11 FREE CANTERBURY HOUSE JACK THE BEAR a play by JOHN SLADE Mon., Tues.-Nov. 17 & 18 Doors Open 8:00 P.M.. Viet official denies mass ii - TWIN TWIN FEATURES NOW SAIGON (R) - A South Vietnamese government official has declared he can find no firm evidence to support charges he said were made by vil- lagers that U.S. troops executed 460 civilians in a sweep of hamlets in March 1968. Two American soldiers are under arrest in the United States in con- nection with the case. One, an of- ficer, is accused of murdering an un- specified number of South Vietnamese civilians. The other, a staff sergeant, is charged with assault with intent to commit murder. In Washington, Pentagon sources said around 100 deaths may h a v e occurred when the U.S. troops moved page three 4-m DIAL 8-6416 through a cluster of hamlets in an area known to be a Viet Cong strong- hold. They added, however, that reports published in the United States that as many as 567 civilians were killed ap- pear to be exaggerated. The South Vietnamese official, Col. Ton That Khien, suggested in a tele- phone interview from his headquart- ers, where he serves as chief of Quang Ngai Province, that civilians m a y have been killed as unfortunate war victims in an operation in Song My village March 16, 1968. Asked if he believed the villagers' reports, Khien responded: "I think there is some truth but there is also an extension of it. Maybe they exaggerate because of Viet Cong propaganda, because it is a Viet Cong hamlet and the people have been trained by the Communists. The people are guided by the Viet Cong." "I operate with the American Divi- sion and never do they deliberately kill -the population. If they kill civil- ians, it's an accident." The U.S. Com- mand in Saigon refused to comment on the case. "We have no records," a spokesman said. "Everybody involved in the case is gone, and the investigation is being conducted under another command's jurisdiction. We have nothing to base a statement on." killings Khien said there was a long delay in the investigation of the villagers' claims because U.S. and South Viet- namese officials could not get into Song My until the Viet Cong left. But he said he went there about a year ago and was told that 370 civil- ians were slain in Tu Cong and an- other 90 in My Hoi. The colonel said he could not confirm these figures be- cause he had not spoken to any wit- nesses of the U.S. sweep into the village. ' U.S. military communiques for March 16-17, 1968, reported that troops of the American Division's 11th Infan- try Brigade killed 128 enemy in fight- ing in an area six miles northeast of & ti BU by GIs Quang Ngai City. This is the distance and direction of Song My from that provincial capital. In the United State, Newsweek mag- azine and the New York Times carried villagers' accounts of what happened on March 16, 1968. Newsweek said as many as 50 American soldiers have been implicated by South Vietnamese witnesses in the alleged executions. It listed the number of civilians reported killed at 567. The New York Times, in a dispatch from Troung An, a vil- lage near Sony My, also reported a figure of 567 persons killed but quoted villagers as saying 60 Americans were involved. YEWS PHONE: 764-0552 SINESS PHONE: 764-0554 'tr r't tt COLORin DeLuxe NEW YORK TIMES Tuesday, November 18, 1969 Ann Arbor, Michigan Page Three 'Stolen Kisses' is a movie I'll cherish for a very long time. One of Truffaut's best-strong, sweet, explosively funny. Delphine Seyrig seduces Leaud in one of the most erotic, nonsex scenes I've ever seen in a movie." !'er'sthat , something sexier about a man with that Swinging Swash- the cMustache! And we've got the sexiest looking mustaches. Totally real! Several styles and colors. Instant transformation brings Mustache Power to your modest mate! 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THE SUPREME COURT rejected a challenge to revoke bail set for H. Rap Brown in Federal District Court in 1968. Judge Lansing L. Mitchell of New Orleans had forfeited $15,000 bail and set new bail at $50,000 because Brown participated in fund- raising speeches for Huey P. Newton in Oakland and Los Angeles. Under terms of the original bond, Brown's activities were restricted to traveling to court appearances and to legal consultations. In other action the Court let stand the conviction of four Univer- sity of Kentucky students who had blocked a university office in which the Defense Intelligence Agency was holding recruitment interviews. The Court voted 7-1 that the appeal should be dismissed "for want of jurisdiction." This means the justices felt the issue was not one which would be proper for the court to consider. Justice William 0. Douglas cast the minority vote. THE SUPREME COURT NOMINATION of Judge Clement F. Haynsworth Jr. is being officially supported by two more senators. Winston Prouty (R-Vt) and William B. Spong (D-Va) said charges of impropriety and unethical conduct against Haynsworth have not been substantiated. They also said Haynsworth possesses the qualifications to be a good Supreme Court justice. According to an Associated Press count, the Spong-Prouty an- nouncements bring to 39 the number of