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AUTHOR IN A CORNFIELD Animals Are Her Favorite Topic C.Rs "SAFETY TOWN" Pre-Sckool Pedestrians, Drivers (In Section A) Section A (In Section Bj CITY he dttr i Weaiher- Pleasant today, high, II; tow tonight. Sis. Cloudy Monday, high in 86s. lipid i FINAL CENTS VOLUME 90 NUMBER 189 ASSOCIATED PRESS, UPI, NEW YORK TIMES CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA, SUNDAY, JULYi6, 1972 MPROVE PEACE TALK SIGNS Rogers: Nuances 'Give Jgg Battle Shoe Price Rise Brings U.S. Action wwriiw iwwwi vw mvm I ft llPrlf in GavlorShaw i But Tho seemed to leave the! IV Ir Villi Gaylor Shaw ButTho seemed to leave the By Hhw If bl tsSbbs Ww mw door slightly ajar.

When pressed by newsmen on whether there have been any new developments, Tho replied mat they should "wait several days." He Quang Tri SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) Secretary of State William P. Rogers held open Saturday the possibility of new secret Vietnam Deace talks and said By Alan Dawson "there are some slight dld not clarify this point, nuances" in Hanoi's latest pro- Reason for Hope SAIGON (UPI) Allied off posais that give us some en icers said Saturday that l.uuu North Vietnamese troops inside the stone walls of the Quang Tri citadel fortress have been or Only a week ago Kissinger told newsmen "at least we have some reason to believe there couragement." Emerging from an hour-long WASHINGTON (AP) The Nixon administration put a ceiling on exports of U.S. cattle hides Saturday in a move to curb mounting price pressures on shoes and other leather goods. Secretary of Commerce Peter G.

Peterson, citing foreign and domestic demand which has pushed hide prices to a record high, announced at a news conference that: will be a new approach" by North Vietnam, "but we cannot guarantee it, because it will not be certain until we have heard it from them." dered to "hold until death" against South Vietnamese forces trying to recapture the provincial capital. The officers, based at Army corps headquarters at Hue, also said that the Communists have meeting with President Nixon, Rogers told newsmen on the lawn of the Western White House that he did not want to raise premature hopes of progress toward ending the war. He would not comment directly on the statement Saturday by a chief North Vietnamese negotiator, Le Due Tho, that he is ready to hold more Effective midnight, shipments abroad of U.S. cattle hides will ordered at least 2,500 fresh troops normally based in Laos into the fighting for Quang Tri be limited to last year's already-high export level of 16 province. A resumption of the private talks would seem indicated because the United.

States has in the past made such secret sessions the price the North Vietnamese must pay for the weekly Paris meetings where each side releases the texts of their statesments. These weekly talks started up again last Thursday after a 10-week break, and a new meeting was scheduled for next Thursday. UPI reporter Chad Huntley million hides. To carry out the program, ex said the officers told him that U.S. and South Vietnamese of port tickets will be issued to U.S, cattle hide producers ac private talks with Presidential adviser Henry Kissinger if Kissinger has "something new" to discuss.

Tho is North Vietnam's behind-the-scenes special adviser at the peace talks. He does not in the actual talks, cording to their percentages of ficers are considering three separate plans to retake the inner citadel fortress. -AP Pholo President Nixon and Secretary of State Rogers After Conference Rogers came to California to but as a member of the Politbu report to Nixon on the 11-nation ro in Hanoi, he is considered arourtd-ine-world tour he com Democrats, Map Strategy dose to the seat of power and pleted on Wednesday. He said the man to see if any solid results are to be achieved. he found in the countries he visited that Nixon is "regarded through former Treasury Secretary John B.

Cpnnally, a life The officers said government marines and paratroopers could storm the citadel, a plan likely to cause heavy government casualties; they could poll back and allow U.S. airpower to "smash the city to smithereens," or they could surround the citadel and attempt to starve out the North Vietnamese troops inside. "In any of the cases, it will be tough to take Quang Tri," one 13 Meetings (Continued: Page 3, Col. 5.) Miami. "But I have much the same feeling I had in New Hampshire at the beginning of the year it's an uphill effort but I think we're going to go over the top." much more important challenge of facing new directions in America," Muskie told a crowd greeting him at the Portland airport.

Proof that the Democratic Tho and Kissinger have met 13 times in the past. Kissinger was with the Nixon staff at the Western White House in San Clemente, Calif. Ronald L. Ziegler, Nixon's press total hide production. Under this system, he said, any financial benefits from selling hides at higher foreign prices will be retained by U.S.

cattle producers and consumers. Peterson declined to predict flatly that the new effort will' reduce shoe or meat prices in the United States, though he portrayed costs to the consumer as lower on these items man they would be without the program being imposed. Aides said shoes already have climbed 1 percent since January and were projected for another 3 to 10 percent increase by this fall if there were no hold on hide price rises. "We believe it will result in a reduction of the price of American-made shoes," Peterson said without giving a precise figure. Peterson set no time limit on Power Line Kills Vinton Man, 55 long Democrat.

