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Vol. 70, No. 20
Haynsworth Gets Mail
For, Against Nomination
GREENVILLE. S. C. (AP> The desk of Judge Clement
F. Haynsworth Jr., in his secondfloor. onk-naneled office in-
Grccnville’s federal building, is piled high with letters.
Much of the mail, the 56-vear-old jurist said in an in
terview. is in support of his nomination to be a U. S. Supreme
Court justice.
“Of course.” he added, “there is the other. There are
some not-so-friendly letters. But the vast majority are lavora
ble.“
As the U. S. Senate ponders the nomination. Haynsworth
recalled that the other men, too, have had difficult times in
obtaining continuation to the high court.
“Look at Mr. Justice Brandeis and the attack couched in
the tenor of ethics leveled against him.” said Haynsworth.
“Look at Justice Black and Chief Justice Hughes. All were at
tacked. All were to become outstanding, excellent justices. If
you go far enough back in history, you will find examples of
most things.” Haynsworth hesitated, puffed a cigarette, then,
choosing his words carefully, said, “No one enjoys being sub
jected to this kind ol attack. It is difficult.
“The Senate has the right to decide to what extent I
should be scrutinized. I am not going to find fault with them.”
Haynsworth is chief judge of the U. S. 4th Circuit Court of
Appeals, which sits in Richmond. The court is not in session
now.
Haynsworth declined to answer specifically any of the con
flict of interest charges leveled by his Senate crilics. "There is
a long tradition in the judiciary,” he said. “A judge attacked
on ethics does not defend himself. That falls within the realm
of the bar. So, in this whole area. I won’t comment."
The case against Haynsworth has been built primarily
on accusations that it was improper for him to hear cases
involving companies in which he held stock.
Haynsworth said he has not considered asking that his
name be withdrawn.
Nor will I suggest this.” he said. “A retraction would
seem to lend credence to the charges. I have never considered
this._ quite the contrary.
“As I said, this is no fun to go through-but I am not so
disconcerted that I will ask to get out.”
Nor," he said, "will I blast the folks opposing me-or
speculate on their reasons."
“I don’t want to say that I had no inkling that there might
be a controversy," he said, "but I did not expect what has
developed.
Haynsworth’s wife says he is up early in the morning
talking on the telephone, keeping very busv. with even 15
minutes of free time a day, a lot for' him. "He is spending
much time at his office.
“Confirmation.” she said, “is a lovely word.”
There is no place in his home town"of Greenville where
Haynsworth can escape the pressures of controversy. If he
tries to forget at a party, there will always he someone who
appears at his elbow to whisper support. Someone like Mayor
R. Cooper White Jr., who recalls that at a party he told
Haynsworlh. "Hang in there. Clement."
“Judge Haynsworth.” says White, "is a big man and he
might not show the depth of his concern over this. But it is
bothering him that people are trying to paint him in a horrible
light. It's a case where you feel you haven't done anything
dishonorable and people are beating the hell out of you.”
Housing Gets New Face
WASHINGTON (AP) A 38-year-old
freshman House Republican led a successful
fight to put a new face on the urban renewal
program.
“I feel like the batter who was sent up to
the plate to bunt hits a homerun and doesn’t
know what kind of reception he'll get back in
the dugout” Connecticut’s Rep. Lowell Weicker
Jr. told reporters yesterday.
Tile Greenwich lawyer said he didn’t check
with Nixon administration officials for their
views on his “one-for-one” concept of housing
replacement in slum areas cleared for urban
renewal projects.
House Buys Idea
But the House bought the passage of a $4.9-
billion housing bill. And the new concept got
Life Releases Story;
Attacks McCormack
WASHINGTON (AP) House Speaker
John W. McCormack denied yesterday any
knowledge that his office was used as a base by
others seeking to influence government
decisions and said he intends to run again for
speaker.
Replying to charges made by Life
magazine, McCormack accused the publication
of making an unwarranted and malicious at
tack on him.
“This could happen to anyone,” he said at a
news conference. “My conscience is absolutely
clear.”
The 77-year-old Massachusetts Democrat,
whose retirement at the end of this Congress
had been expected by nany of his House col
leagues, said he has no intention of stepping
down.
from the associated press
News From the World,
Viet Cong Offensive Expected Soon
SAIGON Allied intelligence officers expressed belief
yesterday that a recent upswing in enemy activity and move
ment indicates that the Communist command is making final
preparations for a winter-spring offensive.
