NOMINATED FOR ACADEMY AWARD SE BEST PICTURE BEST DIRECTOR BEST ACTRESS GP BEST ACTOR B"ST SUPPORTING ACTOR BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY BEST ORIGINAL MUSICAL SCORE k 4 i i I I I t E { y Laos By D. GARETH PORTER Dispatch News Service International PAKSE, Laos - The Central Intelli- gence Agency is taking advantage of its traditionally close relationship with right-wing prince Boun Oum, the mod- ern-day feudal lord of Southern Laos, to carry on clandestine operations in that part of the kingdom. The Champassak family which Boun Oum heads, and not the Souvanna Pho- uma government in Vientiane, wields power in the southern provinces, and the Prince himself is more then happy to accomodate the CIA's needs. In re- turn for the freedom to carry on their activities, the CIA is paying Boun Oum a regular compensation of unknown size. As part of the arrangement the CIA chartered airline, Air America, several CIA operations: A family affair years ago donated a small fleet of air- craft, including both Dakotas and heli- copteus to the Prince, according to au- thoritative sources here. The CIA has used the planes in southern Laos under the cover of the name "Boun Oum Air- lines." In return Boun Oum has received a substantial income for "leasing" the aircraft to Air America. The aircraft have been used primar- ily to fly from Pakse and other towns in southern Laos to secret CIA bases in the region, according to these sources. Late last year it was revealed that one of the CIA operations in southern Laos is the training of 1500 Cambodian sol- diers, in order to evade Congressional restrictions on l.S. operations in Cam- bodia. Boun Oum is indebted to both France and the U.S. for support in his past bids for national power in the foreign- ma- nipulated politics of Laos. The French named him vice-regent of the kingdom in 1947, making him the second-rank- ing figure behind the king. In 1948, he formed a government with French sup- port and went on to sign an agreement with France in 1949 preserving a pre- dominant French role in Laos. In 1960, the U.S. and through the CIA, supported the right-wing a r m y based in southern Laos which marched north and drove the neutralist govern- ment from Vientiane. Boun Oum was named prime minister of the new pro- U.S. government, which then received U.S. arms and advisers in its civil war against neutralist and Pathet Lao forces. After the Geneva settlement of 1962 which . followed the failure of Boun Oum's right-wing forces to defeat the neutralist Pathet-Lao allies, he had to settle for a vice-premiership and the title of "inspector-general of the king- dom." Nevertheless Boun Oum's close links with the CIA have remained in- tact, as has his tight c ontr o1 over Southern Laos. Military leadership in southern Laos, for example, is a Champassak family prerogative, which is shared only par- tially with the powerful Insisiengmay family to which Boun Oum is linked through his wife. Generals in both third and fourth military regions are related to the Champassaks by marriage, as is the deputy commander for the third region. The civil government in southern La- os is also essentially at family affair. Province governments are laced with officials related to Boun Oum either directly or through marriage. National Assembly deputies for South- ern Laos are hand-picked by Boun Oum and include both family members and wealthy businessmen w h o enjoy the family's patronage. The most spectacular symbol of Boun Oum's dynasty in southern Laos is the enormous palace now being constructed in Pakse, at a cost estimated by one of his assistants at 400 million kip ($800,- 000,000). The palace, a blend of Lao and French colonial architecture, was begun two years ago and is not expected to be completed for two more years. Q 1971 Dispatch News Service International APVUIIGTIMRS PRS~ilS Ali MacGraw" Ryan 0}Neal' A HOWARD 6 MINSKY-ARTHUR Hill FR Producton John Marley&Ray Milland ..-.-- 603 E. Liberty DIAL 5-6290 Doors Open 12:45 Shows at 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 Free List Suspended . presents THE ANN ARBOR April 29, 30; May 1, 2, 5 concerts THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA AT ALL CONCERTS PROGRAMS Thursday, April 29, 8:30 p.m. EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor LEONTYNE PRICE, Soprano Two Portraits, Op. 5 ...... .. . .. . Bartok "Come Scoglio" from Cosi fan tutte ................Mozart "Ritorna vincitor" from Aida . .... ...... Verdi LEONTYNE PRICE Symphony No. 8 in B minor ("Unfinished") ........Schubert Four Last Songs .. Richard Strauss "Pace, pace, mio Dio" from La Forza del Destino ........Verdi MISS PRICE "Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks" ..........Richard Strauss Friday, April 30, 8:30 p.m. THOR JOHNSON, Conductor UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION MARALIN NISKA, Soprano DONALD BELL, Bass Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini .... . Rachmaninoff BARBARA NISSMAN "Sea Symphony" ................ .. . Vaughn Williams UNIVERSITY CHORAL.UNION, MARALIN NISKA, and DONALD BELL Saturday, May 1, 8:30 p.m. EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor Sinfonettia...................Janacek "Le Mer"rois esquisses symphoniques............Debussy Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major, Op. 100... Prokofieff Sunday, May 2, 2:30 p.m. THOR JOHNSON, Conductor UNIVERSITY CHORAL UNION CHRISTOPHER PARKENING, Guitarist MARALIN NISKA, Soprano ELEANOR FELVER, Contralto JOHN STEWART, Tenor - DONALD BELL, Bass "Great Mass" in F Minor .... ............ . .... Bruckner "Fantasia Pora un Gentilhombre".... .. ..........RodrigoI Sunday, May 2, 8:30 p.m. EUGENE ORMANDY, Conductor ANDRE WATTS, Pianist Toccata, Adagio, and Fugue.......... . ...............Bach Variations on an Original Theme,I Op. 36 ("Enigman")....................... Elgar Concerto No. 2 in B-flat for Piano and Orchestra, Op. 83 ........ . ..... . ........ Brdhms Series Tickets: $32.06-$26.00-$20.00-$15.00-$10.00 Single Concerts: $7.00-$6.50-$6.00-$5.00-$3.50-$2.50 THE UNIVERSITY MUSICAL SOCIETY BURTON TOWER, ANN ARBOR 48104 Office Hours: Mon. thru Fri. 9 to 4:30; Sat. 9 to 12 Telephone 665-3717 page three al4c ir ri ttn ttit NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 BUSINESS PHONE: 764-0554 Sunday, March 21, 1971 Ann Arbor, Michigan Page Three news briefs By The Associated Press ABOUT 3,000 PERSONS rallied on a grassy expanse near the White House yesterday in the first large spring demonstration thus far this year. The Progress Labor Party, Students for a Democratic Society, various high school groups, and groups representing the Spanish speaking minority turned out in the near-freezing weather. The demonstration began with a march which began in the black section of Washington near Howard University, and ended at the I Ellipse, the oval park across from the White House. Witnesses report that about 200 demonstrators attempted to march around to the front of the White House, but were repelled by a heavily-reinforced contingent of local police. ISRAELI SOLDIERS thrust into southern Lebanon yester- day and conducted a house-to-house search for Palestinian guer- rillas in the village of Adeisse, a government spokesman in Beirut said. The spokesman said the Israelis crossed the border about 30 minutes after commandos took up roof and hilltop positions aroundE Adeisse and began exchanging fire with a border patrol.I A Beirut spokesman for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for attacks yesterday on the Israeli border settlements of Metulla and Misgav Am. , N. Ireland Prime Minister Chiche.ster-Clark quits post SST foe in Senate lead i n poll WASHINGTON WI) - Senate foes of the supersonic transport! are ahead in their effort to ground the government-subsidized airlin- er project, an Associated P r e Sss survey showed yesterday, but un- committed senators hold the cru- cial balance of voting power. With two days of cloakroom in- fighting and corridor lobbyingI ahead, the count is 44 senators against the SST, four more in-j clined to oppose it; with 36 sup-:, porting the project and three' leaning that way. Th srey ase S d npbi i i I r E i E c' ; THE TURKISH 'PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY, a leftist The survey, b a s e d on pubc group whose members kidnaped and released four American air- ofies, swd 1 senator en- men, threatened yesterday to commit more terrorist acts against committed. Four of them voted Americans if members now in police hands are killed or tortured. against the SST in its last Sen- Deniz Germis, who has admitted that he robbed a bank, and kid- ate test, an equal number for it. naped U.S. airmen, was arrested last week by police in eastern Tur- The others did not vote last time. key, after a two-month hunt. Yusuf Aslan, an accomplice of Germis, The crucial roll call comes at 4 was wounded during a shootout before Germis was captured. p.m. Wednesday after two days of debate. Both sides expect lob- The group said that if Germis was tortured or Aslan died, they bi desue. o mount s t would destroy "all American buildings and foreign business centers test approaches. And both sides in Turkey." expect