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On T he News A WORLDWIDE FACTUAL INTELLIGENCE REPORT URBAN RENEWAL TEN YEARS OF WASTE AND FAILURE A "DISASTROUS. CONFISCATORY AND DESTRUCTIVE PROGRAM." OUR SCANDALOUS FOREIGN AID PROGRAM H.H. HUMPHREY AIDES "HOODWINKED" MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM UNCLE SAM.-INCREDIBLE PROOF OF PADDED ACCOUNTS.-I00 MILLION DOLLARS GO DOWN BRAZILIAN SINKHOLE.-SEE PAGE 4. VICE PRESIDENT HUMPHREY AND MANY OTHER FEATURES COMMUNIST FREIGHTER UNLOADS CARGO IN MIAMI SPECIAL REPORT REVEALS COLLUSION BETWEEN LBJ ADMINISTRATION AND IRON CURTAIN COUNTRIES BLACK PANTHERS & SNCC AT EACH OTHERS' THROATS STOKELY CARMICHAEL, BLACK PANTHER "PRIME MINISTER," NOW UNDER HOMICIDAL ATTACK BY FORMER SNCC (SNICk) COMRADE

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On The News

A WORLDWIDE FACTUAL INTELLIGENCE REPORT

URBAN RENEWAL

TEN YEARS OF WASTE AND FAILURE

A "DISASTROUS. CONFISCATORY AND DESTRUCTIVE PROGRAM."

OUR SCANDALOUS

FOREIGN AID PROGRAM

H.H. HUMPHREY AIDES "HOODWINKED" MILLIONS

OF DOLLARS FROM UNCLE SAM.-INCREDIBLE PROOF

OF PADDED ACCOUNTS.-I00 MILLION DOLLARS GO

DOWN BRAZILIAN SINKHOLE.-SEE PAGE 4.

VICE PRESIDENT HUMPHREY

AND MANY OTHER FEATURES

COMMUNIST FREIGHTER UNLOADS CARGO IN MIAMI SPECIAL REPORT REVEALS COLLUSION BETWEEN LBJ ADMINISTRATION

AND IRON CURTAIN COUNTRIES

BLACK PANTHERS & SNCC AT EACH OTHERS' THROATS STOKELY CARMICHAEL, BLACK PANTHER "PRIME MINISTER,"

NOW UNDER HOMICIDAL ATTACK BY FORMER SNCC (SNICk) COMRADE

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OCTOBER I, 1968 VOL. IL NO. 16

INSIGHT On The newt is published fort-nightly in Miami, Fla-, by Independent Research & Publishing Association, Inc.

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AN INTELLIGENCE REPORT FOR KEY PERSONS DEMANDING UNSLANTED, IN-DEPTH INFORMATION

S OPEN LETTER

Dear Readers, Of all of the depressingly striking facets of the still re-

cent Democratic Party Convention in Chicago, to me,

the most beneficial for the Conservative cause was that,

for the first time, millions upon millions of Americans

witnessed for themselves the ethical rot and generalized

pro-extreme Leftist inclinations and biases of some of

America's most widely seen and heard news analysts

and commentators. The feigned ignorance, amounting

almost to political stupidity, which CBS's Walter Cron-

kite exhibited when confronted by a justifiably irate Mayor Daley who was at-

tempting to tell this "pundit" that well-known Castroite Reds were the leaders

of the "demonstrations." was a priceless boon for our side. Cronkite, who for

48 hours had cooperated with the pro-Communist demonstrators by referring

to the Convention security guards as "thugs," and who is featured by CBS as an

oracle on almost everything, ranging from political events to the launching of

space ships, suddenly went mentally limp and muttered that he didn't know

Dave Dellinger, Thomas Hayden and the other pro-Castro, pro-Ho and piv-moral

filth leaders of the massive police-baiting tactics which were going on outside

and inside the Convention HalL "Walter" also didn't know that hundreds of the

demonstrators, male and female, carried the by now notorious 'Your letter word"

painted on their foreheads or that many of the militant agitators were acting in

accordance with carefully pre-planned and pre-published strategy.

Cronkite helplessly attempted to offset Daley's barrage by giving the im-

pression he that was as naive as "Clean Gene" and other top-ranking Democratic

Party political leaders who were using men as zealously Marxist as Georgia's dan-

gerously deceptive, easy spoken Julian Bond to promote chaos within the Con-

vention and, later, throughout our country.

But Cronkite was not the only one who showed his pro-Red stripes to the

shocked viewers of the Democratic Party's dismal Chicago spectacular. His coun-

terparts in the other two national networks and in the written press came

through loud and clear to no longer brainwashed Americans.

Having done more than their bit to substantiate what we have been saying

all along about the need for cleansing and purifying our national news media,

and injecting truth and factual reporting into what the American public hears,

sees and reads, it is now urgently essential that we place INSIGHT at the fore-

front of our most widely read instruments of expression, thus filling thei vacuum

created in Chicago by the architects of "managed" and "controlled" news. It is

up to all of us to close the pro-Red press' "credibility gap!"

Penabaz

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Home Front-

Our Scandalous Foreign Aid Program

The Research Division of the Republican National Committee has issued a report entitled "Foreign Policy 1961-68, covering, during this period of time, the entire range of politico-economic relations between the United States and most of the world's countries," It is. in essence, a documentation of disaster and, although it has been compiled and written by an organization which can-not claim pure "objectivity" in its approach to the matter, nevertheless, the hard facts contained in the exposition must be accepted as truths unless they could be proven incorrect and misleading. The section of the report dealing with "Foreign Aid and the Democratic Party" is hereby submitted to INSIGHT readers for their study and analysis.

Republicans generally have nev-er been against the principle of foreign aid as an instrument of American foreign policy. In many instances, Republican leadership has made possible worthwhile programs of assistance to foreign peo-ples.

The program of relief to Europe after World War I led by Herbert Hoover rescued entire nations from famine. The UNRRA program, whose first director was the former Republican mayor of New York City, Nora° H. LaGuardia, saved millions of lives in the months following cessation of hostilities of World War II.

The Republican 80th Congress en-acted the Point Four and Marshall Plan programs of the 1940's. The Food-for-Peace program was begun under Eisen-hower and the military aid concept was a major element in the alliance system fashioned under the Eisenhower-Dulles foreign policy.

Efforts of the United States to as-sist other nations of the globe are now more than twenty years old. During that period, the United States has pro-vided almost 125 billion dollars to more 4

than 100 foreign nations. An expendi-ture of such magnitude has clearly been a factor in the current unfavorable balance of payments plight of our coun- try.

We must recognize that neither the United States, nor all of the prospering powers of the world combined, can solve all the world's economic problems. The economic gap between the United States and the developing nations is in-creasing every year. The U.S. per capita Gross National Product (GNP) for 1966 was $3,648. For the same year, that of India was $104; Indonesia, $70; Nigeria, $117; Bolivia, $149 — an average of 5110 for the four. The gap: 53,538.

The U.S. per capita GNP in 1960 was $2,933; for the same other four na-tions it averaged $97. The gap: $2,896. This gap had increased by 22.2 percent.

Our GNP has gone up 21.9 percent since 1960; theirs, 13.4 percent, in spite of the massive infusions of foreign aid efforts of ourselves and others.

We cannot abandon the goals, which are worthy; we cannot continue present activities without major changes. Repub-licans have long been urging reforms in

the foreign aid program with suggested budget cuts.

The AID budget alone is most confus-ing. There are approximately 15 separate budget requests not in the AID budget itself but actually constituting part of the AID package.

The purpose of the AID program should be to serve the national interest around the globe. As practiced by the Democrats, the purpose has become obscured and the worth of the aid pro-gram as an instrument of foreign policy has been of questionable value. Has the national interest been served by these examples? * Despite the $1.1 billion in American aid which the United Arab Republic (Egypt) has received, instances of anti-Americanism in that nation have been countless. * India and Pakistan between them have received a total of some $8.9 bil-lion in U.S. assistance. Yet, when fight-ing brake out (with American weapons), they turned for arbitration, not to the United States, but to the Soviet Union. * The nations of the African continent have been given over $3.3 billion, but .Americans have been murdered, and anti-Americanism has been rampant. * Nearly $7.5 billion has been spent in aid by the United States to the nations of Turkey, Greece, and Cyprus. Yet, U.N. troops remain on Cyprus and the conflict is unsettled. * France, America's oldest ally, has re-ceived some $9.5 billion from the Unit-ed States since the end of World War II. The result: France has torpedoed NATO and American policy in Europe, taken an independent line in the cold war, and adopted an attitude toward this coun-

October 1, 1968, INSIGHT On The News

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In a recent interview in Fortune ma-gazine, Paul Mellon, well-known finan-cier and philanthropist, observed: "Giv-ing large sums of money away...is a soul-searching problem. You can do as much damage as you may do good."

His thought was echoed by George D. Woods, former president of the World

Bank. He told the second United Na-tions Conference on Trade and Develop-ment in New Delhi:

"Some aid has not only failed to be productive. By doing the wrong thing at the wrong time, by making the wrong use of the slender resources available, at times it may actually have retarded eco-nomic growth."

