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Show mi 'LOS ANGELES (AP) -The defense called but one witness as the penalty phase of Sirhan Bishara Sirhans murder trial began Monday his mother and asked her bnt one question: Grant B. Cooper, then startled the court by saying: Thats all we have, your honor." and looking careworn, wore a The prosecution called no witnesses for penalty testimony. Whichever penalty the jury imposes, it will be a long time before Sirhan s future finally is determined. In his entire life before had Sirhan this shooting Sirhan at any time been in trouble with the law? Sirhan looked cheerful and chewed gum as he entered court, pausing to autograph an artietc clrptnh rtf tiinv Mrs. Sirhan, only 4 feet 11 the law of God and His lnvp The chief defense attorney, School Funds Spark Congressional Fight WASHINGTON -- (UPI) ar 190. and "Will sucking on that Discs of class heta make Billy better?" NIXON ACTS Tax Reform the Continued from First Page capped, v I .x . v v.. v ' s; :; ; v.y: ?, v:;. 7 .. 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Other recommendations listed were: Curbing of the practice of many corporations of breaking their business up into multiple subsidiaries and affiliated companies to take advantage of the lower tax sates on A death sentence is subject to automatic appeal under California and the Nixon said. advantaged Judge Walker agreed to a guilty plea but said the importance of the case demanded a jury trial for the penalty. The defense then backed out and the trial ran for 15 weeks before the jury's verdict Thursday. . the first if enacted by the Congress, will offer genuine tax relief to the young, the elderly, the dis- first-degre- Republicans are predicting they will be able to pick up enough Democratic support to limit the extension to two years. the question of how long it should be extended was to be debated today. The Democrats want the $5 mb Before the trial began, the judge refused to agree to a prosecution - defense deal allowing Sirhan to piead guilty e to murder and receive a life sentence from the judge without a jury trial. The Republicans are pushing for a two-yeextension, so the administration can offer some changes in the program if it desires. There is likely to be a long battle in the House before a final vote is taken, possibly on Democrats have Thursday. the edge in the House, 243 to At Issue is the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the measure under which federal money is pumped into schools, mostly in poverty areas. It originated during the years measure to be five, years Nixons present liament last week, joined a n demonstration at lowed, a mob tried to storm 15 miles from Londona police station but was beaten derry on the road to Belfast. back by police charging with She said she witnessed the nightsticks. Londonderry riots and accused of sheer animal Fighting resumed Sunday the police when a crowd of about 200 in brutality. Londonderrys predominantly Police spokesmen denied the Catholic Bogside district brutality charges and said the stoned the police, and the pofact that 180 officers were inlice charged the crowd. jured "speaks for itself." While the Ulster constabuDemonstrators in at least six other Northern Irish towns lary were occupied in Londonblocked main roads in symderry, a gelignite exnlosion cm waiti ouiplics t5 Bclfart the with Londonderry pathy rioters. Bernadette Devlin, a from the Silent Valley reservoir in the Mourne Mountains. 21 - year - old civil rights leader elected to Britain's Par Spokesmen said water would Dun-give- days. beyond term in office. cation funds out of Republican reach for the next five years. n for extended and Congress began today with a move by the Democrats to put $25 billion in edu- tfennedy-Johnso- r bil!ion-a-yea- The first major partisan battle between President Nixon have to he rationed in large areas of the capital. Continued from First Page Normal procedure and one that will be followed in Sirhans is that judge receives a probation report before pronouncing sentence. This normally takes 20 case 1969 April 21, Monday, British Troops Colled In As Bombs Rock Ireland The jury, which spent the weekend seeing a movie and going to the beach, will be given only two choices by Judge Herbert V. Walker: to send Sirhan to San Quentins gas chamber or to sentence him to life in prison. Should the seven men and five women return a death verdict. Judge Walker could on his own authority commute the sentence to life. This posresibility was considered mote. first-degre- e Mary Sirhan, 56, looked directly at the jury which will decide whether her son dies for the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, and said: He has never been . . . this is because I raised him up on DESERET NEWS. blue suit with a white blouse and testified with composure. The jury the same one that convicted the murJordanian of der last week was to begin weighing whether the penalty should be death or life in prison after hearing brief arguments from defense and prosecution. mji by Bil Keane FAMILY CIRCUS Sirhan Defense Calls 1 Witness, His Mother mmimanm ft , v' .v .. V. , I -- i. .sn x oc J 7 it H, s 'i M , x ' ss , t '' 1 T v , V - s 1 T 1'' , sF . T T. - ,s . 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