US troops strike Cong complex
SAIGON — (UPI) - American infantrymen today swarmed over a Viet Cong supply complex believed to be the largest in South Viet Nam. They destroyed it and of food and supplies with white phosphorous grenades and cigarette lighters.
The defenders fled across the border into the sanctuary of neutralist Cambodia.
A battalion of the 1st Infantry Division sweeping the Communist "war zone c" along the Cambodian border found enough food, livestock, and uniforms to outfit about six Communist regiments. They also seized motorized sampans used for transporting the equipment.
THE CAMP WAS located beside the Da Ha River about 75 miles northwest of Saigon in the 1,000-yard wide buffer zone along the border where BS2s do not bomb for fear of hitting Cambodia.
In Saigon, a military spokesman said 35 U.S. servicemen were
killed in action last week and 547 wounded, a substantial drop from the previous week when 89 were killed and 635 wounded.
The Viet Cong suffered heavy losses during the same one-week period ending April 24 when 694 were killed and 89 captured. South Vietnam Nam reported 93 soldiers killed and 33 missing and other Allied forces in the war reported 32 killed and 36 wounded.
IN THE AIR WAR, U.S. spokesmen said two F4C Phantom jets on a reconnaissance mission near Vinh had to dodge at least two Russian-built anti-aircraft missiles and then called in other Air Force F105s to hit the sites. The pilots reported they left the area "engulfed in smoke."
Air Force officials also disclosed that the vital Mu Gia Pass "was put out of commission" again by giant B52 bombers which dumped thousands of pounds of explosives on it during a raid Tuesday.
"This is it. This is where those
babies got most of their supplies," said the U.S. Army major commanding the battalion which located the complex of bamboo warehouses containing a treasure trove of supplies near the Cambodia border.
Army officers pointed across the river into Cambodia at chutes on the opposite banks used for loading sampans with rice. The supply dump was about 75 miles northwest of Saigon and marked one of the key crossing points for the Ho Chi Minh Trail from Cambodia into South Viet Nam.
THE TROOPERS destroyed more than 6,000 khaki uniforms with Communist Chinese labels, 800 pairs of the black pajamas the guerrilla nightfighters use, hundreds of tons of rice and salt, 16 motorized sampans and dozens of bamboo warehouses.
Although Cambodia is nominally a neutralist country, it sympathizes with the Communists and is a haven for guerrillas fleeing military operations.
Faubus fails to file for seventh term
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.—(UPI)—Gov. Orval E. Faubus, the nation's second longest-term state chief executive, made good Wednesday his promise to quit after 12 years of office.
Faubus, who surrounded Central High School with National Guardsmen in 1957 to become a symbol of southern resistance to racial desegregation, said March 21 he would not seek a seventh term. Politicians doubted him then.
BUT HE MADE IT OFFICIAL by failing to file for the July 26 Democratic primary election. Wednesday was the deadline.
The Arkansas Gazette called
Faubus' action "the most unbelievable" aspect of the state political scene.
Faubus, 56, a former Ozark Mountain schoolmaster, said he made the decision to quit "with regret."
"I might never run for anything else," Faubus said. "But I might come back in two, four, six or eight years."
FAUBUS' ABSENCE from the
ballot may give the Republicans their first chance to elect a governor since Reconstruction. Winthrop Rockefeller, brother of New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller, is running again. He came closer to winning than any other Republican when he opposed Faubus in 1964.
Eight Democrats and two Republicans signed up for the primary.
Three missing in explosion
CHARLESTOWN, Ind. - (UPI)
CHARLESTOWN, IA. — OCPI
Authorities hold little hope to today of finding the bodies of three men missing and presumed dead
Allies want control at NATO conference
LONDON—(UPI)—U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara met with Western defense ministers today for talks aimed at giving Allied powers a greater say in NATO nuclear strategy without putting more fingers on the atomic trigger.
McNamara met with members of NATO's nuclear planning working group from Britain, West Germany, Italy and Turkey for the two days of confidential talks.
THE FIVE NATION GROUP will report its findings to a special Allied committee in Paris, organized by McNamara last year to promote greater nuclear sharing within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO. The findings will be included in recommendations to the NATO ministerial council in Brussels June 6.
The problem centers on how to give non-nuclear nations such as West Germany or Italy a bigger say in the nuclear defense matters of the alliance without giving them access to the nuclear trigger.
The plan behind this effort is above all to enable non-nuclear Allies to acquaint themselves with the conditions under which NATO may decide to use the tactical weapons placed in their respective territories. They also would be told where the weapons are kept and what targets they would aim at.
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The blast rocked the entire 11,000-acre installation which produces shells and gunpowder for the Viet Nam war, and injured 45 persons.
Authorities said it was miraculous that no more of the some 2,000 employees on the grounds at the time of the blast were injured.
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JUST BEYOND THE burning Viet Cong base camp the jungle was scarred and pitted from bomb craters and shredded trees caused by B52 raids. But right around the grass was green, testimony of the B52's no-trespass approach.
The GIs, part of the 1st Infantry Division's "Operation Birmingham," put the whole area to the torch. The Viet Cong fled after only light resistance.
Further to the north, U.S. Marines lying in ambush blocked a Communist sneak attack on a U.S. air base and sent the guerrillas fleeing into the jungle.
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Williams was attending a firemen's convention.
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— Fire Chief C. C. Williams was out of town for the biggest fire in years, a $140,000 blaze that destroyed a livestock pavilion and killed 150 beef cattle.
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