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North Viets May Be Using CoptersCompiled From UPI and S&S Vietnam Bureau

SAIGON — Unidentified air-craft—believed to be enemy heli-copters—have been spotted andfired on by U.S. Navy vessels nearthe eastern end of the Demilitar-ized Zone, the U.S. military com-mand in Vietnam said Mondaynight.

If they are enemy copters, it

marks the first time they havebeen used in the war.

The report comes on the heelsof rumors that a Communist coptergunship was responsible for thesinking of a Navy Swift boat, thePCF 19, at 1:30 a.m. Sunday afew miles below the DMZ.

It was the first U.S. gunboatlost in the war. Early reports

on the sinking indicated it wasthe work of Communist shore bat-teries above the DMZ. The boatwent down about a mile offshore,four miles below the DMZ. Five ofthe seven crewmen were listed asmissing. The other two were pick-ed up.

A South Vietnamese generalsaid Monday U.S. warplanes shot

down seven North Vietnamesecopters from the skies around theDMZ.

Lt. Gen. Hoang Xuan Lam,commander of South Vietnam's(northern) I Corps, said two ofthe copters were shot down overSouth Vietnam and five more overthe north in two separate night-

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Ike's 5thAttack'Major'

WASHINGTON (UPI)—Army doctors said Mon-day the heart attack suf-fered by former PresidentD w i g h t D. EisenhowerSaturday night was "ma-jor," but that "no signs ofheart failure have appear-ed."

Doctors at Walter Reed ArmyMedical Center, where Risen,hower was recovering from hisfourth heart at'.sick when liewas seized by his f i f th , saidexaminations "indicate that thegeneral has sustained anothermajor heart attack."

However, they said the 77-yi'ar-old general "has beencomfortable for the past 24hours and his vital signsremained stable...No signs ofheart failure have appeared. Hehas remained alert and in goodspirits."

A spokesman said Mrs.Eisenhower has visited himfrequently and that his son,John, and the general's brothershave been kept fully informedof his condition.

Mrs. Eisenhower has re-mained at the hospital since herhusband was brought there May14 from California, where hesuffered his fourth heart attack(Continued on Back Page, Col. 4)

Dog's; Life NowOne of Luxury

CHICAGO (UPI)—The inde-pendent pet industry trade showis .•showing umbrellas that attachto dog collars, wall-to-wallcarpeting for canine cottages,mouth sprays to eliminate doggyhalitosis, stereo records to traintalking birds, cashmere sweat-ers for birds and colonial andprovincial beds for pets.

There also is Irish beef kid-ney stew, which, one firm said,may be eaten by the dog or hisowner.

A South Vietnamese Special Forces trooper Gia Dinh. The Viet Cong was left behind andshouts to his buddies for fire cover as he leads disarmed by his fleeing mutes after he wasa prisoner from a bunker in the Saigon suburb nf wounded. (AI1 Radiophotn)

LBJ Vows Support to BerlinIn Latest E. German Squeeze

AUSTIN, Tex. (UPI)—Pres-ident Johnson Monday chargedthe East German squeeze onBerlin travel is "totally unpro-voked and unjustified aggrava-tion" and said United Stales'support of free Merlin "remain';as firm as ever."

In a message to West GermanChancellor K u r t Kiesinger,Johnson said the United Stalesand West Germany are consult-ing with the British and theFrench on the new crisisinvolving communist restric-

tions on surface travel betweenWest Germany and West Berlin.

"I want to express to you onthis 'Day of Germany unity 'that our support of Free Berlinand the goal of a Germanpeople united in peace remainsas firm as ever," Johnson .saidin a brief two-paragraphmessage on the 15th anniversa-ry of the 1953 East Germanuprisings.

"It is a matter of greatregret to me that while thefederal republic and we are

pursuing objectives that Ibelieve all mankind shares,namely to live in peace with ourneighbors. Berlin is once againthreatened."

The West German govern-ment is deeply concerned wi ththe latest rupture in West-EastGerman relations and the newBerlin crunch.

The United States. Britainand France have protested theEast German regulations, whichinclude passports by July IS for(Continued on Rack Page, Col. 2)

S A I G O N (AP) —Grenade-hurling Viet-namese Special Forcestroopers, racing frombunker to bunker ,wiped out the last VietCong stronghold inSaigon's suburbs inface-to-face fightingthat ended at dawnMonday.

The elite soldiers,brought to Saigon specifi-cally to wrench free a ham-let held by the Viet Congfor two weeks, killed 30guerrillas and drove 100others fleeing into ricepaddies along the SaigonRiver. Fifteen prisonerswere taken.

