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Air Strikes on N. Viet WIREPHOTO (AP) Heading for the Hospital Near Laos A U.S. medic aids an American soldier being South Vietnam, for a flight to a military hospital in transferred from an ambulance plane at Quang Tri, Da Nang. The GI had been wounded near Laos. hicles took light damage, the command said.

South Vietnamese military headquarters reported sharp fighting in the Mekong Delta below Saigon and in eastern Cambodia. In a series of engagements Tuesday in the Delta, South Vietnamese forces killed 54 Viet Cong, headquarters reported. Losses to South Vietnamese units were reported as nine killed and eight wounded. In three clashes in eastern Cambodia on Tuesday, Saigon forces kilied 59 enemy soldiers, headquarters said. Leader of Thrust Favors Pullout NEW YORK, N.Y.

(AP) A South Vietnamese colonel leading the spearhead of the drive across Laos was quoted in an ABC interview as saying it is time for the Viet troops to get back out Laos because South. "there's no reason to stay in bad country when you cannot Lt. Col. Bui The Dung was interviewed by ABC news correspondent Howard Tuckner at the advance post of his Task Force II about 16 miles inside Laos. The South Vietnamese have not advanced in six days.

Tuckner asked him if his forces should try to pull out before the North Vietnamese cut the highway behind him. "I would say this," Dung said. "If we cannot move, we have to stop and search carefully as fast as possible all areas that we have crossed and then stop the operation." Asked if this meant to try to. get out, Dung replied: "Try to get out, yes. There's no reason to stay in bad country when you cannot move." Dung also could not understand why tanks were chosen to spearhead the drive through the mountainous jungle, noting: "This is not tank country.

"I wasn't asked, asked to set up the plans to Dung continued. "I wasn't invited to discuss with some people who were responsible for this plan. I would say that some men who had the mission to reconnoiter this terrain did not do good." MORE COPTERS LOST IN LAOS SAIGON, SOUTH VIETNAM (WEDNESDAY) American planes attacked missile sites in North Vietnam Tuesday night and this morning while three more helicopters were lost and 11 U.S. crewmen killed in Laos, the U.S. Command said.

After heavy weekend blows in the North, the air attacks were conducted by F105 fighterbombers escorting B52 bombers apparently raiding mountain passes through which Hanoi sends men and supplies into the Ho Chi Minh Trail. No new ground engagements were reported today in the Laos operation which has been stalled for a week. The loss of three more helicopters brought to 29 the number of choppers officially announced as lost since the South Vietnamese push into Laos began Feb. 8. Of the latest losses, one Army helicopter was shot down Tuesday by North Vietnamese ground fire and three aboard were killed, the command said.

It reported the other losses also came Tuesday when two Army helicopters collided in the air while on a mission in the Laos panhandle. Eight men aboard the two choppers were killed, the command said. "Protective Reaction" The latest air strikes came after U.S. planes launched Saturday and Sunday the heaviest raids in North Vietnam three months. As in the case of the raids, the U.S.

Command described the latest strikes as reaction." This means that radar on the American planes detected that North Vietnamese surface-to-air missiles SAMs were preparing to fire and the U.S. planes fired their missiles first. The command said two strikes were conducted Tuesday night at SAM sites three miles north of the demilitarized zone and two miles east of the Laos border. The area is 28 miles southeast of the Ban Karai Pass, one of three main gateways in the Amman Mountains through which Hanoi sends its men and supplies. A third strike today hit at another SAM position 25 miles southeast of the Ben Karai pass, 10 miles northeast of the Laos border.

An objective of the B52 raids is to create landslides and thus render the mountain routes impassable. The command also reported a Army engineer convoy on U.S. Highway 19 was attacked by an enemy force of unknown size. Four U.S. soldiers were wounded and the convoy ve- 2 Nanning.

