May 4, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three May 4, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Viet Cong assault Saigon in boldest move since Tet, Johnson surtax d hits lelay SAIGON (P)-The Viet Cong packed a taxi with TNT yester- day and blew it up in the heart of Saigon a block from the U.S.. Embassy in the boldest terrorist attack on the capital since the Tet offensive in February. The blast wrecked a church- sponsored student center and dam- aged' South Vietnamese and Amner- ican television buildings, killing three Vietnamese and wounding 25 Vietnamese and five Ameri- cans. The explosion caused fresh ner- vousness among Saigon's Viet- namese military and police units, already on 100 per cent alert be- cause of reports the Viet Cong are preparing another assault on the capital. Police blamed the Viet Cong and said an estimated 120 pounds * of TNT was in the taxi that was backed into a narrow driveway between the student center and the main studio for the South Vietnamese government broad- casting service. The South Vietnamese station apparently was a main target. The explosion also blew out win- dows, shattered partitions and ripped out wires in the station. The adjacent U.S. Armed Forces television station sustained smash- ed windows and a collapsed ceil- ing in a studio. Viet Cong prisoners picked up during a small skirmish eight miles from Saigon told interro- gators that they were told they would be moving into the city, the government reported.. In the inflamed northeast cor- ner of South Vietnam, 'ground fighting sputtered out after U.S. forces crushed a North Vietnam- ese counterattack near Dong Ha Thursday. In four days of fierce fighting around the Dong Ia Ma- rine base and near Hue, allied troops reported 1,303 of the ene- my killed. U.S. and South Vietnamese cas- Texas GOP divd in primary election ualties totaled 108 men killed and 541 wounded in the battles. The other northeast area of hard fighting this week is 45 miles to the south, around Hue. In the latest action, paratroopers of the 82nd Airborne Division re- ported overruning enemy posi- tions four miles west of Hue Thursday and killing 46 North Vietnamese. Paratroopers of the 101st Air- borne Division ringed the village of Phuoc Yen, four miles north- west of Hue, where 352 North Vietnamese soldiers were reported killed earlier this week and 97 surrendered. The Americans kept pounding the village with air and artillery. There was no new report on al- lied forces in the A Shau Valley southwest of Hue in Operation Delaware, where North Vietnam- ese supply lines to Laos have been cut and most of the enemy killed or driven out. In the air war, the U.S. Com- mand announced a Navy report that a MIG21 was shot down over the Gulf of Tonkin Thursday "lap- peared to be erroneous." The spokesman said there were no further details. U.S. Navy F4 Phantom crew- men from the carrier Ranger had reported shooting down a MIG, the first report of an enemy MIG shot down in 2/z months. Hanoi's official Vietnam News Agency said North Vietnamese mi- litia in Quang Binh Province shot down a U.S. A6 jet Friday morning and that two other A6s .were shot down near Vinh City Thursday. 5;0 student, 'On Humph. KENT, Ohio (P)-Students booed noisily yesterday as Negro and peace demonstrator$ walked out on Vice President Hubert H. Hum- WASHINGTON (k' -President Johnson hurled a "black mail" accusation yesterday at Congress members who, he charged, are stalling a tax increase in hope of forcing impossibly deep spending cuts. The lawmakers are "courting danger by this procrastination" on his proposal for an anti-inflation- ary surtax, he said. The President also urged non- violence on the Poor Peoplecam- paign marchers who are headed for Washington. Johnson predict- ed Congress will weigh seriously any proposals that are made "law- fully and properly'' to help the poor. Opinion was split on Capitol Hill whether Johnson's attack on con- gressional delay had helped or hurt his effort to win enactment of a 10 per cent surtax. .The senior Republicans on the House Ways and Means Commit- tee, Rep. John W. Byrness of Wis- consin, said that Johnson has The President said he agreed reluctantly to a proposed long range, $18-billion reduction in ap- propriations, including a $4 billion cut in fiscal 1969, which starts July 1, 1968, as the price of a tax ,increase. Johnson said this may have "just whetted the appetite" for more cuts, because new proposals have been ,made, "which in my judgment will kill the tax bill if they are insisted upon." PROPOSED CUTS The proposed cuts simply can not be achieved, he said. "It is easy to demand figures that can- not be reached." Business and labor leaders both have supported the surtax, John- son said, "but Congress has not been that cooperative." He said even the Senate tied to" its tax bill spending restrictions which, Johnson said, "I think would really bring chaos to gov- ernment." DALLAS, Texj (P)-Texans be- gin deciding today how the state will vote in the