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i ■■ A . : ; . : . ; i . ■ ■• ».■ '.. ,1- : '■ . I •■■' ■ ; • • , .;■ rfrV-'r :- . - ■ ; v*- ■ j :• •. .-r- r ,---- r , f '■ 1 Idahd^sLiargest Evening 68th,year, 191 St issiie TWIN f a l l s ; IDAHO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1971 TEN CENTS - r r - \ WASHINGTON (UPI) -Sen- rebuffed earlier this year when at^ budget-writers have shied he tried to secure a 50 per cent away from forcing President reduction in American NATO Nixon to end the Viebriam War forces. ____ ______ _________ _ inun^ately but have endorsed The Indochina amendment MIAMI BEACH (U PI)-The AFIXaO con bringing home one-sixth of/the alw iiivolved Mansfield and his vention voted. Thursday to conUnue-Jabor’s U.S. troops who stand guard repeated attempts to force participation on the Pay Board but iiidd unions against war in Europe. Nixon to set a final date foi;, would not cooperate with decisions of the panel In. back-to-back votes Thurs- wiftdrawal of all remaining until it validates all already negoflated ainlracts dayr-the-Swate-^propriatlpns—American-forW-from^^etnam and provides Justice for all workers. Committee rejected 14-10 one conditioned on the release of About 1,000 union delegates representing ameindment to cut off funds for . U.S. var prisoil,ers. , nearly'-irinillion workers adopted a statement the Indochina conflict but en Ni^n signed a watered-down direction that AFL-CIO President George Meany dorsed another 14-13 tiiat would version of the Mansfield,nan and other labor members remain on the Pay require the return of 50,000 of into law Wednesday as' part of Board “ only so long as a reasonable tiope exists the 300,000 American forces another military bill but anr of securing recognition of the validity of .con stationed in Europe by'next nounced it had no intention of tracts, and of achieving Justice for working June 15. I abiding by it. This 'prompted .people generally. The twin actions «ume as the ^awte^loves to try to |tbrce him "We’ll decide when that hope is gone,” Meany committee approved a 1^0.24 to do so 'by~cutting off all war told the convention delegates. “ Until we achieve billion defense department funds unless hi does. these objective, we will not cooperate. That’s budget Ull for the current filial what we're saying to the board. year already more than one- “ If the President of the United States does not third over. -^805.5 piillion want our continued membership on those terms, smaller than a version ap he knows what he can do,” he said. proved by tl^e House Wednes President Nixon previously said his Phase n day night and $3.3 b p on under controls..had litU^ chance for success without the Nixon’s initial budget requests: cooperation of oi^anlzed labor. The bill had been , scheduled “ Until those objectives are assured, labor for floor debate today, but the cannot associate itself with tte actions of the prolonged battle pver Nixon'i; w recks board or encourage cooperation with their ad- JEREIMY W. KRAUSS climbed the railing o( tax package forced an indefinite ministration-or-enfofeement;” the-t»nvention's- San Francisco’s Golden Gate bridge, walked the delay that could extend past statement said. , girders, toppled into a safety net and hung by Us next week’s two-day ~MtB8Up MMny aia not eipluln what Im meant About to fall hands over the Pacific for two hours. Bridge ThahKaglvingxjecesa. 3 _ by noncooperation with ti^e Pay Board, one of his workers and officers finally persuaded the tl- No matter when debate aids later explained this meant the labor ^ year-old>man not to Juiqp. He Is shown Just begins on the Pentagon budget, —membero-would-abstai^firoRi-votinb-on-tbe— ^ before,he tell into ,the net-(U P!) -there were strong indications T bee men died Thursday board unless their votes could decide the issue. attempts would be made to He alro said it mb ant that unions would "not reverse the committee’s actions from separate traffic accidents on Magic Valley roads. obey rulings of the board,” and would s t ^ e ,lf both on the Vietnam Issue and Their deaths raised to four the necessary to bade up demands that e^liitg reduction qf . U.S. .troops sta n^ber of traffic fatalities contracts be honored. ------ tioned in NAIX) countrln.' r e ci^ M in a 24-hour period The convention statement, recommended by The European troop>-cut beginning Wettaesday n l^ t. the 354nember APlrCiO Executive Council, did Bis^hops. asik amendment was sponsored by . Dead are Oerald C. Bean, 30,- iiot spell out what non-cooperation with the Nixon asks labor’s Senate Democratic Leader I^ b u m , killed'in a cai^tnick bbaTd’S'deelslanrwDUldineanrBntitapparently Viet pullout -Mika—Mansfield,—who—w.as. is