SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE TElEs SATURDAY, JULY 8,1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Pa r~~a TW1vuR In Ask McNamara For More Troops Westmoreland Briefs Defense Chief; General Claims U.S. Winning War MERCENARIES LAND: Congolese Claim Tshombe Plot To Depose President Mobutu SAIGON (AP) - Gen. William C. Westmoreland urged Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara yesterday to provide more Amer- ican troops for Viet Nam war which, he said, "We are winning, slowly but steadily." The commander of U.S. frorces in Vietnam, with 464,000 service- men on hand, was believed to want at least 100,000 additional sold- iers, a number that probably would mean calling up some re- servists. There was no immediate indi- cation of McNamara's response. The briefing of McNamara was conducted in secret, but an of- ficial U.S. spokesman announced } the. highlights. Westmoreland asked for more troops "to step up pressure on the enemy by reinforcing our mount- ing success. Lev Could Be Confined Without Bail WASHINGTON (A) - The Army may confine Capt. Howard B. Levy throughout the review and consideration of any appeals of his sentence for disobedience and disloyalty, the U.S. Court of Mili- tary Appeals ruled yesterday. The three civilian judges of the highest military tribunal refused to order Levy's release with or without bail. It was the second such legal re- verse for the 30-year-old Brook- lyn physician in. two days. A U.S. District Court judge in Columbia, S.C., declined Thursday to grant bail or parole to the officer. Three Years He is under sentence by a court martial at Ft. Jackson, S.C., to three years in prison and dis- missal from the service for re- fusing to train U.S. Special Forces -Green Beret-medics 'and for advising servicemen not to serve in Vietnam. His attorney, Charles Morgan of the Atlanta office of the American Civil Liberties Union, said when the twin petitions were filed they would be appealed to higher courts if denied. Pending completion of military reviews of the court martial ver- dict and sentence, Levy is under guard at the hospital detention building at Ft. Jackson. Free Speech Levy's petition was based on the Constitution's First Amend- 1 ment guarantee of free speech and association, due process pro- visions of the Fifth Amendment and Eighth Amendment prohibi- tions against excessive punish- ment. The court ruled that neither common law nor the Constitution guarantees the rlghth to bail for a person after conviction and pending appeal and that Congress wrote no bail provisions in the Uniform Code of Military Jus- tice. The military tribunal noted also that Congress specifically exclud- ed court martial cases in passing the Bail Reform Act of 1966. As to attorney Morgan's conten- tion that the Army is violating Levy's rights by holding him, the court found that "the character '4 and extent of a series of offenses afford a proper basis for the ex- ercise of discretionary power" by a commanding officer to deny re- lease of an officer prisoner. "North Vietnam is paying a tremendous price with nothing to show for it in return," he said. "There war is not a stalemate., We are winning, slowly but stead- ily." President Johnson's personal trouble shooter for the pacifica- tion program, Robert W. Komer, told McNamara progress in the revolutionary development field could be expected "in fits and starts." Komer said "our growing main force military pressure" has per- mitted an increasing number of South Vietnamese troops to be devoted to protection of pacific- ation teams. He added that the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese regulars could no longer inter- rupt the program at will. He outlined an eight point "ac- tion plan for accelerated devel- opment of th pacification pro- gram." Komer's plan included increas- ed emphasis on the open arms program to encourage Communist defectors and improve coordina- tion with the military guards. No. 6 on his list of priorities was land reform -- a long stag- nant subject which the Viet Cong used as a major recruiting argu- ment among the peasants. After the formal meeting, Mc- Namara returned to, Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker's residence for private talks with Bunker, West- moreland and a few other offic- ials. Among the subjects quickly covered in the late afternoon were measures to curb the spend- ing of U.S. soldiers, an anti in- flationary program and the local allocation of construction funds. The war rumbled on with con- tinued artillery duelling in the area of the demilitarized zone and a half dozen planes lost in wide- spread U.S. air operations as Westmoreland conducted the first briefing of the defense secre- tary's ninth visit to