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Calley’s Attorney s Hit
At‘lmproper Influence’
By H. D. QUIGG
UPI Senior Editor
FT. BENNING, Ga. (UPI)—
Sniping away at what it
contends was improper high
command influence to prosecu
tite Lt. William L. Calley Jr.
for murder, the defense hoped
today to question an officer who
allegedly said he could be a
hero by bringing charges
against Calley.
In the second day of a
pretrial hearing, defense attor
ney George W. Latimer said he
hoped the Army would produce
for testimony an unnamed
officer here who helped process
the proceedings that accused
Calley of murdering 102 Vietna
mese civilians in March, 1968.
wish was expressed
out of court. month he had
told the military judge for the
case, Lt. Col. Reid W. Kennedy,
he thought he could prove one
of those involved in the
investigation of Calley had
said:
“I’m told I’ve got some
discretion here, but I can do
what the President wants and
be a hero or not do it and be an
ass.”
A major defense contention in
moving to dismiss the charges
is that Calley cannot get a fair
military trial because the
command chain from President
Nixon on down had prejudiced
his case and passed down
orders to move against him.
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Latimer says that dovetailing
with the command chain is the
defense contention that massive
pretrial publicity prevents a
fair trial.
Among two and a half hours
of replay in court Monday of
television news coverage of the
Calley case was a Dec. 8
Presidential news conference in
which Nixon said the incident
was “what appears was cer
tainly a massacre and in no
circumstances was it justified.”
The court-martial was or
dered by the new commander
at Ft. Benning, Maj. Gen.
Orwin C. Talbott, on Nov. 24.
No date has been set for the
trial.
Talbott testified Monday, as
did his predecessor in com
mand, Brig. Gen. Oscar E.
Davis, that no instructions
came from higher headquarters
at any time about Calley. Dav-
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State’s Demos Told
To ‘Revitalize’
ATLANTA (UPI) - Georgia
Democrats were urged Monday
night at the annual Jefferson-
Jackson Day dinner to “revital
ize” the Democratic Party.
Both Gov. Robert McNair of
South Carolina, the principal
speaker at the SSO-a-plate af
fair, and Gov. Lester Maddox
criticized the national Demo
cratic Party as well as the
Republican Party.
Maddox warned the 800 guests
that if the party fails to come
is, under whose command the
charges were brought, testified
that the investigation was or
dered here by Lt. Col. Lon D.
Marlow, now retired, who as
Infantry School brigade com
mander had been Calley’s com
manding officer.
The prosecution is calling wit
nesses as a rebuttal action, re
quired by Army law, against
the defense charge of command
influence.
Talbott was asked by Latimer
Monday:
“Did you at any time know
the President had been consult
ed in this case?”
“I was informed that it was
believed the inspector general’s
report had been sent to San
Clemente (the West Coast White
House), but whether the Presi
dent personally saw it, I don’t
know,” he replied.
up with a candidate other than
those “who hold to the
same old Johnson-Humphrey
Kennedy philosophy...we might
not be able to invite the next
governor of Georgia to a Demo
cratic Party dinner.”
In a jab at the Republicans,
McNair said the nation was
looking for something else than
the “disappointing performance
now taking place in Washing
ton.”
Maddox accused President
Nixon of doing “more to wreck
My Lai Witnesses
May Be Called
In Another Case
FT. GORDON, Ga. (UPD-
Witnesses scheduled to testify
at the Ft. Benning, Ga., trial
of Lt. William Calley may have
another court appearance first,
attorneys said Wednesday.
The lawyers, civilian Peter
Rindskoph and military counsel
Lt. David Rosenfeld, said wit
nesses to the alleged My Lai
massacre—and even Calley—
might be put on the witness
stand here in the court martial
of four Gls charged with start
ing their own war crimes tri
bunal.
The four charged with under
mining the “loyalty, morale and
discipline” of the military with
their war crimes commission
are Pvt. Larry Czapliski, St.
James, N. Y., Pvt. Tim John
son, Minneapolis, Minn., Pvt.
Richard Horner, Hermitage,
Tenn., and Spec. 4 Terry Kline,
Timonium, Md.
A court martial date of Feb.
26 tentatively has been set for
the four soldiers, who said in a
circular they had formed the
commission “to dispel the pre
vailing myth that the U. S. sol
dier is more moral than his en
emy counterpart.”
Both attorneys in the case
said they felt the issue confront-
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Singers will appear at Fort
Valley State College in concert
Thursday at 8 p.m., at the
college gymnasium.
Miss Ward, a nationally
famous artist, starred in the
Broadway show “Tamborines
To Glory” and has appeared on
numerous TV shows as a
featured entertainer including
the Johnny Carson Show, Mike
Douglas, Danny Thomas, Today
Show, Steve Allen, Hootenany,
Shindig and numerous specials,
all over Europe, Japan and
Australia.
The concert is open to the
general public. General ad
mission is $2 per person.
Students with FVS I.D. cards
will be admitted free.
public education in 12 months
than two liberal presidents did
in eight years...”
Former Gov. Carl Sanders,
who spoke briefly with another
unannounced candidate for gov
ernor, Jimmy Carter, said he
hoped to lead the Democratic
Party to victory in the fall.
Carter said the party in Geor
gia must “begin at the grass
roots and pyramid to a state
organization that is functional
and responsive to the lower lev
els.”
ing the court martial board was
truth.
