Tuesday, September 10, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three ,Humphrey sees possible troop slash this year- BULLETIN DENVER, Colo. (-) - Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey declared Monday night he would have had "no problem" in ac- cepting the minority Vietnam plank.proposed by doves at the Chicago convention. 4 The minority plank called for an unconditional halt of U.S. bombing of North Vietnam.. PHILADELPHIA (P) - Hubert H. Humphrey, opening his Presi- dential campaign on the road yes- terday, predicted t h e United States would be able to remove some of its forces f r o m South Vietnam late this year or early next year. The Vice President told some students "I c a n safely predict" that unless there are some unus- ual developments, t h e United States will be able to start re- moving some of its troops evenj while negotiations are underway. "But I would think negotiations Nixon appeals to LBJ for aid to Biafra NEW YORK (p) - Richard M. Nixon called. on President John- sor yesterday to give "all the time and attention and imagination and energy he can muster" to the African tribesmen afflicted by starvation because of civil war in Nigeria. "America is not without enor- mous material wealth and power h W ANTED: Imaginative people to teach at creative secular' Jewish Sunday School. Coll Jewish Cultural School 663-7428 or S 761-8743 and ability," the Republican can- didate for President said in a statement issued through his New York office. "There is no better case in which we might invest that power than in sparing the lives of in- nocent men and women and chil- 'dren who are otherwise doomed." He resumes his campaign today in a joint appearance with Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller and a speech to a suburban audience inWest- chester County, New York, and then leaves tomorrow for another speaking trip across the nation. He left yesterday's campaigning duties to his daughter, Julie, ard her fiance, David Eisenhower, grandson of the former President. They presided over a news con- ference in which young Eisen- hower announced formation of a "student coalition" of young peo- ple for the Nixon campaign. or no negotiations, we could start to remove some of the American forces in early 1969 or late 1968," Humphrey said. In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Rusk told questioning newsmen he could not back Hum- phrey's prediction. So much depends on what hap- pens in the Paris peace talks and on the scene in Vietnam, "I would jnot want to put any date on it," Rusk said of the withdrawal pros- pect. Also at the question-and-an- swer session with students, Hum- phrey expressed optimism about the progress of the Paris nego- tiations. Speaking of "substantive nego- tiations," he said, "It is my view that those negotiations may start before I become President." PREACHES UNITY 4) The Vice President, preaching a sermon of unity, opened h i s barnstorming tour in Philadelphia before going to Denver and then to Los Angeles. Humphrey aimed in his opening campaign to make an issue of his Republican opponent's expressed doubts about a nuclear non-pro- liferation treaty with the Soviets Union. IMPORTANT STEP "Let my position be clear," saidi Humphrey. "I have no doubt about i this treaty. It is one of the most, important steps toward world peace since World War IIL" ' Humphrey arrived in Philadel-t phia in a ticker-tape parade, the first the City of Brotherly Love4 ever gave a candidate. In some1 places the street crowds were five to six deep; in others, they thin-; ned out considerably. Many people carried Humphrey, signs. The VicevPresident often had to speak over, the noise of some demonstrators. These in- cluded a small knot of hecklers, mainly women. They stoop up and burned cards apparently in a sym- bolic voter registration card burn- ing ceremony. TREASON CHARGE EXPECTED: Biaf ran leader to face trial if captured by federal army Soviets seek Czech border troop acco-rd PRAGUE (1) - Slovak Communist party boss Gustav Husak met yesterday with Soviet trouble shooter Vasily V. Kuznetsov to brief him on conditions in his region of occupied Czechoslovakia. Their talks in Bratislava were described as "frank and comrade- ly," meaning no time was wasted on polite courtesies. Kuznetsov, a Soviet first deputy foreign minister, has been here since Friday conferring with top Czechoslovak leaders. His mission is seen as an attempt to accelerate Czechoslovak compliance with terms of the Moscow accord signed Aug. 28. Reliable sources in Prague said the Communist leaders have agreed to the stationing of troops along their country's border with West Germany. These border forces are