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A RESPONSIBLE METROPOLITAN NEWSPAPER 0 94th YEAR, ES TUESDAY OCTOBER 1 1 967 1 0 DAILY $2.75 A MONTH New Battle The Law in Action Wedge of lawmen plows into demonstra-tors at Oakland Induction Center clearing the area within 20 minutes. Light at right center is a newsman's flashbulb Trlbunt ohoto by Kiltk DmhiIim Near Erupts testers Buffer SAIGON (UPI) U.S. Marines aided by South" Vietnamese and backed by a Marine amphibious "force battled a force of 2,000 Communists south of the demilitarized zone (DMZ) today. Fighting also flared at Da Nang, farther south, and three marines killecl. Zone action in South Vietnam in.

U.S. Bid For Peace Mideast By RAYMOND LAWRENCE Fortign News Analyst tTie United States, in seek- ing to-work out a Middle East peace agreement, at the imposed strict secrecy on the negotiations. Arrival at the U.N. General Assembly of the Soviet deputy foreign minister and a key negotiator, Vasily Kuznetsov, initiated speculation Moscow' may join British and can efforts to break the Arab -Israeli stalemate. A high-level Communist -delegate told the AP in New-York that Kuznetsov's arrival was "a good sign" of a possi- ble solution.

U.S. 'Ambassador to U.N. Arthur Goldberg ordered the secrecy on his talks with Egyptian Foreign Minister mats concerned with the Mid- -dle East problem." Tl'r UPI reported policy differences between the Unit- FromM herskMsmks The first major ground weeks came as U.S. military spokesmen said U.S. air power devastated a Haiphong missile and Jhelicopter assembly plant and barracks yesterday, pounded the DMZ -and.

struck-a Viet CongT base camp near Quang Ngai with such force isome of Communists; ran out waving surrender The Marine search and destroy mission through the heavily tingled Hai Lang national "forest 25 miles belowthe-DMZ. began six days ago with a joint offensive by-several thousand Ma-r i and Vietnamese and an amphibious inva sion by Leathernecks from the U.S. 7th Fleet. It is called Operation Medina. Planes from the 7th Fleet carrier Oriskany "Struck Hai-, phong tcvgets for the third time since Washington re- the (snrawlins Inilitarv complex the list, of un-v touchable targets on Oct.

9. .1. I hawks sweeping in from the, jTonkiflGUlfleftcolumns of smoke billowing a mile into the air from the missile and helicopter assembly plant three miles south of Hai phong. Other Navy planes bombed the big Kien An highway bridge 1.7 miles Haiphong's center. The Navy has cut all of Haiphong's four bridges and then returned when they were repaired- A military spokesman said Operation Medina, the big search-and-destrojr missiorrin -in the Quang Tri area, was launclied six days ago with the 7th Fleet's "ready amphibious a battalion of nearly 1,000 men from the sea.

They joined "several battal: ions" of U.S. Marines, a force upwards of 4,000 men, and an unspecified number 6f South" Vietnamese in the operation, the largest such offensive in months just below the DMZ: In the first six days 44 North Vietnamese and 21 Ma-" rines were killed and 167 Marines wounded. Another. 19 Continued Page 3, Col. 5 ed States and 'Britain over a peace formula on the grounds WocViinrrfnn Kailr TctqaI wIiiIa xndon6 Rhififid ta Arab side.

But there was no confirma- A tion from other sources and a 'J i Pr View Determination Despite Fear Dressed casually and without displaying press identification, Tribune reporter Jim Johnson mingled with the demonstrators today. This is his report. By JIM JOHNSON You had to be a part of the "milling mobloday to know the fear and yet the determination of the more than 4,000 anti-draft demonstrators. I was in the center of it, swept up in the unorganized crowd which set out to block the Induction Center and protest the war. When the police, highway patrol and sheriff made their move it was chaotic.

Demonstrators fell over-each other, girls screamed, the mob hurled obscenities at the advancing officers. The crowd didn't believe it would happen. Most ran in fear from the 550 helmeted officers who cleared block after block of retreating protesters. It started just before 6 a.m. when busloads of students "from Berkeley and San Fran-" cisco poured into the core area around the center.

