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Show ( Vol. 204, No. 171 Salt Lake City, Vtah April 3, 1972 Monday Morning Price Ten Cents North Viet Offensive Crushes Battered Defenses in South -- X s ht 't , v'T.-'- v , r 'Ik u ; V f ' f i- 3 a.' $: 'MtmrLrsu if- ""Li ' AvwX", Reuters News Agency SAIGON About 50 North Vietnamese tanks accompanied by infantry are 10 miles north of South Vietnams provincial capital of Quang Tri and are moving on the city, military sources reported Monday. By George Esper Associated Press Writer ..;. tf", SAIGON - rfj': iy. .' ' 3 - g of American score HS 1968 Associated Press Wireohoto in front of 200,000 people at St. Peters Square in Rome. Missing Eight U.S. crewmen were reported missing in the air losses over the embattled area south of the DMZ. The South Vietnamese rushed 8,000 to 10,000 reinforcements north to aid the battered 3rd Division, pushed back 10 miles from the DMZ. President Nguyen Van Thieu canceled a speech to the National Assemblys lower house. He was reported heading north to Da Nang and Hue to meet with said military commanders. Sources Thieu I ild house leaders the situation was very serious. The U.S. Command said half a dozen North Vietnamese sites inside and to the north of the Demilitarized Zone and in Laos unleashed barrages of surface-to-ai- r missiles at American fighter-bombesupporting South Vietnamese troops. Four of the SAMS were fired across the DMZ, a spokesman said. The command said none of the s was hit, but conventional antiaircraft fire brought down a spotter plane and three helicopters north and northwest of Quang Tri city, and roughly rs Pope Aims Message To Silent Churches - VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Paul a solemn note into his joyous Easter Mass by expressing solidarity with the church of silence suffering restrictions under Communist regimes. The pontiff; who turns 75 next fall, sang his Latin Mass at a wide altar in VI injected Holy Land, Page 4 front of a festive crowd of- - 200,000 jamming St. Peters Square under a springtime sun. at least half tourists The crowd waved hundreds of balloons and w'hite and yellow papal flags. Thousands wore small crosses of palm ieaves and Vatican medals along with hippie necklaces, all on sale in the square. In his message to Rome and the world, the pontiff said to all men: Peace be with you. Will our greeting of peace reach our churches of silence on this feast of the he added. For in many risen Christ? vast regions of the earth there still -- xlst, or rather, there still languish, those humble undaunted communities or individual faithful who are denied a legitimate and by no means subversive existence in the free establishment and expression of their religious and ecclesiastical life. It was the first time in many months that Pope Paul referred in public to the an expression the church of silence, late Pope Pius XII coined for Christians living under Communist rule. Pope Paul said he wanted his peace greeting to reach where there is still the conflict of war, hatred, bloodshed, destruction, and ever more numerous and murderous weaponry. As usual, he named no specific nations. But Vatican prelates said the pontiff had the civil strife in Northern Ireland particularly in mind. He ais addressed his peace wish to Christians, telling them: Peace, peace be with you, brothers still distant and yet in affection so close. Berrigan Guilty of Smuggling; Jury Still Probes Ollier Counts - A jury HARRISBURG, PA. (UPI) convicted the Rev. Philip F. Berrigan Sunday of smuggling a letter from federal prison but remained deadlocked over a verdict on other charges against the antiwar priest and his fellow members of the Harrisburg Seven. The jury of nine women and three men was ordered to resume deliberation Monday on the government's principal charge that Berrigan and the others plotted to kidnap presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger, blow up federal heating systems and raid draft boards in nine states. It was only after 33 hours of deliberation during the past four days that the jurors could report unanimous agreement on the one charge that on May 24, 1970, Berrigan illegally sent a letter from the Leesburg, Pa., penitentiary to Sister Elizabeth ci defendants. McAlister, one of his Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page 2 Mondays Forecast Salt Lake City and vicinity Rapidly decreasing clouds to fair. Highs 60 to 63, lows near 35. Weaker map, page 24. The conviction carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years, twice the possible penalty for conviction on the main charge of conspiracy on which all seven defendants were indicted. The jury reported to Judge R. Dixon Herman that it was unable to agree on a verdict for the conspiracy charge, or on other charges that Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth smuggled letters and made written threats against Kissinger. The judge balked, however, at the request of the jurors to be excused. He sent them back into deliberation for nearly another hour, and then allowed the jurors to recess until 9 a.m. Monday. If you cannot arrive at a unanimous verdict the court will not be able to do anything but dismiss you," Herman said. If the jury becomes hopelessly deadlocked then the court must dismiss you, but for now Im asking you to continue. Herman explained that not only the length of the trial, but considerable estimated by some at about expense $1 million was involved. In