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Show DE VOL. 379 - NO. 90 RE 50 PAGES Founded 1850 when Utah territory te&d was known as the 'State of Deseret SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1973 TEN CENTS j j METRO J Viets enter Cambodia in border sweep S. More South Vietnamese SAIGON (AP) troops were reported moving toward tin Cambodian frontier today following the first incursion across the border that Saigon troops are known to have made since the Vietnam cease-fire- . Meanwhile, the Pentagon warned North Vietnam today that because of new fighting in Laos, it may order U.S. planes to begin a new bombing campaign there. Pentagon spokesman Jerry V. Friedheim said North Vietnamese forces led by tanks had overrun a town defended by Royal Laotian forces near the Plaine de Jarres in Laos within the last several hours. He described it as a major violation of the Field reports indicated that the South Vietnamese operations along the border were defensive, aimed at driving Communist forces from the border rather than the start of a major offensive to lift the threat to Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital. South Vietnamese air force gunships joined an armored column on the Cambodian side of the border, and new fighting was reported on the Vietnamese side of the frontier. The Viet Cong called the march into Cambodia a blunt and very dangerous act of the Saigon military forces." A Viet Cong broadcast said the operation was ordered by the United States and "criminally v iolates the independence, unification, sovereignty, neutrality and territorial integrity of Cambodia as well as the Paris agreement and the international agreement on Vietnam. Today the News The Environmental Protection Agency chief, William went before a Senate subcommittee on air and water pollution today in attempt to defend his decision to allow automakers a r extension in auto emmission His comstandards. meeting stringent promise decision last week raised a storm of attack by both the auto industry and environmentalists. He was expected to tell the committee that the reprieve was the only possible alternative to shutting down car assembly lines and damaging the economy. Trung Mien, chief spokesman for the Saigon command, reported sharp fighting Sunday but said it was northwest of Hong Ngu, which is on the Mekong River 30 miles northeast of the point where the Saigon troops crossed the border. Hien said 22 Communist troops and three South Vietnamese were killed and 38 Saigon soldiers were wounded. At least 34 injured Press state. Tornadoes slammed into Texas three communities Sunday, killing eight persons and injuring at least 34 othTwo ers. other persons drowned in flash floods, and three Boy Scouts were killed when high winds toppled a pine tree on their tent. Property damage in nature's rampage Sunday was estimated at several millions of dollars. Thunderstorms, hail and strong winds hit almost every section of the The first tornado hit before dawn in the north and west sections of Plainview. a city of about 20.000 persons. newsman. David Bryant, 30. of the Plainview Daily Herald, was killed while helping with civil defense efforts during the twister. Kevin Lew el Ion. about 2. died when his family tried to reach a storm cellar. A The third Plainview was not identified. victim About an hour before sundown. another twister struck the South Texas town of Pearsall. killing five persons and injuring eight. Two of the injured were in serious condition. injured. Police said the twist-- . homes, power and telephone lines and even ruptured some gas lines. In San Antonio, two persons died in flash flooding caused by heavy rains. Roy Buer-rer15. drowned when he was swept away by heavy currents of a creek. Dew Wertheim. described as being in her 20s, drowned when she slipped into flood waters. She and two companions were awaiting rescue from atop a stalled truck when she lost her grip. er damaged Four houses were demolished. the airport and about eight planes were destroyed." said state police patrolman Bill Rowan. The third tornado touched down Sunday night in Corsicana. about 56 miles south of Dallas. Three persons were 'Grand tour' Egyptian press steps up campaign against U. S. WASHINGTON (UPI) President plans a trip to Europe this fall White House sources say will take him to Great Britain, France. West Germany and Italy. Nixon revealed plans for the journey Sunday when he talked to reporters after a While House religious service. He described it as a grand tour" but did not mention specific dates. Nixon which the He also did not mention countries he would visit, but aides said they would include the largest nations of Western Europe. While House sources also revealed Sunday that Soviet Communist party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev will co'me to Washington in late June for talks with Nixon. ' This meeting will follow up the sum-- ; mil meeting Nixon and Brezhnev held in Moscow last May which resulted in strategic arms limitation treaties. j CAIRO (AP) newspapers Egyptian stepped up their editorial criticism today of Washington's role in the Middle East as