TUESDAY, JUNE 28, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREIR 0 Dodd Denies Impropriety Charge, Told of Disloyalty'. WASHINGTON (R)-Sen. Tho-' mas J. Dodd, D-Conn., denied yes- terday that he had skipped out of his Senate duties in 1964 or acted improperly, in behalf of his "old friend," Chicago public rela- tions man Julius Klein. "I went over to Germany for the sole purpose of looking into the Stashinsky case," the white- haired Senator told the Senate Ethics Committee. "I wasn't his advocate or agent," Dodd said of Klein. Dodd said that as chairman of a Senate internal security sub- committee, he had a deep interest in talking with Bogdan Stashin- sky, a Soviet agent imprisoned in the killing of two Ukranian em- igre leaders. In the committee's fourth day of hearings on Dodd's relations with Klein, the senator, 59, de- nied accusations thatbhe had acted improperly in behalf of, Klein in return for gifts and fa- vors. And after quizzing Dodd, the committee recessed until after July 15 when Klein is expected back from Germany and to testi- fy. Dodd's appearance got off to a sensational start when his at- torney, John F. Sonnett, tried to get one of the committee mem- bers disqualified on grounds he was biased against Dodd. But the effort was squelched by Chairman John F. Stennis, D-Miss., who cut Sonnett off quickly. And the Senator, Wallace F. Bennett of Utah, denied he was biased or prejudiced against Dodd. Then Dodd himself fired back, declaring his "disloyal employes" were "robbing me blind" in feed- ing documents to newspaper col- umnists who used them to touch off the Senate inquiry into his affairs. "I was surrounded by people who were betraying, and I knew nothing about it," the senator said under relaxed questioning by Son- nett. The investigation was kicked off with charges by columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson that Dodd was "an errand boy" for Klein. The senator then went on to denounce James P. Boyd, Jr., his former administrative assistant; and Michael O'Hare, his former office manager and personal bookkeeper. "They were robbing me blind and never had the manhood to come and tell me if they were dis- satisfied," he said ofhthe removal and copying of thousands of docu- ments from his files for use by Pearson and Anderson. Under questioning by Stennis about the 1964 trip to Germany, Dodd said all along he was per- fectly willing to tell any German officials who asked him the facts about a Senate Foreign Relations Committee investigation of for- eign agents, at which Klein was a witness. As things turned out, Dodd con- tinued, the then Chancellor Kon- rad Adenauer was the only Ger- man official who asked him about Klein. Klein, said Dodd, was "the vic- tim of an injustice"-certain seg- ments of the German press had misrepresented his part in the committee investigation. "What was in my mind was that I wanted to straighten out the misunderstanding if the sub- ject came up," Dodd told the com- mittee. For the most part, Dodd fielded Stennis' questions calmly, but in explaining the trip to Germany while the Senate was locked in debate over civil rights legislation, his voice rose. . The answers did not appear to satisfy Stennis. He asked Dodd why the internal security subcommittee did not is- sue a report on the Stashinsky matter until a year later, and Stennis suggested the case was stale. Dodd said the subcommittee was swamped with work and that he had returned from Germany with a much better knowledge of the affair. As to the civil rights fight, in which Dodd was a team captain pushing the bill, Dodd said he had asked Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, then a senator di- recting the floor fight for the measure, if it would be all right for him to be away a week or so. Dodd said Humphrey had as- sured him it would be. Last week Humphrey wrote Dodd a letter saying he had given this assur- ance. Rusk Says U.S. Seeks Peace Talks SEATO Conference Hears Soviet Action Deemed Regrettable CANBERRA, Australia (R)--U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk ex- pressed regret yesterday over So- viet support of "aggression against South Viet Nam" but said the United States will continue to seek a settlement at the confer- ence table. He suggested that the Soviet Union should take up its duties as co-chairman with Britain of the Geneva conference on Indo- china "and help the Geneva ma- chinery establish peace in South- east Asia." Rusk made the remarks at the opening of the annual meeting of the Southeast Asia Treaty Or- ganization's council of ministers. SEATO members are Australia, France, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Thailand, Bri- tain and the United States. Although expressing general concern over the fighting in South Viet Nam, the foreign ministers also referred to what they called signs of hope and encouragement in troubled lands of Southeast Asia. Among the signs were: -The indicated end of Indone- sia's hostile confrontation of Ma- laysia. -Resumption of diplomatic re- lations between the Philippines and Malaysia. -Increased regional coopera- MORALE DROPS: Communist Units Surrender SOUTH VIET NAM (A)-U.S. field commanders say they detect a drop in morale and combat ef- ficiency of North Vietnamese troops. In recent engagements, they have found some Communist units poorly equipped,short on food and medicine, and more ready than before to surrender. U.S. intelligence officers say en- emy morale has been lowered by constant allied pressure, notably the "spoiling operations" carried out by highly mobile helicopter troops which keep the Commun- ists off balance or burrowed un- derground. Other morale factors include recent large seizures of food and supply caches by allied forces and American airpower, including B52 raids. Some newly captured North Vietnamese prisoners readily have given information on the deploy- ment and battle plans of their units. Meanwhile, U.S. soldiers and Marines, more than 6,000 strong, swept the coastal hills of South Viet Nam's central highlands Monday in search of three North Vietnamese battalians. It was one of the largest single American op- erations in the war. Their primary target was a battalion of a North Vietnamese army regiment already badly bat- tered in eight days of fighting near Tuy Hoa, 240 miles north- east of Saigon. Two other batta- lions of the regiment also were believed in the area. Farther north, near Hue, a force of U.S. Marines and South Viet- namese troops searched for rem-, nants of another North Vietna- mese battalion, and guerrillas. The enemy was believed to have fled underground into a maze of tunnels after three days of in- fantry assaults and pounding by aircraft, artillery and gunfire from U.S. warships. Besides adding to the punish- ment of Communist ground for- ces, American airmen struck a fu- el dump in North Viet Nam 160 miles south of Hanoi and turned it into a raging inferno. The central highlands action, Operation Nathan Hale, was re- inforced by thousands of air cav- alrymen to increase the pressure being applied against the Com- munists. U.S. forces so far have killed 395 North Vietnamese army regu- lars in Operation Nathan Hale and taken 20 captives. From prisoner interrogation, U.