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A Shaky Bandwagon In N.Y.

The primary election in New York produced some good news and some bad news.

The bad news first.

The "bandwagon" in the Democratic choice for president is rolling along full tilt in terms of delegates but in a popular atmosphere it continues to shake, shimmy and falter.

Whereas in California, the front runner grabbed 271 votes because of the legal techniques used in that state — while he only got 45 per cent of the actual votes—a different oddity produced the New York result.

Here was a state where Humphrey didn't get IN in time to have people running for delegates for HIM, but Muskie got out soon enough to have only about 80 running in his name — leaving the field wide open to George McGovern who grabbed up almost all of the plus-200 votes available. These two peculiarities in the primary processes of those different states, California and New York, have propelled him a very long way toward the nomination. This was obvious since his California showing.

(By the nature of the ballot it

the power of his seniority in Congress. In that he was an autocrat — and an aging autocrat.

We will be better off without some of those folks in the House.

IN CONTRAST, Bella Abzug was a gal who never missed a peace rally, or any other excuse to wear her flapping hat, open her big mouth, raise her clenched fist, and grab TV visibility. She talked the language of revolutionaries — loud — and the Washington TV press corps apparently thought she was the most important person in the Congress.

She has had more national network TV display than all 26 Illinois congressmen combined plus those of Wisconsin, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri!

But the folks back in New York did not esteem her so highly as the sensation seekers of the networks — and the flamboyant Bella was rejected by her home neighborhood voters in New York in her own party.

They replaced her in choosing between her and Congressman Ryan (whom the TV boys found not worth of display) when their districts

Jim Bishop: Reporter

Big Tracks
Not Fixed

There is less to Bobby Byrne than meets the eye. He, you may recall, is the sunglasses kid who testified before the eager panting members of the House Crime Committee that he fixed horse races. I do not say that this heavily guarded fink never fixed a race; I say it can only be done at small tracks.

Bishop

I like horse racing. My wife and I go for a dry cleaning about a half dozen times a year. After awhile, you achieve a nodding acquaintance with track owners like Jimmy Donn and Gene Mori and Sonny Werblin, and you save a smile for good trainers such as Arnold Winick and those magical midglets like Willie the Shoe and Ron Turcotte, etc.

What you learn, if you probe deep enough, is that there is so much honest money to be made in horse racing that a guy could lose everything being crooked. Bobby Byrne testifies that he and his cronies "cleaned up as much as $50,000 on a single race by shooting tranquilizers" into horses' necks.

into horses' necks.

AGAIN I MUST point out that I am not speaking of the quarter-mile tracks where, if they stage a two-mile race, every jockey holds eight marbles in his mouth and spits one out every time he pases the finish line. No, I speak of Aqueduct, Saratoga, Garden State, Gulfstream, Hialeah, Monmouth, etc.

I knew a retired jock who claimed he used to fix races at the little tracks, but he never used tranquilizers except on his wife, who lived in a noisy trailer. He was intellectually crooked. He got to the jockeys in a given race and made up a betting pool on one horse.

The other jockeys would pull their horses in even if they had to walk them in the stretch. He also used an electric buzzer, but that's another yarn. Byrne claims he used a needle to shoot tranquilizers into the necks of six horses in a 10-horse race. Then he bet a bundle on the other four. Why six? Why not nine, and bet everything on one?

To fix a race, Byrne had to get into the stable area. Take my word for it, it isn't easy. He needed a badge, a security check, and a signature okay. Then he found himself in an area of long avenues of barns with dutch

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"Nueva Época"

# Doctor Henry Kissinger asesor de Richard Nixon

WASHINGTON.— Cuando el 22 de mayo el Presidente Nixon desembarque del avión número uno de la fuerza aérea en Moscú, se hallará por primera vez frente a los dirigentes máximos de la Unión Soviética. Es probable que lejos de él se encuentre un hombre de aspecto profeso signal, que ostenta el modes to título de Asesor del Presidente en Asuntos de Seguridad Nacional, quien ya ha sostenido conversaciones un tanto extensas con los líderes soviéticos.

Esta circunstancia ha dado lugar a que muchos observadores estimen que Henry A. Kissinger, en virtud de su co metido casi sin precedentes en la formulación y curso de la política exterior estadounidense durante los tres últimos años, ocupa hoy día un lugar próximo a la cima del poder mundial.

No obstante, el doctor Kissinger sería el primer en asegurar que su actuación al preparar esa reunión combre —al igual que en todos los demás empeños en que ha participado desde que se incorporó a la Casa Blanca— ha sido meramente la de secentar instrucciones recibidas. Cualesquiera decisiones que hayan de tomarse en Moscú corresponderá al Presidente Nixon concertarlas; y al señor William P. Rogers, secretario de Estado incumbirá en primer término la tarea de ponerlas en práctica.

Sin embargo, dada la extraordinaria confianza que el Presidente Nixon ha depositado en el doctor Kissinger, no es difícil comprender por qué los observadores atribuyen importancia tan destaca da a su posición, así como la atención que ha atraído su cometido, por la forma en que ha procedido tanto de modo oficial como extraoficial.

La opinión del propio Presidente Nixon acerca de la acuación de su colaborador co trobora el interés que éste hauscitado. "Francamente" le escribió en una ocasión, "no puedo imaginarle qué sería el gobierno sino contá ramos con usted". Y, en verdad, tampoco podrían imaginarlo otros observadores que siguen de cerca el panorama internacional, ya sean o no éjos, admiradores del Asesor de la Casa Blanca.

La Administración del Presidente Nixon, de no ser por el interés que de tiempo en tiempo origina la actuación del doctor Kissinger y por la percepción certera y los valiosos conocimientos que a porta al proceso de las negociaciones internacionales, podría en realidad parecer muy diferente.

El doctor Kissinger, sin haber formado parte jamás del Cuerpo Diplomático, es probable que conozca a más jeffes de gobiernos extranjeros que la mayor parte de los funcionarios de carrera del ser-

vicio exterior estadounidense.

Sin alardear de mentor, el Dr. Kissinger ha utilizado su mente preclara y su diálectica convincente en Pekín y en Moscú, así como en otras na clones del mundo, a las que ha viajado a menudo secrete mente. Además de haber proporcionado al Presidente de Estados Unidos "sabios consejos y sólido apoyo —según el Señor Nixon reconoce— ha agradido un toque de misterio y de brillantes a las conferen cias de hombres de Estado en que ha participado, que por lo general suelen ser for males y tediosas.

El doctor Kissinger, que cuenta 49 años de edad y llevó a Estados Unidos en calidad de refugiado procedente de la Alemania de Hitler poco antes de que estallara la Segunda Guerra Mundial, se ha elevado de la posición relativamente oscura de profesor universitario a un carago de responsabilidad y confianza en la Casa Blanca, sin precedentes desde los días del Coronel House durante la Primera Guerra Mundial y de Harry Hopkins durante la Se gunda. Con todo, muchos ob servadores consideran que la influencia de que goza el doctor Kissinger es superior a la de sus dos predecesores mencionados.

El Dr. Kissinger se ha des tacado no sólo por su inteligencia vivaz sino también por su fecunda energía, su

escrupulosidad al llevar a cabo un proyecto y su dedicación a su trabajo. Además de su gestión como Asesor Presidencial —su oficina dista poco de la del Presidente Nixon, el Dr. Kissinger ha mostrado habilidad como negociador y como vocero libre. Cuente de la Casa Blanca...

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Una joven tiene
extraño poder

LIMA. — Augusta Morante Gálvez una joven peruana de 16 años que sólo con mirarlos hace volar por los aires objetos como roperos, máquinas de coser, sillas y mesas será llevada a Los Estados Unidos para ser examinada allí, dice hoy el diario "Ojo", de esta capital.

La joven que es oriunda de la ciudad de Chiclayo, reside actualmente en la localidad de Piura. Las gestiones de su ida a los Estados Unidos van bien encaminadas, para que se averigüe allí a qué obedece tan "extraño poder". Hay sin embargo muchas personas en la localidad, dice "Ojo" que afirman que Agustina tiene "pac-to con el diablo".

La joven se halla viviendo con las monjas del "hogar de Santa Rosa", y desde que se des-cubrieron las "hazañas" de Agustina, no se per-mite que nadie la vea o hable con ella.

AGENDA

NUEVA EPOCA'
Telefonos utiles

Nº.

“Nueva Epoca” Redac-ción ... 27103

“Nueva Epoca” Publici-dad... 26992
Bomberos... 10
DIC... 23147
Polícia (Guardia) ... 22291
Tránsito 24136
Hospital San Juan de Dios ... 22225
Hospital de Niños ... 27026
Maternidad Eva Ferón.. 22146
Parada Taxis... 23493
COTAS (Informaciones) . 14
COTAS (Conferencias Norte)... 15
Aeropuerto... 24251
Estación Central Ferro-carriles... 26523
Octava División Ejército 23241
Colegio Militar Aviación 23216

REINA ISABEL
VISITA PARIS

PARIS. — La Reina Isa-bel II del Reino Unido y el-presidente Pompidou en-salzaron esta noche aquí, la unidad europea y el estrechamiento de las rela-ciones franco-británicas.

