SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE Draft Call Nears Vietnam Record; Trn iir rl W A S H I N G T O N ) - The Meanwhile, Gen. Earle G. announced March draft quota Defense Department yesterday Wheeler, JCS chairman, under from 39,000 to 41,000, all to serve boosted draft calls close to the took an on-the-spot survey of the in the Army. Vietnam war record. And it or- situation in Vietnam, which could The April call is only slightly dered inductions into the Marine lead to a higher U.S. troop com- below the Vietnam record of Corps for the first time in two mitment. This, in turn, could bring 49,200 drafted in October 1966. years. bigger draft calls, a Guard Re- The Marines, who never have These actions came as, the serve muster or both. liked using draftees, will get 4,000 Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) pro- The Pentagon put out a call for of them in April-the first Ma- posed tentatively the call-up of the drafting of 48,000 men in April, rine use of the draft since March about 50,000 National Guardsmen the highest level in the past 18 1966. and Reservists to rebuild forces in months. This is because the Marines do the United States drained by the At the same time. the Defense not expect to be able to get Vietnam war. Department raised the previously enough voluntary enlistments to replace about 19,000 men inducted in late 1965 and early 1966. The rising draft quotas reflect the after-effects of the big build- up in manpower which began in late summer and fall of 1965. ft its Sc go 4irport After President Johnson ordered the huge U.S. troop commitment By The Associated Press One of the world's busiest air- in Vietnam in mid-1965, draft SAIGON - A heavy Viet Cong ports, handling both military and quotas were jacked up to provide barrage hit Saigon's Tan Son Nhut civilian trafficTan Son Nhut has the additional manpower. Airbaorseprlysarday.Ad.Sthbeen hle eealtmssne Draftees pulled in then and in air s early st ay. said there the Viet Cong opened their lunar the months following are now were several explosions and "sev- new year offensive three weeks finishing out their two year per- r eral rounds were on base." ago iods of duty. South Vietnamese police said the The base was shelled heavily Defeise officials have said they shells began hitting the base on last Sunday and sporadic rocket anticipated draft calls this year the western edge of Saigon shortly or mortar rounds have fallen on to reach a total more than 70,000 before 5 a.m. Saigon time. the base throughout the week, above last year's intake of 230,000. including a rocket hit on the The monthly quotas began shoot- passenger terminal Monday. ing upward this January. The call Journal Says Jittery Saigon has been exp'ect- for that month totaled 34,000, ing a renewed Communist assault nearly double the 18,200 drafted since the J a n u a r y offensive in December. The February total' W a brought bloody street fighting to eased a bit to 23,300 and yester-X WE othe capital. day's announcement sent the Late last night an attack on a March and April quotas over the QnXXV_ r0 H'7 7 t police checkpoint about four miles 140,000 mark. Brown Recalled For Rights Trial RICHMOND. Va. (A')-A federal dating a Negro FBI agent during a judge ordered black power militant recess of the hearing before Judge H. Rap Brown's $10,000 bond re- Mitchell. voked yesterday and ordered him Windhorst continued a $50,000 returned to Louisiana for further bond placed on Brown on this ac- court proceedings. cusation, bringing his total bond in U.S. District Judge Robert R. New Orleans to $100.000. Kunstler Merhige made the ruling after a has asked the 5th U.S. Circuit one hour hearing for Brown, who Court to reduce this "enormous was in court to try to explain a bond." weekend trip to California after he was ordered to remain in New York. Sen.Morton Judge Merhige last Sept. 19 freed Brown on $10,000 bond pend- ing the outcome of the fiery lead- er's appeal of a Virginia decision 1 See to extradite him to Maryland to stand trial on charges of inciting to riot and arson. T i d T r Brown in Attorney's Custody Merhige specified in that ruling WASHINGTON OP-Weary and that Brown, except to attend court dejected, Republican Sen. Thrus- proceedings, was not to leave the ton B. Morton of Kentucky an- Southern Judicial District of New nounced yesterday he will not re- York State-the residences of his turn to the Senate next year. attorney, William Kunstler. "I've had it," he told a congres- Merhige, in revoking Brown's sional lieutenant. bond yesterday, ordered the 25- At a news conference in Louis- year-old Negro militant to imme- ville, Ky., Morton announced that, diately pay the $10,000 in cash and "for very compelling personal rea- ordered him taken into custody by sons, he will not run for a