SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE Vance Sent to Seoul McCARTHY: White House Denies A-Bomb Requests To Confer on Of N. Korean WASHINGTON (P) -President' Johnson dispatched troubleshoot- er Cyrus R. Vance to Seoul, Ko- rea, last night to talk with Pres- ident Chung Hee Park about the "grave threat" of North Korean hostile acts. Vance, former deputy secretary of defense, is leaving by special plane, accompanied by State and Defense Department officials, the White House said. South Korea has been disturbed over concentration in talks at Panmunjom between the United States and North Korea on the seizure of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo, and its crew of 83. The South Koreans thought there should be equal attention to the attempted assassination of Park by a band of iniiltra and to representation at the F munjom conference table for South. The decision to draft Vance the Korean assignment was garded as another step in atter ing to smooth troubled conditi Vance has served Johnson c number of occasions, such asc ing the Detroit riots last; and the recent threat of a Gr Turkish war over Cyprus. The White House issued statement: "President Johnson will Mr. Cyrus R. Vance, formerc uty secretary of defense, to Se Korea, as his personal repre tative for talks with Presi Chung Hee Park and otherl Threat tors, o.ficials of the Republic of Korea Pan- government. The talks will deal the witl the grave threat to theRe-, public of- Korea caused by the re- for cent North Korean hostil acts re- against the Republic of Korea and mlpt- the United States and the meas- ons. ures being taken by our two gov- k:: on a ernments to deal with the situa- ..^ dur. tion. year Aid Proposal eek- "In that context Mr. Vance REFUGF will discuss with President Park this President Johnson's proposal to Refugees sought protection from rifle the Congress for an increase of of Saigon. Street fighting continued bet send $100 million in military aid to the dep- Republic of Korea." g ysIGARBAGE PILES UP: eoul, Meanwhile the Pentagon *s sen- the intelligence ship Pueblo oper- dent ated without radar surveillance of her capture by the North Koreans. Indsay Re Responding to questions, the Pentagon reported that no U.S. vessels were assigned to track by 1 radar the Pueblo's movements be- Pl n To E -Associated Press EES UNDER COVER. fire yesterday under a parked truck in the western section ween Viet Cong and allied troops.. jects Rockefeller's d Sanitation Strike Union Ends Strike Of Southern Rails ST. LOUIS (T) - A strike against three railroads over the size of work crews was settled yesterday afternoon, officials of the Brother- hood of Railroad Trainmen and the railroads announced. railroads announced. R. D. Jones, union vice presi- dent, said in St. Louis that a memorandum of understanding has been approved by the union and the three railroads-the Mis- souri Pacific, the Texas & Pacif- ic and the Seaboard Coast Line. The Texas and Pacific is a sub- sidiary of the Mo-Pac. Details of the memorandum were not an- nounced. In Florida, W. Thomas Rice, president of Seaboard said freight service was to resume immediately and that passenger service is ex- pected to be normal by Sunday. Resume Operations{ Missouri Pacific public relations personnel said normal operations were expected to be resumed some- time Saturday morning. The M spokesman indicated the settle- rhent included the MoPac's sub- sidiary, the Texas & Pacific and the Seaboard Coast Line. Tom Hogan, spokesman for the Missouri Pacific, said he would assume the Seaboard strike was settled. He said the meeting was held in Florida which he described as "Seaboard territory." Sea- board is not a subsidiary of the Missouri Pacific. Walkout Imminent Union employes of the Seaboard struck at about the same time as the Missouri Pacific trainmen. Crew size was also an issue in the Seaboard strike. TheBrotherhood of Railroad Trainmen struck the MoPac at 10:30 p.m. Mondy. Railroad of- ficials said the timing of the strike was a surprise but added that there were indications a walk- out was imminent. A grievance chairman, A. F. Smith, said the strike was called after efforts to negotiate with the Missouri Pacific on the issue of crew size failed. Smith said the company had reduced train crews to the point that safety of train- men and the general public was jeopardized. ' A Missouri Pacific spokesman, Harry Hammer, assistant to the president, said the strike was an attempt to return featherbedding to the railroads. Hammer said safety was not an issue in re- duction of crew sizes adding that the number of accidents had actually decreased in recent years. The strike idled about 2,500 trainmen on the 12,000 mile Mis- ouri Pacific system which em- ployes about 23,500 persons. I tween Jan. 10 and 21 to keep record of her locations. NEW YORK (f')-Mayor John In International Waters V. Lindsay refused to reconsider U.S. officials have left open the Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller's peace possibility the Pueblo entered formula in an 8-day sanitation North Korea's territorial waters strike yesterday, and in turn the during that period, although governor ruled out National stressing she was under orders Guard assistance to the city, not to do