FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1963 TIDE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE TEMEN FRIDAY, NOV1~MBER 17, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE Terrorists Get Reprieve' In Vietnam Haiphong Shipyard Raided by U.S. Jets Near Center of City By The Associated Press Three convicted Viet Cong ter- rorists condemned to die before a firing squad in a Saigon prison at dawn today got an eleventh- hour reprieve from Premier Ngu- yen Can Loc. In other developments, U.S. Navy Skyhawks staged a first- time raid yesterday on Haiphong's Shipyard No. 2 and Gen. William C. Westmoreland conferred with President Johnson on the Vietnam war. Reprisals Communist broadcasts yesterday had threatened reprisals by the Viet Cong if the prisoners-Bui Van Chieu, Le Minh Chau and Truong Thanh Danh-were exe- cuted. Chieu was a leader of the ter- rorist 100 group, responsible for several major bombings in Saigon. Chau and Danh were convicted of throwing grenades at several police stations, checkpoints and patrols between July and September 1965, when they were captured. All were convicted on several charges, including treason, by a special military court here last spring and sentenced to be shot. Concern American authorities expressed concern to South Vietnamese of- ficials when they learned of the arrangements to execute the three. Two such executions in 1965 were followed by Viet ,Cong an- nouncements that they had killed American prisoners in retaliation. American officials also felt the decision to put the three Viet Cong to death today was poorly timed in view of the Viet Cong's recent release of three U.S. Army ser- geants, now hospitalized in the United States. They declined to say, however, whether they had asked for the reprive in the interests of Ameri- cans who remain in guerrilla hands. There was no immediate assess- ment of the damage at the ship- yard, on the Tram Bac River a mile west of Haiphong's geo- graphical center. Three similar yards, farther away, were bombed last month. A U.S. spokesman said the strike-among operations that fol- lowed up 110 missions overNorth Vietnam Wednesday-was carried out by pilots from the carrier Coral Sea. He made no mention of any losses. A broadcast dispatch from Hanoi declared two U.S. planes were shot down at Haiphong and three elsewhere over North Viet- nam during the day and some pilots were captured. Attacks Though the Pentagon in the last three months has authorized attacks on various North Viet- namese objectives that had long been off limits, American fliers remain under orders to steer clear of the Haiphong piers where Soviet and other ships unload war- supplies. After conferring with the Presi- dent, Gen. Westmoreland gave the Senate Armed Services Committee what was described as a cautiously optimistic report. No Timetable But the U.S. commander in Vietnam "does not see any early termination of the war and sug- gested no timetable of when the fighting might end," Committee Chairman Richard B. Russell, (D- Ga), told newsmen. Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D- Wash) another committee mem- ber, said Westmoreland reported that although the North Viet- namese troops are better equipped now than before, they are not well led and their quality is going down. "He feels quite confident," Jack- son said of Westmoreland. "He sees the enemy losing steadily and continuouosly." -Associated Press GEN. WILLIAM WESTMORELAND and President Johnson conferred yesterday at the White House. Westmoreland, the U.S. commander of troops in Vietnam also gave a "cautiously optimistic report" to the Senate Armed Services Committee. DETROIT INCLUDED: weaver Reveals List of Cities To Receive Planning Grants British Plan ROMNEY APPEAL IGNORED: For Mid East Open Housing Bj Taken to UN As State Legislat Proposal Calls for LANSING (4) - Dealing a po- housing measure an Israeli Withdrawal tential death blow to Gov. George reach agreement on Romney's controversial o p e n The committee "wil From Arab Lands housing bill, the Michigan Legis- the substance of theI lature today agreed to ad- take care of a num submitted to the UN jSuritIjourn for three weeks and return provements," Romney sunmilteterda yah c Security after Romney has left on an conference. Council yesterday a compromise : resolution it hoped would break overseas trip. He said, the comm the prolonged diplomatic dead- In a move to save the housing begin work today an lock on a settlement in the Mid- bill, Romney and a bipartisan complete its effort dle East. group of leaders from both houses Wednesday, at which agreed to designate an interim tisan leaders willi Lord Caradon, British UN am- committee to perfect the open "hopefully for the bassador, urged a prompt and _ unanimous, council decision. The alten at to effectiv eri c ounsciCylu action, he said, is "too terrible to CI m C p u p c ne pae""So great is the need,"N IN Caradon said, "and so great is Turkishr otdent ro the measure of agreement among us that I cannot believe we will ANKARA, Turkey (P)-Anti- had delivered an fail." Greek demonstrations erupted in threatening military Israeli Withdrawal Ankara and Istanbul yesterday in against Cyprus and G The resolution provides