SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4,1967 Mc amara Discloses THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE TI STILL UNDECIDED: New Soviet Weapon Romney To Reveal Intentions On '68 Candidacy by Nov. 18 WASHINGTON 0P)-The Soviets Asked whether he is concerr apparently have been testing an about the Soviet development, IV orbital bomb that could be capable Namara replied: by next year of hurling down nu- "No, I am not concerned. It d clear warheads on the United not change the nuclear balance States from space, Secretary of power." Defense Robert S. McNamara an- However, he acknowledged th nounced Friday. is no way now to protect Am However, McNamara told a news ican cities, if they should be conference, the United States has target. moved to "deny this capability" He said, as he has said bef by installing over-the-horizon that, "we don't believe there i radar for early detection. This defense today in their hands country has had a limited anti- ours," able to prevent large sc satellite missile defense emplaced missile attack on population c in the Pacific for several years. ters. U.S. Transport Aids Congolese Defens ive ned Mc- oes of ere er- the ore, s a or cale en- The Pentagon chief said he be- lieves the Soviet orbital bomb sys- tem is intended as a weapon against American bomber bases rather than cities. The defense secretary - who' probably now faces intensified criticism from Congress-contend- ed the Fractional Orbital Bom- bardment System-FOBS for short -"is no more of a terror weapon than an intercontinental ballistic missiles or a nuclear bomb." Deterrent Force This, he stressed, "is whywe have built up a deterrent force capable of destroying any attack- er"-a force of nearly 1,700 long range missiles and some 600 bomb- ers. LANSING OP) - Michigan Gov. George Romney said yesterday he will announce his presidential in- tentions Nov. 18. but added he still has "not finally" made up his mind to seek the 1968 GOP nom- ination. Asked if there was any truth to reports that he planned to with- draw as a candidate and throw all his support to New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, the 60-year- old Romney replied: "If I get into it, the presidential race, I will get into it all the way. It won't be for anybody else. I've never been a stooge for anybody,! '- ~ -- ., + + , eiv1 seeking the nomination. "Such a decision," he said,: "should be conveyed first to all the American people at one time through media simultaneously' and equally." The president of CBS television. Thomas H. Dawson, issued a statemnent in New York saying that from ithe beginning of ne- gotiations with Romney repre- sentatives "we were told that he desired network television time in order to announce his can- didacy." "We would not otherwise have entertained his request for broad- cast time," Dawson said. LBJ Backers Finance Polls, Seek to Counter Pessimiism As he explained it, the orbitalI bomb probably would be fired at ground targets from a very low orbit about 100 miles above earth I andg enerall b efr th fir strhit KINSHASA, the Congo (AP) - A U .S. transport plane ferried Con- golese troops to Lubumbashi yes- terday to head off white merce- nary invaders from Portuguese .Angola, diplomatic sources re- ported. A thousand miles north, other white mercenaries and Congolese soldiers fought fiercely at the southern edge of Bukavu with both sides suffering losses, the sources said. Security Council At the United Nations, the Congo asked for an urgent meet- ing of the Security Council on the invasion. Ambassador Mama- dou B. Kante of Mali, council president, consulted other mem- bers on the time of the meeting. In Kinshasa, Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko reaffirmed that the Congo would charge Portugal in the council with armed aggres- sion. He said Portugal's denial of Congolese charges was "outside the truth." Two groups of unknown size- whites and blacks - entered the Congo Wednesday and Thursday from the west and south of the }a geieai y ei tele r oI-uU- corner that juts into Angola. was completed. In a laconic statement yester- Although McNamara said an or- day, Radio Kinshasa said: "Our bital bomb could be ejected as forces were about to localize the little as three minutes from target, band and finish with them be- he contended that over-the-hori-4 tween Kolwezi and the Angola zon radar would provide up to 15. border." minutes of warning time. This is But by nightfall no contact was roughly the most that can now be reported. The invaders came from expected from early warning sys- the area where the French mer- tems designed against missile at- -Associated Press LE DUAN IN USSR Le Duan, number two man in the North Vietnamese Communist Party, speaking before a special session of the Soviet Parliament, said yesterday in Moscow that if the United States Government wanted to negotiate with. his government it must stop bombing "and other acts of war" against North Vietnam. Duan is in Moscow for the Communist celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. A igeria Denies Demand T o Extradite Tshombe and I'm not about to begin.WSIGO i- inso 'di~j.HiH~, uuu 0 eni. WASHINGTON (I'-Friends of To Announce Plans President Johnson are quietly cir- Discussing the cancellation of culating a new political poll in an a scheduled 30-minute CBS tele- apparent effort to counteract na- cast Nov. 15, Romney told a news tional surveys casting doubt on conference he will disclose his Johnson's re-election chances. plans at an 11 a.m. Nov. 18 meet- The new poll was ordered and ing in either Detroit or Lansing. paid for by an anonymous presi- "I will hold a meeting on Sat- dential ally, urday, Nov. 18, in Michigan," he:J said. "At that time I will an- The survey shows Johnson anounce whether I will or will not leading most Republican presi- run." he dential possibilities in California "I not finally decided, -including Gov. Ronald Reagan. Romney replied when asked if he It is the fourth "confidential' had already reached a decision survey newsmen have been shown on whether to make a White in recent weeks by persons with