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The Forecast Mrtutilrt Wttttiw Swvlc Fair, some fog tonight Thursday, partly sunny, warmer, more humid, chance of afternoon show-er. Friday, partly cloudy, scattered showers. Eagle SECURITY Is it threatened by homosexuals? (Wicker) Page 23 38 Pages Ten Cents Vol. 81 No. 43 Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Wednesday, June 28, 1972 Nixon cuts Viet force, limits draftee role are already in the war zone or under orders to go there, they will stay or be sent.

i 4,000 now on duty He estimated there are some 4,000 draftees in the Army in South Vietnam. The press spokesman said the Sept. 1 troop target level of would represent a 93 per cent reduction from the author by about 25,000, he reported, since Hanoi's current offensive began last Easter weekend. Ziegler, while declining to predict that Nixon would direct further troop cuts in the future, told reporters, "We will have another announcement on this subject before Sept. 1." On another matter it was reported that President Nixon will hold a news conference to be ers and those missing in action have been returned or accounted for.

95,000 elsewhere He said that in addition to troops in South 'Vietnam, some 40,000 men are aboard ships offshore and approximately others are 'stationed elsewhere in Southeast Asia. These figures have increased ized ceiling of 549,500 in effect when Nixon took office in 1969. Asked if the 39,000 would represent a "residual force," Ziegler said he regarded that term as "somewhat of a misnomer." However, he said the United States "shall keep the minimum needed to achieve our objectives," and that, in any case, some American forces would remain until war prison drawal rate of 5,000 for the summer months was half the level of the May-June rate of 10,000. Press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler, who made Nixon's announcement, said the President also ordered, that no draftees will be sent South Vietnam unless they volunteer for service there.

However, Ziegler said, if nationally broadcast over radio and television from the White House East Room Thursday night. It will be Nixon's first session with newsmen to be broadcast live in more than a year. The precise time for the news conference has not been set, press secretary Ziegler said in announcing that it would be held "tomorrow WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon announced today plans for a two-anonm withdrawal of 10,000 U.S. troops from South Vietnam and directed that only draftees who volunteer "be sent there in the future. Nixon's action would reduce the authorized troop level to 39,000 by Sept.

1. The average monthly with-; House hacks Nixon plea to boost arms spending i8gs mm i I 4 J' A J'; i ret I N-: I' L.iM...ftv.......-..J-tfA rrrvr (fnrnir Judges win House test on day off District courts would close on Saturdays By A. A. MICHELSON The closing down of district courts on Saturdays, a fringe benefit that underworked judges have been seeking for years, was given approval on a quick and quiet second reading in the House in Boston yesterday, but the progress of the bill was immediately halted after a few legislators realized what had happened. The measure, which was supposed to have come up today for a third and final reading, has been recommitted to the Committee on Counties for further consideration.

The hope of the recommitters is to bottle up the bill so that it will be lost in the shuffle of final adjournment of the 1972 session, which is expected next week. Artificial respiration Rep. Charles F. Flaherty, D-Cambridge, who is also chairman of the Democratic State Committee, has been keeping the bill alive for four months. It was given a public hearing Feb.

28 by the legislature's Committee on the Judiciary. That nmmi'HAa whinh ic nm- marine-based intercontinental missiles at the level now in operation or under construction. The Senate Armed Services Committee, which is working on military procurement legislation, is not expected to make any significant cut in the outlay for strategic weapons. In the House, the opposition was led by five Democratic members on the Armed Services Committee Reps. Otto G.

Pike of New York, Lucien N. Nedzi of Michigan, Michael Harrington of Massachusetts, Les Aspin of Wisconsin and Robert L. Leggett of California. The mood of the House was indicated at the outset when a Leggett amendment to delete $350 million for the Safeguard antiballistic missile program was defeated by a vote of 258 to 116. By 261 to 129, the House also rejected a Pike amendment that would have -sustained the congressional action of last year rejecting authority for a missile site around Washington.

