South Vietnamese Air Force General Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, at a news conference, reveals that ‘combat teams’ have been sent on sabotage missions into North Vietnam and that South Vietnamese pilots are being trained for possible large-scale attacks. He further states that he personally flew a plane over North Vietnam on one such mission. U.S. officials refuse to confirm all of Ky’s statements but concede that some flights had been made in previous years. Teams have entered North Vietnam by “air, sea and land,” Air Commodore Nguyễn Cao Kỳ said at a news conference.
He indicated that clandestine missions had been dispatched at intervals for at least three years. This confirmed, in effect, charges of such penetration broadcast by the Hanoi radio. From evidence so far made known unofficially, these raids have had virtually no success. More than 80 percent of undercover teams were reported to have been apprehended before they had made any progress in their sabotage missions. More infiltration teams are undergoing training, Commodore Kỳ said. He also said that Vietnamese pilots were being trained to fly jets on bombing attacks. Thirty Vietnamese have qualified as jet fliers, he added. “We are ready,” Commodore Kỳ said. “We could go this afternoon. I cannot assure that all of North Vietnam would be destroyed, but Hanoi would certainly be destroyed.”
His statements disturbed the commander of the United States Second Air Division, Major General Joseph H. Moore, who attended the news conference. At one point, General Moore tried to suggest that Commodore Kỳ did not have a complete command of English and might be misinterpreting questions. At another time, the general said that newsmen were twisting Commodore Kỳ’s statements. United States policy has been to restrain South Vietnamese leaders in their evident enthusiasm for an extension of the war to the North. The reasoning has been that such actions would divert energies from the task of defeating the Communist insurgency in South Vietnam.
Commodore Kỳ’s insistence on acknowledging past sabotage missions and readiness to undertake more and bigger attacks in the future reflected the stand taken by Premier Nguyễn Khánh in a speech delivered Sunday. Addressing a mass meeting, General Nguyễn Khánh said his government, and by implication the American Government, could no longer “remain indifferent before the firm determination of all the people who are considering the push northward.” There is no evidence that American personnel participated in raids by the combat teams Commodore Kỳ mentioned. There is widespread belief, however, that some American fliers might have assisted in ferrying these units to North Vietnam.
Saigon’s markets ran short of meat and vegetables today because of a Communist threat to blow up highway traffic through the Mekong delta.
The United States is expanding news coverage facilities in Saigon and encouraging newsmen from throughout the world to come and see for themselves how South Vietnam, with American assistance, is battling for its life against Communist insurgency. Officials in Saigon refer openly to a “crisis of credibility” that has developed. They are troubled by demands for the “truth” about the war in South Vietnam. To re‐establish confidence in its policies, the United States has undertaken to bring many more American correspondents here. There are now about 10 resident press and television correspondents for United States agencies and publications with an additional 10 dropping in from time to time.
One recent improvement was the assignment of a helicopter to be available to foreign newsmen in Saigon at all times. Thus, they can go at once to the scene of important developments. Yesterday, in order to permit swift press coverage of a Vietcong raid on a village in the delta area, a second helicopter was assigned and two helicopter loads of correspondents — five in each — were flown to the scene. Officials here say the new program of expanded press facilities was worked out in detail with the Pentagon and State Department as an effort to permit the world to get a “balanced” picture. Inevitably, in discussions of press coverage, the question arises whether the optimistic description of the war effort in the past by high United States military and civilian officials was more accurate or less than the cautious and sometimes pessimistic reports of newsmen.
The pro‐Communist Pathet Lao has broadcast a confession that it attributes to an American pilot who was captured last month. Lieutenant Charles F. Klusmann, a 30‐year‐old Navy flier, was shot down June 6 during a reconnaissance flight near the Plaine des Jarres. He has not since been seen by Western representatives of the International Red Cross.
The broadcast, heard in Laos over the Pathet Lao radio, said: “I am guilty. The foreigners who come to Laos to wage war are crazy.” The broadcast was received and translated by United States Government monitoring stations. Lieutenant Klusmann flew an unarmed jet fighter from the carrier Kitty Hawk, which was cruising near South Vietnam. On his first photographic flight, May 21, Lieutenant Klusmann’s plane was hit and set afire by Communist artillery, but he was able to return safely.
“Now I realize clearly,” the broadcast added, “that we do not have any reason to send military planes to violate Laotian airspace, that I and my friends, in making flights over Laos, are guilty before the Laotian people.” The quotation went on: “I now understand that the Laotian people love peace. I am guilty. I have been captured. I am looked after carefully by the Pathet Lao; they give me pretty sufficient rations. They protect my security.” There was no official response from spokesmen here. Informally, however, they pointed out that the language and theme of the statement paralleled “confessions” previously extracted by Communist officers through pressure and deprivation. “I would like to hear what he would tell Western reporters,” a United States official commented.