CHINA NORTH VIETNAM: Hanoi Haiphong LAOS Tonkin Vientiane Dong Hoi Demilitarized a Vinh Zone Khe Sanh Nang Pakse? Pleiku Tonle- Sap VIETNAM Phnom Penh Mekong Long South China. Sea U.S. Officials Block Efforts Name Women Easter Seal To Report on War in Laos Mrs. Evelyne Villines SAIGON, SOUTH VIETNAM officials have thrown up new ing to report on the U.S.-supported in Laos. Correspondents are barred from crossing the frontier aboard American helicopters.

Despite South Vietnamese surances that they were come to travel on Vietnamese aircraft, the reporters found few such helicopters were available. Many newsmen have waited for days at government command posts without getting into Laos. The U.S. Command's refusal to transport correspondents, breaking the precedent set in previous wars, has effect amounted to a censorat the source of the news." Officials are keeping secret the number of helicopters operated respectively by U.S. Saigon forces in the Laotian eration.

However, it is known that the South Vietnamese have fewer than 10 per cent of total flown by Americans. The South Vietnamese are less experienced. This evident two weeks ago when South Vietnamese helicopter taking four civilian photographers into Laos became lost passed twice over the same tiaircraft fire. It was shot down and all aboard were killed, cluding Henri Huet of the sociated Press staff. The risks of covering the dochina war were re-emphasized Tuesday with the death Francois Sully, a Newsweek porter who had been working Vietnam since the 1940s.

was killed in the crash that killed Lt. Gen. Do Cao Tri. This helicopter, downed Vietnam, also was flown Vietnamese pilots. In 34 newsmen have been killed in the war since 1965, including four AP photographers.

In addition, 17 newsmen are missing in Cambodia. On the Vietnam-Laos frontier Bows Head Before Answering One 5-foot-3 defendant. with prisoners? CALLEY Continued from Page Bows His Head A. No sir, there wasn't. Col.

Reid W. Kennedy, told the thing said about what to do During the crux of his testimony concerning My Lai, Calley paused for several seconds at each question, bowing his head before answering. The defendant recounted two briefings on the eve of the My Lai operation, both of which he said were conducted by Medina. Asked his impression as he left the meeting, Calley said, "My impression of the mission was that we would come in on a high-speed combat assault." Calley said Medina told his officers and men that "all civilians had left the area, that there were no civilians in the area and that anyone there was to be considered enemy." Q. Do you have any recollection of anybody asking Captain Medina about civilians? A.

I believe somebody asked if that meant women and children. He said that meant everything, or he said he meant everything. Q. In that briefing, was Moines Register Page 4 Feb. 24, 1971 URGES POWER RATE CHANGES WASHINGTON, D.C.

(AP) A White House energy specialist, charging that there is mendous waste of electrical power in this country, Tuesday that the industry's rate structure be changed encourage conservation of er. S. David Freeman, director of the energy policy staff of President's Office of and technology, criticized present rate structure the more er used, the less the cost kilowatt hour. "I favor taking a fresh at the rate," Freeman "and moving from promotional rate practices to conservation practices." "The lower-income who use less electricity," added, "should not bear burden of the rate increases that are surely Freeman said if rates were adjusted to remove the advantage to big users, it would encourage them to cut back on any unnecessary use of electricity. "My own personal view," said, "is that there is a tremendous amount of waste and that we can meet the projected needs with a lower rate growth of the power industry." Freeman spoke in a seminar science and public policy the National Academy of Sciences.

The seminar was held council for the Advancement of Science Writing. Freeman said there are no available figures on precisely how the nation's output of eneris being used. In general, industry says 70 per cent goes to business and industry 30 per cent to residential "We don't know how we're using our energy," Freeman said, and disclosed that his ofhas contracted with the Stanford Research Institute in California to compile exact information. A report should be ready in June, he said. An industry spokesman, W.

