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Saigon Delegation Chafed
At French, VC Discussion
By GEORGE SIBERA
PARIS (UPD—Saigon’s war
talks delegation chafed today at
Fiance’s discussion with the
Viet Cong on the political future
of South Vietnam.
The Saigon negotiating chief,
Pham Dang Lam, denounced
French Foreign Minister Michel
Debres meeting Thursday with
Tran Buu Kiem, the top Viet
Cong at the stalled Paris talks.
North Vietnam and the Viet
Cong countered with a commu
nique demanding the immediate
opening negotiations around a
circular table. It said Saigon
was trying to sabotage peace
efforts.
Kiem emerged from his
conference with Debre and
announced “it remains only for
the details to be fixed” before
the Viet Cong release three
captive Gls in South Vietnam as
promised.
Denouncing the Kiem-Debre
session, the Saigon leader said
the French foreign minister
“has prejudged the nature of
the (peace) conference to be
held and its final outcome.”
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“It seems difficult not to link
Tran Buu Kiem’s efforts to be
received by the French foreign
minister with the effort put up
by the Communist side with a
view of winning for the (Viet
Cong) a certain status for the
forthcoming Paris conference,”
Lam said.
One of the primary Issues
blocking the beginning of
expanded talks is Saigon’s
refusal to accept the Viet Cong
as a separate entity at the
bargaining table.
Debre was the first French
cabinet member to meet with a
Viet Cong repesentative —a
meeting that gave the guerrillas
a propaganda boost in their
demand for official recognition.
Thursday’s Communist com
munique, the first issued jointly
by North Vietnam and the Viet
Cong, called'the Saigon govern
ment “a puppet, totalitarian,
bellicose and corrupt adminis
tration.”
It warned the Americans the
Saigon regime would “sabotage
the Paris conference” and
urged the United States to i
overthrow the South Vietnamese |
Pueblo Navigator
Made Fake Charts
By RAYMOND C. MEANS
SAN DIEGO, Calif. (UPD—
Fake charts were used by the
navigation officer of the USS
Pueblo to foil a communist
claim that the intelligence ship
was seized inside North Korean
waters.
Lt. Edward R. Murphy Jr.,
executive officer, said his
captors forced him to make
charts showing the ship violated
territorial waters of North
Korea, but he managed to
insert enough errors to make
them obvious fakes.
At a news conference Thurs
day, Murphy pointed out
discrepancies in the coordinates
used to pinpoint the Pueblo’s
position. One of them, he said,
would have had the Pueblo
traveling at 2,500 knots.
Murphy said he prepared the
phony charts under the direc
tion of a communist army
officer "who didn’t know a thing
about navigation.”
Outside 12-miie Limit
Murphy reiterated that the
Pueblo was well outside North
Korea’s 12-mile limit when it
was taken over. The Navy said
according to .radio messages
from the ship, its closest
approach to the coast was 13
miles and it was 16 miles away
when it was boarded.
It was disclosed in Washing
ton that the skipper and four
crewmembers were wounded
when North Korean ships
opened fire on the Pueblo last
Jan. 23. One, seaman Duane
Hodges, later died.
Cmdr. Lloyd Bucher suffered
shrapnel wounds in the But
tocks. He was reported suffer
ing Thursday from fever and
chills caused by a respiratory
condition and did not appear at
the news conference.
Tlie chief of Balboa Naval
Hospital here said all of the
crew suffered physical mistreat
ment and malnutrition and that
one man lost 70 pounds during
his 11 months in captivity.
No Permanent Injury
He said according to the first
day of medical examinations it
did not appear that any of the
men suffered any permanent
injury.
Adm. Thomas H. Moorer,
chief of naval operations, said
in a statement read to the news
conference that an analysis of
North Korea’s supposed
i government and replace It with
I a “peace cabinet.”
evidence of the Pueblo’s intru
sion into territorial waters
“revealed a number of inconsis
tencies in the documents which
further confirmed our official
conclusion that the commanding
officer had followed his orders.”
“So long as the crew was held
captive, we could not make this
analysis public without risking
grave harm to the men and
jeopardizing negotiations for
their release.”
Georgia Crops
16 Pct Smaller
Than In 1967
ATHENS, Ga. (UPD—Geor
gia crops this year will be 16
per cent smaller than those of
1967, the Georgia Crop Report
ing Service said, because of an
extended drought during the
growing season.
The service estimated that the
yield of crops for 1968 would be
worth $390.5 million, compared
to the record 1967 value of
$466.6 million.
A long dry spell caused re
duction in corn crops by 18
bushels per acre, in soybeans
by 9 bushels, in cotton by 86
pounds, in peanuts by 160
pounds and in tobacco by 198
pounds.
