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BOBBY ENTEBWASHINGTON (AP)—Sen. SRobert F . KennedyRAC, D-N.Y., jumpeEd into the Democratic presidential contest Saturday with an offer to cooper- PACIFIC ate with Sen. Eugene J. McCarthy, D-Minn., to wrest the nomination from President Johnson. Kennedy charged into competition for convention votes with the assertion that the country is on a "perilous course." He said he is willing to work with McCarthy, another war critic, to spur a national debate on Vietnam policies. But McCarthy was chilly to the kind of cooperative How They Related stories, photo on Page 5 effort he seemed to suspect was primarily designed on See It Kennedy's part to take over for himself the anti-Johnson Comolled From AP and UP) Johnson: AN MJTHOMZCD PVMJCATHM OF THE AHMED FORCES IN THE FAR EAST delegates to the convention. Kennedy promised to support McCarthy where he "These nre Any* ivhen it>e himself could not run. McCarthy said he "could have have to take chances. Some ***** EDITION used some help in New Hampshire and kind of waited speculate in gold — a primary 3- {BT'l) metal — and others just Clo^ around for it." He ran strongly against Johnson in last - Tuesdays primary there. Kennedy said his entry against Johnson, the man Vol. 24, No. 76 Monday, March 18, 1968 Nixon: (Continued on Back Page, Col. 1) "It's a brand nen> face (Kennedy) on the Demo- crfitii' sir1i>l hut it rnnhpt rift difference to the Republican Bankers strategy . . . . He, (Johnson) is an incumbent . . . and an incumbent can always get the nomination if he Debate wants it. He'll have to fight for it, but he wiil get it." * » « Crisis McCarthy: "I'm still the best poten- WASHINGTON (AP)— tial candidate in the field. Central bankers from seven I can win . ... It got a little countries met here Satur- lonely in New Hampshire Hnv in nn atftnrmt fr» fiyif opportunism . . . like, jump- Goes Home ing in after someone else CAPE TOWN, South Africa has done the spadework." (AP)—Philip Blaiberg, the only ? * j survivor of the world's six at- tempts to transplant a human Eisenhower: heart, went home Saturday—74 "/ don't think he (Ken- days after his operation. nedy) is as good a man as lie got a send-off kiss from UFI Rocllcpnoto McCarthy, not much of u a pretty nurse, and his doctor SEN. ROBERT F. KENNEDY ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY IN SENATE CAUCUS ROOM. thinker and student." Photo on Page 4 assured him hospital germs were tw^h^r thnr? the kind h?*'d n^cct Freighter Rams Barges, 11 Die in Fire outside. Wearing a sport shirt, ascot POINT A LA HAGUE, La. New Zealand, and Australia. he heard five blasts on the ship Coast Guard helicopters hov- and dark trousers, Blaiberg (UPI) — A freighter rounded The freighter was cutting whistle, signaling a general ering over the burning vessels stopped into the sunlight at the a bend in the Mississippi River across lilt; bead in the pi'e-dauu alarm. II was followed by four plucked de;;d and injured from entrance of Groote Schuur hos- Saturday and collided in a ball darkness about 50 miles down- blasts from a tug pushing the the flames. Several injured pital and said: "I am very well of flame with two fuel barges. river from New Orleans when barge*. were taken to a New Orleans indeed. I am delighted to be Eleven persons were killed the collision occurred, Flames "Before !he blast signal had hospital. Five ambulances con- guing iiuitie, aim uuiiie is i'ne ami 30 injuieu. erupted from the t'uei barges stopped the whole ship organ to veyed burned and moaning snr- main thins in my thoughts." The victims were all believed and washed across the deck of sliake." Cistt rnio said. "Fin? \iuir.s lo New Orleans !ms|>it;m. Alongside the retired dentist crewmen aboard the vessels and the freighter. was spilling over the starboard The African Star was headed were his wife Eileen and Dr. passengers on the freighter, S'-aman Lauro Cisternio, 47. side. Six men on deck bcuan