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Fifteen Cents VOL. 131 NO. 361 FINAL Edition SIXTY-FOUR PAGES TOP of the NEWS TUCSON, ARIZONA, WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 27, 1972 CLOUDY. Increasing cloudiness is forecast today with a 20 per cent chance of showers tonight.

A high near 70 is expected for today, with cooler weather setting in tomorrow. Details on Page 4A. A1 ror mm Ull VJ JiQUM Global Funeral Services To Be Tomorrow By B. DRL'MMOND AYERS JR. 1972 New York Times News Service SOVIET TAXES.

The Soviet Union offers a New Year's gift to its citizens: taxpayers in the lowest brackets will no longer have to pay income taxes, and the minimum wage will be increased. Page 5B. SOVIETS HOPEFUL. Tass, the official Soviet news agency, gives an optimistic review of foreign relations in 1972 and says the world "has made a step toward building a better future for mankind." Page 7D. PHILIPPINE INSURRECTION.

Ground fighting between rebel bands and army troops cause thousands of civilian residents in the southern Philippines to flee their homes and the situation is reported as "increasingly tense." Page 7D. BOMBING DEBATE. Nixon's "bombing is essential for peace" strategy has revived the debate among military experts, journalists, politicians and others. Three times the bomb tonnage dropped by the U.S. in World War II has already been unloaded on the North.

Page 4D. TOP NEWS STORIES. The editors of the Associated Press agree that President Nixon's trip to China was the most newsworthy story of the year. Other major stories of 1972 include the assassination attempt on Gov. George Wallace, the blood-soaked Olympic games, Nixon's re-election and the efforts to end the war in Vietnam.

Page 6C. KANSAS CITY, Mo. Harry S. Truman, the 33rd president of the United States, died Tuesday morning. He was 88 years old.

President Nixon declared Thursday a national day of mourning. The flag is to be flown at half-staff for 30 days. from 1:35 p.m. today until 11 a.m. Thursday.

Burial will follow on the library grounds at a spot chosen by Truman himself. The library houses the papers and mementos Truman accumulated during 18 years in Washington as senator, vice president and president. President and Mrs. Nixon will fly to Kansas City this afternoon, then go to the library to lay a wreath at the base of Truman's coffin. Although the President's name appeared on the official list of persons invited to attend the funeral, it was expected that in keeping with the subdued and private nature of the ceremony, he would not stay overnight for the funeral service and burial.

Former President Lyndon B. Johnson and Mrs. Johnson will fly to Independence today to pay their final respects to Truman, Johnson's office said Tuesday in Austin, Tex. The Johnson visit will occur while Truman's body is lying in state at the Truman Library. Johnson's office said the former President and Mrs.

Johnson will be accompanied on the flight to Missouri by their immediate family, Mr. and Mrs. Charles S. Robb of Charlotte-ville, and Mr. and Mrs.

Patrick Nugent of Austin. Mrs. Robb and Mrs. Nugent are Johnson daughters. The announcement said the Johnson party fCj National CONSERVATION PROGRAMS HALTED.

Truman, an outspoken and decisive Missouri Democrat who served in the White House from 1945 to 1953, died at 7:50 a.m. in Kansas City's Research Hospital and medical center. He had been under treatment for lung congestion, heart irregularity, kidney blockages, failure of the digestive system and the encroachments of old age. In the seven years he was president, from the time Franklin Delano Roosevelt's death suddenly elevated him from the vice until he himself was succeeded by Dwight David Eisenhower, Truman left a major mark as a world leader. He brought mankind face to face with the age of holocaust by ordering atomic bombs dropped on Japan, sent American troops into Korea to halt Communist aggression in Asia, helped contain communism in Europe by forming the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and speeded the postwar recovery of Europe through the Marshall Plan.

His domestic record was somewhat less dramatic, for his proposals and ideas were often premature. He ended up on the losing side of fights other presidents later won federal health care, equal-rights legislation, come housing. His olher legacies were perhaps less tangible but no less remembered the morning walk, the "give 'em hell" campaign that nipped Thomas E. Dewey at the wire, the desk plaque that proclaimed "The Buck Stops Here!" and the word to the timid and indecisive, "if you can't stand the heat, you better get out of the kitchen." Toward the end of his struggle for life, the former President weakened steadily. Early Monday, his doctors warned that death might come "within hours." When it came, the docta.s announced that the cause was "a complexity of organic failures causing a collapse or the cardiovascular system." A state funeral will be held Thursday in nearby Independence, Truman's home town.