for Is-1 the wake of communal fighting on Cypriots did not pull raeli withdrawal "from territori- Cyprus that left 25 Turkish Cyp- Cyprus has been a s ties occupied in the recent con- riots dead. Two Greek Cypriots cord between Greece flict," a reference to the six-day were killed. the two easternmost Arab-Israeli war in which Israel M o r e than 1,000 students the North Atlantic Tr seized hundreds of square miles marched on the Turkish Parlia- ization, since civil wa of Egyptian, Jordanian and Syr- ment building in Ankara, shouting, on the island in 1963. ian territory. "The army to Cyprus!" Most of the 600,000 It also affirms the need for the 1Poieof Greek origin and tI termination "of all claims or I uleader, Orthodox Arc: states of belligerency." The Arabs In Istanbul, club swinging police karios, is the nation's have maintained a state of bel- dispersed 100 young men who tried minority are Turkish ligerency against Israel since the to reach the Greek consulate. The: Bloodshed Jewish nation came into being 19 demonstrators placed a black The UN -peace fo wreath at the gate of the U.S. years ago. consulate. island 40 miles sout] It further makes provision for Cyprus' Cabinet went into ex- has helped to minimi a special UN representative to go taordinar session in Nicosia, but Cyprus Greek to the Middle East "to promote where observers said they feared parent es ta agreement an'd assist efforts to the possibility of countermeasures se ent of tia achieve a T caceful and accepted both by the Turkish government Turkish Cptheir settleme -.. ' and by Turkish Cypriots. Turkish Cypriot ea Grek ypriots of Restate Positions Greek Cypriot soldiers withdrew fighting Wednesday. Egyptan and Israeli represent- at dawn from Ayios Theodorus Cypriot governments atives, speaking after Caradon, and Kophinou, two villages they when shots were fires made no direct comment on the had overrun in eight hours of patrol. resolution, but they restated their fighting befoe ayUN-arranged - positions on a settlement. cease-fireWednesday night Informed sources said Turkey Egyptian Foreign Minister Mah-' ------ moud Riad declared that Egypto Toni9g was "absolutely firm" in its de- - mand for complete Israeli with- drawal from all captured Arab C territories. "Under no circumstances will I we compromise on this point," he said. Israeli Foreign Minister Abba TON IGHT TI Eban reiterated that to his gov- ernment, "agreement on secure T and recognized boundaries is ab- solutely essential."THetrn THE F LYING He said Israel could not "return to the shattered armistice regime T RA PEZE or the fragile demarcation lines." WASHINGTON (R)A- Officials named 63 cities yesterday, includ- ing Detroit and Highland Park, for participation in the model- cities program, the central thrust of President Johnson's attack on urbap ills. The cities, involving 65 projects in 33 states and the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, will share in $11 million in initial planning grants. Amounts of the grants are to be announced in the near future. The cities selected from 193 applicants for the experimental, "total attack" on single neighbor- hoods range in size from Pike- ville, Ky., with 5,000 residents, to New York City, with 8 million. National Effort Secretary Robert C. Weaver of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), who announced the selected cities, has said that the six-year program should provide the basis for a national effort to rebuild Ameri- can cities rivaling the Marshall Plan for European recovery after World War II. Cities not chosen for the first round of grants still may be select- ed for a second round, the terms of which are to be announced soon. About $12 million is available for the second round, and sources said about the same number of additional cities will be chosen as on the first round. Most noteworthy among major cities not chosen yesterday were Los Angeles and Cleveland, both scenes of racial rioting. Weaver said at a news conference that Los Angeles had not met the pro-. gram criteria and that Cleveland had not submitted an impressive plan. After a planning period of about one year, the cities announced yesterday will share in $312 million in funds for carrying out their programs. But Weaver has explained that this amount will represent only a small part of the total investment -even the federal investment. All of the spending of federal, state and local governments is to be focused for the first time on single neighborhoods, and officials hope there will be a big private invest- ment in the projects. Eyesores The chosen neighborhoods, in- cluding some of the most de- pressed and blighted eyesores of the American landscape, are to be turned into showpiece areas. The program will attack the deeply rooted problems of employ- ment, housing, education, health and crime. In spite of the proliferation of federal programs for the cities and the poor, no program ever has ocmbined the efforts of all agen- cies. The same thing is true of programs at the city level. The model-cities program for the first time will require residents of the selected neighborhoods to take part in the planning and operation of the effort. As first proposed by President Johnson, the