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Johnson, Fulbright
Swap Tonkin Cuts
WASHINGTON (UPI) -For
mer President Lyndon B.
Johnson and Sen. J. William
t f Fulbright, D-Ark., were em
broiled today in a caustic
dispute over their dealings
leading to Senate approval of
• * the 1964 Tonkin Gulf Resolution
which let Johnson escalate the
Vietnam War.
1 4 “It never occurred to me that
Sen. Fulbright, this Rhodes
scholar, didn’t understand what
was in that language,” Johnson
, , asserted in a television inter
view.
“It never occurred to me that
the President of the United
• » States would lie to members of
the Senate,” Fulbright shot
back in comment to newsmen.
“I was completely taken in, as
•* was the whole Senate.”
The outright clash between
Johnson and Fulbright, chair
man of the Senate Foreign
‘ ’ Relations Committee, was the
most controversial outgrowth of
an interview with the former
president by Walter Cronkite,
aired by CBS Friday night.
The former president, speak
ing from the quietude of his
•» Texas ranch, scarcely con
cealed his antagonism toward
Fulbright and other senators
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who wound up in the “dove”
camp on the war.
He said Fulbright and other
House and Senate leaders had
been given full briefings on the
import of the resolution before
it was publicly announced.
Fulbright, who has in the
past said he and the Senate
were misled on the scope of the
Resolution, for the first time
used the term “lie” in his
response to Johnson.
He contended that Johnson
through his spokesmen before
the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee—Rusk and then
Defense Secretary Robert S.
McNamara—had lied about the
naval incidents leading up
to Senate adoption of the
resolution.
“I grant I can read,”
Fulbright remarked, “but I
cannot divine what is in the
mind of the president and his
advisers.”
Martin Says
He’ll Resign
From Board
ATLANTA (UPI) — State
Board for Children and Youth
member Edward Martin of
Gainesville looked at the storm
clouds over the Senate created
by his recent blasts and prom
ised to resign Friday.
Martin felt he didn’t have a
chance for confirmation. “Cas
tro could get appointed as quick
as I could,” he signed.
Martin’s troubles started
when he leveled some sharp
criticism at the Senate for the
so-called “abolish Burson” bill
—a measure which would
establish a policy-making com
mittee undermining the power
of Welfare Director Bill Bur
son.
Martin said the Senate bill
was a “shame and disgrace”
and that the “Senate owes Mr.
Burson an apology.”
Gov. Lester Maddox appoint
ed Martin to the board; but
Friday termed his appointees’
remarks “improper and un
fortunate” and said for Martin
to appear before the confirma
tion committee would be an
exercise in futility.
Martin maintained that his
criticism was valid; yet he
acknowledged he had learned
his “first lesson in big city
politics.”
Abortion Backers
Start Funds Drive
ATLANTA (UPI) — Angered
by the “complete insensitivity”
of a house committee Friday,
the Georgia Citizens for Hospi
tal Abortions started a drive to
send pregnant women to states
with legalized abortion.
Judith Bourne, chairman of
the group, said the House Hy
giene and Sanitation Committee
listened to three hours of de
bate on the legalized abortion
issue then “took less than five
minutes to vote in secret” to
table the bill.
Miss Bourne charged the
committee demonstrated “com
plete insensitivity to the plight
of Georgia women faced with
a crisis of an unwanted preg
nancy.”
~Subsequently the group ap
proved launching a drive for
public support to finance abor
tions which, noted Miss Bourne,
cost a minimum of SBOO to
>I,OOO each.
The tabled bill was co-spon
sored by Reps. Grace Hamilton
and Kil Townsend of Atlanta.
Miss Bourne said abortions
are legal in California, Mary
land and Washington, D.C. Yet
the laws are strict.
In Washington, for example,
the law on the books allows
abortion only when “necessary
for the preservation of the
mother’s life and health.” And
that law is now under challenge
in the courts.
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Theft Ring Broken
ATLANTA(UPI) -An improb
ably chain of events Friday led
to the uncovering of a “major
auto parts theft ring,” said the
Georgia State Patrol.
The investigation started with
an anonymous telephone tip dis
closing a service station dealing
in stolen auto stickers.
After an undercover agent
purchased two stickers for $lO
each without the required in
spection, police moved in and
dug up more than 2,000 more
stickers lifted from four auto
agencies in the Atlanta area in
Dies In His Office
ATLANTA (UPI) - Advertis- :
ing executive and civic leader ■
William Neal died in his office i
Friday the victim of an ap
parent heart attack. He was 61. '
Neal, a native of Kernersville, 1
N.C., was chairman of the i
board and co-founder of Liller, I
Blames It On Race
ATLANTA, Ga. (UPI)-Civil
rights attorney Peter Rindskopf
said Friday the only reason
convicted rapist John Henry
Mitchell got the death penalty
is because he’s a black man.
