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mtm*“mm*Rescued By TanksFrom Enemy FireBy GEORGE MCARTHUR SAIGON (AP)—An American scout platoon and air cavalry reinforcements were pinned down and cut up badly by enemy machine guns Sunday before tanks and armored personnel carriers crashed through thick jungle to rescue them.Military spokesmen said 15 Americans were killed and 16 were wounded in the four-hour battle in the shadow of Black Virgin Mountain, 45 miles northwest of Saigon. Tfiey gave this account:About 30 men from the 11th Armored Cavalry Regiment made a helicopter landing near the mountain to check the results of a B52 strike. They found one enemy body and 72 ruined bunkers, then got into an undamaged bunker area and were pinned down by North Vietnamese machine gunners,Two Americans were killed and four were wounded in theZoo Supportersabout 32, of Bt 2,imber River, oneBluff about 10:30 ay a sheet in the ?scue Squad Boat,Robeson County Rescue Squad members (left right) N. A. Martin, John Cox, John Nicholl, and Ted Williams man he craft as it. makes a landing to a waiting ambulance. (McLaurin Photo)Plan Vote Drive)er Claims An0:30 a. m. Sundayowning was -the first for Robeson County inwearing a life preserver whenthe boat he and two companions were occupaying over- Bluff.ber River and about one mile downstreaam from. MatthewsRALEIGH (AP) — Supporters of a state zoo for North Carolina are planning a major drive this week to corral votes in the General Assembly.The focal point of the effort will be a public hearing Thursday before the House Stale Government Committee.‘Tin convinced we can show that during the next two years we can raise $3.5 million dollars from private sources for a zoo,” says one of its major leg-to get the zoo started.Legislation to authorize the zoo has met no outright opposition in its fledgling passage through the legislative maze so far.Quick approval was given by the Senate Wildlife Committee, for instance. But when the bill came to the Senate floor, it was sent off to the Appropriations Committee.That happened even though the authorization legislation isi, according to reports, t swim, and was notturned.Tht boat capsized near what commonly referred to asisPeters Lake, which is on Luna-Shutdown Ifis Continuese arrested and 39 inlice action touched off »r a three-day strike, s joined by about 1,500 ‘d’s 15,000 students.tile,, about 125 protest-itanford University in continued their sit-in,s fifth day, to protestresearch in the Ap-dronies Laboratory.monstrators held the h is university-ownedmclentiy operated. Francisco State Col-e of a four-month stu-Fundshoolsdent strike that ended in March, acting President S. I. Hayakawa said emergency rules on student conduct will be lifted today, but police will remain on campus.Hayakawa said students would now be permitted to hold outdoor rallies in the center o| the campus.At other campuses:Ithaca, N.Y.—Cornell University’s trustees said a center for black studies will open in September with a $240,000 budget. President James Perkins said the school would not be autonomous, as demanded by the Afro-American Society.Evanston, 111.—-Northwestern University disciplined 21 Negrostudents who admitted participating in -the invasion of a fraternity house.A band of Negroes damaged the Triangle fraternity houseLawson, Eugene Nye, and J. R. Ivey all of Rt, 2, Lumberton, were apparently headed back upstream to a boat landing inthe motor powered three - manboat, when the boat accident occurred,Nye and Ivey swam to shore, but say that (hey never saw Lawson again after the. accident.Ivey made it to Robeson County Deputy Sheriff Dixon Britt’s House, shortly before 11 a. m., who in turn summoned Deputy Sheriff Willis Walters to head the investigation.Deputy Walters summonedthe Robeson county RescueSquad; and the Robeson County Citizen Band Radio Association aided by checking out secondary roads and the like, in case Lawson had made it to shore and had wandered aimlessly about.The boat was found shortlybefore noon by Deputy Sheriff Walters and rescue squad member C. E. McLaurin Jr.The rescue squad began dragging the immediate area, and Lawson’s body was found shortly after 2:15 p. m. by Deputy Sheriff Britt, and rescue squad member Marvin Walters.Lawson’s body was then transported upstream by res-islatve backers, Rep, Archie contained in a bill which is sep-McMillan, D-Wake.i iiThat’s how much interest there is among foundations, businessmen and individuals interested in promoting tourism,” McMillan continued.