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Ky
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Rebel
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Monks Want
U.S. Support
Against Kcy
Buddhists Launched
Hunger Strike While
Police Disperse Rally
SAIGON () -Premier Nugyen
Cao KY talked yesterday of mak-
ing peace with rebels in his ranks,
but the threat of civil war inten-
sified and American involvement
mounted on the edges of the crisis.
Seven hundred soldiers-rangers
and infantrymen-joined the rebel
forces in Da Nang only a few
hours after Ky visited that hotbed
of northern dissidence in an effort
to woo support. The movement of
these reinforcements was one in
a series of developments:
-Rebel gunners shot down a
U.S. spotter plane on a flight over
Da Nang.
-U.S. Marines seized control of
a disputed bridge over the Da
Nang River.
-Buddhist monks bluffed tank-
supported government troops out
of a march on a rebel-held pagoda
by lighting a wooden pyre and
threatening to burn themselves to
death, as seven did in the cam-
paign that led to the destruction
of President Ngo Dinh Diem's re-
gime in 1963.
-Twenty monks and nuns,
launching a 48 - hour hunger
strike in Saigon, appealed for U.S.
support against Ky's government.
*Police broke up a slogan-chanting
group of 600 that started to march
from a Buddhist Institute rally,
the action coming as artillery
thundered against Viet Cng guer-
rillas outside the capital.
Buddhist Support
Announcements and communi-
ques of the Buddhist hierarchy
pledged support to the northern
dissidents for the sake of "free-
dom and democracy." They ap-
pealed to President Johnson "to
protest disloyal and cruel acts on
the government in South Viet
Nam which may lead to civil war."
While Saigon monks proclaim-
ed to aroused crowds an all-out
struggle to topple the military re-
gime that Ky has said will remain
in power at least another year,
they urged caution for the time
being.
Ky said in an interview that
all peaceful means will be used to
end the dissidence, but "if we can-
not end the crisis peacefully, then
we will use the army."
"We want to avoid bloodshed
at all costs," he added. "We need
every life to fight the Com-
munists. 1
Dispatch Essential
The premier said his dispatch
Sunday of 2,500 loyalists troops to
Da Nang was essential to combat
"a clear case of Communist sub-
version of the Buddhist move-
ment," that the agitators were
trying to expand to other areas.
If he had not acted, he went on,
"even sending a million American
troops to Viet Nam would not
help."
As for complaints of U.S. offi-
cials that they were not advised
In advance of the troops move-
ment, KY said "the American
government and the Vietnamese
government are close, perhaps
closer than ever before, but it'
does not mean that we have to
discuss everything."
Meanwhile hard fighting raged
yesterday between large units of
V American air cavalrymen and
North Vietnamese army regulars
in the elephant grass of a moun-
tain valley 250 miles northeast of
Saigon..
They were locked in close-quar-
ter combat at the close of the
third day of a running battle that
started Monday 15 miles west of
An Khe.
Moderate Losses
The latest casualty estimate
was that made by an American
officer Tuesday: 85 Communist
dead, American losses moderate.
Elsewhere in South Viet Nam,
ground fighting lapsed again into
isolated, small-scale skirmishes.
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MONKS AT THE Buddhist Institute in Saigon lie on mats as
they began a 48-hour hunger strike yesterday in protest against
the military regime of Premier Ky.
LOS ANGELES AGAIN:
Negro Resentment
Peace
e Loss
U.S. Troops
Take Bridge
At Da Nlang
Vital Link Saved as
Marines Avoid Fight
With Buddhist Rebels
DA NANG () - U.S. Marines
noved into rebellious Da Nang
Yesterday and wrested control of
a vital bridge held at one end by
forces opposing Premier Nguyen
Cao Ky and at the other by loyal-
ist soldiers.
Rebel gunfire brought down a
U.S. spotter plane as it flew over
Buddhist pagodas but two Ameri-
cans aboard were unharmed.
The Marines said they were
forced under tense circumstances
to take the Da Nang River bridge
because it was the only link be-
tween the city and U.S. installa-
tions on the outskirts.
