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Details, Page B-7. Phoenix, Arizona, Thursday, May 1, 1975 85th Year, No. 350 Circulation 271-8381 Classified 271-9111 Other 271-8000 (Eight Sections, 122 Pages) 11 letter iet to in mm. aA Meds vowed. to re pel.

ed early in April that Thieu was privately assured that Nixon was committed to renewed American military intervention if Hanoi violated the Paris accords. Jackson said Hung's revelation "sim- ply corroborates the need for a full disclosure." The Jan. 5 letter ended with this paragraph: "Should you decide, as I trust you will, to go with us, you have my assurance of continued assistance in the postsettlement period and that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam." These latters were the first full disclosure of the private assurances Nixon gave Thieu in return for the Saigon leader's agreement to sign the Paris accords on Jan. 17, 1973. Sen.

Henry Jackson, charg- was South Vietnam's minister of planning until Thieu's government dissolved last week. The White House acknowledged later that the letters were genuine "as far as we can determine." However, press secretary Ron Nessen repeated Ford administration assertions that "nothing was promised to Thieu in private that wasn't said out loud." The letters implored and threatened Thieu in an effort to get him to sign the agreement then being negotiated in Paris. Associated Press WASHINGTON President Nixon promised South Vietnamese officials in January 1973 that the United States would use "full force" to punish any Hanoi violations of a peace agreement. The pledge was made in a letter Nixon sent Jan. 5, 1973, to South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu.

Copies of that letter and one dated Nov. 14, 1973, were given to newsmen Wednesday by Nguyen Tier. Hung, an American educated economist whd He said administration officials would be called to testify in Congress on the obligations undertaken by the United States, to obtain Thieu's signature to the peace agreements. Continued on Page A-18 Cost to settle refugees put at $500 million $65 million project. in Europe Bomb shelters too small for new jets struction was angered.

"The Air Force assured us four years ago that there would be plenty of room for the F15," the spokesman said. The new shelters will cost about $500,000 each for the A10, compared to the average $135,000 for the recently completed shelters. Interviews here and other reports suggest the Air Force has misled Congress about problems encountered in modification of shelters to handle the twin-tailed F15. Maj. Gen.

Billie J. McGarvey, director of civil engineering for the Air Force, denied last year that the shelters would need modification for the F15. In testimony before the subcommittee, he said the blastproof doors would have to be changed to permit entry by the F15. But other Air Force officials said the entrance would have to be enlarged at the top to permit clearance for the F15 tail. "Somewhere along the.

line, the F15 tail grew eight inches higher than we designed these shelters," Col. Robert M. lten, the civil engineer at Ramstein, said. Continued on Page A-3 Newsday RAMSTEIN, West Germany Good news from U.S. Air Force headquarters here: The Air Force has just completed a $65 million program to provide bombproof shelters for tactical aircraft in Europe.

Now the bad news: The 350 concrete-and-steel bunkers are too small for the Air Force's new frontline jets, the Fairchild and the McDonnell Douglas F15. One result is that a whole new generation of shelters will have to be built by the Air Force for $54 million more to house the wide-winged A10. Another result is that the Air Force will probably have to spend more than $30,000 on each shelter to modify them to permit the F15 to squeeze in with only inches to spare. The shelters are scattered around Germany; there are similar ones in Korea. Although, they were designed for the F4 fighter-bomber, the shelters were designed and built after the Air Force was aware of the F15 Informed of the problems, a spokesman for the House Appropriations subcommittee on military con Associated Prtsi Sale but shaken Associated Press WASHINGTON Congress will be asked for funds to care for up to 70,000 1 refugees from Indochina, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said Wednesday.

Elsewhere, assistant Secretary of State Philip Habib said it probably will cost the United States $500 million over a year to resettle the Vietnamese refugees. Kissinger mentioned no costs when he talked with reporters after a closed-door session with a House Appropriations subcommittee. "We will be submitting a request to the Congress," he said. "We consider we have a moral obligation to tens of thousands of people who worked with us, relying on us, for 15. years.

We are positive the American people will fulfill that obligation." Later, Thomas Morgan, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, said he would submit a $327 million aid request to Congress if President Ford still wants it. He and Rep. William Broomfield of Michigan, the ranking Republican, said the measure might be voted on because the money is needed, not because it provides after the fact authority for the evacuation. "There's an urgency here for this money," Broomfield said. "We've got to get it though." The Senate had approved the aid request but the House held up action when the evacuation was completed.

