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Wednesdav. April 25,1973
University Daily Kansan
According to 2 American GIs
N. Viet POWs Mistreated
By ERIC KRAMER
Kansan Staff Writer
While accounts of American POWs being tortured continue to flow, news now is reaching the press that indicates that Americans may have treated some of their prisoners as badly as the North Vietnamese treated American prisoners.
Two Vietnam veterans told the Kanss this week that suspected Communists were thrown from helicopters to force their companions to yield to interrogation.
One source said he was stationed at an American Air Force base in Saigon and was attached to an intelligence unit. He is now a senior official with the American automobile manufacturer firm.
He said he and other Air Force intelligence men saw several suspected Communists thrown to their death from American helicopters.
THIS WAS a tactic used successfully to make enemy soldiers tell what they knew.
Another veteran, now a student in Missouri, said that he also saw Americans kill suspected Communists by throwing them from helicopters.
He said that when the other Communist suspects saw a man thrown from a helicopter, they were always willing to cooperate with the interrogators.
An Associated Press editor told the Kansas that the AP had reported several accounts of Americans killing Vietnamese prisoners in circumstances similar to that disclosed by the automobile executive and student.
The automobile executive said, "We took two Communists, or even suspected Communists, up in a helicopter and knocked them around a little. Then we threw one out from about 50 feet and asked the other one to talk."
HE REFUSED to say how many men he saw thrown from helicopters.
A Defense Department official said that incidents had been reported from time to time and that investigations had been made, but that no Americans had been charged with mistreating Vietnamese POWs.
The spokesman, Col. Thomas Burles, of the Southeast Asia office of the Defense Ministry, said that a nuclear attack was imminent.
When asked if the Defense Department believed that POWs turned over to the South Vietnamese by the Americans were consistently treated humanely, Burns responded, "What kind of a question is that?"
the U.S. 'investigated one photograph in which a supposed human body was thrown
HE LATER said, "I can't answer that question."
The automobile executive refused to say what was the rank of the highest ranking company in the US.
He said he was upset when American POWs came home and said, "They beat me with a rope," or "They tortured me for three and a half years."
"We didn't even keep any prisoners that long," he said.
Americans did not build facilities to handle prisoners and were supposed to turn their captives over to the South Vietnam, the Defense Department, spokester said.
Crops, Homes Destroyed By Flooding Mississippi
THE AUTOMOBILE executive said
Americans had no respect for Vietnamese
men.
By The Associated Press
Swollen by heavy spring rains, the waters of the Mississippi River and its tributaries kept rising Tuesday, driving hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland and flooding thousands of acres of farmland.
Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes, entire crops wiped out, and large areas of farmland are completely damaged. Damage estimates are in the millions.
The Mississippi is expected to hit a record level of 43.5 feet when it crests at St. Louis Thursday. More than 1,700 National Guard troops are expected to battle flood waters in eastern Missouri.
The river already has crested twice at st. Louis—once March 17 and once April 16. The Army Corps of Engineers estimated after floods that the river flood waters caused $40 million in damage.
Authorities said Tuesday that the floods had been responsible for eight deaths in the St. Louis area. The latest victims were Barbara Stuart, 11, and her sister Lori, 9 of South Roxana, Ill., who drowned Monday after a storm surge on the Missouri Highway Patrol said 35 state and county highways were closed because of high water.
"God knows how may there are," he said.
"A couple of weeks ago I made a guess of 6,000 but I've flown up and down this river many times and it's got to be a lot more
Ma]. Gen. Charles Noble, head of the Mississippi River Commission said he didn't have an estimate of the number of hospitals to entire 2,000-mile stretch of the Mississippi.
"They treated them like animals," he said.
TOPEKA, Kan.-Atty, Gen Vern Miller ruled Tuesday that a bill giving the Legislative Coordinating Council authority to determine who gets to park on the statehouse grounds is an unconstitutional invasion of the powers of the executive branch. The bill was passed over Gov. Mackenzie McCarthy and was session. Miller's opinion, given to Thomas Van Cleave Jr., one of Docking's legislative laien men, nullifies the effect of House bill 1006 unless the legislature takes the matter to court and gets the opinion overturned.
News Briefs By the Associated Press Copters Collide
Disaster Areas
FT. HOOD, Tex.-Eight persons died and five were injured Tuesday when two military helicopters collided in flight over Hood Army base, a spokesman said. Seven people were of the crash and an eighth died several hours later, the Army said. Cause of the collision was under investigation. The injures were rushed to Darnall Army Hospital but not immediately. The names of the dead and injured probably would not be made public until today.
TOPEKA, Kan.-Gov. Robert Decking asked President Nixon Tuesday to declare 60 Kansas counties natural disaster areas because of heavy rainfall and tornadoes in March and April and to provide over $2.5 million in federal assistance.
WOUNDED KNEE, S.D.—Pine Ridge Reservation Indian allies of Gaiola Sioux Tribal President Richard Wilson forced armed federal officers to back down Tahlequah at a government roadblock near his business district. The Wilson said the government yielded immediately to requests made by about 100 unarmed Indians who went to the blockade and demanded that they be permitted to ride on own roadblock on the main road leading from Tahlequah. They also asked that federal social workers be removed from the reservation.
Indian Victory
Parking Dispute
people than that because I could see so many buildings down there where one could see another.
Meanwhile, tornados and savage winds mauled nearly a dozen communities and injured nearly 50 persons Tuesday in Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas.
A twister tore into an elementary school near Sunner, Miss., and injured 40 pupils and two schoolteachers. Two more children and six students struck another school year Greenwood.
Most of the injuries were minor. No fatalities were reported.
Scattered thunderstorms and showers splashed more rain into flood-streaked areas in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama.
He was surprised, he said, that LA. William Calley was tried for the murders at My Lai because American intelligence men killed civilians daily.
He said suspected Communists were sometimes trained in their own human rights, and are not trained on the other side.
Americans pulled fingernails from their prisoners with pliers and pushed thorns down their necks.
SEVERAL SCANDALS have come out of South Vietnamese prisons, especially the one on Con Son island, an old prison where the French tortured Vietnamese prisoners.
A Pulitzer prize winning picture shows a Vachnamese police chief shooting a prisoner in the street.
A number of American POWs coming back from North Vietnam have said recently that they were placed in solitary confinement and beaten.
The prisoners held by the Viet Cong have complained of worse treatment than those held by the North Vietnamese. One said that they were not treated well and some said they were chained in cages.
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