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Sunny and mild, showers tonight Complete weather, p. 5A A MEMBER OF THE GANNETT GROUP ROCKLAND COUNTY, N.Y., SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1972 L.V if i Mm oe mounts Easter's services sef here fx ush it i 1 massive Jo v'" i By RICHARD PYLK SAIGON' (API A massive enemy force has crossed the demilitarized zone into South Vietnam in a drive to invade Quang Tri Province, a South Vietnamese military commander said tonight. Lt. Gen. Huang Xuan Lam.

commander of the northern sector, said three North Vietnamese divisions, three artillery regiments and units with surface to air missiles SAMs were involved in the drive. Lam. after making a battlefield tour, said South Vietnamese infantry, marine and armored cavalry units are engaged in "several bloody battles." He claimed that thousands of North Vietnamese troops have been killed in three days of fighting and a number of others have been captured. Lam's statement was released by the Saigon military command in Saigon. Earlier in the day enemy troops had pushed closer to South Vietnam's northernmost provincial capital as defenses along the demilitarized zone crumbled under the fiercest attacks in more than four years.

Government troops retreated from two more forward bases, raising to eight the number of bases abandoned since Thursday. A ninth base was under heavy ground attack, and officers said it was questionable whether it would hold. Still another outpost was running short of ammunition. North Vietnamese troops moved to within three miles of Quang Tri combat base, which is just two miles from Quang Tri City itself. The base, headquarters of the South Vietnamese 3rd Infantry Division responsible for DMZ defense, was hit by 600 rounds of rocket and artillery fire, then attacked with recoilless rifle cannon.

The U.S. 7th Fleet rushed a second guided missile destroyer to the sector, American B52 bombers were ordered into direct support of the South Vietnamese and U.S. Air Force tactical fighter-bombers stepped up their raids. Gen. Frederick C.

Weyand, deputy commander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, flew to Da Nang to confer with American i 4 i 'J and South Vietnamese commanders about the critical sit-uatkjn in Quang Tri province. Fighting also broke out only a mile from another provincial capital, Kontum City. It and Quang Tri have been mentioned as likely targets in a general North Vietnamese offensive. There was no immediate word whether Quang Tri city was under shelling or whether its 20,000 civilian inhabitants had begun to flee.

The only escape route from the city, about 19 miles south of the DMZ, is Highway 1, running to the old imperial capital of Hue, 30 miles distant. The latest bases to fall were Alpha 2 and the main base at Nui Ba Ho. Alpha 2 is 2'2 miles south of the buffer strip just above the district town of Gio Linn. Nui Ba Ho is 11 miles south of the frontier. Mai Loc Cap, 11 miles from the frontier, faced a critical ammunition shortage.

Total South Vietnamese casualties were put at 47 troops killed and 129 wounded. But field reports indicated government casualties were much higher. More than 200 wounded soldiers were brought into a hospital at Hue on Friday. Many of them were transferred by a U.S. plane to a hospital in Da Nang.

Easter Sunday is a day of rejoicing for Christians all over the world. It is the most significant day in Christian liturgy because it commemorates Christ's return from the dead. Catholic and Protestant churches will observe special religious services on Sunday, many beginning at dawn. Ecumenical services will be held on top of Bear Mountain at 6 a.m. Another sunrise service sponsored by the Nyack Clergy Association will be held on the plateau of Hook Mountain at 7 a.m.

A service at Nanuet Mall, sponsored by the Rock-land County Evangelical Ministers, will begin at 6 a.m. The following is a partial listing of other area services. Stony Point Battlefield Park ecumenical service at 7 a.m. Brick Church Cemetery, Monsey 5:30 a.m. service followed by breakfast at West Hempstead Reformed Church.

St. John's in the Wilderness 6 a.m. St. Thomas Lutheran Church 8, 9:30, and 11 a.m. Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd, Pearl River 6, 8, 9:30 and 11 a.m.

Christ Lutheran Church 6 a.m. dawn' service at Airmont Cemetery Hill. Other services at 8, 9:30 and 11 a.m. All Saints' Episcopal Church Services today at 4:30 p.m. and Sunday at 8 and 9:30 a.m.

Grace Episcopal Church 6:30, 8 and 10 a.m. St. John's Episcopal Church 8, 9:30 and 11 a.m. Tompkins Memorial Protestant Church 11 a.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Ladentown and Viola United Methodist Churches 9:30 combined service at Laden-town and 11 a.m. combined service at Viola. Stony Point Presbyterian Church 9:45 and 11 a.m. First Unitarian Society of Rockland County 10:45 a.m. Saint Paul's Lutheran Church, Main New City -8, 9:30 and 11 a.m.

