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BULLuOG Phoenix, Sat, June IS, 1968 2 The Arizona Republic Reds Gamble Saigon Attacks Worth Crack U.S. Restraint Debacle in France May Force Drastic Economy Cutbacks PARIS (UPI)-France admitted yesterday the devastating anti-Gaullist social revolution may force it to trim President Charles de Gaulle's prized nuclear striking force, cut back on foreign aid and demand tariff relief from European Common Market partners. The disclosure was made by new Foreign Minister Michel Debre even as government sources revealed France may had occupied it for a month. diplomacy in Paris is inner- ently the same, American of- flcials are certain, and that is to collapse the South Viet- namese government. The risk for Hanoi is that it can miscalculate the amount' of shaking or hacking at Sai-; gon that the United States will tolerate without retaliat-; tog.

Ambassador-at-Large W. Averell Harriman, head of the American negotiating team here, openly cautioned Hanoi in the last talk session here Wednesday that "these terrorist attacks upon Saigon could have the most serious consequences for these talks." thought world opinion pressure alone could force the bombing halt (and many doubt that was Hanoi's real expectation), that prospect disappeared during the past month. American sources are convinced, although they concede that North Vietnam's leaders may disagree, that the U.S. position presently has the world propaganda edge over Hanoi's. In any event, the United States is not now facing the world pressure in these talks that many of.

its officials feared it would encounter before they began. But the current assessment inside the American delegation to the Paris talks is that little progress is likely in these negotiations until the pressure now being forecast for Saigon is put to some sort of a test. THE EXPECTATION among American officials here, in Washington and in Saigon is that no massive military thrust at the city is imminent, but that the Communists seek to shake and rattle Saigon "as you would a tree in an orchard," as one source put it, "hoping that some fruit will drop to the ground." The target of both the Communist military actions in South Vietnam and Hanoi's ft lb ST- PLL TA Ay 'H Sr 19 STEINWAY CHICKERING SOHMER WURLITZER WURLITZER ORGANS ferms to 5 yeon FREE stat delivery House 0 Qualify' REDEWILL PIANO AND ORGAN 2918 N. Central 274-2134 Sirvlnj Ariioni (or 17 ytirt Wttkdays to Thvri. to I i 5nce 7887 By MURREY MARDER Washington Post Service PARIS American negotiators rate the Communists' rocket war of nerves against Saigon as a crafty but hazardous ricochet shot at the U.S.-North Vietnamese talks here.

The threat to subject Saigon to sustained rocket attack is not regarded by U.S. officials as mere bluff, whether or not it achieves the boastful rate advertised by the Vietcong of 100 rockets a night for 100 nights. COMMUNIST capacity to harass portions of the capital by long-range rockets can be limited by counter-measures, but admittedly cannot be eliminated. In the judgment of U.S. experts, the current Communist plans to pound Saigon with rockets and plague it with small suicide units neatly fit the preferred Vietnamese Communist strategy of expending relatively marginal military effort for multiple option purposes.

Two principal objectives are now seen by American analysts in the Communist strategy: To shake and undermine the South Vietnamese government by demonstrating its incapacity to protect the population of Saigon, and to jar the United States into concessions in the dawdling Paris negotiations. The technique is cunning, but it could prove to be high-risk terrorism, American sources privately note, if the Vietnamese Communists miscalculate Washington's boiling point. AND NOBODY knows what level of attack on Saigon would crack the facade of restraint of Lyndon Baines Johnson and cause him to renew American bombing attacks on Hanoi, Haiphong and other North Vietnam targets. Probably the President himself does not know. The question has hovered over the Paris talks since they began on May 13.

It has been discussed on the edges of this conference probably more than any other single topic, once it became quickly apparent that the United States would press for "mutual restraint" by Hanoi in return for a total halt in the bombing. With the lines drawn in Paris, and both sides showing no desire to break off these official diplomatic discussions, Hanoi's negotiators had two courses open to them if they were to continue to disdain any form of bargaining to get a complete bombing halt: Public pressure on the American position, or military pressure. U.S. OFFICIALS feel that if Hanoi's leaders ever seriously ALL GOLF CLUBS WOODS HtONS UTILITY CLUBS I3 2 WO OFF AP Wlreplwto SHIELDED BY BUDDHA A Vietnamese special forces soldier sits behind a statue of Buddha during fighting in the northeastern corner of Saigon. The enemy had been isolated in an area containing at least four Buddhist temples surrounded by a religious community.

