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ft ATI THE CMC I27TH YEAR NO. 122 HNAI, KWTION WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 9, 1967 PRICE 10 CENTS 5 ir men nam Ford Says Handcuffs wr -wsr a Put On A In Viet WASHINGTON (UPI) House Republican leader Gerald R. Ford charged Tueeday that U. S. fighting men have been "handcuffed by secret restraints" barring air attacks on major military targets in North Vietnam.

In a major break with President Johnson on the conduct of the war, Ford said he had just obtained "absolute confirmation" that many power plants, oil depots, air defense control centers, rail and canal points, and even military bases were ruled exempt from attack. Ford, who refused to disclose his source, said he learned that of more than 100,000 combat missions over North Vietnam in 1966, only about 1000 were directed at what he called significant strategic targets. Ford said he does not know the reason for the Washington-directed curb on North Vietnamese bombing targets. If, as suggested by Administration spokesmen, the aim is to avoid escalating the war, he said, this manifestly has failed. "I believe that ending the war in Vietnam must have the very highest of national priorities, now," the Michigan lawmaker said in a speech prepared for the House.

He said he was not suggesting a pullout but rather that the U. S. air and sea arms be turned loose "to hit hard enough and convincingly enough" to bring the enemy to his knees. Ford said President Johnson had failed to make a case either for a Wo tax increase or for the planned dispatch of 45,000 more troops to fight a massive ground war In Vietnam. Ford, previously a qualified supporter of Mr.

Johnson's escalation of the Vietnam fighting, said he is running out of patience waiting for Mr. Johnson to signal bombing attacks on "targets of real significance." Ford said only about one-fourth of the known oil storage tanks in North Vietnam had been hit and that "a significant percentage" are off limits; that after 2Vi years of only 3 of every 10 significant military targets had been struck, and that "nearly half the identified top priority targets in North Vietnam were officially off-limits to air attack under high-level order from Washington." Ford said the real issue now is "whether we really have any hope of winning the Vietnam war, in the sense of meaningful and concerted military pressure that could force the enemy to the negotiating table." The White House said President Johnson would have no comment on Ford's speech. 's '1 m. ii. a OP aeds Mouse LB Bill etback fered additional language to the Cahill amendment that would require that measures against riots and organized crime be given priority.

The administration bill had not mentioned riots. THE MacGREGOR provision was approved by a teller vote of 189 to 9f. Under a teiler vote members by a central point and are cuntedi. Later, the Cahill amendment was adoottc' by a roll call vote of 256 to 14" Fobert McC.ciy offered Of Hidden Side LUNAR ORBITER 5's telephoto lens came up with this wide angle view of the Moon's hidden side. At left, visible portion is about one fourth of the side of the Moon hidden from Earth.

Small visible features are abrmt 1500 feet across. At right, the spacecraft's lens from an altitude of 1060 miles captured the lunar panorama at close range (enclosed area at righti. The area measures 180 by 590 miles. The pictures were released Tuesday by Jet Propulsion Laboratory In Pasadena. Calif.

Aid 'Now' Urged To Halter Riots World Image Damaged Riots Injure U. S. WASHINGTON Sen. Abraham Ribicoff iD Conn.) told the Senate Tuesday the government should send $1.1 billion in emergency aid to riot-threatened American cities "not next month, not next summer, but now." Ribicoff and Sen. Charles H.

Percy 111.) proposed that Con-press authorize President Johnson to earmark up to 2 of the domestic budget for emergency programs In cities. "The time has definitely come for action." Ribicoff said. "This would he an opportunity (or Congress to act fast, for the Executive to act fast, and not wait for the results of further study." Percy said President Johnson Johnson needs authority to adjust national and budget priorities. "And certainly in the past month the order of priorities changed in this country." he sctd. "We by no means wish to imply that we want to reward the rioters." Percy said.

He said riots must be met with vigorous law enforcement and the emergency aid program would include provision for police assistance. BIT PERCY also said tens of thousands of Innocent people have an amendment to establish a Institute for training police officers under a section of the bill nat provides for research and training McClory said the institute be patterned after but would be separate from the FBI's academy He said it would reach officers who have not been able to secure FBI training. TO THIS, W.lliam C. Cramer added a provision to stress action against r.ots and organized crime The McClory amendment, damage depends on the area. It is pronounced in the Middle East and Africa, less noticeable in the advanced countries such as Japan and those of Western Europe.

