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Mxoe Holds Guerrillas
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President Nixon, in a warning that
carried a threat of possible retaliation,
said Thursday Palestinian guerrillas wduld
be held responsible for the safety of
hijack hostages they are holding.
The President authorized the statement
after conferring by telephone shortly
after 2 a.m. with Dr. Henry A. Kissinger,
his national security adviser, to gain a
report on the fighting in Jordan and
Lebanon. He also talked by telephone
US Wants
Boycotts
In Hijackings
The United States will propose today
an international air boycott of any
country that harbors airline hijackers or
detains hijacked planes, their passengers
or crew members, the State Department
announced. '
Transportation Secretary John A.
Volpe will lead a U.S. delegation at a
special meeting of the International Civil
Aviation Organization XXICAO) 7 . in
MonrxeaTjEd press
aimed at assuring swift extradition and
trial of hijackers.
The organization's 119 member
nations will be asked to . suspend air
service to any country that refuses to'
extradite or prosecute hijackers or detains
hijacked planes and travelers.
The United States will ask the ICAO
legal committee to draft an international
treaty covering such situations when it
meets in London Sept. 29, the State
Department said Thursday.
The delegation to Montreal, which also
includes John H. Shaffer, administrator
of the Federal Aviation Administration,,
was named by President Nixon,, who last
week put armed guards on U.S. airliners
as a deterrent ot hijacking.
If already in force, such a treaty would
presumably have applied to Jordan where
Palestinian guerrilla hijackers took three
airliners and blew them up and where
they still are holding 54 passengers and
crew members as hostages.
The treaty sought by the government
was endorsed Thursday by Sen. John C.
Stennis, D-Miss., chairman of a Senate
transportation appropriations
subcommittee, and by the Air Line Pilots
Assocuation (AIPA).
Both termed armed guards a temporary
deterrent but said the only permanent
solution was an international treaty.
Stennis proposed the "extreme" step of
blacklisting any country that refused to
honor the treaty's provision for prompt
extradition of hijackers. ,
"I am hard pressed to imagine any
action at this country's disposal which
could be considered an over-reaction,"
Stennis said. "The United States has got
to show that it means business. A handful
of international bandits should not be
allowed to exercise authority and
strength while this nation is made to look
helpless and defensive."
Graham
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The Rev. Dr. Billy Graham, who
believes the Bible holds the answers to
man's future, Thursday predicted the
next step of the radical left in the United
States will be kidnaping.
At a news conference outlining his
1971 crusade, the evangelist said through
contacts in several leftist groups he has
learned of one in particular which is
planning to kidnap prominent figures. He
declined to identify the group. Graham
said he believes if the Vietnam War were
ended and solutions were found to other
problems plaguing society, there would
still be groups ?ttempting to overthrow
the American government.
If such groups continued their
revolutionary attempts the government
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with Secretary of State William P. Rogers,
the White House said.
While Nixon was meeting with Chicago
newspaper executives in the windup of a
two-day Midwest tour, White House Press
Secretary Ronald A. Ziegler issued a
statement that "the President wants it
clearly understood that the holding of
American citizens as hostages is to be
abhorred, and also that those who hold
American citizens as hostages will be held
responsible for their safety."
Nixon backed up the statement in his
own words a few hours later when he
attended a "Citizenship Day" reception
for 140 persons due to take the oath as
naturalized citizens Thursday.
"We do not accept the proposition that
some American citizens should be treated
one way and some treated another way
because they happen to have been born in
another country," he said.
"Once they become American citizens,
they are entitled to the protection of the
American government and they will have
it every place in the world."
Coupled with a statement from the
State Department in Washington, Nixon's
statement amounted to the sternest
warning yet concerning the fate of 23
Americans who have been held hostage
by Arab plane hijackers for 10 days.
f-State Department spokesman Robert J. ;
-McCloskey declined in Washington to rule
out the possibility of U.S. .military
M
aximum Funds Urged
For Student
The state director of higher education
said Thursday he has written presidents
of North Carolina colleges and
universities urging them to request the
maximum federal funds for student
financial assistance they can justify. 1
Cameron P. West said he took the
action in the wake of a study following a
newspaper story which quoted a federal
official as saying the state's educational
institutions were not receiving their fair
share of federal funds for student aid.
