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UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
Monday, February 19, 1968
Wire Briefs
Johnson ends tour of U.S. bases
WASHINGTON—(UPI)Buoyed by the cheers of the men he is sending to war, President Johnson today completed a gruelling coast-to-coast trip to bid them a personal goodbye. The chief executive's tour, which began in secrecy at mid-afternoon Saturday, ended early today at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Johnson indicated that his unexpected, 6,500-mile journey would not be the last he would make.
U.S. planes fly over North Korea
PANMUNJON, Korea—(UPI)—The United States today said two of its planes accidentally violated North Korean airspace Sunday and American officers apologized for the incursion at a meeting in the truce village. Maj. Gen. Pak Chunk Kuk accused the U.N. Command (UNC) of air, sea and ground violations of the armistice, U.S. Rear Adm. John V. Smith, chief UNC delegate, denied these violations but said the two planes had flown over North Korea.
Nixon awaits primary outcome
NEW YORK—(UPI)—Republican presidential hopeful Richard M. Nixon will withdraw from the race and let the other candidate fight it out if he "falls flat" on his face in the New Hampshire and Wisconsin primaries, it was reported Monday. "I don't intend to hang on until the convention just to broker a few delegates," Nixon is quoted in the current issue of Look magazine.
North Korea charges DMZ invasion
PANMUNJON, Korea—(UPI)—The United Nations Command (UNC) and North Korea met at the truce village today to discuss a Communist claim that U.N. troops attacked a Communist post north of the demilitarized zone.
North Korean news outlets said that North Korean soldiers wiped out a U.N. force that crossed the demarcation line and attacked a Communist post on Friday.
Massive teacher's strike in Florida
TALLLAHASSEE, Fla.—(UPI)—More than half of Florida's 60,000 public school teachers pledged to skip classes today in a pique over failure of the legislature to raise education appropriations. It would become the nation's first statewide teacher walk-out. The previously prepared, undated resignations of about 35,000 members of the militant Florida Education Association were activated Friday.
States must pay more welfare
WASHINGTON—(UPI)States must either allocate more money for welfare aid to dependent children or face possible across-the-board reductions in all federal welfare assistance according to the Johnson administration. The department of Health, Education and Welfare said the states must plan on spending more to make up the federal reduction or prepare for slashes in all forms of welfare assistance.
McCarthy will run in New York
(UPI)—The first test at the polls of Sen. Eugene McCarthy's peace candidacy against President Johnson takes place far from New Hampshire—in Brooklyn, N.Y. A special election Tuesday pits independent Melvin Dubin, 44, a reform Democrat who says he would refuse to be drafted to fight in Vietnam, and Bertram Podell, 42, the Democratic nominee, for the congressional seat vacated by Democrat Abraham H. Multer.
Arabs encouraged by Viet Cong
(UPI)—Arab guerrillas have been encouraged in their raids on Israeli territory by what they consider successful Viet Cong attacks on Saigon and other South Vietnamese cities, Jordanian sources said today.
They said the guerrilla movement still grows rapidly despite King Hussein's renewal of his opposition to such attacks. The terrorists, members of the El Fatah organization, from the Viet Cong.
ABA will debate Reardon report
CHICAGO—(UPI)—The Reardon report, a proposal to restrict news coverage of criminal cases as a matter of binding ethics, goes before the policy making body of the American Bar Association today for debate and possible adoption. The report would, if adopted, curtail the information available to the news media concerning criminal cases before and during trial.
Red guerrillas blast Saigon
SAIGON — (UPI) — Communist guerrillas today blasted Gen. William C. Westmoreland's headquarters, exploded a four-inch-thick rocket amid GIs waiting to board a homebound airliner and cut the rail line linking Saigon to America's largest warbase in South Vietnam, Bien Hoa.
Military officers called the fighting around the capital the second battle of Saigon.
U. S. spokesmen said the Viet Cong shelling hit the American commanding general's compound and the adjacent Tan Son Nhut airbase passenger terminal, killing one American and wounding 48 more waiting to board a jetliner after ending their year's duty in Vietnam.
They said American troops were battling Communist legions which blew up the railway bridge to the base 15 miles north of Saigon. The Communists and the Americans also were fighting for control of a key bridge on one of the two main roads between Saigon and Bien Hoa, they said.
The shelling of the Tan Son Nhut base has killed four Americans and wounded 179 over the weekend and today, U.S. officials said.
South Vietnamese spokesmen said 217 Viet Cong troops have been killed in the fighting north of Saigon and to the west, around Tan Son Nhut. They said 19 South Vietnamese troops have been killed and 68 wounded.
At Phan Thiet, 100 miles northeast of Saigon, guerrillas swarmed into the provincial capital today. Military officials said American paratroopers beefed up government defenders and drove the Communists into the northwestern edge of the city.
The guerrillas still held the Phan Thiet hospital.
On the marshland on the west side of Tan Son Nhut, guerrillas fought their way into the village of Tan Thoi. They turned the market place into a fortress.
They also clung to rocket and
mortar positions just off the runways. The Viet Cong used their largest gun—a 122mm rocket—to hit the terminal.
The blast ripped a 40-by-20-foot hole in the two story high lobby roof. The wounded were shuttled out of the base to the army hospital just across the street.
The guerrillas also attacked a government army regiment in Saigon and broke into a compound housing members of South Vietnamese military families. Government spokesmen said the Communists destroyed 160 homes in the compound and kidnapped a "number" of the soldiers' wives and children.
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