In Saigon, 50,000 Catholics participate in the funeral procession for six riot victims. The procession deliberately passes through the Buddhist section of the city and there is no incident; acting premier Nguyễn Xuân Oánh praises the Buddhist and Roman Catholic leaders’ efforts to end the rioting. Five battalions of troops stood guard on back streets, and others lined the route to the cemetery. But there was not a ripple from either Buddhists or Catholics, and Saigon appeared to have passed a test. For the time being, peace had been restored.
The Government, meanwhile, announced that the state of emergency decreed on August 7 would be extended for a week because of the internal strife. Under the decree, a curfew has been in effect from midnight until 4 AM. Schools have been closed but are scheduled to reopen Thursday. In a communiqué, the Government formally charged what; many observed during last week’s rioting: that Communist agents had infiltrated Saigon to stir trouble and cause friction between Buddhists and Catholics. The communiqué said 449 persons had been rounded up in connection with the street demonstrations.
The army announced that soldiers now had orders to shoot at any demonstrators who got out of hand. Last week soldiers stood by as youth gangs clashed in the streets. According to the communique, “Many Communist special-activities groups entered the capital and infiltrated various groups and organizations to sabotage public order and security as well as cause religious friction.” In Saigon, the government charges that Communists stirred up the recent troubles; 450 persons arrested in the riots are still detained; and the army says that demonstrators who go too far will now be shot.
The army announcement said that in the case of new demonstrations troops would issue orders for dispersal. If these are not heeded, a line will be drawn and demonstrators who cross it will be regarded as lawbreakers. “If the demonstrators deliberately go beyond these bounds,” this announcement added, “this constitutes an attack on the troops, and they are obliged to open fire to have the national authority respected.” The army’s initial tolerance of the demonstrators was apparently intended to dispel the idea that the Khánh Government was returning to the police state tactics of the Diệm Government. But the new army announcement said: “All violence that diminishes the national image is considered a cause of disunity, a betrayal of the country and a help to the Communists.”
The United States Government remains vaguely optimistic about the crisis in Vietnam. Officials point out that there have been no demonstrations against the American community in Saigon and no slackening in the South Vietnamese struggle against the Việt Cộng. Yet despite the official optimism, which has proved so unfounded in the past, Washington is worried, mainly because in South Vietnam, as in many other critical spots in the world, it is confronted by problems that it considers beyond its control. The major events of this weekend—not only abroad but also at home — illustrate the frustrating paradox of this era: that great power is often powerless to deal with major problems without making them worse than they are.
The rioting of the last few days in Saigon and the Black rioting and looting in Philadelphia, different as they are, illustrate the same point. The Johnson Administration obviously has the power to put down these violent demonstrations. It could compel order in both Saigon and Philadelphia by ordering troops to take charge. But it feels that the consequences of replacing the local authorities in both cities would change the fundamental relations between the United States and the Government of Vietnam, and betwen the federal government and the local authorities in Philadelphia.
The United States Ambassador to South Vietnam, Maxwell D. Taylor, flew to Đà Lạt today, presumably to confer with General Khánh. The Ambassador was expected to be absent from the capital only a few hours.
Two army generals, a Buddhist leader and a congregation of Saigon’s Roman Catholics prayed together today over the bodies of six Catholic victims of a week of strife. It was a symbolic end of the street rioting that gripped the capital last week. This was a day of rest and stock‐taking after a week in which the Government of Major General Nguyễn Khánh fell with violence and the future of the war against the Communist insurgency was called into question. Diplomatic observers considered it a shattering week for the present program of the United States to defend Southeast Asia from the advances of North Vietnamese and Chinese Communist expansion.
High American officials declined to discuss what courses of action were being considered. They expressed only a firm belief that General Khánh would in fact return to Saigon as Premier after his rest cure at the mountain resort of Đà Lạt in the Central Highlands. They indicated that American influence was being exerted at this end to re‐establish him in the position he held from January 30 until last Tuesday. Other diplomats doubted, however, that General Khánh could be effectively reinstated despite the influence that the United States’ massive military and economic commitment wields in Saigon’s ruling circles. American officials declined to say they would be prepared to cut off support to a South Vietnam without General Khánh in power, but neither would they rule this out as a threat to the military, political and religious factions that consider General Khánh second best. The Communist China press agency charges that the Soviet Union is supporting the United States in a move to intervene in Vietnam through the agency the UN.
