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16, 1970
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Mutineers Seize U.S. Ammunition Vessel WASHINGTON (AP) — The Peptagon said teday it has received fragmentary’ information
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€0 ship Columbia Eagle have been removed by Cambodian authoritie: he Pentagon it, understood that 13° ath ’ including the ipper remained aboard the ves Defense Depariment man Je
per
of
the
Columbia
Eagle
now in charge of his vessel.”*
is
word came from what Freidheim termed ‘Defense De-
partment sources," presumably the U.S. which has
Coa: been
Guard stationed
cutter off Si-
aver the Columbia the wrenen
Eagle
hanoukville since the mutineers took over
‘Two Navy ‘ships also arc now in the area—the repair ship Tatulls and the amphibian ship Den “They have been asked to
stand by in case they could be of assistance,” Freiheim said. It was not’ immediately clear whether the Columbia Eagle is considered to be in the hands of Cambodia or whether crewmen aboard were in any sort of danger. The Pentagon said it has received sporadie messages from the bomb-carrying cargo ship but would not Teloase them xt this time in the interest of protecting the crew. Apparently a skeleton crew
seized control of the Columbia Eagle and sailed into sheltered Cambodian waters in the Gulf of ‘The 7,600-ton Columbia Eagle was bound for Thailand with a when
it
diverted
from its charted course, the Pentagon said.
Twenty-four members of the Adrift on pen seas in two. lifes boats, but wero reported picked by another munitions-cartying cargo vessel en route 10 ‘Thailand.
The U. §, charge d'affaires Phnom Penh, Lloyd M. Rives. informed. the ‘state De. partment he had asked the Cambodian government cither to authorize him to go aboard the vessel or to send someone themselves. and
‘The Rappahannock. theU. 8. freighter srewmen from ulebosts ‘ature rt day, reac! HUFFING AND PUFFING—A scart held by Norwegian rider Odd 1. mmerness, at the scaffold takeott whips’ out ta right angle in strong winds Su ay, giving an indication of wi nual Pine Mountain Ski Jumpin, nt was postponed until next weekend. At left,
- Supreme
Cambodians, Reds Clash;
Helicopter Crash Kills 22 SAIGON (AP) — Cambodia's US. Navy electronic spy plane deadline for withdrawal of with 31 Americans aboard North Vietnamese crashed as it was landing at the forces passed Sunday Da Nang Air Base today and exwithout any sign of compliance, ploded in a huge ball of flames. North Vietnamese Cambodian troops were repors gg Drenty.two aboard the: plane _nine et to have exchangedtire for were injured, and other so were twa Four hours just before the dead. ne, ¢ plane More than 20,000 Cambodian ical youths marched before the National’ Assembly building in Jarge a ‘Cambodi capital, rene’ ing the public's demand that Vietnamese Com- tom jet pi munist troops leave the country. The crowd Ginpersea quietly aft damaging a second Phantom, ran hour of speeches denouncing the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong. Representatives of the Camdian Assembly and governmet with representatives ef the North Vietnamese in Phim enti for thre: hones The reported clash was MOSCOW (AP) — Accusing first of any size ever Sportal between Cambodian troops and the United States of armed insands of Nortl " terference in Laos, Soviet PreViet Cong who for mier Alexei Kosygin has told maintained bases President Nixon all American just’ acrass the | Cambodian- bombing of Laotian soil must South Vietnamese border to es- stop before the Lootians can becape American and South Viet- Bin peace Tass, the official Soviet news namese attack. There were no reporls of casualties. ‘The sources said at vation of the situation in Laos Teast 10 Cambodian tanks were as a result of the U.S. armed inknown to be in the area, bu they apparently did not ie in terference and since the neutrality of Laos is envisaged by the act agreements.” Moa ot Cambodians aartp theee 1962 Geneva restoration of pea last week attacked the North should consulta: Vietnamese and Vict Cong em- tions be started with ical force: bassies in Phnom Penh, deletter continued. manding that their troops leave the “The Central Committee of the country, and pillaged stores in the city's Vietnam are "Gambodiats ruling chiet of state, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, ‘was E but. the Cambodian gaverament ardered all Vietnamese Cambodian soil by dawn ‘Sum day. SEATTLE (AP) — In the Sources in Saigon sajd they qurknaee before dawn the little believed compliance would band a See ora impossible and edge of man army could not expel seu to the edge of ine eatin jed 40,000 to ‘60,000 the e rion U.S,Army's Ft. Lawton.
