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Friday. April 20, 1971 Q r TEoc-Marines tell hbout killing Viet civilians raxoii mm on 'iiomciii wiiiiii ze&nzy I 111' on iralaMom, emoloymeiM: A The Daily Tar Heel I 3 I I' : ' illiilil: t ri r- WASHINGTON-Former Marines told an unofficial house committee Thursday they witnessed or participated in the , bombing, shelling or strafing of civilians in Indochina. Rep. Louis C. Wyman, R-N.H., . meanwhile, said in a House speech that 1 the Congressmen conducting the informal hearings on alleged U.S. war atrocities "deserve censure." He said the hearings . were being used to "wilfully undermine" the U.S. military. Kenneth J. Campbell, 23, of Philadelphia, a former Marine V artilleryman, said in unsworn testimony T that in August, 1969, he directed artillery fire on two villages north of Con Thien , ;near the Demilitarized Zone, killing at least 20 civilians. David F. Bressen of Springfield, Mass., a former Marine helicopter gunship pilot, .;' said that in late 1967 Vietnamese civilians were fired upon by U.S. helicopters as they ran through a rice paddy. Another former Marine pilot, Jon .Randolph Floyd, 25, now a student at " the University of Texas, said that in 'reconnaissance flights over Laos in 1968 ' "our primary mission wzf look for "convoys," but they were peitted bomb "any living things." . ; ' In a brief floor speech, Wyman said the Congressmen conducting the hearing were misleading the public to believe that it was an official House proceeding. He said he had protested to speaker Carl Albert, but was told that all House members have the right, to use House ; office building facilities for meetings to , discuss any subject they wished. ;fv Hxon dismisses cease-fire proposal W A S H I NGTON The Nixon 'Administration dismissed a proposal Tmade by the Viet Cong representative to the Paris peace talks Thursday as propaganda rather than a serious cease-fire proposal. Both the White House and the State Department brushed aside the stand-down offer by Madame Binh that Viet Cong troops were ready to stop shooting at U.S. forces "who undertake no hostile action against them." At the White House, Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said U.S. Ambassador David K.E. Bruce "was expressing the position of the U.S. government" when he dismissed the suggestion. "We would be delighted if the other side were willing to negotiate a ceasefire," Ziegler said, but added he thought Mme. ..B.i n.h.' s,;.:. p.flC..x a 'statement V I V I-wouldn't k."ata. proposal." - Ziegler made his statement just a few hours before President Nixon, who spent the day preparing for it, held a formal televised news conference from the White House at 9 p.m. EDT. The President, who flies to California Friday to greet the last major contingent of Marines to be withdrawn from Vietnam, was certain to be questioned about his Vietnam War policies at the session with reporters. Committee okays abortion bill : RALEIGH-After adopting one ;t amendment, the Senate Public Welfare .'.(3;fflft (HilSh Improv Grades Whil Devoting The Sm Amount Of Tim To Study USE STUDY SOUNDS Incroas Your Concentration And Improve Your Comprehension. Study At A Faster Rate. ELECTRON SC ALLY PRODUCED SOUNDS CAUSE THIS TO HAPPEN Ptease Specify 8 Track Tape, Cassette. Or LP Record Send Check or Money Order $9.95 Each Include 75c Handling and Postage Sound Concepts, Inc.. Box 3852 Charlottesville. Va. 22902 BEER BEER THE SHACK Come In Before It Falls In HAPPY HOUIl Every Night 7:30-8:30 7 Plenty Parking 120 W. Rosemary ALL YOU CAN EAT AT JOE'S 3-12 FRIED FISH Cole Slew Ci French Fries $1.35 DRAFT BEER $.75 PITCHER 5-9 PM "Iran nn fipnnnn O kJLJ U L Jury rejects Ray plea CINCINNATI-A federal court Thursday rejected an appeal by James Earl Ray who charged his own attorneys deprived him of a "fair trial" for the assassination of . the Rev. Martin Luther King. The court responded to a suit filed in Tennessee in which Ray charged that attorneys Arthur J. Hanes and Percy Foreman "conspired to violate his right to a fair trial." Also named in the suit was author William Bradford Huie. Ray never went to trial for the April, 1968 King assassination. He pleaded guilty to the murder charge in March 1969, and is now serving a 99-year sentence z Brushy Mountain Prison near Petros, Tenn. The Sixth Circuit Court's rejection of Ray's appeal thwarted another of his many attempts to reopen the assassination case. Had the appeal been upheld, Ray as expected to have sought a hearing challenging the validity of his guilty plea. Ray's suit said he had entered into a contract -with Huie and Hanes to write a book about the assassination three days after he was arrested in London, England on July 8, 1968. The suit said Hanes and Huie had "used their positions of trust to impose these contracts on Ray against his will." Under the agreement, Huie would write the book and Hanes and Ray would each get 30 per cent of the gross receipts from its sale. Ray fired Hanes later and hired Foreman as his attorney. A new contract was drawn up Jan. 29, 1969 in which it