Wednesday Mary 8, 1968 THE MICHIGAN GAILY / Page Three Wednesday May 8, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY RETALIATION CONSIDERED: Infiltration from North climbs to record height Up interest rates for FHA, GI loans Weaver says new legislation allows construction to iieeL trowildg deiiand WASHINGTON (P) - Infiltra- tion from the North has reached such record levels in Vietnam in the period preceding preliminary peace talks that the administra- tion is concerned about a neces- sity for possible retaliatory steps. Government officials say too, that they are concerned with the new Communist attacks that have centered on Saigon and other cities. They say these, too, con- front the U.S. command in Viet- nam with decisions on counter measures. Thus the hopes that soared when Washington and Hanoi{ agreed on Paris and a starting time around May 10 for prelimin- ary peace discussions are being N a-me peace delegation 40 -WASHINGTON (P)-The United States announced yesterday it will send a six man delegation headed by Ambassador W. Averell Harriman to Paris for the pre- liminary talks with North Viet- namese negotiators. Ms members of the delega- tion, including Harriman, plan to fly from Washington tomorrow. "We are prepared to begin on Friday," a State Department spokesman said. Friday is the proposed opening date for the preliminary peace talks, although final details on a meeting place! in Paris have not yet been worked out. The members of the delegation are: Harriman, Cyrus R. Vance, Lt. Gen. Andrew Goodpaster, Philip C. Habib, William Jordan and Daniel I. Davidson. tempered now by caution and the military facts of life in Vietnam. As of May 5, reports from Sai- gon to Washington put the esti- mate of infiltration by the Com- munists at 100,000 men since the Tet offensive began in late Janu- ary with about 35,000 in April and more than 6,500 from May 1 to May 5. Meanwhile, U.S. Gen. William C. Westmoreland has received no manpower reinforcements, offi- cials say. What can and should be done about this imbalance obviously has been a matter of top level concern here and a subject of dis- cussion at numerous conferences in the White House, Pentagon and State Department. One obvious reaction could be to step up the bombing which President Johnson deescalated on March 31, at the time he an- nounced he was not going to seek another White House term. But so farno decisions have been reached.. In the background is a delicate concern over what the United States might feel compelled to do at a time when a start toward peace negotiations is imminent. The whole situation poses what some officials consider to be the gravest problem now confronting the nation. With the opening of talks in Paris just a few days away, offi- cials were suggesting that West- moreland and Washington are going to have to decide something quickly. And the decision in the end, will be up to President Johnson. Meanwhile, the battle on the southwest edge of Saigon rose in fury yesterday, then ebbed at nightfall. But North Vietnamese and Viet Cong reinforcements were reported moving to join the fighting against South Vietnam- ese troops and U.S. armor. Parachute flares lighted the night sky and planes pounded suspected enemy positions in the third day of heavy fighting in and around Saigon. .The enemy launched the attack Sunday and shelled more than 100 other .cities and military installations, pre- sumably to strengthen their hand at the forthcoming peace talks in Paris. Early in the day, an enemy force tried to burst into Saigon over a bridge across the Kinh Doi Canal. But armored personnel carriers of the U.S. 9th Infantry Division beat them to the bridge and the enemy took refuge in a warehouse and factory area just south of Saigon. The fighting swept through the warehouses and factories most of the day. WASHINGTON (M)-In an ac- tion that will make it easier but possibly costlier for Americans to buy homes, the government raised the maximum interest rate on FHA and GI loans yesterday from 6 per cent to 6% per cent. Meanwhile, President Johnson predicted that if Congress doesn't pass his proposed income tax sur- charge, the interest rate for mort- gages could soar to 10 per cent. The President said that while the tax bill has "languished" in Congress, conventional interest rates on mortgages have gone from 5%/ per cent to 7 per cent and in some cases to 8 per cent. Johnson made the statements while signing the bill that author- ed Press ized a lifting of the 6 per cent ceiling on loans insured by the, Federal Housing Administration - -,.and Veterans Administration. -Associat President Johnson warns of interest hike WITH DELIBERATE STYLE Montgomery closes, in governor's memory MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Ala- Brewer, a Decatur, Ala., attorney Mama Democrats saddened by the who was Speaker of the House death of Gov. Lurleen Wallace during the last of his th-ee terms' voted yesterday to let her husband in the state legislature, drove to run for president under the party Montgomery immediately after emblem in his own state. being notified of Mrs. Wallace's Alabama's historic state Capitol death at 12:34 a.m. was closed and flags outside flut- The new governor was given the tered at half staff Tuesday in me- oath of office Tuesday afternoon mory of Gov. Wallace, a victim of by his hometown probate judge, cancer at the age of 41. T. C. Almon. Standing at his side Messages of sorrow poured in was Mrs. Wallace's husband, from President Lyndon Johnson, George, the former governor and Vice President Hubert Humphrey now a candidate for president. and from governors across the An aide said doctors performed South. an autopsy on Mrs. Wallace's frail The White House said the presi- body "because she had indicated dent had kept in touch with Mrs. that if this would be helpful to Wallace during her illness and the doctors studying her case, she sent a personal ,message of sym- wanted them to do it." pathy to members of the family There was no evidence, made Tuesday. public at least, that the governor The death of the first woman had been stricken again with can- governor in Alabama's history and cer after the removal of a malig- the third in the nation projected nant tumor last Feb. 22, her third 39-year old Lt. Gov. Albert Brewer such operation in two years. And into office as the state's chief the immediate cause of death was executive. notannounced. W M. 