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State's Garbage Problems Are Piling Up SEE STORY PAGE 21 Flurries Likely Cold with snow flurries like- FINAL ly today. Cloudy, cold to- Bed Bank, Freehold night. Sunny, cold tomorrow. I Long Branch 7 EDITION (Bee Details. Paso S). Monmouth County's Home Newspaper for 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 119 RED BANK, N. J., MONDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1969 40 PAGES 10 CENTS •••lilIIIffl!llBlllllIB]||.BI : ' 'l , i \ixon May Announce New Trbop Cutbacks By KENNETH J. FREED Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird also declined yes- WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon is expected to terday to disclose how many troops might come out in the announce a third round of U.S. troop withdrawls from Viet- next round of withdrawals, but he said the situation is en- nam when he speaks to the nation tonight in an updated couraging regarding South Vietnam's ability to take over report on his efforts to end the war. more of the fighting. The White House said the brief speech, to be carried The President has said American disengagement from live by network television and radio at 6 p.m. EST, will be the war depends on three things—a lowered level of enemy an extension of the President's Nov. 3 nationwide address battlefield activity, increased ability of Saigon to take over in which he outlined his plans for bringing the fighting to the fighting and progress at the Paris peace talks. a close. Laird acknowledged little if any movement at Paris and TOLD OF PLANS he said there has been an increase of North Vietnamese in- Nixon had said during his last news conference a week filtration into the South recently. ago today he would announce another American troop pull- But, the Pentagon chief said, "we have had a great out from the war zone by Christmas. success this year" in the Vietnamization of the war, which Nixon made no estimate then of the number of U.S. he described as the "cornerstone" of administration policy troops to come out of Vietnam and the White House in an- in the war. nouncing this latest speech did not mention any figures, but The secretary also said as of today the U. S. troop ceiling widespread speculation has placed the total at 30,000 to in the war zone is 484,000 men, a reduction of 63,000 troops 40,000. since the administration took office nearly a year ago. So far, the administration has pulled out about 63,000 Laird spoke on "Issues and Answers," an ABC television- troops from the war zone, which means some 40,000 more radio interview program. must be withdrawn il Nixon is to meet the 100,000-man re- Nixon first announced a 25,000-man withdrawal last duction goal he had set for this year. TIDES BATTER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST - High waves smash into surfside homes in the Rincon (See Nixon, Pg. 2, Col. 2) area, 50 miles north of Los Angeles yesterday as a Pacific storm continued to churn up an unusually high surf. A few beach cottages were knocked down or damaged in the area north of Lo* Angeles. (AP Wirephoto) Newark's Saigon Claims to Control By VICTOR L. SIMPSON Essex County Prosecutor ing on," said a high school of disorders resulting in 26 NEWARK ( AP) - To Joseph P. Lordi said allega- English teacher, reared in an deaths and more than $10 many residents of Newark, tions in themselves were Italian section of the city. "It million in property damage. municipal corruption is like enough to create cynicism created a feeling that you Newark, New Jersey's larg- the yellowish industrial haze and disrespect for law and could do anything you wanted est city with 400,000 persons, 92.5 Pet. of South Viets that often settles over the order. to as long as you paid off — has its share of problems us- city: a form of pollution they "We'll have a group of an- with no stigmatism attached." ually associated with Ameri- By DAVID ROSENZWEIG apparently accept as almost over 13.8 million of the PP Americans were killed arid 17 briefing him on President gry people without any loyal- ca's urban centers; a high SAIGON (AP)-The Saigon inevitable. Gov. Richard J. Hughes' ulation, then estimated at 17 wounded. Again, no South Nixon's speech announcing ty to government," he com- Select Commission on Urban crime rate and high unem- government today claimed million. The extent of govern- Vietnamese casualties were the third withdrawal of Amer- The federal government is mented. Disorders said in reporting on ployment — particularly control over 92.5 per cent of ment, controlhas expanded reported. ,.....,',. ican troops. currently investigating possi- An ordinary citizen put it the 1967 