Tuesday, May 28, 1968
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Page Three
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Czech leaders attack
old-line Communists
Rain, racial conflicts
hit Poor Campaign
PRAGUE ( )-Czechoslovakia's
ommunist reform leadership be-
gan a coordinated softening-up
attack yesterday on the hard-line
veterans it plans to push from
their last hand holds of power at
a Central Committee meeting
Thursday.
Alexander Dubcek, the Czech-
oslovak Communist party chief,
and Josef Smrkovsky, the National
Assembly president, issued state-
ments assailing the conservatives
and seeking support for their
ouster.
The Stalinist clique, led by An-
+#onin Novotny, the former presi-
dent and party chief ousted by
Dubcek, hold 40 seats in the 110-
member Central Committee. They
are allied with the Soviet Union
and represent for the reformers a
kind of fifth column within the
party "organization.
* The party must "resolutely dis-
associate itself from everything
that has marred the development
of our country and weakened par-
ty authority," Dubcek said. And
he stressed that the new leader-
ship "neither has any reason nor
the right to conceal the unlawful
acts committed by the Stalinists."
"He who would want to do so,"
said Dubcek, "does not have hon-
est intentions, distorts the truth
and hampers the Soviet revival
process."
Smrkovsky's statement was
aimed at Czechoslovak workers
who the conservatives have been
trying to win over with argu-
ments that the democratization
process is directed against the
working class and benefits only
the intelligentsia.
He also called on workers to
unite with intellectuals and farm-
ers. This unity alone, Smrkovsky
said, "can prevent the return to
the old regime which, perhaps,'
would endanger socialism more
than anything."
The Novotny group would be re-
placed at the meeting by new
elections. This was indicated by
an agenda which included the
heading "cadre measures," the
party term for personnel questions
involving higher echelons.
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WASHINGTON (tP) - The Poor
People's Campaign was beset by
rain and racial differences yes-
terday but leaders said both would
be overcome.
A cold, steady rain returned the
group's shantytown to the quag-
mire it had become last week. But
while leaders had encouraged
evacuation of residents in the first
rain, they didn't do so this time,
"We tried to evacuate people
and nobody wanted to go," said
the Rev. Andrew Young, one of
the staff members of the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference,
which sponsors the campaign.
"We have no plans for evacua-
tion."
He said fewer than 100 of an
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roundup
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President
Johnson announced yesterday he
will nominate former Democratic
Mayor Robert F. Wagner of New
York to be ambassador to Spain
and will name Texan William H.
Crook to be ambassador to Aus-
tralia.
TEL AVIV - Israeli and Jor-
danian troops fought several brief
light-arms battles y e s t e r d a y
across the Jordan River near
Gesher in the Beisan Valley, the
Israeli command said. It report-
ed- no casualties.
In Amman, Jordan's capital, a
military spokesman said the fir-
ing went on for two hours and
that the Israelis had suffered
"several casualties," and lost
four military vehicles and an
antitank gun.j
* *
KAMPALA, Uganda - Nigeria
and Biafra talked face to face
Monday on ending their 10-
month-old civil war, but each side
seemed unwilling to budge on
what the other demands to bring
about a cease-fire.
WASHINGTON - M i l i t a r y
spending during April jumped to
its second highest level since
World War II at $6.81 billion, the
Treasury Department reported
yesterday.
The high mark was $6.89 billion
last January.
estimated 2,400 to 3,000 camp res-
idents had left last Friday.
Racial differences were ex-
pressed by a leader of some of
the Mexican-Americans taking
part in the campaign, Reies Ti-
jerina' of Los Angeles.
Tijerina told ireporters outside
the encampment, Resurrection
City, U.S.A., that Negroes were
dominating the campai';n and
were not allowing enough pax ti-
cipation by his people and by
other whites.
The large majority of the cam-
paigners are Negroes.
