Release Hostages Elusive

r . ,,:. : ■■{■•'■•■‘^ , v ^ ,N. 1^- Idahb^s Largest Evening Newspaper 6 8 t^yeati7 197th issue TWIN fa lls, IDAHO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26.1971 V , ' 1 r\c . Even leis lor ' W earner oellvery h o t release as S. r 1 hostages - -SAIGON CUPI) - American barbed-wire perlm< ler of the From 30 to 40 North for a sweep through the yalley. helicopter gunships flew In base, defended by 9 ipany of Vieîagiese tanks were reports Spokesmen for the Army of the support of South Vietnamese South Vietnamese diers, ^ massmg on the east bank of Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) troops today in the first all-out about 160 men, and flung the Mekong River north of have named Snuol as one of the Tiaitife 6f (tie new Ttllffd satchel'chm-ges. Kompong unam, only 40 mUes chief targets of the current and the warden, held hostage for 24 hours by campaign to destroy guerrilla At dawn the two helicopters, from the Vietnamese frontier. operation. rebellious prisoners at Rahway State P ris^ , sanctume$ In Cambodia. fitted out with rocket launchers, South Vietnamese spokesmen American helicopter pilots were set free Thursday night when Gov. Willlam UPI correspondent Stewtu-t fiew over the outpost to refused to comment on Saigon flew 180 sorties In the 24 hours T. Cahill guaranteed no reprisals and said be Kellerman reported that the reconnolter. Hiey drew AK47 pl-ess reports that another 25 ending at dawn Thursday and immediately would consider the inmates* other Viet Cong bombarded a hilltop and machlnegun fire and North Vietnamese T34 <and T35 another 140 to dawri today In denumds. _ . , outpost e i^ t miles Inside South counterattacked with rockets. tanks were sighted in the support of the dry-wason Warden Samuel Vukcevlch, suBeHng “ stiB Vietnam with 150 mortar shells One of the American chop jOihlong River Valley in the campaign. U.S. a rtlll^ was wounds" which inmates insisted were' inflicted Thursday night then launched a pers was hit b^t It retumffd to I area of the Snuol rubber back in action as well. accidentally by a guard, and the other hostages ground assault. Its base with nobody hurt.’ plantation. American artillery was pulled were r e le a ^ about 10 p.m. Thursday. Fighting raged through the It WM the first battle of the About 200 South Vietnamese off the Cambodian frontier Nov. F olloi^g their release Cahill said his ad-, night. At one point the five-day-old campaign but ap tanks and armored personnel 5 as part of President Nixon's ministration ‘‘intends to carry out our part of the guerrillas got within the parently riot the last. carriers were reported massing withdrawal program. commitment to guarantee there will be ho brutality and that we will meet w i^ and talk to. the prisoners in relation to their complaints.” - Archibald Alexander, head of the citizens Indo-P akistan VJeany committee ad\îng the .goyemorton penal af fairs, w6nt to tiie prison to sleep overnight He was accoinpanied by Raymond Brown, a proml- nem criminal lawyer. survives war toll high. 1 iêxander said “ there will be no rqirlsals of any sort talcen against the inm ate." He and By United Press International Indian authorities to discuss Brown were the two m ^ negotiators for the attack Radio Pakistan said today possible recognition by the • • state In the talks with the Inmates. - more thanl 300 Indian Army Indian government. A decislofi WASHINGTON (UPI) - The prisoners complained about the medlcai troops had been killed in was expectedejyect within- 10 days. -AH ^ lQ -4»reBjdent-George- ----- care-ai Bghting at the East Pakistan Confllctlni;tlng reports on the role M c ^ , lualnalii^ with severe commissary, parole proceduiês. Inadequate town of Jessore, about 20 ny||es Indian troops might have £3fi^ p a W was reported In educational and vocational opportunities, inside the-«)nti7 's. western played in the fighting aroMd “ good spirits” today after a (ÎpUnary procedures, racial dlscrlminatlaa, border. Jessora from both New Delhi “ very quiet” night of rest. lack of black cultural classes, lack of religious UPI correspondent Ajit K. and Islamabad, the capital of An AFLrCIO spokesnun said freedom, delay of incoming mail, low wages, Das, reporting .from the Indian West Pakistan. PRISON GUARD Ken Koetsier, top, shows George Washington Uinversity “ meager” expenses given to released priscners town of -Bonâon, îbout four India said the fighting was signs ol, extonstlon and beatliig he received at hospital doctors told h|^ that and lack of rehabilitative opportunity. miles from the Iwrdir of the being carried w t by East the hand of inmates after being held as hostage all medical tests on whether the “ ToJbe treated u human beings is all that we Jessore sector, said sounds of PaiHlstani guerrilla. i R io t at RahwayState Prison In New Jersey. He and 77-year-old labor leader had