WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2,1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY WE1~NESDAY, AUGUST 2,1987 THE MICHIGAN flAILY L C1 V Ad Allies Push Into Mekong In Sweep Called Biggest Effort To Rout Guerrillas; Envoys Go to Korea By The Associated Press The largest allied assault force ever assembled in the Mekong Delta are hunting guerrillas in the swampy terrain southwest of Saigon. Contact slackened after heavy weekend fighting was set off by guerrilla efforts to cut a vital highway. Perhaps 10,000 or more United States and South Vietnamese forces are engaged in the sweep- called Coronado II - which was launched in secrecy last Friday. Estimates of the number of Viet Cong dead from various sources ranged from 150 to 350. The U.S. command said 16 Americans were killed and 59 wounded. Unofficial reports from the field said a similar number of casualties had occurred among the South Vietnamese troops. Terrorist Toll Officials reported that Viet 1k Cong terrorists killed 58 civilians, wounded 39 and abducted 44 last week. There was no official word on how many civilians were killed by allied forces fighting along the. heavily traveled highway link- ing My Tho, one of the largest cities in the area, to Saigon, 45 miles away. The road had been cut by guer- rilla forces eight times in 10 days, reducing the flow of rice and put- ting economic pressure on ,the capital. In the political scene, the Sai- gon government announced it has invited 36 nations to send observ- ers to see that the national elec- tions are free and honest. United Nations Secretary - General U Thant last Thursday rejected sending U.N. observers. Lifts Censorship The Saigon government has partly lifted censorship of news- papers' reportage of the campaign which will elect a president, vice- president and 60 members of the Senate Sept. 3 and a 122 member House of Representatives Oct. 22. Talks in South Korea were next on the agenda of Gen. Maxwell Taylor and Clark Clifford, Presi- dent Johnson's special envoys to U.S. Asian allies. They talked five hours with New Zealand govern- ment heads who pledged contin- ued resistance to communist forces. President Marcos of the Philippines has already declined to meet with the envoys. Foreign Minister Tran Van Do took issue with Thant's statement in a speech at Greensboro, N.C, Sunday that the allied fight in Vietnam is a war against a na- tional independence movement, n ot against Communist aggres- sion. "Mr. ,Thant is perfectly aware that South Vietnam is an independent state which has been internationally recognized as such for many years," Do said in a statement. "The war of national independ- ence which had been waged against the. French ended, for all practical purposes, in 1954. "In 1959 the Communists start- ed terrorist and sabotage activi- ties all around the country. NAMES STAFF HEAD: S'=W?. Ask Senate Study DAILY OFFICIAL BULLETI Hoover Tells Riot Commission The Daily Official Bulletin is an Room of the Institute of Social Rl official publication of the Univer- search Bldg. Ci c saitay of Michigan for which The Co s ia isNo n iae Michigan Daily assumes no edditrShe of Music Cncer - Ba Co s ia ieaotndc td rI~4 LL L1~eonsbl ~oicsshould beTrio: RRackham Lecture al, 8:30 L- WASHINGTON (R)--Chairmanj Otto Kerner said yesterday the presidential advisory commission on civil disorders got word from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover that1 "there is no intelligence on which to base a conclusion of conspira-1 cy" behind the wave of recent city riots. Hoover was one of the first wit- nesses the commission heard when it buckled down to the task as- signed it by President Johnson of determining what happened in the riots, why it happened and how future riots can be headed off. Kerner, who will be, dividing his time between chores of the commision and those of being governor of Illinois, said also that he thinks the deadlines set by President Johnson for reports from the commission will be dif- ficult to meet. Johnson asked for a prelimi- nary, interim report on, findings by March 1 and a final report with recommendations a year from now. The governor said Hoover had clocked about 52 disturbances in the last three years and it was on the basis of experience with them that he appeared before the commission today and said he found no indications of a con- spiracy. Kerner said in that connection that; "I think all of us are im- pressed by the fact . . . that some of these things seem to start with little incidents." To head the commission staff President Johnson tapped a 54- year old Negro who is director of the Illinois Department of Rev- enue, Theodore A. Jones. The appointment was made' upon recommendation of David Ginsburg, Washington lawyer who was named yesterday as executive director of the commission. Thus the 11 member group, un- der the chairmanship of Gov. Ot- USrosBRomney Lifts Restrictions to Kerner of Illinois, was swinging into operation to lay the ground- work for coming up with findings1 on what has actually happened in cities scourged by riots, why they< did happen, and what can bei done to prevent them from recur- ring, The process today was largely; one of getting some information and advice from persons who have; served on other investigating3 committees. Ginsburg left the morning ses- sion in the executive office build-; ing across the street from the White House to brief reporters. He said the members got into rules of procedure and matters of1 organizing and staff and then heard as their first witness J. Lee Rankin, former solicitor general, of the United States and former executive director of the Warren Commission which investigated the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. WASHINGTON (P-The epi- demic of racial violence erupted in the Nation's capital early yes-1 terday as young Negroes smashed store windows, set several minor fires and pelted police within a, mile of the White House. District of Columbia officials termed the disorder a "relativelyr minor street disturbance" and praised police for their dispatch and using the "minimum amount of force necessary" to handle the, trouble.t Police said there was no shoot- ing and little looting in the 