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THE RIVER Yesterday 6.56 Sell-E-Phone Today 6.38 Crest Want Ad 1965 6.32 20.75 1952 5.79 17.93 Number Is 3321! 1951 5.29 17.35 GOP LEADERS SUMMONED Four fierce indicate Sentinel Decision imminent Battles Rage WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi- tem still longer, perhaps until designed to intercept at 30 to 40 dent Nixon called in Republican after disarmament talks can get miles. congressional leaders today started with tbe Soviets; cancel Pentagon officials said putting amid indications a decision was the project altogether; or go the Spartan sites too far away imminent on deployment of the ahead with a modified version. from the cities would make it Near Saigon controversial Sentinel missile Pentagon officials were say- difficult and much more expen- SAIGON (AP) - Heavy fight- emy divisions—poised to tho system (ABM). ing Monday that a decision to sive to effectively add Sprints. ing raged today at four points westi northwest, north and There were some indications, shift Sentinel sites farther from New sites would have to be ac- northwest of Saigon, and Viet northeast of the capital—had too, as Nixon ended a three-day cities would virtually rule out quired for the Sprints closer to Cong forces shelled more than made no serious move toward Florida stay Monday night that any significant expansion of the the cities. 60 allied bases and towns, in- the city but that local regional the decision he promised last system for years. If the President orders Senti- cluding the old imperial capital forces were "gravitating" from week might be announced in a The President was believed to nel deployment, Chairman Gor- of Hue. the south and east toward tho national radio-television appear- have reviewed such a move as don Allott of the Senate Republi- U.S. officers said the in- captal military district. ance. one of several compromises to can Policy Committee said he ¦ creased action signaled the y-- meet Senate criticism that the thinks Nixon can be "very per- "When it's time to attack Sai- Nixon said at the outset of his start of the third phase of the gon," said one analyst "the system would evolve into a suasive" in getting undecided spring offensive the enemy , Florida weekend that he would much costlier project and to subregional forces will spear- party members to support the launched Feb. 23. They said the head the attack, be spending his time studying meet the criticism of local resi- position he takes. while forces the ABM and he spent his last period from now until Saturday from the divisions will try to dents who fear accidental deto- was a "critical one, and the day at Key Biscayne discussing An Associated Press canvass " maneuver at the opportune mo- nation of nuclear warheads. alert status at some American ment and try to follow in." it with Henry A. L. Kissinger, which turned up 17 GOP unde- bases was increased. his special assistant for national The Sentinel system Is com- cided senators indicated they ' .' '¦ N.C.,, Monday. The main The four fights in which security affairs. prised of two missiles—tbe may be likelx^tiWthe balance ALL ABOARD . .An officer of the Air Force Base, Military analysts said Saigon American forces reported kill- The President's options ap- Spartan, which is designed to in- in a closely divided Senate when 82nd Airborne Division's advance party, on the body of the 800 man force will leave Thurs- still appeared to be the Viet ing 120 North Vietnamese troops peared to Include delaying de- tercept an incoming missile 400 ABM critics attempt to cut off way to Korea for exercise Focus Retina, day. CAP Photofax) Cong's main objective. They centered in a relatively small ployment of the $5-billion sys- to 500 miles out and the Sprint, funds. orders his men to board giant C141 at Papo said the main bodies of four en- area of Tay Ninh Province, as did a large number of the rocket and mortar attacks. U.S. cas- Vegetable Soup W EATHER A-OK ualties in the ground fighting ¦ _MI «¦ ' ¦ at _ tt k _tea**. * SKeicon saia: * * ii: A were reported as five killed and McCarthy Says millionaire is a guy with 20 wounded, all in a strong in- Mrs. King Doesn't fantry attack on an American enough lettuce to choose his tomatoes' . .. A TV spon- base 53 miles northwest of Sai- He Might sor (complained a famous