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Washington Services for Johnson Slated SEE STORY PAGE 2 The Weather Mostly sunny and mild THEDAILY FINAL today; clear tonight, low In mid 30s. Tomorrow mostly sunny, mild. f EDITION 32 PAGES Monmoutli County's Outstanding Homo Newspaper VOL.95 NO. 143 RED BANK, N.J. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24,19724,19733 TEN CENTS KUIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIItllllUlllllUIUIIIlllllllllllllllllllilillllllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllniiniiiiiiiillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllilllllllltlltllllltlllllllli llllimillllilllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllllilllllllllllllllllllllllllUlllllllllllllllltllllllMlllllllllllllllMIIIMI IIUIIIIIllllllllllllllMlilllllllIlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllinilllllllllllKIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIlllllllllllllMlllllllUlllitlllilMIIIIIIIIIII Nation, World Hail Peace Pact WASHINGTON (AP) - Nor did he detail the peace- — An internationally-super- honor." dissent was the late Lyndon minute address from the.. President Nixon, claiming all keeping machinery or the for- vised cease-fire to take effect The chief executive, without B. Johnson, whose body was White House, that the United conditions for "peace with mula for settling South Viet- at 7 p.m. EST Saturday. going into detail, declared: being flown here today to lie States "will continue to recog- Full Troophonor Pullout," have been met, has nam's political future Early. — Release of all America POWReleasen "The people of South Viet- nize th e governmenSett of the in state under the Capitol announced agreement on a These and other questions war prisoners within 60 days nam have been guaranteed dome. Of his Democratic Republic of Vietnam as the Vietnam accord that will end presumably would be an- thereafter, "the fullest pos- the right to determine their predecessor, Nixon said: sole legitimate government of , America's longest war on Sat- swered, at least in part, with sible accounting" for all miss- own future, without outside in- "In his life President John- South Vietnam." urday. the release today of the text ing in action, and — during terference." son endured the villification of He said American aid to the In a television-radio address of the agreement and an as- the. same period — withdraw- All during the decade-long those who sought to portray Saigon regime will continue to the nation last night, Nixon sortment of associated diplo- al of all American forces from conflict that claimed 350,000 him as a man of war. But "within the terms of the did not specify whether the matic documents. South Vietnan. American casualties, this in there was nothing he cared agreement." Washington-Hanoi pact, in- Hailed by South Vietnam's Nixon asserted that the essence was the major stated about more deeply than ach- Nixon's announcement drew itialed yesterday in Paris and President Nguyen Van Thieu, agreement, signed by aide goal of U.S. policy. ieving a lasting peace in the quick response from Capitol due for signing there Satur- and announced in bald terms Henry A. Kissinger and One who stood by that goal to world ... No one would have hill. Many members of Con- day, would end the fighting in by Hanoi radio, the peace Hanoi's Le Due Tho, meets all the point of retiring from the welcomed this peace more gress contended that the same Laos and Cambodia as well as pact as Nixon outlined it calls conditions "that we consid- presidency as the war gener- than he." peace terms had been avail- Vietnam. for: ered essential for peace with ated increasing homefront Nixon emphasized, in his 11- See Nation, Page 2 Most of Demands I Met, Thieu Says SAIGON (AP) — President been met by Hanoi, including a first step toward peace," he Nguyen Van Thieu said today recognition of South Vietnam said. "We have not had gen-' the Vietnam cease-fire will as a separate state. uine and lasting peace. That AP Wlrepftolo not "give us a 100 per cent The cease-fire agreement is is what we want, not a tempo- PEACE AGREEMENT]. REACHED — President guarantee for a lasting to be signed Saturday in Paris rary peace that will only pre- Nixon poses for pictures in his White House office peace", and the political and will take effect at 8 a.m. cede and even more violent after announcing on nationwide television that a struggle following it "will be Sunday Saigon time — 7 p.m. fight." peace agreement to end the Vietnam war has as difficult and dangerous as Saturday EST. been reached. Nixon said a cease-fire will take ef- the military fight." "The Communists have Thieu said his government fect-Saturday—the same day he said the agree- Thieu claimed in a nation- been forced to recognize that stands firm on its position ment would be signed by Secretary of State Wil- wide radio address that most South and North Vietnam are that North Vietnamese troops liam Rogers. of his major demands had two countries, two separate must be withdrawn from the countries among the four in South. But he indicated this