Much of the ceremony will be subdued and private at the family's request. The former President's body will lie in state in the Truman Library in Independence would join other mourners at the Truman Library and also would visit privately with Mrs. Truman. The spokesman said the Johnson party (Continued on Page UA, Col. 1) The Nixon administration suddenly drops two assistance programs for farmers to preserve waterfowl areas and to help with conservation and anti-pollution measures.

The programs had been allotted more than $200 million by Congress. Page 16C. HOPE FOR CHILDREN. A Harvard researcher says that orthodox thinking appears to be incorrect, and that children deprived of normal intellectual stimulation in infancy apparently can overcome the deficiency and reach normal intelligence. Page 10B.

WATERGATE. Jack Anderson says the Justice Department is secretly approaching Watergate defendants in an attempt to settle the affair without trial. The trial is scheduled to start just about the time that President Nixon officially takes office in January. Page 4B. GUARD HEADQUARTERS.

Arson is suspected in a $5-million fire that destroyed the National Guard headquarters of California. The fire was "so incredibly hot" that it buckled steel beams, and thousands of files were destroyed. Page 12A. Heavy Raids Over North Start Again Hanoi Reports Downing Eight B52s In One Day Compiled From Wire Services SAIGON U.S. planes and warships resumed the bombardment of North Vietnam on Tuesday, ending a 36-hour Christmas pause in the war's heaviest raids.

The U.S. Command, in its first announcement on the holiday suspension, also said that a 24-hour bombing pause in South Vietnam ended at dusk Monday. North Vietnam claimed that eight more U.S. B52 Stratofortresses and an F4 fighter-bomber were shot down Tuesday after the raids were resumed. A braodcast from Hanoi said "many aggressor pilots" were captured.

The broadcast said five B52s were shot down over Hanoi, two over the port of Haiphong and one north of Hanoi. There was no reaction from the U.S. Command. It does not comment on Hanoi claims. Command spokesmen refused to say why the break over the North lasted longer than that in the South.

Other U.S. officials indicated that the northern suspension had been extended hour by hour while President Nixon awaited some indication from Hanoi that it was willing to resume the stalled secret peace talks. In recent years, U.S. holiday truces have applied only to South Vietnam. In Paris, a spokesman for North Vietnam denounced the resumption of American bombing and indicated Hanoi is still ready to resume negotiation if the attacks are halted.

Nguyen Than Le, spokesman for Hanoi's delegation to the peace talks, declared in a statement that if the United States really wanted to settle the war by serious negotiation, "it must cease immediately the acts of escalation of the war against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, abandon threats through use of force and, in the first place, return to the situation existing before Dec. 18." It was on that date that the Nixon administration announced resumption of air attacks above the 20th parallel following an apparent breakdown of the private talks betwen Henry Kissinger, the President's national security adviser, and Le Due Tho, the North Vietnamese Politburo member. Tuesday's statement by the North Vietnamese made it apparent that attacks on Hanoi, Haiphong and other heavily populated areas are an obstacle to further talks but those conducted below the 20th parallel are not. Maj. Jere K.

Forbus, spokesman for the U.S. Command in Saigon refused to link the raids on the North with peace negotiations, although he said there were different reasons behind the suspensions in the North and the South. Forbus said U.S. military authorities had known from the start how long the pause over the north would last. The raids resumed under the same mantle of secrecy that masked the suspension and the escalation of bombing in the Hanoi-Haiphong area last week.

Forbus said no new limitations had been imposed on the renewed strikes, and refused to comment on the number of raids or their targets. Asked why the holiday suspensions of attacks were not announced in advance as in the past, Forbus replied: "Given the conditions, we believed an advantage would accrue to the enemy by virtue of foreknowledge of the stand-down." Asked why no word was forthcoming until nearly 24 hours after the southern pause ended, he said the command "deemed it rea- (Continned on Page (A, Col. 4) Harry S. Truman, 1884-1972 Most US. Offices To Close Tomorrow All governmental offices in Tucson and throughout the nation except those necessary to maintain national defense will be closed tomorrow in respect for former President Harry S.

Truman. Banks in Tucson, however, were still unsure of their plans last night. A spokesman for the Valley National Bank said federal authorization was required before the bank could close on a regular working day and that no such authorization had come so far. Most businesses will remain open in Tucson, but mail will be limited to special jf Arizona Looters Plaguing Quake-Torn City PROFESSOR REINSTATED. A federal court judge orders Dr.

Morris J. Starsky, former professor of philosophy at ASU, reinstated because his 1970 firing by the Arizona Board of Regents violated his rights of free speech and due process. The judge says the regents confused criticism with disrespect. Page 4A. COTTON SUPPORTS.

