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Viets Nixon on Vietnam— abandon Ground forces are out By FRANK CORMIER Later Nixon sai dthe Saigon forces could resist success- FLORESVILLE Tex7 (AP)— President Nixon fully, provided the United States continues to supply air and , says no ' ' Quang Tri U.S. ground forces will be recommitted to the stepped-up naval, support. ; . war in South Vietnam but declares Hanoi runs " The President and Mrs. Nixon were overnight guests at ) a very great SAIGON <AP - South Viet- risk'' with its current offensive. the Picosa ranch of Connally, the only Democrat in the Cabi- nam's first provincial capital Nixon net and a man still mentioned as a possible replacement fell to the North Vietnamese to- , inviting questions from a blue-ribbon crowd of Texans at tbe ranch of Treasury Secretary John B. Con- for Vice President Spiro T. Agnew on this year's GOP day after five days of savage ' • nally, said Sunday^hight that American combat troops are ticket. assaults in the northern sector not directly involved in the Vietnam fighting. 7 Should the enemy succeed in its current offensive in Viet- by troops of four divisions. It nam, Nixon declared, world peace would be endangered "And jio ne " was Haiioi'^- biggest victory of will be, Nixon said. and other nations would lose respect for the office of the its 3&-day ^offensive. The President, who fielded friendly questions, interrupted presidency. by enthusiastic applause, for nearl said North South "Vietnamese troops y an hour, "I am not going to let that happen," he asserted.. Vietnam runs great risk if it continues what he has re- abandoned Quang Tri and into A communist success in South Vietnam, said Nixon, would peatedly termed a naked invasion of the South. • "be a bloodbath that would stain the hands of the United enemy hands went territory ¦ - - ¦ stretching down from the de- "I will just leave it there," h*r said cryptically, " and States for time-immemorial." . did militarized zone 27 miles to the they can make their choice." The chief executive was asked why the United States At the same time, he asserted that bombing missions hot bomb dams and dikes that irrigate much of the North south. U.S. in both halves of Vietnam would be limited to military Vietnamese countryside. / - ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ This May Day triumph fol- targets.; - . 77777•, •. 7 Nixon said such a move would result in : "an enormous lowed the enemy's seizure of Be said Gen, Creighton W. Abrams, the U.S. commander number of civilian casualties" which he would wish to avoid. full control of the population in Saigon,; had given his "professional judgment that the He added that such a move is unnecessary "at this point." and important rice crops along South Vietnamese will be able to hold and deny to the It was almost immediately thereafter that the : Presi- the central coast; the cutting of North Vietnamese their goal which,. of course, is to impose dent spoke of the risk he said • .. Hanoi is taking by pursuing on the people of South Vietnam a communist government." the Southern offensive. ENJOYING THE JOKE . ..Apollo 16 night. Mrs. Duke enjoys the gag which refer- Highway 1 in crucial points lunar module pilot holds a container of or- red to the trouble the spacemen experienced north of Da Nang, site of the big U.S. air base ; and renewed ange drink given to him by neighbors as he with the drink during their moon voyage. enemy pressure on Kontum, an- (AP Photofax) .. .. arrived at his home near the Manned Space- other provincial capital in ' the craft Center, in Houston * Tex., Saturday central highlands. With the fall of Quang Tri, Technical debriefings continue population 27,000 a threat be- came more imminent to the old imperial capital of Hue, now only 24 miles south 7 of the northernmost defensive line of cientists get first the South Vietnamese on High- S way;! . All American advisers were safely evacuated by helicopter shortly before it was decided to look ,! highland rocks abandon plans to defend Quang Tri. -Mo.st: of the civilians had By HOWARD BENEDICT in the moon's mountains, in television and listened to long since fled and only a very SPACE CENTER , Hous- the Descartes highlands. their descriptions believe few remained. These rocks , may be there is; a good chance ton (AP) -T Scientists take At last . report there were fi9 at" amdn^lTie"yi)ldest on the / the astronauts returned with V their first look today