down the river toward the Culf Christian Barnard, the surgeon African Star, many of them of New York City said he was running away from it and they of Mexico about 30 miles away. (Continued on Back Page, Col. 3) tourists from the United States. into the wheel hou^p when were enjjnlfed in flnrir1." (OnlinwH on s S«,S Vietnam Bureau SAIGON—U.S. infantrymen killed 128 Communists in a bloody day-long battle Saturday sit miles northeast of Quang Ngai City on South Vietnam's .central coast. The battle was touched off shortly after 8 a.m. when a company from the llth Light Inf. Brigade ran into 'heavy contact as they moved into an area following a U.S. artillery bombardment. Within an hour after the company became locked in heavy fighting with the unknown sized Communist force, another company from the brigade was sent in two miles northeast of the battle. The two companies began moving toward each other, encountering sporadic enemy contact throughout the day, until the enemy broke off the contact in the' late after- noon. , U.S. casualties for the fighting were put at two killed and 10 wounded. (Meanwhile, in the war's big- gest allied operation—a massive • attempt ;to clear the Viet Cong from five provinces around Sai- gon—the count of enemy .dead rose to 474 after the first six days, AP reported. (The combined U.S. and South Vietnamese force, totaling more than 50,000 men, also has taken 114 prisoners and captured 226 enemy weapons, U.S. headquar- ters reported. (American .casualties so far, headquarters said, were 28. killed and 211 wounded. The South Vietnamese, without giving spe- Arrows within shaded area in- cific figures, termed their dicate direction of drive by casualties light.) Allied forces anchored in Sai- Eighty-one Communists were gon. The operation is the largest killed Frid.ay 19 miles northwest of the Vietnam war. of Saigon in the first major bat- tle of. the massive operation Quyet Thang which kicked off Army Training on March 11.. The battle reportedly began at •about 10 aim- when a troop .of for Students armored vehicles from the U.S. SAIGON (UPI)—Male students llth Armored Cav. Regt. was at Saigon .University began re- .taken under fire by an estimated porting Friday to' pick up uni- .enemy battalion in an area six •miles southwest of Cu Chi. forms for a two week military Troops of the America! .Dlv., operating south force had been trapped. The operation training course. .' : . Almost immediately, U;S. of Da Nang, charge In a village where a Com- netted 128 Reds killed. (AP Radiophoto) 'AH students are required to Army helicopter gunships began receive military training as a attacking the Communist posi- result of the Communist Tet of- tions with rockets and niachine- fensive. •guri .fire, and heavy artillery Planes From US. shells began crashing down on Vietnam Casualties During the course, the students the enemy.- • '.. • '•' are to be trained in street fight- Boost Viet Airlift WASHINGTON (S&S) - The Mwhw Carpi ing and civil defense tactics six U.S. Air Force jets arrived a SAIGON (UPI) - .The;:. Air Defense Department has an- LCPL Stephen W. Hotlwway, Tucson, : short time later and bombed Mi. hours a day. Force has 'summoned' 16 C130 nounced the following casualties LCPL Rickey E. Appleby, Gordefta, Calif. and strafed the Reds. •' '"Hercules" -transport planes in connection with the conflict P.VT. James Crockran, St. Louis, Mo. PFC Sterling P. John*on, Carlln, Nev. Shortly before 2 p.m. units from the United States to in Vietnam. SGT David A. Rujsell, Jacksonville, N.C. U.S. Plane Said from the Vietnamese 25th Inf. bolster the supply effort in the KILLED IN ACTIOM CAPT McCrea B. Tuttle, Cincinnati, Ohl«. "Army ' ~ PFC John, A; Flschio, Youngstown, Ohio. Div. arrived oh the scene to northern .provinces . of South SP4 Melton H. Presley, Talladego, Ala. LCPL Forbis P. Durant Jr., Atoka, Okla. Down in China reinforce the U.S. armor, and .Vietnam.. • • PFC Jerry S. Baker, Altoona, Ata. .LCT-H. Wlfbert