addition, he said, there was "unlikelihood that we could get a better jury at another time . . Berrigan, sitting with his head rested on one hand, showed no i vimediate emotion as the verdict was read but moments later when Sister Elizabeth turned and whispered to him he looked angered by what she said. In addition to Berrigan and Sister Elizabeth the other defendants are Eqbal Ahmahd, the Rev. Joseph Wenderoth, the Rev. Neil McLaughlin, Anthony Scoblick, a former priest, and his wife Mary, a former nun. going to pull southern penetration enemy armor has ever made in the Indochina war. The objective of the Communist com- mand, as seen by U.S. officials, is to show 4s Nigeria Cars Go Right ernmost province bordering the DMZ on the north and Laos on the west. By dusk Sunday, the northernmost South Vietnamese defensive line was just to the south of the district town of Dong Ha, 10 miles below the DMZ, and North Vietnamese tanks pushed to within 300 yards of the town. South Vietnamese air force officers told Associated Press correspondent Richard Blystene their bombers had knocked out five North Vietnamese tanks on a bridge just to the north of Dong Ha. They said 15 or 16 enemy tanks were believed to be in the area. gram. A second goal listed by officials is to regain control of some of the population. Psychologically, the offensive is aimed at achieving the maximum impact o,i the presidential election in the United States and causing the defeat of Nixon in his bid for sources said. The fighting on the northern front continued to overshadow' all other action, since North Vietnam has long desired to annex Quart' Tri, South Vietnams north l!5 New York Times Service One reason for the lack of American reaction, a high level U.S. official said, was that because of the Easter holiday officials in Washington were away from their desks and had not yet flooded .the embassy with cables. Some U.S. officials here also appeared SAIGON American military and vilian officials in Saigon reacted calmly Sunday to North Vietnams massive attacks below the Demilitarized Zone, many adopting the atitude that its a South Vietnamese operation now and were going to leave it to them. Despite the heaviest fighting in Vietnam since the Tet offensive of 1968, most Americans here spent Easter Sunday going to church, swimming, and taking pictures of pretty Vietnamese girls in downtown Saigon. Gen. Creighton Abrams, the commander of U:S. forces in Vietnam, returned to Saigon Sunday after an unannounced trip outside the country. But Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker remained in Nepal where he flew Saturday to visit his wife, Carol Laise, the ambassador there. South Vietnamese in Saigon also exhibited an apparent lack of concern over the military situation in northernmost Quang Tri province. Cabinet members took their usual Sunday holiday, and crowds of Vietnamese thronged the streets. ci- LAGOS (AP) Nigerians began driving on the right side of the road Sunday after six months of getting ready, including sacrifices to the god of iron. Newspapers reported bus owners slaughtered a dog at recent ceremonies and splattered its blood on their vehicles to assure the approval of Ogun, who in the eyes of Yoruba tribesmen controls all things metal. Thousands of Nigerians turned out in Easter finery to take part in the nations switchover. The changeover went smoothly in Lagos, the capital, where police, soldiers, Boy Scouts and volunteer traffic wardens manned virtually every intersection in the city. There were no reports of serious difficulties in other parts of this West African country of 60 million which decided last year to break with its British colonial past and get in step with neighboring countries. fighter-bomber- 10 that the defeat of the South Vietnamese forces is tantamount to proving failure of President Nixons Vietnamizaticn pro- American Reaction Calm Amid New Red S U.J Sacrifices Held fighter-bombe- Tet campaign. 8 Crewmen Pope Paul VI celebrates Easter Mass standing at a large altar troops were untenable, is much concerned. But the only assistance were going to give the South Vietnamese is air. But the four-da- y North Vietnamese campaign appeared to be broadening to other fronts, and one tank column spearheaded a drive that overran Fire Base Pace near the Cambodian border, only 85 miles northwest of Saigon, in the deepest hamstrung for days by bad iiying weather struck inside North Vietnam against antiaircraft defenses. Sources said more heavy raids were being planned against the North in retaliation for the biggest enemy offensive since the s6 J North Vietnamese and armor pushing across the Demilitarized Zone into South Vietnams northernmost province crushed three more bases Sunday and sent hundreds of government troops retreating in disarray. Four American aircraft were reported shot down while supporting the defenders. The U.S. Command said nearly a becomes our people out. Obviously Gen. Abrams .n miles below the DMZ. him in T" '""I I . HI' Ml Till anxious to minimize the extent of South Vietnams defeats on the battlefield, apparently to avoid giving the Communists a major propaganda victory of the kind they achieved during their 1968 Tet offensive. The enemys spectacular attack on the American embassy in February, of other assaults on South Vietnam's cities during the Tet offensive have often been credited with helping turn American public opinion against the war. An army officer formerly stationed In Quang Tri