Daily Report, The (Newspaper) - April 20, 1970, Ontario, California Sees Russian Missile Threat Today's JIGS not It is simply that nations have failed to try Adm. Richard E. ex- THE DAILY REPORT Weather Tuesday Variable mostly no Sunday's 62; overnight 47; noon 65. VOL. 110 APRIL 20, 1970 22 PAGES CENTS Secret U.S. Role in Laos Told Speech Tonight Nixon Tells Viet Plans SAN Calif. President Nixon Will outline his approach to further U.S. troop from South Vietnam in a ad- dress perhaps unveil a surprise or Nixon will 6 p.m. Sources at the Western White House cautioned today against advance speculation that Nixon would an- a successor to Henry Cabot Lodge as chief American peace negotiator in Press Secretary I. Ziegler indicated earlier in the month that such an announcement might be At the same these Air Time Networks to Carry Talk NEW YORK for the three major said President address to the nation on Vietnam tonight would be live on radio and tele- vision beginning at 9 p.m. EST. They said fee American Broadcasting the Jumbia Broadcasting System and the National ing Co. would share pooled facilities for the from San Calif. Reds Take Cambodia Village PHNOM PENH Viet Cong captured the village sources did not rule out the parent likelihood that in what is billed as a 10-to 15-min- ute to the would go beyond mere dis- cussion of troop levels and break new ground in tial discussion of the Southeast Asian Conflict Wider Since Nixon last took to the airwaves to discuss the nam last Dec. 13, the con- has ly in Cambodia which seeks U.S. arms following a coup that overthrew the neutralist of prince Norodom Through the United States has deplored reported Cambodian massacres of Vietnamese living in that tiny And the State ment has said the arms request is under The Nixon administration also has taken an interest in a statement last week by Jacob A. Soviet ambassador to the United that possible interest from that quarter in a new Geneva conference to lake up the entire Malik told ABC-TV News day that such conference is unrealistic at Tornado's Wrath Rev. Fred Gardner walks through rubble of the ing five persons more than 50 injured and at Baptist Church in hit least 100 homes Two persons seeking by tornado which swept through town refuge in the church were Defense Chief Sees Russ Missile Threat of Sang 20 miles southeast of present j Phnom Penh Sunday and broke j U. S. troop levels in South i up a government last week were put at today with a heavy mortar 5-800 below the last announced authorized a military spokesman re- Nixon 5 ported Lt. Col. said six was expected to an- plans for a withdrawal of around ad- although perhaps Cambodian troops were poised to attack the village at dawn today after had struck the Communist said three battalions of Viet Cong were dug in around the village and that their attack which hit positions along the River to the northwest of S a a n g forced a He said in the Sunday fighting a Cambodian army lieutenant and an enlisted man were killed and thai two more soldiers were killed in the tar Sixteen miles south of Saang Communist forces blocked Highway 1 between Phnom Penh and Svay Rieng Province stretching out the movement over a longer period than the four months that saw the latest withdrawal of 53.000. Ended The gradual reduction in U.S. armed strength in the war zone began last ending about four years of steady Nixon flew to his California villa late Sunday from where lie greeted lire three Apollo 13 astronauts on their return to the United He honored the space heroes with the Medal of the nation's highest civilian The chief executive and Mrs. Nixon will return to the White House Arriving at nearby El Toro on tbe Vietnamese border and I Marine Corps Air were reported to have attacked a welcoming crowd of a rail line only a mite south of Phnom Tbe government at same time issued a communique ousted Prince Norodom Sihanouk as a forgotten man in exile m Us friends and wife having left tor Eur- Field reports said the Viet Cong felled trees across way 1 and damaged a bridge X miles southeast of Phnom Penh to temporarily cut the only land supply link with bodian troops near the The bridge was its asphalt but was ex- to be back in operation shortly after government troops dear away the fallen trees tram side of it. T paced trip lo meet astronauts James A. Lovell John L. Swigert and Fred W. liaise Jr. one of the most memorable events of our As he had in Honolulu and during a Saturday stop at ned Space Headquarters in where he conferred the Medal of freedom on the Apollo 13 mission ground Nixon emphasized the Before leaving the attended Sunday ices at Honolulu's Church 150-year-oH founded by New England missionaries who first brought Christianity to UK NEW YORK ary of Defense Melvin Laird said today are literally at the edge of prudent la postponing decisions M major new offensive nuclear weapons to give arms talks maximum chance for Claiming a steadily rising Russian missile Laird said that the Soviet ic offensive buildup the risk to our nation will be- come too great to sustain out major offsetting In a major speech prepared for the 70th annual meeting of the Associated the tagon chief expressed hope for success at the strategic arms which just opened a gaining phase in But Laird rejected arguments that the United States at the outset of the unilaterally hold up im- pending deployment of multiple independently head missiles