NATIONAL 20 tents UARDIAN G the progressive newsweekly VOL. 19, NO. 22. NEW YORK MARCH 4, 1967 NEW ESCALATION Johnson's bombs rebuff Hanoi bid By Wilfred Burchett anal. scan aserenweerws PHNOM. PENH. 7.aistbadJa thy cable Feb. 2Il THE NEW SIM= of escalation measures—liseluzitni "free strike" zones in North Vietnam where B.S. pilots and naval gunners dun ig bombs and shells at will, &dug deop inland by the 7th fleet, long-range sisal Mg across the demilitarised sone. the "biggest ever" offensive against what reportedly Is the National Libera- ed by their strong campaign, a world- tion Front headquarters area, and the wide cam* gn, to try to force is stop mining of Korth Vietnam rivers—was that botablr Wathingion'a clear reply to Hanoi's peace gesture. Ent the U.S. reaction was a IF WASILEVGTOlsr thinks that Hanoi's calculated risk taken by VOrth Viet- offer was m ide from a position of weak- namese leaders, and was half expected. nese and th velure a bit more escalation henew developments confirmed the will bring north Vietnam TO its knees, opinion of those who are convinced that it Is Making an enormous mistake, a Ms- President Johnsen's talk about melting take which may cost the MS- tens of peace Is fraudulent And they diminish thousands, perhaps hundreds of. thou- t he influence of those who have been sands, of A nerican lives. The MS. does pressing Hanoi for More than a year to not have a nonopoly on escalation capa- "make a gesture that would test John- city. son's sincerity." It In difficult for even After Washington's first reaction to the greatest skeptics in Hanoi to believe the offer cf talks, a high Vietnamese 004 Washington's thinking can be as Official said to me jokingly: "What does Primitive as was indicated by Defense Johnson wa st? That we invite 400,000 Secretary klablamarea statement in de. [hitless, 40,1 00 North Ealassa and a feet tense of the resumption of bombing, an thousand Climes? They'd all love to official reaction to Hanofe offer of talks oome. Then we could propose their with A SYMBOL OF THE AMERICAN PRESENCE IN SOUTH VIETNAM If the bombing ends. McNamara said the - Vientsonede skull marks entrance drawal in enhance for en American to GI's makeshift laundry effectiveness of the bombinge "fa evidenc- withdrawal from South Vietnam." This (Continued on Page 10) WASHINGTON GIVES ITS BLESSING tthannatrati SIMEMISSEWMWMIWEN IN THIS ISSUE The verdict: Status quo for CIA PHONY PLEBISCITE OP OFFICIALDOM in Washington has no indication, despite the latest .revela- went subsidies to purportedly private in- T decided to do nothing about the Cen- tams, that either House has changed its stitutions may never be known. Puerto Rico vote ., p. 3• tral Intelligence Agency precisely because mind. The entire affair boa obviously hurt It approves of what the CIA has done Only a handful of liberal congressmen the 013. overseas, even if domestic reac- SOMOZA. AGAIN and Is doing. In the woke of the sensa- seemed to disagree with Sen. Henry Jack- tion is muffled. Tice New York Times Nicara Na election p. 4 tional disclosures that the CIA haw been son (D-Wash.), who tom a television commented editorially Feb. 27 that "the funding the activities of a vast assortment audience Feb. 20 that 'Ws fine to talk of integrity of all overseas activities by SOVIET 4GRICULTURE of private liberal organization, the ma- free and voluntary groups, but this is a American student, scientific, labor and Some r ew gains jor concern of the Johnson Administra- bare-knuckled operation, without kid church organisations has been put un- P. 5 tion and the Republican Maaership. judg- gloves.' der a cloud by the impossibility of de- SDS SESSIONS ing from public statements. is to make termining what the outer limits of CIA WHAT THE ptlisLIc feels about the 300 at Princeton p. 6 sure that the CIA avoids future disclo- business is not knows No one consulted penetration are—or, Indeed, whether sures and unpleasant publicity. the public fn the first place and no one there are any outer limits." CORNELL CONFERENCE The likelihood of passage of legisla- appears to be consulting it now The BARRY GOLDWAYBIt demanded to tion that would harness the spy agency. most likely outcome of the disclosure, know Feb. 10 why the CIA was -financ- Vietnam protest P. according tq most Washington sources, first made public by Ramparts maga,- ing secialison" in the 0.S. He ass allud- does not exist. The test time a move was sine, Is that some CIA. subsidies will be ing to the fact that moat of the CIA sirlacBIRD' ON BOARDS made in Congress to put the agency un- discontinued—at least to those organi- money went to liberal or right-wing so- Lively theater p. 12 der greater surveillance—one year ago— zations which have been revealed as re- chalet organisations, the purpose. of it was defeated overwhelmingly. There is ciplents. The full extent of secret &vent- (Continued On Page 0) Report to Readers: Death and intrigue in New Orleans g N RESPONSE TO A REPORTER's comment that a of exiled anti-Castro Cubans_lit the murky details of ablation of Kennedy. He Was proceeding Quietly 1 statement of his was "bissarre." Matt lane once the events surrounding the assassination. 