Stovall, Harrlsborfl, Pa. the two units began pressing the RFC Walter L. Thompson/ Fresno, Calif. LCPL Richard W. McKenzle, Pound, WIs. TOKYO (AP) — Radio Peking The • four-engine planes made SP4 Frederick E. Larsen, Loveland, Colo. PFC Francis J.Capeilo, Pell Lake, WIs, attack against the enemy until the flight from Pope AFB, N.C., JLT Thomaf B. Adams, Selnyvtlle, Del. said Sunday a U.S. unmanned the Reds withdrew at sundown. PFC Melvtn R. Leavell, Marietta, Ga. Air Force to Vietnam in 96-hours to fill PFC Samuel B. Hudson, Glennvllle, Ga. MAJ Ronald D. Bond, Glendate, Ariz. reconnaissance .plane was shot SP4 Larry R. Redmwt, Salvjsa, Ky. down over the southwestern the urgent need for additional SGT James P. Singleton, South Haven, DIED OF WOUNDS China mainland Friday after- Red Mine Kills 19 propellor-driven supply pianes Mich. • ' ' : ; in Vietnam. .•••'.' PFC James R. .Bateman, Gloster, Miss. EN3 Daniel O. Webb, Clinton, Ind. noon. . * .'':'. SAIGON (S&S)—Nineteen PFC Luta Rodgers, Alornogordo, M.M. EN3 Randall L. Young, Worthington, SP4 Bernard Bon*y, New York City. ' Minn. A Chinese-language broadcast, Vietnamese, civilians /were killed The planes become part of PFC Santiago Torres Jr., Hew York City. monitored .here, charged . the 'and two wounded when a bus detachment two of the 834th Air SGT Robert D. McMilltan, Dunn, N.C. . Marine Corps plane "intruded" into China's SGT Phillip W. Ptgford, Clfnton, N.C. PFC Phillip E. Sexton, Orlando, Fla. exploded a Communist mine on Division at Cam Ranh Bay Air SSG Jimmy M. Logan, Stayden, Tend. territorial air space. highway' 8B,- four miles north- 'Base, commanded by Col. SP4 Marshall D. Nelson, Austin, Tex. MISS1N6 TO DEAD—HOSTILE Navy Army It did not specify where-the east of Phan Thiet and 98 miles Robert L. Ventres, 43, of CN Eldon E. Nevins, Osborne, Kan. SFC Henry Adler, Dalevllle, Ala. plane was shot down. northeast of Saigon Friday. Montgomery, Ala. HN Lloyd W; Moore, Wilmington, N.C 2LT Ctarence A. Roussell Jr., - Los Angetes, Calif. SP4 Robert L. Pittman, Compton, Calif. PFC Goto C. Betltyoun, Macon, Go. PFC Dona H. Roesner, Portland, Ore. SGT Jerry W. Byers, Greenville, S.C. SOT Harold R. Reeves, Mercedes, Tex. SST Morris A. Whltehead,. Martinsville, Jets Bomb Red Radio Unit 1st Time Va. . MISSINO IN ACTION S&S Vietnam Bureau power plants, a battery factory power plant 27 miles northeast of radar-bombing the Yen Bai Air- Army SAIGON—U.S. warplanes took and enemy supply lines. Haiphong, the Cam Pha petrol- field 78 miles northwest of Hanoi WO Russell L. Wallace. SGT Edward R. Cordeau. advantage of slightly improved Navy A6s from the carrier eum products storage area, and for the day's most northern raid. SSG William p. Alsman. weather over North Vietnam Fri- Enterprise dumped their bombs transformer station 44 miles SFM Clement B. Gruber. day to hit several key targets in on the Kien An Airfield, six northeast of the city and two Air. Force B52 bombers blasted SP4 M. R. Reeves. enemy targets 10-times in South PFC Richard G. Hudjon. the Hanoi-Haiphong areas, in- •miles southwest of Haiphong, transhipment points 45 miles Vietnam and in the DMZ Friday PFC. Donald R. Titus. •- • • ' cluding the Do Son radio com- and the Van Dien battery plant southwest of Haiphong and 26 PFC Theodore T. 'Leo. ' .••••• evening and Saturday morning. PFC Dwahw W. Vanden Sosch. .munications station. 