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8 A THE UWTON CONSTITUTION, Thursday, June 17,1971 Vietnam Veterans For A Just Peace Hopes To Set Record Straight Sugar Daddy? i ojl Slrvl An hour after Jim Minarik was discharged from the Army, two persons spat on his olive drab uniform as he walked along a street in Oakland, Calif. Just, returned from Vietnam and having no civilian clothes, Minazik wore his uniform again that night when he chose a good San Francisco restaurant to celebrate his safe return stateside. He was denied entrance to the restaurant and told that he was a war criminal. That was on Dec. 10, 196S, and Minarik solved the problem by purchasing a civilian suit.

"It was not a very good welcome back to America," the former paratrooper with the 101st Airborne Division said. Minarik, who plans to teach at the University of Dayton this fall, joined with nine other Vietnam veterans last week to announce formation of Vietnam Veterans For A Just Peace, a group that seems to have exploded out of the backlash that followed the April 24 demonstrations in Washington by about 1,000 veterans demanding an immediate end to the war. The new veterans group, which claims a membership of 5.000 and support of the "overwhelming majority" of the nation's 2.5 million Vietnam veterans, challenged John Kerry of Vietnam Veterans Against The War to a na tionally televised debate. "We do this in the interest of meaningful dialogue and the American people's right to hear a balanced presentation," said Bruce Kessler of New York, a former Marine and spokesman for the new group. "We demand that the mass media which has helped paint us as bloodthirsty murderers by giving undue prominence to 1.000 out of million, give us ample time and space to clear our name and thfe conscience of the American people." Kerry, who emerged as the recognized leader of Vietnam Veterans Against The was accused by the group of avoiding public debate and of misrepresenting facts in his testimony in April before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

John O'Neill, discharged last week from the Navy after sen-ins in the same unit as Kerry in Vietnam, said that Kerry speaks "for no one except himself and his embittered little group of 1,000 He added that Kerry does not speak for 500,000 Vietnam veterans who have joined the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Le- Seven Children Found In Shack MIAMI (AP) Sheriff's deputies were seeking a burglar when they came upon the roach-infested shack. Inside they found Oscar ry. 6. caring for six brothers and sisters--ages 4, 3, 2. and twins several months old.

Deputy Tim Adams, answering a complaint that children were breaking into a house next door to the cottage, made the discovery. Deputies said Oscar and some of the other children apparently had been stealing milk from neighborhood doorsteps to help keep themselves alive. They said three sticks of rancid margarine was the only food found in the tiny, filthy cottage. Officers said the children's father had deserted them anc that their mother often disappeared for days while Oscar cared for Mohilla, 4, Jackie, 3 Twilla, 2, Josepha, 1, and twins Cecile and Cynthia. The children's mother, Michele Henry, 26, was arrested later on charges of child neglect and contributing to the delinquency of minor children.

Asst. -State Atty. Malt We stein said she faces a possible jail term of 18 months and a $1,500 fine. Police said an eighth child, age 8, had been living with a great-grandmother and was not immediately located. Deputy Robeert Sims said he went to "a nearby grocery store and bought milk, cookies, potato chips and cold meat.

"It was like a blood transfusion the way those twins sucked the milk out of the; bottle," said Sgt. Rollie Biggs. The twins, their stomachs bloated from malnutrition, were admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital. The other children -were put in temporary foster homes, NONE WAS LEFT SAN Tex. (AP) -A 12-year-old boy hidden In a bush near his home seven new boots and turned them over to the police.

Each was for the right foot. gion, or for more than a million persons who served ir. Vietnam who are still in the armed services. The press conference was arranged with the help of Anthony McDonald, director of foreign affairs of the VFW and himself a Vietnam veteran. McDonald said the group's aims were similar to those of the VFW, but he denied that his organization is supplying financial support.

White House sources said later that members of Vietnam Veterans For A Jusl Peace would meet with White House staffers this week. The sources did not rule out a meeting with President Nixon. O'Neill is the choice.of Veterans For A Just Peace to debate Kerry, should he elect to do so. erect, shorthaired and articulate, O'Neill said he will enter the University of Texas law school in the fall. A graduate of the U.S.

Naval Academy, 25, of San Antonio, served in Coastal Division 11 in Vietnam with Kerry for a period of about a month in 1969, although he said he did not know Kerry. Responding, to various assertions by O'Neill said he did not see war crimes. committed by allied forces nor did he feel angry or betrayed, by his government. As for his activities while with Coastal 11, O-'Neill said it was a volunteer group and that if anyone objected to the unit's mission, he would request reassignment. He said Kerry never left the unit nor did he.

am proud and not ashamed of my serv-' ice," he said. O'Neill and the other nine said they support President Nixon's Vietnamiza- tion policy as well as his with-. drawal program, and O'Neill said he believed that a majority" of Vietnam veterans also support those policies. "We don't often come to Washington. We have schools- to attend, jobs to work at or maybe we're still in the armed services far from home.

"The President does our talking for us, as with most Americans. Mr. Kerry certainly does not," O'Neill said. Kessler said the group has been formed over the last three weeks, and that it does a demonstrations. Rather, he said, members will be "striving to blanket the nation through speakers, debates, articles and our literature." He said the 5,000 indications of support followed distribution of handbills to veterans groups around the nation.

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