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History from trie (lies of The
Mall Trlbuna 10, 20, 30, 40
and SO years ago.
10 YEARS AGO
in iosn fThursdav)
Gerald T. Macomber won the
first round in his habeas corpus
hearing in Circuit Court here
when his aiiiaavii 01 projuuitc,
in which he asks for another
presiding judge, was accepted.
Disaster forces have been or
ganized at Eagle Point by the
volunteer fire department,
Mayor Don Ashpole has an
nounced. 20 YEARS AGO
Dec. 10, 1043 (Friday)
Lcs Grant named Medford
it:u CnhnAl haulinlhall coach:
nigu tn-iiu", -
Norman Sting succeeds Grant
as junior high mentor,
trnm Arthur Perrv S Ye
e i mm nnp f-nltimn; "Pear-
-( ih. allnu am nnw SO
mull ui "J o,.vj - " j .
prosperous they can afford to
Duy inemseivea a w v
own pears lor Lnrisimas.
30 YEARS AGO
Karl L. Janouch, supervisor
of Uogue River National Forest,
announces four forest service
trucks, operated by Civilian
Corps men, will be used to help
with the Christmas rush at the
Medford Post Office.
George Dean and Lyle Wil
cox of Medford on reception
committee for State Horticul
ture Society annual meeting
here.
40 YEARS AGO
H. A. Canady, Roscburg, ap
pointed registrar of land office
following bitter battle among
local Republicans.
A Star touring stock car
which made a "remarkable non
slop run from Seattle to Onk
land" stops in Medford on re
turn trip.
50 YEARS AGO
Dec. 10, 1013 (Wednesday)
Mrs. J. F. Mundy, social
chairman of Greater Medlord
Club, calls meeting to discuss
plans for annual New Year's
eve fancy dress ball.
Chief of Police lllttson re
ceives report from Yrcka that
Medford man is being held
there after rolling a boulder
onto the railroad tracks: alleg
edly at the point of guns held by
two men, and removing the
boulder "to save the train."
What's Your I.Q.?
Nina or ten correct ia superior;
seven or eight is eicellent; five ar
sia is food.
t. The basic commodity used
In the manufacture of rum is
m
2. Which two of the Great
Lakes are connected by the
Sault Saintc Maria canal?
3. The leaning tower of Pisa
was built to be used as a cam
panile; what is a campanile?
4. Name the capital of South
Korea.
5. Albert G. Spalding, one of
Die founders of modern baseball,
was a pitcher, first baseman,
or catcher?
6. Which is the most malcablc
of all metals?
7. In which of these states was
Abraham Lincoln born: Illinois,
Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky?
8. For whom was "Veep" first
I nickname?
9. Is Mexico's principal Indus
try farming, livestock or min
ing? 10. Who was the last bachelor
King of Great Britain?
Answers: 1. Molasses, i. Lakes
Superior and Huron. 3. Bell tow
er. 4. Seoul. S. Pllrher. . Gold.
7. Kentucky. I. Alhen Darklry.
I. Mining. 10. Edward VIII.
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Sjj'AMOeiATION
DECEMBER 10, 1963
He Turns
This newspaper has
Morse since he first ran
can.
It has continued that
misgivings, and even oftener with some puzzle-
ment. It has disagreed
occasions, but has predicated its continued sup
port on the theory that
than wrong, and in most
stands on principle.
Occasionally the principle in question has
been difficult to discern, but we have been will
ing to give him the benefit of the doubt.
"WER the years, however, our puzzlement has
w increased. So have
ator's usually beinir richt. More and more often
we have found his position and ours diametrical
ly opposed.
He was wrong, we
with the late ben. Richard L. Neuberger a teuci
which ended only with Sen. Neuberger's death.
He was and occasionally still is wrong
in the bitter violence with
who Question his actions
He was wrong, in our
forceful opposition to
eign aid bill a bill which was far from perfect,
admittedly, but one which would need extensive
work to improve at a juncture when time is of
the essence.
CINALLY, he was and
sidered opinion,
proposed Orerron Dunes
This measure, the brain-child of the late Sen.
Neuberger, has been carried forward by his
widow, Sen. Maurine Neuberger. It has been
extensively modified and amended along the
lines suggested by Rep. Robert B. Duncan so
that now most of the legitimate objections to it
have been met.
