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SPRINGFIELD, DI. — Not a part of one’s average physical fitness program, but more of an
example of “true grit”. Barry Borun withstands the hammer blows wielded by Master
Ling, an instructor in the Oriental discipline of “Kung Fu” during a demonstration for
students at Sangamon State University. (UPI)
• Protestors leave
• Statue of Liberty
, NEW YORK (UPI) - About
20 persons who sat in at the
Statue of Liberty calling for the
ouster of President Nixon and
• protesting social injustice left
the statue early today as about
20 federal officers prepared to
evict them.
* The demonstrators, members
of the Attica Brigade, a
national students’ organization,
, left the statue as federal park
police and rangers, carrying
two ladders to use as battering
Commissioners get
'pool hall case Tuesday
* Griffin City Commissioners
will consider a nuisance
abatement move against the
Sixth Street Recreation Center
* pool hall at next Tuesday’s
administrative session.
It is scheduled at 9:30 a.m. at
, the city hah' office building.
Superior Court action
yesterday tossed the matter
into the hands of the city of-
* ficials.
Judge Andrew Whalen, Jr.
sustained a motion that under
Georgia law the nuisance
* abatement matter comes under
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BOSTON — Fire gutted an empty TWA $22-million Lockheed 1011 jumbo jet at Logan
International Airport. A Port Authority spokesman and a Trans World Airlines
representative said the passenger plane appeared to be a total loss. The fire was believed to
have started in rear of plane in an auxiliary power unit. (UPI)
rams, walked towards the
barricaded doors.
No one was arrested and no
one was injured.
As they left the statue, the
demonstrators raised their fists
and chanted: “On to Washing
ton, on with the fight,” a
reference to a rally next
Saturday calling for Nixon’s
ouster.
A spokesman for the demon
strators told UPI, “We came
out not because we were afraid
the jurisdiction of the City
Court. Bill Johnson, attorney
for Calton Ahl who owns the
pool hall, made the motion in
court.
A Spalding County Grand jury,
had directed District Attorney
Ben Miller with city and county
officials to do what was
necessary to abate an alleged
public nuisance at a business
located in Spalding County.
Ahl already has appeared
before the commissioners to
make a statement in defense of
the business.
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of the law or going to jail. We
were ready to do that. Many of
us had been to jail, but we felt
it was a tactical maneuver to
organize the campuses for the
march on Washington.”
Federal officials had pro
mised the demonstrators im
munity from prosecution if they
left the national monument in
compliance with a federal court
order.
The demonstrators then
boarded a boat that took them
to Battery Park on Lower
Manhattan.
Park police Inspector H.A.
Groves had told the group “If
you leave this statue now or as
soon as possible, I guarantee
you there will be no prosecution
and you will be provided
transportation to Manhattan.”
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“I enjoy folks who like to talk
— especially if they have
something to talk about.”
Griffin, Ga., 30223, Saturday, April 20, 1974
Kissinger sets tone
for Atlanta OAS meet
ATLANTA (UPI) - Dele
gates to the Organization of
American States (OAS),
cheered by a call for “a
rekindled spirit of cooperation
in the Western Hemisphere,”
got down to business today with
a heavy agenda of mutual
He may
find peace
shambles
By United Press International
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger was notified today he
may find the Middle East peace
in shambles when he arrives
for a new round of shuttle
diplomacy to separate battling
Syrian and Israeli forces.
Israeli Defense Minister
Moshe Dayan warned on
television Friday night that full
scale war might break out if
Syria continued attacks on
strategic Mt. Hermon on the
Golan Heights.
“If they (the Syrians) insist
on continuing their activity and
trying to take up positions on
the Hermon it is quite possible
that Dr. Kissinger will find a
battlefield here instead of a
negotiating table,” the defense
minister said.
His warning came after the
worst ground and air fighting
since the October war.
Syria said its antiaircraft
batteries and missiles repulsed
a swarm of 50 Israeli planes
attacking its positions around
Mt. Hermon and shot down 17
of of them.
Israel admitted losing two
U.S.-built Phantoms but
claimed two Syrian MIGs were
destroyed in dogfights.
An Israeli military spokes
man said two crewmen of one
of the downed Phantoms
parachuted into Syrian-held
territory.
In Cairo, the semiofficial
newspaper Al Ahram said
Kissinger was planning talks
later this month with Soviet
officials in Geneva and Moscow
on the separation of Golan
Heights troops.
ESTIMATED HIGH TODAY
79, low today 48, high yesterday
78, low yesterday 46, high
tomorrow near 80, low tonight in
lower 50’s. Sunrise tomorrow
7:07, sunset tomorrow 8:07.
Textile meet
Barnesville, Forsyth
people elected to posts
PALM BEACH, Fla. (UPI)-
The president of the National
Cotton Council told Georgia
textile manufacturers meeting
here Friday this year’s cotton
crop has been estimated to be
the largest in almost a decade.
William E. Reid, also chair
man of the board of Riegel Tex
tile Corp., New York, spoke to
the final session of the Georgia
Textile Manufacturers Associa
tion annual meeting.
