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Page ffr June 17, 1972 U.S. Agrees 'Fiddler' Sets a Plain Talk From Mexico Way "standardization" to be the norm of American civilization, he pursued, or Is the society to be a "framework within which many different cultures Nobody in Washington could remember when a visiting chief of state came here and questioned American values. And to those who fear "subversion" of Mexico (and by implication the United States) by Cuba, he replied: "My answer is simply, and directly, Communism is not a menace to Mexico, he said. Mexico had its revolution in 1910, and it has fulfilled many of its objectives, with many left to achieve. There are small numbers' today who still believe in Cuban, Soviet, American and Chinese solutions, he agreed.

"To them we say, 'Young man, No! It (the revolution) is here, and WASHINGTON (CDN) Luis Eche-verria Alvarez, the president of Mexico, is a bespectacled, balding man not so dazzled by his colossus-of-the-north neighbor as to keep from dropping a few diplomatic bombs. For instance, he told Americans: If you can settle your disputes with Russia, and begin to settle them with China, you ought to be able to do so with Mexico and your other neighbors to the south. If you can talk to Mao, Chou, Brezhnev and Kosygin, you can certainly talk to Fidel Castro. Your "closed international clubs" based on nuclear power had better not forget the Third World nations "whose people are aware their poverty produces wealth for others." And closer to home: a deft demonstration of the political tact that in 26 years brought him from an obscure secretary in Mexico's reigning political party to the presidency 17 months ago. "Could it be," he parried, "that the Democratic senators and congressmen I spoke to (during his visit here) are also seeking my assistance?" Through the traditional, flowery Spanish rhetoric the 50 year old chief executive made clear he's not so sure that the United States has been as democratic as its founding principles envisioned.

"Is the United States simply a transference of British, Germans, Swedes and other people of Western European countries who came here to establish a new form of living is that all?" he asked a National Tress Club audience yesterday. "Are there not Negroes, Chicanos, Puerto Ricans? Is not North America more complete if we recognize this in a real Is Settle the problem of the Colorado River, whose salinity output has -for more than 10 years caused "enormous" damage to Mexican farmers, and impoverished them. American farmers should stop exploiting Mexican migrant workers and seasonal employes. Echeverria came here Thursday and left today. Some of the analysts who thought President Nixon's invitation to him a master stroke of election-year politics especially in light, of the Administration's ardent wooing of the Spanish-speaking with appointive posts and purposely laid-on ceremonies now may be having second thoughts.

On that particular question the election year dividend he might be providing the Republicans Echeverria dodged with Crash in Tunnel Kills 40 Drop-Ins Viet Raiders Surprise Foe Examiner News Service SAIGON In a surprise development, 100 South Vietnamese commandos made a helicopter assault into the North Vietnamese-held district town of Tan Canh, 25 miles north of Kontum City in the central highlands. The town fell to the North Vietnamese April 24. On Border Problem KEY BISCAYNE (AP) The United States and Mexico announced agree-ment today on measures to reduce salt pollution in the Colorado River and to combat narcotics traffic. They also agreed to study Mexican workers who enter the United States illegally. The agreements were announced in a joint communique released by the Florida White House after two days of talks between President Nixon and Mexican President Luis Echeverria Alvarez.

Nixon Prepared The communique said President Nixon was prepared to undertake "certain actions immediately" to improve the quality of Colorado River water going to Mexico. It said Nixon also would designate a special representative to begin work to find a permanent, definitive and just solution to the problem. In a speech to a joint session of Congress Thursday, Echeverria denounced what he described as U.S. inaction on the problem and said the result had been poverty for thousands of Mexican farmers, for whom salt has made the river largely un-useable. On the drug control prob-lem, the two presidents agreed to employ additional equipment and personnel.

