(Iowa City, Iowa), 1965-09-09
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Marines Make Big Hit, Forecast It....., cIoucIr ,. ca-t, ....., ~!Jt1 ~.. Kill 66 Viet Guerrillas witt! .....Iod ........... _ ,586 4~ thundentonna affectInt • ,. .. ,572 I~ ._ ' ..... cent .. the .... panty ,561 i~ ,5'7 10 SAIGON, South Viet Nam (AP) - U.S. Marines sweep all C).won cloudy teftltht .IMI FriIMy wfttt ,476 'J South Viet Nam's Batangan Peninsula a massive hunt ahewen ..... 21 ..... ~ eI ... , 4~ 2.'l Ing in Serving the State University of Iowa and the People of Iowa City ,440 23 .re •. 86 ,390 32 for guerril1as blew up a tunnel Wednesday and killed 66 uni- 87 ,370 34'1 10 cenls per py Associated Press Leased Wire and Wirepboto Iowa City, Jowa - Thursday. September- t, 1861 Included, formed Viet Cong, a Marine spokesman said. Established in 1868 It was the biggest strike against - !be enemy made by the estimated regiment of Viet CoDg bad been re- i,OOO Marines since tbey and an ported in the area last week. A IIIICIlsclosed number of South Viet· spokesman said no ground move· lIIIIlese troops launched a great ment was detected before or after dsault on the peninsula at dawn the strike. • • ru~day. The. yietnam~~e kiI1~d U.S. military authorities, mean. 14 Viet Cong, military o,fflclal.s saId. while, reported that U.S. and Viet. Some of the ~uerrlUas m the namese planes flew 28.500 attack lunnel were heavily bandaged and sorties. both combat and nODcom .pp~eDt1y had been wounded bat missions. in North aDd South Ig tlng, error p·rea earher. Viet Nam last week, the greatest THE ~RINE F~RCE cODtmu~d number of combat missioDi for a to meet. litUe reslSta~ce in their single week of the war. lWeep auned at smashmg a report· , ed Communist buildup in the area. ,SPOKESMEN said 180 South 130 miles north of Saigon. VIetnamese g?vernment personn~1 • 26 In • Intelligence reports had indicated an~ Americans were kill~ IS many as 1.000 Communist guer. actloD last week and .410 Vletna· rillas were in the area. But a mese and 44 Americans were U,S. IntelligeDce officer said he be. wounded. They listed 1~ Vietna· lIeved the Viet Cong began pulling mese and three Amerlcans as cross la, a Ista n out three days ahead of the attack missing in action or captured, The Marine~~~~~~~~~ commander in Viet Nam killed durmg'~ the ~~~week and 110 '---~~-B R ~-~----~--~---~---,' I·,.,"I BlackoutIs Called eollfirmed the count of tunnel dead: captured. ... hlcb raised the toll of Viet CODg U.S, military strength in South etsy ages killed in the two·day operation to Viet Nam reached 107,600 person· h C I ~ARLIER reports from the pen· ~~oow~~r~~.~,r~~y~~~;::~u~~ Over Florida, In Bot apita 5 insula. 20 miles south of Chu Lai port troops. spokesmen said. Presi· 7 along the South China Sea. said der.t Johnson has announced a goal I I Marines had killed six Viet Cong, of 125.000 troops, Stl·1 How I·ng NEW DELHI (AP) - Parachute troops spread the India- • Vietnamese forces. operating to Pakistan conflict across the breadth of the subcontinent today. the south, presumably ran into re~nants of fleeing Viet Cong Pope Pau I V I There were reported commando mwion of sahotage and UBlts . Storm Crossing Gulf, terror at scattered points stretching more than 1,000 miJeI Marines reported one casualty. T V"· U S Next Target Unknown from Karachi nearly to Calcutta. • wounded helicopter crewman. B t W . A 0 t Intense airborne action by both;----------- Soutb Vietnamese have reported 0 I Sit •• u arnmgs re u light casualties. warring nations rollowed the open- U.N. SECRITARY-General U " 0 b MIAMI, Fla. (AP) - Hur- Ing of two new fronts in Wesl Thant. on a peace mission to The assault. named "Piranha" IS er Pakistan by Indian assault unJts Pakistan and [Ddla. said In a atop- alter the man-eating South Am· Th eto rieane Betsy smashed the Wednesday, The twin drives posed over in Geneva he will put his own erican fish. was expected to con· tourist mecca of south Florida lhreats to Rawalpindi, the Pakls. proposals for a cease.fire before Unue today. VATICAN CITY !A'I - Pope Paul W dnesd 'th 'ghty tani capital. and the major naval the two rival governments. TWENTY MILES south of the VI. already the most widely travel· e ay WI nu air base at Karachi, the former But New DelhI's mood was not U.S. air base at Da Nang. a large ed Pope. will visit the United States winds and a destructive wall capital. one favorln, a cease-fire but 01 • Vietnamese force was engaged ~ct. 4 to address the Uni,ted Na· of water, then howled on into PAKISTAN claimed to have pushln, abead with attaca. Wednesday in its fourth straight tiODS and to offer a public Mass th G If f M . n..fense Miru·S'A.y Y B Chav.n day of rugged fighting with the for peace. the Vatican announced e u, o. eXlCO. blunted an earlier Indian drive""" , o.