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Show RET MEW k i laum r VOL. 379, Our Phone Numbers News Tips Circulation Information Sports Scores SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH NO. 10c 48 PAGES 30 Mountain West's First Newspaper ... 122 Years Of Service 524-440- FEBRUARY SATURDAY, 0 524-284- 0 3, 524-444- 5 524-444- 3 1973 'i Rules Take Hold Cease-Fir- e SAIGON (AP) Significant breakthroughs were reported today in carrying out the military and political provisions of the Vietnam cease-fir- e agreement, including plans for prisoner exchanges. The International Commission of Control and Supervision announced that its seven regional teams would be in the field and operational Monday to investigate alleged ceasefire iolahons, nearly a week behind the schedule designated in the agreement. In Paris the Viet Cong and South Vietnamese agreed to hold their first bilateral talks on the political future of South Vietnam on Monday. The meeting will be one more step in putting into effect the provisions of the peace agreement. The only 4 5 remaining step is the release of American prisoners of w ar. This also appeared to be closer today as a subcommittee of the joint military commission on release of prisoners met for the first time in Saigon and reports from South Vietnam said fighting has tapered off to the lowest level since the cease-fir- e began last Sunday. The peace agreement contained a provision for talks between Nguyen Van Thieus government and the Viet Cong to settle South Vietnam's political future through negotiation. Meanwhile in Saigon Thieu said the war had returned to square one and the future of South VIETNAM WOULD BE BY ELECDETERMINED TIONS INSTEAD OF four-part- y The peacekeeping developments overshadowed the fighting as thousands of Vietnamese celebrated the Tet lunar new year. Thieu called it the first peaceful new year after 15 four-part- Members of the internation- desig--nate- The commission met for one hour this morning and scheduled a meeting for Sunday with the chief delegates of the joint military com- The Saigon military command said that violations had hit their lowest level, with 131 pereported during the riod ending at 6 a.m. today, compared with 2C0 during the previous reporting period. No major fights were reported. four-part- military commission. Asked why the international commission had now decided to move unilaterally even before its first meeting with the military Gauvin said: commission, What we need is to be satisfied ourselves that conditions are sufficiently secure and safe for our teams, and we y mission. The senior Vietnamon the commission did not meet today because of Tet. ese representatives four-part- y Canadian ambassndor commis- Michel Gauvin, temporary of the international commission told newsmen that sions regional teams will be based at Hue and Da Nang in y al commission had said earlier that the reason field teams d were not in place at the time last Tuesday was that the body had not received a guarantee of security from the Communist parties to the Hungary. years of war. The international the body would formally inform the joint military commission at Sundays meeting that field teams would begin operations the northern quarter of South Vietnam, Pleiku in the central highlands, Phan Thiet on the centtal coast, Bien Hoa in the Saigon area and My Tho and Can Tho in ttie Mekong Delta. Each team will have five representatives from each member of the commission Canada, Indonesia. Poland and In a new yearts address broadcast oer Vietnam television Thieu said the only chance for victory was in chairman UP! Telephoto Gl watches as J forward air controller planes leave Vietnam for Thailand. are satisfied." OV-I-O After His Visit In Hanoi Kissinger Going To Peking WASHINGTON (AP) -P- residential adviser Henry A. Kissinger will visit Peking Feb. 9 in another high-levexchange of views on issues of common interest between the United States and China, the White House announced today. Kissingers trip, follow ing closely on his journey to Hanoi is anothslated for Feb. er in a series of sessions by the White House ad vis r with Chinese leaders in line with 15-1- 10-1- the agreement President Nixons Peking visit a year reached ago- AP Wirephoto Firemen pour water on rubble after blast destroyed a cafe and hardware store in Fort Dodge, Iowa. Blast Levels Store, Cafe Iowa EAGLE GROVE, A gas explosion blew (UPI) apart a restaurant, a hardware store and upper level apartments late Friday, killing 13 persons. A store was jew'elry unroofed by the blast, this town of 4,500 was shaken and windows broken over a wide area. A fire followed. Dr. Dale Harding. Wnght examiner, County medical said at midmoming that he believed 13 persons were killed. The total did not include a fireman, Woodrow Roux, who died of a heart attack as he ran to the scene. At the time Harding made his announcement, six bodies had been recovered, and four identified were positively, including the son of former Iowa Gov. Robert D. Blue. Two cooks and two waitresses working in the Chatterbox Cafe had not yet been found in the charred rubble, probed by cranes and by the hands of searchers chilled by cold through the night and early morning hours. From the force of the explosion I would doubt that any survivors (of the blast itself) would have lived very long. Harding said. I think