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The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 207

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The Miami Heraldi
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Miami, Florida
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207
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The Newspaper Of The Americas Thursday February 1 1973 Member of The Inter American Press Association 63rd Year No 63 In liia first meeting with the press in nearly four months President Nixon 0 Announced that Henry Kissinger will visit Hanoi Feb 10-13 to discuss postwar reconstruction 0 Disclosed that lie is planning a meeting with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu at the AVestern House sometime this spring Declared that Congress lias been irresponsible in fiscal matters and that impounding of funds will continue if it means raising taxes 0 Ruled out any trips abroad in the first half of 1973 0 Promised not to use executive privilege a and said a statement vv ill be issued soon on bis stand on administration officials testifying before Congress 0 Repeated that be bad no intention of granting amnesty to military deserters and draft evader 0 Assailed thoe who have criticised the Vietnam peace agreements as well as those demanding amnesty 0 Shrugged off reports that be favored John Connolly for the 1976 GOP presidential nomination 0 Described the wounding of Sen John Stennis as appalling and said it reaffirms the need for a ban on small band gun Nixon: Fund Impounding Is My Right WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon said Wednesday that the American taxpayer already is overburdened and the President has a right to impound funds if the spending would mean higher taxes The constitutional right to impound or refuse to spend funds appropriated by Congress is clear he said Nixon spoke out at a news conference when he was asked to respond to critics who say that his impoundment of funds abrogates power or authority that the Constitution gave to Congress Claiming that Congress represents special interests Nixon said he will represent the general interest of the nation and that the interest it be rich or poor or old is break the family budget by raising the taxes or raising THEREFORE THE President said will not spend money if the Congress overspends and I will not be for programs that will raise the taxes and put a bigger burden on the already overburdened American The impoundment issue has stirred up Congress At a Senate Judiciary Sub- to Hanoi econstructiom President To Meet With Thieu Parley Planned At San Gemente committee meeting Wednesday Sen Edmund Muskie (D Maine) said if Nixon refuses to execute the laws the tools available to Congress to enforce its will are at Sen Bill Brock (R Tenn said Congress had only itself to blame for the impoundment problem Congress is good at passing the buck he said adding that appropriations voted last year would have broken the public debt ceiling if Nixon had not refused to spend all the money Sen Sam Ervin Jr (D NC) author of a bill to bar impoundments for more than 60 days without the concurrence of Congress said a cooperative effort by the President and Congress is necessary we are going to put the financial house of the federal government in AT HIS NEWS conference Nixon commented that the late President Harry Truman had impounded funds for Air Force groups the spending of money would mean either increasing prices or increasing taxes for all the Nixon said the constitutional right to impound absolutely On other matters: With the Vietna agreement- concluded Nixon said he will turn increasing attention to Europe saying problem will be put on the front But he said he does not plan to travel to Europe in the first half of this year In fact the President said he plans no trips outside the United States in the first half of this year The Victims of War Walk the Road to Despite the signing of a ceasefire pact these young Vietnamese children are still marching on the long road of war Carrying all the personal possessions that they could salvage the girls trek along a highway near Pleiku toward a war-refugee camp where they may have a chance to get acquainted with peace for the first Press International Telephoto time in their lives Their village and homes were destroyed in a Communist rocket attack Peace Gashes Drop Off In Vietnam Aflcrmalh of Hiircau Takeover Aide to Columnist Three Indians Arrested on US Property Charge Son Stennis 6 surgery Condition -WASHINGTON (AP) Sen John Stennis (D Miss) was reported resting comfortably Wednesday but still in condition following surgery for two gunshot wounds suffered in a robbery Stennis 71 chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee underwent 6 2 hours of surgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center where he was taken Tuesday night after being shot in the chest and thigh by two young men who accosted him outside his home Stennis was said to be in condition Turn to Page 2A Col 4 David Goliath Sign Compact MOSCOW (UPI) The Soviet Union the largest nation in area and the republic of San Marino one of the smallest republics signed a convention Wednesday on prohibition of development produc-t i and stockpiling of bacteriological weapons the Tass News Agency said San Marino has about 17-000 residents and covers 24 square miles It is surrounded by Italy The Soviet Union has 2486 million inhabitants and covers 865 million square miles WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon said Wednesday that he is sending Henry Kissinger to Hanoi to open direct communications with the North Vietnamese and to discuss a postwar reconstruction he views as Tough Nixon Lashes Critics analysis on 4A potential investment in In his first news conference in nearly four months Nixon also disclosed he would meet sometime this spring at the California with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu Nixon said that if all parties abide by terms of the to end the Vietnam fighting there is question about the fact we will have peace for a very long period of But Nixon added question is whether both parties in fact all parties involved have a will to peace have incentives to The Chief Executive said the planned Indochina-wide reconstruction program could mean that North Vietnam would inward toward the workings of peace rather than outward toward the workings of NIXON SAID Kissinger on his Feb 10-13 trip to Hanoi will meet with top leaders of the Communist country He said that it was "vitally