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Clifford Blasts Saigon for '9th Inning' Balk on Talks Aainrlulrd Pt WASHINGTON-Secretary of Defense Clark M. Clifford accused South Vietnamese leaders todayof balking at a peace talks arrangement "in the last out of the ninth inning." Clifford said the United States should go ahead with the peace talks with North Vietnam in Paris if President Nguyen Van Thieu continues his refusal to take part. The defense secretary told a news conference that President Johnson had a duty to go ahead with his announcement of the bombing halt, despite last-minute South Vietnamese reservations, because Mr. Johnson had a commitment to North Vietnam. That arrangement was developed in secret talks in which Clifford said the Saigon government was kept fully informed.

"I think the President owed it to the American people to proceed with the talks," Clifford said. He contended Mr. Johnson "was absolutely right in not giving Saigon a veto over the plan," He declined to characterize the South Vietnamese action as sabotage or a double-cross, as a reporter suggested, and said the United States is making every reasonable effort to change Saigon's stand. "It continues to. be my hope that the Saigon government will see it as we do and that they will go ahead with the talks very soon," Clifford said.

No meeting date for opening the intensive peace talks has been set as of now, he added. At the same time Clifford said North Vietnam violated the understanding between it and the United States by recent shelling of U.S. forces from the Demilitarized Zone and some bombardment of South Vietnamese cities. TALKS Page 22 SECY. CLIFFORD" "Duty to go ahead." CLOSING STOCKS CLOSING STOCKS (g) 1968, Globe Newspaper Co.

288-8000 58 PAGES 10 CENTS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1968 Third Storm in 5 Days Mothers Rush Ott's Office Hub Battels ale Whip 9 Demand to See Welfare Boss But He's Busy Elsewhere Some 75 mothers invaded state welfare head quarters at COO Washington st. this noon, disrupting office routine and demanding an audience with Comr. Robert F. Ott. The women arrived after storming the Roxbury Crossing welfare office and forcing police to close down that building.

They swarmed through the fifth-floor offices of the welfare department on Washington st, at the corner of Essex despite efforts of officials to keep them out. By EARL BANNER Heavy snow fell over most of New England today as a massive northeast gale affecting the eastern third of the nation vents its fury from Eastport, south to Cape Hatteras. Boston and other coastal communities will probably escape the snow and sleet today, but continued heavy rain is forecast for the rest of the afternoon and tonight, accompanied by strong winds of. up to 60 m.p.h. and higher in gusts.

The rain will end late tonight w-ith the winds dropping to about 30 m.p.h. by morning. Tir 3 awwwiiiiwwfiiP wM Vv i I A I I -V i The front door was locked against them. But one of the group infiltrated through a side entrance and let the others in. Ott was away from his office at the time, meeting with I t.

Gov. Francis Sargent and ljr officials on the problem of protecting welfare workers. The mothers took over ome of the other offices. They put their feet up on desks, played with typewriters and adding machines, anrl sang, "We Shall Periodically fhey raised a cry, "We want Ott," "Come out. Ott, wherever you axe." One male welfare employee got into a tangle with some of the mothers after he reportedly called them unflattering names.

He had to be rescued from the infuriated women by an assistant commissioner, James R. Collarusso. Two uniformed policemen were in the department offices and others were strategically placed nearby. WELFARE Pace 21 18 Men Arraigned In Bank 'Infiltration' vv wm ue cloudy without much change in temperature but with a 20 percent probability of more rain. Hurricane-force winds were clocked along the North Shore early today but the Weather Bureau hastened to add: "This is not a hurricane but winds will gust to hurricane force occasionally." An unidentified fisherman was swept overboard from his small boat a mile and a half off Dolliver's Neck, Gloucester, the Coast Guard reported this afternoqn.

GALE Page 2 ton) breaks a trail for earliest skiing on record. Not so pleasant were the winds and rains that buffeted Bostonians (photo on right by Dan Sheehan). BEAUTIFUL AND BEASTLY New England was getting another taste of wintry weather today, with snow inland and rain along the coast. At Wildcat Mt, near Mt. Washington in N.H., that was a blessing.

A skier (left photo by Phil Pres By RONALD A. WYSOCKI LAWRENCE Eighteen Greater Boston men charged with criminal manipulation of bank funds in loan shark activities on Boston's North Shore were arraigned in Essex County Superior Court today before Judge Cornelius Moynihan. One other man, who is imprisoned at the Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, was identified, but not arraigned, and tw" others are being sought. A corporation, as yet unnamed, is also to come before the court. The indictments were returned secretly last Friday by a Grand Jury in session two weeks.

Presentation of the evidence of illegal utilization- of bank funds and records came after five months of investigation by Atty. Gen. Elliot L. Richardson's organized crime unit. In a radical departure from usual procedures, four attorneys for several of the defendants conducted a press conference immediately after their clients were arraigned.

