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THE LINCOLN STAR No. 15 non Of TO in: It in, ifMio NIXON PROPHESIES COOLING OFF Washington President Nixon tukl the nation Friday that "we are on the road to recovery Ironi the disease of runaway Hut he said some adjustments lie aliead. Ill Ills first major address on ecoiioiuie problems, prepared for nationwide radio broadcast. Nixon flatly told Americans: oil can make your plans on the basis that price rises are going to be slowing down." The ikesident announced he will send letters this weekend to a cross section of business and labor leaders urging that they take account of the prophesied cooling-off ot inilation in making wage, price and investment decisions. Restraint Urged While insisting he would tell no one how' TRAWLER INTRUDED Says 'Price Rises Are Going To Be Slowing Down to set wages or prices, Nixon called on labor "to base their wage demands on the new of a return tow'ard price stability." And he businessmen should base their investment and price decisions "on that new economic climate, keeping in mind that it is in their private interest to be realistic in their planning and to help build a strong Nixon also voiced an appeal to in general.

"I call upon all Americans to bear the burden of restraint in their personal credit and purchasing decisions, so as to reduce the pressures that help drive prices out of sight." that the administration has asked the country to take "bitter medicine," he went on: "I can report to you that the medicine ha.s begun to work. There will be no overnight cure, but we are on the road to recovery from the di.sease of runaway prices." Rise Slowing Down Declaring that he wanted to be careful lest ho mislead someone, Nixon cautioned: "Prices are still going up, and may continue to do so for a while a five-year momentum is not easy to stop. But now prices are no longer increasing faster and faster. Then, in more somber tones, he said the anti-inflation battle Inevitably will temporarily cut into the sales of some businesses and curb the earnings of some workers. "As we gently, but firmly, apply the he said, "we are going to experience some Like growing pains, the.se are a healthy development but painlul neverthele.ss ompassion Promised the administration would look upon anticipated adjustments wifti compas.sion and keep a close watch on development.s.

Declaring that some argue a high rate cannot be avoided, Nixon said: "I do not agree. In our leveling-off process, we intend to do everything we can to resist increases in unemployment, to help train and place workers in new jobs, and to cushion the effects of readjustment." Putting most of the blame for current inflation on past government policic.s that led to heavy federal spending, Nixon said his administration will persevere in putting a lid on the budget and, if Uongre agrees, continuing the anti-inilationary income lax urcharge at a five cent rate until June Jf) Path Not Popular Holding down government and holding up the lax rale, and making it harder for to get credit, not the kind ot policy that makes Iriends for in politics." he. said He said such measures are necessary and he appealed anew to Congress to extend the surtax and avoid the temptation to turn tax reform legislation into a budget-busting tax cut. The iTcsident also called on cilizen.s to urge that stale and local govcrninent.i "cooperate in postponing spending that can appropriately be delayed." Viet Navy Hits NU, KU Seek First Big 8 Victory Soviet Spy Ship Saigon Vietnamese patrol boats fired on and hit Friday a Soviet spy shij) which ignored challenges and intruded into Vietnamese territorial waters off Da Nang, government sources said. They said smoke was seen rising from the Russian intelligence trawler after it had been shot at by the patrol boat.

The trawler took evasive action and escaped into the open sea. U.S. Navy officers said that Hie ship had been taken under fire by government patrol boats, but said they know if it had been hit. Shadowed U.S. Ships They said the vessel was a 150-ton Russian intelligence trawler that earlier had shadowed U.S.

Navy 7th Fleet ships operating in the Gulf of Tonkin off the coast of North Vietnam. The incident was the first of the war involving a Soviet ship in South Vietnamese coastal waters, and recalls North seizure of the American spy ship Pueblo near Wonsan Harbor in 1908. A South Vietnamese government communique said that Friday afternoon a boat, probably a reconnaissance craft, intruded into territorial waters off Da Nang. The Vietnamese navy was ordered to chase the boat out of territorial waters. No more details are available." South Vietnam claims ter- iiturial Jurisdiction out to a 12 mile limit.

Off Da Naiig According to U.S. Navy officers. the incident occurred northeast of Da Nang, South sei'ond largest city. The spy ship was tirst spotted Thursday morning approaching the South Vietnamese coast. Both U.S.

and South Vietnamese ships tified the vessel as a Russian intelligence trawler. "Information from the U.S. Navy stated that the trawler came from the vicinity of Yankee Station off North Vietnam," one officer said. The trawler was kept under surveillance and at 1:50 p.m. Friday "South Vietnamese navy elements fired on the Russian trawler in response to its movemeni into Vietnamese national waters." Report Confirmed The report was confirmed by the U.S.

3rd Marine Amphibious Force headquartered at Da Nang. The trawler headed out to sea and is still under observation by U.S. Navy ships and Air Force planes. South Vietnamese sources said a coastal patrol boat signaled the Russian ship to identify itself and it refused. The Vietnamese ship then fired a warning shot.

