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CITY WITHIN A CITY. Hastily built tin shacks of a slum area called Latino contrast
with modern apartment buildings in Rome. It is considered a symbol of the mess
Italian urban housing is in. Latino's 3,000 inhabitants occupy one of dozens of shanty
towns huddled around the capital city. The shacks were built by newcomers unable
to find living quarters after World War 11.
Superintendents
Ask For Help
ATLANTA (UPI) - Georgia’s
local school leaders have called
.for support from both the public
and the General Assembly in
their efforts to carry out court
ordered school desegregation.
. The state Association of
school Superintendents, in the
wake of the U.S. District Court
72 N. Viets Die
SAIGON (UPI)-U.S. troops
got into their sharpest battle
•since the Christmas truce today
and reported killing 72 North
Vietnamese on the Cambodian
border in fighting that conti
nued past dark.
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24-HOUR AMBULANCE SERVICE
■I MEMBER, THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN RULE EE
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Sat. and Sun., Dec. 27-28, 1969
order requiring all schools be
integrated by next fall, has
called on the General Assembly
to appropriate funds to help
meet “the efnergency that
exists.”
And the association asked
Georgians to “exhibit their im
mediate and unrestrained sup
port” for local school officials
required to meet the responsi
bility.
Dr. Allen Smith, assistant
stateschool superintendent, said
the State Department of Edu
cation is seeking funds for a
massive crash program to train
teachers to meet desegregation
problems at summer seminars.
BRUCE BIOSSAT
Big Question in Viet War
Impotent Cong End for Hanoi?
By BRUCE BIOSSAT, NEA Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON (NEA)
The evident sphere decline of the Viet Cong as a military
and especially as a political force is the biggest story in
South Vietnam these days. It was reported only belatedly,
and is still not well-explained.
By now we are all familiar with the fact that American
reporters can hitchhike or drive in unescorted civilian cars
through territory that long was controlled by the Viet Cong.
Hardly a major newspaper, news magazine or television
network has missed telling us lately of this opening up of
the Vietnamese countryside. There seems rather wide
agreement that only around 10 per cent of South Vietnam’s
village population remains under tight Viet Cong control.
The rebels’ grip is even broken on some land held without
interruption from the very outset of the war.
It is being reliably estimated that 400,000 South Viet
namese refugees have returned to their old villages and
another 350,000 have been settled in new ones. Villagers
nearly everywhere have begun managing their own affairs
—some holding local elections, many setting up local
defense units to guard the towns, the bridges and the roads
from marauding guerrillas.
If these stories are accurate, then the working base of
the Viet Cong is largely gone. There must be few areas
from which they can draw recruits, taxes and vital rice
supplies. The major question must be:
Whatever happened to the so-called “civil war”?
The answer is not at all clear. Nor it is plain why we
now have a spate of stories depicting the wide sweep of
this change in the countryside, yet heard so little of the
change while it was going on. It is hardly a phenomenon
that could have sprung full-blown in a matter of weeks.
Many reporters on the scene are suggesting that count
less veteran Viet Cong fighting men and political officials
are either dead—killed mostly in the famous Tet offensive
of 1968—0 r have deserted their old cause.
Clarke Award
Established
By GSAE
Atlanta (PRN)— The
Georgia Society of Association
Executives has established an
award, named in honor of
former GSAE president and
president of Georgia Business
and Industry Association
Clifford M. Clarke, which will
be presented annually to its
most outstanding member,
announced President Abit
Massey.
The first Clarke Award will
be presented, Massey said, at
the annual meeting of GSAE
this month.
“The award will be
presented to the person who
has an outstanding record in
accomplishment for his own
association, for the association
movement and in service to
city, church and state,”
Massey said.
Massey said the award was
named as the Clifford Clarke
Award “because of the fact
that his name has become
synonymous with the best in
association management as a
result of his work through
Georgia Business and Industry
Association.”
