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A2 THE SUN. Saturday. June 17, 1972 Serond-rlifrg aostacc paid at Baltimore. Sid. A i 1 1 i i Wounded taken out of An Loc It News Capsule -f Jr Low price retained for foreign aid BJ ALBERT SEHLSTEDT, JR.

Washington Bureau of The Sun Washington The administration scored another foreign policy victory in Congress this week when the Senate, voted yesterday to keep the cost of American military aid at its present low level for recipient governments. The Senate, rejecting the advice of its own Foreign Relations voted 40 to 22 to retain the present requirement, calling for America's allies to deposit 10 per cent of the value of the military assistance in a local account for the use of In the nation Representatives of the nation's food chains are telling consumer groups of a likely major rise in food prices, particularly meats Page Al Clifford Irving was sentenced to Vk years in federal prison in the Howard Hughes case and his wife got two months. Page Al Miami Beach is putting together a security force of some 4.000, including game wardens, for the national political conventions Page Al A federal judge ordered a new election of top officers of the United Mine Workers and imposed tough controls over the union Page Al The New York Stock Exchange said it is investigating recent trading in Berkey Photo, which hit new highs several times this week before the company announced plans to enter the instant photography market Page B7 A cow killed in the crossfire during fighting near Trang Bang, South Vietnam, is hauled away in a motorcycle taxi Reds shell 2 U.S. installations the 271-vote McGovern slate from California A6 The Federal Communications Commission voted 4 to 3 for a policy of "multiple-entry" for firms to provide satellite communications in the U.S A10 The retirement of John P. Mohr has removed from the FBI the last of the top-level advisers to the late J.

Edgar Hoover A7 The Securities and Exchange Commission charged ITT, two directors, and New York and Italian investment firms with violating laws in selling more than $100 million in ITT stock Al The Food and Drug Administration moved to impose additional safeguards against the use of the controversial livestock growth hormone DES Al An operation to remove a bullet from the spinal canal of Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama will be performed Sunday at Holy Cross Hospital Silver Spring Al Senator George S. Mc-Govern of South Dakota defended his proposal for sharper defense cuts in testimony before the congressional Joint Economic Committee A6 The Humphrey forces expect to succeed in challenging Saigon Wounded South Vietnamese troops were airlifted from An Loc yesterday and two senior allied commanders who flew into the battered city drew enemy fire as they landed. For Lt. Gen.

Nguyen Van Minn, commander of the 3d military region, and his senior American adviser, Mai. Gen James F. Hollingsworth, it was the first visit to An Loc since the siege there began 71 days ago. North Vietnamese shells crashed around the landing pad as four helicopters flew in, pro tected overhead by two Cobra helicopter gunships. No injuries or damage were reported.

Stayed three hours General Minn's purpose in going to An Loc, 60 miles north of Saigon, was to make an inspection and to congratulate some of his officers on their defense of the city, South Vietnamese military sources said. The two generals spent about three hours at An Loc, then flew out. President Nguyen Van Thieu recently told General Minh and other commanders that he wants the siege lifted in time for Armed Forces Day, which is Monday. Some doubt remains that this deadline will be met. Allied officers agree that Highway 13 south of the provincial capital must be cleared before the siege can be considered broken.

More than 100 While An Loc continued under enemy shelling, South Vietnamese Air Force helicopters lifted out more than 100 wounded soldiers from a pickup point about a quarter of a mile south of town, field reports said. Many South Vietnamese helicopters were refusing to land at the pickup point under fire. instead hovering at six to 10 feet so troop replacements could jump off but- nobody could get aboard. Wounded men were hobbling, crawling and being carried by U.S. advisers to the pickup point, and wounded men clutched at the skids of the helicopters as they hovered, but very few got aboard.

Sources in An Loc said South Vietnamese soldiers, at the height of the siege, sometimes fought each other for food and supplies dropped by parachute. The sources also said some civilians were killed by soldiers when they tried to get at the supplies. with a massive air and naval umbrella. Informants said the transfer of four Air Force and three Marine fighter-bomber squad rons from Da Nang to bases in Thailand at Nam Phong, Ko- rat and Takhli would cut U.S, strength in Vietnam while freeing troops of the 196th In fantry Brigade from security duty. The transfer, to be com pleted by July 1, involves as many as 150 planes.

