page three t41P 41P r4T ttn 434b, ttiy NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 BUSINESS PHONE: 764-0554 Wednesday, February 24, 1971 Ann Arbor, Michigan Page Three I news briefs ByThe Associated Press Calley admits mass killing of Vietnamese at My St. Vincent de Paul was a Christ-like priest, a warm-h'earted man with unbounded love for his fellow man, especially the poor, the sick; the oppressed and the neglected. His life was spent ministering to their needs. He preached to them, taught them, fed them and even begged for them. Like Christ, he came not to be served but to serve. Today the Vincentians, the sons of St. Vincent, carry on his work. As a Vincentian, you can ease the misery of the poor and the suf- fering of the sick. They counsel the troubled and the oppressed. They teach the young and console the old and enlighten men of all ages. They try to meet the needs of the Church"wherever they exist. The Vincentians serve. For more information on serving Christ as a Vincentian, write to: Rev. Francis X. Quinn, C.M., Vocation Director THE VINCENTIANS Congregation of the Mission, Eastern Province 500 East Chelten Avenue, Room 220 Philadelphia, Pa. 19144 Vincentian Priests and Brothers live by St. Vincent's motto: He sent me to preach the good news especially to the poor. THE SUPREME COURT directed federal district courts yester- day to stop interfering with state prosecutions unless the defendants are threatened with "irreparable injury." It carries out a primary principle of Chief Justice Warren Berger,' and undoubtedly will make it more difficult for individuals who claim their civil rights are in danger to seek refuge in federal courts. * * * AN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF JEWS on the plight of Soviet Jewry opened yesterday in Brussels with a plea to the Soviet Union to let Jews leave the country if they want to. The plea was issued by Arthur Goldberg, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The conference is due to last three days, and will be addressed bya prominent Jews from all countries, including former Israeli Premier' David Ben-Gurion. AMERICAN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS will now have to un- dergo one less day of major testing, the National Merit Scholarship Corporation and the College Entrance Examination Board an- nounced Monday. They will merge the Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Test and the Na.tional Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test into one two-hour exam. The move was welcomed by the National Association of Secondary! School Principals in Washington as a "major step toward simplification and improvement of the nation's high school testing structure. REP. F. EDWARD HEBERT, (D.-La.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee proposed yesterday that conscientious- objector status be given young men willing to demonstrate their sincerity with three years of nonmilitary service. Hebert disclosed his suggestion in a prepared statement opening House hearings on the draft. Scheduled to appear before the Committee are Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, Roger Kelley, assistant secre- tary of manpower, and Selective Service Director Curtis Tarr. * * * GOV. WARREN HEARNES (D-Mo.), chairman of the National Governor's Conference, gave a boost yesterday to the developing { Democratic congressional movement for a federal takeover of soar- ing welfare costs as an alternative to Nixon's revenue-sharing plan. Hearnes' suggestion that the government assume welfare costs° drew mixed responses from his colleagues. Nixon made a half hour visit to the conference to urge the governors to support his revenue-: sharing and government-reorganization programs. FEDERAL RELIEF OFFICIALS poured into the Mississippi Delta yesterday where dozens of tornadoes left 82 dead, hundreds injured, and 2,350 homeless. A "major disaster" declaration by Nixon cleared the way for mas- sive federal assistance to the area, including grants for repairs to public1 facilities, shipments of mobile homes to house the homeless, and low- cost business and home loans. * * * SENATE REFORMERS held little hope yesterday for their sec-' and try to end the two and a half week filibuster by defenders ofr the right to filibuster. Senate Majority leader Mike Mansfield said one and possibly two more efforts will be made to gain the two-thirds vote necessary to stop the talkathon and force action on a change in rules. * * * BRITAIN'S CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT presented a bill " toParliament yesterday designed to control immigration from Con-' monwealth countries. The bill included police registration of most arrivals. The bill requires character and English language tests as citizen- ; ship requirements, and for newcomers to serve only in "approved" em- ployment during the five-year term required to become British citizens.! Tornado debris An Inverness, Mississippi resident probes through the debris of the town Monday after it was almost leveled by tornadoes on Sunday. The death toll in Mississippi and Louisiana following the rash of twisters was at least 82. FEDERAL PROJECTS: Nixon ift*s regu Ia tion Lai FT. BENNING, Ga. A - Lt. William L. Calley Jr. admitted