the U.N. Security Council prepared to hear Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Hassan el Zavval. "The United Nations is now facing a last chance on which to prove its competence to reject aggression and to face its escalated dangers so that the crisis may not be pushed toward dimensions that could well go out of hand." warned the authoritative newspaper Al Abram. said recent events in Lebanon are merely an indicator that the crisis is escalating to a point that could portend most calam-- : itous consequences. It In a separate article. Al Ahrain outlined wavs the Arab countries could hit the United States economically to produce more bal-anced Middle East policy and offset recent dollar devaluations of IS per cent, which it 1 said were designed to improve Washingtons balance of payments deficit. It no'ed Arab depositors lost 18 per cent of the value of their money in U.S. banks by the moves and proposed the following steps: Severly cut imports from the United States. Further withdraw Arab deposits in U.S. banks, to be deposited in friendly European countries or in major Arab international banks. Reduce Arab oil production on the assumption that oil is a gold reserve, the price of which rises each day it is underground. Raise the price paid to the oil producing countries to make.it computable with the price of crude oil within the United Stales. Make payment for oil "in strong conin addition to U.S. vertible currencies dollars." Watergate compromise might be in the offing according to signals from the White House and Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., chairman of the Senate committee probing the political espionage case, trying to reach accomodation on letting presidential aides testify before the panel. Funner Attorney General John N. Mitchell emerged from a the White House Saturday and said he believes everyone rtmotely involved in the bugging case will be e A- - Across the nation designed to tax reforms were slated in 31 cities. All were organized by the Tax Action Campaign headed by former Democratic Sen. Fred Harris of Oklahoma. The Harris group, claiming 25,0011 eniistees. and other reform advocates have vet to agree on precise proposals for tax change. But they agree on thing; The working man Demonstrations spur sweeping pays too much, the corporate giants too little. Harris planned to illustrate that point by conferring a "Tax Avoider" award upon & International Telephone Telegraph ( orp. during his scheduled speech to an afternoon taxpayers' rally in front of the New York Stock Exchange. ITT. said Harris, paid $20.2 million in federal taxes in 1971 while reporting profits that year of $413 9 million for an effective tax rate of only 4.9 per cent. The statutory limit on corporations is 48 per cent. In Washington. ITT spokesman Beruie Goodrich said the firm would not comment on Harris criticism. Activities elsewhere in the country included news conferences. speeches by sympathetic congressmen, marches, picketing of IRS buildings, pamphleteering and the presentation of other "tax avoider" awards. Rallies were scheduled fo. San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and MilwauLos Angeles, kee. In Washington. Democratic Sens. Edmund S. Muskie and A v I ! Additional backwater flooding of the Mississippi near Vicksburg, Miss., has been prevented as ar. emergency crew of 100 corn icts shored up a levee to protect some 50 homes. Downriver in Louisiana, meanwhile, the flood waters gouged out the foundation of a wall that helps direct the river's flow and forced Army engineers to open the Morganza floodvvay for the first time since it was built in i i s i 1954. Supplies for Wounded Knee were turned back Sunday when the Oglala Siouxs original residents of the tiny South Dakota hamlet prevailed on federal authorities to cancel out a helicopter loaded with medical supplies. The Oglala Sioux (pictured above manning their own roadblock), have vowed to keep all supplies out of the village until the militant Indians inside end their occupation. (See story on Page B-- l on how Pentagon cutbacks are expected to affect Utahs Hill Air Force Base.) y The Pentagon Papers trial was resumed today in Los Angeles, and it was expected that chief defendant, Daniel Ellsberg, would return to the witness stand to answer government charges that his unauthorized release of the Vietnam War documents amounted to conspiracy, espionage and theft. The trial was suspended last week because of the illness of Ellsbergs chief defense counsel. the Navy has had to reduce the number of ships 42 per cent, aircraft 21 per cent and people 27 per cent. During this same period of time there has been little or no cutback in shore facilispending, ties. People across the United States Lave demanded defense reductions and we have had to look at a base structure realignment across the United Slates, Warner said. Military officers began handcarrying to members of Congress the information on base closings. Around the world The Queen Elizabeth 2 sailed toward Israel today, her 580 passengers guarded by British warplanes and outnumbered by security forces and crew members. The precautions