The
plane
was
an
EC121
Su-
perconsteliation, a prop-driven craft packed with advanced electronie gear which monitors radia wills
and radar transmissions ts plane flies on
coat, GC was ype ol plane that a North Korean MIG shot down last April, killing all mien aboard.
he, U.S, Command reported
our Air tine
Force,
aircraft
Navy
“eontinved
jater-
diction operations ag. Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos” Sun: day,
Kosygin Advises Nixon Laos Attacks Must Stop the Patriotic Front of Laos (the Pathet Lao) advanced recently conerete and quite realistic five-point program of settling the problem,
“It is necessary first of all for the United States to stop speedily the esealation of the war and stop fully and uncondition: the bombings of Laotian territory. Only this can create conditions for tho interested Laotia a.
to meet.’
‘osygin said his government Slault Weletie Canlee beteees Prince Souvanna Phouma, the Laotian premier, and his adversary and half-hrot! her, Prince Souphanouvong, the ilar lead= er of the Pathet Lao.
WASHIN INGTON (AP) — The sinee early Saturday ae Supreme Court declined unaniernoon, without food, water or mously today to speed school des Charlotte, radios. He said they were N.C. ing plan, picked up Saturday night, The court gave no explanation ‘Thee Slip Ia owed by tes Ca ship Co. in Ports at iUrelected.« recent by 000 ts lawyers for reinstatement land, Ore. Irving Thayer, pre: busing order, entere dent of the firm, aid the vessel bth by Judge James B. Mcleft the West Ca: 20. Ths Feb.lan5 but stayed March 5 by an crew consisted entirely of us citizens, Mmeludin ‘six naturalThe rare setback for blacks, ized Poles, Ellipines and Auswho have been consistently suc: tralians, he in pleas to the high Most of ils eas ly information, cessful means schools came from caurt, prabably. cargo district Charlotte-Mecklenburg will not ject to vessel that reported picking up deeper desegregation this’ sehool the 24 crew members Saturday. “There Was” no Clear, ImmiediThe dispute is scheduled to ate indication when the ship ac- argued before the U.S. Circuit tually was seized. Court In Tichmant ril 9. also was unclear whether ‘judge Mesttlan's‘ying "plan the captain of the Columbia Ba- would have added at least 14,000 ar ald ald Students to the 28.000 children already bused to school in Charlotte. . They would have criss-crossed Swann is a foriner resident of Superior. He graduated from the city in a school-pairing arSuperior Central High School in Fangement, averaging up to twa 1938 and began sailing on Great and a half hoursa day in transLakes freighters. In the of son he attended school in Duluth, working taward a captaincy He bagan ocean-going wori with the Merchant Marine in 1 Although
Pentagon
men said they a
spokes
could not state surmised 8
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from Thailand against targets in Vietnam The Columbia Eagle is one of about 175 civilian cargo ship: Military Sea Transportation Service spakesman said das
are un-
charter to haul military car-
rhougt under military charter, a ship like the Columbia Eagle is afficered by civilians
and has no naval complement. “All we do is put the cargo on ape tell them where to go,” an spokesman said.
North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops, mostly logistical personnel
U.S. officials and — other sources in Saigon said there has bee!
Cong were making any efi comply with the eviction order. In
‘Vietnam,
a
four-engime
‘They lay in the brush until, first light, they saw the saxty pass on his hourly round oe didna pe.
attack’ urried as
the
fort pmax in misty rain Sunday, set up a teepe a fire’ and began doing wat ances. A
hundred
years
ago
run an Indian attack. In 1970, as
Boeing 747 superjets flew overhead in their test pattern, the Indians felt it was the best way
express their demands for “Tt was just like in the old days,” said Grace Thorpe, daughter of famed Indian athlete Jim Thorpe. “You sneak up Army, you take'em by Surprise, then you, start hollering and) whooping.” 7 t their rights.
that diers azrusied 3 “toda
Sad
put them: in. the stockade, fed them noodle soup and bologna gandwiches for lunch, then reJeased them,
Seventeen were instructed to go before a U.S. commissioner taday on a charge of violating a warning against entering a military installation illegally. mbt the Indians, representing nore than 30 tribes, had just be~ ht. They beefed up their ‘sentry. force at the Tain fate of the fort, which has been closed to ‘the public since the In invaded -it
week
Prior to today’s ruling, the Supreme Court has methodically cut down efforts to delay deIn this term it orspeed ahead in Mississippi districts, 14 made tional Southern districts, in Oklahoma City. and last Mone The Supreme Court unani-
October by Féderal Judie Jesse wo greed to cease the alleged iMegal actions without admitting guilt to the Hew Voek Gly ad appealed to the high court to reopen the anlitrust suit, claiming if the e auto ad endangered the health of millions of people. But the high court declined, and without holding a hearing affirmed Judge Curtis ruling.
