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Early Edition A 11 THE COURIER- JOURNAL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1973 Can In Tam government last without U.S. bombs? Continued From Page One January Vietnam peace agreement, had slowed but not stopped advances on Phnom Penh by Communist-led insurgents. U.S. bombing errors in the final weeks of intensive attacks also killed scores of civilians and government ur troops. The last American raids included continual strikes around Phnom Penh's perimeter.

An estimated 4,000 insurgents are massed for an attack west of the capital's international airport. The fate of the capital of about 2 million, including thousands of refugees, is open to speculation. The antigovernment forces loosely surround Phnom Penh and control 80 per cent or so of the country militarily. Premier In Tam of Cambodia vowed his government would "fight along with the people until the final victory, both militarily and politically." In Tam denies he will resign He said in an interview that, despite the bombing cutoff, "our American friends are still providing us with more materiel to modernize our army. The situation here is very much improved and there is nothing for us to be worried about.

The other side has suffered heavy losses by bombing over the past few weeks." Rumors circulated that In Tam would resign from the post he has held since mid. May. He denied any such plans. fighting will not be over right away, but no one expects today to the immediate collapse of the Cambodian government. And the tactical situation now that the insurgents lessened their pressure around the is better citave now than it was a few days ago.

The current uncertainty could drag on Price boosts are announced by 3 big firms Continued From Page One to 87,000. The department's usually accurate slaughter estimates have been less on target for the past two weeks, mainly, industry experts say, because of chaos in the cattle markets resulting from the prolonged price freeze. "Read it and weep," Dunlop told newsmen as he showed them a report on how these prices have gone up this year, affecting the cost of such basics as food, clothing and consumer goods. Wheat export curbs hinted One council official said there may be need to impose controls on exports of some kinds of wheat, a move that the Agriculture Department strongly opposes. Whate sold in Minneapolis yesterday at $5.07 per bushel for September delivery, the first time that wheat has traded at over $5 in the nation's history.

Dunlop said rising commodity prices, which are not controlled, pose a dilemma for Phase 4. Another council official, Dawson Ahalt, told newsmen the country faces a "tight" supply situation in providing enough grains to meet both domestic demand and export needs. "We are short on some particular kinds of wheat, such as durum," said Ahalt, who is deputy director of the office of economic policy. Durum wheat is the primary ingredient in macaroni products. Asked if the administration might consider export controls on wheat, Ahalt said, "That's right." Treasury Department officials yesterday indicated that the administration is on the verge of cutting off special tax breaks for exports of soybeans and other foodstuffs in short supply.

Market basket prices up Meanwhile, the Associated Press released the results of its marketbasket survey for the first two weeks of August. It showed that eggs and pork, which started climbing when some controls on food were lifted in the middle of last month, continued to soar. Dollar eggs, once the impossible nightmare, were a reality on supermarket shelves. The AP checked the prices of 15 food and nonfood items in 13 cities on March 1 and has rechecked at the beginning of each succeeding month, with special surveys to reflect major economic develop. ments.

On Monday, the day that Phase 4 took effect, the AP made another check. Only 12 cities were used because in Providence, R.I., the 13th city on the survey list, the stores were closed due to a state holiday in honor of VJ Day. The AP found that 22 per cent of the total number of items checked in the 12 cities increased in price between July 31 and Aug. 13. Another 8 per cent decreased in price; 57 per cent were unchanged; and 13 per cent were unavailable on one of the two survey dates.

The total marketbasket bill in the AP survey was up in nine of the 12 cities checked. Decreases were due to special sales on one particular item, rather than general declines. 'Invincible' showman is hurt NAKANOJO, Japan (AP)-Saburo Shinoda, 24, known as the invincible "Ultraman Taro" to fans of his children's television show, was hospitalized after a bus smashed into a wall while carrying him to a filming site. OMBUDSMAN If you have a question or complaint regarding news coverage please contact our Ombudsman's office between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.

We established the office to help you with problems requiring the attention of any top management personnel of The Courier Journal. Call. 582-4600 or write Ombudsman, The Courier- Journal, Louisville, Ky. 40202 for weeks and months, but the long run prognosis for the survival of the present government remains gloomy. The pros and cons of the massive American bombing that has taken place here in the last months will be argued for years.

