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