Abilene Reporter-News, The (Newspaper) - May 22, 1975, Abilene, Texas Abilene News Without or with offense to friends or foes we sketch your world exactly as it 40 PAGES IN 4 SECTIONS ABILENE TEXAS THURSDAY EVENING MAY 15 CENTS Americans fly out of Laos By PETER O'LOUGHLIN Press Writer VIENTIANE Laos AP Eighteen Americans detained in Savannakhet for nine days by student demonstrators were flown to Thailand tonight aboard a U.S Air Force plane the U.S Embassy said At the same lime an embassy spokesman announced that the evacuation of Americans from Laos would begin Friday by chartered Royal Air Lao jet He said he 18 Americans from including 12 officials of the U.S Agency for International Development and their families as well as an un- specified number of Japanese peace corps workers European missionaries and British volunteer workers were flown to Udorn air base aboard a U.S Air Force attached to the U.S defense attache's Vientiane The release of the Americans and other foreign nationals some of whom had been under loose house arrest since students took over the U.S AID compound in Savannakhet followed the visit of Interior Minister Pheng to the town on Wednesday The Laotian government said today it has decided to ask Washington to pull the agency out of Laos and hand over all aid material in the country Action Line by Ellie Rucker Write Action Line Abilene Bo 30 Abilene Small R N sign in need of hyphen Q Could there be same mystical reason why is not hyphenated on your At first I decided maybe it wasn't customary to hyphenate on large signs then I saw Coca-Cola Sherwin-Williams Hardin- Slmmons So what's the A Our big label on the Cypress St side has a hyphen The little label on the corner of the building doesn't because well because the architect forgot to order it if you must know Our Vice President and General Manager will be sending an urgent note reminding him we need a hyphen as our patrons are restless Q I've heard there Is a in the Texas legislature proposing that confessions made by criminal can't be accepted In court testimony unless an attorney Is present Is it And if so what are the A House 805 was introduced to allow juvenile confessions to be used to prosecute if the confession was taken when an attorney was not present and as long as the juvenile was given the Miranda warning you say may be used against you you're entitled to have an attorney if you want one The we're told is virtually dead Q What's the address of the Com- mon Cause A National address is 2100 M St NW Washington 20037 John Gardner is chairman of the national citizens lobby which was founded in 1968 to help make government more responsive to the needs of the nation and its people Q Somewhere we heard about using vinegar for squash bugs Please find the recipe as we're really bothered by squash bugs A A cupful of vinegar to a gallon of water helps acidify ground but we don't know that it does much for squash bugs dust is great at getting rid of them It's not a chemical won't hurl anything and you can find it in any garden shop says yard authority Paula Carter She says loo thai some people have good luck planting in a circle around the squash It seems to keep bugs away Might try it year Q What's the difference between a tornado alert tornado warning and tornado A We don't have tornado alerts National Weather Service doesn't use the terminology A warning means 1 tornado has been spotted and you're being warned to take cover A walch means tornadoes arc expected to develop but nothing definite has been seen Flag raised on Maj Ray E Porter left and Capl Wall Wood raise the American Hag aboard the Mayaguez after the merchant ship was rescued off the Cambodian mainland last week This picture available from the U.S Navy in Manila Thursday U.S Navy AP Senators oppose Israel aid cut By LAWRENCE L KNUTSON Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON AD senators have signed a Idler lo President Ford saying they will oppose any effort to diminish American support for Israel At a news conference today Sen Hubert H Humphrey one of Ihc signers said that if the Ford administration docs not produce a military and economic aid package for Israel soon Congress will write its own Undue delay as a way of pressuring Israel will not be condoned Humphrey said Reassessment of our foreign policy docs not mean he said It docs not mean isolation and it does not mean we will weaken our assistance lo a stale with which we have been so closely associated for so many years Sen George man of Foreign Relations sub- committee on the Middle East said it would be folly for Israel to conclude the show of is an endorsement of Israeli occupation of Arab territories McGovern said he signed the letter only because he thinks