It is generally agreed that the bombing did bunt the present offensive and that it killed many insurgent soldiers. But it also killed thousands of civilians and wrecked the village economy in wide areas of Cambodia, and in the end it took on a kind of havee to-destroy-Cambodia-to-save-it we aura. will It is also generally agreed, even among the Americans here, that the bombing had its counterproductive side in that the Cambodian forces came to rely on it too much. Bombing can, never take the place of good troops on ground, and a high American official was heard to say recently that he would have traded the bombing for 500 American advisers in the field. Government's popularity declines The rationale for the bombing has been that the United States had to respond with violence to North Vietnam's failure to observe the terms of the Paris agreement.

But no Cambodian ever signed anything in Paris. And although there are North Vietnamese troops in Cambodia, Hanoi's "Khmerization" program, as one Cambodian put it, has been a success. Today the war is largely being fought between Cambodians on both sides. The Americans sought by the bombto keep a friendly regime in power in Phnom Penh. But during the last months the government's popularity has steadily declined.

On the eve of the bombing halt, life in Phnom Penh was undisturbed. Shoppers and commuters jammed the streets. The residents could hear the thuds of bombs from U.S. fighter-bombers and the explosions of the B-52s' bombs that sounded like barrels rolling off a roof. American air strikes increased in the final weeks of the bombing.

By the Penwere averaging missions daily tagon's count, fighter bombers and B-52s toward the end of the bombing. The United States will continue to fly reconnaissance missions and cargo missions in Cambodia, Pentagon sources said. Some of the U.S. warplanes based in Thailand will remain there as a deterrent to new offensives by North Vietnam in Indochina or against Thailand. The United States will start pulling some of its 660 planes and 45,000 servicemen out of Thailand in about a month, sources indicated.

Halt is good news to some To some Phnom Penh residents, the bombing halt came as good news. Mrs. Van Ny, a 30-year-old widow who opened a shop near the central market two years ago after moving here from the countryside, reflected the attitude of some Phnom' Penh residents. "It's better for them to stop bombing," she said. "My house was destroyed by bombs.

The Khmer Rouge were hidden in the village. They shot at government troops when they had an operation to clear the area. I can't blame anyone. But it was a total loss for us. Nothing was left." The Khmen Rouge are an element of the U.S.-backed Cambodian Communist fighting against The report from informed source in Saigon that South Vietnam has flown soldiers of Cambodian descent to Phnom Penh said the troops numbered fewer than 10,000.

It was not clear if the troops reported airlifted to the Cambodian capital were still members of the South Vietnamese armed forces or if they had been re-enlisted in the Cambodian army. Neither Cambodia nor South Vietnam has announced any agreement. to use South Vietnamese soldiers in Cambodia. The sources said the ethnic Cambodians sent to Phnom Penh were drawn from regular military units and groups of civilians with military training. Under South Vietnamese law, the 2 million ethnic Cambodians living in South Vietnam are considered South Vietnamese citizens.

In Washington, Ambassador Ardeshir Zahdi of Iran announced that his country has been accepted to replace Canada on the International Commission of Control and Supervision in Vietnam. The other members are Hungary, Poland and Indonesia. Canada pulled out last month, citing its conviction that the cease-fire could not be adequately supervised under the conditions created by continued conflict between the Viet Cong and the South Vietnamese government. HERBERT McCalahan, right, tells flooding problem in Northern pearance at the Covington-Kenton will take his temporary office to Helen Price, Ford's executive secretary, Staff Photo by Mike Brown Gov. Wendell H.

Ford about a Kentucky yesterday during Ford's apCounty Municipal Building. Ford Alexandria this morning. At left, Mrs. takes notes. Ford takes his office to Florence, Covington Continued From Page One tucky Colonel of S.

E. Fortner, who just retired from the bureau after 37 years. About two dozen workers from the local Economic Security Office in Covington were there, too. One, Miss Virginia Mitchell, said they had been told they had to come. Mrs.

