The Times Recorder (Newspaper) - June 25, 1970, Zanesville, Ohio Good Morning There are a tot tf things it years Earl The Recorder For A Slant On Women's Read Jim Bishop In Friday's TR VOL. NO. PAGES 43701 JUNE 25, 1970 TEN CENTS Measure Requires House Approval Tonkin Repeal Passed In Senate WASHINGTON Senate voted to repeal the Gulf of Tonkia Resolution five 324 battlefield deaths and countless words of acrimony after it was rushed through Congress hi 1964 at President Lyndon B. son's urgent request On a roll call vote of 81 to 10, the repealer was made part of a million foreign military sales that will require House approval and President Nixon's signature before it becomes Sen. J. William D- who supported the tion in 1964 but bitterly denounced it afterward as a piece of Johnsonian voted against repeal His reason was that administration forces had made an end run around his Senate Foreign Relations Committee in violation of the of the procedure which is important to the Also opposing repeal was Ernest who said administration supporters were trying to prove that government will not and that the is Also against repeal of the measure that Johnson used to swell U.S. involvement ia Vietnam from a force of advisers to an army of a men were James B. James 0. Sam J. Russell B. John L. D- Gale John C. and Henry The Tonkin Resolution the President to ail necessary including the use of armed to repel Communist aggression in east But the administration already has disavowed the resolution as the legal ning for its Southeast Asian and the to wipe it off the was more than administration supporters ing the initiative to repeal it and stealing an emotional issue from the antiwar the vote was not even considered very The Johnson administration saw the Tonkin Resolution as functional equivalent of a declaration of and used it frequently to assert the macy of war when sentiment in Congress began to turn The Nixon administration claims the resolution is obsolete because it is now withdrawing U.S. troops from the Robert who introduced the repeal ment with White House said the President's constitutional authority as com- was all needed to retain troops in Vietnam and to protect their lives by attacking Communist sanctuaries inside Cambodia Decision Praised SAIGON com- mander of the major U.S. unit operating inside Cambodia summed up the Allied offensive Wednesday as There were new reports of American warplanes flying direct support missions deep inside was a brilliant decision that really changed the military balance here in said Maj. Gen. George W. Casey of the orders that sent American and South Vietnamese troops into Cambodia on April 29 to destroy Communist enemy may well be forced into a guerrilla type of at least in the immediate Casey is the commanding of the U.S. 1st Air Cavalry a unit which has been operating in the Fishhook area of Casey's men reported seizing enough supplies in the area to equip Communist troops for a and he said would prevent them from launching major attacks on allied positions in South la an interview with UPI correspondent James Casey said field commanders were accelerating the departure of American troops from Cambodia to meet President Nixon's June 30 deadline for complete instructions are at this time to be out completely by June 30 and we have no plans at ail for going back Casey American air power will fill the gap when the ground forces are and in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh official spokesmen credited U.S. air strikes with playing a major part in easing pressures on the strategically located city of Kompong Military sources here in Saigon said French-speaking American pilots flew missions against Communist be- sieging Kompong miTes north of Phnom with airman flying along in the back seat of aircraft specially designed foe There has been no official confirmation of the direct air but Saigon quarters has announced lie beginning of American raids on Communist supply lines in Cambodia well beyond the 2L7- mile limit set for ground Mideast Marine Acquitted Of Murder -I View From The Locks The River offered a serene setting Wednesday morning tat Times Recorder Marjorie as she took this picture from tte lock This is near the site where a public park area is being developed by the Harlem Defeats Powell NEW YORK assemblyman Charles who defeated Adam Clayton Powell Jr. in the Democratic said that Harlem no longer afford the luxury of an Adam Clayton Whatever the voter support which had kept the flamboyant 61-year-old Baptist minister in public office since 1941 had dwindled until it was no longer strong enough to bring hiro victory in Tuesday's His votes made him second to Bangel who received On Wednesday Powell was nowhere to be found in the black which he had represented in the House since largely on an absentee basis in recent He disappeared in the early morning hours after from his campaign ters a white reporter who asked you think you have stupid can you replied the confident Powell who had been returned to office election after election without more than a casual swipe at This year he didn't bother at convinced that the voters who had always the would remain faithful to Big as he to be Powell didn't even bother with the niceties of election He just slipped away somewhere in the night in his powder blue pants and open pink shirt conceding to 40-year-old Not many people questioned later in the day in Harlem's stifling streets seemed to Powell wasn't at his office at the Abyssinian Baptist largest Baptist congregation in the It was locked and the phone rang If he had a home in no one has known the address for one of the least of the Bahamian was his real Ceasefire Proposed By United Press International A highly placed Lebanese political source said Wednesday the United States has proposed a three-month to the Arabs and Israel while efforts are being made to solve the Syrian troops ed crossing into occupied Israeli