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THE GUARDIAN Wednesday August 17 1968 9 OVERSEAS NEWS Thant expected to resign next month; finance last straw' Australia spends more on defence From our Correspondent Melbourne, August 16 Defence expenditure in the Budget announced in Canberra Uproar at Congress inquiry into critics of the war Syria moves on to offensive to prove its mettle From DAVID HIRST Beirut, August 16 With yesterday's clash between Syria and Israel, the Syrian Ba'athist regime moved into an overtly offensive posture on the Israeli frontier. It is true that it made its usual gesture toward world opinion by claiming to have acted in self defence, but From ALISTAIR COOKE United Nations (NY), August 16 In a report out today, Thant, the Secretary-General, fives a warning to member nations about the continuing nancial troubles of the United Nations. He complains also about the proliferation of autonomous units (such as the UN Conference on Trade From CLYDE SANGER Washington, August 16 The House Committee on Un-American Activities is hardly a body that avoids controversy. But since last night it has been buffeted with more storms than anyone can remember since it investigated and helped to ruin the State Department career of Mr Alger Hiss in 1948. The storm began when the committee subpoenaed a dozen witnesses to investigate their views and activities and Development) not foreseen by the Charter, and he deplores the tendency of the organisation to plan more and more meetings and spin out more and more talk.

Thant suseesfci that the 1967 I concerned with the Vietnam The Beatles on fringe of a riot From CLYDE SANGER Washington, August 16 The first riot of the year in Washington took place- last night while the Beatles were in town. But, for once, such an incident had nothing to do with the British foursome. The Beatles were singing in a huge baseball stadium, looking more like plnheads than mop-heads to the distant crowd. Their audience of 32.000 was almost entirely composed of white youngsters (although they alone of white singers ere regularly broadcast over the two Negro radio stations in Washington). But just across the Potomac Kiver hundreds of Negro teenagers went on a rock-throwing rampage and besieged a police station for nearly three hours until dispersed by dogs.

They had been roused by the arrest of three men after an outdoor meeting called to discuss growing unrest in the area. The crowd threw bricks and bottles at cars and buses, and rocks and fireworks at the heavily guarded puiite staiiuc une policeman, hit by a rock, after falling to the ground, was treated in hospital for head injuries. Eleven people were arrested. The grievances Although the police seem to have shown restraint last night, the Negro population of Washington have the usual grievances of their brothers in other American cities as well as one peculiar to themselves. They comprise two thirds of the capital's total population of 800,000 and also 90 per cent of the school population.

Yet control of the city is still in the hands of three Commissioners appointed by Congress, and the latest Home Kuie Sill (which would presumably have brought a Negro mayor and a Negro dominated council) was pushed asiae oy tne House of nepre-sentatives last September, in spite of the support given to it by President Johnson and in spite of approval by the Senate. In contrast, the Beatles had a comparatively tranquil evening. Only one boy managed to Tush past a long snow fence lined bv 200 nollcemen to leaD on to the stage. Only one dangerous question was asKea at their press conference: Did the phrase "Eleanor Rigby," that "Father McKenzle Is writing a sermon which no one will hear suggest perhaps that God was dead John Lennon was not to be bitten twice. "Oh no," he said, "it means he is just not a very successtui vicar." Bulgarian leader visits Turkey From our Correspondent Istanbul, August 16 The Bulgarian Foreign Minister, Mr Ivan Bashev, arrived in Ankara today for a five-day visit the first official visit to Turkey by a Bulgarian leader since the Second World War.

It is regarded as a new step in Turkey's policy of rapprochement with her Balkan neighbours. Mr Bashev, who will have talks with the Turkish Foreign Minister. Mr Caglayangil, is expected to discuss the prospects of establishing closer cooperation in trade, tourism, and culture. He will also discuss the problems raised by the splitting-up of the families of Turks who emigrated from Bulgaria to Turkey early In the 1950s. The Turks want Bulgaria to allow the families left behind to join their relatives here and transfer their money and belongings.

