European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 31, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 6 the stars and stripes would Blach magic Needle to pm by Dick West Washington up the Senate foreign relations committee recently disclosed that the defense depart ment is spending about $34 million year on social and behavioural science the projects the Pentagon has financed is a study of witchcraft sorcery magic and other psychological Phenomena in the of the committee members had trouble grasping the military significance of this sort of expenditure. That probably is because they Are accustomed to dealing with the state department. They have come to think of Witch Craft sorcery etc., As being instruments of diplomacy rather than weapons of warfare. Which goes to show you How shortsighted some senators Are. I imagine that even now the Penta gon is making Good use of the information it obtained in the Congo a Progress report i take you to the office of Claypool Talisman Dep Uty assistant under Secretary for charms fetishes and . Talisman what is that thing desk it looks like a is a doll. As you can see it bears the likeness of to Chi and what Are those things stick ing in it those Are you mind explaining what military significance this has be glad to. Its purpose is to Stop the infiltration of North vietnamese troops across the demilitarized zone. When a troop movement is spotted we stick a pin in the doll s leg and theoretically the enemy will develop Char lie horses making it difficult for them to other words you Are attempting to apply the principle of voodoo on massive scale. Do you think it will work every we we be tried thing does t this amount to in Mccalation of the War other some people might Call it tint k we have been exercising .3 b r it Strant in the use of the re the pinning Bethe appendix other ."x?8 but Pend re the outcome Northe Paris peace talks we have ssh from the White House not to Stany pins above the third Vertebra " sex Marine testifies at murder trial Quantico a. Up the government rested its Case wednesday in the court martial of a Young Marine charged with murdering an elderly peasant woman while on combat patrol in Vietnam. We were chasing a calf an almost had it cornered when a woman came up behind us testified sex m a r i n e David Moore a private in the patrolled by Cpl. Stanley j. Luczko who is on trial Here. Luczkowa previously convicted of murder in the sept. 22, 1966incident but the ruling was overturned. Moore told the nine Man military tribunal that Luczko asked the woman for he identification and then lifted his 45-caliber pistol. Heard shots he asked me How big a Hole it would make in her Moore said. I said i did t know turned and walked then testified he heard a shot and spun around to seethe woman falling to the ground. He said another shot was fired by the Corporal. He re cocked his weapon again extended his Arm at full length fired a third time an struck her in the forehead above the Eyebrow. She slumped Forward he said. Finish her off Moore said that Luczko then ordered another member of the patrol to finish her off and that the other Marine fire several rounds from an m-14 at the woman. Luczko son of a Gardner,mass., furniture worker was first tried for the incident by another court martial in Danang. He was found guilty an sentenced to life but a Board of appeals overruled the decision granted immunity Moore and Cpl. Billy Don Eakins who testified tuesday that he had been Given permission by Luczko to shoo the woman in the head with an automatic Rifle were granted immunity from murder charges for testifying against their patrol Leader. They had been accused of shooting the woman s husband As he ran from the tiny Hamlet Eakins testified Luczko was a Little out of his head Moore said wednesday that master sergeant Charles Ellis said Moore might be charge with murder if his testimony in the first trial did not further slated that investigating officer it. Col John l. Zorach said he would be immune to charges. But he said Zorach warned of trouble if Moore did not testify against Luczko. . Court upholds ouster of Bailey in murder Case Trenton . A the new Jersey supreme court has upheld the removal of f. Lee Bailey As defense lawyer in a tangled new Jersey Murde Case. The court which severely scolded Bailey during Oral argument last week on his Appeal for reinstatement ruled wednesday that Bailey s behaviour involving re trial publicity was so Gross that we cannot risk More of have searched for some evidence that or. Bailey would stay in Bounds but unhappily we cannot find it the court said in a unanimous 19-Page opinion. The attorney is not a member of the new Jersey bar and there fore could appear in a stat court