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The Miami Heraldi
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2-A THE MIAMI HERALD Sun April 1 1973 BEST heaviest fighting reported on Highway 2 just south of Phnom Penh In that area field officers said Communist forces using captured American armored personnel carriers overran government positions outside the town of Chambak 20 miles south of Phnom Penh and effectively seized a three-mile stretch of the highway According to the refugees fleeing battle areas the US B52 heavy bombers and tactical fighter-bombers are inflicting heavy casualties within the villages lying along the routes of the various Communist fronts warplanes Saturday bombed the eastern and southwestern suburbs of the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh in a renewed effort to halt a rapid Communist advance on the city The planes had been diverted to outlying provinces Friday because of low clouds over Phnom Penh but Cambodian military sources said neither raids in the provinces nor on the fringes of Phnom Penh appeared to be slowing the Communist advance on several fronts Communist troops intensified their offensive on almost every front Saturday the ed States with resuming reconnaissance flights over North Vietnam with continuing bombing missions over Cambodia and Laos and with going slow on its mine-clearing operations in North Vietnamese waters About 20000 mines had been laid and to date only three had been exploded by clearing teams Hoa claimed He alleged US forces had failed to dismantle their bases in South Vietnam had left their weapons behind for the South Vietnamese and had illegally introduced new arms into the country MEANWHILE American Tong Le Chan 50 miles north of Saigon SHALL NOT let an entire ranger battalion be said Lt Col Le Trung Hien He reported government planes were bombing Communist troops in the area and said the ranger camp was surrounded by a regiment of North ninth Division supported by a regiment of artillery Since the base came under siege Feb 26 it had repulsed 20 infantry attacks and been hit by 5277 artillery rocket and mortar shells said Hien He listed the casualties as 12 killed and 97 wounded US AND North Vietnamese participation in the peace-keeping body ended Thursday It now is made up only of South Vietnamese and Viet Cong representatives Saigon administration encouraged by the United States has deliberately refused to observe the claimed Gen Le Quang Hoa chief of the North Vietnamese delegation to the Joint Military Commission continues to carry out armed clashes creating an extremely tense and serious situation in South Hoa also charged the Unit Missing POWs 30A From Herald Wire Services SAIGON North Vietnam and the Viet Cong charged the II and Saigon governments Saturday with a wide range of peace agreement violations which they claim threaten a complete breakdown of the two-month-old ceasefire President Nguyen Van' chief military spokesman warned again that government forces would take retaliatory action unless the Communists lifted their month-long siege of a South Vietnamese ranger camp at Is (ht Rock Music Phenomenon Over? Observers Offer a Variety of Ideas The rock music scene no longer seems to be a medium of broad cultural force The charismatic superstars of the '60s are mostly inactive or dead Many believe that rock is just a phenomenon and has been marking time for the past few years But statistics bear this out record sales last year totaled nearly $2 billion Experts and current stars have lots of ideas on next for rock Lively Arts Southwest Florida's Green Swamp Is Slowly Hein INibbled to Death The Green Swamp considered the most important single source of Southwest water supply is being hacked and drained away and could endanger wellfields vital to that existence Despite the threat neither Polk County where the swamp is located nor the state of Florida has any power to ban the sale of thousands of chunks of the Green Swamp In Defense Of Public TV Bill Moyers former press secretary to President Johnson and later publisher of Newsday feels that public broadcasting must function unhindered in a free society He believes that recent actions by the White House are based on political considerations that could turn the Corporation for Public Broadcasting into the Corporation for Public Blandness Therapy -Now Mobile Home at Stockgridge Ga Was Overturned by One of Series of Tornados several persons were injured as tornados touched down east and south of Atlanta Tornados Rip Into Georgia Scores of Injuries Intensive play is the key ingredient in the unique therapy of a special education program