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South Viet president
flies to threatened city
SAIGON (UPI) - President
Nguyen Van Thieu flew today
to the threatened city of Hue
for urgent talks with his
military commanders on the
situation in the north. He
sniled and expressed con
fidence despite the shattering
defeats in Quang Tri, 32 miles
to the north.
Hue itself was rising from the
near-anarchy of Wednesday to
a semblance of normality.
South Vietnamese troops who
Man killed in auto wreck
An East Point man was killed
yesterday in Hampton when his
auto left the road and hit a tree.
The accident happened on
McDonough street around 1:30
p.m.
Wilburn Morgan Jones, 36, of
League turns down men
ATLANTA (UPI) - The na
tional convention of the League
of Women Voters voted today
against giving men full member
diip and the right to vote in
the organization.
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ART, IT SEZ HERE, are these displays by artist Ansgar Nierhoff at the Kunsthalle
(House of Arts) in Cologne, Germany. A viewer walks past metal foil bags in vari
ous shapes, and down in front are cobblestones in a pattern called “Strategy.” On
them are things the artist calls sex symbols.
In Paris
U.S. quits talks again
Group of children view Hoover’s casket. See page 10.
had fled southward from Hue
along Highway 1 streamed back
today on orders of their new
commander who directed they
return to Hue or be shot on
sight.
The battlefields were relative
ly quiet today although Commu
nist forces have moved in on
Hue and were reported 18 miles
northwest of the old Annamite
capital, six miles to the west
and 10 miles to the southwest.
The major threat was from the
2854 Bayard street, East Point,
was dead on arrival at the
Griffin-Spalding Hospital. He
suffered a fractured neck.
Patrolmen at the Griffin Post
of the Georgia State Patrol said
By approximately a 2 to 1
standing vote, the delegates re
jected pleas by some league
members that the ultimate goal
of the organization, “equality
for all,” be extended to men,
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northwest where they had tanks
and new hand-launched antiair
craft missiles.
The air war showed no signs
of slackening and figures
released today showed the
Americans were averaging
more than 100 strikes in North
Vietnam per day and about 600
in the south by fighter-bombers.
852 s also were heavily bombing
areas around Quang Tri and
Kontum in the Central High
lands.
Jones was traveling about 100
miles per hour in a 35 mile per
hour zone and lost control of his
car on a curve. They said the
auto traveled some 736 feet out
cf control, went through a fence
and crashed into a tree.
who now have only non-voting
associate membership.
The more than 1,500 delegates
took only 15 minutes to decide
they didn’t want men voting in
the league as yet.
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Thursday, May 4, 1972
On Wednesday Thieu fired
the commanding officer of I
Corps, the five northern provin
ces of South Vietnam, and the
commanding officer of the 3rd
Division whose troops fled
Quang Tri and then carried out
an orgy of looting and arson in
Hue on Wednesday.
He named Maj. Gen. Ngo
Quang Truong, a hero of the
1968 Tet offensive and comman
der in the Mekong Delta, to
replace the fired Lt Gen. Hoang
Xuan Lam of I Corps to try to
pull together the shattered units
that were overrun in the
capture of Quang Tri.
Thieu, emerging from his
meeting at military headquar
ters in the ancient Citadel in
Hue, the scene of prolonged
fighting during the 1968 Tet
offensive, was laughing and
smiling.
“I’ve come to assess the
situation and discuss it with
military commanders,” he told
reporters. “I’m very confident
about the whole situation.” He
declined further remarks in
this, his first appearance in
public since an Ancestors’ Day
speech in Saigon April 23.
One of General Truong’s first
acts was to issue an order of
the day on Wednesday telling
the troops to return or be shot
on sight as deserters and to
promise that no more military
families would be evacuated
from Hue — moves which
panicked other refugees.
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“Whatever the legislature
will legalize, the churches tend
to sanctify.”
PARIS (UPl)—The United
States broke off the Paris
peace talks today for the
second time on the ground that
there had been no progress.
U.S. negotiator William J.
Porter told newsmen he did so
because there was a “lack of
progress in every available
channel” of negotiation.
He told reporters outside the
conference hall he had refused
to agree to attend a session
next Thursday because both
North Vietnam and the Viet
Cong refused to discuss a halt
to the North Vietnamese
invasion of South Vietnam.
