WOUNDED KNEE Tliursday, April 5, l973 Sall Lake City, Utall After tliirty-seve,r days of armed cor1fro,atatlor1 - Ille seige at Wou,aded Krtee 1,as Ji,aally e,aded. As•islartt Attor,iey Ger1eral Fri~zell reaclai•g 011 agree,,.,u,t today witla Jlllita,at Iadia• Leaders. SAN CLEMENTE On a,rotller front - tire President will, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton. Tlte President later quoted a• urgi,ag tlae speedy passage of legislation - to permit tlae co,astruction of tllat controversial tra,as-Alaalla Oil P•t,•ll••· Rogers adding 011 II is own: "Tire U.S. Is faced •i11a a serio•s hnbala,rce behoee,a dom•stic energy ••PPIY a,etl tlema,ad." And lie co,ati,aued: "I am f•llY convhacetl tlaat U is ha our ,aatio,eal i,aterest to get as mucll Alaslla oil as possible - delivered to tlae U.S. market as soo,a as t,o••••I•! WASHINGTON P ' reside11t Nixon versus "the big spenders" - Round T111 The President vetoing today - a second major spe,adi,1g bill. This one - intended to provide three hundred million wale.,. and sewer programs. The President explaining wiry lte 110111 said no. 'rhis in a message relayed from San Cleme11te. Tire new bill - said he - is one that would amo••t to "Double taxation" - one that "undercuts" local co,,.,,..,,..,_. and that furtlte.,- smacks of "Pork barrel" politics. Apt,.,-oval of s uc I, a bill - lie con ti11ued - "would be a diss e.,-vice to ti•• tax payer of this country - wllicll I am not t,ret,a.,-ed to accet,t." The President adding that this is "especially" ,.,..,. - "at a time when we are ear11estly seeking to 1,old Ille II•• on Federal spending." The President also urgi11g Congress to sustai11 lais latest veto just as it did in reconsidering a vocational rehabilitation bill earlier this week. Jiot to do so - said he - "would represent a dangerous crack in Ille fiscal dam WASHING . TJN . _ . 2 tllat this administratio,a has constructed - to llold back a further flood of inflation or higlter taxes or botla." MEAT In the first day of a nationwide meat boycott - will, meat sales off as much as seventy per cent - a orea k at last. Two Eastern Sea Board food chains today announci,eg across t!;e board cuts in meat prices. At Grand Union stores a cut of at least ten cents a pound. At Big G Stores - up to forty ce,ets a pound. Grand Union President Charles Rodman saying: "Some type of merchandi•ing action had to be taie11 - to get normalcy back." W,,atever t,,at is. Reverse side the latest wholesale price i11dex .. announced today; ala I g slaows an increase of more tl,a,e two t,er cent in March - the biggest one-montl, increase i11 twenty-two years. The President's top economic advisor calli,eg this "disappointing news." Tlae Western Wllilello•se respond t n g by s a y in g: "We I, a v e a prob l em . It is not s o l v e d yet." A•d adding, in effect: "We're ,uorking on it." TALLAHASSEE The Florida State Legislature - in session al Tallahassee was hit by an attack of FITs; mea11i,ag a gro"t, of women - from lhe local chapter of Fight Inflation Togetller '"•ell T It e FIT s supply i , , g the Florid a L e g is la tors - w i t II a '1111•--!"""' ,, consisting of hundreds of peanut butter and jelly sa,ed111icll•• a#d attacl,ed to each sand111ich this brief poem: "It's time tlat buyers were given a break, "That's why it's peanut butter inslead of steall. "Tile o,aly questin, then, is 111hellter "You'll ltelp us to figltt inflation togetlter." ARLINGTON South Viet,aam 's Vice President Thie" paid a call today - at the Tomb of the Unknoron Soldier in A rl hag ton Natio,aa l Cemetery. The Saigon leader laying there a NJreatll of red roses and yellow lilies - representing So11tll Viet,aam's national colors. Tltieu tl1en driving to Blair House - NJltere lie co,cferntl for a,a llour with Spiro Agneao. sayi,ag of Tltieu: "I tlthak lte is a treme,adous leader - ••d llas do•e a NJonderful job." Adding: "I don't tlti,ct l,i• critic• on Capitol Hill - are as critical no., as tlley l,ave bee• _, __ Next - an address befo · re tlae Natio,cal Pr••• Cla,l,. Tllieu noting that some America•• "were skeptical or eve,c questioned tlle wisdom of Ille American i,avolveme,ct ;,. Vietnam - a,ad quite often were critical of our sllortcomi•I•· But "tlae trutll remail,s" - said he - "tlaat you came to la•l- " s in time of danger - you kept yor,r word to a small ,aatlo,a e v en wlren tlae going