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Sonus Rusk UpuJ xc usiv nounced presidential post-war government from the outside." J. their troops went into the demilitarized and into Cambodia." about a tiger and a lamb. We made coalition in Laos in 1962 We accepted the Soviet nominee, and neutralization! and By NICK TH1MMESCH WASHINGTON For Dean Rusk.11967 was a year in which the Vietnam war jnade informal talks between the Saigon government and the National Liberation Front P141" international life, SB? the SEATO treaty wasn't invoked. Now look" whatwe have. If Laos is a test of coalition, we'd better watch it.

Co-alition government there, iiasn't been allowed to function. "In Vietnam, there would have to be a definition of what a coalition government is. Thieu offered amnesty and jobs to the Viet Cong. This is from the inside. It's not imposing the Viet Cong on a Rusk voiced the same doubt SoutlrVietnam's iresi-- dent Nguyen Van Thieu did about the N.L.Fr "The N.L.F." doesn't 'claim to be a government," yRusk said firmly, "and we won't recognize it as the sole representative of the.

people. Such talks would be useful if there were an authentic civil war. Our primary problem is with Hanoi. "When you talk about coalition government, you talk Dean Rusk 1 second most powerful man Rusk appeared mildly amused in, explaining why be will not publicly testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in a meeting. "Hull didn't go down for such hearing in World War TL Acheson didn't go down for a hearing in the Korean war.

I'll go down for a closed session and will allow them to release a transcript of the nonsecurity material discussed," Rusk explained. He doesn't consider Senator Eugene J. McCarthy, the an- $2.75 A MONTH RESPONSIBLE METROPOLITAN NEWSPAPER FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1967 94th YEAR, NO. LBJ Flies to Thai Base; Viet Next? $11 Million LSD Arrest In Orinda Compiled from AP and UPI KORAT, Thailand President Johnson brought his global Christmas mission to the huge U.S. Air Force base at Korat tonight and told American pilots who bomb North Vietnam their raids were hastening "the time of peace for which we all pray." "I realize that an old man is a poor excuse for your wife and your family and your loved ones, but I wanted so much at "difficult for the United States, Yet the year rolled by without visibly wrenching the -unflap- pable secretary of state who has quietly enjoyed his job for the past seven years and shows no signs of quitting.

In an interview Wednesday the second most powerful man in the United States government essayed on the problems he is charged with. Asked about President Johnson's statement Tuesday that A 356 ES 17 Trapped Miners Rescued GORMAN, Los Angeles County (UPI) Seventeen miners entombed deep in a mountain when the roof of a tunnel collapsed crawled to safety early today from their mile-long prison 125 feet un-dergound. Rescue workers using shovels, their hands and small drills dug through 80 feet of rubble 1 i the south entrance of the tunnel to reach the trapped men late last night At 12:25 a.m. today, an electric engine normally used to haul mming equipmenl rumbled from the south pertal of the Carky V. Porter tunnel into the freezing air.

In a gondola car behind the miniature engine rode seventeen grimy men who had spent nearly 18 hours trapped underground. They held tearful reunions with families and wives and shook hands with fellow workers who had maintained a vigil outside the entrance. The rescued workers seemed relatively untroubled over 'their long ordeal Some of them went immediately -io their cars and started for home. Others talked with families and friends. The men had reported for work early yesterday.

Their Continued Page 2, Col. 3 screaming windstorm, is still being assessed today In the Russian River resort area, where trees crashed onto a number of houses and summer homes, and innumerable power lines were snapped. Rio Nido was -hardest hit. Five residential buildings were partially destroyed by the toppling trees. Sonoma County road crews and Pacific Gas and Electric Company workmen were mopping up the final debris this week.

On Mt. Jackson, elevation 1,669 feet and the location of the sheriff's department radio jTM.III! MBMMMWMIIlllillMBMMMBlllMIMMMMMBMIBlMtl I IN Vi'mUIi'mIII 'mmmmWpMfmMm 1 1 a rT? a I Wh i 1 I 1. Lxst 1 1 bw- 1 1 I MrfVWi 1 1 1 1 MR. AND MXS. RUDOLPH MASSENZI AND NEWEST FAMILY MEMBER -1 i Tammy, row 5 weeks old, with parents and; sister Debbie, 3 1 Their Mos? IPrecious date, aa bis chief the foreign" relations conus tee f-f "In my seven years here, I haven't had a phone call of letter from Senator McCarQsjr and he Isn 't always at committee hearings, so I havenl seen much of him.

I think lit got that yellow peril staff from James Restori's columa which Reston took all back few weeks it v. On McCarthy's charge that he has exaggerated the danger in Asia and that 50 years from now Vietnam wont Continued Page 3, CoL 1 154 Die in Red Wave Of Terror Compiled from AP and UPI SAIGON A fresh flurry of Communist terrorist attacks killed 154 civilians throughout South Vietnam and damaged a train and a U.S. cargo ship near Saigon, U.S. officials said today. Retaliating, U.S.

troops moved into War Zone a Viet Cong stronghold north of the South Vietnamese capital, and occupied portions of it for the first time, military sources reported. U.S. spokesmen said the 154 civilian deaths resulted from 218 incidents, of terrorism throughout the country the past few days. Another 285 civilians were wounded and 625 were kidnaped. U.S.- B52 bombers returned to blast North Vietnamese targets in the demilitarized zone again todav desnite tfw threat of more SAM missiles like the three the Reds fired at them in the same area Wednesday night" The huge high-altitude bombers pounded troop concentrations and artillery positions in the northern half of the DMZ, seven mile north-northwest of th U.S.