It is estimated that some 80 percent of the marijuana consumed in this country originates in Mexico. Recognized Role The communique also said that Nixon recognized "the important role developing countries could and should play in erecting a new international monetary system and in progressing toward a free and fair trading system." Echeverria had assailed industrialized countries, including the United States, for taking actions in monetary matters without consulting developing nations. Nixon also reaffirmed his intention to seek congressional authorization at the appropriate time for the United States to participate in a system of generalized tariff preferences for imports from developing countries. Echeverria departed this morning for New York. From there he will go on to Chicago, San Antonio and Los Angeles, returning to Mexico on June 21.

ncami for Broadway NEW YORK (UPI) Fiddler on the Roof" tonight will play its 3214th performance, making it the long-running show on Broadway, With this afternoon's matinee, "Fiddler" will tie the 1 Broadway record 3213 performances of "Life With Father." However, it still has a long way to catch up with the off-Broadway "The Fantas-ticks," which ran for 4754 performances. Not to' mention Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap," which has run nearly 8000 performances in London, and still is running. Accord on Welfare Forecast WASHINGTON (AP) -President Nixon may be leaning toward a compromise welfare reform plan which could help Congress raise Social Security checks for millions of voters before election day. Nixon met with Elliot Richardson, secretary of health, education and welfare, and James Hodgson, secretary of labor, yesterday. Richardson reportedly urged the President to move toward a compromise.

The measure is attached to a massive bill which also contains numerous Social Security increases, including a 10 percent across the -board increase in monthly payments. Election Timing Many congressmen want the Social Security increases signed into law in time for the November election. But the prospect seems unlikely if a protracted welfare reform debate develops in the Senate- Sen. Abraham Ribicoff who has led the efforts to develop a compromise welfare reform plan, greeted news of Nixon's personal attention to the problem with enthusiasm. 'Imperative' "It is imperative that, if we are to have time to rally a Senate majority in favor of an acceptable plan, that the President indicate his support for such a coalition within the next few days," Ribicoff said.

Indications are that each of three welfare plans commands the support of about one-third of the Senate. refrigerator plant, and two children aged five and 12. Asked if Fischer has any weaknesses, the Russian replied, "Yes, he has some very serious weaknesses. But don't ask me what they are, because for the time being that is my secret." In preparing for his title match, Spassky has spent severl weeks at a resort hotel on the Black Sea. "More or less the whole day is spent in chess studies.

I devote particular attention to physical i i i Spassky said. WORLD WIDE BROADCAST it "B- P. SUNDAY KFAX 4 00 Pm 1100 KC KfARFM 3 00 pm MC KNCR 10 00 pm 80 KC if ma mmM 'I ji SLs i Eco Freak jj "I have always enjoyed cycling to work except for the awful smell of exhaust fumes, which are a serious hazard to one's health," says Vin- i' cent Summerron, 53, of Port Elizabeth, South i Africa, wearing a miner's mask to filter motor J1 fumes in his private war against polluted air. AP Photo Pair Killed By Bandits, 3 Look On EVANSTON fill.) (AP) The owner of a downtown Evanston restaurant and a woman assistant were stabbed to death last night by three robbers, before the horrified eyes of three other persons who had been bound with rope, police said. The killers then fled with an undetermined amount of cash from a safe, police said.

Dead at Scene Gerald Bringman, 56, the owner, and Christine Adams, about 60, were pronounced dead at the scene of multiple stab wounds after one of the three witnesses, a waitress, freed herself and called police. Authorities said they could determine no reason why the two were killed after the robbery was completed or why three persons were allowed to witness the slay-ings and remain unharmed. Carried Revolvers Police said the witnesses told them the robbers came to the front door of the restaurant shortly after closing time, forced their way in, displayed revolvers and demanded to be taken to the first-floor safe. After looting it the three men forced the five into the basement, where they tied up everyone except Bringman and Mrs. Adams.

While the others watched, Bringman and Mrs. Adams were repeatedly stabbed, police said. The incident lasted about 15 minutes. Huge Blast Injures 18 In Ulster BELFAST (AP) A huge bomb wrecked a bar in the Protestant Shankill district of Belfast today, injuring 18 persons, including two soldiers. First warning of the bomb, estimated by the army at 200 pounds of gelignite, came in a phone call to a Belfast newspaper office.

Troops and police rushed to the bar, the Woodvale Arms, and cloarned the area. The bomb exploded inside a nearby parked car 30 minutes later. The blast damaged buildings within a radius of 300 yards and left a crater four feet deep and eight feet wide. Police blamed Irish Republican Army guerrillas. Earlier, the body of a man, hooded and shot through the head, was found on the outskirts of Belfast.

