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Show Salt Lake City, Vtah Vo!. 203, No. 91 Wednesday Morning Nixon Meets Broad Talks Due On World Affairs By Brooks - -- g 7 a.m. PDT Column 5 Associated Henry Kissinger, presidential adviser on foreign policy, is Press Wirephoto greeted at San Clemente by the President after his trip abroad. House Votes Down Effort To Cite CBS in Contempt Reuters News Agency The House Tuesday WASHINGTON shelved an effort to unprece- dented contempt of charge against the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS). The House voted 226 to 181 to have its Commerce Committee reconsider its recommendation that the network and CBS President Frank Stanton cited in of be contempt Congress and thus face possible legal action. The committees Germ Arsenal - The PINE BLUFF, ARK. (AP) Army Tuesday began destruction of the U.S. stockpile of deadly war germs and said wiien the process is completed this nation's aggressive capability in germ warfare will be destroyed. It is the policy of the government to to try reduce world tensions and this is a Col. John K. siep in that direction," said Pine Bluff of the commander .Stoner, wlieie the germ stockpile is Aisenal being destroyed. It would take 10 to la years to recreate what is being destroyed here, Stone siid. When it is destroyed, the total ( apability of the United States to produce tlu-sagents will be destroyed. Stoner said the biological agents and toxins that have been produced and stored at the arsenal comprised the entire U.S. stockpile exeept for those used for defensive research, such as the development of vaccine. The seven agents stored at the arsenal include types that cause infectious disease and sometimes death in humans animals. and other e warm-bloode- d Glenn Achorn, director of biological oiterntions at the arsenal, said the dis posa! process would take almost a year and would cost an estimated S1C.8 million. He said 223 arsenal employes who helped produce the germa were working to destroy the stockpile. iirUnn iwnt ntid.Am il wvIV U V.VUI lflis.il 1972. the arsenal facilities will lie used for peaceful purposes, such as research on environmertal problems, by fhe Food and Diug WminMrntion. Destruction of th" germ warfare agents was ordered Nov. 23, 1919. by -1 President Nixon. Toilnvs Clinch le Dog is not man's best friend. to borrow money from one? I Ever tiy the network to make available film edited out of its vision documentary Pentagon. The roll call vole back to committee Defenders and ciitics of the military have been at odds over the program, which also added fuel to the continuing controversy over the judgment and methods of the news media, as well as the fundamental constitutional issue of freedom of the press. The hour-lon- g documentary, nariated by CBS newsman Roger Mudd, took an unusually candid' look at the Pentagons vast information and publicity machine and the way it projects the military point of view at home and abroad. Most of the debate in the House and in the committee focussed on charges that CBS had rearranged and distorted sections of an interview wdth Daniel Henkm, an assistant secretary of defense, and a speech by Army Lt. Col. John MacNeil. Refused Unused Tapes stemmed from the refusal of charge Army Launches Destruction of and Washington and a provision. At a news conference 24 hours after AT&T in New York announced its latest offer, Beirne dismissed the move as a scandalous public relations gimmick and said the strike is on, regardless. To halt the strike, the union's membership must ratify any new contract by a mail referendum, Beirne said. H; said that will take two weeks even after an acceptable agreement is reached. g es Deny Red Contacts Informed sources strongly discounted reports that Kissinger may have contacted Communist representatives, Chinese or North Vietnamese, in either Fakisian or Paris. When he was delayed for 24 hours in Pakistan because of a reported illness, there was immediate speculation he was conferring wdth Communist rep- m Baltimore Rejects Contract Package The CWA rejected May 23 a three-yea- r contract package that the company says amounts to a 30 percent increase when wages increases and fringe benefits are counted. It included a 17 percent increase in wages. Beirne said the company's accounting was misleading and that the contract offer cortnined many inequities. Among these, he said, were a pension proposal that would discourage early retirements, an increase in geographical differentials that the union want eliminated, perpetuation of wide wage differ-enebetween men and women performing similar jobs, and an allocation of wage increases that provides