USSR-CHINA SPLIT: DIPLOMATIC CHANCE See Editorial Page Y liEir igaziY :43 a t ty PARTLY CLOUDY High-40 Low-28 Winds, 15 to 20 miles per hour and gusty Seventy-Five Years of Editorial Freedom VOL. LXXVI, No. 77 ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1. 1965 SEVEN CENTS SIX PAGES Washington Peace Rally -ieally A Quiet Day EDITOR'S NOTE: Daily reporter Thomas R. Copt attended last week- end's march on Washington to pro- test the war in Viet Nam. This is his story of details and Incidents about the march. By THOMAS R. COPI Special To The Daily WASHINGTON - Shortly after the Protest March on Washington to End the War in Viet Nam be- gan, Douglas Niles, one of the storm troopers of George Lin- coln Rockwell's American Nazi Party, joined the counter-picket line which had formed across the street from the White House. Greeted with scattered ap- plause, Niles was carrying a bright + red gas can and a sign reading "Free gas and matches for peace creeps" on one side and "more po- lice brutality". on the other. But before he had marched the length of the counter-picket line, Mark Garfinkel, an ex-Marine pre-law student at Temple University in Philadelphia, lept at him, tearing off his swastika armband and damaging his picket sign. The two squared off and faced each other for a brief moment before news photographers and police separated them. Garfinkel was taken into custody for "dis- orderly conduct" and Niles was surrounded by a cordon of police who led him to an unoccupied area where he continued to march alone-surrounded by 35 police officers. One of the three Temple stu- dents who accompanied Garfinkel to Washington commented that "nobody on either side wants that Nazi." Another counter-demon- strator said "I support the Unit- ed States' Viet Nam policy, but nobody needs this Nazi fanatic .. . he isn't by any means a spokes- man for the United States." Rockwell himself, who spoke at an all-day "patriotic rally" to "stand up for our boys in Viet Nam," was arrested between speeches after grabbing a Na- tional Liberation Front flag from Walter Teague, leader of the Com- mittee to Aid the National Lib- eration Front of South Viet Nam (CANLF). Also appearing at Rock- well's rally, held several blocks from the Washington Monument, on the Mall, were Herb (The Skull) Booker of Hell's Angels Mo- torcycle Club and Michael Lee Lutman of the Ku Klux Klan. The rally drew a crowd of about 150 made up mostly of hecklers, but including curious tourists and marchers. Monitors appointed by SANE (Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy)-the group sponsoring the peace march - helped the more than 600 police with crowd con- trol. According to one monitor, who wore an orange armband to signify his position, he was simply there to "help keep things mov- ing." He said that "we are supposed to ask demonstrators with inap- propriate signs to remove them. Also, in event of any disturbance our responsibility is to reroute our section of the line around it. It is left to the police to take care of the disturbance," he added. SANE had requested that all. picketers who wished to carry signs in the demonstration use those provided by SANE. But many protestors felt that SANE's posters were too weakly worded and car- ried their own, more strongly anti- administration, placards. The Washington police, supple- mented by a special force of Park Police from the Department of the Interiur, kept things under con- the flags, which they tore and at- trol in general, making a total of tempted to burn. 13 arrests. A police officer standing five One officer commented that "it feet from the attack made no was really a pretty quiet day." move to aid the CANLF people. The counter-picket consisted of Even when they asked him to have independent demonstrators and the vandals return their flag, the3 members of The American Party- officer made no move to do so, but a Boston-based organization-and instead ordered the CANLF mem- the Polish Freedom Fighters - a bers to "move on," which they New York City group. One of the did. No one was taken into cus- American Party signs had "Boston tody over the incident, although University" written on it. The the police prevented the counter- sign: "Burn Teach-In Professors." pickets from burning the NLF The only real fighting that flag. erupted during the march came During the entire time the NLF about when two other members of'_theCANLFwalkedthroughth the CANLF walked through the counter-picket line carrying furled NLF flags. They were accosted by several of the counter-pickets who demanded to know what the flags were for. When the CANLF people didn't reply, the counter- pickets grabbed them and one of flag was raised, it was surround- ed by American flags. Teague said that "they are making a mistake by trying to surround the NLF flag. Americans should march with this flag." After Teague was at- tacked by Rockwell, a tightly knit group marched with him,r preventing further attacks on him or his flag. . Although Sanford Gottlieb of SANE, chairman of the march, that they did so on their own, and not under the instructions of SANE or anyone else. One said, "I'm carrying this flag for myself, Americans and Viet- namese." Another maintained that he bore the Stars and Stripes "under my own auspices." He add- ed that he believed that "America should get out of Viet Nam. I carry the American flag to coun- - I fpinn4 th- hide of IFk® r c