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Nixon plans to withdraw
more troops from Vietnam
SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. '/P*—
President Nixon told the nation
Monday night he plans to with
draw 150,000 additional U.S.
troops from South Vietnam by
May 1971—and might order fur
ther withdrawals if there were
progress on the negotiating front.
In a live television-radio address
from the Western White House
here, Nixon said: “The decision I
have announced tonight means
that we finally have in sight the
peace we are seeking. We can
now say with confidence that paci
fication is succeeding.
South Vietnami/.ation
“We can say with confidence
that the South Vietnamese can
develop the capability for their
own defense. We can say with
confidence that all American
combat forces can and will be
withdrawn.”
While the 150,000 withdrawal
goal was triple any previous pull
out figure, it will be stretched
over a much longer time span.
However, a White House official
who declined to be identified by
name said the new withdrawal
target would mean the return to
the United States of uniformed
men at approximately the same
rate as in recent months.
By May 1971, the official said,
the authorized U.S. troop ceiling
in South Vietnam would stand at
284,000, compared with a peak of
549,500 early in 1989.
Pace of withdrawal
Nixon said "The timing and
pace of these new withdrawals
within the overall schedule will
be determined by our best judg
ment of the current military and
diplomatic situation.”
The anonymous official empha
sized, however, that the 150,000
target is irreversible under any
foreseeable circumstances.
The chief executive said his
decision "has the approval of the
government of South Vietnam"
but he did not claim it fully sat
isfied U.S. commanders in the
field or the joint chiefs of staff.
He merely said that the field
commanders have been consult
ed.
While promising that “we shall
withdraw more than 150,000 over
the next year if we make progress
on the negotiating front,” Nixon
said he “must report with regret
that no progress has taken place”
in the quest for a negotiated set
tlement.
The chief executive told his
audience that the United States
government has noted with in
terest a statement last week by
Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister
Jacob Malik “concerning a pos
sible new Geneva conference on
Indochina.”
The President said “we do not
yet know the full implications of
this statement” but declared it
was in the spirit of letters Nixon
wrote on April 7 to all nations—
including Communist China —
which signed the 1962 Geneva
Accord.
Carswell in senate race
MIAMI (AP)— Judge Harrold
Carswell announced Monday he
will run for the U.S. Senate,
which two weeks ago rejected his
nomination as an associate justice
of the Supreme Court.
Florida Lt. Gov. Ray Osborne
made the announcement at a
news conference attended by
Tension in
Colombia
BOGOTA, Colombia—A neck
and neck race for the presidency
of Colombia confronted this
country Monday with its gravest
political crisis in 20 years.
Ex-dictator Gustavo Rojas
I’inilla, battling the official can
didate, Misael Pastrana Borre
ro, vote for vote for the nation's
top post, declared himself the
winner before the official verdict
was in.
Rojas warned that refusal of
the government to name him
victor might trigger disorders in
Colombia.
As tension mounted, President
Carlos Lleras Restrepo said in a
nationwide broadcast that he
would hand over his four-year
office to the officially declared
winner.
Carswell, his wife Virginia, Gov.
Claude Kirk and U.S. Sen. Ed
Gurney, R-Fla., and other top
party leaders.
Osborne, who entered the Sen
ate race several months ago, said
he was withdrawing in favor of
the Tallahassee judge.
Carswell said he had just re
signed from the U.S. 5th Circuit
Court of Appeals to seek the
seat being vacated by retiring
U.S. Sen. Spessard Holland, a
Democrat.
“The Republican party today
offers the best chance for the
conservative government that our
people want,” Carswell told the
packed news conference at a
Miami hotel.
“It is the same sort of devo
tion to duty that inspired me
through 17 years as a prosecutor
that has led me to run in the
Senate race,” he said.
Carswell and his party left the
conference immediately after the
brief announcement, refusing to
elaborate.
On April 8, the U.S. Senate
voted 51-45 against Carswell’s
nomination to the U.S. Supreme
Court.
Democrats seeking the seat are
Fred Schultz, speaker of the
Florida House of Delegates, and
State Sens. Lawton Chiles and
Robert Haverfield.
