Thursday An oppeaser. . Cooler. is one who feeds . a MICHIGAN . . TATE NEWS . . with snow flurries crocodile - hoping it will eat STATI continuing through tonight. "him la**- High today 32; low tonight 25. - Winston Churchill UNIVERSITY 62 Number 156 Thursday, April 2,1970 constitutional issue U-M Reg and presi Nixon chastises Senate lock mind for disputing Carswell By DAVE SHORT State News Staff Writer and will vote to send the nomination of the University of Michigan President Robben "For this reason," Nixon said, "the WASHINGTON (AP) — President Nixon Fleming and the U-M Board of Regents Tallahassee, Fla., judge back to the Senate current debate transcends the wisdom of locked minds in another marathon d Wednesday that racism and other Judiciary Committee. this or any other appointment. If the meeting Wednesday concerning the Black Action arges against Judge G. Harrold Carswell The issue of returning the nomination to charges against Judge Carswell were Movement's (BAM) 12 day strike there , baseless and declared his Supreme committee is to be voted on Monday and it supportable, the issue would be wholly over black admissions. Hurt nominee has "my total support." will be a key test in the swirling battle. If different." viixon's strong statement urging Senate the recommittal motion fails, a vote on Fleming and the regents went into closed "The question arises whether I, as session at 10:15 a.m. and carried nfirmation of the nomination was made confirmation is to be taken Wednesday. President of the United States, shall be on discussions throughout the day in a letter to Sen. William B. Saxbe, Nixon, whose nomination of Haynsworth accorded the same right of choice in an undisclosed building on the U-M's Ohio, who announced that he will less was rejected by the Senate 55 to 45 last naming Supreme Court justices which has De Ho wholeheartedly accept the President's November, said in his letter to Saxbe that been freely accorded to my predecessors of announcement came out of the he welcomed the opportunity to reaffirm both parties," Nixon said. meeting nor was "i will vote to confirm barring some his confidence in Carswell. one expected until early this Saxbe had written to the President the jrtling developments," said Saxbe, who morning. "What is centrally at issue in this first of the week saying that "in my The regents had met with Fleming in a ted against Nixon's first choice for the nomination," he said, "is the constitutional opinion Judge Carswell made an excellent six hour secret meeting on urt post, Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Tuesday in Ann responsibility of the President to appoint appearance before the Senate Judiciary Arbor. of Greenville, S.C. members of the court — and whether this Committee, but I am disturbed by recent But Virginia's Democratic Sen. William Meanwhile, classes returned to normal responsibility can be frustrated by those charges against him." for the second day in a row on the U-M Spong Jr., said he has serious who wish to substitute their own Saxbe also wrote that Nixon's public campus. Although the moratorium on servations about Carswell's qualifications philosophy or their own subjective support of Carswell "appears on the picketing remained in effect, the strike was judgment for that of the one person surface to be less than wholehearted" and still being continued. entrusted by the Constitution with the said he would like to know if this were the The BAM held a noon rally in the power of appointment." last breaks While he said he respects the right Of any senator to differ with his selection, Nixon In his reply, Nixon said he first wanted "to dispel any thought that I am less Rackham Lecture Hall but refused to release any announcements about the strike until after results of the regents' said "the fact remains, under the committed to Judge Carswell than to any Constitution it is the duty of the President latest meeting were known. prior nominee." hree doors to appoint and of the Senate to advise and consent. "But if the Senate attempts to substitute "Judge Carswell has had longer and more complete judicial service than any Supreme The purpose of the regents' meeting still remains undisclosed but sources close to the scene speculated that the strike, the Court nominee in decades other than Chief its judgment as to who should be Justice Burger," the President said, adding Soaring Smokes BAM's list of demands, Fleming's handling n Ad. Bldg. appointed," he added, "the traditional constitutional balance is in jeopardy and the duty of the President under the Carswell had served five years as a U.S. attorney and 11 years as a U.S. district judge before his appointment last June to Union weeds cost seven cent hike in the state tax on cents more now thanks to the cigarettes. A good time to quit, maybe. recent four - of the situation, and the President's suggested