Discussions between leaders of the three rival Laotian factions and the French Foreign Minister, Maurice Couve de Murville, will continue tomorrow in preparation for a meeting of the four men Tuesday. The three leaders were to begin direct talks last Monday in an effort to restore peace among their country’s rightists, leftists and neutralists. But they will meet together for the first time Tuesday night as guests of Mr. Couve de Murville at dinner. The Foreign Minister will talk tomorrow with the rightwing leader, Prince Boun Oum. Last week he held separate talks with the neutralist Premier, Prince Souvanna Phouma, and with the leader of the proCommunist Pathet Lao, Prince Souphanouvong.
The Chinese Communist Party’s Central Committee sent an angry reply to a July 30 proposal from the Soviet Communist Party for a meeting to resolve their differences, claiming that the letter had “slammed the door tight” against any prospect of a meeting. The accusation was made in a letter marking the latest outhurst in an exchange between the Chinese party and the Soviet party on a Soviet move to call an international Communist conference next year.
The letter rejected the Soviet proposal and repeated the Chinese call for an international meeting “on the basis of Marxism‐Leninism, to be held after ample preparations.” It said: “We will never be taken in by your fine words, never submit to your threats, never be accomplices in your divisive activities and never share with you the responsibility for splitting the international Communist movement. If we were to take part in your schismatic meeting, it would be tantamount to legalizing your illegal activities, to accepting the Communist party of the Soviet Union as a patriarchal father party.”
Hsinhua, the official Chinese Communist press agency, said today that there was no reason for India to ask China to withdraw its “civilian posts” from the demilitarized zone at the western end of the disputed Chinese‐Indian border. In a statement published in newspapers here, the agency commented on a remark that Foreign Minister Swaran Singh of India made at a news conference earlier this month. He said that “if the Chinese withdrew their posts in Ladakh, then an essential condition visualized in the Colombo proposals would have been substantially met.” India’s demand for the removal of seven posts in Ladakh has been the main obstacle to a start of any Chinese‐Indian negotiations. They were set up after the cease‐fire that ended the Chinese attack on Indian border positions in 1962.
Premier İsmet İnönü, in a nationwide radio broadcast today, appealed for restraint among Turks who believe that the United States is favoring Greece in negotiations for a solution of the Cyprus problem. The Premier’s appeal came after three days of anti‐American demonstrations, which developed yesterday into rioting in Ankara and the Aegean port city of Izmir. Even after Mr. İnönü’s address, 1,500 people in Ankara attempted to demonstrate again late today but were discouraged by a heavy concentration of troops who blocked off the capital in a complex of security sections.
In Izmir yesterday a mob of 2,000 to 3,000 rampaged through the grounds of the International Trade Fair, tearing an American flag and wrecking the United States and Soviet pavilions. It is widely believed in Turkey that the United States and the Soviet Union are supporting the Greek Cypriots in their dispute with the Turkish Cypriot community. Violence between the two communities in the island republic broke out last December when the Greek Cypriot-dominated Government sought to curb the Turkish community’s legislative power. The Izmir rioters also attacked the British, United Arab Republic and Bulgarian pavilions and broke windows, chairs and tables in cafes and restaurants at the fair.
A Greek Air Force transport plane circled over a recent battle area for more than an hour today and two Turkish Air Force jets made a reconnaissance pass over the island. The United Nations called both flights violations of a Security Council resolution calling for a lessening of tensions. The Government of Cyprus said that the Greek plane, a DC‐3, had flown blood plasma to Nicosia and circled above Turkish positions in the northwest in a “test flight” after its radio developed trouble en route back to Greece.
For the second time in four days the Congolese Government claimed today the recapture of Albertville, capital of North Katanga Province. A Government communiqué said the city “has been occupied by the Congolese National Army since Sunday morning.” It said rebel forces, which had held Albertville since June, were fleeing across Lake Tanganyika and on roads to the north. The claim could not be confirmed in Leopoldville. Diplomatic sources said they had no first‐hand evidence that would either confirm or deny it. On Thursday, a Government spokesman said two army columns moving from the south and west had seized most of Albertville from the rebels. That claim turned out to be premature. According to reliable sources, the attack on Thursday was a dismal failure. The attacking column, led by a group of foreign mercenaries, was reported to have fallen back after meeting heavy rebel resistance. Five Greek and Italian mercenaries were wounded.
