WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1968 'CITE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1966 THE MIChIGAN DAILY PAGE THREII Japan Considers Possible Nuclear Armament TOKYO (RP) - A growing debate in Japan over its relations with the United States and Red China is bringing forth the first vague hint that the general Japanese attitude toward nuclear arms may be changing. The debate, centered on the Japan-U.S. security treaty and Communist China's atomic wea- pon potential, has focused at- tention on controversial proposals for a Japanese military buildup In Japan the whole idea of re. armament-especially with nuc- lear weapons-has been shunned for two decades. Now the government is pro- ceeding more boldly with plans for a defense buildup. It also is taking a subtle stand on the ques- tion of a nuclear proliferation treaty, leaving the way open for Japan to have its own atomic weapons as long as others do. For years to come, the military buildup is likely to be a non- nuclear one. Japanese opposition to atomic bombs goes deep. The idea of a rearmed Japan, even without nuclear weapons, is enough to make other nations shiver - and Japanese officials know this. It all started with debate over the security treaty which gives the U.S. the right to maintain bases in Japan while pledging to help defend the Japanese. The treaty was revised in 1960 amidst bitter rioting. Either country can request another revision after 19- 70. The Japanese Socialist party, which often echoes a pro-Peking line, has long waged a campaign to scrap the treaty. The Socialists cite the Viet Nam war as a rea- son for getting rid of American bases in Japan. They say this country could find itself involved in an Asian war against its will. Some observers think Prime Minister Eisakv Sato has deliber- ately plunged into the debate on treaty revision, saying the treaty should remain unchanged, in an attempt to sway public opinion. It is said that he does not want to wait until the last minute - 1970 - and find himself in the midst of new riots. Some government supporters on the right agree with the Social- ists that Japan should try to end its dependence on American mili- tary strength. But there is a dif- ference. The Socialists want a de- fenseless Japan that trusts in the good will of its neighbors. The conservatives want a Japanese military buildup that would per- mit this country to defend itself. With Japan showing a more in- dependent line in world affairs and a vague tendency toward an Indian-type nonalignment, the chances of a defense build-up are becoming more likely. The government is considering strengthening the submarine and missile forces. Japan's space pro- gram is pushing ahead, and the country may become the fourth in the world to launch its own satellite with its own rocket later this year. The space program is for peaceful purposes, but its rockets easily could become mis- siles. And the Japanese government says it can make a nuclear bomb if it wants to. Probably the Ja- panese could produce a nuclear ballistic missile in a year - and keep in the race with Red China. Japan likely is ahead of China in missile technology while trailing the Chinese on nuclear weapon development. Japan renounced the use of nu- clear weapons after World War II. Developments - particularly Communist China's nuclear tests - have produced second thoughts. This month, after China's third test, several Japanese papers sug- gested Japan might be forced to reconsider its nuclear policy. The government pledged anew to avoid nuclear armament. Yet the government has been involved in a debate over Japan's policy toward a proposed treaty on proliferation of nuclear wea- pons. The government's official view is that countries possessing nuclear bombs must cut back on their arsenals if such a treaty is put on the books. The Japanese say such a reduction would match their own sacrifice in not making A-bombs. Japan is not saying whether it will refuse to sign the treaty if the nuclear powers refuse to cut their arsenals. And Japan is not saying whether it will make A- bombs if it refuses to sign the treaty. Foreign Ministry sources say these questions are left un- answered deliberately. The Security Research Council of Sato's Liberal Democratic par- ty recently said that officials should refrain from public state- ments in Parliament that Japan would not possess nuclear wea- pons. The council said such dec- larations diminish the country's ability to present a war deterrent. It is a long way from such hints to open advocacy of nuclear ar- senals. But public opinion may be evolving. A few years ago no Jap- anese government would have said openly that this country could make an A-bomb if it wants to. But the Sato government has now said it repeatedly - with hardly a public ripple. Withhold .FromAr By The Associated Press 'military regime The United States, acting with when Pistarini d unusual speed, suspended diplo- rested the 2nd A matic relations with Argentina mander, Gen. Ca yesterday a few hours after the was opposed to t elected regime of President Arturo Within a few Illia was ousted by military lead- out a shot fired, ers. over the countr In various ways, the United communication States had sought to discourage ment offices and the coup against the wobbly gov- of the provinces. ernment of President Illia, under An army dep intense fire at home on charges Government Hou it was