solutions for it discussed. were all being Three windows in the main doors of the Constitution impaired. the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. AP Wirephoto Iministration Bldg. were broken "by Fleming's apology to BAM leaders for a me sort of explosive device" Wednesday premature release on the details of secret orning, University police Captain John negotiations and a promise of no reprisals itautsaid. for strike leaders were apparently also at ASMSU gives Bartels aid Zutaut said two signs were painted on An unidentified member of the eight e building. One said "Smash the racist - man Board of Regents said Tuesday that if liversity"; the other, "Revolution." He said the police Were called to the Fleming is unable to persuade them to back his position on the strike, he may be lilding at 12:30 a.m. Wednesday. Police In other action, the board passed a new not determined the origin of the blast, By JOHN BORGER which forced to step down from the presidency. property, all stemming from the Feb. 19 was requested by Doug Laycock, alcohol policy along to the board of is was the third incident resulting in State News Staff Writer disturbances on Grand River Ave. president of Men's Halls Assn. (MHA). Most of the BAM's original demands have "Student opinion is going to be divided trustees, discussed a new tax proposal, and mage to a campus building within the Although Bartels will be tried on all five been met but negotiations still continue months. Ralph Bartels, MSU student facing on this, and people are opened petitioning for undergraduate charges at the same time, the $1,000 loan going to want to between the University and the strike On March 12 a Molotov cocktail was charges stemming from the Feb. 19 know how their representatives vote," he positions on three new committees. is only intended to cover expenses for the The new alcohol policy would allow leaders. The only major point disturbances on Grand River Ave., received said. apparently through a ground floor window in inciting to riot charge. Bartels estimated his not resolved is a proposal that black ds Hall. The $1,000 for legal expenses Tuesday from All of the voting members present liquor in any residence hall desiring it. Use a resulting fire caused $1,700 total trial expenses at $3,500. of alcoholic beverages would be limited to student center be built in a black the ASMSU Student Board. approved the loan. damages to a room used as a pigeon The loan was approved on a roll call vote. neighborhood in Ann Arbor. aching lab for Psychology 311 and 312, The money was granted on a long - term, Another loan request of $200 for David (please turn to back page) limal Learning. "good will" basis. The board's resolution McCrae, Bayamon, Puerto Rico states that the sum is "payable when of the incident not sophomore, was referred to the Legal Aid MEMPHIS SCHOOL AREA :ause was Bartels is financially capable of repaying, Dept. McCrae is being prosecuted for termined. although there was some eculation among University personnel according to his own judgment." wearing the American flag as a belt. ; the attack, if it was directed at the The loan is the board's first use of the imm The board also approved changes in the ner School of Police Administration new legal aid policy which it approved Academic Freedom Report. The changes, CUA head will testify ited in Olds Hall, was in connection March 10. The policy, an indirect result of which now go to the Academic Council for an earlier motion to give legal funds to further action, are primarily aimed at i a student - sponsored conference on Bartels. states "monies of the Legal Aid making the document consistent with the enforcement held on campus March 12 13. Fund may be donated or loaned to any recommendations of the McKee MSU student involved in a precedent Committee on student participation in the desegregation act )lds Hall was again attacked last Tuesday a fire caused $500 classroom. Arsonists damage in a third setting case." Bartels is the first to be prosecuted under academic community. Most of the changes involve the on are suspected of ting the fire, according to University Michigan's anti • riot laws. He faces charges University Student Affairs Committee students. The telegram states that the of inciting to riot, assault and battery, and By BARBARA PARNESS lice, who continued investigations this (SAC). The approved proposals would school system is almost 100 per cent three charges of malicious destruction of State News Staff Writer ek. change the name of the organization to segregated with 93 University Faculty - Student Affairs per cent of all black Committee, and limit its jurisdiction to Robert L. Green, director of the Center students attending "policies of the Office of the Vice for Urban Affairs (CUA), will testify all - black schools or abor strikes President for Student Affairs as they affect