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Kennedy Hopes To Meet
LBJ For Unify Discussions
NEW YORK (AP) - A solemn
Sen. RobertF. Kennedy said Mon¬
day he has asked President John¬
son tor an early meeting to
discuss 'how we might work to-
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The New York Democrat be¬
came a likely front-runner foi
his party's presidential nomina¬
tion when Johnson stunned th<
world Sunday night by announc¬
ing he will not
Two weeks ago Kennedy opened
what was then his challenge to
Johnson by charging the Presi¬
dent with responsibility tor dls-
If he was Jubilant about the ap¬
parent elimination
tton, Kennedy concealed it care¬
fully in his half-hour appearance.
And he has causi
will be if Johnson's de-escala¬
tion,  which  Kennedy has advo¬
cated, fails-or what the Demo¬
cratic National Convention
do If the peace steps works.
His expression was serious aj
he entered the sweltering Over,
seas Press Club lounge
3  throughout the
ur session.
Kennedy  said
he had sent a
legram to the
President after
But the tone was different Mon¬
day as Kennedy told a crowded
news conference and a nationwide
radio-television audience:
The President's action re¬
flects both courage and generos¬
ity of spirit."
Then he took to the campaign
trail  again  for a busy tour of
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"First of a!
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fervently hope that your new ef¬
forts for peace in Vietnam will
succeed," the telegram said. In
reference to the bombing pause
ordered by Johnson.
•Your decision regarding the
presidency subordinates self to
country and is truly magnani¬
mous. I respectfully and earnest¬
ly request an opportunity to visit
with you as soon as possible to
discuss how we might work to¬
gether In the interest of national
unity during the coming months.
Sincerely,  Robert F. Kennedy."
Then   Kennedy   said,   "I will
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presidency."
Kennedy rejected suggestions
that Johnson's bombshell had
taken  the wind out of his cam-
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President Lyndon B.Johnson's
startling twin  announcement to
bring a halt to bombing and to
not  seek  reelection  sent out a
pit the world
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im brought Joy to some nations
id dismay and fears to others.
The • Soviets   viewed  the  de-
to  run tor  another
political   maneuver,
and took a dim view of Johnson's
bombing halt.
There  was no immediate re¬
action from Peking or Hanoi but
a Communist newspaper In Hong
Kong, In an editorial, viewed the
development  as a clear sign of
Reaction   on   the home   fro
even to his closest aides.
York, regarded by many as tl
new Democratic front-runner
the immediate wake of Johnson
big Sunday  night  surprise, di
The only other announced rival
tor the Democratic nomination,
Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy ofMln-
tional reconciliation.
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declslonwlthHum-
roveallng It to the
said Johnson's decision
e strengthened his hand
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Bomb Halt:   Cool Russ Reaction
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ed with official silence the sudden bombing which he ordered
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The officials declined to spell
out in days, weeks or months
what they considered a reason¬
able time. Johnson once halted
all bombing of the North for 37
The initial Moscow reaction
came as British Foreign Secre¬
tary Michael Stewart conferred
with the Russian ambassador to
that country to sound out the So¬
viet reaction.
sergeant In the!
capital. Another
beUeve It."
Rep. Roman C. Puclnckl, D-
111., expressed conviction that
Johnson would be drafted at the
Democratic nominating conven¬
tion In August.
But the President himself, at
emotlon-p
med hi:
Then
s talks with Ambass
hail N. Smlrnovsky, but the Rus¬
sian news agency Tass called
Johnson's peace overture a ma-
namese demands for an uncon¬
ditional halt to bombing raids.
Although Hanoi remained si¬
lent, there was a newspaper re¬
port out of Tokyo predicting North
Vietnam would reject or ignore
Johnson's latest move.
king correspondent of the news¬
paper Asahl who quoted a source
close to Hanoi. Neither the Iden¬
tity  nor  the nationality of the
clslon "completely lr
This Is the phrase Johnson
used to try to dispel any suspi¬
cion he might change his mind
or yield to a draft.
He also suggested he would
not attempt to Influence his
party's selection of a nominee.
A man of many surprises,
Johnson's announcement was his
most stunning move In a 37-year
career In politics. No president
eligible to succeed himself has
spurned a fight for the office
since Harry S Truman bowed
out in 1952 during the contro¬
versial Korean War 20 years ago.
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Initiated By UCr Reagan       Uumke LISTS Mate
SACRAMENTO (AP) - The
University of California andGov.
Ronald Reagan have announced
separate economy drive savings
of $73.2 million.
