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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 5-5-1972 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1972). Winona Daily News. 1162. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1162 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. ¦ Cloudy tonight ' ¦ ' "¦;¦ ¦ ¦ ' ' ' ; v . .: . i^gigfiiro- . = . - . -. A MF\ TMRU TWE and Saturday; chance of rain ' A '^&AA ^V ¦ . -'' Food prices And show they un derstand drop sharply; N. Viets probe weaknesses jobs unchanged By WILLIAM L. RYAN and go without striking, and South Vietnam breathed easier. WASHINGTON (AP ) - The AP Special Correspondent Then , toward the end of March , Hanoi welcomed a The successes of the North Vietnamese offensive sug- , delegation from Moscow, a high-powered military group head- government reported today the gest that Hanoi has understood its enemies , better than ed by the deputy defense minister. It's makeup fitted in biggest drop in wholesale food South Vietnam's leaders or Americans un- ___________ with reports from diplomatic sources that the Russians had prices in eight months for derstood the North Vietnamese. promised much more hardware to Hanoi- April, due largely to a sharp Hanoi : reckoned coolly on taking ad- AP News At the same period, Hanoi was host to the Soviet ministers vantage of weaknesses it detected on the . of merchant shipping and communications. The shipping min- decline in meat prices. other side. i Anal ys¦ s ister announced that 340 Soviet ships had : called at North In another report, the Labor The North Vietnamese had read ' -anti- . * ' . ' " Vietnamese ports in 1971 and delivered a million tons of cargo. Department said the nation's war protests in [ the; United States as an ' ~~~~-~~ ~ That , he said , would increase in 1972. total employment and unem- enormously important factor in their favor , and as long as Shortly after the Russians left, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, ployment remained virtually five years ago were planning to capitalize on such develop- Hanoi's veteran military strategist and defense minister, unchanged last month, with the ments. For a long time Hanoi was telegraphing its punches, launched his big gamble, the all-out offensive. If it could jobless rate holding steady at but perhaps Saigon wasn't listening or preferred to dismiss overrun enough territory in the South it could, perhaps, 5.9 per cent of the work force. it all a- propaganda. spell the end of the Saigon regime. The current offensive would have been impossible without Nhan Dan at the start of this year spoke frequently of The report on wholesale Soviet supplies. There is good reason to believe that Soviet . prices said the average cost of prospective victory on military, political and diplomatic help was increased substantially even after agreement was fronts. meats, poultry and fish de- announced in October for President Nixon to visit Moscow ; ¦ weaknesses, clined 2.9 per cent in April. .in May. ., . .. "Tlit United States is strong but has basic " This was the major factor in art Last January, Hanoi began talking again about a "new the newspaper said. ''It is strong militarily but very weak over-all decline of seven-tenths situation '¦ Lt. Gen. Song Hao, chief of the North Vietnamese politically. Because of its political 7weakness it cannot de- of one per cent for all farm army 's political department, wrote that the new situation velop its military strongpoints. ,." products and processed foods; lay in achievement of "a victorious offensive position." To which , after the offensive had begun, a party central wholesale food prices are North Vietnam , he said , "as. faced - ¦• with , a new situation committee report added; "Diplomatically, we have success- ANTIWAR SIT-IN ., . With fellow officers in at the llth U.S. Naval District Headquart- generally reflected fairly soon with many.advantages and bright prospects." He saw new fully won the sympathy and support and increasingly great looking on, two policemen pick up one of ers in San Diego Thursday. Police said 87 at the supermarket . "tests of strength" directly ahead. assistance of the fraternal Socialist countries and of the demonstrators who staged an . antiwar sit- : persons were arrested. (AP Photofax) The report said a broad Hanoi let the period of Nixon 's visit to Red China come world's peoples, including American progressives." range of prices of wholesale raw materials and manufac- tured products rose three-tenths of one per cent. South Viets Wallace gets springboarcl All wholesale prices of food US. now left without and industrial