academic achievement in the university." * The committee currently also has Monday in a major southern desegregation case involving the 10th largest school district in the United States. schools with more than 90 per cent black enrollment. jurisdiction over living unit policies. Such The original case matters Green was asked by the NAACP legal are more effectively and against the Memphis defense and education fund to testify as an appropriately handled by a group ationol Board of Education expert witness of educational psychology By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS transpo organized in terms of living units, Joseph Szczesny, SAC member, said. in the case of Northcross, et. al., vs. the City of Memphis Board of Education. The trial began Wednesday in the U.S. District GREEN began 1960 plaintiffs, in when March, the wages under a three - year contract. Court in Memphis. Northcross, et. filed a suit in the U.S. fash of strikes hit the vital trucking Negotiations continued. District Court "enjoin the Memphis ustry ored a Wednesday. Air traffic controllers The industry offered 90 cents an hour in Drops and adds The testimony, to be prepared by Green School Board i operating a bi-racial leadership plea to end an eight ■ wages in a $1.15 an hour package. The and CUA research associate Larry Lezotte, school stem, or in the alternative to s'ck call maneuver which has slowed Teamsters demanded $1.70 an hour in Changes in enrollment (drops and will deal with the harmful effects of submit plan for reorganization of the tempo of jet age travel. wages alone, plus benefits. Most truck adds) begin today. Tuesday will be the segregated education. schools a non - racial basis." 12 per cent wage increase reportedly drivers were averaging $4 an hour. last day for late registration, adding According to the NAACP telegram offered to postal In the eight - day dispute involving the employes, described courses and changing: requesting Green's assistance, the Memphis The District Court denied the injunction, increasingly restless and considering Professional Air Traffic Controllers Bartels school system enrolls over 70,000 black but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the sixth i le renewal of last month's mail tieup. Organization and the Federal Aviation circuit reversed the judgment and ordered w° months' Administration, most absentee controllers " tug boat strike ended in the desegregation of Memphis schools. The York harbor, but a walkout of stayed off the job; despite a call by union Court of Appeals decision aiso ordered the Scopes back teaching; mcipal employes began in Paducah, Ky. leaders to end their sick - call strike. to matter returned to District Court h.e Afl'-CIO e farm workers union The FA A reported only a slight back to jurisdiction. a contract agreement with three work movement and said large numbers in On July 29, 1966 the District Court California's Coachella Vallev still were out, especially in New York, cultivate 7,800 acres of table entered an order permitting the Board of grapes, Chicago and Kansas City. PATCO claims Education to affect a desegregation growers represent pleads academic freedom about 1, 7th of the 7,500 controllers, and said as many as plan uction there. providing for "assignment of students 4,000 at a time have called in sick. The based upon initial fforts continued FAA said the figure never has exceeded geographic zoning with to avert a strike against every student having a free right to transfer York City's four major 1,700. to newspapers, NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — John T. would be any school in the system outside his ousands of truck drivers walked off In Washington, the government's none of the Supreme Court's "It's like the kid that screams and kicks zone of Scopes.returned to classroom Wednesday business," he added. until he gets his lollipop. That is not a residence, subject only to job in a dozen or more r major cities reported offer of a 12 per cent wage for the first time since 1925 when he Scopes, who was found guilty in the limitation of physical facilities oi' the the Teamsters Union national increase for postal workers provided that was proper way of fighting for civil liberty," school to which the transfers tract expired at convicted of teaching evolution. He famed "Monkey Trial" in Dayton, Tenn., were sought." half of it be retroactive to Oct. 1, with the Scopes added. midnight. A union pleaded for total academic freedom. said people are surprised when they learn other half becoming effective July 1. Scopes, now a retired geologist living in According to the plaintiff's brief, wi iCleveland afire. We're said: "It's spreading He also said the use of prayer in schools he objects to the Supreme Court decision Shreveport, La., was unequivocal in his ^ "free transfer" provision has acted to the trying to get it stopped, is