LBJ request granted-$4.8 billion to Viet Nam
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— The Senate's current "great debate" over Viet Nam has ended with President Johnson a clear winner —at least on the record.
Both the Senate and the House, by overwhelming margins, approved his request for $4.8 billion in additional military aid for Viet Nam Tuesday. But the big vote could not mask the deep concern in some congressional quarters over the administration's policy.
BUT THE WHITE HOUSE realized this. In a statement praising the congressional action, it noted that the President would
"continue to act responsibly as commander-in-chief
"As he said in New York last week," the statement asserted, "Our measured use of force must be continued, but this is prudent firmness under careful control."
There was ample evidence of the fine Johnsonian hand in the Senate voting Tuesday. Commenting on the key 92-5 vote which sank Sen. Wayne L. Morse's attempt to rescind the 1964 Tonkin Gulf resolution, the White House said the vote "would have been 94 to 5 if two additional senators who announced their opposition to Sen. Morse's motion had been present. Only one senator was unrecorded."
BUT THE PRESIDENT is too experienced a congressional hand to consider his victory as anything but temporary.
A number of senators and representatives made it clear before Tuesday's vote that they were voting "yes" only because a bill to supply military hardware to U.S. troops already in Viet Nam was "just not a good vehicle" for mounting a major protest.
SCIENTISTS SAY
Rocket may infect Venus
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— The life we discover on Venus some day may turn out to be our own.
Some Western scientists, at any rate, are afraid the Russians planted earthly microbes on Venus when they hit that planet Tuesday with a 2,000-pound spacecraft.
IF THEY DID, and the microbes flourish, mankind may have lost forever its chance of finding out whether life independent of earth's ever developed in the Venusian environment.
The Western fears may be groundless. Soviet scientists at many an international space conference have shown themselves to be as concerned as others about the possibility of contaminating other heavenly bodies.
Much depends on whether Soviet spacecraft confirm U.S. indications that Venus is too hot to sustain life. America's Mariner 2, which sailed past Venus in 1962, reported radio findings that the planet's surface temperature
Young bus thief caught
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — When police caught up with a stolen Greyhound bus Tuesday they couldn't hide their admiration for the driver. He was only 12 years old.
might be around 800 degrees, higher than the melting point of zinc.
Pennsylvania Avenue—wandered out through historic Georgetown, crossed one of the Potomac bridges and explored the high speed highways of Fairfax County. Va., where police stopped him.
IF VENUS IS that hot, it doesn't make any difference whether the spacecraft that hit it was sterile when it left earth. It was thoroughly sterilized the moment it crashed.
Before they caught the boy in suburban Virginia, he had maneuvered the $40,000 cruiser though mid-afternoon traffic jams on Washington's main street—
It wasn't the boy's first brush with the law. A week ago he was picked up on another, less ambitious charge of misappropriating a vehicle. That one was a Volkswagen.
ST. LOUIS, Mo.-(UPI)—The bodies of U.S. astronauts Elliot M. See Jr. and Charles A. Bassett II will be flown to Washington today for funeral services at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday.
Services set for astronauts in Arlington, hometowns
The Gemini 9 twins, who were slated for a flight through space
this spring, were killed Monday when their T38 jet trainer crashed onto the roof of a three-story building at the McDonnell Aircraft Corp.
ACCRA, Ghana—(UPI)—About 130 Russian citizens were deported from Ghana today, while deposed President Kwame Nkrumah left Moscow where he received a warm reception by Soviet leaders.
Memorial services also were to be conducted in their suburban Houston hometowns today.
Many of our best scientists, however, have come to doubt that the radio-emissions from Venus were a true indication of its temperature. If they were false readings, Venus may be even a better bet than Mars as a site for extraterrestrial life.
Reds deported by Ghana
the Ghanaian capital this morning. They were seen off by the Russian ambassador.
There was no word on a group of Chinese technicians and advisers also believed to have been ordered out of the country by Ghana's new military government.
The Russians, mostly Soviet technicians and their families, left
Press service leader dies
Baillie, in declining health for the past four years, died at Scripps Memorial Hospital where he was confined for two weeks for treatment of a heart condition.
LA JOLLA — (UPI) — Hugh Baillie, former president and board chairman of United Press and one of its star reporters during a career of 42 years, died yesterday at the age of 75.
Funeral arrangements are pending.
Band Camto open June19
About 1,300 senior and junior high school students from more than 40 states are expected for the 28th season of the Midwestern Music and Art Camp June 19-July 30 at KU.
Russell L. Wiley, professor of music and the camp founder and director, said there would be seven divisions in the six-week senior camp.
6 Daily Kansan Wednesday, March 2, 1966
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