The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 16 January 1968 — Page 4

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The Daily Banner, Greeneastle, Indian*

Tuesday, January 16, 1966

Litvinov may lead next Moscow protest movement MOSCOW UPI—He Is tall He issued his statement while

and unkempt, a scientist by profession and a scion of the Bolshevik nobility. He also could be the next martyr of a Moscow protest movement “I am not an organization man and definitely not a revolutionary,” Pavel Litvinov said. "But I must do what my

heart tells me.”

What Litvinov did was distribute a harsh and angry statement, condemning the trial last week of his friends Yuri Galanskov and Alex Ginzburg as a new version of the

Stalin purge trials.

He accused the KGB (secret police! of framing Galanskov and Ginzburg and said the judge and prosecutor railroaded them into labor camps.

Most deserters flee from own problems

the trial was in progress. And he gave it to western newsmen here "because it is hopeless" to attempt publication in the state-controlled Soviet press. All that happened last Friday. He spent most of Friday night comforting the mothera of Galanskov and Ginzburg. He was unshaven and disheveled. dressed only in blue ^shorts, as he talked with a UPI reporter Saturday morning in his flat on the 13th floor of a luxury apartment a half mile from the Kremlin. “I am not interested in politics as such.” Litvinov said | in a mixture of Russian and halting English. "But Soviet law should be respected. I am against all violence, whether- on the bottom or from the top.” Litvinov is 28. a physician who works as a research chemist and teacher at the Institute of Precise Chemical Technology in Moscow. He is large and roughly handsome. He married young and has a 7-year-old son. but he and his wife are now di-

vorced.

He is the grandson of the late Maxim Litvinov, a onetime foreign minister and a great name in early Soviet history. His grandfather arranged details of Soviet-U.S. recognition

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HEIDELBERG. Germany UPI —The U.S. Army views its deserters from European posts as a “rotten few” who go over the hill for other reasons than escape from Vietnam duty, military spokesmen said today. A spokesman at U.S. Army headquarters in Europe told United Press International that most of the GIs seeking asylum recently in Sweden and France had fled from such troubles as court martial. “These are a rotten few who make a lot of noise, but are not a serious problem in terms of numbers," the spokesman said. There are more than 200.000 U.S. Army troops stationed in Europe. About a dozen have deserted as anti-Vietnam “protest-

ers.”

The spokesman said the “rotten few” do not reflect the general attitude in Europe to Vietnam duty. “That is proven by the fact that 19,000 of our men in Europe volunteered for Vietnam in 1967,” he said. Spokesmen here said they doubt the sincerity of the dozen “protesters” because the Army has a policy of not sending to Vietnam any soldier with a record of disciplinary punishments and courts martial. None of the “protesters" had been alerted for Vietnam duty, the spokesmen said. “We'd rather not take a chance on foul ball soldiers under battle conditions. It wouldn’t be fair to the Vietnam GTs whose lives are at stake,” an officer said. Military records of several re-cently-surfaced Vietnam “pro-

in 1933. “In my grandfathers heart, he would think I am right” Litvinov said. “My protest is against illegality and Injustice, but not against the political system.” The young chemist sees himself as a representative of a younger generation untainted by life under Stalin. "All persons over 40 In our country are in a state of total fear of everything.” he said. “People cannot understand this by reason, but psychologically they cannot do anything about their fear. "This leaves it up to my generation to make the changes.”

How?

“I would tell, my generation to say frankly what they think.” he said thoughtfully. “If there were mass protests, if they became known in the West and got the support of foreign Communists, whom our government must take into consideration, it would have an

effect.”

“On the whole. I am an optimist,” he said. “I believe my country will become a just country. Of this I am sure. “But I don't know when,” Pope Paul names Brennen to high post VATICAN CITY UPI—Pop* Paul VI Monday named Francii Cardinal Brennan to head the Roman Curia's Congregation of Sacraments, the highest Vatican post ever given to an American.

testers ’ included: | Brennan, the only American —Spec. 4 William Percell. 21. cardinal serving the Roman of Miami. Fla., who has been Catholic Church at the Vatican, recommended for asylum in was named to replace Benedetto Sweden, escaped from a Fuerth Cardinal Aloisi Masella. 88. as work detail Nov. 20 while await- Part of the Pope’s “cabinet ing court martial for desertion. P^rge” to replace conservative He had been arrested Sept. 80 cardinals in the top administraon a narcotics charge in Copen- tlv « bod y ^ th more Progressive

hagen and returned by Danish ones -

authorities to the Army. Brennan. 73, is a native of

—Pvt. Edward K. Johnson, 21. of Cleveland, Ohio also recommended for Swedish asylum, had five punishments and three court* martial on his record, one for stealing S36 from a fellow GI. He fled two days before an “undesirable discharge” for him reached his unit. He was under investigation for alleged use of marijuana. —Pvt. Joseph E. Norwood. 19. of South San Gabriel. Calif., who asked for Swedish asylum last week, had a record of two punishments and a court martial. He fled his post near Mainz after serving two months of a six - month stockade sentence and being freed under a Christmas clemency program.

Baffin Bay was named for the explorer William Baffin.

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Shenandoah, Pa. The Pope also announced the appointment of Maximilian Cardinal de Furtenberg, a Dutchborn Belgian citizen, to succeed Gustavo Cardinal Testa. 81, as head of the Congregation for the Eastern Church. De Furtenberg is 63. Pope Paul earlier today announced his acceptance of the resignations of Masella and Testa. Their resignations brought to five the number of princes of the church who have retired from top Curia posts in less than a week. Brennan and De Furtenberg, both among the 27 new cardinals named by Pope Paul in his consistory last June, were appointed by him in September as the top assistants for the new Prefecture for Economic Affairs. Replacements for them in these posts were expected to be named shortly. Brennan is the first American ever to serve on the Curia, the church’s central administrative