none of the Supreme Court's business. outlawing mandatory prayers and Bible '"ink it may be out of control by support of academic freedom. perpetuate segregation in the Memphis (i "It is the teacher's business to decide reading in classrooms. "What goes on in a classroom is up to the school system. Lightfoot Concert what to teach," Scopes, 70, told a biology student and the teacher," he said. "Once In hanneamSterS issued no off'cial strike Folksinger Gordon Lightfoot class of about 60 students at Peabody College for Teachers. George Scopes also questioned the use of civil disobedience, but said he never considered you introduce the power of the state, July, 1968 cancel all transfers to the plaintiffs sought to non - district schools tiniuLi rn.0st of ^eir 450,000 drivers - composer the business of the federal courts "It is not his test of Tennessee's anti - evolution law telling you what you can and cannotdo, and obtain a more satisfactory on aj t0. keeP trucks rolling. The will appear in concert at 8 p.m. Monday in nor of to be an example of that tactic. you've become involved in propaganda. ' desegregation plan. The board of education administration had pleaded with the Auditorium. Tickets are on sale at the the state." Scopes was a 25 - year - old substitute continue "Civil disobedience fails to recognize the has maintained that no racial to handle essential Union, Marshall Music, and Campbell's teacher when he agreed to submit to arrest and "If I were teaching school and the only meaning of individual liberty," he said. to test Tennessee's new discrimination exists any racial en the walkouts Suburban Shop. law that made it way I could communicate with the class "Individual liberty is valid only so long as imbalance is due to city "patterns of flared, the union and illegal to teach any theory that conflicts were 80 cents apart on hourly was through prayer, I would pray and it you don't disturb someone else. with the Biblical story of creation. housing." 1. Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Thursday, April 2, 1970 Sentiment against police officers in Ingham County Rollis police commissioner as well as a eliminate the "double standard." requirement that the statistical are behind us," Weigman said citizen, has an obligation to say "Either Mr. Rollis must reports be filled out as Wednesday. more than i stand on my cooperate in filing the report or regulations now require," Van Sentiments are Weigman criticized Rollis for Constitutional rights,' " the Police Board must review the Duzer said. nearly unanimous among Lansing area "creating a double standard" by Weigman said. policement to oust Lansing refusing to answer questions Weigman said his own Police Commissioner Robert T. regarding the accident. Truckers' strike appearance at the City Council Rollis reportedly claimed it his Rollis from the commission meeting Monday was a "gesture" board according to "constitutional right" to refuse to show the people of Lansing Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) President to identify the driver of his that the order does not condone Paul Weigman. vehicle at the time of the Mr. Rollis' actions". Rollis recently has from been under Lansing Mayor Gerald Graves and other city fire accident. Weigman said cannot be used in court the report against "routine" report "This is something handing to the public for them to deal with as they see fit," we're cripples 22 cities WASHINGTON lockout somewhat eased the officials for refusing to answer Rollis but is a Weigman said. (AP) - and statistical He said he hoped Lansing Spreading Teamsters Union pressure on President Nixon in questions for a statistical report to an auto accident last January citizens would bring pressure on strikes crippled or slowed dealing with this new major that involved Rollis' car. not interested in the City Council to "pass a new trucking in at least 22 cities transportation crisis along with Wednesday but the continuing slowdown of Weigman presented to the City persecuting Mr. Rollis for the motion" to remove Rollis, but industry negotiators federal airline traffic controllers, Council Monday a petition that political end of it," Weigman added that the FOP would be went back to contained signatures of more said, "but I believe there was a satisfied if Rollis decided to national wage talks pledging a potentially explosive law broken that night and his they would not retaliate with a nationwide railroad labor than 100 policemen calling for "cooperate and give the answers Rollis' removal. position as police commissioner for the report". nationwide lockout. dispute and uncertainty over should not make him immune to FOP Attorney William Van "The industry intends at this postal negotiations. "Judging from the calls we've The administration asked the the law." Duzer said moment to take no retaliatory gotten since that time I would