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Vol. 24, No. 82 Sunday, March 24, 1968

WASHINGTON (AP)~Sargent Shriver, director ofthe Office of Economic Opportunity, was named by Pres-ident Johnson Friday to be U.S.. Ambassador to France.

Shriver, brother-in-law of President John F. Ken-nedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, D-N.Y., currentcandidate for the Democratic presidential nomination,is vacationing in Europe.

President Johnson said hisnomination for the post hadbeen approved by the Frenchgovernment. The appointmentrequires Senate confirmation.

Shriver, 52, is a former di-rector of the U.S. Peace Corpsbefore he took over the director-ship of the antipoverty agency.

Johnson was asked at hispress conference, where the an-nouncement was made, whetherShriver had asked to be reliev-ed of his job at the Office ofEconomic Opportunity.

"No," President Johnson said,adding that Shriver remindedhim several months ago that hehad served a total of sevenyears in the two agencies andthat "he looked forward to thepossibility of some foreign ser-vice."

The President said Shriverhad described his Peace Corpsservice as a very satisfying ex-perience in that it had given himan opportunity to deal in rela-tions with other countries.

Johnson said Shriver told himlie would be glad to be con-sidered for any post in whichhe could serve his country. Twoforeign posts were under con-sideration for him, Johnson said,and Shriver gave Paris as hispreference.

R. SARGENT SHRIVER

NovotnyResigns

P R A G U E , Czechoslovakia(AP)—President Antonin Novot-ny gave up his fight for politicalsurvival and resigned Fridayafter the Communist party'snew anti-Stalinist leadership re-portedly received Soviet assur-ances of non-intervention intheir democratization drive.

The 63-year-old hard lineCommunist sent his letter ofresignation to the CzechoslovakNational Assembly Presidiumand it was immediately accept-ed.

Novotny stepped down lessthan 48-hours after D e p u t yPremier Oldrich Cernik re-turned from the Soviet Union,\vhere top officials in Moscow,including Premier Alexei Kosy-gin, reportedly told him theywould not interfere in Czecho-slovakia's sweepingly liberal(Continued on Back Page, CoJ. 2)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Johnsonannounced Friday that he is naming Gen, Wil-liam C Westmoreland, U.S. commander in Viet-*

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nam, to be Army Chief of Staff effective in July.Johnson told a news conference that he

has not yet made any decision on a projected increase introop strength for the war in Vietnam.

A successor has not yet been chosen for Westmore-land, who will succeed Gen. Harold Johnson as Armychief. (UPI said Gen, Johnson plans to retire when his

term expires July 1.)The President is asking tfre

chairman of the Joint Chiefs ofStaff, -Earle-G. Wheeler, to stayon in that post for an extrayear. His term normally wouldexpire July 2.

This will require a congres-sional resolution.

Johnson said that in order tohave a smooth transition all theway around, in the militaryshifts, Adm. U.S. Grant Sharp,eonimander-in-chief in the Paci-fic, will be asked to remain onfrom May 1 to July 2 whenother changes take effect. Sharppresumably is retiring.

No successor was mentionedfor Sharp.

The President was askedwhether the forthcoming reas-signment for Westmoreland im-plies any change in strategy,such as the search arid destroymissions, or in tactics in the"war in Vietnam.

Johnson answered that "strat-egy and tactical operations havenothing to do with the appoint-ments as such."

Johnson did not close the dooron changes in the strategy andtactical fields, saying that hedoes not knew what the replace-ment commander will recom-mend.

One question immediately was"are we any closer to peace?"

"I can't answer that ques-tion," the P r e s i d e n t said."Peace is a very elusive thing.I can't pinpoint a time or aplace."

He said that each day we are(Continued on Back Page, Col, 1)

GEN. WILLIAM C. WESTMORELAND

Stewart Takes OathLONDON (UPI) — Michael

Stewart has formally taken theoath of office as foreign secre-tary dur ing a Privy Councilmeeting presided over by QueenKli /abeth H at Buckingham Pal-ace. Stewart succeeds GeorgeBrown who resigned last week.

1st Grade Phenomenon

Dick Sleep. See JaneRAEFORD, N.C. (UPI) — At

first, one or two children inMrs. Hazel Galbreath's firstgrade class at Upchurch Schoolwould fall asleep.

Then it happened more fre-quently, and more and morechildren joined the group ofsleepy heads. They fell asleepin their chairs or standing up.

Mrs. Galbreath reported theproblem about two weeks ago.This touched off an extensive

medical investigation. Doctorssuspect some sort of psychologi-cal phenomenon.

The superintendent of HokeCounty Schools had the childrenmoved to another room whiletheir regular classroom waschecked for carbon monoxideor other toxic gasses. No toxici-ty was found, and some of thechildren fell asleep in the otherroom.

As the problem persisted,

Hoke County called for helpfrom Dr. Harry H. McLean,

State Boardin n e a r b y

consultant to theof Health OfficeFayetteville.

"I became aware of the prob-lem on a Tuesday," McLeansaid. He said the school report-ed one child fell asleep Thurs-day, There were four en Friday,seven on Monday, and seven onTuesday, the day McLean wascalled.