At the same time, West said that while
there have been individual institutions
which have not made maximum use of
federal funds, "in the main" there
appears to be reasonably efficient
administration.
West's memo to members of the Board
of Higher Education said an assertation
by Dr. Walter Gale, chief of the loans
branch of the U. S. Office of Education,
that North Carolina institutions would
have received more federal dollars if they
had asked for them "is not verifiable
from an analysis of the data received."
West said an assertation that North
Carolina institutions do not adequately
justify their aid requests is 'Virtually
impossible to verify yet equally
impossible to deny."
West said North Carolina's aid requests
in the past "have always been sufficient
to more than exhaust its state allotment
dollars as well as to claim some of the
'spillover' dollars from states whose
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will have to step in with stronger laws, he
said.
"People should not be .allowed to
preach or teach the violent overthrow of
the American government," he said. "It's
subversive."
Referring to President Nixon's speech
at Manhattan, Kan., Wednesday, Graham
said the shouting and booing of small
numbers of persons was an interference
with the basic right of freedom of speech.
"I think a person ought to have the
right to say what he has to say without
people shouting him down," he said.
He condemned all persons who go to
speeches and. lectures solely for the
purpose of disrupting the speaker.
intervention ,in Jordan, where the
hostages are being held.
He said there were no plans for such
action, but he would "not get into
statements of total self-denial" because it
is "obvious we are facing a serious
situation."
Responding to questions in Chicago,
Ziegler denied the White House
statements were aimed at setting the
scene for American intervention in the
area. But he confirmed that elements of
the U.S. 6th Fleet are "taking routine
precautionary
Mediterranean.
measures
in
the
Closure Bid Fails
The Senate struck a hard and maybe
fatal blow Thursday to a constitutional
amendment to make everybody's vote for
president count the same.
Although the action came on a
procedural question to kill a
filibuster it definitely weakened if it did
not altogether wreck chances for electoral
reform in time for the 1972 elections.
With a two-thirds majority required to
stop a Southern-led filibuster against the
amendment, proponents of reform could
muster only 54 votes to cut off debate
Assistance
requests have fallen below their allotment
levels."
He said institutions should in the
future try to capture a larger share of the
"spillover" dollars from other states.
West said in a memo to the college
officials he was urging them "to request
from Washington the maximum federal
allocation which you feel your institution
needs and can adequately justify for the
coming year."
Manson Linked
To Murder Gun
Charles Manson owned a pistol
identical to the one used in the Sharon
Tate murders and it disappeared from the
Spahn ranch about the time of the
killings, a state witness testified Thursday
at the murder trial.
Danny Decarlo, 26, a motorcycle gang
member and briefly one of the "Manson
family," said the cult leader also bought a
nylon rope no different from the one
found around the necks of Miss Tate and
hair stylist Jay Sebring.
Deputy District Attorney Vincent
Bugliosi completed questioning of
Decarlo after two days on the stand in
which he tied the 35-year-old Manson
into the murders although the state does
not charge he actually committed any of
the seven slayings.
Cambodians
Attacked
PHNOM PENH-Communist forces
reported to be using artillery for the first
time in the Cambodian war attacked a
trapped 4,000-man Cambodian task force
early Thursday, killing five men and
wounding 20.
Commanders said the isolated unit was
running short of ammunition as two
battalions of Cambodian reinforcements
moved north along the highway in an
attempt to break through the Communist
cordon in an area 49 miles north of
PhnomPenh.
In South Vietnam, Communist troops
Jordanian army troops, backed by
heavy artillery and armored units, fought
their way into Amman Thursday and
claimed to have crushed the Arab
guerrilla movement there. The guerrillas
denied the army had won and said they
would "fight to the bitter end."
Fires burned in the city from the
bombardment and a munber of homes
and buildings lay in ruins. The United
States said it was "prepared to evacuate"
Americans from Jordan if necessary.
