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By The Associated Press
PRESIDENT NIXON yesterday sent Congress a consumer
message proposing federal authority regulating the safety of a
wide range of products.
A bill giving the Department of Health, Education and Welfare
the power to ban virtually any consumer product which presents an
"imminent hazard" to health or safety is the major innovation in the
program the President proposed.
However, Democratic congressmen who must deal with the pro-:
posed legislation said the President's proposals don't go far enough.
They plan instead to push their own stronger consumer measures.
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SEN. GEORGE McGOVERN (D-S.D.) proposed yesterday
that the federal government help pay for the coming presidential
campaigns.
McGovern, the only announced candidate for the presidency in
1972, introduced a bill that would create a system of expenditure
ceilings and subsidies for presidential and congressional campaigns.
A FEDERAL GRAND JURY yesterday indicted four. Ohio
banks, charging they made illegal loans to political candidates,
committees, or parties during the past three years.
Indictments were returned by a federal grand jury at Colum-
bus, Ohio, and were announced by the Justice Dept.
They were the first such indictments in the 45-year history of
the law prohibiting national banks from contributing on any level to
political office elections.
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Thursday, Feb. 25
"The last show before spring break"
THE EAGLE
dir. CLARENCE BROWN (1925)
From the director of Intruder in the Dust and
National Velvet.
The vengeful Valentino stops himself from kill-
ing the women he loves. Exciting sideline plot as
the Czarina thirsts after Rudolph Valentino.
RABBI MEIR KAHNE, leader of the militant Jewish Defense
League, attempted yesterday to enter a conference in Brussels on
the plight of Soviet Jews, and was later ordered expelled from
the country.
The reason for his expulsion was that he was troubling public
order, a Justice Ministry source said.
Rabbi Kahane, whose organization has been harrassing Soviet
Diplomats in the United States, had just made an unsuccessful at-
tempt to join an international congress of Jewish communities on
the fate of Jews in the Soviet Union.
THE NATION'S GOVERNORS made an unsuccessful trip to
Capital Hill yesterday, trying to demand more federal money for
-Associated Press
ATTY. GEN. JOHN MITCHELL, with the aid of several charts, yesterday discusses "Operation
Flanker," code name for a series of drug raids that were conducted Tuesday across the country.
MY LAI TRIAL:
Defense rests in Call eycase
prosecution to begin rebuttal
Mitchell
announce
drug raids
WASHINGTON iA'-Atty. Gen
John N. Mitchell yesterday an-
nounced the arrest of 54 persons
and seizures of nearly $13 million
in narcotics in what he termed
"the largest federal crackdown
ever on narcotics distribution by
organized crime."
The raids were carried out af-
ter 10 p.m. Tuesday in New York,
Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia.
Hartford, Conn., Baltimore a n d
New Orleans.
Mitchell said the arrests cli-
maxed a five-month investigation
by the Bureau of Narcotics a n d
Dangerous Drugs in which a total
of 71 pounds of heroin, 49 pounds
of cocaine a n d 256 pounds of
marijuana, with a street value of
$12.8 million, were' seized.
Mitchell said the raids and pre-
vious arrests netted some of the
"high echelon figures" in the na-
tion's organized crime syndicate.
Although he did not use the term,
Mitchell acknowledged t h a t he
was referring to La Cosa Nostra
or the Mafia.
Working throughout the night
and into the morning federal
agents arrested 54 persons, with
32 still sought, Mitchell said.
Eighty-nine persons had been
arrested prior to 1 p.m. Tuesday
making the total number arrested
or sought 175.
Mitchell said 12 court authoriz-
ed wiretaps were used in the in-
vestigation which had been code
named "Operation Flanker."
Only two of the 54 persons ar-
rested since Tuesday night offered
resistance, he said, but there was
no injury.
Mitchell estimated syndicate
members arrested or sought in
connection with Operation Flank-
er controlled distribution of ap-
proximately 50 per cent of the
hard narcotics in New York and
70 per cent in Chicago. He had
no estimates for the other cities.
He said Operation Flanker was
"an unqualified success," and add-
ed, "Its significance is even great-
er when we recognize that it has
been a major strike against or-
ganized crime in this area."
John E. Ingersol, director of the
Bureau of Narcotics and Danger-
ous Drugs said the arrests par-
tially immobilized parts of four
of the nine major world wide nar-
cotics distribution systems t h a t
have been identified by the BNDD.
In addition to the hard narcot-
ics and marijuana, federal agents
also seized $431,341 in cash, 78
guns and 35 automobiles.
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Ft. Benning, Ga. (P) -- The de-
fense in the murder trial of Lt.
