A 18 THE COURIER-JOURNAL, THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1973 Indians take' town It's a long, long trail to pony's burial place -J Associated Press A BUREAU OF INDIAN Affairs policeman stands ready with a shotgun at a blockade set up near Wounded Knee, S.D., where about 400 Indians are holding hostages. The man in the center is an unidentified tribal chief trying to get permission to go to speak to the Indians. as part pi Continued From Page One occupying force had grown from 200 to 400 by yesterday afternoon. They also said a cease-fire had been arranged with the FBI. The takeover of the community, site of a bloody battle between the U.S.
cavalry and Sioux in 1890, began at about 10 p.m. 'EST Tuesday. By yesterday afternoon, an FBI spokesman in Washington said: "The Indians are in charge of the town, hostages are there, road-bock are up, the demands are the same." Clyde Bellecourt of Minneapolis, a leader of the American Indian Movement (AIM), said the exchange of gunfire occurred when Indians fired warning shots over cars that came within a quarter of a mile of the village of about 100. He said federal marshals returned the fire. Carter Camp of Ponca City, a national coordinator of AIM, said warning shots were fired by Indians at a low-flying airplane, but claimed it was not hit.
Camp said the cease-fire was agreed on before 2 p.m. EST. Camp said the hostages would not be hurt unless authorities who had surrounded the village came too close. The Indians Including members of AIM and of the Oglala Sioux tribe held nine members of one family and a Roman Catholic priest. They demanded that Sens.
Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and J. W. Fulbright of Arkansas, both Democrats, come to the Pine Ridge Reservation to discuss the Indians' grievances. Fulbright, contacted in Little Rock, said, "I would do anything to help clear up the situation," but added that he had received no formal request for After diplomatic has two choices: either they attack and wipe us out like they did in 1890 or they negotiate our reasonable demands." Wounded Knee was the site of the last major confrontation between Indians and whites in the campaign to settle the West.
More than 200 Indian women, children and old men were massacred on Dec. 29, 1890, by troops of the 7th Cavalry. Fourteen years earlier, the 7th Cavalry led by Gen. George Custer was annihilated at the battle of the Little Big Horn in Montana. Maj.
Samuel Whiteside, second in command of the 7th Cavalry, wrote later that the regiment had gone to Wounded Knee with the expressed intent "of avenging the battle of the Little Big Horn." Means said yesterday, thei decision to take control of the village was made after he was beaten up by five supporters of protest assistance. He also said, "This is one of those things that I don't know much about and I think I should get some advice from some official people in ment." A spokesman for Kennedy said the senator is "not planning to go out there" at the moment. "The question uppermost in the senator's mind was whether he could do anything to help the hostages," the spokesman said. He added that the senator was "keeping in touch" with officials in South Dakota. The trouble allegedly started when the Indians broke into a trading post in the town, which is 140 miles southeast of Rapid City, and armed themselves with weapons and supplies.
Their demands included an investigation of the dealings of the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Indian Affairs with the Oglala Sioux. They also asked for the resignation of the current leaders, including chairman Richard Wilson, who has feuded with AIM members in the past. Bellecourt said, "The hostages have not been harmed and will not be maltreated or harmed by Indians." He said there were about 60 to 70 AIM members among the Indian group. He said the takeover was initiated by Oglala Sioux living on the Pine Ridge reservation where Wounded Knee is located, and not by AIM. Bellecourt and Russell Means, another AIM leader, said the Indians were well armed.
have high-powered rifles, shot guns, explosives and 14 hand grenades," Means said. "The government moves on POWs ference during the day to approve a "final act" designed to put an international seal-of-approval on the Vietnam peace agreements signed a month ago and to reinforce the peace-keeping machinery in Southeast Asia. The conference then will end a formal signing ceremony of the joint resolution at the Hotel Majestic international conference center tomorrow. Meanwhile, optimistic reports came from the' technical committee drafting the joint resolution. Sources from Poland, a member of the four-power control and supervision commission, said a compromise on the resolution virtually had been reached.
according to that U.S. re talks norts show grined at the thought. He said there is no way to cremate these animals. "You have to have a gas fire for that," Trowell explained. "We're not built for it.
