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2 Boston Evening Globe Monday, Ifarch 9, 1970 Ask the Globe AMERICAN REPORTS OS VISIT TO HANOI North Vietnamese dedicated to long struggle ASK THE GLOBE serves readers by getting answers, solving problems and cutting red tape. Telephone 288-1515 any time; day or night; or ivrite to "Ask the Glebe," Boston Globe, Boston, Mass. 02107. Questions irill be answered in the Eve ning Globe and in the Sunday Globe Magazine. L-ss "Tw i if Ks7 rsraini Press General Manager Dan Associated Press staff member Daniel De Luce has just returned from a zisit to North Vietnam.

Here is his report on military aspects of the situation in the North as he was able to see it during an 18-day, 1000-mile trip, the most extensive permitted to a Western neisman since the United States entered the zvar. By Daniel De Luce, Associated Press The North Vietnam People's Army seems highly motivated and well equipped. It appears to have plenty of young manpower and womenpower to acomplish its tasks. Those are the key military impressions from an 18-day visit to North Vietnam, made in the company of four escorts. The bombing of the North stopped 16 months ago, but the watchword for all army and people is vigilance, an attitude that leaps out at the visitor from those aspects of North Vietnamese life he is permitted to observe.

What I saw and heard leaves the impression that the armed forces are capable of a long, tenacious war effort. That is their history, as they repeat it to a visitor. One thousand years of resistance to Chinese rule. Two hundred years spent fighting the Mongols. A hundred years against the French.

Signs and slogans in every community I traveled through hail the army as the people's shield against "American imperialist aggression." Songs and poems are composed in the army's honor. Eleven days on the road out of Hanoi to the demilitarized zone and back, thence to the port city of Haiphong and the coast near China I saw troops passing in every direction in small numbers all day long. Significant? I don't know. Some of the soldiers rode bicycles of Chinese 'and local manufacture. They decorated their vehicles with small bouquets of plastic flowers.

Their bearing was alert, I could not talk with them. Weapons were not in evidence. Questions about the size of North Vietnam's armed forces and about forces Hanoi has sent south were turned aside uninformatively. The question was not open for discussion. Western estimates put the total North Vietnamese, army strength at about 450,000.

Estimates of the number committed to the battle in the South range from 85,000 to more than double that. I asked about a 28-year-old interceptor pilot credited with destroying nine U.S. planes. The official paused over his cup of strong, black Vietnamese coffee. Again, his response reflected national pride: "Young Capt.

Nguyen Van Coc is a farmer's son, of simple background. Yet he learned to fly a MIG17. It isn't as. fast as more modern American planes, but the captain learned to make tighter turns, to change weakness into strength, to gain the superior position for firing his air-to-air missiles. It was a matter of great courage.

After four years, he is still flying." A million North Vietnamese have seen the People's Army exhibition at Hanoi. It is devoted to the successful 1946-'54 war to drive out the French, and to the struggle since 1964 with the United States. For this event, which opened -last December, the army gathered an imposing array of modern weaponry I asked my official interpreter if these soldiers were North Vietnamese fighting in the South. "Guerrillas," he replied. As we traveled through the country, we saw hundreds of cemeteries on high ground under the shade of trees.

Fresh flowers were on the graves, and large red signs, hung over cemetery gates, proclaimed, "For the Glory of the Fatherland," "The Fatherland is Grateful," "The Fatherland and Remembers All Who Served." I asked the interpreter if the signs of homage were for soldiers who had died on the front in South Vietnam. "Many people died heroic deaths in the air war of destruction in North Vietnam," he said. "The signs are for them." Concerning American prisoners of war now being held in the North, government officials said they are holding 320 and may release all the names soon. The number acknowledged by Hanoi is about 100 less than official American government estimates of those "known or believed" captured in the North. All are believed to be airmen shot down in the air war over the North.

North Vietnamese officials said several methods for releasing the names were under consideration, including giving postal records to a news correspondent from a friendly power. They said such records would cover every man held because all had exchanged mail with their Traveling on U.S. Rte. 1 in Norwood is dangerous. The state has just installed a barrier along the median strip.

Because of the many curves in this part of the route, one has a tendency literally to lose the middle of the road. The problem could be eliminated, I feel, if reflectors were placed or painted on the guardrail. Why hasn't this been done? D.S., Sharon. A A spokesman for the Mass. Dept.

of Public Works says that the guard-rail project on Rte. 1 has not yet been completed. It will not require painting. If it appears that reflective delineators are required, after the completion of the project, they will be added as a maintenance project Checked Out Mr. and Mrs.

A. F. Cambridge The state Dept. of Corporations and Taxation says you both signed your tax refund check last year and it was cashed on July 8. Mr.

and Mrs. J. L. Waltham Ditto, and cashed Apr. 17.

Mrs. G. Taunton Your check is a little smaller than you expected, but it's on the way. You should get it today or tomorrow. What's the exact age of Al Hirt, the trumpet player? T.D., Watetown.

A Forty-nine years and 122 days. The intersection of Mountfort and St. Mary's Brookline, is a nightmare. I contacted the Brookline Traffic Commission about installing lights in 1967. In December, 1967, 1 received a letter stating that studies had been made and approved for the lights would be sought at the 1968 Town Meeting.

