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Twenty-Five Cents VOL 131 NO. 366 FINAL Edition TOP of the NEWS TUCSON. ARIZONA, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1972 EIGHTY-FOUR PASES Usefulness Of Blitz Debated By US. Officials GENERALLY FAIR. The weather for the last day of 1972 is expected to be generally fair with warmer afternoon temperatures.

The high should be 50 to 55, with a low tomorrow morning near 30. The high yesterday was 48 with a low of 27. A year ago the high was 55, and the low was 30. Record readings were 74 in 1956 and 24 in 1954. Details on Page 4A.

with a crew of six had been shot down. Sources here acknowledged Saturday that at least six more B52's had been severely damaged by enemy surface-to-air missiles and, although able to return to their bases, were no longer in flying condition. Pentagon officials maintained their silence on the repeated reports that the heavy U.S. bombing had caused widespread civilian damage and many deaths and injuries. One Hanoi doctor was quoted as estimating the death toll at 200 a day, with an additional 200 serious injuries.

In its only report last week, the U.S. Command in Saigon published a summary of what it said were more than 50 military targets in the Hanoi-Haiphong area that were destroyed. The list included railroad yards, communication facilities, warehouses, port facilities and petroleum-storage areas. Pentagon spokesmen have maintained that the bombs were aimed only at military objec "But it isn't just coercion," the officer added. "Even without successful negotiations, we're preparing the way so that we can have the ally over the.

stand on his own without our help. Even if the bombs don't coerce the enemy into successful peace talks, they're destroying his will to fight." But there were many other government officials who citing the heavy U.S. air losses, the growing international outcry and the mounting congressional unrest believe that the bombing has been extremely counterproductive. "Personally, I don't think we're doing the right thing," said one official who generally has taken a hard-line approach to the Vietnam issue. "Is bombing going to be effective? I can't see any reason in the world why it would be." "All they've got to do is hang on," the official said of the North Vietnamese.

"How long can we keep it up? What with our losses and international opinion against us, the key question is: Can we force them to do something by bombing? I doubt it." Up-to-date statistics on the number of bombing raids and tonnage of bombs dropped were unavailable Saturday, but the United States Command announced Thursday that nearly 1,500 strikes roughly one-third of them by the huge B52 bombers were flown above the 20th parallel officially ended Satur-seven days of the bombing, which started Dec. 18. Pentagon officials said that the bombing above the 20th Parallel officially ended Saturday morning Saigon time, meaning that North Vietnam was subjected to nearly 11 days of intensive raids, totaling perhaps more than sorties. Military spokesmen said that in those raids a total of 26 planes including 15 B52's, each Bombina Of Hanoi Halted A tier To Agree Global OPIUM SMUGGLERS. The effort by the United States to build up South Vietnam's air force ironically is helping opium smugglers in Southeast Asia, Jack Anderson believes.

Page 2A. SENOR LBJ? The Mexican government says it is investigating charges by a group of farmers in Chihuahua that former president Lyndon Baines Johnson owns 108,724 acres of cattle ranch along with former Mexican president Miguel Aleman. Such an arrangement would be illegal. Page 8A. SURVIVORS UNHAPPY.

Survivors of Managua, Nicaragua's devastating earthquake are increasingly upset by the slowness of distributing food and other relief supplies. Tons of material is stacking up in hangars awaiting distribution while thousands of survivors lack the necessities of life. Page 7A. WELFARE LAWS DENOUNCED. Rep.

Martha Griffiths, the head of the Senate-House subcommittee on fiscal policy, says that present welfare laws encourage error and fraud and prevent systematic detection. Comprehensive legislative reform is needed, she says. Page 8A. BOWL RESULTS. Auburn stuns Colorado In the Gator Bowl, North Carolina nips Texas Tech in the Sun Bowl, Tennessee gets past Louisiana State in the Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl, and the East defeats the West in the Shrine Game despite the heroics of Arizona's Jackie Wallace.

Pages IB, 5B. POLICEMEN INDICTED. A federal grand jury indicts 24 Chicago policemen, including a captain, on charges of shaking down liquor establishments for hundreds of thousands of dollars during the past six years. Page 5A. CANCER CHEMICALS.

