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When you get suits, cancel your ad, We bill you only for the nnmber of Issues It fiifls. Phone 9 for help la writing yottr a Single Copy A Medal and A Question President Nixon presents a Madison, at the White ity "until yon get us ont of can." Young American Medal to House. Debra Jean told Nix- Vietnam." Nixon told her: Debra Jean Sweet, 19, of on she questioned his sincer- "We're doing the best we (AP Wirephoto) Toughest Anti-Inflation Drive Nixon To Torce' Down Price of Oil Gasoline I projects to protect the public in-'help people in this country and the moment is here forpeople throughout the world WASHINGTON (AP) With labor and management to make than the private economic sys- By BILL NEIKtRK Associated Press Writer a bold attempt to roll back gasoline and oil prices and an ultimatum on construction costs their own reforms." tern," he said to bring on the In his speech to the National only applause of the night. Association of Manufacturers in Whether his administration UlalUIJl Uli cunaLl UV.LIUII rtsouulanull Ul ividliuxautui ci a 1.1 IT 1110 auiiii.uoit President Nixon has launched New York the President took up will go further in "jawboning" the toughest anti-inflation driveja new economic strategy long his administration. Not only did Nixon announce direct government action Friday night to force down the price of crude oil, but he issued a warning to all industry and labor against betting on future 'held in disfavor by his economic inflation.

Criticizing this year's big wage increases in the construc tion industry, Nixon offered this the industry wants business and labor was not disclosed in his speech. But Nixon the power of his used the toughest language to office directly to push down a date in his anti-inflation drive, specific price increase he con-! "This is the moment for labor siders inflationary. and management to stop frecz- Nixon was interrupted by ap- ng 0 wage settlement and plause only once by the business price actions any expectation executives. The President noted that inflation will continue in some businessmen are con-the future at its peak rate of the cerned because their children! as he said. are saying: "'Business is not "Any wage J5 I do "'L a A LL that makes the flat and i government to intervene in er 0 i .1 the rat race.

I want to help oth- public interest and against the real interest of the workingman." He added: "This is also the moment, with productivity newly on the rise, for business to take a hard new look at its pricing policies, and to pass along to the consumer its savings in production costs." Nixon said his bid to roll back the 25-cent-per-barrel increase in oil the resulting gasoline price not a move toward government wage and price controls. "On the contrary," he said, "these are moves away from Any wage "or price decision, the kind of government controls that cause artificial market hlgh sible assumption oi a mgn wage negotiations on federal "Nothing has done more to of inflation ahead is against the Ex-GI Estimates 300 People Killed at My Lai Due to Galley Yost To Resign as U. S. United Nations Delegate By HARRY F. ROSENTHAL FT.

BENNING, Ga. (AP) An ex-GI testifying at the court-martial of Lt. William L. Calley estimates that 300 people were 'killed at My Lai 'and says Calley was a major contributor to the toll. Nixon overrode present state restrictions on oil production on federal offshore leases and permitted oil importers to use now-idle import quotas for I cheaper Canadian oil.

i In the construction industry, 1 he called for reform of the in- iduslry's bargaining process, saying consolidated or regional bargaining is needed. "When construction wage settlements are more than double the March 16, 1968 sweep of the shots for veneral diseasft.on national average for all hamlet. out of work, then something is saidi Kay suggested Conti didn't, basically wrong with that indus- i au- like Calley. "I didn't bargaining process, he AAOntG OWGRS Dennis Conti, a 21-year-old high school dropout who was in tne drainage aucn east Galley's platoon during the as- village, where he is chaiged No. Is Acquitted Of Murder By MAX HARRELSON Associated Press Writer UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.

(AP) Charles W. Yost is quitting as the chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations after this session of the General Assembly, according to a high-ranking source in the delegation. His resignation has been expected since word leaked out three sault on the Vietnamese hamlet, told the military jury Friday that Calley shot down screaming men, women and children. GETTYSBURG (ffi A week- And, he said, when some tried 'long murder trial ended in a-: to run.

