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Manchester denies he *broke faith* with NEW YORK (AP) - William Manchester denied Sunday that he had \broken faith\ or taken advantage of Mrs. John F. Ken- nedy's confidence in recording her \words and emotions.** He claimed he had the family's au- thorization for publication of his book, \The Death of a Presi - dent.' 1 in early 1967. Manchester issued his first significant public statement on the dispute in which Mrs. Ken- nedy has sued to suppress the manuscript as \tasteless and distorted \ \John Kennedy was my presi- dent,*' Manchester said \To suggest that 1 would dishonor his memory of im association with him is both cruel and un- just. \ The author's statement refer* red to information he received from \a member of the Ken • nedy family\ on July », IJM, that the family would place \no obstacle in the way of publica- tion.\ The only other reference in the statement is a sentence that ,k in the summer of 1966, au - thori nation was given by the family for publication of the book in early 1967, to be pre- ceded by serialization in Look magazine\ ¥ * 4 la Mrs. Kennedy's suit filed last Friday, no mention is made of povssible publication by early 1967, Sen.-Kennedy, in an ac- companying affidavit, refers to a Julv 2» \no obstacle\ tele - gran he sent *nd a telephone conversation he had with Man- chester on July • in which Ken- nedy *dd U* author agreed \mktim would be published which did not have the approval of \MA Kennedy and myself.\ Commenting Sunday night on Manchester's statement, Simon H. Rifkind. attorney for the late president's widow, said. \I don't know how Mr. Man- chester escapes from the fact that he made a promise and now he has not lived up to his part of the bargain. \1 don't know about literary integrity nor the matter of his- tory - they don't concern me at the moment - But I believe strongly in a man keeping his word, particularly when it is in a written memorandum of un- derstanding. There has been no approval from Mrs. Kennedy.\ Manchester, stressing that the Kennedy family had sought him out to write the definitive ac- count of the president's assassi- nation, said the late president's \standards of excellence had guided me through this work \It has been said that I have broken faith with Mrs. Kenne- dy: that I took advantage of her confidence in me and that 1 recorded too faithfully her words and emotions,\ Man- chester said * * • \I do not believe this to be so. Mrs Kennedy asked me to write this book I did not seek the opportunity.\ He said the bode bad been read by friends and advisers of the family, and that changes had been made at their sugges- tion, \Mrs. Kennedy herself did not ask to see the manuscript and still hasn't,'' he said. \If she had, I would, of course, have given it to her.\ Manchester said that he had hoped the book would be able to speak (or itself, but indicated it was no longer possible for him to remain silent. \The integrity of my book and my own honesty as a writer and a person have been attacked,\ be said. Manchester's written state- ment, issued through the offices of Look here, followed Mrs. Kennedy's filing of the suit to block publication last Friday She and Sen. Robert F. Ken- nedy, D-N.Y., the late presi* dent's brother, obtained a show cause order returnable Dec. 27 requiring Harper & Row, the book's publisher, and Look, to show why publication should not be stopped. Manchester was not available in person for comment Manchester pointed at the very circumstances of the Pres- ident's death as a possible cause of the furor. \I cannot help but fed that some of the pjsesent bitterness comes from the dark nightmare of his death and the impotence in the face of death which we felt then and feel now.