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1 --:- -.- ... . ; j- - ' " '. .'-.- , GTATS HISTORICAL I'JCIETY 10334 . .' , " lilTT &. LUVJRTf '. ST. , .. ', " COLUMBIA, M 9 . 65201 , . . ' . ' Stories on Page 3A r 70th Year - No. 194 . ( r0od Morn'mpl It's Wednesday Mv .1. 97 2 Sections - 28 Pages - 15 Cents 1 House committee may reject plane sales WASHINGTON ( AP) - There may be enough votes in a House committee to reject President Carter's proposed sales of war planes to three Mideast countries despite predictions to the contrary by the panel's chairman, a survey of lawmakers showed Tuesday. Nineteen House members a bare -- majority of the 37- mem- ber House In-ternational Relations Committee said they will approve or are leaning in favor of a resolution against the sale of jet fighters to Saudi Arabia unless Carter makes concessions for Israel. The Carter" administration wants to sell sophisticated, U. S.- ma- de F- 1- 5 war planes to Saudi Arabia, 75 F- 1- 5s and 15 F- 1- 6s to Israel and 50 F-- 5s to Egypt a $ 4.8 billion deal. A House or Senate vote against any one of the three sales the Saudi Arabian transaction, for instance would jeopardize the deal because Carter has suggested he'll drop the sales if Congress takes such action. Under congressional procedures a proposed arms sale by the executive branch must be disapproved by both houses within 30 calendar days of the time the president sends it to Capitol Hill. Under parliamentary procedure, a sale will go through unless Congress rejects it within 30 days. The House and Senate can halt such transactions only by passing resolutions of disapproval in both houses. The Associated Press questioned each member of the House committee, Demonstrating his opposition to the City Council's decision Monday night to widen West Broadway to four lanes, University medical which began considering the war planes deal on Monday. Nineteen said they either will vote for a resolution disapproving the sales, or are inclined to do so, especially where the administration's sale of 60 sophisticated F- 1- 5 jet fighters is con-cerned. Only five said they now support or are inclined to support Carter's sales to Saudi Arabia as well as to Israel and Egypt. The remaining 13 said they're either undecided at this time or are unwilling to speculate on how they'll vote on resolutions of disapproval that have been introduced. However, at least half a dozen, in-cluding some who listed themselves as being tentatively opposed to the Saudi sale, said they would vote for it if Carter makes concessions for Israel. There seemed to be little congressional resistance to the proposed . sale of less sophisticated jet fighters to Egypt. student Ron Swinfard set tap this sign on his front lawn at 1116 W. Broadway. Rep. Clement J. Zablocki, D- W- is., chairman of the committee, had said Friday he would get the 19 votes, with the other four sure to come. But the congressman said -- he's disappointed that " more members don't have the courage to say publicly they support the sale." Carter's aides have said privately they are counting on the House com-mittee to kill resolutions against the jets sale so that the House and therefore Congress cannot veto it. Insight Harvard toughens curriculum By Edward B. Flske N. Y. Times Service CAMBRIDGE, Mass. In its first major curriculum reform in more than 30 years,, the faculty of Harvard University Tuesday approved con-siderably stiffer course requirements for a bachelor's degree. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences approved a proposal by Dean Henry Rosovsky to scrap the current " general education" program and replace it with a more structured " core curriculum" ' designed to guarantee that every Harvard graduate will possess " basic literacy in major forms, of intellectual discourse." The- - new curriculum reflects a general trend toward, . more rigorous graduation requirements.' In essence; the report approved by the faculty Tuesday, pots forth a new definition of an " educated person," one that differs both. fxpm.