FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE FRIDAY, JANUARY 6,1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE North Vietnam Says Talks Congress To Maintain Internal Investigations in New Session "Rest' Refute Right Of U.S. To Reciprocity Washington Demands De-escalation of War By North Vietnamese PARIS (A)-Ho Chi Minh's en- voy to Paris said yesterday a sit- uation favorable to a search for a settlement of the Vietnamese war can be achieved only by a definite, prompt and uncondition- al halt to the U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam. The envoy, Mai Van Bo, de- manded such a halt in a speech to a luncheon meeting of the French Diplomatic Press Associa- tion. He declared the United States has no right to require any re- ciprocal move from Hanoi. There was a cool response from the U.S. State Department. Press Officer Robert J. Mc- Closkey told newsmen in Washing- ton the United States is prepared to order a halt to all bombing of North Viet Nam as soon as Ha- noi gives assurances, privately or otherwise, that there will be a de-escalation on the Communist side. The departmental spokesman al- so reiterated, that the United States is prepared for talks with- out prior conditions at any time. He said he did not regard Bo's remarks as a peace feeler. Based in Paris for several years, Bo heads a mission called a gen- eral delegation, which ranks dip- lomatically somewhere below an embassy. In reply to questions from French and foreign newsmen, he accused the United States of aggression 00against the people of Viet Nam by intervention on the side of the South Vietnamese. He repeatedly insisted that the United States mustp omptly and definitely halt the bombing of North Viet Nam without any strings. "Only then," he said, "will the situation be favorable to a search for a settlement." Taking what seemed to be a hard, unbending line, the envoy said that if and when the United States did halt its bombing, "then this fact will be examined and studied by the Hanoi government." "If, after a definitive and un- conditional cessation of the bom- bardments the American govern- ment proposes to make contact with the Hanoi government, I be- lieve that such a proposal will be examined and studied too." Bo was asked if statements' made * in Hanoi by North Vietnamese Premier Pham Van Dong to the New York Times, to the effect that Hanoi's widely advertised "four points" would be simply the basis for a settlement instead of pre- conditions for negotiation, meant negotiations now might be possi- *ble. The envoy replied that he could not comment on a press dispatch. He added that the United States, in the view of the Hanoi regime, must recognize the Viet Cong's Na- tional Liberation Front as the "sole, authentic representative" of the South Vietnamese people, and negotiate with it. He said the United States must also accept the four points as a basis for a settlement. These points Include withdrawal of American forces and recognition of the inde- pendence, sovereignty, unity and territorial intergrity of Viet Nam; observance of the 1954 Geneva agreements pending reunification of the country; acceptance of the Liberation Front's program for South Viet Nam; and reunifica- tion without foreign interference. With Halt to Bombing By JOHN CHADWICK WASHINGTON (P)-The 90th! Congress opening Tuesday may turn its investigating guns inward soon after it meets, as well as aiming at such diverse targets as electronic "bugging" and the Viet- nam war. The Senate's bipartisan Ethics Committtee plans a second round held after Congress convenes. Kennedy vs. Hoover? A potentially explosive investi- gation taking shape involves a dis- pute between Sen. Robert F. Ken- nedy, (D-N.Y.) and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover over who author- ized electronic eavesdropping, or bugging, that has placed a number of Justice Department prosecu- tions in jeopardy. Hoover recently said that Ken- 'E China Exper nedy, while he was attorney gen- eral, not only knew of FBI eaves- dropping in major criminal cases but encouraged it. Kennedy re- torted that he was unaware of it. Sen. Edward V. Long (D-Mo.) chairman of a subcommittee that has been investigating invasions of privacy by federal agencies, said last month he would invite both Kennedy and Hoover to testi- fy. t Foresees U.S. Troop i I -Associated Press SHOWN IS THE HEAD of the North Vietnamese mission in Paris, Mai Van Bo. In an address to a press association yesterday, he demanded a halt to American bombing raids on his country. This, he said, was the prime move the U.S. must make before negotiations could be considered. This would not necessarily allow negotiations, but would cause his government to re-examine the situation, he said. FACES JAIIL TERM: Movement To Refuse-Powell 'House Seat Gains New Unity r Commitment On Increase Death Count Breaks 5,000 During Truce Over Holiday Period SAIGON ()-The buildup of American forces in Viet Wam had 389,000 servicemen on the rolls at the yearend, the U.S. Command disclosed yesterday. There was a net increase of 13,000 last week, a week that saw 128 killed in ac- tion. Pentagon figures showed 5,008 Americans were killed and 30,093 wounded in 1966, a year of stead- ily increasing U.S involvement, and totals for the war rose to 6,664 killed and 37,738 wounded. The roll of the dead actually' numbers 8,175. Disease, accidents and other non-hostile cases have claimed the lives of 1,511 Ameri- cans. U.S. air operations were busy as Hanoi's envoy in Paris, Mai Van Bo, demanded a