The Turks base their request on the 1925 pact of friendship, but the Bulgarians say this is outdated and are expected to ask for its revision, There are ahout 800,000 Turks living in Bulgaria and complaints are often heard here that they do not enjoy full rights and liberties. Suspect caught after PC shot Gothenburg, August 16 Swedish police tonight shot the lock off the door of a flat here and led away a man they sought concerning the shooting of Police-Constable Ragnar Sandahl on July 28. Police-Constable Sandahl died in hospital last week. The police named the man tonight as Hans GunnarNordgren (23). They said that he was armed with a machine-gun, pistols, and other weapons when found, but went quietly to police headquarters.

Reuter. war. its justification for this is that it wants to study a Bill which would Dunish Americans for giving or urging otners 10 give hep to "me hostile power or any of Its agents" while the United States Is engaged in armed hostilities. Yesterday an anneal bv the American Civil Liberties Union for a 10-day injunction forbidding we nearings was allowed by a Federal District Judge, Mr Howard Corcoran. Flabbergasted The 60-year-old Judge Is not suspected of "peacenik" sympathies or inexperience of the law he has the irreproachable references of graduation from Princeton University and the Harvard Law School, was a colonel during the Second World War, and is widely considered a conservative.

But he saw the subpoenas as a possible threat to the rights of a citizen under the First Amendment, guaranteeing freedom of speech. Congress, nevertheless, was flabbergasted. No Judge had ever before put such restraint on the Legislature. The Texan chairman of the committee, Mr Joe Pool, declared that he would defy the injunction and open the hearings today even if it meant going to gaol until hell freezes." And the venerable House Speaker, Mr John McCormaclc. said that if the judgment stood Congress might as well' go home and save the money." Order reversed Today the judgment did net stand.

A special' court of three judges (including Judge Corcoran) hastily, threw out the temporary restraining order, while agreeing the ACLU could bring its case and develop a constitutional argument in front of the hearing tomorrow. The publicity surrounding this preliminary affray was enough to draw a large crowd of young people to the committee hearings this morning. The Washington Post's" editorial fears that the hearings may be as disorderly, undignified, and uninformatlve as many conducted by that body" quickly began to be realised. As a first witness' the' committee called a former member of the pro-China Progressive Labour Movement, Mr Phillip Luce, who declared the PLM was now "the only true Communist party in the United States." As he headed to the witness stand, he was met with loud boos and hisses from the crowd. Hustled out When someone shouted Let's stop this fake testimony" and another subpoenaed witness, Mr Jeffrey Gordon, added the shout Let's get out of Vietnam," he and seven others were hustled out of the room by police.

A member of the Vietnam Day Committee of Berkeley, California, Mr Jerry Rubin, who was also under subpoena, arrived in the costume of a revolutionary war soldier of 1776,. and after a time began handing out pamphlets. These explained he was wearing the costume "not because I take these hearings unseriously. I take them deadly seriously. Their purpose is to create an atmosphere in which conformity is patriotism and dissent is treason." Attorneys called for assurances there were no listening devices in1 the room, and for the withdrawal of one Alabaman Congressman on the grounds his district had consistently prevented Negroes from registering as; voters.

There was, in one description, "a general air of cohfused bedlam." At lunchtime the chairman said he thought the disorder "shows disrespect for the entire Congress and the Government of the United States." tonight, rises to the recofd peacetime level of millions (400 millions), chiefly because of Australia's commitments in Vietnam. Defence expenditure is thus up 34 per cent on last year and now accounts for 17 per cent of the Budget. Generally. Mr McMahon. the Treasurer, who was presenting his first Budget, rejected British examples of austerity and deflation.

He said that growth in some sectors of the economy was slowing and the Government did not believe in "turning, the screws harder and then harder again." On the contrary, he said, the Government wanted the Budget to be expansionary wtbin limits In both the private and public sectors. No tax increase Mr McMahon, therefore, made no increases, in personal or company taxation, purchase tax, or payroll tax, and made some increases In social service payments and war pensions. Additional funds are to be provided to Increase the amount the Government contributes towards the passage money of certain classes of immigrants. Capital inflow from Britain and the United States was likely to be smaller and loan raising more difficult, said Mr McMahon. He budgeted for a total expenditure of nearly SA6.000 millions.

