Major General Nguyễn Khánh moved a step closer to governmental partnership with the Buddhists today. He obtained agreements to leave the country from some of South Vietnam’s leading military commanders, the targets of particular Buddhist hatred. Reliable sources said that Lieutenant General Trần Thiện Khiêm, who has been a powerful figure at General Khánh’s side for the last seven months, was among the generals expected to go abroad soon in official or unofficial capacities. Others in the group have been linked with the predominantly Roman Catholic Đại Việt faction, which was the main political participant in General Khánh’s previous regime. The Đại Việt leader, former Deputy Premier Nguyễn Tôn Hoàn, resigned from Premier Khánh’s Government in anger earlier this week and is scheduled to leave the country tomorrow. Presumably he will relinquish his place in the triumvirate of leaders.
Some of the departing generals are expected to be named as ambassadors. Brigadier General Đỗ Mậu, formerly a Deputy Premier, is due to be a roving ambassador, the sources said. Major General Đỗ Cao Trí, formerly commander of II Army Corps, is expected to be Ambassador to Japan. General Trí has been the central target of Buddhist anger for his reputed role in the repression of the Buddhists during the regime of the late President Ngô Đình Diệm. Other officers relinquishing their posts are the Army Chief of Staff, Brigadier General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu, who has been particularly associated with the Đại Việt, and the Prefect of Saigon, Brigadier General Dương Ngọc Lắm.
What could be a far‐reaching realignment of forces appeared to be under way. General Khánh seemed to be turning his back on the military elements that supported him previously and to be choosing to obtain a new power base in the national Buddhist movement provided the Buddhists agree to it. The motivation for the officers’ prompt acquiescence to the plan to send them out of the country was obscure. Amid reports of personal deals or certain private arrangements there was no specific explanation. A further puzzling aspect of the last few days’ maneuvering was the relative silence of Roman Catholic groups. They would seem to have everything to lose in a clear‐cut accession to power of Buddhist leaders, whose fear of the Catholic minority far exceeds their fears of Communism.
Premier Khánh drove unescorted today to Cho Gấu, scene of battle to make sure of the loyalty of the politically dangerous Seventh Division. He traveled by highway from Saigon 41 miles to the northeast. Fighting was raging only 2,000 yards away from Cho Gấu and six howitzers boomed outside the tent where he met with the division’s officers. The Seventh is sometimes called the “coup division” because of its strategic position on the southern flank of Saigon. It could make or break any attempt to overthrow the government and some of its leaders are suspected of having ties with the Đại Việt party.
General Khánh met with Colonel Huỳnh Văn Tồn, the division commander, and leaders of smaller units. This morning, in Saigon. General Khánh laid wreaths on the graves of six Catholic demonstrators who were killed by soldiers last week. He chatted in the cemetery with the Rev. Hoàng Quýnh, unofficial leader of Catholic militants in Saigon. He also paid homage and burned incense sticks before the red lacquered coffins of two Buddhist victims of last week’s riots.
North Vietnam accused the United States today of planning new “military adventures.” The Government at Hanoi warned that the situation in Indochina was of the utmost gravity, according to the official North Vietnam News Agency. In an emergency message to the participants of the 1954 Geneva conference that divided Vietnam into two countries, Hanoi said the United States Government would have to bear full responsibility for consequences: of its “war acts.” “Any act of provocation and aggression against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam will surely be thwarted by the strength of the entire Vietnamese people,” the agency said. The message, sent yesterday by Foreign Minister Xuân Thủy, called for an immediate end to all “acts of provocation and sabotage against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.”
The Cambodian Government accused South Vietnam today of launching a “major attack” near the Cambodian border town of Koh Rokar yesterday. A communiqué said the International Control Commission was en route to Koh Rokar to investigate. The communiqué said South Vietnamese troops backed by mortar fire from two posts penetrated “several hundred yards” into Cambodian territory. It said South Vietnamese planes later machine‐gunned and bombarded Cambodian positions, inflicting casualties. A second Cambodian position in the area was said to have been hit by mortar fire, also with some casualties.
On May 8, Cambodian forces captured and destroyed a South Vietnamese armored personnel carrier on the Cambodian side of the border, three Vietnamese were killed. The South Vietnamese apologized, saying their troops were chasing fleeing communist Việt Cộng guerrillas. Cambodia brought charges of “aggression” by the United States and South Vietnam before the United Nations Security Council.
