Say Nixon Ultimatums Sent Both Thieu, Hanoi SAIGON (AP) - President the South Vietnamese Pressure Brought to Bear
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Welfare Work Program Seen Failin SEE STORY PAGE 21 The Weather THEDAILY FINAL Periods of rain today, tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight upper 30s. A little -las-- / EDITION milder tomorrow. ,40 PAGES MonmouAh County's Outstanding Home Newspaper VOL.95 NO. 121 RED BANK, N.J. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21,1972 ' TEN CENTS iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiniiinui Say Nixon Ultimatums Sent Both Thieu, Hanoi SAIGON (AP) - President The South Vietnamese pressure brought to bear. cluded in the near future, the fused to accept the Nixon's Nixon has told President sources also reported that af- Mining of North Vietnamese South Vietnamese officials re- peace terms. Nguyen Van Thieu he will cut ter the breakdown of the Kis- ports above the 20th parallel ported. They said Nixon urged Kissinger told a news con- off all military and economic singer-Tho negotiations on was resumed Dec. 17, and the Thieu to join in signing an ference in Washington Last aid to South Vietnam if Thieu ' Dec. 13, Nixon sent North next night hundreds of U.S. agreement because the Saturday that a settlement refuses to sign the peace Vietnam an ultimatum giving bombers launched the heavi- United States has all the was 99 per cent complete.- He agreement Nixon expects it 72 hours to agree to his de- est attack of the war on the means to achieve a reason- refused to disclose the Issue ' Hanoi to agree to in "the near mand that Hanoi recognize Hanoi-Haiphong industrial able peace. blocking the settlement, but complex. future, high-level South Viet- South Vietnam as a separate Nixon was reported to have South Vietnamese officials told Thieu in the strongest said it was North Vietnam's namese officials said today. state. Nixon told Thieu that he has Nixon also told Thieu not to plans to force Hanoi to sign a terms that South Vietnam refusal to agree in principle to try to circumvent U.S. peace When he received no reply, fair and just agreement and would be cut off from military recognize South Vietnam as a efforts by making proposals of Nixon ordered heavy military predicted it would be con- and economic aid If he re- separate state. his own, as he. did on Dec. 12, • AP WIrephoto the officials reported. They RESCUERS PROBE WRECKAGE - Rescue workers search through said Nixon considered Thieu's wrecked North Central Airlines DC-9 plane which crashed on takeoff at proposal — made while Henry Chicago's O'Hare International Airport last night. Nine persons in the DC- A. Kissinger and Le Due TI10 9 died when it collided with the tall section of a taxiing Delta Airlines were negotiating in Paris — Convalr880. • ' •- untimely. 3 More B52s Lost; Nixon's reported ultimatum was contained in a personal letter delivered Tuesday by Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr., who flew from Washington as 9 Die as Jetliners Nixon's emissary. Thieu dis- Bombing Continues cussed it with his National SAIGON(AP) - The U.S. heavy attacks began Monday prospects of a peaceful settle- Tuesday had killed 2H per- Security Council and then sent 'Command today reported the night to six B52s and two ment. The Vietnamese people sons and wounded 328. a reply by Haig, but what he loss of three more B52 heavy fighter-bombers downed and are determined to -fight and said was not revealed. bombers as the heaviest raids 27 filers missing. fight hard till compfete vie- Tass, the Soviet news agency, reported the U.S. Collide at Airport of the war continued on the Heavy civilian casualties tory." Hanoi-Haiphong industrial also were claimed by North bombs left parts of two resi- CHICAGO (AP) - Two air- that after" the accident that the emergency chute we saw complex. Vietnam. As the U.S. air attack con- dential areas in the North liners carrying 138 persons l"two seconds could have the tail section of our plane Reds Walk Out A total of 12 crewmen are North Vietnam claimed its tinued, the Viet Cong an- Vietnamese capital in ruins, It collided on a fog-shrouded made the difference in all our 200 feet from the rest of it. On Paris Talks missing in the three B52 forces'have shot down 12 B52s nounced it would observe 24- said a movie house and work- runway at O'Hare Inter- lives." "We didn't feel the jolt too crashes.the command said. and 14 fighter-bombers, in- hour cease-fires in South Viet- ers' quarters were "almost national Airport, killing nine The crash occurred as the much, but I guess the people BULLETIN Six other B52 crewmen cluding seven B52s and an nam for Christmas and the fully destroyed" less than two persons in Chicago's second New Year, beginning at 