They peg the first or second week in November as the pro
bable target date, and cite captured documents, the increase
in the number of arms and ammunition caches found by allied
patrols, and casualty statistics for the past three years which
show that November has been one of the bloodier months of
the war in the past.
The enemy “is preparing to give himself the option of
launching a winter-spring campaign," one intelligence analyst
said, but added that “whether he decides to launch one or not
is another question.”
Lebanon Attacked by Israelis, Arabs
BEIRUT, Lebanon Tiny, beleaguered Lebanon has tried
to remain neutral in the Middle East conflict, but now it is un
der attack from both Arabs and Israelis.
A nation of two and one-half million people, half of them
Moslems and half of them Christians, Lebanon has grown
sleek and prosperous on banking, trade and tourists.
Lebanon’s leaders knew that peace and security were
essential for its continued well-being and that to take sides in
the Arab-Israeli confrontation could lead only to economic
ruin.
Consequently Lebanon stayed out of the Arab wars with
Israel in 1956 and 1967 and tried to isolate itself from the stu
dent voice of Arab nationalism.
The problem became more serious after the 1967 war
when the Palestinian guerrilla movement emerged.
Confronted with the strong Israeli defenses along the Jor
dan River and in the Golan Heights of occupied Syria, the
Urban Bill Passes House
winning support from liberals and conser
vatives in both political parties.
A 116-92 standing vote nailed the amend
ment into the housing measure after it fell first
one and then two votes short the day before.
However there is no similar provision in
the 56.3-billion housing bill which previously
cleared the Senate. Its fate will be decided in a
conference committee between the two
branches of Congress.
Confusion about Meaning
Weicker said there was some confusion
surrounding the meaning of the amendment
when it first was proposed on Wednesday.
Rep. Sidney R. Yates a liberal Democrat
from Chicago confirmed this and helped
muster support for another shot at the proposal
on Thursday.
“We thought it would be a good opportunity
to provide housing for low- and moderate- in
come families.” Yates told reporters yester
day. “We want to make sure those people
displaced as a result of these programs are
given a chance to get decent housing where
they’re living.”
The present law requires that replacement
housing be found for persons whose homes are
destroyed by urban renewal projects but
Weicker argues: “relocation doesn’t build
homes.”
“Right now this should be called the giant
shopping center or office building renewal act,”
Weicker said. “This will put the human ele
ment in.’
However. Rep. Thomas L. Ashley, (D-Ohio)
in trying vainly to defeat the amendment said
it would “mean the end of the program as we
know it today and lock in the cities the people
who are living there now.”
If it is the end of the current concept
Weicker said “then I say hurrah but it isn’t
the end of urban renewal.”
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Black Cultural Center
Plans Remain Indefinite
By ROB McHUGH
Collegian Staff Writer
The Black Student Union has
refused to comment on plans
for a proposed Black Cultural
Center “until all plans are
finalized.”
According to Raleigh Dem
by, B S U communications
chairman, the BSU has not yet
decided on a final program for
the Center. Demby also said
Relocation Doesn’t Build
guerrillas looked to the soft Lebanese frontier as an easy
jumping off ooint for attacks against Israel.
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Street Warfare Breaks Out in Lebanon
BEIRUT, Lebanon Demonstration-- in defiance of a
government curfew erupted into open street warfare in the
northern Lebanese port of Tripoli yesterday. At least seven
persons were reported killed.
Troops fought running battles with armed civilians and
Arab guerrillas. The boom of heavy weapons echoed off build
ing-walls and Lebanese Mirage jet fighters swept low over the
city.
The outburst came amid flurries of activity on the Middle
East scene:
—Egyptian planes struck Israeli forces in the northern
Sinai Desert for the second straight day. the military com
mand in Tel Aviv said. Eleven Israeli soldiers were reported
wounded. Israel earlier said its planes attacked Egyptian
positions at Has Gharib. about 120 miles south of Suez City.
Neither side reported any aircraft losses.
—South Yemen broke diplomatic relations with the United
States and ordered all U.S. Embassy personnel out of the
country in 4 hours. Salem All Rabyoe. 35. cha rman of the
presidential council, blamed “U.S. imperialism” for recent
clashes between Palestinian guerrillas and government troops
in Lebanon.
