Tuesday, July 30, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Tuesday, July 30, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY 1~ .__..Thre Avert steel strike threat -Alsociated Press Nguyen Thanh Lee, left, spokesman for the North Vietnamese delegation to the Paris peace talks, tells newsmen at a press conference yesterday that his country will agree to discuss any subject raised at the talks after the United States stops the bombing of North Vietnam. CO mmunits pre are for attack on Saigon Industry offer ends deadlock PITTSBURGH (A)-The threat of a nationwide steel strike ap- peared all but ended yesterday by a dramatic industry offer report- edly thrown on the bargaining table only hours before the mills would have been forced to start closing. "It looks encouraging," said Joseph P. Molony, United Steel- workers international vice presi- dent. "Considerable progress has been made." "Tomorrow or the day after we'll have an agreement without government intervention," he told 600 local union presidents who are Questioned by reporters after the still ready - if necessary - to strike at midnight tomorrow. five-minute, closed meeting, Mo- lony said that he wanted only to add a single xphrase -- "I hope." He would't talk about how much was in the package. But many union officials said they couldn't believe it was less than a 6 per cent increase in wages and benefits over a three-year con- tract--similar to gains won by can, aluminum, copper and auto workers. Technicians and lawyers are still hard at work on specific lan- guage, and the facts and figures. The union's 33-man Executive Board-whch had broken up un- expectedly in the morning when USW President I. W. Abel sent word he was meeting, unexpected- ly, with industry negotiators- was told to remain on stand-by around the clock. The 600-man Basic Steel In- dustry Conference recessed after five minutes for another meeting today. If the loose ends are connected by 2 p.m. Tuesday it can ratify the contract, marking only the, third time since 1937 that a settle- ment package was wrapped up be- fore the strike deadline. Because so much time is re- quired to bank the big blast fur- naces, some mills would have re- quired to start cooling them off at midnight. It's a multimillion dollar decision, since it takes days to get them back at full force once the shutdown begins. The first public sign of a break- through in the month-long secret negotiations came at the 10 a.m. meeting of the Executive Board, which was expected to either rec- ommend a strike or approve an offer. Abel failed to show, and Molony rushed in 15 minutes late with word that the president was huddling with industry-in the U.S. Steel Corp. Building. The session broke up in confu- sion. But most of the 29 district directors said Abel could be meet- ing only to get a new offer. Molony confirmed it at the af- ternoon session of the union's In- dustry Conference. -Associated Press Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! Senator Everett Dirksen confers with Senator Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania in a closely guarded conversation at the platform hearings of the Republican National Convention at Miami Beach. Dirksen is head of the platform committee and Scott is one of the vice-chairmen. CHINESE UPRISINGS: N. Vietnamese weapons Pope rules out Catholic use of ofbiorth control VATICAN CITY Uh - In his long-awaited pronouncement yesterday on birth control, Pope Paul VI rejected the pill and all other artificial contraceptive devices for the world's half- billion Rcman Catholics. He backed his injunction with an unprecedented appeal to leaders of civil governments everywhere to outlaw contra- ception, sterilization and abortion as means of limiting popu- lation. But he encouraged men of science to keep up their re- search in the birth control field, asked priests to show under- standing to married couples4 struggling with the problem and left the door open just a U. - bit for future changes. The Pope's stand was expressedVi in the second encyclical letter on .e the birth control problem issued L1f in the Church's long history. It was addressed to Roman Catholics and to all men of good will. The 7,000-word encyclical, titledinLtn"uaeVte" o! human life - put the 70-year-old By The Associated Press Pope firmly, on the side of tradi- Pope Paul's conservative deci- tional Church teachings, which sionon birth control was met with rule that only one way of birth controversy and some challenges control is moral - sexual abstin- within and without the Catholic ence, either completely or in the Church. rhythm method. Even the latter, On the eve of the announce- he hinted, should not be used as ment, the Association of Wash- a regular practice. ington, D.C. Priests announced its Pope Paul ruled out all other refusal to obey the Pope's ex- ways, ranging from sterilization pected ruling because "it gives no and abortion to the pill and in- room for either probable opinion trauterine devices, as immoral and regarding the practice of contra- sinful. ception or the right of con- In his appeal to world leaders science." he called on governments to pre- Almost immediately after the vent any methods that "allow the document was issued, it drew ne- morality