University Daily Kansan
Tuesday, April 18, 1972
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Rogers Says Bombings Necessary to Protect GIs
WASHINGTON (AP)—A White House spokesman declared Monday that President Nixon would "take whatever action is necessary to thwart this attack of the Islamic extremist by North Vietnam forces.
Press secretary Ronald L. Ziegler had this word for newsmen a few hours after the shooting. Rogers had told senators bombing of the Haiphong and Hanoi areas was essential to protection of American troops and overall organization program
Ziegler would not discuss the Moscow claim that four Soviet ships were damaged in the Haphong bombing raid.
At his afternoon briefing,
Ziegler referred reporters to
Rogers' remarks and said the
secretary was speaking for the
"WE HAVE received the Soviet note, we are studying it and we will be replying," Ziegler said in response to a question.
Dispatches from Moscow said a reply had been delivered to the Kremlin and an American journalist told it that he said it was "not an apology."
Rogers, the first high
matter executive to
comment publicly on the
weekend bombings of the two
brothers of the Foreign
Relations Committee.
President had three purposes in mind in sending the bombers
"To protect American troops in both Vietnam and protect the lives of their families, withdrawal program continues." The U.S. withdrawal program
—To insure that the South Vietnamese will be able to defend themselves.
Vietnam by force."
In this line, he said, "I'm not going to make any announcement about what we're not going to do," adding two exceptions:
There will be no reintroduction of U.S. ground combat troops and there will be no use of nuclear weapons in Vietnam.
Otherwise, the President will take whatever action necessary to meet the three conditions that must be reached this weekend bombing. Rogers said.
The air raids, the secretary sent on represented no change of policy except that Nixon has constantly set out to take necessary action to protect
IN THE FACE of hostile questions by committee chairman Sen. J.W. Fulbright, D.Ark, and K. Frank Church, D.Idaho, the secretary said we were confined to military targets.
This was determined, Rogers declared, by what he called the all-out commitment Hanoi has to conventional invasion of the South.
He added that conditions now indicate the current air war could succeed even though past determination to keep fishing,
With 12 of their 13 divisions out, leaders have made such major targets as oil supply dumps much more than in the past, he impudently.
IN DECLARING it vital to turn in the current drive, Rogers said also the successful defense prospect he has a better prospects for settlement.
For the assault to succeed would be a disaster, he said.
"resulting in a bloodbath . . . a terrible massacre."
In addition, American foreign policy would suffer a major blow through the destabilization of Southeast Asia, he said.
At the Pentagon, sources said a U.S. destroyer was attacked in the ocean apparently by a boat on Vietnamese gunboat. One American crewman was reported and several others wounded
NEW YORK (AP)—A coalition of environmental groups will kick off a nationwide campaign today to mobilize public opposition to proposed legislation it claims violates the National Environmental Policy Act.
About 2,500 information packets are to be mailed to national and local environmental agencies for peace and other organizations calling for "widespread and immediate citizen response" to save NEPA from congressional pressure to a packet made available here.
Nixon Adds Poland To Summit Itinerary
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After a day stop in Poland on the way home from a week-long summit visit to Moscow in May, the White House will hold a meeting.
Word of the May 31-June 1
Warswall visit came as a 25-
member advance team was
winging its way to Salzburg,
Austria. Moscow and Tehran, to
prepare for Nixon's Soviet
trade.
Despite escalating bombings in North Vietnam, with reports of Soviet ships hit in Haiphong harbor, deputy press secretary James M. Hassan plans for Nixon's Soviet trip are proceeding on schedule.
Secretary of State William P. Bush that he hoped the Southeast Asian developments would not affect the President's journey to Asia.
He gave his view in response to a question while he was testifying before the Senate Foreign Committee on another matter.
Tramph Ambassador Witold Poltramczyk made a personal call on President Nixon at the White House Monday morning to
Troops Battle Tupamaros
By RAUL GARCES
Ecologists Move to Save NEPA
declared "internal war" against the Tupamaro guerillas.
The deaths raised to 19 the number of persons slain in fighting that started Friday after lefthists. The government
WHERE MONTEVIDEO, (AP)—Army troops fought i predawn gun battle Monday around the district office of the Communist party and seven civilians were killed, an official
The official report on Monday's shooting was issued 17 hours after the fight erupted in the Paso del Norte town of Lomita miles from the center of the city.
Earlier reports from witnesses said nine persons were killed, including an army captain, and the others wounded in the bourdong battle.
