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A I say anything," he said. "Pain is the best teacher." The returned POWs began "taking the lid off" their life in prison yesterday, when Navy Cmdr. Richard A. Stratton of Palo Alto said he intends to ask the State Department to accuse senior members of the North Vietnamese government of war crimes. Stark Details Another said a buddy was tortured to death after an escape attempt.

At a series of press conferences across the 'nation, the returnees poured out stark and horrifying details of beatings, starvation, solitary confinement, psychological harassment and torture. From Page 1 two other POWs suffered vicious beatings because they tried to escape from the "Hanoi Hilton," the notorious old French jail in a residential section of the North Vietnam capital. Guards discovered a small collection of things they intended to taka with them, and "beat us for quite some time." Chambers actually escaped, soon after he was shot down on Aug. 7, 1967. He said he and a fellow pilot were held in "dugouts" literally, holes in the ground but managed to sneak out one evening when their guards were "having a water fight." They managed to reach the seacoast and tried to launch two boats from a small fishing village, but each was swamped before they coud get past the breakers.

They hid in sand dunes but were caught after being free about 12 hours. Sophisticated They were beaten when they were returned to prison, Chambers said. The guards used their fists at that time, he reported, adding: "The rubber hoses came later as they got more sophisticated." He said 'many of the anti-war statements made by POWs were the result of torture. "Given a steel rod and a rope I could make any man Capts. William Butler, Carl Chambers, James of torture at Travis AFB conference today gff Haldeiiian Knev Of Bug: M'Cord They May Testify i Ji tr i W-5 1 From Page 1 senators have publicly suggested the White House has not been fully cooperative in furthering the Senate inquiry.

Saying he would not want to relate his remarks to anything said by an individual senator, Ziegler said there has been "some misapprehension or misunderstanding" of the White House position. Nixon has said he would not permit present or former members of the White House staff to appear at formal sessions of the Senate committee because that, in granted immunity from further prosecution. The committee also issued three subpenas for three secretaries from the Committee to Re-elect President Nixon, including Liddy's secretary, at the suggestion of McCord. The three were identified as Sally Harmony and Sylvia Panarites, both former secretaries to Liddy, and Robert Reisner, a former administrative assistant to Jeb Magruder, a former White House aide who was deputy From Page 1 man were defendants in the case, which named several persons who worked in the 1962 Nixon campaign.) McCord told the Select Senate Committee in a 4V2-h our closed session Wednesday that fellow conspirator G. Gordon Liddy had told him that Mitchell had approved in advance the bugging' of the Democratic offices in the Watergate building complex, the source said.

Mitchell angrify denied the charge yesterday, calling it slanderous. He claimed that he had no prior knowledge of the Watergate breakin. Denial Repeated White House press secretary Ronald Ziegler had, in reply to previous charges, denied that Haldeman, one of the most powerful men in the Nixon administration, had any advance knowledge of the breakin. A White House spokesman repeated the denial last night. Asked about the re-p or ted allegation against Haldeman, deputy press secretary Gerald Warren said: have nothing to say beyond what we have already stated, that is that no one in the White House had knowledge of or was involved in the Watergate matter.

Any allegation suggesting otherwise is false." McCord had claimed in a letter to U.S. Judge John J. Sirica, who presided at the 6 trial of the Watergate seven, that political pressure had been used to try to force the seven defendants to plead guilty and thus remain silent. McCord, the ex-CIA agent who was the Nixon campaign committee's security chief when arrested during the raid on the Democratic offices, told the Senators Wednesday that the political pressure had come from the White House, a source reported. Promise Cited McCord said he and fellow defendants E.

Howard Hunt and Gordon liddy and the four Miamians arrested with McCord, had been promised executive clemency and that their families would be taken care of in return for guilty pleas, the source said. There was no indication as to who in the White House made the alleged offer to the seven defendants. When Hunt, the former CIA agent who was one of the leaders of the Watergate plot, and the four Miamians pleaded guilty, Judge Sirica asked if they had been promised executive clemency or care for their families. They said no. McCora, meanwhile, was to have been sentenced today for his role in the Watergate affair, but Sirica de-1 a sentencing until June 5 to give McCord time to complete his testimony before the Senate committee and a federal grand jury looking into the incident.

Commissions Internal Revenue Service agents to check up on meat markets and other industry firms to make sure the rules are being enforced. The inflation-prone food industry was kept under mandatory wage-price controls when most of the rest of the economy shifted to voluntary guidelines in January under the Phase III stabilization program. But now agriculture products, including livestock, remained exempt, and just two weeks ago Nixon told a press conference he still opposed controls on farm products. Black Markets Nixon said at that time "every bit of evidence that has been presented shows that it would discourage supply, it would lead to black markets and we would eventually have to come to rigid price controls, wage controls and rationing and I don't think the American people want that." AFL-CIO President George Meany and many Democratic congressmen have urged Nixon to freeze food prices from the farm level on down. The President's action went part way, imposing ceilings on slaughtered animals but leaving the price of live animals to fluctuate with supply and demand.

