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Show Ig nifli i n ij, t Our Phone Numbers Clouds Coming News Tips Home Delivery Cloudy with showers tonight and Tuesday. Daytime highs in the mid 60s. Lows tonight in the 40s. Details, weather map on Page B-- VOL. 372 NO. Information Sports Scores 7. 123 -3535 Classified Ads Only Editorial Offices 34 E. 1st South -521- SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH 4 PAGES C 10c THE MOUNTAIN WEST'S FIRST NEWSPAPER W Nixon: Iron Under Velvet By FRANK CORMIER -WASHINGTON (AP) Richard Nixon is demonstrating he hasnt forgotten the arts that once made him a champion among American politicians. The President took off the gloves last week and indications are he may keep at least through swinging next Monday when he delivers his promised Vietnam war bar message. Nixon, taking the offensive nine months to the day after taking office, called in newsmen one week ago to defend his choice of Clement F. Hayns- - worth Jr., his norunee to the Supreme Court. Haynsworth, the President said, was a victim of vicious character assassination. Although he spoke softly and smiled often, Nixon's words had a sharper edge than any he had used in public since becoming President. This came at a time when many Republicans as well as Democrats had concluded Nixon would remain a rather placid and passive chief execu- tive. Just a week earlier the muted Nixon approach of the first nine months was evident special message he sent Congress. Wrote Nixon: Neither the Democratic Congress nor the Republican Administration is without fault for the delay of vital legislation. in a On Inauguration Day. Nixon had urged that all citizens lower their voices and discuss national issues in a quiet, rational manner. For nine months, the lowered voice was a hallmark of the Nixon to the point presidency where more than one fellow Nixon Republican wished would not only speak softly but, in the tradition of Theo i TTJ ? - A-- Military Will Trim, Close 307 Bases - SecWASHINGTON (AP) retary of Defense Melvin R. Laird announced today that 307 military bases in the United States and overseas will be shut down or reduced to save about $609 million annually. Lairds announcement was the latest in a series of moves aimed at cutting the defense budget this year by $3 billion. The whole $609 million in savings will take effect when the base reductions and closings are completed, which could extend well beyond the present fiscal year which ends next June - n the week marked a turning pcint ir, Nixon's fortunes, which have been at their lowest ebb since January. Of itself, the surprise counterattack against critics of Hayns-wort- h did not appear to be a decisive event in history. But it came in a week that saw Nixon gain unexpected latitude for maneuvering on a far more important issue, the Vietnam war. Senate Democratic Leader dered a standstill cease-fire- . Chairman J. W. Fulbright, of the Senate Foreign Relations Com mittee announced that as a matter of courtesy he was postponing publie hearings on the war until after a Nov. 3 Nixon address to the nation on the subject. After weeks of cumulative reverses, the Nixon White House could only feel grateful See NIXON on Page A-- S SAIGON (UPI) The gradual withdrawal of US. servicemen has dropped American troop strength in Vietnam to below 500,000 for the first time in 20 months, military spokesmen said today. It comes as President Nixon is reported considering even more cutbacks. Sen. Hugh Scott, the Republican leader in the Senate, said -- ,!W j making the withdrawal possible, a lull in Communist attacks, continued through the weekend and U.S. officials said they now expected it to last until as least T' m j j; would withdraw a total of 300,000 men. One of the factor!; W&z iiM f " - 4 Scattered fighting across the zone killed one American and wounded 16 Sunday and this morning, military spokesmen said, with a total of 173 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese slain. war TO RELEASE . ?.. .r - t I; J ,r. , ' AP Wirt Phffto Electric's Schenectady, N.Y., plant clash with pickets. Employes trying to enter General ' " t tsar J " I'-- - r Workers Walk Off Jobs At GE Plants - NEW YORK (UPI) bers of 13 unions walked off their jobs at General Electric Co. plants throughout the nation today in a strike described by labor as nearly 100 per cent effective. Paul Jennings, president of the International Union of Electric, Radio and Machine workers (IUE), said his union would file charges of unlawto ful refusal bargain against G.E. with the National Labor Relations Board. The of IUE represents 88,500 Mem- G.E.s 147,000 unionized employes. The walkout against one of the nations largest defense contractors was the first major strike faced by the which Nixon Administration, has pledged hands off. President Nixon has called for price and wage restraints. A company spokesman said lie could not estimate the extent of the strike until later today. We at this time dont expect government intervention and dont think its necessary, lie said. G.E., which has a total work force of 310.000, is the fourth largest industrial corporation in