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yh Places 2 Poughkeapile Journol Sunday, Juno 17, 1973 jit noon iMiHuisuu 4 IX 1 1' Austin, Texas. Postmaster Carl Ilobbs announced Saturday an 8 cent postage stamp In memory of former President Lyndon B. Johnson will be issued Aug. 27, the 65th anniversary of his birth. UPI TaUphoto Here Comes Leonid Who? THURMONT, Md.

(AP) In contrast to the official commotion over Leonid Brezhnev's visit, there was' an air of studied indifference Saturday amongresi dents of this town of 2,500. Leonid who?" responded one man when asked what he thought about the Soviet leader's scheduled visit to nearby Camp Having' Brezhnev as a weekend neighbor seemed to have, no impact at all on the dialogue among patrons at a North Main Street bar. "It's still the usual bar tallc women and taxes," said'one. patterh.of indifference was broken only by Buck proprietor of a downtown gas': station, who became visibly angry when' asked to comment'on Brezhnev. "I am not a lover of Russians," said Lewis, "They better stay on that mountain at Camp David ndt come down here, otherwise there might be trouble." jyTwMriw.Jt.m'lWWiy.wrJAiillllIMlMlilM mmJL anil IKJM YIH "KJMi David Sees Vindication (By The Associated Press) President Nixon's son in law, David Eisenhower, said Saturday that once "all the allegations are put.

to rest and we have the facts on the table" about the Watergate affair the President will be vindicated in the eyes of the American people. "I think the people are going to move on to new things and they'll be ready to accept Richard Nixon's leadership as they voted in 1972," he added. Eisenhower, who recently joined the staff of the PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia Bulletin as a sports columnist, was here to accept the New Jersey Order of Do Molay's "man of the year" award on De Molay is a Masonic group of young men. Elsenhower, who is married to Nixon's, younger daughter, Julie, said in an interview following the award ceremony that the Watergate issue was not simple matter of right and wrong. He break in and bugging of the Democratic National Headquarters and the disclosures that followed It had to be viewed against the background of the student revolt of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

'Eisenhower said that 'convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy "took demands that Middle America stand up and fight back quite literally. think these are the seeds of the current difficulties we are said. "People unfortunately didn't have judgment to realize that America, being as strong as it is, would survive the dark night of the student from 1968 to 1971." Astronauts Tune Up SPACE CENTER, Houston (AP) Skylabl's nine mlllionmile space veterans crawled back into their command ship on Saturday to practice for their return to earth. Astronauts Charles Conrad Dr.

Joseph P. Kerwin and Paul J. Weitz boarded the command ship, attached to the 118foot long Skylab space station, and tuned up their flying skills for re entry and splashdown on Mfssion Control experts participated in what officials said was essentially a ''switch touching" procedure. "This was the first in flight practice of re entry," said an official. The switches will be thrown for real on Fridayas'the astronauts undock the command ship from Skylab and 'splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, about 700" miles south west of San Diego.

During the rehearsal, a flare exploded on the sun for the second day in a row, but the powerful solar telescope on Skylab 'missed photographing it. The flare started while Skylab was on the opposite side of the earth from the sun and when the solar disc came back into view the flare was declining. The. astronauts made man's first photographs from space of a solafflare on Friday. Scientists said the pic tures are "very significant" in the study of solar physics and may help man learn about the natural nuclear fusion occurring on the sun.

Ted In '76? Wait Till '74 BOSTON (AP) Sen. 'concerning the i976 presi Edward M. Kennedy says dential race "after the 1974 he'll announce his intentions congressional elections." The Massachusetts Demo crat, whose current term in the Senate runs to 1974, was quoted in a copyright article Jn the Sunday Herald Advertiser as saying, "Right now I have no plans for 1976. "I will continue to serve in. the' However, I realize there is considerable speculation about my possii ble candidacy.

