TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1968 • fficiah Predi Ho Ptiate. WASHINGTON (AP) Top tration routes is attrf suted to a U.S. officials fores more hard belief in the administration that fighting ahead in Vietnam be- the VietnameSe war may be in fore a decisive answer can be a climactic stage. If this view expected from Hanoi on Presi- is correct, then after further dent Johnson's new bombing hard fighting ,the North Viet halt bid to get peace talks namese may be -r,pared to go started. • into negotiations and seek a The initial reaction from compromise settlement of the North Vietnam is likely to be conflict. negative, officials said, bu t Hanoi Silent Johnson has put no time limit Several top officials checked on his partial suspension of air by the Associated Press said attacks ag - ainst North Vietnam. privately that Johnson did not He is said to be prepared to decide .o make his move at this wait for a reasonable time for time because of any ' secret P:esident Ho Minh to con- show of interest frt.m Hanoi in sider his proposal, announced making a deal now. Sunday night. One official said he knew of •lohnson's decision to halt all no encouraging sign from the bombing except for major infil- North Vietnamese capital. An- Clark, Scott comment WASHINGTON (W) President Johnson's decision against running for re-election put Pennsylvania's sena tors in contrasting positions yesterday. One talking politics while the other remained mum. Republican Sen. Hugh Scott, who urged New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller to reconsider his decision to stay out of the GOP presidential race, said he conferred with Rockefeller yesterday. "My advice to the party is to stay loose and keep tight hold on your delegates," Scott said. The former GOP national chairman declined to say a draft movement was afoot. He denied he was out to scuttle the presidential nomination hopes of former vice president Richard Nixon. But he made it clear he is for Rockefeller. "I don't care whether we draft him, persuade him or talk him into it," Scott said. "I personally feel he's the best candidate." Democratic Sen. Joseph S. Clark, who last month told \reporters he supports Johnson "at this time," declined to say yesterday who he now will support as his party's Presi dential choice. He praised Johnson's decision to de-escalate the Viet nam war, Johnson's decision to bow out of the presidential race. Clark said -"The President has clearly put the national interest above partisan or political interests." "This was a courageous and generous act for which history will surely judge him well," said Clark, a critic of Johnson's Vietnam war policies: Urge Rocky To Reconsider Papers Praise LBJ By The Associated Press President Johnson's decision not to run for re-election , was interpreted by New York State newspapers Monday : as an act of statesmanship in; which the President put the welfare of .his country ahead of his own pride. The und.. lying assumption by most editorial writers was that Johnson's record at the White House was blemished by the Vietnim war and that he was determined to do every ? thing possible to remove this blemish before leaving offic.e. The , President's announce ment prompted many' 'New. York newspapers to urge GoV. RoeLefeller to reassefslepre vious decision not to Seek' the Republican nomination fo r President. Prevailing opinion was that Johnson's action ha- strength ened America's diplomatic posi tion abroad while giving him B ° CYCLES ! ! Specialists for Schwinn, Raleigh Robin. Hood Complete Repair Facilities for All Makes 3,5, 10, 15 Speed Bicycles Tandems Unicycles The Bicycle Shop One Block past Campus 441 W. College 238.9422 Always on Top Penn State 69ers Always on Top Penn State 69ers ill a 1 1 THE SPIRIT OF'69 a, g o , o o ; I Is BACK... vi K 0 il • a ( 4' 3 o e Tt . (II in • • Alive and 0. ....o m 0 u, • Hiding out › a ' Z... a 0 in the HUB (ground floor) ..c • zo a. a. ni o Fa 41 o c , APRIL 2 3 and 4 1, at vi , 3 >. . 