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Mi 4turdy, January 0, IVett tHt i.wlANAFOtlj Htvo rue mtutn-Mtma Friends' YuteiiJe No Sanctuary i- -''A The best news in a. long time for the American fighting man In Viet-nam is that the Communists'' no longer can use Cambodia as a stag- ing area for attacKs on soum Vietnam without fear -of retaliation. Prince Narodom Sihanouk has granted allied forces the right to pursue Communist elements into Cambodia. The granting of the right of hot pursuit is important to the United States both politically and mili-S tarily. I From a military point of view, the right of hot pursuit will make rnstlv for the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops.

All border In Cambodia are now exposed to allied retaliation which will decrease their worth to the enemy. Politically, it is obvious that President Johnson, decided the Com-, munist sanctuary could no longer be tolerated. Consequently, the United States government made known the President's feelings to Cambodia. That Sihanouk agreed to the request Is a sign that he is worried about the increasing Communist penetration and trouble in Northern Operation Better days may come to Indiana Avenue if self-starting plans to reno-vate the area receive support and co-operation from city officials. The Marion County Extension Service proposes "Operation Avenue," designed as a voluntary effort by area businessmen and residents to upgrade their environment and transform it into an economic asset as an entertainment and shop section; The undertaking will work only if backed by the people of the area, and there are enough expressions of interest arid support already to indicate a possibility of success.

The project, however, is clouded by several question marks which only public officials can remove. While saying the idea is worthy of t' support, Mayor Richard Lugar in- dicated that it may conflict with land-acquisition plans of the Indi-''' anapolis Redevelopment Commis-' sion and the I.U.-Purdue joint campus. This would be most unfortunate. Eilers Rejects Nixon's To the Editor of The News: Occasionally it happens that conservatives such as James Kil-patrick search so diligently for a champion of the conservative cause that they grasp at the first straws thrown into the wind by presidential hopefuls. Such is the case typified in Kilpatrick's recent column on Lie Job cliches, and catch phrases, I have compiled' a must list for knowing who's on first base.

Urban Renewal Forced relocation due to planned destruction of existing housing. Civil Rights An excuse to enlarge government on the pretext of the wrongs of a few. Progress Gradual adoption of slave-state programs that are not recognizable if called progressive. Graduated Income Tax The pen for "oross 'rZ T- ObSve alty on productivity that never pays Galbraith versus Norman Thomasj sub-; ject, laissez-faire capitalist. Free Speech For Communist dupes it's storming the Pentagon, for counter-demonstrators it's a news blackout.

VIRGINIA 'A. RODGERS 642L Evanston Pearl Bontrager 'Critical Of 'Lug a r's Revolution' To the Editor of The News: I would like to comment on the letler printed under your bold headlines Ming Backward IN THE NEWS Fifty Years Ago (1918) CHARLES W. Jew- ett was sworn in as mayor in inauguration, ceremonies at City Hall which were kept as simple as possible. Walter Prich- ard, incoming city judge, and George Hutsell, incoming city clerk, also took their oaths of office. Jewett Twenty-five Years Ago (1943) CAPT.

James W. Sibert, 931 N. Grant, was among 81 American flying officers who received Distinguished Service Crosses. Capt. Sibert received the award for more than 200 hours of combat flying.

American war casualties to date: totaled 61,126, the Office of War Information reported. Ten Years Ago (1958) INDIANA UNrVERSITY announced that bids had been invited on the construction of a new stadium to seat 55,000 and a fieldhouse to seat 15,000. MR. MUM 66 WM Aspirations Th Ntwt wecomf your letters, whether you agree or ditagtf with our polielti. Pen names or initialg may bo used it contributions carry writer? cor-rect names and addresses.

All letters are subject to condensation and to deletion ot matter considered libelous or In poor tasto but we try to hold editing to a minimum. No letter attacking a private Individual by name will bo used unless the writer permits his own name and address to be printed. Yes, Indeed, Mr. Kirkhoff, Mr. Lugar has a new image businessman motivated by the Chamber of Commerce with the help of a $l-a-year man.

Mr. Robinson, who gets a fat salary, from Chamber, of irOlier, dccii ibiscu nuiu to $12,600, the mayor's administrative assistant from $12,500 to $20,000. Garage Supt. from $7,500 to $8,545. This gentleman promised appointments not based on politics but merit.

