Page Three Saturday, June 29, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, June 29, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY 7 .1 * CAMPAIGN ROUNDUP: Gov. Rockefeller doubts " value of Paris talks visit I N.Y. McCarthy group boycotts LINCOLN, Neb. (A')-Gov. Nel- son A. Rockefeller said yesterday Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy's plan to talk with the North Vietnamese delegation in Paris could turn out to be "a tragedy for America" if it resulted in delaying peace talks to end the war. Rockefeller described the Mc- Carthy proposal at a news con- ference here as "a little unusual ... a little out of my concept of traditional diplomatic approaches." The New York Republican add- ed: "I just don't know what he'd say to these people and I can't imagine what the impact would be on the negotiations. And God knows that every American is praying that we stop this loss of American lives. "And therefore, any week that it is postponed and any delay that could result from these conversa- tions would be a tragedy for Amer- ica and for the families whose sons are being killed." When a newsman asked Rocke- feller if he thought the Democrat- ic presidential candidate's propo- sal would have a bad impact on the negotiations, Rockefeller re- plied, "I think it could have." Rockefeller met with newsmen after breakfasting with Nebraska Republican leaders and meeting with the state's 16 convention delegates on the second day of a three-day swing through the mid- west and southwest seeking sup- port for his presidential candidacy. His itenerary took him to Okla- homa and Arkansas, where a warm reception was waiting by his brother, Gov. Winthrop Rocke- feller. Rockefeller said he is not dis- couraged by the endorsement of Richard Nixon by the governor of Massachusetts. HHH looks for support in N.D . By The Associated Press Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy and Vice President Hubert Humphrey both sought support yesterday from the North Dakota Demo- cratic convention in their bid for the presidential nomination. A delegate slate with 25 votes, expected to be heavily favorable to the Vice President, was to be chosen later in the day after both candidates had addressed the con- vention. A luncheon meeting between the two candidates, the first since a brief session in Washington two weeks ago, took place at the residence of Gov. William L. Guy. Guy and other North Dakota Democratic leaders, all consid- ered supporters of the vice pres- ident, greeted him at the airport and rode with him to the resi- dence. Humphrey and McCarthy sat opposite each other, the Vice President at Guy's right, Mc- Carthy at his left. In his prepared remarks for delivery to convention delegates Humphrey denied that he is a "status quo" candidate and pledged a vigorous presidency dedicated to "theachievement of both social order and social jus- tice." "I do not seek the presidency to preserve anybody's status quo," Humphrey said, responding to the contention by McCarthy sup- porters that the vice president's support from oldline Democratic politicians reflects a dedication to the so-called "old politics." "I seek the presidency to put it to work for the people-and work I will," he said. FBI's Hoover hits McCarthy WASHINGTON (P) -- FBI Di- restor J. Edgar Hoover accused Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy yes- terdaw of either trying to mis- lead the public or having "a woe- ful lack of knowledge" of how the FBI operates. He did not mention McCarthy's name but said "it has been al- leged by a prominent candidate for the presidency of the United Statesthat the FBI under my leadership operates autonomous- ly and without proper control." McCarthy has said several times that if elected he would remove Hoover. He said in an April 21 television interview that "any police agency in a democracy ought not to be kept under the control largely of one man to a point where the agency develops into a kind of fief really which is somewhat bey- ond criticism and outside judg- ment. Although McCarthy said he had no specific objections to Hoover, he advocated a fixed term of office for the FBI director and questioned the policy of permit- ting any director to remain so long "where you could have a great concentration of power." Hoover said "All Americans should view with serious concern the announced intentions and threats by a political candidate, if elected, to take over and re- vamp the FBI to suit his own personal whims and wishes." He said McCarthy's charge that the FBI under Hoover operates without proper control "is not true, and it denotes either a