TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1968 TDB MICHIGAN -DAILY PAGFl1 IVE~ rUESDAY, FEBRUARY 6,1908 THE MICHIGAN DAILY a 47&%A a, A'alc. 6 RESPECT MR. CHARLES: Marines Expect Bitter Struggle To Protect Khe Sanh, Hill 881 War Proponent May Oppose Fulbright in August Primary I OPENING SOON KHE SANH, Vietnam (P)-The Last spring the Marines took U.S. Marines figure the odds are Hills 881 North and South and in their favor if the North Viet- Hill 861 at a cost of about 138 namese attack Khe Sanh but they men killed and 397 men wounded. know they will have a tough fight They have since given up 881 to beat back an enemy for whom North, but added Hill 950 to the they have gained new respect as a protectives around Khe Sanh. fighting man. Artillery Support In fact, they don't call him Just Military rule of thumb calls for "Charlie" any more - now he's about five attackers for each de- "Mr. Charles." The Leathernecks paid dearly to take the hills around Khe Sanh last spring and commanders say the price was well worth it. For now it is the Marines who must be driven from each pro- tected bunker. It is the Marines who have the clear fields of fire and mine fields and who can count on support from many strong points. 40,000 Troops Although North Vietnam is es- timated to have 40,000 men to battle 5,000 Marines, the odds are not nearly as lopsided as they seem on the surface. There are other American forces in the northern area which could help out. Nevertheless, no senior officer here is talking about a pushover if swarms of North Vietnamese attempt to overrun the three key hills and the main base and air strip in the valley below. Demand New 'Equal Role' For Quebec OTTAWA (P)-French speaking Quebec Province demanded great- er jurisdictional powers, including the right to negotiate internation- al treaties, yesterday as Canada opened a constitutional confer- ence Prime Minister Lester Pear- son said may mean its "survival as as a nation." Premier Daniel Johnson, Que- bec's French-Irish chief executive, said it was "essential and urgent" to create a two partner Canada with an equal role for his province as the homeland of the French Canadian nation. ! Johnson declared that French language and education rights, or what he called a thin varnish of bilingualism, would not be enough. Pearson opened the conference of provincial premiers and federal Cabinet members with a call for "great new act of accommodation" between English and French, say- ing that without it the nation could break apart. Most of French Canada's dis- satisfaction was entirely justi- fied," he said.. Pearson urged the adoption of French language and education rights everywhere in Canada and the proposal received broad sup- port among the English speaking provinces whose population repre- sents about two thirds of the na- tion. MATHEMATICIANS PHYSICISTS ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS LINCOLN LABORATORY has openings for a limited number of en- gineers, physicists and mathematicians. LINCOLN LABORATORY a research center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is engaged in research and develop- ent In advanced -ec- fronics, with emphasis on applications to national defense and space exploration. A LABORATORY REPRESENTATIVE WILL INTERVIEW APPLICANTS February 9 CONSULT THE CAMPUS PLACEMENT OFFICE IN ADVANCE LINCOLN LABORATORY Mossachusets Insmuteof Techology fender, providing each has fire support, that is artillery and air. The North Vietnamese have rock- ets, mortar and some artillery available to them. But it is noth- ing like the artillery and air sup- port the Leathernecks count on. It was estimated that for every 100 rounds fired at Khe Sanh, the Marines had cranked out several thousand in return. B52 bomber raids are daily occurrences. Marines hope that yesterday's four hour fight for Hill 861 Alpha is a harbinger for the future. Hill 861 Alpha is a small knob on the slope of Hill 861 proper. Human Waves The North Vietnamese sent two strong attack waves swarming at the lone Marine company holding it. Artillery from the Khe Sanh combat base, from Hill 881 and from Camp Carroll to the east dropped a curtain of steel around the besieged Marines. The Leathernecks on the hill poured out a heavy concentration of machine gun and automatic weapons fire themselves. While Air Force B52s dropped tons of explosives on the Communist rear areas, some smaller jets, guided by radar, streaked in as close as 500 yards to the Marine lines. A dense fog which enveloped all the Marine positions in the Khe Sanh area gave the North Viet- namese little protection. The Marines on 861 Alpha lost 7 dead and 24 wounded. They re- ported 150 Communist dead along their barbed wire perimeter, 6 killed inside the wire. It appeared likely that a large number of oth- er Communist troops were killed along the slopes and their bodies dragged away. Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap, North Vietnam's defense minister, de- Im t Iow stroyed the French strong point by strong point at Dien Bien Phu in 1954. Some Marine officers believe Giap, who is thought to be direct- ing the planning for Khe Sanh from long distance, will attempt to repeat history. Others are not so sure. They fear Giap plans to feint at the hills, focusing Marine defenses away from the valley floor, and then sending waves of infantry swarming at the Khe Sanh base camp. Hug the Marines The reasoning goes, that if Giap could hug the Marines - that is, get in so close that U.S. artillery and air power would have to risk blasting Americans, Khe Sanh would be in trouble. But the deeply bunkered Ma- rines believe that should such a situation develop, there is only one answer, call in the air and artillery on their own positions and count on killing far more North Vietnamese than Marines, who will be protected under sand- bags. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (/P)-Sen. J. W. Fulbright, who hasn't had a serious election challenge since Arkansas sent him to the Senate 24 years ago, is threatened by a Marine hawk who contends Ful- bright's opposition to U.S. policy in Vietnam is delaying the day of victory. Fulbright's response: Plead his case to the voters and field their roughest questions. The Senate's No. 1 dove isn't retreating from his criticism of President Johnson's Vietnam po- licy; in fact, he's telling his home- folk he doubts the administration now will accept anything less than victory in the war. Fulbright's possible opponent in the August Democratic primary is former Gov. Sid McMath, a major general in the Marine Corps re- serve who has two Marine officer sons - one in Vietnam. McMath, now a Little Rock lawyer, is making an average of threespeeches a week across the state, where hawkish sentiment is strong, contending Fulbright's criticism "is holding up victory" by receiving "undue attention." Many observers see evidence that Fulbright is gaining strength through an increasing number of personal appearances. In each, he sets out his views briefly then invites questions from the audience. His constituents respond with alacrity. They probe his stand on Vietnam; they prod him about his role in steering the Gulf of Ton- kin resolution through the Senate; they worriedly inquire about the North Korean seizure of the U.S. intelligence ship Pueblo, and they bluntly ask the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee if his dissent is indeed pro- longing the Vietnam war. "I don't think it has any signif- icance at all in keeping Ho Chi Minh from the negotiation table," Fulbright told one such gathering. "Are you willing to accept the infallibility of one leader?" he demanded. Fulbright is said to feel the administration will help McMath if the former governor decides to run against him. Corner Huron and Forest FREE HEATED DELIVERY AND TAKE OUT SERVICE OMEGA PIZZA I ~- ------ - ------- WAIT *b JOHN HOUSEMAN Distinguished stage and motion pic- * "ture director, including work here at 4/ Michigan with the APA Repertory Co., Mr. Houseman, in cooperation yam" with the Professional Theatre Program, will speak on "Our Contemporary Theatre." WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7 8:00-Auditorium A No Admission Charge UAC i 9 r I READ THE KAMA SUTRA LATELY? want to learn all the positions in time for Valentine's Day?? Petitions for available staph positions. DUE FEBRUARY 14 I a Lasts from dusk'tiI dawn. 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