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Santa Cnrc SrnUnrl sfl to 9Dt0 1 1 WVJ March 3, 1971 Arrests C3 sponsored "Days of Kage" In Chicago in 19(19. Miss Dohrn, Ayers, Rudd and 10 others were indicted by a grand jury in Detroit last June 23 for allegedly plotting to blow up police stations and other public buildings In Chicago, New York, Detroit and Berkeley, Calif. So far, the FBI has been able to apprehend only two women Weathermen, Judith Clark and Linda Sue Evans, both charged in the Chicago indictment. Miss Evans also was named in the Detroit indictment. According to FBI Director J.

Edgar Hoover, the Weatherman organization has been "in the WASHINGTON (AP) The bombing that wrecked an area of offices in the Capitol has produced a host of theories, a flurry of fake bomb scares, a letter claiming responsibility and a call for tighter security everything but a culprit. Most of the theories that floated up in the 48 hours following the early Monday explosion were shot down by various authorities while the only people who would really know anything, the FBI, maintained a strict silence. The city reacted variously to a number of callers emulating the telephonic voice that told a Capitol switchboard operator 30 minutes before the blast: "This is in protest of the Nixon involvement in Laos." I in Elizabeth, N.J., was turned over to the FBI. In the two days since the blast, the Senate pondered ways to prevent similar incidents without blocking free access of Americans to the scat of their government, Checking packages and briefcases carried by visitors was one suggestion. The Senate's subcommittee on buildings and grounds was told by an Army explosives expert the blast, which destroyed a ground floor men's room and damaged nearby offices and a barber shop, could have been caused by 15 to 20 sticks of dynamite set off by a clock-like timing device.

Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell shied away from, proclaiming the blast was the result of a con- Congress remained in session despite at least six calls threatening new bombings, Similar warnings were receive'd and proved false at five other federal buildings Tuesday. Only one, occupied by a section of the Defense Department, was evacuated.

A person or persons sent air mail, special delivery letters to The Associated Press and The New York Post and the New York Times claiming responsibility for the bombing. Signed the "Weather Underground," the letter said "We have attacked the Capitol because it is a monument to US domination over the planet." The five-page, single-spaced typed letter received by the AP, dated Feb. 28 and posted March of them might have committed the act. Despite some skepticism of Its veracity, the letter remained the sole clue visible to the public. Mitchell cautioned against taking the letter too seriously.

"You should remember that every time you have one of these occurences, you have a number of letter writers who sometimes have no relation to who committed the act," he said. Without commenting on the validity of the letter, a staff member of the House Committee on Internal Security volunteered a link between the "Weather Underground" and the fugitive leadership of the Weatherman organization, a faction of Students for a Democratic Society that SDS now formally disowns. The staffer produced an article published Jan, 4 in a New York underground newspaper, entitled "Weather Underground," that claim responsibility for the bombing of Chicago's I lay market Square police statue. The article was signed by Bcr-nadlne Rae Dohrn, William Ay-ers and' Jeffry Jones all Weatherman leaders now sought by the FBI on riot or bombing charges. Miss Dohrn, Ayers, Jones, Weatherman leader Mark Rudd and eight others were indicted last April 2 by a federal grand jury in Chicago for allegedly crossing state lines to incite a riot during the Weatherman- spiracy.

"There has been no indication as yet that it might have been the work of a conspiracy," Mitchell told newsmen at the White House where he conferred with President Nixon, What was it then? he was asked. "Something less than a conspiracy," Mitchell answered. A second theory that the bomb was planted by a Capitol employe was denied by Capitol Police Chief James M. Powell. Questioning of Capitol employes by FBI agents led to some speculation that the bombing was an inside job.

Powell, however, said the interrogation of the employes was more an indication of the FBI's thoroughness than of suspicion that one to provoke violent confrontation" during the past two years, Even before federal charges were brought against them, the Weatherman leadership dropped out of sight. But letters and tape recorded messages, purportedly the written or spoken words of Miss Dohrn or others, keep popping to taunt the FBI and promise violence against symbols of "Amenkan injustice," The letter from the "Weather Underground" said bombing the Capitol was only the beginning. "The Invaders of Laos will not have peace in this country," it said. "Young people here will do everything we can to harass, disrupt and. destroy this murderous government." House Of Representatives Catches British Parliament Nixon Riding Wave Of Popularity In South, Republican Leaders Say WASHINGTON (AP) South ern Republican leaders, sometimes unhappy with President Nixon policies, say he is riding a high wave of popularity and would carry the region easily in an election against any of the Marine Leaders Do Not Voting on amendments in the committee of the whole is either by voice, by standing and being counted, or by walking past tellers to be counted.

After considering a bill, the committee be comes the House again and a roll call can be taken on the bill or on any amendments that were adopted. There can be no roll call on amendments that were defeated, which is what happens to most, so until now there had been no way of knowing how members voted on such amendments. The practice of not recording votes in the committee of the whole developed when Parlia ment was at odds with the king and found it necessary to pro Speedy Withdrawal Of Filibuster Foes Are Doomed, Leaders Admit WASHINGTON (AP) Fili bustering foes of a Senate rules change apparently have suc ceeded in burying an amend ment that would make it easier to end filibusters. Another week of debate is ahead, and sponsors of the rules revision are ready now to at tempt a compromise settlement1. But the odds are against them1.

