THURSDAY, 'MARCH 16, 1967
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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TO AID BUSINESS:
Johnson Announces Lodge; House Committee Li
beralizes
To R4
Ex-Indian
Ambassador
To Fill Post
President Questions
Kennedy Proposals
In Tennessee Speech
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (M)-Henry
Cabot Lodge is resigning as Am-
bassador to South Vietnam, Pres-
ident Johnson said yesterday and
will be replaced by a 72-year- old
diplomatwhose wife also is an
ambassador.
The President chose an address
to the Tennessee legislature for
his surprise announcement that
Ellsworth Bunker, former ambas-
sador to India and to the Or-
ganization of American States,
will succeed Lodge as this coun-
try's ambassador in Saigon.
Departing from his speech in
defense of the bombing of North
Vietnam, the President also an-
nounced that Lodge's deputy in
Saigon, William. Porter, is re-
signing. He will be replaced by
Eugene Locke, now ambassador
to Pakistan.
Locke, a 50-year-old native of
Dallas, Tex., was appointed am-
bassador to Pakistan last year.
Johnson also announced that
Robert Komer, a his special as-
sistant who has been overseeing
pacification programs in South
4'Vietnam, will beef up his opera-
tion and will be spending more of
his time in Vietnam.
Lodge °has been talking pri-
vately for some time about wind-
ing up his second tour of duty
in South Vietnam.
No new assignment for Lodge
was announbed.
Rejects Kennedy Speech
The President-who joined the
First Lady for a Tennessee visit
on the 200th birthday anniversary
of Andrew Jackson, the nation's
seventh president-addressed a
w joint session of the Tennessee
legislature.
He flatly rejected suggestions
by Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, (D-
N.Y.), and others that the bomb-
ing be halted in an effort to en-
tice Hanoi ; to the bargaining
table.
The chief executive and Mrs.
Johnson, guests of Tennessee Gov.
and Mrs. Buford Ellington, got a
warm welcome, but the crowds
on the chill, gray day were spotty.
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-1 0 WASHINGTON (AP)-The House The committee action, however,
Ways and Means Committee out- brought renewed predictions that
j_ did President Johnson's recom- Congress would never approve
mendation yesterday in moving such a bill and then vote the kind,
to restore suspended tax incen of income tax hike on individuals
tives for business. and corporations that Johnson
---- - It sent to the House a bill that has recommended, a six per cent
would not only restore the in- surcharge in each case.
vestment tax credit and speeded "I think the surtax was dead
depreciation rules suspended last anyway and now it is buried a
October but apply them to many, little deeper." Rep. Al Ullman of
perhaps most, of the transactions Oregon, a Democratic member of
Slot To begun during the suspension per- the Ways and Means Committee,
iod. said.
Estimates of the tax benefits "After what the committee did
the legislation would provide today, the only conceivable tax
ranged around $1.4 billion. increase would be one on cor-
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lawyers tried to show WednesdayLd Fe
that Dist. Atty. Jim Garrison's
Kennedy assassination conspiracy
case against Clay L. Shaw is NEW DELHI. India (P) - A replied. Life is not that simple,'"
founded on fantasy or lies. friend of Joseph V. Stalin's Lohia said.
Perry Raymond Russo. 25. a daughter Svetlana said yesterday Lohia said he first met Svet-
Baton Rouge insurance salesman, he believes she defected from the lana on a visit to Moscow in 1965
underwent sharp cross-examina- Soviet Union because of "a des- and in a three-hour talk she
tion during the second day of a perate longing for freedom-to gave "a very balanced view of
meet the pneOnp she wanted. to her father."
porations, in case of ai-ther cor-
porate spending boom."
But the Johnson surtax plan
got renewed support from Chair-
man William McChesney Martin
of the Federal Reserve Board who
told the House Baking Commit-
tee, "I see no reason to change
my view that it is something we
should have."
Declares No Conflict
He said that if the surtax is
not voted and some other finan-
cial assumptions by the admin-
istration do not work out, the
prospective deficit may go over
$18 billion.
Martin contended there is no
conflict between restoration of
the investment tax credit and
enactment of he surtax.
He said the economy has slowed
down. "but I don't mean we're in
a recession or depression" and
that there are grounds for hoping
for an upswing at midyear.
Meanwhile, the Commerce De-
partment reported that housing
starts droped 15.1 per cent from
the January level-a setback in
the home building recovery that
had been one of the brighter
spots in the economy.