Now i we have a professional entertainer, Mr. Parker, heading the parking Meter Department. He was politi- cally active in the mayoralty Merit? I'm from Missouri and already he's, beginning to show me. Want to bet on the future image? PEARL BONTRAGER 1838 N. Warman BOY DISCOVERS.

A Responsibility For All Messages Uniformly aria. Pi By Lou Hiner The News Washington Bureau ij ON THIS, THE twelfth day' of Christmas, it seems. PPr.0P,'"'.3 share the news carried In the margins, of greetings we received thieasonJ The are almost lou per cent. But most or the personal messages were dreary. Cousin Alfred scribbled in the margin of his card, just below the fancy scrolled message "joy and happiness throughout the year Hinee "Our daugnier icii.

her husband8 Joe. He was drinking a fom'ex-neighbors who now live in California came the depressing note on their happy card: "Larry was playing center on nis high school basketball team, but he flunked four subjects. The other five kids have been sick all winter. ONE OF THE pre Washington friends messaged from Martinsville: "Having a time with Prunellas teeth. Took her to the orthodontist in Indianapolis.

It'll cost $1,200 to get them straightened so she won look like she can eat an apple through a tennis racquet." Harry and Eunice from Minneapolis noted: 1. "You've been asking us for 10 years and we're planning to pack up the six kids and stay with you the first three weeks in June. Don't plan anything special. We would like to meet LBJ and Ladybird. Ha, ha, ha!" The card from Mrs.

Dewester, a girlhood friend of my grandmother's, carried its annual message from Steamboat Springs, Utah: "If you talk to any congressmen, tell them us old-timers are having a hard time and need more Social Se-curity. Your grandmother would proud to know you are helping The sad tidings this year from my old co-pilot of World War II days, named Sid Coil, were written by his wife: "Sid is in the V.A. hospital here in Little Rock recovering from his second hernia Doing nicely and sends his best. Our parakeet, Tweetie, died in July." It was family news, too, from our old. friends, the Davises, in Toledo: "Frank's back on the night shift The union threatened to strike for hrm.

Anyway, his overtime pay has been cut away down to almost nothing." AND WE DROPPED a tear or two in our Christmas punch bowl after hearing from the Newells in the South Bend area: finished the darn cloverleaf just to get to the liqoot From an old printer friend who retired to Denver, a few years ago was the "Bought a new' color television and, then Mabel got the arthritis in hef hands. She can't manipulate the knobs and watches only one channel all day." Come to think of it, we didn't put a real bright message on our cards: laid up witin Asian flu, Hope you were careful in opening this envelope. Don't like to spread the germs." '7 Care Of and, in some cases, even pictures of leading products. Inside, many office lobbies are festooned with state travel posters, edible product samples, etc. The Congress office buildings are beginning to resemble a huge trade To give you an idea of how we do things here, most of the bills are now in on the new House Garage (located beside the $135 million Rayburn Building): The garage cost $13.5 million, which is more than Howard Hughes paid for the Desert Inn hotel in Las Vegas! A recent column about Sen.

Everett Dirksen's new book, "Gallant Men," written with H. Paul Jeffers, drew a response from Mr. Jeffers, who Informs us that "Gallant Men" will have a sequel, "Gallant Women," which Jeffers is writing with Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, R-Me. REP.

WALTER S. BARING, notes that the Treasury Department, which relentlessly extracts every'; last penny has coming to it from Amer'-ican taxpayers, somehow falls on its face when it comes to collecting fronj foreign countries such as -France, which owes us $6 billion. i 7 Certain members of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee have come up with a grand way to make a world tour at taxpayers', ex pense: They want to go to Eur6pe jind the Far East, to Vstudy postal opera-tions." Rep. H. R.

Gross. R-Iowa. Known as voice In the Wilder said learn more'sim- Ply by a cab over to the Post Office Department here, which already tnrJ J2f Wl11 be tJJ Rio de Janeiro. Unltrt FMtun SyMiuti I i. Togethe Itself sectors of his country; The prince knows all too well that if Hanoi should conquer South Vietnam, his nation would be subjected to more attacks from the Communists.

