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1 1 1 1 1 ESTB. 1838 Vol. FITCHBURG, MASS. 01420 THURSDAY, MAY 25, 1972. HOME: 708 PER DELIVERED WEEK.

15. CENTS Helping Hands Two unidentified Soldiers carry orphans Hi Pleiku, South: Vletnam, They were being evacuated to Saigon' as a precanHonary measure. (AP Wirephoto) Backed By TanksAttacks On Kontum Repulsed SAIGON (AP) North Vietnamese sappers, backed by tanks; attacked. Kontum today dusk all' of them hud been killed, driyen or had withdrawn, Soutb Vietnamese militury spokesmen said. U.S.

sources: however, that at last report: the sappers still controlled part of the city's air strip. Two assaults against South Vietnam's: northernmost defense line at My: Chanb, 20-to 25 miles north: Hue, were reported repulsed: Vietnamese spokesmen at Hue said 166 North Vietnamese. troops were' killed by government troops and' 'artillery in what one U.S. adviser described ask a shoot." South Vietnamese: losses: were reported as'15 tromps killed and 43 wounded. The spokesmen also reported that: two Soviet built.

BTR50 personnel -carriers destroyed; marking the of variother. new weapon. to -the war. The BER50 is a. carrier with a crew oF.

two. 'It carries 12 -infantrymen. At: An Loc, on the southern field reports said. up to 4.000 cifront .60 miles north of Saigon, vilian refugees were able. to get out of the bealeged city.

Thejer refugees, mostly old women children, walked south: to. Tau a village nine miles be low. An Loo: They said, about, 50 had been killed by North Vietnamese: shellings during their escape." American planes. retaliating for the enemy offensive now beginning its ninth week; smashed the two: biggest, power. the plants and Hanol-Hatphong major: bridge Industrial in I complex for the first time since the 1965-68 bombing campaign, sources said: 150 to 300 North sappers the 2nd.

Division. penetrated Kontum and occupied, portions, of the air fleld, some civilian school; a seminary: and the home of the French bishop of Kontum; Msgr. Paul Seltz, targets; are located near the southern edge. of the city; approximately due south from the western end of the alr strip. The 'sappers, "also moved "into the farming hamlet of Kapang on the southeastern outskirts of the city.

First reports said: two battalof: North Vietnamese troops, or several hundred men, attacked Kontum. But lat- 8 Americans Killed In Vietnam Action: SAIGON: (AP). Eight: Americans were killed action in Vietnam last week and seven were missing, the U.S. Command announced today, said another nine Americans aled of nonhostile causes," including air crashes not. to.

enemy act don, and 22 were wounded. total of 24 dead on' lag was: 12 less than the week before, when 13 men were, reported: killed in action, died of: causes, five were missing and 26 were wounded; Casualties, among both North and. South Vietnamese: contin: Cued to increase, the Vietnamese offensIve The Saigon command: report: ed. 757 South. Vietnamese troops killed week, 2:351 wounded and 214 missing in action.

This was. an; Increase' of seven killed and: wounded compared: to the previous" week, bot the number of missing was 130 fewer. The government claimed 028 enemy killed. and: 106 captured: last week, compared 3.613; killed and 56 cantured the week before; Total casualties for the war, according to: the allled. com: mands, are: American, 45:755 killed in action, 303:031 wounded; missing or 7 captured 10,179 dead from causes, and- 140.

missing. not: as; a result of hostile action. Most tot these are troops killed In air accidents. in which the bodies have not been recovered or have not been: Identified. -South: Vietnamese, 143,484 killed: In action; 365,718 wounded.

North Vietnamese and, Viet Cong. 835,691 The U.S; Command weekly summaries have -reported a total. of. 431. American ensualties (between the start of the enemy offensive March 130 and last! Saturday.

This includes :1 76' killed in action, 173. missing: In action; 56. dead. off nonhostile causes; 15. misging due to.

nonhostile causes and; 211 wounded. South Vietnamese. during the perlod. hare been 5,671 killed and wounded, while the government claims of the enemy killed: on the inside. FITCHBURG HIGH SCHOOL wins the NOMC: track and Held championships.