The University said It saved
more than S3 million by econ¬
omizing during the last three
months of 1967.
•The effort Is part of the
to obtain maxl-
■ results from the money It
manages, while making sure that
the quality of education does not
suffer in the face of hefty cuts
in Its operating and construction
budgets,* the university said.
UC officials and Reagan have
been at odds over the governor's
trimming of the university's
1968-69 operating budget request
by 131 million.
. Meanwhile, Reagan said he has
stepped up Implementation of
money-saving proposals given
him by his 250-membi
265 of the force's recommenda¬
tions are being Implemented with
a potential annual saving of $56.4
million.
Another $13.8 million In sav¬
ings may be achieved on a one¬
time basis from the proposals,
the governor said.
Many of the proposals have to
do with saving money in state
university and college opera-
d the
1 College Suggestions
(AP) - A pro-
The   i
/orslty said it has
made more than 200 separate
economy moves as part of Presi¬
dent Charles J. Mitch's economy
drive launched last August.
World Food Expert
To Speak Friday
Borgstrom, an International
authority on world food prob¬
lems, will address the Fresno
Subsection of the American
Chemical Society. The general
public Is Invited.
"His topic is considered the
number one problem facing man¬
kind today,* said Dr. Glen A.
Lundeen, chairman of the Fresno
Resistance Protest
Planned Next Week
with thousands starving dally."
Dr. Borgstrom's arrival In
Fresno coincides with Fresno
State College plans to offer a
food science program. Represen¬
tatives of the California food
processing Industry recently re¬
quested FSC to initiate the pro-
colleges In California has been
put forth by State Chancellor
Glenn S. Dumke, including the
suggestion that there be salary
parity with the University of
California.
In an interview with the Los
Angeles Times, Dumke called
tor a gradual reduction in the
state college teaching load from
the current average of 12 hours
a week to nine hours. He urged
that the colleges be called Cali¬
brate degree programs empha¬
sizing teaching should be intro¬
duced into the system and he
called for approval ofSIBmillion
in budget augmentations the col¬
leges are asking from the Legis¬
lature for the 1968-69 academic
California's Master Plan tor
Higher Education, which Dumke
says  favors the university, has
failed to provide programs of
equal importance to the state
colleges, he said.
Dumke was a member of the
survey team which drew up the
plan in 1959. He says he approves
of the plan's principle, which
established that the university
concentrate on Ph.D. programs
while the state colleges empha¬
size undergraduate study and
teaching.
"But the problem is . . . you
can develop specialization only
if you make specialization pal¬
atable to professional people In
each segment,' he said.
■We haven't quite reached that
In California and that is the main
faculty members and the flailing
about In some of our Junior col¬
leges.
The state chancellor said the
colleges did not want to under¬
mine the master plan. He says
his   program    to   improve  the
take much money.
Declining to place a price tag
on his recommendations, Dumke
said it would Include the pro
posed $18 million budget aug¬
mentations and the $9 or $10
million needed to achieve salary
parity, as well as the additional
millions to lower the teaching
"You've got to tell the people
who are teaching In California
state colleges that the Job they
are doing is every bit as im¬
portant as the Job the man at the
university is doing,* he said.
A full professor In the univer¬
sity system earns between
$14,800 to $21,000 annually while
the state college professor earns
$13,992 to $17,016.
Dumke urged the name change
to   California   State   University
especially ti
d help u
i lot,
e younger people
Workshop Set For April
Id Tonu
iwDr.
Dr.  Borgstrom  was  recently
Academy of Arts  and  Science.
He   Is   presently   serving  as   a
A two-day Storytelling Work¬
shop will be held on the Fresno '
State College  campus April 19
The workshop, offered by the
extenstlon division for one unit of
credit, Is designed to help ele¬
mentary school teachers, librar¬
ians, and parents who have an
I in storytelling and chll-
s iltor
Charlene Sn
Hodgens  lecturer  In I
and   Doris Gates,  author  and
master storyteller.
The workshop will meet from
4 to 10 p.m. on Friday and from
8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday,
In  the library of the FSC Lab-
The cost of the program is
$16.50 plus $4.25 for dinner on
Friday night and luncheon on Sat-
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group is being organized lo
by Fresno State College student
Dale Klemm and Mike Martin,
a graduate of the University of
California at Santa Barbara.
Klemm, who has been accepted
at the pacific Lutheran Seminary
in Berkeley, said at leasi 12
persons have Indicated they will
turn In their draft cards at the
program.
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