While rents rise, housing con-
struction drops and unemploy-
ment rises our readers will be
glad to know that the rich are
not homeless.

For a mere $20 million, as the
following story describes, you,
too, can have a roof over your
head.

By THOMAS J. SHEERAN

PRINCETON, N.J.—J. Steward
Johnson’s 50-room $15 million
mansion is rising like a moun-
tain of stone “primarily to avoid
the dangers that have become
apparent to people of wealth
from extortioners, kidnapers and
thieves,” according to Johnson,

the 79-year-old heir to the John- -

son & Johnson millions.

Some township officials say
next spring when the mansion
will be finished it could be worth
as much as $20 million.

One item adding to the ex-
pense is the security system —
a network of electronic sensing
devices plus’ private’ security
force quartered in a smaller six-
bedroom Colonial mansion.

Hundreds of blueprints filed
with Princeton Township reveal
details that will be built:

e The main house will include
a 38-by-54 foot main hall, a liv-
ing room and dining room and a
second floor living area.

e Two single - stcry wings

The following is an article by
Sam Russell, foreign editor of
the British Morning Star. Russell
has just returned home from a
visit to Hanoi. His story appears
slightly abridged.

* ® x

Heroic Hanoi, defiant capital
of North Vietnam, was smiling
in the sun when I arrived for my
second visit in four years after
crossing the redoubtable Lon
Bien Bridge across the Red
River on my way from the air-
“port to the city centre.

Welcoming me with a warm
embrace, Dr. Hung told me how
during the 12 days (Dec. 18 to
30, 1972) over 40,000 tons of
bombs rained down on the city,
although thanks to the very ef-
ficient civil defense system, only
2,000 were killed and another
2,000 wounded.

On some days and nights there
were as many as 20 alerts and
although there were no raids on
the night of December 25, pre-
sumably to give Mr. Nixon’s
pilcts time to chant “Holy
Night” by their B-52 bombers,
the city’s air raid precautions
system was stretched to the
limit.

“They tried to isolate Hanoi
from the rest of the country,”
said Dr. Hung, “by smashing the
roads and railway lines and
stations as well as the dykes
along the Red River.

“It was a terrible, testing time
for the people of Hanoi. We
fought day and night and inflict-
ed a severe defeat on the enemy,
bringing down 32 U.S. planes,
including 23 B-52s and capturing
many pilots.” .

Serious Damage

Countless example of courage,
heroism, and self-sacrifice char-
acterized the grim detérmination
of the people not to allow them-
selves to be cowed or beaten by

/

Sweeping out from the main
house will include 15 rooms, a
wine cellar, luggage storage
area, eight guest rooms, servants
quarters, a 70-by-30 foot game
rocm and an indoor pool with a
78-foot diameter dome.

e The second floor private re-
sidence of the Jonhsons will in-
clude two nine-foot sunken
marble spa-type bathtubs, a
“shampoo sink,” a painting room
complete with a vault door, bar-
red windows and an electric
disappearing staircase, a dog
chute to allow pets to leave the
bedroom area to the grounds, a
sauna and a mechanical massage
table.

e Throughout the home there -

will be parquet floors, bronze
casement windows with bullet-
proof glass, two elevators, at
least five fireplaces, English wall
paneling, stone cornices, cove
lighting and heated towel racks
in each of 18 bathrooms.

e The grounds will include an’

orchid greenhouse, an amphi-
theater, croquet and_ tennis
courts and ‘12 existing buildings
to house servants, gardeners and
caretakers.

, One of the most notable parts
of the estate will be marble fire-
places which Johnson was only
able to obtain by purchasing a
European castle.

—Daily World

the mass of metal and high-ex-
plosive thrown against them.

But the damage was serious
for the city, with over two mil-
lion square feet of housing de-
stroyed, nine schools completely
destroyed and 81 seriously dam-
aged, as well as numerous health
centres and North Vietnam’s
major hospital of Bach Mai al-
most put out of action.

Apart from that over 4,000
acres of rice fields around Hanoi

were torn up by the bombs, in

some with

craters.

“We think,” said Dr. Hung
medestly, “that by our resistance
we made an effective contribu-
tion to the victory of our
people.”

cases enormous

Already on December 30 the.

Hanoi city council decided to
start temporary repairs and
when the Paris agreement was
signed on January 23, 1973, a
beginning was made on restor-

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1975—Page 6

CIA is up to same old tricks

The jong, rocky and rotten
road of the Central Intelligence
Agency has taken yet another
turn with the disclosure this
week that the agency has asked
its multinationals abroad to spy
on the transportation systems of
several foreign countries.

Barely one week has gone by
since president Ford appointed
his whitewash committee to in-
vestigate the CIA for snooping
into the private lives of thou-
sands of U.S. citizens. The com-
mittee Ford managed to haywire
together, led by Vice-president
Rockefeller, includes such not-
able democrats as Ronald Rea-
gan, retired general Lyman Lem-

Director Colby here tells me,

“Sure the. CIA’s sneaky, but
compared to the rest of the
world we don’t use that much
intelligence.”

e

Listening to a national broadcast in one of the streets near the Restored Sword Lake in Hanoi.

ing normal life to the capital.