RED CHINESE reaction left the reader with the impression Peking would like to contribute to and even direct U. S. racial violence. Fidel Castro's Communist followers in Latin America made similar noises. Moscow propaganda had a field day with news accounts, pictures, cartoons and pronouncedly hostile comment, typified by Izvestia's unusually long front-page editorial recently, entitled "Shame of America." "In Vietnam," it began, "villages and towns arc burning.

In America, Negro ghettos are burning." It went on to link the two situations, calling both struggles for "liberation." In non-Communist countries normally friendly to the United States there are frequent expressions of sympathy for America's problems and attempts to fathom the root AP Wlrtph-H Blusts, Fire Crime (i) New York Times Service WASHINGTON Republicans in the House, backed by Southern Democrats, succeeded Tuesday in drastically revising President Johnson's chief anticrlme bill to give the most controls to the states and write in strong antiriot provisions. The bill, virtually rewritten to Republican specifications, was passed by a vote of 377 to 23. ALL AFTERNOON, administration Democrats were in disarray as the Republicans confidently took charge and pushed their amendments through. The action was a blow to President Johnson, who had submitted the bill as the heart of his crusade against crime. It now goes to the Senate, which may be able to restore some of the administration features, which were based on studies and recommendations of the President's crime commission.

As submitted by President Johnson earlier this year, the bill would provide for grants funneled through the attorney general to cities, states and other Institutions for strengthening law enforcement agencies through training, equipment and research. William T. Cahill N. offered an amendment providing that the chief grants to law enforcement agencies be administered not by the attorney general but by the governments of each of Ihe 50 states, which would set up their own agencies for overseeing the expenditure of the money. Advocates of this amendment said they feared that Attorney General Ramsey Clark would institute guidelines that would give the Federal government control over local law enforcement agencies, as they said had been done in education and other areas.

Clark MacGregor Minn.) of Six Missing TBtlffllMM 3 with Cramer's addition, passed by a teller vote of 101 to 85. As reported by the judiciary committee, the bill would call for an authorization of $50 million for the current fiscal year going up to $1 billion by 1972. The House increased the first-year authorization to $75 million an amendment offered by Jomns G. O'Hira, (D who iri the extra money was needed to cover the antiriot provisions writ U.n into bill. Prestige causes.

There is obvious puzzlement and fear of contagion. But many a friend is sharply critical, too. EUROPE WATCHED U. S. developments uncomfortably.

In France, amid evidence of concern and puzzlement, -there was a hint of gloating among those remembering France's sanguinary troubles with Algerians. Some French remarked that Americans bomb Vietnam in the name of liberty, but cannot assure liberty in their own cities. Others expressed fear that U. S. tensions would Inspire trouble for France.

The French import large numbers of colored laborers whose communities are potentially explosive. Britain eyes the situation warily. The British, too, have been having race troubles. The most prevalent British viewpoint was that both Vietnam and America's race problem had gotten out of hand. Remembering their own difficulties, the British often took the view that people in glass houses should avoid throwing stones.

West Germans expressed sympathy for the United States. But Germans criticized U. S. authorities as well as the rioters, basing the criticism on the realities of Negro life amid U. S.

affluence. Gas Threat Detours Parkway's Traffic Columbia Parkway traffic was haltPd for an hour Tuesday afternoon when p. test drilling outfit struck a gas main. The test bores are for new er.stbound lanes. Babe Ruth Ball, driller for the si.

Nutting 4120 Airport sale! he knew immediately what happened when gas pressure, estimated at 100 pounds per square inch, blew dirt 12 feet in the air round the auger. He quickly shut off the rig's engine. Three engine companies and a truck company rushed to the scene, taking positions on both Columbia Parkway and Hoff Avenue, Atarshall Melvin Cunningham said. Police blocked traffic from the Parkway at both Delta Avenue and Torrence Road until a gascope test Cincinnati Gas Electric Co. repairmen shoved no danger of an explosion in thj concentration of Rimes blown onto the parkway by the wind.

Cable Was Shot A report from the FBI laboratory In Washington, D. showed that fragments of a .22 caliber rifle bullet were found In a Cincinnati Gas Electric Co. power cable found damaged on the Bridge, Chief of Police Jacob Schott said Tuesday. The cable, which was damaged July 9, was in the same area on the bridge as the cable which caused the massive Cincinnati blackout May 26, Schott said. The FBI lab was unable to find what damaged the cable on May 28.

