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Amendment 25 is near adoption
WASHINGTON — (UPI) — The 25th Amendment to the Constitution was on the verge of adoption today. Action by only two more state legislatures, Minnesota
SAIGON—(UPI)—A company of U.S. paratroopers was ambushed by Viet Cong and suffered perhaps the heaviest casualties sustained in a ceasefire attack, military officials said today.
Cong hits U.S. amid Tet truce
U. S. spokesmen said about 200 men of the 173 Airborne Brigade were attacked Wednesday by a smaller but firmly entrenched Communist force which struck with a barrage of some 100 grenades, claymore mines and countless volleys of small arms fire.
Spokesmen said the Americans took "moderate" casualties in the four hour battle, meaning deaths or wounds were numerous but not drastic enough to destroy the effectiveness of the company.
THE ATTACK was but one of scores-86 by count—during the first 30 hours of the Asian New Year (Tet) cease-fire. The toll was possibly the worst of not only the current truce, but earlier holiday cease-fires.
U. S. 1st Air Cavalry troops at a coastal airbase were also hit by a 17-minute barrage.
Spokesmen reported meanwhile that U.S. battle casualties in six years of Vietnam fighting have officially topped the 50,000 mark—59,529, including 8,790 dead and 41,739 wounded. A total of 504 Americans now are listed as missing in action.
THE TOLL LAST week included 117 GIs killed, 920 wounded and 12 captured by Communists or missing in action, spokesmen said. It is estimated also that U.S. manpower in Vietnam was now at 410,000 men.
On the other side of the war, spokesmen reported today that three Vietnamese Red Cross workers and a hospital patient were released Wednesday night by the Viet Cong. They had been missing since Feb. 3.
Spokesmen said the four were en route from a German hospital ship in Saigon to Long Thanh when they took a wrong turn in a road. The Viet Cong captured them.
Red army fires on Mao supporters
The Peking correspondent for Ming Pao, an independent Hong Kong newspaper, indicated continuing stiff resistance in press previously claimed by Peking to be under firm Mao control.
HONG KONG —(UPI)— Wal posters in Peking said today dissident army troops opened fire with cannon and machine guns on supporters of party Chairman Mao Tse-tung in Communist China's mountainous Honan p.ovince.
Reports from the Chinese capital in recent days have told of only scattered incidents between pro and anti-Mao forces. There were the first report of fresh clashes in China's raging power struggle.
and Montana, will write it into law and correct a flaw existing since the birth of the republic.
The proposed amendment provides for filling a vacancy in the office of the vice presidency. It also sets out the procedure to be followed for the vice president to serve as acting president whenever the president is unable to perform his duties.
The inability section of the amendment provides that the vice president shall become acting president whenever the president notifies the speaker of the House and the president pro-tempore of the Senate that he is unable to discharge his duties.
IF THE PRESIDENT were too ill or otherwise unable to submit the written notice, the vice president would take over as acting president if he and a majority of the cabinet agreed that the president could not perform his duties.
A president could reclaim his office by notifying Congress that his inability no longer existed.
A two-thirds vote of both the House and Senate would be required to bar the president from reassuming office.
Daily Kansan Thursday, February 9, 1967
Pope's pleas for long truce find shy LBJ
WASHINGTON—(UPI)—President Johnson has expressed the "wish" that the four-day Vietnam truce could be extended, but he left unclear just what terms the United States would attach to any extension.
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Johnson's statement came in reply to a new appeal from Pope Paul VI that the current four-day truce be extended to pave the way for possible peace talks.
The President did not, in so many words, propose an extension of the truce or accept the seven-day cease-fire.
Casualties top 50,000 in Vietnam
SAIGON — (UPI) — U.S. battle casualties in the Vietnam war have officially topped the 50,000 mark, American military spokesmen said today.
Casualties in six years of fighting rose at the end of last week to 50,529,including 8,790 American combat deaths and 41,739 U.S. servicemen wounded.
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