as little as a $3.50 weekly increase in one job Turns Down Request The reason for and the nature of the new series of foreign policy meetings remained unexplained as the Western White House maintained a tight lid on the meaning of the Kissinger trip and what relationship, if any, it had to possible Nevertheless, the net impression heie was that the Kissinger Uip was primart-l- y designed to gather facts about the actual military and political situation in South Vietnam in advance of the Presidential election there Oct. 3 and in advance of the President's next decision regarding troop withdrawals, expected in guiia. West Virginia and the District of Columbia, also would have a sjiecial -- . No Word on Meaning peace negotiations. The Communist peace proposals of July 1 have put additional public pressure on the President to make new concessions to end the fighting. Adding to the mystery were reports that meetings the President had scheduled this week on the economy with Secretary of the Treasury John B. Connallv and Geoige P. Shrltz, director of the Office of Management and Budget, may be postponed. ington satd Tuesday its latest offer calls for a three-yea- r agreement totaling more t!UR 30 8nd The first-- j ear increases total 16 percent including wage i '"reuses of about 12 percent, plus fringe items. A C&P spokesman said the ofter, covering 31.000 employes in Maryland, Yir- - d is'-e- d 6, Jack-o- n WASHINGTON Wildcat telephone strikes spread from Virginia to California Tuesday in advance of a nationwide strike by half a million Bell system employes that the union says will last at least two weeks. contract offer Despite a from management, President Joseph A. Communications Peirne of the AFL-CIWorkers of America told a news conference Tuesday there is no way to head off the walkout, set for 6 a.m. EDT (4 a.m. MDT) Wednesday. Even as he spoke his men began early-birwalkouts in Michigan, Ohio, Florida, California, Virginia, South Dakota and Georgia. There was a poverty day job action in Florida, The telephone strike conies as Western Union telegraph offices rent; l dosed for a seventh week by a strike of 17.000 members of the AFL-CIUnited Telegraph Woikeis and 3,100 members of the CWAs local 1177 in New York. No new developments were reported in that strike. PresiCALIF. dent Nixon began Tuesday what was described as a series of foreign policy meetings as he received the first report fiom Henry A. Kissinger, assistant for national security affairs, on his round mission. the - world At the same time, the President expressed ills complete" confidence in David K. E. Bruce, who is planning to retire soon as chief U.S. representative at the Paris peace talks. William J. Porter. ambassador to South Korea, is expected to succeed Bruce. The disclosure that Bruce, 73. plans to retire, which came immediately after KSsnger left Paris Monday, was entirely coincidental and in no way related to the Kissinger trip, officials here maintained. They noted that fhe Pt esident has known to leave for some time that Bruce w his post for reasons of health. Kissnger arrived here at See Page Price Ten Cents Press Writer By Can oil Kilpauick Washington Post Writer resentatives. 11, 1971 Phone Strike Affects Most of U.S. Today Kissinger o In Briefing SAX CLEMENTE, July controversial The Selling of the tele- The House Commerce Committee decided on the contempt acton against CBS and Stanton after he refused to hand c.er to the panel unused tapes and material that w'as edited out of the documen- tary. to send ended the issue the drive Related Story, Page 1 Commerce Committee CBS, agaust Chairman Harley Staggers conceded. The West Virginia Democrat, who led the attempt to take legal action against CBS, saia he did not see how he could bring the issue up again on the House floor. The documentary, dealing with the Pentagon's vast propaganda and pu' lici-t- y apparatus, has been assailed as biased by defenders of the military, and there have been charges that questions and answers were transjiosed for effect during the editing process. Inside The Tribune For Tribune telephone Also on the horizon are possible localized rail and mail strikes Tuesday night a federal judge in Chicago issued a temporary restraining order which bars the United Transportatfrom carrying out ion Union, AFL-CIa strike scheduled for Friday against the Chicago and North Western Railway. But a union spokesman in Cleveland said the ruling will not affect threatened strikes against the Southern Railway and the Union Pacific. The union had scheduled the strike for 6 a.nt. Friday against the three railroads and the Norfolk and Western and the Southern Pacific eight days later