Tuesday, January 14, 1975 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Tuesday, January 14, 1975 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three U.S. FILES PROTEST: F ighting heats o A Foreign car sales dip in 1974 upIn SAIGON, South Vietnam (P) -- South Vietnam claimed its war- planes, flying one of their big- gest missions of the war yes- terday, wrecked a 400-truck North Vietnamese convoy car- rying men and supplies for an offensive against the central highlands city of Kontum. In Cambodia, government troops fought insurgents on the west bank of the Mekong River opposite Neak Luong, a major naval base 35 miles southeast of Phnom Penh. Rebel gunners shelled the town itself, reported- ly killing 10 civilians. THE UNITED STATES pro- tested on yesterday what it termed a grave violation of the Vietnam peace agreement by Hanoi in resuming warfare in South Vietnam. In a note addressed to the: guarantors of the 1973 Paris: peace agreement, the United States said North Vietnam has built up its main forces in South Vietnam through the illegal in- filtration of more than 160,000 troops since the Paris agree- ment was concluded on Jan. 27, 1973. Armored vehicles, artil- lery and antiaircraft weapons also were greatly increased, the note said. The South Vietnamese 2nd1 Corps command said the six- hour,, 100-mission attack on the convoy destroyed more than 200 Soviet-built Molotova trucks and killed 170 North Vietnamese troops. THE COMMAND said South Vietnamese bombers set afire: scores of trucks carrying fuel, antiaircraft guns and troops of. a North Vietnamese division which the command said were to be used to attack Kontum, 260 miles north of Saigon. The convoy had come through a North Vietnamese road net- work in Laos and was about six miles from Kontum when at- tacked. The city, only 25 miles east of the Laotian border, was a main target of Communist drives in 1968 and 1972 but was: never captured. There was no immediate cor- roboration of the 2nd Corps headquarters claim. i.1. Asia THE NORTH VIETNAMESE and Viet Cong launched a re- gional offensive last Dec. 6 in the southern half of South Viet- nam but the central highlands has been free of major fighting. Field reports said North Viet- namese forces launched fresh attacks along the Binh Dinh coastal plain about 300 miles northeast of Saigon where a rice growing region around Bong Son district town is being con- tested. Most of the fighting re- ported Monday was concentrat- ed in South Vietnam's fertile Mekong Delta. The Saigon command claimed 182 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed in four major bat- tles in the delta. It listed its own losses as six men killed, 67 wounded and 11 missing. THE BIGGEST clash took place along the Cambodian bor- der 55 miles west of Saigon, where a North Vietnamese ar- mored column attacked a South Vietnamese frontier outpost manned by about 10 troops, the command said. It claimed five North Vietnamese armored per- sonnel carriers were destroyed by South Vietnamese bombersE and artillery. Cambodian troop reinforce-k ments reportedly arrived Mon- day in Neak Luong, now the temporary home of 20,000 re- fugees from surrounding vill- ages. It has been hit by more than 100 rounds of high explo- sives daily since the dry-sea- son offensive began New Year's Day. Rebel forces control 45 miles of river bank along the 60-mile stretch of river between South Vietnam and Phnom Penh. Neak Luong lies at the midway point on the river's east bank. ALL ROADS to the capital have put cut for some time and river convoys from Saigon have been halted since the dry sea- son offensive began. In Phnom Penh eight persons' were reported wounded when two rockets landed in front of an American diplomat's house. The U. S. official was at work and none of his family was in-I jured. It was the 13th straight day of rebel shelling of the city. DETROIT (R) - Foreign cars registered sales lo began 1974 with record sales in 44 per cent during the United States, sputtered Volkswagen, the most of the year, spurted in est importer, repot early fall, and then wound up 30 per cent to 334 in nearly as bad a slump as largest importers, their domestic competition.rt Datsun, were off 18 Nevertheless, the imports 20 per cent for the claimed 16 per cent of the tively. American car market, a record piece of the pie. Mazda, the woan SALES of the mostly small the early 1970, rn imports soared during the gas- per cent decline t oline shortage last winter. Then sales for the yea inflation and later recession nese maker blam burst the balloon and deliv- on U. S. tests the eries dropped 20 per cent from rotary-powered ei 1973. per cent less fuel e But an even more severe 23 ______________ ' per cent drop in sales of U. S.