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Nixon weekend was contrast
By NORMAN KEMPSTER
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.
(UPl)—President Nixon today
wound up a highly visibile
weekend in California dearly
intended to contrast with
demonstrations in Washington
against his Vietnam polities.
The President was to arrive
back in the capital after dark
tonight, missing efforts by
antiwar militants to disrupt the
government by blocking com
muter traffic into Washington.
In four days on the West
Coast, Nixon welcomed the
First Marine Division home
from Vietnam, held an outdoor
news conference and delivered
a radio address on agriculture.
Nixon told newsmen Satur
day:
“We are going to see to it
that the thousands of govern
ment workers who have a right
to go to work peacefully are not
interefered with by those
militants, those few militants,
who in the name of demonstrat
ing for peace abroad, presume
Southern mayors
may organize
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break the peace at home.”
Most of the President’s
activities centered on subjects
far removed from the war and
its opponents.
In a 15-minute radio address
Sunday, the President praised
the U.S. farmer and pledged
new help to increase his sales
in foreign markets from about
$7.4 billion this year to $lO
billion next year.
Nixon taped the speech at a
sprawling desert oasis near
Palm Springs owned by Walter
K. Annenberg, U.S. Ambassa
dor to Great Britain.
The President spent about 24
hours at the Annenberg estate,
playing two rounds of golf on
its private links before return
ing by helicopter' to his
oceanside villa Sunday after
noon.
Aides said Nixon’s speech on
agriculture was the first of a
planned series of statements on
the problems of various seg
ments of the society.
recommended Saturday that
southern mayors form an
organization to solve urban
problems by influencing
legislatures and supporting
outspoken governors.
“We could make an impact on
legislatures and the press on the
need for doing something about
the cities,” Landrieu said in an
address before the L.Q.C.
Lamar Society.
He said several southern gov
ernors are speaking out on ways
to solve the South’s urban
problems. “They are a breath of
fresh air,” he said. “We should
not let them do it alone.”
The Lamar Society, a group
of Southerners seeking solutions
to southern problems, heard
speakers ranging from Demo
cratic presidential hopeful Sen.
Edmund Muskie of Maine to
Texas multimillionairr indus
trialist H. Ross Perot talk on the
state of the South’s cities.
Muskie, speaking Friday, had
urged the South “to become a
great laboratory of the humane
city” and work to avoid the ur
ban blight of northern cities.
His sentiments were shared
during the closing session by
Richard C. Lee, former mayor
of New Haven, Conn., who said
“if the South merely copies
northern mistakes, and stops for
growth for growth’s sake, you
will be making a mistake of
tragic proportions.
“The South has the opportun
ity if it so wills,” said Lee, “to
give America the model of a
growing urban society which
has drawn the best from its
heritage.”
He concentrated on the
positive while ignoring con
troversies such as his govern
ment reorganization plan which
would abolish the Department
at Agriculture as a separate
cabinet agency; his rural
revenue sharing proposals; and
efforts by some farm workers
to bring labor union organiza
tion to the fields.
Nixon said he promised
during his 1968 election cam
paign to increase farm exports
and “I am happy to say that
we have delivered on that
promise.”
“Today, we are exporting the
production from approximately
one acre out of every four we
harvest,” the President said.
“We would like to be
exporting some $lO billion
worth of American farm
products each year,” he said.
“To help achieve this goal, I
am announcing today an
increase of $1 million in the
fiscal year 1972 budget for the
foreign agricultural service—
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Troop strength cut
SAIGON—The United States cut its troop strength in
Vietnam to 273,400 last week, beating President Nixon’s
May 1 goal by 10,600 men, the U.S. command announced
today.
The command reported its 32nd protective reaction
strike of the year against a North Vietnamese missile site
and said U.S. 852 stratofortresses dropped at least 1,800
tons of bombs on the Ho Chi Minh Trail yesterday and today
a mile inside Laos and a mile south of the DMZ.
VP Sabry dismissed
CAlßO—President Anwar Sadat has summarily fired
Vice President Ali Sabry, once considered the most likely
successor to the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser.
The semi-official Middle East News Agency reported
the dismissal yesterday in a one-paragraph
announcement that said “President Anwar Sadat has
issued a decree dismissing Vice President Ali Sabry from
his post.” No reason was given for the unexpected firing.
Rogers tours Israel
AMMAN—Secretary of State William P. Rogers took a
helicopter tour of Jordan today, including a close look at
some Israeli-held territory.
Rogers’ trip included a look at the West Bank of the
Jordan and the Syrian Golan Heights-both held by Israel
since the 1967 war. It followed an unescorted tour with
King Hussein last night through parts of Amman that only
weeks ago were strongholds of Palestinian guerrillas.
Georgia, Texas
abortion laws
to be reviewed
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Supreme Court decided today to
hear cases involving abortion
laws in Texas and Georgia.
The court will hear ar
guments on the enforcement of
Texas’s laws, held by a lower
court to be unconstitutionally
vague and broad.
