Guerrillas kidnap sleeping villagers
SAIGON—(UPI)—Viet Cong guerrillas, stung by waning support in the rich-rich Mekong Delta, kidnaped an entire village of from 90 to 110 men, women and children in an unprecedented act of terrorism. U.S. spokesmen said today.
The Communists swept into the sleeping village under cover of darkness early yesterday, routed out the peasants at gunpoint and marched them off into the jungles 75 miles southwest of Saigon, the spokesman said.
THE MASS KIDNAPING was seen as a blatant Communist warning to the residents of the delta, whose sympathies have begun to swing toward the government.
Government troops that moved into the village after dawn found only a ghost town of thatched huts and squat plaster houses. Every last man, woman and child had been taken by the Viet Cong.
More delta rice farmers and their sons have become draft dodgers from the Communists.
Erhard foes close in
BONN—(UPI)—West German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard suffered a sharp set-back in parliament today when opposition Social Democrats pushed through a motion demanding he seek a vote of confidence on his tax policies.
The motion added more pressure on Erhard to break up his three-year-old government-a move that could affect U.S. policy in Western Europe.
ERHARD, WHO WAS on hand for the vote, dismissed his defeat as a meaningless "show trial" and said he had no intention of resigning.
But neither the chancellor nor his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party are anxious for new elections. Recent public opinion polls have shown the CDU, the largest party in parliament, to be lagging in popularity behind the Social Democrats, the second largest party.
Students badger McNamara
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—(UPI) Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara visited Harvard yesterday and was heckled by a mob of students who oppose U.S. involvement in Viet Nam.
About 25 lay down in the path of his automobile, and when the secretary got out to speak to the crowd, the protestors shouted him down.
A FLYING WEDGE of university and city policemen finally forced a path for McNamara. The secretary was spirited from the scene through steam tunnels as fist fights broke out between his supporters and his detractors. The incident occurred in front of Quincy House, a dormitory where he had addressed a small gathering of students.
About 300 students were in the group, which was nearly evenly divided between supporters and critics. Many of those against United States involvement in Viet Nam carried placards and identified themselves as members of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
Shouted down whenever he tried to speak, McNamara finally called upon the antiwar students: "Stand up and answer the questions—you seem to have all the answers."
CAPE KENNEDY —(UPI)— Gemini 12 astronauts James Lovell and Edwin (Buzz) Aldrin, cleared for tomorrow's blastoff, today coated into a final day of review and briefings for Project Gemini's closing mission.
COMPLETES ROLE
HOLLYWOOD — (UPI) — Richard Harris completed his role with Doris Day in "Caprice" and flew off to Spain to star in "Camelot."
The astronauts will first attempt to rendezvous with their Agena target rocket. Then they will dock with the Agena four times.
But the spotlight will be on Aldrin who is set to perform a two-hour spacewalk and two open hatch "space stands" totaling about three hours.
'Space stand' planned
4 Daily Kansan Tuesday, November 8, 1965
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