WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1967
Britain
~Of Tro,
'Most Bases
Will Close 4 t
In/ 10 Years
Measure Will Cause
One-Fifth Reduction
In Armed Forces
LONDON (-P)-Britain announced
yesterday plans for ta massive
withdrawal from its Southeast
Asia land bases and a one-fifth
cut in all armed forces by the mid-
1970s.
A government policy statement
disclosed the pullout will take
place in two stages:
-By 1970-1971 British forces in
the vast region between the Suez
Canal and the China Sea will be
reduced by half from their present
strength of 40,000 servicemen and
r 40,000 local civilian employees.
-By 1975-1976 British bases in
Singapore and Malaysia will be
shut down totally, leaving only
airfields and naval port facilities
open for future British use.
Final Phase
The haul-down of the Union
Jack in a region once dominated
by the royal navy symbolized the
final phase in the dismantling of
the modern world's mightiest em-
pire. To avoids
And it has been designed, too, to yesterday
hustle the process of transforming will remai
Britain from a global to a strictly
European power. U.S. Fi
The decision, forced on Prime
Minister Harold Wilson's govern-
ment by dire economic need, was
bannered in London's Evening
Standard under the heading,
"Farewell Far East." It reflected
the nostalgia with which most
Britons are kissing a phase of
history goodbye. j o
Johnson Dismayed
It's an open secret the British By JOHN
cuts have deeply dismayed Presi- Associate
dent Johnson's administration WASHING
along with Austtalia, New Zealand, JHN
Malaysia and Singapore. Johnson's a]l
Defense Minister Denis Healey yesterday suff
asknowledged to newsmen that "no yest era
flucdinte
one in Washington wants to see a its forces
reduction of British forces in the is forces
Far East while the Vietnam war is ngapore b
still going on." This will
But he added at once he knew States alol
no American who expects that war western mil
to continue until the mid-1970s. dwere the B
diioaly pa
Retrenchment French lost
But Britain's military retrench- The John
ment over the next eight years will has tried to
be considerable. not to abanc
Air, land and sea forces, now position, and
numbering 417,360 are to be axed ference yeste
by 75,000 or about one-fifth. that he wou]
Civilian employes serving the British govei
military are to be reduced by plan.
30,000 in Britain, 50,000 abroad- "We have
40,000 of them in Singapore and very hopefu
Malaysia. would maint

The defense budget now run- that part of
ning at about $5.88 billion a year, would hope
will in 1970-1971 be pulled down useful to do
by $560 million, and in 1975-1976 Shrin
by about $840 million.. These Britain's sl
savings have been estimated on tion means
the basis of 1967 prices. ' in the extent
A new system of air-sea cover a process th
will provide protection for certain since World
countries, the government stressed. s. offic
The British still mean to honor about as t
their obligations to the Southeast disposed of
Asia Treaty Organization. Hong dipked of
k Kong, off mainland China, will lacked the r
keep its garrison and may even States and t
be strengthened. Neverthele
The British contribution to the resisted th
NATO will remain broadly on the where possibl
current scale unless some East- other times
West deal can be arranged for ingly contrad
scaling down forces in Europe. tain's becomi
"The present plans are the and leader it
climax of a three-year study de- fication mov
signed to bring commitments and in recent ye
capabilities into line," Healey said. primarily by
Further minor adjustments might F r e n c h P
have to be made, he added, in the Gaulle.
light of unforseeable world devel- Still, in th
opments, the British economic Washington,
situation or other factors. of the best

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Plans

Withdrawal

CONGRESSIONAL ORDER:
Railroads Encounter Problems
In Resuming Regular Service

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IGHTS ALONE:
ltish Action Sets Back