territory and killing or wounding 17-5 A Syrian military spokesman said in Damascus Wednesday night that Syrian army units crossed the Golan Heights ceasefire line under artillery support and were accompanied by an armored unit and mechanized The report on Israeli ties was the highest made by the Syrians since thj 1967, Israeli military spokesmen also said fighting raged along the Golan Heights ceasefire but edged only eight Syrian units destroyed 12 four troop six transport 13 five observation posts and two radar stations the Damascus spokesman He added that an Israeli Skyhawk plane was also shot down and five artillery and mortar emplacements were put out of DA Vietnam A one-man U. S. Marine ry court Wednesday acquitted Pfc. Thomas R. 20, on all charges in connection with the alleged massacre of 16 women and children by a Leatherneck patrol last The young Marine from had faced a possible life sentence if ed on the which included unpremeditated Boyd cried when the verdict was an- by military Judge Lt. Col. Paul St. Amour of Mass. The judge earlier in the day had rejected a defense motion to acquit The then embraced his civilian Howard P. 36. also of Boyd is the second of four Marine enlisted men to come to trial in connection with the shooting of women and children in a hamlet in Son Thang Village during a night patrol last Feb. 19. Last a court-martial convicted Pvt. Michael A. 21, of and sentenced him to The sentence m subject to review by higher military A court spokesman said Pvt Randall 19, of and Pvt. Samuel G. 18, of Ohio would be tried next was Thou shaft not he is never right to shoot at Inside Today's Times Recorder Biggest Horse Drive Completed One of the biggest horse drives in the West has been completed and its success depended upon men in the saddle seven A photo feature on this appears on Page 6-B. Cambodian Decision What confuses many people about President Nixon is that he does not always work through channels when he makes a A military analyst discusses this on Page 4-B. Four In Bridge Accident Almanac Births Bridge Calendar Classified Comic Crossword Dear Abby Deatns Earl Wilson Financial News 7 C Jack Anderson 2 A 1 B Jeane Dixon 6 D 6 C Letters To God 6 D 1 B Memory Lane 2 A 4-5 D Movies 7 C 5 C Polly's Pointers 3 C 6 A Police News 5 B 2 C Sports Pages 1-3 D 2 B State Report 7 A 7 C 3 A S C Women's Pages 1-5 C Maine bridge construction platform on which 15 men were working collapsed dropping 11 of them 95 feet to the Four men were killed and seven were three As ine movable platform beneath the highway bridge gave way at one three workers grabbed girders and one got caught in a They was in stark terror as I FORECAST Partly cloady and cool ing and cooler on Page 2-B) Draft Lottery Drawing Set WASHINGTON Service officials day announced an elaborate two-step lottery system de- signed to assure that the July 1 drawing for next year's draft call will be Man and computer will be combined in the revised lottery operation to meet complaints from draft eligibles as well as statisticians that the first such fishbowl drawing last Dec. 1 was not as random as it could have Curtis W. the new Selective Service said he and his staff believe next week's lottery will be impartial and a fair means of determining the order of of young men turning 19 years of age this But Tarr admitted at a news conference that it is impossible to estimate how many men will be in the 1AA pool next primarily because Congress has not yet decided whether to end college student deferments as asked by ident This year's pool was about 1.8 million he The next which will determine what order men born in 1951 will be called into will have no effect on existing now ing such deferments will keep them but will be called in their newly assigned sequence when the deferments The drawing will be cast nationally from the Com- merce Department auditorium beginning at 10 a.m. EDT Wednesday and is expected to last 90 In the last affecting men born in 1950, capsules containing 366 possible dates were put into a revolving drum and simply drawn one at a time to determine in what order eligible men bora on each date would be Men born on the first date drawn went first and those born on the last date picked were to be inducted The new which worked out will involve a Capsules in one will contain 365 dates was no leap year m 1951) and the capsules in the other will hold slips numbered 1 through 365. As soon as a birthdate is drawn from one a number will be drawn from the other to set the order of call for all men bom on that For if the first drawn is June 4 and the first number is all joung men who famed 19 on that date this year will know they are 4lst hne at their local draft boards starting in Tarr said that ciders to report for cal examinations will go out shortly after the lottery to avoid the confusion that ed after the previous drawing and to let draftees be able to plan their saw my friends fall to the ground said William 27, of one of the three trapped in the There were no I just heard bodies hitting the ground with a sound like wood he He said he grabbed a steel girder reflex I didn't think about what I was Though no official cause was given for the accident on the bridge under construction over the Lorenz think human error caused tne platform to come The platform was beneath tha roadway of the million bridge which will link Interstate 35 the Maine and New Hampshire began in 1968 and is scheduled for completion in 1972. The workmen were moving the platform back and forth on two while removing planking from concrete One construction worker said platform apparently moved outward beyond the point at which it was supported by the Trie he sagged tipping the platform and dumping the men to tne Three of the dead were identified as Karl 20, of George 28, of and Michael 23, The fourth was not identified Firemen on ladders rescued the men from the A large crane was used to rescue the worker snared in the
