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eat Seren sab SS een LOSS Rr SOQ. OO Tamed Be rore We degin the t broke in, ay T was ening to foree a coalidon govern: ment over South Viotnam “T said we should *niake gure We are wiht io ae TTA a . ecépt Unar if the South View namese want to eontinue the MeCarthy added. Ou) nen rojected a news- wggesiion tat their erilicisms of U.S. poliey in Vieinam would oncourage } th Wieinamese to hink whey woulé fare bee. commis Agia, Kennedy said it would “far more advisable” to et anew Korean conflict rough the United Nations through unilateral iF is . 38 wo choy an the US ns to dow ments in Shor yams of ‘thee fernai | agiy on sainst eovermsens Wilh popular Suppor 42d a murky internal. quarrel “soma turmoil er TOrnist Traila “1 don’ whisk ave canabe’ the poheenan o: the world and settle every dispute with American arms,” Kennedy said. Both Sensicrs expressed support Jor Isvaci ond agreed U.S. should. send jet fiehsers to that country to sei Soviet aid to Arab cOUnITIOS. Turning to domestic issues,- bo. SeiiOrs advoonted Fed. eral funds and training pro- grams wo help locai police cope with riots. But both emphasized _t their Wettais law and order can 1. ~ t ot mM, be suaranieed ony if prog. ress is wade in Tees ihe ‘rievanees of an eile Uwe ers. Kennedy said ihst th poor should be suaraniced sobs by sine the Govern. ment as mployer of Jast resort,” adding that hp cGuniry -must “aot away from_ the welfare ‘Syehin -ne- far as possible.” MeCarihy spoke of “a new Bill of Righis"—keved to a houSing program of a million units 4 year—so that! uhetlo dwellers can be as. su rod that “in two years, or. hree years, or five year youll be set free from these conditions.” : Kennedy expressed skep-' ticism that the housing pro- grams McCarthy was advo- cating would “be any more saiisfactory” than those of the past. ‘ That produced the discus- Sion over ‘whether Federal rograms should aim at im- proving ghetto conditions or moving Negroes out of the ghetto. * ‘They quickly found them- selves in argument again, at the Prosident’s 10 per cor & ta IX SureadaTee WAS [690 big a bite ior present eco. . Ardy. ce) + nomie circumstances. ing fo. Thorough tax reform to dlose existing loopholes, Kennedy said, “I'd taxe a tax hike, but 10 per cent is too high and too hard on midcieincome families.” McCarthy said he favors’ a tax surcharge oi oniy “4g to & per cent.” The argument over Rusk and Hoover came up Wren Kennedy was asked about newspaper reports that a3 Attorney General, he had M.pproved an FBI wiretap on’ “the telephone of the Rev.. + * pr. Martin Luther King Jr. We said that under law, “Tt had authority to wiretap:in foases where the PBU felt Mnational security of the United States might be in- volved.” . Kennedy said he had’ never discussed individual cases Jue. wanted to affirm . [ig view that “Mertin- Ia thar iwIng "was a ioya Gedi- - cated American who made a great contribution to his country.” MeCarday Cid not ress" him’ for a direct answer, but: ke said th e wirelapping to. f font was evidence, that Too-: ee “been FEI ‘director’: we te s sete eee rete CPE tines * too long and ouget to-be_re-’ bas he reds } Kennedy said he had had i Smy differences” with Ioo- rer, but declined again to dis- cuss personalities in Gave ernmont, He took the same position when asked about’ McOarithy’s demand that. Rusk be removed as Secre- tary of Stare. Calling Rusk a “very dedi eated American,” Kennedy sald, “I hannea to cisagres With 36 policies he's espouse. ing... but he's gnaltled £0 his opinion”: : = epee er ene as ee En