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Ms At Paris Chief of the Viet Cong delegation to the Paris Peace talks, Mrs. Nguyen Tbi Binh, speaks to newsmen in Paris Inrfav at the 11th weekly ses- sion of talks. Mrs. Binh made I a statement in her speech which was interpreted that the Viet Cong might be willing to accept a ceasefire with American forces. With Mrs.

Binh is an aide, Dinh ba Thi. (AP Wirephoto) date the other side "has been unwilling to discuss or negotiate a cease fire for Indonesia." At the same time the U.S. State Departmeni denounced her proposal as "propaganda" and "nothing new" in the North Vietnam proposal, U.S. chief negotiator David K.E. Bruce, asked to comment on Mrs.

Binh's statement told newsmen: "She did not truly propose a cease-fire or anything else that was new." Bruce and South Vietnamese delegate Pham Dang Lam called on North Vietnam to name a neutral country or international organization to act as "protecting power" for prisoners held by both sides. Lam also asked Thuy to name a neutral (Continued on Page 2) plied to North Vietnamese forces. Thuy replied that North Vietnamese forces were responsible for defending North Vietnam, but added: "Mrs. Binh's proposal concerns the liberation armed forces of South Vietnam (the Viet Cong) and the American forces. The proposal demonstrates the Vietnamese people's humanitarian feelings and sincere desire for peace." In Washington, White House press secretary Ronald L.

Zie-gler said he was reluctant to comment on Mrs. Binh's statement since he had not seen it in full. He did say, however, that the United States has long had a cease-fire proposal on the negotiating table in Paris and to Paris (AP) North Vietnam offered today to open immediate negotiations with the United States on a date for an unconditional withdrawal of all American forces from South Vietnam. The proposal, made by Hanoi negotiator Xuan Thuy at the 111th weekly session of the Vietnam peace talks, was the first offer to "negotiate" a withdrawal date. Previously, North Vietnam and the Viet Cong have invariably demanded that the United States unilaterally set a date for its total withdrawal before negotiations can begin.

Thuy said Hanoi and the Viet Cong were ready to open negotiations "today, tomorrow or any day of your choice" on fixing an unconditional American withdrawal date. These talks, he said, would be followed by negotiations on the security of withdrawing forces and the liberation of prisoners. At the same time, Viet Cong Foreign Minister Mrs. Nguyen Thuy Binh put forward what seemed like a trial balloon offer of an unconditional cease-fire with American forces. "At the very moment when the Nixon administration refuses to put an end to the war," she said, "the South Vietnamese population and its armed forces are prepared to cease firing on American soldiers who do not undertake any hostile action against them." At the end of the closed session, a newsman asked Thuy whether Mrs.

Binh's offer ap III Weather (Mnj) MONTEREY BAY AREA Low cloudiness clearing Friday afternoon. Little temperature change. Highs Friday In upper 50s to mid 40s. Lows tonight In 40s. Northwest wind 10-20 mph In afternoon.

Temperatures for 24 hours ending at I a.m. today: High 64, low 47. 116th Year-No. 100 THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 29, 1971 26 Pages 15 Cents U.S. CDoninrDS Afcfaeirteini McCloskey To Speak AtCabrillo edge ff.

"She hasn't done anything. I Hirschkop, maintained the gov Appeals for the District of Co "Yes," Mahan replied. "Then she's wanted as a po WASHINGTON (AP) The U.S. Court of Appeals Thursday lumbia took under advisement know that," said Lynn Bacon. tential defendant?" the lawyer Miss Bacon father, John Ba cleared the way for the govern ernment failed to show that Miss Bacon would not voluntarily answer the subpoena.

He asked Judge Sirica to quash the Thursday a petition by Miss Bacon's attorneys to free her from continued. con, owns a lumoer tirm in ment to take a 19-year-old wom "I don't know that," the agent nearby San Bruno. custody so that she might volun Congressman Paul McCloskey, R-San Mateo, will speak at the Cabrillo College gym Sunday at 7 p.m. on "Common Cause: Its influence on the Legislative Process." Common Cause is a broad-based, non-partisan citizens lobby organization. Santa Cruz are members of the group are sponsoring the McCloskey address.

Admission is free. an, arrested here as a matenal answered. Mahan testified at the bond tarily answer a subpoena to ap warrant for her arrest, but i motion was denied. If Under questioning by U.S. hearing that informant SI told pear before the Seattle grand witness in the March 1 bombing of the U.S.

Capitol.jto testify before a Seattle, grand In cross-examination, Hirsch the government she would flee jury. Atty. Harold Sullivan, Mahan testified SI had told the govern rather than answer the subpoe kop asked FBI agent Mahan jury probing the blast. Michael Fayad, one of her na to testify before the grand The court of appeals dis lawyers, told the court, "There "is she suspected ot being a participant in the bombing of ment Miss Bacon had been in contact with and carried mes-(Continued on Page 2) jury. missed a motion by attorneys is absolutely no reason to be Leslie Bacon the Capitol?" Miss Bacon lawyer, Philip for Leslie Bacon for a writ of lieve she will flee.

