The Courier-Journal from Louisville, Kentucky • Page 3

rPog In A 26 THE COURIER-JOIKNAL, WLDMSl) I I 5, 1972 North, South Korea agree to work for reunification Chess match delayed again in Iceland .1 1 I Continued From Page One meetings between Red Cross officials of the two countries last August aimed at reuniting some 10 million Korean families, separated by the peninsula's post-World War II division into two states and the subsequent Korean War. The' communique said the two sides have agreed to the following principles for reunification: It "shall be achieved through independent Korean efforts" without external interference. It shall be by peaceful means. A "great national unity shall be sought above all transcending differences in ideas, ideologies and systems." To achieve these goals, the two Koreas pledged to refrain from conducting propaganda campaigns against each other and to "take positive measures to prevent in-advertant military incidents." At a news conference in Seoul, Lee Hu Rak, a retired South Korean army major general who had served as South Korean President Park Chung Hee's secretary- general and ambassador to Japan before assuming his present post said he hoped the joint coordinating committee would be set up "as early as possible" to continue the North-South talks although specific details have yet to be agreed on." Lee said: "This is only the beginning. We have merely made mutual promises.

The important question we now face is how sincerely they will be implemented." Answering reporters questions on whether he trusted the North Koreans, he said: "We have to wait and see. They will have to be faithful to the agreement since not only the 50 million Korean people, but the entire world, are watching." Lee said the agreement did not mean the Seoul government had changed its policy of holding all-Korea elections under the supervision of the United Nations to unify the country. He said his government did not regard U.N. supervision as "outside interference." He said the proposed North-South exchanges would include "personnel, material, postal, social, political and other exchanges." He ruled out the possibility Associated Press HERE ARE the chairs, here is the table, but where are the players? This setting for the world chess championship in Iceland remains vacant while the Soviet titleholder, Boris Spassky, and American challenger, Bobby Fischer, try to iron out their differences by tomorrow when the match has been rescheduled. Continued From Page One Federation made any specific suggestions about just what kind of "punishment" they had in mind.

The federation, however, is demanding an --apology- from Fischer. Spassky said, however, that he would not leave Iceland and that "I still want to play the match if there is a solution." "I will make my decision in the next few days," he added. The 24-game match, which had been scheduled to start here Sunday, was postponed until yesterday by Dr. Max Euwe, president of the International Chess Federation, when it became clear that the American challenger would not show up in time. Euwe said at that time that Fischer would forfeit the match if he did not arrive by noon yesterday.

Fischer, ho left New York for Iceland Monday night after a British millionaire doubled the purse to $250,000, arrived with a little more than five hours to spare. He said nothing, slipped off to a nearby villa, went to sleep and has not yet made a public appearance. Federation head criticized If ruffled feelings can be smoothed and Fischer's entourage was hard at work yesterday apparently trying to do so the match could start tomorrow. But Euwe, who has been on the pessimistic side all along, said that the situation "is critical. "I don't know if the match will be played at all." Euwe, a tall, courtly, 71-year-old former world chess champion, also said he knew he was "following a correct middle course" because "first the Americans attacked me, and now the Russians." The Soviet delegation has charged Euwe with having committed procedural errors.

The Russians are also insisting that of a summit meeting in the near future between Park and Kim, by saying it is still premature and would take a number of steps before going that far. American officials compared the accord between Communist North Korea and the non-Communist South with rapprochement efforts between East and West Germany. Secretary- of State William P. Rogers publicly linked these problems last week by expressing the hope that the Soviet-American summit could "aid the transition to more normal relations" among countries divided by the Cold War. The Korean accord is in many ways a by-product of President Nixon's negotiations with China and the Soviet Union.

There ware indications that the President's visit to China shocked both Pyongyang and Seoul. Yet North Korea has achieved a degree of independence over the past few years, thanks mainly to its skillful manipulation of Sino-Soviet differences. At the same time, Pyongyang has displayed a new flexibility in dealing with the South. Premier Kim said in an interview with The Washington Post last month that he would be willing to meet with President Park of South Korea to seek ways to relax military tensions between the two countries. Kim also proposed a plan to demilitarize the buffer zone along the armistice line and reduce the armed forces of the North and South by up to 200,000 men.