con- trived effort to mislead the pub- lic or woeful lack of knowledge of our governmental system of checks and balances." Hoover said that "as most in- formed citizens know, there are definite limitations upon the FBI, its authority and its operations, all of which I consider most es- sential and which the FBI has meticulously honored over the years." "With the exception of a few presidential directives and in- structions issued by the attorney general, laws passed by Congress are the sole source of FBI author- ity and jurisdiction," Hoover said. Further, he said the bureau in- vestigates alleged violations of federal law and then turns the facts over to U.S. attorneys "with- out comment or recommenda- tion." Hoover said also that FBI op- erations are "under constant scrutiny of the news media and the public." McCarthy was told of Hoover's statement as he awaited a lunch- eon with Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey at the home of North Dakota Gov. William Guy in Bis- marck. "I've said he ought to be re- placed," McCarthy said. "I don't snow if the FBI's gotten exactly autonomous. But the director has gotten to be almost sacred, and that shouldn't be." Then, warming to the subject, he added, "I don't even know how it, the FBI is. How competent is it? The crime rate is going up. Is that because of or in spite of . .. and he did not finish the sen- tence. Of the bureau, McCarthy said, "We should have a look at it from the inside." Asked whether he would prefer a new director to be chosen from within the FBI or from outside it, McCarthy turned jocular. "I don't know-maybe it should be someone from the CIA; they don't like the FBI much," he said. And then, noticing a body guard nearby, he added, "or maybe the Secret Service." state meeting NEW YORK (N)-Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy's supporters walked out on the Democratic State Committee yesterday, charging they were being short-changed in the allocation of at-large convention votes. "It's a very sad, sad day for the Democratic party and the voters," said Eleanor Clark French, a leader of the forces backing the Minnesota senator for president. The Minnesota senator won 61 of 123 delegates in a primary election upset June 18. There were 29 delegates for the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and 14 for Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey for president. In addition there were 19 uncommitted dele- gates. On the basis of this victory, the McCarthy group asked for at least one-third, or preferably one- half of the 65 at-large votes to be allocated by the 345-member state committee. -Associated Press 'Instead, outnumbered nearly McCarthy supporters leave state committee meetig 7-1 on the committee, the Mc- S____._._ _ _--_'Carthy people were given 151 ALERTEI votes, less than one-fourth of the ALERTED: ~total. Humphrey was the major benefactor in the allocation. TROOPS Expect Saigon attack SAIGON (P) - American and with additional machine guns, South Vietnamese troops broke sand bags and barbed wire. The out extra machine guns, sand bags U.S. Command has 6,000 troops and barbed wire last night as on the edges of Saigon and an- Communist forces were pushing other 4,000 stationed inside the U' I1,1I I?101 &I'U1Il1 closer to the capital for a pos-, sible new attack. The Vietnamese army was on full alert. All leaves were cancel- ed and administrative clerks were confined to quarters and told us to prepare for fighting. The heightened alert was at- tributed in part to information obtained from two high-rankipg Viet Cong officers captured with- in the past few days by South Vietnamese troops. Although 12.500 enemy troops are believed to be hiding in the jungled, marshy terrain around Saigon, South Vietnamese sour- ces reported only smallscale ene- my movements -- presumably scouting parties-last night. Intelligence sources said, how-! ever, that infiltration into the capital military district had been stepped up within the past two days. A Viet Cong prisoner, seized after he strayed from his unit, was quoted as saying he was a- mong 200 enemy troops who in- filtrated into Gia Dinh, a suburb north of the city, Thursday night. Several big guns and recoilless rifles have been positioned at the, Binh Loi Bridge in Gai Dinh, gateway to the capital. The bridge has been the scene of heavy fight- ing in past enemy assaults a- gainst Saigon. At military headquarters in- side Saigon, nerve center for' combat operations around the capital, defenses were bolstered GUILD Here's what the critics have been saying about this movie - "That's a funny t movie. That's a very funny