( thei cpnten- - colleges jtno ore metnuu- uneiite- U " distribution requirement" approach, which says that students should take a certain number of courses each in the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences. The new definition approved by the Harvard faculty states " an educated person" must do the following: - Be able to " think and write clearly and effectively." Have an " informed acquaintance" with the five basic academic areas, which are literature and the arts, history, social and philosophical analysis, science and mathematics, and foreign languages and culture. y Be able to use his or her ex-periences in the context of " other cultures and other times." k-- Have " some understanding of, and experience in thinking about, moral and ethical problems." s Have " achieved depth in some field of knowledge." Students will be required to select about one- four- th of their undergraduate programs from a list of 80 to 100 " core" courses in the five academic areas. They will also be required to demonstrate competency in a foreign ' ( See HARVARD, Page 16A) M. U. seeks $ 16 million funds hike By Jeff Gordon Missourian staff writer The University's Columbia campus is seeking $ 115.9 million for general operating budget and $ 22 million for capital improvements in the 1979- 8- 0 fiscal year. The requests, submitted in a letter from Chancellor Herbert Schooling to University President James Olson, are $ 16 million more than the campus would receive in 1978- 7- 9 under the appropriations bill passed by the Missouri General Assembly in its session that ended Sunday. The bill awaits Gov. Joseph Teasdale's signature. The top priority once again is a 10 percent increase in base salaries for faculty and staff, an increase that would cost $ 8.2 million to fund. " Salary improvements for staff and faculty continues as our number one priority," Schooling said. " We believe we should continue the program begun last year which was designed to bring salary levels to at least the . same universities as they were in the middle 70s. Schooling indicated that budget ( See SHIFTING, Page 13A) House commences budget deliberations WASHINGTON ( UPI) With a warning from President Carter to veto any " budget busting" legislation in order to curb inflation, House leaders Tuesday began steering a half trillion dollar 1979 budget proposal through the House. Carter issued his warning at a breakfast meeting with House and Senate Democratic leaders, before the House was scheduled to begin its' budget debate. . Speaker Thomas O'Neill said later that the president stressed that curbing inflation is his " No. 1" priority. " We can anticipate vetoes on anything that is budget busting," O'Neill told reporters. Before the House with actual voting not scheduled until Wednesday was a $ 501 billion spending figure proposed by the House Budget Com-mittee for fiscal year 1979, which begins " Oct. 1. As such things go this was not far from the $ 500 billion proposed by the president. The Senate recently called for $ 499 billion. In proposed " budget authority" some of which would not be spent until later years the House proposal of $ 568 billion was almost identical to the president's. This is the first year that the government is using a- - zero- ba- se budgeting ( 2BB) policy, in response, to a Carter campaign pledge. ZBB is a procedure under which proposed spending for a government agency and program is justified from scratch or zero each year, as opposed to the previous procedure of only justifying money for new programs and agencies and automatically approving prior programs. Last year federal agencies presented their spending requests in both ZBB form and in the traditional format used since the4 days of George Washington. The new method produced several benefits, the White House said Tuesday, but also confused many bureaucrats. A 13- pa- ge report on the ZBB method said it was impossible to give a dollars and cents figure on the savings realized by the new system, but said that ZBB " got off to a good start" in the first year of federal use. The report acknowledged it was " natural" that government agencies " would encounter problems" in con-verting to the new system. Among them, the report said, was " confusion" among federal employees during the switchover period. Paper-work also " increased markedly," The president cannot veto Congress' budget resolution which will guide the House and Senate in passing specific bills this summer. But he could veto specific bills to implement it if he feels the total greatly exceeds his own budget goals. House leaders sought to discourage floor amendments which would raise the totals for example one to add $ 2 billion for defense and another to add $ 1 billion for