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REPUBLIC MAIL Saigon links Ky hopes to see Nixon IpihIiikt mnnlr MaX Sllggest renewal of bombing New York Times Service to Communists Washington Post Service SAIGON The South Vietnamese government yesterday staged an extraordinary press conference at which it sought by implication to link a leader of the militant Buddhist movement to the PARIS Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky of South Vietnam returned to Paris yesterday with "many new things in my pocket" for President Nixon, whom he said he hopes to see here. Speaking to reporters at Orly Airport yesterday morning, Ky said he could not disclose the nature of the items on which he expected to confer with the U.S. President. However, the South Vietnamese leader repeated that he would recommend bombing North Vietnam if the attacks on South Vietnamese cities continued. Rephrasing what he had said before his departure from Saigon Monday, Ky declared: 'if the Communists continue to attack as they are doing now, I will suggest to the president of the Republic of Vietnam to resume the bombing of North Vietnam." The vice president explained that his bombing recommendations to President Nguyen Van Thieu would involve only South Vietnam's air force.

"I don't know what the U.S. Air Force will do," he remarked. Ky confirmed that at the sixth plenary meeting of the peace talks here on Thursday the allied side will protest the mortar and rocket attacks on South Vietnamese cities. "While the peace negotiations are going on in Paris," he observed, "the Communists are not showing any goodwill and continue attacking the population in a barbaric manner." Ghana frees Russ seamen Associated Press ACCRA, Ghana Sovfet sources said yesterday Ghana has quietly released two Russian trawler captains from jail and sent them back to their vessels, in what appeared to be the first step in returning the ships to the Soviets after four months' detention. A Soviet embassy spokesman said the captains left Accra yesterday for di, a seaport 142 miles to the west, where the two trawlers and their crews of 52 men have been held since Oct.

10, when they were seized off the coast of this West African country. The trawlers and crew were suspected of aiding a plot to return deposed President Kwame Nkrumah to power. THE CAPTAINS were scheduled to testify today at a hearing investigating charges that the chief of Ghana's armed forces, Air Marshal Michael Otu, was involved in plotting to bring back Nkrumah in a Christmas Eve coup d'etat. The Russian spokesman said the two captains were released Friday on bail from the prison. The spokesman said Ghanaian authorities ordered the captains to be driven to Tak-oradi for further questioning by police on charges they violated the territorial waters of Ghana.

REDS LAUNCH SATELLITE MOSCOW (LTD The Soviet Union yesterday launched an unmanned research satellite, Cosmos 266, in the first shot in the Cosmos series since Feb. 7. The Arizona Republic I Feb. 28, 19 Bombs rock Israeli cities Associated Press JERUSALEM Explosions yesterday rocked a market in the Israeli city of Lydda and the British consulate in East Jerusalem, probably setting stage for more reprisals against Arab nations. Before the bombs went off, Egypt had announced a state emergency throughout the country in expectation that Israel would strike in answer to previous Arab terrorist attacks.

In Amman, Jordan, the Popular Front lor the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the explosion at the British consulate. The Front said the consulate was chosen as a target because of a reported British decision to supply tanks to Israel. The Front has alo taken responsibility for attacks on Israeli airliners and Friday'? blast in a Jerusalem supermarket that killed two students. A BOMB shook the market place in Lydda, 10 miles southeast of Tel Aviv, and officials said a local Arab was wounded. Three Arabs were held for questioning.

The market was closed whea the blast' went off. tearing down electric lines and wrecking a motorcycle. blast came four days "after a Jerusalem supermarket was wrecked by a bomb that killed two young Israelis. Powerful Israeli air raids on Arab guerrilla camps in Syria "followed. 4 In East Jerusalem, police said an explosive charge was placed on the window sill of a ground floor at the consulate.