yesterday that he directed a mass execution of Vietnamese civilians at an irrigation ditch in My Lai. Calley claimed that the order to kill at My Lai came from his com- pany commander, Capt. Ernest L. Medina. Calley said the order came five times - once at a company brief- ing the night before the My Lai assault, once at a platoon leaders' briefing, the following morning before the helicopters lifted off, and twice over the radio while the troops were in the village. Calley is charged with killing 102 Vietnamese civilians in t he hamlet of My Lai 4 - one of sev- eral numbered My Lai hamlets - as his company assaulted the sus- pected Viet Cong stronghold on March 16, 1968. On the witness stand he told of about four people that he killed. He a 15so admitted firing into a ditch that was already filled with dead. But he did not say - and was not asked - whether he kill- ed anyone there. There had been testimony that Calleyrstood at that ditch, atthe eastern edge of My Lai, for as long as one and one-half hours. Today, Calley said: "It was a very rapid period of time to me . . . it seemed only a matter of a half minute or a min- ute or both." When asked what he saw in the ditch Calley answered "dead peo- ple." He said that he had ordered the people into the ditch indirect- ly, and that his orders were car ried out by Sgt. Paul Meadlo. Meadlo testified earlier in the trialythat he stood at Calley's side and by his order shot into a group of 45 Vietnamese men, women and children. Calley, Meadlo said, had ordered him to "waste them." Calley said he left Meadlo, who was guarding an unspecified num- ber of people, to go elsewhere to order Sgt. David Mitchell to set up a machinegun. "I came out and Mitchell was still standing there with the group of Vietnamese. I yelled at Meadlo that if he couldn't move all those people to get rid of them." Just minutes before, Calley said, he had received a radio call from Medina asking him why "I was disobeying his orders." "At that time, he told me to waste the Vietnamese," Calley said. After giving Meadlo the or- der, Calley said he heard firing. Calley said he saw a third ele- ment coming through the village. When asked if he fired at those people he replied, "No, I did not." Then Calley said he went to Sgt. Mitchell and told him to get mov- ing, to get his men on the other side of the ditch. The Michigan Daily, edited and man- aged by students at the University of Michigan. News phone: 764-0552. Second Class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich- igan, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. Published daily Tues- day through Sunday morning Univer- sity year. Subscription rates: $10 by carrier, $10 by mail. Summer Session published Tuesday through Saturday morning. Subscrip- tion rates: $5 by carrier, $5 by mail. on constructon WASHINGTON (AP) - President matched t h e highest wages on lu Nixon yesterday suspended pro- private projects and this meant ha visions of a federal law requiring that many of the most inflation- the government to pay prevailing ary local wage settlements in the Ho wages on federal construction pro- construction industry automat- su jects. Nixon took the emergency ically were sanctioned and spread lio measure, aimed at pulling down through government contracts. co wage and price levels in the build- The suspension of t h e Davis- l ing industry rather than resorting Bacon Act can once again be real- an to .wage-price controls which he ized when construction contract- an has always opposed. ors and labor unions work out so- lo The President said in a state- ,wages tions to t h e problems which ave created the emergency." Secretary of Labor J a m e s D. odgson told reporters that the spension affects about $25 bil- on in federal and federally aided nstruction projects. Hodson also said, "This is not n. anti-Davis-Bacon action. It's n action taken to continue as ng as the emergency exists." ment that suspension of the Da- vid-Bacon Act which goes back to 1931 "puts the construction in- dustry on the same footing with other industries that now sell pro-j ducts to the government." Under the act, he said, wage rates on federal projects have been set artificially by law instead of by forces operating in the market. Frequently, he said, these have Senate Dems call for Viet pullout in 2-yar year WASHINGTON (P) - Demo- Services Committee, a n d Sen. cratic senators v o t e d 31 to 8 Henry Jackson (D-Wash.), a yesterday to seek total w i t h- senior committee member, re- drawal of U.S. troops from portedly spent much of the two- Vietnam sometime during the hour caucus debate arguing for 1971-72 session of Congress. deletion of the last four words Sen. Mike Mansfield, t h e of the resolution that read: Democratic leader, said the cau- "To end the involvement in cus resolution w a s flexible, Indochina and to bring about specifying no date for withdraw- the withdrawal of all U.S. forc- al, but calling for President es and the release of all prison- Nixon to act "in a time certain." ers in a time certain." The Montanan said no im- "It's the Hatfield-McGovern plemenfing legislation will be amendment all over . again," considered in the immediate fu- Jackson said afterward. 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