U Thant, the United Nations Secretary General, said today he believed that his mediator in the Cyprus conflict would be able “to devise an agreed solution to this grave problem.” He conferred several times with the mediator, Sakari S. Tuomioja of Finland. Mr. Thant left later for London. Mr. Tuomioja has been meeting separately with representatives of the Greek and Turkish Governments on the Cyprus crisis.
Kindu, capital of Maniema Province in the eastern Congo, was fallen to rebel forces, it was reported tonight. Messages radioed from Kindu’s railroad station and received in Stanleyville said there had been shooting in the streets. Other messages reported that the situation was extremely confused, that the airport was closed, that Kindu’s residents were fleeing and that about 100 whites were demanding evacuation. White women and children were almost all taken out a few days ago after threats by the rebels.
The fighting in Maniema has spread north and west from Central Kivu Province, where Fulero tribesmen with Chinese Communist “advice” have been challenging the Government. Other uprisings are raging in Katanga to the south and Kwilu in the western Congo. The reports of Kindu’s fall came as Moise Tshombe, the Congo’s new Premier, flew to the neighboring city of Bukavu, capital of Central Kivu, as part of his drive for “national reconciliation.”
Prince Abdul Rahman, Prime Minister of Malaysia, said here today that he saw no chance of making peace with Indonesia and asked the United States to sell him planes and ships and to help train his military forces. The Prime Minister said at a news conference that President Johnson had agreed to admit Malaysians to United States training schools, thus establishing the first military link between the two countries. The request for helicopters, reconnaissance jet planes and small landing craft was turned over to the Defense Department for study during the prince’s official visit.
The 61‐year‐old, English-speaking Malaysian leader received a 19‐gun salute on the lawn of the White House. He arrived by helicopter from Williamsburg, Virginia, where he began his 12‐day tour, including two days here. He conferred with President Johnson for an hour and will see him again tomorrow. The Prime Minister said he had asked for the military equipment to help Malaysians defend 1,000 miles of threatened border with Indonesia. “Thirty, twenty, ten planes would be a great help,” he said. “I came here to purchase, perhaps on long‐term credit, or short‐term, whatever is possible.” He said he hoped to have an answer before leaving Washington on Friday. The purchases were discussed at the Pentagon today by Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara and Kadir Shamsudin, permanent secretary in the Malaysian Defense Ministry.
New race rioting broke out in Singapore today, and the death toll rose to 11 in three days of battling between Chinese and Malays.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk demanded today that Cuba be punished for aggression against Venezuela. He said that “the time has come to make it abundantly clear to the Castro regime that the American Governments, in complete solidarity, will no longer tolerate its efforts to export revolution” through Communist subversion techniques. Speaking at the ninth consultative meeting of American foreign ministers, Mr. Rusk said that Cuba’s intervention in Venezuelan affairs, by smuggling arms last year to pro-Communist guerrillas, “certainly… should not be allowed to go without imposition of sanctions.”
Poland marked today 20 years of Communist power with a military parade, dancing in the streets, track events and a government reception at which pink lemonade was served. The 40‐minute parade featured Soviet‐designed tanks, rockets and planes, many of which, according to official commentators, were built in Poland. It was the first military demonstration here in five years. Western observers said the new weapons included delta‐winged MIG 21-D fighters and four kinds of rockets.
The Polish Defense Minister, Marshal Marian Spychalski, said in a brief speech: “Our development is not to the taste of the capitalist world, on militarism, and its protectors from the aggressive NATO pact. They bet on a sharpening of international tensions. They bet on the arms race and make impossible a liquidation of the vestiges of World War II and play a dangerous game with organizing the multilateral nuclear force. Today the Socialist forces are strong enough.”
Representatives of Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey issued a joint statement from Istanbul, establishing the RCD (Regional Cooperation for Development).
A three‐judge Federal panel upheld in effect today the public accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The judges ordered an Atlanta restaurant and a motel to admit Blacks within 20 days. It was the first court test of the act. The public accommodations section is considered a cornerstone of the act, passed by Congress after months of debate and signed by President Johnson on July 2. The ruling stopped short of declaring the law constitutional. This question is expected to be settled ultimately by the Supreme Court. The three‐judge panel ruled on arguments for temporary injunctions sought against Lester Maddox, operator of the Pickrick Restaurant, and Moreton Rolleston Jr., operator of the Heart of Atlanta Motel.
Mr. Maddox, who chased three Blacks away from his restaurant at gunpoint, and Mr. Rolleston termed the law unconstitutional in arguing against the injunction. The judges set August 11 as the deadline for desegregating the restaurant and motel, thus allowing the two men time to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court. Both said they would appeal. Federal District Judge Frank A. Hooper, a member of the panel, emphasized that the case was before the judges “only for the purpose of a temporary injunction.” Judge Hooper, Chief Judge Elbert Parr Tuttle of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit and Federal District Judge Lewis A. Morgan issued a 15‐page ruling in the two cases.
