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of town but I don’t know where.
He didn't knock them out and Asian mission. It was sent on its
tion of a felony.
"There had been a burglary
Cambodians Cede
See MUSKOGEE, Page 4A, Col. 5
Provinces To Reds
Have More
BELFAST, Northern Ireland ver-armed Protestants and Ro-
WASHINGTON (AP) - Smok-
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Oklahoma is insincere in his
area.
held “at all costs."
Weather To Stay
draft evasion conviction of Jer- would be helpful."
felt it had no alternative but to
On the possibility of another concede nearly half the country
He said more college scholar- On Torrid Side
civilian
Penner had refused induction na. he reported to newsmen:
in Lawton and Southwest Okla- sides.
homa at least through Monday.
SM HARRIS, Page IA, Col. 3
provinces of Ratanakiri, Mon-
See CRASH, Page 4A, Col. 2
See CAMBODIA Page 4A, Col. 5
WHAT'S INSIDE
Sill la Bear Brunt Of Army OCS Cutback
see jailing sparks, Pope 4A, col. i conclusion that Penner was in-
By EILEEN POWELL
at Tabor college in Hillsboro,
was born into one of the historic
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Nixon Lends Support
To Asian Diplomatic
Peace-Seeking Team
Negotiated
Settlement
City Reservoirs
Show Slight Loss
Harris Says
Indians Must
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high court that it should order
a district court to dismiss the
the course of their mission
sound out possible peace iny
tives. A
of Bernadette Devlin, raged in-
to the early morning hours Sun-
menle, Calif., quarters, talked
by telephone with each of thre
Asian envoys who were at Rog
ers State Department office /
refugees.
Cambodian
Rogers said “If it were possi- Phnom Penh said two weeks
ble to reactivate the ICC, that ago the Cambodian government
diplomats were also at New spokesman said in Saigon the
Delhi, Paris, Warsaw, London evacuation was carried out at
and th eUnited Nations before the request of Gen. Lon Nol.
Premier Jack Lynch of the Irish
Republic issued a special state-
ment in Dublin early Sunday,
British troops exchanged gun-
fire with snipers while revol-
EDITORIALS, OPINION COLUMNS
PAPA JACK'S MUSEUM REOPENS
CANDI EARLEY DISCUSSES 'HAIR'
PEPSIS WIN 15TH STRAIGHT
JONES LEADING AT CLEVELAND
REUNION TAKES PLANNING
YOUNG ARTISTS AT WORK
ABBY GIVES ADVICE
ROTC'S FUTURE STORMY
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ships must be available to In-
dian youth, their teachers must
have more training in how to
guide and counsel, and Indian
studies must be upgraded.
Harris said Indian boarding
The officer said they hand-
cuffed him with his own hand-
cuffs.
“For some reason the cuff
didn't catch on my left wrist.
“After putting the handcuffs
12:00 noon
1:00 o.m.
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3:00 n.m.
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authorized use of a motor ve- ticed something in the back seat
hide, all after previous convic- that looked like saddles.
no schooling, 60 per cent have
less than an eighth-grade educa-
tion and the average drop-out
rate is 50 per cent compared
with a national average of 29
per cent.
ry Allen Penner, a Mennonite
youth from Balko. Okla.
sincere in asking for conscien-
tious objector status.
The solicitor general noted
that one of the reports said Pen-
ner had flouted beliefs of his
religion by smoking, drinking
Saturday's Washington stop.
Hope For Settlement
Kan.
“It is the fact that Penner
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Leard Greene. 35, and Cecil in Porum a short time before
McCombs, 36, both of Tulsa, and I had heard over my radio
each charged with kidnaping, that saddles had been taken in
no driver's license and driving the burglary.
while intoxicated. “I went back to my car to get
The officer. James L. John- a flashlight. This was at 10:15
It was an old house but that is “pretty good scuffle" followed, multi-capital journey by a May
all I can say about it.”
I talked to the driver and no-
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worst rioting in more than a across a stretch of no-man’s girls in college is not proof that
year, touched off by the jailing land in Belfast’s Crumlin Road a conscientious objector from
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Northern Ireland’s man Catholics faced each other ing, drinking and carousing with
officials said.
