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Show WEATHER a la 99TH YEAR, NO. 102 PHNOM PENH (UPI)—Cam- Political and diplomatic sources said they thought Lon Nol would become chief of state, replacing Cheng Heng, and that a new government would be formed under In Tam, the current president of the Consti- tuent Assembly. However, In Tam said although he had heard such rumors last week so far he had heard no official word. “I do not believe the marshal is going to resign,” he told UPI from a hospital bed whereheis CAMBODIAN newspapers say Prime Minister Lon Nol, above,is threateningto resign and the Phnom Peuh government appears to be on the edge of a new cabinetcrisis. Aerospace Contracts WASHINGTON (UPI) —The Pay Board may be facing its worst internal squabble yet in trying to pass on aerospace industry contracts recuperating from a stomach ailment. In Tam was sacked last September from his post as first deputy premier and interior minister, and stripped of his military rank by Lon Nol. He was later elected head of the assembly and charged with writing a new constitution after the government dissolved the old National Assembly. The newspaper reports solidified rumors on possible cabinet shuffles that have been circulating for the past 10 days, Military defeats on the northern front last month and continued economicdifficulties and political instability have put the government under increasing pressurerecently. The editor of the Morning News, who has close connections inside the government, In Limelight covering more than 200,000 workers. The board called a meeting today to tackle the question, amidindications the public and business membersof the board may form a majority to pare down the size of the raises scheduled for the first year of the pacts. That first year rise is estimated to total nearly 12 per cent when costofliving boosts from the old contracts are figured in. Donald Rumsfeld, director of the Cost of Living Council, predicted last weekend (Continued On Page 2) said Lon Nol told several members of his cabinet he intended to quit. He made the remarks Sundayat a reception given in his home after promotions for high military officers who received general’s stars. Sourcesin the chief of state's office said they believed he had already submitted his resignation but that it had not been accepted, the commission. Mr. Stone accepted the appointment to the county post after he served a full two-year term as a state representativein the legislature and was reelected to a second two-year term in 1968. He served only a half-year of the second term since he had to resign to accept the county post. While a state legislator, Mr. Stone represented the 44th District — including the Spanish Fork, Salem, Payson and PARIS (UPI)—An explosion so violent it blew residents and decorated Christmas trees through the windows, blasted a 13-story apartment building in the northwestern suburb of Argenteuil today. Officials said the provisional toll was 18 dead and 106 injured, manyof themserious. Police said pending an official investigation it appeared the explosion originated from fire in the gas-fired central heating installation of the building in the midst of a denselypopulated low housing project. The blast shattered windows in surrounding apartment blocks for several yards. The frame of the building held, however, while the blast roared upward apparently demolishing interior walls andfloors. WASHINGTON (UPI) —The Treasury Department says the 10 per cent surcharge on imports, which increased the Starts Europ ean Comeback Process cost of foreign cars and many other products used by Americans, would be lifted immediately but there would be no Termed refunds. A Treasury spokesman said the surcharge would not have to be paid on any goods in Orderly transit to the United States, Pakistan Gets New Series of Directives for military use by international treaty, are so called because they were first made in the 19th By United Press International minister and foreign minister. President Zulfiquar Ali Bhut- Today he appointed former arsenal at Dum Dum, India, about 30 miles from the border to today appointed Nurul Ami Foreign Minister Azia Ahmad as vice president and then, as as secretary general of the of what is now Bangla Desh. chief martial law administra- Foreign Ministry. tor, Bhutto issued a series of Bhutto, in a speech Monday directives including one freeing century at the British army students, laborers and peasants night, promised to reunite jailed by the military govern- Pakistan and warned India not to become too complacent ment. its recent military In a speech to the nation about victories. Monday night Bhutto asked the Bhutto, 43, leader of the Pakistani people to give him time to restore the country to leftist opposition to former democracy. He also pledged to President Agha Mohammad regain East Pakistan, lost in Yahya Khan, took over from the l4day-war with India, but his militry predecessor at one Indian sources in New Delhi of the low points in Pakistani