.Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY r uesday, April 10, 1973 Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAILY Russo takes stand at Pentagon Papers trial I By AP and Reuter LOS ANGELES - Anthony Rus- so wept on the witness stand at the Pentagon papers trial yesterday as he told jurors of the sufferings of a North Vietnamese villager he encountered while interviewing capture prisoners for a research study. Russo, calling the prisoner "the strongest man I ever met," drop- ped his head and wiped his eyes as he told the story to jurors.I Then, laughing through his tears,1 he said, "See even now when Il talk about it, it comes back toi me." The 36-year-old defendant, ont trial with Daniel Ellsberg, told the1 story to illustrate the experiences which transformed him from anf "establishment" researcher ont government projects to a vehe- ment antiwar activist.t Waters rise at New Orleans; floods field He admitted to jurors that he helped Ellsberg copy the Pentagon papers study of the Vietnam war in 1969, but said he had never seen the documents before copying them, and indicated he did not know their contents. Russo said he was shocked to find during an 18-month research tour interviewing prisoners, refu- gees and defectors that half the bombs dropped over Vietnam were anti-personnel weapons designed to kill people. He said these weapons were dropped in both South and North Vietnam and many of them killed civilians. Russo said he submitted a re- port to the Air Force on the ef- fects of the anti-personnel bombs. "I was hoping that when they saw how bad it was for the peo- ple whotthey got dropped on, they might stop using them, "But I think I was kind of na- ice. They just escalated using them." Ellsberg is expected to take the witness stand when Russo finishes. I {- a AP Photo Convoy reaches Phnom Perth Cambodian soldier mans a machine-gun on a river patrol boat escorting a convoy into the besieged Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. Four ships carrying badly-needed food, fuel and ammunition ar- rived Sunday, but two were set ablaze in a Viet Cong ambush and 13 had to turn back to South Vietnam. C AN ADIA1N GEtNER A L CHARGES: Viet Conblaed for crash o truce copter SAIGON (A) - A Canadian peacekeeping investigator charg- ed yesterday that a cease-fire commission helicopter which crashed Sunday over Viet Cong- held territory in South Vietnam was shot down by a heat-seek- ing missile. Maj. Gen. Duncan McAlpine sharply disputed a Viet Cong claim that the helicopter met with an accident in which nine of its passengers, including a Ca- nadian and two American civi- lian pilots, were killed Saturday. "An accident?" M c A l p i n e snapped.."Surely, with everyone in the area knowing this was an approved flight, and with verba- tim reports of the survivors, I think otherwise." "The fact is that the helicop- ter . . . did in fact sustain a heat-seeker." The helicopter was on a mis- sion in South Vietnam's north- west corner for the Internation- al Commission of Control and Supervision (ICCS). Among the dead were four commission members, three crewmenand two Viet Cong liai- son officers. A second commission helicop- ter was hit by "sustained ground fire" and made a forced land- ing near the first in what Mc- Alpine called "desperate circum- stances." Its 11 passengers and crew were not hurt. McAlphine said the pilot of the second helicopter reported see- ing a missile. He quoted the air- man as saying: "I saw it go by --pow! - then it burst in a ball of flames." McAlpine, head of Canada's military delegation with the in- ternational commission, w a s speaking at Saigon's airport on his return from an investigation of the incident in Quang Tri Province. Reports that the aircraft was hit by a missile were a "distor- tion of the truth," the Viet Cong declared in a statement. The Communists also denied that their forces fired yesterday on a third helicopter which South Vietnam reported was hit by six rounds of enemy small-arms fire while on a peacekeeping mis- sion over the Mekong Delta. The Saigon military command spokesman, Lt. Co. Le Trung Hien, announced that the chop- per - flying for a Joint Mili- tary Commission (JMC) - now made up of South Vietnam and the Viet Cong - sustained slight damage but put down safely at Vi Thanh, 100 miles southwest of the capital. In Washington, a White House spokesman said President Nixon views the attacks on clearly marked ICCS helicopters as "ex- tremely serious." The State De- partment said the incident was a "totally callous flaunting" of the cease-fire agreement. In a speech to the Saigonj Lions Club, Ambassador Michel Gauvin, chairman of the Cana- The Michigan Daily, edited and man- aged by students at the Universty of Michigan. News phone: 764-0562. Second4 Class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich- igan. 420 Maynard Street, Ann Arbor,r Michigan 48104. Published daily Tues- dlay through Sunday morning Univer- sity year, Subscriptionrates.: $10 by carrier (campus area); $11 local mail (in Mich, or Ohio); $13 non-local mail (other states and foreign). Summer Session published Tuesday through Saturday' morning. Subscrip- tion rates: $5.50 by carrier (campus area); $6.50 local mail (in Mich. or Ohio); $7.50 non-local mail (other states and foreign). dian delegation, said that Cana- da had agreed to extend its or- iginal 60 days of participation in the truce observer body "with grave doubts about the useful- ness of our presence." He said this was the result of the "rather dismal record of the ICCS so far in fulfilling its re- sponsibilities objectively and im- partially, as well as our skep- ticism that the ICCS can or should in fact perform the sym- bolic political function that some would thrust upon it. "But we are remaining in the hope that within a relatively brief period of time the parties to the conflict will move toward a political settlement that will make our presence unneces- sary." NEW ORLEANS *(4') - Army flood control experts said yester- day one of the century's great Mississippi River floodstwas still safely squeezed within the levees -but they're girding for higher water. "I can't tell you now whether we're peaking out or whether we're going to get a worse situa- tion before we're through," said Maj. Gen. Charles Noble, presi- dent of the Mississippi River Com- mission. Much depends on the runoff from thawing snows and spring rains in the river's 1.24 million-square-mile watershed area, especially along the Ohio, he said. "Right now I am preparing my- self for more water than we now have predicted," he added. "I will then be in a position to do some- thing if this thing changes rapid- ly - as it has been changing." le estimated that backwater from the river's choked tributaries has temporarily forced some 6,000 families from their homes - main- lv in sections near St. Louis, Mo., and in Mississippi. Noble ordered the opening of all 350 panels of the Bonnet Carre Spillway dam Sunday to ease the pressure on levees protecting New Orleans. When the spillway is complete- ly opened today nearly a sixth of the river's flow, measured at 1.6 million cubic feet a second at Vicksburgh, Miss., will be divert- ed. It will stream through a 5.7- mile trough of low land into salty Lake Pontchartrain, which con- nects to the Gulf of Mexico. The order opening the dam for the first time since 1950 came after the River Forecasting Cen- ter said the water was going to 20.2 on the New Orleans gauge- past the danger point, according to Army engineers.t Opening the spillway was ex- pected to drop the level back tot 17.5 at New Orleans by Wednes- day. But the latest computer read- outs at the forecasting center pre- dicted 18.6 here by April 16, even with the spillway open. Engineers expect the Bonnet Carre Spillway opening to offset further damage, but Noble said the engineers are prepared to open the Marganza Spillway, north of Baton Rouge, if waters continue to r'se. Though high river stages could last two more months, Noble re- ported headway in the upper Mis- sissippi River Valley where river stages are lowering. He said waters in the Tennessee and Ohio Valleys are being held back to ease the situation in the lower Mississippi Valley. Present river stages, he said, have produced "the highest levels since 1844." Water from about half the Unit- ed States drains through New Or- leans, Noble said, and the area can expect continued high-river stages for a month or more. 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