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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 3-12-1971 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" (1971). Winona Daily News. 1063. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/1063 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]. ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦: . '- . ¦ . Quick OK seen for Move toward Viet^ Social Security bill Viets leave Sepone $70.40 S. By JOE HALL minimum to . WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic- The average retired individual now gets SAIGON (AP) - South Viet- Associated Press correspond- all week while holding positions grounded the helicopters, engineered shortcut to a quick boost in Social $118 a month and a couple $198 under Social namese troops in Laos pulled ent George Esper, reporting on the high ground. America's above-the-weather Security benefits for 26 million citizens Security. The Senate provision would raise out of their positions closest to from South Vietnamese north- reached the Senate floor today, ready for this to $136 and $223 respectively. Meanwhile, American heli- B52 bombers kept up their at- ¦ Sepone today and moved south- ern headquarters at Hani Nghi, copters returned in force to the passage. ' Social Security taxes also will be boosted. east toward the Vietnamese said staff officers told Thim tacks : on the Ho Chi Minh trail By attaching the $5 billion provision to Effective text year, the taxable wage base skies over the panhandle as the today South Viet- border, headquarters officers some of the Saigon troops weather improved. The U.S. network, and a House-passed bill boosting the national goes from $7,800 to $9,000, which means an reported. moved six miles southeast of namese headquarters reported debt limit, the Democratic strategists skipped $62.40 each for the worker earning at Command said American chop- extra The officers said a regiment Sofia. This would put them 8% finding more hundreds of North past a White House plan and would allow least $9,0QC. His employer pays the same. pers flew nearly 1,200 sorties in killed by the big of infantrymen abandoned Fire miles from Sepone. Laos after two days of heavy Vietnamese recipients a 10 to 58 percent benefit boost The increased payments, retroactive to Esper said other troops bombers. several months sooner than the administra- Jan. 1, probably will not he reflected in Base Sofia , 2M. miles southeast fog and low clouds. The weatlfc of the key communications moved eastward toward the Only sporadic contact was re- tion proposal. 7 the monthly checks until July 3 to allow for er had cut the daily traffic to ported in the ground war in Administration to make point 2 miles inside Laos, to Vietnamese border near the 160 sorties or less. "The original bill increases the debt limit the Social Security ¦ Laos. Lt- Col. Tran Van An, the to a record $430 billion, $35 billion over the the changes. , ' . avoid being trapped by North fire base called Lolo. The flights Thursday included Vietnamese forces. Sepone was a main trans- South Vietnamese military present ceiling. Even so, the Democratic plan calls for about 500 gunship sorties at- spokesman in Saigon, told of The amendment provides at least a 10 the higher payments much sooner than under shipment point on the Ho Chi tacking enemy troops to sup- the admin- Sofia was the closest fixed Minh trail "network:" through three clashes Thursday, in- percent across-the-board increase for all So- the procedure recommended by LANDING ZONE . .. Am- f port the South Vietnamese; 300 cial Security recipients. At the same time, istration this year. base to Sepone set up by the southeast Laos, and at the start troop lifts; 30 supply flights cluding two south of Sepone the current $64 minimum monthly payment to The President asked that the . increases erican "huey" helicopters South Vietnamese after they of the South Vietnamese drive and 40 to evacuate casualties. and one near the Vietnamese- individuals goes up 56 percent to an even be considered as part of an omnibus mea- sit on the ground near South advanced to the devastated Feb. 8 it was reported to be the With the renewal of helicop- Laotian border. He said 40 of $100 monthly. sure also including complex welfare reform Vietnam's Delta 1 Command junction town on Route 9 last first major target of the drive. ter activity, the U.S. Command the enemy were killed and nine The $100 minimum faces a doubtful fate, provisions. Post in Laos, after dron- Saturday. No further advance But the South Vietnamese government troops wounded. westward has been reported; announced the loss of five more however, because of the opposition of House Democratic leaders decided to split