page three 40,ait, BUSINESS PHONE: 764-0554 Tuesday, August 15, 1972 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN News Phone: 764-0552 Pnest says N. Viets By THOMAS FOX Dispatch News Service SAIGON F- The first known S o u t h Vietnamese to travel north across the DMZ into North Vietnam and return to the south has arrived in Saigon excited and also disheartened by what he found during his journey. No- tably, he saw indications of a flourishing Catholic Church in North Vietnam which gives strength to its communist mem- bers. Father Loc said he found the spirit of the North Vietnamese higher than anything he has ever seen in the south. He re- gretfully added that the North Vietnamese seem certain to win the war unless there is a near- ly total change in the South Vietnamese army and society. Like most South Vietnamese priests, Father Loc is a tradi- tionally - minded Catholic. The prospect of a communist vic- tory does not settle easily with him. He does not agree with communist dogma. Yet he said that "the sense of selflessness and community" found in the north were similar to the ideals of a Catholic community. Father Nguyen Cao Loc, a fifty-three-year-old C a t h o I i c priest, said he was "invited" to travel into North Vietnam by soldiers after they overran his village in Quang Tri province last April. - Another priest and ten Catho- lic nuns also journeyed into North Vietnam during the past few months, Catholic sources confirmed here. They too, have returned to South Vietnam. The second priest does not want to discuss his journey with the for- eign press. The ten nuns have returned to the seclusion of a convent in Hue. "All the North Vietnamese soldiers I encountered were ex- tremely polite to me once they were assured I was not work- ing for the Americans," Father Loc said as he lay in his hos- pital bed where he is recov- ering from flesh wounds incur- red by an U.S. bomb, he says. He contrasted the "politeness" of the North Vietnamese soldiers with the "rudeness" of the U.S. jets spirits South Vietnamese soldiers who "ordered the peasants around and threw their things inside the church" when they retook the village in July. When the North Vietnamese soldiers ate, the first ones to finish poured tea for those still eating. The last ones to finish cleaned up the tables, Father Loc said.' Father Loc said he spoke to many North Vietnamese Catho- lics during his trip. He said his contacts were sporadic, but that Catholicism seems to remain strong in the north. "Everyone (in North Vietnam) seems to believe the communist propaganda and they are con- vinced they are going to win the war," Father Loc said. He add- high ed that the North Vietnamese had a saying, which goes "with every bomb that falls, we are ever more certain to win." Father Loc said his guides treated him as a "guest from the south." For a few days he stayed in the International Ho- tel in Hanoi. "Everywhere I went, they greeted me and re- spected me as a priest." "I could not believe their po- liteness," he added. "I thought it had to be political propagan- da. But I found it everywhere." Reflecting on his unique ex- perience, Father Loc reluctant- ly seems to conclude that there has been a growth in spirit in the ideological - oriented North that is missing in the South. I hit Hanoi-China rail, raid near Saigon Daily Photo by JIM WALLACE Still going strong Loyal followers of the late Pizza Bob pay their respects to the deceased culinary master by attending the wake held in his honor at Pizza Bob's yesterday. Pizza Bob has been dead for one year, but he lives on in the sign on State Street and in the stomachs of pizza eaters. The first anniversary of Pizza Bob's death was observed yesterday by charging half-price on all items. So many patrons appeared that some went next door to phone in their orders. MEETING POSTPONED: Vatican pressure stops Dutch democratic move AMSTERDAM (A')-Dutch Ro- Their communique said the ob- man Catholic bishops bowed yes- jections included: terday to Vatican pressure and -The parliament's statutes do decided not to convene a planned not adequately safeguard the Church parliament in October. bishops' authority. The parliament-a move to- -The time is not ripe for in- ward greater democracy in stituting a Church parliament. Church affairs-wou)d comprise -A document is being pre- chiefly laymen and have a hand pared by the Vatican on Church in policy making in the Nether- parliaments, called p a s t o r a l lands. councils here. The national pastoral council Its members were to be elected was to be the follow-up of six by democratic process in a man- plenary sessions held by the ner bDuie d of qu ithe 2 utch Church Province in 1968- centuries of Church history. 