senators who have publicly declared they will vote for Haynsworth's confirmation. The count shows 40 publicly declared against the nomination and 21 uncom- mitted. Earlier yesterday, Republican whip Robert P. Griffin said a poll just completed shows 51 or 52 votes opposed to the nomination. THE INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION h a s ap- proved an increase of six per cent in general freight shipping rates proposed by the nation's railroads. The rate hike, which was opposed by ICC Chairman Virginia Mae Brown, is expected to add $600 million to annual railroad revenues. Mrs. Brown, citing this as the third rate increase since 1967, urged the commission to investigate "the possible inflationary effects" of the hike. Although the ICC passed the measure, it plans to conduct an in-! vestigation into the necessity of the rate increase. Should an inquiry prove the increase unnecessary, it would be refunded to the shippers! under the provisions of the proposal. OKINAWAN STUDENTS attacked riot police with fire bombs, stones, and bottled sulphuric acid last night after a rally demand- ing the return of Okinawa to Japanese rule. The rally began several hours after Japan's Prime Minister Eis- aku Sato left Japan to meet with President Nixon in Washington to discuss Okinawa's future and other topics. Rally sponsors, the Okinawa Reversion Council, said 40,000 peo- ple turned out, but police estimated the crowd at 15,000. Leftists in Okinawa contend Sato and Nixon will arrange to turn Okinawa into what they call "a permanent base for U.S. aggression." JOSEPH PATRICK KENNEDY suffered a heart attack and is reported near death. The father of the late President John F. Kennedy was given theI last rites of the Catholic Church on Saturday, according to one family source, and members of the Kennedy clan have gathered at the family headquarters in Hyannis Port, Mass. HELSINKI (M~ - The United States and Ahe Soviet Union yesterday started long-await- ed strategic arms limitations talks. President Nixon sent a message expressing hope the talks will be successful. He said the United States stands ready to enter into agreements limiting all types of strategic weapons and reversing the arms race between the t wo powers. Soviety Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir S. Semenov put no re- strictions on the subjects h i s Soviet delegation is willing to dis- cuss. "Curbing the strategic arms race, the limitation and subse- quent reduction of such arma- ments ... would meet the vital in- terests not only of the Soviet and American peoples but also of all other nations of the world," Se- menov said. Semenov and Gerard C. Smith, chief U.S. delegate, drank cham- pagne and chatted amicably af- ter delivering the opening state- ments of the two countries. With their delegations they then re- tired to a 30-minute closed ses- sion of procedural matters. Agresment was reacned to hold the first business talks today at the U.S. Embassy. In related action at the United Nations yesterday, the two pow- ers urged approval of the U.S.- Soviet draft treaty to keep the ocean floor free of nuclear wea- pons. U.S. Ambassador Charles W. Yost and Soviety Delegate Aleksei A. Roschin made the pleas in opening the annual disarmament debate in the General Assembly's main political committee. Yost said success at the Hel- sinki talks would exert a favor- able impact on negotiations for a comprehensive test ban and would improve the outlook for agree- ment to cut off production of weapons-grade fissionable mater- ials. Roschin spoke of curbing chem- ical and biological weapons. Two rival treaties are before the com- mittee - a British draft and ano- ther submitted by nine Commun- ist countries including the Soviet Union. Both the U.S.-Soviet draft treaty on keeping the ocean floor free of nuclear weapons and the British draft on chemical-biologi- cal weapons came to the United Nations from the disarmament ne- gotiations in Geneva. The Com- munist draft treaty on biological- chemical warfare was proposed here by the Communist countries. -Associated Press A LUNAR scientific information center will be set up by the Apollo 12 astronauts, following a plan close to the diagram above. The "Advanced Lunar Surface Experiments Package" is"expected to beam data to Earth for at least one year. Apollo 12 enters lunar orbit as fl1t continues flawlessly HOUSTON OP)-A crucial rocket firing came off as scheduled last night, sending Apollo 12 into a nearly-circular orbit around the moon. The firing, which alo slowed the rocket down, occurred at 10:47 p.m., fourteen minutes after the spacecraft passed behind the moon and out of radio contact with the earth. It wasn't until 20 minutes later that radio con- tact was again established and the new orbit was confirmed. The firing put the Yankee Clipper and its fel- low-traveler Intrepid into an orbit ranging 7 by 194 miles over the moon. Apollo 12 entered the moon's gravitational field yesterday as the spaceship began its fourth day of flight. At 8:38 a.m. astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., Richard F. Gordon Jr. and Alan L. 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