. Viet commander
*
found shot to death
SAIGON (UPl)—The deputy com
mander of South Vietnamese troops
defending the Saigon area was found
shot to death last night following an
argument with his superior over tactics.
Military sources said he apparently
committed suicide. j
The sources said Maj. Gen. Nguyen
Van Hieu was found with a bullet wjoun'd
in his mouth at his 111 Corps office at the
edge of Bien Hoa airbase, 14 miles north
east of Saigon.
It was not known whether Hieu's death
was connected with the yesterday
morning's bombing of the Presidential
palace of Nguyen Van Thieu.
Hieu was deputy to Lt. Gen. Nguyen
Van Toan. who commands troops in the
13 provinces surrounding Saigon. !
Military sources said the two generals
got into a violent disagreement in an
argument over military tactics,
although the exact cause of the dispute
between the two men could not be im
mediatelv learned. v
The curfew resulting from the attack
on the palace meanwhile slowed
Operation Baby lift and the air exodus of
Americans, and the Viet Cong overran a
Jackson attacks
Vietnam secrecy
WASHINGTON (I PO-Sen Henry M.
.lackson. D-W'ash.. charged yesterday
that "secret agreements " exist between
the t inted States and South Vietnam
v» inch ha\e been hidden trum Congress
and until recently—trom President
Ford
Jackson said the agreements "en
vision fateful American decisions," but
did not discfti.se what they entail. Nor did
he accept a challenge to make his
knowledge available to the Senate.
Israel planning Sinai concession
f{\ The Associated Press
Israeli policymakers are considering
vacating roughly half the Smai;Desert in
a new territorial concession to Egypt in
an effort to revive U.S. peace efforts,
according to qualified sources.
No Israeli official would comment for
the record on the report yesterday and
officials in Jerusalem insisted the idea
was only "theoretical.” But the sources
'aid the Israelis were thinking of the
w ithdrawal. which would be even deeper
than that proposed during Secretary of
State Henry A. Kissinger's unsuccessful
peace shuttle last month and would run
1 rom north to south in the desert-^
They said it would hinge crucially on
Egy pt s readiness to end the state of war
with Israel and would come only after
Egypt proved its peaceful intentions
with actions.
One report from Washington said the
State Department turned down the idea
because it had not been ratified by the
Israeli Cabinet
Discipline
DONALD 3 ■ SL IT. director of the Office of Conduct Standards, answers questions
at the GSA-LSG Discipline Committee meeting last night.
district capital in the military district
north of Saigon.
The pilot who bombed the palace took
off from Bien Hoa for his mission and
was still missing hours after the attack.
.Military sources said he probably
defected to the Communists with his
supersonic plane. Thieu escaped injury
and later he said the attack was not part
of an attempted coup.
On the battlefronts, Communist forces
moved c' >ser to control of the II Corps
area noi th of Saigon, overrunning one of
the few remaining government positions
at Thien Giao district capital, 115 miles
northeast of Saigon late yesterday,
military sources said.
The sources said South Vietnamese
defenders put up a tough battle and,
backed by air strikes, killed 150 Com
munist forces. But human wave assaults
overran the town at nightfall.
Civilians already have deserted the
entire 11 Corps area where possible.
The last remaining government
holdings In that area are around the
province capitals of Phan Thiet and
Collegian
have it on the best of information, the
best authority, that secret agreements
were reached" in connection with the
Paris Peace Accords on Vietnam.
As for Ford, Jackson said, “I think he
has only recently found out about these
accords.”;
White House Press Secretary Ron
Nessen had no immediate comment on
Jackson’s ghargesj and Deputy < Press
Secretary John W. iHushen said later in
the day “our position is that we have
1 know of no secret agreements," nothing to say.” 1 '
said Senate Democratic Leader Mike Jackson, an announced candidate for
Mansfield “Everyitime we met with Mr. the De nocratic presidential nomination.
Kissinger after one of his visits and, said that while Ford has hinted Congress
journeys overseas, that question was reneged on its commitments to' South
asked and the answer always was no. ' Vietnam, “The fact is that Congress is
He said if there was substantial being accused of violating commitments
evidence of secret agreements. “I would ' and obligations it never heard of ’’
expect the appropriate committees to Jacltson also said "obsessive secrecy”
look into the breaches of faith and marked the SALT I negotiations, to the
trust point where not even then Defense
In a Senate speech. Jackson said. "I Secretary Melvin Laird and then
The idea apparently arose in the past
lew days. Last week Premier Yitzhak
Rabin had said Israel s negotiating
position had not changed as a result of
Kissinger's failure.
