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Show 14THE HERALD,Provo, Utah Friday, December 17, 1971 India Denies F Pakistan Fate Seen Weatherto Please All? Heat or Cold By United Press International pan' Straying ers were left hoping for a last i of summer. today as cool air edged into the East and Gulf peas ending @ heat spell it sent felahts Thursday But Wake. Sugar Growers End Meet SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — The National Sugarbeet Growers Federation concluded its 2%6th annual meeting Thursday with the election of Ishmael Yost of Billings, Mont., as president. Yost,first vice president for the past year, succeeds Y. Sakata of Brighton, Colo. Harry Weber of Mitchell, Neb. was elected first vice president and Robert C. Holmes, ee Ore., was elected second vice president. The federation also decided to hold next year’s winter meeting in Yost’s hometown,Billings. At the concluding session in the Hotel Utah, the federation ess adopted resolutions PRESIDENT NIXON CONSOLES Mrs.Isabel Villa, wife of Capt. Jose Villa of the freighter “Johnny which was captured by a Cuban gunboat. ‘The United States has asked the Cuban governmentto release the captain. U.S. Asks Cuba For Boat Captain’s Release MIAMI (UPI) —The United deplorable,” Ziegler said. ‘The States has asked the Cuban fact that a Panamanian vessel government to the was seized in this way is an captain of a Miami-based unconscionable act by freighter attacked and captured Cuban governmentand it is by a Cuban gunboat on the high act that cannot be tolerated i the international community.” seas. The request was made late The Cuban government issued Saray ye Se ee a statement Thursday, broadmentin Washington through the cast by Radio Havana and Swiss embassy in Havana, monitored in Miami, saying it whicm handles U.S. affairs in had captured the 1,400-ton Cuba. cargo ship Johnny Express 120 “The department instructed miles from the Cuban coast.It the Swiss embassy to request called the vessels a “pirate the repatriation of the citizen, ship” that had carried out Jose Villa, captain of the “counterrevolutionary” activiJohnny Express, as soon as his ties against Cuba. ical condition permits,” the The unarmed ship of State Department said in a Panamanian registry apparentbrief statement, to a port in Presidential News Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler had said rammed and machine-gunned earlier Thursday that the bythe Cuban gunboat. government would make such a Ziegler said Nixon expressed move for the release of Villa, 55, a naturalized U.S. citizen. his “deep personal concern”for Villa's wife and three children the 52-year-old captain. Ziegler metwith President Nixon at his said the U.S. government has nearby Key Biscayne retreat received information that Villa Torey to plead for such is alive in Cuba. Villa redioed ion, his home base Wednesday Asked whatsteps the Unitted shortly before capture that he States would take if Cuban and several other crewmen Premier Fidel Castro failed to were wounded and said at one reply with the request, Ziegler point, “I'm dying.” said, “‘we expect to receive a The remaining 13 Crewmen positive response from the al the ship are nine Cuban government.” Dominicans, two Haitians and “This act by Cuba is two Spaniards. ed agriculture to take steps the price of raw sugar in line and maintain the price .‘ag index level of the sugar ed the aeration's support for renewal of the Sugar Act “if the welfare of the sugar beet producer is protected as intended td Congress whichi not only production rights er returns commensorate with in- — Supported party, hydrangea bushes, apparently fooled by the spring-like warmth, were coming into bloom. The mercury rose to record heights in many locations Thursday. A balmy 80 degree reading set a record high for the month of at Richmond, Va. and 82 degree reading at Houston, Tex., and a 50 degree mark at Burlington, Vt., established record highs feor But a slow-moving polar cold front was bringing more seasonal temperatures to replace the record heat. Temperatures behind the cold front skidded into the 30s in the northeast and to th40s and 50s in the Tennessee Valley and muchof Texas. Showers and thunderstorms served as a vanguard for the advance of the cooler weather. In the West, cold weather was the rule. No relief was in sight for residents of Flagstaff, Ariz., where the mercury has climbed above the freezing. mark for only 15% hours in the last 16 days. The mercury dipped to an iy 18 below zero at Flagstaff ursday. The cold snap has left residents plagued with frozen pipes and emergency calls to furnace repair men. protect both the farm laborer and the farmer” and declared Arctic air surged into the that workers should “not be the upper forced into any labor organiza- Mississippi hace tion because of excessive econ- tempratures to sub-zero depths omic pressure on their aca today and cold wave warnings were in effect for eastern Minnesota. Of Troops As Major PowerShift NEW DELHI (UPI)—India NEW DELHI (UPI) —The today “categorically” denied break of Pakistan's grip on the eastern wing of its country 7 Chinese seen here as the mark of @ border in the Himalayan major shift .in the er mountain kingdom of structure of the subcontinent from the The, charge -was aired! by and the awi iy night, dream of Moslem unity and It said “a strong protest” had influence in the region. been lodged with india about an ‘The surrender of its occupaalleged incident in which Indian tion troops in the East was a soldiers crossed into China “for heavy blow for Pakistan. Once