Team starts MIA recovery SAIGON (AP) The four-party military team charged with accounting for hundreds of missing Americans is setting up shop this week. A U.S. spokesman said top priority will be given to recovering the remains of airmen who died in North Vietnam. The team, made up of North and South Vietnam, the Viet Cong and the United States, has scheduled its first formal meeting for Wednesday. "One of our first orders of business will be arranging for the early transport from Hanoi of the remains of those airmen killed when their planes crashed or those who died in cap tivity," the U.S. spokesman said. "The Democratic Republic of Vietnam knows exactly where the bodies are buried." North Viets build forces WASHINGTON Secretary of Defense Elliot Richardson said yesterday the North Vietnamese combat buildup in the south is at a level to sustain substantial, widespread attacks. "It's impossible to know what their intentions are," Richardson told newsmen before a closed session with the Senate Armed Services Committee on military procurement projects. "Over-all, the flow of personnel and material is about the same as it was last year at this time," Richardson said. "It is enough to sustain substantial attacks, widespread, throughout South Vietnam," he said hours after South Viet namese President Nguyen Van Thieu arrived for talks with President Nixon at San Clemente, Calif. Richardson said the North Vietnamese "do have reason, we believe" to abide by a cease-fire, and this should be reinforced in the U.S. approach to the post-U.S. role in Vietnam. Court declines to interfere WASHINGTON T.ne future of the controversial trans- Alaska oil pipeline rested with Congress yesterday after the Supreme Court declined to enter the ecological and legislative tangle. The high court, without comment or dissent, refused to interfere with a lower court decision blocking construction of the pipeline to bring oil from Alaska's North Slope to the seaport of Valdez. The 789-mile project costing in the hundreds of millions faltered over the lack of a few feet of right-of-way. The U.S. Circuit Court here ruled in February that the Mineral Leasing Act of 1920 provided only 54-foot rights-of way for pipelines over public land. Since the trans-Alaska project would require 146-foot widths in some places, the Circuit court prevented the Secretary of the Interior from issuing the necessary permits. Presidential offer rejected WASHINGTON Sen. Sam J. Ervin Jr., D-N.C., yesterday rejected a White House effort to obtain special treatment for presidential aides in the Senate's investigation of the Watergate affair. Ervin repeated his vow he will seek the arrests of White House aides if they do not honor subpoenas to testify under oath in formal private and public sessions. He also told a news conference he believes White House counsel John W. Dean 111 was involved in a "conflict of in terest" because he apparently represented key presidential advisers while trying to learn if they were involved in sabotage and espionage attempts. Later yesterday, Ervin and the special Senate investigating committee he heads were criticized by presidential press secretary Ronald Ziegler. Calley appeals conviction WASHINGTON Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. yesterday appealed his conviction in the My Lai massacre to the military's highest court. In requesting the hearing before the U.S. Court of Military Appeals, Calley's lawyers relied in part upon a recent federal court decision striking down a portion of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Ultimately, Calley's fate will rest with President Nixon, who has said he will make a final review of the case as Com mander-in-Chief of the armed forces. Calley is currently restricted to his quarters at Ft. Benning, Ga. AP New Scope In a court-martial at Ft. Benning in 1971 Cal ley was sen tenced to life imprisonment for the premeditated murder of "not less than 22 Vietnamese" and assault with intent to murder a Vietnamese child. On Aug. 20, 1971, the commander of the Third Army reduced the sentence to 20 years hard labor, a penalty upheld by the Army Court of Military Review last February 16. Court rule s to free funds ST. LOUIS The Bth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that President Nixon's impoundment of federal highway construction funds is illegal. In a 2-1 decision, the federal panel ruled that funds ap propriated by Congress "are not to be withheld from obligation for purposes totally unrelated to the highway program." Nixon had impounded the money on grounds that it would be inflationary to spend it. The President has impounded some $l5 billion for federal programs on housing, water pollution control, rural con servation, highways and other areas. The appeals court upheld a ruling by Judge William H. Becker of U.S. District Court in Kansas City in connection with the impoundment of highway funds in Missouri. Bill to tighten info control WASHINGTON A proposed overhaul of the federal criminal code would impose new penalties against govern ment employes who disclose classified information to anyone not authorized to receive it. But Sen. Roman L. Hruska, R-Neb., yesterday said a Democi'at's charge that the measure seeks to silence dissent is "totally unwarranted." The provision is part of a 680-page administration bill to revise the entire code of federal criminal law. Hruska and Sen. John L. McClellan, D-Ark., introduced the measure Wedhesday. Present law provides criminal penalties for disclosure of classified information to a foreign agent or a member of the Communist Party. A Justice Department official said the major change in the new proposal is in the provision of penalties