Republicans feel that the following examples might be cited as verification of Mr. Woods' theory of "the wrong thing at the wrong time." • A report issued by the General Ac-counting Office states that a synthetic rubber plant built with the help of a $3.4 million AID loan in Brazil has been unable to market its product. Instead of

helping economic growth it is "becom-ing a drain on the resources of northeast Brazil." No detailed marketing study

had been made. * The report also stated that the agen-cy had put up 515.5 million for a ther-mal power plant in Santa Cruz without adequate soil testing. Poor soil condi-

tions led to a delay of nearly two years and an additional expense of $1.75 mil-lion. « The same report charged lengthy de-lays because AID had not considered Brazilian inflation in projecting costs and because it had not obtained ade-quate assurance that Brazilian financial

sources could meet capital requirements. The projects affected included two po-v.er plants, an industrial development

bank and a carbon black plant.

The above examples represent more than $100 million in United States de-velopment funds which foundered on undependable technical and economic analyses.

On February 21, 1968, AID Admin-

istrator William S. Gaud testified at a House Government Operations Subcom-mittee regarding the AID contracts, and acknowledged that waste and inefficien-

cy marred all of its contracts for over-hauling excess U.S. property overseas.

The AID Administrator has had rea-

son to be embarrassed. Mr. Gaud testi-fied that the government had "paid pad-

ded charges of at least half a million dol-lars to contractors in Belgium, Japan, Korea and Okinawa."

The following scattered instances are indicative of the kind of inefficiencies and irregularities that have marked the AID program under the Democratic Ad-ministrations:

* Because of a critical shortage of cop-per, the Administration asked Chile to

agree to price fixing on copper pur-chased by the United States. Chile agreed—but the House Ways and Means Committee investigated and uncovered these facts. The Johnson-Humphrey Ad-ministration "bought" Chile off —it raised this year's foreign aid check to Chile from $80 million to 590 million. So Chile agreed to the copper deal. * The General Accounting Office re-vealed that 27,000 tons of free Ameri-can food, enough to fill three ocean freighters—and worth conservatively 4.3

million dollars—had been "lost or mis-used" since 1962. Since that time, the

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GAO found 1129 instances of alleged food loss or misuse for such reasons as "unauthorized sales or exchanges, port and customs losses, unauthorized or questionable distribution or disposal, deterioration or damage, and inadequate inventory and record-keeping practices." * A useless battery additive financed by AID for use in Vietnam was dumped in-to the Saigon River because it was "with-out merit." The manufacturer who had collected $356,000 from AID, said each package cost 5 cents to produce; it sold on the American market for $2.98 and AID financed its sale in Vietnam for $1.12 a package. * The United States government was "swindled out of $500,000 to finance a Lebanese school that doesn't exist."

. the Agency for International De-velopment, on application of a Lebanese who said he owned a school here, sent half a million dollars worth of school equipment to Lebanon and part of it was sold for profit." * On November 24 in the U.S. House of Representatives, Congressman H.R. Gross revealed that AID had been "hood-winked" out of nearly $4 million by a Minnesota-based firm, Napco Industries. Napco Industries (one of whose direc-tors, Max Kampelman, is a former top aide to Vice President Humphrey) suc-cessfully sold obsolete equipment to an Indian firm with loans from AID total-ling nearly $4 million. "The equipment," according to the General Accounting Of-fice had not been reconditioned, much of it could not be reconditioned and "was little more than junk." . "Only 10 to 15 percent of the machines would ever service the Indian plant..."

* Evidence of kickbacks to AID offi-cials in Belgium involved another Hum-phrey aide, Herbert J. Waters. A Belgian firm, J. & M. Andriaenessens, received "approximately $3 million in AID con-tracts for reconditioning surplus U.S. equipment. The allegations are that the company overcharged AID by about $250,000."

The following are examples of the many instances of AID mismanagement uncovered by the Office of the Inspector General of Foreign AssistanCe:

▪ An 1GA voucher analysis showed that AID money was being used to import large quantities of things which were either ineligible for AID-financing or else 6

whose financing did not appear to be justified as a matter of prudent public policy. Among the items in question were champagne glasses, luxury foods, pastel colored bidets, and other non-essentials. (Dominican Republic.) * An IGA team visited a warehouse in Rio de Janeiro where, without the knowledge of the AID mission and con-trary to what it had been told, U.S.- financed goods were being sold at auc-tion. * IGA reviewed the construction plans for the La Molina Agricultural Universi-ty and concluded that the proposed four-story student union building was needlessly lavish. The two top stories were deleted from the plans, reducing the AID cost by $1.25 million. (Peru.) • AID had spent about $100,000—at the rate of $490 a day—on a contract under which a barge was to take fresh water from the city of Saigon water sys-tem to ships berthed in the Saigon port area. However, because permission had never been obtained to make a connec-tion from the municipal water system to the barge, no water had ever been deliv-ered to the ships. (Vietnam.)

The AID program, as carried out by the Democrats, is so susceptible to criti-cism, that the former head of the Al-liance for Progress under President Ken-nedy, Teodoro Moscoso, suggested on May 8, 1968 that the United States "dis-mantle its entire aid apparatus in Latin America." The former official, who also

served as Ambassador to Venezuela, said the United States should drastically re-duce all embassy staffs in Latin America.

His reasoning is also shared by Am-bassador John W. Tuthill, U.S. Ambas-sador to Brazil, who came to the conclu-sion that the 1,000 man U.S. mission to Brazil would be mere effective if it were substantially reduced in numbers.

"The germ of Tuthill's conviction was planted by a message he got from Wash-ington soon after he arrived in Brazil in 1966. In the message, the Agency for International Development urged Tuthill and 57 other ambassadors to promote a ten-year study of ways to eliminate `rodents, vampire bats and noxious birds.' As he read this request, it oc-curred to Tuthill that the plethora of American officials and 'U.S.-sponsored programs in Brazil might be doing the country more harm than the bats and the birds."

In every part of the world where dol-lars have sought to win friends for Am-erica, seems to be echoed the question asked by Senator Dirksen and Congress-man Ford:

"Mr. President, why are we losing our money AND our friends?"

"What have we received in return?"

The viewpoints contained in signed articles appearing in this issue are those of their respective writers and do not necessarily represent the editorial opi-nion of:

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THE FOLLOWING LIST OF COUNTRIES RECEIVING AID AND THE AMOUNTS GIVEN SINCE 1945

(NOT INCLUDING WORLD WAR II AID EXPENDITURES) THROUGH 1966 APPEARED AS A

REPRINT IN "FOREIGN POLICY 1961-68."

Albania . . . $ 20,400,000 Austria . . . 1,198,000,000 Brigium-

Luxembourg , . 2.004.900.000 Czechoslovakia . 193.000,000 Denmark . . . 920,500,600 East Germany . . 800.000 Finland . . . . 134.400,000 France . . . . . 9.409,600,000 Germany (Federal

Republic) . . . 4.997,400,000 Berlin 131,900,0130 Hungary . 31,500.000 Iceland . 84,000,000 Ireland . 146,500,000 Italy 6,092.900,000 Malta 6,100.000 Netherlands . 2,470,400,000 Norway . 1,236,000,000 Poland 554,500,000 Portugal 519,100,000 Spain 2,004,300,000 Sweden . . . 109,000,000 United Kingdom 9.044,900,000

186,400.000 Yugoslavia . . . 2.863.900.000 Europe Regional . 2,735,000,000

Australia . . . 275 300,000 New Zealand . . 27,700,000 Trust Territories of li e

Pacific Islands . 125,400,000 British Solomon

Islands . . . 400,000 Tonga Island 300,000

Canada . . . . 36300,000

Vietnam . . . 4,590.100,000 Burma 100,600.000 Cambodia . . 341,100,000 China (Republic of) 4,899.500,000 Hong Kong . , 41,900,000 Indochina,

Undistributed . 1,535.200,000 Indonesia . 834800.000 Japan 3.972.900.000 Korea 9,676,700000 Laos 473.400,000 Malaysia . . 47,500.000 Philippines . . 1,925.000,000 Ryukyu Islands 340,600,000 Thailand . . . 1,089,200,000 East Asia Regional 731.900,000

Afghanistan . • 346,409.000 Ceylon 101.500.000 CYPrnii 19,300,000 Greece 3,749,400.000 India 6,769,200,000 Iran 1,752,009,000 Iraq 102.700.000 Israel 1,104,500,000 Jordan 572800000 Lebanon 87,900,000 Nepal 97,800.000 Pakistan . 3,079,800,000 Saudi Arabia 209,100,000 Syrian Arab

