WEDNESDAY,' OCTOBER 12, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE WEDNESDAYS OCTOBER 12, 1966 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE Continue Arms Buildup NearDemilitarize dZone DONG HA, South Vietnam (W)- Navy supply ships unload on the Cam Lo River. Air Force C130s land in the swirling dust of Dong Ha airfield. Marine tanks grind along narrow roads. All these reflect the allied mili- tary buildup near the demilitarized zone between the two Vietnams. "The stage is set for a good fight if the North Vietnamese want one," a Marine spokesman said yesterday. Three months ago, there was a lone Marine battalion at Phu Bai, 40 miles south of the zone. Some South Vietnamese army units the north, large stocks of supplies probed the eastern lowlands. The North Vietnamese army, mainly its 324B and 341st divisions, walk- ed almost unopposed through the zone to get into South Vietnam. and a mazes of bunkers and tun- nels, some of them 25 years old. In July, Operating Hastings marked the movement of Marines in force into the central valleys In June, Marine intelligence de- antuntins arounaUthe coH termined the North Vietnamese manding pinnacle known as the were massing for assaults toward "Rock pile" just south of the zone. the towns of Dong Ha, Cam Lo The fighting badly maimed the and Quang Tri in Quang Tri Prov- 10,000-man 324B division. Nearly ince northernmost in South Viet- 800 North Vietnamese were found nam dead. nmOperation Prairie began August The enemy had the advantage 3. Marine battalions that had re- of short communications lines to Imained in the area began meet- ing the North Vietnamese in sharp battles. The Marines now claim a total of 1,021 enemy dead and say perhaps a second massing of northern troops has been fore- stalled. In support of Prairie, Dong Ha has become a city in itself, a major supply and staging center fed by the Navy along the Cam Lo, con- voys over Highway 9 and air- planes shuttling to the airstrip. Dong Ha is about 20 miles south of the zone and 80 miles north of the main Marine base at Da Nang. An Army battalion from the 173rd Airborne Brigade has been added to the six Marine battalions in the area. More Marines have been staged at Da Nang and Phu Bai for quick positioning. Phu -Bai is 30 miles north of Da Nang. Three Marine battalions can be landed in amphibious assault in the eastern coastal lowlands, just south of the zone. The 3rd Marine Division has established an ad- vanced command post at Dong Ha. Elements of the Communist army have been found slipping into the province's northwest cor-T ner. To combat this, anotheri Marine battalion has reinforcedi the remote Army Special Forces camp at Khe Sang. As for the South Vietnamese, six ranger, marine and airbornet battalions have been added to thef divisional unit on hand in the low- 1 lands: On the central plateau, the Ma- rines have positioned every size of gun in the U.S. artillery family.i Gunners say they can cover every-t thing to well into Laos, to 15 miles f north of the zone, to two miles out Vietnamese to swallow 500 Ma- in the Gulf of Tonkin. In the Gulf rines. itself sail U.S. warships. Marines feel the enemy will The artillerymen. on an average likely move, if he intends to, only day, fire 1,800 rounds either in with days of bad weather for support of infantry or to harrass cover. But the weather breaks and the enemy. The Communists get permits air support often enough, almost nightly pounding from B52 the Marines say, and the artillery bombers. does not stop for rain. The Marines do not deny a mass Some Marines believe the North attack might give the North Viet- Vietnamese would be satisfied with namese a hold on the province. wiping out a Marine battalion. A But the U.S. Command feels it has regimental commander estimates enough forces immediately on that with superior U.S. supporting hand and enough reserves to carry fire it would take 3,000 dead North the day. Request UN Support For Peace Plan Pressure on Soviets To Reconvene 1954 Geneva Conference UNITED NATIONS, N.Y. ()- British Foreign Secretary George Brown appealed to the United Nations yesterday to support his detailed plan for a Vietnam peace settlement. He also challenged the Soviet Union to join in a first step toward opening negotiations. "There cannot be, nor should there be, a military solution to this conflict," Brown said in a major policy speech to the 119-nation U.N. General Assembly. "We be- lieve that the only feasible solu- tion is a political settlement reach- ed through negotiations." Brown put new pressure on the' Soviet Union by again inviting Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gro- myko to join insa call to reconvene the 1954 Geneva conference. Brown and Gromyko are the co- chairmen.5 Peace Bids U.S. Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg welcomed the bid to re- convene the Geneva conference and said that at the negotiations the United States was prepared to consider all peace proposals for Vietnam. Hanoi and Peking have turned down both British and U.S. pro- posals. But Goldberg, reflecting determination of both the United States and Britain to press them, said: "We persevere in the hope that after due reflection the reac- tion in other capitals will be as affirmative as our own." Peking also rejected proposals put forward by Secretary-General U Thant, saying their purpose was to induce the Vietnamese to end the war and accept peace talks in which the United States would gain the right to stay in South Vietnam. Gromyko Absent Gromyko was not present to hear Brown, but Brown arranged a late afternoon private meeting with Gromyko-the second since Brown arrived in New York last Friday. The United States has offered to halt the bombing of North Viet- nam and agree on a timetable for supervised joint military with- drawals' if there are signs of de- escalation by North Vietnam. Six-Point Plan Brown formally presented to the assembly the six-point plan he disclosed at the Labor party meet- ing. It called for a peace conference as soon as possible to be followed by a halt in the U.S. bombing of & North Vietnam and military pull- backs by both sides. The Viet Cong would take part in negotiations with the first aim a cease-fire, and then a settlement based on the 1954 Geneva accords. All measures for de-escalation would be under international su- pervision. The present Interna- tional Control Commission would be given a peacekeeping force similar to that of the United Na- tions in Cyprus. Stock Rally HEATH'S Viewed With British Co Pessimism Urged To Dow Jones Average BLACKPOOL, England (A)-' Closes Up 4.12 in Edward Heath faces mounting pressures from his own conserva- Second Day of Gains tive party followers for stronger leadership and sharper policies in NEW YORK (')-The stock a bid to force Prime Minister market rally stretched into a sec- Harold Wilson's Labor govern- ond day yesterday, though the ad- ment out of office. vance was clipped sharply late in These demands yesterday on the trading session. the eve of the opposition party's The Dow Jones average of 30 in- annual convention coincide with dustrial stocks closed up 4.12 new public opinion surveys show- points at 758. 63 after being up ing that Heath's popularity rating 12.62 early in the afternoon. The as party chief still continues low. New York Stock Exchange average Nevertheless, the 50-year-old of all common stocks closed up 21 carpenter's son resolved to hit cents. 4RITY LOW: nservative Leader Strengthen Policies back at the 50 critical greater vigor fight against socialism. sponsors of nearly to take such action if current resolutions urging compromise efforts fail. The in- and force in the tervention of Salisbury, once a Wilson's brand of king-maker in British politics, threatened to upset the frail unity Three Demands Three chief demands built upI on Heath from different groups in the party. . On Rhodesia. right wingers led by Lord Salisbury are insisting Heath must fiercely resist any move by Wilson to impose com- pulsory sanctions on Prime Min- ister Ian Simth's rebel white mi- nority regime. Wilson is bound -Associated Press BRITISH FOREIGN SECRETARY GEORGE BROWN, left, and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gro- myko are seen after the two met privately for 50 minutes yesterday at the Ignited Nations. Both are co-chairmen of the 1954 Geneva Conference. Talks With Gromyko Display I - { 3 ' One broker said it's too early after the two-day rise "to conclude that we're experiencing anything other than a technical rally." Another Wall Streeter said. "We're not at the bottom yet." "White Sale" "We're having a white sale in the stock market and it seems toI be scaring everybody," said one analyst who contended there were good investment stocks to be ac- quired cheaply. Some high-flying glamor stocks surged ahead at the market's opening but losses soon set in. Sperry-Rand, the day's most active stock, closed down $1.50 at $22.62. Polaroid was off $5.75 at $123.75. Johnson Seeks Raise In Social Security Aid, binding the left. right and center factions of the Conservatives on the issue. Party Leadership On the matter of leadership and tactics, Heath is under fire for failing to display more vigor in fighting W i s o n. Some party groups are pressing for the injec- tion of new men and methods in the inner circle of advisers. On national problems, Heath is being urged by all sections of the party to expose what they see as the Wilson government's failures and mismanagement, especially in handling the economic and finan- cial crisis. Heath intends to argue that a lack of confidence in Wil- son at home and abroad is a ma- jor cause of Britain's troubles. He cannot easily attack Wilson's remedial program of deflation and wage control because deflation was long used as a remedy by Con- servative administrations and be- cause they themselves wanted to, but shrank from curbing the power of the labor Aunions. Optimism WASHINGTON P)--In a dis- play of cautious optimism, the State Department reported yester- day that the talks with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei A Gro- myko here cleared 1iway "some misiinderstandings" over the long- stealemate.d proposal for a treaty to ban the spread of nuclear weapons. But on Viet Nam "the question was discussed and nothing was changed as a result of that dis- cussion," the department said. The Soviet Union accuses Amer- for Nuclei ica of aggression in Vietnam. It supports Hanoi and has rebuffed l repeated efforts to get peace talks going. Press officer Robert J. McClos- key gave the U.S. report on the talks with Gromyko, which in- cluded some two hours with Pres- ident Johnson late Monday and an evening dinner session with Secre- tary Dean Rusk at the State De- partment. The Soviet foreign minister turned to the United Nations. re- He World News Roundup By The Associated Press NEW DELHI - Sporadic firing along the India-Pakistan border in disputed Kashmir State stopped yesterday after army chiefs of both countries