Huecker said that was the result of a misunderstanding, and told all to leave who wanted to. Others came out of curiosity. "We just wanted to see the governor," explained Mrs. Jean Marshall of Covington. "We've never seen one." Her three children--David, 12; Lisa, 11, and Janet, 8-were engulfed in earto-ear smiles as they left with autographed pictures of the governor's mansion grasped firmly in their hands.

Covington City manager Paul H. Royster and a delegation of local officials had other requests in mind. They presented Ford with an agenda of projects where state aid would be appreciated, including construction of a railroad-track underpass at 43rd Street and designation of the old Linden Grove Cemetery as a Kentucky historical shrine. Ford talked to the group for about 15 minutes, making no firm commitments but complimenting Northern Kentucky counties and communities on working together to improve the region. One of the most impressed by his face- No funds, no interest closes Brandeis center for study of violence WALTHAM, Mass.

(AP) Brandeis University's Lemberg Center for the Study of Violence will close at the end of this year because of a lack of funds and declining interest, school officials say. Dr. Marver Bernstein, Brandeis president, said a decline in funding from foundations and other sources has put a squeeze on the entire university. He said financial resources would be concerttrated on undergraduate and graduate programs. Dr.

John P. Spiegel, the center's director, cited a sharp drop in the number of lecture requests as an example of the declining interest. "There was a time when I had to say 'no' every day" to requests to speak, he said. The center, which opened in 1966 after an outbreak of racial disturbances in the nation's cities, is now finishing up its last study, an analysis of violence and violence-prevention measures used last summer in Miami Beach during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. President Nixon readies Watergate rebuttal Continued From Page One er, the President, (H.

Haldeman and (John) Ehrlichman commenced to protect themselves against the unraveling of the coverup." Dean's testimony is not alone in contradicting presidential statements of April 30 and May 22. Assistant Atty. Gen. Henry E. Petersen testified that he warned the President on April 15 that Haldeman, then Mr.

Nixon's chief of staff, might be indicted. Petersen said he urged the President to dismiss both Haldeman and Ehrlichman and to retain Dean, who was cooperating with federal prosecutors. Instead of firing Haldeman, the President turned over to him the tape recording of the March 21 meeting in which Dean said he warned Mr. Nixon about Watergate consequences. Two weeks later the President unceremoniously fired Dean and accepted the resignations of Haldeman and Ehrlichman, whom he described as "two of the finest public servants it has been my privilege to know." Former acting FBI Director L.

Patrick Gray also testified that he warned the President that Watergate might lead higher as early as July 6, 1972. Dean testified that he warned the President about the cover-up on Sept. 15, a contention that Mr. Nixon is expected to deny specifically tonight. The taped recording of that Sept.

15 meeting is one that is sought both by the Senate Watergate Committee and Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Mr. Nixon has refused to make this and other tapes and documents available on constitutional grounds, and the issue is before the courts. The President is expected to reiterate tonight his argument that the constitutional separation of powers entitles him ti withhold the tapes from the Congress and from Cox. Mr.

Nixon has worked with a close circle of advisers including chief of staff Alexander Haig, speechwriter Raymond Price and press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler in preparing his speech. The preparation of his accompanying paper, considered a more legalistic defense of his position, has been under the supervision of acting White house counsel Leonard Garment and J. Fred Buzhardt, special consultant to the President. According to various indications from White House aides, the President has followed his usual custom of spending several hours alone in reworking key passages of his speech.

Some aides said that Mr. Nixon hopes to "turn the corner on Watergate" and regards the speech as one way of doing this. The President also plans an increased number of public appearances in an effort to demonstrate that his administration is not paralyzed by Watergate. Next Monday the President will address the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in New Orleans and proceed from there to California for what is expected to be a two-week stay. special prosecutor Archibald Cox.

to be a two-week stay. Agnew to let prosecutors examine financial records Continued From Page One News reported yesterday that John Hocheder vice president of George William Stephens Jr. Associates, a firm with offices in Towson and Bel Air, is considered a "prime witness" in the probe. (Hocheder, at least the sixth consulto be named in connection with the probe, confirmed in a telephone interview with The Star-News that he "talked a little" to Beall's investigators in January, shortly after the kickback inquiry got under way. He said he has not testified before the grand jury.