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One, of McNamara's chief ifford, a slow-spoken law- weaknesses, acknowledged even has imprinted his own de- by his admirers, was his appar- ate style on, the topmost ent inability to cozy up to Con- in the Pentagon. gress. His presentations were t so far at least he has brusque and formal and he e no discernible changes ifn rarely bothered to make any r defense ,policies inherited personal visits to influential the seven-year regime of senators and representatives. ert S. McNamara, In a very real sense, Clifford I of the top McNamara-era has been mending fences which ials still are with Clifford, fell into neglect and caused there are indications most McNamara rising troubles with hem will remain at least Congress. ugh this year. There are evidences of Clif- lose who have watched ford's success, even at this rel- g ord close-up since March 4 atively early stage in his tenure. he concerns himself with Chairman L. Mendel Rivers, der problems. (D-S.C.), of the House Armed r lifford sees the problem Services Committee, last week the top down, leaving de- demonstrated the new era of p to his subordinates," an good feeling when he told Clif- a eiate said. ford at a hearing that he has a z 'his means the heavy part hunch "that we as a commit- g ie day-to-day load falls on tee and you as secretary of de- f Nitze."ofense are going to get along is was a reference to Dep- very well together." n Secretary of Defense Nitze, The contrasts in style be- p himself reportedly had as- tween Clifford and McNamara e ions to succeed McNamara are vivid. McNamara moved on to Sitting in a high back chair me president of the World and pondering his reply to a C C. question, Clifford reminds a a visitor more of a judge than the manager of an enormous and complex government enter- prise. He forms his thought after evident reflection and the lan- guage he uses to express those thoughts is sprinkled with such formal-sounding words as "spe- cificity . . . particularity . contemporaneously." He works at his desk without doffing the double-breasted, wide lapeled suit coat which has become something of a hall- mark. McNamara was a shirtsleeve worker. He spoke with auto- matic rifle rapidity, with heavy use of statistics and figures and -in a language often redolent of the management technicians. When McNamara last fall made known his intention to leave, some of the Vietnam war critics - who formerly had worked him over - suddenly pictured him as a kind of Dutch - boy - with - his - fin- ger-in-the-dike - a restraining influence against all-out es- calation. There were predictions that Clifford's advent as secretary of defense signaled a big step-up' in the war. With wry humor, Clifford harked back -to this in his April 22 speech to The Associated Press in New York. He recalled that columnists and analysts had written of McNamara as "a gentle, even lovable dove - who was step- ping aside for a bloodthirsty old hawk, me." Clifford was reputed to be a hard-liner and has acknowl- edged publicly that in the past he had opposed bombing pauses. Big picture Shortly afterwardhSecretary Robert C. Weaver of the Depart- ment of Housing and Urban de- velopment announced the newI maximum rate. He said it would speed the flow of mortgage money into the housing market and make it possible to keep construction at{ a pace with demand. Home building has lagged badly during the last couple of years be- cause of difficulty of obtaining+ mortgage loans'.1 The president of the National Association of Home Builders,' Lloyd E. Clarke, said at, a news conference earlier in the day "We're developing a housing short- age in this nation." But the Des Moines, Iowa,; builder said the higher interest rate would help speed construction of housing. He said it would make it easier for people to get home financing- especially people of low income-, because the interest ceiling has made lenders reluctant 'to put their money into FHA and VA, home mortagges when they could get a greater return elsewhere. But he said it would probablyI increase the monthly payments of home buyers even though some! - l 77 builders would reduce the price of new homes. A spokesman for the association said later that the effect on new home prices might more likely be one of "holding the line" because of the increase in building costs. The spokesman said home prices ;could be reduced, however, be- cause builders have in effect been adding the cost of the discount points to the total cost of the home. FHA Commissioner P. N. Brown- stein said the new rate should bring to within "a range of toler- ance" the discount points, which lenders have been charging on their mortgages at the time homes are sold. Abernath continues Con march MONTGOMERY, Ala., (P) - Marchers in the Poor People's Campaign set out for the Ala- bama capital yesterday after the Rev. Ralph David Abernathy led a second demonstration in Selma. Abernathy, successor to the slain Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., went ahead with the iarch schedule despite the death of Gov. Lurleen Wallace of Alabama. The governor died