so. inundated by a massive garbage Because the ship was out of pileup. touch then, the United States "There is nothing to reconsid-+ cannot state positively it never er," Lindsay declared, underlin- crossed into North Korea's 12- ing the breach between New mile limit. The ,Pentagon's ear- York's two nationally-known Re-: ler position was that the Pueblo publicans. at no time intruded in North KO-'The situation took on new ur- rean waters, gency yesterday when private Some congressmen have openly trash collections were all but wondered whether the United halted in the city, adding 5,000 States had in fact kept tabs on tons a day to'the massive pileup. the Pueblo by radar surveillance Alfred Katz, an executive of the from a distant ship, and thus striking Uniformed Sanitation- knew exactly where she had been., men's Association, declared: increase proposed by a Rockefel- fill 15 one mile long freight trains. ler mediation panel for 10,000 Its removal as of now could be striking sanitation men. The un- expected to take four or five ion accepted it, but Lindsay called days. it "a little blackmail." An explosion of the city's rat Rockefeller subsequently rebuf-' population was feared, with the fed Lindsay's renewed appeal for ' accompanying danger of disease. National Guard assistance in re- However, the City Health Depart- moving an estimated 70,000 tons ment said reports of rat bites of refuse already festering in since the strike began Feb. 2 streets and buildings-enough to were no greater than normal. Federal Efforts To Settle Co per Strike Deadlocked WASHINGTON UP) - Govern-I The unions, headed by the AFL- ment efforts to settle the nation- CIO United Steelworkers, are de- wide copper strike are still c 2vmied manding increases of about $1 per after a week of private talks by hour in wages and fringe benefits a special federal panel with com- over three years. pany and union negotiators, it And while they are willing to was reported yesterday. discuss different benefits for vari- "They're still drilling dry holes," ous copper operations, they insist said a source close to the talks that the total package adds up between four major copper firms to the same increases for all work- WASHINGTON (P)-The White1 House labeled as false yesterday a report attributed to Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn.) that tactical nuclear weapons have been asked for in the war in Vietnam. Contacted in Miami, Fla., where he had a speaking engagement, McCarthy denied making the re- port. McCarthy said a reporter in Boston asked him about rumors that permission to use nuclear weapons had been asked of .the President. McCarthy said he told the re-! porter, "It wouldn't surprise me if some generals had been asking for nuclear weapons." He said he did not say anyone had asked for tactical nuclear! Weapons. Authorization Press secretary George Chris- tian was asked whether President Johnson has received a request from the Joint Chiefs of Staff that the use of tactical nuclear weapons be authorized if this be- comes necessary. "I think all of you know," Christian said, "that decisions of this nature rest with the Presi- dent. The President has consider- ed no decision of this nature." McCarthy is seeking the Demo- cratic presidential nomination and is opposing the President's war policies. A reporter told Christian that McCarthy was reported as saying in Boston Thursday that a request for tactical nuclear weapons for use in Vietnam had been made. The report quoted McCarthy that he expected there would be, a re- newed demand for them-which he hoped would be rejected. "Sen. McCarthy's statement is' false and it also is unfair to the armed forces," Christian replied. He declined to elaborate further. Rumored Stockpiling The St. Louis Dispatch report- ed yesterday from Washington that reports persist that the "United . States has stockpiled' tactical nuclear weapons in South Vietnam for use if the Commun- ists threaten to overrun the Allied .forces at Khe Sanh." In a dispatch'written by Mar- quis W. Childs, the paper's chief Washington correspondent, the afternoon newspaper said the re- ports were being studied by the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee. High U.S. military officials termed the report "ridiculous." They noted that the last thing the United States would do is stockpile nuclear weapons in an unstable environment like Viet- nam. If the United States ever want- ed to use atomic weapons, these officials said, the devices could be brought in with little trouble or delay. Sen. J. William Fulbright (D- Ark.), chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, was report- ed deeply disturbed by rumors that in a last resort American commanders in Vietnam are authorized to use nuclear weap- ons available from stockpiles. Childs wrote that Fulbright would not comment for the rec- ord, but "he is known to have initiated an intensive staff in- vestigation of the reports." Communists Gain on U.S. Supply Loss WASHINGTON P) - A higa ranking official conceded yester- day that some American com- modities sent to Vietnam are be- ing diverted into Communist held areas-and lie said he sees no way to halt this completely. It would be an "impossibly ex- pensive proposition" to prevent all diversions