Standing on the lawn in front of Nixon's San Cle-mente, mansion Friday night, ConnaUy said instead of supporting McGovern he will try to rally Democrats behind the President's re-election campaign. Meanwhile, Democrats allied officer told Huntley. "We know that the Commu nists have been ordered to hold spokesman, said there would be Special t0 Tne GeHt no comment on the subject of VINTON Elmer Miller, 55, secret talks. But other officials 0f Vinton, was electrocuted Sat-expressed hope that they would mrday while working on a power the citadel until death." be renewed. line near the Norbert Caloud Senator Edmund S.

Muskie of Maine, considered the front-runner for the nomination at the time of the New Hampshire primary, expressed support for McGovern on returning to his home state Friday after the convention. But he, too, saw a tough campaign ahead. "They face not only the conventional challenge of unseating an incumbent President, but also the Well Armed The North Vietnamese sol party is moving in new directions came Friday in Miami Beach, when the national committee ratified McGovern's selection of Jean Westwood as Democratic national chairman the first woman to head a major political party. In another precedent-setting move, the committee selected Basil Paterson, 45, a Harlem (Continued: Page 3, Col- 3) every persuasion were saying McGovern had an uphill battle By Margaret Scherf WASHINGTON (AP) As the legions of Sen. George Mc-Govern laid plans for a massive voter registration drive, the Nixon administration laid out the welcome mat for Democrats dissatisfied with their party's presidential ticket.

The first order of business in Democrats' presidential campaign is a nationwide effort to register new voters, especially the young, said Sen. Thomas F. Eagleton, vice-presidential nominee, in a Kansas City speech Saturday. Eagleton also promised that if he and McGovern are sent to the White House the District of Columbia will have self-government within four years. Eagleton's pledge on the "home rule" controversy was one of his first commitments for the Democratic team.

McGovern, the Democrats' presidential choice, stayed at his Washington home Saturday, farm east of Clutier. Miller, an employe of the Vinton REA, was on a trouble call. Authorities said he was working on a pole when he came into contact with a high voltage line. diers inside the 500-yard square fortress are well armed, the sources said, with weapons ranging from rifles and mortars ahead. "We're ndt under any illusions that the battle is won," McGovern himself remarked on arriving in Washington from the control program while say through heavy anti-aircraft guns.

ing it would be "lifted as soon as market conditions warrant." He was rushed to Scholtz hospital in Waterloo where he died about 5 p.m. The accident hap Tho's remark that he would enter secret talks if Kissinger had "something new" seemed to a chill on any new meetings. U.S. officials have taken the view that the North Vietnamese must be ready to discuss Nixon's cease-fire and withdrawal offers. In the semi-public meetings in Paris, the North Vietnamese have rejected the U.S.

proposals and insisted that the Viet Cong's seven-point package is the only correct solution. He noted that the export ticket Yippies Plan for Republicans pened at 11:19 a.m. John Anderson, 24, of Vinton, who was working with the vic system is being programmed until November to start with. According to the commerce chief: By last week, cattle hide prices hit a peak of 29.75 cent a Rubin said "plans are being worked out now" for additional which is very important in my view," he said. tim, said Miller was thrown 30 feet to the ground after touching the live wire.

South Vietnamese airborne and marine forces maneuvered as close as 800 yards to the Quang Tri citadel Saturday, military spokesmen said, but little fighting was reported. UPI correspondent Donald A. Davis reported from Hue that South Vietnamese troops fought two small battles near Quang Tri Saturday, killing a total of 11 North Vietnamese while suffering "light" casualties. A U.S. adviser to the South Vietnamese marines said gov pound, more than double the Rubin said violence could erupt, however, if Miami police react with hostility to the demonstrators.

"The police didn't have many problems at the Democratic historic average. spending much of the day call ing his senate staff members and campaign aides. ConnaUy Invitation The main reasons are climbing demand for hide use in the United States, seriously low hide and leather inventories here, and an abnormal foreign convention because nobody advocated disruption people went to Chicago with plans for Republicans issued their invi demand. tation to disgruntled Democrats disruption. But at the Republi protest demonstrations but they will not be disruptive.

