The Communist Việt Cộng warned today that they would refuse to guarantee the safety of a United Nations team designated to investigate violations of the border between Cambodia and South Vietnam. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the South Vietnam Liberation Front, which is the political organization of the Việt Cộng guerrillas. The meeting took place at an unspecified site on June 8 and 9. The announcement was made by the press agency of the Liberation Front in Hanoi and broadcast this morning by the Peking radio. Communist China has also opposed the assignment of the three‐man United Nations inspection team to the disputed border. South Vietnamese and United States officials have charged that the Việt Cộng use Cambodia as a sanctuary and that supplies are sent across the border to Communist guerrillas operating in South Vietnam.
The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on June 4 to send the team to South Vietnam and Cambodia. The team, which will probably be made up of representatives of Morocco and the Ivory Coast — authors of the United Nations resolution — and Brazil, was to report in four or five days on means of preventing border incidents. The resolution grew out of a complaint filed by Cambodia. The Southeast Asian kingdom charged that the South Vietnamese Government, with United States support, had sent its troops across the border and that both countries were guilty of aggression. South Vietnam has acknowledged on occasion that its troops had strayed across the border in pursuit of raiding Việt Cộng guerrillas. The Peking radio said that the Central Committee of the Liberation Front had denounced the United States for attempting to use the United Nations “to intensify and expand the aggressive war in South Vietnam.”
“It declared that the South Vietnam Liberation Front does not recognize the so‐called United Nations inspection mission sent to border areas between South Vietnam and Cambodia,” the report said. “Consequently, no guarantee for the safety of the mission would be given when it enters liberation areas in South Vietnam with troops of the United States and its lackeys.” The statement raised fears about restraints that would be imposed by Việt Cộng hostility on activities of the mission. The front is fluid in jungle border areas and Việt Cộng guerrillas operate almost at will. South Vietnam security troops there often operate with United States advisers. Cambodia and South Vietnam accepted the United Nations resolution. However, Cambodia opposed a United States proposal that the United Nations force be stationed on the border to prevent further incidents.
In Quảng Ngãi Province, South Vietnamese militiamen and combat youths break into a Việt Cộng training center and kill 50 guerrilla recruits. Administrative maps and numerous photos were seized, a government spokesman said.
Armored carriers of the ARVN engage with a Việt Cộng force in Bàu Cốp and kill some 100 guerrillas. Vietnamese armored carriers slashed into a Việt Cộng force of several hundred men in a major battle near this hamlet 60 miles northwest of Saigon yesterday and left possibly 100 enemy dead, American advisers reported today. The armored carriers tried three times to penetrate the Việt Cộng lines, then had to withdraw after running out of ammunition. For six hours they had poured high explosives and bullets into. the enemy ranks. The South Vietnamese encountered the Việt Cộng as the government forces searched for two Americans missing since an ambush in the same area a week ago. Intelligence reports said the Americans had been killed and were buried in the area.
Apparently the Việt Cộng hoped for another ambush on Thursday. They dug in on a 1,000‐yard front behind a long cemetery, the object of the searchers. A helicopter landed near the cemetery and was hit by enemy fire that wounded both pilots and a Vietnamese major. It managed to take off and 13 armored troop carriers rolled into position. Three times the carriers pushed into the lightly jungled front lines. Once they managed to get across forward positions, but they withdrew after ammunition ran out. Fighter‐bombers zeroed in on guerrilla positions. One pilot said he dropped a 500‐pounder at 25 fleeing Việt Cộng troops.
In Saigon, Lieutenant General William C. Westmoreland, commander of United States forces in South Vietnam, escaped a bomb explosion apparently engineered by Communist terrorists. The explosion occurred in an airport hangar 20 minutes after General Westmoreland addressed a group of 60 American soldiers about to return home after completing their tours of duty. The police seized four suspects. Two waiting soldiers suffered minor arm wounds from the explosion in an empty hangar about 50 yards from their homeward‐bound transport.
