The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 8 September 1967 — Page 3

Friday, September 8, 1-967

The Dally Banner, Greeneasfle, Indiana

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Mansfield wants UN negotiations on Viet

KANSAS CITY, Mo. UPI — Senate Democratic leader Mike Mansfield, urging that the peace issue be laid before the United Nations, said Thursday that there are “few if any rational military steps left to take in Vietnam.” Nothing that there will be an estimated 525,000 U.S. troops in Vietnam by mid-1968, that the war now costs $2.5 billion a month, and that American casualties are nearing the 100,000 mark, the Montana Democrat said:

the entire Southeast Asian main land, if not the whole world. . . “In my judgement, peace does not lie in ever additional inputs of U.S. forces or in ever expanding bombing forays. “There is no reason to assume that additional air action will achieve what air action was supposed to have achieved months ago but has not achieved—that is, a cutoff of supplies ; and men moving south and the bringing of Hanoi to the peace table.

before a meeting of the Missouri war put him squarely at odds

“The logical sequence of “The only reasonable conclugreater U.S. involvement is still sion is that escalation will beget greater involvement until the escalation.” Mansfield said in a monster of war runs amok over speech prepared for delivery

Bar Association The Senate leader warned that “behind the guerrilla war in South Vietnam there are still the largely unengaged forces of North Vietnam’s commander, Vo Nguyen Giap, and behind North Vietnam, if we need to be reminded, there is China.” He renewed his call for peace negotiations through the United Nations, saying, “the long night of violence in Vietnam will know no dawn until the world community can end the diplomatic inertia which has characterized its reaction to Vietnam.” Mansfield’s assessment of the

with the Senate Prepardness subcommittee, which last week called for still wider bombing of

North Vietnam.

Two state mayors plead with legislators

INDIANAPOLIS UPI — Theheld its organization meeting at mayor of two of Indiana’s larg- ■ the Statehouse. Witnesses inest cities pleaded with the cluded the two ma - vors - sheriffs,

r legislators and other civic offi-

The subcommittee’s report st ate s legislators Thursday for | cials sided with the joint chiefs of more weapons to use in con- ;

staff in stating that effective taining potential riots, including Sen. Herman J. Fanning Jr., action in Vietnam “requires the more money and more crime D-Terre Haute, and Rep. Wilclosing of the port of Haiphong. ' prevention laws. ham S. Latz, R-Fort Wayne, . . and the lines of communica- were elected co-chairmen.

tion from Red China.” Ma >' ors Llo >' d Allen of South A „ Bend and John J. Barton of Allen, as the mayor of the

Defense Secretary Robert S. Indianapolis told the legislative onl .V Hoosier city to experience McNamara split with the joint Civil Disorders Study Commit- serious race-related disturbancchiefs over the issue, however, tee specific authority for calling j es this summer, got close attelling the subcommittee that curfews and a redefinD’on of tention when he outlined his

heavier bombing would not end the crime of inciting to riot are ideas.

the war but would increase the urgently needed. “It is important to be able to risk of Red Chinese or Russian The committee, created by the impose a curfew,” he said, involvement. Indiana Legislative Council, j “The authority of a mayor to

do this might be subject to question. There is some litigation about this in Detroit, I understand. “The legislature should define what is meant by inciting to riot. The legislation on the books was for the Ku Klux Klan and the reverse application does leaves a little to be desired,” he said. Allen, president of the Indiana Municipal League, also complained that the “legislature of Indiana has not paid attention to the problems of cities and ! towns. We are actually ham1 strung to the place we can’t do

a good job. Revise the tax structure at the next session.” Barton said “You need to come up with legislation to increase the capacities of local agencies to deal with the subject. I think these riots are caused by a bunch of hoodlums out there and should be treated that way.” Allen, Barton and other local governmental officials are members of the new committee as well as the legislators. The bulk of the organization meeting was devoted to conunents from each member as to the course he thought the committee’s study should take.

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