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ecood Russian Spacecraft in Orbit MOSCOW (AP) A second Soyuz spacecraft hurtled into space Sunday to join one already in orbit, establishing a Soviet record with five rookie cosmonauts simultaneously circling the earth. Semi-official sources said a third manned craft would be launched Monday in a program to construct the world's first space platform. Soyuz 7 with three cosmonauts aboard was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 1:45 a.m.-6:45 a.m., EDT approximately 24 hours after the launching of Soyuz 6 with a two-man crew. The official Soviet news agency Tass reported both spacecraft were working well and the crews felt fine. It gave no information about what is planned next, but sources said a Soyuz 8 would be launched Monday with one or two men aboard.

The Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, known for its reliable informants in the Soviet capital, reported a total of seven cosmonauts will participate in construction of a space platform that will be used as an orbiting laboratory and a possible launching pad for deep space probes. Tanjug was the first news agency to predict the weekend space launches. The Bochum Observatory in West Germany said it expects the Soviet Union to launch Soyuz 8 Monday with the instrument system and implements for establishing the space station. The obviously intentional "leaks" to news agencies by semi-official sources indicate Soyuz 6 might provide the work crew Tanjug called them "space constructors" to weld parts of Soyuz 7 and 8 together under difficult conditions of weightlessness. Earlier Tass reported the craft is carrying welding equipment.

After this linkup, some of the spacemen could be brought down while the rest stay in space for a time to carry out more construction and experiments. The Soviets never announce the mission of space flights in advance, so they don't have to report failure if desired results are not achieved. Neither of the two Soyuz crews has space flight experience, although some have been backup men for previous Soyuz flights. Tass said they were occupied with carrying out var ious experiments and checking the functioning of their equipmentan indication of preparation for the main mission still to come. Up to now Soyuz 6 and 7 have accomplished nothing unusual except the simultaneous orbiting of five men.

This beats the record of four cosmonauts in space set last January with Soyuz 4 and 5, which docked briefly and exchanged crews. The Soviet Union apparently is aiming at something more impressive after being overshadowed by the U.S. Apollo 11 moon landing in July, A space laboratory or platform would give the Kremlin another space first and do much to close the prestige gap. U.S. budget cuts have delayed America's first space workshop or orbiting platform until mid-1972.

The Soviet Union has not produced a major first in manned space flight since Alexei Leonov took the first space walk in March 1965. to Miss NIPPY Partly cloudy through Tuesday, continued cold with the high Monday 35 and the low 20. Chance of snow 20 per cent. TV Schedule On Page 8 unlivery Founded May 1,1873 Missoula, Montana, Monday, October 13, 1969 lower for a second night of protest against British takeover of the Northern Irish police and dis-bandment of the all-Protestant constabulary known as "B-spe-cials." In shooting late Saturday and early Sunday at least three persons were killed, among them a police officer, and scores were wounded. The military reported that more than 140 people had been arrested in the weekend disturbances.

Court hearings were due to start Monday morning, but whether all those taken would be brought to court was not yet known. More British troops flew to Northern Ireland Sunday with orders to shoot to kill if fired upon. One soldier was reported injured by a ricochet amid a flurry of shooting soon after midnight. The army brought out a 'r 1 1 1 BELFAST, Northern Ireland the British army in Belfast ear- (AP) A riotous crowd of ly Monday in a wild exchange of more than 1,000 Protestants shots and tear gas. clashed with a strong force of The Protestants congregated Committee of ABA Backs Haynsworth IT JUST KEPT FALLING Denver and vi- cinity has received up to a foot of snow in the second storm of the season for that area.

This is a scene in Littleton, a suburb south of Den- ver. More than 27 inches of snow has fallen in the vicinity of the Colorado capital so far this month. (AP Photofax) Colorado, Wyoming Hit Is miow uianm Amazing Mets Square Series DENVER (AP) For the second straight weekend snow blanketed the Rocky Mountain states, bringing five deaths in storm-causing traffic crashes, and curbing air traffic, utility service and road traffic. Five persons had lost their lives in Wyoming and Colorado auto accidents by Sunday after two days of the early storm. The Leukemia Is Fatal 10 varner Price rs come before the full Senate.

The White House was counting heavily on continued ABA support of Haynsworth, who sits now on the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in South Carolina. Undecided senators still hold the balance of power over confirmation of Haynsworth's nomination as an associate justice, an Associated Press poll showed. The AP poll showed 38 senators opposed to Haynsworth's appointment with seven more leaning toward opposition, 32 for confirmation with one leaning toward support, and 22 remaining undecided. Clark R.

