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H\torn-Another Fire Breaks Outathefate-si*iorndedCarrierTollHitslet*ie.bethetheoftvytoereles-theiightheDu-SAIGON (AP) — The aircraftcarrier Forrcstal, ravaged by flames and bomb blasts Satur-day, limped into Subic Bay in the Philippines today and another fire broke out as she prepared to dock.It was only a flash fire, nothing like the holocaust that left 76 of the crew dead, 69 missingand presumed dead, and 64 injured on the 76,000-ton carrier.Knocke out of action in the aerial war in Vietnam, the For-restal was replaced in the Gulf of Tonkin by the 38,500-ton Intrepid.Aground, the U.S. Command said there was no significant action in 33 allied operations. But it reported 23 Marines killed and191 wounded in a North Vietnamese ambush Saturday in the demilitarized zone between North and South Vietnam.FireAt Subic Bay, the cry of “Fire!’* rang out from the For-restal's loud-speaker system. No flames were visible to those on shore and Navy officials presumed the fire was small. The Forrestal later docked and no fire was visible aboard.The casualty figures for the carrier disaster were a revision from an earlier announcement of 71 dead, 78 injured and 112missing. Presumably some of the missing were found on rescue ships which had come alongside the carrier, and therehad been duplications in reporting the missing and injured.About 800 Marines invaded the buffer zone between North and South Vietnam Friday to raid Communist troops and gun positions. After reporting only light contact Friday, the Leathernecks were hit by a mortar barrage Saturday as theyi moved south along a narrowback in action before too long, said Capt. John K. Beling of Harrington Park, N.J., her skipper. The engine rooms and steering mechanism escaped damage, and the carrier had no rips in her outer skin below the water line.Many of the Forrestal'stne Nep per cem populatimering the goiguarddemons!all-whiUActing ven Hai sent to ' fires we by rain under p last two control couldn’t to enabtrail about 1,000 yards north of bodies and 33 of her injuredPerhaps 300 Killedredayand©v-; atin V enezuela Quakere- A inal :hus dayt tofailureshortcar.ar*smgh15•5i• •136310CARACAS, Venezuela lt;AP) — The governor of the Caracas area says the death toll in Venezuela’s earthquake may reach 300 when workers clear away the rubble from tall apartment houses that crumbled in seconds.Gov. Raul Valera made his prediction as workers using cranes and bulldozers removed 50 bodies from the rubble Sunday. An official called the.earthquake which devastated western Venezuela Saturday night the worst of the century and the government said it injured 1,522 persons.The U.S. Stale Department had reports of two U.S, citizens killed in the quake—Emilio Cabrera, a naturalized U.S. citizen of Cuban birth who worked as a musician at the Macuto-Shera-ton Hotel near Caracas, and a man identified only as Eduadro Parra Nes.Many of the 15.000 U.S. citizens in Venezuela live in the quake zone, which extended from Caracas on the east to the Andes border with Colombia on the west.Authorities in Colombia said 10 persons were killed and 100 injured in two quakes which hit Colombia Saturday, striking hardest in Santander and Boya* ca states near the Venezuelan border and about 220 miles northeast of Bogota.After the largest jolt at 8:05 p.m., walls kept crumbling throughout Saturday night Thousands of persons camped out away from tall buildings. Many drove to empty lots and slept in their ears,Caracas changed from a cityof gay parties, celebrating thecity’s 400th birthday, to a chaotic picture of rubble, sweatingrescue workers and sobbing relatives sitting on curbs across from fallen apartment houses.the zone’s southern boundary.Some source said the Marine toll was at least 30 dead and 150 wounded and might go as high as 50 killed aid 350 wounded. After a daylong battle, 40 enemy dead were reported left onthe battlefield.Crossfire“niev bad us in a crossfire, said 2nd Lt. John Lengslet of Portland, Ore., a platoon commander. “They would run across areas right where we had our machine guis,”The chain of fires and bomb explosions that ripped through six of the 10 decks in the after part of the 76,000-ton Forrestal Saturday was the worst U. S. naval disaster in a combat zone since World War II.It was believed to have begun when ai F4 Phantom jot, preparing to take off for an attack on North Vietnam, shot a sheet of flame from its jets andwere transferred at sea to the ; U, S. hospital ship Repose whichdocked in Da Nang with them. jTen of the injured were to be flown to the United States or Japan.iiitripieri Rushed inThe Forrestal reached the Subic Bay naval base in the Philippines tonight. After preliminary inspection and repairs, it is expected to return to the United States,The smaller 38,500-ton carrierIntrepid was rushed to Yankee Station to replace the Forrestal, but a combination of bad weather and apparently a reorganization of the three-carrier force limited Navy pilots to only 10. missions Sunday against the Communist North.Air Force pilots logged HO missions and Marine pilots 20 for a total of 90 for the day, considerably below the usual average of 120 to 150. Trans-Rovinsmashe(ed pass fire bon Off-du and eqt police c in a wjthe troiinner clt; Radio stood p and at dows or ed-off a “Wha bag of metedignited a rocket on a plane be- shipment points, missile trans-Snuk. foA, JodtupInterior decorator: Someone who tells you what kind of fur* niture to buy, what kind of draperies to hang, what colors to use around your house-sort of like a mother-in-law with a license,hind it.The missing men were below decks—many of them night watch airplane mechanics who had just gone to sleep—or were injured men who jumped overboard to escape the fire and were drowned.The last flames were extinguished 18 hours after the first blast. Twenty-six jet planes were either destroyed or jettisoned overboard in the first three hours of the inferno. Thirty-one were damaged, four ofthem probably beyond repair.Officers on the Forrcstal were reluctant to make any estimate of damage, but 1 he plane losses alone are expected to amount to at least $70 million, with dam age to the ship possibly $20 million more.“But I feel that she will beporters and truck convoys were the chief targets.U. S. B52 bombers struck at enemy troop concentrations near South Vietnam’s central coastal city of Bong Son and at a base area and trail network 44 miles southwest of Da Nang.In Canberra. Australian Prime Minister Harold E. Holt said he received a “very valuable and informative” briefing on Vietnam from President Johnson’s special envoys, (ion. Maxwell D. Taylor and Clark Clifford, He said no decisions had been sought or made on any subject. Australia has 6.100 soldiers in Vietnam and Holt is understood to have told the envoys his government would find it difficult to increase Us commitment following Britain’s de. eision to hasten its withdrawal I from Singapore.DET flames e.xplosi his tor von 12 warnin — her “Uni course ahead il gu George of Mic televis burnin the cit “Mo listenii gro let arate ca,” I “Thi are p and they aal has that p more Theunemt
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