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PAGE 12 The Columbia Daily Tribune Columbia Mo Sunday November 28 1971 Cambodia operation questioned Viet invasion finds few Reds SAIGON (AP) A South Vietnamese general said Saturday he does not expect to find sizeable enemy forces in eastern Cambodia rasing doubts about the nature of a 25000 man operation there Now in its sixth day the so called offensive appears to be more of a logistics buildup in the Nixon sets conference with Sato PALM DESERT Calif (AP) President Nixon will meet with Japanese Prime Minister Eisako Sato in San Clemente Calif Jan 6 7 for consultations prior to Nixon's Peking and Moscow Trips the Western White House said Saturday The meeting will be the third announced so far in a series of summit sessions with major allies and leaders Nixon will meet with rench president Georges Pompidou Dec 13 14 in the Azores and with British Prime Minister Edward Heath Dec 20 21 at Bermuda the White House has said earlier As with the two other meetings Secretary of State William Rogers Treasury Secretary John Connally and national security advisor Henry A Kissinger will join in the Sato meeting Japan's oreign Minister Takeo ukuda will accompany Sato Ziegler said Nixon is scheduled to visit Communist China early next the date to be announced officially by Dec 1 His Moscow visit is set for late May So far consultations with allied leaders will give him a chance to talk with the European neighbors of the Soviet Union and mainland most influential Asian neigh bor Japan Ziegler was asked whether it could be assumed that there would be no more meetings with other heads of state between Dec 21 in Bermuda and Jan 6 border region northwest of Saigon than a decisive thrust against staging areas of three North Vietnamese divisions deeper in Cam bodia "The enemy is now far away I have enough troops to go far said Lt Gen Nguyen Xuan Thinh explaining the almost total lack of major fighting He is commander of the garrison at Krek just over the border in Cambodia Intelligence sources confirmed that elements of the 5th and 7th divisions had pulled back from the border nearly a month ago to hidden base camps 20 to 30 miles inside Cambodia The same rubber plantations and jungles also house the rear headquarters of the 9th Division but most of its troops are occupied on the Northeastern front in Cambodia The South Vietnamese have shown little inclination to pursue them Most of the 250000 government troops are reinforcing existing bases building new ones and setting up supply lines on Highway 7 in Cambodia and Highways 22 and 13 on the South Vietnamese side of the border Cautious advances northwest and east of Krek have been limited to the relative security of Highway 7 with only shortrange recon naissance probes on either side of the roadway orward maneuver battalions have only advanced halfway to the Saigon stated objectives enemy supply deports in the Chup Dam Be and Snuol rubber plantations Thinh indicated they might not go much further unless get good intelligence information" However field informants said the South Vietnamese are not acting on intelligence re ports when they get them One reconnaissance helicopter reported sighting many North Vietnamese walking around in the Dam be Valley Saturday but no troops were sent in to engage them When the offensive was launched field commanders said they hoped to divert the North Vietnamese 9th Division from battling Cambodian troops on Highway 6 by posing a threat to its rear Although initial reports indicated some units of the 9th had started moving back one in formant with access to intelligence reports said the movements were insignificant and South Vietnamese have not been able to pose any significant threat so Chinese reported delaying talks on successor UNITED NATIONS NY (AP) With Thant out of the hospital but still ailing Sat urday the Red Chinese delegation was reported delaying bigpower talks on who should succeed him as UN secretarygeneral Thant 62 returned to his home in New York City after his release from Leroy Hospital where he had ben treated for a duodenal ulcer since Nov 2 A UN spokesman said he prob ably could return to work part time on Dec 6 One diplomat commented that Thant's illness made it for him to accept any extension of his term as secretary general Thant has said he will not serve beyond Dec 31 when his second five year term expires The General Assembly has until Dec 21 closing day of its current session to name a new secretary general It can only name a man who has the recommendation of the Security a person none of the five permanent members will veto The 10 nonpermanent members of the council have asked the five permnent the big to start discussions on successor The five permanent members are China the United States the Soviet Union rance and Britain Diplomatic sources said rance has sounded out the other four permanent members about beginning the talks and the United States has asked the Soviet Union to enter into bilateral consultations They said Communist China told rance that because it has only been in the