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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - December 31, 1968, Norwich, New York We m y a the even ii in Sun tuesday december 31, i 968 n Rich Mew York 13815as in meets on condemnation Arab guerrillas Shell israeli town israeli aircraft shoot up vehicle Saigon to assume part of War role in �?T69, Thieu says Saigon apr president Nguyen Van Thieu said tonight that in the coming year South Vietnam will be Able to take Over part of the War Effort from the United states and other Allied forces. In a new years eve television speech to the nation Thieu said a we Are ready and we have the ability to do so in 1969 because of the growth in size and the efficiency of the armed forces of the Republic of Thieu told his countrymen that partly replacing the Allied military Effort a is our Job and our responsibility toward Friendly nations and their armed although he painted an opt. Mistic picture of the Saigon governments War Effort Thieu gave no Date when he believed . And other foreign troops could withdraw from South Vietnam. South Vietnam he said a will gradually take Over the responsibilities to fight and to Safe guard the nation a i am determined to bring peace to the country and my stand is that of All the people a Thieu declared. He said he would carry his efforts to the negotiating table in Paris. But it was evident he saw no Quick Start to the peace conference. Negotiations have been bogged Down Over such procedural issues As the shape of the table and the status of the Viet congas National liberation front which Saigon contends is Only a tool of North Vietnam. A we have been in Paris for four weeks a Thieu said a and we and the United states have been working Day and Kennedy a looking to move 1972 by Jack Bell Washington apr supporters of Edward m. Kennedy privately give him Little Chance of winning the no. 2 Senate democratic Post in a bid that apparently is a first step toward a possible 1972 run for the White House. But win or lose in the Challenge he issued monday the 36-year-old senator from Massachusetts seems Likely to shed at least partially his role As a Follower of the leadership team and emerge As a new Leader for Senate liberals. Politicians generally thought this was one of Kennedy a objectives in seeking the Job of whip or assistant Leader now held by Louisiana a Russell b. Long who wants to keep it. Although a usually thankless Job that mainly involves rounding up colleagues for Roll Calls the assistant Leader has traditionally stepped up when the top Post became vacant and has helped such previous whips As Hubert h. Humphrey and Lyn. Don b. Johnson. Kennedy said he has the support of vice president Humphrey and of Humphreys run Ning mate in the nov. 5 election sen. Edmund Muskie of Maine. His candidacy also won a Quick pledge of support from sen. Philip a. Hart of Michigan who earlier pressed Muskie to get into the race. The test for Kennedy will com at a closed meeting of a1 Senate democrats Friday. Long goes into the meeting with almost solid support of Southern colleagues and an unwillingness on the part of some northerners to dump him. Long said from is Baton Rouge Home that a super liberals were behind the move but a i have to admit they picked a Good opponent. Frankly i think i have enough votes to in an earlier statement issued by his office in Washington Long said that he welcomes Kennedy a Challenge a in Good he insisted that win or lose the contest would not impair his Friendship for Kennedy. The Louisiana senator said he and Kennedy had differed in the past on matters of importance but a such differences have left no lasting Mark on our Friendship or our respect for each Long aides said they believe he has the support of at least 30 of the 57 democrats. A White House spokesman said president Johnson in Texas for the new years Holiday would have no comment on Kennedy a bid. Kennedy first elected in 1962, pitched his bid on what he said is the obligation of congession-a1 democrats with a Republican in the White House a to present the Best possible programs in keeping with our historic role As the party of Progress and change in the United he thus Laid the grounds for a fight by the Senate a democratic liberals against their More conservative colleagues for a voice in party councils the Massachusetts senator said must produce the democratic Politi Cal leadership in the next four years. Chicago protesters to a attend inaugural Washington apr the same group that sponsored Antiwar demonstrations during the democratic National convention in Chicago says it will stage three Days of a counter inaugural protests during Richard m. Nixon a inauguration festivities. The National mobilization committee to end the War in Vietnam is organizing the demonstration and seeking Parade and rally permits to accommodate As Many As 10,000 persons. But a there is no plan for civil disobedience a said mobilization coordinator Rennie Davis. The 28-year-old Davis Advance Man weather turning colder again tonight through wednesday. Becoming Windy tonight with