Unofficial sources said carrier‐based United States jet fighters attacked Communist positions on the Plaine des Jarres, and beyond, today in the second such strike in Laos this month. “Everything east of Muong Soui was hit,” said an informant. Muong Soui is post of General Kong Le’s neutralist forces on Highway 7 between the plain and a north‐south route, Highway 13, that links Vientiane and Luang Prabang, the royal capital. Government sources said yesterday the Communist-led Pathet Lao and North Vietnamese, were building up troop units and supplies on Muong Soui’s approaches, evidently in preparation for an attack. The planes were said to have made the raid from a carrier in the South China Sea off South Vietnam.
Moise Tshombe returned to the Democratic Republic of the Congo after a one-year exile in Spain. Congolese President Joseph Mobutu requested that the former Prime Minister, who had once led an attempted secession, return in order to prevent a rebellion in the east, and sent Belgian journalist Pierre Davister to convey the invitation. A year and 12 days after he fled the Congo, a sick and frightened man, Moise Tshombe returned today with the broad grin of a winner. It was a triumphant day for the former President of Katanga Province. From his arrival at Ndjili Airport just before dawn to a tumultuous tour of the city at dusk, he never stopped moving. The welcome given him ranged from friendly to jubilant.
Later in the morning, Mr. Tshombe met for an hour with President Joseph Kasavubu at the President’s residence. He lunched with several former Katangese colleagues and in the afternoon, he met leaders of the new African Democratic Committee, a broad political party formed last month. Government officials declined to discuss the nature of the consultations. However, Mr. Tshombe was believed to have discussed the possibility of his participation in a new government of national reconciliation. He is being widely mentioned as the possible Premier of such a government. A two‐week referendum will start tomorrow for a new constitution, under which the next government would be formed.
The Soviet Union is apparently giving the Castro Government increasing control over the antiaircraft missile installations in Cuba, according to intelligence information reaching the United States. There is still considerable uncertainty in official quarters over whether the Castro regime has been given complete command over the weapons, which are capable of downing the United States reconnaissance planes that make periodic flights over Cuba. The development is being watched closely by United States officials, since the shooting down of a reconnaissance plane could portend a dangerous turn in the Cuban situation.
A U‐2 reconnaissance plane was shot down by Soviet antiaircraft missiles toward the end of the crisis in the fall of 1962, when the United States confronted Moscow on the presence of offensive missiles on the island. Since the withdrawal of the Soviet ballistic missiles, the United States, despite Cuban and Soviet objections, has continued the reconnaissance flights to keep a check on Soviet military strength. The Soviet Union has made no move to use antiaircraft missiles to shoot down reconnaissance planes. The question bothering American officials is whether the Castro Government would tolerate the flights if it should gain control over the missiles.
The United States, Britain and France denounced today the Soviet Union’s new treaty of friendship with East Germany. They said it was another effort to perpetuate the division of Germany and thereby obstruct a peaceful settlement of the problems of Europe. In a public declaration, the Western powers said that no treaty signed by Moscow and the East German Communist regime could affect the Soviet Union’s legal obligations under previous agreements on Germany with the West. Specifically, the declaration asserted that the Soviet Union remained “bound by these engagements” to respect Western access rights to the city of Berlin.
The allies also reaffirmed their commitment to the reunification of Germany on the basis of self‐determination throughout the country. Such a settlement, they said, “should be sought as soon as possible.” The Western declaration coincided with the publication in Moscow of a new Soviet diplomatic note to the three Western allies protesting West German plans to convene the Federal Assembly in West Berlin to elect a new Federal President. Moscow called the plan a violation of the four‐power World War II agreements on Germany.
