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'Twas brilling and the slithy toves . . . '
Sunlight dancing on a rippled lake, caught by a frame of overhanging branches, creates a scene of quiet beauty and the promise of approaching spring.
Pueblo crew member protests war policies
ST. LOUIS (UPI) — Lee R. Hayes, radioman aboard the U.S.S. Pueblo when it was captured by the North Koreans, said Tuesday that peace moratoriums are "a stab in the back of our men in Vietnam."
Hayes, 28, of Columbus, Ohio,
said, "We ought to be asking our
leaders in Washington to win the
war. I'm not a general, but the
last three chiefs of staff have said
we could win the war."
Hayes, a second class petty officer aboard the Pueblo, was responsible for maintaining radio contact with the Japanese. He said, "Our communications were perfect until the North Koreans boarded the ship."
Hayes said the ship's officers "did the only thing they could do" in surrendering the ship and he added that the court martial of Cmdr. Lloyd Bucher was "unwarranted."
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"If they charge one man, they charge us all," Hayes said. "The charges were placed so the facts wouldn't come out."
"Sometimes I had my doubts that America was behind us, especially when I was being beat on," he said. "I don't think this country had to wait 11 months to do something about us. Of course, there are still some Americans who have been prisoners of various countries for years."
Hayes said that while in prison "We were given lectures on Communism. They tried to discredit the Bible and told us that God had been shot down by the Russians. They said the United States would fall from within because of apathy."
Hayes is now a member of the John Birch Society and travels throughout the country to deliver speeches.
Hayes said he had been hocked on some college campuses by members of the Students for a Democratic Society.
State school appropriations upheld by Supreme Court
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The Supreme Court Tuesday upheld for the second time the right of a state to provide proportionately more money to wealthier school districts than it does to poor ones.
The court's brief order affirmed a lower tribunal's dismissal of a suit asking the courts to order equality of educational facilities in school systems run by the state of Virginia.
The Supreme Court, in effect, went along with a U.S. district court's opinion that the courts lack the knowledge, means and authority to dictate the educational quality in various sections of a state.
Last year, the high court unexpectedly agreed with a lower court in an Illinois case that states have no constitutional duty to bring about such equalization
The Tuesday decision was on a suit brought by 11 families with school age children in the county of Bath in western Virginia. It challenged the state system under which larger amounts of state funds are allotted to school districts drawing relatively high revenues from local property taxes.
Test tube baby possible
LONDON (UPI) — A British medical team said Tuesday it hoped to create the world's first test tube baby by the end of the year. Other doctors said the experiment could usher in an era of biological nightmares.
Dr. Patrick Steppe and a team of researchers at Cambridge University announced on British Broadcasting Corporation television (BBC) they expected to replant the egg of a 34-year-old woman, which would be fertilized in a test tube, into her womb within six weeks.
Mrs. Sylvia Allen, who has been unable to have children during her seven years of marriage, said on the program that batches of eggs had been taken from her five times, and fertilized in a hospital test tube.
Steptoe said Tuesday the researchers were waiting for the perfect egg before venturing to fertilize it for implantation into Mrs. Allen's womb.
"This will probably take place in about two to six weeks," said
Dr. Steptoe.
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- Refused to consider an appeal by nine Roman Catholics, including two priests, sentenced to prison for burning draft cards in Maryland, but also refused to examine dismissal of federal charges against 10 persons who burned draft records in Milwaukee.
News of the experiment, which follows years of research by Dr. Steptoe and his team, was greeted with skepticism by British doctors.
- Agreed, in a Mississippi case, to hear a challenge to effects of the 1965 Voting Rights Act on local election procedures in the south.
- In other actions, the Supreme Court:
- Sidestepped the controversy over state abortion laws, letting stand a California Supreme Court opinion that such statutes must not broadly invade a woman's right to protect her life or to decide whether to have children.
- Let stand a ruling in a Louisiana case that a work seniority system outlawed by the 1965 Civil Rights Act cannot be applied in future promotions of black employees.
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