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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - December 10, 1968, Norwich, New York The evening Sun vol. 78, no. 178 tuesday december to 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10$ per copy Clifford foresees Quick pullout of despite Bug shot is set a leaking valve halted the 102-hour practice countdown for the Apollo 8 Mission just two hours before it was scheduled to be completed. Crews have begun rerunning the final nine hours of the countdown. The National aeronautics and space administration said the trouble would not affect the scheduled dec. 21 Blastoff of Apollo 8 with its three Man Crew to Circle the Moon. The leak was in a heat exc Hartger valve on the launch pad service Tower. Inside the capsule astronauts Anders Lovell and Borman from left share close quarters. Borman is commander of the Apollo 8 Mission Lovell command module Pilot and Anders lunar module Pilot. Karl Barth Kennedy Kin is considered Dies top theologian Nixon sch in seat Basel Switzerland apr Karl Barth one of tile worlds leading protestant theologians died Early today at his Home in Basel. A native of Basel Barth was praised As the most creative protestant theologian since John Calvin. He also was variously damned As a heretic a narrow minded Bibl Cist and an atheist in disguise but even some of his critics called him a the most monumental appearance in our he gave the world of religious thought to fat tomes elaborating a formidable and intricate protestantism that stressed the spiritual nature of True religion a Faith in Christ the Church of Christ and the Bible As his witness. As a Young minister in world War i Barth published his first Bombshell in 1918. His a epistle to the romans was a scathing attack on the dominant a a Liberal theology of the Day. As a scholar and later a teacher Barth had Little time for politics a fundamentally uninteresting a until 1933 after Hitler established the third Reich. Then a professor at the University of Bonn he repeatedly attacked nazism until he was arrested tried found guilty of a seducing the minds of German students and expelled from Germany in 1935. New York a presi Dent elect Nixon apparently is determined to appoint a big name Democrat As . Ambassador to the United nations and a source in the Nixon Camp indicated today the Job would go to Sargent Shriver. Shriver currently ambassador to France flew Here hurriedly and conferred with Nixon for More than two hours sunday. On monday Shriver then went to Washington where he met with his brother in Law sen. Edward m. Kennedy a mass. Then he returned to new York where he boarded an air France plane Back to Paris. At Kennedy Airport he delayed the flight for several minutes while he made Telephone Calls to other members of the Kennedy family. Asked if he would remain As an ambassador in the Nixon administration Shriver said a that would be a Good question to ask the Shriver said he did not have time to answer other questions. Ronald l. Ziegler Nixon a press spokesman announced last week that vice president Hubert h. Humphrey had de dined a firm offer from Nixon for the . Post. Ziegler declined to comment Sargent Shriver on the possibility that Shriver now was in line for the . Job but a source close to Nixon hinted strongly that such was the Case. Recent tradition has been for envoys to the United nations to represent the same political Faith As the president. However former president Harry s. Truman a Democrat chose a prominent Vermont Republican sen. Warren Austin to be . Ambassador during his administration which encompassed the earliest years of the world organizations history. Nixon meanwhile joked monday night that he May be getting the Hong Kong flu but was described As Only a sneezing a Little and fit for a National Tele vision radio appearance wednesday in Washington to announce his Cabinet. Addressing the Board of directors of tile boys clubs of America Nixon said he knew his audience would like to learn about the members of his Cabinet but that he would withhold the disclosure until wednesday assuming he was not coming Down with the flu. Ziegler later said the president elect was joking and despite some sneezing had no doubt about going through with the nationwide broadcast. Nixon said that his decision to announce All 12 Cabinet choices at once was a something that a unprecedented or at least unprecedented in recent in addressing the boys club Board which he headed for four years Nixon said it was his Hope that a Way could be found to Channel some of the social welfare funds of the Federal government through private Volun tary organizations of that kind. Elected officials grand jury drops Powell probe should have say on poverty Spiro new Orleans apr vice president elect Spiro t. Agnew says elected officials not the poor should have the final word on policies and priorities