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Show w y yryrmiiny Ajii n 4' y' y l yrjpJ'iyr lty fny"J'iyTyita!iaByiaTiitrMytey ijp ? jt 1 r v., t. vvji' r 1 1 H .H i t Congress, Nixon agree on bomb halt date WASHINGTON (AP) -Congress and President Nixon have reached a compromise agreement to hal all military action in Indocnina by Aug. 15. similar measure vetoed Wednesday by the President becuase it would have terminated spending immediately tfor bombing in Cambodia or Laos. The House fell 35 votes short of the needed to override the veto. two-thir- Opponents of bombing in Indochina agreed to the Aug. 15 fund cutoff after assurances the President would sign it. The compromise was incorporated in a $3.4 billion supplemental appropriation bill sent to the White House Friday night. The bill substitutes for a The Senate, by also inserted the fund cutoff in a continue funding a 63-2- 6 vote, war resolution to Aug. 15 all govern- ment departments, programs and payrolls beyond the end of the fiscal year at midnight tonight. The continuing resolution was sent to a House-Senat- e conference, with final action expected today. With an impasse on money bills threatening a financial crisis in the government after Saturday midnight. President Nixon relayed to Republican congressional leaders Friday his willingness to accept the Aug. 15 deadline. cutoff in the supplemental money bill. The vote on final passage was with the backing of the Relations Senate Foreign Committee The Senate concurred by a vote, clearing the bill for the President's desk. Opponents of the bombing who wanted an immediate halt bitterly denounced the pact. Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield called it a 278-12- 72-1- 4 But Senate sentiment on the compromise already had been tested in a spirited debate on the continuing resolution, adafter the Aug. 15 opted deadline had been accepted cave-in- - SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (ITI) President Nixon is taking his own steps to meet the energy crisis, ordering aides at the White House to shut off unnecessary lights, the air conditioning at night and the motors of waiting cars in the presidential fleet In a memorandum to federal agency and department heads. Nixon also directed workers to dress more casually in sweltering government offices where air conditioning will be cut down to conserve . Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, said the compromise gives the President amnesty for the slaughter of the past and license for slaughter in He said it "will the future. go down in infamy in American history. 73-1- 6 63-2- The House then dropped its demand for an immediate halt in the bombing of Cambodia and substituted the Aug. 15 Nixon pulls switch 15-- 2 The compromise was presented to the Senate by Chairman J. W. Fulbright, electricity. There was no word, however, on whether shorts would be permitted, although shirtsleeves are in. "We always work in our shirt sleeves in the White House, said Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler. Founded 1850 when Utah territory was known as the State of Deseret VOL 379 -- NO. 154 54 PAGES SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH TEN CENTS ' SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1973 METRO Today in the News may trip testimony, hrlichman says Combined AP, CPI WASHINGTON Former White House aide John D. Ehrlichman says he has evidence to trip up the sworn testimony of John Dean III. Ehrlichman said he believes Dean is trying to implicate President Nixon to save himself lrom criminal prosecution. The only person who would have been in a position to keep abreast of an Investigation and to have taken steps to protect the three or four people, including himself, who were involved in the inception of this thing, was Dean, Ehrlichman said. The former presidential counsel "was unisaid quely at the pivot point of the cover-up- , Ehrlichmans statements came Friday as Dean concluded five days of exhaustive testimony and stood firm on his charge that President Nixon knew the outlines of the cover-uas early as last Sept. 15. p Dean said Ehrlichman and former White House chief of staff H. R. Haldeman shared that knowledge with the President. Ehrlichman said in a CBS television interwas in first became aware a cover-uan inhad he March last after begun progress vestigation at the request of the President. view he p Dean will be tripped up by the logs I kept the Monitor quoted Ehrlichman as saying. of all meetings, He said those records show that literally months went by during the time Dean was talking about that I had no contact with horn at all. To hear his testimony he was in and out of my office every 10 minutes. Dean admitted to Senate questioners that he w as heavily involved in the coverup. But he said he was acting on theorders of Haldeman and Ehrlichman. Dean Friday ended a weeks testimony that President Nixon knew about Watergate earlier than he admits and knew more than he dares acknowledge. The White House disputed him again Friday on both points in the historic quarrel. V Five days of monotone testimony left the nation still forced to choose between believing See LOGS or Page A-- 2 AP Wirephoto Loyalist troops look for snipers near palace of Salvador Allende. Allende halts revolt, asks martial