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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - July 24, 1968, Norwich, New York The e vending in vol. 78 ho.81 wednesday july 24, 1968 Norw cd new York 13815 i or per copy Brezhnev a on Way to Prague Prague apr unconfirmed reports today said Leon. Id i. Brezhnev and the rest of the soviet communist party politburo was on its Way to Czechoslovakia for its crucial meeting with Prague a new communist leaders to discuss the latter a controversial democratic reforms. Departure of the soviet delegation for the previously announced meeting was reported by the yugoslav news Agency tan Jug from Moscow. There was no official confirmation but rumours of the departure circulated in Moscow. The trip to Czechoslovakia is the first by the politburo steering committee of the soviet party outside Russia As a group. The meeting is expected to be held today or thursday in Slovakia adjacent to the soviet Union but the time and location have not been announced. Despite new soviet army Maneu vers along its Eastern Frontier czechoslovak officials expressed Confidence the russians would never resort to armed intervention if the country stands United behind Alexander dub Cekus reformist regime. A the soviets would lose More than they would gain by a military intervention a one communist party official said. A Moscow will have to get used to what is going on Here. There can be no turning Back the clock. We Are not going to Compromise and Are determined to continue on the present party officials said they viewed the soviet note this week demanding a strengthening of Czechoslovakia a Border with West Germany presumably by red army troops As a just another step in the War of in apparent rebuttal to the so Viet note maj. Gen. Jan be Pray commander of the Frontier guard forces said in a statement to the official news Agency ctr a fears regarding the safety of Czechoslovakia a Borders Are quite unfounded. The czechoslovak socialist Republic has enough strength to safely protect its state Larder with its capitalist the soviet note is expected to be a chief topic of discussion at the meeting of the 11.member soviet politburo and the 11.man presidium of the czechoslovak party. In Moscow the soviet defense ministry announced tuesday that a military logistic exercises Are under Way in the Western Ukraine which Borders on Czechoslovakia As Well As in White Russia Latvia and the russian federation. They Are to continue until aug. To. The announcement gave no hint that the Maneu vers were connected with soviet pressure against Czechoslovakia a More Liberal course. Algeria holding Over 20 israelis on hijacked Jet Paris apr the algerian government still held a hijacked israeli jetliner and 21 or 22 israeli citizens today after releasing 23 non israeli passengers. The Al Al Boeing 707 was diverted to Algiers on a Hight from Rome to Israel Early tuesday by three members of the front for the liberation of Palestine an Arab sabotage organization. The front asked the algerian government to hold the israelis aboard the plane As hostages for Arab commandos held prisoner in Israel but there was no Public response from Algiers and no demand for a Swap. Twenty of the released passengers were flown to Paris. They included two americans. Rina Uziel 23, of Brooklyn. N.y., and Gabriel Gaiz 17. A student from Long Beach. Cal-if., who finally arrived in Tel Aviv today with four other Pas Seagers. Three jewish passengers who were not israeli citizens were flown to Marseille. Reports of the number of israelis held in Algiers differed. Al Al the israeli National air line said to Crew members and 12 passengers were detained. Weather showers continuing into tonight Low temperatures in the �0s. Gradual Clearing thursday with High temperatures in the upper 70s and Low 80s. Eveland snipers slay Law officers 7 others Lam a killed three before dusk j night a soils d a negro Vulte to tuesday. It of terror that Adas a result it said two snipers were in the three hour gun Bat to erupted on Cleveland a Hie turning the or Mol negro neighbourhood into a cd it amp. Tear Gas and Enlis filled the air be using blinks flush i out the Arni meters into hiding parking meter stack grows in a City storage shed top photo As meter custodian Arnold Randall removes the Heads from off Street parking lots. Some 200 meter Heads w ill be stored Here until dec. 31 As free off Street parking goes into effect thursday and continues until the end of the year. A a beheading of tile parking meters began tuesday and is expected to be completed in tonight in readiness for the beginning of the trial run thursday morning. Photo at right show s an empty meter Post in the South Broad Street lot behind the a amp a store w Ith metered Post in rear. Most of the meters affected carry double Heads handling one parking space on each Side. No time limit was indicated when common Council passed a Resolution earlier this month granting Hie free parking. It it ii Lnu gtd sporadic Al until Dawn. There scattered fires and Many a in til area were looted. Jams a. Rhodes Host the National governors relict in Cincinnati left to return to Columbus and ill of the states 15,270 the trouble started along Lakeview Avenue and spread to other nearby residential and business districts. At least 18 persons were Hurt. Eleven policemen w Ere shot. Two critically. Three others had minor injuries not Ca used by gunfire. Ohio adj. Gen Sylvester t. Del Torso. In in in gtd from a Ron to command tile guardsmen. Said a i see some evidence of a plot involving Black nationalists. Witnesses said the snipers appeared to have