and ex- pansion of Safeguard sile Apollo Experience Writer Sees Astronauts in Houston By MARGE GROSS HOUSTON Last night the three men who had circled the moon and faced death with cool courage came James A. Lovell John L. gert Jr. and Fred ded at Ellington Air Force Base here at p.m. It was an emo- tional experience for this writer to be less than six feet from these heroes of space It was to watch the Air Force Presidential VC 137 jet land knowing it carried men who Related Story had problems of The hatch of the sleek aircraft opened to reveal the three men of Apollo 13, The Shepherd Air Force Band was blaring in a salute the spaceship as the three men approached the ker's All three astronauts looked gard and Lovell said if it A hadn't been for the people of earth the three wouldn't be Haise backed Lovell's remarks and the verge of all the welcomes this is the best of It was incredible to realize these were the men who had been inside capsule that landed in the Ocean just two days ago after having circled the moon in a crippled space ship a quarter of a million miles These were the men who had faced the possibility of trapped in that tiny cap- But here they were Haise ding the hand of his nant Lovell in a natty yellow shirt and Swigers with the un- in his These men are whose emotions the fact they are also quite And under the soft Texas and in the blaze of television the three were and those of us who had come to welcome them were glad they place to resolve these issues is at tbe conference table with the be us try to find out at the conference table the meaning of the Soviet Union's increased weapon deployments and let us conduct these important with full recognition of these continuing Soviet Laird said the risks in ing on ther to go ahead with advanced missiles and bombers are only if the United States proceeds with the planned deployment and what he called a ad- to the Safeguard as proposed this year the Nixon Disputing critics who contend MIRV and ABM systems spur the arms Laird asserted these weapons are essential to preserve the U.S. nuclear force that deters Russian the ABM by saving land-based U.S. missiles and bombers from prise knockout and the MIRV by assuring that land-based and missiles can overwhelm formidable viet The defense secretary said the United Stales seeks more than a posture of tive and that obviously could recognize as Military Involved in Air Troop Training WASHINGTON Newly released con- gressional testimony today revealed new aspects of U.S. involvement in the American ambassador there has been directing a secret military and a clandestine U.S. group in Thailand has been training and equipping Laotian The embassy headquartered operation in called involves part of the U.S. mission in The ambassador super- vises more than 100 military at- some of whom fly the Royal Laotian Air Force and direct its pilots to In the ambassador personally reviews air strikes V A JA in Laos by U.S. planes sent in Facts Still Aide from Thailand and The project has been going on for the past four cording to testimony taken last fall by the Senate Subcommittee on Security Agreements and Commitments The testimony was made public for the first time a long dispute over its release between the subcommittee and the Nixon All but 10 per cent of the testimony finally was The transcript disclosed that Laotian forces were trained and equipped through a secret American group called ating out of nally under the U.S. Agency for International It is run by retired U.S. Administration officials fied that one reason for secrecy was that the United States did not want to be accused of lating the 1962 Geneva prohibits foreign military forces in Sen. J. William have never seen WASHINGTON -A staff member of the Which finally released testimony on U.S. involvement in Laos feels tlw Nixon is still holding back some parts of the testimony which should be made The released included 90 per cent of that taken last fall by the on United States ments and commitments the administration wanted none of it In a letter to subcommittee chairman Sen. Stuart staff member ter Pincus said part of that censored out contains material which the people have the right to details on United States government support for the irregular Lao forces com- manded by Gen. Vang information about the increase in combat sorties which have been flown j a country enage in so many and are being flown by United undertakings as States Air Force and Navy Sen. Stuart over Northern Laos chairman of the distinguished from operations I said the U.S. ambassador in against the Ho Chi Minh I Laos has become virtually a cumulative amount of military assistance that Project 404 began in been given regular and j 1966 with the assignment of 117 lar Lao forces since 1962. military and five civilian millions of dollars personnel to the U.S. embassy has and is costing for United j in ostensibly as at- air combat over Northern operations There are now 106 Atty. Gen. Clears Chief a Soviet desire for a comparable deterrent to protect its Addition to Comics Ul and Dick two of the most famous comic strips in the will appear daily in Dairy Report be- ginning The two strips will ran daily the comic and on day in lite Daily cotor Sunday 3 on SACRAMENTO general's office has ported there was no connected with for- mer state Health Care Services Director Carel E. 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