Sen. Morse's objections have been based,
ostensibly, on his opposition to the provision per
mitting the condemnation of land for the pro
posed area. Hut at most, only some 15 properties
are involved in the amended bill, and the owners
of these have been given extensive privileges,
including th right of life-occupancy.
TOO, IT HAS been shown over the years that
the right of eminent domain has been used
carefully and judiciously by the National Park
Service. But without it, the Park Service is almost
powerless to acquire properties it deems essen
tial for park purposes.
Still, on this principle (one is tempted to use
the word "pretext"), Sen. Morse remains un
shaken in his opposition to the bill.
How he justifies this position when so much
that would benefit the
nation economically
at stake, we must leave to the Senator's con
science. We would be better able to understand
his position if it were based simply on opposition
to parks, but he has in the past claimed the title
of "conservationist"
present position.
GREAT deliberative body such as the
United States Senate needs its mavericks,
its independents, its consciences. And in the
past we have admired Morse intensely tor tnese
qualities, and for the courage to stand by his
convictions, no matter what they might be, in
the face of bitter opposition and criticism.
Yet, when in instance after instance we Unci
his position in basic disagreement with ours, and
often for reasons we find either trivial or almost
beside the point, how can further support be
justified ?
When politics is defined as "the art of the
possible," when adamant positions lead only to
impossibility, frustration and lack of accomplish
ment, what is to be said of a vaunted but futile
"independence"?
SENATOR MORSE has a brilliant and incisive
mind. He has a sneaking ability second
to none in the Senate. He is a master of the
parliamentary maneuvers which play so large a
role in legislative progress or lack thereof.
He has a wealth of experience, both in and
out of government. He can almost persuade one
that black is white and white black, and, when
so moved, can almost charm a bird out of a tree.
Why, with all these things going for him, he
chooses the role of the obstructionist in a Senate
already cluttered with obstructions, and the role
of the maverick in a Senate which desperately
needs cooperation to get the program to which
Morse gives lip service going again, we do not
know.
It is, as the King of Siam confesses, a puzzle
ment. Greatness lias beckoned to Wayne Morse,
but he has chosen to turn his back upon it. E. A.
Compulsory Godliness
Justice Robert Jackson, a member of the
1). S. Supreme Court until 1954, wrote a dis
senting opinion in Zorach vs. Clauson, having
to do with religion in the schools, and put in a
nutshell the way many people feel. He said :
"The day that this country ceases to be free for ir
religion it will cease to be Iree for religion except for the
sect that can win political power . . , We start down a rough
road when we begin to mix compulsory public education
with compulsory godliness."
Freedom of religion must include freedom
from religion if it is to mean anything at all ex
cept a competition between sects and creeds.
E. A.
His Back
supported Sen. Wayne
for office as a Republi
support, often with some
with Sen. Morse on some
he is more often right
cases he has based his
our doubts as to the ben
felt, in his bitter feuding
which he attacks those
or his opinions.
eyes at any rate, in his
the Administration's for
is wrong, in our con
in his opposition to the
National beashore bin
area, the state and the
and in other ways is
which hardly jibes with
"We Mustn't Interfere With Customary
Procedures Doctor, Coronor, Inquest "
PLUM AND BITTER PILL
WASHINGTON - Almost un
noticed, President Johnson has
already pulled out a pretty big
plum for the squalid Congres
sional pudding in which the
plums are so few and far be
tween that most Jack Homers
would be hopelessly discouraged.
By his agreement to give sen.
Harry F. Byrd an advance peck
at the 1964 budget, the Presi
dent has persuaded the reluct
ant Virginian to accelerate the
Senate Finance Committee's
languid contemplation of the tax
reduction bill. If all goes well,
therefore, the committee major
ity favoring the bill will finally
get the chance to send it to the
Senate floor early in January.
Thus tiie odds are now quite
strong that the tax bill will be
come law at least two months
earlier than anyone had previ
ously hoped or thought possible.
And this prospect of much ear
lier action on the tax bill is a
real plum, for which everyone
ought to be thankful.
WHE plum-plucking was only
J- nnssiblo. however, because
President Johnson has also had
to swallow a bitter pill. Begin
ning with his admirable speech
to the ioint session of Congress,
the new President has gone all
out to get the House and Sen
ate votes on the civil rights bill
within a reasonable time. But in
this he seems to have failed.
