Peace Offer Still Stands, LBJSaysWASHINGTON (AP)—

President Johnson saidMonday night that despitethe Communist offensive inVietnam, his San Antonioformula offer for peacetalks still stands and "wewould meet them tomor-row,"

Johnson discussed Vietnam,dissent at home and unrest inthe cities in a wide-ranging 75-minute question and answer ses-sion with a group or 11 collegestudents.

Johnson said that in seekingpeace in Vietnam, "we havegone just as far as decent andhonorable people can go."

But he said he stands behindhis 1967 offer fo halt the bomb-ing of North Vietnam and talkpromptly if the Communists in-dicated this would be produc-tive.

But, addressing the Commu-nists in effect, he added: "Wedon't waul .YOU to take advan-tage like you did during theTet."

If llano! is interested, John-rnn »nW f t wmtMn't hnve lochange a "could" lo a "will"or indulge in any other seman-tical niceties in stating its posi-tion.

As an example, he went on.?.!! they wo«M h»v*» In do "isdrop a line and say Geneva isthe place and tomorrow is theday."

Johnson said Hanoi's answer(CwUnuvd on Buck Page, Col. 2)

Vance,Park TalkBII **i»v

StS Korea Bur«ouSEOUL — Presidential envoy

Cyrus R. Vance t-alled on SouthKorean President Chung Ho*Park at his Blue House man-sion Monday to discuss Koreansecurity, the Jan. 21 North Ko-rean commando raid on Seouland the Pueblo incident.

At the three-hour meeting,Park and Vance exchangedviews oil "the basic positions of

Korean security" -which cameinto ijue.slion following the tworecent provocations by NorthKorea, presidential spokesmanHum Khik Shin said.

Shin did not elaborate.Vance delivered a letter from

President Johnson lo the Koreanchief executive. Shin said.

Vance was accompanied byAmbassador William Porter andGen. Charles Bonesteel III,commander of the United Na-tions Command.

Korean government leadersattending the meeting includedPrime -Minister I! Kwon Chung,Foreign Minister Kyu Hah Choi,Defense Minister Sung EunKim and Central Intelligence(Continued on Rack Page, Col. 3)

SurpriseBoomerangs

SALT LAKE CITY (AP)— Twomasked thugs who tried to holdup 20-year-old Chuck McKcnzicdid too thorough a job of sur-prising' him.

When McKcnzic arrived at thebank to make a night depositof $1,700, two men told him tohand over the moiu'y. ThestailieU »IcKen/.ie uiicW Up hUhands. The money sack whichhe had hern holding kept goingup— it landed on the bank roof.

The robbers fled without themoney.

STARAN AUTHORIZED PUBLICATION OF THEU.S. ARMED FORCES IN THE FAR EAST

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Vol. 24, No. 44 *****EDITI0N Wednesday, Feb. 14, 1968

Marines Block Off RedsWith Hue River Assault

SAIGON (UPI) —American M a r i n e sMonday s taged anamphibious a s s a u l ta c r o s s the PerfumeRiver in Hue to cut offsupply and e s c a p eroutes for Communisttroops still clinging tothe old walled city.

The battle-weary Ma-.nnes used assault boats tocross the northern half ofthe old imperial rapiial.Communist sappers blew upthe two main bridge's link-ing the city early in thefighting.

Although the 500 Marine*were unopposed in their cross-ing, a fleet of patrol boats,landing craft and a mine .sweep-er downstream fought a 25-minnli> hn1l)i> with f'ntnmtiiiKtsentrenched on the .ioutheaslernshore.

The Marines planned lo teamup with troops of the SouthVietnamese 1st Div who havebeen fighting the Communists(Continued on Back Pagr, Col. 3)

LBJ Pays Nation's Tr/fco-fe fc LincolnPresident Johnson bows before the statue of

Abraham Lincoln after placing a wreath In theLincoln Memorial in Washington In observanceof Lincoln's birthday. The President likened

Civil War difficulties to those of today. "Lincolnstuck It out, sad but steady," he said. "So will we.In Lincoln's spirit we will achieve a ju^t and alasting peace." (AP Radioplioto)

Bum ChoosesTo Stay OneLOS ANGELKS (AP) - "I1

rather stay at the bottom of thebarrel. Tin-not ready yet lo goover to tho~oihcr side."

With these words, bearded,tattered Clint Wcscott. 51. wfiosays he's been on the bum for 15years, refused $19,219.