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StrikingActors DimBroadway

NEW YORK (UPI)—The ac-tors' union struck nationwideMonday closing down Broad-way's "Great White Way" androadshows in major cities andcancelling auditions and re-hearsals for next season's pro-ductions.

The strike was announced bythe executive council of ActorsEquity Association (AEA) aftera four-day break in negotiationswith the League of New YorkTheaters, the producers' organ-isation. It idled 500 Equity inem-(Continned on Hack Page, Col. 5)

Hot and Cold SodaMAXWELL, N.M. (AP)-Early

morning risers found pink watercoming out of their faucets.Then city employe Jeff Barlettarrived at work and discoveredsomeone had put several pack-ages of instant sweet drink in a•10,000-gallon storage tank.

Sampans Used at Night

VC Rockets Coming from CambodiaWASHINGTON (AP) — Viet

Cong rockets bombarding Sai-gon were brought into SouthVietnam from Cambodian stor-age areas in sampans moving atnight along jungle-shroudedwaterways, according to U.S.intelligence sources.

When the sampans, each car-rying four or five of the wea-pons, arrive at a designatedpoint in South Vietnam, they aresunk—with the rockets encasedin waterproof containers—untilthe Viet Cong are ready to usethem.

From prisoner interrogationand other sources of informa-tion, American intelligence spe-cialists have pieced together apattern indicating how the

North Vietnamese are able tosend the weapons deep intoSouth Vietnam, to the pointwhere they can be hurledagainst that country's capitaland its population.

The rockets, mostly 122 milli-meter, come down from NorthVietnam by truck, passingthrough the Laotian panhandle,U.S. officials say, and on intoCambodia where they arestored near the South Viet-namese border.

They are then carried acrossthe border along any of themore than 1,300 miles ofwaterways reaching from Cam-bodia into the Saigon region.

Hundreds of sampans are saidto operate along these streams

for the Viet Cong, carrying riceas well as weapons and othersupplies from Cambodia. Mov-ing mostly at night, the. boatsare hard to spot.

The waterways are runningdeep now, experts said, becauseof the rains and this creates fa-vorable conditions for their useas supply routes into South Viet-nam.

At the appointed time, theViet Cong raise the sunkenboats, take the rockets fromtheir containers and then movethem into f ir ing position.

Weapons experts of the ArmyMateriel Command estimatethat it takes less than five min-utes to set up a rocket, fire itand then be gone.

The rocket is described as"an area weapon," that is,there is no way to aim it againstpinpoint targets. Rather, it ispointed generally at a large tar-get, such as a city or town, andfired.

The 122 millimeter rocket as-sembly comes in three partsand weighs a total of about 214pounds.

U.S. weapons authorities saythat a crew of three men canhandle and fire the rocket, butthat as many as five may be in-volved in a fire team.

Intensified bombing in thelower part of North Vietnamis believed to be knocking outabout one-third of the NorthVietnamese trucks h e a d i n gSouth.

Bunker:No ForcedCoalition

SAIGON (UP!) — AmericanAmbassador Ellsworth Bunkersays the United States will notaccept an "imposed coalition"between the Saigon govern-ment and the National Libera-tion Front, the political arm ofthe Vint Cong.

Bunker made this remark 10days ago in a speech to Viet-namese officer-students at theNational Defense College in Sai-gon. The text of the speech wasnot released by the U.S. Missionuntil Monday.

The ambassador was appar-ently attempting to ease the fearin the Saigon government thatthe United States might try tosell Saigon short in negotiations.

Coalition, President NguyenVan Thieu once said, wouldmean "suicide" for the Saigonregime.

The ambassador r e c a l l e dPresident Johnson's statementthat the United States "willnever accept a fake solution tothis long and arduous struggleand call it peace."

"We do not seek, nor will weaccept, an imposed coalition be-tween the legitimate constitu-tional government of South Viet-nam and the National Libera-tion Front," said Bunker.

"You need not fear — andHanoi need not hope - that ourcommitment to youi valorouscausn has weakened," Bunkertold the Vietnamese military of-ficers. "It has not, and it willnot.

"We did not come to Vietnamto lose many of our finest youthand our treasure to permit thedefeat of our common goals."

Bunker said he could not pre-dict the outcome of the forth-coming presidential election inthe United States.

