Kingsport News (Newspaper) - November 24, 1971, Kingsport, Tennessee Drug Users Face School Suspension By BRAD JOLLY Staff Writer The Sullivan County School Board emerged from its first direct encounter with the drug problem Tuesday night with two Central High sophomores suspended for the remainder of the semester for possession of marijuana a new rule calling for a year's suspension for future drug offenders and a motion calling for signs to be placed on county school campuses ning visitors to first check by the principal's office or face prosecution The students one and one came before the board after being arrested for possession two weeks ago when school officials caught them with the drugs and notified the Sheriff's department Both face hearings before Judge Tom Bandy Nov 29 Board members questioned the two for over an hour in an effort to decide if they should be allowed back in school and to determine the source of the drugs The first boy said he had bought the marijuana about two weeks before he was caught at a drive-in restaurant on Ft Henry Drive from an unidentified man He said he bought a matchbox full for about Among the questions the boy was asked by board members Have you ever been to Memorial Have you been warned by other students not to and Will you ever smoke it He said he'd never been to the park hadn't received any warnings and would never smoke marijuana again However when Central principal Kenneth Goff said the boy had refused to cooperate with the investigation the boy said You hear what they do to people who talk The boy said he had only smoked a couple of times from a pipe he had bought He was questioned about where he had bought the pipe and was asked how he could be telling the truth when Sheriff's investigator John Bishop had told Superintendent Pat that the pipe had been smoked until it was about burned out More On Page 4 Col 3 Egypt Goes Dark Is War By United Press International Interior Minister Mamdouh Salem ordered a partial blackout throughout Egypt for Wednesday night Cairo Radio said early Wednesday A partial blackout ordered after the 1967 Middle East war technically has been in force since then but it has been operating in name only and It has been observed only in rare Instances decree meant the government would enforce the partial blackout more rigorously emphasizing the war mood which has gripped Egypt since President Anwar Sadat's warnings over the weekend that the time for the battle has come The order Lights government and private offices and establishments should be restricted and not be visible from the outside The headlights of all vehicles should be painted dark blue All lighted street signs and placards should be darkened Lights in public squares parks and bridges should be cut In half full blackout should take effect once an air raid alarm is sounded Tuesday Sadat told an African peace mission that there can be no peace In the Middle East until Israel agrees to withdraw from all occupied Egyptian territory In Jerusalem the Israeli parliament was called into emergency session and Israeli newspapers warned that Egyptian provocations might renew full-scale fighting In the Middle East Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban told parliament that Sadat's warning to Egyptian troops during the weekend that war with Israel was inevitable combined with In- difference to the crisis by other nations could concoct the recipe for a possible ex- plosion Millions oi Egyptians must die in order that Mr Sadat will not have to conduct negotiations with the state of Israel which aspires to nothing except peace and security with agreed and defensible said Eban A top foreign ministry official In Cairo said Sadat told President Leopold Senghor of Senega MaJ Gen Yakubu Gowon of Nigeria and ministers from Cameroun and Zaire Congo Kinshasa that Egypt's position had More On Page 4 Col 1 VOLUME XXXIV NO 232 PHONE KINGSPORT TENNESSEE 37660 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 24 1971 1 SECTION 12 PAGES Pakistan Reports Indian Offensive -2 WAR VICTIMS These Pakistani children fled into a refugee camp in East Pakistan after their town was destroyed in fighting between India and Pakistan Pakistan officials say they are fighting Indian troops in four sectors of the border By United Press International Pakistan declared a state of emergency Tuesday because of the danger of foreign attack and said fighting with Indian forces was underway in five sectors along its border with India Pakistan radio reported fighting in the Comilla District in East Pakistan It said the attack by the Mountain Brigade of the Indian Division was repulsed following an intense artillery barrage from the Indian side of the border The radio said the 19th Punjab Battalion was completely leaving on the battlefield The rest of the brigade was forced back into Indian territory it said Pakistan Radio said Monday India had launched an offensive against four sectors of East Pakistan Sunday Indian officials have denied the charge claiming that any armed forces on Pakistani territory are Bangla Desh rebels in East Pakistan UPI correspondent Joseph Galloway reported from the West Pakistan capital of Islamabad that a government spokesman refuted the Indian denial This is essentially for all intents and purposes an Indian spokesman said The guerrillas do not have heavy artillery The spokesman said an estimated 130 Indian troops had been killed and 500 others wounded in the fighting since Sunday Pakistani losses were put at an estimated seven dead and 40 wounded Pakistan said the Indian army was holding an area about six miles inside East Pakistan in the Jessore area It said Pakistani troops regained some ground on the Jessore and Sylhet fronts Galloway further quoted the spokesman as saying eight to 10 Indian air force Gnat