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FRESNO BEE THE REPUBLICAN FRESNO CALIFORNIA Saturday June 13 1970 Phone 268-5221 10c 2 Sections 22 Pages Cambodians Drive Red HickelOuster Forces From Key Road 7 Spurs Denial PHNOM PENH (UPI) IThe sources said the South allies had set up hospitals and Cambodian troops today drove) Vietnamese in an operation that North Vietnamese and Viet began June 4 reported captur- Congo forces away from the American-built high- ing 16 individual and one crew-served weapon 2000 pounds of linking Phnom Penh and rice and some medical only deepwaterjplies South Vietnamese spokes-p Military sources said men said 108 North Vietnamese storehouses in the 25-square mile temple complex of the 9th century ruins at Angkor Wat 150 miles northwest of Penh The Cambodians have declared the historical ruins an "open and said its treasures were too valuable to risk in warfare The spokesman appealed for world reaction to condemn the Communists for using the area as a sanctuary In South Vietnam US B52 bombers struck twice today against Communist positions in the Que Son Valley where Viet Cong and North Vietnam have been carrying out hit-and-run attacks against American units for a week The raids were flown 14 and Phnom KEY BISCAYNE Fla (AP) President official spokesman said today the White House has no intention of asking for the resignation of Secretary of the Interim Walter Hickel Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler told reporters at the Florida White House know of no intention for Secretary Hickel to leave his Asked if he meant to convey the impression that the administration chiefs would be happy if Hickel remained in the Cabinet Ziegler laughed and remarked How do you answer that without getting into The New York Times reported in its Saturday editions speculation that Hickel author of letter to Nixon ex- South Vietnam had pulled 4000 troops out of Cambodia A Cambodian military spokesman said oil tank and food trucks were again moving on Highway 4 the roadway linking the capital and Kom-pong Som site of only oil refinery The highway had been 1 by intense fighting in the area Military sources in Saigon said South Vietnam had pulled 4000 infantrymen back across the border into the South Vietnamese central highlands following an unproductive drive into northeastern Cambodia The sources said the pullback west of Due Lap and 130 miles northeast of Saigon had left 42000 allied troops in Cambodia 12000 of them Americans and Viet Cong were slain 88 by air strikes with government losses of four dead and two wounded In Cambodia military commanders reported an unidentified North Vietnamese general was killed in the aftermath of the fighting near Siem Reap gateway to the Angkor Wat ruins Cambodian commanders claimed one of the most lopsided victories yet at the Mekong River ferry town of Tonle Bet Cambodian forces reported killing 34 Viet Cong last night at a cost of one Cambodian soldier dead The Communist troops were driven from the town The military spokesman also said North Vietnamese and Viet Cong and their Pathet Lao 17 miles west of Tam Ky and: 350 miles north-northeast of Stockton Thrift Firm Plot Indictment Names Judge Grand Jury Charges 1 3 Persons STOCKTON (UPI) Superior Court Judge Maxwell Willens was named but not charged today in indictments so far made public in investigation of an alleged attempt to loot a business firm of $15 million Indictments against two of the defendants said they did offer and give a to Willens last Oct 31 and Dec 18 Officials said the grand jury returned indictments against 13 persons and some indictments were kept secret pending further arrests Willens currently was confined to a hospital for treatment of a nervous ailment although his condition was described as good Willens a Republican is a former Municipal Court Judge who was appointed to the Superior Court four years ago by former Gov Edmund Brown Among the crimes charged yesterday are grand theft issuing checks with insufficient fends bribing a financial offi-BEIRUT Lebanon (UPI) Official government broadcasts and bribing a judge from the Jordanian capital of Amman today said the situation) Gordon Rose deputy attorney in the strife-tom Arab country had returned to But general said thrift certificates similar to certificates of deposit were purchased from AVCO Thrift Co with worthless checks while some were stolen outright AVCO Thrift a financial institution which is a subsidiary of AVCO Corp actually did not lose all the money despite the fraudulent schemes Rose said He said the FBI recovered many of the certificates including one seizure of $600000 worth in Nevada last March Final loss of AVCO was estimated to be about $200000 In addition to a lawyer and judge the indictments included businessmen and a bank president who is head of the Stock-ton port commission Leonard Pores 51 newly reelected to a four-year term as president of the port commission and president of the Stockton Bank of Agriculture and Commerce was charged with conspiracy to pervert and obstruct justice and conspiracy to commit grand theft Attorney John Barkett 35 was charged with bribing a judge and grand theft Joseph A Broderick 50 who See Judge Page 2-A most half of the 650 persons arrested during disorders the last week in the student community Isla Vista were free today cleared by a judge who dismissed all charges the interest of The charges of curfew violation and failure to disperse stemming from a sit-in Wednesday were dismissed Friday by Municipal Court Judge Joseph Lodge preceding to a skeleton staff and Britain die second straight night of calm in Isla Vista He said the 305 persons arrested Wednesday al- See Isla Vista Page 2-A worldwide basis without any national interests of any country save the world from itself warned all its citizens in non-essential jobs to leave Al Fatah the main guerrilla