<a.. Viet Cong. Wednesday. Drawmg mcreased energy launched Monday toward Lahore' told Parliament the army drlvin, and to bave thrust a spearhead or Into southeast Pakistan had cap. An American adviser with, a It will be the first visit to the from the warm gulf waters, its own in to Indian territory. tured Gadra and was atlIl movJq Ranger i!'0uP. one of th~ ou.~fl ts United States by a reigning Pope the furious tempest began a slow Fixing this action Bround Kasur. engaged m the fight. s~Jd. We and the 10Dgest papal voyage in turn toward the northwest and 34 mUes southeast of Lahore. a have ~en m?re casu~tles in the history - 4,066 miles from Rome headed for a new, unknown tar· Pakistani army oUieer laid the unit dur~g thIS operation tban a!; to New York. get. AI h f H " Pakistani army hBs pushed ha lot together In. the pas~ three years. His stay in New York will be Behind it the hurricane left large t er mat 0 a u r rIca n e of miles" into Indl •. ~.s. advlSer~ s~ld that at the less than 24 hours. His arrival is sections of Miami, Miami Beach Antiaircraft batteries opened up h~lght of tbe flghtmg Tue~day the scheduled for 10 a.m.. EDT. A and Fort Lauderdale - as well as Th t I I F rt Lucid I FI bl do b th th 100 II h in blacked~ut Karachi Wednesday Vietnamese we ngaged m h d en coconu pa ms n 0 a or a 0, a., wo,.. own wn y • moro In m •·.. n· our ~ re .e . an· tentative Vatican schedule said he many smaller communities in lhe I Dight and the Paklotanl radio ,aid to hand combat WIth the Viet COHg wind Df Hurricane Betsy. High tid ...ro now p .. gulng rosldonts of the .torm·tom .r.... 0 . 'I Will leave that same night, arriv· Florida Keys - flooded by a six, Indian 'chutists had dropped in the The ,advlserl sal,d they had seen ing in Rome the next day. foot tide. I -AP Wlrephote 25 Viet CODg boche!. , . -- - - ---- - --- -- -- ---- area. The broadcast appealed to IN ANOTHER move aimed at After speakmg to the U.N. Gen· IT WAS the hIghest tIde ever S h I B d the people to seize the raiders and smashing Communist guerrilla eral Assembly - appareDtly with pushed across those shores by a C 00 on 181 k .11"'h dT D· k lurn them In to poUce troop concentrations. 12 U,S. B52 a~ appeal for peace - !.he Pope ~urrican~ since a disastrous storm ac mal \i. arge 0 Ir sen CALcunA also ~al blacked jet bombers from Guam dropped will celebrate Mass for RomaD In 1926 killed more than 100 perSODS V PI d out. nearly half. millioD pounds of Catholics ,in one of New York's and. h~lped burst the bubble of ote anne 0 A · BOil F. h A predawn alr·raid alert founded . bombs on a suspected Viet Cong huge stadIUms. FlOrida s great land boom. ver pportlonment I Ig t dinayNebwutDethlhie're(Orwla3s minonUimmlesTh ?1'at'e' stroDgbold less than 25 miles from Pope Paul has visited the Unit· Ahead of Betsy lay nothing but F 0 t 19 edi Saigon. ed States before. but as Giovanni land - a wide sweep of shoreliDe or C report of aDy attack by Pakistani ~--....- ......;---- .... '!be B523, lIying their 20th reo Cardinal MODlini. archbishop of running for nearly 900 miles from • WASHINGTON (AP) - Prompting a cry of "blackmail," planes. It was the second consecu· HOT SPOT" ~rted a~tack of the war and their Milan. His first visit was in 1951. Brownsville. Tex .• on lbe Mexican PlaM for a ".3 rrJillon west the Senate Judiciary Committee on W dn day cleared Seo. tive night the Indian cllpltal W81 IlXth raId on that, area. pounded It was believed possible in the border to the Florida Panhandle. side high school were con idered Everett M Dirksen's legislative apportionment amendment in w~ned that an air raid was im· abead. Gadra is alx mJlet inside the target lor 15 rrunutes. Almost a Vati~an that the Po~ would meet Forecasters were not prep~red to by the ,Iowa City ,School Board at order to v~te approval of a new immigration bill. mment. Pakistan and 220 miles east of Ka· PreSident Johnson 10 New York. say when or where the VIolently a speCIal me e tin g Wednesday , The indians claim their plJota rachl.