In other Mideast developments:
- Israel announced it would ask that .
the mandate for maintaining a United
Nations peace force in the Sinai
peninsula between Israeli and Egyptian
lines be extended for six months. Egypt
reported last week that it would accept
only ■ a three-month extension of the
mandate that expires April 24.
Shlomo Argov, assistant director of
the Israeli Foreign Ministry, said Israel
will extend U.S. Emergency Force
pressence by six months," but the final
decision will be made by the U.N.
Security Council.
—A senior Israeli government official'
said Egypt had given “a specified and
unqualified undertaking” to allow
Israeli cargo in foreign vessels to pass
through the Suez Canal when it is
Phan Rang. |
But panic among government troops
and Communist attacks on the edges of
the cities made the situation so j bad
yesterday that Western refugee workers
were unable to land aircraft to help with
civilian evacuation. I
Bien Hoa aurbase was hit by a rocket
attack early today, but it was notj im
mediately known how many rounds hit
the strategic base. |
Government and Communist officials
said they had no idea where pilot Nguyen
Thanh Trung, 26, a native of North
Vietnam whose family lives in Com
munist-held Da Nang, had flown his F 5
fighter after bombing Thieu’s palace. =
The curfew resulting from the bomb
ing of -Thieu’s palace was lifted lafter
six hours but it curtailed the human
traffic on the daily airlift of orphans and
civilian refugees from Saigon. ;
At least one U.S. Air Force , Cl4l
Starlifter flight between Saigon; and
Clark Air Base in the Philippines was
cancelled and passenger traffic on two
others totaled only 31 persons.
reopened in June.
He said the assurance was part of the
disengagement agreement arranged by
Kissinger in January 1974.
Egypt hgs publicly declared that
Long Boret returns
from Bangkok talks
PHNOM PENH (UPD—Cambodian
Prirrie Minister Long Boret returned to
this besieged capital yesterday from
Bangkok, \jvhere officials said he met
with ■ Communist Khmer Rouge rebel
representatives in the possible begin
ning of a negotiated settlement of the
five-year-old Cambodian war.
Officials in Thailand and Cambodia
said Long Boret met with the Khmer
Rouge for four hours in Bangkok
Monday. No results of the Bangkok
meeting were disclosed immediately^
As Long Boret stepped off the special
plane that brought him from Bangkok,
the ! Communist-led insurgents 'were
Suit tells discipline committee
Police use telescopes
By 808 HAMILTON
Collegian Staff Writer
Donald Suit, Office of Conduct Stan
dards director, last night admitted that
police services have been using
telescopes to spot marijuana plants in
dorm rooms.
Suit, answering questions to the
Undergraduate Student Government-
Graduate - Student Association
Discipline Committee, said this also
e bid be effective in curbing rapes and
other violent crimes in dorm areas.
"There are a lot more effective ways
of stopping rape than having monkeys
running around witfi telescopes,” said
Paul Weinstein, discipline committee*,
secretary.
Suit conceded that using telescopes for
surveillance “bordered on being
unethical” but said it was an effective
way for the officer to obtain a search
warrant.
Manning thair SOUTH VIETNAMESE MILITARY POLICE stand guard outside the presidential
. • palace in Saigon after a South Vietnamese bor her attacked the palace Tuesdaj.
DOSltlOnS President Thieu and his family were uninjured.
Secretary of State William P. Rogers
were informed about two accords.
And Jackson said "crucial Soviet-
American communications” bearing on
the trade bill still have not been
disclosed to Congress.
"Indeed.” he said, "this is the pattern
which has comb to characterize our
relations with other nations—secret
negotiations, ! producing secret
agreements, containing secret com
mitments.
“There is a whole series of secret
accords that we just have to dig out, dig
out, dig out...
“With this pattern ot diplomacy, allies
may feel betrayed if secret promises
made to them are not kept. Other nations
will inevitably doubt whether secret
promises made, to them are equally
valueless and Americans are left to
wonder just hojv many secret com
mitments there may be " ;
Israeli ships will be barred from the
canal because of the state of war
existing between the two countries but
(hat shipment of Israeli cargo oni other
vessels will dependon Israeli "conduct.”
barely 3 3 miles from
Airport and getting closer, yard by yard,
by the day. Phnom Penh itself was
surrounded by the rebels who now
control 90 per cent of the country. 1
Shortly before Long Boret arrived,
rebels again hit the airport with both
artillery and rockets in more than 30
attacks. One Cambodian air force C 123
was damaged and two pilots injured.
Thai Foreign Minister Chartchai
Choonhavan said in Bangkok he believed
another meeting between Cambodian
government representatives and the
Ehmer Rouge might be scheduled.
“Of course there are people dressing a
pound of marijuana with their door open.
They deserve to be caught, ’' Suit said.
