Tr C:! 1st Hsti 5 E" 511! HMQ)EI13F pji? 0a alar likl ngum if si Sii-JIohiinisoe m ATLANTA A mysterious rcvcluticr.iry army" group, ssminIy patterned after the 1 leant kidnapers, held Ahcnta Constitution Editor Jofca R. "Res" murphy captive Thursday without r"" 14.3 lilOUVZ. The 0-year-o!d Murphy, a soft-spoken r-"-P . personally, but hard-hitting in his vritir.g, disappeared at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday when he left his home with a man who apparently came to the door saying 1107 e ransom asked HILLSBOROUGH, Calif. The kidnapers of Patricia Hearst Thursday Cz7?.zs.tzi. another $4 million in food as a condition cf her release, and said if the f enu'y does not "comply precisely," they will break off communication. The terrorists also Nixon requests stijjer drug law WASHINGTON President Nixon told Congress Thursday he wants stiff new penalties against illicit drug dealers, including mandatory minimum sentences for fmst offenders and higher maximums across the board. "While our enforcement efforts are proving effective in finding drug traffickers," the President said in a message to the House and Senate, "our system of criminal justice is not as effective in dealing with them after they are arrested." Nixon said he would submit to Congress in the near future a legislative package calling for a minimum federal sentence of three years, and a maximum of 15 years, for a first offense of dealing in narcotics. A second offense would carry a penalty of 10 to 30 years. The maximum penalty for dealing in other dangerous drugs would be increased from five years to 10 for a first offense, and from 10 years to 15 for a second offense. Second offenders would be subject to a minimum of three years. A Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman said under the 1970 law there is no minimum or mandatory sentence for either first or second offenders. This law carries a maximum 15 years imprisonment for the first offense and 30 for the second in trafficking in major drugs. 1 1 UH0 (JAS X3 M CJ IIJ o o a J7i? AN K'zrz I'M rt iit TOLA-J UJTH W0CP5TDCK . M cm 0 l he wanted to discuss a news story. FBI agents reportedly were searching for a white man driving a green Ford Torino who was seen leaving the quiet Emory University residential section where Murphy lived with his wife, Virginia, and their two teen-age daughters. At 9: IS p.m., 1 hour and 45 minutes after Murphy apparently was abducted, the first of three phone calls came through from a group identifying itself as the "revolutionary threatened to hold Hearst as a hostage for two members of their group held in San Quentin Prison. A family spokesman said the latest communique from the terrorist Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) came in the form of a tape and letter left in a San Francisco telephone booth Wednesday night. The communique was addressed to the Rev. Cecil Williams, who received an earlier communique, and he was alerted to its whereabouts by an anonymous telephone call. The latest communication also contained a reference by the SLA to the two men being held in San Quentin Prison charged with 'murder in the assassination of Oakland Schools Supt. Dr. Marcus Foster. The SLA claimed responsibility for that killing. Admiral denies spy operations WASHINGTON Adm. Robert O. Welander testified Thursday he refused a demand in 1971 by John D. Ehrlichman, then President Nixon's domestic affairs adviser, that he sign a document admitting he was a key figure in an alleged military spying operation in the White House. Welander also told a Senate hearing the charges by Yeoman 1C Charles Radford, his former clerk, were made in retaliation because Welander had accused Radford of leading classified materials to syndicated columnist Jack Anderson. Radford, in testimony made public by the Senate ArmedServices Committee, claimed Wednesday that he stole White House documents and spied on Henry A. Kissinger and Gen. Alexander Haig on the direct instructions of Welander and Adm. Rembrandt C. Robinson. Robinson , who was killed in Vietnam in 1971, preceded Welander as head of the UUl J LJ - n ilirJ in n 13S E. Rosemary Street NCNB PLAZA 042-0753 OPEN 11 Q.m.-2 o.m. 7 DAYS 'in THE MOVIE 'imitation of UFE;CLAUPTTE C0lERT TCEAT5 I 1 GIVE UP.A "v . WHO WAS J I t A THs ACTOS i " 3 JJtL-3Sj 1 tWATA QUZSVQN, HG&Zf HSS 60m 70 LAW SaCl CSCAL'SB CMS PAY PZCZAZLY COINS 70 C2 A I6ZDUJUP, XM601N6 A!PZ$. RJCHZ Ml CAUCUS?, THAT'S RIGHT, QBAZ.. I t HOW SUY k amy" and claiming it had taken Murphy hostage. Jim Minter, managing editor of the Constitution, received the first call from a man who said the newsapper would hear more from the abductors Later. Five minutes later, television station WAGA received another call from a man identifying himself as a colonel in the revolutionary army. "We have Reg Murphy, editor of the Constitution, and don't bother to call the FBI. It won't help," the colonel told WAGA. Shortly after this call, Ms. Murphy was contacted and told: "If you want to know about your husband, call Jim Minter."" Nearly 