Donham Crawford, president the Edison Electric Institute in New York, disagreed with Freeman on the rate structure. "I believe," Crawford told seminar, "that raising the price of electricity as usage increases, halting on a broad scale the promotion of electric applications, or rationing of electricity would have most unwelcome results in their effects America's goals of improvsocial, economic and environmental conditions." WORK INTERRUPTED EUGENE, ORE. (AP) The Lane County Mothers March of Dimes campaign is concentrating this year on rubella, German measles, but the chairman, Diane Thompson, has interrupted her work she's in bed with rubella. Report Nixon Buoyed by Results of Laos Thrust From The Resister's Washington Bureau Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. Laos incursion has been buoyed namese troops have cut three Trail and have effectively The reports from General, Creighton Abrams to the White House have indicated that the heavy fighting that the South Vietnamese have encountered in the approach to Sepone has not interfered with the tives of the invasion.

The South Vietnamese cut Route 94 and Route 92 several days ago, and Route 914 has been cut for three days, the White House has been told. U.S. spokesmen say there was no real percentage in into Sepone to take the city since the South Vietnamese in Laos only to cut the supply routes and to capture any supplies that fall under their control. The White House has been told that the stories coming out of Laos indicating that there have been heavy losses and stiff resistance are probably true in the sense that they are little pieces of a big picture. the total picture of the South' Vietnamese incursion into Laos is encouraging, spokesmen say, in that it has severed major motor routes along the Ho Chi Minh Trail, and has placed the other roads under an aerial surveillance that assures interception of any substantial traffic.

The North Vietnamese have been forced to detour over Route 234, which is described as a spur off the other The only road remaining routes. to the north is Route 23, described as one in the open along the east side of the Plain of Jars. It thus is susceptible to bombing. The South Vietnamese have crossed two oil pipelines running from North Vietnam through Laos, and sections of the pipe have been cut. There have been some heavy.

casualties in Laos, and much of this was expected at the White House as part of the price for taking steps to cut the supply lines. General's Death The White House reportedly is concerned but not alarmed over the death of Lt. Gen. Do Cao Tri, South Vietnam's ranking field commander, in a helicopter crash. He is the highestranking general to be in the Vietnam conflict, and it is difficult to assess the impact of his death on the South Vietnamese forces.

Dr. Henry Kissinger, presidential foreign affairs adviser, gave Republican senators an account of the present status of fighting in Laos, and the reasons for the President's optimism about the chances of keeping the time schedules on withdrawal from Vietnam. He was reported to have said that the Cambodian campaign has proved to be more of a success than it could have been imagined a few months President Nixon's optimism over the by reports that the South Vietspecific routes on the Ho Chi Minh disrupted others. ago, and he said the incursion into Laos appears to be going as well at this stage. The President expects that by 1972 the decision to support the South Vietnamese in Laos will be a political plus.

Blacks' Parade Leads to Fight COVINGTON, LA. (AP) Fighting between whites and blacks broke out Tuesday when small group of Negro women irritated whites by holding their own Mardi Gras parade, authorities said. Six persons were treated for minor injuries at a hospital. A Negro woman was shot in the shoulder, but officials said she was not seriously injured. Three whites were arrested on charges of carrying concealed weapons, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace.

Sheriff George Broom said the Negro women, apparently feeling the Mardi Gras spirit, paraded past a bar, drawing curses from several whites inside. The sheriff said the women returned the curses and whites inside bar began firing shots into the air. Broom said the women fled into an allblack neighborhood, returning with a large number of persons who pelted the bar with bottles and bricks. to on Unit has the (AP) American military barriers that restrict newsmen South Vietnamese operations many of the newsmen unable get into Laos have become convinced that official spokesmen ashave made misleading statewel- ments, and have sought ternative sources of information. Here, too, they have into restraints.

The day after American helicopter pilots at Khe Sanh vealed that the South Viet ranger base in Laos was under heavy North Vietnamese in tack, the pilots' operations center was fenced off with coils barbed wire. A sign was posted at the entrance saying "No vilians beyond this point." Although unimpeachable and sources said two-thirds of the opmen in the ranger battalion were wounded or killed when the the base was overrun, casualties were officially described also as "light." A communique was leased three days later in Saia gon acknowledged 100 killed, 145 wounded and 78 missing. The communique also and claimed 623 enemy killed, a figan- ure one American officer with access to Vietnamese tactical in- reports described as ridiculous. As- "It makes me sick," he said. "It's an insult to your In- intelligence and the American people." of When Spec.

