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Sockets and bombsO—blast three underBy EDWIN Q. WHITESAIGON (AP)—U.S. Navy sank three North Vietnamese torpedo boats which made a high speed run at a U.S. destroyer Friday night in the Gulf of Tonkin, the U.S. command announced today. Bombs and rocketsblasted them under.The enemy’s target was the destroyer Coontz, officially classed as a guided missile frigate, which came out of the Puget Sound naval shipyard in 1960. They neverreached it. °Fourteen aircraft from the aircraft carriers Hancock and Constellation took part in the two-hour engagement 38 miles from North Viet Nam’s coast Friday.Survivors Picked UpItSix months ago I stated that we had not yet started to win. But certainly at that time we had stopped losing,” he said.“Since then we have a string of victories to our credit, we have increased our forces andThe planes returned fire after military power, and we have antiaircraft gunners aboard the gained in effectiveness.Communist craft opened fire. Navy destroyers in the area‘Long Way to Go*“We have a long way to gopicked up 19 North Vietnamese but, without question, die enemy is taking bitter losses and suffering both physically and»»survivors.The torpedo boats are small ships equipped with torpedoes, I psychologically.cannon and heavy machine- Asked if he would say guns. Normally they are manned by no more than 15 men.IIweThe enemy gunners damaged one American plane, but thehave now begun to win,” Westmoreland replied, “Yes.” He declined to elaborate.The naval battle took place 60 miles outside the port of Hai-pilot made it back safely to the phong in international waters. ItConstellation.began when Communist patrolIn another development, the *»ts closed in at high speeds U.S. Command announced that « U.S. ships patrolling thefour U.S. planes were lost in area, the Navy said.various missions over North The incident recalled the at-Viet Nam Friday. This brought tack by three torpedo boats on to 277 the total number of planes the destroyer Maddox in thelost north of the 17th Parallel. Gulf of Tonkin in August 1964.The loss of one of the planes, The destroyer evaded torpedos an F105 whose pilot was rescued fired by the craft, which thefrom the sea, was announced Navy said came from North Friday. Pilots of the other three Viet Nam, and President John-planes were sighted parachuting son ordered retaliatory air but enemy ground fire thwarted strikes against North Viet Nam.rescue efforts.The 1964 attack led CongressMeanwhile, Gen. William C. to give Johnson a mandate “to Westmoreland, commander of take all necessary measures inU.S. forces in Viet Nam, told support of freedom, and in denewsmen in Saigon he thinks fense of peace, tat Southeastthe war against the Communists Asia.” This became known as is being won. It was his most the Gulf of Tonkin Resolutionoptimistic pubMo- eammeat an and still serves as the mandatethe fighting.PIONEERFARM AWARDTO IRAL BUSSIral C. Buss of 218 S. 8th St., Beatrice, will receive the Nebraska Pioneer Farm Award at the Gage CountyFair on August 18.This award, co - sponsored by Ak-Sar-Ban and the Nebraska Association of Fair Managers, is made annually to owners of farms which have remained in the same family for 188 years or longer.Handsome engraved walnutfor Johnson to conduct the war.PredictionIn the city of Do Nang, South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky predicted that the people of North Viet Nam will overthrow the Communist government there very soon.He made the statement in answer to a newsman’s question and said he does not have any specific intelligence reports to reinforce his prediction. He also declined to place a time limit on the predicted overthrow.Asked why he made the statement, he said: “Because we are anti-Communist.”Ky was in Da Nang to present South Vietnamese military decorations to almost 80 American officers and enlisted men.
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