Body Os Girl
Found Frozen
By LARRY FRUIILING
DES MOINES, lowa (UPD—
The twisted, half-naked body of
10-year-old Pamela Powers,
missing since she was abducted
from the Des Moines YMCA
Christmas Eve, was found
frozen to the ground in a
snowdrift on the edge of a rural
cornfield.
A self - ordained vagabond
preacher whose soulful singing
“could make your hair stand on
end,” led police Thursday night
to the body of the pretty little
blonde. He was charged with
murder and held today without
bond in the Des Moines city
jail.
Robert Anthony Williams, 24,
an escaped mental patient with
a record of sex offenses, turned
himself in to police Thursday.
Then he led authorities to rural
Mitchellville, a hamlet about 15
miles east of this capital city.
He waited in the patrol car
while police found the body of
Pamela, one leg drawn up,
frozen to the ground. She was
naked from the waist down.
The day before Christmas,
Pamela had left her family’s
suburban home in Urbandale
with her mother and father to
Georgia Briefs
Man Suffocates
In Home Fire
COLUMBUS, Ga. (UPI) —
Howard W. Harrison suffocated
early today during a small fire
in his single-story brick home.
There was only minor damage
in the blaze. Harrison’s body
was found seated on a couch,
investigators said.
Three Killed In
Traffic Accidents
By United Press International
Traffic accidents in Georgia
took the lives of three persons
Thursday, Including two pedes
trians, the State Patrol said to
day.
A 12-year -old boy, Edwin
Crews of Woodbine, was killed
Thursday afternoon while cross
ing U. S. 17 about one mile
south of Woodbine.
Henry Middleton a 50-year-old
Reidsville man, walked in front
of a vehicle on Georgia 23 and
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Federal Reserve
Bank Promotes
Four Officials
ATLANTA (UPD—Four offi
cials of the Federal Reserve
Bank of Atlanta have been pro
moted to senior vice president
as a result of recent elections.
Several other officers have
been promoted to assistant vice
president, according to an an
nouncement by Monroe Klm
brel, bank president. All of the
promotions will become effec
tive Jan. 1.
J. Emory McCorvey, present
vice president and cashier, Ed
C. Rainey, now vice president
and manager of the Jackson
ville branch, where he will re
main, and Brown R. Rawlings,
currently vice president, have
been elected senior vice presi
dents.
Also, Charles T. Taylor, now
president and director of re
search, was named senior vice
president in charge of research,
Kimbrel announced Thursday.
W.M. Davis, now an assistant
vice president, was promoted to
vice president.
New assistant vice presidents
are: Charles East, William
Dykes, Delmar Harrison, Hi
ram Honea, Dan Hendley, Eric
Hingst, and Kenneth Keafney,
of the Atlanta office; Don Shi,
of the Birmingham branch;
S.J. Stacklin and Cecil L. Wil
liams, Jacksonville; Ralph
Thurman and Stuart Magee,
Nashville, and Rene Junca and
Pierre M. Viguerre, New Or
leans.
A.D. Sands of Atlanta will
transfer to Nashville on becom
ing an assistant vice president,
and George C. Guynn, also
elected an assistant vice presi
dent, will transfer from Atlanta
to the New Orleans branch,
where he will serve as assistant
manager of the branch.
the YMCA to watch her 14-year
old brother, Mark, in a
wrestling match.
While her parents stayed in
the gymnasium, Pamela slipped
off to buy a candy bar. She was
never seen alive again.
Williams escaped July 4 from
a Fulton, Mo., mental hospital
where he was sent after being
charged with raping two small
girls in Kansas City, Mo.
Attorney Henry T. McKnight,
who in two long-distance
telephone conversations per
suaded Williams to surreder to
Davenport, lowa, police, en
tered a plea of innocent.
Williams stood during his
arraignment with his eyes glued
to a calendar on the courtroom
wall.
The cause of the girl’s death
remained undetermined pending
an autopsy. Police Chief Wen
dell Nichols said she may have
been slain in the YMCA, and
the body removed in a blanket.
Williams had been seen
leaving the YMCA carrying
something in a blanket, but told
employes he was carrying a
"mannequin.” He then drove
away, and was not seen until
his surrender.
was killed. The accident hap
pened about three miles north
of Reidsville.
Vicki Rand, 17 - year -old
daughter of Columbus police
captain Milan Rand, was killed
shortly before midnight when
the car in which she was riding
went out of control and over
turned on a Harris County road
near Cataula.
Police Captain’s
Daughter Killed
CATAULA, Ga. (UPI) — The
17-year-old daughter of a Co
lumbus, Ga. police captaimwas
killed shortly before midnight
Thursday when the car in
which she was riding ran out
of control for 728 feet and over
turned twice.