movie! . . .t ALEC GUINNESS inr Intelligence officer' criticizes body count city. While Saigon prepared, U. S. Air Force planes carried out "top priority" raids against suspected staging bases and infiltration points near the city. B52 bombers carried out eight raids Thursday and early yesterday on three sides of Saigon. Elsewhere across the country, the only significant ground ac- tion was reported in not thernmost Quang Tri Province where South Vietnamese and U.S. forces re- ported killing 153 North Vietna- mese in two separate clashes. Heavy fighting near the demili- tarized zone began Thursday af- ter an estimated 500 North Viet- THE REPERTORY COMPANYA Its namese regulars were spotted in an abandoned village along the coast 10 miles south of the DMZ. Naval gunfire was called in and more than 300 rounds were fired, into the area. A report from a shore based' spotter said the Navy guns sent several of the enemy "running into the South China sea in an effort to escape. Weather over North Vietnam' was reported relatively good Thursday, enabling U.S. strike planes to get in 138 missions against supply lines and storage areas in the Panhandle, above the DMZ, the U.S. Command said. Returning pilots said they either destroyed or damaged 22 supply barges, 13 trucks and seven warehouses. No MIG inter- ceptors or missiles were sighted during the raids, spokesmen said.' In a highly emotional confron- tation, with McCarthy support- ers roaring their support, Mrs. French t o 1 d the committee: "You cannot do this and expect to win elections in November. If you persist in presenting Hum- phrey as the party's candidate, you are giving New York State to the Republican party." The committee also turned a deaf ear to Paul O'Dwyer, who won the Democratic senatorial nomination 'on McCarthy's coat tails earlier in the month. He declared: "I beg you, I im- plore you, to give fair treatment to the youngsters who worked for McCarthy. If you do that I can assure you that they will repay you on election day." "Sixty-one of the 123 delegate votes to the national convention were won by McCarthy in the primary. You mean what you say if you now give fair treat- ment to the McCarthy delegates," he said. It was O'Dwyer who eventual- ly marched out of the meeting at the head of the McCarthy bloc. A similiar walkout was staged last week at the Connecticut state convention, where the Mc- Carthy supporters also claimed they weredbeing shortchanged by party leaders. Even after the walkout, the heat engendered by the party split lingered on. Two young men, McCarthy supporters who had remained be- hind, were thrown bodily out of the committee meeting after out- bursts against the allocation of the delegate votes. One of them called the meeting "a farce and an insult." 1Delay trial of 1ran for 2 1 days LOS ANGELES (') - Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, accused assassin of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, was granted an additional three weeks to enter his plea to a charge of murder yesterday. Defense attorney Russell E. Parsons won a delay from Super- ior Court Judge Richard Schauer, saying he needed more time to study the transcript. The hearing, which lasted nine minutes, was conducted in the third floor chapel-auditorium of the Los Angeles County Jail un- der strict security. SLENDER Sirhan, 24-year-old Jordanian immigrant, entered the room flanked by four. large deputies who virtually hid the slender de- fendant from the approximately 150 newsmen on hand. Judge Schauer at Parson's re- quest appointed a psychiatrist, Dr. George Abe of Metropolitan State Hospital in suburban Nor- walk, to examine Sirhan and sub- mit a confidential report for use of the defense . Dr. Abe will replace Dr. Ed- ward Stainbrook, who declined a request to examine the defendant. Another physician, Dr. Eric Mar- cus, already has examined Sirhan for the defer-e. WHEELCHAIR Sirhan walked into the tem- porary court, apparently recover- ed from the sprained ankle that forced him to use a wheelchair when he was arraigned on the murder charge. The ankle was injured while he was being sub- dued after Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded during an elec- tion victory celebration June 5. Before granting the continu- ance to July 19 the judge asked Sirhan if he would waive his right to go to trial within 60 days after the return of the indictment. "Yes, I do," Sirhan said, so faintly he was asked to repeat it. 0 1211 T SEPTEMBER 17-29 IL ! /046 t t r- r-% l- 0 #-% MQ)LJ&IERL'Directed by Stephen Porter '*M A distinguished dramatist's view of the condition of modern man. OCTOBER 