Committee says rules increasing war losses
WASHINGTON —(UPF)—The Senate military prepareded subcommittee charged today that target and other restrictions in the air war over North Vietnam have contributed to a heavy loss in American lives and aircraft.
"The cost has been heavy for the limited gains we have achieved. The air raids over North Vietnam have admittedly made it more costly for the North Vietnamese to wage aggression, but it has been done through the sacrifices of many American lives and aircraft losses extending into billions of dollars," it said.
The subcommittee concluded that "the most pressing need is an affirmative response to some of the recommendations of responsible commanders to strike more meaningful targets in North Vietnam."
"The separate, variable and restrictive rules of engagement in the air war over North Vietnam have been a very significant factor in the tactical air problems in Southeast Asia," the panel said in a report.
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The report was the second of six to be issued by the subcommittee on the basis of a staff investigation in late October. Published in the text were Pentagon comments on the subcommittee findings, including an assertion that the report "is in important respects marred by errors of fact
The Pentagon dissented sharply from the subcommittee's statement that combat requirements
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for Vietnam have resulted in stripping men and supplies from other air force units in the Pacific and elsewhere.
India announces A bomb abilities
But under questioning, he said India would consider her own security "of paramount importance" in considering what other to sign any treaty blocking the spread of nuclear weapons.
NEW DELHI — (UPI) — India is now able to produce an atomic bomb, Foreign Minister M. C. Chagla told parliament today. But he said Indian nuclear knowledge will be used for "peaceful purposes only."
Chagla made this last comment when asked by a member of parliament if it would be safe for India not to produce a nuclear bomb while its "enemy" Communist China is moving toward becoming a nuclear power.
"We have the nuclear capability. We have decided to utilize our nuclear capacity for peaceful purposes only," he said.
Asian country now known to be developing nuclear arms. In Europe, France has spurned the U.S.-Soviet-British backed move toward a treaty banning the spread of nuclear arms and is developing her own atomic arsenal.
Communist China is the only
FOR LAUDERDALE, Fla. — (UPI)—The suntanned thumbs of straggling vacationing college students pointed north today, but police wearily prepared for another onslaught—New York City college students who had their pale hitchhiking thumbs pointed south.
Beach awaits break
After the riots, near riots and scattered fictious of the past few days, only 7,000 college students were left from the 30,000—mostly from midwestern schools—who descended upon the beach last week to drink in beer, sunshine and bikini-clad coeds.
But a second wave was due from New York City, collegians whose Easter vacation was just beginning. Police hoped the followup batch of students would be satisfied with just soaking up sunshine.
Police patrolling two other southern beach resorts battled rioting and rampaging collegians during the Easter weekend. Nearly 200 youths were arrested early Sunday in a riot at Ocean Drive Beach. S.C.
Plays get Tonys
Awards in the star bracket for drama went to Beryl Reid of "The Killing of Sister George" and Paul Rogers of "The Homecoming."
Musical stars honored were Barbara Harris of "The Apple Tree" and Robert Preston of "I Do! I Do!"
There were no major outbreaks of violence at Biloxi where an estimated 10,000 students jammed into motels and hotels for their spring vacations.
At Biloxi, on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, 201 youths were arrested during the weekend on a variety of charges.
NEW YORK —(UPI)— The Broadway theater's annual Tony Awards for best drama and best musical of the 1966-67 season were won Sunday night by "The Homecoming" and "Cabaret."
But at Ocean Drive Beach, rioting was touched off late Saturday by a smoke bomb exploded in the rear of a tavern crowded with youths. Beer cans and bottles began flying, and the crowd surged into the streets where the melee was brought to a halt by steel-helmeted police using water hoses and dogs.
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Daily Kansan Monday, March 27, 1967
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