acting too slowly to dimin- big show of ford ish the political power of former capital city of si dictator Juan Peron and of Coin- Pistarini ann munists. forming a ruling Lt. Gen. Juan Carlos Angania, with the comman the country's most respected mili- the navy and air tary man, was picked by a junta nigno Varela a yesterday to succeed Illia. Alvarez. The three-man military junta The military that took over governmental con- the growth of p trol said Ongania, former army the Peronists, commander in chief, would be being too lenient sworn in as interim president to- ists and Commu day. failure to act e: The junta announced it has dis- missed Illia, who refused to resign the presidency. It also dissolved all political parties and Congress c~ong and dismissed members of the Supreme Court. Elected in 1963, Illia had serv-E ed only 32 months of his six-year COup term. The military rebellion, spear- LEOPOLDVIL headed by Lt. Gen. Pasual . LEOPO D L Pistarint, army commander in -The pro-Red chief, was sparked by growing po- rulers of the litical power of the followers of public - Brazzav ex-dictator Juan D. 'Peron. forestalled a Ghi Peronists gained control of coup yesterday b three of the country's 22 provinces power. in recent elections. Premier Ambr The country was reported calm announced over in the wake of the coup, but there radio he had ta were fears that demonstrations, an uprising by especially by Peronist groups, may the army and tr break out. He said he w The swift-moving action that name of Preside put Argentina once again under a semba-Debat, wI Recognition gentine began Monday ismissed and ar- krmy Corps com- rlos A. Caro, who he coup. hours and with- the military took y, including all centers, govern- the governments ployment around use was the only ce visible in this x million persons. ounced he was g junta jointly rnders in chief of force, Adm. Be- nd Brig. Adolfo leaders, fearing olitical power by accused Illia of with the Peron- nists, as well as ffectively against the nation's many economic prob- lems. Before the military coup, Per- onists figured to take control of several Argentine provinces in the March 1967 elections, including Buenos Aires Province. This the military never planned to permit, for with Buenos Aires Province goes control of a 25,000-man po- lice force. The military is basically pro- West, as was the Illia regime. In- formed sources said the new Cab- inet will include mostly military: men. The effect of the coup on a spe- cial inter-American conference of foreign ministers, scheduled to start Aug. 29 in Buenos Aires, re- mains to be seen. Some Latin American diplo- mats speculated the conference might be moved to some other ca- pital, perhaps Washington. The State Department an- nouncement expressed regret at "the break in continuity of dem- ocratic constitutional government in Argentina," and said Washing-' ton would consult with other na- tions in the Organization of Am- erican States on the question of future recognition. The department's announce- that on questions of maintaing re- ment reflected established policy ations, the decision must be based on specific situations. When the government of Presi- dent Joao Goulart, accused of at- tempting to deliver Brazil into Communist control, was over- thrown April 1, 1964, Johnson sent "warmest wishes" to Gou- lart's successor the following day. Argentina's two top diplomats in Washington resigned a few hours after the coup. U.S. officials declined to specu- late what effect the coup might have on U.S. foreign aid to Ar- gentina. o Republic Rulers Fear Seize Supreme Power Lull Comes To Fighting In Viet Nam Ground War Quiet; Buddhist Monk Still Fasting in Protest 3 SAIGON (P) - While United States Air Force and Navy pilots attacked Communist targets on both sides of the border, the ground war in South Viet Nam' practically came to a standstill yesterday. U.S. spokesmen for the first time in months described the sit- uation as "no contact with the enemy." The Viet Cong and their North Vietnamese allies were ob- viously trying to keep out of bat- tile. Patrols of tle 8,000-man Am- erican task force committed to Operation Nathan Hale in the coastal highlands of the Tuy Hoa sector sought vainly to regain touch with North Viet Nam's bat- tered 18B Regiment, believed to be withdrawing westward toward the Laotian frontier. One U.S. reconnaissance unit located a pack train of 16 horses apparently abandoned by the re-, treating North Vietnamese. It marked the third day of light' onocontact with the Red Regi- ment. which had been sent south to seize rice-rich Phuc Yen Prov- ince for the Communists. Prior to that, U.S. forces had badly mauled one battalion and positively identified the regiment's other two battalions as operating in the area, 15 miles north of Tuy Hoa. U.S. paratroopers, air cavalry- men and Marines reported killing nearly 400 North Vietnamese in earlier clashes of the week-old operation. In Saigon, Thich Tri Quang went through the 21st day of his antigovernment hunger strike. The militant monk, 42, rejected an or- der by the 80-year-old patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church, Thich Tinh Khiet, to end his fast. Nguyen Duy Tai, head of the clinic where Quang is hospitalized under guard, said "he is refusing all medical treatment; he has not been given a single injection." The monk is reported limiting himself to three glasses of sugared water a day. A