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The Ogden Standard-Examiner from Ogden, Utah • 1

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temperatures OGDEN: Highs today near S3 lows tonight near SO highs Monday near 70 UTAH: Highs today 70 to 80 lows tonight 45 to 55 highs Monday 70 to 80 10c DAILY 25c SUNDAY telephones CIRCULATION DEPARTMENT 399-9611 ALL OTHER DEPARTMENTS 394-7711 ASSOCIATED PRESS OGDEN UTAH UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY MORNING UPI TELEPHOTO JUNE 27 1971 VOL LXXXIV No 178 urn i SNEAKY JUGGLER HAS BALL UP IN SKY AT NOTRE DAME PARIS A little man in black danced against the gray Paris sky Saturday looking down and laughing from a tightrope strung between the two towers of Notre Dame Cathedral He juggled balls pranced back and forth and lay down on the cable 225 feet above the ground A crowd applauded and the police feeling a bit silly gave up on bringing the man down after trying to find winches ropes and rescue specialists The tightrope walker turned out to be Philippe Petit 21 a professional He descended on his own The police were a little confused how Petit set up his equipment but the best guess was that he sneaked into the cathedral Friday night and waited until early today- to put up the cable Petit was taken to a nearby police precinct for an identity check then was accompanied by officers to Notre Dame where he dismantled his material He returned to the police station and remained there throughout the afternoon He was not immediately charged 'V if 4 44 -5 -A- 4 4 4 St Louis Paper Notified A -5' fpil 5 list --4 4S 4' A i '4 their compounds except on official business All military personnel Vietnamese civilian employes military vehicles and aircraft are subject to search for narcotics Originally planned for three days the crackdown has been extended for at least a week and perhaps longer In an interview at his headquarters here Cushman said the antidrug the first of its kind in was conceived and organized secretly with only a handful of top officers in on the plans and few oth- CAN THO Vietnam (AP) American servicemen addicts are joining the drug amnesty program in increased numbers as a result of a crackdown in the Mekong Delta The top US general in the region says the crackdown was secretly planned and executed like a political coup After the first four days of the deltawide campaign that began last Tuesday about 120 soldiers had signed up for the amnesty program that is designed to help cure addicts without punitive measures officials said 4 i I X-' 4 4 I Oil 'V jr Wr Comparing this with an aver- ers alerted until the last minute A a i 1 -J Mfu ChfTrik 1 9 4 LIKE A COUP He said he had told Lt Gen Ngo Quang Truong the South Vietnamese commander of military Region 4 which encompasses the delta that was like a coup Everybody had to be prepositioned but as few people as possible had to know Explaining the tight clamp-down Cushman said: you had a cholera epidemic and no cure would you turn your men loose in an infected area? Or if you had rattlesnakes in your yard would you let your little girl play To bolster morale and get servicemen away from drugs Cushman also has ordered that recreational facilities and activ-See Page 2A Column 3 age of one or two servicemen a day who had joined the delta amnesty program since Jan 1 the officials cited it as evidence that the crackdown is having the desired effect of drying up supplies of heroin ORDERED CRACKDOWN Maj Gen John Cushman commander of the 8000 Americans based in the delta region said Saturday he ordered the crackdown on drug traffic because he believed the safety and welfare of Americans was his largest responsibility going to do everything I can to keep my men from being exposed to he added Under order all US servicemen are confined to If 1 Jr A 0 I V' A -4 ft -f L7 1 4 'i i rW! vs5 -4 Zf4 0: 4- 5 NV I j- HiX -'X x' A -i "i 7 i i ic A i-A4 a- -4 1 4V yO a 'M i'V sr 4 ss 1 WITH CRUCIFIX hanging from his neck a GI lugs his weapon back to sandbagged Fire Base Barbara after patrolling the area Standard-Examiner UPI Telephoto 1 --'I Jr Associated Press The US Supreme Court heard arguments Saturday on whether the government can prevent the press from publishing secret Vietnam documents and attorneys for the man who is reported to have leaked the papers announced in Boston he will surrender to federal author ities Monday No decision was expected from the Supreme Court until at least Monday After hearing 2V2 hours of testimony the court recessed giving no indication when it would rule on the historic case in which the right to function and the rights of a free press were at issue About 4V2 hours later The court closed for the day ALREADY RESTRAINED Meanwhile the government obtained a court order restraining the St Louis Post-Dispatch from publishing more articles aased on the documents which were part of a 7000-page study by the Pentagon on how the United States became involved in Southeast Asia Previously restrained were The New York Times the Washington Post and The Boston Globe It was the question of temporary restraining orders against the Times and Post that reached the Supreme Court At a news conference an attorney for Prof Daniel Ells-berg 40 who was named by a former New York Times reporter as the person who originally leaked the study to the Times said Ellsberg would appear at 10 am Monday to surrender to the US attorney in Boston The attorney said Ellsberg was innocent of Justice Department charges of possessing and failing to return Pentagon documents on the war- Ellsberg research associate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was not present at the news conference His attorneys refused to give their whereabouts Ellsberg has kept his whereabouts a secret since he was named by Sidney Zion as The source of the documents Neither Ellsberg nor the Times commented on allegation A federal grand jury in Los Angeles is looking into the disclosures TWO WEEKS AGO The Times began publishing articles on the documents and some of the documents themselves two