\ 41 1 believe John Kennedy, who 4\ have wanted Ma know the troth of days, and Item self for nearly three reliving and them so that the truth faithfully , and recoraeci \In the last analysis,\ ila* Chester said, \this is my Neither Mi*, member of the Kennedy nor anyone else is to any way responsible for my research or the content of my work. \It is my responsibility, and f am confident that my book can withstand any objective test — particularly the test of time, f ask only that it be given t chance.\ •- v i * .*« rZi ':.•-* ^>s>- .^^ -f &. 21 killed in crash Press-Republican The Hometown Newspaper of Clinton, Essex, Franklin Counties BOGOTA, Colombia <AP> —' Aerocondor in Miami said two A leased Colombian airline other Americans ' killed were VOL. 73— NO. 108 Plattsburgh, N. Y., 12901, Monday Morning, December 19, 1966 10 Cents 28 PAGES plane carrying 57 passengers and crew on a flight from Mi- ami. Fla., crashed Sunday while trying to land in thick fog at Eldorado Airport and airport authorities said 21 persons were killed. Ten persons were reported hospitalized with injuries, none in serious condition. Passenger and crew rosters were not immediately available from the Aerocondor Airline office in Miami which said there were 13 North Americans aboard the Super Constellation. » * • Airport official said the dead included North Americans Charles Taylor, the pilot; T. H. Guthrie, the copilot, and J. S. Engle. the flight engineer. Their home addresses were not immediately available. James Maria Ricardo Powell and Flora Diller. Also among those killed. Aer- ocondor said, was Capt. Gusta- vo Lopez, general manager of the airline. Authorities in Bogota said the injured included Daniel Bridges, Del ores Bridges and Jeannie Bridges, all of Orlando. Fla., and Kay Tuttle. 23, of Crestline, Ohio. Aerocondor in Miami lis- ted other American survivors as William Bridges. Catherine Keller. Anna Powell and Tom Jackivitz. Miss Tuttle. who suffered a broken leg. told a reporter that as the flight approached the air- port it was announced that fog was closing in. but the plane was going to land. Airport officials said the plane went down short of the runway on its approach. Johnson faces tough decisions Suspect in killing of cop gives up GREENSBURG, Ind. (AP)—? .An lS-year-old Kentuckian sought in a manhunt following) the slaying of a stale troopej gave himself up Sunday wbnf a-f farm wife he was holding hos- tage ran into her yard and waved down a police car. Mrs Henry Ernstes ran out of her farm home waving her arms as a police car—pan of the manhunt—approached the house. James Lee Collins of Erian- ger, Ky., stepped through the front door and surrendered without resistance. • • * Nearly 3W officers had swarmed through the farming area since the predawn hours when a highway gunfight killed an Indiana state trooper and a young man in a stolen car. \ Trooper William R Rayner. 30. of Greensburg, djed in an Indianapolis hospital seven hours after he was shot in the head. James W. Sprinkle, 2S, of Newport, Ky\, was killed in the exchange. A second man in the stolen car fled on foot—and believed to be armed—and the manhunt te ptfice ideSSW the man being sought as Ciftlhs. report- ed absent without lea\ e with Sprinkle from the Community Guidance Center at Louisville,' Ky. Official? said they fled the center Saturday. State police said Collins en- tered the Ernstes farm house during the morning while the elderly couple was at church. CRASHED PLANE — Police stand guard over the wreckage of the airplane which crashed at El Dorado Airport near Bogota, Colombia, early Sunday. A number of persons were killed in the crash. The plane, tion, was en route from Miami 65 North Viets killed fighting Yank News in brief SAIGON, South Vietnam 'AP) — U.S. troops slugged it out with North Vietnamese army regulars in the lowlands of South Vietnam's central coast Sunday and reported killing 65 of the 500 or so enemy troops in the second day of fighting. The air cavalrvmen took moderate casualties in their own rar^ks. U.S. officials sa:d. In the air war. U >. bombers avoided the Hanoi area for the third straight day on Saturday but planes fiew new leaflet- dropping missions aimed at dis- couraging North Vietnamese men from fighting :r, the South. Yule Mass canceled Some favor teaching religion in schools pledged to honor a 48-hour Christmas truce starting at 7 a m. Saigon time on Christmas Eve. Tne chaplains told their troops Francis Cardinal Spell- man archbishop of New York, will celebrate his annual Mass By DON THOMPSON 4 The Christmas seasien is a difficult time of year to avoid the mectioning of re- ligious aspects in our scboois.