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-6- POST-GAZETTE TUESDAY, MARCH 31, 1970 Missed Mark Skydiving Leaves Girl Up a Tree CIA Operations Bared U.S. Expanding Aid Role in Laos By GEORGE ESPER Associated Press Staff Writer VIENTIANE, Laos, March 30-How deeply is the United States involved in Laos? Official sources say American civilian pilots, U.S. military attaches, and the Central Intelligence Agency all are helping in some degree to protect government forces against attacks by fJ YVv IN Ii 'A 1 a If 1 CWt Jill eai dtp 14 TVs Theft Try Nets 3-6 Years in Pen Homewood Man Convicted Of Sheraden Attempt William Harris, 28, who was arrested with a man identified as a private detective in. connection With attempted theft of $3,000 worth of sets, was sentenced yesterday in Criminal Court to three to six years in the Western Peni-: tentiary. Harris, of the 900 block of N.

Lang Avenue, Homewood, was convicted of burglary by. Judge Albert A. Fiok in a non-jury trial in connection with a break-in at the D. H. Overmeyer Co.

warehouse, at 2150 Rosv.ell Sheraden. Harris pleaded guilty to larceny in the theft of 15 blank checks from an association for which he formerly worked last January. Charges of false pre-' tense for cashing one check and attempting to cast another were dismissed. Police said Harris and Robert Spragling, 26, of 100 block of Talbot Avenue, Brad-dock, who identified himself as a private detective, were arrested at the Overmeyer warehouse early last Feb. 23.

Officers said a three-by-three foot hole had been chopped in the warehouse door and they found one TV set in Spragling's car and Harris with 13 TV sets inside the' warehouse near the door. Spragling has not yet been tried. HONOLULU, March 30 (AP) Firemen at the Waia-Iua fire station said they saw the young woman coming but could only watch with amusement while she settled comfortably on the top of a nearby 35-foot tree. "She was drifting from Haleiwa, missed a couple of houses and ended up in that big tree," said Lt. Ralph Kaneshiro.

"We a a couple of minutes, then decided she wasn't coming down without help." With that the firemen raised ladders and rescued 22-year-old Frances Scott, a wayward skydiver who said she was very thankful. Man Ignites Wife, Self, Dies Aflame LEXINGTON, March 30 (AP) A man set his estranged wife and himself afire today after they had an argumentover their infant daughter outside a doctor's office, police said. Gerald M. Brown, 29, who was released a few days ago from a mental hospital, died from third-degree burns over 95 per cent of his body, Coroner Chester Hager said. Patricia Ann Brown, 30, was hospitalized in serious condition.

The child, who is six months old, was treated for superficial burns in the doctor's office, but she was not injured seriously. Doctors said a liquid Brown threw on himself and his wife splattered on the child but did not ignite. A witness told police Brown threw a liquid on his wife, then tossed a lighted match on her. Several persons extinguished the blaze using a bathroom rug. Another witness said Brown then walked around a corner of the building and "all of a sudden he turned into flames." Woman Held On Drug Charge Kimberly Mitchell of the 1400 block of Columbus Northside, was charged last night with possession of drugs after a raid by state and city police on an apartment in the 200 block of Erin Hill POW's Model 'Home' Army Major James N.

Itowe of McAllen, Tex. displays replica of a bamboo cage which was his home while being held a prisoner by the Viet Cong in Vietnam. He holds a cup and chopsticks which were his only eating utensils. Rowe, who escaped in 1968, spoke yesterday in Dallas at a press conference for newsmen who will tour South Vietnamese POW camps under sponsorship of H. Ross Perot, Texas billionaire.

Finding of Murder Revoked Viet POW's Death Ruled Manslaughter LONG BINH, Vietnam, March. 30 (AP)-A military court today revoked a premeditated murder conviction that would have sent a young Army officer to prison for and found him guilty instead of involuntary manslaughter in the slaying of a Vietnamese prisoner of war. "I still don't feel guilty. Controllers May Get Suspended Air Travel Woes Continue As Absentees Rise (Continued from Page 1) ment wanted to insure the order would apply outside the District of Columbia. In Brooklyn, U.S.

Dist. Judge Orrin G. Judd issued a similar temporary restraining order against the strike at the request of 13 airlines and their representative, the Air Transport Association. A hearing was set for Friday on the request for a temporary injunction against continuation of the work stoppage. In some control centers, as well as in the 350 airport towers around the country, the number of absentees grew To make up for the shortage, the Federal Aviation Administration continued to restrict traffic in and out of New York's three airports and Chicago's O'Hare to half the usual flights.

There were delays of up to four hours at some airports on a day when thousands of travelers were returning home from Easter visits. The San Francisco restraining order, covering only Northern California, appeared to have little effect. Tonight, half of the controllers scheduled for duty remained off the job at Fremont, Oakland and the San Francisco tower. Although most airlines in San Francisco consolidated flights and cancelled others to make up for delays, Pacific Southwest Airlines chose to delay planes instead. In Chicago, the FAA's warning for sick controllers to get back to work resulted in four men calling to say they would return.

