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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 6-5-1972 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. 1187. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1187 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]. Cloudy, cooler; UNMAKES, I SOLD] thunderstorms ^ THAT OLO Bue&y v g llb With A Wan. M Z \Jjr ^ likely tonight Reef offensive rolling Que Son on 'knife blade' By PETER ARNETT a major military push through this valley every year since 1954. '¦ " ' ' QUE. SON, Vietnam (AP) — The North Vietnamese of- . This year is the biggest push with three infantry regi- fensive has been slowed at An Loc, Kontum and Hue. But the in the Que Son Valley south of Da Nang it moves relentlessly ments totaling around 2,500 men, and they have made forward , and the South Vietnamese are still losing fire bases greatest gains;; and villages. "They came right around behind us," Chinh said. "Now at least: 800 Communist troops have cut our only road to the "We are balanced on the knife's blade," said the Que Nothing of ours Son district chief , Maj. Nguyen Cong Chinh, as he described coast. They are in bunkers 15 feet deep. the methodical 56-day enemy push that has captured one has moved . along the roa d in two weeks." neighboring district, threatens another , and has Que Son An American adviser explained that the North Vietnam- in a stranglehold. ese were initially thought to be aiming at Route 1, which links Da Nang with the populous provinces south of it. But Chinh and his four American advisers are spending in- cutting off Que creasingly more of their time ir*. a deep command bunker the enemy su rprised everyone by suddenly hopefully safe from the rockets and mortars that often rain Son ai the valley entrance. in from the nearby.hills. Allied with the push through Hiep Due to Que Son has been a parallel enemy fchrust into Thanh Binh district ad- Two regiments from the. South Vietnamese 2nd Infantry joining Que Son to the south. .; Division are deployed around them. But there is nervousness The fighting has not been one-sided. Maj. Cbinh's mili- in the air, and a sense of impending doom. tary forces in Que . Son Eiave been giving a superb account, "The big enemy push has not come yet," one of the according to American advisers, and have killed maiiy North American advisers said ."They are just biting^ small chunks Vietnamese. put of us day by day. Much more of this and we'll fall apart." about the militiamen's lasting But¦ ¦¦there are no illusions The Que Son Valley is 40 miles south of Da Nang. It runs power from the mountains inland across Highway 1 almost to the "Let's face it, the I-Torth Vietnamese have the power to A SMILING ANGELA . Angela Davis, found innocent San Jose Sunday; gestures and smiles, at newsmen during a South China Sea. Because it is a natural infiltration route overwhelm us any time they like unless we get a lot of of murder-kidnap-conspiracy charges by an all-white jury In press conference following her acquittal.. (AP Photofax) int o the highly . populated coast , the communists have made help," Maj. Chinh said. Angela Davis is acquitted Planes raid Jurorim within 50 By EDITH LEDERER to defense arguments about the mingled with shrieks of happi- victory"—not a truimph for ) persecution^ of blacks. ness jn the courtroom when the American justice. SAN JOSE, CaUf. (AP — miles of China The jurors who acquitted An- verdict was returned. At a private post-verdict par- Another source said the all- Miss Davis wept quietly, ty, the lone Mexican-American SAIGON (AP ) _ Eight U.S. gela Davis on murder-kidnap- white jury voted at least three conspiracy charges had' no ma- tears streaming down her on the jury , Louis Franco, told Air Force jets streaked to with- times before handing in its ver- cheeks. attorneys he was moved by the in 50 miles of the Chinese bor- jor disagreements on her in- dict. On the first ballot, taken She was found innocent of en- defense's final arguments, der Sunday and demolished nocence from the start of their Friday afternoon shortly after s north- deliberations, the forewoman gineering the bloody Aug. 7, which centered on persecution twin bridges on Hanoi' they began deliberating, the ju- of blacks in America for cen- west rail line to China with five said. rors voted nine for acquittal 1970, Marin County courthouse ¦ escape attempt in which a turies. 