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The Daily Oklahoman from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma • 35

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THE DAILY OKLAHOM AN Fair, Cooler Highs 5(1 ((, () Map mi Page I. VOL. 80, NO. 60 294,899 Morning and Evenli February Average Da Paid Circulation lOi MONDAY, MARCH 15, 1971 copviught mi. Oklahoma publishing co sno broadway, OKLAHOMA CITY One My Lai Slayinc Sufficient to Convicl Galley, Judge Goal Reached CHARGES P0S5IBL Rules Army Colonel Lists Possible Jury Verdicts Opposing Lawyers Final Arguments In Laos Push, Army Snoop' Probed ueneral iays Units (AP) WASHINGTON The Pentagon i rveillance of Ihe and lor compu iviiia Scheduled Today ''muradov.

Alel-c-in i n. i standing, Chris Taylc left, and Gennadij Strak'hov. ana ineir u. 5. oddo nents Sunday are, seated, left to right, Yurij Shak RUSSIAN WRESTLERS IN CITY terised liJes of information about ihem.

He issued a statement, saying there are gaps in the record. "It is essential that the people of the United Slates know how widespread this surveillance has n. how many re how many preachers, how many slu Sport Skills Learned in Clubs Ally Claims Main Part of Trail Cut, Supplies Destroyed SAIGON (AP) South Vieiname.se forces, pushing across the Ho Chi Minh supply trail in the. Laos panhandle, have fulfilled their mission "according to plans," their commanding general said Sunday. "The mission given Its by President Nguyen Van Thieu until now has been accomplished." Lt.

Gen. Hoang Xuan Lam, commander of the northern 1st Corps and chief of the Laos operation (old Associated Press correspondent George Esper in Ham Nghi. "We have cul ihe main portions of the Mo Chi Minh Trail and destroyed ihe eiiem 's Lam said in an imerview Hi his forward command post near the Laotian bor ts, colleges, institutions gating the home-lront operations of two Army intelligence units and court-martial charges may re-suit, the Defense Department's general counsel has told a Senate commitlee. Because of lhat inquiry, .1. Fred Buzhardt said 'ii would be inappropriate for three Army intelligence generals to appear before a Senate subcommittee invest igating government, surveillance of Americans.

Sen. Sam Ervin D-N. C. disclosed Sunday he has asked Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird to send the generals anyhow to a hearing next Wednesday.

Ervin said he is confident that no one's rights would suffer as a result of their testimony. ind In abiding members in a sports citii). of all 10 Russian Kukuskin said. sports writer lor Tass, the Soviet equivalent of Associated Press, showed interest in a reporter's notebook, a hiaek folder which flubs Rus ho FT. BENNING, Ga.

(AP; Li. William Calley' Jr court-martial judge "rulec Sunday that if the jur finds the defendant killed even a single Vietnamese civilian at My Lai charged, it can convict him of anything from voluntary manslaughter to first degree murder. The maximum penalty for first degree or premeditated murder is death, for voluntary manslaughter 10 years in prison. The other possible verdict is second degree murder with a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. Charge Stricken At fif.si the court included involuntary manslaughter, punishable by three years in prison, as a possible verdict.

But afLer a recess, the charge was stricken as a pWible holds 'tiled legal pads. added. everything ing, even called have clubs for sports, dane-military eiubs "Does the company give of society have been monitored and made subjects of dossiers." Ervin saiii. The Pentagon on March 1 ordered the destruction of files compiled by military intelligence agents abom Americans they considered actual or potential participants in civil riis-tt iris mees. Rolieri Froehlke, an as- Mike Burner Aleksnndr Medvod was 20 when ho began learning to wrestle hi a spons dub in the Soviet Union.

Now. at 33. he is one of 10 wrestlers who will represent the Soviet Union in a 'U. exchange series at State Fair Arena match Monday night. "It will be faster if you just ask me your questions.

1 know all your questions already, I hoy are the same said Vseyold Kukuskin, Soviet team's interpreter. 's method nf gaining his wrestling skill, you this." he asked. like to see how American reporters work." After the i i i which lasted 15 minutes' to show ability in wrestling as early as 13 or 1-1 years of age. he said. Though Modved was older than many when he began to learn wrestling, he has won the 1968 Olympic heavyweight crown' and the JSGP jjnd 1970 world tournament's.

Ail of the wrestlers are amateurs. Kukuskin said, fie said ail have some job. Medved is a teacher at. Hie Radio and Technology Institute in Minsk. Othrs are stud v.

s. workers and mcmhers of (lie army, he said. kin. who is a Kukuskin to help ni- Ervin said he of de- range for the plained. At the sports club Ihere.

are divisions such as track and wrestling each with a coach. The wrestlers all distinguished themselves first in city competition, then area, republic and national. Kukuskin said. Some of the team members began for 'Pl'Oi isked bolh offi- restlers Norlhwes fense, mid ihe Er sub- military ilia; eommit'ee he would cr foul iiuied on Col eials responsible work out at High School. The Russian States teams wi at 8 p.m.

nd United I compete The ear-old Calley rharged by the Continued been Wind Blasts Dust Across Oklahoma 15y -lohn Long The National Weather Service a Oklahoma Cite reported lhat winds will "reuirn to regular normal' Old-, noma winds" Monday and for some i New U.S. Facilities Planned Tuesday City in Pacific for Missile Tests Election Day rlieaded der. 1 nutriments 'Hurl' "We have badly hurt at least four North Vietnamese regiments and cut half of Hanoi's supply How to the south." It was announced, meanwhile, thai an American fighter bomber mistakenly attacked Sou lit Vietnamese ground troops in Laos Sunday. It was the fifth accidental air strike in the campaign against Ihe Ho Chi Minh Trail. Military spokesmen said 10 paratroopers were killed and 12 wounded in ihe bombing.