She 19 years old and has no criminal record of any kind." habeas corpus after her arrest as a material witness in the bombing. She was held under $100,000 bond pending the ap Shanghai Attempt By Red Chinese Her lawyers said they had told the government they would peals court's decision. Harbor Dredge Bid Opening Tuesday put Miss Bacon on a plane to Seattle where she could be met The government, which sought bring Miss Bacon before the grand jury, said she IFiremiclh ECimew Dim Advance by a U.S. marshal and taken to the grand jury to testify. They claimed the government has has "personal knowledge" of the persons responsible for the failed to show sufficient cause PARIS (AP) A Chinese DST, which has the reputation blast.

that something be done so the tor her arrest and incarcera 'technical adviser" emerged of holding anti-Red bias, going Miss Bacon, a member of an dent that could ruin French-Chinese relations, kept silent on whether Chang Shi Jung would be turned over to the Chinese or tion. sand bypass plant can be in before this winter's storms. Irom a drugged trance Thurs beyond government policy. antiwar group that is sponsoring vance that Peking Embassy officials would try to force him onto a jetliner to Shanghai. But authorities, apparently trying to keep the case from becoming a major diplomatic inci- protest demonstrations here, is France-Soir, the nation's larg- The entrance to the harbor day, while police sources disclosed that the French counterespionage service knew in ad Harold Sullivan, the assistant U.S.

district attorney who represented the government, said the granted asylum. est circulation newspaper, not the daughter of an Atherton lumberman. The police sources said the ed: "Incidents like those at Orly has been sand plugged every winter since opening seven years ago. offer was rejected by the gov- An FBI agent who testified at counterespionage wing known only have the importance that eminent because of the high Miss Bacon's bond hearing in as the DST Bureau had wind of With the contractor's protest probability of flight" by Miss U.S. District Court Wednesday 18-Year-Old San Jose Youth Bacon.

said the tall, buxom blonde is the case before Chang appeared semiconscious in Orly Airport Wednesday morning with a the governments involved seek to give them. If Paris and Peking have decided to get along well, then the Chang affair, whether or not he stavs in denied, Peterson said the corps plans to have a bid opening Tuesday. "This woman nas led a no suspected of being a participant madic life traveling around the in the bomb incident. Held In Kathy Bilek Slaying A protest by commercial sand dredgers holding up purchase of a hydraulic dredge for the Santa Cruz small craft harbor has been denied by the Army Corps of Engineers in Washington, D.C., Harbormaster Lester Peterson said Wednesday. The announcement was received with some relief by the Santa Cruz Port District and: local boaters, who have been waiting since April 1 for the corps to make a decision.

Originally, the corps was scheduled to open bids for a permanent sandy bypass plant April 1. However, the port district received word just a few days before that date that the corps held up the bid opening when the Dredging Contractors group of 10 embassy men, some With the new bid opening country," Sullivan said. "She of them armed with pistols. date, the corps estimates the France, will only result in an has convinced eur confidentia SAN JOSE (AP) Sheriff bypass plant will be delivered exchange of protests." Other sources reported earlier However, she is being held as a material witness rather than a defendant. A panel of the U.S.

Court of source that if she is given the James Geary announced today to the harbor by Nov. 19 (it that Chang, described as a 33 opportunity she would flee." Sheriff Geary said early in the investigation that Miss Bilek's slaying closely paralleled the 1969 knifings of Miss Furlong and Miss Snoozy. was previously Oct. 15). year-old agricultural adviser at the arrest of an 18-year-old San Jose youth in the Easter Sunday First reports on the case That could still give the manu came out Wednesday.

tached to the Peking Embassy in Algiers, made contact with knifing murder of Kathy Bilek, facturer time to set it up, run Special Agent Daniel C. Ma- Index 18, Saratoga High School stu a test operaition, and have it han said the FBI was told by a French ofticials in Algeria, indicating to them that he wanted to dent. in condition to keep the harbor The bodies of the two girls were found Aug. 3, 1969, on a hillside used as a playground government informant identi Page defect. Geary said the youth also open this winter, Peterson esti mated.

fied at the bond hearing only as Amusements 16 Ann Landers 2 would be questioned in the 1969 "SI" that Miss Bacon "had per Vandals Burn Trucks In Los Gatos LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) -Ten Pacific Gas Electric Co. vehicles were burned early today when someone punctured by children San Jose's Bios som Hill neighborhood. Generally, the entrance has In such cases, a diplomat will usually hold out a promise of important information in turn sonal knowledge of the events' Bridge Column 15 Association of California pro been plugged between Decem Business News 8 involving the Capitol blast. He Each girl had been stabbed tested "the purchase of a hy ber and March, with the federal said the informant learned this nearly 200 times.

draulic dredge by the govern for a guarantee of security. It was not known here what government spending between "from conversations with Miss Classified Section 19-23 Comics 18 Crossword 18 $80,000 and $136,000 annually for The patterns of the two cases have similarities we can Bacon." Chang's duties as "agricultural the dredging project. ment for the lated dredging in lieu of using commercial sources to perform the work." Editorial 25 First word of Miss Bacon's ar technical assistant involved. not overlook," the sheriff said knife slayings ot two San Jose girls Debra Furlong, 14, and Kathy Snoozy, 15. Miss Bilek's body, stabbed 49 times, was found by her father April 13 in a ravine near Villa Montalvo, a park area where she gone hiking the day before.