Vietnam in the U.S. Army's headquarters at Tan Son Nhut Air Base. -Associated Press Top U.S. commanders in Vietnam lined up in Saigon yesterday for their day-long briefing session with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. From left are: Adm. Ulysses S. G. Sharp, Gen. Earle Wheeler, McNamara, Ellsworth Bunker, and Gen. William Westmoreland. DANGEROUS POSITION: Bleak Days for Nasser UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. (P)- The Congo laid before the Sec- urity Council yesterday details of an alleged three phase plot which it said was hatched in Spain by ex-Premier Moise Tshombe and European aides to do away with Congolese President Joseph Mo- butu. In a two part presentation The Congo also said latest information was that white mercenaries had fled the embattled city of Kisan- gani for Rhodesia in their two planes and another stolen from the Congolese National Airlines. A Rhodesian government spokes- man announced in Salisbury that a plane carrying wounded white men and Africans from the Congo landed last night at Kariba, Rho- desia. White Mercenaries The plane presumably was un- der command of the white merce- naries. The spokesman said injured pas- sengers from the plane were re- ceiving treatment at Kariba Hos- pital. Kariba is about 300 miles northwest of Salisbury, seat of the white minority Rhodesian govern- men that broke away from Britain on Nov. 11, 1965. Congolese Ambassador Theodore Idzuimbuir told the council his government had asked Rhodesian authorities to arrest the mercena- ries and return the stolen plane. He blamed Tshombe and his supporters for the current internal troubles in The Congo, including the landing of the white mercena- ries in two planes on Wednesday. He also named Belgium, Spain, and Portugal as centers of pro- Tshombe activities. The Congo representative has asserted that the alleged Madrid plot had these three phases: 1. Economic sabotage, which he said had resulted in dynamiting of a key bridge and a power trans- mission line in Katanga. 2. Provocation of mutinies in the Congolese National Army. 3. Physical elimination of the chief of state, President Mobutu. He specifically named a number of Belgian and French nationals as agents of Tshombe who had made trips from Portugese Angola into The Congo either for purposes of sabotage or to work with Tshombe sympathizers in The Congo. Westerners Unaware Idzumbuir said, "certain polit- ical and financial centers in some Western countries, and particular- ly Belgium, Spain and Portugal, are not aware" of the, plotting' against the central government of The Congo. The council meeting came as The Congo sought direct help from the United States and backing' from the United Nations in its ef- fors to defeat the mercenaries it says are seeking to overthrow the government. After a recss following Idzum- buir's presentation, the council adjourned until 3 p.m. Monday, with the understanding the mem- bers would meet earlier if the situ- ation demanded it. The nonpermanent members of the 15 nation council were drafting a resolution appealing to all coun- tries to bar recruitment of mer- cenaries in what the Congo alleged was a conspiracy aimed at re- versing economic reforms under- taken by Mobutu. They were awaiting more detail- ed information from the Congo at a council meeting before formally introducing the resolution, expect- ed to win unanimous approval. Outside the council there were these developments in the turbu- lent Congo situation: -Mobutu' sent a message to' In Wake of Arab War By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press News Analyst President Gamal Abdel Nasser's silence since the end of the Arab- Israeli war speaks louder than his accustomed resounding oratory. Not since the night of June 9 when he offered to resign-an offer rejected by his rubber stamp National Assembly-has the Egyp- tian president had anything to say publicly. This reticence strength- ens any impression that the man who sought to be the leader of all Arabs is not yet out of danger from the repercussions of Arab defeat and humiliation. Nobody has told the Egyptians where they go from here. Nobody in high office, not even their idol- ized Nasser, has come forward to tell them how to bind up the wounds, how to restore self re- spect, how to seek new confidence. What they have learned, grad- ually, is that the war cost them dearly, not only in killed and Kiesinger Announces Plans To Cut German Army's Size wounded and not only in the loss of their Soviet arms and equip- ment, but in the severe shock to an economy which already was rocky. Nasser has a new government in which he is both president and premier. Thus he assumes person- ally all the responsibility for measures which must be