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Show WEATHER ENBEX Pair threagh today for the Prove to figdes area; highs Amusemeats oheaXsue Fasincss- Stocks Comics ChurchSchool Battorts! Obituaries: Seciety Sports dear 80; lows ionight in the tnid 50s, chance of measerapie precipitation 0 per cent Reds Get Vacatien. Power Ends for President In Laos VAIL, Colo. (UPI) ~ Presi HONG KONG (UPI) — dent Ford ended his iwo-week vacation Saturday with his 11th game of golf in 13 days, and arranged a final string of Sppesrances in Montana, I. iiwis and Wisconsin on a roundabout return to Washing- Communist Pathet Lao an: mmuced Saturday they seized power in the kingdom af Laos and ae a Tevolu the New ‘A power ae meeting the old regime of Vientiane city GENE WILSON D. BRENT BIRD in a dispatch from Vientiante monitored in Hong Kong. Announcement culminated four months of a gradual takeover by the Communists of the coalition government ‘The announcement had been expected since Friday, when Laotian authori‘es stopped permitting ail but invited guests to enter the country for a mass celebration and shut off telephone calls. It made no mention of the fate of noutralist Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma or the role to be played in the new regime by titular Pathet Lac beadPrince Souphanouvong Acting Vice Premier and Foreign Minister Phoun Sipaseuth was quoted by NCNA as saying the Provisional National Union Government has “overthrown the decaying old regime and reactionary old system and set up the new people's administration. This is a just action and a naturaloutcomeof historical developments."’ Laos is the last country in Indochina to fall to the Communists —South Vietnam fell April 30 and Cambodia a > GEORGEA. LUX Plane Mishap Fatal to Four white”a Scoutmastige Cand members ofhis troop watched helplessly from the ground, a small plane carrying the seoutmaster's brother and three others crashed Frida near the hikers in the Higl Uintas Primitive Area, killing all four. Duchesne County authorities said all four men were kilied instanily in the crash. Arnold Wilson, scoutmaster, said the single - engine craft appeared to stallout. He said the Piper Cherokee then wentintoa steep dive, crashing near the scout troop. Experts Forecast Industry Uptrend WASHINGTON(UPI) — tn dustry will hire more workers and produce more goods in coming months despite a new surge of double-digit inflation, * two of the administration's top economists predicted Saturday ‘The 14.4 per cent annualrate of inflation measured during July appears to have occurred “independent of the economic id Assistant Com Pate and Assistant Treasury Secretary Sidney L. Jones said in interviews the resurgent inflation — reported Thursday in the Labor ents Consumer Price Index — was due primarily to higher prices for food, gasoline and used cars. “We really won't know for a few months whether the food and fuel price problems will ‘Spread out and be matched by price increases in other catege- Hes,” Jones said. Price hikes spread rapidly last year, eroding consumer buying power and leading to (Continued on Page 4) Vi according to the university president. As he outlined in his Aug. 15 centennial commencement address, “Just 25 years ago private higher education enrolled 40 percentofall university students. Today, that figure hasfallen to 24 percent and the true level is much lower.” peteenies Oaks stressi this wea included the broad trum of private initiative and not simply private enterprise or private education. “Ttis not an exaggeration to say that our country has been built upon private initiative and that until the function government has been tc protect private initiative and occasionally fot menighis reed akiveas. Each graduate was urged identified as ilson, 41, of Springville, pilot of the aircraii, David Brent Bird, 35 of Salt Lake City, Joseph Ferris Hoover,36, of Pleasant Grove; and George A. Lax, % of Lehi. Obituaries on the crash | s | etae: are on Page 4. On his way back to Washington, ord will spend Sunday night in Chicago to give an economic speech there the next morning at a hardware industry convention. From there he goes to Milwaukee for lunch with area news media executives, a locally televised and an address at a White House-sponsered conference on domestic policy before flying on to Washington. The President, chatting with reporters at the golf course Saturday morning, said his vacation was “excellent” and that his prowess on the links was improving after so many rounds and almost daily lessons from local pro, Bob eoia of his partners § The TheEesiden then demonstrated by smashing his first shot over 250 yards, winning applause from a sinall crowdof (Continued on Page4) ‘The four mentook off in the piane from Salt Lake City early Friday on a flight to drop supplies to the Boy Scouttroop, which was hiking through the High Uintas Primitive Area. Amoid Wilson hiked out of the primitive area to nolify Duchesne County authoriies about the crash, after he cetermined that the men were WASHINGTON (UPI) —U.S. dead. officials announced the Soviet A helicopter from Duchesne Union set off a multi-megaton County flew the bodies out of nuclear explosion Saturday at the high mountain wilderness an undergroundarctictest site. area just before dark Friday. ‘They said the explosion was A Federal Aviation “fairly large’ compared to Administration investigator most Soviet test blasts. was at the scene Saturday American officials refused to attempting to determine why comment on the blast, but it the craft lost power. The appeared likely to be a test of single-engine plane was an Intercontinental Ballistic reported to be a Piper Missile