SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4,1967 TIlE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE ... . Hanoi A Vietnam greeable Peace I RED GUARDS ARRESTED: To New ProposaI Cease-Fire, Bomb Halt Called For Coalition Government, Elections Included in European Program From Wire Service Reports NEW YORK-United Nations diplomats report the circulation of a new Vietnam peace plan which is acceptable to North Vietnam. The plan was proposed by Eastern European diplomats. The proposal calls for a cease- fire on existing lines following a halt in American bombing of the north. A caretaker government would be established in South Vietnam one-thiid composed of represent- atives of the Ky government, one- third of representatives of the Na- tional Liberation Front (Viet Cong), and one-third of represent- atives of all other groups, includ- ing dissident Buddhists. Following internationally super- vised elections in South Vietnam, a new government would be form- ed to discuss future relationships with the United States, Premier KY and the Viet Cong. U.S. Endorsement According to the diplomats, not only might the United States en- dorse such a proposal, but it rep- resents a major step away from Hanoi's previous insistance on its own four points, including Amer- ican withdrawal from Vietnam. Advocates of the new proposal claim it is a face-saving basis for discussion that would enlist the cooperation of the Soviet Union during a period when Com- munist China is off balance be- cause of internal dissension. It is expected that the Chinese would object to any plan which might help bring peace to Vietnam. Hanoi is still seen as unwilling to make any overt concession in Sreturn for a. halt to American bombing of the north and unwill- ing to agree to American ideas for pacification in South Vietnam after an armistice. Hanoi Agreeable A Communist delegate whose country has contacts with both North Vietnam and the Viet Cong insist that Hanoi is agreeable to the Eastern European plan, al- though he predicts some difficulty in obtaining the consent of the Viet Cong. Any willingness in Hanoi to ac- cept such a plan would represent a modification of the hardened attitude that developed after the American bombing in that capital area on Dec. 13 and 14. It has been reliably reported that North Vietnam had accepted a Polish plan for direct peace dis- cussions with the United States, but withdrew this acceptance after the bombing of Hanoi. . Bombing Effect Thus, the facts would seem to indicate that the U.S. in effect "sabotaged" the possibility' of peace talks in December by bomb- ing the capital area, resulting in heavy damage and civilian casual- ties. North Vietnamese officials have been known to harbor extreme suspicion of American motives, complaining that every time they had showed a willingness to talk the -United States had escalated the war. In a similar vein the Communist diplomat who told of the Eastern European peace plan said that Hanoi has decided the U.S. is not seriously interested in ending the war. Military Solution Instead, the diplomat said, North Vietnamese officials have con-+ cluded that the U.S. will escalate the war further, that it has no in- tention of withdrawing its troops from Vietnam after an armistice and that it is determined to seek a military solution. Accordingly, the Viet Cong is said to be regrouping its forces in South Vietnam into smaller units in preparation for a long guerrilla war, The diplomat emphasized that because of the internal' chaos in China, conditions are better for a settlement in Vietnam now than they are likely to be later. Internal Struggle According to this view, the in- ternal struggle in China will con- tinue for the rest of this year. and -Associated Press TWO WOMEN SHOW CONCERN OVER A CHILD wounded by a U.S. helicopter strafing attack on a fleet of civilian sampans in the Mekong Delta of South Vietnam late Saturday night and early Sunday. This scene is the Can Tho provincial hospital, where the wounded were taken after the mishap for treatment, Four American Citizens Freed From Prison in East Germany: BERLIN R)- Four American prisoners imprisoned in East Ger- many-including a young woman --were released last night and brought back to' West Berlin, a U.S. spokesman said. All still had time to serve' on their sentences. It was learned they were driven into West Berlin via the Invaliden Street wallcrossing point between East and West Berlin. In a statement, the U.S. spokes- man