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Show 2A DESERET NEWS, December Tuesday, Illinois Votes 15, 1970 - A light CHICAGO (AP) turnout was expected today as Illinois voters decide the fate of a constitution to replace the charter. states Observers predicted about 30 u9but n Schedule, WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The defense secretary also said the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was fully consulted about the Son Tay raid aimed at freeing American captives from a prisoner of war camD in North Vietnam. said that consultation with the CIA began on May 1 and continued until the raid was conducted Ncv. 21. At the very time a soecial force of Army and Air Force men was carrying out the action. Laird said he was with CIA Director R; chard Helms. No nrisoners were found at Son Tay. Laird sad that throughout the consultations, the CIA never indicated it had He Ferry Sinks, 276 Aboard anv information that there might not be any prisoners at th comnound. Sen. J. William Fidbri "ht. sad recently he had been told that Helms was not n A SEOUL (UPI) South Korean ferry boat with 276 persons aboard capsized and sank off the southern coast before daybreak today, the transportation ministry said. Most of the passengers 362-to- consulted. On other were feared drowned. A surviving AC Wirt Photw 'Em ftloving Keeps School that the United States would maintain troops in South Vietnam until all American prisoners of war are released by the Communists. This pledge, he said, meant merely that complete withdrawal could not be carried out until the prisoner question was resolved. South Korea subjects. Laird said: crewman Co blamed shifting cargo for upsetting the vessel. Authorities said 12 persons had been rescued by Japanese fishing boats since the ferry Namyongho sank 30 miles south of Komundo Island and 245 miles south of Seoul. Three South Korean and three U.S. Navy ships along with Japanese fishing vessels and Korean Coast Guard boats were searching the waters for survivors. mmunist infiltration into South Vietnam has been less in 1370 than it was in )K3 and that the major North Vietnamese military enervations are now centered in Cambodia and Laos rather than in South Vietnam. Laird and Adm. Thomas H. Moorer. chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will leave Jan. 5 for a tour of Thailand and South Vietnam, stoopin' off in Paris to confer with U.S. peace negotiators. ' 5.2 mil- lion registered voters would cast ballots in the special sserts Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird confidently predicted today that U.S. troop strength in Vietnam can be cut to less than 284,000 men by Next May 1 just as planned. He also said the number will be below 340,000 by Jan. 5 when a conference is held in Hawaii on further withdrawals. The U.S. troop total at present is less than 344,000 the goal originally set for Christmas. Laird also said at a news conference that the planned rate of withdrawals would not be affected by his assertion states cent of the per 09teR 9 CLEARANCE Builders Attention crossing guard Kathryn Medvide of Indiana, Pa., has a hectic time of it when school lets out as photographs of her gyrations indicate. I only have a few minutes to get them out of school . . . keep them moving, REDUCED PRICES Floor Models CO Told Soldiers To Destroy Village, Calley Witness Says in which one of his platoon leaders, Lt. Wilcourt-marti- liam L. Calley Jr., is charged with murdering 102 civilians during the mission. Michael A. Bernhardt, 24, a Tarpon Springs, Fla., surveyor, was one of eight witnesses called by the defense in two days to say that Medina had left him with the that all inhabit- impression BRITAIN HIT AGAIN Now It's The Rails - LONDON After (UPI) weathering an eight-wee- k strike and a week-lon- g slowdown by electrical workers. Prime Minister Edward Heaths government ran into new trouble today in the form cl a 25 per cent pay increase demand by railway workers. Representatives of the nations 280,000 railwaymen were meeting officials of the state-ru- n rail board later today to discuss the demand. First drawn up in July at the annual meeting of the National Union of Railwaymen, the claim follows a 11 per cent wage increase spread out over four months of this year. Militant factions within the union have demanded a strike if the government does not meet the new demands by Feb. 14. Britain meanwhile shook off the effects of a week of electrical black-outalthough shiny Christmas store window displays remained darkened and officials continued pleas to the public to save power. 149 nr New Westinghouse Clothes Dryer ants including women and children were to be killed in the Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai on March 16, 1968. Three days after the sweep, he testified, Medina give an address to the company in which he said an investigation was under way. He said he would advise us to be quiet and he would back up anyone if they got in trouble, Bernhardt said. ....... New Westinghouse Upright Home Freezer 12900' New Westinghouse Electric Range 119i New 15 Cu. Ft. West- inghouse Chest Freez Westinghouse I ' 50 SAVE UP TO New VVestinghoust Automotic Washer FT. BENNING, GA. (UPI)- -A soldier who served at My Lai testified today the company commander had conducted an inflammatory meeting the night before the strike, had ordered the village destroyed, and had personally killed a woman picking rice. The testimony concerning the commander, Capt. Ernest L. Medina, was given at the t Warehouse damaged 10 Cu. Ft. Refrigerator New 14 Cu. Ft. Frost-Fre- e 159", in Westinghouse Refrigerator-Freeze- r Combination New 16 Cj. . Ft. 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