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EVERETT HERALD 1 5 4 '4 ABM Under Way Despite Congress Rogers in South Vietnam To Discuss Peace Moves of Technolo Tacoma Bomb Call Interrupts Session Malays Chinese Kill 30 in Riots for WEATHER INDEX i 1 mi i 'iiiUWawwiiiiil miMmiwj rnnrrTTirrr i linamii i il naa mnnrr rwn i i Viet Reds Build Up Summer Offensive appropriating be reimposed quickly if nec 4 3D 2B SAIGON (UPI) North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces pushed their Policeman Herman Knaack 35 shot in the side during the height of Sunday By MAX VANZI KUALA LUMPUR terial council of the South east Asia Treaty Organ ization Movies Recipe Sports Social TV shortly after nightfall Military spokesmen an people at several hundred firms were working on the safeguard program If Con gress decides to put off au thorization of the ABM he said most of these employes would have to be reassigned to other projects and it would take some months to 4 2 ago Pack the subcom Page Page Pages 4 13D reorganize them at a later date disclosure came as the Senate Dis armament subcommittee re opened hearings today into the ABM controversy Its witnesses will be two scien Drs Edward Teller and Jerome Wiesner Tel ler a Lawrence Radiation Laboratory physicist known as thefather of the Bomb favors the ABM Wiesner a former presidential science adviser now at Massachu setts Institute gy opposes it A month ard promised mittee the Pentagon would not begin work on the Safeguard until it re ceived specific spending au thority from Congress The question came up be cause Congress last year appropriated $612 mil lion to begin deployment of the Sentinel ABM 4346 mil lion for procurement and $266 million for site acquisi tion and construction The Pentagon still has this mon ey even though die Sentinel has been abandoned Cooler (Blue lashing Beacon) Mostly cloudy with pe riods of partial clearing through tomorrow High 60 63 low tonight 48 Small craft warnings Southwest winds decreasing to 15 to night and tomorrow Local temperature range during the past 24 hoars: High 71 Low 49 halt rioting between Malays and Chinese that killed more than 30 persons and left en tire blocks aflame Prime Minister Tengku Abdul Rahman went on tele vision with tears in his eyes to declare a state of siege I most York 2 11V2 1n By JOHN HIGHTOWER AP Special Correspondent SAIGON (AP) Secre tary of State William Rogers arrived in Vietnam today for four days of jalks and inspections He said that in negotiations with the Communists for a peace set tlement shall not com promise on our basiC'Objec Rogers said President administration agrees completely with the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu the purpose of the peace we shall not compromise on our basic he said in an airport statement This objective he said is establishment of condi tions which assure that the people of South Vietnam can determine their own future The future of South Viet nam not be imposed in whole or in part by out side he continued must be made by a pro cess which permits the people of South Vietnam their own free choice the other side were willing to accept this prin ciple men prospects disturbance was still in critical condition Wednes day but a hospital spokes man said his condition had improved Sentenced to 90 days in jail Tuesday after pleading guilty to charges of loitering in connection with the dis turbance were Alfred Gales 18 James Berry 18 Billy Richmond 21 and Leonard ROGERS IN VIETNAM Secretary of State William Rogers (C) is accompanied by a heavy security guard following his arrival here early today with or ders to "explore in depth" ways to hasten the end of the war and send American soldiers home His arrival a tried to team Malays Chi nese and Indians in his cab inet in an attempt for har mony Still strife has erupted Malays contend Chinese have all the wealth The Chinese claim Malays have all the political powerand are lazy Gangs of Malays and Chi nese battled with clubs stones and steel bars Tues day and set fire to en tire blocks of homes as movek the United States believes must have priority in the Paris peace This official said there would be no pledge for unilateral US troop reduc The speech es expected to reflect the ad feeling that the Hanoi backed Viet Cong proposals while generally unacceptable offer some negotiable points One of these contains the first tacit public admission" by Hanoi peace would be greatly im Rogers noted that Presi dent Nixon would be making a major speech tonight on "the prospects for peace in he said directed me to explore in depth with President Thieu how we and our allies can most effectively move forward from the present position further in the direc tion of peace people of Vietnam have fought long and suf fered much to establish the conditions for a return to peace or this they have earned the admiration and respect of all who value na tional independence and the rights of self determination I express to the people of South Vietnam my personal regard and appre ciation for what they have done We and our allies are determined that it will not have Rogers paying his first visit to Vietnam since he and President Nixon took of study by the United States and South Vietnam particu larly on two points: what the NL means by a coali tion government and what the Communists have in mind when they say the Vietnamese should settle the problem of troops among themselves The NL statement called for total withdrawal of US forces but indicated that the timing might be negotiable and somehow related to a North Vietnamese pullback Adm John McCain commander of US forces in the Pacific who joined Rog ers in Honolulu told news men en route he had seen orders for troop