Mollenhoff, deputy counsel to President Nixon, said Saturday he does not "anticipate the ABA will change its position at all." He said there is no similarity between Haynsworth's interests and the activities which forced Justice Abe Fortas to resign from the high court. Mollendoff said the ABA found that Fortas "acted 'clearly contrary' to the canons of judicial ethics" in his dealings with financier Louis Wolf son. "By contrast, the Haynsworth nomination has been supported by the ABA," Mollenhoff said. Moss. Mansfield will have breakfast with a group of University of Montana students Monday morning before leaving for Butte and Billings.

Subjects in the interview ranged from the chances of Senate confirmation of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth to sit on the U. S. Supreme Court to the Senate majority leader's thoughts about anti-Vietnam War protests planned here and throughout the nation on Wednesday. But most of the discussion centered around Vietnam.

"I've always felt Vietnam was a tragedy, that we had no business there," Montana's senior senator said. "I was pleased to note that Secretary Laird said that the policy in Vietnam now is 'protective which to me is along the lines of the cease-fire and stand-fast that I've been advocating for a number of years," Mansfield said. Mansfield was referring to Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's announcement last week that emphasis is being placed on shifting the burden of fighting to the South Vietnamese, but not forbidding American combat leaders to attack concentrations of enemy troops that threaten them or the South Vietnamese. Mansfield said that President Nixon, in a private meeting Friday night, had told him that he (the President) had ordered the new policy in August. The Senate majority leader SINGLE COPY Del Vietnam Sonja Heinie Dies at 57 U.S.

Weather Bureau reported a general snowfall in Colorado of four to 12 inches. More was falling. Amounts more than two feet were reported in the mountains and winds in the 15-25 mph bracket caused drifting to depths of five feet in spots. The snow was expected to diminish Monday. ance in Oslo with her husband.

Before flying to France for a vacation, she had announced plans for building a retirement Sonja Henie home next to the Hoevikodden Art Center the couple had presented to Norway. "While we were in Paris she away from their car. The two were listed in serious condition, suffering from exposure. They had been on a rabbit hunting expedition when they became lost and their car broke down. Rescuers reached a couple in their snowbound cabin and another six persons at a mountain retreat.

All were in good shape. Air traffic was disrupted at Denver, Colorado Springs and Pueblo. A spokesman for Denver's Stapleton International Airport said there were times when the runways were too coated with snow and ice to be safe for the big passenger jetliners. The Colorado School of Mines football team needed six and a half hours for the 240-mile flight from Denver to Durango. The Weather Bureau issued hazardous driving warnings in southeastern Wyoming, the Colorado mountains and east of the Continental Divide and in northeastern New Mexico through the night.

The snow belt extended through the Rockies and into northeastern New Mexico, where as much as four inches accumulated on the ground Sunday. Power and telephone outages (Turn to Page 2, Col 4) More than 50 persons were rescued Saturday and Sunday. Among them were 22 Girl Scouts and three adults stranded at a camp northwest of Denver. Another 16 Girl Scouts were brought out by rangers from a mountain camp where they were snowed in. Two teenage boys were found early Sunday after they walked suddenly became much worse and was examined by a doctor," said Onstad.

"On his advice, I arranged for an ambulance plane to take her home to Oslo. We had been flying for only an hour and she just slept away." Onstad said his wife, an American citizen since 1941, would be buried in Oslo. Miss Henie's steel on ice brought her millions. She also married three wealthy husbands. Between 1924 and 1936 she won three Olympic gold medals, 10 world championships and six European championships before trying her luck in the film world of Hollywood.

force of several hundred men fronted by armored cars for its biggest single show of strength since it took over northern Ireland's internal security in mid-August. As the crowd built up and the tension grew, the army fired a barrage of tear gas cannis-ters. The Protestants retreated, threw up a barricade of three hijacked trucks across the road, and in front of the barricade, constructed a booby-trap a shallow trench filled with gasoline ready to be ignited if the army should advance. After advancing several hundred yards along the road, the troops stopped 100-yards from the first Protestant barricade and threw up their own barricade of two heavy armored cars and two armored police tenders. Said one observer: "It's a (Turn to Page 2, Col.

7) gue champions who had taken the opener, 4 to 1, Saturday in Memorial Stadium. With the series all squared, the teams resume play Tuesday in Shea Stadium in New York City, home of the Cinderella club which captured the National League pennant. Jim Palmer is scheduled to start on the mound in the third game for the Orioles and Gary Gentry is due to hurl for the Mets. namese. regardless of political coloring." Mansfield said that a Communist victory in such elections is "highly improbable, but the President has said if that is the outcome, he will accept it." Such elections, Mansfield said, should include the Viet Cong and all religious groups in South Vietnam.

Mansfield said he favors the planned Vietnam Moratorium demonstrations on Wednesday as long as they are of a "peaceful and constructive" nature. "Nobody is guaranteed the right to violate the law or to destroy property or to assault other people," Mansfield said. But, he added, "the Constitution guar- (Turn to Page 2, Col.5) YJTMA FDA and Top Mao An In Trouble Page 1J ROTC in Decline oa U.S. Campuses Page 7 U.S. Housing Shortage To Get Worse Page 15 GIs in Vietnam Divided On Moratorium Day Page 20 ADoroves Shift War Policy OSLO, Norway (AP) Sonja Henie, who skated a gold-paved path from Norway to Hollywood, died Sunday night of leukemia on an ambulance plane flying from Paris to Oslo.

