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World News Russian Mideast role concerns US government WASHINGTON Al* The United Slates ex presMsl serious concern Monday over Russia s Knowing role in the defense of Kgypt. implying the latest Soviet anus shipment* could upset the Middle Hast cease (ire The State Department, setting forth official anxiety over the situation, also sought to put pressure on Israel for some new peace move toward Kgypt A spokesman implied that the lack of progress m peace negotiations, which the United Stales has recently pinned on Israel, was to some degree refipmiftlhle for the latest Soviet shipments I'ress Officer Charles Bray told a news con ferencc "We're keeping careful tafis on tin* most recent flow of Soviet equipment to the United Arab Republic Kgypt so we may have some idea of its effect on the military balance ami tax-ause of the implications that this kind of action may have on the present cease fire condition* in the area.” Officials told newsmen that the United States must be alert to a military tnuldup at a time when progress has slimed down on the negotiating front These officials said that the greater Soviet in volvcmmt in Kgypt * defense is the latest evidence of (fie dangers of big power confrontation in the Ar at) Israeli conflict Since Hi ay in his formal statement emphasized "the absence of progress" in the search for a peace settlement he was asked whether he would be upset at the interpretation that he was "fingering Israel ,i‘ a reason for the Soviet buildup " He said such an interpretation “would be an unbalanced im plication " He did not deny that such an implication existed State Department officials in recent weeks have argued publicly and privately that the Israeli government should develop a more "positive" position in its exchanges with Egypt on a peace settlement Egypt informed United Nations am hassador Uunnar Jarring more than a month ago that it was prepared to go into a peace agreement giving Israel secure future boundaries on various conditions, the chief one Ikmrig that Israel should withdraw to the boundaries it held before the 1967 war While denying any diplomatic arm -twisting and while maintaining U S arms deliveries to Israel the United States has been pressing the Jerusalem government to spell out positively what boundaries it would settle for and to consider basing its future security arrangements on an in ternational peace force. Monday's formal statement was in effect a kind of muted public protest to Russia against its con tinuing military expansion in the Middle East and an implied public pressure on Israel to get on with the peacemaking News Roundup from AP reports COLOMBO—Government forces—heavily outnumbered on the ground have stepped up their air war against the Che Guevarist rebels who are still reported in control of Ceylon's outlying jungle and plantation regions There was increased air activity over Colombo Monday and the government an nounced aeriel attacks on the terrorists in Kosgama and Waga, rubber plantation districts near the city. Both the Inited States and Britain are reported considering a request from Prime Minister Sirimavo Bandaranaike for helicop ters The I nited States already has agreed to supply spare parts for the four American helicopters in the Ceylon air force LEWISBURG, Pa Teamsters President James Hoffa returned Monday night to the federal prison where he is serving a 13-year term for jury tampering and mail fraud after a five day leave of absence to visit his ill wife GOLCONDA. Ill —Six miners were killed Monday by poisonous gas in a flourspar mine near Golconda, an Ohio River town in southern Illinois The miners were killed by hydrogen sulfide a deadly gas that gives off the odor of rotten eggs but is a rare hazard in mining operations, state officials said WASHINGTON—The Agriculture Department an nounced Monday Food for Peace shipments to East Pakistan will be halted until the situation there clears up. Officials said the halt in food aid, involving wheat not yet shipped, will be effective Tuesday. 7 Vz -ton blockbuster US planes drop giant antipersonnel bombs SAKiON AI* l! S plant** are dropping 71.. tun hloeklmslers on North Vietnamese troop* laying siege to Fire Hum* tt near the I.mil.in I mi dri IS military source* said Monday It i* the firM Unit* in the war tiiat the huge Iminhs have been used against enemy soldier* They previously wort* rmpkiynl to make mutant helicopter Ian ding /ones l>> blasting away jungle growth Now they have lieen adapted as antijiersonnel wea|sm* lacause then lateral blast* rip across the Mirlaee ol the target instead of during a hole in the ground I'asl bmnln I lie biggest antipersonnel tminh* used I adore by the Air I um e were 1,000 pHimlm and the\ were owed infrequently, military sjHiki’winaii said Most of the Uanhs diop|xsl by allied warplane* welgti VS) |mund* Helicopter gunships trying to blink enemy reinforcement* (rum turning the siege of Fire Ha*e <> reported killing 1* North \ letnamese soldiers in an area 10 miles south of the mountaiintop has*' One military source said the hlocktsister ImhiiIm were being aimed at suspected enemy troop concentrations The huge Is an Its one to a piane are pulled from four engined Cl.Ml cargo planes by parachutes A second chute stabilizes the bomb during its descent H5-' attacks C S H:>2 St ratofor tresses fot the sixth successive itay struck at North Vietnamese positions near tin* fire base This time they unloaited thetr Itomhs a Unit a mile southwest of the base The artillery outpost. 