2,000-pound laser-guided bombs, Mary Timothy revealed the and three undecided. There Franco said he related it to military spokesmen said today. lack discord while attending were no votes for conviction judge, two convicts and ihelr of the problems of Mexican-Amer- U.S. military sources said a festive party celebrating Sun- during the balloting, the source accomplice were slain. She had ' spent 15 months in jail before icans. other bridges on both the north- day's verdict. A Mexican-Amer- said. - A Prosecutor Albert Harris Jr., west and northeast rail lines ican on the jury said he related Hysterical sobs of joy inter- she was freed on $102,500 bail five days before the trial began an assistant state attorney gen- linking to China have not been Feb. 28. ' ¦ eral, declined comment on the hit arid they would be attacked verdict. in the future. The tall, black comm unist hugged and kissed members of During the private celebra- Both bridges hit were aboat Federal deficit the seven-woman, five-man tion at the home of friends 85 miles northwest of Hanoi. jury when they met for the first here, Miss Davis toasted her Meanwhile, a seventh aircra ft time at a news conference acquittal and the jurors with; carrier, the Ticonderoga , joined shortly after th-i verdict was champagne. the 7th Fleet and will arrive off to be lower announced; All but three of the jury the coast of Vietnam within a "This is the happiest day of members showed up at the pri- week, U.S. military sources vate party, Davis said; • . ,, . my life," she told a crowd of and Mis^ told . 300 supporters outside the The Associated Press that the The sources said the mission jurors received her warmly and than predicted courthouse who had been . chant- TAKING COVER ... South "Vietnamese of Saigon. The town had been . destroyed by of the newest naval recruit for ing: brought along their husbands the "The power of the : Rangers take cover on the ruins of a roof the Viet Cong before its recapture after h eavy Vietnam War is to "hirnt By BILL NEIKIRK Several congressmen have people—it : set Angela free." and wives' to meet her. and kill submarines." in Dat Do, South Vietnam, while fighting for fighting. Much of the town was destroyed WASHINGTON (AP ) - The said they plan to attach tax-re- The jubilant Miss Davis de- (Continued on page 2a, col . i) Navy planes from other car- the recapture of the town, 45 miles southeast by air and artillery strikes. (AP Photofax ) federal deficit for fiscal 1972 form amendments to the debt- clared-the acquittal "a people's Juror: no riers in the Tonkin Gulf kept up will be an estimated $26 billion, limit request, but the adminis-? their attacks Sunday on war highest since World War II, but ration says the tax code should materials moving along rivers $12.8 billion lower than pre- not be revised in an election in North Vietnam and against dicted in January, the govern- year. Rep. Wilbur Mills, chair- other parts of the North Viet- ment said today. man of the Ways and Means namese transportation network. The revised budget estimate Committee, has introduced a Laird visits Congress The U.S. Command an- came as the Nixon adminis- bill that would call for a review nounced that a Marine F4 tration asked Congress to raise of 54 major tax "loopholes" by Phantom was lost while sup- the national debt limit by $15 1976. porting South Vietnamese billion from the curren t $450 The improved budget situ- troops encircled at Phu My, on billion. ation means the administration the central coast of South Viet- can claim that the budget is not arms package nam. The two The deficit for fiscal 1973 detail crewmen were , es. to timated earlier at $25.5 billion in deficit when figured on a killed, the command said. will be about full-employment basis. By HARRISON HUMPHRIES emerged from a two-hour presi- country and the executive $27 billion , the Of- and South Vietnamese fice of Management and Budget WASHINGTON (AP ) - Sec- dential briefing Friday ex- agreement limiting Soviet spokesmen bipartisan support for U.S. nuclear-warfare arma- at Pleiku said North Vietnam- said in a report to Congress. Defense Melvin R. pressing retary of both the treaty limiting antibal- ments. ese troops had been cleared The federal financial situ- Laird goes to Capitol Hill today from Kontum ation has improved McGovern picks listic-missile ( ABM) defensive Senate De mocratic leader , in the central markedly highlands, since January because of in- in a prelude to near-at-hand weapons to two sites in each Mike Mansfield said he expects except for an area of about 1,000 square yards creased tax collections result- congressional study of the Mos- tiie President to subrrait the on the agreements and accompanying northern side of the city.