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World News Lon Nol resigns position; Cabinet retires with him PHNOM PKNM AP Cambodian Premier On I/m Nol and his ('.abinet resigned Tuesday The* announcement of the Cabinet's resignation was given io newsmen by the outturn# information ministry Keuky lam. who said 1/m Nol, 57, cited health reasons in hui letter of resignation to head of stale Cheng lleng I/m Nol said his health would not permit him to carry the tairden of office He has been both premier and minister of defense in the (Hit going "government of national salvation," which came to power when Prince Norodom Sihanouk was deposed early last year Well informed sources said 1/m Nol and his Cabinet were asked to remain in office until a new premier lias been chosen In Washington, U S government officials, after receiving first report* of the resignation, said "There doesn't seem to be any great change in the situation, since 1/m Nol lias not been actively directing the Canitxidian government for several months " Cheng lleng is expected to In-gin consultations soon on choosing a success4»r to the outgoing premier lAtn Nol suffered a stroke last February that left him partially paralyzed He returned to Phnom Penh earlier this month from Honolulu where he received medical treatment for his stroke Since I/on Nol was stricken, the government has la-en headed by his deputy premier, Sisowath Sirik Matak Business has proceeded much as usual, and it was assumed that Sink Matak would continue to head up the administration while the political and military leaders in Cambodia maneuver for power Following I/on Nol’s stroke, there was con siderable doubt that he would ever recover suf ficiently to take the reins of government again When he returned from Honolulu last Monday, he walked with difficulty and was assisted by male nurses Information Minister Keuky lam said at the time that lie would continue to rest for some weeks Now 57, l/m Nol led the group that deposed Sihanouk on March 18, 1970. while the mercurial prince was in Europe Uin Nol had l>een premier for a year, after a long career of government military service during which hi* rose through the ranks to command of the army, defense minister, the three stars of a lieutenant general and a year as premier in 1966-87 Congress assailed Veterans move into halls WASHINGTON Al* Neurly 1,000 fatigue elnd Vietnam veteran* demonstrated inside iiltd outside the lull!* o( Congress Tuesday in op|M*iitiou to tile war ill Southeast Asia After slatting a guerrilla (healer in which (Itoy simulated srarvh and destroy Lactic* near Hie Old Senate Off we Ituiding and imi the Capitol steps (lie group changed for to minutes "bring out brother* hunte, Now " They changed with clenched Officer relieved of duty SAItlON AT The C S Army has relieved tile commander ig a helicopter Iwttahon becauar tie i rittciud tl»e allied operation in tans and allowed a television i rev* to film helicopters using napalm on enemy paBitnats it v* a s lea med Tuestla > Ii Col Frank Miller, of Orlando Fla ha* been reassigned to an utiarure pint as commander of Camp Fremell Jones a staging area 13 miles northeast o( Sotgon lor troop* pi wiving out ot \ letnam A spokesman tor the 1st \v ration brigade confirmed that M diet is no hw<irr comma ester <g the TOO*! Aviation tlattaliun m Pletku Thr s|Kgtesman said Miller has been "reassigned to t'rmp Freurell Jones "tor the ties l interests tg thr 1st Aviation Brigade He sad It was "an internal matter and declined tu eUhotalr Miltri iWs hired non merit but informants nail irmed that he was ret rv rO tg command of the battalion which he had directed tor eight seeks His battalion played a key role in thr defense of Fire base * in thr central highlands which had teen under siege tor more than (wo weeks fists or plastic toy rifles field high over their heads Some tourists stopped and watelied Others continued on tlieir way, nisi this prompted one of the demonstrators to shout "Slop and watch what we’re doing We re bringing the war home ’’ Itetween the staging of theater throughmit the day. the memtiers of (lie Vietnam Veterans Attains! the War. which is conducting a week long demonstration, visited with their congressmen and attended Senate and House committee hearings Several hundred of them jammed into a Senate hearing room cheered when Sen George McGovern, DSD, ami others called for an immediate end to tin* war lliev gave a standing ovation to McGovern's testimony before the Senate Foreign delations Committer Several shouted, "High! »wi brother " McGovern the only declared presidential camtidate lot l#72. was cheered when he arrived and w Immi tie com links! his testimonv in which he accused all American forces in Indochina of war crimes “We an* all shocked by the barbarism of My Iaii, but do we consider the large crime involved in killing several hundred thousand innocent civilians by our massive firepower,” McGovern said "These crimes against humanity are on the scale of those that led us to sentence to death German and Japanese officers at the end of World War II." Acknowledging the cheers, McGovern said “I have never been prouder of a group of Americans than I am of these comtiat veterans." leaders of Dewey Canyon III, the name of the week long demonstration, became disturbed when a rumor cir culated that President Nixon had said levs Ilian :kt pe{ cent of the group actually were veterans A White House spokesman