United Nations since Nov 15 it needs more time to make up its mind The United States and Britain are understood to be for innish Ambassador Max Jakobson But if they announced it that might lead the Soviet Union to oppose Jakobson because it would suspect him of being pro Western in formants said The other announced candidates are Ceylonese UN Ambassador Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Chilean Banker elipe Herrera and Ethiopian Minister of Communications Endalkachew Makonnen Metioned as available for the post is Austrian UN Ambassador Kurt Waldheim Diplomats consider Herrera has been eliminated by open opposition from the United States and Makonnen by his failure to attract broad African support Corneliu Manescu Romanian foreign minister and Maurice Strong of Canada secretarygeneral for the upcoming UN Conference on the Human Environment also are mentioned as possibilities SILHOUETTED STEEL WORKERS on the Maine Medical Center in Portland get in some last hours on the reenforcement grills for the concrete pillers to be poured (Wirephoto) i ifSV' I II 'til ft ii I llfdl I II livH 'I I wuK lb lr? I ii ii I Wi Ire IB I Conference on aging schedules talk session WASHINGTON (AP) The White House Conference on Aging once described by critics as being a political forum for the Nixon ad ministration has scheduled an open talk session for 3500 delegates assembling here Sunday This appears to be an effort to prevent the conference from becoming a political liability to the White House Overhauled to head off a threatened boycott the conference seeks to avoid pitfalls of earlier White House panels by giving delegates an opportunity to speak out on topics outside the formal program at a Monday night open forum The forum appears to be in response to criticism at the White House Conference on Children in December 1970 when its chairman Stephen Hess presidential deputy assistant for urban affairs refused to call a plenary session Delegates said they were being muzzled At the aging conference a committee with minority representation will screen speaking requests and determine the order by lot The delegates ranging in age from 17 to 94 will meet in small groups Monday through Wednesday to probe nine problem areas and draft recommendations for long range goals public policy and specific programs The target areas are education employment health housing income nutrition retirement roles and activities spiritual well being and transportation At the Capitol the unofficial House Trailer Committee on Aging recommended a national for the aging to advise them on federal and other programs available to them It also recommended community meals for the aging to break their isolation and concentrated federal programs for them Rep David Pryor Ark head of the committee said he does not agree with all the recommendations in detail but they light on the lack of imagination in bureaucratic The suggestions were drafted by a staff of 20 volunteer young persons who operate out of three house trailers near the Capitol lemming said a preconference survey of 200000 elderly persons disclosed the most concern for health income and transportation in that order More delegates sought slots on a nursing home panel than any other although only 5 per cent of the 20 Million over 65 population is confined to long care facilities The 66 year old lemming Secretary of Health Education and Welfare when the first conference convened in January 1961 was asked to take over the reins at the 1971 con ference after complaints began piling up and the National Council of Senior Citizens which claims 25 million members considered pulling out Roughly two thirds of the delegates are over 55 and onethird over 65 with minorities com prising about 20 per cent of the total In ad dition there are 112 youth delegates aged 17 to 24 attending to develop what lemming hopes will be an awareness of the plight Ichord aide accepts public relations job A top staff aide of Rep Richard Committee on Internal Security has left the committee and returned to Missouri to accept a public relations job in Springfield Glenn Davis a former Columbian who once was a research assistant and speech writer for Gov Warren Hearnes said he decided to vacate his post when Ichord decided against running for governor Davis came to Missouri with Ichord when the representative returned to Missouri to sound out his gubernatorial chances Ichord and Davis concurred that their par ting was friendly Davis joined the committee staff as editorial director in March 1969 a month after a bill passed the House which abolished the con troversial House Un American Activities Committee and established the Internal Security Committee Davis will soon begin a public relations job with the Mid America Dairymen Inc in Springfield Court orders resumption Longshoremen begin to return By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Longshoremen in most East and Gulf coast ports were under court orders to return to work Saturday but it is expected to be at least Monday before full crews are working the piers The government on President