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4- THE CAPITAL TIMES, Friday, June 25, 1971 Johnson Memoirs Bare War Plans (Continued from Page 1) leffect." Washington only a few hours The first time, he writes, was after Kennedy's assassination in an attack on an air base at November, 1963. Bien Hoa: the second, bombIn the highlights of his chap- ing of an American officers' bilters on Vietnam, portraying let in Saigon. It was until more than five years of growing February of 1965, when an atU.S. involvement, Johnson tack on a U.S. base at Pleiku says: killed eight Americans, howOn March 17, 1964, he ap- ever, that the strikes were fiproved a recommendation by nally authorized, he writes.

Defense Secretary McNamara Even though the decision to that U.S. forces should be pre- get ready to begin bombing pared for a "program of gradu- came in September, 1964, Johnated military pressure against son was presenting a far differthe North." ent impression to the public. During the 1964 presiden- During a campaign appearance tial campaign, Robert Kennedy before steel workers in Atlanta volunteered to go to South Viet- City on Sept. 25, Johnson, in nam as the U.S. ambassador.

a slap at his Republican oppoDuring the same cam- nent, Sen. Barry Goldwater, paign, all that he meant by his said: "You know it takes a that he man who loves his country to often-quoted statement would not send U.S. troops "to build a honse instead of a ravdo the fighting that Asian boys sing, ranting demogogue who should do for themselves 39 was wants to tear one down." At anthat America should not "take campaign appearance, he other charge" of the war or provoke a describec the contest between Goldwater and himself as one conflict with China. "I did not "between the center and the mean we were not going to do fringe, between the responsible any fighting, for we had already lost many good men in Viet- mainstream of American experience and the reckless and renam." jected extremes In September, 1964, Johnson approved a contingency And in another statement that plan for bombing, recom-, month, Johnson said: "There mended by the military, to be forces implemented made if "spectacular" Communist, to go North and drop bombs, are those who say, 'You ought a try to wipe out the supply to tack i in the South. But he then and they think that would escawaited until Feb.

7, 1965, to late the We don't want our war. start bombing, twice rejecting American boys to do the fightadvice from military advisers ing for Asian boys. We don't begin want to. get 1 tied down in a to earlier. On Feb.

17, 1965, Johnson land war in Asia." met with former president Ei- In his book, Johnson explains senhower and was urged to that statement, and several mount a "campaign of pres- similar ones he made during the sure" against the North. same period, with these words: About three weeks after the "I was answering those who first major battle involving preposed, or implied, that we American ground troops in a should take charge of the war Campaign in June, 1965, John- or carry out actions that would son authorized a 25,000 man risk a war with Communist troop increase to 75,000. He China. I did not mean that we writes, "I was convinced that were not going to do any fightour retreat from this challenge ing, for we had already lost would open the path to World many good men in Vietnam." War III." According to the Pentagon At the 1967 Glassboro sum- study, Johnson also ordered, in mit conference, Soviet Premier private meetings with advisers Kosygin told Johnson that if the during that same month, sevU.S. stopped bombing, peace eral more military steps in adnegotiations would start, but no dition to the bombing continmutually agreeable terms for gency plans.

They included the pursuing that peace feeler could resumption of destroyer patrols be reached. off North Vietnam and covert South Vietnamese commando raids in North Vietnam with Johnson prefaces his chronol- American support, the study ogy of his Vietnam decisions by said. Those raids, under the saying, "I have not written code name of 34A, originally orthese chapters to say, "this is dered by Johnson to increase it but to say, 'this is pressure against North Viethow I saw it from my vantage nam, grew in scope during the summer of 1964, according to In 1964, while taking the steps the Pentagon papers. that led to an extensive U.S. During some of the raids, U.

military effort in Vietnam, S. ships, including destroyers, Johnson writes, "I had mo- were standing by in internaments of deep discouragement, tional waters off North Viettimes when I felt that the South nam, the study said. Two of the Vietnamese were their own destroyers, the Maddox and the worst enemies. The South VietJoy, figured in a key innamese seemed to have a ternational incident. strong impulse toward political suicide." Johnson's portrait of his early According to Johnson's acstance coincides count, he got a report from a policy-making to a certain extent with the pic- Pentagon duty officer on Aug.