an organized Battle plan. Some used automatic carbines. On the body of one dead sniper was a Bandolier of Shotgun shells a Gas mask by his Side. The three dead policemen a apparently the first victims in tin shootout were it. Leroy Jones and patrolmen Louis go Lonka and Willard Wolf. The civilian victims were James Chapman and James Haynes both negroes from Cleveland and Clifford Miller. Of Twinsburg Ohio who was w bite. There was an unidentified negro at Huron Road Hospital and three More unidentified negroes at the morgue. After the shooting began police cars rushed to the scene. Is More and More officers were pinned Down by the whining bullets urgent radio Calls went out for More assistance. Wounded policemen crawled guardsmen to Anno n if sen. Hart says Fortas chances hurl by hearings Washington apr testimony during Senate committee hearings into president Johnson a supreme court appointments has Hurt chances that Abe Fortas will be confirmed As chief Justice according to a leading supporter of the nomination. Sen. Philip a. Hart d-mich., says opponents of the nominations picked up much ammunition during Senate judiciary committee hearings into the naming of Fortas now an associate Justice to succeed retiring Earl Warren. Hart said that Fortas refusal to answer questions Al it out ids decisions his acknowledged participation Iii White House conferences since becoming a member of the court and Testi Mony attacking his rulings in chive obscenity cases All provide grist being commend Senate confirmation by a 10-6 margin at worst and possibly by a vote of 12-4. What happens in the Senate Hart said will depend in part on whether Republican opponents decide that fighting his appointment will be a a More of a plus than a minus for them politically a the committee called into closed session today seems unlikely to finish its hearings in time for the full Senate to act before september on the nominations which includes the a. Point meld of Federal judge Homer Thornberry to be an associate Justice. Chairman James o. Eastland service publican and democratic National conventions. The committee concluded nine Days of Public hearings tuesday on a sensational note when sen. Strom Thurmond r-s.c., i played magazines with pictures of nude men and women in suggestive poses and said that distribution of S.C. a hard Core pornography has become much worse since Fortas has been a supreme court Justice in 1965. The final witness was Diu to atty. Gen. Warren Christopher who was called for questioning about a Justice department memorandum reviewing Fortis for the opposition. But he stood by that the d-miss., said he never predicts what the committee May do. But told newsmen he could not con. Of the Fortas nomination brought up in the Senate on the supreme with a Mai judicial before september nonetheless said lie Congress is expected to recess his earlier prediction at the end of next week until aft committee would re or labor Day because of the re. And crediting him usual degree of Hart said he had requested the department to prepare the memorandum but sen. Sam j. Ervin jr., d-n.c., called it in attempt at a propagandizing the yanks find arms caches Saigon apr Allied forces battled Viet Cong and North vietnamese troops Southwest and East of Saigon today and uncovered sizable weapons caches in other areas near South Viet Nam s threatened capital. In the Northern provinces an other vulnerable sector the Viet Cong kept up the pressure on outposts and provincial capitals with a second Day of mortar at tacks and Light ground probes. One Viet Cong company broke into a Village 15 Miles Southeast of Danang and burned it to the ground leaving All 1,400 inhabit ants homeless military spokesmen said. Casualties among the train Ranis bus kills 9 migrants Newton Ville . Apr a two car passenger train slowed into a farm labor bus tuesday night killing nine of the migrants and injuring 20 others in this South Jersey Community. State police said the two self propelled diesel cars of the Pennsylvania Reading seashore lines carrying some too passengers Tore the old school bus in two and threw the rear half 300 feet Down the track. No one on the train was injured. Villagers and their militia de. Fenders were not immediately known. By tile fighting 18 Miles Southwest of Saigon enemy troops using a blindfolded South vietnamese prisoner As a Decoy tried to slip through american lines after losing 34 dead in an All night fight. Ten americans of the 9th infantry division were reported killed and nine wounded. A in e r i c a ii bombers had pounded the company of about 115 North vietnamese and Viet Cong infiltrators and some 1,500 rounds of american artillery were poured into an area about 800 Yards in diameter Dur ing the night. The enemy troops shoved a South vietnamese prisoner Iii front of them Iii tile darkness before Dawn trying to Lur the americans into firing on him while they slipped Iii Small groups. The plan Back fired. A Claymore mine vent off scattering hundreds of shrapnel fragments. It knocked the blindfolded South Viet namese Down but killed three enemy soldiers behind him. Rescued by the . Infantry men the South vietnamese s id he had been held captive t o months. A tonal ties. The office of the adjutant general in Columbus immediately committed 4.000 men to Cleveland. The states biggest City. Its population of a Quot it re than 800,000 includes it tout 350,000 negroes. Mayor Carl b. Stokes a negro who took office last november. Appealed to All citizens to a slav Home and cooperate with the stoles described the Situ ii Imas a a bad but at Dawn said it w As lbs says it won t