La soberana y el príncipe consorte, Felipe de E-dimburgo habían llegado esta mañana a la capital francesa para una visita o-ficial de cinco días.

Después de un almuerzo íntimo con Georges Pompidou y su esposa en el Pala-

cio Elíseo y recibir sucesi-vamente en el Palacio del

Trianon de Versalles al cuerpo diplomático y a la prensa, presidieron junto con la pareja presidencial un banquete de 150 cubier-tos en una de las más sur-tuosas galerías de los luga-res versallescos.

VIDRIERIA CRUCENA

TELEFONOS 24287 y 25446.

Rectificación de Motores
en General
MAESTRANZA "ANGLARILL"

dentro del segundo anillo
la construcción de la Sede
icato.

Nº 418. Telf. 2-5379.

# Max Lerner

## THE 5 WONDERS OF AMERICA

I never saw the seven wonders of the ancient world—not Phidias' Zeus, or the hanging gardens of Babylon, or the Colossus of Rhodes, or any of the rest. But we are all witnessing the current wonders of America, and while I can't count them up to seven I can muster five, to wit:

1) The wonder of a conservative President who has carried through the most revolutionary foreign policy in the history of America as a Great Power. The journeys to Peking and Moscow cannot be written off as just the busy-making tours of Presidents and Premiers who want to be in perpetual motion, like whirling political dervishes. They have made history, and whatever else happens to Richard Nixon he will be known for the equilibrium policy.

The men with whom he negotiated have also initiated bold new foreign policies—Mao and Chou for China, Brezhnev for the Soviet Union. But the momentum for the change in global policies came from America.

2) The wonder of a nuclear weapons control treaty, nursed for several years and completed by the President formerly regarded as a nuclear hawk. If Nixon had been nosed out in 1968, and if Humphrey had brought such a treaty back from Moscow, Nixon would be the first to attack it—much as Sen. Henry Jackson is attacking it now.

Nixon's defense is the right one—that America gains more in all-round safety and good will than it loses by recogniz-

ing nuclear war with Russia. Any future President, who will take further steps along the same road of scaling down the nuclear race, will have to give essentially the same answer.

The difference is that the conservatives are more likely to accept it from Nixon than from McGovern or Kennedy, while the liberals who are almost silent about it now would raise their hosannas to the rafters if it had come from one of their own.

3) The wonder of the survival of Henry Kissinger. All the others who had been close to the throne—Mitchell, Finch, Moynihan, Rogers, Schultz—have in one way or another been pushed aside, but Kissinger abides and endures.

He has outlived Harvard, outlived his own background, outlived the envy of his fellow-intellectuals, the suspicions of the political pros, the hatreds of the radical Left and the radical Right. He has outlived Nixon's crises as well as his own, the invasion of Cambodia and the mining of Haiphong. He has even outlived the invasion of the Texas mogul, Tom Connally. The Arabian Nights law of the death of favorites—off with his head when night comes—has not yet operated in his case. It is still day for him: the night has not come.

He has done it by the simple fact of getting results. He has applied a brand-new combination of classical balance-of-power tactics with very modern deterrence theory—and it has worked. I cite as witness the fact that he is the only man for whose briefings a band of sea-

sioned newspapermen would get out of a warm bed in the pre-dawn hours, whether in Moscow or Washington.

4) The wonder of George McGovern's meteoric rise, from a 2 per cent popular national rating to the possibility of a first-ballot nomination. He has done it partly by his own shrewdness, partly by the devoted labors of his staff (largely drawn from the Kennedys), partly by reason of the vacuum left for him to move into, partly by the new Populist mood of the time, partly because the revolutionary temper which has been frustrated elsewhere has moved toward him, to clear a triumphant channel for him.

Whatever the reasons, he has confused the experts, confounded the critics, and turned the guessing game of politics topsy-turvy.

5) The wonder of what is happening to the American as a political man. He has shown himself a fluid personality in a fluid political situation. Witness some phases of this personality—the large vote for Wallace, the small one for Lindsay, the preference of black voters for Humphrey over anyone else, the overshadowing of city issues by tax issues, the split down the middle between radical militants and conservative ones and between middle-class and anti-middle-class values, the prevailing feeling that no problems are soluble along with the feeling that anything is soluble—given enough money, the belief that America has made enemies the world over along with the belief that it doesn't need to worry about security problems against any enemy force.

Put these together and you have the slipperiest and most elusive political animal ever to slither through a commentator's grasp.

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Jack Kofoed Says

Serox= P.R.

Can Henry Kissinger
Really Be That Good?

There are times when we all wonder whether anybody can really be as good in foreign policy — or anything else, for that matter — as Dr. Henry Kissinger is supposed to be. He flies about from one country to another, making more notes as he goes than John Foster Dulles ever did, and seems at home with all and sundry from Muscovite to Mandarin.

I applaud the good doctor's obvious interest in what the saloon (not the cocktail party) set calls banter, broads and booze. The president is surrounded by dull plumaged gentlemen like Rogers and Laird. Even Gen. Westmoreland does not live up to the flashing fruit salad on Kissinger's uniform blouse. Put an apron on him, and Dr. Kissinger could pose as owner of a sausage shop in Stuttgart, but there dullness ends. When Henry is through with foreign ministers, party chairmen, ambassadors plenipotentiary and similar dignitaries, he lets political dissertations go down the drain. No more knitted brows and somber phrasings. He's usually bantering... or maybe it isn't just banter ... with a good looking woman and sipping Mumm's Extra Dry.

It was a test of Kissinger quality that, at a press banquet in Teheran a belly dancier named Nadia Paras cuddled on his lap after a session of swiveling her hips, and the doctor was not in the least flustered. This, in the dull routine of state affairs, was a flash of sunshine on a

rainy day. If Brezhnev or Mao outmaneuvered Kissinger, it might have been because Mr. Nixon talked him out of a cozy evening with the prettiest dish in Moscow or Peking. Doc just has to do it his way.

Stephen Leacock once said, "Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl"... When missionaries first went to Hawaii they were shocked by the nudity of the lovely native girls. So they covered up all that beauty with muumuus, which are horrible Mother Hubbard. Now, when wahines come from the mainland, the bikinis they wear leave more uncovered skin than the hula girls of long ago displayed... It seems incredible but the Ministry of Education has discovered that 25 million French people have never had their noses inside a book since they got out of school... The one which has consistently remained on the best seller list for more than a year is Dee Brown's "Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee," a history of how the American Indian lost the West... Barbara Tuchman, who won the 1963 Pulitzer Prize with "The Guns of August," won again in '71 with "Stilwell and the American Experience in China"... It's reported that a new magazine "First Lady" will be mailed to three million households, whose income averages out to $16,400... And, if you make $30,000 a year or more, you may get a copy of "Lifestyle" through the mail. How do circulation managers tell just how much a guy is making? I know some folks making $16,400 who spend like its $30,000

... Sex, and eventually parenthood, have always been considered peaks in every normal individual's life. Now, a doctor diffuses some of the glamor by stating that a sexual relationship is the best way to take off weight... Ruby and Paul Broliex, just back from Russia, were disappointed with the land of Ivan and Olga. They found most people unsmiling, those engaged in services often rude. The clothing was drab, the food not very good, and the cavier second rate. There was only one elevator in one of the biggest hotels, and In-tourist Guides were drilled in propaganda... one of my favorite golf courses is the Diplomat's Presidential. It is not only beautiful, but is the sort that fits my feeble game, as well as the thunderous knocks of the pros. The Presidential, in that context, is like Rolling Hills, which Chuck Serianni built in Broward, and which I love, too... Pro Nick Bersan, masterminds both Presidential and Diplomat... I wonder whether Vida Blue is sorry he held out so long. The left-handed pitcher has made a very hesitant start, and if he doesn't gain many victories, he'd better not argue that he should get $100,000 in 1973. Vida offers a lesson that it isn't good to get too hungry too early... My old golfing compadre, Si Byer, one of the musical Old Guard, has started many a newcomer in show business. He's had a group called "Shi-loh" for a year at his Seminole, and to stay anywhere for a 12-month stand means you have to be very, very good. They're being replaced until mid-August by "Mother Goose" and they could be as hot as a horseshoe on an anvil too.

HOROSCOPE

sudney omarr

ROME DAILY AMERICAN

Sunday-Monday, May 14-15, 1961

# Vietnam President U.S. Aid Against

SAIGON, May 13 (AP) - Ngo Dinh Diem issued a speech to the United States' total support

## NATO Needs N-Weapons, Kissinger Says

BONN, May 13 (AP) - A United States military strategist said yesterday that the conventional military forces of the Atlantic alliance could not defend Europe against a massive conventional Soviet attack.

The statement came from Henry A. Kissinger, special advisor to President John F. Kennedy and a Harvard professor who came to Germany for discussions with U.S. and Bonn government officials on defense problems. He made the statement at a press conference.

Even if the requirement of the MC 70 plan, a document outlining the NATO buildup to 1963, were fully met, an attack by all conventional forces the Soviets have available could not be repulsed.