Palestinian guerrillas claimed Thursday
night to have "liberated" Northern
Jordan from army rule and set up their
own government headed by Nahmoud
Roussan, former Jordanian ambassador to
Washington. The statement was issued
over the guerrilla radio, the Voice of
Palestine, and monitored in Jerusalem.
In a late night statement issued in
Amman, the guerrillas claimed they were
in full control of the city, but that army
troops surrounded the capital. News
reporters on the scene, however, sent
dispatches to the outside world through
diplomatic channels saying that Jordanian
troops and armor blasted their way into
Amman after 1 3 hours of fighting.
By late afternoon Thursday, the
Western reporters said guerrilla troops
and army units were locked in what
appeared to be the final showdown battle
for the city. The army's heavy guns fixed
around Amman pumped salvo after salvo
into the city.
The exact number of casualties were
not know, but guerrilla officials said
Palestinians were mowed down by the
score.
against
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26 votes to continue it six votes
Most opponents of the amendment say
it would give excessive electoral powers
to a few of the most populous states and
negate the influence of the small states.
Sens. Birch Bayh, D-Ind., and Howard
H. Baker, R-Tenn., chief sponsors of the
amendment,' immediately vowed to carry
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Bayh's hope lay in one of two courses:
persuading the Southern bloc, aided by
some small state Republicans, to let the
issue come to a vote on its merits after
further debate; or to switch some of the
senators who refused to force a halt in
the debate through cloture.
Neither prospect would be easy. But
Baker said, "There is a chance we can get
it to a direct vote."
Under the present system of electing
presidents, each state is allocated votes in
the Electoral College equal to its total
representation in Congress.
The 36 senators voting against cloture
included 18 Republicans and 18
Democrats.
World News Briefs
backed away from a U.S. aerial
bombardment around Fire Base O'Reilly
and American spokesmen said it appeared
that North Vietnamese and Viet Cong
forces were intentionally disengaging
from U.S. units in other parts of the
country.
US Carrier
Mothballed
JACKSONVILLE, Ha. -The World
War II aircraft carrier USS Shangri-La,
which has been based at the Mayport
naval station here for 10 years, will be
retired to tha mothball fleet,
fleet.
Secretary of the Navy John H. Chafee
anounced Thursday the Shangri-La will
be one of 58 aging ships to be mothballed
or scrapped.
Talks Continue
PARIS-The Vietnamese Communists
Thursday offered the United States a
limited cease-fire and prompt talks on the
exchange of U.S. and Communist
prisoners of war if President Nixon agrees
to remove all American and other allied
troops from Vietnam by June 30, 1971.
Chief U.S. negotiator David K. E.
Bruce and South Vietnam's Pham Dang
Lam, while promising to study the
package offer, said it contained nothing
essentially new. Bruce said the offer
looked to him like "new wine in old
bottles."
Speaking to reporters during an awards
ceremony at Camp Picket. Va., Defense
Secretary" Melvin R. Laird said the United
States is "prepared to evacuate Americans
from Jordan if necessary."
He said if the evacuation had to be
carried out, the United States could rely
on the Jordanian army for protection. A
Pentagon spokesman said later that
Laird's remarks were in the context of
previous U.S. statements and added "we
have pre-positioned certain ships and
transport aircraft" for possible
evacuation.
In Jordan, guerrilla leaders appealed to
Iraq to intervene in the fighting. Iraq has
12,000 to 15,000 troops in Jordan and
both Iraq and Syria We sided with the
guerrillas in their opposition to Jordan's
King Hussein and the military
government installed Wednesday.
The military government clamped an
Bombings
Attorney General John N." Mitchell
said Thursday that various groups are
"working on a national basis" to carry
out bombings and other terrorist acts in
the cities and on college campuses.
He indicated that the government
seeks to prosecute individuals who
commit terrorism rather than going after
the organizations, which he declined to
identify. The most effective way to deal
with bombings, he said, is to "shut off
the supply of explosives."
Mitchell spoke to newsmen after he
met at the Justice Department with
mayors and other officials of nine
Midwestern cities at their request to
discuss the recent rash of bombings and
attacks on police in their areas.
Mayor Eugene A. Lealy of Omaha,
Neb., who arranged the meeting, said it
was "most productive."
