Income key in Sirhan defense
LOS ANGELES (UPI)—Sirhan B. Sirhan, appearing as dapper and self-confident as a young stockbroker, testified on his low income bracket yesterday and his mother, Mary, backed him up in an emotional scene thanking God for meager material benefits.
Sirhan, a 24-year-old
Nixon meets with council
WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Nixon met again today with his National Security Council for further discussion of the potentially explosive Middle East situation
It was Nixon's fifth session with the panel of top diplomatic, military and intelligence advisers since he took office, and the second in four days dealing with the Arab-Israeli crisis.
The chief executive called this latest session to unfold and discuss his plans for U.S. participation in a possible four-power peace conference on the Mideast within the United Nations.
In Paris, meantime, Western diplomatic sources reported the President will arrive in Paris in early March for talks with President Charles de Gaulle, who shares Nixon's deep concern about the Middle East.
Paris will be the first stop on Nixon's forthcoming tour of Europe, the sources said.
As for the President's plans for dealing with the Mideast crisis, it appeared likely he would spell them out at his second presidential news conference Thursday morning.
Franklin Nixed Eagle
NEW YORK (UPI)—Benjamin Franklin strongly opposed the adoption of the bald eagle as a national emblem. He said the bird was of bad moral character and too lazy to hunt for himself.
Feb. 5
1969 KANSAN 5
Jordanian Arab on trial for the murder of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy spoke in a crisp but rather hoarse voice, enunciated clearly, smiled frequently and appeared completely at ease during his 11 minutes on the witness stand.
His testimony was designed to prove he was in a low income bracket and the grand jury which indicted him for murder was chosen unconstitutionally because it included only persons of higher income.
Sirhan's testimony was in support of a defense motion to quash the grand jury indictment, but after the defendant's appearance the motion was denied by Superior Court Judge Hernrt V. Walker on two grounds—that it was irrelevant and on its merits.
Walker then adjourned the trial unit Wednesday morning, when the jury will be sworn and
selection of alternate jurors will begin.
When Sirhan took the oath, he raised his right hand with first clenched. His testimony was confined largely to "Yes, sir," and "Yes, I do," when he was shown income tax records for identification by defense counsel Grant B. Cooper.
Read into the record were his income tax statements for the years 1964 through 1967. His top net income was in 1966 when he received a total of $2,212.46, part of it for work as a race horse exercise boy on a ranch in Riverside County.
His 56-year-old mother then testified as to her income—which has been in the under-$2,000 bracket for a job at the Westminster Nursery School in Pasadena.
At the conclusion of her
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"I thank God he gave me the strength. I thank you nice people that I never got hungry and that I had a roof over my head."
She said she makes her own bread and saves in other ways.
She said she quit her job Jan. 15 and her salary was $92.21 every two weeks. From this she said she managed to pay $70 a month on a $12,000 house she is buying.
The defense has stated in court there is no dispute about the "mechanical act" of killing Sen. Kennedy. Cooper told prospective jurors the bullet that killed the presidential candidate was fired by Sirhan but stated his intent—his state of mind—must be determined to decide the degree of guilt, if any.