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— Griffin Daily News Tuesday, December 26, 1972
Page 12
U.S. bombs rain
on North Viet again
SAIGON (UPI) -The U.S.
command announced today U.S.
bombers had resumed their
raids over North Vietnam after
a 36-hour Christmas halt, and
the North Vietnamese delega
tion in Paris said 852 s were
hitting Hanoi, Haiphong and
other cities.
The Christmas halt in the
bombings that the Communists
said hit North Vietnam with
40,000 tons of bombs last week
—double the explosive power of
the atomic bomb that fell on
Hiroshima —was believed or
dered by President Nixon in
hopes the Communists would
return to the peace table.
Neither the U.S. command in
Saigon nor the Florida White
House in Key Biscayne would
comment on this report, and
the U.S. command would not
say whether the bombing
resumed today was aimed at
the Hanoi-Haiphong area or
was as intensive as last week’s
No one putting up fight
for congressional posts
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Some
attribute it to weariness after a
long political year. Whatever
the reason, no one seems to be
putting up much of a fight for
leadership posts in Congress
this year.
Except for some vacancies
stemming from death and
defeat, the 93rd Congress
appears likely to open with
about the same leaders as last
year.
In the House, the only
announce 4 challenger for the
job of Speaker Carl Albert of
Oklahoma is Rep. John Conyers
Jr. of Michigan, a liberal black.
Though there has been some
grumbling about Albert’s lead
ership, Conyers’ challenge is
regarded as more symbolic
than real. There has been talk
that Rep. Morris K. Udall of
Arizona might seek the speak-
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bombing —the most intensive of
the war.
But in Paris the North
Vietnamese issued a statement
saying, “The Nixon administra
tion, in the night of Dec. 24 and
as of Dec. 26 has multiplied
raids by 852 s and various other
types of aircraft with a view of
razing to the ground Hanoi,
Haiphong and numerous other
towns and populous areas of
North Vietnam.”
During last week’s raids the
U.S. command gave few details
of the bombing and the reports
of vast destruction to Hanoi and
Haiphong came only from
Communist news agencies or
from diplomats in Hanoi. Hanoi
Radio reported hundreds of
persons killed and thousands
made homeless in the raids.
“U.S. air crews resumed
operations over North Vietnam
at 1300 hours (midnight EST
Monday) today after a 36-hour
holiday stand down,” the
er’s job. But the feeling is that
once Rep. Wilbur D. Mills made
it clear he was not interested in
that post, Albert became a sure
thing.
The death of House Democra
tic Leader Hale Boggs in an
Alaska plane crash launched a
race between Thomas P. "Tip”
O’Neill Jr. of Massachusetts
and Florida’s Sam M. Gibbons.
O’Neill is favored to win.
On the Republican side of the
House, Michigan’s Gerald R.
Ford is not likely to be
challenged as Republican lead
er.
In the Senate, Democrats
seemed certain to re-elect
Montana’s Mike Mansfield as
majority leader. He has held
the post 12 years, longer than
any man. By tradition, Mans
field also has remained chair
man of the Democratic Policy
command said.
“There are no new limita
tions on U.S. aircraft since the
bombing resumed,” a spokes
man said, but declined to say
whether this meant U.S.
warplanes had resumed raids
over Hanoi and Haiphong.
Three hours before the
command announced the re
sumption of the raids, 852
bombers lined the taxiways at
Andersen Air Force base in
Guam and began taking off at
five-minute intervals headed
toward Indochina. Military
spokesmen at Andersen refused
to say where they were going.
Bombing Halted
U.S. plots halted their all-out
bombing of the North Christ
mas day. The bomb halt
followed seven days of the
heaviest raids in the history of
the Indochina war and included
852 missions over the Hanoi-
Haiphong area for the first
time.
Committee, Steering Committee
and Party Caucus.
Sen. Robert C. Byrd of West
Virginia seemed certain to be
re-elected as Mansfield’s assi
stant.
Senate GOP Leader Hugh
Scott, who twice has fended off
challenges from Tennessee’s
Howard H. Baker Jr., may now
be unopposed. This time Baker
gives no indication of running.
Republican Whip Robert P.
Griffin of Michigan seems
equally entrenched.
So far, Sen. John G. Tower of
Texas and Sen. Robert Taft Jr.,
of Ohio have announced as
candidates for chairman of the
GOP Policy Committee. The
job becomes vacant by the
election defeat of Colorado’s
Gordon allott. Both Tower and
Taft are conservatives. It is
possible that a liberal (perhaps
Edward W. Brooks of Massa
chusetts) might step into that
race.