It was a back-breaking task,
first to provide temporary shelt-
er for the homeless at a time of
the year when it can be quite
cold in Hanoi.

Then a call was issued to the
whole population to fill in the
bomb craters in the fields. For
there was no time to lose if the
rice séedlings were to be re-
planted to ensure the spring
harvest. This vital task was suc-
cessfully achieved and ensured a
very good rice harvest.

: Restoration

Dr. Hung -and his comrades
had to take a hard look at their
city, which had been damaged in
the ’60s during previous U.S.
attacks.

- Although thousands had been
evacuated and many ministries
and institutions evacuated too,
the city is splitting at the seams
with a population of 1,400,000 in
Greater Hanoi and 740,000 in the

nitser and AFL-CIO secretary-
treasurer Joseph Lane Kirkland.

The blue ribbon committee, of
course, was put together to
downgrade and cover up CIA ac-
tivities which violate the rights
of Americans. It doesn’t even
have subpoena powers and is
called on to report back to Ford
within 90 days.

The latest revelation about
covert acts of interference by
the CIA into other countries’
(Canada included) affairs, shows
that the reign of president Ford
differs little in substance from
his predecessors when it comes
to wielding the big U.S. stick
abroad. Ford’s stupid and provo-
cative remarks concerning the
CIA’s right to sabotage Chile in
1973 have recently been follow-
ed by Henry Kissinger’s just as
provocative comments concern-
ing military intervention in the
Mid-East should U.S. interests
there be challenged.

The Canadian government has

-long nursed the. illusion that

this country is “different” from
other places where American
multi-nationals operate. Our gov-
ernment has an Alice in Won-
derland belief that our good
neighbors to the south consider
and will treat us differently than
the underdeveloped world which

‘they plunder.

We've had ample proof this
isn’t so, American government
and military policy follows its
dollar. It steadfastly guards its
interests — and it matters little

inner city.

Much of the restoration work
that had been carried out in 1971
was destroyed again by the 1972
bombings and the rapidly rising
population has created further
problems.

Providing sufficient accommo-
dation for children at school is
in itself a major headache. In
1965 there were 215,000 children
to be accommodated. In 1973
this had risen to 308,000 and in
1974 to 325,000.

So teachers have to deal with
classes of 60 children, which

’ they hope to bring down to 50 in

three years. In the meantime, all
schools are having to work a
two-shift system and many even
three shifts.

To bring down the number of
children per class from 60 to 50
would require 700 new class-
rooms. But this is just not pos-
sible.

So it is hoped to complete at

- assured of their education. Out

Nguyen Thanh Thanh, explained

if that’s in Alberta, Saigon, San-
tiago or Seoul. In fact, Canada
has more to concern itself over
than most when it comes to U.S.
direct and indirect investment.
The more than $20-billion in
U.S. investment here not only

threatens our economic inde-
pendence, but is a serious poten:
tial threat to our geographic
sovereignty.

Central ‘Intelligence Agency
spying, the sort revealed this
week, on Canada’s transport de-
velopment is only the tip of at
iceberg that’s existed for 30
years, The fact that these viola
tions are being exposed is posi-
tive. The reaction so far by the
Canadian government to having
this go on is pitiful.

least 350 in the coming year
which will only suffice to elimin-
ate the third shift.
_ Superhuman

“Our teachers,” said Dr. Hung
with pride, “have devoted them-
selves without stint to our chil-
dren. They have looked aftet
them and have been parents aS
well at teachers to them.

“Thanks to them and to count-
less others, our children are

orphans have been adopted by
families who are bringing them
up as their own children. But wé
are terribly short. of educational
equipment, including books,
exercise books and even thé
most elementary requirements;
but education is a top priority
for us.”

Alongside the superhuman ef
forts to provide school places, 4
similar effort is being made t0
provide creches and kindergaf-
tens for the children of pre-
school age.

When: I visited the creche if
the Nguyen Cong Tru quartet,
the young woman director, Df.

some of the problems involve
in dealing with 250 babies and
toddlers in a creche built to také
100. ;
Despite the difficulties, every
room was spotless, the childre?
playing happily, although somé
showed signs of undernourish’_
ment.

Yet the accommodation wa
pitifully inadequate, and in -thi§
one quarter of Hanoi alon?@
hundreds of children .whosé
parents had asked for places
could not be accepted.

The United Nations Children’s
Fund (UNICTF) has promised t?
provide three fabricated build’
ings for creches, together with
complete equipment by Septem
ber 1975, each to accommodaté
280 to 300 children.

‘Gand dee Se i” Fa ie Ta ae Oe ree nae

ob pats Ua ie bh ies heidi bed Nadie

loi io a. a