OCR Text |
Show ol. all Lake City, Utah No. JO.), June Saturday Moniin 10. 1972 Price Ten (Vnts Muskie Wont Hand McGovern Demo Nomination By Don Mi Leoil scnutoi to bhim a stop McGovern movement and pi event a party split. "Party unity is not achieved with the magic uatid of the kingmaker," Muskie said. "No man can hand Geoige McGovern a united party. And I would do him a grave thsseivice to pretend that I could do -- o " Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON Sen Edmund said Friday he is not going to hand Sen. Geoige McGovern the Democianc presidential nomination, at le.i- -t until McGovern makes peace with skeptics in the party. Conceding that McGovern probably will get the nomination anyway, Muskie said he srill was not going to give the endorsement which might make it ceitain. In a National Press Club speech, Muskie rejected arguments that he should suing his suppoit to the South Dakota Mu-k-- ip Muskie ai one time ha been consid- r, but ered the Democianc after a series of primary defeats he announce'1 he would end his campaigning in the primal ies. fiont-runne- Speculation had mourned this week that lie might drop out altogether and sc McGovern en-d- After the speech, one Muskie backet. Harold Hughes of Iowa, announced he would continue his support, but another, Sen. John V. Tutmey of California aid lie would swiich his endorsement to McGovern. Tunney said he is convinced McGovern "has the integrity, tile ability and deep human appeal" to defeat President Nixon. In his speech, Muskie said that to drop out would violate the pri of the new party reforms. Son. "ff reform of Hie Democratic Patty means anything, it means that the nominee of the party must be selected in an open convention." Muskie said "The de vision should not be made weeks in advance tor whatever purpose, for whatever high motivation." But Muskie made it clear his chief concern was that if he should put McGovern over the top now it would only stifle dissent without answering important questions about McGoverns campaign piopesals particularly welfare and lax reforms and cuts in defense spending. I iiopc Sen. McGovern will use the time vvh'ch remains before the convention to diavv on the wisdom and experience of those elements of the party which are not yet prepared to support his Purpose Clouded in Secrecy Bv San1 Jameson it avail of Iwasa, and mu ill in cat ciove nter -- Dr. Henry Kissinger, Japan the "Ninja" (.invisibility Nixonian diplomacy, armed he;e Friday night in the open, but the visit repc. pose of his mained in the dark. The President's top foreign police adviser walked rapidly down the ramp horn his special jet, shook hands with a small group of welcomers, and went dnectly to a wailing car. He was holding a bouquet of flowers given him by Mrs. Yoshizane Iwasa, wife of the head of the Japan-U.S- . businessmens council, who invited him lo Japan. Within five minutes of his arrival, the TOKYO dubbed in mils!) ol automobiles with Kissinger, U.S. Ambassador Robert S. ib'1 hack seat of the main off under a heavy police SAIGON Boosts lo 10 Associated Maine Son. Eduniund Muskie he is still a candidate. lie - birthday. Art to Be Sold Tullah brought an empty ftuie on he main strop), of Bradlod and slockol it with 350 items tiotii her late husband's collection. The art will be sold to finance Hie center, which will offer art classes, music and dancing In the cnmniuniiys leon-ngc- i s. Some cf the pieces are worth $23,000 or more and they have hung unmolested for two months while dozens of teenagers worked to get the center ready for Friday night's opening. "1 trust them and they trust me," she said. "Its their mothers and fathers that dont trust me." Tlte center is also decoiated with signs Tullah hand-le- t toicd that carry such admonitions as: Today'? Chuckle fine man says Ins golLgame lias gone from bad to worse. Just i'ne oilier day he loast lliiec bails. And lie was pulling at lie time. V U.S. B52 Press Wireohoto also wont quit the race in or of Sen. George McGovern. fav-xa- Reuters News Agmicv - n WEIDEN, WEST GERMANY of accused Czechoslovaks hijor oung a plane and killing the phot at the controls v ere ordered detained hre T-- Friday. After a hearing of several hours, three magistrates ordered pretrial deten- - Ueialed Stories, A-- 4 t.ion of the seven men and three women. Sources in the puolic prosecutor's of- fice here said they would be charged with air piracy. The sources said the 10 young people told 'liiee magisnates tlmy had no intention of harming any of the crew, let alone killing the pilot. Czechs Make Request An official statement issued by Ccfeka News Agency in Prague said Czechoslovak authorities were asxing for the extradition of the man who killed the pilot and the culprits" involved in the hijacking. "Keep off the glass. Get stoned on love an d joy of living. "Tilts club is your home but don't behave as badly as in your home. "If you smell like a castout, youll be befoie you come an outcast. So scrub-iin. Young Get in Free n Art collectors am. dealers from acios.