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Show " k. i ! The Salt Lake Tribune, Wednesday, September 5, 197.1 I S Cambodia Troops Back Off, Fail to Reopen Important Highway they were too tired to fight on. Field reports said the soldiers also were angry at not having been paid and refused to fight further until they received their money. There was no explanation why they had not been paid. But there have been payroll problems before in the Cambodian army, where officers dis- PENH (AP) -Gtroops backed off and returned to their bases Tuesday after a bloody attempt to reopen Phnom Penhs major supply highway to the sea. PHNOM overnment 10-d- The troops were pulled back without having cleared insurgent forces from the h- '- ,way because the Cambodia command had a new strategy, explained Col. Am Rong, chief spokesman for the command. tribute the money to their units and comiption reports are frequent. He also acknowledged the government soldiers claimed The troops had been operating 15 miles west of Phnom Penh where insurgents had cut Highway 4, which connects Phnom Penh with the deepwater port of Kompong Som. To Send Troops Am Rong said some elements were left behind to secure the road, including two squadrons of armored personnel carriers. He said fresh troops would be sent to the highway Wednesday. The closure of Highway 4 has resulted in a shortage of some items in Phnom Penh has caused a rise m prices, but there is no emerand gency, officials said. Highway connu'ts Phnom 5, which Per.h to the northwest, is open for convoys, as is the Mekong River corridor from South Vietnam. Cambodian command reported that a river convoy of six ships carrying general cargo, fuel and ammunition reached Phnom Penh or Tuestnp day night after a up the Mekong from the South Vietnamese border town of Tan Chau. The e I. It was the third convoy to reach Thnom Penh without major incident since the end of American bombing Aug. 15. Cover for the convoys is provided by Cambodian air force T28 bombers and navy gunboats. Get Reinforcements The first reinforcements had reached the besieged city of on 70,000 and Monday strengthened its fight against the determined insurgents who see the Kompong Cham garrison as a threat to their supply lines from North Vietnam. Am Rong also reported that in Kompong the situation Cham, Cambodias third largest city 47 miles northeast of Phnom Penh, had stabilized He said more reinforcements were poured into the city Wednesday. Departing U.S. Ambassador Emory C. Swank told newsmen m Phnom Penh that Cambodian government forces have done well since the end of the American bombing. He said he had the impression that government forces now-bein- Reuters News Agency The sejne was ALGIERS set hpre Tuesday for the most prestigious assembly yet of leaders, who hope their fourth summit conference will be the most effective movement was since the founded 12 years ago. Leaders flying in to Algiers almost hourly were getting a ceremonial welcome by Algerian President Houari Boume-dienn- e and a motorcade to a villa at the modern conference complex on the seashore west of Algiers. About 60 kings, presidents and heads of government are expected for the first session at summf ' vel Wednesday. Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was among Tuesd i rJ; v ' ff -- it if :!v ; $ 4 ZTU 4 days arrivals. President Tito -- Associated Cambodian woman and her son weep in Ang Snoul over the body of a government soldier killed Press Wireonoto last week in lighting to reopen Highway 4 west of Phnom Penh. Fighting had ended by Tuesday. of Yugoslavia, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, Prince who ia Norodom Sihanouk recognized here as still the ruler of the Cambodia from which he is exiled and a score of others are already here. United Nations Secretary General Kurt Waldheim is an honored guest. liberation moveNumeroi , j ments are represented as observers. Yasser Arafat, the Palestine guerilla leader, will be their spokesman at the Strikes Tie Envoy to Leave Cambodia-See- s Canada Little Hope for Peace Rail Lines - ThouTORONTO (AP) sands of Canadian railway workers conducted unauthorized strikes Tuesday, stalling rail service in western Canada and northern Ontario. Rail .ay spokesmen said operations were near normal in cenral Canada and in the Atlantic provinces following Park liaments directed at the order back-to-wor- Associated Nonoperating Railway Unions, nawhich staged the nine-dationwide strike that prompted government action. Refuse to Return j By Jacques Leslie Los Angeles Times Writer PHNOM PENH Emory C. Swank, the only U.S. ambassador to Cambodia since the two countries resumed relations in 