Agnew’s Offer To ‘Swap’ Radicals

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32220, 12 February 1970, Page 14

Agnew’s Offer To ‘Swap’ Radicals

(N.ZP.A.-Reuter —Copurfghf)

ST LOUIS, Feb. 11.

Vice-President Spiro Agnew got a standing ovation from an audience in St Louis last night when he declared that he would swap ali of American’s "deserters, malcontents and radicals” for a single platoon of the troops now serving in Vietnam. Speaking to 3000 pepuhUcan Party supporters, Mr Agnew lashed out at the Demo-

cratic Party leaders as “limousine liberals” and *t Senator William Fulbright, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, whose views he said, added up to * blueprint for “defeat in Vietnam and retreat from the world ”

He suggested that Senator Fulbright could hunt for future Democratic Party leaders in “the deserters’ dens of Canad* and Sweden” but that Republicans would look elsewhere for their leaders. He said that as far as "deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among our young” were concerned, including such groups as “Students for a Democratic Society, Yippies, Hippies, Ya. hoos, Black Panthers, Lambs and Tigers alike—l would swap the whole dam zoo of them for a single platoon of the kind of young Americans I saw in Vietnam.”

Personal Item

Mr E. J. Ward was appointed bursar at the Mairehau High School by the board of governors yesterday. Mr Ward recently retired as South Island manager of the Presbyterian Bookroom.