House bid. a stake in the President's re- "I am deeply concerned about election. domestic and foreign issues and The others showed Johnson expect to be an influence whether running ahead of GOP contenders or not I am a candidate," he said. in New York, Pennsylvania and But following a meeting Thurs- Strafford County, N.H- day with top aides and advisors, The pollster who conducted the the governor announced he was surveys is upset that the one on cancelling the broadcast "because California was given to a news- man the day after he mailed it to his client. "I've had almost enough of it," said Archibald M. Crossley, presi- dent of Political Surveys and Analyses Inc., Princeton, N.J. The polls are being leaked in what appears to be a calculated campaign to offset pessimism about Johnson's popularity result- ing from widely publicized na- tional surveys. The latest Gallup poll showed Johnson trailing New York Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller 54 to40per cent, former Vice President Rich- ard M. Nixon 49 to 45 per cent and Michigan Gov. George Rom- ney 48 per cent to 45 per cent. In contrast, the private Penn- sylvania poll showed Johnson leading Rockefeller 45 per cent to 41 per cent, Nixon 51 to 37, Romney 48 to 35, Reagan 51 to 33, and Illinois Sen. Charles H. Percy 50 to 29. cenary leader Col. Robert Denard had been reportedly grouping mercenaries. 1 l Troop Concentration The reported invasion from An- gola presumably was to relieve pressure on the mercenary forces at Bukavu with whom Denard was allied at the time he wasj wounded. Latest reports said a large troop concentration was moving in trucks on the highway along the tracks near Kolwezi, halfway to Lubumbashi. "Although there have been sev- eral incidents," the official radio said, "they only cut the telegraph wires. That's all." Army encampments throughout the Congo have been on alert since the invasion was announced.I tack. ALGIERS OP) - Algeria has "With three-minute warning, decided against extraditing Moise 15-minute warning or no warning Tshombe to the Congo, it was at all we could still absorb a sur- learned yesterday, but the former prise attack and strike back with Congolese premier is pictured as sufficient power to destroy the at- depressed and increasingly de-I tack," McNamara said. moralized in prison. Disadvantages Tshombe rejoiced when he learned that the Algerian govern- c"dadvant gdeclaroutwe th thement decided not to extradite him advantages" that would accrue to to the Congo, where he faces a the Russians from any such orbital death penalty on a charge of bombsyste. fplotting against the regime of bomb sydte uPresident Joseph D. Mobutu. In- He said the accuracy would be7 formants said he expected this significantly less and the payload decision to be followed by his a fraction of that of the inter-ed en ed continental missileearly release. MceNamara said U.S. intelligence Indefinite Stay has detected evidence of this kind Tshombe later realized that Al- of a development over the past geria's government regards him monthor mrtwo. as a threat to the "anti-imperial- ist struggle" in Africa and in- Disclosure tends to hold him indefinitely. Asked why the announcement His repeated requests to be re- was made now, the secretary said ceived by President Houari Bou- brietings on the situation had been medienne have been ignored, in- completed only within the last formants reported. few days. The government has placed a However, there was some feeling veil of silence over its unwanted that McNamara could have been prisoner. Algerian officials insist attempting to get in ahead of pos- they had no advance warning of sible disclosure of the orbital bomb the kidnap plot that brought at Senate hearings opening next Tshombe to Algeria on June 30 week on the recent U.S. decision in a charter plane hijacked over to build a light antimissile defense. the Spanish Balearic Islands. DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETIN Algerian officials admit pri- vately they wish Tshombe had never fallen into their hands. But they feel they cannot get rid of! him without either losing face or being accused by some African, states that opposed extradition of being accomplices in a judicialj murder. Tshombe's name has disappear- ed from the controlled Algerian press, which once denounced him as a "traitor -to Africa who must be handed over to meet the fate he deserves." of restrictions imposed by the network." Romney said the CBS restric- tions "would have, in effect, made it mandatory that I announce to a single network two weeks in ad- vance that I had reached an TONIGHT! (Sunday too) affirmative decision concerning MISSISSIPPI DELTA BLUES SINGER SKIP JAMES Bock from Europe at, TONIGHT at THE ARK 1421 Hill Street 8:30 P.M. World News Roundup CHRISTOPHER and SARA returning by popular demand to sing Contemporary and ORIGINAL Folk Music. $1.00 Cover includes entertainment and refreshments 12TI(BUY 1FOUSA 330 MAYNARD I By The Associated Press UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.-The U.S. Security Council's 10 non- permanent members yesterday gave up trying to agree on what the council should do to settle last June's Arab-Israeli war. They asked the big powers to try again. Their two weeks' efforts to draft a generally acceptable resolution collapsed at a two-hour private meeting here in the office of coun- cil president, Ambassador Mama- dou Boubacar Kante of Mali. * * * MOSCOW-In a keynote speech for the Bolshevik Revolution's 50th anniversary, Leond I. Brezhnev ac- cused the United States yesterday of Nazi-type atrocities in Vietnam and pledged Soviet aid to Viet- namese Communists until U.S. forces leave. "The crimes of the U.S. military in Vietnam," Brezhnev charged, "recall atrocities of the Fascist brutes." He accused U.S. forces of destroying schools, hospitals and entire villages. * * * UNITED NATIONS, N.Y.-The 122-nation U.N. General Assembly approved a resolution yesterday demanding that Britain use force to bring "an effective and speedy" end to the rebel Rhodesian gov- ernment of Ian Smith. 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