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"Abom five had gore to sleepwhen 1 got there and the restwere drowsy."

There are about five persist-ent "sleepers" of the 2,'i chil-dren in the class, McLean said.

MeLean -said investigatorsha \e def ini te ly concluded there-is no heal th hazard and nothingphysically wrong with the chi l-dren.

Me Loan said doctors suspect(Continued OH Back Page, Col. *j)

New Red Guns of Khe Sank

Kill 112 inAj^^^A. ^&&

BattleVlefhWh Bui-lQU

SAIGON-tm Infantry-men frdffi the 196th LightI$i Brigade reported kill*mg 112 Cdmmunigt soldiersThursday during a savagebattle four miles south ofHoi An.

Another 35 Reds were report-ed killed by Korean Marines inthe same general area.

Forty-three Communists werekilled by U.S. Army helicoptersnear Hue, and Red mortarmenshelled two U.S. airbuses—BienHoa and Binh Thuy—during thenight,

The U.S4 Command Fridayannounced a ne.w operationwhich kicked off on March 1in Dinh Tuong province 40 milesSouthwest of Saigon. The opera-tion, dubbed People's Road, isbeing conducted by the 1st Bri*gade of the 9th U.S. Inf. Div.Thus far in the operation 19Communists have been killed.U.S. casualties have been onewounded.

„ (Meanwhile, for the first timemilitary sources confirmed Fri-day the presence of enemy37mm antiaircraft guns to thenorth and south:of iM Marines'Khe Sanh Combat Base, APreported. ;

(The guns, mush heavier ^hanthe 50-caliber commonly used,by the enemy against allied air-craft in the south, have a rangeof 8,000 to 10,000 feet up. Thesources said the guns ,are main-ly being used against jet fight-er-bombers and C130's para-chuting supplies to the base,Seven of the 37mm gun posi-tions are said to have been de-stroyed.)

In the- battle near Hoi An, areconnaissance unit from t h e196th Light Inf. Brigade, at-tached to the Americal Div.,ran into a Communist force fourmiles south of the city.

The two units exchangedheavy small arms fire while aU.S. cavalry troop began to en-circle the Reds.

As the cavalry troop closedthe circle, the Communists fled,leaving 112 dead on the battle-field.

U.S. casualties in the fightingwere put at 16 wounded.

Early Friday morning, Com-munist mortarmen fired several122uim rockets into the sprawl-ing Bien Hoa AB north of Sai-gon, causing light damage andpersonnel casualties.

At about the same time, otherCommunist gunners in the deltafired more than 25 rounds of75mm recoilless rifle fire intothe Binh Thuy Airfield in PhongDinh Province. Light damageand casualties were reported.

A bulldozer operated by a Navy Seabcc digs Navymen havenew bunker positions at the Khe Sanh base. The heavy shelling

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SAIGON — U.S, pilotsdarted through hoks in thegradually lifting cloud Coverover North Vietnam Fridayto bomb several key targetsin the Communist countryon 108 missions flown northof the DMZ<

Navy pilots blasted Kien AnAirfield, six miles southwest ofHaiphong, the Vinh airfield andcut the runway and taxiway atthe fiai Thuong airfield north*west of Thanh Hoa.

Other Navy pilots, flying off7th Fleet carriers in the Gulfof Tonkin, bombed the Hon Gaimilitary barracks area 27 milesnortheast of H a i p h o n g andstruck Communist supply linesalong the coast.

Air Force pilots flew the mostnorthern missions of the day,hitting the Lang Dang railroadyard 64 miles northeast of Hanoiand the 'Dong Ctiong and SpinTra railroad yards, 102 and 94miles northwest of the Com-munist capital.

U.S. pilots destroyed or dam-aged a total of 55 trucks for the

» bringing the two-day total. - . - . - »kept the dozer operating despite for Wednesday and Thursday to

of the base. <AP Radiophoto) 165.

Hanoi BoostsUnifs in South

WASHINGTON (UPI) — Thenumber of North VietnameseArmy troops in South Vietnamhas increased by two divisionsin the last four months, whilethe number of Viet Cong prob-ably has declined, Pentagonsources said Friday.

Last Nov. 24, U.S. military of-ficials estimated the number ofNorth Vietnamese Army unitsin the South at 54,000. They alsosaid then that "more than 10per cent" of the 64,000 VietCong units in the South wereprobably N o r t h VietnameseArmy soldiers.

This added up to a Novemberestimate of upwards of 60,400North Vietnamese in the South.

The present estimate is thatthere are 75,000 men in NorthVietnamese Army units in theSouth, and 10,000 North Viet-namese Army "fillers" in theViet Cong, making a total of85.000.

The increase is largely at-tributed to the infiltration of20,000 men into the northernpart of I Corps, just below theDemilitarized Zone.

es in Vietnam

Invasion of N. VietnamIs Military 'Must': Ky

ABOARD THE C A R RI E RKITTY HAWK (AP) — VicePresident Nguyen Cao Ky ofSouth Vietnam said Friday thatan invasion of North Vietnamis a military necessity.

He said, however, that sucha course is "really against thepolicy of the Vietnamese gov-ernment at the present time."

