Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 3-6-1973 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" (1973). Winona Daily News. 1214. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1214 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]. CFoudy and mild ¦ l IT'S OUTA 1IOHT through Wednesday; I THI WAY WANT ADS Set Tilings Moving rain or snow t ^ Of Saigon s prisoners Cong asks more releases By GEORGE ESPER ers of war on , the list which the Paris when the cease-fire sonnel. agreement was signed Jan. 27. SAIGON (AP) -The Viet Saigon government handed The military commission an- Cong asked the Saigon govern- over in Paris?" Thu asked in He said the Saigon government his message. "Otherwise, what must turn over at least one- nounced, meanwhile, it agreed ment today to release one- of', fourth of the communist prison- is the exact number of military fourth the 26,734 military three days ago on a five-point ers it; holds and begin the sec- personnel which the Saigon prisoners on the list it sub- program to give North Viet- government will turn over to mitted in Paris. This would be namese and Viet Cong repre- ond phase of Vietnamese pris- Revolutionary oner exchanges immediately. It the Provisional nearly 7,000 prisoners. sentatives freer movement and proposed the second phase be Government? The Saigon government has more security. completed by the end of this "On what date will the gov- offered to release only 3,000 There was lio explanation week. ernment of Saigon start the re- communists. It claims the Viet why the announcement was de- lease of military personnel, and Cong turned over a list of mili- layed. The request was in a note on what date will it terminate? from Col. Dang Van Thu, depu- tary prisoners totaling only -A ,- An improvement in conditions Does the Saigon government 285 names and has not fully ac- for their representatives to the ty chief of the Viet Cong dele- consent to turn over civilian de- gation to the four-party Joint counted for 31,818 government commission was one of the de- tainees to the Provisional Revo- soldiers and 59,118 civilians list- mands made by ihe Viet Cong Military Commission, to Lt. lutionary Government?" Gen. Du Quoc Dong, the senior ed as missing and captured by and the North Vietnamese last There was no immediate the Saigon government. week when they delayed the re- military representative of the comment from the Saigon gov- Saigon government. The Saigon government re- lease of 136 American prisoners ernment. leased 7,000 communist mili- of war. It was believed that the "Does the government of Sai- Thn told Dong that the Viet tary prisoners in the first ex- agreement was a U.S. com- DADDY'S COMING HOME . Tammy Monlux, 8-year-old her father got back to Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines. promise to insure the future re- . gon consent to givie us in the Cong would release 1,200 South change that began Feb. 12 and daughter of Captain Harold Monlux, a prisoner of war six The sign, placed across the street from the school Tammy lasted several days. The Viet lease on schedule of U.S. second phase of the prisoner re- Vietnamese soldiers, or one- years, grins and shows her POW bracelet with his name after attencls, was made by a friend. (AP Photofax) leases a quarter of the prison- fourth of the lis; it presented at Cong freed 1,000 military per- POWs. No fanfare Gray resumes AAilitary m testimony fo By HUGH A. MULLIGAN planes and freighters have re- guage as "retrograde cargo, M48 tanks. on the northeast coast, arid at SAIGON (AP) -The great- moved 61 per cent of the home- the United States has turned The biggest and most ex- Newport, Saigon's deep-water Senate pane! going 130,000 tons of U.S. mili- pensive items being shipped est military machine ever seen over to the South Vietnamese port built by the Americans, By TOM SEPPY in Southeast Asia is rapidly tary hardware and 75 per cent all its remaining ammunition home are 21 Delong floating are busy swinging aboard of the estimated 100,000 tons of docks valued at more than $55 WASHINGTON (AP) being pulled apart; without fi- and millions of dollars worth of , freighters several hundred Chi- - L. nale or fanfare. ordnance being sent to Korea planes, helicopters and other million, that stood on stilts in Patrick Gray IH, who has re- for the South Korean army. the waters off Cam Ranh Bay, nook helicopters, hundreds of The closing notices