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Norwich Evening Sun (Newspaper) - September 19, 1968, Norwich, New York The e Ven i in vol. 78, no. 121thursday, sept her 19, 1968 Norwich new York 13815 10c per copy yanks blast red Force near Doz Saigon apr american forces mane Vered to the fringes of the demilitarized zone along the Western Anchor of the Mcnamara line and blasted entrenched North vietnamese troops with tank and gunfire military spokesmen re. Ported today. About 200 men from the 1st brigade of the 5th mechanized infantry division killed 29 North vietnamese soldiers in a two hour fight wednesday a mile be. Low the Doz. Three americans were wounded. North vietnamese troops Are reported digging in around a1. Tied patrol bases along the Northern Frontier apparently trying to hem in All it d troops and keep the infiltration routes open. The 5th division troops moved out of their base at con Thien and pushed to within a mile of the Southern Edge of the Doz 4 when the North vietnamese opened up with mortars and machine guns. The american tanks replied with 90mm tank guns and the Battle continued for about two hours. Con Thien is the Western an. Chor of the Mcnamara line the string of electronic detection de vices that runs from the coast Inland for la Railes and is supposed to sound the alarm when infiltrating troops Cross it. It is named for former defense Secretary Robert s. Mcnamara. . Sources say As Many As 30,000 North vietnamese soldiers Are concentrated along the Northern Frontier and the . Command expects another a. Jor enemy offensive in the Northern provinces before the Monsoon season reaches its Peak in november. Sharp fighting also w n. Ported farther South Aion. The coastal lowlands Midi. Between Saigon and the Doz american troops from the Amer Cal division clashed with a Strong enemy Force below Quang Ngai City wednesday to americans were killed and 15 were wounded. Enemy casual ties were not known. In a delayed report . Headquarters said other troops from the America division killed 43 North vietnamese sol Diers in an All night Battle tues. Day South of tam by another provincial capital. The fight was triggered when enemy troops ambushed a . Unit killing eight americans and wounding 19. The . Command indicated that More action is expected along the demilitarized zone As Well As around Saigon. A communique said that the highest level of enemy activity during the past several Days has been Iii the 1st corps area which takes in Saigon and the prov bikes around it. The communique said Allied forces live seized More than 90 tons of munitions Aud food stockpiled in the two areas much of it around the outpost called the Rock pile just below the Central part of the Doz. The stockpiles included More than 80,000 rounds of Small arms ammunition 12,000 Nior. Tar and rocket shells and 14 tons of Rice which . Head quarters said would feed a 600. Man Ortli vietnamese battalion for a month. South vietnamese forces turned up two More arms Stock piles in and 20 Miles South of Saigon. The haul included five mortar tubes two rockets and assorted parts for mortars and Long Range 107mm rocket launchers that have been used to Shell Saigon in the past. Fighting last week in the northernmost provinces and along tin Jungle approaches Northwest of Saigon was reflected in the weekly casualty summary issued today by the . Command. The report said 217 americans 376 South vietnamese and 2,484 of the enemy were killed in action last week. Nixon assails 4hostile crowds besetting huh Salt Lake City apr Richard m. Nixon has assailed a the hostile crowds and the demonstrators besetting the Campaign of vice president Hubert h. Humphrey his democratic rival for the White House. A let me say this the president of the United states and the office that he holds and the vice president of the United states and the office that he holds they deserve respect a Humphrey is pressed by doves Washington apr democratic doves supporting their National ticket Are increasing pressure on Hubert h. Humphrey to propose an experimental Vietnam bombing halt. Sen. John o. Pastore of Rhode Island president Johnson s personal Choice for Keynoter at the 1964 party convention said he had suggested to the vice presidents advisers that this is about the Only Way Humphrey can re Gan the support of democratic dissidents. A in my judgment a Pastore said a Hubert Humphrey will have to speak out on his own on Vietnam if he expects to win this conceding that pastores was Only was of Many similar suggestions sen. Fred Harris d-okla., a key Humphrey advisor said he does not believe the democratic presidential candidate will yield on this score. A the vice president has said that the party platform Plank provides him with flexibility in dealing with Vietnam a Harris said. A but any decision on a bombing halt is up to president Johnson and the vice president obviously can to control Harris said that a suggestion by Minnesota sen. Walter f. Mondale that the bombing of North Vietnam be stepped up a to get the Paris peace talks off dead Center reflected a personal opinion and not Humphreys position. Harris and Mondale served As co chairmen of Humphreys pre convention Campaign and remain top advisers to the nominee. Pastore sided with Mondale a View that it is worthwhile taking an additional risk to learn whether Hanoi is actually willing to talk peace if the limited . Air strikes Are halted. President Johnson has said there must be some significant sign that the North vietnamese will exercise military restraint before bombing can be suspended. Humphrey has backed this position. Sen. Edmund