WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, x.966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE WEDNSDA, JAUAR 26,196 THEMICIGANDAIY PAE Tl__ / i Fi1A i/ i iVLY 4 Johnson Holds aslk Air Tragedy 'Kills 46 G..'s In Viet Nam w Plane Crashes into Mountain Leaving No Known Survivors SAIGON WIP-The worst Ameri- can crash of the war within Viet Nam marred a shifting of troops Syesterday for drives intended to root elusive Communists bands from their hideouts. Forty-six U.S. servicemen died in the crackup, fire and explosions ,that shattered a twin-engine 0123 transport, on a rain-veiled hillside in the central highlands. Impact Sand heat combined to set off mortar shells carried as cargo and then personal ammunition-car- tridges and grenades. Victims of the air crash were 42 troopers of the U.S. 7th Ca- valry, Airmobile, Regiment and the transport's four-mian crew, from the 315th Air Commando Group. A search party found none aboard survived. One Unit The troopers formed one unit of many being lined up by the allies -- Americans, Australians, New 7ealanders, South Koreans and South Vietnamese-for of- fensive probes in various areas to regain touch with enemy forces that generally have avoided com- bat since the end of the lunar new year truce Sunday. The transport slammed into the hillside while groping through a driving rain five miles east of An Khe. It had taken pff shortly before from a field in the An Khe staging area, headquarters of the U.S. 1st Cavalry, Airmobile Di- vision, 250 miles northeast of Saigon. Communist Attack Though they have avoided a major test of strength since the end of the cease fire, the Com- munists killed three American and two Vietnamese with a 15-minute mortar attack before dawn Tues- day on the U.S. Marine base at Da Nang. Eleven Americans and 14 Vietnamese were wounded. Briefing officers said Viet Cong operations through a 24-hour period of Monday and Tuesday encompassed only 20 minor harassments and one act of terrorism. A Saigon government spokes- man said contact has been made with North Vietnamese regular regiments which began operating south of the border months ago. Last Big Defeat Their last big fight was with U.S. air cavalrymen and Vietna- mese rangers in the Ia Drang Valley of the central highlands last November and they pulled away from that in defeat. The North Vietnamese com- manders' reluctance to tangle again with air cavalry elements prompted some speculation before the lunar new year truce that the N Hanoi regime might have ordered them to avoid battle as a prelude to peace talks. But senior Ameri- can officers said this was most unlikely. The Ia Drang campaign taught the North Vietnames an expensive lesson about American firepower and mobility. The impression among American authorities is that the Red regulars are merely obeying one of the first rules of soldiering: never seek a fight un- less the odds favor victory. - I on War To p Level' e Decisions Diplomats, Milta Men {:....... if i Ril In Parley Possibility of New Bombings on North Remains in Doubt WASHINGTON () -President Johnson conferred at the White House last night with Democratic and Republican leaders of Con- gress on "several matters affecting the national security"-Viet Nam obviously among them. Press Secretary Bill D. Moyers made the announcement after the meeting got under way at 5:30 p m. He said he would have noth- ing further to say about it and reported that Johnson had asked members of Congress present to regard the information divulged as confidential." In response to a question, Moy- .'::::..L.. ers wouldn't even say that Viet Nam was being discussed. However, <' that was self evident-if , only because the conferees on the ad- ministration side included roving Ambassador W. Averell Harriman, just back from a round-the-world peace mission, and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, former ambassador to Saigon who now is a presidential $ OL) H consultant on Viet Nam. VJE" Top Leaders Most of the top Democratic and Republican leaders of the Senate and House as well as the chair- men and ranking Republican members of such committees as areas on this map Foreign Relations, Armed Services which the Saigon and Appropriations were present. e populace. British Plan' Quick End For Smith All Races To Have 1 Representative; South Africa Stays Neutral By The Associated Press E LONDON-Prime Minister Har- old Wilson promised last night that Africans would share in any provisional government that suc- ceeds the all-white minority rebel regime in Rhodesia. He said an interim government would be set up in Salisbury as soon as the white rebellion is crushed. Wilson outlined to a packed House of Commons, meeting for the first time since the Christmas holidays, his government's aims for ending the 10-week rebellion and bringing the colony back to constitutional rule under Queen Elizabeth II. Hopes for Acceptance The British leader said he hoped the people of Rhodesia will accept his program "this week, and if not, then next week." This statement, he said, was "a permanent in- vitation to those in Rhodesia who want to return to constitutional rule." The prime minister's statement brought an angry outcry from op- position Conservatives and espe- cially from a bloc of those who have attacked any action by Brit- ain to bring down the rebellion. Oil Despite Embargo British government officials said they found little significance in Prime Minister Hendrik Ver- woerd's statement in Johannes- burg that South Africa will permit oil supplies to be sent to Rho- desia despite the international oil embargo. They noted that Verwoerd did not offer to send any of his country's oil supplies to -Rhodesia and underlined that South Africa will take no sides in the indepen- dence crisis. Britain's Problem Britain's problem, as these of- ficials see it, is to prevent pirate oil operators from sending oil to Rhodesia by the tankerload, whether through South Africa by truck or up the pipeline from Beira in Portuguese Mozambique. News of Verwoerd's statement reached London as Wilson was "spelling out in greater detail than before" Britain's aims in Rhodesia. The interim government, he said, will contain "the widest Pos- sible spectrum of public opinion of all races" and it will be under the control of the representative in Rhodesia of the queen, the governor general. Political Prisoners The governor also will control the armed forces and the police. Political