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Watch on Washington Dei Molrti Sudy Rjliter Jr 1 'V' 3-0 Study Ranks Berkeley. Defense for Soldier Cites Obstacles SAIGON'. St MTI I VIKTNAM Egypt Ready To Launch War: Sadat CAIRO. KGYPT (KrXTKR) President Anwar Sadat Raid Saturday the United Arab He- The Service Club Scandal coiitrol over the Criminal Investigation Division. Grneml Cole Intrnrnrd to select Sgt.

William Higdon as manager of the Iong Hinh club system over the objec HarvardTop By Rudy Abramsnn I tM Antl Tim WASHINGTON. DC De- 'i to wate any (AIM A civilian atlnrney: told a military jtula Saturday that his client rtmld not receive a fair trial because the t' Command has denied him ae-, cess to military transportation 1 and telephones. The attorney, M. Aron-I 10 rt tif Mar sort uf i'l and lth I tion of a commanding offai-r i riy has who felt Higdon's record was five years of campus tur-questjonable. tligdon.

who i moil, the University of Califor- 1 I'M iru "in hnttLt rraneu-! the vi 1 1 1 v. vers "Watch on ton" i4 weekly commentary on people and the new in the nation' capital hy Pulitzer Prize-winning- reporter Cfcuk It. Mollenhnfr. chief of The Register' Wahinj-ton Ihneau. WASHINGTON.

C. fit dim-tor of the Lawyers 4 i Military IVfense Cuntmitti, a v-JF- I 1 1 organisation with A three civilian attor neys in Viet- I nam representing soloVrs in son. is dirn-lor of the Lawyers! representing solda-rs Suez Canal! front. I Sadat told' i i i I cuuns-nianiai wnnotii iee. 4 Aron.son contends that tol ANWAR IAD4T Egypt would press executives here that not allow the present Middle Kast rease fire fnia at Berkeley Ktill rank "one-two" with Harvard as th? top S.

institution for graduate 'education, a survey of 6,000 scholars showed Saturday. The study, conducted by th( American Council on Education at 130 institutions, placed Berkeley among the lop five schools 1 in 32 of 3S disciplines in which it was evaluated. Harvard was i evaluated in 34 fields and an-i peared among the top five in' 27. i It Subjects Harvard was rated number in 14 subjects. Berkeley ap IfcilEPMOTO I AC I I Robert K.

Weaver, the stale I judge advocate of the U.S. i Command, lias placed unnecos- jsary and increasingly tough ob staeles against ttu committee become permanent and would only extend it if Israel' becomes seriously involved in earlier took the Fifth Amendment before the McClellan subcommittee on his rleniions with Cole, since has b-n convicted on fraud charges. 3. General Cole Inlrrvrned for Sari Electronics, owned by William Crum, to get the release of automobiles, slot machines and other equipment at a Saigon port although the company was using illegally club import privileges, 4. General Cole Ignored periodic warnings on Sergeant Higdon's illegal and improer activities on behalf of William Crum, Sari Electronics, and two Chinese brothers, and ordered the transfer of a young major who had documented the case against to the point that it Is unable to contact clients, i Former Iowan in North Vietnam dpi ion with this phnUi from Hanoi, North Vietnam, monitored Saturday in Warsaw, Poland, identified these men as captured U.S.

pilots playing chess in a prisoner of war ramp in North Vietnam. Man at left Is Identified as Marine 14. Col. F.disnn Wainwright Miller of Santa Ana, formerly of Clinton, la. Man at right is Identified as Navy t'mdr.

Robert James Schweitzer of Ismnorr, Calif. peace talks. This means a timetable for Israeli withdrawal from Arab territories it occupied in the June, 1967, ar, he added. Egypt is prepared to meet In the rase at Issue, Aron-son represents Pvt. Gerald D.

Meljr more, 20, of Rock Island, a black America! Divi peared first in eight. any military challenge from the Israelis before or after the Feb- sion soldier charged with un- I premeditated murder In the i shooting death of a white soldier in a racial incident at Chu l.al, 315 miles north of The survey was described an important guide for graduate students deciding where to) study and for organizations providing financial support for graduate education. Council of- Schwriler was one of the I'OWs interviewed hy the Canadian Broadcasting recently. Portions of the interview appeared on television last Sunday. Enemy's 3-Day Truce Ends; Sharp Fighting in 2 Areas Gen.