Greece and Turkey separately today urged a meeting of the Security Council on the issues between them stemming from the Cyprus crisis. Greece asked that the Council be called to deal with the “dangerous situation” caused by the expulsion of Greeks from Turkey. A Greek source said the mission did not expect a meeting during the weekend. But the request stressed that the meeting must be held by September 16, the expiration date of the 1920 treaty that governs the treatment of Greeks living in Turkey. Last month Turkey indicated that she had abrogated the treaty. Large colonies of Greeks — particularly in Istanbul — have been shattered by sudden expulsion orders. The Greek mission said its request for a meeting was made necessary by “rapid deterioration of Greek‐Turkish relations as a result of illegal and provocative measures of the Turkish Government against Greeks in Turkey.” The Turkish delegation to the United Nations announced that it would ask tomorrow for a meeting of the Security Council to repudiate the Greek charges.
A Turkish spokesman said the Greek accusations were “completely unfounded” and added that “the Greek Government’s actions are one of the factors that have caused relations to deteriorate.” Among these actions, he said, the Greeks had mobilized military forces in West Thrace along the Greek‐Turkish border and had sent 10,000 military personnel into Cyprus in the last few months, 7,000 of them arriving in July. He said the Turkish request for a meeting was being prepared tonight and would be delivered tomorrow to the Council’s president for this month, Platon D. Morozov of the Soviet Union. Dmitri S. Bitslos of Greece, in his note to Mr. Morozov, said: “A series of increasingly hostile steps have been taken in the recent period by the Turkish Government.” Mr. Bitslos added: “These provocative measures have culminated in the expulsion of Greek residents of Istanbul, which hag taken the character of mass deportation.” “Repeated aggressive statements of Turkish spokesmen,” he said, indicate that “these measures will be further intensified and accelerated” when the treaty is dropped.
Last month a spokesman for the Turkish Foreign Ministry conceded in Ankara that harassment and deportation of Greek nationals had become a weapon in the Cyprus crisis. Until the outnumbered Turkish Cypriots are secure, he said, Turkey will have no choice but to resort to gradually increasing pressure on the Istanbul Greeks. At that time, nearly 1,000 had been deported and the remaining 9,000 feared for their future. The Greek families complain that it is impossible to dispose of businesses and property on the short notice that Ankara gives. A deportee may carry with him only his clothing, his transportation ticket and the equivalent of $22.
The Malaysian Government, anticipating new racial and political troubles, has declared all Malaysia a security zone, effective tomorrow. The action today, which goes beyond the state of emergency already in effect, followed renewed Malay‐Chinese clashes in Singapore. The fighting, which came during a period when a curfew was lifted, has taken 10 lives in two days. Sixty‐four persons have been injured and more than 150 arrested. In the continuing action against Indonesian guerrillas in the Labis area of south‐central Malaya, troops captured one more of the 30 or so paratroopers dropped early Wednesday. New Zealand troops and a Gurkha unit of the British Army, which have been assisting Malaysia under defense agreements, have been conducting the search.
Four of the parachutists have been killed and at least six captured. About 20 others are believed to be hiding in the swamps and jungle or in the homes, of Indonesian sympathizers. A spokesman for the Ministry of Defense reported that villagers in the Labis area had found a new cache of equipment dropped Wednesday. Malaysian officiais have said that several of the parachutists have been identified as members of Indonesia’s Special Forces. At least 30 other Indonesianbased guerrillas who made seaborne landings on the west coast of Malaysia August 17 are still being hunted. A meeting of the United Nations Security Council has been called for 3 PM Wednesday to discuss a charge of aggression by Malaysia.
At Stanleyville, rebels who had seized control of the city proclaimed the “People’s Republic of the Congo”, with Christophe Gbenye as its President.
In the aftermath of three months of rebel occupation and the vicious battle that restored Congolese Army control, this once‐bustling trade center on Lake Tanganyika is a ravaged city with a dim future. The lake fleet that hauled thousands of passengers and brought imports from the Indian Ocean is sunk or damaged except for two boats that are reported to be in Bujumbura, capital of neighboring Burundi. Hulks clutter the harbor. Cotton crops in North Katanga are unpicked and rotting. Many textile mills are damaged. Those that escaped pillaging or battle damage are geared to produce more than a million yards of cloth a month but are producing barely one‐fifth as much. Under the impassive eye of Congolese soldiers, civilians have started looting the railway station.
