Friday, August 2, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three Friday, August 2, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY . Congress halts employment cut; Saturday mail service continues LBJ asks world WASHINGTON (/P) - Congress voted yesterday to exempt postal workers and several other cate- gories from the employment cut- back it imposed on the federal government. The action headed off a shut- down of smaller post offices and cuts in other postal services, in,- eluding Saturday delivery, which had been due to start this week- end. In addition to saving the Jobs of an estimated 83,000 postal work- ers, the exemptions voted by the House would spare some FBI em- ployes and add 2,399 new jobs in the federal air traffic control system. Exemptions from the personnel cutback which Congress itself or- dered in passing the 10 per cent income tax surcharge brought this comment from Rep. Charles R. Jonas (R-N.C.), of the House Appropriations Committee: "The snowball has started roll- ing now and there's no way to stop it." The Post Office exemption was sped to President Johnson ty the House just one day in advance of the Aug. 2 date Postmaster Gen- eral W. Marvin Watson had set to start closing nearly 350 fourth-{ class post offices. Watson also had ordered all ocal post offices closed on Sat- urdays, starting this week, and less frequent mail collections. "Because of this action," he said in a statement, "I have called off plans for postal service cut- backs scheduled for this Saturday, and service' will be normal." Watson said the congressional action "means that the Post Of- fice will get the additional people required to handle the two billion- piece increase in mail expected this year." Watson had ordered the service curtailment in response to the congressional edict that federal employment be rolled back to 1966 levels. Despite grumbling that Watson was blackmailing Congress into taking his department off the economy hook, the House passed the bill 345-to-24. In addition, the House decided to exempt personnel engaged in air traffic control operations of the Federal Aviation Administra- tion. The exemption was written into a House bill by the Senate and the House accepted the change. to restrain Hanoi Seeks international aid in persuading enemy to restrain military buildup WASHINGTON (R) - President Johnson sought interna- tional help yesterday in persuading North Vietnam to match U.S. restraint in the Vietnam war. The plea to world opinion was issued in a formal White House statement one day after Johnson warned the United States it can expect a massive attack by the enemy in Viet- nam. The statement was issued following a half-hour meeting between Johnson and William J. Jorden, a member of the U.S. d'elegation to the Parist, Peace talk delegate Jorden confers with President Johnson SOVIET DEFEAT? 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(No increase in Admission Prices) These Groups Being Sponsored thru the Cooperation of the following local music stores: suggested no room for compro- mise. Tomorrow there will be a new meeting, in Bratislava, Slovakia, with Moscow's faithful four bloc allies taking part. The Russians still face alternatives which leave them little room for victory. The way out for Moscow, to save some face, may be keyed to an agreement between Czechoslo- vakia and "the five"-the U.S.S.R. Poland, Bulgaria, East Germany and Hungary - on Prague's fu- ture attitude toward its next-door neighbor, West Germany. The alleged threat of West Ger- many to the Communist bloc has been one of the reasons given for the severe Soviet pressure on Czechoslovakia, a sensitive out- post of the Warsaw military pact. Perhaps the Russians will be obliged to settle for a (zechioslo- vak pledge to follow Moscow's general foreign policy line with a promise to keep the West Ger- -mans at arm's length. Tonight and Tomorrow CINEMA GUILD A NIGHT OF CHARLIE CHAPL IN FILMS Such an outcome, however, would be a poor substitute fcr 'what the Russians wanted -- a reversal of the whole Czechoslovak Internal trend toward liberaliza- tion. The Russians had a poor choice. Having committed themselves against the Czechoslovak move- ment, they could resort to crude measures, up to or including naked military force, and thus risk severe new damage to inter- national communism. Or they could back away. One way or the other, it would be a bad bargain. The Russians may still hope to reverse the Czechoslovak vrend by using economic weapons to help hard-line Muscovites in Prague restore themselves to power. The political, economic and military pressure on Czechoslo- vakia has been extreme for sev- eral months. If it appears to fail, Moscow will be left with more problems than it started with. The Russians went for broke. They demanded reestablishment of total control, re-imposition of tight censorship, a elampdown on the influx of Western visitors, and an unlimited right to station troops inside Czechoslovakia. The noncommittal wording of the Cierna communique suggests the Russians are far from satIsi Pied. The fact that the meeting tomorrow 'vill also be on Czecho- slovak soil, however, indicates that the Prague side stubbornly and successfully held its ground. The Famous CHARGING RHINOCEROS OF -SOUL Dance-Concert CANTERBURY HOUSE SUNDAY, Aug: 4 9 p.m. '$1.00 peace talks. The meeting was not announced in advance. > Johnson, the statement said, told Jorden : "The world had called upon the United States to exercise restraint in Vietnam" and he responded March 31 by limiting the bombing area of North Vietnam. "The President now hoped that the world wouldcall on North Vietnam to show similar re- straint," the statement said. Johnson was reported to have expressed to Jorden an earnest desire for an early and honorable peace and "his sincere hope that the North Vietnamese representa-' tives in Paris would soon join with the American delegation in serious consideration of meaning- ful measures to bring the fight- ing in Vietnam to an end." Jorden reviewed for Johnson the Paris talks and "also described the consistent refusal of the North Vietnamese delegation to enter" into serious discussions of any proposals, except their demand that all bombing of the North." In a previous statement John- son said: "I cannot order the cessation of furtherhunilateral acts of bombing of the infiltra- tion routes "We are prepared ,to halt the bombing when we feel confident that the halt in the bombing will not lead to the loss of heavy American, and allied casualties. More than that I cannot do. Enemy prepares off ensive SAIGON '(P)-Preparing for an offensive that may open this month, North Vietnam has built up its forces in South Vietnam at five times the rate of the Unit- ed States in the past four months, a U.S. Command source said yes- terday. 'As if to underscore the prepa- rations, the senemy launched six coordinated attacks before dawn at South Vietnamese positions guarding the approaches to Sai- gon. The attacks were broken off after about an hour. The com- mand had no report do casualties. Bitter fighting continid for the second day near the Cam- bodian border five miles north- west of Saigon. This is one of the buildup areas for North Vietnam- ese forces. The command source supported what President Johnson told a news conference in Washington Wednesday, that the North Viet- namese were making massive pre- parations for a new offensive and the United States might have to take "additional military meas- ures." 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