"Hand me a dollar," he said,"I'll take it—buy a lit lie drink,a little smoke. But I don't wantthe nineteen thousand.

"I just don't want the mon-ey."

The money belongs to Wes-cott, who sleeps in weeds in avacant downtown lot and liveswith his friends "One-eyedJack," "Big Swede." and • TheMissing Man."

His current assets are 4<cents, he says.

The money is from the fore-closure sale in 1961 of a gas .sta-tion in Burnt Hills. N.Y.. nearSchencctady, that Wescott aban-doned in 1933 when he headed(Continued on Back Page, Col. 1)

On Reds' Death list MoreA Quiet Man's Own War MM Vf Troops

By SPEC. 5 RAY BELFORDSI.S Staff Correspondent .

SAIGON — Danh Riem is typical ofthousands of Vietnamese in Saigon.

He is a quiet, unassuming man. A.work-.ing man dedicated to. scratching out a;meagei' iiving for his wife and children.

.Now he is homeless. H« has lost all hispossessions and one .of his five, children.. He is a marked .man. . ,••.• ; .^

He works for Americans. .. ' :• On Feb. 2,. three days' after the Com-[munist Tet offensive began in Saigon, Danhwas i n h i s home. . . .

As he looked out that morning he saw agroup of Viet Cong approaching, led by aninformer wearing the black hood of anexecutioner. . . ' . . . .

• The band passed by Danh's house andturned in at the home of a Vietnamese police'

.official. They went inside the house and:dragged the frightened policeman- andanother Vietnamese government official into

. the.street and .killed .them. Danh watched.The man in .the hood turned, looked to-

..ward Danh's house and started forward. - :

Danh knew he was next. He knew thatsomeone whom he had lived around and as-sociated with—maybe even a.trusted friend—was a Communist and knew that heworked for Americans."Danh gathered up his wife'and-'children

and fled to the home of his second wifeto hide. • . „ • • ' •

Danh .and his family had escaped theexecutioner, but .his sorrows were justbeginning.

Thai night, a flarei either dropped orfired by AJlied .soldiers in :'the area, feHinto his second, house, the building wasengulfed in -flames and. one of Danh'sdaughters perished in the blaze,

After the fire died down, only, a small.section of the .house still stood.:.Danh'gathered his family into what remained ofthe shelter and continued to hide. .Theyremained, there, huddled together, fright-ened until the Viet Cong were driven out; '

it was then Danh learned that his otherhome had been destroyed by Allied airstrikes. - • • • • • •

Even though most of Danh's losses wereat the hands of Vietnamese and Americanforces fighting the Viet Cong, he does notblame them for what has happened to him.

The flare that dropped on his house wasan accident, Danh said. The air strikeson his other'home and neighborhood werenecessary; he said.. "The VC use my house, my friend'shouse to fight Vietnamese soldiers," he said.

. Though Danh has lost almost everythinghe owned, he is still hopeful of the future.

He .trusts the Thieu-Ky regime andbelieves' that they will help him andthousands more like him build new homes.

"I believe what Thieu says. I have towait, and see if they help me", he said.

Danh was back on his job Monday. Heis still working for Americans, but he isstill afraid, of the -VC., . He is also reluctant to go back to hisold .neighborhood. Afraid that one of thepeople he might meet will be the man inthe mask.

Cagey Way fo Play Bait at Khe SankProtected by earth walls and bonkers, U.S. Marines.keep fit '< keeps the Marines out of sight of North Vietnamese machine-

with « game on a makeshift basketball court at Khe Sanh. The wall gunners and snipers. (Tp RadTophoto)

Air StrikesCufs jhai Terrorists

S&S Vietnam Bureau

SAIGON — Overcast skies. again. limited . strikes against• North Vietnam Sunday and pi'e-. vented accurate -assessment 'of

damage in the. 75 missions.-flown. . ' - • • • • - -

., Kep. airfield, 38 miles nbrth-! east, of -Ilanoij -was hit. for the- second straight day, by . F4! Phantoms from the 8th Tactical

Fighter Wing.Other Air Force c r e w s

bombed the Yen Bai airfield andstorage area 7 miles northwestof the capital. \

Navy and Marine pilots hitlines of communications andtruck convoys in the southernpanhandle and enemy positionsnorth of the DMZ near ConThien and Gio Linn.

