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Shriver
for
calls
post-war
proposals
SEATTLE, Wash. UPI — Sargent Shrive- said Wed
nesday that President Nixon must tell Congress and the
public whether U.S. feres would go back into Vietnam in the
event war broke out again following a signed ceasefire
agreement.
“We have said we would not put our armed feces back
into Vietnam,” the Democratic Vice Presidential nominee
said. “But Nixon says nothing cm that point.”
Speaking to the Seattle chapter of the World Affairs
Council, Shriver said he and Sen. George McGovern support
the proposed settlement aired both in Hand and Washington.
DC.
“At least that would achieve U.S. withdrawal,” he said.
“But what would happen even if it were signed and war
should break out again?
“The trouble is today nobody knows what Mr. Nixon is
proposing or what Dr. Kissinger proposes. The time has
came for the President to speak to the people of America and
certainly to the Congress. The Senate is composed of
patriotic men who should participate in the issues of war and
peace, of life and death. The issues should be decided here
instead of by President Thieu in Saigon.”
His remarks about Vietnam were delivered off the cuff
before he made what was billed as a major speech on the
McGovera-Shriver plan for an econonvc joint chiefs of staff
whose policies would be carried out by the State and
Treasury departments.
Shriver came to Seattle from Portland where he got into
a shouting match over high welfare costs and told a college
student. “You’re out of your mind.”
The Democratic vice-presidential candidate, after
making a speech at Portland Community College, was
questioned by the unidentified student as he talked to a crowd
which gathered around him.
“You’re married to a Kennedy, aren’t you?” the student
shouted.
“Yes, sir, I am,” Shriver replied, and then the student
complained about high welfare costs and suggested that the
Kenneday family should pay more
“You’re out of your mind, mister,” Shriver yelled at the
top of his voice.
The student said Sen. George McGovern plans to double
welfare costs. “That’s a lie they put on TV,” Shriver retor
ted.
“You’re paying extra taxes to Mr. Nixon for welfare.
Every buck you make you pay taxes to Mr. Nixon—twice as
much.” Shriver said.
In his speech to 2,000 students at the college, Shriver
criticized the President’s domestic and war policies.
Shriver called for a new set of priorities in the nation and
said, “We say the priorities are upside down. We should start
by building up people at home rather than blowing them up
overseas.”
News Roundup
from UPI reports
NEW YORK — Gov. Ranald Reagan asked the news
media Wednesday to refrain from making national election
predictions Nov. 7 before palls dose in the West because they
"undoubtedly” influence voter turnouts. In a telegram to
major networks and news agencies, the Republican
California governor said, “Broadcasting the final national
predictions undoubtedly tends, where polls have not yet
dosed, to influence many potential voters in their decision to
vote or not vote, much like the weather demonstrably affects
the voter turnout While we can do nothing about the weather.
I would like to ask you and the other networks to help
eliminate this artificial factor from our voting climate by
refraining from making nationwide predictions until the polls
are dosed in the west. If this is not practical, I urge you to at
least refrain from broadcasting such national predictions in
the west until their polls have dosed.” By the west, Reagan
said he meant California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii and
Alaska.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland — Roman Catholic leaders
Wednesday called for tighter security around Catholic ne
ighborhoods by British soldiers in bitter reaction to the
bombing in Belfast that killed two small girts playing around
a Halloween bonfire. The girts, Paula Strong, 6, and ho*
cousin, Clare Hughes, 4, died while playing a “trick-or-treat
game” when a bomb exploded in a car outside Benny’s Bar in
the Catholic docks area. The bombing, the first in four weeks,
coupled with the fatal shootings of a British soldier and a
Catholic civilian Tuesday night, raised the death toll in
Ulster since violence erupted in August, 1969, to 625. Police
said three men in the car had asked the girts for directions to
the bar before setting the time fuse on the estimated 100
pound explosive and fleeing without sounding any warning.
DEIS MOINES, Iowa — Gov. Robert Ray Wednesday
ordered the remains of five Indian graves taken off public
display Wednesday after Indian protesters suggested that
the white man dig up the skeletons of Washington or Lincoln
if he wants bones to put in his museums. The governor said
the banes displayed in the State Historical Museum “Offend
the sensitivity of at least some of the people of this state.” He
refused, however, to turn over the remains to the Indians for
reburial. Musgrwve salvaged the banes, believed to date back
to the 12th or 13th century, after a dump truck bad hauled the
contents of 40 other graves to a landfill site.
VENICE, Italy — Poet Ezra Pound, a titan of 20th cen
tury literature whose brilliant career survived accusations of
treason in World War II and more than a decade in a mental
hospital, died Wednesday after a short illness. He was 87. A
spokesman for the Venice Municipal Hospital said Pound
suddenly became ill at his borne and was rushed to the
hospital. Pound had lived in Venice since 1958 virtual silence.
