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Monday, June 26, 1972 Philadelphia Inquirer Air Raids Destroy N. Vietnam's Steel Capacity pi ay People and Places BEAT THE SAIGON (AP). All North INFLATION Ex-Mayor Cavanagh ToSaySecond'IDo' GAME START WHEREVER YOU Collect on Passbook ft V.l Tqs on savings fmmm Jk certificates: $500 minimum. More certificate earnings; mmm 1-2 yr. maturity; Sminirr -V tl I'" cK 'j i A It rill I jinit jp 'r" AP Wirephoo S.

Vietnam Rescuers Wait for Evacuation Helicopter Highest interest earnings anywhere Soldiers stand beside comrade wounded during An hoc patrol action Many West Point Officers Resigning on cerVtficates: 2-10 yr. maturity; $500 minimum. COLONIAL FEDERAL SAVINGS And Loan Association Vi.t, WEST POINT, N.Y. (UPI). The resignation rate of officers assigned to teaching and administrative positions at the U.S.

Military Academy has risen by about 50 percent Min Ortice: iManoa Office: 4 r.Utit- since the period when the Vietnam war was at its height. "It's something to be concerned about," a West Point spokesman said. "They are the brightest young officers of the Army." i thus indicating a profound crisis of a kind of professional ethics." The West Point spokesman said he felt that some of the other resignations stemmed basically from the feeling that promotion opportunities were more limited now. misread those kinds of pressures." DEAGLE said he was "unhappy with the Army's response" to My Lai. The officer corps shrugged off the massacre, he said, as something "strange and unusual," i Veitnam's steel-producing ca- pacity has been destroyed, the 7th Air Force announced Sunday following weekend air raids.

The Thai Nguyen steel plant's open-hearth furnaces were wrecked- Saturday by laser-beamed, Smart bombs dropped by U.S. jets. The plant is 30 miles north of Hanoi. Other Air Force F-4 Phantoms with laser bombs ranged 120 miles north of Hanoi to within 30 miles of the border with China and knocked out three small railroad bridges on the northwest line, the Air Force said. These were among more than 270 striek's that U.

S. tactical fighter-bombers launched across North Vietnam Saturday. B-52 strategic bombers mounted a third successive day of massive raids across South. Vietnam's northern front Sunday with nearly 100 strikes. THE U.S.

Command disclosed Sunday major changes in its Indochina operations, including more direct control over 7th Air Force and Strategic Air Command bombing missions. The Command denied the changes were aimed at keeping a closer watch on the Air Force after a Congressional investigation disclosed that the former 7th Air Force commander, Gen. John La-velle, had ordered unauthorized strikes over North Vietnam. Under the changes, the U. S.

Army in Vietnam becomes a support command to the U.S. Command. The restructuring of the S. Army in Vietnam marks the beginning of the field army's phaseoiit from Vietnam and its integration into the U.S. military command, sources said.

The move downgrades it to a support unit with the primary focus on support of all forces rather than just the Army alone. It now becomes less of a tactical headquarters and under more direct control of the U. S. Command. At least three Air Force generals and an Army general have been moved to the U.S.

Command's "Pentagon East" headquarters at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airbase. ftfie fffiilabelplua Unqmrtr P'jblijbd ever Morning and Sunday by Prriacfeiptva Newsoaoa-j, Inc. 400 N. Broad PhlaflelpMia, Pa. 19101 Teieofione: Classified Afls: LO 3-50OO O'her Deoartments: LO 3-1400 NSW YORK OFrlCE 1290 Avenue of the Arr.e'icei WASH.NGTON BUREAU National Press B'da.

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Miss Disser, 29, and Cavanagh, 44, will be married in San Francisco penthouse apartment of a friend. After a short West Coast honeymoon, they will make their home in Ann Arbor, where Cavanagh has a private law practice. It will be the second marriage for Cavanagh, who was mayor of Detroit for two four-year terms through 1969. He and his first wife, the former Mary Helen Martin, were divorced. They had eight children.

Lonesome? Pope Is Evasive Speaking in familiar tones to a crowd of several thousand in Vatican City, Pcpe Paul disclosed Sunday that he was asked recently by a youth whether he felt lonesome. "Is it true that you feel lonesome, Holy Father?" the Pope said the youth asked him during a recent general audi-erce. The pontiff, who will be 75 in September, did not report what his answer was to the youth, but said he interpreted the question as proof that youths were near to him. "Yes," the Pope added, "you youths are so close to us and the Pope loves "-ou." Fischer Cancels Reykjavik Flight Bobby Fischer, American challenger to Russian chess world champion Boris Spassky, abruptly canceled his flight ticket to Reykjavik, Icelandic Chess Federation officials said. Fischer, was scheduled to arrive here this morning to prepare for the 24-game world chess championship match starting July 2.

The prize money totals $125,000 with five-eighths going to the winner. T. Thorarisson, president of the Icelandic federation, told the nation on television that Fischer had canceled the flight aboard Islandic (Loftleider) airlines but that he did not know the reason. Airline spokesman in New York confirmed the cancellation. Officials said they did not rule out the possibility Fischer would arrive at Reykjavik on Wednesday, aboard a Pan Am fight.

b7 C. J. GRAYSON JR. he apologizes JJUU academy confirmed Sunday, a total of 33 officers at West Point have resigned their commissions. Of the 22 who left the service last year, 15 were faculty members.

There was no breakdown concerning the 11 academy officers who quit the Army in the first half of 1972. There are now 880 officers at the academy. AMONG THE West Point officers who chose to leave this year was Maj. Edwin A. Dea-gle who finished fifth in the West Point class of 1960, has a doctorate in government and economics from Harvard and won two Silver Stars in Vietnam.

Deagle, 34, who taught social science at West Point, said the My Lai massacre "kind of kicked me off" to thinking about a resignation. In an interview from his Falls Church, home, Deagle said he felt the Army had not properly prepared its officers for war and that the response by the officer corps to the atrocity left him unhappy. During war, he said, "pieces of your moral ethics are eroded. We had not been sensitive enough to that erosion process. We tended to think lieutenants and non Florence Henderson, the mother of television's "The Bradv Bunch." saved the life of Susan Olsen, 10, Also: who plays her daughter.

She grabbed Susan when a wave overturned a canoe off Hawaii during filming of the show Billy Detrick does a "fire and snake dance" for a Dayton, 0., nightclub, but someone stole part of his act. His car was stolen, with two 10-foot boa constrictors in the trunk. WUn ft Price Unit Supersilent On Meat Price WASHINGTON (AP). -The Price Commission adopted a supersecret attitude after an unusual four-hour Sunday meeting devoted to the politically sensitive subject of food prices, especially meat prices. Chairman C.

Jackson Grayson Jr. apologized to reporters for the flood of "no comments," unique for the agency created last November when President Nixon's wage-price controls went into effect. ASKED whether the commission has become politicized because of the food-price question, Grayson said, "I don't think it has. It hasn't." The commission set the meeting after recommending Wednesday to the Cost of Living Council and the White House that the current exemption on raw agricultural products from controls be removed and the supply of imported meat be expanded Also under consideration was a temporary, 30-day freeze on food prices at the retail level. Washington Dateline Nader Calls U.

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S. Capitol, saying it was unnecessary and too costly. Rep. Samuel Stratton N. sought backing for a fmendment that would prohibit spending Federal funds for such construction without the approval of both Houses of Congress.

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