SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PA E':i' T ti SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1966 T~A fir £ £ JL 9 .LZR5i Johnson Says Nation Backs Viet Nam WASHINGTON A) - President Johnson said yesterday Congress and the nation overwhelmingly support his position on Viet Nam -a stand, he said, that will have to be bolstered with more U.S. fighting men. "There will be additional men needed and they will be supplied," Johnson said. He would not dis- cuss the number of troops who might join some 200,000 Americans now in South Viet Nam. But he indicated there are no present plans for a substantial troop buildup. Johnson said also there is no need now for a callup of military reserves. But he offered no long- range forecast on that. "I see at this moment no re- quirement for reserves," he said. And Johnson said he sees no conflict between his policy in Viet Nam and those prescribed by witnesses who have testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. "No one wants to escalate the war. No one wants to surrender and pull out," he said. "I don't see that there's any great dif- ference." He offered this assessment of opinion in Congress and the na- tion: "I ' think the country over- whelmingly supports the position we have taken and that the House and Senate do likewise." But mail reaching Chairman J. W. Fulbright of the Senate For- eign Relations Committee is re- ported running about 30 to. 1 against escalation of the war in Viet Nam. And the correspondents are re- ported also to be favoring, by about the same ratio, the com- mittee's open hearings into Presi- dent Johnson's policy in South- east Asia. A memo prepared for Fulbright by his staff showed that up to last Tuesday, some 5,000 had expressed approval of the Arkansas senator's opposition to escalation of the conflict and favored the hearings. "Those opposed have increased to 170 mainly because of the hearings. The writers mainly ob- ject either because of the fact they are being held at all, or to the manner in which they are being conducted," the memo said. Fulbright concedes it is likely that his mail normally would come most heavily from those who sup- port his course. Before the hearings were re- cessed Thursday, for the weekend, Fulbright acknowledged the op- position to hearings this way: "There has been some criticism of the committee for holding hear- ings at all. It has been said that we are giving aid and comfort to our enemies." A sampling of letters read by a reporter-with a proviso that names of writers not be used- included one from a man who said he had held "a recent long con- versation with President Ho Chi Minh" of North Viet Nam and had talked with other North Viet- namese and reached this con- clusion: "They are totally determined to continue the struggle until the American military presence is re- moved from Viet Nam." One woman in Cleveland, Ohio, was explicit in suggesting ground- work for future hearings: "Please conduct any further Viet Nam inquiry in private, or between 4:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. "Interference of regular day- time television programs is losing you the support and the votes of housewives." One letter called President Johnson "a dangerous man who has done more to blacken" the image of the United States "and to undermine the Democratic process than any president who preceded him." A couple urged that Fulbright insist that Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara testify at public hearings despite his re- jection of an invitation to do so. "Certainly if American boys can die in South Viet Nam, McNamara should explain in public," said one. don't you worry .. you haven't had an 'ensian representative come to your house? they'll be there! operation sellout is soon SGoldberg Increase Vows Peace UN Will Garcia Swears in Military Minister -Assoc A. U.S. INFANTRYMAN, left, drops his ammunition box and starts to sink to the ground as by Viet Cong fire on dash through rubber plantation north of Cu Chi, South Viet Nam, yes A TLANTA: U.S. Poliey Boosters To Ral Plan AntiWar Counter Prot Efforts .r1.fJUN Council hw{ Deadlocked :OnAction Ambassador Gives Thant Review of +>Honolulu Conference UNITED NATIONS ()-Ambas- sador Arthur J. Goldberg speeded up the U.S. peace offensive yes- terday vowing that theUnited Nations will play a constructive role in trying to bring about a peaceful solution in Viet Nam. But there still was no agree- ment among members of the 15- nation UN Security Council on how it might step into the situa- " tion, and Goldberg did not pre- dict any formal session of the council right away. The chief U.S. delegate went in- to action after his conference in ated Press Washington on Thursday with he is hit President Johnson on the decisions terday. taken at Honolulu in the talks there with the leaders of South Viet Nam. Goldberg consulted with some members of the council during the morning, held a news conference, then gave Secretary-General U ; Thant a review of his meeting with Johnson. "The President asked me in this e~t review to reaffirm that the goal est of the United States in Viet Nam is an honorable and just peace- the rally peace at the earliest possible time," de dmon-Goldberg told reporters. de demon- Declined Comment U.S. war He declined to predict the out- come of the UN consultations or ations what action the Security Council tlanta, co- might take. ar commit- He said this could be a resolu- ns against tion, a statement summing up the ent will be opinion of the various council ackson and members "or some other action." ttle Rock, He cautioned against ruling out vew York, prospects of a formal council de- h, Chicago, bate at a future time. rkeley and He said he wanted to stress that the U.S. action in bringing the hts groups issue before the council already rganization has had a good effect in that Nonviolent many nations now are involved in t t e e, the the problem and that is all to Leadership the good. 