70 which put it into conflict with The Dutch bishops announced the central administration over that the parliament sessions had several issues, including one in been postponed due to "objec- favor of permitting married tions" by the Vatican Curia. priests. SAIGO(N /P) - American jets struck the Hanoi to China rail line yesterday and U. S. B52 bombers carried out heavy ov- ernight raids in the Saigon area. The r'isble of exploding bombs atv'ke residents of the capital jest before dawn today. U.S. 1552 bombers rained 900 tois of explosives in and near the demilitarized zone, trying to wipe oot stolies and men of a fresh North Vietnamese division believed to be a Irching south- ward to join the battle for Quang Tri, the northern most proviincial capital. The division was the 312th, recently pulled out of Laos, informants said. The Saigon command claimed 113 Communist troops were kill- ed in fighting on the northern front and on southern battle- grounds between Saigon and Cambodia. South Vietnamese losses were put at 28 killed and 71 wounded. A terrorist grenade went of f at a local militia office in Qui Nhon, on the central coast 275 miles northeast of Saigon, kill- ing three persons and wounding 20. West of there in the central highlands, day-long fires and ex- plosions scourged two ammuni- tion bunkersatPleiku. It was the fourth ammunition depot hit in three days, and sources said North Vietnamese sappers were believed again responsible. Attacksaonnthree dumps, out- side Saigon on Sunday destroyed 6,000 tons of munitions, but au- thorities said there were enough stocks elsewhere to prevent a shortage. On the front north of Saigon the long-awcaited reopening of Highway 13 to An Lot seemed as far away as even. Communist gunners fired a dozen rounds of rockets and mortars into a rear headquarters base at Lai Khe, 30 miles north of Saigon. Two South Vietnamese soldiers were reported wounded. Five miles farther south, a government battalion pulled back after taking half a dozen wound- ed in an attempt to dislodge North Vietnamese troops f r o m bunkers just outside Ben Cat, a district town. Inside the Cambodian Parrot's Beak, that juts into South Viet- nam west of Saigon, government forces claimed they killed 52 communists Sunday in a day- long fight that cost the South Vietnamese 14 men killed and 28 wounded. In the air attacks on N o r t h Vietnam, Navy pilots reported they struck barracks and storage buildings at the Hoi Doi mili- tary complex, 20 miles south- west of the port of Haiphong. Aauun viemmese sauuier caises a srigiieneu cus while its mother follows them past the remains of their bicycle. Smoke billows skyward in the background as a result of an U. S. airstrike. BELFAST VIOLENCE: GOuerrillas g.u Cudowvn twuvo soldierncivilian BELFAST (3) - Guerrilla out- laws killed two British soldiers and a civilian yesterday in a deadly answer to army claims of bringing Northern Ireland's vio- lence under control. The two soldiers, one a Royal Artillery major were killed by a bomb hidden in a milk churn in the Andersonstown district of West Belfast. The civilian was shot as guer- rillas opened up on an army pa- trol in the Ardoyne District, where two more soldiers h a d been wounded earlier by sniper fire. The deaths brought the toll in Northern Ireland's three years of violence to 510. In Londonderry, Irish terror- ists managed to slip through army checkpoints and leave a 10-pound bomb at the door of a restaurant to show they were still in business. The blast there took no casualties. Soldiers found another b o m b planted near a Belfast m a t c h factory and managed to defuse it. All three bomb attempts came on the day the British army claim- ed a dramatic reduction in Nor- thern Ireland's terrorist violence in the past two weeks. It was two weeks ago t h at British troops swept into t h e strongholds long run by terror- ists of the outlawed Irish Repub- lican Army, forcing the gunmen, to- flee, leaving weapons a n d ammunition. Since then, the army said. shootings, knifings and bombings were down more than 50 p e r cent. Other developments yesterday: -The army said IRA docu- ments uncovered in the p a st two weeks show a number of supposedly legitimate business concerns and political organiza- tions have been used as IRA fronts.