SAT'URDAY, JANUARY 13, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE, SrUDY AUR 3 98TH IHGNDIYPG HE US. Investigating Terms of Hanoi Peace Associated Press News Analysis By JOHN HIGHTOWER WASHINGTON-The announced U.S. search for clarification of Hanoi's peace talk terms hasn't produced any assurances so far that would lead the United States to call off the bombing of North Vietnam, informed officials say. Indications are, however, that American policymakers are look- .ng for more than clarification of the apparent shifting of North Vietnam's position.' They are reportedly seeking firm indications that cessation of U.S. bombing attacks would produce not only prompt talks but also a halt in the flow of North Vietnam- ese troop reinforcements to South Vietnam. Exast U.S. aims have not been spelled out officially and Secretary of State Dean Rusk made clear at a Jan. 4 news conference he had no intention of giving a detailed acounting of the U.S. price for stopping the bombing. The State Department has re- ponded with an almost daily "no comment" since the Rusk news conference to inquiries about what results were b e i n g obtained through diplomatic probes, which the State Department originally said were designed to produce "clarification" of North Vietnam's intentions. The U.S. probes began after Hanoi broadcast a statement by Foreign Minister Nguyen Duy Trinh. He noted the U.S. govern- ment had repeatedly said it want- ed to talk to Hanoi but had re- ceived no response. After the United States has ended unconditionally the bomb- ing and all other acts of war North Vietnam will hold talks with the United States on questions concerned," Trinh said. The Johnson administration was uncertain whether Trinh's statement was a legitimate attempt to spur peace talks or whether it was designed to generate a U.S. bombing halt without reciprocal action. The trend in Washington now is to regard it more as psycho- logical warfare than as a peace move. The U.S. position as stated by President Johnson in a San An- tonio, Texas speech was that the United States would "stop all aerial and naval bombardment of North Vietnam when this will lead promptly to productive* discus- sions." And he added America as- sumed North Vietnam would not take advantage of such a bombing cessation. U.S. officials said diplomatic soundings so far have failed to oring these two positions closer together. From the U.S. point of view North Vietnam has not met the requirement that a bombing halt would lead promptly to pro- ductive discussions - although Washington officials haven't ex- plained how they could know in advance whether the discussions would be productive. Such problems were reportedly discussed by Rusk and British For- eign Secretary George Brown in a Washington meeting Thursday. Brown said later he was "very fully in the picture about the U.S. assessment of Trinh's statement." Part of Trinh's declaration has made it appear "the Hanoi goven- ment . . . indeed wants to start talks," Brown said. But he found other parts-evidently alluding to Trinh's denunciation of the Unit- ed States-to be "not so encour- aging." But any implication that some new step toward opening talks might be close at hand was not borne out by U.S. officials who said reaction so far from Hanoi to U.S. interest in probing North Vietnam's position had been very meager. What it adds up to, in- formants said, it word that Trinh's statement was intended seriously. Vice-President Hubert H. Hum- >hrey said Wednesday in a talk in Tunis that the United States position on halting the bombing "assumes that North Vietnam will reciprocate and stop its bombard- ment also." Informed officials, in fact, say the Johnson administration is looking for a much more substan- tial move than any North Viet- nam suspension of artillery bom- bardment of areas of South Viet- nam which it can reach from the North, which was possibly what Humphrey was talking about. What the United, States seems to be seeking as part of a peace talk package deal seems to be in line with what has been basic U.S. policy for many months-that the withdrawal of direct U.S. military pressure on North Vietnam should be reciprocated by withdrawal of direct North Vietnamese military pressure on South Vietnam. Officials said the policy implied in the President's last public statement, a willingness to "assume" that North Vietnam would not take a military advant- age of a bombing halt, has not been changed and the U.S. posi- tion in detail is flexible. Tailks. But it now appears the terms which Johnson and Rusk have in mind for a peace talk-bombing halt deal would at least involve advance understanding about the military as well as the diplomatic position of North Vietnam once talks started. As a result of the probes since the Trinh statement, Washington authorities currently see little prospect that the forthcoming truce at the time of Tet, the Lunar New Year at the end of January, will lead to any extended or exploratory bombing halt. The