page three C14C Sii !3a 41P at NEWS PHONE: 764-0552 BUSINESS PHONE: 764-0554 Friday, May 15, 1970 Ann Arbor, Michigan Page Three McGovern, Muskie plan WASHINGTON U) - Two springs before the 1972 presidential primary season, Democratic Sens. Edmund S. Muskie of Maine and George S. Mc- Govern of South Dakota are taking the first, important steps likely to lead to races for the presidency. In a sense, the two Democratic sen- ators have been campaigning ever since 1968, crisscrossing the country, making speeches designed to keep them in the public eye and helping fellow Democrats in the manner used by John Kennedy and Richard Nixon to lay the base for their presidential bids. Now, they are beginning to take more definite steps-though any deci- sion is still at least 18 months away. Muskie has set up a separate re- campaign likely to result in a land- slide victory this fall. He is beginning to gather tapes and films of his activi- ties, and has started to break in "ad- vance men" for his out-of-town ap- pearances. McGovern, like Muskie a frequent speaker for his two dozen colleagues seeking re-election this fall, has raised $300,000 for their campaigns. He is realigning his staff and plans to hire key political and media operatives. And he is laying the first, tentative outlines of a national political organi- zation for his presidential bid. Muskie, the 1968 vice presidential nominee, is widely regarded by politi- cians as the early front-runner despite recent attacks \ by Ralph Nader on search office, ostensibly for his Senate Muskie's anti-pollution stand. As for McGovern, who made a brief unsuc- cessful presidential bid in 1968 follow- ing Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, even some of his own backers have doubts about how far he can go. Muskie and McGovern, while the furthest advanced towards a presi- dential race, are not alone as Demo- cratic hopefuls. Former Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey, the 1968 nomi- nee, is expected to try again if he is successful in regaining a Minnesota Senate seat this November. Other hopefuls in the Senate include Sen. Birch E. Bayh of Indiana, who has stepped up his national speaking activities after leading the successful fights against President 'Nixon's two Supreme Court nominees; Sen. Fred aheadJ R. Harris of Oklahoma, who resigned as the party's national chairman to speak out more on national issues; and Sen. Harold E. Hughes of Iowa, mentioned as a dark horse possibility. Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy of Minne- sota, who is retiring from the Senate this year, has dropped hints in recent months he may undertake a second try for the presidency in 1972. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massa- chusetts insists he will serve out the six-year Senate term to which he seeks election this fall, although Na- tional Chairman Lawrence F. O'Brien says he must be considered among potential 1972 nominees. Neither Muskie, 56, nor McGovern, 47, denies he is considering a 1972 race. "It's the kind of challenge that ob- For 1972 viously I'm thinking about," Muskie said in a recent interview. "The im- pulses that took me into public life in the first place are moving me in the direction of making that challenge, given the proper circumstances." "My own view," McGovern said in a separate interview, "remains that my role can best be served by address- ing myself bluntly to the issues." Ask- ed recently in Salt Lake City about 1972, he replied "I'm interested in national politics and have been for years. But I'm going to reserve any judgment about a candidacy for 1972." Neither senator puts much stock in public opinion polls which currently show that Humphrey, Muskie and Kennedy each command about 25 per cent with McCarthy, McGovern and the others far behind. Some cars just can't be mass produced. Have you ever taken a tour through on automobile factory? Its mass production in action:-slam, bang,, crash-and then poof, instant car. But if you want a car with doors that really fit, with body panes that don't ripple, and with paint that's buffed to an incredibly silky. smooth finish, you can't count-on machines. Which is why Maserati doesn't mass pro. duce the $15,300* Maserati Mexico (rear), Ferrari doesn't mass produce the $19,700* Ferrari GTB4 (left), and we don't mass pro.