Rindskopf, who has taken
over Mitchell’s case, said he
will ask the court for a writ of
habeas corpus to obtain his
Pedestrian Killed
ATLANTA (UPI)-A Conyers
man was arrested Friday and
charged with involuntary man
slaughter and driving under the
influence of alcohol in connec
tion with the death of pedestrian
Mrs. Billie Jean Devlin, 35, of
Out Os Penitentiary
ATLANTA (UPI) - Arthur
Calvin Morris, 37, of Savannah
has walked out of Atlanta Fed- i
eral Penitentiary a free man
after federal judge Albert J.
Henderson ruled Morris had not
been fully informed about his
guilty plea in a mail theft
charge.
It was disclosed Friday that
Henderson vacated the four
year sentence given Morris.
Thomas Baynes,former direc
tor of the Emory University
Legal Aid to Inmates program,
said Morris was indicted in
Opposes
ATLANTA (UPI)-Strong op
position to the nomination of
Judge G. Harrold Carswell to
the U.S. Supreme Court was
made public Friday by the
three top leaders of the South
ern Christian Leadership Con
ference.
In a telegram to “sensitive
and understanding” members of
the U.S. Senate Judiciary Com
mittee, now considering the
Carswell appointment, the civil
rights leaders called President
Nixon’s nominee “an insult to
black America.”
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December.
Further investigation, accord
ing to Lt. D.T. McCord of the
patrol’s Motor Vehicle Inspec
tion Division, unearthed stolen
auto parts, tires, tape record
ers, racing equipment and
clothing stolen in the Atlanta
area and from at least one city
in Alabama.
McCord figured the value of
the goods at about SIOO,OOO. He
said “several” persons had
been arrested already and “as
many as 50 or more” may be
caught in the dragnet before the
case is closed.
Neal, Battle and Lindsey, one
of Atlanta’s largest advertising
firms.
He was survived by his
widow, Mrs. Scott Meador
Neal, two children and three
step-children. Funeral arrange
ments have not been completed.
client’s release.
If all legal resources fail,
Mitchell, 21, will die in the
electric chair Feb. 23, the date
set by the State Board of
Pardons and Paroles after re
fusing to commute the sentence.
There have been no electro
cutions in Georgia since Oct.
16, 1964.
Lithonia.
A car driven by Jessie Davis
Myers, 39, allegedly struck Mrs.
Devlin while she was walking
along Interstate Highway 20 in
DeKalb County.
1961 on the mail theft charge
but spent the next two years in
Georgia State Prison on another
conviction.
When released he pleaded
guilty to the mail theft charge,
said Baynes, but was put back
in Georgia State for six more
years on still another charge.
Only in 1969 did Morris begin
to serve the federal sentence,
said Baynes.
But Morris was freed when
old testimony showed the pris
oner thought he’d get probation
by pleading guilty to the fed
eral charge.
Carswell
A telegram was not sent to
the committee chairman, James
0. Eastland of Mississippi, said
the senders, Revs. Ralph D.
Abernathy, Andrew Young and
Joseph Lowery.
The telegram called the Cars
well nomination an “affront to
the prestige of the Supreme
Court. Must we accept incom
petence and injustice in order
to ‘balance’ the court?”
The SCLC leaders said there
were numerous “outstanding”
judges in the Deep South and
to pick Carswell over them
Disguised Detectives,
Hijackers Have Shootout
By MARTIN P. HOUSEMAN
SANTIAGO (UPI)-Two de
tectives disguised as mechanics
fatally shot one hijacker and
wounded another in a gun
battle aboard a pirated Chilean
jetliner with 35 persons aboard
Friday night. The plane had
landed to refuel en route to
Cuba.
The passengers and crew
huddled between seats while the
detectives and hijackers shot it
out for 10 minutes in the front
of the plane.
Both detectives, a uniformed
policeman who came to their
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BEGINS SEA TRIALS
LONDON (UPl)—The 253,000-
ton tanker Esso Northumbria,
the largest ship ever built in
Britain, will be towed down the
Tyne River Sunday to begin sea
trials. The 1,143-foot vessel will
be aided by eight tugs while en
route to the open sea.