University teacher eyes
running Peach Bowl race
ATHENS, Ga. - Dr. Malcolm
McCoy isn’t competing for a
place on the University of
Georgia cross-country team,
but to see him run you’d never
know it.
Regularly, "at least every
other day,” the associate
professor of speech pathology
and audiology covers the nine
mile course he has plotted for
himself. On foot.
“It all began two or three
years ago, when I started
jogging in a pasture,” relates
the rugged sandy-haired
educator. “But I soon outgrew
the pasture. Now, as often as I
can, rain or shine, summer or
winter, I run a nine-mile loop
through the outskirts of
Athens.”
When asked why he subjects
himself to such exertion, McCoy
grins and explains that he does
it “for fun.” According to the
former University of Virginia
football player, it’s a great way
to vent frustrations. And to lose
weight. Since he began running,
McCoy, a member of the
College of Education
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HAIFA, Israel (UPI) -A
plumber who banged his head
against a kitchen sink when a
housewife tickled him has filed
for compensation for wages lost
as a result of a work accident,
Israeli newspapers reported
Monday.
The unidentified woman said
she thought the torso sticking
out from under the sink was
her husband’s.
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The North Vietnamese said
the big Stratoforts laid down
carpets of bombs on civilian
areas in the capital and in
other cities and towns. Com
mand spokesmen today said
Nixon’s order to resume the
unrestricted raids over the
North included all but civilian
targets.
In Paris, Hanoi delegates to
the stalled peace talks said U.S.
bombings of the Hanoi-Hai
phong area continued through
Christmas morning, “making
many victims among the
civilian population.” The latest
Hanoi Radio broadcast reported
raids on the area Christmas
Eve.
The Christmas truce that
went into effect at 5 a.m. EST
Sunday was not announced in
advance, the U.S. command
spokesman said, because “we
believe an advantage would
accrue to the enemy of
foreknowledge of a stand
down.”
DeKalb
probes
fire
DORAVILLE, Ga. (UPI) —
The cause of a Christmas Eve
explosion and firs at the
Triangle Refineries which
killed one worker may not be
known for several more days, a
spokesman for the DeKalb Coun
ty Fire Department said Mon
day night.
Officials continued to investi
gate the blaze and attempt to
cut off an oil leak from a pipe
manifold, but they said there
appeared to be no serious threat
of another fire.
A pumper - truck remained at
the refinery located in this
northeast Atlanta suburb.
The fire raged for two hours
Sunday night from a loading
dock along an oil pipeline but
never reached any storage
tanks.
Authorities said a Triangle
employe, Kenneth Womack, 42,
died in the blaze, apparently
when he tried to turn off a
valve feeding fuel to the fire.
Another fire struck the refin
ery in April, killing two persons
and injuring 150.
has dropped nearly 40 pounds.
“When I run, I am my own
man, completely on my own,
competing against myself.”
After a full day of teaching,
testing or consulting, for him,
it’s the best way to relax, Mc-
Coy says.
From pastures to races and
on to a marathon, the 46-year
old runner has extended his
endurance and worked to im
prove his performance. During
the past year he has par
ticipated in several Atlanta
Track Club races, in the 40-49
age category, and has con
sstently turned in a respectable
performance.
Although the professor
praises the quality of runners in
the area — they come from all
over the Southeast to compete
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ROACH ENCROACHMENT is being studied in New
York by Howard R. Topoff, 30, a research fellow at the
American Museum of Natural history. This specimen
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unfortunately may have seen. This wingless kind can
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Liberian cargo ship
goes down; crew missing
JUNEAU, Alaska (UPI) -
Search vessels criss-crossed the
stormy Gulf of Alaska today
searching for survivors amidst
the floating debris of a Liberian
cargo ship that carried 33
Korean crewmen.
Navy Cl3O aircraft spotted an
oil slick, some debris and all
four capsized lifeboats of the
bulk carrier Pacrover Monday
in heavy seas 750 miles south of
Kodiak Island.
One search plane remained at
the scene during the night,
along with two commercial
vessels. Two Coast Guard
cutters and the Canadian
weather ship Quadra were en
route.
“We’re still continuing an
intensive search in the area,” a
Coast Guard spokesman said.
“We’re looking for survivors or
liferafts.”