Cleaning Out a Saigon SuburbA South Vietnamese Army officer speaks to Iris

(roops by radio while wearing a gas mask duringfighting in the Gia Dinh suburb of Saigon. The

Vietnamese used tear gas in an attempt to dis-lodge Viet Cong that had holed up in buildings inthe area. (UPI Radiophoto)

Red OfficerSurrendersSAIGON (AP)—A deputy com-

mander of a Communist artil-lery regiment in the Saigon aroagave himself up to South Viet-namese paratroopers, a gov-ernment military spokesman re-ported Monday.

He said Capt, Phan Van Xuong44, surrendered to South Viet-namese troops just north ofSaigon. Xuong carried an alliedsurrender leaflet when he gavehimself up Sunday • night, thespokesman said.

Ky DeniesRumorsOf Coup

! SAIGON (AP)—Vice PresidentNguyen Cao Ky went on nationaltelevision Monday to explain whyhe had quit as commander ofSouth Vietnam's local defenseforces and denied rumors of acoup.

"The Communists and somepeople have been spreadingrumors of a coup to sow dissen-sion among the people," Kysaid. "We cannot accept a coupat this time. It would be likegiving up without a fight to the .Communists."

Ky returned to Saigon duringthe Weekend after more than aweek at a seaside villa in NhaTrang, 200 miles northeast ofSaigon. During that time, thevice president had absented him-self from al l government <*e.spon-sibililies and resigned fromcommand of the People's Self-Defense Forces.

Ky said he had quit the self-defense post so that it couldbe run more efficiently. Hedid not explain his reasoning,but sources have disclosed thatPremier Trail Van Huong toldKy he would not have as muchauthority in the job as he hadunder former Premier NguyenVan Loc.

Unable to give orders with theauthority he previously had, Kyresigned, the sources said.

142 Raids Hif North;MIGs Flee Phantoms

Vietnam Casualties

S&S Vietnam Bureau

SAIGON — The second MIGsighting in three clays was re-ported Sunday by U.S. pilotswho flew 142 missions overNorth Vietnam's southern pan-handle.

Clearing skies over the pan-handle'enabled pilots to fly theirhighest number of missionssince April 22, when they mount-ed 155 strikes.

Navy F4 Phantom pilots sight-ed two MIGl7s near Vinh onthe coast of the Gulf of Tonkin.

U.S. spokesmen said no fire wasexchanged and the MIGs flednorth.

Phantoms fought a 7-minutedogfight with two MIGs Fridaynear the same city. Again, theenemy planes retreated north.It was the first sighting of theplanes in the southern pan-handle in more than a month.

Antiaircraft fire Sunday wasreported as moderate to heavy.Navy and Air Force pilots sil-enced 10 sites.

VC Order AssassinationsS&S Vietnam Bureau

SAIGON — A secret VietCong uni t of assassins has beengiven orders to step up its ef-forts, to kill members of theSouth Vietnamese NationalistParty, according to a capturedCommunist document that wasmade public Monday.

The information was con-tained in a Viet Cong directivecaptured by U.S.'soldiers fromthe America! Div. during an

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operation in Quang Ngai Prov-ince. Nationalist Party membershave been active in Vietnamesegovernment armed forces inthis province.

A translation of the docu-ment, meant for a VC under-cover unit called "Agency T 775,"says assassinations "by everymeans possible" must be car-ried out "in such a way thatby June 19 the nationalist parlycommit tee members will befrightened into abandoning (heiract ivi t ies , their office., and theirparty."

"It is a continuous process,"the Red document says. "Wemust destroy them . . . or cap-lure (hem alive when we canfor exploitation purposes."

The document was d a t e dMarch 29. At lhat time, it notes,Agency T 775 had ki l led 9(i"wicked tyrants," captured 148others and disintegrated manyrural pacification .teams.

Most of i ts efforts seom tohave been directed at the locallevel governments and pacifica-tion programs in small and mid-dle-si/ecl towns.

WASHINGTON (S&S) — TheDefense Department has an-nounced the following casualtiesin connection with the conflictin Vietnam.

KILLED IN ACTIONArmy

SP4 David Z. Naramore Jr., Nauvoo, Ala.SSg. Dennis L. Button, Vallejo, Calif.SP4 Thomas A. Edmond, Canterbury,

Conn.Sgt. Edward D. Bennett, Indianapolis,

Ind.Pfc. James O. Ashton, Buras, La.Sgt. Ronald E. Forget, Lowell, Mass.SP.) Herbert N. Stohle, Ann Arbor, Mich.Sgt. Arthur J. Enquist, Noriolk, Neb.Pfc. David L. Stoehr, Lincoln, Neb.Cpl. Gerald J. Frost, Dover, N.H.Pfc. Eric A. Anderson, New York City.SP4 Larry D. Swaney, Wellston, Ohio.Pfc. Edward R, Cloy, Tallmadge, Ohio.

