April 4, 1971

Fed advisory council proposes expanding Medicare to cover partial payment of prescription drugs for non-hospitalized elderly as 1 of broad changes recommended in Medicare and Soc Security; details

They marched First Lieut. Wil liam Laws Calley Jr. to the stock ade at Fort Benning, Ga., last week. The longest court‐martial in military history had ended, and Calley stood convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the premeditated murder of not fewer than 22 unarmed, un resisting Vietnamese men, wo men and children at Mylai 4 on March 16, 1968.

SAN CLEMENTE, Calif.—The pressures of politics and war seem remote on this lovely stretch of California coastline, but last week there was no earthly way to avoid them. Mr. Nixon had come here 10 days ago to rest and sort out his thoughts before his television ad dress on Vietnam this Wednes day night. Yet, the world would not let him alone and he seemed, suddenly, a President under siege.

comment on Calley case, reaction to conviction and sentence and Nixon actions; Calley illus

THE giant economy of the United States was still making halting headway last week as it entered the normally morep lacid waters of the second quarter, but its progress continued to be disappointingly slowed by the dragging anchor of apathetic consumer spending.