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