ThenUnited States has large
Marine encampments andsan air-
base outside Da Nang, a coastal
city 380 miles northeast of Sai-
gon. Mostly they are on the east
side of the river. So are headquar-
ters and the home of Gen. Lewis
W. Walt, U.S. Marine commander
in Viet Nam.
Buddhist Rebels
The rebels, bearing the stand-
ard of the Buddhist Struggle
Committee, occupied the west end
of the bridge and planted 24
pounds of detonation charges
under it. They had warned they
would set them off if government
troops tried to cross.
The Marines sent a squad to
take over the east end of the
bridge and a platoon to secure
the west end At one point, a shot
rang out from the rebel side but
it was not known whether it was
intentional or accidental.
A tense moment came when one
rebel officer stood up after the
Marines reached the west end,
pulled the pin on a grenade and
threatened to blow himself up if
the U.S. forces removed the de-
molition charges from the bridge.
But the Marines talked him out
of it and the rebel troops with-
drew to a tree line beyond the
west end. The charges were re-
moved.
"It was plenty tense for a time,
believe me," said Lt. Col. Joshua
Dorsey, commander of the 3rd
Battalion of the 3rdMarine Regi-
ment. "It was like handling excit-
able little children and anything
could have touched it off."
Plane Incident
The plane incident apparently
was not connected with the U.S.
takeover of the bridge. It had
flown over central Da Nang after
a government air force plane had
dropped leaflets into the com-
pounds of three pagodas guarded
by rebel forces.
The U.S. plane, a two-seater,
was greeted by a storm of fire
from automatic weapons and rifles
from the rebels. It took seven hits
in the engine, wings and fuselage,
then belched smoke, and trailed
off toward the sea. The plane
made a crash landing on the
beach three miles from the city.
U.S. Wants
Solid NA TO
Lineup Now
Atlantic Allies Will
Revamp Plans Prior
To Brussels Meeting
WASHINGTON (P)--The United
States was reported yesterday
seeking a solid lineup among 14
Atlantic allies on NATO revamp-
ing plans in advance of the for-
eign ministers meeting in Brus-
sels three weeks hence.
Not all items relating to stream-
lining the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization, relocating its mili-
tary headquarters probably in
Belgium, and perhaps moving the
political headquarters there too,
are expected to be thrashed out
by then.
But to the extent possible, U.S.
strategists are said to be aiming
at unanimity among the 14 at
Brussels in order to prevent the
15th ally-France-from tossing
in a monkey wrench or exploiting
discord among the others.
A united stand by the 14 min-
isters would also weaken French
President Charles de Gaulle's op-
portunity to make a deal with the
Russians during his visit to the
Soviet Union in June by pointing
to NATO disarray, it is reasoned
here.
Belgium's f o r e i g n minister,
Pierre Harmel, arrived yesterday
for talks with President Johnson.
De Gaulle brought on the NATO
crisis by announcing France's
withdrawal from the alliance's in-
tegrated military setup by July
1 and giving the allies a year to
get their faciilties off French soil.
He sees the defense system as
outmoded a n d infringing on
French sovereignty. Its dismantl-
ing, in his view, would also im-
prove prospects for reaching ac-
cord with the Communist states.
U.S. soundings have found con-
siderable sentiment among the 14
nations against a sharp break with
France at the Brussels confer-
ence. Some here also expect the
French would take the line that
what happens to NATO's defense
structure is up to the 14 who are
going ahead with it, and therefore
France would not actively inter-
cede in those decisions.
MONTREAL (YP)-U.S. Secretary
of Defense Robert S. McNamara
proposed yesterday that every
young person in the United States
be asked to give two years of ser-
vice to his country, either in the
military, Peace Corps or some oth-
er voluntary work.
McNamara said this would help
remove what he called the inequity
in the present Selective Service
system.
Associates in Washington de-
clined to say whether this was an
official administration proposal
and said they were uninformed on
the suggestion.
