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A 8 infc tiLuv Sunday, July 2, 1972 Diplomats optimistic on renewed Paris talks OPTIMISM from AT laboutthe changes for progress presume a fairly specific under-, not necessarily accept it imme-, the first time in almost two Fischer misses flight to Iceland New York The American punfire, fluted echo in Belfast inParis- "There is a convergence oft hopeful signs, many factors fa-1 standing on the Indochina issue, 2. A battlefield situation more equalized than in the, last two idiately before the election. years, almost unuormiy opti- 4. A feeling among many imistic. South Vietnamese that even a' One ntaador presidential election November 7 a liltPiv a nnd hpfnr officials who demur from, the! generally optimistic consensus Peace rather r5S5 a rnnoan amnaccannr nproinam riir nrr rmm nour ciinnnps By DANIEL BERGER London Bureau of The Sun coalition government would be notrof man anntnpp oonflpar win of war.

"It is a difficult equation; an small no-go areas, all on side streets within Protestant ghet-'Iast note that there is no public soineuung une aim unuer neavy uuinuaruiueiu, indication of compromise on the couId not nonestIv say in the but South Vietnam still hard-crucial issue of who will govern Past 9 of 10 months or even pressed to defend several fronts in Saigon. 'longer." jwith another, big Communist In the last week, President' Among factors generally push expected. East European diplomat said in 1 set any time frame on it, be-Vientiane. "There are so many f0re or after the presidential unknowns. But I think the net election, but I think chances are three ith North Viet-j 7 3.

The American presidential election putting pressure on Mr. Nixon, to end the war quickly and on the North Vietnamese toj get the best offer they can butj T. Clted: 1. The atmospehre of under- standing resulting from Presi-i dent Nixon's trips to China and the Soviet Union, and many tos, was believed under con struction. This first weekend since the provisional IRA ceasefire was a delicate The traditional Saturday shoppers flocked to what is left of the Belfast shop ping district in greater num- bers than had been seen for 'many months.

British military presence on the steets was minimal but William Whitelaw, the secretary for Northern Ireland, re mained at Stormont Castle in- isteai of takine his customarv weekend at home in England. There was a distinct increase in sectarian shootings and intimidation forcing people to vacate houses. I result is a positive, not a nega-' tive, one. Evaluations of the factors dif- fer greatly, but the tone of the diplomatic assessments is, for since each increase was applied to benefits already raised, the overall cash increase runs to well over 50 per cent. New 'tables have yet to be! Nixon signs record SociarSecitj i SIGNING, from Al I imposes considerable additional I The 20 per cent boost brings I I Vkilxrtnrtn nil innnA.nipn.

I a JE nnni tVin innnnnrnP I 1 rrT -j I ZTZr i Til Belfast, Northern Ireland City echoed to the flute ana drum yesterday as the Orange' Order marching season and to gunfire as a series of Unconnected sectarian incidents cast an ominous pall. Protestant men stepped out in theiir' bowler hats and orange collarets, marching smartly bebind their drums and banners I as if nothing in their world had changed fne wreath was laid to the UlSt'er volunteers who died at th battle of the Somme 'in World War I. and the "wee 12ST parade, so called because it 'prepares for the July 12i celebrations, went on without difficulty at least until nightfall. i March canceled jhe Ulster Protestant Volunteers, a group associated with thi Rev. Ian Paisley, canceled its Dian io marai in uie a i i it riu of Coalisland defi-j anefpf a government ban.

Spme.of the parade had an; miliary guard, ap- yatuy oufh' DeKnse Association. association was maintaining least 11 barricaded "no-go in Belfast and seven more" in country towns. Most werV intended to be removed A released by the. Social Security: ber of years worked and on the Administration but some aver- wages, on which the Social Se-age figures have been madecurity taxes were paid during Two bodies were found ofvrom there. his approval because of my deep concern for the well-being of our older Americans.

Theyl both need and deserve a signifi- cant increase in. Social Security benefits." He said that the bill's failure to fully finance the increase would add $3.7 billion to more than $3 -billion by which Con gress has thrown his fiscal 1973 budget into deficit. He called this inflationary. Mr. Nixon said he will call for offsetting cuts in other programs.