The phaseout of the headquarters company of the 196th Infantry Brigade, one of its three infantry battalions and its lone artillery battalion will cut U.S. strength by 1,030 troops. Sources said it is likely that the other two infantry battalions also will be leaving within the next two weeks. The only other U.S. ground combat unit remaining in South Vietnam is the 3d Brigade of the 1st Air Cavalry Division.

It provides security for the Saigon-Long Binh-Bien Hoa mil In the world The Air Transport Association asked the U.S. District Court in Washington to stop pilots on U.S. airlines from shutting down air service as they plan to do for 24 hours Monday Page Al U.S. planes raked North Vietnam's southern section after 350 air strikes hit three MIG air bases, a naval base and an Army barracks. For the second day, U.S.

planes stayed away from the Hanoi area to avoid any incidents while President Nikolai V. Podgorny of the Soviet Union is visiting the North Vietnamese capital Page Al The first global conference on pollution problems ended its two-week meeting in Stockholm by adopting a comprehensive declaration on the human environment, which calls upon nations to safeguard natural ecosystems and halt the discharges of toxic substances in dangerous quantities Page Al The Nixon administration scored another foreign policy victory in Congress when the Senate voted to keep the cost of U.S. military aid at its present low level for the recipient governments Page A2 Pollution curbs urged as ecology parley ends Vinh on the Song Ca River. They reported, damaging one pier and destroying two supply craft. Vinh is about 125 miles inside North Vietnam.

The Badong Army barracks, about 65 miles north of the DMZ, also was reported damaged. Radio Hanoi claimed that despite the air strikes, traffic is still running and supplies are flowing to the front. More troop cuts "While the enemy is multiply ing his bomb tonnage, our peo ple are multiplying at an even higher rate our determination to fieht victoriously," the broadcast said, quoting an arti cle in the official newspaper Nhan Dan. The headquarters of the 196th Infantry Brigade, based at Da Nang, and two of its battalions began deactivating. More fight er-bombers from the Da Nang air base were shifted to bases in Thailand to continue the U.S.

air campaign in Indochina. The moves are aimed at reducing U.S. troop levels in Vietnam from the present 900 to 49,000 during the next two weeks, as ordered by President Nixon under the Vietnami-zation program. But the Nixon administration has built up a force of nearly 100,000 men at bases in Thailand, Guam. Taiwan and aboard 7th Fleet ships.

They provide the South Vietnamese Earth Organization here. "How did Barry and his band of lesser commoners come to take over the environment forum and turn a potential place for many views into a semi-Marxist monologue?" the publication asked. Among other major counter-groups meeting here have been the pronouncedly Marxist Folk Forum, whose organizers have been exclusively Swedish, and the Black Mesa. The former devoted much of its time to the war in Vietnam and the latter has centered on the problems of the American Indians. In general, observers here say, political disputes between various counter-groups grew worse during the conference instead of disappearing.

As an indication of this, many observers called attention to the fact that no effort was even made to bring the various dissident groups together during the conference's second week that wound up yesterday. It is certain that some people have benefited from these forums and opinions presented there. But their impact on the Umlcd Nations conference has been negligible. WAR, from Al Soviet president, is visiting the North Vietnamese capital. De tails of the latest raids were withheld.

A communique from the U.S. command reported that the northernmost strike Thursday was against the Ninh Binh rail road and highway bridge, about 60 miles south of Hanoi. Almost all of the raids were confined to an area between the 17th Parallel demarcation line and the 20th Parallel. The 20th Parallel is about 200 miles north of the demarcation zone and 75 miles south of Hanoi. The main targets were three MIG bases at Bai Thuong, Khe Phat and Quan Lang, where Air Force pilots reported bombing the runways.

"We have effectively stopped MIG activity at these three bases," said an Air Force officer. Naval base hit The American fighter-bombers ranged up and down the coast to the 20th Parallel, at tacking supply trucks, cutting highways and smashing bridges, warehouses and storage depots. The U.S. command said five bridges, 7 supply barges, 3 storage depots, 50 trucks, 18 -warehouses and 3 railroad cars were destroyed or damaged. In another big raid, Navy pilots attacked the Hai Yen naval base 6 miles northeast of I small number of Swedish disciples then celebrated life in j.