organization said Jordanian army tanks surrounded (me Palestinian refugee camp near Am-man this morning An Al Fatah spokesman said the tanks were withdrawn after talks between government and guerrilla representatives He described the situation in Amman as one of Guerrilla forces were reported in control of much of Amman but Jordanian troops armed with heavy weapons and tanks surrounded it In Cairo political sources said Egypt intervened with the protect American lives and secure the release of captives in Amman (The sources said a number of American dependents were given shelter at the Egyptian Embassy residence in Amman at the height of hostilities between guerrillas and Jordanian forces) About 300 persons most of them Americans Britons and Germans flew to safety aboard chartered aircraft yesterday They included many of the 65 persons held hostage by the guerrillas for three days in Amman hotels (A jet chartered by the International Red Cross landed in Athens just before midnight yesterday with 134 American evacuees US officials took them in chartered buses to hotels (One man carrying a sleeping 10-year-old boy was a if he had heard of women being raped in Amman He replied: least one My City Files To Annex 564 Acres At IRS Site An application to annex 564 acres to the city including the site proposed for the Internal Revenue Service data processing! center has been filed with the Local Agency Formation Commission A hearing on the application has been set for 2 pm June 29 The application is for an area bounded generally by Butler between Willow and Villa Ave pressing discontent with administration attitudes toward young people might soon resign or be dismissed Oil Briefing The newspaper said the most recent breach between Nixon and Hickel came Thursday when the interior secretary it said reportedly was told by the White House not to attend press briefing on proposed legislation to cancel 20 oil leases in the Santa Barbara Calif channel Hickel was a draftsman of the proposal Asked if Hickel was absent by his own choice from the White House briefing for newsmen Ziegler replied He added that Hickel had held his own private session with selected reporters in advance of the White House announcement Ziegler said he had talked during the morning with John Ehrlichman domestic policy coordinator pnd got the impression that as of Friday night Hickel was going ahead on a "business as basis with the White House Quoting unnamed Capitol Hill sources in Washington the Times said Hickel's successor may be Fred Russell named undersecretary of the interior See Hickel Page 2-A of all approval LAFCO has the authority to change boundaries A protest of residents owning more than one half on the total acreage in the area could kill the application before the City Council According to the application signed by Deputy City Manager Bruce Reiss the rear son for the annexation is See Annex Page 2-A nues The 42-acre site proposed for the IRS center is at the northeast comer of Butler and Willow and adjoins the city at the southwest comer' Because the area proposed for the annexation has fewer than 12 registered voters it will be an uninhabitated annexation requiring no vote of residents only LAFCO and City Council Brazil Bows To Kidnapers Will Free 40 RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) The Brazilian government agreed today to release the 40 political prisoners demanded by terrorists as ransom for the release of the kidnaped West German ambassador an effort to save the life of West German Ambassador Ehrenfied von Hollenben the government has agreed to release the 40 political a note from the government said The note broadcast by a radio station in Rio was signed by the ministers of justice and foreign affairs Guerrilla War Call Earlier the kidnapers had demanded the release of 28 prisoners and issued a call for guerrilla war Their manifesto was distributed by the government to newspapers and radio stations at the demand Presumably the increase from 28 to 40 prisoners to be freed came in a later demand from the kidnapers The government note said the identity of the 40 political prisoners would be given by the kidnapers later It added that the government already allowed a wide distribution of the manifesto and an explantory note through radio television and the press "(It has) authorized the use of the media for file identification and the gathering of the prisoners to be freed in the different parts of the the note said It concluded that since the government has met the conditions of the kidnapers the responsibility for the safety of the ambassador now lies in the hands of the kidnapers The (kidnapers') document charged that the dictatorship unmasks itself more and more as an enemy of the people as a servant of the big foreign capitalists as well as the big property Mineral King Navy Plane Crash Kills 4 Norman Cousins At CC Palestinian guerrilla leadership to serve training detachment Ear ly Warning Squadron 88 at North Island Naval Air Station San Diego A Navy spokes- Plea: Save World From Man To achieve even a temporary break in the fighting King Hussein of Jordan had to agree to remove his uncle Sherif Nasser Ben Jamil as commander-in-chief of the army Hussein warned it was his last concession and that -if backed into a corner he would fight Diplomats said the guerrillas were keeping the pressure on with their rejection of a political settlement to the Middle East crisis Hussein repeatedly has said he would negotiate with Israel This difference on such a basic issue is bound to result in more friction and cause the crisis to flare again the diplomats said MINERAL KING (UPI) -Four reserve officers were killed when their twin-engine Navy radar plane crashed on the southern slope of Farewell Gap in Sequoia National Forest near Mineral King The victims were identified as: Lt Robert Fox 30 Chula Vista the