2%/2- hour rampage by an estimated1 200 youths which broke out while police were moving several hun- dred spectators away from anf extra-alarm fire in a furniture store in a largely Negro area. Although ,nearby military in- stallations were reportedly alertedi in case the disturbance grew, po- lice described the disorder as vandalism rather than an out- break of rioting in the capital. Two-thirds of Washington's 750,- 000 residents are Negroes. WASHINGTON (A)-The Senate was urged yesterday to order a special study of racial rioting and put it under command of Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark), who directed the rackets investigations of a decade ago. McClellan, head of the perma- nent investigations subcommittee since 1954, would be authorized to make a two-month, $150,000 study of the disorders under a resolution adopted by the Senate Rules Committee. Declaring the job "should be started today or tomorrow," Sen. B. Everett Jordan (D-NC), chair- man of the Rules Committee, said the Senate "is determined to find the causes and recommend a remedy for this situation." Jordan's committee recommend- ed assigning the inquiry to Mc- Clellan's investigators after re- jecting, as too time-consuming, a proposal by Sen. Edward W. Brooke (R-Mass) that a special Senate-House committee be set up. ORGAN IZATION NOTICES USE OF THIS COLUMN FOR AN- NOUNCEMENTS is available to officially recognized and registered student or- ganizations only, Forms are available, in Room 1011 SAB. * * * Far Eastern Language Institute spon- sors a lecture by Prof. Kun Chang of the University of California. He will speak on "The Phonological system of the Chinese Language during the Sui-Tang Period," on Aug. 2 begin- ning at 7:30 p.m. In Rm. 102-103 of the Michigan Union. Deutscher Verein will sponsor kaffee- stunde: kaffee, kuchen, konversation, on Wed., Aug. 2. 3-5 p.m., 3050 Frieze Bldg. Christian Science Organization holds a weekly testimony meetin gthis Thurs. at 7:30-8:30 p.m. at 3545 SAB. * * w Univ.. of Michigan Rifle Club holds open shooting with .22 calibre rifles and pistols on this Wed., at 7-9 p.m. on the ROTC Rifle Range. Rifles furnished; ammunition available at a reduced price. McClellan's group would be in- structed to file a preliminary re- port by Oct. 2 and a final report by next Jan. 31. The action came amid these other developments: -Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark said he "never detected anything but cordiality" in his talks with Gov. George Romney of Michigan, who has accused President Johnson of playing politics in the dispatch of troops to quell Detroit's racial rioting. -Clark told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on John- son's civil rights bill that violence and rioting have become the greatest barriers to fulfillment of civil rights in America. -The Senate Judiciary Com- mittee announced police officials from cities hit by racial violence will be initial witnesses when hearings open today on a House- passed antiriot bill. The hearings on this bill, which would make it a federal crime to cross state lines with the aim of inciting a riot, could develop into a separate investigation of the street violence that has erulited in a number of American cities this summer. Clark told the Senate civil rights bill hearing that the rioting "must and will be stopped." While asserting this is a time of adversity for civil rights, Clark urged approval of the 1967 civil rights measure which includes an open housing provision. DETROIT (P) -Federal troops began leaving riot scarred Detroit yesterday as silently as they came. Huge C-130 transport planes rumbled off the runways of Sel- fridge Air Force Base, 20 miles northeast of the nation's fifth largest city. By the dozens, they carried 2,000 hardened troops away from fire-blackened scenes of destruction where 41 persons. were killed and more than 1,000 were injured. Saw No ,Action' Yet most members of the 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions never "saw action" against snipers or looters. The 5,000 troops were or- dered into Detroit by President Johnson late July 24 and arrived by plane and bus in morning darkness a week ago. By then "the riot was entering its third day and some areas of sporadic gunfire and heavy burn- ing, and looting were slowly being brought under control by 7,000 Michigan National Guardsmen and upwards of 6,000 policemen. Mainly, the troops were put on patrol or standby duty, posing an omnious threat against any wide- spread renewal of violence. First to leave today were four battalions of the 101st. They were returned to their home base, Ft. Campbell, Ky. Three battalions of the 82nd 1,500 men, were transported quiet- ly by buses from Detroit to Sel- fridge yesterday, said C y r u s Vance, special assistant to De- 'fense Secretary Robert McNa- mara. No timetable was disclosed for their return to Ft. Bragg, N.C. Vance called the action a "phased withdrawal- of regular Army troops." An Army spokes- man said 1,200 would remain for a time in Detroit. The troops were sent in by the federal government after Mich- igan Gov. George Romney and Detroit Mayor Jerome Cavanagh made the request. Lifts Restrictions As quiet settled upon the city- police noted fewer reports of crime logged than usual - Gov. Romney lifted nearly all emer- gency restrictions yesterday. He abolished the temporary curfew and said groups may as- semble freely. He lifted gasoline sale restrictions. But he continued e m e r g e n c y bans indefinitely against sale of weapons and ex- plosives. Romney on Monday end- ed the emergency prohibition against sale of beer, wine and liquor. _ irr =wwZ I -- LOOK FOR A SKY OF BLUE .. " ' " ."* . t* i - Na WEEK ONLY ONE WEEK ONLY! DIAL 8-6416 ENDS TONIGHT 2 Exceptional Films! ROMAN POLANSKI'S "An Absolute Knockout .. Of A Movie! -BosieyCrowther.New York Times A ROYAL FILMS INTERNATIONAL PRESENTATION *and ' WILLIAM WYLERS th collactor * Thursday ' "GAY SLAPSTICK COMEDY!" -Time Magazine CATHERINE DENEUVE in "A M ottrof Resistance A ROYAL FILMS INTERNATIONAL Release "GREAT Wednesday-Sunday August 9-13 LYDIA MENDELSSOHN THEATRE Don't Wait Until the Last Minute! 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