Sunday, February 25, 1968 THE MICHIGAN DAILY Page Three - Ar r--I 4", AT 7IfQ C Q T rn1TL'L MHue C ueThant MoppngUp Continues As Fights Flare BULLETIN 0 Saigon ()-American bomb- ers attacked for the first time in the war Saturday the Hanoi river port facility 1.8 miles southeast of the center of the city, the U.S. Command reported Sunday. The strike on Hanoi's port fa- cility,sheretofore on the list of targets out of bounds to U.S. pilots, was believed to have re- quired specific approval from the Pentagon, possibly even President Johnson, since it is so close to the center of Hanoi. SAIGON ()-Allied troops be- gan slugging away at remaining Communist pockets in Hue's Cita- del late yesterday following Fri- day night's recapture of the palace grounds from enemy forces. Other fights flared on the outskirts A battalion of U.S. Marines pushed out of the old imperial capital and liberated a South Viet- namese engineer battalion that had held out for 25 days against surrounding enemy forces little more than a mile west of town. South of the Marine sweep, troopers of the U.S. 10n1stAirborne Division moved through another enemy infiltrated area. Other avenues of escape around Hue were being worked over by U.S. Air Cavalry Division troop- ers and South Vietnamese rangers. A company of Black Panther rangers, all volunteers, and a bat- talion of Vietnamese infantrymen made the final assault that wrested the palace grounds in the Citadel from Communist hands. They recovered virtually un- damagedthered lacqueraand gilt throne on which Vietnam's rulers once received their subjects. South Vietnamese forces report- ed that in this and other run- ning actions in Hue during the day they killed 250 enemy troops, while losing five dead and 22 wounded. U.S. headquarters in Saigon said the fighting in Hue through Friday, the most substantial to result from the Viet Cong's lunar new year offensive, had cost the Communists 4,173 men killed. It reported 119 Americans and 363 South Vietnamese were killed; 961 Americans and 1,242 South Vietnamese wounded. A n emergency airlift of food has been ordered by American of fi- cials to meet a critical shortage in Hue. U.S. authorities also have begun the emergency purchase of fish, Vegetables and other staples. Since the city was virtually overrun by the Communists Jan. 31, the refu- gee swollen population of almost 145,000 has been living on rice and the small supply of other foods then on hand. itadel P ushc Secured by for Peace Allies, ,Talks UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. UP)- Secretary General U Thant assert- ed yesterday the door is open for Vietnam peace talks despite the current intensified fighting and that negotiations will begin within a few days if the bombing of North Vietnam is halted. The secretary general said he had been assured by Hanoi rep- Washington Expects Increase In Soviet Aid to N. Vietnamese WASHINGTON UP)-The Soviet 1 munist East European countries with $350 million the year before, Union is apparently North Viet- contributed perhaps $50 million, with the emphasis on air defense nam's largest supplier of weapons Unlike China's economy, hobbled items. and economic aid today and its by cultural revolution upheavals. These include surface - to - air assistance may climb further if i the Russian economy can divert f.SAM) missiles, anti-aircraft ar- the pace of the war steps up. much more to Vietnam if the tillery, radar equipment, fighter According to preliminary Pen- Kremlin leaders choose. planes and ammunition. tagon estimates, aid to Hanoi from Step-up Shipments Most of this equipment is be- her Communist allies probably in- Current Soviet deliveries amount lieved to have been supplied out creased to about $1 billion in 1967 to perhaps one-fifth of one per of existing Soviet stockpiles, ex- -up considerably from some $730 cent of Russia's gross national cept for ammunition which may million the year before product. The Soviets have indi- be coming out of current produc- Biggest Share cated they will step-up Vietnam tion. Ijf.i.) .A7Ei3 I 11 IlL Vi J r1 ,3uarril if I -Associated Press COFFINS ARRIVE in Hue, the ancient imperial capital of Vietnam, for the bodies of those killed in the recent battle and resulting street fighting for control of the city. Here a South Vietnamese navy craft, fully loaded with coffins for the hundreds of civilian dead, arrives at the pier in Hue. Fulb right Claims McNamara Ignored Cable Before Reacing w, 1W1V1 kt, Moscow's shipments, valued at E sentatives that talks would start about $700 million, accounted for as soon as a bombing ban became the biggest share in North Viet- effective and that the Unitedl Ste coud bring u e any ater nam's supply line in 1967 and for; States could bring up any matter much of the total increase over it