in the nations poverty programs. A let us not see an absence of compassion in an insistence on competence a the Maryland governor told More than 3,000 officials of the nations cities monday. A let us encourage participation of the poor where they can make an effective contribution. A but let us not confuse the disclosure of symptoms As a substitute for the Wisdom of trained professionals. There is ample Opportunity and need for a Agnew a luncheon speaker at the annual Congress of cities said both state and local govern ments at times a have been Short circuited by an increasing disturbing trend of Federal Aid Grants to non governmental weather fair and cold again tonight with lows from around Zero to to below a few colder spots. Wednesday fair Washington apr a fed Era grand jury investigation of Adam Clairton Powell has been dropped but a congressional opponent says he still will seek to bar the Harlem Democrat from reclaiming his House seat. The Justice department said tuesday night it had let the grand jury expire without recommending that it indict Powell on charges of misusing some $40,000 in Public funds. A available evidence did not warrant prosecution a the department said. It added however that it was studying the possibility of a civil action to recover the funds. Powell was not immediately available for comment. Powell was excluded from the 90th Congress March i 1967. The House in a 278-to-176 vote went further than the recommendation by a select nine Man committee that he be censured. He was accused of using pub lie funds for his own pleasure keeping his wife on the congressional payroll while pocketing her salary and making private airline trips at government expense. The grand jury investigation had been going on for 18 months. The length of the investigation had prompted some congressmen to say privately that failure to hand up an indictment would Clear the Way for Powell to take his seat in the next Congress. The exclusion did not carry Over and Powell won his usual landslide re election nov. 5. Rep. H. R. Gross a Iowa said tuesday night the Lack of an indictment would not affect his intention to try to Block seat ing Powell. A there will be a number of others opposed to him a Gross said. He declined however to estimate opposition strength or to name any of those opposed. It takes the objection of Only one member to require a Roll Call vote on seating Powell. The supreme court has agreed to hear Powell a suit against the House in which he says it acted unconstitutionally. The court however gave no indication when it took the Case nov. 18 whether it would act before the 91st Congress convenes Jan. 3. Washington a Secretary of defense Clark m. Clifford said today he Hopes that enough Progress can be made in the Paris peace talks during the next 40 Days that the United states and North Vietnam could agree to a Mutual withdrawal of troops from South Vietnam. The defense chief said he believes the Opportunity exists in Paris for such an agreement and a i would like to see in the next 40 Days the Start of tile return of american troops from South in of says bombings doubled Paris apr the Viet congas National liberation front charged today that since president Johnson ordered the bombing of North Vietnam halted the number of . B52s bombing South Vietnam has doubled and the number of the b52 sorties has tripled. Elf spokesman Duong Dinh thao told a news conference the b52 attacks prove that the . Government is a continuing to intensify the he claimed that the giant . Strategic bombers dropped More than i too tons of bombs near Danang monday and a killed Many old people women and children wit i Poison Gas Ami chemical if the United states and the government continue to pursue the War Ami obstruct the peace talks he declared they a will suffer Ever greater defeats on the Battlefield and the struggle of the South vietnamese population temporarily under the Saigon administration will develop with Ever greater intern thao also renewed the Elf a a attack on South vietnamese vice president Nguyen Cao by likening him to Hitler As another Elf sign of Kernan did monday. The communists deliberately chose a Viet Cong spokesman for their first full dress attack on the newly arrived South vietnamese envoys. The symbolism of this timing a with the Elf spearheading the communist presentation ahead of North Vietnam a delegation was not lost on the South vietnamese. For in the diplomatic jockeying Over the War s main issues who is to control South Vietnam the communists contend that the Elf is the authentic representative of the South vietnamese people and thus the proper Agency to Deal with the Saigon regime. Kyd a government does riot recognize the Elf which it considers a tool of the North vietnamese and says it will Deal Only with Hanoi. The North vietnamese reject this approach. The Wrangle is reflected in the preliminary negotiations