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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - July 22, 1968, Norwich, New York The e veni Sun vol. 78, no. 79 monday july 22, 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10c per cop come to Moscow czech ruler told Moscow apr the soviet communist party today rejected the defense by czechoslovak party leaders of their Liberal course and demanded again that the leaders in Prague come to the soviet Union for a show. Down meeting today or tues Day. Reports from Prague indicated the demand for a meeting on soviet soil would be rejected. The czechoslovak leaders were reported willing to meet their soviet critics but Only on their own territory. Pravda rejected the Prague leadership a denial last week of charges made against it by the Warsaw meeting of the soviet Union and its four hard line a1-Liss-East Germany Poland Bulgaria and Hungary. The soviet party paper accused the czechoslovak leaders of playing Down the threat to the communist system in Czechoslovakia. It warned that the soviet Union regards the de. Lense of communism every where in the East bloc As its business. Echoing the charges of the Warsaw meeting pravda said the a right Wing anti socialist forces in Czechoslovakia encouraged and supported by imperialist reaction Are bringing matters to a liquidation of the guiding role of in party in society to the socialist state to the restoration is order. They i. The mass Media to Dio and television ing them for anti a Uganda trying to the soviet Union Calist czechs on i r agreed that Czecho communist undermining Kiel system the capital pc captured e press a. Id Are us i Alist prop i hatred for id other soles streets communist party chief Alexander Dubcek should not go to Russia to meet tile soviet party leaders. A a Dubcek give in a a said a girl student. A we re with him All the Way. If they want something let them come the reply to the russian invitation was believed being delayed until All the 16,000 russian soldiers who took part in Warsaw pact Maneu vers that ended june 30 have the country. By sunday the Day they were officially scheduled to leave most of the russians were re ported in Eastern Slovakia presumably in route Home. It appeared that All of them could not be out of the country before wednesday even if there were no More delays. Czechoslovak Interior minister Josef Pavel denied reports published in soviet and bulgarian newspapers of new arms caches found in Czechoslovakia near the polish Border. He said in a statement broadcast by Prague radio that there was general belief a Cache discovered earlier near the West German Border we As put there by someone trying to Embarrass the new leadership. Humphrey rejects proposal to quit vice presidency Cincinnati Ohio apr two democratic governors have told Hubert in Humphrey he needs a dramatic political initiative to enlist new supporters arid accelerate his White House campaigns and one of them suggested that the move be his resignation As vice president. Gov. Philip la. Hoff of ver Inonu said he suggested Resigna. Tion to Humphrey As a Declara Tion of political Independence from president Johnson and the administration. He said he told Humphrey his major Campaign problem is that a you can t be your own Many while serving As vice president. But he said Humphrey replied he could not resign the Job to which he was elected. Hoff and Kenneth m. Curtis of Maine both former supporters of the late sen. Robert f. Ken Nedy for the democratic nomination met secretly with the vice president Iii Washington one week ago. They told of that meeting in interviews at a National governors conference marked by talk of sen. Edward m. Kennedy As a potent Choice for second spot on a ticket headed by Humphrey. Curtis who did not join in Hoff s suggestion that Humphrey resign said Kennedy a nomination for vice president might provide the drama and Appeal he believes tile Humphrey Campaign now needs. While Hoff and Curtis talked critically of the Humphrey Cain pain they did not translate this into any hint of support for the vice president s chief rival Minnesota sen. Eugene j. My earthy. Hoff said lie is uncommitted added a i have been stewing be. Cause i love Hubert Curtis said he leans toward support of Humphrey for the nomination. They said Humphreys Tiomi nation is not inevitable but both expressed reservations about Mccarthy. A perhaps in be been around politics just too Long to be too idealistic a Curtis said a be. Cause i think ifs going to take More than just an expression of ideals Itiat sen. Mccarthy has to run the a there is a certain remoteness