Said Donald C. Burns of
San Francisco, chairman of
the board of Organization
Management Inc., “An award
bearing Mr. Clarke’s name can
only inspire leadership, service
and dedication as it honors
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PRIMITIVE PEOPLE in the shadow of a capital city. Within sight of a gleaming 12-
story hotel in downtown Asuncion, top, live 500 Maka Indians, protected by the Para
guayan government and encouraged to maintain a semblance of their primitive way of
life. An aged Maka woman, bottom left, weaves a rug as her ancestors did before her.
The reservation policeman, bottom right, is an Indian in conventional clothes but tra
ditional hair style.
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CLARKE AWARD CREATED-ATLANTA, GA.-Alexa Wyrick
admires the Clifford M. Clarke Award established by Georgia
Society of Association Executives for presentation annually to
its most outstanding member. The award is named in honor of
Clarke, former president of GSAE and president of the Georgia
Business and Industry Association. (PRN)
merit. Cliff Clarke has well
earned his enviable reputation
as one of this country’s
all-time great organization
executives.”
Commented Hugh
McCahey, manager of the
association service department
of the U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, “The association
field is blessed with strong
Only in a few instances is it being hinted that Viet Cong
officials may simply be lying quiet for a time. With U.S.
troop withdrawals giving them fresh opportunities for
widened control, this would seem an odd time to fall quiet
and let the villagers reassert themselves.
The probability that the Viet Cong are seriously dimin
ished in strength is of commanding significance. It means
that the regime in Hanoi can no longer operate successfully
behind the facade of the “war of liberation” in South Viet
nam.
It is notable that right now the uncertainties regarding
the enemy revolve not around what the Viet Cong may do
but around what the North Vietnamese army regulars may
do. The news is the stepped-up infiltration rate from the
north, and the guessing is focused on what that portends
for late January or February of 1970.
Obviously, those forces are still capable of causing big
trouble. Most local defense units and many newly equipped
and better-trained South Vietnamese regulars have not
been tested in all-out battle. Another Tet offensive, aimed
at these forces but perhaps highlighted by easily mounted
rocket assaults on the cities and U.S. bases, would reaffirm
the credibility of Hanoi’s armies as a fighting force.
Yet there is no clear sign today that the North Viet
namese regulars will undertake a really large drive. One
question is how well-supplied they would be with the mate
riel of war. Another has to do with their feeling. The
forces from the north expect to live off the countryside.
Unless they lie back in the protected preserves of Cam
bodia, this has been made extremely difficult by the decline
of the Viet Cong—which no longer seems able to build up
stores of rice or backup caches of ammunition.
So the enemy’s intentions and capabilities in the next few
months are greatly in doubt. But the doubt concerns itself
with the men in Hanoi, not the thinned-out leaders of the
fading Viet Cong.
(Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
leaders who are continuously
at the forefront, who provide
the driving force for
association innovation. Cliff
Clarke heads the list of the
movers and shakers in the
association management
field.”
Clarke is the only man in
recent years to twice head the
Georgia Society of Association
Executives, and in 1966 he
became the first state
association executive and the
first Southerner in the 47-year
history of American Society
of Association Executives to
serve as president. He also
served as treasurer and senior
vice president of ASAE.
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To Sign Bill
WASHINGTON (UPI) -Pres
ident Nixon, having strongly
hinted he intends to sign the
tax reform bill, continued to
work today on budget problems
in an effort to offset the bill’s
projected $2.5 billion revenue
loss for fiscal 1971.
Although he had earlier
threatened to veto the reform
relief measure on the grounds
it is inflationary, the President
Gov. Maddox
Tells Prisoners
About Reforms
MONROE, Ga. (UPI) - The
only sure road to freedom is
“the Glory Road,” Gov. Lester
Maddox told a group of prison
ers Friday.
Maddox, at the request of in
mates, went to the Walton Coun
ty prison camp to present a
“warden of the year” award to
Warden Young Haynes.