His death was the 369th in three years of violence in Northern Ireland. Another man, with bullet wounds in both les and his jaw, was dumped from a car outside the city. Britain's administrator in Northern Ireland, William Whitelaw, called on the guerrillas yesterday to lay down their arms. lie renewed his pledge to Protestants that they would not "bp bomled into union" with the overwhelmingly Catholic hhh Republic. From Page 1 ers, mainly young people, slammed into what officials said was a wall of brick caused by a partial collapse of the ceiling.

The train was traveling at 60 miles per hour. A few minutes later, the train heading in the opposite direction hit the rockfall and the wreck of the first. Officials said it was the worst rail disaster in 10 years. In 1967, 39 persons died in the dereailment of the Paris-Marseille, express. Transport Minister Jean Chamant flew to the scene and supervised rescue operations.

He told newsmen after emerging from the tunnel, "It is a dreadful spectacle. This is not the time for long statements." He went off to morgues set up in neighboring hospitals. The rescue work was made difficult because from time to time parts of the ceiling would peel off and fall onto the track. The prospects of the first sunny weekend of the spring after weeks of rain and fog had crowded French trains with holiday makers, a railroad spokesman said. He said that as a result the two crashed trains hauled an extra coach each.

More than 500 men toiled inside the tunnel, strewn with debris of luggage, clothes, and other belongings. Two helicopters of government Cvil Emergency Service shuttled from rescue headquarters outside the tunnel to Paris or Soissons with blood serum supplies or oxygen bottles. One of the engines was impaled into ghe ceiling of the tunnel while the coaches "literally welded one- into another," an official said. Preliminary investigation, according to rescuers, was that the double wreck was caused by the collapse of the tunnel ceiling. COLLISION SITE Horror in Tunnel East Europe Pilots Unsure VIENNA (AP) -Pilots of Eastern Europe have not made it clear if they plan to join the strike called by the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations.

The Austrian president of the International Transport Workers Federation, Fritz Prechtl, and by Capt. Walter Kainz of Austrian Airlines, reported that Schwechat Airport here would he closed for all traffic including that of airlines of the East bloc because ground personnel had declared their solidarity. TttAINS C0UID NXl soissons PARIS FRANCE Mllc-4 Chess Showdown Helps Spassky Out The commandos were pulled out by South Vietnamese helicopters after a four-hour sweep, perhaps to gain intelligence information for a larger operation later on. They reported killing 24 enemy troops, capturing nine weapons and destroying five Soviet-built trucks, and two of their own jeeps that had been seized by the North Vietnamese April 24. One South Vietnamese soldier was reported wounded.

Rescues The government forces returned to Kontum bringing with them nine South Vietnamese soldiers being held captive and 49 civilians, field reports said. The operation was preceded by heavy U.S. B52 raids on the edges of the town. Meanwhile, American and South Vietnamese land, sea and air units hammered Communist positions north ond south of the Demilitarized Zone but carefully avoided Hanoi during the visit of Soviet President Ni-kokai Podgorny. B52' bombers based in Guam and Thailand flew 26 missions in the 24 hours ending at noon, but only one mission over North Viet-nom.

That was in the northern half of the Demilitarized Zone, 30 miles northwest of Quang Tri city. But U.S. Navy pilots from carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin hit North Vietnamese bridges, railroad sidings, naval bases and bunkers while Seventh Fleet heavy cruisers and guided missile destroyers pounded coastal de-fenses. The South Vietnamese command, in an evening news communique, said its forces "continued their efforts to eliminate the last enemy resistance" of the Communist offensive. Casualties Casualties were heavy, particularly on the Communist side, according to military reports.

Two American helicopters were downed and a U.S. Navy Crusader from the carrier Midway was hit by Communist antiaircraft fire. No fatalities were reported: the pilot of the Navy jet bailed out and was picked up. Navy pilots from the carriers Saratoga and Midway, using guided bombs, smashed a span of the Don Phong Thuong railroad bridge nine miles northeast of Thanh Hoa, in North Vietnam. Returning pilots reported 30 railroad cars destroyed or damaged and a "large sustained petroleum, oil and lubricant fire set." They also reported destroying a bridge 19 miles southeast of Vinh, another span damaged 28 miles northwest of Dong Hoi and the destruction of supply buildings and a truck park.

