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Wreckage debris sighted
Search planes over the Sea of Japan have sighted debris that might be wreckage of the U.S. Navy reconnaissance plane which North Korea claims to have shot down, the Defense Department said last night.
"No survivors have been reported," the Pentagon said. There were 31 crewmen aboard the plane, missing since about midnight Monday.
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew said in Manchester, N.H., that the plane was more than 100 nautical miles off the North Korean coast "when it was attacked by two MIG jets—as far as we know at this time."
The Pentagon, which officially
has not said what caused the plane to go down, declined comment on Agnew's statement.
Defense officials said two Soviet destroyers were operating "in the close vicinity" of where the debris was sighted and that a Navy search plane helped direct the Russian ships to the wreckage.
It was the first major international incident to face President Nixon during his three-month-old administration. The White House said he was following the situation "very, very closely."
North Korea, meanwhile demanded that the Korean Military Armistice Commission
be called into session Friday, presumably to bring up the plane issue. U.S. military officials in Seoul declined to say if the summons had been accepted by the United Nations Command, which represents the Allies on the commission.
The incident was expected to dominate a meeting of the National Security Council this morning. Nixon conferred with Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird, and briefed Republican congressional leaders.
Israeli forces exchanged fire yesterday with Egyptian troops along the entire length of the Suez Canal and with Jordanian troops across the Jordan River valley near the Sea of Galilee. Each accused the other of starting the battle.
Middle East war flares near canal
The Israeli-Jordan fight was the first to break out yesterday. According to a Jordanian military spokesman, the Israelis opened up with medium machine gun fire on Jordanian troops in the Al-Mansiyah area, eight miles south of the Sea of Galilee.
Nixon, who made a campaign issue out of the Pueblo last fall before its 82 surviving crewmen were released from captivity, made no public statements about the missing plane and cautioned Republican legislators against speaking out before all the facts were known.
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The Jordanian spokesman said the fire was returned and the exchange lasted 15 minutes. The Jordanians said they suffered no casualties but reported the Israelies had eight casualties.
The Israeli version of the incident said it started when Jordan fired a bazooka shell and 81mm shells at an Israeli patrol near the Ashdot Ya'Acov settlement. An Israeli spokesman said the fight lasted 20 minutes with one Israeli casualty.
The spokesman said Israel observed a cease-fire arranged by the United Nations, but that Egyptian forces continued to fire and Israeli troops were forced to resume firing. A Cairo spokesman said it was Israel which ignored the cease-fire.
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SAIGON—Troops of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division loaded their howitzers with dart-shaped pellets yesterday and fired them like shotguns into the ranks of North Vietnamese forces attacking an American base in human waves. U.S. spokesmen said 238 Communists were slain.
The U.S. command said 14 Americans were killed and 13 wounded in what was described as one of the worst setbacks to date for Communist forces in their six-week-old spring offensive.
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The battle raged for hours before dawn at "Patrol Base Diamond 3," an outpost 1,000 yards from the Cambodian border in jungles 33 miles northwest of Saigon.
A force of more than 600 Communists, crawling on their bellies through paddy fields and dry marsh grass, overran a listening post outside the football-field sized base, killing its eight defenders.
Services Committee called for immediate military retaliation—with nuclear weapons if necessary.
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Some Democrats spoke warily, as well, but others urged firm action against North Korea. Most congressional reaction was restrained, although chairman L. Mendel Rivers, D-S.C., of the House Armed
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The debris was seen in the same general area as where the plane was last heard from.