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Show MosHy Fair Our Phone Numbers Generally fair today, tonight and Thursday with slight chance of showers. Lows 60 to 65. Details, weather map on Page News Tips 0 Home Delivery 5 Information 8 Sports Scores 5 Classified Ads Only Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South 524-440- 524-284- 524-444- B-1- VOL. 374, NO. United Press International Israeli cabinet split between hawks and doves widened today, and the hawkish Gahal Party threatened to leave the government if Israel repilcs affirmatively to U.S. Premier peace proposals. Golda Heir appealed to the Gahal leaders not to precipitate a government crisis at this critical time. An While various ministers began a series of with the Gahal meetings members of the Knesset (par day-lon- g 521-353- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 78 PAGES 38 0 524-444- liament). the battle along the raged for the 69th consecutive day. There were artillery duels which wounded one Israeli soldier and new Israeli air strikes against Egypt's canal positions. Suez Canal The rift in the Arab world created and by Jordan's Egypt's acceptance of U.S. proposals for a three-montcease-firdeepened and the Sudan joined Egypt in banning broadcasts by the Arab guerrillas who have vowed there will be no letup in their war against Israel. h e the most powerful 0c MOUNTAIN THE of the Arab guerrilla groups, announced it would broadcast from Amman. The central committee for Palestinian guerrilla organizations called a two-hogeneral strike for Thursday in tire Jordanian capital to pioter.t the U.S. Mideast proposals. The crisis between King Hussein and the guerrillas based in his country appeared to be worsening. Princess Muna. the kings British-born wife, flew to London today to join her two sons but it was not known if her visit was in connection with the crisis. WEST'S The Israeli cabinet met Sunday and was unable to resolve the cabinet crisis. It met again for two hours today but there was no decision. One explanation was that Israel was still awaiting clarification from Washington on several points of the U.S. plan but the principal reason appeared to be Israel's internal problems. Political sources said Mrs. Meir was determined when Israel did give its answer it would present a unified front to the world. The Gahal Party threatened flatly to walk out of the cabinet if Israel accept FIRST NEWSPAPER ed a ceast'-fiithat it says would enable Egypt and Russ-sito build up Iheiv Suez forces. planted mines cm a main load. He said 12 Jordanian civilians including a baby were injured in a mine explosion e a an Diplomatic London said Gunnar V. sources m I.X. mediator Jarring plans to his Mideast peace begin soundings early next month it Israel joins Egypt and Jordan in accepting tiie U.S. peace formula. other Middle East developments today: A Jordanian military spokesman said an Israeli patrol crossed the Jordan River in the Tel area of the north Jordan Valand ley around midnight In The London Daily Kxpre.-- s 1 970 ve shall govern- Gahal seats in the Knps-M- t (parliament) would still leave Mrs. Meirs coalition government with a majority of 76 seats in the paliament. 26 Partys Of Cabal's six cabinet members, four were said to favor an affirmative reply despite a majority of parly members opposing it. One Gahal member emerged from r dethe leaderships bate on fhe American proposal and said: said Soviet jets flown by Russian pilots clashed vvi'h Israeli fighters last Saturday near the Suez Canal and shot down 29, "It looks as though have to leave the ment." The loss ot the Skvhawk. American-buil- t The Parliament members ot all four parties in Mrs. Meirs met in secret government Tuesday and political sources in Jerusalem said three of the parties, commanding 18 of the 21 cabinet seats, approved the U.S. plan. this morning. Today's cabinet session wa declared a meeting of the Ministrial Security Committee. thereby placing it under military censorship to prevent leaks of its discussions. JULY WEDNESDAY, Israeli Defense Minister Dayan left little doubt Moshe Tuesday night the government would go along with the U.S. proposals for a cease-fir- e and indirect negotiations with Egypt and Jordan, Ilia only two Arab nations consulted on the plan. three-mont- five-hou- ;5f Eastern Seaboard Hit By Weather, Pollution United Press International The mayor of New York activated the first stage of an air pollution emergency alert in the nations largest city today as a blanket of dirty air hung motionless over much of the Atlantic Coast megalopolis for the fifth day. We have two crises on our hands power and air pollution," Mayor John V. Lindsay declared following a morning of meetings with his emergency