was stated Hanes would relinquish all his rights under the old contract. . . On Feb. 3, 1969, Ray signed another agreement in which he assigned any profits he might make from the sale of the book to Foreman as pay for his legal services. Ray later became disenchanted with the contracts, according to his suit, and asked a Tennessee Appeals Court to void them. Appeals Judges Wade McCree and Henry Brooks affirmed the decision of the lower court. Judge William E. Miller dissented. "We agreed with the district court's conclusion that there is no evidence to support the appellant's Ray's allegations that he was deprived of his civil rights . . . There is no proof of conspiracy here," McCree and Brooks ruled. .' Committee Thursday gave unanimous approval to a bill which makes two changes in the state's present abortion law. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Jack Rhyne, D-Gaston, reduces the number of doctors who must certify the abortion is needed from three to one and sets a residency requirement of 30 days. The bill, which passed the House last week, passed the committee after an amendment was added which would require doctors and hospitals to report all abortions to the State Board of Health. r Sen. J Ollie ! Harris, D-Cleveland, submitted the amendment at the request of Rhynd. Rhyne said the reporting was a safeguard to make sure doctors were not performing abortions for illegal reasons. - . Under the present, law, abortion is permitted ' in three cases when: ; the pregnancy ; endangers 4 a. woman's mental t or physical health, when it might result in a seriously deformed child or when it is the result of rape or incest. Bombers strike at strongholds SAIGON-B52 Strato-fortresses for the third day in a row Thursday bombed jungles north of the A Shau valley, where allied troops were probing what is WATERBEDS Why Pay More? Take One With You This Summer-Only $33.98 967-5104 HAPPY BIRTHDAY JESS MINES La bPb IE JUBILEE WEEKEND TAR HEEL SANDWICH SHOP OPEO Friday Saturday 11 A.M. To 2 A.M. GOOD FOOD LjLj thought to be the last major Communist stronghold in South Vietnam. The U.S. command reported four strikes by the B52s Wednesday night and Thursday on bunker complexes, antiaircraft positions and road junctions between 13 and 21 miles northwest of the valley. The eight-engine jets, flying from bases in Thailand, made one of the biggest bombing raids of the year in South Vietnam Tuesday and Wednesday when five missions struck targets at the north end of the A Shau. Gold prices rise to 18-month high ; lNDON-GoM 18-month high on the London bullion market Thursday and the U.S. dollar hovered weakly near floor level amid . mounting fears of a new international money crisis. But dealers said buying of gold was only "moderate." They said there was no panic buying spree like that in March, 1 968, when the United States lost nearly $1.5 billion of its gold reserves. The gold price increased to $39.95ra fine ounce at the colde on the London bullion , market. This represented a 50-cent increase over Wednesday and the highest point touched since late 1969. Here's your chance to explore the full spectrum of pizza tastes. You'll find the favorite combination that's vol taste among the tempting LUNCHEON A complete selection of piping hot pizzas, plus fresh garden salad with out special Pizza Inn di essmq ALL YOU CAN EAT 0m Mon. Thru Fri. 11:30 A.M.-1:30 PJVI. 208 VV. Franklin 942-5149 WASHINGTON-House Speaker Carl Albert accused President Nixon and top Administration officials Thursday of being out of touch with reality and proposed a national conference on unemployment and inflation. "It is clear that the White House needs fresh advice and assistance in formulation of its economic policies," the Oklahoma Democrat said at a news conference announcing a resolution asking Nixon to convene such a meeting. The resolution, introduced by Rep. Free press bill hits Senate snag RALEIGH A bill which would require public officials to open their meetings to the public unless exempted by law landed in a Senate subcommittee Thursday, sent there by senators. who offered a barrage of amendments. The bill passed the House by a vote of 110-1 and the Senate Judiciary Two Committee had been expected to vote on it Thursday. But Sen. Ruffin Bailey, D-Wake, introduced several amendments and then successfully moved that the measure be sent to a subcommittee. The measure, which has strong support from the state's news media, . would require all meetings of the state, county and municipal governments to be open to the public. Violation would be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine up to $250 and imprisonment up to 30 days. Mansfield fights rail takeover WAS HINGTON Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield Thursday angrily called the Senate into an unusual Friday session to try to stop the federal government's takeover of the nation's rail passenger service. .. At the same time, U.S. District Court Judge Howard F. Corcoran said he would hand down decisions early Friday in three lawsuits aimed at halting operations of