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Kissinger Sees New Hanoi Approach To Peace returning to Paris to resume secret contacts with North Vietnam's Le Due Tho. At one point, Kissinger said negotiators face the option of limiting a settlement to military matters as Nixon proposed on May 8 or working on a comprehensive military-political agreement. Reeause political questions are so thorny, he said, the administration would prefer to seek a military settlement and leave the two Vietnams to work out a political agreement later. The hite House aide was asked about reports from London quoting Communist diplomats as saying that Moscow and Peking had urged Hanoi to be more flexible in the negotiations. Kissinger responded that "it is conceivable to us the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China informed Hanoi of the discussions they are having with us" an apparent reference to Vietnam discussions Nixon had with Soviet leaders in Moscow tnd the recent talks Kissinger held with Chinese leaders in Peking.

But Kissinger reiterated what other White House officials have said: "We recognize that final settlement will be made" as a result of negotiations with Hanoi and not with any other Communist countries. He repeated, too, that the United States opposes the imposition of a coalition government on Saigon, but said also that political issues must be settled apart from the military issues. Kissinger, who has made more than a dozen trips to Paris for private talks with the North Vietnamese, would not say whether he planned another journey to the French capital soon. But he said, in response to a question, that he expects Le Due Tho and Xuan Tri to return to Paris in the near future to represent the Communists in their renewed talks. By FRANK CORMER SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.

(AP) Henry A. Kissinger said Saturday he has "some reason believe" that Hanoi will take "a new approach" when the Taris peace talks resume Thursday. Kissinger, principal foreign policy adviser President Nixon, told a Western White House news conference that "we do not want raise expectations that we cannot fulfill." cautioned that Hanoi's response would not become clear until negotiations are resumed. The United States broke off the talks in early May, Kissinger said. There has been "very intensive diplomatic activity" during which United States has, through direct and indirect contact with Hanoi, sought to make it clear "we believe that the time for serious negotiations has long been overdue," he added.

He offered the judgment that the Communist military offensive in South Vietnam "has Twenty-Five Cents VOL. 131 NO. 187 terse-' "SUM I U.S., Soviets Conclude Pact On rain Li3 jf TOP of the NEWS CHANCES OF RAIN. Those unseasonable thundershowers have a 20 per cent chance of making another appearance in Tucson tonight and tomorrow. The high was 96 yesterday, 102 a year ago and 108 in 1956.

Yesterday's low was 74, one degree above last year and six notches higher than the 1956 record of 68. Rain fell in southern Florida, the Pacific Northwest and the central states, and the East Coast began to recover from a cool spell. Details on Page 4 A. CHESS MATCH. First Bobby Fischer wasn't going to show up.

Then Russian grandmaster Boris Spassky said he wanted a delay in the stall of the world championship chess match. Now, due to his son's bicycle accident, the referee won't show up for the first game Tuesday. Page 2A. MARIJUANA SEIZED. Mexico reports to the United Nations Narcotics Commission that tt seized 95V4 tons of marijuana in 1971.

The government says its antidrug army arrested 1,966 persons, destroyed 6,519 poppy fields and burned 238 million marijuana plants last year. Page 8A. DRAFT DODGERS. American women in exile with their draft-dodging husbands seem to be caught up in an emotional debate on the principles involved. Some women leave their husbands soon after arriving in Canada, but those who stay cite discrimination more than they encountered in the United States.

Page IE. ENVIRONMENT The United Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm found that the 1,200 delegates to the meeting were better prepared to defend their various national interests than to discuss delicate environmental systems. Page 17A. rC) National AIRMN'E PROBLEMS. A boom-and-bust cycle seems inescapably a part of the airlines' pattern of growth.

A Harvard Business School professor has singled out a number of key factors, about which much can be done, to bring more stability to airline operating figures. Tage HE. THE VICE PRESIDENCY. Arizona Rp. Morris Udall is mentioned as a possible vice presidential candidate on the McGovern ticket if and when the South Dakota senator wins the Democratic presidential nomination.

Page 13A. WELFARE FLAN. President Nixon's welfare reform plan has only a slim chance of enactment when Congress reconvenes July 17. The reason is that Congress extracted the principal political sweeteners from the big Social Security welfare bill of which the Nixon reform plan is a part. Page 16A.

Arizona BUILDING THE FUTURE. In the desert north of Scottsdale, young volunteers are working hard at constructing Arcosanti, a prototype of Paolo Soleri's dream of "arcology," the application of the principles of ecology to architecture. Page 12A. rrffffffflL Local ZORA FOLLEY DIES. Arizona heavyweight boxer Zora Folley dies of an injury received in an accidental fall at a Tucson motel.

Page IB. PARKS DIRECTOR. Gene Reid, director of the Tucson Parks and Recreation Department, is methodically informal. He has a reputation for getting things done, sometimes to the unbelief of city officials. Page 3D.

