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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - April 29, 1968, Norwich, New York The e vening Chenango county s daily newspaper in vol. 78, no. 31 monday april 29, 1968 Norwich . 13815 8c per copy War cutback seen in lbs peace bid Washington apr in the month since president Johnson reversed course on Vietnam his War and peace moves suggest a Basic decision to Cut . Involvement in the conflict As fully and quickly As possible. He appears to be working along two lines. One is directed toward finding a Way out of Vietnam through a peace settlement negotiated essentially with North Vietnam. A month of Effort beginning with Johnson a March 31 bombing limitation and Call for talks has shown that even selection of a place to meet can be a Long and tedious process. This is at least a preview of Low frustrating negotiations to come and it May even indicate that neither Johnson nor any successor will be Able to find a negotiated Way out of the War. The alternative route Johnson appears to be developing toward progressive disengagement is to hand Over the War More and More to the South vietnamese government making it progressively More responsible for its own survival and Security. At some Point along that route reduction of . Forces in South Vietnam would begin. It is the program often talked about in the past. But this time High officials Are saying privately the time has come for the South vietnamese a to face up to their responsibilities a with the implication that if eventually they cannot stand pretty much alone they will have to accept the consequences. Officials said agreement on a site could be reached in a few state nation world sen. Mccarthy Mccarthy Frk winding up democratic presidential aspirants Robert f. Kennedy and Eugene j. Mccarthy begin their final week of campaigning today in Indiana their first head on primary clash. Richard m Nixon the Only major Republican presidential candidate on Indiana s May 7 primary ballot plans to Campaign in the state thursday and Friday. Vice president Hubert la. Humphrey who has challenged Kennedy a pledge of a no More yet Narnst As an open invitation for communist expansion plans to remain in Washington. A we ought to pursue As effectively As we can an honorable peace to try to find a Way to negotiate our Way opt of this tragic War a said Humphrey who entered the democratic presidential race saturday. A but i think it would be a greater tragedy a he continued a to have any citizen that seeks High office in this country to announce that american Power would not be used in Case there was communist aggression. This would Breed not peace but chaos a in other political developments backers of new York gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller said they think he will announce As an Active Republican presidential candidate possibly before May in. Mansfield More favor tax Washington apr Senate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield says letters from his Montana constituents show they re switching from opposition to support of an income tax boost. A majority of these letters Mansfield said now favor president Johnson a proposed to per cent income tax surcharge along with a healthy Cut in Federal spending. Mans Field who has Long supported the tax proposal bottled up fur Many months in Congress said Public works projects appear prime targets for any budget slashing. Space projects and military research also could be Cut Back he said. Senate and House conferees meanwhile were reported pushing slowly toward possible agreement on a Bill that would boost income taxes $10 billion while reducing authority for Long Range government spending by some $20 billion. Anti ballistic net in works Washington apr the Pentagon a chief scientist has provided the first official acknowledgement that the $5 billion . Defense planned against any red chinese missiles also is a first step toward an anti soviet shield. Or. John s. Foster director of defense research and engineering told the Senate armed services committee the proposed anti ballistic missile abm system called Sentinel could be the foundation for an expanded defense against the soviets. Foster made Clear How Ever that current . Plans and capabilities Are Only to try to handle the rather rudimentary missiles red China is expected to have in the Early 1970s. Former Secretary of defense Robert s. Mcnamara told the same group the Sentinel system was technically capable of intercepting soviet mis Siles but Only in Small numbers. As he had repeatedly since last Falls announcement on the abm decision Mcnamara emphasized the anti chinese character of the system. Testimony by both men came in Early february but was publicly released Only recently. The Issue came up when sen. Stuart Symington d-mo., asked Foster to explain