- duce the $XXXXt Volkswagen Karmann Ghia. (right). $2528.00 When we build the Karmann Ghia, instead of just big machines that slam and crash and bang and don't care, we also use little ones that are much quieter and care a lot. They're called people. PLUS TAX-FREIGHT AND DEALER HANDLING HOWARD COOPER VOLKSWAGEN INC. Overseas Delivery Available 2575 So. State St., Ann Arbor Phone 761-3200 AUT 1ORIZ Open Mon. & Thurs. till 9 P.M. EALER/ the by The Associated Press and College Press Service S. Vietnam, U.S. A CALIFORNIA JURY has ruled that the death of Kevin Moran resulting from a gunshot wound in the April 18 demon- stration at Isla Vista was accidental. The jury issued the ruling after hearing police officer David Gosselin testify that his gun fired unintentionally and after testimony from a state ballistics expert that the safety on Gosselin's gun was defective. Polics Chief Alfred Trembly, who suspended Gosselin several days after the shooting, said the officer was being reinstated. THE VIETNAM PEACE TALKS began their year yesterday with an exchange of threats. As has become customary, the only thing the delegates could agree on was a meeting next Thursday. The North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong warned that further U.S .air raids on the North would provoke more walkouts. Such raids early this month brought cancellation of last week's session. Philip C. Habit, the U.S. envoy told the 66th plenary session that President Nixon "will be patient in working peace. We will be con- ciliatory at the conference table," he added. SOME 100 WELFARE ACTIVISTS staged a second day of demonstrations yesterday at the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The National Welfare Rights Organization convened what it termed a hearing on the Southeast Asia war and welfare inequities in the HEW auditorium. On Wednesday 21 welfare rights demonstrators were arrested after an eight-hour sit-in the office of HEW secretary Robert H. Finch. APPROXIMATELY 1,000 SYRIAN troops yesterday crossed the frontier into Lebanon and took up positions in the area from which an Israeli raiding force withdrew Wednesday. Lebanese border officials said the force from Syria was armed with mortars, anti-aircraft guns and other equipment. After crossing the border, the troops were reported to have pushed on to the Arkoub area on the western slopes of Mt. Hermon. The Syrians gave Lebanese authorities no advance notification of the move, highly placed sources said. * * * INDIAN AUTHORITIES stepped up their efforts yesterday to prevent widespread rioting in Maharastra State between Hindus and Moslems from spreading to the teeming city of Bombay. The week-old violence has already claimed 126 lives, according to police. Hundreds of persons have been injured and thousands arrested. Yesterday, Bombay police took in custody 650 possible trouble- makers. They also posted armed guards at all suburban railway stations in the Greater Bombay area The latest deaths occurred Wednesday night when police opened fire on a mob at a village near Thana, north of Bombay, killing two. The mob was reported about to attack a minority community in an- other village. start new' attack into Cambodia SAIGON (M - South Vietnamese forces, with American advisers and air support, launched a new offensive into Cam- bodia from the central highlands of South Vietnam, the De- fense Ministry announced yesterday. There were no immediate reports of contact with the North Vietnamese. The attack came a day after Secretary of State William Rodgers reiterated the Nixon Administration's assurances that U.S. military forces will not become involved in Cam- bodia on any long term basis. The operation, called Binh Tay-Pacify West-II, was kick- ed off at the border about 22 miles south of a combined U.S.- South Vietnamese foray launched last week into the Se San ELLSWORTH BUNKER, left, U.S. Amb nam chats yesterday with Sen. George Ai at the Capitol for a closed door session Relations Committee. 'NOT FEASIBLE': IFord rejects truck plantj DETROIT i - Henry Ford II yest Ford stockholders that he has notifie ment it "is not feasible for us to giv to a Soviet proposal" that Ford builda Ford, recently returned from a n where he discussed the Russian leade said the U.S. government "was advised and did not discourage us." The chairman of the Ford Moto last week to what he considered cri Russian - Ford truck venture by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird. Lq Laird said in an interview, "Some people believe the best way to succeed with the Soviet Union, ruin for example, is to go to Russia and build trucks for them." base area 50 miles we s t of -Associated Press Pleiku. bassador to South Viet- The Defense Ministry said the ken (R-Vt) as he arrives