William C. Westmoreland will be among the doen high ranking military officers who ill be prominently mentioned in congressional hearings pointing up Army negligence in permitting a ring of sergeants to prey upon servicemen's clubs in Vietnam. Westmoreland is involved because of his personal relationship with former Rrig. Gen. Earl Cole, the people he met through General and the gifts that General Westmoreland and his wife received through Cole.

January Hearings The tale of the Westmoreland-Cole relationship will be a part of the story-revealed by the McClellan Permanent Investigating Subcommittee in late January. It may explain why Gener ruary expiration of the present cease-fire, the president said. "We have commanders for all branches of modern warfare," he said, "including electronic." Egyptian soldiers are fully trained in handling these sophisticated weapons, he said, in Saigon. In a pre-trial hearing Satur-j day, Aronson asked the judge, Col. Ralph llamm.ck of Fair-1 field.

Ohio, to release ificials discouraged its use In establish a pecking order of academic excellence. i leased ire to 7'Jir Register SAIGON, SOUTH VIETNAM CHINA VIETNAMV'-v an apparent reference to Rus A similar xtudy five years ago produced idespread con- troversy it was called a "compendium of gossip" by one critic because it rated Mctamore from confinement or Isued the attackers into the delay his trial until the govern- southern half of the 6-mile-wide ment gives the defense enough' zone and brought in reinforce- i transportation and commu-. nication facilities to prepare its ments, including armored Per-iPaSP i I sonnel carriers. The hearine will continue to- sian-supplied SAM2 and SAM" 7 e. three-da truce for New Years the Suez missiles installed on 5.

General Cole intervened for the Tom brothers, who were given favored treatment in Vietnam as well as in Europe. The disciplinary action against Cole was on the basis of a finding he sought "executive favoritism" for the Tom brothers in Europe, but nothing was said about Vietnam. 6. General Cole permitted Higdon to buy an expensive silver service worth $320 to present as a gift to Gen. Har IVienVarleS Hf" One of the armored vehicles day.

1 Aronson told the indue that i came to an end early Sunday with sharp fighting reported at both ends of South Vietnam. In the extreme north, South Vietnamese infantrymen swept into the once-neutral demilitarized zone which sep Canal front. Sadat, who has undertaken a series of morale-boosting speeches, said the late Presi-d Gamal Abdel Nasser scored one of his most glorious successes in persuading the kiiTXOH uemiMaruetfy by for a 11iei he is permitted military trans-i PW South Vietnamese soldiers. portation onlv when he can! General Westmoreland South Vietnamese pulled out of r.ove (0 'CavPr-g that Pst as commander of prov al Cole was approved the V'W Nang THAILAND the zone bt-fore nightfall. Re European Exchange System schools from top to bottom.

The second survey was undertaken because council officials considered it necessary to show whether significant changes were taking place. The new report found a trend of improvement, particularly in the South, but generally the institutions which fared best five years ago remained at the top. In the latest survey, California's Stanford University stood just behind Harvard in the Russians to stiffen Egypt's air defenses with SAM3 missiles. The President said Egyptian forces had not wasted a minute of the cease-fire. arates the Vietnam and fought North Vietnamese troops for 10 hours before pulling back late Saturday.

In the south, the Viet Cong hit three South Vietnamese mil- in January, 19fi3. General Westmoreland's approval came over the objections of the general officer who then headed the Army and Air Force Exchange Service in Dallas, Tex. civilian transportation is available, and then only on a stand-by basis at the lowest military priority. He is not allowed military telephone facilities and is permitted only limited use of Army postal facilities, Aron.son added. He said the Vietnamese tele "It provided an excellent op- lorts on other casualties on both sides were lacking.

The South Vietnamese government announced it would provide armed escort for tanker ships and trucks carrying oil and gasoline supplies to fuel-short Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital. A government spokesman in Penh -y-aigorM TjMekond I Can Thopr' Delia Som4 Lin Sm I number of disciplines where scholars ranked it among the pnrtunity for us to rebuild and "Xv positions in Kien Giang strengthen our positions." he i about 100 miles said "not only the missile southwest of Saigon, with trior-sites, but all the positions along and rocket grenade attacks the front." lnat billed Observers noted that Egypt soldiers and wounded 26 more. five best schools. Stanford appeared 16 times in the first phone and postal systems are old K. Johnson, the Army chief of staff, in Vietnam in December, 1968.

