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BRUCE BIOSSAT
McCarthy's N.H. Vote-
Massive Rebuff to LBJ
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
NEA Washington Correspondent
„ lU , Washington (nea)
Responsible men within President Johnson’s own political
entourage acknowledge that Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCar
thy’s 42 per cent vote and near-sweep of delegates in the New
Hampshire primary spell protest against the President loud
and clear.
Since opposition to the Vietnam war was his main theme
and his basic reason for being in the race, it is fair to conclude
that a sizable proportion of his vote represented specific pro
test, within the Democratic party, against the war.
_ Yet cann °t be deduced from this evidence that
McCarthy’s showing indicates broad opposition to the war
among New Hampshire voters as a whole, or that it is sug
gestive of massive protest on a national scale.
_. F ° r ’ on the Republican side, the openly hawkish Richard
M. Nixon achieved a runaway score of some 82,000 votes,
more than all other candidates combined in both parties.
While Nixon did put large stress on an “end-the-war-and
wm-the peace” theme in the final week of the campaign, he
had hammered hawkish notes to large voter rallies for a solid
month. Furthermore, he never totally abandoned talking this
way—and he firmly reasserted this view in his New York
victory speech.
The evident truth is that McCarthy was the receptacle of
protest against the President which runs the gamut of atti
tudes—disgust or disenchantment with the war, unhappiness
over the confused results of his domestic policies in a time of
great strife, worries over crime and riot, dislike and distrust
of him as a man and as a high public official.
To the final hour of the campaign, McCarthy never succeed
ed in firing-up.an audience. But his delegate victories in
Massachusetts and Minnesota, his own rising confidence, and
the steadily improving efficiency of his New Hampshire effort
(fueled by plenty of money), all made him into a plausible
candidate. In the beginning he was very far from that.
The President was obviously handicapped by not being on
the ballot, by the curious notion of his New Hampshire write
in backers that they need not spend much money to counter
his absence, and by their crude, heavy-handed efforts to sug
gest that McCarthy’s use of the free elective process gave
comfort—unreasonably— to Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi.
Nixon’S' victory, of course, was no smashing conquest over
anybody, notwithstanding irresponsibly careless television
accounts that he "beat” Gov. Nelson Rockefeller of New York,
who drew 11 per cent of the GOP total on a write-in while
Nixon was getting 79 per cent.
Serious opposition or no, votes are votes and they impress
politicians and potential national convention delegates. His
strength will now firm up in many places as he heads for an
other easy score in Wisconsin’s primary (30 delegates) and a
prior pick-up of 22 delegates in South Carolina’s March 30
convention.
New Hampshire may go down as a no-contest win for Nixon,.
but.it still sends him off winging for possible tough encounters
with Rockefeller later in Oregon and South Dakota. His party
knows he could have beaten anybody on March 12.
Red Forces Fail With
Dien Bien Phu Tactics
By JACK WALSH
SAIGON (UPD—Dien Bien
Phu tactics failed the Commu
nists today at Khe Sanh.
Overwhelming U.S. artillery and
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D.M. PARHAM
176 Grady Street Griffin, Georgia
Phone 227-5611
fire by South Vietnamese
Rangers smashed the third
North Vietnamese attempt to
break into the surrounded
northern border fort even
before the 400 attackers reached
the barbed wire defenses.
Using the strategy that helped
bring them victory against the
French 14 years ago, a North
Vietnamese battalion surged out
of zig-zag trenches and dashed
for the fort American generals
have vowed never will fall.
The Communists had un
leashed their heaviest barrage
in a month Sunday to prepare
the attack. The Leathernecks in
Khe Sanh area said the shell,
rockets and mortars fell on
them at a rate of one of every
three minutes—more than 500
throughout the day.
But in the predawn darkness
today, the charging Communists
failed to get the break through
denied them twice before by
allied firepower. Marine artille
ry at nearby Camp Carroll
Griffin Daily News
Monday, March 18, 1968
QUICK QUIZ
Q—How did the channel in
the East River between Long
Island and Manhattan Island
get the name of “Hell Gate?”
A—The general belief is
that the name came from the
Dutch “Hellegat” (beautiful
pass) by which name the
whole of the East River was
once known.
Q— What is meant by the
expression "retreating into an
ivory tower”?
A—Figuratively, an "ivory
tower” is a place of escape
from the reality of the outside
world into a world of one’s
own.
Q—What is the only crime
defined in the V.S. Constitu
tion?
A—Treason.
\ \ Georgia News
Decatur County
GOP Organizes
BAINBRIDGE, Ga. (UPI) —
Decatur County now has an ac
tive Republican Party for the
first time since Reconstruction.
Members of the GOP met in
Bainbridge over the week-end
and instructed new delegates to
the district convention to back
former gubernatorial candidate
Howard “Bo” Callaway as Re
publican National Committee
man.
A well known farmer and
businessman from the county
chose the occasion to announce
he is running for the Georgia
House.
The candidate is Nolan Cloud
who is seeking election as rep
resentative from the new Dis
trict 70.
boomed. American strike planes
sprayed bombs and fiery
napalm.
The North Vietnamese batta
lion fell back, racing back to
the twisting trenches dug the
past month to within 100 yards
of Khe Sanh. The allies in Khe
Sanh, where 6,000 Marines faced
what U.S. intelligence said were
16,000 North Vietnamese around
them, reported “light casual
ties.” The Communist losses
were said to have been
"distinct.”
In other action, U.S. spokes
men said two American jets
were shot down Sunday during
raids against North Vietnam.
