Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 4-9-1973 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1973). Winona Daily News. 1243. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1243 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Snow diminishing *W DADDY IMIUB 1 to flurries and •Atl lHI TiM SMa I *%_ H« Sold Our Cor V-A^^ij Thru A Want AJ ending late tonight f ^ fffft Carrying peacekeepers ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ '¦ ' Hearings. - ' l. ;• * on. ... Wounded Knee affair open Reds shoot at (hoopers By WILLIAM JL. CHAZE By LYNN C. NEWIAND Indonesia, Poland and Hun- be made until an investigation sile were "a distortion of tht WASHINGTON <AP) - Con- SAIGON (AP) — Communist gary. has been completed. But Prime truth." gressional hearings on tie Nine persons were killed Sat- Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau The Saigon government con- Wounded Knee forces shot at two more peace- affair open keeping helicopters in the Me- urday when an Air America said in Ottawa that ii would not tinued to charge the commu- today. Militant Indians refused helicopter flying for the inter- carry out its threat to quit the over the kong Delta today, the Saigon nists with cease-fire violations. weekend to surrender government reported, and the national commission was shot international commission be- their arms and peace talis down in communist territory in cause of one such incident. It said communist troops early were broken off Canadians said they - are between pro- thinking of quitting observer the. northwestern part of the today drove a company of mi- test leaders and White House ' The Viet Cong expressed sites in communist territory. country. Another commission "deep regret" for the deaths litiamen from their defensiva aides. : helicopter made an emergency The House Indian affairs sub- The South Vietnamese said but claimed the helicopters position 10 miles southwest of six rounds of ground fire hit a landing nearby without injury strayed from their prescribed committee has scheduled three to its occupants. Kontum, in the central high- days of hearings cn the seizure South Vietnamese helicopter path "into an area where war lands. Six militiamen wera ferrying members of the Joint Those tilled in the crash in- activities exist." of the historic South Dakota wounded and three were miss- reservation village by members Military Commission, composed cluded the two American pilots, of the Viet : Cong and South Maj. Gen. Duncan A. ing after the six-hour infantry of the American Indian Move- a Filipino crewman, a Cana- McAlpine, chief of the Cana- ment (AIM). Hearings also will Vietnam. It was forced to land dian, an Indonesian, two Hun- and artillery fight, the com- at Vi Thanh a Viet Cong dian military delegation denied cover occupation of the Bureau , garians and two Viet Cong offi- the Viet Cong charge that the mand said. of Indian affairs building in stronghold, . but officials said cers.' . -: ' . nobody was hurt. helicopters Saturday were off In Cambodia* meanwhile, Washington last year. A Canadian official said course. He said they were fol- communist forces sank y one The other chopper, carrying today that his contingent to the lowing a flight pattern ap- ship and set another afire Sun- Russell Means, leader of the peacekeeping group is consid- Wouaded Knee group, was to representatives of the four-na- proved by the Viet Cong, and day ih the first convoy up the tion International Commission ering withdrawing its truce ob- the helicopter that was shot Mekong River to Phnom Penh be the main witness today. CONVOY REACHES CAPITAL .... Cam- Sunday. Four ships carrying i ood, fuel and server teams from Viet Cong Rep. Uoyd Meeds, D-Wash., of Control and Supervision, was down was hit by a leat-seeking in three weeks. But three bodian soldier maris a machinegun on a river ammunition arrived, but two were set ablaze fired on near Can Tho but was areas because , of Saturday 's missile. Meanwhile, the Vietj tankers and two freighters suc- chairman of the: panel, said the patrol boat escorting a convoy into the be- in a Viet Cong ambush and 13 had to return to deaths, hearings will be the prelude to not hit. The international com- Cong said earlier reports that ' cessfully ran the gauntlet fcp a lengthy investigation of the leaguered Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh South Vietnam. (AP Photofax) mission is composed of Canada, He said a decision would not the aircraft was hit by a mis-1reach the beseiged capital. relationship between Indians and the Bureau of Indian -Af- os^^^^^^^^^^ p;^^^^^_sg^^^^^^^^ s^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ps^EP^^_^_^^^^_s^5 