-- i lie country were also invited to tlw opening. Young people will get in free but everyon rise pays $3 apiece. Indulge yourself irt music, dancing, art, food, drink . . and me! TullalTs invitation said. Money from (he sale of the ait will go to support the club s activities. One col lector said lie felt, the pieces, which had not previously been available io buyers, would bring $250,000. . Fighter-Bomb- con-Se- and 27 miles northwest 23 capital. The raids pre-daw- n could be heard in Saigon. The air strikes Thursday over North d Vietnam's heartland used bombs weighing 2,000 and 3,000 pounds each, and were followed by saturation raids by 30 or more B52s in the country's southern panhandle. laser-directe- struck at least 209 rail bridges 25 miles See Page 6, Column 3 er Some of the raids were 10 to 20 miles south of Dong Hoi, a major transshipment point, and six miles northwest of that citv. Dong Hoi is 45 miles north of the DMZ. In a delayed report, the U.S. command announced that an Air Force F4 lost was fighter-bombe- r Phantom Wednesday 30 miles northwest of Hanoi and the two crewmen were missing. The downing raised to 37 tee number of planes reported lost over North Vietnam, with 37 Americans missing, since the resumption of the bombing April 6. Radio Hanoi claimed an F4 was snot down Thursday over Vinh Liuh, just north of the DMZ, and another U.S. plane was downed Friday northeast of Hanoi. There was no immediate ''omment from the U.S. Command, its reports of plane losses often are delayed because of c missions. ys 10 Czech Hijackers Face Trial By Germans in Air Piracy Merry Widow Boosts the Arts Tullah BRADFORD, PA. (AP) Hanley, the merry millionaire widow, is opening a youth center decorated with $250,000 worth of art. I Lave great affinity for the young because I have been young for longer than anyone I know, said the former belly dancer who married an art collector. She wont, say how old she is, but she puts il this way: "This year I will celebrate tiie eighth anniversary of iny 40lh - (Saturday) Loses 7 e 1,200-1,30- 0 d Social Security well-know- n 1 Fighter-bomber- Bets Well lligdcd d I bonibeis pounded supply depots on both sides of the big coastal city of Dong Hoi Satuiday in the third straight day of strikes inside North Vietnam. Other waves of the eight-je- t bombers struck North Vietnamese troop concentines, collapsing trations and staging areas within 23 miles of Saigon. The raids w'ere the closest to the South Vietnamese capital since Tet offensive. the 1968 Communist-leU.S. officials reported that on Thursday, American warplanes battered tiie edges of Hanoi and Haiphong with the most concentrated bombing of North Vietnam's military heartland in more than four years. In the Saturday raids, more than 20 of each carrythe big U.S. B52 bombers struck ing up to 30 tons of explosives stockpiles of war materials north of the demilitarized zone that were reportedly awaiting shipment into South Vietnam to offensive. support the enemy's interests. Any discussions of future policy were hound to be kepi somewhat tentative by the impending change in prime ministers. Kissinger, however, appeared to have lus bets well hedged, Kissinger is to meet Saturday with the prime minister. Eisaku Sato, who is on his way out. On Sunday he will meet with Takeo WASHINGTON (AP) Conservatives Fukuda, foreign minister, and on Monon the Senate Fnance Committee sucday with Kakuel Tanaka, minister of inceeded Fiiiiav in holding a general increase in Social Security benefits to 10 ternational trade and industry. One of the two is considered certain to be on his percent. However, Chairman Russell B. wav in. would the Senate Lung, piedicted Ohira and Takeo Miki, Masayoshi change it to 20 percent on the floor. ministers, and Yasuhiro The 20 percent figure was rejected on both Nakasone, chairman of the ruling partys a tie vole. But Long pointed out tnat 64 of the executive board, all three of whom are considered contenders to replace Sato, Senates ICO members, including himself. have announced they vii! vote for 20 also upre included on Kissingers schedule w hen he body considers the hill. just in case. Absent from the ittnery were any Finish Tp Work meetings with newsmen, although offthe 10 percent boost came icials left open the possibility that Kissingof Adoption er might hold a press confeience Monday a the committee completed its work on benefits in the massive