truce is supposed to last 48 hours. President Johnson, Washington authorities believe, would require much stronger indications than he now has of North Vietnamese interest in peace talks to prolong the bombing halt beyond the truce period. I Romney Offers, To Debate Nixon Begins New Hampshire Campaign; Requests Dialogue on War, Budget SOVIETS OPPOSE MOVE: Sihanouk Reportedly Agrees To Closer Border Inspection MANCHESTER, N.H. (P) - Ad- mittedly trailing in the polls as he .began his presidential primary campaign in New Hampshire, Michigan Gov. George Romney yesterday challenged the favored Richard M. Nixon to a series of "timely and needed" debates in, this state on major issues. Romney invited the former vice National News Roundup By The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA - Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, U.S. Selective Service Director, has cancelled a speech in suburban St. Davids because of the threat of an anti- war demonstration. Leaders of the proposed dem- onstration deplored Hershey's ac- tion and said he missed an op- portunity to open a "construtive dialog" with those who opposed his conduct. Hershey was to address the an- nual business meeting of the Valley Forge Council, Boy Scouts of America. * * * WASHINGTON -- The United States yesterday ordered an as- sistant military attache of the Polish Embassy here to leave the country within a week, in retalia- tion for the expulsion of a U.S. officer from Poland this week, Lt. Col1 Edward H. Metzger, U.S. assistant military attache in War- saw; and Lt. Col Kenneth J. Jef- ferson, a Canadian officer station- ed there, had been accused by! the Polish government of espion- age. The State Department made no charge against Lt. Col, Henryk E. Pojmanski in announcing the ac- tion against him. president to debate on "foreign affairs; on the crisis of our cities; on the moral decay and rising crime in America; on inflation and the dollar drift; on the need for bold, forthright and broadly experienced leadership." In Exeter last night, Romney planned his first major campaign address on the role of the presi- dency, explaining his reason for running and the importance of the primaries in bringing issues before the people. Debate Challenge Following a morning news con- ference in Concord, in which he issued the debate challenge to Nixon, Romney became an official candidate by filing his nomina- tion petition for the Republican primary with Secretary of State Robert Stark. The opening day of Romney's 2,000 mile sweep through the state which will hold the nation's ear- liest presidential primary, March 12, began with a sub-zero sunrise handshaking exercise at a elec- tronics plant in Nashua. Arrives in Manchester In his call for. Nixon-Romney debates, the governor said "any- thing less would be a failure on our part as candidates to meet our responsibilities" to the voters in "this crucial first primary of the most crucial election year in modern American history." Romney said he would go along with any debate format Nixon might suggest. Asked if he thought Nixon had a "great advantage in foreign affairs," Romney replied: "No. People really haven't taken a look at the background I have in for- eign relations. The only job I've ever had that didn't involve in- ternational affairs is my present job as governor." BANGKOK, Thailand (A)- U.S. Ambassador Chester Bowles ended his visit to Cambodia yesterday as the Soviet Union moved rapidly to oppose any agreement he and Prince Norodom Sihanouk might have reached to restrict the use of Cambodian territory by the Viet- namese Communists. Bowles, sent to Phnom Penh by President Johnson, told news- men as he left for New Delhi that he was "very satisfied with the successful talks." It was believed in Phnom Penh that Sihanouk agreed for the three nation International Control Commission to keep a closer watch on the border between Cambodia and South Vietnam. ss But Cambodian sources reported n thatdSoviet Ambassador Sergei Koudriavtsev and M. Mylicki, the y head of the Polish delegation to .e the ICC, had called on Sihanouk to express their opposition to a U.S. offer of two helicopters to assist the commission in border watching. The two Communist represen- tatives said their governments op- posed the offer because the United States did not sign the 1954 Gen- eva agreements which got the French out of Indochina and set up the control commission. Sihanouk had said earlier that foreign miilster, Prince Norodom Phourissara, was attacking U.S. actions in Vietnam and in effect rejecting American charges that INorth Vietnamese troops use Cambodia as a highway to South Vietnam and a refuge when press- ed by U.S. and South Vietnamese troops. Cambodian officials reported that Bowles assured the prince that the United States intends to respect the neutrality and terri- Russia Exiles Trial Termed torial integrity of Cambodia and has no intention of launching any attacks against the country. The U.S. Army's chief of staff, Gen. Harold