They don't burn completely." Paul Lynch said it "seems inhuman to me" that Baxter didn't take Strawberry to the animal cemetery in Shepherdsville out in Bullitt County. But the owner of Pet Havan Cemetery said they- don't handle ponies and horses. "In a year or two, maybe," the owner said. "But not now. We have only an acre." Ohio Valley Pet Cemetery in Sell-ersburg, said they'd never had a pony or horse, but they'd take one.
"We'll be glad to donate the land and labor if he pays for the back hoe." She said it would be $35 or $40. Baxter said he couldn't afford it. By then Paul Lynch's second thoughts became a change of mind. "Tell him to come dowu," Lynch iold this reporter Tuesday. "I looked up the law and it says it's fine." I have a permit to bury animals.
Tell him to bring it down." 1 Baxter was at work then, but he brought Strawberry down to the sanitary landfill yesterday morning for the burial. He said he was glad it was over, but was upset that it had taken so long. "We pay so much -for taxes, there should" be a place to get something like this done," Baxter said. Part of his problem may have been that he didn't talk to the right people. Emil Eisen, director of city sanitation, said crews do pick up animals like dogs and -ponies free of charge "in jiardship cases," If the owner can pay, Eisen said, the city charges $25 to take large animals to the dog food company in La Grange.
But Eisen agreed that disposal of horses and ponies is a big problem for many owners. Ask James Newspaper to resist subpoena for data New York Times News Service NEW YORK Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher of The New 'York Times, said yesterday "all legal, steps would be taken to quash a subpoena issued by the Committee to Re-Elect the President in order to obtain material on The Times coverage of the bugging of the Democratic National Committee's headquarters. The subpoena, issued to Times reporter John M. Crewdson, was one of a dozen served on reporters and news executives this week at The Washington Post, The Washington Star-News and Time magazine. -o Among those subpoenaed were Kather-ine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post, and Howard Simons, the Post's managing editor.
Post had published stories linking the alleged bugging and sabotage to White House aides. -vv siitltitif ,9 Wilson. He said Wounded Knee was chosen as a symbol and because the Indians believe they can defend it. The only report of injury was an accidental gunshot wound suffered by AIM member Rick Powers of St. Paul, Minn.
Bellecourt said Powers lost a finger when a gun accidentally discharged Tuesday night. Camp said the Indians are demanding that: "The Senate committee headed by Kennedy launch an immediate investigation of the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Department of the Interior for their handling of the Sioux "That Fulbright investigate the 371 treaties between the federal government and the Indians to show how the government has failed to live up to the terms of the treaties. We can prove the United States never keeps its treaty com mitments." the Oglala Sioux be allowed to elect their own officials. Those now in office are just puppets. The need traditionalists." The Indians also asked that Sen.
James Abourezk, chairman of the Senate subcommittee on Indian affairs, convene a hearing on the reservation. Abourezk said in Washington that he would fly to Wounded Knee to meet with the Indians if they released the hostages. He said he had contacted Kennedy and Fulbright but did not know whether they would accompany him. The trading post incident Tuesday night resulted in the arrest by federal authorities of 16 adults and one juvenile on charges of larceny, burglary and con- spiracy. A BIA official said the 17 were arrested as they tried to leave Wounded Knee by car.
The Department of Indian Affairs said there are 11,350 Indians living on the Paris Vietnam optimism reservation. The land, city incinerator?" Lynch said. "There which is in the foothills of the Black' should be a way to cremate these ani-Hills National Forest, is rolling and mals," barren and is considered df little use for Alfonso Trowell," superintendent of the anything except livestock grazing. 'vi Meriwether Street incinerator, was cha 3 Continued From Page One judge's office, and some more places like that. "They kept sending me to somebody else, sometimes to people I'd just talked to," Baxter said.
"It was a runaround. One of them told me to bury it in my backyard. I don't own my backyard." Finally, Monday night, he talked to Dr. Olen Givens, head of food sanitation and animal disease control for Louisville and Jefferson County. Givens admitted he "may have been a bit gruff" with Baxter.
"You can't really blame him, but he said it was our. problem," Givens said. "That gets to me. A man's pony dies, and immediately it's our problem. I don't like that attitude, that you're going to have to do something about my problem.
