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Show S R T NE . , , Iq VOL. 379 - NO. 106 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 72 PAGES TEN CENTS FRIDAY, . S k when Utah tern loty tralloblt diMili Founded norms was knou'n as the 'State of Deseret' 18,50 MIMEO ..isto, METRO MAY 4, 1973 I e In Europe, he said 1973 present A opportunities for economic cooperation and a flexible new nuclear defense policy for the United States and its Nixon Cautions Chinese, Russ WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon has cautioned the Soviet Union and China that U.S. relations with the two Communist nations could be set back if they keep arming North Vietnam and do not press their ally to observe the cease-fir- e agreement. As for the Soviet Union, Nixon said the United States is prepared to consider economic cooperation. For exlong-terample, he said natural gas and other vast Soviet resources could be developed with the help of American capital and technology and then exported to the United States. Nixon said fundamental changes in e relations had sharply reduced a risk of confrontation, while During probe , t Haig named :top aide at. White House WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon picked Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr. today to serve as temporary chief of the White House staff while Senate investigators questioned Nixon's two top former aides about the Watergate bugging case and any cover up of it. Word of the President's choice of Haig, Army vice chief of staff, for the critical post came from Florida, where Nixon is spending the Weekend, while H. R. Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman Were submitting to a second day of testimony before separate investigators. The two deposed White House aides, who underwent lengthy questioning Thursday by a federal grand jury, said today they were sure any suspicions of any presidential knowledge of the Watergate affair would be dispelled "when the truth is fully known." '71 -. -- , Haig was Nixon's No. 2 national security athiser until January, when he was given a r to four-sta- r promotion from general by the President. lie will return to his military job after helping the President rebuild the riddled top level of the White House staff. Following publication of a public opinion survey indicating that half of those questioned believed Nixon knew of efforts to cover up the Watergate, Ehrlichman and Haldeman were asked if they felt such suspicions would be dispelled in time. "I know that when the truth is fully known, this matter will be cleared up to everyone's satisfaction," Haldeman told a crowd of re- ,::.;:::::. A reporter asked: "Including any suspicion that will be disconcerning the President as well?" pelled without any question," Halde"Of course - I See HAIG on Page A-- 8 War threats otitdated, ft Viets reply ,.., ,i,::::: ::.':'::::.:::::::: .... jr : .......::...:.,:,:: - L ri" ' V x., N!,,11A.41-.---". '.,r' ...s,,,,., ,f- ;:.,..: ,.,:::,,,' el ' :...:::;::,,,!?, 444.1:,;:: 'ii:.:41::?: ..46,,1 ril .10,e...," , $ :::: t:' .. :: ,:- lio4r.-,.-c- vi Hanoi radio accused SAIGON (AP) United States today of "sabotaging peace blatantly violating the Paris agreement" said President Nixon's threat of renewed "has been defeated and outdated." 1 .:.,..,.,, During former acting FBI Director L. ,,,,,,,,,-,.- ... .::::, z ,, e':: .: ,'' '' , .. L::bavotelliffilitglailibm, '&1i,,...., , Martha Mitchell, wife of former Atty. Gen. John Mitchell, displays variety of expressions as she talks to newsmen in New York. (See story on Page A-8- the and and war North Vietnam declared the United States bas not been able to threaten the Vietnamese "and today, when the balance people before of forces has changed and the situation has changed, the United States must understand itself and other people when it still dreams about threatening." Pham Van demanded 1 he which in Dong-speech May that the Nixon administration "immediately renounce its threatening attitude,' immediately terminate its air reconnaissance over the northern part of our country, carry out the US.' obligation to sweep the mines in the Premier , confir- known. .) BEIRUI, Lebanon (AP) Two days of bitter fighting between the Lebanese army and Palestinian guerrillas ended today with both sides holding Two to a new cease-fircease-fir- e attempts Thursday and open street collapsed battles threatened to sweep this small nation into civil war. full-sca- Only a few random Patrick Gray III's mation hearings, Gray testified that Herbert Kalmbach, Nixon's personal lawyer, gave Segretti $30,000 to $40,000 between Sept. 1, 1971, and March 15, 1972. It also has been reported that Segretti contacted up to 50 persons to conduct espionage and make 500 to 700 long distance telephone calls, some to the White House. What these persons were supposed to do, and what the calls were about, is not ,r Lebanon ' -- :'''.4.,1 - ., ......: :::.....,,, .. t - The offices of Sens. George S. McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee, and Edmund S. Muskid, the Democratic earlier in the campaign, are compiling information about suspicious incidents that might have been merely the result of poor planning or staff work or sabotage. But these known incidents, even if traceable to the Nixon reelection effort, would not have exhausted available reSegretti's allegedly sources. 