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MORNING Fort Worth Star-Telegram CARRYOVER June temperatures will apparently run over into July as the high Wednesday will be in mid 90s and low in mid 70s Light Southerly winds clue 40 Pages in 3 Sections PRICE TEN CENTS NINETIETH YEAR NO 15 1 WEDNESDAY JULY 1970 Egyptians Claim 4 Jets Downed Nasser RedsTalk Clamp on Cambodia Slides Through Senate New Battle Looms In Conferee Action WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate voted Tuesday to impose restrictions on future operations in Cambodia in an unprecedented rebuff to an American president in time of war By Associated Presj Cairo claimed to have shot down fou Israeli war-planes Tuesdy along the Suez Canalandanlsraeli newspaper said Egypt may have brought into play its new Soviet-supplied SAM3 missiles Israeli headquarters confirmed the loss of two he firs Itosses acknowledged by Israel since the June 1 start of round-the-clock bombing of Egypt's canal defenses In Moscow Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser thanked the Soviet Union for its support hte Arab states "in the most complex and dangerous conditions" He also praised Palestinian guerrillas who he said had turned themselves from refugees "into a peole of fighters" The Egyptian president did not mention the US cease-fire proposal believed to be high on the agenda of his four days of talks with Kremlin leaders His speech at a banquet in his honor talks with Kremlin leaders His speech at a banquet in his honor reported by the official Soviet news agency Tass was his first pubic utterance since his arrival Monday AN ISRAELI newspaper the Jerusalem Post said there was a possibility the planes shot down wers hit by SAM3 missiles "There is doubt here that the planes were brought down by conventional weapons" te English-language paper said A Cairo spokesman listed teh downed planes as two Phantom jets and two Skyhawks all American-made and said that theree Israeli pilots were cap tared Cairo said 32 Phantoms and Skyhawks struck Egyptian targets in the canal's northern sector in one of the raids but caused no casualties or By a vote of 58 to 37 it approved and sent to a doubtful fate at the hands of Senate-House conferees the Cooper-Church amendment to clamp limits on President Nixon's powers to use US troops advisers and air power in Cambodia The amendment was attached to a military sales bill which then was passed 75 to 20 Despite some disagreement over language the vote clearly delivered the message: that a majority of the Senate believes i dent Nixon should have consulted it before sending US troops into Cambodia and that Senate authority over war policies should be reasserted downgrade the significance of the vote REPUBLICAN Leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania called it "largely wasted effort" and Griffin said "This has been in large part of political exercise" Rep Thomas Morgan D-Pa chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said he is opposed to the Cooper Church amendment and predicted House conferees will oppose it This could mean a lengthy conference he said "but eventually we will have to have a military sales bill" Church however said many likely Senate conferees including himself oppose the military sales bill unless Cooper-Church is retained "SO FAR as 1 know" Church said "the Senate conferees are going to be very determined on that point" -Star-Telegram The Cairo spokesman said Egyptian artillery AFTERMATH A car traveling east on Mistletoe Boulevard Tuesday afternoon struck two pedestrians killing one and critically injuring the other then continued on to the intersection with 8th Avenue where raked a group of Israeli armored vehicles in a canal it was in collision with another car The two vehicles then veered onto a parking lot and struck five parked cars Car Kills 1 Injures 5 Police Jail Woman 44 THE NIXON administration which fought the Cooper-Church amendment every step of the way during seven weeks of debate failed by five votes in a last major effort to ease the amendment An amendment by Sen Robert Griffin of Michigan to permit US financing of troops from Thailand and other Asian nationals in Cambodia was rejected 50 to 45 This came in a tense series of four roll call votes that saw the administration first win bv one vote before late arrivals and switches turned the result around By FRED BLALOCK A car driven by a 44-year-old housewife ran out of control along Mistletoe Boulevard in South Fort Worth Tuesday afternoon killing a woman pedestrian and injuring five other persons The driver was later jailed on a charge of driving while intoxicated Pauline Perry 41 of 1924 Humboldt died at Peter Smith Hospital at 4:23 pm of head and internal injuries In critical condition and un- derging surgery at St Joseph Hospital late Tuesday night was Ambrose A Connelly Sr 73 of 2920 Kimbo Road IN FAIR condition at Peter Smith Hospital late Tuesday was Arthur Lee Taylor 30 of 5129 Perry another pedes- But score the administration did a lesser triumph when action and scored 'direc hits" AL FATAH guerrillas claimed they inflicted heavy damage on the Israeli town of Beisan with a rocket attack and the Israelis said theri planes struck across the iordanian border at guerrilla ock-et launching sites in retaliation In Tel Aviv cabinet Minister Israel Galli sad ii Tuesday that Israel should prepare for a possible escalation of fighting