under- taken. Agencies of this new gov- ernment have been cutting costs to the bone. Nasser's silence has fascinated some who have considered them- selves his friends, for example, the Yugoslav Communists. A dispatch from Cairo to the Communist par- ty newspaper Borba in Belgrade has come up with some intriguing lines of speculation. The dispatch noted that mili- tary uniforms have disappeared gradually from Cairo's streets. It said that army officers travel in civilian clothes to their posts and, after work, change from uniforms for the trip home. In short, the professional soldier who was the hero of all a month ago is getting unpopular. Naser's acceptance of Soviet terms for new arms and equip- ment to replace what he lost can prove dangerous to him since a large conservative element among his followers balks at any further expansion of Communist influence in Egypt. The Russians this time are insisting that Nasser agree to a heavy influx of Soviet advisers and technicians to make sure that Moscow's investment does not go down the drain again. Nasser obviously had adopted caution as his watchword as he weighs the cumulative impact on his people and all Arabs of the Egyptian military and diplomatic disasters. It is notable that in- fluential voices now are being rais- ed in Cairo for a more realistic look at Israel. One of the most knowledgeable journalists in Egypt wrote that the notion of destroy- ing Israel as a nation was a basic mistake which contributed heavily to Egypt's calamity. Nasser is receiving new arms, but Egypt and the Arabs are going to be weak for a long time. The weakness will be aggravated by economic difficulties among a hungry population growing at such a rate that even the prized Aswan Dam being built by the Russians cannot reclaim enough land to keep food production ahead of population increase. Israel's Prime Minister Claims Dayan Does Not Merit Credit BONN, Germany (M-)-Chancel- lor Kurt Georg Kiesinger announc- ed plans yesterday to cut West Germany's 461,000 man army to enable his government to balance its budgets for the next four years. The move will put West Ger- many even further away from meeting its commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza- tion, for an army of 500,000 men. West Germany has never met this pledge. Kiesinger did not specify how many men would be cut, but reli- able estimates put the figure at 40,000 to 60,000. The reduction will cut further into the strength of Western ar- mies in Europe. The United States announced in May that it would withdraw 35,000 of its 225,000 sol- diers, sailors and airmen in this country. Britain has said it will pull out 5000 of its 55,000 man Rhine army. Britain and the United States made these decisions because West Germany said it was no longer able to offset the foreign ex- change of these troops by arms purchases. In Washington, Robert J. Mc- Closkey, State Department press officer, said the United States would oppose any troop cutback by West Germany without consul- tation among the NATO allies. Kiesinger announced also that there would be cuts in arms and equipment purchases for the West German army, and reductions in civil defense expenditures. He said the measures are part of a financial and economic plan designed to balance budgets for the next four years and to get West Germany's stagnant econo- my going again. Kiesinger's cabinet reached the decisions after three days of meet- ings, which ended with a mara- thon 15-hour session Thursday night. The measures include a new business turnover tax which will be pegged at 10.5 per cent begin- ning next year and a 3 per cent rise in income tax for those earn- ing more than $4000 a year. TEL AVIV, Israel (IP)-Prime Min- ister Levi Eshkol criticized De- fense Minister Moshe Dayan yes- terday and gave most of the credit for Israel's victory in the Arab war to Maj.-Gen. Yitzhak Rabin, chief of staff. ; Shortly before the war broke out June 5, Eshkol reluctantly bowed to pressure and made Dayan, member of an opposition party, defense minister. Dayan had led Israel to victory in the 1956 war with Egypt. Eshkol had held the Defense Ministry portfolio as well as the prime minister's post, and he in- dicated this situation may be re- stored. "The separation of the defense portfolio from the premiership made no difference in the war's outcome," he said in an interview with the newspaper Yediot Ahar- onot. "But they should be held by the same man in the future. "Dayan's entry into the Cabinet improved morale, but he credit for the victory goes to the chief of President Johnson asking for mill- tary aid. In Washington, a State Depart- ment spokesman said yesterday that President Johnson has re- fused the message. The spokesman refused to discuss any specific