WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAJIA PAGE THREE Split in Indian C ongre ssNigerian Power Struggle Follows Assassination Try Delays Choice NEW DELHI R) - Congress to Desai's home for a late night Congress party support even on party leaders failed last night to hour appeal. election eve. remove rightist Morarji Desai from Later Kamaraj said, "I appeal- Mrs. Gandhi, whose late hus- the race for prime minister with ed to Morarji Desai to withdraw. band was no relation to Mohandas heavily favored Mrs. Indira Gan- He has refused to do so." K. Gandhi, was her father's poli- dhi, the late Jawaharlal Nehru's He said Desai "thinks he has tical confidant in the final year daughter. lithe support of the majority of of his life. He died in May, 1964. A secret party ballot to resolve members of Parliament . . .. I told She had been widely mentioned the fight appeared certain today. him that the majority of the mem- as Nehru's successor then but ruled Succeeds Shastri bers of the party want Mrs. In- herself out of the running in fa- Winner of the contest in the dira Gandhi, but he does not think vor of Shastri, a middle-roader. ruling Congress party will suc- so. She was said to believe that her ceed the late Prime Minister Lal "Therefore, so far as I am con- slightly left-of-center views would Bahadur Shastri. cerned, there will be a contest cause a party split when unity was President Kumaraswami Kama- today," he added. necessary. raj of the Congress party was Bows Out But she received an important among leaders who tried to get In 1964, Desai bowed out at the cabinet post, minister of informa- Desai to withdraw and 'clear the last minute to clear the way for tion and broadcasting, permitting way for Mrs. Gandhi, 48, to be Shastri to succeed Nehru. her to remain before the public chosen by acclamation. He drove Mrs. Gandhi picked up more! eye. Fighting in Viet Nam Rleduced As Four-Day Cease-Fire Nears of Leader LAGOS, Nigeria (;P)-An army top military men, of joining them forces, including the 50,000-mar power struggle followed Nigeria's or dying. police force, had nothing to do military takeover yesterday with Some officers are suspected of with the revolutionary movement. perhaps as many as 50 officers biding their time to stage a coun- Ironsi has said that he will reported executed and an unsuc- I tercoup. turn over power to a civilian gov- cessful attempt to assassinate the Ironsi told the Associated Press ernment as soon as a new con- country's new leader, Maj. Gen. there were now no dissident stitution, backed by the people Aguiyi Ironsi. groups within the military. is written. Nigeria, Africa's mos* Ironsi claimed ,however, that Troops on Guard populous nation, has 55 million all military units in the country Troops remain on guard at key people. had pledged loyalty to his new points throughout Lagos. Air serv- Whether the federal system regime. ices were resumed Monday and the which has held Nigeria's nine Confused Struggle army insisted road and rail traf- tribes together since Britain grant- Reliable sources said the con- fic was normal. . ed independence in 1960, will be fused army struggle was around As far as could be learned the maintained was an unanswered Ironsi and between rival factions, greater majority of the armed question. They said up to 50 officers had- been executed. According to the sources, a lieu- LA W UNDER ATTACK: SAIGON (M-)-Ground fighting dwindled to a trickle yesterday as both sides moved toward the pro-: claimed cease-fires today for the! lunar new year. However, hours before the cease-! fire was scheduled to begin, the Viet Cong attacked a refugee cen- ter south of Da Nang, killing or wounding 40 refugees. The at- tack was the sharpest in a se- ries of harassing actions. Two U.S. servicemen were slightly wounded when a bomb ex- ploded near an American billet 'at Can Tho, 90 miles southwest of Saigon. Two other Viet Cong attacks were reported early today, both of which inflicted moderate cas- ualties on South Vietnamese troops. U.S. military spokesmen report- ed no major activity and said Viet Cong action was limited to haras- sing attacks, mostly against the South Vietnamese. Operation Ceased One U.S. operation, by Marines near Da Nang, was terminated, apparently on grounds there was nothing further to be gained be- fore the cease-fires. Eager celebrants in Saigon al- ready were shooting off firecrack- ers and the stores were crowded with shoppers for the holiday cele- brations. The Communists' four - day cease-fire begins at 11 p.m. today. Allied forces will observe a 78- hour truce starting at noon to- morroW. Against this backdrop of rela- tive peace there were these other developments: -7000 fresh American fighting men arrived in South Viet Nam, raising the total American force there toh191,000, a figure Presi- dent Johnson announced last week. -Premier Nguyen Cao Ky was reported to have accused a clique of high-ranking officers of plot- ting to overthrow his government. -The United States continued air attacks on targets in South Viet Nam but the lull in bombing of the Communist North neared the end of its 26th day. Commu- nist China charged the lull had resulted in "frantic" U.S. raids on upper Laos with toxic chemi- cals. Rumored Coup Ky, who has headed his mili- tary government for seven months, reportedly told an army battalion at Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Air- port Monday that "five to 50" generals and field grade officers were seeking to overthrow his re- gime. His remarks followed a weekend of rumors of a threat- ened coup during the visit of U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk and presidential envoy W. Averell Har- riman. A source close to Ky -acknowl- edged that political tensions were running high in the capital and that dissatisfaction with Ky's rule had grown in military circles. Minor Fighting In the air