SEATO backs U.S.
WASHINGTON —(UPI)— U.S. policy in Vietnam, including heavy bombing of the Communist North, appeared to have stronger support than ever today from most of the members of the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).
Diplomats in Washington for SEATO's annual strategy discussions said Hanoi's repeated refusal to accept any formula for peace talks undoubtedly had strengthened the feeling that military force was the only form of argument that eventually would move the conflict to the conference table.
With the exception of Britain and Pakistan, other SEATO members here have gone down the line in support of the U.S. contention that there must be no let-up in the military pressure and no suspension of the bombing until Hanoi gives some assurances of a reciprocal reduction of its own combat operations.
FOREIGN MINISTER Thanat Khamon of Thailand told a news conference Tuesday night that a halt in the bombing of the North would only lead to more communist demands and not to peace talks.
"I would be willing to stake
Democrats seek Powell's seating
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— Although Democratic leaders have begun an earnest search for votes, key members said today the house is not yet ready to reverse itself and seat Adam Clayton Powell.
This assessment came as highly placed liberal Democrats drafted a statement urging the house to seat the 58-year-old congressman-elect as a step in its own interest.
Speaker John W. McCormack, D-Mass., and others interested in bringing the $3^{1 / 2}$-month-old Powell affair to an end probably have at least another week to round up the necessary votes.
That is when the House expects to receive official certification from New York that Powell was the winner of a special election April 11 in Harlem, an election made necessary by his exclusion from the House March 1.
As of today, a head count indicated that not enough of the 222 members who voted against Powell March 1 were willing to switch to change the result this time.
House Democratic Leader Carl Albert is reported to have talked to 30 members of his party who voted against Powell March 1, and convinced only two of them to reverse their stand.
anything they (the communists) would ask for more" he said.
He summed up the attitudes expressed earlier in the day by representatives of Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines and South Vietnam when he said it was vital for the allies to "keep on fighting while keeping open the possibility of negotiations."
"We in non-Communist Asia are willing to keep fighting," he added.
Empire state tries lottery
ALBANY, N.Y.—(UPI)—Complete with $1 tickets, horse races and monthly fishbowl drawings, New York State is back in the lottery business today after a lapse of 134 years.
Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller signed a bill into law Tuesday establishing the lottery, the second of its kind in the nation.
In 1963, New Hampshire passed the first sweepstakes lottery law of the 20th century.
Ky solicits Viet Cong
SAIGON — (UPI) — Premier Nguyen Cao Ky today dramatically offered Communist defectors life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and even society status.
In a special television broadcast, Ky aimed his offer at bringing higher level defectors into South Vietnam's snowballing program for winning the loyalty of Viet Cong forces.
In unprecedented detail, Ky adopted American suggestions and promised defectors jobs, freedom, civil rights, family life, honor, welfare state benefits, the right to hold public office and even a "prominent station in society."
Ky's bid for higher level defectors—two lieutenant colonels are the highest ranking Viet Cong yet to "come in" from the jungles—followed by one day Saigon's appeal to Hanoi to pull back from the border Demilitarized Zone and generally escalate the war in steps leading to peace.
The South Vietnamese Chieu Hoi or "Open Arms" defection program has netted 63,000 persons since 1963, government officials said. The rate has picked up to about a 1,000 or more a month recently, they said. Many observers said the success of the program is perhaps the best barometer of how the war against the Communist guerrillas is going.
BELGRADE. Yugoslavia — (UPI)—A Belgrade court today sentenced author Mihajlo Mihajlov to an additional four and a half years in prison for his persistent criticism of the Communist system.
Yugoslav author sentenced
Mihajlov was also prohibited from engaging in any public activities for four years after the completion of his sentence.
The 32-year-old former Zadar University professor has served five months of a previous oneyear sentence for defaming the Yugoslav system in articles published abroad.
ceived a 12-year term on the charge.
MIHAJLOV COULD have re-
This time he was convicted on a charge of spreading hostile propaganda.
The ban on public activities was apparently designed to curb Mihajlov's writing and political activities which last year included an attempt to start an anti-Communist magazine.
The new charge against Mihajlov cited articles published abroad, a message written to friends, a letter he sent to a Swiss critic and leaflets sent him by Croatian exiles in the United States.
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Daily Kansan
Wednesday, April 19, 1967