FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1$68 THE MICHIGAN DAILY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 9,1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY l'AGE FJVI~ SOME TURNED AWAY: "Survivors of Lang Vei Kennedy Says Vietnam Victory 'Probably Beyond Our Grasp' Seek Aid at he Sanh KHE SANH, Vietnam ()-Bar- riers were up at Khe Sanh yes- terday against nearly 200 irregu- lar defenders of Lang Vei who escaped to, this U.S. Marine base after the fall of that Special Forces camp. Accorded no hero's welcome, the Montagnard and Vietnamese ci- vilian soldiers were stripped of their weapons and turned out into the Communist controlled coun- tryside to fend for themselves. Some were wounded and some were without shoes. Only a few had food and blankets. About 2,000 Laotian civilians, some soldiers from an American supported Laotian battalion and local Brou tribesmen also are caught like table tennis balls be- tween a huge North Vietnamese force and the Marine base. Marine officials had tried for days to get the refugees out of what promises to be the bloodiest battle zone in this country, but without avail. One informed source said a high Vietnamese official refused to permit the refugees to be evacu- ated, saying the Montagnards and Laotians are not Vietnamese and thus none of his affair. The case of the Lang Vei sur- vivors still was not entirely clear, but appeared to involve a ques- tion of jurisdiction between U.S. Special Forces and Marine au- thorities. When the first stragglers turnednup Wednesday they asked to be let inside the base, which also includes a highly secret Spe- cial Forces camp. A Marine officer who went to the gate which borders on one side of the Special Forces camp said he was told by an American Green Beret standing atop a bunker, "They're not our prob- lem." The Marine refused to bring in the survivors, who are known to be riddled with Viet Cong even though they work for the Special Forces. A Special Forces spokesman in Da Nang, when asked about the situation, said about 180 of the Lang Vei survivors had been re- turned to Da Nang beginning Wednesday night. However, late yesterday morn- ing, none of the Montagnards and Vietnamese had been permitted to cross Marine lines to reach the Khe Sanh airstrip, the only way out. The Marines, of course, have problems of their own. They are girding for a showdown battle with two or more North Vietnam- ese divisions. The Khe Sanh camp has been hit by up to 1,500 rounds of mortar, artillery and rockets in a single day. ADVERTISING CHICAGO ( ) - Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, (D-N.Y.) said yester- day that the American military effort to resolve the Vietnam war is "like sending a lion to halt an epidemic of jungle rot." Kennedy said that "a total military victory is not within sight or around the corner . . it is probably beyond our grasp." Speaking at a book and author luncheon sponsored by the Chi- cago Sun Times, Kennedy chal- lenged observations that the re- cent savage fighting in South Vietnam constituted any sort of American victory. He said that the reported ene- my losses "cannot be as devas- tating as the figures appear." "Our intelligence chief," he said, "tells us that of 60,000 men thrown into attacks on the cities, 20,000 have been killed. If only two men have been seriously wounded for every one dead, a very conservative estimate, the entire enemy force has been put out of action." "Who, then," he said, "is doing the fighting?" "How ironic it is," he contin- ued, "that our public officials at the highest levels, should claim a victory because a people whom we have given 16,000 lives, bil- lions of dollars and almost a dec- ade to defend, did not rise in arms against us . "More disillusioning," he said, "and painful is the fact the pop- ulation did not rise to defend its freedom against the Viet Cong. Few, if any, citizens rushed to in- form their protectors of this mas- sive infiltration." He added that the events of the last two weeks showed that "none of the population is secure and no area is under sure control " "This has not happened be- cause our men are not brave or effective . . . It is," he added, "be- cause we have sought to resolve by military might a conflict whose issue depends upon the will and conviction of the South Vietnam- ese people. "It is like sending a lion to halt an epidemic of jungle rot," Ken- nedy said. Kennedy recalled that the South Vietnamese senate had onlyI one- opposing vote when it de- feated a proposal to lower the country's draft age from 20 to 18. "With all the lives and re- sources we have poured into Viet- nam," he said, "is there anyone to argue that a government with any support from its people, with any competence to rule, with any determination to defend itself, would not long ago have been vic- torious over an insurgent move- ment, however assisted from out- side its borders?" Kennedy said that for 20 years, first the French and then the United States have been predict- ing victory in Vietnam. "Once," he said, "in 1962, I par- ticipated in such predictions my- self. But for 20 years we have been wrong. The history of con- flict among nations does not re- cord another such lengthy and consistent chronicle of error." - -I - UNION-LEAGUE Little Club TONIGHT JAZZ by JOHN HIGGINS SEXTET folk singing AT THE Michigan Union Grill 9-12 moumppmmmmmmpwm oftew PAGE FIVE C ON SALE NOW MARK'S OPEN DAILY 9 A.M.-12 P.M. 6C5 E. 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