Kissinger advocates the buildup of NATO's conventional forces but he emphatically made it clear he does not mean that this should be done at the expense of nuclear weapons.

NATO now has 20 divisions but not all are up to full combat strength both in manpower and weapons. The MC 70 document calls for 30 full-strength divisions by 1963.

"I feel that conventional power should be strengthened but this should not weaken the nuclear forces. The additional conventional forces are needed to give the West a greater flexibility."

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By George Arfield

table gas lamps were to be seen everywhere;ANS blamed the death of a prematurely born on one of the power companies. The power hospital was unexpectedly cut off and the died in its cold incubator. At least one surgical operation had to be conducted by light.

power companies now have ready to go a generator which will, in part, brighten up the station. But the necessary transformer sta-ill not be completed until the end of May. then, say many Argentines, the new gen-will be of little use, because the distribu-bles will not be able to carry the new unit's load.

government had promised a solution to the problem within the next few years. A power station is slowly going up at the airport, but it has been delayed by several problems.

while, the people of Buenos Aires continue down darkened streets which lead them to modern apartments where oftentimes the electric will not operate because of lack of power.

By Edward De Pury

African problems, it was recalled.

Only well informed sources said that De Pury feels that a three power policy in Africa necessity to stem communism in that area. This supporting points for this view is said that there would be opposition to NATO across the Mediterranean if communism spread in Africa. Another point attributed would be that Africa could become a launch-for Communist subversion into the Americas the South Atlantic.

Kennedy should agree to making greater effort three-power harmony in Africa, then it is desired by experts here that some arrangement be sought for carrying this out.

However, informed sources said if there could be meeting of minds between De Gaulle and Kennedy, then it would appear that the issues between France and NATO might be easily solved.

It might also clear the way for some kind of agreement, possibly the suggestion by British Minister Harold Macmillan that there be a three-power trusteeship on atomic experts said.

Sources said if there cannot be an agreement between France and the United States on when De Gaulle might feel he needs all his strength to meet his disposition to carry out

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

THE WASHINGTON POST Thursday, June 15, 1972 H7

# Kissinger Sees Viet Settlement Hope

By Jack Anderson

Hanoi's chief negotiator in Paris, Le Duc Tho, has dropped diplomatic hints that he's willing to resume secret talks with President Nixon's foreign policy czar, Henry Kissinger.

This has cheered the cautious Kissinger, who has already gone several futile rounds with the North Vietnamese at the bargaining table but who now sees hope for a negotiated settlement of the Vietnam war. Here's his reasoning:

* In the past, the Hanoi leaders have refused to give up at the truce table what they have felt sure they could win on the battlefield. But their big offensive is now stalling, the military outlook less certain. They underestimates South Vietnamese resistance and miscalculated President Nixon's determination to strike back. General Nguyen Giap, the North Vietnamese commander, is also regarded as too cautious to risk losing his army in a sustained, go-for-broke assault.

* In the past, the North Vietnamese have counted upon Russia to keep their arsenal well supplied. The Nixon-Brezhnev accords in Moscow, however, have shaken Hanoi's confidence in future Soviet support. Hanoi's messages to Moscow (it's no secret we can intercept them) have become

increasingly bitter and suspicious.

* In the past, the Chinese have always urged the North Vietnamese to fight on. Since the Nixon visit to Peking, however, the Chinese have softened their militancy and have spoken favorably of a negotiated settlement.

## Hanoi Split

* Communication intercepts also reveal a split in the Hanoi hierarchy. Apparently, the hawks are fiercely determined to go it alone, if necessary, without military aid from Russia and China. While this hardline attitude has prevailed in the past, the doves are gaining support for a negotiated settlement and the military respite it would bring.

* Hanoi also expected the antiview sentiment in America to restrain U.S. air and sea power during the offensive. The peace demonstrations, however, were comparatively mild. The political polls also show Richard Nixon, not the antiview George McGovern, ahead in the presidential standings.

Kissinger is guarded, nevertheless, about the prospects for a negotiated peace. He doesn't expect Hanoi to settle the war at least until after the November election. The North Vietnamese will want to be sure who the next President

will be before they come to terms.

## Kissinger's Role

Kissinger had also had the expatriating experience of negotiating with the Hanoi crowd even before he came to the White House. He played an unpublicized role in the 1967 negotiations that led, ultimately, to the bombing halt.

As a Harvard professor, Kissinger joined a group of Pugwash participants who discussed the Vietnam war in Paris in June, 1967. He became close to a French scientist, Herbert Marcovich, and another Frenchman, Raymond Aubrac, who had once taken Ho Chi Minh into his home in Paris. Aubrac, therefore, had access to the aging Ho in Hanoi.

Kissinger arranged through friends in Washington for Marcovich and Aubrac to deliver a message to the Hanoi leadership, offering "to stop all aerial and naval bombardment of North Vietnam when this will lead promptly to productive discussions."

Weeks of negotiations wound up in a fruitless dispute over semantics. Kissinger, in a secret report on his last contact with his French friends, summarized:

"I said that the issue was really quite simple. If Hanoi wanted to negotiate, it should be able to find some way of expressing this fact by means

other than subtle changes in tense and elliptical references full of double meanings."

The bombing halt was negotiated the following year through other contacts.

NEW YORK NEWS
15 JUNE 1972

## A Huddle On Mao

Hong Kong, June 14 (UPI) —A Hong Kong newspaper said that today China's leadership held an urgent meeting last week to decide who will rule China after Chairman Mao Tse-Tung, said to be "very sick and possibly dying."

The conservative English-language South China Morning Post said in a front-page article that Hong Kong's Communist leaders have been told by Chinese authorities to "prepare for a serious statement about the health of Chairman Mao." Mao is 78.

The Post, quoting 'extremely reliable sources,' said the meeting of the powerful Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party was presided over by Premier Chou Ei-lai and it was "pursued arranqed—apparently to decide who will rule China after Chairman Mao Tse-Tung."

It said that the signs and indications pieced together were very similar to the grave political crisis when Marshal Lin Piao, then Mao's heir apparent, was purged in September.

WALL STREET JOURNAL 15 JUNE 1972

## House Unit Votes
All Major Arms
Pentagon Sought

Bill Reduces Authorization
To $21.3 Billion, but Backs
Laird Position on Offense

Missile Cost Cut by SALT

By a WALL STREET JOURNAL Staff Reporter

WASHINGTON—The House Armed Services Committee voted to authorize all the major weapons systems the Defense Department is seeking.

Clearing a $21.3 billion authorization bill, the panel gave its go-ahead to the new B-1 bomber, a fourth nuclear-powered aircraft carrier costing about $1 billion and the Trident submarine, successor to the Polaris nuclear sub.

The committee thus endorsed the position of Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, who has

argued that such new offensive weapons systems are necessary to offset curbs on other weapons set by the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.

Overall, while endorsing major weapons programs, the committee said its bill would reduce the Pentagon budget request $1.5 billion. But $582 million of that reduction results from the SALT agreement's curbing the deployment of the Safeguard antiballistic-missile system.

The panel lopped off another $363 million by ordering reductions in the building of the Navy's troubled DDO33 destroyers by Litton Industries Inc.

In another slap at the Navy and its contractors, the committee also imposed a prohibition on multiyear procurement by the Defense Department when cancellation costs could be in excess of $1 million. The panel complained that cancellation of Navy multiyear ship procurement contracts has obligated the government to pay "substantial cancellation charges never approved by Congress."

Research Cut 5%

The committee also cut $227 million from the Air Force request for a long-proposed air defense system called AWACS and ordered a general 5% reduction in all weapons research and development.

While making these cuts, the committee added $92 million to keep production lines open for three types of aircraft. They are the Navy's A7 jet fighter, built by LTV Corp.; the F5B jet fighter, built by Northrop Corp. for export to

allies; and the Air Force's C130 cargo plane, built by Lockheed Aircraft Corp. It also added $110 million for research and development of "key strategic" systems that the Pentagon requested after its initial budget proposal.

"Bargaining Chips"

Secretary Laird has been pushing hard for full funding of the B-1 long-range bomber, being developed by North American Rockwell Corp., the Trident missile-firing submarine, being developed by General Dynamics Corp. and Lockheed. Both strategic programs are viewed by Nixon administration officials as important "bargaining chips" that could spur the Russians into further limitations on offensive strategic arms.

Approval of money for procurement of long-lead material for the fourth nuclear carrier will delight the Navy as well as Tenneco Inc.'s Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., the only company in the country capable of building the giant ship.

The committee's bill also would bar the Defense Department from entering into contracts with colleges that can ROTC training or prohibit military recruiters on their campuses.

Ordinarily, the committee's weapons bills are approved without change by the House. In the Senate, the Armed Services Committee is still working on its version of the weapons bill. It may finish before Congress recesses June 30 for the Democratic National Convention, but floor action is unlikely by then.

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BOSTON GLOBE 11 JUNE 1972 (15)

‘Smart’ bombs are changing the rules

By Paul Langner
Globe Staff

Bombs that ride an invisible beam to ground and that hit the target with an accuracy of six feet are changing the air war in Indochina. They are the so-called smart bombs which can be guided unlike the "dumb" bombs which must be aimed before they are dropped.

