Congress
foreign
WASHINGTON ( UPI )—Congress
approved yesterday 'a
$3.6 billion
foreign aid appropriation bill stripped
of any military funds for Cambodia or
Vietnam.
It was approved first by the house
on a-193-185 vote, then by the Senate
on a voice vote.
President Ford has not indicated
disapproval of the bill although it is
$2.2 billion less than the ad
ministration requested.
The aid program, which should
have been funded on July 1, 1974, has
been carried on through a continuing
resolution that will expire today.
The measure approved yesterday
will finance foreign aid only through
June *1975.
Ford's request for $522 million for
additional military aid to Cambodia
and South Vietnam was purposely left
out of the regular foreign aid money
South Vietnam
chopped in half
DA NANG, South Vietnam
UPl)—North Vietnamese and Viet
Cong forces chopped South Vietnam
in half yesterday overwhelming
defenders of Quang Ngai and Tam Ky
and bringing to 10 the number of
provinces under full Communist
control.
Capture of Tam Ky and Quang Ngai
left Da Nang as the only government
stronghold in the entire five-province
northern sector of South Vietnam.
Initial reports from military
sourceg said that Quang Ngai,
defended by almost an entire South
Vietnamese 10,000-man infantry
division, fell at 10 p.m. yesterday,
after day-long shelling barrages and
a late afternoon ground attack.
Tam Ky had fallen by noon Mon
day, after four hours of government
resistance, the Sources said.
The fall of the two cities boosted the
total of refugees in South Vietnam to
well over 1.5 rmllion with one million
homeless persons in the Da Nang
area alone, officials estimated.
Tam Ky had a population of 57,000
and Quang-Islgai had 50,000 before
yesterday's Communist victories.
There was no word on the fate of the
U.S. Quaker hospital at Quang Ngai,
nor of the Americans who normally
live in that city and work at the
hospital. 4
The Communists now: hold an un
broken line across South Vietnam
from the coast to Laos.
Tam Ky's defenses collapsed in a
surprise four-hour blitzkrieg when an
armored, infantry, and artillery
assault routed the poorly-trained
militia defenders.
Tens of thousands, of fleeing
refugees from the north and Central
Highlands came under Communist
fire and 80,000 waiting at Hue's port of
Tan My, six miles to the east, were
shelled. One small group of five to 45
persons perished when their fishing
boat sank en route from Hue to Da
Nang. Another gro,up of refugees died
when trucks in their convoy tumbled
down a steep slope onto refugees
blocked by a river crossing below.
Da Nang was so choked with
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refugees the U. . and South Viet
namese govern nts were reported
Officials ask
Lon Nol to quit
PHNOM PENH (UPl)—Cam
bodian troops lost more ground
around the capital city yesterday.
High government officials were
reporting pressuring President Lon
Nol to resign.
Although the Communist gains
increased the accuracy of their ar
tillery fire on Pochtntong airport,
U.S. officials took a "calculated risk"
and reopened the emergency lifeline
airlift of frv.)d, fuel and ammunition to
Phnom Penh.
However, a reshuffled cabinet
headed by Prime Minister Long Boret
presented a policy statement to the
National Assembly, pledging a new
offensive to open negotiations to end
the war as well as military moves to
reopen lines of supply.
About one : Ail - A of the 120 members
of the asserftly stayed away from the
session to protest the continued
leadership of President Lon Nol.
Late Sunday, a group of political
and military leaders headed by Long
Boret spent more than two hours with
Lon Nol in what well-informed
government sources described as an
attempt to convince him he should
step down from power.
The sources said the 62-year-old
field marshal gave no clear response,
and there appeared little chance he
would relax his determination to
remain on as chief of state.
Some Communist rocket positions
were reported to be only four miles
from the airport runway.
But- a steady flow of DCB jet
cargoliners and civilian-piloted U.S.
Air Force Cl3O transports flew
supplies in to the capital between
noon and sundown despite at least 20
okays
aid bill
bill to soften opposition. The south
east Asia aid issue is still pending in
House and Senate committees.
However, the aid bill . does contain
$440 million in reconstruction funds
for South Vietnam, Laos and Cam
bodia—money which may not be used
for military purposes.
The regular money bill does include
$475 million in military assistance for
a score of:nations. Additionally, there
is $3OO million in "security supporting
assistance" for Israel and $250
million of such aid for Egypt and $77.5
million for Jordan.
Economic assistance in the bill
totals $854.8 million and that includes
$3OO million in food and nutrition
programs, $125 million for population
planning and health projects abroad,
$35 million for famine and disaster
relief and $25 million in aid to Por
tugal and its colonies.
preparing to strip down Boeing 707 s to
the bare essentials so they could fly
out hundreds of refugees at a time to
the safer area of Cam Tho.