But others remained out and the FAA said some who have worked throughout the slowdown have been receiving threatening phone calls. A spokesman said some controllers have moved their families to motels to avoid the calls. Federal 1 get 13 days of sick leave each year and they can accumulate unused leave year by year. Nor-' mally, the FAA requires a doctor's certificate for illness of more than three days, but last week's telegram demanded medical support for any Illness of more than 24 hours. The absent controllers are members of PATCO, The Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization, which claims to represent 7,500 of the country's 14,000 controllers.

Rival unions like the National Association of Government Employes and the National Association of Air Traffic Specialists have issued statements opposed to the stoppage. Those two unions claims to represent 2,500 and 4,000 controllers respectively. The Air Transport Association, which represents the 11 major airlines, filed suit against PATCO, claiming the stoppage has cost the carriers millions of dollars. "We figure that a jet plane costs an average $1,000 an hour to operate," said Bill Osmun, a spokesman for ATA. "There are instances where planes have had to sit on runways four hours waiting to take off.

Just multiply those hours, plus the extra cost for diversions and overtime for people and the cancellations and you see what fantastic losses the airlines are sustaining." EVELYN WOOD fpN i $24,000 to $30,000 per year for senior pilots and from $20,000 to $24,000 for pilots. Each pilot is limited to 100 hours of flying a month. Cambodia May Ask U.S. Military Aid Premier Says Vict Cong Raids Threaten Nation PHNOM PENH, Cambodia, March 30 (AP)-The new government said today it may ask the United States and France for military aid but not troops if the Vict Cong attacks in Cambodia become a grave threat to the nation's neutrality. But, Premier Lon Nol told a news conference, he would leave it to the United Nations to judge whether a grave situation existed.

Issue Not Explained This was not explained further. The U. N. has stayed out of hostilities on the Indo-chinese peninsula made up of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. But Nol's remarks suggested he may be planning to bring the Cambodian crisis before the U.

N. in New York. In New York, Cambodia's representative, Or Kosalak, asked Secretary-General Thant to use his influence to try to bring about withdrawal of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops from his country. He said he would also send letters to members of the Security Council but without asking for a special meeting The government claimed later today that 2,000 Viet Cong troops had crossed into Cambodia from South Vietnam's Mekong Delta at a point 75 miles due south of Phnom Penh and had penetrated five miles. It added that other Viet Cong troops were moving toward the Mekong River crossing of Neak Leung, about 30 miles southeast of the capital.

Protests Laid to Cong Nol, an army general who also is Cambodia's defense minister, claimed that the Viet Cong are whipping up peasants against his "government of salvation," which replaced Prince Norodom Sihanouk as chief of state on March 18. Demonstrations in support of Sihanouk have erupted in dozens of towns in hinterland provinces, posing the threat of civil war. The Cambodian army Is trying to make a barrier of the Mekong River, which bisects the country, in an attempt to check this movement. Army troops guard all crossings and gunboats ply the river. French women and children living on rubber plantations were being evacuated today from areas threatened by pro-Communist Cambodian and Vict Cong forces.

Planes belonging to French-owned plantations flew out of Thnom Penh in the morning to begin the evacuation. French sources said the dependents were being taken first from the big plantation at Prekak in Kompong Cham Province near the Mekong River. The Viet Cong already had taken trucks and medical supplies from there, the sources said. the Communist led Pathet Lao. In addition, swarms of U.S.

warplanes bomb and strafe in, support of Laotian forces or attack the Ho Chi Minn trail that the North Vietnamese use in Eastern Laos to funnel supplies and troops to South Vietnam. The planes fly from bases outside Laos. Number of Advisers The American civilians based here perform what amount to military functions under auspices of the U.S. Embassy, the Agency for International Development and two companies under charter to AID Air America and Continental Air Services, the informants report. They say more than 200 Air Force and Army attaches, regular military officers, serve as advisers in the field and as aerial observers and spotters for bombing or artillery missions.

The best available information is that as many as 100 CIA personnel are operating in Laos under cover of AID or the U.S. Embassy. Other CIA agents are said to operate "in the black," meaning they are not carried on either embassy or AID rolls. "Each guy operating in the black is provided with a story," explains one source in the know. "They are not on any list.