The smart bombs are the marriage of the conventional bomb with the infrared homing device used in air to air missiles such as the Sidewinder which is attracted to the hot exhaust of jet fighters' engines.

Bodies that emit heat give off infrared radiation which is like light except that its wavelength is longer than that which the human eye can perceive.

If all targets were hot — in the physical sense — one could equip a bomb with an infrared sensing device, electronic circuits to convert the sensed signal device, electronic circuits to convert the sensed signal into mechanical motion and movable fins to steer the bomb to the target.

The laser beam has now solved the problem of the lack of a source of infrared light. Planes in Vietnam are now aiming a laser beam at the target and the bomb follows that beam down to the ground.

Lasers are highly concentrated and orderly beams of light and come in many wavelengths, which means colors. You can have infrared laser beams, red ones, yellow ones, green, blue, violet and ultraviolet ones.

Ordinary light is diffuse and what scientists call incoherent. That means that its wavelength varies all over the rainbow and changes from one millimicrosecond to the next. In a laser there is only one wavelength (which makes for a pure color) and that wavelength stays the same as long as the beam is turned on.

In the bombing in Vietnam two planes are used for each bombing run. One aims the laser onto the target and the other one flies close enough so that its bomb, once released, can pick up the beam and glide down along it.

The Air Force claims an accuracy of six feet within the desired target which should make it possible to drop a bomb into somebody's living room.

Despite that, there are reports that civilians have been hit. Anthony Lewis of the New York Times reported from Hanoi several weeks ago that he had seen a hospital that had been bombed and that the nearest military installation was four miles away.

The laser is the latest device on the automated battlefield which Gen. William C. Westmoreland predicted in October of 1969. Thus far the US

command has deployed sensing devices that can detect soldiers moving about and radio that information to a computer which then directs a plane to make a bombing run.

Some sensors detect sounds, other the vibrations made by footsteps, and still others variations in the earth's magnetic field as a soldier with a rifle or a peasant with a spade walk by.

With these sensors sending back information about the whereabouts of moving targets, officers can then send out planes that drop a variety of anti-personnel weapons.

That arsenal includes orange bombs, guava bombs, spider mines, gravel mines, shrapnel balls, and the so-called fuel explosive weapon.

The orange bombs, about the size of an orange, send out hundreds of tiny metal fragments that pierce the body to great depth. Lately plastic fragments have been used because they don't show up on X-rays. These bombs normally do not kill but incapacitate people for a long time and tie up medical staff.

The spider mine is about the size of a pingpong ball. On touching the ground it sends out eight nylon threads about three feet long in all directions. These threads are the trip wires.

Shrapnel balls are fired from 155 millimeter or 203 millimeter guns. When the shell hits the ground it releases more than 100 balls about an inch and a half in diameter, each bounces and explodes about five feet above the ground: the neck and head height of the average Vietnamese. At that level each ball spreads about 600 small fragments.

The fuel explosive weapon is a bomb that spreads an explosive compound on the ground before igniting it. It is used to clear forests and to clear out villages.

The silent button bombs contain phosphorous which even if it is not ignited, can poison anyone who comes into contact with it. It causes bone and tissue damage. The bombs at one time were made to look like animal dung.

The gravel mine is a small piece of fabric loaded with about an ounce of explosive. It can be made to look like a folded hankermchief or a wound dressing. Plastic versions of it have been made to look like leaves or soil.

The dragon tooth mine also is very small and is fitted with a plastic wing that enables it to ride the winds like seeds from some trees.

These bombs are intended against personnel only since they are ineffective against anything else. The various fragmentation bombs do not have enough power to damage walls or machines, and as Air Force Maj. Raymond Anderson told a Senate subcommittee: "Gravel will blow a man's foot off, but it will not blow a hole in a truck tire."

Navy Gives Raytheon
$20.4 Million Contract

GE Wins Two Pentagon Orders
Totaling $19.3 Million; FMC
Textron, Sunbeam Get Work

WASHINGTON — Raytheon Co. received a $20.4 million Navy contract for sonar transmission subsystems for new nuclear attack submarines.

General Electric Co. was awarded two Pentagon contracts totaling $19.3 million: a $14.6 million contract for operation and support of space-track sites in New York, Alaska and elsewhere and a $4.7 million Army contract for electrical appliances.

Textron Inc.'s Bell Helicopter Co. received four Army awards totaling $5.4 million for work on helicopters.

FMC Corp. got a $1.2 million Navy contract for gun-mount parts.

Sunbeam Corp. received a $3.1 million Army contract for electrical appliances.

The bigger bombs, even if they hit no people, cause damage that eventually affects the population.

By now more than 10 million craters have been blasted by bombs dropped in patterns by the B52s. When a bomb dgs a crater, it scatters the dirt far and wide in a thin dust cloud. To fill these craters would mean stripping the surrounding soil which would be the end of agriculture.

As it is, farming is difficult with most fields broken up by craters. Water collects in these craters and the mosquitos breed there and carry disease throughout the population.

Deoliants which have been sprayed have killed thousands of acres of valuable hardwood trees. As the trees die, bamboo takes over and chokes any seedlings that might start another forest moreover, the defoliant gets into the water. People who drink it suffer tissue damage and festeres are deformed.

No change wrought by man goes without effect, and the vast destruction in Vietnam may well be beyond Nature's powers to repair. Even smaller destruction has effects for generations.

The fields around Verdun north-east of Paris are still cluttered with the weapons and the dead of that battle more than 55 years ago.

The damage in Europe was small in comparison with that done in Vietnam. The full-scale bombing of Germany lasted only three years. It has been going on for more than eight years in Vietnam.

One Marine officer, surveying the lifeless crater landscape near the base at Khe Sanh, said: "It looked as if the earth had caught smallpox and died."

8-F

The Washington Merry-Go-Round

THE WASHINGTON POST

Friday, June 16, 1972

D17

# Kissinger's Report on Ho Meeting

By Jack Anderson

The late Ho Chi Minh, father of North Vietnam, was sounded out about a peace settlement before he died. We have now obtained a report, still classified "Top Secret," of the historic meeting.

The approach was arranged by Henry Kissinger before he became President Nixon's foreign policy adviser. He sent two French friends, Herbert Marcovich and Raymond Aubrac, to Hanoi with a U.S. offer to stop bombing North Vietnam.

The aging Ho, who had once stayed in Aubrac's home, received his former host on July 24, 1967. Here is Kissinger's report of the meeting, based on Aubrac's notes:

"Aubrac said that what struck him immediately was how old Ho had become. He was dressed in a Chinese gown and walked with the aid of a cane. However, his intelligence was unimpaired, his eyes still had their old sparkle. He seemed to enjoy playing the role of a grandfather figure, not concerned with details.

"Aubrac had brought as a gift a little colored stone egg. Ho gave three presents in return: silk for Aubrac's daughter, some books and a ring made of metal from the 2,000th U.S. plane claimed to have been shot down over Vietnam. He remembered the first names of all of Aubrac's three children.

"After speaking about Aubrac's family for about 15 minutes. Aubrac said: "Mr. President, do you know why I have come?"

"Ho answered 'Yes.'

"Aubrac asked whether he had any comments. Ho replied by saying that he did not like the phrase 'peace in Vietnam.' It gave an impression of moral equivalence between the United States and North Vietnam; in fact, the U.S. is the aggressor and must be condemned...

"The details of the negotiations, said Ho, were in the hands of (Premier) Pham Van Dong. Ho then added: 'Remember, many people have tried to fool me and have failed. I know you don't want to fool me.'

"He then turned the conversation back to family matters. He expressed regret that Aubrac had sold the house where he had stayed 21 years ago.

"Where shall I live when I next come to Paris?" He then asked whether he would be welcome in Paris, but avoided the question of whether he wanted an invitation.

"He terminated the conversation after 50 minutes and was escorted from the room. Pham Van Dong walked with Aubrac to his car. He said that 'we try to spare President Ho as many details as we can. He is an old man; we want him to live to see his country unified.'

Washington Whirl

Uranium Windfall—The Interior Department has decided to let the mining industry get away scot-free with $9 million worth of uranium illegally removed from public lands. Much of the ore was mined during the great uranium rush of the 40s and 50s. The federal government, subsequently, has been unwilling to prosecute the politically powerful mining companies. Under a federal statute, time will run out unless Interior takes action against the companies by July 18. However, we have obtained a letter from Interior saying no move will be taken to correct the $9 million ripoff of the taxpayers.

Phony Feud?—The celebrated feud between heavyweight boxers Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier, if you can believe FBI files, is pure theatrics. In October, 1968, the men investigated an application which Muhammad Ali had made for permission to fight in Philadelphia. He wanted to stage a "boxing exhibition," according to the FBI dossier, to help "the ghetto youth." Because the application was hazy, the Pennsylvania State Athletic Commission turned him down. But here's the kicker. On his application, Muhammad Ali cited as a reference "Joe Frazier (Boxer)."