Government defenders in Hue, the
nation's cultural center and once the
ancient imperial capital, blew up
bridges and retreated into the city's
citadel itself after Communist troops
overran four district capitals in Thua
Thien province, crushed the defense
lines outside the city, and poised for a
final assault.
In Saigon, authorities reactivated
yesterday the Capital Military
District, placed it under the com
mand of Lt. Gen. Nguyen Van Minh,
who deployed 20,000 troops within a
15-mile perimeter to guard against
possible Communist assault, military
sources said. Self-defense forces in
the city were on maximum alert.
Military sources said Russian
made T 76 amphibious tanks have
been spotted on the edge of the Plain
of Reeds in Kien Phong Province in
the Mekong Delta, 60 miles southwest
of Saigon. It was the first time that
Communist tanks had been reported
in the Delta, and they could pose a
serious threat to Saigon's underbelly.
In the attack on the outlying region
of Hue, 400 miles north of Saigon,
Communist tanks and troops rolled
over four Thua Thien province
district capitals—Huong Dien and
Quang Dien north of the city, and
Ham Hoa and Phu Loc to the south.
Nonessential troops-, police and
civil administrators, with the land
route evacuation cut off, were or
dered to leave Hue by sea via the
city's port of Tan My, where 80,000 -
waiting refugees came under Com
munist bombardment. Full casualties
were not immediately known, - but a
ferryboat with between 50 and 70
refugees was sunk with only 45 sur
vivors.
Authorities in Saigon estimated
that 800,000 refugees were still on the
road, fleeing fallen provinces in the
Central Highlands and the north, and
an estimated 1,000 of these had been
killed. Another 500 persons have also
been killed in the battle for Hue,
where U.S. Marines fought a bloody
battle in the Tet offensive of 1968.
rocket hits at the air ort. Operations
were suspended rday after two
planes were da by exploding
rockets.
A dozen pr more rockets fell in
Phnom Penh during the day, several
of them near the U.S. embassy.
Insurgents closed the Mekong
River to traffic at the end of January,
leaving the airlift as the only means
of supplying the surrounded capital.
The airlift was reopened despite a
deteriorating military situation in the
"rocket belt" around Tuol Leap, six
milet northwest of the airport.
U.S. officials originally said that
the airlift would remain suspended
until the Tuol Leap operation was
able to decrease the incoming fire at
the airport.
But U.S. embassy officials decided
yesterday to resume the lift for what
was described as a variety of reasons,
including the desire to keep am
munition stocks from being depleted
too far and the psychological blow to
morale caused by its suspension.
'Officials here would give no
specifics on how long the airlift could
be halted before ammunition supplies
become critical.
In a related development, Tlha t iland
announced yesterday it would seek an
end to the U.S. - arms airlift to Cam
bodia from the Thai air base at
Tapao, about 100 miles south of
Bangkok, but will allow food ship
ments to continue.
Sunday night and yesterday,
government troops tryirk to clear
rocket firing positions around Tuol
Leap village lost six positions to the
insurgents, according to field reports.
One position was possibly recaptured.
the
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Love necessary,
Montagu says
By FRANK
Collegian Staff Writer
If ,man is to survive as a species, it is
necessary that he practice and pass on
the capacity to love.
This formula is the message an
thropologist Ashley Montagu repeatedly
impressed upon his audience in Schwab
last night.
Montagu said his topic, "Challenge to
Adaptability," meant the challenge
mankind faces today is the slow death of
love. Love, he said, is being choked off in
our increasingly scientific, technological
society.
"The allegiance of our society to
technology means that we are becoming
increasingly involved with things in
stead of people, people with feelings and
emotions."
As a result, Montagu said, We are
becoming more and more indifferent to
the conditiO'h of others; , which he called
society's real problem.
Montagu said this indifference is being
passed on through the schools
. to
children, threatening their future
capacity to love. He called education
"dehumanizing" because there is no
love given along with the knowledge
taught.
"As we go along through the
educational procOss, earning our
bachelor's degrls and master's
degrees and doctcital degrees, we die
Neither side budges on tax bill
WASHINGTON ( UPI )—Ef forts to
reach a compromise tax cut bill bogged
down yesterday in a House-Senate
conference committee, with neither side
willing to yield on differences ranging
from tax credits for home buyers to child
care deductions for working parents.
Members raised the possibility tfiat
Congress may not complete the bill by
Wednesday as it had hoped,
In seven hours of closed sessions, the
conferees were reported to have made
only one decision of consequence—
acceptance of a Senate-approved neg
ative income tax that would subsidize
low-income workers with children.
The committee's members and staff
alike were sworn to strict secrecy.
