SAIGON, South Vietnam, Tuesday, May 23 &#8212; South Vietnamese forces, supported by waves of American fighterbombers, yesterday turned back for the second consecutive day a sizable enemy attack on their forward positions northwest of Hue.

SAIGON'S FORCES REPEL 2D ATTACK NORTH OF HUE LINE

DINNER IN KREMLIN

NYC Mayor Lindsay and key Estimate Bd members appear in agreement on May 22 on slashes in estimated welfare costs to help erase projected fiscal ‘73 expense budget gap; negotiations are continuing

Mayor and Key Board Members Reach Accord on Welfare Cuts

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US Sup Ct on May 22, rules, 5 to 2, that witnesses can be compelled to testify before grand juries and other governmental panels, even though they may later be convicted on the basis of other evidence of committing crimes about which they are forced to testify; Ct holds that forcing of witnesses to give evidence under threat of contempt citations does not violate 5th Amendment, as long as prosecution is barred from using compelled testimony as basis for any case developed against witness; ruling detailed

High Court Widens Power To Make Witnesses Talk

May 23: most foreign observers, Hanoi, hold US mining has effectively closed N Vietnamese ports; some sources are convinced that N Vietnamese are sweeping Haiphong's inner harbor at night but N Vietnamese concede that US continues to drop more mines in harbor; Nhan Dan, Communist party daily newspaper, lauds USSR for past aid to N Vietnam

CLOSING OF PORTS CONCEDED IN HANOI

NYU task force recommendations on ending financial crisis at NYU are based on assumption that univ's Univ Hgts campus will be sold to Bronx Community Coll as per bill passed by NYS Legis; bill calls for transfer of campus's engineering program and its faculty and students to Bklyn Polytechnic Inst

Task Force Bids N.Y.U Discard Some Programs and Cut Faculty

Conn Sen, 21‐14, approves on May 22 bill that would make abortion illegal except to save life of mother or in cases where pregnancy follows rape and incest; earlier HR passed, 120‐49, bill allowing abortions only to save life of mother; Sen action in amending measure raises doubts that HR will agree to change when it continues work on bill on May 23; vote on Sen amendment, which permits abortions during 1st 20 wks after conception in rape and incest cases if panel of 3 drs approves operation, was 22‐13; if HR accepts Sen version, Gov Meskill may veto bill because he is against making exceptions in abortion law for rape and incest; HR predicts its position will not be altered; according to drafters of bill, hope for its passage rests on single sentence in separate opinion by Judge J O Newman, 1 of 2 Dist Ct judges who ruled old law unconst on Apr 18; bill outlined; attempts by other legislators and women's rights group to soften or amend measure described; illus

CONNECTICUT BAN ON ABORTION GAINS

NJ Sup Ct, 7‐0, on May 22 declares unconst state's legis election dists and directs that county lines be crossed to achieve population equality among dists; concedes municipalities are ‘appropriate building blocks’ for creation of dists but asserts munic and county lines will have to be breached to create dists that meet US Sup Ct's one‐man, one‐vote doctrine; directs state legis reapportionment comm to devise acceptable plan containing 40 single‐member Sen dists in time for next legis elections in ‘73; 2 Assemblymen are also to be elected from each Sen dist; ct contends basic flaw in present apportionment plan is 28.8% population deviation between dists with highest and those with lowest population; decision expected to dilute ability of county pol orgns to select legis candidates and give more power to minorities; other possible pol ramifications discussed; ct rejects alternative of holding statewide legis elections, holding such elections would deny voice to important local interests; suit was filed by ACLU

Jersey Legislature Faces Redistricting

Moscow populace eager for glimpse of Nixon despite official efforts to disperse and discourage large crowds; police and civilian auxiliaries keep onlookers from approaching within 25 yds of st or lining curbsides along route of Nixon motorcade; aim is evidently to keep welcome subdued and in keeping with correct but restrained official welcome at airport; many linger around bus stops hoping for glimpse of Nixon but motorcade moves so swiftly through city that it evokes no waves or cheering; although restrained, welcome is warmest Nixon has received in 4 visits to USSR

Crowds on N Route Kept Subdued

random interviews with many Saigonese people show they are exhausted with war and with worrying over their men who are fighting it; they express little faith in Thieu Govt and fear Communist victory; some who are politically aware express hopelessness at thought of influencing events or reluctant agreement with course pursued by Thieu and Nixon

War‐Weary People of Saigon Found to Fear Enemy Victory

Ford Motor Co reptdly conducted faulty antipollution tests, raising possibility co may be barred from shipping ‘73 model cars to dealers while new tests are made; shipment ban may result in thousands of layoffs; EPA officials imply they may move to allow co to continue production rather than face mass layoffs; Admr Ruckelshaus suggests law be changed to allow shipment of cars but not sales, Sen Subcom on Air and Water Pollution; co discovered on May 11 that unauthorized maintenance had been carried out on at least 4 of 12 engines used in co cars; co chmn H Ford 2d, commenting on possible effects on co, holds faulty tests are unintentional error; EPA Deputy Admr Fri says unless EPA or Cong takes some action, co will be forced to shutdown

TEST FAULT PERILS SALE OF ‘73 FORDS

US Sup Ct, in May 22 ruling that unanimous jury verdicts are not required for convictions in state criminal cts, upholds conviction of F Johnson on armed robbery charge; Johnson was convicted by 9‐to‐3 vote of New Orleans jury; Ct's decision detailed

Justices Back State Court Convictions Without Unanimous Verdicts by Juries

H E Salisbury article on all‐pervasive revolutionary and anti‐US propaganda line in N Korea; describes mass pageant presented, Pyongyang, for Somalia Pres Barre; propaganda poster illus

Day In, Day Out, North Korea Assails U.S. ‘Aggressor’

BELFAST, May 22 (UPI)&#8212;A bomb explosion at an industrial complex in a Protestant area of Belfast today injured at least 60 persons, and gunmen killed one man and seriously wounded three other persons as they stood talking to a Roman Catholic priest on his doorstep.

