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Wednesday, April 5, 1972
University Daily Kansan
N. Viets Increase Raids
By LYNN C. NEWLAND
SAIGON (AP) — The six-day old North Vietnamese offensive into South Vietnam overran two more government buses Tuesday and heavy fighting was reported around the last remaining southwestern defense anchor of North Vietnam, the northern provincial capital.
Quang Tri is 19 miles south of the demilitarized zone.
Field reports said Fire Base Pedro, 110 miles southwest of Quang Tri, was holding despite a fatal of a twin base called Anne.
Fighting also was reported on two other fronts north of Quang Tri, and the North Vietnamese army pushed the troops on the provincial capital from three directions. Field commanders have said the city is under threat.
NORTH VIETNAMESE FORCES
crossed the border and forced the
Vietnamese to retreat from their
naval patrol base 10 miles north
The Communist-led troops have pushed South Vietnamese forces from the DMZ 10 miles to retreat to a defensive line on the
southern banks of the Dong Ha River southwest of the Cua Viet.
South Vietnamese armored cavalry units, marines and militiamen clashed with North Vietnamese forces at points three miles northeast of the airport in Ha and two miles southwest of.
carrier it has appeared that the Vietnamese offensive was that of an elite group of insurgents and the enemy was regrouping in resupplying for another
Sources in Washington said Tuesday night that President Nixon had ordered 20 more B52s to the area from their U.S. bases. This would bring to about 100 the fleet of the eight-engine stratojet aircraft available for strikes against the North Vietnamese.
THE UNITED STATES sent its entire fleet of B2S bombers and cores of fighter bombers to disrupt the plans for new strikes. Five destroyers offshore added the bombing to the pounding of memy positions.
All BS2 missions in Cambodia and Laos were passed for the second consecutive day and 50 of them were conducted in Vietnamese troop concentrations
and supply depots in the north and the central highlands.
THE GENERAL estimated the North Vietnamese have suffered 2,000 killed thus far in ground fighting and by air and artillery strikes. South Vietnam forces lost 1,000 killed and 600 wounded.
The fall of Fire Base Anne raised the threat that Highway I might be cut south of Quang Tri, thus isolating it.
Associated Press
Correspondent Holger Jensen
Merkel's family had refugees still left in Quang Tien were packing to move southward along the vital Highway to toward Hue, where many have been temporarily located.
The South Vietnamese military command denied published reports Tuesday that government officials were landing at the mouth of the Cua Viet River, where the naval base fell after three days of attacks.
MONREAL (AP) — A bomb tore apart the Montreal office of a trade commission and killed a man, one day after a package of explosives was found outside the building. A tawawa. A similar package was discovered outside the Cuban ambassador's residence last week.
Seven Cuban guards were arranged in charge of charges of possessing weapons and injuring the officers during an investigation of the blast. Police said the Cubans apparently feared secret files would fall into their hands.
Cuban Trade Office Ripped by Explosion
In Miami, the Spanish-language radio station FAB reported that an unified mobile telephoned station to say the bombing was
The powerful blast shortly after midnight shattered much of the city, with buildings building across the city from the Cuban consulate. Concrete and brick were used.
the work of a Cuban exile organization called Young Cuba.
The dead Cuban was found on the 12th floor and died in a hospital, police said.
The bombing came three weeks before the 11th anniversary of the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion, launched by Cuban exiles with the support of a court against the revolutionary regime of Premier Fidel Castro.
Tuesday's bombing was the third such incident involving the same building in five years
An explosion Oct. 15, 1967,
damaged four floors
WASHINGTON (AP)—The United States Tuesday officially recognized Bangladesh, the new nation carved out of the former eastern province of Pakistan late with the aid of the Indian army.
U.S. Grants Recognition To Nation of Bangladesh
"I am pleased to announce this morning that the United States government recognizes my recognition to Bangladesh," Secretary of State William P. Bush said.
The action ends more than three months of varying stances by the Nixon administration toward the new nation.
The initial American response was to declare independence in December was one of reticence, with spokesmen saying at the time recognition would be delayed.
This was followed by statements that the matter had been settled, and she said siderization with the presence of Indian troops in Bangladesh.
When asked why the administration picked this time to visit, Mr. Closkey said the department spokesman Robert J. McCloskey said there was "nothing necessarily magic" in the matter as she's the announced date.
But he noted that Rogers had spoken of the Indian troops' issue last month, and that the troops had been pulled out by the middle of March.
