European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 10, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse A the stars and stripes fag 3clifford plans to remain for the lira Ion of Post v before the Flap singers Petula Clark and Harry Belafonte listen to a playback of the number for a to special which caused discord when a sponsor s representative objected to miss Clark touching Belafonte on the Arm. Racism charges by Belafonte led to Hasty apologies. A photo of Captain convicted in anti Viet War Cas Clovis . A a nine officer court martial found air Force diet. Dale Noyd i who objects to the War in Viet Jam guilty Friday of wilful Dis obedience of a lawful panel deliberated one i hour and 25 minut is before re a turning the verdict. Noyd 34, and his wife Sha marijuana shipment seized by . Agents san Francisco up Federal agents seized 700 pounds of marijuana in an air freight shipment at san Francisco International Airport after a sack of it accidentally broke open. Narcotics agents arrested Terry Joseph Wing 27, a bearded Burlingame calif., father of two. The marijuana presumably came from Mexico. Circulation office phone numbers a. Man Oberlin Civ 7 i Rafil la a ill hl17 ml1 Offenbach 755 Holt in t17 Mil . 7050 j m"41 u Chi a la f i m c la 77 " l. My ttfl3 Kart Civ s a a. Mil 7 j Iowie. I the Kino do subscribe now government housing Only Ron showed no emotion when the verdict was announced. The maximum sentence is five years imprisonment at hard labor an dismissal from the air Force. Noyd from w e n a t c h e a Wash., testified Friday that his conscience prevented him from helping train a student at near by Cannon air Force base for duty in said he could not conceive of anything that would have made him Fly a training Mission last dec. 5 with the Stu refusal to Fly the Mission led to the has said he would fight to defend his country but objects to the Vietnam War As one of aggression. Lie said his Posi Tion is that of a selective conscientious attorneys have indicated that if they Are unable to get satisfaction in military tribunals they will return to civilian courts where they earlier were denied decisions because All military channels had not been exhausted. Costly Shore leave olymp1a, Wash. A the Navy has come up with $6,922 for damage one of it ships did a Washington High Way. The destroyer tender Sperry rammed the Highway Winch runs along the Columbia River and removed a 20-foot chunk of Road last june. Washington up Clarks. Clifford said Friday with a Broad smile that he is prepared to stay As Secretary of defense up to and including Jan. 20, 1973," if the president want Shim. Implicit in Clifford s casual remark which was pursued no further was his conviction for the record that he expect president Johnson to be re elected in november for another four year term. The Date Clifford citedjan.20, 1973 is inauguration Day. If Johnson is re elected i november he will be required under the Constitution to Ste Down when his second term ends at noon that More significant was Clifford s evident desire to squelch talk around Washington that he is in the Slang of the military a Short timer whom Johnson persuaded to take the exhausting Pentagon Job As a caretaker until the 1968 election is his easy urbane Way Clifford might have been trying to Tell not Only the newsmen he had invited to the conference room adjoining his Pentagon office but the generals Down the Hall that he was in charge for the duration however Long that might speculation about Clif Ford s tenure Springs in Par from the expectation that Johnson faces a hard fight for re election. No Long Days also it is known that Clifford does not have to work the gruelling 12 or 14-hour Days that his predecessor Robert , did for a living. Clifford is a Washington lawyer whose intimate High level government contacts have earned him an undoubted Fortune since he came to Washington at the end of world War ii As a naval aide to president Harry s. marked the new defense Secretary s first informal Chat with newsmen since he was sworn in a week ago Torun the Complex machinery of the Pentagon for $35,000 a Mcnamara who preferred not to be quoted direct Yin later press accounts of such informal conversations with reporters Clifford sent word tothe Pentagon press room after the Coffee and talk session that All his remarks were on the demonstrated an easy going manner in his dealings with others which no doubt explains much of his Success both As a lawyer and As a confidant to every Democrat it president since example. Sen. J. William Fulbright s inquiry into the 1915-1gulf of Tonkin incident and his persistent Challenge of in Vietnam have caused some administration officials to bristle at the mention of his smilingly retold a Story he once used in introducing Fulbright at a dinner. Clifford said it May be slightly , he said was playing Golf one Day accompanied by one of the Best caddies around who frequently worked with excellent golfers. But the senator was having a bad Day. He sliced and hooked balls off both sides of the , the Story goes Ful Bright confronted the Caddy an said you Are the worst Caddy in the no replied the would be too much of a Clifford added that Fulbright May wish to deny again without saying whether he wished any lessons to be drawn in present circumstances Clifford told another Story which led his listeners to believe he does not intend to rely on military factions in the Pentagon for support. He told of an assignment As a naval Reserve officer in world War ii. To tour Navy bases on the West coast to study their relations with each other with Washington and with other armed services. In most cases he said each base considered itself a Little kingdom and that some regarded the army As the later As special counsel to Truman Clifford helped pre pare the National Security act of 1947 that created the defens department Over the armed services. The 1947 Law he said was greatly weakened by Navy opposition led by Navy Secretary James Forrestal. Truman in what Clifford regards As master stroke decided to make Forrestal the first Secretary of defense asking him in effect to run the system he had watered Down. Forrestal later told Truman he had been wrong and that the defense department should have stronger Powers Clifford said. These Powers then were written into the 1949 National Security act which Clifford helped draft and which gave the defense Secretary Powers of civilian control rather Penny saved or. John Storer shows Christopher valiant the Penny the surgeon removed from the 2-year-old s Throat in Cleveland. The boy swallowed the Coin in october but it was not detected until a recent a Ray prompted by a breathing problem. St Lents Pelt British defense chief Cambridge. England up defense minister Dennis Henley the object of one of the wildest student riots in this University town s Long history said Satur Day t h a t he would return to Cambridge if a n y o n e wanted him to. It was an extremely g o o d audience Henley said and a very Lively it Vns. Henley was pelted with and buffeted by do ens of Stu to Chicago a sen. Charles a. Percy 11111., was Quick with the quips during a questions and answers period Friday after he addressed the executive club of would you think of a Rockefeller Regan Republican ticket for president and vice president he was asked. It s like the proposed merger of Vassar and Yale he replied. Very sexy but hard to con another question posed by a club member at the luncheon was would you be available for National office Percy replied "1 told i. News conference earlier today that under no conditions would 1 be National candidate. Hut 1 be been thinking about since then. 1 do see a condition under which 1 would be compelled to say yes if the republicans nominated Harold Stassen an Stassen decided not to take it 1 would dents milling around outside University building after a noisy unruly demonstration during his speech before Lalyn party sup persons were arrested As police battled to Clear a Way for Henley s car to leave. Stu dents threw themselves and their bicycles in front of the car an leaped on the vehicle in finding it with their were no reports of Seri Ous injury but chauffeur Laurie Deena i said the front of the carwash covered with police sail some students suffered slight injuries mostly bloody noses sum closes Mairul Airport Madrid a a heavy Snow fall closed Madrid intern Abumal Vir Pori to incoming traffic a noon Friday. Heavy Snow also was reported u of most of Uio country except in the South