" £ Pacific Stars & StripesWednesday, Feb. 14, JK8

Kill 6, Wound 20BANGKOK (AP) — Thai Com-

munist terrorists' killed six gov-..crnment, troops and wounded 20others in' well-staged, ambushes

-during, -{he past week, .ThaiPrime Minister Thanom Kitti-kachorri, said Mpiwlay.

Thanom, giving his weeklysummary of Communist activi-ty in Thailand, 'said most of (hemen were killed in the northern'province of Nan! •

Three battalions of govern-ment troops have been battlinga. well-armed terrorist unit inthe jungle-covered mountains ofNan for more than two. months.

The Thai government hasbrought up artillery and tanksand used Air Force jets for

strikes against the elusive Com-munist force.

The most serious ambush took.place^lasi Mpnday when a patrolof -"thft mountain cavalry, washi t -wi th withering fire from au-.tomatic weapons.

Four government troops werekilled and five wounded. Fivecavalry horses, among the lastsuch units in the world, werealso killed. •

A second government patrolsent ii) two hours later after theCommunist force fell into a sec-ond ambush. One soldier waskilled and 14 wounded in theambush.

Casualties inflicted on the ter-rorists were not known. No ter-rorist bodies were'found.

2 KoreansExecufed

' SAIGON (AP) — The bodies- of.two Koreans executed.by the

Viet Cong in S a i g o n last"Wednesday were recovered Sun-

.; day by Vietnamese police., .-- The police removed the bodies-of Park Noyul, 31, an informa-tion officer at the Korean em-bassy, and -Kim 'Kyung Koo,' 44,business representative of theEnglish • ' Language K o r e a nTimes, from a mass grave in theLe Van Duyet cemetery.

The bodies were claimed- byofficials of the Korean'embas-sy.

The two Koreans reportedly•were riding in a jeep near Sai-gon's racetrack with a Vietnam-ese civilian when they werestopped by several Viet Congmid taken away.

MY THO, Vietnam (AP)— President Nguyen VanThieu said Monday moreU.S. troops are needed tohasten victory in the Viet-nam war;

"We can hold them (the Com-munists)," Thieu said, "but toend the war faster is anothermatter."

There are now more than500,000 U.S. soldiers in SouthVietnam.

Thieu, said the recent seriesof Communist attacks on SouthVietnam's major population cen-ters shows that one Viet Congbattalion in a city "demands atleast five times as many .troopson our side to destroy them;"

"They can do .that. 'becausathey have no responsibilities,they don't have to protect roads,bridges and outposts and theydon't have to worry about hurt-ing people,". Thieu said of theCommunists. ' .

Thieu made his commentsduring a helicopter tour of fourMekong Delta'cities hit by theCommunist attacks.

Thieu ' said the Communistsmight launch a second \yave ofattacks against South Vietnam-ese cities.

CasualtiesWASHINGTON (S&S) — The

Defense Department has an-nounced the following casualtiesin connection with the conflict inVietnam. •

KILLED IN ACTIONArmy

Cpt. Andrew J. Daniel, Demopolis, Ala.• SPt Glen' O. Ervin, Placerville, Calif.

Pfc. Lester G. Yarbrough, Ki mis I and,Fla.

2Lt. Sam H. Galloway, Vldalla, Ga.SP4 John S. Ambrosinl, Lockport, III.Cpl. Carl Dingus, Morion, Ind.SFC James L. Wages, Hopkinsville, Ky.Pfc. John L. Nielson, Takoma Park," AM.

. Sgt. Michael A. Grieve, Harel Pgrk, Mich.Scil. 'Jolinle B.-Thomas, Detroit, Mich.SP-t Donald M..Rcdtcs, Detroit, Mich.LTC Bernard D. Thompson Jr., Minnea-

polls, Minn.5P4 David L. Parker, Alden, Minn. •5P4 Thomas A. Badger, Arnold, Mo.SP5 Joseph V. Marrone, New York City.Cpl. Ghalib A. Abdullah, New York City.SP4 John F. Kyiper, New York City.Pic. Robert M. Finnegan, New Hyde Park,

N.Y. 'Pfc. William K, Mlarcin, Herkimer, N,Y.Cpl. James E. -Walsh, West Chester,

Ohio. - - - ••. SP4' Lucion P. Wells, Oregonla, Ohio.

