I Thursday, October 10, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PTe VVIU, #,I#accs 3 FOLLOWS CONGRESSIONAL CUE: !I LB J orders US-Israeli Astronauts ready for Apollo flght negotiations on From Wire Service Reports WASHINGTON - Responding to a congressional call for sales of U.S. jets to Israel, President Johnson told Secretary of State Dean Rusk yesterday to start ne- gotiations with the Israeli gov- ernment. Both Democratic presidential nominee Hubert H. Humphrey and Republican nominee Richard M. Nixon have advocated pro- viding supersonic war planes to the Israelis. In addition, ,American Inde- pendent party candidate George C. Wallace earlier this week call- ed for the U.S. to "join with oth- er nations of the free world in providing sufficient arms and equipment to Israel to maintain a balance of force in (the Middle' East)." Congress has passed an aid bill provision for such action ifj deemed necessary for Israel's de- fense. Johnson made no mention of the U.S. political campaign in a statement issued as he signed the aid measure yesterday --: but he made note of the proviso favor- ing the supersonic jets for Israel. "In the light of this expression of the sense of the Congress," Johnson said, "I am asking the secretary of state to initiate ne- gotiations with the government of Israel and to report back to me. The provision in the $1.97 bil- lion aid authorization bill says: jet sales' "It is the sense of Congress that the -President should take such steps as may be necessary, as soon as practicable after the date of enactment of this sec- tion, to negotiate an agreement with the government of Israel providing for the sale by the United States of such- number of supersonic planes as may be necessary to provide Israel with an adequate deterrent force ca- pable of preventing future Arab aggression by offsetting sophis- ticated weapons received by the Arab states and to replace loss- es suffered by Israel in the 19 67 conflict." Israel smashed most of the air power of her Arab enemies in her lightning victory in June of 1967. But since then the Soviets have re-outfitted the air forces of their Arab allies with more modern planes. Egypt is now reported to have some 400 war planes, com- pared with Israel's 270. The Israelis for about a year have made plain their desire to buy the advanced U.S. jets. Pre- mier Levi Eshkol pressed the re- quest again during his visit with Johnson here last January. However, U.S. policymakers preferred to go slow in meeting Israel's plea, since the United States is trying to hold down the Middle East arms race. I~i Thieu s attempt arrests tops in CAPE KENNEDY, Fla. OIP)- A mammoth Saturn 5 rocket that may hurl men around the moon in December rolled to its launch pad yesterday as pre- parations moved flawlessly to- ward tomorrow's launching of the three Apollo 7 astronauts on an earth orbit voyage. With the Apollo 8 spaceship perched on top, the 363-foot rocket made the eight-hour, 3.5-mile trip to iaunch pad in an upright position aboard a huge tractor-like transporter called a crawler. The Apollo 8 crew - Air Force Col. Frank Bowman, Na- vy Capt. James A. Lovell, Jr.. and Air Force Maj. William A. Anders - were among those planning to witness the roll- out. . The astronauts' hopes of flying Apollo 8, into orbit around the moon depend on tomorrow's results of Apollo 7, which is scheduled to ride a smaller Saturn 1B rocket into earth orbit at 11 a.m. EDT tomorrow. Navy Capt. Walter M. Schir- ra, Jr., Air Force Maj. Donn F. Eisele and civilian astronaut Walter Cunningham are to check out all spacecraft sys- tems as they race around the globe for 11 days in the Apol- lo 7 ship If they demonstrate conclu- sively that the Apollo craft can safely carry men a quarter-of- a-million miles to the moon and bring them back,; the Bor- man crew plans to take off Dec. 20 on an eight-day trip in which they are to orbit thie moon 10 times during a 24, hour period. That flight would be a critical rehearsal for a manned lunar landing in 1969. If the Apollo 7 uncovers flaws in the hardware, Apollo 8 will be scheduled as an earthorbit mission to work out the bugs. coup aigon; II m...... . FREE!, Entertainm ent, Little Club with the John Higgins Quintet, OCTOBER 11th i e t i i 1 'P MarshallKy Pr -~-- Saturn I lifts of f I 9-12 P.M. at Michigan Lea gue _ __ I ill CINEMA II CHANGE IN SCHEDULE THIS WEEK, OCTOBER 11th and 12th "TREASURE OF SIERRA MADRE" H. BOGART ("Cincinnati Kid" will be shown Oct. 25th and 26th) Friday &' Satur-day Aud. A 75c 7:00 ' 9:00 "PEST- A Liberal View" Speaking-ROBERT W. CARR co-founder of the Washtenaw 1421 Hill St. Democrats for McCarthy 8 30 P.M. FRIDAY and