SATURDAY, JANUARY 27,1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY . PAGE THREE SATURDAY, JANUARY 2'7, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE North Korea Claims Bucher Admits Guilt TOKYO ()-North Korea as- serted yesterday the captain of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo admitted his ship conducted 4 "plain acts of aggression and a criminal act that violated the rud- imental norms of international law." The Korean Central News Ag- ency said Cmdr. Lloyd Mark Bu- cher, was interviewed by North Korean newsmen at a news con- ference arranged "at a certain spot." The agency said Bucher "admit- ted that they were captured while conducting extremely criminal es- pionage activities deep in the coastal waters of our country, giv- Soviets Balk At Mediation Involvenlent, MOSCOW () - The U.S. am- bassador talked with Soviet offi- cials again yesterday in a contin- uing effort to obtain Soviet help in solving the Pueblo crisis, but a Soviet source said that Russia will not mediate. The informant said the Soviet Union has no intention of getting involved in any mediation role between the United States and North Korea, the Soviet ally which captured the Pueblo and her crew. The Soviet attitude will appear in the Soviet press, the Foreign Ministry said. The press and ra- dio has said North Korea acted "rightfully", producing 'hysteria' in Washington. A m b a s s ador Llewellyn E. Thompson visited the Soviet For- A eign Ministry yesterday at mid- day, continuing an almost daily series of calls since the crisis arose. The embassy here has kept si- lent on Thompson's visits, under strict instructions from Washing- ton. Reports from Washington said that in Thompson's discussion Tuesday with First Deputy For- eign Minister Vasily V. Kuznet- sov, the ambassador got a cold re- action to a request that the So- viet Union'use its influence with North Korea to obtain release of the Pueblo and crew. It was not clear just how large a role Washington was asking Moscow to take. An intermediary role - simply passing messages to North Korea -might prove more acceptable t Moscow than mediation, whic would involve the Soviet Union in responsibility for working ou details of a settlement. The Soviet government news paper Izvestia reported yesterday that President Johnson's call up of reservists was meant to serve as a military threat against Norti Korea and as pressure on the U.N. Security Council. The paper accused Washingto of responding "in the usual mili. taristic way" to the crisis, whil saying it would like to find a dip lomatic solution. The Soviet paper declared tha Washington's reaction "showe: the -general atmosphere of ag- gressiveness prevailing in the Am. erican capital, much increased by the Vietnam war." But, according to Izvestia "Washington, stuck in the Viet namese jungles, understands th riskiness of opening a secon front." It quoted from the Ameri- can press on the theme that U.S forces are already extended dan gerously thin because of Vietnam Later, the official Soviet new agency, Tass said the U.S. gov ernment called for a Securit Council meeting "to delude th world public." en spying mission from the U.S. [Navy comamnder in Japan, and that their espionage acts are plain acts of aggression and a criminal act that violated the rudimental norms of international law." Another North Korean broad-. cast said Commander Bucher claimed at the news conference that his ship had been sent on other spy missions and had en- tered the coastal waters of the Soviet Union and Red China as well as North Korea. The Korean Central News Ag- ency said the skipper of the navy intelligence ship, Commander Bu- cher, made the statement at a "certain spot" in North Korea in reply to a news conference ques- tion. The agency alleged that Bu- cher admitted the Pueblo was cap- tured "while conducting extreme- ly criminal espionage activities deep in the coastal waters" of North Korea. Washington says the ship was in international waters. "We had carried outespion- age activities in the coastal waters of Korea and other parts of Asia on many occasions" Bucher was said to have replied. "We had in- truded into the coastal waters of the Soviet Union and China r and repeatedly - perpetrated es- pionage acts." The Pueblo, with a crew of 83, was seized by North Korean na- val craft in the sea east of Won- san, North Korea, Tuesday. Four crewmen were reported wounded, one fatally, in an engagement be- fore the ship was captured. Bucher was further quoted as saying the Pueblo's crewmen "were given a spying mission from the U.S. Navy commander in Ja- )an, and that our espionage acts ' are plain acts of aggression and criminal acts that violated the rudimental norms of international law." Both Red China and the Viet Cong in South Vietnam backed up North Korea's action. Red China's New China News Agency said the Pueblo "intruded deep into the coastal waters of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, put up an arrogant re- sistance and the naval ships of the Korean People's Army re- turned fire and killed or wounded several U.S. imperialist aggressor troops." : Thus Peking broke a four day silence on the incident. "This spy ship Pueblo of over 11,000 tons is equipped with anti- aircraft machine guns and scores of other weapons," the agency added. "It is equipped with instal- lations for espionage activities." Tanoi radio in a broadcast said the Viet Cong declared the cap- Sture of the Pueblo was "a fully 1legal act conforming to' justice, international law, and the inviol- able right of an independent, sov- ereign nation." The Viet Cong ac- cused the United States of having y "dark designs" against North Ko- rea. Israeli Ship missing Off Cyrus Coast; Foresee No Indication Of Hostile Actions By Egyptian Forces TEL AVIV, Israel (P)-The Is- raeli submarine Dakar is missing in the eastern Mediterranean, of- ficial Israeli sources said today. and British and American forces have been asked to help search for it. The ship normally carries a crew'of 65.j There was no suggestion in the initial Israeli reports that the sub- marine was lost in hostile action. Israel lost the destroyer Elath to Egyptian rocket fire last Octo- ber and retaliated by destroying an Egyptian oil refinery with ar- tillery fire in the Suez Canal area. The British Coast Guard picked: up and relayed first reports that the Dakar is missing. The report vas quickly confirmed by the Brit- ish Admiralty, the top echelon of the British Royal Navy in London, which said an international air sea search was under way. Although the Admiralty said thep ship was last reported in contactc just after noon, Israeli sources didt not confirm that it was missing until early today.