Turkish leaders radiated optimism tonight after talking with United States Under Secretary of State George W. Ball that a military showdown with Greece over Cyprus could be avoided. “We are on the way to find a solution,” Premier İsmet İnönü said shortly after Mr. Ball left for Washington. “The allies have made and are making efforts to resolve the question between Greece and Turkey.” President Johnson ordered Mr. Ball to fly to Athens and Ankara after Greece and Turkey, allied with the United States in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, appeared to be about to go to war over Cyprus. There was a jarring note, however, at the end of Mr. Ball’s mission. Greece asserted that Turkish jet fighters had flown low over the Greek island of Rhodes, sending the population into a panic.
A Turkish communiqué said Mr. Ball had told Turkish officials: “The Government of the United States believes that any solution to the Cyprus question must be in the interest of Turkey and Greece, and the United States also believes that a solution must be found in the shortest time possible.” Turkey has shown determination to defend the Turkish Cypriot minority ever since fighting between Cypriots of Greek and Turkish descent broke out last Christmas. The fighting arose from Turkish Cypriots’ fears that Greek Cypriot leaders were moving to undermine their minority rights. Mr. Ball arrived in Ankara from Athens, where Premier George Papandreou of Greece said he had told the Under Secretary: “Our target is a peaceful solution and we endeavor to maintain peace.” Reliable sources reported that Mr. Ball had delivered a warning to Turkey and Greece that the United States was ready to take prompt measures of an and disclosed nature to prevent a war between them.
The Soviet Union has notified the United States that it will sign a treaty of friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance with East Germany this week, probably tomorrow. Moscow was careful to explain that this would not be the oft‐threatened “peace treaty” abolishing Western rights in West Berlin and along the air and surface access routes across East Germany to Berlin. Nonetheless, the document is expected to have some bearing on the delicate East‐West diplomacy on German issues that is being reactivated simultaneously by both sides.
Chancellor Ludwig Erhard of West Germany will confer in Washington tomorrow with President Johnson. He has been eager to regain the initiative in discussions of the reunification of Germany and will propose several moves, including his plan to meet with Premier Khrushchev. The Western powers may react to the Soviet pact with East Germany by stressing their eagerness to work for German reunification and their refusal, until Germany is unified, to relieve Moscow of responsibility for Western rights behind the East German frontier.
Advance notice of the treaty was brought to Secretary of State Dean Rusk yesterday by Anatoly F. Dobrynin, Soviet Ambassador in Washington. He did not present it as an ominous development, but he did not disclose the contents of the treaty or offer specific assurances of future Western rights. The Ambassador urged the United States to take the document at face value and said it did not remove the need for a peace treaty with East Germany, which his government has repeatedly proposed — at times in the form of an ultimatum — since 1958. Mr. Dobrynin’s call suggested to some observers that the Soviet Union wished to bolster the status of East Germany’s Communist Government without precipitating a new East-West crisis in Central Europe.
West Germany is willing to contribute fully to the relaxation of tensions throughout the world, Chancellor Ludwig Erhard declared in New York last night, but his country does not believe that this contribution requires Germany to remain deprived of a right to self‐determination. “A free and united German people would be an element of peace and security in Europe,” Dr. Erhard said. “When the Germans in the Soviet‐occupied zone (East Germany) are granted the right of self‐determination, the possibility of close and peaceful cooperation with the Eastern European nations will be opened up.”
Chancellor Erhard and President Johnson will decide tomorrow or Saturday whether the United States and West Germany will make a new effort to start four‐power talks on the problem of Germany and Berlin. Highly placed sources said that the two nations, in the course of diplomatic exchanges in preparation for the Erhard visit to Washington tomorrow, had tentatively agreed to join in an appeal for a resumption, after five years, of discussions between the Soviet Union and the Western allies.
West Germany seeks talks with Czechoslovakia.
In the suburb of Volkhoven in Cologne, West Germany, Walter Seifert attacked students and teachers at a Roman Catholic elementary school with a homemade flamethrower, killing 10 and injuring 21. Screaming “Hitler the second has returned!” he set fire to a classroom building with ignited fuel, then torched two other buildings before his fuel supply was spent. Seifert died after being shot by police.