William Calley Jr. rested its case
yesterday after Calley testified
that during the mass execution of
My Lai villagers "the main thing
the states. was to go on, finish these people!
Their plea, supporting President Nixon's plan to send them $5 off as fast as possible and get my
billion in federal money, was received coldly by Rep. Wilbur Mills men out into position."
(D-Ark.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. He The court-martial jury will be-
gin hearing prosecution rebuttal
told them that granting the request would lead to more demands on witnesses today. These witnesses
a federal treasury which is nearly $20 billion in the red. I.are expected to include govern-
PALESTINIAN MOVEMENT
Guerillas to merge groups
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By The Associated Press
In an effort to save the Pales-
tinianguerrilla movement from
collapse, commando leader Yas-
ir Arafat and Brig. Abdelraz-
zak Yahya, commander of the
Palestine Liberation Army, have
agreednto merge ther11 main
guerrilla groups.
Meeting last weekend in Da-
mascus, Syria, with the Central
Committee of t h e guerrilla
movement, the two chiefs also
agreed to curb leftist commando
groups urging the overthrow of
Jordan's King Hussein.
T h e Palestinian guerrilla
movement currently is grouped
together under the Palestine
Liberation Organization - the
PLO - under the over-all lead-
ership of Arafat. But the or-
ganization is loose and e a c h
guerrilla organization has been
acting as it pleases.
Sources said Arafat and Yah-
ya reached agreement to try to
avert an open rebellion against
the guerrillas by the 7,000-man
Palestine Liberation Army (PLA)
stationed in Syria.
PLA officers have been con-
cerned over the inability of the
guerrillas to challenge the grow-
ing momentum for a peaceful
settlement between the Arab
states and Israel, the sources
said.
The officers were reported to
have authorized Yahya to make
public demands for drastic re-
forms in the resistance move-
ment. It marked the first chal-
lenge to Arafat's leadership
since he became top man in the
guerrilla movement.
Yahya's demands also include
an inquiry into the "disastrous
errors" that led to the Septem-
ber civil war in Jordan and sig-
nificantly hampered guerrilla
activity.
The sources said Arafat agreed
to m o s t of Yahya's demands.
The two leaders decided to "rid
the guerrilla movement of slo-
gans advocating the overthrow
of regimes in the Arab states
and devote it entirely to the
liberation war against Israel."
This could lead to a collision
with the Popular Front for the
Liberation of Palestine. phis
group insists that Hussein's ov-
erthrow is essential to the wel-
fare of the guerrilla movement.
Popular Front leader Dr.
George Habash did not attend
the Damascus conference, al-
though he is a member of the
27-man Central Committee.
'V
ment psychiatrists who will pro- ed Calley about his feelings
nounce Calley "perfectly normal." Medina.
Calley is charged with the pre- The defendant replied:
meditated murder of 102 My Lai "I felt Capt. Medina was a
villagers while leading a platoon fine officer and I respectedY
of Capt. Ernest Medina's Char lie very much. He ran a good c
Company on an assault mission pany and I am very proud to h
near the South China Sea. served under his command.
The maximum penalty is death. was a tough but fair discipli
ian . . . he chewed me out ac
Calley admitted Tuesday that he ple of times."
directed a mass execution of Viet-
namese civilians at an irrigation
ditch in My Lai on March 16, 1968. fed e l un
Calley said he joined his GIs in
firing into the ditch with his M16
automatic rifle after being drawn
to the scene by the s o und of m a suor
shooting. y
He was asked why he encourag- "
ed their execution and he replied:w
"Because that was what I was
instructed to do, and I had been
delayed long enough. I was trying' WASHINGTON () - The I
to get out of there. Before I got on administration, veering a
criticized again, sir." from its earlier stand,, now is
Calley told of a helicopter iand- cussing the idea of helping st
ing at the ditch at one point. He and cities provide public er
said he talked with the pilot, who jobs for able-bodied welfare re(
told him, There were a lot of iesr
wounded people around the area yesterday.
and he wondered if I could get any The administration spokes
medical assistance into them." were said to be considering
Calley said he related the pilot's possibility of federal funding
request and added of the captain: 200,000 jobs in public servic
"He said something to the ef- the local level.
fect that he knew and don't wor- The federal government w
ry about it, and get up t h e r e provide full funding for thef
where I was supposed to be." year, 75 per cent for the sec
A major facet of Calley's de- and 50 per cent thereafter.
fense has been his respect for Me- Nixon last year vetoed a gene
dina and his utter obedience to manpower bill that containedt
the company commander's orders. visions for public serviceI
On redirect examination, chief de- starting with 4,000 a yeara
fense counsel George Latimer ask- ranging up to 300,000.
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