The Vice President made thestatement at a news conferenceaboard this U.S. aircraft carriercruising 135 miles east of theNorth Vietnamese city of Vinh,

Ky and other Vietnamese of-

& Pacific Stars & StripesSunday, March 14,

ficials, as well as Mrs. Ky, wereaboard to present medals toU.S. Navy pilots who have beencarrying out raids against NorthVietnam.

To win the war, was an in-vasion of North Vietnam nec-essary, Ky was asked.

"Militarily speaking, that'sright," he answered.

"I don't know,'1 he repliedwhen asked if an invasion waspolitically possible.

Ky referred to the October,1966, allied summit meeting inManila and said, "In the De-claration of Manila . . . we de-clared that we don't have thedesire to invade any other coun-try."

WASHINGTON ,(S&S) - TheDefense Department has an-nounced the following casualtiesin connection with the conflictin Vietnam.

KILLED IN ACTIONArmy

SSgt. Lytell 8. Christian, Enterprise, Ala.SP4 William P. Piaskowskl, Anchorage,

Alaska.SSgt. Charles H. Sowers II, Phoenix,

Ariz.Pfc. Paul T. Arambula, Phoenix, Ariz.Sgt. James R. „ Blernackl, San Diego,

Calif. -SPS William W. McConnell, Sonora, Calif.SP4 Robert W. Harctesty, Santa Clara,

Calif,Pfc. Todd E. Swansan, Los Angeles,

Calif.Pvt. Russell E. Hope, Torrance, Calif.Pfc. Larry J. Taggart, Denver, Colo.SP4 Raymond P. Dobrzynskl, Wilmington,

Del.Sfc. Robert A. Itroe, Columbus, Go.2Lt. Larry E. Welch, Jacksonville, 111.Pfc. Roger W. Lotto, Mundeleln, III.ILt. Patrick A. Shutters, Greensburg, Ind.SP4 WIIHam S. Kleint, Fort Wayne, Ind.SP4 Dom E. Lee, Brazil, Ind,SP4 Larry D. Sherman, Marlon, Ind.Pfc. Harold Metcalf, Metamora, Ind.Sgt. David K. Ditch, Davenport, Iowa.SP4 Duane R. Passlg, De Witt, Iowa,SP4 David R. Ogle, Lyndon, Kan.SSgt. George F. Hayes, Busy, Ky.Sgt, Lucius Anderson Jr., Natchltoches,

La,

Cpl. Raul Rohledo, Shreveport, La.SP4 Tony Tate, Thlbodaux, La.SP4 Clinton Carpenter Jr., Somervllle,

Mass.Ma|, Walter L. McCahan, Grand Rapids,

Mich,SP4 Mark L. Dlckson, St. Claire Shores,

Mich.SP4 Leon G. Edwards, Detroit, Mich.Pfc. John D. Beaver, Detroit, Mich.SP4 Glen H, Mosley Jr., Independence,

Mo.Sgt. Harry J, Ellis III, Atco, N.J.SP4 Kenneth J, Greene, Jersey City,

N.J,2Lt, Terry L. Trainor, Silver City, N.M,Sgt, Ronald G. McCraw, Lovington, N.M.Pfc. Alvin J, Munson, Albuquerque, N.M.ILt. Howard S. Pontuck, Brooklyn, N.Y,Pic, Gregory F. Ambrose, Gtendale, N.Y.Sfc, William D. Crawford, Fremont, N.C.Pfc. Gory D. Hicks, Mount Airty, N.C.Sgt. William E, Price, Plain City, Ohio.Sgt. Earnest Wilson, Bethel, Ohio.SP4 Edgar W. Blankenship, Lewisburg,

Ohio.Pfc. William E. Dean, London, Ohio.SP4 James D. Guffey, Midwest City, Gkla.Pfc. Jr.mes A. Lesseg, Portland, Ore.SP4 William P. Worley, Julian, Pa.Cpl. WIIHe A. . Williams, Fairfax, S.C.SP4 James H. L. Makin, Fort Jackson,

S.C.Pic. Hoyle Martin, Spartanburg, S.C.LTC Howard P. Petty, Pulaski, Tenn,MSgt. Jlmmle R. Harrison, Greenville,

Tenn.SP4 Richard L. Dunlap, Maryville, Tenn.Pfc. Danny E. Blevlns, Alcoa, Tenn.SP4 Adolfo Agullar, San Antonio, Texas.SP4 John R. Medtey, Texas City, Texas,Sgt. J. Athan Theadare, Vasflon, Wash.SP4 Terry L. Miller, Depot, W.Va.

NavyLt. Barry W. Hooper, Redondo Beach,

Calif.BUL2 John W. Borders Jr., Sherman

Oaks, Calif.SN Joseph S. Peryslan, Oaklawn, III.SN Robert W. Cawley, Butte, Mont.

Marine CorpsPfc. Lawrence A; Fults Jr., Tucson, Ariz.Pfc. Edward L. Patterson, Garden Grove,

Calif.Pfc. Francis J, Dowd Jr., Pinervllle, Conn.Cpl. Johnny J. Junklns, Marietta, Go.Cpl. Dennis A. Toadvlne, Aurora, III.Pfc. Kenneth R. Me Atllster, Danville.

