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-Wednesday, August 15, 1973, Reno Evening Gazette News analysis of Indochina war Eight and one-half years of U.S. intervention achieved little in Asia WASHINGTON (AP) The United States raked Indochina with bombs for more than 8' years, but in the end all that air power failed to bring the kind of peace this country sought. In Cambodia, where the final U.S. raids were flown, an armada of fighter bombers and B52 heavy bombers may have bolstered the government's staggering army for the past six months. But the 170,000 tons of bombs on at home, costing him much rained on Cambodian insurgents during that time did not force a cease-fire, which was the stated American objective, and the future of the U.S.-back-ed Cambodian government looks grim.

The raids were halted at midnight EDT Tuesday under an agreement between President Nixon and Congress. In Laos, where American planes propped up the Laotian army with some 63,000 tons of bombs after the Vietnam cease fire, there is an uneasy truce. But the Communist Pathet Lao and their North Vietnamese allies dominate about 80 per cent of the county, as do the insurgents in Cambodia. Meanwhile, the North Vietnamese are expanding the Ho Chi Minn trail in southern Laos to carry in larger tonnages of supplies to their troops in South Vietnam, even though this is forbidden under the Vietnam cease-fire agreement. Boosters of U.S.

air power claim the North Vietnamese were forced back to the Paris coherence tble by the heavy bombing of Hanoi in December. Even if this is true, and there are those who argue that it isn't, the agreement finally completed by U.S. and North Vietnamese diplomats in January has not worked out as Dr. Henry Kissinger, the chief U.S. negotiator, had hoped.

Many of its key terms remain stillborn. The fighting goes on in South Vietnam, although at a lower level and without American troops. Meanwhile, the North Vietnamese have never stopped pumping war materiel, supplies and men into South Vietnam in the face of a flat ban on such activity under the peace agreement. In March, Nixon announced that the United States had told North Vietnam "of our concern about this infiltration, and we believe it to be a violation of the cease-fire and the peace agreement." The North Vietnamese "should not lightly disregard" this warning, Nixon said. But the North Vietnamese have done just that, so it appears the massed U.S.

air power, including more than 40 bombers and fighter bombers in Thailand and 150 B52s on Guam, held no further terrors for Hanoi. And, while Nixon's threats were being ignored in Hanoi, the continued bombing in Cambodia caused problems for Nix of his remaining war support in Congress. In fact, Nixon suffered a defeat when he reluctantly accepted a bombing cutoff date. With the future of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos very much in doubt, the United States appears to have achieved relatively little through a mighty air war effort that dumped a record 7.4 million tons of bombs on Indochina starting in 1965. TQday 'Russia sold US.

wheat at profit' U. S. payments surplus WASHINGTON (kP The The surplus meant there United States had a surplus in were more dollars flowing into the country than out, which has been a major goal of govern us balance of payments of $463 million in the second quarter of the year, it first surplus in payments transactions with other countries in ZVi years. ment policy to help stabilize the U.S. dollar.

BOSTON (AP) At least two active and respected traders on is taking advantage of the sudden rise in wheat prices to improve its foreign exchange re the Chicago Board of Trade! Personal income rises serves. The price of wheat at the have heard rumors that the Russians have resold wheat purchased from the United States last year, the Christian Science time the Russians bought it was Personal income increased about $1.50 per bushel. Current $7.3 billion durng July to a sea Monitor reported in its Wednes prices have hit a record $5 a bushel. day editions. (AP) The government reported today a substantial increase in personal income during July, although there was a much slower growth rate in factory payrolls than in June.

sonal adjusted annual rate of $1,033.9 billion. The increase in Reports of the sale "have Monitor correspondent David the previous month was $7.9 Mutch said the unverified implication is that the Soviet Union billion. been heard by at least two active and respected traders. Speculation is rife at the board, one or more of whose traders, according to the rumor, may Kent shootings More work given Skylab have handled the the Monitor said. ed by scheduling hours of extra However, "another grain trad work for the three spacemen.

er who also heard the reports Astronauts Alan L. Bean, Dr. Owen K. Garriott and Jack R. CENTER, Houston (AP) Skylab 2's astronauts, told to plan on completing a full 59-day mission, asked for more experiments to perform aboard the orbiting laboratory today.

Mission Control respond said he had conducted his own inquiry into them and tended to discount them. He said that if the Russians were actually film given authorities WASHINGTON (AP) A Lousma, were hardly out of bed today before they were put hard at work. selling large quantities of wheat, prices on the Board of Trade should be falling, but he saw no evidence of this." Women recruited to save Phnom Penh Women police recruits march through the streets was quickly organized to defend the city following of Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, as insurgents the departure of U.S. bombers. continue pressure on the city.