1.11 the New Orleans aisles-nem (followed by the said that the most bizarre thing about the assassina- • The newspapers of New Orleans acted In Is most Times-Picayune] ran a celtight story Feb. disclos- tion of President Kennedy was the assassination It- irresponsible fashion to hamper the investigation of ing the secret investigaton. Immediately scenes of self, In this contest the events In New Orleans In District Attorney Jim Garrison- newspapermen descended en New Orleans and Garrison the last weeks, as they concern the aSSaMinatiOns of • The government of the Malted States has barred was forced to drop Mute e 3 to what WM in the works. Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald, fan into place. And access to valuable information an a possible New Fie predicted arrests and (rowictions. charged obstruc- when they are examined, they are found to be not Orleans link to the assassination by classifying as tion and non-cooperation by the federal government -bizarre, but ominous—both because of their content secret facts gathered during the investigation. and stated without qualif cation that he did not be- and freplieS.tiOns and because of the efforts of the live that Oswald had `k bed anybody" on Nov. 22, • There La an unyielding determination by all press, federal investigatory agencies and Warren Com- those who complied the Warren Commission Report 1042, in Dallas. mission counsel to deride and denigrate them. What Among the persons nn[ er surveillance in New Or- emerges from the confusing newspaper stories are the to defend at all costs the tangle-murderer theory and leans was s weird figure n weed David W Fence. about following facts: SO CaSt doubt on the reliability of anyone who seeks to prove that the murderer or murderers may ell! 45, an adventurer and air Idiot whO (supposedly to • Another mysterious death has been added to the be altailS six. conceal disfigurement as the result Of an explosion) wore a red wig gilled to kla bald head, mascara eye- long list of mysterious deaths of persons Involved In olutaxsox SINCE one way or another in the assassination inquiry. Discresises has been pursuing brows and false eyelashes. He also had an arrest for leads to support his theory that there was a conspiracy allegedly molesting young bogs and was widely re- • There is considerable evidence of the complicity invorthig several .persons responsible for, the . asses- (Coatis seed. on. 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Tint (News Editor], Wil- tor- GUARDIAN EDITORIAL STAFF: on his circuitous route back to New Orlesas from officer. Km ter was with lioethe at the Rae liam A. Price, Jack A. Smith, Patricia Brooks (Cultural Affairs), Robert Joyce a most unusual "goose hunting" trip to Texas- apartment. (Art), David Reit (Art Library). LIBRARIAN: Jean Norrington. PROMO- attorney far Ruby who ac- TION and GUARDIAN EVENTS: lane McManus. BUSINESS & CIRCULA- with two other men undertaken the day. Ken- Tom -How led. an TION: Irving Beinin. DISPLAY ADVERTISING, Norval D. Welds, CLASSI- nedy was murdered. Ferris had been given a "deem companied t se two reporters to the apartment— FIED and BUYING SERVICE: Lillian Kolt. FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS: bill" by the 3131, but there are 38 pages of testi- dead of a beart attack in Dallas Cedric Belfrage tirade America). William I. Pomeroy (London], Anne Bauer mony about him in the masa of material produced Dorothy B'leafen, a Hearst reporter who broke (Paris), Wilfred &Kellett (Southeast Asia). Phyllis Rosner (Roma), Edith by the Warren Inquiry, 40 of which are barred the Ruby to Simony before the Warren Commis- Anderson (Berlin), Carleton Beals, Anna Louise Strong, Ursula Wassermann to the public in the National Archives in Wash.. sion and w m was critical of the handling 01 and J. Alvarez del Vera (correspondents at large) LDS ANGELES BUREAU: Grace Simons (News), Tel.: MA 5-8427. NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ington. Ruby and ether aspects of the investigation— GUARDIAN BUREAU: Farrell Brody, 55 Colton St., San Francisco. FERRIC WAS KNOWN to be a rabid antl-Cas- found dead in her bed in New York. 94103. Tel.: 861-1294. Robert Randolph (News), Tel.: TN 3-6509. troite and to have said that Kennedy "ought to Thomas I.enry Killian husband of a stripier, CEDRIC BELFRAGE JOHN T. MeMANUS: (1904-198I) be shot" for bungling the Bay of Piga operation in Ruby's right club, who left Dallas after the Editor-in-Exile General Manager, 1948-1961 in 1981. He Is known to have been associated murders fee Florida. Constantly hounded be with important Cubans In the exile movement "agents." h( was found dead-Ails throat slash- ed—,behind broken plate-glass window in Pen- VOL 19, No. 22 40o 401 March 4, 1967 In New Orleans, among them one man In par- ticular who moved from New Orleans to Dallas sacola. The vercllet—suicide. His brother said: before the assassination, and who has been fre- "Did you ever hear of s man committing suicide How crazy can quently mentioned In connection with the as- by jumping through a plate-glass window?" The saesinatioia. At various