prisoners, jailed by Prime Minister Ian Smith's white gov- ernment, will be released as soon as they guarantee that their poli- tical activities will be carried out constitutionally. Wilson said neither Smith nor members of his government would have any say in preparing Rho- desia's future. But he added that the governor general, Sir Hum- phrey Gibbs, was authorized to receive proposals from Smith or anybody else on means of ending the rebellion. Britain's primary aim, Wilson said, was to end the rebellion and "to this end it will maintain and, as necessary, intensify economic measures with a view to a speedy settlement." Wilson is to announce tougher sanctions against rebel- lion, probably later this week. 1 WASHINGTON OP)P- President Johnson proposed yesterday ac broad antipoverty program for rural America with the federal government pledging at least $51 million the first year. Key feature of the plan is fed- eral aid in setting up community development districts to tackle such problems as health care, edu- cation, cultural opportunities and public services. Administration officials said various government departments and agencies have at least $5 mil- lion available for grants and as- sistance in the fiscal year starting July 1. Poverty Committee Ina special message to Con- gress, Johnson also said he soon will appoint a committee on rural poverty. Its task, he said, will be to make recommendations to him within one year on the most ef- ficient and promising means of ."sharing America's abundance with those who have too often been her forgotten people." Officials said the development districts, to be started on a pilot project basis at first, might em- brace several counties and towns that have similar problems. Johnson said, for example, that a comprehensive survey of medical conditions in the area would be undertaken by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, while the Agriculture Department would emphasize its rural develop- ment programs in the pilot dis- tricts. Teacher Corps He said he will again urge Con- gress to create the teacher corps which would be asked to make teams available forsthe planning districts. He also said the program would make possible a financial incentive to provide more doctors in poor rural areas. This would be done by extending government loans to medical students who agree to practice in poor rural areas. They noted that nonfarmers now outnumber farmers in these rural areas. Johnson told Congress too few rural communities are able to marshal sufficient physical, hu- man, and financial resources to achieve a satisfactory level of so- cial and economic development. Coordinate Planning Stressing the need for coordi- nated planning, Johnson said this would make it possible to extend to the people in outlying rural areas a richer variety of public services- and economic and cultural oppor- tunities. He said coordinated planning can stimulate economic growth, provide efficient public services to attract business and industry, and make possible adequate voca- tional training so that rural work- ers can become qualified for work in new and expanding industries within reach of their homes. Anti-Poverty Program Extended Millions More for Rural Areas FLA SH! The deadline for the Michigan Daily's Special Apartment Supplement has been extended. Space very limited. CALL NOW-764-0560 DELTA PHI EPSILON Men's Professional Foreign Service Fraternity Announces OPEN RUSH MEETING THURSDAY, JAN. 27 . . . 7:30 P.M. Recreation Room, International Center SPEAKER: PROFESSOR MED IN School of Education "ALTERNATIVES TO SOCIAL.DEVELOPMENT ABROAD: THE ROLE OF EDUCATION" All men interested in Careers in Foreign Affairs AREAS OF CONTROL IN VIET NAM-Black locate.those portions of South Viet Nam in government has some form of control over the INCENTIVES: USSR To Change Farm Organization, Officials said the designed to improve both farmers and program is the lot of nonfarmers. WELCOME I MOSCOW. ()-A commission headed by Communist party sec- cetary Leonid I. Brezhnev was an- nounced yesterday to prepare new rules for the 38,000 collective farms forming the backbone of backward Soviet agriculture. Foreign quarters expect an in- crease in incentives for collective farmers, the most underpaid and underprivileged group in the Soviet Union. Agriculture has fallen short of goals, the Soviet diet is poorly balanced, and wheat has been imported in two of the last three years. In .-an effort to overcome this, payments, to farms have been in- creased recently and the rural element of_ private enterprise in-. creased by enlarging individual gardens whose output can be sold privately. But the basic system of collec- tives has remained uninspiring for farmers. New Commission The vague official announce- ment said the new commission on rules had been instructed by the Soviet Communist party's Central Committee to study all proposals. Brezhnev is the committee's first secretary. The statutes governing agricul- ture are 30 years old. They were fixed shortly after Stalin forcibly collectivized agriculture in a cam- paign in which millions, died in famines caused by rural disloca- tions. Since then, farmers have been' tied to the land, denied the rights of travel enjoyed by other Russians. State Farms In addition to collective farms there are state farms. Investment funds are supplied to state farms by the government and the work- ers guaranteed a government wage. Collectives were supposed to save for investment and pay wages from profits. In fact, the collec- tives had little to invest, which meant that they were not modern- ized, and often paid farmers noth- ing in cash. There have been public hints, some made by Brezhnev's prede- cessor as Communist party boss, Nikita S. Khrushchev, that the system of collective farm rewards had to be changed. The old system pays farmers for the number of work units they earn. A day of digging potatoes might mean one work unit. Total units for all workers on a farm were divided into profits, if any, and the cash then handed out. New System Last year, the Soviet Union adopted a system of tying, indus- trial production rewards closer to actual results than to meaning- less indices of economic plans. Some quarters think a similar change might be coming now on the farms. I "" 2-piece SUITS X1.35 A & P 1-HOUR CLEANERS 312 E. Huron CASH & CARRY 668-9500 APTS, GALORE NEW and OLD BLDGS. 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