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Show r Our Phone Numbers Cloudy, Mild 524-440- Partly cloudy tonight and Fri- 10c PAGSS preparation by Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird with the possibility that as many as 200.00C U.S. troops will be brought home from Vietnam fall of by the election-yea- r . Although details are secret, this 'policy of relatively rapid MOUNTAIN THE sumwithdrawal is expected to accelerate, with more than 5,000 men a month going home, replaced by South VieUiamese. The policy was worked out by President Nixon, Laird, and Dr. Henry Kissinger, White House foreign policy adviser, and has the lull backing of Secretary of State William P. Rogers. LaiiJ, in some of the tensest talks any American offi- - FIRST NEWSPAPER ticular, lie demanded that In late spring or early mer. Once started, this which Is pullback North on contingent Vietnam's doing the same was based partly on Laird s confidential report to President Nixon after his trip to Vietnam last month. Laird knows American support of the war has worn so thin that endless negotiations in Paris will not be tolerated. the tentative Consequently, plan calls for the pullout of a division plus supporting air about 50,000 men probably WEST'S 20, Pullout: NOT An accelerated schedule of U.S. troop is now under withdrawals 1970. 2 troop - Sai- gon's best units get into combat simultaneously with a mil- itary training program preparing Saigon's army to fight botli the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars as the I VwK, ctal has ever had with South Vietnamese President Nguven Van Tlneu and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, ruthlessly pressed Saigon during, his inspection trip to put Vietnamese forces into the frontline at once. In par e U.S. troops withdraw. Ideally, the U.S. withdrawal would be matched by a pullback of North Vietnamese regulars. If it were, mutual withdrawal could go faster. In fact, however, administration policymakers are pessimistic THURSDAY, over any such happy result In Pull Troops? C Utahns Say X,. - .'- I'" v (. ATO Hand versary conference of North Atlantic Treaty ministers Organization offered a Sir. (her Mr. Jensen 7. 2 , I V' ri -- V? ' X Ski, J JL t AP Wirt Phom Boaters survey farm home near North Sioux City, S.D., flooded from Big Sioux River. Sir. Miss Neilson Richardson A ? J Editorial Pages Speaking of Politics 1 14,' 15 15 Our Man Jones City. , Regional theater ... Financial The surging big Sioux River caused evacuation of a large residential area in industrial Sioux Falls, S.D., today and forced Die citys biggest plant to close. . In Minnesota, Gov. Harold LeVander requested President Nixon to declare 53 of Minnesotas counties major disaster areas and thus make them eligible for flood relief funds. Dry and colder air moved into the nation's midsection -- 13 17, IS, 20, 22, 27 26 ..2 SECTION , By Associated Press Helmeted policemen, some swinging clubs, ejected about 200 protesters today from 4 Harvard's University Hall in 14, 15, a clash that left '30 persons v injured and resulted in around 200 1-- 4 Sports Obituraies ..5 C Womens Pages 1-- 4 while ..floods fed by melting snow and rain routed more than 1,200 persons from their homes. ; A break occurred in a dike in the Riverside district of Sioux Falls. The dike plugged itself later, but hopes of saving it were abandoned and the area was sealed off. 100-fo- . Fifty families in the threatened area of 18 square blocks began to move out before dawn. Some left only with possessions they could carry in cars or trucks. ' arrests. testing the Reserve Officers i Training Corps program, Bottles and other objects were hurled at police,' some from nearby buildings. continued at a A mass sit-iStanford University laboratory to protest classified military research on campus. Student protestors at the New Orleans campus of Southern University forced the closing of the school Wednesday - n , officers stormed The through a mass of students to get inside the hail, seized Wednesday by students pro Love 7heir Neighbor CLARKSBURG. MASS. Charles Mattimore (AP) . can tell you: there are people who do care when a persons J In trouble. . Two weeks ago, Mattimore, 33, was leaving his job on the night shift at the Sprague Electric Co., a little tired, looking forward to breakfast with his family. At that very Inrtant, his wife and six children were trapped in a roaring fire t the Mattimore home. By the time he got there, Mrs. Mattimore, 32, was dead along with five of the children , ranging in age from 12 years to 16 months. The only surviving child was Frankie, 8, who had managed