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r.v v. Des Moines Register PaQfi2 Mar. 27, 1972 PEOPLE in the NEWS SIGN PACT FOR MALTA BASES iVatfj A-7 Fighter-Bomber Crashes in Viet, Pilot Missing Briefly three-month span last fall and after the fifth crash, on Nov. 1, all were grounded. The trouble was traced to the nose wheel assemblies and corrected.

In other Indochina developments, the U.S. Command reported that a helicopter gunship was shot down Saturday in the central highlands 13 miles northwest of Kontum. The two dochina in five days the 60 A7s on the 7th Fleet carriers in Southeast Asia were grounded. Another A7 from the carrier Kitty Hawk crashed in the Gulf of Tonkin Mar. 19, shortly after taking off on a mission.

The pilot was rescued. Military spokesmen said there are problems with the small metal spacers used to separate three turbine wheels in the TF41 turbo-fan engine in the A7 and corrective efforts are under way. This was the second time in five months that the A7s have been grounded. Five of the Navy planes crashed during a SAIGON, SOUTH VIETNAM (AP) For the third time in a week, an A7 fighter-bomber, the aircraft which has been grounded or restricted to urgent missions because of engine problems, has crashed and the pilot is missing, the U.S. Command announced Sunday.

A spokesman for the 7th Fleet said a Navy A7 Corsair crashed Thursday 63 miles southwest of Da Nang. The- an nouncement was withheld pending completion of a search for the pilot. The plane was return ing to the carrier Kitty Hawk from a mission in Laos. Shortly after the crash the second for the Navy in In- RomelTALY SARDINIA LT1 Palermo Tunic lr. T.

I rnjn Sfax prod Mintoff into accepting the package by agreeing to review its economic aid if he signed. Washington, concerned about the growing Soviet presence in the Mediterranean, had expressed fears Mintoff would throw open Malta's naval installations to the Russians if Britain abandoned the bases. The new agreement stipulates that Malta will not permit Soviet bloc forces "to be stationed in Malta or to use the military facilities there." Links '66-'67 Tax Policy, Inflation WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Failure to raise income taxes in 1966 and 1967 to finance the Vietnam war was the root cause of current inflation and unemployment, according to a Itudy released Sunday by the American Enterprise Institute of Public Policy Research. The study prepared by Charles E.

McLure, an as sociate professor of economics at Rice University, ascribes major blame for the fiscal woes of the late 1960s to the politicians although he adds that economists also contributed. McLure writes that when restrictive measures finally took hold they produced a far greater, increase in unemployment than was expected or desired. Shop tonight till? 3 NapleP5 9 --I ill Writes CIA Agent Misled My Lai Assault Planners WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) Author Seymour M. Hersh says an agent for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) misled the planners of the ill-starred 1968 attack on My Lai by telling them they would find a Viet Cong battalion there.

Ihe agent denies it. Plnctir FlnwAKC Eleana Zuker of Chicago admires JT I lUWCrjs an untitled smoke-gray flower by Lee Bontecou, presently on display at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. The exhibition is the artist's first solo showing in an American museum. LONDON, ENGLAND (AP) Prime Minister Dom Mintoff of Malta signed a $260 million pact with Britain Sunday, ending six months of bargaining to keep his Mediterranean island in the Western defense network. The agreement, under which Britain will have use of the island's air and naval bases for the next seven years, was initialed by Mintoff and Lord Carrington; Britain's defense secretary, only five days before the deadline for the withdrawal of British troops from Malta.

Demand for Money Carrington had borne the brunt of the tough negotiations since Mintoff scrapped Britain's old defense pact last June and demanded more money for use of the bases. "I am satisfied that the agreement safeguards the position of Britain and her allies," Carrington told a news confer ence. Malta will get $36.4 million a year in rent for the bases $13.8 million from Britain and the rest from its North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) allies who beefed up Britain's offer when London refused to meet Mintoff's demands. The agreement fell short of Mintoff's original request for $46.8 million a year. That was $33.8 million more than Britain was paying under the old deal which was due to expire in 1974 before Mintoff scrubbed it.

But his government, with only a one-vote majority in parliament, has financial problems and Malta is to get an immediate down payment of $33.15 mil lion. NATO Pledges The down payment, which will cover the first nine months of the new agreement, appar ently was one of the factors which brought Mintoff around after he rejected Britain final offer of $36.4 million a year. He also has pledges from NATO countries of $18.2 million in economic aid for his tiny island and $6Vi million from the Italians to meet a budgetary deficit. The Italians acted as mediators in the later stages of the marathon negotiations. The United States helped BRIDESMAID HATS Wedding veils hats for the mother-of-the-bride and flower girls.

Made to order. Pictures copied. NINANEAL Ph.243-142 Shop tonight till 9 crewmen were rescued. Two other helicopters were damaged when they were hit in the air by enemy ground fire at points 11 miles northwest and 110 miles southwest of Saigon. One crewman aboard each helicopter was wounded, the U.S.