Extends Coverage Date
The investment tax credit al-
lows a business to recover seven
per cent of the amount spent on
equipment by means of a direct
deduction from income tax.
The speeded depreciation rules
allow quick recovery of capital
spent on income-producing build-
ings.
Both were suspended last Oc-
tober after a boom that piled up
unfilled orders for machine tools
developed. The resumption was
set for Jan. 1, 1968. Johnson rec-
ommended last week the benefits
be resumed immediately-effective
March 10.
-Associated Press
HENRY CABOT LODGE, left, is resigning as ambassador to South Vietnam and will be replaced by
veteran diplomat Ellsworth Bunker, right, President Johnson announced today. Bunker is a former
ambassador to India and the Organization of American States.
EX-BOOKKEEPER:
Employ e States Dodd Paid
Ta",xres Wi],tth Political Funds
WASHINGTON (A)-The Sen-
ate Ethics Committee was told
yesterday that Sen. Thomas J.
Dodd, pressed by the Internal
Revenue Service for back taxes,
arranged to draw $6,000 from tes-
timonial funds without disclosing
the source of the money.
The testimony came from Mi-
chael V. O'Hare, the' Connecticut
Democrat's former bookkeeper.
O'Hare swore that Dodd agreed
to have personal bills paid by
money order because he didn't
want "political checks going out."
O'Hare said Dodd made that de-
cision on the handling of funds
raised at a Sept. 15, 1963, testi-
monial reception.
Ambassador Appointment
The bipartisan committee also
received additional testimony
linking contributions to Dodd to
a possible ambassadorial appoint-
ment for A N. Spanel, chairman
of the board of the International
Latex Corp.
Spanel never got an appoint-
ment, but the committee has been
told that the company contri-
buted $8,000 in cash for tickets
to a 1965 testimonial dinner for
Dodd and charged it off to "in-
dustrial relations expenses."
The testimony about how Dodd
got $6,000 for income taxes in
1963, came from O'Hare at the
committee's third day of public
hearings on charge that the sen-
ator misappropriated campaign
funds for personal expenses.
O'Hare said that early in Oc-
tober, 1963, Dodd was "under
great pressure from the Internal
Revenue Service IRS for payment
of tax due for 1962."
This was shortly after a DC
Committee for Dodd had put on
a reception at which slightly over
$12,000 was raised-one of a ser-
ies of affairs that the senator
contends provided him with tax-
free money to use as he saw
fit.
preliminary hearing to decide if
Shaw should be held for trial.
Garrison has charged Shaw
participated with Lee Harvey Os-
wald and David W. Ferrie in a
conspiracy tovmurder President
John F. Kennedy.
In questioning aimed at shak-
ing Russo's credibility as a wit-
ness, the defense established that
Russo once was under psychiatric
treatment,
Probing carefully, F. Irving Dy-
mond, one of Shaw's attorneys,
drew from Russo's testimony that
he had consulted a psychiatrist
for about two years, starting in
1959 when he was 18 years old.
It was Russo, produced Tues-
day as Garrison's "confidential
informant," who testified that he
heard Shaw, Lee Harvey Oswald
and Ferrie plot to assassinate
President John F. Kennedy.
Preliminary Hearing
The plotting took place, he said,
in Ferrie's New Orleans apart-
ment in September 1963. Presi-
dent Kennedy was killed in Dal-
las Nov. 22, 1963 and Oswald
was named as the assassin.
Russo's testimony did not state
when or where the alleged as-
sassination attempt would take
place. The Warren Commission
noted that a Dallas newspaper
announced on Sept. 13, 1963, that
Kennedy planned to visit four
Texas cities, including Dallas, on
November 21-22.
Russo is the main state witness
called thus far in the preliminary
hearing before a three-Judge
criminal district court panel.
Shaw, 54, a wealthy retired exe-
cutive, was arrested March 1 and
booked by Garrison on murder
conspiracy charges. No formal
charge has been filed, pending the
preliminary hearing. Shaw was
freed on a $10,000 bond.
Ferrie Dies
Ferrie was found dead in his
apartment Feb. 22. He had been
under investigation by Garrison's
office and told newsmen that the
district attorney "supposedly had
me pegged as the get-away pilot."