veterans. " The budget resolution is not and should not become a Christmas tree of goodies for everybody," Democratic Leader Jim Wright of Texas said in a letter to all members. Last year the budget failed to pass the House on its first try, when liberal Democrats said too much had been added on the floor for defense and Repubicans said the deficit was too high. The deficit figure before the House this year is $ 58 billion. House leaders hoped to maintain a coalition admittedly shaky to support their budget -- proposal, but they said this could easily be lost if parts of the budget are increased or decreased on the floor. A tuition tax credit is expected to be another issue. The Budget Committee's proposal does not provide for one, but calls instead for expanding eligibility for college education loans and grants. Cong stole papers, FBI official charges ALEXANDRIA, Va. ( UPI) An FBI man testified at an espionage trial Tuesday that agents in-tercepted, photographed and sent right along nearly all the U. S. documents the defendants allegedly were tunneling to Communist Vietnam. ' Agent William Fleshman Jr. of the FBI's C15 counterintelligence squad said he worked closely with another star prosecution witness a female CIA counterspy to crack the alleged Vietnamese spy ring. The government used Fleshman's testimony to support that of Mrs. Dung Krall, the paid CIA agent and daughter of a former Viet Cong - ambassador to Moscow. Mrs. Krall testified that, acting as the ring's courier as a double- age- nt for U. S. intelligence, she got a grocery bag full of U. S. documents from defendant David Truong on one occasion and a cardboard carton full on another. She said she delivered them to Hanoi officials in Paris after the FBI had . examined and photographed them. Truong, 32, an expatriate Viet-namese, and Ronald Humphrey, 42, , a U. S. Information Agency em-ployee, have pleaded innocent to ( See FBI, Page 16A) '' ' jtt.. ;;: HJko Tigers drafted --' iHIHK ' ' ''"' iPSH ' James Taylor,,' Pete'-- - JHHf--' ' ' "' mKPflBr' ; Woods awl Joe- - Stewart rBB"' B'wf ',- we-re-'; Missouri Tigers'. ''. ''. VHHHV' -- " ' ' Hil - i1"'' " :; Now " fe a Sain' one'fe a .'' SHHHB-'"- ' ''"' ESb'I;'--' Chief and one is a Raider.' ''-" HHfl-jjHr ;; B0SS'Jr : r"': "' Tbe transformation took -- '" JBB9KLv' h '' WMMSS " M ' , place m t annual NFL ' IfeflHKKssL iMmf: M '- - " ; Tuesday;. To find out SHHIBi ' iHHIiLttiP wbo wen where and how, . " mTraTUm see Sports, Page 6Al Joe Stewart : Pete Woods -- ;'-. . -- "' '.,--- .. Toughest decision, ex- presid- ent says Nixon: Bombing Hanoi ' necessary' By Bernard Gwertzman N. Y.' Thnes Service NEW YORK Richard M. Nixon says that ' the decision to bomb the Hanoi area during Christmas week of 1972 was his most difficult of the whole war, but " it was also one of the most clear- cu- t and necessary ones." In the fourth of seven installments from his memoirs, the former president' provides some additional details on the final stages of the diplomacy that led to theVietnam cease- fir- e agreement He relates how, with the backing of his top adviser, Henry A. Kissinger, he -- not only ordered heavy bombing after North Vietnam seemed to him to stall at ' the negotiating table, but also issued a virtual ultimatum' to the South Viet-- namese government to accept whatever terms Washington worked out with Hanoi. The outline of this dual approach was already known, but Nixon's account supplies his rationale. He also says in the book that the Kent State killings were a low point of his presidency. In October 1972, Kissinger and Le Due Tho, the North Vietnamese negotiator, secretly made considerable . progress toward an agreement that, would end the fighting and provide for the withdrawal of the remaining American forces and for the release of prisoners. Kissinger, at a famous news conference late that month, said, " Peace is at hand." . But in early December, the peace talks in Paris ran into problems, as Kissinger found it increasingly difficult to reconcile the differences between South and North Vietnam. According to Nixon, on Dec. 13 Le Due Tho " made it clear at the Vietnam peace talks in Paris that he had no intention of reaching an agreement." Kissinger " and I completely agreed on the cynicism and perfidy of the North Vietnamese," he says. And he says that Kissinger described the North Vietnamese in obscene terms. " I had reluctantly