Each new brought thunderous roars of approval from the fast growing mob. At the same time, Highway Patrol cars slipped quietly into the three-story garage across the street. Onlookers gazed in awe as car after car curled into the garage. Leaders tried vainly to hold control of the mob, but dem-onstrators who were not climbed on car tops and clustered in the 15th and Clay streets intersection to watch. The law enforcement officers began lining up In a wedge to penetrate down Clay Street toward 18th Street The-mob began to fall at the feet of the wedge.

After repeated warnings from police with loudspeakers for more than anv hour failed, the officers moved on the protesters. Most backed off as the officers double-timed into the crowd. Thoss who didn't were persuaded with clubs. In less than five minutes the street was cleared. The attack then Continued Page Col.

1 Induction Center Kept Open JIM WOOD and JEFF MORGAN Hundreds of law enforce ment officers clashed with some 4,000 anti-draft demonstrators at the Oakland Induction Center today and within 20 explosive minutes the immediate area was cleared. Oakland police officers, their clubs swinging, used flying wedge tactics to force back demonstrated who had vowed to "close the draft machine." There were at least 27 per-, sons treated for injuries, none serious, at hospitals. Early arrests totaled 20, compared with 123 yesterday. At a rump rally on the Sprout Hall steps in Berkeley this afternoon, Reese Erlich, a member of the Stop the Draft Week steering committee, said that, 'Tomorrow we go down there twice as strong as we did today." Erlich, wearing a red hard hat, advised the audience to get crash, construction or football helmets and take along plywood picket sips to use as shiedlds. This morning few of the demonstrators carried such protection.

the crowd to-disperse from 15th and Clay Streets, the i swept the area, pushing the demonstrators from the streets onto the sidewalks, where they were jammed shoulder to shoulder against the front of the induction center. Many fell to the street as they scrambled to escape the swinging nightsticks. Women fell to the ground, glasses were broken and demonstra- gas sprayed by "police from pressurized can The line was. abandoned by police later as the demonstrators dispersed. Newsmen estimated there may have been as many as 1,000 Oakland police, sheriffs deputies and California Highway Patrolmen on duty.

Officials refused to disclose the number. Squads of helmeted officers pushed into the crowd. Epithets were shouted at police. As police pressed forward they jabbed and shoved with Continued Page 4, Col. 1 Wouldn't Cool Breeze Feel Good? A wapi air mass hanging almost motionless "over the Bay Area will keep temperatures between 80 and 95 degrees for the next several days, the weatherman predicted today.r In the almost windless heat yesterday Oakland reached 86 degrees, equalling Sacramento's high.

Downtown San Francisco was a breathless 85. Highest readings were 90 at Pittsburg, 89 at Richmond, 88 at Llvermore and Pleasanton and 86 at Orlnda and Fremont. Temperatures west of the Oakland-Berkeley hills may get to 90 degrees today and tomorrow," and on the Contra Costa side they may reach 95, according to the forecast. East Gtrmm Fleet BERLIN (AP) A 21-year-old East German border guard climbed the Communist wall he was guarding and fled Into West Berlin early today, police British spokesman at the U.N. said the reports were "not I.

i wen iounaea. King Hussein of Jordan, re-- comparative moder- ate among me atsds, wno is desperately trying to save his little country from economic ft co ton onH nnlitinl phanc UUClOtll CU1U uumvui vuuvu flew to Cairo for the second-" conference in three weeks with Egyptian President Nas-j; ser, leader of 'the militants. -He may also visit the U.S, Another Cairo conference -J took place between Sir Harold Beeley, former British Am- i bassador to Egypt and Arab League Secretary General Ab- delHassouna. But the focus of all the dip-. lomatie talk remained at Jthe 1 U.S.

headquarters, whereihe t' IChriichrhPv Giant Rally in Sproul Plaza By FRED GARRETSON and GAILE RUSS Organizers of an anti-draft teach-m at the University of California in Berkeley, locked out of the Student Union by court order, moved outside to Sproul Plaza last night. Estimates of the size of the crowd "that mobbed plaza ranged as high as 10,000. Others set the num- Text of Restraining Order-on Page 7 ber of activists, students, professors and the curious at 000, or fewer. They began massing at the campus about 9:30 p.m. after a group of 1,500 marched up from Berkeley's Civic Center Park.

