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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - August 28, 1968, Norwich, New York The e vol. 78, no. 106 wednesday au9us Quot Norw York 1381 10c per copy he near goal but faces revolt reject acco9 czech youths i underground say Prague apr the czechoslovak National Assembly today adopted a Resolution de mantling a firm deadline for the withdrawal of soviet led occupation troops and condemning the occupation As illegal. Informants said the National Assembly a so declared it could not ratify the Moscow agreement because it was reached under pressure. There was no immediate report from a secret meeting of the communist party Central committee of its position on the Moscow Accord that continues the occupation and has forced the czechoslovak Reg me to rein up on its liberalizing program. But sources indicated that opposition to the terms of the settlement was hardening rapidly despite appeals by Alexander continued resistance is expected editors note after soviet troops invaded Czechoslovakia last week a correspondent Gene Kramer drove from Vienna to Prague and toured the Countryside around the czechoslovak capital. Now Back in Vienna he reports on the re Istance of the people to the soviet occupation. By Gene Cramer Vienna apr often regarded As the More docile and pragmatic of the slavic Peoples the czechs and the slovaks wrote a new chapter last week in the chronicle of resistance to threats of Force. Their conduct during a week of occupation and their first reaction to the agreement in Moscow Between the soviet leaders and the men from Prague suggests that some resistance May continue. On a 300-mile drive through occupied Czechoslovakia i saw anti soviet sentiment to a degree that would have been unthinkable a year ago. Hundreds of czechs 15 to 40, have been parading the past week in Wenceslas Square the Center of Prague hooting and shaking their fists at soviet tank Crews. During one of to e demonstrations a retired factory Foreman told me proudly a a look at them they Are our youth. A whole generation that grew up under socialism and was taught to regard the russians As Broth ers. But in one week All is changed. This is something for the whole world to think at Frant Skovy Lasne near the German Border a Cook said a the resistance we Are putting up is not new to us. Our fathers used it against the germans. And now the russians have taken the place of the germans in our he pointed to posters showing a Swastika and russian Star superimposed and the Symbol for the dreaded German is hitlers elite guard scrawled Over the . Using classic tricks of the French resistance against the nazis the czechoslovak overnight turned their country into a Jungle of towns and streets with no names and Road signs. From the Northwest Corner of Czechoslovakia to Ceske Velenick on the austrian Border this reporter did not see a single Cross roads with Highway markers giving Correct directions. They were either reversed blanked out or replaced with a a Moscow in russians cyrillic lettering. Near Karloy vary anyone following the signs to Prague wound up at the German Border. Not a map was on Sale. Even in the Center of Prague soviet tank Drivers huddled Over their charts with bewail de red looks. Weather f air and quite Cool again tonight with lows in 40s and Low 50s. Mostly sunny and a Little warmer thursday with highs in the 70s to Low 80s. Dubcek the party Leader and president Ludvik Svoboda tuesday for czechoslovak understanding while they work to end the occupation. Reformist sources said that Dubcek has been asked to deny rumours he yielded to soviet demands to declare the special 14th party Congress illegal tin Congress met secretly last Wek and elected a Liberal Central committee replacing one that still included a Strong conservative Wing. Informants said there was growing opinion that Dubcek should be voted Gnu of office if he confirmed the Rumor. This could result in two rival Central committees with reformists holding membership in both. Despite Youthful protests and widespread resentment most czechoslovak appeared to be heeding their leaders pleas not to provoke the occupation troops. Soviet tanks remained in inconspicuous positions while Road Crews repaired the damage caused by soviet tanks and cleared sidewalks of debris. A thousand youths demonstrated in Prague tuesday night against their governments agreement to the stationing of soviet troops in the country and