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THB AGE, Saturday, April 20, 1968 WORLD NIWJ VIETNAM Tui Hanoi attack S. over delay POLAND Now church is under attack AFRICA Army coup in Sierra Ledpe4 i.a? Rockefeller't Programme for cities, silence on Vietnam oeketelier Attack (Mi i I a GKiircK in Poland1 iits From Australian Associated Press WARSAW, Apr, 19. Polish Roman Catholic Church leaders have come under fire here from a top communist for supporting students demonstrating last month for intellectual and democratic freedoms. From ROY MACARTNEY WASHINGTON, April 19. Governor Nelson Rockefeller yesterday delivered the first of the policy speeches on he, hopes, to build his candidacy for Republican nomination and his eventual bid for the Presidency.

i Mr1. Rockefeller carefully avoided taking any position on at this 1. Party is close to KPole Hanoi blames The rule is 'no comment' clearly that Mr; Rockefeller will probably have greater appeal to voters at large than he may find at the on U.S. delay Instead, he concentrated on the problems of the cities and only obliquely men- I tioned the war by calling for the nation to decide its ''priorities among the' many problems besetting It "i Addressing the American Society of Newspaper Editors' annual convention in Washington, the governor outlined ft 150 billion dollar public and private investment programme to solve the problems of the cities over the next decade. (--.

From Australian Associated Press HONG KONG, April 19. Hanoi today again charged the United States with deliberately delaying preliminary contacts for peace talks On the Vietnam war, The official newspaper "Ntian quoted by the North Vietnamese news agency, accused the U.S. Secretary of State (Mr. Rusk) of trying to push the blame for the delay on to North Vietnam. Mr.

Jozef first secretary of the Warsaw Communist party committee, told a party meeting "the voice of the reactionary part of the Church hierarchy" had been heard amongst forces united against the people's power. Observers said It was the first time the authorities had publicly attacked the Church for its stand on the student trouble. The criticism seemed clearly aimed at the Primate (Cardinal Stefan Wyszynskl). The Cardinal had praised the students for their maturity and moderation. The meeting Mr.

Kepa addressed took place on Wednesday, but excerpts from his speech were published only last night by the official news agency Pap. He said there was considerable convergence between the hierarchy's views and allegations of militia (police) brutality towards students raised in a recent Parliamentary question by a group of five right-wing Catholic deputies. .1 The deputies, of the Zank Association of Lay Catholics, defended the demonstrators, saying they were not hostile to socialism and that militia Intervention during demonstrations had aggravated the situation. Mr. Kepa said the Zank deputies' question was ostensibly addressed to the Prime Minister (Mr.

Cyrankiewlcz) but, in served "alien and hostile centres of Ideological subversion." Mr. Kepa said that in a purge currently being carried out in Warsaw 80 people had been dismissed from their posts Including some with the rank of Ministers, deputy Ministers, department directors and Heads of institutions. AAP-Reuters. Genuine Persian Carpet Senator and Mrs. Rob- ert Kenvedy pose with.

their children after attending Mass in McLean, near Washington. Left to fight Michael, Rob-ert, Joseph, Kathleen, i Matthew, Senator Kennedy, Christopher, Mrs. Kennedy and Mary. Inew rfk CALL FOR PEACE COBVALLIS, Apr. 19.

Senator Robert Kennedy yesterday (Sailed for renewed efforts toward peace talks "while something still remains of the country of Vietnam and oour own hope for domestic progress." The Presidential candidate barnstormed through the heart of Oregon in quest of votes in the May 28 primary. His motorcade swept 90 miles down the Willamette Valley from Portland, stopping for rallies at several small towns along the way. "Two weeks ago we were all enormously heartened by the President's initiative to ward preliminary talks," Senator Kennedy said in a speech prepared for Oregon State University students. "Yet despite our pledge to go any time to seek a negotiated end to the war, these preliminary talks, much less genuine negotiations, have yet to begin. The was Is still going on." In HONOLCLTT Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said yesterday it was "very questionable" whether the Viet Cong was a communist organisation.

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It counts on "Pravda" said. In LONDON, diplomatic reports yesterday said China was exerting heavy pressure on Hanoi to carry on fighting "to the end." According, to United Press International, Peking was said to have offered to supply considerable manpower to Hanoi to help release North Vietnamese for the battlefields. Between 40,000 and 60,000 Chinese are known to be In North Viet-name as so-called technical forces, helping with repairs on rails and roads. 1 W.J. DOWNARD PTY.