pilot 'LL' Robert Rimel 26 La Mesa the copilot Lt Byron Hazard Chula Vista and Capt John Harden 36 San Diego Harden was an Air Force reservists and the others were naval reserve officers Harden and Rimel were captains for Pacific Southwest Air lines and Fox was a first officer for the airline The plane an E1B Tracer was attached to the naval air re- man said it was on a routine training mission An elderly couple told Tulare County sheriff's deputies the craft made two or three passes over the area yesterday They said they saw a trail of smoke shortly before the crash Search parties from the Le-moore Naval Air Station hiked to the scene to recover bodies after a helicopter was unable to land in the rough terrain The Navy reported two other fatal crashes yesterday Lt (jg) William Ban Stone Jr 23 of Whidbey Naval Air Station Wash died when his A6 Intruder jet crashed at a bombing range near Boardman Ore Lt James Cannon 27 of Miramar Naval Air Station was killed when his F8 Crusader crashed during a training flight near Ocotillo Wells in San Diego County By Richard Richardson Fresno City College graduated 977 seniors last night as Norman Cousins editor of the Saturday Review challenged them to save the world from own destruction Only about a third of the graduates attended the 60th commencement exercises in the Convention Center Theater to receive associate in arts or associate in science degrees from college president Dr Clyde McCulIy Nineteen of the 977 seniors were graduated with highest honors and eight with high honors Cousins said it was his and to get as many graduates as possible to enter a profession he called planetary managers that is working on a Top News Inside World Russ leader says Nixon faces military political defeats 3-A Nation Nixon picks nine-member commission to probe campus violence 6-A Kennedy HHH could win presidency chance 5-B State And Local Judge rejects pleas for delay in Tate murder trial 10-A Suit would bar organic phosphate pesticides 12-B Weather OFFICIAL FORECAST Mostly fair through tomorrow with some cloudiness High temperatures 78-83 degrees Lows tonight 50-58 degrees Variable winds 5-15 miles per hour at times FRESNO FACTS 83 53 Today's 80 55 91 57 At noon the temperature was 74 degrees and the relative humidity was 42 per cent Details on Page 5-B Today's Chuckle If at first you don't succeed try to hide your astonishment to "Life has become he said world now has accumulated 30000 pounds of destructive force (bombs) for every man woman and child in the world Nothing in the world is in as great abundance today as destructive He said dream of people all over the world is to have life like we have here in the United But he said if the amount of air pollution produced per person in the United States were projected the would become uninhabitable in 10 If such a thick cloud of pollution would be produced it would block out the sun he said The principal problems of our times he said are no longer national problems They are the reach of nations to Needed today he said are men who will think about the world as a whole but he said there is no one today working fell time on this important He said not even Thant secretary general of the United Nations has the authority to decide what is in the best interests of the world He instead is bound to the wishes of the individual nations Cousins said He said a group of promin- See Cousins Page 2-A Court Rules Killing Child Is Not Murder State High Of Unborn By Lee Fremstad McCtotdiv ntwMaptn Miff writer SAN FRANCISCO The killing of an unborn child is not murder under California law the state Supreme Court concluded in a 5-2 decision released yesterday afternoon The opinion reached far back into English common law to determine that Amador County cannot prosecute Robert Keller for murder in the death of the unborn fetus carried by Teresa Keller his former wife "We are called upon to decide whether an unborn but viable fetus is a within the meaning of the California statute defining declared the major-ity opinion written by Justice Stanley Mosk concluded that the legislature did not intend such a The dissent written by Jus- caesarian section the fetus was found with a severely fractured skull and was delivered a stillborn Keller thereafter was charged with committing murder in the death of the baby girl The crime as defined in California is unlawful killing of a human being being with malice As the majority opinion noted the question is whether the fetus was as of Feb 23 1969 a human being within the meaning of the statute it was not petitioner (Keller) cannot be charged with its the court The California definition of murder was written in 1850 made part of the Penal Code of 1872 and has not been amended since Mosk's opinion quotes from See Unborn Page 2-A tice Louis Burke declared to hold that the unborn child past the eighth month of development and weighing five pounds was not a human being is to reason logic and common It was the first time the question has come before the state high court The Kellers were divorced Sept 27 1968 after 16 years of marriage As the court not- ed Mrs Keller at that time was pregnant by another man but concealed the fact from Keller On Feb 23 1969 Keller confronted his former wife saying hear He helped her out of her automobile looked at her abdomen and said sure are going to stomp it out of The evidence showed that Keller shoved his knee into her abdomen In a subsequent In The Bee Today Amusements Theaters 3-A City News In Brief 6-A Classified 7-B to 11-B Comics 4-B Editorials 8-A Financial 6-B Obituaries 5-B Radio 7-A Sports 1-B to 3-B Television 12-B Vital Statistics 7-B Weather 5-B Activities 7-A Your Horoscope 10-A GRADS IN WHITE-Graduating nursing students from Fresno City College filled the front rows of the Convention Center Theater at the college's 60th annual commencement exercise last night i i.