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Humphrey Gets Together
Campaign Organization
By United Press International
Vice President Hubert H.
Humphrey was getting together
a campaign organization today
for a presidential bid to be
announced shortly — perhaps
next week.
It was learned Tuesday that
Humphrey definitely has decid
ed to seek the presidency, and a
“Citizens for Humphrey” cam
paign committee was in the
process of forming.
Its executive director Is
expected to be Kenneth M.
Birkhead, a top official with
Citizens for Johnson-Humphrey
before it folded when President
Johnson withdrew from the
presidential race last week.
Birkhead is already informal
ly at work on the Humphrey
campaign and is operating from
the same downtown office
building where Sen. Robert F.
Kennedy, D-N.Y., has his
presidential campaign head
quarters.
AFL-CIO President George
Meany Is expected to set up a
labor committee soon to work
for Humphrey, and I. W. Abel,
president of the United Bteel-
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workers of America, is reported
to be seeking the backing of
Mayor Richard J. Daley of
Chicago for the vice president’s
campaign.
A source close to Humphrey
said he is not counting on a
pledge of support from Johnson,
who has said he may speak out
at a later date on his choice of
a successor.
Humphrey attended Dr. Mar
tin Luther King Jr.’s, funeral in
Atlanta Tuesday. Other political
notables present included Ken
nedy, former Vice President
Richard M. Nixon, Sen. Eugene
J. McCarthy, D-Minn., and Gov.
Nelson Rockefeller of New
York.
Other developments:
Robert F. Kennedy—The New
York senator flew to Indiana
late Tuesday for three days of
campaigning and political talks
in preparation for the state's
May 7 primary, where he faces
Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy and
Gov. Roger Branigin on the
Democratic ballot. It will be the
first head-on primary contest
between Kennedy and Mc-
Carthy. Branigin is a favorite
son candidate.
Nelson A. Rockefeller—specu
lation that the New York
governor will still declare
himself a Republican presiden
tial candidate was revived
Tuesday when Rockefeller’s
office announced a research
staff was being established.
Emmett John Hughes, the
political journalist and one-time
Rockefeller speech writer, was
hired as the governor’s personal
assistant to "aid in the broad
work of formulating and dis
cussing policies and programs
in the months ahead,” Rockefel
ler said.
ZIONIST RETIRING
TEL AVIV, Israel (UPD—Dr.
Nahum Goldmann, president of
the World Zionist Organization
since 1956, Tuesday telephoned
the group’s steering committee
from Geneva that he would not
stand for re-election. He had
been the center of controversy
since Sen. William Fulbright, D-
Ark., said Goldmann requested
he ask the Israeli government
to moderate its stand toward
the Arabs. Goldmann Monday
denied making any request.
DRUNK WRECKS BUS
MANILA (UPD — Nineteen
persons were killed and 31
injured when a drunken passen
ger seized the wheel from a bus
driver and caused the vehicle to
swerve into a 30-foot ravine,
police said Tuesday.
WIFE STRIKES BACK
HILTPOLSTEIN, Germany
(UPD—Mrs. Tina Bristownik,
angry because her husband Karl
left her along all day Sunday,
took the family car and crashed
it repeatedly into a concrete
pillar until it could not be
driven any more, police report
ed Tuesday.
DUTCH HONOR KING
HAARLEM, The Nethelands
(UPD—The City Council decid
ed Tuesday to name a street
after the late Dr. Martin Luther
King Jr.
LBJ HELPS KING
KATHMDUA, Nepal (UPD
—President Johnson provided a
special helicopter to fly King
Mahendra to a hilltop camp to
recuperate from a heart attack
he suffered March 15 while
tiger shooting, Prime Minister
S. B. Thapa said Tuesday.
QUAKES REPORTED
BELGRADE (UPD — Thirty
earthquakes Tuesday shook
Debar which was devasted by a
tremor last November. No
damage was reported from the
new quakes.
U.N. EXTENDS AID
ROME (UPD — Emergency
food aid for victims in Jordan,
Syria and Egypt of last June’s
Arab-Israeli was has been
extended another two months
“in view of continuing hard
ship,” the U.N. Food and
Agriculture Organization said
Tuesday.
YOUTHS FLEE EAST
BRUNSWICK, West Germany
(UPD — Two East German
youths, dodging Communist
bullets, ran through minefields
to enter West Germany Tues
day. West German border
guards said their two compa
nions were captured by East
German guards.
INDIANS SEIZE MAOISTS
NEW DELHI (UPD—lndian
police said Tuesday they
arrested 400 pro-Mao Commu
nists who had assembled guns
and booklets of the Chinese
Communist leader’s thoughts in
a drive to organize a Commu
nist administration among Gir
jan tribesmen in Andhra state.
Police said some leaders fled to
mountain hideouts to maintain
guerrilla warfare against the
Indian government.
Mobilization
Asked For
South Vietnam
By KATE WEBB
SAIGON (UPD—With U.S.
pressure being exerted in the
background, President Nguyen
Van Thleu today asked legisla
tive approval for a general
mobilization to meet the Com
munist threat to Vietnam.
An extensive mobilization and
increased South Vietnamese
fighting ability would put Thieu
in a better position to ward off
any move toward formation of a
coalition government with the
Communists.
His resolve today that the
Communists would never be
allowed into a coalition won him
his warmest applause from the
National Assembly.
The 20-minute speech was
made before a special session of
the National Assembly in
Saigon's ornate Dien Hong
Palace.
"I recognize the need for
general mobilization of man
power and resources,” Thieu
said. "I beg the Congress to
debate and approve this imme
diately.”
U.S. officials have quietly
urged that South Vietnam
increase its wax effort, and
today’s request represented
Thieu’s strongest proposal yet
for putting his nation on a total
war footing.