i -ri? i. aL ronmental posters and songs, Three of the celebrants two men and a woman danced naked in the sunshine in front of some 400 curious Swedes. An outraged Mrs. Ulla Sverkedal, a 50-year-old Stockholm telephone operator, thundered: "I can't stand this. I don't think it is the right way to make the world happy." The average Swede has shown little interest in any of the environmental activities during the official conference.

une oi me mam casuames ot mat apatny nas Deen tne environmental Forum, which received $86,000 from the Swedish The forum has brought many of the world's leading environmentalists tc Stockholm, aitiong them Margaret Mead, the anthropologist. But it has suffered from a bad case of organizational chaos from the very start. Particularly sharp criticism was directed at Dr. Barry Commoner, of Washington University in St. Louis, by the daily newsletter of the Friends of Federal court PILOTS, from Al fnr 94 hnnrs Mnnrfav attomntina uan nii La iiwt uii uwnivguL uuu illiquid- tional commercial air travel in I a demonstration for tiehter air-1 Stockholm sideshows stirring hardly a ripple the United States.

The Foreign Relations Committee had wanted to boost the deposit to 25 per cent. Tuesday, the House Foreign Affairs Committee unexpectedly endorsed President Nixon's plan for withdrawal from Vietnam, including his proviso for an internationally supervised cease-fire. However, the close committee vote, 19 to 18, may be reversed in later action on the House floor. Wednesday, the more hawk ish House Armed Services Com mittee voted overwhelmingly to authorize funds for the B-l supersonic bomber and the new long-range Trident submarine. which the administration con siders necessary weapons im provements to complement the arms control agreements reached with the Kremlin May 26.

Yesterday, Senator Gordon Allott Colo.) carried the ball for the White House as the Senate reversed its Foreign Re lations Committee recommen dation. Mr. Allott said the 25 per cent deposit requirement ran counter to the concept of the Nixon Doctrine, which would have friendly nations assume a greater share of responsibility for their own defense. "The fact is that many of these governments cannot af ford to maintain an adequate defense establishment without our assistance," he said. 'And without adequate de fense establishments, their vital interests, as well as ours, would be threatened by those who still believe that it is possible and legitimate to use arms to force, changes in the international community," Mr.

Allott said. In Korea, he added, the cur rent requirement of a 10 per cent deposit cuts $20 million out of that government's $360 mil lion defense budget. The pre sent deposit also puts a burden on Jordan, a government whose stability is essential if peace is to come to the Mideast, ne said. On the other hand. Senator John Sparkman Ala.) took the Dosition that the Nixon Doc trine would also be well served by the 25 per cent deposit be cause recipient nations womu be assuming a greater share of their arms burdens.

And, Mr. Sparkman said, the higher percentage requirement would save American taxpayers $124 million in the fiscal year beginning July 1. In the 40-to-22 vote supporting the Allott position, Maryland's Senator J. Glenn Beall, and Senator Charles McC. Mathias, both Republicans, voted with the majority.

The Senate also approved a $38.5 million authorization yes terday for the American government's contribution to Radio Free Europe, which broadcasts to the nations of the Eastern bloc, and for Radio Liberty. which beams its signal to the Soviet Union. The vote was 58 to 2, with only Senator Mike Mansfield the majority lead er, and Senator Stuart Syming ton Mo.) voting against the measure. Senator J. William Fulbright, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and a crit ic wno has caned tne radio station relics of the cold war, was out of town.

Mr. Sparkman said that a majority of the committee thought the broadcasts served American foreign policy by pro viding news and commentary to people who would otherwise not hear it. French wreck kills 25 Soissons, France iTWTwo passenger trains collided last night in a tunnel north of Paris, killing 25 persons and injuring about 100 others, civil defense authorities reported. Railway officials said one of the trains hit a mass of rock and earth that had fallen from the tunnel roof. The other train coming in the opposite direction first hit the debris and then the other train.

Warren ParkJamestowneVill-age of PurnellWillistonHazel-crestHilltop Apts. will be closed from Sat. June 17 thru Tues. June 27 to give our employees a well deserved vacation. GORN MGT.

INC. AP itary complex. It has three infantry battalions and an artillery battalion. As it stands now there are five U.S. infantry battalions and one artillery battalion per haps 3,000 front lme fighters- remaining in Vietnam from a peak of 112 infantry battaltions and 60 artillery battalions in 1968.

The 196th Brigade, commanded by Brig. Gen. Joseph C. McDonough, of Annapolis, has been serving in Vietnam since August 1966. In other war action.

