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Cloudy through Hot Wheels Wednesday and track continued mild ' ¦>' ¦ classified section : Legtsldtm^ Nixon to concentrate on environment By STAN BENJAMIN At present, the council has, in addition to its three mem- and by the end of October they were flowing in at the rate of WASHINGTON (AP) — President Nixon's legislative pro- bers, only a dozen professional staff assistants and about four a day. gram for the new Congress may include proposals on land 30 other workers. Y "Since the annual report," Train said, "the legislative use, junk automobiles, mercury and other toxic matter, and In addition, the council's $1.5 million budget request for program has been our major staff priority." trash dumping in oceans. the current fiscal year was slashed by one-third in Congress, In between these tasks, the council has issued guidelines Preparation of proposals on these items and other en- and that reduced funding was blocked when President Nixon for preparation of the Impact studies; aided in creating a new vironment problems is now the top priority of the President's vetoed¦¦ the multifaceted "independent agencies" appropria- antipollution agency EPA and an ocean-atmosphere agency Council on Environmental Quality, says it chairman, Russell tion. • ¦' . NOAA and contributed to proposals on a bewildering variety E. Train. - Train hopes to get the full request when Congress re- of pressing national problems. But it's a heavy burden on a small agency with relatively considers the bill. If conservationists seem disappointed, it may" be largely little money whose 15 professionals are supposed to ride Some conservation specialists who had high hopes for the the disappointment of learning the council is not the public herd on the entire environment. council when it was created last January are .seriously con- spokesman they thought it would be. Train's council is also responsible, for example, for re- cerned about these handicaps. "Our role," Train emphasized, "is as advisers to the viewing hundreds of environmental impact studies, submitted Considering its money and manpower problems, the President." by other federal agencies along with program proposals. Council has turned in a great deal of wort in its first 9 " "The development of strong legislative programs in the Train acknowledged in an interview the council could months. field of environment, I feel, is perhaps the most significant not give those studies "the kind of very careful , detailed re- Its first major task was the writing of a first-ever report role that this council can have," said Train. view... that we would like." on trie state of the environment —- a project , says Train,'which To fulfill it, he said, "you have to have a close working To fulfill those responsibilities adequately, said Train, "created a massive demand on our time." relationship/ And if your primary role is one of public critic, "we ought to be somewhere between two and three times By the time the report was published in August, the coun- it seems to me it's hard to maintain the other role." as big." : cil had received more than 70 environmental impact studies, ' ' ' ' ' ¦ ' ' • ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . • . & ^ : ¦ ¦ ' '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦' ¦ ¦ hi?. ¦ ¦ . On,:' the• ¦ • . • insid. :. ¦ • e 1M Complete television programming for to- fi: I TI CICVIdlVIIOIAVICSAII Thousands of I night and Wednesday, plus highlights | | | and movies — page 4a. || ' '^XX ' X- X y\ Y. Y. : - I I § * Y5I Ht'llO'C A SP60*31 Senate subcommittee opens a I **¦ * ¦¦ M.Sa new probe into GI use of drugs that will | & include a hard look at alcohol — story, page 4a. ¦ ' it . ' ' '¦ ¦ "¦' '% South Yiets I I Diana a>V—c\\%rhe chief investigator probing the I | | ridllC WI ClDll 75-death Marshall University plane |l I' crash says new airport requirements are possible — story, If 1 page 5a. ; i ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ,: ¦ ¦ ¦ 1 ¦ '• ¦ ' . ¦: ¦ •. • • ' xx ' ' ' • 'I I Cl 2)1/1nac The five members of the James Fremberg | | in Cambodia tSlayillgS I family will be buried Thursday — story. | SAIGON (AP) — Thousands ] enemy gunners slammed 25 to FAN JAM .. With a little help from their friends , suc- I page 2b. | | of South Vietnamese troops 30 Chinese 107mm rockets into cessful ticket purchasers make their way out over heads of pushed into northeast Cambodia the base. American artillery re- s Madi- I (DSaw n am A Canvassing of Minnesota election results I today and uncovered one of the turned the fire, but the results fellowrock