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Uneasy People's reactions vary Qlliet t0 ater ate exposure Hutchinson News Tuesday, July Page 12 SV ate. reigns Editor's note: North Vietnamese troops swept across the Demilitarized Zone during the spring, 1972, offensive and captured Quang Tri, South Vietnam's northernmost province. Since then, government forces have recaptured only the southeastern portion of the province. UPI corresponndent Tracy Wood, recently visited both government and Communist areas of Quang Tri, the first American reporter to travel across the Tach Han River truce line. This is another of her dispatches on the province.

By TRACY WOOD QUANG TRI, South Vietnam (UPI) The desolation of Quang Tri province begins abruptly at its southern boundary and gets steadily worse with every mile to the north, reaching total destruction at the province capital which marks the boundary between South Vietnamese and Communist territory. The Thach Han River, dividing the front lines under terms of the Jan. 28 cease-fire agreement, is heavily mined and as useless to civilians as most of the land itself. The Communists captured the province in some of the heaviest fighting of the war during their spring, 1972, offensive. Government forces were only able to win back the southeastern section, including the capital of Quang Tri City, by the time of the cease-fire.

"Quang Tri wasn't 100 per cent destroyed, it was 200 per cent destroyed," a South Vietnamese marine officer said. "First the bombs and artillery knocked down everything that was standing. Then they drove the wreckage into the ground." South Vietnamese marines guard the truce lines south of the Thach Han faced off against what Saigon estimates as three North Vietnamese divisions on the other side of the river. There was heavy fighting across the river right after the cease-fire, but the truce line has been one of the nation's most peaceful in recent months. "It's very quiet now, but our side and their side are ready to fight any time," Brig.

Gen. Bue The Lan, the marine commandant, said. "We had big problems after the first fire. But after about four months been very quiet. In Dong Ha, a Communist- held town six miles- north of Quang Tri City, Le Viet Hung, leader of the Viet Cong Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG), told the story another way.

"The murder, death and destruction caused by the Americans is at an end," Hung said. "We are not going to give up one centimeter of land or one person to them." Both leaders expressed skepticism about the cease-fire agreement although they paid lip service to the accord. "There is peace in our area but it is not yet a solid peace because America and her parties have not yet abandoned her aims and continue to violate the cease-fire," Hung said. "We want, of course, very much for the Paris agreement and the joint communique to be "put into effect and hope the day will come when we no longer will have to be on our guard." By United Press International The Watergate hearings are in their third May 17, with only a few breaks, the live drama that replaced the canned pathos of soap opera has been daily television fare. Never before has such a large segment of the American public been exposed to a continuing story.

Some resent it stations have been deluged with calls demanding reinstatement of the quiz programs and soap operas. For others it has been a chance to see history in the making and determine their own viewpoints without the middleman of newspapers, magazines or network news. What has it meant to those watching it? To a Boston stripper it proves "high officials can't get away with things illegal." A Salt Lake City housewife who twice voted for President Nixon feels "impeachment should be seriously considered." For an Elgin, 111., machinist the hearings are just "going round and round without making much progress." A random sampling of viewpoints: Tom D. Dally a 54-year-old livestock market owner in Social Circle, "I've seen about 60 per cent of the hearings and I read all I can on it. I think the President should have told the whole story earlier from his viewpoint.

What he does now will be questioned because of the competent witnesses that have appeared before the committee. He must come forward with something and it must be factual. He has to re-establish the confidence of the people of the world." Joan Cartland, 36., a Maiden, mother of three who has gone back to college to become a medical technician: "All the testimony has proved so far is that everybody in government is a crook. This is the logical development of what we've always been saying, that winning is the thing. Nobody loves a loser.

This is the logical outcome of the kind of life that we've been ahead as far as you can regardless of the means, that the end justifies the means." Ney, 26, an executive in a small cosmetics firm in Euless, "I've always been aware of corruption in high thing that disturbs me most whether they find anyone gulty or not is that the President, both as an individual and an office holder, has been so reluctant to cooperate and has cast so much of a shadow on the entire proceedings by being unwilling to supply his papers." Bonnie Hanson, 31, a housewife in Salt Lake City: "Watergate is a terrible thing, but it's not as shocking and horrible to me as it seems to be to some of my friends. I think other administrations have done other things we don't know about that may be just as bad, but this is all coming down on their (the Nixon administration's) head. That doesn't mean I think this should be dropped. I think we need an example. If Nixon is guilty of more than just helping with or standing by while the coverup was going on, I think impeachment should be seriously considered." Muenzenmay, 30, an Elgin, 111., machinist: "Everything that has come out has disappointed me very much in Nixon.