weeks ago Other Newspapers Inc and the Chica-identified as being based at least in part on the documents since then were the Post the Globe the Post-Di jpatch the Los Angeles Times Knight Newspapers inc and the Chicago Sun-Times The government has made no move to restrain the Chicago Sun-Times or the Los Angeles Times There also was no action against the Knight chain which said after publishing a report on the study last Wednesday that it 1 planned no more dispatches at that time Although it would continue to publish without restraint material it believed in the public interest On Saturday Knight distributed to its 11 papers for publication Sunday a second report as-sertedly based on the Pentagon Papers A spokesman for the chain said the material was based on the same documents I eds From LAUGHING FUN-LOVING Philippe Petit 21 entertains a crowd with his tightrope-juggling act between two towers at famed Notre Dame Cathedral in Standard-Examiner UPI Telephoto WASHINGTON (AP) United States has yielded to a sustained British bid for its approval of a huge computer deal with the Soviet Union informed diplomats reported Saturday They said the British for their part have undertaken to obtain ironclad safeguards insuring the soviets do not assign the computers to the Soviet nuclear weapons program The AmericamBritish arrangement in its final stage after months of intensive political military and technical discussion could mark a breakthrough in Western technological cooperation with the Rus-sicins An announcement of the imminent agreement is expected in a matter of days after details NAMES Thejhave ESTABLISHMENT Do-Si-Do i been submitted to a 15-nation group which has the job of barring trade in war-potential goods with Communist countries MADE REQUEST The Paris-based group known as COCOM consists of all the members of the North Atlantic Alliance NATO with Japan sit ting in for little Iceland The Russians last year first approached International Computers I CL of Britain with a request to buy two big and highly sophisticated 1906A computers These were wanted for the Soviet Institute of High Energy Physics at Serpukhov where Western scientists including Americans and Swiss are permitted to participate in ongoing research operations Britain which has sold 27 of 33 Western computers badly wanted to accept the order valued at anything up to about $24 million In preliminary talks with the Russians the British say they were assured the computers would be used only for purposes of civilian research and could be checked by British inspectors from time to time although the Soviets never before had accepted the principle of on-site inspection in any safeguard system But American objections snagged the projected deal These objections were voiced within COCOM which must au For 15000 Drawn To Huge Dance-In DMZ and near the Laotian border The eight-jet bombers unloaded an estimated 360 tons of explosives on suspected North Vietnamese bunker complexes mortar positions infiltration routes and troop concentrations One of the raids struck only half a mile from Fire Base Fuller in direct support of South Vietnamese ground troops searching the area for enemy mortar positions It was from these positions that the North Vietnamese unloosed 800 rounds in 80 minutes Wednesday night in a bombardment that preceded their assault on Fuller Loss of the base weakened the 'western flank of the allied defense line The heavy and sustained air blows are aimed at keeping the North Vietnamese off balance and preventing them from mounting a drive southward in the dry season now starting Some allied commanders expect the North Vietnamese to open an offensive in July or Au- SAIGON (AP) US bombers and helicopter gunships pounded enemy positions south of the demilitarized zone around the clock Saturday trying to keep the North Vietnamese from massing for a dry season offensive On the ground fighting subsided around abandoned Fire Base Fuller four miles south of the zone dividing the Vietnams but the enemy shelled other South Vietnamese positions nearby A South Vietnamese infantry position two miles southeast of Fuller was hit by 32 mortar and recoiless rifle shells The South Vietnamese reported no casualties Camp Carroll a regimental headquarters six miles south of Fuller was struck by 12 rockets The allies reported light casualties among the South Vietnamese defenders and a US artillery unit TONS OF EXPLOSIVES Four waves of B52 bombers raided the area just below the Scientist Dies at 62 NEW ORLEANS La (AP) the answer to those rock said JD Rhodes as 15000 dancers whirled in a genial maze of swirling skirts and fancy shirts or or that you hear around nowadays square dancing gives you all of it and in a clean and healthy he added Most of those gathered here to do their thing at the 20th National Square Darce Convention would agree with Rhodes a 48-year-old New Orleans depart- SUCCUMBS: The Soviet Un-ion disclosed for the first time jthorize 1 jmary Saturday that the man ception to Allied embargo and lists American military defense experts were not convinced the Russians would resist the temptation to divert the computers to their nuclear arms program gust to capture the northern provinces and to disrupt South National Assembly elections in late August and the presidential election Oct 3 130 KILLED In a summary of the fighting of the past week for Fire Base Fuller Lt Col Le Trung Hien spokesman for the South Vietnamese command said 130 North Vietnamese were killed around the base in ground action June 19-26 He estimated that an additional 310 North Vietnamese were killed by air strikes basing the figure on counts by aerial observers and ground forces Hien said South Vietnamese losses in the week-long Fuller action were 22 killed and 89 wounded At the end of a week of heavy action that saw South Vietnamese troops driven off Fire Base Fuller another allied setback came to light It was learned that three American-led intelligence teams were wiped out in recent weeks while on spy missions behind enemy lines in Laos and South Vietnam