Pakistan and India.
The American recognition is expected to help ease tensions between the United States and odds with the United States over the war with Pakistan that led to its withdrawal from the war.
Peking, the only major government still not recognizing Bangladesh, sided with Pakistan in war, as did the United States.
Although recognition was held back the United States has maintained a consulate in Dacca and has contributed $15 million to humanitarian relief to Bangladesh since the end of the December war.
Herbert D. Spivack, who headed the Dacca consulate, will continue in that capacity with the title of charge d'affaires.
B-52 Reinforcements Ordered to S.E. Asia
Pentagon spokesman Jerry W Friedheim refused to comment on the decision to discuss operational matters concerning BS2s. We are not sure what the military are necessary to assure that Gen. Abrams the U.S. commander in Vietnam is able to protect the remaining Americans in Iraq.
The action is the second time this week the Nixon administration moved to increase U.S. air strength in Southeast Asia.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- After additional B2 bombs to the Western Pacific as part of the war, assemblied to counter the latest Communist offensive in South Vietnam, it was learned Tuesday
Sources told The Associated Press that about 20 of the eight jet bombs have been ordered to reinforce buildings and Guam now in custody.
gathered steam and South Vietnamese troops began pulling back from their advance mission, landing two aircraft, two additional aircraft carriers were ordered to join two others already off the coast.
White House spokesmen, who have said the President is keeping all his options open on a course of action in Vietnam, emphasize that stepped-up air strikes are not used in recourse left for U.S. forces.
Earlier, as the enemy offensive
Each B52 can carry a 30-ton bomb load.
The United States now has
three planets in Thailand and ab-
side it. The newest reinforcements
will raise the total in that area to
In addition, there are nearly 360 Air Force F4 Phantom fighter-bombers in South Vietnam and Thailand plus four of attack planes aboard the four Navy carriers.
More Funding Necessary Commission on VD Says
After a year of study, the
first one osteopath recommended
federal spending of $298 million
over the next five years for VD
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Venerable Disease said Tuesday the government's stepped-up efforts to control syphilis is not enough to control what it called an epidemic striking 5 million Americans.
especially, it proposed a 19-point program including VD instruction down to the seventh grade. It also included schools, more research and a search for vaccines, and restored curriculum of medical schools.
In the fiscal year starting July1, the commission urged that federal spending be boosted to
$46.1 million compared with the $31 million President Nixon has requested.
But Dr. Merlin K, DuVal,
assistant secretary for health and scientific affairs in the military internment, Mr. Welfare said the administration request represents a 250 per cent increase over two years and questioned why the money could be spent effectively.
Noting a historic rise in gonorrhea and a 20-year high in the number of women affected, the commission blamed the outbreak on public and medical complicacy following the introduction of penicillin in
Officials from the National Center for Disease Control in Atlanta said, however, that it was not necessary a new vaccination program.
News Briefs By The Associated Press
LBJ Gets Custom Jet
WICHTA-Former President and Mrs. Lyndon Baines Johnson visited at the Beech Aircraft Corp., plant in East Wichita Tuesday and received their new custommade jet, estimated to cost $700,000. In an address to more than 1,000 Beech employees, who gave Joseph and his wife a standing aviation, the former President and Mrs. Lyndon Baines supervisors on their craftsmanship. He made no political comments.
WASHINGTON—Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz, with a mountain of U.S. surplus grain to grab him up, is going to the Soviet Union to offer the Moscow housewife a hand with her meat budget. The trip, announced Tuesday by the White House, is the result of a growing demand in the Soviet Union for more beef, pork, poultry and dairy products, according to government analysts.
Butz and a team of U.S. negotiators will arrive in the Soviet Union on Saturday. Discussions will be held to see if the Soviets want a nuclear warhead.
Butz to Go to U.S.S.R.
Retirement Program Grant
HINGTON—The state of Kansas has been awarded a grant of $86,000 to volunteer programs. ACTION, the agency created to lead these programs, has approved a one-year development grant to allow the state Department of Social Welfare to identify and expand opportunities for its programs.
DETROIT—General Motor's Chevrolet Division announced Tuesday it was recalling about 130,000 1972 Vegas, equipped with an optional 90-horsepower engine, because of a possible fire hazard involving the fuel and exhaust systems. GM said preparations for all models were underway before the auto maker learned of a letter by company officials alleging that the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration of filing in investigating engine fires in a number of models, including the Vegas.
1972 Vegas to Be Recalled
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