for the severely and profoundly mentally retarded Called BKR this method takes its initials from the University of Miami graduate students who developed the idea Living Today The Fast of the Untouchables Hope For Retarded SUMMARY Miamian Paul Robsky was one of the famed Eliot Ness agents who helped nail A1 Capone But that was stuff compared to the shoot-outs he had with South Carolina moonshiners His fast driving and straight shooting made him a legend among the tough mountain men who made moonshine for a living Tropic A spokesman for Rockdale County Hospital in Conyers guessed at least 100 had been treated for injuries in con-' nection with the tornado Athens police said the twister that roared through the college town 70 miles northeast of Atlanta ripped awnings and roofs off mobile homes and then jumped along US 441 hitting other homes and trailer parks Police said a restaurant near Athens was demolished and wreckers had to be sent to pull the building apart Officers identified one victim of the twister as Neal Broacfy of Monroe There was no identification on the other Torrential rain and hailstorms were touched off across the state by the twisters which traveled along a line from a point due south of Atlanta to the northeast away from major population areas Athens police said the most extensive damage there NEWS Press Wirephoto was done to mobile homes many yanked from their foundations and tossed about Hospitals called for all available medical personnel to lend assistance A hospital spokesman in Jonesboro said several elderly persons who lived at a nursing home were among the injured but none appeared to have been seriously hurt Gov Jimmy Carter drove to Conyers late Saturday night assess the He stayed about 20 minutes and told officials it was impossible to determine the extent of damage at night Carter said he planned a helicopter tour of the area early this morning parts of the town are torn up pretty he said Dr Joseph Brown chief of the Rockdale hospital said some 100 were treated Saturday night keeping records because we were too he said that appeared critical we sent to DeKalb General Hospital in DeKalb hospital reported three persons in critical condition A spokesman said they had received about 20 patients from all the damaged areas Pacific Coast and areas of the northern Rockies Skies were fair over sections of the Southern Plateau east to Texas The national forecast: Rain is Talks Fuel Speculation On Gray mittee members however turned up no confirmation of the Petersen-for-Gray story Republicans Roman Hruska of Nebraska and Marlow Cook of Kentucky as well as Democrat John McClellan of Arkansas said they had no knowledge of the report AND A Justice Depart-ment spokesman Horace Webb said the Pioneer-Press story is We told them it was junk but they went with it Warren said tha Kleindienst was in Los Angeles to attend a meeting of United States attorneys and came here for a 45-minute conference with the President The two also discussed replacements for Myles Ambrose to head the new drug-enforcement administration when it takes effect in 60 Warren said Ambrose special assistant attorney general for drug-abuse law enforcement has been charged by the attorney general to direct efforts in the formative stages of the new REPORTERS questioned Warren sharply on the speculation about Gray and on the nature of the meeting between Nixon and Klein- dienst nomination has been in serious trouble because of his testimony about the investigation i of the Watergate bugging incident and because of allegations that played a political role in last presidential campaign He has been sharply attacked for working too closely with White House aides on the Watergate case and for turning over 82 FBI files compiled during the investigation to presidential counsel John Dean There have been allegations based on hearsay that Dean himself had ad- vanee knowledge of the bugging operation As a result of these factors the Gray nomination is considered a lost cause on Capitol Hill BOOK SAID Saturday that he believes the hearings on the nomination were recessed last week to give Nixon a chance to reconsider his support of Gray Tide Tables In Sports Section MIAMI AND VICINITY: Partly cloudy and continued warm through Monday High in the low 80s Overnight low in the low to mid-70s Southeasterly winds 15-20 mph FLORIDA: Cloudy with a few showers Hitfhs from the upper 70s in the north to the mid-90s in the south Lows from around 60 in the north to the mid-70s in the south FLORIDA EXTENOED OUTLOOK: Tuesday through Thursday: Partly cloudy and continued warm with scattered showers over north and central portions Hiahs