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:4 Coalition Failure in Laos: A Lesson for Vietnam? By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press Writer North Vietnam's Communist regime proposes a three-way coalition as a political solution in Vietnam. Exactly 10 years ago 14 nations, big and little, emerged from 14 months of bickering and bargaining to announce a three-way coalition solution for Laos. For one of the most unwarlike people on earth, the agony was only beginning. The Laos agreements announced at Geneva endured only a few months.

Unlucky in its geography, the "land of a million elephants," with its two million or so uncomplicated people, became even more painfully entangled in the cruel machinery of a war it never wanted and never understood. The costly conflict goes on and on. Often called "the forgotten war," it is remembered when it figures in some phase of the bigger conflict across the border in Vietnam. But if the conflict doesn't stop soon, Laos could bleed to death and cease to exist as a nation. The unlikely little kingdom for centuries has been crisscrossed by invasions and transformed into a cockpit of struggle.

The kingdom of Laos, like Cambodia and the two Viet- Few people could relish the role less than the Laotians, who knew little of the crafts of war and less of notions of nationhood. After the French were expelled from Indochina, Communist North Vietnam moved troops into northeast Laos to support a weak, powerless Pathet Lao (Lao nation) guerrilla organization claiming to seek "liberation." Using the Pathet Lao as a front, the North Vietnamese proceeded to nail down a large area of Laos as Communist territory. (Continued on Page 10A) niwiimiimiiiinwiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiniiwiiiu! News Analysis rams, was newly independent of French colonial power after the Geneva Conference accords of 1954. The landlocked country, about the size of Idaho, found itself suddenly in the eye of a cold war hurricane. It was a center of East-West struggle and a possible cradle for new global conflict.

The unday I Let's Chuckle It's wonderful to belong to a family with a teen-ager in it. How else would you get to know your faults? Hazy, Humid Partly cloudy, hazy and humid a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Precipitation chance 40 per cent. Details on Page 2 B. A Gannett Neivspaper Binghamton, N.Y., July 16, 1972 35 Cents 45 Offers for Talks 1 fit A -Nl-fiJ HI Pi Volume 23 1 cfMk "Mil minee George McGovern of sabotaging the President's peace efforts.

Asked whether he agreed with Connally's statement, Rogers said McGovern's pledge to end the bombing of North Vietnam immediately and withdraw all American troops and support within 90 days "would give our adversary exactly what he wants without any negotiation." Kissinger, Nixon's assistant for national security affairs, who has held more than a dozen private sessions with North Vietnamese negotiators in the past three years, sat in on Nixon's meeting with Rogers. The foreign affairs adviser has been silent on whether he would be making another trip 9 Sections SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Secretary of State William P. Rogers held open Saturday the possibility of new secret Vietnam peace talks and said "there are some slight nuances" in Hanoi's latest proposals that "give us some encouragement." Emerging from an hour-long meeting with President Nixon, Rogers told newsmen on the lawn of the Western White House that he did not want to raise premature hopes of progress toward ending the war. He would not comment directly on the statement Saturday by a chief North Vietnamese negotiator, Le Due Tho, that he is ready to hold more private talks with Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger if Kissbger has "something new" to discuss.

But Rogers said the United States is "prepared to have any kind of diplomatic activity" that holds out hope for peace. Rogers came to California to report to Nixon on the 11-na-tion around-the-world tour he completed on Wednesday. He said he found in the countries he visited that Nixon is "regarded as the world leader in the cause for peace." "Without exception," he continued, Nixon's programs are greeted with "warmth and enthusiasm" by foreign leaders. Rogers said he found a widespread feeling abroad that Nixon will win re-election. When asked whether Hanoi believes this, the secretary said he did not know but "certainly other nations close to them have expressed that thought." At the ocean-front Nixon compound Friday, former Treasury Secretary John Con-nally emerged from a meeting with Nixon and accused Democratic presidential no Rogers lope Associated Press WIREPHOTO BELFAST RESIDENTS ON THE RUN British troops take up firing positions Saturday as some residents of Linadoon Estate, Belfast, hastily pack their furniture and prepare to leave their homes.

Caihy Nixon Imposes Ceiling Youth Killed In N. Valley By TOM MULLER An 18-year-old Newark Valley motorcyclist was killed last night when the cycle and a truck collided in On U.S. Hide Exports 1,000 N. Irish Fleeing By the Associated Press BELFAST More than 1,000 women and children fled Roman Catholic areas of Belfast on Saturday and took trains for Ireland, fearing an upsurge in Northern Ireland's violence. Their exit followed hours of shooting in which two soldiers and two supposed gunmen died.

