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Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 32

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1' '32E 17,1971 at ft 4 Maj! William the Army prosecutor, replied to Baileys contentions that the testimony was not relevant by saying tiie government contends that all activities at My Lai are relevant, not present during the ings, but told how troops of Charlie Company, which was under his command the day of the assault, shot unarmed old men, women and children in My Lai. Gregory Olsen fl testified earlier in the court -martial that convicted a Medina subordinate, LL William L. Calley of murdering 22 civilians at My Lai The three said Medina was that the government would be, obliged to show what Medina was and when these events tot place in the village." The three witnesses Ronald L. Haeberle, James Dursi EtlGJUtHDQ Now in a new and more convenient Downtown Oakland Location: 1510 Franklin St. FT.

MCPHERSON, (h. (AP) A prosecution witness testified today that Capt. Ernest L. Medina told his troops on the eve of the My Lai assault to avoid harming non-combatants in the village. Charles Sledge, 23, of Sardis, said Medina, who Is charged with over all re sponsibility for the massacre, issued the warning to the soldiers In Charlie Company at a the night before the March 16, 1968 attack.

-r. Under cross examination, defense attorney F. Lee Bailey asked Sledge: As a matter of fact, Capt. Medina told you Dot to barm them; didnt he? Yes sir, the witness re-plied. Q.

You were somewhat surprised because they were harming civilians? A. Yes, I was. Sledge, a radio operator at My Lai, was asked if he had ever heard on the radio during the fighting, Whats all that shooting? The witness said, I dont remember. Witnesses have said at previous My Lai trials that Medina had radioed and asked that question. Another witness, Robert MaUro, of Brooklyn, N.Y., who was a rifleman at My Lai testified that he did not remember everreceiving a cease fire order at My Lai Bailey repeatedly objected to some of the testimony of yesterdays three witnesses, saying it was not legally relevant to Medina.

OoL Kenneth the military judge, responded that the testimony would be allowed to describe what happened at My Lai on March 16, 1968, but instructed the jury By United Press International Egyptian President Anwar Sadat renewed his warning yesterday that the Arab Israeli conflict will be solved, either by war or through peace, by the end of the year. Then he prepared to fly to Damascus tomorrow for a summit meeting with the Syrian and Libyan leaders. Sadat, Premier Moammar Khadafy of Libya and President Hafez Assad, of Syria plan to endorse the constitution of their federation linking the nations more closely and then send it to the peoples of the three nations Sept. 1 for public acclamation. Hie Middle East News Agency reported from Damascus that Syrian officials distributed pamphlets telling citizens how to vote for the three-nation federation.

The federation will be aligned against Israel, but political sources in Beirut said th three leaders will devote a large part of their discussions to the border crisis between Jordan and Syria and to real-tions between Jordan and the Palestinian guerrillas. We have to take a decision on our occupied lands within the next few months, Sadat told students in Cairo. He said Egyt muprepare a comprehensive strategy in which the nations strength would be the major factor because strength-is everything in the present world. In Beirut, western diplomatic sources said the reported arrival of 65 F104 fighter-bombers in Jordan over the past two weeks may have sparked the recent crisis between Jordan and Syria which three times last week erupted into border skirmishes. The sources also said the United States has supplied Jordan with a radar network Which is being set up in the northeast comer of the country to cover its borders with Syria and Iraq.

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Only one survived. Two others, were killed in a landslide on Heng Kong Island. Between 75 and 80 crewmen drowned when the Hong Kong-Macao ferry Fatshan capsized, four survivors said the rest of the crew was trapped inside the hull. A family of five drowned aboard fishing junk, and nine others were crushed or swept to their deaths ashore by landslides or flood waters that destroyed their homes. More than 200 persons were injured and 2,500 made homeless.

It was the worst typhoon to hit Hong Kong since 1962, when Typhoon Wanda took more than 250 lives. The U.S. Navy ship Regulus was driven aground on Kuai Chai, another outlying island, and the Navy said one of her 270 crewmen got some broken ribs and five other had very minor injuries. A British navy minesweeper took off most of the crew. Two U.S.

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Hie i a Dmitry F. Mikheyev, 28, was charged with treason and anti-Soviet agitation, dissident sources said. He could face the death penalty if found guilty. Specific charges against the Swiss. Francois de Perregaux, 33, were not revealed.

The Swiss Embassy declined to discuss tiie case, and Soviet officials made no public disclosure of charges against either defendant. Dissident sources said Mikheyev was arrested 2 as he boarded a flight to Vietnna at Moscows Sheremetyevo Airport. Perregaux was arrested later the same day, the sources said. Western newsmen were barred from the trial in Moscows dty court. A well, dressed, elderly man who spoke French and German and identified himself as Per-regauxs father told newsmen waiting in the corridor, My son does not want any publicity.

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