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SEN. FRANK CHURCH SEN. CHARLES PERCY Comment on Carter's foreign policy

Cuban surveillance, Caribbean military power to increase WASHINGTON (AP) Congressional critics say President Carter’s Caribbean initiatives have failed to untie the knot linking the SALT II treaty with the Soviet brigade deployed 90 miles from U.S. shores in Cuba. In his speech to the nation Monday night, the president outlined plans to increase U.S. surveillance of military activities in Cuba, bolster the U.S. Naval and military presence in the area and speed more aid to those Latin American nations which feel threatened by the Soviet-Cuban alliance. At the same time he reported that he has been given “assurances from the highest levels of the Soviet government” that the brigade of Russians are indeed engaged only in training and that they will not be used to threaten anyone. But the Carter speech did little to sway critics of the administration’s foreign policy, many of whom complained that the president failed to keep his pledge to change the status quo in Cuba by negotiating withdrawal or dismantling of the brigade. “No, we are not going to push forward with SALT until the Soviet troop question is resolved,” said Sen. Robert Dole, RKan., one of several GOP presidential contenders who commented. Sen. Charles McC. Mathias, R-Md., referring to the administration’s early handling of the Cuban flap, said the president spent most of the speech “trying to deal with a self-inflicted wound.” Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-111., said that what he sees as the president’s inability to change the status quo “will cause me to be more secure in my vote against the SALT treaty. ” “I think this leaves us right where we were,” said Sen. Jake Garn, R-Utah, a principal SALT II opponent. But a senior administration official who has been closely involved in intense negotiations with the Soviets on the troop issue said the status quo has in fact been changed by the presidential orders increasing the U.S. military presence near Cuba and by Soviet assurances that their troops in Cuba “will not be a threat to the United States or to any other nation.” Sen. Frank Church, D-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; called the Soviet assurances, said to have come personally from Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, “welcome but insufficient.” “I continue to believe that before the treaty may take effect the Senate will insist on an affirmation by the president, backed up by our own intelligence, that Soviet combat forces are no longer deployed in Cuba,” Church said. The president said the Cuban controversy must be kept in perspective. He maintained it is no reason for a rebirth of the cold war. And he said if it led to the destruction of the SALT II treaty, the United States would be forced to live in a world “in which every confrontation or dispute could carry the seeds of a nuclear conflict.”

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Cross-country balloon journey ends

SPENCERVILLE, Ohio (AP) Severe thunderstorms and swirling snow forced four adventurers to abandon their transcontinental balloon journey and descend to earth while being buffeted by thunder and lightning, the balloon’s command post says. “It wasn’t a case of anything being wrong,” Randy Birch, an NBC-TV cameraman and crew member, said early today. “It was a case of the weather having closed in around us.” There was “lightning at all sides and snow coming down,” said Rudolph Engelmann of Boulder, Colo. “It just didn’t look good. There were a lot of

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John Paul II to address United Nations

NEW YORK (AP) - Pope John Paul II arrived in New York today en route to address the United Nations and the moral perils in a world of conflict, terroroism, East-West rivalry and nuclear arsenals. The Trans World Airlines Boeing 727 dubbed “Shepherd I” which carried the pope from Boston touched down at 9:02 a.m. EDT at LaGuardia Airport where a crowd estimated by police at 3,000 had gathered. The pontiff, wearing a white cassock and waving his arms, was greeted by his host, U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, and other diplomatic and church officials. In a brief airport address before setting off a motorcade to Manhattan, the pope said he had looked forward to the visit ever since Waldheim had invited him to address the General Assembly. “Your organization has a special significance for the whole world,” he said, “for in it, the needs and aspirations of all the people of our planet come together... “At the basis of all efforts, there must be the dignity and worth of the human person. It is likewise the human person, every individual, who must make the aims of- your organization come true.” A group of bands and school groups saluted the pope with music and flowers. Among the youngsters were students from a Middlesex, N.J. school, dressed in Polish costumes, bearing bouquets of chrysantheums and waving flags..

