Thursday, March 26,1964 University Daily Kansan
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Viet Nam Costing $1.3 Billion
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— The war in Viet Nam has cost the United States an estimated $1.3 billion, Congressional sources said today.
They said Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara cited the sum at a closed meeting of the House Foreign Affairs Committee yesterday.
McNamara also denied charges by an ex-Air Force sergeant that the morale of U.S. military advisers in Viet Nam is very low.
The defense secretary and Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said they felt just the opposite—that it was very high.
The charge had been made by Alvin Morrison of Ferndale, Mich. in talks with Rep. William S. Broomfield (R-Mich.). Morrison recently returned from Viet Nam to be honorably discharged from the Air Force.
Broomfield said Morrison also had questioned whether the real number of American dead had been reported and claimed that the Vietnamese were improperly using some U.S. military equipment.
The Congressman said McNamara promised a detailed investigation of all of Morrison's allegations and a complete report on them.
Ship Snaps in Sea
The USS Raleigh, a Navy amphibious landing dock with a doctor aboard, radioed the Coast Guard that one man was dead. Earlier reports said that several were injured in the explosion and subsequent breakup of the 523-foot vessel.
NORFOLK, Va.—(UPI)—An explosion ripped the tanker San Jacinto off the Virginia coast early today. The vessel broke in two four hours later in rolling seas and Navy helicopters attempted to pluck survivors off the ship's drifting stern.
The merchant ship Mobil Pegasus, first to reach the scene 40 miles east of Chincoteague on Virginia's eastern shore, radicaled that it picked up "several survivors" from a lifeboat. It was one of these men who was reported dead, the Coast Guard said.
Mail Robbers Charged
AYELSBURY, England—(UPI)—A jury today convicted 11 persons in the $7.3 million "great mail train robbery," biggest theft of all time.
The jury took 67 hours to reach its verdict, the longest deliberation in British legal history.
Seven of the defendants were convicted of actually taking part in the armed robbery of the Royal Mail train last Aug. 8. Others were found guilty of conspiracy and receiving stolen property.
Despite the convictions, the case was far from closed. Some ring-leaders of the robbery gang are still at large and most of the loot still is missing.
Police Want Charges
TOKYO—(UPI)—Police recommended today that felonious assault charges be filed against the 19-year-old youth who plunged a knife into the leg of U.S. Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer.
Investigating police asked the public prosecutor's office to charge Kowa Shioya with inflicting injuries on another person and illegal entry into the American Embassy. Shioya has admitted attacking Reischauer as he walked out of the embassy office Tuesday.
The charges carry a maximum sentence of 12 years in prison, but under Japanese law imprisonment probably would not exceed three years.
Tokyo metropolitan police could have sent Shiya to a juvenile court. They said he has spent time in a mental institution.
Italian Work to Travel
VATICAN CITY—(UPI)—The Vatican announced today that Michelangelo's Pieta is going to the New York World's Fair despite a squabble between U.S. and Italian packing experts.
Both the technical office of St. Peter's Basilica and Edward M. Kinney, head of the Vatican Pavilion Transport Committee for the World's Fair, admitted that differences had cropped up.
"Any minor difference of opinion which may have existed—and believe me, they have been minuscule—between the Vatican Pavilion Committee and the authorities in the Vatican with whom we have been in contact have long since been settled," he said.
Kinney, who also is director of purchasing and shipping of Catholic Relief Services (NCWC), hastened to describe them as minuscule."
De Gaulle Mav Go to Moscow
PARIS—(UPI)—President Charles de Gaulle, whose relations with Washington have been strained, today was reported in line for another invitation from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to visit Moscow.
A presidential emissary, former Premier Edgar Faure, was leaving today for a two-week visit to Russia. His trip was interpreted in diplomatic circles as a first step toward warmer French relations with the Kremlin.
While Faure described his trip as private, it was a similar visit by him to Communist China last fall that led to De Gaulle's recognition of the Peking regime. Since then De Gaulle has pushed a campaign to restore France's influence in Southeast Asia and Latin America.
Several Books By KU Authors Placed in White House Library
Books by at least 10 persons connected with the University of Kansas are being placed in the White House Library.
Among the 1,780 titles chosen by the committee of leading United States scholars, librarians and publishers are 16 books by present or former faculty members and by former students.
The list was entered into the Congressional Record last week.
Present faculty members whose works were chosen for the reference library are:
Clifford Stephen Griffin, associate professor of history, "Their Brothers' Keepers." 1800-1855. Rutgers, 1960.
John Isc, professor emeritus of economics, "Our National Park Policy," Johns Hopkins Press. 161.
James Claude Malin, professor emeritus of history, "The Grassland of North America," Lawrence, Kas. 1947.
Carl Lotus Becker, former member of the history faculty. "Everyman His Own Historian," F. S. Crofts, 1935, and "The Declaration of Independence," Knopf, 1942.
Former Faculty members having books selected are:
Herbert Feis, members of the economics faculty from 1922-25, "The Road to Pearl Harbor." Princeton, 1950; "Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin," Princeton, 1857; "Between War and Peace; the Potsdam Conference," Princeton, 1950, and "Japan Subdued," Princeton, 1961.
Robert Taft, member of the chemistry faculty from 1922 until his death in 1955. "Photography and the American Scene," Maacmillan, 1938, and "Artists and Illustrators of the Old West," 1850-1900. Scribner, 1953.
Former students whose books were chosen are:
Carl Leslie Cannon (1912), "American Book Collectors and Collecting from Colonial Times to the Present." Wilson, 1941.
Lloyd A. Metzler (1935), "Income, Employment and Public Policy." Essays by Lloyd A. Metzler and others, W. W. Norton, 1948.
Edward Sagendorph Mason (1919). "The Corporation in Modern Society" (ed.), Harvard, 1959, and "Economic Concentration and the Monopoly Problem," Harvard, 1957.
William Allen White, Emporia editor and KU alumnus, "A Puritan in Babylon," Macmillan, 1938. Another book "The Great Crusade."
Another book. "The Great Crusade
and After, 1914-28," is by Preston William Slosson, son of Edwin Emery Slosson, KU graduate of 1990.
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