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I I2-A THE MIAMI HERALD Sun July 9 1972 Nixon Aide May Attend Secret Talks I PBX nger: Hanoi Will Reason they will approach these negotiations in something like the same spirit at least we have some reason to believe they have a new IIE SAID that while the US side was prepared to discuss a comprehensive settlement of the Vietnam problem the President thought the best approach would be to concentrate the negotiations on ending military hostilities and leave a political solution on the future of Vietnam to the North and South a thinly veiled devicw bring about a Communist-controlled President Nixon in a speech May 8 offered to pull out all American troops from South Vietnam within four months after an Indochinawide ceasefire and return of all American prisoners of war THE COMMUNIST side has insisted on unconditional withdrawal of all US forces and replacement of President Nguyen Van Saigon government are prepared to discuss with them means of giving the people of Vietnam an opportunity to determine their own Kissinger said our experience has been that the political issue is an extremely complex one and in the light of our experience we believe it would be better to have it discussed by the people of Vietnam He said the United States still rejected insistence on a coalition government in the South as one of intense diplomatic activity during which the United States had conveyed to Hanoi through direct and indirect contact that the time for serious negotiations has long been overdue He said the United States was approaching the talks which were broken off May 4 after North Vietnam launched a massive offensive in the South with the idea of holding systematic discussions to find a just solution to the war He added: have some reason to believe that perhaps KISSINGER met with newsmen following a week-long review of the Vietnam situation with President Nixon here He said his chief deputy Maj Gen Alexander Haig had found during a fact-finding trip to South Vietnam last week that the Communist offensive there had passed its peak and that the North Vietnamese do not now appear to have the capability to launch another such massive attack Kissinger said the period since President Moscow summit trip had been SAN CLEMENTE Calif (UP1) President chief diplomatic strategist said Saturday it appeared Hanoi would take a new and more reasonable approach to negotiating an end to the Vietnam war when peace 'talks resume next Thursday Dr Henry A Kissinger told newsmen he expected Le Due Tho and Xuan Thuy two top negotiators would be in Paris for the talks and left open the possibility that he also would go to the French capital for secret negotiations Russians Buy $750 Million Fhe Anchormen View Democrats From Their Glass-Uox Reason like gods floating above the political mayhem the five anchormen will attempt to analyze the Democratic National Convention from their glass-cage Olympus Their thoughts on such matters as Miami Beach in July and conventional warfare in general are examined Tropic A Female Fill Agent? A female agent for the FBI? not impossible One reporter female variety went through the prodecure of for a special position Living Today Long' Envisioned Metropolitan Center May Result From Downtown's Doom skyline is undergoing a greater change than at any other time since the boom years of the 1920s This present building boom may turn downtown Miami into the vibrant thriving metropolitan center civic leaders ha long envisioned Home and Design A Leisurely and Luxurious Ride On Historic African Riue Train The Senior Managing Editor George Beebe recently took a ride on South historic Blue Train He describes the countryside accommodations and comfort of his 1000-raile trip Travel World Troubled Ricentennial Looks to Miami Miami may end up as the site of the biggest bicentennial bash Feuds and bickering in the other three cities participating in the celebration of our 200th birthday have bicentennial planners taking a second look at offerings Viewpoint McGovern Arrives As His Foes 'Plot A Campaign nifi 4 Vt in i-itr Yu A South Vietnamese Soldier Kneels in Prayer Amid Ruins the cathedral i at La Vang retaken by government troops In US every $100 million in grain exports WITH $750 MILLION involved this could mean between 22500 and 37500 years of work for US workers" the fact sheet said The Soviets agreed to buy at least $200 million in grains in the 12 months beginning Aug 1 which means that there should be an im mediate impact on the Amer ican economy terms of foreign policy the President considers this agreement a very important concrete forward step in the commercial relations between the United States and the Soviet Union which benefits both White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler said such it builds on the accomplishments of the summit meeting in NATIONAL SECURITY Adviser Henry A Kissinger said the agreement signals major step forward in other fields as and that it is and fair to both Kissinger predicted on other trade issues when Secretary of Commerce Peter Peterson visits Moscow for trade talks later this month The Soviets will buy wheat corn barley grain sorghum rye and oats from American private exporters in amounts they will decide upon later In 1963 the United States sold about $140 million worth of wheat to the Soviet Union and last year an agreement was reached for the sale of $150 million in feed grains (mostly corn) to the Soviet Union for cash KISSINGER SAID he was confident that American unions which in the past have balked at loading Soviet ships and other vessels for Communist countries would cooperate But in Washington Secretary Peterson said no final agreement had been reached with the unions He said he believed an agreement would be reached the near and that some grain might be loaded by the end of this month