WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1966
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4,1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY
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Bombs
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Denies Administration Atten
To Put Ceiling on Farm Pric
Admits
Firing
into
C ambodia
SAIGON VP) - B-52 bombers
pounded enemy positions yesterday
near the Cambodian border after
the United "States conceded for
the first time that their forces had
sent heavy artillery barrages into
South Viet Nam's neutral neigh-
bor.
The U.S. 1st Division appeared
to be closing one southern exit
of the Ho Chi Minh trail after
seizing the largest Viet Cong sup-
ply dumps ever captured in the
war.
A U.S. spokesman said the 1st
Division had killed 83 Viet Cong
and captured 13 in nine days of
what is called Operation Birming-
ham. American casualties were de-
scribed as light.
In a second operation 170 miles
northeast of Saigon, the 101st
Airborne Division has killed 192
Viet Cong, captured 44 and de-
tained 280 suspects in an opera-
tion that began March 25, the
spokesman said.
The B-52 raids on the southern
exits of the Ho Chi Minh trail-
the main supply route from Com-
munist North Viet Nam-were de-
signed to put storage terminals
out of action and were in their
third successive day.
Earlier, B-52 raids on North Viet
Nam hammered Mu Gia Pass in
an effort to block the northern
end of the trail, bring a North
Vietnamese charge that the United
States was trying to spread the
war to Laos. The pass is between
North Viet Nam and Laos, along
whose eastern -border the trail
winds down to South Viet Nam.
Touchy Neutral
The fact that U.S. artillery fire
had been directed into Cambodia
was reported from the front last
Saturday, but the U.S. command
had never acknowledged this, ap-
parently because Cambodia is a
touchy neutral.
A U.S. military spokesman said
a U.S. battalion ran into heavy
Viet Cong mortar fire and auto-
matic weapons fire from Cambodia'
as it approached the village of Lo
Go. The village lies on the Cai Bac
River separating South Viet Nam'
and Cambodia.
The battalion commander call-
ed for artillery support and U.S
artillery unloaded a heavy vol-
ume of 105mm shells into the jun-
gles of Cambodia, silencing the
enemy fire. The spokesman said
the Cambodian area contained no
villages.
Cambodia has denied the Viet
Cong use of its wild frontier as a
refugesand has frequently accus-
ed the United States and South
Viet Nam of violating its border.
U.S. air operations againstj
Communist infiltration routes
leading through Laos to South Viet
Nam have been intensified in re-
cent months.
However, defense officials have
refused to talk about such oper-
ations to avoid embarrassing the
Laotian government which has
given approval for these inter-
diction attacks.
The spokesman announced the
1st Division's haul of Viet Cong
supplies now had reached 1,367
tons of rice, 6800 Viet Cong uni-
forms, 1,925 gallons of fuel, 1000
pounds of medical supplies, 35
sampans and 19 boats with motors.
A U.S. military spokesman said
he believed the Viet Cong were
critically short of supplies. He ad-
vanced this as one reason for the
lack of all but minor ground con-
tact with the enemy for the last
three weeks.
Captured Supplies,
"I believe the Viet Cong just
don't have the supplies to support
the troops they have here," he
said. "We have captured a lot of
their supplies."
WASHINGTON (P)-Secretary
of Agriculture Orville L. Freeman
said yesterday farm prices are
not inflationary and denied that
the Johnson administration is at-
tempting to "put a lid" on them.
The secretary said anti-infla-
tion measures taken by the ad-
ministration on farm products are
designed to stabilize prices by
attempting to eliminate what he
called the cyclical price changes
flowing from the ups and downs of
production..
Freeman offered this defense
of administration farm policies
which have come under sharp
criticism from some farm groups
and members of Congress. In an
interview on the NBC "Today"
television program, the secretary
said American farmers are making
real economic progress.
Freeman made the comments
at a time when he is reported be-
ing urged to battle efforts by some
White House officials to roll back
farm prices as a means of heading
off inflation dangers.
'Demagoguery'
He described as "a lot of dema-
goguery" attacks made on those
policies. This is an election year,
he said, and the main thing that
farmers should remember is that
"farm income is up."
There were reports that strategy
of a possible Freeman attack on
White House advisers was dis-
cussed at a secret meeting of the
secretary and top associates last
Saturday with Vice President Hu-
bert. H. Humphrey and several
Minnesotans in Congress and gov-
ernment. Both Humphrey and
Freeman are from Minnesota.
But a spokesman for Humphrey
described the meeting as "routine"
and one of a dozen held over the
past couple of months with Free-
man and his advisers. There was
"nothing untoward about it," he
said.
Humphrey's spokesman said the
vice president has been designated
by President Johnson to meet with
the group from time to time to
discuss farm policy. The spokes-
man added that "needless to say
-the vice president is not a
to be opposing the Presid
policies."