definite, prompt and unconditional .halt to the bombing of North Viet Nam as the only way to create a situation favorable to a search for a settle- ment of the war. American Air Force, Navy and' Marine pilots flew 116 multplane missions above the border Wed- nesday and loosed 4.8 million psy- chological warfare leaflets along with explosives. Navy fliers report- ed they destroyed or damaged 77 North Vietnamese supply barges and junks, boosting their two-day score of such water craft to 188. Against the claims of North Vietnamese that they shot down three planes, U.S. briefing officers said two were lost. These were a single-seat A-4 Skyhawk and a two-seat F-4 Phantom, downed over the Gulf of Tonkin. A heli- copter from the carrier Benning- ton rescued all three crewmen. American authorities have now acknowledged the loss of 453 planes and four helicopters in the campaign to cut supply lines and erase other military targets in the north. B-52 jets from Guam bombed a suspected Communist troop con- centration 60 miles south of Da Nang early yesterday in another phase of the air operations. Ground action was reported light and scattered. U.S. headquarters said Ameri- can troops killed 15 Communist soldiers and captured 13 in three encounters Wednesday. A South Vietnamese spokesman said gov- ernment troops killed 33 in five clashes. The surge in American man- power last week was reported largely due to the arrival of ma- jor elements of the 9th Infantry Division. Rent, Buy, Sell Trad Daily ClassiIfieds of hearings in its investigation of misconduct charges against Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, who has expressed con- fidence he will be vindicated when all the evidence is in. Powell Investigation : In the House, Rep. Lionel Van Deerlin (D-Calf.) has announced he will ask for an investigation of whether Rep. Adam Clayton Powelll New York Negro Democrat' and chairman of the Education and Labor Committee, should be permitted to take his seat in the new Congress. Powel has been sentenced in jail for contempt of court growmng New York to a year and 60 days in out of his nonpayment of a $164, 0Q0 libel judgment against him. This week the Home Admin- istration Committee ordered Pow- ell's wife removed from her $20, 578 job on his payroll and reported widespread irregularities in the handling of his committee's travel funds. Victim of Conspiracy Powell said he is the victim of a political conspiracy aimed at Negroes and declared he will fight to retain his committee chairman- ship. The Ethics Committee has is- sued over 80 subpoenas for its forthcoming hearings on charges that Dodd diverted campaign funds to his own use, accepted im- proper gifts ,and was paid by both the Senate and private sources for travel. Its initial hearings last summer dealt with Dodd's relations with Chicago public relations man Ju- lius Klein, a registered agent for West German business interests. The committee has set no date for taking testimony in the sec- ond phase of its inquiry, except to stay that hearings would be Mrs. Mao as Successor LONDON (P)-A British special- ist on Chinese affairs forecast yesterday that Mao Tse-tung's eventual successor as leader of Red China may be his wife. Roderick MacFarquhar wrote in the leftist weekly New Statesman that Defense Minister Lin Piao, now rated No. 2 to Mao, appears to be a lame duck and may be only a temporary successor. If so, he said, Mao's wife, Chiang Ching, may take over. Battle of the Wives MacFarquhar, editor of the China Quarterly magazine, listed the steps in Chiang Ching's rise in "Peking's battle of the wives" at the expense of the spouses of President Liu Shaochi and Premier Chou En-lai. "Mrs. Mao is playing for bigger stakes than the right to serve tea to Albanian VIPs,' he wrote. "Her rising star may be sending shivers down the backs of historically minded Chinese. Condemn Intrigue "Traditionally, Chinese histori- ans have condemned the court in- trigues and palace coups of women who have reached for political power, and have reviled the three empresses who achieved it. "Even so, if Lin Piao does finally emerge as Mao's successor from the rapidly thinning ranks of the Politburo but turns out to be a lame-duck leaders as his infre- quent public apparances suggest, Mrs. Mao could be the fourth." Dear Mrs. Mao "Mrs. Mao has emerged from virtual political and social ob- scurity to take on a leading role in the cultural revolution. Her position is even stronger than that of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi during the last years of Nehru, her personal relationship to the leader giving her a similarly unchal- lenged right to interpret his wish- es." The writer said Mrs. Mao's long period of obscurity may have re- sulted from the way Mao met and married her. WASHINGTON OP)--Critics of Rep. Adam Clayton Powell appear- ed divided Thursday on whether they will seek to deprive the con- troversial Harlem congressman of his committee chairmanship, his House seat, or both. Speaker John W. McCormack, (D-Mass.) back in Washington for nextgTuesday's start of the 90th Congress, prepared to meet with key Democrats in an effort to agree on a plan of action before House Democrats caucus on Mon- day. Representative Lionel Van Deer- lin, the California Democrat who plans to ask that Powell step aside when members are sworn in Tues- day, rejected Powell's charge that the move is "a political conspiracy against black political leadership, black people and black progress." Appearing on NBC's "today" show, Van Deerlin reiterated