about him a Hoff said of Mccarthy a and i guess i would Call it a Lack of republicans were talking of tile White House race too but there was no sign of significant movement by or for their prospective nominees. The latest arrival California gov. Ronald Reagan who came to Cincinnati from a Campaign style Southern swing and said lie would not be announcing Active candidacy for the gop nomination. A i could t possibly make a change on that at this time a he said. A a a Well go to the convention and then ifs up to the and the political gents of Richard m. Nixon now the Republican front runner kept watch on the proceedings claimed they have enough i convention support to win the nomination now and made Public a series of polls indicating Nixon would defeat Humphrey in four major Eastern and midwestern states. Pc bomb Saigon theater in possible raid prelude j -. or goes along for the ride balancing act in South i Tonani solves this woman a transportation problem. She gae the photographer a fleeting glance As she went about ice business in a Small Village about 12 Miles South of Quad Tri City. Fortas nomination delay holding up Thor ii Berry s 40 injured As tent collapses at festival Milwaukee wis. A a giant show tent filled to capacity for a festival music pro Gram collapsed in a wind storm sunday night scattering a crowd of 2,600 persons. Officials said about 40persons were treated at hospitals for injuries none serious. Most of the victims were teen agers struck by falling tent poles. Surveyed Cis favor gun Laws Saigon apr an informal Survey among american combat troops whose lives depend on their weapons shows a Strong sentiment for moderate to Strong gun control Laws in the United states. But at the same time most of the gis interviewed on Saigon Souter defense perimeter said they thought Short of confiscation controls would do Little to Cut Down on gun deaths. Spec. 5 Jerry Ballard of Kan Sas City mo., said a a in a a member of the National Rifle association Era and in a against confiscation. But i think mandatory registration of weapons is Okay. A gun is no differ ent from a car As far As that goes. And stopping mail order sales is a Good la. Alfred pick of Dallas tex., said proposed gun Laws seemed a a ridiculous. Crooks and assassins can always get a gun whether it is registered or pick said he was not opposed to reasonable gun Laws. Weather Chance of scattered thundershowers late this afternoon and Early tonight Low temperatures in upper 50s and lower 60s. Tuesday fair to partly Cloudy with seasonable temperatures night in upper 70s and lower 80s. An estimated 20 other persons were treated at a first Aid Sta Tion. Police spectators and show officials said there generally was Little sign of panic As sup oort poles toppled into the tightly packed crowd and Sparks showered from overhead electric equipment. One woman said the audience was watching a band about to Start the program when a fall of a sudden the wind came underneath the tent and it started flying up releasing the poles. One of the injured miss Mary Pointek 15, said she heard a a howling noise and a big ripping above me. The poles started swaying Back and Forth. I thought it was All part of the show at first. All of a sudden everything collapsed around witnesses said the winds accompanying a line of Thunder storms lifted the Canvas twice before it collapsed and cloaked about half the seating area. Police said most of the Audi ence got Clear of the wreckage within 15 minutes but that Many people were still Ventan. Led in rope and Canvas 45 min. Utes later. The tent covering an area larger than a football Field had been erected at a Lake Michigan shopfront Park for a series of programs during the City s summer fest 38, keyed to youth activities. Steven Thorpe of Chicago a trumpet player with the new Colony six which was begin Ning its performance said a pole a a hit me in the Side of the head and knocked me off the a few persons said they thought they saw funnel shaped Clouds Over Lake Michigan. But the weather Bureau said there were no twisters in the storm that swept the state. Washington a the likelihood that the Senate wont act until september on the nomination of Abe Fortas As chief Justice appears to have reduced chances of Quick consideration of president Johnson a other supreme court appointment Horner Thornberry As associate Justice. Sen. James o. Eastland chairman of the Senate judiciary committee said Thornberry probably would be dismissed after questioning today by sen. Sam j. Ervin jr., d-n.c., and a few other committee members then recalled a after the Fortas matter is determined