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By United Press International
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HONG KONG (UPI) — The Chinese Communist Party yesterday officially proclaimed Defense Minister Lin Piao as successor to party Chairman Mao Tse-tung. The move had been anticipated for more than two years.
Successor is named for Mao Tse-tung
It was not immediately clear, however, whether the 62-year-old Lin would take over the top post in the world's largest nation now or wait until the 75-year-old Mao dies or steps aside.
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Ike is honored
LONDON (UPI) — Britain's wartime Queen led the nation Sunday in official farewell to Dwight D. Eisenhower, an honorary Englishman who shared the nation's dark hours and helped bring it peace.
Queen Mother Elizabeth, Prince Philip, Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Sir Anthony Eden were at the vanguard of political leaders, royalty, diplomats and commoners massed in St. Paul's Cathedral to remember Ike, in war and peace their trusted friend.
Queen Elizabeth II was not among those attending the service. By custom, she doesn't attent non-royal funerals or memorials, although she made an exception for the funeral of Sir Winston Churchill.
Eisenhower was made a citizen of London in 1945 and became a U.S. president and custodian of world peace, Wilson recalled in the eulogy.
But it was the days of despair and glory in the 1940s that were most remembered beneath the great dome of St. Paul's symbol of Britain's defiance in her finest hour.
Cloth-coated housewives with shopping bags who had weathered the Nazi blitz in East End trenches came to say goodbye. So did men in morning coats, soldiers bedecked with medals and Ike's former fighting men in rumpled suits.
There were few young faces and only an occasional miniskirt. Most of the mourners lived history with Eisenhower.
Army blocks route outpost is stormed
Artillery and warplanes chased the Reds back toward the Cambodian border.
SAIGON (JPI) — About 600 North Vietnamese troops stormed a U.S. Army outpost blocking their route to Saigon today and lost at least 80 dead in close-quarters fighting with GI defenders.
Casualties among the U.S. 15th Infantry Division troops defending "Patrol Base Diamond"33 miles northwest of Saigon were described as "light to moderate."
The North Vietnamese attack followed comments by informed military sources in Saigon that the Communists' nationwide shelling offensive has degenerated into harassing actions and the vulnerability of Saigon to ground attacks has abated.
"All it is is harassment," one U.S. informant said of the shelling campaign begun Feb.
Alliance for Progress questioned by Nixon
WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon questioned the achievements of the Kennedy Administration's Alliance for Progress yesterday, asserting U.S. relations with Latin America have been "smothered with fine slogans and beautiful references."
In a speech to the special session of the Organization of American States (OAS) in observance of the organization's 21st anniversary, Nixon said he would follow a policy of "open eyes, open ears, open mind, open heart."
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Sources said allied intelligence indicators show the Communists in "a state of indecisiveness and uncertainty," having lost more than 30,000 men killed in the more than seven weeks of the shelling attacks. Prisoners of war provided some of the basis for these conclusions, they said.
The U.S. sources said several main force Communist units have been withdrawn from exposed positions near Saigon. But Communist commanders were reported receiving replacements and supplies and could renew pressures on Saigon within a month.
bushy-browed Lin as the new party chairman was made in a new party constitution adopted by the 1,512 delegates to the ninth National Party Congress which opened April 1. Word of the document's approval was broadcast by Peking radio.
The broadcast placed Premier Chou En-Lai in third place behind Mao and Lin, thus completing legally the downfall of President Liu Shao Chi with whom Mao fought a political power struggle that became the cultural revolution.
A communique said the new constitution also elevated Mao's doctrines to a level with Marxism-Leninism as the theoretical basis of the party which he helped found 48 years ago. Mao has been party chairman since 1935.
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Mideast enemies claim victories
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SUEZ - Egypt and Israel each claimed to have downed a jet plane yesterday during a mid-day dogfight over the Suez Canal.
Each accused the other of starting the day's fighting across the waterway that involved artillery, mortars and light weapons in separate morning, afternoon and night engagements.
Hussein works for Arab peace
NEW YORK - King Hussein of Jordan yesterday continued work at the United Nations to promote an Arab plan to settle the Middle East crisis, and delegations from the Big Four nations resumed their own debate on a means to peace.
Hussein followed up an earlier meeting with United Nations Ambassador Armand Berard of France by seeing Secretary
General Thant and Ambassador Lord Caradon of Britain.
Caradon played host at his residence yesterday to the third meeting of the Big Four, which is seeking a peace formula based on the 1967 Security Council resolution calling for Israel's withdrawal from Arab territories occupied during the 1967 war and Arab recognition of Israeli sovereignty.
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