Payments Balance Deficit
Rises During First Quarter
WASHINGTON (A)-The defi- States has done little more than
cit in the U.S. balance of pay- hold its own in the balance-of-
ments rose to a disappointing $582 payments picture since the Viet
million, on a seasonally adjusted Nam buildup began in mid-1965.
basis. during the first quarter of But he said no exact figures are
this year. available to assess how much the
Federal officials blamed the Viet war is contributing to the dollar
Nam war and rising imports for drain.
the increase. In addition to direct military
But Secretary of the Treasury costs, Fowler said the nation's
Henry H. Fowler told a news con- favorable trade balance is also
ferencetthe administration's goal suffering because of other events
is still to end the deficit this year, in Southeast Asia.
although he conceded it will now
be harder to achieve. On the import side, Fowler said
"And it may be that we will have that as the economy's growth rate
to settle for an interim objective slows, as he expects it will, and as
of equilibrium exclusive of the new productive capacity is at-
costs of Viet Nam," Fowler said. tained "we will be better able to
The administration defines equi- supply domestic demand for goods
librium as $250 million either side and services f r o m d o m e s t i c
h ffd sources."
END SELECTIVE SERVICE:
McNamara Proposes Two
Year's Service From Youth
The Secretary of Defense spoke
at a luncheon of the American So-
ciety of Newspaper Editors, at-
tended by about 500 U.S. and
Canadian editors.
McNamara mentioned the con-
flict in Viet Nam only in a brief
reference but he spoke at length
on the question of U.S. security
and its relationship to security in
developing countries.
He suggested a flexible approach
toward Red China in an effort to
bridge the gap now isolating Pe-
king from most of the rest of the
world. Breaching the isolation of
the Chinese Communists 'reduces
the danger of potentially catas-
trophic misunderstandings and in-
creases the incentive on both sides
to resolve disputes by reason rath-
er than by force," he observed.
"There are many ways in which
we can build bridges toward na-
tions who would cut themselves off
from meaningful contacts with
us," he said. "We can do so with
properly balanced trade relations,
diplomatic contacts, and in some
cases even by exchanges of mili-
tary observers."
McNamara said the idea of gov-
ernment service for all young
people hadsbeen criticized as in-
appropriate "while we are engaged
in a shooting war."
"But I believe precisely the op-
posite is the case," he declared.
"It is more appropriate now than
ever, for it would underscore what
our whole purpose is in Viet Nam
-and indeed anywhere in the
world where coercion or injustice
or lack of decent opportunity still
hold sway."
The defense secretary warned
that other free countries must
shoulder part of the burden of
helping contain the expansionist
policies of Red China and in con-
tributing in the maintenance of
world peace.
"The plain truth is," he said,
"the day is coming when no single
nation, however powerful, can un-
dertake by itself to keep the
peace outside its own borders."
"The United States," he as-
serted, "has no mandate from on
high to police the world and no
inclination to do so."
LOS ANGELES (A) - A tense'
watchfulness pervaded South LosI
Angeles yesterday in the wake of
two violent episodes kindled, police'
said, by Negro resentment of a+
white officer's killing of a young
Negro father.
Small bands of roving Negro
youths attacked two white news-
men and partially looted a liquor
store Tuesday night after the
breakup of a large demonstration
protesting alleged police brutality
in the May 7 shooting of Leonard
Deadwyler, 25.
The newsmen were Karl Flem-
ing, 38, Los Angeles, bureau mana-
ger for Newsweek magazine, re-
ported in good condition after be-
ing beaten into unconsciousness
with rocks and 4 x 4 timbers, and
Newsweek reporter David Moberg,
22, who suffered minor face cuts
and bruises.
Police from the 77th St. Division,
reinforced by 30 of ficers, called up
earlier in the day from the Met-
ropolitan Division, moved quickly
into the area-devastated by race
rioting last August-and dispersed
crowds in about three hours.
A few loud reports were heard.
Police first called them gunshots
but later said they could have
been firecrackers. Several false
fire alarms were turned in.
Metropolitan Division reinforce-
ments remained on quick call
pending the outcome of tomor-
row's inquest in Deadwyler's death.
The Rev. H. H. Brookins, a
Negro and head of Los Angeles'
United Civil Rights Council, agreed
that Deadwyler's death had stirred
deep resentment in the Negro
community.
"In a tense atmosphere like you
have here," said the Rev. Mr.
Brookins. " a death like that of
Leonard Deadwyler is almost ex-
actly the worst kind of thing that
could have happened. You couldn't
ask for a more inflamatory set of
circumstances.