control board and the president of Consolidated Edison Co. As the Cuba Today Cuban Equality Cubas once mighty oxi-den- ts there is nearly nothing to steal. The crime rate is so low because the penalty death is so high. Use or possession of narcotics is punishable and by indefinite detention this includes marijuana. There is even a law now against beards. Fidel Castro is the one and only and last hero of the revolution allowed to wear a beard. And in ' Cuba. today's Communist Heaven would surely not heed the cries of any would-b- e hippie who tried to grow long hair. Third of a series fac- tories are running at a fraction of their capacity or closed down altogether. Ameris sorely ican technology missed. Machines of all types lie idle and rusting throughout the land, silently crying out for parts and repairs. Eleven years of scientific' advances have sailed on right past the island. Cuba has no crime because ot Firm Plans To Fly Car NUYS, CALIF. (AP) An engineering company plans to test soon its designs VAN Common workmen do occupy the great hotels. But See FIDEL on Page A --4 ! ! : Meany: Hike Minimum -A(AP) President George FL-CIO Meany said today low wage workers are hit hardest by Todays minimum wage of $1.60 is just a few cents more in terms of purchasing power inflation and urged Congress Meany said in a statement prepared for the House Education and Labor Committee. The last minimum wage increases, from $1.25 to $160 over several years, were en- WASHINGTON to increase the federal minimum wage to at least $; an hour. "Inflation hits these people harder than anyone else. than was $1.25 in 1968," acted in 1966. Todays Thought Who is not satisfied with himself will grow; who is not sure of his oum correctness will learn many things. Chinese Prorerb f Meany called it shocking that many low paid workers would be better off financially if they quit their jobs and entered the welfare rolls. That the is appalling, said leader of the million member labor federation. "We do not believe 13.6 in the alert provide extra buses. The mayor acted as the citys Air Resources Department announced the amount of sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, smoke shade and in the air had reached the "unsatisfactory to unhealthy stage. The smog cast a yellowish gray pall over the city. From the top of the 1,472-foEmpire State Building, the worlds tallest building visibil Silently Cry For Repairs By RON LAYTNER Special to the Deseret News first step He asked them to begin organizing car pools or using public transportation immediately and said the city would Once - Mighty Factories any employed worker should be forced to go on welfare rolls in order to survive. Meany said the current federal minimum wage means only $3,209 a year to a worker for a full year1 work, less two weeks of unpaid vacation. A $2 minimum would provide $4,000 a year, Even $2 an hour is barely above the government-definepoverty level for families with two children, Meany said. d Meany also urged Congress to provide double-tim- e pay for overtime work, instead of the and present time and one-hato shorten the work week or the work year. lf for adapting a standard car into an airplane. Henry Smol-insk- l, president of Advanced Vehicle Engineers, says hell put a Pontiac in the air by the end of the year. 1 The idea of a car that could be rigged easily to fly has interested engineers, and commuters, for years. But, says Smolinski, previous designs were hard to assemble and the ground vehicles inadequate. His design a wing, tail and pusher engine assembly attached to the car roof and bottom will be adapted for a dozen modern cars, he says, Our plan, he said, is to make the operation so simple that a woman can easily put or the two systems together separate them without help. Just back the car into the proper position under the plane assembly, insert a few pins, and youre ready to fly, he says. ity was cut from a normal 50 miles to 1 or 2 miles. The Atlantic Coast, from New York to Atlanta, has been covered for four days by a polluted haze trapped by hoti and humid air which the Weather Bureau said would remain stationary until the v ' ' ;f- weekend. The temperature reached a seasons high of 94 L a,- N, - v ' ' I s v 4' M degrees in New York Tuesday and could go even higher by midafternoon today, the Weather Bureau said. At 11 a.m. the temperature already was 87 degrees and the temperature-humiditindex was 80 the level at which everyone Is believed affected by the heai K, - V $ if rf ; 7 A ' ' 1 ' L , ' 1 'I, x I' v" 7 ix ; ! t? s " y the city sanitation department was ordered to cut incineration by 20 per cent and municipal hospitals and housing projects to stop their on site burning of garbage by 3 p.m. Lindsay warned New