The OCS program, conducted at three Army bases, was
scheduled to produce about 6.509 Army officers during Fiscal
Year 1971, beginning July 1. Army information officials said.
The number has been reduced to about 4,590. they reported.
A total of 6.909 men is scheduled for admission during Fiscal
Year 1971 to the three OCS centers, located at Fort Sill; Ft.
Benning, Ga., and Ft. Belvoir, Va. The normal 33 per cent
dropout rate is expected to decrease the number to 4.500
by graduation, officials said.
Of the three OCS centers. Fort Sill is the only one showing
a decreased projected enrollment for next year.
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and carousing with girls while brunt of the cutback. Army statistics show.
Teh ml ... "he ( The OCS cutbacks merely reflect the overall cutbacks in the
Army, Continental Army Command (CONARC), information
"One of them rapped me 17 11-nation meeting of Asian
He said 10 per cent of all U.S. day with three men shot to
Indians older than 14 have had death and scores wounded.
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little then but not too badly, and made me stand up. wards seeking
Two of the men got into my "They thought my hands were there would be no other way
car, one in the back seat with cuffed behind me and were not (for peace) except through a ne-
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parties on such possibilities as
reactivating the international.
Control Commission to help
maintain Cambodia’s independ-
ence and neutrality. They have
also been ascertaining whether
there could be another interna-
tional Geneva-type conference
on Indochina peace, or U.N. in-
volvement in a peace effort.
The three-man Jakarta task
force, which also includes en-
voys from Indesia and Japan,
was rebuffed on the ICC possi-
bility in their recent stop at
Moscow, informants said. T h e
my gun against the back of my watching too well. I had a slap- gotiated settlement.” •
head. The other two men got in- per (a type of blackjack) in my Rogers, who sets off on a g
to the car I had stopped and front pocket and when they two-week Asian trip early Sun-
drove away. weren’t watching, I pulled it out day, told newsmen the Presi-
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Secretary of State W illiam P. Rogers meets with an Asian peace-seeking diplomatic team Saturday al the
state department 1,1 Washington, D.C. From left: Shinsaku Hogen of Japan, Rogers Tan Sri Muhammad
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen.
Fred R. Harris, D-Okla., pro-
posed Saturday creation of a
commission to make Indian ed-
ucation a showcase.
low the age of 9—must be elint- a low tonight in the 70s. High British not to jail Miss Devlin. In a brief to the Supreme be worked out such as reviving namese town of Pleiku in the
the young Catholic civil rights court, Griswold noted that the the ICC, the three-nation polic- central highlands,
leader. appeals court had taken into ing unit which has long been
Fighting also flared anew Sat- consideration FBI reports SUP- See NIXON. Page 4A, Col. 1
urdayin Londonderry, Northern porting a draft review board's
A Cambodian family watches as U.S. armored vehicles of the 24th Infantry Divi-
sion make their way out of the “fish hook" region south of Mimot, Cambodia
I he unit .which has been searching for the enemy in the long-time sanctuary
area, is heading hack to South Vietnam before the June 30 deadline set bv
President Nixon. (AP Wirephoto)
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control of the nation's capital An elderly Lawton man was several hundred ------------
killed and five others injured troops, who according to the
was sentenced to five years in terested in considering a confer- west. Saturday in a two-car crash on South Vietnamese lacked weap-
prison. The 10th Circuit Court ence—any kind of a conference The civilians and a battalion the k Bailey I urnpike about on51 Nee orought with the civil-
"I ask our own people in the of Appeals upheld the convic- that would carry hope for a set- or so of Cambodian troops were 168 noth of Chickasha. a05 to Pleiku and a nearby for-
The U.S. Weather Bureau said Republic not to worsen the posi- tion, but Penner’s lawyers ap- tlement.” pulled out of the towns of Bo eIe MI,um was-identified as . Dase Camp Enari.
here would range tion in any way or deed,” Lynch pealed to the Supreme Court Other U.S. officials said it is Kheo and Labansiek about 39 ee HPonp,oib05Bsaiontonoldingthecap-
900 children, including 9,000 be-from a high today of 99 to 104 to said. He said he had warned the last May. possible that something might miles west of the South Viet- AI 8 W aro saiduasa0 1 nee northeastern
m* ........ - ■■ nompson was a passenger in a provinces. Communist com-
pickup truck driver by Marylin mand forces also control five
Thompson, 32, of the same ad- other provincial capitals and
ie dress, which collided about are fightinn to gain control of
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SAIGON (AP) — The Cambo- dulkiri and Stung Treng became The United States is under,
dian government virtually almost fully under the control of stood to have urged the Cambo.
