May 16, 1972

US Sup Ct rules, 7-0, on May 15 that Amish religious sect is exempt from state compulsory educ laws requiring children to attend school beyond 8th grade; holds state laws requiring school attendance violate const rights to freedom of religion; decision specifically applies to Wis but would apply to all states requiring attendance in public or private schools; ruling is 1st to hold religious group immune from compulsory attendance requirements; Chief Justice Burger, in written opinion, stresses 300-yr resistance of Amish to modern influences and warns new sects or communes that reject formal educ will probably not be granted similar exemptions; Justice Douglas files partial dissent protesting that only parents' views were consulted in case; urges that children be consulted about their own future before they leave school; Justices White, Brennan and Stewart sign concurring opinion sharing Douglas concern that some estimates show 1/3 to 1/2 of Amish youths drifting away from faith, but conclude that youths could obtain educ later if they wished; case revd

Pres Nixon orders Secret Service protection for Sen Kennedy and Reprs Chisholm and Mills; other Pres aspirants are already protected under '68 law which has now been extended to include candidates with 5% support indicated by public opinion polls; Sen Kennedy is included even though he is not candidate; Gov Wallace had tight protection from Secret Service and personal bodyguards, as well as bullet-proof stand and vest, but eschewed them to mingle with crowd, according to Lieut L Jemison, one of Wallace's bodyguards; Jemison says Wallace had not received threats recently, though previously he had been 'most threatened candidate in the country'; shopping center rally instead of airport stops was new concept in Wallace campaign, initiated out of Wallace's belief that 'you ought to bring the candidate to where the people are'

Manhattan Dist Atty Hogan announces, May 15, he is dropping perjury charges against Lindsay aide J L Kriegel; charges stem from Kriegel's '71 testimony about his knowledge of police corruption before Knapp Commission; Hogan concludes that it is impossible to prove willful inconsistency in testimony; case revd; Kriegel por

May 16: S Vietnamese troops, led by a platoon of 30 soldiers flown in by helicopters, reoccupy Fire Base Bastogne, May 15, on southwesterly approaches to Hue; base was abandoned Apr 28 under heavy attack; Saigon mil officers feel capture of base will prevent enemy from moving their heavy arty from Ashau Valley to within striking distance of Hue; recapture of base is matter of pride to S Vietnamese, who have been pressing to regain some of the ground lost to enemy in northern part of S Vietnam; S Vietnamese, in series of operations after reoccupying base, rept they captured and destroyed nearly 8 tons of enemy ammunition at 3 separate caches; S Vietnamese rept killing 23 enemy soldiers in clash 2 mi NW of Kontum; Anloc hit by 500 enemy shells; there is sporadic ground fighting in area; enemy fires 3 rockets into US fuel and pumping depot 2 mi N of Pleiku; action is followed by assault by demolition troops; S Vietnamese rept finding crater containing the bodies of 141 enemy soldiers in Phuoclong Prov; US planes bomb heavily in Kontum area; 2 rr bridges at Longbien, 60 mi from Hanoi, reptdly destroyed by US raids, cutting rr traffic to Hanoi from NW; one damaged bridge illus; map

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