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-wv- mm mm fin fl II (0 SATURDAY -i pn rn JlajL jfc-j LIU I lixU VVV mum SIS; WIS HI- II LARGEST CIRCUIATION IN THE WEST, 1,009519 DAILY, 1,208,209 SUNDAY, Copyright 171 Let AngelM Timet 68 PAGES SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 19, 1971 PARTS-PART ONE Stop, A Court Lets Post Run Second Viet Article but Bars Others WASHINGTON iffiA U.S. appeals court, splitting 2 to 1, reversed early today a federal judge's decision and temporarily blocked The Washington Post from running further stories based on top-secret Pentagon papers about the Vietnam war. Wjm'' ii i I mm .1 i n. i II mi iuu.jiu iiMin.iumm.iuiJniuKui 44- i i x( if vJ DAILY 10c BOMB HALTS WERE TO PLACATE WORLD, VIET STUDY SHOWS BY MURREY MARDER Exclusivt ts The Timet from th Washington Post WASHINGTON Johnson administration strategists had almost no expectation that the many pauses in the bombing of North Vietnam be-! tween 1965 and 1968 would produce peace talks but believed they would help placate domestic and world opinion, according to the Defense Department's study of those war years. The Pentagon study discloses that some strategists planned to use unproductive bombing pauses as a justification escalating the war.

This idea was first outlined privately by U.S. officials soon after the bombing of the north began in 1965. These planners regarded the lulls in bombing as a "ratchet" to reduce Please Turn to Page 18, Col. 1 ton Post and seven of the Post's top editors paced up and down in a glassed-in office outside Bradlee's private office waiting for any move by the court to enjoin distribution before the truck left the building. National News Editor Mary Lou Beatty held an open line to a Post reporter at the appeals court.

At 10:30 p.m., Bradlee asked her: "Any ruling?" "No shouted. "Let her roll," Patterson told the pressroom by phone. He slammed down the receiver and told the assembled editors, "She's rolling." Patterson said the court order will bar publication of the third story of the series "assuming it's still in effect then." He said lawyers still were deliberating whether to appeal. A subsequent appeal would be to the Supreme Court. Board Exams as a junior, but he'll probably begin as a sophomore.

"If you start late you have to specialize early," he explained. "And I want to take a lot of everything and not be too limited. I want to know a lot about everything." The College Board tests, a major criterion by which college admissions officers judge prospective stu dents, are taken by 1.5 million students annually. Many students prepare for the exams by taking practice tests in workbooks, but Nicky stuck to the accelerated program he was taking at the private Ranney School in New Shrewsbury, where he has been a pupil for 10 years. Nicky took the.

Latin test and a math test in the ninth grade, scoring 800s, and two more math tests in the tenth grade, scoring 800s. High school students generally take the tests in the senior year and the average score is in the high 400s. Nicky says chemistry has been his favorite subject," but lately he likes humanities more and more. 0 td) FOUR MILES OF LIGHT las Vegas' High Cost of Turning Night Into Day BY DAVID LAMB Timet Staff Writer LAS VEGAS Darkness is unwelcome in this sleepless city. Only once in 24 years has the night triumphed over Las Vegas' giant neon signs which alone devour enough power to illuminate a 300-mile highway with street lamps 75 feet apart.

That was in March, 1070, when a culinary strike closed' down major hotels for 100 hours and sent thousands of Las Vegans hurrying onto the strip to gawk at the eerie blackness. But since then, the ritual has not varied: darkness creeps across the desert, and just as the night is within reach, a battery of electronic eyes scans the light level and flashes a command. Four million bulbs and more than 125 miles of neon blaze into life. And three men carrying sketches of each sign at 32 hotels and casinos climb into three cars to begin their patrols as guardians of the city's night light. Signs Beautiful for Him One of the men on patrol the other night was Denny Livengood, a superintendent at Federal Sign and Signal Corp.

For him, signs have beauty, shape and grace and personalities as varied as the artists, glass-blowers, engineers and electricians who work for his company. "I suppose if the architects had their way, there'd be no signs on our buildings," he said, circling a group of dead bulbs on a sketch of the Dunes sign. "And if we had ours, there'd be no buildings, just signs." The $500,000 Dunes sign is 18 stories high, weighs almost as much as five 747 jumbo jets, contains 7,200 light bulbs and costs $140 a day to operate. Its servicing requires three full-time employes who ride a special monorail elevator inside the structure, which at night is visible to pilots 100 miles away. "You have to crawl through the sign and along an outside railing to 'relamp' the diamond on top," Liven-good said.

"You need a perfect day to do it. No wind, not too hot. Otherwise you're in trouble up there, with the sign swaying three or four feet." Livingood eyed each sign and marked each dead bulb as his 30-mile patrol took him from the Strip, to McCarran Airport, to Interstate 15, to downtown Fremont where Please Turn to Page 21, Col. 1 FEATURE INDEX ASTROLOGY. Part 1, Page 15.

CHURCH NEWS. Part Pages 22-24. CLASSIFIED. Part 4, Pages 1-22. COMICS.

Part 1. Page 20. CROSSWORD. Part 4, Page 22. D.AY IX SACRAMENTO.

Part 3, Page 7. FILMS. Tart 2, Pages 5-9. FINANCIAL. Part 3, Pages 8-12.

METROPOLITAN NEWS. Part 2. Tart 3, Tsges 1-B. THE ri'BLIC SPEAKS OUT. Part 2, Page 4.

'TV-RADIO. Fart 2, Page 2. VITALS, WEATHER. Part 3, Page 7. VOL.