Sihanouk apparently believes the Communists cannot win the war in Vietnam. He seems convinced that the United States will stay the course to prevent Southeast Asia, which includes his own country, from slipping into the Communist The prince would hardly dare to antagonize the Communists by publicly foreclosing their sanctuary if he thought their cause would succeed. It is too, that the Joint Chiefs of Staff had the ear of President Johnson on the issue of the sanctuary because his civilian advisers in the Pentagon, led by Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, opposed carrying the war into Cambodia under any circumstances. That McNamara is departing his position for a job on the World Bank is a likely sign that President Johnson realizes there can be no political improvement in South Vietnam until the war is won militarily. Avenue Improvement and development generated by the people themselves is always preferable to contrived public projects.

Where there Js a choice to be made, we believe it should be in favor of private, voluntary action. The main obstacle confronting the Indiana Avenue project is the possibility that at some time in the future the land will be acquired by public agencies. Few businessmen would invest the money necessary if they believed they would have to move sooner or later. 7" The city can clear the way for this project by giving private redevelopment priority over public urban renewal. Officials of I.U.

and Purdue can help by asking whether they really need all of the land they presently intend to Through such co-operation, the Indiana Avenue project can proceed with confidence and the city, could acquire an important Economic 'asset. great significance for the future of -Indiana, but, as Barnett pointed out, they Cannot be dealt with intelligently until all facts and pertinent information are available. Barnett admonishes Chamber members that participation in such 'studies and in the decision-making, through civic organizations and civic groups, should be a top responsibility of every concerned Hoosier citizen. He points out that chambers of commerce, trade associations and professional groups are geared to provide leadership in such activities. Barnett asks members of his.

organization to resolve to devote more of their energies and support to the field of public affairs. It's a resolu- tion that should be made by anyone interested in good government. ernment facilities and U.S. air and supply bases is also expected in the coming months. The terror campaign will be closely linked with worldwide propaganda drive to discredit President Thieu and his newly-elected government.

The Communists' propaganda theme will be that peace will come to South Vietnam once Thieu is ousted and a coalition government formed with the Viet Cong. According to these intelligence sources, Hanoi's all-out drive to topple Thieu is also clearly indicated in the instructions being relayed to North Vietnamese diplomats throughout the world. ONE DIPLOMATIC message intercepted by the CIA pointed out that the 14-point "Peace Program" sent to the United Nations last month by the National Liberation Front, the Viet Cong political arm, should be interpreted as "an all-out declaration of war against the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu." On Dec. 20, 1960, the National Liberation Front (NLF) was founded by issuing a 14 point "Peace Program," which contained a call for the ouster of President Ngo Dinh Diem. This anti-Diern declaration was followed by a worldwide Communist-directed campaign to discredit Diem.

The propaganda effort was accompanied by violent Buddhist demonstrations in Saigon sparked by Thich Tri Quang, often labeled Hanoi's agent in South Vietnam. Eight days after Diem was overthrown on Nov. 1, 1963, the Central Committee of the National Liberation Front decided to ask for a cease-fire and to enter negotiations with those factions that overthrew Diem. This decision was ratified by NLF's second congress in January .1964, but T'f John; V.lBarnett,s. execiitive.vice- president of the Indiana State Cham-' I ber of Commerce, gave a message J-in the year-end report of his which: is applicable to-I' all concerned citizens in Indiana.

''He cited a number of opportuni-i ties and challenges that lie ahead in the- of government. Among Ifthese are fiscal problems of both 'estate; and' local governments that 'require the attention of the 'Legislature; education at all levels; I streets and highways; and air and water quality control. Moreover, there have proposals a constitutional conven- ftion and consideration of changes i in the; length, and frequency of ses-itsions of the Indiana General Jl-Assembly. These problems and issues have HI Put Family Back i INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WARNS Red Assault On Saigon Planned Nixon Admittedly. Nixon's early remarks from his speech to the National Association of Manufacturers rang true to the mark as to the cause of Negro unrest, but his solution could have been written by Norman Thomas.