by the Eastland d-miss., said several committee members oppose acting further on Thornberry because they feel there wont be a vacancy for him to fill until Fortas Elevation from associate Justice to chief Justice is confirmed. Many senators refuse even to question Thornberry until then Eastland said. The conservative Liberty in Job by meanwhile introduced Strong opposition to Continua Tion of Fortas to succeed retiring chief just Earl Warren. W. B. Hicks jr., the lobby a executive Secretary in prepared testimony assailed what he called Justice Fortas record of permissiveness toward com. Munis in crime and corruption. Hicks also called Fortas a a fixer who tried to keep the Walter Jenkins and Bobby Bak. Or cases from embarrassing the Johnson administration. Eastland said he will Call a committee meeting this week to consider the Fortas nomination but Senate leaders said floor action probably will not come until after labor Day because of a Long recess for political Convene tons. A it looks that Way a said sen ate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield. He said a Senate session is not Likely to be sandwiched Between the Republican National convention starting aug. 5 and the democratic convention to begin aug. 26. One of the senators saying he would not question Thornberry until Fortas is confirmed was sen. Strom Thurmond r-s.c., who is among gop senators threatening to filibuster conf or ablation of both president Johnson a supreme court nominees. They contend the appoint ments should be made by the new president in january and some have accused Johnson of a a cronyism for nominating for tas and Thorn Pierry to eth close friends of his. Five policemen Hurt in Coney Island juror Ray arraignment awaiting new York apr a Rock and bottle throwing attic k on a patrol car at Coney Island prompted a second straight night of battling late sunday Between police and youths of the Brooklyn amusement and Beach area. At least five policemen were reported Hurt not seriously and eight persons were arrested. In a no related incident in another part of the City a bar was firebombed Early today and one Man seriously burned. About 80 per cent of the 40,000 persons living ii the area of co. Ney where the trouble entered Are either negroes or puerto i cans. Police said sunday nights battling began Wile youths pelted a passing patrol car with rocks and bottles. Both occupants patrolman Roger Swan son and David Kadel were injured police said. Other police Sou tit to make arrests for the attack and said an unruly crowd some standing on tenement roofs along Mer maid Avenue near 25th Street began throwing More missiles and som Quot firebombs at officers. Reinforcements from the lot trained tactical patrol Force moved into tile area and brought the disorder to a halt shortly before Midnight. Topf patrolmen also closed in on an area of the East Village in lower Manhattan Early today following the tavern firebombing and a barrage of Beer containers hurled from windows onto ninth Street. Police reported the situation there under control by 2 30 a. In. They picked up four men for questioning in the tavern fire in which customer John Dorsey 31, of Jarsey City n.j., suffered Burns on both legs and w a listed in serious condition at Bellevue Hospital. Dorsey lives at 170 Newkirk St. Police said. Police said tile first of five Molotov cocktails was tossed onto the bars floor it 10 30 . Followed by the other four at about i . Said j on apr a new wave of Viet Cong terrorism hit sat gon and two provincial capitals sunday killing 13 vietnamese and wounding 92. Intelligence sources have said terrorist attacks might precede the threatened third major enemy offensive of the year but the Lull in the ground War still continued. Twelve vietnamese were killed and 91 wounded in the weekend bombing of four Heaters one of them Only a Block from National police Headquarters in Saigon. A Large explosive charge set off outside the Sai Glon theater killed four persons and wounded 52. Also in Saigon a minor official was assassinated and a 17-year-old boy seriously wounded. A hand grenade was thrown into a group of militiamen watching a travelling troupe perform in Phu Cuong a provincial capital 15 Miles North of Saigon. Four persons were killed and 23 wounded including two of the performers. Terrorists set off bombs outside two Heaters in Ben tre another provincial capital in the Mekong Delta 50 Miles Southeast of Salvion. Government Headquarters said four persons were killed and 16 wounded. Vietnamese informants say at least 1,000 Viet Cong troops have infiltrated the capital City in