WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22,1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1967 TIlE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE 'Israeli Fighters, Jordanian Tanks Defy ease-Fire WAR UNAFFECTED: Johnson To Offer $4 Billion Cut in Government Spending TEL AVIV (A)-Israeli jets and Jordanian tanks were thrown into battle yesterday in the worst out- break along the Jordan River cease-fire line since the June war. Each side said the other fired first. At least one of the French-built Mystere jets that swooped at, 100 feet on strafing runs in heavy rain was shot down. It was the fourth straight day of battling 'along the river and the first time since the war that Israeli planes and Jor- danian tanks were reported in action in the cease-fire sector. Diplomats in' belived Syria smarting from Tel Aviv said and Egypt, their defeat they still last Draft Calls To Inerease WASHINGTON ()-U.S. Army draft calls jumped to the highest total in 14 months, 34,000 for January-more than double this year's average of slightly over 16,500. It was topped by the No- vember 1966 call of 37,600. The Pentagon said the reason for the high call is that the Army is now replacing the relatively large number of draftees origin- ally inducted about two years ago during the manpower buildup for the Vietnam war. Average draft calls in the Jan- uary-June period next year are ex- pected to be at a somewhat higher average than the level during the last six months of this year, fluc- tuating as usual from month to month. The Army is the only service needing the 'draft to maintain its strength levels. The calls in this fiscal year beginning July 1 are running at a lower rate, however, than cor- responding calls two years ago mainly because enlistments have been considerably higher, the Pentagon said. June, had taken advantage on the absence from Jordan of King Hus- sein to urge Crown Prince Hassan to step up the pressure on Israeli forces. Hussein, Hassan's brother, was in London on a tour seeking arms and support for the Arab cause. Seeking Support "Hussein is seeking support,! which obviously depends on his keeping the border quiet," one source said. "It is unlikely he would have allowed the situation to de- teriorate so far." Amman radio said Hussein was in constant telephone contact with Prince Hassan during the fighting and that the government asked Jordanian Ambassador Muham- mad H. El Farra to present a com- plaint to United Nations Secretary- General U Thant and the Security Council. .Fighting across the Jordan has followed increasing Arab guerrilla activity in the west bank territdry Israel occupied during the war. There were conflicting accounts of Tuesday's battle between the Allenby and Umm Shart bridges. The Israeli army said Jordanian tanks began pounding Israeli ob- servation posts on a front several miles long. It said planes called in to silence the Jordanian guns de- stroyed six tanks and an armored car. Israeli casualties were re- ported at two dead and one wounded. 2 Shot Down The Jordanian radio said two Mystere fighter-bombers were shot down but the Israelis conceded only one. The broadcast said one Israeli pilot bailed out and was killed. Amman said Jordanian forces suffered no casualties and lost one military vehicle. It claimed that Israeli tanks were set afire, two Israeli gun positions were destroy- ed and most of their personnel were killed. The Jordanians said the Israelis fired first with tanks, field guns and artillery. Jordanian units shot back and Israeli planes attacked, they said. -Associated Press THE FOUR AMERICAN SAILORS who deserted from the carried Intrepid in Japan on Oct. 24, are shown in Moscow yesterday. The four men s aid on Moscow television Monday night they deserted in protest again U.S. policy in Vietnam. From left, are, Michael Lindner, 19, of Mount Pocono, Pa., John M. Barilla, 20, of Catonsville, Md., Richard D. Bailey 19, of Jacksonville, Fla., and Craig W. Anderson, 20, of San Jose, Calif. The United States has made an oral protest against what it called the "highly improper" exploitation of the defection of the four sailors by the Soviet Union. grams and on some items of the $70 billion defense budget that can clearly be separated from the Southeast Asia effort. Although the administration is now mounting a real drive to get the 10 per cent surcharge on in- come taxes through Congress this year, and is counting on the shock waves from Britain's devaluation to help propel it, there is no as- surance that the economies offer- ed will meet congressional tax- writers' terms. j 3 t , l WASHINGTON (P) - President can make cuts, why aren't they House Republican Leader Ge.