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A-2NDEPENDENT (AM PRESS-TELEGRAM (PM) People in the hews She later told newsmen that Brandos whereabouts was unknown. She said she didnt know how he was traveling or when he would arrive at Wound-edKnee. When questioned as to how she knew that Brando had left here, she replied, I just know." ter show of support for American Indian conditions in this country." But neither Brando nor Sacheen littlefeather, the young Indian woman he sent to reject his Oscar Tuesday night at the Academy Awards ceremonies, could be found Miss littlefeather told the audience Tuesday night that Brando was on his way to Wounded Knee and would take two days to get there. She did not say how he was traveling. Brandos former secretary also said he was on his way Wednesday.

Marion Brando, who rejected an Academy Award Tuesday night to protest Hollywoods treat-. mcnt of Indians, was reported en route to Rapid -City, S.D, Wednesday to 'talk with Indians about takeover of Wounded KlW The report came from Aaron DeSersa, an Ameri-; can Indian Movement 1 member who said he left Wounded Knee Monday night DeSersa said Brandos refusal to accept the 2 Academy Award certain-ly made me feel It couldnt have been a bet-: Grateful? Jerome J. Jerry Gar da, the 30-year-old lead guitarist of the Grateful Dead rock group, faces a May hearing in Mount Laurel, on charges of possessing a variety of drugs aUegedly found in his car. Garcia was released in $2,000 bail shortly after Ms arrest Tuesday evening. Mount Laurel Municipal Court Judge Ernest Sever set a hearing in the case for May 29.

Garcia was charged with possessing various quantities of LSD, -marijuana and other drugs, the spokesman said. Telephone calls to Brandos home were greeted with a recorded message: "This may sound silly, but Im not here. Just leave you name and SACHEEN UTTUEIFTTHER as she aPPar? Awards Tuesday, night and, right, as Miss Amman Vanpire. in a 1970 promotion of the film, Dark Shadows, c-a Waiting game John B. Conally last week proved to be one who wont change horses in the middle of the stream especially when its a rising current, like the Watergate furor.

Sources in New York said Wednesday that only the growing Watergate issue kept him from switching to the Republican Party last week. Obviously, this wasn't any time to be joining the Republican Party, toe source said. The source' added that Conally, white undecided about seeking the presidency in 1976, has no doubts about forsaking his lifelong allegiance to the Democratic Party. Discharged Lt. (J.G.) David Eisenhower was discharged from the' Navy Wednesday after serving two years and five months.

The Presidents son-in-law left his ship USS Albany, a guided missile cruiser at Mayport, and flew to Augusta, to visit his grandmother, Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower at her winter vacation home. Russ director Soviet director Mikhail Kalatozov, whose films included The Cranes Are Flying and The Red Tent, has died after a protracted illness, Moscow radio announced Wednesday night He was 70. Bit player who subbed at Wounded Knee Duly noted Youre only as old as the computer feels.

FYank Smith of Hartford and Raymond Fitzpatrick of Beacon Falls were among veterans who received letters inviting them to join toe National Guard. Signed by Maj. John J. FTeund, Connecticut state adjutant general, they began: I have just learned of your release from a successful tour of active duty. Smith, 74, was released from active duty after the World War I armistice of 1918,.

62, in 1946 after service in World Warn. A Guard spokesman said a computer tripped over two recently received lists- dian Council, with offices in San Ran- CSaie became involved in the Indian protest and takeover of Alcatraz Island in 1970. The Indians gave her the name of Littlefeather. How she came to Brandos attention was not clear. But Tuesday night, dressed in fringed leather and beaded mocassins, she startled 3,000 celebrities-in Hollywood and a national television audience when she announced the aetpr would not accept the Oscar for his per formance in "The Godfather.

A spokesman at radio station KFRC in San Francisco said she was married to Michael Rubio and worked at the station about six months in mid-1972. At toe station, the spokesman said, she fid work related to community groups. TfaO spokesman said he thought she has done -some modeling and film work since leav-ingKFRC. Sacheen littlefeather, 25, the Indian woman Marion Brando chose to reject the film academy Oscar for him Tuesday night, is an aspiring actress who dropped out of college for the blanket movement. Born Marie Cruz in Salinas, Miss Littlefeather has a long history of bit parts in motion pictures and participation in Indian civil rights movements, ANN Brebner of the Brebner Talent Agency in San Francisco said Wednesday.