Only with permission of the trial had said he would a peal to the Federal courts if the new Jersey High court refused to reinstate him. Lee Bailey. Gross behaviour to state dorm Blaze arson probes to give lie tests to 53 coeds Columbus Ohio up arson investigators said wednes Day they planned to give 53 Ohio state University coeds lie detect or tests in connection with dormitory fire that killed two girls and injured 14 others. One girl Pamela Patterson 18,of Ludlow Falls Ohio died in the fire that broke out last Weekin a suite of rooms on the Lith floor of the dormitory coed Retta d. Foster 22, of Colorado Springs colo.,died wednesday in University Hospital. The state fire marshal s office said the fire on the Lith floor of Dionne quilts Are 34 Montreal a the four living members of the famous Dionne quintuplets celebrate their 34th birthday tuesday. The 24-Story Lincoln Tower co educational dorm was set deliberately. Ohio state vice president Gor Don Carson said last week the fire was a Carbon copy of onegin a neighbouring Tower dormitory two weeks earlier. Terry Drake assistant fire marshal said More investigators have been called in and wit Nesses Are being interviewed by teams of a 24-hour fire watch started the Day of the fire would continue authorities said. Special duty officers from the Columbus police and fire departments an sheriff s deputies and Campus police handled fir watch tests were to be Given to the 53 girls who were on to health floor of the dorm when the fire started. The tone of the court s opinion ail similar to its characterization of Bailey during i appeals Der reinstatement. -., chief Justice Joseph Weintraub accused him at the Oral argument of insolence and arrogance beyond anything 1 can Bailey appealed for reinstate rent As a defense lawyer in the Kavanaugh Defranc murder cases. The a if nude body of mrs. Judith Kavanaugh. A 21 year old housewife was found i March 1966, in a Gully not far from her Clifton House. She had been shot and strangled and the prosecution said the woman had been partially stripped to make her death look like a sex de Franco a Small time Gambler was found with his Throat Cut on a Paterson sidewalk several months later. The state contends the slay Ings Are related and that mrs. Kavanaugh was murdered to prevent her from exposing a counterfeiting operation. Bailey was ordered remove from the cases by trial judge Gordon h. Brown who charged him with unethical conduct in circulating a letter to the Gover nor and scores of Federal and state officials stating that the prosecution had pressured or bribed key witnesses. Warren assails cynics in . Northfield Minn. A chief Justice Earl Warren says current divisions in the United states Are outcroppings of the desire of the vast majority of our people for a better life for every there is a certain cynicism abroad today to the effect that our society has stagnated Warren said. I Challenge that concept and assert that our country is a Young country and has All the attributes of Warren spoke at St. Olaf col lege where he received an honorary doctor of humane letter degree. Escobedo found guilty of drugs Chicago up Dan Lees 25s? Hose name graces historic . Supreme court decision regarding confessions was found guilty Here on a charge of Selling marijuana to a Federal agent. A . District court jury de liberated less than an hour on the charge against the 30-year-old Chicago Man who is already serving a 22-year sentence on an other narcotics charge. Escobedo who made copious notes during the trial denied the charge on the witness Stan tuesday. He said police have stopped him at least three times week since the supreme court reversed his convictions on a1960 murder charge. Set precedent the reversal of that charge in 1964 was a precedent setting Cas which has altered the taking of confessions throughout the coun try. The High court ruled the conviction of murdering his brother in Law was invalid be cause Escobedo had no lawyer present when questioned by police. Escobedo testified in his latest trial that the undercover agent asked him for some narcotics but Escobedo said he replied i Don t want to have anything Todo with narcotics and know Noth ing about , f e d e r a 1 narcotics agent Robert Victoria Escobedo sold him the Mari Uana for $675 in marked Money August 1967 at a South Side said arrangements vere made for Escobedo to sell Lim another 50 pounds of the drug but Escobedo was arrested before the Sale could be made. Pills or dreams los Angeles apr. An Thony Kales assistant professor of psychiatry at Urcla told recent symposium on sleep that the use of sleeping pills reduce the amount of sleeping time seem dreaming from the Normal 20 to25 per cent to 12 to 18 per cent to g o wa6x7u pomp