to the Viet Cong, and there is no effective way to do it, said Rutherford Poats, deputy di- rector of the Agency for Inter- national Development (AID). The difficulty was brought to light after the Cambridge, Mass., consultant firm of Arthur D. Little, Inc., made a preliminary survey of commodity require- ments for AID, centering on an apparent massive over supply of galvanized sheet steel. About 17,700 metric tons of this metal were imported into Vietnam last year although the estimated need for roofing and siding is about 2,000 tons an- nually. i World News Roundup Inundated in Garbage "This city is going to be inun- dated in garbage. People are go- ing to drown in it unless some- thing is done, soon." Bernard Adelstein; a Teamsters PRETORIA, South Africa-Nine- teen Africans were sentenced to- day to life imprisonment on charges of terrorism in South West Africa after a controversial case, that prompted the UN Security Council to condemn South Africa's white supremacist government again. Supreme Court Justice J. F. Ludor sentenced nine others to 20 years and two to five years. The remaining three defendants drew five year sentences with four years and 11 months suspended. The accused had faced possibly death sentences under South Afri- ca's Terrorism Act. * * * WASHINGTON-A small group of Cubans hijacked a Cuban fer- ryboat at knifepoint and forced it to go to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo, sources said yes- terday. It was reported three Cuban men and an 11-year old boy were in the group that got off at the U.S. Naval Base on the eastern end of Cuba, then allowed the ferry- Union official, said 80 per cent and 26 unions that have been on boat to go its way. of the private cartmen were hon- strike for nearly seven months. The Defense Department has oring newly established picket The unions, representing 60,0001 said nothing about this incident, lines at city sanitation depots strikers are clinging to their de- which occurred last week. The Sanitationmen's Association mand for companywide bargain- More significantly. perhaps, the is a Teamsters affiliate. ing ,and the copper firms continue# Cuban government has made no Private carters pick up 6,000 to refuse, the source said. public protest, tons of refuse a day, mainly from The three-man special govern- stores, hotels and restaurants in ment panel was told by both sides UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.-The congested midtown Manhattan. during public hearings last week South Vietnamese UN observer About 1,000 tons is carted to New that the companywide bargaining charged Sen. Robert F. Kennedy Jersey, and this portion was nct issue was blocking negotiations on (D-NY), Friday with making "un- affected by the picketing. economic issues such as wages, fair and unfounded criticism" Refuses Governor's Offer pensions and health and welfare against the people and government benefits. of that country. Midtown had been largely un- Demand Uniform Contract The charge was contained in a affected by the. sanitation strike The companies in the past have statement issued by the office of during its first week. But with negotiated separately for different Ambassador Nguyen . Huu Chi, little storage space available for operations scattered over 22 states; head of South Vietnam's observer trash, the private cartmen's ac- The unions demand simultane- mission to the United Nations. tions made the outlook grim. ous contract expiration dates for The statement expressed regret Lindsay, meanwhile, refused to all operations of each company. that Kenedy had chosen to voice reconsider Rockefeller's formula Wages now range from a low of criticism "against the people and for settling the sanitation strike, $2.61 per hour to a high of $3.68 government of South Vietnam, and in turn the governor ruled for various;jobs in mining, smelt- which are sweating blood and out National Guard assistance to ing and refining operations of the tears to rehabilitate thousands the city. four firms-Kencott, Anaconda, of civilians, victims of attacks of Earlier in the day, Lindsay Phelps Dodge and American the Viet Cong terrorists." turned down a $425-a-year wage Smelting and Refining. ers in each company, the source said. Company'counter-offers amount! to about 50 cents an hour. Halts U.S. Production The strike, which will be seven months old next Thursday, has halted virtually all U.S. copper production and the pre-strike price of 35 cents a pound has almost doubled because of higher priced imports. The same' companies control many copper sources abroad. Joseph P. Molony, Steelworkers vice-president and chief negotiator for the strikers, has accused the companies of trying to break the unions and force up the price of copper. I i TONIGHT at PAMELA AND MICHAEL original, contemporary, and traditional 1421 Hill St. folk music for voice, guitar, and harp: 8:30 P.M. $1 .00 cover includes entertainment and refreshments! PRESgNTS .tratforb National Theatre of Canada in SHAKESPEARE'S A Midsummer Night's Dream with I - SATURDAY and SUNDAY ASHES AND DIAMONDS Director Andrei Woido. 1958 DOUGLAS RAIN MARTHA HENRY as Bottom as Titania Directed by JOHN HIRSCH Designed by LESLIE HURRY SOLE U.S. ENGAGEMENT! 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