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~ tflGH TIDE LOll TIDE 9-27-66 9-27-66 .5. 4 ~T 0336 0·7 AT 095~ 5·1 AT 1554 o 9 AT 215~ VOL. 7 NO 3114 KWAJALEIN, MARSHALL ISLANDS MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1966 DETROIT {UPI)--FoRD MOTOR CO. ANNOUNCED ALLIES TAKE HEAVY TOLL OF REDS TODAY IT IS REDUCING THE PREVIOUSLY-AN NOUNCED PRJCE INCREASES ON ITS 1967 MODEL IN BITTER BATTLE NEAR THE DMZ CARS SPOKESMEN SAID THE INCREASES OVER SAIGON (UPI)--BITTER FIGHTING ERUPTED AGAIN TODAY BETWEEN ALLIED FORCES AND COMMUNIST 1966 MODELS NO,", WILL AVERAGE $66; INSTEAD TROOPS IN THE BATTLE-SCARRED AREA JUST SOUTH OF THE DEMILITARIZED ZONE BETWEEN NORTH AND OF THE AVERAGE OF $113 ANNOUNCED LAST TUES SOUTH VIET NAH THE U.S. MILITARY COMMAND REPORTED AT LEAST 56 MORE COMMUNISTS KILLED DAY A COMPANY SPOKESMAN SAID MOST OF THE FAST-MOVING UNITS OF U.S. AND SOUTH KOREAN MARINES AND PINPOINT ARTILLERY FIRE SMASHED REDUCTION RESULTS FROM CHANGING EQUIPMENT VIET CONG THREATS IN THREE AREAS NEAR QUANG NGAI AND DONG HA, A U,S. MILITARY SPOKESMAN ITEMS PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED AS STANDARD TO SAID. OPTIONAL FORO BECAME THE FIRST Of THE BIG IN THE AIR WAR, AHERICAN FJGMTER-BOMB£R5 REPORTED TODAY THEY BLASTED 17 ANTI-AIRCRAFT rOUR AUTOMAKERS TO UP 1967 PRICES 7 AND SITES IN NORTH VIET NAH, LEAVING AT LEAST TEN OF THEM IN SMOULDERING AUINS. THE SUNDAY CHRYSLER AND GM FOLLOWEO SUIT, BUT WITH ATTACKS ~ERE ONE OF THE MOST SUCCESSFUL AIR ASSAULTS OF THE WAR AGAINST COMMUNIST ANT1- SMALLER INCREASES AIRCRAFT SITES --------------------- IN RAIDS TODAY, PILOTS OF MARINE F-4 JET JOHNSON PROPOSES REVIEW Of NATO FREEDOM FIGHTERS POUNDED A SUSPECTED NORTH VIETNAMESE STORAGE AREA IN THE DEMILITARIZED AS REACTION TO GERMAN REQUEST ZONE 20 MILES NORTHWEST OF DONG HA. WASHINGTON (UPI)--PRESIOENT JOHNSON TODAY PROPOSED A BROAD REVIEW OF NATO TROOP REQUIRE (IN LONDON, DIPLOMATIC REPORTS SAID THAT MENTS, AN~ THE IMPACT OF THE ALLIANCE ON U.S. AND BRITISH BALANCE OF PAYMENTS THE SOVIET UNION HAS REACTED TO THE GROWING THIS AP~EARED TO BE JOHNSON'S REPLY TO A REQUEST BY WEST GERMAN CHANCELlOR LUDWIG ERHARD AMERICAN AIR OFFENSIVE IN NORTH VIET NAM BY fOR A 50 PERCENT aEDUCTION IN GERMANY'S FUTURE OBLIGATED PURCHASES OF U S MILITARY EQUIP STEPPING UP ITS ASSISTANCE TO HANOI'S AIR MENT THE PROPOSALS WERE MADE AS JOHNSON ANO ERHARO BEGAN