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Show ? NATO Favors essions on clSllCS rm' By Arthur L. Gavshon Associated Press Writer hi f vv ( i v $? I j i UroV" u43xnni ' f; f84 fi- m , ss EKS' - T X .... ' - '' - ''i-- ' wjt i. a ?- 4 was s, 1 Q. ''' vga && foc - Associated of House Chairman Wilbur I). Mills, Mays and Means Committee, pats land of 4jTo Mayors Appeal For Bigger Sliee of Funds - group of a Senate subcommittee told majors needed Thursday that their communities a larger share of the money that would be passed out to states and cities under the administrations progiam. A big-cit- y general I Treasury Secretary John B. Connally, left, as he arrives to testify on revenue-sharin- g revenue-sharin- g Their view was echoed, on the other represenside of the capital, by tatives who are members of the House Ways and Means Committee. they argued that the administration's the plan would not put the money where greatest needs are, and were answeied B. by Secretary of the Treasury John a not was the said who plan Connally, bill to relieve the urban crisis" and was never intended to be. of generThe day's tarshest-criticiscame on other revenue-sharinal grounds, however, from the powerful chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, Wilbur D. Mills. plan a He called the revenue-sharinmost the and dangerous horse trojan proposal that has ever been developed" and pi edict ed that it ultimately would on produce greater federal restrictions the authority of state governments than exist now. revenue-sharinplan The general would turn over to state and city governments, for use essentially as they see fit, a specified amount of money that was collected through the federal tax system. The amount would be $5 billion for the See Page 8, Column 1 big-cit- y g g g The Nixon administraNEW YORK tion does not plan to itervene in labor contract negotiations in either the steel or copper industries, Labor Secretary James D. Hodgson said Thursday. Hoagson told a press conference here that there are no plans for government intervention in copper or steel and I don't envision any reason why that should change. The labor secretary conceded that the administration is vitally interested in the ultimate settlements in both industries, but he said that the bargaining must be left to management and labor. (Ir, Salt Lake City, site of one of the key copper negotiations, representatives of Kenneeott Copper Corp. and 15 unions President Nixon WASHINGTON federal for legislation to called Thursday to the family of any po$30,000 provide At lice officer slain in the line of duty. the same time, however, his attorney general reiterated administration opposi- of hand tion to new eontro's over the sale guns at this time. The announcement of the new proposal was made by Attorney General John folN. Mitchell at a Whifp House briefing the between lowing a morning meeting of pochiefs dozen two nearly President, lice and abends from throughout the Bureau of Inrountry. Mitchell. Fedial J. Director Edgar Hoover, vestigation and spveral senators and congressmen. The meeting in the Oval Office, and the televised briefing in the press room immediately afterward, had been called to discuss the recent wave of police the administraslayings, to demonstrate tions concern, and to unveil the new pro- posal. By the end of the day. however, the administration found Itself caught up in controversies over the composition of the meeting itself. Among the prominent absentees were two critics of some aspects of administration policy, New Yoik Police Commissioner Patrick V. Murphy and Quinn Tamm the executive director of the InAssociation of Chiefs of ternational Police. Tamm said mat Hoover had black- authori-tie- bal,- nd the two prominent police 'iaiiui tw. L-- a 'oimer assistant FEI duec- - Hoover for years Mtitphy said the reported White explenai.o'H .at he was not invit- jiau'P w iTh Pres met again. More sessions are scheduled for Friday.) Hodgson made his remarks at a press conference before addressing a meeting controls or collective bargaining' on sponsored by the Conference Board. Under questioning by reporters, Hodgson said the administration was disappointed by the recent settlement in the aluminum industry but, he added, settlements in one industry dont necessarily carry over to other industries it's a matter of individual conditions, union politics and the like. Over the weekend, the three major aluminum producers Alcoa, Reynolds Metals and Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical reached agreement with workers represented by the United Steelworkers and the Aluminum Workers International Union providing for wage inci eases of LISBON Secretary of State William P. Rogers won broad support Thursday from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization for high-levtalks with the Soviet Union on Easi-Wetroop cuts. He gave an overall optimistic review of the world scene. While NATOs diplomats and general were talking about reducing tension, four terrorist bombs went off in Lisbon and its suburbs, knocking out all of the city's landline communications for five hours. The explosions, w hicli caused no casualties. were blamed on the Portuguese Communist party that accuses Portugal of colonialism in Africa. JVirephot Prospects Good' later told Coimally the plan r life about 31 percent over the three-yedie contract, plus fringe benefits that went beyond an eanier settlement between the USW and the country's can makeis, which also brought criticism from the Wh'te House. After the settlements, the aluminum inmanufacturers announced price a r creases averaging 6 percent. Aked if he thought expressions of disappointment after contract settlements are reached were any help in holding Y'ou down wage boosts, Hodgson said, better ask the bargainers if it