conferred on a newly installed "hot line" tele- phone, it was reported in New Delhi. The firing stopped after four days when sector commanders of both armies met at a border site and tried to iron out problems which resulted in the first serious shooting since India and Pakistan signed a peace agreement at Tash- kent in the Soviet Union last Jan- uary. *' * * TOKYO-Thirty of the Chinese Red Guards, in a meeting with correspondents, yesterday confirm- ed what has long been evident in the West: That Defense Minister Lin Piao, described by party Chairman Mao Tse-tung as "close comrade in arms," is heir appar- ent to Mao. They said Liu Shao-chi, presi- dent of Communist China, is un- suitable for leading the cultural revolution or purge against those opposing Mao's thought. WASHINGTON - Congress on Tuesday voted to give PresidentN Johnson authority to call up either individual or organized military Reserves for duty in the Viet Nam war. The unasked presidential au- thority, to be effective through June 30, 1968, was attached to an annual defense appropriation bill carrying $158,067,472,000 needed to finance most defense outlays, * * *} NEW YORK - Prince Souvanna Phouma of Laos arrived yester- day from Paris, and said he ex-' pected to meet with President Johnson today in Washington. He declined to say what will be dis- cussed. However, Johnson is scheduled to speak in Baltimore at noon, and had tentative plans to fly from Baltimore to New York for a six- hour visit. ir Treaty is expected to leave for Moscow in a couple of days. The State Department account seemed designed to give some hope for a breakthrough in the long- deadlocked effort for a nonprolife- ration treaty, while cautioning against expecting this to happen quickly. "Important issues remain," Mc- Closkey said without defining them. Other authoritative U.S. sources said still remaining is the main stumbling block: Soviet objections to any form of nonproliferation treaty which would allow Wash- ington's proposed nuclear sharing among the Atlantic allies. The United States denies its plans would give independent atomic weapons control to any new coun- try. The State Department spokes- man endorsed Gromyko's state- ment that both the Soviet Union and the United States are striving for an accord on the nonprolifera- tion issue, which both countries place high on their foreign policy agenda. The U.S. government hastened to assure its allies-particularly West Germany-that it is not ar- ranging a deal with the Soviet Union behind their backs. McCloskey denied to newsmen that there was any "sellout" of West Germany. He said the ques- tion of what kind of atomic sharing project would be created for the Atlantic allies "remains to be settled." Bonn is anxious not to be barred from a nuclear sharing role by a nonproliferation treaty, even though the allies have yet to agree on a specific nuclear sharing plan. Some blue chips posted gains.R American Telephone was up 75 , the majors cents at $52.37. General Motors Here are the major recom- cents at 2.37n Geal Motorsdmendations, still to be worked out Chrysler wascoff 25 cents at $33.62. in detail, that Johnson will send Du Pont was up 50 cents at $156. to Congress in January: ! _ I 1Tune- t~ diL LJnIit YL 'lAI1 t WASHINGTON (P) - President Johnson will ask Congress next year to raise Social Security bene- fits by at least $2.2 billion. and give everyone increases averaging 10 per cent. Administration sources said last night Johnson will outline a four- point program for expanding So- cial Security when he addresses employes at Social Security head- quarter in Baltimore today. Americans now receiving disability pensions under Social Security. None of the proposed increases would take effect before Jan. 1, 1968. Average Social Security benefits now are $85 a month for an in- dividual. A 10 per cent increase would boost the monthly payment to $93.50. Trading Heavy Trading volume for the day was 8.44 million shares compaed with 9.63 million Monday. The Associated Press average of 60 stocks advanced 1.0 points to 273.9. The average price per share of all stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange was up 37 cents at 3 p.m. It had been up 61 cents at 1 p.m.I Many Gains In the over-all stock list, gain- ers outnumbered losers by almost two to one. Of 1,424 issues traded on the New York Stock Exchange, 792 rose and 399 fell. There were 76 new lows for the year and two new highs-Sterling Drug pre- ferred and Proctor & Gamble. " Increase all Dene iL paym2en s by an average of at least 10 per cent, with proportionally larger in- creases for those receiving the smallest payments. ! Guarantee that every worker who has participated in the pro- gram for at least 25 years receive a minimum monthly benefit of $100. The present minimum is $44. * Provide a significant increase, not yet fixed, in the maximum in- 'come a retired person can earn and stil receive Social Security benefits. The maximum now is $1,500. 0 Offer. hospitalization insur- ance and medicare benefits not only to those 65 and older but to more than one million younger Newt Stammer was broad-minded enough to try somebody else's beer. Then he went back to this one. idwesFast. (Broad-mindedness isn't everything.) ANHEUSER-BUSCH. INC. " ST. LOUIS " NEWARK " LOS ANGELES " TAMPA " HOUSTON Appearing at Eastern Michigan University in the Green & White Series BISHOP JAMES A. PIKE Thursday, Oct. 13 8 P.M. Price: $1.50 Pease Aud. 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