Tijerina said his view of the
order of importance among the
racial and ethnic groups in the
campaign is that the Mexican-
Americans should be first, blacis
second and Puerto Ricans third.
The leader of the campaign, the
Rev. Ralph David Abernathy, met
with Tijerina later in the day at
a school in the city where a group
of Mexican-Americans are stay-
ing while waiting to move into
the shantytown.
Abernathy told reporters it had
been "a most fruitful meeting"
and that the Mexican-Americans'
demands would be included in
over-all campaign demands. p
Abernathy said a meeting of
the campaign steering committee
would be held tomorrow to plan
"an intensification of action and
expanding demands."
Abernathy said the campaign
soon will move on from issues of
welfare and hunger to those of
jobs and income.
Despite the rain and mud, about
150 3 of the campaigners returned
to the Department of Agriculture
torestate their objections that
the agency doesn't provide enough
surplus food to alleviate hunger
in the nation.
The new rain came right after
a sunny weekend had dried up
most of the mud and water from
the first rain. The latest down-
pour promised to be even worse-
and the health hazard ipcreased
because it was unseasonably cold
with temperatures in the low 50s.
A medical officer for the camp,
Dr. Edward Mazique, said there
is a considerable threat of an
epidemic of flu or upper respira-
tory ailments in the camp. But he
declined to say whether some or
all the campers should be 'evacu-
ated.
Mazique said health officials
are moving as quickly as possible
to give innoculations to all the
children in the camp.
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Harriman and reporters
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RIES TIJERINA, leader of the Mexican-Indian contingent of
the Poor People's Campaign, complains that the people he rep-
resents are being discriminated against. Negro campaigners
disagreed.
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snagged preliminary Vietnam
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South.
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particular interest in a shade of
difference in North Vietnamese
wording on the point, they also
launched a strong offensive'
against the whole Hanoi position
at the talks.,
"The facts are," said U.S. Am-
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a point-by-point attack, "that well,
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IM four hours of conversations,
resumed after a four-day recess,
one remark of Xuan Thuy, the
North Vietnamese negotiator, in-
trigued the U.S. side. That was
when the North Vietnamese said
that "once the United States
comes to aggress against Vietnam,
and Vietnamese has the right to
combat them and to do that on
any part of the territory of his
dear country."
This, said U.S. spokesman Wil-
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presence of North Vietnamese
regular units in the South, but he
still described the Hanoi delega-
tion's attitude as one of "failure
to admit" such a presence.
Asked if the words encouraged
the U.S. side, he said: "All I can
say is that it is a little closer.
Whether it is encouraging or dis-
couraging I can't say."
The talks were adjourned until
Friday morning after Harriman
and Thuy exchanged long and ac-
cusatory statements. The North
Vietnamese negotiator charged
that there have been no results
at these talks because the Amer-
icans have refused to take up "the
main aim of these conversations."
To Hanoi, the primary aim of
this conference is to "determine"
when and how the Americans will
stop bombing and acts of war
against North Vietnam. Only
when this is done, without any
reciprocity from Hanoi, can the
talks move on to other matters of
"common interest," the North
Vietnamese Insist.
Harriman sharply rebuffed this
contention.
"We reject the suggestion .
that the only reason for our meet-
ing is to give the hour and date
of the cessation of bombing,"
Harriman said, adding that if
such were the case, "no meeting
would have been necessary."
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been under attack for 48 hours.
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street of western Saigon in the
predawn hours today, but police
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Troops of the U.S. Army's 25th
Infantry Division were engaged
Sunday with enemy forces six
miles northwest of Saigon, but the
battle broke in full fury yesterday
morning and raged throughout the
day.
Under a storm of small arms,
artillery and helicopter gunships
and fighter bomber fire, the ene-
my broke off the engagement near
nightfall.
The Americans reported killing
218 enemy troops and capturing
two. The total was perhaps half
the attacking force. U.S. casualties
were given as six killed and 28
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