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Thursday, August 26, 1971
University Daily Kansan
Witnesses Tell Mv Lai Stories
Rv The Associated Press
Witnesses testified against my Lai officers Col. Oran, K. Henderson and Capt. Ernest M. Medina in separate trials Wed.
A platoon sergeant testified Wednesday that Col. Oran K. Henderson did not pursue interrogation of a group of GL's returning from My Lai after he received a phone call about question about whether anything unusual had occurred at the South Vietnamese hamlet.
Sgt. I.C. Isaiah Cowan, then the top NCO in the Charlie plateau, William L. Calley and Robert O'Brien, court-martial that he was among about seven soldiers met by the banding zone two days after the massacre on the main road.
"When we got out of the bellhop we were gathered in a gate. Henderson talked to us and asked, 'Did anything unusual happen?' The group—Sgt I.C. Jay A. Buchanan—answered, 'After we moved out, we
Henderson, 51, on Wednesday,
is accused of wilful dereliction of
duty in a campaign to investigate reports of the killing of
civilians by troops under his
The officer, then commander of the 11th Brigade of the American Division, also is charged with failing to report actual or suspected war crimes and of twice lying to police during an entry into news of the massacre did not become public for more than a year.
Atomic Dump Grant Depends On Committee
WASHINGTON (AP) —The issue of allowing $1 million for leasing land at an atomic waste repository planned to be built near Lyons will have to be decided by a Senate-House Committee when Congress returns from its summer recess.
The Senate voted the money in passing, July 31, a $4.7 billion appropriations bill which inundated the Atomic Energy Commission.
The House did not include the money in its version of the measure.
Conferences are expected to meet on the bill soon after Congress returns Sept. 8.
However, even if the money is voted, its use will be subject to a state law that requires an amendment to the law enacted earlier in the year such money which was already invested in the money.
The amendment was co-sponsored by the Kansas' Republican senators, James B. Pearson and Robert Dole, who were both elected to the site had been voiced to use of the site for disposal of atomic waste.
Under the amendment, the president will give an advisory commission to be named by the President has certified that the facility would be insured.
Gerald Heming, Jackson,
Miss., who was attached to
Medina's Charlie Company at My
Lai as a diplomat expert, said
he was walking in front of the
Army captain when a shot rang
"I saw her get shot in the head." he said.
A short time later, Heming said, Medina was standing beside him when he saw a woman run from a rice paddy.
Two other prosecution witnesses who were near Medina during the assault on the Vietnamese in 16, 1988, testified during the day.
One said he saw bodies but no one actually killed, and the other three still had a woman Medina has said he shot because he was afraid she was taken.
Attorney F. Lee Bailey, who is defending Médina against the accusations of premeditated murder of 102 civilians in Myanmar, will testify in testimony.
Heming said both killings occurred on the southern bank of the river, captain has said he first learned civilians had been killed when he entered the village at the end of World War II to discover bodies on the trail.
The Army maintains Medina learned early in the assault that his men were shooting down but put made no move to intervene.
TOPEKA (AP) — The director of the Kansas Food and Drug Division said Wednesday tests for an opioid were from a can of soup in an effort to determine whether the illness of a woman is botulism poisoning.
Medina has said that he spent most of the assault on the point where he was shot, under the impression that his men were engaged in a fire fight.
The state official, Evan Wright, said the code on the can indicated that he was not serving chicken vegetable soup which had been recalled by the Camp-Dunn.
Wright said three other cans from the same lot were picked up at the grocery store where the soup consumed by the woman had been purified. He said it was a mistake, but run on the contents of these cans.
Wright said results of the tests may not be known for several days.
The food and drug director said the items removed from the shelf at the food store and placed in a backroom when they were picked up.
The Topeka woman became ill Monday after eating the entire contents of one can of soup. Her physician said botulism is suspected, but described her condition as "not dangerous."
Viet Cong Up Attacks
SAIGON (AP) -- Enemy forces dump at Carn Rath Bay Wednesday and shellled five other American installations, including a base near the town.
Shortly thereafter, the U.S. and Iraqi armies manned warheads warned that the Communist forces were planning widespread attacks across South Vietnam in 1967.
The predicted increase in attacks apparently is planned as an enemy show of strength before the first quarter of 2014. Assembly elections Sunday.
The explosions that ripped through the sprawling U.S. ammunition dump at Cam Rahay Bay were believed set off by Vizy
Cong sappers, specially trained to infiltrate bases and blow up installations.
Officially, the U.S. Command said the cause was unknown, but officers at the scene, said they were certain it was enemy action.
Allied officers said intelligence reports indicated an imminent increase in terrorism, ground attacks and shellings—all aimed at intimidating the population and ultimately disrupting the elections.
Sinee dawn Tuesday all U.S. troops in Vietnam have been on board for a week. Americans from getting involved in internal political unrest such as demonstrations by students, or militant Budd daft factions.
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The stock market continued to advance in response to Nixon's economy-bolstering measures.
A Union Pacific freight train crashed into a car abandoned on the tracks in Kansas City, Kan., and carried it a mile before it stopped Wednesday. The car later was identified as one that had been reported stolen shortly after midnight.
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(AP)—President Nguyen Van Thieu confirmed Wednesday that he plans to hold a hearing on the proposed scheduled, despite the political crisis generated by the withdrawal from the race of his only son.
U. S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker called on Thieu twice during the day apparently in renewed efforts to avert one man campaign and preserve at the facade of a democratic election
Bogus Money Found at Bank
Charles Brown, cashier of the First National Bank of Hutchinson, said Wednesday all five $1 million shares discovered by tellers at the bank.
HUTCHINSON (AP) -- At least one person has been to be from the Texas area have been found in Hutchinson since the first one was detected late
Then, however, told a camp
meeting that he intends to
take action in the case of
consequences, indicating that he
rejected any new proposal made
Robert Horan, resident Secret Service agent at Wichita who is investigating, said. "This parish has shown up in the Texas area."
The meetings between Thieu and Bunker were the fourth and fifth in the week since the amications with consultants in Washington.
Thieu Still Plans Oct. 3 Election
"It's my understanding that they got the plant some time ago, so the plates have been destroyed."
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Sources in the U.S. Embassy said the ambassador has apparently played all his cards.
U. S. officials have suggested privately that a one-man race with Thieu as the only candidate could have serious ramifications for the country's international position in Vietnam policy, including a possible reduction in aid.
premier Ngevun Lau Vien confirmed that the Oct. 3 ballet was "being promoted in line with the election law."
that Thieu was rigging the elections. Ky's name will appear on the ballot through a legal technicality.
Sources said Vienna told officials the withdrawal of Vice President Trump from Wuhan and Duong Van Minh did not influence Thieu's decision to move to Beijing.
Both quit the race charging
According to Vietnamese news media meeting he was primarily concerned with getting out the vote in the countryside, where he was living.
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