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Allies To Keep Eye
On Resupply Move
During Viet Truces
WASHINGTON (UPI) — The
forthcoming holiday truces in
Vietnam are almost certain to
be marked by repeated viola
tions, but this year Communist
efforts to mount massive
resupply operations may be
kept to a minimum.
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Friday, December 22, 1967
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During the previous military
“stand-downs,” the North Viet
namese sent large amounts of
war materials South, a fact U.S.
military leaders felt argued
against any similar cease-fires.
But to counter such actions
this year, the United States and
its allies have agreed to shorter
truce periods for Christmas,
New Year’s, and Tet, the
Vietnamese lunar new year in
February.
Last year, both sides said
they would observe 48-hour
truces at Christmas and New
Year’s and a 96-hour cease-fire
at Tet.
This year, the Viet Cong
announced they planned to
observe three-day truces at
Christmas and New Year’s and
seven days at Tet. But so far
the allies have failed to specify
exactly when they might stop
the fighting at New Year’s and
Tet, apparently to give them
selves as much military flexibi
lity as possible. And their
Christmas truce will be only 24
hours.
In connection with this, the
State Department has an
nounced that a pause in the
bombing of North Vietnam
automatically will accompany
the truces announced by the
allies.
State Department spokesmen,
however, have left the door
open to a possible resumption of
bombing during the New Year’s
and Tet holidays.
They emphasize that the halt
in the bombing will come if the
truces “go into effect.”
BRUCE BIOSSAT
&
Critics Are Not Realistic
On Social Security Bill
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
NEA Washington Correspondent
The last flurry of protest by a band of Senate liberals
against the alleged inadequacies of the new Social Security
bill was neither impressively realistic nor convincingly re
sponsible.
Basically, the measure revises the Social Security system
covering retirement, survivors’ and disability benefits and
related Medicare. Controversial welfare features are
secondary.
The bill provides the largest single upthrust in Social
Security benefits in the system’s history. In calendar 1968,
some $2.9 billion more will be paid out to U.S. citizens than
would have been dispensed under the pre-1967 law. The rise
in outlays will be even sharper in 1969.
A handful of liberal senators, mostly Democrats but includ
ing a few Republicans, extravagantly portrayed these mile
stone gains as virtually an affront'to humanity.
It was not noticeable that they dealt candidly with means
of financing the considerably more liberal benefit proposals
many of them called for. The approved legislation is, on the
other hand, supportable with visible revenues.
The enacted measure, for instance, lifts from $1,500 a year
to $1,680 a year the amount of money a worker may earn and
still qualify for full retirement benefits. The voted Senate
version would have set the level at $2,400, a proposal esti
mated to cost SS7S million right now and more later. Suggest
ed financing was inadequate.
In 1967 some 24 bills were tossed into the congressional
hopper to eliminate altogether this so-called “retirement test”
related to earnings levels. That would cost the government
another $2 billion now and more later. And it has been a
pretty popular notion among wand-waving liberals.
There have been estimates from government sources that
the higher benefits coming in 1968 and thereafter may elevate
perhaps a million Americans out of poverty.
Curiously, and misleadingly, Maryland’s Sen. Joseph Tyd
ings and some others attacked the approved bill as a pitifully
skimpy antipoverty undertaking.
Intentionally or not, the critics sounded as if they wanted to
convert Social Security to an antipoverty relief program,
pure and simple. Sometimes their assaults on disputed wel
fare provisions in the bill were so loosely phrased as to seem
to condemn everything in it.
These attacks only compounded the already heightened con
fusion which today surrounds the sprawling Social Security
system and its Medicare offshot.
Bombarded heavily lately for supposed weaknesses as an
insurance program, Social Security, as the Senate liberals’
attack underscores, is also getting it hard for alleged failure
as an antipoverty enterprise.
But while the purists on both sides chop at its shortcomings,
the system gets ready to pay out a record $25.2 billion in
1968 to 23.5 million Americans—roughly an eighth of total
U.S. population.
New Terror Flurry
Erupts In Viet War
By EUGENE V. RISHER
SAIGON (UPI)—A fresh flur
ry of Communist terrorist
attacks killed 154 civilians
throughout South Vietnam and
damaged a train and a U.S.
cargo ship near Saigon, U.S.
officials said today.
Retaliating, U.S. tro ops
moved into War Zone D, a Viet
Cong stronghold north of the
South Vietnamese capital, and
occupied portions of it for the
first time, military sources
reported.
