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N. Vietnam to Reject Peace Treaty Changes
North Vietnamese delegate Xuan Thuy told the three-hour meeting, "We resolutely reject all the pretests put forth by the United States and Saigon to demand modification of the substance of the agreement."
PARIS (AP) - On the eve of Haoi peace negotiate Le Duc Tho' returns to Paris, North Vietnam warned the United States for more aggressive action for changes in the draft peace agreement.
The is due in Paris from Moscow today and is expected to resume secret negotiations with President Nixon's security adviser Henry Kissinger in the next few days. There was no official word of the date of Kissinger's arrival in Paris.
Communist delegates at the 167th session of the semi-public peace talks repeated their charges that the United States was stepping up the war while trying to back out of the agreement negotiated in Paris last month between Kissinger and Tho.
The Hanoi delegation spokesman Nguyen Thanh Le recalled that Kissinger told a Washington conference Oct. 26, that only minor drafting changes were needed to
complete the still unsigned agreement in a final secret session with Tho.
"If the United States is willing, we can complete agreement in less than an hour."
The acting Saigon delegate Nguyen Xuan Phong reiterated his South Vietnam's government's vigorous objections to parts of the draft agreement.
The chief U.S. negotiator, William J. Porter, avoided any reference to the points still under dispute, but pleaded for his participation in the talks scheduled to resume Nov. 30.
"Each of us is aware that the restoration of peace in Vietnam is approaching," Porter told the meeting. "Each of us is equally well aware of the efforts being made to improve relations so the accomplishments of negotiation so that a settlement fair to all will result."
Moscow radio and the news agency Tass said The moet in met Moscow with Politburo member Mikhail S. Suslov, Foreign Minister Andrej Gromyky, and Konferent of the Communist Party's Central Committee, but no details of the meeting were provided.
PHILADELPHIA (AP)—State police used tear gas Thursday to quell a disturbance at the huge Eastern State Correctional institution near here after inmates assaulted three guards, seized the maximum security block and set fire to
Tear Gas Used to Stop Philadelphia Prison Riot
Warden Robert L. Johnson said the prisoners were told they would have to provide or television with a needy person.
The rebelling inmates held the block for nearly three hours.
State Police Commissioner Rochel Urella
impatched 60 troopers to the scene after an
armed robbery.
The trouble erupted shortly before 8:30 a.m. as guard the Joseph McCracken, 48, was escorting the second batch of 35 men in the floor and knocked them down was knocked to the floor and fights began.
Guards Thomas McCaulley, 50, and
Chuck Burke, 63. The officers on
Crucker's side-all were armed with small clubs—and the three managed to get out of the shock and lock the door, preventing
Meantime, other inmates fire to the mattresses, filling the block with thick and heavy foam.
Shield Law Called 'People Issue'
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—The controversy about the right of newsmen to protect their confidential sources is "a people issue rather than a press issue," a former reporter has been a central figure in the debate said Thursday.
Peter J. Bridge, ex-Newark News reporter who spent three weeks in jail recently after refusing to disclose information to a grand jury regarding a confidential source, made his comments at a Press Managing Editors convention here.
If newsmen are not permitted to protect in all cases their confidential sources and notes, he said, it is the public more than the press that will suffer.
information that it's got to have."
On the subject of proposed federal shield laws insuring reporters' confidential privileges, Bridge said, "Absolute im- pledge is the only way to go about this thing."
As an example, he said New Jersey is one of about 18 states which already had shield laws, but it failed to protect him from the attack. He came in with contempt and ordering him to jail.
Bridge was joined in a panel discussion by several others, including New York Times reporter Earl Caldwell, in whose case the Supreme Court ruled reporters have no special constitutional protection against assisting grand jury investigators.
Caldwell expressed the view that that ruling, the jailing of Bridge and other recent decisions against the city, was wrong.