Preciselv because the civil
rights bill is unlikely to reach
the Senate until late in January,
if by that time, there is a time
gap for Senate action on the tax
bill if Sen. Byrd keeps his prom
ise. But this is an inadequate
consolation for the delay of the
civil rights bill, which President
Johnson fears will never pass
the Senate at all if it gels there
later than Feb. 1.
The cause of the delay, of
course, is Hie most powerful and
least endearing of all the power
ful and unendcaring Congres
sional anachronisms, the chair
man of the House Rules Com
mittee, Rep. Howard Smith of
Virginia.
CJMITH means to sit on the civil
k-5 rights bill as long as possi
ble. And his two constant allies
the House Republican leader
Rep. Charles llallcck of Indiana
and the senior Republican Rules
Committee member. Hep. Clar
ence Brown of Ohio, do not
mean to obstruct Smith's ob
structionism. Even on the House Rules Com
mittee, which is not normally
noted (or its progressivisnw
there is a majority for the civil
rights bill. Halleck and Blown
agreed with Rep. Smith that
they will not interfere with his
"degenerate and furtive filibus
ter," as Walter Lippmann has
accurately described this kind of
purposeful delay in committee.
But if and when the bill comes
to a committee vote, all the Re
publican members will vote for
it. This will provide a sure ma
jority. A petition to discharge the
Rules Committee and bring the
civil rights bill to Hie House
Floor has meanwhile been pre
sented by Reps. Emmanuel Ccl
ler of New York and Richard
Rolling of Missouri. President
Johnson has ordered full White
House support (or the petition.
BUT this is a pretty hopeless
tactic, (or 218 members'
names arc needed to pry the
civil rights bill (rem the antique
talons of Rep. Smith. With no
Southerners to help, the Demo
crats can hardly muster more
than ISO petition signers.
Among the Republicans, Rep.
John Lindsay ol New York has
been talking bravely of collect
ing 60 signatures which would
be more than enough. But if
Lindsay can do this against the
opposition of Republican leader
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Halleck, it will be the biggest
surprise in recent Congressional
history.
Finally, if and when the civil
rights bill reaches the Senate, it
will of course touch off a vicious
and obstinate filibuster. It can
hardly pass the Senate unless
cloture is voted. On this point
the Senate Republican leader
has told President Johnson what
he told President Kennedy, that
he is "for seven-eights of the
bill."
Being translated, this means
that most of the Republicans will
support cloture in the end. But
they will only do so in the end,
after a fruitless waste of many
weeks to give the filibustcrers
time to make a show.
V
WORSE still, the eighth of the
bill which Dirksen and the
other middle-ground Republi
cans do not favor includes the
sections on public accomoda
tions and the Fair Employment
Practices Commission. These
sections may have to be jetti
soned or gravely diluted in
order to secure cloture.
The public accomodations sec
1 1 o n, particularly, has mean
while become a symbol and
touchstone of white America's
willingness to accord equal
rights to Negro America. Thus
there is considerable danger
that even after the interminable,
needless, and inexcusable de
lays now in prospect, a satisfac
tory civil rights bill will not be
voted.
If this sort of thing goes on
much longer, there will also be
considerable danger of a nation
wide revolt against the persist
ent and increasing Congression
al abuse of the legislative pow
er, which is reaching the stage
of ugly parody.
In the Day's News
By FRANK JENKINS
On Thanksgiving Day, s l x
davs after the assassination of
President Kennedy, President
Johnson announced that Cape
Canaveral, site of America's
principal missile center, had
been renamed Cape Kennedy in
honor of the fourth American
President to be struck down by
an assassin.
It was, of course, a worthy
thought, but it wasn't received
with enthusiasm by the people
of the area, who protested that
the name was centuries old and
should remain as it had been
since the early beginning of
American history.
They pointed out that the
name had been given to the
cape by Spanish navigators who
saw it first some four centuries
ago. The word Canaveral means
a field of reeds or cane. Pre
sumably the name itself is not
particularly significant, but the
(act that (or some 400 years
it has borne the name applied
to it by the first white men to
sec it is significant to them.