important we have direct with the North Vietnamese He said he expected Kissinger talks to be and and volunteered that his top foreign policy adviser will on the Indo- Turn to Page 9 A Col 1 Autopsy Slated on a Mummy DETROIT (AP) An autopsy delayed some 2000 years will be performed by Wayne State University scientists Undergoing the belated surgery will be the mummified remains of an Egyptian who died about the time of Christ's birth Scientists hope the autopsy will provide clues to the diseases which afflict modern man The scheduled surgery is part of a two-day symposium on and Disease in Ancient to he held at the university and the nearby Detroit Institute of Arts Chuckle It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than a fact no one has heard be- Nixon described his summit confereng British Prime Minister Xdward Heath on Thursday and Friday as of enormous importance because of the emergence of a strong European community He said he wanted to avoid an economic confrontation with the European Community because it would to bitterness and hurt us On executive privilege the protection of administration officials from disclosing presidential confidence in testifying before Congress Nixon said he did not want to abuse the privilege and that his general attitude to be as liberal as in making his people available as congressional witnesses ARE NOT going to use executive privilege as a Turn to Page 4A Col 1 Washington campus said two FBI agents came to her home and remained awaiting a search warrant She said she also expected to be arrested AM SURE they are also arresting people on the Miss Boyer said is the start of it Miss Boyer was in the BIA building during the takeover agents had with them an undercover agent who had been here with us who had been posing as our Miss Boyer said came in shortly after the agents got here he just came in and smiled around I called him a traitor He said he was an undercover Opal Ginn of office said Whitten was taken to the FBI headquarters in handcuffs gotiations often with White House officials Government spokesmen said many art objects and documents were stolen and estimates of damage ranged to nearly $2 million Anderson issued a statement that Whitten no documents He is guilty only of writing the story of the stolen docunVnts The story Draft Ends TRENTON (AP) Fifty-three volunteers from New Jersey have enlisted in the US Army in a ceremony that underscored the end of the draft The volunteers will be called the Garden State platoon and will be assigned to the Berlin Brigade in Germany for a minimum of 16 months WASHINGTON (AP) Les Whitten an associate of syndicated columnist Jack Anderson and at least three Indians were arrested by the FBI Wednesday on a complain of receiving and possessing government property the FBI said Jack Herington FBI public information officer said Whitten was arrested after leaving the residence of Hank Adams a Sioux who was counsel for Indians who occupied the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) for six days in November Adams the FBI said also was arrested THE OTHERS were identified by Herington as Daniel Pigeon of Whittenberg Wis and Allison Cerri of Silver Spring Md Militant Indians took over the BIA building and gave it up after a week of ne of course has been highly embarrassing to the government a story of how the government cheated and defrauded and neglected the Indians in violation of their treaty rights We will continue to write this LaNada Boyer 26 a Sho-shone-Bannock who is a law student at Antioch College 53 Join Army Col James Bradley deputy commander of the Berlin Brigade administered the oath of enlistment The brigade was formed in 1961 to protect Berlin and assure access to the city Former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird announced the formal end of the military draft on Saturday I'LL BET "iOU TUINKTWCEBEWfcE you BREAK INTO MV HOUSE AGAIN TWICE IT SAIGON (UPI) Clashes between Communist and South Vietnamese troops Wednesday dropped to about half the number reported in the first day of the Vietnam ceasefire Political bickering kept ceasefire supervisory teams from monitoring reported violations South Vietnamese military sources said there were 100 incidents reported between 6 am and 6 pm Wednesday There were 209 incidents reported in the preceeding 24 hours between 6 am Tuesday and 6 am Wednesday compared with 409 incidents during the first 24 hours of the ceasefire The US Command reported another American wounded the fourth since the ceasefire One American has been killed THE WOUNDED man was identified as Col Truman Boman senior province adviser in Quang Ngai 318 miles north of Saigon He suffered flesh wounds in both arms when the helicopter in which he was flying was hit by machine-gun fire He was treated and returned to duty US bombing in Laos has continued since last Sunday morning in the absence of a provision for a ceasefire there F4 Phantom and A7 Corsair jets based in land remained on call to support Laotian ground troops and CIA-sponsored irregular forces Strategic B52 bombers based at U-tapao in Thailand were being used along the Ho Turn to Page 9A Col I The Lady Clobbered the Robber I'lftTHlNKWS ABOUT MOtMf By WAYNE MARKHAM Brevard Bureau Chief TITUSVILLE It was no contest And Mrs Ann Marie Lynch says that recog nize the burglar by the scars on his face she put them there Mrs Lynch 36 is used to winning she wrestled professionally for 10 years before deciding to become an accountant She and her husband Patrick were returning home late Tuesday night when they surprised the burglar in their house PINNED the guy and knocked him good" Mrs Lynch said Wednesday head hit the coffee table when I pinned him and there was blood all over my white living room Mrs Lynch said she tackled the heavy set burglar twice and before he could flee tore off much of his clothes and scratched his face and neck wanted to mark him up real good for the police" she explained Mrs husband was struck first by the burglar when the couple entered their darkened home was hit in the stomach and doubled Mrs Lynch recounted "He has a pacemaker and that guy could have killed him I thought the burglar had stuck a knife in my husband and that got me mad I would have killed the guy if he had done Mr Lynch was reported unhurt THE BURGLAR evidently had two accomplices who made off with a TV set a sewing machine and a diamond wristwatch she said Mrs Lynch who wrestled in Chicago under the name of Ann Marie Antonelli retired seven years ago.

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