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Griffin Daily News
The talk of the town when it went up for Expo ‘67,
Montreal's apartment house of the future
is still a subject of conversation, not all of it so
complimentary now. Ira Berkow tells of the uncertain
present in the first of two reports from Canada.
Habitat Habit Is Slow
In Catching On
By IRA BERKOW
NEA Staff Correspondent
MONTREAL—! N E A )—
Habitat ’67 was planned as
a “castle in the sky,” “a
modern-day Utopia” blend
ing the conveniences
of urban dwelling with the
civilities of country living:
proximity to the office, to the
theater, to the supermarket,
to the nursery, with privacy,
the scents of grass, the
bounce of flowers, and those
two obscure city com
modities, sunlight and park
ing space.
Habitat ’67 is a housing
complex here, with 114 units
(or “apartment-homes”). It
is very nice to look at, in a
Leger-painting sort of way
concrete cubes and tubes in
tersect and rise block on
Nixon May Announce
New 50,000 Pullout
By HELEN THOMAS
WASHINGTON (UPI) —Pres
ident Nixon Is expected to
announce a pullout of 50,000
more American troops from
Vietnam in late August and
may schedule another withdra
wal of 50,000 fighting men In
October, it was learned today.
This means Nixon will try to
withdraw 125,000 troops by the
end of the year and fulfill his
expressed hope of beating
former Defense Secretary Clark
M. Clifford’s timetable of
100,000. ]
An administration source said
Nixon and Oen. Earle G.
Wheeler, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, have agreed the
withdrawal of 50,000 more Ols
is feasible now. Nixon will
announce it later this month.
On the basis of Wheeler’s on- ’
the-spot survey of the Vietnam
militia and Nixon’s own talks
and observations during his
round-the-world trip, they re
portedly have set another
target In the fall of 50,000
troops In the phased withdra
wal.
Announces Troop Cut
Nixon announced an initial
troop cut of 25,000 during the
June 8 Midway summit meeting
with President Nguyen Van
Thieu of South Vietnam.
The reductions already under
way will bring the total troop
commitment in South Vietnam
to 515,000 by the end of August.
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block atop each other. And it
is very pleasant to live in—
at least one garden for each
unit, good views for all and,
in a departure from most
newly built living edifices,
the walls are thick enough
so you do not hear your
neighbor wheezing in his
sleep.
But when the apartments
were put up for prospective
tenants in March, 1968, there
was one smudge in the beau
tiful blueprint. The cost of
living, like the building con
cept, was sky-high; a P/2-
room apartment cost S6OO a
month and rent soared to
$2,200 a month for a seven
room dwelling.
And folks were not striking
each other with folded um
brellas to get there first. In
fact, by July of last year,
The peak troop commitment,
more than 540,000, was reached
earlier this year, after the
Nixon administration took of
fice.
Nixon was considering a
broadcast to the nation from
Los Angeles in late August on
the next pullout of fighting men
In his campaign to “Vletna
mlze” the war.
Wheeler presented his evalua
tion of the war picture and
continuing military lull to Nixon
on July 22, a short time before
the President embarked on his
world tour.
Under Intensive Study
Nixon said In Guam he was
reviewing the possibility of
further troop withdrawals and
would make his position clear
in late August. The de
escalation of enemy activity—
an evaluation of whether it Is
deliberate or not—ls under
Intensive study in the White
House and the Pentagon.
White House Press Secretary
Ronald Ziegler said Nixon told
the Democratic and Republican
leaders Monday there "had
been substantial improvement’’
In the military situation In
South Vietnam. Ziegler also
said no decision had been made
on a further troop cutback.
Nixon, in talks with Asian
leaders, apparently paved the
way for his policy of Asians
taking over their own 'defense
against internal and external
insurgency except tn case of a
threat by a nuclear power.
He won surprising support for
his position from leaders after
reassuring them the United
States plans to continue other
assistance and will remain a
power in the Pacific.
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CORDOBA, Argentina (UPI)-
The hippie look in hair doesn’t
get much official sympathy in
these parts.
Raul Heredia complained that
he was refused service in a bar
because he had long hair. He
said he reported the incident to
a policeman on the street. When
the officer refused to act,
Heredia went to central police
headquarters.
No one there would consider
his complaint, Heredia said.
only 27 units were rented.
In August, however, rents
were lowered by about one
third. Now, 103 of the 114
units are rented and the
others are expected to be
occupied soon.
And those 27 families that
were there last July all have
recently signed two- and
three-year leases.
“The only apartment
homes we have left,” said
Roger Massicotte, admini
strative assistant to Habitat,
“are the three- and four-bed
room dwellings. If we had
50 or more one-bedrooms,
they’d be gone in an instant.”
