Saturday, November 23, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three atda,Nvme 3 98TEMCIA AL VIETNAM QUESTION Fibright's committee: Thorn in Nixon's side ?) WASHINGTON (P) - Rich- ard M. Nixon's campaign state- ments point to the possibility of continued differences between the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the White House after he becomes presi- dent. While five of the committee's 19 members will not be return- ing to the Senate in January, the holdovers include several of the veterans who battled for years with the Johnson admin- istration over the Vietnam war and other international issues. They include the chairman, Sen. J. W. Fulbright, (D-Ark.), who was elected this month to a new six-year term. His op- position to the war, voiced from his highly prestigious post, was a constant, major irritant to President Johnson. Although Nixon has yet to detail specific legislative pro- posals for the conduct of fore- ign policy, his campaign state- ments can be compared with the views of the majority of the Foreign Relations Committee. The president-elect has por- trayed the U.S. role in South Vietnam in essentially the same terms the current administra- tion has used: to protect t h a t I- _ .__- - - - - - _ d UNION-LEAGUE Want to see the latest in art? The Michigan Graduate Art Students present AN EXHIBITION OF RECENT ART it November 18 through November 26 Assembly Hall, Michigan Union Open afternoons and evenings. country from outside aggression from North Vietnam. But Fulbright has constant- ly rejected that approach, ar- guing that the struggle is basic- ally a civil war between ele- ments within South Vietnam, with this country backing one side - the Saigon govern- ment - and North Vietnam supporting the other side - the Viet Cong. While decisions on military policy and spending are made in other committees, the Foreign Relations Committee member- ship has provided much ,of the leading opposition to major new military programs. - For example, Sen. John Sher- man Cooper, (R-Ky.), one of the Senate's most respected voices oneforeign policy,shead- ed the move to delay deploy- ment of the anti-ballistic mis- sile system, ABM, on the grounds that it would escalate the arms race and reduce chances f o r world peace. The committee, in fact, has already had its first indirect conflict with Nixon's position. Its members voted 13 to 3, with three abstentions, for ratifica- tion of the treaty to curb the spread ofnuclear arms. But Nixon's campaign opposition to prompt action on the treaty was seenas akey factor in the ul- timate decision todefer a vote by the full 'Senate. In addition to Fulbright and Cooper, other returning mem- bers who have opposed a hard line in international affairsin- clude Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, Albert Gore of Ten- nessee, Frank Church of Idaho, Claiborne Pell of Rhode Island, all 'Democrats, andRepublicans George D. Aiken of Vermont and Clifford P. Case of N e w Jersey. Prospective new members in- clude Sen. Gale McGee, (D- Wyo.), who has backed the ad- ministration's military policies in Vietnam, and Sen. Jacob K. Javits, (R-N.Y.), a war critic who would be expected to bol-. ster the stand of Cooper, Case and Aiken on the Republican side. GREAT MOVIES Every Monday THIS: WEEK: "THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES" Sen. J. William Fulbright FAVOR DIRECT VOTE: Hearings to consider changes in U.S. electoral procedure President-elect Richard Nixon AN ICE-COLD WARNING OF INSIDIOUS YOUNG EVIL TRIUMPHANT ...a tale of seven delinquent boys who dive to the depths of degradation. 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AGE WillS,AOMTTE: Sat., 5:00, 7:00, 9:00 WASHINGTON (A')-New ef- forts to change the process of electing apresident havecstart- ed in Congress in the wake of the election, which barely miss- ed being thrown into the House of Representatives for the first time in 144 years. Indiana Sen. Birch Bayh, who called a news conference to dis- cuss the matter shortly after the election. h a s proposed substi- tuting the direct popular elec- tion of the president for the current Electoral College sys- tem. In the House, N e w York's Emanuel Celler. chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said he will start hearings on proposed constitutional changes as quick- ly as possible next year. Celler called the present sys- tem outdated and said he is in- clined toward a system under which each state's electoral vote would be divided among the candidates in proportion to their popular vote. The outcome of the Presiden- tial election hung in the bal- ance for several hours when it looked as if none of the three candidates would obtain the 270 electoral votes necessary to finally won by v e r y narrow margins the three big states of Ohio, California a n d Illinois, which put him over the 270 elec- toral v o t e level although he and Democrat Hubert H. Hum- phrey both had 43 per cent of the popular vote. Independent George C. Wallace had about 13 per cent. If there had been no electoral vote winner, then t he House would have had to pick the win- ner. Bayh, a Democrat, introduced a constitutional amendment to scrap the electoral college and replace it with direct popular election of the president and vice president in January 1967. While Bayh ravors direct elec- tion and Celler said he tended toward a proportional plan, Senate GOP Leader Everett M. Dirksen said a district electoral plan* deserves consideration. Under the district plan, long sponsored by Sen. Karl E. Mundt (R--S.D.), e a c h state's electoral votes would be allocat- ed to districts roughly corre- sponding to congressional dis- tricts except t h a t two votes would go to the popular vote winner in the state. Bayh's constitutional amend- I } Sun 1: ' 3 dates for president a n d vice president receiving the greatest n u m b e r of popular votes throughout the nation will be elected, provided they receive 40 per cent or more of the total vote. If no candidate received 40 per cent of the