ranging from the upper 70s in the north to the mid-80s in the south Lows near 60 in the north to the mid-70s in the south SMALL BOATS: Exposed Atlantic coastal waters from Port Canaveral through the Florida Straits Southeast winds 15-20 knots Seas three to five feet Inland waters fiom Lake Worth through Biscayne and Florida bays South to southeast winds 15-20 knots Inland waters a moderate chop Exoosed Gulf coastal waters from Cedar Key to Florida Bay South to southeast winds 15-20 knots Seas three to five feet Statistics March 31 173 7 am Barometer 3092 Relative humidity Highest temperature (Past 12 hours) Lowest temperature (past It hours) Mean temoerature Normal temperature Accumulated excess since first of month (degrees) Accumulated excess since Jan (degrees) Highest and lowest this date since 193 90 and 44 Local rainfall for 24 hours ending at 7 pm in inches 00 Rainfall this month 174 Deficiency this month 51 Rainfall since Jan 1 7Jf Excess since Jan 1 121 7 pm 3000 49 01 74 71 72 121 154 Five-Nation Thieu Tour Is Opened HONOLULU (AP) President Nguyen Van Thieu arrived in Honolulu Saturday on the first leg of a five-nation tour to establish what he termed new era of Before leaving Saigon he told cheering thousands at Tan Son Nhut airport many of them civil servants and military officers that he was paying the six-day visit to the United States the banner of cooperation in US sources said Thieu in his summit meeting with President Nixon Monday and Tuesday would seek commitments for billions of American aid dollars to keep the Saigon regime in power He also seeks to counter his image as a dictator Thieu often has come under1 sharp criticism from US congressional leaders with whom he will be meeting ONE OF top aides Pham Duong Hien said Thieu also would seek assurances from Nixon of renewed US military intervention if North Vietnam resumes large-scale war in violation of the ceasefire agreement He said he had chosen Sat-u a for his departure because it came two months after the ceasefire and after all American troops bad left Vietnam and all US prisoners of war had been freed THIEU arrived at Hickam Air Force Base at noon No public appearances were planned during the overnight stay He was welcomed by 100 persons with invitations mostly students who were outnumbered two to one by-police and other security personnel Chill Stalls Out North of Miami A southbound cold front likely to get beyond Central Florida forecasters say and thus Greater temperatures shoulcl remain warm Peaks in the low 80s were forecast for today and Mon! day The National Weather Service said shower probability is about 20 per cent Southeast winds 15 to 20 miles an hour will keep in! land waters choppy and Gulf Stream waves four to six feet expected to affect the Atlantic Coast Great Lakes Great Plains and Ohio Valley regions Skies will be fair from New Mexico into Mississippi 3 41 57 42 45 40 44 47 1 77 34 33 1 34 04 44 Madrid Malta Manila Moscow New Delhi Nice Oslo Paris Peking Rome Saigon Sofia Stockholm Sydney Tel Aviv Tokyo Tunis Vienna Warsaw PAN AMERICA Acapulco Asuncion Barbados Bermuda Bogota Buenos Aires Celiacan Guadalajara Havana Hermosiila Kingston Lima Las Mochis -Maiatlan Merida Mexico City Monterrey Montevideo Nassau da San Joan St Croix St Kitts Tegucigalpa United Press International At least half a dozen tornados struck in Northeast Georgia Saturday night ripping mobile homes apart tearing down power lines and injuring scores Authorities in Rome said one person was killed at Monroe and another person was killed in Athens Police at Conyers Ga 30 miles east of Atlanta where a dozen were reported killed when a building collapsed said they had no confirmed deaths as a result of the tornado that swept through the community of 6000 about 6:30 pm Authorities said the twister first touched down in a housing subdivision then jumped across Interstate 20 into a business district heard the wind building up and we all got together on the said 18-year- old Lewis Wilson whose family of six huddled togeth- er in their home as the tornado roared through we heard the trees getting knocked down and the garage roof was torn off and then everything starting crashing everywhere and the roof was Lewis said Authorities said a US Rubber Co plant a pants-manufacturing building a mobile home park and a lighting warehouse were also demolished It Just A band of thundershowers stretched from the South Atlantic Coast west across the Ohio Valley and the southern Great Lakes re- Crew Takes to Lifeboats As Ship Sinks Off Hawaii HONOLULU (UPI) A ship with 34 aboard radioed Saturday that it was sinking 930 miles southwest of