TIE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1967 PAGE SIX CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC: American Election Observers Limited by Information Lack Russian Blockade Draws U.S. Protest GI Bill Ups Aid 5.4 Per Cent WASHINGTON () - President tive days in uniform after Jan. 31. Johnson signed into law yesterday 1955, and for their widows and a bill giving a $286-million pack- dependents. age of benefits to "cold war" The first-year cost is estimated SAIGON (P) - "I don't know what I'm doing here or what I can eventually say about this thing - but when the President telephones and pleads with you in the middle of the night to go to, Vietnam and observe elections, what would you do? Naturally, accept." This comment, from one of the 22 prominent Americans sent to Vietnam as President Johnson's special observers for Sunday's elections, came after a full day of intensive briefings, exhaustive visits to remote polling sites and pidgin English conversations with Vietnamese election officials. As they see their role, they must wade through government red tape to the Vietnamese voter and' determine whether he has cast an informed vote on his own in-; itiative in a democratic election1 -- or whether he has been un- fairly influenced and his vote snatched illegally. Few think they can make such an evaluation. The group plans no joint re- port. They say they plan to stop in Honolulu en route home for a bull session, some of which likely would be relayed to the White House. The official program for the observers yesterday indicated to all of them the great limitations they would be working under in the next few days. Gov. Richard J. Hughes of New Jersey said after a whirlwind visit to the province of Binh Dufong just north of Saigon: "I have not seen enough to make a flat judgment about the validity of the elections. I may not see enough even in the next several days." Whitney Young, president of the Urban league, said: "We have no illusions about what we can do." Gov. Thomas L. McCall of Ore- gon, who spent an afternoon traipsing through a Mekong del- ta village in fatigues, noted: "I don't think we will have enough information - ever - to fully evaluate what's going on here." Some of the observers, such as Sen. George Murphy, R-Calif., felt that they could determine in- stinctively, i f n o t factually, whether the election was clean or soiled. "I think we can tell from watch- ing people go to the polls whether the thing looks fair," Murphy said. "You have to rely mostly on instinct." Yesterday's program proved un- satisfactory to several of the ob- servers and they intend to ignore the U.S. Embassy schedule for the remainder of the visit, and head off alone to try and deter- mine for themselves the pulse of the Vietnamese voter. WASHINGTON (P)-The United States accused the Soviet Union yesterday of denying two U.S. ice- breakers passageway through an Arctic strait off Russia and thus blocking a valuable scientific ex- pedition around the North Pole. Instead of forcing the ice- breakers Edisto and East Windf through the Vilkitsky Straits, Washington canceled their plan- ned voyage and lodged a strong diplomatic protest maintaining the international legal rights of the ships to innocent passage. At issue is whether vessels may sail freely through the channel? connecting two portions of high seas-as the United States claims -or whether the Soviets controli the passageway because it runs through Russian territorial waters, 1 as Moscow contends. A similar question was posed with Egypt's announced anti-Is- rael blockade of the Aqaba Gulf which triggered the Middle East crisis earlier this summer. The United States holdsthat ships have the right of innocent passage through straits linking high seas even though the connecting chan- nel goes through national waters. Now an issue in the icebreaker incident is the difference between the U.S. claim that a country's territory extends only three miles offshore and the Soviet claim of 11 miles. ning bets land and Venlya I across at State I Carl Bart of innoce through national parts of t The Vilkitsky Strait, run- ween the Russian main- d the Soviet Severnaya slands, is about 24 miles its narrowest. Department press officer tch said "there is a right ent passage of all ships straits used for inter- navigation between two he high seas." veterans and the men on the Vietnamese battle lines. Twenty-eight casualties of the war there, most in hospital garb and many in wheel chairs and casts, looked on at the ceremonial bill-signing in the White House East Room, The bill provides pension, edu- cational and other benefits for veterans who served 180 consecu- Anti-LBJConvention Meets' To Devise Strategy for '68 CHICAGO (A)-A delegation of and in Newark after they left. left wing activists met with peace They are Communists, liars and and civil rigths leaders yesterday thieves." to develop strategy aimed at de- Among the convention delegates feating President Johnson in 1968 are representatives from Students and ending the war in Vietnam. for a Democratic Society, Student The five-day convention is Nonviolent Coordinating Commit- sponsored by the National Con- tee, Congress of Racial Equality, ference for New Politics; a New Southern Christian Leadership York-based organization formed Congress and the Committee for last year to support liberal and a Sane Nuclear Policy. left wing peace candidates. The delegates included Arniold Johnson of New