Friday, January 17, 1969 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three FrI I IIIIiday, Janary17I199IHE ICIGIIIILYPae Tre CHIEUHOI PROGRAM: Viet Cong defections scratch surface of troops, cadres .'fr. } By JOHN T. WHEELER CAN THO, Vietnam (R) - An unprecedented surge of Viet Cong troop defections in recent months remains unabated in January, but U.S. sources say a smaller per- centage of main-force troops and upper echelon civilian cadre are showing up. At the same time, there are in- dications of disorganization among the Viet Cong, particularly in the Mekong Delta. The failure to gather in more of the main- force troops and top civilian of- ficers would indicate that Saigon's Chieu Hoi - Open Arms - cam- paign has yet to penetrate the ideological shield of the hard-core Viet Cong, In the final three months of last year, 7,798 of the enemy surrend- ered. This was a record, and more than double the number of defections logged during 1967's final quarter. The U. S. Command is elated by the Aumber of enemy defections, Senior officers advising on the program like to point out that the cost for each Chieu Hoi is running about $500, or about the price of two 105-MM artillery shells. Here is the Mekong Delta, where two-thirds of the total number of defectors were counted in the De- cember total, more than 800 Viet Cong turned themselves in during the first complete week of Jan- uary. This was more than defect- ed in all the three other military regions outside the delta in De- cember. In some areas Viet Cong sen- ior leaders left several weeks to months ago and lower-level in- surgents floundered in the ab- sence of the hard-nosed leader- ship the senior men had exerted. Other leaders find their orders are disobeyed. Intelligence indi- cations are that some Viet Cong battalion commanders in the Delta have simply lost control of their Iunits. A new program has begun un- der which anyone talking a Viet Cong into surrendering is paid for his trouble. Many wives of Viet Cong avail themselves of t h i s collect-on-delivery program to get their husbands into government lines with a family nestegg to boot. One adviser said the induce- ment program brought in 60 per cent of the defectors in some areas during the final months of 1968. The effect of defection on ene- my strength in the delta, by U.S. intelligence reckoning, has n o t been too serious. One thing certain is that the Viet Cong are attempting to in- filtrate the Chieu Hoi program. That they are concerned about de- fections and the weapons, the Schieu Hois turn in for more pay is reflected in a policy of locking up Viet Cong weapons until t h e time comes for an operation. ment troops have been able to re- occupy villages without any sign- ificant opposition because no one was around with the authority to issue weapons to the guerrillas who were supposed to defend them.- SECOND FILM IN AN INTERNATIONAL Man Against Society" FILM FESTIVAL' VISCONTI'S ITALIAN CLASSIC WINNER VENICE FILM FESTIVAL LA TERRA TREMA (The Earth Will Tremble) uncut Friday, Jan. 17 -Associated Press Soviet spacemen in training Soviet cosmonauts, Alexi Yeliseyev, Vladimir Shatalov and Vevgeny Khrunov, left to right, shown in the cabin of a spacecraft during training on earth. Yesterday in space Yeliseyev and Khrunov transferred from their space ship, Soyuz 5 to join Shatalov in Soyuz 4. RECLASSIFICATION SLOW: Draft regulations may peril Ph.D. supplies for 19 70s' HAIRCUT Michigan Union Barbershop i BIL LIARDS N EWMAN 331 Thompson POCKET POOL Michigan Union. WASHINGTON (CPS) - Un- cent of those who are employed' less changes are made in the pres- to do research in the sciences. ent draft regulations as they af- Many universities told the Com- fect graduate students, the na- mission they will not be able to tion's supply of trained Ph.D.s/ in find enough students to teach the sciences will be "seriously cur- courses during the next year, and tailed" in the 1970's. that research projects may have That is the conclusion of a sur- to be curtailed, reduced or delayed vey of the draft's affect on male if no changes in graduate defer- students now in their first or sec- ment are made this year. ond year of graduate school in The present policy of drafting the sciences, released this week by oldest eligible men first means the Scientific Manpower Com- that first- and second-year grad- mission, an independent Washing- uate students, most recently re- ton research firm. classified since last spring's policy According to data furnished by change, are first priority to fill 1,237 Ph.D granting science de- draft calls, which are expected partments in institutions through- to stay at the 30,000-plus level out the U.S., as many as 46 per through the coming summer. cent first- and second-year male The survey was limited to sci-I graduate students are potentially ence departments because the or-I liable to induction in the next few ganizations which sponsor the months. Commission are scientific acade- That's 50 per cent of all grad- mic groups. It believes, however,' uate students who are also em- that results of this first survey ployed by universities to teach un- are roughly applicable to general dergraduate classes, and 47 per graduate school enrollment. 