Cambodia Debate Bitter WASHINGTON (AP} - the United States Has No Faith Air Power
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SEE;jfP0^*flp^p||ig« Sunny, Warm Sunny and warm today. Clear FINAL and milder tonight, Sunny, Red Bonk, Freehold wanner tomorrow. Long Branch EDITION (Boo Dettlli, Fift 3) ' 1 Monmouth County9* Home Newspaper tor 92 Years VOL. 93, NO. 230 RED BANK, N. J., THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1970 36 PAGES 10 CENTS Cambodia Debate Bitter WASHINGTON (AP} - the United States has no faith air power. amendment would give "aid "I know it is not the inten- Senate supporters of a pro- in the foreign policy of the President Nixon has and comfort" to the enemy. tion of the sponsors to aid posed curb on U.S. activities President." . pledged to remove all Ameri- "I feel very strongly," the enemy; of course, It is in Cambodia have charged "It is a new definition of can ground forces from Cam- Griffin said, "that the not; But it does aid the ene- opponents with rewriting.the insult if taking a man at his bodia by June 30 — the cut- Church-Cooper resolution as my when we tie the hands of dictionary in their attacks on word constitutes some insult off date of the amendment. now worded — we do not the commander-in-chief in a the measure. against man or his office," The increasing bitterness of know what changes' may de- way tat he cannot make the The proposal "is a direct responded Sen. Frank the debate was reflected velop, but as it is now word- decisions that need to be affront to the President of the Church, P-Idaho, co-sponsor earlier yesterday when As- ed — cuts off options and ties made," he said. United States," Sen. Robert of the bipartisan amendment, sistant GQP Leader Robert the hands of the commander- Quotes Nixon J. Dole, R-Kan., said yester- to bar'funds for retaining' P. Griffin of Michigan and in-chief where he has respon- Senate Majority Leader day. "We will be telling the troops in Cambodia after Sen. Hiram L. Fong, R-Ha- sibility to make what are es- Mike Mansfield, one of four world tfiat the Congress of June 30 and limiting aid and waii, said passage of the sential battlefield decisions. co-sponsors, responded by noting "the President himself tied his own hands because ' he is the one who said U.S. forces would not go beyond 21 miles, and he is the one who said we would be out Union Sues to Block not later than July 1,1070. "What we are trying to do is add strength to the Presi- dent's sinews," Mansfield added. Ft. Monmouth Job Gut "There isn't a word to this amendment that .undercuts By DORIS KULMAN tary of the Army Stanley Re- Eli F. Beane, whose address- ure rights and an Army re- the powers, let alone puts the RAILY FOR NIXON WAR POLICY — Amerrcan flags are prominently, displayed NEWARK — Ft. Monmouth sor; Robert E. Hampton, es are given as Ft. Mon- quirement for 30 days specif- troops in jeopardy," declared Local 470, National; Federa- chairman of the U.S. Civ- mouth. ic notice, the individual plain- in the crush of construction workers, office employes and longshoremen in down- Church. y- tion of Federal -Employes', il Service Commission; The RIF has been the sub- tiffs were "abruptly notified" Behind the scenes, efforts town Manhattan yesterday in rally supporting President Nixon's war-policy. View yesterday asked a federal . James E.. Johnson, vice ject of- heated controversy that some would be fired and continued in search for an ac- south on Broadway from Chambers St. shows part of crowd estimated at-more court to grant an injunction chairman of the U.S. Civil since, early March, wtfe"n the others ". would have the commodation among support- Jfran 100,000. ,'•--, ", (Register Staff Photo) stopping the Army Electron- Service Commission; U. S. command distributed possible option of accepting reductions ers of the amendment, who ics Command from firing or \ Civil; Service Commissioner job dismissal notices to 2,500 to very inferior positions claim majority support, the downgrading civilian workers . Ludwig J. Andolsek, and Rob- employes, including many within five days of the option White House, . Republican at that post. ert J. Drummond, regional long-time federal employes, offer" or they also would be Leader Hugh Scott and GOP The union filed a 29-page director of the N.. Y. region armed forces veterans among fired on May 27. opponents of any restriction. suit in U.S. District Court, of the U. S. Civil Service them. These job offers were "to- 'At times, there appeared to Red Bank Regional here, charging ECOM with vi- .. Commission. The suit alleges that the tally unreasonable" and ,be confusion over who spoke olating Army