- made cars left the imports' market share up from 15.5 per CA R E E cent the year before. "Taking everything into con- sideration I'd say it was a very average year for imports, one auto analyst said. "They took advantage of the gasoline short- ages last winter, but then so did domestic small cars. P'anning "IMPORTS WILL be back to , 15 per cent of the market in PlaCeme 1975," the analyst added. Imports rallied in early fall when their 1974dcars with 1974 prices were competing with the more expensive 1975 American models. But when new import models debuted with higher prices, the sales surge ended. Foreign car sales for the year CA totaled 1.41 million, compared with a record 1.77 million in 1973. IT WAS STILL the third high- est import total in U. S. history, bitt that was little consolation to the 14 of 20 importers who R a comparable piston engine. SALES DECLINES were also registered by British Leyland, 17 per cent; Volvo, 11 per cent; Mercedes-Benz, 9 per cent; Saab, 22 per cent; Subaru, 39 I per cent; Porsche, 11.5 per cent, {Renault, 4 pe rcent; and Alfa- Romeo, 17 per cent. Among imports marketed by U. S. companies, Buick's Ger- man-made Opel had a 13 per: cent sales decline and Mer- cury 's Capri was off 33 per cent.. But Dodge's Japanese-built Colt reported a 21 per cent gain. Fiat, one of the six importers, that made sales gains in the United States, reported a 23 per cent increase to 72,029 units, an all-time record. SALES OF Japan's Honda were up 11 per cent for the year; Germany's Audi and BMW were up 9 and 10 per cent respectively, and France's Peugeot had a 90 per cent gain to 7,948 units. Import sales accounted for a record 19 per cent of the U. S. market last January, when fuel shortages made small cars with high fuel economy popular among American consumers. 11 1 SENIORS and GA STUDET 13 students arrested' in Boston violence AP Photo MARGARET WILSON, a black lawyer from St. Louis, is ex- pected to become the new chairwoman of the National As- sociation for the Advancement of Colored People. we Wilson expected to headNAC NEW YORK (A) - The Na-I fighting race and sex discrimi- tional Association for the Ad- nation, would pioneer in choos- vancement of Colored People ing a black women to lead it was expected yesterday to elect -particularly now in these days its first black woman board of affirmative action." chairman. 'Phe chairperson of the board Margaret Bush Wilson, a law- runs the association with full yer from St. Louis, was expect- authority over all officers and ed to defeat three other candi- employes. dates to head the 400,000-mem-z ber civil rights organization. ONE PROBLEM for the new SUt e chairperson will be realigning SHE WOULD be the second the staff which has been de- woman chairman. Mary White jtesafwihhsbe e Ovintonmahita.maywhtepleted by deaths and retire- Ovington, a white woman who , was a founder of the NAACP, ments. Fund raising also will served as acting chairman and be a big challenge, especially then chairwoman from 1917 to in the face of inflation and eco- 1932. nomic conditions. Mrs. Wilson was the leading - contender for the post and had the backing of the powerful "Bishops Caucus." That group developed within the NAACP's 64-member board under Stephen 3 Spottswood who died last month. He had served as chair- man since 1961.°°°' The caucus keeps tight ad- ministrative control over the board and one official said that meant Mrs. Wilson's election was seen as "a virtual certain- ty."~ THE NEW chairperson is the immediate superior of Roy Wil- kins, the organization's execu- tive director who is an employe of the board. Wilkins, who has been in his post 25 years, said he had no favorite among the four contenders. "I have no preference," he said. "I can work with any of them." Mrs. Wilson's legal back-' ground has been in housing and real estate. She served as par- liamentarian during two na- tional conventions of the NA- ACP. MRS. WILSON, 55, has been a strong advocate of expanding the NAACP's youth programs. This was seen as aiding her chances for the chairmanship; since the organization has had a problem for the past several years in attracting young people because of the entrenchment of older leaders at the top. Anticipating her election, one board member said, "I think it's tremendous that the coun- try's oldest civil rights organiz- ation, whose history is rooted i 1 A SEI 1% THE MICHIGAN DAILY Volume LXXXV, No. 86 Tuesday, January 14,1975 is edited and managed by students at the University of Michigan. News phone 764-0562. Second class postage; paid at Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106. 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COME TO A EGISTRATION MEETING BOSTON (MP) - Two persons, including a police officer, were injured and thirteen students were arrested yesterday as the result of a disturbance at Hyde Park High School. The police officer and a 32- year-old woman who was iden- tified as a youth activities work- er were taken to hospitals. Police said the 13 persons ar- rested would be charged with disorderly conduct. Among those arrested were 11 blacks, including three females. The disruption occurred as students were changing classes. Police said it started as a shov- ing match and evolved into scat- tered fights between black and white students. Witnesses said about 25 black students walked out of the school and parents were per- mitted to enter the building and take their children home. The school is not part of the racially troubled South Boston school complex, but has been the scene of several disturb- ances since its enrollment was shifted last fall to include an' even number of white and black students among its 800 pupils. It has been integrated for sev- eral years. Officers among the 100 reg- ularly assigned at the school put down the disturbance, but reinforcements were called in by midmorning to prevent fur- ther incidents. It was the second disturbance at Hyde Park High School with- in five days. Fifteen students were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct last Thurs- day after a fight between black and white students. Students were dismissed for the rest of the day Thursday, but classes resumed Friday without inci- dent. Some black students have ac- cused police of brutality, com- plaining about the number of blacks arrested Thursday. 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