April 22, 1972

graphs show increases in NYC met area and US consumer price indexes, '70-Mar '72, and fluctuations during past 6 mos; chart shows index for various items, Mar '72, and compares figures with Feb '72 and Mar '71 levels

US planes, Apr 21, reptdly strike at targets in N Vietnam around Thanhoa; 1 US plane shot down; Hanoi radio claims 3 US planes were downed; US command repts a N Vietnamese patrol boat fired on a US guided missile destroyer, 1st time a N Vietnamese boat fired on an Amer warship; destroyer not hit and returns fire; US destroyer sinks another N Vietnamese patrol boat off N Vietnamese coast; US command announces end of 20 days of search-and-rescue operations that involved loss of 4 planes and rescue helicopter in Quangtri Prov; map

US BLS repts, Apr 21, that NYC met area consumer price index rose 0.4%, Mar, 0.5% below Feb level; puts seasonally adjusted increase at 0.2%; Dir Bienstock hails trend as 'favorable development'; increase attributed primarily to rise in clothing, food and home furnishing prices; index has risen for 59 consecutive mos

BRISBANE, Australia, April 22 (UPI) — Guests on Hayman Island, a tiny, coral‐fringed holiday island 30 miles off Queensland, watched in disbe lief as today as the 35‐foot row boat of John Fairfax and Sylvia Cook washed across the Hay man reef into the safety of the lagoon.

10,000-man S Vietnamese relief force gives up efforts to break through to beleaguered garrison of Anloc, Apr 21; now has mission of defending its own flanks; relief force stalled about 10 mi from Anloc; US B-52s drop hundreds of tons of bombs in 5 missions near Anloc; Saigon spokesman says 10 of the enemy has been killed at Anloc on Apr 21 with the loss of only 1 S Vietnamese soldier; in move perhaps linked to offensive, enemy forces in SE Cambodia sweep Cambodian defenders almost completely out of Parrot's Beak area, cutting Rte 1, main road between Pnompenh and Saigon; S Vietnamese position in Central Highlands appears to be deteriorating; enemy troops seize Hoaian; S Vietnamese arty bases in mts of Kontum Prov come under continuous shelling; N Vietnamese troops attacking Quangtri Prov press attacks in mts W of Quangtri city, but are reptdly repulsed by S Vietnamese troops; enemy pressure eases on Fire Base Bastogne, guarding W approaches to Hue; 14 B-52 missions flown over S Vietnam in 24 hrs; situation on northern approaches to Saigon continues to cause most concern; illus

J Fairfax and companion S Cook land on Apr 22 at Hayman Island off Queensland coast, becoming 1st persons to row across Pacific Ocean; couple had left San Francisco nearly 1 yr ago and had last been heard from on Feb 28 off Solomon Islands; couple illus

thousands of students and other groups across US demonstrate on Apr 21 against Vietnam war; 27 Syracuse Univ protesters held for attempting to block entrance of Air Force recruitment office; 95 students from Boston area held at gates of Westover Air Force Base, Chicopee, Mass; Natl Guardsmen arrest 5 students at Md Univ, including school's Episc chaplain Rev W Smith; over 500 Columbia Univ students demonstrate; 15 Boise State Coll students held and 40 students take over office of dean of student affairs at Boston Univ; 15 held, Detroit, for blocking entrance near a Fed office bldg; demonstrators toss tomatoes at Gen W C Westmoreland, El Paso, Tex; 10 members of Harvard track team announce they will not compete in meet at West Point; Mich Univ protesters smash windows of USN and USAF recruiting offices; 100 students held in Stanford Univ protest; 350 Princeton Univ students seize Wilson School for Pub and Internatl Affairs; 50 remain in bldg for night after hearing s by Sister E McAlister; Columbia Univ pres McGill orders school closed for day; Columbia student marchers greeted by 18 Vietnam veterans who had taken over an office in VA bldg; veterans arrested; other coll protests reptd; CCNY and Stanford Univ protests illus

NYS Assembly on Apr 21 passes and sends to Sen bill, sponsored by Assemblyman Chananau, requiring NYC Higher Educ Bd to maintain elementary and secondary schools now under its jurisdiction, such as Hunter Coll HS and elementary school

April 22: US State Dept spokesman R J McCloskey says that a '68 understanding that Hanoi would show mil restraint in return for an end to US bombing of North definitely does exist; says Hanoi tries to rewrite history in denying its existence; despite pressure from newsmen, dept refuses to make pub a documented US version of diplomatic exch that preceded Pres Johnson Oct 31, '68 announcement making known terms of reptd 'understanding'; McCloskey reiterates US contention that in return for bombing halt, Hanoi agreed tacitly not to abuse the DMZ, not to shell populated area in S Vietnam and not to interfere with US reconnaissance flights over North; Nixon has resisted making US record pub despite urging by many Adm officials; Adm officials link resistance to desire not to embarrass USSR, which played go-between role in '68 understanding; C R Vance, US negotiator in '68 at Paris talks, backs US stand; comments; Sen Foreign Relations Com says it never received a copy of the '68 talks, as Sec Laird earlier said it did

Young spends more than 7 hrs on lunar surface during 1st lunar walk on Apr 21; illus

Sen Dole says possibility of changing '72 Repub Natl Conv site has 'no relationship' to allegations that ITT offered $400,000 pledge to underwrite conv in San Diego, news conf, Minneapolis

US Apollo 16 astronauts Young and Duke set up miniature astronomical observatory on lunar surface during 1st lunar walk on Apr 21; observatory, which operates semi-automatically, is designed to make photographic and spectrographic observations at ultraviolet wavelengths that cannot penetrate earth's atmosphere; Dr G R Carruthers of Naval Research Lab is project head; designed observatory, which has been gold-plated as protection against overheating in sunlight because it is far more sensitive than conventional cameras; experiment has been assigned high priority; map shows highlights of 1st lunar walk and planned itineraries for 2d and 3d lunar excursions