Shells Slam Saigon More About Continued From Vietcong GOLF BAGS 25" Page 1 BASEIALL ft LITTLE LEAGUE SHOES Insurgent students earlier, in a noisy free-for-all battle, had "sanitized" the occupied Sorbonne University by ousting a band of self-styled mercenary fighters, soldiers of fortune and hoodlums who had moved in on the student occupiers. The Sorbonne students retained their control of the building they seized May 13, and the ousted band of 32 mercenaries and their women camp followers retreated to the Odeon Theater nearby to join the occupying band there. THE COMMANDOS, called the "Katangans," installed themselves with their guns, ammunition, knives, chains and lead pipes in the fourth floor dressing rooms of the ravaged theater. The invasion of the band proved to be the undoing of the Odeon occupation. An army of 700 to 800 police closed in on the building, and Paris police chief Maurice Grimaud offered everyone inside a chance to go home free if they came out unarmed.

More than 130 of the occupiers came out and surrendered. At least 76 others had had to be forced out and police arrested them as "dangerous elements." A CHEER went up from crowds gathered outside as stagehands ripped down the red and black flags symbolizing communism and anarchy that had flown from the Odeon flagpole since May IS. A Negro doctor who had acted as a go-between between police and the students raised the French tricolor. At the Sorbonne, students said they would reopen the "revolutionary" college after a thorough cleaning. The melodramatic events in the Latin Quarter tended to overshadow the highly pessimistic report from Debre on the state of the French economy as a result of the student-generated strike crisis that paralyzed France for weeks.

Eaton 'Peace' Is Discounted New York Times Service PARIS American officials yesterday took issue with a forecast by Cyrus Eaton, the 85-year-old American millionaire who recently has held talks with Soviet leaders, that "we are on the threshold of peace in Vietnam." A spokesman for the American negotiating delegation declined to comment on Eaton's remarks. But privately, officials said they knew of "no basis for that optimism" about an overall settlement nor Eaton's suggestion that resolution of the bombing issue was imminent. Eaton, who conferred here earlier this week with both American and North Vietnamese negotiators, made his remarks in a telephone interview with the New York Times. American negotiators reportedly heard from Eaton, as they have through other indirect channels previously, that if all Amrican hombing of North Vietnam were halted Communist officials be lieve "that major movement would occur on the North Vietnamese side soon make anotner emergency withdrawal of $140 million from its deposits in the International Monetary Fund to keep the shaky French franc from falling. BUT IN Paris, the embattled government won another major fight against the rebellion when a force of close to 1,000 police recaptured the once-glittering Odeon National Theater from a group of students and commandos who Blaiberg's Liver Ailment Is Pinpointed CAPE TOWN, South Africa (UPI) Heart experts won a crucial victory yesterday in the battle to save ailing transplant patient Philip Blaiberg.

Informed sources said the next few days would be critical. "The doctors will know the patient's future within a week, one way or another," a hospital source said. The doctors scored a major success by isolating the specific ailment causing the liver trouble which has endangered the life of the world's longest-lived heart transplant patient. At the same time, an official Groote Schuur Hospital bulletin announced Blaiberg was improving and responding to treatment. THE ISOLATING of the blood infection meant that Dr.

Christiaan Barnard and his team "now know the exact cause of the trouble and can work out a method of treatment tailored to fit the circumstances," the source explained. Until now Blaiberg's condition has been described as "hepatitis," which can cover a variety of illnesses affecting the liver. Intensive tests during the past two weeks pinpointed the cause as a blood infection. The source made clear the trouble was not "infectious hepatitis," as had been speculated. After Blaiberg suffered his relapse Tuesday, Barnard said the liver trouble could have been caused by blood he had been given.

BARNARD gave the 59-year-old Blaiberg his new heart in an historic operation at Groote Schuur Hospital last Jan. 2. Blaiberg's recovery after the operation was quick and encouraging. He returned home to lead an independent though carefully regulated life last March 16. Blaiberg returned to Groote Schuur for apparently routine tests June 1 but suffered a marked deterioration Tues-day.

If Blaiberg was a normal patient with an average, healthy body, he could have been treated with large doses of antibiotic drugs. But he is not a normal man physically and has received so many medicines that antibiotics could affect adversely his liver still further, experts said. French drugs, possibly for use on Blaiberg, were flown to South Africa Thursday night, a hospital spokesman revealed. He did not identify the drugs and said they have not yet been used on the heart patient. More About SFICM SHIfMlNT BASEBALL SOFTBALL GLOVES Modal ri-K rranx n- Robinion Top Quality professional CLOSING Qft "JwU Top Laeinq.

