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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 4-7-1972 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. 1138. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1138 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]. Partial clearing tonight; Satu rday; M *j*WwmWB Aftm t.H it mf continued cold 117»h Year of Publication Nixon also Fourth front opened High court to examine Town north of Saigon j>arochiaI aid By WILLIAM J. WAUGH states or the" federal govern- have undertaken to Dtured ment ca bv N. Viets WASHINGTON UP) — The prpvide aid to nonpublic By GEORGE ESPER that the South Vietnamese gar- 1Hien, the chief spokesman for reported heavy. Supreme Court will be ask- ' ¦' ¦ ' , ed to define how govern- schools," he said. SAIGON (AP) - North Viet- rison surrendered after com- tthe Saigon command, said ihe Government forces also aban- support church- Nixon promised "specific namese troops captured a dis- munist forces killed, wounded ggovernment troops "moved out doned Fire Base Hung Tam, ment can to pre- run schools, but President measures designeti trict town 7s miles north 'of-Sri? or captured 400 of the defend- tto an area outside the city." five miles southwest of Loc serve the nonpublic school gon today and opened a fourth ers. But Lt, Col. Le Trung Casualties on both sides were Ninh and 10- miles below the Nixon may come up with : his own solution first. system in the United States" front in their nine-day-old offen- ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ' : ' ¦ ¦ ' Cambodian border, to the ene- Commis- : "i. ¦*' - ' AX ' " : r ' y-y ' ' Nixon went to Philadel- after the Advisory sive with more than a dozen at- . -i ' * . my. • sion on Intergovernmental tacks on towns and'bases in the * phia Thursday to strength- Field reports said elements of en his pledge to develop an Relations and the presiden- Mekong Delta to the south. tial Comfmission on School four North Vietnamese divi- "Equitable, workable and U.S: warplanes meanwhile sions had crossed Finance complete studies. hammered North Vietnamese Nixon silent on the Cam- constitutional" method to bodian border in force and pen- funnel government dollars The Pennsylvania law au- forces in North and South Viet- million a year etrated at least 20 miles into into non-public schools. thorizes $47 nam and neighboring stretches South Vietnamese to reimburse parents for tui- of Laos with more than 600 territory. In the same city a few Small enemy units slipped to , a three-judge tion at 1,500 nonpublic strikes. Two Navy fighter- plans for buildup hours later all but 250 of them within 20 miles of Saigon and federal court struck down schools, bombers and a big rescue heli- (AP ) damaged a bridge on Hi Catholic. copter were shot down, the U.S. KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. turn to Washington later tod ay; ghway a seven-month-old Pennsyl- _ President Nixon Kept watch Nixon planned to be in tele- 13, the north-south road from vania lav? which sent non- Meanwhile, the dispute Command said, and .six Ameri- the border. bypass -was being over parochial aid continues cans were missing. on developments in the Viet- phone contact with "major ad- A public school aid to parents, nam war from the Florida visers," Ziegler said. used. the schools. in state legislatures and rather than to courts7 The district town of Loc Ninh White House today, but main- Shortly after Nixon arrived, Enemy forces were reported The law- was the rresult of tained silence on the buildup of it was learned There are* ,32 pending law- fell after fighting so close that that a squadron to have cut the highway tempo- specific efforts to tailor pro- an air spotter overhead report- American air power in South- of F105 fighter-bombers from rarily In nine places south of to earlier Supreme suits -which either challenge visions or seek public funds for ed the defending South Viet- east Asia. McConnell Air Force Base, An Loc, the capital of Binh Court guidelines. namese were calling artillery The chief executive : came Kan.; had been ordered to Long Province 60 miles north of church-related schools, ac- OPEN FOURTH FRONT. .. North Vietnamese opened John Cardinal Krol, arch- to the American fire in on their own positions. here Thursday for a weekend Southeast Asia. Saigon. Government troops cording a fourth front today in their Tho spotter reported eight Nixon aides were making sweeps in bishop of the Philadelphia Jewish Congress. nine-day old offensive. More to stay, announced at the last had no comment an ef- Roman Catholic Archdio- than a dozen attacks were made on towns and bases in the