SUNDAY, APRIL 9 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY YfxrAlr granIMIM SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 1967 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE 9 Plan As R Trucking retaliation Lockouts IN THE NEWS THIS WEEK: Romney Vietnam Policy Gets Rave Review From Johrnson for Strikes WASHINGTON OP) - Trucking industry negotiators announced yesterday a nationwide shutdown of 1500 major firms would begin at midnight last night in retalia- tion for continuing wildcat Team- sters strikes. M. M. Gordon, president of Trucking Employers, Inc., an- nounced the lockout action that would affect some 250,000 of the 450,000 Teamsters Union members involved in national contract ne- gotiations with the industry. Tiucking Employers scheduled a news conference for 2 p.m. yes- terday, the same time the federal mediators hoped to get national contract negotiations back on the road and announced the lockout Would Hat Bombing For Vietnam Truce' WASHINGTON (A-The United nam in obvious exploitation of the then. The scheduled shutdown would affect the nation's biggest firms that carry about 65 per cent of all truck freight, and trigger the worst trucking shutdown in the nation's history. Such a shutdown would also have a severe effect on the opera- tions of thousands of smaller com- panies that operate as feeder lines between the big firms. The decision by Trucking Em- ployers, Inc. was made while a dozen -or, more small Teamsters strikes continued in cities around the country, and industry sources said there were threats of hun- dreds more similar walkouts. But even as the threat of what could develop into the nation's worst transportation tie-up hung over the bargaining table, federal mediators resumed national con- tract talks with representatives of both sides in the dispute. There was no immediate sign that the government plans an 80- day Taft - Hartley injunction against the threatened shutdown. Presumably officials were awaiting an actual shutdown before decid- ing what steps to take. "The shutdown is to commence at 12 midnight," said Gordon. "Certainly we would call it off" if all strikes end and the Team- stcrs Union promises to stop all future walkouts, he replied to a question at a news conference. The Teamsters Union issued a statement deploring the truckers' shutdown announcement, but said "our negotiators are still ready to negotiate around. the clock in an effort to reach an agreement. We reiterate our long-standing pledge that we will not engage in a na- tional trucking strike." The statement, issued by Team- sters general vice-president, Frank E. Fitzsimmons, said "negotiators for the nation's trucking compan- ies-by calling a general lockout- have broker. faith with Teamsters negotiators, with the general pub- lic, and with their obligations un- der the Interstate Commerce Act to serve the general public." Fitzsimmons's statement said the scattered walkouts are in sup- port of legal demands for an 11- cent, cost-of-living pay hike al- ready due under the old contract and that the Teamsters national bargaining committee "has not called a strike." Union and industry negotiators, resuming talks with chief federal mediator William E. Simkin, still were far apart on contract issues. Trucking Employers, Inc. said it had offered a total package of wages, fringe benefits, and cost- of-living pay hikes of 62 cents over a three-year contract, compared with Teamsters demands of more than 90 cents an hour. The trucking crisis overshadow- ed for the moment a similar ma- jor shutdown threatening most of the nation's major railroads next week. Six shop-craft unions call- ed a strike for 6 a.m. Wednesday but postponed it until 12:01 a.m. Thursday duf to a legal technical- ity on the date they were free to strike. By MICHAEL HEFFER Daily News Anialysis Michigan's Gov. George Romney unveiled his Vietnam stand this week-to rave reviews by Presi-' dent Johnson. Romney's policy position on Vietnam appeared to be almost exactly the same as the President's - he warned against "massive military escalation" but insisted "our military effort must succeed." The White House was so appre- ciative of Romney's stand that it was able to shrug off parts critical of the administration by saying, "Obviously, Gov. Romney had to throw in a few partisan morsels," Romney had held back from stating a position earlier because he said he wanted to take a "fresh look" at the war. His statements on Vietnam came shortly after those by Republican Sen. Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, which were also warmly received by the President. Romney has apparently taken the advice of Sen. Clifford Case (R-N.J.) who urged that possible presidential candidates not make Vietnam an issue. Another major U.S. figure, Mar- NEA Charges Detroit Has UnarEducational System States would halt the bombing of North Vietnam if a cease-fire pro- posed by South Vietnam goes into effect, a State Department spokes- man said yesterday. At the same time, the Defense Department made it clear that U.S. air and naval forces will be turned loose to strike swiftly if the Communists should try to use a truce period to flood arms and supplies to their forces in South Vietnam. mThe State Department spokes- man said lie knew of no Hanoi response so far to Saigon's pro- posal for a 24-hour Vietnam truce on Buddha's birthday, May 23. U.S. Consulted He confirmed that the Saigon regime had consulted with the United States and its other allies before, putting forward the latest truce offer. "The United States concurred in the cease-fire proposal as did the other allies," he said. "This is an important Buddhist holiday, and we agree that there should be a cease-fire for its observance as there was in the, case of Christ- mas, New Year's and Tet. "The cease-fire would include a halt in the bombing of the North," he said. Ground Rules A ThePentagon said therground rules for the proposed truce of- fered by South Vietnam will be the same as those which applied in the four-day cease-fire during Tet-the lunar new year 'period last February. However, the Defense Depart- ment stressed, the South Vietna- mese nd the United States "re- serve the right to take appropriate military action against substantial re-supply activity in North Viet- truce.' What this means is that the United States would lose no time in sending Air Force and Navy jets into Vietnam to attack truck convoys, bridges and roads and to hit at shipping moving from the. North toward the South, loaded with supplies and equipment. Chemical-Biological WarfareDeveloped (Continued from Page 1) fections to researchers. And work- ers must take four ,hot showers daily with strong germicidal soap. Despite precautions, there have been E6 known cases of illness at Detrick since 1960 due to accident- al exposure to chemical or biolo- gical materials. At least four re- searchers died, two of them from anthrax. At Pine Bluff, Ark., the Penta- gon keeps a highly skilled staff :n standby basis in an elaborate biological laboratory to begin pro- ducing germ war agents in case of emergency. "You can't stockpile bacterio- logical agents," said one expert. "They're like vaccines-they have a short shelf life and go out of. date." The Pine Bluff facility also serves as a warehouse for the more easily stored chemical warfare agents, such as the riot control gases that have been widely used in Vietnam. Most of the military's research on gas and chemical weapons is conducted at Edgewood Arsenal, Md., where toxic materials are tested on mice, animals and, even- tually, human volunteers. The Defense Department also maintains plants for the produc- tion and storage or nerve gases at the Rocky Mountains Arsenal near Denver and at Newport, Ind. The main testing center for CBW is the Desert Test Center near Dug- way, Utah, a Joint Chiefs of Staff facility the size of Rhode Island that employs about 1,300 persons, Virtually all work done there is top-secret. Chemical munitions are now part of the Army's standard wea- ponry and have been distributed to active units around the world. These include the M91 rocket launcher, which can fire a rapid salvo of 45 chemical rockets to tar- gets 12,000 yards away, and the Sergeant missile, which is capable of delivering chemical or biologi- cal warheads to a target 100 miles away. Colleges Involved To further develop CBW skills, the Defense Department has called on the nation's colleges and uni- versities. The Army now holds contracts with 52 academic insti- tutions for CBW research valued at $6 millon. In addition, the Air Force and Navy each has many CBW research contracts with col- leges and' universities. The extent of CBW research on the college campus is not fully known, although officials list Ohio State University, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania as the biggest con- tractors. Such campus research has been criticized by the nation's scientific community and sparked campus protests, most notably at the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania where human volunteers were used in one series of experiments. Last month university officials ended the bit- ter dispute by announcing they will not renew $845,000 worth of CBW contracts. The Penftagon; asked about such objections, told the Associated Press: "Research is necessary to assure the security of our country againt surprise attack or to mini- mize surprise. In that regard, every citizen has an obligation to contribute." But many top officials, asked the same question in interviews, took a different tack. One official argued that "there have been very few classified university con- tracts. Almost all university work done is unclassified." The current national policy of the United States regarding