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WEATHER WARM TODAY THE DANVILLE REGISTER DELIVERY TM IS HOME SOcWeek Doily Sunday 20' FOUNDED FEBRUARY, 1847. NO. 29,339 (AP LEASED --ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE-- (AP NEWSFEATURES) PRICE: TWENTY CENTS While Calling Bill Fiscally Irresponsible Nixon Signs 20 Per Cent Boost In Social Security WASHINGTON (AP) been increased it wouldlercise my right and bv ent NlXfin ciPtiArt nn i 4- i. have automatically dropped toAbility to veto." i i ident Nixon signed on Saturday a 20 per cent boost in Social Se- curity benefits to start in Sep- tember. But he called the vernmen Really.

measure fiscally irresponsible! Among Objections and said it will cause a Amon 's serious objections, Nixon i hedge against inflation, which he says he has long urged. $400 billion, thus crippling the! ln Oct 3 Checks he says he has long urged. i government fiscally Congress rushed through the! Nixon signed a batch of more go mem tl5calJi billion deficit that must be off- ixon said a set by cuts in other programs. Tied To Debt Ceiling House xon a ac more measure Friday just before re-jthan 16 bills before his depar- cessmg until July 17 and madelture, several of them directed; it possible for the Social Secur-jto providing disaster relief and lS reflect "fn add chccl received Oct. 3-a for i 7 it.iici.io icL-eiveu uci.

a ek sta month before the election. Among Approved Bills He approved bills to: --Provide up to 13 extra: California, is that this set the The Social Security measure, The Social Securit This linkage, sponsored to the next debt- Democrats in Congress but voted for by most Republicans, made it impossible for Nixon to hill Dm Hurricane Agnes and South Da- The extension remains Ikota flood disasters. Nixon Dec. 31, 1972. He said he is placing hailed both of these --Provide an additional S200 gress on notice now that if thisj Major Breakthrough for disaster relief which veto the Social Security boostjoccurs and offseting cuts in oth-j He said the principally without killing the increase programs cannot be increase "constitutes a' the debt ceiling.

Had the I will not hesitate to ex-j major breakthrough for older! a a See I Page 5-A Stage Set For Months More Of Bloody, Inconclusive Fighting READY FOR CONVENTIONS U. S. Army engineers rest personnel carrier parking area to house 82nd Airborne troops in the shade of an armored personnel carrier at Homestead I during the national political conventions on Beach, 25 Air Force Base, Fla. The engineers are building a tent city and miles to the north. (AP Wircphoto) Powerful Enemy Push Into South Vietnam Again Shoves War Back Among Population W.

1 41 VT fTVH i i i By PETER ARNETT AP Special Correspondent SAIGON (AP) The pow- erful North Vietnamese push into South Vietnam has re- shaped the strategic map of In- dochina, again shoved the war back among the population, and set the stage for months more of bloody, inconclusive fighting. This is the picture after three months, of battle: MILITARY The offensive from the North has been stalled far short of its ultimate goal of collapsing the Saigon government. North Viet- nam's harbors arc mined and its troops are taking crushing poundings from U.S. air strikes. North Vietnam itself is under heavy air attack daily, particularly around the Hai- phong and Hanoi areas.

U.S. Air Force commanders say that "smart bombs -guided to targets by la- ser beams or television--are systematically destroying North Vietnam's war capabilities while minimizing civilian casu- alties. While the United States ci mics it, Hanoi has charged that many of the air attacks aimed at breaching the sys- tem of dikes in the North to flood farmlands and other pro- ductive areas. Other than at the still-critical front at Hue, it is unlikely that the North Vie- na mean get the major offen- sive going again. On the other side, the South has lost important areas won by the allies in five costly years of battle.