Charles Bilek, the father, is an IBM engineer. Geary said the youth, a San The corps has estimated the proposed 12-inch dredge will in his earlier statement. rest came Wednesday afternoon Good Life 11 Home and Grounds 12-13 Chang remained in a special police ward of Hotel-Dieu Hospi when her lawyers asked the dis cost about $550,000, and main The port district never said tal. Physicians said he was trict court to reduce her bond, a He said the killings had occurred in remote areas with a similar pattern in the knife tenance could be between which course, government or request denied by Judge John 000 and $100,000 a year. Horoscope 18 Merry-Go-Round 16 Mostly About People 15 Radio Programs 5 contractors, it favored, but only wounds.

Sirica. She was apprehended at 8:30 their fuel tanks and ignited the spilled gasoline, police said. Los Gatos Police Lt. Edward McGowen estimated damage at $25,000 and said there were no injuries. said eight vehicles were destroyed and two badly damaged.

McGowen said a nearby resident heard an explosion at about 2:40 a.m. saw the fire and called police. Officers had (Continued on Page 2) Sports 9-10 p.m. Tuesday night by FB "much better" but it was not clear if he was lucid. The Chinese maintained that Chang was "kidnaped" by the police at Orly and made an official protest.

The French Foreign Ministry was clearly embarrassed by the Jose City College student, was Stocks agents. In Atherton, a plush San IBM has offered a $10,000 reward leading to the arrest and conviction of the slayer of Miss Furlong and Miss Snoozy. IBM posted $5,000, FMC Corp. $5,000, and the San Jose Mercury $5,000 in the 1969 reward offer. Tides 24 TV Programs 5 Francisco suburb, Miss Bacon' Tree Sea Living mother said the arrest of her taken into custody in a rooming house at 6 a.m.

Officers took him to the scene of the Bilek girl's slaying before booking him in jail. Vitals 24 daughter was "all a big mis incident, which conceivably Weather 24 take." could have been a case of the Political Brews ver Coastlirfe 1 1 WILL (LEAN I I UP 1 1 ALL OF 1 SANTA CRUZ to relatively small numbers of people. On the other side are realtors, developers, big and small businessmen, utility companies and oil interests expressing fears that emotional and often unfounded arguments will prevail over basic property rights. Many local officials are publicly endorsing proposals to create the very kind of gional planning authorities they have long fought as threats to local control. Both the League of California Cities and the County Supervisors Association of California (CSAC) are supporting coastline bills this year which, to varying degrees, take planning authority away from coastal cities and counties.

powers to the new boards, it gives local officials a bigger share of their control including a one-vote majority on the regional level. A third plan, SB 1483 by Sen. Donald Grunsky, R-Watsonville, is supported by CSAC. The county supervisors endorse the concept of statewide coastal planning guidelines in the bill, but say they can be best administered by local agencies. The Wilson bill made the most progres? in the legislature last year dying in the Senate for lack of a hearing after passing the Assembly Dut the Sieroty plan is the favorite this year because Assembly Speaker Bob Moretti, D-Van Nuys, is a principal coauthor.

All of the proposals are aimed The first and probably biggest battle shaping up for a late May or early June showdown will be over which of three major approaches to coastal conservation will be followed to create the proposed new region and state planning boards. The Sierra Club, Coastal Alliance, the Student Environmental Confederation and other ecology groups back AB 1474, a bill by Assemblyman Alan Sieroty, D-Beverly Hills, and 37 other assemblymen and senators which would give the proposed new boards sweeping authority over local plans. The League of California Cities is backing AB 16 by Assemblyman Pete Wilson, R-San Diego. Although the Wilson bill gives virtually identical veto By DOUG WILLIS SACRAMENTO (AP) California's rugged north coast and. warm southland beaches are in the eye of a brewing political storm that will pit some of the state's most powerful forces against each other.

Conservationists are prepared to use all of their new political clout to pass legislation this year creating new regional and state agencies with a veto over undesirable coastline developments approved by local planning boards. Youth groups are also being moved by a call to save the seashore from new development they fear would destroy coastal beauty or reduce public use in favor of commercial or residential projects limiting access at halting what Coastal Alliance calls "the crass exploitation of irreplaceable scenic wonders" because of uncoordinated planning of nearly 200 local government agencies along the coast who are played off against one another by developers. The coastline "is not only private but a unique and limited resource of this state," says Wilson. "Currently decisions on how to use that limited resource are made at the local level. That means there, is no mechanism to interject any state or regional priorities," Wilson says, "and with a limited resource it is important we set priorities." Says Sieroty: "The coastline has always been looked upon as (Continued on Page 2) i 3.