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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - March 14, 1968, Norwich, New York Weather increasing cloudiness tonight with Low temperatures in a die upper teens and Low 20s. Considerable cloudiness and warmer Friday with High tem. Features in the upper 30s and Low 40s. The evening Sun Chenango county s daily newspaper Sun spots Junior red Cross to sponsor clothing drive Page 5 health Survey to be con ducted in Norwich Page 5 town Board Abandons action on building permits Page 3. Vol. 77, to. 255thursday, March 14. 1968 Norwich . 13815 8c per copy ambush splintered by . Forces today around the state around the station around the world bars and clubs Are next Gold Rush skyrockets London apr Europe a Gold Rush skyrocketed to Jay in a buying spree that economic experts said threatens monetary anarchy. London Paris Zurich and even the normally Small Frankfurt Market reported Levels of sales that dealers had never dreamed possible. Paris where sales normally Are two to three tons had More than 40 tons. This was More than twice wednesdays record High of 16 tons. The Bank of France was hard pressed to fill the de Mand. London dealers expected sales to top 200 tons. There was a Stampede for Gold in Zurich. Frankfurt Bank ers said there was an unprecedented demand for Bullion Gold certificates and coins. Dealers and both Bullion an for eign Exchange markets reported a Complete collapse of Confidence in paper Money. Will be Busy Cape town South Africa apr heart transplant patient Philip Blaiberg will be kept Busy when he returns Home from the Hospital probably this week says Eileen Blaiberg. A the tells me he feels like writing a Book. There Are hundreds of autograph books and cards from All Over the world waiting for him at the Flat a said mrs. Blaiberg. She is making elaborate preparations for the Homecoming including installation of a second Telephone with a secret number in their Cape town Flat. Although or. Christiaan Barnard has told newsmen there was no need for isolation after his discharge Blaiberg will not be allowed visitors for one month. By makes Appeal no bottles Philadelphia apr the Glass Container Institute representing 17 Glass firms shut Down by a 42.Day strike rejected the latest Union settlement proposal wednesday. J. Thomas Rimer jr., labor relations director for the Institute said the terms were a totally unrealistic and would Force the manufacturers into an untenable compete Tive position. Union negotiators representing some 55,000 members of the Glass bottle blowers association afle Cio have twice rejected the manufacturers standing offer for settlement. Bank on gop support Washington apr House democratic leaders Are Bank ing on support from republicans including one declared presidential candidate in their go for broke plan to win Pas. Sage of a civil rights Bill that would outlaw most housing discrimination. Speaker John w. Mccormack urged former vice president Richard m. Nixon gov. Nelson a. Rocke. Feller of new York and gov. Ronald Reagan of California to help round up the gop votes. After two Days of intern Sive strategy sessions which culminated in a two hour meeting with civil rights leaders and White House officials the democratic leadership decided to present the Hill As is for a vote. Passage would Send it directly to presi. Pm Johnson. 12 americans die in midday Battle Saigon apr enemy troops raked a . Army Supply Convoy from ambush along winding route 14 in the Central Highlands but american tanks and helicopter gunships splintered the attackers. The . Command said 48 North vietnamese regulars and Viet Cong guerrillas were killed in the Short midday fight nine Miles North of Plesku City wednesday. Twelve americans were killed eight were wounded and soldiers of the South vietnamese armoured unit escorting the Convoy suffered Light casual ties the command said. The enemy sprayed the 4th in Fantry division Convoy with Bazooka Type rockets and heavy automatic weapons fire and inflicted a a moderate damage on the vehicles a command spokesman said. This indicated As Many As a third of the trucks might have been damaged or destroyed. Tanks and armoured personnel carriers of the 3rd vietnamese armoured cavalry raced past the Convoy to attack the ambush site after the fight began at 11 15 a.m., and at 11 25 helicopter gunships sailed into the Battle. Fighter bombers arrived at 11 59 and within minutes the enemy troops fled. Army engineers with the Convoy began Clearing the narrow Road which links the 4th divisions Headquarters near Plesku with its units operating around Korntum and Dak to. Just 17 hours later guerrillas ambushed a 30-vehicle Convoy nine Miles Northeast of Saigon on the Highway to the big military base at Long Binh. The . Command said one american Soldier and one enemy Soldier were killed and damage to the trucks was Light but the ambush underlined the threat from roving guerrilla bands operating in Saigon a suburbs. At Khe Sanh the 14th anniversary of the Start of the siege of Dien Bien Phu passed with ene my gunners hitting