Saint John the Divine, Tomkins Cove 11 a.m. Lighthouse Assembly, Hillburn 6, 10:30 a.m., 7 p.m. Reformed Church, Piermont 7:30, 11 u.ni. A Hancake breakfast will be served in the parish hall from 8 to 10 a.m. Cost is $1.50 for adults and $1 for children.

AP photo PQ'EoSter tragedy through shown trying to save one of the small Tampa's Yfoor City early this morning children after they fought through deleaving five children dead and one in hris. critical condition. Fire rescue men are ike str CO Girl dies i. union agreed Friday evening to a one-week postponement of its threatened strike, were not directly involved in the job action. But spokesmen for local guards' unions said the guards were considering honoring the CSEA picket lines.

A spokesman for the Correc-tknal Services Department said that guards at prisons might be held over after their shifts end "if the pickets pose a threat to our operations." CSEA officials dodged attorneys seeking to serve a show-cause order prohibiting the strike. The order was signed State Supreme Court Justice Edward Conway Friday night, and was later amended to let it take effect when it was tacked on the door of CSEA headquarters. The papers were attached to Uie i trance-way at 11:40 p.m. The state's Taylor Law prohibits strikes by public employes. The union declared it would ignore the court order.

"We've locked into this strike because it expressed the wishes of the members," a spokesman said. "The only thing that could sway us now would be a reasonable contract settlement." A state proposal offered through mediators of the Public Employment Relations Board as the midnight strike deadline neared was rejected by union officials. They contended it differed from earlier versions only in insignificant language changes. Friday morning the CSEA walked out of a bargaining session with the state and announced it was rejecting both a tentative Thursday-night wage offer and a proposal for a factfinding board. ALBANY.

Y. (AP) The Civil Service Employes Association ordered a strike today by 140,000 New York State employes, defying a court order and rejecting a last-minute contract offer by the state. Picket lines were set up at several mental institutions across the state when the strike began at midnight, but the Mental Hygiene Department reported that there were no "significant" staff shortages reported at any of its facilities. Pickets also appeared at Attica state prison and at the reformatory and reception center at Elmira, and prison guards on the night shift at Elmira were ordered to stay in the prison overnight. The prison guards, whose Blast ends Theodore Wenzl orders strike in collision A 20-year-old Pearl River girl was killed and a 19-year-old Pearl River youth is in critical condition at Nyack Hospital today as the result of a 2-car head-on collision on Route 303 in West Nyack at 9:16 p.m.

Friday. Judy Michaelsen, 20, of 148 John Pearl River, was pronounced dead on arrival at Nyack Hospital. William E. Zaidan, 19, of 188 So. William Pearl River, driver of the car, was reported in critical condition in the intensive care unit at the hospital.

John D. Spagnolo, 25, driver of the other car, and his wife, Barbara. 24, of North Vale, were treated and released at Nyack Hospital. Police said Mrs. ngnolo was almost nine morW pregnant.

She reportedly left the hospital to see her own physician in New Jersey. Clarkstown police said that Zaidan was driving south on Route 303 when he suddenly had to swerve to his left to avoid hitting a vehicle that (Turn to l') Ulster calm No problems in county hospitals mal operations this morning. Pickets were stationed at each of the institutions except the Rehabilitation Hospital. Cornelius Walsh, deputy director for administration at Letchworth, said the day shift reported to work and all positions were covered. The normal work crew for a holiday weekend is 300 to 400 workers, he said.

Night shift operations to cross the picket lines set up at the two gates this morning to permit normal operations, according to Dr. H.S. Mashiki-an, director. Mrs. Doris Morgan, night supervisor, reported a quiet duty tour with a normal holiday weekend complement on hand.

Stephen Forstenzer, administrator of the Rehabilitation Turn to 1 5 Operations at four state institutions in Rockland have not been materially affected by the strike declared last midnight by the Civil Service Employees Association. Spokesmen at Letchworth Village, Thiells; Rockland State Hospital, Orangeburg; Rockland Children's Hospital, Orangeburg; and the New York State Rehabilitation Hospital, West Haverstraw, all reported nor Friday were not affected, he said. At Rockland State Hospital, Dr. Fritz Breuer said pickets arrived at 11:30 p.m. Friday and remained for a while but operations were not affected.

