Saturday, October 12, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Saturday, October 12, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY ..,ya,. .,hree. HHH offers to guarantee cost of time for presidential debate LBJ threatens Senate recall NEW YORK { P)-The Demo- cratic team of Hubert H. Hum- phrey and Sen. Edmund S. Muskie sought to put heat on frontrunner Richard M. Nixon yesterday by of- fering to guarantee the cost of televised debates-and charging he is afraid of a face-to-face con- frontation. Humphrey, appearing at a mor- ning news conference, said that they had opened negotiations with a television network for an hour of, time Sunday night, Oct. 20, for al three-way debate between Hum- phrey, Nixon and George C. Wal- lace, the third-party candidate. Humphrey, with his running mate Muskie at his side, made. the offer one day after Senate Repub- licans blocked legislation that would have changed the equal time regulations to permit free televised debates like those be- tween the late John F. Kennedy and Nixon in 1960. Both Thursday night and Fri- day Humphrey complained of stomach trouble and told newsmen that he had been suffering from "stomach flu" and that although he felt "a little weak," he was better. However, shortly after the news conference aides announced that a scheduled trip to Cincinnati had been cancelled and that the vice president was in bed. Norman Sherman, a press aide, described the ailment as "a mild case of the flu." "At first glance," Humphrey said of the Senate action on the equal time rule, "this appears to have denied the American public the chance for a faceto face de- bate among the contenders for the presidency and the vice presi- dency." But Humphrey said that he and Muskie decided to "guarantee the cost of the debates" and at the same time "we are asking Demo- crats, Republicans and indepen- dents" to send .in donations to help pay for them. "Naturally, we hope that Mr. Nixon and Mr. Wallace will agree to share the cost of the debates," Humphrey added. But he said that if they would not, he and Muskie to rleatify treaty WASHINGTON (R)- President Johnson said yesterday he may call the Senate back into special session to ratify the nuclear nonproliferation treaty rather than wait until the new session in January, as Senate leaders plan. The President said delays could force the United States into a dire dilemma if new nuclear powers come into being before the Senate acts. Johnson taped for radio and television use his new appeal shortly before Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D- Mont.) told the Senate the pact to halt the spread of nuclear weapons would not be brought up in the session now ending. Mansfield said arrangements have been made for making the treaty the first order of business of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the new session in January. As for Johnson's consideration of a special session before then, Mansfield told newsmen, "We will cross that bridge when we come to it." -Associated Press LeMay with newsmen in Los Angeles RETIRED AIR FORCE GEN. CURTIS LEMAY, right, had no comment for newsmen at Los Angeles International Airport concerning his four-day fact-finding trip to Vietnam next week. LeMay, vice presidential m ndidat aon the 1, A r, ie-- - S ,Par Tt l e-- - * - _n T were prepared to pay the entire iii"u 'm en eA r cost with the help of donations swing into Florida. from "those Americans who want c to see and hear discussions of the HISTORIC SESSION: vital issues of the campaign." __ So far, Nixon has declined re- peated invitations and challenges from Humphrey to enter a series of debates. o g Muskie said that Nixon is "afraid that a debate might cost him his W lead." WASHINGTON (I)-The 90th two "A man who is sure of himself, Congress, which displayed traits LuthE sure of his potential of leadership, of courage, defiance and fickle- F. Ke sure of his position on issues need ness as it wrote some footnotes to incun not be afraid," Muskie added, history, was poised for adjourn- to see Humphrey proposed that Nixon ment yesterday. ed in and Wallace appear with him in The members have three weeks jor ci two debates and that their run- for campaigning before the Nov. 5 to f10 ningmates-Maryland Gov. Spiro elections in which all 435 House natio Agnew and retired Air Force Gen. seats and 34 of the 100 Senate were Curtis LeMay-face Muskie in a seats will be filled. Son third debate. The session which started last spur In Humphrey's prepared Cin- Jan. 15 and was interrupted by to pr cinnati speech, read for him by several recesses was marked by housi John J. Gilligan, the vice presi- some rare happenings. law' dent said "I am going to smoke There was a lock-in of House in fi pick Nixon out," and he added: members and a sit-out of senators politi< "I want to get Dick Nixon, in the closing days, defeat of a The George Wallace, and Hubert Hum- major presidential nomination, a ethics phrey on the same platform, at tax increase in an election year, prove the same time, before the same an about-face on mandated gram audience-live or on television. spending cuts when they hit close foreig "I want them to stand up, man to home, and enactment of some 21-ye to man, and tell the American historic legislation. made people what they believe in." During the 10-month session, tions, can. aeupeuluLnt TKar 3 Wty J 4Ue t iiiLO Ageeto r a am.Ilpaign 'set to adjourn -Associated Press Humphrey on debates public figures, Dr. Martin er King Jr. and Sen. Robertl ennedy, were assassinated; an mbent President decided not ek re-election, violence erupt- the capital and in other ma- ities, casualty lists continued ow in from Vietnam, and two nal political conventions held. me of these events helped enactment of laws designed event racial discrimination in ng, curb crime and beef up enforcement, control traffic rearms, and protect major cal candidates. e 1968 Congress wrote mild s codes for its members, ap- d the biggest housing pro- in history, voted the lowest gn aid appropriation in the ar history of the program, record cuts in appropria- and enacted landmark con- ;i TONIGHT at Barry O'Neill and Roger Renwick 1421 Hill St. 8:30 P.M.. i } : sumer protection laws. On the other side of the ledger, it shelved bills for election re- forms, congressional reorganiza- tion and for free broadcast of- political debates after starting them toward enactment. The closing days of the session were marked by efforts to clear the way for broadcast debates among the major presidential can- didates. House Republicans