Republican and Democratic presidential nominat- ing conventions with a wide split in the GOP instead of the usual split in the Democratic party. The primary will also determine whether former Alabama Gov. George Wallace and his American Independent party get on the state's general election ballot. The Democrats are expected to name Gov. John Connally as their favorite son. Republicans probab- ly will name Sen. John Tower of Texas. But there the unity ends among the Republicans. One group, called "the old guard" in Texas, favors Gov. Ronald Reagan of Califor- nia and after that Richard Nixon. Another faction headed by Pe- ter O'Donnell, Texas GOP execu- tive committee chairman, wants to send delegates to the Miami convention unpledged so they can vote for anyone the delegation feels can beat the Democrats in November. The precinct conventions may reveal which segment has the? power. Democrats generally are behind Connally as favorite son but are split on the question of "unit- rule" - a requirement that the nominating delegation vote as a bloc. Says lawmakers want to force drastic federal spending cuts The party leadership is expect- ed to favor Vice President Hubert Humphrey but Gov. Connally has asked those attending precinct conventions not to tie the delega- tion's hands. He notes that the field of candidates has changed radically in recent weeks and more changes could take place. He wants the unit' rule. { Supporters of Sens. Eugene Mc- Carthy D-Minn., and Robert Kennedy, D. N.Y., want abolition of the unit rule so individual del-, egates can vote for anyone. Wallace needs 14,259 persons to attend his precinct conventions and certify they are American In- dependent Party members. This is one per cent of the 1966 general election total of voters. Some of his conventions begin at 11 a.m. EDT. The top primary races are for nominations for governor. Gov. Connally, former Secretary of the Navy, declined to seek 'a fourth term. The Democrats have 10 candi- dates for governor. Gov. Connally, former Secretary of the Navy, de- clined to seek a fourth term. The Democrats have 10 candi- dates for governor, indicating a runoff may be necessary June 1. The Republicans have three? candidates seeking nomination for governor -Associated Press, Marchers move 4into tent city SCLU seeks marc hers By The Associated Press ed ,by the Southern Christian ,At a press conference yester- The midwest leg of the Poor Leadership Conference, hopes to day, President Johnson disclosed People's March will wind through have plans made well enough in that the government, is seriously Detroit May 13 with 200 Detroit- advance to avoid a housing or concerned over the possibility of ers expected to join the campaign, food problem for the mass of violence during the march. the Rev. Cecil L. Franklin said marchers. "It contains many inherent dan- Thursday. The march, a brainchild of the gers," Johnson said. "We are con- About 11000 marchers are expect-i late Dr. Martin Luther King, is an credwtrte.W aemd ed to arrive ini Detroit on the leg laeD.Mri ute ig sa cerned with'them. We have made edtarive inm Deoitgond ther- attempt to draft the SCLC's tech- extensive preparations. starting from Chicago and cover- nique of provocative but non vio- "Every person participating and ing lemntsfro Miwauee. lent 'constructive tension' onto a The group is supposed to arrive ' every person in the capital should. in Washington on May 16, Frank- push for economic change. be aware of the possibilities of se- lin said. The organization, head- MISSISSIPPI rious consequences flowing from - --In Marks, Mississippi, leaders the assemblage of large numbers of the Poor People's March wres- over any protracted period of time tied with organizational and re- in the seat of government. w l K cruiting problems yesterday. "We expect the leaders to pre- "We are setting teams to fan sent their viewpoint. We expect out and tell these people what we to seriously consider'them. We be- are trying to do and how they cai lieve the Congress will do liker- I' V sp ee ii help." said the Rev. James Bevel, wise." a bearded Southern Christian "We hope that the presenta- Leadership Conference spokesman. tion made will be nonviolent," When the walkouts occurred, From this small beginning, here Johnson said, "although we are Humphrey had just finished talk- il this quiet Delta town pop. aware that no single individual ing about campus problems in a 2,600, SCLC hopes to develop the can give any assurances that they big city-presumably at Columbia. campaign into a political move- can control a situation like this." "killed the chances for the tax Senate Democratic Leader Mike Ieserters Mansfield of Montana disagreed. "I, was delighted he spoke out as he did and laid it out for us and st w ar the people." Johnson denounced what he called obstancles raised by Chair- man Wilbur D. Mills (D-Ark), of the Ways and Means Committee, and by others who helped shelve the bill three times. 