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Newspaper
Berkshire Eagle
Location
Pittsfield, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1969
Page
1
In Helsinki, US and Soviet delegates started private discussions to frame SALT talks. Ambassador Smith and Soviet Semonov led a cautious, cordial kickoff with plans for future meetings and a shared aim to outline priorities for disarmament.
At an audience with five American governors in Rome Pope Paul VI praised President Nixon’s plan to end the Vietnam War through a well meditated and responsible procedure. He underscored the need to honor international obligations and aid a weak nation’s right to self determination while resisting arming developing countries. The governors—Rhodes, Kirk Jr., Rampton, Farrar, Licht—were en route home from Israel.
The United States rejected curtailing its own agricultural output to aid export availability for less developed nations. It urged tariff reductions and discussed a broad plan at FAO conference in Rome, noting family planning as essential to hunger combat and citing low U S wheat acreage in 1970.
Israeli jets bombed three Jordanian areas near Amman in a two hour and 20 minute raid the heaviest since the 1967 conflict. Officials said targets included artillery positions manned by Jordanian Iraqi and Syrian units with a jet lost to anti aircraft fire and a radar base at Mazar damaged. Five Jordanians and a child were reported killed by napalm and rockets.
The New England Governors Conference in Boston will add the prospect of a winter heating oil shortage to its agenda. Gov. Francis W. Sargent says he pressed Interior Secretary Hickel to release 22,000 unused Defense Department fuel oil barrels and oppose the current oil import quota system, citing high costs and shortages in Massachusetts. Also, Rep. Charles W. Long proposes a ban on malt beverages in nonreturnable glass bottles to curb broken glass in public areas. Gov. Sargent names Norman Holtz to head a commission reviewing Massachusetts employment security law and labor relations in education.
The Vietnam Moratorium Committee was asked for 320,000 by the Weatherman wing of Students for a Democratic Society to promise peaceful demonstrations. Stephen Cohen said the group demanded protection money and was refused. Weatherman leader William Ayers denied threats but acknowledged seeking funds for legal costs of Chicago arrests.
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