The Government faces a general election on November 26- and Mr McMahon regretted bis inability to give any general tax reductions, especially because of defence expenditure, drought losses, and drought relief to the states of New soutn Wales and Queensland. Renewal of terrorism feared I Kuala Lumpur, August 16 Tunku Abdul Rahman, the Malaysian Prime Minister, left Kuala Lumpur today to inspect the Thai border area. There are growing fears of a Communist resurgence in Malaysia. Rebels on the Thai border wiped out a 15-man police patrol last ween. A surrender appeal has failed to brine anv of an estimated 700 insurgents out of the Borneo jungles, and there have been four anti-American demonstrations in peninsular uaiaya in tne past two montns.

Joint patrols Police are still hunting the band of between 30 and 40 which killed 10 police and wounded five in tne irontier amDUsn on August 7. They have had no contact so far. Malaysian and Thai officials will meet In Bangkok in the next few days to discuss strategy to deal with Communist terrorists. Dr Ismail Abdul Rahman, the Malaysian Minister for Home Affairs will leave for Bangkok tomorrow to confer with his Thai counterpart. There hdve been suggestions In Jakarta of joint border patrolling in Borneo by Malaysian and Indonesian troops.

The new Malaysian commander in Borneo Major-General Ibrahim, has said that he will be asking thelndo-nesians for intelligence about the Communists. Reuter and British United Press. Painter who wore toga and sandals dies on Riviera Paris, August 16 Raymond Duncan, an American-bora painter who used to stroll through the Latin Quarter of Paris In a Greek toga and sandals, died last Sunday in the village of Cavalaire, on the Riviera, it was learned here today. Duncan, who was born in San Francisco In 1874, had lived in France for many years. With his sister, Isadora Duncan, the actress and dancer, he worked to reintroduce Greek forms of dancing, painting, and weaving.

Reuter. dejnands of Vietnam Tsaid Senator Kennedy purportedly res- PonslMe for the cutbacks in vital educaUon. housing, and poverty programmes, in fact still represent less than 3 per cent of our cross Piquet the Federal fimmmmont io proportion ot our gross national product than it did three years admittedly, the people of south Vietnam need economic help but do the people of the UniteS states. We can do both." He proposed a new Federal survey of city problems to find out the least that must be done to repair them. It should not, he insisted, "be limited by budgetary considerations." Double expenditure It is known that Senator Kennedy has In mind an expendi- ture at least douhle that tmvw budgeted for the cities.

Thn esttra outlays would, wider a plan he1 put forward yesterday, cut across the alliance of banks, real agencies, and insurance awj esuy all countries, decides the pattern of housing. He would create "community development corporations," loyally administered by "the ghetto residents," underwritten brf the Federal Government and everything else byna nas said shows that it has far less interest in appearing as a peaceable member of the international community than in proving its mettle, by deeds, as the champion of the Palestinian cause. Commenting on the Syrian Air Force's smashing victory," Damascus Radio announced this morning that Syria was now going over from the defensive to the offensive. It said that for the first time since 1948 Syrian lanes had raided positions Inside srael. Exaggerated claims An official communique described the Syrian action as a punitive one and gave a warning that from now on Syria's aim was to carry the offensive into Israeli territory.

Doubtless, the Syrian claim to have killed between 5,000 enemy troops and destroyed 12 gunboats is highly exaggerated, but it suggests that Syrian leaders are now thinking in terms of major engagements. The Government nowadays calls regularly for what it describes as a "popular liberation war" against Israel. The theory now goes that Arabs are caught in a hopeless stalemate. They can never liberate Palestine in a conventional war, because Israel's supporters will keep her armoury on par with the Arabs' or, if need be, intervene directly on her behalf. The only solution, therefore, is to resort to massive guerrilla warfare, like that by the Viet-cong in Vietnam or the Algerian freedom fighters.

