March 12, 1969

MEMPHIS, March 11 -- James Earl Ray was taken to the state prison at Nashville before dawn today to begin serving a 99-year sentence for the murder of the Rex. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

J Masiello, reputed Mafia figure, reptd to have received $460,000 in loans from SBA through 1 of several cos he controls; Royal Natl Bank pres W Goldfine testifies he was on 1st-name basis with Masiello but did not know of his reputation; admits he helped him get SBA loans

10 fires set, other student disorders flare at Eastern Dist HS; illus; Stewart rejects dissident student leader's demand that police be removed from school; after meeting with UFT official G Altomare, pledges to keep police on premises 'for duration'; Mayor Lindsay says small group of agitators is moving from dist to dist stirring up trouble, news conf, City Hall; says principals and supervisors should have 'no hesitation' in calling in police

workers make no effort to occupy factories during 24-hr strike; effectiveness of strike varies among industries and regions; major portion of nation's heavy indus closes, pub transportation largely halted; 200,000 workers parade, Paris; refuse to allow thousands of students to join parade; illus; other worker parades held throughout nation; workers return to work on schedule; union leaders call for negotiations on wage demands; de Gaulle calls strike conspiracy against repub, TV s; strike scare seen helping Gaullist cause in upcoming referendum

offensive reptd to have led Nixon to delay opening of substantive secret talks; some US officials say US has not yet won agreement from S Vietnam for secret 4-way talks; some hold enemy offensive is test of Nixon Adm and effort by enemy to improve its bargaining position

police, on orders of Mayor Kramer, arrest 56 Negro student sit-in demonstrators at Eastside HS; later clash with students outside school who were protesting arrests; earlier student leaders rejected some Educ Bd offers to their demands

JERUSALEM, March 11 -- The third major artillery battle in four days between Egyptians and Israelis was fought today across the Suez Canal. One Israeli soldier was reported to have been killed in the three-and-a-half-hour engagement, making a total of five Israeli dead since Saturday.

Nixon delays decision pending further study and return of Laird from Vietnam; bipartisan Sen opposition to deployment rises; Sens Anderson and Harris, both of whom favored deployment, now oppose it; Sen subcom continues 'educ' hearings; Drs Killian, York and Kistiakowsky, who were advisers to Pres Eisenhower, testify that deployment would jeopardize rather than enhance natl security by accelerating arms race; hold there is no immediate natl security requirement for system; say deployment could mean that Pres would lose control over use of atomic weapons because decision on whether to fire defensive missiles would be left to computer or btry officer; Killian suggests White House set up ind study group to make comprehensive rev of nation's needs in offensive and defensive weapons; 3, at Sen Case suggestion, later conf with Kissinger; Sen Kennedy seen preparing for major pol confrontation if Nixon orders deployment

Chinese Min statement charges USSR, during '64 border talks, acknowledged that Chenpao island was Chinese territory; holds USSR has obtained certain unequal boundary treaties from China by taking advantage of China while she was under attack by other powers; indicates China will accept an existing boundary with mutually agreed adjustments once USSR admits basic illegality of entire boundary

4 young men and girl arrested on orders from univ officials for disrupting and harassing lectures given by Prof Inkeles; youths are not Harvard students but are reptdly part of group that has played role in campus disorders at other insts; univ's action seen as indication of its resolve to preserve sanctity of classroom