S.P4 Curtis T. Gay, McKeesport, Pa.• ~SP4 John P. Bra'qa Jr., Newport,-R.I..MSgt. Phillip R. Chassion, Clarksville,

-Tenn. . . . . : •Sflt. Jlmmle Patten, El Paso, Tex.

• Sgt. Robert B. Stafford, Copperas Cove,'Tex. . • • .

Pfc. Ivan O. Homsley, Irving, Tex.1L1. Stephen B. Murden, Mount Vernon,

Wash.SP4 Robert E. Lochrldge, Taconia, Wash.SP4 Rex A. 'Bowyer, Belington, W.Va.Sflt. Charles W. Behrens, Two Rivers,

Wis.Pfc. Juan B. Morales-Mercado, Bayamon,

P.R.Navy

AZ1 Ricliard L. Wendsl, Flint, Mich.Marln* Corps

Cpl. John W. Winter, Brewlon, Ala.Pfc. David W. Crary, Texafkana, Ark.Pic. Johnny Medina, Edgewater, Colo.LCol. Raymond J. Michalowski, Chicago,

111. :Pvl. Rudolph V. Cistaro, Chicago, III.2Lt. Henry H. Persons, Fort Wayne, Incf.Pic. Steven L. Smith, Fort Wayne, Ind. .LCpl. John D Evans, Lynn, Mass.Ma]. Waller M. Murphy, Stolen Island,

• N.Y.• SI.1. Nicholas A. Lia, Stolen Island, N.Y.

Cpl. Kenneth Sorowicz, Buffalo, N.Y.LCol. Roger E. Kelly, Kenmore, N.Y. •GYSgt. Wayne L. Sapp, Maysville, N.C.Pfc. James R. Golz, Eugene, Ore.

'• LCnl. Robert L. Shaffer, Ellzobethton,Tenn. ' . . . - - . - •

• Pfc. Carl. W. Dorries,' Dallas, Tex.• Cpl. Robert E. Hall, Lynchbura, Va.

MISSING TO DEAD—HOSTILE .-Army • •

ll.t. William L. Busby, Valley Station,Ky.

MISSING IN ACTIONArmy

• WO John H. Cannon: • •Air Forci

Capt. Carl W. Lasiter.ILt. Robert J. Edgar.ILL William T. Potter

DIED NOT AS A RESULTOF HOSTILE ACTION

ArmySP< Kenneth .E. Kusplel, Clark, N.J.

Mwin« C*nKSgt. John D. K. Maclean, Somervllle,

Mass.Air Facet

Sgt. Timothy R. Hammond, Marysvltlev

ead Assault

s&sPFC. PAUL V. HEALEY

fty S.SOt, ftEKARD FORKENS&S Sloff Correspondent

SAIGON — "American Em-bassy under fire!" "BOQ 3 un-der fire!" "MP patrol underfire at Phu Thu Race Track!"

Time.: 3 a.m., Wednesday,Jan. 31.

Place-: The 716th MP Bn.Headquarters — nerve centerof U.S. Mil i ta ry Police activityin Saigon — as it was besiegedby a score of distress calls' frommany f a r - f l u n g areas in thecity.

As the calls mounted, MP.sh e a d e d every which way !owhere the action was.

Pfc. Paul V. Hcalcy of Hoi-brook, Mass., dropped 10 Redsin six hours of battling outsidethe American, Korean and Phil-ippine Embassies,

The strapping 20-year-old wasone of the first to reach theAmerican Embassy, after win-ning a grenade-tossing contestwith a desperate VC outside thePhilippine Embassy,

Healey blasted the chain offthe gate, and, shoulder-to-shoul-der with Sgt. John II. Shook ofNewton, N.C., entered the Em-bassy grounds.

Scurrying across the lawn —

lite Viet Troops

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SAIGON — South Vietnameseairborne troops killed at least878 Reds in five major citiesthroughout the republic on Jail.31.

The elite government soldierssustained light casualties,capturing 29 of the enemy .alongwith 91 crew-served and 31)8individual weapons.

The initial action was trig-gered when a special Viet Congcommando platoon forcibly en-tered Saigon's radio station at3:30 a.m. Two companies of the1st Bn. were rushed to the scenewhere they killed the 14 manenemy unit.

At 5 a.m., two companies ofthe 8th Bn. battled a largeenemy force outside the westernperimeter of Tan Son Nhul AirBase, saving the VietnameseJoint General Staff Headquartersat the base from being overrun.