Lawrence Editor Honored For Covering '70 Unrest
WATERVILLE, Mr. (AP) - Dolph C. Simons Jr., Maine and publisher of the lawrence's Journal-World, Thursday is the award recipient of the Elijah Parish Lovett Award.
The Lovejoy Award was established by the college in 1953, to honor the memory of
in ceremonies at Colby College here, Simons also received an honorary doctor of laws degree for upholding "in the finest forms" the heritage of Elijah Parish Lovelier.
Mudslides Hit California City
BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) - Giant mudslides unleashed by heavy lift have demolished buildings, curied cars and closed the Pacific Coast Highway in this coastal mountain resort town officials said Thursday more rain was on the way.
Authorities said the massive ooze was caused by a forest fire last summer than denuded surrounding hillsides and by heavy rains that brought tons of muck and rocks on top. Officials said this mudslide appeared much heavier than one nut at the cut area. Oct 15,
The Big Sur Garage was demolished, the village store had mud up to the ceiling and only one wall of the post office was left standing. Sheriff's staff guarded the post office site because the safe, with an unknown amount of cash, was lost somewhere in the mud. No one was injured.
effects on the press.
an 1826 graduate who is generally credited with founding his first martyr to freedom of the press
Simons was cited for the contributions he made through the Journal-World to the easing of tension in the Lawrence community during turbulence and protest in 1970.
"During a harrowing time, Mr. Simons and his staff on the Journal-World maintained that newspaper columns were the proper avenues toward dispelling wild rumors and telling the people what was actually happened," said the honorary degree citation read by Colby President Robert E. L. Strider.
"As incidents occurred, Mr. Simons and his newspaper printed reports about them. There were threats, harassment by the police on which Mr. Simons was fired upon.
In accepting the award and honorary degree, Simons said, "The country needs and depends upon a strong, viable free press—a press that permits the public's information to be made available to the first actions of any would-be dictator is to silence or bobble the news media."
Out of wärness, he said, and he some other reporters have destroyed confidential files which would have aided them in future investigations, which held potential historical value.
"That the community was held together when it appeared to be falling apart was due in large part to the role played by the newspaper and its leader."
Some sources have also grown wary, be indicated.
"People are afraid of tape recorders now." he said.
Newsman Farr Jailed in L.A.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Newsman William T. Farr was jailed briefly Thursday for refusing to budge a judge's order to remove the Charles Manson murder trial covering the Charles Manson murder trial.
Farr was ordered freed on his own
imbalance about 3% hours later,
powership.
A state Appeals Court judge agreed to allow the temporary release of Farr pending the court's ruling on a petition for a writ to get the newsman out of jail.
The petition, based on what Farr's attorney said were new legal arguments, was filed soon after Superior Court Judge Charles H. Older ordered Farr confined indefinitely to county jail for contempt of court.
When asked if he intended to answer,
Farr replied, "I do not."
Older ordered Farr confined in jail until he could answer the court's questions under oath.
Farr, 37, now a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, wrote a story in 1970 while he worked for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner which said that members of the Manson cult planned to kill motion-picture stars.
INDOCHINA WEEK nov. 27,28,29,30
TOPICS WILL INCLUDE:
THE RECENT STRUGGLE OF THE VIETNAMISED PEOPLE
THE HISTORY OF THE PROPRIES OF INDONEMA
THE WEEK OF HOW MANY CHINA
THE GRANDFATHER AND DETERMINATION OF THE PEOPLES OF THE THIRD WORLD
THE ANTI-MAJESTIC MOVEMENT OF THE PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA
FILES WILL ALSO BE SHOWN
IN GUIDANCE WITH THE PROBLEMS OF INDOCHINA, the following student organizations present indochine meal:
Organization of North American Students, Pacific Student Association,
Organization of Latin American Students, Chinese TIT Committee, Latin American Students Association.
The three guards were for seven
battles at nearby Pottsworth hospital and
their commander, Ralph Fletcher.
Fifteen inmates were treated in the prison interior for ankle imitation, or for effect.
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