Wednesday that say about 99 per cent of all "I believe Mr. Rollis, being a "legal actions" are now action," said Trucking union and the trucking industry Dear Mr. T underway as alternative Employers Inc., the management for arrangements to continue measures to remove Rollis. group that three years ago closed handling of defense materials Whether this car was illegally parked in the Case - Wilson lot or merely concealing lovers has yet The State News, the student newspaper at Michigan State down virtually the entire and perishable commodities. to be documented "disturbed" the vehicle. "I think they've got to do - no one University, is published every class day during four school something to remove the double nation's trucking industry in The plea, relayed by Secretary State News photo by terms, Roger Esckelson plus Welcome Week edition in September. standard Rollis has created," response to scattered strikes of Labor George P. Shultz, got Subscription rate is $14 per year. Van Duzer said. "You've got a before a settlement was finally no immediate reply. reached. Member Associated Press, United Press International, police commissioner disregarding Inland Daily Press Association, Associated Collegiate Press, rules he himself has helped and Chief industry negotiator Ray F. Beagle said the current strikes AAUP REQUEST Michigan Press Association, Michigan Collegiate Press are "massive compared with Association, United States Student Press Association. the walkouts during the 1967 Second class postage paid at East Lansing, Michigan. Editorial and business offices at 347 Student Services Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Van Duzer said if the report taken was a "general inquiry" for determining if a crime had negotiations. the However, it apeared most of 425,000 truck covered by the national wage drivers Profs seek The request came after the more benefits faculty receive similar retirement stipulation that the course Michigan. been committed, "it would talks are remaining on the job. relate board of trustees approved three benefits. to his work certainly be his right to refuse to Their contract or profession^ expired benefit improvements for "We have no objections to the development. Phones: answer questions." But, he The MSU chapter Tuesday midnight with a gap of of the Assn. administrative personnel staff at The MSU Editorial benefits granted to the faculty retirement 355-8252 added, since it was a "statistical at least 80 cents an hour over of American University its March meeting. Classified Advertising administrative personnel, we are program now includes 355-8255 report" which, cannot be used in three years between Teamsters' Professors (AAUP) announced Jack Steiber, president of the Display Advertising the first to applaud the AP in immediate participation 353-6400 court, Rollis was "obligated" to wage demands and industry Tuesday that they will petition Business-Circulation MSU AAUP said that he had winning these improvements for research associates, 355-3447 answer the questions. offers. Most drivers now average the administration to grant more assistant sent a letter to Provost John E. their members; however we professors, associate professors Photographic 355-8311 Van Duzer offered two $4 an hour. liberal retirement benefits to Cantlon requesting that the believe that the faculty should and full professors, while ■MS1L be treated no less generously other faculty members than ap employees." eligible only after a two y Because of this, Steiber said waiting period. that the AAUP is requesting that Formerly, administrative and these benefits be extended to all professional staff were included the faculty. with those that were required to "What we are saying, is that we wait two years till they want it too," the AAUP eligible to participate i president said. program. Benefits granted to the ap's "Now that the administration included: has approved this n — Immediate participation in retirement plan for the aps the TIAA-CREF Retirement want them to do at least Progarm much for the faculty," Steiber — A general salary increase for said. all aps starting July 1 if "This is only something that University funds are abailable. can be done through the — Reimbursement of tuition administration, we can't do to a professional staff member ourselves, and we must ma for a maximum of five credit them aware that the faculty hours per term, with the wants to same benefits." he said. North Viets deny claims of attacks TOKYO (AP) - North group's bloody suppression o( Vietnam rejected Wednesday Khmer Cambodian patriots." Cambodian claims that North The agency added Vietnamese and Viet Cong Cambodian government aims at forces have attacked Cambodian "white - washing the armed frontier provinces. intervention and aggression by Hanoi's official Vietnam News the United States and its lackeys Agency, in a dispatch monitored against Cambodia and the here, said the Cambodian claim Cambodian territory by "is only aimed at distorting the the United States to fight the Cambodian people's just struggle Vietnamese people." and covering up the coup "The unswerving policy of the D. R.V.N. North Vietnam Ever since government toward Cambodia to strictly respect It you were independence neutrality and territorial integrity of the a tiny girl, kingdom of Cambodia within her existing borders," the agency you've dreamed reported. of aJune wedding. The Summer issue of MODERN BRIDE makes your dream Why should a traditional come club tie have the new full fashion shape? 