RUSSIAN JEWS Klril Khenkln described himself as "just a plain, crushed Jew." He shook his head wearily in Moscow where he lives over the assertion by Leonid I. Brezhnev that there Is no Jewish problem in Russia. Ills feelings are like other' Jews in Russia. Story' page 18A. Price Freeze President Nixon's latest price freeze Is going to hurt some' of Dutchess County's small businesses severely, but others will not feel the' Impact, a ran dom survey indicates.

Story page 4. Gunman Killed A gunman was fatally wounded Saturday in Berkeley, after he killed 4 year old girl in her bed and shot a policeman to death, police said. Story page 10. tv 11 News In Briefi A The Nation's Weather By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Waves of tornado breeding thunderstorms hit parts of the midcontinent Saturday, bringing rapid fire alerts from the National Weather Service. The storms formed from clashes of humid, hot air masses with a cold system and then moved from western Texas to the upper.

Mississippi Valley and western Great Lakes region. Severe' thunderstorms struck parts of central and northeastern Oklahoma, southeastern Kansas, western and northern Missouri, eastern and southern Iowa, southwestern Wisconsin and northern Illinois. Tornado watches or warnings were common in northern Illinois, including the Chicago area. A small twister touched down in Harvard near the Wisconsin border and damaged several parked aircraft. Heavy rain, hail and lightning accompanied the storms.

A 13 year old youth and a 30year old man were killed by lightning bolts in the Chicago area. Afternoon temperatures ranged from 46 at Duluth, to 96 at Cotulla, Tex. MATIOMM WtiTHIt UtVKt KtttCUT to7NIU rl 7 WO C77 R33 277 AMfmmcwco, Jintn A ynjnPi'figt i mill nmnunutL WJi LjtvV 'irteaveBSflSf. VrMtOtHO i on wt Aim kxocmi Forecast Lower Hudson Valley: Variable cloudiness today through Monday. Highs today and.

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The sound of bomb explosions and Phnom Penh might herald the re the clock here, seemed to be closer to Phnom Penh Saturday than before. A four mile stretch of Highway Four, one of Phnom Penh's, main supply routes, was still held, by Red Khmer and North Vietnamese forces, after 11 days, in spite of daily bombing attacks by U.S. planesand the dispatch of government troop reinforcements. The section was 14 miles from the capital. Clashes were reported at each end of the section, particularly at Bek Chan.JJ miles from Phnom Penh.

Government troops were forced to withdraw Friday from Prey on Highway Three IS miles southwest of Phnom Penh, after a siege of several days by anti government forces: Saigon Claims 108 Cease fire Violations SAIGON Particularly heavy fighting in the Mekong Delta area and clashes in other parts of the country have already caused 119 deaths in 108 violations of the new cease fire, a South Vietnamese nigh command spokesman announced Saturday. He said the "Communist" violations in the 24' hours since, the new cease fire went into effect at noon, Friday, local time, caused the deaths, of eight civilians and 37 government soldiers. In the period of the "First" cease fire, which started last Jan. 28, the Saigon authorities reported almost 17,000 violations by their opponents, and 30,000 military and civilian deaths. The heaviest clashes during the past 24 hours were apparently in the delta province of Chuong Thlen, where Communist artillery shelled 19 government positions.

2 U.S. Jets Collide In Cambodia HONOLULU (AP) Two U.S. Air Force Fill aircraft collided over Cambodia on Saturday and one of the swing wing jets 'crashed, the U.S. Pacific Military Command reported. The two crewmen of the Fill which crashed ejected and were rescued uninjured.

The other aircraft landed safely, the command said. The crash occurred about 30 miles northwest of Phnom Penh: The plane was the seventh American aircraft lost over Cambodia since the Vietnam cease fire. The command also reported that U.S. aircraft, including B52s, continued operations over Cambodia on Saturday, at, the request of the Cambodian government. It was the 102nd straight day that the heavy bombers have been operating over Cambodia, but as usual, the, command declined any further de tails on Saturday's operations.

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