Vicky Rand, daughter of Mi
lan Rand, was killed. The dri
ver, Steve Eric Moreno, 15, also
of Columbus, was injured and
■was admitted to the Columbus
Medical Center.
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Mideast Conflict
Arab Guerrillas
Damage Monastery
United Press International
The United States and the
Soviets will shortly try to force
Israel to withdraw from seized
Arab lands, Egyptian newspa
pers said today. In Israel,
officials said Arab guerrillas
damaged the monastery of John
the Baptist.
An Arab commando attack on
an Israeli airliner strained
relations between Jerusalem
and Arab nations even more
today and Israel said it might
strike back.
The new attempt to find
peace in the Middle East was
the result of last week’s visit to
Cairo by Soviet Foreign Minis
ter Andrei A. Gromyko, Cairo
Airliner Attack
Murder Charge Filed
Against Two Arabs
By JOHN RIGOS
ATHENS (UPD—The Greek
government today filed murder
and seven other charges against
the two Arab commandos who
riddled an Israeli jet airliner
with machinegun fire and hand
grenades Thursday, killing an
Israeli passenger as the 707
prepared to leave for New
York.
Athens prosecutor Vassilios
Papanastassiou filed the char
ges as the Greek cabinet met to
decide whether the two men
should be tried by a civil court
or a military tribunal. Either
court could condemn the men to
death if they are convicted.
The prosecutor sent the file to
District Judge Nickolaos Styli
anakis who ordered the two
men to appear Saturday and
testify at a pre-trial examina
tion. Informed sources said the
crown prosecutor of the Athens
military tribunal could ask for
the file and have the men tried
by a military tribunal if the
government so decides.
The formal charges include
murder, attempted homicide,
illegal possession of arms,
illegal carrying of arms, illegal
use of arms, illegal possession
of explosives, violation of
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newspaper said.
The newspapers said Gromy
ko told Egypt that the Soviets
would keep working for peace.
The reports said the United
States will not take part in the
attempt to pressure Israel into
withdrawing from Arab territo
ry until President-elect Richard
M. Nixon takes office next
month.
When Gromyko visited Cairo,
Israeli officials expressed con
cern that the Soviets and
Egyptians were trying to
involve the United States in a
scheme that would ultimately
be at the expense of Israel.
Israeli officials said they were
worried that U.S. policy under
airplane security and damage to
foreign property.
The terror attack has already
brought the threat of Israel
retaliation against Arab nations’
planes. Arab pilots reported
undergoing strict security at
Athens airport.
The trouble began at the field
Thursday when two Arabs
sprayed an Israeli El Al 707 jet
with submachine gun fire and
two grenade blasts, killing one
passenger and causing injury to
two stewardesses.
Greek police said the terror
ists, arrested at the scene amid
their “We oppose Zionism—but
not the Jews” phamplets, have
been charged with murder and
could be executed if convicted.
Attackers Mamoud Mohammed
Issa, 25, and Hussein Al-
Yamani, 19, identified them
selves as Beirut-based anti-
Israeli Arab terrorists.
In Beirut, an Arab terrorist
band spokesman said the attack
was meant “to give Israel a
Christmas present, show the
world we are continuing to fight
and to punish the Israelis for
not releasing any (Arab)
commandos” after Algeria re
leased an El Al jet hijacked in
July.
In Jerusalem, Israeli Trans-
Nixon might “go beyond Impar
tiality” and favor the Arabs.
In Jerusalem, Israeli officials
said Arab guerrillas blew up
one wall of the Monastery of
John the Baptist Thursday. It is
the place Christians believe
John baptized Jesus and is one
of Christianity’s most revered
shrines.
One Israeli soldier was killed
Thursday by a Jordanian sniper
near the monastery, Israeli
officials said.
In Jerusalem, Israel warned
it might retaliate against the
Arabs for the attack on an El
Al Israeli jetliner at the Athens
Airport Thursday.
port Minister Moshe Carmel
issued a warning:
“We will not tolerate a *
situation where in Israeli people
or objectives will be at the
mercy of attacks by terrorists
without exposing (Arab) objec
tives to similar hazards, com
pelling (the Arabs to) assume
full responsibility for their
deeds.” 4
Carmel specifically blamed
the Lebannese government for
the Athens airport attack. The
two terrorists had flown here
from Beirut. Carmel said, ‘
“There is no doubt the Beirut
government is responsible for
what happened.”
In Cairo, aviation officials «
said United Arab Airlines
planes flying to Greece were
being placed under strict
security at the local airport, «
apparently to avoid retaliation
attack.
An Egyptian airline pilot said
Greek police refused to let his
crew get off their United Arab *
Airlines plane Thursday night
except for one crewman to sign
a n internationally required
flight plan. *
In Jerusalem, Israeli Premier
Levi Eshkol said the attack in
Athens faces all International
aviation with a threat. «