Tuesday, March 5, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Tuesday, March 5, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three INVOKES CLOTURE RULE: Communist Forces LBT Senate WASHINGTON (P) - The Sen- ate clamped 'a cut-off yesterday stopping further debate on a com- promise civil rights protection and open housing bill. On the fourth attempt to in- voke cloture, the Senate voted 65 to 32 in favor of imposing the debate-limiting rule. This gave cloture adherents the bare two thirds majority they needed. Three previous attempts fell short by 7, 6 and 4 votes respectively. The vote seemed to assure Sen- ate passage of the administra- tion backed civil rights protection ing provision. But it remained un- certain just what form the hous- Halts Filibuster Strike Saigon, Pleiku1 Proposes Billion C New )utlay bill with its added on open hous- ing provision will take. From now on each Senator will be limited to one hour's speaking time on the compromise bill and the scores of proposed amend- ments. Once all the amendments have been acted on, unlimited debate on passage of the bill will be possible unless cloture is voted a second time. But the bill's supporters were confident that the back of the opposition was broken by today's vote. Much of the opposition was based on the bill's open housing amendment. As originally pro- posed by Sens. Walter F. Mondale. Final Performance Tonight I (D-Minn.) and Edward W. Brooke, (R-Mass.), this would have out- SAIGON (M - Planes and guns lawed discrimination in the sale roared around the edges of Saigon or rental of an estimated 97 per early yesterday after Communist cent of all housing in the country. forces mounted their heaviest co- The coverage was whittled down ordinated attacks in two weeks to about 70 per cent in a compro- throughout the country. mise version worked out last Enemy shells pounded widely week. scattered allied military instal- Senate Majority Leader Mike lations and a Viet Cong squad Mansfield told the Senate that captured a hospital for peasants "the nation is in the most dif- run by an American woman doc- "thenatin i in he ost if-tor in the central highlands. ficult period in its history, and The U.S. Command said only I include the Civil War in that statement." one of the attacks could be re- He s i agarded as militarily significant: He said it was nottime fur a strike at headquarters of the 'apprehension but a time for un U.S. 4th Infantry Division at derstanding, reminding his col- Camp Enari in the central high- leagues that this is "a conglo- lands 250 miles north of Saigon. merate nation" made up of many It added, however, that damage different races and peoples. was slight and casualties were -Sen. Jacob K. Javits, (R-N.Y.), very light in attacks on six air a leader of the civil rights forces, bases, two U.S. command posts said they had been working tire-- lessly to win the necessary two thirds margin. Kx 1 Pl 11111T This is an enormous crisis for P a our nation," he told the Senate. Republican Leader Everett M.M arch, Talks Dir ksen of Illinois said in a final9 appeal for cloture that "all I have Martin Luther King Jr. said o agin with, irisen joined yesterday he will meet soon with Toeinwither Dietrkseinin civil rights leaders who are 'prone with Southern senators i fight- to violence' in an effort to make ng the bill but he later switched certain there are no riots during around and worked out the com- his poor peoples' campaign in promise measure with a biparti- Washington. san civil rights bloc. Hoping to prevail on Congress Three of the key votes that put to over cloture, the rule restricting pass legislation providing jobs each senator to one hour's speak- nd income for the nation's poor, ing time on the bill as amended King has called a nation wide were withheld until the last min- march to be held on April 22. ute.e wKing said he has already met --e-----with Stokely Carmichael and Rap Brown, both militant black lead- er's. Both have given support to his campaign, he said. and four other allied installations. In the strike at the 4th Divi- sion's camp in Pleiku Province, enemy troops attacked with 10 rounds of 122mm rocket fire and an undetermined number of 82mm mortar shells. "This was the only significant shelling reported," a U.S. spokes- man said. "There was light dam- age to aircraft and the airfield was closed for a time due to a cratered runway." Officers noted there were no follow-up ground attacks to iocket and mortar shellings. They declin- ed to characterize the assaults as the beginning of an expected Com- inunist third wave offensive. Raid Saigon While artillery thumped, propel- l er driven AlH Skyraiders dived bombed a section of Saigon four miles from the center of the city. A U.S. spokesman described the attacks as "our standard harass- ment" to keep the Communists out of Saigon. A South Vietnamese official said allied troops and police were dis- i patched to strategic areas around i Saigon during the Monday night curfew after reports reached head- quarters that the Viet, Cong had planned to blow all the bridges in and out of the city. This report could not be