Marine outpost at Con Thien. Earlier in the day they blasted sus pected Communist infiltration routes along the Cambodian border. There was no report of any more SAMs being fired when the B52s returned today. In, other raids today, the big bombers pounded two suspected infiltration routes within a few miles of the Cambodian border. One strike was 68 miles northwest of Saigon where supplies filter into War Zone C.

The second was 89 miles north of Saigon near the Bu Dop Special Forces camp Continued Page 3, CoL 4 Federal, state and local officers, in what was described as the "biggest LSD arrest in history," confiscated' nearly $11 million worth of drugs last night after swooping down on a laboratory-factory in a fashionable Orinda home. Five persons, including a tnan who reputedly has made millions manufacturing LSD, were arrested. Augustus 0 1 Stanley Governor of Kentucky1 and U.S. Senator of the same name, was booked at the Contra Costa. County Jail In Martinez pending an appearance today before a U.S.

Commissioner In Oakland on charges of conspiracy to illegally make controlled drugs. The raid, which ended -a year-long investigation by the Bureau of Drug Abuse trol, netted "a large stock of chemicals" in "a very sophisticated chemical laboratory." After toting up the' take, agents estimated they had $10,850,000 worth of LSD 217 grams worth about $5 a dose. They said they found 261 grams of the powerful hallu-cenogenic drug STP, worth Rusk, now 58, denies that either he or President Johnson TiaTbeenypushed into a hard line on Vietnam by his critics. "After our 1964 election, Hanoi probably read us as saying the President was against a land war in Vietnam. So Hanoi sent N.L.F.

divisions into South Vietnam and stepped up Viet Cong activity. Who pressed whom? Escalation is the word reserved for us. We have no troops in Cambodia, but if we did, it would be escalation. You didn't hear our critics cry 'escalation when 10 DAILY, FINALRITES Battle by Heart Man Eulogized CAPE TOWN, South Africa (UP)- Louis Washkansky, who spent his last 18 days on earth with someone else's heart beating' in his chest, was buried today in a service that eulogized his fight for life as a battle for humanity's survival. Washkansky, 53, died yes-.

terday of pneumonia. Hundreds who never knew him went to Pineland Cemetery to witness the solemn Orthodox Jewish burial rite. The friendly grocer was the first person to receive a transplanted heart "The fight for Mr. Wash-kansky's life became the fight for all human Israel Abrahams, chief rabbi of Cape Province, said at the graveside. "One man's life and will to live assumed glob- Continued Page Col.

1 a Christmas to look at each one of you in the eyes and ten you that right will prevail," Johnson told the pilots and American fighting men guard--ing their jet igher -bombers. d- "Your cause is a just one. Every American owes you a debt of gratitude for the liberty he enjoys, "Merry Christmas, sir," one airman said. "God Wess you, Mr. Johnson," a Negro sergeant told the President "Thanks for that pay raise," another sergeant yelled in a reference to the recently enacted bill increasing wages for the military.

The Korat complex, 150 miles northeast of Bangkok, includes the air base and a U.S. Army camp housing thousands of Americans and hundreds of bombers. The traveling White House imposed a secrecy blanket in the first hours after Johnson landed at Korat on a flight aboard Air Force One from Melbourne where he attended a memorial service for Australian Prime Minister Harold Holt. Fresenf Arrived Early By JIM HAZELWOOD Tribune Science Writer Winter Officially Arrives Christmas came early this year something was terribly wrong. And Thermometer Goes Up for California Highway Patrol of Tammy was the victim of a seri about $130,000 on the open market Deputy U.S.

Atty. David Bancroft said he will reassess the. charges Stanley, charging him with manufacturing an illegal drug. He said other possible charges may be sale and conspiracy to sell illegal drugs. Booked with Stanley, 32, were Melissa Diane Cargill, 25, a former University of Cal- Picture frfage ifornia chemistry major described by agents as his companion; William Alfred Spires, 24, of 5688 Telegraph Oakland; Robert Donovan Thomas, 29, and Rhona Helen Gissen, 26, both of whom gave only post office box numbers in Berkeley as their addresses.

Accompanying the federal agents in the raid on the two-story borne at 69 La Es-piral were Berkeley police, Contra Costa County Sheriffs Deputies and -agents of the State Bureau of Narcotics. The arrests were announced by 'BDAC Western Director Continued Page 2, Col. 7 is the shortest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere as the sun crossed the equator at its maximum distance south of the equator. Conversely, it is the first day of the summer in the Southern Hemisphere. In the Bay Area sunrise was at 7:21 a.m., sunset at 4:54 p.m.

