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Troops given PR job
SAIGON—(UPI)—In a major American policy change, Gen. William C. Westmoreland today took up the fight to win the hearts and minds of South Vietnam's farmers and villagers as well as defeat Communist troops.
U. S. Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker gave the American military commander in Vietnam Wednesday the additional task of commanding the pacification program—the "other war" as it is called.
Previously various State Department agencies ran the program aimed at turning the loyalty of South Vietnam's millions to the Saigon government.
MOST OBSERVERS said the program so vital to the anti- Communist cause had made little headway.
"I have two basic reasons for giving this responsibility to Gen. Westmoreland," Bunker told a news conference with Westmoreland at his side. "In the first place, the indispensible first stage of pacification is providing continuous local security, a function
British try for Market
LONDON—(UPI)—Britain today made a formal new bid to join the European Common Market from which a veto by French President Charles de Gaulle barred it four years ago.
In a letter to the Common Market Council of Ministers in Brussels, Prime Minister Harold Wilson applied for membership for Britain under terms of the 1957 common market Treaty of Rome.
IN SIMILAR LETTERS he applied for membership also in the six-nation European Coal and Steel Community and the sixnation Euratom Community for Peaceful Exploitation of Nuclear Power.
Ireland, Denmark and Norway were taking similar action almost immediately. Austria and possibly Sweden were expected to follow suit later.
House of Commons Wednesday British officials conceded another De Gaule veto could not be ruled out, although they thought it unlikely. Foreign Secretary George Brown told the "we expect to get in."
Birch leader charges U.S. helps enemy
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — (UPI)—Robert Welch, head of the John Birch Society, Wednesday night said that "insiders" in Washington are pushing the Vietnam conflict into another full scale war.
In a speech before about 500 persons, the founder of the anti-Communist group said the Johnson Administration is giving massive aid and comfort" to our enemies and hampering the U.S. Military.
WELCH SAID the United States is pumping aid into Russia and its satellites, which are turning our war materials for the Viet Cong.
"And," he said, "hundreds of our boys are dying, supposedly to stop the Communist octupus."
Welch also said that this aid is "also part of the plan to deplete our own supplies.
primarily of the Republic of Vietnam Armed Forces, in which the U.S. Military Assistance Command in Vietnam (MACV) performs a supporting advisory role.
"In the second place, the greater part of the U.S. advisory and logistic assets in support of revolutionary development (another name for pacification) belongs to MACY." the envoy said.
Westmoreland told newsmen he thought the new plan "would facilitate use of our total resources."
It was a policy switch long reported coming. Former U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge was reported to have strongly opposed the switch to military control. Earlier reports said the generals themselves showed no joy at the task of supervising a heavily civilian program abounding with problems.
Bunker said he feels the switch makes the program "more effective by unifying its civil and military aspects." He said "other war" civilian officials in each area of the country now will report to the American general in command of their local region.
Civil Liberties Union warns against Flag law
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) says any law making it a federal crime to rip, burn, trample or spit on the U.S. flag would violate constitutional guarantees of free expression.
Lawrence Speiser, an official of the ACLU, told Congress Wednesday that offensive as these acts are, they come under the first amendment protection of "expression of opinion by a symbolic act."
In appearing before a House Judiciary Subcommittee, Speiser injected a note of caution into demands for legislation which would crack down hard on persons who desecrate the flag.
Congressmen, angered by recent flag burnings and rippings by anti-war and anti-draft demonstrators, have urged penalties ranging up to a $10,000 fine and five years in prison for publicly defiling or defacing the flag "by word or act."
REP. ROBERT McCLORY., R-Ill., asked Speiser whether he thought recent flag-burning incidents might have had a harmful
effect on the morale of U.S. troops in Vietnam.
They might, Speiser conceded, but so might statements by members of Congress critical of the administration's policy in Vietnam. Both, he said, are part of the dialogue protected by the first amendment.
"I believe Congress' interest is not the fear that the government is in danger, but the tremendous offensiveness of the act of flag burning to the vast majority of American people," Speiser said.
He said he sympathized with this indignation, but felt the acts could not be made a federal crime.
Speiser added that making it a criminal offense to "cast contempt" on the flag might even be applied to critical discussion of its design, failure to salute it, or turning one's back on it as it passed during a parade.
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