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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 4-27-1972 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. 1155. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1155 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]. Apollo 16 crew splashes down in Pacific Cloudy with Most sign ificant chance of moon journey ends showe rs Friday By THE ASSOCIATE D PRESS ABOARD USS TICONDEROGA (AP) — Apollo 16' s three explorers returned to earth today, splash- ing down in the Pacific Ocean to end a lunar voyage that should vastly enrich man' s knowledge of the Nixon says in message — moon. John W. Young, Charles M. Duke Jr. and Thom- as K. Mattiugly II brought home a record 245 pounds of rocks and other data they feel might contain the volcanic evidence they sought when they started out ll <]ays ago. Their command ship Casper hit the water Troops and to leave, Christmas Island bombs to fall about 175 miles southeast of By LEWIS GU1ICK Congress of the United States, and among the peo- channels. aoout 1,500 miles south of Hawaii. It survived a WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nixon plans ple of the United States, the victory they cannot "As far as we are concerned, the first order blazing 13-minute re-entry through the earth's at- to pull another 20,000 GIs out of Vietnam by July win among tbe people of South "Vietnam or on the of business will be to get the enemy to halt his mosphere during which temperatures of more than 1—and to keep on bombing North Vietnam until battlefield in Soutli Vietnam. invasion of South Vietnam, and to return the Ameri- 4,000 degrees blistered the protective heat shield. Hanoi halts/its "massive invasion of the South. * "The South Vietnamese have made great pro- " * can prisoners of war." The astronauts were to be lifted by helicopter to Announcing this in- a 17-nainute radio-TV ad- gress and are now bearing the brunt of the battle," Presidential adviser Henry A. Kissinger said this carrier for a medical examination and two dress^ Wednesday night, Nixon appealed for na- he said. "We can now see the day when no more the expectation of progress at Paris stems from an tionwide support against what he termed "this Americans will be involved ther.e at all ... appraisal that North Vietnam's military push will nights of rest as the ship steams toward Hawaii. final challenge" to -hit program to get U.S. troops "We must not falter. For aU that we have risked be accompanied by a negotiating bid and from The thickening atmosphere and parachutes out of South Vietnam without "surrendering our and all that we have gained over the years now "rather noticeable diplomatic activity that has slowed the speed of Casper from 24,600 miles an friends to communist aggression." hangs in the balance during' the coming weeks been going on." hour to 22 miles an hour for the touchdown in calm Nixon portrayed the current all-out communist and months." He referred to the return to Paris of Le Due ATTACK .. North Viet- Pacific waters. offensive in the South as a time of test in which Nixon coupled tough words about Hanoi's bat- Tho, Hanoi's top political figure at the Paris con- The splashdown ended man's fifth and perhaps namese forces using tanks Saigon forces — if they get continued U.S. air and tlefield campaign—"a victory they cannot be al- ference. And he predicted the prospects as to wheth- and heavy weapons launch- naval help — will foil a desperate Hanoi gamble. lowed to win"—with a warning to enemy nego- er serious peace negotiations will now be possible most scientifically significant journey to the surface ed a' three-pronged attack His. new two-month withdrawal; schedule will tiators against "jpore empty propaganda" in the will become clear before Nixon's trip to the Soviet of the moon. early Thursday against cut remaining U.S. forces in Soutli Vietnam to Paris peace.talks resuming today. Union May 22-29. Three hours earlier, some 27,600 miles from «3uang Tri City, i9 miles 49,000 -which he noted was less than 10 percent of Referring to his renewal of the Paris parley, U.S. political leaders reacted to Nixon's speech earth, the astronauts briefly triggered jet engines the 549,000 authorized there when he took office in which he had broken off March 23, Nixon said*. along predictable lines. for four seconds to zero in on the landing target, below the demilitarized January 1969. "We are resuming the Paris talks with the zone, field reports said. "v The enemy' s "one remaining hope," Nixon said firm expectation that productive talks leading to Troops to leave (Continued on page 2a, eol. 2) <Ap