Command said. In the southern central high lands, a U.S. truck was am bushed on Highway 11 about six .7 miles south of the resort town of Dalat. An American soldier was wounded and the truck sustained minor damage, the Command said. 106 Killed The Saigon military com mand, meanwhile, boosted to 106 the number of North Viet namese troops claimed killed in fighting Saturday near Firebase Bastogne, a former base of the U.S.

101st Airborne Division, 11 miles southwest of Hue. Earlier, it had reported 97 enemy killed. South Vietnamese casu alty figures were revised from four dead and 23 wounded to four killed and 25 wounded. Cambodian warplanes continued to attack suspected enemy concentrations near Phnom Penh, a Cambodian military spokesman reported. There was little ground fighting except for a major clash at Kompong Trach in Kampot Province, along the southern coast.

Hanoi Haiphong lSKVMK Demilitarized XJ Zone -lWHufc Nang yenOSajgony ThofryS Delta belief the village was the home of the fierce 48th Viet Cong battalion which previously had inflicted heavy damage to American units. "Intelligence Reports" The source of that belief was alluded to only as "intelligence reports." Says Hersh: "The link between Ramsdell and the poor intelligence for the Mar. 18 op eration was never explored by the Peers panel (the exhaustive Army investigation headed by Lt. Gen. William R.

Peers). For one thing, none of the high- ranking officers on it had any reason to suspect that Ramsdell was poorly informed about Vietnam." Ramsdell was sent into Quang Ngai Province Feb. 4 40 days before My Lai to run the clandestine Operation Phoenix, Hersh writes. The author describes Phoenix as "a joint American-South Vietnamese venture aimed at identifying and then neutralizing either through imprisonment, assassination or forced defection local members of the Viet Cong infrastructure." Ramsdell confirmed that he was involved in the Phoenix operation, but disagreed with Hersh's assessment of its aims. "We wanted to capture cer tainly more than to assassi nate, Ramsdell said.

"A dead man was no use to us at all." WOLF'S Rally to Support Release of Calley COLUMBUS, GA. (AP) A rally supporting release of Army Lt. William L. Calley, convicted one year ago of mur der in deaths of Vietnamese civilians at My Lai, will be held Monday night, according to attorney V. Eugene McMichen.

McMichen, who said he was appointed last year by the American Legion to organize rallies to press for the release of Calley, announced main speakers will be 5th District Representative Fletcher Thompson and Macon Mayor Ronnie Thompson. The attorney said at least 000 persons are expected to participate. SDonsor of the rally is the Chattahoochee Valley Veterans Council. Calley's case is before the U.S. Army Court of Mili tary Review in Washington.

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The assault units met only old men, women and children in the South Vietnamese vil lage. Many were killed by' the American troops. New Book Hersh, who won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking the My Lai story, identifies the agent in a new book as Robert B. Rams- dell, now private investigator in Orlando, Fla. "Ramsdell refused to speak specifically about the information he provided Task Force Barker before the My Lai 4 operation, but acknowledged that his intelligence undoubtedly was a factor in the plan ning for the mission," Hersh writes in "Cover-Up," published Sunday by Random House.

In a telephone interview, Ramsdell denied Hersh's allegations and said that although he was working for the CIA in the My Lai area at the time of the killings, he had nothing to do with in-t 1 1 i reports to the Americans. Of his role in the CIA, Ramsdell said, "My function was with the Vietnamese. I had very little to do with the Americans." He said that information gathered by the South Vietnam ese was at times relayed to U.S. troops, but added that he doubts those reports could have become the basis for the misleading information fed to planners of the My Lai assault. In the My Lai courts-martial of Lt.

William L. Calley, and others there was testimony that the attack was made in the MERLE HAT Hklk $23 WIREPHOTO (AP) Collapses Pop singer Tom Jones collapsed in his Boston hotel room from apparent effects of the Hong Kong flu, according to his agent, Chris Hutch ings. Doctors or-d the singer to rest in bed for three days, forcing cancellation of a pearances in Boston and New Orleans. Hutchings said Jones had suf-ferred a bout with the flu last week but "kept on working." Rescued A 24-year-old Canadian sky-diver was rescued from a 75-foot-high tree after he spent nearly eight hours dangling from its highest branches. Police said Howard Som.

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Dr. William Nkomo, 57, first black president of the South African Institute of Race Relations, of a heart attack in Pretoria, South Africa. He was a prominent African leader, spokesman and educator. Services The body of high fashion designer Cristobal Balenciaga was buried at the northern Spanish town of Guearia, where he was born in 1895. Before the burial, a funeral mass was attended by hundreds of persons, including local dignitaries and close friends of the family.

Balenciaga died of a heart attack. Married Richard M. Daley, attorney son of Chicago Mayor and Mrs. Richard Daley, was married in Pittsburgh to Margaret Ann Corbett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

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