Ford, UAW work on pact

DEARBORN, Mich. (AP) - Both labor and managment say Ford Motor Co.’s current cash bind will not stand in the way of a contract matching one the United Auto Workers union won from General Motors Corp. Ford on Monday presented its economic offer, one modeled on the GM settlement. UAW President Douglas A. Fraser said it seemed to offer a basis for settling the economic differences, though Vice President Ken Bannon warned that “special problems remain” before the Thursday midnight strike deadline. Ford indicated there was none of what union negotiators

mixed reactions about what ought to be done. Common sense prevailed.” The four crew members were taken to St. Rita’s Medical Center in nearby Lima where Vera Simons, the only woman aboard, was treated for a broken leg. She was listed in fair condition. The three other members, including Fred Hyde of Prairie Village, Kan., were not injured, authorities said. The crew descended early today near this western Ohio city inside the 100-foot high balloon’s gondola. The balloon, named the DaVinci Trans-America, lifted off Wednesday from Tillamook,

Mexico refuses to pay for damages from oil spill

MEXICO CITY (AP) - Citing U.S. refusal to pay Mexico for the salting of the Mexicali Valley, President Jose Lopez Portillo says Mexico “will pay nothing” for the damage to the Texas coast from the runaway Ixtoc I oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. “I told the government of the United States and I tell the people of Mexico—face to face, that if the U.S. government did not pay for damage to the Mexicali Valley, Mexico will not pay for damage in the Gulf of Mexico,” Lopez Portillo said Monday. Saline water from the Colorado River caused salt beds to form years ago in the Mexicali Valley below the California and Arizona borders, making crop lands virtually useless. In 1972, President Luis Echeverria during a visit to Washington told a

Pope's visit a blessing for scavenger

BOSTON (AP) Toothless, jobless, penniless and hungry, Paul Ring, who scavenges for his survival, gave thanks for the visit of Pope John Paul 11. “I was blessed,” he said Monday as he rummaged through heaps of garbage left behind by the thousands who thronged the Boston Common for a papal Mass. “Look at the good luck I’ve had, the wonderful food I’ve found,” said Ring as he scooped up bags of potato chips, unopened soda cans and packets of chewing gum. “You just don’t get a day like this every day of the week,” he said as a half-eaten egg salad sandwich went in the mouth of the small, shaggy dog with him. Soaked from his brown-woolen cap to his tattered, brown shoes, Ring, 50 and a Catholic, said the pope’s visit made him

New York was the pope’s second stop on a seven-day, sixcity U.S. tour that began with a jubilant welcome in Boston on Monday. Most of the pope’s day was to be spent at the United Nations a 16-acre international enclave on the East edge of bustling midtown Manhattan, overlooking the East River. In an airport greeting, Waldheim told the pope: “We eagerly await the message which you will deliver....” He recalled the visit of Pope Paul VI to the United Nations 14 years ago and said: “His moving words still inspire us and we greatly cherish them.” He noted that the United Nations “reflects the complete diversity of mankind. We come from many cultural traditions and religious backgrounds, but we are united in our common determination to seek peace and human betterment.” Several thousand people gath-

traditionally call icing on the cake little extras they can use to convince the members they did better than their counterparts. Fraser was asked about the chances of concessions to Ford. He already has done everything but state flatly that Chrysler Corp. will get concessions because of its sad financial state. “I’m not in the mood nor did Mr. McKenna ask for any special consideration,” Fraser said. Sidney F. McKenna, Ford’s vice president for industrial relations, said, “There’s no indication that they are willing and nothing in what we pre-

Ore., in hopes of reaching the East Coast as the first transcontinental balloon flight. “Everyone is fine. One of the people here spoke with one of the crew members,” said Lesley Edmonds of Weather Service Corp., the command post in Bedford, Mass. “He (the crew member) walked to a farmhouse to call us (at 1:04 a.m. EDT) about an hour after the crew decided to land. “He was mostly just trying to say ‘Hey, get in touch with our families and tell them we’re all right.’” Birch said they had been having weather problems all day.

joint session of the U.S. Congress the issue was “the most delicate bilateral problem” between the two countries. Lopez Portillo spoke to an estimated 100,000 Mexicans in downtown Mexico City on his return from the United States and Panama. He met in Washington last week with President Carter, addressed the U.N. General Assembly and was the keynote speaker Monday at ceremonies marking the transfer of the Panama Canal Zone to Panamanian control. The Foreign Ministry denied a report in the New York Times that Lopez Portillo in his meeting with Carter agreed their governments would dicuss Mexican payment for damages caused by the oil well spill. The Mexican president said he and Carter discussed negotiating an agreement to prevent future

ered at LaGuardia in advance of the pope’s arrival. The pontiff’s address to the U.N. General Assembly promised to be the most important of his week-long U.S. tour in his own words “a plea to the whole world for justice and peace, a plea in defense of the unique dignity of every human being. ” He told a vast, rain-splattered throng at a papal Mass in Boston Common on Monday evening he was aware of the “importance” and “challenge” of his speech to the world body. But for many packed onto the rolling green of the common, or along the narrow rainy sidewalks of Boston neighborhoods, John Paul’s stopover here was one of the most exciting days imaginable. From curbsides, windows and rooftops, standing on cars, trucks and fire engines, hundreds of thousands cheered and waved placards proclaiming: “We’re With You!” “Long Live the Pope!” “Viva il Papa!” and

