June 22, 1970

US fighter-bombers and gunships, restricted to flying maximum of 21.7 mi into Cambodia to support ground operations, found to have been ranging much deeper into NE Cambodia since allied Incursion en Apr 30; attacks geared to destroying new enemy infiltration routes; Amer officials, Saigon, unclear on whether raids, never before discussed publicly, will cease on June 30; Adm has made it clear that US would not provide air combat support for S Vietnamese forces beyond established limit but has never excluded possibility that Amer planes would bomb enemy supply lines and bases beyond that limit; such air activities would be permissible under Cooper-Church amendment; N Vietnamese ingenious techniques to move certain necessities by water and US countermoves to block them described

Ottinger charged by O'Dwyer and Sorensen and R D McCarthy with allegedly making s criticizing antiwar demonstrators, TV debate; at first denies making s, later says it sounds 'out of context'

Group of 100 protesters representing blacks, consumers and poor take control of AMA-sponsored consumer forum prior to opening of AMA conv, Chicago, and adopt indictment scoring AMA's failure to be responsive to nation's health needs; delegation of blacks, Mexicans, consumers, welfare mothers, feminists and homosexuals fails in attempt to present indictment to House of Delegates; opening session of conv is moved into guarded closed meeting; AMA pres Dorman says AMA is committed to finding better ways of providing more and better health care, s

Fighting intensifies; enemy losses reptd up; N Vietnamese troops reptd to have gained control of at least half of Kompong Thom despite 2 days of resistance by Cambodian forces and S Vietnamese air assaults; fighting continues in wide arc around Kompong Cham and in Tonle Bet; S Vietnam repts forces that launched drive into Se Bang valley encountered only light resistance; clashes in other areas described; US command issues statistics showing that 60% of weapons and 80% of ammunition found in enemy storage areas in Cambodia originated in Communist China; map

20 reptd arrested in Leningrad in what USSR authorities call an attempt to seize Soviet airliner; official rept of arrests printed in Leningradskay a Pravda; details still incomplete; dissident sources also rept on incident; some of arrested said to be Jewish; at least 2 attempted hijackings of Soviet craft have occurred since '65