There was no immedi ate indication of where the cuts will be proposed. formed on the various peace moves, commented privately last week, "I would not want to very good now for progress in the "That is something I have not been able to say for many (many iicreas payment from $170 to $223 and iVlic XI' 1 1 Via (971 off ConfrtMrt These figures are. averages and actual benefits run both. lower, and considerably higher, than these figures. The actual benefits are based on the num- those years.

Robert M. Ball, the Commis sioner of Social Security, said that beneficiaries' need not. apply for the increase. "Every one of the 28.1 million men, women and children on the benefit rolls in September will receive the increase he said. $114,1 million, with a $49.5 million subsidy.

3. Aeron Marine Shipping and National Steel and Shipbuilding Company of San Diego, for three tankers at a cost of $83.6 million with a $359 million subsidy. 4. Service Tankers, and Todd Shipyards Corpora--tion of San Pedro, for four tankers for $79.4 million, of which $34.1 million is federal A Bethlehem spokesman said the contracts' will have "no im- mediate effect" on the Sparrows Point yard because "these ships will not be started until 1974." "I don't know what the long- term effect will mean," the spokesman continued. "It prolongs Certain employment for people down at the shipyard.

We will have ships to build in 1974, '5 and '6," he said. chess grandmaster, Bobby Fis cher, failed to show up at Kennedy International Airport here yesterday for passage on the commercial airline flight that could have taken him to Reykjavik. Iceland, in time for the scheduled start today of his world chess title match with Russia's Boris Spassky. The Icelandic Airlines plane departed on schedule without Mr. Fischer, and an airline spokesman said the next flight to Reykjavik would not be until 7.30 P.M.

(EDT) today. Mr. Fischer's first game with Mr. Spassky was scheduled to begin at 1 P.M. (EDT) today.

There was some speculation that Mr. Fischer, who fled re porters when they spotted him at Kennedy Airport Thursday night, might have taken a flight to another European city and planned to go to Reykjavik Shelling rain slow Saigon push WAR, from Al mand said 190 tactical air strikes and three B-52 missions were flown against various mili tary targets in North Vietnam Friday, the fewest in one day since May 23. Targets were mainly supply and antiaircraft facilities in the southern panhandle. Pilots. re ported touching off 20 second ary explosions and 12 fires.

North Vietnamese forces said they shot down two F-4 yesterday and captured several pilots. A broadcast also reported the Viet Cong sank a U.S. cargo ship off Quang Tri Tues day. The ship was not identified. Free bus experiment in Rome ends Rome (Reuter) Rome ended last night its two-month experiment of giving free bus rides, described by a municipal bus company spokesman as a great success.

The experiment, which began May 2, aimed to lure Romans out of their cars and into buses-, thus helping i. to end the city's traffic chaos. After midnight and until further notice passengers once again had to pay 50 lire (about 8 cents) to ride Ion public transport. Nguyen Van Thieu has reiterat ed his position that his govern ment will never agree to a settlement providing for a coalition government with Commu nist participation. President Nixon has said that the United States would not im pose such a government on Saigon, but has left open the possibility, diplomats here say, of "persuading" the South Viet namese to accept such a settlement.

A North Vietnamese diplomat said Wednesday in an interview in Vientiane that the term "coalition government" deliberately misconstrues the Communist proposal for "a government of national concord." North's stand unchanged Coalition government has been taken to mean a Commu nist government," he said, "when in fact the (Viet Cong) negotiating proposal is for a government in which all the. political forces within South Vietnam would participate," he said. Although North Vietnamese leaders have been reviewing their strategy in Hanoi for sev eral weeks, the diplomat said the Communists basic demands for a political settlement of the war, providing for the govern ment ot national concord in Saigon, and the withdrawal of American forces and material support for the Thieu regime remain unchanged. Hanoi is likely, however, to demand not only the withdrawal of U.S. troops from South Vietnam as part of a settle ment, the North Vietnamese diplomat said, but also from Thailand and the South China Sea.

"Farce of withdrawal" "Taking' troops, and planes from Vietnam and putting them Thailand and on aircraft car riers" makes a farce of with drawal," he Even with such basic issues unresolved, diplomats here and in Vientiane, both Western and Asian, Communist and non- Communist, express optimism Bethlehem yard gets tanker contract iir-u tt peaceline that separates the But on Wilton street off t.h. available. The 15 per cent increase that became effective in January, 1970, plus a 10 per cent increase in January, 1971, raised from $100 to $129 the pension for an average retired, single worker. The latest raise will move that to $158. The two earlier increases raised average, couple's drew Gibson, former assistant secretary of commerce for maritime affairs and now acting assistant secretary for domestic and international business, who commented yesterday, "I have no idea what we'll do for an encore." The announcement of the contract signing wa made after a closed-door meeting between President Nixon and other federal officials, and shipping and labor representatives.

