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Page n. 80th Year, No. 34 Arizona Republic TELEPHONE: 211-SOM Phoenix, Arizona, Thursday, June 19, 1969 (Six SecUooi, II Paget) Former defense secretary urges Viet pullout in 970 THE IPirrojpeBMty irestiir5ciliims vMbo1 Gifford critical of Saigon's part Court deci 1(011 mpreme bonds nullify city a'w4i icurHS mwmmm in war's length AP Special Correspondent NEW YORK-Former Defense Secretary Clark M. Gifford says the United States should order a reduction of fighting in South Vietnam and remove all its ground combat troops by the end of 1970. In a remarkably candid statement Clifford blistered the South Vietnamese government, picturing its leaders as having a big stake in continued war.
He said: "As the Saigon authorities saw it, the longer the war went on, with the large-scale American involvement, the more stable was their regime and the fewer concessions they would have to make to other political groupings." CLIFFORD, once regarded as a "hawk," served as Pentagon chief for the last year of the Lyndon B. Johnson administration. His statement, appearing In Foreign Affairs, quarterly of the Council on Foreign Relations, is the most outspoken comment on the Saigon regime to come from a recent U.S. government official at this level. The article is likely to play an important role in the continuing American debate on the war.
He made these proposals: As a first step, the United States should announce it will withdraw 100,000 troops before the end of this year. President Nixon already has announced an initial withdrawal of 25,000. The Clifford article has announced an initial withdrawal of 25,000. The Clifford article was written before the presidential announcement but released last night. If the president intends to pull out all ground combat forces by the end of 1970, Clifford said in an interview yesterday, then his withdrawal announcement at Midway will have been a' 'signal service" to the nation.
But he would be deeply disappointed, Clifford added, if the withdrawals scheduled so far turn out to be "purely a palliative to allay public sentiment." "We should also make it clear that this is not an isolated action, but the DeginnTngof a process under which all U.S. ground combat forces will have been withdrawn from Vietnam by the end of 1970." "Concurrently with the decision to begin withdrawal, orders should be issued to our miiltary commanders to discontinue efforts to apply maximum miiltary pressure on the enemy and to seek instead to reduce the level of combat." military pressure on the enemy and to withdrawn, we could continue to provide the armed forces of the Saigon government with logistic support and with our air resources." Clifford contended that a policy of applying maximum military pressure has resulted in continuing high U.S. casualties "without any discernible impact on the peace negotiations in Paris." He said a decision to shift the combat burden to the South Vietnamese "would confront North Vietnamese leaders with a painful dilemma." "WORD THAT the Americans were beginning to withdraw might at first lead them to claims of victory," he wrote. "But even these initial claims could be expected to be tinged with apprehension. There has, in my view, long been considerable evidence that Hanoi fears the possibility that those whom they characterize as 'puppet forces' may, with continued but gradually reduced American support, prove able to stand off the Communist forces.
"As American combat forces are with-Continued On Page 4 Newspaper executive John Murphy III, left, greets Frank Mitchell, Mrs. Ed Banks, Mrs. Mitchell Negro publisher sees unrest easing Officials say legal blow may be fatal, By WALTER W. MEEK The June 10 election in which Phoenix voters approved a $173 million bond program probably was illegal, according to a U.S. Supreme Court decision issued last Monday.
The high court's ruling that municipal bond elections cannot be restricted only to property owners may have voided the procedures under which all Arizona cities and school districts conduct bond elections, The Arizona Republic learned. City officials yesterday refused to write off the Phoenix bond program just yet, but they conceded that the legal blow may be fatal. Attorneys for the Salt River Project yesterday were also studying the effects the decision might have on SRP voting procedures and on the $180 million bond issue passed by SRP property owners last October. Project president Rod McMullin was optimistic that the court action will not apply to SRP because the decision did not deal directly with the special tax districts such as water and power districts. The high court actually issued tandem decisions in two cases dealing with school board and municipal bond elections.