preparation for the third major offensive of the year expected within the next two months. Allied defences around Saigon were promised More reinforce Mants today with the arrival of the first contingent of a new infantry division from Thailand. Some 1,500 troops of Thailand a 12, Black Panther division arrived at the . Army a Newport port facility just North of the capital. The thai division will have a dual Mission to Block enemy infiltration into Saigon from the Northeast where elements of the North vietnamese 5th division Are said to be based and to smash Viet Cong guerrilla bands in Bien Hoa province East of the capital easing the threat of enemy harassment against Allied military installations there. Along the Northern Frontier an outnumbered . Marine Force hurled Back a North vietnamese battalion near Khe Sanh sunday. The enemy opened up with mortars before launching a ground probe at dusk . Headquarters said. While Marine artillery pounded the North vietnamese the defending marines unleashed heavy automatic weapons fire. When the fighting died Down two hours later the leathernecks counted 12 enemy bodies outside their positions and reported to of their own men wounded. East of Khe Sanh near con Thien Marine fighter pilots and artillery wiped out most of a 30-min North vietnamese unit that was spotted moving in an open area. The . Command reported 22 North vietnamese bodies were found. South vietnamese forces re ported killing to Viet Cong and capturing 21 others during sweep through the Mekong Delta 70 Miles Southwest of Saigon. Government losses were put at three dead and seven wounded. The South vietnamese uncovered a sizeable weapons Cache that included 30 Bazooka Type rockets 59 mortar rounds 70 blocks of int 3,000 pounds of Rifle ammunition and 25 rounds of 7mm recoilless Rifle ammunition. . Marines in the Northern provinces reported ius covering two caches that included machine guns mortars 52 com plete 122mm artillery rockets 250 rounds of mortar ammunition and 140 Small rockets. New zealand infantrymen found 30 concealed mortar rounds on the outer fringes of Saigon. In the air War alive the de. Militarized zone Navy and air Force jets evaded surface to air missiles and other antiaircraft fire and hammered North Vietnam a Panhandle. Africans meeting f 1 on hunger threat Niamey niger apr representatives of Nigeria and secessionist Biafra have begun talks a1 mad at breaking the stalemate that is keeping fax gtd from millions of refugees threatened with starvation in the breakaway West african tribal state. The two delegations met sunday in Niamey the niger capital Northwest of Nigeria and agreed on an Agenda for peace talks getting under Way soon in Ethiopia. A communique issued after the conference said the delegates also discussed a Concrete proposals for the transportation of Relief to the civilian victims of tile there was no indication however of any Progress toward agreement on Relief measures. Another meeting was scheduled today. It was expected to discuss a starting Date for the peace conference in Addis Aba. A. Millions of persons Are on the verge of starvation and As Many As 1,200 persons Are said to be dying Dally in surrounded landlocked Biafra and in areas re captured by advancing Federal troops. Federal authorities have offered to open a land route for Relief shipments to Biafra. But the biafran have refused claiming Tho supplies might lie poisoned by their enemies. Meantime a handful of air planes have been flying food and Medicine into Biafra despite nigerian threats to shoot them Down but tills is not nearly enough. Sources at the talks Here indicated the delegates wore considering a proposal by the biafran Leader it. Col. Odimegwu Ojukwu for Relief supplies to be landed by sea at aguta Iii the niger River Delta and at the federally held City of port Harcourt and then for it to be sent North by demilitarized River routes. President a Maul dirt of niger chairman of the talks timing sponsored by the organization of african Unity also conferred with . A ambassador Robert Ryan and British charge d affaires e. Macmillan from the Ivory coast. Both countries have promised to assist Relief operations. Pope Paul i speaking at his summer residence outside Rome said sunday that Tho vat. Iran had hired air planes to Send food and Medicine to biafran. From Biafra associated press correspondent David Mazzarella reported the food situation is so bad that doctors at one Hospital ire telling outpatients to eat Bush rats lists Tutles Grasshoppers lizards snails and frogs. At the holy Rosary Mission Hospital Iii pm Kekuku he reported pal tracked babies Lay dying two in a bed older children and adults Walker around the wards in a Daze. On the morning newsmen visited the Hospital nurses tried to Waken three children and found Tilem Lead. Summit withered Early Fease fire Hope Austin tex., apr Prest Dent Johnson is enjoying a a Richerts respite in the Texas Hills after .