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Debate Over Vietnam
Had Rather Talk Than
Fight, Johnson Says
By WILLIAM THEIS
United Press International
WASHINGTON 1 <UPD —Pres
ident Johnson, target of some of
the harshest criticism yet by
opponents of his Vietnam policy,
says that he wants "more than
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any human being in the world
to see the killing stopped.”
"I want to negotiate. I want a
political settlement. . . . But I
can’t negotiate with myself,"
the Chief Executive declared in
impromptu remarks following a
brief speech before an audience
of scientists Wednesday night.
“Maybe somewhere, some
how, some day, someone will sit
down and want to talk instead
of kill,” he said, the emotion
behind his words plainly
marked on his face. “If they do,
I’ll be the first one at the
table.”
Johnson made no mention of
one accusation that has been
leveled at him and his
administration, that of attempt
ing to "stifle dissent."
Accuses President
But even as he spoke, Sen.
Mark O. Hatfield, R-Ore., was
charging the administration
with practicing “political black
mail” to silence cirtics of its
Vietnam policy.
"What kind of men have we
at the helm of government who
would deliberately coerce the
public into accepting their
policies on the threat of being
branded traitors? These are the
tactics of tyrants . . .” he said
in a speech before the Yale
Political Union.
The Oregon Republican also
accused Gen. William C.
Westmoreland, U.S. commander
in Vietnam, of “joining in the
effort to silence the opposition.”
In a speech Monday Westmore
land said that anti-war demon
strations encouraged the Com-
munists.
Johnson’s speech to the
American Physical Soviety ban
quet Wednesday night was his
first comment, however in
direct, on the bitter debate that
has wracked the Senate since
the escalation of the air war
over Vietnam this week.
Scientists Applaud
He was greeted with applause
as he walked to the podium, but
just before he began to speak,
Dr. Howard Weisberg, a 27-
year-old physicist from the
Lawrence Radiation Laboratory
at Berkeley, Calif., jumped to
his feet and held up a
homemade placard with just
one word on it: “Vietnam.”
Weisberg was shouted down.
The President then plowed
through his prepared address,
which praised scientists for
helping bring about a better
world. But Vietnam plainly was
much on his mind and he began
to speak about the war:
"Every day, good people, wise
people, say to me, why can’t we
have a political settlement?
Why can’t we understand our
fellow human beings? Why can’t
we negotiate? Why do men have
to die?
"I ask myself that every
morning, and reflect on that
every evening.”
His voice rising with emotion,
the President said: “I want
more than any human being in
the world to see the killing
stopped.”
NO JOKE
JOHANNESBURG (UPI) —
Pieter Czebu didn’t think it was
any elephant joke when a herd
of angry pachyderms surround
ed his car Tuesda in Kruger
National Park while one of the
great beasts tore the car’s roof
open with her tusk.
GM Notes Drop
In Auto Sales
During 1967
DETROIT (UPI) —General
Motors Corp., the world’s
largest manufacturer, Wednes
day became the second of the
“big four” auto makers to
report drastic drops in sales
and profits during the first
three months of 1967.
In announcing that its first
quarter profits were down 34
per cent from a year ago and
its dollar sales down 14 per
cent, GM executives predicted
an upswing in the auto market
following a period of “consumer
uncertainty” earlier this year.
Chrysler Corp, last week
reported its first quarter profits
were down 70 per cent. Ford
Motor Co. and American Motors
Corp, have yet to report their
first quarter results.
GM said its profits during the
first three months of 1967
totaled $390 million, or $1.35 per
share, on sales of $4.9 billion.
First quarter profits during 1966
were $495 million, or $2.07 per
share, on sales of $5.7 billion.
Frederic G. Donner, board
chairman, and James M.
Roche, GM president, were
optimlsic that the 20 per cent
decline in auto sales by the
industry -will be erased as
consumers gain confidence in
the future.
They blamed the lack of
confidence, strikes at the
Mansfield and Norwood, Ohio,
plants and an unusually hard
winter in the Midwest and East
for the decline.
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new technique. With an Air Force C-130 skimming just 10 feet above the ground,
parachutes pull a 50,000-pound load from its cargo compartment in a test run near
El Centro, Calif. The advantage over parachute “drops” is the pin-point accuracy that
may be achieved. The load skidded to a stop after 700 feet.
BRUCE BIOSSAT
g A Dr. King: The Heavy Price
His Vietnam War Stand
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
z Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA)
Aside from his moral appeals to end U.S. participation in
the Vietnam war, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is using an
economic argument to make his point. It deserves to be
examined.
argument is that U.S. outlays for the war represent a
major interference with the domestic wars against poverty
and racial discrimination.
The presumption is that if these expenditures could be
halted through the advent of peace, then a massive money
assault could be made upon the problems of the poor—which
includes a high proportion of U.S. Negroes.
King’s premise is very shaky..
Evidence from history is skirtipy, but what there is ought
not to hearten him. Lawmakers who grow accustomed to
spending huge sums in wartime show no disposition to turn
similar amounts to constructive domestic purpose when war
ends. They simply scale back.
Last September, the venerable Negro leader, A. Philip
Randolph, unveiled his long-awaited “freedom budget,” call
ing for huge social reconstruction in American society—at
enormous cost.
To strike down poverty and make America’s cities livable
and workable for the poor as well as others, Randolph pro
posed to clean up and rebuild the cities, modernize trans
portation systems, lay out $27 billion or more for new
educational facilities in six years and roughly SSO billion for
housing in 10 years.
In December, this reporter sat with a sizable group of re
sponsible Negro leaders in Philadelphia, discussing the Negro
outlook. Not one of these thought there was even the faintest
prospect that the U.S. government or anybody else would
spend the kind of sums Randolph was calling for.
And yet not one of them gave U.S. expenditures in Vietnam
as the reason. These people appeared to believe simply that
most Americans, unmoved by cries of “freedom now!”, would
just refuse to shoulder such burdens.
Obviously, some Great Society programs have suffered
fund cuts because of Vietnam war pressures. But the kind
of money cut from these is not of the scale Randolph and
King have in mind.
If the Negro leaders in Philadelphia have it right, then
King today may be trapped on the most infertile ground he
has ever tried to work. He may soon be a man virtually with
out an effective constituency.
Though estimates vary, it is agreed only a modest scattering
of Negroes turned out for the big antiwar shows in New York
and San Francisco April 15.
As the widely billed star of the New York show King got
himself bracketed—at least in the camera’s gaze—with the
lunatic left, black nationalists and black power extremists
and assorted other irresponsibles.
In a divided Negro movement that badly needs the coali
tion of its responsible elements, King has moved toward un
productive isolation. His turn to the peace front has gained
him no Negro following. And the tapestry of distortion he
wove in his April 4 Vietnam speech cost him heavily among
admirers and supporters of long standing.
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