continued U.S support of Israel is in the interest of America and Israel Continued occupation of the Arab territories held since war is a for continued war in the Middle liasl McGovern added Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield a Foreign Relations Committee member was among the senators who did not sign the letter He told newsmen he had not seen the letter and no one had asked him lo sign it Several of the signers appeared at the news conference to emphasize their for Israel and to state their con- cern that uncertainly about American foreign policy abroad might cause miscalculation by nations in and out of Middle East Sen Jacob Javits said the Idler docs not represent any feeling thai the Kord administration is yielding to pressure to abandon Israel We want to cut off speculation aboul any lessening or weakening of our said Sen Richard S signer Sen Jake Garn said he was a little amused because some of those signing the letter also called for cuts in the spending budget Where I would differ wilh them is in their conclusion that we can be strong in the Mideast and weak everywhere Garn said Texans duck as storms descend Four abducted victims held in Zaire By The Associated Press thunderstorms broke out across much of West Texas today dumping torrential rains and hail in some areas and lashing much of the area wilh winds National Weather Service radar detected signs of a tornado 7 miles west of Floydada shortly before 2 but it disappeared without damage Five hours later the Male County sheriff's office reported the sighting of a funnel cloud near the southeast edge of Weather observers said they were unable lo spot il on radar however A severe slorm walch went up for 45 counties in a wide bell centered on a line from near Midland lo Amarillo Former Soviet secret police head powerless MOSCOW AP Radio Moscow an- today lhal Alexander N one time head of the Soviet police has been relieved of his job as head of Soviet trade union system Shelepin's removal from the post the fall from power of he man once considered a chief rival of Leonid I Brezhnev Last Shelepin was forced lo step down from the ruling Communist parly politburo It was believed at thai lime he would soon be stripped of ad- ministrative union job The official radio said a plenum of the central of trade unions relieved Shelepin of his job al his own request al Vi youngest member of the marie a trip to Britain as trade union chief shortly before he was removed from the politburo That visit was plagued by anti-Soviet street demonstrations Shelepin who is believed lo have had a key role in ousting Khrushchev from power was made a full member of presidium now the a afler Khrushchev's fall in He was made chairman of central council of trade unions in 1967 It is widely speculated lhat Shelepin may have tried to lake some of Brezhnev's power as parly head in but losl in the bid V secretary of trade union council will replace Shelepin as its head the official radio said No one has replaced him in the Weather IMl U S DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Service Weather Map Pg AND VICINITY mi IP lodny through sonio IS lo il Ihr LOW IN livri 01 ir iv ni lou T n W TNI 7 1 95 IMA A W Min DAK Tanzania AP Three Stanford University students and a Dulch are believed being held on the western side of Lake Tanganyika in Zaire Reports reaching Dar es Salaam said 40 armed uniformed men kidnaped the four young people Monday night from the Gombe animal reserve on the Tanzanian side of the lake The men invaded reserve from Die lake said they were from Zaire and left in their boats with their victims Stanford said the Americans were Barbara Smuts 24 Ann Arbor Mich Kenneth Stephen Smilh 22 Garden Grove Calif and Carrie Jane Hunter 21 Atherlon Calif The Dutch citizen was named Emilie Bergman They were among about 30 studying chimpanzees and baboons al animal research in reserve The U.S Slale Department said the others would be evacuated There was speculation thai the were members of a guerrilla movement operating in eastern Zaire against the government of President Mobutu Seko The U.S Embassy in Kinshasa the capital of Zaire was notified and the Tanzanian government a to Gombe Two U.S government representatives in western Tanzania were also on their way to Gombe In Garden Grove Calif Mettie Smilh the mother of Kenneth Smith said Stale officials lold her belonged to a group thai wanted to draw attention lo She said Slale Department officials told her the identity of the group but asked her not lo reveal Mrs Smith said she is encouraged by reports lhat kidnapers med I feel a liltle betler since it's a she The Gombe animal reserve is financed by the Leakey Foundation in- Pasadena Calif The president of the foundation