said this was for Pakistani history —only days after a 14day war with India which cost consumption. Bhutto's directives as broad- Pakistanits eastern wing. cast by Radio Pakistan includBhutto announced the retireed ment of seven leading army Sentences against students, generals, including Yahya laborers and peasants passed Khan, but dismissed as premaby the military courts will stand remitted. All pending death sentences handed down by ordinary criminal courts will be commuted to transportation (exile) for life. Whipping sentences will not be administered, Government officials will tighten measures against smuggling, hoarding and profiteer- ing. Forbade travel abroad by Pakistanis except students going abroad for education and governmentofficials. Ordered government minis- ters and other officials to fly tourist class when they travel abroad. i UPI correspondent Frederick H. Marks, reporting from Islamabad, said the government was virtually at a standstill waiting for the result of Bhutto’s deliberations and consultations with political and military leaders. Monday Bhutto fired seven generals including former President Agha Mohammad Yahya Khan. Yahya Khan was ousted session. over the government to Bhutto. was inactive in elective office. But during 1961 to 1964, Mr. Removed; No Refund Suffers Setbacks shortly after he had turned City Councilman Wednesday. Warmer, lows tonight mid-20s, highs Wednesday mid-4s. Probability of snow or rain increasing to 10 per cent Wednesday, Laos War Spanish Fork Canyon areas — during two regular sessions of the legislature and one special For twoyears prior to that he Surcharge clearing customs or being removed from bonded warehouses for delivery. If the surcharge had already been paid on those products, however, it will not be refunded, he said. That meant it might be several days or weeks, even months, before prices of any foreign goods are lowered to reflect remova! of the surcharge. Under President Nixon’s new economic program, importers were allowed to pass on the cost of the surcharge to customers in the form of price increases, Nixon announced removal of the surcharge shcrtly after a By STEWART KELLERMAN meeting with British Prime SAIGON (UPI)—North Viet- Minister Edward Heath in namese commandos early today Bermuda Monday. The surcharge proved to be a raided the secret Laotian base of CIA-supported guerrilla lead- major irritant to American er Gen. Vang Pao despite trading partners,including Brimassive American air strikes tain. The administration said carried out against increased the tax would be lifted as soon resistance by North Vietnamese as an agreement was reached on a new set of world currency MIGsand missiles. Gen. Thongphan Knocksy, the exchangerates. A decision to devalue the official Laotian military spokesdollar by 7.89 per cent and to man,said in Vientiane that the military situation in Laos was increase the value of some deteriorating rapidly since the “hard” currencies, particularly strategic Plain of Jars fell to the West German mark and the the North Vietnamese on Japanese yen, was reached Saturday at a Washington Monday. meeting of the 10 richest The situation also was serious industrial nations of the free in Cambodia where a string of world. Communist successes have The United States announced threatened the capital of simultaneously that the surchPhnom Penh and brought a arge would be lifted. Nixon’s grave political crisis that executive order formally car(Continued on Page 2) ried out that agreement. Dum dum bullets, prohibited Stone served as city councilman for Spanish Fork where his business, Spanish Fork Lumber o., is located at 621 S. Main. Mr.Stone was born in Salem in 1914. He is the father of seven children,the oldest of which is a son, while the rest are girls. Although the three youngest girls arestill at home, the oldest In seconding the motion, of the three is a college student. Commissioner Roberts was Mr. Stone suffered a mild joined by Mr. Stone in com- stroke earlylast August but has plimenting Mr. Thorn for a bouncedbackinto his county and “well-done” job as chairman business duties, having fully recuperated to the point where during 1971. CommissionerStone, 57, of 276 his doctor informed him the S. Main, Spanish Fork, is com- beginning of this month that his pleting his ninth year in elective blood pressure is “perfect.” office, having been on the county When he takes over the commission for the last two and chairmanship next year, it will meanthat each of the present one-half years. Appointedin 1969 county commissioners will have He was appointed to the served in that capacity. He will county post in July, 1969, to succeed Commissioner Thorn, complete the unexpired term of and Commissioner Robertsheld the late Floyd Harmer, which the chairmanship for three continued through 1970. In years prior to Mr. Thorn. November,1970, he was elected on 18 Killed 106 Injured In Paris Blast By United Press International Commission Head to a two-year term ee Now You Know Stone is New County By