occasional Snow flurries. Low temperatures tonight Zero to 15 above and highs wednesday to to 20. For the committee Here As he was in Chicago told an interviewer a we do not intend in any Way to disrupt any official ceremonies or inauguration activities. A a we Are very Clear about not wanting any physical confrontation with the Chicago protests resulted in bloody Street fighting be tween police and demonstrators. The mobilizations plans Call for a a counter inaugural Parade on sunday Jan. 19, the Day before the inauguration. The demonstrators want to March with banners Down the Nixon Parade route in reverse from the White House to the Capitol. No paper wednesday tile evening Sun will not be published wednesday new years Day. Allies free yank held for 5 years Saigon apr South Viet namese army troops sweeping a thick Jungle in the Mekong Delta today freed a . Army officer who had been a prisoner of the Viet Cong for More than five years. A . Spokesman said the american a first lieutenant in the special forces was in a a satisfactory condition despite his Long Captivity. But he was reported emaciated and tired. A South vietnamese army officer was reported freed at the same time and both were flown to hospitals. The americans identity was withheld until his next of Kin Are notified. The . Command said a patrol from the South vietnamese 21st division freed the american officer shortly after noon today. He was found in a Camp in the wild marshy u Minh Forest about 150 Miles Southwest of Saigon. The u Minh Forest has Long been a Viet Cong stronghold and Allied troops Seldom penetrate it. There was no indication whether the South vietnamese sweep had encountered any resistance. The american lieutenant reportedly was captured in 1963 while serving As an adviser at a Remote Camp in the Mekong Delta South of Saigon. Since american involvement in the War began in january 1961, Only a handful of american prisoners have been rescued from Viet Cong Camps. The . Command does not know How Many americans May be held in Jungle Camps. The Viet Cong has released a few american prisoners and offered before Christmas to release three enlisted men it captured within the past eight months. A team of . Negotiators was unable to arrange the release in a meeting Christmas Day with Viet Cong representatives and another meeting is scheduled new years morning. Little fighting was reported today the second Day of the Viet Cong s new years ceasefire although . And South vietnamese forces were patrolling As vigorously As Ever. . Headquarters reported that two american helicopters were shot Down by enemy ground fire monday several hours after the Viet Cong cease fire began. Both helicopters were destroyed and two americans were wounded. The losses raised to 970 the announced number of american helicopters shot Down in South Vietnam. A South vietnamese military spokesman said the Viet Cong had shelled several government installations in to violations of its self proclaimed cease fire which began at i . Monday. He said three persons including one american were killed and two americans and seven South vietnamese were wounded. The . Command reported one clash Between american and enemy forces about 25 Miles North of Saigon in which 13 enemy and one american were killed. . Headquarters said North vietnamese troops in bunkers in the Southern half of the demilitarized zone fired on a Small . Observation plane monday. Marine fighter bombers attacked the bunkers destroying six of them and touching off a secondary explosion that indicated hits on ammunition stores a spokesman said. He said enemy losses were not known. Gold Beauty Winter afternoon Sun glistens through Barren Trees casting Long shadows on fallen Snow. Although picnic tables Are under Trees at campsite off route 12b, just North of Sherburne they remain pm Winter vacation As residents await Summers return. Photo by Casey Jones gestures of Pueblo Crew resulted in More beatings san Diego Calif. A beatings of Pueblo crewmen were stepped up when their North korean captors Learned that a widely circulated photography supposedly showing tile . Sailors in Good health and spirits contained gestures of contempt two of the Crew say. Charles Benton Law jr., 27, a quartermaster first class and Lee Roy Hayes 26, a radioman detailed a Story of continuous beatings to a news conference monday. The 82 surviving Pueblo Crew men were freed from la months in a North korean prison compound and flown Here for a Christmas eve reunion with their families. Law and Hayes were the first permitted by the Navy to Tell their stories publicly in detail. The picture of supposedly contented prisoners sent worldwide by the North koreans gave Rise to speculation and see prism it the time about treatment of the americans. Law said of tile Finger Ges titres a we wanted to let everybody in the United states know that the impression the North koreans wanted the photo to give was untrue. Law said he Hayes and the others used a a intern Iti Orielly known gestures which the korean propagandists overlooked. Once they did find out however