Hamlets under enemy control are up from sev- en in March to nearly 1,200 at the end of May. Desertions are at the high level of Tet, 1968. The Saigon forces have lost 000 dead, including much small- er unit leadership. But fears earlier in the offensive of a general collapse have not been realized. A 20.000-man government ta.sk force began a drive to- ward Quang Tri City in the closing days of in an ef- fort to retake South i a northernmost territory.

Only sporadic resistance was en- countered. Some U.S. officers said the recapture of Quang Tri prov- ince was ''absolutely crucial." It fell to the North Vietnamese two months ago. ECONOMIC Saigon suffers the worst in- flation in its history, commerce is stagnant, and unemployment Is the highest in years, mainly because of the American cut- back and the resultant collapse of hundreds of businesses dependent for their survival on A i a customers. A South Vietnam's second bijjgest foreign exchange earner--rub- ber--looks finished as an export crop because of the destructive fighting around the major rub- ber towns of Loc Ninh, An Loc and Dan Tieng.

South Vietnam was just be- ginning to develop an economy that would lessen its near total i-eliance on grants and other help from the United States when the offensive hit. The shock wave not only created the worst inflation on record; people also stopped spending money, leaving shop shelves filled with goods. Beg- gars began proliferating on city streets. And a continuing flood of ugees, estimated at nearly a million, are draining govern- ment coffers at the rale of $200,000 a day just to keep them alive. More serious in the Ions term is the effect of the renewed war on prospective investors, most of whom have nervously de- layed decisions until the situ- ation clears.

American plan- ners saw this investment as the only hope to save an economy seriously weakened by the drastically reduced American military presence. Without this foreign in- vestment, the United States will have to carry South Vietnam totally and indefinitely. POLITICAL President Nguyen Van Thieu still holds firm power in the South, but his advisers are known to be worried about the i a on the home front of the enormous battle casualties. The Saigon government is also faced with coping with the refu- gees already nearly a mil- lion in number and still grow- Sce WAR, Page 5-A Faces Mass Of Work When It Returns Congress Recesses Until July 17 With Meager Record Of Progress WASHINGTON (AP) Con-ito put Congress even further gress has left a big pile of work, including many of Presi- dent Nixon's key recommenda- tions, to consider when it comes back July 17 from a two- week recess. The legislators completed six months of the 1972 session Fri- day with a meager record of accomplishment.

The recess over the Fourth of July holiday and the Democrat- ic National Convention is going! behind. Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W. the assistant Senate ma- jority leader, told his col- leagues in a memo what to ex- pect when the recess ends.

Senators, he said must plan on long sessions six days a week including Saturdays. "A very heavy, tough and controversial work load con- fronts the Senate" starting July 17," he said, adding: Mean More Than 36,000 Jobs Contracts Are Announced For 16 Merchant Ships WASHINGTON (AP) Pres- ident Nixon announced Satur- day contracts of $659.2 million for five U.S. shipyards to build 16 new merchant in- cluding the largest van-type freighters and tankers ever built in this country. Shipyards on the East and West Coasts got the contracts which administration officials said will mean 36,000 jobs at shipyards and supply firms and 800 jobs on the ships over the next three years. The President said it is part of his program "designed to re- store our merchant fleet to a vigorous competitive position on the high seas, and to restore employment and profit in our shipping and shipbuilding in- dustries at home." He A his oval office with shipbuilder and shipowjier rep- resentatives, union and govern- ment officials to hail the con- tracts which are the largest peacetime shipbuilding awards since a government-subsidy program was started in 1936.

A model of the tanker, three which are to be 'built under this contract, was displayed for the- President on the Cabinet Room table. The five contracts were signed just before a Friday midnight deadline that woulc have reduced the government subsidy rate from 43 to 41 per cent. Asked why the government had not waited until the lower rates went into effect, Com- merce Secretary Peter G. Pe- terson said it was "quite pos- sible that without the incentive some of these ships would not 'The political radar shows stormy weather ahead; much turbulence; fasten your seat belts." Political Overtones? Byrd might have been refer- ring not only to the work log- jam but also to the likelihood there will be unusual poiitica overtones in the remainder the session, especially if the Democratic presidential nomi nee is a senator. Of Nixon's key domestic rec ommendations, the one with the best chance of passage is the S5-billion revenue-sharing bill It has passed the House and re ceived a friendly reception in the Senate Finance Committee.