Raids by the Palestinian terrorist organisation, Al-Fatah, may be the merest pinpricks, but at least they are a step in the right direction. UN written off Syrian truculence on the Israeli frontier is part and parcel of the whole philosophy of Syria's present rulers, who believe in fighting all their enemies at once. Indeed, for them these enemies, whether they appear in Imperialist reactionary or Zionist guise, are really one and indivisible and so is the struggle against them. rnus, Israeli actions against Syria are said to be Instigated by imperialists in compliance with local reactionaries. Even the United Nations, which recently refused to condemn an Israeli raid on the Jordan diversion works, has been written off as just another imperialist dominated institution.

It is the came line of thought which produces the Syrian Government's threats to destroy all the pipelines in the event of an Israeli attack. Iraqi MiG pilot defects to Israel Tel-Aviv, August 16 An Iraqi Air Force captain today flew his Russian-built MiG-21 from Rashid Airport, Bagdad, and landed In Israel. The pilot, whose name was not disclosed, said at an Israeli base that he had decided to defect earlier this month and had smuggled a letter to the commander of the Israel Air Force. A Western military attache said that he believed the MiG-21 was the first to be found intact In the non-Communist world. The pilot blamed discrimination he had felt as a Christian which affected promotion in the Iraq Air Force, and fatigue from five years of bombing missions against Kurdish tribesmen in the Klrkuk area.

He bad also felt insecure during successive military coups and believed that Israel was the only country within range which would not hand him back to Iraq. Reuter. London bypassed in rubber deal Singapore, August 10 Bulgaria plans to buy. all its rubber through Singapore instead of London, Mr Stancho Stantchev, the Bulgarian trade representative here, 6aid today. The first Bulgarian ship will arrive here later this month to load 2,000 tons of rubber worth $M3 millions (about Bulgaria recently opened a trade office here after the signing of a trade agreement with Singapore.

Reuter. the finding should go to the British Board of Trade the authority which Issued Captain Branch's British certificate. Captain Branch comes from Horley, Surrey. Criticism was also made of other officers of the South African Seafarer, 8,100 tons, which was a total loss. The South African Seafarer went on to the rocks and broke up in stormy weather early on July 1.

The 12 passengers and crew of 64 were lifted oft by helicopter. During today's proceedings, Mr A G. Baker, representing Captain Branch, said that divers commissioned by the master had reported finding an uncharted reef SO to 40 feet beneath the surface on the course followed by the ship. Reuter. Israel warns Syria over provocations From our Correspondent Tel-Aviv, August 16 After a two hours' Cabinet meeting, attended by the Chief of Staff, Major-General-Rabin, Israel today gave Syria a stern warning against renewed provocations." A statement said that the Israeli forces would continue to meet any provocation.

The statement added that Mr Eshkal, the Prime Minister, told the Cabinet of the meeting he hid with Lieutenant-General Odd Bull, of the United Nations truce organisation, over yesterday's clash with Syria. Mr Eshkol told General Bull that "a grave situation has arisen as a result of the Syrian breach of her undertaking to observe unconditionally ceasefire." The statement said that he told General Bull that Syria had admitted that yesterday's attack on the patrol boats was planned beforehand. Revenge motive Yesterday's dish, in which the Syrians lost two planes MiG 21 and a MiG 17 has raised here the question whether this was just another routine encounter, or whether any wider political significance ought to be read from it Even granted that Syrian soldiers might have been surprised when they discovered early on Monday an Israeli patrol boat of a type well known to them close to the Eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee and opened fire on it due to sheer nerves, there can be no other explanation for Syria having sent planes on to the scene save the desire for revenge for the plane downed by Israel in the air clash in July. The emotional tone of Syrian pronouncements since yesterday could be explained by the need to soothe public opinion which may have registered disappointment that last month's complaint about Israel's retaliatory action did not yield from the UN Security Council the resolution of censure they had expected. If the Syrians make good their recent threats more incidents are to be expected.