and U.S. Civil Plaintiffs RIF "has been planned and made "in bad faith with the for whom. Service regulations and the... Listed as . plaintiffs are effected in an incompetent sole purpose being to de- Dole warned that, without U.S. Code in the reduction-in- NFFE Local 476 and its pres- manner .. and ... has re- mean" the plaintiffs into re- an accommodation, it would force action it has under way. ident, Herbert Cahn, Rum- sulted in immediate irrepar- tiring or quitting, the suit al- take "days and days and BuyingLovettLand Many ECOM employes are son; Horace Brower, Cliff- able and substantial injury" leges. days" for the Senate to give scheduled to be fired or dras- wood Beach; George R. to all employes affected by It says that one of the the issue a full airing. tically demoted, effective' Swann, Oceanport; Charles it. >., ' ; plaintiffs, an electronic tech- Sen.;,Barry,Goldwater, R- RED SANK — The Red chase up to the entire 73-acre Alvin Kearny, who cast the next Wednesday, in a Depart- H. Higgins, Red-Bank; Ger- 'Abrupt' Notice nician earning $15,081 a year , Ariz.,.jigreed^aying: the is- Bank Regional Board of Ed- .tract in the Nov. 25,1969 ref- only dissenting vote, said he ment of Defense-ordered aldine.B. Roberts, Neptune, The sufy charges .that, with was offered an $8,510 job as sues' should'be disouised "for ucation last night.ytifed to erendum that created the re- feels the board should pur- economy move designed to and Adrianne, C. Bedell, the exception of Mr. Cahn supply management assis- "a long;,'long1 time'--not just purchasers gcws of.Jdvett gional district. ''•: -'•'•': chase the entire tract even 1 abolish 561 jobs and pare $7.3 George W. Garrabrant and arid in violation^ their ten- r (See Union, Pg. 2) '- June or Ju "" tract in tittle Silver^$78,- The area;the board is pur- if it means going to condem- million ^om ECOM's yearly 820.. The land Js to build a chasing is bounded by Ridge nation. '' • payroll at Ft.. Monmouth. new high-school: . Road, Hance Road and Rum-• '"SSr. Kearny said* he feels ' The suit, filed by Asbury Voters here, in Little Silver son Road and has an average . the board should purchase 1 Park attorney John L, Bonel- , and Shrewsbury approved a depth of about 1,500 feet from the entire tract "to avoid be- lo, asks the court to stop the maximum of $635,000 to pur- Ridge Road. , ing confined. The land is RIF pending final determina- , there and I'd. rather ;we had tion on the NFFE's charges too much than too-' little.*' by the court or the U.S. Civil SAIGON (AP) — A total The death toll was the high- wounded. ' '. - enemy casualties totaled 5,- Mr. Kearny is: an architect. ' Service Commission. ; of '217 Americans were killed est for the Americans since Information was not im- 893 killed. ' \. Board,member. Oliver Ben- It says, the injunction is in action in the Vietnam war the week of Aug. 10-16, when . mediately available on how • Today's summaries: raised nett explained that, the ;owner, necessary to preserve, the last week, the U.S. Command 244 Americans were killed in . many of these occurred in the • the official casualty totals' for Lawrence Forman, was will- plaintiffs' civil service tenure announced today. It was a 29 action. operations in Cambodia, but the wartp 42,118 Americans ing to sell only the 53.8 acres rights during determination per cent increase over the to- The summary of casualties the South Vietnamese, com- killed, 278,008 Americans the board agreed to purchase of the suit. tal of the week before and from the allied commands al- mand said enemy activity in wounded,- 630,908 North Viet- last night and he wishes to Listed as defendants -are: the first time the weekly so reported 553 South Viet- : Vietnam decreased 40 per namese and Viet Cong killed keep the remaining 19 acres Maj. Gen. Walter E. Lotz, death toll had exceeded 200 namese troops and 3,737 •cent last week. The week be- and 106,845 South Vietnamese for other development. ECOM commanding^ general , in nine months. North , Vietnamese,-. and Viet fore, a total of 863 South Viet- ' troops killed. : WASHINGTON (AP) - • prised very few with his de- Board member Curtis Cal- and post commandant; Wil- Informed sources said 77 of Cong killed last week, and 1,- . namese troops had been re- ' The U.S. Command in a John W. McCormack's deci- cision to call it a day in Con- Jan said that to purchase the liam D. Roberts, ECOM civil- ; the 217 Americans died on 281 Americans and 1,470 : ported killed, 35 per cent separate communique said a sion to- retire after' 42 years gress when his term ends. entire tract as was originally ian personnel officer; Secre- Cambodian battlefields.