z^xlj ^ from the associated press «£*; *, U.S., North Vietnam Agree News Roundup: From the State, Nation & World WASHINGTON (#>)-- President serious peace negotiations. 10 May, 1968 or a few days later." and Johnson followed through promptly, Johnson announced " agreement witb First public word of a break in the In the maneuver over a site since saying; North Vietnam yesterday to begin pre- month-old stalemate over a site for the the opposing sides first declared their "As all of you know, we have sought The World proposed preliminary talks came in a in which liminary peace talks in Paris May 10 oi readiness for direct talks April 3, the a place for these conversations Athlete ' s Heart Transplanted To Carpenter Hanoi broadcast heard by U.S. monitors all of the parties would receive fair and LONDON — The heart of an athlete who ran every shortly thereafter. shortly before Johnson's 10 a.m. DT United States had suggested 15 possible impartial treatment. France is a country day until the day he died kept up a normal beat yester- Johnson immediately coupled his meeting with newsmen. Asian and European capitals while North where all parties should expect such day for carpenter Joseph Rizor, the day after a surgical team transplanted it in him. announcement in a nationally televised It was Johnson's first scheduled, Vietnam held to Warsaw and Phnom treatment." Doctors at Stanford Medical Center said , the next news conference with a sober warning live-televised news conference here since Penh. While French President Charles de two or three days will be critical for Rizor. His new against expecting that these first direct Nov . 17 — but administration officials the Gaulle has criticized U.S. Vietnam pol- heart i s that of a man who died of a brain hemorrhage U.S. - North Vietnamese talks will quick- insisted the Johnson had refused to accept after keeping fit by running, bowling, swimming and President had no secret, ad- Communist site choices on grounds that icy, France has maintanied relations ly end the war. vance knowledge of the Hanoi decision hiking. the meeting place should be in neutral with and kept her capital open to gov- Rizor's heart and blood pressure were reported He said, "We hope this agreement on Thursday when he scheduled the con- lungs must adjust territory, with communications facili- ernment officials on both the Commu- normal. But doctors said his ailing on initial contact will prove a step for- ference. to a new heart. , ties for diplomatic dispatches open for nist and non-Communist sides. These in- I n addi tio n, an Arizona accountant is doing fine ward and can represent a mutual and a The Hanoi statement followed cus- press coverage and accessible to repre- after receiving the heart of a young woman in the serious movement by all parties toward tomary Communist language denouncing sentatives of the various governments clude the Red Chinese as well as North world's ninth heart transplant. peace in Southeast Asia." the United and South Vietnamese. As a modern city, The tenth heart transplant was performed yes- States for aggression in Viet- with interests in the Vietnam war. nam, with announcement terday in London. Doctors at the National Heart Hospi- But the President added: "I must, of agreement Neither side officially proposed Paris has up-to-date communications. tal there report the fourth transplant operation within however, sound a cautionary note. This to dispatch a special envoy to Paris. a week. Paris. But both were careful not to reject Johnson said he first heard of Ha- is only the very first step. There are North Vietnam believes , the broad- the French capital, either, when French noi's agreement on Paris at 1 a.m. Wash- many, many hazards and difficulties cast said, "Paris.Just as Phnom Penh, ington time. It came in a diplomatic The Nation ahead." Cambodia and Warsaw, Poland, is an ap- Foreign Minister Maurice Couve d'Mur- message given to the American ambas- King Followers Plan Poor Peop le' s March Actually, the preliminary sessions propriate venue for the formal and bi- ville suggested its availability April 18. sador at Vientiane, Laos, by the North MARKS. Miss — The Poor People's March on Wash- are expected only to determine whether lateral talks" with the United States. Vietnamese embassy there a few hours political So Paris was available on the diplo- ington, an infant that hopes to grow into a there is a mutually acceptable basis for before the Hanoi broadcast. giant, wrestled with organizational and recruiting prob- "These formal talks will begin on matic shelf for North Vietnam's decision lems yesterday. "We are setting teams to fan out and tell these peo- what we are trying to do and how they can help," said the Rev. James Bevel, a bearded Southern Christian