in structions moved riday for back to work court orders under the TaftHartley Act which provides for cooling off periods of up to 80 days in strikes jeopardizing the national welfare The 57 day strike by the ALCIO Inter national Longshoremen's Association has tied up more than 200 ships with about 15 million tons of cargo The government obtained temporary 10 day restraining orders preliminary to day Taft Hartley injunctions in New York Philadelphia Baltimore Md Mobile Ala Alexandria Va and Savannah Ga riday A similar order was obtained in Boston Miami la and Houston Tex Saturday In Portland Maine and New Orleans La judges took similar government requests under advisement US officials said they will go to court in Providence RI on Monday In New York some longshoremen reported Saturday to piers where Caribbean cruise ships docked Shippers turned them away saying court order came too late in the day for them to cancel such other arrangements for unloading luggage as using supervisors and office personnel A pier manager said the longshoremen who reported would be paid for the day anyway In Philadelphia shippers asked for about 100 longshoremen to unload two sugar ships Sunday and for about 400 men for general cargo ships on Monday West Coast ports struck for three months by the independent International and Union were reopened last month under a Taft Hartley injunction which expires Dec 24 In a reversal of the usual positions New York shippers opposed a Taft Hartley injunction while the ILA did not The New York New Jersey dockers go back under terms of an expired contract which guarantees them pay for 40 hours a week at $460 an hour 52 weeks a year whether they work that much or not The guaranteed work provision was the main issue in the strike at the Port of New York where 18000 of the 45000 members were employed The shippers seek to eliminate the provision claiming that abuses cost them $30 million last year Connally will attend world money meet ROME (AP) John Connally US Treasury secretary is flying in for talks with finance ministers from the rest of the richest nations The discussions could have a striking effect on the world banker and the housewife alike The meetings starting Monday could lead to a decision on how much an American pays for Volkswagens and scotch whisky and how much a bag of groceries will cost in francs marks yen dollars and other important currencies The Monday meeting finance and trade technicians of the of the 10 wealthiest non Communist nations in the world will lay the groundwork for a meeting of finance ministers and central bankers Tuesday and Wednesday Europeans expect Connally to indicate some plan however sketchy in outline for devalua tion of the dollar US officials however have repeatedly denied any such intentions Devaluation would not have great effect upon most Americans It would simply increase the price of gold above the present $35 an ounce and alter the value of artificial reserves called special drawing rights Resident Americans buy either Devaluation and subsequent realignment of currencies of the 10 trading nations would have an enormous impact on international trade Realignment which many bankers say will come in January will result in most major currencies being revalued against the dollar This would make all goods imported into the United States cost more US trade partners are unhappy over tax bill WASHINGTON (AP) oreign trading partners of the United States are exceedingly unhappy about a number of provisions in the $27 billion taxcut bill passed by the Senate The provisions received little attention as the Senate dealt with much more highly publicized sections such as one to set up a federal presidential campaign financing plan But they were given close scrutiny by foreign embassies in Washington and representatives of foreign auto manufacturers and businessmen These interests do not like foreign trade aspects of the bill as it passed the House But they found the Senate version far more ob jectionable And they have made their views known to the State Department and to members of Congress The Senate changed the House measure in three ways which could have a severe impact on imports In each case the revision simply gives ad ditional power to President Nixon to curb im ports But the trading nations take little comfort from this they note that Nixon already has taken such actions as the 10 per cent import surcharge which they would not have believed possible a few months ago Sen Russell Long La inance Committee chairman declares that many American industries still are being damaged by imports The President should have ad ditional weapons in the bargaining now under way on currency revaluation lifting of over seas barriers to US products and defense burden sharing Long contends The three key changes made by the Senate: of a new section giving the President authority to impose a 15 per cent import surcharge and to slap on import quotas on a country bycountry and product by product basis of the so called section of the 7 per cent investment credit provision so that the President would not