of your peoples to be de- gative reaction from Anglican bis- graded." hops at the Lambeth Conference The encyclical left only a glim- in London, who called it a blow mer of possibility for any future against better relations with Ro- changes -- but none of them ap- man Catholics. Contraception has peared likely in the pontiff's life- been allowed for Anglicans since time. 1930. He encouraged scientists - es- In Munich, Julius Cardinal pecially Catholics - to seek "a Doerpfner, one of the Church's sufficiently secure basis for a reg- outstanding advocates of chang- ulation of birth, founded on the ing the rules, commented that observance of natural rhythms" priests faced "many not so easy He also asked all priests to be tasks"in carrying out the orders patient and understanding with set forth in the enyclical. Pope married couples who practice Paul commanded all priests and birth control. Christ, he said, "was bishops to avoid aiy misunder- indeed intransigent with evil but standing and henceforth make it merciful toward individuals " unmistakably clear that contra- The conclssion was designed to ception was wrong. Tet comcaiontas desinmeds It ignored the recommendations meet complaints from numerous o aoiyo i 5mme Catolis wo caimd tey ereof a majority of hi 75-member Catholics who claimed they were birth control commission two refused the sacrament of confes- years ago that he allow it. sion because they used a birth It was not until the 1930 en- control device, cyclical by Pius XI that the Vat- He warned that artificial birth ican modified the Augustinian control methods could encourage rule that sex must be solely for "conjugal infidelity and the gen- procreation and allowed use of eral lowering of morality." the rhythm method. P World news roundu HONG KONG U)- Civil war rages in Red China's Kwangsi' province and foes of Mao Tse-; tung are fighting with stolen wea- pons destined for neighboring North Vietnam, a provincial!, broadcast said yesterday. Another broadcast from Kwei- chow province just north of1 Kwangsi declared that unless the enemies of party Chairman Mao1 are crushed there "the state is in danger of being wiped out." A third alarmist broadcast, from Honan Province, said Mao's ene- mies are "instigating the masses1 of violence, sabotage and rebel- central Chinese province have said Mao's enemies threaten to gain the upper hand. If the uprisings are as wide- spread as reported, they could se- lion." Recent broadcasts from that riously interrupt the flow of mili- tary supplies from Red China to North Vietnam. Most of the military supplies from the Soviet Union and Red China go by rail through Kwangsi Province. A trickle of arms and munitions also are believed to be taken in by road from Yunnan, SAIGON (AP-Captured enemy officers and Viet Cong defectors are continuing to supply evidence that the Communists are prepar- ing for a major third offensive, South Vietnamese intelligence sources said yesterday. Some prisoners have told inter- rogators that allied bombing raids and ground sweeps around Saigon are constantly disrupting these preparations. A female Viet Cong squad leader captured by South Vietnamese airborne troops said she had been ordered to set up a first aid sta- tion near Saigon to treat the wounded in the upcoming assault, the sources said. An officer of the 508th Viet Cong Battalion in Oong'An Prov- ince told his captors that six bat- talions and two sapper companies, a total of 2,200 men, would be used in the offensive. Intelligence -fficers said he listed the main targets in Saigon as the national and local police headquarters, the presidential palace and militia posts. Another prisoner, the executive officer of the 4th Viet Cong local force battalion, said the assault was planned between the end of July and early September, the same estimate which has been accepted by the U.S. Command and Defense 'Secretary Clark M. Clifford. He said the enemy troops would try to isolate the Bien Hoa high- way, the main northern route from Saigon; seize the 9th Pre- cinct police headquarters south- east of the capital, and attack the government radio station, the U.S. Embassy, the Vietnamese navy headquarters and,other allied in- stallations. A Viet Cong platoon leader who defected July 17 said two bat- talions south of Saigon are wait- ing for their commanders to re- turn from "refresher training courses in strategy and tactics" at secret bases near the Cambodian border. Fulbri ght faces vote A0 in Arkansas prmary LITTLE ROCK, Ark (AP)-Sen. J. William Fulbright's battle for renomination, with his Vietnam war position the major issue, reaches the voters today with about 480,000 person4 expected to cast ballots in the Arkansas pri- maries. Fulbright, 63, has been the tar- get of charges by his three Dem- ocratic primary foes that his stand on the Southeast Asia con- flict. has encouraged the Com- munists and prolonged the war. despite Democratic charges that he has handled state funds ir- responsibly. Six persons are seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomi- nation with each predicting vic- tory in the Nov. 5 general election, over the state's first GOP chief executive since Reconstruction. Also on the ballot is an eight- man Democratic race for Congress in the 