has any effect on them. He declined to say wha the administration might do after the steel settlement if it includes wage increases similar to alumfnum. That s very iffy question. he said, but they can see from our reaction that were very concerned. Rogers told NATOs council of foreign ministers that prospects were good for dousing the flashpoints of war in Asia and the Middle East and for easing the arms confrontation in Europe. His appraisal included these viexxs: The Vietnam war seems to be running doxvn and by next December American troop strength will be 67 percent below the level that President Nixon encountered in early 1969. s American efforts to improve with Red China are continuing and Washington will announce next week the end of trade curbs in effect for 22 years. He is hoping the Israelis and Egyptians will reach an initial agreement to reopen the Suez Canal within six reld-tion- Prisoner Swap Attempt Flops, Mere 13 Reds Might Return Positixe Trends Positive trends have been found in Soviet policies on strategic arms limitation, a Berlin settlement and troop cuts in Europe. Possible negotiations with the Soviet bloc on mutual troop reductions are a of 15 NATO key issue in the conference members. Combined Wire Services SAIGON The White move to return 57C sick and wounded prisoners to North Vietnam reached its anticlimatic end Friday with a men 13 captives agreeing to go and Hanoi screaming sham. Fne whole deal fell through when the at the announced North Vietnamese Paris peace talks Thursday that they had canceled the repatriation of the 13 prisoners who were w illing to go home. The announcement came even as the House-inspire- d ed because he was not a police chief w as simply incredible. It was with disappointment and dismay that I learned that the appearance of the police chief of the greatest city in the world confronted by a major problem of violence by guns was not wanted at the Washington conference, he said at police headquarters in New York. Tamm was quoted by Scripps-Howar- d Newspapers as saying the two were not invited by Hoover, who drew up the guest list at Nixon's request, because of the FBI director's personal animosity. Hoover, said Tamm, was playing politics with policemen's lives." So far this year, 31 policemen have been killed in the line of duty, seven of them in New York City. (Copyright) were sailing aboard an American transport in the South China Sea to a renoezvous point on a river in the Demilitarized Zone. As of early Friday the Upshur had not yet entered the rendezvous area where it was to have released the 13 nick and wounded captives to the North Viet13 namese. U.S. officials in Saigon said the vessel was awaiting word on whether the transfer at sea actually woula be carried out. The North Vietnamese, in cancelling the arrangements for the transfer, called the whole affair an odious act, and a dishonest maneuver by Washington and Saigon. Officials in Saigon, who do not wish to be quoted by name, say the White House had ample warning that the plan would likely oackfire. The White House pressed ahead, however, ignoring the warning signals until too late. Of 660 sick and wounded prisoners interviewed individually by Swiss representatives of the International Committee for the Red Cross, these were the only men who agreed to repatriation. On the battlefield, a ceasefire went into effect early Friday along a section of the Demilitarized Zone, but fighting went on elsewhere in South Vietnam. Maj. Charles Johnson, a spokesman for the U.S. Command, said several fire bases were included in the ceasefire area and troops operating from them would not conduct offensive operations. The ceasefire, a condition set forth by North Vietnam for the prisoner release, applies to all military operations in a section along the Demditarized Zone. KAMPALA, UGANDA Two thou- sand elephants cut of a total of 8.500 in the sou'hem area of Murchison Falls National Park in Uganda are to be killed otf in the next year or 18 months as part of measures to save the herds from slow extinction. If the trustees of Uganda iv.i iiiiirtl Parks Agree wd'i the finding of scientists, a further 2,000 may be shot. The director of Uganda National Parks. Roger J. Wheater, a Briton, says that if management action is not taken urgently it has been predicted that elephants could vanish from the area by toe turn of the century. The human population outside Murchison National Park, as well as in other places, has taken oxer what was once elephant country. In 1929 more than 10 percent of Uganda was elephant country. By 19C6 this had slirunx to 13 percent. But there had not been a comparable reduction in the elephant population. The result of their being squeezed into a smaller and smaller aiea was that t.iOv began to destroy their own habitat and that of other wild animals a well, which could not move out. The problem. Wheater said in a recnt interview, is rather like having a town with 50 farms all around it. all of them keeping cattle at the best possible that is, the maximum inking rate U l New' York, strongly Thant, endorsed such talks, which were proposed by Moscow last month. In Moscow, the Communist party newspaper Pravda said hawks in the Atlantic Alliance were trying to block any Wardetente with the saw Pact countries. An article claimed were helmsmen that Washington trying to force through NATO a new round of military preparations. As the NATO ministers plunged into debate, Rogers argued for a double approach to the questions of troop reductions and the organization of a new security system for Central Europe. Soviet-organize- d Laws on Vice - The San SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) Francisco Crime Commission Thursday urged abolition of many laws against prostitution, pornography, homosexuality in a report that