Page Two THE MICHIGAN DAIL'Y' Soturday, August 31, 1968 PageTwo THE MICHIGAN DAILY Saturday, August 31, 1968 Allies turn back D Nang attack Moscow delivers Czechs 'purge or perish' warning SAIGON (2)-Allied forces, sup- ported by dive bombers, beat back an enemy drive against Da Nang, the country's second largest city, and killed 126 infiltrators in three sharp, battles, military spokesmen reported yesterday. Elsewhere ground action was sporadic. In another development, Amer- ican prisoners rioted yesterday in the U.S. Army's largest penal stockade in Vietnam at Long Binh. Before military police could put down the disorders, 59 prison- ers, four MPs and the acting warden were injured, and a num- ber of buildings in the compound burned. BATTLES The three battles occurred Thursday nine to 25 miles south of Da Nang, target of another abortive enemy drive lastweek- end. South Vietnamese rangers, back- ed by an armored column and dive bombers, reported killing 87 Communists in the heaviest of the three battles. Ranger losses were. put at five dead and 23 wounded. A mile away, about 150 U.S. Marines came under heavy small- arms fire while combing the area for infiltrators. Another 15 Leathernecks reinforced them while American fighterbomber and artillery pounded the Com- Army unit inspected. for fraud LOS ANGELES (NP) - Rep. Ed Reinecke, (R-Calif.), says the Army is investigating National Guard records that allegedly were falsified to show a California unit had been adequately prepared for Vietnam duty. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Reinecke .said yes- terday, the unit, the 1st Squad- ron, 18th Armored Cavalry, is currently undergoing extra train- ing at Ft. Lewis, Wash., to make up its training deficiencies. Sixth Army headquarters in San Francisco acknowledged that the' unit is at Ft. Lewis but declined to release further information about Reinecke's charges. DISCREPANCIES 'Reinecke said the unit was scheduled to go to Vietnam Sept. 25 but was ordered to the Wash- ington post after inspector gen- eral's officers found discrepan- cies in personnel records. The men "were credited with training they did not receive," Reinecke said. For example, records showed them prepared to'drive diesel en- ines, while they had been train- ed with gasoline engines; able to use M-16 rifles, while they were trained with M14 rifles, and cap- able of handling M113 armored personnel carriers, while they were trained with M48 tanks, he said. RECORD-FIXING The alleged record-fixing occur- red before the unit's callup was announced and was discovered as 'the. men prepared to leave for Vietnam, Reinecke said. An unidentified sergeant to I d Army investigators he was ordered by an officer to change military occupation specialties on the re- cords of many enlisted men, and caused the unit to be transferred to Ft. Lewis, Reineke said. The unit, with a home base at Burbank, Calif., had been desig- nated as one of the National Guard's Selected Reserve Force Units, designed to be at combat ready status for quick callup.' COMPLAINTS Reinecke said he had com- plained to Rep. L. Mendel Rivers, (D-S.C.), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and to Ernest L. Massad, deputy assis- tant secretary of the Army in charge of 9rmy Reserves. He said both promised an investigation. Since the discovery of the fal- sification, many officers and al- most all the noncommissioned of- ficers had been transferred, Reinecke said. The unit's authori- zed strength is 49 officers, three warrant officers, and 1,042 enlist- ed men. munist positions. The Communist' force pulled back after 3%'2-hous . and a sweep of the battlefield; turned up 24 of their bodies. Ma- .i rine loses were reported at two dead and 41 wounded.« Another U.S. Marine unit clash- . ed with two platoons of Northj Vietnamese soldiers--70 to 80 men-about 25 miles south of Da r Nang. Dive bombers and artillery were called during the height of the battle. The North Vietnamese: pulled back after killing eight Marines and wounding 11. The Marines reported killing 15 North X Vietnamese. LOWLANDS In the central lowlands, Com- munist troops were still reported holding out last night in a gov- ernment outpost they overran near the Ha Thanh Special Forces Y camp 15 miles west of Quang Ngai City. «.:: The government outpost, hous- ing four to 12 defenders, was over- run early yesterday. The North Vietnamese then set up six mor- tars, two recoilless rifles and a This was the scene inside the machine gun and lobbed shells to dismantle platforms and c into the Green Berets' camp. Reinforcements from the 11th Light Infantry Brigade were sent in to dislodge thehinvaders, butNi the U.S. Command said the ene- N t my was still holding on at last report last night. SABOTAGE PLOT CHICAGO - Mayor Richa In Saigon, police were reported J. Daley says extraordinary- s to have nipped a Viet Cong sabo- curity precautions were takena tage and assassination plot with the