TWENTY-ONE KILLED
VIENNA (UPl)—Twenty-one
persons were killed Wednesday
when a Romanian airliner
crashed in the Apuseni Moun
tains, the news agency
Agerpres reported from Buch
arest today. One passenger
survived the crash, which
occured during a flight from
Bucharest to Oradea, the
agency said.
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aid and a stewardess were
wounded, the stewardess criti
cally. None of the passengers
was hit.
It was the second time in
three hijack attempts against
the Chilean National Airline
LAN-Chile that the hijackers
have been overcome and
captured.
The two hijackers, each
armed with a pistol, seized the
twin-jet Caravelle during a
flight from Puerto Montt in
Southern Chile to Santiago with
47 passengers aboard. When it
landed at Santiago’s Interna
tional Airport, the hijackers
permitted seven adults and five
children to disembark and
ordered the aircraft refueled. •
Under the pretext of bringing
aboard a battery charger for
the flight to Havana, detectives |
Manuel Rojas and Julio Bustos
| Maddox Flattens
1 School Bus Tires |
ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov.
Lester Maddox introduced a
new tactic Friday in his long
standing war against school in
tegration-letting the air out of
school bus tires.
The governor said he wouldn’t
say children should steal the
tires, as an earlier report quot
ed him — “I would not advise
anyone to steal anything” —
but “it might be all right if
someone flattens the tires or
lets the air out.”
“They should not get on the
durn buses,” said Maddox re
ferring to public school children
falling under federally-ordered
integration.
If they “went right back to
their old schools, it wouldn’t
take two weeks” for officials to
wise up and rescind the trans
fer orders.
“If other children do that
same thing in Georgia and the
rest of the South, they could
save their schools by not going
to new schools,” the governor
claimed.
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Federal Reserve
Sees Way Out
Os Tight Money
WASHINGTON (UPI)-The
new chairman of the Federal
Reserve Board said today that
holding government spending in
check will clear the way for
relaxation of the “tight money”
policy which has pushed inter
est rates to record levels.
Dr. Arthur F. Burns also said
the Federal Reserve is studying
new ways to relieve the
pressure of credit restrictions
on housing “without impairing
the use of monetary policy in
achieving national economic
objectives.”
But he ruled out direct loans
from the nation’s Central Bank
to the mortgage market.
In testimony prepared for the
House Banking Committee,
Burns, who was appointed by
President Nixon, said: “It will
be vital to preserve the taut
fiscal position outlined in the
administration’sbudget.”
Nixon’s $200.8 billion spending
proposal for the next fiscal i
year shows a projected surplus
of $1.3 billion.
Nixon said last week the
administration was determined
entered the plane dressed as
mechanics. One of the hijack
ers, identified as Pedro Lenin
Valenzuela Bravo, 19, was in
the cockpit and the other,
Oscar Marcelo Vasquez, 20,
stood at its door.
Rojas slugged Valenzuela and
disarmed him. Both suffered
bullet wounds in the scuffle and
Valenzuela died later.
At the same time, Bustos and
Vasquez began shooting it out
in the aisle, each of them
wounding the other in the leg.
A policeman boarded the
plane during the shooting and
also was hit, as was the
stewardess, Karlet Burgos.
Miss Burgos was reported in
critical condition at a hospital
with a bullet wound in the
stomach, but the detectives, the
policeman and Vasquez were
not seriously hurt.
Maddox’s statements came
some 24 hours after the U.S.
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
overruled the so-called “free
dom of choice” decision by fed
eral district judge W.A. Bootle
in the Bibb and Houston county
cases.
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to keep the budget in the black
to permit the Federal Reserve
to ease its monetary restric
tions. There has been almost no
growth in the nation’s overall
money supply since the middle
of last year and Nixon said that
if the policy is not eased soon,
there is danger of a recession.
Burns agreed that homebuild
ing suffered more than most of
the economy under last year’s
extremely tight credit condi
tions. He said he would favor
new approaches to increase the
money available for mortgages.
Although Burns said it would
be proper to permit banks to
use mortgage paper as collater
al for regular loans from the
Federal Reserve system, he
opposed legislation requiring
the Central Bank to advance
money directly to mortgage
lenders.
Burns also urged the 21
states and the District of
Columbia that impose ceilings
of 8 per cent or less on home
mortgages either to raise or
eliminate the restrictions.
“Although these limitations
were originally designed to
protect borrowers, we should
recognize that economic condi
tions change and that interest
rate ceilings that are below the
market operate and practice to
discriminate against borrowers
by denying them access to
sources of credit available at
going market rates,” he said.
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