Why the administration seemed to be ignoring the soviet missile threat while tackling a lesser chinese threat. Bermuda riot curfew on Hamilton Bermuda a a rigidly enforced curfew and 560 police and troops kept Bermuda quiet sunday after three Days of violence. Informed sources said the nightly curfew May stay on until after the resort islands general election May 23. The 7 . To Dawn curfew also kept thousands of american tourists confined to their hotels but most of them normally Dine there anyway and spend the evening playing Bingo or dancing in the hotel ballrooms. A detachment of 180 members of Britiany a Royal inn Skilling Fusiliers arrived by plane sunday night to help local forces quell any further outbreak of what the governor lord Marto Mere called the a hoodlum ism that swept this normally tranquil Island. Also helping keep order on the Island where most of the Whites and negroes subsist on the tourist Trade is the British frigate Leopard. After rioting thursday and Friday nights there were four explosions and half a dozen minor blasts saturday night but sunday was without incident barbed wire barricades Cut the Coral roads manned by police firemen and troops of the Bermuda regiment both negro and White. The main violence occurred thursday an Friday when 12 persons were injured and $250,000 Worth of damage was done. Officials Here insist that the disturbances were neither racially nor politically motivated although most of them were caused by marauding bands of negro youths. Hours with the kind of Contact now possible with North Vietnam through the . And North vietnamese embassies in Laos. Or the squabbling could drag on for More weeks. The Johnson administration meanwhile is disturbed by the heavy flow of men and supplies poured into South Vietnam by Hanoi since the bombing stopped. Washington officials said about 10,000 truckloads of men and goods have gone South in the past month an increase of about 25 per cent Over the record Levels of december and january. Thus widespread speculation about the possibility of Compromise on Paris As a site for preliminary peace talks was paralleled by some rumblings of worry about what Johnson May feel red Camp taken but foe Cone Saigon apr a big . Force that plunged by helicopter into what its commander called a real pay dirty has found at least one enemy Camp and supplies in the a Shau Valley but the enemy troops scattered before the invaders. The 10-Day-old offensive not announced until sunday night continues under a Security blackout. Correspondents with the troops were permitted to report Only actions in the first three Days of the assault. The helicopters swarmed in april 19 carrying thousands of . 1st air cavalry division troopers and equipment into what has been a North vietnamese stronghold for two years. Enemy guns brought Down or damaged 30 of the choppers. A hell in be never lost that Many in weeks and weeks a said maj Gen. John j. Tolson commander of the flying horsemen. A by far its the hot test place we be Ever gone into. The old opponent gave me a big bad the . Command said the operation called Delaware was a a reconnaissance in Force a indicating that the american Force would smash the staging areas and Supply lines and then pull out. South vietnamese paratroopers formed a blocking Force at the valleys exit toward Hue. Despite the heavy antiaircraft fire casualties on both sides were reported relatively Light in the first three Days with fewer than 50 North vietnamese and 20 americans killed. Sixteen . Helicopter crewmen were wounded. After the Landing pfc. Jimmy r. Rose of Smithfield n.c., and sgt. Hillary Craig of Winter Park fla., followed a communications wire to a 30-building enemy Camp evacuated so quickly that laundry still was hanging on lines. The american troops found dozens of 50-gallon Drums of gasoline four russian trucks 300 chinese automatic rifles still in crates hundreds of artillery and antiaircraft rounds a ton of Rice and too russian mine detectors. The 25-mile-Long Valley near the laotian Border and South West of Hue has been a staging Point for North vietnamese troops since they overran a . Special forces Camp in it two years ago. A this is one of the most important pieces of real estate the enemy has a said Gen. Tolson. He said he believes some of the enemy antiaircraft guns 37mms that can hit aircraft at 10,000 feet Are radar guided. Some of the american Helicon. Ters were hit at 6,000 feet. Despite the losses a the opera Tion so far has been highly successful a Tolson said. A we hold the key enemy troops in the Valley Are believed to be mostly support units he has to do about the bombing limitation if Hanoi maintains its expanding military activity. Johnson has about nine months More in office in View of his decision against re election and no one in High position in Washington thinks the Odds