The other contracts signed yesterday were between: 1. Seatrain Lines, and Seatrain Shipbuilding Corp. of Brooklyn, N.Y., for construction of three tankers at a cost, of $171.9 million, with a $73.9 million subsidy. 2. States Steamship Company and Bath Iron Works Corporation of Bath, Maine, for three roll-on, roll-off vessels, described by the White House as the nation's largest van men who had been executed in IRA style, though police could nnt whnm About chiJdren playing in an fied in the Bal gomartin Farea scene of pst sectarian battles, found the hooded and eaeeed bodv of an unidentified young man who had been shot in the head.

Earlier, the body of a 43-year-old Catholic man was dumped from a hijacked car on the Protestant side of the Shankhill from the Lower Falls district. In the Protestant suburb of Bangor, Mrs. Mary Mclnerney, a Catholic, and her eight chil dren, were dragged from their home by a gang of 20 masked men who burnt their house, furniture, family pictures and coast resort offered to take the Mclnerney's in but they preferred to stay with a neighboring Catholic fam ily whose men had tried to de fend them, i Officer queried An association officer com manding a barricade 50 yards away said he did not know of the incident but "any complaint we get will be investigated and action taken, if necessary." A rising tide of intimidated family evacuations has been re ported in Belfast by community groups in recent days. Most have been Catholics driven from mixed and border, SHIPS, from Al indication that the plan is working. That view was expounded yesterday by Peter G.

Peterson, the Secretary of Commerce, when he told a press conference that while the United States is reinforcing its merchant marine against foreign competition, the shipping industry is becoming less dependent on government participation. He was referring to the ability of the federal- government to reduce its construction subsidy rates from 55 per cent in 1968 to the current 41 per. cent, and still have transactions like the one announced yesterday com pleted. Ultimately, the government hopes to reduce that figure, to 35 per cent. The success 'thus far.ofthe program, particularly with the new contracts, appeared to be reflected in a statement by An storm Agnes and South Dakota both of these features, He said that the automatic cost-of-living increase "constitutes a major breakthrough for older Americans" by providing a hedge against inflation, which he says he has long urged.

Mr. Nixon signed a batch of more than 16 bills before his departure, several of them providing disaster relief and addi tional benefits for veterans. He approved bills to: 1. Provide up to 13 extra weeks of unemployment compensation for workers who have exhausted their benefits. It particularly affects states where unemployment remains high.

The extension remains until December 31, 1972. 2. Provide an additional $200 million for disaster, relief that will principally aid areas of five Eastern states hit by tropical storm "Agnes New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Vir ginia and Florida. Funds will also be available to help in continuing recovery efforts from the San Fernando earthquake in California and flash floods in Rapid City, S.D., and Buffalo Creek, W.Va. 3.

A 10 per cent increase in monthly benefits for disabled veterans," which will start August 1, Mr. Nixon had sought to head off the 20 per cent Social Security rider, attached under the sponsorship of Senator Frank Church Idaho). Republicans wanted to cut the increase to 10 per cent and accused Democrats of politics. 'But it passed by 82 to 4 in the Senate and 302 to 35 in the House. Mr.

Nixon said that the measure was fully funded and iiimiiuiK I'tinMi ii FLORSHEIM MEN'S SHOE CLEARANCE Shankhill road, masked associa tion-, men sank concrete and steel posts into the street. A totafcof four such permanent Manhunt still on for slick bandit Tokyo W'i- Japanese police! have been hunting 3 years or a eunman wno usea a suck dodge to rob a bank car of more than $817,500. Yesterday they decided to cut the investigation squad from 37 to 20 men but the manhunt will go on. A police spokesman, said the searchers are determined 'to leave no stone unturned in our investigations." On December 11, 1968, a bank car carrying year-end bonuses Jvas flagged down by a gunman dressed as a traffic policeman, tie told the four bank employees inside he had been instructed to search for a bomb and frightened them out of the auto by pulling a smoke bomb from un derneath it. Then he climbed be hind the wheel and drove away.

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