THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1966 THlE MICfHIN DhIll 'PAtV V14M Wtv t fi l ll!'{ i l '.l n. " n. .. 1 rA i THRE 5 Air Strikes. Cripple Vital Viet Supplies Bombings Fail to Halt Conmunist Supply Infiltration to South WASHINGTON 0P) - United States bombing of North Viet Naze has failed to curb Commu- nist infiltration of South Viet Nam, but Pentagon officials said yesterday the strikes are exacting. a high toll in supplies vital to en- *: emv units. The telling question of the whole war, they said, is whether Hanoi- can continue supporting forces in the south in the face of ammuni- tion and equipment, losses due to interdiction raids. This was unofficial Defense De- partment reaction to word from Saigon th4t Communist infiltra- M tion has risen by 1,000 a month MEMBERS OF D over current estimates to 6.000 were freed from a men a month. Never Barri'rr Military spokesmen contended I e at h the air strikes were never claimed as a barrier to Communist pene- tration of the North-South Viet Nam boundary.l But this assertion,. does not square entirely with statements which have been made by Secre- WASHINGTON (A tary of Defense Robert S. Mc- Staten officers are b Namara. a 30 percent higher On June 29, only hours after Nam than during the U.S. warplanes smashed at the Defense Departme Hanoi-Haiphong oil supplies, Mc- show. Namara was asked 'at a news But the figures su conference what the strikes might quest yesterday alsos Carc mnlich hh i n t. -nf.r4 -f U.S. Forces Hit Mekong Delta Region GI's Relieve Village Accidentally Bombed By Allied War Planes1 By The Associated Press SAIGON - American soldiers are fighting in the rice-rich Me- konf Delta of South Viet Nam for the first time, the United States command disclosed yesterday. Thisr is one step to speed mo the allied war effort in a sector where it has been inclined to drag. In other acu'on, yesterday. Amer- icans did their best to relieve the distress at the Montagnard vil- lage of Hon Ba that was accident- ally bombed by U.S. planes Tues- day. A spokesman said elements of the 25th Infantry Division have been in the delta for 13 days, con- ducting a joint operation with Vietnamese troops. So far there has been no significant contact with the Viet Cong. ' Claim Responsibility The Vietnamese have claimed sole responsibility for pursuit of the war throughout the 4th Corps area, the southern section laced by the Mekong River and its trib- utaries. Even elite Vietnamese units, however, such as rangers and airborne troopers, have been -Associated Press ELTA COMPANY, 1st Battalion, 4th U.S. Marines, pictured during and after they hilltop where they were entrapped by Viet Cong for three days. RateofOfficersShow r a n Viet Nanthan taKorea A) - United being killed at rate in Viet e Korean war, nt statistics applied on re- showed that a if nffi fell Negroes Riot in San Francisco; National Guardsmen Moved In The officer death ratio in World War II was nearly 17 percent asi 41.657 officers were killed and In Viet Nam, he added, "there is a greater percentage of pilots com- mitted than in any other war." SAN FRANCISCO ("-Nation- al Guard troops moved into the riot-torn Hunters Point section of! San Francisco last night as sheot- ings, rock and bottle-throwing in- cidents and street corner beatings kept police on the run in the area where racial strife broke out sud- dently Tuesday night. Three hundred additional high- way patrolmen were ready to move in to reinforce police. Gov. Edmund G. Brown broke off his re-election campaign tour in Southern California and took a plane to San Francisco, saying, "Californians and their govern- ment will more than match force against force. "We cannot and will not toler- ate violence of any kind," he said in a statement before boarding the plane. "Our whole interest is now to restore peace, order and security to the community. This has got to stop." Policeman Wounded Police Patrolman Jerry Green was wounded, not seriously, by a rooftop sniper in a section of Hunters Point that had been cleared of small street corner crowds a few minutes earlier by police firing shots into the air. Some reports said 15 other per- sons in the area had been wound-1 ed. Police sealed off 10 blocks in the area when Negroes threw rocks and bottles at firemen responding to a false alarm. Firemen said Molotov cocktails -gasoline bombs "- were thrown from windows of the Bayview Community Center at 3rd and the building. Verify Fires Firemen asked the police to ver- ify fires before trucks responded: to alarms, and then to accompany the fire equipment. Helmeted police; carrying shot-. guns and automatic rifles, worked . in groups during the afternoon of: record heat for the date-95 de- grees at 3:30 p.m. Lines of National Guard troops, 25 to 30 men abreast, swept 3rd Street to break up groups which had regathered in the area cleared. by police earlier. "All right, off the streets, ev- erybody. Close the doors. Close: the windows, right now," the troops ordered. The knots of peo-, ple scattered before the troops, some in Jeeps carrying 105 mm re-i coilless rifles. New Disturbances The new disturbances were in the Hunter's Point and Bayview - as - where. rioiing raged for Scores of officers were ordered n hours Tuesday night after