gon. ) for The North Vietnamese 1st Di- comic is a man who, when Good News Want Probe to Die he walks out on your show, vision sent about 400 troops MEMPHIS. Tenn. (AP) - sentencing of James Earl Ray Ray's admission of guilt itself takes your whole audience against a patrol base of the U.S. The widow of Martin Luther to 99 years in prison. that the murder was part of a Accept with him . .. Comedian Al 1st Air Cavalry Division called Draff King Jr., says his assassination The Rev. Ralph David Aber- conspiracy. Landing Zone Grant. Reports WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Bernie's virus.ccst him five Apollo 9 Crew was the work of more than one nathy, who took over leadership "There are the unanswered days work at a hefty sal- from the field said about 50 Eugene J. McCarthy, who said person and is still on the con- of Dr. King's civil rights organi- questions," comments author SPACE CENTER, Houston ture taking, navigation checks North Vietnamese were killed in ary: "But luckily I got well astronauts con- last fall lie would not seek re- science of the nation despite the zation, says he is convinced by William Bradford Huie, who in time to do a Sunday bene- (AP) — Weathermen flashed and rest as the the second attempt in four the good news to the Apollo 9 tinued to test out the Apollo election as a Minnesota Demo- wrote Ray's biography while fit—for nothing." as* nights to overrun the base under tronauts today that a storm was command ship to prove its dura- crat in 1970, now says he might Ray was awaiting trial on the to cover of a heavy barrage from murder charge abating in-their -Atlantic Ocean bility for a l&daj^ man the, 120mm mortars. accept his party's draft—if it is . (For laughs see But while these and other dis- more recovery area and that condi- moon mission. , strong enough. 24-Hour Strike senting voices were being heard Earl Wilson on Page 4A.) ions looked good for their re- Astronaut Stuart Roosa, the The attackers were driven McCarthy, relaxed and smil- Dist. Atty. Philip M. Canale re- turn to earth Thursday. capsule communicator in mis- back, after two hours of pound- The welcome information sion control, told the spacemen ing by gunship helicopters and ing, told an interviewer in his iterated at a post sentencing in- Wife of Apollo 7 Senate office that he has "not terview Monday night that the came as Air Force Cols. James "the weather looks like it's artillery. Last Saturday, ,154 en- A. McDivitt and David R. Scott shaping up real well for Thurs- emy troops and 11 Americans thought about getting out of pol- Cripples France; state had uncovered no evidence Astronaut Files at all of conspiracy. and civilian Russell L. day morning. It's gonna be pret- were reported killed in an at- itics altogether." Suit for Divorce Schweickart whirled through a ty good." tack on the base. Canale said the sums of mon- leisurely day, their eighth in Commander McDivitt replied: Back in the capital after a HOUSTON, Tex. (AP)-Mrs. Two miles farther north, other ey Ray spent hopping around space. "That's fine and dandy. Stu, you weekend bip fo Minnesota, his the United States and Donn F. Eisele, mfe of the as- troops of the 1st Air Cavalry di- Canada The flight plan called for pic- did good work." vision backed by helicopter gun- first time home since the presi- Millions Go Out and finally to Europe, which tronaut who flew on Apollo 7, tea-filed suit for divorce, charg- Roosa reported a forecast of ships reported killing 14 enemy dential election, McCarthy rein- PARIS (AP) — Millions of seemed to some suspiciously winds of IS knots and seas four without suffering any large, probably came from the ing mental cruelty. " soldiers forced a statement at a Minne- French workers went on a 24- DISAGREEMENT to five feet with a few higher casualties. assassin's own efforts as a Eisele, an Air Force lieuten- apolis news conference that he hour strike today to pressure swells." Fourteen miles to the south, has made io final decision on the government for substantial smuggler and holdup man. ant colonel, spent 10 days in A weatherman on the earth orbit on the flight in Octo- scene disagreed with Mis- This ls well within the limits more than 100 North Viet- whether to seek re-election to wage inceases. Millions more Ray "got money from several of 28-khot winds and eight-foot Seriate seat.