Allies announce holiday ceasefire
SAIGON —(UPI)— U.S. and South Vietnamese forces today promised to observe 48-hour ceasefires throughout Viet Nam during the Christmas and New Year's holiday—provided Communist forces to the same.
The order suspending fighting by all allied forces was signed by South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Cao Ky and will temporarily bring to a halt all combat operations including U.S. bombing of North Viet Nam.
It went one step further than a similar ceasefire pledge announced by Communists earlier, providing for a four-day combat truce during the Asian lunar new year beginning next Feb. 8 in Viet Nam.
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U. S. troops mistakenly fired an artillery barrage on a Vietnamese village today killing three civilians and wounding 19 others, military spokesmen said.
TODAY'S MISFORTUNE raised to more than 400 the number of Vietnamese civilians killed or injured by U.S. bombs and artillery during the past five months.
At the same time, it was disclosed that South Vietnamese soldiers swept into an enemy horror camp in which civilian men and women were chained, shot and hacked to death. Four prisoners were killed as the Communists fled.
Draft standards lowered
WASHINGTON — (UPI)— The Pentagon is lowering the mental standards for draftees again and is laying plans to rescreen 2.4 million men previously rejected for military service.
physically fit and who scored between 10 and 15 on the armed forces qualification test. Previously, they had to have a score of at least 16. The perfect score is 100.
The latest change, announced by the Pentagon yesterday, makes eligible for military service all high school graduates who are
It also qualifies those who did not graduate from high school if they are physically fit, scored between 16 and 30 on the qualification test, and showed an aptitude in at least one military specialty.
Jordan holds lid on crisis
AMMAN, Jordan —(UPI)—Jordanian King Hussein, blaming the powderkeg crisis in the Middle East on Soviet agitation, strove desperately today to turn aside new threats to his regime by hard-line Arab extremists and to establish a "balance of power" with Israel.
As tensions remained higher than at any time in the past decade, Hussein said at a news conference yesterday Jordan would agree to basing United Nations peacekeeping troops along the border with Israel.
AS HUSSEIN ACTED, Syrian radio reports monitored in Beirut told of a general strike and new demonstrations against him in the Gaza Strip.
Extraordinary security precautions remained in effect in Jordan, as Arabs began demonstrations to protest the 1947 United Nations resolution partitioning Palestine and leading to the establishment of Israel.
Authorities in Amman, meanwhile, were anxiously awaiting the arrival of the first of 36 super-sonic F104 Starfighters purchased from the United States.
"If archaeological research had an end it wouldn't be fun anymore," John L. Caskey, professor of archaeology and head of the classics department at the University of Cincinnati, said last night in an illustrated lecture, entitled, "Keos and Cyclades in the Bronze Age."
The lecture was the fourth in the current humanities series which has been given annually at KU for the past 20 years.
Caskey said there are many questions and doubts surrounding the excavations at Keos, Greece, where he has served as field director since 1960 for the University's excavations conducted under the auspices of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.
"THE SITE at Keos is partially worn away on both sides by the sea which leaves a good many puzzles," he said.
Caskey took approximately 250 persons to Keos, via colored slides, and showed remnants of the civilization that resided there in the Bronze Age from 3,000 to 1,500 B.C.
Keos, or Kea, is a small island in the Aegean Sea which is situated approximately 40 miles southeast of Athens or 160 miles north of Crete.
Caskey said, "The island has probably not changed too much since the second and third millenium of the Bronze Age. It is still small, has poor soil, and has a limited water supply.
"But, it's popularity as a tourist center has increased in recent years."
THE CHIEF occupations during the Cycladic Period were fishing, seafaring, and the manufacture of textiles, he said.
Caskey showed slides of remnants of fortification walls of the citadel that was built to protect islanders against seige and attack.
Keos puzzling,prof says
He also showed slides of restored pottery and terraccotta statues, and some treasures found in a grave.
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ing were found preserved," he said.
archaeologist, Caskey said. "They are plentiful, and although breakable, are almost indestructible.
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"We have collected hundreds and thousands of frescoe fragments and are in the process of cleaning and putting them together," he said.
"The excavation site, the northwest corner of the island, shows evidence that it was destroyed by an earthquake." Caskey said. "The upper portions of the building fell in during the earthquake which probably occurred in the middle of the 15th century B.C. Articles which were in the build-
Excavators found fragments of a tablet with an inscription upon it, indicating that the civilization at this time was literate, Caskey said.
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