European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse Pago 4 the stars and stripes Friday september 29, 1967 governor senator feuding Texas political chasm ripped wide open by Hurricane an a news analysis by Garth Jones Corpus Christi Tex. A Hurricane b e u 1 a h not Only Scourge Texas with winds tornadoes and floods the mighty storm also ripped wide open the chasm that separates gov. John Connally and the state s senior senator Ralph Yarborough. The political Squall burst for thin a congressional committee s trip to investigate Hurricane Beulah s devastation. It left the committeemen got caught in some thing they did t expect an never really knew what hit them said one of the corps of Federal Agency officials brought to Texas with the House Public works subcommittee. The two Day Survey and hear Ings in the disaster area ended tuesday with the controversy Between Yarborough and con Nally both democrats easily the most spectacular and per haps the most lasting product of the expedition from Washington. Yarborough accused con Nally of playing politics with disaster and Connally responded that Yarborough was engaging in the lowest form of a demagoguery and the foulest distortion of the feuding Between Connally a.,. Yarborough is years old but had been kept somewhat Muf fled since president Johnson be came the chief executive. John son and Connally Are old friends. Johnson and Yarborough were often at political Odds in past years. When the late president John f. Kennedy came to Texas in 1963 on the tour which ended in his assassination Yarborough at first declined to ride in the same motorcade car with John son then vice president. Kennedy aides finally persuaded him to do so in Dallas. Since Johnson became presi Dent the senator has supported him and they have spoken highly of each other. On the disaster tour Yarbor Ough who was carefully identified time after time by the House group As an invited guest did much of the questioning of witnesses and often was the first one to shake hand at each Stop on the tour of trouble spots. Connally who had been invited to make the tour with the committee and was listed on the official Agenda As the first hear ing witness never appeared. In Stead he went about his own in sen. Ralph Yarborough w. Berlin political crisis reaches boiling Point by Peter Kirt staff writer Berlin is with the sudden resignation of lord mayor Heinrich Albertz and his administration West Berlin has reached the boiling Point of a Long simmering political crisis that defies a Quick solution. The 52-year-old official quit this week less than a year after taking Over from Willebrandt charging that his at tempts to maintain a workable Cabinet have been by calling it quits the former protestant pastor fell victim to these circumstance that have evaded his control since he assumed command of the City in december 1966 an intense rivalry Amon the Berlin Bosses of his own party the social democrats spa which has been in Power Here since 1948 when the City was split into Eastern and Western stagnation and a political neurosis As some observers have labelled it which have been troubling the City increasingly since the Wall went up in 1961, diminishing it status As a Vanguard and show window of the West. Albertz was very much aware of these challenges when he succeeded his Friend an political Mentor Brandt who quit his Berlin Job to become foreign minister in the coalition Cabinet of Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger in Bonn. Taking his place behind the Bue Germeister s desk in City Hall facing John f. Kennedy Square Albertz attempted to change the role of West Berlin known chiefly for its frontline and cold War hot spot urged a sweeping revaluation of Berlin s place in the free world and proposed a new Mission As a Helper in Effort by East and West to break Down barriers. Aside from the obvious Polit ical problems the Silesia born politician saw himself con fronted with a Host of economic issues spawned by the special status of this City of 2.5 million. Industrial investment is de Clining. Business expansion has come to a virtual people Are leaving for West Germany where the find brighter employment opportunities. Since 1961, Westerlin s labor Force has dropped by 80,000. The City s resources also restrained by the unusually Large Heinrich Albertz number of unproductive old people. Every third West Ber liner is drawing a pension. Albertz took up these Chal Lenges but soon found himself the target of snipers from the left and right wings of his own party. The Leader of the leftist Ber Lin spa faction is Kurt Neu Bauer City senator for youth sports and social affairs. Al Bertz main opponent on the right is Kurt Mattick the City s spa men spearheaded a drive for a shakeup in the Al Bertz Cabinet aimed at weak ening the lord mayor s position and at putting their own men into the observers Here agree that it was Albertz persistent refusal to align himself with this West Berlin version of tammany Hall that tripped him up. This sort of struggle was cer Tain to affect the mayor s popularity with the March he still enjoyed the backing of 60 per cent