Highly Uncertain But prospects are highly un- certain for welfare reform which the President has called his most important domestic proposal. The Senate plucked the big sweetener out of the welfare re- form legislation Friday when it put through a 20 per cent Social Security increase that the Martha Wins Mitchell Resigns Nixon Campaign Posi WASHINGTON (AP) Ap- discontent last Sunday a spot in handlingjiroversia! views on issues and parently bowing to an i a a trom the Westchesterjcongressional relations for thei personalities, turn telephoned to the world by Country Club at Rye, N.Y. Mil-1 White House will be taken over! When Mitchell left the attor- JH his irrepressible wife, John N.lchell joined her there Monday I by his present assistant, ney generalship on March 1, hij Mitchell resigned Saturday a a they returned to a i i a E. Timmons, press secre- wife made clear er dis- director of President Nixon'sjton in midweek, apparently a Ronald L. Ziegler said.

JOHN N. MITCHELL re-eiection campaign. After Ultimatum The Committee for the Re- election of the President an- nounced the former attorney general was stepping down, less than a week after Martha Mitchell told reporters that she was leaving him until he got out of politics. She made known her acute On Her Terms men to present her often con- dent signed into law Saturday. Rejects New Plan The Finance Committee has been considering the welfare reform bill for a year and has rejected the new plan for wel- fare families proposed by Nix- on.

The committee is about ready to send its version to the floor Hanoi Gunners Fire Into Hue Weather, Enemy Shells Slow Counterof ensive Mrs. Mitchell was perhaps best-known of the Nixon But apparently the wives because of her tion was on Mrs. Mitchell's phone calls to news- terms because the announce- ment said Mitchell "has resign- ed as campaign director in or- der to devote more time to his wife and family." In his letter to President Nix- on advising him of the resigna- jtion, Mitchell wrote of his re- Igret at leaving the post i i which he shaped a victory forj in 1958 ant! said: Must Come First satisfaction with the move. This discontent was climaxed in her statements of last weekend. Neither of the Mitchells -was See MITCHELL, Page 5-A On 1-85 Near Durham Four Charged In Ambush Of Cyclists; Two Killed DURHAM, N.C.

A Four MUM members of the Storm Troop- I have found, however, that a a motorcycle club 0 1 i ca charged with murder Sat- in what police described ambush of a Florida- Abased club, the Pagans, on In- still meet the one obligation. ambush of which must come first: a an a SAIGON" (AP) EnemyjVietnamese Marines pushing tell fire and bad weather toward Quang Tri east of thej and welfare of my 8 5 Friday evening. shinziwifp anH Han oh wife and daughter. In his letter accepting Mit- broke the momentum of the troops, said that thejchell's withdrawal, the Presi- South Vietnamese counter- i marine drive is about a day be- noted that a politician's shell offensive on the northern frontihind schedule. wife "must not only share attacked below the front at Hue Saturday, field reports said.

Brig. Gen. Bui The Lan, thejdisappointments and brickbats One of the wounded 'p a gans. House accepted, and the Presi- North Vietnamese gunners also marine commandant, a i accept the a a Oc buck, said her North Vietnamese shelling of a husband and fa- for the first time in the currentjthe marines eight-mile frontjther .1 am well aware that this or Pennsylvania. In her part of enemv offensive.

ieast of the city was the been particularly true of As South Vietnamese troops his forces has faced Mitchell family held ground within three miles far. MacGregor Takes Over Francis L. Dale, chairman of She said, "We tried to pull off at the exit ramp, but they blocked us in two pickup trucks. There were about seven or eight of them in each truck. The guys on bikes pulled off and started running for cover.