Republic 73.300000 Turkey . . 5,039,800000 United Arab

Republic (Egypt) 1,133300,000 Yemen . . . . . 41,900,000 Central Treaty

Organization . 52,800,900 Near East and South

Asia Regional . 1,082,300.000

Argentina . . 758,600,000 Bolivia 460,600,000 Brazil 3.185.700.000 British Honduras 4,400.000 Chile 1,242,200,000 Colombia . . . 834.8100,000 Costa Rica . . 149,000,000 Cuba . . . . , 52,100,000 Dominican Republic 320,100.000 Ecuador 279,600,000 El Salvador . . 100,100,000 Guatemala . 209,200,000 Guyana . 24.400.000 Haiti 108,800,000 Honduras . 88,500,000 Jamaica . 49.300,000 Mexico 1,008,200,000 Nicaragua • 133,100,000 Panama . • 173,000,000 Paraguay . • 106200.000 Peru 678,800,000 Surinam . . 10,100.000 Trinidad and Tobago 52,200.000 Uruguay . . . . 119.400.000 Venezuela . . 392,200,000 Other West Indies 3,700,000 Regional . . . . 83,100,000 Latin America

Regional . . 997.600.000

Algeria '• . • 179.400,000 Botswana . . 7,400.000 Burundi . . . 8,700,000 Cameroon . . 27,200,000 Central African

Republic . . 3.500,000 Chad 5,500,000 Congo (Brazzaville) 2,200,000 Congo (Kinshasa) 351.000.000 Dahomey . . 9,700,000 Ethiopia . 317,500,000 Gabon 5,800.000 Gambia 600,000 Ghana 174,800,000 Guinea 75,700,000 Ivory Coast • 28.800,000 Kenya 57,200,000 Lesotho . 1,100,000 Liberia 241,600,000 Libya 220.000,000 Malagasy Republic 9.600.000 Malawi . . 11,800,000 Mali, Republic of . 18.700.000 Mauritania , . 3,000.000 Morocco . . . 584,100,000 Niger 10.600.000 Nigeria . . . 190,300,000 Rwanda . . 5,500,000 Senegal . - 21,500,000 Sierra Leone . • 32,500,000 Somali Republic • 52,200,000 South Africa

Republic of . 150,600,000 Southern Rhodesia 7,000,000 Sudan 108,400,000 Tanzania . . . • 50,000,000 Togo 12,000,000 Tunisia . . • . 487.900.000 Uganda . . . . 21,000,000 Upper Volta . . 6.800,000 Zambia . . . . 36,100.000 East Africa Regional 18,400,000 Regional USAID/

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URBAN RENEWAL

Ten Years Of Waste And Failure BY WILLIAM S. BAREN

When you read the following facts,be assured that they are well documented. Professor Martin Anderson made a study sponsored by the Joint Center for Urban Studies of M.I.T. and Harvard. Here is what he found:

"In the decade under examination,the Urban Renewal Program has demolished about 120,000 units. These units had a median rental value of $40 per month. Instead of rebuilding the same number of dwelling units that were demolished during this period, only 25 to 30 thou-sand units were rebuilt. The average me-dian rental of the rebuilt units was $180 per month. This created a net loss of 90,000 dwelling units. 90,000 families were forced out of their homes and had to be relocated in less desirable abodes than they had before the government Urban Renewal bulldozer drove them in-to the street. Meanwhile, 25 to 30 thou-sand families are now living in subsidized government housing that rents for $180 per month."

During this same period how many housing units do you think were created by private builders and those who have no connection at all with government projects? The answer is 18,000,000 units. The Urban Renewal Program is one of the most disastrous, confiscatory, and destructive programs ever concocted by any government on earth that had the temerity to suggest that its main purpose was to help the poor and provide better living standards for those in the lower in-come brackets. If this is the best that the government can do during ten long years, then it is about time that those who are perpetrating this fraud are called before the bar of public opinion and given their just deserts.

Jerome Tuccile, writing in "the Free-man" August 1968, stated:

"Is the war in Vietnam the major issue confronting us here in America to-

day? Or is it perhaps the malignant spread of crime and violence in the streets? Then again, maybe it's the race question?—or the growing concern over the urbanized society?—or birth control? —or abortion reform?—or education?

"The true answer lies at the root of all these issues. For the above are mere-ly symptoms, the effects, the natural by-products of a deeper fundamental issue which lies at the heart of every malady that faces us today. This root cause can be stated concisely in a single phrase: the deterioration of individual freedom.

"The most important issue confront-ing us here in America today — across the entire face of the earth for that mat-ter — is the attack by the collective men-tality on the freedom of the individual. It is an attack on the right of life itself, and only by recognizing this fact and meeting it head-on will we achieve free-dom and justice that is so dearly cherish-ed by all rational men."

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A BUSINESSMAN EXPRESSES WORRIES OVER U.S. ECONOMIC POLICIES

11\ILACTIC31\1, AND 1-1-1E mCILLAIFI

As I stated briefly to the shareholders at the company's annual meeting, world attention is focused on the efforts of the United States to resolve two related eco-nomic problems—inflation and the inter-national payments deficit. I want to add a few thoughts on these matters and to em-phasize the importance of developments in our domestic economy as they relate to our world position.

The United States has run balance-of-payments deficits for nearly twenty years. To settle these deficits, we have lost, in the last decade, half our gold reserve and doubled our short-term debts to foreign-ers. Increased inflation in our economy since 1964 has weakened our interna-tional payments position substantially. The result has been increasing fears abroad that the dollar would be devalued relative to gold, and possibly to other na-tions' currencies. A crisis of confidence in the dollar has developed, threatening to disrupt the prevailing international mon-etary system based on gold and the dol-INSIGHT On The News, October 1,1968

lar. Should this occur, world trade and the economies of many countries, includ-ing our own, could be seriously affected.

The failure of our government to deal promptly and effectively with inflation and the international payments deficit has cast doubt on our ability to manage our economic affairs properly. As a result, we have risked impairing our role in the free world and the dollar's role as the princi-pal international currency.

Inflation inevitably results when spend-ing exceeds the economy's capacity to produce. When this occurs, prices—and wages—continue to rise as buyers com-pete for the limited amounts of goods and resources available. It is the responsibil-ity of the federal government to control rising prices, through its broad monetary and fiscal policies which determine the ability of various sectors of society to spend. Thus interest rates, bank reserves, taxes, and the balance between govern-ment spending and tax revenues all must be adapted to the requirements Yor main-

taming relatively stable prices. Although it has been suggested that wage-price "guideposts" might help to curb inflation, they are likely to be ineffective so long as the government's broad policies make it possible for spending to exceed output.

Recently, inflation has increased be-cause the government has continued to spend well beyond its income. Large defi-cits in the federal budget have persisted even in periods of high employment and rapid growth in output. Elected officials have not restrained government spending or increased taxes, even when these ac-tions were essential to check inflation. The recently enacted temporary tax sur-charge, along with expenditure restraint, is a required step toward controlling in-flation. This is but a first step and it is unfortunate that it was enacted only in response to international financial crises.

Inflation has brought problems to our internal economy by imposing hardships on persons with fixed incomes and others unable to protect themselves from its ef-fects. Interest rates have risen, and it is increasingly difficult to find financing for mortgages and for personal as well as business loans.

Inflation has been a major contributor to our balance-of-payments problem in recent years. Increasing costs and prices have made U.S. products less competitive relative to foreign products and so have encouraged substantial imports to this country and discouraged exports. As a consequence, our traditionally large sur-plus of exports over imports has shrunk greatly. To indicate the importance of this result, if our trade surplus had remained at its 1964 level, our overall payments deficit last year would have been less than $500 million (instead of $3.6 billion), a sum unlikely to have caused concern.

Even though the balance-of-payments problem is long standing, the government has procrastinated and has tried to treat the symptoms of the problem rather than attack the underlying causes. The govern-ment has thus invoked a number of "tem- (Continues on page 16)

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It is almost traditional among businessmen, large and small, to refrain from "mix-ing business with politics." Obviously. in the long run, such an approach can prove suicidal, not only for business itself but also for our free enterprise system and the entire socio-economic foundations of the United States of America After all, it is "politics" which ultimately rules our country when politicians, acting as legislators, convert their ideas and opinions into the laws of our land.

It is needless to add that if politicians manage to convert our economy into that of a completely socialist state, "business" as we know it today, with everything it produces and stands for, will be liquidated So it would seem healthy for all business-men to loin the rest of us in our struggle to maintain the blessings of individual free-dom and the benefits of an economy enjoying the prosperity of a free enterprise sys-tem.

It Is one of the paradoxes of American life that "big" business should be as indif-ferent, as it generally is, to the battle being waged by the promoters of totalitarian socialism to establish their rule in America Therefore, it comes as a refreshing sur-prise to read an article, written by the Chairman of the Board of one of the largest corporations in America, containing a warning cry on the disastrous fiscal and eco-nomic policies followed by the JohnSon Administration.

The editors of INSIGHT take pleasure in reprinting the opinions of Michael L. Haider, Chairman of the Board of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey) as they appeared in the fall issue of The Lamp.

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Miami Police Prevent Insurrection (By ALAN COURTNEY, "Originator of America's first radio open-phone forum," now in its 20th year, Monday through Saturday, 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.—WIOD RADIO 610)

HEADLEY Miami Chief of Police

i.pess the disturbance. It should be noted that the Miami Police Department achieved this objective on the very first night. They had aid from other agencies including the Florida Highway Patrol, State Beverage and Conservation Men and the Coral Gables Police, who re-sponded without hesitation and who worked together in splendid coordina-tion.

