Appleton Post-Crescent (Newspaper) - January 20, 1973, Appleton, Wisconsin Ni I Health cost control planned new era of world calm WASHINGTON AP Richard Nixon renewed his presidential oath today amid celebration protest and an intensive quest to begin a peace which can endure for generations to come The President's four more fashioned in a nationwide outpouring of votes began with his hand placed on the swords into plowshares passage in his family Bibles as he recited the pledge prescribed by the Constitution We stand on the of a new era of peace in the world the President declared as if taking his cue from Isaiah The central question before us how shall we use that peace At no time in his second inaugural address did Nixon mention directly the Vietnam war that has bedeviled his presidency as it did his predecessor's except to call for civility as America's Nixon talk at a glance WASHINGTON AP Here at a glance is what President Nixon said today in his second inaugural address Americans should be proud that in each of four major wars they have fought to help others resist aggression As America's longest and most difficult war comes to an end let us again leam to debate our differences with civility and decency The world stands on the of a new era of peace but Americans must that the postwar era will be a time of great responsibilities greatly borne AMERICA's The United States will respect its treaty ments reduce the danger of power confrontations and support the principle that no nation has a right to impose its will on another by force America has the chance to ensure full and equal opportunity for all its citizens but government must learn to take less from people so people can do more for themselves longest and most difficult war comes to an end The peace we seek in the world is not the flimsy peace which is merely an interlude between the President declared but a peace which can endure for generations to come As some invited guests watched Vice President Spiro T was sworn in for his second term by Chief Justice Warren E Burger who then led the President in the simple oath devised by the founding I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States and will to the best of my ability preserve protect and defend the Constitution of the United States Only 12 men before Dwight D Eisenhower was the been invested with the opportunity for a second inaugural address Nixon used it to pledge that where this government should act we will act boldly and lead boldly but he I offer no promise of a purely government solution for every problem The nation has lived too long with that false promise the President said From this day forward let each of us make a commitment in his own to bear his responsibility to do his part to live his that together we can see of a new age of progress for America Such were the times in this in the President stood behind bulletproof glass as he again donned the mantle of power Troops stood ready to quell any demonstrations too big for ton's police force and National Guardsmen to handle Protest matches had been scheduled in nearby areas of the federal city In taking note of the war's down the President Let us again leam to debate our differences with civility and decency Above all else the President said The time has come for Americans to renew our faith in ourselves In recent years that faith has been challenged Our children have been taught to be ashamed of their country ashamed of their parents ashamed of America's record at home and of its role in the world At every turn we have been beset by those who find everything wrong with America and very little right with it But I am confident that theirs will not be the judgment of history on these le times in which we are privileged to live And the President rephrased a statement made on the same occasion by the John F In our own lives said President Nixon let each of us just what will government do for me but what I can do for myself In the challenges we face together let each of us just how can government help but how can I Mrs Nixon who had shared her triumphs from election to Congress in 1946 through the building journeys to Peking and cow last year held the two family Bibles he used twice for the as vice president and four years ago when he became president The Bibles were open to Isaiah as they were at the other And he shall judge among the ions and shall rebuke many and they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into ing hooks nation shall not lift up sword against nation neither shall they learn war any more The general public had to be content to watch the ceremony on were highly placed and lucky enough to obtain tickets to bleacher seats The ornate balustraded platform temporary seats and system cost the taxpayers Nixon said he would offer no promise of a purely government ion for every problem Declaring that too much already has been asked of government that false hopes have been raised that disappointment has eroded confidence he Your national government has a great and vital role to play I pledge to you that where government should act we will act and lead But he added still another exhortation to individual self-reliance The President engaged in an effort to overhaul the federal bureaucracy and prune ineffective or unneeded programs said that building a era of progress at home requires turning away from old policies that have failed He described this as a better way to a retreat from