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THE DAILY ITEM Sunbury, July 3, 1972 An APjNews Analysis South Viet Forces Striking Back At oe placements, in the face of B52 strikes and other mass-killing barrages. There are reports of enemy units being rouble to carry out their missions because of heavy manpower losses, but ordered to An so anvwav. lieve are their battle losses. Although it is conceded that no one on the allied side really knows what enemy losses are, and so-called body counts have never proved reliable, some senior commanders believe Hanoi has lost as many as reshaped the borders of the country in the Saigon region, with the Communist command effectively controlling large areas of South Vietnam that it will probably take years for the Saigon forces to recover by staying on the offensive, not a amtyar role for AR VN troops. By RICHARD PYLE Associated PrM Wrttor SAIGON With grow-iag confidence, South Vietnam's battered armed forces are striking back in hopes of reversing the flow of Hanoi's massive invasion.

And while some success seems ultimately as- 000 men mostly to air and ar One thing working in the South Vietnamese govern-ment's favor in this respect, say officials, has been the failure of the Viet Cong to fulfill their role in the Hanoi plan. Communist documents in the hands of allied officials are the basis for this belief, telling how the 7iet Cong did not mobilize their forces in strength but spread them too thinly and dissipated their effect, and also reporting that Viet Cong political agents and cadres moved too slowly in organizing the political side of the offensive among the people. Many U.S. officials contend tillery wdence indicates the North Viet- Although North Vietnam has namese soldiers now are much uuuci out of 15,000 and more than 595,000 people, about ,10 per cent of the population, are under enemy control, with many more potentially lost, with a million persons counted as refugees. "It will take years to restore that situation eveft if the offensive should end tomorrow," said one U.S.

official. The success of tfve North Vietnamese drive, to whatever degree it extends in the final analysis, also is likely to have an eroding effect, on the confidence of the people, which the Saigon government has tried hard to cultivate." (. Other News Briefs Strawberry i-aka. Tha gathering of youths fram all taction! of tha nation is being pro-motod by tht Rainbow Family of Living Life. Tha ftstfval is scheduled to last through July fourth.

(AP) SARGENT PEPPER MARCHES OH-Mi-ginf to pack Mi mm, Sargent Ptppar, Hm groat fen, march with Ms twntr Larry CrouoflN. Both Hm Saroenf and hit master art thoir way to Iha religious festival at 'New Polities' Victory Is Proclahted PHILADELPHIA (AP) In a smaHMCtory for the so-called "new politics," 18 additional women will join Pennsyl-: vania's male-dominated delegation to the Democratic nation- al convention. The women, however, will not be replacing any of their male peers. They'll have only one-half vote each, and they'll attend the convention largely bcaus reformers gave in to party regulars on every challenge they had taken before the national party. 1 The additions to the delegation were decreed Saturday by the Democratic Credentials Committe in Washington.

The 106-1 vote came only hours after Gov. Milton J. Shapp announced he was withdrawing as a delegate to the convention. "Pointing to the statewide devastation from the recent flood, Chapp explained, "our first responsibility is to be in Pennsylvania at this critical time." Army To Station Troops Near Miami Tons Of Munitions Seized U.S. Holding 9 In Alleged Cuba plot involved Cuba.

The nine were charged with conspiring to smuggle the explosives from the United States WASHINGTON (AP) The to Mexico for iuture shipmentNo guns, however, were aboard 000 and 3,000 paratroopers hear Miami by the time the Democratic National Convention opens a week from today. Defense officials said the timing and eventual size of the federal-troop movement from North Carolina to Homestead AFB, win depend on how Miami Beach authorities size up the threat of disturbances by militant groups and whether outbreaks develop. "What happens this week will dictate whether the task force will go down from Ft. Bragg early or not," one official said. There are indications the Army will keep several thous never had a provable manpow er problem during the war, most military men insist it is having one now.

They say most of the Communist units which began the offensive at fall strength have cot been able to keep up their strength with re- I JfiS uQCK a I liflflflfiS AilQCK vllQflCf Ttl SAIGON (AP) South Vietnamese marines, supported by U.S. fighter-bombers dropping cluster bombs on fleeing North Vietnamese" troops, moved forward today toward Quang Tri Associated Press correspondent Holger Jensen reported from the northern front that the North Vietnamese were fleeing in small groups before the steady movement of the marines, apparently hoping to escape the U.S. air strikes and the shelling of American Navy ships offshore. U.S. B52 flew 13 missions around Quang Tri City, striking ahead of the marines to within three miles of the town's southeastern edge.