City Manager Reese requested the National Guard at 3:30 p.m. They moved in at 7 p.m. with sheriff deputies right behind. It was midnight before they secured the area and the Miami Po-lice were able to pull out of the bounda-ries set by Sheriff Purdy. Up to now, there is some lack of clarification as to why the Metro Sheriff Department sent a directive to Chief Denham of the Mia-

mi Police as follows: "By virtue of the authority vested in this office, effective upon receipt of this letter, all calls for police service from 61 through63'Streets, from N.W. 7 Ave. east to N.W. 17 Ave. will be handled by the Dade County Public Safety Department. Please direct the City of Miami Communications to relate calls for police service to the Com-munications Bureau, Dade County Pub-lic Safety Department. Until further no tice, no other police units will enter the area described above without clearance from the Dade County Public Safety Department command post or unless specifically dispatched by the Public Safety Department. This condition will continue in effect until it is specifically rescinded."

It is curious to note that this directive was not sent to the acting Chief of Mia-mi Police until after the City of Miami Police had done the job including all the dirty work. It is still to be resolved as to the exercise of power which was being used here by the Metro Public Safety Director over the Miami Police Depart-ment, since the directive strangely con-fines the Metro jurisdiction to one tiny sector of the City of Miami, and not the other sections, where the police were ap-parently obligated to patrol the city without any such Metro intervention. Why? It is also interesting to note that, as this is written, the directive has not yet officially been rescinded by the Me-tro Sheriff Department.

It should be noted here that the Ne-gro community did not take part in the riot, with the exception of a very small percentage of those referred to in this report. In fact, there were many inci-dents where they took policemen into their homes to help wash away tear gas burns and other types of injuries.

While the City of Miami Police de-monstrated hard-nose policing, it also (Continues on last page)

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August 7 and 8 found the moon over Miami replaced by some goons over Miami who managed to provoke a minor rebellion and insurrection which could have dev-eloped into a very costly tragedy had it not been for the excellent and effective work of the City of Miami Police Department.

The staging of this attempt at insurrection took place in a section of Miami called Liberty City. About 15 to 20 Negroes (male and female) came from Detroit, New York, Orlando, Chicago, and Cleveland. Associates of Rap Brown and Stokely Carmichael were clearly in evidence dur-ing the initial stages of the agitation. They achieved their goal when the first rocks and bottles started to fly from the mobs of teen-agers. It is significant to note here, that as soon as the rocks and bottles littered the air, the outside agi-tators left the scene and headed out of town for their next destination, St. Petersburg, which went through four days of riots.

These outside agitators were brought into the Liberty City area to serve as the nucleus for a mass demonstration at the Republican convention. They tried to use the "vote power" meeting at 1678 N.W. 62 St. as a source for manpower to march on Convention Hall some miles away on Miami Beach to disrupt the proceedings. They resorted to the usual pattern... inflammatory harangues, cir-culating up and down the streets, collar-ing and inciting anyone who would lis-ten.

When these tactics failed to arouse the necessary number of people needed for their purpose, they resorted out of frustration to direct more attacks on the "conditions" in the Liberty City area.

At this time, in early afternoon, crowds of teen-agers were gathering in numbers around the intersection of N.W. 17 Ave., and 62 St. The agitators now became extremely belligerent and passed this on to the mobs. As the mob re-sponded, the instigators became more and more confident and accelerated their efforts with added success.

The primary objective of the police in a riot situation is to contain and sup-10

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o5(oo \)(E\xtm(n5 THE PROBLEM OF

VIETNAM'S REFUGEES

— BY AMBASSADOR NGUYEN CONG VIEN —

The Indochina war (1946-54) which started out as a Vietnamese struggle for independence and unity became an armed conflict between Communist and Nationalist elements. During this long 8-year period, the Vietnamese people were confronted with a choice between the French-inspired Saigon Government and the Communist-led Hanoi Govern-ment. The Communists' efforts to a-chieve a quick indoctrination of the pop-ulation through massive purge and ter-ror, paralyzed the development of a po-litical solution for national union. The fervor of nationalism subsided. Many people living in the frontier areas sought refuge in the neighboring countries. For-ty thousand Vietnamese went to Thai-land.

The Thai Government had been alert to political developments in Viet Nam which might pose the Communist threat

to its national security. In regrouping the Vietnamese refugees in the backward northeastern region, the Royal Govern-ment hoped to prevent Communism from spreading to the local population. In fact, this measure facilitated the Com-munists' task of indoctrinating the re-fugees. Clashes occurred between North Vietnam's sympathizers and non-Com-munist elements who wanted to forget the war and to settle down to a normal life. Communist organizations were me-thodically built up within the Vietnam-ese community and the refugees were gradually drawn into their control.

When the Communist cadres began to develop a large scale revolutionary move-ment. Thailand asked South Vietnam to repatriate the refugees. Being subjected

to pressure and threat by Communist INSIGHT On The News, October 1, 1968

agents, few refugees expressed the desire to go to the South. In August 1959, the Thai Red Cross Council signed an agree-ment with the North Vietnamese Red Cross Committee. North Vietnam accept-ed to repatriate the refugees who wished to go to the North. This agreement was considered by the refugees as a formal recognition of the Hanoi regime by the Thai Royal Government. It enhanced the prestige of the Communist. Sending more organizing cadres into the region, Hanoi masqueraded the infiltration as a preparation for the repatriation and ma-neuvered to develop an ideological bond with the Thai peasants. For six years, only a few thousand refugees were repa-triated. When the United States started the bombing of North Vietnam, Hanoi stopped the repatriation. Meanwhile, the local insurgents proceeded to overt ac-tion. Armed propaganda harangued even villages located near the towns. The re-gion became increasingly insecure.

The enforced regroupment of thou-sands of Vietnamese refugees has been a failure because it provided the Commu-nist agents with facilities to exercise their inexorable control. Negotiations with North Vietnam also have not safeguard-ed the region. Indeed, the threat of Ha-noi ordering forty thousand indoctri-nated Vietnamese to aid the Thai insur-gents might become a reality. Last July the big Thai-American airbase at Udorn, used for staging the bombardment of North Vietnam, was raided by the Com-munist guerrillas who hurled charges of explosives at parked planes. Thai police were said to have evidence that one of the attackers killed in the raid was a Viet-namese. The Thai Government let it be

known that it is planning to move the

Nguyen

Vietnamese refugees to southern pro-vinces. Will this precautionary measure

hamper the activities of North Vietnam-ese commando squads and eventually er-adicate the guerrilla movement in the Communist infiltrated northeast region? Will it merely shift the Communist threat to southern Thailand? Chances are the regroupment of the Vietnamese re-fugees in the South might be again a dangerous failure. If the Thai Govern-ment deems it necessary not to grant the

Vietnamese immigrants the right to choose their place of residence which might help them escape the Communist clandestine administration, it should ne-gotiate with Saigon for repatriation of all these refugees.

The present Saigon Government should offer the refugees in Thailand an alternative to their confined life under Communist threat. It should repatriate and resettle them in economically viable areas where they have the means to be-come self-sufficient. Those refugees who have been forced to join the Communist organizations must be treated in accord-ance with the principles of the National Reconciliation Program. In giving ade-quate response to the needs and aspira-tions of the Vietnamese refugees in Thai-land, Saigon also helps a friendly coun-

try solve a major problem. II

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VIETNAM-

"Face-Saver" For U.S.A.?

PHILIPPINE ISLANDS

TRADE WITH REDS

The Philippines shouldn't rush into any trade with the Communist countries, though from the utterances of President Marcos, it seems clear that the Philip-pines is committed to a policy of trade with the Communist countries. Though the Philippines has time and again reiter-ated that trade doesn't mean diplomatic recognition, nobody dares to predict the future course of the Philippines. Malay-sia has eventually entered into diplomat-ic ties with the Soviet Union through trade. Nobody dares to forecast that the Philippines wouldn't follow suit. The danger of subversion by Huks still exists in the Philippines today. Any trade with the Communists, or cultural exchange would weaken the anti-Communist stand of the government and people of the Philippines, and encourage the Huks. As a neighbor, we must urge the Philippines to think twice before jumping.

HONG KONG POLICE

FISH OUT VICTIMS

OF MAINLAND PURGE The Marine police in Hongkong on

Aug. 19 fished out two more bodies -apparently victims of recent armed clashes in Kwangtung province—from waters north of the British colony.

Reports from Hongkong said the corpses were clad only in the blue pants of the Chinese Communist army uniform. Marine police who examined them said the bodies had been thrown into the water "not too long ago."

Trussed up corpses have been spotted drifting out of the Pearl River of Kwang-tung since early July this year. Author-ities in Hongkong and Macao have pick-more than 60 such corpses.