House Ways and Means chairman Al
Ullman and Senate chairman Russell
Long each sneaked out of the room by a
back door to avoid reporters after the
meeting.
Despite the secrecy reporters learned
that no major sticking points apparently
were a number of amendments added by
Ford orders rechecking of Mideast policy
WASHINGTON (UPl)—The White House said yes
terday President Ford has ordered reexamination of
Mideast policy following failure of Henry Kissinger's
latest mission. But the secretary of state said the
United States plans no punitive action against either
side.
Ford and Kissinger informed congressional leaders
of the policy reassessment during a grim 90-minute
White House session. But press secretary Ron Nessen
said Ford told' the leaders of both parties that "the
prospect of war in the Middle East is highly unlikely,
the President hopes."
Later in the day Kissinger briefed the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee for 90 minutes on his
abortive new attempt at shuttle diplomacy with the
Israelis and Arabs. He told reporters afterward:
"We are not engaged in any punitive actions... There
is no question of cutting off any aid. Aid will be
determined in relation to the overall situation."
"We are faced with a new situation—with some
peril," he added. Kissinger declined to speculate on the
possibility of any new outbreak of bostilitieg in the
Mideast, saying: "It is our desire to reduce the danger -
of war. I don't Want C 6 speculate... The United States
remains committed to help the people of the area
achieve a just and lasting peace."
Under the -circumstances, it is inevitable that
President Ford should st ri c to determine the best
future course of action, Kis ger said.
Small car production to be stepped up
Nearly 6,300 auto workers to
DETROIT (UPl)—The Ford Motor
Co. said yesterday it plans to step up
production of five small car models in a
move that will bring nearly 6,300
workers back from indefinite layoffs in
the next two months.
The Ford announcement, coming with
28,475 workers still on open-ended
layoffs this week, is the latest indication
the slumping auto industry may be
making a modest recovery from its
worst postwar sales slump. General
Motors last week said nearly 11,000
workers are due back to work by June. •
Ford President Lee A. lacocca said
25,300 cars are being added to the No. 2
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intellectually and spiritually by
degrees."'
Montagu said education" is important
because humans have no instincts,
unlike other animals.
"Everything we do as hum - an beings
we learn from others," he said. "In the
process, however, we, are open to
learning more rubbish than any other
animal."
One good point of education, he said, is
that people unspoiled by "progress" can
be studied to see how we have evolved
into what Montagu termed "homo
sapiens, or wise guy." He noted the
bushmen, the Eskimos and the
aborigines as being unspoiled.
Montagu said these peoples now are
being corrupted by the white man, citing
the high suicide and alcoholism rates
among the Eskimos.
Montagu said •the answer to the
challenge presented to man lies within
himself.
"If you want to change the world, you
can start by changing yourself. If you
feel that no one is treating you as a
human being, act as a human being," he
said.
Montagu said teachers also should act
as human beings, so that education can
truly live uplo its meaning—"causing to
grow and develop."
the Senate, especially a tax credit for the
purchase of new homes. But the main
stumbling block apparently was un
willingness of either side.:to budge an
inch.
"I've never seen the §enate like this,"
said one House member, complaining of
the Senate's refusal to yield to the House
on any of its positions.
Treasury Secretary Williarh Simon
was reported to have warned the closed
session that President Ford would veto
the bill if it was the size and form of the
Senate's $34.3 billion cut. The House bill
Was a $i9.9 billion cut. P
The afternoon session broke up in
early evening and another session was
scheduled for 10 a.m. EDT today.
Earlier in the day Ullman had been
optimistic the conference committee
would reach a compromise by tonight.
After the evening session Ullman
issued a statement saying it had been a
"productive day" but "no positions were
finalized."
Meanwhile, committee staffers came
up with figures indicating the Senate bill
was $1.2 billion larger than-originally
automaker's, April and May production
schedules—small cars that were eligible
for the now-ended rebates. Output will
be increased by 21 per cent at three small
car plants.
Just over 1,125 workers are being
recalled March 31 at l assembly plants in
Dearborn, Mich., to build Mustang Ils;
Kansas City, Mo., to assemble compact
Mavericks and Comets; and Metuchen,
N.J., to assemble subcompact ,Pintos
and Bobcats. Another 5,150 hourly
employes will be back on the job by June
at various manufacturing plants to
support the increased assembly
operations.
Kissinger also declined to declare an end to his
personal diplomacy, saying: "Our commitment
remains. The possibility of shuttle diplomacy
remains."
But he added, ``lt is my impression that we will
have to look for other forums"—an apparent reference
to expected reconvening of the Geneva conference on
the Middle Est.
Nessen told reporters that Ford "will look onto all
aspects and tall countries in the Middle East," in
cluding the questiOn of arms aid to Israel and the Arab
nations.
