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The Newspaper Of The Americas Thursday June 29 1972 Member of The Inter American Press Association 62nd No 213 lleliintl Heavy US Air 10000 Viets Cover in Cjuang Tri Pushing 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 Gulf 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 1 government military spokesman in upper South 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 cbmmand communique 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 east 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 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 durihg 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 SAIGON (UPI) More than 10000 South Vietnamese troops advanced through Quang Tri Province Wednesday behind a pulverizing US air and naval bombardment in a drive aimed at retaking the only province of 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 Area of South Viet Push into Quag ri Province held by enemy Nixon Orders More over Broward County But instead of dropping paratroopers the tight formation of aging aircraft unleash a spray to combat enemy forces of mosquitoes Lee County provides the planes It underbid a Bombing Run Like a scene out of World War II twin-engine C47 planes swoop at tree-top level Broward aviation firm by $6000 for the spraying contract The pilots have FAA approval for flying at altitudes under 1000 feet Tlirec-Xalioii Effort Rejected Fire Nuclear Test Blast Pacific Area Protests Photo by JEFF JOFFE Cut Barbers 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 past five years it was reported here 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 French Despite PARIS (UPI) France has resumed nuclear atmospheric testing in the South Pacific in spite of vigorous protests by several nations that the blasts may endanger their environments the Draftees Freed of Viet Tours Thieu Gels Powers 13A By JAMES McCARTNEY Herald 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 lucent 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 Judy 1 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 or the enforcement Turn to Page 2A Col 1 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 Chess Icy Calm Melts Press Wlrephot McGoverns Arrive in South Carolina Gov John West greets them at Columbia McGovern Finds South Unhostile Georgia Challenge Accepted 2A Defense Cuts: Hot Issue 10A From 3VY Ilideaway Martha and John Flee Together RYE NY (UPI) Former Attorney General 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 nesty the Vietnam war and his plans to help the Southern economy They did not alwa agree with him Many remained skeptical and opposed to him for president But they bother him about busing Maybe southerners knew Turn to Page 3A Col 4 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 nuclear 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 Australia and Peru to stop the 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 senes of anti-nuclear demonstrations and bomb attempts against French property followed in Australia and New Zealand 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- I'- 4 Boris Spassky florin flurry working out regularly for months Fischer 29 expected to arrive today is a good tennis player and swimmer He is six ypars yopgcr than the champion REYKJAVIK Iceland (AP) Russian Boris Spassky who has a reputation for glacial calm displayed an outburst of nerves Wednesday less than a week before he defends his world chess title against American Bobby Fischer Spassky stormed off a tennis court and went to his hotel to sulk after three photographers began taking pictures of him with Jivo Nei a compatriot helping him train for the match are ruining our Spassky said is a daily routine which I must get on The photographers were not interfering with his game as they stood outside a fence that circles the asphalt court The Russian refused requests from the photographers for two minutes of his time After 15 minutes in the hotel Spassky returned to the court with Nei a tall bald man with broad shoulders and a cannonball serve To the delight of a group of Icelandic children who shagged balls for the players! Nei commenced to thrash Spassky in two straight sets despite the fact that he sometimes appeared purposely to be duffing his shots Because of the great physical strain of the 24-game chess championship beginning next Sundav both Spassky and Fischer have been Stubborn Lady This Demonstrator By SAUL FRIEDMAN Herald Washington Bursau 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 -utation as a 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 his 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 felt about a lot of things defense budget cyts his tax and welfare programs am NEWS ANALYSIS 16 Die in Blast On Oil Tanker BOMBAY India UPI) An explosion aboard the Greek oil tanker Torsol at a dock here killed 16 persons police reported The 20000-ton vessel flying the Lebanese flag arrived here June 17 for repairs Cause of the explosion was not known Today's Chuckle said the disenchanted spouse can jdu expect from a person who was raised by your 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 The judge fined her $10 then suspended the fine After all how tough can a judge be with a defendant 84 yrrs old? COLUMBUS Ohio (AP) Ann Upshure went to jail when she refused to post $19 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 thushe became.