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Lindsay gives his reasons.
Lindsay will find
Demo race crowded
By BERT KINDIG
NEW YORK (UPl)—Mayor
John V. Lindsay, a Democrat
for barely a day, is already
being mentioned as a possible
candidate for the party’s
presidential nomination. But the
race is already crowded and
the road for a new member is
long.
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Thursday/ August 12,1971
“Whether this means I will
run for president, i do not
know,”
Lindsay said in an
nouncing the switch from the
Republican party Wednesday.
“But it does mean that I am
firmly committed to take an
active part in 1972 to bring
aboutnew national leadership.”
Lindsay’s announcement at
his Grade Mansion home came
as no surprise. Although a life
long Republican until Wednes
day morning, he had often been
at odds with GOP leadership as
a congressman, had relied
heavily on Democratic and
liberal support to twice win
election as New York mayor
and increasingly drifted away
from the Nixon administration
philosophy.
Should he become a presiden
tial candidate, Lindsay would
be an attractive candidate
young, strikingly handsome,
schooled in urban problems,
with a long-time liberal record.
But as a Democrat, he has no
power base, no political lOUs,
no organization and a lot of
competition.
Democra tic leaders welcomed
him to the party Wednesday
but there was no great support
for a Lindsay presidential
campaign.
In recent history, party
switchers have not met with
much success. Former Sen.
Wayne Morse of Oregon
switched from the Republican
to Democratic party and Sen.
Strom Thurmond of South
Carolina went the other way.
Any Lindsay presidential
campaign probably would have
to be based on a new political
coalition which he called for
Wednesday—a coalition com
posed of Republicans, Demo
crats and liberals. He had used
this backing to twice win
election as a GOP mayor in a
city with a large Democratic
majority.
“This morning at Gracie
Mansion, Mrs. Lindsay and I
enrolled in the Democratic
party,” Lindsay said starting
off his news conference. “In a
sense, this step recognizes the
failure of 20 active years in
progressive Republican politics.
In another sense, it represents
a renewed decision to fight for
new national leadership.”
Saying the federal govern
ment has abandoned the fight
for the needs of the people,
Lindsay said the switch reaf
firmed his commitment to fight
real problems—“men without
jobs, families without hope,
indecent housing, blighted
neighborhoods, crowded hospi
tals, crime, poverty, polariza
tion.”
“This at long last must be a
time of realignment,” he said.
“Progressiveßepublicans, inde
pendents and Democrats must
stand together in fighting for
common goals. We must join
together freely instead of
struggling vainly against each
other in the net of party
alignment ... For my part, I
will start now to help build this
new coalition.”
Keep eyes open: Eastland
By ED ROGERS
WASHINGTON (UPI)-Sen.
James 0. Eastland, D-Miss.,
today warned the administra
tion to keep its eyes open in
dealing with Peking, and he
released a study estimating
Chinese communism has taken
at least 34 million lives.
Eastland, chairman of the
Senate Internal Security Sub
committee, which commis
sioned the study, said:
“As our experience after
World War II demonstrated so
tragically, history exacts a high
price of nations that indulge in
euphoria over arrangements of
convenience ...
Sweeney acquitted of cowardice
By THOMAS G. BELDEN
QUANTICO, Va. (UPI)-Ma
rine Sgt. Jon M. Sweeney, ac
quitted on charges of coward
ice and communicating with the
enemy, says he’s tired of the
United States and North Viet
nam using prisoners of war as
“political footballs.”
The slender, 21-year-old Ma
rine from West Babylon, N.Y.,
indicated he can’t get out of the
Marine Corps fast enough. It
will take four days to process
his discharge, but he said after
his court-martial ended Wednes
day, “I want to go now.”
Navy Capt. B. Raymond Per
kins, the military judge, acquit
ted Sweeney of charges he ran
away from his unit in the pres
ence of the enemy in Vietnam
in February, 1969, and of mak
ing disloyal statements while a
prisoner of war.
“I feel really great,” said
Sweeney after the verdict. “I
feel justice has been done.”
After his discharge, he said,
he wants to join other Vietnam
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“Above all, let us not close
our eyes to the unpleasant
fact” of the “fundamental
hostility of Red China to the
United States ...” Eastland
said.
The study estimated Chinese
communism, starting with the
“first civil war” of 1927-36, has
claimed at least 34.3 million
lives—possibly as many as 63.7
million—through military ac
tion, purges and terroristic
slaughter.
The study was drafted for the
subcommittee by Dr. Richard
L. Walker, director of the
Institute of International Stu
dies at the University of South
veterans in aiding POWs.
“I want to work to stop both
governments from using the
prisoner of war issue as a po
liticalfootball,” he said.
Perkins acquitted Sweeney
shortly after the defense rested
its case Wednesday, the sixth
day of the court-martial. The
judge agreed with defense con
tentions that Sweeney lacked
the physical stamina to keep up
with his unit as it moved to
combat in Vietnam and that his
capture resulted from this in
ability rather than an intent to
run away.
Sweeney testified he had
failed the physical fitness tests
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Carolina. Eastland described
Walker as one of the foremost
China scholars.
Walker’s estimate of commu
nism’s death toll in China
exceeded estimates of Russia’s
communism toll made for the
subcommittee earlier by Robert
Conquest, a British “sovietolo
gist.” Conquest’s estimate of
Soviet deaths was 21.5 million
to 32.2 million.
Walker cautioned against
accepting a pledge Chou En-lai
gave American correspondents
in Peking June 21 that no
vengeance would be exacted
against mainland Chinese refu
ges on Taiwan if the United
States removes its “protective
three times in Marine boot
camp. “It depressed me a great
deal,” he said. “I’d always
wanted to be a marine. They
should have re-cycled me or put
me in a physical fitness pro
gram.”
The defense also claimed
statements Sweeney made to his
North Vietnamese captors were
under “duress” and that he
feared for his life.
Sweeney admitted on the
stand he signed anti-American
statements—from which he later
taped broadcasts—but said he
did so only after his captors
told him they were going to kill
him. He said when first told to
shield” from the Nationalist
Chinese.
Chou was quoted as assuring
the correspondents, “Far from
exacting revenge on them (the
Chinese on Taiwan) we will
reward them,” Walker said.
Walker added: “But these
were just the terms which Chou
En-Lai and Mao Tse-tung
promised to the former Nation
alists and third party intellec
tuals who joined the Commu
nists on their accession to
power in 1949.”
“Yet,” walker said, “they
were among the first victims
who are now statistics in the
sobering table of casualties ...”
make statements he refused,
telling his captors to “go to
hell.”
But he said a man held a .45
caliber pistol to his head and
“I knew he was going to kill
me. His finger was on the trig
ger and I knew he was going to
squeeze it and put a nice big
hole in my head.”
Jaywalkers
The term jaywalker goes
back to the days when “jay”
was a synonym for rustic or
hayseed. The idea was that
anyone who walked like a
jay would be a person who
ignored rules and regula
tions.