Yorkers to prepare for the banning of all private vehicles from certain areas of the city if the crisis worsens. Julio Martinez, a TV cameraman, holds photo of himself taken during revolution. Now, only Castro may wear a beard. M K f y,, I and humidity. vveather The also was blamed for the power crisis because of increased use of air conditioners and fans. For the second day the Consolidated Edison Co. asked1 200 major consumers, including the City of New York, and private citizens to limit their UP Tdephott . consumption of power to essentials. Blanket of smog virtually hides N.Y.'s famed skyline. In the Washington, D.C., area officials were on the verge of issuing an air polluThe industrial cities of Euputed by the Italian city of hospitals for throat, lung and tion alert Tuesday but a comMilan which says more dirt clear rope are the worst offenders However ailments. eye bination of local breezes and skies were reported over the but the cities of the Ruhr in falls from the skies there than increased cloud cover relieved West Germany are doing any place in the world. today. Visibility Japanese the situation somewhat today. in Mexico city in the UPf bureaus around the City morning something about it. Northern Reports from overseas indi- is less than a. block. Italy is one of the worst and world reported that automocate that smog is strengthenthe rapid succession of fallen biles, buses and trpeks are Almost every major indusing its worldwide grip. trial city of the world is faced government makes it appear the worst offenders in the The pines along the ancient with a growing problem of air little will be done soon. cramped parts of the cities In the Kowloon area of and there are moves underAppian Way of Rome are pollution and in many cases nothing is being done about it. Hong Kong W'here industry is way to ban cars from certain dying of chemical fumes. The areas. Tokyo and other Japabooming so is air pollution smog in Tokyo has been so London, once the setting for bad for the last 10 days that deadly killer smogs, has done and the air there might be the nese industrial cities are conworst in ths w'orld. This is dis sidering such a ban. 8,803 persons were treated in something about it. , Strategic Plateau Is Target Cambodian Counter Drive - A PHNOM PENH (UPl) force of 3,000 Cambodian troops guided by a U.S. Air Force spotter plane opened a new offensive today to try to recapture the rain and Kirirom Plateau from Communist forces who sent them reeling backwards Tuesday. The plateau. 56 miles southwest of Phnom Penh, controls Highway 4 to the sea and its occupation by the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces Phnom Penhs threatens imports of oil and other commodities and jeopardizes sev- eral important factories vital to Cambodias war effort. The attack force was mad? up of five battalions of gov- ernment including troops three fresh battalions rushed from Phnom Penh in a convoy of 50 buses and trucks. The led by American-traine- d force, Khmer mercenaries who once fought in South Vietnam, was' moving up th? mountain from near 3, 000-fo- the resort town of Kirirom, 70 miles southwest of Phnom Penh. As the troops gathered for the assault, a U.S. Air Force Bronco spotter plane and F4 Phantom jets were seen through the clouds above the plateau, apparently on reconnaissance and intelligence missions. Brig. Gen. Sosthene Fernandez, commander of the 2nd Military District, told UPI he had asked for U.S. air support for the assault on the plateau but had had no reply. He said, however, that American aerial been had reconnaissance very helpful in planning the attack. Fernandez estimated there were at least 2,000 Communist troops in the Kirirom area with other elements in the surrounding countryside. Fernandez said Cambodian casualties in the battle which sent them fleeing from Kirirom were at least 20 killed and 40 wounded, mostly from 120 mortar attacks. 1 An estimated 1,700 South soldiers who Vietnamese helped Cambodian forces re- capture a nearby cement plant on Tuesday were reported 15 miles from the plateau, available for a counterattack if the Cambodians mount one. There was no word ot fighting. Official reports from Saigon said the South Vietnames claimed killing 14 Communist troops w'hile taking no casualties in reinforcing Cambodian forces at the Kampot cement factory, 75 miles southwest of Phnom Penh and within striking distance of Kirirom. A military spokesman said government troops Tuesday from the the last withdrew miles plateau of 56Phnom Penh in face of insurmountable pressure. the Inside The News SECTION National, Foreign 1,2, A 4,5.8.13-1- Editorial Pages Do-I- t .ll Man City, Regional ... SECTION City. 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