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Friday, December 13, 1968 Griffin Daily News
King’s Last Work
America ‘Unprepared’
To Solve Problems
CHICAGO (UPD—Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., in his last
published work, said America is
•‘tragically unprepared” to
solve the problem of race
relations and poverty.
The Negro leader shot down
in Memphis, Tenn., in April
said, however, he was optimis
tic that justice for all black
people would come, but not
‘‘without radical changes in the
structure of our society.”
‘‘The nation waited until the
black man was explosive with
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fury before stirring itself even
to partial concern," King wrote.
“Confronted now with the
interrelated problems of war,
inflation, urban decay, white
backlash and a climate of
violence, it is now forced to
address itself to face relations
and poverty, and it is tragically
unprepared.
“What might once have been
a series of separate problems
now merge into a social crisis
of almost stupefying complexl-
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ty.”
In a “testament of hope”
published in the 15th holiday
anniversary issue of Playboy
magazine, the Negro advocate
of nonviolent civil disobedience
faulted Presidents Kennedy and
Johnson for foreign and domes
tic policies, urged more political
and economic power for the
Negro and said solutions to his
people’s problems “must be
constructive and rational” that
rioting accomplishes nothing.
King, castigated by militant
blacks for going too slow, said,
“no president has really done
very much for the American
Negro.” He said Presidents
Kennedy and Johnson received
much undeserved credit for
helping Negroes.
‘‘This credit has accrued to
Lyndon Johnson and John
Kennedy only because it was
during their administrations
that Negroes began doing more
for themselves.
“Kennedy didn’t voluntarily
submit a civil rights bill, nor
did Lyndon Johnson. In fact,
both told us at one time that
such legislation was impossi
ble.”
He criticized the Johnson
Administration’s military build
up and the U.S. role in Vietnam
and the Dominican Republican
intervention. He charged the
present leadership is “amazing
ly devoid of statesmanship; and
when creative statesmanship
wanes, irrational militarism
increases.
“In his sense, President
Kennedy was far more of a
statesman than President John-
Archaelogists Find
Lost Greek City
PHILADELPHIA (UPD—The
lost Greek city of Sybaris, its
riches and decadent pleasure
domes buries for 2,500 years,
has been found on the lonian
shore of Italy.
Archaeologists Guiseppe Foti
of Italy and Froelich G. Rainey
of the University of Pennsylva
nia museum announced the site
discovery here Thursday night
and disclosed their search was
aided by an instrument deve
loped for outer space but used
in archaeology for the first
time.
They said they have esta
blished “beyond a reasonable
doubt” that Sybaris lies beneath
15 to 18 feet of earth on the
plain of Crati near Thurii, about
a mile from the lonian
shoreline.
The announcement climaxed a
century-old search by scholars
of many nations for the ruins of
the Greek colony, reputedly the
wealthiest most luxury-loving
and decadent of its time.
Sybaris was conquered and
destroyed in 510 B.C. by its
neighbors from Croton.
The search by Foti’s Italian
Sweden Grants
Asylum To Nine
U. S. Servicemen
By IAN WESTERGREN
STOCKHOLM (UPD—Sweden
granted asylum today to nine
American servicemen opposed
to U.S. Vietnam war policy,
raising to 149 the number of Gls
in legal exile here.
The aliens commission also
ordered two U.S. draftdodgers
expelled from Sweden.
The commission said it
granted asylum to the new nine
on the usual “humanitarian
grounds.”
The American Deserters Com
mittee (ADC) here said there
were at least 200 runaway Gls
in Sweden. It said many have
not yet applied for asylum.
The two draft dodgers were
rejected because they were not
members of the U.S. armed
forces, an aliens commission
spokesman said. They were not
identified.
The nine Gls given refuge in
this neutral country all told the
commission they opposed the
Vietnam War and feared they
would be sent to fight there.
The spokesman identified
them as:
—David Labinger, 22, Boston,
Mass. Labinger also brought his
wife, Madelaine, who als was
granted permission to remain in
Sweden.
James Roberson, 22, of West
Virginia.
—Edward Smith, 22 Mans
field, Ohio.
—Gelbert Bruce Owen, 22,
Decatur, 111.
Walter Marshall, 20, Port
smouth, N.H.
—Terry Keck, 21, Illinois.
—Robert Townsend, 27, Pater
son, N.J.
—Staffan Paul Kraus, 20,
Fitzhburg, Mass.
—Billy Stanton, 21, Wichita,
Kan.
The commission gave no
information concerning ranks,
units or street addresses.
son. He was a man who was big
enough to admit when he was
wrong—as he did after the Bay
of Pigs incident. But Lyndon
Johnson seems to be unable to
make this kind of statesmanlike
gesture in connection with
Vietnam.”
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Department of Antiquities and
Rainey’s museum staff lasted
eight years. They said location
of the ruins was due largely to
an Instrument called a cesium
magnetometer to locate objects
20 feet below the surface.