were ordered to forestall the possibility of Sell stockpiles Asks for power - WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon today announced plans to sell $6 billion worth of industrial raw materials from the nations in effect using the metstrategic stockpile als and minerals which had been purchased for defense purposes to wage an offensive against inflation. In our current fight against rising prices, one weapon which has not yet been effectiveis our national ly employed strategic stockpile, the President said. The President asked Congress to approve legislation authorizing him to sell 16 major commodities worth $4.1 billion. He said existing law already gives him the power to dispose of $1.9 billion worth of goods he considers to he in excess of the nations needs. If Congress approves, the result would be a slimmed down hoard worth $700 million which Nixon said would be enough to provide war. the weapons for a year-lon- Reform demonstrations mark 'tax day' -(AP) WASHINGTON With a midnight filing deadline only hours away, some Americans aimed disgust as well as dollars at the federal lax collector today. i testifying. He said in the meeting at the office of Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott that the Philadelphia and Portsmouth,, N.H. Navy Yards would remain open, but the Boston "Navy Yard would be closed. Warner told the group that over the past 10 years through the cutbacks in defense g George McGovern planned to urge tax reforms before the House Ways and Means Committee even though Chairman Wilbur Mills has said chances are slim for major action this year. McGovern said in his prethat Conpared testimony gress should combine tax reform legislation with the trade bill President Nixon has asked it to pass. Mills has said he would lay aside tax reform and start hearings on the trade bill May 7. "I think we must enact both bills. said McGovern, adding that it is "interesting , attack by Arab guerrillas during the special charter voyage primarily for American Jews to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the founding of the state of Israel. A weekend of bombing and shooting in Belfast left two persons dead in North Ireland violence. Meanwhile in Dublin, Sean MacStiofain, former chief of staff of the Irish Republican Army, was freed from jail today, looking pale from a hunger strike he staged last winter. His future with the guerrilla army was uncertain. y Stock market today YORK (UPI) Prices drifted lower in light trading today on the New York Stock Exchange. Analysts said investors continued to be concerned with inflationary problems and were ignoring higher earniigs reports. Shortly before 1:15 p.m., the widely watched Dow Jones industrial average of 30 selected blue-chistocks had skidded 4.66 to 954.70. Declines outnumbered advances, 689 to 569, among the 1,643 issues on the tope. Standard & Poors 500 stock index had lost 0.6U to 111.48. NEW p (Complete New York American lists on Page Clouds gathering; cooler, windy, wet the White House has given to trade legislation has grown in direct proportion to the threat that the might pass Congress meaningful tax reform. the House floor, seven by Reps. Donald Corman, and were to Henry Reuss, On congressmen headed own .) . The clouds are gathering, and there is an excellent chance of precipitation for the area tonight andor tomorrow. Itll be windy and cooler with the highs not expected to climb past 60. (See weather map on Page that the urgency advance their loophole-closin- g proposals in speeches, Harris said in an interview' representatives of hjs.' group will meet soon with labor leaders to decide on a detailed course of strategy A i key-vot- Warner told a meeting of the Ptnnsylv ania congressional delegation that the closings would involve the loss of 16.640 military and 21,172 civ ilian jobs. Texas twisters take 8 lives By Associated t i one-yea- WASHINGTON (UPI) Navy Secretary John Warner told members of Congress today that 274 military installations across the nation including the Boston Navy Yard are being closed in an effort to save $1 billion a year in defense costs. uei leiepn t i in the House - Plainview, Tex. where a predawn twister hit a plush residential area t price and interest rate rollback conies up for a today with Republicans marshalling their forces to scuttle the Democratic plan which would revert the economic factors to their March 16 levels. The r Republicans will attempt to substitute a simple extension of President Nixon's authority to impose price and wage controls. A Military divulges base cuts in i A effc-Se- SOUTH VIET, Residents survey damage t one-yea- Lt. Col. Le agreement I D. Ruckleshaus, Field reports said the crossing was made last Friday from the Vietnamese town of Tinh Bien, 125 miles west of Saigon, after Communist troops burned out a village on the Cambodian side. About 500 rtfugees streamed into South Vietnam. cease-fir- e 4 In Washington Despite reports from newsmen who saw the South Vietnamese armored column and gunships in Cambodia on Sunday and today, the Saigon command denied that any of its forces had crossed the border. In the Vietnam ij in 1 : |