Both the Bl and Trident programs were proposed in the original defense budget in January, but they have received added emphasis from the administration since the arms agreements were reached last month. The House also rejected by a voice vote a Harrington amendment to delete $110 million for strategic programs requested by the administration after the agreements. Opponents contended that the President's accelerated Trident and Bl development requests could undermine the U.S.-Soviet strategic-arms-limitation agreement and destroy the confidence of taxpayers who expected bigger weapons cuts because of the accords. UPI From News Services WASHINGTON President Nixon's request for increased spending authority to improve the nation's arsenal of strategic weapons in the wake of the recent arms" control agreements with the Soviet Union was overwhelmingly endorsed yesterday by the House of Representatives. By a vote of 334 to 59, the House passed and sent to the Senate a military procurement bill that would authorize the $1.3 billion increase in the strategic-weapons program that the administration had requested for me fiscal year begin-ning July 1.

By a vote of 244 to 152, the House defeated an end-the-war amendment that would have ordered the withdrawal of all forces from Vietnam by Sept. 1, subject only to an agreement for release of prisoners of war. In the first direct House test on the administration's policies under the agreements to limit some strategic nuclear arms, a small band of Democrats found themselves voted down or shouted down in attempts to cut the budget for such weapons. The legislation would authorize the spending of a total of $8.8 billion for strategic weapons. By margins of more than 2 to 1, the House rejected proposals to eliminate such programs as the new Bl strategic bomber, to reduce funds for the new Trident missile submarine and to eliminate funds for a defensive missile site around Washington.

The outcome was a clear-cut victory for (he administration, which had argued that increased spending on nuclear weapons was necessary to maintain technological superiority and to provide a bargaining incentive for the Soviet Union to agree to further curbs in the next round of the talks limiting strategic arms. The administration is expected to prevail in the Senate on this issue, although probably not as decisively or as easily as in the House. The bill that the House passed would authorize a total of $21.3 billion for weapons and for research and development in the coming fiscal year. The administration, however, had requested a total of $22.8 billion. The $1.5 billion cut had been made by the House Armed Services Committee before reporting the measure to the House floor.

Partly in reaction to the administration's moves linking the strategic spending program with the arms control agreements reached with the Russians, the Senate leadership scheduled action on those accords before consideration of the military procurement bill. The accords are a treaty establishing a ceiling of 200 launchers for each side's defensive missile system and a five-year interim agreement freezing land-based and sub SOUTHERN STRATEGY with his own flavor carries Sen. George McGovern to Atlanta, where he displays key to the city presented by Vice Mayor Maynard Jackson. McGovern aides mount drive to hold California delegates WASHINGTON (AP) Sen. Pike argued, "Obviously, we've got the power to blow the Soviets to smithereens.

And all we're talking about here is how fine a powder to grind the other peoples of the earth into." But Rep. Richard H. Ichord, backed Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird's position that the Moscow agreements "should be scrapped" if Congress does not continue U.S. weapons development, because of the greater number of missiles and submarines given the Soviets under the accords.

Nixon asked for the Trident and Bl speed-up and has argued that rejection would lead to U.S. inferiority by the late 1970s. The amendment to order U.S. forces out of the Indochina war by Sept. 1 was proposed by Harrington and rejected after brief debate, An amendment by Rep.

Abner J. Mikva, to prohibit U.S. bombing of North Vietnamese dams and dikes was quickly rejected by voice vote. McGovern continued his tour of the South where he found a friendly reception and indications of possible later ballot support from Arkansas delegates. In a significant gesture to party regulars, he indicated that, if he wins the nomination, he will keep Lawrence F.