. SP4 Rickey L Shackelford, Del City, Okla.SP4 William E. Wilson, Laurens, S.C.Pfc. Terry W. Crulchfield, Raleigh, Tenn.Pfc. Thomas Hill, Grand Prairie, Tex.SP4 Ramon Oquendo-Gutierrez, Jayuya,

P.P.Marine Corps

Mo]. Robert V. Kurlich, Vislo, Calif.Pfc. Manuel Casares, Tehachapi, Calif.LCpl. Truman J. McManus, Willimontic,

Conn.Pfc. Aldo E. Ryder, Bristol, Conn.P[c. Robert M. Leahy, East Harltord,

Conn.SSgl. Donald M. Cuff, Wilmington, Del.Pfc. Terry L. Mulkey, Smyrna, Ga.Cpl. Jerome D. Kupperschmidt, SomorKiuk,

III.LCpl. Michael W. Travis, Sweelsers, Ind.Pfc. Carl M. Middle-brooks, Baltimore,

Md.LCpl. Donald H. Hartness, Royal Oak,

Mich.Pfc. Ronald E. Sell, Savannah, Mo.Pic. Melvin D. Langston, Valentine, Neb2LI. Paul M. McGralh, Rye, N.Y.LCpl. Timothy J. Frazier Jr., Cohoes, N YLCpl. William H. Parker, Rockville

Center, N.Y.LCpl. Jack G. Enix, Lorain, Ohio.Pic. Larry B. Reed, New Coslle, Pa.Pfc. Walter L. Seawrighf, Philadelphia,

Pa.

LCpl Lonnie. L. Cleave, Memphis, Tenn.LCpl. Donald L. Smith, Center Cross, Va.

DIED OF WOUNDSMarine Corps

Pfc. Matau Tola Jr., San Francisco,Calif.

Pfc, Joseph M. Chearnley, Shelby, Ohio.MISSING TO DEAD—HOSTILE

Army5P4 David A. Jackson, Tulare, Calif.Pfc. Michael S. Haines, Yorkville, III.Ptc. Ruben L. Hortcn, Chicago, III.Pfc. Lee R. Bush, Lansing, Mich.Pfc. Raymond A. D'Angelo, Flushing,

N.Y.Pfc. Charles W. Smith, Dlckson, Tenn.

Air ForceSgl. James D. Locker, Sidney, Ohio.

MISSING IN ACTIONArmy

Sgt. Philip G. Colonna.SP4 William E. Sapp.Pfc. Michael H. Bia.Pfc. Robert L. Cousin.Pfc Charles Jones Jr.Pfc. Daniel L. Stocker.

Air ForceCopt. Richard C. Yeend.SSgt. Elmer L. Holden.

MISSING TO CAPTUREDArmy

SP4 Edward D. Reilly Jr.DIED NOT AS A RESULT OF

. HOSTILE ACTIONArmy

SP4 Benny L. Huskon, Leupp, Ariz.SP5 Mervin D. Golden, . McCall, Idaho.Pfc. Arthur C. Townson, Philadelphia,

Pa.Marine Corps

Cpl. Joseph P. Noel, Carlsbad, Calif.MISSING TO DEAD—NON HOSTILE

ArmyPfc. Scott D. Corrello, Oregon, Ohio.

ROKs Ambush, Kill 12SAIGON (S&S) — ; South Ko-

rean infantrynu'n ! .killed 12 ene-my Sunday in two 'iiight am-bushes near Qtiin Nhon and TuyHoa. ROK casualties were cal-led "very light" with no fatal i -ties reported.

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PMUtj^cial): ^ "1-V&, had to

can I« artillery and mwtofire msfay times," said theburly Marine sergeant, "butthis time we were com-pletely surrounded* Wheredp you start in a situationlike that?"

Sgt Tom Mitchell said bispatrol was on a trfiil southeastof t*hu Bai With heavy under*growth on both sides,

"Suddenly we began takingsniper rounds', and before weknew it, they were shootingfrom all sides," said Mitchell,first platoon sergeant of D Co.,1st Bn., 5th Regt, 1st MarineDiv,

The Communist troops pinnedthe Leathernecks down withsmall arms and automaticweapons fire. Then, closing inon the Marine squad, the enemybegan lobbing .grenades.

"The only answer,'* saidMitchell, 23, .of Sacramento,Calif., "was to call a fire mis-sion. So I surveyed the areaaround us and decided where itwould be most effective."