said: "On Feb. 3 four American cit- izens were released from East Ger- man prison. They are Mary Helen Battle, 26, of Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Moses Reese Herrin, 25, of Akron, Ohio; Frederick Matthews, 24, El- wood City, Pa., and William W. Lovett, 26, of San Francisco. Miss Battle, Herrin and Matthews were arrested in 1965 and subsequently sentenced on charges of trying to help East Germans escape. Lovett was sentenced last year in con- nection with a traffic accident." "Maxwell M. Rabb, New York attorney, and president of the U.S. Committee for Refugees, used his good offices to help secure the release of the four Americans," the Classes Cancelled in Spain; ranco May Change Policy statement said. It added that Rabb worked in constant consultation with the U.S. State Department. Lovett had been in prison the longest, 21 months. The trial of all four was closed. In each case sentence began with the day of arrest. Herrin and Matthews spent about 17 months in jail. Miss Battle's father, John Battle, visited her once during her months in prison. All four were last reported in the East German prison at Baut- zen near tlhe Czech border. The mass release was arranged through West Berlin lawyer Juer- gen Stange and his counterpart in Communist East Berlin, Wolf- gang Vogel, working in coopera- tion with U.S. State Department officials. Vogel first came to public at- tention for his participation in the swap of U.S. U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers for the Soviet master spy, Col. Rudolf Abel. In Washington, officials said only that they were aware of the secret talks which preceded the release of the four Americans. They assured inquiring news- men that "no swap arrangement" was involved in the release of the1 four. Viet Premier Shifts Vote To Summer Ky Believes Election, Early Civilian Rule Would Concern Hanoi SAIGON, South Vietnam (P)- The South Vietnamese may choose a president in early summer, rather than this fall as had been generally expected, under plans disclosed yesterday by Premier Nguyen Cao Ky. Believing Hanoi is watching with concern, Ky wants to speed up the presidential election for the war- ravaged nation's return to civilian rule. Meanwhile fighting continued as 8,000 or more men of two Amer- ican brigades swarmed through Communist territory of War Zone D yesterday, while U.S. B52 jets hammered at Red strongholds in the neighboring War Zone C, per- haps as the prelude to another infantry drive.- Initial contact was slight. A spokesman said the Americans, suffering light casualties, killed 14 Viet Cong in scattered encoun- ters. Peace Feelers Ky expressed belief in an inter- view that the Communist North Vietnamese are increasing peace feelers because they do not want to deal with a democratically elected Saigon regime. Without elaborating on any such feelers, the 36-year-old chief of the ruling military junta said: "They are niore afraid of an elected government than they are of our military effort. They know that a civilian elected government means that South Vietnam has a stable, stronger and official gov- ernment with all the prestige and support from the population." New Constitution Ky said he plans to advance the election to within three months after the adoption of the new con- stitution. March 27 is the target date for completion of the writing of this national charter by a 117- member Constituent Assembly. The premier, who has counted himself out as a candidate, said it is important "to have a clean and honest election to give the future president true prestige." He is going to invite 1,000 re- porters from around the world to witness the voting, he said, and if U.N. Secretary-General U Thant "wants to come, he can come too." Other TopicsI In a wide-ranging talk, he touched on other topics: -Corruption: Two generals are systematically investigating con- ditions in all four military corps areas. "In the last 19 months we have eliminated many bad people. We have made progress, but we must keep at it." -Land reform: Ky indicated a program will be initiated to trans- fer to 200,000 to 300,000 Vietnamese families the ownership of land that formerly belonged to absentee French owneers. -Negotiations: He is "willing to meet with Ho Chi Minh and talk to him" and would accept a solution that involved the con- tinued separation of North and South Vietnam. He said members of the Viet Cong would be wel- comed into the Saigon government "provided they renounced their Communist