Poland told the 17-nation disarmament conference today that she would continue to seek an accord for a freeze on nuclear arms in Central Europe. However, Marian Naszkowski, a Polish Deputy Foreign Minister, said the effort would be pursued by diplomatic channels rather than at the arms talks. Although a member of the conference, Poland has never, officially placed before it her plan to freeze nuclear weapons at their present levels on her own territory and on that of Czechoslovakia and East and West Germany. Instead, the Polish project was communicated last February in a memorandum to the governments that it would concern. Only passing references have been made to it here. Mr. Naszkowski blamed the West German Government for the objections that the Polish freeze offer has encountered among the Western powers. Officials in Bonn, he asserted, see in the plan “an obstacle” to their desire to obtain nuclear weapons.
The United States said today that it would continue to fly reconnaissance flights over Laos, “as necessary,” with the consent of that country’s neutralist Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma. To spare Prince Souvanna Phouma any embarrassment and to protect United States fliers, the Government added, it will not publicly discuss the “operational” aspects of the flights. Officials said this meant they would not disclose the timing of the flights or the resistance encountered. They will also withhold information about the armed jet escorts assigned to the reconnaissance planes last week and the retaliatory raids these escorts may conduct against gun emplacements of the Communist‐led Pathet Lao troops.
A United States plane attacked a Pathet Lao gun position Tuesday after a reconnaissance plane and a fighter craft had been shot down. The government has refused to confirm or deny this officially. Several reasons apparently have led to the secrecy, but the desire not to implicate Premier Souvanna Phouma in the attacks seems to be the principal one. Officials here are also sensitive about suggestions that the armed escort flights, if not the reconnaissance missions, are violations of the 1962 Geneva accord on Laos. The State Department denied any disagreement with the Laotian Premier in recent days and emphasized that its announcement today was based on a “clear understanding” with him.
The Peking radio charged that six American‐made planes bombed and strafed the Pathet Lao headquarters at Khang Khay, on the Plaine de Jarres, today. The Chinese broadcast, quoting a report of the Pathet Lao, said: “Six AT‐6 and T‐28‐type aircraft dropped six large bombs and strafed between 10 AM and 10:30 AM Thursday. The Deputy Premier’s residence and a number of other Government officials’ houses were destroyed and burned down.”
The most frequently wounded American in South Vietnam received his seventh Purple Heart yesterday. Major Patrick Delavan of the Army, who commands an armed helicopter company, has been wounded five times in Vietnam. Major Delavan, 35 years old, who is from Denbigh, Virginia, said, “If I’m the most wounded, I’m also the most lucky.” He has been in Vietnam since a year ago. He will return to the United States July 1. He was first wounded here by a sharp stick placed in the grass by the Việt Cộng guerrillas. His eyelids were wounded when a rocket on his helicopter exploded after being hit and he was wounded twice by shrapnel and once by metal fragments. Major Delavan got his first two Purple Hearts in Korea.
[Ed: Delavan died — but not until 2022, at the age of 93. He is buried at the Leavenworth National Cemetery.]
French President de Gaulle told an enthusiastic crowd in Laon tonight that he was “more determined than ever, as long as I have my strength, to serve my country.” Finishing strong after a tiring day of meeting the people of this northern region, the President thus bolstered the belief that he was willing to serve another seven‐year term. His term began in January, 1959, and he would be due for election in December, 1965. His visit to three northern French Departments, which is to last four days, is a test of the President’s health after a prostate operation in April. He gave the impression of full recovery as he went through nine towns and nine speeches and shook innumerable hands. He also gave the impression that he considered himself to have regained full health. This trip is also a test of his popularity with ordinary Frenchmen, the principal source of his political strength. This popularity appears to have stood up well despite the fact that this is an agricultural region and farmers in general have for years been discontented with prices and living standards.