5 Dennis Fujii, rewounded helicopter crew chief in stranded at the beleaguered He ranger base when his chopper was shot down, finally was flown to another nearby base, in the second helicopter was hit by enemy fire, caught fire and by cr as h-landed. An American briefing officer, asked about reports that the aircraft had crashed, said: "The pilot chose not to fly it any longer." Livestock Dealer Ordered to Halt From The Register's Washington Bureau WASHINGTON, D.C. Edward Kreiner of Lime Springs, has been ordered to suspend operations as a livestock dealer, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Tuesday. Kreiner failed to pay, when due, the full purchase price for livestock he bought, and issued insufficient-funds checks for the livestock, the department said.

Over $12,000 remains unpaid, the announcement said. Kreiner, who buys livestock in northeastern Iowa and southeastern Minnesota, was ordered to halt operations for 30 days, and thereafter until he shows that his current debts no longer exceed his assets. Marshalltown GI Killed in Vietnam (The Register's Iowa News Service) MARSHAL TOWN, IA. Army Pvt. Kenneth Tucker has been killed in action in Viet-1 nam, the Defense Department has announced.

Private Tucker was killed Feb. 15. No other details were available. He was a 1969 graduate of Marshalltown High School. He is survived by his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Dewayne Tucker, who now live in Fort Worth, and three sisters. been named women's divisional try- chairman of the 1971 Easter Seal Campaign in Polk County, to Dr. Merle Wil- gy the son, general chairman of the county East- and use. er Seal drive, alannounced Tuesday.

run Mrs. Villines executive fice iS secretary of the EVELYNE EVELYNE I ow a Gover- VILLINES nor's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, and is active in the National Rehabilitation Association and the American Rehabilitation Foundation. She will represent the approximately 4,000 volunteers who will call on Polk County residents Mar. 28 for contributions to the Easter Seal Center, 2920 Thirtieth St. Area chairmen who will assist in the door-to-door campaign are: Mrs.

Carl R. Bahls, Mrs. John H. Connors, Mrs. George Carroll, Mrs.

Howard Thompson, Mrs. Joe G. Hudgens, Mrs. Jerry J. Perpich, Mrs.

Elwood Shelly and Mrs. CIGARETTE WARNING LONDON, ENGLAND (AP) The British government Tuesday gave, cigarette manufacturers until July to print a health warning on their packages. Return Woman In Child Case Bonnie Jo Givens, 23, formerly of 1353 Ninth charged with child-stealing, was returned to Des Moines Tuesday from Columbia, where she was arrested last Friday on a warrant from Des Moines police. She was charged with a Feb. 12 incident involving her twin son and daughter, age seven, who were made wards of the Polk County Juvenile Court three years ago and had been living with foster parents.

The children were returned from Missouri last week and have resumed living with their foster parents. Push Constitution OK of Vote at 18 WASHINGTON, D.C. (AP) A proposed constitutional amendment to lower the voting age in all elections to 18 was unanimously approved Tuesday by a House judiciary subcommittee. Acting with rare speed, the subcommittee voted on the measure within minutes after it was formally organized at the first meeting of the Judiciary Committee this session. Congress tried to lower the voting age by statute last year, but the Supreme Court ruled it could do SO only for federal elections.

Senate Demos Vote 31 to 8 for U.S. Pullout by End of 1972 men, women and Vietnamese children the government set the total at 70 at the irrigaditch east of My Lai, the tion 27-year-old Calley testified: "That was my order, sir, that was the order of the day." "And who gave you the order?" he was asked. "My company commander, sir, Capt. Ernest Medina," the defendant replied. As for his feelings that Saturday morning in My Lai, Calley said: "I was I guess hyper is the right word.

I'd say I was keyed up. My mind was psy- I chologically set to do battle. was tense and nervous, I was definitely hyper." Calley, sitting back in the chair, seemed reasonwitness calm most of the time. ably But when he left the witness stand to point out positions on a map his body moved in stiff, jerky fashion. And, who at asked one point, it was Calley for a premature recess.