President Johnson expressed confidence today that atomic energy can be made the servant rather than the scourge of mankind. “For almost 20 years we have known the atom’s terror as a weapon of war,” he declared. ”Today, we begin to know its hope as a powerhouse of peace.” The President delivered his message as a filmed sequence that was shown here today as part of the opening ceremonies for the atomic energy exhibits of 18 nations. Tomorrow, a 10‐day conference on the peaceful uses of atomic energy will begin under the auspices of the United Nations. More than 70 nations will be represented.
Philadelphia Mayor James H. J. Tate said the police were in firm control of the situation. But the quarantine of an area of 125 blocks remained in effect until further notice and the Mayor, at a news conference, said it might not be lifted for “as long as a week.” The police in the area sought only to keep traffic and pedestrians off Columbia Avenue, where the most serious violence occurred. Barricades were removed from Ridge Avenue. Tonight was hot and humid and the people milled in front of their homes. The temperature stood near 80 degrees, the humidity near 80 percent. A force of 1,500 patrolmen was on duty in the quarantine district or standing by on its perimeter. Extra detachments were deployed in Black neighborhoods that have not been involved in the weekend’s turbulence. The increased effectiveness of the police was reflected Saturday night in a higher number of arrests. At the height of the violence Friday night, there were not enough officers on the streets to take rioters into custody.
A 21‐year‐old Black, Robert Green, was shot in the left side early today by Patrolman James Miller, 25. The police said that Green had assaulted the patrolman with a seven‐inch knife, crying, “I’ll cut your heart out.’’ He was in fair condition at St. Luke’s and Children’s Medical Center. In a statement issued at midnight, Mr, Tate said he was ”especially proud” that the police had been able “to restore order without the use of dogs, horses, or fire hose.” The statement said Frederic R. Mann, Director of Commerce, and William Rafsky, a consultant to the Mayor, would meet with businessmen whose property had been damaged and inventories looted. They will be offered the city’s assistance in getting back into operation.
Black leaders were strikingly unanimous in praising the restraint shown by the police. A notable case was the president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Cecil B. Moore, a militant leader with a reputation for making caustic comments on the attitudes of white officials. “I think the police exercised a remarkable degree of restraint,” Mr. Moore said. There were some exceptions, but most policemen on duty in the area seemed “the proper type of guys,” he said. Representative Robert N. C. Nix, Democrat of Philadelphia, a Black, declared, “I think they handled themselves admirably. I have higher respect for them now than I ever had before.”
The pastor of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama asked forgiveness today for those who dynamited the church last year, killing four Black girls in Sunday school classes. The Rev. John H. Cross made the plea is his sermon a few hours before a rededication ceremony for the structure, bombed last September 15. The Rev. Dr. Cross said he had received many letters asking: “How can you preach love when you have had the most hideous thing done to you?” He said, “We must follow the example of Jesus Christ. When Jesus Christ was put on the cross, it appeared all the good, all the truth had been eradicated. Hatred was rampant. Love was buried — buried for all time. “But then Jesus said, ‘My God, My God,’ and then he said, ‘Father, forgive them, forgive them, for they know not what they do.’”
Nearly 200 whites and Blacks battled with stones, knives and fists in Westminster, South Carolina tonight. Law enforcement officers quelled the violence after it had continued, off and on, for nearly two hours. Two persons, a white man and a Black, were hospitalized. Police Chief Rae Cain said the trouble had its inception early in the afternoon when a group of Black men sitting on a rock wall along Main Street reported that white boys had thrown bricks at them from a car. At dusk, groups of the two races gathered and the stone throwing began.
A two‐story storage building in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, owned by W. D. Banks, a local leader in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, burned tonight. Earlier in the day, fire leveled the all‐Negro Dubois School, which has been the center of an integration controversy. Mr. Banks, an undertaker, is one of two N.A.A.C.P. leaders who met with the city’s board of education earlier in an effort to avert a threatened boycott of schools. Two policemen who discovered the fire said they could smell kerosene and saw a large can burning under the steps.
A restless Congress, eager to be off to the hustings, reconvenes tomorrow to decide such politically crucial issues as medical care for the aged and delay of legislative reapportionment ordered by the Supreme Court. Hoping to capitalize on the unity theme sounded at last week’s Democratic National Convention, President Johnson will be pushing for enactment of the remainder of his legislative program. Republicans, in turn, are expected to rally their opposition to much of the Administration program, particularly such domestic issues as aid to the depressed Appalachia region and financing of medical care for the aged through Social Security.
