WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15,1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THRER WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1~, 1 9 6 6 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THRE1~ De Gaulle s Moscow Trip Evokes U.S. Suspicion By RICHARD K. O'MALLEY PARIS (MP)-President Charles de Gaulle leaves Monday for Mos- cow on a trip that has caused uneasy suspicion among at least two of his allies-America and West Germany. Both are worried that he may engage in some bilateral treaty or agreement with the Russians which would be disadvantageous to the West. The United States regards the journey with a somewhat jaundic- ed eye, and officials have been frank in saying privately that they are worried lest de Gaulle engage in some special agreement with the Soviet Union on Germany. To French officials who are as privy to the austere French presi- dent's thinking as one can be- and that is not always especially close-nothing could be farther from the facts. No Treaty, Say French They say he does not plan to sign any treaty or agreement, and that such is not the purpose of his trip anyway. It is likely that they are cor- rect, for in the framework of his policy, there is nothing mystify- ing about his journey to Moscow. De Gaulle feels that the German problem is the matter of greatest importance, and when he says German problem he means the questions of Germany's reunifica- tion. Germany a European Matter He regards the eventual reuni- fication of Germany as a long- range project. More important, he regards the creation of the proper atmosphere for reunification to be a strictly European matter. French sources say de Gaulle does not think America could be any help in relaxing tensions between East and West, so the Europeans should do it. In what seems to be an exercise in presumption, he has made it clear that once the conditions were established for reunification he would consider it proper that the four victorious powers in World War II would sign the peace trea- ty with Germany. In short, in the French view, the United States should let Eu- ropeans get on with relaxing ten- sions all around so that, on some distant day perhaps 10 years hence, there will be the proper atmosphere for German reunifica- tions. It is certain that he is going to talk to the Russians about the reunification of Germany. This is not a popular subject with the So- viet Union, which expresses fear of a resurgent Germany. Problem Needs Agreement But de Gaulle thinks that a solution to the German problem requires a detente and agreement, especially a m o n g Germany's neighbors. "He considers the reunification question the nucleus of the en- tire German problem and thinks that the Iron Curtain should be lifted bit by bit so that a de- tente can be accomplished," said one French source. There seems little doubt that if de Gaulle wanted some sort of treaty with the Soviet Union he could get it in a minute. Will 'Crang One Up' As one Western diplomat said recently, "If the general wants a treaty, the Russians will be glad to crank something up for him." But up to now he has made it plain through his officials that he will sign no agreement or treaty during his Soviet visit. There had been talk when he announced he was withdrawing his troops from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that he tim- ed it in advance of his visit to Moscow, so he could arrive as an unfettered Westerner. Deny Using NATO But a French official denies this had anything to do with it, say- ing: "If he had wanted to use the NATO question at all it would cer- tainly have been more logical to keep his intentions quiet and then use his departure from NATO as a bargaining point in any talks with the Russians." But it seems reasonable that his detachment from NATO makes him even more palatable to the Soviet Union's leaders. He is going to visit Moscow, Len- ingrad, Stalingrad and Novosi- birsk, and he undoubtedly will have a long schedule of private talks with Soviet chieftains. Project To Lessen Tensions He is taking his astute foreign minister, Maurice Couve de Mur- ville, for talks with Couve's oppo- site number, Andrei A. Gromyko. French sources insist that the entire project is aimed at de Gaulle's overall program of try- ing to lessen tensions between East and West. And, it goes without saying, to make France the leading power in Europe. Viet Nam Demonstrators) Marked 41Report Battle A 'Set Bac To Viet Con Hunger Strike Leaves Buddhist Chief Tlich Tri Quang Seriously Ill SAIGON (M)-Vietnamese troops and riot police blockaded the Bud- dhist Institute and, curbing at- tempted antigovernment marches yesterday with pistol shots and 3 tear gas charges, rounded up scores of draft-age demonstra- tors for army service. From Hue came. word that the chief of the Buddhist militants, Thich Tri Quang, was in weak- ened and serious condition in the seventh day of his antigovern- ment, anti - American hunger strike. To that announcement from a spokesman for the monk, a clandestine Buddhist radio added a report that Quang's heartbeat A U.S has become irregular. name Amid efforts of a Buddhist mi- 101st, nority to revitalize their drive against Premier Nguyen Cao Ky's ed in regime and the United States for supporting it, air and ground forc- Ses pressed the war against the3 0 Communists. War Pressed Brig. Gen. Willard Pearson, l. commander of the 1st Brigade of 1 the 101st Airborne Division, said: North Viet Nam's 