Habitat ’67 was part of
Expo, Montreal’s 1967
world’s fair. It was supposed
to include 1,000 living units
in 10 precast housing com
plexes. It was planned to
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INDIANS WILL DO THEIR THING at Gallup, N.M., when the Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial presents its 48th
annual exposition of American Indian dances, crafts, sports and street parades. A unique and successful mutual
effort in racial relations, the ceremonial has teamed the managerial skills of a civic association with the perform
ing talents of hundreds of Indians proud of their traditional civilization. This year’s presentation will be Aug. 14-17.
3 American POW’s Head Home
TOKYO (UPD-Three Ameri
can prisoners of war prepared
to fly to Vientiane, Laos today
on the first leg of their return
to the United States with a
group of pacifists who negotiat
ed for their release from
captivity in North Vietnam.
The three Americans, their
prison uniforms replaced by
white shirts and navy blue
trousers, were leaving aboard a
World War II vintage 829 of
the International Control Com
mission (ICC).
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be a city within a city, with
churches, parks, shopping
and cultural facilities. Be
cause building costs were
prohibitive, only one com
plex was constructed. Thus,
there were not enough resi
dents to make commercial
structures economically
sound.
Moshe Safdie, an Israeli
born architect, designed
Habitat ’67. He once made
a tour of North American
cities and concluded: “Met
ropolitan areas are falling
apart .... I saw thousands
of high-rise apartment boxes
with little or no sunlight....
And the relation between
city center, hub of work and
knowledge, and the suburbs
is quite a r b i t r a r y.” He
thought he could do better.
One of the problems with
over to the pacifists Monday,
the North Vietnam News
agency (NVA) reported in a
broadcast from Hanoi.
Hanoi Radio in a broadcast
heard in Tokyo said the men
were:
—Air Force Ist Lt. Wesley L.
Rumble, 26, of Oroville, Calif.,
attached to the Tactical Fighter
Wing 366, based at Da Nang,
South Vietnam. His F4B fighter
plane was shot down by North
Vietnamese antiaircraft fire
and he was captured April 28,
1966.
—Navy Lt. (J.g.) Robert
Frenchot Frlshman, 28, Santee,
Calif., a pilot aboard the
carrier Coral Sea captured in
Hanoi Oct. 24, 1967, when his F 4
fighter was shot down.
—Navy Seaman Douglass
Brent Hegdahl, 22, of Clark,
S.D., washed overboard from
the U.S. cruiser Canberra and
captured April 5, 1967.
North Vietnam fulfilled a
promise made 32 days ago in
handing the men over to
pacifists headed by Rennard C.
“Renny” Davis, 28, of Chicago,
Habitat which, along with
the steep rents, made it less
than desirable, was its isola
tion from the center of Mon
treal. Habitat is located on
the Cite du Havre, several
miles from downtown. And
there was a time when, if
you had neither car nor
horse, the closest you could
get to the “hub” was by day
dream. This kind of seclu
sion was fine for meditation
but hard on the stomach;
shopping was a problem.
That has been straightened
out. Limousine and bus
service now is provided for
residents.
Despite the ultramodern
and luxurious appurtenances
of Habitat—wall-length floor
vents, adjustable lighting
beams for focusing in any
part of the room, “floating”
representing the New Mobiliza
tion Committee to End the War
in Vietnam.
North Vietnam said the men.
were freed in the presence of a
large number of North Vietna
mese and foreign newsmen,
cameramen and television re
porters. NVA said the Ameri
cans expressed their “gratitude
to the Vietnamese people, the
North Vietnamese government
and the Vietnamese Peoples
Army for their humanitarian
act and humane treatment they
received throughout the period
of their detention.”
Reports from Hanoi said the
men were in good health.
Frlshman was injured in the
shoulder and arm in the crash
of his plane but he recovered
while in captivity. The North
Vietnamese furnished them
with white shirts and blue pants
to replace their prison uni
forms.
The men were expected to
remain in Vientiane overnight
and return to the United States
aboard commercial airliners by
way of Bangkok sometime
refrigerators and washers
that allow instant cleaning
and one-piece fiberglass bath
rooms—there still exist nag
ging annoyances; the water
taps sometimes drip, the air
conditioning unit can be
temperamental.
As for privacy, sometimes
it, too, is more wish than
reality.
“The other day,” said a
Montreal cab driver, “I
drove by Habitat and saw
several other cabs lined up.
It was unusual. I stopped
and asked a cabbie what was
going on. He said, ‘Look for
yourself.’ And there, up
around the fifth floor, was
this gorgeous lady sunbath
ing. All she was wearing was
sun-tan lotion.”
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Wednesday. U.S. officials in
Bangkok had made reservations
for them to New York.
QUICK QUIZ
Q — How did the game of
soccer get its name?