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy evoked today the image and the words of his brother in a return visit to West Berlin on the anniversary of President Kenney’s triumphal reception. A crowd of 70,000 saw Mr. Kennedy unveil a bronze memorial plaque on the facade of the West Berlin City Hall, and heard him reaffirm the United States’ pledge to defend the freedom of West Berlin. Throngs estimated at 300,000 lined the streets to applaud the Attorney General as he made his way through the city, visiting a school, a factory and a United States military housing development. The holiday atmosphere was reminiscent of the joyous greeting accorded President Kennedy. The Attorney General accompanied by his wife and three other children, retraced much of the route that President Kennedy followed on June 26, 1963 —the day he won Berliners’ hearts by saying: “I am a Berliner.” The Attorney General recalled those words as he spoke from the same position in the city hall square, now renamed John F. Kennedy Square.
“I know what he meant when he surveyed the wall of shame and measured it against your courage and said, ‘Ich bin ein Berliner,’” Mr. Kennedy said. “Surrounded by hostility, besieged by enemies, your future threatened, your freedom in jeopardy, you have emerged from each of these assaults stronger, greater and more resolute,” he said. “For this President Kennedy congratulated you, and on behalf of free men everywhere he thanked you. For him, for what you do today in his memory, a strong, courageous and free people, I thank you.”
A U.S. Air Force LC-130 Hercules transport plane, specially equipped with landing skis, became the first aircraft to land in Antarctica during its winter season, when storms generally make the continent inaccessible. Piloted by Navy Lt. R. V. Mayer and carrying a team of medical specialists from Bethesda Naval Hospital, the plane arrived at McMurdo Station “on an ice runway just cleared of fresh snow” after an eight-and-a-half-hour flight from Christchurch, New Zealand, for the final leg of a 10,000-mile journey that had started two days earlier from Quonset, Rhode Island, and took off later in the morning. The hazardous mission was undertaken after a member of the Navy’s Seabees construction battalion, Petty Officer Bethel L. McMullen, had been seriously injured in a fall.
Blacks and Whites continue to riot over racial segregation in St. Augustine, Florida. Two men responsible for law enforcement in the city told a Federal judge in Jacksonville today that they were unable to stop white mobs from assaulting civil rights demonstrators. The hearing sent most of the white and Black leaders to Jacksonville, bringing a halt in racial demonstrations in St. Augustine. Quiet prevailed here after a night of terror in which white mobs routed the police, and assaulted more than 20 Blacks, including women and children, who were marching peaceably through the downtown district. Thirty persons, mostly Blacks, were given emergency treatment at the Flagler Hospital. During the height of the melee, the mob forced the state police to release four white men.
It was the worst outbreak of racial violence since Black integration leaders began demonstrations here a year ago, observers said. This morning in a hearing before Federal Judge Bryan Simpson on a move by civil rights leaders to overturn a state‐imposed curfew on night demonstrations, law enforcement officials confessed their inability to halt terrorist attacks on Black demonstrators. Major John W. Jourdan, who was temporarily relieved Wednesday as commander of a special police force here, said that the white mob was the source of the danger. He said he knew of no aggressive actions by the Black group.
Sheriff L. O. Davis said he had personally observed many acts of violence last night. He had not been able to arrest any of the white assailants, he said, because “everybody was fighting so hard, and besides, we didn’t think we could get out ourselves.” Sheriff Davis denied that he had encouraged the white mob to assault the Blacks by shouting: “Get ’em! Get ’em!” as he marched as part of the rear guard of the Black demonstrators. The sheriff, a stout, bald man in a rumpled suit, reacted indignantly to suggestions of a Black lawyer, Earl Johnson, that he had close affiliations with the Ku Klux Klan leaders in St. Augustine. The sheriff admitted being a close friend of Holsted (Hoss) Manucy, leader of the Ancient City Hunting Club, a social organization that is regarded here as nearly synonymous with the Klan. But he said “No” when Mr. Johnson asked him if he knew any members of the Klan. He also said that Mr. Manucy had resigned recently as a deputy sheriff.