Viler \ new Cincinnati Ohio apr president Johnson has declared he will not waver from a Vietnam policy he called just and reasonable despite a the pressures and strains that come normally in any ik�1 Iticia the nation s governors who heard that pledge had no plans to attempt to match it with one of their own. The got i National governors conference held its final session today and the Agenda did not touch on Viet Nam. One Democrat who praised the Johnson stand said any at tempt to put tile conference on record in support of . Policy on the War and negotiations would stir dissension which could do More harm than Good. Johnson spent an hour tuesday night at tile conference which has been marked by the political mane vering by and for candidates to succeed him when he retires from tile White House next Jan. 20. Before a Black tie crowd of More than 2,000 persons at the governors Ball Johnson de dared a your nation wants peace our government wants peace our men in Vietnam want peace and your president wants peace. Yet some among us seem to feel that i or we alone can bring peace to Vietnam. They seem to ignore the presence and of tile enemy Johnson said he had prom used Battleground restraint in announcing lie would not run again for the White House and has kept that Promise. A we Are willing to go As far As Honor and safety permit us to go Quot he said. A but we Are not going to impose a coalition government or any kind of government on tile people of South Vietnam. A nor Are we going to let the totalitarians impose a communist government of their direction either the president said. That one of Only two rounds of applause which came during ins address. A the Days we re going through and the Days ahead a going to be difficult ones Johnson said. A can to get them Send More cars by Robert i Shaffer Cleveland Ohio apr things Are pretty Bud Down Here. We re pinned Down. The wounded men Are lying in the Street. We can to get to them. Get some armoured Hie Calls snapped in Over the police radio during tues Day nights gun Wittle Between police Anda group it it a negroes who police said opened fire on a police vehicle then took Refuge in an apartment building on Cleveland a Eastside. The Calls had the sound of desperation. A get some More cars Down Here. We can t get to the wounded policemen. We re being shot at a a few moments later the Appeal was repeated. A Send some help. High Power stuff. Tear Gas. Lets get the National guard out Here a tile stunning outburst on a hot humid evening caught the City by Surprise. There had Ilieen no rumbles of Imp end my trouble. Since the election of mayor Carl b. Stokes a negro last fall there had been a general feeling of optimism. Ari eyewitness who asked not to lie identified said she and her husband were sitting on the porch with their baby when a we saw two men run out of tile Alley. They were carrying rifles and had what i thought were sacks of ammunition. A we heard die gunfire hut we see who they were shooting at. Ilien they crouched behind some Bushes right across the Street. I saw them firing Down the Street. I grabbed the baby and ran upstairs. A i heard the sirens and the police came shout my take cover to people on the Street. A i saw a policeman get shot. He was right next door to me lying in the Street. A More policemen came. They were trying to Chase some Small boys off the Street and i heard one of the boys say a what for they re not after us they re after you. They want you not House Lim Hill of predicted by Ceiler Washington a a a Lead ing congressional supporter of gun control legislation predicts the House will approve president Johnson a embattled Tiro pos i to restrict the Sale of rifles shotguns and ammunition. The prediction a its made by judiciary chairman Emanuel Ceiler d-n.y., after Tim House spent seven hours tuesday wading through amendments to ready a measure for today s expected final vote. Celler s opposite number Iii the Senate judiciary chairman James o. Eastland d-miss., de. Dared his opposition to a similar Bill called up for Sununta nexus action in his committee. A i Hope the committee will kill All the gun Bills a Eastland said. Among the amendments tacked onto the Bill tuesday was one proposed by the National Rifle association a prime enemy of stiffer gun Laws. Sponsored by rep. Robert l. F. Sikes d fla., it would sex erupt the National Board for promotion of Rifle practice from the prohibition of Mer state shipment of firearms and ammunition. The Board a military civilian governing body works closely Aith tile aka in the holding of Rifle and pistol matches Sikes a lifetime member of the aka said a we can live with Hie Bill the Way it another amendment sponsored by rep. John d. Dingell d-mich., also an opponent of gun controls would permit licensed gun collectors who Deal in guns As relics and curios to buy and sell firearms across state lines. A under this amendment any self styled collector could acquire firearms through the mail a argued Ceiler. He said this was a dangerous loophole. The House also adopted an amendment that for All practical purposes would leave Only ammunition for pistols and revolvers prohibited Trout Sale through the mails. Regardless of what form a gun control Bill finally takes if arid when it emerges from Congress one thing seems certain at this Point then will be no provisos for the licensing arid registration asked by Johnson after he first pressed Congress for a ban on interstate mail order sales of rifles and shotguns and Over the counter sales of Long guns to residents of Nonadjacent states. Law teamsters form an Alliance Chicago apr the nations two