"I realize you're under tremendous strain," the judge, Regarding the military status of the My Lai area, Calley tesI tified: "As long as I had known the area, this area was in general classification of free fire zone. On this mission we had political clearance to destroy everything in the area, sir." Medina currently is stationed at Ft. McPherson, awaiting a decision from an Army board whether he will face court-martial on charges stemming from My Lai. Calley then began his description of the next day's assault on My Lai. The defendant completed his direct testimony in midafternoon, after the equivalent of one full court day.

The prosecutor, Capt. Aubrey Daniel III, then launched into a cross-examination that was interrupted by the overnight adjournment. Calley resisted Daniel's efforts to draw from him an estimate of the number of Vietnamese who ended up dead in the ditch, saying repeatedly, "I don't know, By Michael Kraft WASHINGTON, D.C. (REUTER) Senate Democrats meeting in caucus Tuesday passed a resolution calling for an end to U.S. involvement in Indochina and withdrawal of all U.S.

forces by the end of next year. The caucus approved the resolution 1 by a 31-to-8 vote with absentee members of the 55- member Democratic majority in the Senate still to be polled. The resolution was part of a five-section statement of purpose. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield Mont.) told reporters that the two-hour debate on the resolution behind closed doors was unprecedented. Previous policy guidelines have been adopted unanimously by the caucus.

The resolution, approved Monday by the Democratic Policy Committee, was intended to encourage President Nixon to declare a fixed time period for ending the American involvement in the Indochina war and was not meant to tie his hands, Mansfield said. Mansfield said the resolution was not binding on Democratic members of the Senate but was an expression of a goal. Release of Prisoners The resolution states that the Democratic majority in the Senate should work to end U.S. involvement in Indochina and to bring about the withdrawal of all U.S. forces and the release of all prisoners.

While the resolution does not mention a specific time period as such, the goal was set as a goal for the Ninety-second Con- gress, which expires at the end of 1972. Other sections of the statement of purpose called for measures to combat inflation, streamline federal-state financial relationships, improve efficiency in the federal government and improve police and court systems. Mansfield said, "It is the first time we have brought this issue (of withdrawal) before the caucus because it was so divisive. But it has become less divisive with the passage of time." Stennis, Jackson Two of the senators who voted against the measure acknowledged their opposition as they left the meeting. They were John Stennis of Mississippi, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, and Henry Jackson of Washington, a hard-liner on foreign affairs who is being boosted by some moderate and hawkish circles as a possible presidential candidate next year.

Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine, regarded as the current front-runner for the presidential nomination, said the resolution WE ON 2-YEAR CERTIFICATES OF DEPOSIT. DLAZA ESTATE BANK FEDERAL DEPOSIT INSURANCE CORPORATION stakes out a "wise and sound policy in Vietnam." Laird Predicts Tough Fighting WASHINGTON, D.C. (REUTER) Defense Secretary Melvin Laird Tuesday predicted tough and heavy fighting between South Vietnamese and Communist forces in Laos and Cambodia in the next 10 days. Laird voiced confidence in the ability of Saigon's troops in Laos, despite the mauling an elite ranger battalion received from North Vietnamese forces there during the weekend. He told reporters after testifying before a congressional committee: "I look for tough, difficult fighting particularly in the Laos area and I would anticipate that within the next week or 10 days the North Vietnamese might make a stand around the Chup Plantation in Cambodia." COMMON CAUSE BID WASHINGTON, D.C.

(AP) 000 members launched a campaign Tuesday to legislate the end of the war in Indochina. John Gardner, a former welfare secretary and now chairman of the lobbying group known as Common Cause, said the first objective of the campaign is to reach all of the group's members and spur efforts in their local communities to press Congress for an end to U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. Gardner told a news conference the Common Cause would also ally itself with other pea e-seeking organizations such as the National Council of Churches, labor unions and social groups, but that such alliances will shy away from participations in mass demonstrations. RENT a Hearing Aid! Full Details, 244-2622 M.

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