not among those the Soviet Union has promised to withdraw from occupied Czechoslovakia when LAGOS, Nigeria (OP) - Maj. ent civ Gen. Yakubu Gowon, Nigeria's want to military ruler, said yesterday he ,g,,. would not trade the life of Biafranng leader Lt. Vol. C. Odumegwu He ad Ojukwu for peace in Nigeria's have bee civil war. ing any He said that if his troops caught workers Opukwu inside the dwindling American borders of Biafra, the seccessionist He ref would be placed on trial for trea- with Pre son, of Franc ilians," swear HHH brushes away parade confetti said Gowon. "I: it to God Al- ded that the troops also 'n ordered to avoid harm- of the scores of relief from Europe and North n now in Biafra. used to take direct issue sioent Charles de Gaulle e who told a news con- ference in Paris the possibility of French ' recognition of Biafra could not be excluded. "He is head of state and he has the right to say anything he wants about any situation," said Gowon. "I only hope he considers the im- plication of any actions he con- templates doing. I hope he does not take action. I can never tell the repercussions in this country." "A simple charge," added Go-I won, who served with Ojukwu in" the Nigerian army before the se- H anoi reiterates dem ands, cession and civil war in 1967. He said he would not grant - , Ojukwu amnesty in return for a surrend -old 115 bom bic war: ILLEL. H. A PPENINGS FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13 Student Services at 6:15 followed by Dinner at 7:00 and ONEG SHABBAT Reservations Must Be Made Call 663-4129 no later than 3 P.M. Tuesday, September 10 Dinner-$1 50 HILLEL, 1429 H ILL STREET WANT TO STOP FEELING SORRY FOR YOURSELF? The Univ. of Michigan Tutorial Project is sponsoring a program'at the Mental HalfV ay House. WE NEED YOU. People are needed to spend one evening a week tutoring and socializing with emotionally disturbed women from ages 17 to 25 who have no social contacts outside their home. For informa- tion call Susan.Mintz, 761-7166. i I k l I t f t r ,i TREASON LAW A newsman asked what the penalty for treason was in Nigeria. "We follow English law," an- swered Gowon. "In fact, it would be death," said the reporter. "Thank you," said Gowon. Gowon swore he has given or- ders to federal troops closing in on what remains of secessionist- held Biafra to avoid a last-standI blood bath of civilians. An estimated six million persons are jammed in 5,000 square miles of what once was the 29,000- square mile Eastern Nigerian re- gion. "There is not going to be any indiscriminate slaughter of inno- PARIS {41}-A Hanoi spokes- man told the United States today a simple bombing halt will not be enough to insure peace in Vietnam. He said American spy flights, naval raids and artillery attacks against North Vietnam also must end. North Vietnamese spokesman Nguyen Thanh Le made the state- ment at his weekly news confer- ence when asked whether his gov-1 ernment would accept a simple bombing halt as a green light for serious peace negotiations. Earlier Le acknowledged "the positive" content of proposals made by Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield and by ex-Am-# bassador Arthur J. Goldberg call-I ing for an immediate cessation of bombing over North Vietnam. "The United ;States must un- conditionally stop all bombing raids and all other acts of war against the territory of the Dem- ocratic Republic of Vietnam," said Le. He reiterated three precise de- mands made by North Vietnam's chief delegate Xuan5Thuy to Am- bassador W. Averell Harriman last June 19. They were: -An immediate cessation of air and sea raids on North Viet- namese territory from Thanh Hoa to Vinh Linh. , -An immediate halt of recon- naisance flights, leaflet raids, parachuting of commandos, smug- gling of agents from ships and from Laotian territory and any other "military action infringing on North Vietnam's sovereignty and territory." -The Americans will need to the situation is "normalized." Neither Prague nor Moscow has announced the agreement, but sources said it was one of seven concessions in the Moscow accord signed on Aug. 28. Reports from Vienna confirmed that Czechoslovak security meas- ures have already been stepped up along the Austrian border. There was one unconfirmed report that ? Czechoslovak border sentries stop- ped three would-be refugees by firing bursts from machine pistols. - NEED NO HELP One Austrian official speculated that "the Czechoslovak authorities apparently want to prove to the occupation troops that they can protect their border alone." Pravra, the Soviet Communist party newspaper, said Sunday Czechoslovakia was "taking t h e first steps toward normalization," but that its leaders