European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 23, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes Page matter of 42 fills grounded to repair valves Washington a Theair Force has grounded 42 of its v a tighter bombers for re lir of a defective Hydraulic fave officials said  the planes had been restricted from operating since May 8 Senate rejects confession bar in crime Bill Washington a the Senate voted tuesday to Over turn supreme court decision restricting the use of Confes Sions and eyewitness testimony in Federal cases. But it refused to limit the court s Power to re View such cases arising in state courts. In one of the most significant of a series of votes the Senate knocked out of the omnibus crime control Bill a provision that would have stripped the court of its Power to reverse state rulings that accepted voluntary  vote was 52-32. No App Alunder a stricken provision the supreme court and other Federal courts would have been barred from reviewing revers ing or modifying a state court ruling admitting a confession i evidence As voluntarily Given if this had been affirmed by the highest court in the state. Sen. Joseph d. Tydings d-md.,said that it would mean that no matter How horrendous therase in a state court there would be no right of Appeal tothe supreme court. The Senate refused to eliminate a provision making eyewitness identification of defendant admissible in Federal trials. The vote was 63 to 21 again erasing this provision designed to overcome a supreme court decision last year barring in court identification of a defendant by an eyewitness to a crime if the original identification was made in a police line up without a lawyer for the suspect being present. When one of the swing Wing Jet crashed near Nellis air Force base  air Force said preliminary analysis showed the defective valve in a system concerned with the horizontal Stabi Izer was the most probable cause of the Nevada  Early models of the fill including one reconnaissance version and a strategic Weber version did not contain he defective part and have not been grounded. The action Means the five fellas in Thailand will be con ducting no War missions until modifications can be made. Repairs on each plane apparently will take at least several Days. A Pentagon spokesman said modifications Are under Way and should be completed sometime next month. As each f111a is repaired it will be re leased for flight. Three fellas have crashed while operating out of Thailand. Wreckage of two of those plane was never recovered and the cause of those crashes has no been determined. The loss of the third f111a i Thailand had been blamed on a capsule of sealant found Lodge Din the flight control system. The air Force said it is Logi Cal and possible that there was also an actuator valve problem in that f111a crash. The air Force announcement followed disclosure by sen. Harry f. Byrd jr., d-va., that the defective valve had been blamed for the crashes. Moon lighter a Soldier at it. Monmouth,., takes Bead on a target through the newly developed Starlight scope that intensifies faint Moonlight Starlight or sky glow in the targe area. The device was developed by the army electronics come. A photo fighting a fire with a new twist Vancouver Wash. A they used a new version of the bucket brigade to Battle a fir eat a shipping Container manufacturing Plant on the Columbi River waterfront. A helicopter with a 900-Gallonbucket Slung beneath it dumped 4,500 Gallons of water on the firkin six minutes. Each dip trip a matter of dunking the bucket inthe River soaring aloft and dumping it where firemen directed took Only one and one fourth minutes. Army s scope steals night from the . It. Monmouth  A the . Infantryman in Viet Nam is using a new Rifle attach ment which lights up the enemy at night without exposing the i s position. The night vision device has been in use for a year the army electronic come Here revealed tuesday. A spokesman said the device intensifies faint Moonlight Star Light or sky glow in the observer s target area. It differs from earlier equip ment he said that depended on an infrared source to Bathe target in Low frequency Light imperceptible to the naked Eye but viewable with special Gog Gles. Since the Soldier does no generate a Light source while us ing the new device he does no risk giving away his position to an enemy employing an infrared viewer he added. He said the device has been so successful that the infantryman on night patrol need carry Only fraction of the ammunition Burden he had to tote  baiting cited . Says epoch Prouo hed arrest Boston a or. Benja min Spock was quoted by the Federal government tuesday Stelling Fri agents before his indictment last january if the government wishes to prosecute me i d be  another occasion the 65 year old paediatrician was depicted As baiting an assistant . Attorney general in an at tempt to provoke arrest on charges of counselling Youn americans to avoid the draft. Opening statement it is my purpose Spock was quoted further to do As much As possible to frustrate and obstruct the raising of troops by the United states forthe War in  Spock s purported Defiance before his indictment was out lined by asst. . Atty. John Wall in his opening statements to an All male jury in . District court. Wall s version of the casement temporarily unchallenged except through the pleas of in Nocent previously entered by the defendants. Judge Francis a dream a tired Partite poor people s March in Albuquerque n. M., catches a Nap before rally in the City s historic old town Plaza. A sign reads i have a dream quoting the Lute or. Martin Luther King. A . Ford ruled that defens openings will not be made until the conclusion of the govern ment s testimony. Spock is being tried with four other men on charges of conspiring to counsel Aid and Abe Tyoung men to avoid and evade the draft. The maximum penalty is five years in prison and a $10,000 Fine for each defendant. Wall said two Fri agent called on Spock at his new York apartment last dec. 8. The author of the Best Selling child care Book discussed with the mat some length an interchange of letters with president John son. Spock was quoted As saying he campaigned for Johnson s election in 1964, but became bitter critic of the president after the escalation of the War i Vietnam. Wall said the agents told Spock they were not inter ested in his political views but were interested in his activities regarding the draft. Or. Spock  Wal continued and said. I m Tell i ing you agents things by which i la hang myself " second Day Spock was quoted then As Tell ing the agents that he never tried personally to persuade any youths to turn in their draft cards but that if their mind were made up to do so he had supported  said if any of these Young people Are arrested Wall told the jury then he should be too because he had done All that was possible to Aid and abet  Wall s opening address was made to a packed courtroom Ashe trial entered its second Day. The government prosecutor is Ai handsome 36-year-old army vet eran who enlisted after colleges As a paratrooper in 1954 and saw 15 months duty As an Intel hence officer in Korea. I on trial with Spock Are Yalei chaplain William Sloane coffin 1 jr., 43 Michael Ferber 23, a graduate student at Harvard Mitchell Goodman 44, of new York and Temple Maine an author and teacher and Marcus Raskin co director of the Institute for political studies in Washington