of the citizens but a poll taken in August registered a Steep drop to 34 per cent. The downward curve started with the City parliamentary elections in March when the up for the first time suffered heavy losses at the came the student demonstrations of june 2, during the official visit of the Shah of Iran to Berlin. One student was killed by a policeman s Bullet and scores of others injured. After More demonstrations amid charges of police brutality senator of the Interior Wolfgang Buesch civilian head of police twice offered his resignation. But Albertz backed blues hand defended the police action thereby handing additional am munition to his foes. Albertz even stood his ground when a City commission investigating the june 2 incidents issued a report castigating police conduct and charging the Senate with dereliction of its duties. As a result police chief Erich Duensing resigned and Buesch could t be held up by Albertz any longer. The final act began on sept.18 when Mattick handed Al Bertz an ultimatum to agree Toa shuffling of the Cabinet or lose the party s vote of Confidence. On tuesday an embittered Albertz chose to Call it quits. His resignation has set off round the clock spa caucuses in efforts to agree on a Succes Sor acceptable to All factions. The most Likely candidate it has been reported is Klaus Schuetz Brandt s Deputy in the foreign ministry and a former senator for Federal affairs Iberlin Section tour of Beulah s rav Ages. Connally and Yarboroug each claimed the other was trying to make political Hay while Hurricane victims suffered. Playing politics with disaster charged Yarborough in his frequent criticisms of Connall for not immediately having asked president Johnson to de Clare the Rio Grande Valley and coastal Bend of South Texas Dis Aster areas. Connally said gathering information on the damage was difficult and that he wanted to get his request right the first time and in accordance with Federal Law before formally entering it. Yarborough s supporters Sai Connally did not announce his Hurricane hearings until after Washington announcement that Yarborough was coming to Tex As with the House group. A close Connally Helper Saidof Yarborough he s just try ing to Latch onto the House group for political some members of the House committee said that the senator took advantage of the trip Evento the Point of trying to Tell the House members where the should go and whom they should the other hand some sub committee members Felt the were snubbed by Connally. In any other state the Gover nor would have been Here to Greet us and go right along Withus said one. It was an unfortunate situation said another member. We Felt almost As if they we retrying to saw us in almost everyone agreed privately that Connally probably would have worked closely with the House committee which included several of his personal friends if Yarborough had not been along. But on the record subcommittee Mem Bers made no mention of the Connally Yarborough fuss. Connally s and Yarbor Ough s political distaste for each other goes Back at least to the 1960 National democratic convention when Connally was a Leader in the lbs for presi Dent Campaign and Yarbor Ough worked for Kennedy. Their bitter disagreements have been frequent since then often involving president John son now a Friend of both. One of the most bitter episodes came when Yarborough ran for re election in 1964 an Connally tried to support an other Democrat former Kilgore of Mcallen. It first appeared Kilgore would run forthe nomination but then he announced he was from the White House pleading that demo cratic Unity was needed in a presidential election year kept conservative democrats from uniting behind an opponent for Yarborough. Connally demagoguery charge his strongest Public blast to Date against Yarbor Ough came in Austin As the governor declared he will ask Johnson for $2 million to $2.5 million in Federal Aid. The governor made i Clear that the $2-$2.5 million he is asking would be immediate id to get initial repairs under Way and that More requests forbore Money would be forthcoming As work progressed. The governor told a news con Ference that Yarborough s criticism of state handling of the Hurricane situation represents the lowest form of demagoguery and the foulest distortion of facts and truth that i have overseen uttered by a Public offi any Man who in a disaster such As this would attempt to gain political advantage or political capital out of it or pursue his political pettiness is a very despicable Man said the for gov. John Connally Mer Secretary of the Navy speaking slowly and deliberately in response to a question about Yarborough. I have endured his barbs and his pettiness without reply be cause i Felt it was not in Thebes interests of this state for one of its . Senators and it governor to Manifest Public Dis Cord. But finally his continued and Complete disregard for the truth has assumed such pro portions that the noted untruthfulness of the accuser in Thi Scase is lost in the character of the accusation Connally said. european edition col James w. 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