the country. The strike, which began with contract expirations at midnight, was the first nationwide walkout against the firm since 1946. There were no immedi- ate plans for further negotia- tion. Egg throwing and shoving was reported among the 1.500 pickets standing 10 deep at the gate to G.E.s oldest and largest plant in Schenectady, N.Y. Police advised nonunion employes not to try to enter the plant. Five pickets were arrested in Schenectady .y 4 v Tax-Fre- e, and 15 more at a research and development center in Niskayuna, N.Y., all on charges of disorderly conduct. Jennings said picketing nationwide was routine and with only a few orderly exceptions provoked by management or outsiders. Unionized General Electric workers, with very few exceptions, have made it clear to management that they will not work for the miserly wages and insecure conditions proposed by management, Jennings said. nearby GE IN SALT LAKE But Only Until 2009 (UPI) tax A WASHINGTON law which would new require most foundations to go out of business after 40 years existence was approved by the Senate Finance Committee. Foundations are now able to live in perpetuity. Under a proposal approved by the committee, they would be required to give all their assets to another charity at the end of the lifespan or else pay taxes. The tax rate would be at a 48 per cent rate which now applies to corporations. In another action, the committee approved a proposal to set an annual tax on foundah of one per tions of cent of the value of their assets. one-fift- 'In Full Operation' The operations of General Electric Co. in Salt Lake City are not directly affected by the strike of production workers. Our industrial service shop is in full operation, James A. Marshall, manager, said today. He explained that the em In dissolving at the end of years, foundations would not be permitted to turn over their assets to another foundation or create a new foundation with them. The provision would mean that foundations now in existence would have to close up shop by the year 40 ployes at the service shop belong to the International Association of Machinists which is not involved in the strike. The nationwide strike of GE production workers has been called by the International Union of Electrical Workers, AFL-CIand by the indeElectrical pendent United Workers. 2009. There are now 30,000 foundations with unmeasured billions of dollars. S Liberation Radio announced this morning the Viet Cong will free three American prisoners. It gave no time nor place for the release but said it was a gesture of the Viet Cong humanitananism. From the somewhat garbled broadcast account of the mens names, ranks, serial numbers and dates of capture, the U.S. military command came up with the names of these missing GIs.: Spec. 4 Willie A. Watkins. The Viet Cong radio announcer said he was fro.n Santee, S.C. U.S. headquarters lists him as missing in action since Jan. 9, 1968. SINCE 1968 Pfc. James H. Strickland Liberation Radio said he was from North Carolina. He has been missing since Jan. Jr. 8, 1968. Pfc. Coy R. Tinsley, who the Viet Cong broadcast said was from Morton, Tenn. U.S. military spokesmen said he was listed as missing March 9 of this year. The Viet Cong said all three were born in 1947, and all were serving with the Americal Division in the northern war zone when captured. TO PEAK LEVEL Not since February, 1968, during the Tet offensive, has U.S. troop strength in Vietnam been so low. After that, it climbed to its peak level, before the withdrawals were announced. Todays announcement said there were 497,300 GIs in Vietnam as of Thursday, with the number to drop to 484,000 when the second phase cutback of 35,000 is completed by Dec. 15. President Nixon has scheduled a nationwide television speech next Monday on Vietnam and apparently plants at that time to announce, plans for bringing more men home. The latest troop strength figures reflected the withdrawal of most of the 18.000 men of the 3rd Marine Division, one of the units to be gone by Dec. 15 from the northern battle front. According to the U.S. officials who forecast 549,-50- 0, mid-No- See TROOP on Pag : A-- 2 morning. The announcement said the Army, Navy and Air Force Installations and activities are located in 42 states and Puerto Rico. The moves will result in a reduction of 37,800 military positions and 27,000 civilian jobs. A total of DO civilian and military personnel will be laid off at five different Utah operations. The biggest cut will be at Tooele Army Depot with 106rjobs vacated. , BANJA LUKA, YUGOSLAThe second of VIA (UPI) two hammerblovv earthquakes only 17 hours apart laid waste to the central Yugoslav city of Banja Luka today in a disaster already being compared to the 1963 quake destruction of Skopje. Reports received by midafternoon said 20 bodies had been reevered so far from the rubble of buildings destroyed by ;he two shocks in this industrial city. Hundreds more were reported injured. 