But this is a public agency, and he had called so many people that I decided to help." "You know what Givens asked me?" Baxter said. "He asked me if I thought the county should bury my wife if she died. I told him I had insurance on my wife, not on the pony." He chuckled a little. It must have been getting to him by then, thinking about that dead pony out in the back of the truck under the blanket. It must have been a hard thing not to think about.
He said it was impossible not to think about it if you got y.ery close to the, truck. Givens told Baxter to come around in the morning and get a permit to take the pony and get it buried out at Lees Lane Sanitary Land Fill. James Baxter thought his problems were over. weren't. He got the permit, but, it didn't mean much to the Lees Lane people.
"He's been here, but the boss said we don't take ponies or horses," Norma Reaves, a clerk at Lees Lane, said Tuesday morning. "The boss isn't here, so we told him couldn't take it. He left with the pony in the truck," she said. By now Baxter had forgotten that he had liked Strawberry once. He decided to.
take a ride and the dead pony somewhere. It would have been easy. Just find a back road with a fairly steep bank out in the country on a straightaway where you could see any car coming from a long way off and dump it. -He didn't do "I decided not to," Baxter said. He tried two more dumps.
Both of them said no. "They wouldn't take it," he said. The 24-year-old Baxter, a helper at the Medical Center Steam Plant on East Madison Street, went to work. About the time he was parking his truck and pony down by Jewish Hos- pital, second thoughts were going through the mind of Paul Lynch, the man who runs Lees Lane Sanitary Landfill. At first Lynch didn't want to have much to do with Strawberry.
"Why can't thejr do something with the 637-9724 9 risrs mmmmmmmmmi IN all POWs will be freed Continued From Page One to return to the other business of the international conference on Vietnam, now under way in Paris, until the arrangements for the release of the next group of POWs have been completed. Under persistent questioning, Ziegler refused to say North Vietnam had actually agreed to release the POWs this week. He also could not say whether Tririh had repeated to Rogers the public North Vietnamese demand that ther release be tied to "iron clad" guarantees for the safety of the North Vietnamese representatives in South Vietnam: The White House spokesman did repeat Mr. Nixon's statement Tuesday that the release of those prisoners could be tied to nothing more than the withdrawal of American forces from South Vietnam the 60 days the signing of the draft accords 27. Quoting from the prisoner and ceasefire protocols, Ziegler claimed Hanoi is committed to release the second batch of American prisoners this week, In Saigon a North Vietnamese member of the truce commisson, Col.
Huang Hoa, returned on the International Control Commission plane yesterday afternoon; after, nine days in Hanoi, and North Vietnamese spokesman Bui Tin indicated he may have carried a list of prisoners with him. But there was no word as to when the list might be handed over, or the prisoners released. Ziegler carefully refrained from tying the prisoner issue to any other complications in the Vietnam situation. He refused to comment on Saigon reports that the United States would cease all troop withdrawals until the next group of Prisoners was released, He also refused to repeat the harsh attack made yesterday mornine in Saigon bv Mai. Gen.
Gilbert H. Woodward, chief of the American delegation to the From L.A. Times-Washington Post Service and Washington Star-News Dispatches PARIS Unconditional assurance from the North Vietnamese that the process of releasing American prisoners of war will be completed by the end of March may have cleared the way. for a rapid and successful conclusion of the international conference on Vietnam meeting in Paris. The first test will come in Saigon this morning when the North Vietnamese are expected to turn over to the United States a list of prisoners they will be releasing and a timetable for their prompt return to American authorities.
If that list is forthcoming, there will be a plenary session of the 13-member con-, Troop pulloutr mine-clearing halted by U.S. Continued From Page One side a C-47 on a regular basis, but there was no immediate response. Meanwhile, an unarmed American military helicopter carrying a Canadian and an Indonesian member of the Commission was hit by small arms fire yesterday 12 miles south of Da Nang, severely wounding the American pilot. No other injuries were reported. Commission sources said it was the fourth incident yesterday in which an ICCS aircraft; was shot at in South Vietnam.
