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WENDELL FORD Da Nang Fighter Squadrons Go to Thailand Troop Pullout Just Bookkeeping POPE PAUL VI BOBBY FISCHER SAIGON (UPD-The U.S. command moved all fighter squadrons from the big U.S. air base at Da Nang to camps in neighboring Thailand today in little more than a paper switch apparently aimed at meeting President troop pullout deadline. Military sources said the if would count as a withdrawal of troops from virtually a bookkeeping change and would have only minor impact on the air war. The command also announced a drop in U.S.

military strength in Vietnam from 60,100 to 54,000 5.000 short of the 49.000 figure Nixon ordered by the end of June. The drop included 600 Marines and 1,700 airmen, many believed to be members of the seven U.S. fighter squadrons at Da Nang, 370 miles north of Saigon. The U.S. command said the three Marine and four Air Force F4 Phantom fighter-bomber squadrons at Da Nang wrere in Thailand.

A command communique said one of the Marine squadrons, however, left Thailand for home and was replaced by a fresh unit. The move left only three U.S. Fighter squadrons in South Vietnam -an Air Force A37 Dragonfly unit and two Marine A4 Skvhawk squadrons, all at the Bien Hoa air base, 14 miles north of Saigon. The U.S. command refused to say how many airmen and Marines were in the seven squadrons moved from Da Nang or which bases they went to in Thailand.

The United States has seven bases scattered across Thailand at Utapao, Forat, Udorn, Nakhon Phanom, Nam Phong, Ubon and TakhJi. Military sources, however, said the seven squadrons have about 2,000 men and have been moved to Nam Phong, 255 miles northeast of the Thai capital of Bangkok. The sources said the move would have little impact on the U.S. air war and might even make strikes against North Vietnam a little easier. Hanoi, the North Vietnamese capital, is closer to Nam Phong (350 miles) than Da Nang (375 miles).

Week's Delay In Hawaiian Dock Strike HONOLULU (UPI) The International and Union agreed to a one-week delay in its threatened Hawaiian clock strike just three hours before more than 900 dockworkers were scheduled to walk off docks today. Gov. John A. Burns said the ILWU and stevedoring industry had agreed to the and continue for another week. The new deadline is 12:01 a.m.

Monday, July 3. The governor told a Sunday night news conference he has reason to believe that a contract will be during the one-week extension. The longshoremen have been working without a new contract for nearly a year. They said Friday the strike would be called for Sunday midnight (6 a.m. EDT) unless a new contract was reached.

The governor said he had called both sides to his home at 8:15 p.m. Sunday after learning that negotiations were deadlocked. Burns said he suggested that both sides agreed to an 82-cent wage increase. The proposal was the same formula used to settle the recent West Coast dock strike. People Will Play Russ Champ Pope: Children a Joy LOS ANGELES (UPI) When Bobby Fischer showr up in Reykjavich, Iceland as expected Sunday there wras concern he had changed his mind about meeting Russian Boris Spassky in the world chess championship there July 2 But Fischer, in seclusion here, has every intention of playing Spassky, a chess source said today.

Like his game, however, the exact time the American champion will make his move is uncertain. Fischer and world chess officials have been at odds over the conditions under which the $125,000 world championship match will be played. Steam Bike in Debut BERKELEY, Calif. (UPI)Inventor Dave Sarlin drove his steam powered bicycle on its maiden run Sunday. It chugged up and down the street at just under 14 miles an hour.

Sarlin, 30. built the vehicle by placing a boiler and miniature steam engine on a bracket above the front wheel on his 10E speed bike. Gasoline was burned in a small camper-style stove to heat the water. Steam generated in the boiler turned a small aluminum cast rotor mounted with a clutch to turn the front tire. VATICAN CITY (UPI) Pope Paul VI says some of his happiest moments are spent with young children.

is an immense pleasure for us when we are surrounded by these innocent, happy, jubilant, noisy the Pope said Sunday in a message to pilgrims and tourists in St. Square. want to take time to occupy ourself a little with such beauty and such Routine Operation HOUSTON UPD-Heart specialist Dr. Michael DeBa- key says today's operation on Kentucky Gov. Wendell Ford for removal of a tumor from an abdominal artery should be standard and not take much more then an hour.

The Kentucky governor flew to Houston Sunday to be examined by DeBakey. A Methodist Hospital spokesman said the 47-vear-old Ford was expected to be in intensive care for about three days and should be dismissed from the hospital by late next week. aneurism of the abdominal discovered June 15 when the governor was examined for a back injury he sustained dur- i the Governor's Cup Hydroplane Regatta in Owensboro. four days before. Litton Industries on Verge Of Disaster, Says Proxmire WASHINGTON OJPI) -Litton Industries, which holds major ship construction contracts with the Navy, is on the brink of financial disaster, Sen.