Autopsy findings of the latest pick-ups and recent reports of widespread, in-tensified fighting in Canton have led the Hongkong authorities to predict that more floating bodies will be found short-ly around the colony. 12

An indication of a possible North Vietnamese line of approach to negotia-tions with the United States was given by their Ambassador in Moscow, Ngu-yen Tho Chan, during a visit to Stock-holm.

He let it be known that although Ha-noi still insisted on a complete American withdrawal from Vietnam, there was now room for discussion on a period of transition during which United States troops could remain. He is understood to have been the source of an American radio report on the subject from Stock-holm.

Chan apparently gave the impression that he was offering the United States a means of saving face. An outright with-drawal, even spread over a year or two, would have smacked of capitulation, and would be unacceptable to Washing-ton—whoever the president at the time might happen to be.

Instead, Chan suggested, the Ameri-can troops would have to retreat into coastal enclaves, more or less on the lines indicated by General Gevin in his sug-gested solution for the Vietnam war. The next stage would be concentration into one or two bases, probably near Saigon.

Apparently, the ambassador used the Algerian naval bases as an analogy. When the French gave up Algeria after the in-surrection, the terms of the armistice al-lowed them to hold certain bases, nota-

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bly Mers el-Kebir from which they eventually withdrew. Another compari-son made was with the United States base at Guantanamo, in Cuba.

The idea behind this plan was clearly to remove American influence from the course of events in Vietnam, while al-lowing U.S. forces to remain in the coun-try. They would be restricted to small coastal enclaves, which would permit them a nominal presence. Under these conditions, they would be allowed to stay for a number of years, and the United States would not be asked to swallow an abject withdrawal.

The way in which this scheme was put about in Stockholm suggests that it might have been a trial balloon. This, at all events, is the view of the Swedish Foreign Office, which has been involved in certain contacts between Hanoi and Washington.

A Far Eastern specialist on their staff, Jean-Christophe Orberg, has been in contact with North Vietnamese and Viet Cong representatives in Eastern Europe, and has traveled to Bangkok, Saigon and Hanoi, and the Swedish Am-bassador in Peking, C.J. Petri, recently visited Hanoi before returning home for extraordinary and unpublicized consul-tations.

Chan's scheme, while it offers almost the only concrete basis of discussion at present discernible in all the rumor and speculation around President Johnson's activities, at the same time indicates a reason for any negotiations to be pro-tracted. Whereas the United States wants to remain in Vietnam for a short while, but to retain influence in the South, Ha-noi offers them an extended stay, but only as armed and corralled onlookers.

—From Beirut's Daily News.

"To sin by silence when they should protest,

makes cowards of men." ABIT.H.M LINCOLN

October 1,1968, INSIGHT On The News

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American Reds In Action! A summarized, fortnightly account of important Communist and pro-Communist (New Left) activities in our

nation, as reported in The Worker," principal news organ of the COMMUNIST PARTY, U.S.A., and other leading

Marxist sources of information.

BLACK PANTHERS & SNCC

AT EACH OTHERS' THROATS

A couple of articles published recently in the Castroite

GUARDIAN—Independent Radical Newsweekly, offer the comforting news that two of America's most militantly Com-

munistic gangs are engaged in a deadly power-struggle between

themselves. Principal figure in this Red hassle is Stokely Car-

michael, who now holds the dubious title of "Prime Minister"

of the Castro-led and inspired Black Panther movement.

GUARDIAN columnist, and militant Marxist, Julius Lester of-

fers his opinion on the nauseating affair in a piece entitled

"SNCC AND PANTHERS PART COMPANY." The rebuttal

to Lester's viewpoint is contained in the same issue of the

GUARDIAN under the heading "Cleaver Responds to Lester's

Article," written by no less a personage than Black Panther

"Minister of Information," Eldridge Cleaver. What these indi-

viduals so revealingly have exposed on the fratricidal struggle

threatening their ranks follows. Writes Lester:

When it became known this past

spring that SNCC and the Black Panthers had "merged," the news was greeted with much excitement. It was the most logical move that could have been made to strengthen the black movement. SNCC was the one organization most responsible for the ideology of the black

radical movement. The Panthers were the one organization working to con-cretize that ideology in the ghetto.

With the coming together of SNCC and the Panthers, the talk of black unity became more than talk. A merger be-tween the two laid the basis for the

creation of a national black radical or-ganization at a time when the black

community most needed it. Such a merger seemed to mark a new maturity on the part of the black movement. That

"merger" existed, however, more in the

minds of those who heard about it than

anywhere else.

INSIGHT On The News, October I, 1968

Earlier this month, SNCC informed

the Panthers that the SNCC central com-mittee had voted to terminate the "merg-

er" on the grounds that it had been made by individuals inside SNCC rather than the organization as a whole and that the exact nature and mechanics of the merger had never been fully dis-cussed. (SNCC's Rap Brown and James Forman, who had been elected minister of justice and minister of foreign affairs

of the Panthers, resigned from the Pan-thers. Stokely Carmichael, Panther prime minister, who was recently fired by SNCC, will probably work full time for the Panthers now.) These were SNCC's official reasons for terminating the "merger," but these were mere technical-ities. The actuality is that no functional

merger between the two organizations

ever existed and the possibility of there

being one was remote from the begin-

ning.

The first talk of any kind of merger began last winter when SNCC's James Forman returned from a visit to the Bay

Area with the idea of an alliance be-

tween the Panthers and SNCC. People

in SNCC were cool to the idea, because they knew very little about the Panthers.

Stokely Carmichael had been drafted by the Panthers for one of their cabinet po-

sitions in 1967. There was some feeling

in SNCC that the move to draft Carmi-chael should have come through the or-

ganization's central committee and not directly to Stokely, as Stokely was the

spokesman for the organization, not on-

ly a public figure. Stokely and SNCC could not be separated, many in SNCC

felt. Carmichael accepted the position with the Black Panthers. A few in SNCC felt this was a tactical error. The Pan-

thers, then a young and virtually un-

known organization nationally, might be trying to use Stokely to build them-

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r- selves. SNCC, however, did nothing to prevent Carmichael from joining the Panthers.

SNCC, which has always lacked the ability to discipline its members, did nothing, either, to stop Forman from making an alliance with the Panthers. The formal announcement of the al-liance was to have been done officially at a Free Huey Rally on Feb. 17 of this year in Oakland, Forman, Carmichael and Rap Brown were to be present, as well as the Panther hierarchy. However, Eldridge Cleaver, Panther minister of in-formation, broke the news on Feb. 11 at a Peace and Freedom Party forum at which he made observations about SNCC which did little to improve the "merger" prospects. In that speech, published in the March 16 issue of the Panther news-paper, Cleaver stated, "What we have done is worked out a merger with SNCC. The Black Panther Party for Self-De-fense and SNCC are going to merge into a functional organization. . ." This was news to SNCC.

The organization was under the im-pression that it was only entering into an alliance with the Panthers, which to most in SNCC was little more than good public relations. The "merger" was some-thing SNCC rust learned of when word of Cleaver's speech reached them. SNCC sought to clear the matter up and Cleav-er is reported to have said that what he meant by "merger" was alliance. Yet, at that Free Huey Rally in Oakland, Feb. 17, he repeated that a "merger" had been made and continued to speak there-after of the relationship between the two organizations as a "merger."

Cleaver further jeopardized SNCC-Panther relations when he stated in that same Feb. 11 speech that, "It is very im-portant to realize that SNCC is com-posed virtually of black hippies. . . of black college students who have dropped out of the black middle class..." Possi-bly he meant it as a joke, but SNCC did not find it funny. It was not only a put-down of SNCC, but of black college students as well. The fact that he would so describe SNCC was questionable and to do so before a white audience did not endear him or the Panthers to SNCC.

Cleaver continued his speech to im-ply strongly that the ideology which SNCC's spokesmen, Stokely and Rap, preached, had in actuality come from the Panthers: "Most people don't know 14

this, but a lot of the rhetoric you hear from Stokely Carmichael and Rap Brown these days. . . was adopted precisely be-cause they had come to the West Coast and spent a little time with the Black Panthers out here... "

It was remarks such as these that fed the suspicions of many in SNCC that the organization was being "hailed" by the Panthers. Whether or not this is true cannot, of course, be ascertained. Yet, the question was asked by many in SNCC that if Cleaver and the Panthers thought so little of SNCC as to publicly call them "black hippies," why then would they want to "merge" with them? In his Feb. 11 speech Cleaver gave an answer: ". . .what they (SNCC) have done is made their apparatus available to us and there's no hangup: we can move into that." Many in SNCC felt that that "apparatus" was having the names Car-michael, Forman and Rap officially as-sociated with the Panthers.

Many Panthers were also suspicious of the "merger." They viewed SNCC as a dying organization which was simply trying to exploit the Panthers to keep alive. Undoubtedly, SNCC was having serious internal problems, but SNCC did not see a "merger" with the Panthers as the solution. With each organization questioning the other's motives, suspi-cion and distrust merged in both groups before any other kind of merger had a chance.