(According to the sources, Hocheder is understood to be negotiating with the prosecutors for immunity from prosecution in return for his testimony, The Star-News reported. (The U.S. attorney's office refused to say whether Hocheder had been questioned or subpoenaed. Nor would it say how he figures in the investigation. (Sources said, however, that Hocheder gave information about alleged contract kickbacks in Baltimore County to agents of an Internal Revenue Service "strike force" about a month before the kickback investigation started.

The agents passed the information along to the federal prosecutors, the sources told The Star-News.) Agnew has maintained innocence Investigators in the case reportedly are spurring their efforts to avoid having the statute of limitations expire on some of the suspected violations. Tax fraud violations may not be prosecuted more than six years after they have occurred; the limitation on other alleged offenses under investigation is five years. Agnew was county executive of Baltimore County, where the investigation has concentrated, from 1963 to 1966, and governor of Maryland in 1967 and 1968 before his election to the vice presidency. The investigators are looking into allegations of offenses committed not only while Agnew was a Maryland official but also during his vice presidency. The vice president has maintained his innocence since the investigation was disclosed.

Last week in a nationally televised press conference he denounced published reports that he had received kickbacks as "damned lies." At the time, though, Agnew said he wanted to confer with his lawyers before deciding whether to comply with Beall's request for his bank records, income tax returns and other material. Talk of resignation denied Beall, whose brother i is Sen. J. Glenn Beall, had asked for the records to be brought to his office in Baltimore. But Agnew's response, delivered to Beall by Agnew's lawyers and made public by the vice president's office, proposed instead that Beall or his assistants inspect the records at Agnew's offices.

Agnew said he had instructed his staff to give Beall "the fullest cooperation," including making copies of any of his records. Beall had no immediate comment on Agnew's letter. Disclosure of the investigation Agnew had stirred speculation about friction between the President and the vice president over how the vice president should handle the matter. White House Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren yesterday denied reports a that the President had tried to persuade Agnew not to turn over his records or not to hold a press conference to answer the charges. Warren also denied that there had been any discussion by the president and vice president of Agnew's resignation.

Warren said the fact that Agnew is figuring in the investigation "does not diminish or change the President's confidence in the vice president." White House lawyers and Agnew's attorney's had discussed the letter from Beall to Agnew, Warren said. But he added that this discussion was strictly "informational" and did not cover any constitutional issues raised by Beall's letter. The White House and Atty. Gen. Elliot L.

Richardson have been in touch about the case since sometime after Agnew notified the White House last May that he might possibly involved in the investigation, Warren said. The President had discussed the case with Richardson last week, Warren said. But he added that Mr. Nixon was not intervening in the case and wanted the investigators to take "all appropriate steps." Warren said White House lawyers had not been consulted on the vice president's letter to Beall. to-face meeting with Ford was Bernie Beck, a law-school student from Covington.

Said Beck after talking to the governor about insurance, merger of city and county governments, and the possibilities of government employment: "He told me straight out what he thought. The man's got my vote." Appalachia hospitals re-elect 2 trustees LEXINGTON, Ky. (AP) -Two West Virginia bankers have been re-elected to the board of trustees of Appalachian Regional Hospitals (ARH). Chosen at a recent meeting of the nonprofit health system were J. Brooks Lawson Williamson attorney and president of the Frist National Bank there, and James H.

Harless of Gilbert. president of oPashe Coal Co. and president Gilbert Bank and Trust Co. Lawson was first named to the board in August 1964, Harless in March 1968. ARH has two hospitals in West Virgiania and eight others in Kentucky and Virginia.

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George Wiley PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) Funeral services are scheduled tomorrow in Providence for Dr. George W. Wiley, 42, founder of the national welfare rights movement. Wiley, a former Rhode Island resident, drowned last Wednesday in a boating accident in Chesapeake Bay off the Maryland shore.

Survivors include his wife, Wretha, a son, Daniel, and a daughter, Maya Devi Wiley. Paducah is on itinerary for TVA rate hearings KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) The Tennessee Valley Authority announced yesterday that it will hold regular quarterly public meetings in six Tennessee Valley cities for discussion of its power rates. The first in the series of meetings will be held in September in Paducah, Nashville, Knoxville and Jackson, Muscle Shoals, and Tupelo, Miss. No dates were announced..