12 miles seven miles south of Hanoi. .miles northeast of Thanh Hoa. PFC Lewi* B. Wilson. southeast of Haiphong, which Five of the raids were in support . In the attack on the airfield Other Navy pilots from car- of Marines in the Khe Sanh area. Air F*rce was hit for the first time. pilots reported seeing, their riers on Yankee station in the MAJ Ernest A. Ofds. During the 106 missions flown bombs exploding on the runway, Tonkin Gulf hit the Do Son radio During one of the raids in the 1LT Albert E. Rodriguez. . . over North Vietnam the U.S. but no damage reports were communications station 12 miles .northern section of the DMZ the DIED NOT At A RESULT OF given. All bombs were reported southeast of Haiphong. The U.S. HOSTILE ACTION pilots zeroed in on Communist giant bombers hit an active Army on target at the battery plant,, airfields, army barracks areas, command said it was the first .artillery and automatic weapons SP< Jimmy F. Lehman, South Blooming- but darkness prevented a dam- raid' of the war against the position four miles north of Gio vllte, Ohio. age report. coastal installation. No . dam- Linn. Communist tanks were also LTC George H. Nestlerode, Lock Haven, A Pacific Stan & Stripes Other pilots from the carrier age reports were given. reported moving in the target fa. Monday, March 18, IKS blasted the Hon Gai thermal Air Force pilots reported area. UCPL Arthur L, Chisolm, Rock Hill, S.C Bullets Serve £/ves,. foe PHtf BAI, Vietnam (Id) —- M NA^lG, Vietnam (10) «• Ammunition desi'gfted to kill The ARVN Recruiting and In- enemy soldiers saved the life dut'tion Center here is swelling of a iOist Airborne JDiV.Mr?.- at the seams. trooper near here 'recently. "Business is better than .ever First Brigade infantry man, -—thanks to the Communist Tct Pfc> Donald A, Curry, usually offensive," says Lt. Col. Ngu- Wears a bandoleer of ammuni- yen Iloaftli Nghia, commandei* tion over his heart while walk- of the center. ing patrol. The colonel says his center while on a search mission is processing more than a thou- with A Co.> 2nd Bn» (Abn), sand hew recruits a week- 327th Inf., the polntman drew most of them volunteers. enemy fire. The center handles the five As Curry spotted the enemy, northernmost p r o v i n c e s of a sniper's round found its mark. South Vietnam. "When the round hit me," In addition to the troops be- said Curry, "it threw me back ing processed daily, more than over a clump of tall grass. I 300 per province are waiting to felt a burn in my chest arid get into the army—a situation thought 1 was hit bad." that has caused the center to Pfc. Andrew Ephrian crawled go to a 12-14-hour-day, seven- over to .assist him, "I checked day week work schedule. Curry for wounds and you Another contributing factor to the heavy influx of recruits is should have seen the surprised Vietnam's mobili/ation plan — look on his face when I told which requires all able-bodied him what happened," Ephrian men, 19-33, to be in the army said. for the duration. The enemy's round had hit "The ARVN Army is like the the bandoleer of ammunition. American Army. If you enlist The impact had caused two M- you get a choice of career 16 rounds to discharge. fields—but if you're drafted— you have no choice. I think this is another thing that is making so many men .anxious Has to enlist," said S.Sgt. Jon Fos- ter, recruiting adviser to the Thoung Si Nhat (1st Sgt.) Cu of the ARVN recruiting and induction center, which is bulging center. '-- greets new recruits as they arrive at the Da Nang "It's weird, though. Since Economy with volunteers. (USA) Tet, it seems that everyone just wants to be where the action is, I took 150 men out to the Mission Taught in Nepal Ranger training camp the other CAM RANH BAY, Vietnam day—and you know they're go- (10)—The U.S. Army Support ing where the fighting is the Command's 174th Ordnance Det. hardest, when they finish their at Cam Ranh Bay does a re- Marine m training," he continued. touching job which has saved "It takes anywhere from the U.S. Army $1.5 million in DA NANG, Vietnam (ISO)— is in a remote part of Nepal three to five days for Nguyen a six-months period , and is A former Peace Corpsman who where few Westerners had ever Van Long (Vietnamese for furnishing combat soldiers with likes to climb mountains is run- been. "Things like cars and Johnny Jones) to go from civil- needed ammunition. ning Marine truck convoys ian to soldier—on paper—de- through one of Vietnam's hot- television, which Americans pending on whether he's a The 50-rnan unit, commanded test war