sented them today to suggest that we’re seeking that.” Ford’s U.S. car sales this year are down about the same as Chrysler’s, though Ford’s larger size and overseas profit fountain have kept it, in contrast to Chrysler, out of financial trouble. Among the “special problems” cited by Bannon were issues pertaining to parts warehouses, skilled tradesmen, the order of temporary layoffs and protection of jobs from new technology. Fraser said there were “variances” from the GM settlement in the Ford offer but he hoped to find no “sharp differences.”

Federal Aviation Administration officials in Ohio and Indiana said a fast moving cold front was overtaking the balloon as it crossed into Ohio with thunderheads as high as 40,000 feet. The crew, hoping to reach the East Coast somewhere in Virginia, had dipped lower to the ground to try to ecape the front. Birch said the landing “was quite smooth in comparison to what it could have been.” Birch added that the crew plans to take the balloon back to the West Coast and start the trip over. No timetable has been set yet for the second try, he said.

damage to the enfironment. “The future yes, the past no,” said Lopez Portillo.. The Foreign Ministry said reeferences to the payment of damages were deliberately excluded from the talks in Washington. About 110 million gallons of crude has spilled from the Ixtoc 1 offshore well in the Bay of Campeche, 500 miles south of the Texas border. The well blew out June 3, spewing up 1.25 million gallons of oil a day. Officials of PEMEX, the stateowned oil monopoly, say the flow has been reduced to about 420,000 gallons a day and they hope the well can be capped by the middle of this month. Much of the lower Texas Gulf Coast was coated in black globs of oil from the runaway well, seriously affecting the usually lucrative tourist season there.

happy, “especially when he told the young folks to follow Christ. “I felt good all day long. I was just so sorry it rained.” Ring said he lost his job as a messenger when his “old ticker” slowed him down. He said he lives in a S4O-a-month, coldwater flat in South Boston and depends on the leftovers of others for his daily meals. His nourishment often consists of “a can of beans and cup of tea,” he says, so the littered common was a windfall after the Mass. “You wouldn’t believe all the things people throw away,” he said. “There’s no one like the American people. They’re so wasteful. They don’t know there’s people like us in the world.”

“Witamy!” the Polish way of saying “Welcome.” It was the first papal visit ever to this strongly Catholic city, and it is the Polish-born John Paul’s first visit to the United States as pope. He came straight to Irish-accented Boston from a three-day visit to Ireland, where he made a dramatic appeal to an adoring populace for peace on their troubled island. After New York, the 59-year-old pontiff travels Wednesday to Philadelphia, then on to Des Moines, Iowa; Chicago and Washington, D.C., where he will meet with President Carter on Saturday. Boston police estimated 1.9 million people turned out to salute the pope, more than onethird of the metropolitan area’s population of 5.7 million. Other estimates put the figure lower. As many as 400,000 huddled through two hours of chilly drizzle for a stirring, outdoor

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Amtrak derailment in Kansas kills four

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - An Amtrak passenger train ran off the tracks and struck a house in the early morning darkness today, killing four people and injuring dozens of others, authorities said. Bob Campbell, a spokesman at Lawrence Memorial Hospital, said police told him four passengers were killed and their bodies were being sent to the hospital. Campbell said 10 people were admitted to the hospital and 10 to 15 others were en route to the hospital for treatment. He said

Gold trade in 'frantic turmoil'as prices soar

LONDON (AP) - Gold soared to a record $440 an ounce in London today and $436 in Zurich. The dollar dropped. The London jump of $26.75 from Monday’s late price was the biggest one-day rise seen in the bullion market here. Market men described the trading as frantic turmoil. One dealer predicted the price will soon reach SSOO an ounce “because everyone wants to buy and no one wants to sell.”. Gold also rose in Hong Kong, jumping $24.86 to $419.24 from $394.38 Monday. Gold closed at $413.25 in London Monday, $414.50 in Zurich, and hit $419 in New York before retreating to $415.50. $415.50. It was the first time gold closed above S4OO on European exchanges and a record closing figure for New York also. The price was S2OO an ounce in July 1978 and closed above S3OO for the first time less than three months ago, on July 18. A trader at Samuel Montagu in London said Arabs and other major investors were unloading shaky dollars to buy gold. “What else can they do with