the curtailment of the new freedoms. A we do not want a com Promise we want to know the truth a they shouted. Some underground radio sin. Tons broadcasting from secret locations demanded that the Accord be rejected. A we refuse to recognize the agreement a the broadcasts said. A a let us not be humiliated or knuckle a crowd in Prague a Wenceslas Square Tore Down pictures of the reformist leaders who since january had led the coun try away from 20 years of stalinist Type Rule but now have to reimpose restrictions under the pressure of 350,000 soviet bloc occupation troops. But along with these outbursts the reaction of Many others was one of angry Resig. Nation. An occasional shot was heard in Prague during the night but on the whole the City was quiet. Back from four Days of negotiations in Moscow czechoslovak communist party chief Alexander Dubcek called in a broadcast for Trust a even if we shall have to carry out some special temporary measures restricting the degree of democratization the Freedom of speech we have already achieved. But i am asking you to realize the times we live Dubcek said the occupation troops will be pulled Back from towns and villages to special areas. He appealed to the population not to Start any sort of Campaign against them a be cause the final aim of our Active. Cities is to achieve tile full Depar Ture of the armies As soon As the communique after the Moscow talks said the troops would leave when a the situation in Czechoslovakia there was no indication of any target Date. Armed soviet soldiers armoured cars and tanks still guarded key places in Prague today but had withdrawn from the Bridges across the Vltava River and from around government and communist party buildings. Teddy draft War Plank l ight loom they win marching off with top Hon major Competition at the St Ai test tuesday at the new York in Syracuse was this team Felt Academy and t a re Duel i and s photos by Sim mid Story Oil Pahi Raj school they Are Rich i la Gyles. M Teon the scene photographer Casey Jones the majors lbs View nearly endorses Hubert Austin Tex. Apr presi Dent Johnson while declaring a hands Oft attitude toward the work of the democratic National convention has edged close to an indirect endorsement of vice president Hubert h. Humphrey. Meeting with newsmen at an informal Goth birthday party Here tuesday night Johnson said he hoped the views of the democratic and Republican presidential candidates a will not be too divergent so the world wont have to wait until the november election to assess the nations future course. With Vietnam and foreign policy obviously uppermost in his mind Johnson a statement was widely interpreted As meaning he would prefer a Humphrey nomination though he carefully had some kind words too for the vice presidents principal rivals Sens. Eugene j. Mccarthy and George Mcgovern. Republican nominee Richard m. Nixon is on record with Viet Nam views much closer to those of Johnson and Humphrey than either Mccarthy or Mcgovern. The president passed up a Chance to Fly to Chicago for a birthday Salute it the convention. But he said he might go later after candidates have been nominated. The president to nominating is set for wedge Day tile vice presidential selecting for thursday. For his birthday Johnson and wife lady Bird joined their daughter Luci Nugent and grandson Patrick Nugent to Cut a Small cake and open gifts at tile Nugent Home Here. That a where newsmen saw him. Then the first family flew to the lbs ranch 65 Miles West where they were joined by their other daughter Lynda Robb for a country style birthday dinner topped off but homemade peach ice Cream an i Angel food cake. Both Johnson sons in Law Are on Active duty in Vietnam arid the. President after being asked to state one birthday wish said a i guess id like for All of our boys to but Able to Lay Down their arms and come Home and live in dignity without As his 13-Inonth-old grandson romped at his feet Johnson remarked that it would have been wonderful had the child Sta. Tiler airman Patrick i. Nugent been Able to leave Vietnam lie Hind and join the rest of the family. Talking dont the 1j convention Johnson been watching it on and found it exciting ally pleasing. Democrats done to always think alike lie said but he predicted party Harmony once the Job of the nominating Parley is completed. As for his own convention role tie said he had none that he had no emissaries Iii Chicago was receiving no private reports from the