times Ferrie said he bad days earlier, Maui had told the tame brother: you get dept. been Involved In the Bay of Pigs fiasco and was "Pm a dead man. I've rim as far as Pm Holm Twelve former presidents of reported by New Orleans witnesses to have flown to run." the National Student Asso- several times to Cuba; but be told a Washington leek Rube himself, dead of a remarkably quick. ciation said yesterday that Post reporter ,., .._. ly discovereo cancer after he had fain neglectet they had retained "the utmost that he had for weeks in his jail cell—just weeks before 11( vigilance and independence of Judgment" while receiving as never been in was to have faced a new trial and questioning much as $400,001 a year from Cuba. by a new group of attorneys determined t< the Central Intelligence Agen- There t r y unearth ne facts that would throw new light or Letters must be Ruffled le WO wade. cy to operate their interna- discrepancies in the assassin rtion of Kennedy and Oswald. It 1.etter3 ate Imeget, 05114.1. tional program. the motel re- Also dead: A witness shot through the heat Men tbe• teller I. nave. eithoet alterreg tee ens* et the, letter. , —New York Tittles, Feb. 28 gistration forms and meatiest who was reported to have henget ceo-raer tree ee0 Lo se.n et neck New printed weer We deed. of Ferris and herself in ,. Dallas fall cell. There are other Leg. Re sere to and .r333,1 01,33 his companions whose deaths may or not be suspicious, and stll Reflecting society with rads ant, Stains Iltie reek, R. N., New York, 5.1, I n Galveston others who +sere threatened after Nov. 22. CAMBRIDGE. MASS. radicals have been and Houston on FROM IttetrE, THE GUARDIAN'S correspon- Recently the "goose- criticizing American universities single mention, in this issue, o dent Phyllis Rosner reported on a press cont. by pointing to the heavy finan- Frederick Douglass, whose ses- hunting" ex- rence with I lark Lane, author of the best-selling cial backing by the government quicentennial is being celebrated pedition which Rash to Judgment Gust published in Italy) and the military establishment, this February. —if the group Lane told el 0 reporters: and the reuniting production of He was born a slave In Mary- did leave New "I hope Garrison is strong because there sr 9JBAAX■133.. proSDAtA, end the.osiea Orleans NOV. - useful in the prosecution of land.•February, 1817. I need 'not - powerful an, I ruthless forces in she U.S. who seal tell you that Douglass was the 22 — took there to prevent I full exploration of the facts . . American foreign policy tier ex- a good Loco ample, Michael KlareSs petiole father of the present protest What impresed me is that Garrison has initiatet movement of the Negro people, miles on e.' in the Feb. 4 GUARDIAN, some end this fact is being more his investigi tions on the basis of his studies 0 thinking in the Students for a week-end, the Warren Report and the Investigations 'seen clearly recognized I finished a Democratic Society, etc.). This tour of colleges and universitiee I n g PretWus DAVID FERRIS to flow fron evidence In this Report. If the mat criticism generally Implies that little time for he a suicide? the close relationship between speaking at meetings honoring Was ter h reopened it will be reopened in New Or the Douglass's sesquicentennial, and the geese. leans, If Garrison indicts people for complicit government. business, and I would like the readers of the There are witnesses who said that Oswald had universities is basically a per- In the 8531 ssinatton, It seems unlikely to ro version of the normal or tradi- GUARDIAN not to forget this served under Ferrie In a civil air patrol unit In that Presid.nt Johnson could hold off the ap tional goals of the uolvessite, event. Writing In EBONY mag- New Orleans (where Oswald had lived for elk pointment ( f sr new commission of Inquiry tent: azine in 1913, Mary Church Ter- months prior to the assassination). Ferrie said and marks a departure from rell. the leader of the Negro after the 1138 elections." some previous golden eye of women's movement, called he had never met Oswald. did not know who he Lane sale he was prepared to go to New Or academia. Douglass "the most illustrious was: then said Oswald had served in the air leans and r at In Garrison's hands all the infer I think it would be more real- Negro leader, and to my mind patrol, but in another unit. (There were also con- motion he lad. He supported eleartion's refuse istic to admit that universities the greatest of all Americans." flWting police reports that Ferris and Oswald have never been and probably to present :as evidence to the Commission: "II Events since Ina have oral' had been picked up together in 1963.) Is quite in titled in not wishing to share th should not be isolated ivory added to Douglass's stature. towers. and that the universitY Philip Falser ON THE MORNING OF FEB. 23, about 11 o'clock, evidence wi b those who have falsified the facts. in any society is basically an In- Asked abou the role of Rober; Kennedy in Eh Philip Foner Is the author of Ferrie was found dead in his bed. Even in death stitution which reflects that so- the contradictions