SAIGON (R)-The Provisional
Assembly, voting early today in
a crisis atmosphere, approved
entry of the military presidential
ticket headed by Chief of State
Nguyen Van Thieu. Premier
Nguyen Cao Ky is Thieu's run-
ning mate.
Seven other tickets, including
those of the exiled Lt. Gen. Du-
gon Van Minh and "peace" can-
didate Au Truong Thanh, were
turned down. That left 11 in the
running for the election Sept. 3.
The assembly's electionhcom-
mittee, which checked on the le-
gality of all entries, had refused
to recommend the Thieu - Ky
ticket for posting.
Committee Miffed
The committee surprised politi-
cal analysts with an announce-
ment yesterday that it had voted
8-4 against certifying them. It
apparently was miffed because
the two obvious front runners
failed to appear before it to an-
swer charges that their candi-
dacies were illegal.
Vietnamese sources said a rep-
resentative of the two leaders had
shown up, but did not have spe-
cific authority to represent them.
After the committee action,
South Vietnam's military junta
ordered a police and troop alert
in the Saigon area, as is cus-
tomary when a political storm
seems imminent here, and sum-
moned generals of the Armed
Forces Council to an urgent
meeting. ,
Backers of Thieu and Ky hur-
riedly rounded up friendly assem-
blymen to be sure they attended
the showdown assembly session.
The chief of the national police,
Brig. Gen. Nguyen Ngoc Loan,
was in the assembly for most of
the night debate, making his
presence obvious.
After a 21/2-hour debate that
lasted past midnight, 56 of the
74 assemblymen on hand voted
to approve the military entry. The
military alert was called off
shortly afterward. Critics had ac-
cused Thieu and Ky of violating
an election law provision that
candidates in the armed forces
or civil service must take leaves'
of absence two months before the
election, which is intended to re-a
store civilian rule.
Both men have taken leaves of
their military jobs-Thieu as an"
army lieutenant general and Ky
as an air vice marshal. But they
said their positions as chief of
state and premier were not under
civil service.
The Thieu-Ky ticket was one
of four on which the committee
made no approving recommenda-
tion to the assembly, saying the
charges were too involved for it
to decide.

NEW YORK (/P)-The nation's
railroad men went back to work
at congressional order yesterday
and their less-than-highball pace
resulted in serious service prob-
lems on several main lines.
Pickets still marched from Ohio
to California as President John-
son appointed a conciliation panel
to mediate the wage dispute that
resulted in the first coast-to-coast
rail strike in 20 years.
About 15 per cent of the na-
tion's 76 big railroads reported
resistance in getting their sched-
ules started again after the two-
day stoppage. Included were the
New York Central, the Santa Fe
and the Baltimore & Ohio. The
Central said it would go into court
for an injunction to halt picketing
in Cleveland.
Strike Breaking
Union men, some calling the act
that ended their walkout "the
strike-breaking law of 1967," car-
ried placards in Los Angeles, St.
Louis, Little Rock and through
Texas, New Mexico, Michigan,
West Virginia and Kentucky. De-
spite, the return-to-work order,
some coal mines in West Virginia
began to close down for lack of
rail transport, and supervisory
personnel handled on a limited
basis the movement of perishables
throughout the West.
The Union Pacific said it was
caught with 921 open carloads of
fruit and vegetables that were
spoiling. A spokesman for the rail-
roads claimed losses were well into
the millions.
Commuters had a better break.
Nearly normal service was restored

for the half-million daily train
riders in New York, Chicago and
Philadelphia. Grand Central' and
Pennsylvania stations in Manhat-
tan, eerily empty Monday, echoed
again with rushed conversations
and announcements.
Mail Service Normal
The Post Office Department in
Washington estimated mail service
probably would not return to nor-
mal until today. "The mail trains
aren't running and we've still got
some first-class mail backed up," a
spokesman said.
President Johnson appointed a
five-man panel, headed by Sen.
Wayne Morse (D-Ore), to solve
the year-long dispute between the
railroads and six shopcraft unions.I

Soviet Letter Accuses Israel
Of Violating UN Cease-fire

UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. OP) -
In a move that hinted at a return
to the U.N. Security Council, the
Soviet Union accused Israel yes-
terday of new acts of war against
Egypt and other Arab nations.
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
A. Gromyko sent a letter to the
president of the 15-nation coun-
cil charging Israel with creating
an extremely dangerous situation
in the Suez Canal area "that
could develop into a wider mili-
tary conflict."
He said, "In order to prevent
further military clashes and to

Hong Kong Police Active
AVile Cntnes

"Of course we are very hopeful
we can get an agreement between
the parties," Johnson said at a
White House news conference.
Serving with Morse will be Fred
Kapel, retired president of the
American Telephone Telegraph
Co., Theodore Kheel, New York
labor mediator; Leverett Salton-
stall, former Republican senator
from Massachusetts and George
Meany, president of the AFL-CIO.
The back-to-work legislation
signed Monday by Johnson re-
quires a government-devised settle-
ment if unions and management
don't reach agreement within 90
days. The strike may not be re-
sumed during that period-a cool-
ing-off interval which could be ex-
tended to 1969.