convention City and did not intend to get involved. Johnson bowed in the direction of Mccarthy and Mcgovern by saying they shared his Domestic policy views and that on their voting record were with i in in foreign policy too. Chic co tip a vice president Hubert ii. Humphrey faced i democratic convention revolt Onvy Etna in policies today As he a a a in d a it inn reach of the Par tvs presidential nomination As Humphrey moved within i in Lites of the 1,312 needed for no Lunation backers of his two major opponents sons. Eugene j. Mccarthy my George min til merged their efforts Early today and forced a it tidal delay in tile showdown Battle it ver Iii a party a Vietnam Poliey the convention suddenly and to turned after meeting seven hours when Lac o it tubers of delegates started shouting and hand clapping when Reading is tried it of the propos d platform Plank recommending continuing policies set by presid tit Job i son and Humphrey. Mccarthy startled soul of his follow to tuesday when he told editors of the Knight newspaper group that Ile thought Hun prey had wrapped up the nomination. Later. I Meta thy spokesman de Iii Ltd that the mum Visota senator had conceded and said he upended to continue fighting. While talk hts i St Al in an Effort to draft sen. Edw ird m. Kennedy the 36-year-old m Issa re Isetts sea or moved to end it by issuing a sat Quot in att through his Washington office saying he would be unable to accept the presidential nomination a of it a personal my family and remedy called on those pressing the draft movement on the flours and corridors of the International amphitheatre and Iii downtown hotels a to cease All activity on my behalf so that tin convention can choose its nominee from among the capable and dedicated candidates already in Contention a Humphrey forces maintained their March of convention Victo ties in seating contests Over Southern delegations and the vie president picked Iii a Parade of endorsements from favorite son candidates in t seas Tennessee and South Carolina to push him very dose to the 1,312 votes ii tied for the nomination tonight. But tin invention Pace was imperilled when efforts to reach in critical Tea vote of hum cavalry Iii Battle As pc Shell Saigon Saigon apr american air cavalrymen battled a sizable enemy Force in the Jungle inf ii to ratio corridor Northwest of Saigon today while inside the capital Viet Cong rockets fell for the third time in two months killing three civilians and wounding five. . Headquarters said a stiff fight was under Way 34 Miles Northwest of tile South vietnamese capital and that so far 44 enemy soldiers had been killed. Jets helicopter gunships and artillery were supporting the troops of the 101st air Cav airy division who were battling in sweltering heat in an area of flooded Rice paddies and verdant Jungle just above a main Highway leading to Saigon. The Battle began slowly tues Day afternoon slackened during the night As flagships lit the darkness again today the Siz. Was not Al. Of casualty the fight sizable uni working t third major the year and grew in pitch of the enemy fora , but tile number s and the Tempo of indicated it was a that May have been Ard Saigon for the enemy offensive of hich the . Command is a ill expecting. Increasing numbers of Viet Cong and i me be Are known to ring in the North or from the cambo to Saigon 75 Miles North i be Mana West con Dian i lord away. The a it it was the to ton Abr of . Ordered cure the daily re the Cadiz it attack on Saigon i since Cen. Creigh. Assumed command is in mid june and missive efforts to St to after a period of to barrages against 800 troops guard dem it Chicago apr about 800 National guard troops sur rounded the democratic nation. A1 convention Headquarters hotel today As 2,500 Antiwar demonstrators defied a City Law that closes Parks from la . To 4 a. In. Deputy police supt. James Rochford said the guardsmen took Over Protection of the con. Rad Hilton hotel Only because Many of his police had been on duty 15 to 17 hours and were tired. But it was obvious that City officials were worried about the presence of hippies and the peace demonstrators most of whom had been routed from Lincoln Park with Clouds of tear Gas just after Midnight because they defied the same Law. Three Hundred police won the a Battle of Lincoln Park a and took firm Possession of their trash littered Battlefield by Sta. Honing Blue helmeted men eve. Ery few Hundred feet along its Southern Edge. Officials