Thursday, October 3, 1968
TFfE MICHIGAN DAILli
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Thursday, October 3, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAIL'i Page Seven
BECOMING MORE VOLATILE:
Report cites violence
Oy JAMES R. POLK
Associated Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON (P) -- The Unit-
ed.States is among the world lead-
ers in assassinations even though
it lacks the political turmoil that
usually surrounds such slayings
in other nations, the President's
Commission on Violence was told
yesterday.
Dr. Ive K. Feierabend, a polit-
ical science professor at San
Diego State College, ranked the
United States in the middle
ground of political violence in the
world but said the nation was be-,
coming more volatile.
Feierabend linked the assassi-
nation rate with a high degree of
social instability, himan frustra-
tion and oppressive government,
* but said, "perhaps unexpectedly
the United States a 1so belongs
among the countries with the
highest occurence of assassina-s
t ions.",
No specific mention was made
rof the assassinations this year of
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and
Seri. Robert F. Kennedy, which
prompted creation of the commis-
sion.
Commission members questioned
whether the recent outburst of
assassinations in this nation could
be classifiednas political violence.
Albert E. Jenner Jr., counsel to
the Warren Commission that in-
vestigated the 1963 slaying of
President John F. Kennedy, told
Feierabend he found no political
motivation in his own probe of the
background of alleged assassin
Lee Harvey Oswald.
Instead, Jenner said, the causes
that triggered the shooting ap-
parently "went back to his early
life and the continued frustration
he experienced."
Psychiatrist Dr. W Walter
Menninger of Topeka, Kan., told
the witness that, with the excep-
tion of John Wilkes Booth's slay-
ing of Abraham Lincoln, the as-
sassinations of U.S. presidents
were acts of distrubed men rath-
er than political insurrectionists.
Feierabend placed the United
States in the middle of a scale of
political violence that encompas-
sed civil war, overthrow of gov-
ernment, terrorism, purges, assas-
sinations and rioting in the world
in recent years.
He listed Cuba, Indonesia, Laos,
Columbia and Hungary as t h e
most volatile nations in the 1955-
61 period covered by the study
and said New Zealand was the
most stable.
He placed t h e United States
slightly to the more peaceful side
of the middle with other coun-
tries such as Switzerland, Den-
mark, Canada, England and East
Germany.
The political science professor
said turmoil was increasing and
added, "it seems the world we are
living in is becoming more and
more violent and revolutionary"
The commission, created by
President Johnson as Sen. Ken-
nedy lay dying last June, turned
to assassinations as it began its
third weekly session of testimony
in a wide survey of American vio-
lence.
Senate vote total
on Fortas closure,
New threat
by N.Y.C.
teachers
NEW YORK (P) - The threat
of a new teachers' strike loomed
in New York City as city officials
labored to restore the precarious
school peace upset by renewed
violence in a Negro-Puerto. Rican
experimental school district in
Brooklyn.
Albert Shanker, president of
the 55,000-member United Fed-
eration of Teachers, raised t h e
possibility of a new walkout
against the 1.1-million-pupil pub-'
lic school system after the vio-
lence Tuesday in the Ocean Hill -
Brownsville district.
Ten policemen were injured and
more than a dozen persons arrest-
ed as angry parents, children and
demonstrators clashed with police
over the return of about 80 dis-
puted teachersto the district.
The city's puiblic schools were
closed today because of the Jew-
ish holy day of Yom Kippur, giv-
ing all sides in the dispute over
local control of teachers a day to
cool off.
Mayor John V. Lindsay, whose
mediation efforts helped conclude
the crippling three-week teachers
strike that ended only Monday,
pledged the full resources of the
city to back that peace settlement.
The central issue in the city-
wide strike was' the union's de-
mand for the return of a, group of
ousted white teachers to the
Ocean Hill district.
But Tuesday, Rhody McCoy,
Ocean Hill administrator, order-
ed the district's eight principals
not to assign /classes to the re-
turning teachers. He acted under
the direction of the district's
local board.
FORT DIX, N.J. - SP4 John
Allen Myers was acquitted of
charges of distributing subversive
literature by a summary c o u r t
martial here Tuesday.
The military judge, CPT- Jef-
frey A. Weiner, ruled that there
wag "insufficient evidence" to
justify aconviction. His ruling fol-
lowed a trial lasting less t h a n
three hours.
Specialist Myers was charged
with violating a post regulation
prohibiting the distribution of lit-
erature "prejudicial to good order
or discipline, subversive or con-
trary to the best interests" of the
military.
