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PAGE 9 I I ft Spain and the Spaniards were pretty mad about it. On January 17, a Strategic Air Command B-52 bomber, bound for U.S. 16th Air Force headquarters at the Torrejon base near Madrid, collided with a KC 135 jet tanker over the southeast of Spain, during a mid air refueling operation. Seven of 11 crew men were killed. And it proved to be one of the most mortifying of U.S.

military mishaps. The accident involved no ordinary B-52. The big plane's cargo consisted of what Spanish air ministry officials gingerly called "secret military elements." U.S. Air Force spokesmen identified them as nuclear devices. "T'M TIRED I want a lonpj holiday," ox-plained Sir Robert Mon-zies, 71, in resigning as Prime Minister of Australia after 16 years in the post.

Summing up his administration, Men ics said, "The best single slop is the ANZUS treaty" (mutual defense pact with U.S. and New Zeland). Federal Treasurer Harold E. Holt. 57.

was asked to succeed Men-zies, and last week he picked a cabinet. Fulbright remarked that "resumption (of bombing) would mean that we had given up any hope for the present of negotiations He added that 31 days (the length of the lull up to then) was "a rather short time to allow all parties concerned to reconsider their Iositions. "My own feeling," said the Foreign Relations Committee chairman, "is that our policy of not recognizing the Viet Cong as a party to the conference may be very significant to the question of whether a conference can be set up." 400.000 Troops? Fulbrighfs belief that U.S. failure to invite the Viet Cong to share in negotiations might well be a main obstacle to peace talks had some support, he indicated, among a few committee members but. he emphasized.

i can't read their minds." And Sec- ma MENZIES HOLT See Page 10 SAVE 10 TO 50 ON FINEST SCANDINAVIAN IMPORTS SENATOR FULBRIGHT Couldn't read minds retary Husk, lie wryly noted, "doesn't agree." Defense Secretary Robert McNamara was meanwhile testifying at another Senate hearing on additional funds for the Vietnam war, presenting plans on continuing tlte war through mid-17 with a possible 400,000 American troops. Vet rumors of still more peace offers refused to be silenced. One of the most persistent came from Cairo where "informed sources" insisted that U.S. Ambassador Lucius Battle had called at the Egyptian Foreign Ministry and left a new U.S. peace offer for transmission to Hanoi via North Vietnam's Ambassador to Egypt.

Officials in Washington denied knowledge of any such move, which allegedly contained an offer to extend the bombing moratorium. And Hanoi, at midweek, remained equally secretive as to what new developments, if any, had occurred. All Overstocked Furniture Must Go! Sculptured Teak Chairs, Tables, Desks, Chests, Bedroom Sets Superbly Styled Upholstered Groups, Sofas, Easy Chairs Every Contemporary Treasure Now at Sacrificial Prices. wmmmmmmmmm Sale Starts Saturday 10 AJ. Open Sunday Come early for drastically reduced FLOOR SAMPLES, 1 of a kind items All sales final! BRING YOUR OWN TRUCK or station wagon.

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