'ongress of "I believe also that the United Nations will play a constructive role in attempting to bring about ty a peaceful solution in Viet.Nam," for Rusk he added. heavy. The Seek Clarification y' will have He said the United States was ,nd around seeking clarification from Hanoi on its demands for recognition of cades were the National Front for Liberation, eorgia for the political arm of the Viet Cong. n, special But he made clear the United planned to States could not regard the front a colleges as a representative of the South Vietnamese government. ed to the He said he did not regard the Gov. Carl issue as one barring a peace con- Richard B. ference, and that if North Viet Talmadge; Nam wanted to come to the con- ea, Malay- ference table the question of rep- Denmark, resentation could be negotiated. , Belgium, Asked whether the declaration 'an, Italy, adopted at Honolulu might hamper and, West UN peace efforts, Goldberg re- in and the plied that he did not find this to be true. He said that on the day rnstrations, the declaration was issued he met Lewis of with delegates from a dozen na- lhton Lynd, tions, including Communist and s who re- neutrals, and none expressed the in a so- view that the declaration would eace. affect adversely the consultations. SANTO DOMINGO (')-Presi- dent Hector Garcia-Godoy swore in a new armed forces minister Friday in a bid to end a crisis that has seen 12 persons die in riots in the past three days. But this belated move seemed to have little effect. A slowly spreading general strike by leftists against the Dominican military leaders was spreading paralysis in the capital and elsewhere. Garcia-Godoy administered the oath to Col. Enrique Perez y Perez, 42, who is a veteran of combat against anti-Trujillo invasions from Cuba in 1949 and 1959. Present for the ceremony was the outgoing armed forces minis- ter, Commodore Francisco J. Ri- vera Caminero, who leaves Satur- day for his. new post as military. attache in Washington. Perez y Perez, elevated to the temporary rank of brigadier general, was selected from a list of three can- didates proposed by the armed forces high command. The strikers, however, want a cleanup of the whole military command. Most business houses, interna- tional air service, government of- fices and the vital, dollar-produc- ing state-owned sugar industry were shuttered. The strike was also in protest against police violence in break- ing up a student demonstration Wednesday that killed seven per- sons. The strike had the backing of the powerful Dominican Revo- lutionary party and its leader, ex- President Juan Bosch. Bosch issued a statement saying the strike would continue until all the military leaders opposed by the strikers leave the country. The downtown sector of the Dominican capital, once the bas- tion of the rebel movement, was sealed off to traffic by gangs of youths armed with clubs and rocks. At least four cars were smashed. Gunfire sounded in var- ious quarters of the city, but authorities reported no new casualties. The three-day violence has claimed at least 12 lives and some two score injured. Aimed primarily at forcing com- pliance with a presidential order reshuffling the military high command and transferring abroad three of the top four officers, the strike threatened to upset negotia- tions by which the government hoped to end the political-military crisis. The crisis arose from a violent clash last Dec. 19 between army regulars and rebel fighters in Santiago. The armed forces at first openly defied the presidential edict. But later, confronted with pressures from;the Organization of Ameri- can States and the inter-American peace force, the armed forces pro- posed significant changes that Garcia-Godoy partly accepted. One of these was the single change in the army hierarchy which places Perez y Perez in the top command. As we were sayint CANTERBURY HOUSE AND ED REYNOLDS will be (fun~ctioning folk singing) this weekend CONTINUING THE FOCUS ON CHINA DR. CHARLES C. WEST speaks MONDAY on "CHINA: THE ENEMY AND THE NEIGHBOR" .. 4:15 P.M.-Multipurpose Room, Undergraduate Library University Lecture sponsored by The Office of Religious Affairs with a six-string guitar, a twelve-string guitar, an auto-harp, a harmonica, a police whistle, a kazoo ...(gasp!) and that's not all. .. (blush!) 