'DISLIKE BUDGET' If Congress members dislike his $186-billion budget, Johnson said, "then stand up like men and an- swer the roll call and cut what they think ought to be cut." "But don't hold up a tax bill un- til you can blackmail,someone into getting your own personal view- point over on reductions," he con- tinued. phrey dur About1 marched o dent's app University, The NeE about 30 raising th sign as th "This i thing," Hi time anyo 'was when in the 19 tion." ing 'a campus speech. He declared that those "with twenty young Negroes enough get-up-and-go to make1 ut during the vice presi- trouble" should'have enough get-, earance at Kent State up-and-go to help others. Referring ,to the recent campus+ unrest, Humphrey declared, "When1 !grhesereollodbyspeakers are silenced and libraries1 ,iwhite students-some are closed, when classes are calledI eir hands in the peace off and, police are called in-free1 ey walked outspeech and free-inquiry are in is the most amazing serious jeopardy." amphrey said. "The last Humphrey, in a speech prepared1 ne walked out on me> for a Young Democratic dinner I I pleaded for civil rights later at Akron, warned against 48 Democratic Conven- those whom he said are trying to, sell America short. Their litany, he added, are "de- ception, doubt and despair." But1 he said no one who read the re- port of the Commission on Civil Rights or the report on rural pov- erty, or the statements of the lead-] ers of the "Poor People March onl Washington" can be content. .%{.b ","",+'t~a5;di;m+7i wog.'' . ,a ment of the poor, black or white, with the power to prod Congress into action. The SCLC is here mainly to re- cruit many 'of the area's rural poor for the march on Washing- ton-with #the' Memphis contin- gent to erect a shanty town in the capital. 'ECONOMIC' "This is no longer a civil rights thing," said Bevel. "This is eco- nomic. We intend to force the power structure of this country to divert more energy-and by that I mean money-into getting 40 million Americans into this na- tion's economic mainstream. Of the 360 who made the open- ing day trip from Memphis Thurs- day, about 220 remained for the long haul. The rest returned to Memphis, some 70 miles north of here. world news roundup. By The Associated Press WASHINGTON-Some of the nationwide. telephone strikers be- gan voting yesterday on a pro- posed new contract and a union spokesman expressed confidence they would approve the biggest wage gains in the industry's his- tory. Three middle-aged men, two in the United States and one in Lon- don, fought to survive last night after heart transplants-the sec- ond, third and fourth in a week. All three were reported doing well. Transplants were performed Fri- .... ........................:..>. s .}iv..r _ .. n ..:t tz:.". ..!~ - --1 ._._.._. day in Houston, Tex., and Lon- don, following by less than 24 hours a transplant operation in Stanford, Calif. A heart trans- plant was performed in Paris Sat- urday, but the patient died Tues- day. * * * WASHINGTON-The American Civil Liberties Union said yester- day it ha staken the case of a.22- year-old woman who charges she lost her security clearance and Army job on the basis of reports that, she was immoral. Carolyn Lea Tatnall of Phila- delphia said she resigned April 19 as a photographic technician for the Army Map Service following a 2/2-hour Pentagon interrogation about her intimate life and after an Army security officer told her later that he had seven reports of what he called her immorality. 'in MOSCOW MOSCOW A')-Moscow televi- sion presented an interview last night with six persons identified as deserters from U.S. forces in Vietnam. The six said they deserted to protest what they called American "aggression." An interviewer said the six were in Moscow at the time they were being interviewed but since the program appeared to be on film it was not clear if they are still in Moscow now. The interviewer did not say how they got here. The interviewer, commentator Yuri Pokin, hinted that the show was filmed recently. A television spokesman said by telephone later the interview was made "maybe a day or two before tie May Day holidays."' The six were identified as Joseph Metz, no home town available, Edwin Arnett of Bradford, Pa., Al Goren of St. Paul, Minn., Terry tWhitmore of Memphis, Tenn., Phil- lip Callicott of Mansfield, Ohio, and "kenneth Griggs of Boise, Idaho. The most attention was given to the man identified as Arnett, a photo trapher and former Marine, who spoke in a calm voice about what he said were American "atro- cities" committed against Viet- namese. The man said he saw a U.S. officer cut open a baby and throw it at its mother. He also said that prisoners were tortured by pour- ing salt water on their wounds during interrogations. 4 a.e ou "reds Your ses a hpth UE U w w -sw w wu= Reading Efficiency i Up to 4.7 Ties as the White House staff under the late Presi- dent Kennedy, members of Congress, execu- tives, educators, doctors, lawyers, housewives, and high school and college students have. 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