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3LOR THE LINCOLN TAR 7ZRD YEAR LINCOLN, NEB. TUESDAY MORNING MARCH 25, 1975 28 Pages IS CENTS PL Viets Abandon loo HMte aouktnA inu 0 wnttMMSf OWMM SAIGON, South Vietnam (AP) South Vietnamese military units pulled out of Hue Tuesday, abandoning the old imperial capital and its walled palace courtyards to the North Vietnamxe onslaught, Western diplomats reported. Farther south, Communist-led forces captured two provincial capitals and drove through to the China Sea, cutting off the northern quarter of South Vietnam from the rest of the country. Da Nang, a port city where VS. Marines Erst landed 10 years ago, is now isolated and reachable only by sea or air.

The diplomats said government units began withdrawing from Hue Monday night, boarding boats for escape down the Perfume River to the sea. Most of the city's 200,000 residents had fled earlir, heading southward for Da Nang. South Vietnam's deteriorating military condition brought renewed calls for President Nguyen Van Thieu to quit and it was reported in Washington that an additional U.S. aircraft carrier is en route to waters off Indochina. The carrier, with Marine helicopters, would be used to evacuate Americans and others, Pentagon sources said, but they did not rule out the possibility that the choppers might be used to transfer some Vietnamese from refugee-dogged Da Nang.

Da Nang is South Vietnam's second Jargest city and there were no indications that the Saigon command was planning to abandon it Hue became untenable when North Vietnamese troops seized a portion of Highway One that leads to Da Nang, 50 miles south, and closed down the Hue-Phu Bai airport, leaving only the water escape route. It will be the second time that the North Vietnamese have seized historic Hue, South Vietnam's fourth largest city and national pride They gained control during the 1968 Tet offensive but were driven out by U.S. Marines and government rangers after weeks of bitter fighting. Months later the bodies of more than 3,000 Hue residents were found in mass graves outside the city, executed by their Communist-led captors. The fall of Quang Tin and Quang Ngai provinces south of Da Nang were the 10th and 11th of South Vietnam's 44 provinces to be lost The North Vietnamese and Viet Cong now control about 40 per cent of the country's 66,000 square miles and IS per cent of its population of 20 million.

While civilians streamed south toward Da Nang from Hue, thousands of others headed north toward Da Nang from the provincial capitals of Quang Ngai City and Tarn Ky. Quang Ngai City, capital of Quang Ngai province, is 75 miles south of Da Nang and Tam Ky, 35 miles south, is the capital of Quang Tin Province. Observers estimate that the Communist offensive has created nearly one million refugees. In other Indochina developments: The U.S. airlift to Phnora Penh resumed after a two-day suspension but rebel forces "attacking like ants" overran the key Tuol Leap base that was supposed to guard 'Phnom Penh airport from rockets.

They also attacked a government position 18 miles west of the capital, killing scores of women and children, field reports said. The Phnom Penh embassies of Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand will close temporarily over the next two weeks in a bid to pressure Cambodian President Lon Nol to quit so peace talks can start with the Communist-led rebels, reliable sources said. An opposition group in Saigon urged Thieu to resign because of the deteriorating military situation in South Vietnam. It was the first such call since the North Vietnamese offensive began earlier this month and the first time the largely Buddhist group cited military reasons for Thieu to quit. The North Vietnamese overran two provincial capitals south of Da Nang and cut South Vietnam's northern quarter off at a point beginning roughly 300 miles northeast of Saigon and running from there west to the Cambodian border.

Associated Press special correspondent Peter Arnett reported from Da Nang that many refugees were fleeing Hue by boat. One motor ferry bringing refugees down the coast capsized in stormy seas Sunday night First reports said 3,000 refugees were aboard and that all were feared lost But the Saigon command said later it believed there were fewer than 100 aboard and that 45 survivors had been picked up. A Pentagon spokesman in Washington said the Carrier Hancock is due in Hawaii on Monday to PSC OKs New Code Of Ethics pf code, called the latest revision "a good code" which resolves some of the ambiguities in the old one. No Code On File An earlier version was adopted in response to a letter from the State Conflict of Interest. Committee which informed commissioners that they did not have a code of ethics on file as required by a 1969 law.