vote, a runoff would be held between the two top contenders. Bayh said the 40 per cent fig- ure is "high enough to discour- age small groups from splinter- ing away from the two major parties and low enough to as- sure a winning plurality in all but the most extreme circum- stances." One of the major objections that has been raised against the popular vote plan is that it would encourage splinter par- ties and tend to break down the two-party system. The present system technical- ly is the same asthat set up by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution; w h i c h provides that the president be elected by electors chosen by the states. The popular vote would be only a guide of opinion and not nec- essarily binding on the electors. As time passed, the Electoral College became a rubber stamp with its members almost always a eflecting the popular vote of their state. But there was fear this year that there would be wheeling and dealing for elec- toral votes if there had been no v~ clear cut winner. The Constitution also provid- ed that if no candidate got an Electoral College majority, the decision would be made in the s House with each state getting one vote. Thereehad been no serious threat of this happening since the election of 1824 when John Quincy Adams was awarded the presidency over Andrew Jack- Sson, who was the leader in both popular and electoral votes. During the last 20 years ex- tensive congressional hearings have been held on the subject, but disagreement over what kind of change should be made has blocked approval of any plan. 01 the news toda by The Associated Press and College Press Service A NORTH VIETNAMESE SPOKESMAN in Paris yes- terday accused the United States of "impudent acts of provocation" in bombarding the northern part of the demilitarized zone. Nguyen Thanh Le, chief spokesman for the North Viet- namese delegation at. the Paris talks, claimed that U.S. ar- tillary fire hit three North Vietnamese villages in the north- ern half of the DMZ. Le commanded the U.S. to observe and obey the 1954 Geneva agreements, which establish and guarantee the integrity of the DMZ. U.S. officials, who acknowledge the shelling of the zone but denied hitting the three villages, saw the North Viet- namese accusations as a bid for restoration of the six-mile wide buffer zone between North and South Vietnam. Le also called upon the United States to come to the peace talks immediately without the Saigon government, reserving a seat for the Thelu regime if and when it decides to come. Le accused the U.S. of escalating its operations into th countries of Cambodia and Laos, and he confirmed a Thurs- day UPI disclosure that his delegation had severed all con- tacts with the U.S. diplomatic team. COMMUNIST PARTIES around the world have set May 1969 as the date for a world Communist summit conference. CTK, the Czechoslovak news agency, reported that 67 of the world's 88 Communist parties have agreed on the May meeting. Long sought by the Soviets to restore unity to the move- ment, the conference had originally been scheduled for November 25 but was postponed by sudden divisions appear- ing among the parties as a result of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. The last such conference was held seven years ago. Communist China and her allies are expected to boycott the meeting. A TERRORIST BOMB blasted a Jewish sector of Jerusalem yesterday, killing eleven and injuring fifty-five. A parked car loaded with TNT exploded in a crowded market place in what was called the worst terrorist incident in Israeli history. Prime Minister Levi Eshkol blamed the rulers of the Arab states for the action. Shortly after the bombing, an enraged Jewish mob headed for the Arab section of the Holy City shouting "Kill the Arabs." Police divided the city with roadblocks between the two sectors, and imposed a curfew on the Arab section to facilitate a search for the terrorists. STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS swept across Italy yesterday while the crisis in the Italian government con- tinued. Thousands of high school students.demanding immediate revision of the school system clashed. with police in several large Italian cities. Meanwhile President Guiseppe Saragat is continuing efforts to find a new prime minister to lead a left-of-center coalition in place of the Christian Democratic minority gov- ernment which broke apart last Tuesday with the resigna- tion of Premier Giovanni Leone. The most promising candidate for prime minister, Mar- iano Rumor, resigned from the leadership of the Christian Democrat Party Thursday and left the party in an uproar. Suspension of the Christian Democratic Party Council which followed Rumor's resignation may delay the choice of a new prime minister which should come early next week. NEW EXPLOSIONS within the Mannington, W. Vir- ginia coal mine yesterday diminished chances of rescu- ing 78 trapped miners. Fires continue to rage out of control in the mine, and no contact has been made with the miners since the first ex- plosion ripped the mine early Wednesday. The Charleston Daily Mail contended yesterday that federal and state inspectors of the mines had discovered vio- lations of safety procedures in the mine. This followed a similar report Thursday by the Columbia Broadcasting Co. that the mine had failed to pass tests during its August inspection. A spokesman for the U.S. Bureau of Mines, William Parks, denied these allegations, saying that if the mine had ii been found unsafe operations would have been stopped. "' Republican Richard M. Nixon ment provides that the candi- H EAR THE VIBRANT SOUND OF SONNY HOLIDAY and THE MASTERS Atthe. . . Gracious 761-3548 / dining dailyv p 314 from 3 P.M.-1 A.M. South Fourth Ave. /" G -- --- - ILLEL APPENINGS SUN., NOV. 24 at 6:00: Deli H ouse in featuring a talk on "Intermarriage & the College Student" by RABBI SHERWIN WINE of Temple Birmingham (Mich.) Talk begins at 6:30 MON., NOV. 25 at 8:00 PROF. NORBERT C. 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