III.Cpl. Ranald L. Ellis, EvansvUle, Ind.LCpl. Abraham R. Derryberry III, Stireve-

port, La.Pfc. Donald E. Jones, Pasadena, Md.Cpl. Gelth M. Flumer*, Natlck, Mass.LCpl. Douglas R. Mohrmann, Buzzards

Bay,. Mass. 'Cpl. John M. Noonan, St. Louis, Mo.Pfc. Waiter F. Tyrcz Jr., Buffalo, N.Y.Sgt. Donald R. Chamblln Jr., Charlotte,

N.C.Pfc. James W. Bettls, Tulsa, Okla.Pfc,, Terry A. Williams, Bandon, Ore.Pfc. Carl M. Morris, Harrlsburg, Pa.LCpl. WIi!>ur L. Mlnter Jr., Sulphur

Springs, Texas,Pfc. Douglas E. Dlshman, St. Paul, Va,Pfc, Guy E. Ray Jr., Raven, Va,Pfc. Kenneth W. Haakenson, Racine,

Wise.Pfe. Daniel L. Meysembourg, Madison,

Wise.DIED OF WOUNDS

NavySN Eugene E. Swift, Wllkesboro, N.C.

Marine CorpsPfc. Samuel J. Frteson, Markham, III.LCpl, Everett Davis, Butler, Ind.LCpl, James L. Russell, Akron, Ohio.

MISSING TO DEAD—HOSTILEArmy

Sgt, Harold B. Mulier, Mcklnleyvllle,Calif.

Pfc, James A. Btankenship, Gardena,Calif.

Cpl. Ralph D. Hirschler Jr., Lamar, Colo.Pfc, Lawrence E. Jones, Denver, Colo.SP4 Nicholas J. Cutlnha, Fort Myers, Fla.Pfc. Ben H, Williams, St. Petersburg

Beach, Fla.Pfc. Gary V. Frazier, Pocatello, Idaho.Sgt. James R. Inboden, Robinson, 111,SP4 Michael J. Scott, Vandalia, III.Sgt. Robert L. Clewlow, Evansville, Ind.ISgt. Rodney J. Lqwson, Valley Station,

Ky.Sgt. Edward R. Co/deau, Everett, Mass.Pfc. Samuel J. Rumsan Jr., Maiden, Mass.Pvc. Warren G. Brown, Detroit, Mich.P.'c. Dwqlne W. Vanden Bosch, Grand

Rapids, Mich.ILt. Richard A. Koski, Grand Rapids,

Minn,Sgt. Joseph E. Hartz, Nsw York, N.Y.Pfc. Domlngs OrHz, Bronx. N.Y,ILt. Richard P. Bruce, Cleveland Heights,

Ohio.Cpl. Terry E. Webb, Lancaster, Ohio.SP4 James E. Murray, Cleveland, Ohio,Pfc. James M. Srown, Toledo, Ohio,Pfc, David L. Carey, Danville, Ofclo,MSgt, Richard C. Keefe, StUlwater, Okla.ILt. Ronald F. Gtjleblewski. Pittsburgh,

Pa.SSflt. Michael K. Moore, Philadelphia,

Po.Sgl. Kenneth L. Devor, Walnut Bottom,

Pa.SP4 Clement B. Gruber, St. Georga, S.C,Pfc. Lewis B, Wilson, Manchester, Tenn.

SPS Robert H. Walker, Spur, Texas.SP4 Jose S. Montemayor, Odem, Texas.Pfc. Henry M, S. Hale, Houston, Texas.Pfc. Sandra Hosey, Telferner, Texas.Pfc. Bobby D. Tucker, Ft. Worth, Texas.Pvt, Roberto P. Rios, San Angela, Texas.SSgt. William F. Alsman, Tacoma, Wash.SP4 Charles M. Harlston, Jenkin|ones,

W.Va.Sgt, David L. Drouqht, Delavan, Wise.Cpl. Richard L. Pitzer, Boscobel, Wise.Pfc. Dean L. Dalberg, Viola, Wise.

NavyBM3 Ernest W. Wlglesworth Jr., Oxon

Hill, Md.MISSING IN ACTION

ArmyCpt. Donald R. RoblsonILt. Walter J. Panamaroff2Lt. Thomas G. XollnskiCWO Jimmy L. WatsonSfc. Eugene GubblnsSSgt. Robert G. PinkstonSgt. Porter E- Galloway ..Sgt. John J. GuntherSgt. Ronald E. JohnsSgt. John R. StrohmaierSP4 Franklin C. Arment»SP4 Donald E. KlddSP4 Joseph M, Knoblock Jr.SP4 Chet E. McPhetersSP4 Jeffery L. PeckSP4 Robert SmealPfc. Juan D, AgularPfc. Paul L. BIgelowPfc, Robert W. EaglesonPfc. Larry J. MoorePfc. Sammle R. Sneed Jr.Pfc. John A. VlrgonaPfc. Donald E. Wotz

