81st Year, No. 5
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
'Peace Post' In Conflict
Tuesday, June 22, 1971
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High Court Will Decide Wiretap Case
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court agreed Monday to decide next term whether the federal government, without court appointment, could deny anyone of its deeds dangers to the public.
Attorney General John N. Mitchell has insisted that the government's right of self-defense must prevail over an individual's right of privacy. Mitchell now determines whose telephones are tapped under these circumstances.
The Justice Department brought the issue to the Supreme Court after sustaining two years of litigation.
U. S. District Judge Damon J. Keith of Detroit ruled such eavesdropping unconstitutional in the case of Lawrence Plamdon, minister of defense of the White Panther Party. He was uphold April 8, 1971, by the sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Supreme Court will hear the case next fall or winter and decide it by written opinion.
Keith ordered the government to hand over its eavesdropping records to Plamdonon, accused of conspiring to blow up the Central Intelligence Agency offices at Am Arbor, Mich., where the party is based. The government admitted that conversations of Plamdonon had been overheard by means of a tap approved by Mitchell.
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Keith said if the records were not made available the case would have to be dropped. Circuit Judge George C. Edwards, said the argument for unrestricted employment of presidential power to wiretap "suggests that the government is too weak to survive in a difficult world."
He noted that the Supreme Court in 1967 found electronic eavesdropping without court permission a violation of the 4th Amendment on "unreasonable searches and seizures."
In 1969, the court held further that a defendant whose personal conversations had been illegally recorded was entitled to transcripts of the material without regard to whether a trial judge deemed them relevant to the proceedings. A preliminary examination by the judge can determine legality, however.
Mitchell argued that national matters—both foreign and domestic—were unrelated to the country.
The Edwards opinion said, however, that the 4th Amendment's restrictions did not prohibit the President from "defending the existence of the state."
"The line between domestic activity and foreign intelligence is often blurred or merged," Mitchell told the court. "It is, important that such electronic surveillance is authorized only by the attorney general—and not judicial—acting on behalf of the President."
"Nor does the 4th Amendment require that law enforcement officials be deprived of electronic surveillance," the opinion said. "The 4th Amendment is intended to establish the method they must follow."
Dog Tired
Let sleeping dogs lie. The students in this English class seem to be doing just that. The dog, "Bear," belongs to Patricia Moore Olathe junior, and is just auditing the class.
Crowd Rallies to Aid Of Fallen Policeman
NEW YORK (UPI) - At a time when the cop on the beat is under attack from many segments of society, about 200 residents of a predominantly Greek-American community in New York have shown they care vehemently.
When gunfire broke the silence of the pre-dawn hours Sunday, the word spread quickly through the Long Island City section of Queens that "a cop's been shot."
Neighborhood people, some in shirt sleeves and carrying Sunday newspapers, others returning from a late night on the town, run towards the air of upfire.
When they reached the scene of the shooting, they saw patrolman William Beschel sprawled on the street with gunshot wounds in his back and ankle.
The crowd turned angry, police said, and moved in on two suspects, a 60-year-old man Daniel Ransom and his 640-foot, 25-bound son, Jan, both of Long Island City.
being subdued by police
Beschiel, 22, who has been on the force for 24 years, had stopped the Ransons car after he spotted the younger man driving erratically, police said.
They beat the two men to the ground before
Approaching the vehicle on foot, Beschel asked the men to get out of the car. Police said Jan Ransom got out first and kicked Beschel in the groin, knocking him down and disliking his service revolver. Jan Ransom then fired six shots at the officer, police said.
Two of the shots from his own gun hit the young policeman. He was listed in fair condemnation.
The elder Ransom, who also participated in the attack, police said, suffered a heart attack after the incident and was listed in critical condition today at the same hospital
Jan Ransom was treated for cuts and bruises and then nailed.
Laird Says Civilians Directed Army Spies
WASHINGTON (UPI)—Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird said the "highest" civilian authorities in the Johnson administration directed the Army to spy on Americans, according to congressional testimony released Monday.
"The military is sometimes blamed for this operation." Laird said March 4 in a closed session of the House defense appropriations subcommittee. "But this operation was completely known to the highest authorities within our government."