zones. take for granted, these people draftee or an enlistee—we try by 1st Lt. Donald S. Kern, has First Lt. David Lewis taught have never seen," Lewis said. to make the transition as sim- the responsibility of ammunition high school in Nepal for 22 There are no roads to the village ple as possible," Nghia said. renovation at Cam Ranh Bay. months as a Peace Corpsman and to get there required hiking The first day the men are Tho unit's 30 men repair am- and climbed the tiny Asian for three days, carrying sup- met when they get off the buses munition of weapons ranging country's majestic mountains in plies on his back. or trucks which bring them in from small arms to howitzers. his spare time. Lewis says his greatest thrill and are briefed on what will Working in a protective three- His quest for adventure also while in the Marine Corps came take place during the next few inch thick metal walled building, has led him to the Marines and when he was stationed on Oki- days. the men repair shells damaged Vietnam, where he has served nawa. "Some of my ex-Peace "This is one of the most im- by shipment, the elements or for three months as executive Corps buddies invited me on an portant keys to our operation— age. officer of C Co., 7th Motor expedition to attempt the moun- keeping the men informed as Working in an assembly line, Transport Bn., Force Logistic tain we were unable to climb much as possible," explained the men first inspect the shells, Command. previously. The Marine Corps Nghia, then de-rust the shells ,v;ith air Lewis joined the Peace Corps gave me permission to go back "It takes a lot of work to get guns. in 19G4 shortly after graduating to Nepal for 45 days to have a man into the army—there's On one kind of shell alone, the from the University of Colorado. another go at the peak. We paperwork to be completed, 105mm, the 174th saved more "The main reason I chose reached the 21,500-foot level of physical exams to be adminis- than $250,000 as it repaired 10,- Nepal was because I wanted to the 22,000-foot mountain but bad tered and testing and classifica- 301 of the $25 shells. teach in an underdeveloped weather forced us down." tion to be accomplished — all country," \vhe lieutenant ex- these things take time," added A smaller but just as important plained. "Also, being a native Lewis said there was nothing Capt. Joseph B. Mitchell, re- team of the detachment is the Coloradoan, I love mountain 1ST LT. DAVJD LEWIS unusual about his joining the cruiting and induction adviser. seven-man brass inspection climbing and hiking, and Nepal Marines after his Peace Corps team. These men receive used is an outdoorsman's paradise," three months of training in tour. "To me this was a natural brass from all over Vietnam. Nepal is a relatively small Hawaii which he says is much step, Being a Peace Corps They clean the brass and inspect country about the size of North like Marine boot camp. "Many volunteer didn't make me a Tuy Hoa Clink it for damage. In January the Carolina. Situated in the heart people don't seem to understand 'dove.' I feel there is a need team sent to the United States of the Himalayas, between India how grueling the Peace Corps to stop this open, enemy aggres- Transformed more than 162 tons of brass for and Tibet, the country has the can be. Some of the toughest, sion," reload. people — both mentally and TUY HOA, Vietnam (01) — highest mountains in the world, Since arriving in Vietnam in Four walls and a .sink in the The 174th Ordnance Det. is a including Mt. Everest and physically — I have known are Peace Corps volunteers," he ex- December, Lewis has run truck dental clinic at Tuy Hoa AB part of the 191st Ordnance Bn. Khnchenjunga, the first and convoys in the northern .sector have been transformed into a and has been carrying out its third highest. plained, "It's certainly no place for idealistic do-gooders." of I Corps, mainly between modern dental laboratory mission at Cam Ranh Bay since To prepare