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ViM Fallout een in lay bombers and helicopter gun Related story Page 2) WASHINGTON (AP) troops still would be required after that date. The South Vietnamese estimate appeared to cover a longer period of time than President Nixon had in mind when he told a news conference Friday he is trying to end the war before the close of 1970 or the middle of ment of North Vietnam casualties. i The North Vietnamese forces are simply able to hold even at the present level of infiltration, according to this estimate, South Vietnamese officials are in accord with President Nixon's judgment that Hanoi lacked the strength to mount an offensive during the summer months. Describing what is known as the "lull," the South Vietnamese said that over the past two to three months there had been no major fighting. I This was attributed to the spoiling operations of American and South Vietnamese troops and the accuracy of B52 bomber and tactical air strikes launched against North Vietnam's units.

The South Vietnam officials are programming a buildup of their regular army, together with regional and provincial forces, to a total of 953,000 men by the end of 1972. Their plans, however, would call for American units to continue supplying not only logistic support, but combat support as well from infantry units, B52 High South Vietnam sources say present plans i call for the replacement of U.S. forces in their country -J ships. The South Vietnam military plans are based on continuation of the present situation in which the North Vietnamese are estimated at infiltrating 8,000 to 10,000 men into South Vietnam each month. This number is said to be sufficient for replace to be completed by the end of 1972, although some American 1971.

6 3 Salem, Oregon, Saturday, September 27, 1969 (5 Sections) 60 Pages Price 10c 81st Year No. 232 Mr So Brados Defense Bne Monday 4 38- Hill! IV By LARRY ROBY house across the street from the I one showed the girl, still alive, Brudos home at 3123 Center St. standing nude high-heeled ifiii Capital Journal Reporter Henry Brudos strangle the 19-year-old coed in their home. Burt said there is a possibil NE. I shoes on a shag rug In the Bru- The defense counsel for Lt.

Robert W. Pinnick, of the dos workshop, ity of re-calling the state's "key witness," Mrs. Mary' Patterson Ralphene Brudos will try to show; next week that Mrs. Brudos was not home at to testify. Mrs.

Patterson told Frank parking lot. She said the figure was that of a young girl. Jerome Brudos is serving three consecutive lifesentences in the Oregon State Penitentiary for the killing of Miss Sprinker and two other young women. Burt said he would call Mrs. Patterson back if an argument arose over her ability to "actually see everything" she testified she saw from hersister's the jury Oregon state crime laboratory, Pinnick also said that two lead gave a detailed scientific de- breast molds "were exposed to scription'of 96 bits of evidence view" in the Brudos living room introduced Friday by the state, and workshop.

Both of Miss He identified ten pictures of Sprinker's breasts had been re-Miss Snrinkw found in the Bru- moved when her body I was the time she's accused of Thursday she saw Mrs Brudos helping her husband murder help her husband move Karen Elena Sprinker. a "blank-home on eted figure" into their The prosecution rested its case homeTNine of them were of found weighted with an engine dos the date Miss Sprinker was ab ducted from Salem's nude body suspended and head in the Long Tom River her Meier Friday afternoon and Charles Burt, Mrs. Brudos's court-appointed attorney will start presenting his side of the first-de gree murder trial Monday. miss the case. He contended that the state had failed to show a murder had occurred on March 27 as charged in the indictment against Mrs.

Brudos. The other points in Burt's motion: Miss Sprinker's murder didn't occur at the Brudos home. There was an unlawful search and seizure of items from the Brudos home by the law enforcement officers. The state hasn't proved Mrs. Brudos did anything in aiding in the killing.

"Mrs. Brudos has been deprived of a fair trial" because one of the witnesses, Mrs. Patterson, was instructed not to talk with defense attorneys. The indictment fails to state any act that Mrs. Brudos did.

Hay denied all points of the motion. Burt said it will take him probably three days to complete his case. The trial started last Monday, Burt has indicated in the Mar May iz. I The policeman also said the paper towels which had been stuffed in Miss Sprinker's brassiere matched the color and texture of those found in the Brudos kitchen and introduced as evidence. I He continued to identify rope ion County Circuit Court pro Watching and Worrying ceedings that "Ralphene is es sentially a normal person, Mrs.

Brudos will take the wit ing. They are residents of a reportedly Viet Cong-controlled 20 miles northwest of Saigon. (AP) I ness stand to outline her activi A young Vietnamese girl and her wide-eyed baby sister watch South Vietnam troops search their house while their parents undergo question ties on March 27 the day she is segments, women's undergarments and pictures of women's shoes found at various locations in the Brudos home. I charged with helping Jerome At 4:25 p.m. Dist.