Kim's proposal went beyond his previous peace offers and underlined North Korea's readiness to pursue a relaxation of tensions with Seoul, despite the continued presence of some 40,000 American troops in South Korea. Noting that yesterday's communique emphasized that North and South Korea intend to discuss their problems without outside interference, a Nixon administration official indicated that the most "constructive" thing the United Stales could do is "to give the parties that opportunity." Pyongyang's new flexibility is viewed by U.S. analysts as an effort to seek a new form of U.N. involvement in the Korean issue, to be accompanied by withdrawal of American troops from South Korea. Moreover, Pyongyang's conciliatory gestures may be designed to weaken U.S.

domestic support for continued American military presence in South Korea, while at the same time opening ways for economic cooperation with capitalist countries. S. Vietnamese re-enter Quang Tri, take 2 towns il 1 KtuivKaMMsJuia. tj, friendly basis. A meeting is scheduled for today, he said; and he hoped that all issues would then be satisfactorily resolved.

If they are, the match can start tomorrow. Several grandmasters, in discussing the Russian tactics, had varying opinions on the subject. One school of thought held that Spassky should have demanded a game last night, while Fischer was still in the process of adjusting his biological clock. Others said no, that Spassky was too angry to play his best game and should wait until he simmers down. Spassky, these experts said, is more of an attacking player than the precise Fischer, and in his eagerness to punish the American he might launch an unsound attack that would be suicidal.

general of both Ft. Campbell and the 101st in the late 1960s, and a special fondness on his part for the area has long been supposed. However, Sikes said in respose to reporters' questions that there has never been any suggestion in his subcommittee that Westmoreland's Ft. Campbell ties might have influenced the stationing of the 101st. On the Senate side, the military construction appropriations bill is also still in subcommittee.

At the Senate hearings on the legislation earlier this year, the feasibility of returning the 101st to Ft. Campbell as never questioned. The first funds for the three-phase $26 million airfield complex at Ft. Campbell were appropriated by Congress last year. At that time, the House cut the Army's Ft.

Campbell request by 20 per cent in order, it said, "to encourage the Army to make greater use of existing airfield facilities and to provide only those facilities which are absolutely necessary as a part of this (airfield) complex." The senate, however, restored the deleted funds. Money for the airfield's second phase is-included in the $13.8 million now being requested for Ft. Campbell for the new fiscal year beginning this month (July The $13.8 million includes $6.9 million for the airfield and the remainder for a bachelor officer quarters, a gym, commissary, and an arts and crafts center. mand added, and some civilians managed to escape to the capital. The command described the situation elsewhere in Cambodia as "much better." It said government troops were able to evacuate wounded from the Phnom Thmur Doh hilltop 18 miles south of Phnom Penh for the first time since fighting erupted there last Friday.

Casualties in the battles were given as at least 19 government troops killed and 37 wounded. Meanwhile, Agence France-Press reported that Nguyen Huu Tho, president of the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front, said the war could have been ended by President Nixon if he had responded "seriously" to the seven-point peace plan of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam. The White-House had no immediate comment on Tho's remarks. Return of the 101st Airborne Division to fort in Kentucky is questioned Preparation pays dividends for Madison Regatta crowd Continued From Page One ers. On Monday, 10 shells hit Hue and 27 landed in its outskirts.

In a series of clashes on the approaches to Hue, 49 North Vietnamese were reported killed when government troops claimed that 14 of their men had been wounded but none killed. Meanwhile, far to the south, the North Vietnamese continued shelling An Loe, which has been under fire for more than three months. Government troops said 182 shells hit the ruined town Monday. In another development, the government reported a series of clashes at the Cambodian border in the region known as the Parrot's Beak, about 50 miles west of Saigon. The spokesman said 123 of the enemy were killed, while South Vietnamese losses were 18 dead and 56 wounded.

Intelligence officers have been watching the Parrot's Beak area closely in the belief that this would be a likely place for the enemy to launch an attack on Saigon. In North Vietnam there were more than 270 attacks by fighter-bombers and four raids by B-52s. While the smaller planes roamed the country, the B-52s struck only in the southern panhandle. A Hanoi broadcast claimed U.S. war-planes, in several waves, bombed and strafed residential quarters in the North Vietnamese capital and on its outskirts at noon yesterday.

