The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 August 1968 — Page 3

Friday, August 23, 1968

TheJlajly Banner. Greencastle, Indiana

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By PHIL NEWSOM UPI Foreign News Analyst

Free Czechoslovakia was writing its own obituary today. From President Ludvik Svoboda: "We have reached the point of no return ..." The last message to be carried on the wires of the official Czech news agency Ceteka (CTK): "We have just been occupied by foreign troops. At this moment the free new activity of Ceteka is ending. If further news is transmitted it will no longer be from . . ." And then silence. LBJ, top leaders meet WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Johnson’s meeting today with top military and diplomatic advisers is designed to sharpen the focus of free world strategy to intensify international condemnation of Russia’s military intervention in Czechoslovakia. High officials said no spectacular immediate tactics would issue from the cabinet session. Rather, the concern would be more with the long range strategy to be employed in the effort to force the Kremlin to abandon its tactics of forceful repression in central Europe. Top officials did not minimize the gravity of the situation. They expressed belief, however, that the Soviet Union’s use of force in crushing the liberalization movement in Prague had dealt the Kremlin a psychological black eye which would be long in healing. The United States and its allies moved swiftly to take advantage of general world dismay over the Russian action. They used a hurriedly summoned session of the United Nations Security Council Wednesday night to emphasize their charges that Moscow was lying in asserting Czech officials asked members of the Warsaw Pact to send tanks, planes and troops to save the country from alleged "aggressive and subversive elements." American officials said they saw little possibility of specific U.N. action and restated U.S. unwillingness to take any moves on its own.

And so Ceteka joined Prague television and Radio Prague whose gutted studios were only a grim reminder of a brief fling at freedom and whose final words evoked a memory of Radio Budapest 12 years ago after another abortive attempt to throw off the Russian yoke. Sent Final Message As his voice faded off the air, the Hungarian announcer had sent this final message: "Good bye, dear friends . . . God help us." And this was the Hungary of 1956 and the East Germany of 1953. For the third time, Russian tanks had demonstrated the raw power the Soviets were prepared to use to preserve their carefully prepared line of satellite defenses and to ward off any threat, real or imagined, to Soviet borders. This was eer nationalism, and for the Russians, self-pro-claimed leaders of international communism, the price would be high. The Italian Communist party, largest in Europe, reiterated its support for the Czechs and the French party for the first time in its history condemned Moscow. Seal of Doom Just as the Warsaw letter of mid-July sealed the Czech doom with its declaration the Soviets would permit no change in the balance of power in Europe, so the Moscow party newspaper Pravda today seemed to be sealing the doom of the Czech leaders who had tried to democratize their country and put a "new face" on socialism. Pravda accused "interned" First Party Secretary Alexander Dubcek and his aides of "treasonable action" encouraging counterrevolution. This also was a rewrite of history. On Nov. 22, 1956, Hungarian Premier Imre Nagy left the refuge of the Yugoslav embassy in Budapest under a safeconduct guaranty issued by the puppet government of Janos Kadar. A day later Radio Budapest declared Nagy had "asked to depart ... to another socialist country." On June 17, 1958, the official Hungarian news agency announced his execution.

"A PROFANATION” is the reaction of some of the 19 cardinals and more than 500 bishops at the International Eucharistic Congress in Bogota to these mini-skirts on hostesses selected by the Colombian government.

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Architects'rendering of Ewing Miller Associates new offices inTerre Haute, Indiana Humphrey views party platform as chief trouble spot

Ewing Miller Associates in new building

CHICAGO (UPI)—Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey’s campaign team viewed the party platform today as his chief trouble spot in his effort to unify the Democrats for the 1968 presidential campaign. A major aggravation was the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. His campaign aides were convinced that more than enough delegates already had decided to give him a firstballot nomination at the Democratic National Convention, which opens Monday.

But they feared that the Communist bloc invasion of Czechoslovakia would leave him less latitude for foreign policy and Vietnam planks acceptable to both Democratic hawks and doves. The invasion should work to harden, not soften, Humphrey’s delegate support because sudden crises abroad tend to rally support for an incumbent administration. Russian tanks in Hungary and the Suez crisis contributed to Dwight D. Eisenhower’s re-election landslide in 1956.

McCarthy supporters were cheered Wednesday by the Gallup Poll indicating that the Minnesotfi senator would run stronger than Humphrey against Richard M. Nixon, the Republican presidential nominee. At the same time, the Humphrey organization reported that its "hard count" of delegate votes—under constant challenge by the McCarthy camp—had risen to more than 1,450. The winner needs 1,312. The latest UPI count of

delegates, based on commitments and indicated preferences, gave Humphrey 1,074 votes, McCarthy 453, Sen. George S. McGovern of South Dakota 34^2 , favorite sons and other candidates 488V2 . This breakdown left 572 votes uncommitted. Two more of the cases involving contested delegations come up for decision late today. They involve the 104-vote delegation from Texas and the 43-vote Georgia delegation. Both cases involve McCarthy-backed charges of discrimination against minorities.

Ewing Miller Associates, Terre Haute-based firm of architects, planners, and engineers, has moved to new offices at 788 South Third Street, Terre Haute. The offices are located on the upper level of a new two-story building planned and designed by the firm to accommodate its executive and client services facilities in Indiana. First floor of the structure will be leased. Ewing Miller Associates’basic services of architectural design, civil and structural engineering, and master planning had expanded to the point where additional space for new personnel and mechanical equipment was required. The new offices occupy 6,000 square feet. According to Ewing Miller, senior partner, the newly completed offices are an "example of the quality and economy at>tainable using industrialized components.” The offices feature polarized, shadow-free lighting, double-duct heating and air conditioning, and carpeting in all areas. Total space is divided into six private offices, two conference rooms, library, drafting and reception areas, and a mechanical equipment room. Executive offices have individual temperature controls. The interior space design firm I S D Incorporated of Chicago and New York planned the furnishings and color coordination. The firm’s Associate in charge of the Department of Behavioral Research, psychologist Dr. Lawrence Wheeler, assisted in space planning for improved communi-

cations patterns and human interaction. The new Ewing Miller Associates office in Terre Haute maintains its phone number (2356275). The firm was formerly located at 604 Tribune Building. The firm also plans to open a new office in California in the fall. Mayor’s son safe in Soviet invasion KOCKPORT, Ind. (UPI)— Three Indiana teen-agers, including the son of the mayor of Rockport, were reported safe today in Prague following the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. Rep. Roger H. Zion, R-Ind., to whom Mayor Ferman Yearby appealed for help in learning of the boys’ whereabouts, reported the three and about 150 other students on a foreign Ianguage tour of Moscow and Europe were safe in the Lunik Hotel in Prague and were being placed aboard a train to Frankfurt, Germany, this morning. Yearby’s son is Ron Yearby, 15. The other boys are Mike Monar, Rockport, and Steve Varner, Lamar, a 1968 graduate of Tell City High School.

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