Wednesday, July 3, 1968
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Wednesday, July 3, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Predict French foreign policy
to become more conservative
PARIS (/P) - France is expected
to pursue a more conservative
foreign policy now that leftists
officially blamed for stirring up
the domestic upheaval have been
injured seriously at the polls, in-
formed sources said yesterday.
Forseeable changes, the sources
said, are warmed relations with
the United States and a cooler
atmosphere between Paris and the
two principal Communist capitals
-Moscow and Peking.
The sources stressed, however,
that the shift would be one of em-
phasis, and that the fundamental
policy objectives of President
Charles de Gaulle's regime -
strengthened by a landslide vic-
tory in the National Assembly
election concluded Sunday - re-
main largely the same.
Behind the partial Gaullist re-
assessment was the near-revolt of
May and June and the govern-
ment's judgment that it was ex-
ploited by the French Communist
party, described during the just-
completed election campaign as a
"totalitarian enterprise."
The cooling of French relations
with the Communist power centers
abroad was aggravated by some
comments from Moscow on the
Gaullist "Red scare" campaign
tactics and the frank hostility to
the Gaullist regime expressed by
Peking.
At the same time, U.S. under-
standing of French problems dur-,
ing the crisis - including public
support for the franc - advanced
a trend toward a French-American
rapprochement.
French sources emphasize de
Gaulle's greeting to the new U.S.
Ambassador, Sargent Shriver,
when the envoy presented his cre-
dentials May 25, was significant.
"It is more important than ever
for countries such as ours with
our history of friendship and co-
operation, our mutuality of inter-
ests, the similarities in our heri-
tage and our common goals, to
work together," de Gaulle told
Shriver.,
While diplomatic sources do not
expect de Gaulle to rush back to
the integrated military command
of the North Atlantic Treaty Or-
ganization, they do expect a more
energetic effort to seek a way of
getting along with the United
States.
Foreign Miinster Michel Debre
has said budget considerations
will postpone by up to two years
the completion of France's nu-
clear strike force, which should
have an indirect bearing on for-
eign policy.
One program which will not be
hit by budget cuts is "operation
Quebec," the French attempt to
wean the French-speaking Cana-
dian province away from the 101-
year-old Canadian Federation.
Soviets release
U.S. troop plane
Washington apologizes for intrusion
of DC8 carrying 212 to Vietnam
TOKYO (N) - U.S. military authorities said yesterday the
Soviet Union has released an American airliner that was
forced down on a Soviet-held island in the Kuriles after it
strayed into Soviet air space with 212 Vietnam-bound U.S.
troops aboard.
A spokesman said the plane, held since Monday on the is-
land of Iturup, was expected to land shortly at Yokota, Japan.
Earlier, in Washington, the White House announced the
Soviet government ordered release of the plane after the
United States had apologized?
-Associated Press
Signing the non-proliferation treaty
Talks: Peace offensiveP
Michel Debre
GUILD HOUSE
802 Monroe
MONDAY, JULY 8
Noon Luncheon-25c
Speaker: Mr. Kashi Mitra
Member of West Bengal Legislative Assembly
By WILLIAM L. RYAN
Associated Press News Analysis
The Soviet Union has extended
to the United States what looks
on the surface like an olive
branch, but it may have some
prickly thorns.
Moscow has held out to Wash-
ington a possibility of agreement
to stop what has been called the
mad escalation of nuclear weapon-
ry. The United States is jumping
at the chance to make some prog-
ress in this field.
Progress may be possible, just
as it was possible to limit nuclear
testing and to achieve a nuclear
nonproliferation treaty. There are
huge prospective benefits for both
sides in a new agreement.
At the same time, the context in
which the offer was extended by
Moscow suggests a sort of defen-
sive peace offensive with a num-
ber of facets and objectives.
One objective could be to in-
crease pressure on the Americans
to make concessions in Vietnam.
Another could be to place the
United States, before world opin-
ion, in the role of the main ob-
stacle to a secure peace.
Yet another could be to divert
attention from Communist-ruled
Eastern Europe, about which Mos-
cow, from its many pronounce-
ments on the subject, seems enor-
mously worried.
The United States probably will
examine all possibilities while go-
ing ahead with the talks, on the
theory that the Soviet Union has
much to gain in scaling down the
astronomical costs of the nuclear
weapons race.
The shoals ahead are clearly
visible. The offer of talks on any
or all aspects of disarmament was'
put forward last week by Foreign
Minister Andrei A. Gromyko in a
policy review. He blamed the
world's troubles on the United
States and the West and implied
advance condemnation of the
Americans should efforts at
agreement fail.
"Experience shows," said Gro-
myko, "that without a resolute
and constant exposure of the pol-
icy that implants militarism, it is
impossible to count on the gov-
ernments of capitalist powers
agreeing to the solution of press-
ing problems, and especially dis-
armament."
This suggested a certain amount
of Kremlin faith in the propa-
ganda value of the proposals,
which have an attractive sound
to a world living in fear.
Gromyko also proposed a "pop-
ular movement" in the world to'
"compel the opponents of disarm-'
ament to retreat before the voice
of the peoples."