well find them all. Harding said identifications were made through dental work, rings, purses and billfolds, and by with residents who knew those persons listed as missing after the blast. cross-checkin- g Positively identified were Mrs. Viola Helgevo'd, who lived in one of the apartments above the Coast to Coast hardware store; u lifford R. Ulstad, Eagle Grove; Donald Blue. Eagle Grove, a former governor's son; and Kermit Johnson, Menominee, wis., who had been visiting relatives. WASHINGTON - Prime Minister Edward Heath of Great Britain headed for London today after intensive talks with President Nixon on economic and other issues. Secretary of State William P. Rogers led a small U.S. delegation as Heath departed by helicopter from grounds ad jacent to the White House. Nixon, in two days of talks with Heath, was said to have assured the prime minister that Washington intends to iron out differences between the United States and its European trading partner. But Heath is reported aware that Nixon needs the help of Congress to solve the prob- - BUT IT WORKS Senate Baffling CHARLOTTESVILLE, V a. (UPI) - What is the U.S. Senate? n cavan encrusted, tradition-ridd- e ern, haunted by feeble ghosts who prostrate themselves in fear whenever the Resident Wizard of Oz down at the White House conjures up thunderbolts. That is the way the press views the institution, Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott, of Pennsylvania. said in a speech at the University of Virginia. It might be His own version; Squeezed between immensely powerful public and private pressure groups, crunching huge bones of contention, the Senate has achieved within its small bafmembership a mode of operation that is at times works and often splendidly. infuriating, fling, Presidential press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said the announcement was being made simultaneously in Peking. Ziegler said; In . accordance with the United States and the Peoples Rpublic of China joint communique of February 1972, Dr. Henry A. Kissinger, assistant to the President for national security affairs, will visit the Peoples Republic of China from Feb. 1973, for concrete consultations with Chinese leaders to further the normalization of relations between the Peoples Republic of China and the United States ar.d to continue to exchange views on issues of common interest. Ziegler did not offer any further specifics at this time on just what Kissinger might be talking over with Chinese leaders in Peking. How'ever, periodic visits by U.S. officials Laos Given Assurance Of U.S. Aid (UPI) President Johnston, Mrs. Kenneth Mick-elsoMrs. Lynn Boyington, and Moine Yanney. n, The bodies recovered from the rubble were taken to a temporary morgue set up in Memorial Hall. National Guard troops aided in recovery efforts and Gov.. Robert D. Ray was en route to Eagle Grove to oversee rescue operations. high-ranki- Establish Ties - North (AP) Korea and Togo have established diplomatic relations at the ambassadorial level. TOKYO i"de The Nes SECTION T last June cated. 19-2- The White House foreign-policaide had been to Peking in July and October of 1971 to make preparations for the historic summit meeting. Kissinger is expected to make a rest stop of one or two days somewhere in Asia between the Hanoi talks and the flight to Peking, Ziegler indi much-travele- d y - Vice BANGKOK Spiro T. Agnew made a quick visit to Vientiane, Laos today where he asSouvanna Premier sured Phouma of continued American support for Souvannas efforts to end the Laotian war. WASHINGTON A (UPI) federal judge and the chairman of the House Banking Committee are both unhappy that more information on Republican spying on Democrats has not been revealed in the Watergate case. Agnews visit came on the Comsame day a munist Pathet Lao official arrived from Hanoi to discuss with Soua possible case-fir- e vannas government. Chairman Wright Patman, says the Justice Deshameful partment did a job in pursuing the investigation and wants Attorney General Richard Kleindienst to resign if he finds investigating g Agnew returned to Bangkok after his visit to the Laotian capital. At the Vientiane airport, he issued a statement saying he assured Souvanna of continued United States support for his policy of national reconciliation and neutrality and effort to achieve negotiated settlement in Laos. Agnew said the United States will scrupulously rethe provision conspect cerning Laos in the Vietnam cease-fir- e agreement and we intend to insist that all other parties concerned approach the obligation in the same But time is pressing, Heath and his aides reportedly warned the Americans. The Common Market will be ready with its proposals for forthcoming trade talks by midsummer, and the negotiations are expected to start in the fall. Despite the apparently meager results, a spokesman said Heath found his talks with Nixon especially valuable because they have taken place at an opportune moment before major negotiations in various fields. Heath, said his chief press secretary, Donald J. D. Maitland, had two sets of negotiations in mind; those between Western countries on trade and monetary issues; and East-Wetalks on European security and troop cuts in Censt tral Europe. Zeigler also said that Nixon accepted with pleasure the prime ministers invitation to visit Britain again when he travels to Europe." The announced puipose of Kissingers Hanoi parley is to go over post-wa- r relationships with North Vietnam. Ziegler said the date of Kissingers takeoff from Washing- ton is expected to be announced Monday The itinerar-- y between Hanoi and Peking has not yet been fixed, he said. Watergate Probe A Shallow Job? x., Rain Soaks East Coast By The Associated Press Heavy rains drenched the northern and central Atlantic Coast states today as unseasonably warm weather persisted in the northern half of the nation. More than 3 inches of rain soaked Raleigh, N.C., Friday night while most areas along the coast received 1 to 2 his own party an ment.