An affiliate of Ralph Nader's Center for the Study of Responsive Law petitions the Labor Department to prohibit the use of 10 chemicals that have been 6hown to be closely linked to cancer, but which are still widely used in industry. Page 7A. BAN ON ADDITIVE. The livestock feed additive DES will be banned, effective tomorrow, in all food destined for human consumption. Continuing criticism of the federal ban is expected.

Page 6A. NIXON vs. CONGRESS. The 93rd Congress convenes this week, expecting a series of confrontations with President Nixon. The war in Indochina and government spending are expected to be major arenas.

Page 8A. Local UNEMPLOYMENT IN TUCSON. The unemployment rate in Tucson remains at 3.5 per cent in November, and the work force increases by 1,800 for a total of 142,000. The state Employment Security Commission reports that 5,200 persons were unemployed in tba city in November. Page 22B.

BODY IS FOUND. The body of a 68-year-old visitor from Nebraska is found at the base of a cliff near Redington Pass. The man had been missing since Thursday. Page 3A. Bridge 12C Movies 10C Crossword 13C Pub.

Rec 22B Editorial 1-4E Sports 1-8B Financial SB TV-Radio 7C Good Health 12C Want Ads H-21B Horoscope 14C Womei 1-CD Index v.v:a.'.:-Sm 4 11 By SEYMOUR M. HERSH 1972 New York Times News Service WASHINGTON Official Washington seemed unsure Saturday whether the heavy bombing of North Vietnam, which was ordered halted Saturday morning, had helped or hindered the United States in getting the Paris negotiations reopened. Interviews with military and civilian intelligence officials after Saturday morning's announcement produced sharp divisions over the value of the bombing of North Vietnam a dispute that has been waged since the first air strikes over the north in the mid-1960's. One high-ranking military man said that the recent bombing of the heavily populated Hanoi area was primarily aimed at coercing further concessions at the peace talks, which are to resume Jan. 8.

"There is a business of coercion in there and that's the business of war," the officer said. "So what's news?" Syria, Israel Exchange Barrages Air Strikes Retaliate After Artillery Fire TEL AVIV (AP) Syria shelled Israeli positions in occupied territory Saturday, and Israel retaliated with its second air attack in three days inside the Arab state. Damascus Radio reported that one Israeli warplane was damaged in a dogfight but did not say to what extent while Israel reported all the planes returned safely. The radio said earlier that Syria's artillery attack, near the cease-fire line where heavy fighting flared last month, was a reprisal against Israeli air strikes Wednesday. The Israeli command said the Syrian artillery fired an hour-long barrage into the northern Golan Heights section and then shelled the southern sector.

In retaliation, the command reported, its warplanes flew into Syria before midnight Saturday and bombed the army camp at Nebk, north of Damascus and 120 miles inside the border. The Israelis reported no casualties in the Syrian shelling and gave no estimates of bomb damage or Arab casualties from the air attack. Israel captured the Golan Heights in the 1967 Mideast war. Radio Damascus said after the Saturday shellings: "Our guns have inflicted severe fire on Israeli settlements and military positions in the occupied Syrian Heights." Syria said the earlier Israeli air attack, on Wednesday, killed three civilians and two soldiers. The Israelis had said their air attack against Syria on Wednesday was prompted by Palestinian guerrilla raids against Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights.

Meanwhile, police released the identity of two more Jews detained as suspects in a spy and espionage ring -allegedly working for Syria. One of the suspects is the son of a member of parliament. Detained for 15 days last Tuesday was Rami Livneh, 27, son of Abraham Levenbrun, a member of the Rakah Communist Party and a deputy in parliament. The son's name is a Hebrew version of the father's European name. Also detained was Mati Lehrman, 27, an Israeli immigrant from an unidentified South American country.