To keep from missing any ofthe enemy when the rounds be-gan falling, Mitchell called 81-mm mortar fire on one end ofthe enemy and artillery fire onthe-other.

"It didn't last long," Mitchellconcluded. "The Communistsbegan running. They draggedaway some of the bodies."

After calling a cease-fire.Mitchell's men found two enemybodies.

4 in Air GuardTo Add Stars

WASHINGTON (UPI)—Presi-dent Johnson has nominatedBrig Gen. Reginald M. Cram,adjutant general of the Air Na-tional Guard in Vermont, forpromotion to major general.

He also selected three Air Na-tional Guard colonels for up-grading to brigadier general.They were Robert W. Akin,Tennessee adjutant general;Billy J. Shoulders, assistant ad-jutant general in Tennessee, andRobert F. King, assistant adju-tant general in the state ofWashington.

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been drie fire fight after: Motherto- the 3rd fin, of .Jfte-27 th Ma*Hhe ftejt., Fifth Marine i3iv<?since the outfit Was airliftedacross the Pacific to fight inVietnam early in 1968.

The battalion* commanded byLt, CoL Tullis 3. Woodham,Jacksonville, Pla., is the stuffof which warriors are made. Itoperates in a 25 mile squarearea beginning about five milessouth of Da Nang and extend*ihg southward and inland alongthe Gulf of Tonkin, under 1stMarine Div.

The battalion serves as ablocking force to stop any at-tempted enemy penetration ofDa Nang and conducts day and

t conlbat missions httd aportion of the enemy rocket;

' •jV ,ttb.. .such, thing as o

peaceful Sunday afternoon;.During one phase of fighting

in Operation AUenbfook in MaySftO-pound bombs were droppedwithin 7§ meters of a positionoccupied by units from the bat-talion. A total of 208 enemywere killed or captured duringfour fights in which battalionmembers participated over a 12-day period.

,'rft took 15 choppers to carryout all the captured gear,"Woodham said.

Now conducting guard andpatrol missions in their regular^ly assigned area, the Marinesfind conditions almost peacefulby comparison. But they still

• rece!V£-, Sporadic siVip'er mortal1t*r focket fire, .

•Wbetfiiatiiv a veteran off 22years ift the Marine Corps, -..re*called tJiartfi-'OftfcV occasion anight patrol was Within 2lu me*tets of ati enemy firing rocketswhen a barrage of friendly ar*tillery was laid on.

After the artillery was liftedthe frustrated Marine found sev-en rockets, but the enemy hadescaped.

The field telephone in Wood:ham's sandbagged c o m m a n dpost rang. The call, from an airobserver, reported that a Ma-rine combat patrol ,was tryingto close in on a 14-man VietCong party headed for a nearbyvillage. One of the enemy hadbeen hit and four or five otherswere on the run. "Keep them in

Watching a Buddy Blast ByAn Air Force jet providing support streaks by Brigade, during an operation 35 miles north of

troops of the 1st Bn,, 50th Inf., 173rd Airborne Qui Nhon, (USA)

Afraid of Mother

Viet Cong Boy Finds War Is Not a GameSAIGON (UPI)— Twelve-year-

old Pham Van Ty puffed energe-tically on a cigarette and grin-ned through the billowing cloudsof smoke.

''I killed two government sol-diers with my carbine 10 daysago," he said through an inter-preter. "They were attackingmy firing position and I shotthem."

A moment of silence pervadedthe radio sound studio and thepint-sized Viet Cong scowled.Before him was an icy Cokeand custard-filled F r e n c hpastry. He could not figure outhow to enjoy them and thecigarette at the same time.

Deciding between pleasureswas not l i t t le Pham's onlydilemma. He also was perplexedover whether he could risk re-turning home now that he hadquit the Viet Cong to join the

government under the "openarms" program.

His widowed mother wasenraged when he and fourother youths in his village de-cided to march off to war withthe National Liberation Front(NLF) four months ago, he saidwith flashing, tear-stained eyes.He said she told him if he left,he could never come back.

"I miss her very much, butI do not want to go home,"Pham said. "She wil l beat meup if 1 do."

The youngster comes fromDong Hoa. a small village in theMekong Delta. During the Totoffensive, a Viet Cong unitcame through the village andtold the youths stories of theglory of war. Pham, 14-year-oldNguyen Van Trong and threeother local boys decided to fol-low them.

He thought war would be fun,but a pair of Skyraider pilotstaught him otherwise at theheight of the fighting in Saigon'soutskirts. They streaked out ofthe sky, blasting the Commu-nists with bombs and rockets.

