O ' »|1 ' ' -tSSULi:------ • • ^ Average Dally Net Press Ron The Weather For The Week Ended Mnrch U, l»n Clearing, windy tonight; low about 40. Tomorrow partly sun­ iEanrtofitpr Eiipntng raUi ny; highs in the IM, 15,901 Mancheater—A City of Vittage Charm VOL. LXXXX, NO. 139 TWENTY-JWO PAGES MANCHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1971 (Claoelfled AdvertUIng on Page 20) PRICE FIFTEEN CENTS Appropriations Unit U .S . Eases Foe’s Fire Pounds 1 * In House Approves T ra v e lB a rs Viet Base in Laos O n P eking By GEORGE ESPER WASHINGTON (AP) — The A ssisted Press Writer Full SST Financing State Defxartment lifted today HAM NGHI, Vietnam (AP) — Enemy troops launched 20-year-old restrictions on the heavy artillery and tank attacks against a South Vie^ WASHINGTON (AP) — Expressing “complete con- travel of American citizens to namese base in Laos today and threw up a wall of anti­ fidence” that environmental hazards will be resolvfd, Communist csiina. aircraft fire gainst U.S. helicopters supporting the the House Appropriations Committee approved to^ y Following up earlier meas- base, field officers said. ~ fuU financing of continued development of the SST loosened restraints, The enemy also struck at south Vietnapiese troops sweep- supersonic civilian aircraft. ^ r e t a r y of sta te w iiuam p . South Vietnam’s northwest cor- jj,j. thp westernmost section of It sent to the House floor for ----------------------^--------------------- Bogers ordered that passports ner, shelling the big allied Khe ti,e highway. r/iS Sarh combat base near the Lao- Officers said Lolo was hit with tlan border lor three hours. about 300 rounds <rf 85mm artll- An official U.S. spokesman lery, rockets and m ortars Sun- of two prototypes. One is sched- _ . , , .. .. .... m said about 180 rounds of rocket ^ay night and today. Initial re- uled to fly by March 197S. Federal officials say the gov- Such a restriction is being and mortar fire slammed into p^^s said three . South Viet Once through the’HouM the Investment in the continued, however, on travel the base causing Ught American „ ^ e se were Mlied and six legislation WMild go to Uie’sen- ProST®™ wUl *>® repaid when by Americans to North Vlet- casualties and some materiel mounded, but at least a score ate whera onniwitinn tn fhA flA'r 300 SSTs are sold, and if 600 of nam. North Korea, and Cuba, damage. more wounded were unloaded program has been heavy. ^® P^®® ®re marketed, feder- State Department officials “Most of the rounds landed hellce^ters at Ham Nghl. The $289.0 mllUon was the en- ^ royalty payments will reach said past experience indicates outside the perimeter," said the forward base on the border, tiro sum iequested by the ad- blUlon. that authorizing use of pass- spokesman, Lt. Col. Perry Ste- U.S. crewman said some ministration for fiscal year 1971 Prototype superstmlc com- ports In the case of mainland supply helicopters were unable which ends June 80. Congress merclal planes are being tost- China will make Nettle or no It WM tee heaviest attack because of heavy an- provided $210 mUUon in an flown now by the Soviet Unicm difference In actual travel by ' since Khe Sanh base came un- tiaircraft and mortar fire. He emergency Wll passed last Jan- end by Britain and France. Americans there because the der a 77-day siege to nteen j^ey would swoop dowii and 5 uary after a Senate-House battle FaUure of the United States to Communist re^me has It was manned by U.S Martaes. j^etr loads from five or six over merits of the SST. The new get Into the supersonic field, the '^®ry t®w Americans to Now, scores of American hell- —• ■ - - - ...... ............ “ ’ enter the country. copters supporting tee South „ ’ bill would add $79.9 million to committed said, would cause Vietnamese drive Into Laos tnat wnoie n^e une m that aUotment. this coUntry to lose Ite leader- 1® bi toe, however. When we went in," he «aid. Approximately $166 mUUon of ship role In selling commercial , *^®W®nt Nixon s pledge operate out of Khe Sanh. “You could see tracer bulleta Day-long ground lighting was , the previously provided funds aircraft and could result In a $17 what more reported 3 miles southwest of » for this year have been obligate, billion "unfavorable swing" in ^ ^ create broad* edp with another $134 million foreign trade balances. f*" opportunlUes for contacts be- Fire Base Lolo, tee headquar- ‘ * ' budgeted for the balance of the in addition to the direct bene- Chinese and Ameri- ters of tee South Vietnamese tot , ^ Infantry Division’s 1st Regl- y®ar. fit of 60,000 Jobs a t toe height of ment. The base U about nine V l® ^ese, "said aru^er U.S. The government already has sST pr^uctlon, tee committee «ixon, vrtio has been seeking miles southeast of Sepone. P**®*’ ® provided about $864 mllUon to- said, another 100,000 to 160,000 relationships with tee One U.S. hellc<^>ter was shot “ aircraft fire around 1.4>lo. ward development of the Wg jobs may be generated as pro. n*®!