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Senate Committee Proposes Tax Plan
WASHINGTON The Senate Finance Committee wrote
into the tax reform bill today a new simplified minimum tax
plan designed to make sure all wealthy persons pay some tax.
In the past, some of them have escaped taxation.
In devising its plan, the committee covered oil income
now sheltered from taxes and thus took another crack at oil
rich individuals and corporations m addition to the cut in the
depletion allowance voted Thursday.
The effect of the Senate plan is to cover more wealthy
Published by Students of The Pennsylvania State University
University Park, Pa., Saturday Morning, October 25, 1969
—Collegian Photo by Roger Grcenawatt
SHORT AND LONG yells were given to the Niiiany Lions
at last night's pep rally. Cheerleaders and students both
came out to wish the men luck in today's game with Ohio
University.
the BSU might not be able to the BSU had mixed feelings
implement some of their ideas about the Administration's an
nouncement. because "it com-
People might become disap- mittocl them (the Ad
pointed if these ideas were ministration).”
made public and then not in
corporated into the Center, he
said.
and plans.
The Administration announc
ed this week that the
University had begun steps to
establish a Black Cultural Cen
ter. University President Eric
A. Walker recommended that
the Center be set up as a non
profit organization that could
hold funds, rent or buy proper
ty and maintain a permanent
management structure.
Walker said funding of the
Center will be “a difficult but
not impossible task and one on
which we are proceeding as
rapidly as possible.
Demby indicated Wednesday
PhillyT eachersHold Meeting,
Attempt To Forestall Strike
PHILADELPHIA (AP) School officials
and the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers
held an eleventh hour meeting yesterday in ef
forts to head off a threatened teacher strike
over a pupil-inspired move to transfer a West
Philadelphia High School history teacher
Meanwhile. 10.600 teachers in the system
received ballots from the union m the mail to
determine whether they will walk out if the
Board of Education bows to pupil-community
pressure for the transfer of George Fishman.
About 70 per cent of Fishman’s 150 pupils
continued to boycott his five classes yesterday
over charges that he doesn’t “relate” to them
and that his instruction is “irrelevant.”
Attending yesterday’s meeting were School
Superintendent Mark Shedd; Frank Sullivan,
president of the Philadelphia Federation of
Teachers, and two unnamed school board
members.
The only result of the two hour session, ac
cording to Sullivan, was “that we agreed to
discuss things further.” He said, however, no
date was fixed for a second meeting. He added
Dcmby added, however, that
BSU was ‘‘upset’’ that the Ad
ministration presented the idea
for the Center as its own.
Demby said BSU has been
working for a Black Cultural
Center for several terms.
Dixon Johnson, director of
Public Information. said
yesterday the University
lawyers have not yet com
pleted the papers necessary to
establish the Center.
Johnson refused to suggest
any completion dates. He add
ed. however, that after the
papers arc completed, the
University will still have to
tackle the problem of funding.
that all “indications” were that a strike would
be voted. The results of the balloting v ill be an
nounced Monday night.
A representative of the Philadelphia City
Education Association, which represents some
2.500 teachers and schools aides, visited West
Philadelphia High yesterday gathering facts to
determine whether that organization will sup
port a strike vote.
Fishman, 52. has refused to make any
statements to the press, although Sullivan said
he is free to do so.
Claude Boss, vice president of the school,
said he supported the transfer recom
mendation. Boss said pupils lost confidence m
Fishman and demanded his transfer when he
failed to meet with them to discuss his
teaching.
The vice principal said he attended two of
Fishman’s American history classes and found
them satisfactory. He said he was later told
that Fishman put on a performance to impress
him.
Nation & State
individuals than the House version but to put a somewhat
smaller tax bite on many of them.
Sen. Russell B. Long, D-La., the committee chairman,
said his panel now had concluded most of its work on tax
reform provisions and that the net effect of its actions so far
was to raise only S2OO million less than the House.
Cable TV Allowed To Initiate Programs
WASHINGTON The Federal Communications Com
mission authorized cable television systems vestetdny to
originate their own programs and support them with paid
commercials.
The commission's action in cftcct sets up cable television
as a direct competitor with o\cr-thc-air TV.
