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More of Same Continued fair High in the 90s Low in the upper 70s Mostly southeast winds 10 to 15 mph Rain proba-biiity 20 per cent (Details Page 2A) Street 10 Cents 62nd No 213 Thursday June 29 1972 Florida Complete Newspaper 154 Pages Twa Latin American Editions Art Pvblithad Daily IlehiBid Heavy 'US Air Cover in Quasi Tri 10 000 Viets i North bridge spanning the My Chanh VICOY SAID the enemy had the bridge zeroed in and the paratroops had to zigzag between -exploding shells as they ran across the waterway He said heavily dug-in North Vietnamese troops opened fire on the battalion a mile and a half above the river The paratroopers dropped down and fired back killing 48 of the enemy Vicoy said He said the battalion lost only three men wounded said smaller Air Force Navy and Marine tactical fighters flew 152 air strikes during the day over provinces on both sides of the My Chanh River in support of the new push THE COMMAND said 17 US cruisers and destroyers from the Seventh Fleet in the Gull of Tonkin turned their big guns shoreward Wednesday to batter enemy positions in Quang Tri Province Lt Col Do Dang Bo offi-c i a I government military spokesman in upper South Vietnam said the marines and paratroopers were advancing on the ground along a 12-mile-wide front up the Gulf of Tonkin coast He said the paratroopers on the western half pushed to four miles above the river while the marines on the drove five miles from the My Chanh UPI photographer Wilfre-do Vicoy accompanying a paratrooper battalion involved in the push said the government soldiers ran into heavy artillery fire while trying to get across a pontoon mand imposed an embargo on news about the additional forces In Saigon the US Command said about 75 Air Force B52s dumped 1900 tons of bombs on Quang Tri Province just ahead of the advancing troops The command said another 30 B52s dropped 750 tons of bombs on Thua Thien Province just below the My Chanh River to keep the enemy from skirting around and attacking the rear of the advancing troops A command communique SAIGON (UPI) More than 10000 South Vietnam ese troops advanced through Quang Tri Province Wednesday behind a pulverizing US air and naval bombardment in a drive aimed at retaking the only province cf South 'Vietnam captured by the enemy A South Vietnamese spokesman said two brigades of paratroopers and two brigades of marines backed by at least a pair of tank squadrons crossed the My Chanh River northern defense line before dawn and by evening had pushed up to five miles into Quang Tri Province Battlefield reports said the South Vietnamese were advancing against stiff North Vietnamese resistance A government spokesman said 235 of the enemy were killed during the first stages of the drive while the South Vietnamese lost seven killed and 41 wounded MILITARY sources said many other South Vietnamese units joined the original 10000-man force during the day but the Saigon Com Area of South Viet into Quag Tri Province held by enemy Nixon Or Troon 1 JOFFE i 4 Cut Barbers i i FRESNO --Calif (UPI) Changing hair styles particularly long locks on men have put about 20 per cent of the barbers out of business in the 1 past five years it was reported here-' 1 Richard A Plumb general president of the International Barbers and Beauticians Association told his annual convention that 300-000 barbers and beauticians in the United States and Canada have been sent into early retirement Bombing Run over Broward County But instead of dropping paratroopers the tight forma- 1 Broward aviation firm by $6000 for the tion of aging aircraft unleash a spray to spraying contract The pilots have FAA combat enemy forces of mosquitoes Lee approval for flying at altitudes under County provides the planes It underbid a 1000 feet Photo by JEFF Like a scene out of World War II twin- engine C47 planes swoop at tree-top level Tlirce-lValioii Effort Rejected Fire Nuclear Test Blast jj Pacific Area Protests French sr Despite PARIS (UPI) France las resumed nuclear atmos-' (heric testing in the South Pacific jn spite of vigorous irotests by several nations hat the blasts may endanger heir environments the were harmful to the environments of Pacific nations by saying that the blasts were low-yield and sufficiently removed from population centers France is the only major Western power not to have signed the nuclear non-proliferation treaty France and China are the only nations still carrying out nuclear tests in the atmosphere Draftees Freed of Viet Tours Thieu Gets Powers 8B By James McCartney Hunid Washington Bureau WASHINGTON President Nixon Wednesday ordered the US troop level in Vietnam cut by 10000 more men and announced that no more draftees will be sent to the war zone unless they volunteer The reduction will bring the troop level in Vietnam to 39000 by Sept 1 A goal of 49000 had been set for July 1 The new schedule lowers the rate of withdrawal to 5000 a month It has been 10000 a month in recent months and at its peak was more than 20000 WHITE HOUSE Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said however that the new withdrawal amounts to a 20 per cent cut of Vietnam forces The decision to stop sending draftees to Vietnam which will be welcomed warmly by anti-war groups on the campuses will take effect immediately Ziegler said About 4000 draftees all of them in the Army are now in the US force in Vietnam Those on hand will be required to finish their tours THE PENTAGON now estimates that US military forces committed to Indochina but stationed outside of Vietnam number about 97000 thus as of July I the total number of US forces involved in the war will be about 146000 which will be cut to 136000 in the new troop withdrawal Forces outside Vietnam break down as follows: At sea 42000 Thailand largely air power 45000 Guam air power 10000 Ziegler said there were no present plans to cut down on forces outside Vietnam or to cease the bombing of North Vietnam c-r the enforcement Turn to Page 2A Col 1 Chess Champion Icy Calm Melts Press Wirephot McGoverns Arrive in South Carolina Gov John West greets them at Columbia McGovern