- Johnson's administration will of- being made? Why bargain?" ald R. Ford of Michigan said fer to cut military expenditures- Another roadblock for the "federal s p e n d i n g reductions but not those directly connected Johnson package could be some amounting to at least $4 billion with Vietnam - in an effort to congressmen's complaints t h a t this fiscal year must and will be meet Congress' price for a tax in- the administration counts as sav- written into the income tax in- crease, legislative sources said ings expenditures merely post- crease bill." yesterday. poned from one year to another. Speculation was that the re- They predicted that reductions He said yesterday that, in the duction in military expenditures in the package to be offered to hearings before his committee not directly connected with Viet- the House Ways and Means Com- shelved the tax bill, "the only nam would take the form largely mittee next Tuesday will total commitment for expenditure re- of postponing purchases of var- about $4 billion, to be imposed duction the administration wit- ious kinds of weapons-other than about equally on nondefense, pro- nesses were prepared to make was those needed for replacements in Mate Department Exploitation of U.S. i WASHINGTON (P)-The United States delivered an oral protest yesterday against what it called the "highly improper" exploita- tion of four American sailors. "Such conduct cannot fail but to complicate further the rela- tions between our countries," the State Department said. The oral complaint, somewhat less forceful than a written pro- test, was voiced by deputy Under- secretary Foy D. Kohler at a brief State Department meeting with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly F. Dobrynin. TV Appearancej It followed the appearance of the young Americans on a Mos- cow television program, during which they criticized U.S. policy! in Vietnam. The sailors, who jumped ship while the carrier Intrepid was in Japan Oct. 24, were quoted by the Soviet Communist party news- paper Pravda as saying they were en route to other countries to continue their work against "the inhuman war in Vietnam." They did not say what other countries. Newsmen were informed of the U.S. protest by Robert J. Mc- Closkey, StatedDepartment press officer. He said: "The Soviet am- bassador, Mr. Dobrynin, was call- ed to the department this morn- ing and informed that the United States government finds the ac- tion of the Soviet government in assisting, harboring and exploit- ing these men to be highly im- proper." U.S. Views McCloskey said Dobrynin told Kohler he would report the U.S. views to his government. The four sailors, now reported "resting" in Moscow, are Richard D. Bailey, 19, of Jacksonville, Fla.; John Michael Barilla, 20, of Catonsville, Md.; Craig W. Ander- son, 20, of San Jose, Calif., and Michael Lindner, 19, 'of Mount Poncono, Pa. McCloskey told a State Depart- ment news conference that the four youths are "unauthorized absentees" from the Intrepid who have "made statements reflecting adversely on the United States and its military services." i 1 1 i He said the U.S. government is "examinimtg the question of pos- sible consular access" to the four, meaning that the U.S. embassy may ask the Soviets to arrange for an American consul to talk with them. McCloskey said he was not implying that the Soviet gov- ernment is holding the men. The press aide said U.S. au- thorities do not know how the seamen went from Japan to Mos- cow, nor where they are going next. Chairman Wilbur D. Mills (D- 4 IArk.) of the Ways and Means Committee was carefully non- committal in his announcement Monday that the committee, c o s which suspended action on the tax bill nearly seven weeks ago, In an interview yesterday in will reconvene next Tuesday to Pravda, Barilla said he turned hear what the administration has against the war after watching to offer. Mills had said economies. bombers fly off the Intrepid day of $7 billion or so would be re- after day on raiding missions. quired, generally matching the "It became clear to me that we expected tax increase. were killing people," he said. "I Rep. John W. Byrnes of Wis- am convinced that the United consin, senior Republican mem- States does not have any right ber of the committee, was more to be in Vietnam." explicit: "I don't want to prejudge Anderson told the Soviet TV the proposal, but the general out- interviewers: "We would like to lines don't seem much different a $2 billion reduction in nonde- 1 fense spending for the fiscal year 1968." Mills added, "Even in the case of this reduction it was not clear how much of this simply would represent a deferral of expend- tures until the