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Show Thoughts me judge f ourse! OVERCAST tonight and Tuesday with 10 percent chawee of rein. High temperatures Tuesday ia the upper 50s and low tonightin the mid-30s, $2.25 PER MONT H o Move Mail| Emergency Action In U.S.Defers Filling MailStrike Limited To New York Region Israel Jet Orders BULLETIN By United Press International President Nixon announced today he is assigning military troops to restore postal servic in New York City where the series of strikes began. Nixon appeared on a nationaltelevision and radio broadcast to announcehisi itial actions to restore the nation’s mail service crippled by cross-country walkouts of regular postal employees. He made it clear he was limiting his emergency troop action so far to the New York area. But he said if Postmaster Genera! Winton M. Blunt feels soldiers are needed in other cities he will not hi itate to to ac WASHINGTON (UPI) —The purchase 25 to 60 additional the sametime its bid for more United States—for the time Phantomsupersonicjets and 80 planes. The United States alreadyis being at least—has decided subsonic Skyhawks. againstfilling Israel's request Secretary of State William P. fulfilling, at the rate of four for an additional 105 jet Rogers called a news confer- Phantom je’; per month, a 50ence at noon, EST te announce warplanes. plane deal made with israel in But the Nixon administration Nixon’s decision and to stress 1968. The last of these planes will emphasize the decision is the President's open mind on will be delivered in September. not a final turn-down, but the matter. Israel contended it needed simply a “deferral” of action Israel made the request for assurances right now on on the Israeli request to economic assistancelastfail at (See U.S. Defers, Page 2) Nol Appeals Souvanna Says For Aid in Red Ouster Reds Increase Force jin laos VIENTIANE. Auto-Truck Crash Hurts Prove Fatal PRICE (UPI) — Robert FarTish, 81, Helper, died at 6:30 am. y of injurics he received in an auto-truck crash Sundayafternoon 1.5 miles east of Helper on U.S. 50-6. Farrish was a passcnger in a car driven by his wife, Bertha, 68. ‘The eastbound car reportediy ren into the rear of a pickup truck parked at the side of the highway. Officials said the unidentified driver of the pickup had stopped on the shoulder of the road and walked into a field to look at some livestock. Mrs. Farrish remains in Carbon Hospital here with yet undetermined injuries. (UPI)—Prince Scuvanna Phouma marked the 20th anniversary of his embattled royal Lao army today with the prediction that its recent setlacks might be only an inkling of things to come. “Perhaps what we have seen is only the first step in the North Victnamese war of escalation,” the Laotian chief of state told soldiers and diplomats at the rain-drenched army day ceremony. fashion to the occupation.” The prince said he was An estimated 40,000 Viet Cong studying the five-point Pathet and ‘North Vietnamese troops Lao peace plan delivered to ave believed camped in Cambohim Sunday but added he would dia, the main reason behind the not agree to any settlement parliament's decision to depose that was not “permanent and Sihanouk as chief of state iast honorable and respecting our Wednesday. integrity.” Sihanouk canceled the misNorth Vietnamese and Pathet sion of the ICC, made up of fl representatives boycotted troops from India, Poland and the ceremony, remaining in the Canada, in Cambodia last year, embassies allowed them in the ing his government could Laotian capital by the 1962 not afford its part of the Geneva Convention on Laos. support. Souvanna said the Soviet From London, Britain said it Union’s refusal to consult with hasnot yet received Long Nol’s other signers of the accords on request but stood ready to a settlement—the Soviets were reactif required. cochairmen of the convention— Britain has expressed its “indicates the intention of willingness to help in Laos, too, prolonging the war in Laos.” but the Soviets have vetoed the Souvanna called the North Laotian government's request Vietnamese “‘strong and shame- for consultations among the less” and accused them of Geneva signatories on settling brining 13,000 additional troops the invasion of an estimated into Laos for the current 67,000 North Vietnamese troops. offensive, the strongest guerril- Lon Nol said that in addition la drive since 1962. to the request to Britain and Fighting was reported light the Soviets, he has begun around the U.S. support base at consultations with Viet Cong Long Cheng, with T28 fighter- and North Vietnamesediplobombers having to suspend mats in Phnom Per.