Premier Khrushchev returned to Moscow today from a 10-day visit to Czechoslovakia. He faces growing problems in the international Communist movement. On the one hand, the Soviet leader must decide the next step in reaction to Communist China’s evident inclination to move its dispute with the Soviet Union increasingly from the purely ideological sphere into an area of nationalism and power politics. Already, a letter writing campaign has been launched in the Soviet press, in which citizens express indignation at territorial claims against the Soviet Union voiced by Mao Tse‐tung, the Chinese Communist leader, in a recent interview with Japanese Socialists.
On the other hand, Premier Khrushchev must devise ways to ensure the cooperation of independent-minded Communist parties in Europe. Notable was the publication yesterday by the Italian party of a memorandum written by Palmiro Togliatti just before the Italian leader’s death last month. This criticized not only the Chinese, but also Soviet and other Communists for slowness in overcoming the after‐effects of Stalinism and for growing nationalism. No word on the Italian party statement has yet appeared in the Soviet press.
In Paris, Francois Mitterrand, Opposition Deputy, today demanded a statement by President de Gaulle’s Government and a Parliamentary debate on the state of French- German relations. Noting “disillusioned” comments, by “the highest personalities” of the two Governments, Mr. Mitterrand asked Premier Georges Pompidou to assess the present state of the French-West German treaty of cooperation, which General de Gaulle has called “one of the foundations” of his policy. The National Assembly will be reconvened October 1. There was no immediate indication whether the Government would agree to Mr. Mitterrand’s demand.
Gaullist sources, however, expect continuous attack by the Opposition on what it terms the “unproductive” character of General de Gaulle’s initiatives in foreign affairs. The rapid deterioration of French‐German cooperation in Europe has emboldened the Opposition to attack a wide range of Government foreign policies. A majority of the daring initiatives announced by Genera de Gaulle with dramatic emphasis have proven fruitless for France, it is charged. Both Gaullist politicians and Government officials cling to the line that the General has been right. Privately some day that if the policies have not had the success they deserve it is because of the intransigence of the United States.
Hundreds of political prisoners and intelligence agents who have been in East and West German jails for up to 12 years are being released in a quiet exchange program.
President-elect Eduardo Frei predicts closer Chilean relations with the United States and says his nation has chosen between totalitarianism and democracy.
Although almost no one wants to admit it openly, U.S. aid to Argentina has been effectively cut off since the cancellation of private oil contracts last fall.
The Panamanian cargo ship Dorar, with a crew of 57, sank in the harbor at Hong Kong after being battered by Typhoon Ruby. Only 30 of the crew were rescued, and the other 27 were missing and presumed dead.
Senator Barry Goldwater said today that if elected President he would propose to Congress “a regular program of automatic annual cuts in income taxes.” It was understood that such a proposal would be operative only if there were a series of balanced budgets. Mr. Goldwater made his remark in a written Labor Day statement given to reporters while the Goldwater party was in flight from Phoenix, Arizona, to this city for the formal opening of the campaign of the Republican Vice-Presidential nominee, William E. Miller. Mr. Goldwater’s press secretary, Paul Wagner, said the Republican Presidential candidate would “spell out” his tax plan in a speech Tuesday night in Dodger Stadium at Los Angeles. In today’s statement Mr. Goldwater said: “The rewards of hard work must be returned to those who earn them. A Republican Administration will do just that. As leaders of that Administration, we will propose to Congress, for instance, a regular program of automatic annual cuts in income taxes. This program could and would be accomplished free of political manipulations.”
President Johnson, still vigorously proclaiming a nonpolitical stance in the face of the approaching campaign, said today that he believed the military draft or its termination should be “free from any politics.” In reaction to a pledge by his Republican opponent, Senator Barry Goldwater, that the draft would be ended if he were elected, President Johnson said he had been informed it would cost “several billions” of dollars if action on the draft were precipitous or compulsive. The President devoted a leisurely Saturday afternoon news conference very largely to political affairs. In response to a question he delivered a long lecture in which he urged a political campaign “in the grand tradition” that will “demonstrate the vitality of our most striking ideal—e pluribus unum; from many, one.”
