The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 12 November 1968 — Page 2

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The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Indiana

Tuesday, November 12, 1968

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TODAY’S EDITORIAL Whose Peace? \ S THE UNITED STATES continues to seek a nego- - » tiated settlement of the war in Vietnam, words and their meanings will prove to be most troublesome. It is a common error to believe that Communists mean the same things we do when they use such words as “peace,” “freedom,” and “democracy.” When a Soviet leader speaks in these terms, we sometimes take the statement at face value, without considering it in the context of Communist ideology. To us “peace” means the absence of armed hostilities. To Communists, however, it is something entirely different. “Peace” means the condition which will prevail following the final triumph of Communism over its enemies. Hence “peace”—Soviet-style—is promoted by conflict. A recent article in the Soviet newspaper Pravda demonstrates the dangers of judging the meaning of Soviet statements by Western standards. Seeking to justify the Eastern-bloc invasion of Czechoslovakia, the article informs us that Soviet law is dictated by class interests and is not impartial in the Western sense. Pravda said: “Those who speak about the illegal actions of the allied socialist countries in Czechoslovakia forget that in a class society there is not and there cannot be non-class laws. “Formal juridical reasoning must not overshadow a class approach to the matter. One who does it, thus losing the only correct class criteria in assessing legal norms, begins to measure events with the yardstick of bourgeois law.” In other words, the invasion of Czechoslovakia was “legal” because it served the interests of Communism. Law as an impartial arbiter does not exist behind the Iron Curtain. Such a concept, cherished in the West, is rejected by the Soviets as “bourgeois.” One wonders how it is possible to come to terms with spokesmen for such an ideology. Can the current negotiations on Vietnam produce a workable peace—in the Western sense—when the words spoken on each side do not mean the same thing ?

Father, sons jailed in alleged plot to kill Nixon

NEW YORK (UPI)—An Arab immigrant from Yemen and his two shipping clerk sons who shared a shabby, three-room Brooklyn flat, were jailed today under $100,000 bond each, charged with plotting to kill President-elect Richard M. Nix. on. Police and secret service agents were investigating the possibility of a link between the alleged plot against Nixon and the murder of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, killed in Los Angeles in June. Sirhan Bishara Sirhan, a 24-year-old Jordanian immigrant, allegedly shot Kennedy because of the senator’s proIsraeli statements. The three suspects, who worked as shipping clerks in a clothing factory, made several trips to Los Angeles, according to the New York Daily News, which said police were curious about how they could afford such trips on their modest salaries. Nixon Informed Aides of Nixon, due in New York today from Key Biscayne, Fla., said he knew of the plot before it was made public but had “no concern over it.” At the arraignment of the three Sunday in Brooklyn Criminal Court, a prosecutor hinted the plot could have been planned abroad, ar\d apparently came about because of Nixon’s campaign statement that Israel should have a “technological military margin” over Arab neighbors. Standing silent listening to the proceedings intently at their arraignment, the father and his sons were charged with criminal conspiracy to commit murder, criminal solicitation and possession of dangerous weapons. A legal aid society lawyer who appeared with them said they had money to hire their own attorney and would do so. They face another court hearing Tuesday and a Brooklyn grand jury will begin its probe of the case on the same day. Father A Citizen The three suspects are Ahamad Rageh Namer, 43, who came to this country- 13 years ago and has become a naturalized U.S. citizen, and his sons Hussein, 20, who came to the country nine years ago, and Abdo Ahmad, 19, who left Yemen two years ago. The charge of solicitation

against the three reportedly stemmed from their efforts to enlist the aid of another man in the plot. The fourth man, who police are holding in protective custody and whom they have declined to identify, informed police in an anonymous telephone call Friday night of the alleged plot, it was reported. In the Namer apartment, police found an Ml rifle and an Ml carbine, 24 rounds of ammunition and two switchblade knives, as well as letters from relatives and from persons authorities described as “contacts” in Arab countries Jordan, Israel clash in short battle By United Press International Jordan said Israeli air and ground forces today attacked Jordanian forces just below the Sea of Galilee with napalm plus artillery, mortar and machinegun fire. A military spokesman in the Jordanian capital of Amman said a 20-minute fight raged on the spot, on the Jordan River four miles below the biblical lake. He said Israeli forces and jets opened the exchange, the two fighters dropping the napalm. The Jordanian spokesman said his forces on the east bank of the Jordan suffered no casualties. In Jerusalem, an Israeli spokesman said Jordanian troops fired bazookas at an Israeli military patrol southeast of the Ashdot-Yaacov settlement — in the same area where Jordan said the fight raged. The Israeli spokesman said no casualties were suffered in the bozooka attack. Jordan earlier accused Israel of dropping napalm bombs Friday, in the Al-Majani bridge area, also on the Jordan River. Israeli forces seized the west bank of the river from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war. In the United Nations, delegates today took up the 20-year. old problem of Palestinian refugees against a background of the fresh violence and seemingly deadlocked peace efforts.

