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Fair Tonight, For Best Results Cloudy Tuesday; Use Daily News A (Little Warmer Classified Ads U.S. Hits Back for Viet Attack Attack Could Have Been Worse U.S. Dependents Young American Gives Ordered Out of Life In Viet Outpost Danger District PLEKU, South Viet Nam "We were lucky, God, we They have three daughters, WASHINGTON UPJ -— U.S. and South Vietnamese (AP ) — Things were bad at were lucky," said a U.S. Army aged 11, 6 and 2, Pyle was planes struck another major air blow at Communist Pleiku, but they probably -would major who had been sleeping in transferred to Viet Nam last North Viet Nam today — the second in two days — have been much worse if Spec. 5 the officers' quarters nearby. November from Ft. Ord, Calif. and reported lea-ving military camps in border areai Jesse A. Pyle hadn't been alert. His family remained at home in afire. Pyle, a Korean war veteran Pyle was married to a Korean Marina, near Ft. Ord. Mrs. Pyle fie met in 1952 while he was Here in Washington, the National Security Council from Marina, Calif., waa on wept at the news. met at the White House with President Johnson. A duty early Sunday fighting the Communists there. at a likening Bill Mauldin, the GI cartoon- major purpose was to hear a report from McGeorge post a few yards from the ist of World War II, was visiting Bundy, tne President s spe- American senior officers' quar- his son at Pleiku when the Com- ters at the Pleiku air base. munists attacked. The son, cial assistant, just returned » f f Pyle apparently heard noises Bruce, 22, is a helicopter pilot. from South Viet Nam. after Viet Cong infiltrators "This thing woke me up about The new air strike, a fol- slipped past South Vietnamese H a.m.," the cartoonist reported. Iowup to that delivered guards outside the compound. "Col. Hughes (Lt. Col. John C. Sunday by planes from U.S. Red China The sentry surprised tbe guer- Hughes of Herrin, III.) dashed aircraft carriers, was an- rillas as they were planting ex- out to go to work , and I dashed nounced in Saigon by the plosive charges and began fir- out to take care of myself. U.S. Embassy but ing without Calls Attacks - "I ran cat the back door and details. The guerrillas immediately found an American soldier bad- detonated their charges, and ly wounded by mortar frag- At Da Nang, South Viet Nam, Pyle caught the full blast of one ments. I tried to help this kid PERSONAL SURVEY AFTER ATTACK U.S. Army compound, both at Pleiku, were Brig. Gen. Nguyen Cao Ky, said 'Provocation' of the explosions. He died while who was hit to get to my cot it was made by 30 Vietnamese ... McGeorge Bundy, left, top White House attacked. Pleiku is about 240 miles north of propeller-driven AIE Skyraiders TOKYO (AP)-Red China to being taken to the infirmary. until the barrage ended. I as- adviser on foreign policy, confers mth Gen. Saigon. Seven Americans were killed and day called the U.S. air strike The Viet Cong followed sumed I had the only casualty and four U.S. FlOOs. Ky flew the up William Westmoreland and South "Viet Nam more than 100 injured. Bundy is due back in lead Vietnamese plane. against Communist North Viet with a mortar attack. In all, with me at the time. I called out Nam an "extremely serious eight Americans were killed and for help in getting him to the Army Lt. Gen. Nguyen Khanh at Camp Hall- Washington tonight to report on the attacks. The pilots reported heavy an- oway during personal survey follo*wing Viet (AP Photofax via radio from Saigon) tiaircraft fire. Ky said almost provocation." more than 1O0 wounded. U.S. infirmary. The Red Chinese statement, officers said many more proba- Cong attacks. Camp Halloway and another all the South Vietnamese planes "On the way , there was a big were hit. One crashed near Da carried by the official New Chi- bly- would have been killed if stream of .wounded moving to- na News Agency, said : Pyle had not surprised the Com- Nang on the return flight. The ward the 'infirmary, but every- pilot parachuted. "This was an extremely seri- munists before tbey had all Jesse A. Pyle thing was orderly, no panic or ous provocation by U.S. imperi- their explosives in place. Gives Life tn Outpost Ky reported one American let anything. We'd been hit very was hit by flak, but said there alism to extend the war to the hard with a heavy, sudden bar- LBJ Showing were no U.S. casualties. Democratic