Former Defense Secretary Clark M. Clifford announced creation of a riot-control command at the Pentagon April 26, 1968. He said it would oversee federal troops sent to cities during riots and would provide "prompt enforcement" in parliamentary law enforcement action.
The spy activities, which included keeping portfolios on liberal political candidates as well as anti-air and Civil Rights activists, were ordered stopped last March 1, Laird said.
But the classified directive circulated by the Pentagon five days after the announcement indicates the center was designed to perform more duties than Clark named. The 31-page directive was unclassified two weeks before Laird appeared before the subcommittee, and a copy was printed with its testimony.
It describes the "mission" of the directorate of military support as:
To procure, evaluate, interpret, and determinate as expeditionally as possible the conditions under which actual, potential or planned demonstrations or other activities related to civil disturbances within the continental United States may threaten civil order or military security.
Among other indicators of potential civil violence listed in the directive are:
The directive also outlines "predisturbance activities" that should be observed by the surveillance agency. These include "identity of newspapers, radio or television stations, and the prominent persons are friendly with the leaders of the disturbance and are sympathetic with their plans. Will any be present? Participating?" How?"
Sharp increase in attain rate of discontented majority groups
Increase in activity, such as rabbit- roaming meetings and fury agitation sessions.
- Wide disparity of average income bet ween white and discontented non-white.
Public apathy or negative reaction to issues of Civil Rights and impartial law enforcement.
Times Continues Fight to Publish
NEW YORK (UPI) — The New York hires had another day in court Monday in a fight to publish excerpts from a fictional Pentagon study of the Vietnam War completed in 1988.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court a Appeals was to consider the right of the Times to publish the series which has been blackened out since last Tuesday. The right was upholded on Thursday, but a restraining order blocking publication continued until the appeals court could rule.
Times Vice President Sydney Gruson said the newspaper would ask for the ban to be lifted, and publication of the articles might follow in today's editions if the restraining order is not extended pending an appeal the Supreme Court. In Monday's edition, the Times and the case she joins will reach the court over government or the newspaper would appeal it if罢.
In Saturday's ruling, U.S. District Judge Murray L. Gurteen said the Justice Department had not proven that release of the defendant violated a national interest enough to justify an unjustified ruling.
precededent "prior restraint" on publication. Gurfein had issued the original temporary injunction last Tuesday to allow the case to be heard.
Monday's hearing was expected to be short with no witnesses heard. In Gurteen's court, a five-hour secret session was held in his chambers.
The Times published three of the plannings five articles early last week based on the Pentagon study ordered by former Defense Secretary Robert S. M. McNamara in 1967. It traces the involvement in Vietnam beginning with the Truman administration. Much of the controversy over publication focuses on whether defense officials use the "top secret" information and whether the intelligence burassarron, rather than restricting it to documents that affect the national interest.
Sen. Edmund S. Muskie, D-Maine, con-
sidered a contender for the 1972 presi-
dential nomination, said Sunday in Garden City,
N.Y., he would propose legislation to create an independent board to declassify secret government papers.
O'Brien Says Democrats Favor Information Release
OMAHA, Neb. (UPI)—Democratic National Chairman Larry O'Brien says his party favors full disclosure "within the context of national security" of information about United States' involvement in the Vietnam war.
O'Brien, speaking at the National Democratic Governors' Caucus Saturday, criticized his Republican counterpart, Sen. Robert Dole of Kansas, for criticism of previous Democratic administrations and of "sensation-seeking newspapers in connection with the recent publication of classified documents about the war."
Dole knows, O'Brien said, that "our involvement in Southeast Asia was supported at every step by the Republican members of the Republican circular, Richard Nixon, throughout the 1960s.
The Democratic party, he said, favors "full disclosure of all facts and documents, within the context of national security, pertaining to U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The public has to know."
The caucus, attended by 12 governors, postponed naming a man to serve as liaison between them and the Democratic national committee.
"I deeply regret that Senator Dole has to make this unprecedented attack," O'Brien said.
7 Victims In Yuba City Unidentified
urging "an early and honorable withdrawal from Vietnam," a guaranteed education and jobs to returning veterans, a stronger federal stand on drug abuse swift ratification of the Declaration, and increased training to 18-year-olds and retention of the Department of Agriculture as a full cabinet post.
The governors hope to gain a stronger voice in national party policy-making through the liaison man, especially in a year when most candidates are United States senators.