abandoned three northeastern 1 he North Vietnamese and the dians to attempt to hold the two
provinces to the enemy Satur- Viet Cong. towns in hopes the presence of
day. withdrawing on an emer- The Ho Chi Minh trail from troops would help U.S. aerial
gency basis 8.099 Cambodian North Vietnam runs through interdiction raids against enemy
civilians and troops to South these provinces, supply and troop trails in that
Vietnam's central highlands. Cambodian military spokes- area.
A South Vietnamese military men previously had said that Bo The evacuation operation be-
' Kleo ano Labansiek would be gan last Wednesday with a
MUSKOGEE (AP) - Three ston, 41, Warner. said he was
1 1 men were arraigned Sal- kidnaped near his hometown
urday on charges connected and forced to drive to Tulsa
with the kidnaping and beating where he was beaten by two of
of a Muskogee County deputy four men he had tried lo ar-
sheriff who was left for dead rest. He then was driven to a
F riday night. spot near Barnsdall and left for
Authorities continued their dead after another beating.
search for a fourth man be- Johnston was treated for in-
lieved to be involved in the in- juries at a Tulsa hospital and
cident. released.
Charged Saturday, and held “I stopped a car on the north
without bond, were; edge of Warner when it crossed
Jack Oral Stewart, 27. Tulsa, the center line onto the wrong
charged with robbery with fire- side of the road on U.S. 64.”
arms, assault with intent to kill, Johnston said Saturday.
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The post's Field Artillery OCS. which this fiscal year admit-
ted about 2,809 cadets in 25 classes, has a projected Fiscal
Year 1971 input of 758 cadets in six classes, CONARC officials
said.
Infantry OCS at Ft. Benning is scheduled to jump to 3.929
students in 29 classes next fiscal year, compared to 2.899 men
in 14 classes this year.
Ft. Belvoir is scheduled for 2.222 men in 29 engineering OCS
classes next fiscal year, compared to 1.979 men in 17 classes
this year.
The cutbacks also are affecting officer basic courses, those
attended by ROTC graduates. West Point cadets and OCS
graduates commissioned in fields other than their school's
specialty (for example, a Fort Sill OCS graduate commissioned
in the Signal Corps).
This fiscal year, 22,312 men were scheduled for officer basic
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“I was forced to drive to some and got both of them in the dent and he expressed U.S. sup-
house in Tulsa on the east side same swing." port for the endeavor of the
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5,000-man South Vietnamese
trust into Cambodia from the
highlands.
The move originally was an-
nounced as a drive to evacuate
ethnic Vietnamese from the two
towns.
The majority of those evacu-
civilians, police and troops were
injured.
As the situation worsened.
• WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi-
E dent Nixon and Secretary of
Jr State William P. Rogers voiced
U.S. .support Saturday for the
“ efforts of an Asian diplomatic
I team in seeking a peaceful set-
• tlement of the Indochina con-
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Diplomatic informants in
The level of Lake Lawtonka
dropped about five inches dur-
ing the past week and Ells-
worth declined two inches, re-
ports from the reservoirs indi-
cated Saturday. peace churches and has not left
Lawton's level fell from 5.90 it - Griswold told the Supreme
feet below' the top of the flood Court. “True, his conduct has
gates to 6.33 feet down. Ells- not always been exemplary. It
worth dropped from 7.99 feet be- is likewise true that such mis-
low the spillway to 8.14 feet, conduct could indicate a gener-
Lawtonka’s level is 18 inches al lack of sincerity
lower than on Jan. 3, 1970. “But much of the evidence of
and Ellsworth is down 1.56 misconduct here—in the vague
feet, or also about 18 inches. j See DRAFT, Page 4A, Col 3
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were treated for gunshot Supreme Court.
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They took him elsewhere in been sounding out interested
p.m. I here were several saddles on, they pul me down on the Envoy Talks f'<
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