Kissinger's Bodyguard—The story can now be told how a Secret Service agent almost

gave away Henry Kissinger's secret mission to Peking in July, 1971. Kissinger slipped across the border from Pakistan into China to make the arrangements for President Nixon's subsequent visit. The cover story was put out that Kissinger was ill. But his bodyguard became suspicious and began looking for him. The Secret Service man tracked Kissinger all the way to the China border and began demanding answers from the Pakistani authorities.

They queried Kissinger in Peking. He instructed them to hold the agent under arrest and keep him quiet until Kissinger's return.

Free Tranquilizers—When we reported in April that Pfizer Laboratories was giving out free tranquilizers to encourage doctors and hospitals to buy the product, a Pfizer spokesman assured us: "We have a policy against free goods." He blamed the handouts on over-eager salesmen. But 22 days later, it wasn't an over-eager salesman but Pfizer's sales director John Matheu who urged that sales be boosted through use of "free goods." In a memo to his salesmen, Matheu instructs: "You will solicit turnover orders from both Terramycin IM current users and new users, offering the 20 per cent free goods deal ... Let's make this the most successful Terramycin IM program in history."

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## Harriet Van Horne

### AN AFFAIR OF STATE

It was about three years ago that I received a telephone call from Mme. Danielle Hunebelle. (Or perhaps her secretary; no matter.) I was out and the message was taken by my maid.

I had no idea who Mme. Hunebelle was, but her name delighted me. In fantasy, I planned a memorable little luncheon party. First, I'd issue an imperative invitation to my cousin, Fernabelle. Fernabelle had to meet Honeybelle.

Carried away by the imaginary dialogue in my head, I further decided to ring up my old cleaning woman, Irma-Belle, to book her as waitress for this *belle fete*.

There were large defects in my merry fantasy. First, Cousin Fernabelle is a proper lady who plays croquet and teaches mathematics in upstate New York. I rather doubt that she'd come to New York for lunch, simply to give me the pleasure of saying, "Now, Fernabelle, you just sit over here by Honeybelle and Irma-Belle will bring us our coffee."

* * *

Another flaw in my fantasy luncheon was one I never dreamed of at the time. Mme. Hunebelle couldn't possibly have come to my house for a long, laughing lunch in 1969 because she was terribly busy falling in love with Henry Kissinger.

Now Mme. Hunebelle, who enjoys considerable renown in France as a journalist and television producer, has written a sensational book, "Dear Henry." Having just read it, I now know exactly what she would have discussed over lunch. Henry.

As Mme. Hunebelle sees Dr. Kissinger, he is a melancholy, testy, power-drunk, hopelessly untidy man desperately in need of what 19th century novelists called "the love of a good woman." But he doesn't know it.

The French lady chased "the little German professor," as she calls him, all over Washington, Los Angeles and Paris. He sat still while she interviewed him for Realites. (And a very good interview it is, too. Mme. Hunebelle who may never have heard the word 'modest,' re-runs the story in toto). Dr. Kissinger also cooperated when his pursuer made a film for French television, showing a typical day in the life of the President's first assistant.

In the life of the President's first assistant,

Whether or not Madame and Dr. K. had an affair in the
usual sense seems doubtful. One gets the impression that
prudent Henry knew better than give the clever French
lady this advantage,

If nothing of a deep or passionate nature occurred be-
tween them, why did Mme. Hunebelle publish this 224-
page book, taking the skin off Henry's back like a French
waiter, skinning a duck? Her answer, quoted in a recent
interview, is that her friends insisted. Danielle, Henry Kiss-
inger is a great man," they told her. "You owe it to the
world to make public your affair with him. You owe it to
history."

Will history be the richer, one wonders, for knowing
that Dear Henry has vulgar table manners, and fat sausage
fingers, that his home resembles a barracks full of dirty
laundry, that he coddles his enemies and "holds his friends
cheaply?"

Tall, tailored Mme. Hunebelle is a woman who belies
the French legend of expertise in affairs of the heart. Once,
in a snit, she told Dear Henry, "You have the finesse of a
tank." In truth, it's the lady who's a tank. Her aggressive
manners may serve her well in journalism but they do not,
one suspects, from this book, smooth down the sheets and
turn out the lights.

As a journalist, Mme. Hunebelle writes taut, vivid
prose. She has covered three wars, made a film about Viet-
nam, and interviewed heads of state. But oh, dear, listen to
her on poor Henry:

"I looked at him tenderly. What a poor lover he must
be! Bound hand and foot by complexes, fraught with per-
secution mania. . . . A man like that would always be some-
thing of a mystery, I thought; his contradictions make him
a sort of monster. From that moment . . . I began to love
him."

* * *

Mme. Hunebelle should have, had a few words with
Ann Landers before setting her bear trap for Henry. She
breached the niceties, the little rules that must always be
honored. For example, she went to call on Dr. Kissinger's ex-
wife, though expressly asked by the lady herself not to come.

She found a plump, tired woman in a shabby house, wear-
ing a torn pullover and cooking macaroni. A reader's sym-
pathies are all with Mrs. Kissinger.

When Henry snubbed Danielle in Paris last year, she
was so upset she smashed up her car. "It is not easy to have
a man of power as the man of your dreams," she writes.

It's a great deal easier, one might say, than being Henry
Kissinger and having to cope with Moscow, Peking, the
Vietnam War plus the hot remorseless ardor of Mme. Hun-
ebelle.

Wednesday, June 7, 1972

MIDWEEK

Page 4

WAYNE LUBENOW

It should be crystal clear to everyone by now that there is only one man who should be the next President of the United States - a man so obviously head and shoulders above the rest of the hacks that he should be the unanimous choice of both the Republican and the Democrats.

My fellow Americans, I give you our next President, Henry A. Kissinger.

Who else has the flair, the color, the elan, the girls? I tell you, folks, Dear Henry has given class to an extremely dull, drab, administration. As for the current crop of Democratic candidates, he is a Gulliver among the Lilliputians.

Show me a guy who dates actresses, starlets, members of the jet set, lady journalists and anyone else wearing skirts and I'll show you a high-type guy who is premier presidential timbre.

If any of you had any doubts about Henry's capabilities, they must have been quickly dispelled by his latest conquest. I am referring to Henry showing up at midnight at a press party in Tehran and ending up with a raven-haired belly-dancer in his lap.

By George, that was outstanding, just beautiful, a real coup. That did more for American morale than all the humdrum agreements Nixon and the Russians signed.

President? Nah, I am ready to nominate Henry for king. He is my kind of guy.

Americans, you will agree, are deadly sick of war. And what person could fulfill the slogan, "Make love, not war," better than Henry? Who, indeed, knows more about love and less about war?

If there is one thing this country needs, folks, it is a swinging bachelor in the White House. Someone to reacquaint us with the finer things in life.

Imagine, if you will, a White House dinner with six actresses, a lady writer, assorted female jet setters and a belly dancer acting as First Ladies.

Man, nobody could possibly talk war or economics or poverty in an atmosphere like that.

An era of love and peace (that's with an "ea," Mr. Typesetter) would descend over our land and the whole world would be the better for it.

Some of Henry's girls would undoubtedly write books about their unrequited love for him and make millions from the books. This, of course, would take care of the poverty problem - at least for the women of the world. (Perhaps not for ALL the women of the world, but at the pace Henry is setting he should get around to most of them by the end of a 4-year term.)

Perhaps we would have to increase the President's expense allowance because Henry doesn't go out with the kind of girls you can take to MacDonald's for a burger. But that would be more than offset by firing a whole gaggle of Secret Service men because Henry wouldn't need 'em. I mean, all the world loves a lover and nobody is going to take a shot at a blithe spirit like Henry.

Besides, Henry is unusually adept at disappearing and then surfacing at far-off places and the Secret Service wouldn't be able to keep track of him anyway.

Yes sir, Henry Kissinger would be the greatest good-will President this nation ever had. He would pop off to Japan and the people there would love him when he has his back scrubbed by a geisha girl in a community bath. He would endear himself to the Russian people by making love to a female track star or the prima ballerina in the Bolshoi Ballet. He would captivate the Cubans by showing up in a cane field with a comely peasant lass. He has already taken Frand and Iran by storm with the trysts with the Parisienne writer and the belly-dancer.

It is high time, I say, that affairs of state cease being the serious, somber things that previous lackluster presidents have made them. With Henry at the helm, an affair of state would take on quite a different meaning.

Henry's inauguration will be a gas. The Army and Navy and Marine Bands are out. Performing will be the Golddiggers, the Rockettes and Phil Spitalny's All-Girl Orchestra.

It would be up to Henry, of course, to select his own cabinet, but the front-runner for secretary of state has to be Zsa Zsa Gabor. For secretary of defense, Shirley Chisholm.

As his top presidential advisor, the one who must be constantly at his side, I figure that Racquel Welch has the inside track. No doubt about who his press secretary will be: Danielle Hunebelle.

The oath of office will have to be changed slightly to include a clause that Henry remain a bachelor while he is in the White House. He will undoubtedly do so anyway because he has an extremely high I.Q. - but his nocturnal activities could create some nasty international incidents if he were married.