The new RSFSR Civil Code, governing the rules for lawsuits and other non-criminal proceedings in courts in the Russian SFSR, went into effect in the largest of the Soviet Union’s 15 socialist republic, in what is now the Russian Federation.
Brazil’s first Institutional Act (the Ato Institucional), promulgated on April 9, expired under its own terms, after President Humberto Castelo Branco had removed 378 public officials from office and suspended their political rights for 10 years. Those affected included 300 local legislators at the state and municipal level; 63 national deputies and two national senators; six state governors; and former presidents João Goulart, Jânio Quadros, and Juscelino Kubitschek. Castelo Branco also fired more than 10,000 civil servants, and retired 77 army officers, 14 navy officers, and 31 air force officers. Investigations continued, however, with the creation the same month of the SNI, the Serviço Nacional de Informações or National Information Service, to spy on Brazil’s civilians.
Amendment after amendment fell by the wayside today as the civil rights bill moved slowly but surely toward passage. Yesterday the Senate imposed closure, 71 to 29, ending the Southern filibuster against the bill. From that moment, the Southerners had the clock running against them. Under the Senate rules, each Senator is allowed one hour of talk after closure is imposed. Time required for voting on amendments is not counted against the hour. But time taken to describe an amendment or defend it — even so little as 10 seconds — is counted.
Today the Southerners began chewing up their time as they called up several amendments designed to emasculate key provisions of the bill or strip it of enforcement powers. Again and again, the Senate rejected these amendments by margins ranging from safe to lopsided. Senator Mike Mansfield of Montana, the Democratic leader, and Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota, the Democratic floor manager of the bill, kept their pledge that Senators could have roll‐call votes on their amendments. By the day’s end, there had been 12 roll‐call votes. On only one amendment did the Southerners prevail, and then because the amendment was made noncontroversial by a clarification of language and intent and had the support of the bill’s managers.
Politically, the most interesting development of the day was the vote on an amendment offered by Senator Russell B. Long, Democrat of Louisiana, which said: “No Federal department or agency shall take any action to require, directly or indirectly, any person, in the sale, leasing, rental, or other disposition of private residential housing and related facilities (including land to be developed for residential use), to negotiate, or enter into any contract, with any other person not of his choosing.” Mr. Long’s purpose, as he freely acknowledged, was to nullify an Executive order of President Kennedy in 1962 directing Federal agencies to take measures to prevent discrimination in the sale, leasing and renting of residential properties built with the aid of Government‐insured mortgages. The amendment was rejected, 66 to 24. Only six Republicans voted for it — Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, the leading contender for the Republican Presidential nomination, and five of his more ardent supporters.
Another Long proposal set off a tangled struggle that was eventually settled amicably without a vote. The issue was whether the Federal Government could institute and enforce an “open housing” program through powers conferred by Title VI of the bill. This section permits the Government to cut off funds where there is discrimination in federally aided programs. The Southerners have argued, for example, that a homeowner who obtained a mortgage loan from a federally insured bank could be forced to sell his home to anyone without regard to race, creed or national origin. They have also argued that no bank or building and loan association would be permitted to make a loan to anyone unwilling to promise that the home would be sold without discrimination as to buyer.
The Congressional Republican leaders criticized the United States‐Soviet consular treaty today as a pact that would increase Soviet espionage and “cloak it with immunity to boot.” Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois, the Senate Republican leader, said that the agreement “will be a difficult treaty to sell to the Senate.” The treaty, negotiated by the Johnson Administration, is aimed at opening Russian consular offices in New York, Chicago and San Francisco in exchange for similar American offices in Russia. Mr. Dirksen did not go so far as to say the Republicans would fight its ratification by the Senate. But he said that the treaty would get “an exhaustive look‐see” and that the Administration would have to clarify some of its provisions.
