MCNAMARA GLOOMY
Viet conflict steps up
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has warned Congress there is a long fight ahead in Viet Nam, partly because the Communists have deliberately decided to "intensify" the conflict.
During his appearance Wednesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, McNamara recited a list of positive accomplishments in Viet Nam, but remarked that he didn't want to sound optimistic.
HE DIDN'T. Among his other
comments were these gloomy reports:
1. It has been impossible to maintain control of some land areas in South Viet Nam that U.S. troops paid for dearly in bitter combat.
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● Although Communist morale has been shaken by intensified U.S. operations, the Viet Cong's "discipline is unimpaired."
- DESERTIONS AND defections from the South Vietnamese army are running at a "very, very high rate" and the problem is serious.
- Increased infiltration from
North Viet Nam showed a "deliberate decision by the North Vietnamese" to continue and intensify the conflict.
McNamara, whose testimony before the committee was televised, had encouraging reports on some phases of the war, however.
HE SAID HE FORESAW no need for a call-up of reserve or National Guard personnel this year, and he said that current appraisals show "a decline in Viet Cong ability to use the rural population" for support.
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U.S. jets smash anti-aircraft site
SAIGON—(UPI)—U.S. jets, staging their second consecutive day of massive raids over North Viet Nam, smashed an anti-aircraft missile site only 10 miles from Haiphong in the closest strike yet to that vital Communist port, U.S. officials said today.
They disclosed another F105 Thunderchief fell to Communist gunners near Donh Hoi, one of the chief targets of Wednesday's raids. The pilot was listed as missing. It was the third F105 downed in two days.
AIR FORCE AND NAVY pilots flew 87 missions against the Communist North, four more than on Tuesday, and returned once again to pound the Mu Gia Pass leading into the main Viet Cong infiltration route to South Viet Nam. The jets also hit railways, storage and supply facilities, bridges and water traffic.
Navy pilots from the carriers Enterprise and Kitty Hawk took the air war to within sound and sight of the 150,000 residents of Haiphong, North Viet Nam's main industrial port which so far has been spared American bombs. They hit a permanent missile site only ten miles to the north-northeast of the port.
The closest previous raid against the Haiphong area was one that destroyed a bridge 11 miles from the city.
THE NAVY FLIERS also struck the Ha Tou barracks and an anti-aircraft site 30 miles east-northeast of Haiphong and the Thai Binh naval facility 35 miles to the south-southwest.
In action in South Viet Nam, U.S. officials disclosed that 66 Viet Cong were killed, 15 captured and 30 suspects arrested in air and ground action.
Some prisoners now express, under questioning, "considerable doubt" that the Communists can prevail against U.S. might, the defense secretary said.
McNamara ostensibly was called to testify on the administration's $3.4 billion foreign aid bill, but the questioning followed the pattern of his last appearance and settled on Viet Nam.
Demonstrate against draft
CHICAGO — (UPI) — An occupying force of 400 students vowed today to bar the doors of the University of Chicago administration building to all school officials in a protest against university policies they say turn students into executioners.
exercise The students, both boys and girls, spent the night crowded into the building's first floor hallway with sleeping bags, sandwiches and books.
The protest was focused on the administration's decision to supply both grade averages and class rankings to the Selective Service System for draft classification. Although the university said it would not supply the information without specific approval from the affected student, the protesters view the policy as an "anti-educational" collusion with the Selective Service System.
CAPE KENNEDY —(UPI)— The test results are in and, from all reports, the Gemini 9 space-ship is ready to go Tuesday on a three-day voyage around earth that will help lead the way for Apollo trips to the moon.
Air Force Lt. Col. Thomas Stafford and Navy Lt. Cmdr. Eugene Cernan put their capsule through its second major test in two days Wednesday. The exercise, a string of electronically simulated flights, wound up at night with no signs of trouble.
night with the THE NEXT big step in the two-month-long string of preparations for America's 13th manned spaceflight comes Saturday with the start of 'pre-countdown" activity to prepare the spacecraft and its Titan 2 booster for launch.
The Gemini 9 flight is the most ambitious yet prepared for a pair of U.S. astronauts. If the mission is a success, it will widen the nation's lead over Russia in manned spaceflight experience.
Stafford and Cernan will be busy from the beginning, shooting for a rendezvous with an Agena target satellite in the record time of four hours—90 minutes faster than the marks set by Gemini 6 and 8.
About 17 hours later, Cernan is scheduled to stage a record two hour and 25 minute spacewalk.
Roosevelt to oppose Rockefeller in N.Y.
Gemini 9 ready
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., son of the late President, today announced he will seek the Democratic nomination for governor of New York State.
Roosevelt said he was entering the race because he loved politics and a good political fight.
The announcement, which came as no surprise, had been billed for the past several days as a "major statement regarding the Democratic nomination for governor of New York State."
ROOSEVELT opened his bid for the state's highest office with an attack on the administration of Republican Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller. He said that since the end of World War II, with the exception of the four years when Averell Harriman was governor, "New York State has gone from crisis to crisis."
"Leadership has been marked by indecision, timidity and inaction," Roosevelt said.
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Tokyo fears harm from Red fallout
TOKYO—(UPH)—Prime Minister Eisaku Sato ordered a cabinet meeting today to determine what measures are needed to counter serious radioactive fallout from Communist China's biggest and dirtiest nuclear explosion.
Already the government has ordered ships at sea to wash their decks daily and cautioned lighthouse keepers against drinking rainwater.
MANY JAPANESE housewives are washing fresh fruit and vegetables as a precaution against radiation poisoning.
Radiation pollution The science and technology agency told Sato's cabinet today there has been a significantly greater number of "giant" radioactive particles detected from Monday's explosion than from any other atom test recorded in Japan.
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