The trawler still refused to slop and the patrol boat opened fire. Reischauer Urges 'Measured' Withdravira! By DON WALTON Star Staff Writer Dr. Edwin 0. Reischauer Friday called for a measured U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam which would take troops out of combat within a year and completely out of the country within two years.

That is the only reasonable means to cud U.S. involvement in the war, the former U.S. ambassador to Japan insisted. negotiated settlement would be "more honorable and least Reischauer noted. "The only trouble is that impossible to achieve." Faint hopes of eventual victory remain "a will of the wisp." Reischauer told a University of Nebraska audience, precipitate withdrawal w' 1 represent such "a spastic response" that it could disrupt delicate international relationships, trigger "a real first class McCarthyist (1950s vintage) reaction" at home and possibly lead the world toward "absolute disaster," he said.

Reischauer, a nephew of the late Dean Henry Oldfather, was in Lincoln to help dedicate the newly constructed Oldfather Hall on the downtown campus. (See Picture on (i.) A professor at Harvard University, Reischauer w'as ambassador to Japan from 1961 to 1966, "I would hope that President Nixon would announce a kind of schedule for U.S. withdrawal from Vietnam," Reischauer said. Time To Reform two-year "grace period" would give Saigon time to reform its government and "force them to attempt to get a negotiated he pointed out. But.

Reischauer said, he doubts that Nixon will follow such, a course. would predict that he will accelerate the rate of withdrawal," he said, thereby 2 Lincoln Girls Visit Israel In Summer By LUCILLE HOWARD Star Staff Writer Study was mixed with travel and an appeal to make Israel a permanent residence for two young Lincoln women who spent seven weeks there last summer. Miss Barbara 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. (lerald Grant, Fionaciiin, toured with some 30 other high schoolers from the United States sponsored by the United Synagogue Youth.

Mi.ss Julie Kushner. 17, of Mr. and Mrs. Sheldon Kushner. 3501 So.

was a group of 100 Hebrew speaking youths traveling with tlie Na- iional Ramah Seminar, Southeast Seniors Both are seniors a Southeast High School. For Ihe two Jewish girls, the trips were the culmination of a life-time of study about liieir religion and heritage. They experienced hje He LeariiM By Your sun learns dependability develops personality and appreciates value of money lie earns on a Star newsiiaiicr route near home. at Circ. 432-1234-Adv.

I i 9 Miss Grant Miss Kushner teasioii of being in a country at war constantly harrasscd by terrorist attacks. "Memorials to the war dead are everywhere," according to Miss Grant, and Miss Kushner reported that nearly everyone stops whatever they are doing at news hours to listen to the casualty lists being read. Many of the same places visited by Miss group had been bombed "the night before or hit right after were there." As a result, the bu.ses had to travel with the closed, she said. Mines A Danger Tourists at the Golan Heights, including the Ramah Seminar group, were warned about getting oft the marked jiaths because the area had been heavily mined by tlie enemy. Miss Kushner indicated.

The girls felt that the Arabs were being treated well by the Israelis throughout the country, although the Arabs are frequently stopped to present ideiitifleatioii for security reasons. major reason for the trqi.s was to encourage the young people to return to Israel (o live permanently, the girls explained. Miss Kushner intends to do Just that after she completes her college education in the U.S.. but Miss Grant said it is a "big deci.sioii" she has not yet made. Wants To Return Miss Kushner, who said her svhole family would like to move to Israel someday, noted that she wants to return because of her Icelmg for Judaism and her desire to support the "last stronghold of Judaism in the worUl." People there "tru.st each other and are willing to get involved i I eir neighbors." she added, which she said slie does nol tiiul the U.S.

The Wailing Wall in the tHd Uitv of Jerusaiem was the high point of the trip for Miss Grani. was an overwhelming feeling," she cominentcd. to s-ce the wall that she had read about and had been a part of religion for 2.000 years. numerous activities was the participation in an arclieological dig in the area that was the City of David. 'Phe students, Miss Grant reported, found some pottery and little stones.

The seminar group in which iMiss Kushner a I d. studied geography, the Bible and the Hebrew language in V'i hours of class every day. The students were supposed to speak Hebrew all of the time. The teen-age look numerous hikes in all parts ot Israel. Miss Kushner pointed out.

which increased her al- traelion to Ihe eoimtry and its land. Both of the girls are active ill synagogue youth groups and the Soutiieast Pep Club. Today's Chuckle Old golfers inner die. They just get off and putt aw ay. Copyright Con.