TWO DAYS OF TOUGH WHITE HOUSE FORCE ) DISCUSSIONS ON A NUMBER OF COMPL£K ISSUES, CENTERING PRIM~RIlY ON QUESTIONS or NUCL[AR THESE REPORTS SAID THE SOVIETS HAD DOUBLED STRATEGY, THE FUTURE or NATO AND MONEV NORTH VIET NAM'S SUPPLY or THE MODERN MIG-21 THE TWO LEADERS WILL FLY TO CAPE KENNEDY TOMORROW AFTERNOON TO INSPECT U 5 SPAcE LAUNCH SUPERSONIC JET riGHTERS FACILITIES. No LAUNCHINGS ARE SCHEDULED FOR IN THE BATTLE NEAR THE DMZ, AIR FORCE AND THAT DAY fJOHNSON MAY VISIT MANILA ~RINE JETS TRAPPED AN ESTIMATED 300 COMMUN THE WHITE HOUSE, CONFIRMING A GERMAN IST GUERRILLAS IN OPEN COUNTRYSIDE EIGHT SPOKESMAN'S OISCLOSURE OF T~E TRIP, SAID IT TO STUDY VlET NAM NEEDS MILES SOUTH OF QUANG NGAI, AND SWEPT IN TO WAS AN OURGROWTH OF JOHNSON-ERHARD DISCUS WASHINGTON (UPI)--PRE5IDENT JOHNSON W~S BOMB AND STRAFE THE CONCENTRATIDN. SIONS TODAY OF JOINT PROJECTS MIN THE PEACE DESCRIBED TOOAY AS "INTERESTED" IN GOING TO AIR OBSERVER MAJ ROBERT D McCANN SAID A FUL CIVILIAN EXPLORATIO.., or SPACE" MANILA NEXT MONTH FOR A CONFERENCE WITH "LARGE NUMBER" OF COMMUNISTS PROBABLY DIED THE CAPE KENNEDY TRIP REINFORCED EKPECTA PHILIPPINE 4ND OTHER LEADtRS WHOSE TROOPS IN THE ATTACK. TIONS THAT ERHARD, IN POLITICAL TROUBLE AT ARE riGHTING IN SOUTH VIET NA~ IN GROUND "GHT'NG, SOUTH VIETNAMESE FORC HOME, WOVlD RETURN TO BONN TOMORROW NIGHT THE CONrERENCE, SCHEDULED FOR OCT 18. ~AS ES TOOK THE OFFENSIVE, STRIKING IN THE NA WITH AT LEAST ONE CONCRETE AGREEMENT FROM ANNOUNCED TODAY BY PHILIP~INE PRESIDENT TION'S u RICE BOWL" AREA IN THE MEKONG DELTA HIS MEETINGS WITH JOHNSON. THIS WAS EXPECTED FERDINAND E MARCOS, A RECENT VISITOR TO THEY REPORTED THEY KILLED 156 VIET CONG AND TO CALL FOR EXPANDED PLANS FOR JOINT GERMAN W~SHINGTON MARCOS MADE THE ANNOUNCEMENT IN CAPTURED 68 OTHERS IN TWO DAYS OF FIGHTING AMERICAN SPACE PROBES TO MARS AND VENUS. HONOLULU IN THE SWAMPLAND AREA SO LONG DOMINATED BY ONE OF THE BIGGEST STICKING POINTS AS THE MARCOS SAID THE LEADERS O~ SOUTH VIET NAN, THE VIET CONG DISCUSSIONS BEGAN WAS HOW TO EASE THE DOLLAR SOUTH KOREA, THAILAND, AUSTRALIA AND NEW ONE BAND OF U.S. MARINES IN THE HIGHLY DRAIN CAUSED BY MAINTAINING 225,000 AMERICAN ZEALANE WERE ALSO INVITED TO THE SESSIONS IN SUCCESSFUL OPERATION PRAIRIE CAME UNOER FIRE TROOPS IN EUROPE, MOST OF THEM STATIONED IN MAN ILA rROM THE COMMUNISTS. U.S. DRAGONSHIP COMMAN GERMANY WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY BILL D MOYERS DER CAPT. EDMOND M. McKEE RUSHED TO THEIR (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) REPORTED JOHNSON'S "INTEREST" IN THE CONFER AID WITH HIS RAPID-FIRING AIRCRAFT GUNS AND ENCE WHEN TOLD THAT DIPLOMATIC SOURCES IN REPORTED "THE WHOLE HilL LOOKED liKE A MASS HOUSE TO BEGIN DEBATE HONOLULU S~ID THE PRESIDENT WOULD BE GOING OF FLAMES FROM THE rlRE riGHT BETWEEN THE TO T~E MANILA MEETING ~RINES AND TME VIET CONGo ON ANTI·POVERTY BilL MOYERS SAID "I KNO~ THAT THE PRESIDENT IN THE ATTACK ON THE NOATH VIETNAMESE ANTI WASHINGTON (UPI)--THE HOUSE, BREAKING A INTERESTEO IN THIS IT HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO AIRCRAFT SITES HIGHLIGHTED A HEAVY DAY OF MONTHS-LONG STALEMATE, AGREED WITH VIRTUALLY HIS ATTENTION. I EXPECT TO SEE HI~ AT 7,45 BOMBING THAT SAW AMERICAN PLANES FLY 127 NO OPPOSITION TOOAY TO CONSIDER AUTHORIZING AM AND DISCUSS SEVERAL MATTERS AND WILL MISSIONS OVER THE NORTH ON SUNDAY $1.75 FOR THE THIRD YEAR Of THE WAR ON POV MEET WITH THE PRESS AT 9 ~M TOMORROW WITH (CONTINUED ON PAGE EIGHT) ERTY THE BILL, LOCKED IN POLITICAL ANO PER THE INFORMATION I HAVE AT THAT TIME WITH HIS SONAL CONFLICTS SINCE LAST WINTER, WAS REACTION" u.s. STlLL SEEKS PATH BROUGHT UP FOR DEBATE BY VOICE VOTE WITH ON THERE HAS BEEN SPECULATION FOR SOME TIME LY SLIGHT AUDIBLE OPPOSITIO~ THAT JOHNSON MIGHT GO TO THE PHILIPPINES TO ASIAN PEACE TALKS THE BILL'S BACKERS SAID THEY WERE CONFI AND ELSEWHERE IN ASIA -- AUSTRALIA AND JAP UNITED NATIONS (UPI)-~THE COMMUNIST DENT ,HE MEASURE WOULD PASS SUBSTANTIALLY AN HAVE BEEN MENTIONED -- THIS YEAR, BVT WORLD'S REBUFF OF THE CONCERTED VIET NAM INTACT AND THAT REPUBLICANS WOULD LOSE IN AN THIS VAS THE STRONGEST INDICATION SO FAR n PEACE DRIVE BECAME AN "INDIGNANT REJECTION ATTEMPT TO SUBSTITUTE A PLAN TO DISMANTLE MARCOS' ANNOUNCE~ENT, ON HIS WAY HOME rROM TODAY BUT THE UNITED STATES STILL REFUSED THE ANTIPOVERTY OffiCE AND TURN ITS PROGRAMS HIS AMERICAN TOUR, SAID THAT THE PROPOSEo TO REGARD IT AS A FINAL STAND OVER TO OTHER FEDERAL AGENCIES. CONFERENCE WOULD DISCUSS NOT ONLY THE WAR FOREIGN MINISTER VAClAV DAVID OF CZECHO OEBATE ON THE MEASURE WAS EXPECTED TO LAST SITUATION IN VIET NAM SUT ALSO THE ECONOMIC SLOVAKIA, SPEAKING rOUR DAYS AFTER U.S. AM FOR SEVERAL DAYS WITH A VOTE COMING BY THE AND POLITICAL SITUATIONS BASSADOR ARTHUR J. GOLDBERG