Sol Schildhau.se. chief oi the FCC's cablc-TV task force,
told a news conference the commission’s order contained
language designed to encourage the iormation of cable-TV net
works on a regional, or perhaps national b.is s.
The new rules impose no restrictions on the type of pro
grams cabiC-TV may present and Sehildhause said this would
override any locally imposed program limitations
The KCC. in facl, required cable sysicrns with more than
3.500 subscribers to originate their own programs “to a signifi
cant extent” starting Jan. 1, 1971.
Old Glory Flies at Penn Once Again
PHILADELPHIA The Amcncnn Flag is flying at
full staff again on the Univeisitv of Pennsylvania campus.
Flags were raised at 7:20 a.m. one minute before sun
rise yesterday, ending a four-day flap over whether they
should be displayed at full or half staff.
The Flag had not been displayed on the Penn campus
since Monday when a group of students demanded that the
Flag be flown at half staff because of the Vietnam War To
back their demands, the group spent the night outside the
office of Gaylord J. Harnwell, university president,
Wars End Means
Trouble for Thais
VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) Whatever the
outcome of the Paris peace talks. North Viet
nam will almost certainly be m a position to
cause serious trouble tor Thailand, Laos and
Cambodia when the Vietnam war ends.
This is the view of diplomats and military
sources in Thailand as well as Lao*. These in
formants say they are disturbed by increasing
North Vietnamese mlluence m the three
Mekong River countries.
In Laos, where the situation is most
serious. North Vietnam has an estimated 48.000
combat troops. They are well trained, well
equipped, and can move across the border with
relative ease.
North Vietnamese Front Man
Politically, the North Vietnamese have a
front man in Prince Souphanouvong. leader of
the rebel Pathet Lao. The Pathet Lao, with the
support of their North Vietnamese allies, ef
fectively control the eastern half of the coun
try. But their postwar political power remains
a matter of question.
Souphanouvong’s forces play no active part
at the moment in the nominally tripartite
neutral government made up of rightists,
neutralists and the Pathet Lao,
Souphanouvong’s half-brother, Prince Souvanna
Phouma, a neutralist, is premier.
But American and other Western sup
porters of Souvanna’s government fear that the
Pathet Lao could emerge as the dominant
political force after the Vietnam war.
Bargaining Position
This would give Souphanouvong a strong
bargaining position in the eventual over-all
settlement of the war. which the United Stales
has stipulated must include provisions for Cam
bodia and Laos. It also would give North Viet
nam powerful influence in Laos.
Other sources doubt, however, that
Souphanouvong can gam political supremacy.
They point out that the Pathet Lao ha\e-by
becoming on obvious front for North Viet
namese political and military activity-lost their
political credibility as a nationalist movement.
It is conventional wisdom that the North
Vietnamese could take all of Laos-cxecpt
perhaps, Vientiane: in a very few days if they
were willing to pay the price.
But North Vietnam needs the support of the
world community if it is to remain independent
of Red China, and such overt action could
cause a very adverse reaction in Asia and
Proposed U.S., Soviet Talks
Announcement Expected
WASHINGTON The ad
ministration indicated yester
day that an announcement
may be imminent on the start
of long-a waited U. S.-Soviet
talks to curb the strategic
arms race.
Presidential press secretary
elsewhere. These political constraints on
military action may be even stronger after the
war. and for the moment the North Vietnamese
appear content to operate behind the front of
the Pathet Lao-and east of the 1962 ceasc-tuo
line. North Vietnamese domination of the
Pathet Lao is having internal effects, too.
In Cambodia. Laos’ neighbor to the south.
Prince Norodom Sihanouk has expressed
serious concern at the numbers of Vietnamese
moving into the eastern provinces bordering
South Vietnam.
On Oct. 6. Sihanouk told a group of students
recently returned from abroad that there are
40.000 “Vietnamese Reds” in the eastern pro
vinces.
“They occupy a large area of our country.”
Sihanouk said Reports from the area indicate
the Vietnamese have moved whole villages into
the area, set up local governments, schools and
clinics, and ordered the Cambodians to move
out. Cambodian troop* sent in to investigate
have been ambushed and killed.
