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COMP JH5 LISRAST OF 3 BOCA HAiw.T * FLA 33432 Off 5.68 Church news 1:30 Dow-Jones Ready for Sunday STOCKS, Page 8 BOCA RATON NEWS On Page 6 Vol. 15, No. 134 Friday, June 12, 1970 14 Pages 10 Cents 'You have to be there to know' who were killed and wounded by mines WASHINGTON (UPI) —To the Capt. Medina talks about the 'massacre' charge and bobby traps. This type of thing you stocky man, wearing his life's work in cannot fight back. I believe it's the rows of campaign ribbons, it seems a most demoralizing thing the individual simple truth: If you've never been specific issues Medina had talked helicopter pilot had dropped smoke to Medina, who commanded Company soldier must face. He doesn't know if there, you can't judge those who were. about earlier. marka Viet Cong body so U.S. troops C, 1st Battalion, 20th Infantry, spoke the next step he's going to take may be The soldier is Ernest L. Medina, 33, First, was what happened at My Lai, could search for weapons. freely of his outfit and of the fatigue his last." captain of infantry, accused of mur- as President Nixon said it appeared to Medina: "As I approached, I noticed and frustrations he and his men en- dering "not less" than 175 persons at be, a massacre? it was a woman. I looked in the area countered. Medina had some firm ideas about My Lai 4 in South Vietnam on March Medina: "As I have stated on and noticed there was no weapon. I "I felt I had the finest company in public reaction to the war. He said the r 16, 1968. numerous occasions, I neither ordered turned and as I moved away from the the United States Army and that the fact that television was bringing un- Medina was questioned by a team of a massacre nor did I see one take area and as I was turning I noticed individuals serving under me were censored films of the fighting into reporters in a special UPI place." movement from the woman. The first outstanding soldiers," the NewAmerican living rooms for the first "Washington Window" interview. Second, did Medina, as specifically thing that entered my mind was that Mexico-born and Colorado-reared time —which he favored — shaped Although under military court orders charged, kill a Vietnamese woman she would have a hand grenade or a officer said. But he also said physical antiwar opinion in a way never ex- to make no public statements about the near a rice paddy? weapon. And I immediately spun weariness and low morale were perienced in any previous war. events at My Lai, the captain's legal Displaying little emotion, the cap- around and instinctively fired and I problems in his company. Capt. Medina • advisers permitted discussion of two tain recounted the incident. He said a shot the woman." "We had a number of individuals See YOU, P. 2, Col. 6 . 'It's staggering' 197O JUNE 197D Guerrillas M W 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 (2) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 release 28 29 30 Investing class hostages AMMAN, Jordan (UPI)— (There was some reluctance tn in- still open Palestinian guerrillas today released tervene, however, for fear it could lead about 80 American, British and Ger- to action against the American If you'd like to be conversant man citizens who had been held hostages, at least 16 of whom were with the bulls and bears, you can hostage in downtown hotels since reported to be in guerrilla hands. It learn about the mysteries of the Tuesday, the Middle East News also was felt intervention might cause stock market in the securities Agency (MENA) said. repercussions for the Hussein and investments class being The agency quoted a spokesman for government.) sponsored by the city recreation the Popular Front for the Liberation of The 82nd Airborne Division at Ft. department at the Community Palestine (PFLP) as saying the Bragg, N.C., has been placed on alert Center. The class will be held on guerrillas withdrew from the Intern- as part of the emergency planning, Monday nights for nine weeks. If continental and Philadelphia hotels administration officials said today. you'd like more information after releasing the hostages. "It is normal procedure when a about this course, contact the Those freed included UPI situation becomes less stable to place Community Center. correspondent Gerard Loughran. Hello, little kid... units on the alert," they said. (In Washington, U.S. sources said The PFLP had threatened to blow up Quick facts Atiny Scotch terrier and a big German shepherd obedience class at the Community Center. Details are the United States was considering the the hotels