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7, 9, Mr. Rockefeller was politely received by his audience but his address was at no stage interrupted by ipplause. His main theme that this is a "time of great decision" with a need to "define ft hew role for Government" sounded more attuned to Democratic "new dealism" rather than the Republicans' traditional distrust, of the expansion of central Government. The address again showed rAUIPiFin east I4S and returning mm hurra Anrll 23. 2fl 2B 3(1 Stawell.

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Servlcrton. KANIVA. April 22. II WAN hill OuTtn MTLDURA. Republican convention in Miami on August 5.

However, the New York Governor Is obviously pressing forward with his strengthening speculation in Washington that he might have reached some understanding with Governor Reagan on an eventual Rockefeller-Reagan ticket. This would probably be the most formidable the Republican Party could field. Governor Reagan, In Sacramento earlier this week, claimed he had detected a "grass roots" movement developing in support of him. In Washington yesterday, 23 Republican congressmen, governors and financiers attended a meeting called by Senator Jacob Javits of New York and worked on plans for a Rockefeller campaign once the governor takes the formal step they anticipate shortly. AAP reported that Governor Rockefeller warned Americans faced "a life of the Jungle" unless a national commitment vjis made to deal with the crisis of the cities.

Governor Rockefeller said the American people must choose "right now" between new division or new dedication. "We can choose a life of the Jungle or a life of Justice," he said. "We cannot have We cannot live for long with parts and pieces of both. 'Healing' "We cannot fight our way through this trial with the arsenal of violence and revenge," he said. "We cannot meet this test with promises or programmes conceived narrowly or separately for the black community or the white community.

"The time of wounding and of hate must pass. The time for healing and for hope has come," he said. He called for a re-ordering of the nation's priorities under new leadership to unite a society "at deep odds with itself." He said federal policies of recent years had spread the nation's resources too thin in trying to deal with problems at home and abroad. "Diffusing our purposes and scattering our resources without priority and without precision we have come to seem too often a nation desperately trying at almost everything, totally triumphing at very little," he said. Governor Rockefeller, an undeclared but "available" candidate for the Republican Presidential nomination, did not specifically lay blame on the Kennedy-Johnson Administrations or speak in partisan terms, but the criticisms and remedies he spoke of were standard Republican fare.

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Barclay Theatre CHICAGO, Apr. 19. Five Americans and 1 Canadian, bidding to be. Come the first surface expedition to reach the North Pole since Admiral Robert Peary got there 59 years ago. were yesterday expected to arrive at their goal within 24 hours.

The expedition, led by Ralph Plaisted, 40-year-old St. Paul, Minnesota, insurance executive, is travelling across the frozen Arctlo Ocean by snowmobile in an attempt to become the first team to reach the Pols across the ice by mechanical transport. By noon yesterday, the six-man expedition, travel, ling in four snowmobiles pulling four flbreglass sleds, had reached 89 degrees 20 minutes north latitude and 65 degrees west longitude about 46 miles south of tin Pole. They reported the temperature at 20 deg. below zero "too warm for Ideal conditions" but visibility was clear and ice conditions not too rough.

Admiral Peary reached tin North Pole by dog sleds on his sixth attempt on April 6, 1909. The present attempt Is tha second made by the Plaisted polai expedition. YOUR HOME DOORS BY PTY. FLITE All Rlverina towns Go Big SAIGON, Apr. 19.

A "no comment situation between the army and the press has changed the pattern of cover of the Australian forces In Vietnam. Until' recently, despite a standing army regulation that officers should not talk to the press, reporters were able to Include in their stories quotes and information from troops in the field. As of how all information is released to the press by the army press relations staff at Nul Dat and although corespondents are Still free to go into the field they are mainly restricted to describing what they see. Coverage of the war was raised by an AAP correspondent with the Army Minister (Mr. Lynch) during the Minister's recent visit to South Vietnam.

He was asked whether there had been any change on the army's attitude to officers In Vietnam giving Information to the press Mr. Lynch said there had always been an army order that officers should talk to the press only through a public relations officer. This had been relaxed in South Vietnam because of the situation there, but there had nqw been a tightening up on matters regarding army security. AAP. 'Copters collide: 26 Jead SAIGON, Apr.

19. Two U.S. army helicopters collided in flight today, killing 18 South Vietnamese civilian irregulars and eight American troops. Military spokesmen said the collision occurred 69 miles south-west of the coastal city of Qui Nhon, 270 miles north-east of Saigon, while the helicopters were on a combat operation. There were no survivors.