2 ture drawn in the embattled that the Maddox had been atPentagon study, indicating a tacked by three North Vietnampresident considering plans for ese torpedo boats. Johnson major military operations while writes decided that day hesitating at several points to against any immediate retaliaput those plans into effect. That tion. Two days later, Johnson picture becomes particularly writes, the Turner Joy was atclear in Johnson's account of tacked. But Johnson's book goes the steps leading to the U.S.

along with other accounts in rebombing raids. porting some confusion at the scene over what actually Although no "formal" bomb- pened. "The destroyer Maddox ing proposal had been advanced questioned whether the many by his advisers during his first reports of enemy torpedo year in the White House, John- were all valid," he writes. son writes "the idea of hitting Nonetheless, the Pentagon North Vietnam with air power, study said, Johnson then oreither on a reprisal basis or in a dered limited retaliatory strikes sustained campaign, had been against the North, using contindiscussed inside the govern- gency plans already prepared. ment, in Saigon and i in the "The Tonkin Gulf reprisal conAmerican press for some time stituted an important firebreak and the Tonkin Gulf resolution According to the classified set U.

S. public support for virPentagon study that has sur- any action," it said. faced in in recent days, the presi- Johnson writes that in early dent, June of 1964 considered 1965. with the full-scale bombing "the political conventions just of the North finally under way, around the corner and the elec- he received more advice suption issues regarding Vietnam porting a further widening offer clearly drawn." So he held the war. On the night of Feb.

7, back, the study said, from seek- the same day that Johnson oring any major escalation and dered the air strikes, special from seeking any congressional presidential adviser McGeorge approval for it. Bundy came back from Saigon Then, on Sept. 9, 1954, a little with recommendation that the a more than a month after the be of war policy one "gradual Tonkin Gulf incidents, Johnson and continuing received recommendations, reprisal." from the State and Defense de- writes, he met with Eisenhower Ten days later, Johnson, partments, he writes, support- and to continue ing the bombing of the North. was urged a "campaign of pressure." JohnJohnson says that he ordered son says that Eisenhower told that contingency plans for such raids be prepared. him that during the Korean war, Eisenhower had told the (that) order, the enemy that if a settlement were "Acting on forces made plans to not reached, U.

S. rethe would military retaliate by air against the move "the limits we were obNorth if the North Vietnamese serving as to the area of comor Viet Cong hit U.S. forces or bat and the weapons emcarried out some kind of 'spec- ployed." tacular' attack in South Vietnam," he writes. "Twice before It was against the background the year was out, I was asked to of such advice, Johnson writes, put those contingency plans into that his administration began in Gas Blast Fatal to 17 Linked to Feb.9 California Quake that period to move into a ground war. "in March, agreed to Gen.

(William) Westmoreland's we land two Marine battalions to provide security for the Dan Nang air base." According to the Pentagon study, Hanoi's failure to respond to the initial strikes with an offer of negotiations surprised and discouraged the Johnson administration. After a month, the study said, Johnson decided that the only alternative was to step up the war on the ground as well. Johnson writes that during the first two days of April, he approved an increase of 18,000 to 20,000 men in American support forces, the deployment of two more Marine battalions and a Marine air squadron and a change in the previously scheduled Marine mission. That change, the book says, permitted "their more active use" subject to approval from the State and Defense departments. By the end of April, the total ground troop level had exceeded 5,000, and the U.S.

was well on its way to a deeper involvement. Nearly three months later, on July 28, Johnson was still sayling publicly that the troop deployments did not signal any change in the nation's Vietnam policy. At a news conference that day, he said: "It does not imply any change in policy whatever. It does not imply any change of objective." During the bombings, Johnson writes, the U.S. crews "made fantastic efforts" to avoid killing civilians.

But he adds: "they could not be totally successful, it is true, and that was a constant source of sorrow to me." Johnson's Vietnam chapters also touch on some of the diplomatic maneuvers accompanying the escalation of the war. At one point, hisa count seems to confirm previously published reports that in February, 1967, Prime Minister Harold Wilson of Britain received a peace feeler from Hanoi through Pre-. mier Alexei Kosygin. The Soviet leader, in London at the said that stopping the bombing would lead to peace talks, Johnson writes. Johnson responded with his own set of proposals, according to the book, and asked for an answer from Hanoi within 24 hours.

Wilson then complained, Johnson writes, that 24 hours was not enough time. In the end, the book says, there was no response from Hanoi. When Kosygin returned to Moscow, the U.S. resumed bombing. At the Glassboro conference in June, 1967, Johnson writes, Kosygin again proposed that a bombing halt would lead to peace negotiations.