Pickets returned for the morning shift, but most workers were reporting for duty, he said. Rockland Children's Hospital expected enough workers 3,225 jackpot for Cashwords See Page 3A Marines Abuse of Larkin dismays officials answer BELFAST (AP)- A huge bomb planted in a stolen hearse exploded in Belfast's city center today, damaging a dozen shops and ending two days of relative calm in strife-torn Northern Ireland. No serious injuries were reported in the blast. But it sharpened tension as British troops braced for Easter clashes between warring Protestants and Catholics. The bomb, which the army estimated at between 100 and 200 pounds of gelignite, was one of the biggest to rock the bomb-blasted city.

An unidentified caller had telephoned the Irish News with a 10-minute warning that the "biggest bomb ever" had been planted in the hearse parked outside a tavern in a skle street. Troops sealed off the area moments before the charge, hidden in a coffin in the hearse, exploded, the army said there apparently was no corpse in the coffin and that the hearse had been stolen several hours earlier. Three persons were treated for shock. The blast came as 132 guerrilla suspects detained aboard the prison ship Maidstone in Belfast harbor held a hunger strike demanding the release of all 730 men arrested in Northern Ireland under the ant i-terrorist Special Powers Act. The strike coincided with efforts by Britain's new ruler of Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, to phase out the controversial internment policy.

A handful of low ranking IRA suspects have already been freed. More were expected to be released in the coming weeks. The strike, the latest in a string of protests by the Maidstone prisoners, followed a riot aboard the vessel earlier this week when troops were called in to restore order. Authorities stopped food parcels to the prisoners for two days. Metal cutters and hacksaws were lound in the prisoners' sleeping quarters and officials said they had foiled an escape attempt.

call ''nvmw vmiat9mmmimim v. A cV 'if. A.V i (v vt examiner Frederick Zugibe at the Summit Park Hospital in Pomona. He did not appear and his attorney Terrance Ryan declined to speak to reporters. Larkin is again scheduled to appear when the inquest resumes Monday.

Stony Point polk-e would not comment when asked Friday whether Larkin's home is being guarded. Compassion for Larkin was also urged by some parents of the Nyack High School students who were killed or injured in the crash. Richard Gutwillig, Nyack High School hix-key coach, acting as spokesman for the parents, issued the following statement Friday night: "On behalf of many of the parents of the Nyack High School students who were killed or injured in the tragic accident Frklay, we deplore the acts of vklence and van-d a I i being directed at school bus driver, Joseph Larkin and his family. At this holiday season, we would urge everyone to continue displaying the understanding and compassion that have been tendered to us and our children during the past week." Medical society officials here have expressed dismay over abuse directed at Joseph Larkin, driver of the Nyack High School bus which collided with a Penn Central freight train last Friday. "The medical community is appalled," Dr.

Joel E. Mandel, Director of Public Information of the county Medical Society said Frklay referring to reports that Larkin's Stony Point home has been stoned and some windows broken. The 37-year-old bus driver and father-of-two, a moonlighting New York City fireman, was released from Nyack Hospital Wednesday at his own request. Still suffering from back injuries incurred in the, bus train collision, he was listed in guarded condition at the time of his release. He was guarded at the hospital by an unarmed hospital security officer.

Dr. Mandel noted th one letter sent to the hospital was addresscxl to "Killer Larkin." "He is not the enemy of the people," the dtx tor said of Larkin. "He did not set mil to hurt anyone." Larkin left Nyack Hospital' just hours before he was scheduled to appear at an inquest conducted by medical By ROBERT KNIGHT Staff Writer The U.S. Marines landed at Nyack Friday to the cheers of a crowd of 200 to do their part to help the victims of last week's train-schoolbus crash in Congers. A group of 15 servicemen, led by a 24-year-old Congers lieutenant, landed in a iet-powered helicopter on the Nyack High School football field about 4 p.m.

to donate blood at Nyack Hospital, across the street. The crash took the lives of four students and injured more than 40 others. Three students remained in critical condition at the hospital this morning. "When I heard about the crash on the radio, and read about it in the papers the next day," Lieutenant Vladimir Oksevski said, "I knew I had to do something to help those people from my own home town." Cutting quickly through military red tape, he secured permission to bring a flight to Nyack from his base at the Marine Air Stat km at New River, Norh Carolina. He also lined up 14 volun- (Turn lo 3A Index Ann Landers 8 V-omkt ClassifU-d S-JJ Editorial pages Leisure Movie C'hxk 9 Obituaries Sports Television Theater 9A i ri- ml ill mmaMMyi urn AP photo 1,1.

Oksevski and Sgl. Ilenrikson wiitt Paul Price and kiitliy Hart at hospital.