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BULLUUU 2 The Arizona Republic Phoenix, May 6. 196ft Quick retaliation Nixon's impulse on spy plane's downing By WILLIAM BEECHER New York Times Service WASHINGTON Military was President on's first inclination as he considered his response to the shooting down of an unarmed iNavy reconnaissance plane by -North Korea, according to top administration officials. Efforts to reconstruct the President's thinking in the first hours after the plane incident on April 14 produced consistent reports in several agencies of government that the President initially had favored retaliation. He is said to have started moving the machinery of reaction to the brink of such a response, but then stopped short of ordering an air strike. Officials say the ning went so far as to select two targets in North Korea.

According to one source, a speech was prepared to explain the retaliation to the American people. But several factors are said to have turned Nixon toward a course of greater restraint. "These included: slowness of military preparations to move ships and planes into position to handle not only the realiatory raid but possible subsequent countermoves by North Korea against South Korea. by close associates of the President, notably Secretary of State Wil; liam P. Rogers, 'that find some course short of retali- 1 ation to answer the unpro- voked attacked.

I concern, as time passed, that the American people might consider ing raids againt North Korea as hauntingly similar to the Gulf of Tonkin air strikes of August 1964 that lead to a broader American involvement in the Vietnam war. Sources say that most of those involved in policy discussions held the view that in attacking the Navy EC121 aircraft on April 14 about 90 miles off its coast, North Korea was not trying to spark another war. Rather, they believed, the Pyongyang regime was determined to demonstrate that the Nixon administration was just as preoccupied with Vietnam as the Johnson administration, and thus would not take any precipitate retaliatory action, just as President Johnson had not struck back for the seizure of the spy ship Pueblo 15 months earlier. According to these officials, the President felt that "quick, clean" retaliation against one or more North Korean air bases would prove to North Korean Premier Kim II Sung that he was dealing with a tougher administration in Washington. This might have had a side benefit in signaling the same message to North Vietnamese leaders.

It might also have had a salutory effect on the peace negotiations in Paris, some officials felt. Officials close to the decision say that doubts in Nixon's own mind, however, are believed to have played the largest role in turning him from initial impulses in 'the matter. The President was impressed, sources say, at how few congressional voices were raised in favor of retaliation. Britain renews its bid to Common Market Washington Post Service LONDON Britain reopened, its campaign' for' iull membership in the European Common Market yesterday as Prime Minister Harold Wilson said that his govern- nient's determination to join had not weakened in the past "and certainly will not weaken now." This was Wilson's first -statement on Europe since the resignation a week ago of French President Charles de Gaulle, who twice blocked British entry. The occasion was the 20th anniversary meeting of the Council of Europe, and the audience included foreign ministers of 12 of the council's 18 members pountries.

"We have been right to per'. sist," the prime minister said, referring to Britain's attempt to join the market and other European communities. "When that persistence is rewarded by an enlargement of 'the communities, as it will be, the road to a united Europe will be open again." None of the speakers yes- Unity factors into 3 again Associated Press PARIS An attempt by France's left wing to run a unity presidential candidate against Georges Pompidou dissolved yesterday, strengthening jthe former, premier's front runner in 1 to pick a successor Clisrjes Gaulle. The Party, the New Socialist and the Unified Socialist each nominated to oppose Pompidou' after failing to agree oh'a joint candidate. The Communists dug deep into their stable of old war horses to pick Jacques Duclos, 1 a 72-year-old senator, as their nominee.

Earlier in the day, the Socialists had named Gaston Andf -law the- at small 1 39- civil servant, The disunity of the left was not increasing Pompidbu's votes, only scattering strength fas Jefl, 4 ity is needed to win "Jf no one gets a majority, the two top candidates go into a runoff June 15. terday mentioned De "Gaulle, but his absence from, power lent an unanticipated 'eloquence to appeals for European unity made in the opening ceremony. In a speech of welcome, Queen Elizabeth II called on 'the assembled ministers to "grasp this opportunity with both hands" for achieving greater European unification, for the sake of future generations and the peace and prosperity of the continent. The same theme was reiterated by West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt, who said that many people felt "that the progress towards a united Europe is too slow." But he also cautioned that the ideal of a united Europe should not block vision of what was possible; asserting "We want a healthy mixture of faith in the Mure and sober realism." The occasion for Wilson's reaffirmation was symbolically fitting since Britain led the way in forming the Council of Europe, the first important postwar step to European unification. Its charter was signed in London on May 5, 1949, and its membership has grown to 18 nations' whose delegates take part in the European Parliament at Strasbourg.