fiscal year 1969." Hopes for Tr( Rest with Soul WASHINGTON (A)-Gen. Wil- liam C. Westmoreland laid hopes for initial "token ' U.S. troop withdrawals from Southeast Asia within the next two years squarely on the shoulders of the oft-crit- icized South Vietnamese army yes- terday. Westmoreland, commander of American forces in the war zone, said efforts in 1968 will be directed to preparing the South Vietnamese "to take over an ever-increasing share of the war." The South Vietnamese army, he declared, is "on the road to be- coming a competent force." New Phase "With 1968, a new phase is now starting," the four-star general told a National Press Club lunch- eon. "We have reached an impor- tant point when the end begins to come into view." Westmoreland avoided predict- ing when the end might come but his prepared speech asserted that ' be an example to those who beginning to understand Vietnamese war." are from what we have already been the offered. What I have considerable difficulty with is this - if they I I World News Roundup MIAMI, Fla. (R) - Two fliers WASHINGTON (P) - The Sen- whose charter plane was hijacked ate, grinding toward passage Wed- to Cuba returned to the United nesday of the Social Security bill, States today and said they were knocked down Republican efforts victims of a mysterious Hungarian yesterday to boost payroll dedu- who said he "had nothing against ctions next year and to reduce us but plenty against the United benefit increases back to House- States." approved levels. James V. Raymond, 40, a former Under present law and both the pilot in England's Royal Air Force, House version of the bill and that said the man "took out his gunI of the Senate Finance Committee, and said 'nobody get excited, we're deductions would remain at 4.4 going to Cuba.'" deductnxs would th "He seemed under the feeling per cent next year, as would the he would get an honor guard employers' matching payments. when he got to Havana," said * *t Raymond. "But all they did was ATHENS, Greece (P)-A specialj take his gun away and ask him military court yesterday convicted a lot of questions." 21 of 31 persons charged with Raymond said the mysterious attempting the violent overthrow hijacker told them he had lived of the army-led government. Two in the United States for 11 years persons were given life sentences and on the plane said he was a while the rest received prison Russian but told Cuban officials terms ranging from one to 15 he was Hungarian when they years. questioned him. Contantine Filenis and Ioannis Leloudas, tagged by police as the "the enemy's hopes are bankrupt." ringleaders of a subversive group In the course of his talk he called the Patriotic Front, were changed "bankrupt" to "dim." sentenced to life. More Assignments Composer Mikis Theodorakis, Westmoreland, in illustrating now ill in prison, is alleged to have U.S. plans to turn over more com- served as the nominal head of bat assignments to Vietnamese the front. Authorities said he forces said the Vietnamese army would be tried at a later date. in 1968 will be given "a major i * * * share of front line" defense along LANSING P) - Democratic the demilitarized zone separating State Chairman Zolton Ferency North and South Vietnam. said yesterday he will announce U.S. Marines have taken heavy next Tuesday whether he will con- poundings in recent months re- the war zone. 11 was not expected that the Defense Department would pro- pose any reduction in U.S. troop strengths abroad beyond the comparativelym iin o r redeploy- ment, already announced, of some forces now in Europe. th Vietnamese mopping-up operations against the Viet Cong. Finally, the war effort will enter what Westmoreland called "the final phase," presumably sometime beyond 1969, although he did not predict exactly when. During that period, infiltration will slow down, the Communist or- ganization will be "cut up and near collapse," and U.S. units can begin to "phase down" as an improved j ; ; tinue to head the Michigan party. Ferency declined to comment on what his decision will be, say- ing that he "has some things to talk over first," but indications are that he would end his nearly four-year reign as the party's controversial chief. pelling North Vietnamese thrusts into the DMZ. In coming months, Westmore- land said; more American advisers will be assigned to help train "the younger brothers" of the Vietnam- ese army, the regional and pop- ular forces, for a future role in GEN. WM. C. WESTMORELAND South Vietnamese army takes charge of final clean up opera- tions, Westmoreland stated. The "mopping up," as he put it, probably will last several years. 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