Tuesday, April 9, 1968
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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VIETNAM ROUNDUP:
Khe Sanh Marines Seek
Viet Cong in Hills Sweep
SAIGON (AP) - U.S. Marines
moved out of Khe Sanh yester-
f day to begin a sweep looking for
Viet Cong forces. A brigade of the
1st Air'Cavalry Division filed into
the vacated bunkers and trenches
of the combat base.
With other Marines, elements
of the 1st Air 'Cavalry Division
and South Vietnamese paratroop-
* ers, the Marines went hunting for
North Vietnamese who for 2%/
months of siege pounded them
with artillery and mortar fire.
Scattered clashes around Khe
Sanh showed that at -least some
of the original- 2O000 Vietnamese
forces were still around. U.S. es-
timates have put the number at,
7,000.
Air Force B52 bombers kept up
their intensive attacks, hitting
eight times Sunday and yesterday
inside the country.
Their targets were west of Da
Nang and in the vicinity of Khe
Sanh and the A Shau valley to
the south. The Viet Cong has been
active in the valley for weeks,
threatening a drive on Hue to the
east.
Over North Vietnam, U.S. pilots
flew 134 strike missions Sunday.
Saigon headquarters said the
raids were in the southern pan-
handle against lines of communi-
cation, weapons positions, storage
areas and radar sites.
U.S. sources said President
Johnson, by further restricting air
strikes to the 19th parallel Sun-
day, had increased the bomb-free
zone of North Vietnam by about
5,000 square miles.
The reported new restriction
limits air raids to about 170 miles
north of the demilitarized zone
between North and South Viet-
nam. The 20th parallel is about
225 miles north of the zone.
While the new area is limited,
U.S. warplanes are redoubling
their air blows. The 134 missions
flown Sunday were the highest
number since 144 were recorded
Jan. 6.
Israeis Enter ordan,
Hit Commando Forces
By The Associated Press . Israeli forces also were trying to: Israeli ambassador to the United
Troop-carrying Israeli helicop- cross the Jordan River cease-fire Nations. Yosef Tekoah, 'sent a let-
ters flew into Jordan south of I line north of the Dead Sea, at ter to Soviet Ambassador Jacob A.
the Dead Sea yesterday and de- Allenby Bridge, scene of bitter Malik. president of the Security
stroyed the headquarters of Arab fighting'when Israeli forces last Council, accusing Jordan of vio-
commandos operating in Israel's lunged across the border on lating the U.N. cease-fire. The
Negev Desert, the Israeli army re- March 21. letter called on Jordan's govern-
ported. j Informants in Tel Aviv said ment to end "such continuous
The army said the Israelis with- yesterday's action was part of a acts of aggression."
drew after a 105-minute action. -new phase in security precautions The Jordanian ambassador. Mu-
The Israelis said the helicopter aimed at keeping Arab guerrillas hammad H. El-Farra, sent Malik
force with assault troops caught on the defensive. They indicated a letter charging that Israel's
a band of Arab commandos on swift across-the-border strikes penetration of Jordanian territory
the desert and chased them 20 may be used in the future to pre- constituted "further proof of Is-
miles over the Jordanian border vent commando buildups in Arab rael aggression." Neither El-Farra
and landed near Dahal. territory. nor Tekoah requested a meeting
The troops attacked the comn- In New York, meanwhile, the of the council.
-Associated Press
National Guardsmen Patrol Pittsburgh ~
Riots Draw 55,000 Soldiers,
Guardsmen To Protect Cities
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THIS WEEK ;
THURSDAY and FRIDAY, April 11, 12
TO HAVE AND
TO HAVE NOT
Directed by Howard Hawkes, 1944
From the novel by Ernest Hemingway,
adapted by William Faulkner
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Directed by Rene Clair, 1935
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WASHINGTON (P)-Riots and
threats of riots sparked by Dr.
Martin Luther King's murder last
Thursday drew some 55,000 Army
troops and National Guardsmena
into action-apparently the larg-
est military deployment for a civil9
emergency in American history.
The National Guard reports
more than 34,000 guardsmen
were summoned to duty last week-
end, either under state governors',
orders or federalized by presiden-
tial action, in 12 states plus the
District of Columbia.
300,000 Mobilized
In all, the Guard had 302,54 1
men assembled at armories and9
other areas in 40 states previously1
deterniTned as potential riot prob-
lems. Where no flareups occurred,
these men carried out routine
weekend training.
The Army, under presidential
orders, committed nearly 20,000
regular troops to check city dis-
orders and mobilized another
22,000 ready to go.
Guard spokesmen' said records
show no previous instance when
so many guardsmen were commit-
ted across the country at one time
to put down racial violence.