4' ..t 40 1 7,:,,...;,0,04....,,,,i. , ' f 1 1-- .. ''''' , 0.:::4 '..-;;'-0.:.:'- 'X',...". 141t,t ,. 4 ':t 4. :. i :,., ,:: The SenWASHINGTON (UPI) ate Watergate Committee is investigating a large 'pattern of political espionage and sabotage during the 1972 presidential campaign of which the Watergate bugging may have been only the tip of the iceberg. shots In southeast Lebanon 5,000 troops of the Palestine Libera lion Army were reported to have crossed the border from Syria but then withdrew to positions on the border after truce was agreed. Defense Ministry spokesman said army forces in Beirut have "withdrawn to assem A bling areas in compliance with the cease-fir- e agreement and we hope the other side will do the same." Guerrilla jeeps with loudspeakers toured Palestinian sectors of the city urging combatants to observe the cease-fire- . Beirut's international airport was reopened and commercial flights were resumed after a bullet-riddle- infiltrate a peace demonstration outside the White House. Another was Tom Gregory, of Brigham Young University, who allegedly was paid $175 a week to infiltrate the Muskie and McGovern campaigns, particularly to get campaign financial mailing lists. UPI learned Thursday that Gorton left the Interior Department payroll in April after spending one month there without having worked. Gorton's superior, Ken Rietz, quit abruptly two weeks ago as head of the 1974 Republican election effort to take advantage of "an extraordinary" busiSee WATERGATE, Page A-- 8 Marines say lump', he'll lump FamiMISSOULA, Mont. (UPI) ly tradition will be at stake Saturday when Duke tries for his Marine Corps parachute jump wings. Last year Duke's father, a hefty win his bulldog named Clarence, wings after being shoved out of an airplane in his role as regional mascot for the Marines. d Jobless rate unchanged gains in the previous two months. The jobless rate has hovered at the five per cent level since late last fall. Although above r cent goal set by the administration the for the end of this year, it is substantially below the cent rate a year ago. According to the report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the length of the average work week increased 12 minutes to 37.4 hours for nonfarm payroll, the highest level since January 1970. The longer work week also helped boost ay. erage earnings of some 50 million rankand-11;workers by $12 to 3141.72 per eek. 4.5-pe- 5.8-p- e Across the notion The Pentagon Papers trial ' '''.,i,. ,,,., judge, U.S. District Court ,, :,,...:',''';;, Judge Matt Byrne (pictured A .. 'a , right), today considers sealed 1 from Watergate testimony 4 ..,' conspirator E. Howard Hunt '' , .. iii 40N , ii Jr. about the burglary of the 7 11 office of defendant Daniel i 4 Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Byrne has publicly released all ,t7:,.!,i.,i;..-,i:,...;1 discoveries about the burgla- - :',": .l. 4;;;.,,--ry and said he will continue ; 4 , , to do so in an effort to "pro- - t;,,;4 i... tect the constitutional rights" ;,J:,: i,:,,,f 1, of Ellsberg and codefendant Anthony Russo. The muddy backwaters of the flooding Mississippi crept over more delta farmland Thursday, erasing any hopes for a cotton crop in sections of Tennessee and Miss of Lousissippi and forcing the shutdown of isiana's oyster industry. However, rainless weather predicted through Sunday is expected to give the big river and its tributaries a chance to continue receding. River experts predicted it would be another two weeks before life in the Mississippi River Valley would return to anything resembling normal. et,, r r closure. Traffic tween Beirut and Damascus also resumed. be- Premier Amin Fafez told newsmen: "All signs show that conditions today are better than yesterday. Both sides are making efforts to apply the provisions of the ceasefire. Reactions of all other Arab countries were A Denver man who DENVER (UPI) found an unusual way to get to work Thursday morning says most of the people who saw him wanted to join him. Ron L. Mason, 34, paddled a kayak down Carry Creek the three miles from his home to downtowl Denver and has numerous dams and waterfalls. Mason, a kayakist who went to the Olympic trials last year, said his voyage took him about 45 minutes. He said he enjoyed watching the a rabbit, two kins of ducks, a musscenery black bird. He said he rat and a attfacted a lot of attention from oth,.'r ; - , ,; r ft 1 three-fourth- Around the world A Saigon government