Galley yelled at his men Harvard University, from which ujttal Friday or n.y ar-old to "get 'em, get 'em, kill 'em. day of the assault but 'denied, manufacturing, at a time when Conti, an unimpassioned wit-' that he had been smoking mari- construction workers are ness-who remained unflappable juana 'under cross-examination, he saw Calley firing his M16 tomatic rifle at the trail inter- him, I didn't like him. He was said. section where the lieutenant is just there," Conti said. "As it is now, crait-by- charged with 30 deaths and at "As a matter of fact, you only the drainage ditch east of the ed him didn't you?" guarantees instability, village, where he is charged; "No." Nixon said he has ordered a with 70 deaths.

I "You threatened to shoot Lt. federa ly sponsored commission The number of My Lai resi-i Calley didn't to take the initiative in work- Yost will make his announce ment shortly thereafter, the he had gone on a leave of ab- Moflt Owens source said. sence for his White House job. Of 31 witnesses, Conti is the of "ten men and two first who testified to seeing Cal- Newspapers in "I shall continue to be at your women deliberated 3 hours be-iley shoot civilians. Boston and placed New York reported i service for anything that you ore returning the verdict.

Judge President Nixon might be able to provide," Mundt instructed the jur- planncd to replace Yost with nihan wrote to Nixon, but he ors they could bring in one of Daniel P. Moynihan, a White added that his original commit- three finds guilty of murder, House adviser, and that Moyni-1 ment to the president was for guilty of first 'degree manslaugh- han had accepted the years. Both or not guilty. The youth had been charged with the shooting death of his father, Everett Owens. The dents left dead in the assault; "Oh, I deny that." ing out these changes with lead aenis leu aeau in i-ue uu, i ueuy uia-i.

has been estimated variously! Mr Conti, isn't it a fact of management.and labor from 280 to more than 500. Conti vou 'd like to see Lt. Calley An lf legislation is needed, he estimated 300. hanecd?" 'said, it will be proposed. what do you base the Nixon thus went beyond While- House use of "jawboning," the Ornate?" asked the prosecutor, i When Conti let the witness Capt.

Aubrey Daniel. stand after a full day of ques- Pressin -by puo iic.ty ment. The White House never took their government 0 weeks ago that he was being re- confirmed the move, but Moyni- posts in January 1968. han wrote a letter to the Presi- i The reports that Yost was Calley is charged with the the trail, people in the ditch and murder of 102 civilians during people in the hootches (huts)," Conti said. As he went through the village, the former Gl from Providence, R.I., said, he saw some soldiers cramming people into fho number of npnnlp on Honing he did not even glance at tne number ot people on awav Mo mou day.

to curb wage and price in(Continued on Page 2) PRESIDENT SD Native Is Galley's Attorney The'session ends Dec. 15, anddent saying he was returning to Cross Leaves Canada With Moving Tribute to Laporte MONTREAL (AP) British -sanb oj ui PJBS Fire Breaks Out in RC Central High Building RAPID CITY (ffi All units cept for the publications area si sievenson. 'maiion mat me siaie lanuu 10 ivenneiu nucu A from the Rapid City fire depart- and a few classrooms, the Moynihan reportedly turned prove Monte had committed the the son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl ed whether the Army had cov- mpn gs we gs trucks 0 byuilding had not been in gcii- the appointment because crime.

Roubideaux said the 0. Raby, Eclgemont. His ered up ana at tne earner El SW orth AFB which arrived eral use. t'ost wasn't informed before the state assumed the youth was Shirley, is the daughter of 01 uavia police escorti rus hed to Washington reportedly had bodies of Owens, 47, and his.L. Galley's army defense wife were found in their partial- yer at Ft.

Bcnning, is aj ContiJiad undergone nunicr- diplomat, who served as No. burned home near Gettys-! native of Edgemont, S. D. and ous Previous interrogations man in the U.S. Mission to the burg last January.

a graduate of Edgemont. High about the day My Lai-to he Defense Attorney Ramon School and the University of Army criminal investigation United Nations under Ambassadors Arthur J. Goldberg and Ad- Roubideaux said in his sum- South Dakota. lai E. Stevenson.