racial riot here: "It among the city's Negroes, South Vietnam's population. steadily since that time, ac- American troops from the There has been speculation ble payoffs of govern- another way: is said the city commissions who represent 52 per cent of It was the highest percentage cording to the government 1st Air Cavalry Division un- in Saigon as well as in Wash- ment and connections with or- "Sure the city's crooked, of the 1930s and the 1940s left ' the population. in the history of the Vietnam figures. covered a four-ton North Viet- ington that the cutback will ganized crime; the mayor ad- what else is new." Newark a heritage that she war but only one half of one In two decades, the city lost Enemy's Loss Told namese munitions stockpile number between 30,000 and mitted he knew a reputed While the probe sent the has not shaken off. There is a per cent more than the claim 20 per cent of its manufac- On the battlefields, South during a sweep through the 40,000 troops. There is much Mafia figure; the corporation state's attorney general to his widespread belief that New- last month. turing jobs, a figure a busi- Vietnamese troops reported jungle eight miles from the expectation that among those counsel resigned after testi- law books to see whether the ark's government is corrupt." ness authority attributed to a The monthly report of the killing 40 enemy soldiers with Cambodian border and 3 leaving will be. the 1st Infan- fying before the grand jury; mayor could be ousted, many The report, issued in Feb- lack of land for plant expan- and the mayor later said his government's pacification pro* the help of artillery and bomb- miles northeast of Saigon. The try Division, which has been residents showed little sur- ruary 1968, suggested this sion. Newark's property tax counsel admitted that while a gram said that on Nov. 30 ers in a day of scattered fight- find included 50 Chinese sub- in Vietnam since July 1965 prise at the news. ' i'' "pervasive feeling of corrup- is higher than in its- wealth- city councilman he accepted 16.1 million of the estimated ing yesterday in the U Minh machine guns, 11 rifles, two "When I grew -up in New- tion" left an imprint on iest suburbs. > and was the first full division money from a city con- 17.5 million population were Forest in the Southern Me- light machine guns, one ark it was common knowledge Newark's black community to enter the war, and flie 199th tractor. On the positive side, New- living under government con- kong Delta. No South Viet- flamethrower, 86,640 rounds of Light Infantry Brigade. that things like this were go- that was an underlying cause (See Newark's Pg. 2, Col. 3) trol, 492,000 or 2.8 per cent namese casualties were re- small arms ammunition, 449 The U.S. Command an- were under Viet Cong control ported. mortar shells, and 269 rocket nounced that Nixon's second and 822,000 4.7 per cent were Other allied forces reported grenades. cutback of 35,000 American to contested areas, those killing 116 North Vietnamese Parley Is Held troops was officially complet- where neither the government and Viet Cong in 10 -other In Saigon, U.S. Ambassa- ed today with the departure Yule Trip Ends in Death for 7 nor the Viet Cong is consid- small clashes from the Me- dor Ellsworth Bunker spent for the United States of men ered to have decisive control. kong Delta to South Vietnam's 45 minutes with South Viet- of the 551st and 553rd Combat CAP, Pa. (AP) - A bus It hit a pole and flipped on over," said Sarah E. Person, At the start of the year, die northernmost provinces. The the Masonic Home of Pennsyl- namese President Nguyen Support Companies. Both load of people en route to its side. 53, of Ardsley. "When I came vania, a 2,200-acre complex at government claimed control U.S. Command said three Van Thieu, presumably units were deactivated. spread holiday cheer at a Three of the dead to I was laying on top of Elizabethtown about 20 miles Masonic home for the aged somebody else and there was were trapped beneath the west of Lancaster in the Penn- overturned in a snow-slippery somebody laying on top of sylvania Dutch country. highway yesterday. Seven bus. Their bodies were found me." persons were killed and 31 when it was turned upright. Trooper Larry Wixon of the "It didn't seem that the state police said the accident Addonizio Claims Counsel injured. Christmas presents were people panicked," she said. happened about 10:45 a.m. on spread along the highway. The bus, chartered by Phil- The injured were rushed to a steep grade near the Lan- adelphia Chapter 68 of the State police took them to the hospitals in nearby Coates- caster-Chester county line.

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