European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 31, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes wednesday july 3if Griffin claims enough support to Block Fortas from a and up dispatches Washington sen. Rob Ert p. Griffin r-mich., Lead ing the fight against approval of Abe Fortas As chief jus Tice claimed support tues Day from 40 senators More than enough to keep alive a Fili Buster to Block Fortas confirm huh won t break with lbs s polity san Francisco a vice president Hubert h. Humphrey said tuesday he did not in tend to make any fundamental break with the Johnson administration s Vietnam policy Dur ing his quest for the democratic presidential and his advisers have been working on a Viet Nam position paper which was expected to be issued last week end. The delay according to an aide is because we want to get it , bringing his Campaign into Northern. California for the Day said i Don t intend to make a fundamental break because the purpose of the policy has been apolitical solution of a very grave appeared on a local television station where viewers telephoned in their ques Lions of the vice president. Not trying to escalate Humphrey said it had never been the policy of the presi Dent certainly it s never been my policy to try to escalate the War to try to find a military so Lution to what is essentially apolitical Humphrey also said that he was not concerned by a recent Gallup poll result which showed that Republican Richard would As of now defeat him in an said that if any thing it was a vice president earlier Dis cussed the . Nuclear missile Lead Over the soviet Union. The Lead has been very much closed since the missile crisis Over Cuba in 1962, he said. , also opposing judge Homer Thornberry As Fortas successor As an associate jus Tice told the National pres club i am confident these nominations will never be con Michigan Republican said 40 or More senators were read to vote against any move to Cut off Senate debate and added our forces Are growing stronger every he did not name the two thirds vote is required to choke off a Senate filibuster and thus 34 members of the 100 seat Senate can prolong debate indefinitely. Two thirds vote the Fortas fight is expected to reach the Senate floor in sep tember when Congress returns from the National political conventions. Griffin leads an Alli Ance of 18 republicans who have since picked up support from Southern democrats critical of supreme court decisions. Griffin characterized what recalled a threat by president Johnson to keep the Senate i session until Christmas As a vote of no Confidence in the candidacy of vice president Hubert a Humphrey never before has there been such obvious mane vering to create a vacancy for apolitical purpose Griffin said. It suggests a shocking Lack of Faith in our charges affront the Michigan Republican Leader of Senate gop opposition to confirmation of Fortas called the nomination an affront to the particularly at this Point incur history the Senate would be unwise to put its stamp of approval on a cynical Effort to thwart the orderly processes of change Griffin said. Griffin recalled that he said originally he would oppose any nominations to the court after chief Justice Earl Warren decided to retire because he believed the next chief Justice should be named by the Man elected in november to succeed said he opposes the nominations of Fortas to be chief Justice and judge Homer Thornberry As an associate Justice because he is convince they were selected primarily because they Are close Persona friends of Long standing of president the Noble Salvage gesturing possessive by author Robert read lets the world know that he s found a Barge to Call his own. After spotting the Atchison Topeka and Santa be Railroad s 280-foot-Long Craft Drifting in Sanfrancisco Bay read and his son Timon swam 25 Yards to the vessel climbed aboard dropped Anchor and claimed it As Salvage a photo Holdup victims peeled Austin Tex. Up two teen age girls have been charge with robbing two Austin men stripping them of their cloth Sand forcing them to walk in their undershirts for separate incidents monday Henry Hernandez and Clarenc Eleroy Wilson were robbed abducted and forced to take of their clothes. Verna Bell Byrd 19, an Jacqueline Lee Lawrence 18, were in jail tuesday in lieu of$2,500 Bonds charged with robbery and , a night attendant at a Gas station said two girl drove up about 2 ., stuck a Metal object behind his ear an robbed him. After forcing him into the trunk of the car Hernandez said the feminine robbers drove to secluded area forced him to Dis Robe and drove away with everything but his shorts. Wilson a night clerk at a Rno Tel said two girls accosted him about 3 He said one of them kept her hand in a shoulder Bagas if she were concealing a gun. For nation s gop must share blame Washington up h. Percy r-i11., said tuesday republicans must accept our share of the blame for what he described As a Lack of effective action to Deal with riots crime Urban decay another major National problems. Percy said in a statement to be presented to gop platform writers that Many americans deprived of Basic human needs wonder whether we republicans consider them truly As fellow awhile the gop has been out of Power for almost eight years during the National failure Todeal effectively with the prob lems of housing jobs health riots crime Urban decay another critical needs Percy said i do think that we republicans must accept our share of the blame. We have not Bee sufficiently Strong in our demands for better have not been sufficiently imaginative bold and concerned to impress on the people of America that we care about plans to present his statement before the Republican platform committee s sub committee on human need wednesday at Miami Beach. The statement was made Public in Washington before Percy departed for Miami tuesday he added As a party we have not concerned ourselves enough with the people Anc their real needs. We have dealt weakly with terrible wrongs that degrade people and disfigure their lives and turn them against thei neighbors and then turn them against their Community and finally even turn them Senate pays tribute to Robert Kennedy Washington up the Senate paid tribute tuesday to the late sen. Robert f. Kenned with eulogies that transcended party lines and erased old political enmities. In keeping with tradition the Senate set aside part of the Day for the formal mourning of Kennedy assassinated in los Angeles june 6. Senate democratic Leader Mike Mansfield leading the tributes said people will remember Robert Francis Kennedy when the children in this land play together and grow together and then work and live together in anew National Unity forged of an equal decency and dignity for All. People will remember Robert Francis Kennedy when there is an end of Vietnam when nations at last put aside the ancient hates and suffocating hostilities in a new dedication to the building of Amore rational and responsible world sen. Jacob k. Javits r-n.y., noted Kennedy s twin passions of sympathy and dignity and called the late senator flaming Symbol of Hope and he said Kennedy had the deepest concern for the underdog of anyone i sen. Thomas j. Kuchel r-calif., said one of the most urgent tasks of men in and out of government is to keep the fabric of our society whole. Thesis the Best tribute we can make to Robert Francis sen. Fred Harris d-okla.,Campaign manager for vice president Hubert h. Humphrey praised Kennedy As a Man driven with a sense of great urgency to fight for unpopular Harris a member of the National riots commission noted that Kennedy was one of the first to endorse the group s highly critical . Ralph Yarborough d Tex., said Kennedy talked tothe people As no other National Leader sen. John 0. Pastore , urged the Senate not to Mak Kennedy larger in death but we should not make him was a Man who inspired other people and a Man whose death left a loneliness in the Senate corridors Pastore said sen. Walter f. Mondale d-minn., said words were an abstraction. They cannot Cap Ture they cannot eulogize a Man in life so real so vital Soa part of the times he lived. Jane Russell gets divorce los Angeles Apac Tress Jane Russell divorcee1 o Mer football Star Bob water Field tuesday with Testim that he rarely was Home Duun the last year of their 25-Yeai marriage.mi.,the tall and shape mis Russell was winning renown As the Star of Howard hug is the outlaw and uate new was the Ace Quarter Urcla Bruins when sue Weru on to leads in Many other films and he became j of pro football s feats and playing with the los Angie miss Russell sued Vorce Waterfield asked reconciliation but set she is 47 and he is 48. Waterfield was but was represented b Lyl Torney. In a Cross comp i her action he had chit a Ual intemperance. There was no p ment. They. Have children. Miss Russen i custody of Thomas i daughter Tracy 17. Received custody and the right to visit 12,
