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Democratic nominees campaign tactics would backfire among the public. Declined comment on the Watergate bugging incident or charges of irregularities in the administration's handling of the $1 billion grain sale to the Soviet Union. He noted that criminal charges are pending in the Watergate case, and that the FBI is conducting a thorough investigation of both incidents. He would seek a constitutional amendment to prohibit busing for racial purposes "as a matter of highest priority in the next Congress" if antibus-ing legislation, which he prefers, is not approved. He still supports and will press for a welfare reform plan based on a guaranteed $2,400 annual income for poor families, and rejected Democratic compromise proposals he said would "add millions to the welfare rolls." and to win the release of American prsoners of war.

In his first White House news conference since July 27, a month before he1 won Republican renomination for a second term, the President stated that "there will be no tax increase in 1973." although he said Congress could upset this plan by busting his budget with excessive appropriations. Nixon said he would explain his tax policies in a radio address to the nation Saturday night. In advance, he confirmed he had ruled out a "value-added" or national sales tax, and said reduction of property taxes would be a long-range goal, with relief designed initially for the elderly. On other points, the President said: He would not "dignify" with a reply charges by George S. McGovern that his adminis-trattion with rife with corruption, and predicted that the The President's seventh news conference of the year, and the first of any kind since his post-convention meeting with repor- ters Aug.

29 at San Clemente, took place in his White House office one week after he conferred in the same room with Henry A. Kissinger on the prospects for a Vietnam breakthrough. The President made no direct reference to the conference with Kissinger, who had just returned from two consecutive days of talks in Paris with North Vietnam's two leading negotiators, Le Due Tho and Xuan Thuy. Nixon said only during Thursday's 40-minute news conference that the Paris talks were "very extensive" and "in a sensitive stage," and declined further comment on the ground it might disrupt his goal of reaching "as early as possible a negotiated settlement of this long and difficult war." WASHINGTON (UPI) -President Nixon, declaring that Lyndon B. Johnson had made a "very, very great mistake in stopping the bombing" in 1968, said Thursday he will not permit the November elections to influence the timing or terms of a Vietnam settlement.

Nixon said the private negotiations in Paris are in a "sensitive stage," and that he cannot predict whether or when they might succeed. But. he said, "If we can make the right kind of a settlement before the election we will make it. If we cannot we are not going to make the wrong kind of a settlement before the election." "The election, I repeat, will not in any way influence what we do at the negotiating table," the President said. He reaffirmed the administration's determination to prevent imposition of a Communist government by force in Saigon The President said, "I cannot predict and will not predict that they will not succeed.

I cannot and will not predict when they will succeed." In asserting he would not "make the wrong kind of a settlement" before the election, Nixon said, "We were around that track in 1968 when well-intentioned men made a very, very great mistake in stopping the bombing without adequate agreements from the other side." Clearly referring to President Johnson's total halt in the bombing of North Vietnam on Nov. 1, 1968, just before the election that saw Nixon win a narrow victory over Hubert H. Humphrey, the President said he was not questioning the previous administration's motives. "I simply said, having seen what happened then, we are not (Continued on Page 6) war policies won't change I ClL I KtLlfttrirti 'NT Slnglt ic ut Copy IJ II 87th Year-No. 157 Billings, Montana, Friday Morning, October 6, 1972 Huge elk kill urged II II II II II 1 '1 1 I II II II v.

1 HE JOHN F. Commonweal for McGovern NEW YORK (UPI) Commonweal magazine, a weekly review of public affairs literature and the arts edited by Catholic laity, Thursday endorsed Sen. George McGovern for President, saying Richard Nixon "missed" his chance to unify the nation. The magazine said it was only the second time in its 49-year history it had made a presidential endorsement, the other being Adlai Stevenson in 1952. "As a Catholic magazine in an ecumenical age we support McGovern because the overriding issues are moral ones." the magazine said.

Labor Party moves left BLACKPOOL, England (AP) The Labor Party adopted a radical new economic program Thursday designed to transform Britain into a Socialist state able to curb capitalist power. A series of unanimous decisions by delegates to the party's annual convention thrust Labor's policies more to the left than at any time since World War II. There were resolutions for redistributing wealth and income "in favor of the working nationalization of industry and land, price and monopoly controls; limits on managerial rights of choice: curbs on multinational companies; restoration of full employment on the basis of a 35-hour week; an annual wealth tax on any private funds of about a hunt for tax-dodgers; and an attack against speculators. Grass in Bluegrass State WINCHESTER, Ky. (AP) -The marijuana is ready for harvest in Kentucky this fall and there's no shortage of young volunteers for the work.