fighters crossed into Pakistani territory Monday and attacked a patrol of three Pakistani air force The spokesman said two Gnats were shot down and two were missing UPI correspondent Robert Kaylor reported from New Delhi that Indian shot down three of four Pakistani Sabre jets that the Defense Ministry claimed had violated airspace 30 miles northeast of Calcutta and three miles inside Indian territory Prime Minister Indira Gandhi met with her ranking cabinet advisers for about one hour Tuesday afternoon following the announcement over Radio Pakistan that President Agha Mohammad Khan had ordered a state of emergency declared throughout his country Nixon Wins Twice In Senate Nixon Lying Charge VC PARIS UPI The Viet Cong accused the United States Tuesday of bombarding Cambodian civilian populations and said President Nixon was lying when he said American troops would cease their offensive combat role in Indochina The Viet Cong's peace talks delegation condemned South Vietnam's drive into Cambodia to root out Communist Sanctuaries there These new military adventures of the Nixon administration are evidence of the lying character of the American president according to whom American forces have ceased their offensive combat role and will never directly intervene in Cambodia Mars May Be Clearing PASADENA Calif UPI Surface features on Mars showed through the haze of a dust storm Tuesday for the first time since the Mariner 9 television probe went into orbit around the planet 11 days ago The pictures taken during the past three days show a gradual clearing and surface features are now evident in the south polar reported Brad Smith of New Mexico State University a scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory control center here A spokesman elaborating on Smith's statement said surface landmarks such as craters were Indeed appearing in Mariner's pictures but dimly you have to stress that The features are beginning to show through in the south polar region but there are still great parts of Mars that arc simply opaque to the Mariner he said Operation Total Victory SAIGON UPI South Vietnam officially kicked off a new Operation Total Victory offensive Tuesday launching a drive Into the Communists Cambodian sanctuaries north and west of Saigon The drive was aimed at rooting out Communist troops and destroying supplies before the Com- could launch a dry season offensive field reports said The new drive including about troops already in bodia and fresh paratroopers armor and rangers struck into both the rubber plantation country around Krek 55 miles of Saigon and the Beak due west Reading Goes Bankrupt PHILADELPHIA UPI Reading Co operator of the Reading Railroad Tuesday filed for reorganization under the Federal Bankruptcy Act In a petition filed in U S District Court and signed by board chairman Charles A Bertrand the Reading said it was unable to meet its debts as they mature The railroad hard hit in recent weeks by the dock and coal strikes said obligations due and payable totaled about million The Reading said cash on hand at the close of business last Friday was about million Castro Praises Church SANTIAGO UPI Cuban Premier Fidel Castro comparing communism to Christianity received a Bible Tuesday night from Chilean Cardinal Raul Silva Silva presented Castro with a copy of the Old Testament that was printed in Spain during a meeting at the cardinal's chambers in downtown Santiago Castro returning from an tour of provincial Chile emerged smiling and told Com- and Christianity have much in common because they both have been persecuted Silva said they discussed the role of the church as the minor and the spirit of the process of human liberation sought by the gospel and the safeguarding of the fundamental rights of religious conscience weather forecast Cloudy and cold today with light snow diminishing by late morning The snow accumulations should be inches In the mountains and at lower elevations The high is expected to be 40 and the low 30 f 41 and the low was 21 wasa trace oi snow and the total precipitation for the month is Inches WASHINGTON UPI In a barreled victory for President Nixon a proposal to force him to reduce U S troop strength in Europe was defeated in the Senate Tuesday and a second proposal to cut off funds for the Vietnam War was unexpectedly withdrawn by its bipartisan bloc of porters Voting on the troop issue shortly after Nixon passed word it would undermine U S dealings with Russia the Senate trounced 54 to 39 a proposal by Senate Democratic Leader China Takes Council Seat UNITED NATIONS UPI Communist China took the final step toward full United Nations membership Tuesday by occupying the Chinese seat in the Security Council It promptly announced There is no peace on earth Ambassador Huan Hua discarding the Western coat and necktie he had worn here for the past several days reverted to a grey Mao jacket buttoned up tight to its turndown collar Smiling broadly the Huang took his place third from the end of the right wing of the council's horseshoe table between Ambassadors Terence of Burundi and Jacques of France Across the well on the other wing of the horseshoe sat the other big five members side by side Ambassadors Yakov A Malik of the Soviet Union Sir Colin Crowe of Britain and George Bush of the United States Bush welcomed the Peking delegation to the council where it took the seat formerly occupied by Taiwan All of us in the U.S mission look forward to cooperating with the American ambassador said Huang's Security Council maiden address was brief but cordial echoing much of what had been said in the General Assembly last Monday by Chiao but omitting most of what Bush the following day had objected to as the vice minister's intemperate language Since World War Huang said very profound changes have taken