Not only is Henry right for the job, but he has proven that he can turn a phrase that captures the imagination of the world. It was Gen. Douglas MacArthur who thrilled people everywhere with his immortal words, "I shall return."

Well, Henry topped him with ringing prose that will live forever. As he was leaving the party in Tehran he whispered to the belly-dancer, "I'll be back."

Yes sir, Henry Kissinger is our man, all right. I think we could even dispense with a formal election and name Henry President by acclamation because there's no doubt whatsoever that he'll win. After all, he's already got the belly-dancer vote.

For vice president? Never a doubt: Frank Sinatra.

Kissinger leaves Honolulu, due in Shanghai today

United Press International

HONOLULU — Presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger took off yesterday for Peking, where he will discuss Vietnam and other international issues with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai.

Kissinger's military jet left Hickam Air Force Base on an eight-hour flight to Guam, where the plane will stop only for refueling rather than staying overnight as originally scheduled. It will arrive in Shanghai tonight.

Kissinger conferred briefly with Adm. John S. McCain Jr., commander in chief of US Pacific forces and a staunch advocate of the current US bombing offensive over North Vietnam, at his hotel before leaving.

The trip to China is Kissinger's fourth and came as Russian President Nikolai V. Podgorny headed home from a visit to Hanoi, where he talked to North Vietnamese leaders.

At the same time, Le Duc Tho, a ranking Communist and chief adviser to North Vietnam's delegation at the Paris peace talks, was flying to Hanoi following talks in Peking with Chou En-lai. There had been speculation Tho

might wait in Peking until Kissinger arrived.

The trips by the North Vietnamese, Russian and American representatives raised speculation that new initiative was under way to reopen the Paris peace talks, suspended by the United States May 4.

Before Kissinger left Washington, White House officials sought to quiet rumors that the visit involved possible settlement of the Vietnam war.

But it was clear that the war will be a key topic in the talks with China's leaders.

Kissinger himself ruled out a stop in Hanoi to discuss peace proposals with North Vietnamese officials.

During his three-day stopover in Hawaii, President Nixon's chief foreign affairs adviser relaxed on

the beach and worked with his aides.

He refused to talk to Hawaiian newsmen during his stay at the Kahala Hilton Hotel, a favorite stop for the President during his visits to the islands.

RADIO-TV
DEFENSE DIALOG

SUMMARIES ARE
NOT TO BE QUOTED

FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1972

(BROADCASTS OF JUNE 15)

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WASHINGTON, D. C.

SUMMARY OF NETWORK NEWS IN THIS ISSUE

RICHARD VALERIANI, NBC-TV, Dan RATHER, CBS-TV, and Stephen GEAR, ABC-TV, all report President NIXON and Dr. Henry KISSINGER both briefed Congressmen and Senators on the SALT agreements and urged for a quick settlement with no cut in the proposed Administration defense budget. They said there could possibly be a resumption of negotiations on further nuclear agreements by November if the agreements reached in Moscow last month were passed by the Congress.

JOHN CHANCELLOR, NBC-TV, and Howard SMITH, ABC-TV, both report Pravada printed an article on the SALT agreements, saying the arrangements will be weekend if certain circles in the US try to solve problems from a position of strength.

JOHN CHANCELLOR, NBC-TV, Walter CRONKITE, CBS-TV, and Harry REASONER, ABC-TV, all report US bombers spared Hanoi today and will continue to do so for the next few days out of respect for the visiting Russian leader there. There is some speculation discussions around the VN conflict are underway.

GEORGE LEWIS, NBC-TV, Bruce DUNNING, CBS-TV, both report on the situation around An Loc where some SVNese soldiers thought they could get to the city on foot but were still turned back by enemy fire from both sides of Highway Thirteen. DUNNING reports American advisors saying the SVNese victory at An Loc may be the greatest in war history, but according to the civilians they want to leave the city of victory because it is reduced to rubble.

JOHN CHANCELLOR, NBC-TV, Walter CRONKITE, CBS-TV, and Harry REASONER, ABC-TV, all report six Americans died in the war last week. That figure does not include those missing in action or who died from non-hostile causes.

WALTER CRONKITE, CBS-TV, and Harry REASONER, ABC-TV, both report Senator William PROXMIRE is pushing for the court martial of Air Force General LAVELLE, saying if a private conducted himself in the same manner as LAVELLE, he would have been court martial and not just tapped on the wrist and retired on a pension of over $2,500 a month.

ROGER PETERSON, ABC-TV, reports on the troop reduction in SVN by the US, saying we are eating our cake and having it still at the same time because some of the US troops are just crossing over to Thailand where they can still operate bombers to strike in the war zone.

LEM TUCKER, ABC-TV, reports on the still not settled situation in Iowa where two families lost their homes because of National Guard plane crashes. That occured over four years ago and still the settlements are not final even after numerous promises by the Defense Department for quick action on the matter.

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NBC NIGHTLY NEWS NBC-TV 6:30 PM

Nuclear Arms Agreement Discussed

JOHN CHANCELLOR: Mr. NIXON arranged a White House briefing this morning for those members of Congress who sit on committees which will handle his nuclear arms limitation agreements with the Russians.

He told them he wants ratification on those agreements by the first of September.

The President also sought approval for his defense budget, seventy-five point nine billion dollars which calls for continued fast development of offensive nuclear weapons.

He said the Russians are going ahead with their programs.

RICHARD VALERIANI: The President spoke for about twelve minutes in the State dining room, explaining why he thought the agreements should be approved promptly and indicating the next round of arms talks with the Russians would begin this October.

Then he turned the session over to Henry KISSINGER, saying his chief White House advisor would be available for questions here but not at formal Congressional hearings.

The reaction to the briefing was not entirely favorable.

SENATOR HENRY JACKSON: There are a number of ambiguities that have to be resolved before we really know what we are agreeing to.

VALERIANI: Do you agree with the President that in negotiating these agreements both sides won?

JACKSON: No, I don't. All you have to do is look at the overall understanding and the Soviets end up with more missiles and greater throw weight - bigger ones - then we have - both land based and sea based.

I thought we were talking about parties all these years.

SENATOR JOHN STENNIS: If I weren't fully satisfied, if we still have the capability, the unquestioned capability for protecting our shores with power to spare, I wouldn't - I couldn't afford this - this position I have (very difficult to understand).

But the Soviets are very wise not to approach this matter of who can

win because who is going to lose - it is not a game at all.

This is a matter of survival.

SENATOR STUART SYMINGTON: We will (?) go along with the treaty I believe in the Senate and also the agreements in the - both Houses.

But there are apparently using this as a tool for heavier additional armament and there was one thing that worried me about the meeting this morning.

And that is there was no discussion whatever on the point of either the President or Dr. KISSINGER about the economic situation that we're now in with steady deterioration of the dollar value.

We're running a tremendous war in the far east, we've got our troops all over Europe and we are now going to embark on the (word unintelligible) of the SALT agreement lessening the cost of arms, it is going to heavily increase it.

VALERIANI: So it appears the President will get the search and inquiry he asked for and he will also get prompt approval of the agreements.

But it is by no means certain that he will get all the extra money he is asking for defense.

## SALT Agreements Discussed In Russia

CHANCELLOR: The Moscow agreements were discussed at length in Pravda today, the organ of the Soviet communist party.

Pravda said the arrangements with the Americans will be weakened if aggressive circles in the US try to solve problems from a position of strength.

The dealing between the US and the Soviet Union was touched on today by a visitor to Washington, the President of Mexico...

## Hanoi Area Spared From Bombing

CHANCELLOR: American war planes bombed NVN again today but not in the Hanoi area.

They stayed away from the NVNese capitol according to informed sources in Washington because Soviet Premiere - president PODGORNY (?) is in Hanoi.

And the sources said the planes would stay away from Hanoi as long

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Friday, June 16, 1972

PODGORNY is there which is expected
to be three or four days.

In SVN, Saigon's troops got just
a little farther up Highway Thir-
teen today in their attempts to
reach An Loc, but the highway is
still blocked to convoys.

SVNese Troops Still Trying To
Reach An Loc On Foot

GEORGE LEWIS: SVNese commanders reason if a bunch of refugees can get out of An Loc on foot, troops equipped with tanks and armored vehicles can get into An Loc by the same route.

But as the troops quickly found
out, the road is not completely
open, not yet anyway.

Enemy snippers on either side of
the road have inflicted heavy los-
ses on the relief column, the
twenty-first division which is
spearheading the relief drive. It
has taken more than three thousand
casualties.

Dead and wounded.

As the division's troops move
gingerly toward An Loc, guns at
nearby fire bases drop about five
thousand artillery rounds per day
on the places where the enemy is
believed to be hiding.

The shelling is accompanied by
tons of bombs dropped on enemy
territory every day.

So far, all this has failed to
dislodge the NVNese troops. The
ironic part is American advisors to
the SVNese estimate enemy strength
in this area is down to about one
hundred men.

But that's all it takes to keep
the siege of An Loc from being en-
tirely lifted.

Weekly Casualties Announced

CHANCELLOR: In Saigon today,
the American military command re-
leased the weekly casualty figures.