Thus, the remaining weeks of, the 88th Congress will be dominated by some of the most intense political wrangling of recent years. Some Congressional leaders have predicted that the session could run into October. However, both parties will be hard pressed to keep their members within voting distance, for all 435 House seats and 35 of the 100 Senate seats are at stake in the election November 3.
The Administration’s first test of Congressional strength since the Democratic convention will come tomorrow when the Senate opens debate on a proposal to provide aged care under Social Security. This fight will find Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota operating in his new role of Democratic Vice‐Presidential nominee. Mr. Humphrey’s first action as a freshman Senator in 1949 was to introduce a similar medical‐care bill for the Truman Administration. The measure never came to a vote.
Senator Barry Goldwater, the Republican Presidential nominee, opposes the medical‐care proposal. His running mate, Representative William E. Miller of New York, is also against the plan. The vehicle to which Democratic leaders hope to attach the medical‐care proposal is a House‐passed bill increasing Social Security taxes and benefits. Efforts to add any form of medical aid to the bill failed in committee two weeks ago, but Democratic leaders will resume their fight on the Senate floor.
Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce yesterday withdrew her candidacy for the Conservative party’s nomination for the United States Senate. The nominee, according to Charles Rice, the Conservative party’s vice chairman, will be Henry Paolucci, associate professor of history and political science at Iona College. Mr. Rice made the announcement in Saratoga Springs, New York, where the Conservatives will hold their convention today. There was widespread relief among Republicans last night over Mrs. Luce’s withdrawal. They had feared that her candidacy would seriously threaten Senator Kenneth B. Keating’s chances of re‐election in a contest with Robert F. Kennedy, who is expected to be nominated by the Democrats tomorrow.
Senator Barry Goldwater met aboard his vacation yacht today with his closest personal adviser, Denison Kitchel, to prepare for the formal opening of Mr. Goldwater’s Presidential campaign. Mr. Goldwater has given three major campaign speeches since, July, but will formally open campaign Thursday in Prescott, Arizona. Mr. Kitchel, who is general campaign manager for the Republican Presidential nominee, and also his chief counselor on policy matters, joined Mr. Goldwater aboard the yacht Sundance for the talks.
The private Population Reference Bureau announced that at the current birthrate in the United States, there would be 362 million people in the United States by the year 2000 and 437 million by the year 2010. “Thus, only 50 years hence,” the report said, “the population increase for a single decade might be 75 million people. That is equal to the entire population of the United States in 1900.” The actual U.S. population in 2000 would be 281 million and the 2010 population would be almost 309 million, an increase of 28 million people.
Negotiations will be resumed today in an attempt to avert a midnight strike of teamsters that would stop the deliveries of most general merchandise in New York. Little progress has been reported in the quest for a new contract to cover 14,000 drivers and helpers who work for two employer associations that represent 1,500 trucking concerns. Persons close to the negotiations said yesterday that Mayor Wagner might intervene today to forestall the threatened halt in deliveries of food, drugs, textiles, newsprint and other materials.
Electric designer Norman Manley records back-to-back holes-in-one on the 7th & 8th holes at Del Valle in Saugus, California.
The first Clásico Joven match between two Mexico City football clubs, Club América and Cruz Azul, took place.
Bill Skowron’s first homer in six weeks and Pete Ward’s key triple in the ninth inning led the Chicago White Sox today to a 3–0 victory over the American League‐leading Baltimore Orioles and to within a half-game of first place. Skowron’s 390‐foot homer in the fifth inning broke up a scoreless battle between Joel Horlen of the White Sox and Robin Roberts, although neither was around at the finish. The score remained 1–0, with the White Sox turning back two serious Baltimore threats, until Ward came through. After Floyd Robinson had been hit by a pitch, Ward tripled to the right‐center‐field fence. Ward later scored the final run on a wild pitch by Harvey Haddix.
The New York Yankees continued to act like Yankees yesterday and headed into September on the upswing. They walloped the Boston Red Sox, 9‐3, for their sixth victory in their last eight games and their third within 23 hours at Yankee Stadium. Between 5 PM Saturday and 4 PM yesterday, the Yankees scored 25 runs. They hadn’t scored that many in the preceding 11 days, and that abnormal lack of offense had brought them to the brink of disaster in defense of their American League championship. The weekend outburst, however, stabilized matters considerably. It left the Yankees in third place, but only three games behind league‐leading Baltimore. In the more importand loss column, the Yankees are only two behind the Orioles and tied with the second place White Sox. New York has 33 games to play, Baltimore 31 and Chicago 28.
