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from the associated press j ^w I News Roundup: Unions, Students I From the State, Rally in Paris PARIS (JP) —President Charles de Gaulle Eglises with the declaration: "France is Un- I Nation & World quit Paris secretly yesterday for a visit to governable." his country home, setting off published specu- But he took up governmental reins lation that he planned to resign as chief of a g iin in 1958 when a revolt by French state of this strike-crippled nation. settlers in Algeria brought a call for his re- The W orld Workers and students shouted for turn to power. Marines Hurl Back North Vietnamese ie Gaulle's resignation and the ouster of Pompidou broke off negotiations with , including postal and SAIGON — U.S. Marines hurled back big North Viet- Premier Georges Pompidou in a massive striking civil servants inflicted heavy cas- march from the Place de la Bastille to the telegraph employes yesterday. He postponed namese attacks in the far north and Place de la Republique an antigovernment a further meeting until tomorrow. ualties, the U.S. Command reported yesterday. But fighting , y demonstration that police estimated drew Strike Talks died down in suburban Saigon for the first time in nearl 100,000 persons. The Communist-led General Negotiations to end the strikes appeared B week. Confederation of Labor organized it. to be deadlocked if not at a dead end. The northern battles appeared to be a direct result of Cries went up for early national elec- All political parties of the left and cen- heavy infiltration of North Vietnamese across the demili- tions to solve the crisis, set off by student including Jean Lecanuet's tarized zone since the start of peace talks in Paris, U. S. ter opposition, - rioters, that has paralyzed French industry Democratic Center, have demanded the gov- commanders said. ' and transport and left up to 10 million work- ernment's resignation. Lecanuet called for "The war has intensified, but the enemy are not doing ers on strike. formation of a government of "national veil militarily," Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the U.S. De Gaulle in Village emergency." commander in Vietnam, told reporters before leaving for The 77-year-old chief of state arrived at South Korea en route to Washington. his country home at Colombey-Les-Deux- "They've had no military victories." Eglises by helicopter about eight hours after The sharpest enemy attacks in the north came near aides announced he had left the Elysee Pal- Khe Sanh, the western anchor of the Marine and South ace in Paris to spend the night there. Mrs. Odds Against Vietnamese defense line running along the demilitarized de Gaulle accompanied him. zone betwen the Vietnams. The distance is about 150 miles. The • *- * elapsed time of about eight hours raised talk that he must have stopped en route Fifth Republic Hanoi Re/ecfs Johnson 's Appeal for consultation with someone about the PARIS — North Vietnam rejected yesterday President deepening unrest. Where this might have Johnson's appeal for "serious, quiet discussion" at the pre- been was undetermined. By WtLL IAM L. RYAN liminary Vietnam talks here and accused him of "false, One of de Gaulle's own followers. Deputy AP Special Correspondent hypocritical, lying words about peace and peace negotia- Xavier Deniau, said the revolutionary situ- PARIS (iP) — A foreigner in Paris gets tions." ation in France can only be solved now by the feeling that he is watching the Fifth The icy blast from the North Vietnamese delegation the French people, speaking either in a Republic die. spokesman made new rounds of deadlock and mutual ac- presidential or a parliamentary election. If it is dying, it is doing so in an outland- cusation lie ahead, perhaps for a long time. The National Students Union issued a ish way, but almost everything in France The talks, recessed since Monday, reopen Friday. statement declanng: these days seems a bit outlandish, including Judging by what the Hanoi delegation spokesman said, the "The Gaullist regime must be over- the way this disaster began from the angry talks will remain snagged on Hanoi's insistence that the thrown and the power must be given to protests of a handful of students in a Paris Americans end all bombing and acts of war against North manual workers and intellectuals." ¦ suburb. Vietnam without asking anything in return. —Colle gian Photo by Pierre BelHdnl Exit de Gaulle The odds seem to be increasing against The American side, evidently resigned to a long and A dispatch in the independent news- the politica l survival of 77-year-old Presi- fruitless battle of words, held its shortest press briefing