fairs. Means arrived Friday ior In Minnesota Legislature 1 Fuel shortage what was scheduled to be a r^^^^^^ negotiating session with Leon- ard "Garment, special consult- ant to the President. But Gar- in Phnom Penh ment refused to negotiate until 1/ quor ihaction seen again| Means telephoned Wounded ¦ Knee to tell his followers to lay 1 " • . By GEPR.Y NELSON necessarily high liquor prices to consumers. if down their arms. Means re- I ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Over the years, Minnesota : With the exception of some "supermarket" off-sale p Rearing end fused. ' . ' - . I legislators have done a lot of talking about the liquor stores in the Twin Cities area, nobody much argues | | By LEE RUDAKEWYCH | | industry but have The government contends taken little action except to occasion- the point that liquor costs more in -Minnesota, than it | | PHNOM PENH, Cambodia that under an agreement 1 V ally jack up its taxes. does in Wisconsin. If (AP) On the theory that taxes are passed . "— This capital's fuel reached at Wounded Knee last 1 on to the There Ls argument, however, on why liquor costs § shortage appeared to be Hear- Thursday, Means was to have I consumer anyway, that leaves pretty much all talk and more¦ in Minnesota. _g| i no action on the industry itself in. recent years. ' ¦¦: ing an end today. 4 second riv- made the call once his meeting / . If the liquor question makes it to the floor , law- '^ er convoy was steaming toward with Garment began. Means § With lawmakers heading into the final six weeks of makers will be debating three main points: ' || said no such their 1973 session, the guessing in Capitol corridors is . Phnom Penh and the govern- agreement was 1 • Should advertising be allowed for ¦ retail liquor || ment announced that its troops reached. 1* that the same thing might happen again, prices? . .- § s ' | | had reopened Highway 4, the A six-point agreement nego- One of those pushing liquor reform bills, Senate • Shonld distillers be prohibited from granting ex- pf tiated by the DFL leader Nicholas Coleman, says there's some reason city's only land link with the Justice Depart- jg elusive rights¦ to a single wholesaler to handle particular : w seaport of Kompong Som. ment with Means and others § for optimism since the bills are at least getting a : brands? .- ' | 1 hearing. ; . ' |f Two fuel tankers and a was supposed to. have cleared '¦ • Should distillers be required to sell to Minnesota . ff the way for disarmament and I . In the past, he says, bills aimed at the liquor in- wholesalers at the lowest.price offered anywhere in the | | freighters came into the capital an end to the 41-day occupa- i dustry died a quiet death in committee while this year nation under a so-called "affirmation law?" • | miles from Phiiom Penh at tion. But.u nder the pact, noth- I they are getting a thorough airing. nightfall. ing else can happen until the I . The .central , issue j s whether the present distiller- (Continued on page Za. coluinn 4 J i Three tankers and two Indians lay down their wea- a V-"tofolMtder-j<etaile^-system , in Minnesota results in un- Liquor inaction I freighters came into the capital pons. Sunday, adding a week's sup- ^^^s^^^^s^m^^^mrm^s^msm^^mm^fMh^^mply of motor, cookinjg and Means has given no In- lighting fuel to nearly empty dication of when that will oc- reserves. Another two ships in cur. And the Justice Depart- Sunday's convoy were lost to ment announced Sunday that it communist fire from along the will negotiate no further with Mekong River. Means in Washington. "There will be no further The twi other tankers are ex- meetings between the Justice pected to increase the reserves Department, the White House, to nearly two weeks, and possi- the Interior Department and bly end rationing. Mr. Means until there is some On Highway 4, government positive Indication that tliey soldiers converged from the (the Indians) will honor the east and west on Stung Chhay, provisions of the April 5 agree- 95 miles southwest of Phnom ment," said Horace Webb, a Penh. Justice Department spokesman. Communist-led insurgents "Mr. Means has been not a bit had cut the road last week, cooperative." blocking the flow of U.'S. mili- Means said the government tary supplies • and other ship- had "made a farce out of the ments arriving by sea. Five agreement.... They never had other main roads from the cap- any intentions of discussing the ital to outer provinces re- treaty.rights of our people." mained closed but the reopen- The Wounded Knee occupa- ing of the Mekong and Highway WELCOMED . South Vietnamese President Nguyen tion began the night of Feb.