"Then the shooting started. Two Pagans were killed and and it didn't stop. It sounded six others, including two by-jlike machine gun fire. I got hit slanders, were wounded in the! and passed out." shootout near an exit a five She received a superficial wound in her side. Police identified the dead Pa- gans as Lance A.

Burger, 32, and Donald T. Scroggs, both of Miami. David Merely, 27, of Miami, was shot in the back; Randolph Ferguson, 25, of miles north of Durham. club was heading north on 1-85 the caravan, two men were rid- ing motorcycles and four others were riding in a panel van. i Miami was shot in the foot.

I had never heard of the Re-elec-jstorm Troopers 'til we stopped Both were listed in good condi- tion at Duke University hospi- See SHIPS, Page 5-A of enemy occupied Quang Trij He predicted a "very tough Francis L. Dale, cha City, a general said shelling tojfjght" for the provincial Committee for the the east was the worst obstacle that fell to the North of the President, a a a motorcycle shop in Greens- tal. the counteroffensive had met. ese two months ago. Lt.

Gen.inounced a Mitchell wiil bCjboro," she said. "I guess Two apparent bystanders iv acuu iu vciaivu iv me the south, more than Quang Troung, who directs succeeded as campaign direc-; as some sort of personal; were also wounded. They were but some members feel that rounds of heavy shells or rock-jthe counterofffensive, is re- tor by Clark MacGregor, a for-; grudge between one of our guys'identified as Henry Smith, 37, i i 1 i 4 ii i e- rfft 1 1 VlO rfrct TY1 5 TS rriTM 1n- rvf i rxf Due with time pressing, the bill sim- ply will be dropped. They point out that up to five weeks of de- bate have been predicted for it. See CONGRESS, Page 8-A Militant Protestants Throw Up Steel Barricades, Tell British To Keep Out i VtlUU-5 UI lied MitrlLa Ul I A ets landed within Hue just afterjgarded as a bold general but he'mer congressman from 3 dawn Sunday.

There was no has been moving his troops incsota and currently Nixon's immediate report on casualties, to avoid enemy at- i chief of congressional The shelling was the first itacks tne rear Mitchell lur.ched wi the former imperial' There was one attack in to inform the President! side the van and said "the'with murder, William Douglas capital since the North Viet-irear of the northern at vhat time, a Storm Troopers are coming. namese offensive began threelbut it was an enemy House one of theirs." of Durham and Johnny Bur- About 60 miles farther on, well, 63, of Franklinton. Both liaison. she said, one of the Pagans rid- 1 were in satisfactory condition, with Nixon ing a motorcycle pulled along-: One of the four men charged Sec SHOOTOUT, Page 5-A BELFAST (AP) Protestanti UDA leaders say they will militants in masks and battle (come down only when the Brit- dress threw up steel barricades across wide areas of Belfast on Saturday and told the British army: "Keep out." Most of the barricades, said organizers of the Ulster De- fense Association--UDA--will be removed at mid night Sun- day. Others, rows of steel spikes cemented into the road under the eyes of British soldiers, were clearly intended to be more permanent.

Section Page 6-7 Classified Ads 5-8 Crossword Puzzle 6 EdiUruls A 4 Local News 1-4 1-4 Teferfami Women's News 1-12 sh government acts to take control of barricaded areas of Belfast and Londonderry now ruled by guerrilla governments of the outlawed Irish Republi- can Army. This was the first weekend since the Provisional wing of the IRA called off, or put into cold storage last Monday its bombing campaign intended to force mainly Protestant North ern Ireland into a merger with the Catholic-dominated Irish Republic. Despite the new barricades and a night of shooting in which at least two men died, Belfast was more relaxed than at any time over the past two years or so. Streets were full with Satur- day shoppers. Store keepers re ported business at least 20 per cent better than has been pre streets of Londonderry, the jrovince's second city.