There must be something that can be done about this abut I don't know what action to take now. V.H., Boston. A Chronology of a traffic signal: Sometime in 1967 Your letter to the Brookline Traffic Commission. Dec. 12, 1967 Reply from Commissioner to you.

Town meeting 1968 Approval of lights by Brookline, depending on widening of Boston end of Mountfort st March, 21, 1969 Approval by State Dept. of Public Works for signal. June, 1970 City of Boston will complete widening of Mountfort by middle of month. The town of Brookline has plans, specifications and estimates for traffic lights ready when widening is completed. HUGE POSTER urging defeat of the United States was seen during North Vietnam visit by Associated and lined the hardware up at the far side of an open square, facing four pavilions.

The armament extended for hundreds of yards. A MIG21 and two MIG22s were parked in a row at the exhibition entrance gate. The lineup continued with artillery of various dimensions up to 155 millimeter. Then rockets of large sizes. Surface-to-air and air-to-air missiles.

A heavy tank and several of medium weight. Amphibious and tracked personnel carriers. Huge radar screens. Helicopters. An assault boat.

Special trucks of almost every description. Vietnamese soldiers, many of them women, have been trained to operate all imported weapons systems, I was told. Most bear the mark of manufacture in the Soviet Union. Soviet technicians in business suits are frequent guests at hotels run by Vietnamtourism, a state company. But I saw no guests who looked like a military or civilian representative of Red China.

The Chinese maintain their own guest quarters. Last Feb. 22, on the 52d anniversary of the Soviet armed forces, Soviet diplomats gave a reception in Hanoi. All foreign missions attended except the Red Chinese. Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap came to the Soviet Embassy for the festivities.

At the exhibition devoted to the North Vietnamese army, I saw battle-action photos of the 1968 Tet offensive, captioned Khe Sanh Height Hue and Da Nang. The offensive itself was called the General Uprising. The photos showed riflemen moving up in a long single file, through a pine forest and a rubber plantation, before an attack. DeLuce. (AP) news GRAHAM i Names in Globe Wire Services Ted, Barry reopen vote at 18 Pope urges prayers for priests Pope Paul VI has urged Roman Catholics to "pray for priests, for their sanctity, faithfulness and total and exclusive dedication to your service." Vatican sources said that although he did not mention it directly, it was intended as an appeal by the Pontiff to obey his insistence on priestly celibacy.

Associated Press WASHINGTON Sens. Barry Goldwater and Edward M. Kennedy joined today in urging that the voting age be lowered to 18 years. They argued this can be done by Federal law without any need for a constitutional amendment, ment. Goldwater, the Arizona Republican who was his party's presidential candidate in 1964, advised against trying to tie the proposal to controversial legislation now before the Senate to protect black voting rights.

He told a Senate judiciary subcommittee that to attempt to do so might endanger passage of the voting rights bill and at the very least would delay action on it. Kennedy, the assistant Senate Democratic leader, has joined his chief, Sen. Mike Mansfield of Montana, in co-sponsoring an 18-year-old vote amendment to the voting rights legislation, which is caught up in a dispute between an extension of the present law aimed primarily at the South and a nationwide bill urged by President Nixon. The administration bill, which the House passed last December, includes a nationwide ban on voter literacy tests. It also would establish uniform residency requirements for voting in presidential elections.

Kennedy maintained that if Congress has the constitutional power to prohibit state literary tests and to limit their residency 'ljf it 4 fr POPE PAUL Some time ago the City of Boston had an outside contractor install spot lights in 34 trees in the Public Garden, along Boylston st. It was a long time before the lights were in operation. Is this a temporary or permanent arrangement? A.W.B., Boston. A The lights were installed as an experimental project by the Boston Redevelopment Authority with money furnished by Housing and Urban Development under a program entitled Signs and Lights for Boston. Under the original plan, the lights were to burn for about 45 days.

The experiment, one of many under the Urban Beautification program, uses light for beauty and street safety. The lights were actually designed to perform better when the trees were in leaf, creating an "avenue of light" by reflection of the beams on the leaves of the trees. Arrangements have been made with the Boston Park Dept. to continue the lighting during the Summer. Kelley reveals his role in murder requirements for voting, it also has the power to lower the voting age to 18.

He also said the courts have indicated this could be done under the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. Only four states have a lower voting age than 21. Georgia and Kentucky permit 18-year-olds to vote, while Alaska has lowered the voting age to 20 and Hawaii to 19. Goldwater testified that voting is a fundamental constitutional right end Congress, to protect it, may regulate state laws which deny that right unless the state laws are shown to have a compelling state interest. "There simply is no compelling reason why a state has to deprive citizens who counsel for Lerner over-the presence in the courtroom of state and Federal officers.

It was reported that Kelley had been brought here from Quonset Point Naval Air Station where he had been kept under guard recently. Judge James G. Bulman, presiding at the trial, said he assumed the two Kelley guards were "just doing their job," was in favor of only one, a measure that provides for independent research and a breathing spell" for the industry. Earlier, Gov. Francis W.