off ing off replacement troops said this v#2ek that they had of the aircraft on Thursday and In Saigon, the government Ways and Means Committee Chairman Rep. Social Security and deal with it separately the Saigon troops have, been not occupied Sepone because it a sixth last Saturday. and supplies; The aircraft sweeping for enemy forces and One held a news conference for a Wilbur D. Mills, D-Ark. after concluding it would take too long to return to U.S. bases in was in a valley and therefore American was killed, seven North Vietnamese defector who work out a satisfactory revision of the wel- supply caches in the area and Mills will head the House conferees on South Vietnam , after their vulnerable to attack. Instead were wounded and two' are said Hanoi had massed 30,000 the bill. He has indicated he will go along fare program. 7 to the southeast along a front of they sent reconnaissance units missing in the crashes. with a straight 10 percent hike raising the missions. (AP Photofax) about 25 miles. combat and support troops , . in and out of the deserted ruins A11 h 6 u g h the weather around Sepone. Officer p/an$ fo Me charges we By TED SIMONS gations Detachment.'' killed. He witnessed the UP) "Of the total of 19 crim- throat cutting when he went FT¦ . MePHERSON, Ga. — '¦'. A four-timets wounded inal allegations made by to order the killing stopped, Lt. Col. Herbert,"' a Penta- he said. Army lieutenant colonel gon spokesman said, "two He demanded the prison- says he plans to file charges had been the subject of pre- ers be returned to his today against two fellow of- viously completed CID in- charge, Herbert said, but ficers whom he accuses of vestigations, five more have later learned from a ser- failing to investigate and re- been investigated and de- geant he placed in charge port the alleged torture and termined to be unfounded, of their safe* removal that murder of Vietnamese ci- while the balance are still the intelligence unit took the vilians. being actively investigat- prisoners by force and kill- Lt. Cd. Anthony B. Her- ed." ed them ' ' all. bert said Thursday he would Barnes is presently as- Another time, Herbert bring federal court charges signed to the Pentagon and said, he "tore the wires" off against Maj. Gen. John Franklin is assigned to Viet- a young Vietnamese wom- Barnes and Col. J. Ross nam. They made no im- an who was being tortured Franklin, former command- mediate comment on Her- with electrical shocks from er and deputy commander bert's accusations. the generator of a field tele- bf the 173rd Airborne Bri- Herbert Said in an inter- phone. gade. view he witnessed the kill- Franklin told him that "if Herbert said he was afraid ing of a Vietnamese* wom- you eyer interfere again, the Army would allow time an whose throat was cut by you'll riot be permitted to "CTOtLEEN. QUEEN" .. Maureen Toby Karlin of So- under the statute of limita- a military intelligence unit go" Where prisoners were merset, N.J., is flanked by flags of , tions to expire without act- the United States Israel made up of Vietnamese but being interrogated, Herbert LAOTIAN THRUST .. Black arrows and Ireland, after she was crowned Queen Esther ing on his accusations. said. arrows show where North Vietnamese troop "Colleen " headed by an American lieu- locate route of South Vietnamese troops reigned over tie 10th annual In Washington, the Army tenant. The officer said he knew concentrations are applying pressure. Hills and St. Patrick's Day banquet who have leapfrogged westward into Laos in Purim festival of the Loyal League of Yiddish Sons of issued a statement saying, He said that shortly after of a noncom who served 30 and 31 have been the scene of heavy and "The allegations of Herbert an attempt to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail and lighting. Erin at a New York restaurant Thursday. Maureen 17, is turning a group of prison- with intelligence, identified Black box, on map at left, denotes , are still the* subject of an Sgt. take the junction town of Sepone. From Se- area being ) Jewish and has ancestors dating back hundreds of years ers over to the unit, he was only as a^ Stemme, who contested. (AP Photofax active investigation by the was disciplined. pone the thrust moves southeasterly. White who were all Jews born in Ireland. (AP Photofax) , U.S. Army Criminal Investi- told four of them had been From House Inside Textile import's trigger Hopes dim for DVAISA Former Brig. Gen. rrOHO Earl F. Cole re- turned with his complete fi- fourth round nancial records today to State remap another Nixon, Mills row face Senate investigators probing his alleged involve- By EDMOND LeBRETON Japanese offer es inade- Mills, in a thrust at the ment in corruption at mili- ) quate.