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Show World briefs The Daily Utah Chronicle, February 26, 1971 5 Representatives introduce election reform package WASHINGTON cap-; ,., day he thinks the United States should initiate troop withdrawal from Europe rather than waiting for a mutual Soviet pullback. Byrd, of West Virginia, made I the comment in reviewing President Presi-dent Nixon's Stale of the World message, which he called "a well thought out, low key, constructive construc-tive speech." WASHINGTON (AP)-The White House 1S quietly seeking to eliminate legal restrictions which bar persons convicted of campus disruption from receiving federal student loans and loan guarantees. The administraton calls the restriction an administration nightmare. night-mare. "It assumes there's a good list and a bad list, and any student who gets on the bad list, the computer says 'bingo' and he doesn't get anything," said a White House aide. "But there's no List." The chief congressional advocate advo-cate of the restriction said, however, how-ever, that he'll fight to keep it in new appropriations bills. FT. BENNING, Ga. (AP)-An Army psychiatrist who followed Lt. William Calley Jr. to the witness wit-ness stand testified Thursday he could find no evidence that Calley suffered from "any form of metal disorder I could think of in the massacre at My Lai. "One could say the entire incident inci-dent is bizarre," Maj. Henry E. Edwards replied to one question Put to him. He was the first rebuttal witness wit-ness for the prosecution. The defense rested Wednesday after Calley had spent two days on the witness stand. WASHINGTON (AP)-Sen. Robert C. Byrd, the assistant Senate Sen-ate Democratic leader, said Thurs- WASHINGTON (AP) - With the assertion that "never before has the time been so ripe " a bipartisan group of House members mem-bers introduced Thursday a package pack-age of bills aimed at election campaign reform. The drive to try to hold down spiralling campaign costs and force a more complete accounting of candidates' receipts and expenditures expen-ditures also picked up steam in the Senate with the introduction of a bill by Republican leader Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania. SAIGON (AP) - South Vietnamese Viet-namese paratroopers staved off a fierce assault Thursday by eight North Vietnamese tanks on their base in Laos, lowering artillery to point blank range to help knock out five of them, U.S. officers said. While there were no reports of further South Vietnamese advances ad-vances into southern Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail, Gen. Creighton W. Abrams, U.S. commander com-mander in Vietnam, said the operation was going well despite heavy fighting and some setbacks. The fighting in Laos was at Hill 31, about 10 miles inside Laos. The base has been under con-tinous con-tinous attack for three days. WASHINGTON (AP) - President Presi-dent Nixon warned Thursday that some hard choices lie ahead in Indochina and that heavy U.S. help may be needed for operations opera-tions in Laos and Cambodia. But he said, "In Southeast Asia today, aggression is failing." In a lengthy "State of the World" report to Congress and in a nationwide radio broadcast, Nixon blamed Hanoi for the spread of fighting outside Vietnam Viet-nam and spoke of enemy troops massed in neighboring Laos and Cambodia. Enemy intentions "will cause some hard choices about the deployments de-ployments of allied troops as we pursue our own withdrawals," his report said. "North Vietnamese actions could require high levels of American Ameri-can Assistance and air operations in order to further Vietnamization and our withdrawals." |