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Till-; (.01 KIKH Jul KIN AL UHJIM JI.LK. KV. A lllil) AV MlHiMMi, MAY I A 1 U.N., Most Capitals Buoyed by Accord On Talks, but Candidates Are Cautious At 3' i iv! ka lL-4'r in 'I '-14 Tass, the Soviet news agency, reported without comment the separate Hanoi and Washington statements announcing agreeing to the meeting. In the Vatican, a spokesman for Pope Puul VI, the Rt. Rev.

Fausto Vallainc, said the agreement was "a first step toward the goal of peace so often expressed by the Pope." Some excitement was detectable in Paris, but there was no comment by President Charles de Gaulle's officials. In Tokvo, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said the Japanese "express our desire that both sides reach agreement at an early date. Similar reaction came from Bonn, Stockholm and Belgium. Mansfield, Goldberg Backed On Capitol Hill, Sen. J.

Willi. Ful-bright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, proposed that Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield and Goldberg be sent to the Paris talks. Fulbright said Mansfield should be named to the U.S. delegation "because of his deep interest in Vietnam." He said Goldberg should participate because "he is very competent, he is an excellent negotiator and his views about Vietnam are very wise." acceptance of Paris as a peace talk site and predicted that the negotiations would achieve definite progress toward an end of the war. In New York Thant said the agre ment "will be hailed throughout the world." Although it is only a first step, he said, it is "a vital and iifdispensable Promising the "cooperation and assistance" of the International community, Thant said he was confident that Franco "will afford every help and make all necessary arrangements" for the talks.

U.S. Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg, who has resigned his U.N. post effective later this month, called the acceptance of Paris "a further act of statesmanship" on the part of President Johnson. In London, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's government led world reaction with a declaration expressing hope that the Paris exchanges will lead "as soon as possible to a just and honorable peace." Russians Remain Silent Britain and Russia are co-chairmen of the 1954 Geneva conference and would have a role in convening any full-scale peace negotiations that might emerge from the Paris talks.

The Russians were initially silent. From AP ind t.A. Tlm-Wshlni ton Pott Sorvlci Dlipatchot Secretary-General Thant led a chorus of enthusiastic reaction yesterday at the United Nations and in most world capitals to the agreement by the United States and North Vietnam to begin preliminary peace talks in Paris next week. When informed of the agreement, Thant commented: "This is the best piece of news I have heard for a long time." Hut reaction among the Republican and Democratic candidates for the presidency was less enthusiastic. Campaigning in Indianapolis for next Tuesday's primary, Sen.

Eugene J. McCarthy predicted that the negotiations will not bring peace unless the Johnson administration is willing to accept a South Vietnamese coalition government in which the Viet Cong is represented. Kennedy Pleased by Agreement In Crawfordsville, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy dismissed any effect the talks might have on his role as a peace candidate for the Democratic nomination.

"That's so unimportant compared with what's happening in Paris," the New York senator said. Kennedy expressed pleasure that a site had finally been chosen but added, "The selection has taken so long, Allies Report Killiiig282Foe Near Saigon From and DPI Dlplchti SAIGON (Saturday) Allied forces reported killing at least 282 Viet Cong guerrillas in a series of battles early today on three sides of Saigon. Authorities in Saitfon braced for a new enemy assault on the city but there was no sign that the battles were part of a major Viet Cong push. In the largest engagement, South Vietnamese infantrymen and armored units killed 194 Viet Cong about 28 miles southwest of Saigon and six miles north of the Mekong Delta city of My Tho, spokesmen said. Government losses were put at 9 killed and 31 wounded.

The spokesman also said Viet Cong gunners hurled 410 rounds of rocket and mortar fire early today against Tay Ning City, 50 miles northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border. He said a Vietnamese soldier was killed and 39 persons were wounded. Eight miles north of Saigon, government forces reported killing 25 Viet Cong while suffering two killed and 22 wounded. Yanks Kill 31 Enemy Troops About 20 miles to the west of Saigon, South Vietnamese infantrymen reported killing 32 Viet Cong while sustaining 4 killed and seven wounded. At the same time, American infantrymen reported killing 31 enemy troops.

U.S. casualties were listed as one killed, three wounded. Earlier, Viet Cong guerrillas pulled off one of their boldest terrorist attacks since the Tet offensive in February, packing a taxi with 120 pounds of TNT and blowing it up yesterday in the heart of the capital a block from the U.S. embassy. The blast wrecked a church-sponsored Associittd Prasi PARATROOPERS OF the 101st Airborne Division move wounded buddies out of the jungle west of Hue for evacuation by helicopter.

student center and damaged South Vietnamese and American television buildings, killing three Vietnamese and wounding 25 Vietnamese and five Americans. Most of the wounded were young Vietnamese girls at the two-story student center of the World University Service. In the northeast corner of South Vietnam, ground fighting sputtered out after U.S. forces crushed a North Vietnamese counterattack near Dong Ha Thursday. In four days of fierce fighting around the Dong Ha Marine base and -near Hue, Allied troops reported 1,303 of the enemy killed.

U.S. and South Vietnamese casualties totaled 108 men killed and 541 wounded in the battles. Four miles west of Hue, U.S. para troopers of the 82nd Airborne Division reported overrunning enemy positions Thursday and killing 46 North Vietnamese. In the air war, the U.S.

command said a Navy report that a MIG-21 was shot down over the Gulf of Tonkin Thursday "appeared to be erroneous." The spokesman said there were no further details. F4 Phantom crewmen had reported shooting down a MIG, the first report of an enemy MIG shot down in 24 months. Hanoi's official Vietnam News Agency said North Vietnamese militia in Quang Binh Province shot down a U.S. A6 jet yesterday and that two other A6s were shot down near Vinh City Thursday. There was no confirmation in Saigon.

