Independent Press-Telegram (Newspaper) - December 11, 1971, Long Beach, California INDEPENDENT Sports Page C-l HE No 40 PAGES LONG BEACH CALIFORNIA SATURDAY DECEMBER 11 1971 WEATHER Cloudy at times today with an chance of High 58 low 46 Complete weather Page VOL 102 Senate confirms Rehnquist Demo presidential contenders vote No WASHINGTON UPI With liberals abruptly abandoning their struggle to delay a vote the Senate confirmed William H Rehnquist for the Supreme Court by a vote day giving President on a clear conservative majority on the nation's highest tribunal Five contenders for the 1972 Democratic tial nomination voted against Rehnquist year-old assistant attorney general and former lawyer from Phoenix Ariz They were Sens Hubert H Humphrey Minn Henry M Jackson Wash ward M Kennedy Mass George S McGovern and Edmund S Muskie of- Maine The galleries were filled to near capacity and Vice President Spiro T Agnew was presiding for the call vote climaxing a week of debate in which quist was accused by foes of a record of indifference lo civil rights and ual liberties Rehnquist and Lewis F Jr 64 a mond Va lawyer and for- mer American Bar president who was confirmed Monday by an vote probably will take their seats when the Supreme Court returns Jan 10 from a Christmas holiday They will fill two cies that have existed since late September when Justices HUgo L Black and John M Harlan re- signed because of failing health Black died shortly afterwards Nixon said he was ex- tremely gratified and predicted in a statement that both new justices will bring to tile bench an ex- degree of ty and intellect and so keen an understanding of the judicial process that the quality of court deci- sions should be enhanced for years to come Rehnquist wearing a yellow shirt and polka dot tie and grinning broadly after the vote met newsmen in his office suite at the Justice Department where he has served as chief legal counsel since early 1969 I want to express my thanks to the Senale for having confirmed me again to President Nixon for having shown dence in me by nominating me and to the many pie in and out of ment without whose loyal support the outcome might have been he said Powell and Rehnquist will make four justices that Nixon has placed on the high court in an ted effort to give it a more conservative turn His er nominees are Chief lice Warren E Burger and Justice Harry A With Justice Byrnn Whizzer White a dy appointee already on the bench the tives will hold a clear In addition to White tice Potter Stewart times votes with the con- although not as frequently as White This leaves only Justice liam 0 Douglas Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan Jr from the core of the Warren court The decision to vote on nomination was unexpected Liberals had insisted that not Turn to Back Page Col 5 William Reimquist all smiles UAW votes on LB pact Sunday Douglas Canada bid fails As United Auto and Aerospace Union workers at the Douglas Aircraft Co plant in Long Beach pre- pared lo vote Sunday on terms of a new three-year contract members of the same union in Canada day voted to continue their old walkout at Douglas Aircraft of da Ltd The Canadian workers members of UAW Local The Lockheed Aircraft Corp has reached agreement with employes on a new contract viding wage and fringe increases the company an- Friday A Lockheed spokesman said the agreement with the International Association of Machinists and Aero- space Workers covered employes in Burbank Palmdale and Sunnyvale Calif and in Marietta Ga The contract is subject to union membership ratification 1967 refused to take a cret ballot on an offer they rejected from the company last month The international union of United Auto ers ordered the Canadian executive and gaining committees to pear at a hearing in De- troit today and show cause why the strike should not be terminated Dennis vice-president and director of the UAW said the order was issued be- cause the local refused to take the second ballot and because terms of the Douglas offer were similar to those worked out by for UAW workers in California and Oklahoma The second secret ballot was to be on a three-year proposal Douglas made Nov 13 Described by the company as its last offer it would have given the men increases in existing hourly rates of to A key issue Back Page Col 1 SIGNING TAX CUT tax cut signed by Nixon GIs to get early discharges WASHINGTON UPI President signed a Christmas tree of billion in tax cuts for businessmen and ers Friday and urged Con- gress to repeal its sion for federal financing of presidential election campaigns Going into effect will be a rebate of repealed federal excise taxes to individuals who have bought new cars since Aug 15 Nixon called it a shot in the arm for the country and its my The long-range billion reduction in taxes over three years approved by Congress Thursday night features ment of a tax credit to en- courage businesses to in- vest in capital expansion as well as repeal of the 7 per cent auto excise levy It also increases al income tax exemptions and standard deductions provides export incentives and allows the first tax de- for babysitters for working parents Congress wrote into the a Democratic provision 12 rescued after on raft two days HONOLULU HI freighter Friday reported plucking from the Pacific six men and six women who had spent most two days in a raft ter abandoning a listing Danish container ship on Wednesday The Coast Guard said a message relayed from the rescue vessel the Puna the survivors generally good indicated were in condition The survivors did not know whether any of the remainder of the ber crew got off the en vessel the Heering Kirse a long chant ship owned by AF of for voluntary taxpayer contributions to a tial campaign fund that could have guaranteed each major parly as much as million next year But to avert a threatened veto the final delays the tax checkoff plan until the 1976 elections AT A ny in the White House Cabinet Room Nixon told a group of lawmakers that the was a Christmas tree something for all Americans But he said it was a Christmas in the good sense and not the typical legislation that will break down the tree Nixon said Congress put the interest of the country first and came for- ward with a very ble tax despite the prophecies that it would be impossible to do so Nixon had threatened lo veto the measure if it had come to his desk ing sions raising the tax cuts to about billion over three years and iding for an election Turn to Back Page Col 5 WASHINGTON HI The Army Friday announced that thousands of term draftees and teers due for discharge next year will be released up to six months early to bring Army strength down to by June 30 as dered by Congress It was believed that the reductions would affect about GIs The discharges will be mandatory except for those men and women who indicate in writing that they plan to re-enlist