to scramble out through a window. In the days that followed, the residents of this quiet western Massachusetts town of 2,500 rallied around Mattimore and Frankie doing possible to ease their burden. And now his friends are building the two a new home, turnishing without charge everything but the land and material. they would have pro . f The John Morrell . Packing Plant, employer of 2,500 workers and the largest business in the city of 70,000, ceased operations. The adjacent stock-yaralso shut down and its was removed in livestock trucks. po- Right' long-rang- " the ionger-rang- e we face. problems MODERN CHALLENGES Formation of a committee on the challenges of modto explore ern society ways in which the experience and the resources of the Western nations could most effectively be marshalled toward improving the quality of life of our peoples." ' In this conncection, Nixon said the Western alliance as it enters its third decade needs to not only a strong military deThe Minnesota counties covfense but also a more proered in the governors bid for found political dimension to federal disaster aid are in the shape a strategy of peace western half of the state. a social dimension in and e left families Seventy-fivwhich the allies would pool their homes in Windom, a their skills to meet social community in southwestern .problems. Minnesota on the west fork of The formal anniversary certlie Des Moines River. emony was held in the same hall Averue Constitution where the alliance against the Soviet threat was created in the Cold War days after World War II. TEST OF ABILITY Police Quell ROTC Protest, 200 Harvard Students Arrested 1, 3, 6, 11; 2 SECTION D -15 ... Music City, Regional I Comics TV Highlights By .Associated Press , SECTION B National, Foreign 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 12, 13 Youth To Tell nt ... ; Inside The News SECTION A ' , litical coordination among the . 15 ,NAXO nations. He proposed: Periodic meetings of NATO deputy foreign minisreview ters for a high-leve of major, problems before the alliance. -- Creation of a special political planning group to address itself specifically and continually celerate the war, it wouldnt do any good. 5725 Glenbrook Crowther, Dr., said that if the conditions are met and the U.S. can ac-- t ir a 1 1 y begin withdrawing troops, the war can be left more to the Vietnamese and we can find out if they can start taking care of themselves. MUST BE SURE I would like to see some troops come out; only we should be mighty sure were not jeopardizing lives of the boys left over there, said Howard Jensen, businessman, 2513 Skyline Dr. After pondering that for a moment, he added: There Ls no way to insure such a thing when were dealing with the kind of people we are. Some Salt Lakers were See 10 SALT LAKERS, P. 2 three-poi- plan for tightening . the possibility Of getting excited too soon. ' STUDENT SAYS IP Only if the fighting died down would it be , a good said Dave Crowther, thing. of Utah stu19, University dent, majoring in biology. If the Viet Cong are going to ac- level officials as far too hopeful, are grounded on Lairds conviction that substitution of Vietnamese for U.S. combat troops can in fact be accomplished quickly without serious military reversals. Confirming this, a study by Herman Kahn, who runs the Hudson Institute brain tiust, is now circulating at high levels. It concludes that removing up to 200,000 U.S. troops is not only possible but essential See VIET on Page A-- 7 AP, UPI Report WASHINGTON President Nixon said today the Western alas conditions change to turn the fist of lies, stand ready defense into a hand of friendship toward the Soviets and their allies. At the same time Nixon, in a policy speech for the 20th anni- A & day afternoon responded posi-tively to a Deseret News front-pag- e story indicating there may be a troop withdrawal if there are no flare-u- p in the war, and if there is some sign of progress in the Paris peace talks. ; Enthusiam was expressed for any chance' that U.S. aoL diers may be coming home, while caution was voiced on 1969 f Xwr"-- r . 