spokesman said today if the Communists "try to endanger" neighboring Laos and Cambodia, South Vietnam will have to reconsider its policy of adhering to the Paris cease-firagreement. A North Vietaccused the U.S. of nam newspaper report, meanwhile, sending reconnaissance planes over Communist-controlle- d territory "in brazen violation of the Paris agreement." e United Nations committee members reported Thursday that general drug addiction is increasing around the world, but that heroin use in the United States has declined for the first tinge in nine years and has also dropped in France. A spokesman attributed the decline in the U.S. to tougher measures taken by law enforcement agencies, the steep increases in drug seizures and the expanded treatment of addicts. Concern was evident, however, that drug use was on the increase even in the developing countries. r A U.S. A6 Intruder jet crashed into a crowdA military barracks area near Phnom Penh's Pochentong Airport tonight. Heavy casualties were feared. The crash came shortly after Cambodian military sources said a Communist mortar shell struck a commercial airliner as it was taking off from Kampot Thursday, killing three passengers and wounding eight others. The American jet crash came as the pilot was attempting an emergency landing, the control tower at the airport said. fighter-bombe- NEW YORK (UPI) Stock prices maintained their in moderately active trading Friday on the New York Stock Exchange. There was no specific news accountable for the gain. Around 1:15 p.m., the widely watched Dow Jones Industrial Average had advanced 7.67 to 953.34. Standard & Poor's 500 stock index had gained 0.74 to 110.96. early gains (See N.Y., American listings on Page - B-- It could be a damp weekend Variable cloudiness will play over the area over the weekend, and a few showers or thundershowers can be expected. Temperatures will be lower, reaching the mid 60s. (See weather map on Page Man A3 Our Man Jones A3 Forum A4 Al 8, 19 Theater Do-- It LivingYoung El -- 8 America Music Al 6 kiSERET Comics B4 Calendar Chess B5 B9 B10 TV Today Sports D1-- 7 Business B6, Deaths Information News tips Sports scores Ombudsman though Sotordoi before I 7 C2 524-444- 5 524-440- 0 524-444- 8 364-862- 6 1 Home delivery problems (Coll Mooday . ,,' Stock market today Will kayak replace commuter train? Earnings up The nation's unWAS IIINGTON (AP) employment rate was unchanged at five per cent last month, the government said today. Gains were reported in average weekly earnings and the length of the work week, signs of Prts:4:, a continually expanding economy. , The Labor Department szid the number of World the - Nixon, in his annual State of without jobs remained at about 4.4 milhis issued people on to Thursduy, Congress message. on a seasonally adjusted basis, roughly the lion fourth and strongest warning against alleged level that has prevailed since last Nosame agreement of the peace communiit violations vember. stgned in Paris on Jan. 27. The number of people working also was untolerance hasp changed last month at 83.9 million on a season: Ile suggested. that American al'y adjusted basis. There had been sharp twe'n tested to the brealWig point. George Gorton, college coordinator for Nixon's reelection committee, was reported to have made and then retracted a statement that he had college students in 38 states involved in infiltration of the Democratic campaign. One was Ted Brill, 20, of George Washington University, who was allegedly paid $150 a week to working cease-fir- e were heard in the streets of the shelltorn capital. It is 'known that Segretti solicited personnel among the college Republicans, a division of the Republican National Committee. If Henry A. Kissinger is en route to Ntoscow for three days of talks on ways to salvage the Vietnam ceasefire and to make arrangements for the upcoming summit meeting in Washington. Kissinger left shortly after Proldent Nixon said that the Soviets would epdanger the chances of better relations with the U.S. if they did not pressure Hanoi into observing the Vietnam cease-fire- . A Soviet rocket. believed to be carrying a Lunokhod space vehicle, fell into the Pacific Ocean last week, the Washington Post reported this morning. According to the newspapers report, it was the second consecutive space failure for the Russians and the second time a Proton rocket failed to boost its payload into orbit. U.S.-Sovi- The Watergate may be only tip of an iceberg front-runn- ' ,::,,r1.,,,t:7:'. '' s1 :45'11:Z:::: :::.:::,:: ,' t .s11, ..1:. ' 4''''''...7.11fki.." .....: A-- 2 - ,,,,,w :4177',,T:::9'... .s.:.....''' 