Such a code was apparently never filed as a result of an oversight. Commissioner Duane Gay of Columbus had some misgivings about a section limiting off-the-record communcations between commissioners and utilitites once a hearing has been opened. The rule is intended to allow the commission to make decisions on rates and services based solely on the evidence appearing in the official record. 'Workability' Questioned In a written concurring opinion, Gay said, "While I agree wholeheartedly with the principles set out in the code, the ambiguities, vague language and in some instances unreasonable limitations set out (in the section on ex parte communications) leaves me in the position of questioning the workability of the code. "I recognize the inherent evils in discussing the merits of any case with an interested party, but it should be of prime import the fact that this commission is a fact-finding administrative body.

My position is that our time should always be avilable to any person to discuss all sides of a case." In a related matter, the Legislature's Conflict of Interest Committee has not yet concluded its secret inquiry into the propriety of the commissioners' acceptance of favors from utilities, a committee spokesman said. By BOB GUENTHER Star Staff Writer Nebraska Public Service Commission members will be paying their own way instead of allowing regulated utilities to pick up the tab for commissioners' entertainment under a revised commission Code of Ethics. Favors commissioners have enjoyed in the past, including fishing trips in Puget Sound, Cornhusker football tickets, Christmas gifts and trips to all-star baseball games and Disneyworld, are ruled out in the commission's stiffer, more specific code. Commissioners voted 5-0 to amend a vaguer code adopted one month ago with the stronger language, borrowed in part from the Judicial Code of Ethics. 'Social Favors' OK The new code permits commissioners to accept "ordinary social favors," such as a luncheon, and campaign contributions from regulated utilities.

The code states: "A commissioner or employe of the Public Service Commission shall accept no loans or gifts from any person doing business with or appearing before the commission, provided, such prohibition shall not apply to the accepance of ordinary social favors "Ordinary social favor, as used within this code, shall mean items which by their nature are ordinarily and readily returnable in kind; for example, a luncheon, invitation to and attendance at social functions Ordinary social favor does not include such items as admission to events, memberships to clubs and organizations, the provision for lodging or transportation and other items Commission Chairman Eric Rasmussen of Fairmont, the prime sponsor of the revised PILE OF RUBBLE was U.S. mail facility until tornado thundered into northwest Atlanta. Tornado Marches Into Atlanta REDS advance to coast. pick up a squadron of big Marine choppers. He said the ship will leave later this week for the western Pacific.

It was estimated that the Hancock's voyage from Hawaii to the western Pacific would take about 10 days. The spokesman did not give the Hancock's ultimate destination, but there were indications the carrier will take up a position off Cambodia. City Transportation. Department Considered By LYNN ZERSCHLING Star Staff Writer The creation of a city department of transportation may be a long way down the road, but city lawmakers hinted Monday that they like the idea and may put Traffic Engineer Bob Holsinger in the driver's seat. The lawmakers asked the mayor for a report on the proposal.

The council members met Monday with Holsinger and several department heads to mull over the proposal first suggested by Councilmen Steve Cook and Bob Sikyta. Both argue that such a department is needed in Lincoln to handle everything from parking meter revenues to the bus system. Cook said operations of the traffic engineering division, city parking garages and lots and the Lincoln Transportation System (LTS) should be better coordinated. Better Planning Needed He said no one department or staffer is responsible for coordinating the various transportation oriented activities in the city. Better planning also is needed, Cook said.

For instance, whenever LTS decides to put in a new bus route, LTS planners don't have to check with Holsinger on the effect those extra buses will have on the existing street system. Holsinger acknowledged that there is little coordination between his division and LTS. While several council members said Holsinger would be the most likely chief of the proposed department, Councilman Max Denney wasn't so sure he wanted to creat another bureauracy, which, he said, "will cost the taxpayers more money." Councilwoman Helen Boosalis said the existing fragmented system may be a "lot more wasteful" than a consolidated system. Latest Trend Public Works Director Bob Obering, who could lose the traffic engineering division in the deal, acknowledged that the latest trend is the creation of such departments. Obering cautioned the lawmakers, however, to make certain that strong liaison is mainatained between his department and the traffic engineering section.