bosses." paper, Asahi Shimbun, said Pre- mier Chou En-Lai had to inter- vene and troops of the Peking gar- rison had to take over command of police headquarters. The report said the fighting in Shihchiangshan broke out Monday when other Maoists tried to rea- son with a group that had stormed and taken over police headquarters in Peking Jan. 17. This group pre- viously had been identified in Japanese reports as made up chief- ly of Red Guards. To check the fighting in Shihchiangshan, about 1,000 police had to be called in, the wall posters said. Mao himself was represented in other wall posters as saying "the struggle between the two lines is very sharp" in China and "the military cannot but intervene," the Tokyo paper Yomiuri reported. Mao was said to have made his remark at a party military com- mittee meeting, but no date was given. Radio Peking admitted serious trouble in Shansi Province of north China, claimed to have been- taken over by Maoists Jan. 12. The radio said former provincial of- ficials started "agitating, spread ing false rumors, setting traps" and as a result there was disaf- fection. Re( a for lef pos yes fic res par Ma by. Pre bac by of toe du Pek Pek Army, Youth Clash in Peking; Purge, Denunciations Continue TOKYO (P)-About 400 teen-age The New China News Agency said Chou declared army unity was d Guards were arrested after that in the southern province of threatened by criticism of Gen. fight among Mao Tse-tung Kweichow "the enemy is still play- Hsiao Hua, the army's chief com- ces in a suburb of Peking that ing tricks and plotting to stage missar. He said the criticism had t 250 persons injured, wall new counterattacks.' The Maoists been leveled by Yang Yun, Pe- sters in the Chinese capital said claimed they seized control of king's military commander, Jan. sterday. Kweichow late last month. 31. A variety of other reports, of- In a Japanese language broad-" Hsiao is a trusted lieutenant of ial and unofficial, told of stiff cast, Moscow radio asserted Gen Defense Minister Lin Piao, who is istance to Mao forces in other Wang En-mao, rebellious political Mao's political heir apparent. rts of Red China where the and military leader of Sinkiang There were reports last month ,oists had claimed victory. Province in the far northwest, had that Hsiao had been severely crit- Hitherto the Red Guards, loosed dug in against Maoist army units icized by Mao's purge committee, Mao in his power struggle with in the mountains. The province including its chairman, Chen Po- esident Liu Shao-chi and his borders on the Soviet Union. ta, and his deputy, Chaing Ching, ekers, have been inviolate. But The broadcast said army units, the wife of Mao. The Japanese the wall poster accounts, some put into action by Peking, had oc- press reported at the time that them tramped on too many cupied Urumchi, the Sinkiang Hsiao was called "the black cur- s in Shihchiangshan, an in- capital, as Peking wall posters tain" behind Liu Chih-cheien, strial suburb 12 miles west of reported earlier this week, but deputy chief of the army's polit- king. said the army had run into "stiff ical department who had been as- Quoting the wall posters, the resistance" in the mountains. sailed as a follower of President king correspondent of the Tokvo Other wall posters said Premier Liu. Sino.Soviet Break Seen If Mao, Lin Win Power Fight Soviets Destroy Display, Beat Chinese Diplomats MADRID, Spain, (W) - About 50,000 Spanish university students were barred from classes yester- day as experts on the political scene debated whether a wave of student disturbances might cause Generalissimo Francisco Franco to take a new look at his program to liberalize his country. A spokesman for Madrid Uni- versity said classes in technical schools only were resumed yester- day morning but that attendance was thin because 'most students did not know about the reopening. Some professors and others ex- pressed fear the outbreak of stu- dent violence at universities might cause Franco and the conservative wing of his government to restudy constitutional reforms voted by a national referendum Dec. 14. Almost unprecedented - in Franco Spain-criticism of riot police actions to control student disorders and of harsh sanctions which followed, in the case of Barcelona University, appeared on the editorial pages of Spanish papers. The influential Barcelona paper La Vanguardia led off with sug- gestions that sanctions-including loss of matriculation and the necessity of -paying a new registra- tion