decided that we had now reached the point where only the strongest action would have any effect in convincing Hanoi that negotiating a fair settlement was a better option for them than continuing the war," he says. " Kissinger and I agreed that this meant stepping up the bombing." Nixon says that on Dec. 14 he gave the . order to resume attacks Dec. 17. The date is interesting: On Dec. 16 , Kissinger called a news conference -- at which he denounced the North Vit- name- se but did not indicate that bombs would fall the next day. .. During the bombing, which lasted until Dec. 29, no rationale was provided : to the public, and Nixon tries ' to justify ; . the decision in his memoirs. " The order to renew bombing the. week before Christmas was the most, -- ' difficult decision I made during thesj ' entire war," Nixon says." At the same ;. time, however, it was also one of the ; --' ( See PUBLIC, Page 16A) iri Coupon values If the price of lettuce Has you dowh, the bargains in . - today's Missourian should Kcheer you up. gor the 15- ce- nt purchase price of this ' newspaper, . fyou. have, in addition' to. iall'the. news and features, coupons ' worthmorethan$ 10. '; 1 ., . . Andtbat isn't cabbage! James ' Taylor . .; , -- ,,. j Is volunteer army working? 4 The volunteerarmy is quiet, but is it working? Jjf ' . Capt Mike Thompson doesn't think soJHe thinks Bk-- the army was bribed. The Congress said " Here's a IHr ---" - pile of money. Go solve yourproblemsandleave. iis. . Jfc: v:- - alone," Thompson says. The army -- needs more7 JBH ' --"' inanpower. Tbonuwonsays: ." Fmk But the view is not aUUeak. Enrollment mROTC. ' J V units acnjsstiie country is rising slowly; A lock at-- W "-- the problems of the volunteer army: and the irn-- ' T provement in the ROTC picture appears today, on - ' .---;.-- .'., Bgffi -- SSI. y- feM- i ' . ' ' ' . '''''. i Him town -- :. today ; ; SJJ $: W ajn. Suiuiseobseryance'V- - '- - sponsored by the BoonealickBi-- . . ? sii. . . cycle. Club, Rock Bridge State:!- - .". .' ' : . AUdySolwexpodtion, Ntfong . "- - 7:"'' Cnterbury, TleV'!; $ i v .- jilay,- K, tayjou'tThBa, CSv pnenscouege, 9t. - , v -- , ryt- stsjs- 5 " ; MUrtPce,; lV- i;- B
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Item.Transcript | 1 --:- -.- ... . ; j- - ' " '. .'-.- , GTATS HISTORICAL I'JCIETY 10334 . .' , " lilTT &. LUVJRTf '. ST. , .. ', " COLUMBIA, M 9 . 65201 , . . ' . ' Stories on Page 3A r 70th Year - No. 194 . ( r0od Morn'mpl It's Wednesday Mv .1. 97 2 Sections - 28 Pages - 15 Cents 1 House committee may reject plane sales WASHINGTON ( AP) - There may be enough votes in a House committee to reject President Carter's proposed sales of war planes to three Mideast countries despite predictions to the contrary by the panel's chairman, a survey of lawmakers showed Tuesday. Nineteen House members a bare -- majority of the 37- mem- ber House In-ternational Relations Committee said they will approve or are leaning in favor of a resolution against the sale of jet fighters to Saudi Arabia unless Carter makes concessions for Israel. The Carter" administration wants to sell sophisticated, U. S.- ma- de F- 1- 5 war planes to Saudi Arabia, 75 F- 1- 5s and 15 F- 1- 6s to Israel and 50 F-- 5s to Egypt a $ 4.8 billion deal. A House or Senate vote against any one of the three sales the Saudi Arabian transaction, for instance would jeopardize the deal because Carter has suggested he'll drop the sales if Congress takes such action. Under congressional procedures a proposed arms sale by the executive branch must be disapproved by both houses within 30 calendar days of the time the president sends it to Capitol Hill. Under parliamentary procedure, a sale will go through unless Congress rejects it within 30 days. The House and Senate can halt such transactions only by passing resolutions of disapproval in both houses. The Associated Press questioned each member of the House committee, Demonstrating his opposition to the City Council's decision Monday night to widen West Broadway to four lanes, University medical which began considering the war planes deal on Monday. Nineteen said they either will vote for a resolution disapproving the sales, or are inclined to do so, especially where the administration's sale of 60 sophisticated F- 1- 5 jet fighters is con-cerned. Only five said they now support or are inclined to support Carter's sales to Saudi Arabia