Teacher Assistants Strike At Wisconsin
MADISON, Wi AP)—Uniof Wi teaching assistants went on strike today and as pickets covered the campus, Slate Ally. Gen. Robert Warren said he was secking an injunction. The Teaching Assistants Association, which represents about half the 1,800 teaching aides on the campus, vated lo strike after rejecting a contract oliee earlier mpus Caancelior 1. Edwin Young’ said he would refuse to
Just Like In The Old Days’ would have been a silly way to
Court
Rejects Bus Bid
gs
ARMORED COLUMN Troops of the U.S, ith border northwest of Saigon. Several Vietnamese battalions are known to be across the fe along on a sweep Cambodian —_ border. (AP Wirephoto)
~~ ebout a mile and ‘ half from the
the lifeboats. third officers got in with Shear? The messman, ptotiamad iu: thanna Hussain, 25, of Bi ided that: None guy ees he thought it was a fireboat rill.” Ancien, monies
en He another jumper watches a ski stand nearly upright, held up by the wind. qT he first washout since additional pictures, Urea Mountain News: photo by Dick Ferris)
ago. They organized offi vowed to demonstrate peaceful-
space and picket schedules aca ly until President their demands.
The
United’
Nixon
Indians
meets
of All
der the 1865 Treaty of Point Elliolt. The Defense has announced that jow used for reserve training be deactivated this sum: , and Seattle wants it fot park,
ain further with the TAA as long as the strike continued. ‘The uss.stants, many of them graduate students, — deseribed their groug as the first unien of its_kind in the country to be
zed as a cainpus. bare gaining a UW Police Chief Ralph Hanson said s poeting this Toraing despite ckets, but others ened
thatthe strike was 50 per cent effective in if Lelters and Science, The Engineering and, Agriculture “schools were not affecte The Browns ben aining repretold newsmen they annoyed with a th ants’ role in curriculu nob con ory capacity.
Piano
Coordinated, Etc.’ WASHINGTON
lanning that gives adequate consideration to all
alternative
aunier
be replaced. Most city water
The executive Wisconsin Federation of Te. ers Issued a stat montSin ay announcing its support of aasoelation, federation said that of 3,000" state nembers, only 2 iow ate aitiliated on ihe UW campus with is Local 23,
the U. S. Geological
problems
result of shortages of sources of strains
upon
our
man-| page,
age and distribution system: The
water
outlook
is
haye
gr
wat
not
ge
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(AP)
port
“cautiously
For —
Mrs.
the
ather
co) fectho, store
said.
sate
stie”
execpt, perhaps, for the arid Southwest it,
Pat
Richard
M.
ERO
eclebrated her 58th birthday toda her family noted the event with a priv dinner, Tho family celebration was held Sunday when all members were presen
Mrs. Nixon was born in the smal! mining town of Ely, Nev., March 16, 1912. She was christened ‘Thelma Catherine Ryan but was given the nickname “pat by her father because she was born close to St. Parick’s Day.
Turn
association has asked for e influence in education, or invol
sources of water,”
said today. agency report said “the limited area concept of planning that has characterized much of the water resources development of the past” must
curricalum,.plannins. demands
(AP) — Most U. S, cities will bo
able to meet their water needs for the next half century if they adopt “coordinated comprehensive
nee
Other
Strategy
WASHINGTON CAPT — President Nixon and flee President Agnew poofed the administration's called “South rategy” with a twin-piana Vaudeville act that stole the show at tho weekend's Gridiron Club program. At the conclusion of the newsmen’s organization lampoon of government officials, Nixon walked on the stage and called on the vice president is join him and be interviewed on “Southern Strategy.” The President asked Agnew if there was ibs thern Strategy responded Agnew with an exaggerouthern accent. The two then debated who was the better piano And it was agreed to perform a duet featuring favorite-songs of —past— presidents. Nixon started with “Home On The Range,” a favorite of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Agnew, however, sounded discouraging word when he drowned out the President's strains with a rousing round of Dixie. Nixon made two more attempts to play favorite songs, but each time was interrupted with the vice rartron of ~Dixte."* —— Nixon and Agnew concluded their performance by playing “God Bless America” and “Auld Lang Syne.”
To
NEW YORK (AP) moreland, the Americans are b lence and “I don’t hav
Violence —
Gen.
William
C.
West-
¢ to warn you this means an=
rehy.” ‘The general spoke at an annual communion breakfast for 4,000 New York City policemen, Westmoreland said the national soclety had become “unnaturally permissive" and that “things could get worse before they get better,
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the port area to interview the men. “They didn't seem to know "a messman aboard