Four other Israeli Jews, the first ever suspected of working for the Arabs for ideological reasons instead of money, were detained last month. The Communist Party has not been implicated in the spy investigation. All six Jewish suspects were reportedly members of Matz-pen, a small Maoist movement that calls for revolution and for a Jewish-Arab division of Israel. SHABECOFF Times News Service Nixon reportedly told the labor leaders that he wanted a labor "input" in every part of his government The President also wanted to demonstrate that "this is not going to be an anti-labor administration, according to the White House officiaL Labor officials concede that there would be important benefits to be gained from having a onion presence at the decision-making level in government agencies. An official of the AFL-CIO gave an example of the rewards of having a labor spokesman at the Defense Department "Decisions about whether to end contracts or stop production would have to take into account the problems of workers in the contracting company." A labor representative at the Department of Agriculture would mean that the department would have to display more concern for the field workers instead of catering only to the interests of agribusiness, the official said.

tives, and they suggested at one point that the reported civilian damage and casualties might have been caused in part by the downing of B52's and errant North Vietnamese missiles. But heavy civilian casualties and damage have been reported by a number of diplomats in Hanoi, as well as by correspondents for, Agence France-Presse, the French news agen- cy- Some news reports have indicated that many residential areas of the city, which hag an extremely high population density, had been heavily bombed. The number of Air Force pilots and enlisted men officially reported missing since the raids began was put at 93 by the military command in Saigon, with dozens known to have been captured by North Vietnam. The number of men lost during the 11 days of operations thus represents about 20 per cent of the more than 400 men now believed to have been captured since the air war first began. Session Set For Jan.

8 In Paris WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon halted the massive bombing of North Vietnam's heartland Saturday after North Vietnam agreed to resume "serious negotiations" with Henry Kissinger. Deputy press secretary Gerald L. Warren announced that Kissinger's negotiations with North Vietnam's Le Due Tho and Xuan Thuy would resume in Paris on Jan. 8, and that technical talks between experts from both sides would resume this Tuesday. Then, in response to questions, Warren said: "The President has ordered that all if Related Stores On Page 2A.

bombing wUl be discontinued above the 20th Parallel as long as serious negotiations are under way." He said that Nixon's order to halt the raids went out "as soon as it was clear that serious negotiations could be resumed at both the technical level and between the principals In Paris, the North Vietnamese delegation to the peace talks confirmed that negotiations would resume and said the bombing halt had already gone into effect The National Liberation Front issued a statement indicating approval of the resumption of bilateral talks. Negotiations broke off on Dec. 13, with each side accusing the other of raising new issues to thwart the signing of a peace agreement drafted in October, when the presidential assistant said "peace is at hand." On Dec. 18, Nixon ordered full-scale bombing resumed above the 20th parallel Since then, except for a 36-hour Christmas pause, B52s and other aircraft have steadily bombed the Haiphong-Hanoi area in the most massive bombardment of the war. After the White House news conference, Warren would not say how or when Hanoi had indicated its willingness to resume talks.

But it was understood that Kissinger had been in direct contact with the Communists and had received a clear signal of their readiness to bargain earnestly. There was no sign, however, that Hanoi had agreed to make major concessions to reach a settlement Apparently because of this, indications are that Nixon views the resumption of negotiations with wariness and wants to be shown that Hanoi, indeed, is willing to "negotiate seriously." Officials have said repeatedly that the President is determined to continue military pressure on North Vietnam until a settlement is reached. Press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler, in announcing on Dec. 18 that air raids had resumed after a two-month suspension, said the bombing policy "win continue until such time as a settlement is arrived at" U.S.

officials said the air raids were aimed at military targets and were intended to knock out North Vietnam's ability to wage war. Kissinger will return to Washington for a series of intensive meetings with Nixon and other administration officials before going to Paris. In his last news conference, Dec. 16, the presidential assistant said the talks broke down when North Vietnam began making "frivolous" demands and raising new issues as soon as others had been settled. The North Vietnamese, in turn, accused the United States of stalemating the talks by attempting, on behalf of Saigon, to change the peace agreement drafted in October.

Tak ill A Coast Guard helicopter pilot, in helmet, aids in the transfer late Friday of an airliner in which scores of were killed, of an injured man from the copter to a hospital following the crash (AP Wirephoto) 80 Survive, 8 Still Missing In Miami Crash Of Jumbo Jet Reds mi i Vs. IP Aiding In Rescue with shards of metal along a quarter-mile gash cut by the jetliner. "I'm amazed anyone lived in that crash. Someone must have been watching over them," said Coast Guard Lt Tom Burnaw, who flew one of the rescue helicopters. Reed said the transportation board inspection team found "gross disintegration" of the aircraft and" added that the only identi- Other stories, picture on Page 3A.