Damage from last week's Living Cost Continues To Spiral WASHINGTON (UPI) -The cost of living continued its steady upward climb during November, rising three-tenths of one per cent The increase brought the consumer price index to 117.8 up 2.8 per cent from a year earlier. A further rise is expected in December. The Labor Department also reported an increase of one -tenth of 1. per cent in the wholesale "price index for the same period. Medical costs climbed rising six -tenths of one per cent, nearly eight per cent above a year Hospital costs alone were up some io per cent over uic year.

Fees of doctors and dentists rose five tenths of one per cent last month and were' 6.4 per cent above November, 1984. ficer Rudolph R. Massenzi and his wife Cathy on the morning of Nov. 22, to be exact. Their gift was the gift of life for their six-day-old daughter whd7 had she been born a month earlier, would have been doomed-to die.

Little "Tammy Massenzi was ous heart defect which was certain to cause her death within a matter of weeks. Instead of four veins entering her heartrthey were all joined to form one. This one vein didn't even go to her heart. It went through her diaphragm to her liver. As a result of this massive de-Continued Page 3, Col.

2 born Nov. 16 at Concord Hospital St and doctors knew State Loyalty Oath The winter solstice caught up with the winter, weather at 5:17 a.m. today to begin the season officially. Paradoxically, the first day of winter sent the thermometer rising toward its highest marks of the past two The warming trend, which is affecting most of Northern California, is expected to continue for the next few days. Remember Acorn? It's Dedicated The oft-delayed Acorn Residential Project was dedicated in West Oakland yesterday with prayers, speeches and flossy public relations.

The project area has lain empty for 10 years and a number of speakers referred Unconstitutiona The White House kept travel plans secret even after newsmen were allowed to report the Korat arrival, but there were reports he was flying toanother Thai air base tomorrow where Bob Hope was entertaining, the troops, then would go on to Vietnam for a visit with more American forces. Informed sources in Rome said Johnson was expected to arrive in the Italian capital Sunday morning for talks with Pope Paul VI and President Giuseppe Saragat a i -h r. stopover before flying back to Washington for Christmas. This itinerary would maket Johnson the first U.S. Presi- dent to circle the earth while in office.

Thousands of enlisted men swarmed around the jetliner bearing the presidential crest when' the plane touched down at Korat on a runway bathed in floodlight. Johnson strode briskly from the craft and waded into "a sea of faces," as one officer putit. He went to the Korat officers' club where he spoke with about 200 combat pilots who carry out. almost daily raids into North Vietnam. Korat is situated in the middle of a saucer shaped plateau surrounded by mountains near an area of Thailand plagued by Communist guerrillas and terror squads.

1-vv Johnson told the pilot the instantly that organization that advocated the overthrow of the govern- ment by unlawful means. Angeles Superior Court- ruling in a case in which Robert S. Vogel, a Los Angeles sought an injunction against administering the oath in Los Angeles County on grounds that tax money should not be used for the purpose. Only attorney to challenge Vogel's suit was Donald K. Byrne, Los Angeles deputy county counsel, who argued that if the oath were to be struck down the officials who took the oath 'would be unsworn.

The court decision yesterday Invalidated the second paragraph of the loyalty oath. The oath itself is required of Continued Page 2, CoL the wind at one point was clocked unofficially at 120 miles an hour. Famed Bohemian Grove also took a lashing and officials at the Bohemian Gub San Francisco said damage reports are still not complete. One spokesman said much of the damage to vacation homes won't be known until families begin arriving next summer to discover their houses are without power. Autumn bowed out on a chilly note in Oakland, where the high yesterday was 48 degrees, the low 41.

But that was balmy in relation to Cut Bank, Mont, the coldest spot in the nation yesterday with a marrow-chilling 29 below zero. But suddenly at 1 p.m. a warm breeze came out of nowhere to shoot the, mercury up to 11 above al-, most hot by comparison Much of the Midwest shuddered tinder Nature's lash, with cold tornadoes, Continued Page 2, CoL I California's loyalty oath for public employes has been declared unconstitutional by. the state Supreme Court The court in a 6-1 decision said yesterday that "First Amendment freedoms (of the U.S. Constitution) are delicate and vulnerable and must be I protected wherever possible, "When government seeks to limit these freedoms on the basis of legitimate purposes, such as eliminating subversives from public service, those purposes cannot be pursued by means that broadly stifle fundamental personal liberties." The decision announced in San Francisco throws out the state's loyalty oath, popularly known as the Levering Act, under which fotne ,250,000 state, school, and some local officials bad declared, among other things, that they have never been a member of any to tne delay.

One, Kaipn wu-liams, often known as the unofficial mayor of West Oakland, pointed out that it took 140 years for Noah to build his ark and he said he hoped that the Redevelopment Agency could do little better in getting housing built in the project Mayor John Reading said in his brief speech that the people of Oakland would keep an eye on Acorn to see that it was built He said the city has learned a lesson from the project and never agaii would clear a site before a developer Continued Page 2, Col. 4 Continued Page CoL 4 i i.