U.S. fighter-bombers hit the North Vietnamese with antipersonnel cluster bombs. The marines reported the North Vietnamese attacked them on their eastern with a force of infantry and tanks. But spokesmen said the South Vietnamese and their air and artillery support drove off the attacks, killed 100 of the North Vietnamese, destroyed four tanks and captured another. Thirty miles to the south, 30 rounds of heavy artillery fire hit Hue, military spokesmen said, but there was no lmme- Hiate reoort of casualties Nearly 70 shells crashed into the former imperial capital Sunday, killing 12 civilians and wounding 53.

It was the first shelling of the city since the North Vietnamese offensive began March 30. Spokesmen also said government troops in two positions west and northwest of Hue were hit by more than 1,200 rounds and by a ground attack at one position Sunday and early Monday. The spokesmen said the attackers might be trying to pull South Vietnamese troops away from the drive on Quang Tri. as extra money to "Carlos Diaz" to purchase as much as $1.2 million in munitions- and weapons, ranging from submachine guns to M16s. the plane raided by federals.

agents at Shreveport on Saturday. The federal complaint alleges Kessler agreed last Wednesday to sell to Diaz 13,500 pounds of C-4 plastic explosives, 7,000 feet of primacord, 2,600 electrical blasting caps and 25 electrical detonators for $430,000. In addition, it alleges that another $35,000 was to be paid for flying the explosives to an air field near Vera Cruz, Mexico. The complaint said that last Friday "Kessler told Carlos and additional troops on standby at Ft, Bragg, ready to be iiuwii nuuua neeueu. NEW ORLEANS, La.

(AP) A plot U.S. officials say was aimed at overthrowing, a foreign country apparently Communist Cuba has been re- vealed in the arrest of nine persons in a 1465,000 munitions smuggling scheme. Allegedly stretching from New York to Louisiana, Texas and Mexico, the plot came to light with the arrests Saturday. In addition, nearly seven tons of plastic explosives were seized in a DC4 transport plane at Shreveport, federal agents said. U.S.

Atty. Gerald Calling-house said Sunday federal officials "have no reason to be- 1 i VM 4Vm tMMitiHnn, UTaA UCYC uiak LUC U1IUUUUUO WIK destined for any country other than Cuba." The complaint charging two of the men, Murray Kessler of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Adler B. Seal of Baton Rouge, alleged they "knew and believed that this -material would- be used in an attempted overthrow of a foreign nation." The two men were arrested near the New Orleans International Airport GaOinghouse refused to say precisely jthat the overthrow" Allied officials also say evi- younger, sometimes 15 and 16, and have been thrown into many battle situations with almost no preparation and far, less fighting skill than American and South Vietnamese soldiers have learned to expect from the army that is soma times called the "world's finest light infantry." we're not but; 'v home heating costs and taxes are the biggest recurring- expenses for home owners- mmmf can't reduce taxes DymmiRM can reduce heating bills! Don't your pocketbook high healing bills us about' DWATHOtM SGULLIU 900 Sprue St. Sunbury Phon 28M519 Interest YouEarn it! sPEND phis permanent 214 MARKET ST. SUNBURY.

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PHONE'286-i IZI I MS mcGovern Supporters sured, the outcome is likely to fall short of what President Nguyen Van Thiea called "the 'final battle." Some military and political observers believe the three months of fighting since the North's offensive started, although the bloodiest of the war in some respects, have proved nothing except once again that a military solution is impossible in Indochina, and the only way to a cease-fire and a settlement is through negotiation. Gaining favor now among allied officials appears to be a view that the North Vietnam ese, having tnea tneir utmost but failed to achieve any of their major objectives, will pull back to refit for yet another try. Some think this next attempt might come as early as next year, but many U.S. officers are so optimstic as to believe the Communist command has finished itself militarily for op to four years. Nevertheless, the South Vietnamese also are facing severe problems.