ta and western Wisconsin The national forecast: Scattered afternoon and evening showers or thunderstorms will be on tap Enemy at Quang Tri Repels Probe Into Inner Fortress Grain The Soviets do not want to pay the high costs involved in using American ships but the maritime unions in the past have insisted that 50 cent be carried in American ships Washington Post sta writer Marilyn Berger reported that leaders of all but one maritime union the International Association headed by Thomas (Teddy) Gleason have agreed to a compromise US government proposal under which one-third of the cargoes would be hauled in US-flag ships one-third in Soviet ships and one-third in ships of other countries OFFICIALS EXPECT Gleason to add his agreement in a day or two she reported Peterson is expected to go to Moscow later this month to reach a maritime agreement with the Soviets He is to be accompanied by Assistant Secretary Andrew Gibson the key man in winning union approval of the new US compromise plan The President and Peterson emphasized that the agreement will provide jobs for ship workers and others and that the cost to taxpayers of storing grain will be reduced President notes that the agreement has three important benefits for the American people and the US Ziegler said will provide grain farmers with a boost in income It will provide jobs for Americans in shipping the grain including longshoremen seamen and railroad and barge workers It will reduce the cost to taxpayers of storage handling and other charges associated with maintaining commodity Ililch Delays Truman X-Rays KANSAS CITY (AP) A lower gastro intestinal X-ray series for former President Harry Truman has been delayed because of an irritated colon a hospital spokesman said Saturday The 88-year-old most faithful visitor his wife Bess arrived at Research Medical Center Saturday at 10 am for most of the nation Sunny weather will prevail from Tennessee and Georgia to southern New England MIAMI Prte Miami Bay Pmt Prk SB 77 North Miami Beach 90 74 New Snag Mils Chess Showdown Players Ready But Arbiter Leaves REYKJAVIK Iceland (UPI) The Boris Spassky-Bobby Fischer world chess championship match already delated for nine days ran into new problems Saturday when the chief arbiter left Iceland chess sources said F'lscher the 29-y a r-old American challenger is peak form and raring to into the first game Tuesday against the world champion Spassky' But the sources said there might have to be another postponement until Thursday since chief arbiter Lothar Schmid will not be back in town until then SCHMID a West German grandmaster and the owner of a book publishing firm in "Eamberg flew home Saturday morning and said he would return Thursday He said he was leaving because one of his sons had been injured in a traffic accident assistant arbiter Gudmundur Arnlaugsson of Iceland will be in charge of final preparations which include the touchy job of picking the chess sets and board to be used Schmid said he had invited the two players to come to the hall together today to check on the facilities and hopefully approve them But this meeting was called off Saturday after Schmid left Spassky also left town and went north Icelandic friend and chess player-Freysteinn Thorbergsson on a salmon fishing trip Russian officials' said Spassky would be back Monday at the latest Thorbergsson also invited Fischer along but the American turned down the invitation to observe his Church of sabbath from Friday night until Saturday night BFFORE LEAVING Spassky said he was not going to argue about the practical arrangements or the1 picking of sets and boards Fred Cramer vice president of the US Chess Federation said the arrangements although superior to anything we have seen could cause some problems they are not important enough to wreck the he said Tide Tables in Sports Sec MIDDLE WEST COAST AND NAPLES AREAS: Partly cloudy through Monday with a chance of afternoon showers High in the 90s Low In the mid to upper 70s Mostly east winds 10 to 15 mph Ram probability 40 per cent LAKE OKEECHOBEE AND INDIAN RIVER-BREVARD AREAS: Partly cloudy with a chance of thundershowers High In the 90s Low the upper 70s Mostly east winds 10 to 15 mph Shower probability 40 per cent BROWARD AND KEYS AREAS: Partly oudy throuah Monday with a chanre of thundershowers High around 90 Low in the upper 70s Easterly winds 10 to 15 mph Ram probability 40 per cent FLORIDA: Partly cloudy through Monday Scattered thundershowers over the southern portion High mainly te 90s Low in the mid and upper 7f FLORIDA EXTENDED OUTLOOK: Wednesday through Friday: Partly cloudy High temperature range 84 to 96 Low temperaturt range: 70 to SMALL BOATS: Exposed Atlantic coastal waters from Cape Kennedy through the Florida Straits East to northeast winds 10 to 15 knots with seas two to three feet Exposed Gulf coastal waters from Cedar Key to Florida Bay East Winds 10 to 15 knots with sous around two feet Inland waters from Lake Worth through Biscayne Bay Easterly winds 10 to occasionally 15 knots with a light chop on the waters SAIGON (UPI) South Vietnamese paratroopers probed Quang Tri inner walled citadel Saturday but were driven back by enemy snipers barricaded inside To the south the North Vietnamese stepped up their attacks around Hue blowing up the largest Allied ammunition dump in the area Saigon commanders said their troops had recaptured two-thirds of Quang Tri City South northernmost provincial capital 432 miles north of Saigon But they maintained the city would not be theirs until the enemy was routed from the 19th Century citadel THE US Command said the paratroopers in Quang Tri City got help from eight waves of B52 heavy bombers and 100 jet fighter-bombers that pounded enemy positions outside the city The command said B52s had dropped a total of 9075 tons of explosives on positions near Quang Tri City in the past 