He did not spell out the
details of his request, but it
apprently involved increased
financial and economic regulato
ry authority for the president
and authority to increase the
military draft.
A similar request for in
creased financial and economic
powers earlier this year was
rejected by the legislators.
However, they were expected to
be mare receptive to the new
proposal.
Theiu warned of the Commu
nist threat to his country that
still existed despite the possibili
ty of contacts between the
United States and North Viet
nam. The North Vietnamese
will take advantage of the
current U.S. bombing letup to
move men and supplies into the
South, be warned.
The South Vietnamese leader
also said he doubted the good
intentions of the Communists in
the flurry of activity aimed at
negotiations.
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BRUCE BIOSSAT
Young Find a New World
In Pulsing Political Sphere
By BRUCE BIOSSAT
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
The new political year, with the. presidency at stake, has
already established its uniqueness—though it is barely under
way.
From the date of Michigan Gov. George Romney’s with
drawal from the 1968 race Feb. 28 until now, events demon
strated as never before the great capacity of the American
political system to produce surprise, magnetic force and in
tense ferment.
Thousands of supposedly “alienated” young Americans have
forgotten the beckoning beaches of Florida and are pouring
their energy and. idealism into the presidential campaigns of
Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Sen. Eugene McCarthy.
From the inside, doing the unglamorous, routine leg chores
of politics, the young people are making measurable impact
on the “system” they earlier had scorned.
Whatever else McCarthy may achieve in his long-chance
bid to Unseat President Johnson, he has started thousands of
people moving through the generational no-man’s-land—across
which they have glared at each other in hostility from deep
dug trenches. The two “sides” are meeting in mid-ground
and liking what they find.
Bruising as is their contact with the working realities of
politics, many of the youngsters are nevertheless standing up
to the impact and plunging bravely on. Whose name they
work under seems less important than the fact that they have
stopped shaking placards at the “system” and have gone in
side to help make it work in a vibrant way.
But youthful energies are only a modest part of the force
and ferment that have marked U.S. presidential politics since
late February. The leading public figures enmeshed in the
drama gave heavy accent to the unexpected.
Romney, wrongly painted as impervious to reality, stunned
many with his sudden pull-out. New York’s Gov. Nelson
Rockefeller moved into brief but exciting center-focus when
he wavered from his resolve against active candidacy and
then, amid high suspense, drew back to that aloof posture.
Surely to his own astonishment, McCarthy, the shadowy
candidate who talks in the pale tones of the shadow, took on
veins and capillaries in New Hampshire’s March 12 primary
voting and became the plausible man.
His plausibility as a vehicle of protest against the President
gave the final emotional spur to the fretful Bob Kennedy,
chafing on the sidelines at his self-imposed detachment from
the boiling currents of 1968 Democratic politics.
When he jumped in, the “system” had the last new proofs
it needed of its vitality and unpredictability. It shuddered,
but held. Neat calculations of easy Johnson renomination
were scrapped. Across the party border, many professional
Republican politicians wondered if Kennedy’s entry might not
add a new dimension of doubt over the electability of Richard
M. Nixon, seen on the surface as the overwhelming prospect
for the GOP nomination.
No doubt of it, inside the system is where the action is right
now. The young people newly drawn to it, and their unpredict
able elders, have seen to that.
RAY CROMLEY
LBJ Quitting Stirs Asian
Fears U.S. May Pull Out
By RAY CROMLEY
NEA Washington Correspondent
BANGKOK (NEA)
To the Southeast Asian mind, President Johnson, in effect,
has said he is a tired man, discouraged by the Vietnam war
and ready to call it quits.
This is why men voluntarily retire from office in troubled
times in this part of the world.
The pity is that Johnson in his short television talk coupled
two ideas—a bombing halt and his intention to retire from
the presidency-
This suggestive combination cannot help but reinforce the
fear of American withdrawal voiced privately but persistent
ly in high circles in Thailand, Laos and South Vietnam the
past several months.
This reporter knows, for example, that one of the top
ministers in one Southeastern Asian government told his
fellow cabinet officers in private some weeks back that the
United States was getting ready to pull out of South Vietnam
and that his country must immediately begin to prepare for
this.
The discouragement the President’s words will cause may
make a just peace in Vietnam considerably more difficult to
achieve.
It could erode the strength of the free governments in Laos,
Thailand, South Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore.
This speech, undoubtedly, will encourage Hanoi to keep up
the battle in the expectation dissent and defeatism in the
United States today is approaching that existing in France
in 1954.
It was this French defeatism, not Dien Bien Phu, that
caused France to give up in Indochina. North Vietnam
strategy documents captured in Vietnam state that it is not
by military victory but through U.S. defeatism that they
expect to win now.
Thus the President’s speech could make meaningful nego
tiations more unlikely.
To save the situation, Johnson must now make some bold
moves (not necessarily military) to prove beyond doubt that
the United States will stay in the war as long as necessary
to insure a free independent South Vietnam, Laos and Thai
land. It is not enough for the President to say, as he did,
that the United States does have this resolve. By Asian think
ing, Johnson’s actions (the bombing halt and the decision not
to run) seem to belie his promises to hold firm in Asia.
There is another encouraging possibility. After the. first
blush of defeatism, Johnson’s words could'produce a boom
erang effect. Though many Southeast Asians will be dis
couraged by Johnson’s remarks, a few leaders will become
angry and more determined.
If South Vietnam’s President Thieu is such a man, and
Thieu s friends tell me that he is, he will attempt to make
up for the apparent weakening of American resolve by a
drastic strengthening of his own efforts.
If Thieu’s angyy determination catches fire, this could go
a long way toward winning the war.
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