Freehold Declares 9 p. m. Youth Curfew -.--.•• • / . ..„•••-. • <M» - • . , . -.'-..-,•. ...>-.. ,-. (ds" taxational rtta expected today, tonight and FINAL again tomorrow. ) Red Bank, Freehold / (Bit rxtalli. FM» If C long Brandt V EDITION Monmouth County9* Home Newspaper lor 91 Year* VOt. 92, NO. 240 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1970 32 PAGES 10 CENTS Nixon Troop Pullouts Are Slated WASHINGTON (AP) - and prolonging the war when troops in neighboring South table in withdrawals during Showing films of material Proclaiming | "all our major he announced the operation Vietnam. But that will be the six months, that began taken from the enemy — military' objectives" accom- April 30 — as being, proved the only continuing American April 20 than in the six, guns,, ammunition, rice — to plished, President Nixon says completely wrong. military activity involving months between mid-October illustrate his report on U.S. forces yrOl be complete- The President reported Cambodia, he said. and mid-April next year. achievements of the highly ly withdrawn from Cambodia that 17,000 of the 31,000 U.S. He left open the question of Last April 20 he announced controversial Cambodian by June 30 f and 50,000 more troops sent into Cambodia when South Vietnamese removal of 150,000 troops strike, Nixon reported the American [troops will be •have been withdrawn already troops will be withdrawn. over the next 12 months. At capture of more than 10 mil- pulled out of' Vietnam by and the remaining 14,000 will "Our discussions with the an even withdrawal rate he lion rounds of ammunition, Oct. 15, | foe out. by the end of the South Vietnamese 'govern- would have taken out 75,000 15,000 rifles and machine month. U.S. air and logistics ment," he said, "indicate by. mid-October. But when, guns, 2;000 heavy weapons "I can now state that this with 90. thousand rounds of has been the most successful support and military advisers that their primary objective the Cambodian operation was — serving with South Viet- remains the security of South started withdrawals from ammunition for them, and 11 . operation of this long and million pounds of rice. difficult, war," Nixon told tiie . nam's 43,000-man force — al- Vietnam, and their activity Vietnam stopped, presumably nation last night, in a broad- so will be removed by the in Cambodia in the Mure — because of the uncertainties The result of such captures cast speech on the month-old deadline, he said. after their withdrawal from of counter-action. and the destruction of enemy the sanctuaries — will be de- • Nixon announced last night bases and storage centers, campaign to destroy North . Still Undecided Vietnamese bases and war, termined by the actions of the Secretary of Defense Melvto. Nixon declared, will be to supplies on Cambodian terri- After July^l, Nixon said, enemy." R. Laird has now resumed save American lives, give tory. U.S. planes will strike at ene- Timetable Slower withdrawals but — contrary time for training the South my troop' hjovements* and Nixon's Oct, 15 target date to some advance speculation Vietnamese army and insure Says Critics Wrong bases in Cambodia if tie de- for pulling 50,000 more troops -r his figures made clear he the success of his program of He pictured his critics -? cides such action is neces- out of Vietnam indicated - he is following a cautious slow- troop withdrawal from South who accused him of widening sary to protect American plans to follow a slower time- down at least .until October. Vietnam* - .. SIC Told By DAVID M. GOLDBERG weeks, although no formal not actually beginning a full- REPORTS MISSION ACCOMPLISHED — President Nixon remains at his Whita TRENTON (AP) — The charges have been filed scale investigation of the de- House after reporting on a nationwide broadcast that "all our military objectives" head of the New Jersey pur- against him. He refused to partment. in Cambodia ha* been achieved. (AP Wire photo) chasing department says his answer the commission's He added that the four- superior wouldn't follow his questions Tuesday, pleading man panel would meet next recommendation seven years his rights under the Fifth. week to decide whether to ago to fire a buyer since ac- Amendment. hold further hearings in the cused of taking, kickbacks Record Researched case. • Town Near from a customer. ' • Hibbs said that in 1963 he Comment Declined Charles H. Hibbs, who has began looking into Seaman's Hyland declined to com- headed the purchase bureau record "as a result of com- ment on Sullivan's involve- for a decade, told the State plaints by .using • agencies ment. But Sullivan told a re- Investigation Commission : with regard to certain situ- porter On Tuesday that he yesterday that he