followed. Garrison said that inquiry, Laic said: ciety and tends to preserve and the biegrelPhy Frederick Doug- lass, published by Citadel Perri, had killed himself. The coroner, after "He is in a delicate political position. If perpetuate its needs and values. were to aaj that the Report (which he soya k Thus the research and teaching Press, New York, reading a paragraph from a letter left by Ferris universities winch sounded much like a suicide note (he re- has not r: ad) were false, it would split it current In American A second accurately reflect what Is Wrong cub fused to read more than one sentence), said that Democratic Party. Robert Kennedy believes the in American policy, domestic as SILVER. SPRINGS, MD. Ferrie had died of a ruptured blood vessel in to become ltesident Is the most Important thin well as foreign. This reflection I would like to enter a second natural cause. The coroner put I think It is more important to find out tt subscription for the GUARD- his brain—a exists In all fields. non-scientiflo the time of death sometime the previous night. truth about the death of his brother." or scientific, and in fact the at- IAN. Several friends like to read it and I often find When a Washington Post reporter disclosed that Lane sah he believed that the Warren Cem mosphere of the American that my one was false, "which Is worse the status quo affects the general copy has disappeared. he had been with Ferric from 11 o'clock the pre- mission Re wit style and quality of all life In Vicky Carpenter vious night to 4 am. Feb. 23, the coroner de- no report a: all." To all other questions he sal, the university enviromnent. A good idea, A better one cided that the death could have been after 4 another on: st be added: "Wins did the Warn Presumably medical research would be to persuade pour am. In any case, he said, It was of no con- Commisslor Issue a false report?" would take precedence over friend, to subscribe and get sequence. AROUND /1413 WORLD, every piece of new if the paper regularly themselves. weapons research in a better In his bachelor room, cluttered beyond belief. formation :s front-page news because most pm SoMety, and room would also be Editor. made within the university and were scores of books, articles, charts and dia- sons abroa I have rejected the Report In U the society for the kinds of radi- Meeting La Pasionaria grams concerning the assassination of Kennedy. U.S.. more and more persons evidence skepticis cal thinking, investigation, and NEW YORK, N.Y. Garrison said that the newspaper disclosures about the official findings. The press cannot Creating that now go unsupport- Congratulations to Alvah Bes- and the death of Perris had yet back his in- nore the r ew revelations but devotes much • ed, if not attacked, by the Amer- sie for his excellent review of vestigsteon considerably. His comments released Its spare t.s interviews with counsel and fries, They Shall ican Way of Life. The problem. Not Pam, by Dolores another barrage of derisive press comment. But of the Co omission seeking to tear down se once again, Is 120W to get from lbarruri. Ls. Pasionaria. I read whatever else It accomPlished. Penee's departure new envier re. The Washington Post, whose r, here to that better society; com- the book in Its Spanish original was the last man known bating the involvement (open or published in 1983. added another name to the growing list of un- porter on +he scene covert) of the universities with I met La Pasionaria in 1984 explained deaths of persons involved in the as- see David Parte alive, has printed columns government and business must be during my last trip to Cuba. It sassination Investigation. Here Is en incomplete news on N. w Orleans—a large part of them tu seep within this context. was me first day in Havana and list: abashed an ping and ridicule of District Alters, Use Vogel her hat there. She had been James F. Meth% a staff writer for the Dallas Garrison. visiting the island as a guest of Douglass's role recalled Times Herald, who had visited Jack Ruby's apart- But the zoubled ones continue to search, de the revolutionary government. I tennined ti et one day the truth will be reveals was introduced to her at a fans- ment soon atter he had killed Oswald—found MEXICO CITY dead in Ms apartment the victim of a karate —THE GUARDIA I read the MP° History issue well reception in the Casa de las of the GUARDIAN In Mexico Americas. As Mr. Bessie un- City. I liked the article by Bun- doubtedly knows, Northern Span- "Place of exile." When I an- el the party! that great face are still there, swered. she reciprocated by SLY- Grayed and mellowed br the Tana de GilIN ton on Die Bois and the piece on iards are often amused by an cut& Andalusian accent. Does Dolo- Its with great simplicity: "And years, she remains a handsel- re. Tana de Comes is the Malcolm X But I was maddened of Like a River of Lions an to see that a leading American res reacted to mine and im- I am Basque. I live In Russia." heroic figure. I can reassure 1 Ir. =massive paper did not have a mediately asked which was my As if she were just another guest Bessie: That great voice pad The Yoke and the Star.