Wednesday at Crocker Field, getting double victories from Ray Hanker and: Mike Sciabarrassi. Leominster' Ray Auger pets two records' in winning the shot put and discus. See atory, photos on. Page 6. BUSY BUMMER PLANNED by.

Wallace day camp Page 13. SPECIAL TOWN MEETING 'ARTICLES discussed in Ayer: See. Page 13. 15 Editorial Bridge Obituaries Classilled 10-17-18-18 Sports Coinies Telerialon Summit Providing A Broader er Picture MOSCOW CAP) Nixon and Soviet pushing toward the heralded arms curb of their talks, are conferrine, quietly about European and Asian issues dividing their countries. The 'fact that agreements carefully prepared for "finalIzation" during President's visit were but a fraction of the summit picture, underlined by Nixon's surprise journey Wednesday evening.

to a country dacha for dinner and conversation. with Communist pArty chief Leonid Brezhnev and others. The session began about 7 p.m. continued for five hours. Nixon" and the Soviet leaders resumed their talks uboul 11 a.m.

today. White House press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler told newsmen the discussion Neither Snow, Nor Rain Normally takes 68 seconds to walk. slowly from: Room 10. In City.

Hall, the Adalt Edacation Dept: Coltico, to the Emergency' Employment Act office, also In: City' Hall. Bat by using the United States Postal Service: plan. ou a day delay In as -a messenger, one getting the message delivered. piece of EEA mail was clearly Identited for that recelved this" morning that office with proper addressing, Including zip code, -from the. Adult.

Education office th City. Hall, was postmarked Jam, 31, 1972: Neither snow, nor rain, nor dark of night, or even foulups, will keep the mall. from Better: late than: Court Suit FiledPress Drinan On Probe Thomas: M. McCarthy of 121: Blossom today said he filed request. with Worcester County.

Superior Court Wed nesday 'which wootd order Rep: Robert F. Drinan: to- make public the results of an of the -Federal System, because Drinan's: Fitchburg office had promised: the report, -over two weeks ago. McCarthy contends that Drinan spokesman' asserted that Drinan would release a position paper within 'the week; "and that was over two, weeks ago: Overtures to his office by many copcerned citizens have 'ended with curt. vague: replies?" McCarthy said, McCarthy said, I. have; been trying to Und a who would represent the people; McCarthy said: he also sent material, a period of two months, to.

Mayor Carleton Blackwell, but he: has never responded:" McCarthy. said he: also supplied information on the Federal Reserve System to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy "three or four" months ago, "I received a curt Wednesday night centered on International Vielham. matters, and he was among the He reported that Nixon the top Soviet leaders talked first while cruising on a Jake bear the dacha and did not.

sit- down to dinner until about -11 In keeping with the timetable for what Nixon has termed the most carefully planned summit ever held, the filth in a series of U.S. Sovict accords was ready for announcement today: This deals with rules to prevent accidental confrontations between American and Soviet warships on the high seas. The subject, like other past and prospective summit ments, was carefully talked by lower-ranking officials Tom both countries before Nixon rived Monday. On Friday, If all well, a two-part agreement limiling the deployment of strategic offenrive and defensive nuclear weapons will be signed. Left for is the question of increased U.S.-Sovlet trade, a thorny economic thicket ly to be raked clean hera.

There will, however. be An agreement to set up machinery for tackling the trade question in further detail, and quite possibly to arrange for moderately large U.S. grain sales to the Sovicts. Nixon's muralbon session with Soviet leaders Wednesday night brought him together informally not only with BrezhInev but also with President NI-1 Marx, Lenin, Stalin Taking A Beating By THE ASSOCIATED. PRESS The dogma Lenin and Stalin is taking something al a beating in.

the summit of Soviet. leaders with President Nixon. The leaders of the Politburo are beginning, it would appear. to appreciate the ways of They are eager to expand trade with the United States within a capitalist credit framework. They.

want collaboration in: selence and technolagy. They: cooperation the field. of environmentel protection. All this is quite antiMarist, Take the 'agreement to col: laborate on environmental protection. Acepruing to MarxistLeninist.