Allen W. Dulles recommended to President Johnson today that more agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation be sent to Mississippi to help “control and prosecute terroristic activities.” Back from a quick survey of the tense racial situation in that state, Mr. Dulles spent nearly two hours briefing the President. Mr. Dulles former Director of Central Intelligence, was sent to Mississippi Wednesday as the President’s special representative. Mr. Dulles, talking to reporters after his conference with President Johnson, did not specify how many more FBI agents he thought should be assigned to Mississippi. He said that would be up to J. Edgar Hoover, director of the bureau. Spokesmen for the bureau declined to say how many, if any, additional agents would be sent to Mississippi. They also declined to say how many agents were already stationed there.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested three Mississippi white men today on charges involving threats against persons distributing voter‐registration literature, the bureau announced tonight. The arrests were made at Itta Bena in the west‐central part of the state about 85 miles northwest of Philadelphia, Mississippi, where a search is under way for three young civil rights workers missing since Sunday. An FBI spokesman said the Itta Bena arrests had no connection with the Philadelphia case. J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI, identified the three arrested men as Merritt Ely Randle, 45 years old; James E. Hodges, 30, and Lawrence Neal McGraw, 37. All live in the Itta Bena vicinity, west of Greenwood, Mississippi.
The FBI said that the arrests stemmed from the activities of Randle, Hodges and McGraw yesterday while two young white men and an Itta Bena Black were distributing leaflets announcing a voter-registration meeting at the Hopewell Baptist Church in Itta Bena last night. The two white men, Roy Bernard Torkington, 24, of Henrietta, New York, and John Lyon Paul, 21, of Ossining, New York, arrived in Mississippi early this week from the Council of Federated Organizations training course at Oxford, Ohio. Their Black co‐worker was William Henry McGee. The FBI said the three arrested men had been charged with violating Title 18, Section 241, United States Code, which prohibits conspiracies to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise of a federally secure right — in this instance the right to engage in voter‐registration activities. If convicted, each faces a maximum penalty of $5,000 fine and 10 years imprisonment.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People urged President Johnson today to take over the administration of the state of Mississippi. A resolution urging him to act under Article IV, Section 4, of the Constitution was voted by the board of directors of the association this morning. It asserted that for nearly a century the state of Mississippi had failed to maintain a republican form of government. The resolution also urged Mr. Johnson to employ the Federal Government’s power to “restore law and order and protect the life and liberties of all citizens in Mississippi.”
Article IV, Section 4, of the Constitution says: “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and, on the application of the Legislature, or of the Executive (when the Legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.” It was felt here that the N.A.A.C.P.’s resolution and its transmittal to the White House would focus greater attention on the racially troubled state. Three civil rights workers have disappeared and others have reported being terrorized in Mississippi. The N.A.A.C.P. board also announced that it would send a committee of eight members to Jackson, Meridian, and Philadelphia, Mississippi, next week to investigate the situation in the state.
Governor Paul B. Johnson Jr. indicated today he had agreed to further federal assistance in policing Mississippi against terrorists. Governor Johnson said he had talked by telephone to President Johnson and Allen W. Dulles about Mr. Dulles’s recommendations for protecting civil rights workers throughout the state this summer. He hastened to add, however, that no specific terrorist groups were named and that Black as well as white organizations would be kept under surveillance. Governor Johnson’s carefully guarded statement issued by his office several hours after the conversation with Washington gave credence to reports that he is trying to guide this embattled state in a more moderate course on race relations but is under tremendous pressure to resist federal intervention.
Near Marshalls Creek, Pennsylvania, six people were killed, and 10 injured, in the blast of a truck hauling 15 tons of explosives. The driver had been transporting a cargo for the American Cyanamid company when he had a blowout of two tires, then kept driving until he could find a place to pull off the road. His tires were smoldering as he detached the cab from the trailer, and, while he was driving down the road to find a payphone, the truck caught fire. Three volunteer firemen were killed in the explosion of nitro carbon nitrate (NCN) and gelatin dynamite, along with a nearby resident, a passing motorist, and another truck driver who had spotted the fire. The driver would later be acquitted in a trial for involuntary manslaughter.
