May 25, 1972

M Frankel, in ‘reporter's notebook’ dispatch from Moscow, discusses differences and similarities in Nixon's trips to USSR and to China; calls Peking trip an adventure and Moscow encounter a meeting of merchants; Nixon's pilot Col Albertazzie and M/Sgt R Maurice illus working out in Lenin Stadium

May 25: US Air Force and Navy jet aircraft bomb power plants and oil storage tanks in Hanoi‐Haiphong area of N Vietnam on May 23; US command, Saigon, repts 190 air strikes were made; sr officer holds there are no limitations on US bombing operations during Nixon's visit to USSR; US command repts that 4 enemy planes were shot down during raids while one US jet was lost; Hanoi radio claims 11 US planes were lost; in S Vietnam, 1,100 S Vietnamese launch ‘spoiling’ attack in Communist‐occupied Quangtri Prov; strike at 3 different points cast and southeast of Quangtri (city); encounter only light opposition; Saigon command claims almost 300 enemy troops were killed while S Vietnamese forces suffered only light casualties; S Vietnamese officers describe operation as ‘quick in‐and‐out’ move aimed at disrupting N Vietnamese plans for expected major attack on Hue; S Vietnamese troops and S Vietnamese and US war planes are seeking to destroy substantial part of N Vietnamese war‐making capability before attack on Hue; inconclusive fighting continues near Anloc and in Kontum Prov; other battlefield developments detailed; illus; map

US Appeals Ct rules on May 24 that officials of Addison Central HS, near Elmira (NY), violated const rights of teacher C James when they dismissed him for wearing black armband to protest Vietnam war; stresses action did not disrupt classroom work; case revd; James por

Conspiracy to blow up residence of USSR mission to UN at Glen Cove, NY, is reptd broken up on May 23 with arrest of 4 reputed Jewish Defense League members; arrests are announced in Washington by Acting Atty Gen Kleindienst; suspects seized as they allegedly assembled 2 bombs in Lido Beach Jewish Center; arrests follow anon phone tip to Nassau County police; US Atty Morse says Kleindienst has taken personal interest in case; Pres Nixon's Moscow trip linked; Nassau police say police and agents of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearm Sec of Treas Dept determined that suspects are active in Jewish Defense League activities and purpose for them in making bombs was to use them against USSR installations; suspects identified as M I Binsky, D Levine, R E Fine and E S Gindi; all are held without bail on NYS charges of bomb possession and burglary; Kleindienst says Fed charges of conspiracy and bomb possession will also be filed; Jewish Defense League disclaims any knowledge of suspects

Brookings Inst study's major conclusion is that any Fed plan to alleviate burden of focal property taxes as means of financing pss faces insuperable obstacles in finding fair distribution formula