In a Louisiana case, Cipriano vs. the City of Houma, the court ruled that voting on municipal bond issues cannot be restricted to property owners simply because they have a "special pecuniary interest" in its outcome as property taxpayers. The Louisiana law which permitted only property owners to vote "excludes otherwise qualified voters who are as. substantially affected and directly interested in the matter voted upon as are those who are permitted to vote," the court said. Any statute which selectively distributes the franchise must meet precise standards in defining those who are "primarily interested" in the election, the justices said in the companion case from Continued On Page 4 VIETNAM WAR Enemy attacks on U.S.
bases near Laos and Cambodia hurled back. Page 2. ISRAELIS STRIKE-Israeli jet fighter bomb and strafe Iraqi and Jordanian artillery units. Page 2. ASTRONAUTS REHEARSE -Moon explorers go through step-by-step simulation of moon walk.
Page IS. DROPOUTS DISCUSSED State welfare officials deplore federal job training program failure to provide for dropouts. Page 21. LOAN FUND CUT-About 400 ASU students will not receive federal loans next year due to cutback. Page 21.
FARM PICKETS Grape pickets urge union on farm workers. Page 21. BOY FOUND Los Angeles boy, 6, found near death in coastal mountains. Page 23. EARTH TRACKS Earth motion measured by "glow" of radio waves.
Page 32. may Downtown lot valued below near parcels By CLYDE A. MURRAY A downtown lot has been valued at $4.20 per square foot for tax purposes while other property in the area was valued at $7 per square foot, the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors was told yesterday. Hearing tax protests as the board of equalization, the supervisors promptly served notice of their intention to increase the valuation of the land on the northwest corner of First Street and Adams. The land is owned by Irma Linsenmeyer, 339 E.
Willetta, along with the vacant building on the lot, formerly Porter's store. Currently the property is on the tax rolls at a full cash value of $80,962 for the building and $28,917 for the 6,885 square feet of land. Action by the supervisors was in response to a protest filed by Valley National Bank, trustee for Hanny's, 40 N. First St. Hanny's, which is paying taxes on the basis of a true cash value of $188,305 for its building and $48,930 for its 6,990 square feet of land, asked that its land valuation be reduced from $7 to $4.20 a square foot to be compatible with the Linsenmeyer property across the street.
Sam Jenkins, chief deputy assessor, said all other property in that area between Central and First Street is valued at $7 per square foot. He said the Linsenmeyer property apparently was overlooked when the assessor increased land values of that entire block earlier this year to $7 per square foot. Last year, he said, the Democrat -controlled Board of Supervisors lowered land values on the block, all Adams Hotel property, to $4.20. But the new assessor, Republican Kenneth Kunes, restored the valuation on the Adams Hotel property after he assumed office last January, he said. Today's prayer On this day we pray thee, Father, that we may learn to labor in thy spirit and to live in harmony with thy law.
Reveal to us, we beseech thee, the divine pattern of life shown to the seers of old. Amen. tronom. or dollar grocery, for foreigners and others possessing hard currency, there was no meat at all. They had also run out of eggs.
"What are we supposed to do all weekend?" a Western housewife asked. There's plenty of vodka," a dour salesman replied. That afternoon, we walked along Kutuzovsky Prospect near the apartment house which Premier Alexei Ko- sygin, the lifelong consumer goods specialist and reputed economic reformer, is said to live. We stopped at a large bright colored stand, glass fronted and roofed with corrugated metal, which proclaimed in cheerful lettering: "Fruits and Vegetables." There were some small apples and soma fresh carrots. The rest of the stand was occupied by canoed foods.
Republic Photo advocates take charge of city governments. "That phrase translates to 'keep the black in his Murphy said. Although Murphy feels that the two forces may balance out to keep unrest from growing, he was not encouraged by the refusal of New York City Republicans to renominate Mayor John Lindsay. The anti-Lindsay vote, he said, "may be a spillover from the George Wallace campaign. had the backing of the black community in New York and was relatively accepted by my people." Murphy said his newspapers have tak-Continued On Page 4 bar warnings for 6 years Times Service The six-year ban on health warnings in advertising was identical to a prohibition included in the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act of 1965.
The provision would have expired at the end of this month. The 1965 law also requires the labels of cigarette packages to include the Continued On Page 18 Court orders probe of Alco by grand jury By HOWARD E. BOICE JR. A grand jury investigation into the defunct Alco Industries Inc. was ordered yesterday by Maricopa County Superior Court A resolution passed at a special meeting of the judges directed the present grand jury, convened in February to probe Union Title to initiate the new investigation.