Johnson reiterated his insistence, he writes, that Hanoi must not take advantage of a bombing cessation, Kosygin relayed that position to Hanoi, Johnson writes, but the U.S. never received an answer. At one point in his account, Johnson writes that the concept of turning the war over to the South Vietnamese was a major goal of his administration in 1968. Somewhat pointedly, he writes that that policy later was adopted by President Nixon and called Vietnamization. At another point, the Johnson book says that two French intermediaries returned to Paris, after a visit to Hanoi and told Henry Kissinger, then a Harvard professor and now a key Nixon foreign policy adviser, that Hanoi would begin talks if the bombing stopped.

The intermediaries said that the halt need not be billed as permanent step, according to the book. Storm Hits (Continued from Page 1) city when lightning hit a transat the Fitchburg substation. WISC-TV, Channel 3, reported it was off the air from about 9:25 to 10:15 p.m. Part of the Nakoma area was darkened for about an hour and a half when a primary wire on Western Avenue was knocked out. A funnel cloud was reported, sighted in the Sun Prairie area moving toward Marshall, but Marshall and Dane County police were unable to confirm it.

Robert Goodall, operations officer for the Civil Defense, said there was no evidence of tor. nado damage in the county. George Byington, district manager for Wisconsin Power and Light reported that damage from lightning and winds was extensive in southwestern Wisconsin. A WPL spokesman said power was off at Verona for about 20 minutes. By BILL KOSMAN I LOS ANGELES (P) A state mining official says there could be some connection between the devastating Feb.

9 earthquake and a fiery natural methane gas explosion that ripped through an underground tunnel, apparently killing 17 workers. Dr. Gordon B. Oakeshott, deputy chief of the California Division of Mines and Geology, said the quake possibly could disturbed underground formations and caused seepage of the deadly gas that exploded Thursday. "During an earthquake like that, underground formations are disturbed.

Springs sometimes start and stop, ground water is sometimes disturbed, any fluid, oil and gas would bel disturbed," he said. Seven bodies have been recovered and rescue teams continued to search for 10 missing workers. City fire rescue crews said dense smoke and debris hampered efforts to find the missing men. 1. Conditions inside the tunnel were described as "untenable to support life." Only one worker in the tunnel has been found alive.

The other 17 are presumed dead. The tunnel, being excavated as part of a state water project, traverses foothills near the quake epicenter outside ban Sylmar, about 30 miles northwest of Los Angeles. It is close to Olive View Hospital, which was severely damaged by the tremblor which killed 64 persons and caused damage estimated at $1 billion. The area is studded with oil wells, and Oakeshott said there were numerous pockets of methane gas, a common companion to oil deposits, trapped in folds of rock formations. He said earth movement caused by the Feb.

9 quake and the more than 300 aftershocks that have followed could have fractured the rock formations to provide "escape pathways" for the gas. Fire officials said seepage from the oil fields doubtless helped fuel a 14-hour fire that followed the blast which blocked rescue attempts for more than 12 hours. The sole survivor of the blast -wan, red-eyed and weakened by injuries-told reporters from his hospital bed that he thought he felt two explosions in the tunnel, which is five miles long and about 200 feet beneath the earth. "I thought I was going to pass out and I guess I did," said Ralph Brisette, 33. "I found self lying in water, washing my face and drinking." He was found after stumbling more than four miles to the tunnel's portal.

Fire officials say the gas probably was touched off by a spark from drilling equipment, The explosion in the tunnel was the second in two days. On Wednesday a smaller blast, also attributed to methane gas, i injured four workmen. One had 1 to be hospitalized. After the earlier blast engineers tested the tunnel atmosphere and said they found no undue gas accumulations. The tunnel a link in the $3 billion, 444-mile state water project to transport surplus Northern California water to heavily populated Southern California, is being built by Lockheed Shipbuilding and Construction Co.

a division of the troubled aerospace giant. It is within 2,100 feet of completion. Only the cars remained in their stalls after the garage blew away at the Madonna Towers Retirement Home at Rochester, Thursday night. Tornado-like winds battered the city just before the supper hour, causing widespread damage and about a dozen minor injuries. (AP Wirephoto) High Court to Hear Times, Post Cases (Continued from Page 1) of a ruling by the U.S.

circuit court for the District of Columbia. Griswold said The Post should be prevented at least temporarily from using the items listed in a "special appendix" filed by government attorneys last Monday in the New York court, as well as additional items the Justice Department might add today. Contents of the list are being kept secret. Griswold said "a small amount of material" was involved. Until the two newspaper cases reached their chambers, the justices were planning to recess on Monday until October.