third federal marshals. Senate term. He refused to modify his order, "To use an old Kentucky ex- despite a plea from Kunstler who pression, I suppose I am just .plain said Brown was interested in going track sore," Morton said. to Californiato hire a lawyer in His decision to stand aside wrote that state. Kunstler said Brown's a quiet-and startling-end to the trip was made with his advice and political journey of a Republican consent. battler. Morton was a politician of Ask For Bond Revocation 'direct action and plain talk. State officials had asked Mer- Balks at Six Year Term hige earlier to revoke Brown's bond "It is not the coming election and return him to jail because of that concerns me but the challenge Brown's reported appearances last and responsibility of a six year weekend at rallies in Los Angeles term," the 60-year-old senator and Oakland, Calif. said. Yesterday's hearing in Richmond Morton was considered unde- was uneventful, despite a jammed featable in a Kentucky re-election courtroom and throngs of curious campaign. Moderate colleagues in spectators on the streets outside. the Senate had tried to persuade Earlier Thursday in New Or- him to change his mind about re- leans, before he was flown to Vir- tirement. There was a report they ginia in custody of a federal mar- sought the intercession of former shal, U.S. Commissioner Fritz President Dwight P. Eisenhower, Windhorst found the government who once rated the Kentuckian a had "probable cause" for prosecut- White House possibility. ing Brown on a charge of intimi- Ironically. Morton, who spent 20 -Associated Press ONE THOUSAND STUDENTS march on Tallahassee, Florida in support of the state's striking teachers. The students, had come to state their case to Governor Claude Kirk. Kirk had not yet re- turned to the state capital from his trip to the west coast. When told Kirk was not in Tallahassee, the crowd dispersed quietly, leaving a petition asking a pay hike for the striking teachers. 0_ 'I IN FLORIDA WALKOUT: Solution to Teacher's Strike E l t t t x . r i a r ,* } Evades Grasp of Negotiators NEW YORK (P) - The Wall Street Journal, which has sup- ported the administration's objec- tives in Vietnam, said yesterday "the American people should be getting ready to accept, if they haven't already, the prospect that the whole Vietnam effort may be doomed." In what a Journal editor de- scribed as an expression of the newspaper's "growing discourage- ment" with the war, it said edi- torially: "We believe the administration is duty bound to recognize that no battle and no war is worth any price, no matter how ruinous, and that in the case of Vietnam it may be failing for the simple rea- son that the whole place and cause is collapsing from within. "Conceivably all this is wrong; conceivably the Communists are on the brink of defeat and genu- ine peace talks are about to be- gin. It doesn't look that way, and 4 as long as it doesn't everyone had better be prepared for the bitter taste of a defeat beyond America's power to prevent." from the center of the city was beaten back. In Hue, after 24 days of savage fighting, which still continues in the old imperial lation is slowly sick man still in: Citadel, the popu- awakening like a mortal peril. The battle now is centered in a relatively small portion of the Citadel on the north bank of the Perfume River. The people live in fear of a Viet Cong return, and snipers still holding out in the city. One hazardous land route serves infrequent convoys from Phu Bat, seven miles to the south. Ameri- can naval ships frequently steam up the Perfume River to a landing site, also under Communist shell- fire. These two routes are used al- most solely to bring in military supplies and a trickle of refugees. Northwest of Hue, enemy gun- ners hit the U.S. Marine combat base at Khe Sanh Thursday with 377 rounds of rocket and mortar shells, killing nine Americans and wounding 22. A big Marine CH35 helicopter was destroyed in the shelling and a transport plane was damaged. Rusk Defends War's Conduct PHOENIX, Ariz. (P)-Viet Cong attacks on the cities of South Viet- nam indicate that "issues are drawing to a head" in the war, Secretary of State Dean Rusk said yesterday. However, he said he would not put a date on an end to the war, adding that would come when Hanoi moves toward peace. He made a wide ranging de- fense of conduct of the war at a luncheon sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Phoenix and the State Department. Greeted by a band of about 35 pickets, Rusk told the 1,200 at the luncheon that he is "sorely tempt- ed" to ask some of the pickets which greet his appearances to "let me help you carry" their signs. "I've carried the sign of peace around the world," he said, adding that he wished the demonstrators could produce "a North