and gambling ' ilabbergasted the police chief. In a report, a blue ribbon citizens committee appointed by Mayer Jo108-pag- e seph Alioto said police should s' p wastdiscreet, prosecuting ing eneigy sin not involving violence. private Last year the commission said San Frecisco police were able to solve only 13 of the seven major crimes percent including murder and robbery. During the same year, oxer 50 percent of all arrests in the city xxere for nonvi-ole- nt crimes. Chief Alfred J. Nelder was flabbergasted" and inuignant. He said the recommendations would encourage serious crime because vice is directly related to it. No person converThe report said: sant with reality believes that prostitution can be eliminated, certainly not in a with its port, city like San Francisco tourists, conventions, etc. Noting that the present scope of prosthe report said titution is fantastic. prostitudiscreet, private tion should cease to be criminal." However,, the commission opposed city licensing of prostitutes. The police chief said there is no such thing as discreet" prostitution. Criminal law ought not to go beyond the public activity of homosexuals whose number in San Francisco i estimated as high as 90,000, the commission recommended. Elephant Slaughter Necessary to By Malcolm Withnell The London Observer Secretary-Genera- speaking in S.F. Panel Asks Abolition of that the land will feed. Then the town expands, erasing say 35 of the farms and crowding all the cattle in'o the remaining 15 farms. We have a habitat in the south of the paik now which is poor lor many species of animals, including elephants, whkh aie themselves in a state of decline biologi-call- x . This decline sign, tod bv later lengthening calving intervals and probably higher moiialitiy m young anilias come about became ot lack mals of woody vegetation, the balk and blanches of trees, on winch elephant feed, thus causing dietary problems, m lark of shade causing heat stress. it has teen shown by expeuniem, Aisociatid Pres Wuepiiot Fitzsimmons Wins Union's Endorsement Frank F.. months. U.N. Nixon Asks Funds for Families Of Police Slain While on Duty New York Times Service plan. Mills Intervention in Steel, Copper Talks By Philip Greer Washington Post Writer New York Times Service WASHINGTON' I sured Americas allies that the Nixon will be able to maintain U.S. troop strength in Europe at the existing 300.000-ma- n level despite congiessional demands for cutbacks. Proposes Early Meeting He proposed an early meeting of NATO deputy foreign ministers to precise plans and procedures for negotiations on reduction of troop. He opposed Moscow's call for a Europe-wide security conference, standing fnm on previous NATO demands that the Big Four reach agreement first with Moscow on the futuie of divided Berlin. Rogers, addressing the council, also aspie-par- e Inside The Tribune A-- 2 Salt Lake City a..d vicinity creasing cloudiness and warmer Highs iri the Weather map. Page B-- 70's, Detem)era-tures- lows Presidency Of Teamsters By Ken W. Claw son ington Post Writer James R. Hoffa WASHINGTON officially stepped aside as president of the Teamsters Union Thursday, but several government officials quickly pointed out that lie failed to enhance his chance for a quick parole because he retained his union offices in Michigan. his Hoffa, 58, in a decision not to run for letter to the Teamsters' general executive board in which he endorsed his stand-ifor the past four years, Frank E. Fitzsimmons. The board, as it has done since 1937 when Hoffa was first elected president c the nation's largest trade union, followed Hoffas instructions to the letter. Ir Fitzsimmons, G3, and 13 other r to for members terms at the July 5 convention in Miami Beach. Announces Candicacy d five-ye.t- With Hoffa's son, James P., a Teamster lawyer from Detroit at his side, Fitzsimmons announced his own candidacy, but would not answer questions. Fitzsimmons pronounced his former a big mentor lo be a great man man, and said it had been difficult for Hoffa to make the decision because he had devoted 39 jears to the teamsters union and that outside his family, the union was his primary interest. if he conYeung Hoffa was curred in the widespread belief among top Teamster officials that Ins faher's chances for a quick parole would be improved if he stepped aside. I have no idea," the young lawjer said. But gov eminent officials pointed out later that Hoffa's letter to the executive boaid from ine feneial penitentiary at Lewisbui g. Pa., made no mention of sevenng his ties wth hi Home Local 299 and Joint Council 43 m Detroit, or tin Michigan conference of Tecmsteis. all of which he still heads with the title of pieident. ... For Tribune telephone numbers, see Page Hoffa Gives U . President Inlil November in Detroit, Ha! Delong, a spokesman for Local 299. sad Hoffa was that if browsing on Wheater said, of the three Teamster groups woody vegetation is reduced there is a piesident while still in pnson and the terms run spectacular recoveiy of such woody veguntil at least n xt November. He said etation which is the basis for the formation of new woodland'. We believe that by that "nobody ha even thought of the tepp rg down reducing the number of elephants we possibility of Jimmy shall neate a climate for the rapid from any of those offices. A Jusute Department oCmM regeneration of woody vegetation, ttius that Hoffa did not dtotuib ins rod power om, lining toe diversity we seek winch x,ll Hoffa vuiualy founded Local 291 then be of value to all specie ot wild base in 1932 file, tm lading elephants." by rel.nqui'liirg il. SKiOaFO a So the elephant heads ip the rout hern year inernaLonal union piesiuencj, aiea of Murchison Falls National Park are to be cropped" bv 2 000. and perhaps 4.000. 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