in a dispute ever wotk rules. No new talks w ere reported m the rail disupte or between the U.S Postal Servile and its seven unions. Thet e has been no threat of a national postal strike, but militant postal locals in the New York area have agitated for a walkout without setting any specific date. Beirne said the telephone strike is over wages, pension improvements, job security and what he called the company's antifeminist job policies. It comes nationwide strike that atop a has closed Western Union telegraph ofs fices. Localized rail and mail also are threatened soon. a confrontation with the broadcasting industry, thus avoided a head-ouash over principle that could have gone to the Supreme Court. has The Selling of the Pentagon been an emotional bone cf contention ever since it was first shown nationally Salt Lake City and vicinity Fair and hot, with slight chance of afternoon, evening thunderstorms. Weather map is cn in Page AND MORE . . . Sears Section. n February. Wednesday's Forecast 10. No Senate Panel Vote Okays Loan Guarantee for Loekheed Service Should Conliime strike-affecte- However, most installation of new phones and repair service on existing equipment would stop. The company says it w ill use supervisory employes to man switchboards and perform billing tasks. The nicu says that it will continue to service government - operated telephone systems essential for national security. A union spokesman said the walkout will at first idle 400,000 CWA members and at least 100,000 members of other unions who will iionor CWA picket lines. More Bell workers will join as other contracts expire, he said. A spokesman for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers said that unions 150,000 members have given the okay for a strike, but no date has been set. There are no plans, he said, to walk out at Western Electric, New Jersey Bell and Illinois Pall facilities where IPEW pacts have expired. Beirne said, however. Bell system unions in Connecticut and Pennsylvania had agreed to strike w ith the CWA. The union spokesman said virtually all telephone systems, which account for about 20 percent of the nation's telephones, would not te directly affected although they could experience difficulties because they are wired into e Bell equipment. After weeks of negotiations AT&T announced ai 12:13 p.m. Tuesday in New York that it would seek out the several union bargam'-iteams to make a new, better offer. Its terms were not immediately announced. However, C&P Telephone in Wash . l Joseph A. Beirne M ay to Halt Strike 10-- 5 tie-up- Since most telephone equipment is automated the public will continue to d have telephone service even in areas, at least until lack of maintenance causes breakdowns. man-ageme- nt Press Wirephoro Benciils Ailing Giauls k non-Bel- off from Associated Pickets throughout Utah will be deployed around all Mountain Bell facilities in the state which employ members of the Communication Workers of America, Norma Bozeman, Utah state CWA director, said Tuesday. She said the pickets will be out Wednesday at 4 a.m. at more than 10 cities and towns in Utah and at some 20 locations in Salt Lake City and County. A spokesman for Mountain Bell said tlie company is going ahead with preparations for handling service with personnel. He added that due to the strike, new service installation would be curtailed to a degree. The Senate WASHINGTON (AP) Banking Committee Tuesday night approved legislation intended to rescue Lockheed Aircraft Corp. and other industrial giants whose collapse could damage the economy. rankSen. William Proxmire, ing committee member, immediately issued a statement saying there is some doubt the tottering defense contractor would qualify for any of he $2 billion in federal loan guarantees available under the bill. However, committee Chairman John and Sen. John Tower, Sparkman, ranking committee Republican, said they have no doubt Lockheed would qualify for the $230,000,000 in loan guarantees it says it needs to avoid bankruptcy. The vote was 10 to 5 to send the bill to the floor where Sparkman said he hoped action could be taken before the monthlong recess starting Aug. 6. Asked if he would fight the bill on the Boor, Proxmire said, Of course I will. Proxmire also indicated, although he did not say so flatly, tiiat he mieiit try to block the bill from Senate consideration until after. Congress returns in early September. Lockheed says it faces the prospect of running out of cash possibly by Sept. 1 if it does not get government help to continue the development of its L1011 Tri-Stairbus. Deliveries of the TriSlar have of been delayed by the bankruptcy Ltd , which is making the