Atty. Gen. Ramsay Clark said
the FBI cleared Shaw of any link
to the assassination in 1963 but
the FBI would not say what
prompted its investigation.
Ram Manohar' Lohia, leader of'
an opposition party in Parliament,
told reporters Svetlana was com-
pletely nonpolitical, having 4e-
clared repeatedly: "I hate pol-
itics."
Svetlana, 42, came to New Delhi
in January with the ashes of
Brijesh Singh, an Indian who
lived in Moscow and may have
been her husband.
Last week she turned up at the
U.S. Embassy asking for asylum.
She was flown via Rome to Swit-
zerland, where she was admitted
on a temporary visa.
No Indian Permission
Lohia said she first wanted to
stay in India but "a spineless"
Indian government was unable to
get permission from the Soviet
Union.
A source. close to the Singh
family said, however, Svetlana
could not stay in India for ob-
vious reasons. He added that in
view of close Indian-Soviet rela-
tions, she would live in fear that
India would surrender her if the
Soviet Union asked for her and
in that case "her home would
have been hell.
Lohia said she told him at a
wedding in Allahabad that her
stay in India would not be ex-
tended. She appeared depressed.
"I suggested to her to fight it
out, to put up a fight, but she
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ries home, feeling it was the only
place he could relax, and his
daughter was the pnly one on
whom he could lean, Lohia said.
Lohia described Svetlana as "a
charming hostess, very gentle,
very pretty, very considerate, who
cooked very good food." She
nursed Singh through his long
illness.
In Bern, Switzerland, Police
Chief Ernest Spoetri said Svet-
lana is saying in a Swiss private
home "with someone very reli-
able" who will protect her pri-
vacy.
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Generals Face Showdown in
New Vietnam Constitution
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World News Roundup
BONN - West Germany will n i g h t, without announcement,
help offset the foreign exchange some 20 feet to its permanent
costs of stationing American memorial in Arlington National
troops in Germany by purchasing Cemetery.
$500 million worth of U.S. gov- The service, with Richard Car-
ernment bonds. dinal Cushing of Boston pronoun-
The bonds will be bought in cing the blessing, was held under
four quarterly instalments during tight security.
the U.S. fiscal year beginning * * *
July 1, government spokesman BRASILIA, Brazil-Arthur Da
Karl Guenther von Hase told a Costa E Silva was sworn in yes-
news conference yesterday. terday as Brazil's 22nd president.
Von Hase said the U.S. govern- The army marshall who retired
ment has asked for $625 million to enter politics took the oath be-
for the next fiscal year, about fore a jammed session of the Con-
$175 million shy of meeting the gress, which last October elected
estimated cost of maintaining him to the presidency.
American troops. * * *
* * * WASHINGTON - U.S. Roman
WASHINGTON - Members of Catholic bishops urged their con-
the Kennedy family, joined by gregations and clergy yesterday
President Johnson, stood in a 'to advance the cause of Catholic-
rainy dawn yesterday for the Jewish harmony" through such
blessing of the new grave of for- means as common prayer and
mer President John F. Kennedy. meetings to promote' mutual un-
His body was moved Tuesday derstanding.
SAIGON (P)-The generals who
rule South Vietnam and the
writers of its new constitution
face an early showdown on how
to achieve elected government this
year.
The Constituent Assembly has
put the finishing touches to a
nine-chapter constitution.
The generals have a month to
propose changes. These can be
overridden by two-thirds vote in
the 117-member assembly.
By law the new national chart-
er is to be promulgated no later
than May 3. A presidential elec-
tion is then promised within six
months.
Conflict Over Draft
The regime has 'serious re-
servations about the original
draft and earlier submitted a
series of proposed changes. Some
were written into the document,
but others were ignored.
Sharpest conflict is over wheth-
er chiefs of South Vietnam's 44
provinces will be elected or ap-
pointed.
A consensus in the assembly
favored election. The regime
wants these to be appointive
posts. As the constitution is now
written, province chiefs will be
appointed in the first term of the
first president and thereafter
elected in militarily secure areas.
Government Structure
The new constitution provides
for an independent judiciary
headed by a Supreme Court of
nine to 15 Judges, a two party
political system, a two-house na-
tional assembly and a president
and vice president elected on the
same ticket by universal adult
suffrage.
The president would be both
chief of state and head of the
government. He is to appoint a
premier who, in turn, will select
a cabinet.
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