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Clan rallies to side
of Kennedy, Shriver
By HENRY SAVAGE
BARNSTABLE, Mass. (UPI)
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Thursday, August 6, 1970
Kennedy clan rallied today to
the side of Robert F. Kennedy
Jr. and Robert Sargent Shriver
HI, charged with possessing
marijuana.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,
uncle of both boys, flew from
Washington to the family
compound on Cape Cod Wednes
day after he learned of the
incident.
. Mrs. Robert F. Kennedy, wife
of the assassinated senator, and
R. Sargent Shriver, former
ambassador to France, issued
statements describing their
boys as “fine” and “manly”
and declared their intentions to
stand by the two youths.
Closed Court Session Today
Both youngsters were to
appear in court today to answer
summonses on the marijuana
charges.
With them will be their
parents and an attorney in
connection with the July 10
incident. Since the boys are
juveniles—Kennedy is 16 and
Shriver 17—the proceedings will
be closed to newsmen and the
public.
Police had visited the Kenne
dy home and talked to the
youths and their parents.
In her statement, Mrs.
Kennedy said, “I was dis
tressed to learn last night
(Tuesday) that my son had
been charged with possession of
marijuana on the 10th of last
Two killed
NEW YORK (UPI)-Two
persons were killed and 33
others injured Wednesday night
in a smoky fire which erupted
high in a new 50-story glass and
aluminum skyscraper in Man
hattan’s financial district.
The intense heat and billow
ing smoke generated by the
stubborn blaze, confined by the
building’s modern “fire resi
stant” construction materials,
led a firefighter to brand the 5-
month-old structure and others
like it “firemen killers.”
More than 150 firemen using
25 pieces of equipment fought
for more than six hours to
extinguish the flames, which
broke out about 6 p.m. in a
33rd-floor room housing eleva
tor motors. The Atlas-McGrath
skyscraper at 1 New York
Plaza is occupied to the 20th
floor by the Chase Manhattan
Bank.
month.
Ask For Understanding
“This is, of course, a matter
for the authorities to decide.
But Bobby is a fine boy and we
have always been proud of him.
I will stand by him. My
concern is also for my nephew
and the families of the other
young people.”
Shriver, who is married to
the former Eunice Kennedy,
read a statement slowly and
emotionally to UPI.
“My son has never been
involved in any such situation
before and we trust he never
will be again,” he said. “If he
has done anything wrong, we
are sure he will make
reparation in a manly and
courageous manner.”
Vanishing polio
AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI)-The
number of polio cases reported
annually in Texas has dropped
from a high of 186 in 1962 to a
low of six in 1969. A total of
485 cases were reported in the
slate for the decade of the
1960 b.
Oral polio vaccine was li
censed in 1961. From 1960
to 1969 the State Health De
partment distributed 5,958,398
doses of the vaccine.
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PARIS, France — Charles Todman, 14, munches some French bread here after he made a three
day, 10,000-mile trip from Sydney, Australia as a stowaway on a charter plane. He got on the plane
by running through customs after a family and shouting “Papa! Papa! Wait for me!” The boy,
whose family immigrated to Australia from France, reportedly was homesick for Paris. He hitch
hiked to the home of his parent’s best friends on his arrival in Paris. (UPI)
Girls have their try
at disrupting trial
By JACK V. FOX
LOS ANGELES (UPI) -
Charles Manson’s ploy to cause
a mistrial by displaying a
newspaper headline to the jury
didn’t work, so his "girls” tried
a different tactic Wednesday,
As the jury filed in after
Superior Court Judge Charles
Older ordered the Sharon Tate
murder trial to proceed, the
trio of female defendants, their
long hair streaming down their
backs and costumed identically
in jail denims, rose and chanted
in unison:
“President Nixon says we’re
guilty, so why go on with the
trial?”
“Sit down, ladies,” Older
barked.
Jury Didn’t Hear
The jurors appeared not to
have heard or understood the
sing-song efforts, which the
women—Leslie van Houten,
Susan Atkins and Patricia
Krenwinkel—apparently had re
hearsed during a brief recess.
The President, in remarks
Monday to a law enforcement
group in Denver, said Manson
was “guilty, directly or in
directly, of eight murders,”
although he later said he had
not meant to influence the trial.
Manson held up a newspaper
Tuesday so the jury could read
the headline, “Manson Guilty,
Nixon Declares.”
Mistrial Request Denied
AH jurors said they would not
be swayed by the headline, or
by any outside influence, such
as Wednesday’s outburst.
Chief defense lawyer Paul
GOP wants
8 sessions
televised
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Is
television coming to the orien
tal carpets and brass spitoons
of Congress?
Republican leaders of both
houses, offering their colleagues
a chance for fame and national
recognition, introduced legisla
tion Wednesday to require at
least eight televised night
congressional sessions each
year.
The measure, introduced
simultaneously by Rep. Gerald
Ford, R-Mich., and Sen. Hugh
Scott, R-Pa., would force all
television licensees to broadcast
at least four sessions a year for
each house beginning at 7 pm.
Normally neither house meets
this late, but Scott said special
two-hour night sessions could be
arranged, featuring five-minute
speeches by members.
“I don’t know whether this
can pass,” Scott said. “But
ttiere are a lot of goodies in it
It offers everybody a chance
for fame.”
Fitzgerald called for a mistrial,
contending that Nixon’s re
marks “could not help but”
influence the jury “subscon
sciously, subliminably, or even
unconsciously.”
Deputy District Attorney
Aaron Stovitz argued angrily
that “if there was judicial
error, Mr. Manson invited that
error.”
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to Lima
LIMA, Ohio (UPl)—National
Guardsmen and deputies from
12 surrounding counties joined
police early today in patrolling
the Near Southside, where the
killing of a Negro woman
Wednesday by a white police
man touched off sniping and
firebombings.
About 350 Guardsmen were
ordered into this northwestern
Ohio city of 55,000 by Gov.
James A. Rhodes at the request
of Mayor Christian Morris.
Morris declared a state of
emergency, imposed a 10 pjn.
to 6 a.m. curfew and banned
the sale of gasoline and the
carrying of weapons.
A mob of about 150 persons
tried to march to the downtown
area Wednesday night after
Christine Ricks was shot and
killed by Patrolman Ted Boop.
Police dispersed them with tear
gas.
Smaller groups threw fire
bombs at buildings in the
mostly black southside. Snipers
fired at officers, wounding at
least one, from hiding places
along the Erie-Lackawanna
Railroad and buildings along
Fourth Street.
Miss Ricks, according to
police, had tried to interfere
with Patrolman Boop and his
partner while they were arrest
ing a black youngster who
refused to move his bicycle
from the street. Miss Ricks
grabbed Patrolman Glenn Pier
ce’s revolver from his holster
and fired at him. Boop returned
fire, killing the woman. Pierce
was treated for a wound of the
ear.