1969, told newsmen at a farewell visit Tuesday that he regretted leaving with so little prospect here of a negotiated settlement to the Cambodian war. Swank is leaving Phnom Penh Wednesday for consulta- - tions in assuming Norfolk, viser to chief of Washington before his new' position in Va., as political adthe commander in U.S. Atlantic Area Forces. Swank said, There have been discussions among the interested powers on the Cambodian situation but held out little hope for a settlement until the insurgents are they cannot win militarily. con-vinc- y Many nonoperating employes refused to return to work and members of two other unions joined them in the work stoppage. The Ontario disruptions continued to restrict the shipment of newsprint from paper mills to customers in both Canada and the United States. from Nothing is moving the three mills at Thunder Bay, Ont., said a spokesman for Canadian National Railways. Abitibi Paper Co. shut down two Ontario mills and one in Manitoba during the national railway strike. Trudeau Places Freeze On Canada Petroleum Reuters News Agency OTTAWA Prime Minister Trudeau, responding to criticism of continuing higher Canadian food prices, Tuesday announced higher subsidies on bread and milk and a price freeze on petroleum products until Jan. 30. The minority liberal government had been warned anew in NDP recent days that it might lose support of the (New Democratic Party) caucus, the effective balance of power since Parliament reconvened last Jan. 4. Against Freezes Trudeau Tuesday in his statement that he remains against wage and price freezes, such as those attempted in the United States. He said export controls on beef and pork, imposed Aug. 13, will last only as long as needed. The controls were imposed when shortages developed in Canada as a result of sales U.S. market. to a across-the-boar- d Newsprint Problems The newsprint shortage also is being aggravated by unresolved strikes at three Canadian International Paper Co. mills in Quebec and New Brunswick, and at two Price Co. mills in Quebec. An undetermined number of workers were defying Parliaments order of Government Prepared Increased food production struck at the heart of high food prices, the prime minister said. Therefore the government is prepared: to put in place measures such as higher support payments for agricultural products, advance payments in a wide range of agricultural products, commodity-orientegovernment - producer financed income stabilization programs and such ether measures as might evolve. Currently, there was no shortage of food in the country, last Sa'irday. Trudeau said. back-to-wor- k Of these big power efforts, he said: I would not describe them as negotiations. There are diplomatic contacts from time to time. I don't mean to overestimate or underestimate them. He urged continued U.S. support for the government of President Lon Nol as the only chance for peace with justice in Cambodia and throughout this troubled area." In Bangkok American and Thai military olficials began talks on a further withdrawal of U.S. forces from Thailand. Last week 3,550 Marines and more than 100 aircraft were pulled out under an agreement reached Aug. 24. meat-hungr- y d September, 1970, six months after Marshal Lon Nol overthrew the government of Prince Norodom Sihanouk and established a republic. Swanks tenure was a period of decline for the Khmer republic, which suffered one military defeat after another at the hands of Cambodian insurgents, aided and supplied by North Vietnamese troops. Insurgents now control roughly 80 percent of Cambodias territory. The ambassador oversaw the massive American bombing campaign which began last February and continued until the Aug. 15 deadline imposed by Congress. Without the air combat support which we were formerly providing, ihe Khmer National Armed Force has done well, Swank said Tuesday. f have the impression it is more confident than it was in its own capacity. The discussion was Swanks first meeting with the press in several months. Nevertheless, journalists, cameras and tape recorders were all banned froi. '.the meeting. In his last few nonths as ambassador. Swank turned over press duties to the U.S. Embassy deputy chief of mission, Thomas O. Enders, who has played an increasingly visible role here. S'lme ohspfwrs assprted that Swank actually lost control of the embassy to Enders and the military wing of the' embassy, but there seemed little beyond circumstantial evidence to back this charge. MOSCOW (AP) - A promi- Soviet mathematician, standing up against a tide of official censure, came to the defense of physicist Andrei Sakharov Tuesday and praised him in an open letter for his