News Capsules
By United Press International
Washington: Desegregate
The Supreme Court, consolidating six controversial cases into one for a new look at classroom desegregation. set Oct 12 for hearings on whether the Constitution requires schools to achieve racial balance. The emotion-packed issues of busing, pairing of black and white schools and rezoning of school districts will be argued for up to two days starting on the first Monday after the Court formally convenes the fall term Oct 5. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger announced the hearings personally Monday, but gave no indication when the Court might hand down its ruling—potentially as far reaching as the 1954 Brown school desegregation opinion.
The Hague: Embassy
A band of Amboinees youths who seized the Indonesian Embassy in a burst of gunfire surrendered tonight without carrying out their threat to execute the ambassador's family one by one. The students had said they would execute the ambassador's wife and their two children if Indonesian President Suharto did not meet with them within the next 48 hours. Suharto, who had been expected here Tuesday, postponed his visit because of the incident. A guard was killed in an exchange of shots when the youths seized the building.
Washington: Welfare
President Nixon's embattled welfare reform plan ran into more trouble Monday when the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee came out against any new law this year. Sen. John J. Williams, R-Del., rejected a compromise put forth by the Nixon Administration that Congress approve the program this year, but delay putting it into effect until January, 1972, to allow a year-long test of the sweeping proposal. Nixon, hoping to salvage the piece of domestic legislation, agreed Friday to delay implementation of the $4.1 billion family assistance program for the trial period.
California: Middle East
SAN CLEMENTE—President Nixon Monday sought to squelch speculation that the United States might send a peacekeeping force to guarantee a settlement of the Middle East conflict. The President's remarks appeared aimed at silencing discussion of a possibility raised last week by one of his advisers who said both the Soviet Union and the United States might send observer forces to oversee a permanent settlement. He did not, however, rule out U.S. participation in such a force if the opposing sides want it.
Oregon: American Legion
PORTLAND—An estimated 50,000 American Legionnaires from all 50 states and 6 foreign countries took part in a parade here Monday. There was no trouble from the youths of the "People's Army Jamboree," apparently on their way home after a weekend musical bash. Extensive security measures, including National Guardsmen called up in advance of the event, were enacted in anticipation of harassment by antiwar protesters, but no incidents were reported.
Paris: Mauriac
Francois Mauriac, one of France's most eminent modern writers, died in a Paris hospital early Tuesday. Mauriac, a Nobel Prize winner, was 85. Once eulogized by Charles de Gaulle, as "the greatest French writer" in our time, Mauriac produced some 75 volumes of poems, plays and novels.
California: Lettuce
SALINAS-Angry Teamsters Union members Monday closed down the processing plant of the only Salinas Valley lettuce growers to defect to Cesar Chavez's Farm Workers Union. The firm's 800 field workers had returned to work only a few hours earlier under a contract signed Sunday with Chavez' United Farm Workers Organizing Committee. With produce rotting in the fields, other growers in the valley vowed to hold out against the Farm Workers Union and honor contracts with the teamsters covering their field workers.
Washington: War Deaths
Sponsors of the controversial "Amendment to End the War" said Monday a forced withdrawal by the end of next year would save 1,600 American lives. Sens. George McGovern, D-S.D., and Mark O. Hatfield, R-Ore., published a projected casualty chart estimating 5,400 Americans would die in Vietnam if withdrawals continue at the current pace, but that only 3,800 would be killed by Dec. 31, 1971, the deadline contemplated in their proposal to cut off funds for the war.
Denmark: Defection
ROENNE—A fishing captain from Communist Poland, his two sons and crew members hid their families inside a newly painted oil tank, sailed their ship across the Baltic Sea to Denmark Monday and requested political asylum. It was the third defection to Denmark by Polish citizens in the past two weeks. Police said 41 Poles have requested asylum this year.
2 KANSAN Sept. 1
1970
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (UPI) — A jury which deliberated six days convicted Black Panther Lonnie McLucas Monday of one of four charges in the torture slaying of alleged police informer Alex Rackley, a verdict hailed by the defense as "a victory for the jury system."
Jury Convicts Panther
McLucas, found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder, could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. But he was acquitted of the capital charge of kidnapping resulting in death and two lesser counts and he left the courtroom smiling.
McLucas was the first of eight Panthers, including National Chairman Bobby G. Seale, to be tried in the case which has aroused strong public sentiment and provoked Yale President Kingman Brewster Jr. to state last spring that he doubted any black could receive a fair trial in America at this time.