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Now that you're starting to get psyched up, esilio KNAPP'S MEN'S STORE LANSING liiiw LANSING & EAST ■ ■'£ &u-i, Michigan State News, East Lansing, Michigan Thumlay, ApnJ 2, 1970 3 NEWS Hijackers SEOUL, Korea (AP) The of the passengers at issue in the while wielding samurai th officia summary what the North Koreans would -- swords in attempt to fly across the 38th slow motion Waving their - hijacking of a proposals and counterproposals. midflight over Japan. do with the hijackers, who samurais, the Japanese jetliner ticked past its Two Americans are on the plane. parallel Tuesday. Japanese radicals commandeered South Korean authorities 40th hour reportedly want to establish a Without elaborating, the airliner Thursday with 115 After the North Korean countered with an offer to allow headquarters in Pyongyang for Kanayama said he thought a Tuesday. It refueled A capsule summary of the day's events from our wire services. weary persons cooped up in the the Japan Air Lines in Fukuoka. government said it would allow plane to promoting world revolution. plane's stuffy cabin. the plane to land at split might be developing among The radicals Pyongyang, depart at 11 a.m. Thursday (10 The North Korean statement the identified About 15 radical Japanese highjackers -- indicated by themselves as members of the a spokesman for the students p.m., EST Wednesday) -- if the denied reports that the jet was the fact that student hijackers haggled with demanded that it fly there at 6 they constantly ultramilitant Red Army faction passengers were freed between 7 fired on by anti - aircraft fire government officials over the appeared to be changing their of a.m. Thursday (4 p.m., EST and 8 a.m. when it made an unannounced minds. Japan's leftist student terms of the Boeing 727's flying Wednesday) -- 46 hours and 20 By radiotelephone the plane's movement, Zengakuren. to North Korea with the fate -- minutes after they seized it pilot, Shinji Ishida, said at one "The question arises (in the point that the passengers had Carswell nomination) whether I Medina neither eaten nor slept well and shall be accorded the same right choice in naming Supreme Court of Nixon ap were said physically exhausted. He the atmosphere inside the cabin did not assure the recharged justices which has been freely safety of the passengers. accorded to my predecessors. " undersecretary The pilot asked for food, President Nixon in My Lai incident - cigarettes, water and blankets for the passengers. Airport officials provided sandwiches, WASHINGTON (AP) - Fred secretary of the interior to "sushi" (raw fish) -- and other International News J. Russell, a multimillionaire who contributed liberally to succeed Russell E. Train, supplies through the plane's ATLANTA, Ga. (AP) -- The including two generals, have investigation under Article 32 of appointed in January to head cockpit window. Army filed new charges against been charged with dereliction of the France called Wednesday for an international President Nixon's 1963 military justice code with a the President's Council on Kanayama, who had been in Capt. Ernest L. Medina duty by the Army alleging they view toward possible trial. conference to restore peace in its former colony of campaign, has been named to Environmental Quality. touch with the students via the Wednesday, accusing him of suppressed information on the "The date of such the Interior Department's My Lai incident. Indochina. Russell moves up from deputy same radiotelephone, said they responsibility for the death of all determination cannot be second highest post. director of the Office of civilians allegedly massacred by Calley, 26, charged Sept. 5, The government, in a communique, said France is were afraid the plane would be anticipated at this time," the Although it praised him highly Emergency Planning, a post he shot down by South Korean anti his company at My Lai in 1968. 