s. Muskie of Maine the democratic vice presidential nominee has said he is More willing than either the president of Humphrey to take risks for peace. Pastore once considered a Hawk took the same attitude. A we have had eight bombing halts which failed to bring peace talks a he said. A we took risks with each of these. Why we take another risk for peace now that the circumstances have changed the North vietnamese Are at least in Paris now and our action might Start some serious Pastore said he thinks some move of this sort by Humphrey win be necessary to get the intellectuals and the Youthful War dissenters who supported the presidential bid of sen. Eugene j. Mccarthy the Republican presidential nominee said wednesday night. A and i know that they should get respect wherever they Nixon campaigns in the Midwest today with stops in Spring Field mo., and Peoria 111., on the Way to a fund raising dinner in new York City. There Nixon will address one of 20 dinners at a linked by closed circuit television. Before an overflow crowd of More than 10,000. In the vast mormon Tabernacle wednesday night Nixon assailed Demon St rat ors who heckle Humphrey and president Johnson. A i have some disagreements with the president of the United states As in be already indicated in the conduct of policy and with the vice president of the United states a he said. A but As i see what has happened to both of them Over these past few years As i live seen them reviled and cursed As i have seen the hostile crowds across this land i disagree More with those who will not give them the Opportunity to speak Nixon himself encountered hecklers earlier wednesday As he addressed some 5,500 people at a rally in Fresno Calif a band of about 50 pickets supporting efforts to unionize farm labourers clapped their hands chanted a we want Justice a As he spoke. California gov. Ronald Reagan denounced a the noisy Type of barbarians who will not follow orderly but Nixon ignored the noise. The hecklers stripped of their picket signs by Fresno police had walked out of the Hall before Nixon restated his opposition to a Union backed Boycott of California grapes. Arabs. Israelis dislike in bid United nations . Apr both arabs and israelis Are openly dissatisfied with an other Security Council resold. Tion insisting that they observe the 15.month-old cease fire. The 15-nation Council adopted the Resolution 14.0 wednesday ending a two week debate on israeli and egyptian complaints of cease fire violations. Algeria abstained from the vote. The Resolution insisted that the councils 1967 cease fire Call a must be rigorously respected a and urged All parties to Cooper ate fully with Gunnar jarring of Sweden . Special representative to the Middle East a in the speedy fulfilment a of his mis Sion to seek a peaceful Settle. Meat of the june 1967 Arab is. Rae i War. Israeli ambassador Yosef the. Koah said the action did not sat. Iffy israelis complaints that Egypt killed two israeli soldiers and captured a third in an ambush aug. 26, Columbia protesters grab meeting space hold March changing Viet scene old and new Combine Here where a vietnamese worker constructs a fishing Gate near the new Trieu Phuoc dam rear in Trieu Phong province. The dam was constructed by the vietnamese with materials provided by civil operations and revolutionary development support and will Supply fresh water to 30,000 South vietnamese. Hubert evokes Kennedy spirit Boston apr hit Ert h. Humphrey eagerly welcoming the Public embraces of two heroes of dissident democrats today evoked the spirit of the late John f. Kennedy against Richard m. Nixon. After a schedule introduction by sen. Edward m. Ken by. The vice president in remarks prepared for a rally said of the Republican presidential candidate a we know the Man Jack Ken Nedy Defeated in 1160�?and we know what he stood for then and we know what he stands for after his speech in Bostons downtown shopping area Humphrey a schedule had him travelling Halfway across the coun try to South Dakota for an a. Yearance with sen. George s. Mcgovern who challenged the vice president for the demo cratic presidential nomination in Chicago. Humphreys ships today marked the Start of a three week whirlwind tour in which he Hopes to overcome a wide margin the polls say Mxon has built up in the Early stages of the Campaign. The Public appear ances with Mcgovern a id Kennedy Are seen As a step toward unifying the democratic party. He also is expected to visit Illinois Kentucky Ohio California Washington and Oregon. Humphrey recalling that president Kennedy closed ills Campaign against non in a speech in Boston repeated these words of the late president a this race is a contest Between the comfortable and the concerned Between those who believe that we should rest and lie at Anchor and Drift and Between those who want to move this country Forward in the 19c0�?Ts.�?� Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson said Humphrey a got America moving now eight years later Humphrey said the american people must decide a do we have the courage do we have the common sense to keep this country moving Forward a Humphrey again hammered at Nixon a opposition to a ratification this year of the nuclear nonproliferation treaty even though he has endorsed the pact. Humphrey charged that the failure to ratify the treaty this year a could mean the death of the treaty forever and he added a i done to think we can afford to play political games with anything As serious As nuclear War a with anything As serious As the possible incineration of this Humphrey asserted that All those who supported president Kennedy and All those who work ii for the party the last eight years still have a stake pact invasion victim i Washington apr Senate majority Leader Mike Mansfield said today that one of the victims of the soviet inva Sion of Czechoslovakia could be the treaty to ban the spread of nuclear weapons. In a report to the Senate foreign re ions committee the Montana Democrat said the pact is in danger because of a a scepticism which the precipitous soviet action has undoubtedly aroused among the signatory nations to which nuclear weapons Are not to proliferate under he should these Norm id ear nations ratify the treaty Mansfield said a they will have in. Trusted in effect the nuclear inspects of their defense to the principal nuclear Powers one of which is the soviet Union. A what they have just witnessed in Czechoslovakia is hardly Likely to provide assurances that this Trust is Well Mansfield a r was based on a Brief visit he made to Czechoslovakia prior to the invasion aug. 20. It is most regrettable he declared that the invasion jeopardizes a constructive interchange Between East and West. A in recent years exchanges in tourism Trade and Talent have done a great Deal to erode the Wall of fear of an earlier per if id a he noted. New York a several Hundred Young men arid women pushed into a Columbia University building wednesday night for an unauthorized three hour meeting of International student revolutionaries. Tile meeting was climaxed by a noisy March around the Ivy league school Campus. The students and their supporters led by a Man carrying a red Flag stormed into Scutier me Horn Hall shoving aside a Campus guard who pleaded with freighter sinking in High seas new York apr the coast guard said today tile dutch freighter Johannes Frans was slowly sinking in heavy at untie seas about 650 Miles East of Here. A coast guard Cutter and a merchant tug stood by but were unable to help the 18,000-ton, 633-foot freighter because of the to to 15-foot seas. The ship was taking on water from an unknown source and therefore could not be towed the coast guard said. A coast guard amphibious search and Rescue plane was flying to the ship with four pumps to help Stem the flood ing the coast guard said. It was not known How Many were aboard the ship. The Johannes Frans radioed a distress Call at 9 30 . Wednesday saying its holds were flooding arid its Power Plant had failed. Tile coast guard Cutter dal Las which was at its Ocean station nearby reached the freighter two hours later. It managed to get one pump to the ship but then its lines broke and Hie Cutter could Only standby in Case the Crew abandoned ship. The Hess Louisiana a merchant tug also reached the ship this morning. The ship is owned by Neder Lanse erts tankers Maats. N. V. Hershey protest is prepared for a approximately too police. Men were concentrated in Canandaigua today to Cope with expected student demonstrations greeting the arrival of maj. Gen. Lewis b. Hershey director of the selective service system. Hershey was to speak later in the Day at convocation Cere monies marking the inauguration of or. Roy l Satre As first president of the Community col lege of the Finger lakes. About 2,000 student anti War protestors from seven or eight area colleges Wen expected to picket Hershey s talk. The police included members of the Canandaigua department Ord. Ario county sheriffs deputies and state troopers. Them a a in la lose my the University had withdrawn previous permission for a Campus meeting due to disruption of afternoon registration by Hie Radical students for a democratic society. Tile rebels unsuccessfully tried to Register 28 students suspended As a result of disorders last Spring which shut Down the school. Officials said registration would resume today at the University which Lias an enrolment of about 25,000. Following the night meeting Mark Rudd ads Leader and one of the suspended students said to a crowd of 300 a let us March around the Campus and perhaps to Cordiero a residence. Cordler apparently can to stand revolutionaries. We have revolutionaries from Italy Mexico Canada France Germany and Andrew w. Cordier is acting University president. The six Day conference of european and american student activists began wednesday. Starting to Lead the March Rudd called for revocation of the University a charter and shouted a who Chi Minh a his Fel Lowers picked up the chant and the March began. The crowd Iii Quot Korkut destroyed alter failure Cape Kennedy Fla. Apr a 10-Story-tall Delta rocket tumbled out of control wednes Day night and exploded High alive the Atlantic ruining an $11 million attempt to orbit the worlds most powerful communications satellite. The launch director said a faulty guidance system caused the trouble that brought fiery destruction to the spacecraft Atlantic 3. A it seems quite Clear there was an in flight failure at 20 seconds after liftoff a in the Gyroscope system needed to steer the three stage rocket said Robert Gray launch director for the National aeronautics and space administration. Eighty three seconds later the Delta pitched Back toward Earth and exploded sending pieces of the shattered rocket and its Atlantic 3 payload plummeting into the Ocean about to Miles offshore. Officials said it exploded before the Range safety officer had time to destroy it. Atlantic 3, owned by the International telecommunications satellite consortium Intelsat a was to have been the first in a global network of new switchboard satellites that would link most of the world. It also was to have been used to relay telecasts of the olympic games from Mexico City to Europe. A Nasa experimental