He used the occasion to list
gains his administration has
made in prison reform, and to
give some advice to the pri
soners.
The governor said numerous
county work camps have been
closed down because they failed
to meet minimum state stand
ards, but added that many of
them are in better condition
than state prisons. And he said
as long as they stay that way
he will support keeping them
open.
Maddox said his prison re
forms “have as their underlying
theme the simple philosophy
that men should be treated like
men, that achievement should
be rewarded and wrongdoing
should be punished.
“I urge each of you, at this
inspiring time of year, to find
room in your soul for your
maker,” he told the prisoners.
“There is no surer road back
to society and your families and
a decent, law-abiding life than
the Glory Road,” he added.
Highway Deaths
Behind Estimate
By United Press International
A steady but slow rise in
traffic deaths indicated today
that the National Safety Coun
cil’s estimate of 800 to 920
Christmas Holiday fatalities
was too high. The council said
snow kept the toll down.
“It looks like traffic deaths
will be well below our
estimate,” a council spokesman
said today.
“I think snow helped keep a
lot of people home and those
who did go out were a lot more
careful.”
A United Press International
count at 3 a.m. EST showed at
least 315 persons killed in
traffic accidents since the
holiday period began at 6 p.m.
Wednesday. It ends at mid
night, local time, Sunday.
A breakdown of accidental
deaths:
Traffic 315
Planes 0
Fires 50
Miscellaneous 27
. Total 392
California and Texas led the
states with 27 traffic deaths.
New York had 20. Florida and
Georgia each had 19, and
Pennsylvania had 14.
indicated Friday his budget
trimming decisions were based
on the assumption that the
newly-passed tax bill would
become law.
Spiro Briefing
HONOLULU (UPI) — Vice
President Spiro T. Agnew
planned a military briefing with
the Commander in Chief of U.S.
Pacific Forces today before
leaving for Guam on his 37,000-
mile trip to the Far East.
The Vice President and his
wife, Judy, spent the night at
the guest house of Adm. John
S. McCain Jr., U.S. Pacific
Commander, at Makalapa, a
Navy installation adjoining
Pearl Harbor.
Transplant Okay
NEW YORK (UPl)—New
York Hospital officials said
Friday a 43-year-old Newton,
N.J., man was making “satis
factory progress” after receiv
ing a new heart and lungs in a
three-hour and 13-minute trans
plant operation.
A hospital spokesman said
Edward Falk underwent the
operation Thursday.
Medicare Hike
WASHINGTON (UPI) -The
Nixon administration has an
nounced a 32 per cent rise in
monthly medicare premiums,
the second increase in health
care costs for the elderly this
year.
HEW Secretary Robert H.
Finch said the increase from $4
to $5.30 in the monthly payment
was necessary to maintain the
program’s solvency. He blamed
the size of the increase on
failure of the Johnson adminis
tration to increase the premium
rate last December.
Centenarian
To Be Buried
GODFREY, Ga. (UPI)- Fu
neral services were scheduled
Sunday for one of Georgia’s few
centenarians, Mrs. Eliza Flen
oury, who died at the age of
109.
Mrs. Flenoury, widow of Jeff
Flenoury, died Wednesday. She
was a native of Putnam Coun
ty and had lived in Atlanta,
Madison and Eatonton.
She was survived by 10 chil
dren, 26 grandchildren, 29 great
grandchildren, and eight great
great-grandchildren.
NO TIME-OUT
ARBORFIELD, England
(UPl)—With his wife, six sons
and three daughters, Henry
Sanderson had the makings of a
soccer team.
His friends at the pub kept
telling him he should form a
team, and now he has taken
them up on it. On Friday, he
issued a challenge to other
soccer-sized families and said
he may form a family league.
To avoid husband-wife dis
putes over strategy, the eldest
son John, 16, will be captain of
the Sanderson Hotspurs.
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