dograa, natoral: resources are the property of ev. erybody to be used at will by the state: in the name. of the people. Pollution should be inI state. possible: 'It in.

a. Marxist-Socialist as should a product of an exploitative capitalist But In: the last decade. or the facts of life caught up with the Soviet Union as with all industrialized countries. The leaders. are -now about: to set do what a prominent dis- Case Closed PROVIDENCE (AP).

state closed: Its case; against Raymond L.S: Patriarca Wednesday after the Superior Court Jury heard: year old testimony a witness who currently refuses to, testify, The testimony of Mrs. Lucille Hasncy. was from: trial record of a case involving Patriarca: and others in conwith the -1968: shotgun slayings of Rudolph Marten and Patriarca currently is on trial of being an accessor before, the fact of the mur: ders of' Marleo-and Melel: As soon as the state rested its case, defense. attorney Harvey Brawer to have the case dismissed on grounds that the not proved all: the clemements of. accessory.

a kolal V. Podgorny. Premier. Alexel Kosygin and Andrei Aleksandrov, the Soviet leaders' Henry Kissinger. With Nixon were Kissinger, chief assistant for' national securlty affairs, and at least two members of the National Securlty Council staff.

One. of them was a specialist on Southeast Asia. Nixon originally: had planned to Thursday afternoon at the nearby city of Zelenograd, but press secretary Ziegler told newsmen he changed his mind. and decided to leave the day. light hours free.

for further: talks with the Soviet The President and Mrs. Nix-, oh were to attend a performance of "Swan Lake' tonight: by the Bolshol Ballet. reports indicated the Force! Long before the North Victmight have been smaller. namese. Inunched.

offenBy midafternoon, there had on March 30, U.S. officials been. no pressure on the said Kontum, a major provinouter. defense perimeter of Kon- cial capital in the highlands, tum. military sources in Pleiku would be one the chief objecsaid.

indicating "that the sap- tives. Quang Tri, the country's pers intended: only a. harass- northernmost provincial. capiment campaign for the present tal, fell on Loc; rather: than: full-scale assault another provincial capital 60 to take the city, miles north of Saigon, has been The North. Vietnamese also under.

siege for seven weeks, made new. assaults on the Associated Press correspondnorthern front; above Hue and ent David 'Paine, reported. on two. sides Da Nang. South from Kontum that North VletVietnam's.

second: largest city. namese tanks, Partillery and Heavy fighting was report. mortars: bombarded the fromtedion the southern front: in the starting a fire in: a gasolipe Saigon area as the North Viet- storage arva in a military comnamese bogan, its pound on. northern edge of ninth week. the reply.

from Kennedy's secretary," McCarthy said, Filed Suit McCarthy: said he fRed the suit. -against Drinan by Flynn: No Answer Yet William G. Flynn: Fitchburg and now special assistant Cong. Robert: Drinan, said today that Thomas 'M. 'McCarthy of Fitchburg's Taxpayer Association, will "receive answers to his questions as soon as we get them." Drinan- Flynn, who speaking, in on Washington, of was said that the congrsssman's office: "is still checking out the questions: association." -The issue involves the Reserve System.

Flynn, contacted at. the congressman's' Waltham office, pointed out that us. a raft of questions are still- following. through on them. When we get the answers FLYNN, Page registered mail Wednesday, acting as.

an official, of, the Fitchburg Taxpayers' The suit: force congressman to make public Investigation be assertedly made, of the Federal Reserve System, McCarthy said; her bas been studying the Federal Reserve System' for the past -10 years and that $90 billion dollars year "is baryested, by the privately owned: Federal Reserve. Banks from taxes so the taxpayers can use their own money. This' is the reagori for. our economic dilemma: and overbearing: tocal, and federal McCarthy contended that Drinan "by refusing to divulge the firidings of his: promised in abrogating his responsibility is, in fact, to the taxpayers. McCarthy said that Drinan was presented with evidence obtained from the Congressional Record, and also trial, with in which an ac- 1 count Minnesota la; jury court ruled that the creation of bookkeeping entry.

WAS tin-a decision which was. aimed. at. the Federal Reserve System." Toe The Line Line sident urged four years -in an underground pamphlet. The 1968 pamphlet of A.D.

