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Great Britain Blamed Rhodesian Struggle SALISBURY, Rhodesia (AP) Prime Minister Ian Smith on Saturday accused Britain of undermining his efforts to reach a power-sharing agreement with Rhodesia's black majority. If Britain had left Rhodesia alone after his white minority government unilaterally declared independence in 1965, "we would have settled our problem long, long ago," Smith said in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corp. In other Rhodesia-related Secretary-General William Eteki and quoted by Uganda radio. The broadcast was monitored in Nairobi. Jason Mon chairman of the Rhodesian branch of the black nationalist African National Couuncil ANC said the Soviet Union was "aiding the Zimbabwe (Rhodesian) liberation struggle directly in terms of military technical advisers." Moyo spoke to newsmen on arrival in Nairobi after attending the Communist party.

congress in Ugandan President Idi Amin, current chairman of the Organization of African Unity, called on the OAU's 47 member-states to provide material, moral and military assistance to Mozambique in its confrontation with Rhodesia. He commended Mozambique President Samora Machel's decision last week to close his country's border with Rhodesia and said Uganda was ready to send troops and money to Mozambique. Amin's statements were contained in a telegram to OAU minister if he had the ability and could earn the position. "I think we must continue to strive for the best government in Rhodesia, irrespective of color, and this is the system in Rhodesia," he said. Asked whether the ratio of blacks to whites did not indicate which way the political life of his country should go.

Smith replied: "Well, I might say that that's the way politics must ultimately go, but it isn't an argument for reducing standards of civilization. "Our black people have a higher standard of living, they have better education facilities, they have better health facilities than any of the countries to the north of us," Smith said. "This is the difference and it's a very big difference." Rhodesian Defense Minister P. K. van der Byl said Friday there were about 1,000 guerrillas in Rhodesia and another 4.000 to 5.000 poised in Mozambique and Tanzania.

He said they had no sophisticated Soviet arms. In his interview, Smith charged that the British government went behind his back and urged black politicians not to accept the terms he was offering for a negotiated black-white settlement in Rhodesia. Black nationalists seek majority rule in Rhodesia where whites have power over 5.7 million blacks. "Under the circumstances, how can you expect the local black people to agree with us?" Smith asked. Smith also said there was nothing in Rhodesia to prevent a black man from becoming prime "I I LA ft 5 1 Thumps By Cop Save Choking Baby's Life Cruet Photographer Ken Wesely Chiefs Shout It Out On Skis The Chiefs, marching band of the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, left sharps and flats for jumps and slides Saturday at Mt.

La Crosse. Band members were still in good form from the strenuous exercise of football season. Here, Myron Alt of Spring Green soars off the ramp. had not been dislodged, the baby probably would not have survived the trip to the hospital. At 9 p.m.

Saturday Lutheran Hospital reported that the child was in good condition, being held for observation. Reagan Calls Ford Timid; Presidenf Defends Gains "We strive to find the truth and fearlessly print it" 42 Pages LA CROSSE, WISCONSIN, SUNDAY, MARCH 7, 1976 40c Quick action on the part of La Crosse police office David Murray was probably responsible for saving the life of an infant boy early Saturday evening. Murray was called to 2801 Hamilton St. at 6:25 p.m. after receiving a report that a baby was choking.

At the scene, Murray said he found the child, 15-month-old Shane M. Olson, lying on the couch. "He was blue from the head down," according to Murray's report. Murray said that the child's mother, Joann L. Olson, 22, said the child had been eating lasagna when he stopped breating.

The mother started mouth-to-mouth resuscitation before the police arrived. Murray grabbed the child and wrapped him in a blanket. At that time, another city squad car, this one driven by officer James Jaekel, arrived at the Olson home. Murray got into the front seat of the squad car with the child and they started for Lutheran Hospital. At that time Murray said the child's eyes were closed and his breathing had stopped.

Murray applied mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but the child was not taking in any air. So, Murray held the child upside down and began slapping him on the back. After the third slap, Murray said he felt a rush of air and an unidentified object flew out of the child's mouth. The child then began crying loudy and breathing normally. In his report, Murray said a physician at the hospital told him that if the foreign article On the Democratic side, Sen.

Henry M. Jackson of Washington, campaigning with former U.N. Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan, didn't resume his criticism of former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter.