to Mission Dolores Park, adjoining he fatal shooting of a Negro Mission High, when some 200 Ne- tc n-a;er by a white ipolicinan. gro youths began a march toward Trouble also was close at noon a statue where 75 white youths when rampaing youths in hall- were lunching. -a s refused to return to class- Officers formed a line between ::ooms. the two groups. The white youths Police said s.veral windows were pulled off belts and gathered rock smaashed along Mission Street in anticipation of an attack. near the school as teenagers were "Classes are dismissed, please lacking onto city buses. go home," police loudspeakers Two fire bombs were hurled at blared. an auto near the Bayview Com- The fire bombs, hurled at Men- munity Center. dell and Newcomb streets, in the A rare heat wave aggravated Bayview district, narrowly missed the unrest. a car. HJurricane Treatens Domnini can Republic SAN JUAN, P.R. (P)-Hurricane homeless. The storm virtually Inez, a vicious killer storm with leveled a whole district of Pointe- top winds exceeding 150 miles an a- Pitre where 10,000 persons hour, buffeted the eastern tip of lived. the Dominican Republic last night A bread shortage developed and and continued to aim her mur- extensive damage to electric pow- derous fury at the sleepy seaport er plants were expected to take town of Barahona. up to three months to repair in Inez was onlyaabout 150 miles the Basse Terre region. east of Barahona at midevening. Some flooding was reported on Hurricane forecasters predicted a the southern coast of Puerto Rico, "great disaster" if she maintained but no injuries were discovered her collision course with the Bara- immediately. Authorities said the hona peninsula where 200,000 per- coast had wind gusts up to 70 sons live. miles an hour which damaged The storm, which already has about 20 homes. claimed at least 15 lives, was ex- While Inez churned toward pected to pass directly over Bara- Barahona, Tropical Storm Judith hona about daybreak Thursday. was moving west-northwest about Terrified residents were told to 1,000 miles southeast of San Juan evacuate their flimsy homes. in the Atlantic. A hurricane hunt- The city of 20,000 is situated in er plane reported Judith's top a natural deathtrap, snuggled in winds at about 50 miles per hour a jungle valley with steep moun- at the center. She was no immedi- tains on both sides. The moun- ate threat to any land area. tains and deep valley form a huge Inez, a tightly coiled storm, was funnel for immense flooding, whipping 65,000 square miles of Forecaster the Caribbean into a fury as she Forecaster Joseph Pelissier said pushedd some of the heaviest rain- reports from the Dominican Re- squalls in years over parts of the public indicated tiny Isle Mona, Virgin Islands, west of Puerto between Puerto Rico and the Do- Rico. minican Republic, had winds of At last report, Inez was cen-. huurricane force up to 80 miles tered near latitude 17.1 north, Ion- an hour. Pelissier said hurricane- gitude 68.8 west, or about 125 miles force winds also were raking the southeast of Santa Domingo, Do eastern tip of Hispaniola as the minican Republic, and slightly less storm continued her westward than 1,000 southeast of Miami. course, but he had no other de- She was moving westward at Stails. about 16 miles an hour. Meanwlile, officials at Guade- Forecaster Arnold Sugg, who loupe-where Inez struck Tues- predicted the disaster, said a storm day as she entered the Carib- as strong as Inez comes only about bean from the Atlantic-reported once every four or five years and 15 dead, 72 injured and 6,000 strikes land even less. accompusn.g n er percenuage of ou cers ien Movement Restricted during World War II. "There is bound to be a restric- Through August, the Pentagon tion on the total movement" of reported that 649 officers and 4,-' men and supplies from north to 298 enlisted men had been killed south with the Communists de- in Viet Nam, an officer-enlisted prived of much of the petroleum used by their truck convoys, he said. At another significant point of the air war-the eve of the re- sumption of bombing after the Christmas peace pause - McNa- mara told a House Appropriations 4 subcommittee the strikes were de- signed to boost the morale of the battered South Vietnamese. "A second reason," he said, "was to reduce the flow of and/or in- crease the cost of the infiltration of men and material from North Viet Nam into South Viet Nam. Third, to put political pressure on Hanoi through military action." Other Action In diplomatic action on Viet Nam French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville pro- posed yesterday that the United States make a prior commitment on a timetable for a military with- drawal from South Viet Nam and thus set the stage for negotiations to end the war. U.S. Ambassador Arthur J. Gold- berg replied immediately that ap- peals to one side to stop without similar appeals to the other side has little chance of success. The exchange came in the UN General Assembly, where the re- turn of Indonesia boosted the membership to 119. In a major policy speech, theI French foreign minister put for- ward his proposal for a new U.S. peace initiative in this way: "It is imaginable, in the process; of escalation, for such an overture to