A POWs Story of 'The Zoo? From Page 1 them a biography, I was tortured seven days and six nights in a pitch black room. They beat me very regularly and brutally while I was in large traveling irons with my hands tightly cuffed behind me. They kept there three more weeks, so I could recover enough to write my biography. The biography I wrote was harmless and in some parts obviously ludicrous. When they released me from that torture room, a place we called the Auditorium at the Zoo, I was moved to a cell from which I could secretely communicate with the other prisoners.

And I took over the camp after I made sure that I was the senior officer there. We had various methods of communication, including Morse code, and I put out a message saying, "Rob by Risner has left camp so I'm now in charge." When I learned that some men were writing biographies and military information (unclassified) due to mere intimidation from threats, I put the policy out that they were not to succumb to threats, but must stand up and say no. At this time, the most common way we communicated was by tapping from wall to wall and then whispering at naptime under the doors. We would also whistle in Morse code. We forced them to be brutal to us.

And this policy was successful in that the consequent exposure of their brutality ultimately caused U.S. public and official pressure to bear so heavily on our captors that treatment was eventually improved and meanwhile our honor was preserved. Eventually, they traced the source of the orders being put out to the men. And that was when it really hit the fan for me. When I consistently refused to write, they moved me back to the Hilton on April 20 with the express purpose of humilitating me by forcing me to write a confession.

The torture began with no Freeze tives to produce meat and cause higher prices. But if the freeze is lifted after a hort time, prices, should drop because of greater supplies later this year. Mary Gulberg, home economist for the Coop stores in the Bay Area said she was "very skeptical" about the freeze. "Speculation and withholding supplies" probably helped raise prices and "people with low incomes won't benefit now. "What is needed is an investigation in my opinion," said Mrs.

Gulberg. She noted that people in "very conservative" communities are picketing in protest against price rises, which have risen 60 percent over a short period of time. Alioto Protests Big Cut at Hunters Pt. Sehorn, Dayid Ford tell $80MHlionin subsidies to State Farmers Examiner Washington Bureau WASHINGTON A total of 1861 California farms received $80.2 million in government subsidies for 1972, it was reported today. This excludes those receiving less than $20,000 each.

In the same category for 1971, a total of $73.2 million in federal payments went to 1708 California farms for crop subsidies and production controls. The largest 1972 subsidy went to Gif fen, of Fresno County: $334,544. Next highest, $231,225 was paid to Tenneco, a conglomerate with huge land holdings in Kern County. Sirica allowed McCord to remain, free on $100,000 bond but restricted him to the Washington, D.C., area. In addition, Sirica ordered Liddy to testify before the grand jury and granted him immunity from prosecution for anything he might say.

Other Acts Similar immunity had been granted to Hunt, who gave extensive testimony to the grand jury this week. McCord has been ordered to return to the Senate committee next Wednesday and sources close to the committee said he indicated he would be willing to talk about other acts of political espionage and sabotage during the 1972 presidential campaign besides the break-in of the Watergate headquarters, if he were Nixon to But with the ceiling in place, the Administration hopes that farmers will not keep their animals from market in hopes of higher prices to come. Market Forces "We must be careful not to control prices at the raw agricultural level, the level of cattle on the hoof, the pig while it still squeals," said Treasury Secretary George P. Shultz at a briefing for reporters prior to Nixon's speech. "At that level, we want to let the market forces play." Shultz added that some prices might fall below ceiling levels.

But he declined to set a numerical goal that would measure success of the meat ceiling policy. Decline Shultz predicted earlier that farm prices would decline in the second half of this year while grocery prices would slow their rate of increase. The meat ceilings should aid that forecast, he said. Questioned on the timing of the announcement Shultz admitted that "perhaps it. should have been done two months ago." But a combination of price ceilings, increased farm production and the "housewives', rebellion" will "bring these prices down," Shultz said.

1 5H A POW RECALLS THE Denton reaches down food and no drink for three days and three nights, while sitting on top of one stool that had been placed atop another, with my hands tightly cuffed behind me. The next day they applied the standard "rope trick" with the addition of rolling a nine-foot iron bar up and down my shins with two men standing on it. Just before losing con his view, it would violate the constitutional doctrine separation of powers. Ziegler was asked to draw a distinction between members of the executive branch testifying before the legislative branch and before a grand jury, an arm of the judicial branch. When he gave no clear-cut reply, a reporter asked if the distinction might be that grand juries meet in secret sessions whereas the Senate committee plans televised public hearings.

