NEWS CONFERENCE 175

granting the random pay raise of policemen on July 1st and moving
it back to September 1st. Was it your opinion that when the Legislature
passed that bill recommending money for the pay raise, that it was
the intent of the legislature to have the pay raise go into effect on
July 1st?

A. I was asked this question about the dedication of those monies
to the particular purpose of police protection when we visited Balti-
more City recently, and, as I see it, it lines up this way. The money
should be dedicated to police purposes, unquestionably. The State has
no right, however, to dictate to the City or to any subdivision re-
ceiving the money within a police use what the subdivision should do
with the money. Whether it is salaries, equipment or any other legiti-
mate public safety expense, I think it is up to the subdivision receiving
the money, and they should have flexibility within expenditures for
police purposes.

Q. Governor, can we get back once again to this civil rights ques-
tion. The militant activists like Carmichael and McKissick maintain
there is a direct link, you say a twisted one, between the civil rights
movement and the war, in that the money that is going for the war
ought really to be spent helping those Negroes to get out of the
ghettos. What is your response to that?

A. Well, there has to be an America to spend money on and if we're
going to forfeit our place in the free world and retreat into what is
hoped would be an isolationist's position, someday there is going to
come a day of reckoning for that retreat, and it is going to be a great
deal more expensive in both lives and property and money when it
happens. And after it happens, if we're not able to pull it out, there
won't be any need to worry about any anti-poverty programs or any
other type local programs because the successful conqueror of this
country would dictate the policies without regard to our wishes in
domestic matters, anyhow.

Q. Governor, on a more practical subject, have you discussed with
Mr. Wolff the recent difficulties of the design concept team?

A. Yes, I have, and Mr. Wolff tells me he has had many conferences
with Mr. Owings, the architect of the design concept team, and that
they have reached a measure of accord in that controversy. I think
there has been some misunderstanding over what might be considered
architectural prerogatives as opposed to engineering prerogatives, and
my last word from Mr. Wolff was about three days ago when he told
me that the controversy had been apparently resolved.