-AP Wirfphoto heen victimized by city riots, and need help. "We must remember that we have several weeks of summer left, with next summer to be here all too soon." said Sen. Thruston B. Morton He said emergency funds could be used to provide jobs for youthful Negroes who might otherwise become the leader of riots. AND HE said criminal records should be no bar to such employment.

"That's the man we've got to get to and get to quickly in order to put out the fire," Morton said. He has proposed that lOCr of the budget items covering urban programs be earmarked for emergency assistance to cities. Sen. Hugh Scott Pa.) Introduced a resolution calling for a neighborhood action crusade, to op-crate for the remainder of the summer seeking to relieve city tensions. It would seek to enlist volunteers to patrol their own neighborhoods, disperse crowds, listen to grievances and "keep the smouldering embers from becoming a conflagration." Scott said the Federal government would provide funds and equipment to support the program.

Administration officials conceded privately there is little possibility of any significant job cut-jnck even though Mr. Johnson has announced efforts to curtail spending as much as $4 billion under the "cut, tax and borrow" program he sent Congress last week. The outlook is for rising employ-inert, officials said, because only i. relatively small portion of Federal spending: Is "controllable" by the Administration and because Mr. Johnson will not cut antipoverty programs, controllable or not.

Summer jobj for slum dwellers, youth work-training pro-prams and otimr efforts to alle-vi at 3 poverty are viewed officially h.c top-priority measures this summer because of racial tensions in ihe cities. "It's a political impossibility to cut the antipoverty programs," one miumb explained, "Mayors and sov-rrnors want more, not less, Fed-ral spending on measures that may prevent riots, looting: and burning." The civilian pay roll topped $20 til lion in the fiscal year ended congressional joint (cmmlttee reported that civilian rncy wages and salaries totaled 118 billion while the Defense De-I'U'tnient paid out $8.6 billion to its civliipn workers, fur a total of S20.4 billion. Some officials were skeptical from the outlet that sizable savings could be found. Mr. Johnson specifically excluded antipoverty programs from A Cutting U.

S. Job Ranks Expanding BY WILLIAM L. RYAN AP Special Correspondent Race violence in U. S. cities has delivered a stinging blow to American prestige in the world.

American sources admit that damage has been done, but say it could have been worse. Even anions friends there was a tendency to link the race troubles to U. S. involvement in Vietnam and to comment that a nation unable to preserve peace at home hardly could expect to do so 10,000 miles away. Enemies of the American system pounced on the eruptions as unexpected gifts to their propaganda.

The more extreme, following Red China's line, professed to regard the outbursts as heralding the downfall of U. S. democracy. An Associated Press survey indicates that the race violence, coupled with U. S.

problems in coping with Communist guerrilla war in Vietnam, has had an eroding effect on the U. S. image. The extent of the In Lmrisiami WASHINGTON i.ti The rising number of Federal civilian employees probably will pass three million this month despite cost-cutting orders Issued by President Johnson. Executive branch employment totaled 2,980,156 In June, according to the Congressional Joint Com--nittee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures.

That represents a rise of nearly 500,000 employees since Mr. Johnson Kok office In November, 1963, and Is the highest on record except for during and just pfter World War II. The Weulhvr Warm and humid with scattered showers and thundershowers. Low K5 to 69, high 83 to 87. Details, Map on Iage 18 Page Action Line Amusem'nt 23-25 Bridge 19F Business 45-48 Classified 27-37 Columnists 'i Comics 18-1PF Crass word 1PF Deaths 27 Page Editorials Horse Sense Jumble People IDF 19F 2 IS 41-44 Society Sports Star Gazer Top Of News 3 TV-Radio 2: Word Game 12F control at midday.

Nearby ships were forced to move to a safer harbor during the explosions and fire in the $500 million oil complex, which houses plants of other major companies. EXPLOSIONS ROCKED a giant Cities service oil refinery five miles south of Lake Charles, Tuesday, sending flames raging over the plant, injuring at least six workmen and leaving six missing. The fire, starting with a blast at 4:45 a. was brought under Food, Women's Pages 14, 16-17, 1-20F Local and Area News Pages 21-22 tmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i.