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Red attacks stymie peace talks
PARIS — Allied diplomats said yesterday the increase in Communist shelling attacks in Vietnam has destroyed any hope that both sides had agreed privately to scale down the fighting and would finally begin "talking seriously about peace."
These diplomats, who are close to the U.S. and South Vietnamese negotiators in Paris, said the news this weekend from Vietnam battlefields indicates this week's session of the peace conference will produce no more progress toward issues of substance than the previous 12 sessions.
Communist gunners shelled about 30 towns and bases Friday night and 35 more Saturday night after a period of three weeks in which the level of such attacks generally decreased to about 10 to 20 a night. One of
the attacks Friday night killed 85 troops and civilians and wounded 94 at Tay Ninh city.
"These attacks prove once again that the Communists are not yet ready to sit down at the bargaining table and talk seriously about peace," one of the diplomats said.
They said the belief in
diplomatic circles here that a breakthrough might be near on the battlefield and at the peace table was founded on two recent developments.
The first, they said, was the full in the Communist offensive, which began Feb. 22-23 with shelling attacks on more than 100 towns and bases.
The second was that during the low ebb of the offensive last week the U.S. Defense Department announced in Washington that B52 bomber raids in South Vietnam were being cut back.
The intensification of shellings by the Communists has changed their assessment completely.
Defense Ministry indicates increase in Czech defense
PRAGUE — The Defense Ministry announced yesterday a new round of defense maneuvers by Warsaw Pact nations in Czechoslovakia and other Eastern European nations.
Estimated 14 million to polls as Yugoslav elections begin
BELGRADE - President Tito led an estimated 14 million Yugoslavs to the polls yesterday on the first day of elections leading this Communist state further toward competitive democracy.
Thousands gathered outside the polls in suburban Dedinje to catch a glimpse of Tito as he arrived to vote.
Tanned and jovial, looking far younger than his 77 years, the president waved to the crowd and strode briskly into the voting booth.
The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug estimated that between
13 and 14 million voters would have followed Tito's example yesterday throughout Yugoslavia's six republics and two autonomous provinces.
At stake on the first day of elections to be held during more than three weeks are 120 seats in the lower house of the federal assembly,780 seats in the lower houses of republican and provincial assemblies and 20,062 seats on communal and municipal bodies.
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The announcement came within 24 hours of a report and then a retraction by Prague Radio that the Soviet Union was reinforcing its occupation force in Czechoslovakia.
Competition has increased. Fifty of the 120 federal assembly seats were being contested by more than one candidate-a substantial increase over competitive levels in the 1967 elections.
The government made no move to explain the retraction of an earlier announcement that the Soviet Union planned to increase the size of its occupation force here, currently estimated at between 70,000 and 75,000 troops. Radio Prgause and CTK carried the announcement Saturday afternoon, then withdrew it two hours later saying it was "unfounded in view of changed facts."
The new defense maneuvers will begin today and continue through tomorrow in Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Western Russia "and other countries," said the Defense Ministry in a statement distributed by the news agency CTK. It said the maneuvers, in antiaircraft and aerial defense,
American expelled
ST. THOMAS, Virgin Islands A report reaching this Caribbean island from Anguilla said U.S. businessman Lewis Haskins, who has lived on the island eight years, was ordered to be expelled yesterday by British Commissioner Anthony Lee
The pilot of a commercial airline service that links Anguilla with other islands told newsmen here of the alleged expulsion order. He said Anguillans gathered at the airport to
prevent it from being carried out, as they did when American osteopath Felix Spector was ordered out last week.
There was no confirmation of the report from any official source.
Lee has ordered two other Americans off the tiny island since British troops occupied it last month to end a two-year rebellion for independence from he commonwealth.
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