the . Marine combat base with a below average barrage of 200 shells wednesday. Casualties among the 7,000 Allied defenders of the base in Northwestern South Vietnam were As usual described As Light. Because of similarities Between the situation at Dien Bien Phu and at Khe Sanh there had been speculation that Gen. To Nguyen Giap the North vips namese defense minister might Mark the anniversary with a show of Force against the besieged base. Giap directed the 56-Day siege of Dien Bien Phu that ended May 7, 1954, with the capitulation of the French. The . Marine command at Khe Sanh considers that the siege there began 54 Days ago with the attack Jan. 21 on the base and Khe Sanh Village. A we Are prepared much better now than we were in january a said a spokesman. . Bombers hit the estimated 20,000 North vietnamese troops surrounding Khe Sanh wednesday with five raids. The b52s also flew missions against enemy concentrations Northwest of Dak to in the Central Highlands and in the a Shau Valley. At the Eastern end of the demilitarized zone fighting tapered off around Dong a the . Marine base near the coast. The Only action reported there wednesday was a clash Between us. Marines and North vietnamese units six Miles North of Dong a. The marines who had killed 35 enemy soldiers in the same area the Day before reported killing 30 More wednesday. One Leatherneck was killed and 33 were wounded. Scuttt vietnamese troops scouring a Battlefield five Miles North of Dong a where they counted 194 enemy killed Mon Day and tuesday found another 111 bodies a government spokesman said. This raised the toll in the Battle to 305 enemy and 39 government troops killed 91 government men wounded and 12 missing. Militants urge Purchase of guns Newark . Apr negro and White militants in this City Are urging their followers to buy guns for self defense As a result of last Summers riots. Each group blames the other for escalating an race. Police records reflect some increase in pistol permits in this area but there is no Way to prove this results from the racial situation. A i have continuously stated to people in our Community and i continue to do so now that they need and it is their Constitution. A1 right to have a weapon to protect themselves a says Willie Wright president of the negro United afro american association. A buy yourself a weapon and bring it Home a advises Anthony Imperial an sergeant who Heads a White neigh boyhood citizens Council. The two expressed their opinions in interviews. Wright a 36-year-old unemployed Engineer said last july a riots proved to Newark a negroes a that we need to be armed just to protect a i would not stand aside and watch some of the shootings and killings and some of the violent acts of brutality taking place in my Community that took place in this town in july under any circumstance a he said in his tiny office in the heavily negro Central Ward. Wright claimed that most negroes Aren t armed but that the White Community is engaged in an race. Imperiale 37, who runs a karate school in an italian Section a few Miles North of Wrights locale said he does t advocate or condone unnecessary violence. Crime on increase Washington apr the Fri reports a 23 per cent spurt in big City crimes paced an Over All 16 per cent jump in the nations major crime rate last year and cites last Summers riots As a Factor. The 23 per cent hike was in cities of 500,000 to one million population. Fri director j. Edgar Hoover said in a report released today that crime in the suburbs was up 16 per cent and jumped 13 per cent in Rural areas. A 17 per cent jump was recorded in cities of 25,000 population and Over. The Fri said arrests of persons under 18 years old Rose eight per cent. A a included in the increased police arrests was a rising volume of arrests for offences against Public order a or riots the Bureau said in a statement accompanying statistical data. Arrests of adults Rose by three per cent after declining slightly in 1966, the report said. Crimes of violence were up 15 per cent led by robbery which increased 27 per cent from 1966. There were 12 per cent More murders 9 per cent More rapes and 8 per cent More aggravated assaults. Property crimes jumped 16 per cent. Auto thefts Rose 17 per cent and burglary and larceny of $50 and Over in value were up 16 per cent the report said. Hoover who favors Federal firearms control said serious assaults where a gun was used As the weapon Rose 22 per cent and one of five assaults was committed with a gun. Armed robbery had a Sharp upswing of 30 per cent and a firearm was used in 58 per cent of All robbery offences he reported. Still Winter Norwich patrolmen Aid pedestrians Eros sing South Broad Street As wind and Snow zip by. Some four inches of prec pita Sun staff photo Tion has fallen Over the area during the last two Days causing car windshields like this one to be iced Over. Lbs a a advisers concerned ers sen. Beat sins Washington apr president Johnson a political advis genuinely concerned that Eugene j. Mccarthy May the president in wisc on april 2 presidential primary Are