powers SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) -PSalvador Allendes leftist government asked Congress today to place Chile under a state of siege after loyal forces crushed a revolt by rebel army soldiers. Eight persons, including six civlians, were killed and 34 were wounded in exchanges of gun fire between the rebels and loyal army troops and police who quickly quelled the reFriday morning rush-hou- r bellion. resident Two of the civilian dead were a news photographer and a female reporter. A state of emergency was declared throughout the country and Santiago Province was put under nighttime curfew. The government also sought congressional approval to impose the state of siege, a much stricter measure normally used in wartime. It allows the government to invoke extreme measures, including arrests and searches without warrants, as well as house arrests. Allende asked for the state of siege because he said Fridays rebellion was part of a seditious escalation against his government. The rebel troops included about 100 members of the 2nd Armored Regiment, and were led by its commander. Col. Roberto Sou- - Social Security bill repassed - is The House today WASHINGTON (AP) ,) passed a bill extending to Nov. 30 the $465 bil- national debt ceiling, which otherwise about $60 billion drop to $400 billion Slion the actual debt at midnight. As the bill was sent to the Senate, con's ferees from both chambers reached informal agreement on a 5.6 percent Social Security benefit increase to be effective June 1, 1974. - The Senate WASHINGTON (UPI) to increase bill a vote a repassed today by Social Security benefits next year for 30 mil e lion elderly Americans and sent it to a differences. out conlerence to work In an attempt to protect the increases from the second House rejection in two days, the Senate tacked on an amendment to protect 74-- 0 House-Senat- beneficiaries of veterans and welfare programs from losing income due to the Social Security increases and conferees reportedly were considering delaying the effective date to July 1 instead of April 1. That would answer White House critics who claimed the increases amounted to fiscal irresponsibility. The House rejected the increase by a vote late Friday and ordered a new conference session on a bill to extend through Nov. 30 the nations $465 billion debt ceiling. The Social Security amendments were removed from the debt bill, added by the Senate to a bill extending the Renegotiation Act, a minor financial bill, and sent to conference. Before final passage, the Senate also tacked to the Renegotiation bill an amendment to allow the Agriculture Secretary to lift price 190-18- 5 freezes on agricultural commodities if those commodities would otherwise become in short supply. They also decided to extqnd the act for one year instead of two. Sen. Vance Hartke, began a filibulate Friday insisting that' the veterans amendments be left in the debt ceiling bill which he thought President Nixon would not veto. But he was persuaded to end his filibuster when the Senate session began today and acquiesce to the Senate leaderships decision to move it to the Renegotiation bill. Several House members said after Fridays vote that the measure lost because of its failure to protect veterans from a reduction in their benefits which are based bn a maximum income. The income would be increased by the Social Security changes. clarinet player, The whose playing is as good as ever, said he wondeied at first why he was aphad agreed to. Im pearing, after lie not trying to prove anything any more. It s just the faintly astonishing fact that still swings. Benny Goodman here we are, all together again, alive and kicking. Teddy Wilson was smooth on piano, Lionel Hampton percussive on vibraharp and Gene Krupa somewhat conservative on drums. Slam Stewart, who sings nonwords with his bass, was added. The songs were the old ones, with Sweet the old, wonderful swing One Moonglow, Georgia Brown, Memories of You, O Clock Jump, Dont Be "Bei Mir Bist du Schocn, After That Way, Body and Soul, Youve Gone. per, Allende said. They reno apparent support from the rest of the countrys ceived 23,000-ma- n army. It was the first time military men had tried to intervene with force in the conflict between the leftist government and the rightwing opposition that commands a majority in the congress. When AUende. a Marxist, was elected in 1970. military commanders pledged to adhere to their tradition of neutrality iii politics. Allende was not in his Mon-ed- a Palace when it and the nearby defense ministry were machine gunned by the band of rebel soldiers supported by four tanks. U.S., Russians head worldwide weather effort ster King of Swing opens fest The Benny NEW YORK (AP) Goodman Quartet got together again at Carnegie Hall on Friday, the first night of the Newport Jazz Festival in New York. Communist-lenew attacks launched insurgents against the Cambodian provincial capital of Kompong Speu. They are reportedly within one mile of the city. Meanwhile, American warplanes made repeated strikes around Fhnom Penh against insurgents consolidating In that area. In South Vietnam, search for two missing Canadians continues as the government reports efforts to reforce. The Canadian place Canada on the contingent is scheduled to pull out at