THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DATTv ....w...... ..._. . THUSDY, ARH 0, 96 Te MTCUivAil 1IAITiT PAGE THREE I I France To Leave Despite NATO Talks) See Chinese Indonesian Students Riot; Review of old Policies, Call for Communist Purge Command Commence Discussions In London Replies to Johnson Letter; No Formal Withdrawal Planned PARIS (kP)-Ignoring a warning from President Johnson, France announced yesterday it will go ahead with plans to pull all troops out of the Atlantic alliance and to assume control of United States bases on French soil by 1969. French President Charles de Gaulle, in a terse statement issued by a Cabinet spokesman, said that France could see no possibility of useful discussion on effective re- form of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Therefore, he said, France was going ahead with its pullout from the 15-member alliance's integrated command structure. France also will act to "re- establish her full sovereignty"- meaning that some 26,000 Ameri- can troops on French soil will have to submit to French authority by 1969, or leave. In London Meanwhile, a brisk round of Allied discussions on De Gaulle's latest moves already has begun. There were reports from London that a special foreign ministers' meeting might be called. The United States is seeking the opinion of its allies before re- sponding in detail to De Gaulle's proposals. The prospects seemed to be for long drawn-out talks be- fore any decision can be taken. De Gaulle said France is willing to have talks with its allies on the consequences of the actions and to make mutual defense pacts. Retain Spirit De Gaulle said that France would not formally renounce the NATO treaty when it runs out in April 1969, but wants to retain the spirit of the treaty, without par- ticipatign in its closely coordinat- ed military structure. De Gaulle's views were set forth in a letter sent to President John- son Monday. Johnson's reply, transmitted to the NATO Council by the U.S. permanent represen- tative on the council, Harland Cleveland, said that De Gaulle's insistence that foreign bases on French soil should come under French command was striking at the heart of NATO and should be discussed within NATO. Concerns All1 Cleveland said, in effect, that1 while De Gaulle's letter was ad- dressed only to Johnson, it really concerned all of the alliance. De Gaulle's spokesman said that he was dispatching similar letters, to other chiefs of Allied govern- ments but he did not name them. They were expected to include Canada, which has about 3,500 men in France, and West Ger- many, where France has about two troop divisions and tactical airi force units.I Soviet Trip Announced 1 Informed sources yesterday an-. nounced also that Charles de1 Gaulle's oficial visit to the Soviet Union wil begin June 20.2 The details of the trip, to lastl about 12 days, have not been definitely arranged. Negotiations are under way to decide on the principal places to be visited. Washington Briefs oI SINGAPORE (R) - Swarming over barbed wire barricades yes- Peking Actions; Call terday, about 10,000 anti-Com- t S' 'f'munist Indonesian students oc- ( Significance Unclear cupied the Education Building ins Jakarta in the second straight day WASHINGTON (P-State De- of attacks on government offices,c partment officials said yesterday reliable Singapore sources reported. that Red China is apparently con- Later, about 3.000 of the stu-r ducting a broad foreign policy re- dnswn trigit h a- dents went storming into the Par- # abr adfter a series of setbacks liament building and presented demands to members that Com- Peking has called home a num- munists be purged from the gov- ber of ambassadors from widely enbent, the informants said. scattered areas, officials said. Retuning travelers said the. They noted also that Foreign students also attacked and ran-k Minister Chen Yi disappeared sacked the offices of the Chinese from public view for a while. How- Communist news agency. Hsin ever, Peking has again reported Hua. The students have been de-' his presence in the capital in the manding that Communist Chinese: last couple of days. correspondents stop writing what they call lies about Indonesia. This information was given at Force Minister Out Thi inforDatintwasriven atr The students in Jakarta vented a State Department briefing for, their ire on the basic education representatives of nongovern- mhnirtern hbasiadeutyn mental organizations from around Pmister, Sumarjo, and Deputy the United States. Premier Subandrio, who also is foreign ministert Thp studentsnrep The sources with contacts in: Indonesia said the army tolerated the demonstrations. As proof they cited reports of how the soldiers acted in anti-Communist and pro- Communist demonstrations Tues-, day. When 200 to 300 pro-Commu- nist students attacked the U.S. Embassy, they broke windows and set fire to