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DAILY NEWS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1067 8C They Talk About Unity EJJ: Eoidl Carping Over EIec6fini By STAN CARTER Washington, Aug. 16 (NEWS Bureau) President Johnson said today that free and fair" South Vietnamese elections are "very vital," but that "we cannot pose impossible standards for a young- nation at war." Answerinjr critics who have claimed South Vietnam's election campaign is rigged, Johnson compared "the fight for democracy and freedom" there -with "the tough, confused struggle to build a new nation en for continent two centuries age. "Durirg the hard days of fighting fcr cur independence, there were some who would not fight at all," Jehnsca raid at a Thite House ceremony honoring six U.S. officials fcr Tous serviie in Vietnam.

So Left Ceontry campaign so far should at least hear two things in mind: In South Vietnam today, there are 11 candidates for president some military and some civilian. Tl.ey are free to attack the gov-rnment, and most of them have dor.e so. They are free to take their case to the people "In North Vietnam today, there are no candidates, there are r.o and there are no attacks on the North Vietnamese government of which I am aware. And it amuses me they are not even attacked here sometimes." Jchnscn conceded that there may he "blemishes" in the Sept. 3 election ef a president, a Tice president and the upper hcuse of a parliament.

Accepts Junta's Fiedpe But he said that Chief of State Some perpie nouM pot pay inr siaies mum not weet their leries of men and wccey; some wen were so devoted to colonial fewer that they lied arrcad. "Put there were an4 we tha-ck God for this enoug brave men and wensen to hear I I Nguyen Van Tfcleu and Frinie I All A. -l 1Vlfeio W.t Irftmin ChaiH-elkir Kurt KieMnger (left) and Treident Johnwin shake hands with persons fathered cn side cf closed White Moose fence. The world leaders concluded two days talk, jenday. hHt.inrer said his nation wts tijinjt to huild a united Europe that would be a friend and partner of the United States.

the burden Cao Xy, the I cere ere a cardnU.lt for with us all tr.roi.fch president and vice president, had I iriv-n their solemn tieote that that Ihev will support the cotco fair electiors, whoever wi 1 Angry Bikel Quits Mights Group "I take that pledge rccs ctisiv. Jchnscn added. hours acd after 13 years cf war and political strife, we here in A erica, prevailed. Commenting for the first tiaie on charges It Sens. Rbert Kennedy and Jiiit.

Javits and ethers that the Yictnaires political campaign was teetmirg a fsree, Jh.ron said: "1 Relieve that these who arc dismayed iy the frcgress ef the "The fclks doing the nacst to Actor Theodore Bikel quit the Student Nonviolent Coord inatinj? Committee and accused the organization's leadeis of conducting "a revolution without a keep us from having a free eiee- i I'm in South Yietram today are the Ctmmurists. That he In-utr'rt to the attention cf the: American people." blueprint" and "making a mockery of nonviolence." Bikel lasted the committee for its "obscene" charge that Israeli rol.iicrs crmmitted trcitits gainst the Arahs. He accused its officials of rejeatirp "the com-rarsion made ly the Soviet delegate to the United Nations, whuh se rr.s to equate Israel with Nazi Cops Nab 4- Crack n.cre than whiles; that in the wale of 'Burn, baby, bum' real K'thita pot burned and most of tlern Negroes, is a responsibility which partly lies on your shoulders. "The assumption that by def 3-Siate Hijack Ring Four men described by police as members of a tristate tijaek rang- were he'd in tail each in Criminal Court yesterday after they were allegedly railed the act of making- off with a trailer-truck containing $75,000 r' I V-i -w i I1 Vi' i i Ijwl 'II I II HUM I II1IH' I Ji Germany." actor, who joined the committee in ll't'2, said in his letter cf resinaticn: "I am an Amei iran am a Jew. 1 have a ct vibih is doubly rein-fcrccd Try an historical and moral corrnaandment.

"1 am determined to make equality and freedom a reality in this country, no matter what the setback. "1 am equally determined to honor the bonds of my ethnic rnd religious hackjrTOund. You have this day attempted to violate hoth my cemmitments." Referring to the recent race riots, he said: "That the innocent should have suffered, Neproes inition all whites are enemies and all blacks are friends is us simplistic as it is untrue. 1 supported black power as a political concept; as a tool ef anarchy I find it repiehensille." Recalling the Mississippi murders of white committee workers Andrew Goodman and Michael St hwerner, Bikel declared: "You can say to me and about me what you wish, but you've xt to leave the graves cf martyrs alone. Ycu have no light to spit on the graves of Schwerner and Goodman, who died for the concept of brotherhood which you are now covering with shame." wcrxn oi piuri.cir.g iixiures.

Four detectives cf the safe and least a cTozen trucks in the last six months in New York, New 1 Jt-rsey and lennsylvar.ia. More srrets sre expected. The suspects vere identified Ivan Erereton, 34. cf 124 Pros- loft aqnad arrested the suspects at 1:15 A.M. at Hutert and est Sts.

as tvro tried to drive off with a truck belonging to the Royal Molded Products Co. cf New-man, C- police said. The detectives said the four suspects were members cf a 15-maa rinr which haa hijacked at Theodore Eckel Port company with SSCC rect John Herman, "4, cf i'M Bedford benh Brooklvn; Lem Mosiey, 24. cf 04 Y. ISInh nd Richard Jones, 37, cf 220 W.

101 st St. Village Block Is Ruled a Landmark Helping Alaska Flood Victim By OWEN HTZtiEKALD The City Landmarks Commippion depignated a group of 22 Greenwich Village homes and their connecting backyard garden as a historic district yesterday. The homes, Greek Revival in design and dating from the 1810s, are on Sullivan and McDougal Sts. between W. Houston and 7ky- A Tiring Sentence Ogdcn, Utah, Aug.

16 (AP) Two 13-jear-cld toys are finding out hew long it takes to inflate 122 automobile tires with a hand air pump. That was the on-the-spot eentence yesterday Fol iceman Terry Penlar.d, after the boys admitted cutting valve stems from 33 autos in a five-block area. Cleric Opposes 3-Day Holidays "Washington, Aug. 16 (News Bureau) A Presbyterian cleigy-man testified today that more three-day weekends would cut into Sunday S'chool attendance and be bad for the nation's morality. The Rev.

Marion Brndwel', executive director of the lord's Day Alliance, 475 Riverside Drive New York, opposed proposed legislation to make five more national holidays fall on Mondays. Long weekends would engulf natonal holidays with "pleasure and profit" and add to highway carnage, he Icld a House Eleecker Sts. WHiiam II. Schneider, owner cf the hcuse at h2 McDoupa! summed tp the feeiirg of his fellow residents ty saying: "This is a little suhurb in the heart of dangerous Greenwich VilJajre. We like it and we war.t to keep it the way it is." Other Landmarks The commission designated the old Harlem Couit House, 170 E.

121st as a historic landmark, and that desig-ration to two cemeteries. Old Weft Farms Soldier Cemetery at Bryant Ave. and 180th Bronx, and I.awrence Graveyard, 216th St. and 42d Bayside, Queens. The commission rescinded lt earlier designation of the Cartier Building, Fifth Ave.

and 62d as a historic landmark. The owner of the building, the Thoenix Mutual Life Insurance had not been notified in advance of the decision and asked that it be reversed. Such a designation bars major changes in appearance or use of a building without the commission's approval. Soldier helps woman cross flooded street in Fairbanks, Alaska, which has been bit by four davs cf rain. Three persons were to be dead and over 130,800 forced from their homes.

Damage in estimated at over ,150 million..