In Thailand, the presence of some 40.000
Vietnamese refugees in the northeast provinces
along the Mekong River has been a source of
concern to the Thai government for several
years
The refugees, who fled Vietnam during the
French-Indochina war in 1954. at one time num
bered more than 70.000. The Thais be"an a
repatriation program, helped by the Red Cross,
bin this was halted in 1965 when U. S air
strikes in North Vietnam gave the Hanoi
government an excuse for refusing to accept
any more refugees.
Since then the Thais have attempted to en
force strict control on movements of the refug
ees, most of whom owed allegiance to Ho Chi
Minh.
There have been several disturbances, in
the cities of Udorn and Übon between Viet
namese and the Thai police. The latest was in
September when Vietnamese attempted to hold
religious services to honor the death of Ho Chi
Minh.
The Thais view the North Vietnamese as v
potential if not existing danger, because the
northeast provinces are the most heavily in
filtrated by Communists.
An estimated 2.000 armed Thai and Thai
Chinese guerrillas are operating in the
northeast, half of them trained in North Viet
ram. according to intelligence gathered from
captured terrorists and defectors.
Ronald L. Ziegler said he had made no response to Nixon’s
nothing about the proposed appeal.
talks yesterday-but left open Diplomatic sources sug
the possibility of an unusual gested that the Big Two
news briefing today. At the nuclear talks could get under
State Department, 'press of- way by late November,
ficer Robert J. MeCluskcy for They anticipated it would
the second straight day declin- take several weeks to set up
ed to say whether Moscow has technical arrangements for
answered President Nixon’s the conference,
bid to begin discussions bet- Vienna. Helsinki, and Geneva
ween the two superpowers on were listed as possible con
limiting their nuclear missile ferenee sites,
rivalry. The two nations have
rm. ,• already agreed in principle to
i C \ U( I S c° n .- a » r °A C f? hold the discussions aimed at
a call b> Soviet Ambassador s j ou f ng down their spiraling
Aanntoly F ?° b atomic weapons competition.
Secretary of State William P. \yj ien suc h talks do start, they
Rogers Wednesday are oX p ec t c d to focus initially
Prior to the Rogcrs-Dobrynin on possibilities for curbing
session, ad ministration multiwarheadod missiles . and
spokesman had been saying on slowing the antimissile
freely that the Soviets had systems race.
Spring Forward , Fall Back
NEW YORK (AP)—Daylight Saving Time ends this year
at 2 a. in. tomorrow, when clocks should be turned back one
hour.
The summer time system has been in effect since 2 a.m.
on the last Sunday in April, when clocks were moved ahead an
hour.
Under the Uniform Time Act, which became effective In
1907. all states, the District of Columbia and U. S. possessions
must observe Daylight Saving Time beginning 2 a. m. on the
Inst Sunday in April and ending at 2 a. m. on the last Sunday
in October.
Any state may exempt itself from the law by legislative
action. The Department of Transportation oversees the
Uniform Time Act.
rcaidng the names of Americans killed in the Vietnam War.
When the students’ demands were rejected, the Rev.
Jack Russell. Penn's vice provost, said he decided not to fly
the Flag because he didn't want it to become the object of
demonstrations with ‘'perhaps someone pulling it down.”
California State Gets New President
HARRISBURG After three contested votes by the
California Slate College board of trustees, student demon
strations and a court suit, the south western Pennsylvania
school got a new’ president yesterday.
He is George H. Roadman who has been serving as
acting president since the death in November 1968 of the
then picsident, Michael Duda.
Gov Shafer appioveri Friday the 5-4 election of Road
man by the board of trustees earlier this week. Shafer based
ins approval on the recommendation of the state Depart
ment of Education.
1 1 Arrested After Grape Demonstration
PITTSBURGH Eleven persons, including a priest
and an international representative of the United Steel
workers Union, were fined $lO each plus court costs yester
day on charges leading from a “Boycott Grapes” demon
stration at the city’s produce yards.
Police said the demonstrators, supporters of the Farm
Workers Organizing Committee, were arrested when they
tried to block movement of a tiuck carrying grapes. The
union has organized giape pickets in California.
Witnesses said about 50 people began picketing at 7 a.m.
to press demands for growers to recognize the union.
Father Jack O'Malley, assistant pastor of St. Joseph's
church on the city's North Side, and Patrick Coyne. 39. the
United Steel Workers liaison with the farm workers union,
were among those charged with disorderly conduct.
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