THE MICHIGAN bA L.Y Page Three THE_ MIHGN.AL.ag he Kosygin: Czechs not worred HARPSUND, Sweden ()-So- viet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin said last night the Czechoslovak people "were never worried" about Russian troops and that the West- ern press had sensationalized re- ports about the Red army's pro- longed stay in their country. "The Czechs were never wor- ried about it," Kosygin said in answer to a question when re- porters caught him outside the summer residence of Swedish Pre- mier Tage Erlander. "It's only the Western press." Kosygin referred to the cori- tinued presence of Soviet troops in Czechoslovakia after Warsaw Pact war games ended June 30. The liberal regime into Prague announced Thursday that Rus- sians would begin pulling out to- day. But concern about the troops and new Soviet attacks on the Czechoslovak reform movement had, in fact, been voiced in Pra- gue newspaper. The trade union daily Prace charged yesterday that criticism of the democratization process in Moscow's Pravda "openly sup- ported" the regime of former President Antonin Novotny, a Stalinist hard-liner. "It is difficult to evaluate the article otherwise-in connection with the current attitude of the Soviet press to Czechoslovakia- than as a criticism of the present, apd at the same time open sup- port of the former leadership of the Czechoslovak Communist par- ty and the system which it created in the party and in the country," Prace said.. "The Soviet press in half a year has not been able to reprint at least the essentials of the Czecho- slovak party's action program," correspondent Lubomir Subrt wrote from Moscow. Here on a state visit, Kosygin spent most of the day touring the Swedish provinces. He told a Swedish manufacturer that Soviet peas are greener and Soviet tractors are stronger than those in Sweden. Dirksen defends LBJ appointees -Associated Press Small distraction A young admirer tries to climb into John Lindsay's lap as the New York mayor, campaigning in Milwaukee on behalf of Nelson Rockefeller, speaks to a group from,the back seat of a convertible. -Associated Press Appointee Thornberry talks with Dirksen SUICIDE SQUAD: Exipeect Saigon attack. WASHINGTON (P) - Senate Republican Leader Everett M. Dirksen of Illinois defended yesterday President Johnson's right to appoint two old friends to the Supreme Court - and said Presidents traditionally have named cronies to top jobs. "You don't go out and look for an enemy to put on the court," Dirksen said at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nominations of Justice Abe Fortas to be chief justice and Judge Homer Thornberry to become an associate justice. Sen. Robert P. Griffin (R-Mich.), who opposes the nominations, indicated befpre the committee that he might lead, a filibuster to delay or ' block the appointments. "I'm suggesting that the Senate take a great deal of time" in ex- Waliace amining/ the two appointments, Griffin said. He alided he would try to block "any effort to push this to a vote N . within the next few weeks." Dirksen also defended Johnson's right to continue making appoint- ments despite the President's an- nounced intention to leave, office in January. He drew a parallel BOSTON (A')-A state-by-state with nine Senators who are not survey shows George C. Wallace seeking re-election. "Are they to "has moved quite far towards abstain from voting?" he asked. helping - and perhaps electing- The minority leader also de- the Democratic presidential can- fended Johnson against those who didate," the Christian Science call him ra "lame duck." ie said Monitor said yesterday. "I find that term 'lame duck' as The survey, taken by Monitor applied to the President of the writers, also indicated that Wal- United States as entirely improper lace's third-party candidacy "has and an ioffensive term." moved quite far toward throwing Dirksen spoke after Griffin de- the contest into the House of livered a lengthy attack on John- Representatives." son's nominations. ' The, newspaper said Wallace's "Never before has there been candidacy will hurt the Repub- such obvious political maneuver- lican nominee' more than the ing to create a vacancy so that a Democratic candidate in 