NavyEN3 Frankie R. JohnsonFN Eugene Nelson

Air ForceCapt. Thomas T. Hensley

DIRO NOT AS A RESULTOF HOSTILE ACTION

ArmyPfc. Michael D. Ferguson, Riverside,

Calif.Pfc. Lewis R. G. Dorsey, Emporla, Kan.Cpl. Edward A. Llonetta, Springfield,

Mass.Pfc. Henry J. Chester, Detroit, Mich.Pvt. Robert W, O'Donnell, Cheboygan,

Mich.Pfc. Thomas J, Saltrnarsh, Concord,

N.H.Pfc. Richard T. Arthur, Ona, W.Va,Sfc. Roman Lopez, Son Juon, Puerto

P.lca.SP4 Raul Pena-Class, Rio Piedras, Puerto

Rico,Marine Carps

SSgt. Gordon L, Hunt, Springfield, Mo.MISSING TO DEAD— NON HOSTILE

ArmySP4 Jimmte E. Parker, Fremont, Calif.SP4 Michael F. Green, Bannock, Idaho,Pfc. Earl F. Fitch, St. Louis, Mo.SP4 Vincent A. Catena, Nwth Babylon,

N.Y.WO Wlliiarn W. Wieburg, Odessa, Texas.

MISSING NOT AS A RESULTOF HOSTILE ACTION

SP4 Richard R.P^c, Michael L. WhitePic. Robert E. Tyn«r

NavySN James B. Rickets

CORRECTIONSSgt. Benjamin F. Mattison, USA,

Chang* state to read: South Carolina.

.By.. BOB;, ..CJOTBs ighlig.

gaiN, but the etiemy is differ*ent this. '. Where gurt&y ' grenades ,.feombs were enough to drive offthe Viet Gong in their attacks«m Saigon last month, thi§ timethfe enemy won't be throwriback as easily or as quickly,

The foe now is time—time tobuild adequate shelters for the140,000 refugees choking t h ecities, lime to Resettle the fami-lies burned, blasted or scaredeut of their homes. The littletime that's left before SouthVietnam^ raihy Reason turnsthe 80 Saigon refugee camps in-

to $bol§ of mud am! diseaseimd-misery, :

That nt e a n s thousands ofhoffi&S must be found of builtbefore May, ,: "We're m&ving, but We'temoving kind of slow-", $a£s LtCol »Jfames FV Bodine, Saigon'scivic action officer. "Actually*everyone in Saigon is undersome kind of a roof right now,They're getting fed, they've gotplaces to sleep and water towash faith, and I think everyrefugee in the city has beeninoculated at least twice, Thingsare under control now."

But, Bodine, with one eye onSaigon's temperamental skies,knbws , that sheds and ', tentswon't keep .out the torrentialmonsoon rains: that are: due

wifhlft ttyo m*Gflths\ "As far asVfn Concerned, tliai (the rainyseason) i§ the d£adiine~Hhat'swhen things get I little toUchyV*

Botline, the tl.S; MilitaryCounterpart to the mayor ofSalgo'ii, breaks, down -the re-fugee story this w.sy': A floodof §50,000 refugees ;Washed intothe cities. in the lirst week ofFebruary, when Tet fightingwas hottest in the Saigon sub-urbs and areas near the city.

The battles, whieh saw Artil-lery, rockets, mortars, fighter-bombers and mini"gun shipspour hundreds of tons of de-struction into the city * itself,leveled same 15,000 h o m e s ,Cholon, in Saigon's southernend, was hardest hit.

Most refugees' were quickly

Vietnamese Boy Scouts haul on a rope topull up a pre-fab frame at the Pctrus Ky housing

area in Cholon, a Saigon suburb, where a semi-permanent refugee camp is rising.

assimilated into m a k e s h i f tcamps, "Everybody pitched imThe Buddhists, the Catholics*the Protestants &rid private: out*fits. took the rUnoff the govern-ment couldn't, handle.'* Many ofSaigon's churches and shrinesare still filled with. displacedfamilies, living in the .buildingsand in tent cites that sprangup around them.

Rice rations \yere started im-mediately, Medical teams con-stantly prowled the c a m p s,checking on sanitary conditionsand treating not only woundedbut anyone With a communica-ble disease that could infect therest- of the camp.

Water was h a u l e d to thecamps daily. In places whereenough couldn't be supplied forbathing, cooking and drinking,the government and the U.S.dug wells within the camps.

Bodine was out on the streetsscrounging what he could forthe refugees while the fightingwas ,,still g o i n g on. *We

•scrounged A lot of stuff off thedocks. We got about a half amillion board feet of lumberarid over a thousand sheets ofroofing in the first , few days.; "-When.we needed somethinginside a warehouse and wecouldn't get in, we shot thelocks off. We had to keep .upwith -the influx right then andthere, or the situation would'vegotten completely out of con-trol,"

At one point, Bodine says, heand his Vietnamese and Ameri-can volunteer workers weredragging 220-pound sacks ofrice oiit of the front of a Cholonwarehouse while the Viet Congstill held the back of it.

Said one of Bodine's col-leagues: "When things got hotand everyone started hiding intheir hotels, Jim was out in themiddle, of it, working like adog."