The women's force (UPI Photo) Air fare hikes asked congressional committee that has been investigating the 1970 Kent State campus shootings crease on all domestic flights to become effective Sept. 15. has turned over its evidence to NEW YORK (AP) Two of the nation's largest airlines Mve announced plans for pas The Monitor said if the reports of resale are true, the practice would be in line with what the Russians are said to have done with cotton obtained from Egypt and sugar from UAL Inc. said its airline sub the Justice Department, in sidiary, United Air Lines. senger fare increases, mainly eluding what may be the only would file with the CAB later this month for a 5 per cent pas film in existence of the actual Cuba.

on domestic flights. American Airlines said it had asked the Civil Aeronautics gunfire. senger fare increase on flights within the 48 contiguous states Buckle up your groceries Mandatory seat belt law might have odd effects Also among the evidence, according to a committee source Penn Central offers plan to reorganize WASHINGTON (AP) The Board for an 8 per cent in and Canada. but disputed by a department Natural gas cut back official, is information that several Kent State students can gas industry expects to serve 98 identify the National Guards elect to remove the interlock A mini-computer located un-l i per cent of its residential demand, but to cut back on inter system, but the NHTSA warns der the front seat will be acti Penn Central Co. has proposed a reorganization plan calling for continued operation of the bank that removal could foul the en WASHINGTON (AP) The natural gas industry expects to supply only 86 per cent of its potential market in 1975, the National Petroleum Council estimates.

A council study of gas demand, just released, said the ruptible deliveries to electronic tire ignition system unless it's vated whenever driver or rider sits down, and the car will start only when belts are fastened. rupt railroad's entire freight done by a competent mechanic. Abernathy resignation rejected INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. (AP) Directors of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference voted today not to accept the resignation of Ralph David Abernathy as president. The decision was announced at the SCLC convention by Joseph E.

Lowery, chairman of the SCLC board. The announcement was greeted by applause from the some 1,000 delegates to the convention of the civil rights group. power plants, supplying only 60 per cent of the original power WASHINGTON (AP) Beginning today, car manufacturers will be required to equip al1 1974 model cars with air bags or devices that will prevent the autos from starting unless seat belts are fastened. The federal requirement comes after years of trying by the National Highway Traffic service. Seat and shoulder belts on man who fired the first shot.

The fusillade of bullets that followed left four students dead and nine others wounded. The case was recently reopened by Atty. Gen. Elliot L. Richardson.

Investigators for the House Judiciary subcommittee headed by Rep. Don Edwards, Tuesday submitted to the department records of interviews The plan filed with the Inter The process of sitting, buckling plant requirement. the new cars will be one piece instead of two, thereby allowing drivers and riders greater flexi up and turning the ignition key has to be done in that se state Commerce Commission by the parent company of the Penn Central Transportation Co. pro Park slayings confessed bility, the agency says. quence for the car to start.

Interlock systems are not Safety Administration (NHTSA) and former mental new. lhey have been required to get travelers to fasten seat- However, if the driver or rider removes his belt after the car is started, the interlock sys on all cars with automatic belts. with some 48 individuals, sev eral films and other evidence patient, had signed any statements. But Morton E. Friedman, as transmissions since 1968 to pre According to the agency, less tem will not interfere with the car's operation.

vent them from starting while stemming from their months-; poses the creation of two new companies and the filing of a suit against the federal government. The proposed reorganization differs from that put forward by the transportation company, calling for liquidation if1 substantial federal aid is not in forward or reverse. long probe. The driver who places gro CHICAGO (AP) Lester Harrison, charged with the stabbing death of a Seattle woman in Grant Park, reportedly has confessed to three other park slayings, including one in 1970 which sent another man to prison. Police refused to say publicly Tuesday that Harrison, 49, an sistant state's attorney, said one of several statements signed by Harrison has "some bearine" than 20 per cent of the travelers heeded its advice.

Of those who didn't, more than died in highway crashes eac year, it claims. cery bags on the front passen on the 1970 bludgeon avine ger seat may find the car will not start unless he fastens the belt around the bag or places it furnished by Oct. 1. ot Agnes Lehmann, 46, a Cal NHTSA officials described ifornia widow. on the floor.

The weight sensing Under the plan offered by the Penn Central New charges coming in Houston murders the seat belt interlock system as "the strongest kind of per suasion" for travelers to buckle up. the railroad's assets would be reorganized into two concerns-one controlling all rail assets, 'FBI always political1 device beneath the seat has no way of differentiating between the weight of a bag or a person. Owners of the new cars may day's story that former FBI of The NHTSA describes how it will the other with title to all non-operating real estate. The 'two ficials told him they knew what 20, who entered and left the HOUSTON (AP) A grand was going on but were afraid to jury has indicted two youths in speak up. of Dean Allen Corll "when they got Billy And I believe the only reason he is alive now is that I begged not to kill him." companies would enter into joint ventures with other investors in an effort to develop such jury room with a brown paper sack over his head.