"I was very afraid to die,"the 12-year-old said, "1 fear allkinds of airplanes."

That air attack ended the warfor both Pham and 14-year-oldNguyen Van Trong. The boysbecame separated from the bat-tal ion headquarters unit wherethey had served as messengers.

Later they ran into a strayViet Cong squad led by NguyenVan Cuong, 22, who took themin tow. The squad was also lostand after eight days of hiding,Cuong ordered his men to callit quits.

Pham was all for deserting tothe government forces, but his

village comrade was not. Nguyenhad killed six national police-men in the f ight ing and he didnot want to stop. He eventhreatened to kil l the squadleader for suggesting it.

But even a 14-year-old warriormust sleep and when he did,Cuong stole his coveted Chinese-made rifle. With his rifle gone,Nguyen changed his mind.

"I am not afraid to die, butmy squad leader told me to rai lsand I rallied," he said tersely.

Nguyen said he enjoyed car-rying a r i f l e and wanderingaround the countrys ide with theViet Cong, even a f t e r a piece ofgrenade shrapnel nicked hist h u m b . It was a proud wound.

"I ki l led six f ield policemenu i th my r i f l e , ' he boasted. "1did not enjoy k i l l i n g them, butif I did not, they would havekilled me."

Wdmlhaiti; "TellthihT lo Be aggressfVfe aiixl rtnttheta down and capful themIf they cart." ; : , ;

One of: the biggest ttsHS'tfeproblems encountered- by pa-tfofe is- surprise firing device^,mines and bodby traps whichsometimes turn up in unpredict^able locations.

"We are still finding about thesame number of enemy firingdevices as before, but not bytripping them" said Woodham.

Sometimes, he said, Chinesehand grenades, mortars and dudLOfrtnm howitzer shells arerigged with trip _wires.

The commander, a veteran of22 years in the Marine Corps,said the battalion is doing a"pretty, good job" of winningover local people by means ofmedical, food and other typesof civic action programs. Onone occasion villagers came inIn tip him off about 50 VietCong who were planning an at-tack.

Do combat tensions have adisheartening effect on the men?Not at .a l l , said Woodham.

"The morale and esprit decorps of the men is fantastic,"he added.

He estimated that about 40per cent of the battalion as awhole has been in Vietnam onprevious tours of duty and thatabout 10 per cent of the re-turnees are working on similarjobs in the same places.

He illustrated the point by re-calling the remark of one Ma-rine coming back on his secondtour.

Battalion GetsMerit Award

R1EM HOA. Vietnam (Special)—"The Professional Litterbins"of the (5th Psychological Opera-lions Bn. were presented theMeritorious Unit CommendationStreamer by Ma.j. Gen. John H.Hay, deputy commanding gen-eral, II Field Force Vietnam, ina ceremony at Honour SmithCompound in Hien Hoa.

Hay cited the efforts of thebattalion in psychological opera-lions against the enemy andparticularly noted their signi-ficant contribution to the1 SouthVietnamese government's OpenArms program. "The millions ofleaflets prepared and droppedby you 'Professional Litterbugs'were often returned in the handsof enemy soldiers who decidedto give themselves up," thegeneral said.

Ships, Planes OKdFor Coast Guard

WASHINGTON (LTD—Presi-dent Johnson has signed a $!,'{(>million authori /at ion for tin-purchase of new ships andplanes by the.Coast Guard. Thesum was $29 mi l l ion more thanhe had asked.

The extra money w i l l go forthree new patrol cu t t e r s . John-son had asked for only one.Actual funds s t i l l mus t be pro-vided by Congress.

Cutter Blasts VCSAIGON (S&S) — Tin- U . K .

(.'oast Guard c u t t e r Point Ik.dson destroyed or damaged 5Hstructures and f i v e sampans ata Viet Cong supply area on theCa Mau Peninsula 117 milessouthwes t of Saigon.

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N. Viets May Be Using Copters Norman(Continued From Page 1)

time battles Sunday.Lam also said there had been

reports, still unconfirmed, thata Communist jet airplane—pos-sibly a Russian-made MIG inter-ceptor—buzzed the frontier areaSunday.

Lam said two of the copterswent down on the south sideof the buffer zone between Northand South Vietnam.

A U.S. radar installation atDong Ha, about seven milessouth of the border, picked upthe Communist copters early

Sunday, he said American jetsswept in and blasted three ofthem from the skies, Lam said.