\ said Antonio La.v ckme. City Superintendert of Schools in a recent interne*. Lancione 2nd other public school officials and clergy were asked tneir opinions about the teaching '•:' re'..z::r. in public school? Those <rr.- tacted m addition l' Lanciore were. Dr. J oh- * Harrow Disoict supermtender: of «<2KX*S Be v * : nst *• -. 5 a J n- 6tr* pastor ::' the F-->t Me. tbod5t Churcr. ' Pitts- burgh Cla ide <'s -»-<: ;r. -: > pal of t)>e Plattsburgh >er.;cr High Sc \->:'. * • • Laecieee su££f*t*^ ttw: a curriculum apo~a ~ .-•:•. vx teacher -*--***-'at. •* ci the rierg;- arc tre rm- DBiimty a: large sVu.3 :* ::• gir**2ed to prefer: tse ~-> ject of religion to the chil- dren in the public scboois He feels that, 'there is a great deal of knowledge that young people can derive from the literary study of various religions \ 11 We car. practice separa- tion of Church and State with- out destroy ing the heritage :f A men can c:vuizatiot, sa:d Lancione Tr. scboois we have bee- more cautiexxs #ue to recer.t court dedsicms Teachers have been cnfkns .en *uh oth- ^ taueht 4 • <1 + -^ CO^C CIJKTOX OtCSTV 1 Lar.ctor.e feels that other -e-la :f oomaunioaLon ha-.e to a large exiesl taker ever the teacrusg of rei^isc - children .Amor^j *J>ese be l^t^d t?.e'-i5Kr. -ad:* ma*- ir.^-es arid -^* i 9pa^en cor- 5*a-tl. priA-xiL'is: an ;rrTLC^r- s.--*: r*i-.< •/ icc--a--t«v a • 9 TV teaefcmt M retlpafi ti ^^.,: fcriools J ret ccrr^.ete- f>rt:-3oer. aj soag ai the teaecs ^ a certain re'-£5« are 3C=t ehjbdatad c?oc rr Ms w Hamad pr> poa« ^ ieacM2« of t i e B&ie ^r^ctao at a M»- ujry or fad in teerxj ^-aloe. Concerning what in the way of religion in schools today Dr Harrold said, 4, rm sure that every social studies cour&e talks about world relates. Li- brary* and refereixre sdhocls are also free readirj: \ w*ben asKed whether be thought these *jre Hiffiaern he sa>d. L' the*s» doesn't do anything. Utk ISRI eoo^zb but there u ^»?e that the teaching of reurt*r. does ^ or. s. Lie borne arc .n the ctjjzli. The sox^l ^ en.; a suppieoer.: to *hat goes on .r. the church and huce TV Rev WtetM Sanders ^ particularly J5 favor af teachr** r^hmr: 23 schools fv rtit he calis Ae \KV nchmer: of ev«ery ctM . Re Vjes not fee; tne te»ct,M of JX 3.D.e is lie traching U neiizioc The Kflcas tr-5 Modems arxi t -.JC ^.urxs ^ :he !aiSi art a-so ^ MDC 1 tht fth* a the ptimc fC^x^s tc cuac-* erf tbest ** thee be crtociyd It f iS w£ SAIGON. South Vietnam AP) — Roman Catholic chaplains announced Sunday they are calling off plans for Chnstmas midnight Masses for U.S. troops in South Vietnam because of increased Viet Cong terrorism and recent daring mortar at- tacks The decision was taken even for troops sometime Chnstmas though the Viet Cong has afternoon. Tri-FaitfcfPlaza dedicated NEW YORK 'AP>—Vice talk delivered in the Irrterna- President Hubert K. Humphrey tional Synagogue, said that uni- Sunday cut a blue ribbon at : ty of Americans of all faiths is Kennedy Airport to dkficate the needed to gam \peace with jus- Tri-Faith Chapels Piaza leading tice and freedom throughout the to the chapeis of the Protestant, world \ Boraan Catholic aud Jewish About 600 persons. Lncluding faiths. businessmen and leaders of the rUH Ttl«phot«) a four-engined Superccnstella- to Bogota. Weather Much colder Partial clearing and much colder with snow flurries. Higbs in the teens to low 20$. Fair and cold tonight, lowest around zero to 10 above. Tuesday, increasing cloudiness and cold. AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) - Deci- < sions face President Johnson in, the next 30 days that