Meanwhile, the two other com-panies of the 8th Bn. were joinedby members of the fith Bn. asthey counterattacked enemyforces rocketing the base fromthe southwest.

As this fierce action continuedthroughout the day, the airborneheadquarter's mortar platoonand U.S. Army gunships sup-ported the Maroon Berets andeventually crushed the Reds onboth fronts, ki l l ing 259 and cap-tur ing nine. Forty-six crew-served and 216 individualweapons were seized in theday-long battle.

The newly-formed l l th Bn.near Vung Tau came under

Communist attack in the earlymorning hours. The Ruds weredriven off by government para-troopers. Eighty Viet Congbodies were left behind alongwith four crew-served and 34individual weapons.

At 11 a.m., in the northernprovincial capital of Hue, ele-ments of the 2nd and 7th Bn.killed 275 and captured 5 ofthe enemy.

The 5th Bn. battled an enemybattalion at Da Nang, killing 50and capturing two.

When North V i e t n a m e s esoldiers attacked Quang Tri, the9th Bn. repulsed the supcrior-sixed enemy force, ki l l ing 200and capturing 12.

The fighting in the five citiesclaimed 114 airborne troopers'lives. In the 24 hour period theSouth Vietnamese paratroopershad ki l led almost one-fourth ofthe total enemy soldiers theykilled in all of 1957. Two bat-talions of the division com-manded by Maj. Gen. Du QuozDong, the 7lh and 8th, have re-ceived the U.S. PresidentialUni t Citation for past actions ofvalor.

Cameraman WoundedSAIGON (AP) — Dana Stone,

an American photographer forUnited Press International, wassl ight ly wounded while coveringstreet fighting in the northerncity of Hue, he was treated atthe scene by a Marine medicand continued photographing theaction.

Shells Fail To Hit Crowded Hole

M16 in one hand, captured AK47in the other — the New En-jzlander engaged the assassins,gunning down nine before thelast of the 19-man suicide squadwas killed.

Later, Healey admit ted thatthe 1\f-2 hours he spent insidethe Embassy grounds "seemedlike a l ifet ime," His only com-plaint was w i t h his f lak jacket."It must have weighed a thou-sand pounds," he said. "Suretore my back up!"

Healey, who earned (he Pur*pie Heart and the Bron/e Starduring 10 months as an MPwith the 101st Airborne Div., be-fore extending for duty with the716th, stated in all seriousness:"1 never want to hear the term.Saigon warrior, used again!"

Meanwhile. Sgt. Robert L.Morrison of Tidioute, Perm., wasleading a dozen stalwarts tocheck out a "lost patrol1' lastheard from in the Phu ThuRace Track area.

"When we reached the inter*section," recalled the quiet-spoken NCO, "we spotted threedeserted vehicles. One w a sburning, while, two bodies layalong side a jeep.

"Four or five figures werestanding by a fourth vehicle. Wecalled to them to identify them-selves, but they took off run-ning. We dropped three ofthem."

The 25-year-old sergeant thentold of hearing an agoni/edvoice calling for help. Thewounded man was in one of thejeeps and la ter iden t i f i ed as aFilipino.

"Every t ime we at tempted toj>et to him," .said * Morrison,"the VC raked Us with machinegun fire. And as we. dived forcover, they jeered us . . . invit-ing us to come and get our bud-dy. They spoke pretty goodEnglish."

When the Americans finallymade it to the jeep after eighthours, the Filipino was dead.

As dawn approached, the ene-my fire increased, MP rein-forcements were hit with rock-ets, claymore, and automaticfire, kill ing one and woundingtwo.

Sgt. Morrison and his men oc-cupied a .six-story hotel close tothe intersection, where theycould best keep the enemy atbay.

Rockets, Chinese StyleWO Charles D. Evans ( lef t ) , of Michigan City, 1ml., and 1st

IA. James D. Seymour, of Starke, Fla., intelligence agents with the4th Inf. Div.'s 4th Military Intelligence Det., look over a Chines«122mm rocket launcher found by the division during an operationnorthwest of Fleiku. (USA)

DAK TO, Vie tnam ( IO)—Firs tIt Roger Fleming, of Westlake,Fla., considers himself a w f u l l ylucky,

A platoon leader w i th Co. C,1st Bn. t Xth In f . . he was recentlyxvai i ing i m p a t i e n t l y a t the ba t -ta l ions ' s old f i rebase named"Dog Bone'' for a ride to tht;new- b a t t a l i o n local ion which\u«a aimu.il complete!.!.