The official Vietnam News Agency said North Vietnamese armed forces in Hanoi and Ninh Binh Province shot down two U.S. F-4 fighter-bombers. In a delayed report, three U.S. Navy destroyers operating off North Vietnam said they sighted some barges transporting supplies from freighters that unloaded offshore Friday night. The naval ships opened fire and reported they destroyed or damaged five barges.

The North Vietnamese have been reported using barges to circumvent the U.S. mining of their harbors that has prevented supply ships from entering port. In Cambodia, the U.S. command reported five government fighter-bombers hit enemy positions yesterday near the town of Angtassom, 40 miles south of Phnom Penh. Cambodian reinforcements penetrated the town Monday, the com Continued From Page One rain on the eastern United States that the Ohio River swelled last week.

One of minor footnotes to the storm was postponement of the Madison Regatta from the weekend to yesterday because of driftwood and debris brought by high water. And the weather for spectators woud have been all right Saturday and Sunday. "It's been difficult to reschedule everything," Mrs. Burress said. "All the volunteer people had to cancel plans for the holiday and everything." The regatta has been a community project for the river town of 13.000.

Mrs. Burress is the only paid worker for the event. The rest of the regatta is a volunteer show that needs 23 standing committees and a budget of more than $50,000 to operate. "The whole point of this is to have enough to pay prize money, meet expenses and have enough left over to get ready for next year," she said. State police last year estimated that Continued From Page One directed its investigative staff to determine what alternate facilities might he available for the 101st elsewhere.

The subsequent "secret" report was "sanitized" and made public late in May. (The unofficial "Army Times" first publicized the findings.) Basically the study found that the Army's Hunter-Stewart complex composed of the Hunter Army Airfield and Ft. Stewart, near Savannah, Ga. already has all the airfield facilities the 101st needs. Expenditure of the some $26 million would be unnecessary there, it said.

What's more, Hunter-Stewart satisfies Army acreage requirements for weapons-firing and manuevering areas, while Ft. Campbell does not. In fact, according to the report, Ft. Campbell has had to lease 50,000 adjacent acres for past exercises. The report concedes that Hunter-Stewart's drawback is a severe housing shortage.

A large and immediate expenditure would be required to rectify that situation, and the report suggests this is why the Georgia installation may not have been chosen. Rut the report notes that money also will have to be spent on enlarging and upgrading Ft. Campbell's living facilities. In fact, it says, $44.5 million in construction expenditures principally barracks are programmed for Ft. Campbell over and above the $26 million for the airfield itself.

Of the more than $70 million expected to be spent at Ft. Campbell in the next several years, the report states that "at least a major part" or almost half of it would not be necessary at Hunter-Stewart. The report also claims it is "highly probable" that "an equal facility could be obtained at Ft. Benning (Ga.) with an expenditure of less money than is sought for Ft. Campbell." In March, before the House subcommittee on military construction appropriations, Army personnel were quizzed on their criteria for selecting Ft.

Campbell. Their response principally was that building the necessary housing and ad the match formally began with the opening ceremony Saturday night in the national theater here. The Americans say the match will begin only when the first move is made in the Sports Hall. Arriving with Fischer yesterday were the Rev. William Lombardy anil Paul Marshall.

Father Lombardy, a Catholic priest and an international grandmaster in chess, will act as Fischer's second. Marshall is Fischer's attorney. Both disappeared into a scries of conferences with the Russians to discuss grievances outlined by Spassky in a message to the American group. Father Lombardy said at an evening news conference that negotiations, though delicate, are proceeding on a ministrative facilities at other possible installations would be more expensive than building airfield facilities at Ft. Campbell.

In a formal written reply to the committee's investigative report, the Army criticized it for considering only "a limited number" of the factors connected with the stationing of the 101st. The Army contended that "in the long term it (Ft. Campbell) can be fully developed as an airmobile division post for about $50 million less than the nearest competitor." The reply admitted that the Kentucky facility "has certain limitations," but no installation can meet all the desired criteria, it added. The reply also contended that the Army has long planned for Ft. Campbell to be a division home and that construction there has been carried out with that use in mind.

Kentucky Sen. Marlow W. Cook, a supporter of Ft. Campbell in Congress, considers the stationing of the 101st there to be neither a waste nor an error in judgment, according to an aide. The aide said Cook feels the House investigation was superficial.