When the fighting died out,•Bodine says, the Vietnamesegovernment stepped in immedi-ately with relief work; A Cen-tral Recovery Committee wasformed with Vice PresidentNguyen Cao Ky and ArmyMaj, Gen, George I. Forsythecoordinating the efforts, Bodineand his eight-man staff wereput in charge of seeing thatAmerican aid was used in theright places.

"This is a Vietnamese ef-fort," says Bodine. "We're notgoing to do it for them. We'rehere to put in just enough ef-fort, and equipment and cash to

By SPEC. 5 JACK HURST

SONG BE, Vietnam (10)—AVietnamese mother recently ranout of her house near here towarn a 101st Airborne Div.paratrooper of nearby enemysoldiers and died beside him inthe five-hour firelight that en-sued.

"She saved my life," saidPfc. William E. Perry, Phila-delphia, Pa., a point man forthe fourth platoon of A Co., 1stBn. (Abn.), 506th Inf., in thedivision's 3rd Brigade,

Perry said he was coming outof a valley alongside a row ofhouses in the village near herewhen the woman ran out of ahouse and grabbed his arm.

"She pointed to s e v e r a 1houses and across the valley toour left arid said, 'BeaaeoupVC — maybe 90 or 100 go back,you die , ' J > Perry said.

He said he saw another wom-an and a little girl in the en-trance of a tunnel beside thewoman's house. He pushed herback toward the tunnel, tellingher to get into it, and kickedopen the door of the house,

There were no enemy inside,but a hail of automatic riflefire burst from the house nextdoor.

"They kept wanting to comeout of the hole and get upthere with me," Perry said,"and I kept telling them to goback."

He was armed with 24 maga-zines of ammunition. After hehad fired more than a half-dozen of them and was -remov-ing an empty one from his M-ltirifle, an enemy round struckthe magazine and knocked itagainst his face.

"1 put a new one in and wasf i r ing it when I fell her holdingonto my shirtsleeve, and 1 knewshe'd gotten out of the holeagain," he said.

"I didn't even have time tolook around right then. Leadwas flying everywhere, and 1was mart because she had comeout. i was firing, and then sud-denly I didn't feel her holdingmy sleeve any more. I heardthe little girl start screamingand crying."

Perry said he heard, rather

then saw, the little girl runback the eight yards from thehouse to the tunnel.

"When I was changing maga-zines again, 1 looked aroundand saw the woman was dying.She had caught five roundsfrom an AK-47."

The 22-year-old paratroopersaid the shots that killed thewoman had come from a houseacross the street. Within min-utes, the U.S. troops had setthe house afire with grenades.

During mopping-up and pur-suit operations late in the after-noon, Perry remained near thehome of the dead woman.

"Some of the houses still oc-cupied by the Viet Cong werebeing destroyed, and I wasafraid they might gel this oneby mistake," he said.

He was sure the little girl wasstill in the tunnel. He did notknow whether she had beenhurt. He took off his gear andentered the hole carrying a can-dle.

"When I came around the lastcorner — there were three ofthem—-I saw her sitting against

the back wall crying and inshock," Perry said. "She rec-bgni/ed me immediately andran over and threw her armsaround my neck."

He took the child back intothe middle of the tunnel wherethere were a few belongings—asmall transistor radio, threebowls and 15 packs of ciga-rettes. He called to the men out-side the tunnel to cover up thebodies of her mother and theother woman, who also died inthe fighting.

Then he took several minutesputting the radio, the bowls andthe cigarettes into a bag so thegirl could carry them. Holdingher in one arm and the sack, inthe other, Perry came out of thetunnel,

"All the guys started pullingchewing gum and C-ration can-dy out of their packs and gaveit all to her." he said.

Finding a jeop, Perry and anofficer from the 3rd Brigade's3rd Bn. (Abn.), 187th Inf. tookher to an orphanage in the vil-lage. She never saw the bodiesof her mother and the otherwoman.

keep the machinery running/'Quick decisions were needed,

.and they were made,. The gov-ernment decided that in* t h ehardest-hit afeast it would clearaway everything and contract

, for brand new. Hong Kong-stylehigh-rise apartment dwellings.',; In other areas, U.S. Aid toInternational Development (US*AID) has Volunteered to con-struct 20 "splines", or fully-plumbed cores of sanitary fa-cilities and water sources. Onthese, 400 Vietnamese familiesWill build new one-story homesof their own.

And in the more lightly-hitareas, the Vietnamese govern-ment is issuing "triple-tens":ten bags of cement, ten sheetsof roofing and 10,000 piasters(about $90) for each family torebuild its own home.

But the biggest concern re-mains,, the monsoon. The fami-lies in the poorer refugee campshave got to be moved intobetter housing before the rainshit.

"There's just not enough goodhousing for all the people now,"say's-Bodine, "and it's going totake at least a year to get it."

So the government came upwith an interim plan—a semi-permanent refugee camp. Aplot .of government-Ownedground -near the Cholon PX,Petrus Ky, was quickly ear-marked for a buildup, and thework began.- The government bought truck-loads of lumber and cement.Dr. Nguyen Phuc Que, ministerof social welfare and refugees,took overall charge of the proj-ect. A call was put out forhelp, and thousands respond-ed. The Vietnamese Boy Scouts,volunteer y o u t h groups andvolunteer citizens came togeth-er at Petrus Ky along withRepublic of Korea forces, theU.S. Army and Air Force, the33rd Vietnamese Air ForceWing, USAID and the refugeesthemselves, to build a mini-city.