Instead, both Communist
teams scoffed at use of the
word “invasion,” and said the
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was
not an international boundary
and therefore there could have
been no invasion.
Porter told the Communist
groups last week that he would
give them one week to reply to
U.S. demands for a halt in their
offensive.
The United States broke off
the talks last March 23 because
there were no serious negotia
tions and the Communists were
using the talks only as a
propaganda forum.
Porter returned to the
conference table last week with
a demand the North Vietnam
and Viet Cong comply with his
demands they discuss ways of
halting the current Communist
offensive.
Walking from the conference
hall today wearing a serious
expression Porter said the
South Vietnamese negotiator,
Pham Dan Lam, “speaking for
our side, told them we did not
agree to set a date for the next
meeting.”
“Now don’t get the idea that
this is the result purely of this
meeting held here today,”
Porter said. “It represents also
a complete lack of progress in
every available channel.”
Veteran observers of the
deadlocked conference took
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local park where victims of regional floods have been taken.
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Porter’s reference to “every
available channel” to include
any secret talks between Hanoi
and Washington.
Moscow reports said the talks
were resumed last Thursday
after a five-week hiatus at the
insistence of Soviet Communist
party leader Leonid I. Brezhnev
during talks with Presidential
adviser Henry A. Kissinger who
made a secret trip to Moscow.
Kissinger had held 13 secret
talks last year with Le Due
Tho, a high-ranking member of
the Hanoi Politburo, but they
got nowhere.
Speaking of his ultimatum
last week to the Communist
side to discuss an invasion halt,
Porter told reporters:
“You guessed it—they came
back with no answer to any
questions. They apparently are
not authorized to go into policy
matters because they don’t
know what to say.”
Before today’s suspension
Xuan Thuy, the chief North
Vietnamese negotiator, indicat
ed that more secret talks could
be in the works.
Federal order may mean
more busing for Bibb
NEW ORLEANS (UPI)-De
spite President Nixon’s call for
a moratorium, a federal court
Wednesday ordered racially
identifiable schools eliminated
in Macon, Ga., even if it takes
more busing.
The sth U. S. Circuit Court
of Appeals, ruling on an appeal
by black parents, told the U.S.
District Court for Middle Geor
gia to implement a plan that
satisfies the recent Supreme
Court ruling approving busing
as a legitimate tool to achieve
racial balance.
The parents had sought to
eliminate four all-black, 13 pre
dominantly black and three all
white elementary schools in the
county.
Before 1970, Bibb County suc
cessfully operated a freedom
of-choice plan that allowed
white students to take courses
at all-black schools.
A majority-to-minority trans
fer program and faculty deseg
regation was undertaken in
1970 at the direction of the ap-
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peals court, however, the dis
trict court left the freedom-of
choice plan essentially intact.
Later, a plan was approved
by the district court, even
though it left several schools
one-race.
On April 20, 1971, the Su
preme Court issued the Swann
decision in the Charlotte-Meck
lenburg case which upheld the
use of busing.
Following that decision, both
the school board and a group
of black parents offered plans
to bring the Bibb system into
compliance with the latest man
date.
School authorities submitted
a “sector-proximity” plan that
would have closed five black
elementary schools, bused a
number of inner-city blacks to
schools outside their neighbor
hoods in grades one through
five and permitted most white
students in those grades to at
tend neighborhood schools.
Objecting, black parents of
fered a “sector-bumping” plan
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closing three black and three
white elementary schools and
requiring the busing of more
white elementary school stu
dents.
On Aug. 16, 1971, the district!
court threw out both plans,
ruled the county’s school sys
tem was already racially uni
tary and said any more busing
would be “unreasonable, im
practical and unwarranted.”
The appeals court said more
busing is not unreasonable.
In its order it said the dis
trict court should “consider the
relative merits of the plans sub
mitted by the parties is de
signed to eliminate or mini
mize the number of one-race
elementary schools in Bibb
County and should frame its
order with that objective ... in
mind.”
Also, it said: “The district
court should further bear in
mind that the burdens of closed
schools and being bused should
not fall unequally on the mi
nority race.”