The locations of the other attacks were not disclosed. American sources reported that the helicopter was fired on while flying at 2,500 feet, an altitude at which on a clear day like yesterday, the aircraft's white cross ICCS markings should hatfe been clearly visible. 'The condition of the pilot, who was wounded in the leg, is considered serious enough to require his evacuation to the United States. 1 Following the usual procedure, the pilot's identity was not disclosed. The minesweeping suspension, another in the series of U.S.
pressures to get more prisoners home, began after removal operations already had started, Pentagon sources said. The sources reported later an 11-man Navy team working on minesweeping arrangements with the North Vietnamese boarded planes near Haiphong and flew back to the U.S. minesweeping flotilla, which pulled out to sea. The task force was reported kept in position to move back to Haiphong within six hours. In Cambodia, U.S.
aircraft continued bombing operations, although "there were no B-52s involved in the operations," a spokesman for the Pacific command announced. "Only tactical1 aircraft (small fighter-bombers) were used," he said. The spokesman added that no raids were flown over Laos yesterday- In Vientiane, the Lao government and Pathet Lao held their first military and political subcommittee meeting to implex ment the cease-fire agreement signed last week. The Pathet Lao spokesman said the two sides discussed formation of the political council that will prepare for elections after a new government is formed. OMBUDSMAN If you have a question of complaint regarding news coverage "please contact our Ombudsman's office between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; We established the. office 1o help you with problems requiring the attention of any top management personnel of The Courier-Journal. Call 582-4600 or. write Ombudsman, The Courier-Journal, Louisville, Ky. 40202 report, brief mention of Laos and Cambodia and designates the United States and North Vietnam as the two countries charged with receiving and acting on? cease-fire violation reports from the field.
North Vietnam spokesman' Nguyen Thanh Le struck an, unexpectedly positive note when he told a press briefing that "converging points of view have increased'? on the drafting of the final act of the conference and there are "very few items on which there are differences." However, State Department spokesman Robert J. McCloskey said the differences were few in -number but important in substance. Asked if agreement was in sight, he replied: "Through a glass darkly." assurances Joint Military Commission (JMC), who denounced the failure to release American prisoners and demanded that two surface-to-air missiles installed by the Communists in South Vietnam near Khe Sanh be removed. Speaking first at yesterday morning's meeting of the JMC chiefs, Woodward said the failure to release prisoners was a clear violation of the agreement and termed the installation of the missiles not only a violation of the agreement, but also a provocation of the U.S. government.
The Communists in reply denied there are any missiles in the Khe Sanh region and protested the treatment of their delegations in the South. Murder charge filed in fatal shooting Zelner P. Campbell, "44, of the 1700 block of Esquire was arrested late Tuesday and charged with wilful murder and. malicious shooting and wounding in Connection with the shooting death Tuesday of James Henry Bell, 40, of 1928 W. Chestnut and the wounding of Bell's wife, Mrs.
Ruth Jane Bell. Bell, an employe of the Kingfish restaurant on Bardstown Road, is also survived by eight daughters, the Misses Deborah Jean, Vanessa, Marcella, Lynn 'Denise, Wanda Faye, Cheryl, Antionette and Sarphifa Bell; a son, Glenn Richard Bell; his mother, Mrs. Nettie P. Turner; his father, John W. Bell, and a grandson.
The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at 1300 D. Porter Sons Funeral Home, W. Chestnut with burial in Greenwood Cemetery, ine Doay win De at the funeral home after 6 p.m. yesterday's hearing, and after two hours of, testimony the committee voted unanimously' to report the resolutions un favorably tantamount to killing tnem.
Doolin also told the committee that all instances of civilian targets struck during the massive B-52 bombing raids over Hanoi and Haiphong in late December were accidental. He cited an instance in which a B-52, struck by antiaircraft fire, released all its bombs over no particular target as it tried to leave the area. The Mai hospital, the largest medical facility in Hanoi which' was reported as destroyed by bombs shortly before Christmas, was accidentally hit in only one wing, Doolin said. He said one building in the large hospital complex was destroyed, and that all photographs subsequently distributed by the North Vietnamese concentrated on the damage to the one building. -'f f( Ill Panel told December raids on North cost $450 million By OSWALD JOHNSTON The Washington Star-News WASHINGTON The: Pentagon- flCr know edged yesterday that the December bombing campaign against North Vietnam cost an average $25 million a day, or a In basketball running is the name of the game and Ehrler's is the name of our energy! Call Today for Thrifty Home Delivery or Visit One of Our DAIRY STORES LEXINGTON CALL 254-2000 IN LOUISVILLE CALL ST.
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