She was 57. Her shipowner husband Niels Onstad said the Olympic medalist and film star "just slept away" halfway through the two-hour flight. Dr. Torjus Moe, the family medical adviser, said Miss Henie had been suffering from leukemia for the past nine months but it was a well-kept secret. Less than two weeks ago she had attended a theater perform NEW YORK (AP) The American Bar Association's Committee on the Federal Judiciary voted Sunday to reaffirm its endorsement of Judge Clement F.

Haynsworth Jr. to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. The reaffirmation was by a "substantial majority" of the 12-member committee, its chairman, Lawrence E. Walsh, said.

Walsh declined to give the exact vote. The original endorsement of Haynsworth had been unanimous, he said. Walsh's announcement followed an afternoon of deliberation by the committee, which reconsidered its position on President Nixon's controversial nominee in light of complaints against Haynsworth lodged by Sen. Birch Bayh, D-Ind. Walsh said that matters that had come to the committee's attention since it original endorsement of Haynsworth "did not warrant a change in that report." He had testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Sept.

18 that the ABA found Haynsworth "highly qualified." The Haynsworth nomination has received the approval of the Judiciary Committee and will ams By RICHARD GEISSLER And JERRY HOLLORON Missoulian Staff Writers Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield said here Sunday night that he sees a "decided shift" in United States policy in Vietnam and he likes it. Calling the Vietnam War "the worst mistake this country has ever made," the Montana Democrat applauded what he said was President Nixon's decision to move away from "maximum pressure" in Vietnam to a policy of "protective reaction." Mansfield was interviewed at The Missoulian office shortly after flying to Montana from Utah, where he delivered a speech honoring Sen. Frank Sen. Mike Mansfield In BALTIMORE (AP)-The amazing New York Mets, down one game after Saturday's opener, Sunday even the World See Story On Page 11 Series at one game apiece by decisioning the Baltimore Orioles, 2 to 1. Jerry Koosman, with ninth-inning relief from Ron Taylor, turned back the American Lea was asked to assess Nixon's performance on the Vietnam issue.

"I think he has moved in the right direction although I wish it could have been done faster," Mansfield answered. But he said there is a "decided lull in the fighting;" that infiltration from North Vietnam has been only about 20,000 in the last seven months, compared with from 7,000 to 13,000 a month last year, and that the United States has announced plans to withdraw a total of 60,000 troops. "I see additional troop withdrawals under the right circumstances. being possible) at the end of the year or the first of next year," Mansfield added. He said he agrees with Nixon that free elections must be conducted "for all South Viet Committee Members Try obs To Abolish Their Jt Insight and Inside standing committees in the House and 33 in the Senate.

A Reorganization Act was passed cutting the totals to 19 in the House and 15 in the Senate. But fewer committees meant fewer committee chairmen, which meant fewer rewards for climbing up the ladder of seniority. And so began the great subcommittee boom. Like amoebas, the committees divided, created new life, divided again. Subcommittees divided.

Today, although the number of standing committees is only a few more than it was after the 1946 act, there are 251 subcommittees where there had been hardly any before, 137 in the House and 114 in the Senate. This is the institution that Nedzi and Pettis have challenged. Since it is an unprecedented problem for Congress to deal with, a new subcommittee probably will be established to consider their bill. what the numbers refer to. When they tried to find out, all they were told was that this is the way it has always been done.

Although that is the answer to most questions about congressional procedures, Nedzi and Pettis decided it fell short of the explanation they desired and they introduced a bill last week to have the committee abolished. The Senate members. Democrat Gale McGee of Wyoming and Republican Hiram Fong of Hawaii have yet to be heard from. The proliferation of subcommittees has taken place largely since Congress decided in 1946 it had too many committees and cut them down. Up until then, as the nation grew, new committees were added to deal with new problems.

By 1946 there were 48 WASHINGTON (AP) In a move that could shake the foundations of Congress, two members of a special committee have asked that it be abolished because it doesn't have anything to do. The unprecedented proposal flies in the face of tradition, practice and the unwritten law that once established, a committee goes on forever. Still, the amazing step has been taken by Reps. Lucien N. Nedzi, and Jerry L.

Pettis, R-Calif. They are the House members of the Joint Committee on Disposition of Executive Papers, which was formed in 1944 for reasons no one on Capitol Hill can now recall. The sole duty of the members, says Nedzi, is to sign their names to long lists of numbers that appear periodically from the executive branch. Neither Nedzi nor Pettis has any idea j7 1.

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