The "harvest" is a headache, though, for the state's legitimate farmers, its law officers and courts. Hemp, the marijuana plant, was for decades a legitimate crop grown to make rope. During World War II, the government paid farmers to grow it. Now farmers can get subsidies to kill it. Today, it probably ranks as the state's leading "underground" crop.

A hard-to-eradicate weed, the marijuana grows wildly on farms along roadsides, railroads and back lots. A patch was recently removed from a city park in Lexington. Yacht sliced in two EUREKA. Calif. (UPI) A 100-foot pleasure yacht with nine persons aboard was sliced in half by a merchant ship in dense fog off the northern California coast early Thursday, leaving two children missing in the Pacific.

The Coast Guard in San Francisco identified the children as 9-year-old Michele Lacy and her 11-year-old brother Ronald, of Vancouver. Wash. An air-sea search was under way to find them. The Morning Star, a converted Navy Vessel out of Vancouver, was on a pleasure trip to Mexico when the unidentified merchantman smashed into it 12 miles southwest of Cape Mendocino. The Coast Guard said it was searching for the vessel.

Watergate details bared LOS ANGELES (UPI) The Los Angeles Times, reporting on more details of the shadowy part played by Alfred C. Baldwin III in the so-called "Watergate caper," said the former FBI agent personally bugged the Democratic party's headquarters in Washington from a motel across the street. Baldwin also personally delivered secret transcripts of tapped telephone conversations to the headquarters of the Committee for the Re-election of the President, the Times reported. Baldwin, a onetime security guard for former attorney general John N. Mitchell and his wife, Martha, said the committee had now "disowned" him.

Baldwin said he manned a listening post in a Howard Johnson motel across the street from the Watergate building headquarters and monitored about 200 conversations in three weeks. He said some of the conversations dealt with "political strategy and others with personal matters." HELENA (UPI) Yellowstone National Park has 2,500 too many elk and officials want the State of Montana to issue hunting permits for a massive kill of the animals when winter forces them across the park boundary. But the State Fish and Game Department said Wednesday the result would be mass slaughter, facilitated by snowmobiles and road hunters shooting at the elk in anything but a sporting situation. "The Park Service wants us to do their dirty work for them," said Fish and Game Department Manager Leroy Ellig. "There's no way you can kill 2,500 elk and make a neat op-" eration." In past years, ending in 1967, the Park Service had thinned Yellowstone's northern herd to 5,000 by selective killing.

Rifle-carrying park employes moved in and shot the shaggy beasts on federal land, causing cries of outrage from conservationists and humane society groups. This time, said Donald Brown, director of the Fish and Game Department, Yellowstone officials want his department to issue hunting permits in addition to the usual run of state hunting licenses to authorize sportsmen to kill the elk. Responsibility for the deaths could not then be directly on the Park Service, Brown said. Theodore Bucknell, a park resource management specialist, said the Park Service has been making similar requests for four years under a mutual agreement reached with the Fish and Game Department. Bucknell said the unusual thing about this request is that it was made late in the year.

Bucknell said last year's request was somewhat smaller and if "we don't get some help this year we may have to ask i mm a a 'u m. ThololaK Waiting in the wings waiting for his chance, but so far he's been kept in the wings and out of the musical because a female duck with the equally improbable name of Otto, hasn't missed a Cuddles, a white duck now living at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, frolicks with a lamb named Rosemary and actor Shane Nickerson, 8, on the center's grounds. The three are connected with the musical "Pippin" which is now playing at the center. Cuddles is still McGovern rips power politics (C) Washington Star-News CLEVELAND Sen. George McGovern Thursday outlined a foreign policy that would move away from big-power politics and give small and undeveloped countries a bigger voice in shap It must look toward a prudent relaxation of tension with potential adversary powers, such as the Soviet Union and China.