Without hinting at any domestic legislation he may propose in the weeks ahead Nixon did mention some specific areas in which to seek improvement He We have the chance today to do more than ever before to make life better in ensure better education better health better ing better transportation a cleaner restore respect for Continued on Page 5 L Weighing his words President Nixon works on the address he was scheduled to give today after his inauguration He sits Friday m his office in the Executive Office Building near the White House On his desk in the foreground are momentos from his first term AP Wirephoto WASHINGTON AP Cost of Living Council hopes to unveil within 30 to 60 days a new plan to keep health costs under control including ways to make the government's programs work more efficiently Sources said the council is taking a dose look at current price standards affecting the health industry to see how they have worked and whether they should be continued in their present form in the Phase 3 economic program The council is leaving the door open for significant changes in these price standards Unlike those applied to most of the economy the Phase 3 standards for the health industry are mandatory as they are in the food and construction industries The new plan will be worked out by two committees of the council one composed of industry officials and the other made up of top administration officials including the Treasury ary and the secretary of health ion and welfare Bringing the HEW secretary into the process should provide a broader picture in controlling health costs council sources said In addition they said the advisory committee of private health officials will be making sure that HEWs health programs don't artificially push up prices They're going to be making sure that HEW is one source said We've got a watchdog outfit One angle that has not received much attention is that the government through its Medicare and Medicaid programs is the biggest purchaser of health services council officials said They said the new plan could focus on speeding up newly adopted programs to make health programs more efficient such as incentives to reduce waste in Medicare and Medicaid We're going to take a very quick hard look at the problems involved in enforcing the current price standards the sources said The big difference now is that the council has the machinery to look at all the reasons behind rising health costs one informant added He said a more comprehensive government approach to reducing them probably will emerge after the study is completed Current price standards require tors and dentists fees be held to an increase of 2.5 per cent a year Hospitals nursing homes and other institutional health providers may increase revenues by six per cent a year if the increases are justified by costs No additional increase is allowed without a ment exemption 16 Pages Wis Saturday January 20 1 973 15 Cents Peace talks table The White House Friday released this picture made last Saturday of the peace talks between U.S negotiator Henry Kissinger right and his aides and North Vietnamese negotiator Le Due Tho left and his aides They met at St Norn la Breteche France AP Wirephoto Saigon sees end to war SAIGON AP Gen Alexander M Haig Jr President Nixon's special representative left Saigon today after consultations with President Nguyen Van Thieu that could clear the way for a Vietnam peace settlement Their third meeting this week lasted only 30 minutes and its shortness in- no major disagreements between Washington and Saigon Tin Song a newspaper with close ties to the Presidential Palace and one which has echoed Thieu's views in the past declared in an Progress has been noted in the negotiations to settle the Vietnam war and the light of peace has shown at the end of the tunnel The U.S Embassy said Haig was flying to Seoul for consultations with South Korean President Chung Hee Park A spokesman said Haig will stay overnight in Seoul and meet with Park on Sunday He then will fly to Washington to report to Nixon on con- with leaders of five Asian allies In Paris Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann conferred for 45 minutes today with U.S Charge d'Affaires Jacques Kubisch A Foreign Ministry communique said they discussed the Vietnam situation but gave no details There was speculation that Schumann and the American diplomat who normally is not involved in the peace negotiations may have discussed arrangements for the signing ceremony of a peace agreement Meanwhile technical experts of the United States and North Vietnam met m a suburban villa for the sixth straight day to discuss details of the draft and a South Vietnamese ary mission arrived in Paris to review with American negotiators military details of the proposed ceasefire agreement The United States and North Vietnam already have announced that tial adviser Henry A Kissinger and Hanoi's Le Due Tho will resume their private meetings in Paris for insiDE Church page Comics Editorials Obituaries Sports Theaters f Little change Weather to remain cloudy low 20 Sunday's high 30 V Weather map on page B-8 the purpose of completing the text of an agreement The United States North Vietnam and South Vietnam apparently agree in principle on the major issues including a cease-fire and the return of prisoners Thieu and Haig in Saigon and American and North Vietnamese experts in Paris have been meeting this wreek to complete the main treaty's