warhead. Cherokee, and the crash scene “Seismic signals from a was near Squaw Lake, Soviet underground nuclear approximately 45 miles test were recorded by the northwest of Duchesne. United States today,”said the This is the second tragedy to brief announcement by the strike the family of Davia Energy Reserach and Brent Bird within 10 days His Development Administration, sister, Mrs. Ray (Beverly) which now overséesthe nuclear Gark died in a plane crash weapons research once Aug. 3 at the Spanish Fork - performed by the Atomic Springville Airport. Energy Commission. ‘N’ Test By Soviets BYU in Leader's Role By ROGER GILLESPIE “A bellwether arnong private universities,” is the current unusual position of Brigham Young University, according to its president, Dallin H. Oaks. BYU's president made this assessment during an exclusive interview with The Daily Herald providing background to his recent commencement speech in which he lashed out at creeping federal control “over every facet of private initiative.” In the interview, Dr Oaksclaimed that “BYUis not only| the largest, but the most financially secure, and we are loooked to by vibe: pire lead the fight preservation of nate ration. Enrollment in non-public education, ine on a sl with public cdueation, is decreasing dramatically, Ford, well-tanned. planned to fly Sundayto the Libby Dam in Montana to throw a switch starting a new hydroelectric power project, deliver a speech and meet briefly with Canadian energy minister Donald S. Macdonald. As the President began a final round of goif, Pres Secretary Kon Nessea told reporters Ford had spent more than twice as much time working as playing during the first 12days of his visit to this Rocky Mountain resort. Nessen had the time broken down: about 44 hours outdoor sports activity, and about 108 hours at work — including 35 hours conferring with staff members, 39 hours in “private work,” and almost 34 hours at public events during the highly political swing through lowa, Minnesota and Illinois last Monday and Tuesday. JOSEPH F. HOOVER InUintas April 17. ‘The New China News Agency said the announcement of the takeover made at a massrally in Vientiane attended by “more than 100,000 people.” Thao Moun, chairmanof the so-called power seizure committee, “‘exposed and condemned at the meeting the criminal acts of U.S. aggression and intervention and its practice of neocolonialism in Laos in the past two decades and the ultrarightists’ suppression and exploitation of the people,’ NCNAsaid Kissinger Returns ton, held here teday declared that and province had been overthrown and replaced by the new, peopie’s revolutionary administration,” agency said ‘Shuttle for Peace’ Extended to S yria To Israel By RICHARD H.GROWALD EL AVIV, Israel (UPI) facretany of State Henry A Kissinger extended his Middle East peace shuttle to Syria Saturday, laying the ground- work for Syrian-Israeii talks in a Damascus meeting with a receptive President Hafez Assad ‘The secretary then flew io Israel to relay Egypt's reponse to Israel's latest proposals for a new pactin the Sinai desert The threat of right-wing Israeli demonstrations forced Kissinger to change his original travel route in Israel. His helicopter from Ben Gurion airport flew him to a guest house near Tel Aviv for meetings with Israeli leaders AMERICAN SECRETARY OF STATE Aviv late Saturday following stop in there instead of in Jerusalem Henry A. Kissinger greets Israeli Foreign Damascus where Kissinger laid as originally announced. Minister Yigal Allon on arrival at Tel groundwork for Syrian-Israeli peace pact. A senior U.S. official in Kissinger's party. said SyrianIsraeli negotiaticns would start if Kissinger's effort to arrange an Israeli-Egyptian pact succeeds. He told reporters Syria's President Assad is not supporting the Jerusalem-Cairo dealings but, significantly, is. not i them either. eranese sea. Other ALEXANDRIA, (Egypt. wesaltimillion-dollar sp; onpiat rec (UPI) ~ and Israel have at Umm Khashiba on"the Gidi smaller units also were being narrowed gap in s<curing a Pase, only one American discussed, the sourcessaid. teeeet ee Egypt's position on the pact, fe'y interim agreementin the civilian ed be assigned, the according to the Middie East phere of the two countries Sinai to three basic issues, sources said. Golan Heights frontier, the News Agency,is *‘to safeguard political sources said Saturday. They said Ei and Secretary of State Henry A. Israeli monitors would man the Eyptian front completely,” senior official said. Kissinger received the working their respective outposts,living making it impossible for israel draft of Egypt's proposals, on the compound inside the tolaunch a surprise attack. The Egyptian side has rows maps, during an United Nations buffer zone. insisted that al! gaps, informal with Foreign Egypt would have one main especially those involving the two days with Israeli Prime Minister Ismail Fahmi before Minister Yitzhak Rabin. the secretary flew on to post to guard the northern passes and the weak northern He brought Rabin the Damascus and Jerusalem,the section of the Sinai between the section, be closed, the agency position jaid out in Alexandria road from the Gidi Pass to the said, sources said. Friday by Egyptian ‘They said negotiations now Anwar, Sadat. Kissinger centered mainly on these three expected te wait in Tel Aviv for areasof disagreement: the result of Sunday's Israeli — The lines to be drawnfor an Israeli withdrawal and an Egyptian advance east. fly — Early warning Alexandria to meet Sadat for a surveillance by both sides with second time Sundaynight. Amer.can technical assistance. CANBERRA, Australia tion of two Portuguese paraThe Teraelt- Egyptian — Use of the only road (UPI) ~— A Norwegian platoons. toons. negotiations centered on leading to the Abu Hudeis freighter arrived in war-torn Qther ships, including the drawing newterritorial lines in oilfields south to the IsraeliTimor Saturday to freighter Macdiii which the Sinai desert, with held southern tip of the Sinai, evacuate atleast 1,000 refugees refugees “The first problem is the to Australia, an Australian from Dili to Darwin Aug. 34, giving up territory seized in the most critical,” one political foreign affairs spokesman said. are believed to be standing by 1967 Arab-leraeli war in return for what is tantamount to a source said. “Egypt wants in case the Lioyde Bakke nonbelligerency agreement more territory than Israel is The spokesman said the cannot takeall the evacuees. from Cairo plus an annua! 