Thursday, October 26, 1967
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Soviet warships sail toward Suez
TEL AVIV—(UPI)—The bulk of Russia's 15-ship Mediterranean fleet steamed toward the Egyptian cities of Port Said and Alexandria today as an apparent deterrent against further Israeli attacks across the Suez Canal cease-fire line.
The vanguard of the flotilla was due today, Cairo newspapers said.
In Port Succ, at the southern end of the canal, flames still broiled up today from the hitherto remains of two oil refineries set ablaze by Israeli shelling Tuesday.
The Soviet Mediterranean fleet includes guided missile destroyers armed with the game potent watchdogs with which Egypt blasted the Israeli destroyer Blath out of the water Saturday.
The feet threaded through the Bosphorous just before last June's six-day A obs-Israeli war. Some of the ships anchored in Port Said and Alexandria early last July and remained for nearly two months. Informed observers in Cairo credited their presence with preventing major flareups along the Suez Canal.
Officials said the attack on the refineries, an apparent retaliation for the sinking of the Elath, set ablaze at least 37 huge storage tanks. The onslaught dealt a hard blow to the Egyptian economy. Egypt refined its own Gulf of Suez oil at the plants. Now it may have to use scarce foreign exchange to import.
At the United Nations, the Security Council slapped the wrists of both Israel and the Arabs for violating the cease-fire. The 15-nation council began work on a long-range peace plan that will include sending a special U.N. representative to the Middle East. The big four powers scheduled private talks to work out guidelines for the envoy.
The observer's said this new "goodwill visit" of the Soviet fleet probably was intended to deter Israel again.
SAIGON—(UPI)—South Vietnam today declared a "partial mobilization," lowering the draft age from 20 to 18 and cutting down on deferments.
Saigon lowers draft age
Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu and Premier Nguyen Cao Ky issued the order designed to increase the nation's military manpower by 60,000 to about 700,000.
Informed sources said the edict, which will go into effect Jan. 1, may boost South Vietnamese fighting manpower even more because of its unprecedented severity.
The order came after a wave of American criticism
In a Senate speech Aug. 11, U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., said U.S. battle casualties were higher than South Vietnam's draft call "and this in a nation whose draft age is a year higher than ours." Republican Gov. George Romney of Michigan recently said the United States should "make it perfectly clear we are not going to continue to substitute American men and effort for South Vietnamese men and effort."
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WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Republican leader Everett M. Dirksen predicted today that the 1967 civil rights bill will be blocked by a Senate filibuster.
Dirksen sees filibuster against rights bill
Dirksen, who voted against the bill when it squeaked through the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, added that he saw no change of breaking a filibuster
this late in the session.
The legislation would make it a federal offense to injure or intimidate Negroes and civil rights workers in voting.
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