“There’s one man, for instance, whose name I can’t reveal, who has assured us lie will pay for a children’s barnyard exhibit. You know, a barn, farm animals, everything.”Backers are aware that their biggest problem will be convincing the General Assembly toarate from the appropriation, request.The authorization would merely create a site study committee to decide where the zoo should be located and a state zoological commission to oversee the zoo’s creation and operation.Total cost of the zoo Is estimated at $5 million.“Even if we don’t get the $1,5put up a requested $1.5 millionfirst few minutes while the rest of the platton dived for cover. When a company of 1st Air Cavalry Division troops arrived to reinforce them, it, too, was pinned down. Six more men were killed and several were wounded.Artillery, dive-bombers and rocket-firing helicopters kept tfhe enemy from overrunning the trapped Americans until the column of tanks and armored personnel carriers arrived and went after the entrenched North Vietnamese. Seven more Americans were killed but the enemy fled before the armor.Spokesman saijj 10 enemy bodies were found on the battlefield.Farther south, about. 25 miles from Saigon, troops from a mechanized battalion of the U.S. 25Hrt Infantry Division killed 24 North Vietnamese in an area called the Citadel, near the Cambodian border. Spokesmen said it was the same enemy force that lost at least 33 men in a figf.it Friday with troops of the same American battalion in the same location. The Americans were unscathed both times.The U.S. Command said three helicopters were shot down Sunday, raising to 2,524 the number of choppers lost in the war.One was a rocket-firing Cobra gumhip that crashed 35 miles northwest of An Hoa, killing both the pilot and the gunner. The other two were OHS observation craft, shot down 44 miles northwest of Saigon and 75 miles southwest of the capital. There were no casualtiesWilL the Viet Cong’s spring offensive in its eighth week, 15 rocket and mortar attacks were reported Sunday night, two of them in Tay'Ninh province. One barrage hit the U.S. 1st Air Cav-million we’re asking for, we can still get started,” says Me-1 airy Division base at Phuoc(Continued on Pago 2, col. G) j (Continued on Page 2, col. 7)Israeli, Arab Jets BattleOver Suez In New Flare-UpJERUSALEM (AP)—Israeli\ plane and damaged another, butand Egyptian jets battled high above the Suez Canal today while artillery and tank fire boomed across the waterway. The Israelis claimed they shot down an Egyptian MIG21.the Israeli spokesman said all the Isralf planes returned safely to their bases.The aerial battle erupted at 11:30 a.m., shortly after guns rumbled along the waterway forFighting engulfed the south- the eighth consecutive day. An cm end of the 103-mile water-1 Israeli Army spokesman saidway after the Egyptians opened up with tanks, artillery and light arms, an Israeli spokesman said.M-jrr-h d coirirrr m ' ......*v.o-j Cairo Radio said one Egyp-I oliaHno- ’ fm- h3 • ^erfi re“ j cue squad members John Cox, ■ tian plane was forced to maketahating for the verbal abuse : Ni A. Martin, Ted Williams, j an emergency landing on Egyp-and John Nicholl, to Matthews j tian territory. It claimad theBluff and a waiting ambulance, I Egyptians shot down one Israelinore remote schools, depend on extensionr must plan to takei Saturdays at centers at so m e distance ■ homes. -bal abusegiven a Negro girl by a fraternity member. The disciplinary committee imposed two years’ probation on some students, and a year’s suspension and a year’s probation on others.The committee also called on the Negroes to make restitutionfor damage caused during the raid.the Egyptian army wounded two Israeli soldiers.The spokesman said a group of Egyptian MIGs crossed the canal and flew over the Israeli-occupied Sinai peninsula.Israeli jets intercepted them, and one Egyptian fighter was hit, he. said. He reported that itSaddletree Jaycees Get Chartei*was seen to fall into Egyptian territory.The pilot was seen to parachute from the plane, the spokesman added.It was the first air clash along the' canal since March 8, when an Egyptian jet was shot downin a dogfight between Israeli and Egyptian fighters. Since then there have been frequent artillery duels across the canal, many of them started by the Egyptians, and nine Israelis have been killed and 38 wounded.In Jerusalem, meanwhile, Foreign Minister Abba Eban challenged King Hussein of Jordan to bring his peace proposals to the negotiating table. Eban said that until the Arabs negotiate face to face with the Israelis, all such plans ai*e only “public relations and polemics.”
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Mon, Apr 14, 1969
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