staged a walkout when the bill came up in their chamber. It took a 32 - hour continuous session, second longest in history, to pass the bill. For the first time in modern history the speaker of the House finally ordered a lock-in of mem- bers to keep a quorum on hand to transact business. Perhaps President Johnson's most galling reversal of the year was the Senate's refusal to con- sider his nomination of Abe Fortas to be chief justice. A Republican- Southern Democratic filibuster caused the President to reluctantly withdraw the nomination. Never before, historians said,' had the Senate refused to con- sider a major nomination although it has rejected some in the past after debating them. Johnson said, "I know that the pressures of the election are upon us. But so are the responsibilities we were elected to fulfill. I hope the Senate will act now, with the highest interests of the nation in mind. "But if members of the Senate find it impossible to remain and act now." the President said, "I shall, after consulting with other world leaders and leaders of the Senate, seriously consider calling the Senate into special session. "I consider the adoption of this treaty that important to the se- curity of our nation and world peace." White House press secretary George Christian declined to say what world leaders might be in- volved. Nor would me comment on whether Johnson might summon the Senate before or after the Nov. 5 election. Mansfield indicated he would at least like to wait until after the election so "the act of ratifica-I tion will be divorced from poli- tical overtones or disputation." Johnson said he fears that forc- es working against the treaty in other countries will gain strength quickly and an increasing number of countries "will see it in their national interest to go nuclear." Johnson, in raising the spectre of dire consequences from such a development, said the United States could be faced with this, dilemma: , "Either withdrawing our influ- ence and commitment from areas of the world which are vital to our interests; or I "Having other nations trigger a nuclear conflict which could in- volve us." Under the treaty, nuclear pow- ers would agree not to give away nuclear information and non-nu- nclean nations would agree not to seek to become producers. returning by popular demand to sing traditional folk music from Britain, Ireland, and Canada accom- panied by guitar, banjo, dulcimer, and concertina, $1.00 cover includes free food J . .w r - r mmod" CINEMA II CHANGE IN SCHEDULE THIS WEEK, OCTOBER 11th and 12th "TREASURE COF SIERRA MADRE" H BOGART ("Cincinnati Kid" will be shown Oct. 25th and 26th) IV FILM ANNUAL FESTIVAL at SATURDAY SUNDAY "KEY LARGO".: "SAHARA" and and DARK To Have and PASSAGE" Have Not" 800PM.$100at thedoor Russian intellectuals, convicted for protest, 9 Cubans-t jailed for, bombinigs -MIAMI Fla. (A'-Nlne Cuban exiles were jailed here yesterday on federal charges of plotting ter- ror attacks on ships and planes of Spain, Mexico and Great Britain as part of a nationwide anti-Cas- tro Vendetta by the group calling itself Cuban Power.) The man indicted as the leader, Dr. Orlando Bosch, seemed trium- phant after his arrest by FBI agents. While being taken to jail under $50,000 bond, Basch raised his handcuffed arms and made "V" with fingers of each handas he shouted: "Victory for Cuban liberation." Bosch and two of the nlnewere charged in the Sept. 1 cannon- ading of a Polish freighter in Miami. The attack became an in- ternational incident. The indictment also identified Bosch as the mysterious "Ernesto," the voice of Cuban Power who an- nounced attacks sometimes before 'they occurred. Bosch was charged separately with -cabling threats to Harold Wilson, prime minister of Great Britain, Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, pres- ident of Mexico, and Gen. Fran- cisco Franco, head of state in Spain. All nine of those arrested by FBI agents were charged with conspiracy to violate the neutral- ity of the United States by making war against another nation from U.S. soil. Some of the targets included consulates, offices of government airlines and companies which ship- ped mercy packages to families in Cuba. A tenth man identified in the indictment, but neither charged nor listed as a con-conspirator, was Ricardo Morales Navarrete. Mo- rales had been arrested earlier by Miami police in ,connection with one of the 39 bombings that struck the city's Cuban colony. Morales' testimony to the grand jury was reportedly the key to breaking the facade of the secret group. Andrews Jorge Gonzalez, 37, al- so was held under $50,000 bound on the conspiracy count, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Also charged with Miss Miranda on the conspiracy counts were Marco Rodriguez Ramos, 24, Jorge Luis Gutierrez Ulla, 20, his father, Paulino Gutierrez, 45, and Jesus Dominguez Benitez, Dist. Judge William Mehrtens released Miss Miranda on a rec- ognizance bond ,yesterday after- noon, but denied defense requests for reduced bonds for the others. I I MOSCOW ,1P)-Three Soviet in- tellectuals were sentenced yester- day to relatively light terms in exile from Moscow and two others were sent to labor camps for stag-, ing a public protest in Red Square against the invasion of Czechoslovakia. After three days of testimony laced with denunciations of the invasion, the five were convicted of disturbing public order and slandering the Soviet Union. They had been arrested after demon- strating for about three minutes Aug. 25. The organizers-Pavel Litvinov, grandson of Stalin's foreign min- ister, and Mrs. Larisa Daniel, wife of an imprisoned writer - were banished from Moscow for five and four years respectively. Kon- stantin Babitsky, a specialist in the history of the Russian lan- guage, was exiled for three years. Their companions, Vladimir Dremlyuga and Vadim Delone, were sentenced to labor camps for three years and two years and 10 months respectively. A relative of Litvinov said all five would appeal. Twelve demonstrators were ar- rested, but only those carrying signs were held for trial. It was the only public protest to the in- vasion so far known to have been organized by Soviet citizens. Western newsmen and the gen- eral public were barred from the trial. A relative who was in the courtroom throughout quoted Lit- vinov as saying in his closing re- marks: "Freedom is important for all of us. The more freedom we have, the better off is our entire country." I I Friday & Saturday Aud. 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