seriously favor his concluding a peace agreement in that time. What he is doing in one sense therefore is preparing for his successor a Range of choices in Vietnam policy next year with withdrawal at one extreme and military escalation at the other. How the new dual course develops in the next few months will depend greatly on what happens in Vietnam in the War in Hanoi a diplomatic Maneu vers and in Saigon a acceptance of responsibility. President Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam and his associates should understand that in terms of . Policy time May be running out for them. They could have far less . Support next year from a new president in Washington with even More Radical changes in . Policy than those Johnson has initiated. Seemingly Balking at that possibility vice president Nguyen Cao by declared sunday that South Vietnam will not stand for a peace settlement with Hanoi a that forces us to surrender to the North Vietnam also faces a Gamble whether it can make a better peace Deal in the immediate future with Johnson an outgoing president who has publicly cast off political ambition or with a presently unpredictable successor. How the Uncertain Prospect is assessed in Hanoi is unknown. But what the North vietnamese have done during the past month is taken As an indication of their thinking and what they Are Likely to do. . Officials have not found encouragement for their occasional Hopes of negotiating a Compromise settlement before the end of the year. Yet the North vietnamese reaction to Johnson a initial bombing limitation and Call for talks on March 31 has provided enough surprises to make the future Uncertain. Hanoi produced the biggest Surprise at the outset of the exchanges by agreeing quickly to make Contact. That was on april 3 and was so unexpected that Johnson and his advisers took several hours to decide on their next move they had thought it would be a number of weeks before North Vietnam digested Johnson a invitation for discussions. Some hours after the North vietnamese said they would be prepared to have contacts Between . And North vietnamese representatives Johnson announced the . Also was ready to that Exchange of Public statements set the stage for the Long negotiations which have followed Over selection of a site for what would in effect be preliminary talks. The United states has sent North Vietnam five notes since Johnson made his first move a month ago and has acknowledged receiving three notes from Hanoi. The Exchange has defined a deadlock. The North vietnamese have insisted on Warsaw Poland or phenom penh Cambodia and the United states has objected to those two and offered 15 other places in Asia and Europe which Hanoi has termed inadequate. In this Exchange the United states has been in a weaker propaganda position the i North Vietnam because of Johnson a widely proclaimed readiness of recent years to Send a representative anywhere anytime to talk peace. Hanoi has tried to use this declaration to Force the . Into accepting Warsaw but Johnson has said the site must be a Neutral place keeping Fiti Vietnam ingenuity. Marine Lance Cpl. George Gri Pilos Dies his weight lifting in a pit using a homemade bar Bell. Apparatus consists of a truck Axel with spare tank parts for end plates. In race Humphrey must line up party neutrals Washington a vice president Hubert h. Humphreys toughest assignment As an Active candidate for the democratic presidential nomination apparently will be to entice party leaders off the political Fence. Humphrey picked up some fresh endorsements with his formal entry saturday into the contest against Sens. Robert f. Kennedy d-., and Eugene j. Mccarthy a Minn. But party leaders in swing states whose support he needs to assemble the 1,312 convention votes required for the nomination did no to Budge from the Neutral position they have taken since president Johnson announced March 31 he would not accept renomination. In Michigan for example sen. Philip a. Hart said in an interview he Hasni to been Able to make up his mind As Between Kennedy Mccarthy and Humphrey. Hart said lie thinks sentiment is split in Michigan where the bulk of the 9g-vote delegation is chosen in District contests and the remainder at a state convention in june. He said he thinks about one fourth of the delegates will represent organized labor. Al Cio president George Meany is sup sorting Humphrey. Walter Reuther head of the United Auto workers has remained silent. Hart said he knows one close Reuther adviser who is for Kennedy and another who is for Mccarthy. In Humphreys native state of South Dakota sen. George Mcgovern has welcomed the vice president into the race but youth charged in death of 5 negotiations encouraging Quot representatives of the Norwich Pha Macal company and local 251, i.c.w.u., went into another negotiating session