“to obtain their air strikes against the withdrawal of their troops.” North Vietnamese encirclement The order from Lon Nolthat because of the heavy monsoon all vestiges of Sihanouk be rain. removed from public places The commander of govern- coincided with an announcement soldiers at Long Cheng, ment from Peking from the Gen. Vang Pao, flew to ousted prince that he had no (See Souvanna, Page2) intention of returning. 2 SOUVANNA PHOUMA 2 More American PlanesLost Over Laos; 2 CrewmenMissing By WALTER WHITEHEAD SAIGON (UPI)—The U.S. Command today reported the loss of two more American warplanes over Laos and said two of the crewmen are missing—the first air war personnel casualties announced since the command took the wraps of the Laotian bombing. Guerrilla ground fire proved just as deadly in Vietnam Sunday, downing four U.S, helicopters. Three Americans led and two wounded, the announcementsaid. In a_ series of terrorist attacks that produced the worst civilian loss of life in more than six months, 18 South Vietnamese civilians were killed and 40 wounded, many of them in the bombing of a pagoda outside Saigon. the Skyraiderpilot are missing. The worst terrorist incident occurred at Hoc Mo district town seven miles northwest of Saigon. A woman threw a grenadeinto a Buddhist pagoda crowded with worshippers, killing 14 Vietnamese civilians and wounding 20 others, all women andchildren, Guerrillas killed two South Vietnamese civilians and three government militiamen Sunday Egyptian PHNOM PENH (UPI)—Like neighboring Laos, the new Cambodian leadership has asked Britain and the Soviet Union to help get Communist troops from Vietnam off its soil. The appeal was anzounced Sunday by the man now in control of the government, Gen. Lon Nol. He has asked Britain and the Soviets, cochairmen of the 1954 Geneva convention that proclaimed Cambodia neutral, to reactivate the International Control Comtission (ICC) 0 “help put a stop in peaceful night in shelling Tri Ton district town with four rounds of 82mm mortarfire. The town is 110 miles west-southwest of Siagon. Eleven civilians were wounded. Another guerrilla attack sent 10 rounds of 82mmmortarfire into a pclice station a half mile southwest of the provincial capital of Xuan Loc, 37 miles east-northeast of Saigon. One policeman and 12 jail inmates were wounded. Battlefield communiques said US. Ist Air Cavalry Division troops guarding the Cambodian border killed 37 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese in two engagements Sunday. A helicopter a killed 30 guerrillas 76 miles northwest of Saigon and a mile from the Cambodian border. Radar Base Hit By United Press International Israeli planes today attacked an Egyptian radar station at Baltim on the Mediterranean coast in the first air raid announced in five days and the first strike deep inside Egypt since March 6, a spokesman MRS. VIRGINIA NASMYTH,left, of Los Angeles, Calif., listens as her daughter, also named Virginia, talks to a reporter autside North Vietnamese permanent diplomatic mission im Paris. The two women were refused an audience with the Vietnamese ironworkers Turn Down Congo Coup aider, the F4 last Thursday and the Skyraider on Saturday. One of the Phantom’s two crewmen was rescued, The second Phantom crewman and Baltim, midway between Port ~ New offer Effort Fails SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Striking ironworkers Sunday rejected a new contract offer by eight shops in Salt Lake City and Provo. The strikers are members of Local 562, International Association of Bridge, Structural and amental Ironworkers, They walked off their jobs March 13 in a dispute over higher pay and increased fringe benefi Keith R. Pilling, local vic e KINSHASA, Congo (UPI)— Loyalist troops in the neighboring Congo Republic today crushed a coup attempt by a group of 30 rebel soldiers who seized Brazzaville Radio and annovnced the ouster of President Marien Ngouabi, an avowed Marxist. Reports from Brazzaville, across the Congo River from Kinshasa, said the ieaderof the president, said the latest man- abortive coup, identified as Lt. agementoffer was submitted in negotiations Friday and he did not know when further meetings would be heid. The Provo companies affected by the strike are Mountain States Steel and Provo Steel and Supply. Both had beenoptimistic about the union’s