1-I3 , A contemporary approach to Shakes pea re's hLET Directed by Ellis Rabb - Music by Conrad Susa OCTOBER 15-27 The comedy-fantasy by a master of modern theatre. -. ' By Sean O'Casey Directed by Jack O'Brien --Music by Bob James WASHINGTON (P-A veteran Army intelligence officer has at- tacked the body count as a "du- bious and possibly dangerous measurement for determining the enemy's combat potential" in Viet- nam. Lt. Col. Richard A. McMahon, who served in an intelligence as- signment in Vietnam, expressed in the Army Association's monthly publication what many other of- ficers have said privately. "Some U.S. units in Vietnam really count bodies," he said. "Oth- ers probably never do, but under pressure from higher up report whatever body count would be ex- pected for a particular action." He cited what he termed the very real danger "of falling vic- tim to our own inflated statistics." Intelligence estimates and oper- ations plans "based on exagger- ated enemy casualties can result in disaster," McMahon said. The intelligence specialist sug- gested that as South Vietnamese army units began realizing that their efficiency was judged by their count of enemy bodies, "these figures rose remarkably." "Anyone who believes a U.S. adviser checks on ARVN South Vietnamese Army body count, corps by corps, either has not been to Vietnam or, if he has, has never gotten out of Saigon," Mc- Mahon said. Military sources here and in Vietnam have said privately in the past that the body count evolved, at least in part, from the insistence of top Washington of- ficials, including former Secre- tary of Defense Robert S. McNa- mara, for some measurement, some statistics to gauge progress in a war which has no battle lines. However, he added, some Amer- ican and many South Vietnamese World news roundup units began "submitting estimates which reflected favorably on their prowess rather than their accur- acy, and even high speed aircraft flying over jungle terrain began reporting body counts of their' own.. The credibility of the term became quickly strained," he said. A body count, McMahon said, might serve a purpose "if we were mighting a fixed force in an is- land-like region where we could prevent his reenforcement." I By The Associated Press PARIS - Prince Souvanna Phouma of Laos called yesterday for the withdrawal of North Viet- namese troops from his country as a key to an effective cease- fire in Vietnam. "If you stopped the bombard- ment of North Vietnam without the removal of North Vietnamese troops from Laos, how could the Americans accept the situation? It would leave their western flank uncovered," the Laotian premier told a group of reporters. The United States has raised the Laotian question at the Pa- ris peace talks, bet the North Viet- namese have refused to discuss that or any other issue until the United States halts bombing raids over the North. Laos, which stretches along the entire western boundary of- North Vietnam and about 250 miles along South Vietnam's border, has been used as a ma- jor route for North Vietnamese arms and troops pouring into the South. When and if the issues of U.S. bombing over the North and North Vietnamese evecuation of Laos are settled, Souvanna said, the entire discussion of South- east Asia should be handed over to a big international conference, including Asian, European and Americanrepresentatives. Then, he said, any settlement worked out should be supervised by an enlarged International Control Commission ICC, opera- ting by the majority vote. * * * WASHINGTON - Living costs continued climbing in May at an annual rate of more than four cents on the dollar and a federal official said Friday no letup is in sight in the nation's steepest price rise in 17 years. "The upward trend of prices will continue for several months," said Assistant Commissioner Ar- nold Chase of the Bureau of Lab- or Statistics. Sharp increases in prices of clothing and food led the over- all rise of three-tenths of one per cent in living costs last month, pushing the government's Con- sumer Price Index to 120.3. The index shows it cost $12.03 in May to buy goods and services which cost $10 in the 1957-59 period on which the index is. based. The Bureau reported also that average wages of 45 million rank-and-file workers, more than half the nation's labor force, rose $1.59 a week to a record high of $106.03 because of a two-cent rise in average hourly earnings and a longer work week. But because of rising prices, purchasing power of the average paycheck was still 37 cents a. week below the high point of last year. 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