Indochina," Thieu said. would not take place imme- "North Vietnam will have to diately and that he had soft- recognize the sovereignty of ened his demands on this is- Riverview to Offer our nation." sue, which had blocked an in-, Thieu said no two-sided or itial agreement. He indicated tripartite coalition govern- the issue was open to negotia- ment would be imposed on tion. South Vietnam, but the Saigon "We stand firm on our posi- AP Wlrtpnolo Abortion Services government and the National tion that the North Vietnam- AIRMEN'S REACTION — "I'm going home," shouts Lt. Samuel C. Moon, Liberation Front, the political ZC2 troops, being an invasion right, of Greensboro, N.C., as he listens to President Nixon's speech on By SHERRY CONOHAN which, he said, would be nec- edge, Riverview Hospital has arm of the Viet Cong, will army, must be withdrawn and essary before a decision on [ Vietnam ceasefire at Tan Son Nhut air base, nearSalgon. After listening had no inquiries since Monday negotiate a political solution that will be solved between us to the speech, Lt.'A/loon climbed into his rocket-armed forward air-control RED BANK— Riverview granting abortions was made. from women seeking abor- for South Vietnam. and the Communists," he "As soon as we can get to it, plane and flew off on a mission. Lt. Lewis S. Welland, left, of Jackson, Hospital will make abortions tions. "The cease-fire will only be said. Tenn. also cheered President's speech. available, beginning within we will have to study'it," he C, Byron Wortman, director the next few days, in com- said. of public information for Mon- pliance with the U.S. Supreme According to Mr. Paw- mouth Medical Center and Court's decision Monday, hos- lowski, the "nuances" of the spokesman for the hospital's' pital administrator John K. law which must be clarified administrator, Felix M. PUla, Pawlowski said yesterday. Mrs. White Recalls Johnson Fondly for Riverview include such said the hospital was in the "Riverview Hospital is pre- questions as whether the fa- process of digesting the Su- Mrs. Katharine Elkus White "And," she added, "he was someday rate Lyndon Johnson ther has a counter right to bassador to Denmark, saying, pared to accept the Supreme preme Court's ruling and in- of Red Bank, former U.S. Am- an extrovert and loved to "In his desire to recognize as one of the truly great lead- 'Court ruling and grant abor- prevent the abortion and dicated a decision would be bassador to Denmark, said have a good time." ers in the world, "Mr. Howard whether an unmarried minor women in public life, I was tions," Mr. Pawlowski said. reached in the next few days. yesterday the man who Sees Great Loss fortunate to be selected as said. "It will be another day or two would need the consent of her Review by Staff named her to that post — for- "More than any other presi- parents. He said the hospital "President Johnson's U.S. ambassador to Denmark, before we will be physically "The medical staff is re- mer President Lyndon B. death," Mrs. White said, "will and had the opportunity to dent in the history of our Re- prepared to do it.because the expected to have the answers viewing the Supreme Court's Johnson — will be remem- public," he said, "Lyndon to these questions within the be a great loss to this country, represent President Johnson nuances of the law must be decision and discussing it with bered as a man whose great- and the people of this county in that country." Johnson cooperated with Con- straightened out." "next two or three days." counsel before making a deci- est concern was for the wel- because he always had as his Her thoughts were echoed by gress in winning approval of None of the other hospitals As to the question of wheth- sion," he said. He said he ex- fare of the people he served. greatest interest the welfare Rep. James J. Howard, D- all-important social legisla- in the immediate area has er a father has the right to in- pected a decision to be "His hopes for the Great So- of the people as shown by the N.J., a man who largely owes tion. come to the same decision yet tervene and prevent the reached in a "reasonable ciety will someday be realized humanitarian legislation he his political start to the long "It was Lyndon Johnson's to grant abortions, but two of would-be mother from having time ... a comparatively in this country," Mrs. White was responsible for." coattails of President Johnson messages to the Congress," them — Monmouth Medical an abortion, he said: "We be- short time." said. She cited the Medicare bill, in the 1964 landslide election. he said, "which asked for a lieve he does not." He re- Center in Long Branch and Jack DeCerce, adminis- Mrs. White, who knew the aid for education, and many It was in that election land- massive federal commitment Freehold Area Hospital in ferred specifically to the trator of Freehold Area Hos- late President well, described' welfare laws which were for a better education for all American Hospital Associ- slide of President Johnson Freehold — are studying the pital, said the hospital's ob- him as "a warm, friendly, enacted during his years in of- that Mr.