as well as to Israel and Egypt. The remaining 13 said they're either undecided at this time or are unwilling to speculate on how they'll vote on resolutions of disapproval that have been introduced. However, at least half a dozen, in-cluding some who listed themselves as being tentatively opposed to the Saudi sale, said they would vote for it if Carter makes concessions for Israel. There seemed to be little congressional resistance to the proposed . sale of less sophisticated jet fighters to Egypt. student Ron Swinfard set tap this sign on his front lawn at 1116 W. Broadway. Rep. Clement J. Zablocki, D- W- is., chairman of the committee, had said Friday he would get the 19 votes, with the other four sure to come. But the congressman said -- he's disappointed that " more members don't have the courage to say publicly they support the sale." Carter's aides have said privately they are counting on the House com-mittee to kill resolutions against the jets sale so that the House and therefore Congress cannot veto it. Insight Harvard toughens curriculum By Edward B. Flske N. Y. Times Service CAMBRIDGE, Mass. In its first major curriculum reform in more than 30 years,, the faculty of Harvard University Tuesday approved con-siderably stiffer course requirements for a bachelor's degree. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences approved a proposal by Dean Henry Rosovsky to scrap the current " general education" program and replace it with a more structured " core curriculum" ' designed to guarantee that every Harvard graduate will possess " basic literacy in major forms, of intellectual discourse." The- - new curriculum reflects a general trend toward, . more rigorous graduation requirements.' In essence; the report approved by the faculty Tuesday, pots forth a new definition of an " educated person," one that differs both. fxpm.( thei cpnten- - colleges jtno ore metnuu- uneiite- U " distribution requirement" approach, which says that students should take a certain number of courses each in the humanities, the social sciences and the natural sciences. The new definition approved by the Harvard faculty states " an educated person" must do the following: - Be able to " think and write clearly and effectively." Have an " informed acquaintance" with the five basic academic areas, which are literature and the arts, history, social and philosophical analysis, science and mathematics, and foreign languages and culture. y Be able to use his or her ex-periences in the context of " other cultures and other times." k-- Have " some understanding of, and experience in thinking about, moral and ethical problems." s Have " achieved depth in some field of knowledge." Students will be required to select about one- four- th of their undergraduate programs from a list of 80 to 100 " core" courses in the five academic areas. They will also be required to demonstrate competency in a foreign ' ( See HARVARD, Page 16A) M. U. seeks $ 16 million funds hike By Jeff Gordon Missourian staff writer The University's Columbia campus is seeking $ 115.9 million for general operating budget and $ 22 million for capital improvements in the 1979- 8- 0 fiscal year. The requests, submitted in a letter from Chancellor Herbert Schooling to University President James Olson, are $ 16 million more than the campus would receive in 1978- 7- 9 under the appropriations bill passed by the Missouri General Assembly in its session that ended Sunday. The bill awaits Gov. Joseph Teasdale's signature. The top priority once again is a 10 percent increase in base salaries for faculty and staff, an increase that would cost $ 8.2 million to fund. " Salary improvements for staff and faculty continues as our number one priority," Schooling said. " We believe we should continue the program begun last year which was designed to bring salary levels to at least the . same universities as they were in the middle 70s. Schooling indicated that budget ( See SHIFTING, Page 13A) House commences budget deliberations WASHINGTON ( UPI) With a warning from President Carter to veto any " budget busting" legislation in order to curb inflation, House leaders Tuesday began steering a half trillion dollar 1979 budget proposal through the House. Carter issued his warning at a breakfast meeting with House and Senate Democratic leaders, before the House was scheduled to begin its' budget debate. . Speaker