1st Distridt the Mississippi Delta region that has been rep- resented by E. C. "Took" Gath- the province bordering Kwangsi on the west. Analysts in Hong Kong study- ing the Kwangsi broadcast said it was possible the Maoists were exaggerating the situation in or- del, to receive military help from Peking. But they have heard the stories of returning travelers tell- ing of thousands of refugees flee- ing Kwangsi. As for the Honan and Kwei- chow broadcasts, the analysts, who assess Chinese developments for their governments, said they indicate Mao is weak in the two provinces. If the Maoists actually had control, they added, they would smash the uprisings. The same would be true of Kwangsi if the reports are not overdrawn. While factionalism among sup- porters of Mao are blamed for widespread fighting in iRed China, both the Kwangsi and Honan broadcasts blamed the uprisings on "China's Khrushchev," a refer- ence to President Liu Shao-chi, rallying point for the enemies of Mao in the Chinese power strug- gle. Kwangsi Radio broadcast a re- port from a Red Guard magazine as saying 50,000 people have been killed there in the- past six months and both sides are fighting, "with modern weapons and ammuni- tion." The broadcast, quoting the July issue of "422 Magazine," saA the heaviest fighting occurred in the major cities of Liuchow, Wuchow, Nanning and Kweilin, but also was in progress in a total of 56 cities, counties and towns. A Kweichow broadcast of an article in the New Kweichow Dai- ly declared: "Unless they (Mao's enemies) can be stopped by the most vigorous counterblows, the state will be wiped out and the proletarian people will suffer the greatest of disasters." 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, August 1 and Saturday, August 5 8:00 p.m. LYDIA MENDELSSOHN THEATRE All Seats $3.00 - Box Office Opens July 29 Box Office Hours: 12:30-5:00 p.m., July 29, 30, 31, Aug. 2 12:30-8:00 p m. on performance dates He denies that this has been ings, who is retiring after 30 the result of his criticism of Presi- years in Congress. dent Johnson's policies on the war, The polls open at 8 a.m. CDT and, citing his efforts to get fed- and close at 7:30 p.m. An Aug. 13 eral money for projects in Arkan- Democratic runoff is scheduled sas, says the war has drained for races where no one receives a away billions that could have been majority vote Tuesday. used to solve domestic problems. Fulbright's most serious chal- About 30,000 are expected to lenge comes from Jim Johnson, a vote in the Republican primary self-styled segregationist who ad- with Gov. Winthrop Rocekefeller vocates the bombing of Haiphong favored to win renomination easily Harbor in North Vietnam. i p I U 11 YESTERDAY I WAS HUNGRY. TODAY I AM STARVING TOMORROW I WILL BE DYING By The Associated Press WASHINGTON-The U.S. for- eign trade balance ran in the red again in June, the government said yesterday.\ It ws the third month this year that imports exceeded ex- ports. The June deficit of $87 mil- lion, following trade losses in May and March, made it all the more unlikely that the administration will meet its goal of improving on last year's $4.1 billion surplus in the balance of trade. * *** WARSAW, Poland--The armed forces newspaper pledged Poland's military might yesterday to "de- fend to the end" the unity of the Warsaw Pact, which it said is being endangered by Czechoslo- vakia. A front-page editorial in Zol- nierz Wolnesci-Soldier of Free- dom'- declared assistance ' and support for "Our brothers, for the Communists, for the Czechoslovak people including those in uni- form." * *' * program which he said has meant life for millions of human beings in other countries during the last 14 years. He noted that, among other things, the new law to extend the program an additional two years promises "more resources for fam- ily planning." This was on a. day when Pope Paul VI decreed against the use of all artificial means of birth control by Roman Catholics. WASHINGTON - The Senate sent to President Johnson yester- day a bill authorizing a $21 billion national highway program over the next six years including ad- dition of 1,500 miles to the Inter- state expressway system. The passage vote was 66-6. The measures authorizes $12.3 billion in new funds for the Inter- state and other federal-aid roads and also allocates about $9 billion of old funds for the next few years. * * * NEW YORK - The U.S. Cus- toms office here said yesterday it has smashed a major internation- al narcotics smuggling ring with the seizure of five persons and nearly 53 pounds of pure heroin worth an estimated $6 million on the illicit retail market. SUN.'NIG14T FILM SERIE$ Aug. 4 --9:00 p.m. NEWMAN CENTER- Fritz Lang - 1932 75c Vatch Thurs. for Aug. Schedule ;o !T WASHINGTON - Johnson signed today to continue the Food President legislation for Peace RUDOLF FIRKUSNY Czech Pianist. 8:30 There will be a meeting of the' Cleaver for President Committee at 8:00 tonight In Room 3A of the Union Everyone interested is welcome Sponsored by FRIENOS OF CITIZENS FOR NEW POLITICS 11 - IN RACKHAM AUDITORIUM (appearing in The Summer Concert Series) PROGRAM Sonata in B-flat major......Schubert Four Piano Pieces, Op. 119 .... 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