"1 was s t and ing by the heli-pad, hoping tha t I 'd be able toget out on t h e next chopper."FScming said, "when the roundsstarted in."

!\r o r l h Vietnamese soldierss t r i k i n g wi th 75mm reeoillessr i f le f i r e , hi t the a lmost-vacantlireba.se. "i t h i n k they were t r y -ing to destroy the a r t i l l e r y f i r ed i rec t ion center." F i t -min t : re-calls!.

''i Drubbed im Sice) put and

started h u n t i n g real quick fora bunke r to crawl in to ." theplatoon leader cont inued , ' ' andfound one. A l t h o u g h t he r e weret ight men in i t , I squeezed ina n y w a y . "

Fleming's bunker was f l a n k e dby two oi l ier ^und-bagged l o r t i -i ' icutions. "1 guess we were jus tl ucky as he l l , " F l e m i n g said,"because t h e b u n k e r s on eachside u! us took d i rec t h i t s andit t ree bUnrip i u u r !t->:t a\ \ ay

was hi t and comple te ly de-stroyed."

W i t h i n seconds, a b a t t e r y of155mm h o w i t / c r s was in ac t ion ,pour ing rounds i n t o t h e .suspect-ed enemy l o c a t i o n .

" A f t e r Hi rm imK the NVAbroke o i l l i i e a t t ack . " addedFleming, "and i got a chopperou! as I U N ! as i cou ld . Thereut"-t no c i i M i a i l i e s but a lot ofJlll'KY L:lr< 5 iiM.'i L. ' '

"Then a chopper landed righton lop of the building," saidMorrison, "and two officersfrom the 199th Light Inf. Bri-gade stepped out and told usone of their mechanized unitswas on the way. We were allhappy to see those APCs rollby minutes lafer ."

What great a t t rac t ion did theRace Track area hold for theCommunists? Morrison, a vet-eran of 26 months wi th the71(ith in Saigon, feels tha t theReds were after the two ARVNcompounds in the immediatearea, "Getting there when wedid, probably wrecked theirplans," he said.

And while countless f i ref ightserupted throughout the metro-polis, 1(5 MP.s sped to theirdeath off Vo Tanh St.

"A patrol called in to sayBOQ 3 was under at tack." saidSpec. 4 Odd! N. Conyers ofPhiladelphia.

The 21-year-old Philadelphia!!related how 25 of his buddiesboarded a 2^-ton truck en routeto BOQ 3.

Taking every precaution, theMPs elected to approach thetroubled spot from a sideslreet.Within 75 yards of the BOQ,the truck was hi t by rockets andclaymores which had been setup in a nearby graveyard andalong the street.

Sixteen American Mi l i t a ry Po-licemen died on the spot, therest were wounded, as were sev-eral others who went to theirrescue.

For 18 hours, the Reds heldfast. For 18 hours, MP.s tried invain to reach their dead andbadly wounded buddies.

"When 1 arrived on thescene," said Conyers, "1 wasshocked by the sight of thetruck, and wondered how any-one could have survived sucha terrible thing."

BOQ 3 was l i t t te the worse forthe 18-hour batt le which ragedoutside , . . nor was the A R V Ncompound directly across thestreet.

The Communis ts kept up theircit . \-wide terror a t tacks . Butwherever the distress signalscame from, the American m i l i -tary policemen answered w i t hl igh tn ing speed and effective-ness, helping to crush a die-hard enemy.

Seobee BenefitAids Orphanages

DA NANC,, V ie tnam (PAO)—Seabfi^ from U.S. Naval Mo-bile Construction Bn. 128 donat-ed over $"50 at a benef i t showpresented by the "Soul Survi-vors" in the Enl is ted Men's"Tiki Hu t" Club at Camp Faulk-ner, Da Nang East.

The money was given to theChina Beach Protes tant and theSacred Heart Cathol ic Orphan-ages to be used for clothing,books, medicine, b u i l d i n g ma-terials and other necessities.

U t i l i t i e s m a n 'J(.'.'. Tom E. Ut -terbaek m a d e ar rangementsw i t h the group to p lay at nocharge for the b e n e f i t . The "SoulSurvivors" f ea tu red music rang-ing f rom classical to the morepopular "soul" mus ic .