10 days In addition the command said American planes flew 240 raids over North Vietnam Friday concentrating their raids around Haiphong North major port city Pilots reported knocking out three bridges in the area the command said In a delayed report the command said three US F4 Phantom jets went down over North Vietnam during the past week with all six crewmen listed as missing Two of the Phantoms were shot down over North Vietnam by missile-firing MIG21s last Wednesday and the were again established in portions of 12 states from Wisconsin and Arkansas to the Virginas and Florida The mercury rose in -Associated Press Wlrephoto other crashed last Monday from unknown causes Military spokesmen said the South Vietnamese reconnaissance unit was spotted by North Vietnamese inside who forced the unit back with heavy gunfire SOUTH Vietnamese troops encircled the old citadel Friday after capturing a nearby sports stadium In addition to the 500 paratroopers in the city about 650 more were at the southwest edge of town More than 20000 South Vietnamese troops have been thrown into the drive to recapture Quang Tri Province which began June 28 The drive left nearby Hue defended by about 10000 troops and military commanders said the former imperial capital might be the target of a major counteroffensive the aftemooh to a more comfortable level Elsewhere scattered thunderstorms developed from eastern Texas to Minneso JULY 9 Cemmrc 5:08 am 7 :29 pm Cool Weather Stays Anchored Over Southeast excluding Daley and his Illinois backers and some compromise seemed possible there In Chicago Saturday a Cook County circuit judge issued an injunction prohibiting the Daley challengers from taking seats at the convention on the grounds that they not elected according to the Illinois It was thought that the court older had little practical efiect but could if upheld subject the challengers to contempt of court charges when they return to Chicago if thev do take seats at the convention McGovern whoce camp displaced an untoward calm announced that his friend Abraham A Ribicnff would deliver the principal nominating address for him Wednesday night Ribicoff nominated McGovern Chuago four jears ago earning dispkasure then With his charges of Gestapo THE McGOVLRN candidacy also picked up the endorsement cf Michigan Sen Philip Hart who had previously backed Muskie To a Humph) ey demand that all candidates sign loyalty oaths to suppoit the even-tual nominee Mr Govern gave a sarcastic retort He said he would support any candidate who pledged respect to the rules the principles and the platform of the pirty Wallace Mickey Mou or whomever he b-it'e tvrrn ir'en Js an i las ere rm dorr pre-convention naneu eriog Saturday It was vv gr pi alely score of hotJ loom meetings and hundreds of phone cJls and publicly in the demeanor of the candidates and their I AS ih' men m- to'-b of outers Hion at a closed-door ns ting of Di oi')' ratic governors that nrrp' on throughout a lag in actor noon Main of to" gov lion bad been associated win a McGoveri no icr more than a month They assembled at trie call of Arkansas Gov Dale Bumpers chairman of Democratic Governors Caucus StraUgnts Pr the slop-McGovern dm whuh included key Ik ui rants of the other candid t'1- burned th ir 1 Hi IM oh i firm lln-y ni'ih'tid they wool 1 vm i C'diioi-nia show 'own lot day night In an nPrvi'w with Knight Ncvvspapi rs Humphrey claimed the olds were than the credentials fight engineered originally by his forces would go his way us but they sure with the Wallace man said TIIE DEMOCRATIC Party announced Saturday that opening session would without until all credentials challenges were settled Fifteen states face some delegate challenges and the 1 California and Illinois dis-1 putes are chief among them The party decision raised the prospect that the opening session would drag on until the wee hours Tuesday The Supreme Court decision effectively deprived McGovern of 151 California delegates and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley of 59 uncommitted Illinois delegates THE CONVENTION as a whole will vote Monday night on whether to restore the delegates The nomination could hang on that decision opponents realize they must win the credentials fight if they are to head off a McGovern first- or second-ballot victory Wallace campaign manager Charles Snider made it clear Saturday that the Alabama governor was firmly in the anti-McGovern camp on the credentials fight In exchange Wallace expected support from other delegate- wielders for his anti-busing platform plank Both McGovern and Humphrey ruled out any chant of compromise on the coating of the 271-member California delegation in appearances before a caucus of Democratic governors The governors named a five-member committee to negotiate credentials fights PRESSURE mounted on Muskie from all sides opponents askr him to hold firmly to a key bloc of 200 to 300 delegates who could swing the nomination Saturday morning Muskie aides met with McGovern lieutenants to hear the South case Muskie received conflicting advice from his own staff about what stand to take on the California question Aides Sherwin Markman and Thomas Finney urged him to speak out publicly in favor of the Humphrey position campaign director Eerl Bernhard and other aides opposed such a move Muskie said he would announce his stand on the delegate dispute before vote None of the Democratic Jgaderi Including McGovern is pleased at the prospect of Vt The large unseasonably cool record-breaking high remained anchored over the Atlantic and Southeast states Early morning low temperature records FORECAST WEATHER MAP FOR SUM AM Mop O-rto By Notional W-otbff Srk NOAA Oeportrtwrt of Local National World Temperatures GREATER Pr- Csrl Cabin SB 74 Miami Beach 87 74 Sunrise Today 6 :33 am teMoon Moonrise Sunset Today 8:16 pmljj July II July Aut 1 July 11.