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LBJ Move Not
To Make Hanoi
By STEWART HENSLEY
UPI Diplomatic Correspondent
WASHINGTON (UPl)—Diplo
matic observers doubted today
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that Hanoi would be more
willing to talk peace because
President Johnson stopped
bombing most of North Vietnam
Likely
Talk
and renounced aspirations for
another term.
Hanoi was deemed more
likely to interpret his decisions
as the swan song of a leader who
decided that the American
public no longer would support
the course he had been
pursuing.
The President invested his
peace efforts with greater
authority by removing them
from the political arena as far
as bls own future Is concerned.
And his order to American
commanders to halt virtually all
bombing of North Vietnam
should strengthen the U.S.
position with many foreign
nations, including a number of
allies who have found the
bombing the most objectionable
part of American operations.
Guarantees South’s Rights
Johnson, in urging President
Ho Chi Minh to respond with a
reciprocal reduction in military
activity and moves toward the
peace table, also pledged that
the American people would
never accept a settlement which
did not guarantee the South
Vietnamese the right to deter
mine their own future.
Hanoi may well consider that
Johnson is in no position to
make such a pledge because:
—He would not be in a
position to speak for the U.S.
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Guest Minister
EVENING SERVICES
MONDAY —7:30 P. M.
“Primitive and Prophetic Prayer”
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
Taylor at Eighth — Griffin, Georgia
government and control its
actions and policy after January
20.
—He acknowledged that one
of the principal reasons for
deciding not to seek or accept
the nomination again was that
the American people already
were badly divided on war
policy and his candidacy would
only make this worse.
The President’s decision un
doubtedly will dismay leaders of
the Saigon government as well
as many American military
commanders.
By ending all bombing of
North Vietnam except for the
region Immediately north of the
Demilitarized Zone and limiting
the increase in American troops
to 13,500, he has made it clear
that the escalation sought by
Saigon is not in the cards.
Few Expectations
Johnson and his top advisers
have never believed that Hanoi
would negotiate in good faith.
They always have felt that if
the Communists agreed to talk,
It would be for the purpose of
buying time to regroup and
increase infiltration if the
military tide appeared to be
running against them.
Against that background it
was difficult to believe that the
President had any real expecta
tion that his lowering of the
level of military operations
would result in any willingness
to talk peace on terms other
than those which would mean
eventual domination by the
North.
In his speech, the President
said: “Tonight, in the hope that
this action will lead to early
talks, I am taking the first step
to de-escalate the conflict.
Bomb Pause
Goes Into
Effect Today
SAIGON (UPl)—The North
Vietnam bombing pause ordered
by President Johnson went into
effect today. American spokes
men said U.S. jets were
restricted to hitting supply
dumps in the Communist
nation’s southern panhandle.
Air Force jets hit the dumps
at dawn near the port of Dong
Hoi, 40 miles above the North-
South Vietnam border where a
North Vietnamese army esti
mated by U.S. Intelligence to
number 70,000 was battering at
an allied ati-invasion line.
The spokesmen said the final
strike deep into North Vietnam
before Johnson’s order went
into effect hit the Lang Giai
railroad yard only 18 miles
from the Red China border.
Bomb Hanoi Station
The final strike, by Air Force
pilots, came at dawn Sunday.
About the same time Navy jets
hit the Hanoi radio receiver
station, six miles south of the
North Vietnamese capital.
It was 10 a.m. Monday
morning in Saigon when John
son made his American broad
cast. He said U.S. ships and
planes would halt their bom
bardment of North Vietnam
except around the area above
the border Demilitarized Zone
(DMZ).
“That’s the most explicit
guidance we’ve received so
far,” a U.S. spokesman said. It
also was the third major
bombing halt in the war. On
May 13, 1965, the United States
halted bombing for five days.
On Dec. 24, 1965, a 37-day halt
began. Both were aimed at
getting Hanoi to the peace
table. Both failed to bring a
conciliatory response to Hanoi.
With no public announcement,
U.S. planes steered clear of the
Hanoi-Haiphong area early this
year. It too brought no peace
response from the North
Vietnamese.
Ground Special Bombers
The Air Force meanwhile
grounded its remaining four
Fill A swing-wing fighter bom
bers after losing two in three
days last week.
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Augusta Wrecked
AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) —Fed
eral, state and local agents Sun
day destroyed a 960-gallon still,
the largest ever found in Au
gusta.
Authorities said the still, lo
cated in a small warehouse in
a remote section, was capable
of producing 150 gallons of
moonshine a day and had been
in operation for six months.
Thief Took Part
Os Old Coins
HOMER, Ga. (UPI)— Indus
trial worker Clyde Hightower
had his car and some $5,000
worth of old coins back in his
possession today while police
wondered why a thief who took
the rest of the valuable coins
left Hightower that much.
Hightower left his car
on a main street in Homer
while he rode to work with
friends Friday, but returned to
find the car and $15,000 worth
of coins, which he kept stored
in the back seat, were missing.
Police later recovered one
third of the coins and the car
in a nearby wooded area.
“I can’t understand why they
left the money,” said Banks
County Sheriff M. L. Harrison.
College Students
Held In Burning
BRUNSWICK, Ga. (UPI) —
Three Northern college students
were free on bail here Monday
pending a hearing on charges
growing out of the burning of a
house and seve ra 1 acres of
woodland.
Carl D. Larson, 21, Glaston
berry. Conn., charged with ma
licious mischief, R. M. Downie,
Warwick R.1., and Carry A.
Palulis, North Hampton, Mass.,
each charged with possession of
fireworks, put up $lO5 bonds,
after being arrested Sat
urday m connection with the
burning.
Authorities said the fire was
apparently started by flames
from firecrackers.
Man Held In
Shooting Death
MACON, Ga. (UPI) — A 24-
year-old Macon man was in po
lice custody today charged in
the shooting death of his com
mon-law wife.
Authorities said Bennie Willi
ams called frie n d s to their
home early Sunday to act as
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solved shooting death of the
wife of an antipoverty official.
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line Lee Colville, 42, was shot
10 times in the head and chest
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her 15-year-old son.
Police said the boy told them
his mother had asked him to
investigate a strange noise in
woods near their home when he
returned from school. Police
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Sheriff’s department spokes
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made in the incident.