NEWS CONFERENCE 363

A. Meetings are being held with Commissioner Pomerleau and state
National Guard officials to evolve the most effective means of riot con-
trol so that the preservation of the peace anywhere in the State may be
maintained.

Q. In this connection have you consulted with Federal authorities?

A. I haven't personally, but my representatives have been in touch
with Federal authorities.

Q. Governor, if I can go back to Rap Brown for a minute, was your
description and your characterization of him yesterday a visceral re-
action or was that a strategy of yours to clamp the lid on right away
before any further trouble developed?

A. When I said that he should be locked up and they should throw
away the key, that was entirely a visceral reaction. Obviously, I think
anybody who's accused of a crime is entitled to the full protection of
the law, a fair trial and a fair punishment.

Q. Governor, do you see any serious conflict between the policy be-
tween the National Guard and the police of Cambridge?

A. I'm not satisfied that the communication, the liaison, is as good
as I would like to see it. Attorney General Burch is on his way to
Cambridge right now, I suppose he's reached there by now, to confer
with General Gelston, Colonel Lally and local authorities about the
situation.

Q. Governor, are Maryland officials already on their way over to
Alexandria to bring Brown in, or what is the step now that he has
been arraigned on Federal warrant?

A. I think he's in the custody now of Federal officials, from what I
was told. I'm not in possession of any exact information on that.

Q. Governor, Dr. Ware and others of your administration have been
working in the Cambridge area for weeks to try and head off any
uprising or disturbance. Do you know what more you could have done
to prevent this?

A. You know this is a subject that really gives me a lot of concern.
The fact that Cambridge, the area that we were working hardest in,
was the area that exploded. The fact that Detroit, which has the repu-
tation of being one of the most progressive enlightened cities in the
area of race relations in the entire country, is presently a city in chaos
and under siege. It indicates to me that the perpetrators of this law-
lessness and these uprisings are not really interested in civil rights,
but that these are people who are interested only in formenting de-