said there was nothing subversive in the research work at the Gombe station What are doing is for benefit of all The animal research center is the border and is 30 miles north of Ujiji where Henry Stanley found explorer David Livingstone in It is directed by Dr Jane Goodall a British anthropologist who has documentary films for American television and has written a books on animal behavior Persons at the station said the landed on the lake shore up Iwo park rangers and to the research station a mile inside the park They captured a nightwatchman demanded to know where while were slaying When he hesitated they threatened to kill him The walchman led gang to Hie students and they captured of Then in search of Dr Goodall dut she arid other of house had fled into the bush The raiders left at 2 leaving au number of Tanzanians lied up The raiders said they were interested In foreigners only The witnesses said the raiders Lingala the national language of Zaire and French another language used in Zaire the former Belgian Congo The government ordered Dr Goodall's husband Derek Bryceson to take of operations to recover the students He is Tanzania's director of national parks Kissinger says presence in Laos to be reduced three of those counties Lamb and Terry were placed under a special warning for a time As weather raged winds up to 43 miles per hour a I Air Force Base outside Lubbock and small hail peppered thai locality amid blinding rain Slorms also hit areas in the Texas Panhandle as far north as Dumas and the same kind of weather swept through the Del Rio area on the Mexican border earlier Skies were cloudy and il was un- comfortably warm nearly everywhere in the state Fog hung low around Lufkin in East Texas early in the day Temperatures near daybreak ranged from 79 degrees at Brownsville and in the Lower Rio Grande Valley down lo 60 at El Paso in far Texas Wednesday afternoon's lop marks as high as 99 at Laredo on the Mexican der ANKARA Turkey AP of Slate Henry A Kissinger said today there will be a substantial reduction of the U.S presence in Laos in view of the harassment of Americans by leftist students But Kissinger said the reduction is not considered a evacuation at arc aboul Americans in Laos Kissinger speaking lo reporters after opening session of the Central Treaty Organization meeting that has been reducing American personnel in Laos lo conform to political realities in the country cabinet ministers who U.S policies have been replaced by Pallid Lao ministers and Laotian government has decided to ask lo pull out the U.S Agency for International Development and hand over all aid material in the country Teen drinking problem viewed An official with the Abilene Council on Alcoholism says two out of three Abilene use alcohol and of lhat number 10 per cent will become alcoholics For a look at the problem sec the story on Page IB The Laotian decision announced followed two weeks of demonstrations students the Lao are keeping several dred Americans virtually prisoner U.S housing miles outside Vientiane capital Inside the about 200 students have been occupying the AID compound Monday and holding Iwo U.S Marine guards and an American civilian prisoner Twelve Americans most of employes and six foreigners have been held under loose house arrest in the Laotian own of for a week News Index IOC Business V Business Editorials Obituaries To Your Good Health TV TV Women's Twisters hail hit in Stonewall County Reports of severe weather continued to come in from several Texas towns throughout Wednesday night however most of Big Country apparently was spared However golf hail fell for more than hours at Jaylon in Kent County beginning at about p.m Wednesday No major damage was reported several windows were broken A tornado which the National Weather said struck in open country descended from the skies over Stonewall Counly at about p.m but did no damage An unconfirmed tornado sighting was also reported near about p.m Similar sightings and warnings con- throughout the night most notably in a general area bounded by Falls Lubbock and Amarillo tornado was reported near Floydada Rain was reported only in town where tornadoes and hail were prevalent except for Rotan which received a Irace However a severe for Fisher Mitchell Nolan Scurry ant Stonewall counties was issued through II Thursday At most of the activity was confined to the Lubbock area I I NWS forecasters said Thursday lhal Ihi i possibility of exist through Friday and according to Ihi extended on Saturday as well Temperatures should continue to bi warm as exemplified by high of 90 degrees i A new cool front is expected to Wesl Texas from the northwest Friday causing increasing cloudiness asi moves eastward through the region j