Atty. Gary Gortmaker announced he had completed his side of the case. Denies Call for Beret Burt then asked Judge Doug las L. Hay to give a directed verdict of acquittal and to dis- Killing Agent Con Killed, In Pen Riot Call for Action solves problems, cuts fed tape, answers your questions. Just dial 364-6811 anytime between 5 and 8 p.m.

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Finally, You Can Come Clean "I want you to know that the charge is merely that, a and does not constitute the truth." Marasco said in his cables. "Please bear with me, and I know that this is difficult for all of us. Love. Bob." The cables went to Marasco's wife, Denise, in Rutherford and SAIGON (UPI) The Army today accused Capt. Robert Marasco, 27, of Rutherford, N.J., of pulling the trigger in what the military contends was the murder of a Vietnamese civilian by U.S.

Green Berets. Marasco denied it. Marasco made the denial in cables to his wife and parents I PENDLETON, Ind. (UPI) Indiana reformatory guards 1 opened fire with shotguns Question: In April, we bought a mobile home from an outfit in Portland. In transit they broke the shower door.

We called them repeatedly and finally in June to his parents Mr. and Mrs I Friday, killing one inmate and wounding 46 others who staged Frank Marasco of Bloomfield, or July they brought one out, but it was the wrong size in New Jersey after the army released the official charge orders to return to their jobs and instead marched into a furniture building and set fire to an upholstery shop, As the demonstrators headed for another building, he said, they were chased back to the recreation area by a shotgun blast over their heads. Phend said 12 guards were a brief not. n.j. We hoped they would bring it this summer while the Supt.

George Phend said the sheets accusing him of shooting Marasco and five other Green boys were home, but now it will have to be installed on to death Thai Khac Chuyen prisoners were hit by shotgun June 20. I (pellets which richocheted when Saturday or after 4 p.m. Would you kindly check and see if we can take a shower soon? It's been a long hot summer. Name withheld 12 guards fired at the Beret officers were ordered court-martialed in the slaying of Chuyen. The Army contends the South Vietnamese civilian was slain near Nha Trang, 188 I -v.

i 'V mil t.v lllliiii ii nr iriium inir hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimi hiihiiiiiiimiimiim pn i lo mi rinmiin iinrinniiilnin'K -MrinrnH'Hi then stationed around the area. They fired overthe prisoners' Answer: The company involved tells us they will miles northeast of Saigon pavement. Other prisoners disagreed, shouting to newsmen touring the scene, "They shot them down like dogs," and, "richochet, hell. Ask us about it." .1 heads again and, when the disturbance continued, began firing into the pavement, he Charges against a Green Beret warrant officer and an enlisted man have been held in Officials I Opposing Bomb Test said. I Phend said about 200 inmates "If we did not exercise the abeyance until the higher ranking; Special Forces officers amount of control we did, I (created a disturbance in the recreation area of the reforma- contact you "to arrange a suitable time to schedule installation of the shower door." It Shouldn't Happen Question: I am writing in regards to some cousins of mine who visited Silver Creek Falls State Park from Canada.

An attendant at the park would not accept their Canadian money for a camping space. They had to return all the way to Salem to get their money changed before they could go up and use the overnight are tried. don't think we would be here now," Phend told a news Itory, backing demands made Thursday. He said they ignored; conference late Friday. I (From UPI and AP) Defense attorneys for the Green Berets contend the man slain was a double agent working for the Allies and A five-man Hawaii delegation Friday said 1 they were still opposed to proposed under Airborne Birth Control North Vietnam.

camping space "where they wanted to stay. Why? ground nuclear testing sche duled to begin next Thursday on jAmchitka Island in the Virus Seen in 3 Years Aleutian chain. Name withheld. Answer: The State Highway Division says that the Canadian money should have been accepted. It is to be accepted at face value at state parks under present Highway Division policy.

The division is looking into the incident which you cite. The stand was taken after the Atomic Energy Commission DURHAM, (AP) briefed" four- Hawaiian legisla University of New Hampshire botanist says all women could be sterilized by an airborne vi tors; and a representative of Gov! John A. Burns and the Alaska legislative council New Wolf on the OCE Campus He said his system would require married couples to ''make a human decision" to have a family, reversing the present approach that requires them to "work not to have children." The antidote would be administered by injection and be good for six months or less, he said. Schreiber said his system is Isbestia Considerable cloudiness with few light showers tonight: Partly sunny Sunday. Low tonight 47, high Sunday 70.