I voted for him because his program sure made more sense than McGovern's with all those wild welfare schemes. But from what I've been reading in the newspapers, seeing on television, I get the imprression that the Watergate committee is going round and round without making much progress." Renay, 47, a stripper at the Pilgrim theater in Boston: "I'm sorry it hit the fan. But it does prove that in this country, at least, high officials can't get away with things illegal." Muss, 24, an electronics plant worker from Sayville, N.Y.; "I voted for McGovern because I thought Nixon was dishonest. Now we know he's dishonest. And there still are some people who don't believe it." Sturm, 62, a San Francisco jeweler: "If one of my employes does something wrong, I would be guilty if I didn't check it out.

If Nixon didn't do that, it's negligence. If he is guilty, then I guess we should have a new election." Messages are news when kidnaping used MEXICO CITY (UPI) For the second time in about two months, Mexican guerrillas have used a kidnaping to force national news media to publish and broadcast their "message to the people." Local newspapers and radio stations last week published a 1000-word communique signed by the "Point Zero Guerrilla Command." (Comando Guerril- lero PuntoCero). The guerrillas promised to kill a kidnaped rancher if the message was not published. The name of the band may have been new in Mexico but the mass media tactic wasn't. The same idea was used last May by the kidnapers of American consul Terrance Leonhardy in Guadalajara.

In the Guadalajara naping, a group called the "People's Armed Revolutionary Forces" (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias del Pueblo) published a long-winded document criticizing the Mexican government in doctrinal communist terms. The most recent message was shorter and more emotional. Instead of expounding theories it made a romantic pitch for support for guerrillas, whom it described in one passage as "pure and clean enemies of injustice." Both communiques accused the government and the news media of hiding the truth about guerrillas by calling them "common criminals." Both also accused the government of oppressing and exploiting workers and peasants. And both had high praise for Lucio Cabanas, a Marxist former schoolteacher who has spent 10 years teasing the army in the southwest Mexican Sierra Madre mountains, and becoming a folk hero for certain elements of the Mexican left wing. Though there was little reason to suspect the two groups were Point Zero Command operates out of the mountains of Morelos and the Guadalajara group was rounded up soon after the consul was released the shared tactics could mean new problems for the Mexican government.

Until now the government has had good reason to call the selfstyled guerrilla groups "common criminals." With the exception of the Cabanas band, Mexican guerrilla activity during recent years has consisted almost entirely of scattered attacks by youth groups. Most involved robberies. And despite the revolutionary names, and some political statements, there have been few indications of any real political intentions. Even Mexico's Communist party has frowned on past guerrilla movements. Its official line says they are "premature," and lack a firm base of popular support.

But the recent pressures on the mass media mark a new sophistication. While the first was probably too theoretical, the second was obviously aimed at getting ground-level support from rural populations. It contained a long segment titled "what is a guerrilla," picturing him as a virtuous hero fighting for justice. 123 N. Main City HffiGI Center SIDEWALK VALK Sidewalk Sale Wednesday, July 24 Watches Watch Bands Jewelry Pierced Earrings Crosses Pendants SAVINGS FROM JEWELERS MAIN at SHERMAN Men's Long Short Sleeve SPORT SHIRTS Reg.

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The basement was known to house most of the nation's munitions, and blowing up the with the presi-; long been a classic project or at least a dream, of anti-government plotters. Only the outer walls appeared to remain intact of the once gleaming white three-story building, a replica of the White House, Plan freeway overpass for deer BEAVER, Utah (AP) Highway and wildlife officials say they will advertise for bids next month on a freeway overpass for deer. The elevated structure will include dirt and artificial vegetation to simulate the deer's natural paths with fences to guide the animals away from the freeway. The overpass is to be built in a part of Beaver County where officials say 67 deer have been killed by motorists so far this year. We're having our Sidewalk Sale plenty of bargains! See the "cool" values at REGISTERED JEWELERS Since 1890 203 North Main 663-4409 WILEY'S SIDEWALK SALE begins at 8:30 A.M.

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