Tuesday, May 28, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three -" say a,2,168TEMI Gr AL 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. Auditions for the Broadway smash, love-rock musical Hair for London, New York, and national company. Principles and chorus, singer-actors, should be late teens, early twenties, male/female interracial cast. SATURDAY, JUNE 1st, SUNDAY, JUNE 2nd 10 A.M.-6 P.M. at Loyalty Lodge 646 Lothrop, Detroit 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 World news 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. - -Associated Press Harriman and reporters TRUEBLOOD THEATRE Friday and Saturday May 31-June 1 8 P.M. Ann Arbor lunior Light Opera (formerly musi theatre) presents A NEW MUSICAL- THE FOOL KILLER preceded by COX and BOX -Associated Press 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. THE WALK 107-109 S. 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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." Battles rage SAIGON (tai - Savage battles raged around Saigon and in the c e n t r a 1 highlands yesterday, showing the enemy's ability to at- tack on a broad front. Both battles cost the enemy heavily in casual- ties, the U.S. Command reported. Saigon braced for further at- tacks and the sensitive central highlands looked for a big North Vietnamese thrust to try to cut SouthsVietnam's waist, possibly with 15,000 men. Both areas have been under attack for 48 hours. Three enemy shells of une- termined caliber exploded in a street of western Saigon in the predawn hours today, but police had no report of damage. The po- lice were on full alert. 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