Watson CommandsD A NA.NG. V i e t n a m ( < > ! ) -»

Col. Paul C. W a t : - o n . -Hi C o l u m -bus. C>a. r e c e n t l y a s sumedcommand of t h e M i i i H h Tac t ica lF igh te r W i n g . I hi N t n i g A l i ,r e p 1 a c i n :-' Col. Cl i i ' i ' o rd II.Meier. 47. Sa rasn lu . F!a.. v*how i i ! a s sume t h e d u t i e s o f t t i n ; , 'v ice c o m m a n d e r u u l d h i s de-yjar lure . for Shasv A K i i . S.C.

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Father GroppiPut on Probation,Fined in Protest

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (AP) — The Rev. James B.Groppi, the white Roman Catholic priest who has guidedMilwaukee's open housing demonstrations since theybegan last August, was fined $500 and put on two years'probation Monday on a charge of resisting arrest.

County Judge F. Ryan Du'ify Jr. first sentencedFather Groppi to six months in the House of Correction,

then stayed thu sentence andimposed probation.

He told the priest that shouldhe be arrested again during theperiod of probation, the jailterm would be reinstated.

Fattier Groppi was convictedby a jury last Friday of resist-ing arrest during an attemptedmarch last August. The demon-stration, held during a brief pe-riod when Milwaukee MayorHenry Maier attempted to bansuch activities by proclamation,ended in a melee with police.More than 100 persons were ar-it.--.itu. inciuumji ilie piii-.il.

In an impromptu news confer-ence after the sentencing. Fa-ther Groppi said he was not sur-prised.

"The system is racist," he.srtM. "Tilt: ju<lg£ l«'!oilg* lit l!ieKugles Club. Hn has a racistcalendar in his chambers."

FATHER GROPPI

Abel QuitsADA OverMcCarthv

PITTSBURGH (AP) - F. W.Abel. president «f the UnitedSleeHvotkers Union, resignedMonday from the board of (heAmcrh-uiis for Democratic Ac-tion (ADA) over the group's en-dorsement of peace candidateSen. Kugcnc McCarthy for pres-ident.

"Tht board's repudiaiion ofPresident Johnson <m the basisof a .single Issue in a lime of na-tional concern and commit-ment, while ignoring the Presi-dent's orcrall record of accom-plishment in areas of traditionalcoiict'Cii to ADA, la unwarrant-ed, unrealistic, shortsighted andignores the realities of thepresent political .situation," saidAbcl'i resignation.

The ADA endorsed the Minne-sota Democrat by a 65-47 vote ofits national board Saturday inWashington.

It was the firs I lime in 20years that the ADA has failed loendorse an incuml>ent Demo-cratic president.

The action was reportedlyagainst stiff opposition from or-ganized labor.

Judge Duffy is a member ofthe Kagles Club, which restrictsmembership to Caucasian*, lielias un Eagles Club calendar inhis chambers.

The priest noted that a prose-cutor had quoted from AbrahamLincoln in demanding a jail sen-tence, and was reminded thatMonday was Lincoln's birthday.

(CwtUnord From Pace I)to his earlier offer of the SanAntonio formula was the assaulton 44 South Vietnamese citiesnttd 24 U.S. bases "on a sacred'day" — the Vietnamese newyear.

"Yet we would meet themt o m o r r o w , " he added, "butwe're not going to sun-ctidcr."

The college students who metwiln Johnson in the White Houselivln" onarlArK Wf>r* member* ofthe National Board of Choice 68,a nationwide collegiate presi-dential preference primary tolie held on more tliuu 103 cam-puses April 2).

Sinatra SuffersVirus Pneumonia

HOLLYWOOD (UPI) — Sing-er Frank Sinatra was confinedlo his room Monday at theFnn'.ainehleau Hotel, in MiamiBeach, Fla., after doctors diag-nosed that he w:-.s sufferingfrom virus p n e u m o n i a , aspokesman here reported.

Sinatra's Miami physician,Or. Ralph Hobbins, said thesinger's condition was "fair."

U.S. presidential envoy Cyrus Vance (right),hands with Smith Korean President Chung

lice Park as hepresidential nun:

arrives for consultations at thes2o& la Seoul. (AP

Vance, Park Confer in SeoulFrom Page 1)

Agency Director Ityung WookKim.

Karlier Monday m o r n i n g ,Vance nnd his party called onF o r e i g n Minister Choi andPrime Minister Chung at theiroffices.