Democratic National Conve the arrest of about a dozen sus- tion because "certain people pects in Cholon, the Chinese sec- planned to assassinate him a tor of the city. A Viet Cong pris- three presidential candidates. oner led police and security forces The mayor, under attack b to a group of houses where a some convention delegates for t cache of weapons and explosives stringent security precautions, d was seized and the arrests made. not disclose who the "certa: In the air war, U.S. B52 bom- people" were. ers flew 11 missions late Thurs- The three contenders who Dal day and early yesterday to break said were threatened were Vi up North Vietnamese concentra- President Hubert H. Humphre tions, staging areas and camps who won the party's nominatio in South Vietnam. and Sens. Eugene J. McCart Children crusade to Hanoi for ComImunist teaching By JOHN T. WHEELER litical education away from t] SAIGON RP) - Hundreds of seat of revolutionary doctrinei children have trudged over the Hanoi is open to slips in theo Ho Chi Minh trail on their way andbecause of the demandsc to Hanoi for years of political in- war cannot be as completea doctrination that will make them Communists prefer such thin the new Communist elite in South So the march North. T h o Vietnam. that go, according to the captur Enemy prisoners and defectors documents, are children of lo have reported seeing the children level cadre, those whose paren some appearing as young as 8, "joined the revolutionary caus marching with small packs and especially those whose paren through the jungle vastness of the died for Hi Chi Minh's dream highlands toward Sambodia. One a unified, Communist Vietnai North Vietnamese soldier said he Children of the poor were eligibl transport plane picked up the for selection. was told a North Vietnamese HUNDREDS transport plane picked up t h e Although U.S. sources say th children at a secret landing field have no idea how large the migr in Cambodia's jungled highlands. tion was, one enemy soldier sa CAPTURED DOCUMENTS he understood it numberedi show the hundreds. All village commi Captured documents sowthat tesmangmoehn1, the order for what one' source villages, were t htasbn wryly called "the children's cru- names. sade," dates at least to October A North Vietnamese soldier wi 1967. The migration of an unspec- met one group on the trail sa ified number of children up to the 10 children ranged from 17 years old was to be completed to 15 years old. by this month. The Hanoi government appar- ently has two aims in mind. The one that most concerns some quarters here is that after the CINEM A I children return they will form a vital political nucleus to help sub- vert and ultimately overthrow any presents possible coalition regime agreed to as a possible way to end the war in the South.MA L FIE The second is that jungle po I C I i f i -Associated Press Piles and piles of ... International Ampitheatre in Chicago as maintenance men began clean away debris le ft by delegates to the Democratic Convention. onal news roundup By WILLIAM L. RYAN PRAGUE (A') - Thinly veiled by Communist jargon, the mes- sage from Moscow to Czechoslo- vakia sounds like "purge or per- ish," Failure of the Czechoslovak Com- munist party to comply xw i t h demands from the Kremlin can lead to a situation resembling in some respects that of 1956 in Hungary.1 "Geluine, dyed-in-the wool counterrevolutionary elements" continue to be active in Czecho- slovakia, Pravda has complained. The implication is that what hap- pens now depends upon how far Czechoslovak leaders go, or are able to go, toward satisfying the Soviet Politburo's demands. The Kremlin never has taken kindly to humiliation or setbacks. It has made a heavy investment in the invasion, of Czechoslovakia. By the Soviet party's own implied admission, the price was high in terms of prestige and Kremlin ef- forts to reunite the Communist movement. Moscow probably will want full value for that investment. Such an attitude would argue strongly against letting remain in author- ity indefinitely those leaders the Russians have called counterrevo- lutionary and right wing. They include Alexander Dubcek and others whom the Czech party de- fiantly elected to office in a spec- ial congress which Moscow now angrily calls illegal. Moscow's words suggest that there must 'be a housecleaning. Soviet troops may move as far away as the West German bor- der, but they will still be in a position to return quickly to Prague. by Soviet guns, formed a newt government. There are some differences thisf time. The Czechoslovak partyt under Premier Oldrich Cernik. have not even intimated an inten- tion of repudiating the Warsaw Pack, as did the revolutionary Hungarian government. The re- gime remained wholly Commun- ist. Otherwise, however, there is enough excuse in the' situation tol prompt the Russians to swift sur- gery. crushing Czechoslovakia's reform The Russians can do the job' program. If the Russians bring