“This is the first time that an
instrument of the kind deve
loped for exploration in outer
space had been used for
archaeology, and it holds
promise, where soil conditions
are suitable, for the easy
recognition of buried objects,”
they said in a joint announce
ment. "It should eliminate
much unproductive digging
which has been necessary in the
past.”
Archaeologists drilled at the
site of Sybaris and removed
pieces of archaic tile and
pottery and struck numerous
stone structures.
Ancient historians wrote that
Sybarites lived a luxurious and
decadent life. There was a law
in Sybaris that before women
could be invited to a public
celebration they must be given
a year’s notice to allow enough
time to prepare the appropriate
dresses and finery.
19 VIET MEDALS— Capt. Rob
ert C. Rankin, 27, Goshen,
Ind., is arrayed with the 19
medals he won during six
months of service in Viet
nam — Distinguished Flying
Cross with two Oak Leaf
clusters, Silver Star with an
Oak Leaf cluster, and 14 Air
Medals. He is stationed at a
USAF base in England.
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Hanoi To Accept Yule
Parcels For Prisoners
By NICHOLAS DANILOFF
WASHINGTON (UPD — The
State Department Thursday
announced that contrary to last
year Hanoi will accept Christ
mas parcels for delivery to
American prisoners this year.
The officials said they were
gratified by Hanoi’s decision,
communicated in Paris by
North Vietnamese negotiator
Xuan Thuy to U.S. Ambassador
W. Averell Harriman.
The officials did not, however,
link the goodwill gesture to
possible future movement in the
Paris talks on Vietnam. They
also indicated continued distress
LBJ, Ordaz Settle
Territorial Claim
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ident Johnson and President
Gustavo Diaz Ordaz of Mexico
today completed the final phase
of a multimillion dollar settle
ment of a generation-old border
dispute between the two na
tions.
Johnson was flying to El Paso
Tex., for a 1 p.m. EST
ceremony with his Mexican
counterpart implementing the
Chamizal agreement which
transfers a small strip of
American land with less than
250 inhabitants to Mexico in
settlement of a territorial claim
the United States delayed acting
on for generations.
When the two presidents
simultaneously push a button, a
dynamite blast will remove a
retainer dam and allow the
waters of the Rio Grande River
to spill down a 4.35 mile
concrete channel. The channel
is designed to keep the flood
waters of the river from ever
again shifting the border
between El Paso and the
Mexican City of Juarez.
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over the uncertainty surround
ing the American prisoners’
fate.
The officials pointed out that
to date North Vietnam has
declined to provide the United
States a list of American
prisoners of war or to permit
Red Cross inspections of their
living conditions as specified by
the Geneva Convention on
prisoners of war.
Thus U.S. military authorities
simply do not know exactly
which missing American pilots
are prisoners in North Vietnam,,
As a matter of precaution, the
military services on Nov. 25
Initial talks leading to the
Chamizal agreement were be
gun by the late President
Kennedy and former Mexican
President Adolfo Lopez Mateos.
It was under Johnson and
Ordaz, however, that the
transfer of land under the
agreement was carried out in
October 1967 when the two
presidents met at the site.
Prior to the opening of the
concrete channel, a heavy
rainstorm could increase or
decrease the size of either
nation as the flooded river
receded, leaving a new channel
behind and cutting off banks of
riverside land.
Under a mutual agreement, a
piece of land of less than 400
acres with a population of less
than 250 people belonged
automatically to the United
States if it would up on the
northern side of the river, or to
Mexico if it wound up on the
south side.
The inhabitants go with the
land, changing citizenship as the
river wanders.
informed families of missing
pilots to prepare small Christ
mas packages for kinfolk
believed to be prisoners.
These instructions went out
even before North Vietnam's
official attitude was made
known. Xuan Thuy’s communi
cation to Harriman was made,
in fact, in response to a specific
inquiry earlier by the American
ambassador.
U.S. officials said that on Nov.
25 the Navy also contacted
relatives of the crew of the USS
Pueblo under detention in North
Korea. In this case, U.S.
assurance Christmas packages
would be accepted by the
Communists for transmittal to
the Americans.
Communist China is holding
at least six Americans and
according to _ long standing
arrangements packages have
been forwarded regularly to
these prisoners through the Red
Cross.
U.S. officials said that as of
Nov. 23, 1968, there were 879
American servicemen missing
in Southeast Asia and another
336 were known to be prisoners
in either North or South
Vietnam.
Cambodia is holding 11
Americans who were captured
when their landing craft wan
dered into Cambodian waters
through a navigational error
earlier in the year. They are
not considered prisoners of war
and have been receiving messa
ges and packages from time to
time through the Australian
embassy in Phnom Penh.
EMPISH ELF
BRYAN, Tex. (UPD—A youth
Santa Claus has cost the
Chamber of Commerce about
half the toys collected in its
annual Christmas toy drive.
A young girl called police
when she heard about the toys
missing from a warehouse
where she said she had taken
a bicycle.