U.S. traps Cong in fierce fighting SAIGON — (UPI) — U.S. Marines striking quickly by helicopter trapped about 400 Viet Cong regulars on a peninsula just south of Phu Bai today and killed at least 40 of them in the first hours of fierce fighting. Vietnamese army units moved into positions along rivers paralleling the peninsula to block avenues of escape, leaving the Viet Cong no choice but to stand and fight. In other wide ranging ground fighting, troops of the 1st Air Cavalry Division smashed determined Communist resistance and captured an underground hospital belonging to a North Vietnamese regiment near Bong Son, about 330 miles northeast of Saigon. The Marines killed 22 and captured 10 Communists in this engagement and beat back a suicide squad attack on the command post of a Marine major general. Several companies of Marines landed on the peninsula just six miles south of the Marine enclave at Phu Bai, a coastal city about 395 miles north of Saigon, after learning that a battalion of Communist regulars was operating there. They began sweeping toward the sea, first contacting a Viet Cong squad. Resistance grew and within a half hour the Marines had engaged the main force of 400 men, believed to be the Viet Cong's elite B190th Battalion. The 1st Cavalry troops, also operating in coastal regions, found a Viet Cong hospital in a village of about 20 huts on a wooded hill at the base of a mountain ridge line 10 miles south of Bong Son. ★ Nominated For 4 Academy Awards ★ Four Performances Only Wed. and Thurs. March 2 & 3 Mat. 2:00 - Eve. 8:00 AN ACTUAL PERFORMANCE OF THE NATIONALTHEATRE OF GREAT BRITAIN LAURENCE OLIVIER OTHELLO A B H E PRODUCTION ALSO STARRING MAGGIE SMITH · REDMAN and FINLAY DIRECTED BY STIART BURGE ANTHONY HAVELOCK-ALLAN and JOIN BRABOURNE TECHNOGOLLAR " MANISSON " FROM WARNER BROS. Send self-addressed stamped envelope enclosed with check or money order to Granada Theatre, Box 808, Lawrence, Kans. Name ... Address ... City State ... Day March ... No. of Seats ... Mat. Eve. For Information Concerning Group Attendance — Call — All Seats $2.00 — Tickets on sale daily at Box Office CLOSER to Saigon, a Viet Cong regiment—at least 1,000 men—swept out of the hills 75 miles northeast of the capital and overran the Lam Dong government outpost. Three miles to the northeast, the Communist tried a pincer attack on the Va Xu hamlet defended by about 300 government troops. There is still no evidence that an epidemic of Asian influenza has hit at KU, Dr. Raymond Schwegler, acting director of Watkins Hospital, said today. Schwegler: flu danger still lurks But he warned the danger will not end until the epidemic in California and the East Coast quietes down. Six patients who were hospitalized last week with respiratory infections which might have been flu have all recovered and been released. Tests to determine the exact ailment will not be complete for some time, Dr. Schwegler said. BUT HE FELT the infections were probably not flu, because the students recovered too quickly. It is likely they were only colds or "indefinite viral infections," he said. Two new patients with respiratory infections were admitted over the weekend, but admissions are still below average for February. Dr. Schwegler said. REPORTS FROM THE Douglas County public health department still show no confirmed cases of flu either in the county or in the state of Kansas, although there is "a fair amount of respiratory disease in the community," Schwegler said. Though no flu cases have been reported, KU is "still not out of the woods," Dr. Schwegler said. Daily Kansan 5 Monday, February 28, 1966 Pass this difficult and challenging 7-part test and win a free GENIUS button! Part 1. Write your name and school. Part 2. Write your street address. Part 3. Write the city where you live. Part 4. Write the state where you live. Part 5. What year are you in at college? Part 6. What field do you plan to be a GENius in after graduating? 7. Now, cut mail the General this “DIFFICULT AND CHALLENGING 7-PART TEST” 1 2 3 4 5 6 “Room for GENIUSES,” General Electric Company, P.O. Box 215, Church St. Station, New York, N. Y. 10046 7 General Electric is passing out GENIUS buttons. What's the point?