The Liberian registered
13,000-ton ship radioed it was
sinking Sunday and crewmen
who managed to get aboard a
liferaft would have faced wind
whipped seas of up to 55 feet.
“They were all personal
friends. I certainly feel sorry
about that,” said C. E.
— McCoy himself has won a
handful of medals, in both 10-
and 15-mile races.
The audiologist-athlete has
reserved Saturday for his
biggest race yet, when he ex
pects to run in the Peach Bowl
Marathon in Atlanta. The race
will draw participants from all
over the country to run the 26.2-
mile course through the rolling
streets of Northeast Atlanta.
Always trying to better his
own time, McCoy hopes to finish
the entire route in under four
hours. “Compared to runner
Frank Shorter’s winning
Olympic time, that’s slow. But
for me, that’s fast,” he says.
Noting McCoy’s determina
tion and enthusiasm, it’s a safe
bet that he will finish well in
that race.
Bowman, an engineer for Lasco
Shipping Co., and managing
agent for the vessel.
“Structurally she was in fine
condition,” Brown said in
Portland, Ore. “I was quite
surprised to hear she had gone
down.”
Lawrence Rosencrantz, ge
neral manager for Lasco, said
the company “wants to find out
if anyone has been found or if
there will be any other
evidence. We will issue a
statement at such time as we
feel it’s time to issue one.”
The ship, owned by Pacific
Coast Shipping Co., was built as
a T 2 tanker in World War 11.
Ten years ago, the Ishikawaji
ma Co. of Japan added a
midsection and converted the
vessel to a bulk carrier.
Bowman said that like other
crews working for Lasco, the
men on the Pacrover were
Korean.
The ship had a net weight of
8,200 tons and was carrying
10,000 tons of coal from
Vancouver, B.C. to Tokyo when
it disappeared. It had been
charted by the Yamashita-
Shinihon Co.
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Nixon hopes to prod
Hanoi back to talks
KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (UPI)
—President Nixon observed
Christmas in seclusion amid
growing signs today that he has
extended a holiday bombing
pause to prod Hanoi back to the
peace table.
Nixon, operating with a
skeleton staff at his festively
decorated bayfront villa, has
studiously refrained from any
public statement on last week’s
escalation of the air war over
Vietnam.
But there were indications of
behind-the-scenes diplomacy to
get the secret Paris peace talks,
broken off on Dec. 13, back on
the track.
Some officials were saying
the stalled peace negotiations
may resume “sooner than you
expect.” In Moscow, Premier
Alexei N. Kosygin Monday told
Hanoi’s Ambassador Vo Thue
Dong that the Soviet Union
“expects” the United States to
immediately halt bombing of
North Vietnam and sign a
cease-fire accord.
No Comment
But the Florida White House
had no comment on Kosygin’s
statement, reported by the Tass
news agency, nor would it
discuss reports of a prolonga
tion of the truce in the
bombardment above the 20th
Parallel in North Vietnam.
The President and Mrs. Nixon
celebrated Christmas privately,
opening their gifts* in the
morning around a glittering
eight-foot Scotch pine tree in the
living room. They also took
turns talking to their two
daughters and sons-in-law, Tri
cia and Edward Cox and Julie
and David Eisenhower who
telephoned from Athens,
Greece, where they are vaca
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Aides declined to describe the
gifts the Nixons exchanged.
Nixon went boating in the
afternoon on Biscayne Bay with
his close friend and next door
neighbor, banker Charles G.
“Bebe” Rebozo.
Returns to Office
Then he returned to his office
where he got on the phone to
wish a “Merry Christmas” to
his brother, Donald Nixon of
Newport Beach, Calif., and
several friends, including Gov.
Ronald Reagan of California;
Secretary of State William P.
Rogers; former presidential
aide Robert Finch and two of his
political advisers in the last
election—former Secretary of
Treasury John B. Connally and
Clark MacGregor, who directed
the Committee to Re-elect the
President.
With Rebozo as their guest,
the Nixons sat down in the
evening to a roast turkey dinner
with all the trimmings.
For the third day in a row
there were small anti-war
demonstrations in front of the
presidential compound. Protes
ters sang “Silent Night” and
carried placards reading: “Hail
to Dick the War King” and
“Peace Now.”
Nixon also moved on several
fronts over the holiday weekend
to step up aid to earthquake
stricken Nicaragua. He in
structed his Cabinet to make an
“all out effort” to assist the
victims as relief teams and
supplies were being rushed to
devastated Managua.