DARRELL BERKHEIMER Utah County Commissioner Verl D. Stone has been named county commission chairman for 1972 by his colleagues, Commissioners Paul A. Thorn and Stanley D. Roberts. ‘The action was taken Monday afternoen following a motion by Commissioner Thorn. creasing $2.50 PER MONTH — PRICE 10 CENTS Cambodians On Ca binet Crisis Brink bodia appeared on the brink of a new cabinetcrisis today, with newspaper reports that Prime Minister Lon Nol had threatened to resign. Mostly cloudy tovight and Wednesday. Gusty southerly winds and tn- He named Gen. Gul Hassan commander in chief of the armed forces and said the general would act as defense HOW MANY ARE AMERICANS,President Nixon asks at Hamilton, Bermuda, aad counts the outstretched hands The moment was an interlude in his talks with British Prime Minister Edward Heath, expected to wind up today. Britain-America Accord Seen On Economic Aid, Monetary Issues HAMILTON,Bermuda (UPI) —President Nixon and British Prime Minister Edward Heath neared the end of their “little summit” talks today after apparently reaching an early accord on mutual economic aid monetary issues. two Allied leaders conferred for two hours and 50 minutes before breaking for lunch. There was no definite word whether they would have another private meeting before Nixon's afternoon departure for Washington. The full U.S. and British delegations, however, arranged for a final meeting together before ending the twoday conference. The signal that economic matters were disposed of came when Treasury Secretary John B Connally flew back to Washington whils the NixonHeath morning meeting was still in progress. A British spokesman said the two leaders ‘‘continued their review of the world situation and dealt among other areas with Europe and the Middle East.” The President and the prime minister reached general agreement in their discussions that the historic Anglo-American “special relationship” that has there are dangers on the scene existed since World WarII is a today that no one could foresee thing «the past. But both 25 years ago, at the end of agreed a new partnership must World War Il, or even 10 years continue in the future. agoin 1961,” Nixon said. He said that while Heath The two, after spending eight hours together Monday, ack- seeks to explore new opportuninowledged that the post-war ties in Eruope,” “we in our ties must loosen when Britain own policies, seek to explore enters the Common Market those opportunities for building next year with a new set of a structure of peace, by these significant journeys to nations European partners. with which we have now Their two-day meeting, with will continue to have very no “structured agenda,” was (Continued On Page 2) the fourth in a series of sessions Nixon has scheduled with major allied leaders in preparation for his trips to China and the Soviet Union early in 1972. At a black tie dinner hosted by Heath on the Royal Navy guided missile destroyer, HMS Glamorgan, Nixon noted in his MIAMI(UPI)—Thecaptain formal toast that the relationand five men stayed aboard a ship ‘‘which meant so much in tanker loaded with 1953, in 1957, and in 1971 (at Cypriot previous U.S.-British summits molasses to fight an engine room fire, raging out of control in Bermuda) —“‘is not the just off Cuba’s north coast, same. after an American merchant “The fact that it is not the ship rescued 34 seamen from same does not mean thatit is the flaming ship today. still not very necessary, and The pilot of a Coast Guard perhaps even more important plane on the scene said the U.S. thanit was. merchant vessel Green Port “We live in a world where had taken aboard 4 crewmen from the tanker, the Calypso, and there were no injuries, The Green Port stayed on the scene waiting for the U.S. Coast Chappaquiddick Says Kennedy Off Cuba, 34 Rescued Predicts '72 Defeat House SpeakerBlasts Pres. Nixon on Economy WASHINGTON (UPI) — party members as not tough House Speaker Carl Albert enough. speculation the former president might be tried for today blamed President Nixon In a prepared statement he leading Pakistan into a losing for the country’s economic said Congress had concentrated distress and predicted Nixon first on “widening democracy” war. will be voted out of office next byreforming its own proceduOn the militry front, Indian year. res, lowering the voting age to The Oklahoma Democratsaid 18, and plugging campaign leaders said there had been no noticeable violations of the at a news conference the only spending loopholes. way Nixon could win is for (Continued on Page 2) Democrats to beat themselves. Secondly, he said, it concludthat Nixon's economic “We don't have a candidate policies had produced complete now,” said Albert. “We have a disarray, with the cost of living dozen candidates. When we up 12 per cent in two years, concentrate on one, I think unemployment at a 10-year Not an Issue, you'll see a big Democratic high of 6 per cent, and welfare upswing.’” rolls at anall-time peak. Albert accused Nixon of having imposed a “deliberate NEW YORK (UPI)—Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., slowdown”on the economylast has been quoted ac saying year while Democrats in the Chappaquiddick tragedy Congress pressed for remedial would not affect his political action. He said Nixon finally had to be prodded by Congress plans, In an excerpt from a into his current fight against forthcoming book, “Ted Kenne- inflation and unemployment. 