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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Wednesday, September 18
Ft. Riley infantry units may be assigned to Europe
Washington (UPI)—The United States is considering a plan to send 12,000 combat troops, possibly including a unit from Ft. Riley, Kansas, to Europe early next year on a temporary basis for allied maneuvers, Defense Secretary Clark M. Clifford said Tuesday.
The move was understood to be one of several contemplated by the administration in an effort to assure the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and especially the Soviet Union that the United States was prepared for counter increased Soviet pressures in Eastern Europe.
The Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia has brought increasing pressure on the Johnson administration, especially from West Germany, to respond with a reciprocal show of force reaffirming U.S. commitments to the defense of NATO countries.
Combat Units Return
The administration apparently has decided to accelerate the return to Europe for training exercises of several combat units withdrawn to the United States last summer on a stand-by basis for NATO duty if needed.
The units are reported to be four F-4 Phantom Jet fighter squadrons from Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico and Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho, as well as two mechanized infantry brigades from the
$25,000 grant given to KU for new X-ray
A $25,000 donation by a 1907 graduate of KU provided funds to replace the 36 year-old X-ray equipment at Watkins Memorial Hospital.
Mrs. Grace Blair Emmett, a Lawrence resident, made the gift in August, 1967. The new apparatus will cut the development of chest X-rays required for each incoming student from 24 hours to four minutes.
The new equipment is housed in three rooms at Watkins. The main photographic equipment room, lying beyond a bronze plaque door honoring Mrs. Emmett, can be converted to do fluoroscopic work, if necessary.
The other rooms are used for the new automatic developing equipment which can now turn out the finished X-ray in much less time. This improvement will more than double the capacity of service to students, according to Dr. Raymond Schwegler, student health service director.
Journalism day slated Saturday
Approximately 500 high school journalism students will be at KU Saturday for the 50th annual High School Journalism Day Conference.
244h Infantry Division at Ft. Rilev, Kan.
The faculty will give lectures on high school publication problems, and will offer suggestions on improving newspaper and yearbook makeup, financing and sales.
The conference, presented early in the year to aid high school newspaper and yearbook production, is sponsored by the William Allen White School of Journalism faculty.
They were returned to the United States from Europe last summer on the announced condition that they were to join NATO maneuvers next summer.
The students will bring copies of their newspapers and yearbooks for display in the Kansas Union. This year the display will be supplemented with exhibits from commercial yearbook companies.
Along with lectures by journalism faculty members, the students will receive a tour of the University of Kansas Printing Plant where the various stages of both letterpress and offset newspaper production will be explained.
Clifford, while not characterizing the move, told newsmen it was "possible" that the Defense Department would decide to advance the maneuvers to a date "sometime after the first of the year," presumable early next spring.
Increase Temporary
"This would only be a temporary increase for the exercises," Clifford said after a private meeting with Gen. Earle G. Wheeler, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff before the Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee.
The total troops involved would be a minimum of 20,000 and a maximum of 40,000 men, Clifford said.
The U.S. Air Force and Army troops strength in Europe now totals about 300,000 men, of whom 21,000 or more are stationed in West Germany. The Pentagon is continuing a program of returning 35,000 to 40,000 administrative and supply personnel home each year to
reduce overseas costs of support for themselves and their dependents.
Reluctant At First
It is believed that the administration was reluctant to counter the effect of the Czech invasion immediately out of the belief that such action would only serve to heighten tensions in Europe and lend credence to Soviet charges of a military threat from NATO and West Germany in particular.
On Vietnam, Clifford said he doubted the U.S. political campaign would affect the Paris talks between the United States and North Vietnam. He said there was "general agreement" on Vietnam between Hubert H. Humphrey, the Democratic nominee, and his opponent, Richard M. Nixon.
The secretary held his prediction that enemy forces in Vietnam were planning a third major offensive. He attributed its delay to he "exceedingly effective" effort by Gen. Creighton Abrams, the U.S. war commander, in spoiling enemy plans for an offensive by a series of anticipatory counter attacks.
Clifford said, "They still have the ability to launch new attacks."
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