Nguyen Tan Tarn, a Vietnam-ese engineer, was under gov-ernment contract to build asugar mill at Lai Khe. Whenthe Viet Cong closed down hisconstruction' camp, Tarn volun-teered his engineering staff toplan the camp. B o d i n escrounged power saws, toolsand a cement mixer. The U.S.Army's 46th Engineer Bn. sentVietnamese e m p l o y e s aridArmy supervisors.

And Petrus Ky began to goup. While carpenters s a w e dlumber and nailed together pre-fabricated house forms, BoyScouts and other youth groupsbegan fitting them together. Ko-rean and U.S. military heavyequipment operators bulldozedthe ground, and the refugeesp o u r e d concrete foundationblocks into forms.

Girls, boys, men and women—almost all of them Vietnamese—are pushing to get the housesup before May. As Dr. Quosaid, "Time is the importantthing now."

When finished, Petrus Ky willhouse almost 10,000 refugees,and the worst of the crowdedcamps can be closed. PetrusKy will have drainage, plumb-ing and 500 kitchens. It willlast for that critical first year.The pressure will be off.

"Still," Bodine says, "it's astaggering job. Things are mov-ing slowly in some areas. Partof the problem is that we'vegot to be sure just who is arefugee. Some of them may beViet Cong. Some of them maystill have homes, but havenever gone back to find out.An awful lot of ID cards seemto have disappeared in the f ight-ing, and that's understandable."

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(Cofitlmted Fi-ftm Page i)ing to fconstruetively get to,a

propei* isolutiftn but he is unableto speak With any authority onWhat may be in the enemy'sftiind. , , (

Johnson left the way openfilsd for additional funds topresVfhe war in VietnaM But.said he hag Beached no eonclu*slons 6li the size of the supple*inerttal appropriation he will,seek from Congress.

Figures of $3 billion and $5,billion have been mentioned,

Johnson said additional moneywill be needed both far U.S.troops and for extra troop com*tnitmenfs being made by al-lies.-- " . . . - • ' : . ' . .. . .

He said that "We do knowthere are going to be-some step*,

ups, in filling 'inventory needs,involving etferylMng: frftffi sparefiarljj tfi , atemtmltion, guns andequipment* bcjth foi? ourselvesand for the alliesV'

On other _Kennedy *- President £obfl,<;6fi

had nothing to say about thedecision of Sen* ftobevt F\ Ken-nedy, D-N,¥., to, challenge himfor the presidential nominationother than to say "I was notsurprised,*' And he added thathe could have said that a yearago.

Rockefeller— Johnson said heis not in the practice of select-

,ing the candidate of the otherparty but that, his own relationswith Gov, Nelson A. Rockefellerof New York had been verygood, Rockefeller d e c i d e d

Reds Tell/BERN, Switzerland (AP) —

The North Vietnamese 'govern-^ment officially informed Switz-erland Friday that it is "seri-ously prepared" to enter intopeace . talks with the UnitedSlates following an uncondition-al halt to the bombing of NorthVietnam. ,

The message was conveyedby top North Vietnam diplomat

, Mai Van Bo who arrived inBern March 19 at the invitationof the Swiss government. MaiVan Bo heads the North Viet-nam mission in Paris.

In Washington, State Depart-ment officials said the UnitedStates is in touch with the Swissgovernment on the latest talksoffer.

At the same time, officialscautioned that there do not ap-pear to be any new elementsin the Hanoi, proposal.

U.S. officials who confirmedthat the United States is intouch with the Swiss govern-ment said they do not know ofany Swiss offer to mediate theVietnam conflict.

State Department press offi-cer Robert J. McCloskey saidhe had no confirmation fromBern that the Swiss governmentplanned any role as a mediator,or as to what was specificallyin mind.

As for the statement of NorthVietnam's ambassador t h a t

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North Vietnam would be "seri-ously prepared" to talk i f , thebombing stopped, McCloskeysaid "we have heard that be-fore."

According to a Swiss govern-ment communique, the exacttext of his peace offer was:

"Recalling the declarationsmade by the Premier and For-eign Minister on the subject ofeventual p e a c e negotiations,Mr. Mai, Van Bo added that thegovernment of the DemocraticRepublic of North Vietnam isseriously prepared to take partin such negotiations after theunconditional halt to the bomb-ing of North Vietnam."

Heavy SnowHits Dixie

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (UPI)-Aspring snowstorm laid a roof-crushing, 15-inch blanket onMemphis Friday and spreadthrough the cotton country asfar south as Jackson, Miss.

Aged magnolia trees split inhalf with the unaccustomedweight of snow and ice andspring flowers blackened underthe freezing ".coverings,,

The roof of a furniturewarehouse collapsed u n d e rweight of a 12^ inch snow atDyersburg, and a boatbousoroof caved in at a marina onMemphis' McKellar Lake. Twoof the 15 boats in the structurewere lost, with damages esti-mated at $100,000.