Fai Corp. communicating to the world a final decision to leave Vietnam and "setting up a momentum that be stopped." Once withdrawal reaches about the halfway point, military will change sides and say our position is not sound, get us out," he suggested. War The war itself was "a vast mistake, Reischauer said, but the problem is how' to end it. Using our nuclear power would only risk nuclear war and invading Vietnam would be "an absolute folly" i could bring Chinese troops into the battle, he said. Even If we somehow destroyed North ietnam, the U.S.

would then be plagued with continuing guerrilla wars in both the North and South Reischauer said. for a negotiated settlement, "we can offer much too little for what Hanoi.would accept," he pointed out. Negotiation Saigon would not agree to a coalition government "as long as there," lie said. Hanoi will not accept elections." A negotiated settlement is impossible, "and (his is a crucial time for the to realize it." Reischauer said. "It is time for us to bite the bullet and that the only way out is by our moving out." Heischaucr said he participated in Vietnam Moratorium activities last Wednesday "to help bring pressure on our government (because) it is up to us to express ourselves very clearly on this." The former ambassador spoke at four Moratorium events that day his 59th birthday.

FBI Captures Harvey Lus IT Robert Allen Harvey, the object of an intensive search in connection with the kidnaping 'I'uesday of an Arroyo hign school girl, Kristine 17. was I'riday by agents in the liasement of an apartment house. Harvey, 31 hail escaped last Salu'rday from the Santa jail where he was being held for investigation of a series of market robberies, the FBI said Tlie kidnaping intensified the searcii tor Harvey. Grapp said. The girl later was released unharmed.

Local Scores High Lincoln Southeast Columbus 15. IJncolii East 6 Sioux City lleelan 54, 6 See Pages 11-13 By BROWN Star Sports Editor Two team.s trying to battle back after having their Big Fight title hojies bruised a bit la.st week will be fighting an elimination battle at Saturday afternoon at Memorial Stadium. Kansas and both still have Big Eight championship aspirations despite losses to Kansas State and Missouri, respectively, last week, but both are at the breaking point in this key game that will be watched by another capacity crowd of League history backs both coaches in their contention 'that one lo.ss has not eliminated their squads from championship contention. Big Eight titles in three of the past five years have been won or shared with 6-1 records. Lose Twice Rut no team has been able to lose twice and still gain a share of the crown.

Kansas is trying to come from farther back than are the Huskers, who stand at 2-2 with both losses coming from teams ranked in the top six nationally. The Jayhawks, iiicaiiwhilc, have only a 1-3 mark and those three losses have come against teams that appeared in the top 1(1 Texas Tech, and Kansas State. The loss to New Mexico gave the Lobos their only win in 23 games. But hardly anyone lii Husker country is looking down their noses at that 1-3 record since most can still remember two years ago when the dropped their first liirce games, but bounced back with a 10-0 whipping of Nebraska, then the defending Big Eight champ. "Kansas came alive la.st NU assistant coach John Melton observed tins week after scouting the KU 26-22 loss to Kansas State last weekend The biggest area where the "came alive" was in their offense where quarterback Jim liXl-yard passing day was the third biggest total by a Kansas pa.sser in 17 years.

Only bigger aerial harvests were 240 by Bobby Douglass against Oklahoma last year and 204 by Douglass against Iowa State in 1967. The biggest boost toward (hat offensive improvement was the switch of (ieorge McGowan back to split end from the defensive secondary. Mctiowan was the Jayhawks No. 1 pass receiver a year ago. but was moved to the defensive backfield this year to shore up that area.

However, when the Jayhawks began having trouble moving (he football, coach Pepper Rodgers decided to try to start outscoring people again, a formula that worked so well the past two seasons when KU finished second in 1967 and shared the title in 1968. But when it comes to pass- Coaches' Capsules Nehra.ska’s Bob Devaney "1 look for another fine Rig Eight football game. Both teams lost games they w'anled badly to win last week and both will really want a win thi'-' week." Pepper Rodgers "This spirit is as good as it's ever been since been at Kansas. I think got a real good chance to win the game. ing.

there's no one in the Rig Eight better than coach Bob Devancv's Huskers, wiio own the top three receivers in the league and the 2 passer. Huskers 1-2-3 Jim McFarland, Jeff Kinney and Larry Frost of Nebraska rank 1-2-3 in pass catching in Big Eight statistics while quarterback Jerrv 48 completions in 90 attempts for 616 yards ranks second only to Lynn Dickey. Nebraska holds a big edge in the series that dates back to 1892. but the have won the last two meetings. 10-0 in 1967 and 23-13 last vcar.

On Inside Pages World News 2 Hurn.s To Be Chict Banker State News Page 3 Royalty Frowned Women's News Page 8 Suburbia Sports News Pages 11-13 Husker Frosh Lose 4 Death.s 17 'I'V. Radio 16 Want Ad.s The Weather with cnaiice ot rain and little tempeialure cliaiige Saturday, considerable cloudiness with chance of rain Satu-rday night High low mid-30s. tiun prubahilities hh 1 V.MIC TI.Mh:; Floudy with 50L idiance of ram and lempcia- turi' of 52 degrees. Wind to southeast at 15 miles per hour. FASr AND NEBR.VSKA: Rain through Saturday mght without much change temperature.

Highs mid-40s to low low 30s cenlrul to 4()s east More Weather, Page 3 For early lunch try Sliarp PriiiievH (Ippii 9AM to 6 pm Sat. Shop before after the game. adv..

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