Wrong direction
Agnew leads charge
By D.J.R. BRUCKNER
The Los Angeles Times
Among liis other crusades, Vice President Ag
new has been waging one recently against the con
duct of universities. For some reason best known
to his political advisors, he has concentrated this
campaign on Uu- midwest. Last month in Chicago
he suggested that universities are declining in
excellence, and last Monday in Des Moines he said
a "new socialism" is tilling the universities with
unqualified students.
His Des Moines speech featured a personal at
tack on University of Michigan President Robben
Fleming. Early this month, after a student strike,
the university agreed that, by 1973, 10 per cent of
the 32,000 students at the Ann Arbor campus will
be lilack The agreement echoes the 1966 agree
ment to increase Black enrollment at UC Berkeley,
although it is more specific.
Opinion
Agnew whipped up racial passions throughout
the midwest by calling the agreement at Michigan
a "callow retreat from reality" and a "surrender."
His language, and his dwelling on personalities, is
unfortunately reminiscent of the late Sen Joseph
McCarthy's bitter attacks against some university
chiefs in the early 1950s.
What Agnew wants, he says, is a system that
will find and promote a "natural aristocracy" of
bright people "College." the Vice President said,
at one time considered a privilege, is considered
to be a right today and is less valued because of
that "
Taken together with President Nixon’s proposal
for student aid and his emphasis on developing
more community colleges, the Agnew speeches
extend the definition of what appears to be an
administration determination to restructure edu
cation, an effort which appears to be not very
well thought out
A lot of turmoil in the universities is imposed
on them by the whole society. A college degree is
neither a right nor a privilege to the young now',
it is a necessity; which is why militant Blacks
seek enrollment quotas, and why it is insensitive
for Agnew to suggest that what they really need
is remedial education someplace else.
Many students go to college now not because
they want to learn in the traditional sense, but be
cause they want to succeed in the world, and the
world uses the degree as the only ticket to the
rat race. These students are easily radicalized and
naturally unhappy, and they cannot be expected
to accept the older values of education or even
the authority of the universities. But it is as im
pertinent and dangerous for a conservative govern
ment that the universities, by exclusive admissions
and programs, reform the values of society as it
is for radicals to demand that the universities
reform and rebuild the cities.
The great state universities have a special place
in the social, as well as the intellectual growth of
the nation. Some have equalled the best private
institutions as centers of excellence; but. from
their beginnings, they have been social equalizers
as well as promoters of social change.
In the past 25 years it is these state universities
which have taken in most of the huge new genera
tion of students. Their responsibilities are no
longer easily defined: they have to respond not
solely to legislatures and power structures as in
the past, but to the whole population. They are
troubled not because they are mediocre—indeed,
in the face of demands made on them, they re
main almost miraculously excellent—but because
they are becoming so much more important all
the time to more people.
And. one suspects, the higher education pro
grams of the Nixon Administration will only in
crease the pressure of numbers on these univer
sities, despite Agnew s hankering after a new
aristocracy The universities, like all the rest of
us, probably do need higher standards and new
organization, but these changes must come from
within Any attempt to compose them from out
side can only result in further unrest—and lower
standards.
News roundup
From AP Reports
NEW YORK—Defense Secretary Melvin Laird declared
Monday that the United States can go only so far toward foster
ing an arms limitation pact with Russia, in view of the Soviet
Union’s “increased weapon deployments.” “We are literally at
the edge of prudent risk,” Laird said, in again rejecting argu
ments that this nation should unilaterally hold up the impend
ing deployment of multiple independently targetable reentry
vehicles—MIRVs—and the Safeguard ABM missile system.
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.—Walter Reuther said Monday the
United Auto Workers will demand big wage hikes this year
from the “poor little rich men” who run the nation’s auto in
dustry. Reuther, president of the union, said that President
I Nixon and big business—not workers’ wage demands—were
responsible for inflation and unemployment.
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DETROIT—Chrysler Corp., first of the auto firms to report
first-quarter finances, said Monday it lost $29.4 million in that
period, compared with net earnings of $48 million in the same
three months last year. Chrysler’s report reflected what the
firm called generally lower consumer demand for automotive
products in the United States and Canada.
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MIAMI, Fla.—Alpha 66, a militant Cuban exile organization,
said Monday it had landed men on the beaches of Cuba in an
effort to reach the mountains and start a guerrilla war in the
same spot where Fidel Castro’s revolution began. A spokes
man for the Miami based group, involved in past raids on Cuba,
said several invading forces had landed on Cuban shores during
recent days.
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