'" Leahy said the city authorities now
feel assured - of federal technical
assistance, counseling and funds to cope
with the problem, as well as changes in
the judicial system and methods of
prosecution.
Mitchell pledged in a statement that
the Justice Department and the FBI
would cooperate fully with local
authorities. He noted that the
government is underwriting a national
information center , created by the
International- Association of Chiefs of
Police to provide police departments with
intelligence on bombings, explosive
devices and "security precautions for
potential targets."
Mitchell endorsed administration
legislation, opposed by industry, that
would require federal licensing of
explosives manufacturers and dealers and
require buyers to furnish identification.
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Pop Festivals
ATLANTA-The State Board of Health
proposed Thursday the legislature place
tight "protective" restrictions on any
future pop festivals in Georgia to control
and possibly eliminate mass gatherings
such as the recent Byron pop festival.
The unanimously-passed
recommendation contained eight points
which Dr. B. Forester of Macon,
chairman of the board, said were "aimed
at the big money boys"-festival
promoters.
The board said that the proposals were
'protective recommendations to the
exploiters of youth, not at youth itself."
Dr. John H. Venable, state health
director, warned that any legislation
suggested or enacted "must spell out who
enforces it and how."
The board's recommendations also
contained the point that "the young
people of the state must be provided with
outlets for the enjoyment of life." To
accomplish that, a proposal was made
that state, county and municipal
governments provide funds for "alternate
and helpful methods of self-expression."
Among the alternate activities
suggested by the board were: "Concerts,
dances, street festivals, art festivals, craft
workshops and exhibits, boating and
swimming events and campouts."
Mitchell
on An nun and said
anyone caught
on the streets would be
shot.
Guerrilla spokesmen said the Jordanian
army is expected "to attempt to surf
into Amman during the night or in the
morning. They denounced Amman radio
broadcasts claiming the army had crushed
the guerrillas in Amman as lie.
Western diplomatic sources in Beirut
said they had received reports that the
American embassy in Amman had been
hit twice at roof-top level, probably with
mortars. They said, however, that there
were no casualties and no assessment of
damage.
Some of Thursday's toughest battles
centered around the Wahdat refugee
camp, Amman's biggest, which about
3 1 ,000 Palestinians, guerrilla sources said.
It was there that some of the Western
hostages from three pbnes hijacked to
Jordan were believed to be held. Their
fate could not have been determined.
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Commercial "users -would need federal
permits and others such as farmers would
have to state in writing how they plan to
use the explosives.
Asked whether there was a "pattern of
conspiracy" in recent bombings, Mitchell
said he had "no doubt that some acts of
terrorism are brought about by groups in
this country," although there was no
evidence of a single, coordinated effort
nationwide.
"But I did not say there are not groups
working on a national basis, because there
are," he said.
The attorney general said he was sure
the four fugitives sought in the $6 million
bombing of a research center at the
University of Wisconsin, in which a
graduate student was killed, would be
"apprehended in the near future" even
though they had gone underground.
Trying to find them, he said, is like
"looking for a needle in a haystack."
LSD Fop
'Trips Out'
Employes
All three employes of radio station
WIYN in Rome, Ga. who unknowingly
drank LSD-laced soft drinks earlier this
week have been released from Floyd
County Hospital.
Bill Underwood, a newsman at the
station, was discharged from the hospital
Wednesday and the other two employes,
Nancy Nichols, a receptionist, and Windy
Miller, program director, were released
Thursday morning.
A staffer at the station said they would
probably not return to work for about a
police arrested one suspect in
the drugging incident but released him
without charges. They said their
investigation was continuing.
The three persons drank the doctored
soft drinks Monday after they found
them left in front of the station. An
anonymous caller said the drinks were a
token of appreciation for the station's
programming.
Underwood was the first to sip one of
the drinks. He said he did not notice any
effects until about 30 minutes afterward.
"I began to feel numb all over,"
Underwood said, "the way you feel when
your foot goes to sleep, and the radio
console in front of me began to bend and
change shape."
Miller said the effect of the drug lasted
about seven or eight hours, although the
time seemed to fly by. He called the
experience dangerous, and added,
"Without the care we had, anything could
have happened to us."