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Griffin Daily News
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By WALTER C. PARKES
Men really in love with
. their work seldom welcome a
union that shortens their
hours.
• * •
How many people are
” humble enough to know
their own faults as well as
they know those of others?
• • *
A gossipy gal usually tells
you all she heard—and a lot
she didn’t.
• • «
Baseball writers have
made their final predictions
for the home team’s out
look and now we’ll have to
wait until October to learn
how wrong they were.
BRUCE BIOSSAT
After Arab Rout, Vietnam
Now More Vital to Reds
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
Washington Correspondent
Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
WASHINGTON (NEA)
The Soviet Union, just days ago privately hailed by many
U.S. public figures here for its shrewd “diplomatic triumphs’’
in the Arab world, suddenly finds itself holding a handful of
ashes.
U.S. officials believe dismay must have engulfed Kremlin
leaders when, reading of Israel's lightning advances across
Egypt’s Sinai Desert, they realized they were backing a bad
horse in Nasser.
Attempting to salvage at the diplomatic table what Nasser
and his allies already had lost on the battlefield, Soviet and
Bulgarian U.N. representatives sounded ludicrous.
Nevertheless, all the official and unofficial word is that the
Soviets have no intention of ranging any of their own military
or naval strength on Nasser’s side. Their effort seems directed
at cutting their own losses in prestige and influence by limit
ing the scope of the Arab disaster.
Even if Soviet links to Egypt and Syria withstand the
shattering blow dealt by tiny Israel, Moscow’s net influence
in the Middle East may end up far below the high plane it
had achieved just before the outbreak of war.
It is broadly accepted here that Israel has altered the
power balance in the region, and that any reasonable settle
ment of the issues must certainly place stiff curbs on the
Arabs’ potential for future trouble-making. Their usefulness
to the Russians as friends may be correspondingly diminished.
Against the whole postwar background, the Soviet Union
seems now to have developed an astonishing affinity for born
losers and lost causes.
Nasser is not the Kremlin’s first lame horse. The North
Koreans were nearly as bad, once Gen. MacArthur got set.
Only Red China’s late-hour intervention averted a total
Moscow disaster in Korea.
Moscow’s 1962 Cuban adventure aborted. Its earlier sup
port for Communist rebels in Iran, Greece and elsewhere has
not paid off.
That still leaves Vietnam, where Russia’s once fuzzy role
seems sharper today as aid in material and limited technical
manpower increases.
Here again, the Soviet proxies are not winning. But
neither are they yet clearly losing—and therein lies a danger
which may have been enhanced by the war’s turn in the
Middle East.
Vietnam is the prime testing ground, for Moscow and
Peking alike, of their agreed strategy of supporting “wars of
liberation.” This tactic of covert Red aggression was devised
after they concluded that both nuclear combat and across
border, Korean-style war were too risky.
If that tactic fails, the Reds may be hard-pressed to invent
another. This prospect, plus the frustrations felt particularly
in Moscow after nearly two decades of painful reverses from
the defeat of the Berlin blockade to Nasser’s collapse in 1967,
invests Vietnam with high explosive charge. To lose there is
almost to admit that the big world game is over—at least for
a time.
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Thursday, June 15, 1967
BARBS
By WALTER C. PARKES
i Right behind spring’s first
i robin came the con men bait
• ing you with impossible “bar
gains” in home improvement
jobs.
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Auto safety campaigns
are viewed with dismay
by some folks—n otably
ambulance • chasing
shysters.
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He doesn’t even blink when
his wife does her marketing in
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mid-thigh shorts but blows his
cool when she wears a mid
thigh miniskirt.
At least gossips don’t
bore you by talking about
themselves.
Lighter Side
‘This Hurts Me
More Than You’
By DICK WEST
United Press International
WASHINGTON (UPD—Visi
tors who take guided tours
through the U.S. Capitol must
play congressional roulette.
At some point during the tour,
each group makes a brief stop
in the Senate chamber. A few
hit it lucky.
You probably think I am
going to say the lucky ones are
those who happen to visit the
chamber when the Senate is in
recess. Shame on you for
having such thoughts. That is
not what I mean at all.
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Extraordinary Session
Each group that filed into the
public gallery for the customary
five-minute exposure witnessed
a small slice of a rare
senatorial drama.
The Senate was sitting in
judgment on one of its peers,
which is an act with a pleasure
pain ratio roughly comparable
to sitting on a tack.
Sen. John Stennis, D-Miss.
keynote speaker at the opening
of censure proceedings against
Sen. Thomas J. Dodd, D-Conn.,
used variations on the theme of
“this hurts us more than it
Sows you.”
Any comfort that may have
brought to Dodd was not visible
to the naked eye.
I have no idea what
Impressions the tourists may
have formed during their short
spans as onlookers. If, however,
they harbored the notion that
the scene was typical of the
way the Senate conducts its
business, they were totally
misled.
For one thing, the attendance
figure was unusually high.
There must have been about 75
senators on hand for the
morning session. Ordinarily, if
as many as 10 senators are in
view at any one time, the Joint
crowded.
Secondly, the dropout rate
was incredibly low. Almost any
senatorial oratory will produce
a mass exodus to the cloak
rooms and s ome can clear the
floor more quickly than air
raid. But now many stood their
ground.
Thirdly, the senators were
attentive. This was a sure sign
that something exceptional was
transpiring. The standard proce
dure when one senator gets the
floor is for the other senators to
begin conversing among them
selves.
Fourthly, no speaker discuss
ing the censure resolution was
asked to yield so another
senator could inject into the
record a tribute to the best
drum & bugle corps in his home
state.
In sum, the session was highly
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HOOVER HONORED
DES MOINES, lowa (UPD—
The lowa House of Representa
tives Monday took th: first step
toward making Aug. 10 an
annual holiday known as
“Herbert Hoover Day.”
The measure, approved by a
83-9 vote, was sent to the state
senate.
The 31st President of the
United States was born at West
Branch, lowa, on Aug. 10, 1874.
PROTEST APPRENTICES
WASHINGTON (UPD —Labor
Secretary W. Willard Wirtz says
he intends to do everything
within his power to secure draft
irregular. I hope the tourists
weren’t too badly confused by
deferments for union appren
ticeship trainees.
Wirtz told delegates to the
AFL-CIO building trades legisla
tive conference Monday that he
opposed any deferments “even
for college students.”
But added he would “insist
that those boys getting their
education in the school of
hardknocks get the same
treatment as college students.”
AID PROMOTION
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres
ident Johnson has named James
P. Grant, director of the U.S.
aid mission in Turkey since
1964, to head the Agency for
International Development’s
Vietnam programs.
Grant, 45, would succeed
Rutherford Poats in that role
upon Senate confiramtion. Poats
was promoted to deputy direc
tor of AID.