- S. intelligence officers learned that the prisoners were members of a regiment of the North Viet- namese army who had been in Phu Yen Province only a few weeks. Their mission, U.S. officers said, was to relieve another North Viet- namese regiment and to capture Phu Yen Province, a prize long coveted by the Communists be- cause of its fertile rice growing areas. Gen. William C. Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces in Viet Nam, is particularly anxious to step up allied efforts at psycho- logical warfare to get more Com- munist troops to surrender. I Mississippi MardhIEnds Fear, Produces Basic Negro Unity JACKSON, Miss. (t")-The Mis- c sissippi march cracked the apathy h and fear for Negroes and produc- i ed strong, basic unity of the mass- es, civil rights leaders said yes- c terday. The year 1966 will go down in s history as the year when Negroesp became black people," said Floyd " McKissick, national director of f the Congress of Racial Equality. f He explained this meant Negroes b identified more strongly with eacha other and gained new self res- I pect.t "This march brought about strong unity among people and proved a hell of a lot can be done by ourselves with unity," said McKissick. McKissick and spokesmen for other civil rights organizations assessed the results of the long, hot and dusty trek in interviews. There was solid agreement on a basic point: Mississippi Negroes began losing their fears of white reprisals and power; they par- ticipated in the march, they sup- ported it, they stood up to state troopers and sometimes fought back when attacked by whites. "We proved that you can rid Negroes of the deep-rooted fears that have been imbedded in them for centuries," said Hosea L. Wil- liams, director of voter registra- tion and political education for the Southern Christian Leader-I ship Conference. Power was a term that came in for frequent usage. "Black Pow- j er!" was the rallying cry in the' latter stages ofrthe march. But the words were viewed with alarm by some older and more conservative leaders. "Without power you cannot ef- fect changes," Breen, education director of SCLC, said. "Thous- ands of Negroes were witness that we are overcoming fear." Civil Rights leaders, whose dif- fering views sprang into sharper conflict during the march, sail that despite disagreement, the. organizations still can work ef- fectively. McKissick said the march proved that conflicting viewpoints play a minor role be- cause "the suffering of Negroes involved in the march met yes- has the overriding effect of keep- terday to talk over plans for fol- ng them together." lowing up. Williams and Carmi- Stokely Carmichael, national chael said the plan now is to divide chairman of the Student Non- the state into territories for each Violent Coordinating Committee, organization to work with the em- said the march allowed different phasis on political power. philosophies to emerge: his own James Meredith, the man who "black power" line, the self-de- started the trek, said he had fense preaching of the Deacons achieved his goal of breaking the for Defense and Justice, and Dr. fears of Negroes when state au- Martin Luther King's non-violence thorities provided protection for and integration. The Deacons for the marchers. He said it created Defense are an armed self -protec- a condition under which Negroes tion Negro organization, no longer had to be afraid to The leaders of the organization walk the roads of Mississippi, I . 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The general's 11-day tour of the Soviet Union will end Friday with a joint declaration expressing some of the lofty sentiments of friendship that have marked both French and Soviet speeches dur- ing the visit, the informants said. It will indicate a very broad agreement on space research co- operation, possibly including the launching of a French satellite by a Soviet rocket, the sources said. LONDON - A summit con- ference of the British common- wealth has been called for Sept.. 6-15 with the Rhodesia crisis as its main business, diplomatic of- ficials reported yesterday. Word of the special meeting in London came as the British gov- ernment authorized a new, and perhaps final, informal bid for a compromise with Premier Ian Smith's breakaway Rhodesian white minority regime. TOKYO - Communist China rejected yesterday a suggestion that Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Chinese Foreign Minister Chen Yi meet to talk peace in Viet Nam. "These U.S. imperialist tactics" of expanding the war and at the same time playing a peace game "can never deceive the Vietnamese and Chinese peoples," the official Peking People's Daily said. The meeting of foreign minis- ters of China and the United States was proposed by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield in a speech June 16. Mansfield said just as in Korea the war in Viet Nam threatens to become a conflict between the United States and China. 'As for improving relations be- tween China and theh U.S.," the daily paper said, it is even more clearly deceptive nonsense. Not only does the U. S. refuse to with- draw its armed forces from Tai- wan Province and the Taiwan Strait and change its policy of ag- gression and war against China, it has been intensifying its mili- tary control over Taiwan Province and stepping up its encirclement and containment' of China." 0 I 1