unless Jordan stopped snilfer wary introductions as they met at the dog on P3ge 3. evacuation of the 500 Americans who shelling Palestinian refugee camps. Weather: Partly cloudy through live in Jordan. Saturday. Slight chance ot King Hussein helped defuse the showers today. High situation Thursday night by an- yesterday was 84, low this Heading in 'right direction' nouncing the resignation of his uncle, morning was 67. Noon today army Commander-inChief Sherif 87. Low tonight 70, high Nasser ben Jamil and Gen. Sherif Zaid tomorrow 89. ben Shaker in a major concession to Boating: Seas 2-3 feet with the guerrillas who were holding a southeast and south winds 10- Law won't delay city sewer plans major portion of the capital. 15 mph. Inland waters will Political observers in Beirut have a light chop. Saturday's Boca Raton is heading in the right look closely at Boca Raton's detailed terms of nutrient standards — such as secondary treatment plant is described it as a major victory for the tides, High: 3:45 a.m. and direction with its overall sewage plans for its secondary treatment plant a requirement that 90 per cent of scheduled for construction this year. Palestinian commandos and said the 4:33 p.m.; Low: 10:34 a.m. disposal plans, according to the state's and may be required to beef them up to phosphates be removed, or 99 per cent Combined with a pumping station two sides probably would reach a and 11:04 p.m. director of planning for water pollution meet what amounts to "tertiary" of nitrates, before the waste water is near ing completion, it is designed to compromise on the other points of Fishing: Loxahatchee reports control. treatment standards. dumped into the ocean or a canal. pump "90 per cent pure" waste water dispute. fish are being pulled in left This means, Donald Brown said "I don't really like to use the word Brown said that his department is a mile into the ocean. The king called it his final con- and right, even with all that Friday, that the city probably won't be 'tertiary'," Brown said, "because it now working toward specific stan- By the time the plant is in operation, cession to the guerrillas, who are rain. No other action greatly affected by the stLffer state doesn't mean much. It can mean only a dards and they should be ready — and 90 per cent may not be enough, as some seeking a free rein to raid Israel from reported. standards in effect or contemplated. little more than secondary." required — "within the year." critics of the city plan have said. bases in Jordan. Television: At 10 p.m. on chan- However, Brown said, the state will Brown, rather, talks in specific Boca Raton's bond-financed However, Brown said, the cure "This is the last chance and will not nels 5-7 — "The New Com- shouldn't be too severe. be followed by another," Hussein said. municators", part 2. Peter Will resign "We will look closely at the plans He said if the guerrillas did not heed Fonda introduces a and recommend whatever Ms warning, he would be "forced to provocative package of mini- modifications are necessary to see that correct the situation and save the movies created by today's they meet the standards," he said. He people from their present misery." breed of filmmakers. added that it was highly unlikely that Military observers said Hussein's Movies: Opens today at the Boca Bafalis batters any major revisions would be army, which ringed Amman with Raton Theatre, "The Sicilian required. tanks and heavy weapons today, Clan". A fast-paced thriller. The nutrient standards being con- probably could crush the commandos At 2,4,6,8,10 p.m. Rated GP, Kirk's record templated by the department would but such an action would almost all ages admitted. relate to the receiving body of water, certainly tear the country apart. and since that's the ocean in Boca At least 104 persons have been killed Inside ByPETEPEPINSKY Bafalis made the announcement Raton's case, he said, there shouldn't and more than 400 wounded in the News Staff Writer after speaking to the Fort Lauderdale be too great a problem. fighting that began in Amman State Sen. L. A. "Skip" Bafalis will Chamber of Commerce this morning. Gov. Claude Kirk, in a Thursday Tuesday, unofficial sources said. Some resign from the Florida Senate "next In his address, Bafalis lashed out at statement, raised the possibility that sources said as many as 500 had died. week" because he's strongly op- Gov. Claude Kirk's "confrontation recycling of water would be required The concessions by Hussein raised NEWS timistic about his chances of becoming politics" which, in the senator's in the future.