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In Viet Nam Ambush Officer Slain, Civilian Killed
The officer slain today was the first American to die in the jungle war here since Sept. 10, when Capt. Richard T. Lynch, Paoli, Pa., was killed by Communist automatic weapons fire during an antiguerrilla sweep with Vietnamese army forces 15 miles south of Saigon.
TODAY'S AMBUSH BROUGHT to 194 the American death toll in Vietnamese fighting since massive U.S. military aid started in 1961.
Another 89 have died in non-battle incidents, bringing the over-all American death toll to 283.
The foreign aid official, assigned to the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), was given first aid treatment in the U.S. Air Force dispensary at Tan Son Hut airport on the outskirts of Saigon.
The U.S. military spokesman also disclosed that another U.S. Army soldier was wounded yesterday when Communist Viet Cong guerrillas poured mortar fire into the Soui Da Special Forces camp in Tay Ninh Province, 45 miles northwest of Saigon.
A MEMBER of the Vietnamese special forces was killed in the same bombardment.
Other military activity included stiff fighting by the Communists and South Viet Nam's army, navy and air force.
The Reds ambushed a company of government militia in Tay Ninh Province yesterday. The defense ministry said the Reds killed 11 militiamen in the ensuing fight.
Meanwhile, U.S. Army Col. John Freund worked today to head off open warfare between dissident mountain tribesmen and loyalist troops guarding a divisional headquarters of the Vietnamese army.
Two militiamen were missing in the action and another was wounded.
FREUND WAS using a radio instead of smoke signals. But the situation was uncomfortably close to one of those classic confrontations between restive apaches and outnumbered cavalrymen in the old west.
His job was to talk the dissident tribesmen at Fort Bon Sar Pa into releasing their Vietnamese hostages and get back to the job of fighting the Communist Viet Cong guerrillas.
Henry VIII Play Begins Year's Theater
"Thought provoking but humorous," "not a sober play or historical pageant," "very warm, very human," were phrases chosen by Jack Brooking, associate professor of speech and drama, to describe the mood of the first production in the major theater series, "A Man for All Seasons."
The play, by Robert Bolt, portrays the conflict which arose between Sir Thomas More, chancellor of England, and King Henry VIII when More refused to sanction Henry's divorce from Catherine of Aragon. Henry, who preferred the favors of Anne Boleyn (the woman he wished to marry) to the Church's approval, flouted Church laws and rewarded his Chancellor by chopping his head off.
BROOKING, who directs the production, calls it a tough play with difficult characterizations. "The important point is that it deals with
human qualities, especially integrity," he said.
The play has a quality of universality, Brooking said. "All men face challenges which can be avoided, proving the man has no courage, or confronted no matter what the consequence might be. How he faces his challenge is the measure of each man.
"Seeing More grapple with his challenge and accepting it is not an isolated historical event, but an attempt to demonstrate that men in every era must face life and wrestle with it," Brooking said.
The setting will be reminiscent of Elizabethan staging when simple, spare props were necessary for quick scene changes, Brooking said. He said lighting would be very important for dramatic effects.
BURT EIKLEBERRY, Lawrence graduate student, is assistant director.
Playing lead parts in the production are Tom Rea, senior actor in residence, Sir Thomas More; Dennis Dalen, Lawrence graduate student, Common Man; Vince Angotti, Independence, Mo. graduate student, Cromwell; Tom Behm, Wheeling, Ill. graduate student, Norfolk; Nancy Vumovich, Arkansas City graduate student, Alice; Gigi Gibson, Independence, Mo. senior, Margaret, and Joe Kaough, Houston, Tex. graduate student, Rich.
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Performances are scheduled for Oct. 16, 17, 23 and 24. Tickets will go on sale Oct. 9 at Murphy box office. Students must present cards of registration to purchase tickets.
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