Israel would like to avoid them, but equally wil! not evade provocations, as Mr Eshkol made clear. Appeal by UN United Nations (N.Y.), August 16 General Bull today appealed to Syria and Israel to observe their ceasefire agreement In a message released through the UN he said that both sides had violated their repeated unconditional obligations to observe the ceasefire, particularly "by the deplorable use by both sides of military aircraft" The Israeli delegate, Mr Comay, today sent a letter to the President of the Security Council expressing his Government's most serious view of yesterday's incident British United Press. Mr Vorster's bill attacked by Bar Council Johannesburg, August IS The Johannesburg Bar Council today condemned the Bill Introduced by Mr Vorster, the Minister of Justice, to prevent those listed as Communists, as well as those convicted under the Suppression of Communism Acfronjjiractlslng as lawyers Mr B. Walsh, chairman of the Bar Council, said that the Bill was an unwarranted Interference with the administration of justice. It was an unjustified reflection on the Supreme Court which traditionally decided a lawyer's fitness to practise liw.

He added The Bill may well discourage some practitioners from carrying out their duties fearlessly, without regard to the popularity or otherwise of the case entrusted to them." British United Press. NEW OUTLOOK RADICAL HONTHLY AUGUST JOHN WILLIAMSON JOHN CHOWN Liberal Case tor Devaluation. A. f. ALLEN Party System Collapsing.

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budget Ghould run to $128 millions, $8 millions higher than in 1066. His budget advisory committee believes that it need be increased by no more than $41 millions. Congo dues The most conspicuous feature of the report is its silence about the Tefusal of France and the Soviet Union to meet their assessed dues for the Congo, which the International Court has ruled just as mandatory as the regular annual dues. The Secretary-General merely reiterates the parlous finances of the world organisation and hopes that a special panel, which has been sitting now for two years, will come rorward with a plan to coax between $30 millions and $53 millions in voluntary contributions, which it believes would make the UN solvent. Of the $106 millions annually assessed against the 117 member nations, the United States pays $33 millions.

There was no hint or mention anywhere in the report of the Secretary-General's decision to seek another term or to retire when his time is up in November. He is to make a public announcement on September 1. Last straws But, although he knows that he has the unqualified support of Washington, London, Moscow, and most of the Asian and African nations. It appears that he wiil leave. In private conversations he has repeatedly bemoaned his impotence as an intermediary between Washington and Hanoi, his despair over one of the most barbarous wars in history," and his inability to persuade a voting majority of the need to bring Communist China into the UN.

The last straws on these frustrations are the Soviet Union's unyielding stubbornness about paying for peace-keeping operations and the near bankruptcy of the organisation. Unless he is subjected to a bout of uncommon persuasion from Moscow, London, and Asia, and is suddenly accorded a respect by the Johnson Administration, it now seems that a fortnight from now he will confess the failure of his mission and protest a yearning to return to nis native land. Recaptured men charged with PCs murder From our Correspondent Wellington, August 16 Two men who had broken out of prison were charged today with the murder of Police Constable Donald Richard Stokes, aged 23, who died in hospital last night 23 hours after he had been beaten over the head with a broom handle in Dunedin Prison. James ThomaB Wilson, a Maori (23), and Colin Paul Morrison (19) broke out of the prison after assaulting Constable Stokes, but were recaptured. In.

making their escape they had called Constable Stokes to their cell and asked to be taken to the lavatory. After he opened the cell door Constable Stokes was battered over the head with a broom handle, He was knocked unconscious, but some minutes later managed to raise the alarm. Constable Stokes was later found to have multiple skull fractures and in spite of an operation his condition steadily worsened. Thant's role in S. Arabian dispute United Nations (N.Y.), August 16 The Security Council today invited the United Nations Secretary-General, Thant, to continue using his good offices to settle problems between the British-controlled South Arabian federation and its neighbours.