against federal employes disclosing classified information to any unauthorized person. Under current law, the official said, disclosure to a foreign agent or a Communist is punishable by imprisonment for up to 10 years. House authorizes probe HARRISBURG The Republican-controlled House yesterday authorized a special investigation of the Shapp administration, directed at the state's Bureau of Motor Vehicles. The probe was criticized by Democratic leaders, who said it could be handled by standing House committees rather than the special groups that will be appointed by the House Speaker. Rep. David S. Hayes, R-Erie, prime sponsor of the resolution aimed at the motor vehicles agency, said his office alone is working on 31 registration problems of constituents. He said the bureau apparently has a "catastrophic problem." But Democratic policy chairman Harry Englehart, D- Cambria, said the resolution's purpose "is nothing more than to harass the administration, harass the present secretary of transportation and make political 'headway.' " The resolution passed 93-89, backed largely by Republicans. s . 1 ELECTION OF STUDENT SENATORS TO THE UNIVERSITY FACULTY SENATE Ground floor HUB April 4th and sth 9:00 to 4:00 Come and register your vote n . States reconsider death penalty Legislatures in almost two thirds of the 50 states are considering measures to reinstate the death penalty and lawmakers in four other states already have passed bills bringing back capital punishment. The Supreme Court ruled last July, in cases involving Georgia and Texas, that the death penalty, as imposed in most ! states, was un constitutional. The 5-4 court ruling left the way open for legislatures to reimpose the death penalty, providing it Geneen verifies $1 million offer WASHINGTON (AP >— International Telephone and Telegraph board chairman Harold S. Geneen acknowledged Monday that the firm offered $1 million to the U.S. government to try to block Marxist Salvador Allende's election as president of Chile. Testifying before a special Senate Foreign Relations sub committee, Geneen said the offer to the White House and the State Department had a dual purpose—to defeat Allende by uniting 'his political opponents or to in duce Allende to permit American firms to recover their investments in nationalized properties. Geneen said the govern Positions Available Educational Opportunity Program is seeking highly-qualified applicants to fill position vacancies in a 9 week Summer Intensive Program designed to provide q transition to college for recently graduated high school students. Position vacancies exist in the following areas: 1. Sttidy skills/reading 4. Counseling 2. Math 5. Teacher Aide 3. English The deadline for application is April 13, 1973. For further information about this challenging and innovative program, contact Mrs. Margot Akom, E.0.P., Walnut Building, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa. 16802, Phone 814-865-1771 was applied uniformly. An Associated Press survey showed• that the question of capital punishment was an issue in almost every state. Most of the proposals provided execution as the punishment for killing a policeman or fireman, for airplane hijacking and for various types of murder, including murder committed during the course of another crime. "Our interpretation is that the Supreme Court is not barring the death penalty if it ment did not take him up on the offer, which was made while Allende's 1970 election hung in the balance in the Chilean Congress. "Of course," the ITT chief executive said, "our thinking was very preliminary and we had no specific plans." But, he went on, "we did think that some socially constructive joint private industry and government projects could be part of the overall plan." This, he said, might include building houses for the Chilean people. Geneen also acknowledged discussing with a CIA official the possibility of supporting a plan to block Allende's election. The Daily Collegian Tuesday, April 3, 1973- is mandatory," Sheldon Nebraska, Nevada, New Beychok, chairman of a Jersey, New York, North special Louisiana corn- Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, mission on capital punish- Pennsylvania, South ment said. "That is, the Carolina, South Dakota, penalty must be imposed on Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West both the rich man and the Virginia and Wisconsin. poor man." No action has There are several bills been taken on the commission pending in many states. Nine report. different proposals are on file Supporters of capital in Nevada, for example, punishment cite the death ranging from one that would penalty as a potential impose the mandatory death deterrent to crime and penalty only for slayings of complain about coddling lawmen and prison guards to felons. another that provides Among the states where execution for any one of 10 restoration of the death different kinds of killings. penalty is pending are California lawmakers in- Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, troduced seven bills dealing California, Colorado, with the death penalty after Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, voters last November ap- Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, proved a ballot proposition Maryland, Massachusetts, permitting the legislature to Michigan, Mississippi, re-establish the death Missouri, Montana, penalty. r 1 THE 1 1 i PENN STATE 1 1 . KARATE CLUB I I Organizational Meeting I I and Demonstration 1 1 Wed. April 4 I HUB Ballroom Everyone is welcome L J Applicants for NITTANY LION MASCOT Please contact Mrs. Venturato 8654567 For Interview Appointment 7:30 pm i
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