At its staff meeting in June, SNCC re-affirmed its independence from the Pan-thers by voting not to adopt the Panther 10-point program as its own. It was thought that the Panther program was more reformist than revolutionary. This decision on SNCC's part did not help matters between the two groups and everything came to a head within the past month at meetings held between re-presentatives of the two groups. It is re-ported that the Panthers threatened SNCC leaders and, at one point, several Panthers went for their guns. The shoot-out was averted, fortunately, but there was no doubt in the minds of any mem-bers of either organization that whatever merger or alliance may have existed was finished. One SNCC member stated bluntly: "I can't work with anybody I don't feel right turning my back on." All that was left at that point was for one of the organizations to inform the other that their formal relationship was ter-

minated. SNCC took that step the first week in August.

At this point it seems doubtful that the two organizations will work out their differences M the near future. In an interview in the August issue of The Movement, Huey Newton had a long critique of SNCC in which he stated that SNCC had been controlled by white Lib-erals until Stokely's election as chair-man. Anyone with any knowledge of SNCC history is aware that one of the unique features of the organization has been the fact that it has been controlled by blacks since its inception in 1960 and that whites were eventually expelled, not because they had too much power, but because they were ineffective work-ing in the black community. Newton's analysis of SNCC's role in the black movement bore little relationship to the actual facts and further added. to feel-ings within SNCC that the Panthers had never been interested in a real alliance or merger, but only in absorbing SNCC in-to the Panthers, and failing that, discre-diting the organization.

That the two leading black radical or-ganizations should regard each other with a suspicion and distrust that borders on hate really hurts. Perhaps the situa-tion could have been avoided if SNCC had not allowed itself to be led into a relationship which it never really want-ed. It is unthinkable that any organiza-tion would allow a few of its members to make a formal alliance with another group without anyone's approval. Yet, this is essentially what happened.

Thus, a merger which never took place has been terminated. That would be fine if the "merger" had not taken place in public view and black and white radicals were deceived into be-lieving that something existed which, in fact, didn't. It is incumbent upon any revolutionary organization to act with integrity and never to abuse the faith and hopes of the people. SNCC and the Panthers were acting in their own inter-ests and the people were forgotten. If anybody got hustled, it was not SNCC or the Panthers. It was Black America, which still waits for a revolutionary or-ganization that will speak and act in its name.

—Julius Lester

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we felt that he had an affinity for the position that the Black Panther party might take." In fact, within SNCC it was Carmichael who first developed the idea of a close relationship between the two groups, said Cleaver. But, he added, an anti-Carmichael faction centered around James Forman had developed in SNCC. This faction argued, he said, that some kind of control must be exercised over Carmichael. When Carmichael returned from his trip abroad, a special central committee meeting was called. "The

'purpose of that meeting was to censure and discipline Stokely Carmichael for the trip that he had made and for the statements he had made," Cleaver said. Carmichael refused to attend the meet-ing.

When Carmichael moved to build a closer relationship with the Panthers, Cleaver stated, this presented a crisis for the anti-Carmichael faction. Either they must "go-beyond Carmichael in pursu-ing the Panthers or denounce them as another of Carmichael's excesses." The latter course presented serious political difficulties, so the former was chosen, he said. These members of SNCC "thought that they were going to co-opt the Black Panther party," Cleaver assert-ed. "They thought that the party was full of ignorant niggers or a gang of ban-dits and they thought they could come in a provided leadership and guide us as they saw fit."

The original idea was for a full merg-er of the two groups, not simply an al-liance, Cleaver maintained, "but when SNCC found out that it was not going to be able to control the Panthers they began to back away."

Under these circumstances, why did the Panthers accept an alliance with SNCC? Cleaver replied: "We recognized that they had invested in them a lot of the heritage of the black liberation strug-gle," he said, and "we felt that we would receive a form of endorsement or certif-ication by having the brothers in SNCC accept positions" in the Panthers.

Brown, Forman and Carmichael all accepted such positions, but the first two have now resigned. What about Car-michael? Cleaver declined to answer this but he said that he felt sure that Carmi-chael himself would answer the question the next time he makes a "major public speech."

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—AMERICAN REDS IN ACTION — (Cont.)

CLEAVER REBUFFS

In an interview with the Guardian, Cleaver said that the six-month• old al-liance between the two groups was "def-initely off." He attributed the imme-diate cause of the split to SNCC's effort to "torpedo" a Panther move to bring its call for a U.N.-supervised black ple-biscite before the United Nations and non-governmental organization (NGO) status for the Panther organization.

Referring to the resulting near vio-lence which erupted between the two black organizations, Cleaver said that "the feeling at that time was that a few of them (SNCC members) should have paid for their treachery with their lives."

Discussing the article by Julius Les-ter published above, Cleaver contended that the root causes of the break could be traced on one hand to a contradiction which has ensnared SNCC and, on the other, to SNCC's problems with Stokely Carmichael. At one time SNCC was able to mobilize large numbers of people in the South, Cleaver asserted, whereas the Panthers have been "dealing with what we consider to be the primary focal point of the black liberation struggle: the large urban ghettos in the North."

SNCC was "non-functional" in that area, he said. "The best they could do was to go around and exhort people and project an analysis which people, by

and large, had already absorbed." Cleaver argued that SNCC has "played

a valid role historically, but we also re-cognize that the task of our day is to or-ganize people as opposed to awakening them. SNCC has floundered and died be-cause it has been unable to make the transformation from a movement to an organization. This is the contradiction that has destroyed SNCC."

Last summer, Carmichael and Rap Brown visited the West Coast and met with the Panthers, Cleaver continued. "It was very clear to me that Stokely and Rap were deeply influenced by Huey Newton and what Huey had to say."

Later, Carmichael visited Cuba, and there, according to Cleaver, he spoke about "an upsurge in the use of revolu-tionary violence. He was not referring to SNCC. What Stokely had in mind was the Black Panther party and similar groups around the country." Cleaver stated that upon Carmichael's return, "He met the hostilities of the State De-partment, LB] and the central commit-tee of SNCC." The SNCC people were angry, he continued, because Carmichael "hadn't informed them in advance of what he was going to say."

Meanwhile, Carmichael was drafted as the Panther prime minister "because

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porary" restrictions on U.S. international transactions in an attempt to achieve im-mediate results. The overall results have not been achieved, and the restrictions now appear less and less temporary.

For example, the government has tied its foreign assistance to exports from the United States and has encouraged foreign governments to prepay debts owed to this country. In recent years, it has placed in-creasingly severe restrictions on U.S. pri-vate investment abroad. Although the government recognized that direct invest-ments are a major source of strength to our international payments position (hav-ing contributed $4.5 billion in remitted income in 1967), it has argued that tem-porary investment restrictions were nec-essary for immediate improvement, in order to buy time during which long-term measures to improve the payments posi-tion would have a chance to work.

Unfortunately, the government has not taken the long-term measures—such as fiscal restraint—that would achieve lasting improvement and pave the way for end-ing these restrictions. Moreover, this year the government made the restrictions on investments more severe and proposed new ones affecting trade and tourism.

The current restrictive policies do not provide a lasting solution to our balance-of-payments problem. They are also very expensive in terms of long-range effects. For example, by restricting our invest-ments abroad, we are reducing the future U.S. income from these investments and thereby tending to aggravate our pay-ments problem in future years. Moreover, the restrictions are causing U.S. compa-nies to finance new investments abroad with foreign borrowing to a much greater extent than they would do otherwise. Naturally, some companies will need to repay such borrowing with U.S. funds in due course, possibly resulting in large out-flows in the balance of payments.

The required tasks ahead are clear. The government must demonstrate, over time, that it can effectively control infla-tion and thereby maintain the interna-tional competitive position of U.S. pro-

While the extreme Leftists and their more "respectable" mouthpieces in the United States continue to picture Chica-go's police as a revised version of the Gestapo, and Mayor Daley as a junior edition of Adolf Hitler, native and for-eign Communists are laughing up their sleeves.

Many months before the Democratic Party held its national convention in Chicago, every Communist and Neo-Communist periodical in the U.S. was offering detailed accounts of what was being prepared and planned for "Con-vention Week" in the Windy City. But the most reliable source of information on bloody "coming events" in our coun-try was, as usual, Castro's propaganda network.

Havana is today the fountainhead and gathering place of American Marxist mil-itants. They travel regularly to Cuba. confer lengthily with Red tyrant Fidel Castro, take extensive courses in the "Fifth of May" guerrilla and sabotage school, and then return to the U.S. to put their instructions into practice. Al-most invariably, while these Commun-ist firebrands are in Cuba, they indulge in detailed and inflamed oratory, "tel-ling the world" what they are going to do or what is going to happen when they return to their hated and despised homeland. If for some reason they can't travel to Cuba, the apparently invulner-able and traitorous revolutionists tele-

duction. This means that the government must do a better job of setting priorities in its spending at home and abroad and must adjust its expenditures and tax poli-cies to avoid continued budgetary defi-cits. A return to relatively stable prices is required to restore health to our domestic economy. It is also required to achieve lasting improvement in our international

phone Havana and publicize their views and plans over Communist Cuba's world-wide propaganda network. Here at home, the "Liberal" controlled press carefully refrains from informing the American public on what is taking place, although the Associated Press and other wire ser-vice organizations maintain staffs of "ace" reporters in the Cuban capital.