"I wouldn't want to draw that specific distinction," Ziegler responded. director of the re-election committee. McCord reportedly felt the three had been in a position to give useful information to the Senate committee investigating the Watergate scandal. Meanwhile, Sen. Lowell Weiker a Republican member of the Senate Watergate committee, told a news conference yesterday he believes the "chief" of the political espionage operation is a member of the White House staff.

The Mayor pointed out that only last week the FBI had reported a 19 percent reduction in serious crimes committed last year in San Francisco. Chief Administrative Officer Thomas J. Mellon, speaking as chairman of the League of California Cities, asked that the state develop a standby funding program to continue worthwhile programs until it is learned what special U.S. revenue sharing funds will be available and what they will cover. Also prepared to testify here were the Oakland, San Jose, Fresno, Sacramento, San Diego and Anaheim mayors.

14 states, noted that business is down 35 percent in the Bay Area, 70 percent in Los Angeles. He called Nixon's freeze "purely political. announcement got 200 million consumers off his back and avoided angering the farmers. But the 15,000 meat packers are really hurting." Santare added that "when Nixon says the buck stops at his desk he's wrong, it stops with the packer." If the boycott planned next week is successf ul, he noted, the effect on packers could be "catastrophic." Short vs. Long Marvin McGregor, agricultural economist for the Bank of America, said he believed any long-term freeze would dampen incen Consumers Forced odify Ideas on Controls From Page 1 such effective law enforcement efforts," he said.

The Mayor said that the federal funding had begun to finance "new housing and jobs for the poor, decent educational opportunities and manpower training programs all contributing to the development of an at-' mosphere which removes the criminal incentive from our community." "Nowhere in our City have these programs had a greater impact than in Hunters Point," Alioto said. "Nowhere in this City will the budget cuts have a more devastating effect," he Brando9 Stand-in Here-Tells Why She Spoke AGONY OF VIETNAM to touch his injured foot AP Photo sciousness, I weakened and gave the signal that I would write something. My will was gone. I agreed but was unable to write for a few days. I wrote and taped what I hoped was not a credible confession.

Like many others, I would have died in front of a firing squad rather than write a confession, but they gave me no such choice. she said firmly. "It was a tremendous She will be at the Festival of Broken Treaties a display of Indian arts, crafts, dancing and fashions at 4 p.m. tomorrow at the Oakland Auditorium. Ex-Musician, Singer Split Former bandleader Del Courtney won an interlocutory decree of dissolution of his marriage to singer Connie Haines today.

The order was issued in Contra Costa County superior court. Courtney, more recently the Oakland Raiders' director of administration, and Miss Haines were married Nov. 16, 1967, in Las Vegas. They separated in May of last year. Grounded BRISTOL, England (AP) A prototype of the British-French Concorde supersonic airliner hit a door as it was being towed from a hangar for tests.

It was grounded for a week for repairs on the tail section. Little Backing for From Page 1 ed his Vietnam war policies and asked support for his budget cutbacks. The President's speech coincided with the final withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam, ending the 12-year U.S. military involvement there. Warning "Wehave achieved peace with honor," Nixon said, adding a warning that North Vietnamese leaders "should have no doubt as to the consequences if they fail to comply with the (peace) agreement." But the meat price ceiling, which represented a partial turnaround in Nixon's economic thinking, grabbed most of the attention.

The order: Places price ceilings on all purchases of beef, veal, pork, sheep and lamb products after slaughter by or from processors, wholesalers or retailers. Establishes a ceiling at the highest level at which 10 percent of a meat item has been sold in the past 30 days. Requires all retail meat sellers to place big signs listing ceiling prices on "prominent display' no later than April 9 so that shoppers can compare ceiling prices with current selling prices. From Page 1 do with the Academy Awards." It was not until Tuesday, the day of the awards show, that she learned exactly what it was she was to do, she said. It was her decision not to read Brando's lenghty statement on the televised show, she said, and the short speech with which she rejected Brando's award was her own.

"I spoke from my heart. Those words were writen in blood, perhaps my own blood," she said. "I felt about like Christ carrying the weight of the cross on my shoulder." Miss Littlefeather, who grew up in Salinas as Marie Cruz, is married to Michael Rubio, an engineer. She adopted the Indian name when she worked in support of the Indian occupation of Alcatraz in 1970. She views her appearance on behalf of Brando and the Indian movement more as a responsibility than an opportunity.

"I'm not an opportunist," From Page 1 out of shortages," said William Mitchell, president of Safeway, the Nation's second largest food store chain. In the long run, only more cattle production will solve the price problem, Mitchell added. If the shortage of meat continues for long, he warned, the packer will seek the "highest revenue customers" and store meat counters would be depleted. Rationing as in World War II could be a long-run consequence. But Mitchell, like expects an increased meat supply later this year.

a 1 Santare, executive vice president for the Western States Meat Packers, representing 700 members in.