along the Syrian-Israel ceasefire line Galili issued the warning during a tour of the Israeli-occuped Golan Heights only four days after the firercest fighting there since the 1967 Middle East war He did not elaborate Nasser's visit provides an opportunity to assess the US peace proposal Nasser has indicated in speeches that Cairo will reject the plan but Soviet response has been described as "not entirely negative" IF THE RUSSIANS do like the American plan they might have difficulty persuading Nasser to go along but he is not likely to disagree openly with his chief source of arms Whatever decision Nasser and his Soviet hosts reach on the plan it is expected to set the pattern for other Arab governments The official news agency Tass said the first round of talks "passed in an atmosphere of cordiality and complete mutual understanding" The question of Egyptian defenses also was a certain topic but whether it will result in more Soviet missiles and pilots being sent to Egypt is an open Czech Aide Accorded US Asylum Washington Post-Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON The scientic affairs officer of the Czechoslovak Embassy has defected to the United States with his family the State Departing confirmed Tuesday A ntonin Nenko 40 who was second secretary at the Czech Embassy reportedly requested asylum aftr he was ordered by the cCzech government to return to Prague The defection was the third involving a Czech diplomatic official in recent months All are believed to be related to the Cmmmunist party purge in Czechoslovakia that has followed the Soviet-led 1968 invasion Last week Czechoslovakia's ambassador to Denmark Anton Vasek 52 defected in Copenhagen with his family In February Jiri Mia-dek the third-ranking official at the Czech mission at the United Nations defected Hospital Bill Okayed Despite Nixon Veto trian who was struck when the car jumped the curb at 1905 Mistletoe Blvd about 3:30 pm Taylor received a possible fractured leg and a scalp laceration Taylor told police he was walking east along Mistletoe and had just passed Mrs Perry who was vvalkin in the other direction He said he heard her scream but was struck down by the car before he could look around A traffic investigator said the driver of the car backed up and drove around one of the victims who was lying in the street before continuing eastbound on Mistletoe HE SAID FOUR nurses traveling west saw the auto leaving the scene and stopped to render first aid to the victims The housewifes car continued eastbound ran through a stop sign at the intersection of Mistletoe and 8th Avenue and collided with Connelly's car which was southbound on 8th Avenue the investigator said He said the impact knocked Turn to Car on Page 2 Sen Robert Dole R-Kan aRepublican who fought the Cooper-Church amendment most of the way but voted for it on grounds it had been watered down said he expects efforts in conference to push through some Republican amendments that failed in the Senate Besides the Cooper-Church proviso the bill includes authorization for spending $250 million in cash and exending $300 million in credits to finance the program under which surplus military equipment is sold to foreign countries at bargain prices AUTHORIZATIONS are included for both the fiscal year ending Tuesday night and the new one starting Wednesday But the funds for the old year went down the drain by failure to enact the measure by-Tuesday night In addition the bill places new restrictions on that program including a $35-million limit for a single country-each year a requirement that recipient nations put up 50 per cent of the value of the equipment and a bar on shipments of "international fighter" planes to Thailand It also repeals the 1964 Gulf of Tonkin resolution used by the Johnson administration as the basis for sending 500000 US troops to Vietnam bars shipments of nerve gas from Okinawa to any US state or possession: and would cut off aid to South Korea unless their fishing ships stop crossing a line in the Pacific the Senate voted 69 to 27 to accept an amendment by Sen Henry Jackson D-Wash to permit continued US air support for South Vietnamese and Thai forces in Cambodia IN THE FINAL showdown 16 Republicans joined 42 Democrats to pass Cooper-Church while the opposition was made up of 26 Republicans and 11 Democrats all but one from the South Sen Frank Church D-Ida-ho cosponsor of the Cooper-Church amendment with Sen John Sherman Cooper R-Ky hailed the outcome as "a great day for the Senate and for constitutional govern-ment" Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana said that by passing the amendment "the Senate will have begun to move the government beyond words towards the end of the US involvement in a tragic and mistaken war towards the restoration of this nation's traquill-ity and well-being" Republican leaders w'ho had concentrated on delaying action until the day US troops finally left Cambodia tried to bill calls for five-year $6 billion program whereas the House measure called only for a one-year program id YARBOROUGH said the Senate conferees which he headed insisted on a larger bill than the House and finally agreed on the compromise measure After the vote was completed Yarborough said it showed that Congress "is interested first and foremost in the health of the country" "It shows that the nation's priorities must be re-ordered and finally it shows that Congress is interested in