fee the equivalent of $100- against the students had been too following an unauthorized strike; student leaders met in small groups to avoid security police, but there was strong sympathy among moderate students for a re- turn to classes. VALENCIA-More than half the 8,000 university students who went on a one-day strike Thursday had returned to classes. Officials anti- cipated attendance would be nor- mal Saturday. By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press Special Correspondent A break in Moscow-Peking diplomatic relations is a distinct possibility if Mao Tse-tung and Defense Minister Lin Piao win the power struggle in China. It may take time for the smoke to clear. The Russians seem to be waiting. and watching, their sym- pathies with the anti-Mao forces, but apparently without much con- fidence that they can win out. There is another side to this, however. The Soviet press has fail- ed to show any superabundance of enthusiasm for any Chinese lead- ers on either side. Perhaps the Russians already have lost interest in mending relations with their Communist brethren in China. Snapping Point Yugoslaw Communists based in Moscow now consider the Krem- lin's relations with Peking close to the snapping point. One Bel- grade radio correspondent reports World News Roundup MOSCOW W - - Soviet police working two feet inside Red China's embassy grounds last night, tore down an anti-Soviet display and beat up Chinese diplo- mats who tried to intervene, a Chinese spokesman charged. The Foreign Ministry called the charge of beating the diplomats "slander and provocation." But it did not deny that police forcibly removed the display after the Chi- nese rejected a demand to take it down. The display was on a glassed-in billboard two feet inside the grounds. It consisted of pictures showing violence in Red Square on Jan. 25 when 69 Chinese stu- dents tried to lay a wreath on Stalin's grave. If Soviet police tore down the pictures, it appeared that they must have set foot on the territory of the embassy. That would ag- gravate the diplomatic serious- ness of the incident. The display, labeled "Bloody In- cident in Red Square," had been put up last Saturday when the Chinese Embassy held a news con- ference to parade Chinese stu- dents allegedly beaten by Soviet, police in that incident. The Rus- sians denied police did the beat- ing and said the Chinese scuffled with Soviet citizens. Earlier yesterday, the Foreign Ministry had called in Chih Yuan, embassy charge d'affaires, and de- manded the pictures be removed. Chih refused, the Chinese spokes- man said, "because the pictures show the truth."- The incident is expected to raise anti-Soviet -feeling in chaotic China to a new high. And that will be high indeed. Tass, the Soviet news agency, said of the Chinese demonstrations in Peking: "Never before, in all the history of the Soviet state, has such an unbridled anti-Soviet campaign been conducted ,in any country, even in those most hostile to the Soviet Union." Tass said the Chinese authorities 'have stepped up direct provoca- tions against Soviet diplomats who have to go on business in the city" while powerful loudspeakers out- side the embassy "blare forth violent abuse and bloodthirsty calls for revenge.- To get out of all this, the fam- ilies of Soviet diplomats in Peking already have been ordered home. The first planeload, with about 50 on board, is expected today, with the rest following soon afterward. The Soviet Embassy staff in Pe- king is believed to number about 300. Some senior diplomats in Mos- cow predicted that the two great Communist powers will now cut their embassy staffs. But there was doubt among them that it will come to a break in diplomatic re- lations. The reasoning is that the Krem- lin would prefer to keep at least a caretaker staff in Peking td keep informed of Chinese events and to support elements the Russians favor. The diplomats said an open break in relations would add to the difficulties of getting Soviet military supplies to North Viet- nam. The Kremlin already has. charged the Chinese with obstruc- ting the movement of aid supplies overland. that "discreet hints are being made in Moscow political circles on the possibility that changes may occur in Soviet-Chinese re- lations." He suggests the likeli- hood of a break in relations "or something similar." Soviet patience has been strain- ed. For a week there have been riotous anti-Moscow demonstra- tions near the Soviet Embassy in Peking, denounced