Daily Iowan (Iowa City, Iowa), 1968-02-08
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~ I~wa S'pecial Forces Camp Falls SAIGON III - The Lang Vei special aerial observer reported seeing enemy sol· hilated or captured. It said two outposts commented' "I wouldn't go that far." forces camp has fallen to Nort!l Vietna· diers swarming through the perimeter. to the south also fell. Like all Special Forces camps, Lang !)nlgh Sai~on authorities said five of the nine mese troops sopported by Soviet·built The U.S. Command later reported. how· Vei was not expected to be able to with tanks, South Vietnamese headquarters ever, lhat defenders were holding out in tan"s were destroYed. four by the de· stand a ma si\'e enemy attack. The camps I'm suro Glonn will help. reported Thursday. But it said 76 de· bunkers and that they had received radio fenders' 57mm recoilles rine- and the are spoUed in trategic areas, often near ..teIing o"-nsln ,...., renders, including 12 Americans, escaped. reports from the embaLUed defenders as other b~' air strike. But Ihe toll on the the borders. where scouts ca.n keep watch wo hlven 't been ablt II A government spokesman said the camp, late at 4 p.m. Wednesday. garri on was obviously heavy. rOI enemy troop movements and intelli this y.. r. But ~ as.ride the invasion route from Laos in A Special Forces sergeant at one point gence information. you ha", .. ,. South Vietnam's northwest corner. was The Communist offensive lowed in most radioed Da I ang that onLy five of the 25 The capabiJitie& or air and artillery to he II an untrIej ovemm about 6:40 p.m., Saigon time. The of th.e 35 cities that bad come under attack, but in and around Saigon , sporadic fighting Arllericans were still alive - he and four provide support often has meant survival he has no Vlnity camp had been under siege for 18 hours others in a headquarters bunker. He said Ima.tit'ion and there is I pes. by infantry, rockets. flame throwers aDd. persisted. for the camp • however. and relatively few a "'Tecked tank was on top of the bunker. have been overrun. ho won't HI t .. for the first reported lime, tanks. Marauding bands of Viet Cong roamed All the camp's installations above ground firo." The spokesman said 316 defenders, mOlt Ch 01 on , the Chinese sector. Two battalions From Lang Vei and Khe Sanh in the had been leveled. west to Gio Linh and Cua Viet in the toward tonight', ~ 01 tbem ci vilian irregulars, were killed, of South Vietnamese marines cordoned east \.', . planes and ~1arine artillery at Khe thp allied position near the DMZ w ere Miller said he wouJd.ol W\I\Inded or missin!!. He said the survivors of the area and began a house-la-house Hawks' style or l escaped to the Marine combat base at mop·up. Sanh reportedly fired tons of explo ivea faring up to an IDcreasing enemy threat. in support of the garrison. l' .S. Army troop" have been rushed into the presence of AU·Amer· Kbe SaM, about three miles to the eaat. Jet bombers attacked an enemy detach· candidate Mount In the Iinj They were said to include 60 civilians, ment spotted before dawn today five miles There was no word of the fate of 2,500 thl" northernmost 1st Corp area to help four South Vietnamese Special Forces south of the Saigon city limits. Bomb Ulotian refuge s. including 500 soldiers, meet the threat, and allied air power has will take a good team d6 troops and 12 U.S. Green Berets. blasts jarred windows in the heart of the who ned to Lang Vei two weeks ago d lied the monsoon weather to repeatedly to beat them," said MlUer Some of the defenders were reported capital. from a town near the frontier to escape bomb enemy po itions along the DMZ. we will use our IIIaJIo lifted out or the camp by U.S. helicopters ~ttacking North Vietnamese troop. In the north, some of the major action when it was decided to abandon it. At Hue, 400 miles north of Saigon, al. Gen. William C. Westmoreland, the com also continued that began with the enemy', with changeups agalnf r lied troops Inched their way through the We never concentrate" It was the second frontier Special mander of U.S. forces in Vietnam, was lunar new year offenSive Jan. 30. Forces camp to faU to the Communists streets of the old city, halliing to wrest in the northern sector for an Inspection The battle for Hue wa~ most import· one man, nO matter h n control from the Communistll , a scorer he may be, b& in the last two years, A Shau, 80 miles trip. He conferred