3 a ' . in :--e a -* 4. Always on Top ,Penn State 69ers Always on . Top Penn State 69ers an opportuntiy to rally people at home. "This tall Texan never stood taller as a : national leader and a man;" said the Rochester, N.Y.,' Times:Union. The ,Lockport, N.Y., Union Sun and Journal said: "The Preiident's order to 1 alt virtu ally' all bombing' in North Vietnam strengtheped the .U.S. position with . navy foreign na tions." The paper added that North Vietnamese leaders "cannot disregard the fact that they are , not likely to have a better. oppOrtunity to come to the bargaining table." "In removing himself from the 1968 race ,President 'John.v. son may be showing a kind - of loyalty to . his country that will tend to unite," said the Water town Times. "If the division, were to end by his removing himself.' then he will have ac complished much for the United States." *ct Veto other called the President's ac tion • "an honest , lep in the dark" in the hope that it would lead to talks. - Officials 'recognized, how ever, that 'the bid might very . well fail. This view was ex pressed explicitly by former. Undersecretary of State George Ball, who continues in close touch with .U.S. authorities - on Vietnamese war issues. Ball told newsmen at a limch eon here Monday that he does not think "there will be any serious negotiations with the North Vietnamese" until after a new U.S. President has taken office next January. In announcing Sunday night that he was stopping air strikes against most of North Vietnam, Johnson called on Britain and the Soviet Union to do every thing within eleir power to ar range peace talks, and Monday the British government began sounding out Mosccw on possi ble action. British Foreign Secretary Mi chael Stewart conferred with Soviet Ambassador Mikhail N. Smirnovsky on Johnson's pro posal. But a dispatch distributed by the Soviet news agency Tass cailed Johnson's peace move a maneuver that, ignored North Vietnam's - long standing de mand for an unconditional end to all bombing attacks and other acts of war against its territory. No Complete Stop Johnson said in his speech to the nation that the cessation of bombing could be made com plete if President Ho Chi Minh would now take some reciprocal action to scale down the fight ing but that he could not "in good conscience stop all bomb ing so long as to do so would immediately and directly en danger the lives of our men and our allies." He was referring to the fact that heavy concentrations of North Vietnamese troops are operating in the border areas close to South Vietnam, par ticularly in the regions opposite the Marine position at Khe Sanh and other U.S. and allied outposts in the Northern region of South Vietnam. It is 'n this area or perhaps in the central highlands of South Vietnam that the Presi dent's advisers say they forsee more bitter fighting. Their hope is that this prospective round of battles, if it develops, will result in such severe defeats for the North Vietnamese forces that the Hanoi govefn nent will decide the time has come to de escalate the war and agree to negotiations. The administration view that the conflict has entered a cli matic stage arises from the results of the Communist win ter-spring offensive 'Which was launched at the end of January against the cities and towns of South Vietnam. Offici."l feel that while the offensive inflicted a partial defeat on the United States and South Vietnam, it was a defeat also for the Com munists. THE DAILY COLLEGIAN, UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA Kennedy Wants To 'Work -PHILADELPHIA (AP)—Sen. Rob, ert F. Kennedy, bringing his cam paign for the Democratic presidential nomination into Pennsylvania, said yesterday he would "make some ar rangements" to meet with President Johnson. "I don't know what his, Johnson's, schedule is going to be, because his schedule is .more important than mine," the New York senator said. 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The President's decision Sunday night net to seek 'renomination an announcement that stunned t h e'_ world—made Kennedy an apparent front-runner for the party's presi dential nomination. 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He told. the gathering he'had come because he needs their help. "This is going to be a hard and difficult campaign," he said. "there are great problems and great divi sions facing the United States." Kennedy said he thanked the Pre sident Sunday night, and again Mon- CLASS NEEDS RECREATIONAL Identification STATE COLLEGE th Johnson day, for withdraWing from the race, and "for: placing his country first." He then talked about the "division between -black and white:" "The solutions are not easy," he said. "But we can find the answers to our problems." • Kennedy was to speak at several locations in suburban Delaware County Monday night before cross ing the Delaware River for an ad dress in Camden. 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