can affect | the political future of himself j and his party, the nation*s pros-' perity, and the peace of the world. The turn of the year always is ; a time of trouble for presidents. ; because high policy decisions must be hammered out. then; laid before a new session of Congress. • * • First, there's the State of the Union message which Johnson will deliver personally soon aft- er Congress convenes on Jan. 10. This will be a broad state- ment of his goals and plans for the country's future. Next comes the federal budget which forecasts, in money terms, the programs and activities John- son lays out. The President and his advisers must do their best to look ahead IS months — to June 30. 1968. when the period covered by the new budget ex- pires. • • • Early drafts of the State of the Union message are being written and reworked. And much of the budget will be com- pleted by Christmas. However. >ome of the toughest problems will be resolved last. One of these: Should taxes be increased, to bring federal in- come and outgo into closer bal- ance and to damp down infla- tionary pressures 0 Or would a tax hike at this time, as some • economic indicators are turning mushy, only promote a reces- sion 0 • • • The tax problem is intimately related to Vietnam war plan- ning. If sharply higher war spending is in prospect, higher taxes might become inevitable. , But if peace should come, high- er taxes would hasten a reces- sion. First priority in budget-mak- ing and program-planning must go to the war and other national security requirements. Only after Johnson makes his deci- sions and assumptions in this area can he intelligently make allocations for the government's social welfare efforts that he calls the \Great Society' 1 pro- gram. Should these activities, draw- ing strong support from impor- tant voting groups usually friendly to the Democratic par- ty, be squeezed to help pay for the war° Are they worth ex- panding at the price of a tax Military, economic, political and social realities converge at this point in a manner that might be expected to confound any president. Should the United States ^ mit itself to a potential $4<KM1- Uon outlay to match Soviet depl- i oyment of antiballistic missiles 0 Should $4 billion be ear- marked for development of a supersonic airliner that — just possibly — might never get off the ground 0 Should postal rates be increased in order to pare the deficit in that department 0 Then there is the politically sensitive question of the mili- tary draft. A whole series of decisions on the draft's future ma^t be made soon because the old Selective Service law goes off the books automatically next June 30. * » • Tbe President, in July, creat- ed a 20-member national advis- ory commission to present rec- ommendations for a revised Sel- ec ti ve Service system on or about Jan. 1. 7ff ^?9T.v>fff '**» ^Vi*jt Tha vice president, in a bnef three faiths, attended. Soviet hero (JUH — Leorod I. Honors heaped the Son*- Commu- v ,y was i ragnest hon- or, the 90e #< Hero of the Soviet Union.~ The award was made m connection with Brahriev's 60th birthday Monday. Strike talks recess **i*.' '•B*. -->^fc „£, ... *TT on Brezhnev on the eve of h^s birthday also included a warm message of congraroia u^ns from his col- leagues in the top organs of the I Communist party and the Soviet: government. KU'JM NE* • YORK -AP - Med:a- n4tK^: Union y ET-ectrical tior. effJT-S headed by Under Worker?. AFL-CTO. heading the Secretary r*f Lax: James Re>- opposing bargain:na teams. ao»2s afcved at e-d^ng a r:r«e-* agreed w-.tt Reyriwds' wee* strike aga-.ty the General ment Bectnc Co m Scbe-*ctady • recessed Scoca;. nrht u> m *L1* « til Tuesday with indjcafc*w of jt^e progress i RejTsoidi a&nouDced the re- t m cess at S • p.m . &ayof he re- t TMfretted be m* oot J5 a Je«ttf U i^opee ^tar a $*: c*m *aay mpess a my of Scseoecta- di the ^er- 1 As « esr^-c^ tfest of Lecti 91 m. 6 HLRD€Jl a <s»# SUCHHE - hi V tke f tmihr r m m bit pnect gtm bst rttea <• mm f 3 i