Mr Kiftmde, of Uganda, the councu-'s president, read a summing-up, which represents a consensus of the members, after prolonged debate on a British complaint that the UAR jets had strafed a town in the Federation. This procedure aovided a division on a resolution oronosfwl hv New Zealand to send an impartial act- nnamg team to the region. Meanwhile the UN Knaeial Committee on Colonialism today decided, without a vote, to send a mission to Aden in spite of reservations by Britain. Reuter ana British united Press. Sabotage at huge oil plant? Poia RSca, August 16 Officials of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex), the Mexican State-owned oil concern, were today investigating the possibility that sabotage was the cause of a fierce fire at the huge oil refinery here on Sunday which caused damage couumLea at minions.

Last weekend Mexico City police rounded up some 50 Left- wingers said to be planning aiiempis against on installations, Reuter. NEWS IN BRIEF Ruling may clear two from death Two Negroes who have been waiting for 13 years to be executed for raping a white woman now find that they have a chance of freedom because an appeal court in New Orleans has ruled that they did not get a fair trial. In an important decision on jury selection in the South of America, a circuit court of appeal has reversed the convictions cf Edgar Labat (43) and Clifton A. Poret (37). The Court ruled that the men were not given a fair trial because Negroes were excluded from the 'grand jury which handed down the Indictments and from the jury -vhich tried them.

Protest over Intrusions India has lodged a strong protest in 'Peking against recent Chinese military intrusions Into Ladakh. said the-Indian Government Strikes hit banks Beirut, the commercial capital of the Middle East, was seriously affected by a strike of 4,000 bank employees, who want a 10 per cent pay increase. Operation on conductor Dr Otto Klemperer, aged 81, principal conductor of the London New Philharmonta Orchestra, had a successful operation in Zurich bis broken right leg. Unopposed The Malawi Congress Party candidates nominated for the first1 four vacant seats in the Republic Parliament have been elected unopposed. That old black magic Complaints that witchcraft was used by rivals to prevent a dancing team from a village in the Dodoma 'region of Central Tanzania from winning a national dancing competition are being investigated by Dodoma police.

South African move in radio war nA Trtwn Aii(mct 1ft An amendment to the South African Radio Act, published today, will give the Government far-reaching powers to deal with what it considers undesirable radio stations or people working for them. The Postmaster-General will be able to designate any station In the world he. considers is disturbing this country's peace, order, and public safety, or Is injurious to morals, religion, or morale of any section of its population, or prejudicing of its undertakings. He may then prohibit anyone living in South Africa from assisting such a station in any way, whether by preparing broadcasting or advertising material, or the station. TTinno nt nn in 1 ftflO nr gmi.

tences of six months' imprisonment, or both, may be imposed for each day an offence is -committed. The onus will be on 'the accused to prove his innocence. If such a advertises any South African product, the manufacturer or sales agent will presumed to have given instructions for the broadcast A similar Bill was Introduced last year, but It was not proceeded with after it had been -referred to a select committee. -Reuter and British United Press. Russian Jew to die for economic crime Moscow, August 16 M.

Rabinovich, a Russian Jew whose dealings in stolen knitwear cost the State more than 148,000, has been sentenced to death in an economic crimes trial, the newspaper "Trud reported today. Rabinovich was first arrested on" economic charges in 1953, the newspaper, but bis accomplices managed to have him released and the case against him dropped. The clothes he stole from a series of factories where he worked were distributed In cities all over the country. Rabinoyich's leading accomplice, D. Dukarsky, was Imprisoned for 12 years in a strict regime labour and another assistant, L.

Braimaister, was sent to prison for eight years. Reuter. Thant N. KOREAN TIFF WITH CHINA By VICTOR ZORZA North Korea, which was once Peking's closest ally in the dispute with Russia, has now veered so far away from China that it does not even want its friendship or not at Peking's price, anyway. An article in the North Korean Communist Partyis chief newspaper, "Nodong Sinraun," of Pyongyang deliberately omitted any reference to friendship with China in a leading article which said We wlU strive as ever to strengthen friendship and solidarity with the peoples of the Soviet Union and all the other Socialist countries.