the men said the beatings increased. Their Story of continuous beatings supported previous statements by the Pueblo skipper cmdr. Lloyd a Bucher that the Pueblo Crew was terrorized and beaten by the North koreans. As the two men spoke it san Diego naval Hospital Secretary of defense Clark m. Clifford was ordering Secretary of Navy Paul Ignatius to conduct an in Quiry into the Crews treatment by North Korea. A few hours later sen. Richard b. Russell d-ga., said at Winder ga., that he Felt the Crew should have scuttled the intelligence ship rather than let its secret equipment fall into enemy hands. A i want to see just we it orders the commander was liven a Russell chairman of tile Senate armed services committee said in an interview with Atlanta radio and television Sta Tion web. The Navy declined comment. Russell also said a a those men Are being hailed As heroes. They Are heroes in the sense that they survived the imprisonment. But they did sign a great Many statements that did not reflect any great heroism in my mind. Ill have to investigate further to see just what hero Type things they performed a Bucher said he signed a confession of violating North korean territorial Waters because his captors had threat ened to kill his Crew. Law of Chehalis wash., and Hayes of Columbus Ohio described their captors As stupid mercurial and violently anti a Meric an. A a that a what their whole people Are based on is despising americans a said Law. Hayes said his jaw was broken in a beating and added that tile North koreans a know How to hate. We Haven to Learned asked whether the pair s treatment was typical a Navy spokesman said a everyone else is by the associated press Arab Israel hostility renewed violence in the Middle East today while in new York . Security Council condemnation of Israel for its commando attack on Beirut a International Airport appeared imminent. Jordan announced three israeli helicopters escorted by two Jet fighters machine gunned a jordanian Security police car and set it afire on a desert Road Between gha Randal and the port of Aqaba. A spokesman said the Fate of the five persons in the car was not immediately determined. Israel announced saboteurs from Jordan had rained 19 mortar shells shortly after Midnight on a civilian target its nature unspecified near Eilat. At Tel Aviv spokesmen said there were no casualties. The israeli army reported israeli troops accidentally killed an Arab woman and wounded three other bystanders slightly in shooting Down a suspicious looking Arab who ran when a patrol accosted him near Abrahams Tomb in occupied Hebron. The suspect died of wounds. Israelis defense of its opera tons against Arab terrorism brought the Vatican under fire for an expression of grief Pope Paul i sent to Lebanon Over the commando attack on Beirut a Airport. Tile israeli minister of religion Zerah Warhaftig lashed out at the roman Catholic pontiff for dispatching his message Moj Day a while the Vatican a Eylo to Barret list attack on our Airliner at Athens a which prompted the reprisal. Pope Paul had told Lebanon s president Charles Helou a we highly deplore violent acts coming from wherever they come that cannot but aggravate an already tense addressing a Jerusalem rally in memory of nazi victims Warhaftig charged that the Vatican always turned a Blind Eye to persecution of the jews. A Pope Paul s voice was not heard when Arab terrorists killed innocent jews with a bomb in the Mahineh Yehuda Market place in Jerusa. A nor was the voice of his predecessor Pope Pius a heard during the nazi holocaust when millions of jews were meanwhile an israeli elder statesman David Ben Gurion declared he favored the death penalty for captured Arab guerrillas. The 82-year-old former prime minister said in a newspaper a tic in that israeli prison conditions a Are too Good for tile saboteurs. And encourage Arab youth to join terrorist an internal political crisis threatened Lebanon. Angry demands for the resignation of the government were voiced in a Stormy session of parliament in Beirut. Critics charged the gov eminent had failed to take adequate Security measures. The military which failed to offer any significant resistance to the raiders who destroyed 13 planes of Lebanon a civil air lines saturday night also came in for scathing attack. In the Security Council most members shunned Arab and soviet demands for Strong punt Tive action against Israel. In Tel Aviv the israeli army reported that Arab guerrillas slipped into Israel from Leba non Early today fired six Bazooka rockets into a Frontier settlement and escaped. The rockets damaged a water pipe and brought Down an electric line but no one was injured an israeli spokesman said. A neutrality seen As path of Lebanon Beirut Lebanon apr Lebanon s emotional politicians and editorial writers say their country s virtual neutrality in the Arab Israel conflict perished in the flames at Beirut International Airport last saturday night. But Lebanon a shrewd merchants whose phoenician forebears were trading with the world before Christ was born and experienced diplomatic