Brooks said in a statement to police that he was at the home "The FBI has been involved the Texas mass murders and an official says more indictments are in the works. CHICAGO (AP) All U.S. presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt on have used the Federal Bureau of Investigation to gather information about political opponents, the Chicago Tribune said today. Jim Squires, a Tribune Waash-ington reporter, wrote in to Nixon court-martial idea puts sergeant in mental ward in politics for 30 years," the pa operating real estate as air per quoted a former assistant rights and freight terminals The jury returned in-' dictments Tuesday against Elmer Wayne Henley 17, and director who served under every president since Roosevelt while selling off the non-operat ing properties.

Base, Denver, his desire to file as saying. The reorganization would be financed from expected pro charges against Nixon alleging obstruction of justice and with David Owen Brooks, 18, in connection with the country's worst confirmed mass slayings. ceeds of a suit against the government claiming that federal regulations prevent the railroad from operating at a profit, the The bodies of 27 teen-aged victims of the homosexual slayings over the past three years have been unearthed since last plan said. The suit, which law yers for the Penn Central Co. week.

Nine of the bodies have O'Callaghan aids in search for girl A Michigan couple has en-1 outlets to publicize their appeal listed the aid of Gov. Mike to kidnapers who abducted their O'Callaghan to encourage news 7-year-old daughter from a Mon say will be filed shortly in the WASHINGTON (AP) M. Sgt. Grant A. Schulke has been placed in a psychiatric ward by the Air Force apparently after he said he wanted to file court-martial charges against President Nixon in the Watergate case.

An Air Force spokesman said Schulke "was asked and he agreed" to undergo 72 hours of psychiatric examination at Fitzsimmons General Hospital, Denver. Schulke, a 43-year-old career Air Force non-commissioned officer, told a reporter in a tele U.S. Court of Claims, would de mand reimbursement for all op holding of evidence. "I figured somebody should make the commander-in-chief stand to justice," Schulke said. He quoted the legal officer as saying the sergeant could not bring charges against Nixon under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, because the President was not subject to military law even though he is commander-in-chief of the armed forces.

The telephone interview was brief because Schulke said he had been summoned to the Office of Special Investigation at the air base; erating deficits incurred since Feb. 8, 1973. tana state park July 25 RINO IVENINO OAZITTI The last time Mr. and Mrs A member of Speidel Newspapers member of Associated Press. Second Class William Jaeger heard from the kidnapers was on Aug.

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By mail $31. a year. Other rates of request. phone interview Tuesday that he had discussed with a legal officer at Lowry Air Force Positive identification of their daughter, Susie, was made, the agp I2 amount of money wanted and a location in another state for the money drop was given, but no time or date stated. been identified.

Three indictments named Henley, who had been charged with two slayings in Houston and three in San Augustine County. He has told police he took part in nine killings. The jury returned one indictment against Brooks. He had been charged with one murder in Houston but has said he did not kill anyone. One indictment alleged both Brooks and Henley killed William Ray Lawrence, 15, "by strangling him with a cord and in some manner and by some means, instruments and weapons to the grand jury unknown" on July 10.

The other two indictments accuse Henley of strangling Marty Ray Jones with a cord and of shooting to death Charles C. Cobble. The two 17-year-olds were slain July 27. The grand jury returned the indictments after hearing 6'z hours of testimony from police detectives and Billy Ridinger. Cars bother mule wagon Since then, no contact has been made with the kidnapers.

The girl is described as hav- MADERA, Calif. (AP) A couple trying to travel to Wash ing shoulder length, dark brown hair; blue eyes; medium build, ington state in a wagon pulled by mules has found it hard to weighing 55 pounds; four feet cope with California cars. country roads during the first two weeks and 100 miles of their "nice long vacation." The Schuldts, who sold their home, car and other possessions to finance the trip, hi ched up at a stable here Tuesday and started looking for a truck. They still plan to spend the winter in Lake Chelan, then head east, in the Schuldt of Visalia decided Tuesday to pack their mules and wagon onto a truck and drive into Oregon where they hope traffic will be a little lighter for their mule power rig bearing motto "Win Back The West." "California roads are just too busy," Schuldt said, even though they stayed on two-lane Secret witness A disguised witness, believed to be Billy 20, of Houston, was taken before the grand jury Tuesday to testify in the area's mass nurder case. Ridinger escaped being killed by Dean Allen Corll through the intercession of David Brooks, according to Brooks.

(UPI Photo! Their little bungalow-like wagon home was run on tne tall and was wearing a rust-colored, short sleeved shirt, blue jeans, yellow sox and no shoes. The Jaegers wish to be contacted at 29836 Hemlock, Farm-ington, 48024 or called at (313) 476-1080 road twice, and Jenny, one of their mules, was almost hit by a truck. SUSIE JAEGER 1 spring, perhaps for Maine. So Bonnie and Stewart.