The explosion ripped out Young Czech becomes 'second human torch' 1 Los Angeles Times Service TOUGHER ceuAsnd JOB w. woid Arywa, cj at en! love To See VIENNA A young Czech student chose the 21st anniversary of the Communist takeover of his country yesterday to burn himself to death in Prague as the "second human torch" in protest against the Soviet occupation. His action touched off new tensions in the Czechoslovak capital just as Communist Party chief Alexander Dub-cek was declaring in an anniversary speech that his regime had just succeeded in getting over the "most acute stage of political tension" arising out of the death of Jan Palach. who became a national martyr by setting himself afire last month as an act of protest against the Soviet-imposed loss of freedom. Eyewitness sources reported by telephone to the Los Angeles Times in Vienna that the youth, identified as Jan Zajic, a 19-year-old student from the northern Bohemian town of Opava near the Polish border, left notes and written statements behind declaring he was burning himself to death "in support of Jan Palach's demands." He was reported to have gone from Prague's great Wenceslas Square into a passageway, poured gasoline over himself and set himself afire at the foot of a stairway.

More than 200 persons watched in horror as several young people tried vainly to put out the blaze. By the time the police and an ambulance came he was dead. 13 You Use Our B(i9t, Loden, Brown, Navy. Fided Blut. BARRY'S Youthwear Daneewear AP Wirepttoto SHE HAS HER TEDDY A montagnard girl smiles as she holds a largft teddy bear presented to her by a South Vietnamese government official during Tet goodwill visit to her hamlet in the mountains near Komur.i.

Buddhist spokesmen said in rebuttal that the government is intent on intimidation, specifically against a Buddhist youth Congress that will be held in Saigon the first three days of March. The spokesmen said the government opposes the Buddhists' support for a cease-fire and expeditious peace talks looking toward an early American withdrawal from the country. THE PRESS conference in Saigon's City Hall was attended by the chiefs of national police, the director of Saigon's police, the head of the special branch of subversion, and by the special assistant to the prime minister. Much of the translation' for English-speaking reports was done by the press officer to the prime minister, who is rated by many as the best interpreter in the government. Captured weapons and flags were displayed and elaborate charts were meticulously explained.

The bulk of the presentation concerned the breaking up of an important Communist cell in the Cholon district of Saigon with the arrest of 43 persons, including the Vietcong leader for Cholon. A LONG WAY through this detailed presentation, there began to crop up references to arrests made at a "residential quarter" in Cong Ly Street and to a "managing Bonze Buddhist monk." No names were used during the governmental presentation. It wasn't until the question period afterward that what most already knew was officially confirmed: that Thich (Venerable) Thien Minh had been taken into custody in the early hours of Sunday after a raid on his Buddhist youth center turned up alleged draft dodgers, defectors, deserters, weapons and Communist documents. THE GOVERNMENT released no numbers of those arrested, and said that Thich Minh, leader of the Buddhist youth movement and No. 2 to Thich Tri Quang, leader of An Quang Pagoda, is being "detained temporarily" in order "to determine his responsibility, his knowledge and his connection with the things uncovered." No formal charges have been brought against the monk who is being held at an unspecified security agency.

Last month Thich Minh was summoned by police and told to stop sermonizing against the government. More recently President Thieu has told his provincial aides in the Mekong Delta to crack down on political priests and monks. At the press conference yesterday the government spokesman said "the law of the land should be applied equally to every citizen regardless of his religion." McDowell I Scotisdalt ids. BSriBnlEIIIT Mil p.m. More about three doors of a storeroom, but heavy window shutters apparently shielded a lounge where Joan Bennet, a secretary, was drying her hair.

N. Viet suicide squads Continued From Page 1 She escaped injury. BRITISH CONSUL John Lewen said the only reason he could think of for the attack was "garbled reports of British arms to Israel." He said he knew nothing of an impending agreement. There have been reports in the Arab press that Britain will sell Israel Centurion tanks. The Centurion prpatlv fell! LAST CALL! i DAYS ONLY! CHRISTOWN ONLY! my force early today that broke into the air base and destroyed or damaged nine helicopters.

U.S. casualties in the battle were said to be light. At least 17 enemy bodies had been found. Field reports said enemy sappers also reached an ammunition loading area and touched off explosions. The attack on the sprawling, one-mile-square base came from three sides, with the enemy using rockets, rocket-grenades and other weapons.

Other overnight attacks reported early today hit airports, artillery bases and landing zones of U.S. forces in several provinces north and west of Saigon toward the Cambodian border. U.S. spokesmen have said the U.S. bombing halt of North Vietnam was agreed to with the stipulation that the enemy command would cease shelling South Vietnamese cities and withdraw its North Vietnamese troops from the once-neutral buffer zone.