three cars before troops dispersed them. But when 8,0001 students attacked and sacked the Indonesian Foreign Ministry, dragging furniture into the streets and burning it, soldiers "just stood by and smiled," one source as- serted. The sources in Singapore said in the past few days most of the armed forces have lined up behind the ousted defense minister, Gen. Abdul Haris Nasution, an anti- Communist. Sukarno fired him last month, touching off the demonstrations. In the past few days, one source said, the powerful trade unions of Indonesia have thrown in their lot with the students. "The majority of the people are now with the students and the army," he continued. "The only force Sukarno and Subandrio could draw on now are the palace guards and some of the pro- Communist students and political organizations that Subandrio has been nurturing with his support and arms." world News Roundup By The Associated Press against U.S. imperialist aggres- DETROIT-Sinai Hospital re- sion." -Associated Press FRENCH PRESIDENT DE GAULLE ADDRESSES NEWSMEN at press conference at which he first called for the dismantling of the NATO integrated command structure by 1969. De Gaulle asked ' that France regain control of all troops stationed on her soil by that time. Johnson War Tax Bill Passes, Committee Asks for Viet Aid WASHINGTON (P)-A skeptical, critical Senate Foreign Relations Committee urged approval yes- terday of $275 million in emer- gency economic aid for South Viet Nam, and President Johnson's Viet Nam war tax bill rode through the Senate by a 79-9 vote after more than a billion dollars in potential revenue had been squeezed out of it. Even as the Foreign Relations Committee called for passage of President Johnson's supplemental aid program-which totals $415 million for Southeast Asia and other trouble spots-it questioned whether the assistance will lead to "a better way of life for the people of South Viet Nam." It called for an investigation of reported corruption in the Viet- namese aid program. And two Democratic senators- Frank Church of Idaho and Joseph S. Clark of Pennsylvania- added a statement declaring their support of the bill is not a rati- fication of the administration's Viet Nam policy. War Tax Bill Meanwhile, the shortened war tax bill headed for a conference with the House, where administra- tion leaders hoped to restore it to its origiMal $6 billion shape. The biggest of two revenue changes was written into the bill Tuesday when the Senate adopted 45-40 a Republican proposal to add 1.8 million persons not pres- ently covered to the Social Secur- ity rolls. This would cost an estimated $760 million a year. Yesterday the Senate wrote into the bill-46 to 42 over adminis- tration objections-an amendment by Sen. Vance Hartke (D-Ind) to wipe out a projected increase in tax on local residential telephone service. This eliminated about $315 million of revenue from the legis- lation. The Hartke proposal would re- duce a 10 per cent levy proposal by keeping residential service at the present 3 per cent. The tax on long distance and business service would go back to 10 per cent as Johnson had pro- posed for all telephone service. At Senate Hearings Secretary of Defense Robert Mc- Namara and Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Earle Wheeler testified before the House Armed Services Committee, and made their comments to reporters out- side the hearing room. Wheeler said U.S. and South Vietnamese forces "hold the battle initiative" in the Southeast Asian war. McNamara said "it is too soon to tell" whether a turning point has been reached. But he said air- ground offensives against the Communists "have been very suc- cessful in the past few days." A large number of senior State Department officials, from Sec-7 retary Dean Rusk and Under- secretary George W. Ball on down, were listed as speaking at the two-day conference.; In reporting Peking's foreign I policy review, the officials de-j clined to predict the outcome- whether Red China will ease her] hard-line policy toward the West,' or become even more militant. Setbacks Listed The Chinese self examination,l the officials said, follows a seriesa of rebuffs in recent months. These included the anti-Communist up- surge in Indonesia, the India- Pakistan settlement, and the anti-1 Chinese developments in a ,num- ber of African countries. As for American policy toward Red China, the State Department officials took issue with some of the criticisms that have been voiced at the current hearings before the Senate Foreign Rela- tions Committee headed by Sen. J. W. Fulbright (D-Ark). The officials said those who have been talking about improv- ing U.S. relations with Peking; ought to answer the question of what to do about Nationalist China. Taiwan Issue This is because the Communist Chinese have insisted that before any other issue can be solved, Taiwan must be turned over to, them, the officials said. They said Washington and Peking have had many talks-the 129th U.S.