re-establishing itself as a co-equal branch of the government" question The Soviets have indicated that they will continue to arm the Arabs as long as the "imperialists" assist Israel At the same time the Russians are believed to favor a Middle East settlement if it provides for Israeli withdrawal from occupied Arab territory The talks also were believed to deal with the Palestinian guerrillas and their clashes with Jordanian army troops The Kremlin recently blamed "extremist elements" among the guerrillas for splitting Arab unity THE KREMLIN LEADERS probably will ask Nasser to exert his influence on guerrilla factions and demand moderation By JACK CLELAND Star-Teleqram Washington Bureau WASHINGTON The Senate voted Tuesday to override President Nixon's veto of the 1970 Hill-Burton hospital construction bill automatically making the three-year $2 76 billion authorization measure law Sen Ralph Yarborough D-Tex in his role as chairman of the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee led the successful move during the brief Senate debate This is the first time Congress has overridden a presidential veto since the July 1960 rejection by President Eisenhower of a federal pay raise measure THE VOTE IN the Senate was 76 to 19 in favor of overriding the veto The last vot 279-98 to override Sen John Tower R-Tex voted to sustain the President's veto Yarborough voted to override JEST A MINUTE Overheard: "Sure my wife and I have differences of opinion but I never tell her" NENKO WHO lives with his wife and two children in a Chevy Chase Md apartment was reportedly in the hands-nof US intelligence officials for debriefing The State Department said his request for asylum was "under consideration" Czech Embassy officials would not discuss his defection referring questioners to the US State Department Although he has been in Washington for 18 months he is not widely known in the city's international scientific circles "I'm not sure he was purely a scientist" one Western scientist said Several said he appeared to have a security rol George Dolan is on vacation His column will be resumed upon his return HOMETOWN GIRL MAKES GOOD Miss Patti Returns With 'Charity' illfclfci INSIDE INDEX Patio Luncheon Can Spark 4th Pool side or patio dining for a safe and sane July 4th will seem a little more refreshing with luncheon specially planned for ease and elegance Page IB Australians John Newcombe and Ken Rosewall One Western European dip lomat said Nenko did not fill out a background questionnaire routinely sent to scientific attaches for social purposes he said Nenko explained "He had to hae the permission of the Russian Embassvto answer" By MARTHA HAND "Wonder if the kid is gonna make it?" friends siad when Patti Karr caught a bus more than a decade ago and headed for New York and "success" She made it Back in her hometown Tuesday practicing for the slurring role in "Sweet Charity" which starts a two-week run at Casa Manana Monday the mual comedy star paused to reminisce When Patti Karr was a little girl at McLean Junior High and later at Paschal High she dreamed of being a ballet star "I tagged along in the shadow of two girl friends Sally Wilson and Kathryn Home" "I took ballet from (the late) Dorothy Colter Edwards and I dreamed of dancing" Like Weatherford's Mary-Martin Miss Karr taught ballet to pay for her own advanced dancing lessons Like Miss Martin the lovely lithe girl from Fort Worth won fame instead as a musical comedy star As a TCU coed Miss Karr i whose real name is Pattie Karkalits) was a drama major But it was in summer stock in Houston that she discovered musical eomeedy and her drea changed She bundled up her clothes and caught the bus for New York its millions of faces strange to her except one her friend Sally Wilson Weeks later Patti went with the national touring company of "Brigadoon" For red-haired Patti events moved swiftly In less than 10 years she had eight Broadway shows to her credit Last year she delighted Casa audiences as Nellie For-bush in "South Pacific" She discovered how sweet it is to star in your own hometown It will be even sweeter starring in "Sweet Charity" in the role of a dance hall girl whose indomitable spirit nev- Turn to Patti on Page 2 Nixon vetoed the measure June 23 calling it "a long step down the road to fiscal irresponsibility" He said the measure authorized direct federal grants $350 million in excess of his budget request According to the President the nrst unacceptable provision of the bill was one that insisted that funds appropriated for any fiscal year through 1973 to carry out the various programs authorized in the bill must be spent Yarborough who led off the debate defended the measure as less than adequate but better than the bill originally passed by the House He said the original Senate advanced to the semifinals of the All-England Tennis Championships at Wimbledon Page 1C PRAGUE'S OVERSEAS embassies have been in a state of turmoil since the Soviet-led invations The embattled retime of deposed party ladr Alexander Dubcek exiled a number of liberals to embassies after the occupation to get them out of sensitive jobs Page Amusements 89A Bridge 7B Comics 7C Death Notices UC Editorial 6C Jumble 8A Page Markets 89C Oil IOC Society 1-8B Sports 1-5C TV Log HA Weather Map IOC PATTI KARR she recalled "Sally today is a featured ballerina in the New York Ballet Theater.

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