Oregon daily emerald., May 20, 1977, Page 5, Image 5

Carter recalls Korean general
— World at a glance-,
From Associated Press reports
US, Soviet tackle arms talks
GENEVA, Switzerland — Secretary of State Cyrus Vance
and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko were reported on
Thursday to be working on a compromise formula to break the
deadlock over a new treaty limiting strategic nuclear weapons.
After more than five hours of what U.S. officials described as
"intensive" and "good faith" negotiations, an overnight recess
was taken to allow Gromyko to contact the Kremlin for instruc
tions.
British car slush fund charged
LONDON — The state-owned auto giant British Leyland was
accused by a newspaper Thursday of bribery and fraud “on a
massive scale" to win overseas orders.
The conservative Daily Mail devoted four of its 44 tabloid
pages to an investigation by a team of reporters charging Lord
Ryder, chairer of the government's National Enterprise Board,
with approving a "slush fund" to pay bribes and undercover
missions.
Nixon promised Vietnam aid
WASHINGTON — Richard Nixon secretly committed the
United States four years ago to S3.25 billion in post-war aid for
Vietnam but he now believes fulfillment of that pledge would be
unjustified and immoral, according to documents released
Thursday.
In a 1973 Nixon message to North Vietnamese authorities,
released simultaneously Thursday by the State Department and
by Rep. Lester Wolff, D-N.Y., the former president promised the
U.S. post-war aid "without any political conditions.
Middle East termed dangerous
GENEVA, Switzerland — Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei
Gromyko said Thursday after meeting with U.S. Secretary of
State Cyrus Vance that the Middle East situation is "potentially
dangerous."
He told reporters after the 1 -hour and 45-minute meeting that
both sides believe the situation there "is not normal."
Vance said the situation "has continued dangerous for a long
while" before the Israeli elections won by Menahem Begin s
hard-line Likud bloc.
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Tents guard death site
KENT, Ohio (AP) — You d think
they'd want to forget. Instead,
they've pitched a tent city to make
sure everyone remembers.
Tentropolis, they call it some
times. A collection of 70 tents set
up on a grassy slope where Na
tional Guardsmen fired on antiwar
protesters on May 4, 1970.
The 13-second barrage of gun
fire killed four students, wounded
nine others and made Kent State
University a name that still brings
back memories of violence.
Now the school wants to build a
gymnasium annex on the site, and
about 130 protesters have been
camped there since last Friday
and say they'll remain as long as
necessary to stop construction.
“Please, no alcohol or drugs,"
says a sign reflecting the serious
ness of the protesters' mood.
"Help us — If you want to party,
please do it elsewhere. Thank
you."
The determined students aren't
so much protesting against war,
but for the preservation of the site
of their most renowned antiwar
protest.
At this year's annual May 4
candlelight vigil, some students
went to a trustees' meeting to ob
ject to the annex, which would cut
a wedge into the hill below where
the guardsmen stood.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Pres.
Jimmy Carter ordered the im
mediate recall of the third-ranking
U.S. Army general in South Korea
on Thursday after the general
questioned Carter's plans to with
draw American troops from that
country.
Carter ordered the general to
report to him at the White House.
The recall order was similar to
the action Harry Truman took in
1951 when he recalled Gen.
Douglas MacArthur in a dispute
over the handling of the Korean
war.
Deputy Press Secretary Rex
Grartum, who announced Carter’s
action, declined to say whether
Maj. Gen. John Singlaub, chief of
staff at U.S. Forces Headquarters
for Korea, would be reprimanded,
fired or reassigned.
A White House official, asked if
Carter was upset by Singlaub's
public questioning of the Pres
ident’s policy position, replied:
“He wasn’t happy. Here you
have a general making a policy
statement when he (Carter) is the
commander-in-chief.”
Another Carter aide urged a re
porter to keep in mind the
President’s own former career as
Nixon — “Pres, above law”
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Richard Nixon says a President is
above the law not only when na
tional security is at stake, but also
when internal peace and order are
threatened. The claim drew an
immediate rebuttal from Pres.
Jimmy Carter.
In an interview televised Thurs
day night, Nixon said that “when
the president does it, that means
it’s not illegal.”
White House spokesman Rex
Granum, responding to questions
about Nixon s claim, said: “Presi
dent Carter does not feel that any
president has the right to break
the law. He feels very strongly that
it is a tragic mistake to follow that
philosophy, as past events have
shown so dramatically."
Nixon told interviewer David
Frost, in the third of a series of five
programs, that a president’s ac
tions cannot be illegal when na
tional security or the internal
peace of the nation is threatened.
And, he said, those who carry out
the order are not violating the law.
Nixon says in the interview that
“The President’s deci
sion .. .is one that enables those
who carry out an order to carry it
out without violating a law,’’ he
added. “Otherwise, they're in an
impossible position.”
Nixon's statement, made while
he was discussing covert actions
against Vietnam war protesters,
runs counter to court decisions
that held his aides liable for
crimes, even though they claimed
presidential sanction. The Sup
reme Court, forcing him to give up
his tapes for trial evidence, came
to the same conclusion.
Throughout the program, Nixon
defended his actions in the war in
Vietnam and dissent at home.
a professional Navy officer “and
the attitude he would have toward
one who said something like that.”
Singlaub got his orders through
the chain of command Thursday
morning, Washington time, and
was boarding a commercial air
liner Thursday night for the long
flight home. He is expected here
late Friday.
A White House spokesman said*
he did not know whether Carter
would see the general Saturday or
next Monday.
Singlaub, 55, has been in the
Army more than 34 years and
served in World War II, the Korean
War and Vietnam.
He has held a number of senior
staff posts at Army headquarters.
He has not been known to
sound off in public in the past.
Singlaub, who entered the
Army through the Reserve Officers
Training Corps, is a graduate of
the University of California at Los
Angeles. He was born in Indepen
dence, Calif.
Sen. John Culver, D-lowa, de
scribed Singlaub's comments as
"damaging to the delicate process
of negotiations, and possibly in
subordinate.”
“These comments undermine
America's negotiating position
with its Asian allies,” Culver said
in prepared remarks.
Once broad decisions on
negotiating strategy have been
made by appropriate civilian au
thorities "I believe that civilian and
military subordinates have an ob
ligation not to short-circuit those
decisions by public comment,”
Culver added.
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