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Show jnrldjriefs Calley trial hears from psychiatrist rr BENNING, Ga. (AP)-A psychiatrist said Thursday ; WiUiam Calley knew he was ndernning My Lai civilians to but was unable to give any ;0Ught to the consequences. That opinion came from Dr. . toid Crane of Indianapolis, Ind., L two and one-half hours of I leaning about Calley's mental bilities on the day of the alleged wssaCre in My Lai. He based his on on a lengthy Calley Back-jound Back-jound summary provided for him by the defense. WASHINGTON (AP)-National Democratic officials have won the fct round of a fight to give jailer states a larger role in next year's nominating convention ton. recommended by a party refarm commission. But even the delegate apportionment appor-tionment formula voted Wednes-Jiyby Wednes-Jiyby the party's executive com-' com-' Ettee, based on a state's elector-tl elector-tl vote and its Democratic stiength in recent presidential elections, would give the nine best states a majority at the Oilmen say the pipeline is the most feasible way of moving the estimated 10-billion-barrel crude oil reserve from the frozen arctic desert of the North Slope to the warm-water port of Valdez and then to West Coast refineries. Conservationists argue the pipeline pipe-line is a disaster waiting to happen, hap-pen, a delicate artery with the potential of rupturing and spewing spew-ing a deluge of black crude oil over the tundra. It would interfere with the migration pattern of caribou cari-bou and other arctic wildlife and gouge the tundra with gullies by melting the permafrost, they say. The Interior Department was to conclude Thursday the first of two hearings on the environmental environmen-tal impact of the $1 -billion project. pro-ject. The second hearings are due next Wednesday and Thursday in Anchorage. SAIGON (AP)-Five U.S. helicopters heli-copters were reported downed Thursday in Laos, where South Vietnamese forces said they had cut three main branches of the Ho Chi Minh trail. last November, the Washington Post reported. WASHINGTON (AP)-Senators trying to make it easier to choke off filibusters lost a first test vote Thursday. On a move to halt a Southern filibuster against a proposed change in Senate rules, the vote was 48 for and 37 against, or 9 short of the necessary two-thirds majority of senators voting. A second attempt is planned next week to cut off the debate that began Jan. 26 on the proposal propo-sal to permit filibusters to be halted by a three-fifths majority of senators voting rather than the two-thirds majority now required by the rules. WASHINGTON (-Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird announced today creation of a top-level civilian review board to oversee domestic military intelligence intelli-gence activity and to insure that the constitutional rights of all citizens are safeguarded. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP)-The $700-per-month penthouse apartment apart-ment where Black Panther co-founder co-founder Huey P. Newton stays when he is not on speaking trips is purely a security precaution, he says. Newton, Panther minister of defense who turned 29 Wednesday, Wednes-day, says the apartment on the 25th floor of a building overlooking overlook-ing Lake Merritt was not his choice of quarters and is "like a prison." "I feel like a priosoner," he said. "I can't walk down the street like I used to; when I go, there's a force that goes with me." He said that when he got out of jail last year the Black Panther central committee, of which he is a member, voted that he should stay in a place less accessible to the police. "If the police did storm in here, they'd have a lot of explaining to do to the other tenants," said Newton. 1)72 convention. In 1968, 1 1 states held a majority. major-ity. The proposal by the party's O'Hara commission, rejected 7 to ! by the executive committee, mid have given eight industrial jilts control by considering pop-iiiion pop-iiiion and Democratic voting fcnjth. WASHINGTON (AP)-Presi-fcit Nixon, rejecting calls for nationalized health care, asked Congress Thursday to require that tally all businesses provide mnprehensive federally pre-Jiiked pre-Jiiked private health insurance for employees and their families. The employer requirement was in centerpiece of the President's 12.95-baiion six-point health care iioposal. He called for a National Health 'wance Partnership to correct adequacies in the network of it, "not by destroying our pres- insurance system but by ipiovingit." i i I VDEZ, Alaska (AP)-Honey- stacks of metal pipes piled ' a staging area of this tat town await the out-of out-of a national environmental debate. I18 thousands of pieces of 48-J 48-J pipe are meant to be into an 800-mile oil Sharp fighting was reported in Cambodia, where South Vietnamese Vietnam-ese troops also are making a parallel paral-lel thrust aimed at enemy supply lines and war stores. Nearly 16,000 South Vietnamese troops are operating in Laos and 23,000 are in Cambodia. The reports of the latest helicopter heli-copter losses in Laos came from field reports in the northern military mili-tary zone. WASHINGTON (AP)-The first black director of General Motors says the world's biggest automaker auto-maker should move its South African Afri-can plants "somewhere else on the African continent, where people peo-ple are treated like human beings rather than like dogs." "I am unalterably opposed to the conditions of black people in the Union of South Africa," said the Rev. Leon Sullivan of Philadelphia Phila-delphia in an interview. Asked what he planned to do to move GM in that direction, Sullivan said he was only "one of 23" directors. "But," he added, "they will hear from me regarding . this matter." WASHINGTON (AP)-Under- ; secretary of Interior Fred J. Rus- ; sell resigned Wednesday, the sev- ! enth high-level change at the I department since President Nixon J fired Secretary Walter J. Hickel |