The administration has c
under bitter attack of many :
groups and leaders, inclu
some Democratic members of 4
gress for anti-inflation po)
affecting farmers.
These policies have resulte
limitations on exports of hides
skins; an increase in import qi
on cheese to check price advar
a Defense Department cutbac
prime pork purchases because
administration considered p
to be too high; heavy sale of
ernment grains to prevent
sible price increases, and adz
istration proposals for reduct
in farm appropriations.
Freeman acted yesterday to
reversal of one of those poli
He recommended to Secretar
Defense Robert S. McNamara
he "give immediate considera
to increased purchases of pori
use in the United States, or w
the earlier reductions applied
February.
The agriculture secretary
hog prices are about 20 per
lower than in January and
prices are also low, although pi
may rise seasonally during
next two or three months. He
"we expect that prices later
year will be below current lev
Mrs. Wallace Primary Victor
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In Birmingham, three Negro
candidates for sheriff were lead-
ing white opponents and two Ne-
groes running for the all-white
legislature were within striking
distance of victory in the Demo-
cratic primary returns.
Ky Indicates Postponement of
Elections in South Viet Nam
They were among 52 Negroes
running for county offices or leg-
islative seats in 19 of Alabama'sr
67 counties and represented the
first widespread challenge of white
do is to political control since Reconstruc-
ostotion.,
QUANG NGAI, South Viet Nam
M)-Premier Nguyen Cao Ky in-
dicated today that South Viet
Nam's elections-a key Buddhist
demand-may be postponed.
"We will try to hold the elec-
tions by October. If we are strong
and determined, we can do it," Ky
said.
The premier made his comment
when asked if he felt his military
government can keep its mid-April
promise of elections in "three to
five months," pointing to Septem-
ber at the latest.
Buddhists
The government made its elec-
tion pledge after Buddhists staged
a wave of demonstrations and
violence a month ago demanding
immediate elections and a return
to civilian rule. The disorders
threatened to topple Ky.
Buddhists called off their pro-
tests after the South Vietnamese
chief of state, Lt. Gen. Nguyen
Van Thieu, signed a decree pro-
viding for general elections for a
civilian government in three to
five months.
Ky made an unscheduled flight
to this fortified airbase in the
north to have a look at war-
battered villages wrested recently
from Viet Cong control.
Pacification
Dressed in his vice air marshal's
uniform and heavily guarded, he
told newsmen: "Pacification is
progressing. In this area alone,
2,000 Viet Cong were killed in
the past two months. This is great
progress."
He said pacification must "be
carried effectively throughout the
country" to permit elections.
"I am satisfied with the work
being done in this region," Ky
said. "The population works with
the army. We are isolating the
Viet Cong. The Americans are
behind us. All we havet
continue.
to d
Ky made the tour in a U.S.
Marine helicopter. He was met by
Gen. Ton That Dinh, commander
of the northernmost Ist Corps
area. Dinh was named last April
to bring the troublesome area
within the central government
fold.
In the 21 District contests for
two Alabama House" seats, Negro
candidates were running well
ahead and, unless the trend re-
versed, would win the nomination
without a runoff.
An official in Montgomery said
the long lines resulted partly from
the length of the ballot, slowing
down the rate of voting.
Federal poll watchers were on
duty in Dallas, Greene, Hale,
Marengo, Perry and Wilcox coun-
ties-the heart of the Black Belt,
an area of dark soil and heavy
Negro population.
Republican James D. Martin,
elected to Congress in a 1962
Alabama GOP surge, has announc-
ed he will seek his party's nom-
ination for governor. Martin, who
came within 7,000 votes of unseat-
ing Sen. Lister Hill in 1962, was
a sharp critic of activities by civil
rights demonstrators at Selma and
on the Selma-Montgomery high-
way march last year.
Wallace won office in the 1962
election on a pledge to stand in
the schoolhouse door and block
integration.hHe made the doorway
stand at the universiy of Ala-
bama, Tuscaloosa, in 1962 but
wielded to federalized National
Guard troopers.
His efforts to prevent school
desegregation that first year of
his term resulted in a federal
court injunction against inter-
ference by the governor Wallace
entered severalrnon-Southern
presidential primaries in 1964 and
got sizeable votes but withdrew
after Barry Goldwater became the
Republican nominee.
a massive bloc vote by Negroes
and disagreed strongly with a call
by civil rights militants for Ne-
groes to boycott the primary and
put up independent party can-
didates under the Black Panther
emblem.
Negroes in Lowndes County or-
ganized under the Black Panther
but ran into internal dissension
with opposing slates offered at
their nominating convention.
