Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - January 17, 1972, Winona, Minnesota Cloudy ind continued warm through Tuesday of Publication WINONA MINNESOTA 51907 MONDAY JANUARY 16 13 Ho Chi Minh trail pounded American planes Reds mae missile fire e SPOILS OF WAR Cambodian soldiers drag an cart laden with military gear recovered in the recapture re- cently of Taing Kauk Cambodia along route 6 The equipment belonged fo Cambodian troops who either died or fled during the siege of the AP SAIGON AP American fighter planes exchanged siles with North Vietnamese an- defenses along the Laotian border today and day and were believed to have destroyed two of them Hie U.S Command announced It said the American planes were not hit There is a iot ol air activity up said one U.S officer referring to the corridor along the border between Laos and North Vietnam where can bombers are pounding the Ho Chi Minh rail network It is one of the heaviest days since the beginning of the dry West Coast is resumed BULLETIN SAN FRANCISCO AP The International and men's Union ets to West Coast ports day resuming a strike by union members SAN FRANCISCO AP A renewal of the dock strike that tied up 24 West Coast ports for 100 days last year looms today along with the threat of federal intervention if it takes place Negotiators for employ ers Pacific Maritime ation and the International and Association met jointly with federal mediator J Curtis Counts prior to midnight Sunday and then went into arate sessions which continued info the early morning hours Counts kept moving between separate meetings which started after the longshore un- ion made a new offer Hopefully we'll go all night because that will mean we're accomplishing said Counts chief of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service The fact that they're ing is always a good said M Scott Western re- director of the mediation service Marathon sessions marked the talks over the weekend Scott said a temporary ment under which the West Coast longshoremen have been working expired at mid- night but that the had agreed fo delay any strike unti 8 PST today The strike began last July 1 It was halted Oct 6 by a Hartley injunction providing for a period of 80 days which expired Christmas Day Counts then obtained PMA and consent to continue dock work under a temporary agreement which first ran to Jan 10 and then was extended through Sunday In he meantime has repeatedly warned that if j strike resumes the Nixon ad ministration will ask Congress for a law the dockers back to work and either settle the terms of a contract or es a mechanism for settl ing those terms A major obstacle in the has been a conflict be- tween the and he Team slers Union over handling car go containers Longshoremen maintain that loading and un loading the a in ers tradition ally is their job but he Team have contracts for hand ling containers al warehouses North Vietnamese missile batteries near Uie Ban Kari pass unleashed three to air at U.S planes operating in the region 35 to 45 miles north of the de- militarized zone and threatened others U.S lighters escorting the bombers fired two missiles and the U.S Command said one SAM site and one craft artillery radar were be- destroyed On Saturday the U.S pilots sighted North Vietnamese MIGs nearly 200 miles farther near the pass and cast of the Plain of Jars in northern Laos One MIG crossed the border and tried to intercept an American flight but the American tom jets fired half a dozen fled bi nto Mujib charges slaughter of three million people By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Sheik Rahman the prime ister of Bangladesh charged Sunday night that merciless West Pakistani troops slaughtered three million people during his country's fight for independence and de- everything they could Sheik interviewed in Dacca by David Frost for British television said mer President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan killed three million of my women peasants workers and students and burned and looted to houses It was the greatest of people in he declared Daughters were raped in front of their fathers and mothers and mothers were raped in front of their he said I not slop my fears when I think of it Mujib called on the United Nations to try Yahya Khan and his associates way the German fascist war criminals were was genocide of my he charged Mujib said he calculated the number of deaths from reports his League is sending to Dacca from towns and Milages throughout Bangladesh He said the toll could go higher He charged West Pakistani troops with destroying my communications my way my industries They destroyed thing humanly possible in the time they had Mujib estimates that 85 per cent of Bangladesh's 75 million people today face starvation Describing his own arrest nine months ago when Pakistani troops moved into the former province