4 y; His Triumphs and TrageThe Oklahoma Democratsaid ies,” published in the current economic prospects still are issue of Ladies Home Journal, unclear but “we stand ready to Kennedy said: take further initiatives as Whether the accident is required to bring our economy fading as an issue or not is not back to full prosperity and full my criterion for being in public employment.” office or staying out ofit.” Albert called a post-session He also wasreported to have news conference to defend the said he did not think what record ofthefirst session of the happened at Chappaquiddick 92nd Congress and, by inferenwas responsible for his defeat ce, his own stewardship during as Senate Democratic Whip last his first year as speaker. He January. has been criticized by some HOUSE SPEAKER ALBERT ture Ship Burns Guard cutter, the Diligence, which was due late today. It was not immediately known where the Calypso was bound with its cargo of molasses. The Coast Guard said there were 38 Cypriots and two ban nationals aboard. aCuba offered assistance to the craft and then granted the U.S. Coast Guard permission to help, although the Calypso was drifting toward Cuban territorial waters The Green Port was bound from Mobile, Ala., to Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico. LONDON (UPI)—The U.S. dollar started a slow return to favor today when trading resumed in some European exchange markets for the first time since the weekend devaluation, It moved well ahead of its official exchange rate parity in several centers after months of weakness. Financiers started taking some profits in early trading but moved slowly when switching some of their holdings in pounds, francs and West German marks back into the U.S. currency to cash in on their gambles on a dollar devaluation. ‘There was no panic rush and no flood of early business in London, Paris, Frankfurt or Zurich in early dealing. “Everything is very orderly. Weare still feeling our way,” a British banker said. The Washington agreementof Saturday, which devalued the dollar by more than 8 per cent and raised the price tag of most major currencies, was facingits first practical test in the markets which had been shut Monday to sort out new exchange rates. Dollar Stronger The new-look dollar was immediately stronger in rela- tion to both the British pound and French franc in early business The dollar improved sharply to 2.5550 to the pound in London, which meant the pound was close to its agreed “floor” level, or the lowest price it may reach in terms the US. currency whichis 2.5471 dollars to the pound. This meant that the dollar, equally, was not far from its “ceiling” in relation to the British pound. The sterling’s new central exchange rate after its upward revaluation now is 2.6057 dollars. This early price was close to what dealers had predicted and followed the pattern already set in New York’s foreign exchange markets Monday. Experts said it was probable some operators will prefer to wait for the dust to settle and perhaps the pound’s value to tise more before cashing in. ‘They can now benefit from fairly high British interest rates which was not possible for some foreign holders of sterling before the Washington agreement, Opens Strong in Paris The dollar made a strong start in Paris. In the interbank deals the financial dollar changed hands for 5.25 to 5.28 francs, about2.8 per cent above its new dollar parity of 5.1157 francs. The government-controlled commercial dollar opened at between 5.22 and 5.23 francs, compared with the highest permitted levelof 5.2310 francs, In West Germany “everybody (Continued on Page 2) HERALDing the News Quiz Takes Look At Yuletide Traditions How rauchdo you know aboutChristmas andits traditions? The Daily “erald’s weekly news quiz, published today on Page4, asks you about someofthe traditionsof the yuletide. The news quiz is one of the VECinstructional materials sponsored by The Daily Herald as part of its “Living Textbook Program”for participating junior high schools in the area. Each week the schools receive a ‘newspaper in the classroom”packet, including film strips, questions and answers and other materials, These form the subject matter for discussions in appropriate classes, with the teachers providing the leadership. ‘The news quiz, which appears every Tuesdayin the Herald, {sa spill-over from the school program made available to the public in general. news quiz. Wesuggestyouturn to Page 4 and try this week’s test how knowledgeable you are, not only about ace but about about the news. news. ‘Then turn to Page 5 to check Christmasbut your answers with the official |