with from South Viet nam He declined to discuss the subject further but did not rule out future orders Rogers will spend four days in Vietnam then goes to Bangkok for the semi nues to peace and deplored the attacks as acts which somewhat of a over their intentions at the Paris peace talks' US military headquar ters said 10 of the dead and 24 of thi wounded in Da Nang were South Vietna mese civilians The others were government Soldiers Three nights ago Commu nist rockets or mortar shells slammed into 212 Al lied biases and towns fol lowed by 40 two mights ago and then the 46 late Tuesday and early today according coincided with the departure from Paris of Henry Ca bot Lodge chief US peace negotiator for Washing ton to brief President Nixon before the Chief Execu tive's speech on the "prospects for peace" tonight (UPI Radiophoto It? 33 21 37'4 35 5M 21'4 96 34 126 583'4 31 12 57 36 position presumably will bereviewed House Republican leader Gerald ord of Michigan said his own cautious optim ism about the Paris talks was fortified when Nixon re viewed his speech for GOP congressional leaders Tues day Senate Republican leader Everett Dirksen of Il linois said merely it would be a significant speech WASHINGTON (UPI) Pentagon has decided ft does not need to wait for Congress to authorize the antiballistic missile (ABM) system and has started construction Despite a pledge last month no money would be spent on the ABM until Con gress gives the go ahead Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard said Tuesday the Defense Department has begun acquiring missiles and radars for the pro posed syterru He told newsmen parts are being bought with funds voted by Congress last year for the old ABM system President Nixon abandoned Packard said if Congress rejects the system the gov ernment will have to pay for Union Oil Cal several hundred million dol lars worth of radar and missle parts for use in a nonexistent defensive mis sile system In a speech Monday night Dr John oster Jr the chief of research and engineering also disclosed that 15000 482600 192100 176100 146800 138000 131 JOO 130100 101600 99400 98300 93600 92800 91700 90500 86600 our Sections TEN CENTS Associated Press United Press International Year No 115 60 Pages EVERETT WASHINGTON WEDNESDAY MAY 14 1969 The Communist shellings however were taking an increasing toll of civilian lives A 10 rocket salvo hur led into the heart of Da Nang South sec ond largest city killed 12 persons and wounded 29 ive civilians died and one was wounded in the provin cial capital of An Loc 60 miles north of Saigon Secretary of State William Rogers arrived in Saigon on his mission to 'seek ave Births Deaths Marriages Bridge Classified nmirs However attorneys for Crossword the four filed petitions to set Editorial aside the verdicts Tuesday inancial Hearings on the petitions were scheduled for May 21 Others arrested Sunday night will be arraigned May 22 court officials said to figures Hanoi Radio in two broad casts monitored in Saigon hailed the attacks which be gan Sunday as a 1 that has pene trated major American camps up and down South Vietnam flights will Hanoi Radio said 4 is the heaviest blow we have inflicted so far on the US aggressors since the beginning of the one broadcast said It said the offensive was designed to deirtonstrate the Commu fighting I Today's Most Active put at about 150 dead and 750 wounded South Vietna mese casualties were de day today with rocket and mortar attacks on Da Nang and 45 other Allied towns and bases Hanoi Radio said the drive had dealth US troops their i heaviest losses of the war butAmerican military sources said the Commu nists were paying the heavi er price The US spokesmen esti mated at least l500Reds had been killed in the past three days UJ losses were and to appeal for order He blamed opponents of his rul i Alliance party for whipping up emotions be tween the native Malays and tire migrant Chinese? The Chinese wing of Rah man's party said it was withdrawing its members as nominees for appointment in the government Rahman is forming as result of Satur day's election victory Rahman a Malay has necks died and 23 were wounded in the battling Seven flights of B52 bomb ers went after Communist hideouts between Saigon and the Cambodian border over night hitting 42 to 60 miles from the capital where in telligence reports have said the guerrillas are on the move for a possible drive against Saigon Ma laysia (UPI) More than 3000 police and troops with submachine guns today en Page 13R forced a curfew crdered Page 10G Page 14D Pages 3 5B Page' fC Page 11B Pages 1 4C Pages 7 9 A Page 7t said Ambassador Henry Ca bot Lodge will arrive during the afternoon for new in structions before flying back to Pari Thursday The next Paris meeting is riday Mindful that the North Vietnamese and" Viet" Cong took more than two months to answer initial US pro posals the administration wants to respond quickly to emphasize its efforts to push the talks ahead Lodge will attend a joint meeting of the Cabinet and that it has troops in the the National Security Coun South cil Thursday morning at (associate expecisure wmcn tne administration President to hint acceptance of the Viet Cong proposal for a provisional coalition gov ernment to replace the elected Saigon1 regime im mediately But Saigon itself has expressed an interest in a proposal for an exchange of prisoners another point in the proposal An indication the Presi dent is preparing' an early formal answer to the Viet Cong came when Ziegler Today By TOM MANSIELD Staff Writer a rra a and California were linked by traffic slg ji pavementtoday when the final ection of In terstate 5 in Snohomish County was dedicated The final link in the three