OFfERED A THREE WEEK'S END. - POINT PEACE PROPOSAL; ONLY TO HAVE IT RE THE BILL WAS BROUGHT U~ UNDER A ONCE-COII DEfENSE OF HOfFA CASE JECTED QUICKLY AND BRUSQUELY BY THE SOVIET TROVERSIAL RULE THAT AUTHORIZED SPEAKER WASHINGTON (UPI)--THE JUSTICE DEPARTMENT UNION, NORTH V,ET NAM AND COMMUNIST CHINA, JOHN MCCORMACK, If NECESSARY, TO BYPASS REP. TODAY DEFENDED THE USE OF A DOUBLE AGENT TO TOLD THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY' ADAM CLAYTON POWELL AS FLOOR MANAGER BRING A60UT THE JURY TA~PERING CONVICTION PIT IS NECESSARY TO REJECT WITH INDIGNA POWELL WAS RECOGNIZED TO CALL UP THE BILL OF TEAMSTER PRESIDENT JAMES R HOFFA TION ALL ATTEMPTS MADE HERE BY THE DELEGATE AND TOLD THE HOUSE, AMID LAUGHTER AND AP HOFrA WAS SENTENCED TO EIGHT YEARS IN or THE UNITED STATES A rEW DAYS AGO AND PLAUSE, "OESPITE OUR PAST DifFERENCES", THE ~RISON AFTER BEING CONVICTED OF BRISING A AIMED AT RELIEVING THE UNITED STATES OF THE DEMOCRATS WERE "I N CO!'l,"LET£ UNAN I MI TY " JUROR DURING HIS 1962 TRIAL IN NASHVILLE, HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE AGGRESSION IN IT WAS POWELL's THREE-MONTH DELAY IN GET TENN , ON CHARGES Or ACCEPTING AN ILLEGAL VIET NAM " TING THE BILL TO THE fLOOR WHICH HELPED SET PAYOFr FROM AN EMPLOYER THE SUPREME COURT GOLDBERG 1 WHO TOOK THE FLOOR ArTER SOVIET OFF LAST WEEK'S EDUCATION AND LABOR COMMIT HAS SET OCT 12 FOR ARGUMENTS ON HOFFA·S fOREIGN MINISTER ANDREI GROMYKO'S INITIAL TEE REVOLT IN WHICH REP SAM GIBBONS, (OEM - APPEAL OF HIS CONVICTION REBUfr TO DECLARE THAT THE KREMLIN LEADER'S FLA ), SOUGHT TO STRIP POWELL OF HIS POWER THE TEAMSTER BOSS MAINTAIN'S THE GOVERN REACTION WAS NOT A "CONSIDERED REPLY/ DID AS CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE. MENT'S USE or EDWARD PARTIN; A BATON ROUGE NOT SPEAK TODA Y POWELL, HOWEVER, PRAISED GIBBONS TODAY, UNION OfFICIAL, TO GATHER EVIDENCE AGAINST A U.S. DELEGATION S~OKE'MAN SAID DAVie" TELLING THE HOUSE HE HAD "DOrff: A REMARKABLE, HIM VIOLATED HIS CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS UNDER "'NO'GNANT REJECTION" WA5 NOT REGARDED AS A DIFFICULT JOB MOVING THIS BILL ALONG" HE THE 4TH1 5TH AND 6TH AMENDMENTS PARTIN ~AS FINAL RE~LY EIT"ER J AOOING SAID HE HAD "NOTHING BUT THE HIGHEST PRAIS;: THE CHIEF GOvERNMENT WITNESS IN THE JURY '~E AAE STILL WATCHIN~ AND LISTENING." fOR THE GENTLEMAN'S YEOMAN ,",ORK " TAM~ERING TRIAL.