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By United Press International
U.N. supports war games
YOJU, South Korea — More than 1,300 paratroopers of the 82nd U.S. Airborne Division, led by Maj. Gen, John R. Deane, jumped into mock battle yesterday in what American spokesmen said was the longest direct paradrop in history.
The airborne soldiers had flown directly from Fort Bragg, N.C., to South Korea in 31
About 90 miles to the north, United Nations and North Korean officials met at the truce village of Panmunjom to trade charges over the spurt of shooting incidents along the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Each side accused the other of touching off the series of clashes during the past seven days.
hours in a test of military mobility. Jumping with them and also led by their commander, Brig. Gen. Chung Byong-ju, were 588 men of the South Korean Special Forces Brade.
The airdrop highlighted a joint military exercise, code named "Focus Retina," which opened Sunday and will last through Thursday.
The North Korean Communists have protested
repeatedly against Focus Retina, labeling it a "criminal provocation." Maj. Gen. Ri Shoon Sun, chief Communist negotiator of the Military Armistice Commission, again denounced the war games at Monday's session and accused the U.N. aide of further "reckless, provocative acts" in the DMZ which he described as "playing with fire."
U. S. Maj. Gen. James B. Knapp, chief U.N. delegate, cited the recent clashes along the DMZ and told Ri:
Nixon chooses ambassador to Ireland
"Your naked aggression in the first weeks of March convinces the U.N. Command (UNC) that exercises such as Focus Retina will continue to be necessary to enable the UNC to defeat aggression whenever and wherever it may come."
WASHINGTON President Nixon yesterday took the occasion of St. Patrick's Day to announce the appointment of business executive John D. J. Moore as the new ambassador to Ireland.
Admiral Grant Sharp affirms U.S. action in Pueblo capture
The UNC protested four firefights, one of which alone cost eight Americans and one South Korean their lives, three North Korean infiltrations and a hand grenade attack.
The announcement came at the White House as the President received the traditional March 17 visit from the Irish ambassador to Washington, William P. Fay.
Moore, 57, of Short Hills, N.J., is vice president of W. R. Grace and Co., a shipping and industrial firm. He is of Irish descent, and was founder and president of the Ireland-U.S. Council for Commerce and Industry.
WASHINGTON - The former U.S. military commander in the Pacific said yesterday the United States "might have precipitated World War III" had it gone belatedly to the aid of the USS Pueblo.
Retired Adm. U.S. Grant Sharp told a special congressional subcommittee examining the Pueblo incident that regardless of any "rules of engagement" he would have sent planes to help the intelligence ship if they had been available early enough.
Fay presented Nixon with fresh shamrocks and a specially designed vase of Waterford crystal bearing an engraved picture of the White House.
But he agreed any U.S. action after the vessel was firmly in the Communists' hands would have been too risky.
Sharp told the subcommittee he disagreed with some of the "rules of engagement" covering American fighting men, such as restrictions on the bombing of North Vietnam.
As for coming to the Pueblo's rescue while it and its captors were still at sea, Sharp said: "The rules didn't make a damn bit of difference. I would have done what was best."
The reason aircraft were not sent, he said, was because the only properly equipped ones were too far away to get to the scene in time to help.
Sharp said he was not altogether clear on what rules applied in the Pueblo case.
But in salty fashion, the slight, gray-haired former four-star admiral made it clear the legalities would have played no part in his decision.
Sharp, who retired last Aug. 1, said by the time American forces got the Pueblo's plea for help, Navy planes aboard the carrier Enterprise and Air Force fighters in Japan, equipped with conventional weapons, were too far away.
Romanian- Soviet rift delays summit meeting
BUDAPEST — Romania's refusal to join Soviet condemnation of Red China for recent border incursions delayed the start of a Warsaw Pact summit meeting for six hours yesterday.
Black limousines carrying the top Communist party, government and military leaders of seven Soviet-bloc countries rolled up to the Hungarian national parliament building
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Following reported intensive and heated discussions Sunday night and yesterday morning on a bilateral level, the leaders assembled in the marble and gilt hall of delegations which was decorated with flags of the member nations.
shortly before 3 p.m., after having kept grey-uniformed police waiting there since 9 a.m.
Soviet Communist party First Secretary Leonid Brezhnev had the seat of honor in the center on one side of the rectangular table with host, Hungarian party leader Janos Kadar, opposite.
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