The House of Representatives voted 243 to 157 today to increase Congressional salaries by $7,500 a year. The bill it approved also provides pay increases for 1.7 million federal workers, including cabinet officers and the federal judiciary. If the Senate takes comparable action, the pay of members of Congress will go from $22,500 a year to $30,000; that of Cabinet officers from $25,000 to $32,500; that of Supreme Court Justices from $35,000 to $42,500, and that of top‐rank career civil servants from $20,000 to $24,500. Other increases on a descending scale would apply all the way down to the lowest ranks of postal and civil service workers. A companion bill has been introduced in the Senate, but the Post Office and Civil Service Committee has taken no action on it.
Today’s action in the House reversed a negative vote on substantially the same bill last March. At that time, the House voted 222 to 184 against a pay bill that would have increased Congressmen’s salaries by $10,000. The principal reason advanced for this was that members faced with tough primary campaigns were skittish about facing their constituents after having voted to raise their own pay. Three factors are said to account for the turnabout in House sentiment. First, the increase has been made to look more modest and realistic by reducing it to $7,500. Also, the effective date for the increase has been set ahead to January 3, 1965. Second, primary campaigns are over in most districts.
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 took effect in the United States, prohibiting wage discrimination by any American employer who was subject to the minimum wage requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Mrs. Marina Oswald, the widow of President Kennedy’s accused assassin, said she believed she persuaded her husband from trying to kill former Vice President Richard M. Nixon in 1963, The Dallas Morning News said today in a copyright story. The paper also quoted the Russian woman as having said she would not have married Lee Harvey Oswald if they had met in the United States. The two met in Minsk, Russia, when Oswald was visiting there. Mrs. Oswald was interviewed before she left for Washington to testify for the second time before the Warren Commission investigating the assassination of President Kennedy and wounding of Gov. John B. Connally Jr. of Texas.
Mrs. Oswald also said that her husband considered former Maj. Gen. Win A. Walker “an extremist” and he believed he had done the right thing last April 10 when he shot at Mr. Walker. Police ballistics reports were inconclusive on the bul‐let fired at Mr. Walker. Mrs. Oswald said she believed that her husband did not hate President Kennedy or Governor Connally, but that he fired the fatal shots because “he wanted to be a big shot.”
Governor William W. Scranton of Pennsylvania will declare his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination tomorrow, it was reported tonight. Highly placed Republican sources said they had been advised that Mr. Scranton had definitely decided to announce that he would fight for the nomination. The reports followed an announcement by the Governor’s press secretary, Jack Conmy, which said: “Governor Scranton tonight has accepted an invitation to deliver the keynote address tomorrow at the Maryland State [Republican] Convention in Baltimore. The Governor is expected to deliver a statement of great political significance.”
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower hinted strongly in an interview today that he would find it difficult to give his active support to Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona if he won the Republican Presidential nomination. His statement was viewed as a definite qualification of his early statements that he would actively support and campaign for any candidate named by the Republican National Convention. Talking informally, General Eisenhower said it was incomprehensible to him how any candidate for his party’s nomination for the Presidency could contend that civil rights was an area in which the Federal Government had no responsibility. The former President said he did not see how he could support any man who maintained that the civil rights of citizens were entirely within the jurisdiction of the separate states when, actually, they were guaranteed in these rights by the Constitution.
Senator Barry Goldwater appeared today to have rewritten his political will and disinherited the chief beneficiary, Richard Milhous Nixon. Until Tuesday the former Vice President could have counted on Mr. Goldwater’s support for the Republican Presidential nomination if the Senator could not make it. He could also have counted on high office in a Goldwater administration. Today he can count on neither. Mr. Nixon excited a feeling of contempt in Mr. Goldwater, reliable sources said, when he attempted Tuesday to boom Governor George Romney of Michigan for President, and, more important, attacked Mr. Goldwater’s political philosophy.
For most of this election year Mr. Goldwater and Mr. Nixon had been courteously patting each other on the back. Mr. Nixon was anxious not to alienate Mr. Goldwater or Goldwater supporters because he was the natural heir to Mr. Goldwater’s delegates if the conservative Arizona Senator were stopped in his bid for the Republican nomination. Senator Goldwater’s backers believe that Mr. Nixon changed his attitude when Mr. Goldwater came from behind — at least in the polls — and won the vital California primary election.
