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News Roundup WASHINGTON (ff) — While some Con- Their radio announced last week that the gress members showed growing impatience, Pueblo crew would be tried as criminals the White House pressed ahead yesterday and severely punished for invading North From the State Congress Shows Impatience;/ with backstage diplomatic efforts to resolve Korea's territorial waters. the USS Pueblo crisis. But then on Sunday a North Korean 1 Presidential press secretary George diplomatic spokesman in New Delhi said Christian said a number of diplomatic chan- Troops At Korean DMZ Area there was no reason why his government nels are active, but at the same time he said should not agree to an exchange of prisoners. tion appears determined to press every effort in chief,' Long said. He said the United the United States is making "prudent, or- He was referring to a team of infiltrators for a peaceful way out, while still making Nations has been an utter failure. The World derly, and limited deployment" of military thwarted in an attempt to assassinate South a few preliminary military preparations. Long said one thing the United States forces in the Korean crisis area. Korean President Park. U.S. An tici pates New DMZ Invasion could do would be to order the U.S. Navy U.S. troops along the North Korea-South In Congress, Senate Republican Leader Exchange Rejected SAIGON — Priming for a major battle, the allies can- 't to capture an equal number of North Ko- Korea truce line reported yesterday they Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois said "I don The prisoner exchange suggestion was celed their '36-hour Tet cease-fire along the northern fron- reans from the fishing vessels now at sea. tiers yesterday after detecting fresh North Vietnamese beat back several infiltration attempts from disdain diplomatic efforts, but I want to be rejected by a South Korean Foreign Minis- sure that North Korea does not get the idea troops in position for massive attack. They also ordered the North. Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mans- try spokesman as "outrageous and nonsensi- continued truce-period air attacks in North Vietnam's they can get away with this." The United Nations Security Council, field of Montana urged caution. He said it cal." southern panhandle. Declaring "We've been treated to a would do no good to go into Wonsan and re- "It is something I would label an invasion," a U.S. apparently frustrated in its search for a solu- While pursuing diplomatic efforts to senior officer said in Saigon of the northern troop massing. tion, called off its New York meetings in- king-sized dose of daution from some quar- capture the Pueblo by force or bomb North bring about release of the Pueblo, the United "It is no longer just infiltration." definitely to enable consultations to continue ters," Dirksen said the issue is simple: "A Korea as that would "seal the doom" of the States began . marshaling some military "Only the size of the forthcoming fighting is in doubt," "on an urgent basis." U.S. vessel, its skipper and crew have been 83 Americans. strength by calling up nearly 15,000 air re- one commander at Khe Sanh told Peter Arnett, Associated hijacked on the high seas and imprisoned in Mansfield said Sunday that if it would Press correspondent. "I would say it will be a cross be- The Council was called into emergency serves, freezing most requests for discharge an enemy land." bring about the release of the Pueblo and its tween the worst at Dak To and the battle of Dien Bien session last Friday at U.S. request. from naval reserve units, and deploying " Phu. Other Channels Open "Let's not be impatient, they say," Dirk- crew, "I would admit that it was taken in naval and Air Force units in South Korea Allied intelligence indicates the North Vietnamese in- sen said. "Don't be rash. Enlist the offices of territorial waters, even though that is not tend to do major Christian told newsmen at the White and the Sea of Japan. battle in the hilly jungles of the Khe the United Nations. Enlist the cooperation Sanh region, where the Communists unleashed heavy ar- House that "There are a number of other the truth." The nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise, tillery and rocket attacks last week. channels which are available to us and are of the Soviet Union." The United States denies North Korea's diverted from the "Vietnam war area, re- The announcement exempting the 1st Corps area and active at this time." Dirksen said he doesn't want anyone to charge that the Pueblo was inside the Com- mained in Korean waters with its screen the southern panhandle from truce provisions came from get the idea that "we're going to take this munist country's 12-mile limit. the South Vietnamese government. It said the decision He added that "It wouldn't be desirable of accompanying ships. The Pentagon de- lying down." Where's Bucher? was taken because¦ observance of a cease-fire would have to discuss these." clined to comment on reports that the carrier risked the lives of American and South Vietnamese de- Christian said President Johnson spent Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La., the assist- White House reporters asked Christian Yorktown had joined the Enterprise. fenders. ant majority leader much of the weekend conferring on the , said the seizure of the if the U.S. government knows the where- Moscow Puzzling "It is not militarily logical to let the enemy have 36 Pueblo was "an act of war against the United hours of resupply and movement while we sit there and problem posed by North Korea's seizure a abouts of Cmdr. Lloyd M. Bucher and his Moscow played an enigmatic role in the get hit," a U.S. senior officer in Saigon commented. week ago of the electronic intelligence ship States" and this country must respond to it. Pueblo crew. "I would hesitate to speculate," drama. Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin, on a U.N. a Failure + •*¦ ¦*• Pueblo and its crew of 83 Americans. Christian replied. Even the North Koreans trip to India, publicly took the position that Amid the welter of suggestions on how "What that response will be will have to seemed to be in a quandry about what to the United States and North Korea must The Nation to deal with the situation, the administra- be decided by the President, the commander do next. settle the matter themselves. Supreme Court Invalidates Gamblers Tax WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court yesterday up- Charges Harassment of Activists set the government' s system of flushing out gamblers for Former Student prosecution when it invalidated laws requiring them to register and pay special taxes. If the gamblers obey these laws, Justice John M. Har- lan said in a 7-1 decision, they provide evidence that could lead to their own prosecution under separate state and Aboard Pueblo federal anti-gambling laws. y guarantee Asser ts in view of the Fifth Amendment A Penn State graduate is Buckle Thus, re- While en campus, he lived in against self-incrimination, Harlan went on, a gambler can- por ted to have been one of two Thompson Hall. not be punished for refusing on constitutional grounds to civilians aboard the U.S.S. He is a graduate of Ridley register or to pay the special taxes. Pueblo when it was captured Township High Schodb Follow- With an identical vote and identical logic, the court last week by North Korea. ing gradaution, he went into also upset government procedures for prosecuting posses- Harry Iredale, of Holmes, the field of oceanography. The FBI 'Superbust ' sors of unregistered sawed-off shotguns, machineguns and Navy reported that he and the silencers. Delaware County. Pa., was described by the Navy as an other civilian on board the By RICHARD RAV1TZ James Womer, chairman of eral agents. Neither said they Chief Justice Earl Warren dissented, in both cases, Pueblo were serving in that the Undergraduate Student had any knowledge of the Uni- saying he is puzzled by the reasoning process" of the oceanographer. Collegian Administration " capacity. Reporter Govern m e n t Committee on versity's participating in the majority. Iredale , now 24, received his Iredale, who is unmarried, Legal Rights, has cha rged that alleged crackdown. bachelor of science degree was last home with his family HARRY IREDALE The alleged "superbuot" on the University is aiding the Murphy said much c. the talk • • from the University in 1965. at Christmas. P3V Graduate Cantured marijuana users in the Univer- federal agents and has tapped about the crackdown is "hys- * sity Park area has been in the telephone conversations of teria" and "pure imagination." Denver Kidnapper , Thief Surrenders - progress since the beginning of several students.- • ' According to Buckley, three DENVER. Colo. — A gunman, holding four persons Winter Term, according to Neil Charles Lewis, vice president members of the University hostage, was captured Monday in the Denver suburb of Buckley, a correspondent for for student affairs, and Ray- chapter of Students for a Dem- Aurora, more than seven hours after he fled from the scene U.S. Troops Throw Back The National Guardian, a left- mond Murphy, coordinator of ocratic Society were arrested of an abortive supermarket holdup. ist weekly. men's activities, ha e sai ' they for "possession and intent to The hostages were unharmed after the wild, 250-mile A large network of investiga- can neither confirm nor deny sell" marijuana Jan. 8. ride that started in northeast Denver about 8 a.m., and tion, including 200 student in- reports of the actions of fed- SDS member Robert Levin covered a circuitous, clockwise route south of here to Colo- formers, Campus Security, b- rado Springs, northeast to Limon and northwest back to- North Korean Infiltration said he was warned Campus ' state narcotics agents and Security that students caught ward Denver.