York, who said he, is public relations director and a member of the party's national committee; Thomas Dennis of De- L iberation' troit; Gilbert Green of New York, and Claude Lightfoot and James, at $285,600,000. Johnson told his audience, made up largely of members of Con- gress, federal officials, executives of veterans organizations and the current Miss America, that the bill is in great part for those on the line in Vietnam. Johnson said that "every single day, and every single waking hour" he is working with every resource .at his command to has- ten the day when the war in Vietnam will be resolved peace- fully. "The forces who launched that war now, at this moment," Johnson said, "are tragically using every terroristic plan, practice or de- vice they can conceive to try to stop the people of Vietnam from freely electing their own govern- ment. "The aggressors m u s t rea- lize that they cannot defeat the efforts of the South Vietnamese people to secure and strengthen their nation, nor can they, by their speeches or their propagan- ri n Predicts. o 7V of Negroes dom which the Negro man always has shown in fighting for his county. "He will show this same will in fighting against his country when he returns with his knowledge." da, deter America's commitment to assist them. "Until that realization comes, then we Americans are going to- we Americans must-man the line where that commitment runs." Johnson said the new benefits bill is a way of saying to a na- tion's men at arms in Vietnam and elsewhere that America does not forget. He said also it will help needy veterans of past conflicts by: -Providing funds to help re- turning servicemen with their education or with job training un- derthe GI Bill of Rights signed 18 months ago. It will help those with families more than single men. -Giving men now in uniform the same veterans benefits their predecessors in other wars re- ceive. -Increasing pensions of two million veterans and widows an average of 5.4 per cent to raise the living standards of the older and poorer pensioners. Most of the act's provisions be- come effective Oct. 1. Johnson noted that the first year's cost of the bill at $285 million is $115 million' more than he proposed to Congress. While he reaffirmed the need for "utmost restraint in our spending," he noted the higher figure was approved without a single dissenting vote in either Senate or House. And he said he could accept the increase in good conscience because of the compelling fact that most of the extra funds will be invested in education and job- training which are corner-stones of his administration's program. B ULETI! THE BOOK STORE IS NOW FEATURING THE ONE BOOK YOU'LL USE FOR ALL COURSES. 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Start Third Party Some observers believe the con- vention will seek to start a third political party but Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., who has been mentioned as a possible presiden- tial candidate on such a ticket, announced" in advance he would MIAMI, Fla. (A) - Black Power leader H. Rap Brown predicted yesterday in an interview on Ha- vana Radio that when trained Negro troops return to the United States from Vietnam, "they will use their skills to liberate the Negro people." 'Active Genocide' DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN 'a2 a id ms ti{::;': "r%:::t":"} #s m a'": }?.i"'i::T:":4:::tq""""XS +:::}vi:'r":"y"ist iS ":{-:^T.";:T}4.{;a:{:". ' r othaepfotiBrown charged the U.S. is The foundationeforyco~nventionpracticing "a c t i v e genocide" action was laid Tuesday and Wed- against Negroes, killing them in nesday when several committees Vinam ards, thenstre of started discussions on the struc- Ameramandoitsrs.o ture perspectives and possible po- sitions the NCNP would take. "The sending of Negro soldiers Joseph Dawson, son of U.S.in preference to whites to certain Rep. William A. Dawson, Negro fighting fronts in Vietnam is an congressman from Illinois' 1st Dis- active type of genocide. It is not trict, visited conference headquar- an accidert that 30 per cent of ters yesterday in advance of the the lossses in Vietnam are Negroes convention, and told newsmen' and that 22 per cent of the forces "You don't have a convention here, there are Negro," Brown declared. you have a hell here." "Genocide is being committed Dawson declared he was vigor- against the Negro population- ously opposed to the convention in other words, the Negro popu- and would take no part in it. lation is regarded as a problem 'Riot by Implication' and they are managing this pro- "These people have come in blem through genocide." from outside and are destroyingL the image that we in Chicago have 'Liberethe Negro' been working all summer to build," Brown forecast that the Negro he said. "These people will cause soldiers returning from Vietnam a riot by implication - by what "are going to be the most vigorous they say-and it will filter into fighters because they have the' the neighborhoods and arouse the skills and when they return to Negro community to start rioting." America, this skill will be used in "There will be rioting," Daw- liberating the Negro people with son added. "I saw it in Detroit the same implacable will for free- WELCOME STUDENTS and FACULTY HOLIDAY HAIR FASHIONS ts For that cared-for, care-free look, visit our professional staff on campus at the corner of State & Liberty. CALL TODAY FOR: ~i . 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