12,000-ton “Lioyde Bakke”’ arwilling togive up.” ‘The spokesman said there increase in American aid rising Kissinger’s first round of rived in the capitalof Dili about talks with Israeli leaders and noon and planned to leavelate was no indication of casualties from millions to billions ef dollars. President Anwar Sadat in- Saturday night. It is expected among the refugees. in Damascus, before boardPortuguese authorities are volved discussions with maps to reach Darwin.on Australia's arranging for the refugees to be ing his piane lo resume Istaeliof the elevation of each hill and north coast. Monday. rise in the desert, according to Fierce civil fighting has flown to Portugalin chartered Egyptian negotiations, a senior official in the raged for nearly two weeks aircraft soon after they arrive Kissinger said his talks with Assad were cordial. between rival political groups in Darwin. party. “I found him very helpful,’” Portuguese authorities have Sources said an American seeking contro! of the embatteam te help monitor move- fled oslony, a Portuguese Said the Apodeti Party, which hesaid. “We discussed the role of wants to integrate the colony ments on each side in case of possession since 1585. The refugees reportedly have with neighboring Indonesia, Syria in negotiations towards surprise attack could number in the present context taken shelter near Dili’s naval was not believed to be directly nomore than10. (Continued on Page 4) In the case of Israel's radio station under the protec- involved in thelatest fighting. Egypt, Israel Narrow Gap to 3 Basic Issues nega Timor Evacuation Operation Begins in Drive to Strengthen Private Education to be aware of the threats by government to individual freedoms and to do what they could to counteract ; “Ta ‘my judgment,” Dr. Oaks stated, “The private . sector is seriously threatened in America at and that threat is affecting or will shortly affect all nongovernmental institutions, including those formed for religious, educational, cultural, social and other charitable “g By any measure, sie speech was a bi During the hour:oe interview with the Herald, Dr. Oaks cy Sujechites speech. “We at BYUare trying to preserve private education, but I purpesely used the allrent rase - ‘private oerae iM very nature, be a leader. If private eduction dies, the private sector will not be far behind,” he predirted. While pessimistic regarding the near future ~ ‘There is growing momentum to inject government into everything,” he said — Dr. Oaks is more optimistic when discussing the future in general. “We are in a swift current and I hear raj going over the falls,” he entured. wwe still have the resources to pull back upstream.” Dr. Oaks confided that he was prompted tc deliver this type of an address because of a trip to the nation’s capital and some the director — to a Congressional committee. “They paid no attention whatsoever,"’ Dr. Oaks said, ‘‘which didn't surprise me in the least.” The trip was “‘educational’’ however, and Dr. Oakssaid it provided him with contacts which ‘‘might prove usefulin the iacaths ahead.” His summer reading centered on the theme of private initiative. In an article Dr, Oaks cited in his commencement address by Stanford University re Richard Lyman ed" ‘In Det mee he was able tovead “warns that the “During his ‘Washington, D.C.trip, he presented the ease of the American Association of Presidents of Independent Colleges and Universities — of he is secretary and the private seetor in American life. Writing, not in agreemeat De ake CEN on theues mood, 4 respect ipcator sai are ? minning aoainet “quality af opportunity = x no longer enough. What must. be guaranteed is equality of results. More and more Americans are not satisfied with the ideal of an equal start in life; what they demand is an equalfinish as well.” “It bothers me,’ Dr. Oaks admitted, “‘that government has reached the pointof trying to tell an organization like the Elks Club who their members can be. “It should aot be the purpose ernment,” he declared, “to tell doubts,"' Dr. Oaks explained, “‘into the legality of such programs as indian Scholarships and the LDS Church program at the BYU-Hawaii campus for Polynesians.” He admitted that BYU was not as free now as it was four years ago, but preferred to couch it in more positive terms. “We havebeen able to preserve much of our freedom# he smiled. walced ‘The 1X regulations which, he said, infri private agencies that they even more upon private om be controtied “along universities certain ethnic, national “This is just another ina religions or other lines.” He cited as 2 local long line of federal regulations, he nosed, example, the recent IRS heeokareSeams inroads i which attacked the Te tax exemptions of private _ yon organizations any Soca institutions.Tile eek on “ethnic” — is even Teare obnoxious ae leh cs aat 5 x er |