Social Spcunty shortly before returning to Washington. The U.S. embassy here had no plans io welfare reform bill. The panel put over until Monday its gteet American newsmen, who "ere not final vole on approving the measure and invited to a reception at the embassy for sending it to the Senate for debate. Kissinger scheduled Saturday night. On Monday, Long said, the committee Japan Invitation will af,t on higher Social Security payroll The visit originally stemmed fiom an taxes to pay for the new benefits. The bill provides for many Social Seinvitation extended last October from curity increases for special groups as Iwasa, who is also chairman of Japans hike. The inwell as the second largest bank, the Suji Bank. No crease would be made retroactive to one has said so publicly but it is a fact that the Japanese view with June 1. Takes 3 Months cic.eern Kissingers lack of experience in Asian ai fairs and the virtual absence in It is unlikely that the boost finally hi stall ol any expert on Japan. decided upon will be reflected in Social After postponing announced plans to NovemSecurity checks until October or ber, since it usually takes three months visit Japan fiist in April and again in after an increase is signed into law for it early May because of the fighting in Vu.nnin. Kissinger was believed to have to be paid to the 27 million recipients. The House, in passing the bill Iasi clammed in the weekend visit to arrive before Sato announced his intention to year, also voted for a June 1. 1972, eifre-tivretire. It was Sato, who had backed eardate and approved a 5 pet cent genAmei trail policy toward China, who lier eral increase. suffered most politically from Nixons But Rep. Wilbur D. Mills, , announcement last July that he intended chairman of the Ways and Means Comto visit Peking. mittee who will head the House confeiees on the legislation, since has said he faFriday morning Sato called in Fukuda vors 20 percent and that financing for it and Tanaka separately. Ostensibly, lie is available. requesled their help to push remaining estimated bills tin ough file parliament before the The Finance Comminee - thal a 10 percent increase would boost current session ends next Friday. It was the average Social Security payment new widely rumored, however, that Sato told them he was prepared to announce imgoing to an individual from $133 to $146 a month. For a couple, the raise would be mediately after the parliamentary session ended his intention to retire from $223 to $245. ami that, of the Associated Press Writer The man credited with initiating President Nixons announcement last July 13 that lie u uuiij visit China was to spend die next three days meeting top Japanese business and political leaders durvisit. ing his "unofficial So lar no official of either government has suited openly what Kissinger hopes to accomplish here. Why he came at this time on the e' e of an expected change in prime ministers also remained a puzzle. One unstated put pose was obvious to lepatr the image eieated here, when Nixon failed lo inform Japan of his China move in advance, that flic Untied States wasn't paying due attention to Japans Senate Unit Cuts in tills period, supi-- e under any hypothesis lint could rnnMtuti, might he conceivable. piovided ;t didn't do essential vio lence to the piinctplp that I have tiied to articulate here today. While reminding that it takes l,50d delegate votes to win the nomination and McGovern is still short of this, Muskie (omeded that McGovern is likely to win. "it now' appears Pkely that by the tune the delegate section process is delecompleted in late June, gates pledged to Sen. McGovern will e have horn elected in primaries and Page 2, Column I devDpinents staging areas By Mort Roscnblum guan,. d across-the-boar- advice and counsel and to and refine his own pniimn with resppi t to critical issues. 1 predict that if he docs so he will find that areas of agi cement can op broadened and the differences can be narrow ed," he said. In a question and answer session after the speech Muskie was asked if he might release his 166 delegates later if McGovern succeeds in closing gaps in the party before the Miami Bea.'h nominating convention "I would keep an open mind, ol course, Muskie answered. "1 would see Yank Jets Plaster Supply Areas In N. Vietnam Kissinger Starting Work On Conference in Japan Los Angeles Times V caii'iidury." Muskie -- aid, "to seek then seaich-and-rescu- Czechoslovak The statement said bodies have Friday officially requesled the appropriate West German authorities foi cooperation in the extradition of the murderer of the Czechoslovak pilot . . and die culprits of the hijack . . ." West German government sources said the Czechoslovak