the outcome to be closer than that recorded last Dec, 3, when SST appropriations were re- SENATE DEMOCRATIC LEADER Mike Mansfield praised jected by the Senate, 52 to 41. the performance of television newsmen yesterday and said he Sen. Hiram L. Fong (R-Hawaii) hopes Republican criticism "will not have the effect of intimid- who had opposed the SST appro- ing the networks." priation in that vote, disclosed he Mansfield said he disagrees with the criticism expressed by Spiro will support it this time.ts Agnew and Sen. Robert Dole (R-Kan.), the Republican national All t h e evidence points to a chairman.. close count on the Wednesday rol Agnew, in a Thursday night speech, criticized television docu- ctal. Two ailingsenators are ex- pected to be absent, thus 50 votes mentaries of the Columbia Broadcasting System. He later criticized would represent a majority. network coverage of operations in Laos. Dole said Friday that net- The House, in a surprise rever- work news coverage seems "to favor those who hold liberal views and sal, voted 215 to 204 Thursday are antiwar." against continued SST spending. It was House insistence on an ap- * propriation rejected by the Sen-1 SURVIVORS of an avalanche in a Peru mountain valley fled ate that led to an SST stalemate' yesterday after officials warned that further slides might be im- in the waning hours of the 91st -oi; aCongress. -Associated Press A valanche Search Two Indian women watch as rescue workers search for victims buried under the rubble caused by Thursday's avalanche in Ghungar, Peru. The earthquake-triggered landslide killed between 400 and 600 people. DELIBERATIONS CONTINUE: Calley defense fails to block trial reviewv BELFAST, Northern Ireland (N - Prime Minister James Chichester - C la r k resigned last night, plunging Northern Ireland into a major political crisis. British Prime Minister Edward Heath postponed a visit to West Germany that he was to h a v e started Sunday and called top ad- visers to his country h o m e at Chequers near London to discuss the crisis. Chichester-Clark became prime minister of the largely Protestant province on May 1, 1969. He step- ped down in the, face of right- wing Protestant demands f o r harsher measures against ele- ments of the Roman Catholic-or- iented Irish Republic Army that seek a union of Northern Ireland with the Irish Republic. Chichester-Clark said in his resignation statement: "I have decided to resign be- cause I see no other way of bring- ing home to all concerned the re- alities of the present constitution- al, political and security situation. "It is apparent that public and parliamentary opinion in North- ern Ireland looks to the Northern Ireland government for measures which can bring the current IRA campaign swiftly to an end. "I h a v e expressed to British ministers the full force of this... and have pressed upon them my view that some further initiative is required." The prime minister asked last Tuesday for 4,000 m o r e British troops to bolster the 8,250 already in Ulster, but was promised only 1,300. No successor was named imme- diately for Chichester-Clark, a 48- year old former army major. Men- tioned as a probable replacement was Brian Faulkner, 50, develop- ment minister in Chichester- Clark's government. FT. BENNING, Ga. UP) - Lt. William Calley's defense counsel failed in an effort yesterday to block an additional rereading of ,prosecution testimony from his My Lai murder trial - which it claims gives the government a sec- ond chance of convicting him. "It's a second trial, that's what it is - that's cruel and unusual, punishment, keeping this boy waiting, waiting while we retry this case," was the complaint of chief defense attorney George Latimer after the court martial jury asked that the entire testi- The judge, Col. Reid Kennedy, tried by means of a note to get the jury to settle for certain pi- votal areas in the testimony they had cited. But they sent him back a note which said they "wanted the entire testimony." Kennedy announced that t h e rereading of testimony already frnrib d ld b11r hin nt 2.nm transcrea woud pegln atG p. . Sunday. Meanwhile, he said, he will sit down with the lawyers and The Michigan Daily, edited and man- try to gain agreement that unof- aged by students at the University of Michigan. News phone: 764-0552. Second ficial tape recordings may be class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich- played t4 the jury in lieu of the igan, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, untranscribed testimony, Michigan 48104. 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