accepiance of the new contract offer. Supreme Court Rules on Welfare Issue WASHINGTON (UPI) ~The Supreme Courtruled todaythat welfare recipients contesting a cutoff of benefits must be given a formal hearing before payments are stopped. The 53 decision came in companion cases from New York City and San Francisco. Similar suits are pending in Towa, Texas, Georgia and Florida. Now You Know Kikanga, waskilled by loyalist troops with tanks who recaptured the station. (“We control the entire situation,” a man identifying himself as Ngouabitold a Paris radio station bytelephone.) The rebel soldiers took Brazzaville radio at § a.m. (11 p.m, Sunday EST) and announced the replacement of Ngouabi’s Marxist government with a provisional regime. They said the president had been arrested but was safe. Appeals for military help from such neighboring nations as Gabon, Chad, the Congo and the Central African Republic wentout over Brazzaville Radio under the rebel soldiers before the station went dead at 7:45 am, (A man who said he was the republic's foreign minister, Oxence Ikonga,told a newsman in Paris by telephone that loyalist troops had ringed the station with tanks and had captured it in a brief fight.) The rebel leader, Lt. Kikan- From Point-Noire, 220 miles east of Brazzaville on the Atlantic Coast, an official loyal to Ngouabi went on the radio and accused the soldiers of distributing ‘imperialist propaganda” and warned them to give up by 9:15 a.m. or be crushed. Said and Alexandria,is 80 miles west of Port Said and 100 miles north of Cairo, The spokesman said all planes returned safely. The strike came as Israel prepared for the announcement in Washington that the United States has decided against delivery at this time of the 105 Skyhawk fighter-bombers and Phantom jets requested by israel for its conflict with the Arab states. The frequent attacks on radar stations and Egyptian. missile sites have crippled Egypt’s air defenses. On Friday Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan vowed that Israel would crack Egypt’s new defense system being put together with new Soviet SAM3missiles. The older SAM2 missiles were knocked out by earlier Israeli raids. Prices Sagin light Stock Mart Trading NEW YORK (UPI}—Prices of less than 4 million shares sagged in fairly light trading was below Friday’s slow pace. Monday in a reflection of Prices also fell on the investor caution and theeffects American Stock exchange in of the posta! strike. very light trading. Among the (See Prices Sag, Page 2) “The market continues to reflect a lack of buying interest,” Harold Laubscher of the Walston & Co, brokerage said. “The traders apparently have stepped aside and adopted a wait andsee attitude.” “There is little selling pressure and I wouldn't be a surprised to see the market attempt’a rally soon,” Newton Zinder of commented. E. ¥. Hutton Analysts seemed encouraged bythe market's ability to hold the line at the 760 level of the closely watched Dow Jones industrial average. ‘The longer it holds at the 760 level, the better it is,” Laubscher said. Shortly before noon the UPI marketwide indicator was off ga, was said to have fled the 0.30 per cent on 1,308 issues By United Press International republic after being condemned crossing the tape. Declining Almost half a billion dollars to death for subversion in 1969. issues topped advances, 628 to in receipts is recorded yearlyin But he returned to engineer the 365. The Dow Jones average abortive takeover attempt. was off about a point. -yonmine New York City Post Offices. 2-Month Toll Doublesfor Utah Traffic SALT LAKE CITY (UPI) — Utah's traffic toll for the first two months of 1970 was double that of the corresponding period a year ago, a Utah Safety Council official reports, Leo H.Barlow, vice president for traffic, announced that 24 highway deaths were recorded in Salt Lake Countyalone. This compares with 15 for the same two month period in 1969. He revealed the statistics in announcing dates for defensive driving coursesin Salt Lake City new month, Hesaid they would startin the State Office Building Aileen,he 49 at 9 a.m. Bill Seeks U.S.-Soviet Freeze on Nuclear Deployment A separate communique said 6,300 U.S. troops left the war zone last week to cut the level of Gls in Vietnam to 454,500 men,fewest since Aug.12, 1907. The command said ground fire in the Laos et and a propeller-driven announced in Tel Aviv. officials and refused permissionto leave food and medicine package for their son and brother, Air Force Cept. John Nasmyth, 29, who has been prisoner three years and eight months in Hanoi. (HeraldUP! Telephoto}. WASHINGTON (UPI) —A sweeping resolution giving advance Senate support for an immediate U,S.