annexes or protocols which detail major points will be carried out Haig and Thieu conferred 24 hours Tuesday and one hour Wednesday night Then Haig flew to Phnom Penh Vientiane and Bangkok for ions with allied nations He returned to Saigon this morning from Bangkok Optimism was growing that peace was near for Vietnam but there Gunmen in sport shop won't quit NEW YORK AP Four men with an arsenal of gun power refused to give up 10 from the sporting goods store had tried to rob 16 hours earlier stopped escape bv a confrontation with that left one dead Hundreds of haggard directed bv the police himself were noised through the outside the store the ness of a blackout for An armored carrier maneuvered outride John and starting goods SHOD Police and a Black Muslim with a bullhorn tried through shattered windows to coax the gunmen to surrender The gunmen had released two of the presumed original 12 hostages seized when a silent burglar brought police to the store in the Williamsburg section of Twice a Muslim minister in turbar and flowing black robes in Arabic with the gunmen to release the hostages Three shots rang out when he asked them to fire three times if wanted him to leave It was the second time the gang believed bv police to be Muslims had fired shots since midnight Four shots were fired at about a m when the same minister left the store after spending about five minutes inside Besides the slain policeman two others were wounded One of the men was believed wounded during the initial shooting Friday night We have to assume it is possible that they went in there for said Police Chief Inspector Michael Codd to be some doubt that a fire would take effect simultaneously in Cambodia and Laos Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam of South Vietnam told newsmen Friday We are quite close to a conclusion on the Vietnam issue But he indicated action might fall short of Nixon's goal of an immediate peace in Laos and bodia Lam hedged when asked if ions between Haig and the leaders of Cambodia and Laos meant a cease-fire would be observed in all of Indochina The initial draft peace proposal worked out last October between singer and Tho apparently is fuzzy on Cambodia and Laos The technical experts in Paris are believed dealing mainly with the ary aspects of a cease-fire for Vietnam Apparently this is one of the issues which Thieu asked Haig to Another point that is unclear is who will sign the final treaty This and other political questions still to be settled may be left to Kissinger and Tho when they resume their secret talks In meanwhile ng Secretary of Defense Melvin R Laird said Friday at a farewell new? L 5 IT in the Southeast Asian will end with a peace agreement But I cannot assure ou Laird said that the shooting and the killing will stoi there Vietnams engage in fights SAIGON AP North and South Vietnamese forces were locked in the heaviest fighting since last fall west of Saigon and below the zone as both sides struggled for military and political advantages before a cease-fire military spokesmen reported today South Vietnamese spokesmen claimed 421 North Vietnamese troops were killed about a third of them by air and artillery strikes in the fighting in the two areas from Thursday through noon today South Vietnamese losses were given as 57 killed and 157 wounded Field reports said Lt Gen Nguyen Van Minh ordered troops in the 3rd Military Region that includes Saigon and 11 surrounding provinces to be ready to fight until the last minute before a cease-fire Two North Vietnamese regiments of as many as men reportedly were trying to hold on to a camp near the Michelin rubber plantation 40 miles northwest of Saigon as a base for and political operations once a cease-fire is declared Some of these troops were said to be pushing toward Saigon and were met by a South Vietnamese force of troops backed by tanks artillery and U.S and South Vietnamese bombers South Vietnamese officers in the field claimed 324 North Vietnamese troops were killed in this battle since Friday afternoon but this was not tiated by reports of only 11 heavy weapons and 48 rifles captured South Vietnamese losses in the Michelin fighting also were heavy At least 45 government troops were killed with 120 wounded and 50 weapons lost indicating some of the government units may have been bushed or overrun Nearly 400 miles to the North North Vietnamese forces trying to annex a strip of land below the old 17th parallel demarcation line slammed up to 2.000 artillery and mortar rounds into South Vietnamese positions Troops battled at several locations The Saigon command claimed a North Vietnamese tank was destroyed and 97 enemy troops were killed in the DMZ fighting Ir listed its casualties as 12 killed and 37 wounded The U.S Command bombers launched 353 strikes against North Vietnamese and Viet Cong ions m South Vietnam dunns the ending at 8 a U S bombers flew 90 and drooped 2700 tons of explosives on North SUNDAY FEATURES CC DO A O S c ves i 3 ker Asc s ce c e 920 View Exclusive segment is on jr s I he Amnesty of John David 3 who avoided Vietnam The author s he mous New York Times View Magazine Football widows can relax the worst is over that now comes golf as in- this weekend by the Bmg Crosby National Pro-Am tournament Showtime Magazine Discover your basic element says glamorous celebrity and noted beauty authority Arlene Dahl who offers hers and other stars advice to women for staying beautiful Family Weekly t