K. Johnson, said in a speech in Chicago Thursday that he opposes sending U.S. troops or planes after Communist forces that flee into Cambodia. But he said he approves of pursuit by fire-shooting at the retreating enemy even if they are over the border. Intellectuals; 'A Mockery' -Associated Pres MICHIGAN GOVERNOR GEORGE ROMNEY, hoping to snowball his way to the 1968 Republican Presidential nomination, opened his campaign in New Hampshire yesterday. Seen at one of the many Romney Home Headquarters throughout the state, the Governor began his campaign to win th nation's first presidential primary. GRAIN CUTBACK: NFO Market Action Parallels jAdministration Farm Policy WASHINGTON (P) -In asking its members to withhold grains from the market place to gain higher prices the National Farm- ers Organization appears to be following the Johnson adminis- tration practice.E The Agriculture Department al- ready is holding government con- trolled grain stocks off markets in a bid to boost farmers' prices. And the NFO action in other w a y s parallels administration farm marketing and production policies, which call for reducing production when prices are low. NFO President Oren Lee Staley said in Corning, Iowa, the "no price, no production" campaign would be followed later with withholding of meat, milk and other commodities in the move announced Thursday. The NFO has conducted six withholding actions previously, the latest last March focusing on milk prices. Secretary of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman declined comment Thursday on the NFO action. But in urging last year that grain be withheld from markets he ap- peared in effect to be giving prior approval to such moves. last summer that 1967 crops would reach record highs and that prices would weaken, Free- man urged growers to hold crops off markets by putting them un- der government support loans. He suggested farmers sell hogs and cattle at lighter weights than normal. This would hold down the total tonnage of meats avail- able for consumers and conceiv- ably bring about higher prices for beef cattle and hogs. Freeman.I When it became apparent late has also recommended farmers go slow in expanding pig production this year. he was favorable to the American offer but acceptance was up to the commission's three members- India, Canada and Poland-and the two cochairmen of the Geneva conference-Britain and the So- viet Union. The Soviet ambassador also in- formed Sihanouk that his govern- ment agreed to new military aid for Cambodia, including 50 trucks. All reports from Phnom Penh told of pleasant and cordial re- lations between Sihanouk, the Cambodian chief of state, and Bowles during the four day visit. But at the same time Sihanouk's MOSCOW (M'-Four Soviet in- tellectuals active in Moscow's lit- erary underground were convicted yesterday of anti-Soviet activities and sentenced to terms of up to seven years imprisonment. Their five day trial was closed to all but a half dozen relatives and was unreported by Soviet news media. The mother of one de- fendant told waiting friends that all were found guilty as charged. The defendants had served al- most a year in a Moscow jail awaiting trial. Three of them are expected to be sent this weekend to Potma, a labor camp on the Volga, notoriout among Soviet lib- eral intellectuals. The fourth, sen- tenced to only one year, will be re- leased Jan. 20, sources close to the defense said. Writers Sentenced Friends of the defendants broke through a police line outside the courthouse after the trial to pre- sent red carnations to the four defense attorneys. "Thank you so much, you did all you could," one girl told them. The court handed down sen- tences precisely as demanded by the prosecution: --Seven years for Yuri Galan- skov, 28, also charged with illega money-changing, -Five years for Alexander Gins- burg, 31, compiler of "The White Book on the Sinyavsky Daniel Af- fair," a collection of documents from a literary trial two years ago published only abroad, -Two years for Poet Alexei Dobrovolsky, 29, the only defen- dant to plead guilty and testify against the others, -One year for Vera Lashkova, 21, a typist who helped prepare manuscripts for Ginsburg and Galanskov. Litvinov and Daniel In the crowd awaiting the end of the trial in the late afternoon darkness were Pavel M. Litvinov, grandson of a former Soviet for- eign minister, and Mrs. Yuli M. Daniel, wife of the imprisoned satirist whose trial was document- ed in Ginsburg's book. Litvinov and .Mrs. Daniel earlier in the day denounced the trial as a "cold mockery, unthinkable in the 20th century." Litvinov told a reporter Galan- skov declared in court that "by arresting me you have won the battle, but you will lose the war for democracy in Russia." Ell. a:l ' CEli I3~ I TONITE Have You Heard? CINEMA II Federico Fellini's I IA 12 4-c '66 with MARCELLO MASTROIANNI CLAUDIA CARDINALE Also: CHAPTER II "FLASH GORDON" D Saturday, January 13, 1968 at &30 P.M. HILL AUDITORIUM ' . ":