Associated Press correspondent Michael Putzel reporting from Phu Bai in the northern sector said one of -the teams was observing North Vietnamese troops movements with secret detection devices on a mountain outpost a mile north of the abandoned combat base at Khe Sanh This is in the northwest corner of South Vietnam TRIBESMEN KILLED He said the team of two Americans and about 25 Mon-tagnards hill tribesmen were killed June 5 at the outpost named Hickory The other two teams were operating on similar observation missions across the border in Laos when they were wiped out Putzel said he learned from reliable military sources details were lacking Putzel reported that Hickory was overrun after two days of fighting A US rescue helicopter was shot down when it tried to extricate some of the intelligence team the four-man crew was lost despite an ensuing four-day rescue effort by other US helicopters ment store employee The three-day dance-in which began Thursday was second musical event of the weekend Upriver at McCrea the week-long of rock festival was hitting full steam for 40000 youths camped on a 700-acre meadow There was amplified electric blues sprinklings of dope and naked swimming in a nearby river and a full complement of police HOT TOPIC While the rock festival was a hot topic with the square dance crowd the New Orleans hoe-down draw much attention at McCrea think nice that they have something to said Jane Dufour 20 New Orleans 1116 rituals were different at New Rivergate convention center where the square dancers most of them middle-aged filled a main hall the size of a football field plus six smaller rooms The dance seemed the one and only attrac- ei CityS didn get any of Jie stimated $3 million spent by the dancers drink and square said Lee Downey Seattle Wash you do you miss the calls and mess up They I Weather Map 2A Womens Pages 1C-16C FORECAST RAUF' (6 SECTIONS 38 PAGES) Dear Abby 15C Bridge Business Page UB Editorial Page Farm Page 20 Movies 13B Obituaries Sports Pages 1B-6B Television Log 8D used in report and organization was the organization was responsible for designing the space engines was Alexei Isayev It did so in announcing his death The official news agency Tass said in Moscow the chief rocket engine and space propulsion designer died Friday at 62 but gave no details Tass said Isayev designed the engine units for the Vos-tok and Voshkhod rockets and the Soyuz manned spacecraft He thus engineered the propulsion units for the Soyuz-Salute space laboratories now orbiting the earth with three cosmonauts on board Izvestia said Isavev was bom Oct 24 1908 in Leningrad and graduated from an unnamed university in 1931 DATE CHANGE: Sen Robert Byrd is nearly two months older than he has been saying he is The West Virginia Democrat was orphaned at 10 months and has been giving his birth date as Jan 15 1918 But older brother Clyde Sale questioned that recently He checked the birth certificate in North Wilkesboro NC It shows birthdate as Nov 20 1917 Byrd was reared by an See Page 2A Column 1 RUNDOWN ON PENTAGON WAR PAPERS ROME (AP) Italians were warned Saturday that vipers are beginning to take over the countryside because of the migration of people to cities The poisonous snakes whose bite can mean death in one case in 10 were described as not only becoming more numerous but bigger and meaner as well Experts at a Rome sympo- aggressive because of tne de sium on the viper danger con- ducted by the biological studies center of the Knights of Malta said this was because of the increasing upset of the ecological bslnncc They said the steady movement from the country to the cities was throwing increasingly large parts of rural Italy back to abandonment where the deadly reddish-brown snakes with the triangular heads and Prof Franco Gentile of the Italian Institute of Herpetology! at Verona said the snakes were getting bigger because the return of farmland to wilderness was providing more food in the way of mice small birds and li-zards At the same time he said the snakes were becoming more crease in their natural enemies hogs birds of prey and even farmyard cats and chickens told the symposium vipers used to strike only in last defense against a sniffing hunting nose or a flower-picking excursionist's hand six inches away Now the emboldened snakes go out of their way to strike anything that bothers them up leave that stuff alone before and during the dance and afterward too Teen-agers brought along by dancing parents were ed to one room to dance at their own pace Familiar recordings played on loud speaker systems provided the music The only live entertainers were 500 ranging from amateur to semiprofessionals who took turns at the microphones to chant the familiar rhythmic mix of nonsense and dance commands at foot and a half away he day However it was stopped while the government appealed to the Supreme Court Arguments: The government said that publication challenges fundamental and important right of government to The newspapers said the attempt of the government to halt publication threatens the constitutional guarantees of free speech Status: The Supreme Court heard arguments for more than two hours Saturday and gave no indication when it might reach a decision As of Saturday evening both papers still were under a ban on publishing further articles from the Pentagon study WASHINGTON Here is a rundown on the case of the Pentagon papers before the Supreme Court Saturday: Principals: The federal government versus The New York Times and The Washington Post two newspapers that have published articles based on a top secret Pentagon study of the Vietnam war Background: The Times published three articles and was stopped from printing any more by a court order obtained by the government The Times appealed to the Supreme Court The Post published two articles the government asked for a ban but the Post won permission to resume its series Satur to a aunt Mrs Titus Byrd and sabre shaped fangs could flour he assumed her last name jish.

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