They suggested that naming
the missile center from which,
among other things, our earth
circling astronauts have been
launched would meet with
their complete approval, but
they couldn't go along happily
with changing the name of the
cape.
WITH deep respect lor the
" President who was struck
down, I think we of Southern
Oregon can understand and
sympathize with the feelings of
the people of the Canaveral
area.
Suppose it had been proposed
to change the name of Klamath
lake to Lake Kennedy. It would
have been an honor, to be sure.
But in our comparatively young
country it would have disrupted
the backgrounds of the past. It
was to sec Klamath Lake that
John C. Fremont first came to
the Far West. It was at Klam-
OREGON
Despite Official Optimism, Successes,
Undertone
PHIL NEWSOM
Uri Forelsn News
Analyst
Despite determined official
optimism, an undertone of dis
quiet runs through news dis
patches from Southeast Asia
where in the last eight years
...Communications...
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the contrary is often the case.
Appease
To the Editor: In regard to
Mr. Crews' letter of MT 12-1-63.
As a sane, informed person
I do advocate a different course
from what Mr. Crews and the
Communists label "coexist
ence." I discuss the adjective
"peaceful" since Mr. Crews def
inition and the Communist def
inition of that word is as dif
ferent as night is to day. Coex
istance to the Communist means
we coexist, while they wage
a subversive battle for the de
struction of freedom. With the
help of people like Mr. Crews
and Mr. Jenny, they hope to
impart a feeling of well-being
in the world which does not
exist. My program would be
to realize that we are really
at war with the Communistic
system and refrain from dig
ging our own grave by further
ing their goal of world domina
tion by selling to them and
dealing in treaties with them,
as if they were really honor
able men who truly desired
peace.
I absolutely reject Mr. Crews'
supposition that the alternative
to coexistance is nuclear war.
That is like equating a dieting
program to death from starva
tion. Obviously Mr. Crews has
a little knowledge of nuclear
war and as everybody knows a
little knowledge is a dangerous
thing. Really what he is advo
cating is appease and appease.
Then when we can appease no
more, surrender.
Mr. Crews calls Mr. Weaver
uninformed, yet reveals a deep
er ignorance by wishing to edu
cate the Communists. To edu
cate a dog one must know more
than the dog, also one must
know more than the Communist
which Mr. Crews does not
or else he would know that their
progress toward world domin
ation is not going to be .halted
by any negotiating, nice nellies.
Can he really be so naive
as to believe theirs is a better
system? Does freedom actually
mean so little to Mr. Crews
that he is willing to bargain
away what has been purchased
by the blood of thousands of
Americans? Those who are not
willing to defend freedom are
not worthy of it.
As for his accusing Mr. Weav
er of demanding Russian or
American lives, freedom is not
ath Lake that he was found by
Lieutenant Gillespie and re
ceived the message that sent
him to Sonoma to raise the Bear
Flag and proclaim the Cali
fornia Republic.
It would have been a shock
to us to give up the name
Klamath.
A ND so it would have been it
" it had been proposed to
change the name of the Rogue
river to Kennedy river.
The origins o( the word Rogue
are lost in history. There is a
tradition that it was named by
some early French explorer,
who saw it when its flood
waters were stained by the red
dish soil of the hills in which
it has its source. Rouge is a
French word meaning red. In
the course of time, the name
was twisted around to Rogue.
But Rogue it is, and Rogue
it has been since the time
whereof the memory of man
runneth not to the contrary. No
one of us would welcome a
change even to the name of
a martyred President who had
never trod the valley o( the
1 Rogue.
I And so it would be with the
I Umpqua if it had been proposed
j to change the name of the river
I and its valley that derives from
! an Indian tribe.
IT APPEARS to have been
1 I
President Johnson who first
! suggested the change of name
from Cape Canaveral to Cape
Kennedy. He proposed it to the
; (ive-man Committee on Govern
ment Names, which is a part ot
the 12-man Board ot Geographic
: Names which has the authority
to make such changes.
; Lot's hope lirst that there may
never be another situation in
' which a similar proposal mignt . veys have been made to deter
be made. Our record is bad mine the affect of automation
enough, as it is. But if there on jobs. These surveys have
should be another national , been merely boondoggles, perpe
tragedy such as the four that trated for the most part to sup
have smirched our record as a port a pretense that the prob-
nation. lei s remcmner mat me
greatness of a President can not
be enhanced by merely chang-
ing the name of a river or a
valley or a cape.
of Disquiet Noted in
the United States has invested
so much.
