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El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 21

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China and Russ Nixon's Travels Set Stage For Korean Cold WarThaw nuclear arms limitation and European affairs to avoid fighting a two-front diplomatic war That Communist Chinn also concerned over its continuing dispute with Russia and in addition worried about foe possibility of resurgent Japanese militarism would be ready to begin of relations with foe United States SO FAR DEVELOPMENTS have fairly well justified the Nixon-Kissinger strategy and as Secretary of State William Rogers said last week in Australia there is hope that the Soviet-American and Sino-American summits will the transition to more normal among countries divided by the Cold War Whether this trend will have any effect on persuading Hanoi to begin negotiating a Vietnam peace settlement on terms acceptable to foe United States is still far from clear major Communist powers that foe day had passed when foe tails could wag the dogs South Korea was visibly nervous after foe announcement last year that Nixon was planning a trip to Peking South Korea depends on the United States for its military hardware and foe United States still maintains 40000 troops there NORTH KOREA on the other side of the cease-fire line which has divided foe peninsula since the Korean war armistice in July 1953 presumably had similar misgivings whether it could continue to rely completely on the Soviet Union and China Russia has supplied all of North military equipment and Chjna sent 200000 to help North Korea when American and United Nations forces in late I960 were on1 the verge of destroying foe regime- The Korean development is anothr one in the series of successes for the foreign policy scenario laid out by President Nixon and his national security affairs adviser Henry A Kissinger more than three years ago HAS POLICY was based on taking advantage of foe continuing idealogical and boundary dispute between Russia and Ch'na The premise of foe policy was this: That Russia fearful of possible developments on the China border would be more anxious than before to reach tension-easing agreements with foe United States on By STEWART HENSLEY UPI Diplomatic Reporter WASHINGTON (UPI) The dramatic announcement that North and South Korea will try to negotiate peaceful reunification of their country was an obvious by-product of foe successful summit conferences in Peking and Moscow President Nixon and his advisers hope foe improved international climate also will have a beneficial effect in other areas Southeast Asia and foe Middle East AMERICAN AND Korean officials contend there was no direct pressure by any of foe big powers to get Communist North Korea and pro-Western South Korea to bury foe hatch- et and try to unify foe war-divided peninsula This may very well be foe literal truth However as a practical matter the indirect pressures were considerable and compelling The agreements on principles announced at Peking and Moscow summit conferences made it very clear that none of the big powers intended to allow itself to be drawn into a war in the nuclear age simply because of any conflict or confrontation between respective clients of foe East and West at any point THIS HAS forced a number of countries whose policies were based on the assumption that there would be a continuing chasm -between foe East and West to review foe situation They were confronted with a situation in which the united States had agreed with foe two Aug 21 convention at Miami Bearh WASHINGTON Despite foie decision by North and South Korea to work to reduce tension the United States has no plans to reduce its troop level in South Korea "We have no plans to change or modify our military mod- ersization in South Korea State Department spokesman Charles Bray said yesterday have no plans to make any troop NEW Prime Minister Indira Gandhi returned to foe capital today to a tumultuous welcome marred by a burst of tear gas bombs Five thousand people brought to foe airport by foe ruling Congress party and Communist officials wildly cheered Mrs Gandhi as she drove past in a white jeep But about 200 yards away foe police held back a 1000-strong mob of Hindu nationalist Jana Singh party workers waving black flags and shouting slogans to protest the Simla summit agreement with Pakistan Police fired tear gas bombs to quell foe mob which scattered and regrouped several times TOKYO Heavy rains sweeping over Western Japan since Tuesday triggered new landslides in central Kyushu Island today Police said 51 persons in 21 houses were buried alive in Ebino city of Miyazaki prefecture state when the slide hit of Che buried alive were rescued but 43 others were still police said Police said rescue work by a team of some 150 policemen was still underway away by my petty dispute over money with foe Icelandic chess Fischer said i a who has remained in isolation during most of the time he has been in Reykjavik personally delivered the apology to Spassky The apology apparently cleared foe way for foe 24-game match to start Sunday TEL AVIV trial of Kozo Okamoto the surviving Japanese Lod airport attacker will open Monday before a military court an army spokesman laid today I MOSCOW Soviet Union today condemned the United "economic and political blockade of and said it would go on giving foe Caribbean island "allround to maintain its defenses A joint Soviet-Cuban communique issued at the end of Cuban Premier Fidel 10- day visit said foe talks marked "an important new stage in the further expansion and deepening of the fraternal between foe countries NEW DELHI Keating US ambassador to India announced today he will resign his post to campaign for President Nixon expect to return to foe United States about Aug 1 and will resign as ambassador prior to the Republican Keating said "After that I expect to campaign Keating has been ambassador to India for three years The former Republican senator from New York has been out of politics for seven years and frequently has expressed his desire to become politically active again He was appointed by Nixon as an honorary delegate to foe Around The World sacred 58 Christians Including women and children in three coastal visages in foe Southern Philippines- military authorities reported today The freighter occurred hi two villages of Mabthay township and another village Dimataling township in Zamboanga del Sur Province -according to official military reports Another -100 were wounded official dispatches said BELFAST A Protestant threat of more barricades today prompted British author ities to create a public protection agrcy to combat intimidation against Roman Catholics living in mixed areas A go eminent spokesman said foe agency would be rpcn around foe dock to hear complaints from people fearing sectarian harassment Sporadic gunfire brake out several during foe night and early today in West Eel-fast and army patrols reported two men wounded A military spokesman gaid troops came under fire in at least five of the 17 shooting incidents bid no one was hurt Catholics also reported increased intimidation of families living hi areas inhabited by both Protestants and Catholics REYKJAVIK ICELAND American chess challenger Bobby Fischer wrote and hand-delivered an apology to the Boris Spassky today saying his -concern over financial arrangements almost wrecked the world championship match simply became carried I 4 3 Calling for black unity Rev Jesse Jackson president of Operation PUJH in Chicago addressed foe (3rd annual national convention of the NAACP at Coho Hall last night (UPI) 3 Nurses Re-Hired FORT WORTH (UPI) Three Irish nurses fired from their jobs for picketing a federal grand jury investigation into an alleged plot to run guns from Texas to Northern Ireland have been hired by another local hospital DATSUN DISPLAY Coffee and delicious Meringue Pie all 3 days' SUER SALE 25 50 to uuo 4 Lone Pool SuHt Dresses CompUad by The Herald-Post tram UPI LWTOON China and Russia independently advised Hanoi to settle with the United States without much further delay authoritative Communist diplomats said today Both Communist allies of Hanoi cautioned separately that hi the light of latest developments the fortunes of war may turn against North Vietnam The sources reported that both assured the Hanoi regime of continued firm political moral and military support But they made it dear at the same time in almost identical terms they cannot risk confrontation with the United States- which indirectly limits the scope of their assistance They did not ask for specific concessions from Hanoi in the suggested effort for a settlement with the United States but they implied the heed for some degree of flexibility that would pave the way for an end to the wan The diplomats said the effect of the two-pronged "intervention by Peking and Moscow in Hand was shattering Distrust: of their allies designs has now added to the disappointment of the North Vietnamese leaders with the alleged footdragging of both China and Russia in recent months over the conflict The political and war councils were said to be hard at work hi Hanoi on the scope of future etrategy While and advice was said to have been contemptuously brushed aside the message itself was however considered too serious in its implications for Hanoi to ignore MANILA Moslems apparently seeking vengeance mss- FOR TOO Get Movin'! 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