Chance of measurable precipitation 30 per cent "tonight, 10 per cent Sunday. i Sunset today sunrise tomorrow 7:06. Maximum yesterday 71; minimum today 43. Total 24-hour precipitation for month 3.50; normal 1.18. Seasonal precipitation 3.50; normal MS; Report by U.S.

Weather Bureau. (Weather details Page 5) about the 1.2 megaton blast, rus, and those who wanted to have children could receive an antidote. I i equal tothe largest under ground test ever conducted by the united States. Dr. Richard W.

Schreiber said Call for Action cannot answer all of the questions as much as we'd like to. We will select those which are of the most general interest. And if you are positive that yours fits that category, but you don't see the answer, don't give up quickly. Getting some of the answers requires extensive research. Names of callers and letter writers must bt given, but they will be withheld en request.

acquainted here with junior Jean Rix of Junction City, is a gift from Tom Thayer, a former OCE student now working with Walt Disney Studios. (Capital Journal Photo by Jerry Mc-Cullough) State Sen. Wadworth Yee of A new freshman named Waldo (he's wearing a beanie to denote his class) is on the Oregon College of Education campus at Monmouth. He's a Canadian timber wolf which was stuffed by an Albany taxidermist to serve as an OCE mascot. Waldo, shown getting Friday the virus and antidote could be developed in three Honolulu said his group wants an independent study to con years at a cost of about $5 justified by trends that show man is "fatally close to breeding himself out of existence." firm or contradict AEC state ments.

scheduled for this coming Help for Young Families? The board members of a new family planning Czech -V: Liberals Purged agency are undecided about whether they legally can Monday. "It's our property and our lives," Yee said. He was referring to the possibility that the blast might set off a tsunami (tidal wave). Meanwhile, Alaska Sen. Mike Gravel says he will ask President Nixon Monday to delay nuclear bomb testing in assist persons under 21.

They'd like to, though some families are started when the parents are onlv PRAGUE (UPI)-The Czecho Dubcek, had survived the 15. Story on Page 11. i ments and would not be given positions of power at a time when tiie floundering Czechoslo slovak government resigned today to clear the way for a purge, indicated that at least some other moderates would remain to give the new government a middle-of-the- interview with Czechoslovak Minister of Education Jaromir Hrbek. The government purges could have been 5 carried out by simply firing I each liberal The War on Trash purge of liberals from its vak economy needs drastic new Notice to Subscribers The Capital Journal's home delivery subscription rate will increase to $2 beginning Oct 1. Mail rates also will rise.

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Gravel is to be the first wit the Communist Party Central Late next month a new Marion County ordinance urDeK mentioned no names Committee had. decided to oust but diplomatic sources said dealing with trash will go into effect. The measure ness before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Monday is designed to force clean-up of accumulations of trash minister. But observers here said the mass resignation of the government and its subsequent reformation was a much tidier at a public hearing on a resolu in the outlying areas of the county. For a report, see liberals presumably including Alexander; 1 Dubcek from i- bom the party -and all government posts they now hold.

those punished would include Dubcek and the men who helped him shape the eight-month reform period of 1968 tion introduced by the Alaska me weeKena aection. i road direction, -at least on the surface. 1 Cernik in recent months has turned on' Dubcek and his other former colleagues. He made a trip to Moscow earlier this month and apparently received the Soviets blessing to stay on as premier. -The disclosure -of 'the Central Democrat The resolution calls for a study into the effects of nuclear An official announcement said way of achieving the same purpose.

Moderates were expected to that was snuffed out by the Soviet-led invasion by Warsaw! Abby Classified 22-27 Premier I Oldrich Cernik had presented his government's Pact troops. testing on existing treaties and other agreements with Pacific Rim nations, i 1 mass resignation to President be installed in economic posts in the government. The obser-ers pointed out that many "Leading representatives of Movies Obituaries je Religion Sports .18, Television Weekend See. Valley, Coast tj Women's News 14, IS Cornice Court Records 5 Crossword Editorials 4 Ludvik Svoboda and had been the rightist forces inside the i 1 1 e's decisions, thrashed out in two-day Capital Journal Gravel was joined by 17 other asked to form a new govern hardliners had discredited party will have to leave the senators in SDonsorinz the reso ment meeting ending early today, themselves on economic incom central committee and also the 'Marietta Jl I That Cernik, a former aide to came in a Prague Radio Hrbek said. petence In previous govern i U-.