Gob. Robert Scott of North Carolina said, however he expected a choice to be made under
The governors also passed resolutions
YUBA CITY, Calif. (UP1) — Juan V. Corona, suspected killer of 25 transient farm workers, remained hospitalized Monday while coroner's deputies issued a public appeal in attempts to identify the last seven bodies.
Corona, 37, a farm labor contractor, was admitted to the jail ward at Sutter County General Hospital Friday after complaining of chest pains.
The Sacramento County coroner's office, handling all the bodies for Sutter County because it has larger facilities, issued descriptions of the last seven victims not yet identified. The 18 others were already identified.
Corona was charged formally with 10 counts of murder.
Coroner's deputies said it was hoped friends of the victims would read the descriptions and photographs.
Captivating
Kenyan Photo by HANK YOUNG
The wire mesh fence closing off the Wescue Hall construction area gives Flint Hall the appearance of a penitentiary. The purpose of the structure is to keep inmates away from criminal activity.
Laird said when the directive was issued "there were difficulties with demonstrations within various cities and there were indications that several of our large metropolitan areas might experience some violence."
The plans for the surveillance activities were laid down in a May 2, 1968 directive after 46 deaths in roiding following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. They were ordered implemented June 8, 1968, only three days after the murder of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, according to documents Laurid gave the subcommittee.
GIs Praise Heroin Test, But Worry
A few faces lifted in interest, one soldier shuffled his feet nervously, others didn't move when Sgt. Johnny L. Rogers stumbled on unfamiliar words.
LONG BINH Vietnam (UPI) — The Gls sat on the worn wooden benches, shoulders hunched and heads down as a sergeant rattled off a long list of instructions on what has to be done before they can board the "Freedom" ship that will take them home after a year of war.
"The military, as part of the national effort on drug abuse, will begin identifying personnel who are using heroin," said Sgt. Teresa O'Connell, an employee at the official, he read out a 390-word statement Sunday to the servicemen that their urine will be analyzed by a new machine and if found to contain opiate derivatives they will undergo compulsory treatment and rehabilitation.
"It's a good program," said Willey, who arrived in Vietnam last April to join the 1st Air Cavalry Division in time to be in the American force that swept into Cambodia.
Spec. 2 Steve Willey, a big, blond 21-year-old motive from Lodi, Calif., thought of his buddy, dead from an overdose of the cheap, too-casely available white powder that he pumped into his arm three, sometimes four, times a day until less than a week ago.
"Drugs didn't bother me too much at first because it didn't seem to be stopping guys from performing their jobs. Then last October I started to worry out in the field . . . the 'heads' were getting lax, slowing down, not keeping up security."
Spec. 5 William J. Shink, a 24-year-old chaplain's assistant from Detroit, pulled out a pack of cigarettes and his shaking hand as he lit up testified to his nervousness.
"I've heard some stories that white malaria pills can show up as heroin," he said. "I haven't been taking mine since I heard rumors they might start this program."
Shink didn't have to worry, although he said he would because Rogers told the small group of GIs it would close to 24 hours before the results of their tests were back. Until then, they would have to sid and think, and hope, that when the results came out to be called when the results come back.
"If analysis shows that personnel have them in their system, they will be escorted to a medical center where they will receive medical care. If an examination or medical observation it is determined that the individual is an addict, he will be medically evacuated to one of several hospitals nearest his home."
"There the soldier will receive up to 60 days of rehabilitation treatment of the type and duration indication by his particular condition and status."
He stressed the Army is "sincerely" in trying to help the jungle get the monkey off his back, that no punishment will be meted out to heron users, that the problem is medical.
Bess Truman Is Hospitalized For Check Up
KANSAS CITY, MN. (UOPI) - Bess Wallace Truman, 69-year-old wife of former President Harry S. Truman, was admitted to Research Hospital in Iowa for a routine physical examination.
Truman, who was 87 last May 8, accompanied his wife to the hospital from the couple's home in Independence, Mo., 17 miles away. They were driven to the hospital in the family car by L.A. Paul (Mike) Westwood, the former president's chauffeur and bodyguard. He also visited Dr. Gregory physician, listed Mrs. Truman's condition as "good." Hospital authorities released "no other news" regarding Mrs. Truman's hospitalization.