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Show ' 4 A DlSERET 1971 Thursdoy, Moy 20, NEWS, Viets Battle fleds At Both S; Ends tf - South SAIGON (UPI) troops battled North Vietnamese at dug-iboth ends of the A Shau Valley today, supported by U.S. helicoplrs that came under heavy fire. B52s bombed in n Laos where a neighboring Communist offensive rolled on unchecked. A military spokesman m the Laotian capital of Vientiane said North Vietnamese forces rocket and launched a mortar attack which drove forces Laotian government out of Houei Kong, last gav-- e rnnent outpost on the strategic Bolovens Plateau in southern Laos. I BITTER FIGHTING ; UPI correspondent Stewart Kellerman reported from a firctase overlooking the valley in the northern part of South Vietnam that ARVN tiur.ps lulled 38 Nil ill Vietnamese in the bitterest fight of the campaign to drive Com- - Viet Talks 'On Holiday' - PARIS (UPI) The 114th session of the Vietnam peace talks was put off today until next week to allow the French government employes at the conference center to take a holiday along with most of their countrymen. Ascension Day, a Roman Catholic observance, is a holiday in most businesses in France. Barks and markets also are closed. Tne four parties to the conference the United States, South Vietnam, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong have agreed to meet next Thursday, May 27. Valley munists from bunkered strongholds. That battle was at of end southeastern the the valley. It began in darkness Wednesday night, raged until 3 a.m. today then picked up at dawn when the South Vietnamese launched a . ttack. By the end of the day they overrun 26 bunkers, captuied 10 buildings and truck. a Russian-buiANOTHER BATTLE lt Another battle war, reported at the northeastern end of the valley, which is 375 miles north of Saigon. There the 54th ARVN Regiment fought for eight hours, killing five of the dug-ienemy. ARVN casualties were reported light. n In southern Laos the nu,;-tar- y situation grew more serious by the minute and the North Vietnamese were reported consolidating their hold on the entire Bolovens Plaa urive that in effect teau widened the Ho Chi Minh Trail complex of supply lines to Cambodia and southern Vietnam. BOMB RED LINES B52s for the first time in six days bombed in both ',3mbo-di- a and Laos. At least 20 of the bombers hit Communist supply lines in Laos with 600 tons of bombs and 15 others struck in northeastern Cambodia just below the Bolovens Plateau. A Laotian military spokesman announced in Vietnam that the North Vietnamese and Communist Pathet Lao troops had captured the town of Houei Kong after a rocket and mortar attack, government troops towaru Paksong, itseif in Communist hands. This area is just north of Cambodia and about 300 miles southeast of Vientiane. sending retreating Crosbys T o Offer POW Plan ANGELES (UPI) -EBing Crosbv and his brother, Larry, say a plan for the release of American for in exchange prisoners rehabilitation of North Viet-- n facilities a ms nondefense will be presented to Hanoi next month. The Crosbys said in a news Wednesday that executive E. Fischer, George director of PEACE (Prisoners in Exchange for American Construction Enterprise), to which they belong, departs June 5 for Vientiane, Laos, to make formal presentation of the plan. The proposal calls for the transfer of American POWS to a neutral country, where they would remain in protective custody until the cessation of hostilities in Vietnam. ESTIMATE WORK It also called for America civilan enterprise to estimate the work to be performed, costs and availability of materials, equipment and labor required in the rehabilitation. PEACE said it would responsible private appoint consulting engineers and contractor,, to conduct war reparations in North Vietnam upon the cessation of hostilities. Bing Crosby said he did not expect any direct negotiations with North Vietnam during the mission to Vientiane. He said Fischer would present the plan in the hope of a favorable response upon which negotiations could be based. RETURN TO U.S. If the response is positive or at least conditional, Fischer would return to the U.S. and later return to Vientiane with a negotiating team. The plan called for the return of the POWS to America from the neutral country as LOS ntertainer release Sadat Talk Tough t But Not Damaging - CAIRO (UPI) President Anwar Sadat of Egypt declared today that the Suez Canal can be reopened only as part cf an overall Middle East peace settlement and that barring this it would be better to fill it with sand. Sadat told a cheering national assembly in a speech televised throughout Egypt (and monitored in neighboring countries including Israel) that Egypts insistence that its troops mus. occupy both sides of the canal in any settlement is "non-negotiabl- e. an apparent effort to demonstrate that he is as s tough as the whom he jailed after an attempted coup d'etat a week In haid-liner- ago, Sadat said the Egyptian army is so keen to fight Israel again that I can hardly hold his Sadat, referring to Secretary of State William P. Rogers visit earlier this month, said he was not impressed by them back. (In Tel Aviv, an Israeli political source said, It is a tough speech. But I read it as mcanirg he s 'll wants the U.S. insistence that Suez Canal opened, but on his settle- I told Rogers, Sadat said, that I do not accept their talk ot persuading Israel or pressuring Israel. I told him that I am officially asking President Nixon to force that is if they (the Israel Americans) want peace. terms. (Israel occupies the east bank of the canal. It insists that even if it withdraws from there Egyptian troops cannot reoccupy it. (However, Israel has not ruled out Egyptian armed forces of some kind, possibly police, on the east bank and Egypt has not ruled out settling for a mere token foice there. Sadat's speech today was not seen as widening the the dissension-ridde- A main point of contention between Egypt and Israel is how far Israeli troops should withdraw from the occupied whether and ea- -i bank Egyptian forces can cross once they have pulled b?"k. Israel has said it will permit no troops to cross, but the United States has been seeka ing an agreement where n Arab Socialist Union, Egypts onh legol political paity, pending new elections. He promised that he himself will when not run for breech.) in y It was Sadats first appearance before the parliament since he purged a number of cabinet and government officials, some of whom were reportedly plotting to overthrow him Cheering members of the assembly greeted him with chants of with our blood and souls we are with you, Sadot as he arrived for the keynote speech. The parliament itself was not at full strength for todays IS of the 360 memeven bers, including the speaker and deputy speaker weie among those ousted last week for alleged complicity in the plot against Sadat. progress payments and acts of good faith continued with all prisoners being released within six months after work began. "Necessary funds will be solicited from the private sector exclusively and put in a trust account in a country acceptable to both parties, said the release. Here's a word for our new light-weig- ht force perhaps will be permitted on police the east bank. Sisco. the domestic front, On Sadat announced he has dissolved term expires The Egyptian president said his conditions on the Suez C. nal will be relayed to the United States today, presumably to be passed on to Israel. The Israeli proposals were carried to Cairo earlier this month by U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Joseph J. it has no way of foreng a peace ment on Israel. six-ye- 1976. M if bJ Polaroids new 400 Land cameras with Focused Flash. And the amazing Big Shot portrait camera. suit Polaroids four new 400 Series cameras all use Focused Flash, the revolutionary new system from Polaroid that controls the amount of light as you focus the camera. 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