April 2, 1970

NJ Gov Cahill issues statement in behalf of Asst US Atty Gen W Wilson that no Fed probe of Repub state chmn and Sen aspirant N G Gross is 'under way or contemplated'; demands US Atty Lacey confirm or deny existence of probe; Lacey confirms probe is under way of alleged improper intercession by Gross on behalf of Teamsters Local 97, Newark, allegedly Mafia-dominated

Army accuses Medina of being 'reponsible' for murder of Vietnamese civilians allegedly killed by members of his inf co in Songmy; does not make details of charges pub, but says they involve 102 alleged victims of Calley, 30 alleged victims of Mitchell and murders allegedly committed by at least 5 other enlisted men; Medina denies charges, news conf; discloses they accuse him of premeditated murder of not less than 175 civilians; repeats denials of having participated in or ordered or seen any mass killings in Songmy; new charges said to broaden Army inquiry; Army withdraws earlier charge that Medina concealed from his superiors knowledge of slayings; Army says Medina is not accused of 'all' killings that it believes occurred, but of 'most of them'; Medina illus

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Mass Legis completes action on bill testing const of war in Vietnam by testing whether servicemen must serve in war undeclared by Cong; White House has recd memo on action

thousands of drivers walk out as contract expires; 72 trucking cos in 37 cities shut down; most walkouts are concentrated in Central States, from St Louis to Minneapolis, and in smaller cities in south; Buffalo is only city in east where stoppages are reptd; chief indus negotiator R F Beagle describes strikes as 'massive' when compared with scattered walkouts that precipitated gen indus shutdown in '67; talks resume; union offers to lessen impact of $1.70 wage demand by splitting rise into 6-mos segments, with 40c rise immediately, 30c rise in July and 25c rise every Apr and Oct thereafter; demands, in exch, extra 25c rise on last day of contract, increasing price of settlement to $1.95-an-hr; halves demand for 100,000 long-distance drivers from 6c to 3c per mi; indus makes new offer of 1.75c per mi; Sec Shultz asks indus and union to draft plan for movement of emergency cargoes in case natl work stoppage develops; talks in Chicago reptd deadlocked, but drivers continue to work