A—Soccer’s rules were set
up by an association formed
in 1863. The name, “associ
ation football,” led to the
nickname, soccer, from the
second syllable of “associ
ation.”
Q —Which country is con
sidered the home of the
Christmas tree?
A —Legend says it came
into being in Germany in the
Bth century when a mission
ary replaced sacrifices to
Odin’s sacred oak by a fir
tree adorned in tribute to
the Christ Child. Martin
Luther is credited with add-
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'Rush' Is a Word Foreign
To the Meticulous Nixon
By RAY CROMLEY
NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
Adding to the confusion over President Nixon’s leader
ship, purpose and direction is one basic trait affecting all
his activities.
The President is a slow, methodical planner. He wants
everything well-prepared, documented and briefed. He
wants each point argued through, sometimes ad nauseam.
He usually is unwilling to impose his own will and his own
decision until all sides have been heard, and sometimes
heard again. He wants all ends neatly tied up. This makes
him seem like an overcautious plodder. It certainly gives
an appearance at times of widespread confusion.
This careful, detailed approach is probably one reason
for the charge that Nixon cannot make up his mind on a
number of key domestic, social and economic problems.
It has led to the resignation of at least one key Negro
member of his administration, the man responsible for
Nixon’s black capitalism program in the Small Business
Administration, who quit in frustration.
Nixon was accused of being reactionary when his aides
considered virtually wiping out the office of Economic
Opportunity as it was constituted. It turned out only that
Nixon men had received so many reports of failure in the
program that they believed a thorough revamping was
necessary.
The energetic and imaginative young man Nixon finally
put in charge of the program is certainly not the type a
President would put at the helm of an organization he was
attempting to destroy.
The difficulty seems to be that in the Kennedy and John
son years so many programs were started and funded so
rapidly that, however laudable their objectives, they were
in an advanced state of disorganization.
This reporter has heard the harshest of criticism first
hand from Negro and other disadvantaged groups these
programs were intended to aid.
The plain fact is that if some of these programs were
allowed to go on as in the past money scandals of the
greatest magnitude would have exploded in Nixon’s ears
within the next two years.
The situation was made worse because President John
son, obviously for political reasons, sharply expanded the
funds for some of these projects in the budgets he prepared
for Nixon to live under in his first one-and-a-half years of
office.
It would have been impossible to have carried out these
tremendous expansions (sometimes involving a doubling
or more of funds within a 12-month period) within Nixon’s
first 18 months without leading to ludicrous amounts of
waste, graft and other assorted forms of corruption.
It takes time to sort things out in a situation like this.
It is easier by far to start new programs than to take exist
ing programs and turn them around. You have a vast
bureaucracy already built up.-In every change, you make
enemies of those who have tied themselves emotionally to
one or another phase of a program.
In those areas where failure has been due to ignorance,
how do you make shifts you are certain won’t lead to even
worse results, unless there’s some detailed research and
preparation?
The secret is to go slow when you don’t know what you
are doing and where no one else does either. And where
every man has his own theory on how poverty, crime,
riots and despair should be handled. But how do you go
slow in programs that are already rolling, where events
have carried things so far that going slow could mean
intense political dissension and perhaps new and more
violent rioting?
In situations like this, careful thinking and painstaking
research and analysis can sometimes be mistaken for in
decision and lack of leadership. And, as mentioned at the
beginning of this column, Nixon throughout his life has
been a slow, meticulous man who will not be rushed.
Volunteer Worker s
Dispute Settled
ATLANTA (UPI) —State Wel
fare Director Bill Burson said
Monday a new opinion he has
received from Atty. Gen. Arthur
Bolton should settle the recent
controversy over state volunteer
welfare workers which threat
ened Georgia with the loss of
some $l3O million in federal
funds.
Bolton’s new opinion, accord
ing to Burson, was based on ac
tion taken by the state merit
board. The board last week set
up an exempt status position for
volunteer workers.
The special position would re
move the volunteers from under
the state merit board and re
gard them as part - time state
employes.
Bolton said in a letter to Bur
son that volunteers in such a
classification could be reim
bursed for expenses.
New federal welfare regula
tions require state welfare de
parements to use volunteers in
their various programs In order
to qualify for matching funds.
The regulations stipulate that nc
one can be barred from volun.
teering because of not being
able to afford the expenses In
volved.
However, Bolton’s first opln
ion said stale funds could no
be used to reimburse the ex
ing lighted candles.
Q —Which state leads in
the production of apples?
A—Washington.
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"I’m hopeful that this new de
cision will be acceptable, and I
believe that it will,” Burson
said, because the new proposal,
was one of several alternatives
recommended when state and
Department of Health, Educa
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ferred in Washington following
Bolton’s original ruling.
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