of East Pakistan to crush the independence movement Bangladesh's leader Bullets went through a window into a room where my child was sleeping When he stumbled from the house he said the troops pushed me and beat me and gave me blows from the back I asked for my wife I kissed her a farewell kiss While imprisoned in West Pakistan jib said he expected to he killed and ing the war prisoners in my cell were mobilized and I knew they were told to attack and kill me Then a er took me nut of the prison and hid me in bis bungalow for two days and saved me Continued on page 9 col I Mujib charges SAYS MILLIONS KILLED Sheik bur Rahman prime minister of Bangladesh right talks with David Frost in Dacca Sheik Rahman in an interview on vision said that merciless West Pakistani troops killed three million people in his new slate during its fight for independence AP orth Vietnam unhurt Paralleling the intensified air clion was a communist high dint of ground la Vietnam which began a eck ago The Vietnamese land reported 20 small-scale nemy ground assaults rocket sapper and terror at- acks most of them in the and northern provinces of The U.S Command reported lat one American was killed hen enemy ground fire hit a ght observation helicopter Vietnamese 17 miles southwest Da Nang Nine more ans were wounded and were destroyed or by mines on Highway about 25 miles north of on and six other Americans rere wounded when a youth hurled a hand ade into a truck in Ban Me Thuot in the central highlands U.S bombers flew their raids in the central in a month and the South Vietnamese com- mander warned of a list buildup in the coastal low- ands as well as in the Fifteen dropped 450 toni rf bombs on suspected North troop locations and storage areas west and northwest of Kontum city near the Cambodian border and southeastward along the border of Binh Dinh province Lt Gen Ngo Dzu er of the 2nd Military Region told newsmen that im- mediate threat of an enemy fensive is where U.S and South Vietnamese forts to establish effective control over the ince have failed GUERRILLA SUSPECT Israeli troops today guard an Arab guerrilla suspect whose hat has been pulled down as a blindfold in the city of Gaza The suspect was taken into custody in the occupied Gaza Strip following the ambush of a vehicle Sunday A nurse was killed and a missionary and his daughter were wounded all Americans in the AP Israelis seek guerrillas who killed nurse TEL AVIV AP Israeli curity men combed a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip today for the Arab guerrillas who killed an American nurse and wounded an American and his daughter in an ambush in the camp The dead woman was Mavis Pate 46 of Ringgold La The Rev Edward Nicholas 49 of Austin Tex was shot in the thigh and stomach and his year-old daughter Carol was cut by flying glass Nicholas was pastor and ness manager at the Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip which Israel occupied in the 1967 war and Miss Pate was a nurse there The pastor was taken to a hospital in for removal of the lets and a spokesman at the Baptist Hospital said he would be released soon The gunmen opened fire as Nicholas his daughter and Mis Pale were driving past the camp o return Carol fo the American School near Tel Aviv Miss Pate was shot in the bend Nicholas has been in Gaza for 15 years The was his third brush with death there and his dangler's second Guerrillas opened fire on his car in March 1969 and missed Congress to reconvene Tuesday By WALTER R MEARS WASHINGTON AP The Congress reconvenes Tuesday to wage battles over programs of the Republican administration a corps of Democratic ators campaigns for nomination to challenge President on The contest for the White House will shadow and may shape the work of a Senate and House controlled by crats Atop the agenda of domestic issues are measures for fare reform sharing federal revenues with cities and states and improvement in health care and financing Nixon sent Congress his blueprint for action in all three areas a year ago and the White House has forecast passage in 1972 Democratic leaders seek action on the measures but the congressional majority may overhaul them to put its own stamp on whatever final products emerge I believe a considerable effort will be made by crats lo lake the initiative away from the said Senate Republican Leader Hugh Scott The majority party is seeking identification with most of these old programs Whatever Congress does in the coming session will be- overhung by the drama of a presidential said Leader Mike Mansfield Insofar as the Senate is concerned the public interest will not be changed for partisan gain Five Democratic senators Edmund S Muskie of Maine Hubert H Humphrey of Minnesota George McGovern of South Dakota Henry M Jackson of Washington and Vance Hartke of Indiana are campaigning for the A sixth Edward M Kennedy