In South Viet Nam, the young
generals who took over after
the overthrow of the Ngo Dinh
Diem government, are pursuing
the war against the Communist
Viet Cong with greater vigor.
Out of 17,500 American troops
in South Viet Nam, 1,000 are
expected home in time for the
new year.
Beautiful and sophisticated
Saigon has regained its gaiety,
the bistros are filled, though
guarded against a surprise
Communist grenade, and tiny
Vietnamese women in their
attained without the sacrifice of
men willing to die for what they
believe. Mr. Weaver, like ail
honest Americans, is willing to
stand up for his convictions and
if necessary to die for them.
"Ask not what your country can
do for you but what you can
do for your country." Freedom
will remain alive only as long as
those who possess it, value it
over life itself.
"When freedom fails.
Everybody loses, the good
men rot in jails,
And those who cried appease,
appease,
Are hung by those they tried
to please."
James K. Shafer
Route 2, Box 210X
Medford.
Gun Registration
To the Editor: I was disap
pointed to learn you favored
firearms registration as you ex
pressed it in your recent editorial
"Firearms Regulation."
Because you wrote with good
intent, let me show why so
many gun owners oppose such
a proposal.
Registration would actually
discourage reputable citizens
from owning guns. In plain lan
guage, the hundreds of thousands
of guns in our state, not count
ing the staggering number
throughout the nation, could not
be registered without extra tax
es or fees to finance the ma
chinery and personnel to man
age such a program.
Further, because Americans
are people who like to move,
registration would have to be
done periodically and whenever
ownership changed the transfer
of registration would be re
quired. Because, . like automobiles,
most weapons used by criminals
are stolen, I criminal would be
more likely to use a weapon
registered to someone else or
one not registered at all.
In recent years we hear more
and. more of such groups re
ferred to as leftist, rightist and
others here in America and
abroad. I think it is time for
our lawmakers to remember
many of these groups don't like
us. National firearms registra
tion here could be a useful tool
for such groups.
Mail order guns to juveniles
and irresponsible people is one
thing, but required gun registra
tion is chipping away at some
of the prized heritage we should
save for our children to enjoy.
In place of anything as in
effective as registration I would
suggest making the theft of a
firearm a major offense rather
than a minor one.
Second, a conviction of armed
robbery or a crime of violence
while armed to carry a manda
tory life sentence. I do not
believe this too strict. While
this would not prevent such
crimes, it would certainly pre
vent repetition.
We pay law enforcement
agents to risk their lives to bring
these criminals to justice only
to have them released after a
short sentence. Let's punish
those who abuse the right to
own a gun. not penalize repu
table gun owners.
William N. Redhead
2449 Obispo Dr.
Medford.
Technocracy
To the Editor: The United
States is advancing rapidly into
a national economy in which
there will not be enough jobs of
the conventional kind to go
around. The acceleration of tech
nology is responsible. So many
people will lose their jobs be
cause of technological displace
ment of man-hours with kilowatt-hours
that the total wages
will not be enough to buy back
the products of industry. A so
cial and political crisis will be
the result.
"Automation" is the word
which has been applied to the
technological process which is
most responsible for the change.
j So, a number of high-cost sur-
, lem was Doing recognized and
: something was being done about
j it. Actually, the problem has
: been known for more than 40
1 years and it is fully realized
bright silken garments pedal
through the city's tree - lined
streets.
It's as if, beginning at the
city's outskirts, there were no
war.
And that perhaps is the
source of some of the disquiet.
The Diem regime, in its own
way, also fought hard against
the Communists but failed to
win the people. After the harsh
rule of Diem and his brother,
Ngo Dinh Nhu, in Saigon at
least, the new military regime
has the people's support.
But whether that support can
be translated into an all out
that very little can be done
about it within the social pos
tulates of the price system.
Technocracy arose as the an
swer to automation long before
automation was heard of by
that name. The growing trend
toward technological displace
ment of man-hours of employ
ment was recognized and its so
cial effects analyzed and pro
jected prior to 1920. At no time
since then has there been any
question in responsible quarters
about what was happening and
what the eventual outcome
would be.
