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Show PAGE THE DAILY FOUR Senate Unit Backs Product Viet Documents Could Give Key To U.S. Codes Warranty Bill -LWASHINGTON (UPI) more to consumers egislation give muscle in the marketplace by and requiring, manufacturers retailers to live up to their product warranties cleared its first major Senate hurdle, June 15. The Senate commerce committee, capping months of intensive work, approved without objection a sweeping bill designed to insure that consumers get their moneys worth whether they buy a corn popper or a car. The bill now goes to the judiciary committee for a review of its legal ramifications particularly its provisions granting the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) broad before it new enforcement powers vote. a for the floor reach may The measure, which would apply to all warrantied products costing $5 or more, would not require warranties on anything. But it would require manufacturers and retailers who issue them to live up to all the terms or face court or government action. Partial warranties would have to be labeled prominently as just that, or such as parts warranty inwarranty against shrinkage stead of hiding provisions in tiny print. A consumer who believed a warranty had not been honored could go right to court and have his lawyers fees picked up by the a gimmick the comdefendant will prompt believes mittee to settle the claim manufacturers promptly out of court. In addition, the FTC would be empowered to take a number of actions against firms suspected of shirking the law including asking a court to require that customers be repaid and levying fines of up to $10,000 per violation on companies that knowingly break it. The FTC would also be handed g more authority to define illegal practices under the act. rule-makin- WASHINGTON ment officials - (UPI) appear Govern- more disturbed about possible diplomatic and foreign espionage consequences from publication by the New York Times of the top secret Vietnam War History than they do by the facts revealed in the documents. The Justice Department won a temporary injunction, June 15, to keep the Times from publishing the series. The Times said it would continue the legal fight against what it called unprecedented suppression of a newspaper. Particular Concern Of particular concern to many officials is the possibility that extensive publication' of diplomatic and military cable texts might allow the Soviet Union to crack the code of other U. S. communications trans- mitted during the early 1960s. You may rest assured that no one is reading this series any more closely than the Soviet Embassy, one official said. Secretary of State William P. Rogers said in a news conference June 15: From my standpoint its going to cause a great deal of difficulty with governments outside the United States, with foreign governments. Have Had Demarches Already we have had demarches (inquiries) here in the State Department asking us about it, he said. And if governments cant deal with us in any degree of confidentiality, its going to be a very serious matter. Rogers predicted the series would have no adverse effect on the Vietnam talks in Paris. Some officials said, however, it seems almost impossible that the report would leave the peace talks unscathed. If the Times had not printed all those texts, one official said, very little might have been done. Stories about the study by themselves not would have caused probably much reaction. Published Cables The achowever, with installments the companied memos numerous texts of high-levwhich were said it and cablegrams, printed verbatim, with only un- Pioneer Black Times, el Big Board Firm mistakable typographic errors Nears Opening - The first member firm of the New York Stock Exchange will be open for business at 64 Wall Street on hitches. June 25, barring The firm, Daniels & Bell, Inc., has secured a seat on the Big Board and needs only formal approval by the Exchange board of governors at their June 24 meeting. The brokerage firm already has been posted for membership, a step which almost always means formal apNEW YORK (UPI) black-operate- d last-minu- te proval. Willie L. Daniels, 33, thus will become the first black chief executive in the NYSEs history. Travers Jerome Bell Jr., also black, is executive vice president and chief operating ficer. Two other vice presidents with key management functions, both white, are Raymond C. Forbes, a former governor of the American Stock Exchange, and Milton P. Aeder, a former examiner for the 179-ye- ar NYSE. A spokesman for Daniels & Bell said the firm has taken a floor at 64 Wall Street and will seek its clients among institutional traders like mutual funds, banks, 'insurance companies and pension funds. corrected. Many were messages between Washington and Saigon or other U.S. diplomatic and military outposts in Indochina. In each case the sender, receiver and date of the message were given just before the text. No one knows how many of these messages, transmitted in code, may have been intercepted by the Soviet Union. But security experts at the Pentagon and elsewhere operate on the assumption that any of them might have been intercepted. Comments Vary Sen. Mike Mansfield, saying he was shocked, surprised and astounded by the Times series, called for a thorough investigation that would place the full story of the war and its origins before the American people. said Rep. John E. Moss, the Times performed a public service and acted legally in publishing the report. Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey said in f., Grand Rapids, Mich., he was shocked and surprised by the report. He said he did not know of the existence of the report while Vice President under President Lyndon B. Johnson. WASHINGTON resident (UPI) -P- Nixon has announced the retirement of Judge Herbert S. Boreman, the second member of the seven-judg- e 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to retire within the last two months. native of a Circuit and Middlebourne, W.Va., will a since assume 1959, Judge tat us us senior judge and will serve only in special Boreman, instances. graduate of West Virginia University, Boreman joins Judge Simon E. Sobeloff of Baltimore, Md., who retired in April from the Appeals Court. Sobeloff was replaced by Judge Donald S. Russell, former South Carolina governor and senator who had been serving as a U.S. District Judge in Columbia, S.C. Boreman served on the board of governors at West Virginia University A 1920 WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1971 D American Men Found Worried Over Violence - men generally, the sample included a larger number of blacks than NEW YORK (ACCN) American men are very worried about violence in this country particularly civil disorder and they often are willing to see substantial police force used to control it. This is one of many findings from a nationwide survey of mens attitudes toward conducted violence, by the of University Michigans Institute for Social Research (ISR). Over 65 per cent of the men questioned in the survey mentioned some form of violence when asked, What things going on in the United States these days worry or concern you? When asked specifically to describe the violent events" in the United States which most concerned them, 68 per cent mentioned some form of civil disorder and protest; only 27 per cent mentioned the much discussed issue of crime. The study findings were presented publicly for the first time at the annual meeting of the Council for the Advancement of Science Writing in New York on May 25. They are based on extensive interviews during the summer of 1969 with a sample of 1,374 men, aged 16 through 64, throughout the United States. While representative of American would such as or almost kill always sometimes in ghetto disturbances and in situations involving a lot of property damage by hoodlums or' student demonstrators. The study also found that American men differed greatly in their interpretation of "violence." When given nine specific events and asked if they were acts of violence, in and of themselves, the men cited looting most often (85 per cent) burglary next (65 per cent), followed by draftcard burning (58 per cent). Only 56 per cent though that police beating students was a violent act, and only 32 per cent considered police shooting looters as violent. 1 Bill Calls for enough to believe that some property damage or personal injury is necessary to bring about needed change at a sufficiently rapid rate. A smaller but still significant number (10 per cent) believed that extensive property damage or some deaths are necessary to bring about change School Principals Secondary (NASSP) reported June 15 that a survey of 11 Southern and two Border States showed that well over 1,200 black school principals have lost their jobs to whites as the South was forced to switch from dual to unitary school systems. Dr. Owen B. Kieman, NASSP executive secretary, said his organization is worried unless that strong steps are taken, the black administrator will be conspicuous by his total absence from the nations schools. The problem of the elimination, displacement, and demotion of Negro public school principals has reached such serious proportions that it requires the intervention of the federal government using its full force and power to bring it to an end, Kieman told a Senate equal educational opportunity committee. But Kieman, who is white, complained that federal efforts to date have been a case of too little and too late to help either the hundreds who have lost their jobs or the thousands of black children who thereby lost black leadership. He and a biracial panel of school administrators testified that the Justice Department and the U.S. Office of Education have done little to curb the trend despite a 1969 court ruling that replacing one educator on a school staff that is being trimmed with another of a different race is illegal. Committee Chairman Walter F. concurred in this Mondale, assessment later to reporters, saying he hoped the NASSP testimony would prod the Justice Department into action. The Nixon Administration policy on civil rights is to do as little as possible, Mondale charged, and they have adhered to it religiously. On a basis, the NASSP detailed the decline of black school administrators throughout the South: 68 Negro principals eliminated in Louisiana in the past two years; a 95 per cent drop in black high school principals in North Carolina since 1963; a decline of Negro secondary school principals in Arkansas from 134 to 12 in eight er te One black principal, Dr. Bettie M. Smith of West Point, Ga., told how she had been demoted to serve under a while man with far lesser qualifications, then replaced with a shoot to thought the police should - side-effe- ct years. been unemployment, discrimination and lack of education, 30 per cent said that the way to prevent violence was through more police force and stricter, more punitive legislation. A particular focus of the research concerned the question of how men justify violence. Two quite different types of violence were studied specifically: violence used for social