Otherwise, he predicted the city would be in a mess. Planning Director Doug Brogden expressed "favorable" reactions to the proposal. Both department heads cautioned the council against creating a new department and then housing unrelated programs under that roof. For example, they noted that LTS and the city garage have been placed under the directorship of the finance department Parking Plan OKd In a related action the council endorsed the Downtown Advisory Committee's public parking plan and sent the recommendation on to the mayor for implementation. DAC recommended that a citywide parking plan for the downtown be created, which would include the operation of city garages, parking meters and parking lots.

Revenues generated from those faculties should be channeled back into the operation of the parking system, DAC said. DAC also suggested that administration of the system could be placed under the proposed department of transportation. Campus Spies Unconstitutional SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that the routine stationing pf undercover police agents on college campuses is unconstitutional and a step away from "the censorship of totalitarian regimes." In a unanimous decision written by Justice Mathew Tobriner, the court said police officers cannot pose as unversity students merely to compile intelligence- dossiers on students and professors for possible future use. Such surveillance in classrooms and in public and private university meetings is "government snooping in the extreme," the court said. It held that unless that form of intelligence gathering is needed to to further a compelling government interest, it violates state and federal; guarantees of freedom of speech and California's constitutional guarantee of privacy.

It marked the first interpretation of the 1972 California constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right of privacy to "all people." The court said that under the privacy amendment such police activity can be permitted only if a compelling interest is shown and that the "burden of justification Is very heavy Indeed." ing wall crushed his car, and a woman was killed at her home. Rescue workers pulled the body of another victim from the wreckage of a warehouse. The victims were identified as Arthur Harold Sausmer, 29, of Doraville, crushed in his car; Mark Howard, Atlanta, who was in the warehouse, and Catherine Hunken, about 55, of Atlanta. The twister spun out of storm clouds that rolled across the metropolitan area in a northeasterly direction. It demolished a shopping area and flipped cars and trucks upside down as it hit a nearby commercial district.

at hospitals and dozens more suffered cuts and bruises when the storm flattened buildings, shattered windows and tumbled cars about like matchsticks. Mayor Maynard Jackson declared a state of emergency and said he would request federal disaster aid. Some 200 state troopers were called in to prevent looting and relieve traffic congestion, primarily in the more than a mile wide business area most devastated by the twister. The tornado thundered along a 3 or 4 mile strip around 7:30 a.m. "If the tornado had dipped down like it did an hour later, hundreds of persons would have lost their lives," said a rescue ATLANTA, tornado thundered through northwest Atlanta early Monday, killing three persons, injuring at least 50 and leaving a huge industrial area in rubble.

The twister extensively damaged Georgia's $2 million governor's mansion, blowing off the roof and knocking down all the front columns of the elegant structure. The governor's office 'reported that Gov. George Busbee's son, Jeff, 14, escaped injury when one of the columns crashed into his bedroom. The governor reportedly was in the shower when the tornado ripped into the mansion, and he shouted a warning to his family. Scores of persons were treated worker searching through rubble for bodies.

At least 30 huge tractor trailers were tumbled upside down or crushed when the twister demolished a U.S. mail terminal. Strips of aluminum from the rigs hung from trees or telephone wires and huge tires were flung about the area. Authorities estimated at least 60 businesses or warehouses were demolished. Hundreds of cars were buried under the rubble or bricks, furniture, goods, roofing and other debris.

B. F. Monroe, who works in a warehouse adjacent to the terminal, said he ran out of the warehouse when he heard the twister. "A piece of roof caught me. It threw me about 50 feet," he said.