con- firmed with U.S. officials. Capture Hospital A Viet Cong squad seized the hospital run by Dr. Patricia Smith of Seattle, Wash., outside the cen- tral highlands strong point of Kontum. They blew up a labora- tory and X-ray building and firedF into a ward filled with Montagn- ards. For Health Program WASHINGTON UP) - President Johnson proposed a $15.6 billion' "Health in America" program to Congress yesterday that would more than double federal outlays for birth control programs, boost efforts to slash infant deaths and provide new incentives for the training of more doctors. In a special message, Johnson outlined "five major new goals" -to curb infant mortality, pro- vide more health personnel, com- bat soaring medical costs, lower the accidental rate, and seek vol- unteer efforts by doctors, hospitals and others to provide better health for all Americans. The $15.6 billion price tag for the fiscal year beginning July 1 would boost the current annual outlay $8 billion. Increase Subsidies One major feature of the ad- ministration bill would give bigger subsidies to medical schools, help- ing increase their enrollment, and provide federal grants to cover all costs of major changes needed to hike enrollments, including con- struction of dormitories. Johnson asked Congress to in- crease funds for birth control ac- tivities from $25 million to $61 million. He said this would make family planning information and birth control devices or drugs THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PROFESSIONAL THEATRE PROGRAM PRESENTS p1J.V available to an additional 3 mil- lion women "if they so desire." He also announced plans to create a center for study of pop- ulation and human reproduction, primarily to direct family planning research, and asked for an initial appropriation of $12 million to support it.c Johnson said infant mortality is "inexcusably high" although it has dropped from 25.2 deaths per 1,000 children under the age of! one in 1963, to 22.1 last year. Noting that the United States ranks only 15th in infant mortar- ity, Johnson said the nation "should lead the world in saving its young." He asked Congress to provide an additional $58 million next year' for maternal and child health care programs. He said the goal should be to eliminate all problems in this area by 1973. . He also asked for another $215 million or a total of $1.4 billion, for child health services. Proposing a new Health Man- power Act, Johnson said this measure would consolidate and continue programs now being car- ried out under laws that expire in June, 1969. Johnson also proposed some ideas aimed at lowering the amount that American families now spend on drugs. He asked Con- gress to authorize the government. to establish within a relative nar- row range the "reasonable cost" of drugs the government now pays for under a variety of programs. Because of the size of federal outlays in this area, the idea is that drug costs generally would come down. However,the message did not propose adding to medicare bene- fits the cost of prescription drugs taken at home. Senate hearings recently have revealed enormous differences in prices various companies charge for the same drug. Cheapest of the drugs are those sold by chemical, or generic, names rather than brand names. A. fed- eral task force currently is running tests to see if generic drugs per- form as well and are as safe as the brand names. Sources said the President's pro- posal may indicate the administra- tion is confident that many gen- eric drugs will be found to be equivalent. He also urged publication of an official "U.S. Compendium of Drugs"-available not only to doc- tors and pharmacists but also to the general public - that would contain "complete and accurate in- formation about prescription drugs -use, dosage, warnings, manufac- ture, generic and brand names, and facts about their safety and effec- tiveness." Ore Strike Negotiation Gets Boost WASHINGTON UP) - Copper strike negotiators came to the cap- ital yesterday at President John- son's bidding for day and night bargaining to try to settle the 7Y month old labor dispute. Representatives of 26 striking unions, four giant copper firms, and the secretaries of defense, labor and commerce were to par- ticipate in the negotiations. "I shall request the parties to resume collective bargaining ne- gotiations on a round the clock basis," Johnson said Friday in summoning all parties in the dis- pute to the White House at 4 p.m. Monday. Johnson, in resorting to extra- ordinary White House bargaining which he has used in several past major labor disputes, said that without his intervention there was "no foreseeable prospect" of a settlement. Dwindling copper supplies have been further curtailed by a long- shoremen's boycott against im- ported supplies and Johnson said a copper shortage could jeopardize defense production. The dispute, involving some 50,000 strikers in 22 states, has been deadlocked over the 'union's demand for companywide bargain- ing at each of the big four copper firms - Kennecott, Anaconda, smashing after shave. 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