-Red Chinese ambas- sadorial meeting is scheduled in Warsaw, Poland, thiscweek-and in 10 years of these discussions the Chinese have always started with a demand for Taiwan. And without Taiwan, the Communists refuse to discuss any other matter, they said. would tell them what action he support in railway transport "has wants taken to stop the demon- made an active contribution to the strations. Vietnamese people's s t r u g g 1 e .. e (li t trying to force Subandrio out of the Cabinet because they consider he is pro-Communist Chinese. Jakarta radio said Sukarno and Subandrio visited the Foreign Ministry during the morning to inspect the damage. It declared the students took important let- ters from the files, including some letters of agreement with foreign countries. Three tanks had been stationed at the Foreign Ministry and barb- ed wire was thrown up at all ap- proaches to both the Foreign Min- istry and Education buildings. Summons Army Leaders Jakarta radio said Sukarno had summoned military commanders to meet with him Saturday and he ported yesterdaythat Rabbi Mor- ris Adler has developed circulatory' and pulmonary complications and his condition dontinues very critical. Rabbi Adler, in a coma since he was shot and wounded at his synagogue Feb. 12, took a turn for the worse Tuesday night. He suf- fered brain damage in the shoot- ing. -* * * HANOI-The opening of the ninth China-Viet Nam border railways conference, to discuss "concrete questions" for coopera- tion in 1966 was announced yes- terday. Truong Quang Hy, head of the North Vietnamese delegation, was quoted as saying Red China's W A S H I N G T O N-President Johnson yesterday urged a "three- stage national strategy against crime, welding together the efforts of local, state and federal govern- ments." Johnson's message to Congress was aimed at speeding congres- sional action on long-pending criminal legislation, and reshaping public attitudes toward crime. * * * NEW YORK-The stock market pulled out of a four-week slump yesterday with a strong rally, although trading was moderate from its recent hectic pace. Brokers described the advance as a technical rally with the mar- ket coming back from an oversold condition. - - -- ---------.--------.-------.--.----.---------------.-.---.,- - ~ ----~-r-- - IFCSGCfUAC-PANHEL to all pledges of fraternities and sororities Infiltrators' Attack Near Laos Repelled TONIGHT I LEARN ABOUT CAMPUS ACTIVITIES iI SAIGON (P)-A United States "green beret" detail and about 300 Montgnard tribal troopers beat off a strong Viet Cong attack yester- day on a Special Forces camp that keeps watch on Communist infil- tration routes from eastern Laos. "Everything is under control," they radioed from their triangular clay and log fortress in the Ashau Valley, near the Laotian frontier 60 miles northwest of the Ameri- can Marine and air center at Da Nang. U.S. headquarters lost radio con- tact with the camp after the predawn attack, staged by 200 or more men. That raised fears that it might have been overrun. But aerial reconnaissance showed it still stood and the garrison's re- assuring message was recorded by a circling flare plane at nightfall. Plane Downed Four Americans were killed when an old-twin engine C47 transport converted for combat duty that had raced to the scene was shot down. In addition to the four men killed, three were wounded but flown out by heli- copters. Heavy enemy fire delayed recovery of the dead. Two or more Communist com- panies launched the attack at 2 a.m., striking down from wooded hills along the border. They gave up late in the day, breaking off contact just before sundown. There was no immediate word concerning their losses. The Ashau valley camp is a base for patrols that keep watch on the movement of men and supplies into South Viet Nam from the Ho Chi Minh trail, which runs from North Vietnamese border points through Communist-held territory of Laos. The Monta- gnards, trained and armed by the United States, are anti-Communist mountaineers. Highest Weekly Casualties Over-all Communist casualties last week, however, were reported to have been their greatest in any week of this year-1,662 killed and 193 captured. Spokesmen said al- lied combat deaths declined to 274, of which 205 were among South Vietnamese troops. American losses from Feb. 27 to March 5 were listed as 61 killed, 177 wounded and one miss- ing. However, this report did not include U.S. Marine casualties in the Quang Ngai Province weekend battle that crushed North Viet Nam's 21st Regiment. and YOUR role as a CAMPUS LEADER come to GENERAL ACTIVITIES NITE 8:00 Thursday, March 10, 1966... Union Ballroom I i' i47s It I I! i '. iI' I' ' . I i _, - - - - - - -- - I S- '0John Meyer of Norwich, inc. 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