commodities av- erage out to a rise of one-tenth of one per cent, boosting the fight Reds Wholesale Price Index to 117:5 options oh Tennessee of its 1967 base Vietnam from voters in of 100. This meant it cost Bv KENNETH J. FREED bombing will help morale woodwork" for any sign By DON McLEOD tion won 80 percent approval Sen. Hubert H. Hum- $117.50 on the av- of erage for WASHINGTON CAP ) 7 - and perhaps slow the North- negotiating possibilities in a separate referendum. phrey of Minnesota, who did wholesale goods . NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) worth $100 five years ago The failure of all diplomat- erns, "it's hot really going This last point was ac- highway But the busing . question, . The for — George C. Wallace got not campaign in Tennessee ic efforts, private and pub- to change the outcome." knowledged by the officials which had been expected to but retained some loyalty latest index was 3.7 per cent SAIGON (AP) - Heavy fight- the springboard he sought above a year ago. lic, to make any progress Although the standard as probably.beating a dead ing erupted today for control of in his Tennessee presiden- boost the turnout, actually from union labor and tradi- trailed the presidential;vot- toward a Vietnam settle- American position is that horse, particularly in light vital Highway 14 in the central tial primary but the light tional Democrats, finished The report on jobs said the ment has left the United President Nixon is keeping of the U.S. assessment ing by some 70,000. - second with 16 percent of total number highlands. voter turnout raised ques- Wallace's triumph also of employed States with virtually no op- all options open, short of us- Thursday that the most-re- North Viet- the vote. Americans actually i Spokesmen said 75 tions about how far it will marked the first time he rose some tions that could affect the ing nuclear weapons and re - cent negotiating efforts, " and one South Viet- 400,000 namese carry him. had won a clear-cut major- Sen. George McGovern of to 80.6 million and course of the war, according ntroducing U.S. ground both at the public table in namese were killed in the fight- 7 The Alabama governor ity over the field. Arid it South Dakota, who didn't unemployment dropped more to U.S. government officials. troops, the officials said Paris and in private chan- A y-y than half a ing. won 68 percent of the popu- was/a big one 3 to 1 over campaign personally but million to 4.7 mil- : These sources acknowl- the most likely and im- nels, were.entirely fruitless: field reports said , lion. But these By dusk , lar vote and the tenuous 10 other Democrats. ' had organizations in key cit- developments edge a likely increase of mediate actions will be It was learned that a try the fighting had tapered off to commitment of 49 Demo- ies, was third with 7 per- are expected for April and the American air raids against these : , at obtaining Soviet interven- only light contact. Thousands of cratic National Convention Only a quarter of ten- cent- Rep. Shirley Chisholm •Bureau of Labor Statistics fig- battlefield targets in. the ' tion to convince Hanoi to , ne- nesee's voters bothered to • Intensification of t h e : refugees who tried to leave* delegates Thursday in his of New York, who campaign- ured no. change in both employ- South as ' well as more- air strikes against the North gotiate seriously had ended partici Kontum were turned back be- first primary victory outside pate — a phenomen- ed among . Memphis blacks, ment and unemployment on a strategic areas, in North Vietnamese units in the with no results, a develop- ally low figure reflecting cause of the fighting. his Deep South. was fourth with 4. percent. seasonally adjusted basis. Vietnam , but they say these South. 7 ment that led officials to white: voter apathy over a The fighting at tlie Chu Pao He said, "I feel elated President Nixon ran away The report also said average are not expected to be de- • A strong effort to cut gloomy assessments of the mountain, which dominates about the delegate vote in sure Wallace victory and in- with the Republican pri- earnings of ne ar ly 50 million cisive in thw arting the in- the oil and gasoline supply situation . difference by blacks to an Highway 14 seven miles south Tennessee." mary, which was even ran k-ahd-fije workers—more vasion. lines from the North, in- If it is true the outcome election that many of them of Kontum , broke! out less than more sparse in voles than than half the nation's work "You can say the out- cluding a pipeline originat- is going to be determined felt gave them no choice, 24 hours after spokesmen said A constitutional amend- .