shortly after mid- night Monday. After marching out of Selma, the main contingent of the marchers climbed aboard six big air conditioned buses for the ride of about 40 miles to the outskirts of Montgomery and the trek into the city. "A dark shadow has been cast across the horizon of America," Abernathy said in a statement at Selma. He sent a telegram of condolences to Mrs. Wallace's husband, former Gov. George C. Wallace. But, Abernathy said, the Poor People's Campaign -its destina- tion Washington in a drive for McNamara brought language such terms sured destruction . strike capability . definition." - into the as ;'as- second contract. World news roun 111.11/ i, | jobs or income for the poor-con- tinued after King was assassi- ~-- --_--,-nated April 4 in Memphis Tenn By The Associated Press PARIS-North Vietnam's dele-' gation for preliminary peace talks with the United States began arriving yesterday with a top member of the group sounding a, positive note. Ha Van Lao, who will act as adviser to chief negotiator Xuan Thuy, was at the head of 23 dele- gation members who arrived; rom Hanoi by way of Peking and Moscow. Ha Van Lao told news- men "I am optimistic" about pros- pects for the talks He did not elaborate. ** * * PITTSBURGH - Crucible Steel Co. said yesterday it has obtained no strike agreement from the United Steelworkers Union in re- urn for a small temporary pay, >oost.. Crucible President John C. Lobb aid workers will receive 10 cents n hour more immediately and another five cents an hour from July 31 until the industry gets a new contract. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. - A special council told the General! Assembly yesterday that racial var is inevitable if South Africa refuses to turn South West A over to the United Nation contended only use of forcec oust South Africa from the ritory. * MOSCOW-The Kremlin e yesterday its permissive han of Czechoslovakia's drive to liberal reform with a denial Soviet agents murdered Cz slovak Foreign' Minister Jan saryk in 1948. In Prague,t was open talk of the possi of Soviet military interventio A Soviet government staten acknowledging "anti-Soviet m among politically unstable ple" in Czechoslovakia, dism as lies a report April 16 in official Czechoslovak Commi party newspaper linking M ryk's death,- officially a su with the Soviet secret police - * *- * WASHINGTON - Rep. Findley (R-Ill.) blocked ye day a move to swiftly extend4 Earle G. Wheeler's term as c man of the Joint Chiefs of St Findley said the Armed Ser Committee should conduct I ings to determine whether W er is in favor of what Fin 1 mr__ - - - - - - ., L4.1 a a s] p VOICE-wSDS GENERA Wednesday, May 8 Plans for the sum EVERYNE WELCOh 95% OF THE READING POPULATION READS ON LY 250 TO FAST READING IS NOT DIFFII All those who completed courses held this winter at the Bell Tower Inn achieved speeds of 800 to 1800 w.p.m. with the same or increased comprehension they had at their slower reading rates. Africa called the policy of gradualism in - ----------- s. It Vietnam. "Neither will we stop because could * * * of the death of Gov. Wallace," ter- WASHINGTON - Rep. William Abernathy said. L. Dawson (D-Ill.) apparently In Washington, Sen. John L. abandoning plans to abolish the McClellan, who heads the Senate ended subcommittee on foreign opera- investigations s u b c o m m i t t e e, dling tions and government informa- charged yesterday that black ward tion, has asked more money to let militants intend to try to touch that it continue. off new rioting when the Poor echo- TPeople's Campaign converges on ch- The subcommittee, headed by the nain's capital. Ma- Rep. John E. Moss (D-Calif.) has hSenate ts capny disclosed the there championed access to government Army already has been placed on bility information. It also initiated a a partial alert and is poised to n. probe of corruption in 'the U.S. 1 prthousand ts idto ment, aid program in Vietnam, , and! pour thousands of troops into noods Moss has criticized Selective Serv- Washington for the second time peo- ice Director Lewis B. Hershey. in recent weeks, should violence lissed - McClellan told the Senate, ust WASHINGTON - Gonorrhea is "There are militant leaders, now lasa- "out of . control" in the United on the road or ready to march ieid, States, the director of the Na- with their followers toward Wash- .' tional Communicable Disease Cen- ington, who have boasted ter says. that, once they arrive here, they Paul Dr. David J: Sencer, the direc- will control their own groups and ster- tor, told a House appropriations incite them to rioting and vio- Gen. subcommittee, "I would say it is lence." hair- out of control.. . there has been An estimated 600 marehers taff. a 12 per cent increase in reported followed Abernathy on a winding, 'vices gonorrhea cases in each of the frequently h a 1 t e d procession hear- last few years. You can say it is through Selma. heel- increasing and increasing dan- Abernathy held onto the reins ndley Igerously." of a farm mule, one of a paid pulling an old weatherbeaten wagon. As Abernathy had announced before Mrs. Wallace's death, the two mules were dubbed "George Wallace" and "Jim Clark." Clark was sheriff of Dallas County (Selma) when King and Aber- nathy conducted the 1965 cam- paign that produced a voting rights law. When asked why he went Union Room 3-y "*"hrougwithtnicknaming of Unio Roo 3-ythe, mules, Abernathy said: "We didn't see any need to change the name. We already had named imer them. We don't think this de- fames her (Mrs. Wallace) or him, for that matter. We just didn't E- change the names." University Charter Caledonian Airways FLY TO 300 WORDS PER MINUTE OR LESS CULT TO LARN! LONDON from DETROIT III I ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ A L-- - - - -~. ...