William E. Miller heaped accusations of “radical” on Hubert H. Humphrey today and bade his countrymen help in “a crusade for freedom, for peace, for justice, for morality, for unity, for progress, for prosperity, for security.” With a personal assist from the ticket’s top man, Senator Barry Goldwater, the Republican party thus launched the second stage of its Presidential campaign. The launching site was a rude outdoor platform in the peaceful countryside known as “the fair ground” but officially called the Niagara County Farm and Home Center. It lies in the heart of an area, bountiful in farm and industrial products, that Representative Miller has spoken for in Congress since 1951. The peppery little Vice-Presidential candidate aimed blow after blow at his Democratic counterpart, Senator Humphrey of Minnesota, and at Mr. Humphrey’s association with Americans for Democratic Action. The A.D.A., Mr. Miller said, is “unquestionably the most influential of the radical leftist groups in Washington today.”
Mr. Humphrey’s record, said Mr. Miller, “is clearly one of the most radical in Congress.” He continued: “During his 15 years in the Senate, he has voted the official A.D.A. line on 192 occasions and has bolted only on three occasions.” Mr. Humphrey was a founder of Americans for Democratic Action, which by charter bars Communists from membership. He was national chairman for a year and was a vice chairman from 1950 until his nomination for the Vice-Presidency.
Senator Hubert H. Humphrey formally opened the Democratic national campaign today by declaring that there was “one major issue.” This, he said, is that President Johnson is “intellectually and emotionally” equipped to lead America and the free world and Senator Barry Goldwater is not. The Democratic candidate for Vice President singled out the key word in the campaign as “responsibility.”
He depicted Mr. Johnson, his running mate, as “a giant of a man,” who epitomizes “responsibility” in public office, and charged that Mr. Goldwater’s “behavior” as Republican candidate for President was “the very repudiation of responsibility.” At an enthusiastic rally on the University of Minnesota campus, where he studied and later taught political science, the Senator contrasted the Presidential candidates in this way: Mr. Johnson is “the man for America” by reason of his proved “strength, courage, responsibility, leadership, compassion and vision.”
Mr. Goldwater “specializes in driving away those with whom he disagrees, scorns the path of moderation and accommodation, and sows the seeds of disunity and discord even within his own party,” he said. During a news conference in St. Paul this afternoon Mr. Humphrey took note of charges by Representative William E. Miller, the Republican VicePresidential candidate.
Mr. Miller accused Mr. Humphrey of having “one of the most radical” voting records in Congress, attacked the Democrat’s membership in Americans for Democratic Action, and charged that Mr. Humphrey and Mr. Johnson had frequently disagreed in the Senate. Mr. Humphrey said that Mr. Miller was either ignorant of his voting record or had consciously distorted it. He defended the A.D.A. as a patriotic, anti‐Communist organization and said of the attack: “This puts Miller in strange company. I hope he’ll take a good look at the enemies of the A.D.A., such as the Communists and the Birchites. If Miller wants to associate with those groups, he may. I don’t care to.”
New York’s Senator Kenneth B. Keating announced today that he opposed compulsory busing of schoolchildren outside their neighborhood districts.
President Johnson took another of his famous walks — this one a five-lapper around the White House grounds — under a broiling sun.
With the now traditional Democratic talk to a Labor Day mass meeting in Detroit’s Cadillac Square, President Johnson will begin in earnest the task he has been performing all year campaigning for the White House.
A resolution condemning 10 “extremist” groups was adopted by the board of directors of the California Republican Assembly.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, chairman of the American Communist party since 1961, died in Moscow today at the age of 74.
In the final of the 1964 Gillette Cup cricket competition, a one-day cricket competition where the matches could be completed in a single visit, Sussex defeated Warwickshire by 8 wickets at Lord’s.
In the second annual Federation Cup international women’s tennis competition, Australia defeated defending champions United States in the championship match, held in Philadelphia.
Sound familiar? The Yankees acquire veteran pitcher Pedro Ramos from the Indians as pennant insurance. The Indians get 2 players to be named later: Ralph Terry on October 12, and Bud Daley on November 27.