Over these Points of procedure a what will be the order of speaking at the first four delegation session the United states and South Vietnam do not want the Elf to seem to get precedence Over Saigon. A what shape will the negotiating table be the communists want a Square table whose four equal sides would signify equal status for the Elf with the other three delegations. The americans and the South vietnamese want a rectangular table symbolizing two delegations the United states and South Vietnam on one Side North Vietnam and the Elf on the other. Clifford said in response to close questioning at a news conference however he did not mean to imply that troops Are indeed about to lie withdrawn. He said this will depend on How die Paris negotiations proceed. A i wish to create the impression that it is my personal desire that such Progress can be made in Paris. That we would be Able to reach in agreement so there would be a Mutual withdrawal of troops a Clifford said. At the same time Clifford said it is possible the North vietnamese plan to proceed with a Winter military offensive in South Vietnam although a it is too Early to Clifford said Gen. Creighton w. Abrams . Commander in Vietnam is preparing for such an offensive in Case the North vietnamese a choose to go this Clifford also said it is also Likely the Pentagon will have to request supplemental funds for its fiscal 1969 budget of $72 billion. His disclosure of possible need for additional defense Money came As he reported that the Pentagon has now met congressionally required spending cuts of $3 billion for this budget year. Clifford said the cuts were shared this Way by the services army $900 million Navy $992 million air Force $928 million and the various defense agencies $180 million. Clifford would not say How these spend my cuts leaves the 1969 spending total but he spoke of budget pressures which have Arisen. Enemy Steps up fighting shells bases fires towns governor Rockefeller Rock Feller plans to seek fourth term new York apr gov. Nelson a. Rockefeller says he intends to run for a fourth term As governor primarily to Complete major Urban development programs which he started. A i am planning to run again in 1970 unless something intervenes in the meantime a Rockefeller said monday. A a in be got these things going a the governor said a the Urban development corp., the metropolitan transportation authority and the ant pollution programs that Are ready to help the cities and the state and i want to leave the $6 billion Urban development program has Broad slum rebuilding Powers. The programs Rockefeller continued a a Haven to yet been realized and they might never be realized if i done to follow them Rockefeller discussed his Urban programs monday morning in a speech before the 45th an Nual Congress of the National league of cities in new Orleans. He flew Back to new York later in the Day aboard his private plane. Saigon apr Viet Cong and North vietnamese troops battled american infantrymen at two Points North of Saigon monday shelled a dozen bases and towns during the night and burned Down 125 Homes in two undefended hamlets in the Central Highlands military spokes men reported today. The ground fighting was on familiar battlegrounds along the Jungle routes leading toward Saigon. A total of 16 americans and 59 of the enemy were reported killed in the two enc Oun. Ters and 19 americans were wounded. The heaviest fighting paged in Dusty underbrush and towering forests about 60 Miles North of Saigon and Only four Miles from an Loc a key provincial capital. About Iso troops from the . 1st air cavalry division were out looking for troops of the North vietnamese 7th division when they came under intense fire from Well fortified bunkers. A it was close in fighting a said a . Spokesman. . Air Force dive bombers came to the Ald of the air cavalrymen and 45 of the enemy were reported killed in the Daylong fight. But 14 of the american soldiers were killed and 17 were wounded. About 25 Miles North Northwest of Saigon . Infantry men and an armoured column from the 25th division clashed with enemy troops while on a sweep. At least 14 enemy bodies were found afterwards Cut Down by fire from armoured personnel carriers helicopter gunships and artillery. Two americans were killed and two wounded and a communist defector scouting for the american infantrymen also was killed. . Intelligence sources say tile enemy has 15,000 to 25,000 troops deployed along a i of mile stretch of the cambodian Bor Der. A it could be he has As Many As 30,000,�?