this morning at City Hall amid Hopes that an agreement might be reached. A Pha Macal company spokesman reported that a session Friday had been encouraging in the Effort to end the contract Dis Pute which has idled nearly 600 employees of the drug firm since Jan. 22. Charleston 111. A Thomas Charles Fuller 18, is being held in Coles county jail without Bond for a preliminary hearing tuesday on charges of murdering three Brothers and two Sisters of a girl he reportedly dated. The youth was arrested Sun Day near Eastern Illinois University some 13 hours after the five children of or. And mrs. William Cox were shot to death outside their Home near Mattoon. The dead children were found saturday night in and around a barn on the family farm. Deputy Coroner Jess Caudill said each of the victims had been shot in the head with a Small Caliper pistol and the two girls Heads also had been battered killed in the Slaughter were Lewis 16 Theresa 9 Mary Ca Tharine 8 Gary i and Kenneth 5. Police said a teen age daughter Louise 16, was Home at the time of the slayings but was unharmed. Friends of the family said Louise whose twin brother Lewis was killed had been Dat ing Fuller. Authorities declined to discuss possible motives for the slayings and said they had no comment on whether the brow haired youth made any statements. Fuller offered no resistance when he was seized by police near the University in Charleston which is some to Miles East of Mattoon. Police said he was carrying a .22-caliber revolver. Police said Cox a construction worker and two elder sons were working on a truck several Miles away from the two Story White Frame farmhouse when the murders took place. Heart patient fights for life Paris apr the first French heart transplant operation took place in a Paris Hospital saturday the hospitals surgery chief announced. Or. Maurice Mercadier said that the Man who received the heart is still alive. But he said complications had developed and his chances of survival were not known. The patient was Clovis Rob lain a 66-year-old truck Driver. It was the seventh heart transplant operation on a human reported but Only one of the other patients has survived. He is or. Philip Blaiberg a 58-year-old South african who was operated on Jan. 2 and went Home from the Hospital March in. The heart transplanted to Rob lain was taken from a 23-year-old Man who had undergone an operation for a head in poor Peoples drive starts has declared his own neutrality. Similarly Senate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana and sen. Warren g. Mag Nuson of Washington Are avoid ing taking sides. Sen. Edmund s. Muskie of Maine who Heads the democratic senatorial Campaign committee is taking the favorite son route to stay uncommitted. In Iowa gov. Harold Hughes who is believed to lean toward Kennedy said Humphrey has a Strong Broad based support among labor farm and business groups. But he said he will wait until after the May 24-25 state convention before backing a candidate. The Humphrey announcement did no to bring mayor Richard j. Daley of Chicago openly into the vice presidents Camp with the 118-vote Illinois delegation. Neither did it seem to alter the favorite son plans of gov. Richard j. Hughes As head of new jerseys 82-vote delegation. Neither were there outward stirrings in Ohio with 115 votes or Pennsylvania with 130. H u in p h r e yes official announcement saturday before a crowd of about 2,000 supporters who cheered him to the chandeliers was counted by All concerned As a social political and television Success. The 56-year-old vice president spoke vigorously of maturity of judgment National Unity and priorities for peace he left no doubt he Felt he was Best qualified to achieve. Washington apr with the possible exception of in creased housing subsidies con Gress does not appear to bt1 in a mood to enact any Broad new programs to help the nations poor. There is no Lack of proposals in the three main Fields cited by legislators concerned about this group a jobs income housing and education. But with the 1969 session perhaps half Over sponsors of these proposals see Little Prospect of breakthrough legislation. They Are reluctant to guess How most lawmakers will react to the intensive lobbying for jobs and income legislation that will be aimed at Congress during the poor Peoples Campaign beginning today. About too Advance scouts from the poor Peoples Campaign kicked off today what could become the nation s largest and longest Camp in. It would have to get a lot larger than originally planned to beat the estimated 15,000 veterans who camped on Capitol Hill in 1932, demanding their veterans bonuses be paid 13 years ahead of schedule. But Campaign organizers Here for three Days of preliminary negotiating with government leaders said sunday they think it might be bigger. Support among the