fans Monday through lobby of New York' ¦ ' ¦ 5 ¦¦ * ¦¦ ' ¦ ' • show the name "aAnderson" is power- § son Square Garden, They were among those who managed I biggest North Vietnamese am- were not known, a spokesman p packed — stories, page 3b. §, munition stockpiles of the war. said. to buy tickets to rock concert by the Grand Funk Railroad. In South Vietnam, enemy rock- (AP Photofax) ets and mortars hit two U.S. South Vietnamese said that in bases, killing three Americans addition to the American cas- and wounding 20. It was the ualties, one Vietnamese civilian When congressmen out of patience heaviest American toll from was killed and 13 civilians and rocket and mortar attacks in one government soldier were one day since July 22. • wounded. The new drive into Cambodia The U.S. Command an- netted 254 tons of 85mm ammu- nounced that another battalion encf nition found in four holes six of the 4th Division, the 3rd Bat- session w/// talion, 12th Infantry, Predict had been miles inside Cambodia's Ratan- akiri Province, opposite South withdrawn from combat, cutting Vietnam's central highlands. American strength in Vietnam The South Vietnamese killed by 820 more men. The with- KY INSPECTS HONOR GUARD . South Vietnam' drawal is part of Presidenjt.Ni3f- * 11 North Vietnamese guarding Vice President Nguyen; Cab Ky, on a toiir of U.S. military shorty the ammunition cache, the gov- on's fifth round of troop cut- backs that will reduce Ameri- hasps, inspects the honor guard at the Newport Naval Basa By WALTER R. MEARS Senate Republican Leader rock-bottom list," said before adjournment. ernment said, and killed seven War College: near Newport, ,JU ¦ "I suspect there will be can strength in Vietnajm to „ Monday afternoon. Ky was WASHINGTON (AP) - Hugh Scott supplied that as- Scott's—worked'out in a con- others in small dashes in the to stay at the base overnight and visit with ference with White House some casualties," Scott ack- same general area. 344,000 men¦ by the end of the South Vietnamese Congress has settled into sessment Monday, along year. ' , military men attending thei college today. (AP Photofax) a lame-duck session one of with a lengthy list of left- liaison officials — was a nowledged. "I'm not able The only South Vietnamese its leaders says will expire over legislation he said reasonable one. to publish a casualty list casualties reported were two with a whimper "when we should be handled. It also was a long one. this early." soldiers wounded when their reach the end of our mu- Sen. Mike Mansfield of The Scott agenda includ- Scott and other Republi- helicopter was Mt by North tual patience," perhaps Montana, the majority lead- ed more than 30 measures can leaders were called to Vietnamese fire. to shortly before Christmas. er, who had asked for "a he said should be handled the White House today U.S. -B52 \ b»mbers and House asks word when discuss the reconvened elec- fighter-bombers hammered tion-year session with Presi- North Vietnamese supply routes dent Nixon. and depots north and south of Mansfield said the list the 4,500-man South Vietnamese Saott produced was one task force. But the U.S. Com- war powers being used over Congress could handle mand said no direct American WASHINGTON m - The which has no binding author- public on the 1964 Gulf of the next four or five weeks. support was being provided for "If they get together, they House has passed a resolu- ity, came after Republican Tonkin resolution, although the operation 185 miles north of tion recognizing a president Leader Gerald R. Ford said he added Johnson's "atti- can do it," he said. "It Saigon. unreasonable has emergency war powers no president ever fooled tude may have changed doesn't seem but calling on him to report Congress about the Vietnam to me." It was the farthest north later as events changed." But Scott said, and Mans- South Vietnamese troops have to Congress when he uses war. The Tonkin Gulf resolu- field agreed, that the ses- ventured into Cambodia since them. He said former President tion, passed 88 to 2 in the sion might run on until the first U.S. and South Viet- The resolution was sent to Lyndon B. Johnson deceived Senate and 416 to zero in the Dec. 23. namese drives into the country the Senate by a 288 to 39 vote neither Congress nor the House, authorized the presi- Scott, who opposed the last May and June. It was also Monday. dent to take any action nec- idea of a lame-duck session the fourth major South Viet- The , measure reaffirms essary to repel enemy at- said this namese drive into Cambodia in that only Congress can de- Neighborhood tacks and protect U.S.