ten North Vietnamese tanks at- minute. on this or the reports of in- fort to keep the route open to cese, said the ruling would The National Catholic Ed- tacking the town, and later the creasing fighting in Vietnam. supply convoys. ucation Association said last Mekong River Delta , south o£ Saigon. The district town of be appealed to the Supreme Loc Ninh has fallen and the highway to the south at An Loc South Vietnamese command His national security adviser. Ziegler said Nixon came to An Loc itself y/as threatened, fall that 19 states either announced that Loc Ninh was Henry A. Kissinger, was on Court,, which held last June has been cut. Fighting continued in the Central Highlands Florida to work, not rest. and positions all around it were have passed or were con- abandoned during the morning temporary Florida duty, too. However, the President had that som£ forms of govern- and on the northern front below the DMZ. Clashes were under rocket and mortar at- church schools sidering legislation to help after four days of heavy attack. But Press Secretary Ronald L. no announced appointments or tack. But the ment aid to five miles southwest of Quang Tri. (AP Photofax) Saigon command are unconstitutional. parochial scnools. - reported The Viet Cong radio claimed Ziegler said Kissinger would re- meetings. said the government still held Chief Justice Warren E. the town. Burger wrote that"the cru- Air units in several states alerted Pew details were known of cial question is not whether the attacks in the Mekong Del- some benefit accrues to a ta, but the command said 40 of religious institution as a the enemy and 10 government consequence of the legisla- troops were killed and 23 gov- tive program, but whether ernment men were wounded. Its principal or primary ef- p/o /Wore The threat to Saigon fect advances religion." was not considered immediate The primary effect of the By ROBERT A. DOBKIN , senior number of times this week that although it is fort. But some high sources in Washington are officers said, but the urgent Pennsylvania law was to ad- keeping its options open, the battle action will not saying Saigon forces are showing they can and ion, said the de- WASHINGTON WW- A squadron of Kansas- n e e d f o r reinforcements vance relig fighter-bombers is en route to : Southeast stop American troop withdrawals. will fight. cision Thursday by federal based drained the capital region of its Asia as U.S. officials consider whether to commit But expanded air and naval support of the Some administration analysts say the increas- reserve forces. Appeals Court Judge Wil- still more planes to counter the new North Viet^ South Vietnamese is another matter. Twenty B52 and District ing capability of Saigon forces has allowed the Military sources said tho liam Hastie attack. bombers were flown from their American bases United States S. Lord fmese to carefully measure its response. paratroop battalion that form* Court Judges Joseph As further evidence of the U.S. air buildup to Southeast Asia earlier this week, and two addi- This means, they indicated, that President Nixon and John B. Hanhum. tional aircraft carriers steamed into the area. President Nguyen Van Thieu'B in Southeast Asia, it was learned that a number has been able to avoid the politically dangerous palace guard was alerted for "The state has no more of air units in several states have been alerted Nearly all the U.S. planes in Southeast Asia decision of ordering a full-scale air attack against potter to subsidize parents field duty, and ; an infantry bat- for possible deployment. were thrown into the massive aerial attack against the North. talion was assigned in providing a religious ed- North Vietnam Thursday before the Pentagon order- ¦ to the pal- their child than But apparently the only unit to get flying In a speech Thursday to the Overseas Writers ace. ucation for ed still more reinforcements. Club 1 It has to subsidize church- OBJECTIVE ... Mrs. orders Thursday was the 23rd Tactical Fighter , Adm. Thomas H: Moorer Jr., chairman of Thieu met with U.Sr Am- Wing at McConnell AFB, Kan , which dispatched The Pentagon refused to discuss the latest the Joint Chiefs of Staff , said the initial U.S. related schools to do so," Nguy«n Thi' Binh, head of air bassador Ellsworth Bunker and one squadron of FlOvi all-weather jet attack planes aircraft movements because of "security pur- strikes penetrated 40 to 50 miles north of the Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, tha the judge wrote. the Viet Cong delegation to Pacific squadron normally numbers poses." But some officials hinted that even more demilitarized zone dividing the two Vietnams.