Reid said cotton leaders were
aware of the uncertainty in
manmade fiber supplies and
“intend to make the most of
this opportunity for cotton,”
which is expected to total 14 to
15 million bales this year.
The textile group elected
George D. Ray Jr., president of
Southern Mills, Inc., Atlanta,
president of the state associa
tion. Ray succeeded A. J.
Strickland 111, president, of
Strickland Cotton Mills, Val
dosta.
Other new officers named
were John A. Boland Jr., presi-
problems.
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger, elected president of
the 11-day session as expected,
was to make a major address
during the morning session.
He set the tone in brief
remarks Friday by renewing
his call for a “new dialogue”
on relations between the United
States and Latin America.
Kissinger also delivered a
message from President Nixon,
who saluted the OAS as “a
symbol and expression of our
hemispheric cooperation and
partnership” as he welcomed
the delegates from the 23 Latin
American countries to the
United States.
While the question of whether
the diplomatic sanctions
against Cuba should be lifted
was not mentioned directly
during the opening talks, it was
alluded to through calls for
“solidarity” of all nations. The
assembly was expected to be
asked to recommend the
sanctions be lifted against
Cuba, which was suspended
from the group in 1962.
Kissinger said foreign minis
ters with whom he met earlier
this week in Washington wanted
a new approach toward rela
tionships between the United
States and her Latin American
neighbors. He said the move in
that direction was gaining
momentum.
“We can say with confidence
that we are making progress in
understanding, progress in
dedication and above all,
progress in concrete programs
that realize the aspirations of
the Americas,” Kissinger said.
Secretary General Galo Plaza
of Equador heralded the
“rekindled spirit of coopera
tion” between the United States
and Latin America in his brief
remarks to the assembly. But
Plaza called the new spirit
“only a starting point for a new
and more constructive relation
ship.”
The OAS was expected to
deal with proposals to lift the
sanctions against Cuba, but
Plaza said there apparently
was not enough support among
the countries to lift it.
During the session, delegates
were expected to deal with
international corporations and
their impact on Latin America,
possible abuses of human rights
and a proposed restructured
OAS charter to put the
organization more in line with
the times.
dent of Swift Textiles Inc., Co
lumbus, as vice president, and
Joseph L. Lanier Jr., executive
vice president of West Point
Pepperell at West Point, as
treasurer.
Frank E. Carter and Jesse W.
Curlee, both of Atlanta, were
reelected executive vice presi
dent and secretary respectively.
Named as directors were F.
Sibley Bryan Jr., president of
Chipman - Union, Inc., Union
Point; Tom M. Bryan, vice
president, Jefferson Mills, Inc.,
Jefferson; Samuel M. Jones,
vice president, Chicopee Man
ufacturing Co., Gainesville;
Robert B. Langston, general
manager, Deering Millikan Inc.,
LaGrange; William S. Manning,
president, Bibb Co., Macon; Cy
rus M. Neuner, factory manag
er, The General Tire and Rub
ber Co., Aldora Mills Division,
Barnesville; Howell W. Newton,
vice president, Trion Manufac
turing Co., Forsyth, and Har
vey B. Vereen, vice president,
Moultrie Textiles, Moultrie.
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ATLANTA — Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (seated center on the rostrum) opens the
General Assembly of the Organization of American States, stressing the need for a “new
approach” to the relationship between the U. S. and Latin America. Secretary General
Galo Plaza of Ecuador is to the right of Kissinger and to the left is Gov. Jimmy Carter.
(UPI)
Carter regrets
ethics ruling
ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov.
Jimmy Carter says a ruling by
a Superior Court judge that
Georgia’s new campaign ethics
law is unconstitutional will be
appealed “immediately.”
Carter responded to the de
cision Friday with “regret” and
said, “It is obvious that except
for a few political figures that
have consistently opposed hones
ty in government legislation, the
vast majority of Georgians want
to know where candidates for
office get their money.”
Judge Lamar Knight ruled in
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Street fighting
BOGOTA — Students protesting Colombia’s presidential elections clash with police outside
the National University. Two students were killed during the day, though in separate
incidents. The government put strict security measures into effect throughout Colombia
after the students’ deaths in advance of elections which are the most wide open in two
decades. (UPI)
Carrollton Friday against the
law and enjoined the state from
enforcing its financial re
strictions on political candi
dates.
Knight gave no reason for his
decision, but held the law “vio
lates the Constitution of
the State of Georgia and of the
United States in its entirety and
is hereby declared to be void
and unenforceable.”
He said the defendants, Sec
retary of State Ben Fortson and
Coweta District Attorney El
dridge Fleming were “perman-
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ently” enjoined from enforcing
the law.
Leonard W. Weeks of La-
Grange, a candidate for
the Georgia House of Represen
tatives, brought the suit, claim
ing the law infringed upon his
constitutional liberties and those
of his supporters.
Provisions of the ethics law
include public disclosure of
campaign contributions of
more than slOl and making such
contributions only directly to a
candidate or a designated com
mittee.