Amtrak, the name of the new semipublic train system. "As far asjhe state of Montana goes, it should be v.caUed. half-tra shouted on the" Senate floor! MEEIL VITH fluid FhoD AJmr bt Gkapel Departeant of Athletics REVISED April 21 April 23 April 24 May 1 Hay 4 May 7 May 8 May. 10 May 12 Carl D. Perkins, D-Ky., urges that jobless workers, be represented at such a conference, together with the government, industry, finance, labor, agriculture and consumers. Siid Albert: "The Administration appears not to wish to be held accountable for the 5 million Americans who are officially unemployed, at least another million who have given up looking for work and additional millions who have less than sufficient part-time employment." In the Senate, Sen. Walter F. Mondale, D-Minn., introduced legislation to move up to this year the effective for full implementation of scheduled increases in personal exemptions and standard deduction rates in personal income tax reports. The personal exemption per person in filing federal taxes rose, effective with 1970 reports, from S600 to S625, and is scheduled to rise gradually to S750 after three years. T1 B irae. displays Israel displayed its military might to at least a million citizens Thursday on its 23rd independence anniversary. Prime Minister Golda Meir said the nation was stronger than ever before. While Israelis watched air and naval demonstrations, ILS. Secretary of State William P. Rogers met in Paris with French Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann to discuss Middle East peace efforts before flying to Ankara, Turkey, for a meeting of the Central Treaty Organization CENTO. Rogers told newsmen he did not expect his forthcoming visit to the Middle East to produce any dramatic breakthroughs but hoped it would "contribute to the momentum which is already in the process toward peaceful settlement." Diplomatic sources in London said the United States and, to a lesser degree, Britain, have agreed to try for a limited agreement in the Arab- Israeli conflict because a comprehensive settlement was too difficult. It would involve reopening of the Suez Canal. The Soviet Union still insists on a comprehensive settlement but is not blocking present American efforts at compromise because Moscow wants the canal open, the sources siad. Eygyptian foreign ministry sources siad Rogers would be told during two days of meetings with Egyptian leaders in Cairo beginning Tuesday that Israel must agree to eventual withdrawal from all Egyptian territory before Egypt will enter into an agreement on the canal. Ketone found not guilty FT. MCPHERSON, Ga.-Capt. Eugene M. Kotouc, a former intelligence officer, was found innocent Thursday of maiming a Viet Cong suspect near My Lai, but his attorney said this still left the "mystery" of why Kotouc was ever tried. "I don't like mysteries, and on a completely personal basis, I intend to continue to unravel this mystery for myself," said Robert Crosby, former Nebraska governor and Kotouc's civilian defense counsel. A seven-officer court-martial panel deliberated just 65 minutes before clearing the 37-year-old Kotouc on the maiming charge, which could have resulted in a seven-year prison sentence. "I couldn't be happier," Kotouc, of Humboldt, Neb., beamed after hearing the verdict. "I'm pleased to be living in a country where we have a system of justice as we have in this country' ....... ,,,,.. By contrast to the five-month-long trial 'of Lt!:-Wmiam Lr Calley Jr.; whd' was convictea oi mass muraer ax My J-ai, K.otouc s coun-maruai iasteu jum mur uays. Hill JalzpixcntL UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Chapel Hill, N. C. 1971 ' VARSITY BASEBALL SCHEDULE 7:30 P. M. N. C. State 7:30 P. M. Maryland 2:00 P. M. Virginia 2:00 P. M. South Carolina 7:30 P. M. Davidson 7:30 P. H. Duke 2:00 P. M. Virginia Tech 7:30 P. M. East Carolina 7:30 P. M. Wake Forest X, i ' I The standard income deduction for persons who do not iter.vlza also is scheduled to rise gradually during the same period to 15 per cent. Mondale proposed that this also be nude effective for 1971 income, in filings due April 15, 1972. Mondale, saying changes were needed immediately to stimulate the economy, also called for reinstitution of a 7 per cent tax credit for the first S25,COO of investment in new facilities or equipment. Another proposal by Mondale would extend from 26 weeks to 39 weeks the maximum period of eligibility for unemployment compensation. A new government report indicated consumers are still apprehensive about assurances by Nixon and some of his cabinet members that the economy was on the road to improvement. The Commerce Department said a survey of consumer buying expectations "suggests that consumer confidence in the economy has improved only slightly since January." H m eiaMary Axins:. Comply vfr ... Halter Rabb, Coach Durham Athletic Park Durham Athletic Park Durham Athletic Park Durham Athletic Park Durham Athletic Park Durham Athletic Park Durham Athletic Park Durham Athletic Park Durham Athletic Park KHz 'a
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