News Capsules
By United Press International
Wisconsin: Explosion
MADISON—Police Chief Wilbur H. Emery confirmed Wednesday that a stolen truck filled with explosives definitely was used to blow up the U.S. Army mathematics research center at the University of Wisconsin. The FBI has taken over investigations of the blast which killed one person and injured four others Monday.
Washington: Romney
Housing Secretary George Romney told the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity Wednesday that government policies, official and unofficial, are largely to blame for current racial segregation in neighborhoods and education. He specifically named the Federal Housing Administration.
Saigon: Helicopter Crashes
Thirty Americans were missing and feared dead when Communists shot down a huge troop helicopter near the northern coast Wednesday. Two Americans were confirmed killed and seven wounded. Another chopper was brought down in the Mekong Delta, killing four GIs.
California: Lettuce
A strike by Cesar Chavez' farm union in the "salad bowl" of the nation forced lettuce prices up by as much as 100 per cent across the country Wednesday. In some cases, wholesale lettuce prices have doubled in the Midwest since Friday.
California: San Quentin
Inmates at San Quentin prison smashed toilets, washbasins, beds, light bulbs and burned mattresses Wednesday in the second day of trouble at the prison. Seven hundred prisoners were confined to their cells. No attempt was made to halt the destruction by officials.
Paris: Xuan Thuy
The chief Hanoi peace negotiator, Xuan Thuy, returned after a prolonged absence Wednesday and said North Vietnam was sticking to its same position in the stalemated peace talks. He refused to say if he would end his eight month boycott of the peace talks by attending Thursday's session.
California: Inflation
SAN CLEMENTE—President Nixon's chief budget manager, George P. Shultz, Wednesday cited the .5 per cent drop in wholesale prices this month, the largest in three years, as an indication that inflation is being controlled.
St. Louis: Delay of Mail
Richard F. Patrylo, a mail carrier in St. Louis County, told authorities Tuesday that he had just never gotten around to delivering 1,000 pieces of undelivered First Class mail and 4,000 pieces of circular type mail found in his garage and in the trunk of his car. He was charged in a federal warrant with unlawful detention and delay of mail.
Washington: Pollution
The Interior Department Wednesday said industries were dumping 4,800 pounds of dangerous lead pollutants into the Mississippi River daily between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Assistant Secretary Carl L. Quein told a Senate antipollution subcommittee that there is widespread lead arsenic and cadmium pollution in the area.
Washington: Vietnam
The Senate decided Wednesday to permit the continued defoliation of crops and forests in Vietnam over protests that it was sanctioning starvation warfare and an environmental disaster, accepting the Pentagon's contention that chemical defoliation was necessary to save Ameican lives by denying the enemy food and jungle sanctuaries. The United States has used an assortment of herbicides in Vietnam for the past eight years.
Oregon: American Legion
PORTLAND-Gov. Tom McCall told a statewide radio-TV audience that he will activate the National Guard, backed by federal troops, to deal with anyone coming to Portland to cause violence during the American Legion convention. McCall said reports came from a number of agencies, among them the FBI, indicating that there might be trouble.
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First Quiet Reported In 19-day Cease Fire
By United Press International
For the first time since the Middle East cease fire went into effect 19 days ago, the Israeli high command Wednesday reported no incidents along all front lines with the Arabs.
"It has been a quiet day" a military spokesman said in Tel Aviv. But on the diplomatic front the scene was different.
Israel's United Nations envoy Yosef Tekoah briefed his government in Jerusalem Wednesday on the first round of Middle East peace talks and said he expected negotiations to be upgraded to foreign minister level
Hospital Has New Method
In Amman, Iraqi and Palestinian guerrilla officials said they would continue efforts to prevent a peaceful Middle East solution. In the Jordanian capital fighting flared briefly between Arab guerrillas who oppose the current peace talks and forces of the Jordanian government which is participating in them.
Although the cease fire along the Suez Canal went into its 19th day Wednesday there have been
almost daily Arab guerrilla attacks along the Lebanese and Jordanian front lines but the attacks have slowed during the past few days.
NEW YORK (UPI)A new approach to the age-old problem of the emotionally disturbed is being inaugurated by the Catholic Medical Center of Brooklyn and Queens.
Tuesday there was only one mortar attack on an Israeli settlement in the Jordan Valley according to military communiques. Wednesday there was nothing.
As a result of a program initiated by the Catholic Medical Center in cooperation with New York City agencies, patients are receiving effective treatment in their own homes, among their own families wherever possible.
Formerly, adults who could not adjust to family and community life were sent for treatment to institutions where they might remain indefinitely.