The enemy push has again (Diaz) that, he had no M16 rifles, but he had the C-4 as per their A rental aircraft was flown that afternoon from Hammond, to the complaint said. "A rental van then went to the South Western Pipe Co. in Shreveport and then picked up 13,500 pounds of a plastic explosive commonly known as C-4," the complaint said. "The explosive was then transported back to the site where the DC4 aircraft being kept and per an agreement between Kessler and Diaz, the explosives were loaded onto the aircraft," it said. Federal agents then moved in.

Return 2 the California delegation, which he lost, and to the Illinois delegation, which his forces won. "If I thought it would serve the interests of a stronger party and heal some of these wounds and hot do any violence to the rules of the party, I would support a compromise," he said on ABC's "Issues and Answers" program. In- an effort to beef up his strength in advance of Miami Beach, McGovern said he will seek a meeting with AFL-CIO-President George Meany this week. Meany is officially uncommitted in the race for the nomination, although he is considered a supporter of Sen. Edmund S.

Muskie. The Credentials Committee, still meeting in Washington, refused convention seats to Mississippi's regular Democrats late Saturday. It voted unanimously to seat the 25-member Loyalist which also was seated in 1968. The main charge was that the regular party failed to adopt the party's reform rules in picking delegates. ern Ireland a week ago.

His body was found on a garbage dump, and authorities believed he may have been killed by mistake. Leaders of the militant Protestant Ulster Defense Associ-a i threatened reprisals against the IRA after Augustus "Gusty" Spence, a Protestant hero, was apparently kidnaped. Four men stopped the car taking Spence back to jail after a two-day parole to attend his daughter's wedding. He was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1966 for killing a Catholic Meanwhile the UDA dismantled most of the 100 barricades it threw up around' Protestant areas last week in protest against the British army's refusal to tear down the IRA's barricades around various Catholic areas. The army made no move-toj-emove the Protestant barricades either.

Overthrow California Delegates' that the Viet Cong are not an important force except in cer- tain areas, in particular the coastal provinces and some areas of the Mekong Delta, where they have always been strong. The idea that North Viet- nam's own forces are finished for a while stems in large part, from what allied officers be- Army will station between frantic, election-eve scramble to attach a whole collection of seemingly attractive, politically popular- but fiscally irresponsible to the next debt- ceiling bill. He said he is placing Congress on notice now that if this occurs and offsetting cuts in other programs cannot be made, "then I win not hesitate to exercise my right and responsibility to veto." Congress rushed through the measure Friday just before recessing until July 17 and made it possible for the Social Security payments to be reflected in checks received Oct 3 a nioiath before the election. The Social Security provisions also provide for future automatic increases linked to cost-of-Uving rises. And it includes prompt tax refunds for those who suffered from the Hurricane Agnes and South Dakota flood disasters.

World Chess Tournament Is Postponed RE YK A VIK, Iceland (AP) The International Chess Federation postponed the start of the Bobby Fischer-Boris Spassy world championship series untilTuesday after Fischer failed to arrive in Iceland over the weekend. The Ameri-' can champion was believed still in New York-Fischer's 24-game match with the Russian world's champion was to have begun Sunday, and the president of the world federation, Dr. Max Euwe, announced if the American challenger failed to show up by noon Tuesday, he would risk forfeiting his chance at the title. Fischer's representatives in Iceland requested the post-ponment on the grounds that he was unable to play because of fatigue. But it was generally assumed that the request was part of Fischer's campaign to get more money put of the Icelanders.

Northwest Airlines, Pilots Negotiate MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (AP) Northwest Airlines and striking pilots resume negotiations today and a union spokesman said "things might start to move." Federal Mediator Harry Bickford said late Sunday that negotiations would resume ata 2 p.m., EDT, the first bargaining session since i the "'strike i began Both the Air Line Pilots Association ALPA) and the company say they are in essential agreement on salary terms for pilots, a 26.7 per cent increase in pay and fringe benefits over three years. Weather Information to a third country. Among those arrested were Richmbnd Harper, a prominent South Txas rancher-banker, and Marion Hegler, a former inspector with the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.

They were taken into custody at Eagle Pass, where- they reside, then released on $25,000" bond each. The federal complaint alleges dealings by a man known as Nader In Australia To Study Kangaroos SYDNEY, Australia (AP) U.S. consumer advocate Ralph Nader arrived today to study -some species of kangaroos in danKer of extinction. Nader told reporters the U.S. Interior Department wanted to have some kangaroo species put on the endangered list to restrict the import of kangaroo products.