have to grant the credit on foreign made products if he lifts the import surcharge Under the House bill if the surcharge ends the credit auto matically applies to foreign goods of the section repealing the 7 per cent auto excise so that the President could reinstate this levy on foreign cars The Senate decided also to keep in the bill a provision strongly opposed in Canada and other foreign countries which is designed to give American companies a tax break on export sales If CATV trys to import network stations TV station here will file protest Richard Koenig manager of new television station Channel 17 (KCBJ TV) said riday the station definitely would file a protest with the ederal Communications Commission if a cable television company attempted to import St Louis network stations into Columbia Koenig's statement came in the wake of the release riday of a legal opinion received by City Manager Don Allard which said that Channel 17 may have the legal right to prevent importing of the outside network stations Weather delays new TV tower Unfavorable weather conditions have prevented the completion of the antenna tower for Columbia's new television station Channel 17 (KCBJ TV) station manager Richard Koenig said riday Just one favorable working day the tower construction crew should be able to complete the Koenig said He said the crew cannot work atop the 1100 foot tower when it is raining or when the wind is blowing very much at all The tower is located about 17 miles southwest of Columbia After the finishing touches are put on the tower the station will begin broadcasting a test pattern for a couple of days and go on the air shortly after that Koenig said all dependent on the no question about it My attorney in Washington DC is fully aware of our right to protest to the CC and going to stand up for free television in he said Koenig said that since Columbia will be served by three full network stations when Channel 17 goes on the air soon he doesn't think the people of Columbia will feel a need for cable television Pointing out that Columbia Jefferson City is a relatively small television market area he said area such as this with three full network stations is not in a position of needing cable incredible for a market of this size to have three The legal opinion which Allard received Wednesday was sent by Malarkey Taylor Associates a Washington DC consulting firm which is studying the feasibility of a city owned cable system Malarkey obtained the opinion from Put brese and Healy a Washington law firm specializing in CC cases The opinion also implied that Channel 8 (KOMU) and Channel 13 (KRCG) may have the right to protest the Importing of St Louis network stations by a Columbia cable system Lee Gordon program director of Channel 13 said riday the station will protest if at all Don Ruggles Channel manager said he is aware of the possible right to protest but no decision has been made whether such a protest will be filed or not decision will be made by the University of Missouri Broadcast Media he said The university owns Channel 8 Allard said riday that if It is true a cable system here could not carry St Louis network stations justify the city entering the cable business because need to at tract enough subscribers to make the system self The city manager added the Malarkey study says something I expect it to say I think a system without the St Louis network stations would be enough of an attraction to pay off the cost of the system" The study is expected to arrive here next week he said In recent weeks the CATV controversy has centered on International Telemeter contention that if the city would allow it to begin operating a cable system here before new CC rules take effect next year it could begin importing St Louis network stations and receive rights to continue doing so According to CC sources the new CC rules will permit grandfathering of systems in operation when the rules take effect The rules which are expected to take effect next March 1 or possibly as early as eb 1 would permit a cable system here to carry only the three local network stations and one outside independent station and one or more outside educational stations However an CC employed attorney Tony Cavender acknowledged riday that the possible protest rights of Channel 17 could make the whole matter of grandfathering academic International Telemeter has said it would not be interested in installing a cable system here if it cannot bring in the St Louis network stations 'A THE PONY EXPRESS it isn't but when Enos Burks a Tribune carrier happened to run into his friend John Hutchinson and John just happened to have a horse with him the two thought they'd find out how a horse worked as a newspaper delivery vehicle Enos on the rumbleseat is shown receiving his consignment of mismi MMm Tribunes from Paul Shepard a Tribune circulation department employe as John at the controls prepares to put his uncommon carrier into motion The horse owned by Cynthia Miller 1502 Ross St is named either Rabbit or Chico depending a lot on his mood (Tribune photo) SSgE i saaMMlissS £3 I.