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Des Moines Register PoCe2 Mr. 29, 1972 PEOPLE in the NEWS MILITARY ASKS BONUS FUNDS Dramatic Escape Bid Foiled Near Angela Davis Trial Site Birthday Senator Edmund S. Muskie, campaigning for the Apr. 4 Wisconsin primary, says he forgot his ers demanded Captain Johnson's gun and handcuffs and indicated they also wanted to take the officer as a hostage. "We tried to tell them of, the futility of their plan," said Deputy Rosa, "but they said if they were not let go, 'We'll kill the hostages right i I SI 1 I 2 ---X WASHINGTON, D.C.

(AP) -The Pentagon asked Congress Tuesday for $30 million in bonuses effective Saturday for reservists and $200 million more next year to try to attract enough doctors and men with other special skills into a voluntary military force. The Pentagon's package of pay incentive proposals designed to attract the reservists, doctors and other men with special skills was contained in proposed legislation sent to Congress by Pentagon general counsel J. Fred Buzhardt. He said the reserve bonuses are needed to help correct a shortage in National Guard and reserve units although the bonuses would be only for men enlisting into or staying in the Selected Reserve, the most combat-ready units. Buzhardt told Congress the reservists would be the first men called for augmentation of active military forces in an emergency under President Nixon's "Total Force Concept." "Consequently, full manning of the selected reserve units will become critical to the national security," he wrote.

"Si multaneously, the removal of the influence or the draft makes this objective difficult to obtain." Men with critical military skills could eventually get up to a $2,200 bonus for a six-year enlistment or re-enlistment in the reserves and men wih noncritical skills up to $1,100. However, Buzhardt said, the bonuses would start on an experimental basis with maximums of $1,800 planned for re-enlistments and $600 for enlistments. Congress could not approve the Pentagon request before Saturday which in effect makes it a request for reserve bonuses retroactive to Saturday. DRUNKENNESS REPORT DENIED WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -Arthur K.

Watson, U.S. Ambassador to France, says a re port that he got i rously i drunk on a flight from Paris to New York was exaggerat- ed. But he con cedes ne was iuuc iu ucvr members. In a letter to presentative Wayne L. Hayes Ohio), chairman of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee, Watson said he took two sleeping pills and ordered several drinks daring the flight on Mar.

9 but denied he was intoxicated. "The most that one could say is that I was exceedingly, and I think, uncharacteristically rude," Watson told Hays. Hays, whose subcommittee had considered investigating the episode first reported by columnist Jack Anderson, read excerpts from Watson's letter at a news conference Tuesday. The letter resulted from Hays's suggestion to the State Department that Watson resign, write a letter of apology or testify at a public hearing. In the letter Watson said he boarded the plane after working all night and took two sleeping pills in an effort to relax.

When the pills didn't work, he said, he ordered several drinks. "I was quite tired and, I regret to say, irritable," Watson said. "Harsh words were indeed exchanged between me and the crew." In his column Anderson said Watson finally passed out after trying to "buy" one of the stewardesses for his teen-aged son and insulting other crew members. Hays said he had checked with several crew members and they said Anderson's column was substantially correct. He said he has no plans to pursue the matter further.

ARTHUR WATSON m.kLEy M-nt u'-nmmm mmm WIREPHOTO (AP) Trial Delay for Angela Angela Davis is stopped outside the Santa Clara County Superior Court in San Jose, Tuesday as she arrives for the second day of her trial. She is being told that she cannot enter the area because of an attempted jail break. Miss Davis is accused in connection with a jail break at the Marin County Jail in August, 1970. Rosa said Captain Johnson ana ai mai pumi une ui me -i iL.i prisoners shouted, "Okay, we're going to kill them all." An unidentified officer, Deputy Rosa said, then shot and killed Zitzer. Deputies jumped the other two men before they could harm the two hostages, who were being held with knives at their throats during the confrontation.

Deputy Rosa told newsmen afterwards: "We never had any intention of letting them (the prisoners) go with the hostages. "If the sharpshooters had had an opportunity to kill one of the suspects, they would have done so," he said. "They were holding a man and a young girl under the threat of death." At about 11 a.m., Sheriff's Lt. Donald Tamm emerged from the underground garage from which the getaway car had been taken, and announced: "It's all over with. The suspects are in custody and the hostages are okay." The incident came on the heels of Monday's trial proceedings for Miss Davis, during which the prosecution contended that the former university instructor's involvement in the Marin County escape attempt grew out of her love for inmate George 'Jackson.

The 1970 shootout, said Asst. State Atty. Gen. Albert W. Harris," evolved from a plan to take hostages to gain the release of Jackson, one of the three imprisoned Soledad Brothers.

Jackson later was slain San Quentin guards during what officials described as an escape attempt. The by the sheriff's department as Norman Lucas, a federal prisoner charged with bank robbery; Ted Guerreo, a state prisoner convicted of robbery and awaiting transfer to prison, and Zitzer, also known as Chuck Williamson, an escapee from San Quentin who had been convicted of armed robbery. As scores of sheriff's deputies and police sharpshooters ringed the jail building, Sheriff's Capt. Wesley Johnson conferred with the prisoners and the hostages in the 'control, room' of the jail on the second floor. Deputy Rosa said the prison Judge Rejects U.S.

