SATURDAY, NOVEMBER, 18, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1967 THE MIChIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE Johnson Welcomes CEASE CONTRACT TALKS: Teamsters Strike Detroit News; Free Press Stops Publication Responsible Dissent WASHINGTON {P} - President Iing-as when demonstrators block Johnson, speaking at a press con- ference yesterday, said he wel- comes responsible dissent by earn- est Americans. He characterized critics this way: "There are some hcpeful people and there are- some naive people in this country-and there are some political people." While saying he defends the right to responsible dissent, John- son emphasized several times his opposition to "storm trooper bully- streets, smash windows, shout down public speakers and engage in rowdyism." Johnson also said he will meet "when it is necessary" the Vietnam peace campaign Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy is threatening to wage in Democratic presidential prim- aries next year. Johnson refused to say whether he will run for a second full term in 1968, but he acted and sounded like a man seeking re-election. Decisive U.S. Wins Inspire Optlim1sm By JOHN T. WHEELER Associated Press News Analysis SAIGON-During the past two weeks U.S. and South Vietnamese troops have smashed decisively two of the Communists' biggest offensives of the Vietnam war. North Vietnamese and Viet Cong regiments, by U.S. body count, suffered more than 2,000 dead in two days-long battles. They killed only one-tenth that number on the allied side and lost considerable prestige as a fight- ing force. American firepower and the ability to move the equivalent of a whole division or more to meet threats as they appear spelled the difference in both the savage battles. Westmoreland Optimistic The fighting around Dak To in the highlands and at Loc Ninh north of Saigon appeared to sup- port optimism voiced by Gen. William C. Westmoreland over the course of the war here. Only six months ago the U.S. commander said that despite some favorable trendshedcould foresee no end to the war. He now believes the allied side will win the, conflict. Expected Offensive Despite the two defeats, Saigon still expects the Communists to launch still another major offen- sive this year, this one against the Marines in the Khe Sanh area just south of the demilitarized zone. The Communists have been most successful in attacks in this region where American supply lines are longest and theirs are shortest. There have been similar de- feats for the Communists in the past. Last spring the 9th Viet Cong Division was destroyed as a fighting force. The 9th was the division which launched what turned out to be suicidal attacks on Loc Ninh; decimating two of its best regiments, during the first week of November. The Viet Cong attacks have served to polarize some U.S. strength away from built-up areas and toward three main border pressure points. These are the DMZ, the so-called B3 front on the Cambodian border in the highlands and north of War Zone D on the Cambodian border. Hanoi Buildup. Hanoi's defense minister, Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, has steadily built the number of regular units in the South and more than match- ed the buildup by the allies in terms of trigger pullers. However, a major new buildup that will carry U.S. forces in Vietnam up to 525,000 from the current 470,000 will give West- moreland another division of' fighting troops. Two of the three brigades will be crack paratroop- ers of the 101st Airborne Division. But just as the Communists have failed to dislodge American troops from their forward and weaker positions, the allied side has not been able to push the Communists permanently out of their major base areas. These in- clude the A Shau Valley, the mountains west of Hue, the Viet An Valley south of Da Nang, the Do Xa area in the highlands, War Zones C and D and several Delta areas. By U.S. reckoning, some of the biggest concentrations of Com- munist forces are in Cambodia where they are safe from all at- tacks and in Laos where Air Force bombing has met liimted success. In conventional warfare, the allied victories at Loc Ninh and Dak To probably would have far- reaching implications for the Communists. But Hanoi's main tactic still appears to call for con- tinued major battles at whatever cost, inflicting as many casualties as possible, particularly on Ameri- can troops for the impact that would have in the United States. He said the Communists are seriously mistaken if they think the United States will pull out of Vietnam after the next election, no matter who is chosen president. Johnson was asked his assess- ment of the situation in Vietnam after talking with Gen. Westmore- land and Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker. "I think every American heart should swell with pride at what U.S. forces are doing in Vietnar. he said. The American people want wars and other contests to be decided quickly, he said, adding "that's not the kind of war we're fighting in Vietnam." Johnson was asked about the economic situation. "We want very badly to have a tax bill just as quickly as we can get it," he said, adding that there is no