ac- tual combat use of CBW is not clear, although an Army field manual points out that the nation "is not a party to any treaty, now in force, that prohibits or restricts the use in warfare of toxic or non- t ,xic gases, or smoke or incendiary materials or of bacteriological war- fare." Roosevelt Policy Officials have recently indicated that the nation still adheres to the policy laid down by President Franklin D. Roosevelt; in 1943: "I state categorically that we shall under no circumstances re- sort to the use of such weapons unless they are first used by our enemies." The Johnson administration re- peatedly has said it does not con- sider the use of incapacitating gases and anticrop chemicals in Vietnam as "chemical and biologi- cal warfare." After revealing in March 1965 that what they called nauseating tear gas is being used in Vietnam, U.S. officials answered the result- ing worldwide criticism by point- ing out that the United States traditionally has taken a stand against inhumane gases which were "outlawed by the general opinion of civilized mankind." WASHINGTON (R)-The Na- tional Education Association said in a report yesterday that econ- omic and racial segregation are the underlying causes of acute and chronic ills in the Detroit public schools system. "Economic and racial segra- ;ation have been basic strands in+ an unfortunate web (f circum- stances that has enmeshed De- troit's public schools," said, the report by the NEA Commission on Professional Rights and Responsi- bilities, headed by Cornelius Gis- riel., It said Detroit's school situation includes overcrowded classrooms, World News Roundup By The Associated Press PUNTA DEL ESTE, Uruguay --3 Ecuador, one of South America's less-developed nations, threatened yesterday to boycott the hemis- pherp summit conference this week unless President Johnson agrees. to discuss turning the Alliance for Progress into a virtual Marsh- all Plan, the gigantic postwar U.S.! program that helped restore Eu- rope. SAI xON-Menacing Communist operations in the northern prov- inces have led to arrangements for the removal of all American civilians from Hue and Quang Tri if it is considered necessary, U.S. spokesmen disclosed yesterday. split sessions in many high schools, high rates of student dropout and! truancy in depressed areas, exten- sive use of emergency substitute teachers and excessive teacher turnover. Major blame for the situation was placed by the investigative committee on officials of the De- troit public schools. Credibility Gap The, school administration, the report said "appears to suffer from a credibility gap between its prom-I ises and the progress it has made toward equalization of educational opportunities between the ap- parent interest it has evinced in consulting groups on education issues and the disinclination it has shown to implement their recom- mendations." The investigation was made by the NEA commission at the request of the Detroit Education Associa- tion. Schoolteachers, principals, superintendents and university staff members from six states were included on the investigative com- mittee.' tin Luther King. Jr., also made a policy statement on Vietnam this week. He blasted U.S. involvement in Vietnam and urged an admis- sion "that we have been wrong from the beginning of our ad- venture in Vietnam." Meanwhile, the cost and ferocity of the fighting in Vietnam mount- ed once again, while U Thant said that peace prospects are "as dis- tant today as they were a year ago." As the United States lost its 500th plane in the war, a Penta- gon official estimated that the cost of the air offensive was run- ning at the rate of $2,000 a min- ute, around the clock, in muni- tions alone. - The Saigon government made some news of its own last week, one day threatening to invade the North, then later proposing a 24- hour truce on the Buddha's birth- day next month. In the U.S., the labor scene re- mained turbulent, with the truck- ers joining the American Federa- tion of Television, Radio Artists and the National Farmers Organi- zation on strike. While city work- ers in Philadelphia took an un- scheduled vacation during a dis- pute over pensions, their counter- parts in New York City reached an agreement. Some of the casualties of last week were: -Johnny Carson, who resigned from his Tonight show because reruns were played during the AFTRA strike; -Adam Clayton Powell, who was told by a federal judge that the courts may not interfere with the denial of his House seat. Powell will appeal; -Hubert Humphrey, who con- tinued his tour of European capi- tals - amid anti-U.S. demonstra- tions, such as the burning of the U.S. flag ip Paris. Ir GUILD HOUSE 802 Monroe MONDAY, April 10th NOON LUNCHEON 25c KYE TOLL, Grad. "STUDENT POWER WRAP-UP" U I CINEMA GUILD & AMERICAN CULTURE STUDENTS ASSN. TONIGHT! 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