Nessen said, "This is a period when all sides will
reassess."
Ford, Nessen reported, had been in touch with Israeli
Prim; Minister Yitzak Rabin and Egyptian President
Anwail Sadat, but declined to disclose the contents of
the messages Ford sent.
The President told the Democratic and Republican
leaders "he was greatly disappointed that the talk was
suspended," Nessen said, and he praised Kissinger's
"skills and patience" in his step by step diplomacy.
Nessen said that Kissinger told the leaders "the
United States will now consider how to futher the cause
of peace, including the possibility" of reconvening the
peace conference at Geneva.
Shortly after returning td Capitol Hill, Senate
Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield and Senate
Republican Leader Hugh Scott drafted a resolution
endorsing the efforts of Kissinger and Ford to achieve
COLLOQUY SPEAKER, Ashley Montagu tells his Sch%%ab audience that there
is no love given with knowledge taught.
estimated. One of the major differences
was that a provision allowing tax write
offs for some child care turned out to be
$1.7 billion instead of the earlier $BOO
million estimate.
This left the revised Senate bill with
$34.3 billion in tax cuts and an increase
in corporate taxes—mostly on oil—of
$3.7 billion for a net figure of $30.6
billion.
Major disagreements are over the
numerdus Senate amendments. There is
almost no disagreement over' the major
portion of the bill—rebates of 1974 taxes,
special payments to the working poor
and some form of 1975 tax cut which
would result in lower withholding rates
later this year.
The Senate's housing credit, the first
major conference disagreement, would
allow purchasers of newly constructed
homes between March 13 and Dec. 31 to
take a tax credit of 5 per cent of the
purchase price up to $2,000. The tax
credit would be subtracted directly from
the homeowner's 1975 incorr tax bill.
The two sides agreed on nothing
during their first session with the Senate
"This production increase results
largely from improved consumer
confidence and the favorable effect we
expect it to have on vehicle sales,"
lacocca said.
"Also, we need added output to
replenish dealer inirentories reduced by
the recent cash rebate programs and a
continuation of the market upturn that
'began prior to the rebate programs."
As of March 1 Ford had enough
Mustang Its on hand to last 30 days.
With the stepped-up production, Ford
plans to build 440,000 cars in its North
American plants in April and May, still
down 10 per cent from the alrendy
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clinging to several of the many amend
ments they . attached to the bill, and
House members complaining that the
Senate was being stubborn.
"The Senate is being very obstinate,"
said one House negotiator. Ullman,
facing his first . .major test against the
veteran Senate' Finance Committee
chairman Russell Long, said he had
been given a rough time by the Senate
negotiators.
"I'm being tested by the Senate and
they're giving us a bad time," said
Ullman, who was named chairman of
the conference committee.
"I'm afraid we're a long way apart.'
Ullman added.
This is, Ullman's first major con
ference since he took charge of the
committee from Rep. Wilbur Mills, D-
Ark., adding an extra touch of political
drama to the conference.
The conference yesterday morning did
not get into the most sensitive area it will
face—whether to allow "independent"
oil producers to retain some portion of
the oil depletion allowance.
a peaceful solution in the Middle East.
The Senate passed it unanimously.
Sen. John Stennis. D-Miss., chairman of the Senate
Armed Services Committee, called the situation grave
and urged that the country. form a "united front::
behind the President as he seeks to resolve the Mideast
dispute.
Mansfield said Kissinger's report that Egypt and
Israel "came so close together and are now so far
apart" created a mood of "depression and
discouragement" among the lawmakers. But he said,
if Kissinger could be called back to resume
negotiations soon, he might achieve success.
The breakdown, Mansfield said, was in '
shape or form" the responsibility of Kissinger
could have done more," he added
Scott said, "I expect that three months from now;
unless there is an early decision to invite Mr. Kissinger
back, the situation will be worse and the contenders
will be fartheibapart than now."
Mansfield said Kissinger might return to the Middle
East butbnly "if there are definite assurances he won't
be on another wild goose chase."
The alternative to yet another Kissinger mission, the
leaders agreed, would be revival of the Geneva peace
talks—a cumbersome, protracted process which the
United States has tried to avert pirticularly because it
would bring the Soviet Union into policy-making for the
area.
regain jobs
depressed levels of last spring.
Other strong signs of the industry's
modest recovery were the start
yesterday of a 32 per cent increase in
output of American Motors' new small,
wide Pacer and the beginning of Cadillac
Seville production by GM in Detroit. But
in West Germany, Volkswagen said it is
idling 71,000 workers for four days after"
Easter.
Weather
Blustery and colder %.vith a few sprinkles.
High today 40; Cold with some flurries
tonight. Low 28. Partly sunny and cool
Wednesday. High 44.
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