� the source said a a but i done to think in the Central Highlands Viet Cong or North vietnamese sol Liers entered two undefended hamlets 18 Miles West of Loiku burned Down 125 Homes of the Mountain tribesmen known As Mont guards and abducted one Hamlet chief and four other officials. The Monta guards often fight under the leadership of the . Special forces and their Homes May have been burned As a warning. The . Command also an flounced that antiaircraft missiles tile soviet Sams were fired at a . Navy photo reconnaissance plane and its Jet fighter escorts Over the North vietnamese City of trill monday but a fall aircraft successfully evaded tile Sams and re. Turned it was the third time since the bombing of North Vietnam was halted nov. I that Sams have been reported fired it american reconnaissance planes and their escorts. One plane was damaged by a missile that exploded near it but the Pilot made it Back to his Carrier. Earlier the . Command had announced that an air Force reconnaissance phantom was shot Down monday by antiaircraft fire about 55 Miles North of the demilitarized zone. The two crewmen ejected into the Tonkin Gulf and a helicopter picked them up. It was the fourth american plane shot Down Over North Vietnam since the bombing halt. . Headquarters also announced that two More american helicopters were shot Down monday in widely separated areas of South Vietnam. Two crewmen were wounded. The losses raised to 952 the number of american combat helicopters shot flown Over South Vietnam since Jan. 1,19g1. Scranton raises Arab Hopes Beirut a William w. Scranton a tour of the Middle East has raised Arab Hopes that the Nixon administration May be More sympathetic to the arabs than the Johnson administration was. When the former governor of Pennsylvania arrived in the Arab world last week on a fac finding tour for president elect Nixon he said he foresaw a no immediate Basic change in . Policy toward the Middle East. But when he crossed the Allenby Bridge into Israel monday he said american policy impostor May have Day in court Washington a the Walter Mitty of Washington courtrooms May be headed for his most glorious Day a Chance to argue the Law with the nine justices of the supreme court. And there is nothing Daniel Jackson Oliver Wendel Holmes Morgan likes to do More than argue the Law. For years in Chicago and then in the nations capital Morgan argued criminal cases in courts. Four of his clients were in the deepest of trouble they were under death sentences. And then in 1961, it was Dis covered that lawyer Morgan was an impostor. Off he went to Federal prison on a 3-to-Lo year sentence for forgery perjury fraud and false pretences. Morgan was such a Good Pris. Oner at Leavenworth that he was released last May. But he did no to lose ills taste for litigation. While in Hie Kansas prison he sued the Warden John t. Will Ingham and the chief medical officer c. A. Jarvis for $3,265,000. Morgan claimed they caused him to be inoculated with a a deleterious foreign substance serum of drug and tottered clubbed and choked him. Since Leavenworth is a Feder-a1 prison the Case normally would be handled by a Federal court. But morgans skill still Sharp he convinced Hie . Circuit court in Denver he had a right to try to bring the Case into state court presumably where he thought head have a better Chance. This sent . Solicitor general Erwin n. Griswold appealing to the supreme court saying the Law had been turned though Morgan in a highly professional reply opined Hie Justice department was a exaggerating a tile court on monday decided to hear the Case. Should be a More a the United states must take into consideration the feelings of All persons and countries in the Middle East and not necessarily one country Over another a Scranton told newsmen in Jerusalem. Authoritative sources said Nixon a envoy considered his Mission a a completely new Start not bound by president Johnson a five Point Middle East peace they add. De Scranton was emphasizing his Complete Independence from current White House and state department policies. Leaders of the Arab nations have guarded Hopes that Nixon will put pressure on Israel to accept a settlement based on the . Resolution of nov. 22, 1967. The Resolution called for withdrawal of israeli troops from Arab territory in return for an end to Arab belligerency and free navigation for israeli shipping through the Suez canal and the Strait of tiran. Prospects for. Peaceful set Lemerit of the protracted crisis in the Middle East now seem to hinge on israelis readiness to make concessions but the israelis have Given no indication that they Are prepared to do so. Short of what they Call a abject surrender Egypt and Jor Dan say they can give Little More. They have accepted the . Resolution. Egypt also is reported willing to accept a re. Turn of a . Peace Force to the Sinai desert and the Shore of the tiran Strait. Both Egypt and Jordan have rejected a reported american peace plan providing for each Arab nation to Settle with Israel separately. Today s chuckle the big trouble with Many teen agers transistor radios is that they Are both a. Ii. And p. In. Shopping Days til Christmas

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