place in the world situation Countries want in- dependence nations want liberation and the people want revolution Mike Mansfield to require a cut of in the U S servicemen stationed in Europe A short while fater a bipartisan group of antiwar Senators heeded advice from one of their leaders Sen John Sherman Cooper Ky and withdrew a proposal to cut off funds for pursuit of the Vietnam War Cooper gave no reason for advising of the proposed fund cut-off but Senators who talked to him said he felt it was the wrong time for Congress to confront Nixon with such a constitutional challenge The proposed amendment to a billion defense procurement appropriations was perhaps the last chance for Senate foes of the Vietnam War to assert themselves on the issue this session White House Press Secretary Ronald L following the troop reduction vote that it was a good victory He said Nixon was gratified that the Senate supported his position Congress had already written into law and Nixon signed it only last week language calling for prompt military from Vietnam However Nixon announced he would not be bound by any such congressional policy declaration a development that set the stage for the move in the Senate to resort to Congress power of the purse to force the issue It was the second time this year that the Senate has refused to support a proposed More On Page 4 Col 1 Campaign Tax May Receive Veto AMBASSADOR HUAN HUA takes Security Council scat WASHINGTON UPI President Nixon was reported Tuesday to be giving very serious consideration to vetoing his priority tax because of a campaign financing provision attached by Senate Democrats After a breakfast meeting with Nixon and Senate Republican Whip Robert P Griffin at the White House Senate GOP leader Hugh Scott said the President would await final action on a compromise approved by negotiators before he makes a decision The Democrats who tacked the campaign fund proposal onto the tax Monday night by a vote over strong Republican ob- are confident it will the conference committee meets after Thanksgiving to reconcile differences in House and Senate versions of the measure Although the billion House con- tains no such provision Rep Wilbur D Mills chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and the chief House negotiator is known to favor the plan The Senate version which would cut taxes by billion in three years Is certain to be trimmed in conference Most likely to be dropped is one provision allowing parents a annual tax credit for each dependent with college expenses of a year The final compromise must be approved by the full House and Senate before it goes to the President whose dilemma is that he badly wants tax cuts as part of his economic plans to stimulate consumer spending and business expansion Scott said he strongly urged Nixon to veto the if it contains the Democratic provision allowing taxpayers to designate on their 1971 income tax returns a voluntary con- to the party of his choice or to a campaign fund to be shared by the presidential candidates The President said he would give very serious consideration to my Scott said But he said he would want to see the after it passes the House and the conference I have the impression the is rather in danger and if we have to write a new we may be here a long he said Scott called the campaign provision a pernicious provision tax relief for Democrats rather than the American people an unwarranted and greedy grab from the Treasury The would assure each major party million for next year's presidential campaign unless either decided to use private contributions instead which the Republicans acknowledged they would prefer The Democrats with a million debt still unpaid from the 1968 campaign defend their support for the plan with the charge that the much wealthier Republicans would buy the election with easy help from big business and other fat cats Powell Ok'd Unanimously Rehnquist WASHINGTON UPI The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the Supreme Court nomination of Lewis F Powell Jr Tuesday and voted 12 to 4 to recommend Senate confirmation of Assistant Attorney General William H Rehnquist Opposing Rehnquist In the committee were Democratic Sens Birch Bayh Ind Edward M Kennedy Philip A Hart Mich and John V Tunney Calif opponents have a week to write their minority but Bayh who led ihc opposition In defeating the nominations of Clement F Haynsworth and G Harrold Carswell issued a statement immediately after the committee vote explaining his position I have reluctantly concluded that William Rehnquist approaches the great questions of human liberty in a way which reveals a dangerous hostility to the great principles of equal justice for all people and individual freedom under the of Bayh said Kennedy commended high degree of intelligence and legal ability but said that on almost every occasion when he has spoken out his voice has been a voice of resistance to equal opportunity and of greater government power at the expense of individual liberty The vote favoring Powell 64 a mond Va lawyer and former president of the American Bar Association foreshadowed little if any opposition to him when the Senate acts on the two nominations possibly the second week In December Aides to Senate foes estimated there were 20 to 25 opposed to his nomination A majority of the required for confirmation to the Supreme Court Clarence Mitchell chief lobbyist for the NAACP said the entire Senate and especially members who are candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination must fight to save the U.S Supreme Court from the taint of having an rights justice Sen James 0 Eastland the committee chairman predicted both nominees would be approved On Mr Rehnquist there'll be a fight on him There'll be some talk They have utterly got no case on him
