Wednesday, April 3, 1968
UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Wire Briefs
DeGaulle praises Johnson
PARIS—(UPI)—President Charles de Gaulle today publicly hailed President Johnson's partial Vietnam bombing halt as a step toward peace.
De Gaulle's decision to praise rather than to deprecate Johnson's efforts could be a favorable factor in Hanoi's ultimate decision on whether to accept the U.S. peace overture. Informed sources said De Gaulle may be urging North Vietnam to answer affirmatively to Johnson's call for negotiations.
King to march again in Memphis
MEMPHIS, Tenn.—(UPI)—Negro leaders said that court injunctions would "have no effect" on plans for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to lead new mass marches in this riot-scarred city. King was to return today.
The first march probably will be staged Friday, King's aides said.
King, leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was at the head of a march of 5,000 last Thursday which erupted into the worst racial violence in the city's history.
Next reserve call-up imminent
WASHINGTON—(UPI)The first of a planned series of reserve callups, perhaps 7.000-8.000 men initially, appears to be imminent.
The announcement could come any time in the next few days. It would be the fourth reserve callup since the Korean war. In 1961, some 148,000 were activated because of the Berlin crisis; a year later 14,000 were called up in the Cuba missile crisis; and in late January, 14,787 were recalled when North Korea seized the Navy spy ship Pueblo.
At the same time, it was learned that the Pentagon probably will send a mechanized army brigade of about 5,000 men to Vietnam in the next few months.
Deserter awaits court's sentence
FUERTH, Germany—(UPI)—Pvt. Roy Ray Jones, 21, the first U.S. soldier to flee to Sweden over the Vietnam war and the first to return, pleaded guilty today to charges of being absent without leave more than a year.
Jones was asked if he realized his plea before a U.S. Army Court Martial could result in a maximum sentence of a year in prison, loss of all pay and allowances and a dishonorable discharge. He replied, "Yes, sir."
Senate passes tax
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The Senate Tuesday passed the 10 per cent tax increase that President Johnson has been trying to get since last August and tied it to an enforced $6 billion cut in government spending.
But the income tax increase—Johnson called it a surcharge—must now be approved by the House, whose members show very little more cushioning for it than they did when it was proposed.
By two separate votes, 53 to 35 and 57 to 31—necessary for parliamentary reasons—the Senate
approved a broad tax-spending package that also included extending excise taxes on new cars and telephone bills and speeding up corporate tax collections.
If the House rejects the Senate plan, it will go to a House-Senate conference wl. e differences might be negotiated.
The bill's proposed $6 billion cut in spending in fiscal 1969 is $2 billion more than the administration had accepted, but it might be enough economy to change Mills' absolute opposition to the tax increase.
KU law student to national post
Phil Ridenour, Admire first-year law student, has been elected national vice-president for the tenth circuit of the Law Student Division of the American Bar Association.
The Law Student Division provides a national organization in which law students may voice their opinions on national affairs, law school education and the legal profession. The division's current membership is about 10,000 members. The other schools in the tenth circuit besides KU, are the Universities of Wyoming, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, Denver, Tulsa, Oklahoma City and Washburn.
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Drug agencies will merge this month
WASHINGTON — (UPI)—The House Tuesday approved President Johnson's plan to consolidate separate marijuana, narcotic, LSD and other drug enforcement activities in one new Justice Department office.
The House vote cleared the way for the plan to take effect April 8. Either the House or Senate could have blocked the plan, but no veto resolution was introduced in the Senate.
Under the plan, Johnson will merge in the new Justice Department unit the Bureau of Narcotics, which enforces marijuana, heroin and other narcotics laws, and the Bureau of Drug Abuse Control, which enforces laws against abuse of LSD and similar hallucinogens, pep pills and tranquilizers.
Supporters of the plan said drugs under the jurisdiction of the two separate agencies often were found in possession of the same individuals and enforcement was suffering from a lack of coordination.
Viet rail siding hit; within limits
SAIGON — (UPI) — American warplanes Tuesday struck a rail siding within two miles of the northern limit of President Johnson's North Vietnam bombing zone and 80 miles from Hanoi, military spokesmen said Wednesday.
It was the northernmost strike since Johnson announced his limited bombing halt Sunday night. Ground action in South Vietnam remained scattered and light.
Military spokesmen denied Wednesday they had said all military targets in the southern panhandle would be fair game and had defined the panhandle as stretching 250 miles north of the Demilitarized Zone that divides
North and South Vietnam.
Based on that definition, Tuesday's raid would have been 28 miles within the limit. But the spokesmen pointed instead to a Pentagon statement, issued in Washington Tuesday night, that the 20th parallel would be the northern limit. The rail target is about two miles south of the 20th parallel.
Thanh Hoa is 80 miles south of Hanoi, the North Vietnamese capital, and 209 miles north of the DMZ. The deepest previous raid into the new bombing zone, now three days old, was made Sunday against a transport and radar site one mile south of Thanh Hoa.
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