huson's

Asia Policies

M. HIGHTOWER one still partially committed to!
d Press News Analyst 'a global military - political
aTON (WP) - President strategy.
lied and Far Eastern Trouble with other allies par-
ered a severe setback allels or exceed that with the
with Britain's an- British.
ention to withdraw all U.S. presidents and De Gaulle
from Malaysia and have been at odds for years over
y the mid-1970s. De Gaulle's determination to mm-
leave the United imize American influence in Eu-
e as the effective rope. One result has been to split
itary power in an area the North Atlantic Treaty Organ-
ritish and French tra- ization and force its headquarters
ay decisive roles. The withdrawal from France.
out in 1954. Sharp Differences
inson administration More recently sharp differences
persuade the British h a v e developed between the
don their Far Eastern United States and Germany,
the President frank- which have operated as the
this at a newscon- closest of allies for almost 20
erday. He indicated years.
ild still like to get the The President was reported
xnment to modify its stunned a week ago by announce-
ment in Bonn that the West
expressed ourselves as
al that the British
Lain their position in
)f the world and we Th tn
they would findlit
so," Johnson said.
Iking Position 1
a parallel reduction Xu s e J
t of allied cooperation
shington and London, UNITED NATIONS WP)-Secre-
at has been going on tary-General U Thant is said by
War II. UN sources to be as firmly con-
als say this has come vinced as ever that there can be
he British gradually no Vietnamese peace talks until
their empire and the U.S. bombing of North Viet-
resources to compete nam is halted.
owers - the United For this reason, they say, he
;he Soviet Union. is standing by his three-point
ss, the United States peace plan launched in April 1966,
e shrinkage policy and he feels that it would be fu-
ble - even while at tile to put forward any new plan
advocating the seem- that did not give priority to a
dictory policy of Bri- cessation of the bombing.
ng a European power Thant is understood to feel that
n the European uni- the key to the situation is in
vement. That policy Washington, where the decision
ars has been stalled will be made on any bombing halt,
y the opposition of and that there is little he can do
resident Charles de at- this time except to remain
available as a channel of com-
e eyes of officials in munications with Hanoi.
Britain remains one He sees U.S. Ambassador Ar-
allies and the only thur J. Goldberg regularly, but

German government had decided
to reduce sharply the 461,000-man
West German' army.
Quick objections from Wash-
ington that no such reduction
should be made without allied
consultation brought assurances
from Bonn that no hard deciison
had been reached and nothing
would be done without consulta-
tion.
Now it is announced the Chan-
cellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger will
make a delayed visit to the United
States on Aug. 15-16.
So far as the current announce-
ment goes the status of Hong
Kong-a British dock on the edge
of the vast mainland of Commun-
ist China, is not affected. Malay-
sia and Singapore, are independent
dountries; Hong Kong is a crown
colony.

HONG KONG (P)-Police and
military forces staged lightning
raids on terrorist strongholds last
night but the Communist kept up
their violence by bombing govern-
ment buildings and burning cars.
Weapons, some homemade bombs
and photos of police who have
been marked for assassination
were seized in police raids on three
Communist headquarters in this
colony next door to Red China.
Several persons were arrested.
Acetylene Torches
In one raid police used acetylene
torches to burn their way through
heavy iron doors. They found
sharpened rods, metal chains, pro-
paganda material and loud-speak-
ers. In other raids they found
knives, spears, bombs and water
pistols filled with acid.
Continuing a wave of terror that
has lasted more than a week,
Communists threw a bomb at a
post office, injuring two men.