selflessness. Igor R. Shafarevich, a department head at the Institute of Mathematics, declared all Soviets should defend Sakharin the letter as an outstanding scientist and one of the finest representatives of mankind." ov, whom he described has been the Sakharov object of intensive attack in the controlled Soviet press 'since .he told reporters last month that the West should beware of detente with Russia unless Soviet society is liberalized. Called llnloyal father of the Sakharov, Soviet hydrogen bomb, has been called unworthy and disloyal in press articles and statements by party-linin- g members of Soviet society. Shafarevich, a fellow member of Sakharov's unofficial human rights committee, compared the press campaign to the Stalin era. cant help remem30s and 40s and the bering we condemned, with wrath and held up to Sliame, having One only a vague idea of what we he said in were condemning, his open letter made available to Western correspondents. Shafarevich said of Sakharov, "His conscience made him He could not be speak. silent. Defames USSR Are we to believe that we are living in a paradise where there are no sores or vices? the mathematician asked. pressure from the central authorities, 40 members of the Academy of SciUnder ences to which Sakharov belongs said the physic&t was defaming the social structure of the U.S.S.R. Shafarevich, a corres- ponding member of the Acad- d privileged nations, cally and militarily. economi- Foreign ministers Tuesday completed the thrid day of debate in preparation for the decisions of their heads of state, all of which will he taken on a consensus basis. The ministers split into two a political one commissions headed by Sardar Swaran Singh of India, and an economic one led by Chiles Her-na- n Santa Cruz. The accent at" this conference is on putting teeth into desome of the mands of the less developed countries Sneprhps in the foreign ministers council have shown a mood of militancy and a feeling that it is not enough just to pass resolutions. long-standi- Israeli Boycott of Israel figures high among the political demands, and, apart from condemning American actions in the Indochina, leaders are expected to recommend all their colleagues to recognize Sihanouk as legal ruler of Cambodia. A boycott Oil Mahmoud Rushdi said in a telephone interview that the closed-doo- r major oil companies refused to confirm reports that they would meet soon, possibly Wednesday, to discuss a concerted response to Libyas 51 - ROME (AP) The Health Ministry issued a ban Tuesday on the import and sale of shellfish throughout Italy, blamfor ing the sea delicacies spreading cholera. Two new cholera cases were reported, one in Florence and the other in Cagliari on Sardinia. The new cases were the first in those cities during the current outbreak, which has mostly afflicted southern Italy. Most of the 140 persons thus far stricken by the disease, and the two reported Tuesday, had their sickness traced to mussels. Eat Saw Mussels The Florence patient, a woman, had eaten raw musses while on vacation near in .The patient Naples. had Cagliari, a fisherman, picked and eaten mussels along the Sardinian coast. man died from cholera near Bari on Tuesday, bringing the total in the outbreak to 15. Ten have died in Naples, four in Bari, a southern One port, and The organization comprises Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, Libya, Iraq, Egypt, Algeria and Syria. More Militant King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is known to favor a moderate policy of limiting future oil increases Utiless production the United States changes its Middle East stance. Libya is more militant and wants nationalization and large price hikes for Arab crude. Sources here said the question of a common policy apparently was brushed aside to avoid open disagreement between the oil giants Of 4he Persian Gulf and North Africa. Shellfish Import, Sale Halt in Italy Adriatic Rome. $109 million drydock in Bahrain, to be financed jointly by organization members, but it still must be ratified by the governments involved. one in Doctors said the disease was coming under control. They said those who died had reported too late to hospitals. Patients in quarantine in various cities numbered more than 600, but fewer than 200 were known to be suffering from cholera. About 100 were still on the suspect lists. The others had what was diagnosed as simple stomach disorders. ' Many Vaccinated More than 1 million Italians have been vaccinated against cholera in the past 10 days. Health authorities said they planned to give shots to most of the five million inhabitants of the Naples region. The U.S. Navy said Navy doctors and