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Show World briers Nixon orders Cattey returned to quarters PETRAPOLE, India (AP) - Returning Re-turning newsmen reported that Skeik Mujibur Rahman's "libera tion forces" seized the key city of Jessore in East Pakistan Thursday forcing West Pakistani troops into a camp outside of town. A Swedish reporter, one of several to visit Jessore 24 miles north of this border town said: "We went all over town freely. There wasn't a Punjabi soldier in sight. It is liberated, or whatever you call it." As other newsmen gave similar accounts, a jeepload of jubilant Bengali rebels roared up to this outpost 40 miles north of Calcutta Cal-cutta to announce the victory to Indian officials, whose ethnic ties make them sympathizers. SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) - President Nixon Thursday ordered or-dered the immediate release of Lt. William L. Calley Jr. from imprisonment im-prisonment pending the completion com-pletion of a full review of his court martial conviction on murder charges. Under Nixon's action, Calley was to return to his personal quarters at Ft. Benning, Ga.-the same quarters where he lived during dur-ing the lengthy court martial proceedings. pro-ceedings. Press secretary Ronald L. Zieg-ler, Zieg-ler, announcing Nixon's move, said the chief executive felt personally per-sonally that Calley should not be confined to the Ft. Benning stockade stock-ade or transferred to the military prison at Leavenworth, Kan., until the decision by his jury which sentenced him to life imprisonment for his role in the so-called massacre mas-sacre at My Lai, Vietnam has run the entire review gamut, including possible appeals. WASHINGTON (AP) - Three years of civilian service for conscientious con-scientious objectors instead of two and military service for those who fail to perform their civilian assignments satisfactorily was approved ap-proved Thursday by the House. An effort by Rep. David W. Dennis, R-Ind., who called the increased service a "gratuitous assault as-sault on these men's beliefs" to restore the present two-year requirement re-quirement was rejected 242 to 131. Dennis' amendment also would have stricken the new provision for drafting conscientious objectors ob-jectors who fail to perform satisfactorily. satis-factorily. Chairman F. Edward Herbert, D-Ala., of the Armed Services Committee, said the additional year is not punitive byt said he initiated it after the recent Supreme Sup-reme Court decision which he said "opened the floodgates" for conscientious objector status by saying it could not be limited to men on the basis of religious belief. QUITO, Ecuador (AP) - Without With-out firing a shot, the government ended a military revolt Thursday against President Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra's regime, the Defense De-fense Ministry announced. Gen. Francisco Guzman, the rebel leader, surrendered to the army commander-in-chief. Earlier, the rebels were reported re-ported gaining support in their revolt, aimed not at the president but at his nephew, the defense minister. CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) -The Cuyahoga County grand jury Thursday indicted 14 motorcyclists motor-cyclists for first-degree murder in the March 6 gang fight which left five motorcycle club members dead at a cycle show in Cleveland. The 14 were named in four counts each of murder, making a total of 56 murder counts. |