His lonely, silent exile—he lived there with his mistress. Olga
Rudge—was the result of treason charges filed against him
by the United States for his rad*' broadcasts on behalf of
Italian Fascists in World War II. For three weeks after the
war he was held in an outdoor cage built by the U.S. Army
near Pisa, Italy.
Claims Nixon set date
Radio Hanoi sends warning
SAIGON UPI — Radio Hanoi
Wednesday claimed that
President Nixon himself set the
warned that any attempt to alter
the text that Henry Kissinger and
the Communists worked out
‘word by word” in Paris would
end chances for a cease-fire.
South Vietnamese President
Nguyen Van Thieu said the
proposal is “a peace solution that
offers South Vietnam on a plate to
the Communists.” Thieu called
for 'serious” negotiations with
the Communists anywhere in the
world.
In a broadcast monitored in
Saigon. Radio Hanoi said “unless
the United States ends its
procrastinating attitude and
refrains from alterations of the
points agreed upon, the
agreement can never be signed to
CIA agent
convicted
of fraud
MIAMI UPI — A Criminal
Court judge convicted ex-CIA
agent Bernard Barker today of
fraudulently notarizing a $25,000
check donated to President
Nixon’s re-election campaign.
Judge Paul Baker heard the
case without a jury and first
reduced the charge against
Barker to a misdemeanor, found
him guilty and gave him a 60-day
suspended sentence, on condition
that he surrender his notary
license.
The closing arguments and
verdict came quickly after a two
and one-half-hour hearing at
which two officials of the Com
mittee to Re-Elect President
Nixon were unable to connect the
$25,000 donation to the Nixon
campaign with Barker, a Miami
real estate agent.
end the war and restore peace in
Vietnam.”
An earlier broadcast claimed
that "in his Oct. 20 message to the
Democratic Republic of Vietnam
government’s premier, President
Nixon asserted that the text of the
agreement could be considered
as being complete, and he
proposed that Oct. 31 would be
the signing day. This was clearly
written on paper. How can the
U.S. side swallow its com
mitment?”
Kissinger, in his Oct. 26
Washington news conference
said:
“The North Vietnamese
negotiators made their proposal
conditional on the solution of the
problem by Oct. 31, and they
constantly insisted that we give
some commitment that we would
settle the war and complete the
negotiations by Oct. 31.
“I want to stress that these
dates were not dates that we
invented or proposed . . .
“In order to avoid an abstract
debate on deadlines, which at
that time still seemed highly
theoretical, we did agree that we
would make a major effort to
conclude the negotiations by Oct.
31, and it is true that we did, from
time to time, give schedules by
which this might be ac
complished.”
The Hanoi radio broadcast
accused the Nixon ad
ministration of adopting a
"deceitful attitude.”
Chicago Seven members
to bring PO Ws home
CHICAGO UPI — A federal judge Wednesday granted David
Dellinger and Thomas Hayden, “Chicago Seven” anti-war activists,
permission to go to Hanoi next week to bring back U.S. prisoners of
war.
U.S. Appeals Court Chief Judge Luther Swygert acted on a petition
which said Dellinger and Hayden wished to respond to “an urgent
request" from representatives of the North Vietnam government.
Dellinger and Hayden needed the judge’s permission because they
are still under bond while appealing their convictions arising from the
“Chicago Seven” case of militants accused of inciting a riot at the 1968
Democratic National Convention.
Lawyers for Dellinger and Hayden said they intended to leave
New York for Hanoi Tuesday and to retpm to New York Nov. 13.
Swygert’s ruling said the trip was “for purposes of accompanying
American prisoners of war back to their families in the United S
tates.”
He noted that UJS. Attorney James Thompson ‘ does not oppose
the motion, nor does he suggest that the trip would violate any law of
the United States.”
Dellinger recently made another trip to Hanoi in order to escort
POWs home. Hayden has been touring the country with actress Jane
Fonda, campaigning against the Vietnam War and President Nixon.
A Chicago attorney, Thomas Haney, filed a motion Monday saying
“'he purpose of their proposed trip to Hanoi is to travel with a
delegation of other U.S. citizens to Hanoi, in response to an urgent
request from representatives of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
with regard to matters concerning the release of additional U.S.
prisoners of war.”
Swygert said the only question before his court was whether there
was evidence Dellinger and Hayden intended to return. He said there
was sufficient evidence.
Hayden was quoted as saying in New York that the State
Department has not been notified of the trip and that Dellinger would
not be making the journey.