Charleston Gazette (Newspaper) - July 6, 1970, Charleston, West Virginia The Charleston Gazette The State Newspaper Charleston West Monday Morning July 6 1970 22 EDITION Concern Grows U.S Saigon Urging Allies To Rush Help to Cambodia New York Times Associated Press SAIGON The United Stales and South Vietnam joined Sunday in an peal to their allies in the Indochina War to provide urgent aid as concern grew here over the fate of the regime of Premier Lon Not The pleas on Cambodia's behalf by U.S Secretary of Stale William P ers and South Vietnamese Premier Tran Thien brought no immediate re- sponse from the four other members of the Allied Nations Ministerial ence which is holding its annual meeting here The four are Thailand South Australia and New Zealand plans to withdraw The United States is withdrawing more troops between now and next spring and tralia will cut back about 900 of its FIERY THREADS blanket The bank arranged for a during the July 4 fireworks company to display sponsored by die the traditional program the Charleston National Bank Staff Photo by Frank rea U.S officials said that Thailand which had been counted upon to dispatch ground combat troops to Cambodia has so far reached no political decision to do so THE APPEALS by Rogers who spent the second day of his three-day visit to Saigon attending the ministerial ence and were made as reports from Cambodia stressed the gravity of the military situation there It was understood that the ing situation was described to the ters during the afternoon closed session at the Hotel Majestic by Adm John S McCain Jr U.S for the Pacific as part of his over-all ing on the military developments in Asia But informants said the envoys were talking about a group larger than their own six nations and certainly including Japan Rogers is expected to bring this up with lop Japanese officials when he visits Tokyo later this week The communique said the six ed that free nations examine what ance they could give Cambodia in re- sponse to its requests In their one-day conference here the envoys also expressed satisfaction with the results of the Vietnamese operations in Cambodia noted with con- cern that North Vietnam refuses to withdraw Its forces from Cambodia and Laos and expressed concern over what the communique called an increasingly militant policy of North Korea There were no new announcements of STATE FORECAST Sunny with highs in the 70s and low 80s More weather on Page 2 force by the end of the year Rogers told his fellow ministers he hoped their nations would give serious thought to helping Cambodia South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Tran Van Lam said that recent ments in Cambodia give us a great opportunity to turn the tide dramatically and shorten the Vietnam War to a BUT HE added They can also turn into a terrible peril if the forces of freedom fail to produce an adequate effort against the North Vietnamese Communist aggression It is therefore he said that other nations join forces with us to stop Communist aggression It is even more urgent that Cambodia be ately substantial assistance to build a defense system of her own South Vietnam is continuing to keep forces in Cambodia following the pullout of American troops at the end of June after a operation in sanctuaries in southern and eastern Cambodia The United States will ue air activity and artillery fire into Cambodia to cut North Vietnamese and Viet Cong supply lines Svay Chrum BEAT Off ENEMY ATTACH SAIGON Names Faces in the News 3 House Broadens FTC Acts on Tar and Nicotine Ads 4 Price Hike on Stamps First Goal 5 Bruce Shrewd Lull Nixon Hurting 7 Cities Fight for Hechler Attacks Secret LOCATES district capital of Saang which enemy forces captured and then abandoned and Svay Chrum where ment troops beat off an attack Enemy troops were also reported moving on Kompong Thorn after u night mortar attack AP Hatfields McCoys Impressive 8 Soldier Sees Job as Conservation 1.1 Buff Swings at Graham Foe Takes Abandons Town Near Phnom Penh Die in Fiery Crash Of Jetliner in Canada PHNOM PENH forces captured most of dis- capital of Saang 20 miles south of Phnom Penh on Sunday hut began ing out late in the day The withdrawal began after the arrival from the capital of a battalion of KAPARS Announce Schedule 5 dian troops on buses and civilian trucks This force never went into action and returned in the direction of Phnom Penh late in the afternoon While the enemy objective at Saang was not clear military men said the fact that the Vietnamese and Vict Cong mounted an assault in the southern tor showed that they had completed following earlier offensives and were on the move again OFFICERS have said the southern sector is a most likely invasion route to Phnom Penh because of heavy foliage that protects enemy forces from aerial observation The Cambodian high command ed enemy troops also where pressing The Los Timer An Air Canada jetliner bound for Los Angeles crashed in flames while approaching Toronto International Air- port early Sunday killing all 103 persons aboard Airline officials said an engine fell off and one wing collapsed just before the huge plane nosedived into a cornfield in rolling farm country near the village of Castle