The heavy shelling of more than 100 cities, towns and villages during the past four days has led some military officials in South Vietnam and the United States to recommend that bombing of the North be resumed. Now. the allied diplomats and generals have another case to ponder: Did the North Vietnamese violate the understanding again by sending its battalions through the DMZ to attack the Marine bases? In Da Nang. some officers said it was possible the enemy battalions had slipped in from Laos to the west and along cross-country trails north of Khe Sanh. Saigon, shelled twice Sunday with seven 122mm rockets, was spared Monday and yesterday.

Da Nang, the second largest city, was shelled again yesterday with 10 rockets hitting the air base and a row of shanties nearby. DMZ. But it was not known whether the enemy came from there. Fire Base Nevile, 4 miles to the west and 3 miles below the DMZ, was attacked three hours earlier but the Marines repulsed the enemy while suffering 8 killed and 20 wounded. The Marines reported 21 North Vietnamese were killed in fighting through the early morning hours.

Although mortar rounds continued to drop on the two bases, Marine helicopter pilots began a shuttle to evacuate the wounded. Brig. Gen. Homer S. Hill, assistant commander of the 1st Marine Air Wing at Da Nang, said because of cloud cover and fog.

the pilots flew by instrument from Quang Tri to the fire support bases about 25 miles away. "They dropped down through thick clouds into a valley and then inched their way up the steep slopes with the noses of their helicopters riding on the hillsides." he said. In all, 77 wounded Marines were carried out and reinforcements moved in. The rest of the wounded did not require evacuation. Reported civilian casualties nearly doubled on the basis of reports early today that said at least 78 civilians were killed and JW0 wounded in a Viet Cong attack on a refugee village in the central highlands last Sunday.

The report said the government resettlement village of Kong Ho Ring, 6 miles, south of Dak To, was shelled by mortars and then attacked by Viet Cong troops who destroyed 125 homes. On the basis of the early reports, the incident appeared to be the worst of its kind in the new offensive. Total estimated civilian casualties are now about 170 killed and 500 wounded. The headquarters base of the 25th Infantry Division at Cu Chi. 20 miles northwest of Saigon, was hit by an ene contributed to Israel's swift victory in the 1967 war.

Police said eight pounds of explosives were placed by someone who climbed over a low wall which surrounds the building. "Ever since I came here a year ago," said Lewen. "I have asked for a fence to be built on top of the wall. Now I'm going to make sure it is." The consulate had a narrow escape Friday when the bomb went off in the supermarket. Police dismantled a charge that apparently was to explode at about the same hour the time bomb wrecked the market.

IN CAIRO, THE newspaper AI Ahram reported the state of emergency was declared Monday. It said readiness had been raised "100 per cent as regards the popular and civil defense apparatus, popular organizations, hospitals, fire brigades, etc. In reprisal for Egyptian attacks across the Suez Canal, Israeli troops penetrated deep in upper Egypt last October and damaged a Soviet-built power station and a bridge at Naj Hammandi, halfway between the Aswan High Dam and Cairo. SHOE DEPARTMENT Frank's Orthopedic Services now OPEN SATURDAYS 8 to 5 1014 E. McDowell 258-7096 Save up to 50 and more on Women's dresses, coats and sportswear ii-Wr MtESSES Originally 20.00 to 60.00 fe price COATS 55.00 to 65.00 values $3300 CAR COATS 36.00 to 45.00 values 82190 LOUXGEWEAR and robes.

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VIENTIANE. Laos About 100 U.S. pilots have been shot down and captured in bombing raids on Laos, and the Communist-led Pathet Lao is holding them in secret jungle prison camps, informed sources reported yesterday. Despite intensive efforts by the U.S. Embassy and the International Red Cross, and by some families' of the downed fliers, not one word on the fate of the missing men is known.

Some sources have expressed serious concern for the welfare of the pilots because of extremely harsh and often brutal treatment meted out by Laotian Communists to American and European pris- oners. The Arizona Republic Published every morning by Phoenix Newspapers. Inc. (120 East Van Buren) P.O. Box 1950 Phoenix, Ariz.

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