They were putting the finishing touches on a half- dozen pending decisions and considering scores of piled-up appeals. Whether these plans will be interrupted is uncertain. But since the two circuit courts have reached conflicting conclusions and questions about national security and press freedom have been raised, the high court almost is compelled to act. A hearing next Monday or Tuesday is possible. Lawyers for The Times asked for one "at the earliest practical date." They said "the case on its face presents urgent issues of over-riding public importance which should be promptly decided by this court." "For the first time in can history," The Times said, "a newspaper has been enjoined from publishing news." In other developments: The Boston Globe today resumed publication of news service dispatches dealing with the secret Pentagon papers, but the newspaper did not print any accounts developed by its own writers from documents in The Globe's possession.

The way was cleared for The Globe to publish news service stories Thursday when U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Julian clarified his earlier order to permit the newspaper to print such accounts or news from sources aside fhom its own Pentagon file. A hearing on the government's application for a prelimlinary injunction against The Globe was postponed until 10 a.m. Tuesday. It was to have been held today.

There was no given for the delay. A federal grand jury in Los Angeles that is investigating the leak of the Pentagon papers was told by a woman Thursday that Daniel Ellsberg paid her $150 to make copies of unspecified documents for him, her attorney said. According to a former New York Times reporter, Ellsberg gave copies of the report to The Times. The attorney, Luke McKissack, said 28-year-old Linda Old Synagogue (Continued from Page 1) regular Tuesday night meeting before the matter came up on the agenda. Time is important since the synagogue must be moved by July 10.

After the aldermen had resolved their procedural difficulties, they heard Forster complain about "considerable publicity" in The Capital Times regarding his synagogue stand. As the paper had pointed out, Forster made the adjournment motion Tuesday night. "If I'm an obstructionist, then all the aldermen who voted with me (for adjournment) were obstructions, too," he said. Of an editorial comment on his "bar-room humor," Forster said, "Perhaps that comes from my associations with the press." Besides regretting the "abuse" he had suffered, he said, he disapproved of the picture the paper had used. Forster said he had talked with many residents about the synagogue "and they all think it's a pile of junk." The building is a nationallydesignated historic landmark.

Once moved, it will be restored to its original condition. In other action, the Council: Passed an ordinance prog the sale of turtles, which have been found to be a source of salmonella infection, in he city; on record in favor of federal general revenue shar- Approved a transfer of the liquor license for Buzz' Locker Room, 2013 Winnebago from Lowell LaMore to his father-inlaw, C. J. Hermanson, in the wake of neighborhood objections to LaMore's operation of the tavern; Authorized traffic signal installations at the following intersections: Randall and Regent: Buckeye, Lake Edge and Monona; Bedford and West Washington; University and Whitney Way; John Nolen and Rimrock; Emil, Ann and Fish Hatchery; International and Packers. Powell Estate Suit (Continued from Page 1) commingling his funds.

We will town, Scott said. The attorney general said he will, among other things, seek to: Prove that much of tael, mysterious $850,000 cash hoard stashed in Powell's St. Nicholas Hotel room and statehouse office belongs to the state. Learn if any of Powell's $700,000 in cash and negotiable securities, discovered last January in an Edwardsville bank, belongs to the public. Show the court that Powell commingled public and private funds.

"We do not know that he was Art Auction Sinay testified she duplicated the documents in late 1969 or early 1970 on a xerox machine in her advertising office. He said his client "didn't give them (the grand jury) any information they didn't already have." Miss Sinay termed Ellsberg "a dear friend" but said it had been a year since she has seen him. Ellsberg (Continued from Page 1) copies which the Pentagon made of its study. Another person subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury, Anthony J. Russo, 34, worked for Rand from 1964 to 1969.

McKissack said Russo also was a friend of Mrs. Sinay. The Justice Department says the grand jury investigation concerns possible violations of national security laws. CBS- House (Continued from Page 1) Jesus picked 12 disciples and one sold him for 30 pieces of silver, another deserted him on the night he was crucified, and another doubted him when he came back. "It is most unfair to refer to our news organization as being traitors," Stanton said.

"I don't say they were traitors," Staggers replied. "I said Jesus had those and he picked what he thought were the 12 most perfect men he could find." Daley Gives Big Welcome To Nixon CHICAGO (P) Perhaps Chicago's Democratic mayor, Richard J. Daley, wants his city to host the 1972 Republican National Convention. In any event Daley turned out after dark to welcome President. Nixon to Thursday night- something he does not always do for Republican officeholders.