Parts of Kentucky andArkansas also were hit by theunseasonal snow and tornadoalerts went out for sections ofGeorgia and Alabama.

What was believed to be asmall tornado hit Buchanan,Ga,( during the afternoon,overturning a house trailer andinjuring one person.

Thursday aga ins t contesting-with former Vice Presided!Richard -M, Nixon lot the Be*pablieaft presidential nomina*tiOH. , '

The President said he doesn'tthink there ever has been Morecooperation between the FederalGovernment and governors* andthat "right at the top of the listhas been (2ov, Rockefeller."

Me said Rockefeller had beenvery,wise and helpful with prob-lems of cities, ghettos, and for-eign relations, although therenot always was agreement be*tween the two of them.

Re-election — Again, the Pres-ident said he will cross whenhe comes to it the bridge forannouncing his own intentionstoward seeking the nominationfor a second full term. ,

Politics in general »- A re*portef ^id that rightly 6fwrongly speculation, grows thatthe campaign will be one of themost brutals partly'-.because o!the divisive nature of the Wafin Vietnam, and asked Johnson'sreaction,

cil would hope that would hotbe .true/' the President said. "Iwould hope the candidates coulddiscuss issues with the peoplefactually in an atmosphere thatwould enable them to make adecision in the best interest oftheir country*"

Riot Commission *- Johnsonmade his first extensive publicanalysis of the report of his spe*cial commission set up to ex-plore causes and cures of theriots that have swept, some

American cities, He said thatmany of the recommendationsWere good but that he didn'tagree with all of them.

the President did not explainwhich ones specifically he-likedor did not like,

"We felt .overall the coffimis*sion wanted to be, and was, con*structive arid helpful,'* the Pres-ident said.,

He added that some things re-commended already have beendone and others were recom*mended in a special message hegave Congress on city problems*

Nominations involving the ap*pointments listed by Johnsonare being sent to the Senate assoon as possible* along with therecommendation for legislationextending "Wheeler's term anoth-er year., ,

Israeli forces blow up what they said wasa terrorist base and ammunition dump at Al Kara-

mah, Jordan, theeast of Jericho.

largest of several villages just(UPI Radiophoto)

(Continued From Page 1)the answer to the mystery liesin the psychological approach.

"The psychologists and psy-chiatrists we called in , as con-sultants do feel this is thesource. They have not pinpoint-ed actual diagnosis. The investi-gation is continuing."

McLean said his own guessis that the sleep is "a habitpattern that has been verystrongly reinforced by the factthat every time they got sleepythey got extra attention andfrequently were carried home.This is supposition. The psy-chiatrists are working on it."

"It's one of the weirdestthings I have ever run acrossin my life," McLean added.

JordanBy United Press International

Israel and Jordan traded spo-radic gunfire across the truceline and charges at the UnitedNations Friday. Israel came un-der rebuke from the Vatican forits reprisal thrust into Jordan,and the Soviet Union said Israelmust be punished for threaten-ing \vorld peace.

The United States let it beknown it was still sending anumber of supersonic jet fighter-bombers and Patton tanks toJordan "in the very near fu-ture" under terms of an armsa g r e e m e n t concluded lastmonth.

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new course of "Socialist Democ-ratization."

An official party statementsaid that Novotny was retiringbecause "of the state of hishealth."

Novotny, who had held theoffice of president since 1957,has been under a barrage ofpublic attacks for the past fewweeks,

He was accused of being

ns Under Firelinked with the bloody Stalinistpurges of the early 1950's, ofdelaying rehabilitation of theirvictims, and blocking a reformof the country's ailing economy.

The scandal over Maj. Gen,Jan Sejna, a Novotny protegewho fled to the United Statesafter an abortive plot to halt thedemocratization drive, finallybroke his political neck.

The new Reformist p a r t yleadership u n d e r Alexander

Dubcek, who had replacedNovotny as party leader lastJanuary, let the press giveWide publicity to the ease whichalso involved large scale cor-ruption. Novotny's support thenrapidly withered away.

Most o f t e n mentioned asNovotny's likely successor inthe presidency is Josef Smrkov-sky, hero of the 1945 Pragueanti-Nazi uprising and for fiveyears a solitary prisoner in aStalinist jail.

Both sides claimed victory inthe 15-hour battle Thursday thatsent Israeli jets and tank col-umns smashing into Jordanianterritory against a base campIsrael said Jordan was using toshelter Arab terrorists.

UPI Correspondent John Law-ton, in a report from the scene,said the Israeli attack to crushArab commandos appeared to

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have failed, Lawton said he wentFriday to the village of Al Ka-ramah where Israel claimed tohave killed 50 guerrillas Thurs-day and was ordered out at gun-point by Arabs armed with au-tomatic weapons.

(AP reported Israel told theU.N. its military penetration ofJordan had uncovered a gigantic-terrorist center with large storesof mortars, mines and machineguns arid with undergroundbunkers.)

In the Vatican, Pope Paul VI.said in a statement which ob-servers said was aimed mainlyat Israel, expressed concernover the fighting and called onboth sides to renounce the use offorce.