Six Americans were killed in
combat last week - thirty-two were
wounded.

SVNese reported more than six
hundred of its troops killed and
more than two thousand three hun-
dred wounded.

CBS EVENING NEWS CBS-TV 7:00 PM

Nixon Briefs Guests On SALT

WALTER CRONKITE: President
NIXON invited a hundred and twenty-
two Senators and Congressmen to
the White House today for a brief-
ing on Mr. NIXON's arms control
agreements with Russia.

They are members of committees
which must act on the agreement.

Most of them showed up.

DAN RATHER: The President
spoke of Woodrow WILSON and of the
tragedy, as he put it, of WILSON
not winning approval for the League
of Nations Treaty.

He used a favorite WILSON quote:
Our clients are the children
and future generations.

So it is, Mr. NIXON said, with
the nuclear missile agreements.

He urged Congressional leaders
not to (word unintelligible) part
of his reelection campaign.

Then the President left. He
answered no questions. All ques-
tions were handled by Dr. Henry
KISSINGER.

KISSINGER, in the opinion of
almost everyone who attended, was
brilliant, fair, persuasive.

Washington State Senator JACK-
SON praised KISSINGER and the Pre-
sident, but raised the session's
most pointed questions.

JACKSON saying parts of the
agreement are ambiguous and asking
about the dangers to US security
from such ambiguities.

But JACKSON was an exception.

When the meeting ended, the pre-
vailing mood of those who were
there was one of cautious approval.

SENATOR HARRY BYRD, JR.: I am
trying to support both the treaty
and the agreements. I want to -
before making a final decision,
however, I want to see what the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff and Secretary of Defense have
to say.

SENATOR JOHN PASTORE: Of
course, I'm one of those who feels
that if this Maddness has to come
to an end at some point, and while
this is not the complete answer,
I think it is a step in the right
direction.

REPRESENTATIVE (Unidentified):
I think the point was made very

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validly though we must continue on
to keep our country strong and to
keep those armaments that are not
part of this agreement in a posi-
tion so that we can negotiate fur-
ther down the road.

SENATOR JACKSON: What I'm concerned about is that this agreement and I can't answer the question yet but as so far revealed, will not even give the US parody. It is sub-parody.

They have fifty percent more in
numbers of missiles, it is that
simple.

RATHER: No one can be found in
Congress who believes the Moscow
agreements won't win by big maj-
orities.

Thus the President and his men
are increasingly confident that
they will also get through the
programs they want for additional
submarines and B-1 bombers.

If that happens, the next phase
of the arms negotiations and mis-
sile limitations could begin be-
fore the end of the year.

Possibly before the election.

US Bombers Avoid Hanoi Because Of
Visiting Dignitary

CRONKITE: Russian President
PODGORNY's plane flew to Hanoi
today but for the first time in a
while, no American fighter planes
did that.

US military sources said the
bombing suspension around the cap-
itol was a gesture of good will
toward the Soviet leader.

PODGORNY is in NVN for a series
of talks, some say aimed at ending
the war.

The goodwill that stopped the
bombing of Hanoi was not extended
to all of NVN.

B-52's hammered away again at
targets from the border north to
Dong Hoa.

When the battle for An Loc be-
gan, SVNese President THIEU ordered
that city held at all costs.

Now, it seems An Loc has been
held, but the costs ran high.

8,000 SVNese Died In An Loc Battle

CRONKITE: Officials said that
eight thousand SVNese soldiers and
civilians are dead, wounded or
missing.

The allies however, claim that
twenty-five thousand NVNese were
killed and that the defense of the
city was a great success.

BRUCE DUNNING: American advi-
sors are already proclaiming vic-
tory at An Loc. A one hundred per-
cent victory said one man and a
one hundred percent defeat for the
NVNese.

The top US advisor for the oper-
ation, Major General James HOLLING-
SWORTH (?), was even more enthusi-
astic.

HOLLINGSWORTH: I think it will
go down in history as the greatest
victory in the history of warfare.

It may even be a victory to the
people of An Loc who survived the
two month siege.

But most of them wanted to leave
even though the fighting is dying
down.

They poured down the road
southward. They had to walk more
than fifteen miles past the refuse
of war.

They also had to walk by the
thousands through areas still con-
trolled by the NVNese.

They were shelled during that
walk, many died or were wounded
before they reached safety.

Fifteen miles away, the road was
open and the government supplied
trucks to carry them to overcrowded
refuge camps where they joined the
ranks of more than half a million
other refugees left homeless by
the offensive.

The fear and terror of the two
month siege was etched into their
faces. Witness to the constant
shelling, the constant presence
of death.

Many had had little to eat.
Those who suffered most were the
Montegnards (?), the mountain
people who lived around An Loc,
working in the rubber plantations
and the teak (?) forests.

When the truck caravan stopped
at one refugee camp, others who
had left An Loc earlier crowded
around.

They were asking for news of
relatives lost during the flight
from An Loc or left behind.

They ranged up and down the
trucks pleading, seeking. The
generals had rightly proclaimed
An Loc a victory.

More than three NVNese civi-

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sions were driven back. But all that the victory means to these people is the destruction of their town and ironically, a chance to escape from the scene of victory.

**CRONKITE:** One ironic note, forty-two civilians who survived the battle for An Loc died in the crash of a big helicopter taking them to safety.

Five SVNese crewmen also were killed.

## Six GI's Die In War Last Week

**CRONKITE:** Six Americans last week were reported killed in the war. Thirty-two others wounded.

It was the lowest death toll in six weeks.

However, two other Americans were reported missing in action and twelve more from what were described as non-hostile causes.

Presumably most or all of those twelve were on board a transport that disappeared in the central highlands some two weeks ago.

SVNese dead during the week were put at six hundred and thirty-two and the allies claim to have killed almost four thousand NVNese and VC.

## Proxmire Looks Into Lavelle Case

**CRONKITE:** In March, Air Force General John LAVELLE was summoned home from VN where he commanded the Seventh US Air Force and forced to retire at a salary of more than two thousand dollars a month.

The reason, LAVELLE testified earlier this week, of some twenty occasions he ordered unauthorized air strikes on targets in NVN.

Today, Senator PROXMIRE called for LAVELLE's court martial.

If a private discharged his - disobeyed his superiors, said PROXMIRE, he would be investigated, charged with court martial, given a bad conduct discharge and jail.

But LAVELLE, PROXMIRE continued, got little more than a slap on the wrist.

PROXMIRE said that he feels a credibility the Air Force and civilian control of the military is at stake.

ABC EVENING NEWS ABC-TV 7:00 PM

More Debates Over Salt Agreements

**HOWARD SMITH:** Pravda, clearly no believer in instant comment today printed its first commentary on the Moscow talks that ended two and a half weeks ago.

It criticized, quote, aggressive circles in the US and said they could weaken the agreements by insisting on greater positions of strength.

It precluded criticism from China saying the agreements are not signs of weakness or softness. It dutifully declared solidarity with Hanoi but it ended on a new lurical note.

Quote, it is hard to find another example of such fruitful talks in the history of international relations.

At the same time President NIXON and Henry KISSINGER updated their comments on the talks in a meeting with members of Congress at the White House.

**STEPHEN GEAR:** Attending the briefing were members of the key committees in both House and Senate that will consider the arms control agreement signed in Moscow.

Filming was permitted only at the beginning of the two and a half hour session which opened with a call by President NIXON for a searching inquiry into the agreements.

And approval by September 1st at least, so that a new phase of negotiations with the Soviet Union can begin in October.

Advisor Henry KISSINGER described the ABM treaty and the offensive weapons agreement in detail.

And urged approval of the Administration's seventy-six billion dollar defense budget so that the Soviets will have incentive to continue negotiations.

In the question and answer period that followed, the atmosphere was friendly with numerous expressions of support for the agreements but with some calls for cuts in the defense budget.

Later, two Senators who have expressed doubts about the agreements, talked about the briefing.

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SENATOR HENRY JACKSON: They made a very fine statement, a very general one but we need some specifics.

I guess we'll start getting them when we cross examine the witnesses that the Administration will present to the committees on the Hill to explain, if they can, some of the ambiguities in their agreements.

SENATOR JOHN TOWER: I still am going to reserve my final judgments on all aspects of the treaty and the agreements until after we've had the opportunity in the Armed Services Committee to take testimony from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State and others.

BOB CLARK: You are not yet sure then, whether you will vote for ratification of the treaty or...

TOWER: Well, I think that I will vote for ratification of the treaty.

GEAR: In his remarks opening the unusual briefing here this morning, President NIXON recalled that the late tragedy of Woodrow WILSON's life was the Senate's rejection of the Versailles Treaty and the League Of Nations.

Those rejections, Mr. NIXON noted, were due to ineffective consultation and he added, we of course, do not want that to happen.

We do not think that will happen.

From all indications, the President is right.

## Hanoi Avoided In Continued Bombing

HARRY REASONER: American B-52 bombers and other war planes were back in action over NVN today.

But they avoided the area around Hanoi because of the visit to the NVNese capitol by President PODGORNY of the Soviet Union.

