Thieu attacks troop buildup SAIGON (UPI) President Nguyen Van Thieu said yesterday the Com munists have built up an unprecedented force in South Vietnam since the Paris peace agreement was'signed Envoy mediates in Ethiopia ADDIS ABABA (UPI)-A Sudanese envoy . met with nilitary rulers of Ethiopia \esterday in an effort to end ihe ]3-vear-war between government troops and rebel lorces fighting for the in dependence of the northern province of Eritrea. Diplomats in Addis Ababa said the »Sudanese foreign minister apparently was acting as a mediator between ihe government and the secessonist Eritrean rebels. In the past 11 days 1,60 p persons died in fighting for ihe battered Eritrean capital >1 Asmara, 600 miles north of Addis Ababa. - , DPI correspondent Ray Wilkinson, among the first oreign newsmen to reach Xsmara since Jan. 31. ■ eported the siege of the city •v as partially lifted yesterday but that rebels battled heavily armed government soldiers inside the provincial capital. The city was lit with flares and tracer bullets as scores of refugees lied south on a twisting mountain road, opened only a ' few hourp earlier by government troops. Guerrillas and government troops inside the city were GREAT - ’ v Wednesday, Feb. 12 8:30 p.m. Univ. Auditorium Tickets at the door from 7 30 Doors open at 8 00 $ 75 student/child $1 50 general sale The Artists 865-1871 UNIVERSITY CALENDAR Tuesday, Februaiy 11, 1975 SPECIAL EVENT j Sports: Women's swimming, vs.|West Virginia. 7 p.m. f .: ' i : I ■- I SEMINARS | , ' ' Uiology, 2 p.m., Room 2 South Frear. Michael S. Loop] University of Virginia on the Cal: Behavioral and 1 Evoked Potential Estimates ” Water Pollutmn Control, 2:20 p.m., Room 124 Sackett. fernest W.J. 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FILM Simmons lounge film series, “The Three Stooges Go Around the World in a Daze ’’ and 9:30 p.m., Simmons lounge. ‘ ’ '■ EXHIBITS Museum of Art - Paintings, Drawings, and Prints by Bruce Shobaken, Gallery A Gallery l^ 3 U H ' S Contemporaries ’ Drawings fnom the Roman Baroque, Zoller Gallery - Cook-Porter Invitational Student Sculpture Exhibit' ( hambers Gallery Art Education Exhibition, all media. 212 A Arts Bldg. Photographs of Nature by Douglas Baz. Hammond Gallery “First Doggest Exhibition,” paintings, drawings and mixed media by art majors Sandy Kautz and Lola Popowcer. llU jew?shchildren' s ' o " ° f Painting ’” 42 children 's paintings by Arab and two years ago. He called the buildup the single greatest obstacle to peace. Scores of South Vietnamese legislators and clergymen, however, demonstrated in tront of Saigon’s, National Assembly, and.* blamed the troubles on Thieu. ' The demonstrators, gathering in front of an altar on the main steps of the Assembly, called for a ’revolution” and Thieu’s resignation. They said, “The sooner Thieu leaves, the better." Thieu said in a New Year’s Day address to the nation that since the peace pact was signed in January 1973 the Communists had built up a lorce “greater.than before." “The problem facing us armed with machine guns, automatic Weapons, rockets and mortars in the half-hour battle. The city was reported in desperate need of food, Water and fuel. I Sudanese- acting Foreign Minister Gamal Mohammed Ahined Sunday carrying an appeal from President Jaafar Nubeiry to Ethiopia’s? five-month : old military government. Ahmed pleaded with the Philly police chief: women are different PHILADELPHIA (AP) Police Commissioner Joseph F. O’Neill says women would not make good policemen because “they would be in clined to their emotions all too frequently overrule their good judgment.” O’Neill also claims women cannot perforpi well as police officers “because. God, in His wisdom, made- them dif ferent.” The commissfoner made divisions and work side by Ihe comments in a recently ; side with patrolmen in the disclosed deposition for a sex j streets and radio cars. right now...is that we must defeat the general offensive of the aggressive North jVietnamese army,” he said. ' The military command bolstered defenses around the capital to thwart possible Communist attacks during the traditional three-day Tet lunar New Year holiday, which begins today. Even as Thieu prepared to deliver his speech marking the Vietnamese Year of . the Cat, dozens of legislators, clergymen and citizens gathered for their demon stration. They said they would stage a 24-hour sit-in hunger strike “to protest the corrupted, inefficient and oppressive administration of President Thieu.” military junta tifend what has. become the worst fighting in the 13 years since Ethiopia annexed Eritrea and -the movement for self-rule began. Ahmed's meetings with the head of the