control (such as police shooting and beating people) and violence used for social change (such as violence occurring in ghetto disturbances or during campus protests). American men on the whole felt that the use of violence was not necessary to bring about rapid social changes in society generally, nor for blacks or students. There was, however, . a substantial minority (20 per cent) pessimistic (UPI) High school principals, both black and White, have urged federal help in of halting a stunning the southern school integration wholesale firing and demotion of black school administrators. The National Association of 35,000-memb- have with social problems - WASHINGTON normally at a sufficiently rapid rate. At the other end of the spectrum, there was a large minority of men willing to tolerate and justify the use of a great deal of violence by police in order to control social unrest. Nineteen to 32 per cent of the men questioned. While most American men agreed that the basic causes of violence rest Black School Administrators Drop In South state-by-sta- .Fourth Circuit Judge Retires RECOR Safeguards in Mental Cases - WASHINGTON (UPI) The civil rights laws have largely ignored the needs of the mentally ill, Rep. Durward G. Hall, said June Young Turks Win 3 Posts in Bar Election D-M- o., 16. Hall proposed a law requiring some preliminary and temporary steps before a person could be given . commitment to a any long-termental institution. 'A slate of NEW YORK (ACCN) The bill Hall drew up for ininsurgents, running against the troduction would require strong official nominees for the executive evidence based on personal obcommittee of the Association of the servation to a preliminary Bar of the City of New York, elected motion for a support determination judges three of its members, including one of mental competency. woman, at the Associations recent The legislation would authorize annual meeting here. examination or temIt was the first time in the psychiatriccommitment for such porary prestigious bar groups examination, only upon a deterhistory that any of its nominating mination by a court that there was committee recommendations were reasonable cause to doubt the overturned, although an un- mental competency of an accused. successful insurgent challenge was A close relative or attorney could made at last years meeting. for periodic reexamination At this years meeting, members petition each six months. also approved the first dues increase has enacted Congress in seven years to offset an operating civil rights legislation, sweeping deficit of $70,000 for the current Hall said. However, these prior fiscal year and an estimated deficit Congresses completely ignored the of more than twice that amount for mental incompetent or the alleged the next fiscal year. insane. Rates of Increase The increase will raise dues of 101-ye- m ar i ... resident-membe- r categories by varying amounts between 15 and 33 per cent over present figures, memsuburban and bers from 31 to 150 per cent and sustaining members 50 per cent. The successful insurgents, who were nominated for the executive committee by petition, were Mrs. non-reside- nt Sheila McLean, 238 votes; Michael A. Varet, 229; and Matthew J. Mallow, 213. One Nominating Committee choice, George C. Gallantz, also was elected with 173 U.S. Would Aid New York City Drug Battle WASHINGTON (ACCN) The of has Department Justice agreed in principle to grant $7.5 million to be matched by $2.5 million from the State of New York to provide for a $10 million program for a city-wivotes. narcotics prosecution force in the The losing Nominating Committee of New York. choices were Robert Kasanof, 154 City funded If by the New York State votes; Ernest A. Gross, 147; and the program is exLegislature, Richard O. Moser, 129. to begin September 1, 1971. The insurgents' candidacy, a pected This is a very complex endeavor supporter said, reflected the great and the technicalities are still being gap in the City Bar not only in age resolved, Attorney General John but also between those who run the N. Mitchell said. He said that association and the average Clarence M. 'Coster, associate ad- member." Miss McLean is the first woman ever to be chosen to sit on the Associations executive body. trip abroad. Within the past week, she said, she had been falsely accused of being a Communist and then falsely charged leading by city officials with children to revolt in an attempt to deny her any school job. Dr. Benjamin Epstein, assistant Newark (N.J.) school superintendent charged that blacks have been retired, demoted and just plain fired throughout the South rather than be put in charge of integrated schools. Kieman, promising to submit the h statistics, said generally th situation in the North is the reverse with more and more schools hiring black administrators. white while on a study Non-Sout- 1 de ministrator of the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, and Paul Woodard, LEAAs General Counsel, would meet with New York officials to work out the details of the program. According to New York officials, $10 million project would be implemented by the Division of Criminal Justice of the Slate Office of Planning Services for the City of New York and would focus on the the city. The goal of the project would be the more effective and expeditious prosecution of felony narcotics cases in New York City. One reason for its creation is that reports by New York sources indicate that the overall narcotics law enforcement effort in the City has not been successful in deterring the distribution of narcotic drugs. i. |