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Show Worldbriefs . , J ,1 Galley Latimer plead aga.nst death senter,. FT BENNING, Ca. (AP)-Lt. William Calley's aged defense attorney, his voice cholang with emotion"; Pleaded with the jury today "that this man should not be given the death penalty." Calley ?7, sat at the counsel table nearby, his head down as attorney George Latimer of Salt Lake City appealed to the jury that convicted him of premeditated premedi-tated murder at My Lai not to impose the death sentence. Later sobbing, Calley told tire six jurors who can give him death that at My Lai, "I had to value the lives of my troops, and I reel that's the only crime I ever committed." com-mitted." Pmomtnr Aubrey DameLan GENEVA (AP)-The Soviet Union broke nearly two years of deadlock in the Geneva disarmament disarma-ment talks Tuesday by agreeing to a Western idea of a separate ban on biological weapons of war. The move came as a surprise. Abondoning previous opposition, opposi-tion, Soviet delegate Alexei A. Roschin presented a draft convention conven-tion prohibiting development, production and stockpiling of biological bio-logical weapons and toxins. The draft provides for destruction destruc-tion of all these arms within three months after the treaty enters into force. The Soviet policy shift coincided coin-cided with Soviet party chief Leonid Leo-nid I. Brezhnev's call for a five-power five-power conference on nuclear disarmament, made at the opening of the Soviet Communist party congress in Moscow. SAIGON (AP)-American fighter-bombers struck at North Vietnamese artillery positions in the northern half of ft, zed zone Tuesday ? ? U.S- Command ' : sponse to "increased ! i; tacks by fire n e civilian location." Four planes staged hr and returned safely J were no reports that gu" in the zone fa ' Vietnams. U;S- "eld commas . south of the zone m the long-ranged North Vie 122mm guns weremJ northern half several wee WASHINGTON (AP) J ! Parole Board will rule We I whether to free T ? dent James R. HoffN,; by his warden as , " prisoner-to resume conloIr:: two-million-member labor Parole Board Chair. H Reed is scheduled to the decision immediaic I hearing at which n, f lawyers will appear. ' " Army captain who persuadec Uhe iurv to convict Calley " "ounts of premeditated murderof at least 22 civilians in My Lai, offered no evidence in the sen- tencing phase. HONG KONG (A P ) -Communist China remained silent early Wednesday on the fate o a Philippine airliner, hijacked w.th 25 passengers and five crew members mem-bers on board and flown to Canton, Can-ton, on the mainland. The passengers, including tour Americans, and die crew landed in the souther Chinese city shortly after midday Tuesday. Thirteen hours later there was still no word of what action the Peking government govern-ment would take. Red China's Hsinliua News Agency and Peking radio had no comment on the hijacking and in Hong Kong there was no word on what would happen to the seized airliner and its occupants. |