for his Peace Dong Ha and Phu Bai, just be- through the efforts of throe June, 1936. Corps tour, Lewis underwent The village where he taught low the demilitarized /one. men. The new facilities include shelves, a denture casting ma- chine and other equipment which greatly increases the 're Called Rats, But Rate Better clinic's ability for denture work. "This facility allows us to do QUI NHON, Vietnam (10)— sioned officers, including a them easier and better ways to turn it in. Or, if it is some- Maj. Joseph M. DeChant is a the same type of denture work team leader. Four members to do things, explaining the thing they do need, they don't as the majority of stateside RAT. And so are his men, all work with supply, one with regulations, and generally of- know the correct procedure for members of a unique new ap- dental labs," commented Capt. small arms, one with equipment fering any aid we can." having it put on their property Kenneth L. Roehrig, 29. of proach to maintenance called a records system, one with signal "The only area in which we book." Readiness Assistance Team equipment, one with engineer Defiance, Ohio, designer of the take any kind of corrective ac- The RATs have already laboratory. (RAT). There are five such equipment and one in mainte- tion," explains 1st Sgt. Otis A. proven themselves successful. teams operating in Vietnam to- Roehrig, Jst Lt. James R. nance operations. Smith, "is when a unit has a As one commander of an Sth Hanser, 23 of Delphos, Ohio, day; two at Long Binh, one at The teams have been particu- lot of unauthorized excess Trans. Group said recently, Cam Ranh Bay, and two under larly active in the Qui Nhon equipment." He said that units "We asked the RATs to come and T,Sgt. Frank J. Weisbrick, DeChant at Qui Nhon. area in lending aid to organiza- often will have excess equip- out to our unit and they didn't 35 of Velva. N.D., worked The RATs, organized late in tions under the Qui Nhon Sup- ment on hand valued as high as make work for us. They saved weekends and off-duty hours to 1987, assist units in recognizing port Command. "We spend as 1150,000 and more. it." complete the project. and correcting their mainte- much time with units as they "Often," he points out, "they Another happy commander nance problems. Each team is require," DeChant stresses. don't even want or need the quipped, "I'm calling the RATs, Pacific Stars & Stripes J composed of ten non-commis- "Our emphasis is on showing equipment, but don't know how Hat now!" Monday, March IX, 1988 LBJ Pirns Budget Cuts in Hopes for Tax Hike WASHINGTON (UPI)—President Johnson, vowing not to let burdens at home and abroad "push us into fiscal chaoe," disclosed Saturday that he is planning cuts in the budget that he already baa presented to Congress. Johnson, in a speech made while Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was announcing his bid for the presidency, etressed his administration'? determination to strengthen _ . the U.S. economy and to win in Vietnam. Shortly after he said that lower priority items in bis bud- get would be "deferred," au- thoritative sources said be was (CMtimed From Page 1) aiming for reductions of $3 to serves in an attempt to hold the M billion in hopes this would price at 135 an ounce. encourage Congress to enact the They were joined for the tax increases he seeks. weekend session by Gabriel Far- Johnson told the National Al- ras, manager of the Bank for liance of Businessmen that the International Settlements in Ba- United States "must meet our sel, Switzerland, and Pierre- commitments in the world and Paul Schweitzer, managing di- in Vietnam. We shall and we rector of the International Mone- are going to win." tary Fund. (Reliable sources said that William McChesney Martin, Johnson, before he spoke, had Jr., chairman of the Federal decided to send a "moderate" Reserve Board, is the official number of additional troops to U.S. representative. He was Vietnam. These sources dis- Joined by Secretary of the counted reports that Johnson Treasury Henry H. Fowler fur would send as many as 200,000 the opening of the meeting. additional troops. H was not What the bankers are seeking clear whether Johnson had is a plan to end the wild specu- made a final decision on the niimhor tn «»nrl ttltt fh*» vniirrPS :u:ivc buy:;;.; cf 5=!:! ?.