William Proxmire, said today. He said the firm is pressing the Navy for payment of $450 million in attempt to shift the costs of its own inadequacies to the American The $450 million demand is a claim made by Litton on grounds that the Navy changed its contracts after they had been signed. Proxmire said Navy officials have testified that only a small fraction of the claim could be justified. A spokesman for Litton Industries said the health has never been the He said Litton every has carried out the requirements of standard accounting and reporting practices and full disclosure in accordance with government regulations. The spokesman said the Navy had failed to pay for submarine modifications it agreed to in early 1970 and also had failed to pay for four ammunition supply ships, of which have been delivered.

is long overdue and meanwhile Litton is subsidizing Navy the spokesman said. In a letter to Navy Secretary John W. Warner, Proxmire urged the Navy to declare Litton in default on a contract for helicopter-carrying vessels even though this would mean company could face a financial crisis of major proportions in the near Proxmire wrote Warner that Litton is pressing for payment of at least $40 million on its claims by July 31, the end of the fiscal year it will be required to demonstrate its financial solvency to its auditors an urge you not to allow Litton to become the Proxmire wrote, recalling the need for legislation guaranteeing a government-backed loan to Lockheed to allow' the nation's biggest defense contractor to avoid bankruptcy. Proxmire also made public a letter to William J. Casey, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, questioning whether failure to report its claims to its stockholders violated SEC rules.

The senator said Litton was two years behind schedule in building the LHA, an amphibious ship carrying assault helicopters. He said delays on the LHA have also delayed the. DD-9R3 destroyer for which Litton holds the contract. is becoming increasingly clear that Litton is unable to perform any of its major shipbuilding contracts without nmning up huge cost Proxmire said. Adv for 6:30 am EDT Phantom Jets Bomb N.

Viet Steel Plant SAIGON (UPI) U.S. F4 Phantom fighter-boni bers streaked to within sight of Hanoi over the weekend, destroying a major power plant that supplies electricity to the North Vietnamese capital and bombarding the only modern steel mill. Phantom pilots bombed the Viet Tri thermal power plant 25 miles northwest of Hanoi Sunday, the U.S. command said today, the boiler, electrical switching building and the coal conveyer. The plant was the sole source of electricity for a nearby chemical factory and other industries, a command spokesman said, and supplied power to parts of the capital.

A command communique issued Sunday said 20 Phantoms battered the two-miles- square Thai Nguyan steel works 30 miles north of Hanoi Saturday with 2.000-pound la- serguided bombs, the same types used against the power plant. The bombs knocked out several warehouses in the complex and its open hearth furnaces for making steel. The mill turns out mainly mortars and spare parts for vehicles. A U.S. Air Force spokesman said hit the hell out the coke ovens, blast furnaces and storage areas we found the plant out of Navy fighter-bomber pilots flew' to within 15 miles of Hanoi to bomb the Xuan Mai army training camp southwest of the capital and the nearby Xuan Mai truck park, command spokesmen said.

In all Sunday, 270 U.S. air raids into the north destroyed or damaged bridges, three storage areas. 23 tnicks, 11 boats, 13 supply buildings, three antiaircraft artillery sites. ma is 1 IH hnp I ter NEW PING PONG DIPLOMACY Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro plays table tennis during visit to the High Tatra mountains of Slo- vakia prior to arrival in Moscow rbe. He is on extended tour of Eastern Europe.

(UPI Telephoto) Hug and Kiss Greet Castro's Return to Moscow After 8 Years Bv DAVID NAGY MOSCOW (UPI)-Leonid I. Brezhnev and thousands of cheering Russians welcomed Fidel Castro like a long-lost hero today when he returned to Moscow after an eight-year absence. Brezhnev, general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, grasped the bearded Cuban premier in both arms as he stepped onto the tarmac at Vnukovo Airport, kissed his left cheek, kissed his right cheek, pounded him on the back and held him in an embrace for 15 seconds. Fi-del! Friendship! chanted the airport crowd of about 1,000 persons, unusually large for such a ceremonial greeting. They had burst into a spontaneous cheer when Castro, clad in green army fatigues, appeared at the door of his Cuban airliner.

Newsmen estimated at least Fear Held Responsible White House Kills Warning Plan By WARREN L. NELSON WASHINGTON (UPI) -The White House has killed plans for a cheap nationwide system to warn every household in the country' of approaching hurricanes, floods and other disasters for fear it would lay itself open to charges of starting a thought control system. Since 1963 officials involved in civil defense and disaster relief had been looking at a proposal to require that all new television sets be equipped with a special attachment allowing the authorities to turn the sets on at full volume day or night to wake up and warn citizens of an approaching disaster. However, fears that the government wouid be assailed for forcing a system of thought control on the public led the White House to kill the idea of asking Congress to make the television attachments mandatory, administration officials said today. In George book Big Brother controlled the populace by issuing orders into home over a government controlled radio system.

That system also contained microphones allowing Big police to hear what was being said in any home. The officials said the White House also opposed the prop- osal on grounds that it w'as to require the warning system on television sets. But other officials noted that argument did not stop Congress from requiring seat belts on cars. Officials are now trying to devise special warning radios that citizens could buy or ignore at their own choosing. They said the problem is to build a set cheap enough so that they do not in effect discriminate against the poor and make broadcast warnings the advantage only of the wealthy.