'mation that the state failed to Maj. Kenneth Allen Raby division, twice to the high rank- commission that down Yost change was published. "It for any suspects. Trade Commissioner James Ration that he did not attempt to seemed to me that somebody Cross said gooclby to Canada to- include any code message in the had to make amends that it had day with a moving tribute to his notes he was allowed to write, to be me," Moynihan was quot- fellqw captive of Quebec There had been speculation that ed as telling the Washington p. 1 monte add after tionist Minis- he tried by deliberate misspell- Star.

ter Pierre Laporte, who at least to give a clue to his Yost's impending retirement killed after a week's captivity, whereabouts. was reported Friday night after "Why Pierre Laporte is deadi ut, really did not know ix declined an invuation to and I am alive, I do not know, 1 wnere was said. party in he Ambassador's Kl'IftF. guilty, looked for facts to sup- and Mrs. Cecil Nelson, formerly: Mitchell.

Central High School, been under inspection by tho his when he ew Dakota law school' Cross said in French at a brief. Cross wh 0 was reloased rom apartment in the Waldorf Tow- persons unknown. ..4 nn Dl II I' i rTIU A I a TV yr MM MW airport news conference But I ca tivity Tnursday saicl his cap rs. The president was in New want to pay homage to this tors tol him about 10 th York to speak to the National brave man and express my con- prev ous day that police knew Association of Manufacturers in Viction his sacrifice was not where ne wa tne Waldorf ballroom. much happened for, Yost has bee associated with hours," he added, tne United Nations intermittent- cuffed me to a doorknob in a 'participated in the Dunbartpn V-UIIllOiJiib" I I JCVJll UIIIIU 1 III.TJ/VI.IIWH port their conclusions and ap- of Artesian and now of Lead.

I Defense attorney Richard B. oc from downtown Rapid fi re marshal Thursday, parently made no effort to look ranked second jn Kay tried to attack Conti's ered- city shortly afler 12:30 p.m. A) i pm cnt from the Rapid by repeating questions da when fire broke out in PJ, nla fj re stations and sub- previous interrogations. lhl Washington building of the i a 'ti ons cre at the scene. have to see the statement pnmn i i-n Roubideaux said the autopsy father recalls, and has earned that," Conti saicl often, ask- st rpnorts were that the vc report on Everett Owens said several awards from the judge ing to read his previous testimo- cho nuicklv and com- AFR anfl 28 fire fishing victim had died of "gunshot advocate general's department before answering.

1 evacuated without injur- so mflelh th "ase also wounds, inflicted by person or for meritorious service. Kay attempted to portray P'f ely evacuaiea Wllnuul 1UJUJ ed fight the blaze. Raby entered the army in Sop- Conti as sexually active with snoke lust before The defense attorney told the tember, 1956, following his, Vietnamese women while the jury, "after the state had pre(Continued on Page 2) TRIAL graduation and passing the lS0 ldiers were in the area that state bar exam, and has served day. in various posts in the United The moustached, heavy side- onmarfino nuirklv iho States, Germany and Vietnam, burned young truck driver de- cp nort on cy developed at the new Slevens inioH thst hari throninnnH a f're took over tile ironi poruoii jj () tj noo i cn school Dr flames first spotted in the rest- Washington st llo Units from the Rapid ire Department were on stanil- duly at the main Rapid City In lhe an omcrgen- whom he has not seen since he was kidnaped Oct. 5.

corddor'in middle" of "the Oaks conference at San Francis house. I spent the rest of the that set up the world body, night in a very uncomfortable was political adviser to the U.N day confinement in a window-'Potion." General. Assembly .1964 and He looked pale after his 60 night 3 a.m., he said, the kid- into the heavily guarded airport lounge and shook hands wilh acquaintances among newsmen. Officials cut off questions after only a few were asked and hurried Cross to the waiting plane. There was no opportunity to learn how much information about the radical Quebec Liberation might have garnered and passed on to Canadian authorities.

He did say that he had extensive political discussions with his captors during the first two weeks of his confinement. But, he added, after he learned about LaPorte's death he did not feel like continuing the threw out the lead hl to the' fiJal tions for his release and their safe conduct to Cuba. He described his captors as 1961- He retired in 1966, then b.ck at Nixon's request in He has served 35 years with the U.S. State Department and is one of a handful of career "obviously convinced and fer- ambassadors in the Foreign vent revolutionaries," Service, Indochina Roundup 36 Viet Cong Killed In Battle Near Saigon News Briefs that he had threatened a woman's baby in My Lai if she didn't perform an unnatural act, lanneo To Marry Commoner i Then he not very fast Police caught him nearby, anlhpr oof liuk as' winds Bust- administrators rcecc-ivcd an molls pnono ilitlil iieuuiui an uiiiiiiiui Hi that Calley had stopped him WR 30 to 40 niiles an tour Principal Don Varcoe said a from raping another woman, At 1.30 p.m. the fire remain- fcma vojcc was 01) the pnona that he had bragged about rap- ed confined to the front end of am thcre 's a bomb to ing Vietnamese women or that the Washington building the off a( Su VOI1s 15 mm- while he was going through My lower floor of which housed the u(( just jko thl Olle al wc Lai ho was looking for women, school publication.