But Chief Defense Attorney Theodore I. Koskoff told 200 Panther supporters gathered on historic New Haven Green across from the courthouse:
"I feel anybody, whether black or not, can get a fair trial in Connecticut. It's a victory for the jury system."
Koskoff said he would appeal the conviction.
The Green was the scene of several confrontations between Panther sympathizers and police in recent days.
State's Attorney Arnold Markle refused to comment on the verdict because he said this would jeopardize the cases against the seven other Panthers awaiting trial on similar charges
Israelis Divided On Peace Talks
McLucas, a native of Wade, N.C., also was acquitted by the jury of two blacks and 10 whites of counts of conspiring to kidnap and binding with intent to commit a crime.
ABM opponents have never disputed Spartan's capability of interception, noting that its forerunner, the old Nike Zeus, had successfully intercepted 10 of 14 ICBMs in the early 1960s.
JERUSALEM (UPI) — Israel and the United States are engaged in "a hard difficult argument" over Israeli charges of continuing Egyptian violations of the Suez Canal cease fire, Premier Golda Meir said Monday.
The Israeli cabinet was reported split on whether to continue Middle East peace talks in New York until Egypt removes the ground to air missiles Israel
What they do argue, however, is that the Spartan's radars lack the ability to distinguish between real enemy missiles and dummy missiles, or simple balloon decoys. Thus, critics contend, Spartans could be wasted on decoys.
Real Missile Hit by ABM In First Test
Assistant Defense Secretary Daniel Z. Henkin said the nose cone of the ICBM was intercepted outside the earth's atmosphere but he declined to say at what altitude or exactly what point over the Pacific the interception was made.
The Pentagon said one of Safeguard's Spartan missiles launched from Kwajalein Island in the Pacific Friday intercepted a Minuteman ICBM fired from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., 4,200 miles away.
WASHINGTON (UPI)—In its first test against a real missile the controversial Safeguard ABM "shot down" an incoming target (ICBM) high over the Pacific, the Defense Department announced Monday.
Neither missile carried nuclear warheads as they would have in actual warfare, but Henkin said scientists determined from ground instruments that the trajectory of the Safeguard missile passed near enough to the Minuteman to ensure destruction had a warhead been used.
Although it was the first intercept test for the Spartan, the missile has been tested previously by aiming it at points in the sky. The Sprint has yet to be tested at a live missile.
The 55-foot long Spartan intercept missile with a range of several hundred miles is the primary rocket of the antiballistic missile system. It is backed up by the shorter range Sprint, which is designed to attack missiles which elude the Spartan.
says were moved closer to the canal after the cease fire went into effect on Aug. 7.
Political sources said Defense Minister Moshe Dayan is considering resigning unless Israel changes its position toward the peace talks with Egypt and Jordan initiated by the United States. Dayan says that Israel should not have begun the talks in New York under the auspices of the United Nations until the missile issue had been cleared up.
Mrs. Meir, speaking before executives of the Trade Union Federation (Histadrut) in Tel Aviv said:
"We are now in the midst of a hard, difficult argument with the United States over Egyptian violations of the cease fire. The U.S. government has guaranteed that neither side would improve its military position, in the standstill zones on both sides of the canal, as a result of the cease fire.
"But only a few hours had passed when the Egyptians began violating it. We cannot give in on this score.
Judge Harold M. Mulvey, who presided over the Superior Court trial which opened June 16, tentatively scheduled sentencing for Sept. 18.
Mulvey also set bail of $15,000 for McLucas, conditional on disposition of a first degree murder charge against him in Middlesex County where Rackley's body was found. Koskoff said he expected this charge to be dropped because it would expose McLucas to double jeopardy.
McLucas admitted during his trial that he fired the second of two shots at Rackley but said that Rackley already was dead and he acted out of fear of fellow Panther George Sams Jr., who ordered the killing.
The State contended that Rackley, a New York Panther, was lured to the New Haven headquarters, tortured and killed because he was suspected of having informed on the Panther 21 arrested in New York April, 1969, in an alleged bomb plot. Rackley was shot to death May 21, 1969, in a swamp in Middlefield
Sams and Warren Kimbro, who admitted firing the first shot at Rackley, both pleaded guilty earlier to charges of second degree murder and testified for the prosecution. Sams said he ordered Rackley executed on instructions from Seale. Seale also took the stand to deny ordering Rackley's death.
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