-iths-j» disrupting the U.S. commitment said that he had decided to send to maintain the gold price at $35 some troops beyond the present- an ounce in transactions with ly-authorized level of 525,000.) foreign governments. In his speech, the President, That, at least, is the U.S. view who spoke shortly before bank Fire engines on a ferryboat (left) fight oU boat pumps water onto the deck of the refri- aim 11 !i-n»t.-r the doer cpcr. to „».:, f_ »..„, fire on a sunken oil barge (ceater) while a fire- gerator »blp African Star (background). the widely mentioned two-price here to consider steps to ease system favored by Germany the gold crisis, said the United where speculators would pay a States can meet its commit- higher price fixed by the private ments only "if our economy is demand for gold. strong." Blaiberg- Boat Crash Kills 11 (Continued From Page 1) who directed Blaiberg'* trans- (Co»tto«*d Fram Page 1) 1,000 yards downstream from 'Everybody's Irish' plant Jan. 1 and the first heart and then for Australia. the ship, one end sticking out graft in history on Louit Residents in the area came of the river. The other barge Washkansky Dec. 3, Washkan- out to watch the rescue opera- drifted burning downstream. sky died 18 days later. tions as the tongues of flames The first body was taken off As New Yorkers /March Blaiberg. 58, took Barnard's lighted up the night and the oily the ship shortly before 11 a.m. NEW YORK (AP) — "Every- They tlso saw the usual number hand and with a voice choked surface of the Mississippi. Sunday. Sheriff's officers then * -*••••• ** tv %if—. « "Five people leaped ashore ordered newsmen away from WUU> » ilisll MM**;, Muu utojui, with emotion repented: "Thank * .. .*.* L *... _r »t.M !•«..»* *.«.•> John V. Lindsay Saturday. And Robert F. Kennedy, whose fami- you very much, thank you very uuiu MIV UUM u. «T.C wC^l _r._ th? «Mjv it looked like he was right. ly hails from Wcxford, Ireland. much." were put into an ambulance," An FBI agent arrived to help Undaunted by cloudy skies, The senctor, wearing sham- While he readjusts to condi- one witness said. "Their clothes in the investigation, and shortly unconcerned that they were cel- rocks in his lapel, WBK cheered tions at home, Blaiberg will live were all burned off." afterward an attorney told ebrating a day early, more than and occasionally booed as he in semi-isolation for about a Plaquemines Parish (county) newsmen they would not be al- 100,000 New Yorkers— including made his way up Fifth Avenue. month, during which time he Deputy Sheriff W.J. Autin said lowed to talk to survivors at O'Malleys and Goldbergs. Other politicians in the parade will go to Groote Schuur about crewmen aboard the tug told New Orleans' Charity Hospital. Smiths and Lopezes—paid trib- and the reviewing stand includ- three times a week for checks him the ship was angling across Sheriff's officers said they called ute to the man who, legend has ed Lindsay, Gov. Nelson A. and further treatment. the river at a bend when it hit the FBI in to help with identi- It, drove the snakes from Ire- Rockefeller and City Council No special provisions were the barge located directly in fication of the bodies. land. It was the annual .St. President Frank D. O'Connor. made at his home, except for a front of the tug. The captain of the African PulriiVs Cay Parade up Fifth The Most Rev. Terence J. silencing device placed on the Autin said the crew was "able Star was hoisted by helicopter Avenue. Cooke, newly named Archbishop family telephone. A second to cut away but it wasn't tvo from the ship and taken to a The estimated i.za minion pa- ew