In the Georgia Case, the
court will hear arguments on
appeals from a lower court
ruling that the main part of the
law was invalid.
A special three-judge federal
court ruled June 17, 1970,
against the Texas statutes. But
the court declined to bar their
enforcement. The Supreme
Court will hear the case later
this term and decide it later by
written opinion.
Texas Atty. Gen. Crawford C.
Martin appealed the finding of
unconstitutionality to the sth
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The panel cited “the strong
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Nixon Saturday held his
second news conference in less
than 48 hours while standing
under a spreading pine tree
amidst beds of colorful fera
niums. He said he called the
meeting with newsmen to take
questions on domestic matters
not covered in his televised
Thursday night session.
The President said the nation
is “in the midst of a strong
economic upturn,” although he
conceded that economic activity
in the first three months of this
year did not come up to his
own ambitious forecasts made
in January.
Nixon said business statistics
for March and April were
encouraging and if the trend
continued there would be no
need for a tax cut. But he said
if the boom fizzles, he is ready
to recommend action “on the
tax front or some other front.”
reluctance of federal courts to
interfere with the process of
state criminal procedure” as its
reason for denying the request
for an injunction.
Two similar cases brought
about the circuit court’s ruling.
One was filed by a married
couple, the other by a single
woman. They alleged that
Texas deprived married couples
and single women of the right
to choose whether to have
children.
The state makes abortion a
crime unless necessary to save
the mother’s life.
The court will hear ar
guments next fall or winter on
appeals from a ruling on July
31, 1970, by a special three
judge federal court that the
main part of Georgia’s law was
invalid. At the same time, the
lower court refused to enjoin
enforcement and left major
requirements intact.
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Georgia News
McDougald boosts
broadcast newsmen
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI)-A Uni
versity of Georgia journalism
professor told Southern news
casters Sunday they were being
treated as “second class citi
zens” in comparison to news
paper reporters.
Dr. Worth McDougald of the
Henry W. Grady School of
Journalism said radio and tele
vision newscasters were entitled
to the same freedom of infor
mation under the First Amend
ment of the Constitution as their
counterparts of the press.
McDougald spoke at the clos-
Former slave
to be buried
TALLAPOOSA, Ga. (UPI) -
Funeral services were sched
uled here Wednesday for Mrs.
Sarah Elizabeth Collins, who
was bom to enslaved parents
six years before the Civil War
and died Saturday at the age
of 117.
Services were to be held at
the White Chapel AME Church
for Mrs. Collins, whose husband
died in 1968 at the age of 107.
Born into slavery on Sept. 2,
1854, in Randolph County, Ala.,
Mrs. Collins is survived by six
sons and a daughter and 36
grandchildren.
“Nobody seems to know for
certain how many great grand
children she left,” said Robert
L. Parks, director of a Cedar
town, Ga. funeral home. “But
it is more than 100.”
She was honored by the City
of Tallapoosa in 1962 along
with her husband as being the
oldest residents of this north
west Georgia town near the
Alabama border.
Athens police
stage raid
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) - City
police raided the Elm Street
“red light” district Saturday
night, making four arrests on
prostitution charges.
Arrested were Rhonda
Warren and Gloria Lange, both
charged with operating houses
of prostitution, and Judy Smith
and May Canecon, both charged
with prostitution, police said.
Police said the raid was the
first in the Elm Street area
since November, 1969.
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ing session of a joint meeting
of the Georgia Association of
Newscasters (GAN) and the
Southeastern Region of the
Radio-Television News Direc
tors Association (RTNDA).
He also urged the newsmen
to support what he called a
broadcasters’ “bill of rights” to
put an end to continuing threats
against freedom to report the
news and inform the public.
Also addressing the final ses
sion was Elmo Ellis, vice presi
dent of Cox Broadcasting Corp.,
and general manager of WSB
radio in Atlanta.
Ellis predicted the coming
decade would change the role
of the newsman. He said he
would become an “information
specialist” who would be more
directly involved in covering a
story, rather than reporting the
news in the third person.
During Saturday’s opening
session, the GAN and RTNDA
presented outstanding achieve
ment awards to WBT in Char
lotte, N.C. for documentary;
KEEL of Shreveport, La. for
additional; and WFYO of Lub
bock, Tex., for spot news.
Judging for the award was
conducted at the Grady School
of Journalism, where the news
men held their workshop dis
cussions ranging from law en
forcement and news to minority
employment.
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Source protection review
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Supreme Court agreed today to
decide next term whether a
newsman may refuse to appear
before a grand jury that wants
information made available to
him in confidence by a news
source.
The court will tackle this
subject in three appeals coming
from state courts in Massa
chusetts and Kentucky and a
federal court in San Francisco.
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Arguments will be held next
fell or winter.
The Massachusetts case arose
when Paul Pappas, 46, a
newsman-cameraman for
WTEV-TV in New Bedford,
refused to answer questions for
a grand jury investigating
racial disturbances in New
Bedford. He was asked what he
was and heard, while at a
Black Panther headquarters on
July 30,1970, when trouble was
occurring.