Sunday night the copters re-turned, and this time Alliedtroops at a string of militarybases along the southern fringesof the DMZ saw them, thegeneral said. American war-planes, believed to be flown byAir Force pilots based at DaNang, shot four of them down,according to Lam.

Two of these, he said, werepair that fell into South Vietnam.

The helicopters, believed to beof the MI4 model built in the So-viet Union and exported by theRussians to numerous other na-tions since its development in1952, "are probably hidden invarious jungle sites around theDong Hoi area," Lam said.

In Monday night's announce-ment a U.S. military spokesmansaid positive identification of theaircraft had been impossible be-cause the spotting was at night.

He said the "UFOs" had beenspotted flying low "in the vicini-ty of the eastern end of the

CopterSaves 2On Ledge

CRATER LAKE, Ore. (AP) —A helicopter lifted two Minneso-ta boys safely Monday from aledge 700 feet above CraterLake.

Larry Gates and Gary Drcicr.liulli of mu Uififiii, Minn., iiadspent Sunday night precariouslyperched on the 10-foot wide

"ledge.The 17-year-old youths be-

came stuck on the ledge Sundayafternoon while hiking off themain trail which circles thelake.

Paul Larson, the acting super-intendent of Crater Lake Na-tional Park, said tourists heardthe boys calling for help about .1p.m. Sunday.

A rescue crew of Park Servicepersonnel rushed to a pointabout 500 feet above the boys.

The crew used a bull horn togive directions and to tell theclimbers to remain on the ledge.

It was soon discovered that arowi-iH' uttcnjpt on fact v.'cyJd betoo dangerous, Larson said.

He called for a helicopterfrom Medford, which is about -15miles away.

Pilots Chris Woudstra andTim Keffer lowered sleepingbags, rations, water and lights(o the boys. A message also wassent telling them to remainwhere they were until morning.

After s u n r i s e M o n d a y ,the helicopter returned to thearea. A park employe with abull liurn guided the helicopterlo the boys. Sling harnesseswere dropped.

The boys honked the harness-es to a cable attached to awinch on the helicopter. Thehelicopter had returned bothyouths to the park headquarterson top by 7:45 a.m.

Larson said the youths ar-rived at Crater Lake Sunday byhitchhiking up mountain roads.

Crater Lake was createdwhen an ancient volcano explod-ed and left a gaping hole in themountain's top that filled withwater.

The lake is 21 miles squareand 1,932 feet deep. The craterrim rises to 2,000 feet above thelake's surface.

President Johnson eats a peach from a basketful grown on hisTexas ranch as he chats with newsmen. (AP Radlophoto)

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all West Germans and WestBerliners traveling by surfaceroutes.

Johnson was spending anotherday of work and relaxation atthe LBJ ranch.

He also sent a letter toCongress seeking an additional$14.6 million for fiscal 19G8 tofinance programs for majordisaster relief. He said thesupplemental money requestwill not boost the budget totalsubmitted last January.

He also asked Congress to ap-

prove an additional $10.9 millionfor operation of the city govern-ment in the nation's capital.

In other actions, he signed sixbills, including legislation givinghis newly organized NationalCommission on the Causes ar;lPrevention of Violence thepower to subpena witnesses.

Also signed was a measureapproving Johnson's roappoint-inenl of Gen. Earle G. Wheelerto serve another year aschairman of the Joint Chiefs ofStaff.

Can't Trust Russ: KiesingerBONN (AP) —West German

Chancellor Kurt GeorR Kiesins-cr said Monday night the newCommunist curbs on Berlintravel suggest that the SovietUnion is not ready for East-West relaxation and might notbe a trusted partner in tin-treaty against the spread ofnuclear weapons.

Kiesinger, in a t e l e v i s e dspeech, also warned East Ger-many Communist leaders that

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"their illegal policies will be re-sisted by us and our friendsthroughout the world and theywill find that they cannot out-last us."

Kiesinger spoke after hiscabinet approved increasing andprolonging special West Germantax benefits for West Berlin anddecided to reimburse West Ber-liners for visas, fees and in-creased freight charges an-nounced last Tuesday by theEast German Communist re-gime.

Kiesinger read to his German-wide TV audience President

Johnson's message calling thenew Communist regulations"totally unprovoked and unjus-tified aggravation of the situa-tion."

After the message, the chan-cellor commented, "It fills usall u i th satisfaction and grati-tude that the three protectingpowers (America, Britain andFrance) and our other alliesstand by our side in this newphase of the struggle for Ber-lin ... Berlin will emerge fromthis situation strengthened, I amsure, if all stand together tohelp it."