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Vietnam certain to be main topic of talks today

Soviets launch new space probe MOSCOW (UPI)—The Soviet Union launched Zond 6, an automatic space station, toward the moon Sunday, the Tass news agency said today. The launching of the unmanned station “in a direction toward the moon” was “in conformity with the space research program,” Tass said. Zond 6 “was placed on the preset flight trajectory from an intermediate orbit of artificial earth satellite,” the Tass announcement said. “According to the measurements data, the flight of the Zond 6 automatic station is being effected along a trajectory close to the calculated one,” Tass said. The first Tass dispatch gave no further clarification of how Zond 6 was fired toward the moon “from an intermediate orbit.” “The purpose of the launching is to conduct scientific exp lor ations along the route of the flight and in near-lunar space and also to test the systems and units on board the station,” Tass said. Stable radio communications with the space station were established, the agency report, ed. The Soviet Union’s last space venture sent Col. Georgy Beregovoi into a 96-hour orbit Oct. 26 aboard Soyuz 3 during which he practiced approach maneuvers in space with Soyuz 2, an unmanned probe launched Oct. 25. Fire kills small girl

UPI White House Reporter KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. (UPI) — The Vietnam War and the effects to end it were almost certain to dominate talks today between President-elect Richard M. Nixon and the man he will succeed in the White House, President Lyndon B. Johnson. The two men confer today in their first post-election face-to-face meeting from which may come a decision on Nixon’s immediate role in the Paris negotiations prior to his inauguration next Jan. 20. Nixon’s position has been that he will make no move whatever concerning the peace talks unless Johnson so recommends. To those who urge him from time to time to inject himself into the peace negotiation, he has had a standard reply: “We can have only one president at a time.” The president-elect indicated his availability for a role in peace negotiations following church services Sunday at the Key Biscayne Presbyterian Church. Work Toward Peace Nixon told some of the spectators and newsmen he would be willing to do anything to help bring about successful peace negotiations. He mentioned being willing to go any place in the world to help peace between now and Jan. 20 if Johnson requested him to undertake such an assignment. After his White House visit today, Nixon planned to con. tinue on to New York where his staff headquarters at the Pierre Hotel will be the scene of intensive planning for the makeup of his new national administration. The president-elect, his wife and their two daughters, plus staff and press party, planned to take off from Miami about 10 am. EST for Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington where they were expected to land at 12:30 p.m. The Nixons had a White House luncheon date with the president and his wife, Lady Bird, at 1:30 p.m. After lunch the two men planned to talk business while the two ladies inspected the White House family quarters where the new president, his wife, Pat, and their daughters, Julie and Tricia, will be home after the inauguration. Meets Administration Leaders The president-elect planned to EITEL’S Christmas 100 Box Cards Ready for you to make your selection SAVE 10% AT EITEL’S FLOWERS

arrive in New York (Kennedy Airport) by 6 p.m. or shortly thereafter, the exact time depending on how long he spends with Johnson and expectedly, other current administration leaders, particularly Secretary of State Dean Rusk. Both Johnson and Nixon want both sides, enemies and allies, in the Vietnam War to understand that the election results did nothing to change basic American policy on the To help U.S.

Southeast Asian war; that in the interval from now until inauguration, there will be no shift of policy because of the election outcome. Partly to demonstrate this unity on Vietnam policy, Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey stopped off here to talk with the president-elect before continuing on to the Virgin Islands for a vacation. Humphrey promised to cooperate with Nixon in any matters involving national interests.

SHARPSVILLE, Ind. (UPI)— Penny Sue Little, 4, died in a fire at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Richard Little, Sunday afternoon. Her sister, Robin, 5, was injured and hospitalized with burns. The fire apparently started when the victim tried to “bake a birthday cake with real candies” in her upstairs bedroom. The father was working in his garage and saw the flames in time to rescue his daughter, Robin, but was unable to save Penny.

support NATO expense

By WILLIAM ANDERSON BRUSSELS (UPI)—America’s European partners are consider, ing meeting U.S. requests to shoulder more of the burden of defending the West, a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) official said today. Matthias A. Mathiesen, president of the North Atlantic Assembly, said the alliance also is studying the establishment of a European defense authority to give America’s partners a bigger say in deciding NATO action. Mathiesen made the announcements in opening a session of the assembly called to study NATO in view of the Soviet bloc Aug. 21 invasion of Czechoslovakia. President Johnson and Pres-ident-elect Richard M. Nixon both have urged America’s smaller partners to put more money and manpower into the largely U.S.-led NATO defense effort. Mathiesen said, “The weaker and smaller members of the alliance will require firm

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guarantees that if they do increase their political and defense policies they do not run the risk of a corresponding reduction in the American commitment to the alliance as a whole.” The United States keeps more than 200,000 combat troops in West Germany plus massive air and fleet units stationed from the Baltic to the Mediterranean in defense of Western Europe. Japanese Book For Movie HOLLYWOOD I UPI > —Stirling Silliphant and Herbert Brodkin will produce “The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea,” a novel by Japan’s leading author, Yukio Mishima.