corpsmen have administered anticholera vaccinations to an estimated 160,000 Italians in Naples in the past week. There also was no mention of any discussion on oil price the stabilization, although Egyptian Middle East News Agency had quoted Iraqi Oil Minister Saadoun Hammadi as saying the conference would reconsider the Tehran agreement of February 1971. To Discuss Issue This issue is to be discussed Sept. 15 in Vienna by the powerful Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. The lack of cohesive action at the Arab oil exporters meeting was viewed as' a major setback to the entire Arab unity movement, which had gained impetus earlier this year as a result of oil warnings made by Faisal to Washington. Militants and moderates: although they differed on whether to use oil as a carrot or a stick had agreed that a unified oil policy would have to precede any hopes of unity in military and economic planning to isolate Israel in the Middle East arena. ' the conference for a boycott of Israel diplomatically, economically, militarily, culturally and in the sphere of sea and air transport, which they say, would brand Isiael as an outlaw. Economic Issues r Economic issues loom large over the summit deliberations. A report discussed by the economic committee Tuesday deplores the widening gap between the rich and poor nations and says that under the present world economic setup the gap can only grow wider. The experts who drew up the campaign Continuing against Sakharov, the government newspaper Izvestia published still two more letters Tuesday, from the Academy Tanker Luxurious lost any kind of contact with the Soviet people and his homeland dis- The conference also initialled an agreement to build a Arab foreign ministers are hoping to inspire a call from the report want an affirmation of the absolute right of The teachers academy members said Sakharov had session "never cussed the question of employing oil against anybody Before the Kuwait conference it was reported that the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries was planning a common oil policy Unitto push the energy-shor- t ed States away from its support of Israel in the Middle East conflict. ' Support Libya The most that the conference accomplished, according to a statement issued after the final meeting, was an expression of unanimous support for Libya in its 51 per cent takeover of all foreign oil company operations on its territory. Meanwhile, in New York, percent takeover. non-align- emy of Sciences, was . the highest ranking scientist to come to Sakharovs defense. of Pedagogical Sciences and from the Bauman Technical Institute. Oil industry sources here said the anticlimax indicated conference participants were so divided on the issue that they decided to leave it off the agenda. LEBANON (AP) ministers of 10 Arab states ended secret talks in Kuwait on Tuesday without indication they agreed on a widely expected common oil policy for use as a political weapon against Israel. Egyptian delegation member BEIRUT, Full Status Revolutionary Government (PRG) in South Vietnam is also given full national status. There are now 76 full memmovebers of the ment, the majority of whose members are the worlds less , be other moves to curb the activities of foreign firms whose interests, the report says, are often protected by to the their governments extent of open intenerence in the affairs of smaller nations. Arab Oil Envoys End Talks, Fail to Post Common Policy The Viet Congs Provisional The diplomat took over as ambassador in foreign investment was made, and checks to ensure that such investment helped development. , firms would be Foreign nabanned from acquiring tional assets and there would countries to control foreign investment so that it benefits the country where the investment is made. The teeth in these measures would be a requirement of prior authorization before summit. Censured Russian Gains Backer f confident about Faced with the necessity to defend themselves, they may do just that. he added. Swank, 51, who is finishing three years as ambassador to Cambodia, said t..e big powers are searching for a peaceful settlement in Cambodia, but he foresaw little prospect at the moment for ending the fighting. Diplomatic Contacts Leaders Meet in Algiers Non-Align- ed nent more their capabilities. 4th Summit Conference 5, I were - MOSCOW The (AP) Soviet Union says it is building a giai't tanker capable of transporting 370,000 tons of crude oil and compact enough to enter most of the worlds large ports. Tass said the crew of 35 will live in single cabins and have at their disposal several rest lounges, a g)9n and a swimming pool. vav 1 Va va'xaA.a 'A V |