“The judge is going to have
to resolve the question of truth
from the beginning. If truth is
ruled a defense, then certainly
we should attempt to prove
atrocities did occur in Viet
nam,” Rindskopf said. “After
all, that’s what the war crimes
commission was all about.”
Three of the four men
charged have been imprisoned
in the post stockade some 30
days. Kline has been restricted
to his company area.
Rosenfeld filed a petition
Monday with the military’s
highest tribunal, the U. S. Court
of Military Appeals demanding
the four be taken off restric
tions immediately.
The petition said it seemed
highly improbable the four sol
diers should remain detained
because they had exercised
their constitutional rights in
speaking out while “more noto
rious military defendants, such
as Lt. William Calley, have not
been placed in pre-trial confine
ment, despite the fact he faces
over 100 charges for murder.”
In speaking of the possibility
of subpoenaing Calley to the
court martial, Rindskopf said,
“I assume if we go ahead and
call him as a witness, he will
assert his privileges and take
the Fifth Amendment on any
questions relating to Vietnam
atrocities.”
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SHOREVIEW, Minn. — Starving for air on Island
Lake in Shoreview, Minn, tens of thousands of fish
opened a ten-by-fifteen foot hole in the frozen lake
surface to gasp for air to survive. A minnesota fish
Defending Champ
Wins Olney
Pancake Race
By LUCINDA L. FRANKS
OLNEY, England (UPI)—
Defending champion Sylvia
Winstanley won the Olney half
of the Olney-Liberal Shrove
Tuesday pancake race today,
covering the 415-yard course in
one minute, 11 seconds—seven
seconds slower than last year.
The 18-year-old local lass
zigged and zagged through the
winding streets without a miss
in flipping her pancake three
times in her pan—the most
difficult feat in the race.
Women in Liberal, Kan., will
race later in the day and the
winners’ times will be com
pared to determine the cham
pion. Olney has won two
straight times and has an 11-9
edge in the series.
Miss Winstanley covered the
Olney course in one minute and
4.2 seconds last year, 2.8
seconds faster than Liberal’s
18-year-old winner, Renita
Pomeroy.
Sylvia, a pretty shoe factory
worker, braved a street full of
slush and a whipping wind as
she tore down the cobbled
course panting and flipping her
pancakes.
“We had a bad time of it this
year,” said Ronald Collins, who
organized the race. “We got off
on a false start to begin with
-«n everybody was thrown out of.
kilter.”
Each contestant must run on
foot and flip the pancake in her
skillet at least three times
without dropping it.
“I just ran when I heard the
gun and never looked back,”
said the dark-haired winner,
who wore a red kerchief and
apron prescribed by rules. “I
can’t believe I won it again.”
Two American sailors from
Kansas arrived from Mildenhall
Air Base and tried to enter the
race disguised as women. As
they took their places on the
starting line, dressed in kerch
iefs and holding aprons and
skillets, they were disqualified.
“We just thought we would
give it a try,” said Kenneth
Draper, 24, of Herrington, Kan.
“We wanted to bring a little
bit of Liberal to Olney but I
guess they didn’t go for the
idea,’- said Gerry Dougherty,
23, of Topeka.
Helicopter Crash
Kills 12 Americans
By WALTER WHITEHEAD
SAIGON (UPI)—An apparent
ly overloaded U.S. helicopter
exploded in flight over a
shantytown near Da Nang
today, killing all 12 Americans
aboard. There were no casual
ties in the crowded hamlet.
Military spokesmen said the
cause of the crash was not
immediately determined.
Official sources said the
Huey ’copter may have been
overloaded since it carried a
full complement of four crew
men and eight passengers plus
baggage. Regulations call for
the model to carry only five
passengers with baggage.
Spokesmen said the crewmen
were from the U.S. Army’s
Americal Division. The passen
gers included two army men,
one Marine and five sailors who
were belived about to go on
rest and recreation leave. Their
names were withheld pending
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expert says fish are short of oxygen all over the state
because of snow cover preventing entry of light vital
to plant life. It is a struggle for survival seldom seen
on Minnesota lakes.
notification of next of kin.
Allied communiques reported
continued light and sacattered
ground fighting in South Viet
nam Monday and early today.
Spokesmen said Allied forces
killed 77 Communist troops in
widely separated and brief
clashes.
American casualties were
listed as at least one killed and
nine wounded.
Spokesmen reported no new
fighting today on the Plain of
Reeds 60 miles west of Saigon,
where government irregulars
fought North Vietnamese troops
for four days starting last
Friday.
Witnesses to the helicopter
crash near Da Nang said it
exploded in flight, crashed into
a vegtable patch in the hamlet
and exploded again and burned.
Eleven Gls were dead at the
scene and the 12th died on
arrival at a base hospital.
Baggage was scattered over
a wide area as the craft
bounced within 10 feet of a
house on the edge of the shanty
area known as Dogpatch, UPI
correspondent Kenneth J. Brad
dick reported.
A Vietnamese witness to the
9 a.m. crash on the edge of the
big Da Nang military base 370
miles northeast of Saigon said
the helicopter “just started to
fall” after wobbling wildly from
side to side.
EMBARRASSING SITUATION
HONOLULU (UPI )—A motor
ist was cited for inattention to
driving Sunday after his car
collided head-on with another
vehicle in full view of
spectators watching a safe
driving “Roadeo.”
Police said the motorist had
his eyes on the roadeo, instead
of the road.