They had been asked to decide whether the two establishments came under interstate commerce as it applied to establishments covered by the act, and whether it was constitutional for Congress to order integration of such places. “The courts will not lightly declare acts of Congress unconstitutional, particularly on a hearing of a temporary injunction which is tried almost immediately after the filing of a complaint,” Judge Hooper said. The three judges decided it was clear that Mr. Maddox’s restaurant came under the definition of a place of public accommodation in interstate commerce, as described in the act. “This is the limit of the case,” the decision said. “Congress has the power to go this far. No question of freedom of association under the First Amendment or involuntary servitude under the 13th Amendment is involved. “It follows, therefore, that the defendants’ attack on the constitutionality of the act, as applied to their operations, must fail.”
Violence broke out in the Bedford‐Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn last night for the third successive night and the police fired volleys of warning shots to disperse unruly crowds of Blacks. Two men, both described as burglars by the police, were shot as they looted stores where windows had been smashed. At least 90 windows were shattered in shops in a 10block area around Nostrand Avenue and Fulton Street. Thirty‐five persons were arrested on charges ranging from burglary to malicious mischief. Shortly before midnight, the police began using nightsticks to clear the Nostrand‐Fulton area. In several cases, shots were fired in the air to enforce the demand.
Mounted patrolmen rode their horses onto the sidewalks to break up groups of youths. At Bedford Avenue and Fulton Street, a group of women attacked the police, tearing and scratching at their clothes. The mounted policemen broke up the melee. Harlem, meantime, was relatively calm. Although there were a few isolated cases of looting, window‐breaking and disorder during the day and evening, the streets were all but deserted by 10:30 PM.
The renewed violence in Brooklyn came a few hours after a radio and television appeal by Mayor Wagner for an end to the riots. Last night’s activities in Bedford‐Stuyvesant did not approach the violence and looting of Tuesday night. On that night, the second night of disturbances in the mile‐square Bedford‐Stuyvesant area, two men were shot and critically injured. One policeman was injured and 50 persons were arrested. More than 200 store windows were shattered.
Yesterday, heavy concentrations of policemen were moved into the Black area in Brooklyn as a precaution against a repetition of the rioting and property damage. Patrolmen were stationed at virtually every corner in the affected area. Twenty mounted policemen were at Fulton Street and Nostrand Avenue, the first time in recent years that they have appeared in Bedford-Stuyvesant. Deputy Police Commissioner Walter Arm said last night that horses were used to “prevent the possibility of hand‐to‐hand conflict and to reduce injuries to rioters and the police.” Most of the Blacks on the streets were youths and men in their 20’s. A slight drizzle did nothing to alleviate the tension. A sound truck that had been broadcasting appeals for an end to the violence was forced to leave a street corner when a group of Blacks began to rock it in an effort to overturn the vehicle.
At Nostrand and Fulton, several Blacks handed out statements put out by the Brooklyn chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The message on the handouts advised Black residents to “cool it and let the message sink in; violent demonstrations and looting hurt our cause… Folks like Senator Goldwater, Governor Wallace of Alabama, the John Birchers and extremists are fixing to do us up,” the message read, “and if we don’t play it smart we’ll give them the excuse they’ve been looking for.”
New York’s Mayor Wagner made a fervent appeal by television and radio last night for law and order in Harlem and elsewhere in the city. “Law and order are the Black’s best friend — make no mistake about that,” the mayor declared. “The opposite of law and order is mob rule, the way of the Ku Klux Klan and the lynch mob.” He warned that continued disorders could set back Black and civil rights programs half a century. The mayor set forth a general program calling, among other things, for restraint on police power, greater contacts with the city’s minority groups and stepped‐up efforts against poverty.
Jobless and hopeless youths, he said, are “the loose gunpowder of our time.” In what could be taken as a warning to extremists, he said: “We will not be browbeaten by prophets of despair, or by peddlers of hate, or by those who thrive on continued frustration.” He reported that President Johnson had called him yesterday morning and authorized him to state that the assignment here of Federal Bureau of Investigation agents was “solely to assist, support and supplement what we are already doing in the way of meeting the threats to law and order.”
Defense attorneys complained of “unfair prosecution” today in the trial of James R. Hoffa, president of the Teamsters Union, and six associates on charges of fraud and conspiracy. Charles Bellows and Jacques Schiffer, representing two of the defendants, made attacks on William O. Bittman, the Government’s chief prosecutor, during the third day of closing arguments to the jury of eight men and four women. They accused Mr. Bittman of deliberately misrepresenting the evidence during his day‐long argument to the jury Monday in the hope of winning conviction of all defendants. Mr. Bittman, 32 years old, an aggressive lawyer who was brought into the trial during its third week to supplant an ailing prosecutor, was the target of a similar attack by another defense attorney yesterday. Mr. Bellows told the jury, “If there wasn’t a Mr. Hoffa, there wouldn’t be a case here. So if they’re going to get Hoffa, they’ve got to make the case a big one.”
