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Winona State University OpenRiver Winona Daily News Winona City Newspapers 11-3-1969 Winona Daily News Winona Daily News Follow this and additional works at: https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews Recommended Citation Winona Daily News, "Winona Daily News" (1969). Winona Daily News. 953. https://openriver.winona.edu/winonadailynews/953 This Newspaper is brought to you for free and open access by the Winona City Newspapers at OpenRiver. It has been accepted for inclusion in Winona Daily News by an authorized administrator of OpenRiver. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Clearing Tonight; News in Print: Fair Tuesday You Can See It, With High in 50s Reread It, Keep It 114th Year of Publication 2 Sections, 18 Pages, 10 Cents OTHERS SEE NO DEPAR TUR E FROM CHARTED COURSE Speculate Nixon May Announce Sizeable Withdrawals WASHINGTON Gfl - President Nixon takes his Viet- The President himself maintained tight silence about at the end of the tunnel." Congressmen readied for another round of debate. nam case to the nation tonight amid fresh speculation over the forthcoming speech and prolonged his weekend stay But despite numerous recommendations for the policy In the House, 42 Congressmen issued a statement that the possibility of a¦ sizeable step-up in U.S. troop with- in seclusion at his fog-shrouded Camp David, Md., moun- speech which Nixon has solicited from his top advisers and they hoped Nixon's address "will make a substantial con- drawals. ' . • tain retreat while working on it. government departments, many Washington officials doubted tribution to the early end of American involvement in the In advance of Nixon's much-heralded 8:30 p.m. GST Originally slated to return to. the White House Sunday, the President would depart substantially from the course war." They planned a House debate Wednesday on the Presi- radio-TV address, House Republican Leader Gerald R, Ford Nixon put off his helicopter flight back to;Washington until he has charted : dent's remarks. of Michigan said "It is perfectly possible that all American today.. Gradual U.S. disengagement based on Saigon's ability In the Senate Chairman J. W. Fulbright, D-Ark., put combat forces can be withdrawn from Vietnam by July 1, The original White House announcement of the speech to take over more of the load, a lowered level of combat . or off scheduled Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Viet- 1970." just before the Oct. 15 Vietnam Moratorium protests, its progress in the Paris negotiations. nam policy pending the speech. In Saigon , Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky was quoted timing tonight on election eve and approximately one year Senior administration authorities have contended the South The committees which organized the Oct. 15 rallies went as saying that " next year the South Vietnamese , armed after the . Nov. 1, 1968, halt to the • U.S. bombing of North Vietnamese are making so much progress toward taking over ahead with plans for more massive antiwar demonstrations forces will be able to replace about 180,000 U.S. soldiers." Vietnam, and the secrecy surrounding its preparation have the war effort that the only way the enemy can win now is in mid-November. Ky predicted "nothing new" out of Nixon's speech while led to wide speculation that a new Nixon move on Vietnam through a too-rapid U.S. pull-out forced by U.S. public opinion. But cheering news for the White House also came from Ford , addressing a Phoenix, Ariz,, group, declined to specu- is in the offing. Thus the Nixon address, as they see it, is primarily to various quarters. late further on it. Nixon so far has announced troop pull- "Great hopes and expectations are riding on this speech ," win the battle on the home front against protesters demand- A public opinion poll released over the weekend showed backs totaling about 60,000 by Dec. 15, a 10,000-a-month with- Senate Democratic Leader Mike Mansfield said during the ing that America should get 'Mit of Vietnam now. the President supported in his Vietnam policy by 58 per- drawal which would reduce the U.S. strength figure in Viet- "I'm just living on a hope and a prayer that he As the Nixon speech approached both supporters and weekend. ^ cent of Americans, compared with 52 percent . before the nam to 484,000. will offer the American people and the Congress some light critics , of administration policy gathered ammunition and Oct. 15 demonstrations. TO COUNTER ANTIWAR PROTESTS Survey Shows Silent Maj ority' Spea^ WASHINGTON M) ^ Groups say- to the nation tonight in a review of the who. said the antiwar sentiment "is Nixon Is Now ing they speak for the nation's "silent Vietnam situation some say is designed growing out of hand," She hopes Ameri- majority" are emerging in an effort to . to take the initiative from