There, speakers urged the group on to U.C., saying the injunction against use of campus facilities for anti-draft activities was just I'a scrap of paper." Counsel Richard Moore todaya dthe Alameda County Board of Supervisors that mere had been no violation at the university of the temporary restraining order against a teach-in at the Student Union. The order applied only to use of buildings on campus. Reports that the rally last night constituted a violation of the, court order were erroneous, Moore added. When the first ones arrived at the plaza, U.C. Vice Chancellor William Boyd and Dean of Students Arleigh Williams asked them to leave in view of Continued Page 5, Col.

HEW MOTTO" 4 UVhiL Foreign 1:1 Continued on Page 3, Col. 4 This is the third in a se- President Johnson and current Premier Alexei N. Kosy- Roe Policy By HENRY SHAPIRO MOSCOW (UPI j-Apart from his China 'policy; with its divi-, ries by the dean of Mos-sive. on relations beT- cow correspondents mark-tween the two 'Communist ing Xhe 50th anniversary Qons to foreign affairs. in -Vietnam 'Blood on Moon' After Midnight A spectacular "blood on the moon" eclipse should be visible to Bay Area residents early tomorrow if skies are clear as forecast The moon should turn a deep copper color by about 2:45 a.m.

The moon will begin to van--, lsh in the shadow of earth at 12:10 a.m. tomorrow. The lunar orb will be totally obscured between 2:45 a.m. and 3:46 a.m. The eclipse will end at 6:21 a.m." A rare Vocculation" of the ringed planet Saturn was seen In.

the East, but not locally, last night when the nearly full, moon hid Saturn for-nearly an gin, aimed at East-West ac-commodaton. 1 1 -tThls effort has been arrest- fc? ed though not abandoned pending a settlement of the Vietnam war. V'f This girl urged And Left The wife of an Oakland trucking firm owner was kidnaped at knife point, beaten and left for dead while her home was burglarized. Mrs. Joyce Williamson, 35, was ialone when a young man broke into her home at 9600 XJolf Links Road yesterday, and grabbed-her as she walked downstairs from a bedroom.

told police the barefoot youth dragged her back upstairs, where he gagged, and blindfolded her with nylon stockings and surgical gauze. Before she was gagged she told him there was some $150 in a small chest in another bedroom, but ignoring this he held pocket knife at her, throat and forced her to walk to a house under construction' next door. Her' bindings had become Housewife support of fighting men Beaten for Dead loosened, and she began a fight for her life in which she was almost strangled, and beaten with a piece of lumber. She grabbed for the knife, severely cutting all of her fingers, and as she reached for a board to hit him the. youth a her throat and choked her into unconsciousness.

Police say he also struck Mrs. Williamson over the head while she was uncon-. scious, and left her for dead. regained consciousness in time to see her attacker walking toward her with the box of money in his hands. As he approached her she closed her eyes and feigned sciousness until he left the house.

1 1 Mrs. Williamson called lice from a neighbor's Continued Page $, Col. I Russian revolutionary ardor, which began to cool even In SUIbl'i lifPtinv ronrhoH its' lowest de irtes in the Most significant were his attempts to normalize ic relations with all and his reactivation of the slogan of peaceful coexistence with non-Communist Khrushchevian effort at detente was and still is by some regarded with natural suspicion, but some polit- ical scientists and diplomats now have even begun to think vaguely in terms of an ulti mate possible Soviet Amert- can entente to face the menac ing winds blowing from China. Americans and. Russians alike, foUoring.

the chilling eyeball to eyeball confronta tion during the missile crisis of 1962, applauded the Kennedy logue and its continuation by Khrushchev Brezhnev era! uiuvyuiuuuil VA WVTtCfc youth when I first came to this country in the early 1930s was aimed at maklnir "srd- 0f rld revoludon." They are now trained to be Soviet patriots and not legion- -nalres of foreign revolution. The almost evangelic fervor Continued Page CL 1 i it i i.

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