SATURDAY Barry O'Neil and Roger Renwick singing traditional folk music from Gritain, Ireland, and Canada, accompanied by guitar, banjo, dulci- mer, and concertina. Goill'_ Thursday and Friday BED AND SOFA Dir., Abram Room, 1929 Famous Russian comedyj about housing shortage with experiment in in- ter-play of masculine and feminine roles. "This is a picture I've waited years to see." -Ed Weber 7:00,&9:05 P.M. ARCHITECTURE AUDITORIUM, RECORD SESSION: Houses pass( waiving ecjw WASHINGTON ( P)-The .House passed cilitate television and radio debates betw candidates. The action followed a continuou part of which members were locked in thei The time bill, would allow the broadcast the joint appearance of major candidates wi to numerous minor party seekers for the p The lockup procedure, voted for the firs helped break a delaying campaign waged by Democrats charged harassing tactics night-and-day grind because the GOP was - publican reporte~d SAIGON A' A coup attempt against President Nguyen Van Thieu's government was foiled and mass arrests of ranking South Vietnamese officers are expected, a high government source said yesterday. The source said details of the attempted overthrow were fuzzy. It was not "yet known w ho, was behind it. The report that several marine officers were arrested could indicate that Lt. Colonel Li Ngyuen Khang, the marine com- mander who is a political ally of Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, might have been involved. Ky is the president's political rival. But a source close to Khang said he knew of no arrests and denied knowledge of any coup attempt. r An official spokesman for Thieu also denied knowledge of any coup esident Thieu attempt, althoughghe admitted the government had placed South Vietnam's armed forces on full alert. The U.S. Embassy also said it had no information about an Jell abortive coup. p b ill The source, who is in a position ~'tY .7UEff.'to know, told the Associated Press several Vietnamese majors and " colonels had already been arrested. (t"You can expect a lot of people to be arrested in the next few days as a result of they coup at- yesterday a bill to fa- tempt that failed," he said. ween major presidential The source reported that t h e s 27-hour session during coup was thwarted Tuesday night. r chamber. - If true, it was the first attempt ting networks to arrange to overthrow Thieu's government ithout giving equal timesince he came into power in Octo- iho iid ng qultieber. 1967.f residency. After the overthrow of President t time in a half-century, Ngo 'Dinh Diem on Nov. 1, 1963, y Republicans. a series of power shifts, most of were used during the them coups, paraded one govern- bent on protecting Re- ment after another to leadership Richard M. Nixon from in Saigon. Democrat Hubert H. Before Thieu became president, y andd.American-Inde- there were at least six bloodless t candidate George C. coups 'and at least five attempted coups. icans denied the charge Since attaining office; Thieu has their actions were de- consolidated his power, mostly at get the House to vote the expense of Ky ands his sup- on reform and congress- porters. In one such move, he rganizatiop. stripped Khang of his posts as ouse bill differs from a commander of the 3rd Corps and assed measure in that it the Saigon military forces earlier as major candidates this year, reportedly because he e President Hubert 'H. feared a coup. y, Democrat, former Khang has retained command ident Richard M. Nixon, of the South Vietnamese marines, in, and former Alabama but it was thought that Thieu )rge C. Wallace, Ameri- would take that away eventually. pendent Party. South Vietnamese military and nate version would mere- civilian spokesmen who announc- d the law, -thus permit- ed a military alert before reports networks to invite whom of the coup'attempt became gen- t to appear. eral knowledge, said they did not sly, Nixon has said he know the reasons for the alert. I I r I COUZENS HALL GUILD HOUSE 802 Monroe F RI1DAY, OCT. 11 Noon Luncheon 25c PROF. GEORGE L. GRASSMUCK Assistant Vice President International Program "Issues in Higher Education and the Campus" Friday evening 6 P.M. GUILD DINNER (at cost) For Reservations Call 662-5189 Peru's rebels sieze refinery LIMA, Peru (AP)-Peru's revolu- tkonary military government con- fiscated the $200-million oil field, refinery and related property of the International Petroleum Corp. Wednesday. The corporation is a subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey. Expropriation and nationaliza- tion of the property, the c oun- try's major petroleum complex, climaxed years of dispute. 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