An excellent example of how in-formed persons outside of the United States knew exactly what was going to break out in Chicago during Convention time was afforded by Dave Dellinger's interview broadcast from Cuba on Aug-ust 15. His words were picked up and repeated by alert newsmen and com-mentators in the world's foreign capitals and news centers.

Through the facilities of Radio Pro-greso, one of the names used by Cuba's broadcasting network, Dellinger's opi-nions were presented in the following manner:

"The National Mobilization Commit-tee, directed by Dave Dellinger will hold demonstrations in Chicago during this month of August. Dellinger is the editor of Liberation. The demonstrations will coincide with the Democratic Party Con-vention.

"Dellinger stated that the demonstra-tion would attempt to show the people of the U.S.A. and the Democratic Party that there can be no peace as long as the U.S. maintains its present foreign policy.

payments position, to renew confidence in the dollar, and to permit the removal of the costly restrictions that have been imposed on international transactions.

MICHAEL L. HAIDER, Chairman of the Board

HOW CASTRO'S NETWORK FORECAST

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Said Dellinger, 'It doesn't matter whom the candidate may be or what may be his platform, we will maintain our active resistance in the streets until all Ameri-can soldiers are brought back from Viet-nam and the policy of repression against the black community in the United States ceases.'

"Referring to the third anniversary of the Negro rebellion in the Watts ghetto in Los Angeles, Dellinger stated that it was shocking that all of the presidential candidates and the capitalist press should speak about establishing peace in the ci-ties but refrain from mentioning the li-beration of the American Negro and to-tal equality.

"The president of the U.S. National Mobilization Committee for Peace in Vietnam affirmed that there is currently a wave of repression against the leaders of the North American Negro. 'Habitual-ly,' said Dellinger, 'the Negro people of the United States suffer every type of economic, social and cultural privation.'

"Referring to the Paris Peace talks between the U.S. and North Vietnam, Dellinger expressed the belief that the American Delegation is attempting to carry out a fraud. He finished his inter-view by saying, 'The North Vietnam po-sition is very clear: they will not discuss anything until the bombings cease, but the government of the United States is trying to create the impression that it is carrying out serious and profound nego-tiations, although it has not ceased its bombings and has not reached any agree-ment as it should have reached, to pull American troops out of Vietnam.'

"Dellinger accused U.S. authorities of wanting to physically liquidate those Negro leaders who are able to head the struggle for black liberation. He offered the death of Malcolm X as an example

and also the trial against Huey Newton in Oakland, California."

Not to be outdone by comrade Del-linger, a mouthpiece of the fanatically Castro-Communist Students for a Demo-cratic Society came out loud and clear over Cuba's Radio Liberation (former-ly CMQ) at 6:45 a.m. on August 16.

Radio Liberation put it this way: "Richard Rothstein, top Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) leader, said today, `The Communist nations are not a threat to us. The United States is more of a threat to the sovereignty of the peo- ples of the world than Communist Chi-na:"

Also on the same day, August 16, over Radio Progreso, Rothstein's boss, a man identified by the Cuban radio an-nouncer as Michael Klansky, dropped in his two rubles' worth. The Radio Pro-greso broadcast stated: "The Secretary General of SDS, Michael Klansky, told Prensa Latina (Castro's personal news agency) that his movement gives one hundred percent backing to the solidari-ty drive in favor of the struggle for the American Negro that has been initiated by the OSPAAL (Organization of Afri-can, Asian and Latin American Peoples, a branch of the TriContinental Organi-zation led and financed by the Soviet Union).

"Referring to the gathering that will be held by the OSPAAL, the youthful leader said it is apparent and vitally ne-cessary that the revolutionaries of the Third World join their struggle to the Negro liberation movement in the U.S.

"In his statement to Prensa Latina, Klansky affirmed is working actively to

Huey Newton

form coalitions and alliances the way SNCC and the Black Panther Party are doing. 'We white revolutionists,' said Klansky, `will continue to forge a mass movement that will be able to unite, when the moment arrives, with other revolutionary groups in the U.S. and in other parts of the world.'

"Klansky said that his organization demands the immediate freedom of black leaders Huey Newton (one of the founders of the Black Panther party.) 'We,' said Klansky, 'do not believe that any black man can be judged with jus-tice in the United States.' "

On Monday August 19, Fidel Castro, "Big Boss of U.S. Neo-Communists, (Continues on page 19)

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AMERICAN REDS IN ACTION — (Cont.)

FULBRIGHT RECEIVES

COMMIE FRONT-PAGE SPOTLIGHT

One way to earn front-page headlines and coverage in Communism's official press is to do and say what the Communist Party, U.S.A. does and says. The Communists have always preferred to have "fronters" ex-press their Red ideology as a means of reaching Americans who would be shocked if the Marxist-Leninist professionals attempted to convince them directly with their propaganda.

Lately, one of the men most featured on the front pages of Amen-ca's orthodox Communist newspapers has been Senator Eugene Mc• Carthy, whose pronouncements on national and international affairs hardly ever sound any different from the official statements on key is-

sues made by the professional spokesmen of the Communist Party, U.S.A. But the man who for a much longer period of time has consist-ently promoted whatever is beneficial to the cause of national and inter-national Communism is T. William Fulbright, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A strong hint on just how important all of this is to our "native" Communist Party is indicated by the following photostat of a recent front page in the "Daily World," current leading organ of the CPUSA. The size of the picture and the front-page space al-_toted to the Arkansas Senator serve as evidence that as far as Reds are concerned, Fulbright is talking "their language."

FULBRIGHT'S PEACE FORMULA: Sen. J. William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (left), appears before the Democratic Platform Committee in Washington Tuesday and urges an immediate bombing

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halt and creation of provisional coalition government to supervise free elections in Vietnam. Applauding Fulbright are Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wis.), center, and Sen. George S. McGovern (0-S.D.) (Photostat continues on next page)

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Demand Viet peace plank WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -

Three leading Senate figures to-day urged Democratic platform writers to repudiate the Viet-nam policies of President John- son.

Sen. George S. McGovern, a peace presidential candidate, called for immediate withdraw-al of 275,000 American troops from Vietnam.

Chairman J. William Fulbright

of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee pressed for an im-mediate bombing halt and cre-ation of a coalition Vietnam gov-ernment.

And Sen. Gaylord Nelson, D-Wis.. told the committee that if it endorsed past Vietnam poli-cies, he would feel "morally bound to repudiate that plant in the platform and campaign against it."

The DO platform writers -55 men and 55 women seated at green covered tables in the Statler-Hilton ballroom — gave McGovern a big round of ap-plause following his testimony.

Fulbright and Nelson were also loudly applauded.

But Sen. Gale McGee of Wy-oming dismissed the remarks of his three Senate colleagues as "political hucksterism" and said

shat they were really talking about was "getting out" without regard to the consequences.

Secretary W. Willard Wirtz cal-led for a plank stating that the government must provide a job for anyone unable to obtain pri-vate employment.

Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers. also endorsed the guaranteed em-ployment proposal.

HOW CASTRO'S NETWORK.... (Cont.

hosted two notorious black chiefs. As

soon as they landed in Havana's Rancho Boyer° Airport, they spewed forth against their native land via "Radio Lib-eration."

"Radio Liberation" broadcast, mon-itored in Miami and translated from Spanish into English by INSIGHT's edit-ors said:

" 'The Negro Liberation Movement is inspired in the Cuban revolution and in Che Guevara's example,' said John Lind-say Murray. leader of the Black Panther Party, a few moments after he arrived in Havana. Murray, Minister of Self-De-fense in the Black Panthers Party, is visiting Cuba accompanied by J. Corgin,

a Black Panther leader in New Jersey. —We are convinced that we shall only

be free,' said Murray, 'if the people of Africa, Asia and Latin America also ob-tain their freedom, and this will be achieved only when all the American Im-perialists are dead,'

"Murray added, that with this convic-tion in mind, the American Negroes are now armed and they will not surrender their weapons until all of the peoples of the world are free.

"Speaking about Vietnam, the North American leader of the Black Panther movement, John Lindsay Murray. stated that every time a Viet Cong guerrilla li-quidates a North American soldier, it is

one aggressor less to be eliminated by

those who struggle for freedom inside the United States.

"Referring to Huey Newton, now in jail in the U.S., Murray declared: 'Our greatest hope is that Newton will be able to find himself here in Cuba as soon as possible.'"

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While all of this is happening in Cuba, high-ranking "Liberal" bleeding hearts in the U.S., instead of demanding severe punishment for the Red architects of sedition and bloodshed, are clamoring for "investigations of police hi. ut 1.•

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Shirley Spellerberg is the wife of an airline flight engineer, the mother of two sons, 11 and 13, and she is a real estate associate. She studied Business Administration at Baylor University and has long been active in Conservative politics. Presently, she is a candidate for the Dade County, Florida, school board.