poor has proven so Strong they said that they be turned from their Origi Nal goal of 3,000 tent dwellers to talk of a hundreds of thousands of demonstrators camped All Over Washington. Nothing much is expected to happen until May 13. That a when Rev. Ralph Abernathy convinced that his pleas for a guaranteed annual income and housing Job and education guarantees will fall on deaf ears expects to Lead the first wave of his thousands of marchers into Washington. The Campaign is expected to bring thousands of poor persons a mostly negroes to Washington for a sustained lobbying Effort. A if a Large scale March and the massing of thousands of peo pie Here in Washington is Toler ated by the Federal govern ment a sen. John c. Steams d-miss., told the Senate a there is More than an even Chance that it will set up further riots looting and burning within the capital members of Congress most Likely to be sympathetic to the demands of the poor say the Basic obstacle to enacting major new programs at this time is the continuing need to funnel Money into the Vietnam War. The Economy mood of the administration and the Congress resulting from this budget Stringency has been heightened by the Gold crisis and the weakening position of the Dollar abroad. Negro Boycott achieving goal jury. His death had been certified after tests with Electroencephalogram. The Man from whom the heart was taken was reported to be Michel Gyp Paz injured in a traffic Accident last thursday. The operation was performed by a team led by heart surgeons Christian Cabrol and Gerard Gui Raudon. It began saturday at to . At la Pitie Hospital and ended nine hours later. The complications which followed were of the nerve system it was reported. Weather partly Cloudy not As Cool tonight lows in mid 30s to Low 40s. Tuesday mostly Cloudy with a few widely scattered showers highs in the 60s. Greenwood miss. Apr a tight Boycott Here has taken almost All negroes away from the downtown business area and a shopping Center. It has forced one group of White merchants to reach its own agreement with the Boycott leaders. In two weeks of a selective buying a the Greenwood movement has withdrawn almost All negro business leaving Only essentials such As drugs and banking untouched. One White merchant manager of a downtown department store said a was far As i can Tell its too per cent effective. I done to mind telling you in a Down this month when i should be up because of easter the Boycott grew out of indignation at the assassination of or. Martin Luther King or. Picketing began april la two Days after he was buried and has continued since. The heavy negro population of Leflore county in the prosperous Delta farming Region of Northwest Mississippi makes Many Greenwood merchants dependent on negro Trade. Green Wood a town of 20,000 persons is 45 per cent negro and the county is about 65 per cent negro. Only one supermarket and Johnson Street a five Block Row of bargain stores furniture stores and Pawn shops is exempt. Last week Johnson Street merchants approached movement leaders and worked out an agreement. They would hire negroes use courteous titles and try to pressure the City a leadership into meeting with the negroes in Exchange for the Boycotts being called off. The negroes agreed and the merchants mailed a petition to the City Council asking it to meet. Communication Between the races or Between the Greenwood movement and City government is the ultimate goal of the Boycott. Except for the Johnson Street merchants negro leaders say no White merchants have contacted them although the merchants have been meeting among themselves. Mayor Charles e. Sampson is Adamant in his refusal to meet with die movements leaders. A we Haven to paid much attention to it a he said. A a it a just a group of Catholic priests out there trying to run the whole county. A a we re not going to discuss it wit i them. They re just agitators sent in Here. They be been sent in just for this the Boycott has been maintained by daily picketing and by Reading in Public meetings the names of negroes who Cross picket lines. It is the move mentus second attempt. The first was last november and it died after three weeks. Although membership of the movement is almost entirely Black a key Leader is a White roman Catholic priest the Rev. Nathaniel r. Machesky 48, Pas tor of St. Francis Church. He has been a staff member at the negro Church 18 years. The other co chairmen Are two negro ministers the Rev. M. J. Black pastor of Turners Street african methodist Epis Copal Church and the Rev. William Wallace pastor of Jen. Rungs Temple Christian methodist episcopal Church. Today a chuckle one senator to another a you spend a billion Here a billion there and the first thing you know it adds up a today around the the around the

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