Sakharov, a physicist, said the two superpowers, rather than spend their wealth on weapons of mass destruction, might. better seek ways to cooperate. insaving the world from pollution and avoiding such situations as "the sadly celebruted problem" of Lake Baikal; which WAS being poisoned: by waste, "Otherwise; Sakharov "Lie U.S.S.R..: poisoris. 'the' United. States.

with. 1ta wastes while the United. States poisons the U.S.S.R. with -its. ideology might.

interfere with clearly in the Soviet friterest, the Politburo seems perfectly capable of igtroring ideology. There is much to done: on an: international scale in research and- develop: ment of programs that: can attack poisoned air and water, eroded: lands and all the other plagues of a modern world's industrial soclety. Russia's in this departmont -are legs thin America's, but they. are increasing swiftly; In the case of or computer science. the Commu- nists applied it: to military and space technology until.

late in the 'Khrushchev era its use in consumer 'economy would have been equated with some sort of capitalist quack ery. Now. the Politburo. reaches eagerly for 'A scientifle-techpological. accord with the chief capitalist nation.

There is little doubt that it. would like access to U.S. computer technology In the, consumer field, where the Russians have made 8. slow start and lag: behind the West. The Sovlet leaders would, not allow Cast European tion to go.as far; as.

Moscow. going with: the United States, Czechoslovakia at tempted an. opening to the. West in similar style, Czechoslovakia clobbered by Soviet might; It is a question of might right. The -behavior of the Politburo at this summilt onstrates once again how the men who run the Communist superpower can bend and even ignore ideology to suit the needs of Soviet national est: The interests of world rev.

olution still occupy a place in Kremlin thinking, but the Interests of world, revolution: -can wait. News Digest Senate OK's Education Bill WASHINGTON: (AP) Al The bill cleared the Senate: 63 education bill con- to 0.15 with most: of Laining a strong antibusing pro- the opposition coming from vision has galled through the Northern: liberals who obfected Senate but -faces tougher going to the antibusing rider, in the House, Army Headquarters Bombed HEIDELBERG, Germany Investigators: said- that' so tai (AP.) West author: they had no clues. But the West cities pushed 'an intensive search German Interlor Minister, Hans today terrorists who bomb- an police: were. extremist coned the U.S:. Army's European centrating, headquarters in Heldelberz, group, known as.

the Baaderkilling. three Americans: and Melnhot Gang wounding five others. U. Space Venture -WASHINGTON (AP)" The in 1975 of a Soviet Soyuz space new. U.S.

Soviet agreement craft, carrying two. cosmonauts, signed in Moscow Wednesday and an American Apollo apace: by Premier Alexel: Kosygin and craft with. two' or perhaps three President Nixon, will provide astronauts; test. rescue mankind with, the first' capabil- that would be called lity of rescuing men in upon in any future. space: emer: In space: gency, officials told The rendezvous and docking here Wednesday, Five Killed In Explosion KILN, Miss: (AP): Five Company.

officials said: they have been killed in a did not know what touched: series of explosions at 'an am- the first blast Wednesday at the munition manufacturing plant Ingram Industries facility one. survivor described sparse: piney woods near this as a "nightmare Fourth; of southwestern Mississippi July." lage. Davis: Defense Rests SAN (AP)- testimony, sald: Wednesday The defense in. the Angela knew nothing of a 1970. court Davis.

murder house: escape attempt which the spiracy: tris! ended It case prosecution says' was; aimed at without calling. the 28-year-old freeing him and the other: black Communist to testily Soledad Brothers, John ClutImprisoned Soledad: Brother chette: and' the George Fleeta the final -wit- Jackson. ness. in three days 'ol defense Pioneer Heads. For Jupiter LOS ANGELES CAP) Pio- jot the 'outer solar: neer 10, the cereal-bowl-shaped Ahead lies a months spacecraft.

bound: for Jupiter, sage through the: hazardon opens a new today in man's terold belt, region exploration of space. It passes debris where an object beyond the orbit of Mars to be- ing'only a millionth come' the first spacecraft to could wreck the. push into the trackless reaches! spacecraft..