And probably never before, it
was noted, has the nation been
confronted with a single action'
having such universal impact on
one group of people as King's as-4
sassination had on the Negro race.
The next largest use of Guard
troops occurred in 1963 when the
entire 16,400 man Alabama Na-
tional Guard federalized in con-
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Negro student into the University
of Alabama.
An estimated 13,390 Army and
Air National Guardsmen were
called out for the Watts violence
in California in 1966.
Last year 10,600 Army and Air
National Guardsmen were used
during /Detroit's rioting.
An Associated Press check
showed that in all of 1967 more
than 21,000 Guardsmen in at
least 10 states were used to help
quell racial disorders, but these
callouts came over several months.
The National Guard Bureau in
the Pentagon said the last report
it received late Sunday showed
this breakdown of states where
G u a r d s m e n were committed
either to state or federal duty:
Arkansas 700, Georgia 5,200,
North Carolina 6,300, Michigan
730, Tennessee 13,760, Illinois 780,
Florida 100, Mississippi 40, Mary-
land 6,260, South Carolina 300,
West Virginia 80, Pennsylvania
1,800, and Washington, D.C. 1,7001
Army Support
Regular Army troops bolstered
Guard forces in areas with the
most serious rioting.
There were 10,300 regulars in
Washington including paratroops-
of the 82nd Airborne Division, Ft.
Bragg, N.C.; 5,400 in Chicago in-
cluding brigades from the First
Armored Division at Ft. Hood,
Tex., and the Fifth Mechanized
Division at Ft. Carson, Colo.; and
2,000-plus in Baltimore with an-
other 2,000 from Ft. Benning, Ga.,
standing by at Andrews Air Force
Base, Md., near Washington.
Air Force transports were post-
ed strategically around the coun-
try awaiting any orders to move
troops.
The Pentagon said, however, no
Air Reserve troop carrier units
were called up or placed on ex-
tended training duty as a result
of the riots.
Some reservists did volunteer
for temporary duty, and a total of
96 air reserve C119 and C124
transports conducted emergency
airlifts of regular -troops, the
Pentagon reported.
mando complex, inflicting casual-
ties and blowing up one building.
The Israeli force then returned to
their helicopters and flew home.
Jordanian Account
The Jordanian government said
the Israeli attack was preceded
by an exchange of gunfire across
the Jordan River dividing Jordan
and Jordanian territory now oc-
cupied by Israeli troops.
The communique did not give
the size of the attacking force
beyond saying it consisted of "ar-
mored columns and helicopter-
borne troops covered by a thick
umbrella of Israeli jets."
Israeli spokesmen denied the
charge.
Jordan also claimed the invad-
ing force was heading through
low-lying country toward Hamrat
Dan and Seiman, southeast of the
Dead Sea.
Other Action Reported
The communique added that
two 45-minute and 10-minute ar-
tillery duels flared between the
two sides across the Jordan River
north of the Dead Sea in the Kar-
ameh area while the southern at-
tack was under way.
Other unconfirmed reports said
Urge House Passage
Of Open HouigBl
WASHINGTON (YP) - Senate
leaders called yesterday for
prompt House passage of the
civil rights-open housing bill, and
urged this should be followed by'
a cooling-off period after last
weekend's racial disorders.
The bill includes a ban against
racial discrimination in the sale
or rental of about 80 per cent of
the nation's housing units.
House backers of the Senate-
passed civil rights measure ap-
peared confident they can carry
through plans to complete con-
gressional action tomorrow.
The House will meet today to
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WASHINGTON OP) - The Su-
preme Court struck the death
penalty from the Lindbergh kid-
napping 1 a w yesterday, and
strengthened t h e government's
power to protect civil rights guar-
anteed Negroes by Congress in
1964.
A 6-2 decision read by Justice
Potter Stewart said the provision
put an "inpermissible burden" on
the right to a trial by jury.
The death penalty clause, add-
ed to the law in 1934, specified
that a convicted kidnaper who
had not liberated his victim un-
harmed could be put to death,
but only on a jury's recommenda-
tion.
The death penalty provision,
Stewart said, encourages defend-
ants to plead guilty to avoid risk-
ing the death penalty, and thus
give up their right to a jury trial.
However, Stewart said, "The de-
fendant ingenuous enough to seek
a jury acquittal stands forwarned
that, if the jury finds him guilty
and does not wish to spare his
life, he will die."
For this reason, Stewart de-
clared, it is "patently unconstitu-
tional"
The court's decision rejected
the Justice Department's argu-
ment that the trial judge need
not accept a jury recommendation
of death.
Stewart said the court knows of
no instance in the law's history
when a trial judge discarded a
jury's death recommendation.
According to the Bureau of
Prisons six people have been put
to death under the Lindbergh law.
In five instances they had'killed
their victims.