-n luD. Kec TV Radio 7D Want Ads 5-20C Women 1-12E Bridge 10D Crossword 12D Editorial 1-4F Financial 1-3C Good Health 19D Horoscope 20D Enemy Holds In Quang Tri SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese paratroopers moving into the southeastern quarter of the city of Quang Tri have run into stiff resistance from enemy tanks and artillery, witnesses reported Saturday. Latest reports from the field partly confirmed a Saigon command announcement Thursday that its forces had penetrated the heart of the northern provincial capital, but other government claims were regarded as premature. A 90-rnan paratrooper reconnaissance company, accompanied by three Americans, walked into the city Thursday and split into small teams that went undetected, sources with the unit said. The teams pinpointed' enemy strongholds and were followed into the city Friday by an slrbome infantry battalion, the sources said.

lM Global on fj Index to to to He the "We believe that this attitude has been fully conveyed to Hanoi and we have some reason to believe that perhaps they will approach these negotiations in something like the same spirit At least we have some reason to believe there will be a new approach." Kissinger hedged when asked if he would be North Viet Delegate Confers With Chou TOKYO, (AP) Xuan Thuy. North Vietnamese chief delegate to the Paris peace conference, left Peking by air Saturday for Paris after conferring with Chinese Premier Chou En-lai, a Peking broadcast reported. Thuy arrived in Peking Thursday and held talks with the Chinese premier Friday. The official New China news agency gave no details of what they discussed. TUCSON, ARIZONA, SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1972 The challengers had successfully ousted Daley in a meeting of the Credentials Committee and a floor battle is expected.

William S. Singer, a spokesman for the challengers, said they would take their seats anyway. He described the court decision as illegal. More than 20 Democratic governors conferred with candidates at the Fountainebleu Hotel, seeking compromises to settle seating controversies. The governors finally named a six-member committee to seek agreements where possible on credentials contests.

McGovern said he had discussed the California case with Sen. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine, and told him "I hoped he would keep his mind open on the fairness question." Muskie himself met with the governors and said he is still a candidate for the nomination. "California can't be compromised," McGovern said he fold the governors. "The issue has to be resolved on the floor." The issue, vital to McGovern's hopes for first ballot nomination, and to the efforts of Humphrey and other candidates to deny him the prize: Who gets 151 contested California delegate votes when the roll is called on presidential nomination? McGovern said he is confident his sweep of 271 delegates in the winner-take-all California primary will be upheld by the convention.

He said he does not think the party would support "a shoddy deal" to deprive him of more than half the California votes. McGovern told a news conference he would be happy to support the nominee if the party's rules are followed, saying the important thing is that "the process commends itself to the American people as fair and honorable." But he refused to say what he would do if denied the nomination. "I don't want to speculate on something that is not going to happen," he said. The party not only scheduled no-recess convention sessions on credentials, it decided on the same procedure when the Democratic platform is debated-beginning Tuesday night. "We are resting our case in the essential fairness and decency of the American people," (Continued on Page 13A, Col.

1) been essentially arrested" and argued that this made serious negotiations the more desirable for Hanoi. He said the assessment of the offensive was conveyed to Nixon by Maj. Gen. Alexander M. Haig Kissinger's deputy, who returned from a fact-finding trip to Saigon last Tuesday.

In discussing the offensive, Kissinger said the Communists still have the capability to mount a "high point" militarily during the next month but added, "We do not believe that the sort of massive attack which we witnessed in April and May on a countrywide basis is likely in the immediate future." At the outset, the foreign affairs expert said: "By serious negotiation" we mean not an acceptance necessarily of every proposal we have made, but a systematic discussion by both sides of each other's positions with a view toward finding a solution that is satisfactory to everybody. "ST "V-w a Concert Caravan delegate seating disputes and there was no telling how long that will take. Delegates from 15 states are under challenge in 21 separate credentials controversies, chief among them the dispute over California and its 271 nominating votes. McGovern announced Saturday that Sen. Abraham Ribicoff of Connecticut will deliver the nominating speech when his name is placed before the Democratic National Convention for presidential nomination Wednesday night.

Ribicoff placed McGovern's name in nomination at the Democratic convention in Chicago four years ago. In the ornate lobbies and gaudy parlors of resort hotels along Collins Avenue, the delegates were assembling and the politicians persuading as lines were drawn for the pivotal California battle. In another important delegate dispute, a circuit judge in Chicago Saturday night enjoined challengers to the 59-member delegation headed by Mayor Richard J. Daley from tak-' ing their seats as delegates. Paratroopers Fire, Artillery edge and government troops had not seized the northern or western sections of Quang Tri.

Vietnam Press, the official government news agency, quoted a high command spokesman as saying that three-fourths of the city was under control of government forces and foreign news agency reports to the contrary were groundless. But a field officer with an airborne unit stalled on the southern edge of the city said the spokesman's claim was "definitely premature." In the air war over North Vietnam, the U.S. Command reported the loss of three more F4 Phantom jets two of them shot down by MIG21s Wednesday and listed all six crew-men as i.L SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Following up on President Nixon's mission to Moscow, the United Stales agreed Saturday to sell $750 million in surplus grain to the Soviet I'nion in the next three years. Officials called it the biggest grain deal ever between any two countries.