with the last American combat unit there, the first brigade of the Fifth Infantry division, said he did not care if the North Vietnamese overran his old base camp. They can have it, h said disdainfully. (Copyright) HilliMUJIlB I ' and their series 1968, ; ILJ 'i I. ' . ? Down Within Minutes I 1 I- - helicopters went down within minutes of one another. A UH1 crashed first and its four crewmen were reported missing. Ten minutes later, the command said, two other helicopters trying to assist the downed aircraft were shot down. The crewmen of one were rescued, the four crewmen of the second were listed as missing. The pilot of the spotter plane bailed out into the South China Sea and was The rescued. The latest South Vietnamese base to fall was Mai Loc, the 12th lost since the enemy offensive began last Thursday. It is 11 miles south of the Demilitarized Zone. With the enemy drive threatening Quang Tri city, 19 miles south of the DMZ, 80 American civilians were evacuated, the U.S. Command said. The Saigon command claimed Its bombers destroyed 19 North Vietnamese tanks on the outskirts of Dong Ha, a district town 10 miles south of the DMZ. Another 1,000 rounds of artillery shells and rockets slammed into the partially destroyed Quang Tri combat base, 17 miles south of the DMZ, and 160 shells hit La Vang village a mile south of Quang Tri City, the provincial capitaL Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, the commander of U.S. forces in South Vietnam, was reported to view the situation as grim, but was understood to be determined not to get Americans involved in ground lighting. r, y ' I - ' v ' S.l-v- . v- - w jty a w.ca.1: 1 if r mi &&. ' tcA-- . r $ ' U ( :It Sr iM f o 4 ? v"3 w 'fR'i K 1 if-- . I 'ffj I rsL ' vi ff!, Mi- 'n Vm'lI I j i ' - ; f j,rv 1 ' ' Jr ! .V , 1 .'-f V 4 I rf' !" y- J e"1 Air Assistance ft, & Were going to do everything we can to protect our people and keep our casualties down, said a U.S. military source close to the situation. Where a situation . t : I- - 1 w.-- . - !. J if, x 4. .i 2 h:v4-4- ? 7, J aft1 jkffnv chTtu- rey.n.eifirpFllhrnrr. Associated Press Wtrepnoro South Vietnamese civilians carry their children and belongings out of Quang Tri province as the North Vietnamese continue their offensive below DMZ. Eleven bases were in enemy hands Sunday. Lives in Contaminated Zone Russ Writer Paints Poignant View of Struggl By Hedrick Smith New York Times Writer Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn opened the apartment door, but only a few inches. His eyes, dark and penetratn ing, peered out intently, his beard partly visible. He kept the door chain latched while he checked who was calling. Satisfied, he unlatched the door quickly to permit entry and just as quickly be shut it again. Inside, his greeting was warm. Then for four hours, in his first talk with any Western newsman in nearlj a decadt, the controver- -' sial Russian novelist provided a vivid and poignant picture of his defiant struggle to continue writing under the sti'gma of official ostracism and under the pressure oi what he called an official campaign to suffocate me. With the kind of compelling detail that MOSCOW rust-brow- ! made his novels world famous in the 1960s and won him the 1970 Nobel Prize literature, he described how he is barred access to government archives necessary for his new set of historical novels on World War I, how elderly survivors of the war shut up out of fear of talking to him, how' he is prevented from niring research assistants and must rely on haphazard voluntary help, how his mail is checked, his living quarters bugged, his friends shadowed like state criminals, and his second wife fired from the institute where she lr Todavs Chuckle A student registering for school filled out a card asking, among other things: Nicknames or other names by which His answer: mail. you Occupant. receive worked when the director discovered her connection to Solzhenitsyn. A kind of forbidden, contaminated zone has been created around my You Westerners family, he explained. cannot imagine my situation. I live in my own country. I write a novel about Russia. But it is as hard for me to gather material as it would be if I were writing about Polynesia. More than once during the meeting, held in a Moscow apartment last Thursday. be remarked that life in the Soviet Union had changed since the Stalinist we live in a new era, in difpurges ferent times. Bu'. he gave a chilling and deeply revealing iescription of the techniques of what he said was an official whisper campaign mounted from dosed Communist party lectures to try to discredit his military record, his family background, his tanned novels and ultimately his na tional loyalty. And he told of the bitter frustration of being unable to answer back : The lectures are attended only by insiders. On the outside, its a peaceful paradise and no defamation whatsoever, while irrefutable slander is poured over the country. You cant travel to all the cities. You are not admitted into closed lecture halls. There are thousands of these lectures. There is. nobody to complain to. This slander takes hold of people's minds. However lonely and exposed his position as a writer, he recounted that h had a network of friends and rs who lock great risks to help do his research and kejp him abreast of a new attack. And however sharp his comments about his own experiences, he was mor hopeful about the force 01 literary crea-Se- e Page 7, Column 1 well-wishe- : |