35 states 'lame duck' President can fill it with 429 electoral votes, but it and thereby -deny the opportunity is difficult to tell in which states to a' new President about to be the Wallace impact might be the elected 'by the people," Griffin difference between a Republican said. victory and defeat. He added that "the argument A survey taken last September has been advanced that if a crony indicated that Wallace would -nominated because he is a crony damage the chances of victory of --is qualified, he should be ap- GOP candidates in 14 states with proved. I reject such a view be- 173 electoral votes. cause it demeans the Senate and In this po.the paper said it the Supreme Court." was assumed Vice President Hub.- Dirksen said a crony is nothing ert *H. Humphrey would be the .more than an intimate companion Democratic candidate and either or a friend and added, "President former Vice President Richard Truman had some rather intimate M. Nixon or Gov. Nelson A. friends and he sent them to the Rockefeller of New York would Supreme Court." be the Republican candidate. NXational news roundup THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF MUSIC and DEPARTMENT OF ART Present Mozart's Comic Opera "THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO" (Performances in English) TWO PERFORMANCES ONLY THURSDAY, Aug. 1 and Sat., Aug. 5 8:00 p.m. Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre SAIGON (RP)-Extra guards were posted in Saigon yesterday after officials reported Viet Cong sui- cide squads may strike inside the capital this weekend. Some thought this might be a prelude to an offensive by strong enemy forces waiting outside the city. Shortly after security was tight- ened, a U.S. soldier was shot to death in populous district in down- town Saigon. Police said he was slain by two men and they found two enemy shells believed to be from AK47 assault rifles, the standard weapon of the enemy. Extra guards were placed around the U.S. Embassy, the presidential palace where Presi- dent Nguyen Van Thieu has his offices, and other major instal- lations and buildings. A U.S. mission spokesman said the beefed up security guard were i "to provide extra safety in case the attack does come off this weekend." Police and paramilitary police units were placed on 100 per cent alert. More were sent to guard bridges leading into the city and to checkpoints on the outskirts. U.S. authorities believe a new attack on Saigon will be designed to show the government cannot defend its own capital and to bolster North Vietnam's position at the Paris peace talks with the United States. About 1,000 Viet Cong have in- filtrated Saigon recently, highly placed Vietnamese sources said. The sources said government authorities "do not feel the in- filtrators will do anything until they get outside support." This was taken to mean the Viet -Cong who have come in were terrorists, demolition experts, commandos and guides who would not go into action until assaults were launched from areas sur- rounding Saigon. Intelligence reports have in- dicated enemy movement was going on outside Saigon and that ground assaults will be linked with rocket and mortar attacks. These reports have said enemy forces would make a more determined effort in a new attack to create chaos with suicide-type squads in the center of Saigon. Earlier attacks in the lunar new. year at the end of January and, early in May concentrated in out- lying city areas and in Cholon, the largely Chinese quarter, al- though in February suicide squads assaulted the U.S. Embassy, Enemy forces within easy strik- ing distance of Saigon are be- lieved to total about 11,000 men, Vietnamese intelligence sources say, with perhaps 10,000 more spread farther out around the capital. The exact number of allied troops assigned to the defense of Saigon is secret, but there are more than two divisions of U.S. and South Vietnamese troops on the city perimeter and another six divisions in positions farther out. Another citywide defense drill was scheduled for noon today, fol- lowing the first two weeks ago. In these alerts, sirens are sounded, all traffic is halted and people are required to take shelter. Security measures in the al- ready