Almost 5,000 now have headed south to escape the continuing violence in Belfast and other centers. The evacuation was organized by politicians who have close links with the Provisional Irish Republican Army, fighting to merge mainly Protestant Northern Ireland with predominantly Catholic Ireland. The departure brought charges from Protestants that the IRA would be organizing a weekend push against the British army. Catholics, by contrast, contended that the British were planning sweeps through Catholic areas which had become IRA strongholds. One of the dead soldiers was a bomb disposal expert killed as he sought to defuse a milk churn packed with explosives on a country road near the border with Ireland.

The other was a soldier shot dead in the Suffolk district of western Belfast, where troops have battled IRA gunmen over the past five days. Their deaths and those of the two presumed gunmen brought the total in three years of violence to at least 439, of whom 231 died this year. In Londonderry, Northern Ireland's second city, gun- Continued on Page 10A) Filming In But Fischer Still Out REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) Boris Spassky fished for salmon and Bobby Fischer kept his Sabbath Saturday as chess officials scrambled to save the world championship, world championship. After talks with officials of the International and Icelandic chess federations, Fischer's lawyer, Paul Marshal, announced the American challenger had withdrawn his objection to the presence of movie cameras in the playing hall "so long as they don't blow his mind." Marshal also asked the officials to reconsider their decision to uphold the referee in declaring a forfeit because Fischer missed the second game of the 24-game series Thursday. Fischer boycotted the session, saying the cameras distracted him.

Marshal said new evidence was being prepared that might stave off cancellation of the match. He wouldn't say what the evidence was. Fischer was refusing to play game No. 3 Sunday unless the point the Russian gained by default is scratched from the score sheet. to Paris for secret talks, and so have other White House officials.

But sources have made it clear that the Nixon administration believes progress in the negotiations can best be made through secret talks not through the semi-public Paris talks which resumed last Thursday after a two-month suspension. Nixon, who has been working and relaxing at the Western White House for two weeks, attended funeral services on Saturday for his aunt, who helped launch him on a career of public service, then returned to the San Clemente compound to meet with Ro- Continued on Page 10A) Valley High School in June, police said. The accident occurred shorted after 7 p. m. at the intersection of Rock and Main streets.

Kobylarz, traveling on Rock Street, was attempting to pass a covered pickup truck driven by Mrs. William Wood of Newark Valley on the right, police said. Mrs. Wood was making a right turn onto Main Street. The Kobylarz motorcycle struck the side of the Wood vehicle, they said.

Kobylarz was thrown into a car standing in the intersection driven by Mrs. Joyce Tarbox of Newark Valley, police said. Kobylarz struck his head on the left front fender of the car, police believe. They said momentum carried him underneath the car where he became entangled in the steering mechanism. The victim was pronounced dead on arrival at Ideal Hospital in Endicott where he was ujfceu uy uie in wars vaiiey Emergency Squad.

An autopsy taken by the Newark Valley wui be performed to deter- mine the casue of death. Police said that Kobylarz was wearing a helmet. No summonses have been issued as the result of the accident. Investigation by the Newark Valley Police Department is continuing. Sunday Press Index soon as market conditions warrant." He noted that the export ticket system is being programmed until November to start with.

According to the commerce chief: By last week, cattle hide prices hit a peak of 29.75 cents a pound, more than double the historic average. The main reasons are climbing demand for hide use in the United States, seriously low hide and leather in ventories here, and an abnormal foreign demand. Imposing a ceiling on exports at last year's level will reduce inflationary pressures on shoes, give American cattlemen a fair and rising share of revenues from hide exports, benefit U.S. workers and industries by preserving stability of businesses using hides, and provide a generous and stable supply of hides for America's overseas trading partners. She Popped the Question For Love--of Her Country To Seek IVeio Trial OKLAHOMA CITY (AP)-The civilian lawyer for Lt.

William L. Calley said Saturday he will seek a new trial for Calley because of the discovery of a witness to the My Lai massacre the Army claimed was missing at the time of the lieutenant's original court-martial. "I think it has enough impact on the findings that the Court of Review may very reasonably grant a new trial on it," George W. Latimer of Salt Lake City, Utah, told the Daily Oklahoman in a telephone interview. Calley was sentenced to life in prison in March 1971 for his part in the My Lai incident.