made no attempt however to use the same tear Gas tactics when most of the demonstrators moved four pm o Ike h Miles so util to Tell 11 to i there they joined demons i lion already in pro Gress ii. Rant Park jul it acres Fashio ii 1 t Michigan Avenir and in i ill View of in till Dele Gates i National to Ile Visio color it areas. Tut j night s line Oln Par confront Ion brought i in sign. Of the h. So police tactics of the night bet re when 21 i lews me were Clu bed or had their Cam eras is. Shed or their note taken a. Many Demotis tors Al were clubbed Monda right. Mss. A la or we father i Ltd son at mass it a Joseph Rev. Harry Wimer audios a Penn i teachings of various Roll it who Lias attended s churches gives his vie Page 3. Morning in Titer 32 it i spent his University s Iii St. Puu s Church is Uii Street where the summer vacation rom where he is studying a us Demon nations. Father of the world c amal of on Hopes for Church Unity on prey Mccarthy strength on the Vietnam Issue were forestalled by the shouting demonstration to adjourn and reconvene it i . Edt today. A i think it was probably settled More than 24 hours ago a Mcca thy said. Tin stunned Mccarthy supporters rushed out a statement saying the Minnesota senator was Only being a bit philosophical. Richard m. Goodwin a top aide said Mccarthy had asked him to say a the has not conceded defeat in the nomination in the interview Mccarthy estimated it would 1� too late for even the younger Kennedy last of the Brothers to Stop Humphrey. Fresh talk of a draft Effort swirled tuesday after a meeting by California Assembly speaker Jesse m. Unruh with Mccarthy Aud Mcgovern. An urn la Aid said it session Vas arranged to a see whether some common front can be put together til favor of soul peace it was reported Unruh suggests the two contenders drop a nit and throw their weight behind Kennedy. There was no indication that they agreed. Nevertheless California reserved in and an a a the right to place a name in nomination on tonight a roil Call. President Johnson who has stayed away from his party a convention gave Humphrey an informal boost whip celebrating his 60.h birthday tuesday. Johnson Saki ii Hopes the views of the Democrat and Republican nominees a will not be too divergent so the world would have to wait until novem Ber to know which Way the nation will go. The platform committees proposed Plank on parallels la Imper Eye a viewpoint and administration policies in linking a Call for ii Ait in All bombing of North Vietnam w the a response from Hanoi. Antiwar forces have pressed a substitute approach calling for a Complete bombing halt without any conditions and urging a cutback Iii . Military activity in South Vietnam. A Quot by delegates chanting a a let a go Home lets go Home a forced the breakup of the con vent Ion before reaching a vote Onvy Etnan. C invention chairman rep. Carl Albert of Oklahoma re Fust a to it the first motion to adjourn and Antiwar Dele gales drowned out the efforts of the next scheduled speaker to be heard even though he was Allied with them. Chicago mayor Richard j. Daley the convention Host shouted threats to Clear the convention galleries. He r ared a hat he would not stand for a eth balconies trying to take Over this at Alberto a invitation Daley Mal the motion to adjourn. Mccarthy and m gov i for to hit old the adjournment As a Victory. Mcgovern aids Frank Mankiewicz press Secre tary to the late sen. Robert f Ken Udy shouted jubilantly a we have la hours to get 8 votes a and said the insurgent were tha close to winning their platform Battle. Iii downtown Chicago nation a1 guard troops armed with i aes surrounded the hotel when Mccarthy and Humphrey a staying to guard it against dem Nitra tors after polio used Tea to flush hundreds if anti a protesters from a lakefront Pari for the second straight night. Humphrey continued to Wii floor Battles upholding the dec sinus of the credentials com Muttee to set the regular Ala Bania and North Carolina Del Gallons and to split the Georgi votes evenly Between party re ulars my i biracial group c challengers. Bul tout hem favorite soc toppled ilk tenpin u Ider Prei sure from the Humphrey Cam to deliver most of their delegations. The vice president Cash in on Dixie sentiment that i was less objectionable Asti party a Nom tie than eith Mccarthy or Mcgovern. Today a chuckle advice to shaggy teen agers help keep America Beautiful get a haircut

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