settlement appeared near in . an eight-day strike of 13,000 Viet- namese workers of the American RMK-BRJ construction combine. A spokesman for the combine, which handles building projects f under U.S. government contracts, r said it has endorsed the workers demands for higher wages in ex- change for a pledge from-their re- f presentatives to urge them back to the job Wednesday. The workers are promised there will be an increase by July 15, though less than the 30 per cent they asked. Among other things the strike s halted work on projects at Sai- r gon's port and its military-civilian airbase, Tan Son Nhut. WASHINGTON OP) - President Johnson was told yesterday that only in Mississippi will fewer than half the beds in any state be available for elderly patients un- der the medicare program that goes into effect Friday. At a White House conference with Secretary of Welfare John W. Gardner and Atty. Gen. Ni- cholas Katzenbach, Johnson re- ceived reports showing that 92.2 per cent of general hospital beds across the country have been cer- tified for civil rights compliance. But because of the refusal of many Mississippi hospitals to abandon discriminatory practices, PROGRAM STARTS FRIDAY: Discrimination in Mississippi Bars Medicare Participation RNixon Meet, A ttack A dministration only 26.6 per cent of the beds in Mississippi so far are in com- pliance, the officials reported. The rest automatically are barred from participating in medicare, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The President also was told about some problem cities-notably Mobile, Ala., where only 30 beds out of 3,986 will be available un- der the medicare program. Johnson, during the conference, expressed concern about these problem areas. He also voiced his opinion about plans by some phy- sicians to bill patients directly rather than to seek reimburse- ment from the medicare fund. LE, The Congo ( Chinese civilian earby Congo Re- ville - apparently iana-like military y seizing supreme woise Noumazalia the Brazzaville ken control after some members of ribesmen. vas acting in the nt Alphonse Mas- ho is in Malagasy. Diplomatic reports indicated that some army men wanted to end one-party rule in the former French colony on Africa's west coast. But if so, the army men were not as well organized as the mili- tary leaders of Ghana, who over- threw President Kwame Nkrumah last Feb. 24 while the leftist leader was in Peking for talks with Red Chinese leaders. As far as is known, the army was not involved in disorders that swept Brazzaville Monday and Presidential assistant Douglas Cater said Johnson took the po- sition that individual doctors should decide how to handle bill- ing, but added: "The President feels sure doc- tors will not drive a hard bargain with needy patients by demanding direct, immediate reimbursement." Johnson, talking to reporters after the meeting, said there has been substantial progress in pre- paring for medicare. "I hope we'll use every hour that's left to make' available to our aged people every facility that exists," he said. He said he hoped every hospital, every physician, and every eligible older citizen will show understand- ing and cooperation and work to- gether to make medicare a suc- cess. Gardner said that, nationwide, 92.2 per cent of general hospital beds now are eligible for medicare patients from the standpoint of civil rights compliance. The percentage in Georgia, he said, is 54.9 per cent, in Louisiana 57.2 per cent, and in Alabama and South Carolina, 66.1 per cent. In addition to Mobile, Gardner listed Shreveport, La., and Jack- son and Meridian, Miss., as prob- lem cities. In Shreveport, he said, 341 beds out of 1,939 are available under medicare; in Jackson 346 out of 1,233; and in Meridian 145 out of 1,784. The federal officials again said that in dire emergencies where there is a shortage of hospital beds for insured people, federal facilities will be made available. world News Roundup DETROIT - The trade publi- cation Automotive News Monday described as "a monstrous hoax" a new federal law requiring that an- tismog devices be installed on all cars starting in 1968. Joseph M. Callahan, the paper's engineering editor, claimed the exhaust emission control devices will "do little to help" air pollu- tion problems. He estimated the devices will av- erage about $45 a car. "Assuming that as many cars are sold in 1968 as were sold in 1965, the total basic cost of these exhaust control devices would be $417 million each year," he wrote. "The American people will find they are being victimized in a multi-billion dollar smog hoax- a hoax that will be perpetrated on every future car buyer. WASHINGTON - President Johnson's controversial open hou- sing proposal narrowly survived an attempt yesterday to scuttle it in the House Judiciary Committee. The vote in the sharply divided committee was reported to be 17 to 15 against killing a key section of the 1966 civil rights bill that would ban racial discrimination in the sale and rental of housing. Major amendments that would exempt some forms of housing from the law still remain ot be acted on before the committee gives final approval to the meas- ure. WASHINGTON - The House Commerce Committee rejected yesterday a move to substitute the tough Senate-passed auto safety bill for its own version of the safe- ty legislation. But chairman Harley O. Stag- gers, (D-W. Va.), insisted "ours is a better bill, a stronger