come from a side other than that of the great power which is directly involved there, whose in- tervention has been. one of the basic elements of that escalation and which alone is therefore in a position to make a new move that will render everything possible, and first of all, peace." man ratio of 13 percent. Officer Ratio For the length of the Korean] War, 2,963 officers and 30,666 en- listed men were killed, an officer ratio of slightly less than 10 per-} cent.1 World New By The Associated Press NEW YORK-A strike of Amer- ican Airlines ground personnel, al- ready once deferred, was averted last night when a tentative con-' tract agreement was reached with' the AFL-CIO Transport Workers Union. The strike originally was sched- uled for 6:45 a.m. It was post- poned for 12 hours when progress was made in negotiations and was called off about half an hour be- fore the new 6:45 p.m. deadline. * * - NEW YORK-The stock market took a beating Wednesday as' prices tumbled across the board. Trading was moderate. The Dow; Jones average of 30 industrial stocks fell 13.14 points to 780.95. * * . BUENOS AIRES, Argentina-In a daring move to assert Argenti- na's claim over the Falkland Is- lands, extremists hijacked a pas- senger plane with 48 persons abroad yesterday The hijacking, reportedly led by a woman with 17 armed men, came only hours before Argentine Foreign Minister Nicanor Costa Mendez told the United Nations General Assembly his country is confident its dispute with Great Britain over the South Atlantic islands will be settled soon. Argentina claims the islands, 249.900 enlisted men. Statistics show that through unable to root out the thousands One obvious factor boosting the July, the Air Force lost 198 officers of guerillas infesting the region. rate of officer deaths in Viet Nam, in Viet Nam and 56 enlisted men Some military men have expressed officials said, was the earlier U.S. and the Navy 69 officers and 76 belief several American divisions advisory role there. Before the enlisted men, will be needed there. U.S. buildup last summer, scores Korean Warplanes Near the northern edge of the of American officers were killed As in Viet Nam, most of the nation, U.S. relief teams sought while aiding South Vietnamese warplanes flown in the Koree1t to alleviate distress in the friendly army units. ;struggle were one- or two-pilce village of Hon Ba, which two Ma- But military men said the dif- fighters. Officials noted "we didn't rine planees bombed by mistake ferences in officer loss rates in have as high a percentage of pi- - Tuesday. The explosions and re- the three wars also can be ex- lots in Korea" and thus pilot off 1- sultant fires killed 35 persons, plained in terms of the various cer losses were less, as was the wounded 16 and destroyed 120 kinds of air wars being fought. over-all officer-enlisted man death thatched huts, about three-fourths "A ground officer does basically ratio. of the village homes. the same thing no matter where Explaining the higher officer Hon Ba is in Quang Ngai Prov- he is," one source said. "The key death rate in World War II, offi- incce. where U.S. Marines are difference is air." cers said the crucial difference was campaigning with air and artil-' that "then we had thousands of lery support against infiltrating bombers flying with many offi- North Vietnamese regulars. s R ou ndu >cers aboard." Why? Another factor in World War II While American officers sought P was the enemy's capacity to stage to determine why the Marines behind-the-lines bombing attacks, ? planes loosed their 500-pound something rarely done in Korea bombs about 3,000 yards out of which it calls the Malvinas, are and yet to be done in Viet Nam. their strike zone, other planes t London Bombed pressed raids on the Communists. placed under British rule in 1833. For example, a spokesman said. B52 bombers made their 12th at-, "you had some U.S. officers killed tack in the last two months on NEW YORK - The American in London during air raids that enemy holdings in the demilitar- Telephone & Telegraph Co. said normally were not committed to ized zone, a onetime buffer ter- Wednesday it had stopped tele- battle or exposed." ritory that extends three miles phone service from Cuba to the Other officers, however, protest- on each side of the border. United States because of a $2- ed that any comparison of World Pilots who attacked North Viet- million balance-of-payments prob- War II death losses and losses in namese targets Tuesday claimed lem. -Viet Nam would be like comparing destruction or damage to 32 car- "Because so many collect calls apples and oranges, go barges, 21 bridges, 10 antiair- were made from Cuba to the "How can you compare wars craft gun positions, 21 trucks and United States," an AT&T spokes- with defined fronts - where we several oil depots and supply man said, "we now are holding $2 have frontal engagements with dumps. million for the Cuban Telephone whole divisions committed - when They sank two Communist tor- Co. that we can't give it because we can't even get a Viet Cong bat- pedo boats and damaged two oth- we can't send American dollars to talion to stand up and fight?" one ers, 40 to 50 miles northeast of Cuba." general asked. 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