Gromyko told the Soviet parlia-1
ftO
ment that better U.S.-Soviet re-
lations depend on the United
States. He pointed to Vietnam as
the big obstacle. He inveighed at
length against West German "mil-
itarism" and Israeli "expansion-
ism." He also put forward the of-
fer of talks in the context of an
eight-year-old Moscow blockbuster
proposal for "general and complete
disarmament," shrugged off by
the West as unworkable and de-
signed for propaganda purposes.
Kosygin came up with a de-
tailed omnibus disarmament pro-I
posal amalgamating Soviet pro-
posals of the last two decades and
adding others, including one to
ban underground nuclear testing.
That would make prohibition of
testing complete. The 1963 agree-
ment bans tests in space, in the
air or under the sea. France and
China do not subscribe to this.
The offer of talks comes at a
time when conversations are go-
ing on, slowly, in Paris between
the Americans and North Viet-
namese. If added pressure were
brought to bear on Washington to
make concessions there, Moscow
could figure to make points with
its Southeast Asian ally.
for the intrusion.
The plane was bound for a re-
fueling stop at Yokota when it
was intercepted by Soviet fighter
planes.
The troops may be transferred
to another plane at Yokota for
the final leg of their trip, a Pen-
tagon spokesman said.
George Christian, White House
press secretary, said word of the
Soviet action came from the U.S.
ambassador in Moscow, Llewellyn
E. Thompson.
Christian told newsmen that the
United States had delivered to the
Soviet Embassy Monday night a
note expressing regret that the
plane had violated Russian air
space because of a navigational
error.
At the State Department, press
officer Robert J. McCloskey ex-
pressed the U.S. government's
gratification.
"We welcome this development,"
McCloskey told a news conference.
He said the plane had entered
Soviet air space near Japan-inad-
vertently, but he was unable to
explain why.
The alacrity with which the So-
viets responded apparently sur-
prised some U.S. officials who
feared the incident might develop
into another long drawn-out ex-
change, with Red China and
North Vietnam looking over the
Kremlin's shoulder.
Only Monday the State Depa: t-
ment reported that Soviet Premier
Alexei Kosygin had given "no as-
surances" of prompt return of the
plane. He told Thompson merely
that the matter was under inves-
tigation.
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Magistrate.
approves
Ray return
LONDON (P) - A British court
today granted extradition of
James Earl Ray, sought in the
United States as the accused as-
sassin of the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr.
Ray's lawyers told newsmen
they would appeal the decision to
Britain's High Court. They have
15 days to file the appeal and are
not expected to act until near the
end of that period. A court hear-
ing would follow, probably within
a week.
LEGAL AID
The magistrate granted Ray le-
gal aid to pursue his appeal in a
higher court within the required
15-day deadline.
In Washington, Atty. Gen.
Ramsey Clark said he was pleased
with the action of, the British
court and said he hoped Ray
could be returned to the United
States without undue delay. Clark
said, "It is important that Ray's
right to a speedy trial be pro-
vided."
In summing up, Magistrate Mil-
ton said he found no difficulty in
establishing that there was a
prima facie case against Ray in
King's murder.
The magistrate also passed over
the question of Ray's identifica-
tion without difficulty. Ray was
arrested in Britain on forged pass-
port and illegal gun-carrying
charges under the alias of Ra-
mon George Sneyd.
The appeal will be carried to
the High Court with arguments
on the same political grounds as
Milton rejected in Magistrate's
Court.
Should the High Court reject
the appeal, Ray could go to the
House of Lords, which is Britain's
highest court. But he could make
an appeal to the Lords only on a
point of law.
NOT POLITICAL
The magistrate dealt at some
length with the contention of de-
fense attorney Roger Frisby that
Ray could not be extradited be-
cause the slaying of King was a
political offense.
The judge agreed it was com-
mon knowledge that King was a
controversial figure in the United
States. But he refused to accept
the defense contention that this
alone would make the crime of
his assassination a political one.
Congress approves
new appropriations
WASHINGTON (P) - Congress
passed yesterday a compromise,
$9-billion supplemental appropria-
tions bill, with $6 billion of it for
the Vietnamese war.
The measure now goes to Pres-
ident Johnson for his signature.
House approval was by voice
vote.
The Senate passed it shortly
afterwards, 64 to 1. Sen. Gaylord
Nelson, (D-Wis.), was the only
dissenter and did not explain his
opposition.
The over-all measure provides
$6.3 billion in new funds and $2.7
billion in funds frozen last year.
s£
The measure includes some $6
billion for Vietnam, $1.35 billion
for medicaid and other public as-
sistance programs, nearly $1 bil-
lion for pay increases, $370 mil-
lion for medicare, $100 million for
the defense effort in South Korea
and $47.5 million for veterans
benefits.
The bill also would provide $28
million of $132 million approved
by the Senate but not requested
by the Johnson administration.
The House had refused for four
months to approve anything for
these programs.
The $28 million includes $13
million for summer jobs, $5 million
for preschool Head Start and $10
million for a new program of
feeding poor children in day care
centers.
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