chose, including a reduction of the previous year. military operations in'South Viet- Red China sent in an estimatedc nam. $250 million worth, roughly $75 1 Thant's view were made public million more than in 1966. Com- in a 1,250 word statement assess- ing his recent round of discussionsI with interested world leaders in- sA sks e cluding President Johnson and Johnson Soviet Premier Alexei N. Kosygin.G Unless the essential steps are! taken now to initiate peace talks, he said, "the conclusion is ines- capablethat there will be con-: AUSTIN. Tex. (M)-With "na- tinued intensification and escala- Itoa nt n oetcpae tion of the conflict, resulting int tional unity and domestic peaced unforeseeable developments with at stake, the government signed dire consequences, up top businessmen from all over "There can be no victory, no {the nation Saturday to round up+ eeaonlymorbsffero nvtor jobs for the 500,000 unemployed1 defeat, only 1more sufeigmr in big city ghettoes. death and more destruction," he bgct htos said. "The very survival of Viet- Mid-March will be kick-off time+ nam is at stake. It is time to call for the 50 largest cities. a halt." Most of the jobs probably will goI to Negroes. The man in charge of The secretary general said his the unprecented campaign is Hen-+ discussions, during his trip to New ry Ford II, chairman of the Ford1 Delhi, Moscow, London, Paris and Motor Co. Washingthon, had convinced him Confers with Johnson that a halt in the U.S. bombing Ford flew to the LBJ Ranch of North Vietnam is the ids from Washington yesterday mor- pensable first step. ning. He conferred with President "If such a step were to be taken," Johnson, and then made the 65 he declared, "I am more than ever mile trip to the White House press convinced that meaningful talks room here to tell reporters about1 will take place much earlier than the program for helping the hard is generally supposed, even per- core unemployed. haps within a matter of a few "For the most part," he said, days." "These are people who, in the past, Among those with whom Thant have been written off as unem- conferred were North Vietnamese ployable, because of lack of job Consul General Nguyen Hoa in skills, work experience, education New Delhi and Hanoi's Delegate and social adaptability. General Mai Van Bo in Paris. He "Yet, as we look at the social and disclosed for the first time details racial situation that is under- of these talks, including assurances mining this country with fear, from Bo that negotiations would hatred and discord, nothing can be begin as soon as the bombing stop- plainer than the fact that these ped. people must be given the chance The secretary general said he to earn decent lives for them- had been told by Bo that the Unit- selves. ed States could bring up any mat- "It is no longer solely a matter ter in the talks, including reduc- of social justice and the principles tion of the fighting in South Viet- of democracy. Our very national nam and the question of recon- unity and domestic peace are at vening the Geneva Conference. stake." WASHINGTON () - Secretary' of Defense Robert S. McNamara,' in testimony made public yester- day, said he issued orders after the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964 to withhold retaliatory Amer-+ ican air raids "until we were+ damned sure the attack had taken' place." But Sen. J. W. Fulbright (D- Ark.), chairman of the Senate 1 Foreign Relations Committee, said Tuesday that the commander of the U.S.S., Maddox cabled his su- periors "freak weather and an overeager sonar man" could have contributed to reports that North Vietnamese torpedo boats had at- tacked.; Air War Had the Congress known of this cable, said Fulbright, it might not have subsequently authorized the President to begin an air war against North Vietnam and the1 build-up of U.S. troops. McNamara said Capt. John Her-' rick, who sent the cable on Aug. 4, 19 64, swiftly resolved his doubts: "He did not doubt there was any attack. He did not say so in his message." Slightest Doubt Fulbright, in the transcript of closed-door testimony on the Ton- kin incident, said, "It never oc- curred to me that there was the slightest doubt, certainly on the part of Herrick, who was in charge of the task force, that this attack took place. He obviously had doubts. His telegram so states." There were two incidents in Tonkin. The first, on Aug. 2, 1964, was an assault on the Maddox by North Vietnamese vessels. It has not been contested. But the second crucial affair occurred on the dark and cloudy night of Aug. 4. That is the one at issue. And that is the one referred to in a Herrick cable read by Ful- bright: Weather Effects "Review of action makes many recorded contacts and torpedoes fired appear doubtful. Freak weather effects and overeager son- ar men may