Meanwhile, UJS. troops searching Jungles north of Saigon uncovered a Viet Cong base camp and touched oft a series of battles that left more than 110 communists dead by noon today, U.S. spokesmen said. The Viet Cong used tear gas and Soviet-made rocket grenades in an unsuccessful attempt to keep a battalion of American troops -back. An Australian patrol yesterday killed seven Viet Cong in a Jungle ambush north-west of Nui Dat, an army spokesman said.

aap. i. i- power Major William Leigh, chairman and deputy chairman respectively of the council under house arrest But diplomatic sources in Accra said it was understood they were held at Wilberforce Barracks, Just south of Freetown, the capital. The sources said the mutiny began at Daru Barracks, also near Freetown, in protest at poor pay and conditions. rife RUSSELL STREET, MELBOURNE.

This Sunday 3 and 7 p.m.,, Admission Free Expense Collection 'Only. NEWS I1V BRIEF UK workers 'timewasters' LONDON, Apr. 19 Tlie British working man is "laxy, work-shy and a timewaster," according to a Royal Commission report released today. part in its contacts with the Democratic Republic of Vietnam Is new evidence of its lack of goodwill. In Moscow the Communist Party newspaper "Pravda," echoed Hanoi's stand, acuus-ing the United States of "deliberate delay" in secur-, lng a site.

"If the American Government hopes it can give up its word without serious grounds and reject the sites suggested by North Vietnam for the meeting and in this way assure anybody of Hanoi's obstinacy, Pueblo This is how millions of Americans saw Commander Lloyd Bucher, 'captain of the intelligence ship Pueblo, on their, television screens last night. The official' North Kor- ean film was broadcast nationally over a U.S. television network. NGOs MONROVIA, Liberia, April 19. Sierra Leone's new military regime has declared it will hand the country over to civilian rule as soon as possible.

The regime, which ousted Brigadier Andrew Juxon-Smith's military govern--ment yesterday, broadcast a proclamation to this effect over Sierra Leone radio last night. Earlier, the radio said the The newspaper said: "For a fortnight now world public opinion has been criticising the lack of goodwill on the part of the U.S." It listed three points showing this "lack of Washington had gone back on Its word, repeated again and again, that it is ready to go anywhere, at any time for talks; The U.S. had found "unjustifiable, and untenable reasons to turn down Phnom Penh and Warsaw, suggested as suitable sites for talks by Hanoi; The U.S. had set another condition for the contact talks by urging that its Vietnam Allies, Including the Saigon Government take part. This was "a brazen move of the i U.S." Nhan Dan said.

"Everyone knows the Saigon puppet authorities clique of traitors, henchmen of the U.S. They can subsist only with the support of U.S. troops, weapons and dollars," it said. Washington's desire to "have its henchmen In Saigon and its satellites take Rap CAMBRIDGE (Maryland). Black Power advocate H.

Rap Brown was released on bail yesterday after spending two months in Louisiana and Virginia prisons. Brown is charged with inciting to riot and to commit arson here last July. His case is not expected to come up for two to three months. Divorce CHICAGO. Sir John O.

Eccles, Australian Nobel prize winner, was granted a divorce In circuit court yesterday from his wife of 39 years. The decree said Mrs. Irene Eccles, 64, had refused to accompany her husband to the United States in 1966. The settlement gave her the couple's home in Canberra, Australia and Skates SAN FRANCISCO. Gaolers were prevented yesterday from using roller skates to sail down the long, leg-wearying corridors at the city prison here.

An administrator cancelled order forms for skates filled out by an enterprising gaoler. The novel scheme might have given Inmates ideas for a quick escape, one official explained with a smile. Host TEHERAN. Taking his turn as host on a State visit to Iran, King Hassan of Morocco entertained the Shah and Empress Farah at dinner with 82 different national dishes handled by 61 chefs and waiters flown by special plane to Teheran from Morocco. captain It showed Commander Bucher admitting that the ship was engaged in "electronic espionage" when it was captured by North Korea last January.

The captain read a letter to President Johnson, stating that the ship was in North Korean territorial waters at the time, and asking the U.S. to make a formal apology. seize mutineers had set up a council of 14 under Warrant Officer First Class Patrick Gordon to take over administration of the country. The radio quoted ft Sergeant major Rogers as accusing Brigadier Juxon-Smlth's National Reformation Council of going back on Its word to hand over government to civilian rule as soon as possible. Reports here said Brigadier Juxon-Smith and If you want to catch big profits, use good tackle, and get your line in early.

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