UDK News Roundup
By United Press International
More information on Fortas
NEW YORK - President Nixon sent Atty. Gen. John Mitchell to see the chief justice secretly last week to get his aid in convincing Justice Abe Fortas to resign, Newsweek Magazine reports in its current edition.
Mitchell was instructed to tell Chief Justice Earl Warren that the Justice Department has "far more serious" information about Fortas than what was revealed in a Life Magazine article last week and "the facts were bound to come out eventually."
Cong fail to kill commander
SAIGON — Viet Cong exploded bombs and grenades throughout Saigon yesterday and today, killing seven persons, wounding 22 and failing in an attempt to kill the U.S. Navy Vietnam commander. Police drove one commando squad from a schoolhouse near the presidential palace.
Other Viet Cong units, under orders to paralyze major towns with a wave of terror, killed or wounded an estimated 130 civilians in other South Vietnamese towns.
Black militants given funds
CHICAGO — A foundation financed by 10 major church organizations has donated thousands of dollars to black militant groups throughout the nation, including a New Jersey group linked to the Black Panther Party, the Chicago Tribune reported yesterday.
In a story by Ronald Doziol in the today's editions, the Tribune said a report on the activities of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, based in New York, would be delivered today to the International Security Conference, which opens a three-day seminar in Chicago.
Missouri sit-in continues
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A sit-in went into the third day at Missouri's Lincoln University yesterday and hunger strikes were underway at Stanford University, New Jersey's St. Peter's College and Ohio's Marietta College.
A 48-hour anti-Vietnam War hunger strike ended yesterday at Wisconsin's Lawrence University.
Four of the eight trustees of Indiana University met yesterday with student leaders and administrators at the Bloomington campus, where black students "locked-in" a faculty meeting last Thursday. At the conclusion of the $3\frac{1}{2}$ hour session, the trustees agreed only that the university should provide quality education and make it available to more people.
ABM opposition develops
WASHINGTON - Unprecedented opposition is developing in the House to President Nixon's Safeguard Antiballistic Missile (ABM) but both supporters and opponents agreed that its approval is certain.
The House Armed Services Committee, like its Senate counterpart, is currently considering the $800 million administration request to start buying Safeguard components and to continue research.
Abernathy leads march
CHARLESTON, S.C. - The Rev. Ralph Abernathy linked arms with labor leader Walter Reuther and led 10,000 persons on a winding procession through Charleston yesterday in "phase two" of the Poor People's Campaign in support of striking Negro hospital workers.
The marchers, including a brass band that interspersed Soul music with freedom songs, left the Charleston County Auditorium shortly before 7 p.m., almost three hours behind schedule.
Berlin ceremonies planned
BERLIN Allied officials yesterday planned low-key ceremonies to avoid provoking possible anti-Western demonstrations by leftists during today's celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Airlift.
West Berlin Mayor Klaus Schuetz invited a host of dignitaries for the commemoration, including retired Gen. Lucius D. Clay, the post-war American military governor of Germany.
Clay declined the invitation, claiming other engagements.
Informed sources, however, said Clay refused because he feared leftist students may use his presence as an excuse for trying to disrupt the ceremonies.
Pilots set speed record
LONDON — Two Royal Navy pilots in a Phantom jet set a new transatlantic speed record yesterday, streaking across the ocean from New York in four hours and 46 minutes.
Lt. Cmdr. Brian Davies piloted the plane to Wisley, just south of London. His copilot was Lt. Cmdr. Peter Goddard, who went on by helicopter to London's Post Office Tower to finish the race as required by the newspaper Daily Mail, sponsors of the contest.
The total time from the start at the Empire State Building in New York to the Post Office Tower was five hours and 11 minutes.
Saigon ready to bargain
PARIS - Saigon's chief negotiator to the Vietnam peace conference said yesterday he has orders to open "serious discussions" with the Communists if they indicate they are ready to get down to serious bargaining.
Ambassador Pham Dang Lam, back from two weeks of consultations in Saigon, said "private or secret conversations" still offered the best hope, in Saigon's view, of getting the Communists to put their cards on the table.
"I have general instructions to engage in serious discussions with the other side if they want them," he told newsmen at Orly Airport.
"But to be able to explore even more deeply the possibilities of agreement," he said, "it seems to me that the very flexible formula of President Thieu's proposals of private or secret conversations is the most appropriate way to permit the other side to make more precise things they cannot be precise about" at the formal weekly negotiating sessions in Paris.
Lam reaffirmed Saigon's willingness to discuss with North Vietnam and the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front (NLF) the questions of exchange of prisoners of war, reestablishment of the demilitarized zone separating North and South Vietnam and the neutrality of Laotian territory.
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These issues were included in the Viet Cong's 10 point "Global Peace Plan" for Vietnam unveiled at the 16th plenary session of the talks last week.
They are among the points which both the United States and South Vietnam consider worthy of "further exploration" while rejecting simultaneous Communist demands for unilateral U.S. troop withdrawal and setting up of coalition governments in Saigon.
Lam said the Communist position now is to "sweep away the present regime in Saigon, impose a provisional coalition government, followed by a definitive coalition, even before elections and without knowing the results in advance. Finally, even before these elections, they want to impose a policy of neutrality."
The Communist peace package also demanded South Vietnam follow a "coexistence" policy of neutrality, including diplomatic relations with the United States.
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But it left unclear whether such a policy would continue in effect after final peace and eventual reunification of North and South Vietnam.
Lam was expected to probe this and other questions with Chief U.S. negotiator Henry Cabot Lodge in the next few days to align their positions for the next session of the talks, scheduled for Friday.
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