Hawaii Two lifeboats filled with survivors were spotted nearby by a Coast Guard plane A Coast Guard spokesman said the 482-foot motor vessel Silver Dove reported it was sinking about 220 miles southwest of Johnston Island He said the refrigerated cargo vessel whose destination was not known sent an SOS early Saturday to the Coast Guard cutter North Wind that were sinking and lowering the The cutter was bourid for Honolulu from icebreaking operations in the Antarctic but was diverted to the stricken ship the North Wind cannot reach the area until Sunday morning plans call for keeping a C130 on the scene circling the area throughout the the Coast Guard said The C130 spotted most of the crew in two lifeboats although some were still aboard the vessel which was listing 30 degrees to port THE WORLD LEAVING ON THE FIRST LEG of a five-nation tour South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu told cheering thousands at Tan Son Nut Airport near Saigon that a era of is on the horizon for all Indochina Thieu will meet with President Nixon in San Clemente Monday Page 1A THE BANK OF JAPAN announced that it would implement the largest single increase in the official discount rate 075 per cent in postwar history Officials explained that the move was prompted by skyrocketing wholesale and consumer prices that threaten an overheating of the economy Page 3A THE NATION AFTER A SURPRISE meeting between President Nixon and Attorney General Richard Kleindienst in San Clemente Calif speculation was rife that the administration is considering new approaches either to the FBI directorship or to the Watergate investigation The speculation was fueled by earlier reports that Nixon planned to withdraw the nomination of Patrick Gray as chief of the FBI The reports were denied by the White House Page 1A FLORIDA Day for Playing Outdoors reported in the Missouri and Iowa areas A Pacific storm spread rain and some snow at higher elevations over portions of the Great Basin North Temperatures GREATER MIAMI Coral Gables so 72 Miami Airport si 74 Miami Beach 78 73 Miami Bay Frnt Park 75 72 sfote and national figures are for 24-hour period ending 7 March Arnj9ures were 1 P-m foren figures at 7 Geneva OS Chicago 43 37 London FLORIDA Apalachicola 70 os Bradenton 03 70 Clewiston OS 48 Chicago Cincinnati 43 70 Pro 02 71 12 71 37 51 Daytona Bch 85 47 Ft Lauderdale 64 71 Ft Myers 87 68 Gainesville 85 67 Islamorada 83 75 Jacksonville Key West 83 64 82 76 a i into the Central Plains and South Dakota and south along the Gulf Coast The storm also scattered snow over Kansas Some tornados were April April 17 April April I Cleveland Des Moines Detroit Indianapolis Kansas City Milwaukee Mpis-St Paul 53 Omaha 44 St Louis 73 WEST 42 44 50 6 40 41 84 45 84 44 84 44 4 48 72 47 83 70 85 47 84 70 85 72 37 Albuquerque 1 03 Anchorage Bismarck Boise Cheyenne Denver THE USE OF PUBLIC FUNDS to finance political campaigns was advocated by Senate President Pro Tern Louis de la Parte He will sponsor such legislation when the Legislature convenes in Tallahassee Tuesday He feels that the proposal would limit the effect of special interests on future campaigns Page 1A LEADING SCIENTISTS and professional people recommended a halt in time-honored practice of promoting growth and instead should begin discouraging the influx of new residents from the North Page 1AA GREATER MIAMI METRO COMMISSIONERS have scheduled public hearings across the county to find out how voters think they should spend $5531 million in bonds approved by referendum last fall Page IB TWO WOMEN DIED and a young man was seriously burned in a North Miami apartment explosion climaxing one night of jealousy anger and threats of suicide Page 3B SPORTS Lakeland Naples Ocala Orlando Pensacola Sarasota St Pete Tampa Vero Beach Ft Worth Helena Honolulu Houston Las Vegas Los Angeles Okla City phoenix Portland Salt Lake City 54 38 San Antonio 84 44 San Diego 45 54 San Francisco 55 47 Seattle 50 3 Spokane 51 34 FOREIGN CITY TEMP Amsterdam so Ankara 52 Athens 57 18 1 Auckland 43 05 Berlin 52 01 Birmingham 41 04 Brussels 50 01 Cairo 79 Casablanca 1 Copenhagen 23 Dublin SS Sunrise Today 6:12 am Phases of the Moon Moonrise Today 5:18 am Int Ql hi latQu Miw Sunset Today 6:37 pmn ITtlf 1 Moon-et Today 6:04 pm Boston Buffalo New York Philadelphia Pittsburgh Providence Washington 54 47 50 40 41 44 42 44 41 43 41 44 51 43 S7ft ROYAL AND REGAL went wire-to-wire to win the $130200 Florida Derby by three lengths over favored Forego at Gulfstream Park Restless Jet a 22-1 shot finished third a length and one-quar- ter behind Forego Page IE 4- 4.

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