Myers was charged with dis-
tributing a leaflet published by the
Philadelphia Student Mobilization
Committee to End the W a r in
Vietnam. Leaflets distributed to
troops near a post theatre on Aug.
19, called for the immediate with-
drawal of American troops from
Vie tnam.~
After the trial, Myers admitted,
distributing the literature but his
military attorney, CPT David
Kahn, said the soldier was una-
ware of the post regulation.
Myers denied advocating diso-
bedience of orders, but .safd he felt
troops "should have the same con-
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stitutional rights as civilians."
"The army only carries out poli-
cies of political leaders," said My-
ers, "and I advocate denying sup-
port to those leaders.'
Myers, a 26-year-old irattee
from Wisconsin, has seven months
to serve before completing a two-
year hitch. Asked if he would go
to Vietnam if ordered, he s a i d
"Yes, I would go."
When asked if he would distrib-
ute leaflets again, the soldier, a:
graduate of the University of Wis-
consin who holds the Army's med-
al for expert marksmanship, smil-
ed and said, "I'm not going to
make any promises to violate or-
ders."
Had Myers been convicted, he
could have been sentenced to 30
days hard labor, deprived of two.
thirds of a month's pay and re-
duced to the rank of private.
Another Fort Dix trooper accus-
ed of the same offense chose to
accept punishment from his com-
mander rather than face' a sum-
mary court martial. He was re-
duced to a private.
The Emergency Civil Liberties
Committee of New York has filed
suit in a federal court asking that
the post regulation be declared un-
constitutional.,
Court martial acquits
soldier of subversion
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The following is the roll-call
vote by which the Senate refused
to cut off debate on the motion to
take up the nomination of Fortas
to be Chief Justice (a two-thirds
vote was required):
FOR CLOSURE-45
Dpemocrats-35: Anderson (N.M.),
Bayh (Id.), Brewster (Mo,), Burdick
(N.D.), Clark (Pa.), Gore (Tenn.),
Harris (Okla.), Hart (Mich.), Hartke
(In.), Hayden (Ariz.), Inouye (Ha-
waii), Jackson (Wash.), Kennedy
(Mass.). Magnuson (Wash.), Mansfield
(Mont.), McCarthy (Mnn.), McGee
(Wyo.), McIntyre (N.H.), Metcalf
(Mont,),, Mondale' (Minn.), Monroney
(Okla.), Montoya (N.M.), Moss (Utah),
Muskie (Me.), Nelson (Wis.), Pastore
(R.I.), Pell (R.I.), Proxmire (Wis.),
Randolph (W. va.), Ribicoff (Conn.),
Symington (Mo.), Tydings (Md.), Wil-
liams (N.J.), Yarborough (Tex.), Young
(Ohio).
Republicans-I0: Brooke (Mass.),
Case (N.J.). Cooper (Ky.), Dominick
(C01o.), Goodel (N.Y.), Hatfield (Ore.),
Javits (N.Y.), Kuchel (Calif.), Percy
(I1.), Scott.(Pa.).;
AGAINST CLOSURE-43
Democrats-19: Byrd (va.), Byrd (W.
va.), Cannon (Nev.), Dodd (Conn.),
Eastland (Miss.), Ervin (N.C.), Ful-
bright (Ark), Hill (Ala.), Holland (Fla.),
Hollings (§.C.), Jordan (N.C.), Lausche
(Ohio), Long (La.), McClellan (Ark.),
Russell (Ga.), Sparkman (Ala.), Spong
(Va.), Stennis (Miss.), Talmadge (Ga.).
Republicans,24: Alott (Co10.), Bak-
er (Tenn.), Bennett (Utah), Boggs
(Del.), Carlson (Kan.), Cotton (N.H.),
Curtis, (Neb.), Dirksen (Il1.), Fannin
(Ariz.), Fong (Hawaii), Griffin (Mich.),
Hansen (Wyo.), Hickenlooper (Ia.),
Hruska (Neb.), Jordan (Idaho), Miller
(Iowa), Mundt (S.D.), Murphy (Calif.),
Pearson (Kan.), Prouty (Vt.), Thur-
mond (S.C.), Tower (Tex.), Williams
(Del.), Young (N.D.).
Not voting but announced as pairedi
on the motion (pairs are used to de-
note positions of opposing Senators
when one or more are absent).
Morse (fl-Ore.) and Church, (fl-
Idaho) for and Gruening (D-Alaska),
against.
Not voting or paired but announced
as against cloture: Aiken (R-vt.), Mrs.
Smith (R-Maine), Ellender (D-La.).
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