themselves if the Czechoslovak pressure on Romania, then Yugo- party fails to produce a house- slavia and its independent Com- cleaning. In any case, Moscow munists, another irritant for seems unlikely to be happy with Moscow, would feel directly ea- Dubcek since he was a symbol of dangered. Nixon denies own role in, No.Ye electors plan the liberal movement. Some Czechoslovak liberalizers already are in hiding or out of the cou*- try. "We are living through difficult times," said Premier Ion Maurer of Romania in a speech this week, The Romanian party chief, Nico- lae Ceasusescu, spoke of "great bitterness, great anxiety." Obviously the Russians are .uW happy that Romania's leaders sharply criticized Moscow for rd and George McGovern. his spirits have graduated to "ex- e- Daley disclosed the threats, cellent." He has even begun to at "something I have never said to read in bed. n- anyone," in a television interview Prior to yesterday's bulletin, the e" with CBS newscaster Walter farthest doctors at Walter Reed d Cronkite. Army Hospital had gone in de- scribing the general's spirits was by WASHINGTON - The' Justice to say they were "remarkably he Department disclosed yesterday good" or that he was "cheerful." id that conversations by former On the medical side, the doctors in heavyweight champion Cassius reported that the recently noted Clay'were "bugged" in 1964 and favorable downward trend in ey 1965. cardiac irritability-extra and ir- ce regular heart heats-has contin- y, ; The department's disclosure was ued since Thursday's reports. n, made in a memorandum filed hy with the U.S. Supreme Court, CHARLESTOWN, W. Va. - - although it said Clay was not the The federal court jury consider- principle objective of the elec- ing the conspiracy case of former tronic eavesdropping. Gov. W. W. Barron and four The former champion, who pre- others told the judge yesterday fers his Black Muslim name of it was unable to reach a verdict, IMuhammed Ali, has pending be- but was sent back to try again. fore the Supreme Court an appeal Judge J. Robert Martin told the from his conviction and sentenc- court that he was informed ing for refusing induction into the around lunch time that the jury in armed forces, was deadlocked. However, he told, in the jury, which was returned to ry In one instance, the memoran- the courtroom just after 3 p.m., of dum said, the electronic eaves- to go back and try again to reach as , dropping occurred in the course a verdict. gs. of the collection of "foreign in- Barron and four others, includ- s e telligence information." ing two former West Virginia ed **state officials, were charged Feb. w- WASHINGTON (AP - A r m y 14 by a federal grand jury of ts doctors, reporting a slow but so conspiring to commit bribery in e" far steadily improvement in for- the award of state contracts dur- its mer President Dwight D. Eisen- ing Barron's administration in of hower's condition, said yesterday 1961-65. , le NEW YORK OP) - Richard M, Nixon had told New York State Republican and Conservative party leaders they will have to decide among themselves whether to file joint electors for the presi- dential election. DENIES PLAN Nixon's headquarters issued a statement Thursday denying that he favored a Conservative plan to have both parties file joint electors. Conservative party Chairman J. Daniel Mahoney had said Nixon, the Republican party's presidential candidate, favored the move. The Nixon statement, however, did not flatly reject the proposal. "The question of the designation of joint electors by the political parties," it said, "is a matter which must be resolved by those organizations." NEW YORKERS Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, Sen. Jacob K. Javits and Mayor John honey noted in a letter to Re- publican State Committee mem- bers, had a joint slate of elec- tors with the Democrats when John F. Kennedy carried the state in 1960. The Nixon statement said thO former vice president "seeks the support of all voters who agree with his principles." "We trust,". it said, "the reso- lution of this problem will be in a manner not detrimental to Mr. Nixon's interests, to the end that an effective campaign may & waged in New York, which will lead to victory in this state." i Tn T-Tt? nmarv 19 trnara ecru +hn people breathed a sigh of relief idea. Lindsay argued Oct. 29, 1956 when the revolution all a plot to attra seemed victorious. A new govern- James Buckley, Conse ment and party leadership an- didate running again nounced that Soviet troops would The Conservatives withdraw from Budapest.ITh Cosraie Hungary's euphoria lasted four Joint electors would Nixon-Agnew ticket t or five days before new fear grip-- York State against ped the nation. Yr tt gis In the predawn hou's of Nov. phrey-Muskie ticket e pr aw ous o ov.Conservative and 4, Soviet troops descended again votes together. on Budapest. Soon it was all over. testte. 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