Although North Korea has been gradually loosening the bonds of its close alliance with Peking since last year, its official spokesmen and newspapers have been careful to maintain a balance between Russia and China, evidently seeking to play off one against the other. This has yielded handsome dividends, especially in military aid, the flow, of which, to judge from newly concluded agreements, has increased. This in turn has upset the Chinese who have uttered some veiled criticism of Korean double-dealing, which in turn stung Pyongyang last week Into a spirited assertion of its "independence" in an article In "Nodong Sinmun" which reiterated in some detail the North Korean stand and impartially condemned both the "dogmatists" and the revisionists." Upsetting response To the neutral observer the impartiality seemed to err somewhat on the side of Russia, which presumably has caused further offence in Peking. What Peking did or said In reply remains unpublished, but the North Koreans have evidently been' sufficiently upset by its response to warn the Chinese, as suggested by the latest "Nodong Sinmun" contribution to these exchanges, that If that is how they are going to behave, North Korea might be willing to dispense with their "friendship." Somewhere in all this squabbling, the form of which recalls the earliest secret moves in the Sino-Soviet dispute, lurk some of the most important new issues of the present stage of the quarrel. The Chinese, perhaps, will soon oblige by spelling out, as they have done at moments of crisis in the past what these issues are.

More tremors in Tashkent Moscow, August 10 The Central Asian city of Tashkent, which has exoerienced more than six hundred earth quakes since April, was shaken by further tremors early today. Reuter. on poverty emolovine armies of slum dwel- lers actually to rebuild the decaying centres of the cities, Thi3 is a radical move indeed, and one against which a score of Washington lobbies would merci- lesslv mobilise But at the moment tho n.U Administration's concern over this Kibicos-Kennedy investiga- tion is not about its substance, about the justice or exnense of the novirtv nroCTamnTes about the long-range effect of senator lienneay cautious but steady criticism of the President. In California, and in a county of Iowa that has been for 60 years a reliable barometer of national political sentiment, recent polls pitting President Johnson asainst Senatnr- Kmn. nedy as the Democratic nominee in 1968 have disclosed an astoundlne nreferfinen fnr tho Senator.

Two years Is an age in polities. and it may be that tne Senator's bold criticisms wil seem hie wolf cries when and if he comes to have to propound them as a policy. But at present the Senator is enjoying the luxury of being a one-man loyal opposi- tion inside the Democratic Party, and the White House finds his Guerrilla tactics onlv less wound. m. than 'those of the Vietoonp.

Sen. Kennedy prefers war New York, August 16 From ALISTAIR COOKE Ship's master negligent 9 Senator Robert Kennedy, the junior Senator from New. York, whose rise as a national power in thp Dpmocratip Pnrtv lis? rnn- tne democratic Party has con- founded all his early critics and greatly disturbed the White House, yesterday accused the Administration of using the expense of the Vietnamese war expease ot me Vietnamese war to skimp its outlay for the war on poverty in the cities. He appeared as a first witness before a Senate subcommittee which Senator Abraham Riblcoff (Democrat, of Connecticut, has revived to look into the discrepancy between Federal aid and Federal promises In meeting "the crisis of the cities." There has been wide and continuing criticism of bureau cratic waste and boondoggling in administering the $96 billions which in the last 10 years Federa agencies have poured int? m5. Programmes so-canea uroan renewal.

Dr 1, He "CIS, exploited in the mam by Repub- lica is, has been of maladmmis- trat on. Senator Ribicoff and Sen itor Kennedy, both in theory Adi illustration Democrats, are now attacking the inadequacy of the programme Itself. Cape Town, August 16 A marine court of inquiry here today found that Captain Ian Branch, aged 32, the British master of a South African cargo ship had acted imprudently and in an unsea-manlike manner when the vessel was stranded at the entrance to Table Bay last month. The court suspended Captain Branch's certificate of competency for two years for all shipping in South African waters and for South African shipping outside those waters. It found that his gross negligence contributed to the stranding.

Mr A. J. Barnard, the court president, recommended that.