a caU for unions to go on strike if necessary to back up demands for negotiated wage Increases WASHINGTON (UPI) -After Melvin Howard, a , Focatellb, the stormiest debate on .the' who died In a Boliw hospital of invalidated by the Pay Board. Issue of the war in the h i^ r y of injuries r ^ v e d hi a car4nidi Meany told the convention that if he and the as the American hler'arthy, other labor members on the pand finally decide Rbmanl-Qitfaolic~t9a»ps vote' S. Viets: vO am nty.. there Im’t any hope of achieving Justice for today on a resolution calling for l imea- over any— iamedlato •site of the Btfflatdent'a authority j»ockers,-^lthen -weUl xall-a-jneeting-Of-the-.:^—MIAMI BEACH, ~U3rwlthdr4Wfll from VlOTflin." VnlU-T T ^ ri**thli?^ n ^ " executive council and get the hell off the board.” president Ni?on threw away sacrifices that any segment of to curb inflation. Thursday the bishops debited Started Wednesday idght with There are five labor members on the board. the text of his prepared speech the American work force is The provision requiring re lO 'lif t the resolution “ for about an the death of Claud D. Starain, 36, Earlier in his keynote address, Meaity outlined befora the AFLCIO convention called upon to make/' troactive pay raises was hour,” accdrding to a spokes Wendell, driver of a c a r 1 n --' why most public members of the Pay Board today and told the delegates he Chairman John Sparkman, adopted on a 14-0 vote after man. Bishops attending the volved in a a|ngle-vehide ac- DAla., said he expected debate Republican forces succeeded in city siege were not really neutral.______ was going to give It’ to them , .said It 'fenuld ha fair tn d d «it n e y Wendell on the Boh irouiaTS^ lfl MBnflay on the bill. ■*iU adds ^ to a stocked deck. It adds up to “ straight firom the shoulder'^ aiauoning inelanguagB tggivc Barton Highway. describe the debate as "hea- • PHNOM PENH ( UPI )-South playing witlmaded dice,” the 77-year-old Meany even though he knew that they' designed to tailor the aliape and the President the ultimate say Bean was Hiiwi instantly ted,” Vietnam has agreed to^send told the opening session of the biennial con were against him politically. on the size of wage hikes. , about 10 ajn. Thursday when 13,000 troops into Cambodia to vention at the Oceanside Americana Hotel. Nixon told a quiet audience, ^ m The decision was similar to the concrete truck he was help relieve the Communist The labor leader said he feared even "more which applauded only lighUy O a C K P B Y that several days ago by the diving collided with the r t o of stringent and repressive controls” on ttie when he entered the hotel * •' House Banking Committee, pressure on Phnom Penh. a car and plunged off Interstate Cambodian military sources workers if the presimt Phase n of the ad ballroom, that despite political whidJ said back pay increases . SON. said today. Nearly 8,000 Cam ministration’s economic program fails. differences he knew ^ supported should be allow ^ unless they Idaho State PoUce said the “ If Is ironic and interesting to note the new m ajority'of workers are for were "grossly dispropor Inflation bodian troops w ere. alre^y accident^ o ccw re^ about IS * affinity of Mr. Nixon for totalitajt^ regimes — America and for a strong WASHINGTON tionate” to other, wage in massing to protect the rapital- miles west of Biurlex when a car from Peking to MosrawtoiAtiiens,” Meany.said. niitional defense.” Senate Bankli creases. from a growing North Viet driven by rabert E. Mort, 23, "Th> anthnritarian ihnlnd in government trusts' He said at the outset that he voted Thursday Nixon spoke with bitensity. namese ttoeat. Burley, was reportedly passed neither the people nor the *free and voluntary stood by his remarks wmcn nad back pay lor ^ and somewhat excitedly. Bui ne held back TTfe agurces said although the by a pickup truck traveling m ^ institutions of the people. Itsjimpulae is to con- been banded out to the press in lost during the 90-day freeze managed a sli^ t smile when Saigon government ‘had com- the r i^ t parking lane. Mort trol,.to direct.and to dict«t^'„ a^an<» of hl«rspeedi. lailess President Nixoir decides he entered thellon’* den othis WASHINGTON (W lJ moved into the left lane to avoid Meany said aeml-rettre(^ Federal Judge In those remarks the Presi- they are "unreasonably incon- severest critics. announced today the cost of liyj|Qg ros« p.2 ^ ■fbr support troops, the South the pickiq) triKk. George H. Boldt, the dhalrman of the Pay Bo m deht told tm labor leaders his Jistent” with his long-term cent in October, the ,second ifidl iiwnth of the Vietnamese forcra w uldvhe The concrete truck was At- and one of the Rye public members, “ doesn’t .