CHANGE OF STORE HOURS TODAY DERBY DAY it indicates the difficulty we still face in reaching agreement with North Vietnam, the Viet Cong and the National Liberation Front (political arm of the Viet Cong)." In a similar vein. Republican candidate Richard M. Nixon said in Fort Wayne, that the selection of a site is "only the beginning of a long, hard road." He called the arrangement of preliminary talks "the easiest part of the exercise when you're searching for peace." However, Nixon's leading opponent for the GOP nomination, Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York, hailed the Our Downtown Store 9:00 A.M.

till 1:30 P.M. Our Mall Store 10:00 A.M. till 3:00 P.M. Accuse U.S. Troops of Cruelty 6 Gl Deserters on Moscow TV Check for $96 Billion? LONG BEACH, Calif.

(UPD A sailor's wife was in custody yesterday for allegedly altering her government allotment check to read more than $96 billion. Mrs. Virginia Vigil, 35, Long Beach, a mother of four, was arrested by police Thursday after she tried to deposit a check for $96,967,889,867 at the U.S. National Bank here. From NYT and AP Dispatches MOSCOW Six U.S.

deserters appeared on Moscow television last nigh and accused American troops in Vietnam of cruelty and sadism. The six, including a Negro and a South Korean taken to the United States as a child, were interviewed in a recorded half -hour program. They all condemned the U.S. government's policies in Vietnam and demanded that American troops be withdrawn. Last November four deserters from the U.S.

aircraft carrier Intrepid assailed the war on Moscow television. They later took asylum in Sweden. The six who appeared yesterday indicated they intend to go to another country. They identified themselves as Terry Whitmore, a Negro from Memphis, Philip Calicote of Mansfield, Ohio; Mark Allen Shapiro of St. Paul, Minn; Kenneth Charles Griggs, the former South Korean, of Boise, Idaho; Edwin Arnett, of Bradford, and Joseph Metz, whose home town was not mentioned.

The spelling of some of the names was uncertain. Arnett charged that an officer in his U.S. Unlikely to Cease All Bombing of North Marine unit was a sadist who enjoyed burning villages and torturing prisoners with a bayonet. He alleged that the officer had disemboweled a Viet Cong prisoner and a 16-month-old baby in the presence of its mother. Many Marines, he added, cut the ears of South Vietnamese peasants.

Accuses American Troops Griggs, calling himself a "deserter and defector," charged that American troops were "stormtroopers and criminals" who were carrying out Washington's policy of annihilating the Vietnamese people "as a race and a proud people." He assailed the South Vietnamese government as "a robber clique of notion that all bombing of North Vietnam would end with the opening of the U.S.-North Vietnamese meetings in Paris next week. The key to whether there will be a total bombing halt appears to lie in the attitude of North Vietnam's diplomats as that attitude unfolds. Some observers think there might conceivably be a tacit shrinking of the area in which U.S. bombers now are free to hit at North Vietnam's narrow panhandle the corridor through which supplies pass on their way to Communist By FRED S. HOFFMAN WASHINGTON (AP) The United States appears unlikely to halt all bombing of North Vietnam, at least until U.S.

diplomats can determine how seriously Hanoi is willing to bargain in the Paris talks. Pentagon officials refused to discuss the possibility of further bombing limitations or a total cessation in connection with the talks. But the recent thinking of top administration officials, as expressed publicly and privately, tends to discount the criminals." Meanwhile, the U.S. Army announced yesterday at Heidelberg. Germany, that an American soldier, reported absent without authority since March 11, voluntarily returned from Sweden and surrendered to U.S.

Army authorities. Headquarters of the U.S. Army, Europe, identified him as Pfc. Charles J. Schleeweiss 17, Dallas, Tex.

He was stationed with the 3rd Armored Division at Gelnhausen, Germany. Schleeweiss flew into Frankfurt Airport aboard a commercial airliner from Copenhagen. He is the 12th U.S. service-ma nto return from Scandinavia in recent months. Higher Rates To Start Monday At Western Union forces in South Vietnam.

In his March 31 speech launching the new initiative, President Johnson ordered bombing operations restricted to a region extending about 200 miles south of the 20th Parallel. This spared nearly 90 per cent of North Vietnam's population and about 75 per cent of its territory, including Hanoi and the port of Haiphong. Later, without announcement, U.S. bombers were limited to the region below the 19th Parallel, thus excluding another 60 or so miles from bombing. This has never been acknowledged officially.

High administration officials have told newsmen in recent days that a total bombing halt is possible if it appears that talks would proceed, that the North Vietnamese are serious about finding a way to end the hostilities and that Hanoi would not take advantage of a cessation. $800,000 Fire Started By Floodlight, Chief Says CINCINNATI (AP) Fire Chief Bert Lugannani said yesterday a floodlight touched off a fire causing an estimated $800,000 damage to the Friedman Furniture Warehouse Thursday night. Lugannani said heat from the light ignited a couch and flames spread throughout the heavily stocked building, destroying it. Arson was blamed at first. A 111.

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The previous deadline was last Dec. 31. The commission said the company has made some progress in speeding up telegram service and for this reason the deadline was being extended. Western Union's new tariff schedules, effective Monday, will increase: From 5 to 10 cents for telegrams filed by messenger or telephone. From 10 to 15 cents for collect telegrams.

10 per cent over-all on money orders. 10 per cent on telemeter (teleprinter with a per-character rate) charges. 42 to 43 per cent outside New York, San Francisco and Washington on registered code address service for international telegraph users. Western Union estimates the increases will result in $2.7 million more a year in company revenue. Live below your means.

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