**!®*!** CStoese, reported In down and several others hit. But We’ve got to sUngload some plane expected to carry 298 pas- ducticm rises still further February State-of-tee-World U.S. sources said AC130 gun- suPPUe® In there, and I’D tell sengers at speeds up to 1,800 . message that nearly 1,000 ships knocked out seven enemy y®n, we don’t want to go.” , comiSittef^emto^ akr^i)o- Americans h ^ received social medium tanks and damaged an- U.S. B62 bombers hammered reach nent of the SST program, chal- other and a truck. The tanks *e North Vietnamese positions, $1.8 bmion, au^entod by $403 ,enged some of tee committee’s ^ admitted only had <^)ened fire on tee base with Some strikes were within 600 million In private financing. conclusions their 86mm cannon from a peel- yards of tee base, In a formal report drafted by i„ ^ separate report, Yates U ® tion six miles to tee north. !Phu said fighter-bombers, ar- ^p. jMk McF^, ID-^., tee there are more Important members of Con- Officers said two 150mm artU- tlllery and later ground troops Ai^ropriations Committee said^ national priorities for "the hun- -------P*®®-■*-----------— Journalists, *— professional '— • Airman Caraszi of Stamford is reunited with his girl friend, Deborah Zito, yester- 0“ *®®™^“ were attacked a “huge” Norte Viet­ It wanted to make it "unquea dreds of miuion doUare which teachers, sckoiars with post- jay at Kennedy International Airport in New York, He was one of four A m en^ ^ .j^jn^eed namese supply depot six miles Uonably clear" that tee federal degrees and students airmen who were held five days by Turkish guerrillas.- (AP Photo) Brig.“^1/ GenGen. PhPham Van Phu, south of Lolo. commitment to help build tee (See P age Ten) In college, scientists and physi' commander of tee 1st Infantry "There were so many second- clans arid representativea of-the Dlvlsion, said tee Norte Viet- ary exploslcms, we cannot esti- American Red Cross to visit nameae were moving two regl- mate how many,” he said. "Our mainland China. menta into tee reg;lon around troops bombed 60 storage houses Under present regulations tee Feelings as Kidnap Victims tee b€ise. Asked If he thought and ccq>tured 2,000 rockets. We Nixon Plans More Parleys State Department’s travel bans they would attempt to take It, are still search^. The explo- were to end automatically today Phu said, "No, but they will try sl<ms are still gttog on. ’Ihis is a ’ M unless tee secretary acted to to do something south of Lolo nig North Vietnamese cache of To Push Revenue Sharing continue any<dr aU of them. Recounted by Freed Airmen and they must move some ammunition. Some of Rogers’ advisers pro- _ ^ j j troops south of Lolo to defend We also hit another sillily By FRANK OOBMIEB Ehrlichman suggested the base posed dropping tee restrictions N®W YORK (AP) - The four ing place,” he added. -They Highway 914.” area with air strikes and Associated Press Writer period be spread over several entirely because U.S. courts In ^.s. ______airmen ____freed after___ five were pretty clever.” “ ® ^ « “ toTces to ou^ ine ^ winding High- touched off a big fire for two wAuuTMrviwM White House staff recent years have struck down in Turkev sav Meanwhile In ’Turkey, four ex- “ way WAt one of tee main artei^ hours Wo twnfc It Is a fuel line. (AP) De- now Is working on tee problem, attempts to enforce them. Mhny days’ captlrity In T l ey say including one at tee Demlrel on jes of tee Ho Chi Mlnh traU. and ^ ^ te d with his success In win- secretary of Agriculture Cllf- U.S. citizens have traveled to they felt tee Turidsh govern- Consulate, rocked Is- ^^® **®"“ Is tee main operations base for (See Page Xhn) over om Democ^ and ^ Hardin, one oi four- cabinet the oft-Umlts areas without offi- ment would not pay the $400,000 tanbul early today as. politicians onstratloiw protesting: or ^ __________ members In attendance, said he clal permsslwi. ransom their guerrilla abduc- m Ankara kept on trying to Em* meetings be- But others argued successful- tors demanded and that they form a new government teat ,^ ,3 “business as A ®“**®® participants “talk more ly that tee department’s curb on would be klUed as threatened. would satisfy tee country’s ^ ^ « ,e 17 000 American “ *«®>y ®*«i t^e issues are pene- (See _Page______ Eight)__ night, they told us miutary chiefs.