More The plane carried 99 passengers 22 of them reportedly from Southern fornia and a crew of nine A GOLFER PLAYING at nearby Golf and Country Club For New Orleans Beltway U.S Plans Land Deal With Mafia Chieftain WASHINGTON W The government is planning to build a superhighway through the soggy bayou land of New Orleans Mafia boss Carlos and pay his business empire about The Justice Department has launched a secret probe of the routing of the Interstate 410 bypass through the five miles of marshes held in the name of two firms controls Although the route has not been ly announced The Associated Press found the expressway looping south of New Orleans already has been mapped by highway officials to run across the Marcello marshes The federal government is paying 90 per cent of the earmarked to buy the right-of-way through a stretch almost entirely con- trolled by MARCELLO GO has long been fied in congressional testimony as the undisputed leader of the Mafia in the New Orleans and Gulf Coast area Known as The Little Man because of his pudgy stature he is ly waging a court battle against starting a two-year federal prison term for ing an FBI agent He also was indicted last month for illegal presence in this country after being deported in 1961 A federal highway official in Louisiana conceded the would go through holdings but said it was a logical route If Judas Priest himself owned some of that land we wouldn't have any choice except to set a fair price and negotiate with the official said A SOURCE in the Justice Department confirmed its lawyers are pushing an inquiry to determine whether any undue influence was involved in the routing of the superhighway In New Orleans where the investigation is centered eral attorneys declined to comment on any details The HlO bypass route was unveiled Car Ins Selling Land to U.S last month at a private highway briefing for area officials Bright red lines on official maps at Louisiana state highway headquarters mark its path through the marshes A public hearing on formal approval of the route is planned for this fall bly in September The segment is part of a mile bypass swinging around New Orleans and costing million with the biggest part of the money marked for building two new bridges across the Mississippi River above and below the city The was added to the interstate system late in when the Johnson administration in its dying days handed out billions of dollars in new super- highways The Federal Highway Ad- pays 90 per cent of the cost of interstate routes Ham Farmer said the outer starboard engine appeared to be on fire as it came in to land There was a loud bang and something fell said Farmer All of a sudden the plane veered in a very steep left turn and started heading right for us An air traffic controller at the airport said everything appeared to be running absolutely normal as aircraft began coming in but that the pilot then that one of his engines was afire THE CONTROL TOWER ordered the pilot Capt P C Hamilton of Dorval Quebec to gain altitude and jettison fuel As he complied the engine flew off The pilot pulled said an Air Canada official and when he got two and a half miles north he started to bank right Fragments of metal began ping from the plane I could sec two trails of smoke The plane flight 621 left Montreal at and was due to arrive in Los Angeles at p.m after an ate stop at crash occurred at approximately THERE WERE 119 persons wailing in Toronto to board the plane and many of them witnessed the crash They were put aboard a second for the flight to Los Angeles and arrived at Los Angeles International Airport at p.m The greatest loss of life in a Canadian crash occurred Nov 29 when a DCS operated by Air Canada then called Trans-Canada Air Lines went down near Ste Quebec killing all 118 aboard An investigation into Sunday's crash was ordered by Federal Department of Transport in Ottawa but a spokesman said the burning debris made an ate close examination by investigators almost impossible City's Downtown Election MEXICO CITY Luis Alvarez candidate of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary party claimed victory Sunday night in Mexico's presidential elections Early unofficial returns gave him a margin of nearly eight to one 48 claimed victory hours after the polls had closed It ed certain from the early unofficial count that he was headed for a landslide win over Efrain Gonzalez Morfin of the opposition National Action party The government put police and troops on standby alert Big Steal NEW Thieves are carting off untold millions of dollars worth of goods from piers in the Port of New York and the shipping industry doesn't seem to care the front commissioners said Sunday They recommended the Waterfront Com- mission be given greater power to move against the thieves Over four years the number of private pier guards arrested for stealing cargo exceeded the number of thieves they apprehended the com- mission reported toward Kompong Thorn a provincial headquarters ISO miles north of Phnom Penh The headquarters was attacked by mortars during the night Continuing enemy buildups around Kompong Thorn and the fighting at Snang may signal the end of a week-long lull in major fighting in