A Queens physician was sentenced yesterday to two to eight years in Sing Sing Prison for performing a fatal abortion on a 19‐year‐old girl. The defendant, Dr. Harvey N. Lothringer, 43, had faced a maximum sentence of 15 years. The sentence was imposed yesterday morning in the Criminal Term of Queens Supreme Court, Kew Gardens, by Justice Peter T. Farrell. It makes him eligible for parole in 16 months. However, because he had spent three months in City Prison awaiting trial, he will be eligible for parole in 13 months. Lothringer had originally been charged with first‐degree manslaughter in the death of Barbara Lofrumento of Pelham, New York, whose dismembered body was found in a sewer near his office. However, on May 21, after the case had been postponed 12 times, Lothringer was permitted to plead guilty to second‐degree manslaughter.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced today that another attempt would be made next week to take close‐up television pictures of the moon with a Ranger spacecraft. The launching from Cape Kennedy, Florida, is scheduled for sometime in a six‐day period beginning Monday. It will be the fourth attempt by the space agency to obtain close‐up photographs of the lunar surface, and for this flight the 806‐pound spacecraft has been specially modified in an attempt to overcome the technical difficulties that have plagued the Ranger program. The latest in the series of failures came in early February, when the Ranger 6 hit on the moon within 20 miles of its target in the Sea of Tranquility but failed to turn on its six television cameras.
The U.S. Air Force made its first successful test of the unmanned glider ASSET (Aerothermodynamic Elastic Structural Systems Environmental Tests) “in the preview of the way future explorers will return to the earth”. The outside of the arrow-shaped craft reached temperatures of 2,200 °C (4,000 °F) as it reached a speed of 19,000 kilometers (12,000 mi) per hour during its glide down to the ocean from an altitude of 70 kilometers (43 mi).
Dick Donovan hit a two‐run tie‐breaking single tonight as the Cleveland Indians scored four runs in the eighth inning and defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 7–4. The loss was the Orioles’ third straight to the Indians. Baltimore, which has an 8–9 won‐lost record since the All-star Game, thus fell a game behind the American Leagueleading New York Yankees. Donovan, the winning pitcher, spoiled the Oriole strategy in the eighth. Woodie Held was intentionally walked, filling the bases with two out. The strategy was to pitch to Donovan, who had made only three hits in 26 previous at bats. Then he broke a 3–3 tie with his hit.
Willie Smith scored from third base on a passed ball with two out in the ninth inning tonight to give the Los Angeles Angels a 3–2 victory over the Chicago White Sox. The victory was the ninth in the last 10 games for the Angels. The run capped a two‐run inning for the Angels and sent Hoyt Wilhelm, a reliever, to his sixth loss. Jim Fregosi started the rally with a single to right. Smith reached first when he was hit by an inside pitch as Fregosi moved to second. Bob Rodgers then singled to drive in Fregosi with the tying run.
Bobby Wine slammed his second homer in two nights tonight, a bases‐empty drive off Warren Spahn in the seventh inning that snapped a 1–1 tie and sent the Philadelphia Phillies on the way to a 4–1 victory over the Milwaukee Braves. Wine’s homer, his fourth of the season, was his second straight game-winning hit against the Braves. Last night, after hitting a homer, he singled home the decisive run in the eighth inning. Spahn’s defeat was his 11th against six victories. The lefthander has failed to finish 11 times in his last 12 starts. He supplied the Braves’ only run with a homer in the third.
Led by Willie Stargell, who hits for the cycle, the Pittsburgh Pirates roll over the St. Louis Cardinals, 13–2. Home runs by Jerry Lynch, Willie Stargell and Bill Mazeroski drove in 11 runs tonight to give Bob Veale of the Pirates the victory. Lynch hit his 10th homer with one aboard and Stargell his 13th during a three‐run fifth‐inning rally. Mazeroski contributed a two‐run homer, his seventh, in the ninth. Mazeroski drove in five runs and Stargell and Lynch three each.
Homers by Hal Lanier and Orlando Cepeda drove in five runs today as the San Francisco Giants snapped a four‐game Chicago Cub winning streak with a 7–3 victory. Lanier smashed his second homer of the season with two on in the fifth and Cepeda hit his 17th with one on in the sixth. Both homers were off Larry Jackson. Chicago took a 3–0 lead with a five‐hit outburst in the fourth against the Giants, who had won only two games in their last nine. The Giants picked up their last two runs in the eighth on four singles. Matty Alou and Billy Pierce drove in the runs.
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