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“IT’S BETTER THAN NEEDLEWORK,” say Sister Susan Ellert
(left) and Sister Mary Thomas as they demonstrate what
they learned in a shotgun training course on their order’s
grounds at Oxford, Mich. They and six other Roman Catho
lic Dominicans took the course. They got the idea after
hearing a firearms lecture
Nixon Unveils
Anti-Crime Plan
By EUGENE V. RISHER
WASHINGTON (UPD—
President Nixon, who during his
campaign referred to this city
as "a national disgrace,” was
unveiling his anticrime package
today to help make It "a
showcase for the nation.”
Nixon was expected to ask
Congress for an additional 1,000
to 2,000 police, 10 to 15
additional judges, bail reform to
crack down on offenders who
commit another crime while
awaiting trial for their first
offense, and better correctional
systems.
White House Press Secretary
Ronald Ziegler said Nixon’s
program, which he said at his
news conference Monday was
being prepared “on an urgent
basis”, would be made public
before 2 p.m. EST. Ziegler said
the program would be one of
action.
Housing and Urban Develop
ment Secretary George Romney
and Mayor Walter E. Washing
ton, in conjunction with Nixon’s
program, planned to tour 7th
street, northwest, an area torn
by last spring’s riots.
Romney and Washington were
expected to announce jointly a
rebuilding of two blocks where
buildings were devastated—and
many still lie In rubble.
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Friday, January 31, 1969
official figures, compiled for
November, crime was up 23.2
per cent over the same month
in 1967, The biggest Increase
was in rapes, with 29 reported
compared with 16 a year
earlier.
Much of downtown Washing
ton appears almost deserted
during the evening, and restau
rant business is reported down
sharply. The Washington Daily
News runs a daily log of crimes
of violence, and often the list is
long.
Nixon said the point was
brought home sharply last
weekend when a White House
staff member was robbed
nearby and the Secret Service
stopped the President from
taking a walk.
During his campaign Nixon
said: "Since Dwight Eisenhower
left office in 1961 crime in
Washington has risen 175 per
cent. Before we put any stock in
Mr. (former Vice President
Hubert B.) Humphrey’s promise
to make it a model city, he
should tell every American why
he allowed it to become a
national disgrace.”
“Many steps must be taken to
restore freedom from fear in
the capital ... I have urged
them months ago and will
implement them if elected,”
Nixon said.
By GEORGE BIBERA
PARIS (UPD — Allied diplo
mats said today they expect
North Vietnam and the Viet
Cong to agree to secret contacts
soon to break up the current
deadlock over how to negotiate
a peace agreement on Vietnam.
American delegates under
chief negotiator Henry Cabot
Lodge were described by
Informants as being confident
that the Communist delegations
will enter into the backstage
bargaining after the two sides
have realized they cannot
achieve a breakthrough in the
well publicized plenary sessions.
American officials today de
nied widespread French radio
and newspaper reports that
Allied and Communist officials
held a private meeting in the
final parts of Thursday’s iy 2
hour marathon session, the
second weekly meeting of the
expanded Vietnam talks.
The next session of the
conference will take place
Thursday.
Informants said that If an
agreement on such secret talks
would be struck with the
Communist side the latter
would be represented by Hanoi
only.
The current Impasse built up
over Allied demands to discuss
first the restoration of the
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), the
mutual pullout of troops from
the South and the exchange of
prisoners. Rejecting flatly the
Allied negotiating sheet, the
Communists are demanding
priority for political questions in
the apparent hope of achieving
an early participation for the
Viet Cong in a coalition cabinet
in Saigon.
The Allies today held low
level working sessions to start
preparing for next week’s
meeting. A discrepancy ap
peared to have appeared in the
position of the American and
South Vietnamese delegations
on the withdrawal of troops
from the south.
Following Thursday's Paris
meeting, which went on until
after nightfall. Lodge announced
that the Communist side had
rejected U.S. proposals that the
conference discuss the restora
tion of the Demilitarized Zone,
(DMZ) the exchange of priso
ners, and the “mutual withdra
wal" of North Vietnamese and
Allied troops.
The last point, however, also
generated a split in the Allied
ranks.
A spokesman for the South
Vietnamese delegation said that
the Saigon government was
sticking by the Manila agree
ment hammered out by former
President Lyndon B. Johnson
and the heads of the other
countries fighting alongside the
United States In South Vietnam,
that the Allies only pledged to
withdraw six months after the
Communists ceased their ag
gression.