re- quest for American assistance. However, officials indicated that it is quite possible that transport aircraft are being sought to help loyal Congolese troops put down the uprising of rebellious soldiers and foreign mercenaries. Press oficer Robert J. McCloskey told newsmen at his midday brief- ing thatithere had been a com- munication from Mobutu. -The Congolese government claimed its troops had regained control of Bukavu and part of Ki- sangani, formerly Stanleyville, from white mercenaries who at- tacked on Wednesday. Reports from the fighting area said the white European merce- naries were aided by Katangan soldiers who were backers of former Premier Moise Tshombe, whose abduction to Algiers pre- ceded the outbreak of violence. Tshombe's strongest supporters are in mineral rich Katanga Pro- vince, which he once ruled as a' separatist leader. Fighting Spread A Belgian teacher newly arrived in Brussels said the mercenaries with Katangan 6 support attacked a Congolese army camp at Salo, outside Bukavu, on Wednesday, and the fighting spread later into Bukavu itself. The teacher identified the leader of the mercenaries as a Maj. Schramm, a Belgian, and said they had the support of Gen. Eustache Kakudji, commander of the 5th Congolese Army Group, who has tribal bonds with the Katangans. At the United Nations, diplo- mats believed that Tshombe's eventual fate was a key factor in the Congo situation. He was ab- ducted on a flight in Spain's Baleraic Islands last Friday and taken to Algiers, where author- ities were considering a Congo- lese request for extradition, Death Tshombe faces a death sentence pronounced in absentia. If he is returned and the execution car- ried out, it could signal even more trouble, the diplomats predicted. The Congo was of special con- cern to Secretary General U Thant, who has responsibility for a total of 575 UN personnel work- ing in the Congo on various econ- omic, social and technical projects. Of the total, 99 are directly em- ployed by the United Nations; others are attached to various UN specialized agencies. The UN resident representative in the Congo is Jacque S. Lejer, a Haitian. A UN spokesman said there were no reports from him telling of a danger or injury to UN personnel. Thant canceled a trip to Geneva because of he Congo and Middle East situations. He had planned to address the UN Economic and Social Council in the Swiss city on Tuesday. staff, Maj. Gen. Yitzhak Rabin, and to the government. The self praise of one man, Dayan, is not honorable. If it continues, then we will have to react." Eshkol was asked why Israel had agreed to a U.S. request to with- hold action after Egypt closed the Gulf of Aqaba to Israeli shipping late in May. Israel's port of Elath is on the gulf and the closing led directly to the war. "I told everyone that if Presi- dent Johnson asks us to delay ac- tion we would have to provide him with more time, so that later on he would not be able to say: 'I told you to wait. I asked you to give me time to act. But because you did not listen to me you'll have to bear the consequences.'" In the same interview Eshkol also made a peace gesture toward the Vatican in the dispute over Jerusalem, now entirely under Is- rael's flag. Jordan occupied the Old City until driven out in the war. To Vatican demands that Jeru- salem be made an international' city, Eshkol said Israel will agree to "a certain measure of control by the Vatican" over Christian' holy places. Pope Paul VI has sent Msgr. An- gelo Felici, the Vatican under- secretary of state, to Israel to dis- cuss the holy sites in the Old. City of Jerusalem. The Jerusalem Post, often a mouthpiece for Foreign Ministry views, said Msgr. Felici would find Israel ready to work out satis- factory arrangements for the holy places. But it reiterated that Is- rael will oppose any request that it get out of Jerusalem. The Wail- ing Wall in the Old City is sacred to Jews. "The Vatican's emissary should see how they-the Jordanians- dealt with the Walling Wall," Esh- kol said. "He should have seen the piles of garbage in this holy place of Judaism, the destroyed syna- gogues." ARN LANE EF IHIGA DEARBORN CAMPUS, THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN DIAL 8-6416 rig CAMPUS FIRST TIME IN AMERICA! WIN Yehudi Menuhin The and > Bath OrFestival !Orchestra World News Roundup, Van Boven 's TODAY thru SAT. LADIES' SALE By The Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Ra- dio Biafra, mouthpiece of the Eastern region that seceded from Nigeria on May 30. said Friday that Biafran troops had repulsed "a full frontal assault" of Niger- ian forces who were led by white mercenaries. There was no confirmation in Lagos of such a fight. 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