1m ' , 164'.1.. ,..,. , 'aityN i..:,;.,:.:.:::,,,,;. , .: :: t:': e headed by California Attorney Donald reportedly was hired by President Nixon s appointments secretary, Dwight L. Chapin, to put together a political espionage network. :1 A :', :. the Stwiet Union and China, in March to guarantee the cease-firvac expected to live up to their obligations. "We will take their performance into account in the conduct of our bilateral See NIXON on Page H. Segretti, who , ;::i::;44: Independent gasoline stations got the support of a group of senators today when they ask President Nixon to force gasoline refineries to supply all their old customers unless a gas shortage put 4000 independents out of business to the detriment of competition. The President was given the power to require major refiners to allocate their products among all their former customers by an amendment to the economic stabilization act which he signed into law Monday night. that agreed According to information from sev- , :":.:sit:2: ii:,:,:::-,,- i: The air war in Cambodia is fueling a grow ing debate whether the Pentagon should be allowed to switch funding accounts. The Pentagon wants to transfer $430 million from its "weapons" account into "operations and maintenance," from which the bombing of Camand "military personnel." from bodia is underwritten, which soldiers are paid and fed. Congressional Democrats seem leary of giving approval of the continued bombing by approving the transfer of funds. in Congress over including eral sources, the committee is seeking to find out the extent of the operation ,,,m4.':'''',.::: :, ' '''0 4 i' 8,, .:::, v.:: :.: , l' I ':;' :,... , :,- :.f.,1'!:. :,,kiii:),::4.:'' - .,:i:4:,::.':f-:':.';:!'"'1- Ilri I , . 7472:.:, :" ... "' :,,:!:::.:,.AA0, 4'...' 1 4.... : ":.'l'4r . 3L li,:,:. .'"....:',1.4-4,- 4, ..,.,: .' .: ..,,,,:.,..1,.. '.. . 1,4:ric ,, 77 L )4,,,, ti .,:-- ti,...,,, i. . 1' --0. - , :i .ttl.,7,,,:, ,, ' ..,..,. ' ... 't .: :x:-::- -t 1 ,..::,;,..:,...:,--:,1- :,:: .,.. :.:, 3.Ill'i.."'. ::::12''::....':.';l:1, :....... 1: ..;,,,:1i4 e. 7 1 : AP Wirephoto porters. s .,. l ,,e, tc :.:i two-sta- : Hanoi radio quoted t.....,6. VIII 1 40(4 ,tia ,.. ::....:....... ..... ...: ::. In Washington ...... , ... pres- ............. ... ,4,,..S''',..,,,,n,,,, .4' of military arms shipments" now that a cease-fir- e agreement has been signed and North Vietnam is not being threatened The President said the 12 parties, (See Hanoi reaction below) .v.7. ..;17:.-Vl- White House sources said the Haig would serve on an interim basis, taking over many of the duties that Haldeman held until he resigned Monday as chief of staff. However, Nixon does not intend to give anyone the broad powers that Haldeman wielded, sources said. y : ":741,1: ors,....:It.,,,,,, ':"'":':" slackening excessively optimistic." Nixon's implicit warning to Moscow and Peking was coupled with an appeal that "outside powers lend a moderating influence to the affairs of Indochina." Ile said "there can be no reasonable justification for sending Hanoi large Assessing prospects for peace in Vietnam, Kissinger said he is "not pessimistic" that through negotiations "differences can be ameliorated if not solved." , slight However, about the possibility of a settlement between the government and he Communists, Kissinger added: "Anyone who would say flatly that it will come about would be Henry A. Kissinger, the President's adviser, briefed newsmen Wednesday and Thursday about the report. It was released three months later than the 1972 statement because Nixon and Kissinger waited for results of the Vietnam cease-fir- e agreement. national-securit- Today in the News nego- sure" by Communist insurgents and the awroach of the rainy season. Ile said he plans to make at least one visit to Latin America this year, and said the administration is prepared to help in the economic and political development of Africa. The President noted that liaison offices were being opened in Peking and Washington, that trade between the United States and China was reaching "very substantial levels" and that leaders of the two countries had held hundreds of hours of direct talks. American-Chines- "a In the Middle East, he reaffirmed U.S. commitment to assisting Israel and the Arab states toward negotiations. U.S.-Sovi- cease-fir- e tiations might be possible within a few months. The presidential adviser based this hopeful assessment on the political broadening of the Lon No! government, In the Far East, the President looked to Japan "to link her destiny firmly to that of the free world," both for reasons of Japan's own security and her economic interests. the United States and the Soviet Union appear to have accomplished "a major break in the pattern of suspion, hostility and confrontation that has dominated relations for a generation." At the same time, the President cautioned Hanoi that it risks "revived confrontation with us" by using force to exploit the Jan. 27 agreement. The warnings were contained in a fourth annual "state of the world" report to Congress. Despite the continued strife in Indochina, the President's overall view was that "a changed world has moved closer to a lasting peace." In Cambodia. he said. his-ton- 514-284- 0 8 p m ) |