The action was taken at the request of County Attorney Moise Berger. Presiding Judge Charles L. Hardy said all judges about IS or 17, agreed. Hardy said it would be op to Judge J. Mahoney of Pinal County to recon- Cmtiiraed Oi Page II dressed by Herbert Klein, President Nixon's communications chief.
The sessions will go through Saturday. Murphy is president of the Afro-American Newspapers, of Baltimore, which publishes weekly or semi-weekly newspapers nationally and in Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, and Newark, N.J. Murphy said the poverty war programs have helped some in stemming the causes of Negro unrest and hopelessness, and some riot-breeding conditions will be cured with jobs for blacks. On the negative side, he said, there may be more riots if "law and order" House votes to in cigarette ads New York WASHINGTON The House of Representatives voted yesterday to bar any mandatory health warning in cigarette advertising for the next six years. The prohibition, tacked onto a bill to strengthen the required warning on cigarette packages, is aimed mainly at a pending Federal Trade Commission re gulation calling for a similar warning in all advertisem*nts.
Sponsors of the bill contended that it would also prevent the Federal Communications Commission from formulating a pending regulation against any cigarette advertising on radio and television. This, however, was disputed in the debate. Passage of the bill was by voice vote and followed the rejection on a 232 to 137 roll call of a motion to send the measure back to the House Commerce Committee. The measure now goes to the Senate. Tobacco interests were in firm control throughout the House voting as anti-smoking forces were defeated in every attempt to reshape the measure.
Deploring what he called the majority's determination "to protect not the American public but the American tobacco industry," Rep. John E. Moss, accused the House of "a disgraceful performance." This brought a response from Rep. John Kyi, who said he was sure that nooody was supporting the measure "because somehow they bave been bought or intimidated by" By DON BOLLES A leading Negro publisher yesterday said riot conditions in urban ghettos may be leveling off this summer. John H.
Murphy III, 53, president of the National Newspaper Publishers Association, was interviewed at the TowneHouse as he arrived to take charge of the Negro newspaper group's 29th annual convention. More than 150 delegates are expected as the convention gets into full swing today, with a morning breakfast sponsored by The Arizona Republic and The Phoenix Gazette and a luncheon ad Chastity belts taxing proposition LONDON (UPI)-Anne Hugessen is having trouble with the chastity belts she sells the British government wants to classify them as furniture. This means the chastity belts will be subject to a 13.75 per cent purchase tax, she said. She is appealing the decision. The items are replicas of a 13th century chastity belt.
Miss Hugessen said they are pop-alar with American tourists, who use them as flowerpot holders. most of them from Bulgaria and other Soviet satellite states. (The satellites export mostly low quality produce to the Soviet Union. The rest goes west because, as a Bulgarian tomato picker once put it, "The Germans pay us, the Russians A pint can of cooked pears from Hungary, which had to be recooked to be edible, cost 1.05 rubles. The average Soviet wage is less than 30 rubles a week worth $33 at the official rate of exchange, but closer to $7 judging both from currency speculators and the difference in consumer prices between the Valuta shops and normal Soviet shops.
Fresh tomatoes last winter cost five rubles a pound, when available, at the collective farm markets. Yet the trouble last May Day fai Moscow, where the Soviet ruling class is Ctathmd Ob Page IS Moscow: Venus shots but no meat Sixth of a Series By ANATOLE SHUB Washington Post Service The morning before the Soviet May Day weekend with Moscow shops about to close down for four days, several hundred Russian housewives and husbands determinedly clustered around a counter at the showplace "supermarket" on glass fronted Kalinin Prospect Weary sales girls ignored them. "Tovarischi." a woman's voice blared over the public address systems. "There is no more chicken. No more chicken.
I repeat, there is no more chicken, comrades." The crowd just stood there some perhaps because they had nowhere eke to go. others perhaps because they thought the announcement was a trick. The same morning, la the Valuta Gas- Page Page Astrology 77 Financial 73-30 Bridge 39 Movies 51 Campbell 7S Obituaries 42-43 Classified 5343 Opinion 7 Comics 77 Radio Log 50 Crossword 43 Sports 6-73 Dean 21 TV Log 49 DearAbby S3 Weather 17 Editorials Women 11-83.