Request To Dismiss Antiwar Suit By Philip Hager 1972 Los Angete Times SAN JOSE, CALIF. Three knife-wielding prisoners seized a deputy public defender and a secretary Tuesday in an abortive attempt to break out of the Santa Clara County Jail next to the building where Angela Davis is on trial. About an hour later, sheriff's depu ties overpowered the prisoners on the second floor of the jail, killed one of them and rescued the hostages unharmed. Deputies said the attempted breakout was not connected to the Davis trial although it had a pattern similar to the 1970 Marin County Courthouse shoot- ings in which Miss Davis is charged with murder and kidnaping. The Davis trial was suspended for the day as a re sult of the new incident.

Deputy Thomas Rosa said the three prisoners appeared for sick call at about 8:40 a.m. in the jail dispensary and pulled out what appeared to be homemade knives as they entered the room. They seized Deputy Public Defender Alexander Safonoff, 31, and Sue Kawamoto, 20, a medical secretary, then contacted the sheriff's department and demanded that a car, with motor running, be left for them in an undergound parking lot, Deputy Rosa said. He said the three threatened of the arguments which the government brought in favor of dismissing the case, including arguments that the government was actually being sued and that this was forbidden unless the government consents, and that the plaintiffs lacked standing to bring such a suit. In rejecting the government's contention the suit was actually directed against the govern ment rather than against Laird, Lord said suits against officers of the government are per mitted if the officers are sued for actions that are alleged to violations of the Constitution, even though the official may have received authority from the legislature.

No Power To the government claim that the suit involved a political question outside the realm of judicial power, the judge said he had no power to make a decision and encouraged the government to bring up the argument when the case reaches the three-judge panel. Those who brought the case are the Rev. David Gracie, urban missioner for the Philadelphia Episcopal Diocese, and John S. Atlee, Henry Brown, John Malinowski, Joseph Miller, Helen K. Schotz and Seymour Schotz.

Ail are long I ONLY 20 we make any error in JACOB ZITZER t(aS fm HCORET if DkUJ Willie Petty of Kobbed 0mahat who has been recording "talking books" for the blind since being blinded in an auto crash about three years ago, is out of business because someone stole his recording machine. Petty says he is attempting to raise money to buy a new machine. Resignation The head of the Peace Corps, Kevin O'Donnell, has resigned and will return to private industry. The 46-year-old O'Donnell, who will leave Apr. 30, said he has accepted an offer that was made some time ago, but which he had put off because of the Peace Corps' recent budget crisis.

He joined the Peace Corps in May, 1966. He served four years as director in Korea, several months as director of administration and finance and then as acting director of the Peace Corps under Joe Blatchford, now head of ACTION. Shooting An argument over which television program' to watch led to the shooting of a Dixon, 111., mother and her son, police said. They said Mrs. Clare Barton, 45, and her son, Richard, 16, will be charged with aggravated battery and reckless conduct.

Mrs. Clare said she shot Richard in the leg when he attempted to halt a quarrel between herself and a younger brother. Police said Richard struggled with his. mother for the gun, and wounded her in each leg. They said the family has a second television set.

Rejects Belgrade American chess wizard Bobby Fischer has rejected Belgrade as one of the two sites in which he is willing to meet the Soviet Union's Boris Spassky for the world chess championship. The Yugoslav capital and Reykjavik, Iceland, were selected by the International Chess Federation as locations for the two-city match after months of negotiations. Organizers in Belgrade had refused a Fischer request for a share in the profits from the Belgrade match. Minor Surgery Senator Vance Hartke who this week withdrew from the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, said he'll undergo minor surgery to correct what his office called a "mild hearing loss." Hartke's office said the senator will remain at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in Boston for two or three days after the "corrective procedure" PHILADELPHIA, PA. (AP) A federal judge refused in Hismiss an antiwar suit which asks for a permanent in junction against the use of government funds to continue the birthday Tuesday.

The 58-year-old senator from Maine told a group of high school pupils in Oregon, he didn't remember what day it was until aides surprised him with a small party. The students cheered upon learning it was the senator's birthday. Said Muskie: "When you get to be my age, it's nothing to cheer about." Life in Prison Louis C. Taylor, 17-year-old Tucson resident convicted last week on 28 counts of first-degree murder, has been sentenced to life in prison. Taylor was arrested soon after flames raced through the upper portion of the Pioneer International Hotel Dec.

20, 1970, killing 28 persons and injuring dozens. 'Good Condition Ethel Kennedy, widow of Senator Robert Kennedy of New York, was listed in good condition in a Plymouth, N.H., hospital where she is being treated for a broken leg suffered in a weekend skiing accident. GM Agrees to $90,000 Penalty WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) -The Department of Transporta- tion said Tuesday General Motors Corp. (GM) has agreed to pay $90,000 as a penalty for producing and importing Opel automobiles with faulty windshield mountings.