space Craft applications technology satellite 3, now in position Over Brazil will be used for the olympic telecasts instead said officials of Comsat corp., manager for Intelsat. Dispersed quietly after about an hour. A noon rally in the Center of the Campus preceded the move to enrol the suspended students in the afternoon. The suspended students were among 150 demonstrators who gathered outside the gym a. Slum where registration was taking place. Rudd and the other suspended students charged into a line of Campus policemen armed with clubs. Observers said at least two demonstrators were struck by clubs but University officials denied that Hie policemen used the clubs. There were no arrests and apparently no one required medical attention. Observers said several plainclothes men from the new York City police department were on hand but took no part in the proceedings. The clash lasted Only 15 minutes but registration was suspended for the rest of the Day. In the Spring demonstration during which students took Over several Campus buildings on two occasions there were clash. Is a Lii City police who were called in to eject the sit ins. About 700 students were arrested. Those charged wit i criminal trespass still have their cases pending despite pleas by uni. Vers try officials that those accused of minor infractions have their cases dismissed. Conference panel to Iron out gun control Washington apr a gun control Bill attacked by the National Rifle association but fall ing far Short of what president Johnson sought after the assassination of sen. Robert f. Ken. Nedy has passed the Senate and been sent to joint conference committee with the House. The Bill basically Banning mail order sales of rifles and shotguns was passed wednes. Day with two major differences from the version approved in the House july 24. But the conference committee is not expected to have diff Eul. To reaching a Compromise which then must be approved again by the Serrate Chambers before going on to the White House. With some members of Congress anxious to get Horn i it Campaign for re election and the Senate facing prolonged tie Bate on a new chief Justice the Outlook for Swift final action is Uncertain. The Senate and House versions differ mainly in penalties proposed for criminals commit Ting Federal crimes while Arnvid with a gun and for sales of ammunition. Neither version contains the major provisions sought by Johnson after the june 6 assassination of Kennedy gunned Down by a pistol alter winning the California democratic presidential primary election. These would have required registration of All firearms a id licensing of owners. Soundly de treated earlier in the House and in the Senate judiciary com tilt tee the provisions were rejected wednesday in the Senate 55 to 31. The president of the National Rifle association termed defeat of the registration provisions a a Victory for the american but Harold glassed a Lansing mich., attorney criticized passage saying a no one can say a Law is going to save a life. There is no indication that the availability of firearms has anything to do with the Era which claims a membership of More than one million Long has opposed gun control measures. The Over All Bill was approved 70 to 17. Sen. Edward m. Kennedy d-mass., made his first appearance on the Senate floor since the slaying of his brother Rob Ert. Kennedy showed up just in time to vote for the registration licensing amendment introduced by sen. Joseph Tydings did. He took no part in debate and sat with his Chin in his hand. The Senate Bill bans not Only the mail order sales of rifles and shotguns but also am Muni Tion for All weapons. The House version excludes mail order sales of ammunition for rifles and shotguns plus rim fire .22 Caliper shells the Senate Bill would make a sentence of life imprisonment possible for anyone committing a Federal crime of violence such As rape murder arson theft or kidnapping a while Arm Ltd with a gun. Hill panel Cut foreign Aid 45 . Washington apr the House appropriations committee recommended today a record 45 per cent Cut in new i. Nam my president Johnson seeks for the foreign Aid pro Gram. The $1,619 billion it approved in a Bill sent to the House for consideration next monday is $1.3 billion less than Johnson requested and $355 million below the ceiling approved in an ear. Lier Bill. The proposed new funds Are for use during the fiscal year ending next june 30. They Are the smallest since the Aid program was launched Iii 1948. But in a formal report written by rep. Otto e. Passman d-la., the committee claimed the funds recommended a will still permit continuation of a reasonable level of it called the program a simper Tant to our National interest but said the nations serious fiscal situation compelled it to a take an even harder look at the program than it has in the past. The program is de. Signed to strengthen the capability of Friendly nations to deter the threat of external attack and to help less developed nations Cope with conditions the committee said a Breed unrest and violence in human since 1948, he said the United states has extended a total net assistance of $118.4 billion in Loans and Grants not including interest charges of about $52.8 billion. Unexpended balances in various International programs he added Are about $20.7 billion. During the current fiscal year the committee said 48 nations will receive military Ald and 50 others will receive other forms of assistance. Today a chuckle a filing Cabinet has been defined As a system for losing things alphabetically

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