North Vietnam announced today that it had asked for the withdrawal of International Control Commission observer teams posted on its border with Communist China and at other points. In a message received in Saigon by the headquarters of the commission, the Hanoi Government said it could no longer guarantee the safety of the observer teams because of air attacks such as those carried out last week by United States and South Vietnamese aircraft. The Hanoi action was taken against a control commission made up of Canadian, Indian and Polish delegations. Under the 1954 Geneva accord that ended the French colonial war in Indochina, the commission is charged with enforcing truce provisions.
These arrangements divided Vietnam at the 17th Parallel and banned the introduction of further military forces or arms from abroad. Of five stationary teams that would be affected by the withdrawal order, one is stationed at Đồng Đăng, a North Vietnamese entry point for a main railway and highway from major Chinese Communist military bases at Nanking and Canton. Another post is at Laokay, a secondary post, astride railroad and highway lines from Mentzu, site of a big Chinese Communist air base in Yunnan Province. Other fixed observer teams are at Haiphong, a leading North Vietnamese port, and at Đồng Hới and Vinh. The coastal area near Đồng Hới was bombed by United States Navy planes last Sunday and Thursday in retaliation for Việt Cộng attacks on American military installation in South Vietnam. Đồng Hớiand Vinh have been described as important supply and transport centers for Communist infiltration into South Vietnam.
In the South Vietnamese capital, meanwhile, Dr. Phan Huy Quát, a former Foreign Minister, agreed to try to form a government. A caretaker government has been in office since the Saigon military coup d’état of January 27 ousted the Cabinet of Premier Trần Văn Hương. Because of differences in the Armed Forces Council and other political factions, there has been a delay in forming a new government. Dr. Quát, a North Vietnamese who came south after the Communist takeover of Hanoi in 1951, succeeds Acting Premier Nguyễn Xuân Oánh in the effort to establish a stable civilian government here. Dr. Quát agreed to take on the assignment after Nguyễn Lưu Viên, now First Deputy Premier, was unable to gain support for his desired Cabinet appointments.
The first meeting of the leftist Indochinese Peoples Conference opened in Phnom Penh, Cambodia today under banners calling for solidarity, independence and peace. Speakers attacked United States policy in South Vietnam. The conference was held at the urging of Cambodian head of state Prince Norodom Sihanouk.
The Soviet Union and North Korea made public a joint declaration today that accused the United States of seeking to expand the war in Vietnam.
Peking asserted today that unity between Communist China and the Soviet Union must be based on the principles laid down by Peking. An editorial in the official newspaper Jenmin Jih Pao indicated that while the Chinese believe that China and the Soviet Union should present a united front in face of United States “aggression” against North Vietnam, they are not prepared to modify their own position.
The Johnson Administration was reliably reported tonight to be preparing a broad statement of its diplomatic and military position in the Vietnam crisis. Informed sources said the statement would be designed to set forth the United states attitude in the light of last week’s retaliatory attacks against North Vietnam.
There is evidence that the three U.S. retaliatory air raids against military objectives in North Vietnam were long planned and awaited only the right psychological moment to be carried out.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk hinted that the United States may break relations with a nation abetting attacks on an American embassy.
North Vietnam charged that two U.S.-South Vietnamese ships shelled one of its villages Sunday. Radio Hanoi said both ships were set afire by gunfire from North Vietnam.
About 1,000 demonstrators paraded in front of the United States Embassy in London today chanting “Hands off Vietnam!” and “Yankee murderers go home!” The largest contingent among the groups represented came from a rally in nearby Hyde Park organized by the British Communist party. It totaled about 800 and was led by Joe Bent, a Communist candidate for Parliament who was defeated in the October general elections. The demonstrators also included pacificists and persons opposed to nuclear armament.
Thousands of demonstrators marched on the United States embassy and Information Service Library in Jakarta, Indonesia today, protesting United States air attacks on North Vietnam. Demonstrators got on the roof of the library and hoisted the Indonesian flag. The embassy staff, warned, had removed the Stars and Stripes.
The Soviet Union published a rejection of French President Charles de Gaulle’s proposal for a five-power conference, including Red China, to discuss remodeling of the United Nations Charter.
The Malaysian Government lifted a curfew today and this capital quickly returned to normal after leftist, anti-government demonstrations and rioting yesterday. The Defense Ministry said that Government forces had scored a “complete success” against Indonesian guerrillas who landed on the southwest mainland coast. It said 12 raiders were taken prisoner, one was killed and 10 others were captured at sea.
The Hallstein doctrine — Bonn’s diplomatic boycott of East Germany, which backfired on Chancellor Ludwig Erhard last week — is undergoing a basic review, Informed officials do not give a long life expectancy to the doctrine, which has been a fundamental point of West German foreign policy at least in its present form. Dr. Erhard may already have subjected it to significant modification. The doctrine, named for Walter Hallstein, the Bonn diplomat who formulated it in 1955, decrees that West Germany breaks relations with any country except the Soviet Union that recognizes East Germany. The Chancellor returned a carefully phrased answer Friday when asked whether the Hallstein doctrine could be maintained in the light of experience with the United Arab Republic. Dr. Erhard said that he did not want to discuss any particular doctrine but that his government was still determined to maintain its claim to being the only legitimate representative of the German nation before the world.
In achieving the resignation of the İnönü Government in Turkey yesterday, Suleyman Demirel, the leader of the Justice party, hopes to further his desire to reorient the country’s economy toward support of the rising new commercial class.
Action of police in closing the play, “The Deputy,” critical of Pope Pius XII, stirred a bitter dispute in Rome which may go to Parliament.
President Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, the Indian chief of state, voiced thinly veiled criticism of the Indian Government tonight in a speech on the language crisis that has beset his native South India.