The Los Angeles Angels struck for four first‐inning runs today on homers by Jim Fregosi and Willie Smith and defeated the Detroit Tigers, 5–4. Ken McBride, who hadn’t won in more than two and a half months, pitched six innings and gained his third victory in 15 decisions. He allowed seven hits.
Tony Oliva’s 28th home run in the eighth inning gave the Minnesota Twins a 5–4 victory today over the Washington Senators. A home run by Don Lock of Washington in the top of the eighth tied the score after Don Mincher had pinch‐hit a tworun homer in the seventh, putting the Twins ahead, 4–3. Lock hit his 23rd homer 420 feet over the center‐field fence to put the Senators back in the game.
The Cleveland Indians whipped the Kansas City Athletics, 6–5, today in the second game of a double‐header on Max Alvis’s two‐run single in the ninth inning. The Athletics snapped the Indians’ eight‐game winning streak in the opener with a 9–3 victory. Jim Gentile and Nelson Mathews accounted for all the A’s runs in the first game. Gentile drove in five with two homers and a single, while Mathews drove in four with a pair of homers. Singles by Dick Howser and Bob Chance and an intentional walk to Johnny Romano filled the bases before Alvis’s winning hit in the finale.
The St. Louis Cardinals scored three runs on Mike Shannon’s double in the eighth inning today and defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5–1, for their sixth straight victory. Shannon doubled across three runs after the Cardinals had filled the bases on Dick Groat’s single, a double by Ken Boyer and an intentional walk to Bill White. Curt Simmons pitched a four‐hitter, raising his season’s won‐lost record to 14–9, as the Cardinals equaled the National League’s longest winning streak for the second time this year.
Sandy Koufax of the Dodgers, the leading pitcher in the majors with 19 victories, is not likely to pitch again this season, the Dodgers’ team doctor said. Koufax has been idled by an inflammation in his left elbow.
The Pittsburgh Pirates capitalized on Chris Short’s early‐inning shakiness and two errors by Richie Allen today and scored a 10–2 victory over the league-leading Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies lost only a half-game of their lead as the Cincinnati Reds split a doubleheader with the Houston Colts. The second‐place Reds now trail by 5½ games. Short, seeking his fifth straight victory, was nicked for a run in the first and filled the bases with none out in the second, leading to three more runs.
Milwaukee (8) and San Francisco (7) combine to use a Major League-record 15 pinch hitters in 2 nine-inning games. The Giants win the opening marathon 13–10, then lose 7–4. Jim Ray Hart homers in each game, as does Rico Carty, who has 5 hits in game 2. Gene Oliver belts a grand slam in game 1 for the Braves. Hank Aaron hit his 23rd homer into the right-centerfield bullpen in the nitecap. The Milwaukee refreshment stands, down to $13 in pennies, drop their prices; beer goes from 31 cents to 30 cents, hot dogs from 26 cents to 25 cents, hot sandwiches from 62 cents to 60 cents.
Frank Robinson doubled home the winning run in the ninth inning today and gave the Cincinnati Reds a split with the Houston Colts. The Colts won the opener, 8–5, as Joe Gaines drove in four runs with two triples. Cincinnati took the second game, 7–6. With two out in the ninth inning of the final, Vada Pinson singled and Robinson followed with his double to center. The Colts lost a 6–0 lead.
The Chicago Cubs defeated the New York Mets, 7–3, today, giving Larry Jackson sole possession of first place as the major leagues’ most persistent master of the Mets in their three‐year history. Jackson, a 33‐year‐old righthander, won his 10th straight over the Mets without any losses, and passed Sandy Koufax in the growing ranks of pitchers who make a specialty of such things. He also drew nearer Koufax in victories against all opponents this season, scoring his 17th against 10 defeats.
Born:
Stephen Baker, NFL receiver (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 25-Giants; New York Giants), in San Antonio, Texas.
Steve Smith, NFL fulllback and running back (Los Angeles Raiders, Seattle Seahawks), in Washington, District of Columbia (d. 2021, of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)).
Dave Reierson, Canadian NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames), in Bashaw, Alberta, Canada.
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