Photofax) V in words aimed at stateside critics, "is to win in the ' rapid progress will follow through all available (Continued on page 14a, col. 1) '¦: ',. / ' Apollo 16 North Vietnam Experts told Nixon — Red f akeby erwould nf Trade ba lance • ' ' ¦ *' ¦ - ¦ % renews. , attacks. deficit mounts harmmst of S, E Asia By BILL NEIK1RK | gold. south of DMZ By KENNETH J. FREED The more-than-500-p a g e With some exceptions, WASHINGTON (AP ) -The For the last several months, SAIGON CAP) - North Viet- WASHINGTON (AP)-In- document has been leaked those downplaying the ad- U.S. balance of trade lang- the administration has blamed deficit namese forces renewed, their telligence experts told to various news agencies verse effects of a commu- uished in again in the large deficits on distortions attack below the demilitarized President Nixon three years with The Associated Press nist government in Saigon March, sending this year's red ago a settlement resulting obtaining, at its own re- were the civilian agencies- ink in the nation's trade ac- caused by a lingering dock zone today, U.S. Navy ships quest, a copy from syndi- State Department, Defense strike. But the March deficit in a communist-controlled counts well over $1 billion de- 1 battled patrol boati in .tiie Ton- South¦";Vietnam " would not cated columnist Jack An- Department and the Central spite Nixon administration ef- was recorded after the strike kin Gulf and American fighter- necessarily hinge" the rest derson. Intelligence Agency. forts to reduce it. was over. bombers flew more strikes in- of Southeast Asia, accord- The contradictory nature The opponents, were the The Commerce Department The administration expects of most of the assessments military advisers, the Joint side North Vietnam. ing to a secret government prepared to release March the deficit to linger for several study. provided by the various CSiiefs of Staff and the arm- trade figures today, but an offi- months biit anticipates gradual The U.S. Command said : The intelligence officials contributors was part of the ed services intelligence and even a community. cial disclosed beforehand that improvements three Norfch Vietnamese patrol said Hanoi's attempts to findings dealing with South- the deficit is not much better "fighting chance"' of a small boats were sunk and a fourth push gains in the two most east Asia after Vietnam. This difference generally 1972 surplus the department As the summary prepared marked assessments/ on than February'* red ink of , vulnerable arjea countries, million. said. heavily damaged Wednesday Cambodia and Laos, prob- by the NSC under direction many aspects of the Viet- $597.6 after they attackeU the cruiser _ of Henry A. nam situation, as shown by On Capitol Hill, the Hous* ably would, be limited to po- Kissinger put Already, for January and Ways and Means Committee Oklahoma, dity and the destroy- litical agitation, at least , at the study. February, the value of imports the outset. "There continues to be a The civilians were skepti- may open hearings on protec- ers Richard B. Anderson and to the United States has ex- tive trade legislation because of (jurke. the U.S. ships ware not Hanoi would be preoccu- sharp debate between and cal about policy, while the ceeded exports by $916.4 mil- pied, for a- time at least, within agencies about the military was optimistic mounting complaints that U.S. damaged, the command said. lion. The nation : last year industries; are suffering from North Vietnamese tanks ar- with the formidable task of effect of the outcome in about South Vietnam's * , fighting '¦ ability and wor- recorded its first yearly trade foreign competition. tillery and infantry opened the consolidating comm unist Vietnam on other nations. deficit of this century, about $2 rule in South Vietnam," the The most recent NIB Nar ried about effects of a com- fifth week of Hanoi's big offen- munist victory or political billion. Chairman Wilbur D. Mills sive with attacks on four sides experts said. tional Intelligence Estimate ¦ A persistent trade deficit said in an interview, "Some- The assessment on this subject . tended supremacy. of Quang Tri City, South "Viet- was in- adds to the nation's halance-of- thing has to be done. Too many nam' cluded as a response to 26 to downgrade the so-called This disagreement was s northernmost provincial 'Domino Theory' sharply etched in the Kis- payments problems, reflects on companies are saying they are capital,. IS miles below policy questions studied by . being driven to the wall." the administration agencies in "The NIE dissenters be- singer summary when it the ability of American in- DMZ.