program would have cost $2.9 billion for the five-year period. President Johnson and federal officials argued that the program had taken on even greater urgency following the bloody riots that shook the nation's cities during the past summer. But after a long battle, the ad-1 ministration won only about half the $637 million it had asked from the current economy-conscious Congress. In Pikeville, Ky., they want to mnove the Big Sandy River docks away from the downtown area and save an outlay of $70,000 a year for cleaning up coal dust. Eagle Pass, Tex., where 95 per cent of the families have incomes at poverty level, needs education, health, child care and recreation centers. Trinidad, Colo., hopes to improve the water supply and other public utilities and attract new industry. Winooski, Vt., would like to get started on a slum clearance project and the construction of a com- munity center. Pikeville is a town of 6,000 in the big eastern Kentucky soft-coal mining field, which turned out 30 million tons last year. Dr. W. C. Hambley, the mayor, said at least 30 per cent of Pike- ville's 1,700 housing units should be torn down and replaced. He wants the river docks shifted elsewhere so that the coal trucks will no longer have to pass through the business section, dribbling dust as they go. The mayor also plans an inte- grated educational and cultural complex built around an existing civic center. r ill Paralyzed ture Adjourns d hopefully reaching agreement on the bill." it. The measure then would be I not change sent to the House Civil Rights bill, but will Committee "and it is hoped that fber of im- the committee will be in a posi- told a news tion to act fairly soon-at least by the early part of the following ittee would week," the governor said. d hopefully However, the full Legislature s by next still would be unable to act on time bipar- the bill until it returns on Dec. 12. meet again Despite an appeal from 41om- purpose of ney that they return on Dec. 5, the Senate passed a House-ap- k 1proved resolution calling for ad- rjournment from today Until Dec. 12. f Candidacy test Romney, expected to announce his candidacy for the 1968 GOP ultimatum presidential nomination tomor- rep risall row, plans to leave on Dec. 7 for Jreece if the a tour of Europe and Asia that out. will keep him away from the ource of dis- capital for the rest of the year. and Turkey, Senate approval of the adjourn- members of ment resolution, on a strict 17-11 eaty Organ- party line vote, brought an im- ar broke out mediate storm of protest from minrity Democrats. Cypriots are They charged that the major- heir religious ity Republicans were plaing deer hbishop Ma- hunting junkets above the issues president. A of open housing and lower court Moslems. reorganization-the two most im- portant issues on the special ses- rce on the sion agenda. h of Turkey Travel Plans ze bloodshed Democrats also called on Rom- and Turkish ney to change his travel plans lade no ap- and remain in Michigan to push d a political for enactment of an open hous- differences. ders accused ing law. starting the Earlier in the day Romney told The Greek a news conference that he had no said it began plans to delay his trip, but ex- d at a police pects to "persist" until open housing legislation is passed. ht-Tomorrow-Sunday INEMA IH presents H1E B EATLES in D DAY'S and hapter 4 FLASH GORDON Sun. 7:00 and 9:15 P.M. -19 Aud. A, Angell Hall .50c It was understood that both Israel and Egypt were seeking in- structions froln home on the British initiative. I Dir. Clyde Bruckman, I935 starring W. C. Fields! "A riotous blend of eloquent pantomime, inspired inanities, and unpredictable eccentricities." 7:00 and 9:05 ARCHITECTURE AUDITORIUM 1 C Fri.-Sat.- Nov. 17 World News Roundup m STILL ONLY 50c- By The Associated Press DETROIT - A strike by the Teamsters Union prevented the afternoon Detroit News from pub- lishing yesterday while the status of the morning Detroit Free Press remained in doubt. The surprise walkout was the first contractural strike to hit Detroit's newspapers since a 134- day strike at both papers in 1964. Edwin K. Wheeler, vice presi- dent and general manager of the Evening News Association, termed the walkout "unfortunate." * * * PANAMA-Investigations chief Hector Valdes said Thursday he has reached the "firm conclusion" that a peddler arrested here this week at the request of West Ger- man authorities is not Heinrich Mueller, the former Nazi Gestapo boss. The peddler has claimed to be Francis Willard Keith, 61, born in Webb City, Mo. The investigator said a thumb- print of the man in custody matches a thumbprint of a Mr. Keith who arrived in Panama May 14, 1942, before the end of World War II. WASHINGTON - The govern- ment reported yesterday the fifth straight quarterly increase in the U.S. dollar drain and immediate- ly announced a tightening of the voluntary business program to help stem the outflow. But Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler said approval of higher taxes is the "single most important and indispensable step this nation can take now to im- prove our balance of trade " L - ! BY A STRIKING AND ORIGINAL TRAGI-COMEDY STUDS TERKEL with MART HULSWIT I I A-LISJOYCE 8 m