People bustled about their shopping where less than a week ago they had hustled away from bombs. Soldiers patrolled with- viously. The same relaxed atmos phere filled the bomb-scarred months ago. Hue has been con-! southwest of Hue and 30 miles sidered by allied officers a pri-'south of the front. The South mary target of the offensive.

1st division is on The South Vietnamese par a- on the western ap- troops three miles from Quangiproaches to Hue while the a i iTri City were part of the driveirines, paratroopers and ar-: to retake the occupied province I mored units are pushing north-! of Quang Tri. A major toward Quang Tri. British Sore At Americans For Telling About Bugging Of Rosy gin Phone Calls LONDON CAP) In the ear- whatever reasons, have now that he is being bugged." was expected against North; The a i command iy hours of Monday, Feb. 13 been instrumental in com-' It is of course, possible that Vietnamese forces dug in on'claimed 450 enemy troops have 1967, Alexei N. Kosygin tele- promising British intelligence most important statesmen as- the southern outskirts of the'been killed in the first three; pn oned Leonid I.

Brezhnev in operations. city. sume their conservations and idays of the four-day counter- MOSCOW from the elegant luxu- "Every head of government activities are monitored any- nut flakiaofcptTanS Associated Press correspond-'offensive and put its own losses rv of a London hotel suite. who vista London," one high out me nah. jackets ana sieeii Vf a ncnn 3fi ki loH anrt 14S helmels, which last weekend.

'It's so normal that it seems unreal," one storekeeper said. One of the day's shooting vic- tims in Belfast was found on by 20,0000 South Vietnamese! "in a bind, but it's like i i TM a i -1 Vion i He UJ I I I I I I troops was slowed by heavy jon a bee." one airborne officer See IRISH, Page 8-A rains that flooded river ford's'on Highway told nist party chief was being lis- -r. and held up supply and before it die? it will sling nition vehicles. jyour foot." Asssociated Press correspond-1 ent Dennis Neeld, with South i The Weather Readings Frnm Atop Register Building Sec LYDOCm.NA. Page S-A It's Now Bobby Fischer's Move To Break Deadlock Threatening Top Chess Match tened to by his British hosts.

Disclosure of one of the most sensational British intelligence operations of modern times' VIRGINIA: Sunday sunny ex-fmainly mountains Sunday and from Washington with! cept a chance of afternoon! over statc Monday. High Sun- of the latest vol-ithundershowcrs west portion. nay a nrt 3n 8 low of the Pantagon papers. i i in 80s 5n highlands and 90s I( v7 unday nighl in Ws i Kohinrt a fanano nf palm nn-i I low IWS. bay and coast with their American REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) It was Bobby Fischer's move! Saturday night to break the deadlock threatening the rich- est chess match ever arranged.

The 29-year-old American grand master was balking at a chance to end the Soviet Un- ion's monopoly on the world to grab a share of the gate chess crown because of a last- minute money dispute he created himself. Fischer was in New York on the eve of the match holding out for more money. The problem was his attempt receipts collected during his 24' game match with world cham- pion Boris Spassky of Russia, scheduled to begin Sunday afternoon. Fischer wants 30 per angry friends. Embarrased, too, that their 1 ia bugging of a Soviet leader n'ight day night and Monday with a chance of thundershowers Mon- Sim- night, LOG exposed them to Moscow at- 62 to 70.

High Monday in upper tack. 80s. Sec CHESS, Page 8-A And they also are remember- NORTH CAROLINA: Partly ing bittely how lapses in their clondy Sunday through Monday own security system were widely scattered afternooa sailed by Americans who, for and evening ttuindtrshowers Saturday Hour Temp. Bar. Wind 7p.m.

87 29.99 Cfclnt 9 p.m. 82 30.01 Culm 11 p.m. 78 30.05 Calm Sunday 1 a.m. 74 30.06 Calm 24-hour low (to I a.m.) Wgh 24-nonr precipitation, nme.