Meanwhile, in the 2nd U.S.Titf Hiv viiclni-. nf thit I)M7_

st least four North Korean Com-

munist agents were spottedaround 1 a.m., Monday, northof the security fence and re-pelled in a brief exchange ofgunfire, the UNC announced.

No casualties were reportedon either side.

In Washington, according loA«civ>iali>d Pn>««. Ilio Ktnln Ito.

parlinent indicated there would

be an rarly conclusion lo theU.S.-South Korea consultations.

At the same time. U.S. offi-cials were cool to South Koreansuggestions that the United Na-tions Command ease its controlover South Korean militaryunits.

The UNC is prepared and will'' '

Reds Blocked Off in Hue(Cofflittued From Page 1)

in Hue for nearly two weeks.About 500 Viet Cong and NorthVietnamese t r o o p s arc stillholed up in the city.

Most of the heavy action intrr^*,.^... tr~..4_.. • „_ ! - ..t - ?..» «C»tt«**l* *i»U*IU«»j tm*fc |«M\-»". Ill

the northern First Corps area.Communist troops f i r e d 'a

heavy barrage of rockets andmortars aumiist the Marinebastion of Khc Sanh. near theDemilitarized /one and t h eLaos border.

About five miles west-south-west of encircled Khc Sanh,carrier based Navy jets de-stroyed a n o t h e r Communisttank—the 10th since • the Com-munist armor made its first ap-pearance in the Vietnam Warlast week. '

The tanks were used to over-run the Special Forces campat Lang Vei, four miles southof Khe Sanh. Loss of Lang Vcinow permits Cuinm'unist troops

to bring supplies and reinforce-ments by truck to within a shortdistance of Khc Sanh.

More than 2,000 Communisttroops have been killed in theHue fighting In twu weeks, U.S.and Vietnamese .sources .said.But they r e t a i n e d enoughstrength to launch heavy mor-tar and rocket fire again.st'builtlite 1st Div. IfpaiViiiHrltvs com-pound and the U.S. 1st Air Cav.Div.

In Saigon, the CommunistLunar New Year o f f e n s i v eseemed to have nm out of.-.team with only scattered en-gagements reported on the out-skirls.

slons into South Korea, officialsstressed.

T!M« Slate Dcpm-imctH spokes-man had no word on efforts togain release of the 82 survivorsof the Pueblo crew. There, hasbeen no agreement as yet for adate or time for a Military Ar-mistice Commission meeting.

The captain of the Pueblo wasreported Tuesday to hav« saidthat his family "should not wor-ry too much."

'*j?!{!r. L!ovd ?£. B'jchcr !ri«d?the statement in a purportedsecond "confession" distributedby Pyongyang's Korean CentralNews Agency (.KCivA) andmonitored in Tokyo.

Paraguay ElectionASUNCION, Paraguay ,(UPI)

— President Alfredo Stroessnerhas von re-election to a fourthstraight term in the first con-

World WeatherU$AF Wtottwr Central

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(Continued From Page 1)west. The $15,124 sale price plusinterest are. in two bank ac-counts.

A law firm, appointed by theNew York Supreme Court lohandle the case, has searchedfor Woscotl since 19(51.

Two weeks aao. Wescotl toldnewsmen of his friends and

24 Pacific Stars & StripesWe4iwsdayv Feb. 14, 1968

their home in an undevelopedarea a few blocks from ihecounty courthouse.

In Burnt Hills, attorney JohnP. Brown read the story. Brownphoned the Los Angeles Timesand told of the money owedWcscott. ,

Said Brown: "Finding Clintonis a great relief. The sooner Ihand over the money to him, thebetter I will like it." He saidWcscott had been a popular res-ident of the. town and had built

the station with his own hands."Then ?uddcnjy cne day 15

years ago he said the hell withit and took off," said Broxvu.

Brown sent a letter lo thenewspaper carrying a separatenote informing Wcscott of hiswealth.

Reporters found Wescott overthe weekend asleep beneath abridge. He ignored the tale ofhis fortune.

"It's not a bad lifr," Wrscottsaid. "No cares." A man lives

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."I'm rich. This is all the rich-er I want to be. Enough to buy ashort jug. That's all I want outof life now. No taxes, no rush towork. Rush home from work.Nothing.

"One of these days I'll gostraight. I'll climb out of thebottom of the barrel. But I'mnot ready. Not now anyway."

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