plotting a major overhaul in strategy. An informed source says they will junk two tactics which they Kennedy May be candidate Washington apr sen. Robert f. Kennedy has stepped to the Brink of presidential candidacy and a key aide says hell make his decision in a week. Kennedy huddled with political advisers in new York wednesday night after saying in Washington he is reassessing whether to run against president Johnson. The new York Democrat said the new Hampshire primary results removed a a the major Obsta Ciez to challenging Johnson and said the vote demonstrated democratic concern Over Johnson policies. But sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy who Drew an unexpectedly High 42 per cent of the new Hampshire democratic vote said he wont pull out of the race whatever the new yorker decides to do. A a he a been reassessing his position All along the Way a Mccarthy told newsmen after a 20-minute meeting with Kennedy. A i said i intended to stay in the primaries and in the race a the minnesotan added. A close aide said Kennedy will make his decision by March 22, the deadline for entering the May 28 Oregon primary. And Kennedy said if he runs he prob ably would have to Campaign actively in the primaries. A otherwise there is no reason Why anyone should consider me a he told newsmen. Believe backfired against Johnson in tuesdays new Hampshire primary where Mccarthy captured an impressive 42 per cent of the vote. One of these the Well placed informant said is the message that a Hanoi is watching for an anti Johnson turnout that might signify . Disunity Over the War. The other is the use of pledge cards for votes with a copy a sent to the a you May be pretty sure a said the informant a you wont hear of those two gimmicks Johnson a advisers definitely do not share the presidents Public expression of indifference to the new Hampshire results. A new Hampshire simply Isnit something you can Brush off lightly a the source said. A we have serious problems. And we be got to face up to the fact that Mccarthy can take the president in Wisconsin. A that would really in the three weeks remaining before the Wisconsin test where the president will be on the ballot his strategists plan is to pin Down the Minnesota senator on specific alternatives to Johnson a Vietnam War policy. Mccarthy a opposition to con duct of the War has been the basis for his steadily mounting Campaign to wrest the democratic nomination from the president. Johnson a advisers believe their major failure in new Hampshire was a not nailing Mccarthy Down on his a we let him get away with decrying the War in Broad generalities a the informant said. A a that a not going to happen in the administration tactic will be to have state party officials labor leaders and administration figures press Mccarthy for specific alternatives in Vietnam. But since the president has let it be known that he will not Campaign in the primaries the informant said a i think there would be any Cabinet officers or other really High officials taking As for sen. Robert f. Kenne dyes announced a a reassessment of the possibility of running against Johnson the source said a that really has us a Kennedy candidacy he said a could change a lot of a we might suddenly find ourselves with a fighting president on our tests planned on Kwajalein Washington apr the Navy plans to launch multiple warhead Poseidon missiles against anti ballistic missile components on Kwajalein Island in the Pacific in a combat Type test. Pentagon officials said they expect the result to be a Good Guage of the reliability of both advanced weapons systems. The Poseidon is the new Navy missile ticketed eventually to go aboard 31 of the 41 nuclear drive Polaris submarines. Its intended to increase . Assurance of being Able to overwhelm soviet antimissile defences. Kwajalein is the site of test radars and anti ballistic missile interceptors being developed for use in the $5 billion . Antimissile defense shield. Sources said no nuclear devices will be used either by the flock of re entry vehicles released by Poseidon which carries to warheads or by the Sentinel systems interceptors. Nuclear bursts in the atmosphere Are prohibited by the 1963 test ban treaty. But through radar tracking and computerization Kwajalein technicians will be Able to Tell just How effective one is against the other. As one planner explained it a we will be Able to see on the radars just How the Poseidon attack will look and at the same time launch one or More spartan or sprint antimissile at several altitudes to simulate the the spartan is the Long Range antimissile and sprint the super fast Short Range interceptor. They form the one two punch of the Sentinel missile defense planned for completion the next few years. In Early antimissile development the in 1962 and 1963 staged to successful intercepts of Atlas and Titan boosters launched by the air Force from Vandenburg fab calif., about 6,000 Miles from Kwajalein. That interceptor was the zeus missile forerunner of the spartan. The Poseidon with a Range of about 3,000 Miles will be launched