But some labor leaders who appeared with Jackson didn't hesitate to attack Carter, who is expected to battle Alabama Gov. George Wallace for the top spot in Florida. Wallace continued his criti- By MARTIN MERZER Associated Press Writer Ronald Reagan criticized President Ford on Saturday for "timid, vacillating" leadership while Ford claimed credit for the preservation of "the integrity of the American dollar and the American economy." Former California Governor Reagan, who by week's end had shifted from his soft-sell ap proach to sharp criticism of the Ford administration, unleashed more broadsides during a full day of campaigning on Florida's west coast in preparation for Tuesday's primary in the Sunshine state. That primary is considered crucial to Reagan's can-' didacy. Ford, campaigning in Illinois, continued to focus on what he termed his steady leadership in economic and foreign affairs.

Kickapoo Dam Project Gets Baldus' Support International Oil Meeting Is Kept Strangely Secret cism of the federal judiciary. Meanwhile, the Machinists Union urged its 17,000 Florida members to vote against Wallace, saying he has a poor record on labor matters. Arizona Rep. Morris K. Udall, who isn't running in Florida, said he is using the four weeks before his next major primary contest to try to enlarge his support for the Democratic nomination.

He is next on the ballot April 6 in the New York and Wisconsin primaries. Carter, who was strongly attacked by most of his opponents during the last week of the Florida campaign, spent much of the day in his home state, resting for the final days of the race. During a speech to about 400 persons at the Port Charlotte Cultural Center, an adult education facility, Reagan accused the Ford administration of "timid, vacillating and divided leadership, attempting to sweet talk the Russians out of their belligerent behavior." Reagan, who at the urging of local supporters has recently stepped up his attacks on Ford, said he was concerned about "cracks in our relationship with mainland China. "The common interest lay in both of us standing firm against Soviet expansion, subversion and aggression the world over," Reagan said. "Under Ford and (Secretary of State Henry) Kissinger, the United States has failed miserably to uphold its end of the bargain as the senior Continued on next page PANAMA CITY, Fla.

(AP) -Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Sheik Ahmed Yamani and U.S. oil company officials converged here Saturday night, reportedly for a meeting of the Arabian American Oil Co. A Pentagon spokesman in the dam and highways, but it was not a comprehensive one, adding that he soon will tour them again. He said the study planned this year would involve community participation. Soldiers Grove and Gays Mills also would be considered.

He said Sen. Nelson requested that the study include all of the Kickapoo to the Wisconsin River. After the study is completed, recommendations will be made public and submitted to House and Senate funding committees. Breidenstein blamed the Sierra Club for stalling the La Farge dam and lake project. He said if it hadn't interfered "we wouldn't have had any trouble." The total cost of the Kickapoo Lake and Dam project, if completed, had recently been pegged at $51.5 million if recreation developments were included, Johnson said.

That amount includes cost of a water quality study ordered by Gov. Patrick J. Lucey. Baldus said inflation boosts the project cost about 18 per cent a year. Corps of Engineers said it could come up with $385,000 for the study from funds already available.

The study is to be made by a private consulting agency, but the corps will have an active part in it, Baldus said. If the La Farge lake and dam project had continued, the appropriation this year would have been $4.4 million, Baldus said. Bernard Breidenstein of Ontario said: "We have been considering alternatives for this project for 40 years. How can the Senate justify its action" to stop the project? Baldus said he could not speak for the Senate, but he reiterated that he was in favor of completing the dam and lake. He said the new Highway 131 from La Farge to Rockton was complete except for surfacing.

He said he was informed that contracts had been let for surfacing. This road is primarily the responsibility of the Army Corps of Engineers. He said the road work was deferred because of construction of the dam. Now it is being delayed because the dam project is held up. Johnson added that work on County Highway also is incomplete.

The cost of that work is estimated at $1.3 million. The cost of the entire road relocation project is set at $9.75 million. Baldus said he made a tour of By JOHN ELLENBECKER Tribune Staff Writer LA FARGE, Wis. Rep. Al-vin Baldus, says he still supports completion of the La Farge Dam project.

But, he said in a visit here Saturday, he agrees with U.S. Sens. Gaylord Nelson, and William Proxmire, on going along with a proposed study of alternatives in order to keep the project open for funding. He called the study, voted by the Senate, an "analysis of alternatives." The Senate voted not to finance the Kickapoo River dam project until the study has been made. Baldus said he wanted the dam project to proceed but that it couldn't do so without agreement.

He said Nelson had opposed the project on the grounds of questionable water quality, while Proxmire cited costs. Hearings will be held late this month or in early April by the public works subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, Baldus said, and he intends to testify. Arlen Johnson of La Farge, a prime mover in the Citizens for the Kickapoo organization, said he has also been asked to testify at the hearings. The study of alternatives is to be made this year. The Army sation in the event of nationalization.