Blue Moon Odom, 17-year-old rookie pitcher, makes his Major League debut for the Kansas City A’s, and the Yankees’ Mickey Mantle greets him with a 3-run opposite field homer in the first inning. New York hangs on to win, again by a 9–7 score. Joe Pepitone’s three-run homer in the 4th provides the winning margin. Ralph Terry got his sixth win of the year in long relief.
An error by Sam Bowens helped knock Baltimore out of the American League lead tonight as the Los Angeles Angels beat the Orioles, 1–0, behind the five‐hit pitching of George Brunet and Bob Lee. The loss, combined with Chicago’s 8–2 victory over Cleveland, dropped the Orioles one game behind the White Sox in the pennant race. The Angels scored an unearned run off Steve Barber in the third inning after Jim Piersall had beat out an infield hit with one out. Piersall raced toward third as Paul Schaal followed with a single to right.
Joel Horlen pitched a six‐hitter as the Chicago White Sox scored an 8–2 victory over the Cleveland Indians today. Horlen, in taking his 11th triumph against eight defeats, extended his string of scoreless innings against the Indians to 24⅔ until the eighth, when Cleveland struck for two runs. The only hit off Horlen until by the Cleveland pitcher, Sonny Siebert, in the third. Siebert’s hit was followed immediately by a double play.
Mickey Lolich gives up 4 hits as the Detroit Tigers hand the Washington Senators their record-tying fourth straight shutout. Detroit wins, 4–0. Lolich picked up his 15th victory of the season. Catrcher Bill Freehan hit his 17th home run.
The Minnesota Twins scored eight runs in the third inning today and trounced the Boston Red Sox, 10–4. It was the Twins’ 11th victory in 14 games with Boston this season. Zoilo Versalles’s three-run homer, his 19th, off Bill Spanswick, capped the third‐inning surge.
Ernie Banks belts a double and homer in the same inning, and the Chicago Cubs use the big score to beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 8–5. Mike Cuellar takes the loss against Larry Jackson.
Frank Thomas hits a 2-run homer in the Philadelphia Phillies’ 4-run 1st inning, and Gus Triandos cracks a 5th-inning grand slam as Jim Bunning (16–4) tops the San Francisco Giants, 9–3. Bob Bolin is behind 4–0 before he can get anyone out. The Phillies stay in first place by 6½ games. Jim Hart and Orlando Cepeda homer for the Giants, but both come with the bases empty.
The Los Angeles Dodgers got back on the beam — such as it is for a defending champion in seventh place in September — by defeating the New York Mets, 6–2, last night before another banner crowd of 30,350 at Shea Stadium. The game had a carnival air from almost the opening moments, when Tommy Davis came to bat 21 hours after dropping a fly ball Friday night for a three‐run error. Davis wasted no time making amends. He rocked the first pitch thrown to him by Ron Locke far beyond the fence in left‐center for his ninth home run of the year, giving Los Angeles a 2–0 lead it never lost.
The Cincinnati Reds, who had scored only three runs in their previous four games — beat the Milwaukee Braves, 5–1, tonight on homers by Vada Pinson and John, Edwards and the three‐hit pitching of Bob Purkey. The homers by Pinson and Edwards were two of nine hits the Reds made off four Braves pitchers. Bob Sadowski was the loser. Cincinnati scored one run in the first inning and one in the third and added three in the fifth when Pinson and Edwards got their homers.
Bob Friend, backed by Jerry Lynch’s 16th home run and Bill Mazeroski’s run‐scoring triple, set down the Houston Colts with eight hits today as the Pittsburgh Pirates posted a 4–1 victory.
Born:
Ken Norman, NBA small forward (Los Angeles Clippers, Milwaukee Bucks, Atlanta Hawks), in Chicago, Illinois.
Tim Lashar, NFL kicker (Chicago Bears), in Santa Monica, California.
Lyle Pickens, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos), in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Ron Rightnowar, MLB pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers), in Toledo, Ohio.
Kevin Saunderson, American music producer and disc jockey, in Brooklyn, New York, New York.
Died:
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, 74, American Communist leader and chair of the National Communist Party Committee of the CPUSA, passed away during a visit to Moscow. The Soviet government would accord to her a full state funeral.
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