An aide to Kentucky's 1st District Rep. Frank Stubblefield, in whose district Ft. Campbell lies, said the congressman would he inclined to accept the Army's findings over those of the investigators. What all this means for the future of Ft. Campbell is unclear.

The military construction appropriations bill still is in the House subcommittee, and subcommittee chairman Robert Sikes, said this week he has not yet come to any conclusion on the question. Sikes said he hopes to visit Ft. Campbell soon for a first-hand look. "We're just trying to determine the Army's justification," Sikes told a reporter. "We're just trying to get the facts.

We have no preconceived opinion." Asked if his subcommittee might now try to uproot the 101st. Sikes indicated it would not. "We would never attempt to tell the Army where to put a major unit." he said. Just-rctircd Armv Chief of Staff William C. Westmoreland was commanding 101st choppers would be an unsettling influence on the LBL's wildlife management program, playinr havoc with such thinns as neting habits as well as being a nuisance to tourists.

After a meeting between Ft. Campbell and LBL officials, however, the Army post apparently restricted its aircraft from flying over the facility. LBL personnel say they haven't seen a trace of a helicopter in recent months. Now because. of "operational commitments." Ft.

Campbell is considering relaxing its flight ban so it would apply-only up to the altitude level. Above that, the helicopters would be allowed to fly when necessary for an "operational mission." C. S. Kincaid. chief of the LBL's resource management section, said last week he did not know what the LBL reaction to a 2.50foot restriction would be.

There would have to he a technical study to determine yjX what effect f.iL'hts above that altitude would have on th different potions of LBL, he aid. Bflriin that lA.u officials would he tuppy to "sit down and talk about it" the Army. Both the Armv and TVA aree that only the Federal Aviation Administration legally has tne power to restrict air spate, and that the arranremrnts worked out between LEL and Ft. Campbell so far have been purely on a voluntary, cooperative basis. about 100,000 spectators saw the hydroplane races.

A police spokesman said yesterday that a helicopter used in making traffic counts was not in the air and that there would be no way of having a good estimate. One observer who had attended the event for several years placed the crowd at 50,000. Obviously, the weekend cancellation, the weather and cutting off one day of racing held the crowd down. "Still, we're very pleased with the size of the crowd everything considered," Mrs. Burress said.

There was enough of a turnout to crowd Vaughn Drive along the riverfront, where fans paraded by with an array of caps, coolers, binoculars and folding chairs. They formed long lines to buy food and use the portable restrooms. But someone selling rain gear probably would have done the most business. As one local resident said to a friend, "You could make a bundle of money with an armload of umbrellas down there." OUR SNAPPED-UP PANTSUITS And they ore in more ways than one: snapped up because of their zingy contrast stitching; because Butte Knit tailored them for us in carefree polyester knit: because they're for easy living from now through fall, left: shirt-top with raglan shoulders, side slits, whte collar over fiare-y pants. In navy, red or green, $48.

Right: front zipped shirt-top sharpened with huge pockets over flare-y pants. In red, purple or black. $52. Sizes 8-18. voung moderns 9 P.M.

Army and TVA discuss noise of 101st helicopters The Courier-Journal Times Bureeu WASHINGTON Ft. Campbell authorities have been cooperating with the Tennessee Valley Authority to prevent Army helicopter noie from disturbing wildlife and campers in the TVA's and Between the Lakes area of Western Kentucky and Tennessee. When the 101st Airborne Division (Airmobile) returned to Ft. Campbell from Vietnam earlier this year, TVA officials suspected the airspace above the nearby Land Between the Lakes LBL) area would be a likely choice for practice operations. The LBL's 170.000 unpopulated acres support deer, wild turkeys, buffalo, birds and water fowl, not to mention some 1.7 million visitors annually.

The fear was that the drone of the OMBUDSMAN If you have a question or cofplairt regarding news coverage please contact our Orrbjchrran's ol'ice btt-cen 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., A'onday tKrouoh Friday. We estabied te to help 'yc-U with problems reaj.r'irg t- attention cf cry tcD rr3ocaerTer-t of The Courier Journal. Cell 582-4600 or write The Courier-Journal, K'y. JULY STORE HOURS DOWNTOWN DAILY 10 A.M.-5:30 P.M., OXMOOR DAILY, 10 A.M..