With yesterday's action, future
convictions can bring imprison-
ment for any number of years up
to life. Kidnapers who murder
their captives still can be prose-
cuted under state law and sen-
tenced to death.
In anothr ruling, the court said
Death Clause Cut
in, Kidnap Law.
receive the bill from the Rules.
Committee. The committee was
reported to send it to the floor
under a rule barring any amend-
ments.
The Rules Committee originally
voted 8 to 7 against sending the
bill to the floor for an all-or-
nothing test but since then,
backers say, a shift in sentiment
insures that it will reverse itself
in today's session.
In other action, plans for
President Johnson to address a
joint session of Congress were
suspended indefinitely.'
Senate Democratic Leader Mike
Mansfield of Montana, declaring
Congress should not act impetu-
ously, told the Senate that "laws
and appropriations alone are not
the answer to urban unrest."
He said part of the answer lies
in 'private industry assuming
greater responsibility.
"We ought to let Congress face
up to its responsibilities and per-
haps give the members a chance
to go home and talk to the, peo-
ple," he said.
"I don't think we ought to rush
into a joint session," Mansfield
told newsmen shortly before the
Senate met.
The majority leader said if
Johnson addresses a joint session
at all, it may be after an Easter
recess starting Thursday and
continuing until April 17.
The original plan, announced
during the height of the burning
and pillaging that followed the
slaying of the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr. was for Johnson
to appear before a joint session
last night. The White House an-
nounced later this was being post-
poned so it will not clash with
today's funeral service for Dr.
King.
Potter Stewart
World News Roundup
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the 1964 federal civil rights law
does not bar criminal conspiracy
prosecution of "hoodlums" who
attack Negroes using public fa-
cilities.
The court ruled 5-3 the gov-
ernment may use an 1870 crim-
inal conspiracy law to prosecute
individuals who attack Negroes
exercising rights created by the
1964 law. Justice Thurgood Mar-
shall did not take part.
At issue in this case was a sec-
tion of the 1964 law that provides
equal access to restaurants, hotels
and other public facilities.
The decision clears the way for
reindictment of four white men
accused by the Justice Depart-
ment of conspiring to beat three
Negro travelers for eating in a
roadside restaurant id Braselton,
Ga.
The 1870 law made it a crime
for two or more persons to con-
spire against citizens exercising
their rights and provided penalties
of up to 10 years in prison and.
$5,000 fines.
By The Associated Press
LONDON-A British jet airliner
carrying 126 persons caught fire
on take off yesterday, began to fall
apart in the air, then returned to
a flaming crash-landing at Lon-
don Airport. ,
Five were known dead, with 18
missing.
The plane was bound for Syd-
ney, Australia, with -'scheduled
stops at Zurich, Tel Aviv, Tehran,
New Delhi, Singapore and Perth'
in western Australia.
* * *
tified and state police, still list 21
persons missing.
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WASHINGTON - AFL - CIO
Communications Workers announ-
ced Monday it is postponing for
a week its strike of 200,000 tele-
phone workers-scheduled for Fri-
day-because of rioting in the na-
tion's cities.
"In these extraordinary days of
unleashed emotions and abnormal
events, we of the Communications
Workers of America do not wish
to add to the turbulence," -said
union President Joseph A. Beirne.
The scheduled strike over wages
involves 23,000 Western Electric
Co. telephone installers around the
nation, plus Bell System workers
in Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Minne-
sota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, New
Jersey, Michigan, Idaho, Indiana,
parts of California and Nevada
and the state of Washington.
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This week at
WBIRBUY IDOUSB
TUES., APRIL 9-
330 Maynard Street
- 7:00 P.M. Service of Holy Communion
8:30 P.M. Denise Levertov
Poetry Reading to benefit
Resistance
- 4:00 P.M. Address by Dr. Martin Niemoeller
"A Citizen and His Country:
A Crisis of Conscience"-l
7:00 P.M. Service of Holy Communion
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DENISE LEVERTOV
poet
AUTHOR OF:
Here and Now
Overland to the Islands
With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads
The Jacob's Ladder
O Taste and See
The Sorrow Dance
National Institute of Arts and Letters
Grant in Literature for 1965
CINEMA II
WED., APRIL 10-
A-PLACE IN THE SUN
Directed by George Stevens, 1951
Based on Dreiser's "An American Tragedy"
THURS., APRIL 1 1- 4:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
Address by Dr. Martin Niemoeller
"A Citizen and His Country:
A Crisis of Conscience"-I I
Service of Holy Communion
Play-Last Supper
Tw Shonwinna of"The Gosoel
Lecture: ORIGINS OF
A
POEM
SHELLEY WINTERS
RAYMOND
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Announcement of the Hopwood Awards for 1968
will follow the lecture.
tPI APPIfI?-, . 00PM
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