BEHIND VIET SCENES
LBJ uses influence
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Johnson was understood today to be exerting behind-the-scenes influence to get the warring factions in South Viet Nam to bury their differences and work for constitutional government.
At the same time, it was believed the President had instructed U.S. officials in Saigon to caution Premier Nguyen Cao Ky against the explosive consequences of any armed attacks on Buddhist temples in Da Nang or Hue, the centers of opposition to his regime.
THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE
wound up a week-long intensive
review of Viet Nam problems by disclosing late Monday that American influence was being applied to increase unity and carry forward the movement toward constitutional government in South Viet Nam.
on the military front which has heartened anti-Communist forces in recent weeks.
Henry Cabot Lodge, U.S. ambassador to South Viet Nam, was leaving for the Far East today after a strenuous round of "consultations," punctuated by the explosive weekend developments in South Viet Nam.
Administration officials feared that increasing instability and political turbulence would undermine the slow but steady progress
WHITE HOUSE PRESS Secretary Bill D. Moyers said Monday, after Johnson's windup session with Lodge and other top advisers, that the President was determined to use American influence to:
- "Defeat Communist aggression and social misery in South Viet Nam.
- "Increase the unity of all non-Communist elements in South Viet Nam.
- Carry forward the movement toward a constitutional government."
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Infantry ruins Viet camp
SAIGON—(UPI)—The U.S. 1st Infantry Division, winding up a 25-day sweep through an area which had been a Communist sanctuary for years, reported today it destroyed enough supplies and equipment to house, feed and arm a guerrilla army.
In its cleanup of "War Zone C" on the Cambodian border 70 miles northwest of Saigon the "Big Red I" captured 4.2 million pounds of rice, 7,050 Communist uniforms and 163 boats and sampans.
THE AMERICANS also destroyed 66 Red base camps, four jungle factories, three hospital
and six aid stations, and 814 other buildings and huts.
It was one of the most successful missions of destruction in the Vietnamese war. The GI used flame throwers, tracer bullets or even cigarette lighters to scorch the earth as they went.
The division killed 116 Communists, not a large number considering the size of the operation. It prime object, however, was to destroy the tools of war.
BAD WEATHER REDUCED the number of U.S. air raids on North Viet Nam Monday. Only 17 missions were flown, nine by the U.S. Air Force and eight by the Navy.
A prime Air Force target was the Mu Gia Pass at the northern end of the Communist supply route to South Viet Nam. The southern terminus was in the jungles cleared by the 1st Infantry.
Prices rise with strike
LONDON—(UPI)—Britain's first maritime strike in 55 years drove fresh food prices upward today, even as Prime Minister Harold Wilson warned against profiteering and threatened to declare a national emergency.
The bombers struck a highway a mile north of the pass and trucks six miles north. Other Air Force jets hit road-building machinery, traffic tunnels, automatic-weapons sites, and a river ford.
Wilson went on nationwide radio and television Monday night to call the strike a "challenge we did not seek and do not want." He said the government had plans to deal with the situation, though it would not declare a state of national emergency at this time.
The strike by the 62,500-member National Union of Seamen (NUS) over wages and hours has stranded more than 123 ships in British ports since Sunday night.
WILSON SAID THE ROYAL NAVY is ready to ensure delivery of supplies to isolated areas which depend on the merchant marine. NUS Secretary Bill Hogarth said any strike-breaking activities by the navy would serve only to reinforce the determination of the union.
ONE OF THE FIRST effects of the walkout was felt in London's vast Covent Garden fruit and vegetable market, where the price of new potatoes jumped $2.52 a 56-pound bag and apples went up $1.40 a 40-pound box. Traders predicted further increases.
Wilson said the seamen "have genuine and deep grievances that ought to be dealt with urgently and by effective means," but he said the strike "will achieve nothing and settle nothing."
WASHINGTON — (UPI) President Johnson Monday named Lt. Gen. William W. Momyer, a career fighter pilot with a distinguished World War II record, to command U.S. Air Forces in Viet Nam.
Navy raiders destroyed 11 junks and barges, two trucks and sections of bridge and road pavement. Causeways and a bridge near Vinh were heavily damaged in addition to targets near Dong Hoi.
He said if the NUS got all it is asking, a wage increase of $1.75 a month and reduction of the work week from 56 hours to 40 hours plus overtime pay for hours beyond 40,Britain would be priced out of world export markets.
New leader for air forces in Viet
Momyer, 49, will succeed Lt. Gen. Joseph H. Moore, July 1 as deputy commander for air operations of the Military Assistance Command in Viet Nam and commander of the 7th Air Force.
Moore, who has directed air operations in Viet Nam since January, 1964, will become vice commander in chief of the U.S. Pacific forces in Hawaii.
PARIS—(UPI)—Seven million workers in state-run industries staged a general strike against Gen. Charles de Gaulle's government today but the government and the man in the street took it in their stride.
Millions strike in France
WEATHER
A high in the lower 80s, partly cloudy and cooler tonight and Wednesday is the forecast of the U.S. Weather Bureau. Low tonight in the mid 50s. The probability of precipitation is 30 per cent today, 10 per cent tonight and 10 per cent Wednesday.
The walkout, which appeared to be around 75 per cent effective, was the biggest strike in France in eight years.
Reds have missiles similar to U.S. type
LONDON—(UPI)Russia has developed Polaris-type missiles which can be fired by remote control from containers planted under the sea, it was reported today.
been some doubt whether they can be fired when the submarine is submerged.
LONDON'S INSTITUTE for Strategic Studies estimated recently that Russia has 40 nuclear-engined submarines and about 370 conventionally powered undersea craft.
Recent reports say Russia has developed Polaris-type missiles which they say can be set off underwater.
Diplomatic sources said the Russians apparently hope to overcome the limited range of their undersea missiles by planting rockets preset to hit chosen targets in fixed positions near potentially hostile coasts.
The Russians are known to have rockets which can be launched from submarines, but there has
PRESUMABLY, the missiles could be planted from surface vessels like Russia's ever-present "fishing boats" or perhaps from submerged submarines.
Some missiles used in Soviet submarines at least until recently are said to have a range of only 300-500 miles.
The institute believes Russia has developed missiles which can be launched underwater, but that they have nothing like the range of America's Polaris missiles.
Quinine, malaria probe set
WASHINGTON—(UPI) —Senate investigators summoned agents of a Dutch cartel today to determine if quinein market manipulators tried to make a fast buck on a new strain of malaria afflicting U.S. troops in Viet Nam.
The price of quinine, and of quinidine, a quinine derivative used by heart patients, began to rise in 1964 after Army doctors found that only quinine was effective against a new strain of malaria hospitalizing U.S. troops in Viet Nam.
THE STRAIN, CALLED fulciparum, resists the synthetic drugs developed to combat malaria encountered by U.S. troops in the South Pacific during World War II.
Since the turn of the century, the Dutch have been developing a worldwide monopoly on the bark of the cinchona tree, the substance from which quinine is made.
Help in blood search
Several ROTC members have donated blood (type A positive which is uncommon) for an injured man in Kansas City, Major Phillip Ramsey, assistant professor of Military Science, said.
Daily Kansan
Tuesday, May 17, 1966
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