Winona Daily News (Newspaper) - November 15, 1970, Winona, Minnesota Enemy attacks airborne units LINES ON COMMUNICATION A South Vietnamese officer followed by his radioman moves through a rice paddy during a search operation south of Penh Cambodia and keeps in touch with other of the search team AP Winona Sunday News of Publication Winons Minnesota 55537 Sunday November Twenty-Five Per Copy By MICHAEL Associated Press Writer SAIGON AP North troops smashed into two Airborne Division units in the northern jungles of South Vietnam the U.S Command said Saturday attacks against the killed four and wounded 25 Coupled with al small skirmishes shillings and mine and booby trap ind- ents this raised U.S es in the northern sector of Vietnam to eight killed nd 49 In a 24-hour od A spokesmen said three nemy soldiers were killed One of the airborne units was Friday in the jungle cross a valley from the carred ridge that served as ire Base O'Reilly before it was by South Vietnamese after a ery siege last summer The clash occurred 23 miles northwest of Hue the old rial capital Two Americans were killed and 15 wounded In the other action North troops moving un- der cover of darkness early ln Conspiracy bond is MINNEAPOLIS Minn AP Police continued their probe during the weekend for possible accomplices in what they de- scribed as a bizarre plane hijack plot with the aim of freeing political prisoners Held in bond at the Ramsey County Jail in St Paul was Ronald L Reed 20 who has been accused on a variety mat go of charges including conspiracy were m to hijack an airplane Reed a black formerly of St Paul was arrested early day at a southeast Minneapolis apartment after police were tipped to a possible attempt to kidnap Gov Harold LeVander and St Paul City an Mrs Walter Butler Authorities said they found notes on Reed's person and in the apartment which referred to the plan to hold the governor and Mrs Butler as hostage and try to take over an aircraft The plot also allegedly was to free three persons held at the sey County Jail and at least three others held elsewhere in- Miss Angela Davis year-old black activist jailed in York and accused of a conspiracy in nia Police and FBI who com to the investigation re- ported Saturday no more ar- rests have been made in the case But informed sources said the probe was continuing Minneapolis and St Paul lice have active flies on several cases of bombings or shootings In the past half year One of those is the ambush shooting death of James Sackett 27 year old father of four young children He and another patrolman were lured to a home on a fake gency call the night of May 22 The Ramsey County Grand jury this week indicted Con- stance L Trimble 18 on a degree murder charge in death Civilian government ousted DAMASCUS Syria AP Defense Minister Gen Hafez al Assad seized control of Syria's government today after a quiet midnight coup d'etat that over- threw the Marxist civilian Most citizens of 25 miles from the front lines of the Israeli unaware that a coup had taken place and hat their government leaders The Syrian capital was calm with no signs of trouble on the surface and no unusual military activity Shoppers thronged to the bazaars as usual and gov ministries were open for business Arab diplomatic sources said Assad and his men arrested President Atassi for- mer Premier Youssef and Gen Salah Jadid the er of Syrian Baath party In raids on their homes late day the Moslem sabbath id's only title is assistant of the party but he was the strongman of regime None of the arrested men was harmed the sources said But Damascus Radio which in the past has broadcast Syrian revolutions with fanfares of Arab music made no mention of a coup today The INVOLVED IN UPHEAVAL Defense Minister Hafez al Assad right staged a military coup in Syria late Friday a man for the ousted leadership reported It was also reported that President Atassi center and leftist Premier Dr sef left had been arrested AP trolled station opened its rams with chanted verses from he Koran and routine news he Arab world Baathist sources said agents of Assad's intelligence force rounded up the key Marxist fig ures and set up guards at primi military and government build ings said there was no in dication of tension hi Damascus With Damascus Radio few Syrians apparently were aware of the events The Atassi spokesman member of the Baath committee to Be rut to announce the coup H said men captured the state radio and television sta and the two daily pers But he said no tanks or ar mored cars were inl Damascus as usually occurs i a Syrian coup Bolstered by support of air force intelligence an Chief of Staff Gen Mustaf Assad moved after th party congress dismissed him from power on Thursday th spokesman said Party sources reported tha Assad a air ma thai clashed repeatedly wit Jadid during the emergenc Baathist congress called to ge Atassi to reconsider the resign tion he submitted Oct 8 northeast of Phnom-Penh that forms the Eastern anchor of the shattered northern front A Cambodian high command spokesman said enemy forces also attacked a pagoda two miles outside the city but lost two killed and four wounded Mo smashed through a com- j government casualties were night defenses Firing I rocket grenades and Government reinforcement help of artillery fire Two U.S troops were killed and 10 wounded in the fight in the almost uninhabited foothills 13 miles west of Hue A dispatch from Phnom Penh reported that Cambodian diers stationed on the university day night jus north of on the outer defense ring 11 miles north of Phnom Penh There was no word from the battalion It was surrounded by ments of a North Vietnamese Cambodia's third largest u were fired on It was the latest I tcom the in a week of sporadic fighting and around the city 47 miles EVACUATE WOUNDED BUDDY South Vietnamese Marines carry wounded buddy towards evacuation ter near Takeo in Cambodia The Marine unit sustained while operating in Cambodia about 45 miles south of the capital Phnom Penh AP Ships rush elief supplies to Pakistan DACCA East Pakistan AP Ships rushed relief supplies o East Pakistan's offshore ands Saturday in the wake of a torm which authorities fear las killed thousands The official death count less than 50 but a local magistrate on the island of ia in the Bay of Bengal said housands were killed when a wave struck flooding ths island with 20 feet of water Hatia 20 miles from shore as a population of at least District commissioners said the Island was