Wednesday, April 3, 1968
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Troops moved to lift Khe Sanh siege
SAIGON—(UPI)—A U.S. military spokesman said tonight the U.S. Army, Marines and South Vietnamese have begun a major offensive to lift the Communist siege of Khe Sanh.
The Communist troops around Khe Sanh—from 16,000 to 20,000—were hit repeatedly by B52 bombers and fighter-bombers to soften their defenses for the Allied onslaught known as Operation Pegasus.
The Communist siege of Khe Sanh began Jan. 21 with an intense shelling of the Marine base in the hills in the extreme northwest corner of South Vietnam.
The siege of Kle Sanh was reportedly masterminded by North Vietnamese Defense Minister Vo Nguyen Giap who defeated the French at Dien Bien Phu and led to the crumbling of the French empire in Indochina.
Hanoi vowed that Khe Sanh would become a death trap and a burial ground for the 6,000 Marines and a regiment of about 1,000 South Vietnamese defending the base.
The United States in turn vowed it would never fall and in February President Johnson received in writing pledges from the chiefs of staff of the various armed forces that Khe Sanh could be held.
Operation Pegasus started Monday, the spokesman said. Units of the Army 1st Air Cavalry Division which crushed one major Red offensive in the Central Highlands leapfrogged along the ridgeline from the east, U.S. Marines cleared east-west Highway 9 into the Khe Sanh garrison itself.
Marine Lt. Gen. Robert Cushman, who has over-all responsibility for the operation, said the Allied forces have so far met only light Communist opposition, and have taken very light casualties.
The official announcement gave few details of the operation but described it as a joint U.S.-Vietnamese move.
IFC to sponsor rush orientation
"Focus on Fraternities," a rush orientation meeting for high school seniors and their parents, will be conducted Sunday at Shawnee Mission West high school in Kansas City.
The program, sponsored by KU's Interfraternity Council (IFC) and the Alumni IFC, will include rush information, pledging, scholarship and cost.
Speakers will be Tom Alexander, trust department of Columbia National Bank of Kansas City and Alumni IFC president; Jay Strayer, assistant to the dean of men and IFC advisor; and Bob Sears, Kansas City law student and IFC judiciary council chairman.
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He said, "I believe it is clear most of the Senators who voted for the Gulf of Tonkin resolution—which the executive alleges gives it the power to fight a war—did not intend to authorize a large scale war in Vietnam.
Velvel said President Johnson's announcement Sunday night does not affect the legality of his case and there is no assurance that the bombing clause will bring peace, "although I certainly hope it will," he said.
Official Bulletin
TODAY
Dialog Devotion. 7 p.m. University Lutheran Church.
Classical Film. 7 & 9 p.m. "Miss
Johhle Sweden, 1950. Dyche Audie
Jayhawk Rodode Club, 7:30 p.m.
Kansas Union.
Speech Communications-Human Rel-
ations Symposium. 7:30 p.m. "Speech
Mustache," G Friedrich, R. Adams, M.
Saint-Jacques, S. Masterson, Pineo Room,
Kansas University
Lecture. 7:30 p.m. "R-D China and Viet Nam." Edgar Sear, author and authority on Red China, Film. "One Foot of Humanity." Heeh Audition.
Concert Chorale, 8 p.m. Swarthout Recital Hall.
Experimental Theatre. 8:20 p.m.
"Payment as Promised."
"Payment as Promised"
Tau Sigma Concert, 8:20 p.m. Uni-
versity
SUA Concert, 7 & 9-30 p.m. Bill Cosby, Hoch Audioium.
Lecture, 8 p.m. "Soviet Economic R-form and Marxist Ideology." Prof. Alec Nove, U. of Glasgow, Forum Room, Kansas Union.
Senior Recital. 8 p.m. Donna Nutt,
pazzo - soprano. Swarthout Recital.
Hall
Experimental Theatre. 8:20 p.m.
"Payment as Promised."
Tau Sigma Concert. 8:20 p.m.
University Theatre.
A blindfold test for beer.
If anybody ever says you can't pick Budweiser with your eyes shut,you can call his bluff.
First, have somebody pour several brands of beer into glasses. Now
stick your nose close to the foam of each glass and take a sniff.Notice a difference? The one with the clean fresh aroma is Budweiser
Now taste.This gets a bit tricky.But the one beer
that tastes like beer without any one flavor jumping out at you (like hops, or an extra sweetness, or sometimes a sour or sharp taste) is Budweiser.That's because Budweiser is mel-
lowed-by our Beechwood Ageing.We want you to taste the beer, not the recipe.
Budweiser
If anybody pulls a beer-tasting test on you now you know how to win.Just follow your nose.
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African U.S. formed from three nations
FORT LAMY, Chad — (UPI) Three African presidents Tuesday signed an agreement grouping their countries in a United States of Central Africa.
The charter was signed by Presidents Joseph Mobutu of the Congo (Kinshasa), Jean - Bedel Bokassa of the Central African Republic and Francois Tombalaye of Chad, all French-speaking nations.
The former Belgian Congo, with
The new regional grouping will cover an area of 1,637,757 square miles, almost half the size of the United States, and will have a total population of about 21.4 million.
a mineral-rich area of 904,757 square miles and a population of 16 million, will largely dominate the new grouping, according to observers. Landlocked Chad and the Central African Republic are retarded economically and plagued by financial difficulties. The new alignment was expected to have close relations with Washington.
America's flag makers manufacture the flags of more than 150 countries, World Book Encyclopedia says.
Forum: Married Life in the Peace Corp MR. AND MRS. ROD ANGLE Returned volunteers from Panama
7:00 in Room 305 at the Union April 3
Coffee will be served
Sponsored by Campus Peace Corp Committee
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