"When I was getting up I saw a Pontiac coming down the street rolling like a matchbox. I saw a woman fall out. It didn't even look like she was hurt." Seconds later a wind-blown truck crushed the automobile, but the woman escaped. One man was killed when a collaps wan Holy Week Legislature stories on Pages 7J, 2 Passover Recalls Jews' Exodus On Inside Pages World News, Pages 2, 3: Israelis Blame Egypt State News, Pages 17-19: 2 Million Acres Pledged Lifescape, Pages 9, 10: Up With Teaching Machines Sports News, Pages 15, 16: OU's Ramsey Quits S-. Editorials 4 Astrology 22 Entertainment 18 Deaths 23 TV, Radio .23 Want Ads ..24 one's life.

To be free is to be able to tell one's children about what gives meaning to one's life and to invite them to join him as the next link in a chain of generations committed to teaching its children how to walk with God and to live justly. The way to treasure freedom is to remember when one didn't have it or to imagine how it must have felt to gain it. To treasure freedom is to learn the lesson of being a stranger. It is to imagine what it might be like to be marginal and expendible so that one might never be guilty of disregarding the divine in any man. On this Passover, I wish all I could do would be to express what I feel is the universal message of freedom and how Jews try to teach their children to treasure it.

But the U.N., the Arab economic boycott, and Egyptian President Sadat's pretentions to moderation seem to be trying again to make the State of Israel seem marginal and expendable. On this Passover, the Jewish people's thoughts will turn to Israel with the prayer that Israel will not again be asked to defend its rights to be free and Markets 20,21 own, so, too, we must try to help all those who cannot make it by themselves alone. (Deuteronomy To taste the Matzah is to re-experience the feelings of being marginal and insignificant society. The value of the experience is to recommit oneself to fight against inequality and injustice in society, i.e., to help others attain the freedom that one treasures so. (Leviticus It is the knowledge and joy of freedom that is the central motif of the Seder, the second well known way Passover is celebrated.

Seder means order. The festive family meal served on the first two nights of Passover has a set procedure. Intentionally unusual, each out-of-the ordinary detail stimulates the child and the adult to ask questions. Judaism believes that rituals are educational opportunities. And more deeply, that a partial way to transmit a committment to freedom and justice is through the visible family celebration of the first moment when freedom was To the Jewish people, to be free is to know where one came from.

To be free is to know the experiences that have shaped (EDITOR'S NOTE: For Holy Week this year, The Star asked five local clergymen to prepare brief articles. The first is by Rabbi Mark Bisman of Tifereth Israel Synagogue and deals with the Passover, which is observed this week.) By RABBI MARK BISMAN Tifereth Israel Synagogue At sundown on Wednesday, Jewish communitites here in Lincoln and elsewhere will commence their celebration of Passover, Passover commemorates the Exodus from Egypt and the birth of the Jewish people. (Deuteronomy It is for us very literally a holiday of freedom. well known ways Passover is celebrated illustrate what the holiday means to the Jewish people and its relevance to all men. For eight days, Jews are asked to refrain from eating the normal kinds of breads and cakes.

Instead, they are asked to eat Matzah, a bread baked quickly before the dough can rise. This unleaved bread is to remind us how hastily the enslaved Israelites had to get away when the moment of freedom came. (Exodus 12:39) But Matzah is also traditionally known as the bread of afflio The Weather LINCOLN: Sunny, warmer Tuesday, high near 40. Northerly winds 10-20 m.p.h. Low Tuesday night lower to mid teens.

Increasing cloudiness Wednesday, high mid to upper 30s. NEBRASKA: Mostly sunny and warmer Tuesday. Highs upper 30s to upper 40s. Lows in the teens Tuesday night. Mostly sunny east, cloudy west Wednesday, highs upper 30s, mid 40s.

More Weather, Page 17 Rabbi Mark Bisman tion or the bread of poverty. In eating Matzah, one is to be reminded of those moments of slavery and persecution before one knew freedom. Not to take freedom for means, periodically, to do something out of the ordinary to remind ourselves when we as a people didn't have it and how it felt to attain it. For the Jewish people, it is also critical to remember that freedom was achieved with the help of God. Consequently, when anyone is in distress, we may not turn aside.

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