indication that the House Ways and Means Committee plans to report one this year. One of his administration's fail- ures, he said, has been the inabil- ity to convince Congress of the need for a new tax bill. "I think that's one of the great mistakes the Congress will make," he said, saying that Chairman Wilbur D. Mills, (D-Ark), of the Ways and Means Committee and House Republican Leader Gerald R. Ford, of Michigan, "will live to rue the day" because of the in- flation and federal deficit, in the event no tax increase is approved. He said he knows tax increases don't help in political polls but "I think we can do it ... I think we should do it."We have failed up until now to convince them," he said, but he added he thinks eventually Congress will pass the legislation . PHILADELPH Dow Board Chairman Says Business Hurt by Protests Philadelphia police subdue over3 protesting the reported suspension Vocational High School for takin onstration. BOLIVIAN TRIAL: JDebray Co For Aidinl CAMIRI. Bolivia A 30-year. prison sentence was imposed here yesterday on Regis Debray, the1 young French author of a book on how to spread Cuban com- munism throughout Latin Amer- ica. Debray showed no emotion at { the end 6f his seven-week military trial as he heard himself coiivicted1 of helping Bolivia's leftist guerril-i las, once led by the late Ernesto Che Guevara.E The specific charges against Debray, Argentine Ciro RobertoI Bustos and four Bolivians were murder, robbery and subversion. Bustos was also convicted and 1 sentenced to 30 years in jail, the1 maximum penalty under Bolivian law. The Bolivians were acquitted. Debray and Bustos were arrested April 20 in a small settlement near this oil town. George Andrew Roth, a British photographer captured with them, was later declared innocent and released. The pair admitted they had been with the guerrillas operating in southeast Bolivia's forested mountains and said they had even stood guard duty armed with M2 rifles. But they denied the crimes with which they were charged. Twelve witnesses t e s t i f i e d against Debray and Bustos but Freedumb VIET ROCK' Nov. 27-30-8:30 5th Dimension Centicore TICKETS: Discount Records Plaster of Paris DETROIT ()-The Detroit Free Press will cease publication be- cause of "actions of certain un- ions," according to notices posted yesterday. The morning daily newspaper joined the Detroit News, hit by a Teamsters strike, in halting the presses, leaving the nation's fifth h " largest city without a publishing daily newspaper. Both papers are involved with contract negatiations with the Teamsters and other unions, al- though no Teamster talks are set at The News until Monday at the earliest. The News halted publica- -Associated Press tion Thursday. IA PROTEST Contracts Expire A PROTESTContracts with the Teamsters 3,500 Negro students who were and the two Detroit newspapers ,n of 16 pupils at Bok Technical expired at midnight Wednesday. n part in a "black power" dem- Most other contracts with the g rNews and the Free Press expire Nov. 30. ____Craft union leaders said pri- vately the Teamsters strike had taken place before a crisis point in bargaining on a new contract was reached. Some union leaders felt the wage increases could have o n v icted!been obtained without a strike. The two papers, with a combined circulation of well over a million, traditionally face barganiing prob- lems with a solid front. Joint Negotiations gave no evidence that directly John B. Olson, general man- connected either with combat ac- ager of the Free Press, said the tivities. two newspapers had jointly ne- Debray insisted that he had gotiated contracts with the unions joined the rebels as a journalist as the Detroit Newspaper Publish- for a Mexican magazine and that ers Association. Guevara had turned down his re- Olson said, "The refusal to pub- quest to take part in combat. lish the News is, in effect, a strike This connection was supported against both papers." by entries in Guevara's dairy say- The News shut down when by ntiesinGuear's aiy sy-Teamsters Union members put u ing Debray would have been more TasesUinmmesptup useful to the leftist movement token picket lines at the building elsewhere lwhich houses the afternoon daily. The Free Press building is less Bolivian authorities described than three block away. Debray as a close friend of Cuban In 1964, a strike at the two Prime Minister Fidel Castro and newspapers kept them out of pub- said he had visited Bolivia twice lication for 134 days-one of the before as an advance agent for longest shutdowns of metropolitan the guerrillas. newspapers ever. Defense lawyers declined to say Both papers also went into in- whether they would appeal. tensive negotiations with the In- DR. ROBERT H. HAMILL Dean of Chapel, Boston University speaks on WHAT CHRISTIANS AND MARXISTS HAVE TO TALK ABOUT TOGETHER Sunday, 7:09 P.M. at Wesley Lounge, First Methodist Church State and Huron Streets Dr. Hamill will also preach at the morning . worship services at First Methodist Church at 9:00 and 11:15 a.m. on the subject "Two New Proofs For God." Public Is Invited By The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA-Public school students in both Philadelphia and