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WASHINGTON - Proposals by is "an imposing presence on the
two senators yesterday that Presi- world stage" and it is time "to
dent Johnson create a commission make a major reassessment of
of distinguished Americans to take our policy" toward the Peking re-
a fresh look at United States' gime.
China policy got cool State De- K
partment reception but some Sen- WASHINGTON - The Senate
ate support. consigned President Johnson's new
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Charges Army Wasting Equipment
Committee yesterday after frown-
ing down a suggestion that it be
ticketed for action soon.
Sen. Jacob K. Javits (R-NY)
who favors civil rights legislation,
said Johnson had made "a very
great mistake" by including a
clause against housing discrimina-
tion in the measure.
The administration is inviting
a bitter civil rights fight which it
may lose," Javits said.
TOKYO-The Communist Chi-
Alabama racial conflict played'
major roles in the civil rights law
of 1964 and the voting rights
legislation enacted last year. The
1965 law resulted directly from a
Selma-based civil rights campaign
led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
King made a 16-county stump
tour last Thursday, Friday and
Saturday, urging Negroes to vote
in a bloc-against Mrs. Wallace
and for the Negro candidates.
Wallace, said King, had done
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WASHINGTON (JP)-An investi-
gating senator accused the Penta-
gon yesterday of giving away mili-
tary equipment needed by Amer-
ican fighting men in South Viet
Nam.
Sen. Ernest Gruening (D-Alas-
ka) said the Army's system of dis-
posing of surplus property is one
of deception, falsification and
fraud.
"This is a very shocking story,"
Greuning said after his Govern-,
ment Operations Subcommittee
heard a two-hour account of the
program.
"Unnecessary and wasteful dis-
posals have resulted in the Unit-
ed States military forces at this
critical time being short of vital-
ly needed equipment in Viet Nam,"
said Joseph Lippman, the subcom-
mittee's staff director.
Gruening said Secretary of De-
fense Robert S. McNamara has de-
nied there are shortages in the
war effort there.
"How do you account for the re-
peated denials of the secretary of
defense-that there are no short-
ages on the fighting front, that
we have everything we need
there?" Gruening asked.
"I certainly can't account for
it," Lippman replied.
Lippman's account dealt not
with weapons, but with construc-
tion and transportation equipment
he said is in short supply in Viet
Nam.
He said the Army is donating or
selling such equipment in Europe
and Asia on grounds that it can-
not be economically repaired. He
challenged the system under which
the Army makes that judgment.
So did Gruening.
"It's a fraud on the American
people, it's a fraud on the taxpay-
er, it's a fraud on our boys in Viet
Nam who need this equipment,''
said Gruening-who opposes the
American involvement in South-
east Asia.
Lippman's account included re-
ports that:
-From 25 to 75 per cent of the
equipment in the hands of Ameri-
can forces in Viet Nam is not
working because of spare parts
shortages.
-Figuring the repair cost of a
crane in Korea, the Army bases its
estimate on a labor charge of $5
an hour when the Agency for In-
ternational Development gets the
same kind of work done for 24
cents an hour.
-One tank truck declared sur-
plus and turned over to the agency
in Europe was full of high octane
fuel when it arrived at Antwerp.
"Apparently no one took the trou-
ble to look inside," Lippman said.
Lippman, flanked by a team of
investigators, told Gruening and
Ben. Milward L. Timpson (R-
Wyo) that some of the things the
Army has discarded had never
been used.
Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss) said
last night that Army equipment
and manpower problems might
have put the United States "in
grave difficulty" had the war in
Viet Nam exploded into sustain-
ed, large-scale ground combat.
"I am convinced that time has
worked for us and been a saving
factor in this matter," said Sten-
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tung is seriously ill, Japan's Koy-
do News Service reported.
Koydo correspondent Tadao
Saito, in a dispatch from Peking
quoted the ministry as saying
"Rumors of Chairman Mao's phys-
ical condition are quite nonsense
and malicious, false rumors of im-
perialism. Chairman Mao is very
well."
xsta tes.,
The voting rights law resulted,
in the assignment of federal ex-
aminers to 11 Alabama counties in
a dramatic increase in Negro reg-
istration-from about 115,000 a
year ago to the 257,832 now esti-
mated. A 12th county was desig-
nated only Tuesday for federal )
examiners. It was Sumter County,
r on the western edge of the state.
In his Alabama tour, King urged,
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ices Preparedness Investigating
subcommittee.
Stennis' comments prefaced a
subcommittee report which de-
clared that four Army divisions
now stationed in the U.S. are not
ready for combat.
These divisions are the 4th In-
fantry at Ft. Lewis, Wash.; the 5th
Infantry at Ft. Carson, Colo., and
the 1st and 2nd Armored at Ft
Hood, Tex.
Stennis said the subcommittee
is convinced about "our ability tc
support Viet Nam and maintain
an adequate strategic reserve
at the same time."
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