75c 8 P.M. '1 1 """""""" * SEE DOCWATSON performing now at TON ITE and Free Goodies sexy waitresses Sat. and Sun. Admission: $2.00 at the door ($1.75 after 2nd set) The Commission also speculate about the reasons for the failur of all 1968's projected enrollmen drop to materialize. The slownes of the reclassification process,i said, combined with the summe setback in physical examination was a major reason. Another was that many student returned to or started graduat school although in imminen danger of reclassification, becaus "they just wanted to get as fa as they could," or because the had federal scholarships or grant which required that they enro immediately. Those scholarship would then be waiting for thei after they came out of militar service, if they were drafted. Of the more than 4,000 mal graduate students who were re ported to have been accepted to department and then failed t enroll, however, about one-fourt were known to have either bee drafted or to have voluntarily en tered military service. Many students, of course, whe faced with imminent draftin have chosen to join a service othe than the Army, hoping to avoi duty in Vietnam. Will the bad predictions of th Commission come true this spring "There is no way," the surve report states, "to predictraccu rately how many of the first an second year graduate students wh are liable to induction will b called to service before summer. "But inductions are likely to b highest among this group, sinc current regulations require that draft board fill its quota from th oldest available men. Few nor college men are availablein"th age group 22-25, where mostc these students fall." According to the Commissiox the importance of this is nc how many students are lost durin the 1968-69 school year itself, c during any given semester, bi the final toll on students and un versities in the next five-yea period. the n ews today by Th.e Associated Press and College Press Service SOVIET COSMONAUTS successfully completed the first linkup of two manned spacecraft yesterday and the first transfer of men from one to the other. After the space ships Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5 had performed their docking and transfer maneuvers, they separated and continued in orbit. They were together 4 hours and 35 min- utes. Both Russian and Western observers hailed the feat as a great step forward in the Soviet attempt to create an earth orbiting space station, but U.S. experts claimed the Soviet Union still has a long gap to close to beat the Americans to a moon landing. United States plans call for a moon landing in mid-July while Western experts say the Russian attempt could not take place before 1970. *" .W . THE SENATE refused yesterday, 53 to 45, to sustain a precedent-shattering ruling by Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey that a simple majority could cut off debate in the opening-session battle over the anti-filibuster rule. Humphrey's ruling followed a 51 to 47 vote in favor of in- voking cloture to halt a filibuster against a change in rules to make it easier to stop filibusters. This majority vote fell short of the two-thirds margin required to cut off debate. Humphrey ruled, however, that under the Constitution a majority had the right at the start of a new Congress to end debate on a proposed amendment of the rules of proce- dure. ANTI-WAR GROUPS late yesterday won government sanction for a protest march along Pennsylvania Avenue re a day before President-elect Nixon's inaugural parade t there Monday. ss A spokesman for the National Mobilization Committee er against the War in Vietnam announced permits would be r granted today approving a parade to within half a mile of the Capitol. NMC leaders have promised nonviolent demonstrations, e but Harry Van Cleve of the U.S General Services Adminis- t tration, who negotiated with the leaders, said he warned them e "your organization has never been fully able to control the ir people it attracts to these rallies." 'y. tsl 11' SENATE COMMITTEES continued their review of s President-elect Nixon's cabinet selections yesterday, ex- m pressing approval of five and giving cold scrutiny to a ry. sixth. le ' Given tacit approval were John A. Volpe as secretary of - transportation, Maurice .H. Stans as secretary of commerce, a John N. Mitchell as attorney general and George Romney as o secretary of housing and urban development. n t Questioning of Gov. Walter Hickel of Alaska continued intothe second day before the Interior Committee. Hickel, selected to head the interior department by Nixon, admitted n he had given erroneous information Wednesday. But he as- , serted no harm had been done. r" id SEN. ALBERT GORE (D-Tenn.), said yesterday a ie stock trust plan submitted by David M. Kennedy, Secre- ? tary of the Treasury designate, involves "a clear-cut con- y flict of interest." In a letter to Chairman Russell B. Long of the Senate l Finance Committee, which heard Kennedy's testimony earlier e in the week, Gore called for closed sessions of the committee to examine further Kennedy's plans to place his stock in a e trust fund. The trust is to be administered by the Continental e Illinois Bank. a Gore charged provisions of the trust "are superficial." e He said it left to Continental, as trustee, decisions on pay- e ments of dividends and withdrawal of profits. The trust plan of will not sever Kennedy's connection with the bank which Gore insists he must do before being approved by the Senate. n, i " . zg A TIME BOMB was discovered yesterday near the r main floor entrance to the San Francisco State College ut administration building. MARK'S COFFEE HOUSE 605 E. William 769-1593 EXPERIMENTAL FILMS from Toronto, Ontario Thursday thru Saturday, Jan. 16-Jan. 18 Two Shows Nightly 8.and 10:00 P.M. downstairs I MUSKET A.A. CIVIC THEATER GILBERT AND SULLIVAN SOCIETY o 6 Info: 662-6264 HELD OVER 5th WEEK.. 0 announce limited openings in U. 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