Sargent told the committee that the industry had to "be regulated to protect the public interest." He said his bill would leave franchising in the hands of local communities are between the ages of 18 and 21 of their right to vote," he said. A motion to table the extension bill was rejected, as were two amendments offered by Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr. to ease the law's impact on the South.

The 1965 act suspended voter literacy tests and authorized the use of Federal registrars in six Southern states and parts of a seventh. It also requires these states to obtain advance approval for voting law changes from the U.S. attorney general. The administration bill, which Southern senators prefer as the lesser of evils, drops this pre-clearance requirement and provides for uniform nationwide application of other parts of the 1965 act. At the 11:30 a.m.

recess, just after the jury filed out of the courtroom, Patriarca jumped to his feet and said, "Your Honor, may I have a word? "I suggest that you confer with counsel," the judge said. After briefly whispering with his lawyer, Patriarca said, "I'm glad Kelley has the protection: I wish they gave more protection. I approve of it. hiking price acting under the supervision of the state Department of Public Utilities. Dermot P.

Shea, executive secretary of the Mas-sachusetts Consumers Council, als urged regulation "by joint arrangement between the state and municipalities with primary responsibility for the granting of any franchise resting with the cities and towns. Kelley, himself under indictment for the $582,000 Brink's armored car robbery in Boston in December 1968, was on the stand for 70 minutes this morning. He was brought into the 5th floor courtroom guarded by a state policeman and a U.S. marshal. Several objections were raised by attorneys for the defendants especially by Ronald Chisholm of Boston, I believe there are some diseases and-or physical conditions that would make it impossible for a person to obtain a driver's license.

At a recent gathering this question came up, and while we all agreed that blindness was one of the conditions we couldn't agree on the others. I was elected to end the confusion. R.F.D., Dennis Port. There are many conditions which may make the applicant non-acceptable as a driver. The Registry of Motor Vehicles has a special Medical Affair branch to handle applicants of this nature.

In general, any condition that might suddenly incapacitate a person, so that he might be unable to control his senses or his ability to drive a motor vehicle, is considered disqualifying. Graham against U.S. birth curb Evangelist Billy Graham says the government shouldn't be involved in birth control programs. "I believe that the bedroom is a place that the government ought to stay out of," he said. "I think the bedroom is between a man and his wife and God." Graham's remarks were part of a public television network broadcast yesterday presenting various opinions on whether the Federal government should make birth control devices more readily available to women.

Fifty-three percent of those asked said they opposed a Federal birth control program. Beckett play lasts 30 seconds Samuel Beckett's latest play is called "Breath" and it lasts 30 seconds. The play, presented at Oxford University's playhouse last night as part of a tribute to this year's winner of the Nobel Prize in literature, consisted of a baby's amplified cry and breathing against the background of a pile of trash. After the play, stage and screen personalities sprawled on top of the trash pile and read excerpt from earlie.r Beckett works, including "Waiting for Godot." Hoffman wins British 'Oscar' American actor Dustin Hoffman and the movie "Midnight Cowboy" have received from the Society of Film and Television Arts awards which are the British equivalent of Hollywood's Oscars. Astronaut Neil A.

Armstrong was named television star of 1969 and the pictures he and Edwin E. AI-drin Jr. showed fr- in th? were designated the best foreisri tek sion pogram. Named best actress of 1969 at the awards ceremony Sunday night was Britain's Maggie Smith, for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie." PATRIARCA Continued from Page 1 Kelley also testified that the day after he mapped out the route, he returned to the Holiday Inn and met with Lerner, Sciarra, "Richard Roe" and "John Doe." The Watertown, man said he brought a sawed-off shotgun, a cut-down carbine, cartridges and clips for the carbine, shells for the shotgun and seven halloween masks which he said he bought in New York city. Asked by Israel what type of shells he brought, Kelley said 00 buckshot Why 00 buckshot? A Most effective shot at short distance.

For what? A For killing. Kelley testified he bought the masks specifically for "this episode." He continually refer: to the murders as "this CATV regulation seen "Ask the Globe" will study every inquiry, but the number of calls and volume of mail are so great that it isn't possible to answer every question. Questions will be chosen for general interest. Please don't include a self-addressed stamped enve- The president of Cable Television Assn. of New England today warned that state regulation of CATV would cost consumers additional money.

Appearing before the Joint Committee on Government Regulations, John W. P. Mooney said he was opposed to all of the regulatory bills now pending before the committee and lope. If your question, your problems or your gripe is interesting we want to share it with all the rcaslers of The Boston Evening Globe, and The Sunday Globe. To nable us to obtain an answer, be sure to give specific details, location, time, etc.

CITY OF BOSTON PUBLIC HEARING A public hcarire be held lh Executive of the Boston Cjtv Council- Cily Hall, on f-dnesoex March 11. 1970 at 10.30 AM. hv trie CommitT of the Boton: C'ty Council to consider a me5.sae of the Mayoi and ordrr aoDiovmg De-tion for a foeci.il law Department i Docket; For the Committee' GFRALD F. LEARY Chairman.