Thomas O'Neill said later that the president stressed that curbing inflation is his " No. 1" priority. " We can anticipate vetoes on anything that is budget busting," O'Neill told reporters. Before the House with actual voting not scheduled until Wednesday was a $ 501 billion spending figure proposed by the House Budget Com-mittee for fiscal year 1979, which begins " Oct. 1. As such things go this was not far from the $ 500 billion proposed by the president. The Senate recently called for $ 499 billion. In proposed " budget authority" some of which would not be spent until later years the House proposal of $ 568 billion was almost identical to the president's. This is the first year that the government is using a- - zero- ba- se budgeting ( 2BB) policy, in response, to a Carter campaign pledge. ZBB is a procedure under which proposed spending for a government agency and program is justified from scratch or zero each year, as opposed to the previous procedure of only justifying money for new programs and agencies and automatically approving prior programs. Last year federal agencies presented their spending requests in both ZBB form and in the traditional format used since the4 days of George Washington. The new method produced several benefits, the White House said Tuesday, but also confused many bureaucrats. A 13- pa- ge report on the ZBB method said it was impossible to give a dollars and cents figure on the savings realized by the new system, but said that ZBB " got off to a good start" in the first year of federal use. The report acknowledged it was " natural" that government agencies " would encounter problems" in con-verting to the new system. Among them, the report said, was " confusion" among federal employees during the switchover period. Paper-work also " increased markedly," The president cannot veto Congress' budget resolution which will guide the House and Senate in passing specific bills this summer. But he could veto specific bills to implement it if he feels the total greatly exceeds his own budget goals. House leaders sought to discourage floor amendments which would raise the totals for example one to add $ 2 billion for defense and another to add $ 1 billion for veterans. " The budget resolution is not and should not become a Christmas tree of goodies for everybody," Democratic Leader Jim Wright of Texas said in a letter to all members. Last year the budget failed to pass the House on its first try, when liberal Democrats said too much had been added on the floor for defense and Repubicans said the deficit was too high. The deficit figure before the House this year is $ 58 billion. House leaders hoped to maintain a coalition admittedly shaky to support their budget -- proposal, but they said this could easily be lost if parts of the budget are increased or decreased on the floor. A tuition tax credit is expected to be another issue. The Budget Committee's proposal does not provide for one, but calls instead for expanding eligibility for college education loans and grants. Cong stole papers, FBI official charges ALEXANDRIA, Va. ( UPI) An FBI man testified at an espionage trial Tuesday that agents in-tercepted, photographed and sent right along nearly all the U. S. documents the defendants allegedly were tunneling to Communist Vietnam. ' Agent William Fleshman Jr. of the FBI's C15 counterintelligence squad said he worked closely with another star prosecution witness a female CIA counterspy to crack the alleged Vietnamese spy ring. The government used Fleshman's testimony to support that of Mrs. Dung Krall, the paid CIA agent and daughter of a former Viet Cong - ambassador to Moscow. Mrs. Krall testified that, acting as the ring's courier as a double- age- nt for U. S. intelligence, she got a grocery bag full of U. S. documents from defendant David Truong on one occasion and a cardboard carton full on another. She said she delivered them to Hanoi officials in Paris after the FBI had . examined and photographed them. Truong, 32, an expatriate Viet-namese, and Ronald Humphrey, 42, , a U. S. Information Agency em-ployee, have pleaded innocent to ( See FBI, Page 16A) '' ' jtt.. ;;: HJko Tigers drafted --' iHIHK ' ' ''"' iPSH ' James Taylor,,' Pete'-- - JHHf--' ' ' "' mKPflBr' ; Woods awl Joe- - Stewart rBB"' B'wf ',- we-re-'; Missouri Tigers'. ''. ''. VHHHV' -- " ' ' Hil - i1"'' " :; Now " fe a Sain' one'fe a .'' SHHHB-'"- ' ''"' ESb'I;'--' Chief and one is a Raider.' ''-" HHfl-jjHr ;; B0SS'Jr : r"': "' Tbe transformation took -- '" JBB9KLv' h '' WMMSS " M ' , place m t annual NFL ' IfeflHKKssL iMmf: M '- - " ; Tuesday;. To find out SHHIBi ' iHHIiLttiP wbo wen where and how, . " mTraTUm see Sports, Page 6Al Joe Stewart : Pete Woods -- ;'-. . -- "' '.,--- .. Toughest decision, ex- presid- ent says Nixon: Bombing Hanoi ' necessary' By Bernard Gwertzman N. Y.' Thnes Service NEW YORK Richard M. Nixon says that ' the decision to bomb the Hanoi area during Christmas week of 1972 was his most difficult of the whole war, but " it was also one of the most clear- cu- t and necessary ones." In the fourth of seven installments from his memoirs, the former president' provides some additional details on the final stages of the diplomacy that led to theVietnam cease- fir- e agreement He relates how, with the backing of his top adviser, Henry A. Kissinger, he -- not only ordered heavy bombing after North Vietnam seemed to him to stall at ' the negotiating table, but also issued a virtual ultimatum' to the South Viet-- namese government to accept whatever terms Washington worked out with Hanoi. The outline of this dual approach was already known, but Nixon's account supplies his rationale. He also says in the book that the Kent State killings were a low point of his presidency. In October 1972, Kissinger and Le Due Tho, the North Vietnamese negotiator, secretly made considerable . progress toward an agreement that, would end the fighting and provide for the withdrawal of the remaining American forces and for the release of prisoners. Kissinger, at a famous news conference late that month, said, " Peace is at hand." . But in early December, the peace talks in Paris ran into problems, as Kissinger found it increasingly difficult to reconcile the differences between South and North Vietnam. According to Nixon, on Dec. 13 Le Due Tho " made it clear at the Vietnam peace talks in Paris that he had no intention of reaching an agreement." Kissinger " and I completely agreed on the cynicism and perfidy of the North Vietnamese," he says. And he says that Kissinger described the North Vietnamese in obscene terms. " I had reluctantly decided that we had now reached the point where only the strongest action would have any effect in convincing Hanoi that negotiating a fair settlement was a better option for them than continuing the war," he says. " Kissinger and I agreed that this meant stepping up the bombing." Nixon says that on Dec. 14 he gave the . order to resume attacks Dec. 17. The date is interesting: On Dec. 16 , Kissinger called a news conference -- at which he denounced the North Vit- name- se but did not indicate that bombs would fall the next day. .. During the bombing, which lasted until Dec. 29, no rationale was provided : to the public, and Nixon tries ' to justify ; . the decision in his memoirs. " The order to renew bombing the. week before Christmas was the most, -- ' difficult decision I made during thesj ' entire war," Nixon says." At the same ;. time, however, it was also one of the ; --' ( See PUBLIC, Page 16A) iri Coupon values If the price of lettuce Has you dowh, the bargains in . - today's Missourian should Kcheer you up. gor the 15- ce- nt purchase price of this ' newspaper, . fyou. have, in addition' to. iall'the. news and features, coupons ' worthmorethan$ 10. '; 1 ., . . Andtbat isn't cabbage! James ' Taylor . .; , -- ,,. j Is volunteer army working? 4 The volunteerarmy is quiet, but is it working? Jjf ' . Capt Mike Thompson doesn't think soJHe thinks Bk-- the army was bribed. The Congress said " Here's a IHr ---" - pile of money. Go solve yourproblemsandleave. iis. . Jfc: v:- - alone," Thompson says. The army -- needs more7 JBH ' --"' inanpower. Tbonuwonsays: ." Fmk But the view is not aUUeak. Enrollment mROTC. ' J V units acnjsstiie country is rising slowly; A lock at-- W "-- the problems of the volunteer army: and the irn-- ' T provement in the ROTC picture appears today, on - ' .---;.-- .'., Bgffi -- SSI. y- feM- i ' . ' ' ' . '''''. i Him town -- :. today ; ; SJJ $: W ajn. Suiuiseobseryance'V- - '- - sponsored by the BoonealickBi-- . . ? sii. . . cycle. Club, Rock Bridge State:!- - .". .' ' : . AUdySolwexpodtion, Ntfong . "- - 7:"'' Cnterbury, TleV'!; $ i v .- jilay,- K, tayjou'tThBa, CSv pnenscouege, 9t. - , v -- , ryt- stsjs- 5 " ; MUrtPce,; lV- i;- B |