his poli- cans will leave porch and automobile counter a second round of massive anti- cies' detractors. lights burning day and night to show Al- war protests planned this month against ; Atty. Gen. John N. Mitchell, a key support for Nixon. Crossroads President Nixon's Vietnam policies. Nixon confidant, added Sunday he feels In California , a coalition of veter- As President Nixon prepares to make his long-awaited Encouraged by Vice President even stronger about the dissidents than ans' groups is promoting a nationwide address on Vietnam this evening, he is at a crossroads in Spiro T. Agnew's increasingly harsh Agnew, who had characterized them as counter demonstration timed to coincide his standing with the American people. For on the key ele- attacks on the antiwar movement, or- "an effete corps of impudent snobs." with the Nov. 13-15 plans by the Viet- ment of "inspiring confi- ganizations from California to small Mitchell Was interviewed on the nam Moratorium Committee and the dence personally in the White P|Mf^fM"f4^SM^^ towns in New York have joined in ef- NBC radio and television progra m New Mobilization Committee, prime forts to show that most Americans back "Meet the Press." architects of the antiwar movement. the President's course. The Nov. 11 Freedom Rally is joint- The New Mobilization Committee Mid-November's scheduled antiwar ly sponsored by the American Legion predicts | a turnout for its Nov. 15 cent negative, with the re- demonstrations will be preceded by and Veterans of Foreign Wars. It in- grated finale in Washington of more maining 14 percent undecided. such pro-Nixon events as a veterans- cludes a gathering at the Washington than a quarter of a million people. Since April of this year, the Harris Survey has been inspired' "Freedom Rally" in Washing- Monument following Veterans Day The Moratorium Committee, the testing public opinion on this element of personal confidence ton Nov. 11 and a "National Confidence ceremonies at Arlington National Ceme- force behind last month's Moratorium in Mr. Nixon, and the movement has been consistently down- Week" beginning Nov. 10. ' Itery. Day movement, is concentrating on a ward. In the latest poll, 1,608 people across the nation were And President Nixon, whose efforts National Confidence Week was con- two-day series of grass-roots demonstra- asked between Oct. 8th-14: to eild the war are at issue, speaks ceived by a Clinton, N.Y., housewife tions and seminars across the country. "How would you rate the job President Nixon is do- ing on inspiring confidence personally in the White House -^ excellent, pretty good, only fair, or poor?" CONFIDENCE IN NLXON Posi- Nega- \ Not Lindsay Choice tlve five Sure ' ' ¦ " ' Launch New ¦' Reds I ¦% .- :¦ % . ¦; ¦%¦; October ................... 43 43 14 September ...... .......... 45 37 18 Intlew York August ................... 49 40 11 June ....................... 53 35 12 Highland AttaGks April ......................61 21 18 Clearly by the time President Nixon has served his first After Rebound SAIGON (AP) — North Viet- pan of the highlands braced for miles north-northeast of Saigon. Six months in office, the honeymoon was over. Now, faced By KENNETH J. FREED namese forces launched new at- renewed North Vietnamese as- American officers in the field with a crucial decision on Vietnam in the face of mounting Associated Press Writer tacks in South Vietnam's Cen- saults, the enemy struck nearly told Associated Press corre- public disenchantment with the war and continuing diffi- Concern over law and order, tral Highlands today after driv- 200 miles to the northeast, along spondent Peter Arnett they be- culties on other issues at home, his confidence rating stands President Nixon's political clout ing allied troops from three U.S. the coastal region of the north- lieve the series of attacks in the approximately where it was when he was narrowly elected and New York Mayor John V. artillery bases at the opposite ern Central Highlands. Highlands presage" a large mili- end of the region. American last November. Then he receiyed ju st over 43 percent of the Lindsay's driving effort for re- Some 200 North Vietnamese tary campaign in the region, total vote cast; Special Forces officers said the election are adding up to one of infantrymen and commando probably focused on the two im- Tonight' loss of the bases was a "major s Vietnam pronouncement takes on added im- the nation's most important off- launched coordinated assaults portant Special Forces camps of A MEETING CRISIS ... President Gamal Abdel Nasser, success" for the enemy. portance for the President, since this latest survey shows year elections. on two artillery bases of the Bu Prang and Due Lap, near right, of the United Arab Republic receives Al Fatah guer- While U.S. and South Viet- something of an upbeat for Mr. Nixon in his standing on Much attention in Tuesday's U.S.