that his drove against Powell is based solely on the Harlem Democrat's legal troubles resulting from a $164,000 defamation judgment and the possibility that Powell faces a jail term for contempt of count of he visits his New Cork district. But Rep. Richard Bolling (D- Mo) a leading House liberal, said Powell was correct in asserting that whether he should retain his chairmanship of the Education and Labor Committee is the "only issue in this struggle." "I think it's ridiculous to even contemplate unseating him," Bol- ling said in an interview. He said he hopes to move Mon- day to strip Powell of the seniority that entitles him to the chair- manship, and to link this with a similar move aimed at Rep. Wil- liam M. Colmer, (D-Miss) who is in line to become chairman of the Rules Committee. Boling said that making Col- mer, an administration opponent, chairman would be like putting "a Republican in charge of a Dem- ocratic committee." And he noted that the only House Democrat now without seniority is another conservative Williams was stripped of his Mississippian, John Bell Williams. seniority privileges by the Dem- This, plus the fact that the new ocratic caucus two years ago on move would also hit Colmer's the ground he had supported the "answers Powell's phony argument Republican presidential candidacy on race," Bolling said. l of Barry Goldwater. world News Roundup Hoffa Annoutces Plans As Contract Negotiations Open TON IGHT MAE WEST in GOIN' TO TOWN Saturday & Sunday CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S THE GOLD RUSH 7:00 & 9:00 Architecture Aud. STILL ONLY 50c By The Associated Pres WASHINGTON - President Johnson accepted with "deep re-c gret" yesterday the resignation of' Arthur Sylvester, who spent near-c ly six sometimes-controversial years as assistant secretary of de- fense for public affairs. The White House said Johnson wil nominate as Sylvester's succes- sor his present deputy, Phil G. Goulding. Sylvester, 65, wrote Johnson that "the time has come for me to step aside" to handle some personal matters left unfinished1 when he took the Pentagon post1 at the start of. the Kennedy ad- ministration.l . * * - NEW YORK-The stock market1 posted its biggest one-day game1 yesterday since October. Trading was active. Analysts said big investors such' as mutual funds and institutions were buying stock again in the be- lief a tax increase was unlikely. A decrease in the German bank rate and other economic news were cited as encouraging factors. Steels, automobiles, oils, rails, chemicals; airlines and aerospace issues all advanced some $2 or $3 a share. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks jumped 14.37 points to 805.51, the biggest gain since Oct. 12, when it rose 19.54 points. The average value of each share of common stock traded on the New York Stock Exchange was ,up 56 cents. * * * by police firing tear gas shells rioted yesterday in Patna, capital of eastern India's state of Bihar. They set fires in the heart of the capital. The news agency United News said six persons are believed killed, but other reports from the scene said one man died. Unofficial re- ports said at least 12 persons were wounded by police bullets. TOKYO-The "Voice of the' People of Thailand," a clandestine pro-Communist radio, called on the Thailand people "to unite and rise up in arms" and overthrow Prime Minister Thanom Kitti- kachorn's , government, Peking's New China News Agency said yes- terday. The pro-Communist Thai radio said "the revolutionary tempest of national liberation is sweeping across Asia, Africa and Latin America. Armed struggle has be- come the main form of struggle of the peoples in those areas." HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (!)-Team- sters Union President James R. Hoffa predicted yesterday new ef- forts in Congress and the White House to halt emergency strikes. "I think we'll be able to stop it," he said. Hoffa, preparing to open na- tional contract negotiations with some 12,000 trucking firms, said "we would never strike all of them" because of the threat of federal intervention if a public emergency were declared. Assails Meany and Reuther In a bouncy and confident mood despite his pending eight-year' prison sentence, he also took a verbal crack at labor leaders George Meany and Walter P. Reuther, and announced a major organizing raid against the AFL- CIO Brewery Workers' Union. Hoffa described AFL-CIO Presi- dent Meany and United Auto Workers Preisdent Reuther as "like two people drowning with both holding onto each other and neither one wants to turn loose." Hoffa, whose Teamsters Union was expelled from the AFL-CIO in 1967 on corruption charges, said he agreed with Reuther's recent criticisms that the AFL-CIO was failing to organize new workers and was becoming complacent. Hoffa spoke at a news confer- ence after a Teamsters Executive Board meeting. Vote of Confidence Informed sources said the 14 other members of the board un- animously gave Hoffa "a full vote of confidence for the duration of his court problems." ..--= 1 r 1?IJBBUY iOUSB r -1 CINEMA 11 presenlts CALCUTTA -Crowds enraged I - f UAC MUSKET '67 ut Our the new musical TICKETS: * Block Sales January 13 0 Individual Sales start M UTINY ON THE BOUNTY ('Scope and Color) MARLON BRANDO January 16 TREVOR HOWARD HUGH GRIFFITH Lydia Mendelssohn Box Office All Seats $2.50 Performances: Brando at his best (or worst, depending on your point of view). Probably the most beautiful sea spectacle ever C:vv% o t-BA .-.. 1.50 per person I - 8.4 W -Ael Abb.-I AWL 11 ji I 11