Cambodia North Vietnamese and Vict Cong troops broke a siege of pong Thorn late in June but military spokesman said all signs point to re- attacks there as well as a renewal of offensive in other of bodia The command said government troops beat off an attack on Svay Chrum 70 miles southeast of Phnom Penh and four miles from Svay provincial quarters in an area where South troops had conducted vigorous sweeps earlier The attack cost the my six dead with light casualties to the defenders the command said Turn In Page 2 Oil 1 Electronic Battlefield Hit As Classic Pentagon Move LONGVIEW Plastic dynamite explosions damaged the School District's entire fleet of 36 buses Saturday two months before the city begins an grated school busing program Police Chief Roy Stone said there was no dence that the bombing was racially inspired Police said it was the work of an explosives expert No one was in- jured Inside Today Amusements Bridge Comic Page Crossword Editorials Obituary 8 Sports 5 Television 8 17 The Gazetteer 22 17 The Women 6 Want Ads 9 Your Horoscope 19 WASHINGTON AP Sen William Proxmire asserted Sunday the Pentagon has spent more than billion so far for a electronic detection system that can't tell the difference between enemy soldiers and innocent civilians The Wisconsin Democrat said the system an out- growth of former tary of Defense Robert S McNamara's plan to build an electronic wall across Vietnam could eventually cost billion almost twice as much as we arc spending on the ABM and four times as much as we have spent on the IN A SPEECH he plans to give in the Senate today Proxmire calls program a classic example of the Pentagon's foot-in-the-door technique Small sums spent for research and ment arc escalated into billions for new weapons systems which have never re- a detailed and critical review by Congress as a whole He said he has written Secretary of De- fense Laird for details of the purpose and application of the system Known as the electronic battlefield or automated it is intended to provide complete surveillance of enemy movements through the use of sensor de- vices backed by Proxmire said One of the biggest problems with the No Juvenile in Fang Claw Sel YOUNG ANIMALS KEPT TOEING THE MARK SAN DIEGO Calif Human parents trying to bring up children might lake a tip from the stern arians of the animal world That's the advice of Dr Charles R director of the San Zoo There arc no juvenile delinquents in the animal Schrocder said Animal parents don't permit it Maybe man could learn something there THE BEST PARENTS among animals says arc bears several species of cats and many primates who arc both protective and stern with the kids The family of rare proboscis monkeys at the zoo is a case in point Father let junior climb all over him when he was trying to sleep Even pull his big nose or swing on his tail No reprimand Then sister arrived As the young male started to tease her both mother and father monkey warned him to lay off but junior persisted After a final warning father swatted junior clear off his perch Veterinarians took two stitches in the injured head and the teased baby sister no more A BEAR father at the zoo put up with and casing from his offspring for a year with little more than an occasional growl as the cub ran for protection be- hind mother One day the cub went too far and the father swatted him shook him fiercely and tossed him into the pool The protective instinct of animal parents seems almost as strong among captive animals as among those in the wild says Dr George curator of mammals But nowhere in the world is the offspring lowed to do as he said weapons system is that the sensors cannot distinguish soldiers from women and he Israelis Bomb Missile Sites lu Sues Zone The Associated Press Israeli attacked Egyptian artillery batteries and missile sites along the Suez Canal on Sunday and the is said one of the planes was shot down by ground fire The Egyptians claimed two jets downed The Israeli report said the two-man crew of the aircraft presumably a U Phantom jet parachuted into Egyptian territory A Cairo dispatch reported the capture of an Israeli captain and a lieutenant BY ISRAELI ACCOUNT this was the loss to the Egyptians in the canal area in six days The Egyptians claim to have downed II Israeli planes in that period and to have captured three Israeli airmen An Israeli military spokesman said the plane shot down Sunday was hit cither by antiaircraft fire or missiles The military command in Tel Aviv released to newsmen aerial that it said showed a ring of Egyptian missiles under Israeli air attack Sunday One missile trailing a line of flame was streaking from a circular emplacement The other five missiles were shown still in the launchers Near the were puffs of smoke that the Israelis as bomb bursts A spokesman said the one missile that fired may have been triggered by the bomb He added that the site was where in the Suez Canal but he de- to give further details Two Israeli aircraft hit last Tuesday were knocked down by missiles the Israelis say ISRAELI PLANES carried out a lens strike on Egyptian targets in the southern end central sectors of the nay the Israeli military spokesman in Tel Aviv said Turn to Page 2 Col 1
