208 W. HURON STONEFRONT TONIGHT thru SATURDAY 9:30-1 :30 page three im4 Siiri!abttn a4hp1 NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 BUISINESS PHONF: 764.-0554 Thursday, February 25, 1971 Ann Arbor, Michigan Page Three news briefs 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. M EMU! E.M.U. PLAYERS SERIES S QUIRK AUDITORIUM WED.-SUN., FEB. 24-28. Reservations: 487-1221 (weekdays 12:45-4:30) $2.00 * A _ 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. wi 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. 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. 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 7 & 9:05 662-8871 75c ARCHITECTURE AUDITORIUM Coming Right After the Spring Break- The Ninth Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival a 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. very1 him om- have He nar- cou- Is Nix- way dis- tates rvice ecip- said man the for e at ould first fond neral pro- jobs, and 1 PRESCRIPTION EYEWARE and SHADES % dak 'A' M m I I I la~tlq &'tc1e4 THE PEOPLES PANT STORE NEW PANTS in All Sizes & Styles ANY PAIR 5.O Weach 601 E. 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