state highway chain was a four mile ptretch of south bound lanes between Marys ville and Everett With Debbie Herivel Miss Everett and Katherine Smith Miss Marysville snipping the ribbon the $98 million portion of freeway eliminated the last traffic stop light on the thorough fare The signal was located on temporary Interstate 5 in Everett at Walnut Street Harold Walsh state high ways commissioner from Everett was master of cere monies at the dedication which took place just south of Marysville on the new Steamboat Slough Bridge The newly opened portion of freeway is expected to re lieve heavy traffic conges tion and eliminate dozens of accidents which occur each weekend Northbound lanes of the freeway project were opened to motorists last month while construction crews completed the south bound lanes Included in the Everett Marysville section are 11 bridges Some 17 million cubic yards of embankment were moved during con struction A series of state highway completions in Snohomish County were climaxed by this ribbon snipp ing ceremonies Projects opened since last month have represented more than $20 million in construction costs Sections dedicated include the 25 mile section of High way 2 (Stevens Pass High way) between Everett and Cavaleros Corner last April 8 and a two mile section of Highway 526 (Casino Road) between Highway 99 and the Boeing Co plant in South west Everett last April 23 uture section openings due by fall include additions to Highway 526 near Mu kilteo and on In terstate 5 Highway 405 near Lynnwood and the comple tion of northbound freeway lanes at Marysville Walsh attributed the extra highway work to Washing ton legislators and termed the new project a achievement for all of Sno homish Making one of his last ap pearances as Director of Highways Charles Prahl said the southbound lanes being opened were vital network in our tansportation system" TACOMA Wash (AP) The City Council adjourned abruptly Tuesday night when an anonymous caller told a police switchboard op erator a bomb would ex plode in the council cham bers Police searched the cham bers without finding a bomb and the nine member coun cil reconvened about 25 min utes Tater Nearly 250 per sons attended the meeting Police say the caller who the operator said had a voice called at 8:50 pm to say the bomb would explode 10 minutes later Meanwhile the council UUCUUUIVI4Q1J ordinance $48000 to finance the hiring essary of 10 new policeman a spokesman 'for the Hack community James WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon responding to what associates say is a public demand for a sum mation of the Vietnam situ ation goes before the nation tonight what is ex pected to be a cautiously op timistic assessment of peace prospects White House press secre tary Ronald Ziegler said the speech to be broadcast ltve gt io on na tional television and radio will contain some new mate rial but? cautioned against expecting announcement of a peace breakthrough Nixon associates also said the speech will outline how matters now stand in light of the Viet 10 point peace pro posal rather than announc ing the breaking of new ground A high government official said Nixon will stress mu tual withdrawal of troops 'and reduction of the fighting on the battlefield IT headnuarters said the guerrillas followed up the nounced three one overnight shellings with but of them six miles southeast one ground at of Da from Tuesday tack hitting a US camp 45 in which 196 Communists miles north of Saigon were slain Eleven Leather Amencan soldiers drove them killing 36 while losing two killed and three wounded It was the tirst oay oi me offensive that at least one Communist rocket did not hit Saigon The terror drive in the city appeared to have subsided but USmilitary police remained on alert and the streets were deserted Walton asked that all 10 new officers be black and be assigned to the Hilltop area our young persons re ceived jail sentences earlier in the day but a curfew was lifted as tension diminished in the wake of weekend ra cial disorder that led to the wounding of a policeman and the arrest of 35 persons ol i said predominantly Negro Hilltop Smith 21 area was quiet Tuesday night The City Council lifted the city wide curfew and ended a ban on package liquor sales on the recommen a i of Police Chief Charles Zittel but city offi ioalc caid thg curfew could Today on Page 3 A fice was expected to sound out President Nguyen Van Thieu at length on broaden ing the political base of the Saigon government to in clude the National Liber ation ront as a move to ad vance the peace negotiations in Paris US officials consider the proposal for a coalition gov ernment to be the most criti cal issue raised by the 10 point peace plan the NL put forth in Paris last week The Saigon government has ruled out a coalition with the Communists and the United States is opposed to forcing a coalition on its Vietnamese allies But the possibility of broadening the political base of re gime through negotiation with the NL evidently has not been ruled out US experts believe the 10 point NL plant was in tended to inwove the Viet Cong's bargaining position annual meeting of the minis' before the world But tney also say it contains interest ing possibilities for further Nixon to Tell 5 Of Peace Talks NY Stocks NEW YORK (UPI) The 15 active stocks traded on the New Stock Exchange Wednesday lj jan xaa narvey miuiii Pan Am WA Leasco Data Parkp Davis Webb Del Natomas Lockheed Atl Richfield Std Oil NJ Penn Central Tex Gulf Sul Lvngstn Oil Am Beth Stl See inancial Page 4B for to closing Stock Market quo tations i 4 I A 4 LA 4 A 1 A 4 4 Za A 4 5 1 ii 1 4 a 4 A a 7 1 5' 4 A VA 1 4 1 aea' xv mm Ajiaa waaaK wxv TOi ST MSKL 7 9 A A 1 7 1 4.