building housing the families of
police, at a police headquarters
and at a health center. There were
no injuries and little damage.
British Crackdown
In the face of the latest British
government crackdown on suspect-
ed Communist strongholds, the 16-
story Bank of China, considered
the headquarters for the Commu-
nist campaign of political harass-
ment and terrorrist violence, seem-
ed to be preparing for raiders.
Bank workers were observed on
the roof of the building placing
barricades apparently designed as
defenses against possible helicop-
ter landings of British troops or
Hong Kong police.
The bank is reported stocked
with a four-month supply of food
and fuel. Government sources say
the bank is equipped for use as a
Communist command post, com-
plete with radio communications,
emergency power generatars and

eliminate the danger of renewed
war in the Middle East, Israel
must immediately withdraw its
forces from the territories of the
Arab states occupied by Israel."
These areas are in Egypt, Jor-
dan and Syria.
Gromyko did not ask Ethiopian
Ambassador Endalkachew Makon-
nen, the July council president,
to call a session to consider the
charges. But most diplomats
viewed the letter as a kind of
bridge from the General Assem-
bly back to the council for the
Russians.
The Soviet Union asked the
assembly to meet in urgent ses-
sion more than a month ago.
Premier Alexei N. Kosygin de-
manded from the rostrum that
the assembly condemn Israel as
an aggressor and request an im-
mediate withdrawal of Israeli
forces from Arab territory won
in the June 5-10 war.
Soviets Frustrated
But the Soviet Union has been
frustrated in its efforts to get any
kind of a resolution through the
assembly, that would satisfy its
Arab allies, and likelihood was
fading of any agreement on a
withdrawal resolution before the
assembly reconvenes on Thursday
after a three-day recess.
Kosygin left June 26 for Cuba
and home after a_ nine-day stay
that included two meetings with
President Johnson at Glassboro,
N.J., but Gromyko has been
waiting-mostly in the wings-for
the assembly to act.
In the letter to Makonnen, the
Soviet foreign minister charged
the Israelis with bombing Egyp-
tian towns and inhabitants in the
Suez Canal area. He said that was
proof that Israel intended to
continue the war against Egypt
and the other Arab states.

Terrorists also threw bombs at aself-contained water systems.

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BARGAI N
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ins U.S. Bomb Halt
for Viet Peace Talks

associates of Goldberg said they
have no knowledge that the ques-
tion of Vietnam has come up in
recent conversations. It is report-
ed by UN officials that Thant has
made no new moves since last
March.
Thant's three-point peace plan
called for a cessation of the bomb-
ing of North Vietnam as the first
stage, to be followed by a de-
escalation of operations by both
sides and the inclusion of the Na-
tional Liberation Front, the Viet
Cong's political arm, in any peace
talks.
He stated on numerous occasions
that he had good reason to be-
lieve that a halt in the bombing
would lead to peace negotiations
within two or three weeks. He de-
clined to say, however, that he
had received any direct commit-
ment from Hanoi authorities.
Associates say that he has not
been active recently on Vietnam
because he felt the whole trend
was toward escalation and that the
time was not ripe for peace moves.
Second Term
That has never given up his
hope that he may be useful in ar-
ranging peace talks-even though
he has not been active recently.
He accepted a second term as sec-
retary-general largely because he
believed he could play a bigger
role in Vietnam peace efforts than
he could as a nrivate citizen.

about that we're about to pull out"
of Vietnam.
"They're completely wrong," said
Sharp, whose command area in-
volves 85 million square miles and
nearly a million people.
He said the Communists "must
realize they can't win.
"They must be trying to outlast
us,' hoping the same thing will
happen to us that happened to the
French. In the case of the French,
they just decided not to support
the war any longer."
Asked if there is a chance of
North Vietnam outlasting the al-
lied forces, Sharp replied, "I don't
think so."
He said the phrase that the al-
lied forces are winning the mili-
tary war in Vietnam is correct but
conceded that the pacification
program is going "slower than we
would like to see it. But it's a
long, slow process."
Sharp continued, "The air war
is yielding ever increasing gains.
During the last three months we
have wreaked greater destruction
and disruption of North Vietnam's
war-making capacity than in any
previous period.
Traffic Disrupted
"We have disrupted the rail
lines to Communist China fre-
quently during this period to the
extent that they must be finding
it very difficult to get traffic
through.

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WASHINGTON -Thirteen Re-
publican members of the House
Banking Committee demanded
yesterday a full congressional re-
view of U.S. government-financied
sale of weapons abroad..

government revenues by $6 billion.
He said there might be some
adjustments - presumably these
would be upward-although John-
son was not buying that idea at
the moment.
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rorism and intimidation."
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TOKYO - Japan's Communist
party virtually broke its ties with
Mao Tse-tung's Chinese Commu-
nist party yesterday by recalling

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