observers expect no change in the Beirut governments policy of lip service to the Arab cause but Little else. Not since 1948, when the state of Israel was established has Lebanon taken an Active part in the a rub confrontation with the jews next door. Rarely has there been violence along Lebanon a Hilly Frontier with Israel and former foreign minister found Boutros recently admitted that Security measures had been taken to prevent palestinian guerrillas using the country As a base for raids into Israel. Because nearly half of Lebanon a 2.5 million people Are Arab moslem the government finds it necessary to give vocal support to the other Arab nations. But in the 1956 and 1967 Arab wars with Israel Lebanon played no part. Last year during the War its troops were withdrawn from the Frontier to protect Beirut s jewish minority. An israeli warplane crashed by lebanese territory and this was hailed As a tremendous Triumph. But the syrians shot the plane Down. Economically Lebanon benefited from israelis creation. Before 1948 the palestinian port of Haifa handled much of the entrepot Trade with the Arab world. When Haifa became part of Israel Beirut took Over the business. With half of its population christians and Many of them pro Western the lebanese government rarely has seen Eye to Eye with other Arab countries. It refused in 1958 to join either the United Arab Republic of Egypt and Syria or the equally Short lived federation of Jordan and Iraq. That same year it called in . Marines to put Down an insurrection inspired by Egypt. Foreign role linked to extremist groups Casanova won her heart and pos Saddle Brook . Apr Casanova won the hearts of Marianne Astegher and those of too night clerks at the Hacken sack Post office. For 13 months in Vietnam army sgt. Gordon Casanova of River Edge wrote a letter each Day to Marianne his Fiancee and decorated the envelopes with drawings and romantic messages of a i miss you and a i love each night the postal clerks looked Forward to casanovas letters and their decorations and made sure they reached Marianne a Home Here. The letters also were marked a it go with a number signifying How Many a Days to go Casanova had in Vietnam. The clerks kept close watch of the countdown and when the letters stopped at a a dog to a they became worried thinking perhaps something had happened to the romantic Soldier. But their fears were unfounded the 21-year-old Soldier recently returned from the War unharmed. Last week the postal clerks sent a letter of their onto Marianne also 21, asking if everything was All right. A it seems our nightly chore is Over a the clerks wrote a but it leaves us wondering about the eventual outcome. If there is i wedding How would we get to know which would give us the feeling of a Job Well done a Casanova and Marianne who met two years ago shortly be fore he entered the army decided tile clerks should know of tile outcome. The couple visited the Post office and invited tile xxi night clerks to their wedding Jan. La. The clerks accepted. A we were really thrill to t people cared and went out i their Way to be Nice a said Ca. Sanova now an administrative assistant in a chemical company Why did he decorate the letters a to make Marianne Happy a he replied. A How much can you do in Vietnam. I always had a couple of hours free time to do it does Casanova live up to his name a was far As to concerned he Doe it a smiled Marianne an attractive Green eyed blonde who is a Secretary. And monday night the couple picked up their marriage ii Cense. No in in not going to decorate that a Casanova said. Washington apr the Fri says there has been an sex. Pans Lon of foreign influence in Black extremist groups and that the a violence prone progressive labor party has made Progress in infiltrating the students for a democratic society ads. Fri director j. Edgar hoc ver in the 1968 annual report of Agency activities released to. Day said foreign influence in Black extremist groups a continues to receive close a the growing number of Black extremist organizations throughout the United states represent a potential threat to the internal Security of the nation a hoovers report said a and their growth has definitely added to the of big a work in the racial intelligence the report also said what it called the marxist Leninist progressive labor party has concentrated its youth program largely toward infiltration of ads which the report said is at the Core of the new left movement in the United states. In criminal activities the report said the Fri set records in 1968 for fugitives located stolen cars recovered and Money saved or recovered by investigations. Savings and recoveries totalled some $335 million an increase of $45 million Over the previous year the report said. It said More than 290 hoodlum gambling and vice figures were convicted during the year compared to 206 in 1967, a total of 21,000 fugitives were located and some 27,000 stolen cars were recovered. Today a chuckle the Best Way to save face is to keep the lower Hall closed

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