The council is a forum for debate with limited powers, and the major controversy at the present meeting will be over demand for the expulsion of Greece for its purported violations of human rights under a military regime. In broader terms, the gathering will provide European leaders with their first chance of making an assessment of prospects for enlarging the Common Market in that post-De Gaulle era. Even cautious diplomats express the feeling that a once-frozen situation shows signs of a thaw. Subversive campaign in Federal Attorney General Nigel 3owe said he has uncovered details of a nationwide campaign to foment unrest and dissent in Australia's universities and schools. He said the campaign is planned to come to a head with a mass demonstration on July 4.

U.S. flags waved by damp Czechs AP Wlrephoto WAR ZONE tail section of an old crashed airplane at Dak Pek special forces camp in South Vietnam serves as a jungle gym for Montagnard children. Several North Vietnamese infiltration routes pass through the area. Arabs not prepared for total war with Israel, Golda Meir declares Associated Press JERUSALEM The Arabs are not prepared for a full- scale war with Israel, Prime Minister Golda Meir declared yesterday, but she added that Israeli armed forces are ready if she is wrong. "Ocassionally our region is portrayed as being on the point of an explosion which may spread beyond this Mrs.

Meir said in a State of the Union message to the Knesset, Israel's parliament. "There is no justification for this contention. We live in this region and we are perfectly familiar with the actual state of affairs. "Israel cannot permit herself to err in her evaluation of the situation or underestimate the gravity of the dangers, nor can it exaggerate them. We have learned not to create pipe dreams.

"To the best of our judgment the Arab countries cannot at the present permit themseves to wage a total war." She added, however, that while she believes her government's assessment to have a firm foundation, Israel's military forces "are ready for any eventuality, even for the eventuality of a mistake in this forecast." Mrs. Meir's address followed some expressions of concern that the fighting along the Suez Canal and Jordan River cease-fire lines could escalate into another wide-open conflict in the Middle East. Sporadic firing between the Israelis and Arab forces was European command given to Goodpaster STUTTGART, Germany (UPI) Gen. Andrew J. Goodpaster yesterday took over as commander of U.S.

forces in Europe. Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer, who is retiring, turned over command in colorful ceremonies at headquarters. Goodpaster, 54, was deputy commander of U.S.

troops in Vietnam. He will become NATO commander July 1. CZECH, 112, DIES PRAGUE (UPI) Czechoslovakia's oldest citizen, a 112-year-old woman, died Sunday in a nursing home in Zasova, the CTK news agency reported yesterday. The Arizona Republic Published every morning by Phoenix Newspapers, Inc. (120 East Van Buren) P.O.

Box 1950 Phoenix, Ariz. 85001 27.1-8000. 'Subscription prices Carters or DjaaJers to '7Qc week Republic (Morning) 45c wk (Circulation mail rates appear in the Classified tion of each edition.) reported yesterday along the canal and near the Allenby Bridge just north of the Dead Sea. An Israeli spokesman said artillery, light arms and mortar fire was exchanged across the waterway in the El Qantara region. A civilian tractor driver was reported wounded on the Israeli side.

The Israelis claimed Jordanian forces fired across the Jordanian river with tanks, mortars and light weapons. No casualties were reported. U.N. Secretary General Thant said in Geneva Sunday he felt the situation in the Middle East is deteriorating and could get out of hand in the next two months. Even some Israeli newspajr, pers seemed concerned about a.

new outbreak and they appealed for a massive military strike as preventive measure. But Mrs. Meir seemed to be calling for patience among the Israeli people. "There is no substitute for consolidation along the cease-fire lines in view of the fact that the Arabs still refuse to make peace," she said. "In the absence of peace, the cease-fire lines are the best guarantees for Israel, even if firing the other side has not ceased." She renewed Israel's terms for settlement of the Middle East problem through direct negotiations with the Arabs.

These terms call for an end to the state of belligerency in force since Israel's foundation in 1948, agreements on boundaries and free navigation of waterways, such as the Suez Canal. She dismissed claims by President Gamal Abdel Nasser in his May Day speech that Egypt has destroyed 60 per cent of Israel's Suez Ca-. nal fortifications. Mrs. Meir also assailed Jordan's King Hussein, who put fqrth a six-point peace proposal in Washington April 10.