U.S. advisers in Quang Tri but rocks from the moon's high- moon, dating perhaps back the volcanic evidence they " between 4 and 4.5 billion sought. some were said to have left lands while the astronauts earlier. ' "¦¦ ' who brought them to earth years to .the. formative Experts expect to be - . ' - continue technical debrief- years. The rocks returned studying the ; samples .for . U.S. Army helicopters landed and there ings on the Apgllo 16 lunar by four earlier Apollo crews . years, comparing them with and flew them out, mission. ranged between 3 and 4 bil- earlier Apollo samples and were no reports of any aircraft ite enemy Some of the rocks, in lion years in age, so the eventually piecing together being shot down desp sealed containers, are to be Apollo 16 samples could pro- the story of the history Of antiaircraft guns ringing the city. They were flown to a sa- placed in nitrogen-filled ex:- vide clues to an important the moon. This in turn could RETREAT .. .Troops of the South Vietnamese 3rd In- . borne the brunt of the fighting in the North Vietnamese . of tell much about how our fer location farther south. amination cabinets and one -. chapter in lunar history. fantry Division mingle with civilian refugees as they flea fensive across the DMZ. (AP Photofax) earth and solar system A mauled battalion of South sample bag and one box will : Lunar geologists believe ¦ south from Quang Tri. Sunday. The 3rd Infantry Division hai -be opened late in tbe day. that during this early peri- . -. evolved/ . Vietnamese rangers moving John W. Young, Charles od the moon had a hot, ac- The three astronauts re- south from Quang Tri broke M. Duke Jr. and Thomaa tive interior like the earth's turned: here Saturday night y and fled after a day-long battle K with troops of two North Viet- . Mattingly II came back and that volcanoes played after a7flight from Hawaii, from their 11-day mission a role in carving features y namese regiments near High- Norlh Vietnam with a record 245 pounds [ such as mountains, canyons where they were taken after way .1. ¦ Ni;<oh finds s their successful Pacific South T^xa Qf material. Young and and plains. But U.S. advisers sakt Duke gathered it while mak- Those who watched Young Ocean splashdown ./Thurs-- Vietnamese marines moving ' : north to link up with the negotiator is Jng man s first ¦ exploration¦ and Duke on the moon via ¦/day. ; . JC£_^ 1/ ' rangers a ttacked a nearby regi- mental post and killed 160 ene- country to liking my soldiers with help from U.S. bombing strikes. The marines back in Paris By GAYLORD SHAW And , In coming, he got States ." PARIS (AP) - The North Inside were forced to pull back , how- FLOEESVILLE Tex. a Texas-sized reception Nixon's after-dinner re- Vietnamese negotiator who held , . ever, When the rangers turned (AP) — President Nixon guaranteed to warm any marks turned into an hour- TestimonV contln- secret talks With Henry A. Kis- UUIIIClllirl I off the pressure from the south. came to the Big Country politician 's heart. long question - and - answer ued today as the singer . last year is back in The enemy drive in the north- and liked what he found There was a tour of tlie session with the well-dress- two-weck-old trial of a $450,- Paris amid predictions from his . lawsuit in Winona County ern , sector is believed part of a Squinting over the spring- 3,500 gently rolling acres of ed guests gathered on the colleagues that a new round of District Court neared com- plan to seize South Vietnam's green pastures of Treasury Connally 's ranch , including manicured lawn of Connal- secret Vietnam talks may begin pletion. The case is expect- two northern provinces and to Secretary John B. ..Connel- a close-up look at his herd ly's low-slung ranch home. soon. •••-V ed to be submitted to the use this as leverage in the Viet- ly's Texas .ranch Sunday, of Santa Gerti udis Cattle . Later, booming aerial jury Tuesday—story, Le Due Tho, a member of page nam peace talks in Paris. The he pointed toward the West- Thsi was followed by a fireworks displays brighten- 3a. Hanoi's Politburo returned to communist command also is , ern horizon where the sun dinner of steak, corn-on-fhe- ed the night sky, and a Paris Sunday by way of Peking believed aiming at seizing ma- had slipped behind blue- cob and black-eyed peas, ground display.-burst into and Moscow and Na ions at jor cities in the central high- declared he gray clouds and said: attended by 200 of Connal- full red-and-bltie glory.