still had failed to strike a decisive blow to "hos- tile forces" in the country. Th e stationing, of Soviet-bloc trp along the Czechoslovak- troopssum West Germany border had been one of the major sore points be- tween Moscow and Prague during, the tense months preceding the invasion. Czechoslovakia insisted it could take care of its borders with West Germany without War- saw Pact help. CZECH PROMISES Informants said the Czechoslo- vak leaders also promised they would: --Change Czechoslovakia's politi-' cal development to conform with the conservative Soviet brand of communism. -Remove from office Interior Minister Josef Pavel, Deputy Pre- mier Ota Sik and Foreign Minis- ter Jiri Hajek. Pavel has been re- placed and Sik has resigned. -Revive censorship to prevent the news media from criticizing the Warsaw Pact countries that* participated in the invasion-the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, East Ger- many, Poland and Hungary.. -Repudiate the 14th congress of t h e' Czechoslovak Communist party, held secretly while party leader Alexander Dubeck was a prisoner in Moscow. It purged the party presidium of .conservative, orthodox Communists, but t h i s has been partly nullified by elec- tion of a new presidium. -Withdraw Hajek's formal re- quest for debate on the Czechoslo- vak crisis by the U.N. Security Council, Hajek, jdust before he left New York after the Moscow agree- ment, asked t h e Council to do nothing more. The Russians agreed, in turn, to take their security police .w I t h them when the occupation. forces leavenand dropped a demand that Czechoslovak leaders declare that a "counterrevolution" existed in their country, the informants said. 0 0 invasion PARIS OP)-Charles de Gaulle sternly lectured the Soviet Union yesterday for invading Czecho- slovakia and laid it to the post- war division of Europe, saying this was partly the fault of the United States and Britain. The 77-year-old President told a news conference that the Big Three agreements reached by Joseph Stalin, President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill at Yalta in 1945 "delivered to Soviet domination Eastern and a part of Central Europe."~ The accords reached in the So- viet Crimean city thus made it possible for the Russians to inter- vene in Czechoslovakia, he de- dlared. France was not invited to Yalta. "The events in Czechoslovakia appear condemnable to us," De Gaulle said. "We held as favorable the sign that this country was tending to open itself a bit toward the West. The return to obedience obtained by force from the leaders of Prague is just a new sign of Soviet hegemony." . He foresaw the day when So- viet domination of Eastern Europe would end. And he said the events in Czechoslovakia had "momen- tarily thwarted" his policy of con- ciliation with the East. But he in- sisted his policy "is the right one." Meeting with about 1,000 news- men, government officials and diplomats in his resplendent Elysee Palace, De Gaulle made these other points: -Referring to the student riots and the strikes by about nine mil- lion workers last May and June, he said any new threat of violence "must be broken or repressed." -George Pompidou, dropped as premier in July after six years in office, had been put on "reserve status" and had been asked to. hold himself in readiness for an- other task. This reinforced specu- lation that Pompidou will be De Gaulle's -choice as his successor. -In -foreign affairs, he said fear of absorption by the United States was one reason why he is delaying Great Britain's entry ii!- to the Common Market. -He said France might rec- ognize Biafra, the sessionist state now' engaged in a civil war with the Nigerian government, He ac- cused Nigeria of "employing war, extermination and famine." De Gaulle condemns . .___ ------ i / --,-*, r4.UNIVERSITY MUICAL SO0CI i ,, LUNCH-DISCUSSION Tuesday, September 10 12:00 Noon IKTE RNATIrKlAI CENTERD 6E Mni cd ETY r IUN 1IClNf\ I I'.INA'L \LIN I L1X- SUBJECT: INTERNATIONAL UNDERS TODAY'S IMPERAT SPEAKER: PAUL R. Da Director of Ecumenical Camp Leu.. t iUiarecognize and deal with the Na- tional Liberation Front, Phe Viet STANDING: Cong's political arm on all mat- 'IYE ters affecting South Vietnam. )TSONGoldberg, who headed the U.S. pTSON delegation at the United Nations, usand Mansfield have both advo- 'ONSORED BY THE I cated a bombing halt "to move NICAL CAMPUS CENTER E forward to obtain an honorable political settlement of the war." FOR RESERVATIONS CALL 662-5529 SP ECUMEr ____,_ BEIT MIDRASH-College of Jewish Studies-1429 Hill St. Registration & First Course Sessions: Wed., Sept. 11 and Thurs., Sept. 12, 7:30 P.M. 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