DMZ, above the Ben Hal River."This would put them on theCommunist side of the demar-cation line.

There was no mention of timein the announcement, only thatit had been dark. The Navy ves-sels fired on the unidentified air-craft with unknown effect, thespokesman said.

He said a daylight aerial re-connaissance operation had beenstarted to seek wreckage orother evidence that could deter-mine if the aircraft werecopters.

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soldiers were wounded in thedaring night assault that fol-lowed two days of frustratingdefeats.

They were driven back andSaturday they called in tear gas-spewing helicopters and tanks.Two tanks fired pointblank atthe bunkers but were forcedback by a hail of B40 antitankrockets.

The V i e t n a m e s e SpecialFuiccn, bi ought lo Suigun fromtheir training quarters at NhaTrang, arc specialists in small-unit raids. They decided on thenight assault.

Relying on their grenades,they firvd llit-ir rifles only whenthey spotted individual Viet Congtrying to escape from the crum-pled bunkers. Most of the prison-ers were seized as they ran intothe line of the government'scordon troops.

One, bleeding from a headwound, said his battalion com-mander and regimental liaisonofficer were killed Sunday nightand the command structure col-lapsed.

He added only 100 men of thebattalion had survived by fleeingahead of lh<« rhnr»fn« Sp'.'cia!Farces troopers into the sur-rounding rice paddies.

Al.so .seized by the governmenttroops was a pile of automaticweapons and B40 rockets andlaunchers.

The battalion of about 400men, who had been turned backtwice in frontal attacks, brokeinto squads of 12-15 men eachSunday night.

The men loaded themselveswith hand grenades and dashedfor.vard, cutting contiuunlfaliunsbetween the Viet Cong's elabo-rate bunkers and then using thegrenades to destroy the bunkersono by one.

The Viet Cong had sent sonic800 men into the hamlet, a col-lection of pleasant villas andgarden plots about three milesnortheast of the center of Sai-gon, on May 24 to seize thesuburb of Gia Dinh.

They moved through at firstbut as government t r o o p sblocked their advance at leastone battalion pulled back intothe hamlet. The soldiers begandigging in for a long stay.

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April 29 while playing golf atIndian Wells.

Until the f i f th attack came at9:30 p.m. EDT Saturday, theEisenhowers had boon tentative-ly scheduled to leave- theirhospital suite and return tctheir farm near Gettysburg.Pa., about June 24.

Since Eisenhower collapsedwhile walking through his suiteSaturday night, physicians haveused electronic monitoring devi-ces around the clock to checkhis heart functions, respirationand pulse.

One physician explained. "Theearly period following any heartattack is most critical, hut thegeneral's response has beenfavorable."

Thomas'Critical'

HUNTINGTON, N.Y.(AP)—Norman Thomas,83, the six-time Socialistparty candidate for presi-dent, was put on the criti-cal list Monday at Hun-tington Hospital, where hewas admitted Sunday.

The family spokesman saidThomas was suffering from agastrointestinal disorder whichhad caused some bleeding. Hesaid Thomas' spirit was highand he was lucid.

Thomas was transferred tothe hospital from a nursinghome in this Long Island com-munity. He was admitted therelast November after suffering aslight stroke.

His son, Evan, said doctorsconsidered his father's latestailment "a moderate setback."

The hospital said that al-though thp oMnrly Th'ima? u-ason the critical list, his conditionwas actually fair.

Before his hospitalization,Thomas had scheduled a newsc o n f e r e n c e for Monday toemphasize his .support for thecandidacy of Sen. Eugene J.McCarthy, an endorsement hehad made previously despite along time friendship with VicePresident Hubert II. Humphrey.

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bers in 21 New York shows and330 in road shows.

The strike did not affect off-Broadway productions or twoLincoln CcnliT stugc produc-tions, a revival of "My FairLady" and the throe drama re-vivals by the APA RepertoryCo. Stock companies, repertorycompanies and regional theatersalso were not affected.

Angus Duncan, assistant ex-ecutive secretary of Equity, saidthe main reason for calling thestrike, the first since 1964, wasthat the producers "absolutelyrefused to speak with us" aboutresuming negotiations w h i c hbroke off last Thursday. He saidpicket lines would be establishedat theaters Monday night.

The union had rejected a man-agement offer of a four-yearcontract that would have raisedminimum salaries from the pre-sent $125 a week to $165 for thefourth year. The union demand-ed a $200 minimum after 2'/iyears, protection against use offoreign actors and limitations onthe reduction of the size ofchoruses.

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