Governor Rockefeller bitterly attacked Senator Barry Goldwater today. He asserted that the positions taken by the Arizonan could spell disaster for the Republican party and the country. The Governor made the attack in a speech to the New York delegation to the Republican National Convention after his election as chairman of the delegation. He directed his fire at a dozen position the Senator has taken. The Governor made similar attacks during his primary campaigns, but today’s remarks were regarded as especially significant because Mr. Goldwater has now come close to clinching the Republican Presidential nomination. The 92-member delegation, with 14 absentees, approved with one negative vote a resolution committing it “to support Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller for President of the United States until he is nominated or until he releases the delegation.”
[Ed: Who needs Democrats, when you have a Republican circular firing squad?]
The House Appropriations Committee dealt an apparent death blow today to Pluto, the low‐flying, atomic‐powered cruise missile that has been having political trouble getting off the ground. The committee, in reporting out the Atomic Energy Commission budget, cut off developmental funds for the project. It proposed that the missile be “mothballed” until the Pentagon could decide whether it had a requirement for the weapon.
The Gemini 3 spacecraft that will carry two men in orbit later this year was reported today to be essentially complete. Charles W. Mathes, program manager of the manned space craft center, said a two‐day inspection of the spaceship in St. Louis showed that systems configuration of the spacecraft met mission requirements.
Chicago police break up a Rolling Stones press conference on a traffic island in the middle of Michigan Avenue.
Manfred Mann records “Do Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Do.”
After a 2-week absence, Mickey Mantle is back in the lineup and clouts 2 home runs at Fenway off Bill Monbouquette. The Yankees win easily, 8–4.
Brooks Robinson’s two‐run homer with two out in the eighth inning today enabled the Baltimore Orioles to score a 3–1 victory over the first‐place Chicago White Sox.
Lou Clinton’s sacrifice fly with the bases filled in the 12th inning brought the Los Angeles Angels a 5–4 victory over Cleveland tonight. The victory halted Ken McBride’s losing streak at 10.
Charlie Finley fires Ed Lopat (17–35) as manager of the A’s, replacing him with Mel McGaha, former manager of the Cleveland Indians.
Bob Aspromonte hits his third career grand slam to lead Houston to a 5–3 win over the Reds.
Eddie Mathews drove in four runs, three with a bases‐filled double in the eighth inning, to lead the Milwaukee Braves to a 6–5 victory over the San Francisco Giants today. The loss knocked the Giants out of first place in the National League, putting them seven percentage points behind idle Philadelphia.
Don Drysdale, unruffled by a protracted argument that delayed the game 11 minutes, tonight took over the major league strike out lead while pitching the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 5–0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. Three Cardinals were ejected, Carl Warwick and Ernie Broglio during the fourth‐inning rhubarb, and Julian Javier an inning later. The dispute was over whether Tim McCarver fouled a grounder that retired the side with the bases filled.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 811.25 (+3.72).
Born:
Kim Gallagher, American middle-distance runner (Olympic silver 800m, 1984; bronze, 1988), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2002, of colon cancer).
James Campen, NFL center (New Orleans Saints, Green Bay Packers), in Sacramento, California.
Tony Baker, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons, Cleveland Browns, Phoenix Cardinals), in High Point, North Carolina.
Calvin Nicholas, NFL wide receiver (San Francisco 49ers), in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Tim Newman, NFL running back (New York Jets), in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Ron Jones, MLB outfielder and pinch hitter (Philadelphia Phillies), in Seguin, Texas (d. 2006).
Jean Alesi, French auto racer (201 x F1 GP starts, 1 win [Canadian GP 1995]; International Formula 3000 Championship 1989), in Avignon, France.
Ivan Moody, English composer (Lamentations of the Myrrhbearers), choral conductor, and musicologist, in London, England, United Kingdom.
Died:
Frank D. Smith, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame administrator (Beaches/Greater Toronto Hockey League).
Plaek Phibunsongkhram, 66, Prime Minister of Thailand from 1938 to 1944, and from 1948 to 1957.
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