It must re-establish healthy economic and political relationships with our principal allies and trading partners in Europe, Japan. Canada and Latin America. It must avoid the kind of reflexive interventionism that has foolishly involved us in the internal political affairs of other countries. It must envision a world community with the capacity to resolve disputes among nations and to end the war between man and his own environment. It must reassert America's role as a beacon and friend to those millions in the human family desperately striving to achieve the elemental human dignity which all men seek, MeGOVERN SAID he favored the interventionism of "agricultural and technical assistance the building of roads and schools, the training of skilled personnel, in concert with other nations and through multilateral institutions." Said McGovern: "But I ask whether that is all that we want.

And I ask, too. whether it is relevant and realistic in today's world or does it simply resurrect an old world, of kings and princes and empires, that we will never see again. "There may have been periods of relative peace under a balance of power, But Mr. Nixon forgets that no balance among the giants can eradicate the causes of war among the best of mankind. "NOR CAN IT dispel the demand of some countries to (Continued on Page 6) for a larger kill next year.

Assistant Interior Secretary Nathaniel Reed has said the department will never return to the practice of mass slaying in the park because they are inconsistent with National Park principles. Park Service figures show the northern herd has grown to while other game specialists say the number is considerably higher. Predators, hunting of migrating herds outside the park and (Continued on Page 6) Teno's gold land said worf $7 billion ing the world. He called his approach new internationalism." McGovern decried President Nixon's devotion to the balance-of-power concept, calling it a naive, prenuclear view of the world. "Our preoccupation with a military balance leaves untouched the deadly imbalances among population, resources and wealth, and they too endanger our lives." McGovern said.

He said that if elected he would open diplomatic relations with Peking immediately, and would recommend Japan for a seat on the U.N. Security Council. HE ALSO REPEATED his promises to reduce military spending, though he did not mention any figures, and to end the war in Vietnam, though he is saving the details for a major television address on Tuesday. According to a speech prepared for the City Club here. McGovern offered these guidelines for America's new internationalism in the 70s: It must be supported by a strong national defense, but free of waste; forces fully adequate to defend our own land and fill vital defense commitments.

was concerned the agency would allow cattle grazing on the land, which he said was "too beautiful not to be used by people, instead of cattle." Atty. Gen. Clarence Brimmer in Cheyenne said Thursday his office is studying the filing of affidavits asserting that work had been done on the claims staked by Roncalio on the state school land. Bagley, contacted Thursday in Cheyenne, said, "certainly the work has been done" on the claims. Brimmer said the affidavits of improvement work dealing with the claims on state school land were filed this August al- (Continued on Page 6) and signed the claims over to the other persons on the original filing certificate when he was elected to the Congress in 1970.

The others included Cecelia Roncalio. his wife; Charles Graves, who has since dropped his interests; Patricia F. and John E. Bryant; William D. Bagley, Roncalio's attorney and Laramie County Democratic Chairman; George H.

Waugh and James D. Bucher. Bucher has dropped his interests. Some of the interests were transferred to Roncalio's stepson, David Domenico. Roncalio said earlier the claims were filed after the 1967 Walton decision opened the land up to the BLM.

He said he JACKSON. Wyo. (AP)-A Jackson newspaper described Thursday what it said were gold claims on about 16.000 acres of Snake River land filed by U.S. Rep. Teno Roncalio.

and seven other persons. The Jackson Hole Guide said gold contained on the land has an estimated worth of about $7 billion at the current world gold price of $70 an ounce. In a copyrighted article, the newspaper said the 100 claims Included four claims on school land. Those claims were dismissed by a district court judgment April 17. The article said Roncalio then filed another affidavit of assessment on the mining claims including the school Walton said the claims were in several of his pastures and that he would have seen the marker posts on his land, if they had been there.

The article said the required work would have amounted to $60,000 for the six years the claims have been in existence. But the Guide said that with the exception of an aerial survey, no such work has been done. The Guide said the BLM has remained silent on the matter. It said it was not known if the agency planned to take action. Roncalio filed the claims after losing his U.S.

Senate race in 1966 to Republican Cliff Hansen. He was a private citizen at the time of the filings land stating the required work had been done on the sites. But the article claimed such work had not been done, in accordance with the law, The newspaper said the federal law for such lands, under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, requires at least $100 of work on each claim every year and clear markings of the claim in one corner. The article contained an af-fadavit from rancher Paul Walton, who said he did not see any evidence of such work in 1968.

He lost his rights to the meandering land along the Snake River under a U.S. district court decision at Cheyenne in April. 1967. Warmer Warmer and partly cloudy Friday, high 60 to 65, low 30 to 35. More weather on page 6.

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