Daily Report, The (Newspaper) - March 15, 1970, Ontario, California Nixon Now Admits More Deaths in Laos WASHINGTON The United Stales has lost several mi- men lo hostile fire on the ground Jn just the one captain identified by the administration now The Nixon administration men have revised their count of U.S. deaths lo Communist action in and a precise figure of 27 to a fuzzier than 50" since 1962. In a lengthy give and take with newsmen White House kesman Ronald L. Ziegler said would be U.S. some would be U.S. Ziegler's use of the word it as has been rumored for several there were more military deaths than that of Capt Joseph K. Bush a ry attache whom the White House acknowledged fell to hostile fire 13 months Asked the number of such U.S. military fatalities in Daniel assistant secretary of has been there were some military casualties as a result of ground hostile action in Laos prior to 1969, but because of the im- precise reporting systems used in years such information was not made available to the 1 cannot and will not discuss Henkin echoed who took the position he could not be more specific than than 50" deaths over-all because of imprecise re- porting from 1902 to 19G8. Democratic administrations were in power during those six Laos casualty very become an issue ing on the credibility of the Nixon which avows it wants to avoid repeating mistakes it claims harmed the of Johnson administration In a report designed to quiet growing concern over U.S. ment in President Nixon said on March 6 that American in Laos has ever been killed in ground combat A few days the White House acknowledge Bush's death after a news report disclosed it. A spokesman said Nixon had not aware of case when he made his 's Quote s mail produces in- his there and nil Reward THE DAILY REPORT Weather jog early variable high No High 70. VOL. 74 MARCH 15, 1970 104 PAGES TWENTY CENTS New Santa Barbara c 60 Killed in 3-Vehicle Fire 41 Suffer Injuries Mexico Accident n Mexico I At least persons were killed J and 41 injured when two J buses collided night and a truck carrying more ihan 400 I ears oi industrial 5 smashed into the nil t'i in the Pachuca Cross said have J seen such a horrible said Juan Ascensio deputy chief of the Red Cross in Pachuca arrived on the scene when tlie buses were sHil l he was sible to get near We that there were injured passengers inside who could j be rescued because we couldn't S the fire out in Many women and were among the Mexican bus companies do not maintain lists one Red Cross said apparently there were foreigners among tlie said all of the injured j The accident occurred when one of Mexico was passing a pickup truck on a and crashed imp the er bus which was heading north to about 40 miles Mexico Flaming Cross workers and comb through mains Saturday oi one of three vehicles involved in a grinding accident near At least 60 persons were killed and injured when two buses and a truck carryin than 400 cans industrial smashed into the causing all three vehicles to explode in Demos Pop Away at Nixon State of World Message the buses enroute delivering City from Democratic party reply Cranston Investigates Oil Leak SANTA BARBARA A Senate launched a investigation Saturday into a possible new large oil leak on i state tidelands in the Santa Barbara Alan sitting as an member the Senate Subcommittee on Materials and said 1 lie had observed vast ity ou oil on the near Oil Co Platform Sen. Frank chairman of the subcommittee ended two days of rags here cr. legislation ing oil ordered reports from the State Lands the U.S. Coast the I Federal Water Pollution Con- troi Agency and The executive officer of the lands Frank told the committee the slick might have come either a test core hole which had been improperly abandoned or from natural He said a fabric tent had been placed over the core hole on the floor to collect leaking but said he knew of no other such tents in the im- mediate said the platform operations had been inspected by the and in- he have been in- sermonizing empty Targeted phrases I unites Kills 2 At the wine time Hamman escalation of 1Lis filled with the as disturbing m the nuclear praise tar nil oi to the Nixon administration arms the veteran L.S. Nixon's Feb IS State recently announced plan lo said will make it the de- in June Hie far more difficult leacb a administrating formed of anv scribed it Saturday as sile Multiple meaningful agreement on proclaims an of located with Strategic the fact ai tbe Limitations that there has been no shortage IS located Coal M the of negotiations in recent years where there are a number of party view of Nixon's and that there been On fust State of the The oa as chairman of the i tt ff f a 1989. occurred on infer ot eral five and a half Ll j n tfi M m space offshore nea national Affairs nuclear ulft Ull is. difficult to find in decades after the Co. much lhat adds to Marshall plan and Cranston taid he was first in- public mutual the formed the possible Package fo Run for Again landing or the Twinkle Toes Shines Big by Prizes Won Small Pooch SAN LiMed ss the No. 1 Max announced metit of wa- lhat he would seek higher 3 as the state's top California J package is Saturday to Uic God grant thai lire real jng 1K be 'a vf a prominent Bolivian where children are 1r slier exploded 10 minutes later j we go the road for he I killing man and his told a ui Alfredo Alexander campaign dinner an about W. and his wife Maria the of candidate for Senator in J about W. were killed when public on Ihe wn complex inter- the bv an ne discovers to he in tlie federal all essential ingredient in who him the oil had 15 nomic seeping out in approach to decade after President ny for a number of a Kennedy initiated the in out for are many the the is it fails to pf. first lo lhat a program of should be basis of relationship with and Ky RALPH 1GCERS Toes may not look mudi of a con- against a 51- But in yesterday's competition at Korth 13ie tiny Chihuahua walked off with awards while the big dog didn't get a smallest dog also judged Ihc best The Si Bernard was bigger than anything in ihc show arrived His 10- year-old Mark Waldrop from Mt. Baldy couldn't round up unruly animal in time for the Barbara 13. of the Chihuahuas naturally bad no such Bander opened the his where 3ic had been reading the morning of his President an and ihen urged itcd the scene a short lime not ter and ordered an He that they hoe He it a ican jjng in bul A assembly of radio sed nol lo became also look another s ijj the M honl o gain racial remains a sat th no i the preceding it and asked the in eminent for edicts have from nn for an The Ken L Ration Kid's Dog Show at Lucky Market each dog that entered a can of food and a Scooter except that is. ihe responsible for to ber the tudes of Free Apple Pic Witti Bucket Purchase Ends KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN 741 W. 1375 E. 9W-231I told them to myriads and that are so Jo and for which be serves in his present the lillle ones an- e my candidacy for io the office of and may Almighty lhat the real winner nuy be the Crossword TV Logs Features Sports Women s Plane Crashes Into Piranha Infested River Brazil Brazilian domestic airliner with 40 persons aboard Saturday on approach lo airport into an Amazon ri- cr bay with man-eating Piranha A spokesman tor which ated ihe said Air Force helicopters rescued three from the bay hut that ihe 37 Tlie carrying 35 passengers and five was en route lo a river city of northern from Rente and had made m Parnaiba and Sao The linc spokesman said there were no foreigners Of the three one was Ihe radio ator and were Second Slick Appears Off Louisiana the second oil suck popped up off Louisiana and mlo tbe of a winds to loward land tf four wells were not by I The Oast Guard said oil was i seeping from an on- I manned rig north of Pass i Game and Pre- and that tbe slune fiad 1 moved one mile into the located near point where flows 1he Gulf Because darfe ieE was Uw Guard said wil the
