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Today: Our Weekend Enjo SEE TABLOID INSERT Cloudy2-i-fc, chance of shower. s THEDAILY FINAL this evening, fair later tonight. Tomorrow mostly Red Bank, freehold sunny and warmer. Long Branch 7 EDITION Monmouth County's Outstanding Home Newspaper 22 PAGES VOL. 95 NO. 39 RED BANK, NJ. FRIDAY, AUGUST 18,1972 TEN CENTS *•*' -A." House Unit Told 20 OEO Trip Youths Weren't Needy WASHINGTON (AP) - A from welfare families. But he ond jobs to support their fami- him the other projects would tional director Phillip Sanchez House subcommittee heard said "extenuating circum- lies that can't afford to send not be cleared and he should as to why the Monmouth yesterday that 20 of 67 Mon- stances" allowed 20 others their children overseas," he press for the overseas travel County agency was allowed to mouth County, N.J., high with annual family incomes of said. program, which subsequently- take part in the program. The school students who traveled more than $9,000 each to par- Only five of the students .was approved. congressman said Sanchez overseas this summer with ticipate. He said this was be- have returned from their two- He said the program was has been uncooperative in dis- the help of federal funds did cause of illness or because month visits to .Europe, Asia, approved by New Jersey Gov. cussing the program with' not come from low income their parents had second jobs South America and'Africa. William T. Cahill but Cahill, him. families. that kept them above the po- Russell said the students after learning of the con- The subcommittee assured The testimony was given by verty levels. were chosen for the trip by troversy, withdrew his sup- Howard that Sanchez would, Wilbert C. Russell, executive The range approved by high school counselors and port. appear before it Sanchez was director of the Monmoum OEO was $3,400 to $9,000, he their names were then sent to Howard asked the subcom- not present at yesterday's Community Action Program said. the Youth for Understanding mittee to question OEO na- hearing because of illness. (MCAP). "There are a few with fami- headquarters in Michigan The special studies subcom- ly incomes of over $15,000 which was coordinating the mittee is investigating the which we question ourself," trip for OEO. possible misuse of $60,000 in he said. Russell testified the student Office of Economic Opportu- Subcommittee chairman program was one of seven it**/ t , . m wifttiyiAhi nity (OEO) funds. The in- Rep. William J. Randell, D- projects he submitted to the CONFER BEFORE HEARING — Rep. James Howard; right, D-N.J., talks vestigation was requested by Mo., said he could not under- OEO regional office in New with Assistant Director Roy E. Batchelor of the Office of Economic Op- Rep. James J. Howard, D- stand the rationale in allowing York. He said others included portunity outside the hearing room before a meeting of House Special N.J. the more affluent students on a drug control center and day Studies subcommittee yesterday In Washington. The group Is looking into Russell said the majority of the trip. care center and a housing re- allegations of misuse-of OEO funds, with special reference to an overseas the high school students tak- "There are an awful lot of habilitation program. But he student travel prolect In Monmouth County. ing part in the program were people who have to work sec- said the New York office told GOP Script Tuned to Nixon MIAMI BEACH (AP) - In There has been no in- The platform draft the par- fact be surprising if such were in presidential nomination. Administration officials look- tempo and in tune with the dication so far of major need ty begins unveiling today is a not the case. Platforms are "This is an exciting con- ed on — and, according to tailored to the views of candi- vention," said Sen. Robert J. some liberal critics, prodded will of the White House, Re- for their services. White House production. A — as GOP panels and leaders publicans are readying Presi- The campaign buttons em- preliminary draft was written dates, and in the case of the Dole of Kansas, the Republi- can national chairman. "We arranged for the renomination dent Nixon's GOP national blazoning GOP lapels read there. While it was condensed, Republicans, there is only ceremonies. convention, right on script. "Nixon, Now more than indications are that there one, Nixoni have had differences of opin- "It's almost like we were Republican rule-makers' ion and we have resolved If anything happens that ever." It is an apt slogan at a have been no significant de- here to attend the coronation isn't in the text, an ample convention dominated in ev- partures from the adminis- saw to that by drafting an in- those differences of opinion." stant change in the regu- But it took a low threshhold of Richard the first," said cadre of administration aides ery aspect by the President tration text. Rep. Paul N. McCloskey Jr. and