-Soviet freeze on nuclear arms deployment will be rushed to the Senate Bee within the next three weel Senate Majority LeaderMt Mts Mansfield said today. Mansfield said he wanted action before the strategic arms limitation talks (SALT) begin in Vienna April 16. The resolution, branded by President Nixon as ‘“‘irrevelant,” cleared the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Friday It urges Nixon propose “an immediate suspension by the United States and the U.S.S.R. of the further dep ‘oyment of all offensive and defensive nuclear strategic weepons, subject to national verification or such other measures of observation and inspection as may be appropriate.” Gerard D. Smith, director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, was expected to detail the administration’s objections to the measure in a hearing before the Senate disarmament subconnie today. ixon told a news conference Saturday he felt the resolution was an oversimplification of the most complex weapons control negotiations ever undertaken, He noted tne Soviet Union, rather than generalizing, has come up with a precise, weapon-by-weapon analysis of the arms race. Whether the administration would choose to work for the measure's defeat, however, was uncertain, Some Republican backers,including Sen, Edward W. Brooke, R-Mass., feel it will help Nixon to know the Senate will stand behind him if he has an opportunity to negotiate a freeze. There is precedent for the action. The Senate passed a resolution urging a treaty to the spread of nuclear weapons prior to negotiations that to the nuclear nonproliferation pact, now in effect. By United Press International President Nixon arranged to make a nationwide radio and television broadcast today to explain to the public how he proposes to deal with the wildcat postalstrike, The President called in nis top aides, including cabinet members, at a little after 8 a.m. EST to discuss what to do about the strike. The primary decision was whether, when anc to what extent troops would be used to move the mail. The White House said the television networks had granted Nixon timeto talk to the nation at 2 p.m. EST, Early Hint White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegier refused to characterize the President's statementin any way, but Nixon hinted earlier that he would use federal troops to operate the nation’s postal system if the strike did not end today. Nixon has kept in close touch with the postal work stoppage throughout the weekend. Labor Secretary George P. Shultz and Postmaster General Winton M. Blount spent most of the morning at the White house. The administration had offered to begin negotiations on a pay raise and other strikers’ grievances this afternoon provided that an operable postal system was restored, However, as of 11 a.m. EST, the Post Office Department said 168,403 postal employes were still on strike. These included carriers and others in New York and Chicago who spurned the administration proposal. Nixoninvited top congressional leadersof both parties to the White House for a discussion of the growingcrisis in advance of his broadcast statement to the nation. Shultz arranged to pass the word to postal unionofficials at a meeting in his office about the sametime. Pentagon Prepares The Pentagon had been working several days in preparation for the possibility of helping move the mail. Nixon had said Saturday at a news conference that he would carry out his responsibility to see that the mails go through. He made it clear he would not negotiate while the strike wasstill going on. Useof federal troops for any emergency has been rare and they had never been used in the past to take the places ofcivil servants paid by the federal government. The president of the National Association of Letter Carriers, (See Postal Strikc, Page 2) Strike Could Cost Solons Easter Recess WASHINGTON (UPI) —The postal strike may cost congressmen their Easter vaca- tion. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, D-Mont., said if special legislation to deal with the strike becomes necessary “we'll forego our recess if we have to.” The 10-day recess was set to begin Th afternoon, although many lawmakers were preparing to leave after most of the important businessis finished Tuesday. |