of Massachusetts ranks high in the opinion polls although he has said edly not run In the House two Republican members Paul H key of California and John M Ashbrook of Ohio are con- testing President Nixon's renomination in the presidential primaries Democratic Rep Shirley Chisholm of New York is expected to announce her presidential candidacy later this month Nixon will present his program Thursday in his State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress licans expect him to concentrate on a call for action on grams the administration already has proposed On the inside legislative leaders were meeting today to assess for a new special session lo reapportion itic legislature story page 3 background of a loan from industrialist Howard Hughes to President Nixon's fuel to the controversy surrounding billionaire purported autobiography story page 7 know the next few weeks of legislature will carry much weight on November's ballot story page 10 s lft asl fay he nation's big keepers can gel by without posting freeze level prices customers can see slory page 10 Tha by most valuable player Roger Dallas Cowboys day became the champions of professional football by ping Miami Dolphins in the Bowl story paffe 12 Welfare stampede thunders into new year Me cast in Ibis country rises cr million II hns been up for HCOM or no sign lo slop n} n serifs liy IhR M the crisis ils es Hi oml ils natives fly fi C lr AiP De- spite by half Ilio lo rein Ir way relief welfart is inlo a new year All the cold of the welfare crisis n brief downturn arc again headed billion spent in ended last June on million recipients twica people nnd three the expenditures of IMO Costs could billion by 1975 sny government nnd possibly top ite billion hy 198.1 llw present of growth It could as Gov of California has snid a tnx Increase next ho year after nnd tho year after and on Inlo he as far as we can R fuel not lost on angry nnd resentful at swollen Evidence of widespread un- rest taxpayers Is seen in efforts by all levels o ment lo reduce Ilic of fare Nixon lias posed n of the system on n Iced annual Income His plan sci off howls of protest from 1 i b c r n 1 s and alike with one sMe it would cut for the other claiming it would add jsS billion n lo Congress responded last month by giving Nixon purl of his proposal a work re- for relief recipients but lite rest of plan remains lied up In legislative mill At the stale level lo reform system arc under way in California nnd New York hill the response In most states has been lo cul benefits or the rolls The cost and size of fare have confidence in Ilic system and created con- nnd doubt among Hie people as in the worth and of public says George K New York's welfare director Others however believe lic anger the tax sue One of them is Nicholas a Union of- in New York Cily One reason why blue-collar guys hale welfare so much is that they feel psychologically thai 11 said Working bringing the check each week is one way of establishing supremacy lo themselves and their families Work is one they When they sec gny gelling a chock for doing nothing they Continued on 9 col S Welfare Allende suffers setbacks in two special elections SANTIAGO Chile President Salvador Allende a stunning setback in two special congressional elections Sunday but his leftist Popular Unity government called the re- only a transitory de- tent The opposition and the government parties each united behind a single candidate in elections one for a Senate seal the other for a seat in the Chamber of ties Opposition candidate Rafael Moreno a Christian Democrat the Senate election in Col- and O'Higgins inces just south of Santiago with votes to for Socialist Hector in the election for In Linares province farther to the south Sergio a National party member Maria Eliana Mcry by a vole of The election in anil Colchagua provinces was for the scat of an opposition tor who was killed in ai accident last year and seal in Linares had been held by a who moved to Australia after lende was elected in September 1970 Neither election changed the balance in Congress where the opposition already has i majority in both Houses Allende termed the elections extraordinarily and his government put on an expensive campaign for vares a former official of copper mining union and Mrs Mery sister of a leftist hero who was clubbed lo in the expropriation of a farm la 1969 Cabinet and cr officials loured the inces Brigades of communist and Socialist youth and bers of he extremist Left Movement lo electioneer and piaster walls and buildings with posters The Interior Ministry said balloting look place in com- plete Troops wilh machine guns nnd rifles watched over polling places and manned roadblocks to check for unauthorized ons The campaign had been by Incidents of lence the latest on when six members of the Movement were wounded in a gun battle with police