The raids are expected to resume in that area once PODGORNY leaves.

## Weekly Casualty Toll Still Shows
GI's Dying In VN

REASONER: The latest weekly VN casualty report was released in Saigon today.

With six Americans killed and thirty-two wounded--the toll remains high for the two forces doing

most of the fighting in the current offensive.

SVN reported the loss of six hundred and thirty-two men and enemy deaths were put at more than thirty-seven hundred.

## US Troops Levels In VN Decrease

REASONER: American troop levels in VN continue to decrease. And it is a forgone conclusion that the military will meet President NIXON's goal of having less than fifty thousand servicemen in the immediate war zone by the end of June.

There is a simple solution to the withdrawal problem.

ROGER PETERSON: Since the middle sixties, Danang has been the northern most major airfield in SVN.

When more planes were needed to combat the NVNese offensive, the three American attack squadrons here were quickly augmented by one Air Force and three Marine squadrons of F-4 phantoms.

But now, both the new and old squadrons are moving out.

The Air Force will move to Toc Lee (?) and Korat (?) in nearby Thailand.

The Marines will move to the never used Thai base of Phnom Phong (?).

The reason for the move is simple. Moving out air units is the easiest and quickest way for the Pentagon to fulfill its pledges to meet or beat the forty-nine thousand troop ceiling in VN by July 1.

The laborious and expensive move will take several days. But the planes and pilots will continue to fly daily missions while the move is in progress.

Equipment is being crated and palleted for the short cargo flight to the new bases.

Men are being shuttled over in small groups.

Only one squadron, the Air Force's 390th based here since 1965, will actually return to the States.

The entire operation is an exercise of eating your cake and having it too. The men are leaving VN and the troop levels are going down.

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Weekend News Review
June 19, 1972

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US-USSR

In US News & World Report article, RN said a major change
in the outlook of Red leaders made possible the new relationship
with PRC and SU. He said: "Whatever hopes they might once have
cherished that the capitalist nations would collapse in a cloud of
Marxist dogma had been dissipated.". On VN, RN said NVN is losing
its desperate gamble -- "Now it remains for Hanoi to choose -- the
path of war or the path of peace."

Gwertzman has a p. 1 *Times* report on the long, tedious SALT negotiations "which were finally resolved thru compromises worked out by RN and Brez."... Council of Foreign Relations fellow and Wilson scholar Alton Frye has a page in the *Star* giving a positive evaluation of SALT and strongly praising RN: "Nothing he has done speaks so well of his judgement and courage as the beginning he has made on strategic arms limitation." He needs and deserves the nation's confidence if SALT II is to succeed along w/SALT I.

The *Star's* Sherman says the WH SALT briefing was "a study in mutual sweetness. . . . HAK combined professional dignity, a dash of humor and a lot of devastating detail...." Shackford said there was "strong, if not majority opposition" to stepping up the arms program. Javits expressed annoyance over RN's statement that we made the SALT deal on the assumption we'd press forward w/other weapons plans. Shackford also says HAK's "masterful" presentation downgraded somewhat the Hill testimony which will be led off by Rogers who "is inarticulate about HAK's 'grand design'".

Jerry Greene says HAK's "thoughtful and eloquent" SALT presentation (text in Sun. Star) "was a delayed-action sequel to Churchill's 'Iron Curtain' speech." The HAK discourse to the MCs "may well stand as rhetorical commemoration of the beginning of the end of the Cold War." It was the most complete spelling out of RN's philosophy to pursuing peace w/the Soviets.

Lisagor says HAK is no longer "a phenomenon. He has become a
legend. . . . Few WH assts. have undertaken as many diverse roles and
executed them w/such skill, wit and aplomb. . . . Bureaucrats boggle at
his gargantuan energies and versatilities. . . . He is putting on a re-
markable show" and tho, according to Lisagor, some WH aides don't
approve of all the HAK publicity, the reporter says "as long as HAK
serves RN w/such virtuoso skill, he can pile his laundry up in a corner,
gallivant about w/Jill St. John..." and not worry about being toppled

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from his pinnacle. ... Lisagor on Wash Wk in Rev said HAK is "enamored of his role generally" and "he's playing more roles than Lon Cheney"; also "He does more than a one-armed shortstop". HAK is a "remarkable figure", said Pete, and he does all these roles "extremely well". He said HAK's late nite Moscow briefing was "positively brilliant".

Hedrick Smith of the *Times* tells on p. 1 of "the general sense of satisfaction among ordinary Russians with the improved atmosphere fostered by RN's visit."... NBC noted Pete Flanigan's remark that the US and USSR both suffered from misconceptions during Moscow summit over how far each was willing to go to reach a major trade agreement. They thought we'd"go further for a long-range grain sale." The US misconception was that the Russ would do more to settle their lend-lease debt. Nonetheless general trade agreement should be signed this year.

## OTHER FOREIGN AFFAIRS

NBC film of Sato announcing his retirement. Utley noted that Sato accused reporters of being biased, left the room and when he returned, refused to explain the statement. Reporters then left and he talked to empty seats and TV cameras. Reporter noted in fighting has started with Fukuda -- Sato's personal choice -- and Tanaka being the top contenders. Both men are considered generally pro-US yet Japan is now searching for fresh foreign policies and a more independent course. US influence is expected to drop sharply. ... Sato said "I'm convinced there'll not be peace in Asia unless the US and Japan maintain their friendly relations."

Noyes doubts much real progress was made by HAK in Japan -- and there can't be any gains made he says, as long as Japan has its "deep and growing uncertainty" over the course of US Asian policy. ... In contrast to colleague Silk, Durdin of the *Times* says most Tokyo observers regarded HAK's visit as a success as he soothed ruffled feathers and attained better US-Japan understandings.

The *Sun's* Sterne points out that Taiwan is hanging on -- and in fine style -- one year after RN's Peking announcement. In fact its total trade will pass Peking's this year for the 1st time ever.

Both Braden and Fritchey sharply rap Rabin's implied support of RN and point out a Dem Congress has to approve the financial aid requested by RN.

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According to Terence Smith of the *Times*, "communication between the US and India, the world's largest democracies, stands at zero rather than the 'serious dialogue' RN proposed in his SOTW in Feb."

In his 2nd Cabinet revision of the year, Allende dropped 6 ministers in an effort to respond to growing political opposition and serious economic problems. He now has full control of the troubled economy. ... Echeverria received warm, enthusiastic welcomes from Mex-Amers in Chicago and San Antonio Sun. 30,000 turned out in Chicago.

Devlin appealed to militants of the outlawed IRA for a 7-day halt to violence in Ireland. But as reports of a split in the IRA's Provisional wing spread, 2 British soldiers were killed by a booby-trap bomb.

NBC closed Sun w/5 minutes on Polish-Americans who've returned to Poland to live. They privately concede US life is better, they're able to live extremely well in Poland on the savings they accumulated in the US so it's worthwhile for them.

FBIS 03 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY

DRV WEEKLY THONG NHAT CRITICIZES KISSINGER

C 170247 PARIS AFP IN FRENCH 2302 GMT 17 JUN 72 C

(TEXT) HANOI, 17 JUN--U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER HENRY KISSINGER--NOW ON HIS WAY TO CHINA--WAS (? STRONGLY) CRITICIZED IN AN ARTICLE PUBLISHED BY THONG NHAT SATURDAY.

"U.S. PRESIDENTS CHANGE, THE WORLD CHANGES, AND ALL THIS IS NOT SURPRISING," WRITES THE NORTH VIETNAMESE WEEKLY, WHICH IS EDITED BY A GROUP OF INTELLECTUALS FROM THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY. "THE ASTONISHING FACT," THE ARTICLE CONTINUES, "IS THAT MR KISSINGER IS ABLE TO SERVE PERSONALITIES TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM ONE ANOTHER."

"IT IS THE QUALITY OF NOT BEING TOO MUCH CONCERNED WITH HIS OWN PRINCIPLES THAT HAS ENABLED HIS EXCELLENCY THE ADVISER TO OFFER HIS SERVICES TO FOUR SUCCESSTIVE PRESIDENTS--REGARDLESS OF WHETHER THEY ARE REPUBLICANS OR DEMOCRATS," THE PAPER SAYS.

THONG NHAT AFFIRMS THAT "MR KISSINGER--A GOOD PHILO SOPHER-- POSSESSES THE EXCEPTIONAL TALENT OF SPEAKING SO AMBIGUOUSLY THAT HIS LISTENERS UNDERSTAND WHAT EACH OF THEM WISHES TO UNDERSTAND."

FINALLY, THE PAPER WONDERS: "HOW CAN A MAN WHO SUCCESSIVELY SERVED SEVERAL DIFFERENT PRESIDENTS BEHAVE THE WAY HE DOES?" AND IT ANSWERS: "IT IS BECAUSE KISSINGER HAS THE ABILITY TO SUBJUGATE U.S. PRESIDENTS AND BECAUSE--LIKE THEM--HE IS NOT GREATLY CONCERNED WITH MORALITY."

18 JUN 0325Z AM/HH

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