to paper Le Monde touched on the possibility dent Charles de Gaulle, who ruled in lofty date, lasting only a few minutes. There was almost nothing 'Youth' s a Stuff Will Not Endure the 10-year-old regime of de Gaulle was on majesty for the 10 years of the Fifth Re- to report. , the way out, though palace authorities said public. the president would be back to preside over a Reds Have Role Cabinet meeting at 3 p.m. tomorrow. The Nation "One wondered if the general had not . If he does not survive this crisis, it could remain to the Communist party to pick up Kenned decided to make his return to his property y ' s Chances To Rest in Californi a final and to make known his resignation the pieces, though it is considered highly PORTLAND. Ore Sen. Robert. F. Kennedy, his pres- for unlikely that the Communists can achieve Hope Fading Crew from Colombey," Le Monde said. tige scarred in his Oregon defeat by Sen. Eugene J. Mc- Across the channel, the London Eve- full power in France. Ironically, if de Gaulle Carthy, laid his deflated Democratic presidential nomina- ning Standard and Evening News forecast does survive, it could be because of the help tion hopes on the line yesterday in next week's California De Gaulle would resign within 24 hours. of the Communist party. primary. Of Missing Scorpion Simone French of the Evening News With its command of the most powerful Kennedy stopped just short of saying in Los Angeles wrote that de Gaulle had to resign or call a labor organization, the General Confederation after a flight from Portland that he would quit the con- WASHINGTON (AP ^ — The sels come up. operator s report that he heard general election and that he could not win a of Labor—CGT—the party had been in the test if he doesn't win in Tuesday's California balloting. Navy checked the reported Davis said the crewman who on Monday a ship-to-ship con- majority in an election. position in the past of being able to seriously "I will abide by the results of that test," he said. But sighting of an orange object in reported seeing the orange col- versation which the ham said, General's Career cripple this country by calling out the key- he declined to say flatly that he would withdraw if Mc- the Atlantic yesterday but hope ored objec ' "was unable to get seemed to be a distrers call The commander of Free French forces unions. Carthy defeated him in a ballot box battle in which the for the missing atomic sub- anyone else on the ship to see from Scorpion. in World War II, de Gaulle headed the Now, if any group can unparalyze the politicians generally feel the odds favor the New York marine Scorpion anr* its 99 it also, and the search air- "We haven't any information French government after the liberation of country, it may be the Communist party, if Senator. crewmen flickered lower. plane, which at that time was to indicate that was an actual Paris in 1944. He walked out in 1946 after it has the will—and still has the authority— Kennedy agreed to debate McCarthy, a confrontation Capt. John F. Davis told overhead, was unable to pick it co'ntncf with the Scorpion ," the people approved a constitution he did to order those same key unions back to work. the Minnesota Senator has been demanding for weeks. newsmen that a seaman aboard up either." (Continued on cage eight) not like. He retired to Colomby-Les-Deux- (Continued on page six) Kennedy had always said before that it would be neces- ' a Navy refrigerator ship re- The oil slick was reported to sary to include Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey in have been seen May 23 about such an affair. -. - ported early Tuesday seeing - - - - "an orange colored object" 809 miles west of the last kndwn • • * abou t 60 to SO miles north of the position of the Scorpion two Student Referendum on IDA House Demands $6 Billion Spending Cut position .where there had been days earlier. WASHINGTON — The House told President Johnson a previous report of an oil No.Sign of Slick yesterday it will not consider his $10 billion income tax slick. The orange object was re- surcharge unless it is matched with spending cuts of $6 This was in the general area ported seen five days after the billion. of the Scorpion 's planned home- oil slick and north of it. Davis This was the effect of a 259-137 vote defeating a mo- ward track toward Norfolk. said Jhere was a light current tion to scale the economy part of the package down to a Va.. but when Davis was asked to the north in that area. USG To Act on IDA $4 billion cut—the figure Johnson offered, though re- whether the Navy is supposing However, the captain said luctantly, to accept.

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