war, U.S. B-52's hit Tay Nin Province four miles from the Cambodian border and other U.S. Air Force and Navy planes flew 404 combat sorties against Communist hideouts and river craft in the South. U.S. Marines terminated Oper- ation Mallard near Da Nang, 380 miles northeast of Saigon after killing four Viet Cong, capturing 29 and detaining 221 suspects in the nine-day mission. Wor tenant colonel was executed for attempting to kill Ironsi. Officials in London reported earlier that Ironsi seemed fully in control of the new government. Backing this up, the British gov- ernment said it had given full diplomatic recognition to the new p Nigerian government. Minister's Death A government source in Lagos confirmed the death of former fi- nance minister chief, Festus Oko- tie Eboh, whose body together with five others has been found in a shallow grave some 30 miles outside of the federal capital of' Lagos. The discovery increased fears for the safyet of former Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafa 4:?":??::,......Balewa. who was kidnaped with Eboh in the early hours of the -Associated Press army revolt Saturday. MRS. INDIRA GHANDI, daughter of the late Prime Minister Ironsi says he is pressing a Nehru and almost certain to be elected India's next prime mm- - unt for Balewa, but if he is still ister, is embraced by her aunt, Mrs. Vijayalakshmi Pandit m New alive his whereabouts remain a Delhiyestedaymystery. Delhi yesterday- Two colonels who were among _ the plotters who carried out the abortive weekend coup, are said to be shadowing the 41-year-old general's every move. Promise Support Nigeria's feuding political par- ties unanimously promised their dered a military mission into Zam- ion official said yesterday. support for the military govern- bia for new talks on the tasks- A strike halting virtually all the ment with pledges of loyalty. and possible reinforcement - of nation's trains could come March Even the formerly dominant British forces in the land bor- 31 unless the railroads agree to Northern Peoples' Congress, whose dering rebellious white-ruled Rho- bargain on the union's terms, said old leader, Sir Ahmadu Bello, the desia . H. E. Gilbert. Sardauna of Sokoto, and his wife Zambian government sources, were murdered in their Kaduna }Request Court T Uphiold Voting Bill WASHINGTON (AP)-Atty. Gen. raised questions he said New York Nicholas Katzenbach, joined by -one of the 20 states that sup- 20 states, asked the Supreme Court ported the federal government - yesterday to declare the 1965 vot- has posed in a literacy test: ing rights law a constitutional "In what state was Jane Ad- means of assuring Southern Ne- dams born? How old will the U.S. groes the right to vote. flag be in 1977? Who was presi- dent of the Constitutional Con- The law ,attacked by six South- vention? What kind of suit was ern states as unconstitutional he wearing?" punishment and "arbitrary in na- Literacy Tests ture," is appropriate legislation Literacy tests are at the heart under the 15th Amendmentto thei of the voting rights law. They are U.S. Constitution, Katzenbach told suspended where less than 50 per the court. 'C cent of the voting age population Power of Congressh -regiered or voted in the 1964 Congress, he said, has the pow- election. er not only to correct past voting Chiefly affected are North Car- injustices but to guard against olina and the six Southern states future ones. which joined in asking the court But a brief rejoinder, South to declare the law unconstitution- Carolina Atty. Gen. Daniel R. Mc- al: South Carolina, Virginia, Loui- Leod questioned the' "tender soli- siana, Alabama, Georgia and Mis- citude" of Northern states that sissippi. stood with the federal government. In presenting the federal gov- Chief Justice Earl Warren then ernment's case, Katzenbach struck closed two days of argument say- two major themes: that, -in his ing the case "has profound im- view, Congress has broad author- plications in the life of our na- ity under the 15th Amendment to tion." } assure that voting rights are not A solemn atmosphere pervaded abridged by discrimination and the courtroom, generally, but that the law is an appropriate ex- laughter rang out when McLeod ercise of that authority. By The Associated Press TOKYO-A high-level Chinese army conference charged early today the United States might launch large-scale war against Communist China in the near fu- ture and said the Red army should .I __ _ I t 1 e r c E t i (luu lluaau 111";lyu w,,,yquoted in Lusakta claimed the ' make full preparations against four-man mission under Maj. Gen. WASHINGTON - President the possibility of either conven- J. E. S. Willoughby will plan an Johnson called on Congress yes- tional or nuclear war. armed takeover of the giant Kari- terday for prompt approval of leg- "We should make full prepar- th Rh islation authorizing U.S. participa- ations against a war of aggres- ba Dam which straddles eoer tion in the newly formed Asian sion which U.S. imperialism in fe es.w Development Bank up to $200 might launch at an early date on into both neighbor countries million. a large scale, with nuclear or oth- * * * In a special message to Congress, er weapons and on several fronts," WASHINGTON-The long rail- the President said that the new said a conference statement broad- road firemen's dispute that has billion-dollar bank "is an essen- cast by the New China News Agen- already traveled through theS tial tool in providing the means cy. courts, the White House and Con- for life for hundreds of million; * * * gress threatens to erupt soon in a of human beings who live between LONDON-Britain yesterday or-:I new national strike crisis, a un- the Caspian Sea and the South ----------~--- --------~-~~~-- Pacific." palace on the first day of the coup, appealer to its members to T' F cooperate with the army rulers. 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