About 100,000 vehicles, produced by GM's West German subsidiary, were involved. The company last October recalled the 1970, 1971 and 1972 Opel Kadetts and Opel model 1900s, for modifications at the manufacturer's expense. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ruled that the cars failed to comply with federal standards. The agency said a 1971 Kadett subjected to a barrier crash at 30 miles an hour lost its windshield completely, while standards require that at least 75 per cent of the windshield periphery survive such a shock. The agency added that, with settlement of the civil penalty, it is closing its files on the case.

onetary-System Forum Preparation PARIS, FRANCE (AP) -Bilateral talks have started on setting up a forum for working out a new international monetary system, Paul Volcker, U.S. undersecretary of the Treasury, said Tuesday. Volcker said he has started sounding out finance ministry officials on their ideas for such a forum, but so far has not had time to get any representative responses. HASHISH HAUL ISTANBUL, TURKEY (AP) Police Tuesday seized 1,100 pounds of powdered hashish worth $57 million in the international market, the Narcotics Bureau announced. to declare the Tasaday region a reserve forbidden to farmers and loggers once the area is defined.

Elizalde became one of the first outsiders to reach the Tasadays last June when he met with them at the edge of their forest. Members of the current expedition, including the Ameri-can aviator and conservationist Charles A. Lind bergh, several anthropologists and a photographer and writer for the National Geographic magazine, reached EDMUND MUSKIE whatohifcime Itx A whathitme is when your daughter talks 30 minutes on a collect phone call from her who's in Saigon. A WhatHitMe is when you're stuck with an $86.00, 6-voIume set of "The Illustrated Works of Coventry Patmore" because you forgot to return the Book Club card in time. to kill the hostages if their demands were not met.

To prove they were serious, Deputy Rosa said, one of the prisoners, Jacob Zitzer, 30, plunged a knife into his own leg. The prisoners were identified time peace activists from the Philadelphia area. In granting the plaintiffs standing in the case, the judge called the war a "hu-m a conservation issue" which has an effect upon all citizens. "The fact that our nation is at war also necessarily causes some threat to the personal safety and security of all citi zens, given the complexity of international relations and the advanced means of war that have been developed through technology," Judge Lord wrote. "The loss in human resources has been and continues to be staggering," he added.

Another reason for granting the plaintiffs standing in the case, the judge said, was that the war has both economic and noneconomic impact upon all citizens. GUARDS FIRED COLUMBUS, OHIO (AP) -Fourteen guards at Ohio Penitentiary have been fired for being absent from work during the six-day "sick-out" to protest lack of hazard pay, the state personnel department said Tuesday. RENTaH83rindAi4i Full DeUi 244 -Z6ZZ ggrvlAICO 214 DAYS LEFT Don't get behind the "8-ball" on your the preparation of your tai people. PH. 278-2336 OPEN TONIGHT EAST6ATE SHOPPING CENTER 1122 GRAND 321SS.W.9THST.

207-5TH uiect nn umuif war in Vietnam. U.S. District Court Judge Joseph S. Lord III said the claim by seven peace activists that the war is unconstitutional "is not so insubstantial as to warrant dismissal," as the government had requested. 3-Judge Panel He added: "The citizen's interest in having his nation free of war was the very one being considered when the Constitution was written vesting the power to authorize war with the Congress, rather than the President." Judge Lord also granted the plaintiffs' request to convene a three-judge panel to hear the case.

He passed along that request to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The suit claims that the war has been prosecuted without the necessary congressional declaration of war, and therefore the war is in violation of the Constitution, various treaties and international law. The suit names as defendant Melvin R. Laird, the secretary of defense.

President Nixon had been named a defendant also, but in January Judge Lord granted a government petition to dismiss the charge against the President. Judge Lord rejected several Promised the Tasaday area by jumping out of a helicopter onto a special wooden platform atop a 75-foot tree. The platform had been built by a Panamin team which earlier hiked into the Tasaday forest led by Tasaday guides. The expedition expects to remain about 10 days to observe family life and relationship among the primitive forest people. But as news of the expedition's initial findings began to reach Manila, concern for the future of the Tasadays already was being expressed.

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EASTER PLANTS TASADAYS- Continued jrom Page One er tribes living in the general area. They have had no contact with their neighbors for years. However, the Tasadays already are using long knives called bolos given to them by members of another expedition that met them at the edge of their forest last June. Carlos Fernandez, one of those con-ducting anthropological research on the expedition, says the bolos appear to be pulling the Tasaday work habits out of the Stone age. The expedition has spent the last few days observing lasa-day customs, food gathering and living habits.

It is sponsored by Panamin, a goverm-nent-supported foundation set up to help Philippine minorities. Will Define Area Led by Manuel Elizalde, president of Panamin, the expedition wants to define the Tasaday area to protect it from loggers and farmers who are slowly but steadily approaching. The forest in which the Tasadays live occupies several hundred square miles of south Cctabato Province on Mindanao Island. Elizalde says President Ferdinand E. Marcos has promised tax return that costs you any interest or penalty on additional taxes due, while we do not assume the liability for the additional taxes, we will pay that interest and penalty.

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