South Vietnamese bombers attacked two columns of North Vietnamese tanks in the Central High lands and knocked out eight of them at points 10 and 20 miles northwest of Kontum, govern ment spokesmen at Pleiku said. Battlefield action on the three major fronts at An Loc, in the Central Highlands and aloi the northernmost defense line at My Chanh above Hue-was light and scattered. Two Russian observers, however, were present to follow the conference's work. Several del-gates yesterday called for the Soviet Union and the other nations absent from this meeting to adopt the principles approved here and join the international measures to curb pollution. Maurice F.

Strong, of Canada, the conference's secretary general, said after the closing session last night that the present conference secretariat would continue its work until the permanent machinery, which will work under the U.N. Economic and Social Council, has been formally approved by the General Assembly. He expressed optimism that the Soviet bloc nations would join the global anti-pollution efforts, once again reiterating that they stayed away from here not because of lack of interest in environmental protection but because of political reasons. "Virtually Impossible task" Mr. Strong said that "getting an agreement here was a virtually impossible task" but added that he was encouraged by the declaration which states that the protection of the human environment "is the urgent desire of the peoples of the whole world and the duty of all governments." More than 1,200 delegates participated in the Stockholm deliberations during which several parallel and protest meetings by non-governmental representatives, scientists and ecologists also were held.

The Stockholm conference resolved that a second conference on the human environment be held at an unspecified time. Both Canada and Mexico have offered to arrange for it In 1977. thinks "may threaten international peace and security." The 24-hour shutdown, the pilots association said, would apply to all U.S. flights-do mestic and international, scheduled and supplemental, and to civilian charter operations. Flights in the air when the stoppage begins would continue only to tne next stop.

Individual union chapters will decide whether to fly military charters, the association said. In Tokyo, the Janan Airline Pilots Association said it would not participate in the strike. umciais said they nave no right to suspend air service without government and man agement approval. A spokesman for Pacific Southwest Airlines, which flies exclusively In California, said its pilots would be working By ANTERO PIETILA Sun Stuf Correspondent Wounded South Vietnamese troops were being airlifted from beseiged An Loc and two senior allied commanders flew into the city A2 The several counter forums that were held in Stockholm during the U.N.'s conference on the Human Environment suffered from disorganization and actionalization A2 Boris Spassky, the generally reserved and modest world champion, finally answered his American challenger's psychological warfare campaign by saying that Fischer "seems to acquired a sort of persecution complex." A3 Ulrike Meinhof, female leader of the Baader-Meinhof anarchist gang in West Germany, has been arrested in a police raid on a hideout near Hanover A4 The chances for comprehensive arms limitation agreement between the U.S. and Stnokhnlm-Smnll noting nnilrnl raruamem, wun envi- bulletin board of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment announced the formation of the Anti-Paranoia Cooperative League, the Temporary Poetry Group and the Stockholm Circle of Possibility.

If there is any significance at all in those announcements, it must be that the innumerable unofficial groups that were cre ated here to save the world and. discuss issues not dealt with by I the official parley appear to be! in worse shape than the badly i divided official conference. Uncertain and factional GEORGE McGOVERN defends budget cuts the Soviet Union evaporated two years ago because the two sides could not agree on a definition as to just what are "strategic" arms A5 The Soviet Council of Ministers decreed that vodka production would be lessened to help combat the problem of alcoholism A5 BORIS SPASSKY chides Bobby Fischer A warrant was issued for the arrest of a former Block club operator after he failed to appear for arraignment on liquor charges A 13 GEORGE L. RUSSELL, JR. record spending 4 131 The counter-forums havejMinistry of Agriculture.

U.N., from Al here only shortly before 5 A.M. yesterday after the Chinese demands had developed a dead lock and the negotiators had decided to postpone one article for consideration at the General Assemblv. That article, which was pro tested by Brazil, would have called upon nations to sunply relevant information to others whenever there is reason to believe that their activities could cause significant adverse effects on the environment in areas beyond their national jurisdiction. Earlier yesterday, the weary conference approved final portions of its action plan, which includes a global assessment program called earthwatch, environmental management activities and supporting measures. 110 station to be set up "No less than 110 stations" will be set up around the world to monitor pollutants as a part of the program.