- THE PENTAGON released an official picture of the USS Pueblo, seized last Tuesday by North Korean patrol boat. Ndmbers locate the vessel's special equipment. The Anatomy of an Intelligence Ship -Associated Press WIFE OF CAPTURED NAVY CAPTAIN, Mrs. Rose Bucher studies photographs which North Koreans say are her husband. Mrs. Bucher said she was unsure whether the photos or writing she received were of Commander Bucher. f 'c 't (1 I FIGHTING CONTI New Year Begins in SAIGON (R) - The Vietnam war entered a Viet Cong pro- claimed truce period today for the lunar new year Tet with pros- pects for little if any abatement in fighting that has marked the week. Tet arrives with the new moon Tuesday. Communist forces killed 21 Am- ericans and wounded 137 in a rash of attacks throughout the country through 36 hours before the start of the Viet Cong's pro- fessed week long stand down at 1 a.m. in observance of the festi- val. That was 12 noon EST yester- The Admiralty said the Dakar1 was last reported at 5:12 a.m. NU S:EST at a position 300 miles north- c west of Haifa, Israel. and 240r miles north of Alexandria, Egypt.I The water at that point is moreI than two miles deep and the area is one of the deepest in the east-t V ie tern Mediterranean. The Dakar - the name means. shark-is one of four submarines listed in Israel's navy. All are the other of repeated violations British built and date from World of past truces. War II. There was no word on fresh The 1,280 ton submarine was casualties or damage in the spor- acquired by Israel from Britain adic fighting North Vietnamese in 1964. regulars initiated last Saturday, The Dakar was almost entirely which allied commanders consid- rebuilt at Portsmouth, England, er the probable prelude of a ma- last, November and may have jor offensive, been on its way back to Israel yes- Both sides have been moving terday. After the refitting, it was large forces into the area of Khe tested off the Scottish coast and Sanh and there have been pre- was expected at the time to sail dictions some of the heaviest for Israel early in 1968: fighting of the war may be shap- The Admiralty said the 2,800 ing up there. ton British destroyer Diana was Some military sources said yes- standing by west of Cyprus with terday, however, they felt that, submarine rescue equipment. It with the situation still a standoff, said British planes based on Cy- any major outbreak would not prus were to start. an air search come until after the Tet period. at dawn today. Board of Education To Sue State Over School Funding The USS Pueblo, one of a large' fleet of American intelligence gathering ships, carries millions of dollars worth of secret elec- tronic equipment. Its electronic gear enables the crew to listen to land, sea and air communication within its surveillance range. Intercepted communications are recorded on tapes that go ulti- mately to Washington where ex- perts try to fit them into a world- wide intelligence pattern. By capturing the Pueblo the North Koreans may well learn about the latest American intel- ligence-ferreting techniques. The above photograph, released by the Pentagon, shows sogie of the external equipment on\ the patrol ship for electronic intel- ligence gathering. 1-Twin antennae indicate direc- tion of signals being monitored so other devices can home in on them. 2-The long poles appear to support cables for sending mes- sages to submerged submarines via low frequency radio waves. 3-Radar equipment apparently designed for bouncing signals off the lower atmosphere, the tropo- sphere. This technique has spec- al advantages for eavesdroppng on airplanes and their ground controllers. 4-A convex antenna, barely visible in the photograph, is focus-' ed skyward probably for listening in on aircraft radio conversations. The Pueblo, center of the cur- rent U.S.-North Korea crisis, star- ted its career toward the end of World War II as a small cargo carrier for the Army. It was taken over by the Navy In 1966, converted into a "special project ship," and commissioned in May 1967. day. Armed forces of South Vietnam and its allies, averse to prolonged pauses that permit Red units free- ly to build up supplies and man- power, plan to observe a shorter truce. They expect to drop offen- sive operations for only 36 hours -from 6 p.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Wednesday. The most widely celebrated of the Vietnamese holidays, Tet is a time of family gatherings at which Communist b i d s this month for the initiative in the war are certain to be talked ov- er in the countyside. The U.S. Command said Amer- ican forces, "as' in the past, will honor the Republic of Vietnam truce. There are no plans for any decrease in U.S. operations dur- ing the Viet Cong truce." A spokesman elaborated: "We will continue to defend ourselves against any action the enemy takes at any time." The Viet Cong, in statements4 broadcast via Hanoi and Peking, made plain they were leaving themselves free to carry on the shooting by declaring that any violations during the seven days they specified "will be punished severely." Each side has accused I DETROIT (P) - The Detroit' Board of Education will sue the State of Michigan in an effort to have the present method of fi- nancing public education declar- ed unconstitutional. The board hopes a favorable judgment will result in a differ-I ent method of distributing state aid that would give proportion- ately more money to Detroit and other cities with large numbers of culturally deprived students. Board member A. L. Zwerdling Detroit labor attorney who pro- posed the court case, said state school dollars were distributed on a per capita basis-the same for each student. The Detroit figures are from one to three years below the national norms on these tests. The schools will not seek a spe- cific amount of money but are asking the court to make a decla- ratory judgment that the present method of financing is unconsti- tutional. Such a judgment would force the State Legislature to adopt some other formula for allocat- ing state funds to schools. The suit is based on require- ments of the 1963 Michigan con- stitution and on the 14th Amend- ment to the U.S. Constitution. The schools will argue that, to provide equal education, the state must allocate more money to school districts which have cul- turally deprived students. George E. Bushnell, Jr., school board attorney, said he would file the suit in Wayne County Circuit Court next week. Detroit schools have a budget of $180 million and an operating budget of $167 million. Of this latter amount, $70 million, or 42 per cent, comes from the state. 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