Republic of Viet rage, but everyone was doing US. Puzzled Nam once again in defiance ef his job quietly and efficiently. He said his planes achieved 70 world condemnation ic an effort "The infirmary was a real Basic Caution per cent destruction of their tar- to avert total defeat in South Single Education charnel house. Everything was gets, leaving them burning, and Viet Nam." covered with blood. Half the By Russ Role observed numerous ground The agency said the White medics were hurt themselves, casualties. House statement announcing the but the work went on. All these In New Crisis BULLETIN ion as part of its current ma- Barracks and guerrilla stag- air strikes "admitted that U.S. people behaved like profession- WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi- MOSCOW m — hvestia neuver to gain influence with ing areas at Dong Hoi, just President Johnson waa the chief Board Urged for North Vietnamese leaders? als." dent Johnson, even while using said* today "it is necessary north of the border, were the culprit in this act of war." the strongest language he has Did Red China and the men in chief targets Sunday as 49 U.S. to put an end to" American Hanoi conspire to set a trap of yet applied to the situation in Navy jets swooped down in a at a National Security Council Viet Nam, seems to be showing air raids on North Viet embarrassment for Soviet Pre- reprisal raid for the North Viet- a basic caution that has marked mier Alexei N. Kosygin, timed session. The presidential aide State by Dunlap Nam and published a pledge namese shelling of a U.S. base hurriedly returned Sunday from Quits most of his moves in that part by Premier Alexei N. Xoss_. to his arrival in Hanoi Satur- in South Viet Nam. ^T. PAUL (AP)—The chair- or the Higher Education Facil- Maddox w day? a South Viet Nam fact-finding of the world. > gin to back Hanoi against Three targets at Dong Hoi man of the Senate Education ities Commission, established to In his only statement dealing trip and went directly to tha Or did the North Vietnamese earmarked for punishment dur- White House late Sunday night. Committee thinks Minnesota distribute federal aid funds, or with the weekend crisis, he said TJ.is. attacks. ing the initial raid were skipped might do well to create a single a new body could coordinate Sunday: organize the attacks strictly on High-ranking officials de- Restaurant, their own as a pressure play to because they were obscured by clined to predict what turn board to handle state education- educational efforts voluntarily. "We have no choice now but WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S. clouds. al matters—as New York and to clear the decks and make officials are deeply puzzled squeeze more military aid out of events would take next. They But several lawmakers think * looked for diplomatic and mili- California have done. something stronger is needed to absolutely clear our continued about the Soviet Union's link — Kosygin than he planned to of- The Defense Department said if any — with the weekend wave fer them? tary clues from the Communists Sen. Robert Dunlap, Plain- avoid, confusion ancl duplication It's for Sale determination to back South the following U.S. soldiers were Viet Nam in its fight to main- of Communist guerrilla attacks At the moment Washington killed in the Viet Cong attack at — but reported nothing so far view conservative, says he plans by state educational agencies- ATLANTA, Ga. (Af) -Lester giving a firm reading on the including the University of Min- tain its independence." on American installations in authorities generally believe Pleiku: to write a bill on the matter A. Maddox, 49, a segregationist South Viet Nam. that the pressure-play theory is Reds' future course. aad "there is no evidence of a nesota regents, State College This assertion was conpled Capt. George Markos, 19 Pat- who lost a long court struggle Was the operation encouraged correct. They think the North Still left open was tke possibil- dramatic nature that so-called Board, State Junior College against serving Negroes, locked with a presidential announce- rick Circle, Melbourne, Fla. Board, State Board of Educa- ment that American dependents and supported by the Soviet Un- Vietnamese pulled a fast one on ity of further reprisal raids on voluntary cooperation is effec- his cafeteria and offered it for Kosygin in the hope of getting a Pfc.