Very little off al entra al a 3 UJ (lli Conti admitted under cross- equipment was stored in the arcoe the i ruLlLc tJclUr! Him ij 111 i COPENHAGEN (AP) King found $780 jn jg ket and an examination that he was taking building, it was reported. Ex- fire department and they in turn Prince ,1 u- (U rt nnlu'n rinnn rtmcnl. Frederik's nephew, Christian, marry a Dorthe Maltoft Qther $2Q Qn lhe uirway he was climb with in Nielsen, who works as a department store salesgirl. The engagement was an- Pope Paul Returns Home From 25,000 Mile Tour By PATRICK O'KEPFB message to China and deliv-' Associated Press Writer ered a toned down version VATICAN CITY (AP) Pope Hong Kong Friday, reliable, U.N. General Assembly for 1971.

dense central Paris, where the By ROBERT TyCK.WAN launched by South Vietnamese If chosen for the prestigious streets are narrow, full-size fire SAJGON (AP) Helicopter-troops already in Cambodia. It ut largely ceremonial post ne engines and ambulances often borne South Vietnamese troops involved about a fourth of the would retain his position as for- are delayed, killed 36 Viet C9ng in a battle 15, 10,000 South Vietnamese troops a minister, Malik said. miles from Saigon, spokesmen who are there. Tne retiring president of ti said today. Simultaneously, In the fighting close to assembly is Eavard Hamoro 2,500 South Vietnamese marines! a South Vietnamese unit Norway, and gangers launched a new of- claimed to have killed an assist- fensive drive in southeastern Cambodia.

ant Viet Cong battalion commander. It also reported de- In the first hours of the new stroying three camps, several reported sampans and some enemy rice. Over 100 Million TOKYO (AP) Japan's pop- nounced Thursday by his father, ulation has passed the 100 mvl- Prince Knud, the king's younger mark, the Bureau of Statis- brother. tics reported Wednesday. The Miss Nielsen, a dark-eyed gure Oct.

1 was 102,703,552, blonde, is the daughter of a Co- the bureau s-aid. penhagen business executive. A i Metercyele Fire Engine? Availaele PAR1S (AP) Four motorcy- pauTVr'came'home" from his sources JAKARTA (AP) -Adam Ma- cle fire en ines went into serv is ionarv l)uniev halfway Deleted was an appeal for dia- lik, foreign minister of Indone-, icB today in an effort to beat the nd world early today logue with Communist China, sia, said today he is available ip aris traffic fnd resumed hs normal work informants reported, for election as president of the officials explained that in fie hour sleep One version published in TT XT 1Q71 i I tU ipokesmen said the Rome was that British authon- 'pontiff celebrated a ties in Hong Kong, and Chinese his private chapel at Catholic prelates from the bare BV a hours after ar- crown colony and from fcormo- fanfare from his sa prevailed on the pontiff to idsttanTar "East 6 These reports said the Pope return to normal was told that a clear "opening with to Red China or a ringing, ex called the police department. Police suggested the school ba i evacuated. Varcoe said all students were evacuated and they were to remain off the grounds until well after the time mcntionod by tne caller At-cording lo the lime the call was received Ihe bomb was scheduled to go off about 1:40 m.

Trained men on the new mo- would zip to the call first-on the sidewalks if necessary-and i i aptivit ciinfprenL'es wlin 10 ui a nugiug, gQbbery do all possible until the arrival 1 c( audiences for plicit appeal for religious free- ash. (AP) The of normal crews. a acs ana Piw uiy LLS i i i nrovoke an TACOMA, Wash. (AP) The man clumped into the downtown branch of the Pacific National liberate BSSS miles of Saigon headquarters said marines suffered three and seyefl reported in-, Penh, volving American forces today. left but returned a 1611 QU-l rClUfULU A but the U.S.

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