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By United Press International
Rocky, Ordaz discuss trade
Rockefeller
MEXICO CITY - Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller of New York and 12 of his advisers met yesterday with members of the Mexican Council on Foreign Trade to hear their detailed demands for preferential trade treatment from the United States.
The tone for the meeting was set Sunday by a comment from Mexican President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz who told Rockefeller, a special envoy from President Nixon, that Mexico "insisted" on special trade treatment.
importation of certain sizes of Mexican tomatoes served to heighten tension among Mexican officials over trade relations.
This was interpreted to mean nonreciprocal tariff preferences for Mexican raw materials, agricultural products and semi-manufactured and manufactured goods.
The ban in February by the U.S. Agriculture Department on
Nixon to report on war prospects
WASHINGTON — President Nixon conferred for the first time yesterday with his military chief in Vietnam and announced he would report to the nation tomorrow the prospects of ending the war.
White House officials said the President would not use the speech to announce a limited withdrawal of U.S. troops from Vietnam.
Gen. Creighton W. Abrams flew into Washington unannounced Sunday afternoon for the White House conference, described as a general review of
the military situation. The new intensive wave of Viet Cong House spokesman Ronald Ziegler said.
While Nixon and Abrams were conferring, Secretary of State William P. Rogers took off on a 17-day round-the-world trip which will first take him to Saigon for four days of talks with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu, U.S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker and others.
Gen. Abrams was scheduled to return to Saigon last night after a White House lunch in his honor.
Red Chinese accept talks with Russians
HONG KONG - Communist China yesterday said it has accepted a Soviet proposal to discuss navigation on their disputed Ussuri River border, where battles have cost both sides heavy casualties.
Peking Radio said Chinese delegates would attend the meeting of the joint Sino-Soviet River Commission Monday at Khabarovsk as proposed by the Soviet Union April 26.
There was no indication the border dispute would come up in the discussions. The Soviets also have proposed resuming border negotiations which broke off in 1964.
China's defense minister, Lin Piao, told the nation's eighth Communist party conference last month the leadership of Chairman Mao Tse-tung was "considering an answer" to the border talks proposal.
But the broadcast yesterday said only that Chinese delegates would attend the River Commission meeting, making no mention of the border dispute.
Since March 2, troops from both sides have clashed over Damansky Island, in he Ussuri. Reports from travelers returning from the scene Sunday said 800 Chinese troops and 60 Russian soldiers have died.
The announcement followed unofficial reports from Moscow of more fighting along the 5,000-mile Sino-Soviet border, part of it formed by the Ussuri and Amur rivers.
Both sides have claimed possession of the river island in far east Asia above North Korea. The dispute stems from an old Chinese claim on more than a million square miles of Russia.
Arab-Lebanon parley fails
MIDEAST - Talks between Arab guerrillas and Lebanese army officials collapsed yesterday when the government refused to remove all restrictions on guerrilla groups operating from Lebanon against Israel.
Israel and Jordan exchanged tank and heavy artillery fire three times across the cease-fire line in the area of the King Hussein Bridge, a Jordanian military spokesman said in Amman.
The Lebanese army officials and guerrilla leaders had been meeting in Beirut for the past five days to work out an agreement on guerrilla operating rights from Lebanese territory
Informed Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) sources said the talks were inconclusive and no agreement had been reached.
Betty Grable to lose 'Belle Star'
LONDON — "Belle Star," the musical in which Betty Grable made a comeback that showed her legs were as good as they used to be, is closing next Saturday. She tried to save it by hiring a comedy writer at her own expense.
"Some of the things I had to say in the show were absolutely embarrassing," she said. "Jokes were in bad taste. These things upset me a bit."
The show opened at the Palace Theater April 30. It drew large crowds at first but critics panned it although they remarked how little Miss Grable's figure had changed—particularly her famous legs—since she was the pin-up queen of servicemen in World War II.
The guerrillas have demanded complete relaxation of all restrictions on guerrilla groups in Lebanon. The Lebanese army, however, has remained determined to control guerrilla activity because of possible Israeli retaliation, such as the Israeli commando raid on Beirut Airport last December.
De Gaulle critic seeks election
PARIS — Acting President Alain Poher, a political unknown until the resignation of Charles de Gaulle, yesterdaybecame the fourth major candidate seeking the French presidency in the June 1 election.
The 60-year-old Center party member entered the race after public opinion polls indicated he had the best chance of beating former Premier Georges Pompidou, the Gaullist party favorite and the current frontrunner.
Poher's outspoken opposition to De Gaulle's constitutional reforms brought him into the political limelight, and some Gaullist politicians have blamed him for De Gaulle's downfall. As senate president he held a largely ceremonial post.
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North Viet rockets follow heaviest attacks
SAIGON — Communist forces fired rockets into Tan Son Nuh airbase near Saigon last night and exploded grenades inside the city in a followup to the heaviest wave of attacks in South Vietnam in 15 months. U.S. commanders said they expected the raids to intensify.
Two grenades exploded in Saigon, and authorities reported at least seven South Vietnamese wounded, including two children.
At least three 107 mm rockets crashed into Tan Son Nhut on the outskirts of Saigon, but early reports indicated no casualties or damage. The base houses both American and South Vietnamese military headquarters.
The U.S. command said North Vietnamese and Viet Cong gunners hit 159 allied bases and cities with rockets and mortar Sunday night and early yesterday. This was the heaviest wave since the night of Jan. 30-31, 1968, when the Communists launched their Tet offensive.
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Berlin celebrates airlift
Speaking on the 20th anniversary of the ending of the blockade of Berlin, retired Gen. Frank Howley told 1,000 applauding factory workers at the Eternit housing materials factory:
BERLIN — The American commander of Berlin during the city's blockade by the Russians 20 years ago yesterday told tearful residents who still remember the Berlin airlift that the allies will defend the city forever.
"Then, as today, the allied in West Berlin kept their promise.
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Some of the older workers, who remembered Howley as America's Berlin commandant during the trying 1948-49 Berlin airlift, shook hands with him with tears in their eyes.
If you ask me how long, I'll use the name of your firm. Eternit mcans eternity which is forever in English."
Howley, 66, now a vice president of New York University, was the guest of honor at ceremonies marking the end of the Soviet Union's 11-month siege of the city and of the massive allied airlift in which 2,323,067 tons of supplies were ferried in to keep the population alive. The blockade began June 19, 1948, and ended May 12, 1949.
described the surge of Communist raids as a "prelude" to a predicted summer offensive aimed at forcing allied concessions at the Paris talks on the war.
"We expect something a little bigger and a little better later in the month," a U.S. intelligence officer said. There was speculation the main push would be on Ho Chi Minh's birthday Monday.
North Vietnamese troops shelled at least nine U.S. 1st Air Cavalry Division outposts in areas about 50 miles northwest of Saigon near the Cambodian border and followed the barrages with ground assaults on three of the bases that killed at least 19 Americans and wounded 110, U.S. spokesmen said. At least 134 Communists were reported slain.
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