Leadership Conference spokesman. The march, brainchild of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, is an attempt to draft the SCLC's technique of provocative but non-violent "constructive tension" onto Viet Cong Hit a push for economic change. From this small beginning, here in this quiet Delta town, population 2,600, SCLC hopes to develop the cam- paign into a political movement of the poor, black or white , with the power to prod Congress into action. "This is no longer a civil rights thing," said Bevel. Saigon force the power tral "This is economic. We intended to Cen structure of this country to divert more energy—and by SAIGON (IP) — The Viet Cong packed a Police were trying to determine how the that I mean money—into getting 40 million Americans and blew it up in terrorists got the taxi, loaded with explosives, into this nation's economic mainstream. taxi with TNT yesterday the heart of Saigon a block from the U.S. past guards around the television stations. * * * boldest terriorist attack on The explosio n caused fresh nervousness Wide Split Expected in Texas Voting Embassy in the the capital since the Tet offensive in Feb- among Saigon 's Vietnamese mili tary and DALLAS, Tex. — Texans begin deciding today how police units, already on 100 per cent alert be- the state will vote in the Republican and Democratic ruary. presidential nominating conventions with the wildest The blast wrecked a church-sponsored cause of reports the Viet Cong are preparing split in the GOP instead of the Demos for a change. student center and damaged South Vietna- another assault on the capital. In what for Texas is a big political day, citizens mese and American television buildings, kill- Ground Fighting Sputters also will: wounding 25 Viet- Determine whether former Alabama Gov. George ing three Vietnamese and Viet Cong prisoners picked up during a Wallace and his American party get on the state's gen- namese and five Americans. small skirmish eight miles from Saigon told eral election ballot. ' ; " Most of the wounded were young Viet- interrogators that they were told they would Nominate, send into runoffs or elect candidates for student centei be moving into the city, the government re- office from the precincts to the Governor's Mansion and namese girls in the two-story of the World University Service. ported. Congress.¦ Precinct conventions will follow the closing of the Police blamed the Viet Cong and said In the inflamed northeast corner of South polls at 8 p.m. EDT and it is there that the complexion that a large amount of TNT was in the taxi Viet nam, ground fighting sputtered out after of presidential nominating delegations is determined. U.S. forces crushed a North Vietnamese County and state conventions will be held later for that was backed into a narrow driveway be- final selection, but control of the nominating delegation tween the student center and the main counterattack near Dong Ha Thursday. In generally is determined in the precincts. studio for the South Vietnamese government four days of fierce fighting around the Dong Democrats are expected to name Gov. John Con- broadcasting service. Ha Mari ne bas e and near Hue, allied troops nally as their favorite son. Republicans probably will Broadcast on Schedule repo rted 1,303 of the enemy killed. name Sen. John Tower of Texas. U.S. and South Vietnamese casualties But there the unity ends among Republicans. One The South Vietnamese station apparently group, called "the old guard" in Texas, favors Gov. Ron- totaled 103 men killed and 541 wounded in ald Reagan of California and after that Richard Nixon. was a main target and the explosion blew out the battles. windows, shattered partitions and ripped out The other northeast area of hard fight- wires in the station. The adjacent U.S. Armed Civil Liberities•_ Union • Takes• Morals Case i ng this week is 45 miles to the s outh, around Forces television station sustained smashed Hue. In the latest action, paratroopers of the WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties windows and a collapsed ceiling in a studio. Union said yesterday it has taken -the case of a 22-year- ¦ ¦ ¦ 82nd Airborne Division reported overrun- old woman who charges she lost her security clearance :V*," - < & >-> ,- ^^u^i- "" '? «i iT j^r?" :Ste^^w^Sffis uSBHw^^wIBmI 3*558 Both stations, not televising at the time ning enemy positions four miles west of Hue and Army job on the basis of reports that she was of the blas t, began evening television broad- Thursday and killing 46 North Vietnamese. immoral. casts on schedule. Radio broadcasts were s an outrageous case said Lawrence Speiser Air attacks Thursday again concentrated "It' ," , —Collegian Photo by Pierre Bellicinl momentarily disrupted by the explosion.