1 miles from the center of the North Central DC9 - flight in back really did." PAK1S (AP) - The Com- nursed their crippled B52 part Fill swing-wing fighter- air tragedy in two p.m. Saigon time on Dec. 24 city, and ''heaps of broken 575 to Madison, Wis, and Du- Two passengers aboard the munist delegations walked out way home, then parachuted to bomber last night. weeks. and Dec. 31. bricks and debris is all that luth and International Falls, Delta plane were injured,- nei- of the weekly session of the safety in northeast Thailand Hanoi said President Nixon The collision late yesterday Minn. — was taking off. The ther seriously. last night. has lost his senses and de- was left from many houses" Vietnam peace talks today in The South Vietnamese gov- in a suburb. Involved a North Central Air- plane clipped the tail of the It was Ritter's first time in protest against the American The announcement raised clared, "The criminal bomb- ernment was expected to an- lines jet with 45 persons Delta craft, which was taxiing an airplane. bombing of North Vietnam. total losses acknowledged by ings made by the U.S. aggres- nounce similar truce periods, The Tass correspondent aboard and a Delta Airlines. to a holding area after a flight "If the guy in the other the U.S. Command since the sors have only dimmed the but this was not expected to said other bombs hit a hospl- • Convair 880 with 86 passen- from West Palm Keach and plane had been two seconds extend to U.S. air forces oper> tal, an assembly hall and lec- gers. - .. Tampa, Fla. earlier we would have been ating against North Vietnam. ture rooms of the Institute of The Cook County morgue "There was a jolt," said done for," he said. Economy and Planning, and said the nine who died were Roy Ritter, 60, of Rockford, Thirteen persons aboard the Radio Hanoi broadcasts re- "U.S. planes dropped their North Central passengers. III., who was aboard the Delta North Central jet were admit- Hanoi Seen Stalling — ported that the American mortal cargo on the campus One Delta passenger said plane. "After we slid down ted to a hospital and 19 other raids wiped out entire vil- of the Hanoi Polry__ technica __l In.- passengers and a crew of four lages, wrecked thousands of stltue," killlng'several stu- were unhurt. homes and demolished many dents. Vincent Maloney, chief air Not Scuttling — Talks economic, cultural and social In Washington, Pentagon traffic controller at O'Hare, establishments. One broad- spokesman Jerry W. Fried- Study Report said that visibility was a WASHINGTON (AP) - wrapped up. items they had agreed to pre- cast said the Eye, Ear and helm refused to agree with a quarter of a mile at the time Nixon administration strate- . They speculated that the viously. Throat Institute of the Bach reporter's characterization of of the accident. He said many gists see Hanoi as stalling on North Vietnamese may be — The American negotia- Mai Hospital in Hanoi was hit the attacks as "terror bomb- airlines feel such visibility is peace negotiations, rather waiting to see what troubles tors began to suspect around Tuesday and many doctors ings." than scuttling them, in an at- adequate. over the war develop between Dec. 6 that Hanoi had made a were killed an wounded. "We are striking military Raps Prisons tempt to strengthen its bar- The airport was shut down Nixon and the incoming Con- deliberate decision to stall, North Vietnam said that, targets," Friedheim said. gaining hand. NEWARK - Gov. William progress "is relentlessly pur- for 55 minutes after the crash. gress. They said Hanoi also probably during the nine-day according to Initial figures, "We do not strike civilian tar- The secret Paris parley can T. Cahill's special prison sued and enlarged, there is no Earlier in the day, the fog had may anticipate further diffi- . recess preceding that round. U.S. bombs by mid-day gets." • get back on the track quickly negotiating committee has fol- hope that our prisons can help forced the airport to restrict culties between Washington once the North Vietnamese lowed up his administration's to reduce crime, nor that the air traffic to outgoing flights. and Saigon on communist decide to resume serious report on prison reform with cost of corrections will not Raymond Higgins, 53, a for- gains on the battlefield. , talks, officials said. But they its own version; charging that continue to be outlandish mer state senator from Min- They said U.S. intelligence did not foresee this happening racism, arbitrary discipline when measured by results." nesota and a North Central has spotted movements of Cahill Rejects CNJ quickly, and they said no fur- and similar problems continue passenger, said the takeoff North Vietnamese soldiers The report rejected what it ther meeting date has yet to trouble the state's prisons.