Finds South Unhostile Georgia Challenge Accepted 2A Defense Cuts: Hot Issue 16 A From INV Hideaway Martha and John Flee Together RYE NY (UPI) Former Attorney Genera! John Mitchell and his wife Martha ended two days at the Westchester Country Club Wednesday leaving by limousine for an undisclosed location after ducking out a back door to avoid newsmen A security' guard confirmed that the Mitchells were in the limousine that sped away from the back entrance to the club He said Mitchell had joined his wife at the club Monday and the two had not left their room since then A furor developed when Mrs Mitchell telephoned UPI White House correspondent Helen Thomas from the country club Sunday and told her she was leaving her husband until he quit his post as chairman of the Committee to Reelect President Nixon ing near Mururoa Atoll 800 miles southwest of Tahiti The French Defense Ministry declined comment on the report as did the Nuclear Experimentation Center here which- coordinates atomic testing in the Pacific The ministry indicated Tuesday that no official comment would be forthcoming on the tests until the series was completed presumably sometime later this summer THERE WAS NO word about the safety of the protest yacht Greenpeace III which last was reported heading into the test area Another yacht manned by members of the French nu clear test protest committee was preparing to set sail Thursday afternoon for the test area from Tauranga New Zealand 100 miles south of Wellington In Wellington New Zealand Prime Minister John Marshall said Wednesday night that he would seek confirmation that the tests had begun but would not send a protest note to France no point in wasting more paper and time in he said The blast came after a 10-day effort by New Zealand explosions THE THREE countries joined later by others initially issued formal complaints against the planned tests at the reopening of the disarmament conference in Geneva earlier this month A series of anti-nuclear demonstrations and bomb attempts against French property followed in Australia and New Zealand Australia's Prime Minister William McMahon sent a personal message to President Georges Pompidou to ask for an end to the tests The French government answered charges that tests French news agency Agence France Press said Wednesday The agency said in a report from Tahiti that the first nuclear warhead-type device was detonated Sunday morn- se Boris Spassky storms atcay months Fischer 29 expected to arrive today is a good tennis player and swimmer He is six years younger than the champion REYKJAVIK Iceland p) Russian Boris Spas-y who has a reputation for acial calm displayed an tburst of nerves Wednes-y less than a week before i defends his world chess Ie against American Bobby scher Spassky stormed off a ten-s court and went to his tel to sulk after three pho-graphers began taking pic-res of him with Jivo Nei a mpatriot helping him train the match are ruining our pro-am" Spassky said is laily routine which I must ton The photographers were interfering with his game they stood outside a fence lich circles the asphalt urt The Russian refused quests from the photogra-ers for two minutes of his ie After 15 minutes in the tel Spassky returned to court with Nei a tall Id man with broad shoul-rs and a cannonball serve To the delight of a group Icelandic children who agged balls for the players i commenced to thrash assky in two straight sets spite the fact that he metimes appeared purpose-to be duffing his shots Because of the great physi-1 strain of the 24-game ess championship begin ng next Sunday both Spas-y and Fischer have been orking out regularly for nesty the Vietnam war and his plans to help the southern economy They did not always agree with him Many remained skeptical and opposed to him for president But they bother him about busing Maybe southerners knew Turn to Page 26A Col 4 WHERE TO FIND IT Amusements Anderson Bishop Books Classified Comics Crossword Deaths Editorials Elliott Falkner Financial Ccren Heloise 90 EB 8E 22F 180 8E 8E SB 6A 60 I9F 120 8B Horoscope 9E Kofoed 9E Landers IE Latin News 4B Living Today IE Movies IQ0 People 27A Plane Talk 2IF Pope Porter Sports Thosteson TV-Radio ID 130 ID 3IF 6B 2A I6F Weather Chuckle said the disenchanted spouse can you expect from a person who was raised by your Stubborn Lady This Demonstrator By SAUL FRIEDMAN Herald Washington Bureau ATLANTA As most southern historians will tell you in some ways economically and politically the South is behind the rest of the country And yet as Sen George McGovern whose rep-u a i as radical preceded him in these parts came through Dixie to show that what they say about him true a curious thing happened Or rather it was curious because it happen Unlike the allegedly liberal states in the North and West where the question was asked of McGovern constantly and in a hundred different ways very rarely during visits to Oklahoma Texas Arkansas Georgia and South Carolina was he asked about busing Local reporters convention delegates politicians and plain people wanted to know how McGovern fdt about a lot of things defense budget cuts his tax and welfare programs am NEWS ANALYSIS when taken into custody Mrs Upshure had $38 in her purse but refused to pay the $10 hitchhiking fine Bond was set at $10 and she went off to jail Mrs Upshure listing her occupation as came to trial Wednesday before Franklin County Municipal Court Judge Joseph Clifford She told Clifford she was returning home from St Louis after taking part in labor for peace rally" The judge fined her $10 then suspended the fine After all how tough can a judge be with a defendant 84 years old? COLUMBUS Ohio (AP) Ann Upshure went to jail when she refused to post $10 bond for hitchhiking on Interstate 71 near here A driver had stopped and told the New York City traveler that it was illegal to hitchhike on an interstate highway but Mrs Upshure give up Then Ohio Highway Patrolman Burkhardt warned her but she held her ground hoping for a ride She got one directly to Columbus City Correctional Institute Burkhardt arrested Mrs Upshure writing on the ticket that she became.