24 hours after the abduction, however, William Fields, executive editor of the Constitution, said there had been no further word on Murphy's fate. The executive editor explained that Murphy, unlike Patricia Hearst, was not a person of wealth. However, the Cox chain, which owns the Constitution, is one of the top newspaper groups in the country, along with the Hearst newspapers and others. Last Saturday the Constitution ran an editorial saying the abduction of Patricia Hearst, being held by a group that demands her father feed the needy of California,. "is almost a-minature history of the problems of our times. There is a fanatic and criminal radical group, the Symbionese Liberation Army, that apparently wants to overthrow the established order. . . . Pentagon's liaison office in the White House. Welander said in prepared testimony for the closed hearing, that on Dec. 2 1 or 22, 1971-, he was instructed to report immediately to Ehrlichman. Jury selection slow NEW YORK Slow progress was reported Thursday in the choosing of a jury not affected by a 20-month-long barrage of publicity to give a fair trial to former cabinet officers John N. Mitchell and Maurice H. Stans on charges of conspiracy, obstruction of justice and perjury. Of the 52 candidates needed, only 1 2 had been approved by midday by federal Judge Lee P. Gagliardi in the secret questioning he decided on as part of the jury selection method. n n I HAP FCSSOTTEN ALL ABOUT NED SPARKS rs "CO! CAN I BBA TOOT! ciccst? i 1 f Hi from th Ccmpllcd by Te rn Cawycr V.lro Ed'.ior Ni::on postpones XL European trip WASHINGTON President Nixon has postponed once again the European trip oris!ns!ly conceived cs a top diplomatic priority for 1S73, Yhlts Housa offlcicls disclosed Thursday. They said the President had d sclded "thlsvas not the time" for the West European swing he had scheduled for April. But they said they did not know whether his decision was influenced by snags In U.S.-Eurcpean relations or reluctance to travel at a time when the House Impeachment Inquiry may be active. -. Nizon still plans his separate k'osecv summit visit In June, the officials ssid. N.C. to get more gas in IVIarch RALEIGH North Carolina will rjet in March an additional six million gallons of gasoline, increasing the state's supply by about four or five per cent, Gov. James E. Holshouser Jr. announced Thursday. Holshouser said the additional gasoline will come from the American Petrofina Oil Co., which has agreed to serve Jobbers formerly supplied by British Petroleum Co. (BP). The Federal Energy Office (FEO) earlier this week directed BP and Atlantic Richfield Oil Co. (ARCO) to resume supplies to North Carolina. Nader group seeks some aerosol bans WASHINGTON A Ralph Nader research group said Thursday a chemical linked to iiver cancer Is being used in some aerosol products, including hair sprays, and should be banned. The chemical, vinyl chloride, could be "another Thalidomide" in its impact on the public, Dr. Sidney Wclfe. director of the Health Research Group, told a congressional hearing. Thalidomide was the tranquilizer linked to severe birth defects a decade ago. 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Johnson, on one count of lying to the grand jury about efforts by milk producers to win a price-support increase from the Nixon administration. The indictment was the first handed down in the investigation of whether the Nixon administration increased the price support of raw milk in 1971 in exchange for a promise of $2 miiiion in donations to Nixon's 1972 re-election campaign. The indictment said Jacobsen, 54, of Austin, Tex., who served as a legislative counsel to Johnson in 1965-67. knowingly made false declarations one month ago w hen the grand jury questioned him about $10,000 he had solicited from Associated Milk Producers Inc. (AM PI). Jacobsen, a lawyer for AM PI. allegedly received the $ 1 0.000 within two months after the Nixon administration reversed itself on March 25.1971. and increased the price support for raw milk. It said Jacobsen. who was active in 1 972 in the Democrats for Nixon organization headed by John B. Connally Jr., solicited the money "on the representation that such money was to be paid to a public official for his assistance in connecction with the price support decision." The "public official" was not identified. The indictment said Jacobsen lied when he testified last Jan. 25 that he did not touch the $10,000 from the time he put it into a safe deposit box until he looked at it with an FBI agent Nov. 27, 1973.- It was believed the money was kept in a bank in Austin, Tex., of which Jacobsen is president. "You are certain about thatT the indictment said Jacobsen was asked. "Yes. sir," it said Jacobsen replied. "The declaration." the indictment said. "as he then and there well knew, was false." The indictment did not say what happened to the $10,000. Jacobsen was not in court when the Indictment was handed down. "Uj UJw--nL1--s. 1S74 Art Warld D!tr5!utor 2-22.

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