have accounted for many reports. No actual visual sightings by Maddox. Suggest com- plete evaluation before any further action." At that time, after the initial incident, the Maddox had been joined on its Tonkin Gulf patrol by the destroyer U.S.S. C. Turner Joy. Both ships were said to have come under attack.E shipments if Hanoi's needs in- I'ire at u.s. rianes crease. Vast quantities of ammunition U.S. spending in Vietnam last have been aimed at U.S. planes. year has been estimated at about Several thousand SAM's - maybe $25 billion. $30 million worth-were reported Information received here in. fired at American craft during dicates that Soviet arms deliveries 1967 along with other ordnance. to North Vietnam came to some The SAM's were fired from per- $500 million in 1967 compared haps 30 launchers, which were moved around several hundred prepared launching sites in North Businessmen "Vietnam. i The Soviets are also reported to have provided some bombers and tanks, but these arms have tet N e Jo s not played much of a role in the fighting. Nor are the Russians be- live to be supplying advanced In answer to a question. Ford new weapons systems. sa o ma McNamara said the Herrick cable was sent "perhaps three hours" after the Communist attack was reported. Fire Torpedoes "Although the message itself does not state that he questioned whether an attack had taken place, it did say that many reported con- tacts and torpedoes fired appeared doubtful," he said. This was quickly resolved Mc- Namara said. "Roughly an hour and 20 minutes later," he said, "the commander of the task force reported to the commander in the Pacific that he was certain the original ambush was bona fide. Confusing Picture "Details of the action present a confusing picture," McNamara said, "but he had made positive visual sightings of cockpit lights or similar lights passing near the Maddox and the Turner Joy re- ported two torpedoes passed near her." said "I don't mean that any 500,1 000 jobs is going to mean that there will be no riots this summer or in the future . . . but you have to do something to alleviate the problem. We are not going into education. We are not going into a! lot of other areas that still have got to be handled." As chairman, Ford is at the top of a pyramid of "blue chip" execu- tives from business and industry assembled into the National Al- liance of Businessmen (NAB) to carry out Johnson's job opportu- nities in the business sector jobs program. Productive Workers The objective is to turn hardcore unemployed into productive work- ers-100,000 by July, 1969 and 500, 000 by the summer of 1971. In addition NAB has been asked to try to find meaningful jobs for 200,000 disadvantaged young people by the coming summer. The President set these goals in a manpower program he outlined in a special message to Congress a month ago. The vice chairman of the alli- ance, J. Paul Austin, president of the Coco Cola Co., and the chief executive officer, Leo Beebe, a Ford vice president on loan, joined Ford in the Saturday conference with Johnson. Most of the Soviet weapons - except for such items as large helicopters which cannot get through existing railway tunnels- are believed transported to North Vietnam across the Chinese main- land. Economic Aid Sea routes are used for material classified as economic aid-though with North Vietnam's economy on a wartime footing' these goods have a direct bearing on her total effort. Some $200 million in Soviet economic aid in 1967, up $50 mil- lion from 1966, is reported to have included .petroleum, trucks, trac- tors, rail equipment, bridge struc- tures, barges, machinery, food and fertilizer. Russian ships are said to have paid around 200 calls at North Vietnamese ports during the year, a five-fold increase over the early 1960's. Defense Department specialists say most of North Vietnam's in- dustrial output lost to U.S. bomb- ing has been replaced by imports from Russia and China. mAt the same time neither the Soviets nor the Chinese have sent personnel to North Vietnam, in any scale comparable to the U.S. presence in South Vietnam. The Soviets are believed to have only around 2,000 military person- nel in North Vietnam. I THIRD WEEK FOX EASTERN T'EATRES FOH VILLa6E 375 No. MAPLE RD.-7694300 MON.-THUR. 7 :00-9 :00 THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PROFESSIONAL THEATRE PROGRAM PRESENTS f 3 i PETITIONS FRI. & SAT. 3:00-5:00-7:00-9:00-11:00 SUN. 1:00-3:00-5:00-7:00-9:00 DOORS OPEN-Mon.-Frl. 6:30 p.m. Sat. 2:50 p.m. Sun. 12:45 p.m. ADVANCE TICKETS: Sat.-Sun. 5:30-7:00 show Saturday o 7:30-9:00 show 9:30-11:00 show WINNER INCLUDING AW RD* BEST Picture * I for /Jaimz~zig comnzittee WRITER-IN-RESIDENCE 1969 available Today through Friday, March 8 1528 S.A.B. 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