Moreover, he rode with Nixon through the streets in a White House limousine and stationed the Democratic bagpipe band of his home ware in front of the president's hotel for a welcoming serenade. Chicago and Miami are among the cities bidding for next year's political nominating conclaves, but rumor has it Nixon would favor a convention in San Diego, not fare from his San Clemente voting residence. Daley provided Nixon with a motorcycle escort, sirens screaming, although Nixon normally gives advance orders he does not want sirens. Girl Hurt in Fall from Car A 17-year-old Kenosha girl, Karen M. Friedrich, was treated at Madison General Hospital Thursday for a number bruises and abrasions after she fell from a moving car of her brother in the 400 block of South Park Street.

Miss Friedrich was a passenger in the front seat of the car driven by John J. Gentz, 22, of 424 S. Brooks St. Police said she fell from the car when the door 'apparently became unlatched. (Continued from Page 1) lack of public or private money here.

The price was the second highest ever paid at auction for a painting. The record was set last November at Christie's when Alec Wildenstein of New York paid million for Valesques painting of his mulatte apprentice "Juan de Parreja." He later sold it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. That auction produced the previous record for a day's sale of paintings: $6,609,158. The sale of the Titian was preceded by the usual public outcry that something be done to keep the painting in Britain. But the National Gallery hasn't the money to buy it, and the government made clear that it wasn't going to help out.

There had been predictions the painting might go as high as $4.8 million. Dozens of security men were posted in the 205-year-old auction house to protect the art treasures. Police feared that a psychopath agitated by the wave of anger over the prospect of the Titian going to a foreigner, might try to damage the painting. The painting depicts the legend of Actaeon disturbing the goddess Diana at her bath. For his temerity, she changed him into a stag, and her dogs tore him to pieces.

The picture is being sold by the Earl of Harewood, first cousin of Queen Elizabeth II, who needs the money to pay family death duties. Alleged Extortionist Of Gary Newspaper Is Shot GARY, Ind. (P) The FBI said today there had been an unsuccessful attempt to extort $30,000 from publisher Walter T. Ridder. A former employe of Ridder's newspaper was critically wounded in Thursday the night during gunfight course of a "payoff." The FBI said the effort to extort the money from Ridder, publisher of the Gary Post Tribune, had been made under threat of a bomb allegedly placed in the press room of the newspaper offices.

No bomb was found, authorities said. A letter received Wednesday by 54-year-old Ridder, who also is vice president of Ridder said that a bomb had been planted in the newspaper's press room and warned that if the bomb was found, the two children of associate publisher C. Darrow Tulley would be shot by a sniper. The FBI said the man shot during the gunfight was John E. Ward, 57, of Gary.

He was taken to a hospital where he was reported in critical condition with a chest wound. No one else was hurt. The FBI said Ward was charged under federal extortion laws. Ward was discharged by the newspaper about two years ago after he works for several years in charge of maintenance. Tully said Ward had been discharged after psychiatric treatment paid for by the company.

Authoritles said Ridder received a telephone call Thursday instructing him to place an advertisement in the newspaper's afternoon editions if he decided to pay the $30,000 in cash as the letter asked. The ad was published as the caller had asked and said: "We have the money the job is yours." Tully said Ridder then rea telephone call about 9 p.m. Thursday telling him to take the money and walk alone down a railroad track on the least side of Gary. The FBI said that instead, an Walter Ridder agent carrying a package filled with newspapers walked down the dark track about an hour later and was met by Ward, who fired a snotgun at the agent. Other agents nearby joined in the gunfight and wounded Ward.

Ridder could not be reached for comment immediately. Tully said the publisher was "exhausted." Tully, 40, who has been associate publisher of the Post Tribune since 1966, has two children, a 19-year-old daughter who works at the newspaper library and a 15-year-old son. He came to Gary from the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch. Both the Gary and St.

Paul newspapers are owned by a subsidiary of Ridder Publications, Northwest Publications, Inc. Ridder publications includes some 16 daily newspapers, 40 weekly publications, and radio and television stations in eight states. Ridder, president of Northwest Publications, has been publisher of the Gary Post Tribune since 1968. allege the commingling of public funds and contend that the money belongs to the Scott said. Scott conceded that his office had a "problem" in going ahead with the suit because by July 11, "we still will not know fully much of the evidence because we don't have all the information that the various grand juries investigating this case have.

"But, if we don't act now and six months from now something turns up to confirm our belief, we won't be able to file a suit because of the July 11 deadline." Set Hearing VIROQUA-The Public Service Commission will hold a public hearing July 6, at 9 a.m. in the Madison Hill Farms State office building, to discuss request by the telephone company here to establish new interim emergency phone calls at reasonable rates..