111 KILLED
South hits Reds
SAIGON—(UPI)—South Vietnamese troops swooped in by helicopters and surrounded a Viet Cong battalion protecting a North Vietnamese headquarters complex today, killing 111 Communists in the fiercest fighting of the month.
Communist guerrillas trying desperately to defend the facility fought back with barrages of mortar, recoilless rifle and machine gun fire and held out despite the vicious attack and strafing runs by U.S. Marine fighter planes.
THE HEADQUARTERS was located in a system of caves dug behind heavy fortifications in rice paddies about 335 miles north of Saigon.
A military spokesman said bodies of 111 Communists were found during a lull after two hours of fighting. Several heavy weapons on the fringes of the fortifications also were captured.
In the air war, a U.S. spokesman said today an armada of American warplanes blasted the large military complex 48 miles southeast of Dien Bien Phu and left 110 buildings damaged or destroyed.
"As we left the target area, about 110 buildings were burning," said one of the pilots, Capt. George W. Acree II of Westminster, Md. "It looked like the whole area was on fire."
Tornado re-examined by weather surveyors
OVERLAND PARK —(UPI)If Tuesday night's tornado had stayed on the ground for another seven miles, it would have ripped through the heavily populated areas of Prairie Village, Mission Hills and the Kansas City Country Club Plaza.
That was the conclusion today after a U.S. Weather Bureau survey team who traced the storm back to its birthplace near Olathe.
THE TORNADO was on the ground for only a mile and had a life span of 25 to 30 minutes, the meteorologists said. It had a "track" of only seven miles, well under the average 16 miles.
The team said higher than normal cloud bases and comparatively low afternoon temperatures prevented the funnel from hugging the ground.
"It it was first noted on radar as a severe thunderstorm just east of Olathe but eyewitnesses said that it was not touching the ground nor did it look particularly dangerous," the meteorologists said.
THE PARENT thunderstorm raced northeastward at 40 miles per hour and broke a few small trees at 119th and Eureka in the middle of farm country," the team said. The first property damage noted was at two farm houses near I-435 although the funnel still was aloft.
Then it cut through Overland Park, leaving about 50 houses in shambles and injuring five persons, none seriously.
AUXERRE, France — (UPI)—
Jail officials got a note Wednesday from a prisoner who escaped last week.
"Life is good out here," said the postcard received by officials at Auxerre jail. It was signed by Jean Moreau, who escaped while
serving a three year sentence for theft.
The officials also received a package from Moreau containing the prison uniform he had worn. They said they are keeping it for his return.
Things sure must be different
in France, one American official commented.
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JAKARTA—(UPI)—President Sukarno meets for the first time with his new anti-Communist cabinet today and is expected to discuss demands for release of political prisoners jailed without charges by his earlier leftist government.
It was the first meeting the Indonesian leader and the 30-member cabinet since Sukarno's leftist-dominated 100-man cabinet was dissolved by army strongman Lt. Gen. Suharto during the military takeover last month.
Leaders of the anti-Communist militant Student Action Association (KAMI) have been demanding a government review of all political detainee cases and immediate exoneration and release of prisoners not convicted of specific crimes.
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