest march at the staying in. the race would be of Illinois had stacked the See SELECTION on Page 0 dictated by how he believes he deck" against Witherspoon by could best further that cause. automatically excluding from This struggle really must be the jury anyone who voiced opwith Vice President Hubert H. position to the deRth penalty. Humphrey, Kennedy said. He The Court however did not the guilty verdict, represents the course that we have been following over the pe- saying there had been no showPORTLAND, ORE. (AP) riod of the last several years in ing that the jury was unrep the administration. resentative. At the trial 47 of 96 Pfc. Peter Pittock wont get to Kennedy was interviewed on jurors were disqualified because race his tank in the Portland ABCs Issues and Answers. they voiced qualms of con- Rose Festival sports car races science about sending Wither- this weekend. OTHER PRIMARIES spoon to the electric chair. The Portland soldier mailed a In other primaries Tuesday: ALL BUT 2 form from properly filled-ou- t South Dakota Democrats decide whether Kennedy, Hum- The exclusion practice prevailsl Vietnam, entering his favorite in most federal courts and in all tank in the annual event on phrey or McCarthy will control the state's national states which have the death behalf of his Army unit. Officials said they disqualified convention delegation. Richard penalty except Iowa and South Pittock because he failed to sub- M. Nixon is unopposed on the Dakota. No defendant can constitu - mit his entry fee. Republican ballot, New Jersey Gov. Richard J. Hughes has said McCarthy could win up to 20 of that states 82 Democratic delegates. Sen. Clifford Case is a favorite-socandidate to head 40 unpledged Republican delegates. MONTANA CONTEST Incumbent Montana Gov. Do-l- t Tim M. Babcock is challenged Man got his ears jby Lt. Gov. Ted James lor the boxed recently for suggesting Republican gubernatorial nomi- the use of carbon tetrachlornation. Incumbent Democratic ide as a cleaner in the home. Rep. Arnold Olsen, seeking Safety experts snowed him nomination for a fifth term, is under with evidence of the challenged by Supt. of Public danger of the solvent. Even Instruction Harriet Miller. its fumes are deadly. Alabama Rep. Armistead As a result Do-l- t Man visitSelden and former Lt. Gov. ed the Occupational Health Janies Allen face a runoff for Field Station of the U.S. Public the Democratic nomination for Healtli Service and got an the Senate seat being vacated education. He describes what by retiring Sen. Lister Hill, he learned in a special story on Page itks In California, McCarthy and And for all the news, heres Can Billy come out to riot?" and state Atty. Gen. the index: Kennedy Thomas C. Lynch, who heads an SECTION A are compel-- ! Comics unpledged slate ...2 10 Obituaries ing for 174 delegate votes in a National, Foreign .9 winner-take-aTheater 9 contest. 9 Weather Map Action Ads Kennedy was the favorite, but1 Womens Pages ly Tank Outlawed In Portland Race reverse j TOP OF THE NEWS n Steel folks Outlook dtriesht employes vv-fsjS- top echelon of tire Saigon City state-owne- Clue In N. Viet Words - Tins allied strike . 0 1 - The 60,000 Renault workers, among the toughest in France, also rejected a settlement plan. In other areas talks were under way to settle most of the strikes. Some workers already had gone back to work. But government officials said it would take the rest of the week to break down the nationwide idleness. While the workers, employers and state negotiators talked, politicians planned for the June 23 and 30 elections the general strike produced. REMAINS CLOSE President Charles de Gaulle abandoned his usual weekend in the country and remained in his Elysee Palace, near his lieutenants. Premier Georges Pompidou 1 524-284- 521-353- the told the French nation today it defend By Associated Press republic and By JOSEPH W. GRIGG commu- freedom." decide must between A A California confrontation PARIS (UPI) nism and President Charles de He said the crisis has shown that Sen. Robert F. Kennedy national strike crumbled Gaulle in the June 23 parliathe danger that the republic indicates could decide the fate slowly today. But holdouts in mentary elections. could be overthrown by a totalia blocked his Democratic presidential industries surge key In an unscheduled nationwide tarian enterprise, backed by vi- of bid back to work. highlights a week of politi broadcast Pompidou also called olence, notably in the CommuHie main trouble spots in for an early settlement of nist party, which has openly cal activity including five state