In 1970, Miss Littlefeather was named Miss Vampire USA in a promotional contest for the movie, Dark Shadows. She is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and most recently bad a bit part in the Laughing Policeman, a 20th Century Fox production being filmed in San Francisco. She is part Apache and serves as head of the Affirmative Image Commit-tee, a part of the National American In- day he had learned that a civil rights group within the village claimed leadership of the occupation, but had it taken away at gunpoint by AIM members. AIM Attorney Ramon Roubi-deaux denied the account of a split when he, Frizzell, Abourezk and Marvin Franklin, assistant interior secretary for Indian affairs, met later Wednesday in Rapid City, S.D. Newsmen were called in and shown a film clip of Means and Banks standing together and Banks reporting that toe pair were back in Wounded Knee and in charge.

The videotape then showed Bissonette outlining conditions under which the militants were ready to resume talks with the government Some news-. men who saw the film said they believed Bissonette acted strange," as if he might be speaking under duress. v-' Government spokesmen said a cease-fire has been in effect since Tuesday and will remain in effect A court order has directed that attorneys for the Indians and medical supplies be. permitted into the village. V- The attorneys were hot allowed to bring medical supplies WOUNDED KNEE, S.D.

Six lawyers entered Wounded Knee under a federal court order Wednesday but left later to say occupying Indians would consider resuming negotiations with the government One of the attorneys, Mark Lane of New York City, said an Oglala council had been formed in the village and was in control of the Wounded Knee area. The government said earlier in the day there had been a power struggle between the militant American -Indian Movement and a tribal, civil rights grant However, it was not known what bearing that had on formation of the group announced by Lane. An attorney for the American Indian Movement (AIM) denied that a rift had developed but Sen. James who flew to South Dakota for negotiations, admitted confusion bad arisen over who is in command of the occupying force. Lane said the council, headed by Pedro Bissonette, would resume negotiations if a cease-fire were in effect aiid if the court order allowing lawyers and.

medical stqiplies ihto the village was enforced: Kent Frizzell, assistant U.S. attorney general, said earlier in the a A a 1 Jik LAKEWOOD Combined News Services NTERNATIONAL I A a in Bullocks Lakewood invites you to attend Elizabeth Ardens Red Door beauty clinic During the week of April 2, a staff of Elizabeth Arden beauty experts will be here to conduct beauty seminars. Reservations are 95 and include a complete kir of make-up and skin care essentials, plus $2 credit toward any Elizabeth Arden purchase. Cosmetics A The isessibns will Be held at the following times. The classes are limited in size, so please make reservations early.

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They are dangerous to the security of the na-: tion. The stiff est measure will be im-I' posed on these people." He said that the hijacking group consisted of nine Thai i men and a woman and that they were I armed with grenades and The -1 only person injured was a hijacker who shot himself with his own I SAIGON Two days before his departure for a trip to the United States, President Nguyen Van Thieu launched a i major new political party Wednesday in an effort to consolidate his control over South Vietnam. The Democracy Party, -ilhieus new organization, has a mem-M bership estimated at half a million and 'is one of only three parties to survive the governments strict new law regulating political parties. Seventeen other I I parties, including all Buddhist, leftist, and most older nationalist groups, were officially dissolved under the law, which came into effect Tuesday. rangy sweater: WASHINGTON The Nixon administrations Committee on Interest and Dividends said Wednesday it will issue guidelines within four weeks for a dual prime lending rate for banks.

A committee spokesman said the rate for large businesses and corporations probably, would.be allowed. to float freely according to market conditions. A second prime rate, for small business and farmers, would remain subject to government supervision and not, fluctuate as freely as the market prime rate. The head of the Committee on Interest and Dividends is Arthur F. Bums! who is also chairman of toe Federal Re-, serve System.

The committee spokesman said the need for a dual prime fate results from recent distortions in the money market, which, have raised the cost of bank borrowing. The spokesman also indicated concern over legislation in Congress to provide for a 604ay freeze on interest The mandatory interest rate ceiling would do incalcuable damage to our economy, the spokesman mid. He said it could lead to another outflow of dollars and another inter-' national monetary crisis. Snow warnings KANSAS CITY Heavy snow threatr ened Southwestern states Wednesday and thundershowers, hail and rain hit a wide area of the midlands from Texas to the western Ohio Valley. Floodwaters climbed higher along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.

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It was the first time the river was closed to traffic 'sincel965. Libya note rejected WASHINGTON The United states Wednesday, rejected as unsatisfactory both in form and substance a Libyan note denying that two Libyan fighter planes fired on an unarmed American transport plane. The United States had charged on May 21 that the shooting occurred in international air space over the Mediterranean. I i This is it Your sweater silhouette for Spring. Long and lean.

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