1969, was the first to be formal announcement said. willing to "offer its active contribution to this when he was appointed to a named to shortly accused. He faces trial before a was after - aircraft if they left without the Medina, 33, of Pico Rivera, Medina commanded Company interprise." , lesser government job a year ago, Nixon's election in 1968. passengers. Calif., was commander of court - martial at Ft. Benning, C., 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry. The French action seemed aimed at reconvening the the White House declined to go White House Deputy Press In a statement the North Company C during the raid on Ga., May 18. 11th Brigade of the American into detail Tuesday when asked Secretary Gerald Warren refused Korean news agency promised •he Vietnamese village. One of An Army spokesman said Division. participants of the Geneva conference of 1954 and 19'62 Russell's qualifications for the Company C joined two which settled France's colonial claims and set the to answer specific questions on that the government would lis platoon leaders was Lt. specifically that the latest charge other infantry companies to new post. Russell's qualifications but said provide "immediate" William L. Calley Jr., who is against Medina would, if proved, form Task Force Barker, which neutrality of the area. President Nixon named the 53 the Senate committee that repatriation to the jharged with murder or assault make the captain responsible for passengers raided the village of My Lai. year - old Beverly Hills, Calif., considers in the incident. the 102 the nomination will persons Calley is ■ and crew members. At a news conference in Also in France four gunmen led by an escapee from a real estate operator as under - bring them out. The statement did not indicate A spokesman said that i.nder accused of killing. Washington Medina declared: vrticle 118 of the Uniform Code The charge must be reviewed mental hospital barricaded themselves in a plush Riveria "I did not see any slaughter at •jf Military Justice, Medina was by the next higher command, hotel with two hostages Wednesday and stubbornly My Lai that day. None was refused police appeals to surrender. The kidnappers made several proposals for their Orders from union prexy, charged with murder as a and then it will be determined reported to me. I did not order principal and did not have to be whether there will be an any massacre." present during the slayings to be escape and the release of the tourist hostages, but their held responsible. offers were rejected by a police official saying, "You're Medina has denied knowledge GRANDMA'S making fun of everyone." locals determine strike of any mass killings in the hamlet which was raided by troops of the Americal Division In the Vietnamese war an American General was shot By LINDA KNIBBS then voted to go back to work March 16, 1968. might also vote to strike, Sebolt and killed Wednesday in a new outbreak of fighting State News Staff Writer four days later. said. The announcement of the after Viet Cong and North Vietnamese forces shelled The latest charges gave no figures on possibility of another East The postal union is asking for "Frustration biggest the number of deaths Medina is more than 100 military bases and towns overnight in the Lansing postal strike depends a pay raise. The beginning salary problem no held responsible for, but the 1900 E. Kalamazoo heaviest attacks since last August. today on the orders from the i postal carrier is presently national union president and the "Congress has put off any pay company commander told CBS $6,100*^ Brig. Gen. William R. Bond became the first U.S. neral killed in ground fighting when he was struck by decisions of the local unions to remain on the job, East Lansing „ which $8,400 after 21 years, ., , raises too Sebolt said long." that President News in an interview that the figure is 175. FREE DELIVERY Sebolt said postal workers Nixon announced he will veto a The latest charge sniper's bullet 70 miles northeast of Saigon. Four Letter Carriers Union Local may was substituted for filed March other generals have been killed in air crashes. president said Wednesday. not be satlsf,ed Wlth th*('veJ° separate pay raise bill. Mr. Nixon one "At the present time we're ®1X per cent inurease that has wants the pay increase included 17, accusing Medina of waiting to see what happens been suggested. Such a figure is in a postal reform bill. concealing knowledge of a National News after the 2 p.m. deadline," Jack to° low compared with the felony. Eleven other officers, The strike effectively brought Sebolt, president of East Lansing In^ease in the cost °f l|vin8> he the postal workers' demands for The-Senate refused Wednesday to insist on keeping in Local 2555, said. said> Class change Last week national union "We're hoping for more pay to the public's $24.6 billion education bill a Southern - sponsored a 12 per attention, Sebolt said. The Schedule of Delivery Houfs jniendment. seeking to make school integratioil policies president James H. Radamacher cejj.ls increase, in-.pay with some . j .general .reaction of East Lansing ne iirboth North and South. asked all strikers to go b*»k' t