for a second term the Army said The new policy is tive immediately and will remain in effect until June 30 In some men will be discharged up to 18 months earlier than mal if they agree to join a National Guard or Army Reserve unit GIs in Vietnam must complete their assignments there but will then be eligible for diate discharge if they have less than 12 months remaining in the service The Army said soldiers serving in the United States will be discharged 179 days early one day short of six months This will enable them to com pie le the 18 months tive duty required in order to receive veterans fits Soldiers in Europe will be discharged five months early the Army said Draftees normally serve two-year tours Men who enlist voluntarily normally are required to serve three years To beef up its guard and reserve forces the Army said three-year volunteers will be discharged up to 18 months early but only if they pledge to join the backup forces for the re- mainder of their term of service Until now they were gible for discharges six months early if they planned to join the re- serves The reductions follow cuts announced earlier this year In August the Army said draftees would be sent home up lo four months early This was followed by an announcement in October that about officers and enlisted men would be discharged earlier than normal to enable the Army to get down to its strength Current Army strength is about one million Tlie Nixon tion had planned to reduce the Army to by the end of next June But Congress recently ordered a further cut which will bring the strength to by next summer the lowest in 11 years The Army did not say how the latest cuts would affect next year's draft calls But Secretary of the Army Robert F Froehlke said in October that there would be a continuing need for draftees because we cannot have squads made up entirely of sergeants India troops close in on Dacca Associated Press Indian troops hurdled their last barrier to on Friday an army spokesman claimed and officers suggested they might seize the East stan capital in a few days The army spokesman said troops crossed the River 36 miles from the city and carved out a sizable bridgehead on the west bank A pooled dispatch by newsmen in Dacca said other Indian forces had reached kandi 22 miles southeast of Dacca but still had ers to cross On the far-distant mir front a Pakistan spokesman claimed that Pakistani troops repulsed a Indian attack killing 300 troops He said the abortive Indian attack supported was in the Kargil area along the cease-fire line established in 1949 The two countries went to war over Kashmir again in 1965 Kashmir is adjacent to West Pakistan which is separated from East san by miles of an territory The spokesman in claimed Pakistani forces destroyed 23 Indian FBI crime data accuracy hit WASHINGTON UPI A presidential commission said Friday that crime are inherently curate and often ing but it took no position on one member's that the task of compiling them be taken away from the FBI A report prepared by Haas Zeisel a University of Chicago law professor and presented to President Nixon said the FBI uses crime statistics to force the police view that is in the grip of a crime wave caused partly by lenient courts Zeisel urged that for gathering crime figures be shifted to an in- dependent agency after the Bureau of Labor Statistics which compiles unemployment and cost of living data The FBI asked for com- ment said it reports crime data with no emphasis or interpretation analysis was a report the President's Commission on Federal Statistics The re- port was presented to on at the White House by the commission chairman W Allen Wallis chancellor of the University of ester Since the FBI has had the task of compiling crime reports from he law ment agencies and ing national crime figures Through and emphasis the FBI has used the statistics it col- for the tion of its sel wrote Nobody denies the FBI the right if not the duty to fight for its he said But such partisan spirit is not com- patible with the ty and objectivity required of an agency responsible for a most crucial part of our statistical the measurement of part of our national health The broader danger lies in the prospect that the lice view may exert an in- appropriately large ence on our law ment he said Zeisel said FBI figures show a steady increase in crime without ing statistically for an equally steady increase in population He said the figures often are made to show that the courts do not always do what is needed for in- stance when they fail to convict men who turn out to have the highest Turp to Back Page Col 1 tanks and three aircraft in other Kashmir battles In other Pakistan navy spokesman said Indian craft made a new raid on Karachi harbor but were driven off by Pakistani planes The spokesman said the wife and child of the captain of the can ship Gulf Star were killed in a previous raid on the harbor Wednesday night Zulfikar Ali Bhutto new deputy prime minister and foreign ter arrived in New York and met with the top ed Nations delegate from Red China which has backed Pakistan in its dis- pute with India Agha Shahi Pakistan's said his country does not plan to ask for an immediate Security cil meeting on the war spokesman for In- dia's government in New Delhi said India and la Desh the Bengal tion proclaimed by East Pakistani rebels reached an understanding for the return of an estimated 10 million refugees to East Pakistan India pushed into East Pakistan in support of the rebels who are fighting for independence from West Pakistan The gees in India fled East Pakistan after the stan army cracked down on the independence ment last March The government man in New Delhi said the understanding between In- dia and Bangla Desh calls for a speedy return to normalcy and of essential public services in East Pakistan presumably ter defeat of the Pakistan arm there Radio Pakistan insisted that in East Pakistan all important towns are under our control The radio quoted a Pakistan army spokesman and did not mention India's claim of crossing the River or the reported Indian ad- vance from the southeast The Indian forces at must cross three arms of the River before reaching a river port which is the last major town on the way to Dacca the pool dispatch from there said It reported that troops were falling back to defend Dacca and that sources close to the Pakistan high com- mand said officials were in a low mood AN INDIAN army spokesman in Calcutta Turn to Back Page Col 1 WHERE TO FIND IT BUILDERS REACH accord with striking sters Page HOUSE VOTES controls extension for Nixon Page SENATE UPHOLDS Nixon's antipoverty veto Page MUSKIE CAMP offers chairmanship to both Cranston and funney Page RUSSIANS tour rural America Page REGION United Crusade tops mark Page Action Line Classified Comics Financial Gardening Obituaries Religion Shipping Sports Television Vital Statistics