latest drive involves troops of the n of the Senate Foreign South Vietnamese 22nd Division with tanks and armored person- -------- nel carriers. American helicopters and warplanes w e r e sent in to support the government units, the U.S. Command said. e 1The combined operation to the S / t north has encountered little re- OIei/] ksistance since the opening' days of the offensive when U.S. 4th In- fantry Division troops were tem- porarily knocked off balance by heavy fire f r o m North Vietna- mese troops when they made their erday told a meeting of initial combat assaults. ed the Russian govern- About a third of the Americans 'e furtherconsideration in that operation were withdrawn utherk pfrom Cambodia Wednesday. a nruc-dla intRussia. There had been reports that the mne-day visit to Russia, troops in the Se San base area rs' proposal with them, moved north into Laos and south in advance of our visit when the allies pushed into the former sanctuary. There was no )r Co. reacted strongly immediate word on what the gov- ticism of the proposed ernment force expected to find in the new foray. Earlier yesterday, the U.S. Com- S1 mand reported that 168 Ameri- risiators cans were killed in action 1 as t week, the highest U.S. battlefield r death toll in m o r e than eight again months. A total of 1,001 U.S. troops were listed as wounded. . The Command also reported Senator Gilbert Bursley that through Wednesday 110 U.S. 1 Arbor) and State Repre- troops have been killed since the e Raymond Smit (R-Ann start of the operation into Cam- announced late Wednesday bodia April 29. The wounded to- ey will each seek re-elec- talled 446. s decision to run for a third South Vietnamese forces suf- tive term as a represent- fered heavier casualties last week, om the 53rd disrict was a Government military headquar- versal of his position three ters said 863 of its troops were ago. At that time it ap- killed, 2,259 wounded and 44 list- that personal consider- ed as missing. might prevent him from The government death toll was relection. the highest since the north launched its Tet offensive in Feb- ruary 1968, and the second high- est of the war. A total of 5,898 North Vietna- r Q mese and Viet Cong troops were reported killed by the allies. . No major fighting involving American forces was reported yes- terday but South Vietnamese headquarters claimed its troops killed 199 North Vietnamese and seized 168 weapons in two battles' Wednesday in Cambodia. Eigh- "Ifteen government troops were re-I ported killed and 63 wounded in the two actions south of the pro-, vincial capital of Svay Rieng, 50 miles west of the border on High-f + ~way 1 leading to the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh. Support asked on Cambodi~a WASHINGTON WP)-Three ad- ministration leaders yesterday re- portedly told Republican senators that moves to restrict President Nixon's troop-committing powers must be overcome if a crisis of confidence in the presidency is to be avoided. But senators reporting on the private session were divided as to whether the tone was one of ac- commodation or a hint the White House is ready to face a historic and divisive constitutional show- down with the Senate. The meeting came as the Senate opened debate on the Church- Cooper amendment which would bar the spending of federal funds to maintain U.S. troops in Cam- bodia past the June 30 deadline set by Nixon. The measure is named for its chief cosponsors, Sess. John Sherman Cooper (R- Ky), and Frank Church (D- Idaho). In another secret meeting, Ells- worth Bunker, ambassador to Vietnam, reported the United States is sending U.S. rifles to Cambodia and stoutly defended the course of the war and the con- duct of the Saigon regime. The Republican caucus was ad- dressed by Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird; Henry A. Kis- singer, Nixon's chief foreign policy adviser; and Elliott L. Richardson, undersecretary of state. All refused to comment to newsmen. Sen. Charles E. Goodell (R-NY). a chief sponsor of the "End the War Amendment" which would bar the use of all funds for further fighting by U.S. troops in South- east Asia, said the administration trio attacked the motives of the sponsors and the endpresult of measures limiting presidential war power. The Michigan Daily, edited and man- aged by students at the University of Michigan. News phone: 764-0552. Second Class postage paid at Ann Arbor, Mich- ,gan, 420 Maynard St., Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104. 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