Bomb Injures 60

LONDON, May 22&#8212;A school jacket with a bullet hole in it was displayed in the House of Commons today by the Rev. Ian Paisley.

Paisley Shows Bullet Hole

DUBLIN, May 22 &#8212; Prime Minister John Lynch said tonight that he would ask the Government to strengthen laws against illegal organizations such as the Irish Republican Army.

Lynch to Act on I.R.A.

Prots begin to remove barricades set up in Belfast to resist IRA terrorist tactics but remain angry with Brit adm in Ulster, which has released prisoners and instituted some reforms in effort to improve relations with Caths; Prot leader W Craig warns violence may get out of control if IRA terrorist activities are not halted; Ulster Defense Regiment has set up 9 cos of men in Belfast, each with 250 to 700 men; IRA bombings continue in Belfast, injuring 4 policemen, 2 Brit soldiers and 45 civilians; 200 women in Londondeny march on IRA official wing hq to protest killing of Cath soldier on leave from Ger

Angry Belfast Protestants Dismantle the Barricades

Ceylon on May 22 becomes ind socialist Repub of Sri Lanka in colorful ceremony that breaks 157‐yr‐link with GB; Sri Lanka's 1st premier, Mrs S Bandaranaike takes oath of office and nominates W Gopallawa as 1st Pres; Bandaranaike was last Prime Min of Ceylon and Gopallawa last Gov‐Gen; Bandaranaike appeals to people to join in task of nation‐bldg; says new const, signed earlier, is only gateway to future; says country's foreign policy will continue to be shaped by steadfast belief in nonalignment and dedication to UN; Sri Lanka, which means ‘great and beautiful island, will continue to be known as Ceylon at UN and in other aspects of internatl relations; will remain member of Brit Commonwealth; map

Ceylon Becomes the Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka

Italian Line repts May 22 its NY office received letter asserting that bomb, placed aboard line's cruise ship Leonardo da Vinci, which left NY May 17 for Lisbon, would explode unless $100,000 in small bills was taken to Manhattan address at specified time; adds although money was taken to prescribed place, it remains uncollected and search of ship ordered by her capt discloses no explosive devices; ship's officer repts decision not to inform passengers of scare; line's NY spokesmen remain unavailable for comment

$100,000 Is Asked in Italian Liner Bomb Threat

US HR Appropriations Subcom on May 23 approves addition of $2‐million to ‘73 transportation budget for purchase of 800 additional weapons detectors in move aimed at halting wave of airline hijackings and sabotage; appropriation will satisfy in large part 1 of several proposals made by execs of 11 major airlines in May 10 lr to Pres Nixon which called for a funded program to provide electronic detectors at every airline boarding gate and to develop new screening devices; carriers include: Pan Amer, TWA, Continental, Northwest Orient, Northeast, United, Eastern, Amer, Delta and Braniff Internatl

AIR ARMS SENSORS SPURRED IN HOUSE

Sec Gen Waldheim to visit USSR on July 17; he is expected to make separate trip to Peking; will leave for trip to Canada on May 24

Waldheim to Visit Moscow

Silent conflict between Sudanese regime and Egypt has come into open for 1st time in strong attack by Lebanon's pro‐Egyptian daily Al Moharrer against Pres Nimeiry of Sudan; newspaper, May 21, accuses Sudan of having moved away from Fed of Arab Republics (Egypt, Syria and Libya) in favor of cooperation with ‘reactionary’ African regimes and Western powers; charges that Nimeiry had moved against Eritrean separatists who had operated from Sudanese territory against neighboring Ethiopia, in exchange for Emperor Selassie's assistance in bringing about settlement with southern Sudanese rebels; says Nimeiry regime has refused to normalize relations with USSR and preferred instead to receive econ assistance from US and West Germany; accuses Nimeiry of purging his regime of Nasserites

EGYPTIAN CONFLICT WITH SUDAN ARISES

Prof Redig de Campos, chief of Vatican art collections, announces, May 22, that work to repair Michelangelo's Pieta will start at once, news conf; says he has no doubts restoration work will be ‘perfect'; repts even tiniest fragments of marble sculpture were recovered after May 21 attack on statue; definitive decision on the restoration will be made, probably by the Pope, on the basis of recommendations by the Comm for the Safeguarding of the Historical and Artistic Monuments of the Holy See; comm pres Most Rev G Fallani indicates he is skeptical that eye and eyelid of Madonna can be rebuilt with complete accuracy; both Redig de Campos and Fallani say restoration work will benefit greatly from ‘perfect’ cast of statue made about 10 yrs ago; Vatican pub L'Osservatore Romano, in rebuttal to criticism from most Italian newspapers on lack of protection for statue, says measures to protect Pieta had been considered adequate; notes Toth, under questioning by Vatican officials, appeared calm and well‐behaved but his remarks showed deep mental confusion; Toth now in hands of Italian police; illus of Pieta

Vatican Expert Foresees a ‘Perfect’ Restoration of the Pieta

Cardinal Cooke visits Sec Gen Waldheim at UN

Cardinal Cooke at U.N.

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May 23, 1972

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SAIGON'S FORCES REPEL 2D ATTACK NORTH OF HUE LINE

DINNER IN KREMLIN

Mayor and Key Board Members Reach Accord on Welfare Cuts

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High Court Widens Power To Make Witnesses Talk

Billboard 200

First Take

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Graham Nash/David Crosby

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