O'Brien as national party chairman. With the proposed, platform ready to be mailed to delegates, attention in Washington turned to the Credentials Com iner Burke Marshall refused to support the attempt to split California's 271 votes, won by McGovern in the June 6 win-ner-take-all primary, and award them on a proportional basis. That could take 151 votes away from McGovern, who claims to be within 20 votes of the nomination. The latest tally by The Associated Press gives him 1,358.9 votes 150.1 votes short of the 1,509 needed. Possible majority The entire California delega- posed entirely of lawyers, most George McGovern's supporters of whom practice in district are mounting a massive effort courts, recommended that the to beat back a California cre-bill be given a "study," which dentials challenge which could is another way of killing it It be the last major threat to his was included, along with 20 nomination, other court bills, in an omnibus McGovern forces succeeded study.

on another front Tuesday when On June 12 the study bill Democratic party platform-came into the House for approv- writers produced a document al, but Flaherty succeeded in echoing the senator's key posi-getting the Saturdays-off mea- tions, but in terms that his two sure separated from the others, main rivals also could em-thereby keeping it alive. Rep. brace. William I. Kitterman, D-Pitts- Minorlty report backed field, immediately moved that the bill be recommitted to the The platform draft will be of-Committee on Counties.

toed for a vote at the Miami Last iweek that committee Beach convention where debate came out with favorable re- seems certain on a number of port not unexpectedly, be- planks opposed by Alabama cause Flaherty is also House Gov. George C. Wallace and his chairman of the committee. supporters. mittee which, in its first deci- sions Tuesday, tossed out chal- on Pould nt vote case lenges to the Alabama, South Florida delega- Carolina and tions.

if it is appealed to full convention as With the California votes eliminated, a solid bloc of McGovern opponents 'possibly could muster a majority. Another potentially divisive argument was shaping up over the 59 Chicago delegates headed by Mayor Richard J. Daley. Saigon launches drive to take Quang Tri back from Reds Inconvenience to public xne committee voted overwhelmingly to authorize a minority report by the A half-dozen key McGovern advisers met Tuesday night with the senator's supporters on the committee to map plans for the showdown Thursday on the California challenge led by allies of Sen. Hubert H.

Humphrey. The McGovern forces won the first round when hearing exam- "My objections to the bill," said Kitterman, a former police- Wallace forces on such issues man, "have iwthing to do with as taxes, the economy, welfare, whatever working benefits' busing of school children, prayer would redound to court person- in schools, and crime. McGovern aides battle Continued on Page 2 Fischer, Spassky move chess into promotional big leagues neL They are based on the idea of speedy justice and the inconvenience to district court litigants." A person arrested on a Friday afternoon, he explained, would have to wait until Monday to have his case adjudicated. And, he added, if he couldn't post bail, he would have to wait in jail until Monday. This inequity, sion Tuesday night without any opposition members present 'and adopted the controversial bill giving the president power to rule by 'decree for six months.

Opposition absent The vote, which came more than an hour after the 10 p.m. curfew in the capital, when no Opposition senators were present, was certain to be challenged in the Supreme Court. But the bill, which Thieu had requested in early May, will become law with his signature. It is unlikely that the cumbersome court system win be able to deal with it within the six months that it will be in effect mander of the 2nd Military Region, which includes Binh Dinh. These sources said Col.

Tho is an old friend and associate of Toan. Binh Dinh is one of the areas least controlled by the Saigon government, and the North Vietnamese captured' three of its nine districts in their current offensive. But the Americans blame the South Vietnamese army's 22nd Division rather than the militia forces controlled by Chuc. "Without him it would have been worse," said one American. Thieu came under fire in Saigon from political opponents after his supporters in the Senate called a secret rump ses A little more than two weeks ago, the Senate rejected a bill that would have given Thieu decree powers for six "months but that did not limit him to any specific areas.

As the senators filed into their meeting place on the bank of the Saigon "River yesterday morning, the vote was expected to be extremely close. But at 8:30 p.m. the chairman of the Senate, Nguyen Van Huyen, said that debate -on the bill would be postponed until at toast (his morning. The reason, Huyen said, was Saigon x-Continued on Page 2 NEW YORK, (AP) Promotional aspects of the Fischer- assumins tne aetenaant were further Spassky world championship not guilty, would be compounded if he ran into a chess match are becoming as from a studio in Albany, N.Y using vertical boards to illustrate the moves. The extensive coverage would start Sunday, July 2 and run from 1 p.m.

to 6 p.m., nationally. It would continue three times a week throughout the match, with shorter broadcasts Tuesday and Thursday for cities on the Eastern Seaboard. Sports." In the United States, Channel 13 WNDT, New York and Teleprompter Cable TV have planned programs discussing the action at the match, without the use of the Fox film. Channel 13 plans a move-by-move commentary and analysis on the match, by chess master Shelby Lyman, who will work Monday holiday, a common occurrence as a result of new federal and state holiday observance laws. important as they are in any big league sport.

