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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1969
Page
13
Weather forecast for northeast Kansas shows cloudy skies with intermittent rain tonight and Saturday. Lows around 40 tonight and highs near 40s on Saturday. Five day forecast indicates temperatures 3 to 5 degrees below normal with normal highs in the mid 40s and lows in the upper 20s and precipitation near a quarter inch toward period end.
Maj. Charles Robb said he anxious for a Pentagon investigation into claims that Marines under his command killed or injured Vietnamese civilians. He backed a Pentagon inquiry after Sen. Charles H. Percy aide raised charges from a letter by Anthony Martin-Trigona. Robb emphasized he cannot confirm atrocities amid his 200-man unit and noted lack of direct information.
The Kansas Supreme Court stayed Sedgwick County District Court’s ruling that would have freed the 15-year-old detained girl on bond. The stay keeps her in custody while the high court reviews the appeal lodged by the county attorney. District Judge Robert Stephan had said bail was due under the juvenile code, asserting Eighth Amendment and Kansas Constitution rights against detention without bail.
Joseph M. Berg, 25, of 936 Schwarz Rd., posted 1500 bond to appear in county court on second degree burglary charges for the Oct. 7 burglary at The Sound Record and Stereo Center 924 Iowa. Preliminary hearing set for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. Manford G. Weems, 22, of 819 Ark., previously bound over to Douglas County District Court for the same incident, free on 1500 bond. They are charged with taking three stereo turntables valued at 298.50.
Civil rights figure H. Rap Brown appears at Kansas University's Hoch Auditorium for a 7 30 p m talk sponsored by the Black Students Unions. The event marks Brown's only public Lawrence appearance during a Midwest BSU convention weekend with other speakers listed.
Two Israeli passengers freed by Syria from the Damascus hijack flew from Athens to Tel Aviv aboard the same TWA plane. Shlomo Samueloff and Salah Muallem walked onto the Tel Aviv flight with Israeli officials after arriving in Athens in good health, saying they endured reasonable treatment during captivity. They were among 113 aboard when Arab commandos hijacked the Rome to Athens and Tel Aviv flight last August.
Thomas Nast, a 19th century cartoonist, created the enduring portrait of Santa Claus that established the popular image of the folly old elf.
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