Federal price supports will be extended to only 259,150 acres of cotton in 1973, a 9 per cent reduction from the 1972 level. Page IB. Local MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) Rescue workers burned bodies Tuesday and looters fought among themselves as vultures flew in patient circles over this earthquake-shattered city. Many of the bodies not burned were buried in common graves. A tropical sun made the stench of decomposing flesh almost unbearable fcOther Stories, Page 7B.

in the ruins of what once was Nicaragua's capital city of 300,000. The latest official estimate of the human toll taken by last Saturday's earthquake was 3.000 to 6,000 dead and 20,000 injured. It was Managua's worst natural disaster. International relief efforts moved into high gear to aid survivors. President Nixon ordered "an all-out effort to provide needed help to Nicaragua." The Agency for International Development said U.S.

relief supplies and other aid would total $3 million. At midafternoon a pitched battle broke out between two groups of civilians over loot taken from the rubble. National Guard troops fired over their heads to break up the fight. Elsewhere, a supermarket only partly dam- ENROLLMENT BY MAIL. The possibility of allowing UA students to enroll by mail for the 1973 summer session is being studied.

While such a plan would mean more work for the UA staff, it would be more convenient for the students, says David L. Windsor, the registrar. Page 12B. Index Bridge 16B Movies UD Comics 14-15D Pub. Rec CD Crossword 16C Tucson Today 3A Editorial 16D Sports 1-3D Financial MOD TV-Radio 15D Good Health 11B Want Ads 8-15C Horoscope 15B Women 1-4C aged by the quake was stripped by looters.

They even took the shelves. Owners of firearms carried them to protect their possessions. Rescue workers pulled back the collapsed wall of a house and found the bloated, decaying bodies of a woman and two children. They hauled the bodies into the street, split the heads, arms and legs with machetes and burned them in a gasoline fire. The woman's brother sicod by, crying.

A soldier lay dead in the street, perhaps shot by a looter. Extensive fires brcke out late in the afternoon in what had been Managua's downtown section. Some unconfirmed reports said looters had set them to divert attention. Nicaragua's leader, Gen. Anastasio Somoza, theorized that the building owners might be responsible, to salvage something from insurance coverage that included fire but excluded earthquake damage.

Most of the city has been evacuated, but a few thousand homeless remain. The government ordered the Red Cross on Monday to stop food distribution in the center of the devastated area in an effort to speed evacuation. Many of those who fled soon after the quake were returning to salvage possessions. Ruben Teresani, a Venezuelan seismologist, said the city should not be rebuilt on its existing site because of soft subsoil. "Tbe whole town must be blown up," he said.

If cisterns outside the city are not reinforced they may rupture, worsening the already critical water shortage, be warned. The U.S. aid includes medicine, food, tents and water purification plants for the Nicara-guan capital. The Organization of American States said it is geared to speed $250,000 in food, clothing, medicine and temporary shelters to victims of the disaster. Somoza said food was the most important need.

Cannibalism Alleged In Andes Ordeal fti I' ii fjli-1 ir I i SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) Official sources said Tuesday that some survivors of a plane crash high in the Andes told them they ate parts of the bodies of dead companions to keep from starving during an ordeal of more than two months. The plane crashed on Oct 13, and 29 persons were killed in the crash or in an avalanche later. The 16 survivors spent 69 days in often below-zero temperatures. They were either rugby players, or relatives or boosters. The charge d'affaires at the Uruguayan Embassy in Santiago, Cesar Charlone, said that when all of the survivors are back in Uruguay they will make an official joint statement One of the young men, not identified, compared the group's decision to use the cadavers as "similar to a heart transplant." His explanation was that in a transplant operation, a heart is taken from a person at death to maintain another's life, and in the same manner portions of bodies had been used.

The sources said that other survivors with strong religious convictions comDared the decision to nse the bodies as food with "the sacrament of the Catholic communion." One survivor was quoted by the sources as saying, "If we would have died, it would have been suicide, which is condemned by our faith (the Roman Catholic Church)." Charlone, emphasizing that he spoke as an individual and not officially, said: "The boys fought dramatically to keep alive their wounded companions. With the few medical tools they had they tried more than one surgical operation." In Montevideo, Uruguay, the mother of one man who survived said of the cannibalism report: "It's a lie. It's criminal action even to print such reports." Sara Francois added that "something that looked like a miracle from Heaven" should not be "dirtied with this kind of report" Roberto Canessa, 20, and Fernando Parrado, 23, left the group on Dec 12 to find help. After a 10-day hike through waist-deep snow, they found a shepherd who summoned police. Half-Staff At HST's Home The front of the Harry S.

Truman home at Independence, is shown, wfrh tho flag at half staff. The former President was taken from his homo on Dec 5 to a hospital in nearby Kansas Cty as his final illness worsened. (AP Wirephoto).