Lodge had said In his
prepared statement containing
the offer that the key to a
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peaceful solution was “to
arrange the mutual withdrawal
of all external forces from
South Vietnam, and that in
volves the withdrawal of North
Vietnamese military and sub
versive forces to North Viet
nam. As that happens, the
Indictment Argued
In Sirhan Trial
By JOSEPH A. ST. AMANT
LOS ANGELES (UPD—As a
poor man and as a young man,
was Sirhan B. Sirhan the object
of discrimination when he was
indicted by a grand Jury for the
murder of Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy?
This question would seem to
be academic since Sirhan's
attorneys admitted he fired the
bullet that killed the tousle
haired senator last June in the
Ambassador Hotel.
Arguments have been going
on all week, however, before
Superior Court Judge Herbert
V. Walker on a defense motion
to quash the indictment against
Sirhan on the ground the Jury
was selected unconstitutionally
—specifically, poor people and
young people were not repre
sented on it.
Sirhan, who hasn't said much
more than “Yes, sir,” and “No,
sir” since his trial began Jan. 7,
will get a chance to utter a few
more words Tuesday when
court reconvenes. He will testify
he is from a low economic
level. His mother, Mary, a dally
and often tearful spectator at
Students Protest
Firing Os Teacher
By United Press International
About 300 persons spent the
night in the Administration
Building of the University of
Chicago in a demonstration to
protest the firing of a woman
sociology teacher.
At San Francisco State
University Thursday, some 200
militant students dodged patrols
on the 18,000-student campus
—then hurled bricks, rocks and
bottles at policemen near the
school. Police chased them
Garrison
To Present
State’s Case
NEW ORLEANS (UPD— Dist.
Atty. Jim Garrison will make
one of his rare courtroom
appearances to present the
state’s opening statement in his
attempt to prove Clay L. Shaw
conspired to murder President
John F. Kennedy.
The decision of Garrison to
outline the state’s case was
confirmed today coincident with
the arrival in Washington of one
of his assistants to renew
efforts to obtain locked-up
Kennedy autopsy data.
The Washington move was
part of Garrison’s two-year
drive to show that a New
Orleans conspiracy in Septem
ber, 1963, reached its goal with
the assassination in Dallas. He
has been rebuffed in two
previous attempts to get the X
rays and photographs to show
Kennedy was shot from the
front as w’ell as rear.
General Sessions Court Judge
Charles Halleck in Washington
denied the request for the data
on Jan. 17 but gave Louisiana
two weeks to show its
materiality to the case and that
“this is not just a fishing
expedition."
That deadline was today.
Asst. Dist. Atty. Numa V.
Bertel left for Washington
Thursday' night with written
pleadings which he said he
hoped "will convince the
judge.”
The films and clothing, which
the state also now seeks, have
been sealed in the National
Archives until 1971 at the
Kennedy family request.
Garrison’s “Case of the
Century” entered its 10th day
with only one juror and two
alternates needed to complete
the panel that will hear charges
that Shaw conspired with two
men now dead, Lee Harvey
Oswald and David W. Ferrie, to
murder Kennedy.
The state’s case is being
presented by Garrison’s chief
trial man, Asst. Dist. Atty.
James L. Alcock, 35, an adroit
prosecutor.
Attorneys for the 55-year-old,
white-haired defendant, a re
tired businessman and New
Orleans cultural leader, have
told jurors he definitely will
testify in his own behalf.
The state needs only to prove
Shaw conspired to assassinate
Kennedy. He is not charged
with murder, nor with conspir
ing to kiU in Dallas.
withdrawal of Allied forces will
commence.”
In addition to consulting with
Washington over the deadlock
and split. Lodge also had to
advise the administration of
North Vietnamese charged dur
ing Thursday's conference that
U.S. 852 bombers were continu
ing to strike North Vietnam’s
southernmost province, and
they were increasingly irritated
over the continuing reconnais
sance flights.
Lodge denied that any Bs2’s
had been targeted against the
North since last October, and
denied that the reconnaissance
flights threatened the security
of North Vietnam.
the trial, also will be called on
to testify that she is poor and
her family is poor.
Cooper is getting testimony
from more than 100 Superior
Court Judges who nominate two
persons each year to the grand
Jury. These nominees are
screened by a judges’ commit
tee and then the 23 members of
the Jury are selected by lot.