U.S. spokesmen said the 154
civilian deaths resulted from
218 incidents of terrorism
throughout the country the past
few days. Another 285 civilians
were wounded and 625 were
kidnaped.
American Freighter Hit
Today guerrilla explosive
charges blew a gaping hole in
the side of an American
freighter and damaged a train
outside Saigon, officials said. A
lone terrorist tossed a hand
grenade inside the city and
wounded five Gls in another
incident.
In the air, big 852 Stratofor
tresses returned the Demilita
rized one (DMZ) today and
bombed a artillery positions and
supply areas along the dividing
line between North and South
Vietnam, spokesmen reported.
Just south of the DMZ U.S.
Marines launched a new assault
by air and landing boats against
suspected North Vietnamese
positions, they said.
Grenade Strikes Gls
In the 14th terrorist incident
in Saigon this week, a man on a
bicycle tossed a hand grenade
into a group of American Gls
waiting for a bus to take them
to work from a nearby enlisted
mens’ barracks. Five were
wounded, officials reported,
bringing to 12 the total number
WASHINGTON (NEA)
of Americans hurt in terrorist
Incidents this week.
Five South Vietnamese civi
lians have been reported killed
in the attacks in Saigon, and 25
wounded.
The reported troop move
ments into War Zone D included
establishment of at least two
permanent camps for artillery
positions in the heavily jungled
area which has served the
Communists as a safe haven for
more than two decades.
There were no Injuries
reported In the blast which tore
a seven-foot gash in the side of
the S.S. Seatrain Texas and let
water rush into a compartment
inside. The terrorists struck the
ship as it lay anchored in
Saigon’s main approach channel
and then escaped under cover of
darkness.
A spokesman said the ship
was in “no danger” of sinking
at any time, and apparently no
cargo was damaged.
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bathing belief
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19th century, outdoor bathing
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Georgia News
Argument Ends
In Shooting
WAYCROSS, Ga. (UPI)—An
argument between two next
door neighbors, a 16-year-old
boy and 70-year-old William H.
Sweat, turned into a shooting
Thursday in which the youth’s
mother was wounded.
Mrs. Opal Hooper, 48, report
ed in fair condition, was shot
as she stepped out into the
yard to help break up the argu
ment, according to police.
Authorities said Sweat, carry
ing three pistols, shot her at
pointblank range.
The argument started when
Sweat accused the boy of taking
something from his home and
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Elmo Ellis’
Father Dead
ATLANTA (UPI) — Funeral
services for Samuel B. Israel,
father of the general manager
of radio for WSB radio-tele
vision station, have been sched
uled for Sunday in Birming
ham, Ala.
Israel, a prominent merchant
in West Blockton, Ala., and a
noted Masonic lecturer, died
Thursday in a Philadelphia hos
pital following an illness of sev
eral months. He was 82.
Services were scheduled for
9:30 a.m. at Ridouts Chapel in
south Birmingham.
In addition to his son, Elmo
Israel Ellis, Israel is survived
by a daughter, Mrs. Bemerd
Caplan of Philadelphia.
Israel was former chief of the
West Blockton volunteer fire
department and active in civic
affairs in the community. He
was a Mason for more than 60
years.
2 Southerners
On Meat Board
ATLANTA (UPI)—Two south
erners have been named to a
special federal-state board to
help implement provisions of
the nation’s new Wholesome
Meat Act.
They are Georgia Agriculture
Commissioner Phil Campbell
and Tennessee Agriculture
Commissioner W.F. Moss.
The group, which includes ag
riculture commissioners from
Wisconsin, Illinois, Idaho and
New York also, was named
Thursday by the U.S. Agricul
ture Department. They are to
serve on an interim basis until
a permanent planning commit,
tee is appointed.
Gov. Maddox Makes
Talk On Lights
ATHENS, Ga. (UPI) — Tha
lights of Christmas” may ba
the answer to some of America’s
domestic problems, Gov. Lester
Maddox said Thursday night.
Maddox, in a speech pre
pared for delivery to a Boy
Scout Christmas banquet, said
that by letting the "lights of
Christmas...illuminate the Con
stitution of the United States,
we can lift up the banner of
free enterprise and sound the
trumpet for the rights of men
...to control their schools, local
governments and local law en
forcement.”
He said America needs a
“map and a compass which
would lead this nation back to
God and the Bible.”