tense capital will be height- ened over the weekend for the visit of Defense Secretary Clark M. Clifford. ' 1 1^ v__ 1 n ' L t r 1 k 7 Y x 4 a " i, ALL SEATS $3.00-BOX OFFICE OPENS JULY 9 Daily Classifieds Get Results. Russ Gibbs Production Presents THIS WEEK ONLY University Players' of At the 5th Dimension 216 W. Huron, Ann Arbor Direct from England By The Associated Press WASHINGTON - The United States is donating 5,000 tons of food worth $1.3 million for Niger- ian civil war victims ,the State Department said yesterday. However, a spokesman ac- knowledged there are no assur- ances the food will be allowed' to reach the starving thousands in Biafra, the breakaway eastern province of Nigeria. WASHINGTON -;John Ed- ward Ingersoll, Justice Depart- ment official and a former Char- lotte, N.C., police chief was named yesterday to 'head the Justice Department's new Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Ingersoll would be the first director of the bureau established April 8 by the merger of the Treasury Department's Bureau of Narcotics and the Welfare De- partment's Bureau of Drug Abuse Control. * * * WASHINGTON - The House voted yesterday to create a spe- cial joint congressional commit- tee to investigate crime. l -; ti r," ; . w 1 '_ 1 THE PINK FLOYD It sent to the Senate by roll- call vote of 318 to 12 a resolution to set u a committee of seven representatives and seven sena- tors, with instructions to cope up with some recommendations by next January, when it would cease to exist. * * * WASHINGTON - Sen. Stephen M. Young predicted yesterday North Korea will release the USS Pueblo and its' crewm~n next month in return for a U.S. apol- ogy and large indemnity pay- ment. The State Department dis- puted the forecast. Young ,an Ohio Democrat and a member of the Armed Services Committee, said in a statement, "The ship and crew will be re- leased. The incident will be closed." '* * * NEW YORK - U.S. customs officials said yesterday they found $4 million in pure heroin taped to the bodies of a pretty school- teacher and her hairdresser c6m- panion when they landed at Ken- nedy Airport on a flight from Brazil. Authorities said the two Ar- gentine women were "undoubted- ly couriers" for perhaps the larg- est heroin smuggling ring in the world. NEW YORK -A manhunt through the congested slums and the busy streets of New York failed yesterday to uncover any trace of a Bronx sniper who shot three men to death, then melted away as police lay siege to his tenement building. He was be- lieved armed, and capable of kill- ing again. RATIONALS THYME I Saturday and Sunday, JULY 13th and 14th 7-11 P.M. NO AGE LIMIT Admission $2.50 TONIGHT-7:O0 & 9:05--INEMA GUILD THE SILENT WORLD COLOR, 1956. Jacques Cousteau's award-winning documentary on life under the sea". . . rich! . .'- Short: "Night Owls" with Laurel & Hardy. Architecture Auditorium-75c cheap I TONIGHT--7.34 P.M. Rm. 3-RS Michigan Union A Program of MOVEMENT FILMS 50 min., includes Chicago demonstration Draft resistance organizing New York City's U.W.M. DONATION REQUESTED SPONSORED BY VOICE-SDS " Y s ~ . Air-Conditioned m UNDERGROUND at I I A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PROGRAM OF EXPERIMENTAL, PSYCHEDELIC, ANIMATED, DOCUMEN- TARY, OLD-TIME COMEDY, AND OTHER OUT-OF-THE-ORDINARY FILMS IS PRESENTED EACH WEEK END- FRIDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING-11:00 P.M. & 1:00 A.M.-SATURDAY MATINEES 3:00 & 5:00 NOTICE: the difficulty experienced with the sound last week has been fixed PROGRAM FOR FRI. and SAT., JULY 12 and 13 UNDERGROUND PROGRAM-JULY 12 & 13 v k: ... 1 i{ 'j.} ".: 4 A SYMPOSIUM on EASTERN EUROPE AND EUROPEAN INTEGRATION "Communist Theories of United Europe" GERDA ZELLENTIN Institute for Political and European Studies The University of Cologne' "East European AttitudesToward West Europedn Integration" 'W/rfllIrCH MOR~AWIECKI ..a l ACID CAMP-Ben Van Meter A hip New American Cinema comedy combining slapstick, sex, and psychedelica. Dylan. A candid documentary depicting the October, 1967 non- violent anti-draft demonstration at the Oakland induction cen- ter that led to the arrest of Joan Baez and 120 pacifists. I Lyd is A J W WWI-% 2 a "Ps 1 104, A %P