Do you remember when most young people respected their parents, their teachers, and those in positions of auth-ority within government? I do. What has happened during the last twenty-five or thirty years to bring about such widespread disrespect for law, order, and individual property rights? Certainly the moral decay which has been the result of turning from the godly to the secular is at the root of all our nation's ills. Apostasy within the church, broken homes which produce insecure children, laws which shelter criminals and fail to protect the innocent, welfare parasites, avarice, coverousness,legal plunder, crime in the streets, illicit use of drugs, and more, all are a part of the destruct-ive forces at work within our nation which, if allowed to go unchecked, shall surely totally destroy us as a free nation.

Outside of the home, perhaps the greatest single influence upon our child-ren comes from the educational system. Do you know, or care, what your child is being taught in school? Do you believe that because a person is a professional INSIGHT On The News, October 1, 1968

educator and education is his "business" that he therefore always knows what is best for your child educationally? Do you know that the public schools over the years have become tools of social reform and that they are molding your child's thoughts concerning most every-thing, including legislation, controversial social issues, creation, war and peace, the United Nations, Communism, Capit-alism, the role of the federal govern-ment in our daily lives, and on, ad in-finitum? By court decree, unfortunately, the , source of all truth and wisdom, praYer and Bible reading, has been re-moved from the system.

However, the public schools are here to stay and concerned Americans should make it their business to know what candidates who seek school board posi-tions think about all of these social issues of our day, and then cast their vote for those who most nearly repre-sent their viewpoint. Of course, the school board is limited to a certain degree in what it can and cannot do, but it is important to know what

principles guide the decisions of the members. Are their principles in accord with your own?

The main issue facing every school board today is, who is going to control our schools — the teachers associations which advocate more walkouts if their militant demands are not met, or the public who foots the bill?

The schools belong to you and me, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer, and so do the children who attend. Unless you are willing to relinquish your say-so about the quality and quantity of education your child receives, then you had better make it your business to know which candidates are dedicated to the difficult job of standing up for you and your child when the decisions are made by the board.

Just remember, our children are our future. The school board representatives you elect now will have a part in what kind of future we have to look forward to. As Edmund Burke said, "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

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What happened to Mayor Chuck Hall in the 24-hour period between the time he voted "no" and then reversed himself to vote "yes" on placing the issue of consolidating all fire and police depart-ments in Dade under the sole adminis-trative roof of Metro?

Perhaps part of the shroud covering that puzzle can be explained by the un-believable fact that the Miami Herald kept quiet and said nothing critical dur-ing the strange interlude.

At a time when the Herald should have been beside itself at Hall's failure to deliver the vital vote to place the issue

of consolidation on the November bal-lot, it editorialized not a word.

While the Miami News raved and rant-ed, the mighty Herald stood mute.

Apparently, the Herald knew that something was going to happen at a time when the consolidationists appeared roundly beaten and Dade's 27 munici-palities saved for another day.

Hall, just returned from a business trip to the Soviet Union, where he prom-ised to come back and chastise his fel-• low commissioners for refusing to put the thorny issue on the ballot, began counting votes and apparently found the people aligned against consolidation at this time.

After both the Circuit Court and the District Court of Appeal demonstrated a continuing passion to usurp the legis-lative function by reversing the Conunis-

sion's previous decision not to meet again until it was too late to put the issue on the ballot, Hall surprised every-one except himself by voting not to place the various proposals on the bal-lot.

Hall's growing intransigence was dem-onstrated again only a day later when the Commission took still another vote, this time calling for an election.

What sort of pressure had been brought to bear?

A man whose announced goal is the highest office in the State of Florida is just as likely to bow to the will of the State's most influential newspaper as to the will of the majority of the people of Dade County who demonstrated very clearly at a public hearing only a few days before that consolidation was not an idea whose time had come.

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Communist Freighter Unloads Cargo In Miami

An example of the collusion existing between the Johnson Administration and the Iron Curtain countries and the means used to conceal it was revealed recently when the Polish freighter Kry-nica docked at the new Port of Miami to unload cargo during the invasion of Cze-choslovakia by Communist Poland, East Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria and led by the Soviet Union.

Persons attempting to determine the nature of the Krynica's cargo, its con-signment and eventual destination were only partially successful due to the road-blocks put up by Port officials and U.S. Customs agents.

At the same time, the U.S. Coast Guard was ordered to place a ship along-side the 3,422-gross ton vessel to guard her against possible sabotage and help prevent a repetition of an earlier inci-dent in which a new British ship, Carib-bean Venture, was severely damaged by a bomb which a Cuban exile group took credit for placing.

When a group of Young Americans for Freedom, a Conservative, patriotic organization, learned of the Krynica, they attempted to organize a demonstra-tion, but were misled when they were misinformed that part of the Commun-ist ship's steel reinforcement rod cargo was bound for Cocoa Beach.

In reality, the rods were destined for a nearby Broward County steel supplier.

U.S. Customs officials at rust refused to reveal any information about the Kry-nica, stating that the information sought was confidential and not covered under "right to know" legislation adopted rec-ently by Congress.

After a series of calls to U.S. District Court and Treasury officials, Customs relented, they said, after checking cre-dentials and what the various regulations permitted to be divulged.

But the information supplied proved to be of limited value. The records them-22

selves were more revealing in what they failed to show.

While the letter of the law was fol-lowed—the firms to which the steel rods were consigned were plainly designated —these turned out to be the Chase Man-hattan Bank of New York and the Israel Discount Bank, Ltd.

Other cargo included baskets con-signed to the Atlantic Bank of New York; 460 cases of lathe chucks and adapter plates to W.R. Keating & Co., Inc.., N.Y.; 90 pallets of window glass to Top Trading Corp., Hampstead, N.Y.; 500 bundles. sardines, Irving Trust Co., N.Y.; and several thousand cartons of wine to Atlantic Liquor Co. and Nation-al Wine and Liquor Co., of Miami.

Port authorities suggested contacting the local agents.

This met with a gruff rebuff at the end of the line.

Port records indicated that Harring-ton & Co. was the local agent for the steel rod shipment, but Harrington said that Coside, Inc., a French steel distribu-

tor, had handled it. Coside denied this and said that

Dodge Island Steel Co. was the agent, and this proved the end of the line when Harry Teplitz, president, informed the caller that it was none of his business where the steel shipments were going.

It was apparent that the ultimate des-tination of shipments from Communist countries could 'be concealed from the public by simply designating a bank as the receiver and leaving it to the bank to decide whether or not to release any in-formation.

Adding to the collusion aspect is the fact that Poland and other Communist countries are designated "favorite na-tion," which entitles them to special tariff reductions on steel and other goods exported to this country in com-petition with goods manufactured by U.S. labor.

Labor, usually very sensitive to en-croachment and discrimination of any kind, is apparently asleep on the full ramifications of this type of trade.

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revealed what the press has omitted. There were many acts of heroism, no abuse of authority, and compassion shown for the people being victimized in the area during this staged rebellion.

It is tragic to see that some of the local press and politicians sought to ex-ploit this situation as a political vehicle to push for "consolidation." To the un-initiated, this has been a long-time goal by certain small Metro groups, including their radio, TV and press cohorts, for lo these many, many years, since Metro was foisted upon Dade County eleven years ago by a minority turnout of vot-ers which showed 13% for Metro, and 12% opposed. It should be borne in mind that "consolidation" is merely an-other term to abolish the autonomy of the cities in Dade County by whatever pretext the Metro power establishment can contrive or exploit.

The handling of this staged riot in the City of Miami to deliberately promote

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the propaganda that Police Chief Head- ley's "get tough" policy was the "cause" for this situation, would be lu-dicrous if it were not so politically dan-gerous. .The aggressive anti-Headly in-dividuals and the bitter little cult of mil-itants could be heard shouting during the initial stages of the riot "now we want Headley! Yeah, we want to burn him! Let him bring his dogs, but come." This type of chanting was heard when Governor Kirk tried to talk to the shout-ing mob, but his voice was smothered by the chanting anti-Headley threats.

When the press or politicians exploit this situation as a vehicle to push for their long-time goal of consolidation, they may be exercising their right to their political opinions, but their meth-ods warrant a serious investigation and a full disclosure to the public, particularly when they help malign the Police of Mia-mi who fought for two days and nights without sleep or concern for personal

safety to protect the citizens of this en-tire city from insurrection.

While it is true that many reporters, both local and national, tried to convey their admiration for the way the Miami Police conducted themselves, almost no such comments appeared in the press. A New York Times reporter, a Negro, said to one of the officers in charge: "1 have covered almost every major riot in the country and I hove never seen such fine comportment, gentleness in the handling of people, and at the same time good hard-nose policing as I have witnessed these past two days with the Miami Po-lice Department."

Eight hundred feet of film taken by WTVJ during the riot by a Negro cam-eraman, Bob Reid, shows NO actions by the Miami Police abusing their authority. In fact, it shows a Miami police officer wiping glass, gently, out of the hair of a Negro woman, and also shows brutality against a police officer felled by a rock!

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