largest labor unions have announced formation of an Alliance to tackle Tough social problems arid free the labor movement from a old attitudes and officials of the United Auto workers and the teamsters stressed tuesday that formation of the Alliance for labor action does not constitute a merger of the two organizations. The announcement was made jointly at a news co Titerence by Walter p. Reuther president of the 1.6 million member Law and Frank Fitzsimmons Gen or a1 vice president of the 1.8 Mil lion teamsters whose president James it. Hoffa is serving a Federal prison term. A in this time of crisis dynamic and responsible labor organizations must contribute Leader ship and provide teamwork toward the continual Advance. Of working people and must work together. To find an users to the urgent problems of the whole of our society a a statement released at a news conference said. Neither Union is a member of the Al Cio. The teamsters were dismissed from the Al Cio in 1957 and tile Caw Dis affiliated july i. The Union spokesmen termed formation of the Ala a the most important labor development in recent years. The two unions will begin to organize unorganized workers especially agriculture workers and will push into social areas in which the Law pioneered a a the labor movement is at a Eros Road a the statement said. It must free itself of Gold attitudes and habits and Demon Strate the willingness the Apa vilify and the commitment to make fundamental changes in its policies that respond to the realities of a swiftly changing other organizations Are invited to join the Ala Reuther arid Fitzsimmons said. A National conference of organization members will be convened Early in 1969. The step into the Fields of so r Ial action and new one for the have been const labor movement. Fitzsimmons s endorse other Ivil in teams Rva Tive hts is a i is w to s in the Aid a we and i dates will who meet the principles and Aims of the Ala without regard a the labor movement must subject itself to honest self evaluation. It roust free itself f rom complacent y and. In ust acquire a sense of renewal and rededication to social the statement said. To cover. A get some More cars d it in Here. We can to got to Tho wounded a were Tho messages on Tho police radio. A get some High powered stuff. Some tear Gas. We need an armoured vehicle. We re police returning the fir at snipers holed up in Iii apartment said they heard shouts a a we la shoot anything after some fires were started snipers began shooting at firemen and police ordered the firefighters out of the area. A supermarket burned Down. An apartment House was heavily damaged by uncontrolled flames. There were conflicting stories on How the shooting began. One report said snipers began shooting at a police vehicle on Lakeview Avenue hitting the three officers. Another said the policemen had gone to the area to remove an abandoned Auto. The scene of the shootings is five Miles East of Cleveland a main Public Square in the Center of tin City. It is East of tin Hough Section where four negroes were killed in five Days of rioting and looting two years ago in another hot july. Uie shootings broke out a few blocks South of East 125th Street and Superior Avenue a Center of Black nationalist activity. Terrorist hauls hit by Averell j Paris apr . Ambassador w. Averell Harriman met again today wit i nor ii Vietnam a Quay Thuy and prepared to protest against the revival of Viet Cong terrorist attacks in and around Saigon. Harriman told newsmen he had not seen definitive evidence that the Lull in the War around Saigon which began in mid june was finally coming to an end. But lie added a what is disturbing is that tile terrorist actions on Heaters around Saigon have started again. People Piave been killed. I intend to Call at Tention to the Viet Cong bombed four Heaters in Saigon and nearby towns sunday killing 12 vietnamese and wounding 91 going into the 141ii session of tin talks Harriman said he would present to the Ortli vietnamese negotiators tile Appeal issued in Honolulu by president Johnson and president Nguyen Van Thieu a for a peaceful set Dement and an end of the a i intend a lie continued a to Xii tit to Hie violence Itiat is continuing on the part of tile Viet Cong and i Hope this will make some Harriman and his aides Are also trying to find out whether North Vietnam is weakening its support for the National liberation front a id offering Wash in Tori a new Lur among its terms for a final political Settle ment in South Vietnam. _ . Officials think the Possi. Bill ties of any real change Are slight. Thuy has brushed aside suggestions that his government was modifying Hie statement of its Basic position that has stood for More than four years. Nevertheless new language has been used and . Officials tit Ink that eventually it could be important. Early this year a new organization which planned to include non communist elements the Alliance of National democratic and peace forces of Vietnam w is launched with acclaim from Hanoi. North Viet. Nam stopped calling the liberation front the a a sole representative of the South vietnamese people and began calling it the a authentic some . Officials believe that elimination of the reference to tile liberation front s program in Hanoi a new statement of its four Points could be another a. Never to make space for the a1. Hance. . Officials Are anxious nevertheless to find out All they can about the Alliance. Today s chuckle a True gentleman is Able to hold Back on the Tongue what never should have been on his mind in the first place

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