- embarrassi U.S. District Judge John J. Sirica wants a further grand jury investigation. Sirica Friday set bond at $100,000 each for G. Gordon Liddy and James W. McCord Jr., former Nixon campaign aides convicted on charges stemming from the bugging last June of Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate apartment complex. Liddys lawyer said he could not post such high bond. McCords said?he would try to raise it. ; Sirica said from the bench: I have not been satisfied, frankly, during the course of this trial, and I am still 'not satisfied that all the pertinent facts that might be available have been brought out. Patman released Friday a letter from Assistant Attorney General Henry E. Petersen, declining to take action on most charges which the Banking Committee made last year in connection with the Watergate case. ; Petersen said no law was violated when GOP contributions were routed through Mexican banks, or by alleged monitoring by Nixon campaign officials of bank accounts of prominent Democrats, cr by deposit of $114,000 in Republican campaign contributions in a personal account in Miami lems. The Nixon administration, the prime minister was told, is undecided how or whether to ask the increasingminded Conly protectionist gress for authority to negotiate tariff cuts. ci 5 - Kissinger has made one such trip already in the wake of the summit parley of a year ago. He visited the mainland 15-1- Mayor Kenneth Brauman in an earlier announcement had said the missing include Mrs. Lucille Anderson, a cook at the Chatterbox; Mrs. Emma Nixon Reassures Heath Combined AP, UPI dunng to China were envisaged in the Shanghai communique issued following Nixons summit sessions at the Chinese capital in February 1972. The general aim is to further the gradually beimproving relationships tween the two powers. Utah Senate Passes Strip Mining Measure By DEXTER C. ELLIS and DeANN EVANS Deseret News Staff Writers of Utahs first Passage strip mining law and introduction of a voluminous uniform land practices bill highlighted action in the Utah Senate Friday. The strip mining measure which received only two negative votes, is designed to minimize the effects of underground and suiface mining upon the states (SB12), In the House of Representatives, three measures received approval, including a professional practices act for public school teachers which has been long sought by the Utah Education Association. ture hazards to public safety Sponsored by Miles Ferry, and Haven J. Bar-lothe Senate-passe- d strip mining legislation sets up a Division of Mining and a Board of Mining, with the former headed by the director of the Division of Oil and Gas and the Board staffed by members of the Board of Oil and Gas Conservation. The board would act as the and enforcement body. Objectives of the regulation include: To prevent, so far as reasonably possible, environmental degradation both on and off the mining site; To minimize or prevent fu- - and welfare; To leave the land in a condition for further beneficial use at the conclusion of the mining. The Senate passed half a dozen bills and advanced several others to third reading policy-makin- g status. Sent on their way to the gov- ernor for signature were two measures previously csssed by the House, HB116, assigning the use of blue beato law cons exclusively and enforcement officers, HB117. requinng vehicles to display a special emblem on the rear. slow-movin- g The Utah Uniform Practices Act." SB165. Land would tighten state regulation of subdivision developers, requinng them to make full disclosure to prospective buyers of all salient facts concerning the lot offerings, including such information as ownership, zoning laws, plans for developing utility services, and topographical features. Introduced by Sen. Allen E. I ake, the proMecham, posal would also require subdivision developers to register with the state Real Estate Department. The Senate also received a new bill making it a criminal offense to rent or lease, or continue renting or leasing property which is to be used for lewd purposes, such as selling obscene materials. lt r Trial Lawyers Bar version of insurance, covering personal injuries and other, losses up to $2,500 and preserving the right of court action, was also introduced, j Utah The Association-Uta- A h wiretapping bill stipulating circumstances and procedures for legal electronic surveillance, was introduced in the House during Fridays action. (HB202), According to the measures chief sponsor. Rep. Ted M. Davis, the legislation is a "paraphrase" of federal regulations, with law enforcement officers allowed to use a wiretap only after obtaining a court order based on evidence see MINING on Page A-- 2 |