denied Nixon luid made the statement Nevertheless, the veterans were a slu'd by their leaders to submit some indication of then active duty status whether it was their discharge papers or membership cards in the American legion or Veterans of f oreign Wars News Roundup from AP reports WASHINGTON—The State Department said Tuesday that new Israeli proposals for the reopening of the Suez Canal •offers a basis for further negotiations.” Robert McCloskey, the State Department's spokesman, made this comment in confirming that Walworth Barbour, the U S ambassador to Israel, had received on Monday from Prime Minister Golda Meir, "Israeli views on the re-opening of the canal ” MIAMI—Cuban Premier Fidel Castro Monday night renounced any idea of normalizing relations with the United States or the Organization of American States and said his regime would conUnue to support revolutionary movements in la tin America He rejected a suggestion by President Nixon, that Cuban American relations could be improved if Cuba changed its policies DETROIT A delegation of table tenms players from Communist China has accepted an invitation to visit the United States. Graham Steenhoven, president of the U.S. Table Tennis Association, announced Tuesday CARACAS, Venezuela—Student demonstrations in Caracas and the nearby port city of La Guaira resulted in 20 injuries Tuesday, police said Three policemen were among those injured Several vehicles were burned and stores were damaged by street crowds—mostly high school students— protesting a delay in the opening of the Central University of Caracas Police used tear gas to break up groups of demonstrators and 40 arrests were reported NEW YORK—A handful of management representatives picketed strikers Tuesday in the second day of a nationwide walkout by employees of REA Express The company's delivery service was reported spotty Supervisory help kept some perishables moving The company said it was handling air shipments for customers who arranged to deliver them to airports and have them picked up. Cure found for Hodgkin’s disease PHOENIX Hodgkin's disease—once considered invariably fatal now can be cured in its early stages with powerful new X-ray machines, a panel of experts reported here Wednesday And new studies combining radiation and heavy doses of drugs promises results that are as good for the treatment of later stages of Hodgkin's disease, cancer of the body’s lymphatic system These treatments are being used experimentally in about 12 medical centers across the country "The projected results are so promising that we no longer debate that cure is possible for a rare, fortunate patient, but that it is predictable for the majority of patients with certain settings of the disease and possible for all." said Dr Saul A Rosenberg, chief of medicine at Stanford University hospital Dr Henry Kaplan, head of the department of radiology at Stan ford. reported that 90 per cent of patients with early stages of Hixfgkin's disease can be cured with X ray treatments The cure rate drops to 50 per rent for patients in the middle stages of the disease where treatment with powerful combinations of drugs takes over Treating the most advanced stages of the disease-where it has spread throughout the body combinations of drugs has kept 81 per cent of hts patients alive for more than five years, reported Dr Vincent Devils of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda. Md Hodgkin's disease strikes about 8,000 Americans a year, most of them between the ages of 24 and 40 About 5,000 Americans a year die of Hixfgkin's disease From now on. as the new methods of treatment get spread to doctors across the country, the death rate from Hixfgkin's disease should decrease, the experts told an American Cancer Societv seminar here I \ Times Washington Poet News Service Busing backed for school desegregation * \sm\t;Tt»N M* In a sweeping Miudi at segregated scfv»U> (hr Supreme tour l approved unanimously Tuesday massive txivsug and limilrd racial balancing a» proprr way* ol asunnn black children an integrated education Speaking through OhH Justice Warren Huiger the court said school utfk'iab must use all available tools including gerrv mandenrd districts and sometimes ev en tree transportation “to correct by a balancing id lhr individual and collective interests id thr condition that attends the ('institution " If the scbixii boards do not act. Burger said federal judges should exercise their powers to fashion a remedy that will assure a unitary school system ” Broadly, the Tuesday ruling ran counter to announced Nixon administration positions in opposition to massive busing and in support of the neigh horhuod school concept Dismissing arguments against busing, the court said transportation has been an integral and normal part of the public education system for years, with 18 million or 19 per cent of the nations public school children transited by bus in I9t» 1970 "l>esegnegatian plans cannot be limited to the walk in school," Burger said in a ruling that approved an extensive bus plan and the use of racial ratios as a guideline in Charlotte Mecklenburg County. North Carolina Similarly, he said, federal judges erred when thev did not order school officials in Mobile County. Alabama, to consider using huses and to adopt new attendance zones to bnng Negro children from the predominantly black eastern sector of the metropolitan area to schools in the mostly white western rone