devastated One eyewitness said thera were 350 bodies along one stretch Pakistan's coastline Communications wera down between the interior and much of the 250 miles of line hit hardest by the storm's winds and foot waves There were reports of sands of persons missing along the coast and on the offshore lands A rescue party left for the land of Dubla where dus assembled for a religious festival were believed trapped No word had been received from a party of World Bank experts and con- who left Tuesday on a tour of areas that later received the brunt of the storm competition for whip The notes found on Reed or in the apartment demanded re- lease of the young woman as one of those to be set free as an exchange for hostages on a plane to be hijacked police said Others whose release was sought locally were Gary Hogan 37 awaiting trial for bombing of a department store restroom in St Paul in August and Larry L Clark charged with ed robbery of the Ames Plaza Bank at Omaha Neb Oct 20 Reed also is wanted by aha authorities on attempted robbery of the bank attempted murder and using a firearm in committing a Police said intended to be freed besides Miss Davis George Jackson awaiting trial in California on charges ol killing a guard al Soledad on and Bobby Seale accused in Connecticut of conspiracy to murder x Black Panther ber Jackson is a brother of than Jackson who was among four persons killed in a nut at a courthouse in San fael Calif Miss Davis has been indicted on murder kidnaping and conspiracy charges in con with that incident Police at Pau1 said they did not know if Reet is a member of the militan Black Panther organization Emory Douglass the Panthers minister of said an interview at Northfield Minn Friday that Reed was rot Among other the police found said We are Also that We want the Black Panther party to be given national TV time to pre- sent the program 4 by JOHN W FINNEY WASHINGTON Sen ward M Kennedy is proaching another possible crisis in his political career time over holding his job as assistant Democratic leader of the Senate When the new C o gress con- venes in January it appears likely that Sen Robert F Byrd of West Virginia a conservative Democrat will challenge Kennedy for the No 2 post in the Senate New York Times News Service Democratic hierarchy Some Kennedy associates are fearful if such a fight occurs that the setts Democrat could lose the whip post that he ed from the Southern crats in 1969 His victory then was regarded as a bold political coup that Kennedy as a tional political figure Kennedy has made no secret of his desire to keep the whip post and thus re- tain his leadership standing in the Democratic party In his letters of congratulations to elected Democratic tors for example he has made the point that he is looking forward to ing as assistant to Sen Mike Mansfield the cratic leader BYRD WHO as secretary of the ence holds the No 3 spot is keeping his counsel for the moment but is not ruling out a challenge to Kennedy Through a man Byrd took the position that it was premature to speculate on whether he would run for the whip post until after Congress com- pletes its sion that begins Monday The expectation among some of his Senate col- leagues however is that Byrd who is regarded as a shrewd in the Senate will make the race if he thinks he has a chance of winning If he should win Byrd would establish himself as heir apparent to Mansfield who has just been elected to probably his final term in the Senate and who may step down as Democratic leader after the 1972 Presidential election Kennedy's political strength has diminished since he ousted Sen Russell B Long of Louisiana as whip in 1969 by a vote Now that he has re- his Presidential ambitions for 1972 Kennedy can no longer command the support that flows to a likely Presidential candidate Since the June 1969 accident at Chappaquiddick he has also lost some of the asset of being able to promise cal support to Senate col- leagues up for reelection On the basis of past giances however Kennedy should be able to count on 30 votes or more than enough to win in a new Senate of 54 Democrats But Kennedy associates are con- cerned that there may be some defections among the ranks AMONG SOME of his eral and moderate ers there is grumbling that Kennedy has failed to fulfill his responsibilities as whip in rounding up Senators on crucial votes or in ing the interests of the coalition in the Senate For the last year or so Kennedy's appearances on the floor have been in- frequent and on many casions it was Byrd rather than Kennedy who served as the acting majority er during an absence of Mansfield Kennedy is aware of the complaints and is pledging that if re-elected he would take a more active role as whip He also has been handicapped by a tion in his staff which he is now trying to rebuild On the inside Television roundup Complete television schedules for today and day plus program highlights movies and other Pr The puzzle has moved to page and offers readers the way to a quick Change of pace Need a change of How does piloting a wheel drive vehicle down an trail at Camp McCoy in the middle of winter story and pictures page On the move Students at Phelps School on the campus of Winona State College are on the one teacher to another from one room to another stories and pictures pages lla and Some things pretty That time of the year when home decorations come into their own is fast approaching some ideas plus pictures page ib The champs The News sports staff recounts the thrills of the area football season and salutes the and pictures page Wrth a Minnesota's abbreviated deer hunting opened story plus tures page lOb DISASTER PAINTS BEAUTIFUL PICTURE This pictorial scene was created in the San Bernardino Mountains as a fire raged out ol control near the resort town of Running Springs Several thousand acres of valuable woodshed were destroyed AP So true Any parent will tell that there are two kinds of little boys noisy and not awake yet Experience is valuable It keeps a man who made the same mistake twice from ad- it the third time An evening of will convince you that while the Russians may be ahead of us in rockets we've got em licked fa deodorants Kor more laughs see Earl Wilson on Page A busy man is he Mike Tibor Rollingstone Minn blacksmith can't understand why his fellow tradesmen are ing from the scene when the demand for his skill has not feature page Something New Sunday News feature 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