Newark, N.J. marched on local school boards yesterday. Helmeted Philadelphia police of- ficers put down. a near riot by some 3,500 Negro school pupils. In Newark, three hundred Bar- ringer High School students pro- tested unsafe conditions at the city's largest school. S* * * CARDIFF, Wales-A bomb blast smashed the doorway and entrance hall of Cardiff's Temple of Peace yesterday when Lord Snowdon ar- rived for a conference on Prince Charles' in vestiture as Prince of Wales. Police blamed the explosion on extremists demanding home rule for the Welsh. WASHINGTON - The House yesterday passed the lowest for- eign-aid appropriation bill in the 20-year history of the program. The $2.19-billion money bill in- cluded provisions designed to re- strict the purchase of modern wea- pons by underdeveloped nations re- ceiving aid. U I AFTER HOURS Featuring THE PRIME MOVERS Plus Other Entertainment WHEN? Every Fri. & Sat. Night 1 :30 A.M. to 4:30 A.M. cover $1 .00 WHERE? The Fifth Dimension 216 W. Huron Call 761-7866 ............ ternational Typographical Union The company had offered about which represents 700 workers on 4 per cent each year. Teamster the two papers. drivers now average $150.15 a The News laid off all employees, week. except those in the editorial and The strike at The News and business office, and said they intensive bargaining between the would be recalled "when condi- Free Press and the Teamsters be- tions permit." gan a few days before both papers The Teamsters demand a 15 per were scheduled to have large Sun- cent basic pay increase this year day sections this weekend in con- and a similar boost next year for nection with the Detroit auto a two-year contract at the News. show, which opens tomorrow. world News Roundup TONIGHT at Dr s. A Door opens at 8 P.M. 1421 HILL STREET DETROIT (A)-The chairman of the board of Dow Chemical Co. said yesterday his company is being hurt by protests'against the firm's supplying napalm to the Defense Department, but he strongly defended the role Dow plays in supporting American troops in Vietnam. Carl A. Gerstacker of Midland, Mich., told a regional meeting of the Society of American Business Writers that Dow is being "hurt by a boycott of consumer products , hurt by people saying -they should sell our stock ... hurt by some of our important people sending so much time answering criticisms against the company." He said he did not know the ex- tend of damage caused to the com- pany by napalm production, which Dow entered simply by submitting a low bid to the government. Bid High "All we would have to do is bid high and we would be out of the napalm business," he said. "People call my wife, put press- ure on the children of our execu- tives at school, and make the com- parison that we are like the Ger- man industries that made gas chambers for Hitler to massacre the Jews," he said. But, he said, he could not con- ceive that he would ever tell Amer- ican soldiers in Vietnam that "we will not send you weapons." Send Best Weapons "I don't like any war," he said. "We have sent our men to die and fight and we are going to give them the best weapons we can." Other Dow officials said recently that they have had a 25 per cent increase in the number of college interviews, despite the campus demonstrations. But Gerstacker said today that the firm's recruit- ment of graduates has been hurt. Noting that percentages do not tell the story, he said the quality of men Dow is able to attain may be affected by the protest. He said the company has no plans to alter its recruiting pro- gram. Gerstacker said napalm, made in the Torrance, Calif., plant, repre- sents only one half of one per cent of total Dow sales and "is insigni- ficant to our business." MICHAEL COONEY DOING SONGS of all shapes and sizes from blues to children's songs, traditional ballads to topical songs, playing banjo, 6 & 12 string guitars, harmonica, penny whistle, uke, and kazoo. On the Monterey Folk Festival (May, 1963) "Two young men proved to be both natural show-stoppers and serious performers of rare skill. Bob Dyln ... Michael Cooney was not even known to festival officials, but he showed up in Friday night's hoote- nanny and went on stage Saturday afternoon to save an otherwise dull concert .. . a high point of the entire weekend."-San Francisco Examiner. $1.50 Cover includes entertainment and refreshments ($1.00 after 10:30 P.M.) CII INLABULD TONIGHT and SUNDAY U MARLON BRANDO in ON THE WATERFRONT Dir. Elia Kazan, 1954 with: Lee J. Cobb, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden, and Rod Steiger. WINNER OF 8 ACADEMY AWARDS PEACE CORPS PLACEMENT TEST SATURDAY-9 A.M.-2 P.M. BEGINNING ON THE HOUR 3524 SAB 7:00 & 9:05 ARCHITECTURE AUDITORIUM STILL ONLY 50c ... I ~I t l THE ag w 31Iki I , 111 ± 1 "MIDDLE EAST ISSUES PAST AND PRESENT" SHIMON PERES, M.K. Member, Israeli Parliament Former, Deputy Minister of Defense Monday, Nov. 20, 4:15 P.M. Michigan Union Ballroom Sponsors: Israeli Students Organization Guild House " ULYSSES'A SUPERB FILM!" Life Magazine FORCEFUL AND RESPECTABLE '" - CINEMA ART.' w -Bosley Crowther, New York Times ' I g 4i BY A STRIKING AND ORIGINAL TRAGI-COMEDY STUDS TERKEL with ALTEREA STRICK -AP JOYCE S MART HULSWIT E 11 11