The two men aboard an Air
Force F4C Phantom were
rescued off the Communist
coast. But the two-man crew of
a Navy A6 Intruder downed
near Haiphong were listed as
missing.
American spokesmen said 767
Communists have been killed In
the first week of Operation
Resolved To Win, the record 50-
battallon allied anti-guerrilla
sweep around Saigon. U.S.
losses have been 31 men killed
and 263 wounded and South
Vietnam units suffered “light”
casualties.
In nearby Thailand, chief
launching site for the air
raiding of North Vietnam, the
U.S. Air Force poised six Fill
swing-wing jets for their crucial
combat test. The flights to
decide if the controversial all
purpose craft is America’s
greatest warplane or a multi
billion dollar bust were expect
ed within a few days.
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300 Arrested In London
Anti - Vietnam War Rioting
LONDON (UPD—Jails today
held about 300 persons and
hospitals another 50 involved in
an antl.Vietnam War battle
between 20,000 demonstrators
and 2,000 bobbies at the U.S.
Embassy in what police called
London’s most vicious rioting
within memory.
An army of students, foreign
ers, anarchists, pacifists and
others Sunday smashed into
lines of arm-locked police
NEVER FOUND CITY
Machu Picchu, the ancient
Inca capital which lies some
8,000 feet above sea level in
the mountains of Peru, was
found by the Spanish conquis
tadores. In 1911, its Jungle-cov-,
ered ruins were finally discov
ered by Prof. Hiram Bingham.
District 70 was carved out in
the legislature’s 1968 reappor
tionment plan. It is made up of
Miller, Seminole and Decatur
Counties.
Florida Teachers
Seek Georgia Aid
ATLANTA (UPD—Two Flori
da teachers were scheduled to
hold a press conference today
to enlist sympathy for more
than 6,500 teachers who struck
in their state and now want to
be rehired.
The two who plan to visit
here are part of a team of 14
teachers now crisscrossing the
nation seeking support for their
fellow teachers.
School boards in Florida are
refusing to hire the teachers
who went on strike.
House Flooded
Following Wreck
ALBANY, Ga. (UPD—Every
thing was still a little soggy
around the home of Albany
pharmacist Robert Fisher to
day.
Saturday, a runaway automo
bile crashed into Fisher’s living
room, and in the process broke
open a water main which
dumped a raging torrent of
water into and around the
house.
Officials estimated that
100,000 gallons of water
splashed into Fisher’s home
and yard before he could shut
it off.
An estimate of the damage
done to the home was set at
nearly $4,000.
The driver of the automobile,
Richard Fowler was charged
with reckless driving and de
stroying property.
Just Released
GI Goes AWOL
FORT GORDON, Ga. (UPD
—An Army private who had
just finished serving a stockade
term for refusing to wear his
uniform at Fort Gordon was
still AWOL late Sunday night,
a post official said.
The soldier, Pvt. Denis Adels
berger of Glenside, Pa., left the
post without leave, post officials
reported.
According to authorities at
this east Georgia base, Adels
berger had served about three
months of a six month sentence
for refusing to wear his uni
form in protest of the Vietnam
war.
The post information officer
said the soldier was ordered re.
leased by the post commander.
Adelsberger was repo rt ed
AWOL Thursday night.
A second case of a soldier at
Fort Gordon refusing to wear
the uniform, came to the atten
tion of authorities there over
the weekend. Post officials said
Pvt. Neal Salo of Wixom, Mich,
was confined to the stockade
after telling his company com
mander he would not wear the
uniform because “his consci
ence wouldn’t let him.”
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around the embassy. They
hurled dirt, firecrackers, pep
per, marbles and Viet Cong flag
spears. A girl hurled dirt in a
bobby’s face—and got slapped
back.
The demonstrators thundered
through the usually sedate
Mayfair sector that London
calls "Little America” with
cries of “Yanks Go Home,” “Ho
Ho Ho Chi Minh,” “Burn Baby
Burn” and *.‘Hey, Hey, LBJ,
How Many Babies Did You Kill
Today?”
In the end it took a mounted
police charge and club-swinging
to route the demonstrators. It
shattered luxurious Grosvenor
Square, smashed 13 windows on
the glass, steel and stone
embassy, left the nearby U.S.
Navy Headquarters Building’s
eagle smeared with paint.
The police had come in buses,
deserting their usual weekend
posts at the nation’s giant
soccer matches. The buses
rumbled off with defiant,
sometimes bloodied demonstra
ors.
U.S. Ambassador David K.E.
Bruce thanked the police for
saving his embassy. A Labor
party member of Parliament
demanded his party's govern
ment explain why it allowed
mounted police to be used in the
flower beds of the square, in the
screaming battle swirling in
front of the statue of Franklin
D. Roosevelt.
At the Chinese Communist
Embassy, a Peking diplomat
brushed off a polite protest note
delivered by a handful of the
army that swarmed out of
through the Regent Street and
Piccadilly shopping area and at
the embassy. The Red Chinese
said he could not accept the
note. The demonstrators with
drew.
The eye of the anger was the
American Embassy. Actress
Vanessa Redgrave gave them
the word in Trafalgar Square,
traditional launching pad for
London protest marches: “The
only way to peace in Vietnam is
the withdrawal of U.S. forces
from Vietnamese territory.”
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HARLECH'S VIEWS
LONDON (UPD—Lord Har
lech, whose name has been
linked romantically to Jacque
line Kennedy’s, said Sunday
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy would
be * tougher presidents!
opponent for the Republicans
than President Johnson in
November. Harlech was ambas
sador to Washington when
President Kennedy was in
office.