-Vietnam Summit sessions that withered Hopes for any Early cease fire or even a let up in the vietnamese War president Nguyen Van Thieu of South Vietnam did see some Prospect nevertheless that his army a Power will grow to the Point of permitting what he termed a phasing out of some american military units one at Memphis Tenn apr maximum Security measures Are being maintained for James Earl Ray As he Waits in an air conditioned third floor jail cell for arraignment on a charge of assassinating or. Martin Luther King or. Rays lawyer Arthur Hanes has hinted that Ray May appear for arraignment in a closely guarded courtroom today. Hanes who like other Princi pals in the Ray cases is under a court order to restrict what he says about the trial told report. Era at a sunday news Confer ence to a expect an announce intent a today. Hanes did not indicate what plea Ray 40, might make to the indictment charging him with first degree murder in the april 4 slaying of King. Two year Oil a survived liver transplant Julie in new bout with cancer Denver Colo. Apr on tuesday Pixie like Julie Cherie Rodriguez 2, will hive lived sex. Aptly a year longer than any. One else known to Medicine with a translated liver. But for the parents or. And mrs Sjohn c. Rodriguez of Pueblo Colo., tile gratitude of reaching this Milestone is tem. Perez by knowledge that cancer a the disease that destroyed jul. Lie s own liver has reappeared elsewhere in her body a soon will claim her life. A a we re still grateful tin we have had Lier another year said Rodriguez a steel in til in ploy in Pueblo. A when at least she knows who her Mommy s and who her Dadd it is quoth it when Julie received in liver july 23, 1967, Verity of color add Cen or there Wen survivors of S.C. it now there Are nine seen in Denver. This group include old Minnesota boy we a new liver in an operation by sunday. He was report satisfactory condition As a i year old Texas boy to Cei Ved a kidney from the donor. Neither was Deri Iii improved techniques of pressing tile holy s a tendency to reject the be game including the develop he uni medical i year a Cei Ved on earned in re ame id sup ural or. Lent of globulin helped the Organ to continue to function. But while the doctors succeeded in maintaining function of the transplanted liver fighting the cancer was another matter. It kept reappearing in other areas. The dark haired Little girl with the flashing eyes is too Young to know her ordeal offers Tope to thousands who have or will have a fatal incurable liver ailment. But her parents know. A we know tins will e id Julie a life a Rodriguez said. But they also know the transplant itself Aid More Iver Hie solution was successful and attention must be problem of finding tile to cancer. A we urge people to urge their legislators to appropriate More Money for medical research to find the cure for cancer and other diseases for which we done to have the answers a he said. A i know Nisan much War. Am former Marine and i we must Stop comm. But we re spending too Money on the Vietnam we be got to think right now for our grandchildren How to save them from disease not just spend their Money on War and space a he continued. A time in 1969. But he stressed this would not mean a Complete . Withdrawal from the War. Job Ison and Thieu put in to hours conferring privately or with key advisers flanking them in meetings Friday and Satur Day in Hawaii. Thieu stayed on a bit afterwards to relish the delights of Sun Sand and surf at famed Waikiki Beach. Johnson never know publicly to have tried this Type of re taxation on visits to the a Paradise of the Pacific a was off by Jet for the lbs ranch Mear Johnson City 65 Miles West of Here shortly lifter the final meeting ended at the . Pacify. In command Hilltop head Quad. Tors overlooking Pearl Harbor. Back Home the president and mrs. Johnson attended mass sunday at St. Francis Xavier roman Catholic Church in Stonewall a mile or so up the Pedernales River from the ranch. The rime of the presidential return to Washington was flex. Hie. It could be tuesday night by Way of Cincinnati. Today s chuckle wife to husband at party a please try not to look so utterly miserable. Here com. Is a fellow i was engaged to before i met is. A. A a

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