strikes crippling French indus- shown settling the ambitions and primaries. were the railroads, the Paris try and asked students to leave demands. Kennedy-Follow- ing a nation- universities subway, bus systems and the the they have Frenchmen made the most of a televised ally works. d Renault auto exchange with seized. sunny long weekend. Today, as rival Sen. Eugene J, McCarthy Negotiations were under way - Pompidou said Frenchmen in the rest of Western Europe, on Vietnam, slums, and other with the railwaymen with no must decide if they are for or is the annual Pentecost (Whit- issues said Sunday he has immediate settlement. of sign commu- sun) public holiday when little against totalitarian not decided what he would do if Paris transit workers voted nism and called on voters to business is done anyhow. he loses the California primary down a settlement their leaders Tuesday because he expects to readied with the government. win. RENAULT REJECTS U.S. Redds U.S. officials PARIS (AP) the are studying possibility of a North Vietwith compromise nam" over broadening the scope of the Paris peace talks in spite of the deadlock on the Vietnam war. military headquarters reported that GOO to 800 fresh Viet Cong troops had slipped into the northern suburb of Gia Dinh, 2 hi miles from the center of Saigon. y. 1 364-111- ooa-7- 4 o Information 5 Classified Ads' Only Editorial offices: 33 Richards St. Strikes Crumble Slowly In Paris JETLINER SKIPS, SKIDS, 14 HURT 3G4-25S- Laymielhes (sDeotih Voeft investigation today into the misfiring of a rocket by p an American helicopter South that killed six key and officials Vietnamese seemed likely to place new strains on relations. were officials American visibly shaken and appeared concerned about repercussions from the incident. An in editorial, tone, appeared in the Saigon Daily News under the headToo An Accident ing, Many. As the latest wave of fighting In the capital area went s into its 10th day, South i Only-Circulatio- n The Mountain West's First Newspaper Oc Him i News Depts. News Tips SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH B-- VOL. 369 NO. 129 .i Our Phone Numbers Keep Your Coo! Page mm mStomamA m . Alcoa and Reynolds executive board, headed by giants were struck during the union President I. W. Abel, Alumet Sunday to plan strategy. weekend by the AFL-CIFollowing that session, the minum Workers Union. Alcoa the Aluminum Co. unions negotiating advisory committee met of America reported that and Abel said the committee half its capacity was halted. meeting involved procedures. It is the nations largest aluminum producer. There was no The United announcement of what went Steelworkers on. has said that in Its negotiaThe basic steel Industry has tions with the major steel not had a major strike since a companies it would demand a walkout in 1959. The pay increase of 6 per cent and White House, however, has fringe benefits. Wages now Intervened several times in average $3.83 an hour, accordcontract talks. ing to the union. The comconTiie current panies have said wages and tract, which expires Aug. 1, fringe benefits combined total was agreed upon niter Presi$4.88 an hour. A union spokesman said the dent Johnson Intervened in new contract with the five 1965. Although the United Steellargest aluminum producers workers had signed a new contained a wage Increase three-yea- r pact covering half exceeding the 6.1 per cent won In the can Industry aluminum of the nations h workers, the two aluminum recently. After a public 116-da- y nine-mont- strike, copper workers got an 8 per cent increase. About the same terms were agreed to during the weekend by the Steelworkers Union, which represents half of the 60,000 aluminum workers, and United Auto the AFL-CIWorkers, which represents about 4,700 workers of Alcoa. The Auto Workers staged a one-da- y strike before settling late Saturday. Aluminum Workers Union, however, turned down the United Steelworkers formula, which usually sets the pattern for the industry. The smaller union called out 11,000 members at Alcoa and 4,000 at Reynolds. beSeparate negotiations tween the Aluminum Workeis Union and Alcoa and Reynolds collapsed Saturday and the negotiators left New York for their homes. The Learns Lesson B-- l. 11-1- 3 experienced observers were saying the primary could go way, and some were pouting to the possibility that Lynch could beat botli McCarthy and Kennedy X Editorial Pages Our Man Jones Music Citv, Regional SECTION City, Regional 7 14, 15 13 15 16 J-- 8, 9 C Sports . TV Highlights Financial B 1, SECTION City, Regional 4 ..-- 5 7 8 |
