FIRST LAD Y S UPPOR TS NA TIONAL HOLIDA Y The Michigan Daily-Wednesday, January 16, 1980-Page 7 5,000 march in ATLANTA (AP) - First Lady Rosalynn Carter said yesterday that the president joins her in a renewed Wominitment to work for a national holiday honoring the Jan. 15 birthdate of the late Martin Luther King Jr. Carter's remarks at a two-hour memorial service before an overflow --crowd at Ebenezer Baptist Church came only hours after the marble front of King's crypt was defaced during the night with streaks of red, black, and green paint. FOLLOWING THE services, about ,000 people marched one mile through downtown streets to the state Capitol, chanting, "We Want a National Holiday," and waving signs favoring a national and state holiday in memory of King, who was assassinated 12 years ago in Memphis, Tenn. "When I left Washington this mor- ning it was a holiday for the school children there. And you and I and the president are committed to a national holiday for Martin Luther King Jr.," Carter said. "Hope, faith, love. That is what we celebrate today," she said. "We must have a national holiday to com- memory memorate this great man of hope, faith and love." TH E PROPOSAL for a national holiday for King lost twice in the House last year and failed to make much progress in the Senate. However, the date is a holiday in the District of Columbia. There were no arrests in the defacing of the tomb. The Rev. Fred Bennett, chief of security for the Martin Luther King Jr. Center for Social Change near the crypt, said he would not begin an investigation until after Tuesday's ac- tivities. Atlanta Police Maj. W. W. Holley said it was just vandalism and he believed it was done by a single individual and not the work of an organized group. CARTER LEFT for Washington, before the march, which was led by King's widow, Coretta Scott King; for- mer Peace Corps director 'Sargeant Shriver; Rabbi Marc Tannenbaum, director of the American Jewish Com- mittee; and Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson. of King At the Capitol, King urged the crowd to push for the holiday for her late husband. "The job begins when you leave here today to work through the political process and framework. We are going to have a national holiday, and a state holiday," she said. "Martin marched with us today and we will keep on mar- ching." HELP US STRIKE OUT BIRTH DEFECTS MARCH OFDMES: I1 Guerrillas loyal 10 Pol Pot finished' HANOI, Vietnam (AP) - Guerrillas A oyal to ousted Cambodian leader Pol ot are "finished" as a military threat to the Vietnamese-backed government in Phnom Penh, a top Hanoi official said yesterday. But he accused Thailand of aiding the insurgents in border areas with U.S. acquiescence. The United States must intercede to get the Thais to stop supporting the an- ti-government Cambodians, Vice Foreign Minister Phan Hien said. HIEN, A KEY Vietnamese foreign policy spokesman granted an interview to Western journalists accompanying a group of U.S. congressmen who made a five-hour trip to Hanoi from Bangkok, Thailand, to talk with Vietnamese of- ficials about U.S. servicemen still missing in action from the Indochina War. He said Vietnamese troops in western Cambodia are carrying out "a, police operation against gangs, bandits. But militarily, in an organized way, it (the "Pol Pot opposition) is finished." Some 200,000 Vietnamese troops have occupied Cambodia since they ousted Pol Pot as premier a yea' ago, replacing him with Vietnamese-backed leader Heng Samrin. Both Thai and Western analysts in recent weeks have been expecting Vietnamese troops to mount a dry-season offensive against the Pol Pot troops scattered along the border with Thailand. THAI MILITARY sources have said that in recent days Vietnamese troop movements in western Cambodia have put them in a position to launch such an offensive whenever they choose. Some analysts fear a clean-up operation might spill over into Thai territory. When asked about the predictions of a new Vietnamese campaign, Hien said that because the guerrillas have been so weakened he would not use the word "offensive.'" "Basically the military problem in Cambodia is solved already," Hien said. "The problem now is reorganizing a new society, a society which has been destroyed." HE TOLD THE reporters Vietnam would respect Thailand's borders but in turn expected Thai officials to end what he insisted was support for the guerrillas. In return for Vietnam's promise to respect Thailand's neutrality, Hien said, he expected neutral behavior from Thai officials. Hien said the United States should bring pressure on Thailand to stop aiding Pol Pot forces. "The United States has some role, some influence," hesaid. Vietnam's defense minister, Gen. Vo Nguyeh Giap, was quoted in October as saying the United States and China are arming remnants of the Pol Pot forces in an unnamed neighboring country, apparently Thailand, for an attack on Cambodia. IN THE interiorofeCambodia, Hien said, guerrillas are "no longer a threat." But across the far western border with Thailand, they have san- ctuaries where they receive training, weapons, ammunition aRd medicine, he said. Hien accused Thailand of helping the guerrillas "sometimes openly, sometimes they shut their eyes and let the Khmer Rouge (the guerrillas) do their job, sometimes they claim the border line is in one place or another. "If Thailand will be really neutral, such sanctuaries must cease." THE POL POT forces have been waging their guerrilla campaign along the Thai border, sometimes moving back across it for a rest. They hiye refused to lay down their arms and join the tens of thousands of Cambodian refugees who have flowed into Thailand as a result of the continued fighting and a vast shortage of food in Cambodia. Vietnam has questioned the neutrality of Thailand, which still recognizes the Pol Pot government, because it has allowed the ousted regime's deputy premier, Teng Sary, and other officials to pass back and for- th through Thai territory. ,3 Ulrich 's: The Source. -. i 4 E ; -T r r The University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies & Department of Far Eastern Languages and Literatures PUBLIC LECTURE WI-' TOKYO /N THE MElTPERIOD" EDWARD G. 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Hood, 28, will enter the August Democratic primary in what district of- -icials consider the first 'serious political challenge in memory Diggs has faced from within his own party. HOOD, SON of city councilman Nicholas Hood Jr., said Diggs' legal problems were "not really" a factor in his decision to challenge the 13-term lawmaker. "I've been thinking about running for Congress all of my life," he told a news conference at Plymouth United Church Of Christ, where he is associate minister. "And that's the truth." Hood said he did not plan to make a campaign issue out of Diggs' convic- tion, noting "the courts will take care of whatever legal problems he has. "I think that the community is very well aware of his situation," Hood said. "I think that people want to hear con- structive issues. I don't think that they want to deal in negative personalities." 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