A receiver developed recently for the Weather Bureau costs $150 and is clearly out of reach of the poor if not, the middle One official who had opposed the mandatory attachment on televisions reasoned that warnings could not be forced on the people. family that wants to be warned will buy a set w'hen w'e get the price down low he said. fellow who even today ignores radio and TV w-amings of trouble would only curse the President if he were awakened in the middle of the night to be told there were tornados in the Officials emphasized that their proposed television warning device would contain no microphones and would be used only for disaster messages, not for political speeches. But the White House still feared a public outcry. For a while the plans even called for including a switch that would allow persons fearful of the Big Brother approach simply to disconnect the entire warning system from their sets.

Some officials estimated the needed equipment add only $8.70 to the cost of a television although others questioned that a price could not yet be calculated. By passing a law requiring manufacturers to install the gear on all new sets most homes would be covered by the warning system within a decade. another 30,000 Russians lined Castro's motorcade route to the Kremlin, equipped with paper Cuban flags. Brezhnev passed Castro to President Nikolai V. Podgor- nv and Premier Alexei N.

Kosygin, who repeated the kiss-hug backslop greeting. It appeared to viewers a considerably warmer greeting than even that accorded President Tito earlier this month. The bareheaded Brezhnev and Castro, who wore his familiar pillbox-type fatigue cap, exchanged a few words of private greeting alongisde the airliner as Brezhnev held Castro in his arms. The visitor then reviewed an honor guard at Brezhnev's left hand and plunged into the crowd of Soviet factory hands and office workers brought out by bus for the pump hands. The crowd responded with more chants of and Castro was visiting on what the Soviets call friendly official for the first time since January 1964, when Ni- Grenade Toss Game Kills Three PLEIKU, Vietnam hand grenade being tossed back and forth in a game of between two American soldiers exploded, killing both of them and a third G1 who had stepped into their quarters to bum a cigarette, army officials said today.

Both players reportedly had been drinking heavily. They decided to pull the pin from a hand grenade and throw it to each other. The first man to throw it away would be kita S. Khrushchev was still in power. During that period, So vietCuban relations went through several periods of fricture, including a brief Cuban flirtation with Peking.

Diplomatic sources said Castro and the Kremlin meant to mend fences torn by these frictions an discuss economic relations. Castro was expected to stay 10 days to two weeks. He will live in the Kremlin, as Presi- Market Close To Solution in Money Crisis By RICHARD C. LONGORTH LUXEMBOURG (UPI) Common Market finance ministers debeated the new world monetary crisis for two hours today and reported our views are very on a solution. But a final solution awaited crisis talks with British Chancellor of the Exchequer Anthony Barber later today.

There have been hints that the Common Market members might allow their own currencies to float as Britain did last Friday, but conference sources indicated they would urge Barber to restore the pound sterling to a fixed parity as soon as possible. decision to let the pound on the world money markets plunged the financial world into confusion. Although European money markets were closed, the pound dropped in unofficial trading and took the U.S. dollar along with it. Barber flew to Luxembourg for hurried conferences with the Common Market finance ministers and planned to return to London this evening for more talks with Prime Minister Edward Heath.

While he acted to tackle the immediate European problems, Commonwealth countries reacted bitterly. Some London financial experts said the British move could lead to an end to the which encompasses such countries as Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Ireland, Malaysia and Singapore. Financial experts believed other currencies might also plan to float. The Italian lira was considered a vulnerable currency even before the British decision. The Danish cabinet met in emergency session today to decide whether to float Danish currency.

There were reports Switzerland might have to revalue its franc upward but government sources denied this. There were fears in Japan that the yen might have to be revalued upward despite belief such a move would jolt export market. Only Second Skydive Woman Plunges 3,000 Feet as Chute Fails MIAMI (UPI) Teresa Torres, a young woman who was of made her first parachute jump Saturday. She was afraid, but she overcame the fear. She loved the jump.

Sunday, she jumped again and died, falling 3,000 feet into a farm field. Fear apparently won the second round. Teresa, 26, and her boyfriend, Tim Buschlen, 31, began skydiving lessons two weeks before they made their first jump Saturday in south Dade County. was so enthusiastic. She was full of said a cousin, Dr.

Algerto Torres. was all bruised on the hip from the first jump Saturday, but she was excited and to jump again Sunday. was afraid, but the excitement was more powerful than her When she followed Buschlen out of the small plane Sunday, white, orange and green parachute malfunctioned, opening only part She wore a reserve chute, but she never opened it. Investigators found it in working order. will ever know what really happened, said Jorge Rey, 23, another jumper." All for sure is that she pull her reserve chute.

She had two weeks training. She knew what to do, but she able to do it. She must have frozen. Frank Castro, 30. president of the Golden Falcons Sky Diving Club which had had a perfect safety record, watched Teresa fall.

her coming down. She was stable, in a free fall position, all the way he said. make a move to pull the reserve. know what happened. Maybe she was so scared she Torres remembered what Teresa told him about jumping after her first jump Saturday.

told me it he said. wonderful experience, that you had to do it to feel what it was.