Paul Tunnison
2081 Vine St.
Grants Pass, Ore.
Cooperation
To the Editor: The members
of the Southern Oregon Photo
grahic Association wish to take
this opportunity to express their
sincere appreciation and grati
tude for the wonderful cooper
ation in publicity we have re
ceived in the past year.
Edward Klimko, President
Southern Oregon
Photographic
Association
P. O. Box 892
Medford
Strictly
Personal
By Sidney J. Harris
fc) Field Enterprises. Inc.
"REASONS" FOR PREJUDICE
There is a story about a man who accosted a wealthier friend
and asked for a loan of a hundred dollars. "Can't do it," said
the friend, "because my mother-in-law is visiting us right now."
The man was puzzled. "What has that got to do with lending
me the money?" he asked. "Nothing at all," replied the friend,
"but when you don't want to do something, one excuse is as good
as another."
I thought of this recently when I heard someone holding forth
on the reasons he doesn't care for Negroes they are shiftless,
they lack ambition, they won't accept responsibility, they commit
many crimes, they don't even help one another, and they are
simply unintelligent.
This same man, I happen to know, doesn't care much for
Jews, either. And what do you suppose his "reasons" are?
The Jews are too ambitious, they stick together and help each
other too much, they are too clever and study too hard and get
the best grades and run the big businesses and the most pros
perous law offices and the most flourishing medical practices.
The very opposite traits that prejudice him against the Negro
prejudice him against the Jews. One group reacts to discrimi
nation In one way; another in another; and he objects to both
reactions.
Many of the things that are said about Negroes and Jews are
false: some of the things are true. But what is significant is
that if yon don't want to accept somebody, one excuse is as
good as another. The objective facts don't matter, and the
reasons are never as "reasonable" as we like to think they are,
It is Interesting that, for a long time, the Americans as a
group were talked about by Europeans just as we talk about our
own minority groups. Even up to modern times, the educated
elite among Europeans dismissed the Americans as arrogant,
crude, barbarous, boastful, greedily materialistic, and vulgarly
ostentatious in their habits and goals.
Many of the charges were true, but the Europeans failed to
recognize the historical and cultural reasons (or such behavior.
AU they knew was that the Americans were a di((erent breed,
and their very difference was an o((ense to Old World standards.
They both resented and envied us, and so they used the same
vituperation that older and more settled communities have always
used against the newcomer and the outlander. The ancient
Greeks said the same things about the Romans.
If you tell a child long enough that he is unattractive and un
desirable, he comes to believe it despite himself, and begins to
react in an extreme manner. The real tragedy of prejudice and
discrimination is that the person (or the group) turns into a
caricature of himself.
"You'd think, with the easing
see less of that:"
Asia
national effort against the Viet
Cong is another matter.
More and more it is being re
called that in their 10 year
effort to hold Indo China, the
French won every battle but
the last one.
And the United States' own
experience in Laos and in South
Viet Nam all too often has
seemed to demonstrate that
only the disciplined and indoc
trinated Communists feel a real
reason to fight, and that a na
tional will is lacking.
In the end, neither aid nor
military success will win the
battle for Southeast Asia with
out accompanying political and
psychological determination of
the people themselves.
And that is the field in which
the new military regime must
prove itself.
Other events give reason for
disquiet over the future of
Southeast Asia.
In Pnompenh, capital of Cam
bodia, 200 American advis
ers are getting out on orders of
Cambodia's elected chief of
state, Prince Norodom Sihanouk,
who has cancelled the Ameri
can aid program which has
been running at $30 million a
year.
Sihanouk believes the war
against the Viet Cong already
is lost and that he must pre
pare his country for a neutral
ity acceptable to Red China.
In neighboring Laos, pro
Communist forces control two
thirds of the country.
In Vientiane, its capital, tha
fifth political assassination of a
government official this year
demonstrated that the country
still is far from achieving tha
neutrality decreed for it by tha
major powers at Geneva.
The news is not all bad. The
Communists are suffering los
ses and the cost of aiding tha
Communist effort in the South
is weighing heavily upon tha
Reds in North Viet Nam.
President Johnson has reaf
firmed that the United States
will continue its efforts in South
Viet Nam. It is a decision
which may have to be reaf
firmed again and again in tha
vears ahead.
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