ask of this administration,” salcj the inmates’ fighting from the bordei- sector others were released after Z^hour onjeaL Below, Das said Indian military suffered a heart attack were petition. ‘‘We are sincerely trying correct the were audlbld earlier this week s t r a in Inmate, All Bey Hassen, count^ prisoner traffic continued to move “ normal." mistake! we have made in the past gain st other but no longer could b^ hedr<i. demands oH on fingers dnrlng riot (UP! toward the frontier roads “ He spent a very quiet night, people.” Das said the silence Indicated telephotos) around. Bongituii were being Chest pains a very restful night," the They also insisted the rebellion occurred only fighting may havevinoved widened and wooden |)ridges ^ k esm a n said, “ ane he was in after inmates "tried every other possibility to farther into the interior. Kews- us labor leader George were being stfCfjCthened. Das good spirits this morning.” bring about dlanges In the above^tated com men were prohibited fribm Meany was bospitallxed for ^ d . Indian‘ military officials Meany was taken to an plaint ..." traveling in the area. severe cbest pafau, but was refused to comment emergency coronary unit at a Three of the six hostages were reported in good i On the political front, sources reported Improved Hoday. downtown hoivital from his condition today at Rahway General ^ q ^ ta l, in Calcutta said key members of Jessore, B Pakistani (UPI) , home in nearby. Bethesda, Md., although Dr. Richard Newman said Vukc^cfa, the Pakistani rebel Bangla Army camp and an airport. Is a shortly after returning from the 43, had two stab wounds in his bade and “w u DeSh (Bengal Land) caUnet key town on the route to Cadda, worked over pretty good." |Ittwas learned that . AFW :iO convention at M ia m i'' were caUed to New Delhi by capital of East Pakistan. Beach. - . Vukcevlch’s wouhds were treated in the prison Injunction by an inmate wjio s ^ e d with U.S. forces in tfSSSSWS:WSSS:W:W:::¥:W:::::W:::W^^ The spokesmitn said patients Vietnam. normally are -kept in the in Cahill revealed that only tl« insistence of Dr. asked for tensive care unit fpr 72 hours Maurice Kott, Acting State' Conunissioner of Mixon may taice which could see M any released Institutions and Agencies, and another unnamed dock strike some time Sundaj|i!(He added, state prison official prevented an assault on the new war to UN however, the doct^w want tb<i ' prison early Thursday by atwut 150 armed and AFLrCIO president to rest and SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (U P I)-T he United WASHINGTdN (UPi) -T h e hebneted state police, local police and guard! “ whether that Is in the hospital SUtes Is considering the possil^ty of taking the Justice Department, at Presi from other prisons. or at home Is something that India-PaWstan military confrontation to the dent Nbton's re<iuest, sought “ It was because the hope was there of a today a TaftrHartley Injunction will be decided later." United Nations Security Couik^ the Western negotiated settlement that we declined to uae (See earlier story p. 5). White House said Thursday. _ to send 45,000 striking long force,” said Cahill. ‘Fortunately. I didn't have Press Secretary Ronald L. Ziegler also told shoremen back to work at to make that decision." Atlantic and Gulf Coast docks. The rebellion erupted Wednesday night reporters that President Nbton discussed the critical South Aslan border dispute with British Nixon took time out from his Nixon plahs following a movie in the prison auditorium. Vuk> Prime Minister Edward Heath In a trans- Thanksgiving celebration at cevlch and five guards were taken hostage by Atlantic telephone call Tliursday. the Western White House to Inmates who refused to leave the auditorium order Attorney General John N. Heath meet Speaking of the Indis-Pakistani border crisis, when another prisoner arose to speak on “ In- Mitchell to file for the Injunction ZieglO' said: “ As you know we have done a great LONDON (UPI) -Bjeujdent justices In society" and penitentiaiy conditlonM! when federal courts opened deal in' terms of providing humanitarian Nixon and Prime Minister Inmates claimed the takeover was “ spon txxlay. assistance in the area. Edward Heath will meet in the taneous" and was supported by all 500 to 600 ■ “ In my opinion, these un “ A resort to military action would be hard for second half of December to prisoners in two of the five cellblocto taken o v « resolved labor d ilu tes have the American people to understand” Ziegler discuss the^ wwld trade and by the convicts. Prison officials staid, however, resulted In strikes affecting a said, adding he is certain this was conveyed to money crisis, BritisH govern that about ISO hardcore inmates led tte relielllan substantial part of the maritime Heath hv Nixon ment sources said today.

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