The Western White House here said President Nixon considers the agreement, signed in Washington, "a very important concrete step forward" in developing trade is with trip Communist sujHuputtui. Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger outlined details of the agreement to newsmen and said it paves the way for progress on other economic issues such as settlement of the Soviets World War II Lend-Lease debt. With the agreement, the United States granted the Soviet Union for the first time the same Agriculture Department credit arrangement given on farm commodity sales to Allied countries. Moscow's acceptance of the credit terms repayment in three years with 6V2 per cent interest came two weeks ago and followed the proposal made by Nixon in his Kremlin summit talks in May. The agreement was signed, in Washington by Secretary of Commerce Peter G.

Peterson, Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz and Soviet Deputy Trade Minister N. R. Kuzin. It required the Soviet Union to buy from private U.S. commercial exporters a minimum of $750 million of wheat, corn, barley, sorghum, rye or oats in the three years beginning Aug.

1. First-year sales will be at least $200 million, with Moscow having the option each year of the types of grain it wants. This will be the third major sale to the Soviets of grain from U.S. stockpiles in a decade. Moscow bought $150 million in feed grains last fall, and $140 million in wheat in 1963.

The latest deal elevates the Soviet Union to Hundreds of drivers abandoned their cars on the roadside as urday. State police estimated that 200,000 persons came. They said traffic came to a standstill approaching the Pocono International all roads were jammed since sunrise. Story on Page 20-A. (AP Wire-Raceway in Pennsylvania, where a 10-hour rock concert was held Sat- photo) Confident Sen.

McGovern Says Nomination Certain FINAL Edition ONE HUNDRED EIGHTEEN PAGES Sale the second position on the list of foreign pur chasers of U.S. grain, behind Japan's average annual purchases of $437 million. Officials said an average purchase rate of $250 million annually by the Soviets would increase U.S. exports of the six grains by almost 17 per cent. White House Press Secretary Ronald L.

Ziegler, who announced the agreement, said Nixon believed it has gained "three important benefits for the American people and the U.S. "It will provide grain farmers with a boost in income," Ziegler said. "It will also provide jobs for Americans involved in shipping the grain, Including longshoremen, seamen, exporters, railroad and barge line workers. It will reduce the cost to taxpayers of storage and handling and other charges associated with maintaining commodity stocks." The President also feels, Ziegler said, that the agreement "is a tribute to the immense productivity of America's farmers, which makes possible export sales of this magnitude." And, the presidential spokesman said, the deal "builds on the accomplishments of the summit meeting in Moscow." The House said agricultural experts estimate that between 3,000 and 5,000 additional jobs are created for each $100 million of grain exports meaning that "a range of 22,500 to 37,500 man-years of work for U.S. workers are involved in this deal." Butz predicted at the Washington news conference that the Soviets would exceed the minimum $750-million purchase.

He said he based his prediction on the assumption that the Russians would need more feed grains to succeed in their five-year program to increase the production of animal protein by 25 per cent. Kissinger said negotiators had overcome the objections of some maritime unions to the deal. Without giving specifics, he said some of (Continued on Page 5A, Col. 1) mm 1 I I a By WALTER R. MEARS MIAMI BEACH, Fla.

(AP) Sen. George McGovern Saturday began his final drive to transform front-running strength into White House nomination, and declared he has no doubt that when the verdict is rendered "I will be the nominee of the Democratic party." Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey demanded that all the presidential candidates pledge loyalty to the ticket chosen by the Democratic National ton- TIAM vention a challenge aimed squarely at McGovern. JJ But McGovern declined to say what he might do if de- i nipri thf wiminntinn Hnn'r.

1 want to speculate on something that isn't going to happen," he said. Meanwhile, the Democratic National Com- iriiittee announced a convention schedule that promised marathon sessions beginning at 7:30 P-m' EDT Monday 4:3 P-m- Tucson time Party officials decided the convention will meet without recess until it has settled all Off Saigon With Tank The infantry, some 500 strong, took up positions around but not within sight of the southeastern corner of the walled citadel that forms the heart of Quang Tri. The paratroopers held the position under sporadic shelling and reported heavy resistance especially from tank fire when they attempted to move. The sources said the citadel Itself has been fortified with heavy machine guns and anti- jt Related Story On Page 5A. aircraft artillery and the city is believed to be defended by a regiment of about 2,500 main force Viet Cong troops.

Field reports insisted that, despite the Saigon command's claim, no armored cavalry had progressed beyond the city's southern -i -i-rL V( tfh ft Wv-''Vtll. if ft I Convention Leaders Meet Lawrence O'Brien, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Rep. Yvonne Brathwaite of California got together Saturday in Miami Beach for the first time since they were named co-chairmen of the party's nation al convention, which starts tomorrow. (AP Wirephoto) mm a-ii" -k.

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