XC PAUSE THAT REFRESHES Julie Byrnes, 9, right, squirts water in the face of Rita Mogan, 6, as they stop for a drink of water after marching marking 196th anniversary of Bunker Girls are members of Sparkles CYO band of South Boston. lf) Wirephota UUp, Vietnam to Be Heroin Usage McARTHUR Stiff Writer Washington said information learned in the drug treatment program in Vietnam would be adopted on a worldwide basis for all U.S. servicemen, Associated Press reported. (Laird directed the secretaries of the military services to "closely and personally" follow the progress being made in the new program and instructed them to report to him periodically on results achieved by each of the services.) The program is unprecedented in the long history of American overseas military involvement. It was made possible by the perfection of a new medical machine which, can perform 1,000 urine tests daily.

Authorities say only about 10 of the machines have been built and three of them arrived in South Vietnam only four days ago as a result of President Nixon's interest. They will be employed at Long.Binh and Cam Ranh Bay, the two principal departure centers. Medical authorities say that the relatively involved testing procedures previously in use made it impractical to process the thousands of servicemen leaving Vietnam daily (about 30,000 GIs now are processed out of South Vietnam each month). The test is designed to detect anyone who has recently used opium derivatives, of which heroin is one and the most serious drug problem in Vietnam. Army medical authorities say the program will begin Monday and by Please Turn to Page 11, Col.

1 THE WEATHER National Weather Service forecast: Night and morning low. clouds and fog, otherwise hazy sunshine today and Sundav. High today, SO. High Friday 79, low 60t in Boston parade the Battle of St. Augustine STOCKS OFF 17.09; WORST DIP IN YEAR Stocks took their worst thumping in a year Friday on moderately heavy volume.

The Dow Jones index of 30 industrial stocks dived 17.09 points to 889.16. The Dow index fell 18 points on June 23, 1970, then rallied for almost a year. Analysts cited Administration statements of Thursday that the economic expansion has gone too slowly. They also cited jitters over a mutual fund industry report Friday disclosing that fund holders had redeemed more shares than they bought in May. Details in Financial Section The order was not applied, however, to today's editions, many copies of which had been printed carrying part two of a series, drawn from the documents, by the time the ruling was issued.

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed an order issued Friday by U.S. Dist. Judge Gerhard A. Gesell.

He had given the newspaper permission to continue publishing thearti-cles. Immediately after the appeals court order came down, Post Manag-" ing Editor Eugene C. Patterson ordered the presses stopped at 1:23 a.m., after the newspaper's early edit ion was on the streets. "We lost it. As of now, we stop it," he said.

But as the newspaper prepared to delete the story, Post lawyers obtained a clarification. "The court order has been clarified and it does not apply to today's newspaper," Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee announced to the Post staff at 2:05 a.m. 'Put It Back and Go' "We're back to. the old story," Bradlee told the pressmen.

"The lawyers say keep the presses Tuning with the Murrey Harder story in. Put it back and go." Post editions after the first were delayed half an hour as lawyers waited for the clarification. At 10:30 p.m., the Post began rolling its first edition containing the second in its series of reports on the top-secret war documents. The first truck carrying copies for distribution left the Post building at 10:44 p.m. The story, signed by Marder, quoted the documents as saying "Johnson administration strategists had almost no expectation that the many pauses in the bombing of North Vietnam between 1965 and 1968 would produce peace talks but believed they would help placate domestic and world opinion." As the presses rolled, Katharine Graham, president of the Washing- Perfect College Nicholas Cataldo fi Wirephoto plans to attend Harvard in the fall.

His scores on a series of advanced placement tests qualify him to start fi Irk EDUCATORS ASTONISHED All GIs Leaving Given Tests for BY GEORGE TlmtJ SAIGON The 250,000 American servicemen in South Vietnam were told Friday they will take a compulsory urinalysis test for heroin usage before they return home. The tests will also provide the first accurate statistics on the extent of heroin addiction among GIs. The sweeping medical program to uncover heroin addicts was announced by the U.S. command as part of President Nixon's equally extensive drug crackdown. (Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird in a memorandum issued in SETTLEMENT REACHED Hughes Divorced by Jean Peters HAWTHORNE, New (LTD Former actress Jean Peters, 44, was divorced Friday from billionaire Howard Hughes.

Dist. Judge Kenneth Mann, who granted the uncontested decree, said no property issue had been presented in the petition. The couple were married in 1957 in Searchlight, Nev. They had no children. Their separation was announced some time ago at Las Vegas, where an announcement said an agreement had been reached on a property settlement.

Miss Peters, who was present in court, asked for the divorce on the grounds she and Hughes "were living separate and apart without cohabitation for more than one year." Hughes, 65, reportedly left a Las Vegas hotel penthouse Thanksgiving evening in 1970 and went to the Bahamas. Boy Writes 6 EATONTOWN, N.J. UP) A tousle-haired 17-year-old who wants "to know a lot about everything" has raised academic eyebrows by receiving six perfect scores in the College Board examinations. "It's a fantastic record," said John P. Smith, a spokesman for the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, which administers the exams.

"It happens, but only occasionally." Nicholas Cataldo chalked up perfect 800 scores in three mathematics tests, in Latin and chemistry tests and an equivalent A-plus in Greek. He achieved four of them before most other high school students in the nation even tackled their first test. His father, Nicholas Cataldo a director of education at the signal school at Ft. Monmouth, and his mother, a Barnard College alumna, always have encouraged him in his studies. "He taught himself to read at a very early age 22," Mrs.

Cataldo said. Nicky, a bespectacled only child,.

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