Chess matches are not usually world happenings. But with the keen interest sparked by Others have objected over the i vears that the bill would 2ive American Bobby Fischer chal- judges, already not overworked, lenging Russian Boris Spassky an additional 52 days off a year, for the world title, it's a differ- They now get 30 days' vacation ent situation, with pay that's five six-day The Icelandic Chess Feder- weeks and 30 days of sick ation has put up close to 000 for the 24-game match, to leave. From News Services SAIGON The South Vietnamese government today launched its first attempt to recapture Quang Tri Province. More than 10,000 marines and paratroopers crossed the My Chanh. river along a 10-mile front stretching from the South China Sea to the jungled foothills west of Highway U.S.

B52 "bombers dropped some 1,350 tons of explosives to open the way for the push. Tanks, artillery; U.S. gunfire from ships offshore and American fighter-bombers supported the advancing troops. There were no immediate reports on the extent of North Vietnamese resistance or of casualties. First Major Push Since the North Vietnamese completed their conquest of Quang Tri, South Vietnam's northernmost province, on May 1, the South Vietnamese have made a number of in-and-out sweeps into the Communist-held territory along the coast.

But the drive today was the first large-scale attempt to carry, out President Nguyen Van Thieu's orders on June 19 to retake all territory captured by Hanoi's forces in the offensive that began March 30. Meanwhile, President Thieu fired a province chief American officials consider one of the best in the country. Vietnam Press, the government news agency, confirmed the ouster of CoL Nguyen Van Chuc as the top official in Binh Dinh, the coastal province at the foot of the central highlands, and said be would be replaced by Col. Hoang Dinh Tho, who has been chief of Quang Tin province, farther north. The report gave no reason for the switch, but some Americans thought it was a payoff to IX Gen.

Nguyen Van Toan, who was recently named com i be held for two months in Reykjavik, Iceland, starting July 2. 35 a ticket The games will be played in the Reykjavik Sportshall, which seats about 3,000 people. The match will be open to the pub-be, and tickets will cost $5 a game or $75 for the 24 games. Of the $200,000 put up, some $125,000 will be paid in prizes to the players, according to the federation. Adios, matadors MADRID (AP) Spain's bullfighters will have to retire at 55 under a Labor Ministry decree.

Only one active bullfighter, Antonio Bienvenida, is anywhere near retirement. He is 5L Biunmininiimnnnnnnnnnnnniminniiimiiffl I I fm, fir. -J 1 1 it lit -tt 4 News Index County 25-28 Editorial Pages 22, 23 Entertainment Foreign 2 Hospital List 7 Local 17-19, 21 National 3 Obituaries If Social 10-12 Sports 29-32 Statehouse TV, Movies 37 Fischer, 29, and Spassky, 35, win also divide 60 per cent of the income from films and television. The federation has signed a 99-year contract with Cheste-Fox and Inc. for exclusive worldwide1 visual rights, including rights to film the match and still photos of match taken inside the Sports halL In the United States, ABC has contracted for exclusive film rights.

The Fox film segments will be shown Saturdays on the ABC. program, "Wide World of A UPI AIR RAID ON HANOI leaves an antituberculosis dispensary in rains, according a picture transmitted by radio from North Vietnam. The U.S. Command claims the raid struck only military targets, chiefly an airfield outeido the city Emits. (UPI) VORLD CHAMPION Borii Sparky, riit, with an interpreter, talks over the chess match in Reykjavik.

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