UDK World News
By United Press International
Off Korean coast
U.S. forms task force
WASHINGTON - The United States is massing a 23-ship task force—including three giant carriers with about 250 jet fighters-in the Sea of Japan to protect further reconnaissance flights off North Korea.
The Defense Department officially announced formation of "Task Force 71" yesterday after the Japanese Maritime Safety Agency at Fukuoka, Kyushu, reported picking up on radar several U.S. ships entering
the southern part of the Sea of Japan.
The Pentagon announcement said only that the task force was "the result of" North Korea's shooting down a week ago of an unarmed Navy EC121 reconnaissance plane with 31 men aboard.
Rioting continues in Northern Ireland
BELFAST, Northern Ireland
BELFAST, Northern Ireland Catholic civil rights demonstrators stoned a police station and pitched Molotov cocktails at constables who rushed them swinging clubs last night.
The fighting between Catholics and police in Belfast broke out shortly before midnight and ruined a day that had almost passed without renewal of the weekend rioting and sabotage attacks.
Ten Belfast post offices, the water reservoir and an electrical power plant were bombed while police tried to control rioting in Londonderry, 65 miles northwest of here.
Police yesterday blamed the outlawed Irish Republican Army for parlaying the new Catholic civil rights disorders into a renewal of its own clandestine war against Northern Ireland.
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Catholic civil rights leaders in the north and the government in Dublin both said this charge was untrue. The Dublin government, in an unprecedented diplomatic move, announced it was sending its foreign affairs minister to the United Nations Monday to acquaint Secretary General Thant with Ireland's views of the situation in Northern Ireland.
Obviously, however, the ships and planes were sent there to protect continued intelligence-gathering flights that President Richard Nixon promised at his news conference Friday.
The Pentagon said the battleship New Jersey will not be part of the task force but will return home. The New Jersey was due in Long Beach, Calif., a week ago, but was diverted back to the western Pacific after the loss of the $2.7 million reconnaissance plane.
Czechoslovak Communist praises anti-Soviet purge
PRAGUE - A member of the ruling Communist party Presidium turned back the clock to Czechoslovakia's Stalinist era yesterday, pledging to purge all anti-Soviet elements and praising the "great, unforgettable" leadership of former President Klement Gottwald.
"To continue in the line of unlimited tolerance means to destroy the very essence of the
party," said Lubomir Strougal, a close associate of new party chief Gustav Husak.
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Across town from the rally, hundreds of students staged sit-in strikes at five departments of Charles and Ceske Budejovice Universities. They were protesting the downfall of Dubecek and his reform program, and they hoped to continue the strike for at least two days.
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