by the Soviet press as "outrages." Peking re- ported this week that more than a million Chinese in all partici- pated in the demonstrations, among whose milder slogans was "Bash the dogs' heads of Kosygin and Brezhnev." Alexel N. Kosygin is the Soviet premier. Leonid I. Brezhnev is Soviet party chief. The provocation for the Peking demonstrations was an incident in Moscow, Jan. 25, deliberately staged by the Chinese. The Soviet news agency Tass said it was "nothing but an undisguised pro- vocation planned in advance." Chinese Students By Moscow's account, 70 Chinese students enroute -home, blocked the way of Soviet citizens to the Lenin mausoleum in Red Square by raising cain and shouting quo- tations from Mao. Soviet police moved in and a scuffle ensued. Then things began to get comical. It is general knowledge that Chinese enroute home to join the "cultural revolution" are well briefed on how to act on the way. The ones in Moscow put on quite a show. They seemed out to prove Soviet "police brutality." In Peking, Tass reported, hordes of demonstrators howled invective and cut off traffic in and out of Soviet Embassy grounds. Soviet Pmetest All this, said a Soviet foreign ministry protest, was "specifically planned to further aggravate -Soviet-Chinese relations," and was "not only encouraged but also or- ganized by the Chinese author- ities." Said the note, tartly: "The Sov- iet side reserves the right to take appropriate action If the Chinese authorities fall to create condi- tions for normal activity of Soviet representation." Matters between Peking and Moscow grow worse by the hour. The Chinese are accusing Moscow of organizing a plot with the Americans and Japanese to move into Manchuria. It it doubtful that matters can be put right again be- tween the two, no'matter who wins out -in Peking. A break in relations would begin a new stage in the feud which could result eventually in heavy concentrations of troops of both countries along the frontiers and a period of deep suspicion and hostility which would have a strong impact on the political future of Asia. By The Associated Press DAKAR, Senegal-The leader of government's majority in Parlia- ment was assassinated yesterday by the supporter of a political rival, police said. Killed by a knife thrust was Demba Diop, head of the Progres- sive Union party in the National Assembly. Officials said he was slain in the town of Thies, about 12 miles east of this capital, as he left a meeting with local officials. Diop's killer, police said, was Abou Faye, said to be an associate of a man Diop defeated in a village mayoralty election last year. WASHINGTON - The Justice fore the Teamsters Union leader appealed to the Supreme Court. WASHINGTON - The Penta- gon disclosed yesterday that three Navy men previously listed as kill- ed in action in Vietnam are now known to be prisoners of the Communists. The Defense Department gave no explanation of how it learned that the men, who went down in Navy planes, were alive. A terse notation in the day's regular listing of Vietnam casu- alties said the trio's status was being changed from dead to cap- tured "as a result of information recently received." sweeping. The paper said the rec- Department d e n 1 e d yesterday tor should have differentiated be- charges by Teamsters Union Pres- tween student leaders sparking the ident James R. Hoffa that the disorder and those wh simply government eavesdropped on him, d erand."h myhis lawyers, or a jury at his jury went along." tampering trial in Chattanooga, The situation by cities: Tenn. MADRID-All schools of the The department made its denial university, with 21,000 regular stu- in a memorandum filed in the dents and thousands more special U.S. Supreme Court in answer to or part-time, were tightly closed Hoffa's petition filed there Jan. 26. except for technical school classes, The Justice Department said the and there was no indication when charges "are without any founda- the others would reopen. tion in fact." It said it had com- BARCELONA-More than 15,000 pleted a review of Hoffa's case, students idle when the reactor with specific attention to the closed the university for 10 days question of eavesdropping, well be- ii ,I 1 I, ii CINEMA I1 celebrates its first anniversary by presenting THE BEATLES in A HARD DAY'S NIGHT Friday at 7 and 9 P.M. k PARTICIPATE! Join The Michigan Daily Bu$ine$$ $taff like right now! ~oIins State & Liberty Mon. thru Sat. 9:30-5:30 1I vorUA Ef n ,"ALirELi i ike I 1 1 1i1 11111!