fiable pieces of wreckage were half of a fuselage section straddling part of the one remaining wing and the tail, which still carried one of the plane's huge turbine engines intact Reed said the TriStar apparently had been circling in a counterclockwise direction and was heading southwest when it slammed into the huge swamp, which 'covers millions of acres at the tip of the Florida peninsula. Reed said the instrument flight recorder and a voice recorder containing the last 30 minutes of conversation in the cockpit had City Pulse To Fade On New Year's Day City, county, state and federal offices will be closed for New Year's Day tomorrow along with a majority of the city's businesses. Only special-delivery mail items win be delivered. Monday garbage collections will be moved to Tuesday, with Tuesday pickups to be made on Wednesday. Sunnyside School District students win return to classes Tuesday.

Other local districts win resume classes on Wednesday. Nixon Reportedly Offers Top Posts To Labor Men been recovered and sent to Washington, D.C., for analysis. The morass surrounding the downed jet is covered with skin-slashing, five-foot-high saw-grass standing in watery muck, and the only access was by helicopter or shallow-draft air-boats driven by aircraft propellers. Helicopters arriving to take injured passengers to hospitals gingerly picked landing sites among the scattered bodies that spilled from the disintegrating plane as it cut a quarter-mile-long swath through the swamp. After the crash, the screams of the injured and shocked passengers mingled with the sound of Christmas carols floating over the wilderness that is home to the alligator, the deer and a few Miccosukee Indians.

Stewardess Pat Georgia of Miami had rounded up a small group of survivors and led them in singing while they stood knee-deep in water and waited 30 minutes for the first helicopter to arrive. Reports from various hospitals indicated nine of the plane's 10 stewardesses survived the crash. "The captain and the first officer did not survive," Eastern spokesman Ed Northscott said. The plane's captain was Robert A. Loft of Miami, a 32-year Eastern veteran whose seniority was 50th out of 4,000 Eastern pilots.

The first officer was A. J. Stockstill of Miami. "The second officer, D. L.

Repo, was in critical condition at Hialeah Hospital," Northscott said. Repo also is from Miami. In New York, home of many of the passengers on the flight relatives tried to fly to Miami to be as close as possible to the scene of the tragedy. Eastern said it was guaranteeing seats on Miami-bound planes to relatives who wanted to be on hand as determinations were made as to who survived and who perished in the crash. MIAMI, Fla.

(AP) The crash of a giant Eastern Air Lines TriStar jet in the Everglades Friday killed at least 89 persons but left 80 others incredibly alive amid the shattered wreckage, an Eastern spokesman said late Saturday. The spokesman, Ted Berk, said eight persons were still missing. John H. Reed, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, who visited the wilderness area 20 miles west of Miami where the Lockheed L1011 jet went down, said the survivors apparently lived because of the "nature of the terrain, the water in the Everglades environment. This cushioned the impact." The Coast Guard said the survivors were pulled from the wreck and surrounding water and muck by crews who toiled through the black night in mud that sometimes reached their waists.

The three-engine, $8-miHion plane, which can carry 226 passengers, had been cleared for landing at Miami International Airport when it disappeared from the radar screens at 11:42 p.m. Friday and smashed into sawgrass covered by two feet of water. It was on a flight from New York City. There was no official word on the probable cause of the crash. Weather and visibility were good at the time.

It was the first fatal accident involving the new generation of jumbo jets, which, besides the TriStar, include the Boeing 747 and the Douglas DC10. The cause of the crash "could have been any one of a dozen things birds in the engine, pilot error, control failure," said Robert K. Bingham, the airline's flight training supervisor. The plane broke apart on impart, and with the coming of daylight, the swamp was dotted By PHILIP ft 172 New York WASHINGTON President Nixon has offered to put a labor union representative at a high level in every federal government department, a well-informed White House official disclosed. The offer, said to be without parallel in labor history, was made to labor members of the National Productivity Commission including George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, and Frank E.

Fitzsimmons, president of the Inter-national Brotherhood of Teamsters, at a White House meeting last week. The White House is now awaiting word from Meany and Fitzsimmons on whether the President's offer is to be accepted and if so how it would be implemented. The White House official did not specify what sort of posts would be offered. But labor sources said they understood the offer was to place union men at the assistant secretary level in all relevant government agencies..