junta, Maj. Mengistu Haile Mariam, and other Ethiopian leaders coincided with contacts in Khartoum between Sudanese officials and newly-arrived Eritrean representatives. discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. .Justice Depart ment against the police department. ‘ O'Neill acknowledged that tennis star Billie Jean King probably would rout him on the court but said he wouldn't like to have her as a partner, in disarming a robber. Women police officers are suing to get out of the police stations and juvenile aid Inflation, business are slowing ByUPI markets to finance budget gets worse than anticipated An independent survey deficits threatens to halt the ' Nessen declined to say what yesterday indicated inflation decline in interest rates. moves the President was slowed down in January but But a major Chicago bank, considering or at what point the economic slump cut Continental Bank, said the they would be triggered, heavily into business orders, money market has enough “The growing domination production and jobs. And the “slack” to, absorb the larger of the government in our government said retail sales government borrowing credit markets represents an Th . , ~ were runnings at recession because of. a slower demand alarming situation, reflecting g. p ij levels. - by business and consumers, the even more alarming nricJT&to Thte..Commerce Depart-,, Historically, the bank said, growth of government m this ,„ nuarv S dow „ from 4 o ner ment said auto rebates interest rates decline during country," Simon said in* ir/rwemher P provided enough push to periods, of rising federal urging Congress not to add to A decline in new orders was increase January sales by one deficits. , . President Ford’s projected ?£ted bv 53per cent of per cent over December and On energy, Simon said budget deficit of $52 billion. 1,0 *, 5 , .. five per cent over January, petroleum exporting nations He said the Treasury will ■ V P e 1974. But the year-to-year are holding a knife at the have to sell $79 billion worth c' ITm \nvmpnt was sharnlv increase failed to keep up nation’s throat. of bullion securities to finance percent3g with the 12 per cent inflation Meanwhile, President Ford federal operations. L;. lain off rate and represented a began a two-day trip to Texas The National Association of . , f substantial decline in dollar and Kansas to drum -up Purchasing Management savins workers wpre volume. support for his economic and said its monthly survey, ? dded Saymg W ° rkerS Were Elsewhere, Treasury energy recovery programs, which is widely followed for Secretary. William E. Simon En route to Texas aboard Air advance economic trends, A study by Congress’Joint told the' Senate Finance Force One, Press Secretary showed that the rate of price Economic Committee showed Committee the “enormous Ron Nessen said Ford had increases slowed for the 10th a sharp erosion in the pur sum” the government has to conferred with advisers on consecutive month. chasing power of Americans, borrow in open money steps to take if the economy The association said 21 per Higher taxes were blamed for much of the higher cost 'of Legislators seek free air time O i , family of four with an income f u ’■ r f I of $12,626 had toj pay $1,840 for critics of nuclear power standard of living. WASHINGTON (UPl)—Thirty members of Congress said yesterday the nation’s broadcasters should provide free air time to nuclear power critics to balance expensive industry and government promotional campaigns. “All we’re saying is there ought to be a public policy debate of enormous propor tions,” said Rep. Benjamin S. Rosenthal, D- N.Y., spokesman for the group, at a news conference. He said the issue is even more important because of President Ford’s plan to quad ruple the nuclear power program despite ST. VALENTINE’S DA Y PRICE MASSACRE ALL MERCHANDISE MUST MO VE—SOME ITEMS A T COST; SOME EVEN BELOW COST—SOME ONE AND TWO OF A KIND—HURRY! 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Black & Decker Manufacturing Co. is dismissing 450 workers and idling 5,000 others for two weeks at plants in Hampstead and Easton, Md.; Fayette ville and Tarboro, N.C , and Solon, Ohio. The com pany said another 2.000 workers will be asked either to take temporary furloughs or work shorter weeks. Sinaon, in his Senate testimony, urged the Senate to reject the House-passed bill that delays for 90 days the President’s authority to place a $3 per barrel duty imported oil to cut domestic con sumption and lower U S. reliance on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. In Vienna. Middle East oil experts doubted OPEC would raise crude oil prices in 1975. 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