Nixon declares that American business will have to provide the jobs to solve the problem. And going farther left, he made this astounding statement of opinion: "The modern corporation is no longer simply an economic unit. It has become a 'social unit, an action unit, and its skills are needed where the action is." This is the most evil transfer of responsibility front the job-seekers to the job-makers that I have heard. This statement goes on to say that business must "rethink production processes," so jobs are fitted to the This is the advocacy of stagnation. It deprives not only Negroes but every man the need to flex his muscles, to attain, to progress.

I refute Nixon's logic and his serious contention as a presidential aspirant. PAUL N. EILERS Indianapolis Reader Tells What The Cliches Mean To the Editor of The News: For the benefit of those unfortunates who aren't quite up on mass media the ruling South Vietnamese military junta opposed negotiations and President Johnson supported this decision. NLFs third congress, held in August 1967 somewhere in North Vietnam, revised and adopted the new 14-point Program." In September NLFs Central Committee agreed on the timing of the anti-Thieu offensive. Hanoi's propaganda -offensive against President Thieu will be geared to take full advantage of the growing anti-Vietnam war movement in the U.S.

NLF representatives in Algeria, Poland, and Romania have begun suggesting to U.S. peace group officials that once the Thieu government is toppled Viet Cong leaders would then "negotiate" with "those non-Communists in South Vietnam who participate in the to form a coalition government. Significantly, these NLF representatives are saying President would have no choice but to agree to such an arrangement this time because of his involvement in the election campaign. ONCE THE NEW coalition government with the Viet Cong was formed, NLF representatives state, a request would be sent to the United Nations demanding immediate withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Vietnam.

This new Communist strategy fits in with plans now being drafted in South Vietnam by Thich Tri Quang, whose violent demonstrations in-, flamed world public opinion against Diem. A U.S. Army report on his re-' cent activities warned he is covertly organizing a new "Buddhist Youth. Force" and plans to send them rampaging through the streets of Saigon as soon as the signal comes from Hanoi. Frtlfrtiri-Hill Svntlwt World Takes By Don Maclean Washington REP.

MELVIN R. LAIRD, has sent us a joke with a message. (That's the trouble with having congressmen for writers; I wish they'd just do the jokes and leave the editorials to me.) Anyway, Laird's story is about a father of an exceptionally bright boy who loved to solve puzzles. One day the lad was pestering his Dad with while the latter was trying to read the Maclean paper. On.

one page the father came across a world map and he had an inspiration. He tore the map into small pieces and instructed his son to go to his room and put it back together. Then he resumed reading, thinking the project would keep the kid busy for an hour, at least. BUT THE BOY was back in five minutes, with the map reassembled. When the father asked how he did it so fast, the youth replied, "On the other side of the page, there was a picture of a family.

I just put the family back together and the world took care of itself." A big ad in The New York Times brags about the "Entertainers Who Have Appeared on the Mike Douglas (TV) Show." Among the "entertain- ers" along witn Bob Hope, et is Sen Robert F. Kennedy, 'BeauUfkation) experts could do worse than c6ndemn some of the door decorations in vthe House and Senate Office BuildingMany of the legisla- tors have their office doors with pictures of state landmarks M. fit Jr By Paul Scott NORTH VIETNAM'S new strategy is designed to help history repeat it-self in South Vietnam. A diplomatic military propaganda J-joffensive similar to the one that led to rthe overthrow of the pro-American govern-! ment of President Ngo Dinh Diem in 1963 is being launched by Hanoi against President Nguyen Van Thieu's government. The 1968 objective of the new North.

Vietnamese cam: scott paign, as planned in Moscow and Hanoi recently, is to topple Thieu and replace his government with a coalition regime including the Communists. This is the heart of the warning U.S. intelligence officials have prepared for President Johnson and his Vietnam advisers. CAPTURED. Communist documents and other intelligence data, according to these officials, reveal that the three-, pronged assault against Thieu will begin early in February and be just as intensive as was the one against Diem.

Thev. envision a massive terror cam- paign aimed at disrupting Saigon and other major South Vietnamese cities by demonstrations, street fighting, strikes, bombings of public facilities, and assassinations. 5 Already additional North Vietnam- ese divisions are being sent south to put new pressure on U.S. troops and fkeep them occupied so Viet Cong I guerrillas, can concentrate their assaults on. the cities.

A step-up of rocket fire and mortar attacks against South Vietnamese gov A-.