A qualifying match in the 1965 African Cup of Nations football tournament between Kenya and Ethiopia was awarded to Ethiopia as a walkover, after the Confederation of African Football (CAF) upheld a protest by Ethiopia because Kenya had fielded two players, Moses Wabwayi and Stephen Baraza, who were ineligible because they had represented Uganda previously. Ethiopia qualified and the two players were suspended for one year after Uganda stated that they were still registered with the Uganda F.A.
The home of African-American civil rights advocate Malcolm X (who used the surname Shabazz), in the Elmhurst neighborhood of Queens, New York City, was firebombed by Molotov cocktails while he, his wife and their four children were inside. The family escaped unharmed, but the house was seriously damaged; Malcolm X would be assassinated a week later.
Malcolm X, the controversial Black Nationalist leader, and his family escaped injury early yesterday when a firebomb attack wrecked the small brick house in which they lived in East Elmhurst. Queens. Two, or possibly three, bottles of gasoline with fuses were hurled through the windows of the living room. They exploded and set fire to the house, at 23-11 97th Street. Malcolm X had returned from a visit to France and England Saturday afternoon. He and his wife and four daughters were sleeping in bedrooms down a hall about 10 feet from the living room. The Molotov Cocktails crashed through the windows and exploded at about 2:45 AM.
Malcolm X said he was awakened by the first explosion. He rushed his wife and children through the kitchen door into a small paved areaway behind the house and out of the range of the fire. The blaze was quickly extinguished by the Fire Department, which, together with the Police Department bomb squad, opened an investigation. In the absence of firm clues, it was assumed that the firebombs were thrown from a passing automobile. The house has been the subject of a prolonged controversy between Malcolm X and the Chicago-based Black Muslim movement, of which he is the former New York representative. The Black Muslims hold title to the house. They demanded Malcolm vacate it when he broke with them to found his own organization.
Cheering Blacks in Selma, Alabama, shouted approval of plans for a massive voter registration march tomorrow to be led by the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. More than a thousand Blacks met tonight in preparation for a massive voter registration march tomorrow, amid reports of a secret meeting of local Blacks and white businessmen. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was ordered to bed in Atlanta last night by his doctor because of “exhaustion,” an aide said. But another aide said tonight that Dr. King was “feeling some better” and would be in Selma tomorrow to lead the march. Blacks met tonight at rallies in two churches. The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, one of Dr. King’s assistants, told them that “Dr. King and I expect to lead at least 1,000 Blacks in the march tomorrow.”
The city tonight granted a parade permit for about 600 persons for tomorrow. That was what the Blacks had requested. The meeting between local Black and white leaders reportedly took place at the Albert Hotel yesterday, presumably to settle differences on the voter registration drive, which is now going into the fifth week. Sheriff James G. Clark Jr., who has arrested most of the Blacks during the voter registration drive, was not expected to be on the scene tomorrow. Sheriff Clark was admitted to the hospital last Friday suffering from chest pains. Hospital authorities said that he would probably remain in bed for several days.
Governor Paul Johnson of Mississippi said he does not think the majority of school boards in his state will sign a compliance pledge guaranteeing racial non-discrimination in order to get federal education funds.
Federal marshals impounded about 8,000 ballots cast by the United Steelworkers’ Gary (Indiana) Local 1014 in the union’s presidential election.
Outgoing Republican National Chairman Dean Burch said the party can build a comeback on conservative views. Burch, the retiring chairman of the Republican National Committee, made it plain today that the conservative faction that former Senator Barry Goldwater represented would fight to mold the Republican party to its views.
The independent United Electrical Workers spoke out yesterday against a proposed merger of a rival union with the United Automobile Workers. In opposing the suggested merger, Albert J. Fitzgerald, president of the United Electrical Workers, was sharply critical of an old enemy, Walter P. Reuther. It was Mr. Reuther, president of the auto workers, who last week suggested a merger between his 1.2 million-member union and the faltering International Union of Electrical Workers, which he helped set up in 1949.
Rescue workers abandoned immediate efforts to remove from a cold, watery cave near Dolgeville, New York, a young explorer who they are convinced is dead. A small army of rescue workers, including a team of cave experts abandoned their attempts tonight to bring the trapped 23-year-old explorer, James Mitchell, out of a cave alive.
The Navy took command yesterday of operations to salvage the sunken wreckage of an Eastern Air Lines DC-7B six miles off Jones Inlet, Long Island, New York.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration designated today the targets on Mars that are scheduled to be photographed by Mariner 4 next July 14. The agency said the exact points at which the spacecraft’s television camera would be aimed had been determined through analysis of its flight path. The spacecraft, which began its journey last November 28, will photograph the planet close at hand if all its equipment is still operating normally when it arrives in July. NASA outlined the Mars target areas in a notice to amateur and professional astronomers who may wish to observe the planet with their telescopes. The areas can be seen a number of times in the next several months before and after the earth’s closest approach to Mars in early March. Mariner 4 is to take its first pictures of Mars when it is 8,400 miles above the planet’s surface. The camera will sweep an area 4,000 miles long, from the northern hemisphere, where it will be autumn, down through the southern hemisphere, where it will be spring.
7th Daytona 500: Fred Lorenzen wins driving for Holman-Moody; race ends on lap 133 due to persistent rain.
Born:
Dave Lowry, Canadian NHL left wing (Vancouver Canucks, St. Louis Blues, Florida Panthers, San Jose Sharks, Calgary Flames), in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
James Milling, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons), in Winnsboro, South Carolina.
Marc Munford, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos), in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Died:
Désiré Inghelbrecht, 84, French composer, conductor and writer.
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