reconnaissance.” No other de- the fifth largest nation in the world with a population of 135 tails were given. A government spokesman million, Pakistan is now resaid India would reply to the duced to somewhere between 55 charge through diplomatic and 60 million persons in the West. channels, Meanwhile “1 am authorized The surrender firmly estato state categorically and blishes India as the dominant emphaticallythat this chargeiis totally without foundation,” said. The spckesman said the charge was made to support Pakistan in its war with India, force in the subcontinent and supported Pakistan in the Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ci“onflict, as the dominating personality Observers speculated it among 646 million persons in means the U.S.loses a foothold the new-born nation of Bangla in an area with one-fifth of the Desh, the smaller countries on world’s population. Those obthe subcontinent and her own servers also regard the outcome of the Indo-! en war India. as the end of Pakistan's But many diplomatic observ- influence in Asia. ers here think the real victory Those sources saw the best goes to the Soviet Union, whic hope for Pakistanin the future now becomes the undisputed . her interest westNo. 1 foreign power in the is toward Mosiem meee region. And, as Russia increased its influence by supporting India in have long had more in common the conflict, American prestige than the Bengali Moslems who and influence plummeted, It made up more than 80 per cent looked to India like uncle Sam of East Pakistan's populstion, .. Writer Tells Story of End Of Last Resistance in E. Pakistan Indian troops are stationed. Cherry Blossoms In Bloom WASHINGTON (UPI) Warm and sunny weather which drove the temperature up to a record-setting 74 degrees in the District of Columbia Thursday caused Japanese cherry trees on the Capitol grounds to burst into bloom. Jim Crow, assistant director of the botanical gardens, said “T sure hope it gets colder soon. If it doesn’t we’re going to have a bunch of tulips in bloom.” The 74-degree reading was a record for the day and only one degree shy of the DACCA (UPI)—The tall, turbaned Sikh strode straight as a ramrod in front of his triggerready troops and shouted across the 200-foot-wide river, “put your damn bastard stenguns down,I say. “Tf you don’t want to see me plaster you with artillery, I’m telling you again to surrender for the last time,” Maj. M. S. “Mat” Dhillong shouted in a terse British accent. With that, Pakistani soldiers slowly climbed from the wellconstructed bunkers in front of him,threw down their weapons and waited for the major of the crack Brigade of Guards to SSS surrender of the last serious Pakistani resistance in the battle for Dacca Thursday. About 15 Pakistani troops stopped the advance of: two Soviet-made PT76 amphibious tanks and a brigade of infantry which had hoped to be across the Lakhey River and in sight of Dacca early in the morning. A Pakistani proposal relayed through the U.S. consulate in warmest temperature ever Dacca to the American Sola in Washington in embassy in New Delhi, had led to a 16-hour pause in the Indian suspected Pakistani positions was a joyride that ended with one burst of smallarms fire which didn’t hit anyone but kicked up enough dirt to make everyone drive cover. Whie the tanks opened up with their 76mm cannons and machineguns, infantrymen fanned out through nearby rice paddies to face the river. The battle continued for two was granted for Dacca, but not hours before the Indians calle~ for the outlying areas where in artillery strikes. troops were building’ up. After the first barrage, a Indian officers with proper British accents who chatted Pakistani officer climbed out of his bunker waving a handkerwith an Australian correspond- his chief attached to the end of a ent about cricket, talked of the delay as a ‘dashed nuisance.” rifle. The shooting stopped. “About time,” the major Three Pakistani tanks had been sighted on the western said, “Don’t they damn well bank of the river earlier but know they’re supposed to have reconnaissance patrols reported surrendered.” “There's always 10 per cent back all appeared clear, that never get the word,” said Crews climbed aboard the two Indian tanks while seven anotherofficer. Dhillong stood up, surveyed foreign correspondents who had followed the Indian advance for the situation through his field three days piled on the sides glasses and reported over his for their first closeup look at radio “there’s an officer standing with a white hanky the war. Not knowing what was ahead, and other soldiers are climbing the two mile drive to the out of bunkers.” air and artillery bombardment of Dacca while Pakistan considered surrender terms. A regimentof eighteen 75mm mountain guns brought down from the Himalayas began pounding Pakistani positions shortly after the end of the cease-fire. A mortar duel was fought earlier in the night along the banks of the river. An extension for six hours Saturday Specials 95° 2” © Fashioned of polyester/cotton. Newest long pointcollar. © Tapered fit. © Assorted fashion stripes. © Permanentpress for no ironing. © Short sleeve models Boys’ virgin Orlon® acrylic sweater has popular V-neckpulloverstyling. Longwearing andthey're machine washable! Sizes 8 to 18 in full rangeof fashion colors. Ya PRICE Gift boxed purse sets. Leather sets include clutch purse, wallet and credit card case. Prison GrievancesWill Crinkle patent vinyl sets include wallets, clutches, Be Heard, Says Governor TRENTON, N.J. 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