They complained bitterly about pre-indictment publicity. In the words of Atty. Chester C. Paris, counsel for Francesco Balliro of Win-throp, the defense lawyers "in this dayand age find it a most difficult undertaking to represent defendants in criminal matters. It becomes more difficult when statements are made before hand because prospective jurors are preconditioned by prejudicial remarks, and to impanel a truly impartial jury is near impossible." ESSEX Page 17 Ray's Trial Off Until March 3 Stocks in Sharp Gain day because of his decision to switch attorneys.

A new trial date was set for Mar. 3. Before setting the new date, Criminal Court Judge W. Preston Battle The stock market today closed with a sharp gain, moving up within striking distance of its 1968 highs. Trading was active with many big blocks traded.

Prices rose sharply at the opening, were trimmed on profit taking about midday and then surged again to close around the best level of the day. The closing Dow Jones Industrial Average at 964.20 was up 5.23 from Friday's close. See Page 44. Unlttd Freu Internttiontl MEMPHIS, Tenn. -James Earl Ray, charged with the murder of Dn Martin Luther King won a last-minute postponement in his trial to his first attorney, former Birmingham Mayor Arthur J.

Hanes, and replaced him with famed trial lawyer Percy Foreman. RAY Page 5 "It's an awful thing to have to continue a case at this time, but the defendant's right to counsel of his own choice is guaranteed by the Constitution of the state of Tennessee." Ray Sunday night fired GOAL: $14,000,000 Bishops Seen Backing Pope on Pill ONLY 90S hours to go $870,205 is still bishops are not expected to leave birth control to the individual conscience of the married couple. Citing the theory of John Cardinal Newman on obedience to papal doctrines, the letter proposes that: BISHOPS Page Abp. Philip Hannan of New Orleans said that the letter which deals with the Church in the World Today "will not be contradiction with the Pope." And although priests from all over the country (311 from 61 dioceses) met here Monday in support of the recently suspended Washington priests, the ded. nee INSIDE HEADLINES NATO ALLIES GET THE WORD Sen.

Jackson says American public expects more self-help by Europeans. Page 3 M.B.T.A. MANAGEMENT IS UNION TARGET Three locals are interested in organizing top-level personnel. Page 16 CZECHS CURB TRAVEL Movement to West is restricted as anti-Soviet unrest grows. Page 24 MIDEAST STALEMATE Egypt's Nasser views troop maneuvers; Israel vows to keep Tiran Strait.

Page 25 INDEX TO TONIGHT'S GLOBE Astro-Guide ..50 Crossword ...50 Sports Book 26 Deaths 48,49 Steincrohn ...23 Bridge, 51 Editorials ....14 TV-Radio 37 Calendar 20 Financial Theaters ..26, 27 Classified Shain 51 Twistagram ..50 Comics ......50 Society 40 Women THE WEATHER Tonight Rain ending, low in upper 30's. Wednesday Cloudy, windy, not much temperature change. High Tide at 4 p.m. Full Reports, Page 49. Apollo 8 Astronauts Get 'Go' For Christmas Moon Orbit By GEORGE M.

COLLINS Globe Reliiion Editor WASHINGTON American Catholic bishops will not desert Pope Paul VI and his stand against artificial contraception, a still secret document said today. U.S. Roman Catholic priests and laity who are in dispute with their church's laws on birth control, are going to be disappointed by their bishops' decision. The more than 200 prelates meeting here as the National Conference of Catholic Bishops will support Pope Paul's reiteration of the traditional ban on artificial contraception unless they should change their thinking overnight. But the first draft of a Pastoral Letter from the bishops to the American Church hardens the line which has left Patrick Cardinal O'Boyle of this archdiocese in conflict with more than 50 Catholic priests.

The Globe on Monday secured a copy of the 'confidential letter' which is being prepared by a committee headed by former Bostonian, Most Rev. John J. Wright of Pittsburgh. II you hey nt ytt btn contact! CALL 742-2017 vsluntttr com tt yen Think wie-you giv only one ton 50T "open-ended" that is, conducted in steps referred to as plateaus or "commit points." 1 "Each plateau includes a thorough system check of crew, system and equipment operations," officials said. "Only when all conditions are satisfactory will the decision be made to commit to the next plateau." APOLLO Page 10 Associated Frtll WASHINGTON The space agency said today the Apollo 8 mission will attempt an orbital flight around the moon, probably during the Christmas holidays.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the launching from Cape Kennedy, for what a few years ago would have been pure science fiction, will occur no earlier than Dec. 21. This would mean the three Apollo 8 astronauts would spent Christmas eve and part of Christmas Day making the lunar orbits. NASA officials announced at a news conference the Apollo mission would be 0 msstCHUstns bay umrtu puna.