was rouglr - and you kept it till tlae day war." an acceptable arrangement could be found - to termi,aate ti~ ARLINGTON - 2 Tltieu adding: "I can assure you of one tlting never, never will I ask lite American trool's to come bacll to Viet Nam. MEMPHIS Torture stories from returned POW's - continued to peur in today. From Memphis comes one witll an added twist. Navy Captain William Laurence - a former Senior POW officer - telling of, quote, "One of tl,e most co11rageo•• men I laave ever known." This a fellow ret11rJ1ed priso••r - Lie tenant Commander Dale Doss of Birminglaam, Alallama, wltom he called "a key man, a tougll resitor. r:/ "Back in Sixty-Eiglat and Sixty-Nine - wllert co•dilio•• were perhaps tire worst" - said Captairt La11reJ1ce - "Dal• Dos s w a s in s o l it a r y c o nf in e m en t . A t one Point, II e .,, a• , • I on a stool and not alloa,ed - to sleep - deprived of tlte opportunity to batlle and ,o other things necessary for life. This for a total of fifteen days." Captain Laurence goheg o• to say : "He never broke a::d was an inspiration to us all." His only reason for telling all this - said the Captain - ~ be c a,, s e C om man de r Dos s w o tt l d be y to t e ll a b o u t h i ms elf!' And the" - from Commander Doss - a brief post MEMPHIS - 2 script telling how later he was tortr,red again . and again in an effort to get laim to sign a statement sayheg 1,e laad received good trea tm en t. And he added ma tier of Jae tly: "I lliougltt tllat was kind of ludicrous. " AID FOLLOW MEMPHIS Back ;,. Washiflgton - tlie Senate today approved a bill ba11nl11g U.S. aid for tlte reconstruction of Nortla Vletaa,n; banning sucla aid - tliat is unless expressly approved by Congress. Tlte measure passing by a reso1111dlflg vote of elgllty-eiglll to tllree. GANGTOK An ugly l11rn of e v ents - is reported today from Gangtok in tire Indian Protectorate of Sikkim. Crow11 Prl,,ce l'enzing e,eco14ntering a menacing mob near tire royal palace. Wltif>t,ed out a pistol and either killed or seriously 11101u1ded three perso,e. When Ne"1s of t1,e incide,et - st,read ba11ds of i,rsurge,ets - quickly cat,tured at least six police stalio••· They also, forced King Palden Tl,ondur, Namgyal - tlee Chogyal, and Iris American wife Hope Cook - a,id tl,e r••I o tll e Royal fa m Uy, to take refuge i,e tit eir palace. J,idia11 news age,eciessay lite Sikkimese administratio,i laa• all be,t collapsed. King Palden Tllondup Namgyal lras called for armed assistance from I,1dia. And troops from a nearby 1'1dla11 Border Garrison are racing to the resc11e . OXFORD TIie scene: A gay birthday party - at Oxford, England. Seven year old Simon Smith - playing 111111, fri,111ds in tl,e garden of his home; when someho,o - some111ay 1,e slipped and fell tnto a rose bush. As 1,e screamed - 011e of the brancl,es e11tered his mouth. A 11umber of tl, , 1r11• - Pierctrtg Ille i11side of Iris throat. And niJte days later lie was dead. An autopsy 110w disclosing blood clots - 111 Ille 6ral11 a11d several artlries. Tl,e local coroner ruling tllat HIile Simo11 - was the victim oj''a mi.II ion to OJte clla11ce." Be was literally stabbed to death - by a rose br•sla. SAN FRANCISCO A ll h o ug h "an a f> p le a day ma y k e e p t la e doc Io r a "'a y " - ,.,e hear llaat America's favori t fruit is not tlae apple. Whal is it? Why the banana. This - according lo Sa,a Fra,acisco banana impre sario Donald Kircltoff; wlto says tlal the average America" now consumes - about eigltteeft pou•d• of bana,,as a year. He also tells of "major tecllftical atlva•c ;,, the growiftg and m a rketing of the fruit." TIie ba,aa,aa actually selliftg today - we are told - at Ninetee,a-Forty- Eighl prices. aill, will this ,tews drive apple grower• "bananas?" PARIS Famed fashion designer Y v es Saint Laurent is 01tce again the darling of Paris. His latest collection of winter ready to wt1ars drawing ra v e reviews today. St. Laure1tt s tr es s i "K Iii p length pa r k as and cap e - w i t la la i g la coll a r that muffled his models right up to the eyebrows. He also featured so-called "fanny sweaters" - the same as mosl of l,is comt,eli tors: with his said to be Ille best of all I Wl,y? Because of the addition or wide laorizonlal stripes we are told. An American fasltion e%pert addi,ag th . ti St. Laurent'£ "fanny sweaters" were so tigltl "tltey fil like adllestve tape."