demand to hand over the hijackers would be examined by the Interior and Justice ministries, but no decision would b taken until criminal proceedings had been completed and the request for asylum examined. . New Hijack Law Public prosecutor Wilhelm Meier said he was pressing charges of aggravated air piracy" against the group whom he considered responsible to:-- seizing the aircraft on a Czechoslovak internal flight Thursday and forcing il to fly here. The charges were brought under a section of a new law on hijacking introduced last December carrying jail terms from 10 years to life imprisonment when seizure of an aircraft results in death, the prosecutor said. laThe pilot. Jan Micica, ther of three, died after being shot in the neck when he refustd to obey two young men who stormed into the cockpit and ordered him to change course for West Germany, police said. The pilot was shot five minutes after the plane took off with 13 passengers and e a crew of two for Prague from Lazne (Marienbad), a Bohemian spa close to the West. Geiman frontier. As Micica slumped bleeding in nis Dominik Cnrobak, 44, seat, fter a tense grabbed the controls, flight, he landed the plane half an hour later on a sports airfield at Latsch near here. Two more people were injured by hot ties in a metee wKch erupted when the plane touched clown as the hi jackets attacked passengers they thought were security men, police said. The men tn the group appealing before the examining magistiate are two musicians, two students, a eatetakcr, and two surveyors. Tiie women were described as a salesgirl, a kindergarten leurhcr, and a housewife. All arc aged between 17 and 22. d Mui-iansk- Shell Big Air Base On the ground, the U.S. Command announced, enemy gunners shelled the big Da Nang air base befoie dawn Saturday, wounding two Americans. Damage was described as negligible. two Americans In another action, were reported killed and one was wounded Friday when a reconnaissance patrol from the 3rd Brigade oi the 1st Air Cavalry Division clashed with enemy troops 27 miles northeast of Saigon. Enemy losses were not known. The South Vietnamese command reported more heavy fighting Friday around An Loc and south of the besieged provincial capital along Highway 13, which has been cut for weeks. Headquarters said 109 weapons were captured. Government losses were given as 13 dead and 29 wounded. An Loc, CO miles north of Saigon, has been under siege since April 7. Field reports said at least 250 South Vientamese troops had been evacuated from An Loc by helicopters during the past two days. Rescue Crewmen Unharmed An American UH1 helicopter was shot down five miles south of An Loc Thursday, U.S. officials reported. All ere a men aboaid were reported rescued unharmed. Near Saigon, several B32s attacked North Vietnamese lioop positions and Inside The Tribune Tribune Telephone Numbers, Page 2 A-- Page Rage e $ M) MGRK . . . ir Conditioning Saturday's Forecast Fair to Sal Lake City and vicinity increasing clouds with some bowers late in day. Weather map is on Page B-- ft Associated Press Wireohoto Bomb blasts show where American planes pounded NT. Viet targets. Vietnam Crash Claims Top Yank Adviser Reuters News Agency John Paul Vann, the SAIGON ranking etnams high-- i U.S. civilian official in South regions, died Friday night in a four military crash helicopter near the highlands city of Kontum. Vann, the senior adviser to the central military region ot Vietnam, was t r a veling frrm the region's headquarters to late on Friday night when his helicopter Fas seen falling in Kontum m i.- - Jt Mr. Vann flames. The cause of the crash near Firehose Knnhim and a limit halfupv hpru-pp- Vann, the only civilian to serve as chief adviser in one of the four regions, was a near legendary figme in Vietnam and served here as early as 1962, before States became tiie United deeply imolved with the war. Radios For Data A former military man who kept his military bearing despite his civilian clothes! lie was on a late night mission when his helicopter radioed for landing instructions and then contact was lost. Vann was a key figure in the South Vieinamese dfcnse of Kontum. Government troops beat back a North Vietnamese assault which stretched into the heart of tiie city late in March but Vann said Wednesday he expected a new aiiack within the ne.t five days. Patrol Finds Bodies i.ito Kontum South Vietnamese forces operating in the atou of tiie crash near Fire Base 41 on the road towards Koulum reported seeing a helicopter going down in fiames. Late in tiie night government troops and a U.S. armored cavalry helicopter landed at Hie crash site and found the bodies of Vann, his pilot and a U.S. army officer who was also a passenger. M |