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Nixon Avoided Fiasco
With His Diplomacy
By THOMASCORPORA
NEAT YORK (UPl)—Pres
ident Nixon’s personal diploma
cy kept the state visit of
French President Georges
Pompidou from turning into a
fiasco that would have set
Franco-American relations
back to the darkest days of
Charles de Gaulle.
Pompidou had been faced
with a number of demonstra
tions against France’s Mideast
policy—the sale of the 110
Mirage jet fighters to Libya
and refusal to sell arms to
Israel—during his tour. But the
last straw came Sunday when a
half a dozen youths jumped in
front of Pompidou and his wife,
Claude, as they were leaving
their Chicago hotel and shook
their fingers in the French
chief of state’s face shouting,
“Shame, shame on you.”
Pompidou and his wife were
shaken and angered by the
incident, and quickly made it
clear. Pompidou, in a carefully
calculated statement aimed at
making Americans think of how
they were acting as hosts, said
the incident was “a blot on the
face of America.”
He arrived at the White
Plains, N.Y., home of U.S.
Chief of Protocol Emil “Bus”
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Mosbacher, where the Pompi
dous spent Sunday night, so
angry he considered cutting
short his visit and returning to
France 48 hours earlier than
scheduled —a decision that
undoubtedly would have caused
serious diplomatic repercus
sions.
When Mosbacher realized
how angry Pompidou was he
called the White House. The
result was a telephone call by
Nixon to Pompidou apologizing
for the incident.
Nixon added to the apology
by telling the French president
he personally would come to
New York for the farewell
banquet Monday evening.
Southern Senators
Anxious For Vote
On Judge Carswell
WASHINGTON (UPI)-South
em senators appear to have
abandoned plans to sidetrack
the voting rights bill, which
they oppose, long enough to
This was an unprecedented
move, since no American
president had traveled during
peacetime to another city to bid
farewell to a foreign chief of
state after formal farewell
ceremonies had been rendered
in Washington.
Pompidou was mollified and
decided to go ahead with the
remainder of his trip. However,
his wife, shaken by the ferocity
of the Chicago protest, canceled
her Monday appointments and
remained at the hotel, attend
ing only the farewell banquet.
It appeared Nixon’s diploma
cy was a hit. Sources with the
French president said he was
no longer angry and, in effect,
all was forgiven.
force a vote on the Supreme
Court nomination of G. Harrold
Carswell, whom they favor.
Sen. Sam Ervin Jr., D - NC.,
The Southerners’ chief floor
strategist, indicated in an inter
view he was willing to allow
the Carswell nomination to wait
while the voting rights bill is
debated — possibly at consider
able length.
Although Monday’s opening
debate on voting rights had the
drone of a filibuster — with
Ervin holding the floor for one
hour and 28 minutes and the
chamber virtually empty —a
long filibuster did not appear in
the works.
The Southerners are anxious
for a vote on Carswell and they
are confident of victory when it
comes. But an attempt to force
an early vote could do their
cause more harm than good.
In the House, an unusual
alliance of Republicans and
liberal Democrats maneuvered
to gain Senate acceptance for
amendments to the once-vetoed,
long-delayed appropriations bill
for the Departments of Labor
and Health; Education and
Welfare. The Senate amend-
Junior and senior high school
girls who will attend the
Georgia Federation of BPW
Clubs Youth Leadership Con
ference at Rock Eagle March 7-
8 are (1-r) Susan Murphy, Sheila
Crawford, Mary Jane Stewart,
1 Susan Lewis, Neva Henderson,
Heide Kelly, Cathy Langford,
Chris Shockley, Becky Walker.
Cynthia Boatner also will at
tend. The Griffin BPW Club will
sponsor their trip to the con
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LBJ In Hospital
With Chest Pains
By H. MICHAEL RABUN
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (UPI)—
Former President Lyndon B.
Johnson entered Brooke Gener
al Hospital Monday suffering
chest pains. “There is no
evidence of any recent heart
attacks,” Johnson’s heart speci
alist said.
“President Johnson is resting
generally comfortably but there
was another mild episode of
chest pains at 5 p.m.,” Tom
Johnson, the former President’s
executive assistant, said Mon
day at the last medical
briefing. The next briefing was
scheduled for 11 a.m. (CST)
today.
Johnson suffered a serious
heart attack 15 years ago. It
sidelined him six months.
Pains Start In February
Johnson first suffered the
pains Feb. 20, while attending a ''
board meeting at the Mayo
Clinic in Rochester, Minn.
Doctors there told him to
contact his heart specialist Dr.
J. Willis Hurst of Atlanta.
“On Friday evening, Feb. 27,
President Johnson again exper
ienced pain in the chest and
called Dr. Hurst,” according to
ments have the effect of
nullifying House riders guaran
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“freedom of choice” in school
selection for their children, and
prohibiting HEW from using
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Ervin’s objective in the
debate is defeat of any voting
rights measure, but he said he
would far prefer the House
passed administration measure
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Senate Minority Leader Hugh
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ON
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By Jack Crowley
Little girl showing bathroom
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a statement released Monday
by Johnson’s office. “Dr. Hurst
arrived at the LBJ Ranch
Saturday morning. After this
examination by Dr. Hurst on
Saturday and Sunday. . .it was
recommended that he be
hospitalized for further study
Monday afternoon.”
Hurst conducted tests on
Johnson over the weekend and
reported a “minor change” in
Johnson’s electrocardiagraph,
but added “there is no evidence
of any recent heart attacks.”
Tom Johnson said the former
president would be allowed
“only limited activity” in the
hospital. He could sit up and
move from his bed to a chair.
Receives Call From Nixon
Johnson received a call from
President Nixon at 6:55 p.m.
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Nixon said he remembered
visiting Johnson after his 1955
attack. Nixon “of course wished
him the very best in this recent
episode,” Johnson’s executive
assistant said.
Secretary of State William
Rogers also called, as did
Johnson’s daughters, Mrs.
Charles Robb in Virginia and
Mrs. Pat Nugent in Austin,
Tex. Pat Nugent visited LBJ in
the hospital and returned to
Austin.
Lady Bird Johnson spent the
night with her husband at the
hospital.
Lt Col. Robert L. North, an
Army heart specialist, said
Johnson has a type of
hardening of the arteries that
was cutting the flow of blood to
a portion of the heart.
Beleagured Berlin ——
NEW YORK (UPI) - During
the last 10 days of the siege of
Berlin in April, 1945, Russian
artillery fire dropped 40,000
tons of shells on the beleagured
city, according to the
Encyclopedia Britannica.
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The falsetto-voiced singer’s
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