He said another problem with police
i services was that the pfficer's summary
, of charges against istudents brought
{ before Suit sometimes will conflict with
the testimony of witnesses and the ac
cused.
I "We have run into some problems with'*
summaries. It’s a problem I’ve' been
working on for two years,” Suit said.
He said if charges brought against a
student are due to inaccuracies in the
security ‘report, they usually "'are
dropped at the pre-hearing interview.
Suit said the sanctions'that his office
can impose are a warning, probation,
suspension, indefinite dismissal and
expulsion. Probation is used most often.
“What the! University can do, essen
tially, is separate you from the
University or warn you that you could be
separated," Suit said.
Ten cents per copy
Wednesday, April 9,1975 !
Vol. 75, No. 146 12 pages University Park, Pennsylvania
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
Town
called
By LINDA MILLER
Collegian Staff Writer
Some students and local officials
yesterday rode the London Tour bus, ate
cookies, drank coffee, hald dinner
together and talked. !
The event was the second annual Town
Day, sponsored by the Organization of
Town Independent Students. The mayor
and the judge, along with a host of other
local leaders, were there to meet and get
acquainted,with students.
"OTIS has a vision here," State
College Mayor Jo Hays said of Town Day
during the concluding banquet in the
HUB Terrace Room. “Maybe with this
vision we can transform College Avenue
from a real dividing line into an
imaginary one." i
Bonnie Smith. Town Day coordinator. ,
said she was pleased withi the day's
results. She said yesterday's|interaction .
between townspeople and student
escorts during lunch in various *
residence halls, tours of student
organizations, and OTIS-sponsored
forums was profitable. But she stressed
that the same lines of communication
between the two communities must exist
every day, not just on Town Day.
Hays, who attended Town Day last
year, said that this year’s event was
even more successful. i
University President John W. Oswald
also delivered a short speech before the
banquet. He was unable to iattend Town
Day, but he said he very mubh supported
the project.
"It's like shaking hands with oneself to
welcome the townspeople hjre,’’ Oswald
said. What is done in State College af
fects the University and v ce versa, he
said. I
Oswald said understanding between
the town and University is needed,
especially this year with the problems of
inflation and unemployment.
Ron Gordon, former OTIS president,
said the theme of Town Day was
He said they have experimented with
students performing some sort of ser
vice in lieu of separation, but it was not
successful
“We know thpt students don’t usually
get into difficulty when they come back
after a suspension. If 1 they get into
trouble again they are dismissed. There
is quite a deterrent factor here,” Suit
said. j
Asked if this wasn’t being more
punitive than rehabilitative, Suit replied
that the University is not(a rehabilitative
institution.
Suit estimated that 90 per cent of the
students separated from the University
return. j
Concerning a charge jthat he had too
much latitude in administering conduct
standards, he said he tried to be as fair
as possible. ‘ 1
“In any type of human relations you
have to have some sort of ethics,” Suit
said.
Day activities
'successful'
brotherhood and cooperation. He said
College Avenue must be crossed because
"there are valuable resources on both
sides."
At one conference in the afternoon,
students and local officials talked of
extending the day’s theme of cooperation
to an actual involvement of students in
local government. ,
"Student participation in government
has just about reached its peak," said
Dean Phillips, State College borough
councilman But he added that he would
like two or three students regularly
elected to borough council.
Borough Council President Arnold
Addison said students first should get
involved with the community and then
run for elected offices. |
Addison said he would like more
students on the various local boards and
authorities—positions appointed by
council. He said even if students could
hold office for only one or two years
before • graduation, he would still
welcome them on commissions.
A newly elected Undergraduate
Student Government senator is
Joseph Harteis, not Gerald Harteisas
reported in Monday’s Daily
Collegian.
Due to an incomplete tabulation ol
ballots in the Pollock-Nittany area,
the Collegian also incorrectly named
Bill Kristan as a newly elected
Association of Residence Hall
Students member. Dave Cochran
<3rd-science) won that seat with 386
votes. The number of votes for of
ficers of the Pollock-Nittany
Residence Hall Association is as
follows: president— 527. vice
president— 6l6. secretary—3B2.
treasurer—394.
to spot pot
It was mentioned that there is often a
lag between the time charges are
brought against a student and when he
has his hearing. Chris Gerding,
discipline committee chairman,
suggested that Suit get an assistant.
“I ve asked for one a couple of times.
Especially when the backlog of cases
gets to be 100 or so I really begin to sweat
and worry," Suit said.
He said University budget problems
have kept him from having an assistant.
"I have hostilities about the system
myself, sometimes." Suit said
Mostly sunny and cool today. High 52.
Partly cloudy and chilly tonight. Low 32.
Partly sunny and cool Thursday. High
50.
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