at Da Nang with the ant but ther were other clashes across it takes more than 0 II to the south. was seized in March 1966, In a claim that didn·t jibe with Ameri. lI!aine commander. Lt. GeD Robert W. the country. In many areas the fighting beat you," and was never retaken, can reports, Radio Hanoi declared the eu hman Jr. hall lapered off from the intensity of last has basically a thm The Vietnamese command had an· Lan~ Vel camp was overrun at 2:30 a.m. Asked whether the Lang Ve i action week and the pI'Ople werl' trying to begin offense, according to MlUer, nounced Wednesday morning that Lang Wednesday after a fight of little more than might be the start of Hanoi's big drive, a recovery from the destructive attacks Mount IV.7 points a game l, ~ Vei camp had been Ollerrun and that an two hours and the derenders were anni· a senior member of Westmoreland's staff that hit 35 populated eenters. Bill Keller (16) and ror· Herm Gilliam Cl4,5), other two Boilermakerl Bavis and forward Bed used primarily (~r r! and feeding P\ll'J)OlS they can get their banda ball. rocont games Purd .. oil Iowan Goorge King has _h- Servin/! the U niversitu of I Olea (lmi the People of Iowa Citu seyen·'oot Blyls Ind 6-10 sophomore J.rry ----------------------Esttlbliblled in 1868 10 cent. a cop>, Associated--- ---------------Press Leased Wire and Wirephoto--------------------------------------- Iowa City, Iowa 52240-Thursday, February 8, 1968 a 4.' Kor.r who pOUr. high of 13 io Boilorrnak:ers win S.turdly r Northwlutelrn. said it would probably on Dick Jensen whethet Varner To Seek Bavis would see much ·Kleinberger Reinstated ; if Jensen proves too quick l tall Boilermaker, John President s Job probably get the call. WINDOW OF WAR - AU,S. M.rlna fir .. It Vi.t Cong 1UOfTf1ia. from the window front court lineup will of • building durin' current blttl. for control of Hili. - AP Wirephoto scoring Sam Williams in Big 10 and 25,5 overall I In Student Body As Rhetoric Instructor Huston Breedlove. Miller Studenl Sen. Carl Varner, A3, Center By ROY PETTY he and Braddock hod been discus ing the Conclusion, Drawn From "FactI" Tuesday whether form of the !atement, but that he had In a letter to Kleinbcrger. Stult said RoWe McGrath or vUle, announced Wednesday that he would Paul Klelnberger , G, Silver Spring, Md. Soviet Warships Join left lowu Cily Tu(>S(hy, arter giving his Ihut the dismissal was the result of "four in the bacKCQUrI ~eek the oWc ~ of sludenl body president. the Rhetoric Instructor who was suspended final statement to Braddock and Suit. cl)~c1u ion drawn rrom Ihree facts ." The Ron Norman. Varner said thaI his running mate would from his job followin g his alleged partici' be Godon Shuey, A2 , Jefferson, who is before the d<.>cision to rein tate him was threp "fac'~" wer" that Klcinb~l'ger had Calabria start, Norman patlon in the Dec. 5 antiwar demonstra· reached, carried a two·way radio on Dec . 5, had assigned to Mount and now a stu:len' senator from Rlenow Hall. tion. was reinstaled Tuesdav, The Daily ''I'm happy that it all worked out," bl'en 11 learler of the rlemonstralion, and U.S. Force Off Korea gets the nod, it would varner is a senator at large. Iowan learned Wednesday night. "I will be running to improve sludent Kleinber cr said, "but I'm also disap had foiled to meet with his class on Dec. on Keller and Me A tetter announcing the relurn of Klein· pointed I didn't havc a chance for a public WASHINGTON (.fI - The Russians have they conceded the actions could create ~n 'er"","nl by giving it positive and pra,- 5, the impres ion of a partial American pull· Mount. berger to his teaching posiUon, effective hpJrin!' to demonstrate to anycne who may Kleinberger denied thaI he had used his moved a force of warships into K 0 rea n 's game will be the first immediately and with full pay, was dis' still have any doubls lhat I'm not guilty tlla-way rad io to dirocl aO\' disturbances waters where American fiihting ships back in the foce of Soviel naval pres· this week for both teams. tributed to rhetoric staff members Tues· or any hin" inappropriate." and that he hod been a leader of the demo have been concentrated In the P u e h I 0 bure. Withdrawal o( the Enterprise to t h ~ travels to Ann Arbor sat· day by Richard Braddock, profe&~or and Kleinberl!er's full stalpment, as pre· on<tra:ion l'isis. &outhern frinlle the Korean Slrait was for a game with winless head of the Rhetoric Program.