11 Humphrey Predicts Victory Over Communism, Poverty Friday-Saturday 218 N. Division 8:30 P.M. One Dollar per person ATLANTA (P-Thousands are expected to attend a student rally here today in support of the U.S. commitment in Viet Nam while civil rights groups and so-called peace groups plan antiwar demon- strations elsewhere in the country. "Affirmation Viet Nam," a proj- ect which hopes to rally 50,000 persons at the Atlanta Stadium, climaxes the efforts of thousands of Georgia college students to "do something to show the world how most Americans feel." Secretary of State Dean Rusk will be given the signatures of more than 200,000 Georgians sup- porting the war effort. Besides Rusk, speakers will include retired Army Gen. Lucius D. Clay and Nyguyen Du Lien, ambassador- observer at the United Nations from South Viet Nam. A group called the "Southern Coordinating Committee to End the War in Viet Nam" has said World News Roundup. By The Associated Press MOSCOW-Author Andrei D. Sinyavsky pleaded yesterday be- fore a high Soviet court for ar- tistic freedom but the presiding judge told him this had no bear- ing on his trial. Sinyavsky and another author who smuggled anti-Soviet works to the west, Yuli M. Daniel, are be- ing tried' for spreading anti-So- viet propaganda. They face up to seven years in prison and five years of exile in Siberia. * * * LEOPOL6VILLE - Gov. Benoit Wetshindjadi of the Congo's San- kuru Province has been sentenced to eight years in prison after be- ing found guilty of corruption by a military court in Leopoldville, the government announced yester- day. * * * LONDON-The House of Com- mons voted yesterday to legalize lomosexuality between consenting male adults in private. The bill, already approved by the House of Lords, thus passed its major par- liamentary hurdle after a long campaign by social reformers. * * * SAN ANTONIO-A spinal men- ingitis outbreak has forced mili- tary authorities to close off Lack- land Air Force Base here to all new Air Force inductees. Meas- ures to confine outbreaks of the disease have also been taken at Ft. Polk, La., Ft. Gordon, Ga., and Ft. Knox. Ky. to be chairman of the Federal Power Commission and Elmer B. Staats, deputy director of the budget, to be comptroller general. Johnson also announced several other major appointments includ- ing that of Robert H. Fleming to be deputy press secretary "for the moment" as Bill D. Moyers takes on more special assign- ments for the President. * * * ATLANTA--Inmates at the U.S. penitentiary in Atlanta are vol- unteering for service in Viet Nam, even though a law providing for such duty expired at the end of World War II. * * * WASHINGTON-A youthful ex- Klansman from Ohio yesterday described a fantastic series of plots to assassinate President Johnson and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Daniel N. Wagner, 19, well- dressed and well-spoken, told the House Comnittee on Un-Ameri- can Activities that he joined the Ku Klux Klan in 1965 because he wanted to do "something dras- tic" for the white race. the group will picket as part of a nationwi stration against the effort. Viet Nam Demonstr Dwain Wilder of At ordinator of the antiwa tee, said demonstratio the Viet Nam commitm held in New Orleans, Ja Tugaloo, Nashville, Li Richmond, Boston, N Philadelphia, Pittsburgh Miami, Los Angeles, Be Houston. Wilder said civil rig represented in his o include the Student3 Coordinating C o m m I Southern Christian7 Conference and the C Racial Equality. Heavy Securit Security precautions were expected to be h Atlanta police said the: 300 men on duty in a the stadium. More than 60 motor expected from over G the event. In additio trains and buses were1 bring students from throughout Georgia. Other notables invit rally include Georgia E. Sanders and Sens.F Russell and Herman' ambassadors from Kor sia, the Netherlands, Thailand, India, Laos Turkey, Australia, In Guatemala, New Zeal Germany, Ecuador, Spa Philippines. At the antiwar demo spe'akers include John Los Angeles, and Staug one of three American cently went to Hanoi called effort to seek p SAIGON (P) - Vice-President Hubert H. Humphrey forecast eventual victory over both the Communists and poverty, disease and illiteracy in South Viet Nam. "The American people ought to know there are two wars going on here and both of these struggles are being won," Humphrey told newsmen yesterday. Making this pronouncement aft- er a guarded, six-hour tour of four Vietnamese self-help projects, he said successful completion of the dual campaign will take time. He cautioned against setting any deadline. Humphrey planned to spend a full day in the field today, most- ly visiting U.S. troops. He will fly Sunday to Bangkok, Thailand, the next stop on an Asian tour to fill in various nations on Viet- namese developments. Thailand, Laos, Pakistan, India, Australia and New Zealand are on the itinerary announced by the White House. The Philippines for- eign secretary, Narciso Ramos, said Humphrey will also stop in Manila for a few hours Feb. 19. The tropic sun was hot and the vice-president's face was burned on his tour of the four self-help projects, all in the Saigon area. These are examples of the kind of social-economic betterment pro- grams the Saigon government now is pushing with the strong sup- port of President Johnson. Humphrey traveled byhelicop- ter and car to a recently pacified village now called New Prosper- ity, a student-run slum rehabili- tation project, a housing develop- ment and an agricultural experi- ment station. He described himself as very encouraged by what he had seen. Humphrey said he was impress- ed by two things he learned: -That a village near the one he visited had asked for the same government help in building new schools, a market and dispensar- ies. This Humphrey said, means such "rural construction" could spread and deprive the Commu- nists of support of the people. -The initiative of the Vietna- mesestudents who, in only a few months, have gone a long way toward building a new community in the poorest district in Saigon -an area where refugees had squatted until recently among tombstones of an old cemetery. 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