July 3, 1972

US civilian and mil sources, in series of ints, say USAF and CIA have been secretly seeding clouds over N and S Vietnam and Laos to increase and control rainfall for mil purposes; seeding program aimed most recently at hindering movement of N Vietnamese troops and supplies and suppressing enemy AA fire; disclosure confirms growing speculation in Cong and scientific circles about use of weather modification in SE Asia; program, 1st tried in S Vietnam in '63, is 1st confirmed use of meteorological warfare and has been opposed by some US State Dept officials; it is not determined if operations are in current use; many mil and US Govt officials doubt effectiveness of operations; details on operations

Article discusses growing leniency of judges who are defying draft bds and Fed prosecutors and granting amnesty to draft resisters on condition they perform type of public service required of conscientious objectors; says change occurred between '67, when 10.4% of those convicted in draft cases recd probation, and '71, when 62.7% recd probation; notes percentage of defendants who were convicted dropped from 75.1% to 34.8% in same period; says sweeping changes have occurred in major metropolitan areas; points out that sentence depends to large extent on which judge tries case; factors in trend toward liberalized practices noted; question of amnesty for draft resisters noted as issue in '72 Pres campaign; individual cases noted

Spanish Embassy in Washington dismisses long-time employe Mrs E H Hunt Jr effective July 1 because of publicity surrounding her husband in connection with June 17 raid on Dem Natl Com hq; Embassy officials comment

Smith, Joseph Fielding

July 3: Nguyen Thai Binh, 24-yr-old S Vietnamese student and reptd antiwar dissident whose scholarship in US was recently canceled, is fatally shot by passenger aboard Pan Amer Boeing 747 after he attempts to hijack craft, on Manila-Saigon flight, to Hanoi; is shot 5 times by passenger after declaring that hijacking is 'an act of revenge' for Amer bombing of N Vietnam, and during struggle with craft's pilot; Binh's body is thrown from craft by pilot Capt G Vaughn after craft lands at Tansonnhut Airport; illus; Vaughn describes hijacking; illus; Binh illus at antiwar demonstration