Supposing a newsman encounters a civilian in the field and asks him 'Who do you work He would say the Defense Department, or that he is an employe of some civilian firm." Breakdown of Deployment AID officials will neither confirm nor deny that their organization is a cover for CIA operations. President Nixon in a statement March 6 reported: "The total number of Americans directly employed by the government in Laos is 616. In addition, there are 424 Americans employed on contract to the government or contractors. "Of these 1,040 Americans, the total number, military and civilian, engaged in a military advisory or military training capacity numbers 320. Logistic support numbers 323." The U.S.

mission here refuses to go beyond Nixon's statement but informed sources give this breakdown: More than 200 Americans directly employed by the government are Army and Air Force attaches. Up to 1,100 civilians are CIA agents, most of them former Marines and Army Green Berets. 316 Americans are directly employed by the U.S. government, presumably mostly Embassy and AID employes. Of the 424 Americans employed under government contracts, 200 are pilots for Air America and Continental Air Services, Inc.

Another 100 are ground employes of the two airlines. Another contract group is International Voluntary Services, which has about 60 American volunteers teaching and working in agriculture, community development, and public health. James A. Cunningham 52, of Chicago, base manager for Air America in Vientiane, says "100 per cent of our work is for the U.S. government." Cunningham was a Marine Corps pilot in World War II, and most Air America pilots have a military background.

Their salaries range from Travelers Go to Buses, Trains Here Holiday Crowds Switch Due to Air Travel Delays Local bus and train officials yesterday reporteda huge swell in passenger traffic as airlines hit by continuing absence of controllers limped through the Easter holiday. "We have everything running that will run," said Luther Curry, local assistant superintendent for Greyhound Bus Lines. "Traffic is very heavy out of Philadelphia and New York." Flock To Trains A Penn Central spokesman said "there has been a very heavy demand for pasenger service" out of Pittsburgh. "We are utilizing a good deal of extra equipment." The swell of passengers on the railroad and bus facilities came as the Federal Aviation Administration ordered a 50 per cent cutback in airline flights between Chicago and New York. At Greater Pittsburgh Air-port, Kenneth McMechen, chief air controller, reported normal operations in the control tower.

McMechen said there are no delays in landing and takeoffs as a result of local problems. The Allegheny County Aviation office, however, said it was taking passengers nearly twice as long to complete an airline trip as usual. 25 Control Traffic McMechen said 25 supervisory and recalled controllers are operating at Pittsburgh "and the schedule is set so everyone will get a day a week off." Many of the reported 37 controllers who have reported off sick at Pittsburgh questioned McMechen's statements. A few said unqualified personnel has been recalled to fill spots. McMechen denied the statements and said the control tower is operating only with fully qualified personnel.

Some of the controllers, who are participating in the national "sick-out called by the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) said they have received calls threatening their jobs and "trying tointimidate my wife." The controllers contend there is a normal control tower crew of 63 on duty as opposed to the approximately 25 now working. Boy Knifed In Holdup Three youths aged nine, 13 and 14 jumped a boy in the East Liberty Mall last night demanding money, police said. The victim suffered a stab wound. Paul Stevenson, 16, of 230 S. Evaline East Liberty, a student at the Bishop's Latin 1 of Larimer Avenue where he is taking preparatory courses for the priesthood, was stabbed in the right side.

Police rushed him to Pittsburgh Hospital where he was reported in satisfactory condition. Police said Stevenson furnished accurate descriptions of his assailants, and officers rounded up the three suspects in less than an hour. They were turned over to Juvenile Court. Stevenson said the three demanded money and a scuffle broke out when he refused to give them any. A passerby saw the scuffle and called police.

Pastor Sues Time Inc. A Westmoreland County minister filed suit in Federal Court here yesterday, charging a Life magazine story about religious diploma mills hurt his reputation. The Rev. A. C.

Spern, international superintendent of Calvary Grace Church and minister and director of a church by the same name in Rillton, asked for $20,000 in actual damages and punitive damages against Time publisher of Life magazine. He asserted a Nov. 14, 1969 article by assistant editor William Bruns, titled "Praise the Lord and Pass the Diplomas," hurt his reputation in the small town by associating him with a diploma mill set up by a minister he had originally ordained. BASEBALL fans follow the action in Florida with Al Abrams and Charley Feeney on the sports pages. (Advertisement) Unique medicine takes the acid and the gas out of acid indigestion Plain antacids can go only half way.

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-Associated Press Wlr.photo erating VA hours yesterday, found him guilty of premeditated murder and conspiracy to commit murder and only then discovered that its ruling, under military law, meant mandatory life imprisonment. Court Reronslders At Rothblatt's suggestion and over the objection of the prosecution, the court was allowed to reconsider its verdict. And in doing so today, it asked and was given instructions by the military judge, Col. Peter S. Wondolowski, on the added lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter.

A key to the lesser charge being accepted appeared to lie in Rothblatt's contention today that a finding of involuntary manslaughter was logical although it was not the original charge. He recalled testimony that Duffy had told Platoon Sgt. John R. Lanasa, 23, Baton Rouge, the accused trig-german in the slaying, that he could "do what you want with the prisoner." "If Sgt. Lanasa had wanted to turn him (the prisoner) loose he could have done so," Rothblatt said, arguing that this fact Duffy from guilt in having ordered the man killed.

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