300 miles north of Saigon ami six miles east of the border juncture of laios, Cambodia and South Vietnam, hastieen under siege since March n li is manned by less than I wo hattahons of South Vietnamese troop* wilh a feu CS advisers Kacti year the North Viet nameae have attacked the fire bases which overlook infiltration Arrests made on Daley murder plot « lilt \«.»i Two men were charged Moml.ix with trxuvg lo hire l« i v*i» to auuMtiiutr Mayor tiichard l»ate> and black civil rights Ir.idrr Ibr Hex J raise Jadui Omago IK*wopapOVO van! two other n "ti had t>er« charged in the ca*e earlier The imiin ol tlatex and Jackson were specified in charge* «d v Kiting tii commit murder placed against Karl I>tllard 37, and Howard llams U IVdtoe vjkI main other |mm» are hnng v sight in the alleged plot The two other men Oxarlcs Whit mule and Terr> Simnnwis were ihargrxl April *• with soliciting to commit murder IVdice reiused to cutdtrm whether l hex were uixoixed in the Ihin Jaiiaw iaw ITie new n^aaj«rr» vu*d the lour men were mmibrn id a black militant group that wanted Hakey and Jackson kilted in iw-drr to atari a rate war which wvsukl enable their group to assume power in the cd> All li*ui men were held in lieu id R> mm (and and their oases were ixuilinutal to the ultir itate April Jl trails, but this year's drive is the largest Supply trips From I’leiku. Associated l*ress photographer Neal Ulevich reported that l! S helicopters flew in food, water and am munition to the base Monday morning The defenders were running low on supplies and a helicopter mission Sunday was only partly successful because of Heavy North Vietnamese antiaircraft (ire Ulevich said a second resupply mission planned for Monday afternoon was called off because rams swept the central highlands On the ground, South Viet namese rangers assaulted a hilltop position of an estimated Nort* Vietnamese platoon 20 to 25 i -n to knock out gun positions that were shelling Fire Base ti Saigon headquarters said the rangers killed 15 North Viet namese and captured eight weapons A spokesman, Lt. Col la* Trung Mien, did not say whether the enemy guns were silenced. Flephunt killed Clevich also reported that U S helicopter gunship crews killed a pack elephant being used by North Vietnamese troops to carry supplies in the jungles The elephant, wearing a cargo harness, was one of several in a supply train It was the second time in the past two weeks that elephant supply trams have been countered The central highlands are populated by elephants and have long been used to haul lumber and for other work by the Mon tagnard tribesmen The latest elephant train was sighted near Fire Base' Ixmely, another frontier artillery post that has been under recent attack about 80 miles south of Fire Base 6 SALT talks center on ABM’s WASHINGTON Thf United States and the Soviet Union at the Vienna SAIT talks now are deeply engaged in detailed discussion of an an timissile ABM1 agreement despite the fact that tho> '•till differ on how such an agreement should relate to a curb on offensive nuclear weapons Hus represents something of a shift in ths American position since the Soviets last December at the Helsinki round of the Strategic Arms limitation Talks proposed an ABMa-only agreement leaving control of offensive weapons til later At that time Gerard Smith, the chief US delegate was forbidden by Washington to consider the Soviet proposal The Soviets offered to go into details if Washington woukl agree to the principle Hut since Smith was foreclosed on that, the details wore mg forthcoming Now it has been agreed that the details will be discussed with both sules reserving their positions 1*1 the principle The US at Vienna thus has made clear it is talking details on the stated assumption that any agreement must include what President Nuon has termed wane mil" of both offensive and defensive 'Wetns The Soviets agreed to the discussion with out a resolution of the larger issue The US last year put forward what amounted to a draft treaty covering both offensive and defensive systems The ABM part of that draft is now matched against the soviet ABM draft put lor ward at \ tenna recently and the two proposals are said to he in the same hall park ” In other words, they are close enough together to make agreement possible in a technical sense In several past arms control negotiations technical agreements were reached while policy disputes were unresolved Then once the policy framework was set. as in agreeing on a limited rather than a comprehensive nuclear test ban in mu it was an easy matter to finalize the treaty. Hence agreement on ABMs m the technical M-nse could speed a SALT agreement if and when the two superpowers decide how it fits into a treaty One additional point on the ABM issue has now come to light The U S last year was willing to accept the Soviet proposal that ABMs be limited to national capital areas. Moscow and Washington, the Ntvon administration subsequently decided that, if Moscow would agree the I S counterpart of the existing Moscow ABM system should be the initial phase of the safeguard ABM system now being built in Montana and North Dakota rather than scrap ping that and building a system around W ashington This idea has been broached to the Soviets in informal talks at Vienna rather than at the con fercnce table No firm Soviet reaction has yet surfaced but it would be a surprise if Moscow agreed The second major element of the current Vienna talks, aside from the ABM issue is the question of how to prevent World W ar Ill's being set .•<f by an accidental missile launch by either the l S or the l S S R , or a launch bv a third cotmtry The third country both have in mind is China now usj tegmning to enter the nuclear missile age I \ UmrsW«|,m*iuo Hast News Service