"The Youth International party will be organizing massive demonstrations to confront Richard Nixon with the war in 'Vietnam," Rubin said, predicting that 50,000 to 60,000 protesters would gather here. One of Chicago Rubin, one of the Chicago seven tried and acquitted after the 1968 Democratic national convention on charges of conspiring to provoke violence there, refused to disavow disruption as a tactic. "But there is small chance of violence because none of the can convention they'll have ernment forces Friday overran MIAMI BEACH (UPI) Protest leaders Allen Ginsberg and Jerry Rubin predicted Saturday there would be massive demonstrations at the Republican national convention next month but said mere was small chance of violence because' that would defeat their purpose. The bearded poet and the Yip-pie leader both veterans of the bloody demonstrations during the 1968 Democratic national convention in Chicago support Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern this year and believe that violence at the Republican convention would only hurt their candidate's chance. Instead, if they have their way, demonstrators wiH spend most of their time working on voter registration and cementing the bond they began to forge during the Democratic convention with Miami's senior citizens.

the command post of a North more people and Jthey'll be an grier people," Rubin said. Vietnamese tank regiment two Fischer Demand for Change In Score Deadlocks Match miles north of Quang Tri City Ginsberg said there were "some young kids, among the Zippies in particular, who want (Continued: Page 3, Col. 4.) that might stave off cancellation of the match. He wouldn't say what the evidence was. to cause trouble at the Repubu can convention but the consen sus is to do something construe tive.

Giant Marriage fiscners tauure to turn up for his second encounter with the world champion gave "There has been some talk of people in the movement think it would help achieve thegealof ending the war in Vietnam it won't convince the majority of the American people they Spassky a 2-0 lead. Spassy having the demonstration at the Republican convention be in the needs 12 points to retain the (Continued: Page 3, Col. 4.) (Continued: Page 3, Col. 6.) should vote for McGovern, U.S. Intelligence Ability Told REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -Boris Spassky fished for salmon and Bobby Fischer kept his Sabbath Saturday as chess officials scrambled to save the world championship.

After talks with officials of the International and Icelandic chess federations, Fischer's lawyer, Paul Marshal, announced the American challenger had withdrawn his objection to the presence of movie cameras in the playing hall "so long as they don't blow his mind." Marshal also asked the officials to reconsider their decision to uphold the referee in declaring a forfeit because Fischer missed the second game of the 24-game series Thursday. Fischer boycotted the session, saying the cameras distracted him. Marshal said new evidence was being prepared By Benjamin Welles telligence Agency, the NSA's primary purpose is the collection of information most of Today's Index SECTION A Lite News 1, 3. Deaths Editorials SECTION low News Ml Frank Nye's Political Notes 4 Political Calendar Television Table Marion tod 11 Building IMS Farm 14-I7 Movies 1H Record Reviews If SECTION social l-a Around Hi Town NOW Books 1 Travel 11 SECTION 0 Sport Outdoor Iowa a Financial to. New York Stocks fi Want Ad ll-JI Crossword Parade MaiaUnt Vat Comic saying in the August issue of Ramparts magazine.

The former analyst, whose name was not given in the article, was an air force staff sergeant who was discharged from independent checking in Washington with sources in and out of the government who were familiar with intelligence matters has resulted in the corroboration of many of his revelations. But experts strongly denied that the United States had broken the sophisticated codes military service in 1969 after three years of overseas duty as a communications trainc ana of the Soviet Union or of other New York Timts Strvlc WASHINGTON The United States is reported to have refined its electronic intelligence techniques to the point where it can break Soviet codes, listen to and understand Soviet communications and coding systems and keep track of virtually every Soviet jet plane or missile-carrying submarine around the world. "We're able to break every code they've got," a former analyst in the National Security Agency, one of the most secret of the government's many intelligence groups, is quoted it through advanced technology but it rarely, if ever, tries to evaluate the importance of the information or analyze it. The, Ramparts article says that the United States has encircled the Communist world with at least 2,000 electronic listening posts on land or on naval vessels or aircraft. United States electronically equipped aircraft, according to the article, are constantly pene- Continued: Page 3, Col.

7) lyst for the agency in Turkey, West Germany and Indo-China. He uses the pseudonym of Wins-low Peck in me article. Information Checks foreign powers. The National Security Agency headquarters is at Fort Meade, near Baltimore. It has nearly 90,000 employes most of them military personnel and spends slightly less than Si billion a year.

Unlike the Central lo AP Pholo Today's Chuckle It's wonderful to belong to a family with a teenager in it. How else would you get to know your faults? copvrioht Peck, who is 25 years old, was recently interviewed by a correspondent of the New York Times in California. Extensive PRECIOUS CARGO Infant twins occupy basket on a peasant's carrying pole south of Quang Tri. Villagers left their homes earlier this month to escape fighting. MSMNMMMHNMHaMMI.

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