Mathiesen said the Russian occupation of Czechoslovakia was “a painful reminder of the danger which threatens us from the East.” NATO was born almost 20 years ago to meet the threat of Soviet pressure. “Many cherished illusions about detente have now been broken,” the assembly president said, referring to East-West relations. “Nonetheless we must not give up the aim of achieving genuine improvements in our relations with the Soviet Union,” he said. More than 200 parliamentarians from 14 countries were scheduled to attend the five-day session. The 27-member American delegation is headed by Rep. Wayne L. Hayes, D-Ohio, and Sen. John J. Sparkman, D-Ala.

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The Pill has become a source of greater contention than the war in Vietnam, That one involves 2,000,000 men. The Pill has divided the 500,000,000 members of the Roman Catholic Church and has caused a moral upheaval among one billion women of childbearing age. A female is born with all the ova, or eggs, she will ever use. From the age of puberty onward, ane is dropped on an average of jvery twenty-eight days by the ovary. It rolls toward the fallopian tube where, in mid-cycle, it can be fertilized and begin to split on a 2-for-l basis in the uterine wall. For some obscure reason, men of science have wondered, for centuries, why a woman who is pregnant does not get pregnant again during gestation. In this century, it was learned that, at this time ,the female no longer produces the egg. Further research disclosed that,throughout pregnancy, she produces a large amount of a hormone called progesterone. Thirty-one years ago, physicians at the University of Pennsylvania injected large amounts of progesterone into female rabbits. None became pregnant. This was birth control, but the expensive production of progesterone, gram by costly gram,caused the subject to lie dormant for years. In addition,progesterone induced intense pain. Everything in the world has an atomic structure- a misshapen tree of small colored “cherries.’ The addition of one atom, or the subtraction of one, can alter the substance dramatically. Russell Marker discovered that a large Mexican yam, growing wild, contained diosgenin, which had an atomic structure resembling progesterone and an array of steroids. It was at this point that science began to play Atomic Roulette. The wild yam was used to synthesize (or imitate) the atomic structure of progesterone. In 1951, Gregory Pincus of the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology began to use the substance to discover a means of blocking conception. Theethical drug houses turned their backs to him. Pincus was getting into a field which, they felt, could get them into trouble. Only G.D. Searle &. Co., of Skokie, Illinois, was willing to take a chance. As Walter Modell and Alfred Lansing point out in a book called “Drugs,” Searle

was concerned about the imminence of a population explosion. They had 35 Ph. D.s who had just completed working on- -and flunking- -a problem in steroids. These teams knew which chemical groups contained the most progesterone. Pincus told them he was interested in an oral contraceptive. He did not want anything which would involve injection by syringe. Searle’s scientists narrowed the field to 15 possibilities. Each was successfully synthesized . Three suppressed ovulation. Within two years (1953) these were being tested cautiously. Unlike Fleming, who discovered penicillin accidentally, Pincus knew what he was looking for and was elated to find that, while a 300 milligram dose of progester. one would block conception 85 per cent of the time, a 10 milligram dose of Norethynodrel was almost perfect. Later, he found that this small amount could be cut in half without losing effectiveness. The Pill is now common knowledge, and commonly used. Pincus knows how it works. Once every lunar cycle, the pituitary gland at the base of the brain emits hormones which reach the ovaries with an order to release an egg. The Pill intercepts and shoots the messenger. If, in time, the Pill holds the population of the world within manageable limits, Gregory Pincus may be acknowledged as a scientific savior. Women in depressed countries, like India, get the Pill free. In America, the Pill has the miraculous quality of enabling mothers to control the size of their families. The moral side of the question- - if there is one- -is, according to Catholic definition, that anything except rhythm control which blocks natural conception is Continued on Page 5 Dr. L J. Goldberg Registered Podiatrist Wednesday, Nov. 13 Will b» in hi* offfc* tnr Traotmant of Font Ailmant* Altai 1:30 A M at tho COMMERCIAL HOTEL Phono Ol 3-3617 for AppointmonH

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