celebration of the Mass on Boston Common, its chief celebrant in gold-and-white vestments on a brightly lighted, canopied altar. Eyeing the weather, the burly, squared-jaw pope departed from the prepared text of the homily at one point to say with a grin that America is “beautiful even in the rain.” The crowd broke into a roar of applause. His homily spoke approvingly of American “generosity and freedom,” but he appealed to youth to stand for “the true meaning of life” in a world threatened by “hatred, neglect or selfishness.” “Faced with problems and disappointments, many people try to escape from their responsibilities and develop indifferent and cynical attitudes,” he said. “But today, I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape.” “Follow Christ!” pleaded the

other passengers were treated at the scene. Sixteen cars of the 18-car Southwest Limited en route from Los Angeles to Chicago derailed about 6:15 a.m. in a residential area on the south side of Lawrence just minutes before its scheduled stop in Kansas City. There were more than 100 passengers on the train. “We’ve got cars on their sides and people trapped inside,” said one Amtrak employee in Lawrence. Authorities said the only person known to have been trapped in the train was the

their dollars?” he asked. “There’s a lot of overseas buying,” said Franc Schumaci, a gold trader for Marcus & Co., at New York’s Commodity Exchange. “A lot of the commodity pros are out of the market. Eventually, somebody’s going to come in and sell this gold, but right now it’s going to the moon.” The continued flight away from the sagging dollar and into commodities also pushed other precious metals higher, with platinum futures surging sl3l to an astounding S7OO an ounce at one point on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Platinum for delivery this month later eased but closed on the exchange at $632.30, up $64. The price of silver leaped $1.19 in London to a peak $17.51 an ounce. It kept rising in New York, with October silver futures closing at $17.88, up $1.48 on the day. The dollar opened at 225.10 yen in Tokyo today, up from 224.925 late Monday. It went to 225.15 about half an hour later, see-sawed through the day and closed at 224.875, just slightly below Monday’s closing rate.

pope whose own faith was steeled under Nazism and communism in Poland. “...With Christ’s help...you can answer his call, resisting temptations and fads and every form of mass manipulation.” The great congregation applauded his words several times. . The leader of the world’s 700 million Catholics landed at Boston’s Logan Airport in midafternoon Monday. He stepped down from his jumbo jet and, as he has done elsewhere in his papal travels, kissed the ground. In welcoming him, first lady Rosalynn Carter said John Paul had “stirred the world as few have ever done before.” The red-clad pope then set off on a motorcade that would take him 20 winding miles through Boston’s richly ethnic neighborhoods, to Holy Cross Cathedral for a brief prayer service with hundreds of clergymen, to the common for Mass and on to Cardinal Humberto Medeiros’ residence, where he spent the night. Through most of it the pontiff stood in his open car, smiling broadly, his broad-brimmed hat fending off some of the drizzle and rain. Banks of humanity, a billowing tide of hurrahs, pennants, flags, balloons, booming bands and eager waving hands flanked the route. It was a rollicking start to the pope’s visit to America. He has been here twice before as a cardinal but this trip should give him a fresh insight into an American church in the midst of lively debate and dissension.

-•A engineer, who was freed by rescue workers. . There were 11 passenger-car-rying cars on the train, which also carried baggage, diner and lounge cars. Amtrak officials said they did not know which cars remained on the tracks. The accident occurred a mile east of the downtown area, and authorities said wreckage was scattered over several blocks. The engine and a crew car struck a house but no one in the house was injured. There was no immediate comment on the cause of the crash.

After closing at 223.45 yen Friday, it climbed Monday to 225.20. Then the Bank of Japan sold an estimated S4OO million to protect the yen, fearing ag.gravated inflation that would push import prices up. The dollar is improving in Japan, in contrast to its situation in Europe, because Japan is running an increasing trade deficit and because of expectations of higher oil prices > which will have to be paid dollars. In New York, the dollar climbed to 225.12 yen Monday, compared to224.7sFriday. . • The dollar sank to its lowest - level in 11 months against the*' West German mark Monday and would have dropped furtherhad the Bundesbank not mounted its biggest rescue operation of the year. It bought more than-1 SB7 million. The Swiss central bank and the U.S. Federal Reserve also did some buying to ? bolster the U.S. currency. -> The dollar gained in London, however. The pound sold for $2.1903 Monday, down from : $2.20075 on Friday. The rate dropped in New York from" $2.1990 Friday to $2.1974.