30. Under an agreement wit!) Congress, the Pentagon said details of the U S. base actions. including identification of the installations involved, will be announced Wednesday 969 Mike Mansfield of Montana, a persis.ent critic of Vietnam policy, told newsmen Nixon had significantly altered past week. orOnly time will tell whether policy and, in effect, had fA .... Tuesday. Secretary of State William P. Rogers declined Saturday to discuss the Soviet statement or any other aspect of the Lebanese crises. We have noted the Tass ctatement. We regret that the statement seeks to make propaganda from the difficul- See MIDEAST on Page 2 1 dore Roosevelt, carry a big stick. The stick surfaced last ;'i tug w kf AP, UPI Report The United States accused Russia today of trying to make propaganda out of the crisis in Lebanon. It called instead for quiet diplomacy" to settle this newest flareup of danger in the Middle East. The U.S. reaction to a Soviet News Agency statement of Saturday came from State Department spokesman Robert J. McCloskey. It was aimed against part of a Tass statement which had been Interpreted as a warning to the United States against interfering in Lebanon. The Tass statement also said Arab leaders should be able to handle the situation in Lebanon. This aspect, which appeared to be in line with the U.S. hope that the danger could be contained locally, did not draw comment from McCloskey. He did say that so far as he knows the United States has not mentioned the Lebanese crises to the Soviets but he did not rule out that this might happen this week. McCloskey said that Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and Asst. Secretary of State Jospeh J. Sico are planning another of their series of Middle East peace Talks 27, Sunday the President Russia Accused Of ' Propaganda ' WASHINGTON OCTOBER 7D 'Diplomacy' Urged In Mideast MONDAY, UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (AP) Robert S. McNamara, president of the World Bank, said today that nations everywhere must try to cope with the vast population drift from the countryside to the cities. That is a phenomenon the Todays Though Experience is the fools best teacher; the v:ise do not need it. Welsh' reverb f world over, McNamara told the U.N. Economic and Social Council, but its effects In the underdeveloped countries are even more serious than in the developed nations. In a report on his first full year as president of the V'orld Bank, McNamara noted that the major cities in the developing nations are doubling in size every 10 years. By the end of the 20th century, he said, the urban populations may be 500 per cent higher than they are today. With perhaps as many as 1.5 billion more people living in them by then, he sqjd, the task of supplying essen- tial services and minimally decent living conditions within these sprawling centers is staggering. To deal with the problem, McNamara said, family planning Is essential, but this cannot be expected to modify the shifting tide of humanity much before the end of the century. The problem must be dealt with on a comprehensive national basis," he said. An integrated, countrywide stratdevelopegy of rural-urbr.- n ment is essentia!. It must integrate popula tion planning, regional specialization industrial and growth and it must emphasize those economic policies which will optimize and distribute more equitably the national income. McNamara said another major problem facing governments around the world is mass unemployment. The estimate is that the equivalent of 20 per cent of the entire male labor force in the developing world Is now he said. without work, What is even more ominous Is that the situation is growing worse lather than better. To deal with such vast scale joblessness, he said, governments should shape their policies toward increasing economic growth rates. It would, of course, be wholly naive to suppose that unemployment can be eliminated within the span of the 70s, said McNamara, but it would be even more naive to imagine that we can afford to let this problem take care of itself. The World Bank Group, he said, cannot wipe out joblessness in the developing nations but they can achieve a better and mere practical understanding of the Ivtiation. The second quake jolted the city 100 miles west of Belgrade at 9:11 a.m. as many of its 60,000 inhabitants were on their way to work. This is the worst thing Ive a Yugo seen since Skopje, slav newsman told the news agency Tan jug in one of the few telephone connections to get out of the area before contact was cut off completely. The Skopje quake of July 26. 1963, killed more than 1,000 persons. more Early reports said than 80 per cent of Banja Luka was leveled by the quake, rated at more than eight degrees on the Mercalli scale. The quake in Skopje registered 9.5. jolt followed by Today's only 17 hours an afternoon tremor Sunday which killed one person and i ijured more than 100 othei.. said Witnesses buildings cracked and damaged Sunday collapsed like sand castles today. eight-degre- e inside The Hews SECTION A R6 National, Foreign City, Regional 7. 16 8, 9 Theater Women s Pages 10-1- Editorial Pages Our Man Jones Music SECTION 3 14, 15 15 15 B City, Regional 1, 3, 5, 16 Comics 2 TV Highlights 4 Obituaries 6 weather Map Actlon Ads 5 SECTION C Sports Financial City, Regional .1-6, 5 |