The drive into Laos began Feb. with ihe announced aim of ripping up North Vietnam's supply network and searching out and deslroying stores of war materiel. Troops to Remain Officials from Thieu on down have said that the campaign was not aimer! at occupying territory in Minuteman Vows i and other Oklahoma City rea municipali lief. the goal is to total to 550. ie Soviets are per hoi And In Oklahoma City winds reached 54 miles Sunday afternoon, Ihe weather service said an winds blowing dusl plagued Ihe resl of the stale Visibility was reduced one mde ai ties will go to t)1P )0S Tuesday to register their choices for mayor and City Council members.

A special election on eight city charter amendments will he held eoneur-renty i Oklahoma City's primary ha limine rm stations and Ihe weath The officials rated the planned facilities as important for further development, of multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) warheads for the Minuteman HI intercontinental ballistic missile (ICEM). The United States is now in the process of updating its Minuteman force, backbone of its land-based nuclear strike-back capability. Of 1.000 service said ih; some WASHINGTON AP) -The United States is planning to install new facilities for testing mulliwar-heari intercontinental missiles on some small, uninhabited islands in the South Pacific, officials 'aid Sunday. The testing and monitoring installations are to be Canton Island and -oine adjoining islands, 'oughly 2.000 miles fif Hawaii and i.000 miles from the U.S. nainlnnd.

Brandt Party Has Close Call and ouncil ren- oi- locations, mostly a mini I visibilit was probably reduced one-quarter mile. At least one Texa caught the burnt of OkL homa winds a'i Wilcv Pos Airpnrt Loony 11. Diamond Houston was taxiiing hi. light, private plane ont; the airstrip when wind Alinuleman missile government with ihe premeditated murder of 102 res is i in Vietnamese men, women and children while lending an infantry assault on Ihe village March 1(. 1HSS.

The government charges thai 30 of ihe victims were exectiled along a frail in the village, and at least 70 others in a drainage ditch east of My -tj. Calley is accused of taking part in some of these killings himself and of directing GIs within the platoon who took pan in others, Infractions Listed These are specifications "tie and two of lite government's indictment. "I'm instructing," the judge. Col. Reid Kennedy, told defense and prosecuting lawyers, 'that if the jury is not satisfied 70 vwre killed at one time or 30 as the case may be they bring in a finr.

ing lh.it a lesser number wete killed. "If i hoy are satisfied thai at least one was killed they can convict him on specifications one or two." Jury Absent also is charged with shooting to death a Vietnam male in Ulr? white garb of a monk, and a -rriall child seeking to escape (mm a ditch. Kennedy met in formal curt session, in Ihe absence of a jury, to discuss with the lawyers and hear Page Col. 3 tn known also to be working on multi warhead and other ICBM improvements. At the U.S.-Soviet: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), which reconvene in Vienna Monday, prospects appear dim for agreement anytime soon on the difficult issue of qualitative control over wea pon adva ncements The officials said Canton and its adjacent islands have no native populations and that the two main islands there.

Canton and Enderberry, have a total of only 27 square miles including lagoons. Because the islands are owned in common with Britain through an agreement dating back t0 before World War II, British con- Field officers said lier that ihe main phi the operation i voulrl the pla and wards. Polling stations will be open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. in municipal precincts in five counties.

The central city mayor's race has drturn eight rvtn-didates. and Hie largest council contest is in Ward 2. where seven candidates are seeking voles. Wards 5 and have three candidates each, and Ward voters will choose between two hopefuls. All Oklahoma City residents who are properly turned upside do' Local it when ophthalmologists and this week.

-Page fi. iVICS AND KARS ha' otoioryngologists rr he completed about the end of this month, but lhat troops would remain along the border for possible quick strikes against one- The South Vietnamese claim that 8,208 of the enemy have been killed in the drive into Laos, as comparer! with government losses of 72fi men killed. 2.7(3 wounded and 105 missing. The South Vietnamese Nation OF CON Fill KXCK by investors orny denied by Treasury secretary retary. son t.

wa: obtained for the 'e eligi- Oapi. Witiirow said. Diamond was not hurt, however. lie might not have fared any belt in Texas, though, as the weather i reported snow, dusl storms, lashing winds ami a hit ol rain plus high temperatures in the state to the south. Winds Texas gllsted ever 50 m.p.li.

and ilut from the plains I htltr.v.ing sand storms Ctiiitiniied mi Page 2, Col. 1 pla nned ble io ballot monitoring ind Ihe test nit faciiitic Rri hartei I'liiw- 15. is Pentagon tried to kill 111 ge IX. gttlation requiring health Page (. "''f'" MVNATOII Proxmiro report on defense budgets TrxOTIKIKSO.nun.scs that "anting may be revived.

ai post and th amendments. An April r. rt. tinn is scheduled A sample ball. Oklahoma Citv the 'pen of World Vandenherg Air Base i California is the mai launching sue for Minute hiuonc; am) KW(T Turkish militarv.

leaders Shi by pei 10. intituled on Page 2, Col. tilings. It ha LTERNATE ROliTH for North Slope oil through Oa 'la urged by environment group. so bei used in part of the of Ihe U.

S. anti-e missile (ARM). ball is raniMAM savs hos ready president over strike. la Ik wilh -Page ti. The principal locations for U.S.

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