Friday, July 9, 971
T HE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Friday, July 9, 1971 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pocm Seven
news briefs
By T he Associated Press
South Vietnamese begin
new Cambodia offensive
THE FIFTH ROUND of strategic arms limitation talks (SALT)
between the U.S. and the Soviet Union got off to a good start yes-
terday and conference sources said both sides were optimistic and
determined to reach agreement.
President Nixon said in May that the two powers would concen
trate this year on limiting deployment of antiballistic missile,
(ABM's) and at the same time try to reach accord on limiting of-
fensive strategic weapons.
CITATION OF CBS for contempt of Congress has been urged
by the Michigan Association of Broadcasters in letters to Michigan's
congressional delegation.
The U.S. House Commerce Committee voted last week to seek
the citation against the Columbia Broadcasting System and its presi-
dent, Frank Stanton, for refusing to turn over notes and unused film
from its documentary "The Selling of the Pentagon." Rep. Harley
Staggers (D-W. Va.) urged the House yesterday to approve the cita-
tion, saying he had clear evidence of deceit through electronic alter-
ation of men's words which changed their meaning, and charged
widespread deception in broadcast news.
TEN STATES and possibly 12 more before the year's end are
reducing welfare benefits this year, sharply reversing a long time
trend of higher assistance levels for the poor, a confidential federal
survey by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare has
found.
Reflecting what some officials call a taxpayer revolt against wel-
fare and its growing financial burden on state governments, benefit
reductions of up to 20 percent go into effect this year in the 10 states.
CHEERING TEAMSTERS DELEGATES elected Frank Fitz-
simmons president of their giant union yesterday, formally stamp-
ing an end to the troubled 14-year rein of the imprisoned James
Hoffa.
The 2,100 delegates elected Fitzsimmons over token but bitter
opposition from Theodore Daley, whose supporters have compared
a takeover by Fitzsimmons to the "hysteria" of Nazi Germany.
A GROUP OF BLACK DOCTORS is realizing its dream to build
an oasis in the desert" in the new ultramodern, fully equipped
Detroit Medical and Surgical Center which opened June 14 and is
located in the predominately black slums on Detroit's East Side.
One of the five founders of the new center, Dr. Lionel Swan, says,
"We're bringing the poor into the mainstream of medicine. The peo-
ple will have something they can be proud of."
The center cost about $1 million and was financed under sponsor-
ship of the National Medical Association, a predominately black
group of doctors, with a Federal Housing Administration-insured
mortgage, money from the five founding doctors, and a grant from
the Sears Roebuck Foundation.
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namese forces launched a new
drive into Cambodia yesterday,
with 40 U.S. helicopters land-
ing 1,500 men in the old battle
ground of the Parrot's Beak.
The landings took place from
six to nine miles insidehCam-
hodia and the troops headed
toward Svay Rieng, a provincial
capital.
Simultaneously, 1,500 South
Vietnamese who had been oper-
ating around the Cambodian
town of Ktomping Trach -began
moving south toward S v a y
Rieng 20 miles away.
, Lt. Gen. Nguyen Van Binh,
commander of the 3rd military
region around Saigon, who is
directing the new operation,
hopes to trap a 400-man North
Vietnamese sapper battalion
believed in the area.
Other objectives are to dis-
rupt enemy supply lines, un-
cover arms caches, and to slow
North Vietnamese infiltration
toward the Saigon region.
The drive is centered in an
area that has long been used
by the Communist-led forces as
a staging ground for opera-
tions against the Saigon re-
gion.
The Parrot's Beak was one of
the first areas invaded by U.S.
and South Vietnamese troops
in the big offensive into Cam-
bodia in May and June last
year.
In Laos, U.S.-backed special
forces, making a new drive in
the Plain of Jars in the north-
ern part of the country, were
reported to have uncovered
large caches of enemy muni-
tions, food, medicines and other
supplies.
Informed sources in Vietiane,
the administrative capital of
Laos, said North Vietnamese re-
sistance has so far been light.
Gen. Thongnb Knoksy, D e -
fense Ministery spokesman, said
the U.S. Embassy was respon-
sible for the Plain of J a r s
operation and his government
"is not responsible." The U.S.
Embassy declined to comment,
It is well known, however,
that the Central Intelligence
Agencyhtrains, equips, and ad-
vises the militant Meo tribes-
men who are operating in the
plain. U.S. officials have said
the Meos are better fighters
than the Laotians.
In Washington the State De-
partment said the current of-
fensive on the Plain of Jars is
being carried out with U.S. lo-
gistical and air support, Press
officer Charles Bray said this
U.S. involvement was request-
ed by the Laotian government,
is common in such operations
and has occurred often in the
past-
He said he could not "ac-
count" for reports from Vien-
tiane that said the Laotian de-
fense ministry said the United
States is running the Plain of
Jars operation.
"No Americans of any de-
scription are leading any of the
forces involved in this operation
or any other operation in Laos,"
Bray said.
In South Vietnam itself, the
battlefield lull persisted ano-
ther day. The allied commands
reported only small patrol
skirmishes,
Only two miles south of the
DMZ, South Vietnamese i n -
fantrymen took over control
from American troops of Con
Thien, a strongpoint on the al-
lied defense line which has been
renamed Fire Base Alpha 4.
About 300 U.S. troops and 50
armored personnel carriers of
The 1st Brigade, 5th Mechan-
ized Infantry Division, moved
out of Alpha 4 and were re-
placed by infantrymen of the
South Vietnamese 1st Division.
However, more than 15 0
Americans will remain at Al-
pha 4 for the present.
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