But the official communique listed only the names of seven
Apollo 16 to Keep Going Despite Peeling of Paint
HOUSTON (AP)—Engineers said Monday the substance peeling off the Apollo 16 lunar lander appeared to be bad pain. But they said it was unneeded for this mission and the astronauts toward their landing Thursday in the highlands of the moon.
Astronaut John W. Young and Charles M. Duke Jr. were directed to make general commander of the machine, Orion, Monday night to make certain it remained fit and Thomas K. Mattingly II was ordered by the flight plan to stay on the command ship, cassec.
Capsule communicator Tony England told the astronauts to keep a watch on Orion's flaking装备 that assured them it was no problem.
A spokesman for Grumman Corp., which built Orion, said the
000:1inch thick coating of white silicone paint was designed to protect the moon machine from bruising during its three days on the moon.
The spokesman said, "The problem may have been in the application or in the batch of paint that was used."
Young and Duke will guide Orion to a landing in the lunar high country at 3:41 p.m. on Thursday.
Young and Duke made an unscheduled inspection visit to the lunar module once Mission Control determined the matter was not serious, astronauts found everything on the inside of the craft all right.
They will spend a record 73 hours climbing. They will make three excursions using an electric car to visit craters and climb about 700 feet of rock.
villian dead, and said some troops were wounded. It did not matter who had been killed. Pupamaro or Communist party members, nor did it give details about the attack.
Newspapers and radio stations in Uruguay were barred from printing newspapers because of censorship. The declaration of a 30-day antiguerilla war approved by the government included provisions for news censorship.
The measure was voted after Tupamaros killed a former government official and three members of the bushes Friday. Police and army patrols then killed eight suspected guillions and captured a dozen more in a series of bombs. Montevideo and the suburbs.
Early Sunday, bombs exploded at three Communist party district offices and at the homes of three leftist politicians and the gunmen who were in church that gunned them during use one of the ambushes Friday.
President Juan M. Borderry held an urgent meeting with leaders of his Colorado party and the opposition National party.
Police and military patrols, using the broad powers granted by the war declaration, mounted huge search operations in the Monite video area, which has visited 20 percent of the country's 24 million residents.
In neighboring Argentina, army and navy units increased patrols along the Parana River after a drone trying to flee Uruguay
deliver what was described as a warm invitation to Nixon to visit Poland.
Nixon has a particular interest in returning to the Polish capital where he received an unusually warm and emotional greeting when he made a stop there on his way home from Moscow after the war with Nikita Khrushchev in 1959 when he was vice-president.
Agnew Urges Food Price Drop
News Briefs By The Associated Press
The visit to Poland will come following a May 30-31 stop in Iran on Nixon's return trip from Moscow.
HOUSTON—President Spiro T. 'Agnew told the nation's supermarket executives Monday that they could face federal price controls unless they voluntarily trimmed rising food prices. He had said the executives efforts to halt rising prices, but said not enough had been done.
By The Associated Press
CHICAGO - A lone hijacker demanding $500,000 and a trip to the Bahamas seized control of a Delta Air Lines jet over Florida, but was captured without incident less than an hour after the plane touched down in Chicago. The plane, a Convair 880 carrying 91 persons including a crew of seven, was bound from Miami to Chicago with the only scheduled stop at Palm Beach.
$500,000 Air Hijack Foiled
Ed McMahon Leaves Wife
WASHINGTON - The nation's economy is in the midst of a "solid and rather vigorous expansion" now and should match the Nixon administration's forecast for all of 1972, the Treasury Department's chief economist said. Edgar R. Fiedler, assistant Treasurer secretary for economic policy, told newsmen the economy was doing well. He said signs of picking up. He said the administration should make its goal of reducing unemployment from 5.9 per cent to 5 per cent by the close of the year.
Economist Sees Good Trends
NEW YORK-Television personality Ed McMahon has left his wife of 27 years and will live in California alone when the Johnny Carson "Tonight" show moves to Burbank next month, a spokesman for Mrs. McMahon said.
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It was signed into law by President Nixon New Year's Day, 1970.
WAN, an acronym for the act, has been enacted by governments for environmental stair signs of federal projects, including the Alaska pipeline and the Huron River. The act requires the federal agencies to consider fully all environmental and social costs of feasible alternatives and guarantee citizen participation in decision making. It is to be adopted.
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Love said the first of the bills went to the House floor Monday.
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