Agnes Winds Intensify in Caribbean MIAMI (UPI) Gust-ing winds from tropical storm Agnes intensified to 90 mph today and forecasters said the storm likely would reach full hurricane status tonight or tomorrow. A storm is considered a hurricane when sustained winds reach 75 mph. The Miami hurricane center said Agnes had reached sustained 65 mph speeds, with gusts at 90 mph. The Weather Bureau said at 6 a.m. PDT, that Agnes was stalled about 100 miles east of Cozumel Island and 475 miles southwest of Miami.

Forecasters expect the storm to begin a slow northward movement by tonight. The storm grew out of a tropical depression which had been dousing western Cuba and parts of south Florida with rain for days. Iwo U.S. Brigades Leaving SAIGON (UPI) The U.S. Command today announced plans to pull the last Army ground brigade out of the war zone.

Pull-out will virtually end the U.S. land combat role in Vietnam. At Da Nang, one of the last two major U. S. Army ground units in South Vietnam the 196th Infantry Brigade furled its colors to the strains of "Auld Lang Syne" today to return to the United States for deactivation.

A command communique announced deactivation of the 3rd Bridage, 1st Cavalry Division and three of Its four combat battalions. The 3rd Brigade, based at Bien Hoa 14 miles north of Saigon has had the job of providing security of the capital area. The I96tn provided security of the U.S. Da Nang Air Basa 370 miles north of Saigon. Deactivation of the two units left only three Army combat battalions still in the war zone two in the Da Nang area and one around Saigon.

At "the peak of U.S. involvement in 1969, the Army had 112 infantry battalions and 60 artillery battalions in Vietnam. What's the Score? For latest results call SPORTSDIAL. 478-9560. Judge Refuses to Halt Pilots Strike BELGRADE (UPI) -World chess champion Boris Spassky figures he owes his American rival Bobby Fischer "a big barrel of Vodka." In the Belgrade weekly magazine Nin, The Soviet champion dismissed rumors of animosity with Fischer, whom he plays for the world title next month.

Spassky said his prestige in the Soviet Union has been so enhanced by Fischer's challenge that the Spassky family has been given a new apartment in Moscow's exclusive Podmoskovje suburb. 'Good Apartment' "All my family consider we owe Bobby a big barrel of Vodka. Thanks to him, we have a good apartment for the first time," Spassky said. "Bobby is a very charming guy. His popularity is not politically motivated.

It comes from real esteem." Spassy also said murh of the American master's support among fans stems from sheer boredom with long Russian domination of the game. Hegemony Boring "The hegemony of Soviet chess is boring everybody in the West and even some in the Soviet Union," Spassky said. The blond, blue-eyed Spassky, 35, has a wife who works as a technician in a rael, Switzerland, Ireland, Austria, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Kenya and The Netherlands said they would support the strike. The strike grew out of a demand by the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations that the United Nations take some action to stop the hijackings. The organization has 50,000 members in 64 countries.

U.N. Secretary General Waldheim met with several officials of various pilots' organizations, but there appeared no chance the U.N. Council would meet before Monday. Waldheim, angered over the strike announcement yesterday by Capt. Ola Forsberg, president of IFALPA, said that during the meetings "it was the understanding that action would be suspended pending the meeting of the Security Council and that the Secre-tary General would meet again the representatives of IFALPA and ITWF (International Transport Workers Federation) following the council meeting." The request for an injunction stopping the strike was filed before Judge Hart by the Air Transport Association, on behalf of all U.S.

scheduled airlines. From Page 1 violated negotiations in progress. Reaction by pilots around the world was scattered some pledged to support the action, others said they would keep flying. Pilots for United, American and Braniif International said they would not join the strike. Trans World Airways secured a court injunction against the walkout scheduled for 11 p.m.

PDT tomorrow. TWA said its flights would operate normally. Pan American also said it planned to go ahead with normal operations, but there was no word from its pilots. Western Air Lines pilots said they would strike and most other U.S. air carriers said that at the moment they just weren't certain what would happen.

Canada's 2000 pilots said they would support the action. Reports from Arab capitals said their pilots would not participate and in Cairo Secretary General Sabet Se-fari of the Federation of Arab Transport Workers called the action "an Israeli maneuver." Pilots associations in France, the Philippines, Is 1.