have been weapons, including long-range jeeps, 2%-arid 5-ton trucks and leased an FBI memo saying' up all over South Vietnam since Two DCS passenger planes, 175mm howitzers and many Vung Tau and Qui Nhon to re- shuttling between Cam Ranh ceive U.S. cargo ships bringing a long catalog of military odd- President Nixon's campaign the Jan. 28 cease-fire opened ments ranging from mobile committee did not cooperate in the last phase of in- Bay and Seoul, had managed to over the objects of war. America* return some 22,000 of the 35,369 snack bars and pup tents to volvement in the Vietnam war. Tight politi cian After more than six years in portable latrines and cartons of the Watergate investigation, re- Korean troops stationed along the waters off Vietnam, the sumed testimony today before a With only 23 days left for the the northeastern coast when the A waitress reports that unused officers' clipboards; U.S. military pullout under barges are raising their barn- without which no modern army Senate panel weighing his nom- cease-fire was signed. Another politicians are poor tip- acle-encrusted legs for a $3.5- terms of the agreement signed 906 sailed home on a U.S. pers. Of course did you conceivably could move. ination to be FBI director. in Paris, U.S. troop strength by — million trip to New Orleans. troopship. think they're as careless Several already have been lift- In addition to what ls being The 12-page memo* dated midnight Monday had dipped to The logistical teams assigned with their money as they 1 10,000 men, leaving the 1st ed from the waters off Vung left for the South Vietnamese July 21, 1972, and made public to folding up Uncle Sam's mili- are with ours? . Comic Tau, where the Saigon River army, auctioneers at the mili- Monday, was among documents Aviation Brigade, a helicopter tary big top regarded the 60- Lenny Kent defined a mas- outfit, and the 716th Military meets the China Sea, and tary property disposal office and material submitted by day pullout operation "as only ter of ceremonies: "The are knocking down more than Police Battalion the biggest floated to Singapore for loading Gray, a drop in the bucket" com- guy who alibis for the last onto barges for the final jour- 100,000.tons of junk, ranging acting FBI director, to units in the country. Each has pared with shipping home more act and exaggerates the the Senate Judiciary Com- about 350 men. ney home. from still usable bulldozers and than 1V_ million tons of tanks, next one . The odds on generators to mountains of bat- mittee last week. trucks, planes and guns since a diet succeeding are three Military sources say their fu- tered tanks and jeeps and Reversing the trend of a dec- President Nixon began winding Democratic senators last ade, ships are heading down to one against you — knife, ture use is classified. wornout tires, rising in rusty down the U.S. involvement in fork and spoon. .A wom- Another expensive entry on heaps over the empty wastes of week queried Gray on his in- the winding Saigon River to the 19691 sea, carrying home to U.S. an told her husband, "I Uncle Sam's homegoirig mani- what was once the huge Long vestigation of the bugging of . wish you had ports thousands of tons of "What's going out now repre- the spunk the fest sheet is half a dozen elec- Binh 1st Logistical Command. Democratic .National Com- JTUBBLANT GERMAN . Bombard Diehl of West Ger- government has —• they trical transformers, each val- More than $50 million in sales many raises his hands overhead in the boxer's victory sign thicks, guns, helicopters, and sents only three per cent of the mittee headquarters in the Wa- planes. don't let a little debt keep ued at about $250,000. "These of "serviceable" scrap, as it is after his arrival from Hand at Clark Air Base in the Philip- cargo that has been shipped THEM from spending!" tergate complex last year. Sources close to the logistical back so far are very important to our com- officially termed, have been pines Monday. Behind him is County Dieter Landsberg, di- ," said a high-rank- Gray acknowledged then that command report that, with a ing source. (For . more laughs see bat reserve," said -a military flogged to junk dealers, with rector ot Maltese Aid Service, for w*om Diehl was working spokesman. Singapore bringing the best he had turned over the FBI's little over three weeks remain- Besides the tonnage going Earl Wilson on Page 4a.) when be was captured April 27, 1969.