Purge in China reported
TOKYO (AP) — Mao
Tse-tung’s widow and some 30
other top radicals in the Chinese
leadership have been arrested or
detained in a purge of those who
opposed Premier Hua Kuo-feng’s
elevation to Communist party
chairman, unconfirmed Japanese
news reports from Peking said
Tuesday.
The newspaper Asahi said the
radicals had been plotting to name
62-year-old Chiang Ching, Mao's
widow, to the party leadership
post held by her husband until his
death on Sept. 9.
Kyodo news service, in a Pek
ing dispatch, said a government
spokesman announced Tuesday
Campaign kicked off
PORTLAND, (AP) — Indepen
dent presidential candidate
Eugene McCarthy supports
Oregon’s nuclear safeguards in
itiative, advocates a 10-year
moratorium on commercial whal
ing and wants the Internal Re
venue Service revamped, his
Oregon campaign leaders said
today.
They spoke at a press confer
ence at the opening of state
McCarthy headquarters and out
lined McCarthy’s campaign
schedule when he visits Oregon
on Oct. 20.
State campaign coordinator
Fred Moy read the following
statement by McCarthy on
Oregon’s Ballot Measure 9 which
provides for stringent controls on
the construction of nuclear power
plants:
"The development of nuclear
fission power plants must be re
strained and controlled, with spe
cial safety guarantees to protect
the public. The Oregon nuclear
safeguard initiative provides ef
fective safeguards.”
Moy said McCarthy wants to
see nudear plant regulations insti
tuted at the state or “grass roots"
level, rather than by the federal
government.
McCarthy's statement on
whales said a 10-year moratorium
on commercial whaling, as re
commended by the United Na
tions Conference on Human De
velopment, was necessary be
cause irresponsible hunting has
endangered the species.
Herb Park, an attorney for
Evans Products and co-chairman
of the Oregon campaign, said
McCarthy wants tax reform re
moved from the IRS and placed in
the Justice Department.
McCarthy also suggests a
force-out on capital gains every
seven to 10 years a 25 per cent
tax on the capital increase of an
asset over that time period.
Otherwise, he said, ownership will
be progressively in the hands of
the most wealthy individuals and
banks and corporations.
night that Hua has been named
party leader. Wall posters ap
peared in Peking last week indi
cating Ns succession, but there
has been no official announce
ment, apparently because of the
then unresolved power struggle
between radicals and moderates.
China’s official Hsinhua news
agency continued to refer to Hua
only as premier.
The reported arrest of Mao's
widow and other radical leaders
meant, if true, a victory for the
moderates and a reaffirmation of
China's policy of detente with the
United States and the West.
The immediate impression was
that Hua has thrown in with those
stressing economic development
with outside help, plus efficiency
and results, rather than endless
revolution.
Experts in Washington said the
ascendancy of moderates could
bring increased economic ties
with the United States and, for a
time, less pressure against U.S.
support of Taiwan.
Asahi quoted a reliable source
in Peking as saying the radical
group was accused of forging
Mao's will and directives issued in
his name during the last six
months of Ns life. They tried to use
the forged will to get Chiang Ching
elected party chairman, the
source was quoted as saying.
Chiang Ching, Mao’s fourth
wife, rose to prominence as a
leader of the 1966-69 cultural re
volution and was a key influence
on her husband during the past
decade.
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student juror issue delays trial
JERSEY CITY, NJ. — Jury selection in Rubin “Hurricane”
Carter s retrial on murder charges was delayed at least a day
Tuesday over a controversy about whether unemployed fulltime
students should be available for jury duty.
Michel Casserly, overseer of the Hudson County Jury Com
mission, testified at a pretrial hearing that such persons were
excluded from jury duty. The defense then filed a motion asking
the judge to set aside the entire panel of 500 prospective jurors.
Flu vaccines remain in Oregon
PORTLAND — Dr. Edward Press, state health officer, said
Tuesday he was not recommending suspension of the Oregon
swine flu inoculation program pending further information on the
deaths of three Pennsylvania residents who had the flu shots.
He said that, based on coroner’s reports from Pennsylvania,
there is no direct link between the shots and the deaths.
Auto strikers agree to settlement
DETROIT — A proposed settlement of the four-week-old
Ford Motor Co. strike has been approved by members of the
United Auto Workers (UAW), including skilled tradesmen, several
union sources said Tuesday night.
One of the sources, a UAW Local president in the South who
asked not to be identified, said the 25,000 skilled tradesmen
approved the pact by a slim margin.
Watergate appeals under review
WASHINGTON — The U S. Court of Appeals Tuesday up
held the Watergate cover-up convictions of three of former Pres.
Richard Nixon’s closest aides but granted a new trial for onetime
Nixon campaign assistant Robert Mardian.
In a 300-page opinion, the six judges said defendants in the
four-month-long conspiracy trial had been properly tried and
found guilty of “wide-ranging conspiracy” at the highest levels of
government.
A separate opinion said Mardian, a former assistant attorney
general, should have been tried separately from co-defendants
John Mitchell, H.R. HakJeman and John Ehrltchman
Dope crop seized by authorities
OREGON CITY — A marijuana crop with a street value
estimated at between $250,000 and $500,000 has been seized
by Clackamas County authorities.
Detective Ed Clark said the weed was found Friday behind a
mobile home south of Oregon City.
About three-quarters of a ton of marijuana was drying in a
shed, Clark said. Another 125 pounds in five-and-one-half-pound
bricks were discovered nearby after officers responded to an
anonymous tip.
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