10, ry. -v By PAUL SWENSON Deseret News Stiff Writer Salt Lake Citys man on the street has a cautious enthusiasm for the possibility that the United States may be able to begin pulling troops out of ielnam within 60 days. , Ten Salt Lakers stopped on Main Street Wedoes- - long-rang- APRIL ' r( ixon Yes, If..., I' While demanding of the war Vietnamization also Ls effort, Washington pushing Thieu into negotiations with the Viet Congs political arm, the National Liberation Front (NLF). Only the broadening of Thieu's base enabled him to offer to talk to the NLF, and far more broadening is needed for Saigon to e make political deals. These hopeful prospects regarded by some working- - Two political developments, it is hoped here, will be set in motion by rapid U.S. withdrawals; fiist, it will confront Hanoi wilh a radically changed political climate in which the main enemy will no 'imperiallonger be white ists but fellow Vietnamese; second, it will force the Thieu regime to go faster in broadening its political base. This second development is W 'iY? Ife, A & Ik central. Paris. MAN ON STREET Crow ' 521-353- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH Tirp By ROWLAND EVAN'S , and ROBERT NOVAK WASHINGTON 524-444- 7 8 6 U.S. 0 524-284- day. Continued mild with daytime higha in the mid 60s. Lows tonight in the upper 30s. VOL. 371 NO. News, News Tips Home Delivery 0 Information 5 Scores 5244445 Sports Classified Ad3 Only 5 EditoLal Offices 34 E. 1st South vided that, too, but Mattimore said no. Instead, he is borrowing the cost of the materi- al, $8,000 to $9,000, and the new house will go. on the lot where the old one stood. The townsfolk set about their task like a corporation, forming committees and making plans. A steering committee was selected to supervise the project On It are a plumber, an , electrician, a contractor, a even an heating specialist interior decorator. In all, 89 people are to involved. They expect t begin construction in about a month. We'll work until the house is ready to occupy, says Arthur W. Brule, a close friend of Mattimore. Every hour of labor will be supplied by friends and other volun- after a clash with police. The college dean locked himself in an office to escape rampaging students.' At Harvard, more than 100 helmeted and state police waded , into a crowd of 300 students outside the building before entering. They were greeted with shouted obscenities. Some bottles were thrown. led by members , The sit-iof the Students for a Democratic Society, started at noon Wednesday when the students took over the building and forced several deans to leave. club-wieldi- One was evicted bodily. They demanded an immediate end to all Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) See SiT-iNon Page A --4 B Today's Thought , teers. , Brule, who Is 39, is one of those best able to realize the extent of Mattimores grief. He has eight children of his own. ...I have known him since he was 5 years old and w e were both living in North Adams, See GOOD on Page A4 The 'opportunities that are so abundant in America today are just around the only the corner thing is that you have to tcalk to them; they win not toalk to ymi. George M. Mardikian Mr. Nixon said arms talks with the Russians expected would to begin fairly soon be a test of the ability of the Western nations to shape a common strategy. Looking to the future, he commented: We would do well to create new machinery for Western political consultation as well as to make greater use of the process that al- . They said it was part of a Soviet and French plot to force the United States and Britain into accepting peace proposals calling for the withdrawal of Israeli troops from Arab lands captured in tlie Middle East war of 1967. ready exists. The President made no specific mention of a recurrent U.N. Secretary General Thant announced Wednesday that Jarring was returning to his post as Swedens ambassador to Moscow "for tlie b e ing. Diplomatic sources said his mission had been suspended. Communist suggestion 'that the NATO nations and tlie Warsaw Pact governments in the Soviet bloc meet in an effort to end the cold war. time U. OF U. DEVELOPMENT Utahn Gives A'miilion-dolla- r gift to the University of Utah by Washington restaurateur-hote- l operator J. Willard Marriott Sr. was announced today. Mariott, a Utah native who lives near Washington, D.C., operates a string of motels, hotels and eating places known as Hot Shoppes. University officials an' announced the gift today, it was the largest single pri vate gift the. university $1 Million has ever received, according to Fletcher.' The money will bo used for tlie university and its library development program, he added. In making the gift, Mr. Marriott said the university "has the potential of becoming one of Americas great institutions of learning. Quality advances are be ing made that are especially significant because of the school's strategic location in the expanding West." he added. Fletcher said the library building would be officially named the J. Willard Maniott Library at the universitys summer commencement. y The structure, dedicated last May, has a 1,500. five-stor- k capacity. |