Almanac Data Tuesday, July 4, 1972 Sun rises at 5:46 a.m., sets at 8:37 p.m. Wednesday, July 5, 1972 Sun rises at- 5:46 a.m.7ets at 8:37 p.m. day 75 to 80. Low tonight in the upper 50s to low 60s. Partly sunny with the chance of a shower Tuesday.

High in "the low tp mid -70s. Precipitation' probability 80 per cent today 60 per cent tonight and 40 per cent Tuesday. Winds south to southwest five to 15 m.p.h. today becoming west to northwest five to 15 m.p.h. tonight.

Da Fran NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CLOUDY WASHINGTON (AP) California supporters of Sen. George McGovern are seeking to win back in the courts the 151 California delegates they-lost in thq Democratic Credentials Committee. A suit was filed with the U.S. District Court in Washington asking a restraining order to prevent the revised California -delegation from being seated aL Democratic convention, which opens July 10 at Maimi Beach. A hearing was sched- uled this morning before Dist.

Court Judge George Hart Jr. The suit alleges that the Credentials Committee acted unconstitutionally when it overruled California's winner-take-all primary, won by McGovern. The committee apportioned 151 of the state's 271 votes among presidential contenders Hubert H. Humphrey, George C.KVal- lace and others. McGovern, still the easy front-runner with 1,276.9 committed votes with 1,509 needed for nomination, indicated Sun day he would be willing to com promise on the challenges to Cloudiness, Jhundershowers Seen Hanrahan Trial To Open Wednesday CHICAGO (AP) The long delayed trial of State's Arty.

Edward V. Hanrahan of Cook County, accused with 13 others of conspiracy to obstruct justice, is scheduled to open Wednesday before Circuit Judge Phillip J. R.omiti. -Hanrahan, one of his assistants and 12 policemen are accused of attempting to block the prosecution of policemen who participated in a Dec. 4, 1969, weapons raid on a Black Panth- -er party apartment.

Nixon Sips Social Security Hike, But Galls It Deficit Setting Considerable cloudiness with a shower or thundershower today and again tonight. High to- 3-Day Forecast Extended outlook for Wednesday through Friday: Eastern Pennsylvania Fair and pleasant through the period. Daily highs in the 70s north and upper 70s to the low 80s south and overnigtrt lows in the 50s north and lowtp mid 60s south. nest egg! Just deposit a lump sum in one of our high-yield accounts. We'll mail you ait interest 7 Are Killed During Are Weekend In Uorthern Ireland's Violence isTHat this set the ident Nixon signed on Saturday stage for what could be "a check every month.

Enjoy the convenience of this service, Check-a-Month Plan, now. NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SAVING a 20 per cent boost in Social Security benefits to start in September. But he called the measure fiscally irresponsible -and said it will cause, a deficit that must be offset by cuts in other programs. The Social Security measure, the biggest money increase in the program's history, was tied to a bill extending the nation's $450 billion debt ceiling through Oct. 31 of this year.

This linkage, sponsored by Democrats in Corress but voted for by most Republicans, made it impossible for-Nixon to veto the Social Security boost without kiling the increase in the debt ceiling. Had thexeiling not been increased it would have automatically dropped to $400 billion, thus crippling the government fiscally. Among his serious objections, Nixon said in a White House statement shortly before de- parfmg for a two-week stay in BELFAST (AP) Seven men were killed in Belfast during violence-ridden weekend that threatened the flimsy cease-fire in Northern Ireland and fanned fears of "eye for an eye" warfare between Protestant and Roman Catholic gun- "men. All seven men- were shot in the head, and some were bound and hooded, of the Irish -Republican Army's execution squads. But at least two of the victims were CatholicsAlthough there was some speculation that had been killed by IRA punishment squads, authorities believed they were the victims of Protestant extremists.

Three of the victims were Protestants, and the fourth was a 19-year-old Jehovah's Witness from England who had working in a camp for poor children since coming to North itm mm Urn Imm mmm T. i. IhinW PwprtBtMM Hat W.c-Cwwit Cicti Faracast 1 1 i i 1MU III (AP Wirephoto Map) WEATHER FORECAST A bread band of showers Is forecast today from tht Plains across tht South to the mid- and north-Atlantic states. Rain 1 forecast for the central and lower Great Lakes. Cool weather is expected for most of the nation except the Southeast..