"I confess there's not much life left in this proposition, but there's some," Sea Frank Church, D-Idaho, said Tuesday atcr the Senate refused for a third time to end a 24-day-old rules filibuster. "Let's not bury the patient! yet, Church asked Senate lead ers. "Give us another week." Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana agreed to that, but no more. So the Senate will vote again next Tuesday on a final petition to limit the rules debate. "I emphasize the word Mansfield said.

The vote Tuesday was 48 to 36 to limit the debate, eight votes short of the two-thirds majority now required to invoke cloture The second attempt a week ear lier failed by the same margin Church said 58 of the 100 sena-itors support his proposal to lim it debate by a three-fifths vote. tect its members by keeping their votes ananymous. The British reformed their system about 1830 to allow recorded teller votes, and at long last the House is following suit. Under the new procedure, two teller lines will operate simultaneously, one for the "ayes" and one for the "nays." To vote, members will sign a card and hand it to a clerk as they pass the teller to be counted. The reformers who pressed for recorded teller votes expect two major effects: more responsible voting by members and greater attendance on the House floor.

In the past vital issues have been decided with only 40 or 50 of the 435 House members present. William P. Rogers "is rather an empty exercise." "It's rather sad wherever you go in the afternoon or the even ing around this town to hear the very able secretary of state laughed at," he added. Nixon's press, secretary, Ron ald Zieglef, said Tuesday the President has "the utmost confidence, in the secretary of state and in the judgment of the secretary of state. WASHINGTON (AP) This is the day the House of Representatives catches up with what the British Parliament did 140 years ago and ends secret voting on amendments.

If all goes as expected, the names of House members voting on an amendment will be recorded for the first time in history when they march down the aisle to be counted by tellers. The recording of teller votes is the key reform in a new package of rules which went into effect with this Congress. There hadn't been a chance to use the new procedure before today. The issue providing the opportunity is an administration proposal to remove the 4'2-per cent interest ceiling on long-term government bonds. The proposal is tied to a bill raising the debt limit and an amendment will be offered to delete it.

The House considers most leg' islation while sitting as something called the committee of the whole, a procedural device borrowed from Parliament when Congress was established. With a simple motion trans forming itself into the commit tee of the whole, the House is able to operate more freely. De bate can be limited, a quorum can be composed of 100 mem bers instead of the 218 required in the House, and such time-con suming procedures as roll calls are prohibited. President Defends Kissinger potential Democratic candi- dates. Several of the dozen Southern GOP state chairmen also said after a two-day meeting here: Sens.

Henry Jackson of Washington and Edmund S. in Laos and Cambodia will lead to acceleration of U.S. troop withdrawals from the war zone. Military sources report units of the 1st Marine Air Wing will be moved this month from Vietnam to Iwakuni base in Japan, which officers say already is verging on being overcrowded with U.S. Marines and naval air units.

Mentioned prominently in these fresh withdrawal reports are three squadrons of Marine jet fighters now stationed in Vietnam. The U.S. Command in Saigon announced today the 2nd Battalion of the 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Division, and the 200-man regimental headquar ters have ceased military operations in preparation for withdrawal to Camp Pendleton, Calif. --4 ii 1 WASHINGTON (AP) President Nixon says it is not true that his foreign affairs adviser, Henry Kissinger, has become secretary of state in everything but title. Sen.

Stuart Symington, said in a Senate speech Tuesday Kissinger is "the most powerful man in the Nixon administra tion next to the President him self." He said Kissinger "is the secretary of state in everything but title" and added that an ap pearance by Secretary of State forefront of much of the violent activity deliberately calculated Muskie of Maine in that order would be the strongest presidential candidates the Democrats could throw against Nixon. But, they said, neither could beat Nixon in the South. Gov. George C. Wallace of Want Corps Also ticketed for early rede ployment, the U.S.

Command said, are the 660-man 2nd Bat talion 11th Marine Regiment, and the 175-man Headquarters Battery of the 11th Marines. Both are artillery units. One regiment of the 1st Divi sion already is back in California; a third probably will be withdrawn from Vietnam soon, Pentagon sources say. Removal of the major Marine air and ground units would leave behind, for the time being, some logistics elements, advis ers to the South Vietnamese ma rines, and some scattered per sonnel assigned to the U.S. Command headquarters structure.

This would effectively end Marine involvement in the war which Marine ground units entered for the first time six years ago. i'V Mi 'Willi i ii I. il.iiiIi in linn linn 7 ii i Linens, second floor CI I Alabama almost certainly will not make another run for the presidency as a third party contender. It is the view of many other Southern politicians, however, thai Wallace will be a candidate for the presidency in 1972. School integration and race are issues that can defeat or elect a candidate in only two or three states.

Many Southerners still are upset about problems they had once hoped Nixon would solve, rajiging from foreign competi tion to the textile industry In school integration by busing. But, the state chairmen said, the courts, Congress and even tne federal bureacracy not Richard Nixon get most of the Diame. Vice President Spiro T. Ac- new is verv nonular in th South, although no one inter viewed suggested a Nixon victory in the region absolutely de-Ipended on Agnew on the ticket. "This was.

one of the best meetings I've ever attended in Iterms of support for the President GOP Chairman Warren B. French Jr. said Tuesday. "We feel he is stronger in the South than in any other recion of the country." Reg. Sale 6.95 5.99 8.95 7.99 10.95 9.99 'A WASHINGTON (AP) Top Pentagon civilians want to speed withdrawal of the remaining U.S.

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