United Press International PILSEN, Czechoslovakia Riot police used water hoses and clubs last night to disperse some 5,000 demonstrators protesting the government's lack-luster observance of the 24th anniversary of Pilsen's World War II liberation by the U.S. Army. "U.S.A.! U.S.A.!" chanted students. The demonstrations began quietly with citizens of all ages carrying tiny, paper American flags. A nighttime demonstration swelled into a general protest.

Police tried to disperse jeering crowds, but they kept surging back. Police then gave the hooting, whistling mob of mostly young people a dousing with water hoses. There was some scuffling with police, and clubs were swung. Students dispersed but continued to mill about singing protest songs and cheering a car with a West German license plate. Several persons were taken away in a police car, including a young worker who unfurled a large American flag.

The force of riot police, about 100 men wearing steel helmets, advanced into the crowd with two water cannon trucks. For two hours a crowd of several thousand people had placed tiny American paper flags and sprung flowers on a grassy square where a partly finished monument to U.S. soldiers was torn down by the Stalinist Communist regime in the 1950s. The police ripped out the American flags but left Czechoslovak banners, flowers and, pictures of Tomas Masaryk and Eduard Benes, the founders of pre- Communist Czechoslovakia. Authorities were seeking to play down the American role in the liberation in the official anniversary ceremonies.

For the second consecutive year, city officials placed wreaths at flagposts of all, four allies, including the Soviet Union, at a marble monument built in 1967. But only the Czechoslovak national anthem was played. The worker displaying the American flag stood defiantly at the. head of 700 persons watching the wreath-placing ceremony. After the ceremony, the worker, a tractor driver, was arrested, hustled into a police van and the flag was tossed in after him.

"Did you see that?" several people asked this correspondent. A crowd of several thousand then formed at the destroyed monument to the American liberators. Each time a citizen placed one of the tiny American flags on the flowers growing at the grassy place, the crowd, held back by police, applauded. British vote tests Wilson Associated Press LONDON (AP) Prime Minister Harold Wilson faces the prospect of yet another electoral rebuff in local balloting that got under way throughout Britain yesterday. The voting to fill 5,495 council seats in towns, cities and urban districts of England, Scotland and Wales goes on all week, and the final tally will not be known until Saturday.

The balloting comes with the popularity rating in opinion polls at a low level for Wilson's badly divided Labor party and his beleaguered government. It followed a long string of defeats in elections to fill parliamentary seats left vacant by death or resignation. The series of losses has left party morale at a low ebb. The rpime minister, however, appeared to have put down a determined move by rebels to oust him. His government, nevertheless, remained in direct conflict with organized labor over his bid to curb wildcat strikes.

Leaders of the big Trades Union Congress, which represents nine million British workers yesterday sought the backing of the Confederation of British Industry in establishing a voluntary system of strike curbs, in an effort to ward off government action. The local elections have an important influence on national politics, not only because of their effect on party morale, but also because of their importance in grass-roots politics and on local issues. GIs unearth huge enemy arms cache Associated Press big enemy arms cache was found yesterday by U.S. forces 52 miles north of Saigon, spokesmen in another setback for the Communist command, which has lost 38,000 weapons since its offensive was launched Feb. 23.

In addition to the men killed and weapons captured, the enemy has lost 2,500 rockets and 110,000 mortar rounds to allied forces in the 2Vfe- month-old offensive, the U.S. Command said. Unconfirmed field reports said the cache discovered included 91 machine guns and a number of mortars. THE DISCOVERY came at a time when U.S. military headquarters was saying that the enemy offensive was running out of steam mainly because of heavy losses in men and equipment.

Elsewhere in Vietnam yesterday, only sporadic fighting was reported. In one clash, enemy troops ambushed a U.S. 25th Infantry Division supply convoy three miles north of Trang Bang. Artillery, gunships and troops' from the 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry were called into the battle, in which 11 enemy soldiers were killed. U.S.

casualties were not immediately known, according to a military spokesman, who said the convoy suffered light material damage. The Division's 2nd Brigade later ran into an enemy force of undetermined size about four miles northwest of Cu Chi and killed 12 enemy soldiers. ELSEWHERE, the U.S. Command reported the loss of five American helicopters and an Air National Guard FIDO jet over the weekend at a cost of 11 crewmen's lives. Six other crewmen were wounded.

The Air Force jet, from the 188th Tactical Fighter Squadron based about 240 miles northeast of Saigon, crashed Sunday while on combat mission. The pilot was killed. The squadron, one of three called up and sent here during last year's Pueblo crisis, is scheduled to return to the United States before June 1. Its exact date of departure hasn't been given by the Air Force. Second class postage paid at Phoenix, Ariz.

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