It is still expected to have difficulty in the House. White House press secretary Ron U.S. Marine helicopter crewmen carry weeping Vietnamese children after the helicopter that brought them to the USS Blue Ridge off the coast of South Vietnam crashed on deck. No one was injured. A number of helicopters were pushed or flown into the sea to make room on deck as the last evacuees from South Vietnam were airlifted to safety.

Ford delays oil-tariff hike but plans to end controls Statewide jury may hinge on poll of county attorneys Bond voters reject 'frills' but OK basics By DON BOLLES Associated Press Arizona's 14 county attorneys were being polled Wednesday to see if they would accept amendments restricting the scope of the proposed statewide grand jury. Sponsors of the key anticrime bill said their response could decide the success or failure of the measure on the Senate floor. Results of the poll are expected to be delivered this morning to Senate leaders and Attorney General Bruce Babbitt. Senate Majority Whip Jones Osborne, D-Yuma, said, "I'm confident we can get the votes we need (16) if the county attorneys agree to the down in the Senate mainly because of opposition from county attorneys. Babbitt met Wednesday afternoon with Al Heinze, executive director of the Arizona County Attorneys Association, and with Pima County Attorney Dennis DeConcini.

They disagreed on two parts of the proposed amendments. Babbitt said the provisions were necessary lor effective prosecution of organized crime. Heinze said they might grant too much power to the grand jury. These are the two points on which Heinze is polling the county attorneys. Ironically, they were included among amendments which the county attorneys helped draw up for a House committee.

That committee first put the amendments onto the bill and then took them off. Phoenix voters said they'd only pay for a basic diet of city improvements Tuesday and decidedly pushed away anything that looked like dessert. In a record turnout for a regular bond election, 29.97 per cent of the city's 195,500 voters approved 10 bond programs and rejected the other seven. Even with the rejections, the voters approved the largest amount of bonds in the city's history. The 10 approved programs will cost $207.25 million, plus interest.

The seven rejected totaled $49.05 million. According to an official from The Bond Buyer, a magazine on bonding, Related story on Page B-l Phoenix voters have authorized more House will vote on an energy program acceptable to Ford before it recesses for Memorial Day on May 21. On the price-decontrol action, Zarb said the FEA, at Ford's direction, will begin hearings immediately on the plan. He said the process could be completed before the congressional recess. Once the hearings are completed, Zarb said, Ford would announce a specific decontrol program that would go into effect five days later unless Congress voted in the interim to reject it.

Zarb said the controls would be lifted at a pace of about 4 per cent a month over a two-year period. Sen. Jacob K. Javits, said Ford's plan "would take a bigger bite Continued on Page A-11 WASHINGTON President Ford announced Wednesday he is delaying a new oil-tariff hike for about 30 days but will take executive action to remove all price- controls from domestic crude oil over a two-year period. His intention to decontrol prices, brought immediate protests from some members of Congress, who said the action would mean higher costs for consumers.

Sen. Henry M. Jackson, chairman of the Senate Interior Committee, said it will cost the average American family about $250 a year. He said he will introduce a resolution Thursday to block it. Federal Energy Adminstrator Frank Zarb told newsmen at the White House that a $l-a-barrel increase in oil tariffs, scheduled to take effect Thursday, would be postponed in the hope the iessen, asked about Ford's authority to order Vietnamese evacuated, quoted Ford as saying: "I did it because the people would have been killed otherwise, and I'm proud of it." Nessen said Ford acted on moral, not legal Sen.

John Tower, said Ford discussed the evacuation during a morning White House meeting with Continued on Page A-18 The House-passed measure, which would launch a new attack on organized and white-collar crime, has bogged Council gets post election report 20 boost sought in city water rates One dispute centers on a provision that would allow the grand jury to probe offenses occurring in more than one county, or occurring in one county but affecting residents of another. That power would be in addition to the basic authority of the jury to investigate crimes involving state, taxes, securities, land fraud, banks, insurance companies, pension funds, labor unions, professional sports, loans, stolen property, state purchases, and bribery or public corruption. Babbitt said he needs the provision in order to avoid endless court challenges to indictments "so that I will know, I can make them stick." As a hypothetical example, Babbitt cited an indictment charging a savings and loan fraud that involves more than one county. Without the catchall provision, that indictment could be thrown out on the ground that a savings and loan association technically is not a bank, Babbit said. Heinze said some county attorneys believe the wording of the provision might increase the jury's powers Continued on Page A-4 tit.

stele WALLACE FEARS Despite 2 briefings by the FBI, Gov. George Wallace of Alabama still fears that the assassination attempt was part of a conspiracy. Page A-5. DOCTORS STRIKE -i doctors' in the San Francisco area vow to stay off the job in protest of malpractice insurance costs. Page A-8.

