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Monday. It was the second blast in a week and the 10th since Red China became a nuclear power less than five years ago.
Peking has not reported the latest tests and diplomatic sources here said they are expected to be officially announced to the Chinese as part of the anniversary celebrations.
"Nuclear blackmail" charges were made in an editorial published jointly by the three most authoritative journals in China—Red Flag, the theoretical journal of the party central committee, the official party newspaper Peking People's Daily and the armed forces newspaper Liberation Army Daily. It was broadcast by Peking Radio.
"U.S. imperialism and Russian social-imperialism, which are in an impasse, now are intensifying their collaboration and wildly plotting to launch wars of aggression against China, and they have even spread talk of nuclear blackmail against China," the editorial said.
The editorial also accused Washington and Moscow of trying to subvert the Peking regime. It accused the Soviets—although not mentioning them by name—of attempting to stir up revolts in sensitive border areas.
The Narcotics Addition Control Commission of New York estimates there are 30,000 addicts in the state.
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WASHINGTON (UPI) — A clique of career sergeants led by the Army's top enlisted man was accused Tuesday of a "criminal conspiracy" to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from U.S. service clubs through skimming of slot machine profits, kickbacks and phony receipts.
Club conspiracy charged
The allegations were made before a Senate subcommittee by Ervin E. Beard, a former military detective. He said a major general stopped his investigation, buried the evidence and let the offenders "go scot free" to keep from embarrassing the then Army chief of staff, Gen. Harold K. Johnson.
Both Johnson and the major general, William A. Cunningham III, have since retired. Sen. Abraham Ribicoff, D-Conn., acting chairman of the Senate permanent investigations subcommittee, ordered that they be given copies of Beard's testimony and offered a chance to rebut.
Beard's testimony centered on William O. Wooldridge, 47, a veteran of three wars whom Johnson selected in July, 1966, as the Army's first sergeant major and highest ranking enlisted man. Wooldridge was boosted as the spokesman and protector of American GIs everywhere.
Beard charged that Wooldridge and his associates, in charge of 11 service clubs in West Germany, were rigging slot machines, pocketing kickbacks and reveling in hotels and private parties payed out of the service club till.
They even took a live lion as a kickback from one supplier, Beard said, but got rid of it when its upkeep siphoned too much from their undercover profits. He said the same supplier furnished Wooldridge's house so well that the sergeant passed on one gift, a $1,000 Italian sofa, to a colleague.
In an interview Tuesday, Gen Johnson disclosed that Woolridge and several other sergeants were once caught by U.S. customs officials at Hawaii trying to fly in a load of liquor from Vietnam aboard Gen. Creighton Abrams' personal plane.
"He paid the penalty that anyone would pay" for the customs violation, Johnson said, but was not given military punishment. The general added that Abrams, U.S. commander in Vietnam, was aboard the plane but unaware of the liquor cargo.
Johnson said he heard nothing of the alleged service club thefts until after he retired from the Army in July, 1968. He said the allegations surprised him because he had admired Wooldridge.
Wooldridge, a stolid, crewcut soldier, and two of his alleged
partners sat quietly through Beard's testimony. They refused to answer newsmen's questions after the hearing. Their lawyer, David L. Thomas, said they might take the 5th Amendment when called to testify, probably next week.
Wooldridge is now stationed at White Sands, New Mexico.
The investigation about which Board testified went on for seven months. The shenanigans found already have prompted the Nixon administration to fire its new chief of U.S. provost marshals, retired Army Provost Marshal Gen. Carl C. Turner, and to take back Wooldridge's Distinguished Service Medal.
Beard said his investigation convinced him that Wooldridge headed a "tightly knit clique of high-ranking noncommissioned
officers" which ran Army service clubs in Augsburg and Munich, Germany, and later managed to transfer themselves to the U.S. and then to Vietnam. Beard said he "hit roadblocks" at every turn in his investigation.
David L. Thomas, lawyer for Wooldridge and two others, dismissed Beard's allegations as "conjecture, speculation and the opinion of one investigator."
Sen. Ribicoff said that after testimony about the service clubs, the subcommittee would call witnesses to testify about "the dollar currency manipulation racket that centers in South Vietnam."
One of every eight Alaskans holds a flying license, about six times the national average.
Vietnam,ABMfoe elected by Massachusetts voters
BOSTON (UPI) — Underdog Michael Harrington, an outspoken foe of President Nixon's Vietnam policy and the proposed antiballistic missile (ABM) program, was elected to Congress Tuesday in a special election.
Harrington is the first Democrat to win election from the district in 157 years.
With all 186 precincts reporting in the 6th District, where the term "gerrymanding" was born, Harrington had 72,030 votes to 65,453 for William L. Saltonstall of Manchester, son of former U.S. Sen. Leverett Saltonstall and a supporter of Nixon's Vietnam and ABM plans.
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Saltonstall conceded at about
Harrington will succeed the late Republican William Bates, who held the office for 19 years before he died in June.
Harrington's election gave the Democrats an 8-4 edge in the Massachusetts congressional delegation.
The race had been viewed by many as a public opinion test of Nixon's Vietnam War polic.
No Democrat has won a congressional seat in the district since 1812 when the area was redesigned by Gov. Eldridge Gerry and the term "gerrymandering" was born.
Harrington, 32, a state representative, backs New York GOP
Sen. Charles Goodell's resolution calling for a pullout from Vietnam by 1970. Harrington regards ABM as a waste of money and resources.
Democrats outnumber Republicans 77,000 to 66,000 but 92,500 independent voters held the key to the outcome.
Both sides enlisted the aid of big names to generate campaign interest. Former Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey and Sens. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine and George McGovern campaigned for Harrington.
Sen. Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts counter-punched for Saltonstall, as did the elder Saltonstall.