bill and a fairer bill." The Senate bill, passed 16-0 last Friday, would require establish- ment of interim federal motor ve- hicle safety standards next year -in time for the 1968 models. The House version, still open to amendment by the Commerce Committee and on the floor, would require establishment of safety standards by the secretary of commerce but set no time limit on such action. LONDON - British legislators of all parties launched a campaign yesterday for a European political community to make possible the withdrawal of U.S. and Soviet armed forces. The all-party move got under way in an atmosphere of dispute after 80 Laborite legislators de- manded stringent conditions for any British linkup with Europe. A statement from the Laborites Monday night was signed by five parliamentary private secretaries of Prime Minister Harold Wilson and four of his ministers. VOLGOGRAD, U.S.S.R. - Pre- sident Charles de Gaulle has dis- cussed a Moscow-Paris hot line with Soviet leaders, informed sour- ces said yesterday. These sources said no agreement has been reached, but a direct communications link between the two capitals will be considered fur- ther during the French president's visit. The report on the hot line was made shortly after De Gaulle ar- rived in this city, the former Stal- ingrad, where the Soviet army first administered a major defeat to the Germans in World War II. * *$ * LANSING -- The Michigan Ed- ucation Association yesterday an- nounced sanctions against the Ecorse School District, where teachers have been on strike since early this month. The strike itself was not men- tioned in the statement in which the association urged educators not to seek employment in the school district. Ironically, it is the MEA's rival teacher organizing troup, the Am- erican Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, which is bargaining a- gent for the Ecorse teachers. The Ecorse School Board has re- fused to negotiate contract terms with the teachers while they are still on strike, leading to an im- passe. early yesterday, and the rank and file remained loyal. Armed Patrols Reports from Brazzaville, across the Congo River from Leopold- ville, said armed patrols loyal to the civilian regime were in control of the streets and the city was quiet. Shops were open. The army chief of staff was reported arrested by other officers. Headquarters of the National Revolutionary Movement, the only sanctioned party, was sacked Mon- day by demonstrators, the premier said. Fragments Only fragments of information filtered out of Brazzaville from radio broadcasts or through travel- ers who made it across the river before ferry service was suspended. The trouble apparently started over the reduction in grade of a Capt. Gouabi to private first class. According to the reports reaching Leopoldville, Gouabi put back his officer's insignia. About 150 members of his Koyou tribe from the northern part of the country tried to force their way into the premier's office to protest the reduction. Major Moutsake, the army chief of staff, was reported arrested to forestall any coup. Loyal army troops took up positions around the main government building. Former Colony The Congo Republic, a formei French colony which has always been overshadowed by its bigger neighbor, the former Belgian Con- go, long has been torn by tribal- ism. The government is one of the farthest left in all Africa, and is heavily influenced by Com- munist China. Noumazalia appointed a pro- visional committee of a captair and two lieutenants to take charge of the army. The premier said the "suitable solution" would be found for the case of Goutbi. Massemba-Debat, 45, took over the presidency of the Congo Re- public Aug. 15, 1963, after Presi- dent Abbe Fulbert Youlou was forced out of office by a rioting mob. Massemba-Debat is attend- ing a meeting of the Organizatior of African and Malagasy States. DETROIT () - Former Vice President Richard M. Nixon and Michigan Gov. George Romney took turns in sniping at bigness in government yesterday but were mum at what took place at a 45-minute private meeting they had. The two Republican leaders, fre- quently mentioned as possible candidates for the party's presi- dential nomination in 1968, par- ried newsmen's queries as to what had gone on in the unscheduled meeting. Nixon laughed aloud when one asked, "Did you two settle which one was to head the '68 ticket?" Neither he nor Romney replied. Convention Nixon, in a' keynote address at the National Junior Chamber of Commerce convention and at a news conference, chided Demo- crats who had not supported Pre- sident Johnson's Vietnamese pol- icies. Both Nixon and Romney hit hard at the theme that the fed- eral government was getting too big and that the country was drifting towards centralization. Nixon drew a standing ovation from the 10,000 delegates when he declared, "The government should not help those not wishing to help themselves." Applause He drew thunderous applause when he urged that the govern- ment grant tax credits to parents who are putting children through college and to private industry for training people for new jobs. Romney said the nation "must end the myth that every problem can be solved out of Washington with money." The governor added: "We must modernize state and local governments and bring a halt to the concentration of pow- er in Washington." 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