The leader of one of two feuding Black extremist groups here yesterday called on his rival to make peace and work with other Black leaders in the civil rights struggle. Malcolm X, leader of the Black Nationalist movement, urged in an open letter to Elijah Muhammad, the Black Muslim leader: “Instead of wasting all of this energy fighting each other, we should be working in unity and harmony with other leaders and organizations in an effort to solve the very serious problems facing all Afro‐Americans. Historians would then credit us with intelligence and sincerity.”
Mr. Muhammad, who lives in Chicago, could not be reached, and an official in the New York office declined comment. Malcolm X, formerly second-ranking leader in the Black Muslim movement, openly broke with Mr. Muhammad March 8 and formed his own Black Nationalist organization. Since the break the two rivals have carried on a running propaganda war that has flared up several times into violent incidents between their followers.
The next U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, CVA-67, is designated the USS John F. Kennedy (CVA-67).
14th Berlin International Film Festival: “Dry Summer” wins the Golden Bear.
The Los Angeles Angels extended the longest winning streak in the majors this season to 11 games tonight, sweeping a double‐header with the Kansas City Athletics. Bo Belinsky and Bob Meyer combine to throw shut outs against the Athletics, winning 1–0 and 6–0. Each get relief help. It is the first doubleheader shutout in franchise history.
Minnesota Twins’ pitcher Jerry Arrigo just misses a no-hitter when Chicago’s Mike Hershberger laces a 9th-inning single with no outs, as the Twins beat the White Sox, 2–0. Arrigo will toss another one-hitter while pitching for the Reds.
Leo Burke pinch‐singled home Doug Clemens with the winning run today as the Chicago Cubs rallied for two runs in the 10th inning for a 7–6 victory over the Houston Colts.
Errors by Maury Wills and Jim Gilliam led to an unearned run in the eighth inning that gave the San Francisco Giants a 4–3 triumph over the Los Angeles Dodgers tonight. Willie Mays led off the eighth by reaching first on Wills’ fielding miscue. He went to second as Duke Snider beat out an infield single and advanced to third when Gilliam dropped a throw from Bob Miller on Orlando Cepeda’s bunt. Mays then scored on Tom Haller’s sacrifice fly.
Clay Dalrymple’s ninth‐inning homer, a two‐run clout to right, gave the league leading Philadelphia Phillies a 6–5 victory tonight over St. Louis after the Cardinals had driven out Jim Bunning. Tony Gonzalez opened the Phil ninth against Ron Taylor with a double. Dalrymple then hit his second homer of the season, onto the right centerfield pavilion roof. The Cardinals had rallied to take a 5–4 lead in a three-run eighth inning, knocking out Bunning. Bunning, who pitched a perfect game against the New York Mets last Sunday, saw his streak snapped by the leadoff batter, Curt Flood, who doubled. Richie Alien’s 15th homer, a two‐run belt in the sixth, had erased an early Cardinal lead.
At County Stadium, the Mets score 8 runs — 6 off Warren Spahn — in the 2nd inning and beat the Braves, 8–4. Joe Christopher has a grand slam for the Mets, off Bob Sadowski. The 43‐year‐old left‐hander, certain to be elected to the Hall of Fame eventually, pitched in a major league game for the 693d time to establish a record for left‐handers. Eppa Rixey had pitched in 692 games and only four other men — Early Wynn, Grover Cleveland Alexander, Walter Johnson and Cy Young, all right‐handers — pitched more. Spahn’s 693d appearance, however, turned out to be one of the shortest and least effective of his distinguished career. He was knocked out during an eight‐run second inning.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 830.99 (+3.51).
Born:
Pamela Wright, Scottish golfer (U.S. Open 9-hole record with 30 1994), in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Bill Berthusen, NFL nose tackle (Cincinnati Bengals, New York Giants), in Grinnell, Iowa.
Chris Jones, Chris Jones (New York Giants), in Norfolk, Virginia.
Zeng Jinlian, Chinese tallest woman ever recorded (2.46m, 8’1″), in Yuanjiang, Hunan, People’s Republic of China (d. 1982, aged 17).
Died:
Léo Dandurand, 74, American-Canadian hockey executive.
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