Vietnam- ese who would talk peace." TALLAHASSEE, Fla, (P)-Pros- pects for a quick solution to Flor- ida's teacher walkout appeared dim yesterday as a crowd of 1,000 university students and faculty members marched on the state Capitol in support of the teachers and state church leaders called for a weekend of prayer. Students from Florida State Uni- versity and Florida A and M marched a mile from the FSU campus to the Capitol steps and chanted, "Kirk, Kirk, we want Kirk." But they dispersed quietly when told the governor was out of town. Crowd Armed With Petition Several carried signs -proclaim- ing, "Veto Kirk," and "Scabs, stay home." An aide to Gov. Claude Kirk, Wade Hopping, was given a 200 name petition supporting the teachers. At the time Kirk was en route to Brevard County where he was greeted at the Melbourne airport by some 50 sign carrying youths who chanted: "Kirk is a jerk. Kirk is a jerk." "A shout can overwhelm me, butk The pupils -- outnumbered by about 150 adults who supported Kirk-said they wanted their teachers back and did not want "baby sitters," a term they applied to substitutes who have replaced resigned teachers. Members of the Brevard Class- Sixty per cent of the absent teachers-reportedly about 24,000 -were from six counties: Dade Miami, Hillsborough Tampa, Es- cambia, Duval, Palm Beach and Pinellas St. Petersburg. In other developments yesterday, the Flor- ida Council of Churches proclaim- room Teacher Association agreed ed the weekend as "a time of earlier in the day to "give Kirk the silent treatment." prayer" in behalf of resolving the Meanwhile, a Florida Education state wide educational crisis. Association official, George Dabbs,- acknowledged that private discus-: sions had begun in Tallahassee in an effort to end the walkout, which o hds closed one third of the state's schools and shut half a million students out of their classrooms. By The Associated Press But while Dabbs, a past presi- BRUSSELS, Belgium - British dent of the huge teacher organiza- ambition to furnish a successor tion, said the talks could possibly to U.S. Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer lead to an end of the walkout, he as supreme Atlantic commander also said they could not yet be got the iciest of cold shoulders termed negotiations. yesterday at. his headquarters of Schools Closed in Ten Counties the North Atlantic Treaty Organ- "The situation is real, real deli- ization. vRoundup t hesitate to express distaste for the idea. * * * MIAMI BEACH, Fla.-A long- shoremen's boycott of copper im- ports was reported under way in at least three U.S. ports yesterday in organized labor's mounting strike campaign against four giant copper firms. Thomas W. Gleason, president of the International Longshore- men's Association,' said his men are refusing to unload copper from ships in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.j 11Vil[1), 11 Ux, w ~i~x ~ years near the seats of Republican power, could have been approach- ing one of them himself. Potential Minority Leader He had shown evidence of emer- ging as a rival and potential suc- cessor to the Republican leader- ship now held by the more con- servative Sen. Everett M. Dirk- sen of Illinois. But an associate said weariness, dejection and a feeling that much of his work for the Republican party and the country is coming to naught, led Morton to decide on retirement. "He's beat and he's down," the aide said. "He feels the world is going to hell in a hand basket." Morton's wife is in frail health, but the senator would not discuss this in announcing his retirement. cate," he said. I"The French would be out of State School Supt. Floyd Chris- the alliance the next day." warned tian's office said all schools were one ambassador sympathetic with open in 46 counties Friday, with most things British. I I SUNDAY, February 25 11:45 A.M. "THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD IN MICHIGAN" --a slide presentationby Mr. Franklin Ferguson, teacher of Negro History at Washtenaw Community College Noon Dinner-Forum Presbyterian Campus Center, 1432 Washtenaw Dinner-75c Reservations, 662-3580 or 665-6575 I I I U-M CONCERT DANCE ORGANIZATION 18th ANNUAL DANCE 0 N C E R. T it won't quiet me. I suggest you some schools open in 11 counties return to school and get your hair and no schools in 10 counties. The cut," the governor replied as he FEA contended that, in countiest walked up to the high school where all schools were open, many pupils and demanded to know why of the schools were conducting they weren't in class. class for 12th graders only. SATURDAY and SUNDAY M ASC ULIN-- FEMININ Director: Jean-Luc Godard, 1966 The height of the New Wave. The youth scene at a Marx Brother's pace. First time in Ann Arbor. 7:00 & 9:05 P.M. 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