Can't bo beat for ball control. his prediction of more Vietcong thrusts into Saigon to the negotiations in Paris between American and North Vietnamese diplomats. "They will probably attack again," Vien said of the Vietcong in a speech at a military ceremony in Can Tho, southwest of Saigon. "Maybe several times. They will seek for victory to back up the Paris talks." Vien said the Saigonese cannot "just sit and take" the shellings.

He recommended retaliatory measures but said he was not at liberty to discuss details. Some South Vietnamese have said the United States should bomb Hanoi. A SPECIAL communique from the South Koreans said "captured enemy documents" proved that 14 North Korean soldiers were currently stationed in South Vietnam and said the first arrived on June 4, 1966. The communique said the mission of the North Korean team was to subvert members of the South Korean fighting force. pan in advising their citizens to leave South Vietnam as soon as possible.

TWO VIETCONG defectors said the Communists planned to keep the Saigon area in constant turmoil with their arsenal of 6-foot-long rockets made in the Soviet Union. The defectors from the northeast suburb of Gia Dinh said some rockets were being fired within 24 hours of their arrival in the outskirts of the city. Communist Chinese recoilless rifles shipped to the Gia Dinh area were used in the predawn attack yesterday on Tan Son Nhut Air Base which killed an American civilian, the first nonmilitary U.S. victim of the current siege, which began May 31. Rocket and mortar fire from Vietcong gunners hit three villages within 60 miles of Saigon Thursday night and early yesterday morning, but South Vietnamese spokesmen said casualties in all cases were "very light." GEN.

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Until now there has been only one canon, the prayer recited by the officiating priest in the central part of the Mass in which bread and wine are consecrated. Starting Aug. 15, the feast day of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, there will be three additional canons which can be used on particular occasions, the Vatican said. The three will be used first in Latin versions drawn up by the Vatican Board of Sacred Liturgy. Afterwards, bishops in each country will aprove translations in their languages.

The Arizona Republic Published every morning by Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. (120 East Van Buren) P.O. Box 1950 Phoenix, Ariz. 85001 271-8000 Subscription Prices Carriers or Dealers in Arizona Republic (Morn. Sun.) 70c week Republic (Morning) 45c wk.

(Circulation mail rates appear in the Classified sec-tion of each edition.) Second class postage paid at Phoenix, Ariz. Saturday, June 15, 1968 Vol. 79, No. 30 Three ships gave up the hunt for 21 missing men, including the captain of the vessel, saying no one could be spotted in the heaving seas, high winds and spreading oil slick. A South African naval ship continued to search, and an air force plane from Durban was to fly a final sweep of the area today.

The Liberian registered World Glory broke up and caught fire about 90 miles northeast of Durban. It was owned by World Tankers Co. part of the fleet of Greek shipowner Stavros Niarchos. The survivors, who spent 18 hours in the chilly waters, included the ship's first and fourth engineers. Four bodies were recovered.

Most of the crewmen were believed to be Greek. Witnesses aboard the French tanker Chevron watched as the World Glory burst into flames. saw her pounding through the seas," said Capt. John Obidth of the Chevron, "Then there was a flash. We saw her break in two.

And then came the flames sheets of them lighting up the clouds. We couldn't do anything. I'm sorry we couldn't get any nearer." Antisqueeze Lever Sought Continued From Page 1 mm Buy With Confidence lz ni flights out of the former German capital, but they attributed this to the holiday and not the vague mood of crisis there. The East Germans' timing was a major topic of conversation. Germans noted that it came just 20 years after the unsuccessful 1948-49 Russian blockade of the city, and shortly before the 75th birthday of Walter Ulbricht, East Ger-many'g Stalinist-line leader.

West Germany's upper house of Parliament, the Bundesrat, gave unanimous approval, meanwhile, to the emergency laws that East Germany cited as the reason for its new travel controls and taxes. 1 through, East German territory reported normal traffic yesterday after chaotic delays Thursday. That was the first day on which the East Germans collected new visa fees and travel charges. But more traffic jams were expected during a big three-day weekend, taking in National Unity Day on Monday, a holiday celebrated in West Germany marking the anniversary of the June 17 uprising in East Germany, 15 years PAN AMERICAN World Ariways, British European Airways and Air France reported heavy bookings on lArt DA iSU 4310 E. Thomas v..

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