The Judges testified Thurs
day on their method of
nominating grand Jurors. They
said the Job Is long and arduous
—a nominee must be willing to
spend from three-to-flve days a
week deliberating and Investi
gating. The pay Is only »10, so
lower Income people cannot
afford It.
Judges Arthur L. Alarcon and
Kenneth N. Chantry testified
they sought to nominate persons
of low income or members of
minorities but got turned down
because of the economic factor.
The jury of eight-men and
four women selected to try
Sirhan appeared in court briefly
Thursday but was excused until
Wednesday at 10 a.m.
several blocks and arrested
five.
Minority students and off
campus radicals Joined Thurs
day in chanting and clapping by
1,500 persons at the University
of California’s 28,G00-student
Berkeley Campus. Two persons
were arrested and a professor
was attacked by student stri
kers in separate incidents.
About 100 students at the
University of Michigan at Ann
Arbor staged a peaceful sit-in
on the second floor of the
administrative offices of the
College of Literature, Science
and the Arts. The protest was
to protest language and other
scholastic requirements of the
university for winning a bache
lor of arts degree.
The demonstrators were
White and Black Students at
Chicago and Students for a
Democratic Society members at
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EYEING Washington’s social crown once held by Perle Mesta and Gwen Cafritz is
Anna Chennault, according to reports out of the capital. Mrs. Chennault, right, widow
of Gen. Claire Chennanlt of World War II “Flying Tiger” fame, is picked as the lead
ing big party giver of the Nixon administration. Mrs. Mesta, upper left, was the
original “hostess with the mostest” during the Truman administration and later min
ister *o Luxemburg. Mrs. Cafritz, lower left, reigned during the Eisenhower years.
Pueblo Unit Officer
Testifies In Secret
BY JACK V. FOX |
CORONADO, Calif. (UPD—'
The officer in charge of the USS '
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the University of Illinois’
Chicago Circle campus. They
were protesting the university’s
failure to reinstate Mrs. Mar
lene Dixon, an assistant profes
sor of sociology.
The San Francisco clash was
the latest since Nov. 6, when
the Black Student Union and the
Third World Liberation move
ment declared a student strike.
Some 200 college and high
school students pelted a squad
of policemen with bricks and
bottles, then fled when rein
forcements arrived and chased
them.
At Berkeley, the demonstra
tion by 1,500 youths was the
largest so far in a strike
declared a week ago by the
Third World Liberation Front
which demanded a separate
ethnic studies college. "On
strike, shut it down,” the crowd
chanted.
Pueblo’s virtually autonomous
intelligence unit testified in
secret Thursday before the five
admirals investigating the sei
zure of the ship by North
Korea.
Lt. Stephen R. Harris, 31,
Melrose, Mass., answered ques
tions concerning his part in the
mission and operation of the
spy ship. He was not warned he
was suspected of violating naval
regulations, Capt. Vincent Tho
mas, public Information officer
for the court, told a news
conference.
The court recessed until
Monday morning at which time
Harris will resume testimony on
classified material. He will be
called later to testify in open
court.
Harris has not yet testified
about the ship’s seizure and the
capture of some security
equipment under his control.
There was a possibility that
when the testimony enters this
phase he could be warned, as
was the ship’s skipper, Cmdr.
Lloyd M. Bucher.
Bucher testified earlier that
Harris had worked out proce
dures for the destruction of
classified equipment and papers
under his control.
Harris was in charge of the
research space, a special area
aboard the Pueblo which was
the nerve center for gathering
intelligence information about
activities of Soviet ships off the
Korean coast. Bucher had the
overall responsibility of the ship
but Harris had virtually Inde-
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pendent control of his own
operation, according to earlier
testimony.
The only only inquiry witness
Thursday was Lt. Edward A.
Brookes, 30, Philadelphia, Pa.
He was assigned to the
intelligence division on the staff
of commander naval forces,
Japan, and conducted an
inspection of the Pueblo's
destruct capabilities prior to its
mission to North Korea.
Other witnesses to be called
Monday are Rear Adm. G. L.
Cassell, assistant chief of staff
for operations on the staff of
commander - in - chief Pacific
Fleet when the Pueblo was
seized, and Lt. Edward R.
Murphy, executive officer of the
Pueblo.
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