FORD MOTOR LOSS $11 million is lost by Ford Motor Co. in the first quarter of 1975. Page A-9. TOUGH GUN LAW New gun law in Massachusetts has' reportedly reduced crimes of passion, but failed to deter criminals. Page A-14.

BLIND TRUST BILL A house panel fails to act on an amendment that wouid have seriously weakened a Senate-passed blind trust bill. Page B-l. MARKET RALLY Blue chips and' glamors lead rally that carries stock market to a 10-month high. Page E-17. bonds than any other American city so far -this year.

Voters said they'd pay the bill for improvements in the water system, airport, streets, public transit, sanitary and, storm sewers, solid waste disposal, police and fire protection and a new maintenance service center. They said no to what some called "dessert items" like a second City Hall, parks development, the Rio Sala-do project, buying mountain land, more libraries, new community facilities and an expansion of the Phoenix Art seum. The, $850,000 sought in museum expansion bonds were the most unpopular on the ballot. More than 73 per cent of the voters rejected that proposal, which would have been matched by $732,000 to be raised by the museum. Museum Director Ron Hickman said it will be impossible to expand the museum in the foreseeable future without outside money.

"I imagine we will again appear on a bond ballot in the future when the economy is better," he said. For now, the museum board will "regroup and analyze" what can be done in a facility that only has enough space to exhibit 15 per cent of its permanent collection. Not far behind the museum in the voters' displeasure was a $13.85 million bond proposal that would have paid for A report recommending a 20 per cent average increase in city water rates by June 1 was submitted Wednesday to the Phoenix City Council, a day after the city's $256.3 million bond election. The report, which recommends use of a new billing method that would raise residential water rates 15 per cent and commercial and industrial users 29 per cent, was due April 14 but was delayed until after the bond election, sources said. City council men requested the report with various alternatives after rejecting an across-the-board increase of 20 per cent that city staff members sought.

The report, submitted by Tony Vicente, city finance director, and Art Vondrick, water and sewers director, urged ending the practice of a fixed charge based on an allowed minimum amount of water for customers. they recommend charging cusKwners for the amount of demand water sales revenues next year would total $27.9 million, compared to $23.3 million under existing charges. By ending the furnishing of a fixed minimum of water for the base rate, the city would increase revenues by $3.4 million, in effect by charging for water now included in the monthly minimum charge. Statistics included with the report said that 89 per cent of the customers and more than 63 per cent of the water sold is to residential customers. These customers account for 69 per cent of the revenues.

The report said that large commercial and industrial customers should pay higher charges. "A functional unit-cost analysis of the water system shows that the cost of service for larger commercial and industrial users has increased at a proportionately higher rate than for smaller residential and commercial users, resulting in the smaller users paying a disproportionate share for water it said. proposed new rate corrects this, Vvi report added. -P they are capable of placing on the water system. The complicated proposal would result in lower charges for 23,000 city residents now using less than 350 cubic feet of water per month, but higher rates for the other 154,000 residental users, the report said.

Under the proposed new charges, city S.v Africa's penguins die from oil pollution effects CAPETOWN (AP) Thirty years ago, millions of jackass penguins nested off South Africa's tip of Dassen Island, but less than 60,000 breed there now. Nest robbing seabirds were once the main threat along with guano harvesters. Today, oil pollution from the 650 tankers that pass Dassen each month is killing off the birds. Oil from ship-wrecks and pumped at sea has killed the penguins by the tens of thousands. I Page Page Astrology E-20 Financial E-17-19 Bridge, E-14 Movies E-21 Classified F-2-16 Obituaries E-14-15 Comics E-20 Radio Log E-23 Crossword B-15 Sports G-l-8 Dean B-l TV Log E-22-23 Dear Abby D-2 Weal her B-7 Editorials A-6 Women D-l-fi Today's prayer Even though we want our plans to work right away, thank You, dear Lord, for steadying us with patience and faith, as we know You are helping us treach our goal.

Amen. 1 Continued on Page A-2.