"All the ingredients are here to
blow open all the pent-up frus-
tration and anger. The commu-
nity is just simply mad and it's
going to continue to build. I felt
it last night. There was as much
anger and outright unreason as
last August.
"Unless something dramatic
happens at the Deadwyler inquest
to give Negroes the feeling jus-
tice will be done, there's going to
be trouble. The Negroes expect the
verdict to be justifiable homicide.
They're prejudging it. I heard sev-
eral of them at the protest ask if
anyone ever heard of a white po-
liceman getting charged for kill-
ing a Negro, and nobody had. If
the inquest comes out negative to
what the Negroes want, then I'm
afraid we've had it."
Deadwyler was stopped by a
traffic officer, Jerold M. Bova, as
he was speeding his pregnant wife,
Barbara, 25, to a hospital. Mrs..
Deadwyler has said they thought
their child was coming prema-
turely.
Bova said he was reaching for
Deadwyler's ignition keys when
the care began to move again,
causing the gun he held in one
hand to discharge accidentally,
fatally wounding Deadwyler.
Mrs. Deadwyler said that her
husband asked Bova for a police
escort to the hospital and that
Bova reached past her and shot
her husband without questioning
him or answering his request.
A passenger in the back seat,'
Gamalyel Ferguson, 31, agreed
with the widow's account.
Dispute over the circumstances
have renewed long-standing Ne-
gro complaints of brutal treatment
by police. an accusation frequently
lodged and vigorously denied by
police after last August's riots.
Meanwhile, Negro sources said
Deadwyler appears to have be-
come a martyr in the minds of
angry Negroes. Deadwyler's funer-
al last Monday drew a crowd of
more than 500 to the small Praises
of Zion Baptist church, where
the Rev. Joseph B. Hardwick told
the congregation: "We don't want
this man's death to be in vain. We
will not hide this in a corner, We
want it to be brought out into
the light."
"He has reachedhthe stage of
martyrdom," said the Rev. Thom-
as Coffee of Deadwyler.
And among the crowd outside
who listened to the funral over
loudspeakers, young Negroes cir-
culated pamphlets from the "Com-
mittee to End Legalized Murder
by Cops." The pamphlets called
Deadwyler's death a murder and
warned: "Murder comes on the
edge of summer. Anybody can get
it next time."
of the zero in te aiierence Ae-
tween the dollar outflow and in-
flow.
There had been speculation
prior to yesterday's announcement
of the first-quarter figure that
the deficit this year could exceed
last year's dollar drain and might
even approach $2 billion.
At the same time yesterday, the
administration revised upward its
estimate of last year's deficit from
$1.3 billion to $1.35 billion.
The secretary said the United
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WASHINGTON - President
Johnson's bill to facilitate the
financing of $4.2 billion of next
year's government operations in
the private capital market was
passed by the House yesterday.
The bill, under steady attack by,
Republicans during three days of
debate, sets up a procedure for
the pooling of various govern-
ment-held loans and the sale of
private investors of participation
shares in the loans. The money
would go directly to the agencies
concerned, reducing the spending
side of the budget by an equiva-
lent amount.
SHADE GAP, Pa.-A mad kid-
nap-killer was shot to death yes-
terday in a running gun battle
with state police and two teen-
age boys. His kidnap victim of al-
most a week, 17-year-old Peggy
Ann Bradnick, escaped safely.
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OTTAWA-A bomb exploded in
a men's room near the offices of
Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson
and Foreign Secretary Paul Mar-
s Roundup
tin in the House of Commons yes-
terday, killing an unidentified
man who carried it. First reports
indicated it was a "mad bomber"
incident aimed either at the lead-
ers or the House chamber.
NEW YORK-The stock market
turned around yesterday and
staged a smashing rally after a
long, steep decline.
The averages piled up their big-
gest gain in nearly a year.
Trading was heavy, and the
New York Stock Exchange ticker
tape lagged as' much as six min-
utes in reporting floor trans-
actions.
Blue-chip stocks soared as much
as $7 a share, and the glamour
issues posted even higher gains.
All the auto makers scored gains.
Brokers called it a rebound
from an oversold condition.
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