"There have been reports of conversations and negotiations from time to time but so far there has been no definite announcement made as yet," a spokesman for one U.S. oil company said. The Saudi government originally owned 25 per cent of Aramco, then upped its interest to 60 per cent as the first step to full nationalization. As a result, the American partners had to reduce their share. In December 1974, published reports said the Saudis might pay up to $2 billion about one month's revenues to comp-sensate the four American firms for upping its percentage to 75 Continued on next page Washington, D.C., said Sheik Yamani arrived at nearby Tyndall Air Force Base by private jet.

A State Department official told the Panama City News Herald the meeting could be of Ar-amco, a company jointly owned by Saudi Arabia and four giant U.S. oil firms Texaco, Exxon, Standard Oil of California and Mobil. The official said Aramco has been in the process of being nationalized, and the session could be a culmination of that. Mobil, Texaco and Exxon officials arrived at the airport Saturday night, according to a pilot of one of the private jets. Industry sources' said the Saudi government has been negotiating with its four American partners in Aramco over the past several years regarding compen Partly cloudy today, high 33.

West to northwest winds five to 15 miles an hour. Partly cloudy Monday, little change in temperature. Details on Page 2. Convicted Tokyo Rose Waits Now For A Pardon I' fs I i A i 4 fiv Was-; -i What's Inside What's Going On New Tribune service lists things to do, places to go in Coulee Region. Page 6.

Christian Learning Faith Christian School offers educational alternative, its founders contend. Page 9. Logan To Sectional Logan beats Sparta 70-58 for sectional spot in Madison basketball tourney. Page 19. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -There was little support for Iva Toguri D'Aquino when the slender Japanese-American woman was convicted of treason as the infamous Tokyo Rose almost a generation ago.

Mrs. D'Aquino, a target of public vituperation after World War II, contended throughout her trial that she had not turned on her native land. Government documents available then tend to bear that out, according to research by the San Francisco Chronicle. A number of experts say they agree with her volunteer attorneys who call her trial "one of the grossest and most disgraceful miscarriages of justice in the history of the federal courts." It has since become known that more than a dozen women used the name "Tokyo Rose" in Japanese broadcasts during the war, and some feel that Mrs. D'A-quino's broadcasts may have actually worked against the Japanese propaganda effort.

The foreman of her jury, John Mann, says he "should have had a little bit more guts" and stuck to his original acquittal vote. Now 75, Mann told the Chron- fine in 1971. Now, a generation later, the Japanese-American Citizens League headquartered here has offered her a "belated apology" and is seeking her pardon and restoration of citizenship. An attorney preparing the pardon petition says it will be turned over to officials in Washington later this year. Those who have plowed through the 54-volume transcript of the trial say there is persuasive evidence that, far from being the worst turncoat since Benedict Arnold, Iva Toguri was in fact a heroine.

"She was a genuine patriot," author Rex Gunn of Reno, who has studied the case for three decades. Now 59 and living in Chicago, Iva Toguri was a pre-med student at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1941 when her father asked her to go to Japan to care for a sick aunt. Dutifully, she sailed for Japan on July 5, 1941, the day after her 25th birthday. After a few months, alarmed by rumors of coming war, she asked to return h6me. Red tape AP Wirephoto Iva Toguri D'Aquino Convicted As Tokyo Rose icle that the jury was pressured into a guilty verdict by U.S.

District Judge Michael J. Roche, who has since died. Mann recalled Roche saying that the jurors had to bring in a guilty verdict or as best he could remember the judge's words "we'll have to have this trial all over again." Thje bitterly-divided jury did convict her after four days of stormy deliberation in 1949 and she was sentenced to 10 years in prison, fined $10,000 and stripped of her citizenship. Mrs. D'Aquino served 6' years of the sentence and paid the last of her AP Wirephoto Mrs.

D'Aquino, Now 59, Runs A Small Gift Shop In Chicago Her Husband Was Not Allowed Into The U.S.; She Hasn't Seen Him For 26 Years Where To Find It Deaths 3 Editorials 4 At Wit's End 12 Focus 9-14 delayed her departure, however, and then Pearl Harbor shattered her plans. Japanese authorities then pressured her to renounce American citizenship and swear allegiance to Japan. "The police would come at 3 o'clock in the morning sometimes, call me downtown and make me stand in an unheated building in the winter," she was to say later. "I said they couldn't bring enough pressure on me." Police visits forced her to Ann Landers 17 Sports Movies 25 Classified 27-36 move from her neighborhood. Once she wandered the streets for days after authorities refused her a food ration card.

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