the end of July. Another person is dead today following a series of shootings and bombings that overshadowed counting ballots in Northern Irelands election to choose a national assembly. Early returns show voting along strictly religious lines which dampens hopes that the election might reduce the gulf between feuding Catholic and Protestant communities. Polling analysts foresee a coalition government emerging to try to restore peace to the province. The moon passed directly between the sun and earth today, casting darkness from Brazil to Africa in the second longest eclipse of the sun in 1.256 years. The photograph, right, was taken aboard the liner Canberra in the the west Atlantic off the coast of Africa. More than 100 .scientists from the United States and at least 27 other countries gathered in Africa to study to the eclipse. It will be another century before there is another one of similar length. The U.S. dollar has suffered its sharpest drop ever on the Frankfurt and Zurich exchanges in the wake of the revaluation of the West German mark. The decline of the U.S. currency meant German vacations for American tourists would be more expensive. However, it should make U.S. exports cheaper and more attractive to Germans and this could help the U.S. deficit balance of payments. ; peace-keepin- Ehrlichman in the strongest counterattack to date against Dean. 1 have the feeling that having failed to receive immunity from prosecution by offering testimony about Haldeman and me, he switched to this current effort to strike at the President for the same purpose, Ehrlichman told the Christian Science Monitor. Maureen Dean wags finger at reporter during brenk in husband's testimony. Around the world - The United States WASHINGTON (AP) and the Soviet Union are set to begin an unprecedented $40 million scientific effort by 26 nations to find better means of forecasting the world's weather, the government announced Friday. The venture will focus on and above a neararea of the planets ly 17 equatorial belt. The tr oical area contains the heat engine that drives main atmospheric the general circulation of the global atmosphere. More than 5,000 scientists. 34 sh;ps, 11 aircraft, and the instruments from 250 weather obesn ation stations in 46 countries will be million-square-mi- employed. Objectives will range from seeking means to better forecast hurricanes and typhoons to exploring possibilities for modifying tropical weather. g A Soviet airliner crashed into a building and caught fire after overshooting the runway during takeoff today from Amman Airport. Initial reports Indicate that several persons aboard the plane and in the building were injured, but there were no fatalities. The plane was enroute to Beirut. Across the nation Passengers and crew of the luxury liner Skyward reached Miami early today and most appeared in good spirits despite having their Caribbean cruise Cut short by a mysterious intestinal ailment. Health officials believe the outbreak of diarrhea, fever and stomach cramps was caused by a virus. It was called incapacitating but not serious. No quarantine of the ship is planned. Tampering with the law of supply and demand is causing a mild panic among agriculturalists across the nation who warn that the current price freeze on all but raw agricultural products might result in food shortages or higher prices once the ban is lifted. Poultrymen, squeezed between fixed selling prices and high feed costs, predict shortages of eggs and chickens in a few months unless the freeze is lifted at once. The Department of Agriculture reported prices farmers received for their products jumped 6 percent in the month ending June 15. This is 38 percent above a year ago. In Washington Illicit securities trafficking makes profits of drug peddling and prostitution lock pale by comparison, according to Sen. Charles Percy, He and other members of a Senate subcommittee heard testimony that the volume of stolen, missing or lost securities in the United States has reached the $50 billion point. Prices farmers received for their products jumped 6 percent in the month ending June 15 and were 38 percent above a year ago, according to the agriculture departuncontrolled remained ment. Raw farm products despite the June 13 freeze on food announced by President Nixon. New price records were set for soybeans and cattle and strong increases were registered for grains. l. It's a bake-of- f ; Utah's the oven Jx Sunny, hot days and cooler nights are in store for the next two days. Highs are expected in the mid 90s with lows in the mid 60s. (Details, weather map on Page B-- The National Science Foundation said the project will begin Aug. 1 when two Soviet ships are scheduled to meet an American vessel in the Atlantic Ocean 300 miles east of the Virgin Islands for a cooperative program lasting 10 days. This will be followed by a three months effort, beginning June 15. 1974, involving research ships from nearly a dozen other nations, along with the aircraft and other equipment deployed from the Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean to southern Tanzania in Africa. 6 Informotion DESERET News tips NEWS Sports scores Ombudsman Home delivery problems (Call Monday through Saturday before .W 8pm) ' 524-444- 5 524-440- 0 524-444- 8 364-862- 6 524-284- 0 |