Army regulations barred such expensive gifts, and records were falsified to indicate the figure was only worth $25. 7. General Cole made an expensive silver gift to General Westmoreland which he misrepresented as coming from the headquarters staff. Months after the Senate investigation started, Cole admitted he had bought the gift himself and Westmoreland returned it as improper. The fact the cash for gifts may have come from club rackets does not indicate illegal activity by General Westmoreland or General John Saigon said the Interior Ministry had decided to "ease all has never admitted moving new As the Viet Cong cease-fire killed SAM3 missiles into the canal ended at 1 a.m.

Sunday, in-: North Vietnamese were complete figures showed at i and two captured. procedures" for delivering the fuel, presumably meaning the Cambodians would not be charged for the military inadequate for reaching American installations in Vietnam. Aronson said other civilian attorneys, notably one involved in the case of the alleged massacre at My Iai. have been provided special aircraft, cars, drivers, military currency, telephones and other facilities. five.

Other Colleges California Institute of Technology was listed 11 times. Others most frequently listed were: University of Chicago, 14; Yale University, 13; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 12; University of Michigan, 12; Princeton University, 12; University of Wisconsin, Univer- In Cambodia, where the truce did not apply, South Vietnamese troops reported killing 37 Viet Cong with losses of 18 wounded in fighting guards. Under the agreement, the Cambodians will be able to buy least 12 Americans killed and 49 wounded in the three-day period. The South Vietnamese reported their casualties at 32 killed and 93 wounded. The allies claimed 53 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed.

Trlli area, as Israel charges. Sadat's words appeared to be the most direct admission yet that the missile bases had at least been "strengthened." Elsewhere in the Mideast, two children in a Jewish family touring the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip were killed by a hand grenade tossed into their car Saturday, the Israeli mili Army Secretary Stanley Rcsor announced last July 31, that Cole had been reduced from brigadier general to colonel and was being retired. Resor said Cole also was stripped of his Distinguished Service Medal because he "failed to maintain a high degree of personal and professional integrity'' when in charge of post exchanges and commissaries in Europe. The statement made no mention of Cole's "failure to maintain" high professional standards when he was on duty in Vietnam under the direct control of General Westmoreland. In the coming hearings the subcommittee investigators are prepared to fill in all the de iDetroleiim products from oil near Highway 1.

Weaver did not testify at the The U.S. command also re.j companies in aaigon m.u but answcr to writ hoivi Ln rw wonn nv i ri M'u i Saturday loss of a light Hnn anker vessels ten from. 1: jsity of Illinois, Columbia Q.ni wrocc no cum no nMw; Although tontine was report-IT" vl" the the Mekong River his reslriftions on a clause from i -lars ar ea oi iios ana me i rH hem i rr hm it Mln't nf tllo Ihl'OD An armored Cambodian task Manua for Courts Martial; rtcjlh ()f AnuTjean force is southward lsavine. '-civilian counsel will! days, the allies reported that I il-s ituuniu umi tary command reported. The mother was seriously wounded and the father collapsed in shock.

a K0 iirnvirli'H at tliA PYTIpnse I their own i nine la i 5 ease-fire a 24- I)( f' a slnfle, along the highway for over New Year's with North Vi, moving University, and Rockefeller University, 5. Columbia slipped significantly from its standing five years ago, and leaders of-; the study attributed it to a combination of financial Prob-'; Jems and campus unrest. Vietnamese hour standow of the United States." Wednesday after being hit by Officials said the family of son, out it does indicate the close relationship with Cole and with some of Cole's friends in Vietnam. To those who had worked on the investigation of Cole, the appointment of Cole as the commanding general of the entire European PX system seemed to indicate a reaffirmation of Westmoreland's friendship. Landslide in Italy Kills 5 Missing controlling Pich Nil pass, in the Elephant Mountains 60 miles "Thus," Weaver said, the U.S.

Command "has no basis Ty uvT 1 ground fire, a spokesman said, the holiday truces started in nMm. oq which to provide logistical support to civilian counsel. I9B7. southwest of Phnom Penh. I American aircraft officially re- The i a bed commands accused ported downed Laos Another column moving up the Viet (xing of initiating 4fi from tne S01llh attacked en- southwest of Phnom Penh Robert Aroyo immigrated to Israel from Britain 18 months ago.