had rec- ations that existed." had been visited about six By JOHN T. WHEELER ; Thorn, which was cut off from Kompong Thom appeared to ommended the move to Hibbs did not describe the weeks ago by SIC investiga- PHNOM PENH, Cambodia Phnom Penh Jast week by the be a continuation of. g, Com- Charles Sullivan, former di- situations to' the commission tors. •;•••••. (AP) — North Vietnamese capture, of a district capital munist tactic of pressure over rector of the Division of Pur- nor did the commission ask. and Viet Cong forces captured ; just south of it and destruc- a wide area to score propa- chase and Property. Most of yesterday's testi- a town 10 miles.southeast of. But later, he told newsmen mony came from state offi- tion of a major highway ganda gains and confuse the Payoffs Told that included "several irreg-" Phjiom Penh today and bat- • bridge.' '.:. Carnbodian high command. cials who said they were dis- tled fpr control of a provin- The buyer involved was Jo- ularities in office- procedure satisifed with some work Bombing Barred including altering a bid." . cial capital in central Cambo- Kompong Thorn's defenders Vice President Nguyen Cao seph Seaman. On Tuesday, done by Middlesex Building ' dla, the Cambodian military Ky flew to Phnom Penh to- the former vice president of Hibbs gave no reason why Supply, the firm for which requested air bombardment Sullivan refused to heed his command reported. ' of the enemy positions yester- day with a delegation of Middlesex Building .Supply., Seaman was' getting con- South Vietnamese Cabinet told the commission thai his" I recommendation to dismiss tracts. 3 The., attack on Set Bo, to day, the spokesman said, but ; Seaman-.:-SuUivan, a Demo- , ithie'sbiitheast, was the closest "due to the hour it was not ministers, and the Cambodian firm had been paying.Sea-*, They said that Middle- government lessened restric- man as much as $200 a • crat;::left-office, when the Re- sex s o me times subcon- jmjajor fighting yet to the possible." He said he had no, • publicans fbpk over last Jan- 7 Cambodian capital. A spokes- reports of air activity in the tions on Vietnamese refugees month to insure that the, tracted cleaning jobs, without who had been herded into company would get state uary. permission, once to Yankee mjan said the attack came area today, but that a siz- , during the night and the last able force of government reg- camps in Phnom Penh during cleaning contracts. The inci- " Isolated Incident Maintenance Co. of Nutley, 4 the early days of. the fighting. dents were alleged to have' After the hearing, SIC which is headed by former government resistance was ulars was on hand to defend the town. The refugees were given the occurred between 1965 and Chairman William F. Hyland New York Yankee infielder • knocked out at 7 a.m. But run of the city from 6 a.m. 1969. ' told newsmen that as far as Gil McDougald. ' he said the Cambodian army .In the past, the militia was to 4 p.m. Hibbs said that when • he he knew,, the Seaman case Earl J. Bgnatoff, the di- was launching a counteroffer . Jhe only defense of some ma- OFFTO VIETNAM —•' N«|jon Gross, winner of GOP's went to Sullivan seven years : sive. •'-.•-•. • .=•• • - •'-•'•• jor points, and bucWed before As Ky and Premier LonNol, 1 was an Isolated incident." He recjor of operations for '1M J US sanatoria ] nomination in New Jersey primaries, is ago, he simply suspended said the commission had New Jersey College of Med- - Eighty miles north of- the Communist command's were approaching the honor tjiown as fie left to make* connections for study tour Seaman- for five days. , come across information on icine and Dentistry, testified Phnom Penh, fighting was re- battle-hardened troops last guard at the airport, a Cam- ported still going on in the week. South Vietnamese bodian air force C47 made a of Southeast Asia and Middle East. (AP Wirephoto) Seaman has been on leave the. case in the course of that he had sent several let- without pay for the past six another investigation and was (See SIC, Page 2) provincial capital of Kom- troops saved Prey Veng, an- belly landing on another run- • J»ng Thorn, a town of about other provincial capital south- way, scattering pieces of its 25,000 on the highway to east of Phnom Penh, but the undercarriage about. There Angkor Wat. nearest South' Vietnamese was considerable smoke, and The spokesman said enemy forces to Kompong Thorn fire-trucks raced out, but the 1 forces had been massing for were 65 miles away. plane did not catch fire. Nor Curfew ' several days around Kompong The attacks at Set Bo and was the ceremony interrupted. By JAY D. ZUCKEItMAN shortly after-10 p.m. last night, when-he con- in his exit from the Borough Council meeting.