engines for the Rolls-Royc- e wide-bodie- d airplane. Three Republicans voted against the bill; Edward W. Brooke, Mass.; Bob Packwood, Ore., and Robert Taft Jr., Ohio. Authority to make tha loan guarantees would be invested in a board composed of the secretary of the treasury as its chairman, plus the chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and the president of the Federal Reserve District in the region where an ailing company was located. Defense Locates Missing Billion Washington Post Service WASHINGTON The Department of Defense said Tuesday that the Missing $1.7 billion in U.S. funds to support the pacification program in Vietnam isnt the auditors really njssing at all trying to find it were simply looking in the wrong place. In this case, according to the Pentagon, the wrong place to look for records to support the spending was in Vietnam. The Pentagon said the right place to look would have been Washington, D.C., where the Army, Air Force and Navy maintain ubligational records accounting for the entire $1.7 billion. The Pentagon answer to the riddle of the missing billions was made public after Sen. Charles Peicy, and Rep. called for an oificial Les Aspin, explanation of what happened to the pacification funds. . l. The only other Democrat siding with Proxmire was Sen. Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota. . Italian Probe Details International Power, Menace of Mafia Gang A parliamentary comROME (AP) mission, after a seven-yea- r investigation, named 13 top Mafia leaders Tuesday. It blood criminals, killsaid they were ers, drug dealers, persons capable of any atrocity. One of those named, Vicenzo di Carlo, rated as one of jie most powerful Mafia once was a judge ana an offibosses cial of the governing Christian Democratic party, the report said. The report was one of a series thru " ill cover political and other aspects of Mafia infiltration It said the Sicilian Mafia has spread from the countrywide into cities and has become part ct international gzngMeiism. Of file men listen, only Di Catlo is in jail serving a life term for multiple long-tim- 4 e Four were gunned to death yeats ago. five are exiled and one is murder. missing. One, Tomniaso Buscelta, is in New York and anothf Gtrseppe Greco, lives in freedom in Palermo. Sicily's capital. ll WdS lilt illai lime a pai'Imi ternary investigation has mentioned top mafiosi -by ame. The report said Mafia men seldom have been convicted in court because they have enjoyed "jxmerful and authoi-iiativ- e protections and political complicity" from police up to the central government. It said the ruling Christian Iiemocrats were among the parties that tra led political protection for the Mafia's electoral suppott. The report delved into Mafia aetivi.ies since the end of World War II. It did net get into the question of who may have taken over Mafia leadership from the bosses named who were killed or imprisoned. One of those on the list, Tommaso Buscett.., was arrested last Aug. 27 in New York and charged with accepting a lx; "us visa for entry into the United Buscetta and Rosario Mancino, another on the list, aie involved ir drug trafficking and bear witness to the full interrelation between the Sicilian Mafia and the international underOild, it added. Mancino is one of 33 Mafiosi who were exiled last month to smrll islands off Sici1' and Sardinia under ar emer- Sta.es. The thorities to send Mafia suspects to confinement without previous trial or pend- U.S. Immigration and Natualiza-tio- n Service said Buscetta was convicted in absentia by an Italian court in the deaths of woven policemen and two bystanders m F lenr.o in 19"3. He was released on $75,0.11 bail last September and is pwaitirg grind jury action in the U.S.. tie repot t said. S gency .anti-Mafi- a law which allcws au- ing appeal. The biggest Mafia roundup in postwar Italy came in the wake of the machine-gumurder last May of Pie'ro Scaglione, Sicily's top criminal prosecutor. The commission, including membeis Horn all jyai ties from the Communists to n ft the Fascists, was set up by parliament after the violent deaths in Sicily of nine persons, including seven policemen. The officers died in 1963 in the explosion of a car which had been rigged by a Mafia gang and was intended for other Mafia hoodlums with whom it had been feuding. Buscetta was implicated in the bombing. Tiie report is one of a series the com- Linn cocu J.VJI.....Q owl cnhmitlacuz'i ting to parliament on various aspects of Mafia. The connections between Mafia and politics were mentioned only in passing in Tuesdays repot t. T..e commission said it was cornpletirg a separate ieport cn the political aspects. |
