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national Battalion/Pags< June 30, W HELl Hinckley says he felt he’d be convicted Warped By Scott McCulli*- ow Iliring bu p.m. a YOUR MAJESTY, A CRIrtE. HAS BEEN COMniTTED AND WE HAVE CAPTURED THOSE RESPONSIBLE... ..BUT ONE OF THESE S THIEVES THAT STOLE THE LARGE KRAG DIAMOND HAS SWALLOWED IT, AND THEY WILL NOT SAY WHICH. HOW SHALL WE KNOW WHICH TO GET THE DIAMOND BACK FROM, SIRE ? THRU THE PROCESS Of ELIMINATION m wiime help "“lay on Si enson Cl P Plaza l: hlease. United Press International WASHINGTON — John W. Hinckley Jr. says he “thought for sure” he would be convicted on criminal charges for shooting President Reagan and respects the jury for ignoring pressure and finding him innocent by reason of insanity. In copyrighted story in Tues day’s Washington Post, the newspaper reported Hinckley also said in three telephone in terviews from a Washington mental hospital, he feels sorry for White House Press Secretary James Brady, permanently in jured in last year’s attack, but has no sorrow for Reagan. “I helped his presidency,” said Hinckley, 27, who was found not criminally responsi ble last week of the shooting that shocked the nation. “After I shot him, his polls went up 20 per cent.” The Post said it interviewed Hinckley by telephone Saturday and Sunday, the first conversa tions he held with reporters since being arrested March 30, 1981. The paper said Hinckley initiated the calls. The Post said the “caller was able to answer specific questions about Hinckley’s family, his per sonal life and his confinement at St. Elizabeths that were asked to verify his identity.” Hinckley, remanded to St. The Best Pizza In Town! Honest. 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Ri per day, with per month, t- ilowance als summer & etl please ca “When I saw Brady on the { ground after I shot him, it was ike it was just a mannequin ... I had no emotion about it,” Hinc kley said. “I feel really sorry for him now.” But Hinckley said, “I don’t feel sorry for Reagan or (Secret Service agent Timothy) McCar thy ... I don’t know about (policeman Thomas) De- lahanty.” A spokesman for the National Institute of Mental Health, which runs the mental hospital, said Hinckley’s use of the phone is now being strictly supervised since he was only supposed to call family or lawyers. U.S. District Judge Barring ton Parker has scheduled a hear ing Aug. 9 to determine whether Hinckley is entitled to release from the hospital. His family and attorneys said they would not request his re lease until he was well. United Press International WASH INGTON — A biparti- lific san panel reports a “significant probability” the United States will be forced to resume the military draft within a few years. But it shied away from recom mending universal conscription. In addition, the study re leased Monday said the All- Volunteer Force has created a legitimate concern because there are so many blacks in the Army that they would take a dis proportionately high number of casualties in the opening days of a war. The study faulted the AVF for failing to draw proportion ately from minorities and the white middle class. “Particularly is this true in the Army, where minorities make up 41 per cent of the enlisted force, including 33 percent black (as compared to a popula tion of about 13 percent black),” it said. The report by the Atlan tic Council, entitled “Toward A Consensus on Military Service,” resulted from an 18-month study into the AVF by 63 leaders in the military, business and education communities. The volunteer force was cre ated when the Selective Service draft system ended in 1973. The study showed active duty strength is inadequate to meet threats to U.S. areas of interest in Europe, Asia and the Persian Gulf, although the Defense De partment recently issued glow ing reports on the higher num ber and quality of recruits. But the report said active duty strength, now at 2 million, is the lowest it has been since 1950. In creases will have to be drawn from a diminishing manpower pool because an upturn in the economy coupled with a drop in unemployment could reduce enlistments, it said. ■S Now “There is thus probability that the rqi ments of peace and securiiji compel this country tor® the draft, perhaps by thta 1980s,” the study said. Ret. Army Gen. Ait Good paster, a former com der of Allied forces in Ei and a former superintends West Point who co-chairdi study, said there was a “st tial consensus reached »il the group that the draftslm not be restored at tl though the draft law staiSBfsroN P( reshaped to make it more fcsfor fall cient. Apply Plaza. 846-2911 Court ruling will help reduce housing starts: S&Ls, Realtors leeded col ie of the irams in juts. For ake-up a all 846-92 “different spokes for different folks” 403 University (Northgate) Open 10-7 Mon.-Fri. 10-5 Sat. 846-BIKE United Press International WASHINGTON — With housing sales and starts at re cord lows, the Supreme Court ruling expanding the power of federal lenders to raise mort gage rates is likely to further de- C ress the market, realtors and uilders say. Lending institutions, howev er, which have been squeezed with mortgage rates far below inflation rates, welcomed Mon day’s decision. 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