24th Regiment had been destroyed as a fighting GEN force in the Kontum plateau bat- attack tle and "I believe this battle has marked set the Viet Cong timetable back 17-nati several months." With estimates terday. of the enemy dead ranging to understa more than 1000, Pearson said he should believed the kill ratio would favor the Gen the allies by as much as 14 to 1. Sovie -A strike by two U.S. Navy Roschin F4C Phantom jets against two can be propeller-driven planes spotted in of nucle predawn darkness off North Viet United Nam's coast 70 miles southwest tary op of the port of Haiphong was a a treaty highlight of the air campaign. the coni One vanished from radar screens with the explosion of a radar- Rosch guided Sparrow missile and a most bi spokesman said it was probably years o shot down. The other fled inland. nounced -A broadcast dispatch from William Hanoi declared North Viet Nam's ganda b armed forces shot down five U.S., planes Monday and sank a U.S.- Rosch x. South Vietnamese commando boat States o in the Tonkin Gulf off Thanh troops Hoa, 80 miles south of Hanoi. The called official newspaper Nhan Dan said against the Viet Cong have begun their mese pe monsoon offensive and inflicted about p heavy casualties on American and Washin allied troops. There was no offi- arms ra cial comment on any of these prospec statements in Saigon. neva. Jeep Burned Rosch Ky's security forces cracked K. Tsar down against the revived rioting conferen in Saigon after a monk-led mob the Vie of 3000 burned the jeep of two regretta U.S. military policemen and two point o other vehicles. Demonstrators lowed t made off with two 45-caliber sub- in Gen machine guns the MP's left be- been a hind in flight. West Gc Troops and police drove the When rioters back and laid virtual siege than tw to the institute, choking Off doz- marks a ens of incipient demonstrations. Nam be The arrest of the youths was in statemer line with a warning last week gates fr that student demonstrators would vakia, P henceforth be subject to conscrip- tion for front line duty. Showered at times with stones, police fired into the air and oc- casionally into the ground as they I repeatedly charged surging bands of youths headed by a few monks. Bullets hit at least two demon- strators. Reliable sources said the officers were instructed to fire to wound rather than permit dem- onstrations to continue. for Army Draft -Associated Press . SKYRAIDER pulls out of a dive after dropping its load of bombs on entrenched North Viet- se regulars in the Toumorong valley, about 30 miles northwest of Kontum. Units of the U.S. Airborne Division, locked in close combat with at least two enemy divisions since Tuesday, call- strikes. viets Blast U.S. War Poicy srupt Geneva Negotiations Policemen Named as Riot Cause Wiser Puerto Ricans Blame Chicago Riots1 On Language Barrier CHICAGO (P)-Lack of com- munications between authorities and a community of Latin Amer- icans who speak little or no Eng- lish was blamed yesterday for two successive nights of rioting on Chi-1 cago's northwest side. "Police brutality" was the term most often expressed as the root of the violence along West Divi- sion - Street where some 40,000 Puerto Ricans live. But wiser heads among the highly mobile Puerto Ricans blame the language barrier and lack of understanding by police assigned to the area for the smoldering enmity that erupted in terror Sun- day and Monday nights. 80 Arrests Eight Puerto Ricans were shot and wounded and an undetermin- ed number were injured in the rioting. More than 80 arrests were made. The scene of the rioting is a changing neighborhood that once was largely Polish and Bohemian but now is mainly populated by Puerto Ricans. It is a mile-square area surrounded by 14 ethnic groups including central and east- ern Europeans, Mexicans, Negroes and Southern whites. Division Street is a setting for stories by author Nelson Algren, who lives nearby. 'Difficult Street' William Brueckner, director of Chicago Commons, a neighbor- hood settlement house, describes the street as "one of the most difficult in our city." "It is one of those streets where newcomers take over without much trouble. West Division is a no man's land. It belongs to noe one," Brueckner said. Puerto Ricans began moving Into the neighborhood after World War II. Most of them have jobs and authorities say unemployment has not been a serious problem. Not Slums Their homes, shabby but not slums, are mostly two-story brick dwellings on side streets leading off Division and three and four story apartment buildings on bus- iness blocks. Most businesses in the neigh- borhood are operated by and cater to Puerto Ricans. Advertising signs along the street are mostly in Spanish. Cloudio Flores, vice-president of the Association of Puerto Rican Organizations and editor of a Spanish language newspaper in the area, criticized police for their treatment of Puerto Ricans. Want Respect "They are not being treated as citizens by the police," Flores said. "We want the respect of the po- lice department as any other Chi- cago citizen demands and nor- mally receives." Flores said Puerto Ricans in the community are looked upon as "fly-by-nighters, living in a large city but with no identity." The Rev. Donald Headley, ex- ecutive director of the Cardinal's Committee for Spanish Speaking People, a Roman Catholic welfare organization, attributed the trou- ble to "a lack of communication" between the area's residents and police. DETROIT