His sentence was reduced to 20 years during the first step in a lengthy reviewing process. The case of Calley, who is currently under house arrest at Ft. Benning, is now before the U.S. Army Court of Military Review in Washington, D.C. Charles Dean "Butch" Graver, 27, of Stotesbury, was located by the Daily Oklahoman after it reported that he was considered a key witness missing during Calley's court-martial.

Latimer said Gruver is the only person who could testify that orders to destroy My Lai and kill all its inhabitants came to Capt. Ernest L. Medina, Calley's company commander, from higher 4 the village. Police identified the victim Walter J. Kobylarz of Reves District, Newark Valley.

Kobylarz graduated from Newark Hit Bather Robbed During Recovery FLORENCE, Ariz. (AP) -This just hasn't been Eddie McCann's week. First, McCann suffered minor injuries after being hit by a car while taking a bath. Police quoted Gary Tidwell, 20, of Coolidge, driver of the car, as saying his car crashed into the wall of McCann's bathroom after he suffered an epileptic seizure. While McCann was recuperating at Pinal County General Hospital, burglars broke into his store at Superior Thursday night.

Call for Hijack 7VT iSetVS Committee WASHINGTON (AP) An air traffic controllers' group called Saturday for the formation of a joint committee to set up ground rules on giving out news on skyjackings. John Leyden, president of the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO), said the committee should include representatives from the aviation industry, government and the news media. Raiders Seize Arms Cache MANILA (AP) Elements of the Philippine armed forces stormed a stronghold of the Maoist New People's Army in northeastern Isabela Province on Friday and captured large amounts of arms and ammunition, the presidential palace announced. The seizure of the weapons, one of the largest ever by the military against the Communist rebels, included 467 M14 rifles, a rocket launcher, two Browning automatic rifles, five Garand rifles, and 615 boxes of various ammunition for the weapons. WASHINGTON (AP) The Nixon administration put a ceiling on exports of U.S.

cattle hides Saturday in a move to curb mounting price pressures on shoes and other leather goods. Secretary of Commerce Peter G. Peterson, citing foreign and domestic demand which has pushed hide prices to a record high, announced at a news conference that: Effective midnight, shipments abroad of U.S. cattle hides will be limited to last year's already-high export level of 16 million hides. To carry out the program, export tickets will be issued to U.S.

cattle hide producers according to their percentages of total hide production. Under this system, he said, any financial benefits from selling hides at higher foreign prices will be retained by U.S. cattle producers and consumers. Peterson declined to predict flatly that the new effort will reduce shoe or meat prices in the United States, though he portrayed costs to the consumer as lower on these items than they would be without the program being imposed. Aides said shoes already have climbed 1 per cent since January and were projected for another 3 to 10 per cent increase by this fall if there were no hold on hide price rises.

"We believe it will result in a reduction of the price of American-made shoes," Peterson said without giving a precise figure. Peterson set no time limit on the control program while saying it would be "lifted as Pakistan OKs Peace Pact RAWALPINDI, Pakistan (AP) The Pakistan National Assembly has ratified the peace agreement between President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Bhutto told the assembly that the agreement was the beginning of the establishment of peace with honor with LONDON (AP) Wendy Fisher thought she knew the cause of Britain's woes a bachelor was at the helm of state so she donned her best bikini Saturday, went to Prime Minister Edward Heath's residence at 10 Downing Street, and popped the question, for patriotic reasons of course. "I cannot help but feel that you would have a more steadying influence if you had a stable home and family life," the 25-year-old woman told Heath in a letter she handed the surprised bobby at the door. "To this end, for the benefit of my country, I willingly offer you myself in marriage." Wendy, a secretary in a travel agency, had made sure the photographers were there to record a hoped-for meeting with the 56-year-old prime minister.

But she was disappointed; Heath was aboard his yacht, Morning Cloud, in a race to Dinard, France. A Almanac 8F Amusement 9F Books in Review 5F Bridge 8F Business 1-4F Classified 6-16D Crossword 8F Deaths 6D Editorials 2D Family Features 1-6C Gallup 4A HELP IB Horoscope 8F House, Garden 6-7F Medical 8F Sheen 5D Society 7-8C Sports 1-8E Television 6B Travel 10F Viewpoint 1-4D McGoverrfs Way How did George do it? Sen. McGovern describes his method for winning on Page 6A in today's Sunday Press Associated Press WIREPHOTO FROPOSAL TO PRIME MINISTER Wendy Fisher draws a startled look from a London bobby outside No. 10 Downing as she strips to reveal herself in a bikini. She was delivering a letter proposing marriage to Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath, "for the benefit of my country.".