The attack followed new Arab guerrilla strikes on Israelis Saturday from Lebanon and Syria. However, within the framework of established directives and II ni L. Miitft iiiiic lllVilllUO tails on that oversight. Knew of Friendship The men in the Army's Criminal Investigation Division knew of the close rela- 'trenched North Vietnamese 65! i The study made no attempt; to correlate changes in ratings-i with campus unrest. A major conclusion drawn by' council officials was 72 less than last year.

DMZ I iglitnig 1 miles southwest of the capital. regulations, some transporta One American was killed in a The fighting Saturday inside mortar barrage near the demil- the DMZ began before dawn tion, including air, can be made available when civilian transportation is not available or At last reports, the two columns were about 12 miles apart, but tough fighting lay DI I present graduate institutions STABIA, ITALY (AP) In the earlier attacks, Palestinian guerrillas mortared two settlements in the upper Galilee ilarized zone and 10 were, when a South Vietnamese unit wounded. Nine South Vietnam-j patrolling the southern edge of easily can meet the country's! foreseeable requirements for; Ph.D.s. "Any further expansion; of Ph.D. programs in tradition- ese were killed and 52 1 the zone was attacked by North and shelled a village in the Go- or rain-loosened mud and dirt slid off a mountain overlooking the Bay of Naples Saturday and ahead in the mountains.

Seizure of Drugs Doubled in 1970 lan Heights of Syria, taken over wounded, the commands report-1 Vietnamese troops, by Israel in 1967. ed. They said 2fi Viet Cong and The South Vietnamese pur- practicable. "Outside the Saigon area, quarters and messing facilities may be made available on the same basis. In addition, limited military postal service is pro-1 crashed onto a hotel, an adjoin- al fields," Wilson said, "should- mg building and a car-filled be looked at with th arpaiC gaming ivt.

rum UlUUjcare WASHINGTON. D.C. (AP) Customs Bureau reported vided for the purpose of communications between the attor- nni nrtJ militotM? nliiinte ana least nve are missing. rn each of the programs sur-' Fifteen others were hurt in the veyed, the scholars were asked: Claim Inflated Estimates May Give Firm $1.5 Million Bonus i i between General Westmoreland and Cole. So did the lawyers in-the Army counsel's office who have been fighting for a year to avoid exposing all of the files of the Vietnam investigations to the Senate group.

The Army counsel's office closed out its original probe of Cole in February, 1970, but reopened the investigation a few months later after the McClellan committee began its inquiries. The Senate hearing will make these points: 1. General Cole had control over the club system in Vietnam, and also a supervisory Saturday night that seizures of appropriate "appointed drugs and narcotics ctouoiea counsei giciui. iauuiiue uica uiunuerea off Pendolo Mountain onto the La Selva Hotel, a five-story chalet-style structure opened last summer. to rate schools for the quality; of their graduate faculty, the; effectiveness of the doctoral program, and the estimate change over the Jast five years.

intr 1970 over 1969 with con- fiscation of cocaine and other WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -Government auditors said Saturday inflated cost estimates on a rocket engine contract may narcotics showing the biggest These privileges are provided by MACV (the U.S. Command) under governing directives and regulations which are separate from the UCMJ Code of Military Jus- current" at the time the contract was entered. "The target costs established by the contract were overstated by about $5 million on the basis increase. Seizures during 1970 totaled January 4th through January 9th produce a $1.5 million windfall for North American Rockwell fees which Rocketdyne could earn under the contract were increased by about $1.5 million." The GAO noted that a 1962 law, the Truth in Negotiations Act, was intended to safeguard the government against inflated cost estimates by contractors in 8,693, an increase ot lOb.8 per uce) Corp.

ty pmyaw yy- if In a report to Congress, the cent over the 4.203 seizures in 1969, the bureau said. Seizures included heroin, cocaine and of cost and pricing data available to Rocketdyne prior to the effective date of its certification that the pricing data was accurate, complete and current General Accounting Uitice said the company stands to receive other narcotics, hashlish, marijuana, amphetamines and the extra $1.5 million for beat negotiated procurements where the GAO said. "As a result, the competition is lacking. "diftl 1 ing the target cost on an 1 rocket engine contract. But Us investigation of the contract, the GAO said, showed the target cost had been overstated by $5 million because North American had not used the most current cost data available to it.

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