either from a submarine or a surface test ship from somewhere in the Pacific. The exact schedule has not been worked out but the launching probably would take place in 1970 after the first Polaris sub has undergone modifications expanding its 16 launch tubes to handle the bigger 65,-000-Pound Poseidon. Successful bidder the National Bank and Trust company of Norwich was the successful bidder for a temporary loan note in the amount of $400,000 sold by the City of Norwich Urban renewal Agency. Maturity Date is april la 1969. Rate of interest bid by the lower Bank was 3.74. Joseph of Brien Urban renewal Agency director said two other bids were received. Morgan guaranty Trust company of new York City bidding with Salaman Brothers and Hutzler bid 3.89, and John Nuveen and the first National Bank of Boston submitted a bid of 3.94. The loan was made to refinance a $400,000 note issued in april ,1967, or. Of Brien said. Nixon is reserving a big guns today a chuckle most women not Only keep their girlish figures they double them. New York apr Richard m. Nixon says the reason he is not ready to spell out the details of his plan to end the War in Vietnam is because he is reserving his a big guns for use against president Johnson if he Vins the Republican presided Ial nomination. A i have to adapt my strategy so As to win the presidential primaries with the least expenditure of ammunition a Nixon said. A i am reserving my big for use against the former vice president discussed this and other questions in an interview in his fifth Avenue apartment in new York. In campaigning for the new Hampshire and a Wisconsin Pri Maries Nixon repeatedly said a we will end the War in Vietnam and win the peace in the asked if he intends this As a pledge Nixon replied emphatically a a it a a he added a i have no magic formula no gimmick. If i had a gimmick i would Tell Lyndon Johnson. That would be a moral obligation. A but i do have some specific ideas on How to end the War. They Are primarily in the Diplo Matic he said he considers the chances �?o60 to 40 against the possibility that the North Viet namese will agree to come to the conference table before the National elections next november. With regard to his own actions in the campaigning Nixon said a a in a not going to carry on my conscience anything that will destroy that 40 per cent Nixon has gone to South Viet Nam several times in recent years. He published an article in the quarterly foreign of. Fairs entitled a Asia after he said he believes that one reason he is now considered the front runner for the gop nomination is he has concentrated on studying foreign affairs. A a Man becomes a serious contender or candidate Only when events fit what he has to offer a Nixon said. A in my Case i think the fact that the foreign policy Issue became predominant again and i could travel abroad and speak with some authority on it that raised me above the if Domestic problems not the War in Vietnam were predominant today Nixon said a i done to think there would have been a tendency to look to me. I think the tendency would have been to go to what has been called a those who manage the cities and a in that Case he continued gov. George Romney of Michigan would have been in a stronger position to make the race for the presidency. Havana apr re sounding his Battle cry against All private Enterprise in Cuba prime min. Ister Fidel Castro declared wednesday night the communist party would soon take Over All private bars and clubs. In a 4v2 hour speech the cuban Leader also said the 1967-68 sugar crop would fall 2.5 million metric tons Short of the goal of 8 million tons but he pledged Cuba would overcome its eco nomic troubles. He also got in some barbs at the soviet Union. Dressed in his familiar Green fatigues with a jacket against the Cool night air Cas Tro said some people were living like parasites during the nation s difficult Days. A we intend to eliminate All private businesses a he told a crowd of several thousand and a nationwide radio and television audience. But As in the past he set no deadline for this. The crowd gasped when he reported that a study of bars has shown that 41 per cent earn More than $100 a Day. State agricultural workers in Fidel Castro Cuba earn $85 a month. Saigon apr vice president Nguyen Cao by called on the vietnamese people today to liberate North Vietnam from communism and reunify the country. In a speech to roman Catholic villagers 15 Miles North of Saigon by said the government would give weapons to anyone who could hold one if they were anti communists. The vice president presented for self defense to several roman Catholic parishes in Bien Hoa province. A Down with the communists is not enough a he said. A you have to say Down with the com. Munits communist henchmen and colonialists. We will kill All of them and not let one remain alive. If Neces sary i will be first. I will sacrifice on wednesday the government announced that a March to the North of Volunteer guerrillas will be formed to invade North Vietnam

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