Altogether, more than 100 different environmental measures were approved here during the conference, including a $100 million voluntary environmental fund and permanent machinery to direct and coordinate international environmental programs. In addition, the conference passed resolutions calling for a 10-year moratorium on commercial whaling and for a convention banning the dumping of pollutants into the oceans. The Stockholm conference was boycotted by the Soviet Union and most of its Eastern European allies because East Germany which is not a mem ber of the United Nations or its specialized agencies was not invited here with voting rights. dealt with as such, includine a the application of enforcement procedures," Mr. orsberg add- ed.

The U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, who met with federation officials Thursday, said he was "certainly disappointed" that the pilots were going ahead with the strike, first threatened June 9. Mr. Waldheim said he had reached "a sort of understanding" with Mr. Blyth and Mr.

Forsberg that the pilots would hold off their strike after telling them he expected a Security Council meeting on the subject Monday or Tuesday. He said he did not think it "justified" for him to call the council into session under charter terms that permit him to do so on any matter he In the eily and slate The federal. Office of Economic Opportunity announced a $19 million grant to bring pre-paid medical services to 308,000 residents in the west and northwest areas of Baltimore Page Al George L. Russell, the city solicitor, filed a campaign spending report showing that he spent a record $180,000 in his attempt to defeat Representative Parren J. Mitchell 7th) Back Page Jack Ivory Johnson, 23, who told police he was acting under instructions of the Black Panther party when he took part in the ambush-slaying of one policeman and the serious wounding of another was given a life sentence, plus 15 years Back Page The city school system is making a major shift in its federal aid program for next year, eliminating 80 per cent of secondary programs and spending that money on grades kindergarten through four Back Page Pvt.

Dwight Drewery, a 24-year-old soldier at Fort Meade, was found innocent on counts of disrespect and disobedience to his commanding officer, but was convicted on two other charges including failure to get a haircut and a shave Back Page asked to forbid planned pilots' strike ons on the provisions for ajtion is a threat to international resolution to be laid before the i peace and security and must be been uncertain and factional. One day, for instance, three Americans said they would not speak at Dai Dong, an international scientists' forum named after the Chinese expression for the community of man, be- cause it did not. in their onin- ion, "represent the third! world." Two of those Americans, Dr. Richard Falk, a Princeton University law professor, and Don Luce, the reporter who first broke the story on the "tiger cages" for political prisoners in South Vietnam, had been advertised as Dai Dong's star witnesses against United States policy in Indochina. And there is Stewart Brand, who brought a hog farm com mune to Stockholm with profits from his enormously successful book, "The Last Whole Earth Catalogue." The hog farmers, who number about 50 and who have been sponsoring a forum here with about 150 of their followers, resolved in the name of the people of the world that all the nations proclaim a 10-year mor- atnriiim nn tl-io VllinfilllT Ifillinfy and environmental poisoning of human beings.

Maurice F. Strong, secretary general ot tne official corner- ence, accepted their proclama tion. "I love your meaningful statement," he said. "I hope the whole world will love it and embrace it." The hippie community and its port security against hijackers, i Association, said that its 31,000 The stoppage was to begin at 2jniemers would participate in A.M. (EDT) in 64 nations.

itlie protest. There were reports 15-member council. Jolin 0 Donnell, the presi-: acnl of tne U.b. Air Line Pilots in Japan as well as in parts of the United States that some pilots might not take part. But two international unions of airport ground personnel said they would support the stoppage.

"If any aircraft is not serviced on the ground, she will not fly," said Charles Blyth, the general secretary of the United Transport Workers Federation. He said his union had 250,000 members in civil aviation. "The U.N. must clearly go on irceor(j ,0 tne effect unlflw, interference with civil avia- Vice Adm. James Calvert turned over the command of the U.S.

Naval Academy to Vice Adm. William P. Mack in an Annapolis ceremony A13 The Prince Georges county state's attorney threatened to have federal agents cited for contempt unless they release Arthur II. Bremer for his county trial on charges of shooting Gov. George C.

Wallace and three others A 13 A bill introduced by Senator J. Glenn Beall designed to spearhead improvements in health-care delivery cleared its first congressional hurdle Alt Mr. Forsberg's announcement followed what he termed an "unsatisfactory" response from the United Nations to the federation's plea that the U.N. Security Council take effective measures against air pirates, The United States U.N. dele- gation immediately called for a meeting of the council "at the earliest possible moment" to consider possible provisions against skyjacking.

The delegation was consulting in New York with other delega-lful Monday..

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