political managers is on the GOPwill renominate next And while that has produced lations that will guarantee of excitement to find much in only Nixon's name is placed the Republican preliminaries. of California, the liberal who hand to deal with it Tuesday. liberal complaints, it would in staged a brief, futile chal- lenge to President Nixon in the early primaries. "Nothing will be said to em- MAKING HIS REPORT — Bernard Shanjey* for- barrass the President," mer New Jersey state GOP chairman and special McCloskey said. "Nothing will counsel to President Dwlght D. Elsenhower, Divide the Sinai, Day an Urges makes report yesterday to the Platform Com- be allowed to disturb the care- By T*eA»»d«ted Press the key to peace," Dayan de- Department. Egypt maximum security." quiet "compared with the bul- fully staged management of mittee of the Republican National Convention In clared in Tel Aviv. He said the U.S. note urged He appeared to be propos- lets fired by bank robbers." this convention." Miami Beach. Israeli Defense Minister In Cairo, President Anwar direct talks between Israel ing a division north to south He said Israel is still ready Mosbe Dayan proposed yes- Sadat of Egypt was reported and Egypt and the simulta- about halfway between the for a partial settlement, origi- terday that Egypt and Israel to have told the National As- neous withdrawal of Israeli two countries. The Sinai nally proposed by the United divide up the occupied Sinai sembly that the Soviet Union troops from the Israeli-occu- Desert was captured from States, whereby Israel would Desert and urged Arab states was pressuring Egypt to sur- pied eastern'bank of the Suez Egypt in the 1967 war and withdraw from the banks of House Exceeds Nixon to accept a partial settlement • render in the Middle East. Canal. Egypt insists it must be re- the Suez Canal and let Egypt to the Middle East conflict. Sadat said he rejected a let- Dayan, speaking at an offi- turned as part of any peace reopen the blocked waterway. "We must strive for renew- ter from Soviet Communist cers' school, said he envis- agreement. There was no immediate of- al of contracts — even if they party chief Leonid Brezhnev aged in the Sinai Desert "a di- The patch-eyed general ficial Egyptian reaction to viding line, temporary or per- Busing Curb Request are indirect — with the Arab as "totally unacceptable" and praised the two-year-old Dayan's remarks, but observ- states, and first and foremost also dismissed a commu- manent, which would give the American-initiated ceasefire, ers noted that acting Foreign populated areas of Israel and WASHINGTON (AP) - Go- Sen. James B. Allen, D-Ala., the Senate. with Egypt, in whose hands is nication from the U.S. State and quipped that the canal is Minister Mohammed Hassan ing even beyond President has vowed to stand at the Rep. Alphonso Bell, R-Ca- Zayyat told a news confer- Nixon's request, the House chamber door and steer the lif., said the House action ence only Wednesday that has voted to ban cross-town bill away from the Senate could force civil-rights vio- Egypt would "never com- busing and to allow the new Education Committee and lence and firebombings to promise on her territorial in- curbs applied to old court or- Straight to the Senate floor. start all over again. Kissinger, Thieu Talks Secret; tegrity." ders for desegregation. But even that would not guar- "Yoq are in the process of Zayyat insisted that.a set- Concluding a 12-hour session antee senators would vote on turning the clock back on all tlement could only come early today, the House passed the measure. civil-rights progress made by, about if Israel withdrew from the antibusing bill by a 282-102 this nation," Bell told the all occupied territories, and vote. The measure now goes Nixon's original proposal House. General Situation Is Discussed he called on the United States to the Senate, where it may would have allowed cross- SAIGON (AP) - Henry A. vealed by the statements, The South Vietnamese com- night in Tokyo for a meeting to support that position. die of inaction. town busing — that is, busing But Rep. Edith Green, D- Kissinger ended two days of even though they were issued, munique said they had "re- with Japan's new prime min- Sadat in his speech to the The bill would: past the two closest schools — Ore., author of the amend- talks with President Nguyen separately. But the total time viewed the general situation ister, Kakuei Tanaka, then fly National Assembly said: —Prohibit busing except as of junior-high and high-school ment that wrote both the Van, Thieu today and flew to consumed by the secrecy- of the Republic of Vietnam home to report to President "The Soviet Union has re- the last resort for desegrega- students if nothing else could cross-town-busing ban and the Japan, leaving no hints for the cloaked talks heightened spec- and questions related to the Nixon at Camp David.

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